skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for inflation, like of space? As we do have experimental data for that, something about how long light takes to reach us.

No we don't - I assume you're thinking of dark energy, which is a separate and (as far as we know) unrelated phenomenon. The evidence for inflation is basically "the cosmic microwave background looks like it was produced by the universe behaving in such-and-such a way"; it had no effects except for very shortly after the big bang, so we can't use it make predictions about the future and observe whether they happen or not. (We can, and have, made "predictions" about things that haven't yet been measured, e.g. inflation was used to predict what the CMB polarisation would be before we launched Planck to measure it - but what we're measuring is something that happened in the very early universe).

So I don't see a lot of difference between that and e.g. a theory that says (with evidence) that our universe is the result of a symmetry-breaking process that would naturally have produced an ensemble of similar universes.
Would a simple retry mechanism work here?
Send a request to conman, wait at most X seconds(with N retries) before marking conman entry as inactive and clean up inactive conmans in the background.

This way your client waits at most X seconds before being reassigned warm conman
I'm a socialist. I'm just curious if Parler was more of an ideological or a business play. If it's a business play, then the ideological dressing could be interpreted as just a hook to get rubes onto the platform (though it could be both too).
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It'd be a lot more useful if it captured the websites visited in the browser, the files edited in the text editor, the current directories in the shells, etc.
Throw machine learning at it and it would again be that people are just passively browsing the web instead of trying to prioritize and sort out their thoughts.
My wife and I spent most of 2019 traveling through Europe on a mix of backpacking and remote work, and while there was an adaptation period - American servers interact more with the customer, altho after Europe, it frequently feels pushy and overbearing - the service was, on average, pretty good. Much like in the US, there were places where the service was phenomenal, places where it was average, places where it sucked. There was no common denominator (again, exactly like the US).

This argument always feels weird to me, because most customer-facing jobs in the US aren’t tipped, and most of the people working in them still work hard and try to do a reasonably good job.
The movie The Final Cut is also about whole-life recording.
With very rare exceptions[1], I prefer to self-host everything I use and pay a licence fee instead. If that is an option, let me know.

[1] Feedbin being one of them.
What about Arbeitt? IMHO, a bit more interesting wordplay.
Reminds me a lot of http://newdream.net/oldschool/ .. we started offering paid hosting to users too, and eventually became dreamhost.com!
I agree. He insists there's an uncopyable bottleneck that couldn't be overcome by opening things up, BUT then also admits his knowledge of the purported microfluidics device (which isn't uncommon in pharma manufacture... and big pharma has capacity to manufacture bespoke microfluidics devices if they know the specs) is fuzzy because...

...well, because it's NOT open. The very bottleneck he's talking about is something he has to wave his hands about because it's bespoke, proprietary, and not well-published or open. This inadvertently validates the original tweet!
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Should have bought and self-hosted their own servers and tunneled the traffic to a number of hosting providers. One click change. Like wearing replaceable armor.
Perhaps this is my bias showing but I find it totally unbelievable to suggest that production would not be significantly faster had the vaccines been open sourced from the start.
If nothing else, Bush already served two terms.
It's from Urusei Yatsura[1]. It indeed looks like a bunch of Anime stuff. Scans of animation cells and other ephemera. It would have taken awhile to download on a modem.

The HTTP header is reporting:

curl -I "http://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures..." | grep Last-Modified

Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Jul 1988 22:00:00 GMT

But it's just forwarding the filesystem mtime.

There's no exif data for this image, which totally checks out because it predates the exif format.

[1]: https://uruseiyatsura.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
I'm totally willing to reinvent the browser for $8M.
https://nrc.canada.ca/en/covid-19-response-building-infrastr...

Color me a little skeptical. This looks like a big GMP bioreactor facility. Once the vaccine is made, how does it get into vials? Fill and finish production lines are usually another massive complex. Are they going to transfer it offsite for packaging?

And this facility won't be finished until July 2021. Then the tech transfer has to happen, trial runs completed, everything validated. They might start actual production at the end of 2021.

Tech transfer of pharmaceutical processes is no joke. I've done it before.
I searched for an option for make to do a command line file like this but didn't see one so struck out.
The media, republicans, and democrats all were complicit in handing trillions of dollars to large corporations, 0% interest loans, and forgivable loans (more handouts) in the form of the covid bailouts, 2008 bailouts, and quantitative easing.

All three also seem to support practically any war proposed especially if it involves oil and false weapons of mass destruction to name a few.

True Liberals tend to hate wars and giving tax money to corporations mismanaged by rich citizens.
The FTC press release reads like they stated a wage+all the tips and then didn't disclose that they were getting a lower wage+all the tips.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/02/amazo...

