skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one thing I read was about artists.

Don't spend a lot on school for becoming an artist, find another job (welder) and then do art on your spare time as a hobby. The creative arts are rarely rewarded and there's stiff competition.
I had such a good laugh with this. This was so good. Thank you!
The 10x Meeting
I'm not seeing how that's dumb.
are you sure about the infecting the remaining 40%. In every article I read, they specifically mention re-infections in many cases.
I gave my Thermapen to someone as a gift, ended up buying a $20 one on Amazon and don’t miss it one bit.
Paypal, Privacy.com, and Blur can solve that problem. I'm sure there are others.
> This whole thing has also shown me how working for a wage paycheck to paycheck even at six figures is basically slavery.

I retired at 30 and have done nothing but travel the world developing open source software since then. I have little to no possessions, and nothing tying me to any geographic area aside from a preference for clean air and such.

To your point, in my travels I’ve rarely come across anyone working a job out of anything other than financial necessity. Only a small fraction of people seem to do what they do out of genuine passion. Much more often, artistic, well-natured people are toiling away on menial tasks for money because that’s what it takes for them to survive.

> It turns out that capital is everything.

The gains from this are disproportionately accruing to billionaires while most people add almost nothing to the total output in exchange for cash and at the cost of much of their waking hours. These bullshit jobs are costing people time they’ll never get back, for dubious societal gains in many cases, while also depleting us of creative energy on an unbelievable scale.

Meanwhile, because of the dog-eat-dog nature of our existence, it seems as if there are only two viable paths for most people to achieve “freedom”: either you can withdraw deep into the proverbial jungle, or exploit the underexploited. A staggering amount of what passes for “industry” today is essentially just strip mining our planet of its natural resources, and/or converting it to food in whichever way using as inhumane of a process as is allowed by our current legal systems. The remainder of profitable human activities are by and large facilitating the dominion’s continuity, or quaint distractions from our highly cancerous existence.
I'm curious how you reason about something that you say is used mostly for crime. Especially when there are other options for anonymity? Is there anything which can move the scale the other way, or is the fact that it's a human right in your opinion always going to win?
The thermapen pro-grade unit also detects temperature much faster than most other units. Many cooks (myself included) use a food thermometer every day, and it's totally worth paying more for a durable, accurate, and fast unit. My current one is over 5 years old, and shows no sign of wearing out.
> I've seen it happen when it detects a car exiting out of the lane as still being in the lane

The car it braked for was also in motion, or recently in motion, right?
I've certainly been bitten by other types of counterfeit items on Amazon, and would definitely not purchase something like a Thermapen on there simply because I couldn't be sure I was getting a genuine product. For companies like this, I can also see how it would be a disadvantage to have large numbers of Chinese knockoffs featured next to their product for a lot less. Personally I've changed my shopping habits to never shop on Amazon unless I can't get that item any other way. Almost everyone has reasonable shipping times, and I don't need 1-day delivery or whatever new decadent level of convenience they're offering. Purchasing directly from a manufacturer or from other retailers gives me more confidence that I am buying a real product. Finally I also don't like the idea of giving Amazon as much power as it has - I'd rather avoid fueling their middleman role and reward innovative small companies directly.
Well do you actually verify the authenticity of your purchases? It depends on the product category somewhat, some categories are absolutely rampant with Amazon knockoffs in a way that you literally cannot avoid by scrutinizing listings or eyeballing it. The first and only PC thermal paste that I bought on Amazon was from an official listing but I was delivered a straight up knockoff. The thermal paste company is a common knockoff target so they provide serial numbers that you can use verify the authenticity of your purchase. The knockoff product had the audacity to include a fake serial number, presumably because they know most people wouldn't bother checking. The knockoff paste is a slightly different shade of gray, but I only know that because I had previously owned a (verified) authentic paste as a point of reference.
USPTO search results aren't directly linkable, unfortunately. You can see it through the "Basic Word Mark Search" at https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli...
AWS support puts me into a circle of "here's the details"->"you forgot other details"->"here's other details"->"you also need details"->"those details are in my initial message" more than any other paid support I've had to deal with.

They don't suck once they actually start doing something, but they do seem to have KPIs which incentivise wasting my time.
Same. I'm probably close to $100K in purchases over the last 15 years from Amazon.

There is one product I've bought that I'm reasonably confident is a counterfeit based solely on the build quality, and unfortunately it's a Leviton GFCI plug [1]. Not exactly something I want to risk to inferior quality control.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037NXKY0
You just appear to have a moral superiority complex, in the sense that to you people are either "clean" or an "addict", you feel you are doing people some kind of favour for "giving them a chance", and assuming that I have some kind of emotional baggage.

