skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - All transportation should have a weight multiplier to the base price since every kg adds to the fuel usage. Nobody should have to pay out of their own pockets for you.

To avoid accidentally encouraging healthy-weight people to become underweight, I'd suggest one change to this: make it only apply to the amount that people are overweight by. For example, a 5'6" person who weighs 155lb or less wouldn't pay any surcharge, one who weighs 160lb would pay a surcharge on 5lb, one who weighs 200lb would pay a surcharge on 45lb, etc.
Why spend all this effort on direct taxation, when they can print the tax. Plus, inflation acts as a proportional tax. The more dollars you have the more the tax effects you.
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Over the last few years it's become increasingly clear that many people don't think for themselves and will believe in whatever their favorite media tells them. A lot can be done to convince the population that climate change and income inequality aren't major issues.

Also, that poll seems flawed because it asks a superlative question (what is the "most" important problem) instead of using something like ranked choice where perhaps climate change and income inequality were everyone's second and third options.
let's stay on track here.

that expression is an idiom. other languages have idioms that native english speakers would find weird.

as far as the tweet that started all this, it sounded too serious in my opinion.

kanye west (not sure if it was him who said it first) was correct with this one: adding an emoji would have sent a clearer message. blink blink smiley face or something.
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Greek Delivery Giant Efood Faces Major Backlash over Worker’s Rights
When there's a range of possibilities I don't think it makes sense to automatically assume ill-intent. Especially if you're going to willfully ignore context that proves otherwise. That's like one step away from Twitter banning knife companies because their advertisements promote self-amputation
> If you can instead buy a lossless audio file as a token, unlocking community access and a creator-audience relationship, and giving you the ability to on-sell your assets in a secondary market that continues to support the creator through residuals - the benefits to the creator economy are enormous.

This sounds like it was written by the Creator version of the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator.

I enjoy music. I can buy a digital copy of the songs I like and enjoy them in perpetuity. The artists get paid for the download. Simple and sweet.

Why would I want to buy a tokenized lossless audio file that I treat like an "asset" that I can "on-sell" into a secondary market?

"Community access"? If I'm a fan of somebody, chances are there are communities of fans online (and in real life) that I can participate in. I don't need to pay thousands of dollars for an NFT to unlock interaction with other fans.

> Let's support artists and their work: decentralized or not. If we want more of it, let's give them a reason to keep making stuff for us by supporting the people who make art - because they're genuinely irreplaceable.

There are more "creators" and "art" than ever before. If you think about it, the biggest threat to creators today is not their ability to monetize their "art" if it proves attractive to the marketplace. The platforms that the author is complaining about are incredibly efficient monetization engines that are minting millionaires of some creators.

The biggest threat to creators today is that the supply of their "art" vastly exceeds the demand, so creating "art" that is appealing enough to be commercially successful is getting harder and harder.

If anything, this is the very reason that investors are foolish to invest directly in artists. If you're a billionaire who is a fan of a creator, you can be their patron. There's no appeal to being their banker.
So are art shops selling paints and brushes in the business of leeching value from artists as well by your estimation? It's easy to look at how wealthy some of these platforms have become and get greedy, but at the same time they've provided artists/creators with historic opportunities.
It is not just space, this we have a lot I agree. It is also the ressources and these we have less and we are dependent on others that are also potentially ressource starved.
>” However, people are much more likely to default on favors owed to you”

I’ve never thought about it this way before, and it’s a pretty profound quote.
The article for me reads that the recommendation system carries the Bias of Youtube. So it is a recommender system that allows control from the owner. This means this recommendation system is not free but it may "train" the consumer on a specific content and act as an echo chamber.

Is earth flat? Of course not but should we punish people for thinking this? Our society says verbally no but its choices say otherwise, they try to do it through undemocratic processes (aka Youtube???). If we provide better education to these people or even a better Health System accessible to everyone we can have better results.

IMHO in the long run Youtube will just send these people to other more "hospitable" platforms and I have a feeling that it will help increase the number of flat earthers. So Youtube is in an interaction with its customers not only to maintain their echo chamber but possibly engineer the echoes. The decrease in variability of members is a way.

Do we need armadillos when we eat chicken?
Fastmail.com, works pretty well! Moved away from Hey
For what it's worth, the guy who hit my mom was an undocumented immigrant who had neither a driver's license nor a registered car.

