skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
inliners got a reputation for waxing the absolute shit out of spots which is considered a somewhat major party foul, especially in the more cloistered, local centric skate scenes of the 90s and early 2000s. bmxers were disliked for similar reasons; pegs absolutely destroy ledges. there is also the perpetual problem of access to a limited resource, i've observed my dad going through similar flame wars concerning motorized and non motorized access to backcountry trails, albeit he called hikers the trail gestapo rather than fags.
i imagine similar cultural clashes can be observed around lake and beachside hobbies and the tensions between skiiers and snowboarders, bolt vs trad climbers, etc are well documented.
skateboarding has always been run by and for 16 year old boys, which is the way it should be, and they labeled these things with the vernacular they knew. if it's any consolation, that kid with the shaved head & blind jeans who called you a fruitbooter in 1995 probably called his dad, his biology teacher and anyone else within earshot names that were several magnitudes worse.

also in a final twist of irony, skateboarding's transition into an olympic sport with leagues and rules has put it under the control of world skate, a rollerblading organization.

>https://skateboarding.transworld.net/news/from-bad-to-worse-...
> This is why a UBI is good for businesses -- customers have more money in their pockets.

I'm a proponent of UBI and I think this claim needs a citation for the level of certainty that you expressed. I have always viewed that UBI will likely be bad for small businesses, but that by the time that we need UBI there won't be many small businesses left.

There are two pilots of UBI worth paying attention to: Finland and Ontario. Finland proposes paying the unemployed (this differs slightly from unemployment benefits in the US) while Ontario proposes paying anyone below the poverty line.

Source: https://hiring.workopolis.com/article/universal-basic-income...

UBI-like concepts, like what was implemented by the US and other countries during COVID, do help recover us from a recession.

Source: https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/9649-universal-basic-incom...

That said, it was not enough to impact small businesses in a positive way. Over 50% of small businesses reported having a large negative impact. There's lots of questions to be answered there, like the availability of non-extractive technology for small businesses to use to compete, and where the income levels where UBI-like income disbursements were centered actually spend their money.

> Estimates from the weekly U.S. Census Small Business Pulse Survey indicate that roughly 50% of businesses report having a large negative effect from the COVID‐19 pandemic and that only 15%–20% of businesses have enough cash on hand to cover 3 months of operations (Bohn, Mejia, & Lafortune, 2020; U.S. Census Bureau, 2020).

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7461311/
News coverage is really dropping the ball on this one. It might not have the optics of Katrina, but it was a far more powerful, even if smaller, storm.

Eg: New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and SE LA power outage maps [0][1][2]

Based on the damage in south Louisiana, it's a miracle there weren't far far more deaths.

The damage to Port Fourchon alone should be national news. Anywhere from 10~30% of the countries oil flows through there, depending on how you measured it. And it got a direct hit.

The gas pipeline fiasco from a few months back? All the refineries feeding it were shut down for over a week. Wait till that lag period catches up.

But for reasons that be, MSM decided this was a non-event until it got to NYC, and even then a relatively minor one. Hard to believe they're not downplaying this on purpose.

[0]https://i.imgur.com/MT1z0n5.jpg

[1]https://i.imgur.com/HpKJlS4.jpg

[2]https://i.imgur.com/618PI36.jpg
300+ years? And the biggest risk to the city is environmental activists and the EPA? You must be joking.

The biggest risk is the fact that according to our best estimates by 2050 sea level rise will be another 1.5 feet in that area. (https://sealevel.nasa.gov/ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool) For an area that is already on average 7 feet below sea level. New Orleans topography is basically a bowl between Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico. Couple that with stronger and more frequent hurricanes and there will be few places left to live in New Orleans and the surrounding area.

