skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it’s not 5 minutes of just his time. It’s 5 minutes of 55 people every single day.
This idea is slightly better than a land value tax but implementing it is a financing nightmare. You'll have to spend the entire government budget on buying all private plots of land.
Sounds like a business opportunity?

Quality/metrics layer as a Saas with MT on backend, add a few percent to the price per work unit?
There are substantially more applications available for Snapcraft. Including mine Argos Translate! https://snapcraft.io/argos-translate
Simply add YouTube as a search engine in your browser and assign a key to it "y", it's easier to search from your URL bar, saves a page load and is possible to do in most browsers.
Whatever happened to "My body, my choice!"?
I'd pay Disney to torrent their movies, it's a shame they don't offer the option.
My soon-to-be 8 year old son was devastated and ran into his room crying when he asked Alexa what the notification was and she described his hoverboard present just delivered to the front porch. Could we have anticipated that? Maybe. The surprise was the ruining of the surprise instead of the surprise itself.
The Lingering Trauma of Stasi Surveillance and Cybertorture
It depends on the extent of the disability, but if your job is to stand in a store and answer verbal questions, and you can't speak, there are probably better things to be doing with your life.

Consider the other perspective here: I'd posit that all else being equal, most people would rather not have to go to work every day, particularly if "work" is a crappy retail job. We force most people to work because their jobs benefit the rest of society, but if someone can't work in a way that helps others, why force them to do it? Because it's not fair to everyone else?

Because hard work is good for the soul? Screw that! Go read books, raise your children, live your life as best you can, and let the rest of us take care of you. If the situation were reversed, I'd expect you to do the same for us.
> most cities are more expensive (except for those in the former GDR).

So, Berlin is much more expensive than other cities in former GDR?
It's not that simple.

Affordable housing in Berlin means:

- "Normal" people working in Berlin can afford it (e.g. prices are still below e.g. Munich but you ear much more in Munich).

- You are not forced to spent so much money on housing that you not can't really afford anything else.

- We are speaking about apartments available now, there are a lot of people with older rental contracts which as such still pay much lower rents. (I.e. the price of entering a new rent contract is basically always noticeable above the average rent price, often as much as legally possible).

You can totally have "unaffordably" priced housing and high occupancy, because housing is in general not a think people can choose to "simply not have".

Also if you decrease the supply of "affordable" housing and make the remainder more expansive you totally can have an effect where occupancy stays high and people and up on the street (decrease the supply => convert rented apartments to owned ones, which don't count into "rented apartments occupancy").

So what you see is:

- More WGs i.e. people sharing a apartment and the rent, and this is not just young people.

- A lot of "natives" moving away from Berlin.

- A lot of rented Appartments being converted to owned ones, some being actually used other not.

- A lot of people with non-high wage jobs spending so much money on rent that they have no money left to put aside for emergencies and potentially even have to cut corners in their daily live.

- Some more wealth people coming to Berlin.

One major difference to some of the more expensive cities in Germany is that people people tend to earn
much less money and thinks like "moving to a cheaper metro area around Berlin" are often not really viable (as there isn't that much to move to, it might actually be more expansive then living in Berlin it also is legally seen another German state and commute times can become a problem, too. I mean they can be a problem in-side of Berlin, it's a pretty wide city.)
> Whether the probe is facts based or politically motivated matters.

It is for the voters, and no one else, to decide whether they care about so-called political motivation.

The Indian government represents the will of the Indian people. And what it says, goes. If anyone has a problem with that, they can always approach the courts.
> If you were that important, you'd be driving an ambulance.

I'm stealing that line... thanks for the chuckle and snort on a Saturday morning.
I think the most productive teams have people with partly shared, partly complementing skill sets. The shared skill must be important communication enabler.

For example, in a development team the shared skill sets could be ability to code (so don't bother with Scrum Masters and Product Owners who can't appreciate coding).

But it does not have to be coding, I have also seen teams which were all proficient in financial markets and used it as their language.

The complementing could be:

- one with long beard who has lots of experience and knows how to and how not to do stuff, can debug the hell out of everything and acts as problem solver of last resort,

- one who knows how to make beautiful graphics and UIs,

- one who knows how to manage infrastructure efficiently and reliably and knows how to do all the tiny pesky things to make stuff happen,

- one who is good at understanding the product side and can be liaison between dev team and clients/management (assuming he understands to use "we" rather than "I"),

- one who is not afraid to dirty their hands and do the absolutely most mundane stuff that nobody else wants to touch with 10ft pole,

and so on.

I think this promotes ownership which is always a good way to get them motivated. On the other hand having people with exactly same skill set (for example due to constant hiring profile) tends to result in people who feel to be exchangeable cogs in the machine and less of ownership. At least this is my subjective feeling.
The important question is: if the transporter works as originally designed - dematerializing you in the process - is this just moving you, or is it killing you?

