skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"and the specific belief that paid commercial work is the only ethical kind."

? People in general don't believe that.

Everyone recognizes that there's tons of great work being done that's not commercial, or even commercially-related.

This is not a 'deep insight' of a modern ideal either - people have been very active in their communities since the dawn of time and very well aware of the difference between paid and unpaid work - though admittedly, not always 'fully appreciated'.

"It is less self-evident that I should pick only one computer program to work on based on the needs of my boss, and then do it for 40 hours a week between the hours of 9am to 5:30pm with an hour for lunch. "

??? Again, it should be 'fairly evident' because that you are getting paid, is a measure of the value you are creating for a lot of people.

It's not 'the needs of your boss', it's the 'needs of the client that your boss is communicating to you'. It's your bosses job to intelligently make sense of those needs and to divide up the work responsibly.

Your 'interest work' is probably more like 'art' - it may have some function, but that doesn't mean it's useful to anyone at all. There's nothing wrong with doing something useless, and always some 'good' in doing something speculative that may prove to be worthwhile ... but 'payment' is usually a decent measure that the work being done is valuable for someone else.

When you serve a coffee or clean a toilet in the cafe you're definitely creating some value.

When you work for a company that helps the coffee shop do their accounting ... again, value creation.
So what you're saying is that we're stuck with Microsoft for eternity.

Fascinating.

Microsoft is probably the most strategically important company on the planet. Literally too big to fail.
Looks like it's had pretty good availability on amazon.ca, but OOS for the last month:

https://ca.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07N21XB55

but like 5x the price on .com

https://www.amazon.com/Molisana-Italian-Bucatini-oz-Pkgs/dp/...
Ceramics have different properties than plastic — terra cotta, for instance, wicks more moisture. I don’t disagree with you but it is a point to consider.
The most popular prison game is now available on mobiles
Play this card game at your own risk and peril
> There's no consistency

Just a reminder there's like 7 different context menu styles in Windows 10, not to mention two control panels.
On the lack of innovation in the last 20 years
I've considered permanent hair removal for my legs. My legs are naturally hairy and I'm jealous of the guys with smooth legs.
There are many reasons for that:

- They miss their kids

- They prefer friends and activities much closer to where they live

- Transit home gets far more complicated the later it gets, particularly when alcohol is involved
Digital Ocean Marketplace https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/ is something similar.
Herbs are great to grow indoors year round - search for articles on them and many will refer to other things you can keep indoors. An aunt had a miniature lemon tree she pruned and grew indoors year round. She pollinated the flowers with a model paint brush - always amused me.
I'l piggyback on @jamestimmins' comment.

Let us know more, I have similar issues and intentions to try to improve up the social fabric around my neighborhood.
> The advice I follow, not sure where it si from

Michael Pollan famously said, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Yeah machine vision as well as, in the case of crops, various IoT sensors would be useful
While I applaud this move, I still feel the FAA is woefully failing at integrating UAS into the airspace. The Beyond Visual Line of Site issue still seems like a blocker to real adoption and with no real path forward yet. It baffles me that the airspace up to 200’ above private property can’t be BVLOS for the owner. This would enable advances in agriculture, construction, security, ranching, utility inspections, and certainly many more areas.

Additionally, the idea that the FEDs can manage all this is insane. Drones are not airlines, where a city 30k’ below a flight path shouldn’t have a say in the flight. If drone flights take off, land, or transits a cities boundaries, that city should be more involved than the FEDs, who should just manage overall safety and compliance. The future of drones and beyond visual line of sight over other people's property will be more akin to cars, the DMV, and public roads, than to aircraft, airlines, and the ATC. It will require a ton of local involvement, which, unfortunately, the major corporate players focused on delivery don’t want.
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You can both send me an email (see profile), this is something that gets me very excited as well!
I guess the line number and use the jump to line shortcut.
Does this mean Bucatini shortage is a good indicator of wide-spread issues? Seems like its time for Bucatini index.
Maybe it's already out there, or isn't worth it.

Local news.

Twitter is too noisy, nextdoor has too many busybodies.
> If I had access to a facial recognition system, I would use it as a whittling down tool, to reduce the amount of hay to find the needle in. But they clearly see a straw and conclude that it is a needle.

It's like giving a four year old a handgun. It's just not responsible. They're just not as good at this as I am. So no handgun for you.

Just wanted to say I've never heard such an argument worded so well. What is the course of action for the common man other than verbalizing such thoughts to local city councils and law enforcement?
Pretty neat, minimal and functional
Did you ever try the Micro?