People who give other people a false sense of hope is what endangers lives and sets up future generations for devastation. If you really want to help people you need to break the cycle and subsidize relocation costs for those who currently live there that can't afford to move. All these mitigation efforts like restoring the natural coastal barriers may delay some flooding (so sure do it), but it will not prevent the inevitable and it is coming much sooner than 300+ years.
Speaking of dirty secrets. There was a time not so long ago when there was not so much demand for dining out. Healthy food was generally prepared at home from fresh raw ingredients. Perhaps there was a small veggie garden in the back yard. There was plenty of time for shopping and cooking, and people didn't have to somehow squeeze these activities between the long commute back home from the second job and sleep time, while balancing an infant on their knees.

Thankfully we progressed out of those dark times and we are empowered today to enjoy the bounty of rice, factory farmed meat, salt and sugar slapped together by strangers on minimum wage.
Typography on the Web (2016)
What do you suggest as a working alternative?
Good thing that this was on a smaller airplane, otherwise it could have been a larger disaster.
> Computers have mental activities too, simple ones

That's begging the question as to whether awareness arises out of the physical world. You're assuming mental activities arise out of computations occurring in the physical world, when whether or not this is the case is in fact the question.
Same. It's crazy to think people just a few years younger than me probably don't remember a time where there was almost no video on the web.
You don't have to pay for UBI. You can just print more money. There are many things in between. Getting rid of reserve requirements and zero interest rates loans vs UBI can be viewed as points in a larger continuous space.

We know there are aggregate demand issues, and we now know that simply issuing more credit "the normal way" seems to cause asset bubbles before boosting demand for labor, so we should be open to trying other things even if we don't know exactly what will happen.

Or read Kaleki in 1943 https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf, who predicted all of this (UBI resistance, direct gov investment resistance, The keynesian collapse in the 1970s, trying to boost employment by boosting private investment alone not working....). Incredible and saddening.
> Re: crash safety, I wonder if it's possible to retrofit some extra safety measures on these things?

Mass and/or crumple zones help absorb and deflect energy in crashes. There's no room for a crumple zone in a kei car's perimeter. Smart Fourtwo got close, but those are as wide as a normal car.

And perfectly rigid vehicle is dangerous because it transmits the collision forces to the passengers - high G deceleration will destroy your organs
Can't one just rent a VPS on some random provider and run a VPN server on some random port or does it go deeper than that?

Or maybe just RDP to a rented windows VM and go from there.
I don't understand. On one hand you said that there is zero discrimination, on the other that "From the age of 8, all girls are encouraged (by schools, family, and the rest of the cultural environment) to view their role in life as to have children and to eschew all intellectual activities. Girls who want to pursue academic interests are unhappy but nevertheless follow the societal pressure.". Those two can't coexist together. "societal pressure" is an example of discrimination. Young women being treated awfully and their ambition being utterly thwarted is discrimination. I'll concede that I only said "in tech", and you could argue that in your hypothetical world the pressure/discrimination is here before tech. So I'll change my position from "If tech becomes a perfect environment in regards to discrimination and there is still a low proportion of women in it, it's totally fine for me." to "If society becomes a perfect environment in regards to discrimination and there is still a low proportion of women in tech, it's totally fine for me." to account for that.

> Since we do not know a priori which version of the universe we are in (we are not omniscient; this is an inference problem), we acknowledge that, having eliminated discrimination, numerical proportions far from the biological 50:50 are undesirable in that they are statistically associated with regions of parameter space that describe undesirable societal/cultural processes.

Would you apply the same reasoning to prisons then? I'm genuinly asking here. I often use prisons as an example against people that promote quotas and ratios, since at this point most of them try to explain how this is totally different and has nothing to do with wanting rations close to 50:50 in other domains. So I'm curious about your views on gender equality in prisons.
> Similarly, I wish all fast food went cashierless.

Seems to work fine for McDonald's.
What does you think of Peter Chane?
Good thing the researcher is continuing to track this:

https://arindube.com/2021/08/20/early-withdrawal-of-pandemic...

