skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps off-topic but my inner hacker finds it very upsetting that getting blood tests can be so cumbersome, despite being so important. Make an appointment, transit to the doctor's office, pay a bunch of money, wait for labs, wait for your doctor to explain and prescribe stuff to you. It's cumbersome enough to the point where the vast majority of humans aren't testing anywhere near the frequency they should, including myself.

I don't think running diagnostics on a human should be this hard, we run diagnostics on our apps, computers, cars more often than ourselves. I wonder if people are working on making this process a lot easier (or if it's even possible, I have zero knowledge of the space).
The Daily Mail (the article referenced repeatedly in this article) is a tabloid. Why is this even here?
> the people who are forced to work in Amazon's warehouses

Who is being forced?
There's something wrong in this story. The IdeaPad Slim 7 4800u, a laptop that has been called "too good to be true" has been put of stock due to 4800u supply issues for months.

It's super hard to find any laptops with high end (comparable to i7/i9) processors.

I'm totally unsure where is the stock coming and going.

Tinfoil hat tells me that Intel is buying up all the supply!
I was discussing this with a friend the other night.

I can envisage a future where plastic packaging is all entirely standardised and left as virgin as possible for recycling - no dyes, no printed elements or thin film decoration.

Instead, basic (/complex, if you like) low to medium resolution laser-etched graphics and descriptions, and any fancy-ass graphical marketing/advertising visible through whatever spectacles/phone AR is popular.
Lockdown and restrictions have been the primary means to control the spread of COVID.

COVID, as a disease, should be taken seriously. It is absolutely more serious for some than others. Ultimately every person needs to exercise personal responsibility instead of demanding that others change their behavior.
Does anyone have a link to the primary sources? All I can find is news reports. The NLRB search is almost useless, and the only case I managed to find involving Google has only redacted documents.
Whether it's prosciutto or cheese, of course. It's a common view among economists that externalities, including environmental ones, ought to be factored into costs. It's an unfair subsidy, exactly as you describe, when they're not.
Complaining about incompatibilities in software used by less than 5% of Mac users and ignoring the strong compatibility of software used by 95% of Mac users seems misleading.
I believe you just made my point for me.
Law is meaningless when there are a lot of money/power involved. After all it's the ruling class who made them.
At least in Europe, strikes don't seem to be the driving factor. They are hit anyway often enough by Verdi in Germany, and there is no way Amazon can prohibit people from signing up with a union. Not being able to enforce working conditions seems to more of a factor to me. Not that Amazon is harsher on warehouse staff than, say, DHL. It is more the monitoring and so on. No idea how things are in the US so.
Canadian Toy Testing Council
What was the business? Stripe's not really making the rules here, it's the financial partners backing them. Just because something is "legal" doesn't mean it's not risky.
As an easy example, from the page you linked, "psychic services" are banned.
I was recently interviewed for AWS, and its a JOKE :), i said i was proficient in Linux and all the questions i was asked was about docker.. and this is just one example out of 100 :)
This is what i came here to say.

BTC isn't very good as a currency but acts as a deflationary asset over time (i.e. there is a fixed amount that can exist).

I, personally, hold BTC as part of my portfolio simply because of it's ensured existence and massive upside potential.

I wouldn't put a terrible amount of my net worth into it, but a small fraction may serve you well in the future.

Short story. Had the chance to invest 300k in 2012 (~$10 per coin). Didn't pull the trigger. Too much net worth. However, I should have used ~10k (maybe a little more). Wouldn't be nearly as worried about $ as I am today if I was just a little more conservative on investing up front.
weavr.io seems to be an alternative . They may have more resources on the problems it solves
Maybe in spirit.

In reality, bezos and any future amazon union are opposed to one another. That's a pretty firmly embedded truism in union thinking too. No point getting outraged over the trite.

Also, this is not even amazon getting serious yet. Imagine what happens when/if amazon union organisers ever make a credible effort.
Activists inside Google have no business riling up hate mob against follow employees, even when the targets of the mob have expressed non-activist-approved opinions in public. A company should not tolerate one group of employees imposing "consequences" on fellow employees for legal things that occur outside work.

