skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's odd that you'd prescribe value-based pricing for a company but not for labor (where you prescribe cost-plus pricing).
in a set of fair markets, we'd expect both to be value-based.

moreover, we'd expect competition to drive down profits to an appropriate risk-adjusted level, and worker pay to be more equitable with (and perhaps higher than) shareholders and executive managers. the latter is because worker risk is typically concentrated in their (often single) employer, whereas shareholders (and executives) are typically more diversified and less exposed to the risks of a given firm.
Well, everyone is the good guy in their own story. While the policy seems reasonable to me, I'm sure they have their own internal justification for why their departure is a reasonable reaction.

If there was a cascading series of events that led to this policy announcement that turned them off to working at the company, it's not my place to judge them. On the other hand, if they are quitting simply because they can't engage in inflammatory political rhetoric at work then I certainly hope that I never to have work with any of these people in the future.
Free RHEL Is Also RHEL
How about just let the user run whatever he likes on the phone he paid for? PWAs are unnecessarily complicated to mandate by law. Much easier is general stuff like your pocket supercomputer should be able to run arbitrary software.
So you want to have to press a button 20 times to put your microwave on for 10 minutes? What do you have against keypads?
The inverter keeps the power level steady, is that correct? For someone that that uses their microwave in a 100% or nothing fashion, would I gain from buying an inverter model when mine bites the dust?
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Alex also solos but doesn't like ropes

https://youtu.be/4oOhAZRNrME
A couple things:

> so the drivers can change but the interface doesn't

This is already how it is. Take write(sockfd, …). Sure there are some configuration options in the parameters but nothing compared to the real complexity of networking. This is the downside to abstraction; roughly, the least complex implementation wins. Eventually, we shift and add more and more standards, but it’s never cutting edge (and for good reason).

> I haven't made any code changes for over a year

Relatively speaking, a year is nothing in the timeline of software, so this is not surprising and it’s likely that even if you hadn’t written your software in a abstracted way (which kudos to you for doing so), it would still be fine after only one year. write() has been the same interface for over 40 years.

Also, not to rain on anybody’s parade, but OSS is - generally - not held to the same performance standards that proprietary code is. This makes sense intuitively right? “If I’m paying for it, it better work.” And the vast, vast majority of code is not OSS. We just get a false impression since, by definition, we only have access to OSS. The worst that can happen for bad OSS is lack of adoption or a tsunami of incoming GitHub issues. For proprietary code, you could lose your job if a product doesn’t take.

> I don't understand why there is such a fetish in this industry for never finishing any project

This is similar to the argument that a company, once it has a good product, should just stop. Why do we need updates?, I like the features we have, Don’t change it, it’s perfect. But to survive in the market - not just on GitHub or code coverage tests - requires constant competition and innovation. If Intel launches a new multi-register write feature, Chip Company X can’t just say “Well our project is done.” It’s not anymore! And if it, then Chip Company X might be done too…
Isn't that advice about your own safety?

I see it now where people bellyache about headphones and runners and don't really get it. I don't have the volume jacked up and I know where to look for traffic.

On a bike I don't want headphones just because I'm mixing with so much more traffic and want that awareness.
Plus a flu vaccine:

> mRNA vaccines [...] generate a much stronger immune response than responses that are generated to the protein in a normal flu vaccine [...]

> One limitation of the current flu vaccines is that they take about six months to develop, meaning scientists must choose which strains they think will be prevalent in the next flu season — even before the current one is over. So by the time the vaccines are ready for distribution, a different strain may have emerged as the better target.

> An mRNA flu vaccine, on the other hand, can be developed in about a month or so, giving researchers much more time to determine which strains to protect against.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/11/mrna-flu-sh...

The flu vaccine seems to me to have a better chance of working than an HIV vaccine because we have been trying for decades to come up with one for HIV, without any success at all. I'm not saying that their attempts won't work either, but it's more of a bet than a flu vaccine. An iterative improvement on the existing flu vaccines would still be very helpful.
Food poisoning makes sense. I got a bad case of Moctezuma’s revenge[0] when I visited Cuba a few years ago.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Montezuma%27s%20r...
> The mass market does not care about repairable hardware or open drivers.

The evidence for this is that people didn't refuse to buy the first generation of unrepairable devices. Because nobody told them they were unrepairable until they broke, and by then they already owned it. And by then the unrepairable devices were all you could get.

How many people would buy a phone if you could honestly market it as lasting for ten years instead of three and having a lower repair cost when you drop it on the concrete?

> Using niche open SoC will make the device slower and/or more expensive. The mass market cares about price and performance.

