skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just this week in Pittsburgh, I saw an official corporate poster up in a McDonald's advertising a "competitive starting wage" with an 8.5″x11″ sheet taped to it reading "STARTING RATE UP TO 10$/HR." I doubt they'll have much luck at ≤$10/hour. Sure, it's more than the minimum ($7.25/hour), but the "up to" weasel words don't give me confidence.
They don't even compete to solve the problem, they compete for funding. People who are better at politics gets more funding, so adding more people could even be net negative with them draining up all the funding from those who do the actual research.
Looks like it’s all just in time for delta
Just find a job in oil and then be an environmentalist.
Dune isn't going to suck because of the pandemic. It's going to suck because of the pg-13 rating.
Or could it perhaps relate to the Canadian government’s historical support of housing markets through the distortions of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which intervenes heavily in the mortgage wholesale market to provide liquidity whenever the economy stumbles…?
And the appendix became seemingly useless.
My app for a summary of things I have done is my time tracker.

The time horizon for my to-do list is a week. Further out than a week is probably a scheduled item which is a different thing than a to-do.

Everything else is an idea among my notes. My backlog is my notes. It's the place where I go to jot something down and then forget about it until something happens to surface that item again. If that happens, then maybe I'll act on it. Maybe I'll just add to the note and forget about it again.

Anything on my to-do list which isn't done a week from being added gets turned into a note, to be forgotten about.

Information dense project task flows aren't to-do items and I manage them in a proper PM app rather than a to-do app.

I think it's important to be constrained with how you use todos. My list is short and easy to manage. Even being memory and attention challenged, it's easy to get a quick grasp on everything I need to do for the next few days.
"talk to your customers" is rule number 1 of just about any startup, any business even. Why would you doubt that they do this?
I see it as a similar problem as we (humans) have with all systems: we mistake the system for the actual solution. It's not.

You need to focus on the real problem at hand, and devise/adapt a correct solution in context. Systems and frameworks provide helpful tools and templates, but they all require contextual adaptation.

FWIW this is what I like about the foundations of Agile for project management. The manifesto points all direct you away from your tools and processes and towards the actual problem. eg "People over process," "working code over documentation," etc. Basically the people on the team should focus on working software, communicating with the customer, and adapting to change. Their processes, documentation, contracts, and plans should all be aligned to that solution, not the other way around.

And out of that... we got millions or scrum certificate weilding alcolytes who will tell you that if your project failed, it's because you didn't do their system religiously enough. God certainly has a sense of irony.
What if this were the difference between the silo shielding a part of the town, and the silo being completely obliterated?

Also, the cube root of 5 is not 1.2-1.3 anyway, but quite a bit more, so there's that.
Value and stability have more to do with adoption phase, i.e. how many people accept it as good money and want to use it. Today, Bitcoin is mostly traded against USD or other currencies, and these traders make up most of the total trading volume. The volatility is the result of this very one-sided activity. If it was used as money, it would be traded against goods and services, real estate, stocks, etc. which would give it lots of uncorrelated trading volume and create stability.

Inherently, Bitcoin is very predictable, because we know with certainty how many bitcoins have been issued and how many will be issued in the future. Fiat currencies have an opposite problem. Central banks and governments influence the issuance and value of the currency too much, and this makes the currency inherently unpredictable. It has an effect of destroying confidence in free markets, because everything becomes a bet on monetary policy rather than markets itself. Same problem with TSLA; it is inherently unpredictable (both in issuance and dependency on their business success). In other words, some assets carry an inherent risk in them, and they're not good as money.
C. Doctorow is one of these (admittedly few) famous people I'd like to meet IRL.
At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, most of the exhibits are the "most powerful or advanced computer in its time". There are parts of ENIAC, SAGE, Whirlwind. There is a CDC 6600, Cray 1, Cray 2, Cray XMP, various IBM 360s. There is a PDP-1, PDP-8, PDP-10, VAX 780. There is an Apple 1, Apple 2, Apple 3, and various Macintosh. There is an HP-35, and HP-65. There is a Symbolic Lisp Machine, an Apollo, various SGI workstations, and an Alto. One of the first APARNET Imps. A NASA Apollo guidance computer prototype.
Good content wins. Media has gotten away with producing junk for too long. Media complaining about a lack of “attention” is like employers complaining about a lack of workers. Give people a good job and pay them well and you’ll have no trouble finding workers. Produce good content and you’ll have no trouble getting eyeballs. Pretend like old normals still apply and it will be painful on both fronts.
Hey @spuz... great response. Just wanted to let you know that the link in your profile goes to a junk website. Looks like a domain squatter got it.
By the way, as someone who has published academic papers, if you're ever bothered about a paper or have some comments, don't hesitate to mail the authors. (Their e-mail addresses are always on the paper; especially target the first author because they have normally done the work.) We are happy to hear when someone has read our work and I at least would've liked to have known if someone found a problem with my papers.
Bullshit—as a multifarious form of self-stupefying pseudo-consciousness
feeding on itself, procreating by imitating others and
proliferating rotten speech—is a powerful and infinitely
renewable resource.

