skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most modern codec, which is patent-encumbered and supported mainly by one company. If Apple changes their mind about it in 5 years, everyone else might well follow suit. I don’t have concerns like that for open, non-bleeding-edge formats.
Why Maharashtra's villages flood every year
Ask HN: Making things look not-terrible – especially in HTML/CSS
Every time I try to make something that looks worthwhile, it looks like total garbage. I don't understand what to do when it comes to building UI components that make sense visually, are halfway-decent for UX (especially first time) and are visually pleasing.

Any resources for help? Anything you guys use? An easily scroll-able and search-able site that has CSS/HTML tricks that look neat?

Reading resources also welcome - I doubt any book would get me out of the slump of working for 5 hours on an image gallery that should take 30 minutes.
A number of these complaints seem like they are issues of implementation and not of wirelessness in and of itself.

I definitely found 3rd party Bluetooth headphones to be not worth the trouble early on, but since Apple introduced the AirPods I got tempted back to them. Either Bluetooth got a lot better or Apple's doing something clever (or both), because with the occasional "one pod didn't wake up; put it back in the case and take it out again" issue, they work perfectly for me.

I do still use corded headphones -- I'm an audio guy; I have a bunch -- but it's increasingly rare.
You surely mean a dedicated Civ player perhaps.
The website with problems in reverse engineering: https://challenges.re/
Created in similar vein as PE.
This graph shows the gender pay gap trending down in the UK since they implemented parental leave:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

This graph shows women's employment rate trending up in the UK:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
not sure who you're quoting. I'm only saying empirical data seem to show that high vaccination rates don't seem to reduce spreading at all. eg: netherlands and cayman islands.
I'm surprised that you found builds.sr.ht too complex or unsuitable for practical use outside of sr.ht. It's one of the simplest build systems I'm aware of, and it's used to run builds for dozens of projects which are otherwise hosted outside of sourcehut, including the likes of Zig, Nim, NeoVim, and more, none of which use sr.ht for anything else.

If you ever end up giving it another try, would you let me know your thoughts afresh?
I love sourcehut for their gemini support.

A tiny thing, but it speaks volumes to me.
Not to be trite but I feel like a big part of the happiness that children produce is just a focus on someone else’s happiness other than your own.

It’s hard to worry too much when someone else’s existence depends on you. It’s incredibly hard, but like most things that are incredibly hard that’s where the contentment is found.
The plough was meant to augment the nature of the soil, not the horse.

The plough turns out to mine the soil, not augment it.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/967376880/new-evidence-shows-...
We still don't know how exactly things work inside.

But we will, someday.

We, once considered the existence of "unknown forces" in basic planetary motion. But we figured out later.

There are many directions, one of them being the work being done by Bronstein et al. w/ Geometric Deep Learning.
My very first paid programming gig was doing Powerbuilder dev for a bank. IIRC it was basically a very rich data table widget with a scripting language wrapped around it.
>higher tax rates

That's the secret sauce, and a smaller military

>lower incomes

That makes no sense, maybe don't sell your medicine for 10x more...but NO that would not be compatible with a pure capitalism

>and smaller populations

That's a NON argument
What is free memory in Linux?
That's not the case here. I've gone to places where everyone has had to show their vaccine card at the door, but we still had to wear masks inside.
When will BTC move to an energy efficient protocol?
I absolute love the graph, really.
When the idea is simple and easy, you don't need hundreds of tools, just the plain old paint is fine.
Yep, that's a good place to start. Here are a few more:

https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/22/Our-self-hosted-parser-de...

https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/24/io_uring-finger-server.ht...

https://drewdevault.com/2021/06/24/finger-client.html

https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/05/Reflection.html

But the best approach may just be to sit tight and wait for the public announcement!
It's something I want to try one day. Did you write something about your experience like a blogpost?
> the further you go the more the very things you need to get out are being undercut.

One specific part of this is the difficulty of finding a therapist (in the US). I've had to go through that recently on behalf of a family member. It involves a lot of effort to find and contact providers, talking to strangers about personal things, having most of them reject your case, etc. This has been difficult enough even for me. The people who most need help - especially those with executive function or social anxiety issues - are also most likely to be defeated by the difficulty of getting it. That's a sick system. Schools and employers, who are often the sources of stress inducing or exacerbating mental health problems, could and should do a lot more to make the process easier.
So in your mind Charles Ponzi innovated the principle of factoring in the likelihood of growth into economic planning? And any investment that is premised on that growth is thus a Ponzi scheme? I guess we can use words however we want, sure.

Also, again, lol that roads pass this criteria. No expectation of growth and expanding tax bases there...
Company valuation * 0.2% + cash compensation + benefits = total compensation.