Per his findings, at very best the early end to ui lead to 160,000 jobs in june+july this year (6% over states that retained ui). And that’s without adding any of the complicating factors like how most of those jobs may have just been taken from new entrants to the job market. I don’t think that’s enough to explain the overall ”labour shortage” trend.
It does make sense to use "whatever the contemplator thinks to be moral" as a stand-in for moral behavior. My only quip would be that whatever the contemplator thinks to be moral and what actually is moral are not necessarily the same thing though. I suppose in that case the study would just be asking if ethicists follow their own rules - I've been out of college for a bit but I don't think common courtesy is a hot topic in ethics at the moment.
Once I have bought a no-name tablet made in China that had malware installed in an unremovable 'browser' app. It was displaying ads on top of other apps, and was installing new apps onto tablet, and also restoring deleted apps, and also installing false copies of well known apps. It was rather ok because i bought it with the intention of tearing it apart, but still, the lesson for me was, NEVER enter sensitive personal data in devices of unknown origins.
And both are probably French forms of the article's "Faber"?

(Maker, AIUI, kind of could have been "Faire-ieur" in French? In stead it's related to factor, factory, manufacture etc.)

(Also mentioned above, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421872 )
Really this is what drives me nuts about Rails. You can never really know what exactly any line of code is going to do.
I'm also a happy TailScale user (coming from ZeroTier which I still use for some of my networks).

Unfortunately I now work for a company who is also a happy TailScale user, which means I cannot use the same machine to connect to two TailScale networks at the same time.

I understand that some think this is a feature, but I liked how ZeroTier worked in that respect.
People who complain that Rust build times are too slow are python and webshit cucks who have no clue about what it means to compile a million lines project for a particular architecture. They never compiled C++ projects and they have no clue that C++ compile times are comparable to if not slower than Rust compile times. Long story short: People who complain about Rust build times are clueless morons.
That same owner could be paying themselves $25 per hour.

The average small restaurant owner makes ~$50K per year and has very little line of credit. So unfortunately it's a zero-sum game.

Increasing cooks to $20hr means reducing their own comp to $20hr.
A lot of people just have habits or preferences for particular shops, regardless of a price premium when prices get raised
I my mind, YouTube did not prematurely optimize.

1. They took full advantage of DMCA and pirated videos made easy home there until copyright notice came in. No technology to try and do it before upload, no pre publish human intervention.

2. YouTube player was just better, especially with most of the globe on dial up. It would let videos buffer for hours until 100%, even if you had a disconnection it would just restart downloading as it should. Won’t just stop after some time to preserve bandwidth. Once downloaded, videos won’t restream and you could easily move on timeline so long as you kept the browser window open. None of their competitors did this as I recall and were preserving bandwidth they would never get to use.
I can relate, but not really for biscuits, more chocolate and sweets and beer, unfortunately.
A former monk on how to remain calm, happy and present during the pandemic
Ask HN: For those who work from home, when do you wake up?
When do you go to sleep and when do you wake up? Have you found a schedule that keeps you productive without the structure of an office place? Particularly interested in responses from night owls and how they've balanced their newfound freedom with productivity.
My guess is that Dr. Hipp’s (SQLite author) meticulous and prolific use of testing ferrets out so many bugs that the ones that are left wouldn’t be caught by static typing.

In contrast, folks who rely heavily on static type systems may not write so many tests. For example I put more energy into making sure that my Haskell types capture the problem I’m trying to solve, so that the compiler flags my mistakes and exposes poor assumptions.
"Homophobia" also refers to more generally negative attitudes about homosexuality, not just the fear the name suggests.
I have a low spec machine but i still patiently wait for 200 crates to download.Because it is cached. But the most annoying thing is that when I am using any frameworks like gui and game. The second compilation also takes a minute to start the app. I have ended up with them. :(
Isn't that 15 years later with a lot of effort and google's brand and muscle? I wonder how its remaining competitors like vimeo are doing.
I guess if misinformation is primarily benefiting one side of the political spectrum, one is less inclined to think it's harmful to society.
Laboratory[0] comes to mind.