I guess "Rule One" is supposed to be ironic, like using your voice to tell somebody the first two rules of Fight Club
It's evident we're transitioning to a post-labor society. The labor force participation rate keeps falling. More and more people are on sort for of welfare, assistance, or are homeless or incarcerated. Tent cities everywhere all across the country, in poor and rich areas alike. Each crisis, from 2008 to Covid, only hastens this transition.
I’m not being condescending at all. I’m not even sure what came off as condescending, but I apologize if it did.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to debate here. I’m replying to the idea of a universal set of human rights, and that somehow the enlightenment is relevant to this globally, and that “moral relativism is lazy.” So I bring up that the enlightenment is specific to a set of cultures versus being globally accepted, and even within those cultures, there have been many philosophical movements since. Thus there isn’t some universal way that humans think about each other, or actions onto each other, and most importantly, China has been influenced by a different set of ideals that are thousands of years old.

You then bring up abhorrant behavior of current CCP, when in fact I’m talking about something more timeless - ideals. Atrocities have been committed worldwide under just about every philosophical guidance, including those who have been influenced by Enlightenment. Philosophy and religion can always be twisted to suit the needs of whoever is in power, and the majority/base from which they pull their power.
Hasbro’s entertainment segment jumps 47% in Q2
>> Forests are steadily becoming filled with plastic that either gets tossed there or blown there

The forests would be a lot nicer if we spent more time raking and cleaning them, like in Finland.
In this case, it's likely it literally "Went South"
I'm there now (for only a short time), and I'm remarkably struck by how good the culture is, and it's the exact opposite of their reputation. Maybe team dependent, but I'm pretty happy with my manager.
It also pretty much affects anywhere with significant amounts of water. The recent floods in Zhengzhou were pretty bad, and that was hundreds of km inland.
Only through coincidence of living where it was founded at the time, Warren Theater beat Alamo by about a year. I’m only mentioning as when it opened they had limitations I found interesting. The small swivel tabels at each seat apparently somehow failed THX certification so when they first opened, you’d have to set the plate of food in your lap. I found it incredible that the tables somehow had a bearing on the THX certification of the theater.
While possible, I do not believe this would be very likely.

FBI agents must regularly serve in a domestic capacity. That precludes availability for foreign missions.

A CIA officer contributing intelligence would not be obviously investigating because the things they can learn are not so directly gleaned from visiting the site of the explosion themselves.

An example of a CIA officer gathering intelligence on the explosion might be a business person who happens to have trade regularly passing through the port. Perhaps they employ many Lebanese to assist with this effort, some of whom are unwitting sources of intelligence.

By conducting legitimate business, this ambient familiarity with the port, officials working there, gossip of the locals, would provide one point of insight that contributes to an overall assessment by the CIA.

Information from the FBI report would likely be shared with the CIA via the DNI and / or from a direct classified briefing between the agencies. This would probably offer some information that is not shared with Lebanon.

Presumably, the FBI’s opinion on the matter is valuable enough to Lebanon that they okay’d the investigation. Or perhaps the explosion was so egregious that they knew the US would be crawling all over it so Lebanon might as well let some amount of that happen with cooperation so at least they get some information out of it.
Yeah, you can keep your economic and psychological ruin to yourself, thanks.
Their "secret" is a liquor license.
A lifetime ago I worked at FriendFinder.com. We boasted of our 30 million customers, but in reality we had less than a milliom active customers in a given year.the other 29 million were either fraudulent affiliate sign ups or created by a team in china who were also paid to flirt two hours per day.

70% of our actual users were men. About 1/3 of our active female users were prostitutes.
The opposite is also often true. Especially in tech, where we build things computers do ever afterwards. If my team implements a feature that generates $5M per year, and gets $500k that first year (10%), the expectation is that they don’t just sit back and maintain the feature ever after. They’re expected to maintain it while implementing the next $5M/year feature. By the end of year two, for the cost of $1M, they’ve given you $15M plus $10M/year going into the future. Of course it’s not that simple, because maintenance costs are crazy and nothing lasts forever, but the idea holds.

If you imagine the ongoing revenue to be worth 10x today, that 10% commission is just 1%.
I've had it with the Marvel Overextended Universe, and Star [Wars|Gate|Trek|Craft]. Time for something new.
This depends very heavily on the product. With some products, for example food, you have to win your customer back every month. Additionally, it is often very difficult to correlate certain kinds of ads to sales...but if you look at the marketing investment over decades in some industries, it is probably the only source of competitive advantage.

