skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work.

I first heard about Listen Notes when you were interviewed on the Django chat podcast.

Here’s that episode if people want to learn more about the tech behind the site. https://lnns.co/Td9vzk47qQ3
I imagine anyone who could provide a very concise, comprehensive, and accurate explanation for such things would promptly receive a Nobel prize in economics.

There are some rough approximations we know to look at (e.g. the "market price" of the inputs, existence of competing products, and so on). But as you clearly noted, there are an immense number of complex factors affecting this.
I have heard the prediction that some people will stop wearing masks with the [false] claim they have "had the vaccine." Not necessarily a "moral dilemma" but a kind of moral hazard perhaps, much as these sound the same. Part of that same prediction was: don't underestimate the frustration and fatigue, when people hear that after getting vaccinated they still have to wear a mask and social distance (if an "effective" vaccine does not create sterilizing immunity).
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Take-out is not compatible with the cost structures of many restaurants, it may slow the losses, but it won't save the business. Just look at the rent and property taxes that businesses in desirable (such as waterfront) locations pay; those costs are not affordable without liquor sales.
Do you think the other version is clearer, though? I think he’s right. I will probably update it.
If you want to buy an existing dairy farm's quota, you can. Similar to Taxi licenses in many places, no?

I think most Canadians feel that the supply-side management of dairy and some other food products works for us fairly well, and that the Taxi license system doesn't. I guess that means the reasons for them working well or not are something other than the concept of supply-side management?
For the Safari vim keybinding problem:
I am using Vimari, I'm pretty happy with it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vimari/id1480933944
Our brains’ memory problems go beyond contact management so this category has a lot of potential.

I still need an invite to see the product though.
We do this in Hungary, too. I'd venture to guess this is probably the same at least in all of ex-Habsburg Central Europe.

I don't know how people in other parts of the world can stand the stench of used up air. You won't notice when you're inside the room, but coming from the outside you feel like suffocating.

Or maybe where this isn't common, people have active ventilation systems?
I wonder what I’d get labelled as. About 7 years ago, I got a prescription for 30 Tylenol #2s after I fell off my bike and broke my collarbone and black eyed myself.

I took ~10-15 then and would occasionally take one as needed in the intervening 7 years and still have some left.

Would this paint me as a responsible user or a monster taking prescription meds without doctor’s supervision)?
Thanks for the reference. I'm going to add that to my reading list.
The key is that there is competition for the job. Your negotiation is limited by the negotiation price of other applicants.

If you are the single possible candidate for a job that is essential for the company, then you can use your monopoly power to get paid more than the “value” you bring.

If the company has an excess of candidates, they may be able to pay less than “CoL” (because CoL varies per applicant, and the minimum is someone in poverty not a standard engineer lifestyle).

I do agree with your statement as a generalisation. Although the maximum a company will pay is usually nowhere near the value you might bring (Apple average pay $150k, Apple average excess profit per employee $300k).
I love how we suddenly have better ideas for how the most successful public company should allocate their resources to serve their customers (developers are second tier, sorry). We sometimes forget they are sitting on mountains of money because they execute good company decision making, not because they are doing weird things to protect a monopoly. Like there is some meeting near the top between execs happening where someone goes "lets do X!" and another exec replies "no but doing X would harm our monopoly, we cant' do that". Do people think decisions are really being actively made to protect a monopoly?
> and phasing out even AMD drivers, with eGPUs apparently (?) not supported on M1 devices. It seems they want to phase out all non Metal APIs.

That doesn’t make sense as Metal APIs are implemented on top of the graphics drivers. There’s Metal drivers for AS, Intel iGPU, and AMD. The last two are not built for arm64. On AMD’s side it would require work from AMD as most of the driver is shared code from Windows. I wouldn’t be surprised if that changes in the future.
Note that it's not 60% of all businesses closing. Rather 60% of businesses that have already closed, won't re-open.
He does not trust the team on this issue, because they have acted contrary to his previous instructions.
Or you can just use a regular colo company and not even think about batteries, generators, buildings, security. Hell they'll even rack your gear for you.
I'm definitely considered a part of this generation of kids that grew up on the Iphone, and though I disagree with this blog on a lot of areas (as listed in the top comments), there definitely are things that this blog really hits home for.

Iphones and social media are a vice on my generation. I used social media a lot a few years ago, but I had to quit it because I learned about nosurf[1] and how horrible for the mind these new technologies can be. However, many people I know are stuck in this addiction - scrolling on Instagram 4+ hours a day, sending streaks[2] to 10 people at once on Snapchat, who screw up their sleep schedule just to get another anime episode in. They obsess over the number of likes they get on each post and send empty platitudes to each other on their birthdays. Of course these things I just listed are not the fault of each and every person, but a product of what happens when you bring together a billion dollar company who wants people to spend as much time on their app as possible, and an impressionable generation whose brains haven't even finished developing yet.

