skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a shout out, I have a XDuoo X3 and it supports Rockbox!

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/XDuooX3

The Xudoo X20 should support Rockbox as well:

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/XDuooX3ii

I forgot how much I liked using Rockbox, and I am so happy I can use it again.
The phrase ladies and gentlemen does have it's own problems, mostly because it fails to address non binary people.

> This seems like a completely made up problem.

Only because it doesn't impact you. Consider developing more empathy. Surely you know some folks who gave challenges in their lives that others callously dismiss as not a big deal.
Right. Property values are highly correlated with incomes, because that determines what purchasers or renters can afford. Interest rates determine how much of a loan a purchaser can service. So, low rates allow purchasers to bid up the price of assets, which effectively transfers money from borrowers to current asset owners.

Since property prices are highly correlated with incomes, and income changes are correlated with inflation and productivity gains, the only lever that can be pulled to change real estate prices is the interest rate.

For property to become more affordable, the interest rate has to rise. Since that would cause property values to drop, many people who recently purchased property would find themselves owing more to a mortgage lender than their property is now worth, and it would likely remain that way for a decade. Many of those people were stretching to afford their purchase before, with 3% down programs and half their monthly income or more going to service a loan. We are already at a record high level of mortgages in forbearance.

So, the interest rate cannot be allowed to rise. The only people that would benefit are people with a decent income, no debt, and substantial savings, who do not yet own an asset class. Almost no-one, and mostly young people. But low interest rates push money to seek higher returns, which causes investment to become speculative instead of seeking lower-risk capital improvements. This reduces future productivity gains, which lowers growth long-term.

In other words, the future is Japanification. Society will gladly sacrifice its children and future for a few more years of fun bucks. A decade long recession is, I believe, inevitable, and will happen after the next asset crash.
They redeploy every time a new listing goes up /s
How do we determine what’s true? Fighting Misinformation
> Washington

Not for too much longer for most people. ID cards issued on or after September, 2018 have a random code format instead of the generated one from before: https://custhelp.courts.wa.gov/ci/fattach/get/63481/0/filena...

All ID cards are being changed as they are renewed.
Sorry but that is false. Please name even 1 hotel in Vail that is 10+ stories. The tallest that I can think of is 5, maybe 6 stories.

edit: having been a ski bum in Vail, I can't say that I've visited every resort in CO. But across Vail, Breck, Keystone, A Basin, Loveland, Monarch, Cooper, Copper, Beaver Creek, Steamboat, Wolf Creek, Crested Butte, all 5 mountains of Aspen, there are no 10+ story towers. I'm trying to take back some of the pedantic tone of my original comment.
It was urban unrest driven by anger against systemic discrimination against people with dark skin triggered by a fatal accident caused by a perpetrator of a different race who wasnt punished.

I think arguing that it wasn't about race and bore no similarities whatsoever to America is stretching it just a bit. Don't you think?
San Francisco house prices rose 25% as well

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SFXRSA#0

I'm unconvinced this spells the beginning of a long term trend re: remote work. It's more a sign house prices are going up everywhere. Remote workforce will grow from this no doubt but the smart money remains on work looking very similar to how it looked pre pandemic IMO.
Gross. If I have to worry about my kids and their kids kids being overtaken by other more elite kids I'm doing something wrong.
Yes. Absolutely yes. If your workers make more money, they are happier and provide better service. The coffee shop next store will likely have terrible service, with high turnover because everyone there is just waiting for their chance to get out and move onto a better paying job.

Why do you think people shop at stores like Publix or Whole Foods when Walmart has lower prices? Because those stores (even though they still treat their employees--sorry, "associates" poorly) have better service, due to better pay.
If you can’t sustain your employees, your business model is broken and and you should shut down and get a job or start over.

But to answer your question, yes I would. I voluntarily tip well above the amount you’re describing at every restaurant I eat at for this exact reason.
This is actually not (2018), it’s from a few days ago.
I looked briefly (and I could have sworn I posted our "nine rules" on HN years ago, but I couldn't find it in a quick search).

I'll look again later tonight more thoroughly to see if I've posted the mechanisms and restrictions publicly anywhere before. If I haven't, I'll try to dig it out of our old dev doc system and post them here, but I can't make any promises as the docs I recall are now over a decade old, so I'm not fully sure they exist any more. :)
This argument has always bothered me too. I'd rather a place be relatively inaccessible but great, rather than accessible but shitty.
Locals.com Raises $3.8M Seed Round
be sure to post on the monthly who's hiring threads too.
They They could hire a smaller of more qualified and invest more into automation.

