skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trying to motivate a cleaner, assembly operative, driver, cashier, warehouse operative, packer and other low level workers with it is like telling them to go fuck themselves.

This reads as true given how most jobs are currently organized/implemented. I don't think it has to be true though.

I used to work bagging groceries and pushing carts for a supermarket. I loved it. I worked quite hard and was recognized by customers for doing so. I personally enjoyed being able to help someone through great service.

Many of these jobs are naturally game-like (checkout the day before Thanksgiving = time trial). They are critical _essential_ positions.

These people probably don't love their jobs because they aren't treated as well as they should be. Realistically, bagging groceries is ~80-120% as hard as writing software (in terms of perceived effort); the software engineer shouldn't be making 5-20x more.

Making it clear that people are actually valued, by actually valuing them, makes a huge difference. Sadly, there are generations of MBAs who are allergic to the concept.
This.

Even though I know that working all night till 6 am is wrong, I still do this now and then, because work is sometimes addicting.

I need such message from real genius to help me control myself.
They saw Microsoft miss the Web, and they are afraid of missing the Next Big Thing, so they invest in everything for however long the money fountain from ads might last.
It’s definitely got its rougher edges. When you come across bugs, even if you’re not in a place to submit a fix, it’s super helpful if you submit an issue with steps to reproduce or comment on an existing issue with your experience.
That is what I am trying to figure out. Are there actually millions of people unable to pay or do they just see this as an easy way to have more money and get housing for free?

A friend of a friend did this though. Went from $0 to 6 figures in assets just by investing his rent money as he kept his job.
Yeah, I got an electric scooter a few months ago. It’s always fun going along the separated bikeway alongside one of the big six to eight lane freeways coming in and out of the middle of the city I live in, and at some times even at 25 km/h still going faster than the car traffic!
> the only trauma injury that gives me the creeps is degloving

I worked with a guy who was missing most of his ring finger. I asked him about it one day at lunch. I regretted it.
The latest versions of LibreOffice are really quite good. They have implemented the Ribbon-style nav as an option and have some decent default styles. I was pleasantly surprised when I last used it.
I just updated my youtube-dl GUI to support yt-dlp.

https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf

Currently it's WPF based and therefore only supports Windows. I'm considering porting it to Avalonia so I can also use it on my Linux desktop.

The reason I made this GUI is mostly for manual format selection. The automatic 'bestvideo+bestaudio/best' doesn't always result in the best format combination. So I always select AV1 + Opus manually and use the WebM container. The GUI also includes some opinionated defaults like embedding metadata, thumbnail, subtitles.
We have not gone full circle. We are just expanding into various scenarios where a gc language is preferable to non gc language and vice versa. There will never be a perfect compiler nor do we always want to do everything manually.
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By Americans he means the locals. The (Latin) Americans.
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Thank you. I really relate to the original post. Like the author, I am spending way too much time getting lineage to work on my phone while trying to run an ecosystem of self hosted services for my community that fewer and fewer folks seem to want, even as they complain about the role of big tech in their lives and culture.

I really appreciate the sense of maybe-I'm-not-totally-alone that your post conveys. Maybe the author would as well? "There are literally dozens of us".
It's hard to compare apples to apples, as ad revenue is based on amount of ads shown and your premium subscription is divvied up among your most watched creators based on watchtime [1]

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7060016?hl=en
> "The public interest strongly favors respecting the CDC’s judgment at this moment, when over 90 percent of counties are experiencing high transmission rates," Breyer wrote.

I wonder if the Supreme Court doing their job and weighing in on the legality of executive branch actions is also in the public interest?
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With very deep models based on Convolution (CNNs, the article is talking about AI on a computer vision problem and CNNs are the standard for these problems) you loose almost all explainability. There might be ways to partially mitigate that like adding additional "heads" to the model to output some debugging-like data, or run the image in patches and see where the model is more confident about a particular metric of interest. Both these options are not optimal as you still don't see the inner workings of the model in an interpretable way.

Transformers models [1], on the other hand, are the de-facto standard for Natural Language Processing/Understanding problems and recent studies [2] show that they can be applied to computer vision tasks. By construction, transformers let you access the so called "attention heads", which carry a good deal of information about what the model believes is important about the input. So that might be a promising route for some explainability in computer vision tasks, but we are quite a bit far away from fully understanding what is going on inside a deep learning model.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
I use a paper notebook. Each page is a day, each line a concrete task.

