skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generic electronics recycling is very expensive. I had to recycle an old 55" rear projection TV and it cost $150. Good luck getting the average person to pay that instead of disposing of it (illegally).

Blame your municipality.

When I lived in the southwest, the city required the trash companies to pick up or recycle EVERYTHING for free. From old paint to batteries to giant tube TVs to washing machines. Everything, or they didn't get the trash hauling contract.

This was to make it as easy as possible for people to dispose of things properly, rather than dump them in the desert.

If your city doesn't make this happen, it's a failure of the city to negotiate the contract properly and allowing the trash companies to shift the expense onto the homeowners.
Cycle-accurate transpiling, now that sounds like a fun project. I think it would "only" have to be cycle-accurate between specific events, e.g. access to specific registers. (No idea how feasible this whole thing could be.)
Around 2005, I asked Kevin Phillips:

Me: According to your book, America's political parties have flipped every ~70 years. It should have happened around the time of Ross Perot, so I guess we're overdue. Do you think another realignment is emminent?

Phillips: No. It won't happen while Wall St. and finance remains in control of our political discourse.

--

It'll be amazing if Biden Admin is able to uncork the next cycle. But I'm not holding my breath.

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich [2003]
https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Democracy-Political-History-Am...

Here's a more recent account:

Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA [2015]
https://www.amazon.com/Lobbying-America-Politics-Business-So...

Edit: I changed "Last decade" to "Around 2005". Time flies. My bad.
It's unethical for the public to know who's the buyer, that's what they meant.
Are you going to pay them money for the FF and Safari version? Or maybe contribute some code?
What motivates you to use a feature rich browser on an OS with graphical user interface running on on-premise hardware including your own internet line and all those peripherals if you could just use CLI from a good old VT100 hooked up to your nearest mainframe to HTTP POST a comment on HN?

Yeah, probably because nowadays you just do it like that.
Docker with nginx because that’s your delivery pipeline. It’s much more common to have a place to run an OCI container than a directory to upload static HTML. CDNs operate on this model but there aren’t many turnkey “on-prem” solutions. The tooling to run a container and get it hooked into your web tier with routes is actually the easier path these days.

Edit: More

The reason for this model is that it makes everything the same and your caching tier is the great equalizer. Everything is a backend for your caching SSL terminating reverse proxy. And your static site will live in the cache for ages so once your cache is warm there’s no real performance hit.
A lot of developers only know the new, needlessly complicated ways of doing things. I have met professional software engineers who have never heard of shared web hosting, for example.

It's also surprisingly possible to learn enough about programming to get a job without understanding basic computing concepts. I've met professional software engineers, with multiple years of experience and promotions under their belt, who did not know the difference between hard drives and RAM in a server context. I've literally code-reviewed attempts to deploy a database server with 1 TB of RAM in order to store 1 TB of data.
If you're going to do that, simpler to just use `qrencode` with the same contents as this is using:

WIFI:T:WPA;S:${ssid};P:${password};;

Unless you need to frequently generate WiFi login QR codes (single purpose!) from a device without a convenient command line, e.g. mobile, there's not really a reason to self-host this.

(It makes sense for OP/the project to host it as a demo and for people who don't care or trust it to use though - I'm not hating on the site existing.)
You're just not used to clinical research. A large part of the field output is no better than this. And this is only what the authors think will look good on paper, which is often quite far from what really happened during data collection and analysis. I should know, I'm a clinical researcher at a major european uni ;-) And due to peer pressure, my output is also no better... :-(
Banking is getting impacted in this series of executive orders, there’s a mandate that banks make customer financial history portable so that customers aren’t locked into continuing to use their current bank to keep their financial records. Aside from that issue that stops customers from being likely to switch banks, there’s a ton of competition in banking. There are many consumer banks, they all provide essentially the same services, and they compete on things like branch density, customer service, and saving/loan rates. Aside from that, consumer banking is already one of the most regulated industries.

Fintech consumer products and services are rare with the exception of tax preparation. E-trading is becoming more popular, but existing consumer banks and brokerages are stepping up to compete across the board. Intuit’s TurboTax product is really the only example I can think of in the fintech industry that needs antitrust attention.
Couldn't we just use something like LimeWire? (Does anything like that exist now?)
*Cue
> In terms of practical implications, the authors say these results reconfirm why photographs are usually absent from traditional resumes or CVs. As such, they suggest that removing photos from LinkedIn might make job-seeking fairer. The lack of photos might cause recruiters to focus more on information that is more relevant to the job.

I would be curious if Linkedin penalizes profiles missing a photo in their algorithm or whatever. I.e. I seem to recall getting badgered to add a photo when I didn't have one, and the implication that my profile was "incomplete." I suppose a way around this would be a completely unrelated photo, or a drawing of yourself, etc.