[0]: https://github.com/joealcorn/laboratory
Integer division can overflow: INT_MIN / -1.
There will always be a demand for grooming by experienced third-party groomers.

All we're seeing is a population struggling to accept their dollar is rather suddenly worth much less, there's a significant latency to such things sinking in. It can even be generational, some people never learn.

Case in point: When I bought some land in 2018 I paid the asking price, which I thought was perfectly reasonable vs. FMV. When some neighbors came by and welcomed me to the neighborhood, they asked what I paid. When I told them they were shocked and said I overpayed by a lot. This was in 2018, pre-pandemic prices, and the neighbors were an elderly couple who had once owned multiple properties on the block. Their perception of FMV was completely out of touch with reality, and just months later nearby properties similar to mine were selling for 20-50% more than I had paid, still pre-pandemic. Now that the pandemic has completely shocked everything from increasing demand for rural property accessible to city centers, to printing what, trillions of dollars? My place would sell for over double what I paid in 2018, and my elderly neighbors would still be believing it's worth less USD than I paid in 2018, if they were still alive.
I guess I'd just say that the aggregation of these "keep base64 out of std" decisions are why every Rust thingy I put together ends up with a zillion dependencies. There might be an upside to that (I have not detected it), but there's an obvious downside.

Rust gets a bunch of stuff right that other languages missed. I don't think this one of them. I think Go's strategy of having a pretty-ok version of most of the table-stakes things developers do is probably the right one, just like I think sum types and option/result are better than error types and `nil`.

I share your irritation at people who drop into the middle of discussions like these to nitpick random language war arguments, but this is a thread that is actually about Rust dependency hell, and the comment I responded to, I think, sort of diagnoses why Rust has that "problem" (if you think it's a problem --- I do, but whatever).

For whatever this is worth, by the way, languages that have Base64 in std appear to include Ruby, Javascript, Python, Clojure, Java, Scala, Go, Elixir, Nim, and Swift. OCaml, C++ and Haskell do not.
I am not in the Restaurant business, so I don't know how many meals they typically sell, or how much they charge.

Let's say he pays his cooks 30$ more. How long are they open, how many people work in the kitchen? Two people, 12 hours? So that would be 720$ more per day.

How much do they earn per meal? In my country in most restaurants charge around 10$ for a meal. Even assuming no costs for the food resources, that would mean 72 more meals to sell, per day.

To me that sounds like quite a challenge.
Why isn't it legal to remain in check?
Also need to take into account all the taxes it'll collect.
You are falling for the marketing. For example Ferrari 599 GTB shocks are made in Poland. My favorite is rear shelf stuffed with $5 corrugated plastic starting to creak after 10 years https://youtu.be/GkQdyn6Xz9k?t=499
You are right, let’s just stick with coal mines and plants since they have the most efficient euro/job/energy value.
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UBI doesn't linear scale all incomes and wealths, so we shouldn't expect it to linearly scale all prices either.

The flip curse of the curse of high dimensionality is that adjusting interest rates or UBI has so wide and rich a space of possible effects, good or bad. We really need to try these things before jumping to conclusions.
I lost you at the second paragraph. Crypto researches generally agree today that the NSA actually chose strong contents for DES (I assume that's what you meant by DEC?). They invented differential cryptanalysis a decade before anyone else, and used that to strengthen the cypher. Everyone suspected their motives at the time, but eventually academy caught up with the knowledge the NSA had, and could show that the constants are in fact good.

Too bad they're doing the opposite of that nowadays...
Science keeps advancing steadily on understanding consciousness, but you won't find any of it on Youtube or from these popular science or philosophy writers and speakers.