That being said, given that most people here work for tech companies, I do suspect there is huge overinvestment into marketing by tech companies. Some companies just don't do any of this, don't have a sales team, don't have a marketing team...and they do fine. But that isn't universal (for example, sales clearly has an important implementation role in some industries, in some industries sales has an organizational role, etc.).
This is very well stated. A healthy reminder of how logical thinking should be applied, especially in 2021.
If ammonia was wet, it could've reduced the detonation power many times. Since it was a port, and a non air conditioned warehouse, it's not that much of a stretch to say that this must have played a role too.
> Most people can't even describe the differences between Linux, Windows, OS X

That's because Unix won. When he wrote this article Linux was just moving out of the hobbyist realm, we were on OS 9 (or 8?), and Windows was busy "finding itself". The landscape was different.
Or the CIA can just get the report from the FBI and debrief the field team when they get back?
I propose that HN "charge" users 10 reputation points for a submission that links to twitter, and 1 rep point for linking to twitter in a comment.

This is not a punishment. Your comment doesn't get any grayer or dead-er. It's an incentive to deep link when possible.

If you can find a better link, we'd appreciate that. If you can't, then pay the fee, or quote the tweet. Oftentimes the important part of the linked tweet is just some other link; please post that directly.

The policy should be rescinded if twitter ever resurrects their non-javascript frontend (and pigs fly, etc).
Don’t worry, the only people saying that are the scientists who are studying it.

“When Browne experimented with blue mussels back in 2008, many researchers thought animals would just excrete any microplastics they ate, like “unnatural fiber,” as Browne called it—but he wasn’t so sure. He tested the idea by placing mussels in water tanks spiked with fluorescent-tagged microplastic particles smaller than a human red blood cell, then moved them into clean water. For six weeks he harvested the shellfish to see if they had cleared the microplastics. “We actually ran out of mussels,” Browne says. The particles “were still in them at the end of those trials.”

The mere presence of microplastics in fish, earthworms and other species is unsettling, but the real harm is done if microplastics linger—especially if they move out of the gut and into the bloodstream and other organs. Scientists including Browne have observed signs of physical damage, such as inflammation, caused by particles jabbing and rubbing against organ walls. Researchers have also found signs ingested microplastics can leach hazardous chemicals, both those added to polymers during production and environmental pollutants like pesticides that are attracted to the surface of plastic, leading to health effects such as liver damage. Marco Vighi, an ecotoxicologist at the IMDEA Water Institute in Spain, is one of several researchers running tests to see what types of pollutants different polymers pick up and whether they are released into the freshwater and terrestrial animals that eat them. The amount of microplastics in lakes and soils could rival the more than 15 trillion tons of particles thought to be floating in the ocean’s surface alone.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-fish-to-huma...
>We never made everyone stay inside with AIDS

Maybe not the best analogy. It’s much easier to prevent transmission of HIV by avoiding high risk behavior like IV drug use and unprotected sex than, you know, standing next to someone who’s breathing.
"The new data found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people, and could spread it to others"

There goes that "for the greater good" incentive for getting vaccinated. And people are still thinking vaccines should be mandatory?

It seems that the only people who don't spread now are people who have previously had COVID-19 or those who have cross reactive immunity from a previous coronavirus strain. Even better if you've gotten a single dose in addition to a natural infection.

I propose robust research and testing which will prove natural immunity (not antibody testing, long term immunity such as B and T-cells) for use with any kind of potential "passport" for travel, business, etc. The latest data from the article is proving that natural immunity (which is lifelong and protects against variants) is king.
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Eh, it depends? Explosive that is blown up, as in ejected upwards before igniting can become a 2nd explosion, shaping the first one below into something more dangerous.
I once heard that it’s impossible to build a “spec compliant” IMAP4 library as the spec itself is contradictory. Don’t have a reference to prove it, so I could be wrong.
I've enjoyed some of Murray's writing, in particular he did some quite good court reporting related to Assange. I have also been intrigued by his non-orthodox interpretations of that chemical weapons incident in Salisbury, though some might call these pieces outrageous conspiracy writing. I did not really follow the stuff around Salmond so I can't comment on what happened there. In any case, it seems a bit severe to me to jail this guy for hinting at information that major press apparently also made easy to find. At least, this is what is claimed. He is quite old and apparently his health isn't the best either, so I would have expected something like house arrest or a suspended sentence at worst.
The real reason is that they want you to get your apps from the app store and that's it. They can't get paid when people install PWAs or sideload open source apps. Same reason for killing the headphone jack. Same reason for having a different shape magsafe for every generation of MacBook. To keep the suckers spending.
Could you provide a credible source for those 43x and 170-250x numbers?