The only reason Google is doing this is because they don't want to spend the same amount on benefits and other overhead on 15$ per hour worker as they do for a 30$ per hour one.
WhatsApp started showing Facebook colours
WhatsApp has a feature to mute chats so you don't get updates all the time for group chats you only want to visit that often.

In the last few weeks I have noticed that if I am using my phone a WhatsApp notification shows up in the status bar which says - "Checking for updates" but it's only updates in muted chats. However seeing that notification makes you engage with the app. Very annoying and under handed to get more engagement.
This could partly due to an aging population. People hold on to assets longer, getting more appreciation before they sell to the younger generations.

It’ll balance out when our lifespans max out somewhere (perhaps never?), and productivity is improving with technology as well, likely helping the situation somewhat.

This is not the only factor however.
Organic is a scam and Whole Foods is a rip off.

Please explain what "premium" milk is. Milk is a commodity. All milk has a code on the bottle that indicates which farm produced it. If you compare codes you'll often find the cheaper store brands are the same thing as the more expensive brands.
I think they are trained that way. Correct reaction is to be somewhat annoyed but not too nervous. If you are totally cool with insults and inquiries, you are obviously a trained spy or professional criminale.
Isn't that the primary risk of operating a business? You don't know if you'll make as much (or anything) next year?

I would just give them a little bit more than standard annual cost of living raise, maybe 4-5% instead of 2%.
As a link can be changed just before it activates, hovering over a link to check if it’s malicious is not very useful.
For surprisingly excellent curated lists by anonymous 4chan users, I can recommend https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts
> Didn’t read the article, but why would you go work at a lower end job when you can make 80-90% of what you would make by just collecting unemployment benefits?

There’s a good article somewhere that looks into that specific question and provides some data and weighs alternative explanations. I wish I could find the link.

Alternatively we could all just debate it without any of the data from the article. I’m pretty sure I know which option is most popular.
I think we can draw parallels from "Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work"

https://research.google/pubs/pub49953/
That doesn't apply here because the work in question is on an IBM driver, so the exceptions clearly apply.
12% of US detached housing is vacant. Property is being held by speculators who are betting that interest rates will fall and increase the value of property. No amount of supply will meet the demand of an asset class that increases in value by 6% a month.
NIMBY is just a symptom of the problem... The problem is development, wealth and consumption at all cost.

If people lived in normal houses, had normal job and lived normal lives where they didn't have to escape to feel normal, then we wouldn't seek out mountain towns as places to live, but rather places to explore.

Instead, we amass sheer amounts of wealth, property, exclusivity, we build so much of our society around celebrity and uniqueness and feeling special. We value huge houses with lots of rooms we'll probably never use and as long as "we win" - we don't care the cost.

Here in Austin - we're seeing the result of people leaving other cities. They look here and go "wow its cheap" but the people who have lived here - and lived here for EONS are going "wow, its getting expensive".

If you bought a house on fixed income and paid it off and worked a full life - we're getting to the point where your dream is no longer a dream. Sure, the house may have equity but its a tax liability - so you have to move..

Where do you move too that isn't being impacted? Where do you go to survive on fixed income and just live?

Is it NIMBY when you just want what you worked an entire life for or is it really something else?
My thoughts too. Fraud detection seems like the first step ML for a financial institution. Consumer banking basically labels itself. The customers will come telling you X transaction = fraud, with all the features available like time, location, amount, etc.
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
How is this an acceptable status quo? The entire point of due process is to protect individuals from the state… but when the state violates that protection, people bend over backwards to exculpate it. "Oh they didn't comply, well what do you expect." I expect the police to not violate my rights. They are given very narrowly defined powers in the course of their duties, and just because they routinely abuse those powers without consequence doesn't mean that we should be okay with it.

Meanwhile, there is endless discourse over whether accusations of racism or sexual harassment should result in personal or professional repercussions. As if we should apply a criminal burden of proof before firing someone from a job, but it's okay for a cop to physically harm someone if they get scared.

This is seriously wrong.
The problem is that it's not logistically possible. The very thing you want us to ignore for the sake of argument is the crux of the issue.

New York is a port. Ports become cities, because access to the rest of the area is kind of needed to access the rest of the area. Ports are valuable.

> If you have to pay hundreds of thousands (or even millions!) to buy a home, are you really going to be okay if it takes a massive hit (or doesn't go up in value as much as expected)?

Unrealized losses aren't real losses. It's one of the things that confuses me about cars as well. I buy a car, I drive it for as long as possible. I'm not looking to resell it. Same with property. As long as when I sell it, I'm not losing money to sell it, I'm good. Because I'm not selling to make money, I'm selling to divest myself of the obligation of ownership for some reason.

