skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? hehe That's so surprising. I thought it was ridiculously funny. Even the chapter titles are very funny. I understood why it's considered to be so great. Besides being the first modern novel. "It didn't feel like an epic." - uh that makes me think you didn't understand it at all. Quixote himself is into epics, everything about it is the ridiculous opposite of epic.

I guess if you don't get it, you don't get it. Maybe you had an old translation? Hmm no, I wasn't just pretending to enjoy it! I'm not sure why you read the whole thing if you didn't enjoy any of it?! That's a bit weird.

(Not a literature major! I almost never read fiction, but I had a "great novels" period in my early 20s when I read some famous classics - Quixote, Jane Eyre, Mill on the Floss, Great Expectations etc, and really loved them all. Well ok, I was into Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge etc for a while too before that.)
Not just the wealthy or tax companies. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis... is a good episode explaining some of the behind the scenes on our messy tax situation.
It isn't enough for FF to be the best "for a free web". To reclaim market share, it needs to be best for users. They're self-interested.
Yes, it would be. It would be quickly discovered, and justifiably reduce public trust in whatever organization made that decision, which would likely have more negative consequences down the line.

Also, lies are bad.
In my experience, dairy cows are much more personable than beeves. Don't feel too guilty about eating beef, but do try to eat happy beef. Grassfed pastured cows are happy cows, and I like my meat to have had a good life.
I think the college experience in the US varies pretty widely depending on what sort of college you are at what you are studying, and your own attitude. An average state school, a small liberal arts college, an MIT/caltech, business school at Yale or Harvard. These will all be vastly different experiences.
I assume you're referring to the newish $15 minimum wage. A search for "Seattle restaurants no tipping" gets me a number of articles discussing the subject. From reading them it sounds like Seattle is now a mix of restaurants that discourage tips, restaurants that discourage tips but added a service charge, and restaurants that continue to accept tips. There also seem to be places that have raised prices along with these changes in tipping. I'd note that the places that raised prices seemed to raise them to also cover other increased costs besides just labor. It doesn't seem like Seattle has uniformly embrace no tipping in bars and restaurants.
New Paper Suggests Union Membership Reduces Income Inequality
7. Enhanced Tracking Protection

8. Non-nerfed ad blocking
You have a great point and for this reason Monero should be viewed differently. It is not bitcoin. However, the technology is just not at the point where you can have a protocol that is fixed in stone, and bitcoin is not something that I think is good for the world because it is a dangerous tool of mass surveillance which you can't fix without fundamental changes.

>Having decentralization to the point that it becomes hard for developers to force through changes

This is happening to Monero too over time, as the community grows. I expect it will continue to become more difficult to gain consensus over time. There is, at least, many developers and no 'leader' figure like Vitalik
the non commercial use is interesting, because facts aren't copyrightable, in fact, weather data is often the exemplar case used for non copyrightable facts. It seems to me really easy to strip the data of this of this limitation through a proxy. Or is there a legal way to ripple the non commercial limitation?
NetSurf is a great project, since unlike Dillo (another minimal web browser) it can handle a lot of sites out there while requiring very few resources. I use it often on a Raspberry Pi 2 i have next to me together with Dillo, but Dillo really only works with very very simple sites and mainly use it for reading HTML-based documentation.
TMZ Sold to Fox Entertainment
Pigs are absurdly smart, easily smarter than most dogs. Our pigs growing up were dangerously clever, and would devise elaborate methods to escape and bully us kids.
Teaching a Computer to See Your Pain
Yep. You have to address the problems that prevent people from "simply eating less and/or being more active" because just telling them that generally doesn't work.
Front back go!
So all you need to do to lose weight is be 18 years old and spend your entire day in PT, with restricted snacks. Sounds practical.
The US is increasingly a net debtor nation. Should we worry?
Stop Technical Debt Before It Damages Your Company
The noteworthy angle/point the podcast covers is that NSO is very likely indirectly trying to dig dirt on citizenlab people (same people the post above is from) as they regularly discover their exploits and cost them money. As Jack talks about at the end, this puts NSO group into a whole other category if the above is indeed true.
I want to ask, do people here understand a difference in between raising an investment, and soliciting voluntary participation in a pump, and dump scheme, which can sometimes, as a side effect, turn out a viable business?
Scheme language is good enough for products
That's why I qualified re: "federal copyright". Copyright of old sound recordings was a terrible mess for a long time.
That book is fantastic and scary!
The US is bankrupt. Should we worry?
I hacked my car to play Mario Kart
I don't think it really matters how it's normally achieved. The point is that it can be achieved through conscious choice.

