skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was the government themselves that facilitated this situation by freezing wages during WWII. Companies couldn’t compete on salary anymore so they found another lever to pull.

I don’t think companies like or dislike the situation, it’s just the status quo and thus hard to change a trajectory that has so much momentum.
I take then that we should be paying everyone suffering from anything hundreds of thousand a year. Every homeless person and drug addict?
They are still investing into fossil fuels instead of sustainable production methods.
That is exactly what I meant. The simplest UX you can have for arbitrary notes of any kind, scribbles, drawings, highlights, is to not encourage page reflow. You can come up with a bunch of other funky weird technical solutions, but once the user hits them there's a strong chance of confusion.

For tablets which encourage writing on your document, the rm2 approach of "just render epub as you would a pdf" feels by far like the best strategy.

The original epub is still stored within their document format btw. You could technically still do things with that file if you wanted.
> This can be either done with complex caching strategies, or by using an offline first database (like RxDB) that stores the data inside of IndexedDb and replicates it from and to the backend in the background.

This skips completely over the simpler options of not having a server at all. I guess because this is an ad for RxDB.

Edit: to be clear, I'm sure this paradigm is useful in many applications. But it strikes me as odd that something called "offline first" doesn't seem to include the possibility of software that runs entirely on one's own computer.
Not tax incentives. Predictable regulators.

Central Washington is ideal for chip fabs: tons of cheap electricity and excellent infrastructure, massive existing water supply, as/more geologically stable than Arizona, zero hurricanes/tornadoes. Three hours from Seattle is not commuting range, but it's close enough that the chip designers could easily do monthly fab visits. People underestimate how much idea exchange we've lost by separating design from fabrication.

Unfortunately Central Washington is part of a state that is known for erratic, wild, and unpredictable whims when it comes to any company whose name isn't "Boeing". It's not about taxes.
Anybody interested in Tartessos should really read the time travel/alternate history Nantucket series novels by S.M Stirling. Don't want to spoil the plot details but in very basic terms, this tiny forgotten kingdom of the late bronze age turns into something entirely more powerful through the pure chance of one of its eventual leaders having contact with people from the late 20th century and stealing certain knowledge from them. Fascinating series of novels.
You're the one who used it as an example. You've been proven wrong.
> Would you expect to keep getting paid on paternity leave for 2 years?

First of all, the article does not talk about leaving for 2 years. I feel you are intentionally trying to put a strawman to avoif debating the real problem.

Secondly, the article mentions performance. According to the article, the person in question was pressured into improving performance or get the axe, in a period where his manager knew very well that his wife was dying. The manager even proposed he was placed in a performance evaluating program renowned to be a compulsive exit door whose goal is to help HR justify their decision to terminate contracts.

And lastly, when my parental leave went into effect I got 16 weeks paid time off. That's loosely half a year. I'm sure this affects performance at the eyes of Amazon. Should that mean that Amazon would be entitled to fire my ass just because I had a child?
"If separate racial or ethnic groups actually existed, we would expect to find “trademark” alleles and other genetic features that are characteristic of a single group but not present in any others. However, the 2002 Stanford study found that only 7.4% of over 4000 alleles were specific to one geographical region. Furthermore, even when region-specific alleles did appear, they only occurred in about 1% of the people from that region—hardly enough to be any kind of trademark. Thus, there is no evidence that the groups we commonly call “races” have distinct, unifying genetic identities. In fact, there is ample variation within races (Figure 1B)."

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-res...

Consider how many different ethnic groups have ancestry going back millenia on Africa, Europe and Asia, and all the differences between ethnic groups. Why is race primarily divided up based on skin tone instead of some other biological feature? What biological markers dictate the boundaries of racial categories? It can't be skin tone, because there are South Asians and Australians who have very dark skin. There are Southern Europeans who can be noticeably darker than some Middle Easterners and Northern Africans.

Where is the dividing line? Historically, it changes over time. If Irish, Italians and Eastern Europeans weren't considered white until sometime in the 20th century, then that shows that race is a cultural construct.
When field workers go out to measure people from their feet they will inevitably encounter someone who does not have feet. The ambiguity of how the definition applies to this case can easily lead to field workers doing weird things like substituting (non-randomly) people with feet for those without, or trying to guess "if this person had feet" or simply omitting that unit from the sample entirely.