I have hands large enough to find the original xbox controller to be comfortable and preferable to the S, but even still the Micro with its superior display and larger shoulder buttons is preferable to the SP. I feel a bit like I'm balancing it on my fingertips, but nevertheless, it's the pinnacle of mobile gaming.
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Privacy and forgiveness. Cancel culture needs to be cancelled.
I think it helps to point out when something is an oddity that serves no practical modern purpose; the learner needs to know which are the "good bits" and which are the backward compatible cruft so they don't mistake one for the other.
Technology to efficiently visualize any part of the body at atomic level in real time.

And, technology to efficiently cut the bonds between atoms in any visualized part of the body.

What would something like this require? What is missing? I would expect this to be the next step after MRI/electron microscopy and gamma knife.

If this existed, we wouldn’t need vaccines for Covid, we would just shoot the bonds of those ... . Also the same cure for cancer cells.
An R4DS!
And... a reminder that I should go reply Golden Sun as I found my GBA SP while visiting the parents for Christmas.
The wisdom in OP can be extended to numerous (or all?) topics of study, where human constructs are involved.
> Rather than obsess over something you can’t fix (unless and if there is ever a cure), it is better to accept reality and move on

The entire history of human progress is about finding solutions to problems that seemed like they couldn't be solved. Humans will always try to shape reality to their liking.
You can get microsd gba carts nowadays.
I am afraid this article will resurrect shortage even if it ended lately: I never cared about pasta shapes, but now I want bucatini. With 52 hacker news points there goes national stock of bucatini.
I wish this was true but it isn’t. The main reason I cannot do this is because health insurance is prohibitively expensive. The main reason I have to continue working is because I’m a T1 diabetic and I need to have health coverage.

Although, even without diabetes I still would want to have health coverage.
I've had Fastmail on a personal domain for a couple of years. It's worked great for my needs.

I used to want to self-host it but (IMO) running a secure, reliable email server is just too difficult these days.

My privacy is probably better off with professionals running my email for me.
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A Hispanic boy is speeding around in Palm Desert, CA in a blue semi truck and he nearly ran over people at the Westfield Mall in Palm Desert. Fuck that crazy guy.
As long as you guide them doing so and help them out if they get stuck - which is your job as a tutor. No one is helped if the gaps make it impossible for students to understand the concepts.

> These gaps leave ups to leaps of faith at our beginnings and thorough proofs as we mature.

As a student who had been in such a situation, I can say that both of those seriously impacted my and my colleagues' understanding of the subject.

I've had professors who didn't explain their reasoning for certain steps at all and others who "explained" it by simply reading through the mathematical proof. That was about as helpful as getting thrown into vi without any help documents vs getting thrown into vi with just a copy of the full source code next to you: Neither helps you understand how to actually work with vi.

I believe the goal of, say, a mathematical lecture should be to explain the basic idea of a mathematical tool and the reasoning why it is there and how one can use it. I believe if students have understood that, they will have less need to dive into some hairy details of the actual proofs as well.
tl;dr most pasta brands are pruning lower volume SKUs during the pandemic, and in addition De Cecco is running into some kind of FDA enforcement action against its bucatini because of low iron content.
Is it not the case that we could work 15 hours per week and maintain the lifestyle that was prevalent during Keynes' day?

That is, isn't our inflation-adjusted total compensation more than 3x what it was in the mid 1930s?

The average inflation-adjusted salary in 1935 was only in the realm of $10,000 (in 2020 dollars).

So you could work 15 hours per week at that standard of living if your take-home wage was $13/hour.

Of course, there are other obstacles to making this work. You can't, for instance, get housing for as cheap as was possible then due to increased construction standards. But that (and other similar obstacles) are not the result of some cabal of billionaires.

Some costs in the US, medical being the primary example, are more expensive than they should be due to financial and political scheming. But most things are not.

I'm from the state of Arkansas, where housing is quite cheap. When I lived there (until 2014), my total cost of living was around under $800/month (rent+utilities+food). This comes out to $9600/year.
> If you graduate college at 22 making $200k/year and never get a raise; $1m by 30 should be no sweat.

Citation needed. Just back of the envelope, you're looking at $52K in federal taxes. To get that kind of starting salary you're almost certainly in CA, NY, or another high COL area with state income tax, so let's take another $15K. If you live in a car in the parking lot and eat work-provided meals every day and save every penny, you're at $133K * 8 or just barely over a million.

But rent's not free, nor is it even cheap. Even if you split with roommates the whole time, you're probably looking at $12K a year in rent or more. If you live a life of abject poverty you could perhaps meet those thresholds, but what's the point? Throwing away the best years of your life where you are almost certainly at the peak of your health, attractiveness, and ability to meet other people for the hope of.....subsisting in the future?
Again, I'm not trying to suggest anybody made a wrong choice here, just that they made an intentional decision.

