skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under EU Directive 2009/136/EC a user's permission is required before Arc can store any data in their browser.
Is Arc obtaining that permission, or just looking for forgiveness by allowing users to Opt-Out?
> The first thing hitting the concrete when falling is your palms

Yes, if you're young and have good reflexes, you can break your wrists. If you're old with slower reflexes, you can't get your arms out in time so you break your hip instead.
Thank you. I stupidly tried to read this to my wife just now and ended up a blubbering wreck, because all of those dogs are now gone. The lurcher died of cancer 2 years ago, and Lily, the lovely old greyhound we got as his companion, died 2 months ago (14 years old, so no complaints)

We're getting two rescues next month. Greyhounds again.
I don't see your point at all - most people that I know including myself who go to a coffee shop go to be able to sit down and relax for a few hours and enjoy the atmosphere/ambience provided by the physical environment and other customers in proximity.
I agree with you and think /r/lockdownskepticism is a valuable subreddit, although some would like to ban it.
Scripts, image and frames can be blocked with one click in ublock too.
The thing that might happen is that restaurants become unrecognizable. For instance if it all turns into dark kitchens on delivery sites. (Dark kitchen: restaurant without a traditional storefront that sells exclusively through a portal like Deliveroo).
See:

* Strongarming new user account creation even though most new users will immediately bounce.

* Removing features from the free tier to "drive conversions" to premium, whilst ruining the quality of the free tier that drew users in the first place.

* Filling the product with re-engagement nagware and notification bloat.

etc.
I really don't want to see The Hill invade HN with it's clickbait journalism the way it invaded reddit.
Bill Burr was blaming that one specific joke for the demise of blading.
Can you think of an example where a single joke has changed the course of history in a significant way?
I don't doubt the impact humour has had. It is the favorite method that our rulers use to feed us propaganda.
It's Bloomberg. Be skeptical.
The thing about being a business owner, is that you are the last one on the payroll (if you are a good owner).

All the bills get paid (including wages), then you get what's left over. If you had a good week, then you get a nice stack of Benjamins. If you had a bad week; maybe not so much. In fact, you may even need to chip in, to keep the lights on.

I have seen, many, many SMB owners start living "high on the hog," as soon as they start doing well. They buy a 5-bedroom house in a marqée neighborhood, a C-class Merc., LV bags, etc. I know, for a fact, that most of them make far less than I ever did. Frequently, they get the company to pay for a lot of it (put one bullet in the chamber, and give it a spin).

They have gotten used to living large, and it's damn difficult to downsize, after that.

So that means they need to do everything they can, to make sure the last pile is as big as possible; regardless of how the corporation is performing.

If they banked on hiring undocumented workers, or skilled artisans at rock-bottom prices, and that pool dries up, they are left with the choice of leasing a Subaru, and selling the Jag, or trying to make whoever has been loyal enough to stick around, fill in the gaps.
Link to the original research https://habr.com/ru/post/575626/
If the choice is between no health care or pay a higher price? Then yes, I'm OK with that. That's what people do without health care.
That's the crux of it in a lot of cases. People have come to view a certain class of work as "not worth" paying a living wage. What's worse, the jobs they view as "not worth" a living wage are the ones that do the work we need (or at least really really want) done.

If all the cooks, servers, cosmetologists, janitors, lawn care / landscaping, delivery drivers, warehouse workers and so forth stopped doing their jobs... everything would suck real quickly. But somehow we're not willing to pay them a living wage.
I wonder how much was just being « used » to auto braking assistance and what felt right.
Function application and type annotation both using parens is pretty jarring for a lot of people. I much preferred the proposal that would have used [] like typescript or scala.
What are the rules in the US? When does it end?
Everyone talks about wages, no one talks about profit sharing.

So much of our current drama would be mooted by sharing those record corporate profits with labor, by dialing back executive compensation, by returning to dividends vs buybacks (closing some more tax dodging schemes).

--

Curious to see if Labor, agriculture, small businesses, and credit unions in the USA return to their roots: Cooperatives and collectivism.

A lot of progress in governance these last 60 years. Innovations like worker-directed social enterprises and class-B corporations. New orgs using modern bylaws could be far more resilient to vulture capitalists.

