skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think employers would mind "20% less pay for 20% less work" much, but then again I've always had a contracting working relationship due to the fact that I don't live in the US. It might be more complicated if you're an employee.
Building a successful company is fucking hard
> it's straight to the point, it plays in a loop, you can't control the playback, cant pause it, cant seek forward, cant tell how long it lasts

All of this can be achieved with video.
A bit anticlimactic that a reverse image search of the original image is all that was needed in the end.

It would be more interesting if we could get some details on how they did it. How was the image search carried out, etc.
Source? Please post randomized trials.
i noticed a bunch if spirals demoed seem to kind of twinkle when you scroll the page. is this a known optical illusion?
So true. I floated this idea before:

Why as people do we not just add an extra day to the week between Saturday and Sunday?

Who cares about official calendar?

Make all months 4 days longer.

All work weeks still 5 days.

All monthly : 30 day contracts stay the same.

People who need cash or work hard can use the extra day to get ahead.

3 day weekend society - I would vote for it.
tl;dr: I expect to get something with shoddy build quality from Newegg, but at least the reviews seem non-gamed.

After a few months of lackadaisically making sporadic attempts to order an RTX 3080, I finally threw in the towel and ordered a prebuilt machine which will come with whatever brand 3080 card is in stock at the time from Newegg. I could really use the CPU upgrade anyway, and the markup on the parts isn't at all bad compared to the markup from scalpers, who I refuse to do business with on principle.

The reviews on Newegg at least seem not-gamed. They're largely, "Quality parts slapped together and shipped unprotected, so I received the box with cards and RAM modules unseated and case parts bent due to being thrown around during shipping." I'm going to end up merging parts from two systems to produce a watercooled variant anyway, so all I really care about is just getting the parts, in particular the 3080, at this point.
It appears they need to change which wires are bundled together to avoid an "unlikely" crossed circuit issue.

I wonder if that is done or if pilots have been warned that "in rare occasions button X can activate system Y and if that happens you must do Z". Or maybe they'll wait to see if there is another crash before highlighting it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/business/boeing-737-max-w...
> It's one thing if the brand has an ongoing relationship with its customers, but nobody wants the burden of dealing with 1,000 slightly different processes for ordering toilet paper. That's the inherent value of Paypal et al. -- abstracting diversity on one side into a standard interface on the customer side.

I guess you've never ordered something from a Shopify based store then?
Steve Jobs himself said these jobs aren't coming back to America

https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20120123/News/60519...
MythBusters' Adam Savage's biggest surprise was when car company retested a myth
Yeah, I think this is a good point that doesn't appear often enough in discussions about work in modern life. For example, when talking about work week length or women joining the workforce, people rarely stop to debate about the historical evolution in the time required for other tasks. On one side nowadays we have some nice appliances like washing machines that save us a lot of time. On the other we have increased bureaucracy to deal with. We need more complex machines like cars and smartphones and computers. There's more to choose, and also more to decide. There are some mixed elements, like food delivery. It can save us time, but it also lowers the quality of life for most people. If you have kids, the modern expectation is that their time should be 26 million times more structured than it used to be 30 years ago. And as clothing and other goods are more readily available, there are also higher expectations around that, and around the food they eat, and around pretty much everything. The activities they do, the activities we do, the related requirements, keeping in touch with the news, etc. Sure, you might not care or ignore some of those, but in general, there's an inflation in life complexity and decisions unrelated to our jobs. And even inside jobs, there's this trend of ever-growing expectation of productivity and inflation of expected education and whatever. When we discuss work, we need to discuss it in the context of the current world, not compare it naively to a part of what we did in the past. And we often make silly comparisons that don't really account for how much the world has changed in a few years.
I nearly joined the UK's civil service on the same basis but couldn't deal with the problems caused by the 20% pay cut.
While it's true that some software developers are way too confident in their own abilities, I'd wager that in the general case most of us need to do more and better "sales" (tactfully acknowledging our own accomplishments). Stigmatizing that with labels only serves to keep all the metaphorical crabs in the bucket.
Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US
I seem to remember that when programming this OS; your app was responsible for almost everything; including things like animating the close button when you detected a user clicked on it; and also the slightest mistake you made would crash the entire computer. So the simplicity was only surface deep.
No, we need evidence based medicine to tell us that. And there is an absence of evidence.
are they good with hybrid alloys? from my understanding the whole reason the US is top dog here is because they know how to do this well.
My "logic" is this: humanity continually makes decisions collectively which harm humanity collectively. We are into self-harm in a major way, and almost no one cares. Those who do care are effectively shunned by others because more money is made by ignoring them and marginalizing their views.