The mass market doesn't care about performance on mobile devices. They can't even tell the difference. It's all marketing. Even the phones that are actually faster on paper aren't faster in practice when the "slower" one still does everything instantaneously.
The eco modes (or just generally, modes on newer dishwashers) take longer because to balance out the small amount of water, they need to spray the dishes more times. The energy use is low.
The C standard provides guarantees about data layout even if the compiler can prove it will never be used internally, for the sake of, say, external debugging.
Alice gives Bob free stuff, therefore Alice is entitled to kick in Bob’s door at 3am, take back the free stuff, and replace it with something else? And Bob must be grateful to Alice for this?
And for all the shrieking about Amazon destroying "mom and pop" shops these people never admit that Amazon pays their employees much more, often 2x what the mom and pop's did.

Or did you really think mom and pop were paying the teens running their bookstore $17/hr? You think they had great health insurance and other benefits?
Is this algorithm based on the "clean room" reverse engineering effort?
Can you share the script please? It sounds like something I'd find very useful
If you want developer friendliness, try Linux or BSD.

Full source and debugging symbols for mostly everything. Everything can be tinkered with with no limits.

Windows will never be like this. If you want to understand how things work there will be a limit where you will have to become a reverse engineer to do it. With Linux this is not the case.
In 2019, I had my phone and wallet stolen in Barcelona via pickpocketing. I know of someone who had their wallet stolen in the Madrid subway the same way. I’ve not heard of it recently in the US though.
From my understanding[1][2], the Honk Kong Jockey Club does indeed follows a strict parimutuel pool betting system, like the PMU in France (at least years ago).

Though you are right, the house have historically taken massive cuts per pool. Eapecially as for years they were the only allowed gambling arenas.

[1] https://betandbeat.com/betting/parimutuel/

[2] http://special.hkjc.com/racing/info/en/betting/guide_qualifi...
I don't see any mention of Chief Justice Roberts caught insulting Trump on tape before his election case, or being involved in the Epstein scandal. Doesn't get any uglier than that.
> where the median home price is $572,000

Where did all the money come from in last 1 year to inflate the prices to this insanity.

So asset inflation is eventually going to make impact on labor prices and cause inflation. Then is why FED so cocksure that inflation is no big deal.

>So yeah, I can understand why employers can't find workers...

I don't understand why employers cant simply pay more and pass on the costs to their consumers. What's stoping them.
Yeah the new phones are laughably non-robust. Use an iPhone without a case or protective film for a year and I guarantee you there will be micro scratches on the back glass.

They don't design the phone to be used without a case. People use cases because of that, not because of the price tag.
There’s no such thing as Docker images
Which brings me to an imortant question, has anyone done a rough math as to the overall (1)cost of using bitcoin versus the using regular currency?

My guess is that for bitcoin would be _significantly_ lower.

(1)= should include the cost of printing, machinery, guarding, maintaining, ensuring uniqueness, non-forgability, distributing, inflation etc.
A Canadian study came to the conclusion that aggressive pesticide spraying is likely to blame for the Havana syndrome: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-en...
It... isn't, though? There's a side-by-side comparison photo of the naked devices in the linked article, and I'm fairly sure from eyeballing it that the AirTag + the smallest of the accessories (the Belkin one [1]) is still smaller than the Tile.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HNPR2ZM/A/belkin-secure-h...
I'm not familiar with the details, sorry. Just repeating what I've been told by my dad. Granddad never really volunteered much demographic info about his family and, for better or worse, it is not something I interrogated too deeply. It doesn't impact me directly all that much as I am for all intents and purposes white -- that's what I answer on e.g. college applications or government forms, and it's what anyone would think looking at me. The only exception is my name.
I've heard a strategy to start with asking "who do you respect the most in this org?" or "who is the most knowledgeable person in the org?". Keep repeating that across every 1:1 and you may eventually build an influence graph.
For me the complexity comes when you have many isolated projects sharing code. With a mono-repo that shared code is immediately consumed by all isolated projects, most of which the developer is not actively looking at to look for breakages.

This means that every single commit every single test suite has to be run across the whole organization. For a small startup that's probably fine, but for a larger organization that adds a ton of issues and extra time. If your change to a shared project breaks another project that you may not be familiar with you end up not only with a delayed context switch (since you don't know about it until the CI has finished running all tests across the whole org), but now you have to figure out how to address it before someone else changes code in that shared project which causes a merge conflict.

Compare that to a split-repo setup where projects are sharing code indirectly (via package management systems). When you change code other projects will only consume the new code when they actually upgrade their packages, and usually a developer that is familiar with the code base will actively hit that breakage in real time.

Granted, this has its own trade offs such as all your systems may be running different versions of shared code, and the delay in breakage detection can cause some back and forth in breakage between isolated projects.
You have to capture the CO2 and then figure out how to store it or turn it into pure Carbon and then you still have to landfill that.
There is a program where anyone can become a certified Bob Ross instructor [0]. So I suppose forgery might be just around the corner.

