skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know several people in this position. They are largely choosing to work the minimum number of hours that pay the bills instead of a steady 40-ish hours per week at a main gig because that has become difficult. These are people that make $20-40/hr and accustomed to living inexpensively.

The entire system is caught in a vicious cycle. Restrictions on businesses left them in zombie half-open/half-closed states that destroyed their staffing for the last 18 months. Employees and employers adapted to the reality that aimless government mandates would almost arbitrarily change their staffing requirements on a week by week basis. Employee behavior changed to diversify their exposure to this risk, spreading a handful of hours across a large number of businesses. Inability to reliably staff means businesses are significantly reducing opening hours, which means that employees that do want regular 40 hours are having a harder time getting them even though businesses have few restrictions now. Because it is too difficult to coordinate across multiple part-time jobs, most limit it to a manageable subset that pay enough to pay the bills; even though they are making less than before they've learned to live in this new reality somewhat comfortably. Also, many service workers left the city and moved back home during this time to save money, and it still doesn't make much sense for them to move back.

At least in my city, the various business closures and restrictions over 18 months broke a metastable economic equilibrium and we are now stuck in a new equilibrium where even well-paid workers have their hours fragmented over multiple jobs. Everyone is finding it difficult to reverse this situation because it doesn't make economic sense for anyone individually because it exposes them to a lot of risk -- everyone would have to change their behavior together. I expect things to return to normal eventually, the current situation profits neither employers nor employees, but it will take a while. There is an interesting economic lesson here.
We absolutely can blame the LNP, because they are the Goverment, they draft the laws, they introduce them as Government bills in the parliament, they put them on the notice paper, they determine the sitting schedule that allows them to be debated and passed, they have the majority on the House committees that scrutinise them and they direct the Governor-General to provide royal assent.

They also are the the Ministers that promulgate regulations under those bills and direct their Departments to implement them.

The LNP owns this.
I spent time skipping back and forth in the video looking for the side by side(raw vs yt) until it dawned on me. I may in fact be an idiot.
I've been seeing this yearly for the last decade.
walking five miles to work
Don’t feed the troll, man. This person clearly has an axe to grind against working from the office and nothing you say will help them see the other side.
> AUD 300 billion to save 70,000 lives

You keep quoting 300 billion, where are you getting that from?
The unfortunate thing about that is that it's wrong. I don't mean the usage, I'm British so I'm firmly 'lots of Lego', but it's obviously a noun. Using it to describe a brick etc. doesn't preclude that. (It's 'attributive', or 'adjunct'.)
whoever wrote that has never finished or contributed substantially to a project.
Or with the Access and Disrupt bill, it’s no longer much of a stretch to ‘add and modify’ some illegal material onto your computers and devices…
>I tried setting it up on a VPS on Ubuntu the other day, got it installed after doing some config files, connected to the tunnel, could access the server but not the wider Internet. Made about 4-5 config changes per a bunch of Stackoverflow posts then gave up since nothing worked.

I ran into this also. The docs are quite bad, in the sense that they assume a lot on the part of the reader and only cover a fairly simple use case.
I quit Amazon a few months ago for the same reason. Holy shit Amazon culture does not work over video. I used to work hard, but I would stay late with my cool team and we’d build things. That stopped happening and I burned out.
Choosing a language based on hiring ease is not completely awful. For example where I’m at now we use Go, which is relatively popular, and we’re having an insane time even getting applicants.
GHSL-2021-1012: Poor random number generation in keypair – CVE-2021-41117
This assumes the workers are choosing between no income and low income when they are actually choosing between low income and low income (but no work).
The median covid death is 85 years old? Where did you get that number? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

Using the US dataset as an example of mortality when covid-19 is allowed to spread unrestricted in a population, 700,952 died. Only 193k were 85 and older, so the median covid death must be younger than that - in the lower end of the 74-85 age cohort where another 185k have died.
> different people are subject to different rules, regulations, and laws depending on their identity.

Actually, there were wars, treaties, legal agreements, etc that created this system. It has little to do with identity, in terms of how it came about. Except, maybe, for the fact that certain "identities" were subject to genocide for much of the 20th century.
Ozy Media and Embracing ‘Fake It Till You Make It:’ Scott Galloway
Just want to say both of these responses are awesome. Sent off a kicad file to OSHPark for a dual +/- 15V supply using the same circuit twice. Will see how it works out :-)
I very much want to stay away from sharing indoor space with other humans for the foreseeable future. All of them (including me) have to be presumed virus spreaders. If you have to be in an office, ventilation is important because the virus is certainly airborne despite CDC and others running away from this (acknowledging it would complicate a lot of protocols I guess).