You find it on Researchgate and such, start from a paper and chase down the citations.
If my commute were 3 hours, regardless of mode, I'd either move or find a new job.
Show HN: Noote – A Simple and No BS Notes App
No we can't just all die off and the universe would disappear, we'd just keep merging and unifying together into one - we together are really just all one entity, separated into seemingly infinite smaller consciousnesses, including humans, animals, plants, rocks, but also higher otherworldly things we have no idea about. As far as it goes, Humans are really just a tiny part in all of this. It's this one, god-mind if you will, that fabricates our universe, but for us individual humans it is as real as it gets. There's really nothing too special about us, and we are better off taking things as real. In a way you can say evolution is both true and it's not, but for all we know following the things that are tried and proven is the more practical thing to do, right? Like, when it comes to Pokemon for example, I just looked up that Pikachu evolve to Raichu. But wait does he really? Or isn't that just bunch of fabrication too? Well for all intends and purposes that's how it works right?
After growing up and loving dogs all my life I don’t think I can have another. The end tail is just too sad seeing them deteriorate and eventually be put to rest and it just guts me so badly. 10ish years is simply not long enough of a lifespan and it feels cruel growing so attached then having to say goodbye to a family member again and again like deja vu after the 3rd dog I had and loved (German Shepards and Pitbull rescue)

Rest In Peace my old best friends, you’ll never be forgotten.
I was a passenger on a JetBlue flight in the winter of 2000/1, where air traffic was being diverted from JFK due to a snowstorm, but for whatever reason (fuel?) we had to land there anyway. The runway was basically unplowed at that point. As soon as we touched down there was a sensation we were heading into a skid. I wouldn't really call it a braking skid... it the plane just started turning away from its angle of motion. The pilot somehow managed to slow down before we went off the side of the runway. Ended up stuck in deep snow, partially in a ditch. After what seemed to be some attempts at getting us out if the snow, we were evacuated off the slide. A couple people movers were brought out which we got into, amd which themselves became stuck in the snow on the runway for an hour ... fun times.
There are two types of work pressure.

Get it wrong, your supervisor does a supervisor's dance.

Get it wrong, someone is laying cold.

Both types of work is necessary and important.

Coping is not mistaking one type of pressure for the other.

Good luck.
I've been meaning to build a similar project for my SO. I want is to be able to connect the rotary phone via bluetooth for calls (only calls) and dialing if possible. Has anyone worked with anything similar that can provide some pointers?

I'm guessing the dialer part should be "simple" as I could probably connect an Arduino as if it were a keyboard but can't find much on the audio part.
I guess they benefit more than just the jobs (which I am not sure are even all going to German citizens) but it does seem like poor value especially as they are hardly leaving after committing so much.
I am so tired of this attitude. If you don't like the conditions of a job, don't take it. But don't accuse the person offering the job of greed or whatever.

A simple example: suppose you are an old person who has trouble keeping their apartment clean as of late. Say you could offer somebody else 5$ to clean your room, because your pension is so low.

By the standards of modern activists, you have now become an evil exploiter of wage slaves.

In reality, you have created a new job. If nobody needs it, fine. If somebody needs it, great.
Sort of.

The challenge is that no two businesses are really alike, so it's difficult to create a standard that can capture all the nuance of running a business. GAAP/IFRS-compliant accounting requires double-entry accounting, so many ERP systems share a lot of the same things (account, debit/credit, accruals, receipt of goods, month-end close) that are needed to spit out the three sheets and other artifacts for financial reporting.

A running joke in the industry is that you don't customize your ERP for your business, but customize your business for your ERP. You end up with a lot of "middleware" that essentially adapts your operational systems into the format needed by the ERP to do its job, and your staff will design workflow processes specifically centered around how the ERP works for things like closing the books or managing inventory.
The overproduction of "home content" is killing it for me. As soon as Youtubers get a whiff of success suddenly all of the authenticity drops out of the channel and absolutely everything becomes sponsored content.