skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do people really think that "agile" somehow magically enables employees to work at an accelerated pace for two or three weeks without exhaustion, downtime, or any negative side effects, and then turn around and do it again, indefinitely?

Yes, they're called management, and all A/agile is an excuse for them to engage in micromanagement under a different name. "We're not _micromanaging_, we're iterating!"
> Is it really a problem that some people work hard and take care of their kids?

Sort of. The article is about unhappiness in the society - including hard working child carers. It's not the reason for the problem, but it's a symptom.

> This seems disconnected from reality because I think one of the biggest job requirements these days is imagination and adaptability.

A person can be very imaginative at his or her work and took for granted some over-simplified models, like "unproven vaccines cause autism". Similarly, here imagination is needed to see the bigger picture.
Yes. We live in a world where our only real freedom is our purchasing decisions. I think that leads to people making brands, TV shows, video games, etc. a big enough part of their identity that criticism of that thing feels like criticism of them personally.
Are gun barrels unregulated in most US states? E.g. in Slovakia a barrel is considered a main weapon part, and case of short arms the slide is considered another main weapon part. So a Glock has serial numbers on the barrel, slide and also the body. You can buy the rest without any license or manufacture it if you want, but no one will sell you a barrel or slide unless you have a purchase permit. You can't sell it to someone else, you need to transfer the ownership.
And making a good and safe barrel and slide is the most complicated part, you can't just easily print this at home. So no one is printing guns in Slovakia yet (AFAIK :-)). And just for comparison - we have less strict rules than California (concealed carry is possible for regular citizen. Not limits on calibers or magazine capacity yet).
The author contradicts himself:

> Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity.

> The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.
Yeah most people don’t know that
At the low number of pages printed at home, I don’t mind buying the actual name-brand toner. If you’re only changing it every 2 years, the cost doesn’t matter much, and at least the company (i.e. Brother) gets some profit from being a good citizen. Going with non-OEM toner in that situation just drives the company into needing to find more revenue streams, such as locking down the cartridges, which undermines you. At some point people need to be willing to pay a little more to a company that treats them with respect.
I have a secular hypothesis about stupidity that echoes this: that it’s root is narcissism. A person becomes stupid when they come to believe that they could not be wrong.

This could be why profoundly accomplished people sometimes become stupid. Their accomplishment convinces them that they are intellectually superior, at which point they proceed to stop thinking critically.
Can I show you how to read the news? It goes like this...

- A drug from a car part??? What's in a catalytic converter?

- Google says: platinum (Pt), along with palladium (Pd), and rhodium (Rh). All three of these platinum group metals, or PGMs

- Is there a site that talks about every drug known? Yes, erowid.org

- Google: site:erowid.org platinum | palladium | rhodium

- Relevant Hit: "Palladium/Platinum Catalyst Preparation FAQ"

https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/pd-catalyst.faq.html

Which leads to...

Da da da ta da!

- Rhodium Archive
Snapshot from August, 2004.
Last Updated Mar 31, 2009

https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/

2004 folks, 2004. Now, you can read all about what is in these drug cocktails and how recreational and professional drug designers ply their trade.

That's how you read the news. You don't need to post wondering "what could be going on???" The author of the article didn't bother to include "there are indications that the active ingredient could be an element in the platinum group metals, maybe rhodium. The are signs of illicite designer drug research around these metals going back as far as 2004." But, it doesn't mean we need to wander around in the headspace of a casual current event type of world news piece. Just go get the answer and in so doing you get perspective on the designer drug industry and how this particular cocktail came about.
Depends on if they are starting to lose marketplace capture or not.
Yeah. You are talking about GBL [1, 2].