I hold no ill will towards undocumented immigrants, but there's not much you can do if someone hits you in an illegal vehicle.
Since it's electric, it should be zero-emission until its batteries spontaneously combust.
Workers need wages, not sales. NFTs, even if they weren't hot garbage, fail on dimensional analysis grounds.
We don’t always get what we want when we go out into the public and deal with other people.

Sometimes I want to zip in and out of the grocery store but there’s an old lady in front of me who wants to argue about an expired coupon and it takes longer than I’d like. Such is life.
I just took a cross-country trip and rented cars in 3 different states. My experience was fine, and the prices were about normal, if not cheap.

I'm sure there will be problems, but it's very possible that the media will be exaggerating for headlines. It's not like a rental car will just fall apart if it's kept and maintained for an extra year or two. They're made of metal, not paper mache, and replacement parts are still available.
We are also bootstrapped and wasted years chasing after a few large contracts like that. Sales process usually ended up taking 6-18 months, integration another 12, customer support some more, new custom feature development 80% of our dev time. By the time things were deployed half of the people we were dealing with were on to new jobs, companies were acquired, offices closed, funding rounds fell through causing them to shut down before paying us.

If it will help you get by I'd advise you to charge 4-10x more than you think is right and make them pay yearly up front, and don't count on future revenue.
That's the right direction, but the wrong policy. Basecamp's "no talking politics on work channels" is more likely to be effective, in part because spending work hours on other things - e.g. a political non-company slack - then becomes an issue of wasting time.
I don’t think mediocre creative expression is the same problem that you do. It’s not that the art is mediocre, although some obviously is. It’s that it serves a more specific niche. Rather than making art that everybody loves or hates, it’s easier to make art that a small group of people really love, and everybody else doesn’t matter. There doesn’t need to be a universal standard anymore of what’s good vs. mediocre vs. bad. And that’s a very good thing.
clearly not if you follow the author's advice
I used zipcar when I was in college, super convenient to have in providence without having to buy or take a car to school (esp for international students). Was much better to lock it in for days rather than by the interval they had (i think it was 30 min, but this was over a decade ago for me).

Though I can see how it would be less so if you only need to go from point a to b and not back to a.
Reminded me also of the Taguchi loss function. To paraphrase, quality is optimized when you manage the variation of a measurement in relation to its target value, instead of emphasizing the acceptable limits. It was seen as an improvement over the "goalpost" approach. And while you can say it really applies in manufacturing context, I think it should be considered more broadly for goal-oriented measurement and engineering in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taguchi_loss_function
By that logic Australia would also need its own nukes, I mean the potential adversary is nuclear armed China, and nuclear submarines are most often used as launchers for missiles armed with nuclear warheads. The point being is that it is not quite clear where to draw the line.
Most likely the OP wants to switch from Fastmail, an Australian service.
It's basically a manual transmission that's automatically controlled. More efficient than a classic auto with a torque converter, but the shifts won't ever be as smooth (nor the acceleration from standstill.)
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You don't actually know Tim Cook's salary, do you?

Please stop pretending that you do.

Hint: the vast majority of his compensation is, and has always been, via stock grants.
It sounds like they want to replicate the old system of corporate/government/aristocratic patronage with some vaguely defined VC patronage that would work through the magic of crypto and blockchain, I guess.

I mean artists have complaining about getting paid for art as long as there has been money and art, and yet there keeps being more art. Maybe I am cynical but I am dubious crypto is going to fix this.
Ah, I see. I didn't actually think it was a bad idea, I personally think it is not an important enough tweet to matter. I said the pure libertarian position is that it is a bad idea. Libertarianism prizes freedom of speech and unnecessarily blocking someone from expressing themselves (unless there is a really good reason!) is deviating form the pure position.

I've made some arguments but you're right; I can't actually know.
No because they are actually providing value without strings attached, obviously an artist needs tools to perform their art.
Pretty cool work, and just as cool of a background story. Being from the bagel capital (NYC), a bit jealous you have a bagel making girlfriend. ;)

Hope to see great progress in the future!
This is NOT TRUE on both accounts.

1 Iv had my YT history disabled for >5 years now. Recommendation still works just like for everyone else.

2 Even when enabled it will always keep recommending videos you already watched.
What's the difference between 0% and 0.0000000000000000000000l%?

0% never happens. .0bar1 can happen on the next pull of the lever.