From reading this, you may come to the conclusion that I'm some jaded teenager who hates technology and social media. But I understand the magnitude of technology and the potential it brings. I'd say I'm much more not only intelligent but wiser because of the countless podcasts, debates, lectures, articles, and music I've consumed in my 'internet life'. But that is beside the point - This parent's experience sent a chill down my spine because it is almost exactly how my parents must have felt when I got my first phone. We originally had a contract (not using it after 10, not using it in bed, etc.) but little by little my addictive brain pushed those boundaries, and when I didn't get what I wanted I had tantrums. And though I've curbed on my screen time (at least on my phone), There's always that pull, always that invisible string that attaches me to my phone. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that this experience that this parent had with her child almost exactly mirrors my parent's experience with me, and most likely many, many other parents.
>Yelp would not lose such a case.

You don't know that. No one knows that. Having money doesn't magically mean automatically winning court battles.
My personal comparison is between the HumbleBundle store and the HumbleBundle payments widget.

The rake on the former, where HumbleBundle brings the customer? 25%

The rake on the latter, where the game dev embeds the widget on their own website & HB handles the payments infrastructure for them? 5%

For App devs able to drive customer engagement directly themselves, Apple is effectively taking an extra ~20% of profit for themselves. Apple is treating every sale as if they were the ones delivering the customer. For $1 shovelware Apps this seems fair enough. For franchises where the Dev has an already established customer base through their own marketing efforts it seems completely egregious.
> $75M savings versus $2600M operating expenses over those 2 years comes out to about 2.8% savings

2.8% of a big number is still a bigger number than 2.8% of a small number. Not sure what point you're trying to make here...
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I wasn't talking about calling a female connector or a male connector, I was referring to the somewhat new trend of having to specify a pronoun in your Twitter bio because genders are non-binary.

> Pure algorithms have the capacity to change the world. Sometimes for the worse. An example of a pure algorithm with massive political and ethical considerations is crypto currency algorithms.

Nobody was arguing that. I just said that we shouldn't integrate politics into software, not the other way around. Obviously the code that we write is going to have an impact, but that's completely different from adding the impact from day 0 (e.g: software that spams propaganda in the stdout)
Where are you?

Here in Phoenix, AZ, things are basically normal. People have masks on when they're indoors, but businesses (including restaurants and bars) are all open. A rough metric I've been using since march is how far backed up the cars are from the stoplight in front of our house at rush hour, and it's pretty much back to where it was in February.
I would like to recommend this recent documentary on Atwoods life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btn7S9vR02A
This is one of the key use-cases for self-hosted runners.
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/host...
Without question, nvidia. The sad reality here is that the best performance for ML on a 5700xt is to boot into windows and use the beta for directml under WSL2 with TF1. It pains me to say that as someone who has been a linux purist for over a decade. We’re literally just waiting for AMD to release blobs, and we’ve been waiting over a year.
You’ve described the historical value of cloud computing perfectly. That said, I think the days where all but the largest or most stubborn companies run their own datacenters are coming to a close.

The problem will be finding skilled labor. Short-haul networking, power configurations, thermal load, hardware maintenance; these and many more are specific skills that can’t be learned overnight. Data center work used to be a viable middle-class career, but the pay scale for it has gone down and down. Companies that do run their own DCs like Google and Facebook have a few centralized experts, a thin professional staff on-prem, and an army of minimum wage disk swappers who are told what to do by a ticket system, just like an Amazon warehouse worker. The knowledge of how to build and run these things is all at the top now.

I’m not saying the jobs or talent pool are gone. Just that they’re shrinking, and will continue to shrink. Like the manufacturing industry, the fewer people there are who are comfortable working with real hardware, the harder it will be to start anew.
If an employer asks an employee to move to a higher cost-of-living area then they're asking the employee to take on extra expense for the benefit of the employer. It's only reasonable that the employer would offer some form of compensation if they want the employee to grant that request.

If an remote-work employee wants to move to a lower cost-of-living area it should make no difference to the employer. They're still getting the same work as before, at the same cost. If the work output was worth that much before then it's still worth that much when performed from a different location.

If an employee chooses to move to a more expensive location, on their own initiative, then that is more like the second scenario than the first, and there is no reason to expect the employer to offer higher compensation to offset the cost-of-living in the new location when there is no particular benefit to the company from the move.

