skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a mixed faith question. We both know the answer. It was rhetorical.

That point isn't that labor laws are bad. They save a lot of lives. But if you have a lot of laws that stifle productivity, such as (important) OSHA laws, it's natural that wage growth will be stifled as well.

For instance, truckers would make a lot more money if our labor laws let them drive more hours per day, or at a faster speed limit. But we don't let them do that and therefore their productivity and wage potential are capped.

There aren't going to be any citations about this, because there's no point in studying it. It's just plain old deductive reasoning.
See my comment here[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28795275
A fun thing to do might be have write on on demand video thumbnail player.

To do this you'd have a bunch of video files at the back end, specify which one you want in the URL, then get Python to run ffmpeg, extracting jpeg frames from the specified video and writing the frames to the ramdrive /dev/shm. As the user rolls the mouse over, some JavaScript changes the img tag to point to the mjpeg server and the video plays.

It should be possible to do this in only four or five extra lines I think.

See the github readme for the correct ffmpeg command line to do this.

I do wonder if there's a way to stream audio in sync.
Just curious: do you notice a difference in the population over time, or is it one of those things that mostly just works while it's running?
Parts of SF Bay Area Under Fruit Quarantine
>>One thing (financial) retirement sometimes does, is removing the hunger/drive for becoming better.

Put in other way humans need to score a win every now and then to keep moving forward, else you don't have anything to look forward to. You dread waking up in the morning because you need to carry around yourself the whole day without a purpose.

This is more in the bracket of anything in life in general and not just retirement.

For that matter continually failing at things in life without scoring a win for long has the same effect, even if you are not retired.
Sonar identification is incredibly accurate (with computer assitance). We've been dragging "mics" through the ocean for a long time. They can identify the exact ship by noises coming from the engine(s), the propellers, etc. They can count the rpm of the props of that ship and determine it's speed. They can tell if it is approaching, going away, etc.

During sea trials of a new boat, they have it do passes specifically for sonar to listen to it. Partly so they can learn its sound signature, but also to see if they can hear annomalies during construction. They've found toolboxes left inside a double hull by the builders.

They do have visuals with the waterfall displays and what not. Last I looked into sonar operations was in the early 90s, so not sure what the kids are using now.

They can do all of this without making a sound to allow someone else to know they are there.
You didn't have to "find it"; it's been there for many years. ;)
I agree with this. If you do the math, you will recognize that the end amount that you have in your pocket, given the same tax rate, is the same. That is true irrespective of the rate of return.
Note that donating a kidney is not free of long-term complications for the donor. This was not emphasized in the pioneering days of donations, but is considered now.

Essentially you're halving your kidney capacity, which is not noticeable in your 20s, but will creep up on you later as you age.

It also means that any toxin or infection that attacks the remaining kidney will be an emergency. Women are especially prone to UTI that cause kidney infections.

(My father was missing part of one kidney, and it was on his mind throughout his life whenever he became ill.)

So make sure you really like the person you're donating to, since there are consequences to yourself.

Also, I hate to mention this, but the CCP has halal kidneys for sale, with a replacement guarantee even. I think you know where they're harvested from.
climate and natural beauty hard to match. Everything else sucks
Does this work? The only instances of people attempting to use LN I've witnessed ended in failure.
So it should be QLCD
I appreciate the irony, and to some degree I agree with the argument but you have to keep in mind that in the real world employers like to see their cogs working.

I'm a night owl and I really hate getting up early.
Early in my career when I was working in digital advertising I had a job where I tried to argue with my employer that while I'm coming late to work I never refuse to stay late hours or work through weekends when jobs needs it. Unpaid overtime mind you. They didn't understood. Instead they preferred - at least they thought they preferred - seeing me at my desk from 10 to 6, because that's what they were paying for. After 18 they were leaving the office and not knowing what I was doing they just assumed no work was done. Probably. Actually couple of jobs like that.
Those were small shops.
Recently I worked for bigger corps and (un)surprisingly the patter repeated.
Instead of agreeing on me showing late to the office but willing to stay late if there was actual work to do without getting any compensation my managers preferred me to get to my desk by 9 and sit there till 5 even if there was nothing to be done.
Another recent situation was when I was responsible for architecture and setting up a team for a fairly complicated project. I like to think on my feet so I was spending a lot of my time in quiet corridors of the office or in cafeteria trying to figure out how to make things going. My managers were furious at me for not sitting in front of my desk and I repeatedly failed to convinced them that neither my job description, nor my current position requires me to sit in front of my keyboard at all time to complete the tasks I'm facing.