There's SO MUCH work that needs doing, needs begging to be fulfilled. And yet. Wall St and SPACs can't seem to figure out how to capitalize anything smaller than a unicorn.
There are a bunch of people with similar thoughts. Just recently a blogpost by Peter Woidt showed up here [1]. While I'm only following this as a lay person I think you can say Woidt and Hossenfelder come from the same corner of "critics of contemporary physics" or however you want to call them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28325753
university student in the US studying economics. Just keep up to date.
Ask HN: Is there no natural language input to create Google calendar events?
I've spent some time exploring but I can't find a natural language input to Google Calendar.

To be clear, I want to be able to enter/copy paste/highlight text like:

"Let's do the week of 27th this month. Does it work for me to come at 4:30 in the afternoon on the 29th?"

And it creates an invite.

I can't find this anywhere.

The quick add-on functionality to Google Calendar is now gone, as far as I was able to tell. (Described here: https://www. gtricks.com/calendar/5-Google-Calendar-Tips-Know/)
Once, a friend of mine (who I hadn't known for very long) asked me what to bring to a party.

I said "oh I really don't mind. Something practical probably, like a potato."

He brought a sweet potato. It was great!

We get along very well.
Sounds like a shitty experience for sure. I hope they've improved. The software support I've received has been enthusiastic and attentive. However, that of course is just time for techs, whereas a hardware problem might be treated differently. Curious if anyone has interactions with them circa 2021. The System76 subreddit may also be useful: https://reddit.com/r/System76
It reads more like persuading people to go ahead with the acquisition without saying the reality (the dev team was way behind).
Are you not concerned about testicular atrophy? That's the reason it's banned in the EU...
I'd skip the projects and just buy one of the numerous phones that target this market. They make watches, dumb phones, and smart phones, that are locked down and only allow phoning/texting specific people.

The other option would be to get a real copper phone line.

My reasoning is that a real emergency may include a power outage. Relying on some cool hack isn't going to be helpful when your child is trying to reach out to you when there is no power at home.
Reviews of Nagel's book by actual philosophers:

https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/mind-and-cosmos-why-the-material...

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/do-you-only-have-b...

https://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/remarkable-facts
The experience and price would be consistent. I would know what I'm paying every time instead of trying to figure out what the extra 20% is or try to judge based off the items. Its much nicer going to restaurants out side of the country because you can just pay. There's no worrying about if I'm tipping right or enough or judging the service.

Also covid and those ipad paying terminals have turned every job into a tip job. Every cashier wants a tip now. And they ask you if you want to tip becasue no one can touch the terminals. Which is awkward to say no to. I see/hear people leaving ridiculous tips for take out. I had one terminal for take out not have a "no tip" option. I had to manually type in $0.
I wrote a little solver for some programming puzzle. Thought I was being clever by using bitfields for an array of booleans to reduce memory usage and bandwidth, as they seemed a natural fit for the problem I was solving.

Turned out that it was actually significantly faster to use one byte per boolean and forgo the masking operations. I assume the processor was just good enough at keeping its cache filled in that particular workload, so the additional masking operations just slowed things down. So I understand why you might not want a compiler to automatically do this.
From skimming the study, it looks like the study only looks at the employment rate change in 5-6 weeks after benefits were dropped? That seems like way too short of a period to draw any conclusions. I suspect many had savings built up, and that they expected the benefits to come back, therefore they didn't immediately go out looking for a job.
Randomization expands access to qualified students who cannot access the same preparatory material or have divergent mental behaviors that do not hinder their ability to learn but do impact their ability to take tests.

The recent admitted class for TJ has seen absolutely enormous increases in the population of economically disadvantaged students as well as students on the autism spectrum or with other neuroatypical situations.

It therefore (in my mind) provides a more just system of allocation limited access to accelerated education, while we live in a world with such limited access.

> I agree though that there's no good reason for gatekeeping education. In fact, in my ideal world, you'd have per-subject fast tracks available for anyone (or, more generally, non-age-specific schooling).

My experience has been that promoting these policies receives even greater criticisms that me and my friends are racists who hate excellence. It is ridiculous to me that FCPS has a gated system for accelerated learning when there is a commuter-focused college right there. But if I go to school board meetings and suggest that we take resources and allocate them for this purpose, I'm called an "asian-hater".

My family saw a similar thing happen to them many years ago. The local GT programs were drawing students only from a select few (almost entirely white) schools and it turned out that a lot of this was due to how students were identified as candidates. My parents sought to change things, which did not deny any access to white students but instead expanded access and funding so that simply more people had access to accelerated education and... my parents were called "white traitors" by neighbors.

