skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's suggesting that they don't work more hours despite having an easy/obvious incentive (to our eyes) to improve their lot. There are a lot of mid/upper-class people in a typical, modern, urban society who have shelter, food, safety and more but pour in 70 hours a week, maybe paying off a big house or trying to get a fancier car or more expensive clothes.
>> For years, Spectrum has had a stronghold on this region with prices they set without any competition. The citizens of this region have pleaded with numerous carriers to bring better internet, but all balk at the prospect.

So why did the other carriers not want to participate?

Could removing barriers that prevented the other carriers from contributing be a better solution than replacing the one bad carrier with a government bureaucracy?
Thank you for pointing this out. I live in the area and showed up for the pickets when they fired all of their warehouse employees for complaining about unsafe working conditions.

If possible use Adorama or some competitor.
I keep hearing Phoenix is an outstanding web framework for CRUD apps. I wouldn’t be trying this without building a significant web app and seeing for myself first anyway.

And yes, high concurrency can be a fairly common req in web projects, it’s not only seen in telecomms engineering.
I guess the point is that they're content with what they have, even if it's just the bare minimum.
Give them a year. It sounds like the things people said about chess engines that played stupidly

Just kidding... writing imperative code is fundamentally different than most AI recognition tasks, ie you can have GPT-4 produce consistently nice HTML but not C++
He has occasionally stopped by this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll
That is true. If you want more certainty, get a job.

But if you want to shoot for the stars, you might end up in a situation where your hard work doesn't pay out.
You are correct. Stoll makes a projection of Klein bottles into 3-space which results in them being self-intersecting.
AirCar: Convertible 'flying car' takes to the sky
"despite them having time resources to raise their standard of living, they chose not to spend time on more work."

Clearly they do not feel impoverished, and, dare I say it, do not feel that "modern standards" are worth working for.

While some standards are obviously good, like medicine, water, sanitation - some others like 2 cars, or a dishwasher may be less inspirational.
The one thing I don't get, and I worked for AMZN in logistics, is the co-mingling of inventory. It is so easy to solve, poses so many problems and yet the logistics benchmark company fails to do it right.
7 engineers
> [...] feels like late 90s eBay, guessing whether or not the seller is going to screw you.

Has that become any better?
"Probability" is sometimes a matter of opinion/implementation though.
Imagine reading this and extracting out a perspective focusing on why millionaires keep working. Hard cringe.
Highest material standard of living perhaps, not so sure about quality of life in general.

I think working hard only makes sense if you're adequately compensated and have prospects of career growth. Otherwise doing the bare minimum is the rational thing to do.
Everything you just wrote, right down to the dollar amounts, exemplifies just how privileged you are, and 'privilege' is a word I hate and almost never use, but it is the correct and appropriate word here.

The majority - as in > 50% - of Americans can't afford to be "between jobs" for months, or even a single month at a time. And they certainly can't afford rates that are 2-4 times $250 - $320 jobs. The majority of Americans can't even afford a $500 emergency.
Ferross is a well known figure and a monster talent. I seriously doubt he has sold out as a Github shill.
I do not know anything better than download hundreds gigs of music in interested genres in my pc and to form playlist every day from scratch based on the cover images.
The counter argument comes from photography. 20 years ago digital photography didn't exist and if you were a photographer it was a lot easier to make a living.

Nowadays everyone can make professional looking photos so the demand for photographers has shrunk, as the supply has increased.
The most interesting idea I heard about the hand-over of HK is that UK should have offered a UK permanent resident (or even a citizen) status to all HK residents, once China started the pressure.

Of course, HK's population is 11% of UK, not a small deal, likely such a bill won't pass anyway. But I also see it as a missed opportunity to bring in some world-class human capital.
Even if a meltdown doesn't happen, if such a generator is struck by, for example, an artillery shell, who is going to clean up the mess?
Where is he on the axis of evil?

Are we talking Lawrence Wilkerson, Rand Paul, Trump, Peter Hitchens, George Will, or Bill O'Reilly?
I respect people's religions but adherence to constraints like these -- to the extent that the automatons cannot even work -- are silly.
And same on my mid-range 2020 Samsung. I think GGP is chasing windmills here...
the way I read the comment, it's a way to create a new lower class - while propping up landowners.

"enriching wealthy landowners and providing sub-standard housing to the lower class"

While I don't think all or most 'average home(land)owners are "wealthy" ' - It is an interesting view to consider - there is an income bracket that could afford these in someone else's backyard - and likely never save enough money for a down-payment on a similar located chunk of suburban land - and being in that spot you may see the average homeowner as being wealthy comparatively.

Just because I read it that way, does not mean that's the way the OP intended it - I dunno what the full though process was. This may simply reflect the cascading experiences I have had and lead me to think of it in that light.

