skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Considering that McDonalds and Walmart are #1 and #2 employers in America (after the federal government), this isn't surprising.

Indeed. This article says nothing about the total number of employees McD's and Walmart have. It's committing the same error as heat maps that aren't adjusted for population (See https://xkcd.com/1138/)

> This relies on a mistaken theory on how wages get set. No one gets paid based on what they need. If that were true, lottery winners would continue to work for free.

IMO, every for-profit corporation bases pay on one thing: How easy you are to replace.

Unless you work a job that pays commission, you are not paid based on the value and profit generated by your work. Software engineers don't have high salaries because their work is profitable, they have high salaries because finding good SEs is difficult.

> If federal benefits to their employees were cut, the employees wouldn't have any more bargaining power to demand higher wages.

Workers that are easily replaced will always have zero bargaining power. Unionizing may help, but they still won't have much.

> On the contrary, they'd probably be inclined to work longer or take on additional work to make up for the loss in benefits, pushing wages further on.

More likely, they'd be looking for a second job. But that's hard, since a lot of retail and fast food jobs try to keep people under 30 hours/week so they don't have to pay benefits, while also expecting full-time availability, with a schedule that changes every week.

> You saw exactly that relationship when unemployment benefits were extended during the pandemic and many people chose not to work because it would cut off their benefits or they had enough in benefits to not work for the time being.

And some are quitting because they're tired of being treated like garbage.

https://pdx.eater.com/2021/9/1/22652642/portland-restaurant-...
It helps to work out an example, maybe.

So let's try to roll a 1d5. We generate a real number p uniformly in [0, 1). In terms of base-2 decimal notation we should return

1, if p < 0.0011 0011 0011 0011...
2, if p < 0.0110 0110 0110 0110...
3, if p < 0.1001 1001 1001 1001...
4, if p < 0.1100 1100 1100 1100...
5, otherwise

These repetitions are conveniently 4 bits long and could be written in hexadecimal, though of course they don't have to be (a 1d7 repeats after 3 bits, a 1d11 repeats after 10 bits).

Well, there's a problem. Our computers don't have infinitely long precise decimals like this, instead we generate a finite stream of bits. But suppose we generate those streams in "chunks". Let's say we generate one byte b at a time, this says for the first byte,

if b < 0x33, return 1.
if b == 0x33, we'll need another byte b2 to decide.
if b2 < 0x33, return 1.
if b2 == 0x33, repeat with a new b2
if b2 > 0x33, return 2.
if b < 0x66, return 2.
if b == 0x66, we'll need another byte b2 to decide.
if b2 < 0x66, return 2.
if b2 == 0x66, repeat with a new b2
if b2 > 0x66, return 3.
if b < 0x99, return 3
[ if b == 0x99, we'll need another byte ]
if b < 0xCC, return 4
[ if b == 0xcc, we'll need another byte ]
otherwise, return 5.

You can kind of call this rejection sampling but notice that the post-rejection loop has different bounds than the non-rejection loop, it only has a 1-in-256 chance of repeating and not the 1-in-64 chance of rejection sampling.

I want to say that the probability of observing something hinky using K samples of a 1dN die with 2^B bits is not as simple as sqrt(K)_= 2^B but something more pessimistic like maybe K = 2^(B+1) / N^4 or so? So if you're generating histograms with 2^32 iterations of a million-sided die you actually don't have a huge safety margin here, 2^130 / 2^112 is only one in 2^18 or so, one in 250,000 runs could maybe correctly detect the bias. But it's still presumably "good enough" for all that.
IIRC, increased surface area reduces pressure. From what I remember from reading the thread, it appeared to have pretty decent CFM through the use of more and larger filters.

EDIT: I found the thread. See https://twitter.com/davidelfstrom/status/1429526273009889286...

Thread shows the difference between using 1 and 2 filters. I think he has a separate thread in his Twitter feed measuring a 4/5 filter setup too.
Microsoft’s 2FA implementation does not help because it allows attackers to guess the password first and the second factor next. They just don’t get it.
I just wanted to point out that obtaining a security clearance is not nearly as hard as you make it sound. For most organizations prior recreational drug use does not preclude you from the clearance.
It oversaw and did their type certification, which per treaties is the basis on which they operate in many parts of the world.
Risk for the radiologist or the patient?
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In countries like Croatia the police is busy catching criminals instead of helping them inject heroin, going after mean people on Twitter, or calculating if the robbed amount is under 900 USD and then apologising to the thief and giving him a ride home like the SF police do.
Thank you for the "well actually." I generally feel discomfort at blanket statements and often hedge things a bit. This often makes sentences longer and harder to read. This "well actually" did a great job of outlining the corner cases where syscall translation "works," and there aren't many. I'm glad I wasn't totally deluded.
I still don't understand why they even have usb connection on Iphone. I have not attached a cable to it for years. Wireless charging, bluetooth headset, and all other bluetooth devices. Icloud backup as well as government spyware called CSAM never needed a cable.
Which is exactly what most people want. They want to find people with similar interests and share ideas. Don't go to the anime subreddit expecting to find anyone who's interested in a negative critique about anime.
Judging from KDE's Kirigami apps and Subsurface on Android, I would not describe Qt Quick apps as native-performing or feeling.
Yep, DM's are open too!
Right? Who the hell puts the tracker in a shoe? Shoes can be taken off.