It is a solvent in some cleaning solutions, and can be converted to GHB.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Butyrolactone

2 - http://www.projectghb.org/content/what-ghb
From one point of view, non-x86 efficient laptops have been mainstream for Linux users for a long time in the form of ARM Chromebooks.
Just replace the word 'God' with 'The community', and religious theories tend to make a lot more sense.
Inverted union jack(any flag really) is a longstanding distress signal. It really wasn't that jarring of an aside, given this is someone who researched on the topic we might assume in good faith they have a reason for adding the detail tbh. It's a weird quibble.
I had a contrary experience and I stopped buying laser printers. I had to toss two Brother lasers in the trash because Brother's customer service on warranty repairs required more hoops than I was willing to deal with.

Meanwhile, I ended up with an HP OfficeJet Pro 8620 that was recommended years ago by The Wirecutter and I use HP's ink subscription service. It's never failed on me. It never jams. No fuser or toner to worry about. Ink just magically shows up at my house when I need it. The old cartridges go back to HP for recycling. It is the most reliable printer I have ever owned, and I've owned dozens of printers since the early 1980s of almost every technology. I love it. It is one of the few devices in my home that I can say it Just Works. I will be sad if it ever dies and I can't fix it.

Edit: I purchased the HP for $150 in May 2016 on closeout from Office Depot. I've been on the $5/mo or $10/mo plan since then depending upon family needs, so let's say I've spent another $500 since then on ink costs, so I'm at ~ $650 since May 2016. I've printed 16,083 pages, so my lifetime per-page cost is ~ $0.04.

Maybe my mistake was going with a cheap color laser. But I've been thrilled with this particular HP and the convenience of their ink subscription program. Meanwhile, Brother's customer service on the laser printers which failed under warranty was terrible. It was the Brother HL-3170CDW. This isn't my review, but it matched my experience, except I mistakenly bought a second printer so I could re-use supplies I already had for the model:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R32TEW142QU2G6/re...

Edit: reworded for tone. Thank you for the feedback below.
my system:

1. make sure you don't check all the time, set specific hours.

2. Skim, respond right away if possible.

3. If I didn't have time to respond or it was low priority
i'd mark as unread.

4. If it was high priority and I didn't have time to respond right then I would carve out time in my calendar to respond.

5. Review your queue of unread regularly but not as often as recent emails.

Generally I could tell how behind I was when traveling by the unread mail counter in outlook. If I prioritized well this seemed to work for me. Folders and filters never seemed to be able to ensure I wasn't missing things.
Are you talking about bleach? These fluids are disgusting :|
Ah yes. The lady at the front office surley has had any say in this.
It’s effective. As a programmer I frequently dismiss stupid, ineffective ideas. I don’t dismiss people, I dismiss their dumb ideas.

And actually, I try to improve and build with ideas.

These types of approaches seem dumb and ineffective so it’s odd to me that people would try them and be surprised at the outcome.

Doing a dumb thing doesn’t mean that I’m courageous. Conflating all dumb things with right things is weird to me.

Again, not to be old personish, but it’s ok to point out and not applaud ineffective, counterproductive techniques.

If someone comes to you and says “my goal is to improve apple” and the explains their plan to complain on Twitter and organize complaint groups inside apple, I think you would tell them that that approach is not likely to be effective (ie “dumb”). That doesn’t mean the person is bad or anything. Just that their plan is not good.

Also, using hyperbolic language like “it’s devastating” is weird to me. If this is devastating, then I want to find ways to protect you from truly devastating things in the world. It’s a great thing to be so privileged that internet discussions that you don’t agree with are devastating.
This is not typical. This is a deep pockets person using off-chain messaging which went awry. The people gaming the system understand the risks.

From the article, '... the participant attempted to use Flashbots to gain an advantage.'
Yup it's possible that someone some time in the future can manufacture hash collisions and poison any IPFS link they want.
It looks like an interesting project.

How does ISLisp compare to Common Lisp?
What I look for:

1. Unfortunately due to eye strain, my bare minimum requirement these days is high DPI displays (around or better than 200 pixels per inch) combined with pixel-perfect integer (2.0x) scaling with no blurring at the OS level.

