skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>72% is a C in most schools

Applying school grading criteria to organizational approval ratings doesn't make any sense. The current sitting president has an approval rating of 51%. That translates to a "F". Does that mean he's failing at his job?
> They know that no one reads things before meetings

Does anyone ever read the thing, realize they have no relevant feedback or other reason to be in the meeting, and just get up and leave?
I’m guessing here but it seems to me the idea is that each atom can hold a finite amount of information and information storage requires energy. An economy requires information and storage of information (not necessarily permanently for each transaction). So it seems to me that the ‘economy’ is limited in size by being proportional to the number of atoms we’ll be able to have access to.
The media can spin his statements either way:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28056559
The file approach ignores anything that exists (at least in part) in the time domain.

Audio files are (for me) the canonical example. A text file has no inherent bit-rate. An audio file being handled without knowledge of (even just) its sample rate has its semantics distorted or destroyed.

There's an awful lot of things you can do with the file approach, and I love it. Cross into the time domain and try to retain the same approach, and I say you're making a serious mistake.

What's worse is when the actual programming APIs (as opposed to just redirecting stdout to /dev/dsp) also fail to model the time aspect, and encourage programmers to think that you can just shovel data at a device without any consequences for your software's properties (like latency).
> What's weird about the TOS?

My website has nothing to do with Google. Why should I have to agree to a contract with Google just so people can use my site?

Would you be fine with Facebook also forcing agreement with a contract just to view a completely third party website in a web browser?
>Another PB I worked with had a similar issue. A high rolling Gulf guy came in, wanting to do big FX trades on little margin. Risk said no, boss overruled them. Dude blew up, PB lost a lot of capital, boss got fired.

I used to work in finance but quit. The industry is still by far driven by mostly by sales/relationships/politics. It seems like in this case the right person got fired. I knew of a trader on a credit desk that blew up their desk (lost many times their pnl in a year). His boss (head of desk) got fired instead and he got promoted to his position. Yet it was a completely unsurprising outcome and spoke so much about the industry
>The journalist made no attempt to investigate or disprove TJ's side of the story, not even to ask the employee about it.

They did! The TJ response is right there, after the termination letter, and the way I read it, they confirmed the story beyond a reasonable doubt by producing a denial that only sounds like a defense without context.

It says, "store leadership terminated this Crew Member's employment because of the disrespect he showed towards our customers. We have never, and would never, terminate a Crew Member's employment for raising safety concerns".

Their excuse is that he was not respectful enough to the customers...by demanding management exclude people (after 3 strikes) who refuse to wear masks and are abusive. And this is not a health concern, nor did they have any problem with the other health concerns. Really??

This is how every professional defends the indefensible these days. They craft a "non-denial denial" that communicates a falsehood to people who don't have the context, and doesn't technically lie or deny anything to people who do have the context. It is truly having your cake and eating it too.
Do you think math ability is the most important metric to hire by? I guess it’s correlated to intelligence but I’m not sure if many businesses are looking for intelligence, unfortunately.
Its religious extremism. Just because it's "mainstream" in certain circles, it's no different than any other theocratic behavior and needs to be opposed
I like the approach. It seems to assume that impact is easy to measure though. It’s actually very hard to measure problem avoidance versus problem solving.
> Apple maintains CUPS these days

Apple never really maintained CUPS. They hired the author, Michael Sweet, and he pretty much served as the printing team. He left Apple a couple years ago, and basically stalled their printing department.

He’s recently become head of the Printer Working Group, and they’re all pushing IPP Everywhere towards greater adoption. It’s a laudable effort.
Caveat emptor: IBKR's TOS makes it clear they reserve the right to liquidate your positions at any time for basically any reason, including margin requirement changes.
The East German system was capitalist, not communist. The guards were paid wages.

By definition, wages can't exist in a communist system, because there's no currency in communism. Thus wage labor can't exist, thus guard labor can't exist.

Guards certainly can, sure, but not guard labor. I think the wikipedia article is just making clear that this term only applies to capitalist economic systems.

The concentration camps in Xinjiang from the CCP's genocide against the Uighur Muslims isn't an artifact of communism, it's a result of Han Supremacy and a totalitarian government creating an Other. Further evidence: The CCP doesn't identify between minority populations anymore. There is only Han and Other. The CCP isn't communist: they jail communists. A famous one (in the PRC literary circles) just killed himself after years of cops breathing down his neck. [1] . I, and many others, argue that the PRC operates a state capitalist economy [2].