Each morning, I copy the unfinished tasks to the new page. It means that I must acknowledge and reprioritise each of them. Every task is either done, discarded or copied over.

The page is a physical limitation to how much work I can take. It's a reminder of my own limits. I also need to re-read the list every few minutes to find an item.

With this simple system, things rarely got misplaced. Not even little things like updating tickets or answering specific emails.
I said I'd like to see hard evidence. When one intends to make a financial proposal at a company, they should expect to furnish evidence that the expenditure would provide some kind of return and that there is a factual basis for the need of whatever it is the money is being spent on.
Why does it even matter how it will impact the life? Why can CDC even decide such a thing? Do you know any other country where a national health agency can ban evictions and intrude into a contract law like that?
Title is slightly ambiguous. For those that assumed like me, this isn't saying that being on call is working well. It is saying "being on call should be considered working time".
these are bad to remove

>Folders and groups of applications will no longer be supported

that's a nice convenience going away.

>Support for moving the taskbar to different locations on the screen (e.g. top, left, or right) has been removed; alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only option allowed.

JEEEEZ!

>Support for displaying taskbar labels, displaying small icons, or disabling grouping of buttons has been removed.

[swear words]

>The Task Manager shortcut on the taskbar has been removed.

[more swear words]
Embedded is not just small microcontrollers (re 512 byte being a target), and this is likely not a size-optimized build.
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I wish every language had open classes for this reason. It makes ruby such a joy to write in. Something like Kotlin's class extensions might be a happier middle ground for many languages though, since that way you only get what you pulled in, in any given file.

Yes, of course you can do horrific things with it. But the ruby community has largely been absolutely stellar about not doing that - most keep insanities tightly bounded, where they can be used to make pleasant and error-resistant APIs. And even when they're not (which is usually self-inflicted by internal code), the language is flexible enough to let you unfuck just about any fuckery that you run across, if needed.
Not the OP, but I can't help but somewhat agree with them. I think we should absolutely have eviction moratoriums in place during the pandemic, and I think it kept a lot of people from losing their homes or going into severe financial distress, but it feels like a huge stretch to me that the CDC (or any executive branch agency) should have that authority. This is something that should be enacted by Congress. (Of course, the situation in the Senate makes it likely difficult to get an eviction moratorium passed, so I'm glad in general that it was allowed to stand as long as it has.)
It is not clear that that would be considered communication "outside" the application, due to the link from "inside".
> deliberately shoddy way of manufacturing things

The last article about Sputnik that I read on HN stated that many countries are awaiting their promised doses, because Korea and India cannot produce enough of it.
I agree with you for the most part. This problem definitely doesn't require ML to achieve.

However, if doing it with a classical approach (matching sprites) takes a person half a day, and doing it with the new fangled proprietary ml takes a person 20 minutes, I do see that doing it with the new fangled ml approach does have some merits. People want to get stuff done.

I'm a barely passable programmer, so not exactly a shining benchmark, so maybe my view is distorted. I don't think I can do duck detection flawlessly with classical programming in half a day and it would be a total pain in the ass to do it that way, to be completely honest with you.
May be it's time to implement hardware CoW for RAM? Or can OS do it efficiently?
And AFAIK even to this lame extent is only a narrow exemption for applications that sell access to content like article, movies, music, and books.
What does women being it not being at the peak of sports have to do with selling clothes?
No, it's not. "Public good" is some evolving, tenuous, emotional standard, not a legal definition. If you want to renegotiate property law, we have a branch for that: your state's legislature.
Renters still owe. If their 'tenants' have any money to collect, like your friend of a friend, they certainly can be got to.

Most people do not have the money.
Projects like this are so inspiring.
Based on the example of a lawyer I wonder how this could change if you managed to call it being "on retainer" the way a lawyer does. Having an IT guy on retainer really does function the same as for a lawyer - they are there to consult and solve problems when and if they arise using their domain expertise you lack. If nothing comes up, you still pay them a fee for the time they spent being available for you.
We use Google docs for design docs and proposals. We use sheets for basic organization. Engineering, I think, generally just jumps to SQL (redshift/mode) or Jupyter Notebook once we get beyond a few thousand rows. I use Excel sometimes to view CSVs but that's about it.

I worked with MS Office before. My use of Word was the same and google docs, actually, I think is better due to a lack of fancy features. I just use basic text formatting in outline format and attached pictures.

I didn't use excel before.

