skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We also use contracting services for things like janitors here. The startup I used to work for didn't need dedicated cleaners, we needed maybe 1/4th of a dedicated cleaner. So we had an external service that paid to have someone come in and take care of all the things. But they in turn worked for a company that ensured they had all these things. So the costs were passed onto us, but only a fraction of it.

As for pensions it depends a lot on the specifics of the company. There are state run pensions here in the NL. Additionally you have some that unions, or the government have negotiated industry wide. So if you are involved in hospitality, restaurants, and similar then there is a special pension that automatically gets paid into every month. I don't really know the specifics because I'm not part of said pension.

The state pension is somewhere between 700 (each if in a couple) or 1100 (if single) a month. This is then supplemented by private pensions which are afaik basically required to be offered by all companies, even if they aren't created equally, and as mentioned above there are special industry or union pensions. Then add in things like socialized housing (which is much nicer than in the US or UK), and the lack of need for a car here and you can get by much more easily.
I'm not so sure any country has a good handle on it right now. The US is in a pretty miserable situation, which means all the countries that rely on us are in an equally bad if not worse position. How else is the rest of western Europe handling this?
My social circle is in CA. None of us pay any attention whatsoever to prop65 labels. They're about as useful as any other type of product or business labeling: there's so much of it that it's just visual noise that's long-ago been brainfiltered out of existence.
I would ignore the CS degree requirement. In my experience there are plenty of shops that will happily look at someone with no degree as long as it's supplemented with some other way of showing you have relevant experience.

If you want to look at a career change I would say you need to do the following:

1. Start learning the current state of the art. You might be surprised how much of your previous experience is still relevant.

2. Build some things that are a little more ambitious than maintaining a blog or home automation. Feature those things in your resume. If you can show the code you wrote when building it on Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket or something then that's a great way to provide a substitute for academic credentials.
Do they at least allow you to set up CNAMEs?
On the contrary, the specialized lab for volatiles has been in space for years already on ISS. They bring samples back to prove it works, and it does.

You’re now moving the goalposts from “no food is edible for 5 years” to “MREs don’t count”.

And the trip from Earth to Mars is only like 4 months if you use a BIG ROCKET. :) 4 months without resupply is no huge challenge.
If there's a religion for hating systemd, I want to be one of the high priests.
We hear that argument a lot with space but why can't we apply that same principle to healthcare? Or renewables? Why is it that pouring billions of dollars into space is considered as potentially improving humanity but other things don't get the same treatment?
Perl was python before python was python, and booking.com is old.
org-mode. Nuff said.
Before the emissions control feeding frenzy begins, let's try to remember that further regulation without industry input contributes to further inflation & moves more polluting production overseas where we have no control over its impact on the world.

Yes, we should aim for zero emissions. Yes, the health impacts carry their own costs not to mention the human tragedy. However, good public policy is about rewarding good behavior (eg. tax credits) and punishing bad behavior (eg. tax, enforcement, penalties). Everyone loves to talk about the latter, while the former is ignored.

We really need to be long-term smart about how we craft environmental policy in America, and particularly so given other countries unwillingness to manage pollution in an effective or transparent manner.
“My journey so far”, by a data analytics student
acme.sh - a shell script that I use to create "Let's Encrypt" SSL certificates - creates and maintains directories with asterisks in them:

https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/1408

This is the sysadmin equivalent of piercing your nose just to make your parents mad.
Judges can't commit malpractice, they do not represent anyone.
Homerun hacked, job application and personal info exposed for a week
Hi, I'm the site creator, just saw this posted! Happy to field questions.

The site is due for an update, I've been compiling a lot more resources and bolstering some of the arguments with more data, but lately I've been spending a lot of time on these cyclist PoV videos https://twitter.com/CarsDontFitJC

To briefly touch on a few common q's I see cropping up here:
- Yes, cycling infrastructure is really bad everywhere in the US (some places worse than others). That's orthogonal to most of the things that are great about e-bikes though. Better infra, and more e-bikes, are both part of fixing the US's horribly broken urban transportation landscapes.
- "Rain and snow": it's just not that hard to make biking reasonable in all but the most inclement weather, and anyway, solving {traffic, parking, traffic violence, air pollution, noise pollution, emissions} on the other ≈95% of the days would be extremely good for everyone (including drivers). Making everyone wear a "$40k internal combustion parka" everywhere is not a good solution either!

I really appreciate the thoughtful feedback and discussion I have some related projects with cool software angles I am hoping to post here as well, soon™
I don’t think this is so much an age thing as a programmer thing. Old people will still name files all sorts of things, and a lot of young programmers today avoid spaces.
Thank you! Your point is reasonable.
More information, https://www.blissymbolics.org/
We can chew gum and walk at the same time. Space exploration really doesn't detract from combatting climate change or pollution. Those are both political issues really.