I myself hope that ADUs are a standard option in all zoning across the country and only in rare cases prevented.

I can see positive and negative things coming from increased housing supply in areas, i think it's fair to consider many side effects and consider ways to buffer any negative effects as well.
More toys. Everybody must have more toys. Work hard and have more toys, even if you won't have enough time to play with them.
My Treatise on the Champlain Towers Report from 2018
The following line is quite widespread in use, but not as portable as it could be:

#!/bin/bash

For increased portability, respect users' PATH environment variable using:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

Using #!/bin/bash could lead to subtle bugs on systems with more than one version of bash installed, or outright breakage on systems where bash isn't installed at /bin/bash. (OpenBSD is known to use /usr/local/bin/bash, for example.)
What difference does it make if there were factors they had control over? I suspect grit or tendency to work hard is primarily inherited just like intelligence. So you could also say anyone who works hard is not really doing so by their own doing.

I’m not sure what exactly you feel victim of.
Wide-ranging conversation about the structure of higher education, population growth (or lack thereof), economics, climate change, AI, and the underrated threat of nuclear war, thought provoking chat with Ben Yeoh.

By the way, I recommend all of Ben Yeoh's podcast chats ( https://anchor.fm/benjamin-yeoh ), thoughtful in a similar way to Lex Fridman and the AI podcast, or Russ Roberts of EconTalk.
Exactly right. Watching Ebay and Amazon converge on being "Aliexpress" has really made me sad. I understand the folks who are measuring themselves by how effectively they promise quality and deliver crap to their customers. I understand their goal is maximum profit as their best score. And I understand that enough of the market doesn't care that it is crap that they prefer this over a quality good.

Back when Walmart started and everyone was all about "wow, their prices are great!" and nary a mention of their quality. I realized that Walmart was going to do the same thing to groceries.

Without re-invigorating the UCC with stronger consumer protections so that the "costs" are born not individually by consumers but by the market maker who pushes an inferior product, I don't see it getting much better.
No wonder, they expected us to work through a global pandemic with mounting death and ignorance either in-person or remote with the same hours and expectations, and then called us 'heroes'. The economy isn't looking great and we were already just barely starting to get out of the _last_ recession that stated over a decade ago.

University costs have been blown out of proportion, rent costs are skyrocketing, inflation is rampant, healthcare isn't a right and just gets more and more expensive.

Productivity is higher than it's ever been, and wages are at their lowest. We have no federally required vacation days, and if you are lucky enough to have them they are less than a week a year. Of course we are burnt out.

There has to be massive systemic change sooner or later, and hopefully sooner.
Don't really think this is true. For example had quite a hard time picking up kdb+/q, and none of the tens of languages I had previously encountered really helped much.
IMHO, you are not training your replacement, you are training some kind of assistant.
Does it really? With what I’ve been reading about what is going on over at Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, this doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s awful, but not surprising. And reading about how Amazon treats it’s employees, as has been covered on this site numerous times in the last while, it’s even less surprising.

And continuing to use those services is giving a vote for those practices to keep on keeping on, and that people still use them? Well, no, it’s not surprising but it’s sad.
Just another example of industry consolidation, out of zillion others. This time in the MOOC domain.
Ubuntu Is Getting a New Logo
I might be woefully ignorant but I thought it's not possible to make a Klein bottle in the real world...?

I think Cliff Stoll sells 3D models of Klein bottles rather than the impossible 4D version.
Also, he did a numberphile podcast which was truly fantastic. I laughed and cried. Do listen to it.
Do they? When I think of very rich people, I mostly think of people who don't work. Sam Walton (who died in 1992) did real work to build his business empire, but his half-dozen multi-billionaire heirs don't work at anything that could be considered a real job.
The article seems to answer the question right up front.

> as we’ve gotten richer and built more technology, we’ve developed a machine not for ending our wants, not for fulfilling them, but for generating new ones, new needs, new desires, new forms of status competition.

> You can’t solve the problem of scarcity with our current system because our current system is designed to generate endlessly the feeling of more scarcity within us. It needs that. And so we keep working harder and harder and feeling like we have less and less, even amidst quite a bit of plenty, at least, for many of us.
Could you please clarify what do you think is horrible? Anyone can sue anyone in the US, for any reason, and allege a lot of bad things. It also true that cost of litigation is often much, much higher than a settlement - e.g. the 3 employee suing asked for $200k in damages, which I assume is just an opening offer. A reasonable lawyer can easily cost upwards of $500/hr, and require many, many hours of work even if the process never gets to the court.