I agree it's stupid, but we can't deny that it's sad reality for many people out there.
The fact that moving WiX out of public Github did not generate any emails while moving it back did generate a lot of emails is the suspicious part. There's probably an utterly mundane explanation as to why, but it's also possible that there's a MS-only "move this repo without notifying anyone" option.
On the contrary, we actually need them. The people who refuse to believe Bitcoin is real are the ones whose continued drive for fiat currency will fund the UBI for everyone else. It's win-win.
> uhhh... they are accountable to every one of their clients, every time those clients make a purchase.

Nearly nobody gives a damn about the behaviour, eccentric, insane, evil, or otherwise, of the primary shareholders of a corporation that is involved, directly or indirectly, in producing products that they consume.

I may think that the Sackler family are murderous scumbags, but if I need medication made by Purdue, that's the medication I'll be buying.
The bacteria probably attack more than just the species that feed on humans, but putting that aside, there's only a handful of species that focus on humans, so disrupting those doesn't necessarily mean disrupting all mosquitoes.
I see. Still, I think that's better than living in Fremont and commuting into SF. Even with BART. I tried it a few times, that shit sucks

FWIW I haven't been in Austin, just Dallas
Unless it ignites a forest fire
> If you've never dealt with mainframes, which is extremely likely after all, you will be massively taken aback about how different everything is.

Funnily enough my alma mater recently made Introduction to Mainframes a mandatory subject for a software engineering course. So if you can't use z/OS on a (very) basic level, you can't graduate. :)
hahaha. I'm not arguing my friend, nor am I telling any lies.
I always knew that the US had universal health care for that one organ, but 81 billion dollars? [0] I am astonished that solving that isn't considered a high level financial emergency. There should be an X-Prize for that.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/basics.html#:~:text=Top%20....
Kind of off topic but those ProPublic articles on the state of the USN are incredible, and worth the time to read closely. Just re-read the one about the USS John McCain and it's such a fascinating article that hits all my interests (tech challenges with defense procurement, UI/UX problems, my love of Naval warships despite being an Army vet).

Edit: this one

https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-i...
Yes. Occam's Razor would demand it
If you are long bitcoin, you hold bitcoin. If you are for some other asset vs bitcoin, you hold that asset and not bitcoin.

Some things are simply tradeable, and his advice is not “throw money at the owners of a fraudulent casino to say you are short”

Nassim Taleb himself wrote a paper arguing Bitcoin’s value is zero and sold all his Bitcoin. I do not believe he believes it is his moral duty to open a Binance account and make a short on a Tether Exchange
Ummm. California.
I couldn't agree with you more. I usually stop reading this format immediately. Got about 2/3 of the way through.
> no need to string along GNOME or KDE services to configure input devices or manage displays

I thought wayland specifically made input/output configuration completely the DE's problem?
There are 3006 counties in the USA. Given that the pandemic is not trivial, it is possible to find a couple counties with overwhelmed ICU beds on any given day. The catch is that the counties change as the pandemic waves come and go. The media chases around for the counties that get overwhelmed, and ignores the vast majority of counties that are not overwhelmed. That before taking in account that, for economic reasons, ICUs are not build for pandemics, with double digit occupancy rates even outside epidemic waves.

For example, here's actual pedriatic ICU data from Seattle metro area with ~4M people. I bet this never made the news.

MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 55.5%, 6.1 of 11.0 beds used

SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 83.0%, 71.4 of 86.0 beds used

https://datacentral.kitsapsun.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity

Edit: Turns out that the KitsapSun app has county-level data for all of USA. For Tarrant county (your top 2 links), right now the pedriatic ICU data is:

COOK CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER, 82.5%, 34.3 of 41.6 beds used

Not great, but not months-long-near-capacity-brink-of-failure situation either. The adult ICU situation is much worse, hopefully it will retreat in the coming weeks.

https://datacentral.kitsapsun.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity...
Fortunately, I don’t know anyone addicted to getting the vaccine daily, so the proposed choice is nonsensical.
No, that would be Quantum Liquid Crystal Display instead of Quantum (Dot) Light Emitting Didode
I think this is it:
https://www.newsweek.com/why-visa-mastercard-being-blamed-on...

It seems the feminist angle was more of a general anti-porn thing observed by a lawyer in the field. NCOSE, an evangelical group, apparently took credit for onlyfans's porn ban saying "The announcement made by OnlyFans that it will prohibit creators from posting material with sexually explicit conduct on its website comes after much advocacy from NCOSE, survivors and allies." They, along with Exodus Cry (another evangelical group) also lobbied Master Card to change their policies on porn
Everyone using Bitcoin in El Salvador is using lightning network for the most part.
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There's nothing to it
I tried but couldn't get used to tiling window managers. Even learned a bit of Haskell to write XMonad config files once.

I like to be able to have one application on top of another and especially not using the WHOLE partition. Don't create artificial constrictions for yourself. Some applications are designed to work only with a specified width and height.

