skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WFH saves you money and it saves the company money.

This would be true even if you had to pay your company to work from home, but that would pretty clearly be an unfair situation!

I think it's reasonable to say that if a company gets to stop providing certain utilities at the office, it would be fair to contribute to those utilities for WFH employees. Why don't you think that's reasonable?
Right so from these two folktales we seem to all agree that the author doesn’t have a valid argument. Personally I was disappointed when the essay morphed into grasping at straws trying to argue that companies should just pay all your living expenses because they’re benefiting from you being alive…

I was expecting the author to take a copyleft direction and comment on all the absurd things we allow oppressive licensors to get away with in the modern digital era.. Oh well, another discussion for another time, I guess.
But the riding on public roads is what all of us ever did. Not "especially". For 45 years I have been a member of the cyclists who just ride on public roads.

Since COVID I have not done a century but I feel an overwhelming need to do several now, on public roads.

The amount of time it takes to complete whatever distance it is is immaterial.
If you do not trust your CPU provider, your only option is a design that assumes an adversarial manufacturer. The only credible design I've seen for this scenario is Precursor, which works because generic backdoors for FPGAs (i.e. those that work with arbitrary randomized designs) are arguably impractical, since you'd need a huge amount of compute power to attempt to analyze the design and figure out how to backdoor it. It's likely even an unsolvable problem in the general case.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

Of course, then you get a RISC-V running at 100MHz. If you want something faster, you need to trust your CPU provider. There's no way around that; silicon is not end-user introspectable.
How old is your cat?
I would love to hear about the customizations my fellow HN readers use.
>m8r-9yw8a5@mailinator.com "/dev/humancontroller"

That one should be fun. An anonymous mail account service.
Seriously think about that point with discretionary spending though. Even if Gen Zers took 100% control tomorrow and eliminated every penny of US spending that law makers are allowed to eliminate, we would still run a deficit. That's a game changer in my mind.

And because the entitlement pay as you gos are inflation adjusted you can't just inflate that problem away.
It’s the strength of the metaphor.

People were used to computers where a green cursor blinks on the screen, and in a separate printed manual you find the necessary incantations for how to make it do something: “To enter replace mode, press the Q key and type the line number to be modified.”

On the Mac, these actions and objects and modes were on-screen physical metaphors that you could simply “reach out and grab” (with the indirection layer of the mouse, of course). Draw with a pencil, and if you don’t like the result, take it out with the eraser. No manual to read, no keys to remember.

Even files used this strong visual metaphor: each floppy disk was represented as basically a 2D space containing the files exactly where you left them. Drag your files into a circle formation if you want, and they’ll be in the same arrangement when you put in the floppy next week. To delete something, you’d drag it into the trash can (a feature on which Apple held such strong IP that it didn’t appear in Windows until 1995).
I used to use it and have fond memories of it. I think it is getting a little long in the tooth for today. Maybe I will fire it up and see what's changed in the last couple of years.
Every language initially appeals only to people with a propensity to try new programming languages!
Yeah, but you could also install GOG games on a deck. Steam is closed, but the deck ain't.
As a kid I interpreted the story to mean it wasn't very good, but in retrospect I suppose it could've been ~indistinguishable from beef and it still would've been a big disappointment for someone who expected it to be the second-best cut of meat they'd ever eaten...
Mostly you may need it for:

1. Preventing SPAM (spammy comments, articles, votes etc.)

2. Preventing email collection (obfuscating could be an option: https://freetools.dev/email-encoder)

3. Clean up server logs (bots creates a lot of lines in server log files)

4. Clean up your Analytics (lot of bots may count as real visitors)

5. Security concerns (not only banks have important data)

6. Avoid automatic registrations (your users list counts too)
Don't hate on poor old OOP :( It's a good way to take that step from scripting to software engineering. Sure it can get out of hand with AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean's but so can other paradigms.
Question for Oil users who've also used Fish, how would you compare the two?

I'm greatly enjoying Fish, I really appreciate `history merge` and fish_add_path, and only hit the occasional muscle memory issue with things like $(expr) should be written as (expr), but Oil looks far more like Bash++, which I'm in favour of also.
Once again the FSF is shown to be prescient. Their copyright assignment policy completely eliminates this problem.
One feature of Apache which Nginx annoyingly lacks is HTTP CONNECT support (there is a third-party module from Alibaba which implements it, but it only supports HTTP 1.x).
If it is done through a ballot measure, I think it might succeed or at least gain enough traction, that it will shed some lights on what UC spends money on.

Every parent is thinking about education. Kids and universities come up all the time. If it’s on the ballot, it will be scrutinized, regardless how it is going to slammed.
Full title: "From Kenosha riots to Kyle Rittenhouse trial, biased media coverage makes everyone angrier"

Seeing that, it's obvious that the author doesn't want to discuss biased media in general, but rather media that the author believes is biased in a particular direction.
If it takes X amount of energy to heat a material by Z degrees, then presumably the material radiates exactly X amount of energy back out when it cools down by the same Z degrees, no?