Quite the opposite, I'm afraid. Though I'm clearly not the only person here that picked up on your comments, so I'm going to leave it at that.
> > Your discomfort is the point for them

What do they gain from causing such discomfort to others?

They might not believe so very seriously in their own ideas? (I never met a flat earther)
Says more about chromeos than the processor. Try installing windows or ubuntu gnome on it.
>I know YouTube is always tinkering with the algorithm, but in my case the metrics and the timing of my collapse in views, make me think my channel failed because of the content switch.

I think that's the worst part of the way YouTube's algorithms work, in your case, at least you have a fairly good idea as to possibly why your channel declined in popularity, but for a lot of people they're left wondering if it's the algorithm or their content.
It makes me sad that $20000 is my annual income and I'm a okay (I guess?) developer!
I blame Google here as well. Their practice of selling ads on searches for trademarked brand names of competitors, forcing brands to pay for their own ads to (only partially, as seen here) mitigate the negative effects is clearly predatory. I wouldn't even expect them to necessarily proactively screen for these cases, but it should at least be possible to demonstrate that you're using the trademark being advertised on (by demonstrating that you own the .com, or by submitting a trademark registration number), and henceforth prevent anyone else from advertising on that keyword. Of course, Google has a financial incentive not to do that.
Assuming you're actually asking, the appeal of the Thermapen for chefs is how fast it is - $10 thermometers are as (or more) accurate, but they'll take several seconds to stabilize on showing a certain temperature. Thermapens are crazy fast. That's very useful when your hand is near/in a hot oven or hovering over a hot stove.
It seems as though there were always games that demanded multiple floppies or CDs or DVDs. Games for the Apple II and Commodore 64 would frequently require flipping the disk or inserting another floppy. PC games often required installation from multiple floppies before CD-ROM drives were commonplace. Multi-CD games were popping up as CD-ROM drives were becoming popular.

I'd have to dig around Mobygames to come up with specific examples for each case, but 7th Guest (1993) came on multiple CD's and King's Quest V (1990) came on a stack of floppies.
I assume you're in this industry? If you'd be potentially interested in partnering, I'd be interested in learning more. You could shoot me an email at dave.lookingforideas@gmail.com
I'm a medium experienced home chef, and I have a Thermapen, and really like it. It's a better thermometer than the $10 one, or even a $30 one. The accuracy doesn't matter very much, but the reading speed does matter, and Thermapen reads extremely quickly.
But it doesn't work with the non-living-wage either. That's just externalizing the costs. If people are actually not making enough to live basic, healthy lives, that means we have a portion of the population scraping by in bad health and even dying early etc etc. and that isn't free of costs. That has massive massive costs, and the burden is going to be paid some way.
Older people may not need laptops. Especially if they do not work. My grandparents just have a desktop.
Yeah no one is forcing them, so what’s your point?

Vaccination of children wouldn’t be needed if most adults got it. But they don’t because they’re dumb. So now they’re saying children can get it if they’re parents want. It’s a choice to do your part to reduce the spread. Pretty simple.
There are too many chefs that swear by them to so easily dismiss the value. The often quoted feature is more speed than precision. Like everything a big chunk is going to be marketing and paying for a little extra quality control on top of slightly higher tier components.
They may have finally gotten setup with Amazon Brand registry. As a past seller of used items (camera gear, electronics, and the like) on Amazon, there are large categories that I can't sell anymore, due to Brand protections that prohibit all sales by non-authorized parties, even just simple used goods that I was the original purchaser of.
It seems quite clear that they are holding China responsible for its own behavior. They have the leverage to do so because China benefits from their consumer appetite.
That's like getting food poisoning when you go out to eat, so you just assume all restaurants will give you food poisoning.
Are the Moving-Money-Around types really mostly people who struggled with math in high-school, though? When I was in college, investment banking/quantitative analysis/predictive analytics were marketed as lucrative career paths for people with solid math-based degrees who didn't want to get their hands dirty with engineering. Granted, they may not have to remember anything past calculus, but that's a little different.
It's not about accuracy, it's about speed of reading, and simply not breaking. Yes, the price is ridiculous, but anecdotally, I've bought six other thermometers, including a couple expensive ones, and they were all awful on one or both counts. But maybe I'm just bad at research.
I believe Hobb identifies as male.
So you mostly do, but not completely.