And it's important to note that I said that I'm not losing money to sell it. If I owe on it, I want to sell it for enough to cover that and any closing costs on my end. Other than that, I don't really care. I'm not a real estate investor.
> "The only complaint I have is the fact that I have to leave for six months. I don't feel that's right that TVCs get recycled like this," he said. "I've never gotten a real answer as of why."

This is likely done so Google doesn't need to classify TVPs as regular working employees. The six month wait enforces this commoditization upon the people.
Instead of (just) downvoting him, why not correct him? Look at his age!
I'm not talking about random commenters. I mean the manager who wrote "... you are an IBM employee 100% of the time ..." .
Why not Electron?
Hyperlinks and footnotes. I wish blog/tutorial content making use of various libraries or non-trivial language features would link to something providing more information if it's available. Even a citation (see "The Go Programming Language" section 4.5) would be helpful.

I'm learning Go (relearning, I learned it when it first came out but never used it) and came across something like this:

type Record struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
}

My first thought was, "Why is there a reference to JSON here?", the reason became apparent in the next section (so the order of presentation was poor to begin with), but my second thought was, "The language/compiler understands JSON?" If, on the first instance of this form, there were a link, margin note, or footnote to an explanation then the novice (either a programming novice or a language novice) would be able to more effectively dive deeper into the material in a guided fashion.

This is what intermediate-to-advanced material can do to really help out, especially for people who want to see real world use-cases and for one reason or another don't want to or haven't fully gone through all the basic material (or just forgot parts of it).
15.6” FHD (1920x1080) Matte Finished, 144 Hz... Still inferior display.
Sure but do you have formal model of such a system that is sound? I think unstated is that LTT is a known, intuitive, and well understood model. Sure you can ad hoc a fix but will it have any rigor?
Can Data Lakes Accelerate Building ML Data Pipelines?
But that negatively impacts the revenue of the various cloud providers and puts devops engineers back into the same unemployment line when their job title was sysadmin.
Love it! Great stuff
I appreciate this comment. I spent 4 hours updating-deploy-test-repeat with GCP last night trying to track down a couple of niggling errors and it was a nightmare. I'd have killed to be able to step through it just once with a debugger and everything would have been fixed.
Nerfmm – Neural Radiance Fields Without Known Camera Parameters
> 2871 Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or anticipated research or development of the employer

I don't know where this guy is based, but his IBM email address is @linux.ibm.com, so arguably his work on the Linux kernel may be conceived as "relating to the employer's business."
> perl-clutching

Was that intentional? Because it's brilliant!
Sleeping Too Little in Middle-Age May Raise Dementia Risk, Study Finds
"Multigenerationally united, caring families, have nothing to teach me, because they are boring. Same goes for honest people who have shown over time that they care about their families and others -- they are just left behind, in these modern, sophisticated times." :)
Good point. I guess you could say that its the contents of skyscrapers that are harmful to wildlife: humans. Lots of traffic (whether car, bicycle, foot, alpine touring skiing, etc) causes the wildlife herds to be pushed further away from where they originally may have inhabited.
This is a serious topic IMHO
Are there any Prolog engineer jobs, or is that usually done from another role? How could one find a Prolog job?
> Back in May 27, 2020 [...] new feature in Notepad

So almost a year.
I am not a vegan, but I have had vegan (not imitation meat!) sausages that were absolutely delicious! But I admit the likely connotation is pretty meaty
Confess I checked out your post history. "Being polite when some idiot's wrong" - wisdom there :-)
They aren't unknown now, they're less expensive because they are less desirable than less humid places with bigger mountains in the west.
Interesting point, but then as per the methods inflation has been ~10% since 2001, except for the a dip because of the great recession.

The inflation, even by this measure, has then been immune to fiscal stimulus.
Okay 49 other states?
Manjaro Linux, XFCE on an (old!!) i7-4770 at github.com:

- Chrome 5-8%

- Firefox 6-7%
> By that logic and reasoning Joe Biden and his crime bill and Bill Clinton who signed it into law are much bigger and effective racists

Well, sure.
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> There is a spectrum of possibilities, and marginal changes can have marginal effects.

That marginal effect is exactly that, marginal. It makes as much difference as adding a single drop of water to the ocean. If you're doing a risk calculation, which is what we're talking about - not a moral calculation - then adding zero to any term in the calculation doesn't change the result.

I know where you're coming from, your heart is in the right place, but your mathematically wrong here.

> Of course group action is more meaningful, and that's why this group of investors is pressuring a group of banks.

That's the only way it can work. I wish them luck.
Wow - I was going to raves in SF during this period. I've seen these types of people before.