Humanity is a self-destructive mess and deserves to go extinct.
What kind of stuff is that? Don't think I can come up with anything I do that I could see someone else handle for me or that would be worth paying for.
I just used the wrong word. It was a typo and I fixed it.
> I'd never take a pay cut though. If you kept the same productivity at a lower pay then you're effectively saying they overpaid you before.

It's your choice, of course - but that kind of thinking would just keep the parent poster from getting the deal they obviously prefer.
Chiaki – Free and Open Source Playstation Remote Play Client
For domestic use, China-built aircraft will likely be quite successful. They have competent research and engineering resources, as well as an enormous market.

A serious concern in the West will be how much the government pushes domestic built aircraft as an export product. Chinese industry and consumers can't push back on government initiatives and goals as easily as they can in the west, and corners may be cut to achieve mileposts set by powerful bureaucrats.
They would figure it out if they had to. The technology is not lost and for all the hate it garners the military industrial complex keeps the seeds of industry alive in the US. They would grow if there was an economic demand niche to grow into. Nobody has the stones to make it happen, though.

The labor & environmental arbitrage mafia won the war, so fixing the problem is going to be an uphill battle, rather than merely preventing the market from rolling downhill.
That’s a pretty cool app. I love their interface, using the share button to expose the analysis.
I have a young family, and your priorities change after that.

Still though, as a software engineer without a family and with money as high priority, you'd have a whole extra day per week to spend on side projects...
How much is “actual value creation” and how much is “irrational exuberance”? Or is there no difference?
The Apache gunner did not know that they were firing on a journalist, they had believed they were engaging a legal target and were doing so within given rules of engagement. Which is legal. It's a tragedy that they were mis-identified, but again, not a warcrime. Had they known they were non combatants and fired on them still, that would have been a warcrime.
> It boggles the mind that anyone could have believed that replacing many of the core productive bits of the economy with fluff like management (and ownership), finance, and hospitality would lead to anything but weakness.

When the decision is largely made by the managerial and financier classes...

All of the "smartest people in the room" come through economics educations based on pat 2-line graphs and ricardian tables that make extremely grand claims about the world, and they all come out thinking the same way. They're not trying to be crooked, they're repeating what they were taught.
This guy's story doesn't track, for so many reasons, but I'm gonna stick to the basics

1.) median wage in America for ALL workers is around $28k a year -- meaning this guy was, supposedly on his "minimum wage" job, earning more than fully half of all Americans. Think about that. He was in the upper half of the income distribution, on "minimum wage" ? really?

(A typical minimum wage job pays $10k a year BEFORE taxes -- 28 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, $7.25 an hour. It is extremely rare for low wage employers to allow an employee to work more than 29 hours a week, as it may oblige them to offer benefits at the 30 hour mark, and extra pay at the 40 hour mark.)

2. There is not a single state in the union where median rents are as low as he describes -- did he just rent the very cheapest room in the entire 50 states?

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/research/median-...

Americans love telling each other stories about how they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, but they also love to omit the details of how they got things like 45 hours a week, or made more than 50% of American workers, despite working for a "minimum wage," or got paid time and a half on his "minimum wage" job, or found housing near a job center at below the median cost for even the most rural and blighted parts of the country.

All of these, individually, are staggeringly unlikely. Together, they come off as the luckiest man alive. It seems impossible unless he was working in his uncle's bakery and living in his brother's apartment.

(The refreshing thing about this comic is that the author didn't blow smoke up our asses about "bootstraps," it's very plain he felt lucky to escape his situation.)
> There seems to be some solid research linking the severity of your Covid with how heavy a bolus you get hit with.

It isn't accepted science. We don't even know the viral dose required for infection!
> my annual rate of return on my rental dollars is 0% though.

Technically, rate of return on a rental is -100%. 0% means you break even and get your money back without making any more. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rateofreturn.asp

Of course the main point is that renting is not an investment, so it looks pretty bad compared to something that is an investment. When you rent, you don't get any money back, and when you buy you do usually get your money back.

> just need advice on when to buy.

If you think the housing market's in a bubble, then don't buy yet until it's stable. But if you think the housing market is stable and increasing with inflation, the best time to buy is now. The earlier the better.

The 'when' problem gets a little balance with your second house, since you buy and sell at the same time, so where you buy and sell starts to matter more than when.

Speaking personally, after buying my first house, I concluded I had waited much too long to buy. I was scared by articles like this one and people talking about being locked in and losing opportunity costs, etc. What is being missed in most of the comments here is an honest discussion of our actual behavior, as opposed to what's financially optimal or possible. The truth is that, while I might be able to rent + invest my down payment in the stock market and make more money than if I bought a house, that takes a lot of work beyond my job. I think it's also riskier. I'm not a savvy investor who knows how to make a 5% return on the stock market year in and year out, especially not right now, and I'm not sure I have the motivation to stay on top of it. So for the lazy investor, like me (and most people, I suspect), buying a house really is a choice between rent or buy, not a choice between real estate and stock market. In that case, buying over renting is the clear and easy win.

