skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pssh, I'd take working in a steel mill or a coal mine 100 times out of a 100 compared to being a slave. Race to the bottom mentality.
maybe one could defend against this by trying and get a photo from "thisperdondoesnotexist" as the top ranked photo of you?
> On the flip side, most plastic packaging (mainly PE and PP) is non-toxic and biology doesn't really interact with it at all, even if you reduce it to microplastics. Yeah, that stuff is pretty much everywhere - but it's not really doing anything.

We're just starting to understand the harms plastics are causing to our health as we increasingly find plastics in places like our blood, our stool, and in our unborn children. There are already plenty of concerns about plastics resulting in hazardous exposure to endocrine disruptors. It's pervasive across the food chain as well. The idea that "it's not really doing anything" requires a dismal of all the harms we know about already and a remarkable level of optimism about what we will or wont find out in the future.

for more info see:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/micropla...

https://web.uri.edu/gemsnet/files/article_gemsnet.pdf

https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/p...
Bluescat response is the posterboy for not letting community support reign supreme. My goodness.
>It really blows my mind that these Google forums are entirely staffed by unpaid people who are deemed "experts" (with no inside knowledge of how the service in question is developed or what the plans for it are).

I've dealt with Bluescat before: https://np.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/hbatkp/whats_th...

Note how BluesCatReddit warns me to not use the feature I am asking about because it is surely a secret method that non-experts like me aren't supposed to know about, then when I point out that Google itself documents the feature, desperately tries to maintain his sage position above non-experts like me by generously deigning to tutor me on how to use said feature (which, again, he had no idea existed until I pointed it out to him). Absolutely nothing to do with actually answering my question, of course.
One person does not disprove the rule.
He also paid triple the normal wage for similar work. Today, they are similarly invasive for "market rates."
I’ve been using Telnyx for a while for burner numbers for a couple of ‘burner’ numbers.

Outside of the phone number itself (or the cost to port), it’s pretty much pay for what you use. Does require some setup once you have a number, but as long as you’ve got a SIP capable device (or desktop/mobile app like Bria) you can use the number on it.
There are differences between all the different remakes of Helvetica. Neue Haas Grotesk just happens to be one of the good ones, and even better, you can get it for free from Microsoft for your own use, it's part of one of the downloadable font packs from them.

I would add to that though, where something is being displayed matters too. If you're displaying on screen and you're not using anti-aliasing (I don't) then whoever did a better job hinting will display better on the screen.
Read the license. "Pay once and don't use it" would be a fair description.
I disagree completely, the big cities are not even trying to build, and they could.

We need to tax land hoarders and use the proceeds to build public housing.

This will be sooooo much easier than trying to do business development in smaller cities. Those cities have already been doing their best to expand the job situation, but top down planning of jobs rarely works. Our top down planning to induce housing shortages is far easier to fix.
There is one thing missing from this list that works in some other languages as well: use plurals (groups of people). In general, the words that are used to describe groups are gender-neutral, even when the words to describe the members of the group are not.

Just a simple example. With "nurses" we use "they", "their", "them".
With "nurse" you might use "she", "her" and "her", or for a male gender: "he", "his", "him".
Have been listening to the film's soundtrack for the past few weeks while programming. It might be that the OST is hardcoded into my brain and that's why I found it so appropriate to listen to it while coding - but it's great to get into "the zone".
I was looking for something like that to listen - without much luck so far.
Will give a try to Wipeout's tracks. They look promising :)
Obviously having housing stock is probably good. Housing however IS a scarce resource, especially housing when it comes to being close to things like transit, views, natural amenities, parks, businesses and other amenities - and one of the most important things that doesn't seem like its talked about: neighborhoods of similar social classes.

There are myriad reasons one area does great, and I don't think its entirely due to barriers in investing and building, else those with no barriers would see massive movement towards them. Often times the desirability of living in a place is almost directly inversely related to how little regulation they have.
This article is misleading, inaccurate, and reflects poorly on forbes. It's phrased as if they're paying that much tax on the superbowl winnings, but they're being taxed on their normal earnings, during the time they are in CA, which is the case for a number of states with income tax. The article also claims they're paying the top rate, without considering marginal taxes.
It's obvious now you say that, but I'd never made the connection before. The gameplay is just that little bit different, and the whole scoring-scene is completely different.

Thanks for sharing!
> Maybe I should try to talk them into changing it back :)

As an Aussie, I'd love to help you with that haha. Unicode is wrong ;)
True. I certainly agree with your example of 1890. And for 1940 and maybe 1970. But it does seems at least conceivable that workers may have been more safe in say 1985 than today.

