skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds of research of termite mounds. A researcher mused that maybe mounds are best understood as a composite animal that in some sense, itself has a soul. One particular scientist "imagined that eventually the mound would evolve into a being that could move across the veldt – very slowly in its dirt skin – a monster hybrid of soil and soul."[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/18/a-giant-crawlin...
The dogmatism of putting all women to work for the last 50 years. Here we are, women have gotten their "equal" pay (rightly so) and are nearly all employees or freelancers. After a long battle, so of course childcare like everything else needs paid. Most social workers are women. What's the way out, migrants from poorer countries? Just pushing the problem for later.

We are waking up to the fact this model cannot work for the overall population. It has been promoted by those who would greatly benefit from having everyone at work, and echoed by those who would somewhat benefit, and echoed more times all the way down to those who had everything to loose.

The problem of childcare cost is unsolvable with women at work, it's as simple as that. At best the average working woman will pay the same as she earns to afford full time child care. But if tax is taken into account, then it won't cover it. Or we squeeze more staff per child.

I think it will take some more time for most of us to come around to the reality of a model doomed to fail.
I couchsurfed in the US and Australia 2011 to 2013 and had a lot of amazing experiences. It had a profound impact on how I view the world and people. Here's a blog from the time of the buyout that I think some people might find interesting

https://blog.rplasil.name/2016/02/the-fall-of-couchsurfing-a...
Is it five (5) or four (4) in this paragraph (I count 4): "... Now how many of these partitions are made up of 5 parts? Each summand is called a part. The answer is 2. There are 2 partitions of 6 that are made up of 5 parts. They are 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 and 2 + 2 + 1 + 1...."
1-3: Have you heard of "excess mortality"? (Genuine question, not snark). That's commonly used as a measure to understand the underlying mortality rather than "death within X days of a positive PCR test". E.g. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

4: People are absolutely talking about the negative impact of the lockdowns. I'm not sure why you think otherwise - there have been robust debates about this, at least in the UK media. Perhaps what you mean is that you think it hasn't been taken into account in a way that you'd like?

5: This is a once-in-a-century event. Of course there's new language around it.
I wasn't making a case that words are better than symbols, only that there's always a trade off between representing something using existing known syntax and a somewhat less known but more concise and exact syntax, and that tradeoff is largely defined by how familiar your target audience is with that syntax.

C-like syntaxes are more popular than lisp syntax(for example) not because it's inherently better but because most people have some exposure to it at this point through other languages they have been exposed to. Interestingly, that actually does make it inherently better in some aspects when choosing a syntax to adopt, such as learnability. For the person that only knows C and the person that only knows Lisp, which might have an easier time with the average rust program? What about someone that only knows Prolog?

The issue is not about only using words, the issue is about using things your audience already knows. People use numbers in letters not just because words are less convenient, but because words are less convenient and they know the people on the other end know Arabic numerals so that's a valid medium to rely on.

For programming languages it's less that words are better and more that there are either different or conflicting meanings for many symbols leading to confusion for those that deal with multiple languages or are new to the current language, so time needs to be taken to internalize what they mean in this new context. That doesn't make them bad or worse than words, but often they necessarily are less obvious in meaning to those new to the language to benefit those that are more familiar or experts.
Would be nice but I'm an M1 Mac Mini user and don't have Touch ID. I wish they sold a Touch ID peripheral and not a full keyboard. I won't give up my hardware switches for Touch ID
If you don't mind me asking, how do you train to build tendons and ligaments? And do you stretch too? Mind sharing any useful resources?
tldw: They realize that job security is an illusion.

Aside from the problem that zero evidence is presented that "employees aren't returning to work in America," the idea that they're freelancing instead is just outlandish. It's the kind of thing you might expect a successful but out-of-touch entrepreneur to spout.

Paycheck-to-paycheck living, which has been amply documented, means you have no agency. You work or you begin your journey down the social ladder. Often you do both. Assuming employees aren't returning to work, there can only be two reasons:

1. there are no jobs, despite what employers might be saying; or

2. government transfers (extended unemployment, etc.) have been keeping them afloat.

Extended unemployment (extra $300/week) ended in all 50 states around Labor Day.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2021/09/05/unemplo...

That leaves just (1). It's a doozy, because if jobs have really disappeared and government transfers are really done, then we are about to witness what happens when millions of people suddenly don't just lose their jobs, but their ability to pay for basic needs.
All manufacturers (or wholesalers or retailers) that grow big enough will run into the problem of: their potential market running out of customers that can pay cash up front, or easily obtain credit to purchase their product.

