skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how it is a scam. You just divide your weekly salary by average number of hours you work per week to get your effective hourly wage. The only scammy thing about it is if the company leads you to believe you will be working 40 hours a week on average and you actually end up working 60. Long work hours is not a good thing regardless if you are salary or hourly. Salary workers typically have greater self direction in how they accomplish their work assignments. In a well functioning workplace NOT having over time compensation as is the case for salary workers can incentivise productivity.
> If one of these drones could have killed Hitler and saved millions of innocent people, would you still say it's not ethical?

I don't think a hypothetical requiring time travel to obtain 20/20 hindsight is a very reasonable basis for discussion here.
But I can buy a gun now and that police reform thing keeps not actually existing.
So, if we in the future are able to clone a Mona Lisa perfectly, will it be as worth as the original? Does it decrease the value of the original?
am i the only person thinking that there should be laws to prevent rich individuals to increase the mass in LEO by a factor 10 in less than 10 years? i understand the enthusiasm but shouldn't these decisions let to the people, countries, for instance an intergouvernemental agency.

also: is the dark coating working? without it those are quite visible, and make radio and optical astronomy much harder (especially large sky surveys).
This is silly and inaccurate since at least 2012. OEM Windows keys are stored in the BIOS and can be activated without knowing the key. Also, you do not have to torrent Windows ISOs, they're freely available from Microsoft via the Media Creation Tool.
The problem is you are mixing up "being shot" with "being a victim". The prevalence of guns changes the nature of crime far more than it changes the amount of crime.
Intro to C++ Lambdas
This is an especially fascinating result because ivermectin is known to be the only effective treatment for strongyloides hyperinfection, infection by the microscopic Strongyloides nematode that is caused when the worm leaves the GI tract and spreads throughout the body, causing massive inflammation and potentially death. I wonder if there's some kind of common anti-inflammatory process at work.
for attempted murder you have to do things like prove motives and intent, with scams you can just show the paper trail and call it a day
Great article but it's author makes common mistake of people not knowing how CRTs actually worked: specifically Brightness and Contrast controls. In CRTs Brightness potentiometer controlled gain of luma amplifier which affected top level of brightness but kept black level intact effectively modifying picture's contrast. Contrast potentiometer controlled voltage offset of the luma amplifier which means it shifted black level so setting "Contrast" control higher actually decreased picture's contrast but increased overall picture's brightness.

Summing up: Brightness and Contrast controls behave completely different in CRTs and LCDs.
Change my view, NFTs should require full AML KYC for the artists and buyers/bidders.
But sometimes you do. See: Cyprus in 2008
Nothing additional to add here except want to cheer you on. Hang in there for whatever goal or path you visualize and decide to pursue in life. Wishing you well!
Remind me not to compliment Fortran in the future, HN hates it.
It only matter in an American context. Nobody's give a rat fuck about white people enslaving other white people, or black people still enslaving other people in Africa TODAY.
Switzerland is shall-issue for semi-auto and may-issue for full automatic. Gun crime is microscopic. Culture plays a major part.
You're welcome !

I use draw.io [1] for technical diagrams (ex: flowchart, UML, etc) and Google Drawings [2] for more generic diagrams (ex: system designs).

[1] http://draw.io/

[2] https://docs.google.com/drawings/
> Nukes arguably make the world safer

It depends on who has them and how they use them.

Autonomous weapon systems are (theoretically) much more precise and don't leave radioactive destruction in their wake (unless they are nuclear-armed autonomous weapons systems--that's a terrifying thought).

The greater precision and less permanent nature means they are more likely to be used offensively rather than just held in strategic reserve as most nuclear arsenals are.
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You can trace modern firearms prohibitions to civil-rights-era California with the intent of disarming the Black Panthers, so I oppose prohibitions on the grounds that I personally view them as inherently racist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
They have bigger wings...

This article is just anti-Israeli propaganda

I find it disappointing to read how it's being received on HN

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EDIT: Why is this being down-voted?

Are those drones different from missiles in a meaningful way? No, certainly not in any "ethical" way

Is there a reason to single-out Israel here? No

Explain if you disagree and actually have some knowledge and experience with this international industry.
There are too many variables, and it seems to me the main issue is comparing cities between themselves (where there are several variables more to consider) than each city with itself, which presents problems as well

> Pubs, restaurants, and barbershops were open in Ireland on June 29th and masks were not mandatory, after more than 2 months, no spike was observed; indeed, death rates kept falling.