I used to be slightly underweight when I was younger, and could eat endlessly with no consequence. These days I have to consciously watch my calories. It was a bit difficult at first, but I've gotten used to it. Conscious thought is not a replacement for automatic regulation in itself, but you can consciously work to form new habits.
This hagiography of high school life is a frank denial of reality. I cannot find a single thing I agree with about it, and interacting with immature and violent people of the same age had very, very little benefit to me or most of the people in my high school.

I learned a lot more from the "Academic enriched" people in CEGEP than I did from the budding sociopaths and jailbirds in my high school.
I grew up very close with animals, and if anything, it made me like and appreciate meat more. Life is a short, vicious circle, and we're omnivores with a place in that circle. My dog will happily kill a deer (yep, I watched in shock as she did it), and eat it, and we're no different. The best thing we can do is care for the animals with respect, and give them good lives. It's far better than nature will ever provide.
Maintaining a branch for every environment is extremely complex and error prone. All the branching strategies you see are always about main because it's simpler. Ensure the code merged into the main branch is always in a working state and you don't need to have a complex branching strategy.

This requires stricter testing practices in the PRs, and usually also involves either requiring PRs to be up to date with master prior to merge, or re-testing of master after merge, prior to the SHA being deployable.
I read Don Quixote in school, but it's been a long time. In my mind, the "canon" version is now Man of La Mancha which, as the article notes, "could not be more distant" from the original. I find the same has happened with The Secret Garden and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I'm not immediately convinced that Don Quixote is a more effective manual for living than other classic works of literature, but it's interesting enough to make me consider a reread. I'm sure it would be a completely new experience.
The replies seem to be diametrically opposed on whether this is to be expected, which is interesting. I wonder if it depends on the country as well, e.g. whether this is a common thing in the US, while there might be some legal concerns for companies operating outside of the US to disclose such information before the candidate signs. Or for example it's too much hassle and uncertainty to fashion out tailor-made NDAs that are valid in the different countries they hire in.
This doesn’t preclude the government pre-filling and giving you the option to amend. It would save everyone time, even the people who amend because some information would already be pre-filled.
Sure, tech companies and even just random people are already working on it piecemeal. I just think of someone with resources put a concerted effort into it we could replace all the parsers of un-trusted data in e.g. Chrome within 2 years. If a government did it then it can be justified by benefiting all of society, rather than one individual product team having to justify the effort for their own use.
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He said "ICU" not "hospital". Overall in the US about 10% of hospital beds are in the ICU. I can't find a breakdown of what percent of COVID hospitalizations end up in the ICU.
It seems they both denied and admitted to it at the same time, with twisted wording.

Has anyone come up with a decentralized social media platform yet? I wonder if it's even possible without it devolving in to a complete cesspool even worse than the centralized cesspools.
This is accurate. Goats and cows will literally beg you to milk them if you're late doing so. Chickens leave most of their eggs to rot, only incubating very few. Isn't it more disrespectful to the animal to let the food they provide go to waste?
Yes, but the huge effort to deny the thermodynamic explanation is straight up harmful.
This suggests an enormous opportunity for Native American land, normally mired in poverty. Establish free trade zones, not subject to the anti-business, heavily taxed rest of the states.
We have Graylog at $WORK, and it has met our needs well. Tom Lawrence gives a great intro here: https://youtu.be/rtfj6W5X0YA
This doesn't seem to work on desktop?

I've never heard of F as the more 'human' temperature range. Don't you either use C or F. Since I've never used F it doesn't seem more human to me.
> What does that mean lean right fiscally? Traditionally, I believe that means less government spending, but at least in the US, government spending doesn't seem to change significantly under conservative control.

That's just American politics: you never get what you asked for. I remember Dan Carlin saying something like "No matter who you vote for, you always get John McCain."
M1 Exploration
> Raising prices 20% and eliminating tipping reduces employee income even though it is nominally revenue neutral because it changes customer spending behavior. Employees don't get paid a 20% service charge for money customers don't spend.

This seems right thing to me if customer know beforehand the cost of eating out.

I often receive these advertorials in mail about food festivals etc admonishing customers to be generous with restaurant pop-ups to add at least 20% tip and order extra food and drinks so that restaurants make money. It could be just me this thing pisses me off to stand in line for re-heated food and order extra stuff which I do not want for the privilege of not getting called cheapskate or not having someone spit in my food.

> Most of the restaurants that tried this here eventually abandoned it because employees were quite reasonably unhappy about the reduced income.

Gouging money from customer that they did not plan to spend does not seem ethical to me. I don't get how employee welfare becomes direct customer's responsibility instead of employers'.
So pretty much what they’ve already done with casinos?
Yeah. My comments are from before Alvaro started commenting in this thread, and I've since changed my position based on reading his responses.

> He also seems to be interested in leveraging the trademarks to force governance changes on the core team and PGCAC.