Work backwards from total comp.
Smaller countries are like startups, can move fast and fix things. USA is bogged down legacy provider in this case taking ages to get a small change through the bureaucracy
While I agree that family leave is a good thing and needs some discussion about how to implement/fund it, I really dislike the title. It's a real stretch to claim that if she didn't have paid leave that she might be dead. The real root of the issue is that she should have been paying attention to her symptoms. One could even make the arguement that if she needed to go back to work sooner, that the symptoms would have been more disruptive and could have lead to addressing them even sooner. There are good arguments for family leave, but her story and the way she tells is not one of them.
This certainly doesn't prove your case.

Alternate quite plausible explanation: Vendors of Smalltalk started realizing that Smalltalk just wasn't it, for whatever reason (the comment you're replying to posits that it was VB's existence vs. the high-cost, big-iron workstation more elite-based outlay that pervaded the Smalltalk community). When they realized this, they started looking to pivot to something else. VB was microsoft-owned and writing an entirely new VB-esque environment seemed like a daunting exercise, and didn't mesh with the strengths of the company (given that they went all-in on smalltalk, it's a self-selecting argument). It's not weird nor indicative of much that java was good enough that they all ended up there. It was simply the easiest thing to switch to once a vendor decides to ditch smalltalk.

I guess if java didn't exist, it is theoretically possible that e.g. IBM would have stuck with smalltalk, but then positing that this would mean smalltalk would have survived and thrived is _quite_ a reach.

More likely IBM and co would continue to believe smalltalk was a dead end and instead they'd all have gone with python or objC or some such, or a bunch of them would work together to make a java-like language of their own, or one of them would have and the rest would join in a few years later, or they'd all start publishing competing languages.

Who knows - but "they'd have stuck it out with smalltalk and smalltalk would have outgrown its problems, or the dev community at large would outgrow their obsession with VB / low-cost entry more blue-collar stuff and gone back to smalltalk" seems like a bizarre conclusion here.
Which level of 'riches' are we talking about though? If you're not aiming for a unicorn then the goal of a small, sustainable internet business is much more reasonable. Your main problem at that point becomes your competitors growing faster and smothering you out of the market.
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Ya, absolutely agreed. This is the only way to have meaningful conversations and build relationships I think. Even if someone doesn't understand something, it could be random ignorance or not their specialty.

I think another way to put it, would be to assume that any given person knows more than you, or more than you think they might, and to approach every situation with humility.
I'll dodge the question slightly and say that bad execution comingles with what could be referred to as bad taste and intent forms part of the judgement. For example, someone was clearly going for a rustic aesthetic but accidentally introduced a jarringly modernist aspect (excluding deliberate juxtaposition). Or, the intent was clearly to impress the viewer with "sophistication" (a dubious intent in itself), but some aspects are inconsistent or poorly judged. Then there are copies of others' styles (strike 1) executed with poorly matched subject matter (strike 2). Add in banal subject matter or clearly functional art, etc...
While I have found some useful ideas in here, such as the character archetype quads and the idea of a "contagonist", other elements didn't make as much sense to me; felt like they were trying to force certain ideas into the quad structure that don't work nearly as nicely. Definitely meant as a companion to some pricey (at the time the book came out) software which I also didn't find very useful.
Agreed, this sounds like a very good reason to ensure parental leave is available for both men and women.
Quite disturbing to learn about such "artifacts" from a big-name mfgr. More so, that this was a known to them issue at the release time to be mentioned in user manual!

By the way, reading the blog post I stumbled on quite a few minor typos (like "arrors" for "errors" etc.). Should be easy to fix, but in a way this adds more emphasis and mood to the content...
Reality. Way too many people only can make ends meet by both partners being full-time employed - and in some cases (such as shown by a recent Last Week Tonight episode) even that is not enough to prevent being homeless.

Rents are too high, and wages are too low.
>Ah so now you have changed your position from "it's competitive" to "it's not competitive but it doesn't matter".

I never did that. Take for example the capture the flag game made. Some parts of maps are stronger for one team than the other. That doesn't mean the game is not competitive it just means that it is something you need to take in mind. What I described is a spot on the map where Apple has an advantage.

>But you're wrong about me just having to live with being disadvantaged. Apple is built on top of a platform as well. It's called society.

Sure, but it's with existing base ideas like freedom of association Apple can just not work with Netflix at all.
When I took mine, I was told it was at a particularly convenient time because I had just started at the company (Deloitte, so huge corp) so wasn't deeply embedded in any projects yet, plus my billable time ratio "doesn't count in your first year".

I still got a lot of pressure from my bosses to cut it short and work part time while I was out. One of them even questioned my "loyalty to the team" at a holiday party that I attended in the middle of it (I went specifically because I wanted to get face time with people and not be distant).

The way a lot of corporations work, you have the "policy", and then you have management interpreting that policy. Things like leave of any kind might be technically "guaranteed", but they come at a cost of fewer individual contributions to projects and lower billable rates. And, at the end of the day, you report to someone who only cares about his budget, who has control over your project assignments.