[1] https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/07/translation-the-countr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China

EDIT: Sadly I'm a bit of a troublemaker and am limited to 5 posts on HN a day. I'm beginning a motorcycle trip for the next couple of days so please allow me to respond here to some people kind enough to challenge me:

To habibur:

> That's focusing too much on pure definition of words and terminologies.

I think, especially for words like "communism," nothing is more important than fighting mightily for the proper definition. Developed nations the world over are undergoing a resurgence of communist thought and workers-rights movements, and the establishment is leveraging the purposefully negatively-tinged word "communism" to fight against worker's rights. "Communism" is being abused right back to McCarthy era flexibility.

Definitions are being abused. Right-leaning political parties across the world are turning workers against eachother by poisoning leftist terminology. I've had more conversations than I can count with people who profess to be hardline conservatives, and then drop line after line of strongly leftist, pro-worker dialogue.

To Supermancho:

There is always currency in capitalism. Communism is a radically different philosophy regarding the organization of society. Actually, perhaps not as radical as you might think, there's ample evidence that many societies operated under proto-communist systems for the first hundred thousand years of human pre-history, and this continued straight into the age of discovery, as recorded by European explorers in the Americas and Africa.

That currency "has always existed" is something economists often postulate but fail to provide evidence for. I'm speaking of course of the classic barter->simplification of means of exchange->currency myth. Common ownership has existed for a very, very long time.
Nonsense. If you could automate programming, it would be the last thing to truly be automated before the singularity. After all, if programming was truly automated, the program for creating a brick laying robot would write itself.
3B work hard like a salmon going upstream.
ID laws are inherently racist, and have been leveraged by white supremacists for decades to keep POC from enjoying the rights and privileges they're guaranteed under the law.

Businesses requiring vaccination IDs are de facto discriminating against POCs and other minorities because POCs and minorities are less likely to have ID, and less likely to be vaccinated.
Lego Ideas: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Is this a Linux feature or FreeBSD magic, as like the article seems to credit it?
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 Results
Yes, and I used to use it as my daily driver. But I switched to Firefox a year ago to make sure I wasn't ignoring the minority experience.

Yes, we have CI (700+ machine hours for runs-on-master integration tests). No, we don't have a test that would have caught this (we are an app building platform and some of our features which our users use to deliver features to their users use iframes)
> every couple of years when somebody releases a yet another Linux audio daemon.

You seem to be stuck in, oh, maybe 2008.

There hasn't been "yet another Linux audio daemon" in more than a decade. JACK came along in the early 2000's (I wrote it), and PulseAudio in 2004 or thereabouts. All that nonsense with esd, artsd etc. was over because the aughts were over.
counterpoint: you can. you can consider & reassess your dispositions. we have superficial attractions & being willing to consider, try dating & entertain people outside our normative/preferred norms, make room to try & see can make a world of difference.

You can't help who you're attracted to
Reasoning seems fine to me. This is reflective of different priorities, I suppose, but my view is that the primary use of alerts are scams and new JS users on sites like codepen. Removing the feature would prevent the abuses, which do far more harm than the few legit use cases do good. Especially since, for the legit uses, there are mostly straightforward fixes. A tiny handful out of the billions of users of the web platform were affected negatively. It's not an optimal tradeoff, but it's pretty close.
Any sources or links to any of your claims? (Not to take anything away)
Pipewire implements both ALSA psuedo-devices, the JACK API and the PulseAudio API. You only need a single daemon to address all possible audio I/O needs, something that PulseAudio could not do.
> We can't just send deprecation notices to random contact emails (if there's any) on websites. We can't just open a "support request" to L1 customer support of websites telling them their site might not work soon.

What about folks who've registered for either origin trials or Google Search Console? Or Google Analytics?

That said, I'd love it if telemetry APIs were baked into the web, perhaps OpenTelemetry API support? Then website owners could set up their own error reporting OTLP endpoints or services to receive sampled deprecation alerts in a standard way, rather than assuming everybody can read the developer console in an end-user's browser (especially when it's hidden most of the time...)

Bonus points if we can ignore errors caused by extensions, or have extra feedback as to which extensions might be causing problems. Double bonus points if there's a UI so end users can choose whether to share this data or not, or to cache and sync the data so it only gets shared when on wifi or idle, in an extremely compressed way, and to provide a settings screen where you can browse what telemetry or errors are shared from/to websites in your history.
> it's exactly as much "part of the logical business of survival" ie none.

This is just an assertion, and it's actively contradicted by huge piles of evidence. Why do you believe it?
We'll see if / when they hit scale. From what I recall your 2018 example was a flop and the machine did not produce burgers any cheaper and needed a lot of maintenance from the staff in order to operate.