Even "cash" accounts at things like trade businesses, where the account is more about convenience and workflow (and the professional getting paid only after the work is done) than it is credit or financing, are taking on some risk of non-payment at the end of the month in order to make business flow much faster and more smoothly, than it otherwise would.

It's just a matter of what industries or businesses have the capital and the will, as well as the right risk models and opportunity costs to try and implement it all "in-house" or as a subsidiary.
For one thing, Apple's UI is simple and non-intrusive. These days, I rarely minimize windows, preferring, both on Mac and Gnome, to move them out of the way to a new workspace. File management is also something that's not as important anymore - apps don't work that much with files and the distinction of what's local and what's not is blurry with iCloud.

I find Windows a bit confusing. There's a start menu, but there are also icons on the bottom of the screen that show some, but not all, applications available. Configuring stuff is a nightmare - vendor applets and system applets compete for functionality.

Both Windows and the Mac make a stupid blunder in splitting app and system updates. I don't want to search (or be prompted) for updates from two different places. I don't care whether my text editor is or is not part of the system - it's part of MY system. On the Mac, it is a regression - a couple releases back, there was a unified mechanism for updating software. Now, iWork is on the App Store and, for some reason, Safari updates with the OS.
It's far more complicated and unlikely.

Many companies and industries, which is taking place over years, with supply/demand mechanics, and lots of private data needed to understand it in detail.
This is a bizarre argument. The $15/h wage in your example put four people out of work (How many end up on the dole? How much new taxation will be required to support them?) and potentially squashed other economic activity by closing the shops.

You're arguing for the destruction of economic activity in the name of reducing the 'wasteful use of resources', which is just silly. You're just making it harder for these folks to support themselves, while burdening others with the need to support them.
We were hoping for similar operators in JavaScript (pipeline `|>` and partial application `?`). However TC39 just decided earlier this month that we users of the language are not worthy of such powers. This was off course meet with a lot of resentment from many JavaScript developers, including my self.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
How delightful!

How is it that I find a 1940s instructional voiceover much more human and encouraging than a fake cheerful "Yeah! You can do this!" 2000s voiceover?
Sure they can, the amount of money generated from these actions you honestly believe McDonald's doesn't have the best contract lawyers to enforce their TOS.

Play by Mc D's rules or no happy meal for you....
When I read recently about the 15-year-old girl who deliberately targeted and killed a runner on the road, who laughed as he flew over her car, I wondered whether kids have gotten used to seeing people survive collisions like that in the movies.
Ignoring your seeming disinterest in all of YouTube (fair enough), the creator of the video might be relevant to the Hacker News audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rossmann

I personally enjoyed the video. I guess there are a lot of business owners on HN? The message seemed fairly simple. People got fired and it was the last straw after dealing with their employer's bullshit pre-pandemic.

The lie sold by most office jobs in my experience is that if you're here for awhile; they will take care of you even when times are tough. If you're going to make it 100% about money; pay them more/don't fire them. Otherwise they can quit and not come back. That's the deal.
Luckily, not for long with the US mandates. Hopefully they are good at blocking scam exemptions.
If it's peer to peer, shouldn't more viewers be better?
I got pretty fed up with learning got from the internet when I had too (about 8 years ago).
Every resource I could find was written in a way that only people that already knew could really understand.

Now, that I finally feel good enough, that I can rely on what I know and finally in position to mentor others, I made what I feel was missing, a set of sandbox git repository challenges, with only real life examples [1] I met in professional repos.

I hope the dark age of git education passes soon (and is already fading).

[1]: https://github.com/operatorequals/git-course
> Nutritional science is hard because adherence to the diet is to be taken with a grain of salt, you have to just trust participants.

Yep! People undercount their calories in like crazy, then go around telling everyone CICO doesn't work since they're still gaining weight even though they're at a 1000 calorie deficit, when they're really at a 1000 calorie surplus.

> a small bit of extra food can have me 'lose' so much progress

Do you mean as a one-time thing, or regularly? Because if the former, I don't see how.
Unless I missed one, every one of the counterfeits came from a third party reseller.

I avoid most resellers by default unless the reviews look balanced or they are obviously based in the US or Canada. And if I want something and it only appears to be available through less trustworthy third party resellers, then I will just buy it elsewhere.

To be clear, just because I've been able to avoid it doesn't make the situation good, but for me it's relatively easy to avoid being scammed. Be skeptical of third party resellers by default, and it will go a long way.

And to avoid "intermingling of fulfillment", all you have to do is verify it says "Ships from and sold by Amazon" in the text under the price. Any mention of fulfillment in that text implies third party somewhere in the chain.
> Mercedes drivers can get their cars to pay for their fuel.