So yeah I prefer gsuite to office. I had to do a document with word and track changes over email a few months back. It was brutal. Gsuite destroys that workflow.
Aah I was thinking of Quip.
Markdown is not a replacement for office apps. It's a markup language.

I can't use markdown to open a .docx file for a revision my client sent me.
Get used to it my friend, that ship sailed long ago.

The court effects changes elected officials are too timid to effect themselves (to say nothing of whether those changes are good or bad). It is a site of politics.

The court is why gay people can get married in our country, to pick but one example.
Exactly that’s when I left Ubuntu. They really had a chance, and shot their own foot with dedication. Who would upload every keystroke of a Linux user to Amazon?
Ever since Java became immensely popular GC has been just as popular, but that didn't mean reference counting ever went away. They're branching paths and different tools and more people than ever before pick and choose what to use for the job. No circle was ever made.
Delivery drivers also deliver groceries.
You can always use bufferi.ng
If you don't have any particular health issues I can easily recommend south Italy.
> I wonder if the Supreme Court doing their job and weighing in on the legality of executive branch actions is also in the public interest?

Apparently not.
The dairy cow is the most efficient means of turning grass on a rocky hillside into human-usable protein [0].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20061802
... he comments under the Supreme Court doing exactly that. (and yes, a justice having a different opinion is part of that, and no, he didn't just say that public interest overrides, but specifically argues why he thinks the modified moratorium could be legal. But cherry-picking quotes is fun I guess)
> I said I'd like to see hard evidence.

... which we can't get without a live test. And then a localized test wouldn't be enough data. So we need to see massive suffering before we can follow common sense. Meanwhile, billions of dollars in rental assistance remain undispersed.
I’ve got YouTube premium but I’ve noticed more and more channels breaking mid video to go into ad mode. Ordinary Sausage has been a too channel with the kids but jeez the last few videos there are nearly more ad than content.
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Took a leaf out of the UNIX creat/umount handbook, clearly.
Read the Constitution. It limits powers even when it is in the so called public interest.
> And let's not forget this is US only. EU are grinding their teeth.

Either I am misreading this part of your comment, or you may have overlooked this paragraph:

> With the exception of the fund for small developers, the rest of the changes are being made globally.
Aah, ok. Well apparently I've never needed to get that fancy with word.
In the case of Stockholm, you can usually switch one rent-controlled apartment for another, so the mobility is around the same in rent-controlledd as it is in any other part of the housing market. Obviouly changing cities (thereby markets) doesn't work, but in the case of Stockholm other cities would't have the same problem so moving out would not put you at the back of a 10y queue.

Controlled rents isn’t a bad solution to the economic problem of optimal supply or demand. It’s one of several possible compromises on the ideological scale between “housing is a right and not a commodity and a mixed income city is a goal in itself” vs. “housing is a product like any other and optimal markets solves the problem best”.

The reason Stockholm seems very close to the first despite having one of the world’s most liberal market economies elsewhere is because it’s not easy to change. It’s likely to change but it will take a long time. The right wing parties in Sweden (market liberals) have worked around the problem by ensuring the apartments are converted from rentable to condos instead, because removing the rent control entirely would be too difficult. There is also talk about allowing market rents for new production (it’s already allowed in a limited way).
> Weighing whether an infringement of personal rights have a legitament purpose and are justified is the court's job.

No it's not; the court's job is to determine if the matter brought before them is legal and constitutional or not. It's Congress' job to decide where the line between property rights and the public interest is.

While I'm very much in favor of an eviction moratorium right now, it does feel like the CDC exceeded their legal authority here.
vaccines have been available to everyone who wanted it, for months...

jobs also are available, so the economic side of the memorandum is moot.

At this point, keeping the restrictions would be absurd. not all landlords are big evil corps... half of the rental stock is owned by small ones.
You can do sprite matching using new fangled ML tools and save the same amount of developer time.
Of course it will. It's only the vouchers that are encrypted.
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Exactly. I’ve been told to “toughen up” when being constantly undermined and 8 colleagues quit out of frustration. The “manager” who told me that also eventually quit out of burnout. Go figure.
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And in vim if you accidentally open a root-owned file as your user, but want to save it anyway, you can ":w | sudo tee %" to get your changes saved.
Thanks for posting baradhiren07, Brian Hayes is a great find as so many theoretical ecologists are so model-oriented their works and thoughts are not applicable in forest, field or meadow.

"A model is the Marie Kondo version of nature—relentlessly decluttered and tidied up. Sometime important parts get tossed out ... Would we learn more if all those aspects of life in the woods had a place in the equations or the algorithms?"