EDIT: Yes, they didn't last long: https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/i-ate-a-robot-hamburger-befo...
Crypto can be withdrawn from exchanges to a personal account that only that individual controls. This is unlike stocks, which sit in brokerages and could only be transferred to another brokerage (in kind transfer).

An example for someone in the US is that they buy crypto on Coinbase, and then they withdraw that crypto to a hardware wallet that they have control of. They leave their crypto on their hardware wallet for a few years and then transfer all or maybe only some portion of it to a different exchange, say, Kraken, and sell it there. How do the exchanges file a 1099 for that?

Maybe while the crypto was on the individual's hardware wallet, they also used some of it to purchase some goods or services. How is that tracked except on the individual's tax return?

I'm for regulation because I think it means the crypto space will mature and more people will feel it is safe to get involved. I also don't think people should use crypto for avoiding taxes (I do think that is overblown in the media considering that most blockchains are literally a public ledger, and all the government needs are some crypto experts and they can look at current as well as previous years of transactions, so folks shouldn't be doing anything shady).

I do also think that laws should adapt to new technological innovations. The only issue is that there isn't a critical mass yet that this technology is here to stay. The analogy is like fitting a square peg into a round hole. That's what the government is trying to do by over regulating crypto with regulations from the 20th century.

I actually would love if crypto exchanges could somehow give 1099s. That would extremely simplify the crypto tax reporting process, which right now can be very complicated, but I just don't see how it would work unless individuals only bought crypto on an exchange, left it on that exchange, and only sold whatever they bought on that exchange.
Funny thing is that we have been running other experiments you would find just as silly: test gravitational attraction between human-scale objects with ridiculously expensive and sensitive equipment, test whether there is a difference between gravitational and inertial mass, interfere neutrons(?) after they pass through slightly different gravitational fields on Earth. My favorite is measuring the dipole moment of the electron (like, duh, of course the electron does not have a dipole moment).

All of these tests are silly if you believe the theories of the day. The vast majority of such tests in history have simply confirmed the theory of the day. And also, there are a small handful of them that have spurred the most amazing intellectual explosion in the history of this planet (Special/General relativity and Quantum theory).

Also, the investment permits the contractors for the experiment to create an industrial base crucial for applications in the general economy.
>We can simulate for example driving a car really well.

Can you qualify this more specifically? In many domains (particularly safety critical ones) “reasonably well” may not be sufficient
I think you are answering your own question here. Not to put too fine a point on it, but nobody just jumps into one of those category 3B jobs without, as you say, substantial hard work and a healthy dose of good luck.

You say that to get a job in category 3B you don’t have the experience to confidently pass a job interview. So, keep grinding at your current job until you develop the expertise you need. Or take a job in category 2 that will expose you to the things you need to fill the gaps.

Luckily you have the cliff notes to this test - just look at the job description requirements for the 3B jobs you’re really targeting, and seek opportunities that will get that on your resume.
As a physicist I find this to be a trite argument. You can easily get to 'finite' simply by arguing that the number of digits required to represent a number cannot exceed the number of atoms in the Universe. That's a ridiculously loose bound, but it's still finite.

The practical question is will our lives be recognizable to someone alive today when we do hit a ceiling? The average person 100 years ago could hardly imagine the way we live. If the limits come in some unimaginable future, what good does it do to worry about it now?

There are plenty of problems that we can foresee in the near to medium term. The finitude of the Earth is not yet an issue.
Not that i've seen, no.
Any idea how they got away with this?
Your life sounds really interesting. If you've written more about it somewhere, I'd love to read it.
Some interesting projects using this are documented here:

https://www.hackster.io/blues-wireless
If Bitcoin goes to zero, I’ll buy all of it
I mean once the boston dynamics stuff gets good enough… it will. To be frank, I want my Jetsons robot maid.
I agree, however I still find it weird to be so explicit about something like that. Wouldn't simply not swiping on people you don't find attractive be effective? Same with other factors like weight, etc., though with weight, I suppose its easier to hide.

Filters also seem like a good options, but dating apps love to milk money by making people pay from seemingly the most basic features.
Got it. :+1: UK here.
OSS did not have the ability when it was removed from the kernel and replaced by ALSA, which did have that ability already.

There were (and are) many problems with the OSS API, a number of which continue to exist in the ALSA API too.

All serious audio APIs (plugins, or native audio I/O) use a pull model at the bottom of the stack, so that i/o is driven by the hardware. You can layer a push model (where software does blocking read/write calls whenever it wants) on top of that, but not the other way around.