Does anyone know more about this? Is this for EVs only? Or is there a standard of some sorts or is it a custom agreement/implementation between car manufacturer and gas stations?
Game-changer for clean hydrogen production
Ouch. I guess there is always a trade off to be made…
All of these factors exist, but their relative importance and value is situational.

Loosening IP restrictions would have first-order benefits to a lot of people who could now do things with existing IP that were previously impossible.

The downsides would be delayed and second-order: a significant portion of people, who currently invest in developing IP with the expectation of "owning" the resulting product, would reduce their level of investment. Why invest in R&D if you can just wait for someone else to find a successful idea and then copy them?

Why spend a billion dollars testing a drug if its market price is immediately dropped to generic level by cheap manufacturers? The only option left is secrecy, which is worse for society than patents.
Rider is pretty much IDEA customized for dotnet. Code analyzer/autocompletion backend is written in C# running on top of .NET (5 IIRC). I am not affiliated with JetBrains in any way and have no visibility into its internals, but am pretty sure that Rider and IDEA share most of the code (which is obvious to anyone who has spent significant amounts of time in both IDEs).
The article can serve as an example of data manipulation from its incomplete presentation.

The very first graph don't show any country having lower death rate than Sweden, only those above it. Yet the crux of criticism of COVID response in Sweden is based upon the fact that its next door neighbours did better: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat...
I can't be bothered to type all of it out on my phone but even adding in those pieces, it doesn't change it much. This is F# so you can easily manage the async via an async computation expression, the retry logic can be encapsulated in the `sendEmails` function, and the error handling is reduced to a `Result` which is very easy to work with in a pipeline. Not everything should be done in a pipeline but pipelines make a lot of things a lot nicer
Renting out a house is a service. Being a landlord means legal responsibilities and liabilities. Houses need to be up to code, maintained, insured, and this is expensive. Grass needs to be cut, pipes need to be fixed, appliances need to be in working order.

The person who wants to rent a house has obviously chosen not to, or cannot afford to, buy a house. They get the upside of having to take no financial risk, ie. fire, tornado, flooding, economic/housing market collapse, etc. The downside is they do not have ownership and make no market gains.
Act 3 in a traditional three act story structure is sometimes called The Ticking Clock because it's traditional to include a countdown.

Having a literal countdown timer - usually for a bomb - is a standard trope in action thrillers. But any kind of deadline will do.
One thing I really dislike about Fediverse services is that their landing pages are always about joining/signing up. For Twitter-like applications this might be ok. But for something like YouTube, I definitely want to browse the content a bit before signing up.
>> Except with no actual enforcement mechanism.

> Can we not ignore when any given enforcement mechanism associated typically with laws don't get executed when laws are broken by various actors?

> It's dishonest to pretend that traditional enforcement mechanisms are consistently used.

If you can find a quote indicating that I’m pretending that they are consistently used, then by all means call me dishonest.

What certainly is dishonest is to pretend that a mechanism that isn’t used consistently is equivalent to no mechanism at all.

> > although from what I can see nothing breaks out of the financial derivatives space yet.

> You'd probably think that traditional non profit organization with a bank account is a financial derivative then if you research some of these Social DAO's and consider them being in the financial derivatives space.

I looked. However I haven’t researched them all.

Perhaps you have a single good example you can point to? I assume you must think at least one of them is good.
and all our work to keep carbon down, has just been wasted. Almost like there is no point!
Is there a way to access the heat potential irresponsibly?

Clarification: I mean of course if you create a volcano in the wrong spot that would be bad, but like if you're drilling for thermally heated ground water can stuff go wrong?
I don't know why this isn't done more in the US. At least with thermal water, my understanding is that you don't need huge temperature differentials and this is cost effective on a pretty small scale.
Yeah, when I go to Amazon, I usually know exactly what I want and I'm just comparing prices by that point. If the product I want is on Amazon but is only available through third party resellers, then I'm likely to look elsewhere unless the third party reseller's reviews look balanced.

All my ahead-of-time product research happens through reddit and YouTube and if it's a purchase that's super important to me, I'll think on it for weeks.
...only years late but better late than never... there is a lot of research, eh by Giesecke or Eisenstein, that is decades old..
the question has already been answered multiple times... and has been ignored as often... yes!

The weak copyright protections especially in contrast to GB, where there were strict and centralized rules in early modern Europe is a first indicator, this only intensified in the later centuries leading to piracy making information affordable - thus preparing a whole population for industrial production...
They are useful information. For a lot of people, that's great.

