skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"soft-bricked" is a common term in some of the Android forums I have frequented in the past.

The Remarkable 2 is very nice, I would like to try one out, though I don't have any immediate use for something like that, except maybe as an e-reader.

I still use paper notebooks, but I rarely need to actually do something with the contents afterwards, other than refer to them occasionally. Maybe if I was more organized...
It's a relatively new phenomenon, which is why this is news. In years (decades?) past, suburbs were popular in large part because the middle class could afford to buy homes and there was little reason to rent. Today, the situation is different; wages haven't scaled with housing costs and folks can't afford to buy even in the suburbs.
Makes me wonder if its possible to install a faraday cage within the walls of the classroom in order to block signal.
HN is not a place for this kind of talking past each other... There is a reason they are in the same paragraph.

EDIT: No one said it had no impact of employment (just as no one said there were no "student workers").

There is nuance to the cost/benefit of given minimum wages...
If you have ever lived with a kid it is crazy how often they and you will be sick. I lived with a friend who had an 8 year old a few years ago and went from maybe getting sick once a year to almost monthly minor illnesses. 8 year olds are basically disease factories who take no precautions.
The cool part is all of these transactions are public and can be archived by regulators for long term forensics and enforcement activities while still within the statute of limitations. Might take years, but government can take its time investigating and prosecuting. Regulation can lag because there is no rush; the evidence is preserved by the very nature of the technology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28673552 (HN: Tracking stolen crypto is a booming business) | https://archive.is/s1WvQ
AMC recently added that with their new streaming service. They deprecated "AMC Premium" and forced everyone to "AMC+". I was prepared to pay the much higher price for AMC+ which, presumable wouldn't have ads, but it refuses to work with uBlock Origin enabled anyway. So I cancelled and went back to torrenting. Smart move AMC.
Greenland hardly counts as "Europe" - that's mostly an historical curiosity.

And Svalbard - sure! - let's dump our garbage in one of the few remaining somewhat pristine Arctic islands. Brilliant!

As for other places in northern Scandinavia, ask the natives whether they're cool (pun not intended) with becoming the dumping ground for the rest of the continent.
> the people most in favor of closing schools were the teachers' unions.

I'm not sure they can be "most in favor" when they are groups of organizations. They are easily the groups with the most influence in how schools are structured.
Do they really think people are going to move to NY to work for them?
Hmm, back in its day the Catholic Church certainly acted as a state and had vast powers during the medieval period. That lasted more or less until the Reformation and ended in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, although the church technically had a military until about 1870.
Yeah it's awful, the amount of overhead each ticket generated. Testers want to test each ticket. The more I hear about Microsoft's old way of building software the more it makes sense: have a soec that can change.
Robotgo v0.100.0 is released, Go desktop automation
Reminds me of https://couchmate.com/, just jump into a show and it puts you in a dedicated channel with other viewers.
Well, if we're linking Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

"Rent-seeking is the effort to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth."

In other words, money without effort.
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Tangent: incidentally, we don't force addiction warnings on games in the arcades, even though those machines use many of the same techniques and actively misrepresent themselves as games of skill, while being games of chance. This is one of those open secrets that pisses me off to no end.
Unless your csv has embedded line breaks
Here's one that really is trying to be a metaverse: https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia

I think the big difference is the ability to host your own space, and navigate between spaces without leaving the virtual environment.
It would be far to complicated to try and count every bit of emissions like this. Instead, the emissions are taxed at the source - when buying fuel. Therefore, the delivery company would be paying the carbon taxes, and they could choose to either pass those costs on to you, or to, for example, switch to electric vehicles to be more competitive against their rivals.

Either way, it changes your behavior, because if delivery is more expensive (to factor in the externalities it causes) you will either consume less, or pay more. This ultimately "attaches the emissions to the person getting the delivery" but in a far less complex and less game-able way.
I say do nothing and let the chips fall where they may. There's no big tech solution to this insanity. People born today will fall into 1 of 2 categories:

1. Those whose parents gave them phones as children

2. Those whose parents did not give them phones as children

The former group will become fragile, suicidal narcissists who can't cope with or navigate the external world. They'll have soon-to-be trite problems like gender dysphoria and agoraphobia and will mistakenly think this makes them interesting or constitutes a personality. The later group will grow up as ordinary people by objective standards, but against the backdrop of the first group they will seem like they have superpowers - the Joe Bauerses of tomorrow so to speak.