[0] https://experience.bobross.com/cri-classes/
And I would bet you a week's pay the "job creators" who are complaining they can't find people willing to work for peanuts doing backbreaking miserable labor are the first to claim "we're full, no more immigrants!" to the US when there are plenty of folks in neighboring countries willing to work these jobs and pay taxes...
Maybe. The CO2 going to the atmosphere is not great. You have to way that against the risks of plastic pollution from land filling.
This

>And a million dollars ain’t even what it used to be.

is a result of

>Yup, feels good when you cross the million dollar mark ASAP rather than building it up toward some distant future where you retire. Feels like I have more cushion for changing times....Feels like there’s more and more millionaires these days.
> It's my computer, I decide what is ran on it or not.

Absolutely nothing docker has done contradicts this. You want docker desktop, you install docker desktop. You don’t, you don’t.

Docker has no obligation to provide a piece of software (for free!) with exactly the feature set you want. I can’t understand how anyone could think they do.
Really? Why no. 2? Literally anyone I know uses tabs...
From my observation, people tend to use microwaves 2 different ways.

Either they're for quickly reheating small amounts of leftovers or maybe boiling a cup of water for tea, and you have no idea for how long, in which +30 is all you need. You never do more than 2 minutes at a time. You'd never put something in for 10 minutes.

The other way is the microwave as a kitchen tool, where you do things like put in a large frozen family-size something (soup, veggies, etc.) and reheat it on 20% power for 20 minutes.

The 2-button microwave is awesome for the former group. It's useless for the latter group.
I found out about green chemistry but maybe we should have a big pole dedicated to green societies.

Center lifestyles around low rate of recycling (glass?) biodegradation potential, availability, etc
> They call themselves communists but they're really fascists -- the merger of state and corporate power.

The “corporate” in Mussolini’s famous quote re: fascism meant something else.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
in what sense? the only way that sums up Dockerhub is that it's the petridish of choice for malware.
My non-Miele clothes washing machine has the same stipulation, and you obviously wouldn't want it suddenly ruining your clothes or dishes with a higher temperature. But it does come with a counter and indicator light for the hot wash.

I don't think you can blame acquisition- it is the eternal cycle of brands that at some point they start frittering away their value instead of building it up.
I think this might be the best explanation of anything I have ever read.
The diffs look beautiful. One suggestion to the author be to bundle this as a self-contained binary. This would have a huge impact on whether I want to install it.

For this, I would look into Deno, which supports self contained binaries with typescript. I've never tried it myself so not sure how much work this would be.
Luckily thats never gonna happen in Germany. At least not with a mandatory connection. The cellular coverage is way to bad for that. My parents live in a smaller village. The Dishwasher would have to stand on the upper balcony to get a network connection.
Yes. I got it two years ago since I hate my phone and having to always worry its charged etc. Pager takes 1 AA that lasts about a month. Its hooked into work to ping me if I need to flip out my laptop. Dead reliable and the service is great.
I knew a UPS long-haul driver who was making over $100k in 2003.
Amazon treats their workers like shit. Nearly all low-wage (and yes, Amazon is still "low-wage" given the work involved) employers do. In Amazon's case they then hire armies of corporate apologists to swarm social media and astroturf any time anyone tries to talk about the shitty way workers are treated. All of this is well established fact at this point.

I'm glad the author is doing well. But these are not good jobs. They are not stable, sustainable, safe or high paid enough. A person could have, presumably, led a pretty good life as a writer for a national magazine like SI. It would not destroy them physically. It would probably not destroy them mentally. They would not be forced to carefully regiment their bathroom breaks, or pee in bottles. They would not be forced to work in stifling hot warehouses. They would not be forced to compete with robots and automated processes and suffer when they inevitably failed to be as fast. Writing for SI is (was) a job. Working for Amazon is exploitation. If you can't see the difference, you either haven't taken the time to read about what Amazon jobs are like, or you're arguing in bad faith, possibly because Amazon is paying you to do so.
Executives don’t decide if the company culture is good, employees do
> We (probably) can't just program it to produce that protein, because it would also train the immune system to target that protein.

I am not a scientist but my understanding is that the immune system targets only what it is trained against. It doesn't target anything which is non-self without being trained beforehand.

IMO if it was otherwise there would be no need for vaccine.

So I think that it is quite feasible to make a cell to produce a new protein, for example Zolgensma [0] works that way: It creates a new gene (hence a new protein) to replace a deficient one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onasemnogene_abeparvovec
I find it takes about 10 to 20 articles to give context into the ongoing conversation that is any particular journal article.
I hate to imagine the desiccated black carbon that would emerge from my microwave after anything at all is given 10 minutes of continuous exposure.
You know better than I what goes on in Apple, so I’m happy to hear they are committed to supporting and learning from employees with diverse political viewpoints beyond the usual California progressivism, including conservatism. It’s certainly not obvious that’s the case to an outsider.