Never, ever, ever underestimate the danger of small odds and just one...more...pull.
I stop shopping in places where the customer service is slow. Such is life.
> Cue roof washing drone industry

saw it here first, folks

edit: depends on enviro toxicity of barium? Only use I know of it is gastro contrast studies. Probably other industrial uses I’m ignorant of..

edit2: You have now subscribed to barium facts:
“ Surprisingly barium shows up in our oil production. When drilling for oil, a substance called drilling mud is used. There are various types of drilling mud that serve a multitude of purposes. Crude barite is used to create a specific type of drilling mud called thixotropic mud. Its purpose is to help remove rocks from the borehole and keep them from settling when the mud is not flowing. ” [1]

“Barium is not an extensively used element. Most is used in drilling fluids for oil and gas wells. It is also used in paint and in glassmaking.” [2]

[1] https://info.noahtech.com/blog/how-barium-is-used-in-everyda...

[2] https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/56/barium
I believe a Splunk uses it.
We dont need to "invest" in creators. Investors want ROI. We need better ways to pay creators directly or via advertising that mostly (or completely) goes to the creators.

Anything less is exploitation.
I mean in a sense traditional record labels are already exactly that for the music industry, it's the same financing and payoff model (record labels front an advance to the artist and recoup the advance and more on album sales/revenue share from touring, 90% of signed artists will likely flop but the 10% that take off could become the next Beyonce or Justin Bieber)
My biggest complaint is that it makes it damned near impossible to read.

Why must it become inaccessible to people with bad eye sight? My feelings aren't that fragile
The barrier to being a creator on youtube getting paid is much higher than it was in 2015. The minimums insure most will never make it as google takes 100% of those ads.

Instagram is falling out now. The market is drying up. People want real experiences.
I can just stream or upload content all I want for free! No strings attached as far as I can tell
The leader of this small group of "unrest" folks, Cher Scarlett, apparently got hired in April and has worked for 8 other tech companies, according to this story.

Color me unimpressed. She starts agitating after a few months of working entirely from home at a highly-paid gig? Did she even have time to get a clue about whether Apple's doing bad things or not? Or does she just kinda flit around from gig to gig looking for ways to cause trouble? I'm guessing less of the former, and more of the latter.
> The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) forbids signatories who don’t already have a bomb from making one. It also says they must put sensitive nuclear material, like enriched uranium, under international safeguards, monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a watchdog. But the rules have a submarine-shaped loophole. States are allowed to remove nuclear material from safeguards if they are for “a non-proscribed military activity”, such as submarine propulsion. No non-nuclear-armed state has ever tested that loophole—until now.

Source: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/09/17/what-does...

So it seems that it is technically not violating NPT.
> I'd very much be in favor of targeted funding of the arts, in particular in communities that lack access to public art. Reinvest in our museums and libraries in places that have turned into deserts.

This actually does happen, and has been happening for years. Just do a Google search for "center for the arts" and you'll see that there are a lot of non-profits that provide art education, scholarships, exhibition spaces, etc. to local communities.

I don't know the author, but I find that a lot of the complaints about the "creator economy" really boil down to people who think because they create they should be rich.

Not every person who paints or makes music earns millions, just as not every engineer who writes code earns millions.
Yes, I paid. I shopped around and considered alternatives. But it was our first COVID era travel/vacation. It was originally meant to be an international trip but since everything was still very restricted we decided to moved all our reservations up to Boston and visit the cape cod area. We did that with plenty of time, not last minute. But after switching flights, hotel, booking new excursions, etc we went rental car shopping and realized we were in too deep to back out. Having a toddler during lockdown was exhausting and we really wanted a vacation lol.
> Problem is, it's all luxury housing, well above average prices for comparable square footage

but that's fine right? The people rich people moving into the "luxury" apartments will free up the "nice" apartments for middle class people to move into, who will subsequently free up the "okay" apartments. Building $30k cars also doesn't help the college student/single parent who has a budget of <$3000, yet we don't try to outlaw those cars or mandate "affordable" cars because "people who don't want that luxury will end up stretching their budgets to buy it due to a lack of options in their price range".
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Sorry for your loss. Lost mine when I was 17, I know the feeling. Hope the "Easter egg" brings you some comfort.

A long time ago, during a night I couldn't sleep, I started thinking on the simplest way to calculate the volume of a torus without resorting to integrals. After a time I found a way to "turn it into a cylinder without changing its volume". Then went to my father's copy of "Simmons' Calculus with analytic geometry" to check my idea. How surprised was me to see that my father had had EXACTLY the same idea and left it written on the margin of the book!

That moment I saw how careful he was to model my way of thinking to be so similar to his. I'll be eternally grateful for that.
> why are we not also punishing the other CEO's of Silicon Valley companies for that kind of fraud?