The option of modifying it to not dematerialize you, but copy you, is how this question stops being tautological. Imagine there's a "copy/move" mode switch. Is the act of switching it to "move" a decision to murder the "input you" (or commit suicide, if you're operating the device yourself)?

EDIT:

Downstream from that come the legal questions like, does the person leaving the transporter at the destination have rights to your identity, accounts, assets? Are they married to your spouse? Does this depend on whether the switch on transporter was on "move" or "copy" position? If so, why? And how does this square with ethics?
Depends on how and what do you cook.
Flight of the Navigator – VFXcool
Show HN: Get your first customer from Google
Having worked for and with a few different large companies, my experience has been that multi-national banks are the most pathologically "not a single entity". They have all sorts of factions within often working directly against the interests of each other, with large projects kept secret purely for _internal_ competitive advantage. With that model, the resulting mangled mess they present as an interface makes significantly more sense.
Dealing with the minerals supply chain situation was part of her job description. She can't discuss how she's practically being set up for failure? How's that not part of her work conditions?
There's plenty of development which could happen in Berlin without touching Tempelhof.

From my perspective, the worst use of land in berlin is the Schrebergarten[1]. These are little free standing "houses" with a garden which some families own and spend time in during the summer. I live close to a canal on the south-east side of Berlin, within the ring, and there are several patches of these within 10 minutes biking from my apartment. This is very well-located land, and from what I can tell it goes completely unused 6-9 months per year, and at best sporadically during the summer months.

I understand that this is very traditional in Germany, but the idea that some of the most desirable land in Berlin is being used for some families to use a handful of weekends per year is just crazy. At least Tempelhof is public and serving hundreds or thousands of people every day.

[1]: https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-guide-to-german-garden-colonie...
I'll add to this the word "zapatoe = shoe" in Zambia. Fascinating! Globalization (might as well say human migration) has always happened and its just new people that think its just happening. I'll theorize too that once country borders got mapped/defined/enforced, the fluidity of cultural exchanges became bottle necked.
As far as I know this is the first time they cooperated with the Russian government this openly, even without any publicly visible pressure on them.

Given this news they can no longer be trusted.
I'd assume Linus has much better quality of life than Gates or Ellison. He's pretty well off, but doesn't have to suffer from recognazibility and billionaire problems.
No brainer for hyper intelligent alien beings to merely watch and not interfere with humankind. We would be like ants to them in contrast to their intelligence. If humans had to understand their level of tech it would mean we would have to evolve so fast that humankind would vanish overnight. I imagine UFOs are really recon probes sussing out what raw materials Earth has before it is one day plundered.
Shameless plug for something I've been working on: https://github.com/ovotech/gitoops/

I wrote GitOops to map attack paths through GitHub and CI/CD systems, at scale.

As an ex-pentester, for most companies I got to work with, all you need to do is open a PR against the right repositories to take over sensitive production environments. I suspect for most companies, an attacker compromising a single employee/intern with GitHub/Lab access is enough to lead to a disaster scenario.
Why wouldn't you switch to a Firefox derivative or other Gecko-based browser?
And the example repository shows off its capabilities better too:

https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb-examples
> In what other contexts do we respect an employee's "hesitancy"?

When enough people quit, employee hesitancy matters. When remote work isn't allowed and people quit, remote work is suddenly allowed. When employers hinge on old tech that doesn't net any recruits, they invest in new tech. And when employees don't want to be paid in USD, they will be paid in whatever the prevailing currency is at the time.

> If you want to be hesitant about things, you can spend all day at home being as hesitant as you like.

This works if your job involves building websites and not healing sick people. If everyone at your local hospital went on strike, do we just let everyone there die because nobody wants to take care of them? Staff are stretched thin already, the system is already nearing collapse, having people quit at this point would further complicate the problem.
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I didn't downvote you, but I could imagine it is because your comment does not actually address the point made by the OP: which is that you can learn new tech that is not applied in your job only on a theoretical level, but you will not be able to claim applied knowledge of it on your resume.

I think though that there's other ways to apply new things you learn than just in your job. Open source projects come to mind, of course.

However, that raises a related point: if our field one where it's a necessity to spend a substantial amount of hours in addition to your day job (for both studying new tech and finding ways to apply it) just to stay relevant for the job market?
It's not a game of chicken. Russia is well prepared to collide - did that many times. Threats won't work - actually jailing important Russians abroad for supporting Russian organizations under sanctions will.

Direct action is the primary working approach here.

For those reasons Google and Apple should be considered aiding and abetting Russian government now. Not quite illegal as of now - but how well it looks?
Rather than a promise, I’d like to see things like this written into the actual contract of paid services.