Google's treatment of Kay Coles James for example disgraced the company.
Maybe, but that doesn't make it right, and it won't change unless people are aware of it and fight against it, which is why this article is pointing it.
How is this different / better than Tuple?
Well, for one-sig-fig approximations US street prices are apparently in the ballpark of $100/g (understated because this is usually not pure, but that just makes the case stronger), or $100M per metric ton; their current production potential without any expansion in cultivation (and it would rise radically if they weren't actively eradicating it in an arms race with producers) is about 1,000 metric tons, so the street value that they can produce with current cultivation is about $100B annually. Now, clearly, wholesale costs are going to be lower and the government revenue share lower still, but you'd only need 0.5% of that to offset the entirety of US aid to Colombia.

Prices from: https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/how-much-do-drugs-cost...

Production capacity from:
https://apnews.com/article/0aa6474b944f4ff8eb9e7e9cffffce87
I call it "vice signalling".
I don't doubt Apple's CPUs are great, but they coincide with the Mac's transition into a product I, otherwise, no longer wish to use.

I want access to my boot volume. I don't want cloud anything.

So Apple's technical prowess now makes me sad. I can either use an OS that doesn't head further every year in a direction I hate, or I can have a fast computer.
The Center for Investigative Reporting has, through its online publication Reveal, covered Amazon for quite some time - especially with respect to injuries. See:

https://revealnews.org/?s=amazon

A search for "Amazon working conditions injuries" on DDG or Google will return many of those, but also follow-ups by many media houses considered to be reasoned/reliable, rather than rabid and ranting.

Anecdotal, perhaps, but these anecdotes are there in significant numbers.
The clip has two different vantage points, skip to the middle of the clip for the closeup where you can see the supports/guys snapping.
Probably a tiny but vocal minority who use internal tools to amplify their message, becoming a nuisance to their colleagues. From the outside, it reads similarly to the recent struggles inside Coinbase. But this being google, the company’s response is more “corporate”.
> "Really disappointing. I guess for the people, Biden is still the better outcome than Trump, but the Democrats would have deserved another slap in the face."

democrats are not the "good" party, and we can hope for, but shouldn't expect, better from them. it's crucial that we look critically at both major parties, all the time, while also looking to indepedents for fresh perspectives. both parties have been highly effective at dividing the nation roughly in half and facing them off at each other, rather than at the politicians themselves and their big money donors who are surreptitiously wreaking the most havoc on our collective stability, well-being, and prosperity. we--citizens and residents--must remain vigilant that our representatives reflect our will, not theirs. it's not only ineffective, but actively harmful, to blindly root for and support one political party.
You're implying that all current quarantine measures and lockdowns worldwide are going to be permanent, even after they're no longer necessary?

I don't think so, but I guess we'll see.
It is basically correct that the US police descend from a mixture of slave patrol remnants and strikebusters near the late 19th / beginning of the 20th century (though sometimes in opposition to them, the initial state police ranks were still largely drawn from private police, racist "town watches", and militia forces).

England and the rest of the Anglosphere adopted what are often called "Peelian principles," focused on policing by community consent, 50+ years earlier than that.
Once you're subject to the kinds of invasive scrutiny that a govt mandates break up demands, it tends to be hard to get out from under it.
There are only so many "A" teams in a big company.
Do you have any statistics that can tell us how many "Jamals" actually exist in the US labour force? Because it feels like you are exaggerating a tiny tiny minority.
In 1920 Appalachia, coal companies owned all the land, the homes and stores. They also paid workers with their own special money (that was useless everywhere else). The security companies they hired where armed and violent towards miners and their families.

https://explorepartsunknown.com/west-virginia/coal-minings-d...

Today, people can tour these old towns and learn the history of how the coal companies trapped and abused workers. A lot of unions and labor rights groups came out of the abuses that occurred in Appalachia.
My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many.
Latency to “the cloud” is 10-20ms for most people in the US. (Assuming they’re connecting directly to the closest regional data center.)
Funnily enough, haversines and the lot can be found in Dover's Trigonometry Refresher. Had.to do some revision myself for back-to-school.

O.G. Artillery measurement and spherical navigation can be revised in that book, while spherical trig. can be practiced in the 1954 edition Schaum's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. Good stuff.
US Broadband Speeds Jumping 90% Had Nothing to Do with Killing Net Neutrality
Nice work; PostgREST seems neat. However, the aim of this stack is simplicity, but it is incompatible with serverless products, which I now vastly prefer for ease of use and lower effort- traits I would consider part of "simplicity".

But I'm sure there is a valid argument contrasting simplicity with a managed nature of a tech stack, not to mention a cost comparison.
How great would the benefit to humanity be, pricing in uncertainty of a practical legalisation scheme, before you'd be happy for the cartel leaders to get off scott-free?