That means if I want a 13" laptop with a working resolution of 1440x900, the native display resolution needs to be 2880x1800.

2. Good build quality - excellent trackpad, decent keyboard.

3. Battery life - more than 12 hours would be swell!

4. Weight - a light laptop makes life so much better.

5. Performance
that could be defeated with a simple UV filter over the camera lens, likely already in place

ir camera jamming is doable and well-known enough to appear in media like crime dramas

none of it is very practical because you're still extremely identifiable as "that one with all the lights" and presumably still visible in the visible spectrum

when police jam cameras at protests they just use bright visible strobes
Probably because they're not. It's just the offer cost of nuke in the market is substantially higher than the juggernaut of solar, so the "invisible hand" is pushing it's capacity factor (how often it runs) down considerably to where it can't make enough money to stay in business.

Of course this isn't 100% due to free markets as the subsidies of renewables allow them to offer in extremely cheaply, but it exacerbates the problem. Even without the subsidies, this would happen with current designs. Now of course there is "resiliency" value to having a nuke plant (example: when the sun doesn't shine) that is a value by itself, but it isn't being priced and paid for.
N64 in WebAssembly
Love getting my listicle fix on Hacker News. Next you'll be telling me I shouldn't be ordering an Irish Car Bomb[1] at a bar in Belfast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Car_Bomb
If you print photos, go to a print service.

How often do you print photos that you can't?
Good luck until you get "print head needs replacement" error, and realize that for some reason it's more expensive than the printer itself.
A list of `.new` domains to perform online actions in one quick action
Common to our views is that it can be deconstructed into limbic circuitry, and technology will eventually find its way there.
This certainly seems more likely than a cheap street drug that you can get for $1 containing ground-up platinum.
Printer companies have long lost their right to getting the benefit of the doubt.

At any rate, if your theory is correct then they are knowingly selling a defective product. Using the scanner is not a “corner case”, it’s one of the devices’ primary functions.
I've been using it for over a year now and it hardly uses any battery on my phone (Huawei Mate 10 Pro, Android 9, app is whitelisted from all battery optimization). It's so low in fact that it often doesn't even show up on the usage list, and if it does its 1-2%.
There's a bit of truth. The era of extremely engineered everything gave birth to flat design for instance. I'm not pro skeumorphism but I remember how odd software felt good in a way. As long as it was fun (good boards, useful programs) you ended up liking the quirks.
A New Way to Learn Kanji
Every Walmart can print photos in a hour for cheap, and if that’s not an option Shutterfly and friends are always doing sales (or free with shipping prints).
Didn't they try rescinding this deal? https://www.consumerreports.org/printers/hp-ends-free-ink-fo...

Regardless, the "free subscription" is no longer a thing that is available for purchase. It also doesn't seem cost effective, given the miniscule print quota; a single laser printer toner cartridge yields more than a decade of prints if you were able to somehow always hit exactly 15 pages a month.
It’s kind of a pain to go to the drug store at 9pm to Print your kids solar system project. Just saying
How about they make their money by selling a good printer? I don't have to buy has from my car company if I want a good car.
> I don’t think the US government had any intention of truly getting the US out of the 2008 recession.

Define "US government":

> I see the following scenario: a weak stimulus plan, perhaps even weaker than what we’re talking about now, is crafted to win those extra GOP votes. The plan limits the rise in unemployment, but things are still pretty bad, with the rate peaking at something like 9 percent and coming down only slowly. And then Mitch McConnell says “See, government spending doesn’t work.”

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/stimulus-arithm...

* https://archive.is/3zNYD

Some people in government were trying to improve the economy, while others were tamping down or even (arguably) sabotaging the recovery for political purposes.