It's obvious there's a gigantic seasonality effect in Covid. Whereas Ireland reopened in December and the cases shot up.

Only some pubs were reopened during that time in Ireland (with limitations, distancing, etc) and you can bet most people kept their masks in barbershops.
I'm sorry, but I had to reply to this. People paying or receiving money for every single thing they say to each other and/or even access to do so is countercultural?

It's the exact opposite - arguably the pinnacle of the absurd logic of capitalism and its processes of commodification.
If fewer people caught colds/flus, maybe there are fewer mutations that resulted? It isn't as if flu/colds were having their normal spreads somewhere, and after quarantine the doors between former-quarantineland and normal-land will be thrown open, releasing a year of backlog.
I thought what drove the stay-at-home policy was the fear that Hospitals would exceed capacity.

So the only realistic solution is a shutdown for everyone. It would be impractical to enforce in a free society and widely perceived as "unfair" to only have a stay-at-home for high-risk individuals.
From the figures in my previous post, if all 150k people prosecuted by the Spanish Inquisition died in prison or were executed, then the lower bound estimate death toll of 5 years of Cromwell would still be 50% higher than 300 years of the inquisition.
Sure, you can go and build your own API and setup your own trading infrastructure or simply use a public infrastructure that already exists. This also means that players can use existing NFT markets to trade these or even regular markets can be adapted to simply allow trading these.

Having the ability to take your digital cards and store them wherever you want and trade them with whomever you want is really nice, if you're trying to replicate standard offline trading card games.
SV SJW white-knights are getting bored since they got orange man out.
The writer is writing on "what is art", while being a gallery represented professional artist (i.e. sold his art in the system) and a paid professor(again, professional system player).

It's brand awareness building, also known as self-promotion. "See, I'm in the racquet, but I'm not like the others!" He went on to publish a book on the subject, 3 years later. [ source : gallery statement, wikipedia ]

He is pushing art as politics and himself as the arbiter, all while preaching in the royal "We". Like I wrote, how tedious.
It is not as simple as that :
https://www.pgcon.org/events/pgcon_2020/schedule/session/152...
So where is Amazon in relation to all of this?

I got pinged by a recruiter from Kuiper the other week and all I can see is that there's no way they're on track to be working in 5 years. They don't even have a stable launch platform. Would Musk sell Bezos the ride?
So there's a central registry somewhere that validates "this is lebron's real nft"?
Seems like there's an opportunity to produce an open-source SpaceX compatible antenna that someone could build themselves. I wonder if at some point SpaceX could allow this on their network?
A faster resolution, yes, but not a peaceful one.
And what do they want? Fairness...

IE: Violent posts from SJWs attacking white people and supporting violence in BLM/AntiFA "protests"? Many MANY still standing and complete silence from the platforms during YEARS of violence, hate and instigation...

"violent posts" from conservatives supporting thousands of examples of voter fraud and calling for peaceful marches - just like Trump called for - while questioning the "truth" about mask mandates that have changed on political whims (Fauci: for masks, against masks, for masks, against masks, etc)? THOSE have to be taken down with extreme prejudice...

The double standards the platforms are pushing is so extreme that "peaceful scholars" are honored... while American Presidents are banned...

You can, for four years, say "russia hacked our elections" with the evidence being a single foreigner paid by the DNC for spy information. But you can't say "democrats hacked our elections" with thousands of Americans presenting evidence.

The article is true that no one is going to be happy... but that won't change while the platforms are the massive hypocrites that everyone in the world can see on full display as they push 1984's "Truth".
But notice how virtually zero of this discussion is about the content of the work. Just its sale mechanism. Even the banana on the wall had people discussing its nature as art.
Since the world refuses to pay for journalism, it does seem that almost no one sees value in journalism.
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Starlink satellites will only stay up about five years without propulsion, and unless a satellite breaks hard it will be deorbited with propulsion much faster.

Concerns about space junk aren’t about these low orbits, they are about orbits where things stay up hundreds of years or much longer.
That natural limit is way, way, beyond levels that cause catatrophic disturbances in economy[1], thus the distinction is irrelevant.

[1] See your favourite mania, or even crisis of 2008 that can be argued to be because of failure of regulation to limit leverage of financial institutions.
This all thread is a huge flamewar...
Well, no, that’s exactly what I’m saying would not be the case. The longer lockdown would not need to be anywhere near as strict as the lockdown that comes after a month of opening everything back up.
Stay-at-home policy has unintended consequences that should be studied with similar scrutiny. "Virus going to virus" is too true, the economic and mental health impact from the fear-mongering and death counting is largely understated.

