skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's completely insane. Also a few hours after writing this I heard my friend's older brother, dropped dead of a heart attack at 41 years old last week. This has me seriously considering requesting a four day work week plus a 20 percent pay cut
+1 for Stalingrad by Beevor

A soul shaking book. It changed my outlook on bureaucracy/society/humanity.
The US provides EU-level social safety net benefits (healthcare, housing) to the lower classes—via employment in the military, which is in part a stealth jobs program that both major political parties support paying for.

We provide a jobs program for white-collar folks through our excessively-large and exceptionally expensive healthcare system. We pay for whole categories of jobs that don't need to exist and are only adding costs. A double-digit percentage of our healthcare costs are a white-collar jobs program paying people to do nothing useful whatsoever, and we spend a lot on healthcare so even 10% makes it a fairly big program.
Supreme Court Rejects NCAA’s Tight Limits on Athlete Benefits, Compensation
Standing there in place of a traffic cone is not much of a dignity IMO, but it certainly could be cultural.
In the world of 'repeated experiments' ostensibly. Perhaps some should go wreck that world's economy and leave ours alone.
This is also a curious method for opening more employment and reducing potential income inequality. If a factory needs to produce X things, and each worker produces Y things per hour you will always need X/Y working hours. If workers reduce working hours by 20% then you'll need to hire 20% more workers or improve Y (productivity) by 20%.

If the majority of the economy follows a linear production curve in hours worked, then this opens many jobs. Not a bad deal for a mature economy like JP, but will be interesting to see what un-forseen dynamics emerge.
There are bigger problems that won't ever get solved. This small one won't be the first.
> Except that repeated experiments have found that raising wages and improving working conditions raises productivity and efficiency.

Source?

>Apples should cost more, but we have created an evil system that destroys apple pickers' lives so that the rest of us can have cheap apples. Let's not do that any more.

What if raising the price of apples lowers demand, causing less jobs to he available? Presumably apple picking is the best job those workers can get, so the likely consequence is that they'll be unemployed and we'll have to substitute 100% of their income (rather than 50% or whatever if they were picking apples). That seems like a poor allocation of labor/resources.
Contract negotiations have changed quite a bit since/due to the R&H bankruptcy thankfully. Still not great, but the power dynamic has become a little more balanced in terms of accounting for variable scope work.
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sure, we are witnessing mini-experiments like the raise in minimum wages in various areas across the country, and we get to witness the 2nd order effects - some beneficial, and some not ( some even unexpected )

An impartial observer will hopefully make predictions (driven by his biases, of course) but in a few years, use the hindsight to learn lessons.
Thinking cryptocurrencies are a scam and then sharing a stage with Craig Wright at his own project's conference (after being warned by many people ahead of time) is a little like thinking Trumpism is a scam and then speaking at a QAnon conference.

It's just a completely nonsensical and baffling thing to do. As someone who generally likes Taleb, it made absolutely no sense to me. Craig Wright is essentially the most archetypal and most egregious cryptocurrency scammer in history, to the point of absurdity, and basically leads a Q-like cult full of delusional followers.

It's not about being negative towards cryptocurrencies. It's the completely contradictory behavior.
If you're willing for your video to suffer quality from bad compression settings because your browser is a "dumb" tool that just applies some preconfigured compression scheme, then great. Also, how many people are going to accept that instead of just uploading files and seeing immediate progress vs waiting for a browser to compress a file from some sub-$500 laptop? What codec is it encoding to? H.265? good luck getting that to complete this week on that cheap laptop.
That doesn't change the principle though; the actual workers need to do 40 hours or even more; it just means there are less of them.

And really, people need to be wary with automation. What people don't realize is that relying on it utterly paralyzes you when it goes down, because its a higher order fault than most staff need to handle.

If the AI telephone support breaks during an update, you've just sidelined your entire operation. If you only have a few checkout employees, and your POS service needs to connect to the internet, and it goes down, you have virtually no one to reply to it.

By reducing headcount you really run the risk of what were tolerant faults becoming critical. My own job has been running on a skeleton crew, and thank god one of us hasn't become sick or left yet. Eventually relying on automation and minimum staffing may bite you hard. A lot of retail stores would be up the creek if the store manager up and quit or was sick for multiple weeks.
To be fair, physicians take their exams upfront instead of per job interviews: MCAT (7 hours long), STEP 1 (8 hours long), STEP 2 (9 hours long), STEP 3 (2 days), along with recertification exams every decade.
Ask HN: Who visits the HN “new” tab?
As a long-time reader of the front pager of Hacker News, I rarely scroll down to a subsequent page or visit the new tab. The exception is when I want to help promote the product/post of one of my friends. :)

Are there any stats on the group of people who visit and upvote posts in the new tab on a regular basis? Is there a core group of "power-users" curating what we all read? How large is this group?
If you're going to add 20% to every bill, then put that on the menu where you list prices. That's a not a $10 item, that's a $12 item.

