skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't need to add value for the end user if they can control the scarce resource (content) by buying it up and providing more lucrative monetisation options for creators.

Their play is a hybrid of a streaming service and an adtech giant, and I imagine they're keeping their options open to see whether it pays to keep both sides of that model open or to pick one. Either way, one of the reasons I don't like what they're doing is because I can see it working.

Besides all that, there is some value to having all of your audio in one app.
Sure, it's a made up number. But it's meant to give a sense of scale.

Think about how economically unviable and hard it is to just create 1 new chip fab on Earth. And think about the fact that on Mars you would need to re-create the entire supply chain that already exists on Earth. Remember that the minerals that you need are probably about as spread-out on Mars as they are on Earth, so you will need a global network of mining stations and processing plants to get the various necessary metals - all this without any access to fossil fuels of any kind, and with all of humanity spending little time outside for fear of radiation.

Perhaps establishing a colony that gets the vast majority of its supplies from Earth is doable in a generation or two (though of questionable value). But creating a self-sustaining colony is entirely out of reach for the forseeable future. You don't need actual research to tell you this any more than you need actual research to tell you that humans can't flap their wings to fly - a little bit of back-of-the-napkin calculations will quickly elucidate it.
Starve your self for a week. Hunger will make you do things you never thought you would/could do.
Since I switch to Wayland on Ubuntu 20.04 my laptop works significantly better. I don't get random hickups and slowdowns. Screen sharing works fine (at least on zoom which is what I tried, and only on the .deb package, not the snap one). I am aware it's not as mature as X but I'm looking forward to watching Wayland grow.
No. The expansion of the universe does not mean that atoms themselves will fly apart
> So for an above average, but not exceptional student, or a student who doesn't have a strong support network, the rational decision can be to go to a worse school because maintaining the GPA requirement will be easier.

Yes, and I don't see a problem with that. The best schools are for the best students. This response shouldn't surprise you, coming from an alumna of Georgia Tech, which is an extremely rigorous and prestigious school.

I understand that values differ, but at some point, personal responsibility and merit need to count for something.

If the net result of this is that an unexceptional poor student ends up going to KSU or Georgia State instead of Georgia Tech, I'm okay with that. KSU and Georgia State are perfectly fine schools, and its graduates go on to lead perfectly fine lives outside of poverty. I recommend playing with this tool which allows you to see, for every single school and major, what the earnings vs debt is: https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-college-graduates-make-th...

Not everyone is entitled to go to Georgia Tech (or MIT or Harvard) for free; and there are plenty of middle-of-the-lane universities that provide opportunities for unexceptional students, at little to no cost.
I have a feeling it will be 20never as I sit in front of my machine running i3wm version whatever in 2029.
How “Refreshers” Work at Amazon
Remember BBM?

That was what BlackBerry tried as a last ditch effort. They believed that people would stay in their ecosystem so they could keep BBM.

What they failed to understand that the real professional users were all on Bloomberg Chat, the one platform where the people who matters are. And teenagers didn't care for BBM: As soon as one of their friends got an iPhone, they had to ditch it for Messenger or WhatsApp anyways.
Bought two pretzels every day for two years from their small stand at the Hauptmarkt, oh how I miss them.
Yup. Security is hard.
If people are worried about Spotify mistreating Joe than, no, there's nothing to see here. But there is absolutely something to see here for those who are worried about preserving content and the precedent for censorship in future episodes of Joe's podcast.
> This, exactly this, is the problem with people in the union-mindset. "Oh it's unlimited, that means we don't need to work at all, right?" It means you have a certain amount of accountability and responsibility: "Hey, we just finished project X so I'm going to take Fri+Mon off to go camping" is a regular thing, without having to book your vacation dates a year in advance or deduct quarter-hours from your various "PTO banks", or even have to document it anywhere. It means the company trusts you to do the right thing. You're not going to see that in a union shop where you constantly have an adversarial relationship with your management.

Well you also outlined the real problem in your way of refuting mine.

Obviously, taking 100% PTO is a joke. I think we can both agree on that. That was just a demonstration point that "Unlimited != Unlimited".

But I also said, "How about every Friday off?" and now we're talking about 52 days off a year. And that's starting to get in that really fuzzy realm of certainly doable, but is it 'allowed'? Or perhaps 30 days? Is taking a month off acceptable (5 x 4 = 20 days)?