And yes, OSS and ALSA both implement select/poll etc. for audio devices, but do not enforce the use of this model, resulting in the 2000s being filled with Linux (and *BSD) apps that couldn't function correctly without oodles of buffering.
Great questions!
1) What are the differences between Scispot and Benchling? Scispot is completely no-code. So, you can design your own sample manager, pick and choose the workflows you want to automate, and set inventory automation (maintain an always-updated inventory with our inventory automation module).

2) What are the things you offer that nobody else does? There is no other no-code workflow automation in life science space yet.

3) How long have you been developing the product? One year

4) If it is only three people, why would a lab choose you over established players? We only mentioned our founding team as part of the post. We have a team of highly talented engineers, scientists and advisors without whom Scispot wouldn’t be the product it is today. Customers choose us because we are more agile compared to bigger companies. Our agility comes from the orchestration layer that you can use to design your own life science workflows. For instance, every customer has its own different flavour of Scispot with different workflows, and metadata.

Happy to set-up a call to continue your discussion.
ONet claims nearly 82k brick masons

https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/47-2021.00
> Is this a Linux feature or FreeBSD magic, as like the article seems to credit it?

Being able to just send wave data to the audio device "file" is pretty common on most systems that smell like Unix.

The netcat trickery from the article works on any platforms where netcat is available, what file formats are specifically supported varies by printer. Most will take text and Postscript (though some famous printers like the LaserJet 4 still had PS as an optional addon), anything more complicated is implementation-specific.
Save Our Snopes
Pipewire is not finished at this point. It is being deployed "early" by some distros, apparently in the belief that it will help find bugs and help them being fixed.
I'm interested to see rust so highly regarded year after year. Is this mostly due to self-selection (the people using rust are mainly those who choose to), or due to the language and ecosystem themselves?
I run my super quantum machine learning model built on Rust on fly and it found a way to another dimension. This totally isn't an ad like the other replies. Trust me.
I thought macroscopic quantum behavior had been demonstrated in a comb-like resonator? The vibrating teeth on the comb would transition from one side to the other without passing through the center.
It doesn't, but "/" does not do that either. It's "'" that works that way (and obviously useful). I just don't know about "/".
2 and 3B effectively require the same amount of work, only differing in how common they are and my subjective interest.

I'm just not sure what sort of work I need to do when my currently job (and company) cannot expose me to what I need and neither can side projects.
Good riddance, I say.
Here’s an example of sleuthing the public ledger to uncover some high profile scammers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xw9rWmTQfc&feature=youtu.be
"But I don't think [stagnation is] the most likely future."

Why not? Thomas Malthus predicted[1] that population would explode and collapse, but it didn't... and it looks like it's stabilizing.

The author should be wary of making the same mistake.

Come to think about it, a high tech and stable economy could be a very nice place to live. It could also be a totalitarian dystopia, depending on exactly how things play out. But one can at least imagine it working out well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus
Based on your argument against unionizing yourself, which is that you won't benefit $0.25 yearly raise, I think you're actually arguing in favor of the insurance comparison. For example, if the only people who paid into national health insurance were the people needed it, and only then when they needed it, the national health insurance would be pointless.
Too bad the contract wasn’t controlled by some kind of algorithm, a ‘smart contract’, if you will. Oh well, guess we’ll just never have a solution for this sort of thing.
Activism and religious fundamentalism are very similar in this regard.
Can anyone name at least one website that needs RSS but does not have it.
$28.50 Beer at LaGuardia Sparks Audit of New York Airport Concession Prices
it's not just computer people. it's everyone. we haven't automated most jobs which require skill, precisely because they aren't easy to- and yet, teachers, agriculture workers, and construction crews are some of the lowest paid sectors. and then there are complaints about these people being lazy and there not being enough people who want to pursue these professions. wel guess what? pay them a decent wage for a change!
> If you want to support specific browsers

This is a pretty arrogant position. If this is your perspective, please go work on Android team or something with a traditional SDK churn cycle. The Web is special.
So what you're saying is, those HK kids were fighting the good fight against the oppressive regime and it's right to support them and it is wrong to hold them to account for whatever damage they cause doing that... and this guy in uniform is trying to incite insurrection against a peaceful democratic successful country in favor of an oppressive regime? I guess if that's the situation you're absolutely right. And good point there probably is legally a distinction between addressing people in uniform and getting out there on the streets even when you have a enormous number of people.

it makes sense that you would not see a double standard if that's how you see things and that your rather, um, uncharitable attempt to frame my view as obtuse would seem to hinder your ability to understand how I think about it. why would you seek to know more about something that you see is deliberately insensitive and stupid? that's okay... it's not up to me how you think about things, thanks for engaging anyway. It's good to know more about the ways other people see it.