You can get a fairly affordable CO2 meter (like $50, don't get the $10 kind that measures VOC as a proxy for CO2) and use that to indicate how much of the air you inhale was previously exhaled by someone else. School classrooms are showing 2000+ ppm of CO2. Ignoring the controversial topic of whether so much CO2 impairs cognition, that really does seem to be enough re-breathed air to spread infection.

I could handle going into an office at times of day when no one else was around, but that probably defeats the purpose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...
Yes, well that’s why I want some good independents (even Greens would be better than what we have now) holding the balance of power. The two party system isn’t working.
For sure. Even then, the techniques used by builders at the beach seem to allow houses to endure a long time.
I mean, it's a fair take to argue that CEO-ship ought to be meritocratic, in the sense of only hiring extremely exceptional individuals. If you're just an average jobsworth doing a merely 'decent' job, you shouldn't be the ceo of any company.

It's kind of similar to airline pilots or surgeons, where we have to demand "excellence" as a lowest-common-denominator. At that level, they need to be graded on a reverse curve, where unlike regular grades, where a mere 65% score is a passing grade — for those folks, nothing less than a 95% should be a passing grade.

It's easy to make the argument for airline pilots and surgeons, because the human tragedy that results from their potential incompetence is immediate and obvious. I feel like the tragedy that comes out of incompetent CEOs is a lot more insidious, and sneaky. Poorly run companies, and depressing "waste of life" has ruined a lot of people's lives.

In fact, one could dare to surmise that it's actually, statistically speaking, directly killed a lot of people (an easy low-hanging fruit here would be safety stuff that OSHA doesn't cover), but there's a lot of mental health stuff we don't track as well. This whole line of thinking reminds me a lot of Florence Nightengale — her primary contribution to medical statistics was to take something that people brushed off as irrelevant or not-causal, and prove that it was a primary malefactor. She convinced the british top brass that the bulk of their deaths during war had nothing to do with enemy action, or even hospital deaths from injury, but literally was just caused by petty diseases, due to poor barracks sanitation amongst uninjured men.
> “Australian police show up on the doorstep with screenshots of social media posts. You see where this is going now?”

Source and video: https://twitter.com/crypto_bitlord7/status/14472012597825044...
https://budget.gov.au/2021-22/content/covid.htm
Please explain how am I using this number incorrectly? What is the correct number I should be using instead?
AFAIK there isn't any great way. pg_similarity etc. offer useful functions, but that doesn't help with big-O here. And the indexing capabilities that exist are only useful for geometry/geography, not abstract metric spaces (the mathematical sense of "metric space", examples of metrics being Hamming distance or Levenshtein distance).
I haven't found a DBMS optimized for metric spaces at all actually.
The second best solution I've got is just using a columnar DBMS like ClickHouse, which still needs to scan all values, but at least that reads values from a blob which _only stores that specific column_ – hugely faster than parsing whole rows.
The lack of the ideal solution is why I'm building Emdrive, an RDBMS with first class support for similarity search, based on indexing with an M-tree variation. Still very early stages ;) https://github.com/Twixes/emdrive
My Microsoft account was hacked 2 years ago, and after spending 3 days with support trying to get my account back, I finally bit the bullet and switched to Linux. Being able to just make an account on my computer without being connected to the internet felt like I was transported to some fantasy realm. What's that, the software store lets me download things without an account? Feels like Cloud 9 to me.
It is also possible to use carbon fiber reinforced polymer rebar.
This is not really a false dichotomy. The only other option would be to delay/cancel this project to just do the same thing in the same way somewhere else, which isn't really that different of an option.

For your example, it is almost literally impossible to destroy enough SFH's to build skyscraper apartments (where do these people go?) even if these SFH lots were somehow also zoned for massive skyscrapers (which they are certainly not).

I think your example is not necessarily a bad idea either, it's just an impossible idea. Nowadays we just can't simply displace thousands of people and then build structures in areas that aren't zoned for those structures.
Hey there! I'm one of the folks who's worked / working on making PAIP readable online. The Safari version is captured in the epub version, so no trial is needed.
A very clever comment, you must be proud of it.

I have my shots for all of those things, as well as covid. I'd definitely be happy in a place that has moved on and doesnt make me prove it every time I want to go out for a beer. So yes, definitely on the list of rational places I'm considering moving to.

