skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can give a comparison to Germany.
Here at least 25 days PTO a year are mandatory for each full time job. Anything below that is illegal, most companies offer around 30. Sick days don't count into that. Even if you're on a planned 2week vacation and get sick for three of those days, those three days can't be subtracted from your annual PTO days. You have to get a confirmation document from your doctor though, which is of course free.
If you don't take your PTO, it will be transferred to the next year, but most companies try to avoid that. You can usually decide if you take those days within the first three months of the next year, or they have to pay you out.
You are usually not free to choose when you take your PTO and it's normal to only take one or two weeks around holidays like Easter or Christmas and the rest for individual occasions.
What's wrong with waiting lists? Sounds much fairer than to give all housing to rich folks. I'm not advocating that 100% of housing should be run this way, but for sure more than what is now (in most large EU cities).
I have been working on this site for 11 years, has 400 free articles on intro organic chemistry:
https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com
Probably the most fun thing I ever did was breaking down the mechanisms of 25-30 reactions into individual steps, and then assigning a musical note to each step. Playing the sequence of notes helps you recognize the patterns behind the reactions. One pattern in particular (protonation-carbonyl addition-deprotonation-protonation-elimination-deprotonation, or PADPED) covers the mechanism of at least 8 superficially different reactions.
Another great organic chemistry resource:
https://organicchemistrydata.org/hansreich/resources/pka/#pk...
Legislation is the proper protection here.
In addition to wonderful responses already posted, I'd like to add one more: Learn Forth. Learn Lisp. Learn APL. No need to be good at these; just enough to learn their programming models. Imperative, functional, OOP, or any other, it doesn't matter. Learning the programming model in such languages changes the way you think. Then start with a language you wish to master. Start with a problem in mind. Always have a problem in mind. Try coding the thought on paper. Do the same with the target programming language. Though it appears as an idealistic procedure, it does serve its purpose and instills confidence in the learner like no other approach out there.
Retroreflectors focus their reflection specifically in the direction of the light sources using reflection and/or refraction, which involves some losses. I'd expect retroreflectors to sacrifice total brightness/emissivity in favour of directionality. Probably better to just have a reflective surface (mirror finish perhaps?)
Oh I'm an Australian too, after your comment that I "may have different values to Australia", I thought it'd be awkward to mention.
The first 2 are solved by top notch security which billionaire money can buy (and then some)

The last "problem" honestly it's more of a compliment , and besides a billionaire's pockets are so deep that the extraction of money via social interactions are small leaks which are not only acceptable but should be again taken as a compliment.
Getting paid more because your labor has become more productive isn't how (in large part) wages are set in a capitalist/market system. They are set by how many people are willing to supply labor at a given price, and how much is demanded. And basically, how much the next guy is willing to get paid.

Up until very recently, we had a surplus of labor in this country and therefore many jobs were stagnant in wage growth. That's not going to change until the fundamental force of numbers changes, or some other change comes around. (see, pandemic)

You don't get paid more just because you use a piece of equipment that churns through 2x as much. Unless that machine costs a lot of money and requires education to operate it.
This is why I've completely ruled out buying another pair of Ray-Bans again, and I've owned several in the past.
Why would you die at all? You'd be the same person, just implemented on different hardware.
>Are people so gullible

Yes? I think theyre usually riding off the trust of the content creators they advertise with.

>And if so, why don’t other companies do this that could better target dumb people?

NordVPN arent the only ones.
TI Basic lacked peek and poke, so no access to assembler was available with the base unit, unlike every other competitor.

I would much rather have had something with a 6502.
Off-topic, but TIL about Unlicense License from this project’s license. Was wondering how it differed from MIT and found this interesting thread: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1471...
Your thought exercise is interesting, but not in the way you think.

Property owners do, in fact, conspire with each other to prevent the construction of new housing (via zoning laws). They do this, as you say, so that they can get richer.

Allowing them to get away with it (by denying the fact that there is a supply problem) plays right into their hands.

What we need to do is thwart their scheme and, through better government, legalize the construction of new housing so that wealthier people who own much of the existing property stop seeing artificial government created gains in the the value of their housing because they've conscripted the government into their cartel.
That’s what laws, labor regulation, and taxes are for. Labor markets are not pure capitalism because people > capital. We just keep ratcheting up minimum wages, and ratcheting down the work week. How quickly this occurs is a function of electorate composition turnover.

We’re almost at $15/hr as a minimum wage due to market forces, which makes it easier to lock it in with statue as it’s proven it’s sustainable at scale. Of course, businesses built on labor costs that are unsustainable for workers are themselves unsustainable. Several countries are trialing 4 day work weeks, and if I recall, Iceland’s trial was so successful they’re moving forward with it permanently. That is data driven labor policy showing it’s feasible.