Trying to find some numbers for CO₂ in paper production, numbers vary a lot depending on source, and I assume that they also vary a great deal between different paper products and manufacturers. In any case, this paper https://www.transitionpathwayinitiative.org/publications/49.... would suggest an average of around 0.7 tons of CO₂ per ton paper produced.

Meanwhile polyethylene might be cheaper and less energy intensive to manufacture (depending on how much of the refinery process you include), but it emits 3.14 tons of CO₂ per ton plastic when decomposed.

A paper grocery bag might need to be a bit heavier than a plastic bag to have equal utility, so in total I guess they are not wildly different.
Oh interesting. I've started editing a bit on Wikipedia recently, and seems like there are a lot of potential articles to improve upon.
The deletionism issue reminds me of this article https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
you can register llp in uk and company doing the registration can provide you uk address and physical mails on that address are scanned and sent to you via email.It would cost around 80GBP.
you can than use this company to open stripe account with the legitimate company address in uk.
since llp is pass through you don't owe tax on your income in uk, you still owe taxes in your home country.
Upto 85kGBP you need not register for vat either, beyond that you will have to register and pay vat on your services.
Which country are you residing in btw if you don't mind me asking?
I am on Android, and Kiwi Android accepts desktop Chrome’s plugins.
I clicked sort of expecting to see an article about the book by this title, about web page design. What I found instead was rather ironic in that context!
Reminds me of this comment :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22058629
"Fog in channel, continent isolated".

Really, though, the Economist isn't isolationist.

As Fauci once said, "the virus sets the timetable". The Delta variant is a big worry. R0 is 8 to 9. If hospitals get overwhelmed, there may be lockdowns again, at least for unvaccinated people.
In a movie landscape of formulaic sequels, uninspired remakes, endless superhero flicks, and a total lack of original ips... why is more diversity the first factor you jump to?
It's not their obligation to fix everything around them. But if amazon's work environment is awful, people quitting it doesn't absolve them of anything. It's still an issue, whether people manage to escape to something better or not.
There are multiple reasons:

- Lebanese govt invited them.

- USA wants to keep tab in that part of the world.

- Talented investigators in FBI and others want to keep their brains sharp.

- Advance knowledge about explosions, how to prevent them, etc.
> NYC probably has people actively cleaning trails and beaches.

> Japanese beaches that aren't ultra popular tourist destinations are currently flooded with trash.

This is exactly my experience as well. Every place that I have been, if it is a remote site that no one is actively cleaning up, then it has weeks, months, years, or even decades of accumulated garbage. Popular destinations, like beaches around resorts, well-maintained hiking trails, private beaches; these all have people regularly picking up garbage.

Some of the most "pristine" beaches I've seen were on outer islands of Fiji. But they were pristine because they had resorts on them, or near them. Kayak over the other side of the island, where no one picks up, and it's trash city. The global ocean system deposits garbage everywhere, on every beach. Depending on where you are in the various gyres, that beach gets more or less washup. I've been to beaches in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hawaii, Fiji, Africa, Europe, and both coasts of the US. The primary discriminating factor on how much garbage you see is how regular and thorough the pickup is.
Talent Hunt Network for web/blockchain developers – Week 1
Hi ladies and gents, I've decided to write a thesis project targeting web/blockchain developers. It will be written in my existing stack : Ruby, Ruby on Rails, a little of JS, AWS, RSpec etc. And because I don't want it to waste I'll bootstap it :P

We will see how it will go. This week I've made project requirements and started preparing front-end of the website (this way I can better visualise and think about the neccessary functionalities).

For the next week or two I want to finish my fron-end, and start writing backend.

To be up to date with the project follow me on indiehackers or twitter (@app_for_devs). I'll be posting my progress on this two socials :P

To the next commit!
The value exchanged by employment is more than just a paycheck, it's a regular paycheck. It's like an implicit insurance of future pay. Once the government and businesses labeled and straight dumped 'non-essential' workers, they send a message that the 'ensured future pay'-value of employment is empty and meaningless. (Don't @ me with an argument about how it's always been this way without acknowledging that recent developments represent a step change in the employment relationship.)

"Just pay more" is not caused by greedy workers demanding more money, it's caused by employers reneging on the important but implicit consideration that is the stability of keeping a job. If you demonstrate your unwillingness (or inability, no difference) to fulfill your contractual considerations (even the implicit ones), don't be surprised if the other party wants to adjust the contract to compensate.
Bret Devreux had a very fascinating history of how iron was made posted, long read but it explains a lot of the complications and work that went into historically making iron, and many of the reasons metal was so rare & expensive. Well worth a read.

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-...