Either one of those methods are fine, but leaving it unspecified is a threat to external validity.
I saw one on the road last week at night and it looked distinctive and very appealing actually.

I kind of hope that Rivian is a success that pulls Tesla back from trying to make spaceship aesthetic vehicles and put some manual affordances back in.

My only gripe is the 8000lb+ curb weight. That's not going to be friendly to roads, but better an electric than a gas SUV I suppose.
He says later that he had enough saved to weather the firing — wouldn’t it have been better to take leave, even unpaid, and know your job is there to come back to?
What's your point? The discussion we're having is whether anyone would be a programmer if they weren't getting paid well. Clearly many people would.
mullvad
This would also work.
Why would rents rise if there’s nobody to pay the higher rent? Rent has been increasing because there is a bidding war among potential renters. Lack of housing in general is what causes a lack of affordable housing.
From what I’ve seen only a few models have a heat pump if you were to buy today so buyer beware. It might be technically solved but it’s still an issue if you want to buy an EV in the next few years.
Some Namecheap services are down
Our goal is to make it tetherable to other [Windows] PC's for gaming, etc. Though getting Windows to host SimulaOS isn't yet supported. Your use case has been flagged though. This might be something we need to do down the line.
Ford and General Motors fight it out to electrify
Honestly, for marginalia I would love it if you could just insert blank notes pages within pdfs and write on them! Also that you could read the pdf with those notes pages enabled/disabled, and easily copy/move them to a separate document later.
We Can Grow Coffee in California. But Should We?
Their HQ is in Irvine,CA. It says on their website on the careers page.
>>Or strictly obsessive coders who do nothing but code all day and don't have families and don't need PTO?

Unfortunate, but true. If you look at the life profiles of 'rockstar coders' going around FANG like companies they are mostly single(and childless) people, with minimal to no family commitments/connections.

These kind of people fit in perfectly into doing the weekend long leetcode tournaments. Changing jobs every year. etc.

There's a high degree of freedom, but albeit long term unfixable problems that come with this kind of a lifestyle.
Audacious with the winamp skin mostly works for me, I still miss a few features though the core of it is there. (Global hotkeys for a jump-to and queue songs prompt, nobody except audacious has gotten this down since winamp)
Cool, did not know about this. Thank you. You're also completely right about the ease of use and pretty likely the size of the application (labelmaker is >100MB because of the big variety of fonts in the lib mpdf).

I designed labelmaker for my daugthers RFID Jukebox (linked in the docs). So it is made to work "automatically" - e.g. scanning a media directory (e.g. mp3, m4b) and build RFID stickers based on one template design but with different covers and titles. It can also load CSV data or completely custom content via data provider PHP Script.

Is gLabels capable of that? I did not find a hint in the docs to provide dynamic data.
I wonder if this algorithm can be used to solve other incomplete graph problems.
The killer product of robotics is killer robots
A city is called the Canadian Texas?
Link to the tool's code: https://github.com/eusporg/alphaicon
It has been possible for quite a while with background workers.
ROS 2 Simplifies Hardware Acceleration for Robots
Medical bills are overwhelmingly huge in the US. Getting rid of them would decrease the problem to simple unemployment.

Sure being unpaid for a time is bad, but you won't be massively in the red...

And this specific example, the guy is well off. Which if not for medical bills, they'd all be fine.

To reword your comment, " Something very bad is happening, but because the remedy wouldn't completely go away it's not worth doing?"
ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group – meeting 2
I honestly can't feel bad about employees of this level in Amazon. They are very well compensated.

That doesn't mean I don't find issues with lower levels like warehouse and drivers work.
Being able to drive continuously is worth it in many cases even if it didn't directly save money on driver costs. 1/2 the time spent in transit is half the capital costs for a given level of goods moved.
The US supports all kinds of non-democratic groups when it benefits them, though. Most likely the reason is just that they don't want to lose any power to China.
That hasn't happened because they're cheap, effective, and relatively easy to manage. Unless Google fucks things up big time, they're probably going to be around for a long time.
Housing cannot by definition be a good investment, without becoming gradually more scarce and unaffordable in the future.

Keeping housing affordable means that it should grow with inflation, approximately.