Also, aside from risk in objective terms, which was surely a consequence of technology and level of material wealth available to some degree -- how seriously did the society and culture generally take the issue?
Hey, I am one of the lead authors of this paper.
Happy to answer questions.
This is a twitter thread going over the main results:

https://twitter.com/gstsdn/status/1427794393373626368
Huh?? I’m saying that Apple did what you said they should do, and it’s understandable you didn’t know that because the headline of the article you responded to didn’t communicate that.
My grandfather worked in a steel mill. It absolutely broke his body down. Died in this late forties.
I've dealt with Bluescat before: https://np.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/hbatkp/whats_th...

Note how BluesCatReddit warns me to not use the feature I am asking about because it is surely a secret method that non-experts like me aren't supposed to know about, then when I point out that Google itself documents the feature, desperately tries to maintain his sage position above non-experts like me by generously deigning to tutor me on how to use said feature (which, again, he had no idea existed until I pointed it out to him). Absolutely nothing to do with actually answering my question, of course.
Sorry, but to my eye at least, it's the most cliché association possible, therefore predictable, and therefore not interesting in HN's since of the word.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Maybe there's a comment to be made that would show us something about this particular German proposal that's unusually related to this extremely-well-known history in some unexpected way. That could be interesting. But failing that, there have been thousands of stories you could make the same "connection" about, and nothing so generic can be either particularly interesting or particularly accurate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

(And that's not even mentioning the veering into classic flamebait territory.)
There are very very very few nations that could not serve their needs with renewable electricity. The UK was thought to be one of the more challenging countries, but recent offshore wind developments will make cheap power abundant soon.

Japan may have a difficult time, which is why they have been so fond of hydrogen, but I have a feeling that they may find some other solutions. Deep-sea floating turbines are falling in price all the time.
FLoC is open source in Chromium. They're not lying about that. What they do with Google-specific information originating from Chrome is where skepticism applies.
I've owned a System76 darter pro for a year. I've had two noticable issues, but overall I've loved the experience and would absolutely do it again. I personally prefer System76's pragmatic "get things working first and gradually make them not depend on binary blobs later" approach compared to Purism which sacrifices quality for openness.

The issues:

- Apparently random force shut downs every few days for months. Their support wasn't able to diagnose the issue, but it eventually went away on its own. Logs had nothing, they just stopped.

- Hinge broke requiring ~$200 repair costs (needed to replace most of the exterior shell)

However, I'm relatively hard on laptops and have also had similar issues with other laptops. For example, I had a MacBook that regularly reset it's clock to zero unix time probably because of a hardware issue and needed to have the memory replaced.
Reminds me of that time google took some random guys picture and put it next to the "knowledge" panel for a serial killer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27622100
Cleaning toilets doesn't require actual human thought?
Unfortunately the system doesn't right itself - it needs moderation to bump it out of its failure modes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Unluckily for the lot of you, that happens to be my job. In case it helps at all, these nagging comments are even more tedious to write than they are to read.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Since 2014 the subscribers of social network became more aware of the wholesale snooping and privacy violations that are hidden behind the "terms and condition" of their social networks. I wonder if the whole disinformation narrative isn't in part an attempt to deflect public attention from the issue of privacy violations, an attempt to present the social network services as protectors of the realm, of finding some indirect justification and relativization for the business practices of these companies.

I mean you might get a sense who is pushing the argument, if you think of who is to gain from it. The article lists Alex Stamos, formerly Facebook’s chief security officer as a member of the Aspen institute 'Commission on Information Disorder', among others.

The article also says that 'it's all theater', but is drawing some very different conclusion; the 'disinformation' argument is supposed to support the claim that targetted advertising is actually working: "
Ironically, to the extent that this work creates undue alarm about disinformation, it supports Facebook’s sales pitch. What could be more appealing to an advertiser, after all, than a machine that can persuade anyone of anything? This understanding benefits Facebook, which spreads more bad information, which creates more alarm. Legacy outlets with usefully prestigious brands are taken on board as trusted partners, to determine when the levels of contamination in the information ecosystem (from which they have magically detached themselves) get too high. For the old media institutions, it’s a bid for relevance, a form of self-preservation. For the tech platforms, it’s a superficial strategy to avoid deeper questions. A trusted disinformation field is, in this sense, a very useful thing for Mark Zuckerberg."