This is why I get so worked up about this stuff when people claim that support for a particular form of admissions exam is by definition support for promoting merit or promoting excellence.
It could have been a hip IP phone also
This is a purely economic argument which if fine, but misses the vital non-economic side-effects. More money could lower the stress of the employees (given they now no longer have to worry about paying their bills) which may lead to higher quality products. Increased wages may attracts better talent or more exploitation conscious consumers. Hell, it may even more the owner more likely to listen to his staff, given that they become a significant expense. That could increase efficiency.

We should be careful not to make wage depression some sort of abstract "logical" natural state. Wages are low for a reason and active effort has to be expended to keep them as they are.
I tried to look into that. I think problem is two fold: 1. options 2. audience

1. options: I need to be able to serve two or three meal options tops depending on what is available / inexpensive. People really like having options but that drives costs up which will drive me up a wall.

2. audience: I need a captive audience such as prisoners in a prison or resident college students who pay for the whole semester at a cafeteria.
Has Entroware come up on your radar? They also sell rebranded Clevo laptops AFAIK. https://www.entroware.com/store/
I agree that I find lifetimes a bit hard to read, but outside of that I usually find Rust's syntax really clear for an algol-like. For example, they use the ML-style type declaration variable: type, which I find more readable than the C-like type variable. There's a different syntax for namespace and function chaining, which I also like.
I agree. If that's really one of the requirements then Rust or C++ or OCaml or something like that would make a lot of sense.

Also I'd like to add to my original comment above: I don't care at all that this is implemented in Rust. Good on you. Open source software goes where the developers go, and isn't dictated by anything except what the developers want to do.
Interestingly, roller blading is moderately popular on the lakefront trail in Chicago.

I bike the trail almost daily, and I see a decent number of people out on blades each time. It’s nothing like the 90s, but I always think about how fun it looks as I ride by.
> We have multiple vaccines that have all been demonstrated to be safe and highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death from COVID in multiple studies.

Since these are non-sterilizing vaccines without nasal/mucosal immunity, i.e. they do not prevent infection or transmission, there is still benefit in early treatment for vaccinated people who become infected. There are multiple therapeutic options available, including monoclonal antibodies being distributed by some states.
It is and it isn't. His scenario won't happen but what will happen is fairly similar.

No one is going to make large capital investments in a city that gets blown away all the time. Every time New Orleans takes a big hit like this people leave, and less money is put back into the city.

The population of New Orleans was higher in 1980 than it is now. I am from New Orleans, and since Katrina the infrastructure has been getting worse, not better.

There probably isn't going to be some big dramatic event that kills New Orleans. It will just keep shrinking and pulling in towards the French Quarter as it gets hit repeatedly by extreme weather events. It will just become smaller and more impoverished over time until it is maybe abandoned at some distant point in the future.

It will be a death by inches.
> We shouldn't assume a certain service or job is productive enough to exist because it used to be in the past. If barbershops need to go the way of horse liveries, that's OK

Automobiles replaced horses, did I miss the memo on something replacing hair growth?
Helpful to hear your experience comparison to the Thinkpad. In terms of speed, I'm guessing you specced it out similarly to the Thinkpad but don't see the performance expected. Excited to see what System76 has in the works in terms of building their own laptops.
The intensity of scattering is proportional to loss of energy. It is impossible to detect such low scattering level in our visible Universe because it is full of gasses and dust, which created many many orders of magnitude stronger scattering, which is still hard to notice except for very bright objects near to dense clouds of dust. It's not possible to confirm or disapprove this argument yet.

Moreover, if we are talking about friction and medium (the Ether), then it was predicted long time ago[1], that discussion will be resolved in favor of Ether when Higgs field will be discovered, because Higgs field must be present everywhere, like Ether, and because medium is required for transverse waves to propagate. Discovery of Higgs boson and Higgs field was announced in 2012, so discussion is resolved, but we still call the medium as (physical, quantum) vacuum, like we still call atom as atom («unbreakable») after breaking it, or we use «-» for presence of electrons instead of absence of electrons.