The internet and social media ruin all minds, but especially the child's mind. Hopefully once these two groups are well articulated and obvious to all, parents will start to make better decisions.
Real life is somewhere in between. Some people are lazy and expect $150k/yr jobs for doing nothing, but many people work their ass off to barely get by because low wages, or cutting hours deliberately to pad the bottom line, and many other nefarious reasons. It's the latter most people are concerned about.

If you don't go through high school and into college in a specific degree, chances are, you're hosed. There are of course outliers, but most people with just a high school degree, or even a college degree in something that isn't in high demand are hosed for life. That wasn't always the case.
It's a good thing that its awful to use with pagination. Frequently I would find myself using RES and scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, the only thing stopping me from continuing scrolling was suddenly noticing that these posts had 12 upvotes and I was 600 posts off the front page at this point. Friction like pagination gives you pause. Sure, its annoying, but subconsciously that annoyance leads you to make a finite ending of saying "I'll stop after I get through this page," instead of time flying by scrolling and scrolling.

Looking at your last line I think it would be helpful to assess your addiction in brass tacks. Imagine if you said, "I only use cocaine intraveinously, insufflation is awful." Sometime its helpful to add some breaks to unhelpful habits than trying to min max them all the time. I still have a lot of problems with this myself and I am doing my best to introduce more friction to my internet usage, since you can't just flush it down the drain and walk away like a pack of cigarettes in this day and age when internet means work.
Browser devtools are amazing and do have a Javascript REPL. Do people use it for scripting though? It's always been more of a debugger than a Javascript environment. People install node.js for local scripting even though it's the same Javascript engine.

It's also not available on mobile.
Wrong, flat out wrong. Sorry.
I wonder from where people like you get their information, just wow.
Educate yourself:
https://www.government.se/government-policy/the-governments-...
> This means you need to change out several decades of line-oriented manipulation tools in favor of new ones that are AST-based

I wonder if a generic binary->text tool/library could solve this. Grep could check the file mime type then call the tool to convert from the binary format to the text format if available. I could see this being useful for a lot of binary formats.
I think it's been two years since I've used the g!
Oof. That hits home. One of the products I worked on was ahead of its time and the subsequent failure of it in the marked tainted me and my colleagues in that company. I had finally had to change places to start fresh.
It’s really a shame this stuff gets downvoted. I really wish people understood that it is quite possible for a well intentioned person to completely disagree with almost all of what we’ve done. In fact it would be highly unusual for all “smart” people to take one side of an issue.

> But yeah I really want to hammer home the point that, the only possible way in which we wouldn't have "been able to keep fully in-person school running last year" is purely itself an artifact of absurd COVID quarantine policies, and has nothing to do with an actual lack of staff nor an actual crippling health problem preventing people from being able to work.

I suspect we will eventually “discover” the same with hospital capacity. When you test everybody on the way in and then have all positive results follow strict, labor intense quarantine protocols regardless of patient symptoms… yeah you will have problems with capacity. Imagine if they tested all patients for other viruses and did this sort of thing…

A lot of the problems we’ve experienced the last year and a half are self-made. Testing everything under the sun for covid and then acting on positive results regardless of symptoms is gonna throw a wrench in just about any machine.
I too find velocity to be one of the dumbest aspects of Agile. It takes the stupid of story points and doubles down on uselessness and arbitrariness.

Velocity in physical terms is an instantaneous measure. It's the same in Agile, you've done X things in Y time. But that ignores the context of those X tasks and the context of Y time.

The X+1 task might turn out more difficult or have some other challenge that makes it take longer. Time keeps passing so at time Y+2 the velocity measurement is lower than before. Now all the PMs and other team members jump in demanding answers which now makes the task take even longer.

As you mention, some span of time can see team members out or unavailable. So the velocity is "low" but rarely is that context captured or bubbled up the management chain. So your team has "low velocity" which ends up generating worthless meetings, bad reviews, or all sorts of problems.
I could be wrong, but I think what you're referring to would be to convert it back to raw carbon. I believe that "carbon capture" would be literally taking out the raw CO2 and leaving it as-is, presumably holding it underground or something, which I don't think would take nearly that much energy.
Probably because they are? A 2014 survey of more than 5,000 owners, operators, and current and former restaurant employees found that 97% of restaurant managers and 94% percent of shift crew employees had advanced to higher-paying jobs in the industry.

What's more, 90% of operators under 35 and 87% of operators between 35 and 44 said their first job was entry-level.