I'd love to see the same type of experiment with the person's race and gender, but that's probably too inflammatory of an experiment.
It does feel like the final 10% of battery lasts way longer than the drain from 20% to 10%.
One thing a bit annoying with Hugo is that somewhere down the line of updates they made breaking changes to templates.

Now, since it’s written in go and all statically linked, I’ve just put the Linux and macOS binaries of the version that worked for me in my repo and never update.

Good thing about a stagnant platform is that one can spend less time tinkering with it.
Don't bother with any of this crap.

Self-host your shit.
So basically we're back to the Aryan Race thing.
Yes. (Small companies aren't usually hustling for investors, for example).
I don't see most physicians being an issue. Many of them are fed up with the insurance, pharma, and regulations. Most are forced to work for large providers instead of being independent just due to the overhead of dealing with digital record systems, legal, insurance billing, etc.
> the company would be offering the “best” salary to employees in the lowest cost of living places, and so the incentives would lead these places to be dramatically over-represented relative to higher cost of living places

What’s the concern here, exactly? If you’re hiring into a remote team, and you locate an employee who possesses the requisite qualifications, integrates well into the team, fits the culture, is available during the hours required, proves themselves trustworthy, etc., — just hire them. If your business is doing well, the extra calculation on whether we can pay this hire less because of where they live seems disingenuous; chances are, the savings convert into bonus money for someone in upper management regardless.

(If you’re strapped for cash—bootstrapping or not willing to trade control for investor money—chances are you’re already not offering competitive rates to residents of costly areas anyway.)

My guess is that the companies that see it as a problem either (1) don’t have a strong remote culture, or (2) are trying to compensate for suboptimal hiring practices (e.g., candidates from more affluent areas tend to possess some qualities the company wants but can’t select for directly).
> ... I'm still a dumbass...

While that may be true, you're less of a dumbass now, thanks to experiences. If you were to guide a junior developer now, you'd probably walk them back from a dozen sharp edges, thanks to your experience, but we tend to discount that.
"I want to see a show on Broadway, but I don't live in New York so I guess I should just find it on the pirate bay? No?"
I mean, honestly, why not. I will never drive to New york to see it. So they will never receive money from me. So they lose nothing by me watching it online. Victimless crime.
Also I am conscious of not using my not very dank “can has cheezburger” memes
The ones where they look through your window and seen you have fallen and cannot get up.
>sequestration, sun shields, and geo engineering

All things we have never done at scale. Techno-optimism will not get us out of this hole.
You know, for the longest time, the fact that I look quite young for my age bothered me (I'm in my early 40s and recently someone I'd just met exclaimed they thought I was 25). But ageism in the industry is starting to make me grateful for my luck in the genetic lottery...
Perhaps cynically, I wonder if search engine incentives have moved from helping users find the what they want as fast as possible while serving adds along the way to maximizing the number of modified searches to serve more adds
Yeah, it is totally impossible to have competition on regulated market. Monopoly is only possible solution.

Or something.
Anytime a new industry is created, jobs for average people are created. Many people say they are angry that average people are struggling to secure a tiny slice of a finite pie, while most of the pie is hoarded by billionaires. I prefer to believe that when a new industry is created, a new pie is created, and some average people will wind up earning a slice of that new pie. Since average people are struggling to get by, you can't expect them to create a new industry. While some rich people play golf all day, I'm glad to see that some on HN are cheering a billionaire who instead decided to put forth the effort to create a new industry.
Have to disagree on this a bit. The meeting in question was with an investor. The CEO should be the point person for all investor relations... especially the first meeting with said investor.

If your CEO can’t ‘sell’ the product / app/ company to an investor effectively, you won’t last.

The CEO should absolutely have the skills, knowledge and energy to sell whatever it is your business does
Answering as the author who also understands the fundamentals of all of the technologies involved and questions much of what goes on in the minds of today's web developers and designers--

I use Make as the standard way to interact with every repo I own. This allows me to type `make build` instead of `$some-language-specific-command-I-forget-in-2-weeks`.

I use Docker for distributing every app I build. If the app is a website I also use the nginx base image. Docker images make packaging and distribution a breeze IMO.

Regarding yarn, npx, react, and jest: I'm similarly disillusioned by the churn but I also like to remain knowledgeable as the industry evolves. React was something I hadn't touched before, so I decided to pick a simple project to give it whirl ;)
This is just a case study in bad management.

The woman who wrote this article shouldn't feel shame: that's the goal of an inadequate manager (in this case the CTO and/or CEO) and not her responsibility.

Regardless, I think anyone who's had more than a few jobs in programming can relate to some of this.