The outlier is obviously ridiculous.. But what isn't? And that's where we see results like https://www.workforce.com/news/unlimited-paid-time-off-is-a-... where the "Unlimited PTO"

is more of a ploy of not having to *pay out* PTO, which is legally required on exiting a company. And with "Unlimimted PTO", my question about what is 'allowed' is also reflected by the numbers, that shows people under 'Unlimited' schemes take 2 days less than standard PTO.

But it's easy to say this is someone with "union-mindset" saying this. That, at best, is a strawman. "Unlimited PTO" isn't unlimited, and is a bad deal for the employee in all ways.*
Few months ago I posted on HN asking the same thing. The author addresses it pretty well with a good example.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25010373
Is it just me or the world gone a bit over the top trying to squeeze in a million things into any given second of our time? This Under Desk Exercise Bike is like a wearable chair to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Q1uCYK6wnjk
I like the (possibly, older) style of the integral sign that appears in this paper better than how it is usually typeset these days.
I don't listen to Rogan anymore but I'm knee deep into MMA and I constantly see complaints about spotify by other people in my young male demo. Even people who have a spotify sub hate it because their video player is terrible compared to yt. Then there's tons of people who don't have spotify so they mostly stopped besides clips that get posted to yt. Could be just a thing of a mad vocal minority, but every time his mma interviews pop up it's filled with massively upvoted comments complaining about spotify.
Agreed. Putting blame is not helpful at the moment or at best a sideshow. What counts now is how to deal with the situation. Knowing that China is to blame or not won’t save lives.
> British Naval History is fascinating

Tell me more. I'm four volumes in to the Aubrey-Maturin series, and will read the remaining 16, but I'm curious about, say, the top two or three non-fiction books for the interested layman.
I use https://recipe-search.typesense.org/ for finding recipes, it has scraped over 2M of them. No distractions.
Using Adguard on Android for some years. It works really good with Chrome and all other apps.
Mobile browsing without any adblocker is a very bad experience.
Wow, what an awesome dive into some of the technical aspects behind one of my favorite tools for using the web. And I do think of it that way these days, it's fairly stunning on some sites to switch off all the block and see how they become genuinely unbrowsable. I remember seeing Gorhill discuss a few times over the years some of the reqs for uBO during certain times (like why it could no longer work with Safari following changes Apple made a while back), but so cool to have it all collected in one place.

Having said that I've also been fairly stunned recently to see how much difference a simple DNS blacklist system can make too. Not because it's a big technical achievement but because it isn't and in principle seems relatively trivial to work around. But as I've been switching all my routing from UniFi to OPNsense, I've gone ahead and tried out Unbound's basic built-in blacklisting. While it's no uBO, it works on every single device and browser including in apps and it seems like it really shouldn't, that more parties would just be proxying ads through their own infra and DNS. Been kind of an interesting illustration of technical vs economic influences in an ecosystem. I can see how proxying would add complexity and cost to setup so it must just be that few enough people do it the ad industry can't be bothered.

But should that ever catch on (and it could, Raspberry Pi seems fairly well known) I expect uBO to be able to keep up with the cat-and-mouse long after DNS has been left behind. This piece helps underline how incredibly important maintaining a critical level of diversity in the browser ecosystem is. Just shortly ago there were a bunch of complaints again about Apple not allowing Chrome to be on iOS because it "holds back the web", but what "holding back the web" looks like is certainly a matter of perspective...
> they emphasize the creative aspect far more relative to tech since they're competing over form not function

Yes and no. There are a lot of "make it fit in the box" requirements when making a movie. The unions mandate a certain make up of the crew, and a certain size, the stage rental costs are a certain amount, there are various laws and corporate budgets to take into account; all that adds up to a certain number of shots you can do in a day, which adds up to a dollar amount, and ALL THOSE THINGS cascade down to enabling only certain creative things. The difference between a brilliant director and a ok one is not the beauty of their art, it's their ability to pull-off something incredible in the middle of all that machinery. In a way, it's WORKING that machinery in your favor.

So while, yes, the industry is set up to support a creative endeavor, that industry runs on a template that makes certain things possible and certain things very difficult. But brilliant producers and directors find ways around it.
You're not understanding the semantic and UX reasoning behind this article. JavaScript has no relevance to it at all.
Sure, but it almost seems like you are justifying predatory behavior. When people are really desperate they'll do anything to survive, and providing a 14000% loan to people feels like you're just exploiting people's survivalist instincts.

Also, a lot of these payday loans are just flat-out illegal. If you look up usury laws in the US, they typically cap interest at somewhere around ~25% per year[1], and the highest I could find was on the order of 400% per year [2]. I didn't check every state so it's possible there are some that don't have any caps, but my point is that very often these payday loans are literally breaking the law by charging absurd interest rates.