In a typical restaurant job, the stated wage is the legal minimum for a tipped role, and then (in theory anyway), the restaurant is required to ensure that the employee receives the normal minimum wage if they don't get tipped enough to average at least that much.

So the difference seems to be that Amazon said they'd pay a certain amount and then paid less than that.
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> It's based on a CNBC reporter repeating what an unnamed source from Melvin told them

FTA:

> "Melvin Capital has repositioned our portfolio over the past few days. We have closed out our position in GME (GameStop)," the spokesman said in a statement.
This should never ever be a thing. Buyers already pay enough tax as it is without another stealth tax that employers can take advantage of.
Is this is what is known as trickle-down economy? Down and up being perspectives, I am happy to announce that the system works.
In fact, it can be argued that hyper efficient systems are pretty fragile and hence should be avoided.

Systems need some slack.
> I don't use that but Rails still requires a key for deployment--so I just checked in a key

It's safe to bet that someone will deploy this and use that master key instead of generating their own.
> A big one, that was the case even before social media, is the inherent geekiness of it. "RSS" is an acronym after a geek's heart, most people don't like it.

Like WWW, RCA, GE.. (the latter two of the most recognizable and successful brands of all time). got it. (And no one cares what an acronym stands for anyway.. you don’t need to know this to make use of it, it has no bearing. RSS is pretty catchy as far as branding goes.)

The subscription process is simplicity itself and there are still some tremendously mainstream popular and well designed for a general audience readers like Feedly. I’ve almost never had to manually cut and paste a feed link (I think the cases were dealing with someone’s broken Linux desktop). Clicking on a link on an iPhone will open it in a reader or take you the App Store to install one.

RSS is simply missing the key feature of social networking “engagement” and these walled gardens are heavily promoted and in your face. It’s not a geekiness issue it’s an attention issue.
Let me guess Switzerland? $30/hr there is less than $20/hr in the US adjusted for COL.
Salting makes that nearly impossible.
The best service I've seen in Japan. And they get offended by tips.
Isn't it exactly the same with US? They would happily host any website critical of Russia's elite.
> Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description.

This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks!

Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers.
unfortunately we ARE going to need it because at current rates, billions of people won't be vaccinated until 2022 or 2023: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...

That's billions of people who will be incubating more mutated variants of COVID-19.

And secondly, we'll need that equipment for COVID-19 variant booster shots.

(And will come in handy for vaccinating with a universal flu vaccine, even HIV, etc.)
Funny word, shortchanged.

“Amazon stole 61.7M in tips from their own drivers.”

That’s better.
Alt-left isn't a thing in the US, perhaps you're falling for a false dichotomy. Alt-right is a euphemism for fascism/white supremism.
Most jobs don't have tips. People working in them still manage to do a good job and many of them make a lot more than people in tipped jobs do.
The FTC uses flimsy words like "did not disclose":

In late 2016, the FTC alleges, Amazon shifted from paying drivers the promised rate of $18–25 per hour plus the full amount of customer tips to paying drivers a lower hourly rate, a shift that it did not disclose to drivers. Amazon used the customer tips to make up the difference between the new lower hourly rate and the promised rate. This resulted in drivers’ being shorted more than $61.7 million in tips.

Which of course isn't flimsy, they are saying that Amazon did not pay wages they had agreed to.
How do you think coups work?

Look into the history of Greek city states. A mob of civilians storming the chambers of government is quite literally how tyrants have installed themselves.

Some of those tyrants had to try multiple times, before the last attempt succeeded. They generally follow up by killing their political rivals, because people who come to power through violence rarely turn around and adopt a policy of pacifism.
Yep. Different rules and semantics for the rich.
We've had since February. That is checks watch an entire year now. Not just one or two months. And it's something we could've been doing in parallel with approval.
I would love to see the federal minimum wage exemptions for tipped workers removed. We're all of course going to roast Amazon for this unethical practice, but thousands upon thousands of businesses operate the same skimming operation on tipped workers in states that allow it.
I’m way more cynical than that. Him framing the narrative that yeah what I did before was nothing compared to what I will do next is going to get investors and that is what separates him from the other millions of developers out there; his sales skills.
These places on the "independent web" are sadly getting more and more obscure to find via search engines.

It's an unfortunate reflection of the "mainstream web" that I feel compelled to remark on the use of simple HTML and CSS, only marred by a single Google Analytics script. There's not a lot of content here, but there's also not a lot of bloat either.
If you are an asshole, the loss of reputation is a consequence, not a punishment.
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Most of the information I've read about this says that tips do not correlate with job performance. Instead, things like race, sex, attractiveness, and other things have a bigger impact. I've even caught myself doing this, where I'll realize after the fact that the only reason I tipped extra was because I noticed the worker was either a very attractive woman/man. It's not even sexual attraction since I'm not attracted to men. My guess is that I'm more likely to notice good service if I first notice the server, which happens more when they are attractive.
Nah, anyone can set up a host.
Removing third party cookies benefits the end users as a side effect.