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/ladder-success
By health I mean your fitness, condition sport activities and stuff.
How are the graphics created? Were they actually encoded as bitmap values, or were they binary type files shipped with the game?
Seems like it's not meant to enable tracking so much as to improve its performance and UX, as the article demonstrates. (Google tracks clicks from Firefox users just fine without ping, it just does it in a more annoying way.)

Also probably worth noting that the W3C doesn't maintain an HTML standard anymore[1]; the WHATWG standard is the definitive one.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/html/
Most of the places for what fraud is being falsely claimed in the 2020 US elections had paper ballots. They may have been tallied by machine initially, but when the losing side alleged fraud the paper ballots were audited directly.

That hasn't stopped the losers from continuing to claim that there must have been fraud.
??? DC is extremely strong and has been for decades. It's also very stable in this regard.
"The president of the Ford Foundation, Mr. Walker, said in an email that he had confidence in Ozy. “We need new media companies to challenge the status quo, shake things up, and go deep on the issues that matter most,” he said. “In an increasingly diverse world, it’s no coincidence that a company with co-founders of Black and Indian descent would be so successful.”
Remember this is the sort person investing capital nowadays..
Property ownership among wage and salary earners is a relatively new phenomenon.
In 2003, I was chatting with a schoolmate and I sent him a file. It arrived instantly.

Him: Oh my God, that was fast

Me: I know. I have super fast internet.

Him: Ha, what's your internet speed?

Me: 3 MBps.

Him: That's literally not even possible.

I was kidding of course, it must have been a fluke or the stars were aligned just right. We were both on Dial up. So yeah, my slow 100 Mb/s internet at home today is plenty fast. I wouldn't even know what to do with a Tb/s.
There is no way to verify this. Do you trust Facebook?
thanks a lot for the info
> and we still had every 9th and 10th week to tinker on new ideas or do refactoring and cleanup where we wanted.

We do PI planning from SAFe. We would get the last sprint of quarter for slack, improvements, they said.

Instead, we use it to clean up the mess created from waterfall scrum in the previous sprints.
> I'm confused about HN. Everyone here seems to agree that in person learning is best and not remote, but exactly the other way around when it comes to work

One group is composed of children, who we collectively agree need to be supervised for the good of their future and society at large. Kids are irresponsible and we cannot throw kids out of the system when they fail at those expectations. So to maximize participation, you need intervention. The other is not the same, because they are adults and held to different expectations or they are removed from the system. Attendance is not an effective measure of success in almost any work environment (where you can complete tasks remotely) so remote is fine, in these cases. There's nothing confusing about it.
I've heard that houses in Paris have been impossible to buy for decades now, maybe US cities are becoming old and "grand" in the same sense.
That is a good question. It depends on the circumstances and whether or not you're doing highly-regulated and auditable work (medical software, spaceflight databases) or more improvisational free-market stuff (video games, non-essential chat platforms).

Overall, I think my preferred method is to deliberately choose to implement about 15% of Jira's possible functionality but also rigorously define how that functionality can be used used so it's consistent across your entire organization. For instance, Jira has release versions, fix versions, labels, ticket types, summaries, custom fields, etc. However, most of those are really just "other ways to slice the data"., and total freedom allows people to create non-set-complete ways to slice data.

As an example, let's say that I have a list of 400 things--bicycle, pear, jar, cassette tape, ennui, Aristotle, 2. Our Chief Philosophy Officer wants to be notified on any tickets pertaining to philosophy, so he tells our division to tag all philosophy-related tickets as "philosophy" and then starts assigning his own grad students to analyze them.

Well, we just added the "philosophy" tag, implying "a type of label that discusses the academic content of the ticket". Do we have other tags that fit into that label type, like "history" and "science"? Where's the list of possible entries of that tag type? Where's the list of all tag types? Where's the list of all possible tags? What do they mean? Where are they defined? When do I use them? No one knows, because no one has the authority to know, we just keep growing and shipping or else we get the hose again.

By solving a momentary problem--Chief Philosophy Officer wants a set of tickets to look at--we have invented yet another fractious method for looking at an incomplete set of tickets that doesn't actually apply to every ticket, and our Jira ecosystem gets more unwieldy and less complete.

I would instead prefer to either turn the ticket tagging feature off entirely, or I would prefer that the Chief Philosophy Officer not get to dictate what tags are created and instead go through the Tagging Authority Team, which dictates what tags exist, how they can be used, and ensures that all tickets are sortable and categorizable, and well-defined, and self-consistent, and set-complete, and also they version their definitions so you know if a ticket was created under v1.0 of the Jira best-use architecture or under v3.6.