My close friend is been sued for ridiculous reasons by ex-partners. It already costed him $750k in legal fees,and although he is very likely to win the case, it’s expected to take another 2 years before the case is resolved, at which point he will be allowed to file for recovering his costs (easily anothe couple of years).
Millionaires don't need to work, yet still do, so looking at them provides a unique view into the human condition.
> To make their blackhead remover listing look legit, Amvoom then submitted several hundred orders over Amazon, and immediately cancelled each order. These depleted my Klein bottle inventory on Amazon - even though nothing was paid for, and nothing was shipped. In turn, this removed the "second color option" for their blackhead-remover, since Amazon felt that the Klein bottles were out of stock. Result: their black-head remover listing got 199 positive reviews, and the Klein bottle did not show up as a "color choice" in the Amvoom black-head listing.

How do people manage to figure out such elaborate ways to manipulate Amazon results without getting banned? Getting banned has minimal cost? Poor detection? Inside information?
PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675): Remote code execution in Windows Spooler Service
"Industry can handle it better"
This innovation does not seem like a natural successor to compilers, debuggers and languages. If today's programming environments still require too much boilerplate and fiddling with tools, it seems like better programming languages, environments that require less setup, etc would be a better use of time. Using GPT to spit out code you may or may not understand seems more like a successor to WSDLs and UML code generators. I really hope we're just in a wild swing of the pendulum towards complex tooling and that we swing back to simplicity before too long.

Edit:

To expand a little and not sounds so completely negative towards AI, seems like there could be value in training models to predict whether a patch will be accepted, or whether it will cause a full build to fail.
I think the underrated feature with this release is official Blender support. I'm excited to test the differences in RenderMan and Cycles.
This may be a bit naive but I am curious, how do you then define energy ? Does/can it exist independent of matter ?

All we observe is it's transformation, arising out of interacting matter.

I like the processes with feedback loop view of matter.
I have a further question.

Since he has common law trademark, why wouldn't that still apply? Someone else is selling via Amazon in the US using his common law trademark.
> However, I find the process of writing these sorts of functions cathartic

That may be true for individual contributors, but if you're trying to build a company from scratch, any help you can get to move faster is a good thing, cathartic or not.
This is rather wrong. Platform Framing is not a kind or variant of Balloon Framing, but rather is distinct and superseded it.

Balloon framing only refers to framing where the wall studs traverse the full height of the structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(construction)#Balloon...

https://www.oldhouseweb.com/how-to-advice/balloon-framing.sh...

https://evstudio.com/three-wood-framing-methods-balloon-plat...

https://mtcopeland.com/blog/house-framing-basics-types-terms...

And it's not really worse-is-better either. It's marginally worse than modern platform framing because fire can spread between floors and also requires longer, more expensive, wall studs. It's better than timber framing due to labor and material costs for equal strength. It's an evolutionary step, which isn't worse-is-better.
I think Node would indeed be seen as the “easier” choice for project with concurrency needs thanks to its async model.

As much as I like JS I’m not a big fan of it on the server however - web frameworks are lacking and tooling and libraries feel like the wild west.

In Phoenix I’d see a web framework for projects with concurrency reqs, with great ergonomics and DX, nothing else. Maybe I’d miss types? But we work with Python just fine.
EU watchdogs call for ban of AI for automated recognition in public spaces
Some of them can be enjoying it — like playing sports is hard and exhausting, but you play anyway because of the excitement and the feeling of accomplishment is produces.

These people who made themselves stars or billionaires achieved that much because they love the process. If they wanted to just pleasantly slack out, they won't need to go that far in securing their income, they would stop much, much earlier, maybe even at the welfare level.
Anxiety about future savings? Not sure what to do with the time otherwise? Lack of purpose and hobbies. Sense of calling? Avoiding home life or other duties?
Does anyone know if there are other sources that can confirm the breach?
you don't suppose there's something specific about kdb/q that makes its difficulty an outlier?

Excel is easy, but if you were restricted to only using the keyboard to use excel, it wouldn't be so easy anymore.
Super-strange to be OK with an EUA for vaccines containing all sorts of new technologies, then quibble the evidence against vitamin D, a naturally occurring drug that we've known for many years is a potent inhibitor of ALL respiratory illness, as well as others: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756814/

Super, super strange that we'd take less-than-typical studies of novel vaccines, and then quibble the evidence on something created by nature that we know is easy to get, easy to dose, very safe, etc.

It's like someone wants to make some profit or something.
High Court Grants Default Judgment in Bitcoin.org Copyright Infringement Case
There are plenty of modern frameworks that are smaller than jQuery (svelte, Preact, etc). In some apps they may also be faster. If you pick svelte there's the same number of dependencies.
Idleness is difficult to deal with for many people in an easily influenced and constantly distraction luring society.

When you finally stop, you are about to admit maybe painstakingly your own exsistence.
Don't pass an object into JavaScript's Array.fill()
It’s actually because they had a pretty darn annoying bug with their desktop icons
At a macro-level it’s the answer to why we have enormous buildings, cities, and went to the moon. Why people keep doing anything rather than nothing. Why we have complex societies rather than hunter gatherer lives.