But you could argue that advertisers are people too, and that Google are using their monopoly to reduce competition and drive up prices for a segment of the population.

Is there a rule that says if antitrust benefits one segment of people and hurts another the it's OK?
Umm, another independent space, but not a domain host, one of the more famous ones is.
http://www.greenend.org.uk/

Putty is hosted here.
I bet this, the 982nd comment, is as boring as all the others. How can there be things to say about one man's email to his staff?
In the USA. Large parts of the world do just fine without 15-20% tips being the norm and instead just getting paid a reasonable wage.
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My PM doesn’t tip me when I complete a ticket quickly; I don’t tip QA when they catch a bug in my code; the on-call engineer doesn’t tip me when some docs I wrote save them a few hours of time fixing an issue I saw during my last on-call rotation. And yet! The company seems to keep making money and doing well, and we all seem to like each other (mostly, except for that one guy, but he doesn’t like anyone).
Actual it was trolley problem paralysis. We could've gotten a much larger sample size much earlier (and with challenge trials, in addition to other methods) to screen out the very thing you're mentioning here (VADE).
"monkey.org has a bunch of users. most of them hate you."
> are most "Silicon Valley darlings" also more apolitical and pragmatic than this CEO's statement seemed to indicate he is?

Yes, but with an important caveat. Most all good business leaders are pragmatic, because if you're not there's a very good chance you won't be a good business leader.

However, Parler's entire raison d'être was as a right wing alternative to Twitter et al (you can say "free speech" alternative all you want, but it's beyond ridiculous to claim Parler's community wasn't extremely hostile to liberals/progressives on the site, to the point that I rarely if ever saw any on there), so it would be expected for him to be quite political as it aligns with the business culture of his company. His problem was that he wanted to make his stand without an adequate technological plan if he had to build everything off the major (and even not-so-major) cloud providers.
It's something I wish I could do. It's not a system I would know how to implement. I certainly agree that the existing system of tipping doesn't work very well.
That makes it even more exasperating. He was elected into office twice and caused immensely more damage.
It’s only a coup if comes from the coup d'état region of France
From their users, presumably. I never visited the site, but I assume they ran advertisements.
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> etc.

No, pretty much just those. There are very few extensions available on new builds of mobile Firefox.

I got excited when the blog team announced that the were more available on the nightly buil, but after jumping through loads of hoops I found out there's just a couple of new ones and most extensions are still unavailable.
What about the customers just in a bad mood taking it out on you? What about the restaurants that pay sub-minimimum wage before tips? (basically a tax dodge.)

I'm not saying all bonus-based comp is bad, but it's rather out of place for nominally unskilled labor especially when it is a huge portion of total comp.

The fact of the matter is the economics of much restaurant work it totally wack.

I look forward to a cyberchill future of near-fully-automated cheaper-than-cooking-at-home not-cooked-to-order restaurants with an owner-masterchef as the only human in the operations.
It is a difference in who decides how much they’re paid. In a traditional business their pay is at the discretion of the business and thus in competition with what could be the business’s profits. Tips are inaccessible to the business, so they get paid more closely to what consumers are ok with paying. I’m probably paying more too because of being guilted into feeling like I must tip x% because I’m directly responsible for the person’s wages.

These two points mean there’s no guarantee a tipped wage would convert 1:1 into an hourly wage if we simply removed tipping, even if the value provided by the tipped employee stays constant.
I've thought for a long time wage theft should be criminal like every other type of theft. And the law should require 1 day in prison for every $10,000 stolen. Steal $62M in tips should mean a bunch of people go to prison for $61.7M/ $10,000 = 6170 days or 17 years.
one costs money
the problem with retail specifically is that you are never paying enough to make that a credible threat. If anything, your staff might just turnover every two years naturally, especially if it's only a part time job. Most retail in an area either is lifer staff or constant churn; in a particularly bad job I had, we turned over entire staff almost in a year.
I most definitely enable developers to take responsibilities. I don't want to do more then what I need to do. I also prefer to help developers grow and take more responsibility, as it makes my life easier.

BTW, principal software engineer in many places == architect. Titles are very country dependent, company dependent. When startup where I worked was bought by US company I became principal. When I was acquired by German, I was retitled... don't even remember to what.

>Judging by what I saw of environments with software architects as a role, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this.