What does it matter that Y kg of rocks stores that energy at a lower temperature than Y kg of water? Or, conversely, that if you insist on having your energy-storage temperature set at some specific Z' degrees, you can store that amount of heat energy in much fewer kg of rocks than of water?

You're mixing up temperature and energy. They're not the same thing.
No they don't.

But the internal HR people often do. I've seen them checking my account after I applied somewhere.

The problem with the application process is getting past the initial HR. They don't usually give all the CVs to the hiring manager. This is the part I worry about.

It depends on the company and the HR person of course but I know one and they told me it's far better to have one.
Thanks for your points. I agree on the TLS, struck me as odd too. Feel like a gopher(s) would be a nice addition.
That was an amazing discussion. Thank you both.
They really liked their hyperbole back then. Just started reading this and every quote is hilariously over the top.

> On Frederick Burnham: "He has trained himself to endure the most appalling fatigues, hunger, thirst, and wounds; has subdued the brain to infinite patience, has learned to force every nerve in his body to absolute obedience, to still even the beating of his heart. He reads ‘the face of Nature’ as you read your morning paper."

> On Louisiana swamps: The "silence strike[s] one with an almost unforgettable horror."

> On the hippo: "This animal...[is] the embodiment of salvation."
For smaller numbers of connections, you don't even need a stencil if you how to use surface tension and have a fine tipped soldering iron.
Of course the US is not a poor country. Sorry if my sentence structure meant that way. The US is in a special cohort when it comes to healthcare where rest in the group are all developing or under developed countries.
Not sure why you posted that? It agrees with what I said that Nginx doesn't support it. There is a use case for htaccess (shared hosting) and Nginx doesn't have a solution for it.
There is no reason to trust IBM not to include a silicon backdoor in POWER9 more than Intel not to include a silicon or microcode backdoor in their x86 chips. TALOS is a lot freer than most designs, but you still need to trust every manufacturer whose silicon went into that motherboard.
FS events are OS dependent, don't always work (e.g. on network volumes), and often have a limited number of "watches" available which could easily be exhausted by deep, complex directory structures.
I found at least one name I recognize in the list, and I'm emailing that person. Hopefully we can get the long tail shortened!
SF. Where crime is a transportation issue
I love Notepad++, but sadly, I have never used it since I started using VSCode.
Well, you'll never have to worry about charging anyway, but ships that don't move are losing money so ideally charging would not add to the turn-around time. I think it is the money that the owners would be worrying about.

7 MWh is a pretty beefy battery, I am going on the assumption that its size was carefully chosen to give it sufficient capacity during the operating life of the vessel to serve its route. Filling that up from an industrial drop at 20KV with 100A is doable in under four hours.
What kind of jig is that? That thing is beautiful, I love the copper color, but I don't even know what to google for ('copper colored jig' doesn't do the trick). This is the thing I mean on the right: https://gregdavill.github.io/posts/dell-xps13-ram-upgrade/im...
Oh yeah, a proper great power could snuff out Bitcoin, to say nothing of the smaller coins, if they put their mind to it.

If there's a real non-bubble use case, it will have to be around making a bad but much less expensive version of something that's already possible offline, but that requires lots of lawyers to set up.
There is no way to verify silicon. This applies to every single chip. If you are using off the shelf hard cores in silicon, you need to trust the vendor. That's just how it is. It's not practical for end users to take silicon chips into a SEM, delayer them, and verify that the design is what they expect. Verifiability aside, there aren't even any high performance CPUs with fully open RTL/netlists available.
In my region of the US, people with appointments to come to me will sometimes text that they're on the way, which is nice.

And plenty of people have websites, but on the whole, most local business interactions start with a phone call, and usually it goes to voicemail or a receptionist, so I have to answer when they call me.

Even small time businesses have websites, but they don't do anything usually so it's clear you have to call.

Also, sometimes they try to embrace the Internet, and then they get hacked...

My primary care doctor had a patient data breach by their accountant. A different practice failed to set permissions propertly on the patient information on their portal, and never said anything to me, but silently scrapped it. A plumber that I had over once had all their client information stolen about six months later and vigorously spammed/phished.

Nobody has ever suggested WhatsApp to me. But I gather it's disproportionately popular in some countries.
That brings back memories!!!
There are no fees with direct deposit, at least from the employee's standpoint. In fact, receiving funds via direct deposit is something that usually causes the bank to waive account fees in the US.
I like to call this at the end of an intialization sequence, with a throw to
is_computer_even_plugged_in() .
Great explanation, but I think the commenter was alluding to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and the overarching theme of an entity selectively censoring speech.
I've seen plenty of projects commit their configuration. You just commit the .idea folder.
Amazing how ex-googlers create the most unicorns. Is there a reason?
Cycling tracks are boring as hell. I've tried that a couple of times but it really isn't for me. The upsides (no other traffic, safety) do not begin to offset the downsides. The same goes for digital solutions.