[1] https://paydayloaninfo.org/state-information/40
[2] https://paydayloaninfo.org/state-information/17
Your comment (like a few others) reads as though you've discarded the possibility of some in the HN crowd having first-hand experience with unions.

> HN is very consistently anti-union.

I'd say HN is more consistently anti-bullshit. It's important to separate the legitimate problems from the solutions taken to address them, else you fall for the false dichotomy. Being skeptical of unions as a solution to address workplace conditions is not irrational.
> it was a blatant lie to keep the PPE for medical workers.

Can you post a link to the published studies that you think CDC / WHO should have been using to inform their decisions around masks?

> evidence in general to support masks in a medical setting

We really do have lots of testing for masks in medical settings, and most of them struggle to show benefit.
At least Windows has EGL incl streams for some scenarios (related to WSL’s graphics stack mainly).

On more embedded scenarios that I’ve worked on (Qt w/ EGLFS), it’s quite popular too.
No, it was great, but BNC / Coax ethernet was awful and horrible and an absolute nightmare to debug. I probably still have a drawer full of terminators somewhere
thanks for getting Sidebery on my radar! I tried treestyletabs and unfortunately it felt somewhat disappointing given how much people seem to like it.

At a first try Sidebery looks and feels more modern/slick! Might be what I was looking for!
He often stated that nothing will change and no censorship would take place because of the move to spotify.

For many he was one of the last credible places that would give a place to more extreme voices, even if he might not agree. For years he actively advocated free speech and integrity. Commercially it might be part of the deal, but it's understandable many of his listeners feel like he sold out.
> Only caveat is the limits only apply to in network providers (providers that have made a deal with the insurance company), so if you're on a trip and an emergency happens and you end up in a hospital that's not in network, then you're on your own.

Actually, out-of-network emergency care is an 'essential benefit' under the ACA, so most plans do cover this scenario.

I actually just screwed myself with this recently. I went to an urgent care while traveling (because that is usually cheaper when I'm at home) and it wasn't covered. An urgent care apparently doesn't count as emergency care. It turns out that I should have gone to the (typically very expensive) ER instead -- it would have been covered 100% because of the ACA!
> It doesn’t make me feel any specific way.

I think it should!

It's disconcerting to see the expansion of platform censorship even if the censored party is aware of it, "doesn't care," and was in on the deal. That "it's just business" doesn't make it a neutral development. Spotify gets to decide what ideologies are acceptable for Spotify listeners. This is just one point on the graph. The overall picture is more and more of this stuff, with little or no resistance.

You like that? You feel nothing either way? There is a moral and political valence to this stuff.
A lot of these "crypto" schemes (OneCoin etc.) operate all over the world, but cater heavily to people in third-world countries. They go on "roadshows" with their cronies, and hold glitzy conferences for people out in the boonies.
The Guy with the Train in his Basement [video]
I don't understand what nginx has to do with this. nginx's language is just that: a language. If Lambda@Edge would support nginx language, you would still be invoking a lambda. But I'd must rather write some header rewriting code in, say, JavaScript than nginx's language.

Then why a (Turing-complete) programming language and not a config language? Simple: because a programming language gives you infinite more power than what any config system could ever provide. E.g. I could compare the origin IP, determine the country, and change the response based on that. And there are plenty of use cases like this which you cannot express in a config language.
OK, so you spend hours and days sealing threes of clubs into tea packets. But how do you make the volunteer pick the three of clubs during the show?
Don't worry, Andromeda has got you covered. It is predicted to collide with The Milky Way in 4.5 billion years.
> One unemployment is just as correlated with crimes of passion as it is crimes of opportunity. There’s no reason why a lack of job training should lead to rape.

I think there is a clear reason: nihilism and depression. If you have resigned yourself to being unemployed and impoverished forever, what difference does it make whether you're in jail or not? It's the same reason we argue that jailing the homeless is pointless. They don't care; life in prison might even be better in terms of quality of life. Sure, there's less freedom, but the poorer you are, the less the delta in freedom is. You don't have access to a lot of the freedom that financially healthy people have to begin with. Jailing them is like trying to drown a fish. We don't have any functional punishments for people who don't care about their life (I'm not advocating that we try to invent some).

You mentioned rape specifically. The prevailing theory afaik is that rape is about control over someone else rather than sexual gratification. There are plenty of ways to have sex; the floor on sex worker prices is shockingly low. Doubly so in extremely poor areas. It's not shocking to me that people with almost no control over their lives would lash out in ways that grant them control, or at least a feeling of control. If you're poor and have no safety net, you have little control over your housing (can't afford to move), your job (don't have a rainy day fund to tell your boss to fuck off), your food (you eat what's cheap, or what the food bank will give you), your money (you're lucky if you even have enough to pay bills, much less have money left over that you can pick what to do with), etc. Your life becomes a constant chain of being shunted around and manipulated by people who do have money.