(If you’ll allow me an irrelevant aside, your snarky sarcasm, point missing, and cleverer-than-thou ironic posturing makes it difficult for me to take you seriously. But perhaps it’s considered polite where you’re from. I’m happy to learn.)
> are the first to claim "we're full, no more immigrants!"

You are wrong. businesses are primary drivers of illegal immigration into the country they want more immigrants not less.
No but I have considered dropping my mobile phone entirely
That's simply a reprint of his 1994 paper, which is available here: https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/decision/1994-benter.p...
This push for every project to be as 'easy' as possible to contribute to is just weird to me. Like entering a room and immediately uplifting their entire productivity flow.
DynamoDB vs. MongoDB: A Comparison and How to Choose
It’s a more basic conceptual mistake to say that Linux is a technology on the tech tree alongside Telecommunications / Computers / Wheel / etc. It would be like having “Automobilism” but then later “Lincoln Town Car.”

I get what you are saying about Linux being available to all (hence a shared wonder - the boost to the civilization who developed Linux can be interpreted as increased academic prestige, etc). The point is that Linux is a specific product of technology, not a broad area of human tech.
If you'd had written that wrt to something like the Völkische Beobachter, fine, but this was a rather dumb glossy, which doesn't appear to have aimed at inciting antisemitism. When it was first published, gassing hadn't been considered yet. And there has never been enough resistance from the population to overthrow the Nazis. The only thing that could overthrow them, was a war at enormous scale on two fronts, and I don't see how a Finnish or Flemish publication could have affected that in any significant way. It's just too far fetched, too "wings of a butterfly". You could just as well argue that the Chicken Dance is responsible for us letting our guards down, which led to 9/11, which led to the bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is the image (and text) in the twitter post for anyone that cannot see it due to javascript: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0VAF-cXEAI5qqC?format=jpg

"Update ready to install"

"Docker Desktop Version 3.3.1 (63152) - April 15 2021"

"See what's new"

"[Skip this update (pro)] [Install & Restart]"
That's a certainly more rational position than believing your are smarter than the thousands of people with PhDs in finance or CS who pick stocks full time.

Any yes, what people on WallStreetBets are doing is gambling. Which is perfectly fine, I just wish more would acknowledge it.
> and tinged as it is with racial and xenophobic overtones

This appears to be a kneejerk reaction that's separated from the facts of this situation. According to DHH:

"It's not a list of, say, primarily Asian names. Out of the 78 names listed on the last version we were able to recover, just 6 names appear to be Asian." [0]

The overwhelming need to connect anything distasteful to racism or xenophobia is a relatively recent social construct that didn't manifest itself widely until we were all locked in our homes for a year during this pandemic. Before that, we could probably all agree that maintaining a list of customer names that are laughed at is a disrespectful and stupid thing to do.

[0] https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
If it is so tangential, why did the author of the piece insist to mention it, and the editor decided to keep it? Looks to me like they wanted to start a conversation, and you are making the environment here not inclusive by shutting down unrepresented voices.
Vim rocks, yet a lot of people can't use it. Once you state "X sucks", someone would object.

You've got strange conclusion out of it.
In my limited experience podman doesn’t work very well out of the box, even on a stock CentOS 8 install.
You can have about the same experience with standard tablets though and none of the wasteful shipping and plastic cartridges. The dishwasher can be online (for those who want it) and report back the amount of washes (the backend can calculate the amount of washes per week to predict when you're going to run out) so that the manufacturer can send a new box in advance.
and manufacturing
If you're have a problem with performance in vscode 95/100 times it's memory not cpu bound. Obviously emacs uses less memory than vscode, at least at base configuration.
Permanent surveillance of French internet*.
It allows for variable power levels.

That's great for defrosting, melting chocolate, etc.
Crazy how "not doing something unwanted to my computer" is considered a feature.

I remember when the user was in control of their own computer, not rando 3rd party companies. I issue a command to the computer, and the computer executes the command. If I want to update a piece of software, I update it. I guess this is a dinosaur mentality now.

This whole "allow the software to do whatever the developer's company wants or stop using the software" trend is pretty nasty.
I'm like the OC, I have no need for a microwave for 20min, just 3min max at the time. I don't need programs and what not.
They want more immigrants, and yet they support Republicans which massively slashed legal immigration the last time they controlled the government?
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"Often, there are two company cultures. There’s the glossy, official, Comms Department-approved culture — and then there’s the real, lived experience of showing up every day and working at a place. If the difference between those two versions is large enough, the result is generally serious, sustained, employee-management resentment."
Yes, it is possible to create the perception of sound and even distinct words in the mind of a targeted individual.
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