(non-native speaker)

[1]: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.882562
Somehow I associate this with being integrated with a Spice engine. A quick look at the OP did not confirm this.
I don't know, but the computer had failed, the runway was wet, and they were confused, so, yes, it's not unlikely they were also afraid of skidding
Any idea what specifically your employees prefer over the Dell XPS?
Oh 100%! Anti skid is only available in alternate and normal laws. Section 6.5 braking system of this document.

https://www.smartcockpit.com/docs/A330_Flight_Deck_and_Syste...
I’m guessing it’s elliptic curve cryptography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography
> They also point out that if we live in a local hole then this means that the local value of the Hubble rate must be corrected down. This would be good news because currently measurements for the local value of the Hubble rate are in conflict with the value from the early universe. And that discrepancy has been one of the biggest headaches in cosmology in the past years.

Wow so a local hole might solve the Hubble measurement problem? I never heard that proposed at a potential solution before…
It undermines the norm that employees should be paid for their labor regardless of what the customer thinks --- that they can be fired of course but not underpaid for the labor already performed

It undermines the norm that businesses should pay their damn taxes.

To wit, we have been able to put off discussing the non-profitability of restaurants for far too long until now. Remember, it is quite arguable that Baumol's cost disease = "progress", not by definition, but by bi-implication.
You might say the business owners feel entitled to live off other peoples work.
>If I go to a restaurant a real person taking the order is part of the ambiance and expected service. You pay for it (maybe not in USA though).

>At the last place I visited some guy dropped a tablet on the table. It said 'Next-gen Restaurant Experience' at the back. We got to fiddle a long time to type our 6-person order in. Crappy. Last time I visit there.

I'm definitely okay with fiddling with a tablet if it meant I didn't have to pay a 15% tip.

>They facilitate rat-race shopping. No more small social chat at the PoS with employees that know you. Just in and out, and back to work.

The amount of "small social chat at the PoS with employees that know you" I see happening (ie. when waiting in line) is approximately zero. In that case, the loss is zero.
Another interesting approach is HyPer[1]. HyPer uses many new techniques to combine OLTP and OLAP in one database. For example, to achieve good OLAP performance, a columnar storage layout is used, but the columns are chunked for locality to achieve good OLTP performance at the same time. OLTP queries are executed in memory, but cold data that is not used for OLTP is automatically compressed and moved to secondary storage for OLAP.

[1] https://hyper-db.de/
Main reason is that they don't know this, so they relapse by accident.

This fits very well of people gaining weight around the holidays, when you're exposed to lots of delicious food that's outside the daily diet. And once they do this, next time they're hungry you can bet that vegetable rice will not be the first thing that pops into their heads. Doesn't help that we tend to starve ourselves before big meals out of guilt, which only makes the habituation stronger.

Another reason is the "voluntary" part. It helps a lot if giving up food is a choice, as opposed to something imposed by a diet. If you see cake, make a cost-benefit calculation and decide that it's nice but doesn't fit into your lifestyle, you're likely better of than if you decide one day that cake is forbidden because it's bad.
For those comfortable with Linux I can see going that route. To me, I have no Linux background or interest really, so am excited to have found a Linux-first vendor like System76.

From veidr below: "So why do I like System76 and why did I choose their OS? One, I want to have some company trying to make an OS for people like me, and I want them doing that to make money in a non-gross way. So not like giving me a free Google OS to serve ads to my kids."

"I feel like System76 is targeting me as a customer. I am willing to pay a premium for a good machine that somebody designed. Not all of their hardware appeals to me, but they are trying to do that."
> Members of a hacking group linked to the Chinese government called APT 5 hijacked the NSA algorithm

Just wanted to acknowledge how brilliant that is. They could have made any other code change, but it was genius using NSA's own backdoor.

NSA advocated for that backdoor to be included in the standards. The US government then would be embarrassed and would want to cover up any issues related to it, including the fact that it was taken over by someone else!

Gotta wonder what that Monday morning meeting was like at the NSA when they realized what had happened.
I was the one front-end Java UI engineer and Nikhil (mentioned in the email) was the half. He was a PM who helped out on coding half-time.

The Google Video team was very small.
Great question! All cached data is both fragmented and encrypted. When a node sends data to another peer, it doesn't know 1) what data it's sending nor 2) which website that data is being sent for.
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Facebook's Policies Against Extremism: 10 Yrs of Struggle for More Transparency
It was in response to my motion for injunction in Apple's racketeering case for bribing the City of Waukee $100m to abate $177m. I pointed out they were spying on Judges' iOS devices and iCloud accounts - Judges don't like to be spied on.
Cost reduction is not a "state", it's a process. And it is a natural process that will always occur. In any endeavor, humans will find ways to reduce the amount of inputs needed for outputs.