I wasn't always working in companies that had this title. Yet, this still remains true. Also we may have different standards and operate in different environment on different types of products :)
My point is unequally shared risk is exploitation, but maal-e-ghanimat isn't?
How many beginner websites require you to verify with your social and back and front scans of your license?

There's beginner shaming and then there's going above and beyond with intrusive PII collection.
You can replace the word politics in your sentences with pretty much any field and statement will still be correct.
One of the few things in 2020 that I felt good about was being able to tip the Amazon Fresh delivery drivers.

Now I hear that those essential workers, who helped save me and my neighbors from Covid, were getting cheated out of tips, intentionally, by higher-ups at Amazon.

And I'm guessing the money meant a lot more to someone who's delivering groceries in a pandemic, than it does to a trillion-dollar corporation. And presumably the higher-ups knew that.

Making the drivers whole, and expressing contrition, seems like repaying maybe 10-fold the amount stolen, plus interest, is a start.

That's from the corporate side, but corrective action shouldn't stop there. Are we going to see a criminal investigation, and possible charges against individuals who knew what was going on, yet didn't correct or report it?
Most news sites I checked on my RSS reader use Wordpress or another PHP framework like Drupal.

Example of what I'm talking about where I think the RSS feed isn't necessarily deliberate or perhaps it's vestigial:

- [Wordpress] https://maldita.es/ (https://maldita.es/feed/)

- [Drupal] https://vanguardia.com.mx/ (https://vanguardia.com.mx/rss.xml)

My point isn't that everyone is incompetent and doesn't even mean to host RSS feeds but rather I'd wager that early turnkey CMS were the reason we have RSS. I'm rather thankful.
I checked this three days ago after reading the Mozilla blig post, and literally none of the extensions I wanted (except the ones already available on stable) were available. The list of available extensions, even on nightly, is very small.

Perhaps it will grow but I'll wait to see that before I believe it.
A company founded by billionaires and FAANG engineers, operating for multiple years, and having had millions of users shouldn't be... "Beginner shamed"... for creating services wildly irresponsible with user data?

Small or "beginner" web payment companies are required to think more responsibly about user data; the state of Parler in January 2021 was ridiculous and users who were effectively doxxed should be outraged.
Trials were accelerated. Anyhow, the whole premise that excessively cautious American and European regulations delayed testing is flawed. This is a global problem, and there are plenty of countries with far less onerous regulatory requirements, or with less apprehensive populations more willing to volunteer. It's no coincidence that many of these trials have occurred in other countries like Brazil.
There really should be an additional fine to deter this type of practice, but at least they had to pay it back. I half expected a fine that was smaller than what they stole.

Another victim here is the tipper. Both the tipper and the driver were deprived of their money. Even if Amazon is returning it now, they got an interest free loan of $62M all this time. And the other two parties didn’t have this money for their own use, when time may have been a factor.
I feel like you may have a right-skewed view of this issue. If you look at it globally it may be different, and I don't know where you're from. Here in the United States (where all four sites are headquartered) sites like Facebook/Twitter are moderated somewhat right leaning for their role in aiding right-leaning former president Donald Trump in 2016. He lost their support later due to his abuse of power but that's a bit out of scope of a HN comment.
tip based jobs are overwhelmingly minimum wage. of course we can argue whether that’s cause or effect, but the point is, it makes very little sense to compare literally “the minimum allowable threshold for legal employment” to professional salaried employees.
> so they prioritized the most-used extensions first and will enable more extensions as the APIs are hooked back up underneath.

We've been waiting nearly a year and a half so far for them to enable extensions on the new engine.
There's also the aspect this was a company founded by billionaires and FAANG engineers which means an even slightly reasonable person wouldn't classify the project as one made by "beginners".
There does seem to be consistency in groups with similar names, but e.g. from the first page, two of the same size with different ordering:

https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/32_32V1.png
https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/32X32-F1.png

Still, it's a good point that there's some ordering. Maybe it's not so bad setting up an index by hand for each group.
Good video on the difference between infusions and nasal, and s vs r isomers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjAszofgvA They are essentially different drugs and may explain the reaction.
I tried this. Hardly any extensions are available beyond the ones already available on the stable build.
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The SF school board is like a junior varsity team for the board of supervisors. Many supervisors started there. The people on it are auditioning for higher office. The one thing they can never do is piss off the teachers union, since unions have so much political sway in California.
You also want to check out ActivityWatch [0] if you into that kind of stuff.

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Following the payment blockade on pornhub, some players in the industry are doing this kind of policing themselves. For example visit xvideos and you’ll find many words shortened to a single letter and also censored on search so they return no results.