Even if its initially inconvenient personally, I think it is good for people to be able to move to jurisdictions that match their desire for state enforced health theatre (measures for our safety). If you don't like the freedom to make your own choices, move out of Texas (I'm overlooking a massive counterexample that I don't agree with at all), if you want to be free from government intervention in relation to health (again, except a clear massive failing that I expect will be sorted soon), it seems like a good spot.
After doing 5 years of interviews, I think part of the issue is Amazon doesn’t really do onboarding, so everyone is scared of making an L6 offer, because the new hire is expected to perform equal to an L6 who has already been at Amazon for years, on day 1.
I'm using the australian numbers

So you found one number in my argument that you dont like and that invalidates my entire point? Is that what you're saying? What number would you prefer instead of the 85? Does that change everything?
There are some bounds on this, I’ve seen plenty of situations where VPs may not be prescribing technical solutions because they are so far out of touch they can’t even understand the solution options in play.
Spotted early Blender in the first episode of The Billion Dollar Code [image]
Things have been pretty sweet (except for the quarantine limits) in NZ until the last month or so. I spent all of last summer there and life was like normal.

Back home in Melbourne there's essentially been various levels of lockdown continuously for 18 months.

Currently there is a nighttime curfew in place, limits on how long you allowed outside (pretty much unenforceable though), compulsory mask wearing anywhere outside of the home, permits required to go to your place of work, no right to protest, no right to organise your fellow citizens to protest, etc. It's pretty scary to me that all that can be brought in and accepted by large parts of the population.

How long will it take to unwind all this? I imagine it will be at least another year or two before we properly return to normal.
Bit chicken and egg -- nobody uses it because nobody writes it. I think once in a while a small team of aficionados will write a project in it and then eventually rewrite as it becomes evident that it's too hard to hire for. At least this is what Reddit did.

If you're the one person responsible for the project and are not super worried about people picking CL up, then I think CL fans will go for it. That's what Robert/stylewarning did at HRL and Rigetti and he says it's worked well.
I live in Vancouver and there are two families in my daughter’s class that built one very large house with two kitchens (which is common here in Vancouver for a basement suite or wok kitchen) and in the final stage they built a dividing wall and basically have a duplex now on a lot zoned for single family detached.
Why use the Australian numbers to argue that AU should have taken the USA’s approach of unrestricted covid spreading?

Australia’s numbers won’t match what happens when covid-19 spreads widely, because they successfully stopped it.
Discord definitely checks your process list, that's well-known and obvious (by default it shows everyone which game you're currently playing, if any).

Given that that information does go to the server, there's no way to know what it's used for.
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Android, and not using VLC to adjust audio delay?
These guys spent the night on the Silent-Yachts one a ~month ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIte4FNI0U0
The actual law [1] says almost nothing about banning gasoline-powered engines, but rather details reducing emissions. CO2 is not considered an emission, which comprises "including oxides of nitrogen (NOx), reactive organic gases (ROG), and particulate matter (PM)." ICE cars can qualify as "zero emissions vehicles".

Banning ICEs for portable equipment is absurd [2]. The power density just isn't there. Plus, what if you need to charge your battery equipment? Are you gonna use a battery powered generator? Of course not.

> (E) Expected availability of zero-emission generators and emergency response equipment.

This is clamping down on things like sooty two-stroke weedwackers and force them to have some kind of emissions controls. May even require a catalytic converter on all ICEs. It's not a blanket ban on all ICEs.

Ok downvoters, read the law/proposal and tell me where I'm wrong.

1 - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

2 - anyone thinking "but batteries" I challenge you to hike 200m into the woods and up a 100m hill with a battery powered chainsaw and spares, I'll bring 2 gallons of petrol and a Husqvarna, we'll see who fells more trees. That was my summer of 2017, good times.
I wouldn't count on the name sticking, either.
> It's a forgone conclusion that no country in the world will let you in without proof of COVID vaccination.

There are countries that require all arrivals to quarantine regardless of vaccination status. I live in one of them (Taiwan).

The issue with COVID vaccination is that it's still possible to become infected and transmit the virus to others even if you're vaccinated, so requiring vaccination for arrivals is a good way for countries to reduce the risk of arrivals getting seriously ill and burdening their healthcare systems, but it doesn't at all prevent the virus (including possibly new variants) from being introduced into their populations.

The science shows that neutralizing antibody levels wane quickly after COVID vaccination, and with Delta, this appears to be what's causing large numbers of breakthroughs. For example, we had a case here recently where an ostensibly healthy airline pilot in her 40s caught a Delta breakthrough case just 2 months after she received her second Moderna jab.