Professionals put the trackers in the kids' teeth, a la Spy Kids.
The commercial stihl ones are really powerful still and bulletproof.
Ask HN: Is it legal to create a commercial emulator for proprietary hardware?
Most emulators I know for old computers and game consoles like C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, NES, etc. are open source. I wonder whether it is legal to create a commercial emulator for such a system because I'm surprised by the fact of lack of commercial ones.
Note that it's totally uncontroversial, bordering on mandatory, to support our return strike which killed dozens of people.

Also firmly in bounds to insist we stay there and do it on a nightly basis, forever. Majority opinion of people with microphones.

But the other guys? On the other side of the fight? Completely unconscionable to host any of their speech. We don't encourage violence.
And because of that the FAA was entirely right to type-certify the 737 MAX (which through international agreements is widely recognized) and it's just totally random that they after the crashes grounded them and required lengthy rework?
> ...because accelerating like that from stop lights is fun as hell.

Until your first tire replacement bill. Then it gets old, fast.
If you look at C, for example, I'm not sure that it had an official v1. But pick something (K&R 1st edition, say). Compare that with Rust v1 - not just the language, but the standard library. They are very much not equivalent.

So v1 takes so long now because expectations for v1 are well above what they were in 1970.
Are 'views' defined anywhere in this writeup? I couldn't quite figure out what the added ranking parameter 'views' exactly is and how it's measured.
SolveSpace – open-source Constraint-Based Parametric Modeler for 2D and 3D CAD
I seriously seriously doubt it will be X60 and a half.

It will be X60 ( And if will have Touch ID ), does not support the band and it is as simple as that. And on the subject of Modem, I thought HN wanted Apple to get rid of Qualcomm?
> The customer might be angry about having to take the time, but in most cases telling them "Your account was hacked and they were accessing your email messages" is enough to change their attitude from annoyed to grateful.

I guess you’ve never done tech support over the phone.
How do you manage to cope with overwhelming amounts of uninteresting submissions? I tried to follow via RSS but found it generates to much noise, for that to be useful I would require filtering possibilities in my RSS reader and automatic highlighting for the list of terms on different topics. Any suggestion for a more advanced RSS reader?
I don't know if it disproves your "right mind" argument, but here's Overdrive's CEO explaining the advantages of their new "Cost per Circ" model whereby libraries pay a smaller cost for each checkout rather than purchasing items in advance: https://overdrivesteve.com/pursuing-the-holy-grail-of-librar...
Eh. So basically create an an arcology somewhere that doesn't really have a current population--like in a desert somewhere--for pretty much people who can work remotely. Sounds like a big bet and doesn't sound especially attractive as a potential resident in a planned community.
I don't know anyone that would SPP a tubular lock in the field.

$40 for tools designed to pick all pins at once and make a "key" with some quick impressioning motions.

Some do have spool pins. In those cases you will need manual fiddling to pick it once then you have a key to keep spinning.

Still, sounds like an interesting design. Link?
Users flagged it, and it set off the flamewar detector. Those are routine HN phenomena.
Sanitation is one of the most basic premises of civilization. Better question is how a government could claim any legitimacy while allowing infectious diseases to freely circulate.
Good question. I'm imagining that with a small enough space / large enough quantity of charcoal you'd still get benefits, but it's not like I sat down and tried to do all the math.
> For some reason CS people fixate on radiology for automation just because it is imaging

Precisely because it's imaging. Training data is abundant, and has the potential to be well labelled. And one of the most active field of AI research is... computer vision. So it's no wonder the low hanging fruit would be medical imaging.

> There's a reason a radiologist/pathologist is called a doctor's doctor, and no one in the field is worried about automation.

Spoken like Garry Kasparov.

> For perspective: Training to be a radiologist is 5+1 years, your family doc trains for 3.