Visiting the Moon, and establishing a base there will help in establishing colonies on Mars and in the Belt.
And don't despair. The Earth is much more resilient than many give it credit for.
There's a mountain of research. I'll cite the classic pro-homework paper by Cooper which synthesizes a whole bunch of moderate to low quality studies. https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Does-Homewor... , because I think it shows how lacking the optimistic case is and lets you get to a whole lot of the rest of the research both ways.

A small (effectively zero) positive correlation was found between the amount of time a student says they spent on homework in elementary and achievement, but a slight negative (effectively zero) correlation was found when looking at the time parents reported students spending on it.

These measures don't show a causal relationship: "good students" are more likely to do homework. "poor students" are more likely to take a lot of time to complete the same amount of homework.

Elementary student reports of time spent on homework are not reliable. Parent reports are even worse.

The only causal evidence of a benefit in assigning homework in elementary comes from two short-term intervention studies: whether giving a homework take-home worksheet about vocabulary improves performance on the next vocabulary test (it seems so, very slightly). The longest term observational studies show a negative effect.
Everything in moderation (except for moderation)
An Update on Waterfox Classic
Great, now I have to trust this wonderful algorithm.
I wouldn't be so sure. How do you allocate resources and pick the best prospects in your alternative, presumably centrally directed, economy?
Any particular reason why you use an iPad for note taking over a Wacom or remarkable?
It's not that. A $800 iPhone and a $900 Samsung (US prices) will often end up costing the the same in the EU
It really takes weeks and months for the body to fully adjust to a diet. Also the body can suddenly change and one needs another kind of diet.
Does the Next Generation of Static Site Generators Make Building Sites Better?
> Wasn't one of the problems with Columbia the advanced age of the shuttle?

No. The problem that led to the loss of Columbia was fundamental and well understood - if underestimated - since STS-1 was inspected after its first landing.
This paper (J.Nutr.139:2365–2372,2009) 'A New Dietary Inflammatory Index Predicts Interval Changes in Serum High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein' explains what this is about & lists foods and constituents included in the inflammatory index DII. They used a literature search to link six inflammatory markers (cytokines)with foods associated with their increase or decrease and there is evidence of a regulatory function.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777480/
From the research linked in the article:

“The inflammatory potential of diet was assessed through a DII score which considers literature-derived associations of 45 food parameters with levels of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the blood; higher values indicated a more pro-inflammatory diet.”

This doesn’t negate the potential problems of self-reported diet, though.
But if a bunch of companies are moving to Texas, doesn't that make it easier to switch between the companies that are moving to Texas? BTW, Austin has had a strong tech and start-up culture for at least the last 30 years.
To add: when you install software yourself you choose this, when your install software from e.g. a distribution package it is chosen by the package maintainers, and to a larger extent the maintainers of the distribution.

This is one of the big advantages of using a pre-made advantages of using a ready-made Linux distribution: beyond the convenience of having an installer or easy to install packages, you get some assurance that the system as a whole has been thoughtfully put together.

Arch Linux for example symlinks /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /lib to /usr/lib among other things.
Is there any study that shows that nightshades increase inflammation. There are tons of studies showing that tomatoes lowers inflammation. Here is an example.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766234/
> … even if you approach this from a very strict Libertarian perspective, this regulation is pretty definitively an outcome that resulted from the free decisions of the majority of people who chose to live inside the state.

Are you serious?

If you approach this from a "very strict Libertarian perspective" then the rights of the 25% (at least) who did not vote in favor of this rule are being infringed. It doesn't matter that a majority were in favor, because Libertarian ideology is not collectivist. Individual people have rights which are independent of what the majority choose.

> My point is, I don't really see a huge fundamental difference between a free market deciding that a product isn't worth producing and a free democracy deciding that a product isn't worth producing.

In the former case, if someone does decide to produce the good for others to use they are free to do so, even if the majority disagree. And if you really can't find anyone willing to produce the good you want to buy (unlikely), you can at least make it yourself without penalty. The difference between "no one is obligated to produce what you want" and "other people can use force to stop you and others from producing what you want for yourselves" is perfectly obvious.

> If the voters don't want automobile manufacturers to violate their privacy, and they want to pass a law about it, that's their choice as a community.

More collectivist nonsense. The rights of the voters favoring this measure, as a group, do not exceed the sum of the rights of the individual voters, and no individual voter has the right to use force to prevent other people from making or buying products the voter doesn't approve of. Ergo, the group also lacks any right to enforce their will in this matter on the minority who disagreed. They are not a party to the transaction and have no standing to interfere.
it's not hard, here's how i do it on a laptop w/gnome:

left click -> entire trackpad

right click -> 2 fingers entire trackpad or control + entire trackpad
You've got a stray single quote in your shell. :)
You are assuming that I am comparing the private school to a poor public school district. I'm not. I live in a wealthy public school district. There are zero impoverished kids in the public schools here, which I actually think really sucks.