But it is not the same thing as practice, as in actually doing the work of saving and resisting temptation such as eating out.
They are not equivalent at all, they are almost exactly opposite. Each would reverse the other.
I remember hearing about this a while ago, but back then it was based on Electron for some reason.

Looks like it has been completely rewritten since then?

Edit: https://medium.com/dot-blog/saying-goodbye-to-the-electron-v...
I suspect that person had deeper issues than desensitization. I liken it more to our ability to tune out the effects of drone strikes.
> We're free to choose whatever egress NIC we want

Wait, I got lost again... You say you can "output on any egress NIC". So all four egress NICs have access to the TLS encryption keys and are cooperating through the FreeBSD kernel to get this information?

Is there some kind of load-balancing you're doing on the machine? Trying to see which NIC has the least amount of traffic and routing to the least utilized NIC?
A valid point but Sweden used a very inclusive criteria. The only ones more inclusive I know of are Belgium and Peru.
There are valid concerns about impacts from such a project but they are all surmountable.
And it's fast as hell too!

This is fantastic yo, mad props.

Thanks for liberating our collective knowledge, ipfs style. Keep it up!
AWS {in,e}gress pricing strategy is not motivated by their cost of provisioning that service. Cloudflare had a good (if self-motivated) analysis of their cost structure discussed on here a while ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930151
There are literally millions of bad takes, every day, on every social media available, that don't get canceled. It is a microcosm of drama that has been shown the largely irrelevant in the real world.
If you received maximum benefits and the extra $300, then you got more than you would have earned on minimum wage. You'll receive however maximum benefit only if you earned fairly well before. So I don't see anyone getting more benefits than they could plausibly earn, if the jobs they held before were still available to them. Last year, for a time, $600 were paid in addition to unemployment benefit, which changed that equation.
Causation seems wholly unattested, and I would guess that the attributed causation is backwards. People who are skilled/talented/privileged/whatever enough to meaningfully influence policy and the world around them will start by using that influence to get themselves to a $210K+ household income, because that's the individually-rational thing to do. As the article notes, there are a bunch of professions where this is median for a single earner and a whole lot of professions where this is median for a dual-income household.

The argument about policy influence implies that everyone is in theory equally capable of influencing policy. (Note this is orthogonal to whether everyone should be equally capable of influencing policy.) But you wouldn't argue that everyone is equally capable of earning high salaries (again, orthogonal to whether everyone should be) - you can empirically see that 10% of households make over $210K and 90% make under that, for whatever reasons. Why wouldn't we expect those reasons to also apply to people's empirical capability to influence policy?
Historically, it was relatively easy to use Gecko to build other apps including other browsers; what has hard was embedding it inside of something else as just one component among many (i.e. you had to build the whole app using XUL). However, recent-ish (~2015?) changes in Gecko made this harder to do, so many apps that used to do this have switched to the Goanna/UXP fork of Gecko that retains that ease.
Cell phone trigger?
L3 won’t matter.

The more compute clusters the more PCI lanes in EPYC and the SSD lanes go direct per 8cores.
So basically use the local application while you wait for GH pages to come back. Gotcha. 99% of people aren’t going to be downloading some GH pages site in case the site goes down….
The architecture slides don't show any in-memory read caching of data? I guess there is at least some, but would it be at the disk side or the NIC side? I guess sendfile without direct IO would read from a cache.
It depends on the configuration of the server. Some disable Webtorrent (probably because it doesn't support HLS). When they do that then I think it pulls from the federation, which then depends on how many have mirrored it.
Is working from home an improvement on the office?
I bet you can get some huge differentials next to volcanos or Yellowstone. You'll need to fight conservationists (understandably) but clean energy is clean energy.

And every gigajoule you take from Yellowstone is one less gigajoule for the next supervolcano eruption.
The unofficial way to land a Gulfstream G280
"But for the Gulfstream 280 there's a little-known technique that will enable the pilot to land smoothly with frightening consistency. The technique: moments before touchdown, the pilot pushes the control yoke forward, essentially flying the plane into the ground. To be clear, it is less of a "push" and more of a tiny application of forward pressure on the controls..."
I'm familiar with the argument.

A functional c compiler on a platform is one of the oldest, basest assumptions that package maintainers make. This is a good thing for open source in general and not something that should get tossed aside lightly.

A functional C compiler on the platform means that your software is in the realm of possible and that somebody interested enough might help maintain it.

The alternative presented is "lol screw you". Not by these thoughtful posts, but if you look at the sentiment of the threads like when this happened in pyca/cryptography.
I am not surprised to see the Republicans playing this card again, it is an effective message among some people with short memories.
The videos are precomputed. So no GPU required to stream