What I love is how the immediate knee jerk reaction isn't to explain why the ML approaches won't work but to immediately retreat behind gatekeeping, in this case the tittle and number of years of schooling.
> "More suitable" is a weird thing to say. They refer to different things. IRC is a transport protocol. Discord is a website.

Sorry if that part was unclear but I was saying that Discord and IRC are more suitable to real time communication than Reddit is.
They need better lawyers.

Alternatively, have you considered just getting an O-1?
A story in the UK (attributed to any number of well known bank robbers) was after they were caught and doing a long stretch, their wife arrives and says the allotment is over-grown and needs digging up. So they ask to see the arresting detective, say "if I tell you were I hit the loot, can I get a reduced sentence", and then announce its buried under the allotment.

Twenty police dig up and de-weed the allotment the next day, and everyone laughs.

Dishes not done of course :-)
We were all capable of both and had to plan accordingly.
I think some of the best development in urban areas I've seen happens when there's appropriate valuing of the "blight" associated with already developed land. That is, the apartment complexes aren't developed by buying up residential properties, it's in rezoning failed commercial or business land, or parking lots to support a planned redevelopment involving multiple building projects. The biggest tensions I see are when cities take over perfectly fine single-unit residential property areas to benefit multi-unit building developers, while leaving older multi-unit buildings or commercial properties that repeatedly fail. Replacing or renovating old warehouses, or manufacturing areas that are decrepit, makes a lot more sense to me even though things often don't proceed that way.

I guess what I'm saying is just eliminating zoning and land development restrictions isn't really a good solution a lot of time either imho (that's not necessarily what you were pointing to but I think it's a common idea).
I’m into locksport as well and would favor that kind of modification on a back door which is more likely to be targeted by thieves. Not sure I’d do it on a front door in case I put a family member actually locked themselves out and actually needed a locksmith to be able to get in.
In Michigan we never removed grass clippings all year, the yard remained healthy. We also didn't use monoculture grass but a mix of 3 different types.
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Ask HN: What does your small startup do for health insurance?
We have a headcount under 10 and are looking for health care solutions for a remote team in various US states. This seems like it should have an easy solution. What is yours?
Yeah, it definitely smells more like ass-covering for optics than anything they were concerned about at the time of launch.
If its backlogged so much why can't they just cancel orders and refund customers? It seems like it might be worth the hit to just start from scratch and let new orders come in rather than be in this legendary bind trying to fight through the mess. Seems like this sort of thing would even be insured.
There has been continuous building in my area for at least 15 years. Many of those expensive apartments and condos are not selling fast because they need to find the right buyer.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28381401.
LibreTranslate Firefox Support
"Leftist communities on Reddit often implore the company to ban The_Donald. So far, Huffman has demurred. “There are arguments on both sides,” he said, “but, ultimately, my view is that their anger comes from feeling like they don’t have a voice, so it won’t solve anything if I take away their voice.” He thought of something else to say, but decided against it. Then he took a swig of beer and said it anyway. “I’m confident that Reddit could sway elections,” he told me. “We wouldn’t do it, of course. And I don’t know how many times we could get away with it. But, if we really wanted to, I’m sure Reddit could have swayed at least this election, this once.” That’s a terrifying thought. It’s also almost certainly true."

- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman source https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the...
Anger, frustration at FDA over Biden’s booster plan; two top regulators resign
this is a really interesting take that I surprisingly have never seen anywhere, thank you for sharing. would love to learn more about this perspective and body of knowledge, thought not sure where or what to google or what resources might exist. for example, what mitigation can or should be done if one did want wild grass and flowers but wanted to prevent erosion, and what happens if you don't prevent that erosion. is this still a concern on a completely flat piece of land?
A lot of the cellular gps trackers have ignition kill capability, where you can send it a specific sms message and it’ll pull a wire to ground or open circuit a pair of wires, which you can use to remotely kill the engine.

A friend of mine got a motorcycle back by watching its movements via the gps tracking, and killing the engine while the guy was riding in a safe-ish and high visibility place, so the thief just parked it and walked away.
Leaving your flight corridor twenty miles up cannot cause risk to the general public.

Also are there better explanations of the flight corridor shape somewhere? I'm confused about how cutting the engines would have helped stay inside it.
This. The reality is that finding a home you like is hard. You'll research neighborhoods, city policies, construction projects in the area, what the neighbors are like, what internet is available, taxes, etc. Then you find a place that matches your needs and you move it. That's time consuming, difficult and stressful, especially if you're buying the home. It's also time consuming and difficult to get out, especially across long distances.

So once people are in, ANY change is problematic. Increased density and construction is the common case these days because that's what we need, but the same would happen in reverse. If NYC's mayor said they were going to eminent domain the whole place to make it a low density suburb, even the people who get to keep their homes would lose their shit. You don't live in Manhattan because you want a big yard for your 6 dogs and 3 chickens.