But what I probably should have written better, is that on public roads means 'open to the public' as well, and the way groups that are on racing bikes tend to upset traffic even though the roads are open can be quite irritating. I've seen groups of guys on fancy bikes block traffic, make the bike paths very unsafe for oncoming traffic and cycle on the main roads as though other traffic did not exist. That's fine on a closed course but not when the roads are open.
He's being pedantic. He means to say that because GTK had theming via stylesheets, it wasn't "real" theming but a hack.

Now, there's just a re-coloring API where I can't change the dark background if I don't like it and that's "real" theming.
Politics and social media in 'Seveneves' (2019)
Full video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ5XwvjPmA
I work with Node and Python regularly and I'm unclear on how a Node stack would be more complex than a Python stack. Isn't "just Flask," which is Python plus packages, equivalent to Node plus packages, both in terms of development and deployment?
1.) Safe modification of the behavior of the webserver as an unprivileged user (.htaccess)

2.) Sticky Sessions (and various other features) without having to pay $$$ to F5

I end up reaching for Nginx before Apache these days, but I have a lot of production that uses Apache.
Desiring a color-blind society is now considered racist on campus. You have to see identity first and at all times in everything, and to treat people differently based on their identities.
Respectfully disagree. As stated, their voter model "should" vote for more redistribution the further the individual is from the median/mean. Then they seem surprised that actual people don't behave that way. Duh.

The researchers seem to have at least partially answered their own question though:

"Trust in government (or lack thereof) also seems to be a critical element in driving support for redistribution."

the hubris of the authors seems to preclude any examination of their own assumptions about what is "right" or "wrong", so they conclude that the rest of us just need more education/indoctrination
I need to learn how to hire a developer.
This kind of thing always makes me leery of physical products tied to an app. It’s all well and good while the company finds the app profitable. When it no longer yields profits, the app degrades or vanishes and the product usually becomes useless.

Caveat emptor, I guess, but it sure would be nice to not create so much junk when a company decides a product that people have bought and enjoy is burdensome.
There are a lot of areas where the fundamentals don't change that fast and experience counts.

A lot of people in their 20's can code like the devil, but running furiously in the wrong direction doesn't get you where you need to go fast, especially if the optimum path is not transparently obvious.

Biggest problem is managers made up too young who don't realise the huge value a steady hand and bit of experience can add.
Once you have worked for a day, your employer owes you money. It is not an uncommon or foreign concept to charge interest on a debt that one is owed.

That said, it would be unusual to apply that to wages. And many debts have grade periods during which interest is waived.
I've often wondered if you could build a serious ocean-going autonomous ship around this size, powered by sails.

It would be slow, no doubt, but the variable cost to transport containers would be incredibly low. No energy used, no crew to pay. All you need after that is to have a small fleet of them, and a dock that can do autonomous loading and unloading.
I hope that Peter Norvig participates this year again!
Steam Deck is for PC games. It runs Arch with a compatibility layer for Windows games.
"facebook notacop"
The best way out is through growth. In this case, that means growing the housing supply, If more homes come on the market or more individuals build themselves homes, the housing problem solves itself.

If the central banks raise rates slowly at a quarter basis point at a time, it might not cause a crash. That is their current plan and I think it will work.

Obviously they can’t in good conscience go raise rates 2% all at once.
Gay men may have an easier time obtaining casual sex in areas where gay sexual practices aren't prohibited by law. But, I don't think this advantage necessarily translates to a higher probability of establishing long-term relationships. There are a lot of other considerations for successful long-term same-sex relationships that don't apply as much to casual sex, e.g. whether the families of both partners accept the relationship, whether the community the couple lives in is LGBT-friendly, and whether both partners are out in the first place.

Maintaining health/fitness, focusing on work/education, and developing a strong personality are all actions that have a high return on investment in areas of life outside of dating. Anyone would benefit from doing all of these things regardless of how necessary they are to obtain casual sex.
I mean...it forces you to plan and organize your code, if that's what you mean. But I also think it encourages you to do it in a way such that the organization becomes more important (and oftentimes, more complicated) than the problem you're solving, and I'd contend that's kind of a bad way to take that step, especially for people not otherwise experienced enough to know how to avoid that complexity.
Or have a proprietary RTOS running on a GPU, working hypervisor-like for the tacked on ARM-multicore, like some very popular fruity berry SBCs.