I guess it's fine if you use your computer just for the command line stuff.
I'll say that I've never waited less than an hour. Usually more than that.
I've been thinking about doing the same.

Seems like most of answers here are BTC. Anything available in ETH yet? Or maybe XLM?

A Stripe for crypto would be awesome.
I personally had what we called an “ass-puckering” moment for exactly this reason once. At periscope depth in fog, huge cargo ship coming at us… it was the only time in 3 years on board I (or anyone else) had to call “emergency deep”.
You could say that about any medium.

"If writing them a physical letter is too much work, what kind of friendship are you really worried about maintaining?"

That sounds strawman-y, but I have a (annoying) family member who legitimately expresses this thought regularly.
I used the words that seemed the most obvious way to express myself. I would have had to look up the term cis to make sure I was using it the right way, and there wasn't a good reason to. The fact that someone could possibly be offended by the use of the words I chose shows part of the problem. That's like saying you think "Italian-American" is ok, but "An American citizen with Italian ancestors" is offensive. It's a clear, well understood description of the trait being discussed that expresses no judgement. It _cannot_ be offensive under any normal circumstances.
U.S. companies add most jobs in three months
listening to the wix video linked elsewhere here, they were essentially duped into adding a bot for other reasons
While reading the comments I shared most oft the dystopian visions of people being hunted down by scary drone swarms.

But armor (especially armored vehicles) is still a thing and for something to be able to be fast and manouverable it also needs to be designed within size and weight constraints, which automatically limits possible payload and armor.

So if there ia a technology to race around a forrest and autonomously find and engage slower targets, there must also exist the technology to engage flying objects with something like the Phalanx system, while not facing the same weight constraints as the moving attacker.

It probably boils down to target saturation in symmetrical warfare and the end of assymetrical warfare fantasys akin to Wolverines.
Developers won’t build an apartment that won’t financially pencil out. Roughly speaking the developers will take whatever cost is required for IZ, and then add it to the costs of building a market rate unit. If the costs exceed the market rate, the project won’t be built because it’s unprofitable. This in turn increases the price of housing that winds up on the market (this assumes there are projects on the tipping point of penciling out vs. not). It’s essentially a tax.

There’s a fair amount of research on this, here’s one paper if you’re interested in learning more: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol23num...
No they're not.

On an international scale guns aren't restricted at all in any practical sense.

Nuclear weapons can have international conventions and treaties because they're difficult and obvious to build. Mass producing cheap drones and downloading an AI from the internet to run on a repurposed Android phone is not only normal, it's already happening now.
I can’t think of a single thing I own that I feel this way about. Yet, I feel like I spend and spend on the things that don’t actually inspire me.

Is there an inverse relationship between good stewardship/financial maturity and the number of lines or code I commit? Feels like it.
Hi fellow hacker here!

I agree this is what a "hacker" truly means. We should "hack" more and gain back more control.

The term DIY does seem to appear less these days.
Keep in mind that Skydio currently manufactures and sells affordable drones ($1000 USD) that can fly autonomously through pretty much any environment, including forests.

Disclaimer: I don't work for them nor affiliated - just been following their progress from a few years back and can't wait until they start selling to consumers in Australia.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=skydio+2+forest

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQlyV0XqoSs
I never knew one of Trendons minions copied Bitcoinica and started BitFinex, thanks HN

I sat in chat rooms with most of these crazy fucknuts a decade ago and that is frightening.

Fun re reading old court transcripts yay
> federal court
I mean, they’re clearly heading toward stealing control of associated open source projects away from the founders/maintainers so I don’t think there’s even room to discuss “repairing trust.”

You might discuss repairing trust with a burglar you caught in your house after his criminal trial. At this point, Microsoft is the burglar and he’s still in your house with the ski mask on (unless you would prefer for the burglar to be a she).
Check out Flexa. https://flexa.network/
Another theory: during the Facebook outage, HN was experiencing a lot of extra load. I wonder if it's possible that your browser didn't fully download the necessary CSS files to display the site the way that you're used to -- and if maybe now it's still using that (cached) partially-downloaded CSS file?
You can hone your vaccines as long as you want when the disease prevalence is low. For example when you have archived a large enough immunity by unfortunate natural infection or by previous vaccines.

During pandemic, vaccines are quickly developed like happened with H1N1 in 2009 that was last modern pandemic before SARS-Cov-2. Before that was Hong-Kong flu pandemic and before that Asian. In all cases the vaccine development was very fast. For Hong-Kong flu it was 4 months. For Asian flu it was a little longer. Development a vaccine for Swine flu took also few months but rapid production failed and the vaccine was delayed.
Right, that's why they bought instagram. But that's a far cry from the claim OP made their "network effect was overwhelmed"
That is amazing.