When it comes to housing, any kind of change is hard. So if you start from scratch, there's not much problems.
Denmark says Covid is no longer a ‘socially critical disease.’
Have you heard of Tildes? They are trying to make a better reddit-like thing.
I keep saying: do you wanna solve the house crisis for good? Make it so houses cannot be used as mean of investment. See Denmark. A foreigner can't just buy houses there. You have to live and work there.

For as long as wealthy people and funds keep buying all the houses and rent them out, you are never going to solve the problem. Never, ever.
Interesting. This sounds exactly like my house & neighborhood but not climate/upkeep. I have to mow weekly 7-8 months of the year. I don't water much unless it's over 100F out and hasn't rained in a week (typical in June-August). I basically do the minimum to keep it alive. I keep mowing in place in the winter because it's so short and they mulch the leaves (they continue falling most of the winter here because it's a mild winter) which fertilize and keeps things tidy, and it probably needs mowing every 2-3 weeks anyways. Some grasses here go dormant, mine always grows unless it's <40F (which is seldom here even in winter). I don't care if a patch dies or whatever, it will fill back in in a few weeks. Weeds can't pop up because it's constantly being cut, etc.

Since it's a weekly chore, and hot/long summer, I outsource the mowing. If it was 3-4 times a year I would totally DIY.

I've lived in the places like your parents neighborhood. My neighbor a couple doors down had a flawless lawn. But he also had a guy come over every day for ~4 hours to piddle around in the yard, hedges, trimming things, pool; he was a full stack grounds keeper. Imagine what that cost, lol.
Subscribe to less? You don't say what exactly you did subscribe to, but there are several services that provide a programmatic feed of submissions with X votes, or Y comments.
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Prior to industrialization a manicured lawn had to be mowed by scythe. They weren't common because only the wealthy could indulge in them. It has only been 100 years since mechanization was sufficiently cheap for ordinary people to be pretend Louis'.
The way Matrix is doing it blurs the line between "federated" and "distributed" into a continuum which is really the best of both worlds imo. The existing concept of federation as a bunch of dedicated servers constantly synchronizing with each other 24/7 will continue to work just fine. But now each individual client device will be a full federated node itself, though perhaps a bit more flaky than a normal node might be; but this isn't a problem because the matrix protocol was designed from the ground up to be robust to such issues.

Based on your diagram, the system can seamlessly blend between (B) and (C) based on the needs of users. Eventually the default would become (C) while being backwards compatible with existing systems, but it might blend down to (B) if a user sets up a homeserver for friends and family, or an organization may want to have a homeserver for continuity or legal reasons etc.
> a ridiculous concept

Says a guy who’s never had a friend or family member who’s been stalked.
Destiny video game C++ guidelines
Can’t be a Windows key - it’s too easy to type! ;)
That's a good idea. Please link us to your tweet about this problem, so that we might learn from your example and better craft our own wording to align with each other and coordinate hashtags (if any) to improve the chances of it Trending.
My truck barely has an electrical system (6v, positive earth), let alone a computer.
I feel like every year in the past decade there has been some new Reddit clone. Reddit itself was open source for a while, so it used to be really easy. They never catch on.
That they do it doesn't make it right, or not dangerous to free societies.
Are you at your first job experience?

Dunno, but if it is, take a moment to consider just changing job. Not all projects are alike, and not all managers are bad bosses. Building healthcare management software or finance trading algorithms feels very different, in my experience.

If you don't like the office sitting, you can easily switch to business consultant, less screen time, more people.

I had colleagues doing the switch and becoming restaurant cooks, warehouse managers, entepreneurs, video editors, videomakers...
The Covid 19 Red Ink Blue Ink Problem
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I feel like one of those three is a much more reasonable reason than the others
It is amusing how this person has the temerity to name this configuration (partially) after themselves, while people have been making and documenting these configurations for at least a decade and surely longer.
What Is an Ethereum Wallet
Sure . Thanks you for the excellent blog post.
Shouldn't the best security come from using Rootless podman, but configuring SE Linux to prevent all other binaries from using unprivileged namespacing?

The concern isn't that podman itself might use that extra attack surface (because, you give podman so much more rights by making it setuid root), but that other untrusted binaries (like a virus) might use unpriviledged namespaces to exploit the kernel.

TBH, by the time you are worrying about privilege escalation from userspace threats on a typical single-user linux machine, you have already lost.

A smart threat will just modify your $PATH or bash aliases to replace su and sudo with wrappers that execute their own commands the next time you use su/sudo to do something legitimate.