It sounds like you support a more brutalist, pure capitalist system for labor, but that’s not what exists currently nor what is likely as the US electorate tilts further away from conservatism (older voters are most conservative, and die at a rate of ~1.8 million per year; public policy progress is a function of the death rate).

(politics discussed because public policy is a core component of labor rights, citations below for all of my assertions)

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pande... ($15 wage becoming a norm as employers struggle to fill jobs)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/the-republican-party... (The Republican Party Has an Older Voters Problem)

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/the-changing... (The changing composition of the electorate and partisan coalitions)

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779 (Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland; The trials led unions to renegotiate working patterns, and now 86% of Iceland's workforce have either moved to shorter hours for the same pay, or will gain the right to, the researchers said.)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/spain-to-launc... (Spain to launch trial of four-day working week)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-58403... (Scotland to trial a four-day week)
Comparing Kotlin and Go implementations of the Monkey language
Thank you! I will have a look.
Go is a delicious protein bar with a cookie and cream flavor loved all over the world!
Either slack will implement anti-activism features or a competitor will.

Given Benioff’s public persona I’m betting on the latter.

The one thing Slack has always sucked at is moderation tools.
“Code Is Just”
If you plan to use a RPi4 as a router:

1. It can handle up to 650 Mbit if you use firewalling with iptables

2. You only need one (1) interface if you use VLANS.
That's the problem with chemistry though, a lot of it is "just because". We only have certain numbers to work with. The Lego set of organic chemistry only contains so many pieces.
The 30-40 people wouldn't seem to be in the market for building a small project, could they be simply happy in their jobs? Working with 30-40 C/C++ developers just for browser-oriented code you obviously work at a company of a size where people have families and stuff, settling into a career mode.
I was checking out Ansible for my Raspberry Pis, but settled on bundlewrap.org eventually: much lower barrier to entry. (Also much simpler, but that's ok with me.)
Yes, using your connection will always cause an impact. If it's noticeable or not depends on a bunch of factors that are hard to guess about. I wouldn't run it very often if I didn't have some kind of QoS in place.
>“The system can calculate in seconds what used to take days to assess by a human when it comes to general film package evaluation or a star’s worth”
Go’s New Code of Conduct Arrives with a High Profile Ban
Blizzard Reduces Titty in World of Warcraft, but Not Sexism at the Company
This is precisely why I hate coding, even the articles about coding dont make sense to me.
These are small companies in terms of employees, so for me it's a privacy thing.

Yeah some might figure it out, but for me NH isn't Facebook and I'd like to keep it that way.
The Irish regulator is the one with jurisdiction, so they're the one that's on point for this topic.

They're also quite proactive in offering guidance, material, and feedback. Their cookie sweep from a few years back is something I still reference on a regular basis for the contours of "strictly necessary."

They just don't actually regulate. They offer a lot of guidance and ask a lot of strong-worded questions, but those don't turn into fines.
Actually it depends on the line of business. It is quite easy to get Google on the phone for Google Fi for example. As for their "free" services, you are not their real customer but the product they sell.
Yes. A device doesn't even need to support reading and writing. The driver simply registers some name in /dev and the userspace code opens it and does ioctl.

You could also register a name under /proc. There is really no reason to have custom system calls.
> you might find the clients or the brigading groups that were talked about above to be either in the right or in the wrong

This is implied in the fact that no details were given, so I just find it incredibly strange that anyone would consider it an "astute comment". I suppose you must be referencing others in the thread who think they (or Facebook) can simply request a few details and efficiently judge correctly right or wrong.
> In 2004 the state of Berlin sold 65000 flats for 405 million euro.

So, the average price per flat was € 6,230. That sounds impossibly low. Or were these distressed, dilapidated properties?
1. Get on a consistent sleep schedule. Consistent both in terms of the total number of hours and the window of time when you sleep. Consistency increases the quality of sleep, on average. Maintaining the schedule on weekends is difficult, but not impossible.

2. Avoid alcohol within 2 hours of sleep. Alcohol worsens the quality of sleep, and while you may feel relaxed, it’s more of a physical sedation rather than a sleep aid.

3. Drink more water. More than you think. A general rule of thumb is to drink your body weight in ounces: if you weigh 150lbs, drink 150 ounces daily.

4. Avoid using social media, and if you can't, at least avoid using it for entertainment. Social media can create negative psychological stress, and it’s usually a distraction — which can cause anxiety if it’s used as a tool for procrastination. We have mobile devices capable of voice, video, and text communication. Social media is a distraction.