We have a long way to go from here, but I'm hopeful that governments move their focus to providing solid data with information about collection methodology to keep the public informed. All the central planning and ruling with the threat of being thrown in a cage as a penalty is too exhausting.
Plenty of countries today already restrict the import of certain products (sat phones, CB radios, weapons, etc.)

The SpaceX receiving dish (dishy) will just be on that list for certain countries.
By looking at the death rate of covid itself in an entirety, which is currently about 2000 deaths per 100k cases in Ireland. So 500 times worse, just like the US numbers.
I’d hesitate to draw a causal link without looking at the data and disproving other hypotheses, particularly when it comes to media narratives in 2021. For example, do elderly Asians tend to carry lots of cash, making them attractive targets for criminals? In other parts of the world, what does targeted racism against a suddenly vilified minority look like? Are random racially motivated street assaults a common occurrence, and how else would we expect this sort of targeted racism to manifest? Does that match what’s happening here?

I don’t know. I know we can’t get by on feelings that are stirred by others who wish to do our thinking for us.
Not to mention conscription, which probably helps with both discipline and meeting people not like you.
Thanks for the historical insight. I hadn’t realised that Jon Postel’s work went that far back. I only came across the Internet in the late nineties – and though I’m aware of the existence of DARPAnet, I don’t really think of the Internet as being a “thing” until the eighties (when most of the common protocol standards I’ve read were written) so I should really find a good book on the subject.
I was just talking to a stranger about this yesterday, COVID has suppressed flu cases in the US significantly. Since we live in a state with a soft lockdown COVID policy, Florida, our theory is it has a lot to do with masks, sanitizers, increased public/commercial cleaning, and people staying the fuck home if they have mild flu-like symptoms.

And that last bit is important because I knew far too many people dragging themselves into work with a runny nose and fever and basically spreading illnesses to anyone they come in contact with.

After the vaccine has reached herd immunity levels I hope there are real lessons learned about containing highly contagious diseases.
I feel like Preql makes SQLAlchemy and other ORMs obsolete. And I think it's also ready to replace pipelines that are plain SQL, although probably with the help of a few escape hatches (via its SQL() function).

There are many worthwhile GUI tools for data analysis, which stand on their own. But perhaps they could benefit from having an embedded Preql console.
why is there no expires field on https://securitytxt.org/.well-known/security.txt
It obviously belongs there because anything else would fail to create the desired level of inflation as we can see today. What we truly need is fiscal policy and it's funny how on point this 8 year old cartoon is:

https://youtu.be/-DdfLtOrBPU
The 800XL sold the most units, so it's probably likely that more people had them, and thus more people have more nostalgia for them.
It's less of a problem than you think because the error can't compound. An error of 30% compounded over 10 years can't grow to a 1300% because if you compare the two years directly you'll see there's a huge mismatch.
Yeah, in shady tax haven jurisdictions. It's the wild west factor.
Gun suicides outnumber murders 2 to 1. That says nothing about what the suicide rate would be if you took guns out of the picture. Someone going the gun route isn't a cry for help and obviously they don't care if it's a mess.

What else is highly effective and messy? Jumping from someplace high. There are lots of high places. I'd much prefer they go the gun route because jumpers sometimes land on someone as most such places that are readily available are in urban areas.

Suicide is a mental health issue, not a gun issue.
So you only trust the reports of bad things?
Spaceship Solar System and Spaceship Milky Way are also real, but luckily we don’t have a way to mess those up yet.

In that view Earth might be a cabin, the only one that we really have long term access to.

Mars might be a new, very empty and cold cabin that opens up to us soon.
My understanding of US mortgages is they tend to be a fixed interest for the entire life of the loan -- i.e. with a 25 year mortgage at 2% paying $2k a month, if interest rates went upto 10% in 2030, you'd carry on paying $2k/month.

In the UK the longest fixed rates I've seen are 10 years
Not only can you make a gun easily, 3d printed or not, you can even bootstrap (I don't just mean handload) ammo now. Criminals will hella have hella guns and the cat is too far from the bag to put it back. Even individual manufacture isn't a real hindrance as long as your network contains someone who can make a gun.