That's why I mentioned earlier that it depends whether or not your team is doing something highly regulated. Anyone who's gone through a detailed software audit from a governing body is thinking either "yeah, we had to deal with this problem" or "man, I should fix our tags". Anyone who can just bang out release versions on any schedule serving any customer would think "that is a ridiculously stupid waste of time, I love tagging anything and forgetting about it, because I only need to worry about the feature for X weeks before we're on to the next thing".
The value computation problem that socialist economists attempted remains intractable. Dogma has them clinging to assumptions are fundamentally wrong like such as the very idea of a universal fixed value, or their notion of exploitation.
Except that Unison created its own language which makes pretty sure that they are doomed to fail..
I don't know if there is a technical reason for the new language or if it's NIH syndrome.
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Its just me..collecting data to work out what will get my mom of her phone.
Okay? Does that mean my search engine should do that too? Two wrongs don't make a right.
Enabling reproducibility is a costly investment, but the cost of doing unreproducible work is even higher. This is a calculation I rarely see organization make.

More frequently everything is a one-off, with failure recurring randomly until a working (though not reproducible) approach is found. I'm not sure how to spin this evolutionary approach positively, as it can result in fragile outcomes.

There is software infrastructure that enables reproducibility (virtual machines, and more recently containerization), but this concept rarely makes it to written documentation.
Privacy Policies of Top Messaging Apps
Won't somebody please think of the Job Creators? https://www.epi.org/blog/wages-for-the-top-1-skyrocketed-160...
Dunno who this is and why him working at Apple is a surprise? Can someone give me a clue?

His bio and website didn't make it obvious either.
Exactly. I found myself in retail jobs after 20 years in tech and a large % of colleagues had 2-3 jobs and were in their late 20s-mid 30s. Managers tended to be in their early or mid 20’s and one GM left for academia. Nobody asked how I found myself there in my mid-30’s and seemingly inexperienced in retail, thankfully I pass as pretty young. There isn’t a clear path out for most. I’m educated but have other issues blocking me from getting another professional job. In theory anyone can start their own business with all the new tech available, but in practice few seemed to have the time to take care of themselves properly much less start much of a business while learning the tools as well. It would be quite an investment and few had the budget for it, so to speak. The kitchens especially were packed with career service people well into adulthood.

Service is a career. Not meaning to sound judgemental, quite the opposite is true. Do mean to say that there aren’t many paths out and there is probably a lot to the business that even an educated person requires experience to learn and adapt to. Management usn’t for everyone either, like with coding it may not be the right career track for most but people do it for the pay bump or as a stepping stone toward corporate and IMO the whole team suffers.
> Data centers in say south island new zealand powered by hydro will have near-zero carbon cost

This is an incorrect mental model that is unfortunately repeated by so many people.

All¹ of the NZ hydro power is currently used by consumers.

If we add some extra load, then the marginal increase in kWh is 100% generated by gas (or maybe even coal at Huntley).

The same problem occurs when you buy “green” energy: unless you are careful to ensure your purchase creates new green generation, then it is just greenwashing (fooling oneself). This is a significant problem with CO2 credits (not saying you shouldn’t try, but don’t be surprised that CO2 production remains the same even if you try to offset).

¹ There may be short periods when the lakes are full, and water is spilled instead of being used for electricity generation, but that certainly isn’t common.
The author tend to think that repeating a sentence 10 time will make it true
No tracking by default means it's Opt-In - as it should be.
Interview with Anders Tegnell: Reflections on COVID in Sweden [video]
Interesting that he notes Wallace there.

Wallace was a lonely dude. I still really admire the things he said about leadership and his fiction is truly unique....loneliness is a theme throughout. I think I related to him partially because of that. I recently came across an article about him where he basically couldn't accept that fixing his loneliness wasn't someone else' job.

This seems relevant but it also bothered me and I think he should be cited in the future with this huge caveat in mind. If he wasn't a famous author he would've been known as a creepy stalker.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/th...

https://twitter.com/marykarrlit/status/992735594060148737
It’s not flippant at all! People you know in real life would scream in your face if you dared challenge the idea that kids have to be in school. In fact you still see this now!

When the average person thinks getting covid comes with a 10% chance of dying… this crazy reaction starts to make sense. People are literally terrified out of their minds by covid.

Source: http://covid19pulse.usc.edu/
Wise.com (formerly TransferWise) has virtual cards as well.
The right is anti-free speech too, for example I did not see anyone defending the govt take down of Jihadist and anti-American websites, even though they were just words.

They are only pro speech when it comes to misinformation and fake news that their side falls victim too, much more than the left.