A good investment should outpace inflation.
China is America's enemy because they are achieving rival status and America can't just walk all over China like they do most South and Central American countries, its allies, etc. The bad stuff China does is just frosting on top for the narrative.
Pdf links and pdf table of contents work.

User generated bookmarks in PDFs are not supported yet.

Search is rudimentary/useless and only goes through document titles.
The current plan of action for most OSes is to migrate to micro-kernel like designs.

Tanenbaum was right after all.
I find it hard to believe they need 9 years to that
I experienced this when I was working on a cable company but sometimes they give out notices when it's going to happen. Random stuff still happens because of the sun. The sun is a very scary thing if you are studying it everyday but most people don't know it.
How bad you're affected would seem to be something useful. A minor annoyance that you eventually get over that brings peak physical performance down a notch for a short time is a lot less interesting to the hundreds of millions of current and future covid sufferers than if it's debilitating requiring multiple weeks not working and being unable to function in basic ways.

I feel at one time long-covid was considered to be debilitating, something similar that you can shrug off, not long-covid.

The whole thing has become so fraught with hidden agenda that shifting definitions with an intent to mislead to score some points, garner interest & funding, serve political masters' interests, own the libs, bash those repub-anti-vaxxers, get more people to do "the right thing", or something else -- all seems so normal that we have to check every definition we thought we understood. Was I deceived (with the best possible motives, as always) before? Or is it now? Both? Neither is even still possible, but I have no confidence to assume it by default.
>If you relate to most of the entries, then you should definitely consider talking to a professional.

Doesn't it have to be debilitating though? I relate to a lot of those things, read some books, and nod along, etc., and even talked to a psychiatrist about it, but he was pretty dismissive about it.
> Single page applications are opened once and then used over the whole day.

oh if only that were true. everyting is SPA now. imgur is a place where you go to see an image, then close. how many megabytes of javascript is it today
Create Blazor Polar and Radar Charts in Just 10 Minutes
I mean, we trust parents around kids and they can do all sorts of semi-permanent and permanent things to damage their kids. And then, this will shock you, but we just let those kids grow up and be around other people. If you really want a head trip, we let those kids have their own kids (after the age of 18). And raise them! If you've not read any stories of parents abusing their children, you really shouldn't, some of that shit is real nightmare fuel. That some well-loved children are hard of hearing after childhood? Real parents obviously don't bare their actual feelings to you. (I am not a parent. I am endlessly grateful to state run sex education for that. No offense to those that would choose that path for themselves but I definitely was not capable of making that decision at 13 or 15 or 18. Giving teenagers that choice is ludicrous but then again, I don't run that department of society.)
Imagine the fun typing them into your phone
You have GC APIs at the FFI level to let runtimes communicate and pin references across runtimes.

D, Java and .NET provide such APIs.
> China permitting North Korea to develop and possess nuclear weapons is a violation of China's role as a nuclear super power,

The same could be said about the US vis-a-vis Israel.
Have a look at its wading ability with your own eyes https://mobile.twitter.com/RJScaringe/status/143208876292280...

But you probably way overestimate people who want to drive their truck into a lake (why?)
no, i am with you.

i couldn't tell if they are being serious or not. they probably are, which is kinda depressing. "offline-first is a software paradigm where the software must work as well offline as it does online."
Clearly they pay for that right to treat people badly. And people still choose the pay... So maybe blame can't be placed on them.
I know at least one newly opened semiconductor plant.

Link: https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/press/press-r...
True, we should start a program to get everyone a GMA T.50 – kerb weight of < 1,000 kg!
Pretty sure iOS security policy mitigates this unless they are Zero-daying something.
Silos work really well. Discord may have literal terrorist / hate groups on it, but as a user I do not see any of it and the platform only contains a group of my friends. There is no marketing, no spam, only content your friends have posted. And then discord can sit in the background deleting ToS violating groups while I don't see or care about any of it.
Which part do you quibble with? That China is the TOP adversary or that China is even an adversary to begin with?
I dig the look of the Santa Cruz, but if you're price sensitive, the 50% higher MSRP than the Ford Maverick makes it a tough sell.
I question what the point of making this map was, when it isn’t even remotely accurate in so many places. I guess it makes the FCC feel like they did something and the carriers can continue saying how awesome they are and how they have brought broadband to the citizens as promised.
> That’s the cynical approach, but most companies don’t actually want to lose valuable employees.