This is it. The strategy was to acquire the trademarks and then use them as leverage to force the dissolution of Postgres Core and its associated organizations, to be replaced with a new power structure which includes him as a key member.

The very last part is me editorializing somewhat (although it's not very much of a stretch), but he's been quite explicit about the rest of it.
This is a pipe dream. There are systems still running COBOL. It’s a real hard sell to convince those with the money to let someone rewrite something that’s working and has been for some time.
Think about starting college at 20, though.

The people I have met who went back to school later in life (e.g., some years of military service first) had it together in a lot of ways that aren't likely for an 18 year old.

* Managing adversity

* Deeply engaging with issues they care about

Now I understand the search for self-identity is important, and college _can_ be a place to develop that. There are other ways to develop that don't involve paying $$$ as you try to balance personal emotional and intellectual development.

I think the education received for money spent isn't as high at 18 as it would be a few years later.

College is wonderful for some, maybe even a lot of the posters here.

But honest question, for people who have done college and graduate school: how do the first 2 years of college & graduate school compare in terms of focus, intellectual reward, depth personal relationships? I'm not saying it's 100% better later in life (graduate school), but ... I would be very interested to hear peoples' takes on this.
They needed the law to create competition - otherwise the natural state of things would be a monopoly for the manufacturer. The conditions under which competition is good for consumers (a free market) generally only happen under careful regulation.
DoH is very, very important to me.
I've really been wanting a nice electric car, but this scenario bothers me. You are holding the car when it goes out of warranty and you face a huge battery bill.

What to do? If the battery costs as much as the car is worth?

With the recent lifespan of ICE cars, they just seem better after 10+ years for this reason.
I’ve opted to using librewolf as I prefer its out of the box changes removing everything that sucks about firefox. I refuse to use chrome (unless its for work in that case I use an isolated chromium) I despise the monopoly of the web and I despise google. Personally I think Brave is a honeypot and even if it isn’t, it’s still supporting the monopolized web standard. I hope things get better because we need more choice.
No. We have the printer. You cannot go bankrupt if you have the printer.
You’d use a code generator for this, similar to how you’d do it in golang.
what i liked about the gig economy was having the freedom to get what i had to get done without being micromanaged. there is a large portion of gig workers who don’t want to be a standard worker because it cuts into that freedom. so i can see both sides of the argument but for me delivering food was a lot better than waiting tables. way too much stress serving and having management try to control you at every step in the day. so hoping this new trend doesn’t undermine something special about gig work. it was my main source of income while in college and it was perfect for that. i could sign in, make money and then go back home and work on what i had to get done, real jobs often are not flexible and kinda hold you back in life because you have less time to better yourself due yo requirements with work hours etc
I think Steve is being too vague for me to understand well. Let me see if I can break it down.

Steve is suggesting Amazon is becoming a problem to the future of Rust. He is suggesting that Amazon is coming to control Rust. The evidence he is giving to this end is:

1. An Amazon employee creating Rust principles that shape the community

2. An Amazon employee being effectively in control of the Rust Foundation because there's no Executive Director atm

3. Amazon employees taking up many positions in leadership

4. Some supposed "dirty shit" going on by Amazon behind the scenes

5. The core team losing their recognition and status?

#1 would be a problem if they didn't consult the rest of leadership first or if the principles are pushing forward Amazon's own personal agenda but Steve isn't making those claims as far as I know.

#2 is a problem atm but I assume a temporary one. Steve isn't making the claim that they are not appointing an ED in order to gain power but this is a problem that remains nonetheless. Amazon should not be in control of the Rust Foundation.

#3 Amazon employees should not be able to control the Rust Foundation, if this is what is happening.

#4 Steve claims something dirty is happening behind the scenes by Amazon. Unfortunately, we don't have details on what supposedly dirty things are happening. Of course if Amazon is pushing their interests on the rest of the Rust team, that would be a problem.

#5 Steve refers to the core team being undermined but I don't understand what he means by that. Is no one listening to the core team anymore? Are they not being included in important leadership decisions? Is the core team not functioning as it was originally designed? What is the problem here specifically?

It does seem like Amazon is gaining a lot of control over Rust and that should probably be adjusted. Firstly, by appointing an executive director. I don't see any evidence of malice or agenda pushing by Amazon though. I cannot agree with Steve here without evidence. The core team should be working as intended too. It seems like Rust leadership needs to come together to discuss these issues and try to resolve them. I'm not sure why Steve is asking the community to solve them when it's leadership that has the decision-making power here.
Taxes were complicated long before Intuit, its designed that way to benefit the wealthy. If it were simple they couldn't cheat.
I just don't trust Google, they make almost all their money from tracking users for advertising purposes.
So the cynic/realist in me believes that they are fundamentally opposed to privacy.
No, but governments might.
Joel Salatin, holistic farmer. I think you'll like his work, he's an author and has been on Joe Rogan. Key to his credo is "Respecting the pigness of the pig, and the cowness of the cow". He's almost the precise opposite of a factory farmer.
I've been a FF user for years. This week, FF became so unusable under Wayland I had to install Brave.
Actually you hit on one of the lesser-known rules of Camelot system, that +/-7 (aka perfect 5th[edit, this is not right see below]) is mixable, though at a higher danger of clashing. Same with +/-3, at even higher risk. When I read about this the lesson was to do your transitions quickly.