EDIT: fix typo
Yes, in the video I linked he speaks about it, this is the full quote

> After that, I flew the aircraft for about two hours to evaluate its handling qualities and the functionality of the flight control system. Now, based on all the activities that we've undertaken during the past 20 months, and my personal experience flying the aircraft, I can tell you now that I am 100 percent comfortable with my family flying on it

So, he done 2 hours of what pilots will do for more hours, every single day they work. He also haven't trusted other pilots, let's say from Ethiopian Airlines, with his family.
"""There are lots of things going on right now (masks, social distancing, etc.) to prevent people from getting COVID"""

I hope this doesn't come across as snarky, but this seems like it could have a larger impact in the US than elsewhere, since we've (collectively) been doing such an abysmal job of doing masks + distancing.
This whole page has people talking about "is this legal" and yet this legitimate legal expectation of reporting your income accurately is being questioned?

Interesting.
Yeah, pretty sure that's not accurate. I seem able to set app-specific limits for my kids. But I guess I better double-check!
with alcohol you can't create more happiness, you can only borrow it from the future.
I've seen them do things like this to local businesses around me. Usually they just delist the company.
I sort-of agree with you, but I was directly responding to the phrase:

>"... they'll never think a failure to meet society's need is a market failure..."
> The summary could be reworded "having one more doctor tell someone to wear a mask does not make them less likely to contract COVID-19."

That's not an accurate summary; that should be "having one more doctor tell someone to wear a mask does not have a large enough effect size on their likelihood of getting COVID-19 for this study to detect." They had 1.8% infected in the extra-recommendation group and 2.1% in the control group.
Anyone else remember when the https://googleblog.blogspot.com was one of the most exciting sites on the web? I used to check it religiously. Haven't looked at it for several years now.
again, ask people who lived through the depression what gloomy really is.
Small amount of effort? He put 6 months into this. That’s not small. We see sooooo many articles on HN saying “know your customer before you write a line of code” or “find people who are ready to write a check”. Like a dozen of these articles a month from coders who are writing a post-mortem or telling us lessons learned. It’s like we all forgot those important lessons when we read this article.
How to make your console server with cheaper components
Let's just live in our pods, own nothing by renting everything, implement our social score system, and eat our bug bars. That'll make everyone happy...
A therapist, haha. But this was already stated here.

Otherwise?

Hard to say. I think nothing that cost me money has helped me at least as much as the things I got money for.

I got a bunch of certs, but I think they alone aren't any good. Certs, jobs, projects, customers, awards, all together form a picture that you know what you're doing. The more you show, the less people ask questions that are potentially not it your favor.
What's interesting is that alcohol will probably kill far more people this decade than Covid or opioids, yet very little attention gets paid to this. It's an enormous negative influence on our society, yet there's a lot of social pressure pushing for alcohol use, and we allow advertisements that encourage it. I wonder if in the future we'll look back on this the way we now look back at how ubiquitous smoking was a few decades ago.
Two reasons. The first is that women tend to just like babies. Female friends want to hold a baby but male friends almost never do. Women get "clucky" around them, etc.

The second is that when my youngest was 6 months old I felt nothing for him. I saw a psychologist about this and they said it was really normal for dads to not feel connected to second+ kids until the kids are past a year.
I've spent a lot of time with therapists but they've only had the effect of being a sort of guard rail to keep me from falling too deep when I fall; it doesn't seem like they have helped me make any lasting improvements.

Based on what I've heard from friends and on this thread, it sounds like it's possible to get a lot more out of talk therapy?

What's your range of experiences been like with better or worse therapists, and how do you know when you should look for a better one?
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I think the perception that it works is more about the perception is that "milk" is a homogeneous category and the population doesn't much care that there isn't much diversity in it. Same goes for eggs. And the price is considered fair.

When you go making your own homemade cheese or yogourt though, then you notice how painfully high our (consumer) milk prices are. And when you taste higher quality milk in European countries, and notice the lack of quality milk at reasonable prices on Canadian grocery store shelves, it starts to be a bit more frustrating.
> If you want to actually help the economy you helicopter drop stimulus checks.

I think this is a bit simplistic. This is also how you get hyperinflation.

Perhaps the government should just have a clean separation from money, much like they do from state?
Yup, exactly. What's your new R&D spend going to be going forward, now that you have to maintain an edge in so many new areas? It really is a mediocre saving for a company this big.
There's a lot of companies that have the scale to benefit from running their own tech, fewer who have the skills and number of people, but it's not a small niche even so.
This looks great. Under 'compatible e-pub' format it says "all devices except kindles and kobos" -- I thought epub files worked on kobos?
> I think the main advantage of cloud providers is to offset the risk of purchasing equipment that eventually is no longer needed,

Every corporate use case I have seen is labor based. They dont want the overhead of salary and healthcare for the IT department. Even if long term they end up paying more, they always view it has pay for it now or pay for it later. And they always choose later because they dont know better.