Theres no way this is happening because somebody called math.round() without thinking, you don't round time and the developers who make apple's clock app know that. They made a conscious decision to have the timer work this way. You can disagree with whether they made the right choice, but I'm pretty sure they thought about it.
An interesting example of how a completely uninteresting topic can be made interesting by a good writer.
> I'm seeing a lot of valid concerns and criticisms of Blockstream's actions and methods

I've carefully reviewed each post in the thread and cannot find that. Instead, I see a couple vague and clearly false allegations which are unambiguously debunked.

What specifically are you referring to?

For the avoidance of confusion, the anonymous maintainer of "Bitcoin Cash" (a deceptively named Bitcoin clone) is named "Freetrader". Are you they?
I'm not here to argue
It's such a bummer that it doesn't support GBC carts.
Having managed large groups, the no-show rate was large but extremely consistent (always within the range of 74-82%, pre-covid that is). Because it was so consistent, we could reliably plan both the space and refreshments.
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Thank you for speaking up. You're responding to a comment that angrily assumes some unspoken characteristics about "cities built for humans, and not for cars."

I am a reluctant, but accomplished touring cyclist, and I've ridden hundreds of miles through American landscape that is positively hostile to pedestrians and vehicles operating at less-than-car scales. The assumption of cars has led urban designers to implement travel distances that are only grueling to traverse, and the interstitial spaces are inhospitable, bedecked with exhaust ports, bad lighting, narrow spaces or vast, entirely unfurnished without shade, let alone water or public facilities for miles, even, in larger towns. Sometimes, just crossing the street to go a kilometer I've found the American cityscape impassable without hopping in the car, and popping over a minimum of one (1) freeway exit.

That's just one aspect of the alien dimensions to which our environment's built.
There is nothing complicated about pulling wire. There are tons of videos on Youtube. People just convince themselves there is all this stuff they can't do - and what do you know! When you don't even try you can't do it.

Amazing.
Maybe do a bit more research then.
Sorry to not contribute but this turned into a goldmine of business ideas.
I really want some now, too. :/
Calling the pack "little" is a stretch; the battery pack itself is larger and heavier than the GBA SP.

Also, the screen suffers from terrible ghosting. I can barely bring myself to play sonic on it.

Still, the Nomad is a neat piece of kit.
The micropayment problem. Sometimes I click a link and it's to the Cleveland Plain Dealer or something like that, asking me to pay $2.99 a month for access to their 120-year-old archive. I mean seriously guys I just want to pay a buck for this article and never talk to you guys again.

Movies work like this, I can pay $15/month for Netflix OR I can just rent a movie on Amazon for $3.99. Why not for Web content?
I have never had bucatini, but of course thanks to this article now it's all I want.
I want Mozilla to build this.
One workaround is to use Duckduckgo or Google to search Amazon; that tends to take you directly to the products you're looking for.

One thing Amazon really needs is a way to search for a product with a specific size/weight/<other property> range. Search for "3 inch screw" and you'll get screws of all sizes. Another bad thing Amazon has started doing is throwing random products into the search results. Search for pillow cases and you also get a bicycle and shoes in the search results. The review weightings were changed some years ago to make the "average" higher also, it's no longer really an average, especially when the lowest review score is one instead of zero.

After the pandemic messed up it's algorithms Amazon never really recovered and search results have gotten really weird. There are many obvious examples of price gouging as well. It really seems like Amazon is now selling us to the products, rather than selling the products to us. And why on earth does Amazon still (after many years of doing this) list products that are not available? I can understand keeping the pages active for previous buyers, but a search for a product should not turn up hundreds of hits for things that are not actually available. Additionally, instead of returning only items that match my keywords, I often find that two or three pages into the search results the products listed don't match ANY of my keywords, and there will be 20 pages of them; they are adding hundreds of products at the end of search results that could not possibly be relate to what I'm looking for, just to try to sell me _something_.
Question to those who are familiar with latest tape backup performance: does it make sense for me to take tape backups of my data (e.g. using a second hand tape drive)? Or its a bad idea for home use?
I found the premise of this odd. I also live in Brooklyn and have had no issues finding bucatini this year. It's consistently in stock at my nearby whole foods.
Electric cars, but without the bullshit: no giant screens, no autopilot, just a reliable, lightweight box on wheels that can do 500km on a charge.