Ever notice how the debt and deficits were bad under Obama, then not a problem under Trump… and now suddenly they are again and there's sudden talk about not raising the debt ceiling under a Democratic president… again.
Yes, this is my only beef with the laptop so far. I really hope we get a firmware update with S3 enabled soon.
I’m sorry, Rotterdam in the Netherlands? I’m not familiar with the politics of that nation. I specifically meant the US since that was the original subject of the post.

And even more specifically, California.
I’m pretty sure returning Optionals from a method always makes them “escape” and become heap allocated. Hopefully if Valhalla ever lands Optional will be a primitive class.

Here’s a fascinating read on the current state of HotSpot escape analysis:

https://gist.github.com/JohnTortugo/c2607821202634a6509ec3c3...
You can sometimes replace the filter (take the old one out and put it back in) and then reset the timer to get more water.
I think skeumorphism is ok as long as it doesn't forget it's software so physical limitations don't have to cripple the application. Best times is when you have a bit of skeumorphism and a bit of software extensibility / genericity.
Also, hydrogen being much lighter than air, a lot of the burning and associated heat was above the zeppelin.

Slightly related question: this film talks about “white hot steel”. It wasn’t steel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duralumin#Aviation_application...). Was it white hot?
WSJ is wildin' with this title
Dpi
Frame rate
Battery life
Weight
Responsiveness
> This really feels like a needlessly invented detail. There are accepted signals for distress, and you'd assume a lighthouse would be equipped for nautical signalling. Flying the union jack upside down is not one of them

Flying a national flag inverted was indeed the more common way of signalling distress for centuries and was by far the most likely way a lighthouse would have done it around 1800.

The Union Jack was only displayed in the top left of maritime flag at the time so it’s somewhat easy to see when the flag is inverted.
Mike Pence denies it.
Amusingly enough I believe it was esr’s rant on printers that started CUPS.
> When the human rights of older persons are not upheld- including the rights to equality in quality healthcare

I think this is a big issue in the west particularly. Our societies don't care about elderly people, they're not democratically represented, most governments don't have a ministry of old age (but do have ministries of educations and ministries of work), they can't produce anymore, they barely take part into the consumerist system we built, they're just there, left to rot in less than ideal and sometimes straight up indecent conditions in retirement houses which cost $$$$ a month. It's a hard problem and seemingly not so many people feel concerned enough so we just quietly ignore it
Would you rate the typical car buying experience as one that’s fair where the customer generally isn’t taken advantage of?
I’m doubtful that credit cards were as quickly successful as you imply. It takes time for consumer behavior to change. I couldn’t find a good link, but I vaguely remember a story about how BankAmerica had trouble at first after the Fresno drop?

The people claiming instant success in El Salvador are getting fooled by misleading numbers, but it’s at least plausible that this heavy promotion will eventually pay off there.
I don't think condescending is the right word here. Can't be sure without knowing your intent, but do you mean something like "should not be so accepting of proprietary firmware"?
Have a look at my company https://info-beamer.com. It operates a Pi based signage platform with lots of possiblities to completely customize what happens on the screen. It can directly import packages that control what happens from github, where you also find a lot of the code for the existing solutions: https://github.com/info-beamer. The OS is minimal (~40MB currently) and trivial to install.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hive_(website)

Different sense of the word Rhodium there I think.

Between the platinum getting stolen and sold, the platinum getting stolen and used by dealers to prepare some drug and the platinum getting put into a street drug so it can be used in a reaction by users, I'm gonna go with the platinum getting stolen and sold.
You'll burn the top of the loaf if you try to bake a typical artisan batard or boule in a commercial pizza deck oven, due to radiative heat from the top of the oven. You could probably get away with focaccia or similar short flat-top breads.

Items per unit baker time doesn't really matter. 5 pizzas takes say 15-20 minutes of baker+oven time and gives you (using your numbers from up thread) $76 revenue (net ingredient costs). 3 dozen loaves takes a similar amount of baker time, 3x as much oven time (and probably at least double the required oven volume), gives you similar revenue, and is much harder to sell.
I've been using uptime-kuma as an alternative which has recently become more popular in the self-hosting/homelabbing community.