We mostly know this vaccine is fine, since it completely leaves the body in a few days anyway… but not completely.

Same thing, mute point in consideration.
I'm not saying one should optimize for time - I fully agree that movies and books can be quite distinct in what they accomplish.

My point is that you can not stack up movies and books 1:1 for sales, as people have limited free time and one person watching exclusively movies, for example, would generate far higher watch numbers than a person only reading books would buy books (everything else being equal). While not ideal, I think comparing them by time spent gives a far better comparison of what is currently popular than simply comparing sales numbers.
If I'm buying the usual consumable goods, I'll buy from Amazon. There's not much point in counterfeiting those for the most part, and the financial risk is very low in the first place. Anything more expensive than $100 or so I'm going to try and find a) high quality materials and b) made as local as possible. It's not always possible. For those type of product, though, I'd rather spend 3x the amount, 1/5 as often.
First, there is a difference between precision and accuracy. I’ve had cheap thermometers that are 10-20 degrees off. That does make a difference. Second, for the thermapen it’s really about very fast readings and durability more than accuracy or precision. It’s very valid to feel that it’s not worth the cost, but it is untrue that the difference isn’t noticeable.
yeah, if ARM takes over the laptop market it will be the beginning of the end for open software. They'll be shipping like phones do today. There's no realistic alternative to the OEMs stock OS unless you trust shady and often botched ports.
It will also be the end for pirated software.
In photo studio work we call the continuous (as opposed to strobe) lights hot lights for good reason. I imagine the lighting requirements for film/video isn't too much different. This was ~10 years ago though, don't know how LEDs have changed things.
Agreed. I'm just in one of the 0.01x situations now. Lampooning the situation helps me cope. :D
I would disagree. If you own property in a good location, screen your tenants, it's almost no work. I have several properties and spend less than an hour a month on average in total dealing with any issues.
Track time, submit/approve timesheet, vacation in Jira
Well, I think that starting a sentence with “So” is pretty natural and common. Indeed:

> So it’s often worth at least contemplating such feedback, if you care about being taken seriously.

(Maybe you were intending to joke here, but it still came off as “pretty natural.”)
Agreed (if you'll accept a couple of extra conditions: not just willing, but also able and available), but I don't see that as a simple supply-side glut driving lower prices, because people are not widgets. The willingness to accept the lower pay in specific sectors reads more like an abusive status quo maintained by a cycle of exploitation, one I suppose those sharing their salaries are hoping to break.
It's correct.

Snowflake does not have indexes, and ClickHouse indexes are what they call "data skipping indexes". BigQuery, Redshift, Netezza, and Vertica also do not have support for indexes.
For software engineers, even all the extracurricular software activities is useless! Its like sure maybe have a public github, but the only endgame from actually contributing to a project is just an imagination that you'll stand out for a recruiter to actually say hello. It doesn't give you a leg up on any hiring manager decision, you have to solve the silly algorithm problems, system design and behavior interview just like everyone else!

The recruiter was already open to saying hello just because you said you can code for other people.
The Model 3 has a manual emergency release in the armrest: it's one of the more awkward parts of the car, actually, because it's right where most people expect the door handle to be and the actual "door handle" is a button a little bit up.
Buy crypto, and lend it at 20-1000% apy using something like harvest.finance
While I see a ton of truth in your comment, my understanding is that the newly-printed money is actually going disproportionately to the already-wealthy.

I do assume that you oppose the money-printing all around.

At any rate, it's all far from simple. Our system is corrupt and broken in several different ways.
Haha, I'd rather have that problem than mine! If you are looking for someone to help, I'd be curious to hear about the idea. You could email me at dave.lookingforideas@gmail.com
That article seems positively rife with weird assumptions, all to present email marketing in a favorable light. It's bad enough that I don't really trust the quote you gave from it.

> Because several of these constraints have been remedied over the years, many of the concerns that users had about subscribing have disappeared.

Read: Because we stopped asking permission and instead started spamming everybody who gave us their email address, people stopped thinking that not subscribing had any effect.

> The increase in sheer email volume over the years has created a scenario where people can’t possibly give all messages their full attention, so they care less about what they receive because they know they can easily ignore the noise or choose what they invest their time in.

Read: Our entire industry spams people so much that people know it's not worth reading.

> It’s no longer used strictly to describe unsolicited email messages. Participants in our study used the word “spam” to describe solicited marketing emails that they considered random, impersonal, irrelevant, with too much promotional hype, or coming in high volume.

Read: We required an email address for things that don't need one, then treated that as permission. How dare people consider our spam to be spam?