Also the article mentions that for the political class 'disinformation' is a way to explain away their own failings "the Establishment needs the theater of social-media persuasion to build a political world that still makes sense, to explain Brexit and Trump...A common account of social media’s persuasive effects provides a convenient explanation for how so many people thought so wrongly at more or less the same time. More than that, it creates a world of persuasion that is legible and useful to capital—to advertisers, political consultants, media companies, and of course, to the tech platforms themselves. It is a model of cause and effect in which the information circulated by a few corporations has the total power to justify the beliefs and behaviors of the demos. In a way, this world is a kind of comfort"

Different people are drawing different conclusions from the same data, fascinating...
Light duty vehicles doesn't necessarily mean that they're personal vehicles.
> If we had built it in the 1980s, maybe we could be running off nuclear now, but the reactors would be reaching end of life.

And how much less CO2 would have been put into the atmosphere over that time period? Also, if we had scaled up to produce that many nuclear reactors, don't you think we'd be invested in new and better ones coming online? Or at least until solar and wind can solve their storage and transmission issues.
Yes but no. From the article:

> “Long before the Industrial Revolution, we were vulnerable to long extended periods of drought. And now we have another experiment with all this CO2 in the atmosphere where there are potentially even more wild swings in there,” said Graham Kent, a University of Nevada geophysicist"

Also note this article is from January 2014.
If he's doing work for you, and you still accept you may not get what you want at no lasting repercussions to him, it does degenerate to how you feel about it and present it. It really only gets into the nailed down semantics in my model when you're producing something for someone else. He volunteers to do work, you sink the risk of letting him, knowing you may still be on the hook for delivery if it goes bad. If things work out well, good business. If they don't you took a gamble, and got bit.

In your case it really comes down to intent. If you're out for free labor, no bueno. If you're out for helping him and maybe getting something you can work with at the end of it? Bueno.

I just know that even if it started with the understanding you wouldn't pay them, I'd still put aside something for them in the end, especially if the Quality is good.
> than a married employee being a better worker

Especially back then, but even now, it is thought that married men are, on average, are more likely to be the settled type. Dependable and boring. It was not a belief idiosyncratic to Ford. I think the idea is the man has children and a wife to feed to keep him in place and coming in to work, and also to keep him so busy and tired he stays out of trouble.

Whether this weird psychological theorizing is true of course, I don't know. (Married men do die in car crashes less, today.) See all that psychometry stuff some employers do. Seems no more reliable.
Then I think question is how we know there is such exacerbation since we are at 3 years only.
Where does $2k/mo rent come from? I paid less than that while working at a FANG making $200k/yr.
> Yep. It's worse when working with vendors

20 years in the vendor side, and I can count on one hand the number of times a customer followed the recommended process to create a limited user for one of our AD services. Every other time - just run it as an admin service account, and if they’re feeling motivated we might get a dedicated admin account created.

It’s very frustrating…
https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-14795 is the issue.

Maybe it would help convince them if more Australians endorsed the "Monday is first day of week in Australia" position.

On the other hand, I don't want to overwhelm the poor Unicode CLDR developers with too many "me too" comments.
I am sw engineer in the bay area, and I have a 3 hour commute with sun in my eyes, and I am actually paid well! Even getting paid well won't suffice here :). I have thought of moving to a different area, just for avoiding the sun, not the commute, but pandemic threw a wrench in my plans. House prices reached the stratosphere. Few more years I guess
We're currently in the process of designing a house that we hope to build early next year. One thing that I dream of doing is lighting the entire house with LEDs wired in a low voltage DC "network." Even better if they're addressable, dimmable, even RGB recolorable.

Power over Ethernet would be a pretty cool way of doing it if it was practical...that way you get the data to control the lights as well as the power to run them.

Does anything like this exist in a way that won't get me fired by the builder for even mentioning it?
One especially is in the case where it's boilerplate code that does not rely on any real deep thought but writes itself, and with the possibility of bugs in it, most of all. Anyone can make a simple typo or forget something in the endless boilerplate.

It also gets in the way of reading code.
The number of iterations must be knowable, yes. It doesn't need to be known as a direct constant value, but it must be computable as a symbolic value as some kind (say, an argument to the function, maybe plus or minus a constant).

I haven't looked at the exact criteria in this transformation, but it's very likely that there are also a couple of constraints on how precisely the loop is structured.
> At least in small towns you have community centres, people know who you are, often a local identity, vibrant social networks and access to the outdoors.