A single jab of yellow fever vaccine on the other hand provides lifelong protection and we have decades of data showing its efficacy. Also of great importance to note: unlike SARS-CoV-2, yellow fever does not transmit directly from person to person.
> "The Billion Dollar Code" is a 2021 German television miniseries starring Björn Freiberg, Seumas F. Sargent and Leonard Scheicher. The series is based on true events, of how Joachim Sauter went to court with his company Terravision against Google.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code
> more complicated design/brainstorming has been slower

Could you say a little more about why you feel this to be the case? I haven't noticed much slowdown at all.
The words “tyranny” and “authoritarian” have become so overused since 2020 it’s almost comical. All over the English speaking world, not just Australia. Every little thing an authority does that someone doesn’t like is now called tyranny. Masks are tyranny. Vaccines are tyranny. Kicking a jerk out of your store is tyranny. The word has been watered down and exaggerated to the point of meaninglessness. After the boy cries wolf too often, if some kind of tyranny actually does happen, there won’t even be a strong word to describe it anymore.
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> There is no shortage of labor. There is just a shortage of labor at the price workers are willing to accept.

If there are 100 workers and 200 employers, only 100 of the employers is going to get a worker.
Perhaps you haven't been following the Steam Deck, Proton and Linux Anticheat but there has been some progress.

Somebody posted this to reddit the other day.

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

Battle Eye and Easy Anti Cheat are both working, but the developers need to update.
Per my other comment, this is one of the tyrannical neighbors that wants to control you. Should he / she really have a say in what you are able to do? I find the idea horrifying.
I am not always crypto advocate but how can any person take this seriously, what a massive conflict of interest we have here. If I ran some large business I probably also would say some potential competitor was worthless and due for regulation. Maybe bitcoin is not a competitor, but maybe it is, and maybe some other "fintech" or "defi" is a future competitor, if Dimon tar Bitcoin as a bad scam tech now and get these regulations he is stopping future competition before it becomes any problem.
Sigh. I’ll remind you that calling other people trolls here is verboten, so please don’t do that.

If you bothered to read what I wrote, you’d realize I haven’t said that going to the office is bad. I have my own preferences, yes, but I also gave clear room for the fact that others might have different preferences than me (“you do you”, “not for me, but that’s fine I guess”). I even made it clear I’d prefer to work from the office with a short commute than half time from an expensive city, but why let nuance get in the way of a good ad hominem?

What I am absolutely adamant is about is that companies are clear about what they’re expecting and offering. What I’m railing against here is companies offering “WFH” and then demanding people come to the office on short notice, a practice which I think is misleading at best. That should have been extremely clear from the context. This is in fact the third time I’ve said it. In fact I said that such policies are fine as long as they aren’t marketed as WFH, even though personally I wouldn’t want to work that way.

Also, since when is having a preference “having an axe to grind”? How bizarre.
That's what a common carrier is. It's not such a stretch to apply that to general purpose hosts.

And if what you say is right, how can the parent propose requiring banks to process any legal transaction?
Police going door to door in NSW/VIC investigating protestors against lockdowns months after they have occurred. I assume you will support similar surveillance of BLM protestors?

NSW: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/09/23/australia...

VIC: https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1447314509949984768
Crypto is so worthless that we need to heavily regulate it to make sure it does not become too valuable.
Forget the crocs, taipans, funnel-webs, box jellies, drop bears, etc.... It's the Cassowaries you need to remember not to fuck with. Those fuckers are huge and mean.
One thing I found helpful was some chill time in virtual rooms periodically. For those who opted in it seemed to work well. For folks who are all business all the time it was fine to opt out.

IME different life seasons can bring different preferences. With a young family and project house I don't want to socialize as much with coworkers as I did when I was a single 20 something.
Boston is often compared to a European city. I also think I fit your observation pretty well, as I can't wait to be back in our downtown office. I'm looking forward to a 25 minute bike commute and being in a lively area packed with things to do. The routine gives me a little bit of everything (exercise, people, fresh air, and amenities) and it's conveniently built right into the work day.
You are of course completely correct
Roman concrete and general architectural prowess should be a hint that technology is not always improving over time.

It baffles me that people studying the longevity of Roman concrete tends to attribute it merely to luck… Since when astonishing technology performance is found by luck? I think it is was more likely found with a lot of experiments and progressive improvements over centuries.
It would be a hell of a lot easier for the west to understand China if China would let their citizens interact with the wider internet.
> Chinese faith in their government

This does not really exist. Explanation:

Corruption in its forms – bribes, nepotism, scams perpetrated by officials, selective law enforcement, exploitation of socialised resources and capital for personal gain by officials, arbitrate rule changes without prior notice – are experienced by the populace on a daily basis from their local-level government. It creates magnitudes stronger problems than theatrics and gridlock. There is no one who is content with the work and quality of the local-level government. The people can only bitch in private because they know that public petitions are ignored and protests/demonstrations/riots are swiftly cracked down.

The effects of the high-level government OTOH usually cannot be seen or felt directly. A constructed image of the effects is disseminated by the propaganda arm of the party through newspapers, tv and radio, internet. People do like these success stories, but they are not accurate w.r.t. reality.