(giggle)
I feel like this is greatly exaggerated. I did half of that in 3 days (500km) with the last day being 250km (because I was sick of doing it) and I didn't feel any such "caloric furnace". I ate a couple of pbjs each day and then had some rice and beans for dinner. I didn't do this very intentionally, I just didn't have much choice (I did this ride in Africa, where there aren't many ice cream shops).

It's universally understood that a century is one of the easiest "feats of endurance", which is why you see people far into their 50s and 60s still able to do them.
thats a tradeoff rather than an error. Making the phone bigger makes it fit differently but is an overall user experience preferred by many.
Always make sure to do what you said or promised you would do, dependability like this is almost impossible not to notice.

(Flip side is don't promise shit you know just isn't going to happen, and if you mis-calibrated make it known as early as possible you can't meet original expectations, people like that because they can plan instead of being blind sided)
I mean, can we agree that life would still be worth living without the majority of the luxurious crap that has come into being just in the last century?

Was life not worth living for Homo sapiens for the ~200k years prior?

Not to mention that if our alternative is to have the majority of humanity die in a global ecological and social collapse, I don’t think anyone could think that’s a better option and more worth living for.
Those will be the code to replace in the final step.
I honestly thought, in the early days of the Smart Phone era, that some clever person would come up a way to have tactile buttons appear on the screen (& change with the changing UI). Whether it be a solution where the surface physically deformed or whether it be some sensory feedback due to electrical on our fingertips.

Remember when you could answer your phone as you picked it up? Remember T9 input where you didn't need to look at the screen to type? Imagine a tactile solution on your onscreen keyboard but still being able to swipe...
Imagine feeling where the 'answer' button was while you were picking it up and just clicking on it...

:sigh:

(Ironically, I was looking at the Nokia Classic series phones just last night)
The idea of pets.com vs chewy is a function of bias due to failed events is a bit stretched. The real reason is consumers trust and access to online payments. In 2000 very few were online shopping because the experience was clunky and unsafe. Mobile and fraud protection changed the game.
I was curious how it compared to a credit card, since if you wanted a 4 payment over 6 week plan you could simply use a credit card and make an immediate payment of 1/4th to your card, and then 3 more payments of that amount over the next 6 weeks.

A quick internet search says that the average US credit card currently has an interest rate of 16%.

Paying off your credit card on the aforementioned schedule at that interest rate, assuming a monthly billing cycle that starts right before your purchase, you'll pay under $4 in interest if the purchase was under $487. If the purchase is over that, Zip is cheaper.

If your purchase comes in the middle of a billing cycle, the breakeven is $811.

(Both of those are assuming that you have nothing else on that card, so that the billing cycle in which you pay off the 4th payment will end with a 0 balance, and so there will be no interest for that cycle).

(Also I'm assuming you aren't using a rewards card. I'm using a card with 5% cash back on online purchases, making it quite a bit harder for Zip to beat the card).
There must be something wrong because they are pretty much best in class in terms of input delay since they improved it a few years ago.
Mind that direct manipulation of bitmap images and the mouse were new to consumers. (That is, there had been the Xerox Star and the PERQ, but these were no systems for the mere mortal.) Lisa did have a mouse, but no square pixels and came with a drawing program, which was essentially about placing layered shapes. So, what was revealed by the use of the eraser was that this was actually manipulating a composition on a digital canvas, on a per pixel basis, under manual control. (Just like the fat pixels / pencil demo and the option+feature drag demo at the very end, which enjoyed a similar reaction.)

I guess, that this became more obvious by eating the image away, rather than by adding strokes or shapes, is because the latter could have been accomplished by other means, as well, like in a drawing program. The eraser, however, gave it away, unambiguously.
17 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29102901
Yeah I have the same question . Are these real people or auto generated.

Also I have never been able to find the answer to this question but using this person does not exist type API, is there a way to generate people of a specific race .
It’s amazing how much that team got right the very first time. So much that we take for granted in a single release.

Probably very few examples like this in history.
This analogy only holds for packet sniffing.

If the stealer is actually connecting to the wifi and making their own requests, then they have literally stolen a percentage of limited bandwidth of the channel.
Plenty of people that eat beef would really not like to be told they ate horse meat after the fact.

In wartime in NL anything that had protein was fair game, including dogs and other pets, I don't expect that it would be different anywhere else and I'm pretty sure that after a diet of flower bulbs and such those would have tasted just fine. There are some pretty harsh jokes around that theme.
It's 1) stealing all the oxygen from the room and 2) engrossing all discussion.

(Engross is an interesting word, and an earlier term for monopolize: https://www.etymonline.com/word/engross)
Reading "by the light of your neighbour’s lamp", accessing the internet through somebody else's wi-fi without their agreement, and working from home are all substantively different things, only (possibly, given the right argument, not provided in TFA) vaguely related. As for the last case, the relative costs and benefits for the worker must be weighed, and they usually tend to work out to be to the worker's advantage.