Other than access to the outdoors I would say the rest of that doesn't apply to almost any small town in the USA - may just be a canadian thing. In the USA we have meth, heroin, and a 2/1 church to local business ratio.
It wasn't just this post, it was all of them (at least, all of them that make their way to HN). But I suppose I will need to update my priors since if this post is vouched for, it should make the other posts more likely to be true rather than less likely.
The "duty" to maximize profit is a myth. Many legal scholars have written about this. Here's one https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-gover...
I guess I'd have to guess that you're sexist against women and projecting.
> Consider all sources and it drops down to 12%.

What does this mean? All sources?

How is 17% emissions a small amount? It's as much as our agricultural and commercial emissions combined and 1% more than our residential and commercial emissions combined. It's more than the the emissions of all airline travel. Only industrial and electricity related emissions are more. What other category would you pick to lean up on?
So 8 million landlords in the US form a monopoly?
I browsed some of his other responses, and he seems to be under some delusion that he works for Google. I guess he sort of does, since he's the only support many customers will encounter.
AFAIK the only way to actually talk to a human and get a human to manually do anything at Google is either A. Work there or B. Speak to an attorney to begin serious threats of potential litigation. You don't have to take it to court, but you need to be prepared in case it does.
Low voltage electrical is entirely doable and no issues code wise. If you have them run low voltage conduit to wherever you want, you should be good to go.

Just be aware many jurisdictions have minimum lighting requirements that your low voltage lights may not meet, but you could always just leave those lights off
there is nothing excluding both events concurrently
It's often suggested to increase fuel taxes to force people to drive less. I guess you were spending around $400 per month on fuel for this commute. Would you have done anything different if fuel costs were double that? (And let's assume getting a more efficient car wasn't an option)
my 5520 hasn't got the ethernet port driver and no external monitors work either, on ubuntu 18.04
This doesn’t make any sense. Power transmission with DC still requires high voltage for any reasonable efficiency. Then you have to convert it back down to a residential voltage (still probably >100V for conductor material efficiency) and then devices have to convert that down to low voltage. So you’re not actually saving any conversion steps. On top of that, you have to use DC-DC power electronics, which are much more expensive than transformers etc. at high power levels.

There is an argument for using DC over AC but avoiding conversion losses is not a compelling part of it.
contact a lawyer immediately, do not post about this anymore online. specifically a lawyer that specializes in copyright/internet laws. do not go through any government agency to solve this or contact the BBB ; they will do nothing to help you.
Ding ding ding, we have the answer. I was in Lake Tahoe recently and my relatives there were saying how I should move there because there’s so many well paying jobs available… but the cheapest rent was like 1600!! This used to be an issue only in tourist towns but now that houses are priced based on how much they can make on Airbnb, versus the traditional model of how much a worker in the area could afford over 30 years, we’re absolutely screwed. Legislation needs to start with vacation rentals.
Dirty bombs are actually terribly ineffective weapons. The radiation would be unlikely to harm anyone who wasn't close enough to be killed by the conventional explosives unless they spent a considerable amount of time in the irradiated area afterwards without any sort of protection. While the cleanup operation could be expensive, the whole affair would be more an inconvenience than anything else. On the plus side though, now you can detect the terrorists' essentially conventional explosive which would otherwise be quite concealable with radiation detectors.

Also tritium is essentially harmless. It is an incredibly weak beta emitter - the electrons it emits won't make it through the upper layers of dead skin if it's outside of your body. It has an extremely short residency period in the body if it is ingested (a benefit of being chemically identical to hydrogen). It also will dissipate in an area rapidly - it rises quickly and even if it is in an enclosed space it will pass straight through the walls. Also it's worth noting that a fusion plant like ITER has less than a gram of tritium inside of it at any given time.
Thanks for the response, though my question was more about whether you've thought through how your webhooks based approach can work through VPNs.

For example, one of the organisations I work with uses a CheckPoint capsule VPN with some non-standard configuration that's controlled by their IT department that manages and supports client workstations.

To even access the Git server requires the user to be connected through VPN. I suppose you'll need Tara to follow the same route to the Git server that's sitting behind this VPN, right? This would be quite a different story than having Tara connect to a public facing self-hosted Git server, e.g., on our own data center or on AWS.

I suspect this will he a hard (impossible?) problem to solve unless Tara itself goes self-hosted and is on the same VPC as the Git server behind our VPN.
Signal groups can have tons of interesting chatter, kick off lots of discussions, etc.

It may not be as pure as a FB feed, but it’s the same dopamine hit.
Low voltage residential wiring is not very efficient for most applications because the conductors have to be so much larger.