Even if the try to limit the liability to just what you paid them, it’s still a useful barrier to selling your data or exposing it.

In the case of them blatantly selling it to “partners” you could still go after them for the value they gained by breaking the contract and selling your copyrighted information.
Owner occupied housing already gets a tax deduction because owners don’t have to pay taxes on imputed rent (in the vast majority of tax jurisdictions). It would be great to actually fix this because it distorts the housing market to the detriment of renters, but I’m not holding my breath.
Starlink has a production line
iPadOS 15 unlocks as much as 12GB of RAM for use by each app, up from 5GB
Just say no to these mental shortcuts and hire good people and trust them to do the right thing. If you need tenets just to stay engaged at your day job you are either incompetent or you're not at the right job.

Or in the language of this silly article:

"Hire good people and trust them."
Isn't that because of the socialist restrictions on medical staff training in the US? The salaries are high because of a lack of workers.
Byte Magazine was fun on all levels. It always had technical articles that either involved electronics, or source code, and was DIY in just about every way. Pretty excellent.

From this article, I (possibly re-)learned that originating and receiving modems use different frequencies, but I guess that should be obvious from being full duplex. Also I didn't know that most of the handshake is ignored. I'm assuming that means in 300 baud or less, since the handshake also negotiates data speeds.

Shocking is the $30/kbyte RAM chips advertised in between, yet the wire stripper/wrapper/unwrapper on page 33 is pretty much the price you would expect it if on sale today.
That should work to lower prices but will also increase costs for home owners. If the goal is to increase home ownership rates then giving them an advantage in the market can help.
It is missing examples of how to call it. Also, that feature would be better implemented by an interface on /proc/$pid
Brenden, I’m co-opting this comment to thank you for your work in BPF world. Due to you I discovered BCC and bpftrace two years ago. Now as part of my full time work I write BPF programs and applications using libbpf. It’s been a defining part of my career.

Also, sometimes I think it’s a bummer when stuff like this comes up when tons of work has already been done. It’s pretty reliable that unless you have a very specific use-case, there’s probably a BPF tool written to do something.
This must be awkward for you to read:

33 districts in Uttar Pradesh are now Covid-free: State govt

Overall, the state has a total of 199 active cases, while the positivity rate came down to less than 0.01 per cent.

In an area with a statistically zero vaccination rate.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/33-distri...

I await your heartfelt apology due to new facts. /s
Bingo. Those who do have offices should also feel heat from unfair competition, so this should be legalized somehow.
So are you saying that someone just happened to spot your collection from OpenSea, and then posted that to various NFT groups? I have no idea if that actually happens, just curious
Not really. If you wanted to contact many people usually you'd need to send an email to a list.
> jEfF BeZoS Is aLwAyS LiStEnInG To yOu!!1!!!!111!

> As long as he gives me cheap same-day delivery, IDGAF.

It's disappointing that even when people know about the widespread harsh treatment of workers, as long as they get their cheap same day delivery, they don't care.
My father worked for Saudi petrochemical company SABIC in the 80s. Some bright spark decided to go to the ethanol factory and get some high purity hooch from a tap and make an end run around Saudi alcohol restrictions. Unfortunately he made a wrong turn and went to the methanol factory instead…
senior is 4-5 years of XP... staff and principal are real leadership roles. senior is short for more seniority than junior.
"overpriced" is accurate. People complaints of rising rental prices, but property prices have skyrocketed to a much faster pace.

A realignment is going to be due at some point in the future: either rental price will have to catch up faster, which would fuel more discontent, or the real estate will have to "collapse" ...
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Honestly one of the things I like most about living in Berlin is the fact that local politics manage to represent the public good effectively. I'm a well paid tech worker, so I would be fine either way, but I'm happy that my neighbours who are hairdressers or hand workers can also enjoy a good quality of life here. I would hate for it to become a playground for the rich like London or Manhattan.
Thanks, this is something I needed but was too lazy to search for. Perfect for quick lookups
"But see, this was the good kind of Russian bot! Wait, it was interfering with an election? I thought it was only pro-Trump bots doing that!"
> Google and Apple [are] aiding and abetting Russian government now. Not quite illegal … - but how well it looks?

Meh, no quite as bad as the US quietly making Russia its second largest supplier of oil, no?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/russia-ca...

If you want to starve Crazy Ivan of his forex…
It is quite telling that you’re sticking to the strictest possible definition of “retaliation”.

A reasonable person would consider reassignment due to complaining about the ineffectivity of their role and green washing by their employer (often covered by whistle-blowing protections), as retaliation.
Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real
If housing is too expensive for you it simply means other people have a greater desire to live there than you do. If you still want to live there you will have to suck it up and either build more housing for them or build more housing for you.
There’s a lot of weird comments in here by people who don’t know anything about deaf people.