(none of these have been the scale of dropbox, that is different)
Which is very dumb. I'd venture that someone under the influence of alcohol (especially with a history of DUIs) is more likely to cap the wife and kids than a primarily cannabis user.
Try saying that three times fast.
Open-sourcing FioSynth, an I/O benchmark tool for data center workloads
Fair enough. But SE's creator is simply going to recommend that you fork the project. Not that I speak for them, I've just been following the project long enough to see the interaction many times.

It's also the only avenue that makes sense. As I said in a sibling comment, I've been working on a Spanish-language version of SE and I have some good ideas of how the tool chain could be parameterized for multi-language support, but it also feels like a pointless cherry on top (and a complication of an already non-trivial workflow) to bring everything under one umbrella. And it would require a loss of control for SE's creator.

I recommend epub'ing a few book scans yourself in your preferred language and starting a project around that. You'll find other people who have at least started a fork themselves that you might be able to round up under one org. I personally have aimed for 10 ~finished books and a domain name that hosts my own style guide + tutorial to prove that I'm serious about it (to myself) before I publish my efforts. And you need as much to appeal to any would-be contributors.

I think the only plausible place to be in 5 years is for a couple major sister projects to reach maturation and then form a sort of ring of "Check out lettres-libérées.org for a similar project for French works."
Except those links are exactly my point. "Human" is a species of intelligent animals. "Person", is an entity typically associated with traits humans have. They are different things and the distinction is important. The purpose of your "dehumanizing" language is to detract from the "personhood" being debated.
Love love love Standard Ebooks.

If by some chance a maintainer reads this thread a couple requests:

1) There are a lot of obscure books which is great. Also doesn’t hurt to add some of the GOATS such as the works of Plato or perhaps even the Harvard Classics

2) Sorting on site is frustrating

3) I would be willing to commission high quality epubs and I’m sure others would too for my own benefit and humanity. For example I can get copies of the works for Plato on Gutenberg but it merits a Standard Ebooks edition and I wouldn’t blink at donating $250 or some number toward that cause. Knowing kids across the globe would have access to high quality digital editions is worth it to me. Worth exploring setting up a program for this.
They've been engaged in this deplorable practice for years, so I would think many have tried, and failed, to sue over it.
People love to paint this world of voluntary transactions and consensual agreements, but then corporations turn around and push for right-to-work laws which infringe freedom of association and contract by making it illegal for companies to sign security clause contracts with Unions.

Why should a voluntary, consensual signing of a contract be made illegal?
would you recommend it for someone who's generally not witty and takes at least 5 seconds to answer someone they don't know? basically i'm slow as hell in interactions, especially to new acquaintances.
They can enroll 1000s of students every year. Why wouldn't it be cheap?
The energy you put in helping a new volunteer mapper along rewards the project in the long run for those who become long-term (semi) frequent contributors. With a corporate mapper you either hit a wall of misunderstanding due to limited English and, excepting English, no map-local language skills, and any time you invest in that mapper is limited in effect, because retention at such jobs seems low.

Some companies do listen when you provide feedback, and others just have some community manager¹ who doesn't really know anything at a deeper technical level handling all the communication with OSM's volunteer corps of mappers.

There is a company in Minsk that is doing edits worldwide based on the output of a set of slightly outdated linters, and it's disappointing to see that they could get much better feedback and linter input by listening to the remarks made by us volunteers, but that would require the attention of one of the few employees with in-depth knowledge, which they haven't planned for.

1: Another gem of inappropriateness was trying to communicate with the Dutch OSM community via Google Translate mangled Dutch. (The vast majority of us can manage English quite well, thank you.)
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How do you adjust for this during the winter? Do you turn off your heat or just keep the heat on and open the windows?
I get that with every project though, the first 90% takes 10% of the time and is the most enjoyable.
The anti-competitive and illegal behavior that Apple is doing is preventing alternative app stores from being on the IPhone.

This actions prevents other app stores from undercutting apple's prices.

Epic's app store, for example, would take 12%, instead of 30%. This would help consumers if they were allowed to use it.
Geeze, this homepage is truly world-class. Props to the Tailwind team!
It depends on the company you're the client of. I worked at a top 3 client of one company, and we were also the top client of another company where I was the only engineer dealing with them. It worked out well, because they were very responsive to our issues, were able to scale, and we used the least hands on parts of their service offerings.