As a species we don’t want to do nothing.

There is a recent EconTalk podcast on the concept on “freedom” which may be very interesting to people who have read this far in my comment. It touches on how we got to this point in human evolution https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i...
> If you're too lazy to figure out yourself which products are quality

Amazon is a gambling company. People buys things with the hope that, this time, they are getting a bargain. And, as any gambling company, the customers will lose in the long term.

But, people gets addicted to gambling. Maybe next item, maybe I will do a smart purchase. The more randomized the experience the more irrational the consumer.

I prefer traditional business that follow regulations and are subjects to my country laws. I used Amazon when it started, because they had a great recommendation engine for books. Even that is now a shitshow that offers you what Amazon wants to sell regardless of what you look for.

Amazon works as intended, and that is terrifying.

p.d.: People is not lazy. It is just that most people are not experts on the products that they purchase, and they are already spending a lot of their time working hard and taking care of their families to add another ten hours of investigation to purchase a pair of shoes.
I guess I should be glad that Internet censorship went from “it will only be flat earth and Holocaust denial” to Hays Code so fast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code) that the problematic nature of this is impossible to deny.
I'm presently using the latest Ubuntu LTS with fractional scaling with 2x on my primary and 1x and rotated on my secondary monitor.
Carrier suspected of injecting ads into two-factor SMS messages
5k-year-old man was 'oldest plague victim'
It only applies to people who made themselves very rich, not were born rich. The same impulse that pushed them to the Everest of wealth keeps on pushing them.

Nothing can be said about heirs of large inheritances; some may care much enough to achieve something, but most would likely not, like most people.
> Millionaires don't need to work, yet still do, so looking at them provides a unique view into the human condition.

Does it tho?, "lets look harder at why the millionaires work.. that seems like a good starting point." /s
Ask HN: Help, my boss wants to us to use laptops from 2011 for development
I work at a coding school, and some of our participants don't have their own hardware.

My boss wants to give them 11 year old laptops that have been donated to us. The specific model is HP EliteBook 8460p.

I keep telling him that these laptops are not suited for modern dev work, even for beginners. We do Java backend work, so we need IntelliJ and docker.

He says that as long as they work at all, it will be fine. It's ok if beginners wait a bit longer for things to compile. He's non technical by the way.

I don't know what else I can say to him to make him understand that these devices are not enough. Please help.

Posting this from a throwaway for obvious reasons.
For a mbH-type it is.
Recent interview with the founder. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck685sVmdkk&t=2s
Do you have any good references on SFM reconstruction? I spent a fair while playing around with various commercial and open source offerings (Alicevision Meshlab, RealityCapture, a few others I don't remember) a year or two ago and came away quite disillusioned. They look great with the carefully selected and optimized demo datasets but if you go out yourself and take a few hundred photos of anything but a nice convex boulder, the end result is almost always a complete mess.
I earnestly believe that an ADU (or anything, such as a car) on market provides an option. That is what I was trying to say.

My original question was this: how does adding an ADU to the market hurt the lower class?
Zero Trust is the future.
so having worked in the trenches in Elixir, I dislike people trying to build too many macros. You get to a place where someone has decided to be clever in the codebase and dropped a bunch of macros that rewrite function calls and make it impossible to chase your function with the search command and you start wishing for a time machine to go back and prevent that code from being shipped.
Works perfectly for me on fedora 33!
Vanilla GNOME doesn’t have icons, I think. I’m not on the latest GNOME 40 to verify
Glad the ideas resonated with you! Two things you said stuck out to me:

>And, setting the intention to "add," not "update" reduces friction to capturing.

This is a subtle point I felt, but failed to capture, that you expressed very succinctly. Having the primary action be adding, rather than "keeping up to date", reduces the cognitive load of capture. As a result, we remember more with adding-based tools than replacement-based ones.

>Most of what's most important from personal working notes is stuff that's immediately relevant. Stuff that was probably written in the past week or so.

One thing that I've been thinking about, but haven't had a chance to form into a thesis yet, is the idea of our actions / workflows making sort of tacit modifications to our workspace that make the workspace more usable. For example, in a paper-and-pen world, if I had a note on a sticky note that I access a few times every day, it would inevitably end up somewhere very close to where I work, compared to notes I rarely access, which may be stuck inside books or on a far wall somewhere. This isn't necessarily because I brought it closer because it would make me more efficient or something -- it just ended up close by as a direct consequence of how I access the note frequently.

I feel like affordances/tacit modifications of our workspaces like this are much rarer in digital tools, where the default state is not to change over time. The behavior to have most recently edited notes "nearby" for example takes explicit design in digital notes. Makes me wonder what other kinds of tacit modifications to our tools/workspaces we are leaving out in software tool design.