The old Improvised Munitions handbook has instructions for how to make a "zip gun" with little more than pipe and a nail. Guns are easy. Safe, reliable, long-lasting guns require a bit more work.
how do you peg retirement to CPI? Where is that money coming from?
In intent no, in unintended risk yes. And not in a "collateral damage" kind of way, more in a "it's hard to use a bomb in a way the damage zone becomes 100x bigger than intended".
Would it apply only to the rich or to everyone? If everyone, then why bring out the richness?

Do you want to prevent satellites existing completely or just keep it at some threshold that has been crossed?

Most importantly, what's the actual problem here? You haven't pointed out any downsides of having increased mass in LEO.
I mean, they had to apply for a license to do it, and it was granted.
Out of curiosity, do you even eschew notifications to yourself? Calendar reminders, todos, that kind of thing? I allow some notifications, and I find these quite valuable personally.
My (deep blue) state has never had real "stay at home"/lockdown orders. But indoor dining/bars were shut down, many/most offices were closed, people were masking (at least indoors), distancing, mostly not going to stores more than necessary, etc. So just because people weren't in "lockdown" behavior was nothing like normal.
Seeing black / whitelists discussions I always wonder, if white color is racist also by containg all wavelengths, while black suffers by absencing visible light.
i'm sure many newly-remote workers are learning that when they aren't forced to have butts in seats in the office 40hrs/week, there's opportunity to work 20-30hrs/week without consequences - thus hugely increasing their effective hourly wage.

so it cuts both ways.
Homelessness is generally not caused by a lack of homes. Providing homes works well for those who are homeless for economic reasons. It works very poorly for those who are homeless for reasons of drugs/alcohol or mental illness.
>> It's ridiculous to think that all the advanced countries aren't working on exactly this.

They are.

And a centralized AI will be needed to coordinate all of the autonomous weapon systems and react faster than the bad guys--SkyNet is coming too.
I think terminology can mean different things to different people. Typically space junk refers to decommissioned or otherwise useless satellites. But if you’re a ground-based astronomer taking long exposure photographs, the trails of reflective satellites are of no use to you.
Come on, that's not a charitable interpretation of my argument. It's meant to highlight the idea that there are targets _today_ that would make the world a better place if we could kill them. And it doesn't matter what tool we use to do so, it's still an ethical action.

I don't like the idea of these devices very much, I see the problem with controlling them. But there's no way to stop them from being created. The required technologies are too pervasive and reproducible.
This could be helpful to some folks. I appreciate the clear distinction between "salaried" and "exempt", as that's something I've seen many folks misunderstand.

It's worth noting that, if you're in the United States, minimum salary for exemption also varies by state [0]. For example, as of 2021 in California, for many professions it is now 58k USD.

[0] https://sbshrs.adpinfo.com/blog/exempt-employees-minimum-sal...
Like most engineering projects with continuous improvement, the newer satellites are less reflective than the older ones.
Then call it a phone, or a console, or something. Words have meanings and if you sell something as a "computer" then the buyer can expect to be able to do general-purpose computation on it.
It’s cool, that your colleagues are paid twice. I tried working 3 hours a day and 9 hours a day. With 9 hours a day I made my manager angry showing how lazy my colleagues are. So I ended up with working 3 hours a day and staying green the other 5 while learning skills I need for my side project. That’s the perfect working setup for me, though I would love to have a manager who wants me to work 9 hours a day for the company.
The entire point of inflation is to force people to work harder to preserve their wealth. If there was say 5% inflation then companies would see greater than 5% interest rates on their loan and that means only the most productive companies actually get funding. By failing to create inflation the central banks are fueling the creation of zombie companies and unproductive investments. It's inherently injust yet we still see people rally against the inflation boogeyman as if it's a demon that is going to kill everyone.
This is one of the best summaries I've read on HN. I wish you would post extra reading as blog posts you've made, or write a book. I'll buy at least one copy!
Inflation is basically a wealth tax. Sort of.
I wonder if the USG would consider the shooting down of Starlink Satellites as an act of war after SpaceX refuses to comply with chinese regulations.

It's probably all moot as China would probably simply halt Tesla Sales, as they are not bound by the logics of legality.
On my early morning walk I can see the satellites as very bright (much brighter than the stars) line across the sky. It's clear they didn't do enough about the reflectivity issue.

Edit: Already downvoted for stating a fact. Amazing.

Edit: Changed 'did nothing' to 'didn't do enough'

Edit: Looks like experts still believe reflectivity is still a problem: https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-a...