My property here in Illinois has White Oak and Black Walnut on it. They are beautiful, fantastic trees that grow so easily in this area.
It's VFS metadata query throughput as I've explained below.

The syscall API for such things (fstat(2)) is pretty unobjectionable.
Zodiac Killer: Authorities rebuff cold case team's new lead
>You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time

Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocomplete options (on a Mac at the moment but PowerShell does this too IIRC)?

> Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words after the command).

If I understood correctly: I'm imagining something similar to many code editors when you type `someFunction(` a popup appears with the arguments, their types, and a docstring if the function has one.
Those are powerful reasons to stick to Gmail. One is a legitimately good and useful feature; the other is a rather shady attempt at artificial lock-in, IMO.

But neither of those things are network effect.

"Network effect" refers specifically to "the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products."
I found the Nixos learning curve easier when I started with nust nix-shell and then home manager on Debian and macOS. It let me focus on building up workflows in nix for particular tasks and I’ve slowly worked outwards towards overlays and full nixos deploys.
I think your best bet will be to go with Flexa. It is already well integrated into many PoS systems and can handle many of the popular cryptocurrencies. Also, customers who have exchange accounts with Gemini will already be able to checkout with the Gemini mobile app without having to download anything. https://flexa.network/integrations
Through Strike, right?
It might depend on how you organize your time. I could see how working for 4 consecutive hours might have proportionally the same amount of unproductivity, but maybe splitting it in two blocks of two hours with a two hour pause in-between would work better?
Agree, I decided not to reply - if, a year ago, you ended up on the path of "compile to run on mono", you didn't bother to read any of the .net5 documentation - and without checking, likely just the main download page for dotnet core. /shrug
It's only negligence if they have an obligation to fix it.
> but not having automatic layouts is really a deal breaker for me

there is layout saving on i3 now and it works pretty well.

basically you build a layout on a workspace, dump it to a file, adjust window selectors so that they swallow the correct windows, and then you can apply it a piacere.

https://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html
My Battalion Commander in Afghanistan made us run livefire training ranges for the ANA in an area that had multiple recent IED strikes and had clear overwatch from the ridgeline from miles away, as a way to basically brag to the TF commander that he was "getting the ANA out into the shit" - despite the fact that these people were just utterly and completely incompetent. Just a total psychopath, so in some ways it makes me feel better (worse?) that those personalities are not unique to the US Army.
Exactly, it’s a tiny radar signature, particularly compared to its actual size.
I bet if you call up Information Unlimited, they'd sell you what you need for a DIY pulsed electrical field generator. https://www.amazing1.com/pages/megawatt-pulsers/high-energy-...
Yup! There are a ton of examples of this in robot learning. For instance: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10790 by NVIDIA uses photorealistic images and something we call domain randomization to efficiently bridge the sim2real gap for robot grasping.

A core issue seems to be that the better the simulation, the harder it is to generate (compute wise) but simple tweaks to the generative process also go a long way.
An open source umbrella organization pulled rank and the member projects are connecting the dots to see that Microsoft views them as unpaid employees.

No, it's not hyperbole. Go check the foundations website and you'll find that Microsoft has exclusive access to the highest level of power in the self-styled "independent" organization written right in to the bylaws.
> Nominations for this year’s prizes had to be submitted by 1 February. This was more than two months after the first mRNA vaccines, and some others, proved their mettle in clinical trials, but before their impact on the pandemic was fully clear

Makes sense.
They aren't even held accountable when they sell products that spark a nationwide overdose epidemic.

"That may seem like a lot of money, but billionaire math can be deceptive. The Sacklers proposed to pay the $4.5 billion out over nine years. Their current fortune is estimated to be at least $11 billion. Conservatively, with interest and investments, this means they can expect a 5 percent annualized rate of return on that fortune. If that’s the case, they’ll be able to pay the fine without even touching their principal. When they’re done paying in 2030, they will probably be richer than they are today."[1]

There are a few cases of powerful politicians serving jail time. I can't think of a single case where a billionaire was put in jail, except for Madoff, because he was stealing from other billionaires. When you've got billions, you have enough to buy politicians every cycle. You are effectively above the law, forever, regardless of how well your initial product line is doing.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/opinion/sackler-family-op...
> I'd be careful about directly comparing prices, real estate taxes (by rate) in Texas are significantly higher than in California.

The two are directly linked, so this makes sense. A higher property tax means that the future annual rent (real rent if you're a landlord, imputed rent if you're a owner-occupier) you get from property will be reduced, so the capitalized present value will decrease correspondingly.
And io_uring is good enough that NT is copying the concept wholesale.

https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operati...
LN dev here. That seems strange, though in the last 6 years we have improved in all fronts.

It's been a while since I've had a payment outright fail, TBH.