5. Wake up a few hours before you have to go to work and do something which is personally stimulating. I like to play an (easy!) game of sudoku, read, or work on a personal project.

6. Run Outside. Do this before work if possible. Running can act as a mental cleanser of sorts, and gives you an opportunity to meditate/think/reflect. It also helps keep your natural rhythm in check, let’s you blow off steam, and makes it easier to fall asleep at night if you physically exert yourself.

7. Ween yourself off of caffeine if you drink more than 1 cup per day, and don’t drink after 11am. Caffeine can negatively impact sleep quality, and on days when you are caffeine deficient, your stress and frustration levels will be unnaturally high. If you think you need caffeine, you don’t. You need more sleep and water.

8. Take inventory of the things you spend your time on, and determine whether they are energy-positive or energy-negative. Work is usually an energy-negative, but sleep and spending time with people you care about can be energy-positive. Try to switch out as many energy-negative tasks with energy-positive. For instance, I recently quit playing video games because I noticed I would get overly consumed with them, and instead of giving me energy, I’d feel drained because I spent time grinding a useless achievement or item. Instead, I’ve replaced that time with hanging out with friends and reading more, which are things that make me feel recharged.

With regards to building a habit, the Nike slogan is particularly relevant: Just Do It. Set alarms for each day to stop drinking, to go to bed, to wake up, to run, to stop drinking coffee. It sucks for the first few weeks, but if you just do it, it’ll become a habit. Saying no and prioritizing yourself is probably the most difficult part of developing a habit, but it’s essential.

Hope this helps. Managing stress is difficult, but it pays dividends. The fact that you’re looking to more effectively manage your stress is a healthy sign, so best of luck.
I'm sorry, but I learned about this person in 1985 or thereabout, but in 1986 I changed to a university job that involved little contact with the oil industry. So many details are lost in time. But as I recall the story, he was a refugee, and his engineering credentials weren't really recognised at the time. Hence the dishwashing job. (Norway used to be much too skeptical about any education from other countries. That might still be the case.) If I remember correctly, he quickly rose to the top of the government agency overseeing oil exploration and production, once he got a foot in the door. It was a story to remember, even if all the details are gone thirty-five years later. And it makes you wonder, how much wasted talent is out there?
Fred Dakota, Native American gambling pioneer, dies at 84
> As soon as you leave your job, the demand to fill your position goes up. If you don't leave, the demand stays the same.

That sounds like poor accounting that's overly dismissive of the outside world. If it's going to cost $X to fill the position, why is the person currently in the position worth $X (ignoring for the moment that filling the position will also often actually add a bunch of one-time costs like recruiters/interview time/signing bonuses..., but potentially also be offset by unvested bonuses/stock/whatever that the departing employee is relinquishing).

If you are in charge of salaries, and you don't pay attention to the fact that you're paying $0.7X for someone that you'd have to spend $X to replace, you've put yourself in a weak position compared to the companies who are immediately willing to pay >$0.7X for that person. The demand has already gone up, you just weren't paying attention.

An employee is like a subscription, you pay on an ongoing basis. And they can quit on you any day. Paying an employee currently and in the past doesn't necessarily mean you have no demand for their services in the future - having someone in-house who'd be happy to continue working for you is basically the best-case scenario in a role that you still demand. Don't try to exploit it by hoping they don't notice they're being shortchanged...

Assuming a replacement of equal skill, the demand to keep the position filled is the same as the demand to backfill it, because either action results in the same number of people in the same role.
The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with those neutrinos?
Yeah that falls apart too: people don't get to judge others' religious consistency (again, it's blasphemy). It is only between god and them. That's why it's religion and not law.
It does put you in a different club and give you a lot of credibility to successfully exit. You can replay the game on VC boards and other places and at a higher level. It is a small club and successful (e.g founders with a solid exit) just have more options. You can use a variety of skills to grow a business. You have to win the tech meritocracy in a FAANG and competition can be a lot more narrow.
The size of VC funds exploded in the past 3-4 years thanks to SoftBank. Raising 5 mil A round used to be a big deal, these days most seed rounds are around that and it's not hard to see A rounds in the 50mil range. It's much easier to cut yourself a larger check with so much money in the bank and it attracts a different type of crowd.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/bigger-checks-days-to-close...
Calls to poison control are not confirmed medical problems.

At least one news article about a hospital visit actually admits the person took other drugs somewhat hidden in the article lower down.

200 million people take ivermectin annually.