Aspiring entrepreneurs: If you get funded, learn to manage your emotions, engage in the best practices of your industry (including testing), and learning to find root causes of failures rather than blaming people. At the end of the day, it is YOUR responsibility if the app didn't work. Firing the people who developed it won't fix your failure to test your product and budget adequate time for fixes.
I recall that years ago, USA Today was sort of intended to be a "generic national newspaper". It made sense for places like 'delivery to hotel rooms' where the audience wanted a general national/global news product, but didn't need the 50% of the paper that was local school board meetings and classified ads.

With that principle, I always figured that the endgame of the Gannet company would be to make their local papers USA Today with a small local supplement folded in.

Maybe the same applies online-- you'll buy usatoday.com for national news, and also subscribe to a local rag. Over time, the local papers may scale back the national/global/wire service stuff.
I saw Jobs give a demo of Enterprise Objects (when he was at NeXT) at a trade show. He wasn't actually operating the keyboard and mouse, but he was on stage directing and explaining and suddenly the whole demo crashed with a kernel panic on the big screen. He handled it pretty smoothly, just said "oooops!" and waited for the reboot and then continued.
Ease of distribution and sandboxing
Let us know how it goes!
Reddit "smart" collapses subthreads. Sometimes those links expand. Sometimes they open new page. Infuriating.

HN does page big threads, which isn't too bad. I'm immensely grateful HN doesn't do any silly AJAX style background, progressive loading of content.
It amazes me how there are still believers. People like being drunk and can suppress reality if there is mob comfort in it.
I flushed the right ear of my Airpods pro. I bought a new pair the next day because I use them all day for video calls because they're so convenient.
> The entire point of patents...

Well, if that were so, you would expect them to be secret and to never expire. The fact that are published and expire after a relatively short period belies the simplicity of that statement.
> a person related to the President of the United States

The sitting president’s son, you mean?
Just like no one wants to think about spending money each time they turn on a light in their house or take a shower? Yes, it'll be a barrier for people for a week, and then they'll forget about it like everything else we pay for individually.

> your ratings system would perpetuate the sort of think-piece journalism in which authors proclaim whatever their readers currently believe

The idea is intended to solve the problem of low-quality news, not thought-bubbles. People will always gravitate towards their own biases, this won't solve that, nor will it make it worse. It could make it a bit better for people who are actually looking to escape their biases, because those people could rate articles more highly if they actually convince them to change their views, or at least teach them about an alternate viewpoint in a non-infuriating way.
The analogy breaks down even for this very example, because the reason why you're not supposed to use the elevator buttons is because operating some electric device is considered a form of "kindling a fire", which is prohibited on Sabbath - which is definitely not a literal interpretation of the corresponding scriptural prohibition.
>An example of how many (most?) monopolies are able to exist because of some sort of legal authorization or protection. Regulatory capture.

To be clear this "legal authorization or protection" is not necessarily over regulation. Depending on the market, sometimes monopolies are the result of too much government regulation and sometimes they are the result of not enough government regulation. For example, most of the big tech monopolies do not exist because of regulatory capture. They exist because the government never put in enough effort to stop the monopolies from forming.
On second thought, I wonder if there are browser extensions to append these modifiers to Google search
Even for most people who are regular readers, however defined, a la carte book purchases over the course of a year don't add up to a huge number. Reading most books takes a bigger time committment than most other media. And many who are voracious readers, among others, use libraries. I read at least a middling bit and I'm fine to pay $150/year or whatever and own my books (or "own" in the case of Kindle).
“Permissive licensing is wrong?” – No it’s not (2018)
The best way to compare batteries is energy density per unit mass, energy input and output per unit cost, and cost of production/charging. Long chain hydrocarbons have a much higher density than Li and are easy to pump and store and work in existing vehicles, but a higher cost of production and they are essentially one time use, non rechargeable since the discharge mechanism is combustion.

The ideal solution would be efficient solar bioreactors where bioengineered algea converted solar energy into fats as a bioproduct of a photosynthetic process sequester CO2 that could be esterfied into alkanes or that directly produced alkanes. Long chain alkanes, my understanding is, are not toxic to life. It is the short chain stuff and aromatic ring based stuff like benzene that is hazardous.

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/175...
Can any website start service workers that outlive their tabs? That seems like a huge change
The interesting part of socialized healthcare isn’t that it’s run by the government but that the cost burden is borne by the highest wage earners, i.e. the California and New York knowledge workers who make up a large part of this community. If your friend is part of this cohort then his concern is probably founded. Less so if he’s a line cook or even an IT admin in Wisconsin.
Because trying to keep drugs banned makes criminals ultra-rich, corrupts entire societies, eats away at LEA resources and marginalizes otherwise innocent people?
Just adding my own anecdote here, so that you can add one more "person I know" (even though you don't know me, you might, after this post, know of me as a person) to the list of those who have pirated specifically as a "try before you buy" method.