Otherwise, the sanctimony is wrapped in condescension, communicating that not only do they think they're better than you for tipping (with your money) 20% rather than whatever lower percentage they thought you were going to top, they also think you're so stupid that you'll still think the prices printed on the menu are the actual prices.
On the other hand, I have 4-5 hours of meetings a day, often in scarce overlap hours between timezones. Having to take 10 different random schedules into account would be hell.

Sure, people could just work flexibly to accommodate the necessary meetings, but I'm my experience, that just leads to people being on call for 10-12 hours a day with no regular schedule.

In every company I have been part of, workers who didn't need dedicated work times simply didn't keep them. It is only becomes an issue if it doesn't work.
I feel guilty that I just wasted a bunch of paint drawing stupid lines.
I understand it, I think. The shape your lips/mouth make for the 'li' in 'library' is different than for the 'li' in 'libre' (at least when I try to pronounce the latter as french 'libre' but with an English 'r' which I have the impression is how it's supposed to be done and is also what the parent indicates, might be wrong?). As a result there's this weird movement to go from 'lee' to 'br' and I have a hard time getting a typical English 'r' out of it which I have zero problems with in 'library'. Non-native English speaker as well.
it's often more fun to read the agitated ranting
This. As a recently retired academic research scientist (i.e., still ‘working’, but no longer in the lab, and no longer paid LOL), this can't be emphasized enough. Most scientists are highly specialized: experts in their local area of interest, the command of which must be fairly deep. They are aware of which papers are about to appear in press, either because they were either a referee at some point in the review process, or received a 'heads up' preprint.

Your statement on ‘finding cumulative truth, i.e. figuring out the overall state of research’ is a key point.To become newly acquainted with a research area (on one's own) is a daunting task, requires plowing through dozens and dozens of past research articles, review summaries, abstracts, texts, even conversing with authors of these works. But rapid progress is oft realized when people in two or more separate areas serendipitously interact in new projects, thus bringing expertise — heretofore missing or weak — to bear on a common problem. This is the intrinsically collaborative aspect of science that survives despite intense intramural competition.
As a left handed person, it’s pretty easy for me to write backwards. It feels like something in my brain wants the letters and words to go that way, even though I never practice.
Wondered what expensive meant,
On iOS full featured is currently 2/mo or 8/yr, no lifetime license.
Mostly Google Chrome. It’s fast and I trust their security team, which have a very good reputation.
This is why I support forcing the idle rich to work retail or construction. Otherwise their mental well-being will be at risk.
I guess it is largely forgotten, but computers used to have a front panel with enough switches to enable you to input a full word into memory, and step forward. This is how bootstraps could be entered if you didn’t have a bootstrap device.

Even the first hobby computer had a front panel. The Apple 1 was a user-friendly improvement in that regard.
>Over 24 hours, the voltage value I've been displaying (rounded to the nearest tenth of a volt) went from 4.2V to 4.1V. So even under the most unfavourable rounding that's 0.1V over 24h, or still about 95% battery charge. That would be almost 20 days doing some basic processing, screen updating, etc every minute.

How're you calculating that? Voltage of (what I assume is) a lithium ion cell is a pretty poor way to measure state of charge - the discharge curve maintains voltage pretty well until 80% capacity before falling off precipitously.

You certainly aren't going to get any work out of the cell below 3V or so without risking permanent damage.
I'm pretty sure that's a GOTO joke.
> Most of those resources you mention are renewable

They are replenishable/renewable at a rate. And that rate has been for many years slower than the consumption rate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=29athrowaway
When the consumption rate is higher than the replenishment rate, the resource is depleted over time.
I think you and I are agreeing here? That rationality is hard and not automatic.
OSM includes practically any mappable data collected for free, including even Wikipedia entries with a physical location. I assume curating means deciding the relevance of stuff like this and making into a map thats similar to google maps. Curate has also lost a lot of its meaning after ~5 years of ad spam. "This holiday, Lexus presents a curated grifting experience" (leaving in the autocorrect typo, sorry)
Over a year ago now I had commented that it's funny watching the TV networks struggle to figure out what teenagers on TikTok had dialed in: Their streaming setups.

I imagined that the broadcasters, when they had to switch to remote, had video and audio engineers you could put together a kit for their stars. But for a while it seemed like so many were "You have a laptop with a camera and mic Good to go!"
Post-war USSR must have had an enormous mental health problem (along with those who were physically handicapped).
Living in Japan also, the rumor I heard was that these additional workers actually work as a shadow force for political parties during elections.