And they are generally the ignorant people the Left like to deride. Poor and low in schooling since they are in developing countries. (Some rumours in Brazil were it's good for libido)

So we should have proper numbers already.
Have you tried it on Pi 0W?
The way he presented it there's a 50% chance that opening another door reveals a goat. I've of the other doors will always contain a goat The key piece of information that is merely implied by the Monty Hall problem but not explicitly defined is that the host knows which door is the winning door and deliberately opened a losing door. If the host does this purposefully then you should switch your answer because two thirds of the time you will have chosen a goat and the host will be forced to reveal the other losing door. However if the host has opened a door at random and it happens to reveal a goat then changing your answer will not improve your odds. There is a 50% chance that the remaining door is a goat rather than a two thirds chance. He could have just as easily revealed the prize. Explained in this way the Monty Hall problem is not confusing. The wording is what was confusing.
Unfortunately as UI a 7 character option is almost always going to win over an 18 character option. I know about --force-with-lease, I know that it would provide an extra safety guard, and I always use --force anyway because it's the short, easy to remember and quick to type one.
> Factually incorrect, even if you limit yourself to humans. There are people with XXY and XYY chromosomes.

XXY and XYY aren't genders, gender is a social construct. And society has constructed two genders, male and female. I know that some tries to construct more genders, but it doesn't seem to work, we still just have two socially accepted genders. Male - Female has so extremely strong cultural roots and everyone have very strong associations to those, trying to create something new that doesn't have the same backing and calling that new thing a new gender isn't the same thing, it isn't a gender without all that cultural baggage.
Cheaper Netflix subscriptions legally and completely privately
Undoubtedly? I've never seen any real proof of it. It's just kind of a mantra. Housing pricing continues to be a problem in every first world country's urban center. Do they all have the exact same "zoning?" And why now? Did this evil zoning just get enacted now for presumably pointless evil reasons?

"Zoning" to me seems to be a modern version of "kulaks" for neoliberal types that just can't grok that there is something fundamentally rotten in the entire system. And have no real practical solutions to fix it.
> Many kids appear to show relics of a former identity up to around the age of 4

This is the first time I've heard of this happening with anyone other than myself. Do you have a link to any more information about this phenomenon?
> Knowing that my antibodies have waned, and thus I'm more susceptible to infection

So I guess this is the point I was making with my original comment when I mentioned a "nebulous benefit for a select few ."

Here's a good lay primer on immunity. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/waning-i...

Now, if it turns out you're a medical or osteopathic doctor, apologies in advance since I can't verify your qualifications; I'm still holding firm to my position because it's how I was instructed. And if you're not, then the link above will be helpful.
I'm not saying social housing is bad. We should definitely have more social housing.

I am saying "The problem is not that there isn't sufficient housing" is wrong. Very very very wrong. There are massive supply shortages of housing in many many places. Governments need to fix their oppressive zoning policies so they stop preventing people from living where they want to live (either because of $, because of waiting lists, or any other mechanism).
I was really concerned with what would happen to BattleSnake during the pandemic. The live events were way too much fun and I wasn't sure how that would transfer fully online.

Turns out I didn't need to worry. The online shows have been top-notch! The quality of the games are better (snakes tend to be better prepared) and the casting team is hilarious. Even my non-techie partner loves watching them.

Can't wait to see what the team does with funding.
Thanks. Their conclusion: "The contribution of harman in alcoholic beverages to the overall pharmacological and/or toxicological effects of the amine and its relationship to alcoholism needs to be investigated."
Really cool to see the development going strong. Even though more time is focused on the 2.99 release versions it is nice to see a stable version every couple of months or so.
The state reluctantly allows people to poison themselves (caffeine, sugar, tobacco, alcohol), but there's a principled difference between having the choice to have an actual medical procedure supported by the healthcare industry, and eating horse dewormer because you've been deluded by liars and you think it'll protect you from a pandemic-causing disease (vs intentionally eating it because you want to get buzzed/high/drunk off it). You don't have to agree with that viewpoint, but it's intellectually dishonest to frame it as faith vs principal.
I think that opens a whole new can of worms for philosophical debates but the paradox still stands.

How would a sentient AI feel about executing `if (fork() > 0) { exit(0); }` in its own process?
That's correct if Monty always opens the doors.

But suppose Monty only opens the other doors if you picked the prize, then obviously you shouldn't switch.
I wonder why this is so difficult to understand. Of course that trees take away carbon from the air. Is called photosynthesis. Is exactly what trees do.

They participate in a cycle but the cycle grows with time, because you have more organic carbon trapped in alive beings and less in the air, so can trap more and more.

And at long term this trees will move part of this carbon to the soil. Unless we will keep burning the soil like idiots, of course. Anything that will work at short term is extremely valuable at this moment.
Can you give me a synopsis of the 35 minute part 1 video as well?