The point being, there is no excuse. The stats on this school district are public, and it's very wealthy.
You don't even need to rearrange the folders themselves, just show them like that in the file explorer. Same way the windows explorer does.
Congratulations! Every so often I get the urge to boot up Godot again. It’s come a long way.
From the article - "how many of my remaining days will I wake up and ask, “What do I want to do today?” I had a stretch of almost a year pre-Gusto where I got to ask that question most days. Glorious. I want more of those"

It sounds like the author did, indeed, get a preview of their retirement life and found it fulfilling, and now they're working to get back there.
Well, this is awesome -- but fuck me: Vue is the only major player not under the Vercel umbrella now, haha.

Looks like I might have to phone in half a decade of experience.

Svelte is close enough to Vue with "script setup" mode anyways, the major difference is whether your logic/keywords go INSIDE the HTML tags or OUTSIDE.

Svelte doesn't support JSX/TSX though =(
A non-earmarked donation for general development sounds particularly generous, that's great.

I have a litany of particular complaints about every game engine or framework I've ever tried, but Godot is by far my favorite option for 2D game development. The scene tree model works extremely well, and C# is pretty close to a first class citizen at this point.
The mnt is far more open as well, but there's no comparison in the performance department... you'd have to treat the mnt more like a very underpowered, memory-constrained netbook.
Not sure when HN took such a turn to the conspiratorial. The signal to noise ratio is getting really low these days, might finally be time to give up on this site, because dang seems uninterested in the problem.
This was exactly one of the concerns of those of us that criticized AstaZeneca in the past and wanted to wait for Biontech/Pfizer - that the vaccine will be considered second rate.

It was of course dismissed, just like the concerns about the blood clots were in the beginning.

Also recently several countries started recommending against using Moderna for under 30s due to the higher risk of heart issues compared to Biontech/Pfizer.
This is something i'm also concerned with when it comes to electric vehicles. I don't necessarily think the average 4000 lbs family sedan should be doing 0-60 in 3 seconds.
Experimenting with Programmatic SEO
We want to measure something - not feelings. What can be measured?
UTF-8 strings aren’t reproducible anyways. User ID should be strictly for identification, be alphanumeric random string if necessary.
Okay, but what about ProgramData? I have enough programs that put their junk in there instead of Program Files, and others that make their own directories on the root of the drive (driver installers are really bad about this).

I think the best model I've seen for consistent binary locations is the 'Applications' folder in Mac OS X, but it fails as well by retaining the /usr/bin elsewhere.
I tell this anecdote: ask a farmer from 1900, what he wanted, he'd say "A horse that pulls more weight and eats less oats!"

He'd never have said "I need a tractor"
You guys should try Fibery.io
It's web based, not vim based, isn't it?
You are right. My minimal research was inadequate. There are some shonky kits on EBay for £53 that don't include the battery. At least one on Amazon for £80, but looking more carefully its probably looking more like £350 to £400.
Let me guess:

You don't have kids in school, do you? It amazes me how many people with absolutely no skin in the game comment on this stuff.
The most successful things for user engagement have always been porn. Of course, that's banned, so what happens is the closest thing to "porn within the rules".

Whatever they can get away with . . . and once they are big enough, and have teams of high paid lawyers ready to fight, they can get away with almost anything. Often times, the fines are a nano fraction of the earnings they made off their immoral, unethical behavior.
Could you please stop posting ideological battle comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that, regardless of their ideology, because it's (a) not what this site is for, and (b) destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> they will investigate the issue and build a safer one the next time

The parallels between the new Starship and the Comet are many. As excited as I am to see the new Starship flying, and I would fly it, I wouldn't want my children to fly on it.

At least, not the landing part. If they could launch and perform all exatmospheric activities in a Starship yet land in a Dragon (or Soyuz) I'd be fine with that.
I think the headline is getting ahead of reality by about 30 years.
Not a helpful answer but I’ve written a few Slack bots for internal teams. I can’t easily share the code of my Slack bots, but the Slack developer documentation is really good.

https://api.slack.com/

There is also tons of example code on GitHub, of highly-variable quality. But that’s okay, getting started with something is better than not starting at all.

I started off using Python but has since ported stuff to Node.js (with help from Axios) because it allowed me to glue internal systems together more quickly.

I do not know your dev experience level, but he only real hurdle I had was learning how to format Slack responses how you want.