Crimes of opportunity are an attempt to lift yourself out of poverty. Crimes of passion are an attempt to cope with the struggles of living a life that you have almost no control over.

I'm not attempting to absolve anyone of responsibility for their actions, but I can see how someone would make that choice.

Also, suicide is an act of passion, and it's highly correlated with unemployment.
Boy... QAnon is gonna love this.
Fair enough, I was over simplifying, still it has a nice subset of it.
There is. The main thing is reducing one's food waste in general. That requires some mindfulness with regard to one's food purchasing, storage, preparation, and disposal habits. Unfortunately, IMO, not everyone seems able or willing to do so.

For those who can and are willing, there are a number of things you can do as an individual. They mainly come down to the three Rs environmentalists would have us apply to our waste stream in general: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, ideally in that order.

Reduce: Focus on right-sizing your purchasing of perishables, so to minimize the amount of spoilage you have to throw away. Also work on right-sizing the amount of food you prepare, to minimize the amount of leftovers you have to throw away. Taking the time to do some meal planning for the week can help with this.

Deliberately purchase the ugly perishables in the grocery store. Often, meat near its sell-by date and misshapen vegetable produce are heavily discounted to incentivize its purchase so the store doesn't have to throw it away. Said discounted perishables are often perfectly functional. The lopsided apple still tastes like apple. You were going to marinate that flank steak anyway, which turns beef brownish in color, so who cares if a corner of it is turning from red to brown? Have means of preservation and storage can also help. Fruits can be dehydrated and turned from a perishable to a non-perishable that can be stored long term. Even a small chest freezer lets you keep the meat you know you won't get to this week.

Reuse: Find ways to recook your leftovers. Still have a chicken breast from dinner a couple days ago? Shredded chicken enchiladas. Instant ramen is kind of boring. Instant ramen with the leftover porkchop chopped up and mixed in is not only less boring flavor-wise, but is also more nutritious. The ham from Easter dinner makes a fine addition to the morning omlet.

Also the not-directly-edible portions of many foods can be put to use. Citrus rinds can be dried and used as a spice for appropriate recipes, or to add some extra flavor to your green tea. Meat bones can be boiled or simmered to make a broth or stock that can serve as the base for soups, gravies, and other foods. The pits of stone fruit can be roasted to destroy the cyanide-producing compounds and turn the kernels into a nutty snack. And so on.

Recycle: Your spoilage and non-edibles can be composted. This is actually better than the landfill. The decomposition that happens in a landfill is largely anerobic, and produces methane and other gases that have higher global warming potential than CO2. The decomposition that happens in a compost pile is aerobic. Yes, aerobic decomposition does emit CO2, but not all of the carbon added to the pile becomes CO2. A good deal of it becomes sequestered in the produced compost.

Even if you don't have the space to compost your food waste because you live in an apartment, you can still compost. Odds are, there's one or more compost collective in your city that will be happy to collect your food waste on the regular and provide a bin for you to use.
Not to mention VOCs off gassing from all kinds of things we commonly have in our homes. I wouldn’t be surprised if we look back on this era in horror at the chemicals we put in furniture etc
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thank you, learned a lot :) (I had assumed lld came with the llvm/clang switchover back in...ios 5?)
CyberBattleSim – Applied ML for Stronger Security and AI Models
That's fair, though I'd consider APIs to be a different beast than a cloud IaaS sort of thing. Maybe that's the distinction worth making, IaaS vs SaaS or similar. But fair point either way.
Build something with zero practical value, but not necessarily with entertainment in mind either. Oh, and I want 10%.
I think cycling is the wrong motion for an under-desk exercise machine. I think it should be a very short vertical motion, just feet moving up-and-down, something you can do without disrupting your chair posture, or making the rest of your body move too much.

Potentially you don't even lift your toes up, just raise and lower your heels with some kind of resistance.

Maybe you wouldn't get much exercise this way, but I think getting a whole lot of exercise whilst trying to work at a computer just isn't really doable.
> Allowing arbitrary clients to globally capture keys at will is impossible to do without opening up a hole for keyloggers.

Is this feature standard on every OS in use by human kind today? Is this feature requested by most users and not having it pisses off most users? Is this feature available on the system that Wayland aims to replace?