So after that, suddenly my first year was only 6 months long (something something fiscal year), and it did count (blah blah blah pattern extrapolation) and I wasn't getting good assignments (constantly set up to fail, and even though I always pulled it off, I'd get terrible reviews for the smallest of issues). Eventually, I got "laid off". Really, I was fired because my billable rates was too low (and my billable rate was low due to retaliation for having slightly more going on in my life than living at work), but the company schedules regular layoffs to axe the lowest x% of employees. I guess that is one silver lining of that awful, Metropolis-esque machine: they gave me a (very small) severance on the way out.

So yeah. You can have a company "guarantee" leave, but still will structure a reason to get rid of you.
I looked at the pricing page. It's a very big jump from $0 to $400 per month. There is no middle ground. Something like $30 per month. Any reasons?
I had a kid a few years ago when I switched. Wearing headphones and holding a child sucks because they will probably get pulled out of your ears. I always hated cords tangling in my pocket and I'd often have the wires snag on a doorknob or drawer when walking around--often breaking them. I also used a messenger bag.

Ear fit sucks, is it worse with cordless headphones? Ear fit always comes up with earbuds, wireless or wired. I've heard individuals say wireless is better for them because there's no wire tugging on their ear. I'm surprised to see a lot of people walking around with over-the-ear headphones (I tend to use them at home or on a plane).
+1 for HD25

I "upgraded" mine with a fiio BTR5. Now I just wrap the cable around the BT receiver and put it in my shirt pocket. Wireless freedom with wired 'phones!
Hi! Out of curiosity: Why post so early? It’s only 5:48 am on the US west coast.
You throw around the word socialism as an epithet but the status quo you are defending is one of the least free markets in the world. Those escalating values are the result of manipulation at every level of government.
> Nevertheless, the participation of Greek women in the labour market continues to be 8-10 percent below the average of E.U. countries

Unemployment in Greece is nearly triple what it is in the US (14%).

Policies don't exist in a vacuum. Everything has trade offs. Until you accept that you'll never have a productive honest conversation.

[0] https://ideas.repec.org/p/wiw/wiwrsa/ersa06p257.html
I can relate much more to the other quote about depression than your take. There's plenty of logical reasons to be miserable. Spending too much time thinking can cause depressing realizations. "A wandering mind is an unhappy mind."

Here's a thought: no matter what I do, I'm going to die someday and not too long after will likely be forgotten. The most likely way I could be remembered for longer is to be hated by lots of people. Even if for some reason I was remembered as a liked person, I'll either be forgotten in the fall of civilization and, unrealistic but best-case-scenario, the heat death of the universe.

That's not a voice in my head lying to me, that's all true. If you want to get into the argument of "none of that matters, the enjoyment to find in life is all the experiences along the way," that's something else entirely. But it doesn't mean those upsetting thoughts are a voice in my head "lying" to me.
Wow thank you very much!
At the intersection of capitalism and feminism.

On one end of the spectrum you have certain European countries where women receive ample maternity leave. The right to have a family is protected by law.

On the other end of the spectrum you have certain countries where married women are not expected to work. The right to have a family is protected by traditional beliefs and customs.

But there is this nasty area in the middle where married women are expected to work but there's few workers rights - having a family becomes a privilege rather than a right.
What if objkt.com goes down some day? Problem with decentralization is that you cannot completely decentralize everything. Someone will need to host the media, the web front end etc. Even if the artists were to host the media themselves, if someday they go offline or disappear, what happens to the NFT? Even with IPFS, someone will have to store the file. You are relying on the benevolence of strangers to store your files for you.
My first child is due January.

I sat down with my boss about a month or so ago and told him I'm intending to take parental leave. "No problem" he said, I told him my intention was to take the full 8 weeks I'm entitled to. He didn't say anything right away to that... eventually it was more of a "...that's not typical for the guys around here"

We did a bit of back and forth. (I think he went to HR to find out he can't really deny that) and we've come to an agreement that works for both of us.

But honestly... I'm quite shocked at just how atypical it is for fathers to ask for, and get time off to care for their newborn. Not even just the child, the mother needs support early on too.

I've given a lot of myself to this company, and they've done a tremendous amount for me as well. So I do have a small sense of loyalty to them and don't want to leave them hard up on my absence. But if this helps my boss understand that we should hire extra hands for the times when I'm not available, this is a long term benefit overall as I see it. I'm hoping 8 weeks leave help me reset and address some of my anxieties about the work load. I hope it lets my coworkers understand exactly what level of shit I help shelter them from.

...and if none of that works out. I've already got a friend trying to poach me to a new business. Win/win in my eyes.

Thanks for listening to my rant.
Requiring growth is not a Ponzi scheme, requiring additional investors for the initial ones to be paid is.