I have been burned too many times by games that simply do not run on my hardware despite meeting the minimum specs for the game. Modern platforms like Steam may allow for refunds, but this is a relatively new thing. Shareware and demos are a fantastic thing for someone like me, but these mostly seem to have gone away in favor of Let's Play and other videos of gameplay, which does nothing to help me determine if I can actually play the game.
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Please provide your references, then.
o = "octet" (byte), so Go = gigabyte, Mo = megabyte.
"Wage theft" would be if you weren't paid overtime you were owed. This is just theft.
- Add dark mode

- Add a convenient way to do bulleted lists
One of the big problems with "modern development projects" is that they start coding from day 1. The first step in any good project should be to learn as much as possible about the requirements before making serious decision about its architecture. Designing a model of the data (even if it is only a very rough one) is usually very helpful in the first phase of a project.

It is still true that mistakes that are made during early phases of the project are much harder to fix than recent mistakes.
Writing our 3-year technical vision
Because as an employee I charge whatever I can get away with completely regardless of my worth or how much actual value I produce.
What are some uses for honey by the pound? Off topic but curious, I only ever put it in tea rarely or simmiliarly rarely use it as a sugar alternative when cooking.
definitely. he's got amazing personality. gem from wiki:

A series of disputes in the early 1990s caused tension between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, which viewed Virgin as an emerging competitor. Virgin subsequently accused British Airways of poaching its passengers, hacking its computers, and leaking stories to the press that portrayed Virgin negatively. After the so-called campaign of "dirty tricks", British Airways settled the case, giving £500,000 to Branson, a further £110,000 to his airline, and had to pay legal fees of up to £3 million. Branson distributed his compensation (the so-called "BA bonus") among his staff.
Yeah, that used to be the point of patents. Now it seems it's mostly to squeeze as much out of people by capturing the majority of the market by not allowing similar products.

I mean, we have CEOs of biomedical companies admitting that they aren't basing prices off of what it costs to research, develop, and deliver a therapy, but rather base it off of what a deaparare person is willing to pay for it. This is the very thing antitrust laws were supposed to prevent, but the patent system is used to create a similar environment.
> For example, most of the big tech monopolies do not exist because of regulatory capture. They exist because the government never put in enough effort to stop the monopolies from forming.

Is it possible they exist because the immense economies of scale and near zero marginal cost that software provides makes for a winner take all market?

As a customer, why would one use the 2nd best option, when the best option is available at no extra cost or very little cost?
Sounds awesome! Would love to be a part of it. I'll reach out soon!
omg yes. i've taken way to many jobs where, after alot of very considered discussion about the kind of work i do, and how I dont consider generic devops worth the time. happy to debug our code in production, but i'm not first line support or software install/configure.

yes, they assure me, they really want a software developer in the classic sense. this is an absolutely perfect fit.

and when I show up? welcome to the team, why dont you shadow joe who is going to be upgrading Kafka kafka this week.. at Google they actually pointed me at the nightly error queue for some AI pipeline and told me my job for the next 6 months was going to be pulling out the errors and manually fixing the input until it passes.

the real issue is that they just dont really do software development. so much so they dont even know what it looks like.
PSA: Montelukast (Singlar) can slowly and subtlety
"change your mind"

[0] https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-r...
> Normal people being informed today costs 0 bucks.

Yes, at the cost of being inundated with ads and being informed by low quality "journalism" that is really just entertainment in disguise. By paying 0 bucks we need to spend more time reading things to be well informed, or we'll just accept being less informed by news that's more entertainment than journalism.

> High quality public news is also still available

Sure, but increasingly you need to pay for it or you need to be good at finding it. Not everyone has the skills to sus out good journalism, and almost nobody can avoid their time being wasted by garbage articles and click bait. This is the price we're paying.
Big Ag is responsible for horrible factory farming practices growing the wrong crops and producing food lacking nutrients while destroying the environment and torturing animals. They take huge subsidies and use them to support these unsustainable practices.
> Facebook shares lots of data about people who have never signed up for a Facebook account. Everyone is a Facebook "user" whether they want to be or not.

Same with Twitch/AMZ, YouTube/GOOG, Target, Wall Street Journal, etc. It's basically the state of digital advertising today, which is not remotely limited to or monopolized by FB. I've worked on the adservers, across multiple companies, for over 15 years now.
If the ev has regenerative braking, the brakes actually last much longer than in ICE cars. Not sure how tires are affected but I'd imagine they do have a shorter life, and I'm not sure how the longer brake life balances with (probably) shorter tire life from a pollution perspective
Can uMatrix do that only for the current tab?