This applies to track mixing as a DJ, not sure how mash-up mixes change things.
>The only people who praise this book are literature majors.

The sweeping generalizations do a great disservice to your otherwise good review.

I'm not a literature major, and I cannot recommend Don Quixote enough. My reason is simple: it was one of the funniest reads ever.
If your body were doing this, you'd be burning more calories than if it didn't.

Your body requires some number of calories to keep the lights on for a given day--to move, to breath, to run your brain. Google says the average is 1800/day.

If you only eat 1700 calories per day (a 100-calorie deficit) for a month, and you don't stop moving, breathing, or thinking, then your body managed to get those missing 100 calories from somewhere (i.e. from fat).

In your example, say you burn ~1800 calories per day, but you only eat 800 calories (a 1000-calorie deficit)--and your body, because it hates you, stores all 800 calories as fat! Well, your body still used up 1800 calories (assuming you're still breathing, etc). So you would've burned 1800 calories of old fat, and stored 800 calories of new fat. But wait! Turning fat into energy isn't free, that requires energy, too! So you'd actually be burning more than your base rate of 1800, meaning your deficit would be even higher than the expected 1000.

It's all much more complicated than this. Your body has multiple ways of generating energy, storing, and releasing energy. Eating less signals your body that you need to preserve calories, which may lower your metabolism and make it harder to eat a caloric deficit. But at the end of the day, physics dictates that you can't get more energy out of a system than you've put into it.
Is there a way to simplify moving password management out of Keychain and into Firefox?
> I don't understand how people can possibly think that identity obfuscation at scale is a good thing for a financial system.

There's an important side-effect to an anonymous financial system which doesn't get much attention, but is worth noting.

An anonymous financial system is a debt-less financial system, since without identity you can't do credit ratings or other means of enforcement of repayment. Everything is either a commodity or equity/security, not a debt instrument. And there is no debt-financing, only equity-financing (similar to the VC industry).

No debt means no leverage, or in the case of the Global Financial Crisis, no over-leverage [1]. Without debt and leverage you can't have a systemic credit collapse, the most destructive type of financial crisis (GFC, Great Depression).

I've seen one estimate that if central banks and govts hadn't bailed out the financial system in 2007/2008 GFC, there was so much leverage that the collapse would have lost the banking system more money than it had cumulatively made over its entire ~300yr modern history. That would have been Mad Max time for sure, and why the bailouts were the lesser evil.

By eliminating identity from the financial system you've deterministically eliminated the worst possible outcome that system could incur, and materially changed the expectation value for the system (and society) over time.

In the short-term, a highly leveraged, debt-based financial system will likely outperform an equity/commodity-only financial system. But over the medium to long term, when periodic credit collapses are factored in to the former, probably not.

In blockchain financial systems, any activity that requires collateral must be over-collateralized [2], resulting in significantly increased systemic robustness and reliability. If we care about deterministically eliminating the most destructive type of financial crisis from the table of possible outcomes, then we must acknowledge this is a useful side-effect of an anonymous financial system.

Finally, the comparative damage to society of a GFC-style collapse is greater than things that are enabled by untraceable money, like money laundering and sex-trafficking. The latter can be horrible, but the former is potentially a different order of magnitude, if bailouts are not possible (which may be the case next time).

* Notes & Clarifications:

1. High volatility due to price discovery activities is not the same as systemic collapse. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are highly volatile, losing and gaining ~80% of their value multiple times over their first decade of existence. But such volatility is not the same as a systemic collapse.

2. Atomic debt like flash loans are still possible, where the loan is atomically made, invested, liquidated, and repaid all in the same smart contract. If any part of that contract fails, or the loan can't be repaid, then the entire thing is rolled back and the loan never even happened. But that can't result in a collapse in the same way the traditional banking system can.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80...

[2]:https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/overcollateralization.a...
Normally I'd downvote this, but I have a weakness for situationally aware puns. Kudos.
No OS, it’s too slow. The binary needs to bootstrap the machine as well.
Beware of Bounties: The 'Cobra Effect'
Right, it's not productive to throw the baby out with the bathwater because you might not like the politics or management of Mozilla as an organization. Like it or not, Firefox is the last free browser and needs support from people who care about a free Internet.