To circumvent strict donation laws, the idea is that these people will be "lended" as administrative staff and door-knockers during elections, in exchange of juicy contracts.

And let's be real, that linked in [2] does not point to a job that requires automation, a blinking panel is enough. Often I have seen the sad spectacle of one mannequin handling a signal on the end and a human on the other end. It is totally a bullshit job.
Maybe lapetitejort had better lawyers.
Contact a lawyer
The NFT can be traded infinitely as fast as the network will allow you. You would only have the NFT burned if you want to redeem it for the underlying asset.
The point of a fiat is that it slowly loses value, so wealth holders can't get bigger and bigger just by holding the fiat, they are forced to invest to break even.

Bitcoin is not "fixing" anything here, a currency that deflates forever is a dumb idea.
Contact a lawyer who can help.
I don't know if they would help in this case, but maybe reach out to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) and see if they have any recommendations.

There are also some law firms in the US which will help against these types of suits without requiring you to fork over a large retainer. You'll have to research these but they are out there.
I am an American, and this false friendliness on the part waiters grates on me and everyone I know. The worst is when they not only smile but introduce themselves, as if we’re meeting at a party or something. I don’t blame them; management requires it. Note that at high quality restaurants, this is uncommon. The waiters there are part of a serious enterprise and take it seriously. But at Olive Garden, be prepared for the servers to practically climb in your lap and show you their photo albums.
Get a lawyer. Their advice will probably be settle.
> Exchanges over Bitcoin are no better or worse in principle than existing financial infrastructure.

In principal maybe not but in reality, Bitcoin for international exchanges is a game-changer especially if you can keep the money in Bitcoin and spend it as the recipient.

Fees on remittances to El Salvador were up to 50% in some cases. With Bitcoin they are effectively zero.

Bitcoin fixes this.
If you have opportunity to work on a PhD thesis what would you work on?
Recently i get this opportunity and i have some ideas too but none of them are really meaningful and have real impact on the world to make it a better place. BTW i'm developer and the PhD thesis should be related too.
I teach in a public high school. My gut instinct is that most “education” problems are actually education problems so much as manifestations of other social problems we are unwilling/unable to solve. Schools are just one of the few environments all Americans participate in (one way or another) so other problems become visible in a way they aren’t otherwise.

This is also why - in my non-expert opinion - the ‘high expectations’ and ‘full wrap around services’ educational models show positive impacts. They address (indirectly and directly) these externalities in a way that typical public school does not.
You have to talk to a lawyer. No one other than a IP attorney experienced in dealing with patent trolls will be able to give you accurate advice on this.

Also you should add "[ask HN]" to the beginning of your post.

edit: A good way to find a lawyer is to talk to good lawyers you have worked with in the past. They will not be able to help you themself if they practice in a different area, but will likely have referrals for someone who does.
I don’t rightly know what it means. Probably what you’d guess it does: a big ol’ pile of good-enough heuristic filters and transformations tuned on a handful of key locations, with a pinch of manual modification.

I was only surprised at the claim that the sentence doesn’t make sense in English, I never intended to imply that the sense wasn’t bullshit. (After the sellout stunt the MAPS.ME creators pulled I generally don’t view their participation as an advantage.)
Start by giving them holidays. Even US companies give more holidays to their employees.
Manufacturing and construction are pretty different segments. When manufacturing, it's very easy to optimize for cost because you know exactly how much material is required and how much time, probably to the second, it takes to process such material into the final form. Even shipping prices are pretty well known and can be optimized for through effective packaging.

Construction isn't like that. Companies aren't cranking out a million buildings a day, so they can't remove every ounce of unnecessary materials; they don't control the environment, making delays a fact of life; they don't control all of the companies and people involved; etc. There's just so much unknown when it comes to construction. Like software, it can be difficult to figure out how much padding to put into estimates. It's a good bit easier when it comes to things like roads, but companies still need to contend with unexpected delays a lot.
I did something similar here: https://blog.habets.se/2015/03/Raytracing-Quake-demos.html [2015]

The author's write-up is better, and his target (Blender) enables some things mine (POV-Ray) doesn't.

I also really like the idea to use emissive textures. I just used point light sources.

I'm still rendering, and you can join if you want: https://qpov.retrofitta.se/
Yeah, I guess you are right, you get a lot for those 12 euros (or whatever it is, I can't really find it, but I remember a screen with costs for extra maps, altitude data, etc).

Edit: Ah found it, unlimited maps are 12.99 eur once, OsmAnd Live (Wikipedia offline integration and Altitude lines and shades) are 7.99 euros a year. This is all free on F-Droid.
I just add intermediary way-points for long routes. Works well enough.
The Trawnikis are revolting, I just cannot wrap my head around their existence. Yes, they were anticommunist so that was one reason to help the Nazis, but beyond that, they weren't ideological, they just were brutal and genocidal -- above and beyond mere survival, they committed the worst atrocities without any ideological allegiance to Hitler, I guess they just enjoyed their work and were willing to do anything -- murder, torture and rape -- in exchange for warm clothes, gear and food, and the feeling of importance you must get when you can freely terrorize other people.