This all makes it worth contemplating the fact that if you buy in a bubble, and your house loses a rather rare and extreme 50% of it's value by the time you sell, you are still much better off than if you had rented without investing a lot of money elsewhere.
That’s only the case if it’s entirely statistical, while the whole point is that there are factors under your control. Hiring someone/something to drive your family around isn’t a reversion to the mean. You can make certain efforts (interviewing, not tolerating bad behavior, etc). It’s a third person version of the usual debate of ‘I’m a safe driver’ versus ‘I only had like three beers and that was two hours ago’ versus ‘robo car.’ If you bucket the first two together and throw your hands up in the air saying humans are humans oh well, you’re pretending you don’t have the agency you actually have.

In the third person version, I suppose there’s an implicit unstated option that while your particular chauffeur has evidence they are better than average, you have an option to hire someone more responsible. That aspect of agency is central here.

> if the statistics he cites are correct and also apply to chauffeurs

I meant compared to the general population. As in self driving versus general population stats.
Student-founded “Develop for Good” connecting students with nonprofits
There is an entire chapter, about 20 pages, on Harris's theories in Berkman's The Jazz Harmony Book. It's probably the best harmony book I've ever read because it's extremely down to earth and focuses on worked examples.

If you want videos, there's also this playlist from the billgrahammusic youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQgBnh9vUgI&list=PLxxPdgDHUa....
"Oh, 'USB 3.2 Gen 2' (aka 'USB 3.1' or 'USB 3.1 Gen 2' OR 'USB 3.2 Gen 2')?"

"There's your problem, you need 'USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2.' You idiot!"
A Moiré pattern perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
pro-employee? who made his billions?
I hope USA leadership realizes manufacturing and supply chain independence outside military needs is as important as food and energy independence.

If you don't make stuff, you eventually lose the ecosystem and knowledge.

Can't simply coast on the dollar forever.
So literally somewhere c code can and does run all the time.
Exactly, but we are lucky that in the West the truth usually gets out both thanks to regulators and a free-ish market.
> When you’re around human piloted cars you can look at the driver and get a pretty good idea of intent. You can tell if the driver sees you ...

This is a key area of driving that has been completely overlooked in AVs so far - giving feedback to other non-car road users.

Not hard on the face of it (excuse the pun).
I was talking to 20 year old person who said that her sense of smell didn't come back perfectly even after 6 months. I'm not so sure that long term effects are very rare.
How is something like Slack 27 times more valuable than this company? </rant-not-rant>
Seinfeld started airing in 1989 a decade before American HDTV so they probably didn't foresee the aspect ratio of televisions switching from 4:3 to 16:9. 35mm film likely gave them more high-end options than the cameras and lenses meant for broadcast. It would also give them more wiggle room if they needed to re-frame a shot in post.

Personally I find most of the 16:9 crops of old shows in syndication quite jarring, especially because in any shot where the formerly extra width doesn't work the editor is forced to vertically crop the original. Here are some screenshots comparing 4:3 and 16:9 Seinfeld and ...eek

https://lambdan.se/blog/2018/11/13/seinfeld-original-vs-wide...
Not all possibilities, even basic algorithms will avoid testing invalid or obvious bad moves or do some kind of backtracking.

I did not studied this NN for chess, I am wondering if they just compressed the search space while training so searching is much faster.
yeah this is one of my concerns with virtual assistants. Do you trust them with your identity and privileged information? eg SSN, CC's, passwords etc
The big question is can they since Xi has come to power? imo Xi is regressing China back to Mao style centralization. Centralization has big costs such as severely stunting creativity.
What to do if the 'Oumuamua space “probe” comes around again? (2018)
So just like Boeing are you saying?
Yeah, I'd just be using templating in code using cl-who and whatnot. Text template languages like handlbars and are just not a popular choice in Lisp circles.
I actually expect the opposite. Motorcycles preferring to be near Tesla's and any other car with sensor based safety features that are on 24/7.

I'm frequently alerted of a motorcyclist approaching from the rear by it appearing on my Tesla display because it's detected by the cameras and ultrasound. I've rarely notice the motorcycle before the car does.
I think changing the calendar is much, much more complicated than making the work week 4 days long. There's countless systems that depend on the current calendar. It would be a herculean undertaking
Is there any economical incentive for China to produce higher quality goods?
Actual butterflies?