I often design very large planting schemes and there are some genuinely useful approaches to randomness explored here.

And he's written 'Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations' which I'll be tracking down asap.
Considering as well. What's stopping me at this point is actually very little. One of the main points is that I need access to xcode for business reasons. But it's a pretty minor point as I'm actually not an IOS developer but just the one person in the company that can build our Cordova app with IOS. I'm actually OK with the stability of the software eco system. Most/all I care about is available on Linux, and actually works better there.

I'm mostly a backend developer, so intellij, vs code, docker (definitely better on linux), and lots of command line tools (all designed for unix type environments) all work fine on Linux. All the business stuff is cloud/browser based these days so I don't need MS Office or other stuff that was a big deal 13 years ago (when I last used Windows). And the few things that aren't are glorified electron apps that are available in the snap store.

I don't actually use any mac specific stuff that I care about (basically non of the i-* stuff). Never was that impressed with that stuff. I even process photos in Darktable (on a mac!) because I like it that much. And that is definitely going to be faster and nicer on Linux. Also, my steam library should come back alive once I move to a Linux desktop thanks to wine/proton being a thing now. I know my way around Linux of course as I've been doing devops and data processing long enough and have been dabbling with but never committed to Linux on my own machines since the nineties.

So, why don't I? Just two reasons remaining: finding good laptops that come close to my 15" MBP hardware is pretty hard. Apple did a nice job and they are miles apart from all the me too options out there for windows users. There are a few OKish things out there and they are similarly priced to macs. But it seems it's always something you are compromising on. And the second reason is just the amount of hassle involved with using Linux. It's a never ending stream of stuff that should work but clearly isn't which then leads to hours of researching why it isn't. Printer not printing, standby not doing its thing, etc. I've been there done that. Fine as a hobby but stressful when you have more important things to do. I recently installed arch in qemu on a mac. Actually works fairly nice. But it took me ages to get networking working. I could see myself using this and I get why Valve picked this for their Steam console.
I hear you, and I agree that there are definitely problems with wages in this country. But the thing to really understand is that the value of money is the collective value of the goods and services exchanged in the economy. It's really just that simple. You need to produce, personally, real value in order to get enough money to acquire the services of another (room and board of some kind). There are exceptions to this rule of course (stock market, currency market and commodities speculators, looking at you). Think about this long and hard and anyone can see the connections between value traded for value. This is why a free market is the best possible solution to a large economy. When government gets involved, their authoritarian solutions (take money from one person and give it to another, without the exchange of true value) will never have long term workability.

If someone wants to work a minimum wage job in America, they should not expect to be able to acquire luxury goods or anything of great value other than being able to subsist. It's nothing against them, it's just that the value being provided by the worker is not generally that valuable. This is in itself a UBI of sorts. Nobody inherently has the right to simply take from another (food, shelter, healthcare) simply for being alive and providing nothing in return. But showing up to a job and clocking in and clocking out every day, and doing one's job will bring in some return and you can then go out and exchange that for survival needs.

Now if you want to live a little better you're going to want to provide more value than is expected and you will get more return on that. A simple example is waiting tips. I have definitely tipped bigger for service people who put in extra value. And above all else, morale and general happiness of a culture goes up when people are producing and exchanging HIGH VALUE.

This is not the economy taught in schools. "Economics" as a subject has been mired down so thoroughly in complexity, trapdoors and dead ends nobody can agree on anything, and socialism and communism emerge as great concepts. It's just that "nobody has quite implemented socialism [which is communism] correctly" and thus resulted in untold suffering, misery and death throughout the ages. If communism is so great then why do so many people flee socialist and communist countries and try to make it to the USA? Because we have a FREE MARKET. Not total government appropriations and grants, yet.
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The industry is what got us here in the first place... we need to do this for ourselves. By us, for us.
Could you resquat the apartment while the squatters were out?
It's you who's "imagining" things. I actually was _there_ in the 90s, getting through university with a specialization in weapons design (rocket guidance systems mostly). My summer practice (aka "internship" in the West, I suppose, except you don't get to choose where to go) was at weapons design bureaus, which were somewhat decrepit at the time, but most definitely did not have the need to shop for surplus parts of unknown quality. In fact, even if you wanted to, at those places you couldn't bring anything in or out. Not even notes.

Yeah, yeah, man. As we all know pipes never rupture in the West, and there are never any crappy O-rings in Shuttle boosters. Ceramic tiles never fall off, either.