I'm not naive, I understand a man can break and tell on his friends under duress. But to commit actual rape and murder without a second thought, that makes you the worst of the worst, a stain on the planet.
Boost Linear Transformers with Recurrent Fast Weight Programmers
Ontology-driven low code. Revolution in application software. Something like that.
This was less about a memo showing up one day out of the blue and more like an attempt to bring resolution to a series of long, heated, and not terribly productive debates that took raged through the development teams over many months. It's worth knowing that the "before" state was that almost every team exposed their functionality via bespoke C/C++ libraries that everybody else linked to, and this resulted in enormous (for the time) spaghetti binaries. Want to write a little script that needs one piece of information from the database with customer information in it? No problem, just link the customer team's client library, and its 100MB of direct dependencies and 800MB of indirect dependencies. A handful of teams (notably those that already had to interface with third parties) were trying a different way (like http services written in Java) but they got a lot of side eye (or even more direct "you're doing it wrong" remarks) from the "core" developers.
I read the (first page of) new every time I am here... A lot of interesting stuff (techy wise, not biz) never gets to the frontpage..
I find the motion blur distracting :(
Flame Painter does this kind of 'particle' brush thing, if anyone is looking for a more comprehensive version. It's a very neat effect!
> This is a two-decade long community effort.

So is Nix/NixOS, which has reproducibility in mind from the start.

The earliest example I can find is "Nix: A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment" from 2004 ( https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa04/tech/full_papers/... ):

> Build farms are also important for release management - the production of software releases - which must be an automatic process to ensure reproducibility of releases, which is in turn important for software maintenance and support.

Eelco's thesis (from 2006) also has this as the first bullet-point in its conclusion:

> The purely functional deployment model implemented in Nix and the cryptographic hashing scheme of the Nix store in particular give us important features that are lacking in most deployment systems, such as complete dependencies, complete deployment, side-by-side deployment, atomic upgrades and rollbacks, transparent source/binary deployment and reproducibility (see Section 1.5).
I currently drive a 9 year old Toyota Corolla. I'm keeping the car because it's fine, no troubles, low mileage, inexpensive. The last new car I bought was about 6 years ago, and at the time, I felt (hoped) that this was the last conventional, gasoline fueled car I'd ever buy again (I tend to buy new cars with a reputation for value, take good care of them, and drive them for 15 years).

But another reason I'm holding off on buying a new car is that I sense a huge shift in car technology coming up, and I don't want to buy in a transitional period. When I looked around a year ago, the electric range was 60-90 for used electric cars, as much as 250+ for recent (but expensive) models. Self driving and navigating features may also be on the way. It seems that range is expanding rapidly and new capabilities for self-navigation are closer to being mainstream, while prices are likely to drop substantially for better range.

I guess I just don't want to buy a new DVD player just before they go obsolete. I kind of doubt my experience or motivation is the norm. But if it is so, this may a one time temporary delay as people are reluctant to buy during a one-time huge transition in the market (though alternatively, cars could become more like computers and cell phones, with such rapid technical progress that it becomes the norm to trade in or up frequently).
Me, myself and I.
Would have loved to try it with our team today but we're all on Windows. You'll need a Windows app for real workplace adoption.
Amazon gets singled out because they are one of the largest, most powerful companies in the history of mankind, by almost any measure: market cap, revenue, employees, etc.

UPS is not.

Amazon wields immense power over multiple industries, and they are scrutinized as such.
Isn't point 3 actually a net good, though? I'm personally okay with people wealthy enough to consider point 3 creating foundations that procure more murals, enhance local zoos, or support cancer research.
I think many people don't accept that explanation for the reason wealthy people aren't paying taxes, or don't accept it as complete.

For example, I don't pay taxes on the appreciation in my investment accounts, since I'm not spending that money, but I do pay taxes on my income, the money I'm actually spending. Meanwhile, some of the people identified by ProPublica are paying literally zero in taxes, and yet clearly spending more in a week or even day than I spend in a year.

THAT is what draws people to the story. "How does someone whose spending clearly outstrips mine by 10x or more pay less than I do in taxes?"
Seems great in concept, but has same issue as others: only the world map downloads, but no local map downloads on a device that doesn't run Google Play Services and with a non-default download manager.
on lazy days I just checkout the home page. on curious days where I'm open to fresh undiscovered stuff, the New tab is awesome.
You could always settle. How much are they asking for?

Could you share the patent # they are trying to use?
The headline does not contain "almost".