I haven't done the numbers in this case, but surely there are instances in the world where giving up on the prospect of individual retribution is worth the societal gain?
I think that worry is like worrying what infosec engineers will do when full security is achieved, or whether Tesla's Full Self Driving team will be laid off once Full Self Driving has been accomplished.
64% likelihood seems like a good estimate to you? Just take a second and consider whether you'd take the following bet:
Your $1000 against my $5000 that anywhere in the world in 2021, a state-run lottery (with at least 5 balls out of at least 50, and a sixth out of at least 20) will have a perfectly sequential result.

You're being offered 5 to 1 odds on a probability that you just estimated to be significantly better than a coin flip. Are you in? Or does your gut tell you that 6 perfectly sequential numbers is crazy unlikely?
I suggest everyone wear a mask when out on the street.
TI's throughput certainly was slower. It's been a few decades, but I'm pretty sure it was possible to type faster than the interpreter could keep up. (As a point of reference, listing a program was unbearably slow on the TI, and unreadably fast on the //e.)

I suspect it's just that input processing is so cheap on those early architectures, that latency is really dominated by hardware constraints and not by CPU (however slow it might be). Certainly, on the //e, I'm pretty sure the input routine did little more than copy the character to the input buffer and the screen buffer and advance the cursor. The TI's probably was not much more complicated, despite being implemented in bytecode.
This reminds me of graphing calculators in the late 90s when I was at school. I initially had a HP, but it took what felt like 500ms to respond when I pressed a key. I switched to a TI-83 and it was chalk and cheese - instant response; you could even write programs in assembly. There was a small cottage industry of traded programs for it.
They are relevant because, for any given coin/chain, it seems to be pretty damn hard to hack the numbers. The only way to get some is to mine for a long time with expensive hardware, or to convince someone to give you some by giving them cash. Turns out enough people have enough interest in the things that they don't give them up very easily.
Right but the blockchain for people with something to hide will be about as conspicuous as El Chapo Dollars haha. Again you knock it out at the gateways.
> All agency US aid: 800million

$800 million from the US (with the problems that come with it: you're doing a pact with the devil) against potential billions from cocaine and freedom from US foreign meddling?
Compare that to the estimated $2.7 billion that the cocaine industry in Columbia is assumed to be worth though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45578492

That $800 million's a drop in the bucket by comparison.
I often self sabotage myself, as humans are prone to do. I used to get into this cycle of playing video games or watching some show until like 6am and then I would go to sleep for 5-6 hours. I knew what I needed to do to get myself out of that cycle, as eventually it became unpleasant/anti-social/etc... but I just didn't want to take the steps. As can be seen in some of the comments, there is often a chasm between giving advice and taking it.
Agree to disagree. KCJ was a bad pull for the AI Advisory Board and shouldn't have been offered a position in the first place. Google strives to be an LGBTQ-friendly workplace and consulting with the Heritage Foundation on more or less any topic is somewhat antithetical to that goal.

https://www.glaad.org/blog/heritage-foundation-intensely-ant...
People that cannot find a better alternative in their current personal situation.
Sure they are not "forced" in a precise linguistic sense. But when it's this or nothing there is really just an illusion of choice.
Apache commons codec has a base 64 encoder that has a url friendly mode where it substitutes those characters. I've used that a few times to work around issues like this.
Thanks! This read was more interesting than the crypto article
Good idea. Fighting it only makes the product more valuable, and the cartels more powerful.

In the Netherlands we have really good experience with legalisation. Cannabis is legal and hard drugs (or substitutes) are provided to long-term addicts only. It drives prices down, reducing black market profits and thus the power of cartels. Promotes legal vendors to abide by rules (or they'll lose their license) and makes it possible to have checks on the products to make sure they're safe, not mixed with real toxins. And the lower street price reduces crime around drugs (like theft, addicts stealing to pay for their hit)

Banning drug use by force is a US pipe dream. It's impossible. All it provides is a pork barrel for drug agencies, weapons manufacturers etc. It escalates the price. They haven't made a dent in the 40 years of the war on drugs. When the demand doesn't cease, all you do is make the product more expensive and the ones that provide it more powerful.

PS: I never used drugs of any kind (except alcohol ;) )
> be extra vigilant

You're arguing against a strawman. This isn't at all about being extra vigilant, it's about intentionally not deleting hate-speech that has already been detected only when it is directed against a certain group.
This is some clickbait, all he said was "digital currently" can have real impact, not bitcoin is here to stay and will have impact. Are HN readers even reading the articles anymore?