I know it is off topic, but please explain this comment a little. I'm fascinated as to why anyone would trade butterflies, nice as they are.
Toys R Us and Guitar Center are among the retailers bought by private equity firms explicitly so the investors could wring the value out of the company and throw the remains in the dumpster. G.I. Joes was another. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...

By the way the remnants of Toys R Us are now owned by Tru Toys and they are looking to make a comeback.
delete all browsers from your phone

it works
While I’d be careful of an optimism bias, I think you’ll be ok if you’ve done well hiring the right kind of people. I hope it works out well so it can encourage others to do similar
Thank you, this is a very accessible writeup. A torrent library makes a good laboratory to explore the effects of design decisions around concurrent activity.

Testing with many very high bandwidth seeds is important because torrenting is often used to maximize available-bandwidth utilization while replicating local resources. A key insight will be how to manage wasted activity: minimizing waste forbids maximum usage, but too much waste is wasteful.

A point: TCP slow start does not, at all, work the way described. Original 1970s slow start was very simple; much of the increased complexity in recent years has come from experiments, many since abandoned, that try to fix its failings while maintaining backward compatibility. It stinks, in part, because packet drops are a very poor measure of congestion, but drops are considered the only reliable signal from untrusted peers. I say "considered" because it really can be faked, though it rarely is, and nobody seems to have any protection against that.

Numerous network resources, particularly across Pacific and Indian Ocean links, exhibit dropping behavior overwhelmingly greater than can be accounted for by congestion, so that TCP never ramps up to channel capacity. Using multiple peers can help, but often you have only one or two peers in these circumstances, that are often running old stacks, and that is when it is especially important to maximize performance. So, a testbed with just a few simulated very bad links is essential for real-world usefulness.

It probably will take quite a long time to pass the performance of battle-tested torrent libraries, but you might also be surprised at what they leave on the table.
Will Solar Glass Make Buildings Self-Sufficient?
> The very fact that templates are not classes, specifically not base classes for all derived variants of the template is perplexing

I'm a little confused at what you're trying to get at here. What do you want to do that needs such a thing? What is the equivalent Java/C# code you have in mind?

> but it limits the usefulness of templates past mere containers.

What kinds of uses did you have in mind for a "template base class"?
My German library app to track books borrowed from a library: http://www.videlibri.de/

It was doomed from the start, because basically no one goes to public libraries anymore. But you cannot go to a library without it. Like this week I saw a post of someone getting a 150€ late fee bill from the library while having no idea why, that would never happen with my app. That should have been well monetarizable, pay for my app, or you are going to pay ten times more to a late fee bill

After the Windows app failed, I doubled down on the niche, by making it a Linux app.

I thought as plan B, if I do not find users, I could sell it to the library itself. I thought that was a sure sale, because the library had bought software from me before, but they did not want an app

Then I made it open-source, so I do not have to deal with it anymore, but no one understands Pascal code. It only lead to much more work. Now I have been working on it almost every free hour for 14 year. And I really should not have written my own HTML parser for it
> There has been no drop in productivity

That means there’s been a 20% increase in productivity! So you’re now underpaid by 20%.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobani

He gave a 10% ownership stake to employees. He implemented 100% paid parental leave.
I think that was made obvious in the early days of the pandemic when we realized we depended on China for basic PPE equipment, and I hope that lesson is not forgotten.

I'm not too worried about that in the aviation sphere though. The US & Europe are very dominant in that space, with Boeing & Airbus owning a combined 91% of the global market share in airliners.
Other people would be out on mondays, so meetings that needed "everyone" would have to be scheduled on other days, leaving everyone free to concentrate on mondays (or fridays).
Yes, I probably did oversimplify. Many people are not absolute about this.

I think that the two sides come into conflict when each believes theirs is the supreme ideal. There are some who believe that destroying inequitable power structures justifies overriding freedom of speech[0]. Many feel strongly that no cause is worth sacrificing that freedom. Most of us may have a more nuanced view, but the war is mostly fought between the absolutists.

> most revolutions against oppression result in a new government that is even more oppressive

A lot of freedoms were also won through rebellious or revolutionary action. "Revolutions usually aren't worth it" could be a valid reading of history, but it's not the takeaway from my (admittedly limited) reading.

[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-mille...
It’s just the opinion of a lower court, there are multiple levels of appeals available and it doesn’t set precedent outside this courts jurisdiction (I don’t know if it sets precedent inside).
SBCL is one of those exceptional free software projects IMO. It's compiler which includes type inference and optimizations is world-class among Common Lisp implementations.
Equity grants, charitable donations, many employees are refugees.
Not at all hinting at a downside. Just pointing out that 'Jitsi' is the sum of various parts ;)

(I'm currently looking in to using Mediasoup for some WebRTC to RTMP ideas I've been mulling.)