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
Yeah the old Pinterest logo is great. The old Spotify logo really isn't. Which is not to say they did a very good job on the new one....
It’s hard for us to determine what’s in the company’s best interest. It seems to me that the ex-employee was being counterproductive, but what do I know.

The organization is the best equipped to understand the best interests over a single employee.

The challenge is that many fired employees will think they are right and the company was wrong. If there’s lawbreaking then maybe a judge will decide.

It’s like asking prisoners if they are guilty. They all say not guilty. And some are right and the institution was wrong. But typically the institution is right.

With private companies that’s the trade off. Management will decide and fire.
Not in any usable form. But I do intend to blog about it once I clean it up. :)
drought in California does not impact the Hoover Dam.

The drought in question is a drought in the entire western US (and therefore the Colorado river basin).
Ironically if you had actually checked what you linked you wouldve seen there's no discussion of rhodium as a drug but simply an archive that happens to have the name rhodium with information about unrelated drugs.
Not in any usable form. But I do intend to blog about it once I clean it up.
Rare companies doing that these days. At least Brother and Epson seems to be decent. Canon and HP really need to reconsider their tactics otherwise it will damage their brands for decades to come like that famous computer brand that outsource support to India which affected the sales and then pull out from public listing to private.
What do you do when you have close to 50/50 power dynamic and both sides think the other is stupid?
Catalytic converters are stolen frequently even in Europe for their Pt and Pd content, so my guess would be that these guys are snorting exhaust residues, not precious metals.
Not to be meant snarky, but I think the office world should strive to print much less at all.

Working at a University it is mind boggling to me how much paper is waster because someone internally decided they need a real signature. Not all my colleagues are savyy enough to paste a scanned signature into a pdf.
What are you on about? Rhodium was the name of one of those old school knowledge base websites and I have no idea what hit you got on palladium but it seems to be involved in synthesis.
at least 8 cores, Nvidia GPU, at least 1 tb of storage, the bigger the better as long as the power brick isn't too big. I don't care about battery life since I regularly max out cpu/GPU and will eat through any battery.

I don't care about portability since I lift.
Any company that has or had anything to do with Decentraland, specifically, is not to be taken seriously.
I'm disappointed to see websites stack increasing amounts of JS to micro-optimize page appearance, when New York Times won't even load images below the first one per article with JS disabled.
From the first page,

“Similarly, in Mexico, — often taken to mean “solidarity” or “resistance” elsewhere — is actually closer to giving someone the middle finger in the U.S. (Technically, it bids the receiver to do something unconscionable to their own mother.)”

I have never heard of being offensive, nor would I have considered it such receiving it.

Has anyone else found this to be true?
I'm personally in the market for an as-close-to-infinitely upgradable laptop. Ideally, I'd like to be able to mod it as much as I can do with my desktop rig, in a format that I can carry around.

- Need a bigger battery? Here's some OEM batteries for you.

- Your chipset is getting old, here's motherboards you can buy

- Need an OLED screen? Here's a couple

- More memory? Sure, there's 4 easy to access slots in there

Ideally in a format that fits in a backpack

Been dreaming about something like this for SO long
Yes, everything “may have real implications” on something. Removing agency from dying individuals, as anti-cannabis laws do, is most certainly paternalistic authoritarianism.

And come on, we’re past this point in the medicine now. By the time any mental health implications take root, the person is dead. That’s why I said “palliative care”. Anyone refusing marijuana for analgesia to someone suffering from terminal illness is violating the Hippocratic Oath. The science is clear.
> Why not shoot the mortar round at the enemy instead?

Because all you need is a cheap ass drone and anyone over the age of 10 to pilot it

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/01/drones-isis/13...

https://youtu.be/cz2jrmnm7ds