1. Text is a common medium for communicating with the deaf. Younger deaf people in particular will be fine with this

2. VRS is also an option, but it would be awkward in that scenario. VRS is subsidized by the government. VRS predates Facetime but both have been complimentary for deaf people

3. It wouldn’t be a huge leap to expect Apple to run their own VRS-like service optimized for deaf retail employees and situations, considering they make Facetime, and counting all the other anecdotes of interaction with deaf people here. The same should be true for any huge retail operation - Macy’s, Home Depot, Costco, etc… If you go to a hospital they already have something like this.
Corporate ownership of housing is good. Every time I’ve rented from a corporate landlord, it’s been great. They’re organized, have staff, fix problems promptly. Every time I’ve rented from an individual owner, it’s sucked. They are undercapitalized, don’t know what they are doing, and hem and haw over every tiny repair expense.

Economies of scale are real.
Oct 2020

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been looking into allegations that Google creates barriers for firms wanting to use or develop modified versions of Android for smart TVs, such as Amazon Fire TV’s operating system.

“...I reckon that some aggrieved TV manufacturers, who cannot break out from the Google dominance, could be behind this case”

Google’s agreements with companies such as Xiaomi and TCL India effectively stop them from using both the Android system and a modified version of it on different devices they make.

For example, if a company sells smartphones based on Android, it cannot sell smart TVs running on competing platforms, such the Amazon Fire TV system.

And if a company’s smart TV is using the Amazon OS, then it is restricted from offering Google’s popular Play Store or the Google Maps app on its smartphones.

https://www.asiafinancial.com/powerful-forces-behind-new-goo...
> A hypothetical one. I'm not aware of any independent commission looking in to Huawei

Because there hasn't been one. The claim that the CCI probe is "comparable to an 'independent' US commission taking umbrage at...Huawei" is baseless within this context. (If anything, comparing geopolitical actions against Huawei with the CCI's is an argument against the probe's independence.)
> Massive Payload capacity; it's a missile truck, 5x what a reaper can bring

If you need a bunch of munitions, bring a B-1 or B-52. Those things are GREAT at annihilating a whole training camp.

> Cannon can hit infantry in closer quarters than any explosive missile/bomb.

A small (18lb warhead) hyper-accurate missile is better than a cannon than can easily shoot way off. If there's a bad guy hiding behind a building, you want to frag the guy, not shred the building.

> AC-130 has a top speed half that of a hog

What's better than something that can take off and get into position quickly is something that's already there and watching the situation - MQ-9s are GREAT at that, and AC-130s are almost always providing overwatch when they're up.

> Armoured and extremely tough, designed to survive small arms fire,

Important if you're constantly flying very low. Why are you constantly flying low though? MQ-9s and AC-130s don't need to do that.
Migrating the Windows source code to Git [audio]
And if you like seeing a bunch of middle-aged mostly white dudes act like teenage mean girls over whether to add new tenets to their already too long list, after getting mildly intoxicated doing insipid team building exercises for low-end prizes, just attend one of their principal engineer summits and see just how full of you know what this rabbit hole really is.

Oh wait I think they stopped doing that after they "lowered the bar" for being a principal engineer there so much that most of them can no longer code. And that's how there was a sudden explosion of senior principal engineers...
I wonder if our need to keep-up applied back then.

Everyman clothes: Skin of antelope or some other less-risky herbivores.

High-fashion: Skin of leopard, lion, elephant, or some other dangerous animal that has no benefit other some demonstration of prowess.
I gave up. I determined some of us are just too stupid to do quantum physics or rebase in git without destroying our branch. I'm one of those people.
iMessage is not a scalable work communication tool.
Then work with a different employee. The additional time in minimal. This is a pretty disgusting attitude, honestly. "I'm not willing to be in this store for 18 minutes instead of 16 minutes, how dare this handicapped person attempt to do their job and assist me!"
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as an alternative: https://metager.de/
I don't think most people are going to retrofit metal roofs onto asphalt shingle houses because the house are 30+ years old and no one is sure how long they are going to live there and what the house is going to be worth. A metal roof on a million dollar house is no big deal but on 200-300k structure with unknown lifespan to the owner? hardly makes sense. Same cost benefit as solar panels really. The benefit is over 15-20+ years usually where many people can't even justify spending a point on their mortgage because they'll be out in less than 6 on average.

I'm struggling with the same decision right now. I have a small (2k sqft is small in this area) 300k structure and I don't know whether it will be worth lot value in 10-15 years or still worth 300k+inflation+value additions. The surrounding neighborhood with 1-2million dollar structures says "lot value" even if it's pristinely maintained.