By Amazon's measuring stick and internal policies, underperforming employees are to be discarded almost immediately, after undergoing a pro-forma performance review program which seems to be tailored to gather accusations to make a termination un-suable.

It is said that Amazon's average tenure is two years.

If there's a company renowned for not giving a damn about their employees, it's Amazon.
Businesses frequently fail due to cashflow management issues, revenue is not a golden ticket.
The Hidden Complexity Of Wishes (2007)
Rootly (YC S21) shameless copying
Is data science useful for mechanical engineering?
I see links to Japanese and Chinese too. Can't use them, though.

Anyway, https://www.deepl.com/translator works perfectly via cut&paste from .de to English for this.
Well, or shift the overtones window leftward - if parents can do whatever they like beforehand, why not let them do whatever they like afterwards? If we trust both parents to know what's best in not getting blackout drunk before having the kid, then we should trust that the parents know what they're doing until the kid is 10, and not question anything the parents do until then (including, say, I don't know, chosen vaccination schedule)
A snorkel is for air intake for combustion. Not required in an EV.
Unless Google fucks things up, or citizens start making bureaucrats' lives much harder.

I'm 100% in favor of people going directly to teachers, principals, counselors, on and on up until enough additional busywork is piled on top of these civil servants that their choice is a perpetual drowning in outrage or a removal of abusive technology.

It shouldn't be that hard to accomplish; possibly even just ten to fifteen people per school, applying pressure wisely, ought to make for effective burnout.
CppCon 2021 Program Announced
Effectively tens of thousands of dollars stops being little empathy to me. I think reasonable move would have been new role like warehouse worker with new pay and clear expectations to fullfill.
Well yeah they're only going to recommend solutions they have a back door into :). Jk I hope..
These kinds of things never work because people will come up with infinite dog whistle terms for blocked terms. Things like "egg plant", "13%", etc. You couldn't possibly block all of these things without blocking a lot of legitimate discussion.
The Mechanical Basis of Memory – The MeshCODE Theory
With power of attorney, Canadian lawyers can create businesses, buy properties, and so forth on behalf of their clients[0]. Thanks to this recent ruling, their clients and their holdings do not have to be revealed. I belive that the previous situation was that lawyers had to report who their clients were and what their financial activities were via FINTRAC, as one of the reporting entities[1].

However, British Columbia has found a way around it, for housing, by requiring that the principal _resident_ of properties exist, be unique, and be declared or otherwise the property will be taxed.[2]

Much of this shady stuff isn't common knowledge and so isn't easily searched. A good start is "the Vancouver model", but that will also include BC's casino-based money laundering.

0: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/corpo...

1: https://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/re-ed/intro-eng

2: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/speculation-vacancy...
>Why would we select a subset at random? Why shouldn't we try to select a representative subset?

Isn't this similar to the point this article is trying to make? Looking at statistics as a collection of algorithmic recipes shifts attention to how those procedures are designed, and when do they yield us useful summaries. When you want a "representative mean" rather than the population average, you'd just tweak your algorithm.
Too Many Programming Languages
Why we need so many languages? Will we stop building programming languages with features from old programming languages?
> Ethically, if I can see the data in a web browser, I already have access to it

Someone on the other side is offering you a service by providing that data. They may literally have a business, and it may be in their business's best interest to dictate how you access that data. They can filter your UA, they can rate limit, they can ban you, etc.

Realistically, if the way you consume and use their public data affects their revenue, they can (and should) act to protect their income.
Replying to OPs comment [0] that is showing no reply button for me (maybe a HN bug)

For most purposes running a local server in localhost is much easier for testing. There are plenty of options for dev local servers (usually one on every coding stack plus for one for every major editor)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686148
Many cities in CA have designated "truck" routes, as defined by vehicle weight. For example, Redwood City municipal code states:

"The following streets are hereby declared to be truck traffic routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons, hereinafter called 'trucks', and the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to designate such streets by appropriate signs as "truck route". The streets are specifically designated as follows:..."

and:

"No person shall operate any truck having a gross weight in excess of three (3) tons on any street in the City except on those streets specified in the preceding section..."
Vendors have to balance usability and security. That's always been the trade-off between IPSec and TLS. I don't envy people who have to provide support for IPSec solutions.