My recommendation is that you identify a test Slack instance and a test channel and start from the beginning: connect to that Slack and post a test message to your test channel. Then, iterate from there.
This discussion on coreboot looks good https://community.frame.work/t/free-the-ec-and-coreboot-only....

How much innovation can one company do though?
Managing authentication flow and access creds with certificate-based auth for S3
I love Vue because I come from a bygone era of HTML + sprinkling jQuery as needed. 99% of the websites don't need a full blown JS frontend but everyone is doing it, I must be wrong.
As some who, along with my partner, needs to be on an anti-inflammatory diet to help with a condition, here are some foods that I seek out and some that I avoid, along with a few alternatives in parentheses for the ones I avoid. These are non-exhaustive lists.

Recommend:
Nuts and legumes, particularly those with high Omega-3 fatty acid content; eggs (it is safe to have up to 3 a day long-term, there are recent studies on this); onions, peppers, garlic; non-exotic spices are important including paprika, sage, turmeric, ginger, black pepper; chia, cassava, or almond flour tortillas (instead of corn or wheat); dairy products (cheese seems to be fine for us, as for milk we use oat or almond milk)

Avoid:
Gluten containing grains including wheat (replace with brown rice, buckwheat quinoa, legume-based pastas); ultra-processed foods (have packaged organic foods without presevatives); high amounts of sugar; corn due to its high omega-6 content; red meats such as beef and pork also due to omega-6 (fatty fish, chicken, other seafood, vegan proteins like beans, tofu, mushrooms)

I should add, please do you own research. Certain foods are generally better for the average person, as I find through knowing other people with immune disorders, but others can have mixed results for a subset of the population. What I do strongly stand by is the list of some of the foods I avoid.
Yeah lots of ways of doing this. You could fit a LEO-to-moon transport vehicle, as described by Robert Zubrin, on a Falcon Heavy.

Basically you use Falcon9 to get in and out of LEO using Dragon.

A Falcon Heavy can push a larger space craft into LEO and it saves weight by the fact that a LEO-to-moon vehicle doesn't need heath shield and other stuff which makes a Dragon capsule heavier.

And with Falcons being cheap you could even send a whole bunch of LEO-to-moon vehicles straight to the moon surface, as well as just dump fuel tanks there.

SpaceX has a lot of these and can build them quite cheaply, so the mission will have a lot more built in safety. E.g. if you got an extra lunar ascent vehicle sitting on the landing site already before astronauts arrive, you have extra redundancy.
> You can bring 100 of something and still be screwed if it turns out to break because of a common cause.

If it breaks in storage, without been used - yes. If it breaks in use, for reasons related to usage - no.
Even the peer-reviewed research is mostly junk observational studies that are distorted by the healthy subject effect and other uncontrolled variables. That is not a sound basis for making personal dietary decisions.

A better approach for most people is to conduct personal n=1 experiments and just see empirically what works best for you in terms of subjective feelings and objective performance metrics.
My current laptop is a Thinkpad X200t from 10+ years ago. The MNT has a modern GPU and a nice keyboard. I think it's going to work quite well.
You can get a fully working Windows key for well under $50.

I know, I had to get one for my kids.

So maybe some are just buying a legal copy at a price that Framework aren't allowed tonsell at.

That said, if one isn't stuck in a very Microsoft-centric organization or isn't playing certain Windows-only games, which developer honestly want Windows now that even power management (suspend/resume) seems to work better under Linux?
Great article thanks
Agreed, thank you so much.
Years that end in a 1 are awful when doing this, especially in October and November. We've had 20211001, 20211010, 20211101, 20211110, and now today 20211111.
Please don't Zalgo on HN. It's enough to speak its name.
This works, if you have 20 coffee shops, and one of them has "there's asbestos in this building" warning.

If you have warnings literally everywhere, for minor things, that noone really cares about, because the risks are miniscule, people will start ignoring even the dangerous but identical-looking signs. "this item causes cancer" ... are we talking about asbestos, or are we talking about a roasted potato? If the labels are the same, people stop noticing them.
Is this a bet against React or a bet for ecosystem variety and choice? I feel it's the latter right now.
Using the W functions has been the advice from Microsoft's documentation for ages. But people still use the A functions because they're easier, especially when writing cross-platform software since Windows is the only major OS that made the unfortunate choice of having the base character type 16 bits wide.

Fortunately the future of the Windows API does look better since Microsoft has now added proper UTF-8 support since Win 10 1904. All you have to do is request it in the application manifest and the A functions will accept and return UTF-8.
Just be aware that nutritional deficiencies can take months or in some cases years to manifest. Just because you feel better in the short term does not mean it’s a long term solution.

There’s a couple of personal experiences where I switched to a vegan diet and felt great for the first two months or so but other health/performance factors in the longer-term caused me to deviate away from it.