Do you have an actual rebuttal?
I'd rather that poor people have an option. There's nothing wrong with Behringer.

Also, free software is nowhere near as good as dedicated hardware or as paid software, IMO.
Physics isn't some black magic art. Yes it takes time and understanding that I will personally never have, but it's not the unobtanium people think that it is. Most of the reason people leave theoretical physics is lack of jobs and resources at the lower rungs.

You can be "theoretical physicist smart" without being a theoretical physicist.
They need maintenance that sealed-hub bikes can mostly do without, though.

My road bike has SRAM eTap on it. It's beautiful, sleek, and shifts perfectly almost every time. BUT that performance starts to suffer if I let the drive train get dirty, especially if I let gunk accumulate on the jockey wheels.

Your Sturmey can be ridden without such concerns. I mean, I'd never be able to keep up on my group rides on it, but for a general use bicycle it's probably superior.
It's perfectly reasonable to appreciate a piece of art, recognize its importance and subjectively dislike it. I believe it's going in the wrong direction to try to completely disconnect your subjective like or dislike of art in an effort to better understand or recognize its value. If anything I try to go the other direction and acknowledge my subjective like/dislike/etc sense experience and then intellectualize from there.
And recently made a huge deal about applying it to video in newer phones.
People don’t have to have children. And people can and do stay at home with their children at all income levels.
> The TCP protocol, for instance, generates backpressure with code 503

Surely they mean 'HTTP protocol'? TCP doesn't do back pressure but IP does at the router level, IIRC.
There's an excellent episode of In Our Time from the BBC about bird migrations - absolutely fascinating stuff - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmk5j
>No comment on effectiveness, but for anyone who is going to do this, make sure to dilute the vinegar with some water.

Oh jeez, woopsie. Yeah, forgetting to do that would certainly cause a bit of sore throat. Or 3rd degree burns.
Average global temperature stops rising?
This might solve a problem I have right now - I’m persisting a kafka topic to clickhouse using the clickhouse kafka engine and realized that to get reliable monitoring on this pipeline I’ll have to roll my own service that polls clickhouse and sends metrics to datadog, then write datadog monitors. Looking forward to exploring Metaplane.
Hypocrisy? Perhaps but everyone has their best interests.

I know progressive people who are very particular about choosing a school for their kids. Not too many immigrants or students from "complex" backgrounds. Everyone wants an inclusive society but nobody wants their child to suffer from it in a world where education is a life or death situation.
> If the lazy student constantly cheats

In other words the efficient student who used the path of least resistance. It is easy to call such people lazy, but in my experience that label is mainly used to avoid the responsibility of fixing the issue. People convincing me I'm lazy caused more damage than a whole school career based on cheating would have.

Exams should mainly test understanding, not the ability to memorize things. Once you do that cheaters automatically become a smaller issue. Unless it's a memorization test(vocabulary etc.) there's no reason to withhold information imho, just like it doesn't make sense to have someone write software without access to Github or StackOverflow.

> Modern education is about helping children learn

In that case modern education is a total failure across the board.
Maybe my non-neurotypical perspective is a bit biased, but it is difficult to think of just one instance where any part of the education system was actually helpful. Einstein's quote about judging fish based on their ability to climb trees never lost significance.

Though I do have some understanding there; the education system in its current form does not attract competent teachers, and despite some awareness improvements rarely get funded beyond pilot tests.
Wouldn't the right question be "Will BTC move to an energy efficient protocol?". As far as I know, there is no plans from the Bitcoin developers to move away from Proof of Work, but I'd be happy to be corrected.
Nice! Will check that out. I just saw a thing yesterday about nutmeg, the fruit it comes from and the 'mace' which is a beautiful webbing around the pit. Never heard of any of it.
Very cool! I didn't know that. It's amazing all the kinds of shots that are done in movies that one would assume are trivial to accomplish, but that actually require tricks.
Everybody dismisses thousands of years of religious and philosophical traditions all the time.

Not everybody. Those who do we generally consider ignorant and arrogant when they do so.
Thanks :) paint is the graphic editor I'm most proficient in!
A minimal site that Googles how selected tech companies design a system
Roads aren’t as easy to justify as you think. Different people use them at different rates and in order to account for this there is a concept called a “toll road” which is a road that has usage fees. I’d argue if you can support public roads despite them being used at different rates by the population then these benefits shouldn’t be shot down by the same objection.
I get you now. You mean the bigger system of mandating benefits to be paid for by future taxes, not specifically paid parental leave.

I still don't agree it's a Ponzi scheme because it's not soliciting investments with promises of big payoffs unless you count paying taxes as investing. I would agree that is shares an important property with a Ponzi scheme. It will fail when it can no longer increase the amount that gets paid in.
Wow, what a fresh take that hasn't been published before. So brave :)