Or: really efficient petrol/diesel cars that weigh 600kg and consume 2l/100km (that's about 120MPG).
For one, you don't just toss that $133k into a savings account at the end of every year to just let it rot. You invest it and have it grow with compounding interest. You'll be amazed at the difference that makes to your calculations.
I used a similar screen to display the user interface for my DIY reflow oven. The raspberry Pi and Linux is overkill for this project, but it's so much easier building a GUI than on a microcontroller.

https://nabil.me/2020/12/01/diy-reflow-oven-w-exhaust-build-...
I have one. It's not convenient to travel with; the carts are comparatively large and the unit itself is roughly the size of an early 90s camcorder, and as awkwardly shaped too.

The screen ghosts something awful...

It's mostly a cool gimick to show your friends who are Sega fans; akin to owning a working CDX or Activator.
There’s probably something to be learned from how Mexico processes & reuses glass soda bottles (assuming they still do).
> where demand is regularly falling in many places, where new construction always outpaces population growth every single year, and yet the housing prices still always rise

that just sounds wrong, and may be i can't see the whole picture from just your comments, but the price _can't_ be rising if demand is falling. Otherwise, these new construction will not sell at all. SO there _must_ be some sort of demand.
Thanks for noting this, that is some serious scheming, down to inserting typos to disguise talking to himself with sockpuppet accounts.

Edit: thanks for the downvote, Greg.

Edit2: this was the link: [redacted]
A bold claim which I wanted to believe but regrettably can't - yet. Tried it on a variety of material that I already know well, from pedagogical texts to academic papers in multiple discipline to legal briefs to news articles, including my own output.

I like it. it's got potential. With north of 5000 pdfs in my library I'm extremely open to tools like this, and the methodology seems pretty sensible to me. But at present it feels kind of random - good at picking out summary sentences of what a document section will cover, or emphatically stated conclusions, bad at highlighting necessary context. I wonder if it might be better trained on clauses rather than full sentences, although that's probably significantly more work.

I'm sorry I don't have a more positive review, but I think it's a bold attempt even if it falls short, and want to see where it goes. Even as is, I can see myself using it sometimes as its selections offer an interesting alternative to my own skimming/emphasis preferences. Very impressed with the clean no-BS user interface and fast performance.
This is a very insane statement. You need experience first. Fresh out of college, I was making $25k/yr in 2005. Within 4 years I was in the $40k~$50k range, but I also valued ... life, and living. I applied and got a holiday work visa (if you're under 30, they're ~$300 and you can live an work in another country for a year. Different countries have different agreements and age limits) and lived in Australia for a year and NZ for three.

I also took a year off once and lived off of savings (and out of two bags and hostels). It wasn't until I lived in Seattle I was making six figures. It took a lot of experience and research and work to build up that level of expertise. It also took being in the right market (the west coast). If I had stayed in my home town, it wouldn't have been possible. (I wrote a post about tech markets for those who are interested: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/tech-culture-shock-from-ameri...)

What you're describing is a tale that may be true for you, but it's the tale of someone who is determined to work at all odds to be at the top. If you want to live and do other things and have real adventures, you're not going to be in the same spot.
Thanks! A thought just popped into my head on this topic. There's apparently a podcast called Troubled that specifically tackles this topic. I have no idea if it's good or not, but it was also suggested to me. I didn't get around to it because I don't really listen to podcasts often. You might find some interesting people on that!
Razer Blade Stealth 13 & Razer Book 13 fill this gap

I use Stealth 13 and impressed with its metal body and touchpad, also no shiny RGB logo
The claim that one is unable to afford health insurance with a salary between $30k and $60k is... Factually incorrect. Do you mean that the medication for T1 diabetes is unaffordable at that salary range even with health insurance?
Going to bars in other countries and/or frequenting bars that attract tourists is the solution to your problem. You'll have less inhibition when traveling, or at least I do. I would never start a conversation with a stranger in the US, but it just feels...easier when abroad?
> "Guaranteed income" would mean the people who control us today lose some of that control.

Do you have more control over the dog you feed every day or the wolves that feed themselves?
MS' support at their physical stores was fantastic. It's a shame they gave up on that. The phone support sucks if you have a hardware problem.
Hey now; if you genuinely wrote that when you were 12 then there's nothing to be embarassed about.
This is explained in the Nature article (summary on page 133) and shown as a diagrams in figure 6...

> In summary, these findings imply that robust inhibition of oppositely tuned inhibitory subpopulations is critical for memory maintenance in our RNN model. For example, a positive cue stimulus activates the inhibitory and excitatory subgroups selective for that stimulus and deactivates the negative stimulus subgroups. During the delay period, the inhibition strength between these two inhibitory subgroups dictates the stability of the cue-specific activity patterns generated during the stimulus window. The positive feedback provided by the similarly tuned excitatory neurons sustains the stimulus-specific activity of the inhibitory subgroups.