Forbes has also gone downhill.
I think it was Steve Jobs https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/if-you-dont-cannibalize-you...
I agree that's a better link. I am not able to change the link in the post myself, but if the mods would be so kind to change it, that'd be lovely.
Are M1 macs faster by significant factor for dev purposes though? I remember reading compiles are slow on MacOs, but don't remember what was the reason.
I had lunch with RMS the other week. Email him if you don't believe me that the FSF didn't force him out.
Quest diagnostics will let you do it yourself. I am in the process of ordering a self-serve vit-d test and metabolic panel for about $150, no doctor referral required.

(I also dislike the limitations as I feel like people are more capable of helping themselves in a lot of these situations)
https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data/
Actually we may already be paying them, only the holes aren't literal. The phenomenon also has a name: Bullshit Jobs [1].

How about paying people for 4 years to get a college degree on whatever subject they like, instead of having them grinding on a bullshit job?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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It's not hard.

Google "LabCorps" near you.

You can walk in and get a basic metabolic panel in about 15 minutes, with results the next day or two, for about $50, without a doctor. I use them for frequent STI testing.
This sounds like you're saying "Let's make this change, because we don't have any evidence that it will bite us." Given that the evidence would show up after the change, that seems rather short-sighted.

But if you want evidence, I would cite the lawsuit climate in the US. If it smells like money, there will be a lawyer willing to come up with a case, no matter how far-fetched or unrealistic. I've seen too many examples of that over the years. (If you want specifics, the one I'm most familiar with is SCO v IBM.)

So if you make this change, I say there is enough evidence to believe that some lawyer will decide there's money to be made finding "hate speech" or "discriminator speech" or something on HN, and suing YCombinator for it. (Because even if HN per se doesn't have a lot of money, YCombinator does.) And if that happens, that's probably the end of HN.
OBD-II has remained unchanged for more than 20 years, save for a few vehicle specific codes.

Take a look at WWDC (or any of Google or Amazon’s platform announcements) and see how many new APIs or API chances were announced this year alone.

20 years ago, Macs didn’t even run OSX.

Luckily we don’t have to imagine the industry being fossilized like this: any country that hobbles itself in this way will simply be ignored by the rest of the world as a technology backwater.
http://www.gapsdiet.com

in my research I was led here. But not sure on the accuracy but they seem to have methods.
From first principles would take a lot longer. 30 minutes is roughly what I remember to reduce about 4 stars. I could be off a bit since it's been a really long time and I forget all the steps, but I remember a lot of table lookups and interpolations to get to a final fix.
10+Most+Famous+Cities+of+Italy
> So it’s a bit disingenuous to say she was fired, since they merely accepted her resignation.

Unless you actually submit your resignation, I don't think they can just "accept" your resignation and that still counts as a firing.
> * .. .you just mean that the O state doesn't ping-pong between cores?*

Correct. My terminology was sloppy, sorry. I have no experience of this "context switch" you speak of; my processes are pinned and don't do system calls or get interrupted. :-)

The writing core retains ownership of the cache lines, so no expensive negotiation with other caches occurs. When the writer writes, corresponding cache lines for other cores get invalidated, and when a reader reads, that core's cache requests a current copy of the writer's cache line.

The reader can poll its own cache line as frequently as it likes without generating bus congestion, because no invalidation comes in until a write happens.

There is a newish Intel instruction that just sleeps waiting for a cache line to be invalidated, that doesn't compete for execution resources with the other hyperthread, or burn watts. Of course compilers don't know it. I don't know if AMD has adopted it, but would like to know; I don't recall its name.
Many people don't have the job flexibility and choice that many of us on HN have and are forced to take any available employment or go homeless.
Absolutely none of that has to do with how efficient your grocery shopping is.

What you choose to spend your extra time on is your choice. But that's the point -- it should be your choice to be able to spend it on hanging out with friends, rather than standing in long lines waiting to buy food.

If you want to spend in on working extra hours to buy a third car, I mean that's your choice too I guess. But it's not like wasting your life waiting in line is any better.
You may not notice, that doesn't mean nobody does. Also it can depend on your operating system. Windows 10 (maybe everything now?) forces you to be in vsync, so increasing refresh rate has a non trivial improvement on the # of ms for a keypress response.

Now whether you will notice that can depend what environment you are in. If your editor already has an input latency of 100ms then shaving 8 off probably is not noticeable. But going from 20 to 12 might be.