> Now that organizations are required to include an Unsubscribe link in their newsletters, this task has become easier.

If a company assumes that an email address given for identification can be used for marketing, or that it can be shared with third-parties/affiliates for marketing, then they are already pretty shady. I honestly have no way of knowing whether it's an actual Unsubscribe link, or whether it's a signal that the email address is actively read by a human and so should receive more spam.

> If users keep getting unwanted newsletters, the messages will start to backfire and become regular reminders that they’re annoyed with your company. Better to let them go.

This part I do agree with. Better still would be to not assume permission to send marketing to somebody just because there was a pre-checked both on a form.
I’m not the OP, but there’s a whole book on the topic. Fascinating read if you ever get the chance.

A Keystone Cops level of professionalism displayed by the central bankers at the time.

Lords of Finance - https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Finance-Bankers-Broke-World/dp/...
What do we do with individuals whose economic output in general is not worth the new higher minimum wage? Maybe similar to people with Down Syndrome, we have a special, lower minimum wage for them? Genuinely unsure.
AWS is like a weapons cache you've stumbled upon in the middle of the desert, lots of fun, useful and interesting stuff in it but you're going to get yourself hurt if you don't take proper precautions.

This sounds like a cautionary tale. I have spending alarms on my personal account for this very reason, I'll know within 5-10 minutes if my monthly spend is going to break $50 because I've set up my alarms.

Your other option is to start a Cloudtrail and alarm on foreign IPs that are logging in, new IAM users and keys being created and changes to any alarms you have in place to check for this stuff. It won't necessarily stop it, but you'll be able to react a lot faster.
I've been using the pay with PayPal option whenever a site has it for this reason.
> But they don’t because they’re dumb

Given that some of the the lowest vaccination uptake rates are in black and latino communities who have historically strained relationships with the medical system -- as well as some of the highest prior infection rates -- your comment is misinformed.

Whatever the current level of immunity may be, cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all rapidly declining across the US. Moreover, the vaccines are all close to 100% effective at preventing severe illness. There are a great many reasons to be optimistic about our current trajectory, and no immediate need to put children at risk to get where we need to go.
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I have yet to come across a brand which offers reasonable shipping options and good customer service on their website. Despite all of Amazon's other problems, their logistics and support moat is deep enough that there is still no good option B.
Should profits?
This goes beyond Unix utilities. If everything that's not performance concerned can run in the web, I want to use the browser as an application layer. This goes for phone and desktop.
Yes. In case people don't get the reference, The Royal Festival Hall concert venue (still there) is named that because it was built for the Festival of Britain. Like most festivals/world's fairs, etc., most of the buildings built for it were removed after it ended, but that one stayed.
Because solving the problem you’re describing means having to do work to implement and maintain a new feature. This kind of framework would put journald on the complexity level of rsyslog when currently journald is purposely very dumb.

If you went ahead and implemented thoughtfully and sent a patch there’s a good chance it would get merged. Everyone has a idea about what “I just need basic filtering” and so accommodating anyone but not everyone is a recipe for making even more people mad. Telling people to just disable journald on-disk storage and forward to rsyslog and friends if you need complex filtering and don’t want to pay for double storage is a solution that feels bad but is actually generic enough to be useful.
It can be, and generally is, both (if by "arthouse wankery" you mean design theory).
Enough of us have paper wallets and easily regenerable mnemonic phrases.

Some people will be able to trade for essentials at arbitrarily large amounts.
Hmm, true, perhaps that was a bad example. It also brakes for cars that are waiting to turn (completely stationary) that it thinks I'm approaching too fast (say at 40 mph).
They discuss the relationship between the companies on their website https://blog.thermoworks.com/thermometer/thermoworks-eti-ltd...
“Maybe not getting the virus” is mostly because your fellow citizens got vaccinated.

If everybody followed your logic, everybody would’ve had covid by now.

Of course we know that there are some healthy under 40’s that died from covid. If they got the vaccine, would they have died?

How many have died directly from the vaccine?

Answer those last two and you will see.
Ubuntu GNOME would probably work fine, except when it comes to video. People run similar stacks on the Pinebook Pro, which is the same SoC design. Unfortunately using a mainline stack with the rk3399 will still get you CPU en/decoded video, rather than using the dedicated VPU. That seems to be changing soon.
Except when you bought Pokémon cards did Nintendo get detailed tracking on how you played? Did the cards change in subtle ways to addict you further?

What is fundamentally different now versus then is the the data you are handing over and the manipulation that you are unknowingly experiencing.