My response to her would be: be my guest. It is my understanding that the DOJ has a 90% success rate in obtaining convictions when the cases do go to trial.[1] What that means is, they would not pursue indictment unless they are convinced of success.

> they're lumped together under fraud

There is this weird thing called wire fraud that can be used to charge almost anyone with anything as it pertains to communication over the wire. That part of the law is what Holmes and Balwani have been accused of violating.[2]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/theranos-founder-and-fo...
I think there is some confusion here, it's not that there is assumption of ill-intent. It's just the possibility that it could be interpreted that way. From the perspective of a moderator being on the safe side, I could see how they have to always assume that a reader will ignore context, not willfully but by accident.

Edit: Imagine you owned a knife company, would you use the contents of this tweet in an ad? I personally would not.
Can it do cut/paste with the host OS? As long as it can do that, it might be workable.
I think your comment is even more odd (and detached, really) since it’s coming from the assumption that the current system is fair and not curated or incentivised by biased algorithms.
> everything is rubber

I've been saying this for years. I go one step further, I call it "resonant rubber" --a mythical material that actively conspires to evade everything you are trying to do to it and has a mind of its own.
Yeah, about that. War is a racket.
Ask HN: Competitive edge for successful enterprise application vendors?
I had about twenty years experiences in IT and learnt something about SAP,Oracle E-Business Suite, OpenERP/Odoo, Compiere. I studied their histories and features with their competitors. From technology point of view, I think UI abstraction is their most important competitive advantage:

What's your opinion?

UI abstraction: good form/presentation layer with or without minimal logics. They can easily come up with a new form presentor when a new UI become mainstream. However their competitors have struggled to modify their system module by modules, lagged behind, and eventually out of business. UI history: TUI, Win32/x-windows, WinForm,WPF, Flash, Web, VR...

SAP: SAPGui
Oracle E-Business Suite: Oracle Form
OpenERP/Odoo: View xml
Compiere/Adempiere/Idempiere: Application Data Dictionary
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Reasonable accommodation is the standard.

Interpretation varies, but hiring another employee to translate for an employee seems to be beyond that standard to me.
Thx for the advice! Yes the next question is how do I actually price them?! I have no experience in enterprise pricing/sales. Since they are a m-b$ company and even actively mentioned they have a large budget for this because they really want it... what can I expect? This all feels like starting over in elementary school for me, haha.
Chafa is awesome. Chafa+Kitty is... mega-awesome! ( You thought I was gonna say Chitty ;p )
Before we get that far, we need to know how fragile and/or toxic the paint is. And a whole host of other properties.

This may never leave the lab. It's hard to say at this point.
The benefit of exceptions and try/catch is that it lets you separate your exception handling logic from the mainline logic of the function. Having error logic weaved in and out of mainline logic just obscures what is going on and increases cognitive load. I much prefer writing and reading code with exceptions than explicit error handling control flow.
AWS SSM allows you to remote as well tunnel to hosts regardless of subnet.
Mark Zuckerberg emails Anthony Fauci (2020)
You do know that high earners play this game to avoid the sort of tax liabilities ordinary people have to pay? They aren't nobler by taking a $1 salary.
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Pretty neat, it can passively cool surfaces because it absorbs less solar energy than it emits. And it's made from common chemicals used in cosmetics, among other things.
Yeah, well, debt service looms.
Super interesting! Will look deeper into this now! It gets even a bit more complicated since I started nomading this year...
From my experience with a deaf employee at an Apple store, it was actually pretty efficient, because communication was precise and to the point and there was no unnecessary small talk or attempts to sell me something I wasn’t asking for. Might have been less appropriate for customers that walk in not knowing what they want.
That is true, there are always bad places to work at. But by and large Ive worked at more places that appreciate good ancillary work than oppose it. It's important to work efficiently and economically (which is the antithetical to consultancy), communicate well, (what are you doing, why its important and why it will help the company tomorrow) especially to non-technical people. It's good to be able to speak clearly to C-level individuals spending their annual budgets on "IT services" and to also speak well to the people implementing those services. Seeing the broad big picture, keeping it in focus and getting the job done to help the company is invaluable.
Exactly how many times this week is a whiny "buy our shit" article from Pizza Party going to hit the front page?
What exactly is the 'current system' though? I referenced a few systems/technologies, which are only a fraction of what is available. My assumption isn't that there is a single system being supervised by a biased algorithm, which is incorrect. Regardless of the fairness of any of these options, though, they provide the monetary incentives necessary to support creators. I imagine the dynamics of any individual business relationships could swing either way, such is life.