Lots of stories from those days.
Depends on the scanner/camera app, but yes, similar situation for Xiaomi's MIUI builtin camera.
I agree with your impression but potentially disagree with the solution if adding vertical whitespace means more scrolling for the same information.
> Whereas it's much easier for a W-2 employer to claim IP made in personal time.

I've heard this mentioned a lot but how often does it happen and how much of a risk is it? Employees developing IP in personal time doesn't seem like it would be that common.
What kind of a dummy would work for a company that makes you sign that.
How I wish I could link to another comment.

Here's my answer to that, with some of it repeated from a comment posted to another comment above:

I 100% believe in "success" and the will to power--and I want my kids to succeed, full stop. I make no excuses. It's part of my value system, and I don't hide from it. I'm a second generation immigrant, and on my visits back to India, I've seen what real poverty looks like.

I don't mean any offense in this, but here it is as plainly as I can say: The idea that "success" isn't crucially important in life is just wrong. I see it as coming from a softness that I associate with participation trophies and the general wimpification of America.

I very much ascribe to G. Michael Hopf's philosophy of “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

The ability to succeed is essential. It's the ability set a goal and accomplish it. That ability is totally separate from the nature of the goal. That goal can be making a billion dollars or it can be building a neighborhood community group.

Given the above, I DON'T deem to know the right path for my children. They are their own people with their own passions, skills, and motivations. They're still young, but I hope that, if one day, one of them wants to drop out of college and pursue acting full time, I'll be supportive.

My goal is to give them the skills and emotional strength to go out there and be the best version of themselves, and in my opinion, knowing how to succeed--and how to see other are farther along than you and still keep going--it crucial.

At the same time, there's a reason I couched this conversation in terms of what I'd tell my kids. I'm not claiming any universal truth. This is me, my values, my biases. I think I'm right, but I'm just another schmoe doing the best I can. And fortunately, it's my right to screw up my kids in my own way :)
> He knows he would be reprimanded if he gave a contractor a Google t-shirt handed out for free during an event. "But there's no issue if they go on the Google merchandise store and buy it themselves," he said.

Yes, because one of those makes them look like a perm for tax reasons, and the other does not.
Yes, this is the interesting thing. People are saying minimalism is easy, designers are lazy, etc, and that doesn't match my experience. Spartan, barren, asceticism is easy, but presenting only what's necessary, only when it's necessary is not.
This is after you've already unchecked "Always check if Firefox is your default browser". People uncheck that because they don't want to be nagged. This is just Mozilla not respecting user choices.
Blows my mind that people actually care about this bug.
"What's in it for me? That's all that matters. YOLO."
Our Linux Kernel
I was being cheeky because the way he framed it, it seemed like he was saying that making it difficult for someone to take your property is a bad thing.
Yes. I do. Many, many years ago I worked for a related agency.
I think you have a point that there is a certain type of music fan that really does want to make a human connection with the artist through the music, and algorithmic composition may never really be enough for those fans.

But it's also the case that one of the things that makes electronic music appealing to a lot of people is that it generally doesn't have the cult of personality that exists in other genres. For sure, some parts of the scene ended up idolizing DJs instead, but I'd say a significant subset of techno fans are specifically not interested in the artistic motivation behind a piece and are instead just looking to hear some cool sounds.

That's why electronic music is a great place to experiment with algorithmic composition, and that's why all these people joking about ravers dancing to washing machines because they're so drugged up kinda missed the point of what we liked about the music in the first place. It's not about telling a story, or communicating an emotion, it's just about creating a cool sound. It doesn't need to be more complicated than that. If a piece of machinery can create a cool sound incidentally, why wouldn't we dance to it?

Of course, as I commented elsewhere, I don't think this particular example is especially notable. The music it generates is not much more interesting than what you'd get if you anyway just hit a "random pattern" button on a 303 clone that lets you constrain the result to a scale. But that doesn't matter, because it's still a nifty project and a bit of fun.

If you really are searching for the true intent of the artist, then you have that with algorithmic composition too. Click round the rest of this developer/artist's site and you'll find lots of little projects and experiments with music and software creations that - even if you don't see them as art, are at the very least the product of a creative hobbyist. There's your passion!
after i wrote it, it occurred to me that the problem is we should build more cities/towns that allow people to live HAPPY lives - so that traveling isn't an escape from reality - but a recognition of the charm/character as something to experience for what it is. I hope we don't lose those mountain town charms to sky scrapers and apartment complexes...

I think if we can address what makes cities livable for EVERYONE who lives in them, then travel is for experiencing foreign ideas, concepts and cultures and not "escaping the reality of cities and using my wealth to get what i want" kinda thing
I would tell my kids: "If you open quotation marks, make sure to close them, or programmers reading will get upset...