skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree with the polarizing nature of that term and your less inflammatory description. However, I am still unconvinced that lowering the bar or creating a "toy version" of mathematics expressed in different ways is the appropriate solution.

I find it akin to forcing all K-12 students learning computer science to stay on Scratch and block-based programming (which is easily accessible to everyone), simply because the students taking more advanced programming courses who have a software developer for a parent will be unfairly advantaged over the ones who don't. I know people who have had all the resources available and wasted most of them, and others who had few resources available but took every one of them.

At the end of the day, I'd rather have the opportunity to hire a great software developer who has been developing their skills since a young age, rather than someone who was intentionally kept from real-world computer science until college in the name of equity. Similarly, I'd rather see prodigious mathematicians cultivated from a young age - I cannot imagine a situation where the next Ramanujan [1] is created by the California public education system.

By the way, I really appreciate the illuminating alternate description you provided of white supremacy - I hope you don't mind if I start repeating that one :)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
It isn't vanishingly unlikely. Even without considering low level hardware behavior, any non-atomic write could be interrupted halfway through, leaving invalid data in memory.
Nobody likes boring tasks but some people pathologically avoid them while simultaneously worrying about the fact they haven't done them.
It appears that most people are considering the following two scenarios:

1. most employers will pay the same regardless of where I live, and my job security will be the same as before.

2. most employers will pay a bit less if I work remotely, but that's worth it to me since I can pay less for rent and have a higher quality of life. And yes, my job security will be the same as before.

It shocks me that people are not considering the following scenario:

3. most employers will realize that a person living 100 miles away represents the same value to my company as one that lives 5,000 miles away. The latter, of course, is far cheaper, more motivated, and far less likely to cause any problems since they also have far fewer protections. And no, they are not any less talented.

So far, the pandemic has been all about the workforce side of the story. We're about to find out what the employer side of the story looks like. I personally don't mind a future where everyone in this world get equal access to job opportunities, but I don't think that most people advocating for remote work are quite as aware of the long-term ramifications on the US workforce.
Not just test the backup, but practice and ensure you are familar with the recovery process as well. Having a clear plan of what you will do if that disk fails/machine is lost/etc. is better than troubleshooting and fumbling with tools while the clock is ticking. A written procedure may be helpful as well (I have one for my Proxmox server for setting up the machine and restoring the VMs from the backup disk).
This reply is a good example of how "strongly typed" ends up meaning practically nothing -- except possibly "the kind of type system I prefer".

I once attended a talk where the speaker had identified half a dozen axes that papers or projects were calling "strong"/"weak" with relation to type systems. Some were not even consistent with themselves, switching definitions halfway.

Type systems are tools, whose formal properties can be described and analyzed in precise detail. Unfortunately, that kind of precision is hard, so semantically empty words like "strong" get used a lot instead. This message is intended to raise awareness about that fact.
That’s a good formula for college, once children have become legal adults and are responsible for themselves. While they’re children, it’s up to the parents to expose them to the world.
Making it costlier to own a second or third property discourages small time investors from renting out those properties, which decreases the availability of rental units, and raises rents.

Alternatively, and worse still, it might erode profit margins such that rentals become exclusively the domain of big investment firms. How is this of benefit to ordinary renters?
There are very few workers for whom it's linear. For most knowledge workers, proficiency is monotonic at least.
A Fast Method for Multiplying 2-Digit Numbers
Yeah, but they're not blowing money on the hard, complex parts, most of the cost overruns have been due to poorly thought out "cost saving" measures, for example producing the factory tooling before the plane if finished being designed, only to have to go back and redo all of the work when the design changes. Indeed the impetus for the project was to reduce costs by moving everything to a single airframe, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the cost of aircraft development. At the same time many decisions were made based on maintaining political support instead of efficiency, which was always going to increase cost. Yeah, this isn't the the first time a project was poorly managed, and it won't be the last, but this is not an example of competent people giving it their best shot.

The claim that something is a jobs program is often used to justify not caring about waste, but that doesn't really make any sense. If your goal is to maintain a large pool of skilled individuals, it makes sense to do lots of highly efficient projects. When you do things efficiently, you can provide jobs to more engineers, and support a wider range of projects to maintain a more diverse skillset, plus you get more useful products out of the program.
Not quite. There's no evidence that the training does anything so we can do away with that[1]. Set a subject matter test, hire the people who do best on the test and have them teach it. Primary school could be more obviously day care to its great improvement, like at Sudbury or deomcratic schools, or at Summerhill, where the students can do whatever they want as long as they're safe and stay on school grounds.

[1]It's easier to pick a good teacher than to train one: Familiar and new results on the correlates of teacher effectiveness

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...

Research highlights
▶ Majoring in education is not associated with teacher effectiveness. ▶ University attended for college is not associated with teacher effectiveness. ▶ Acquiring a master's degree is not associated with teacher effectiveness. ▶ Teachers become more effective with a few years of teaching experience. ▶ Teachers may become less effective later in their careers.
It is great to hear about your experiences on what to do to overcome initial career choices. I agree that I might be seeing the grass in the other places greener. I'll have to be more careful when considering moving to other companies. Thanks for your kind and thorough answer!
Why Audio Advertising Is Hot Trend and How to Make It Work Better with AI Voices
Bob only became heavily invested because the scummy landlords he rents from jack up the cost of his housing arbitrarily every year.
I don't think it's as black and white, and I don't think the single dimension of "toleration" works to explain the complexity.

Consider napkins at a fast food restaurant. Nobody would say you're "stealing" if you take one napkin and use it to clean your hands after eating. On the other hand, most people would call it "stealing" or at least ethically wrong if you took all the napkins that were available, far more than what you need. In this case, there's more to our ethical intuition than just "stealing" vs "not stealing". Factors include how much you need the napkins, how much you deprive others of the napkins, whether or not the restaurant would be ok with your behavior, whether or not the behavior is a cultural norm, etc.
the varying SCSI plugging over its life is the bane of any modern day "can I read that tape" because you need the tape mechanicals to line up, but then you need the cable to be the right kind of left handed, reverse-frob, biwhiskit with bivalve mounted cliperators.

ATAPI never had this problem as I understand it.
Canadians under 40 see Baby Boomer legacy as negative
It's not the "push for profits" that reduces margins, it's normal competition. If an industry is making someone rich, other people will notice and jump in. Some industries, like airlines or chip making have high barriers to entry and can keep a lot of competitive threats at bay. Catering, which the interviewee works in, essentially has zero barriers, further, because it is labor intensive, most catering companies are quite small and restricted to a local area. Hard to tell these caterers (perhaps the original "gig economy" jobs) that they need to continue paying people who aren't available for catering jobs, regardless of circumstances.
You can also write very clear instructions on the recovery messages. I plan on doing this very thing for my disk decryption passphrase and password database. It's a standard package available in the base repos, and I'll have step by step instructions on how to recover it. If they can't follow the instructions, then they probably shouldn't be trying to handle my affairs in the event of an emergency, either.
Not everyone lives in pleasant climates for walking around on foot and doing errands. Sure, maybe in the Bay Area or New England it’s fine, but you do not want to go run errands outside in the sweltering heat of the south. And do you even know what the Midwest is? Young and restless.
> You can rent it instead.

and then the landlord can increase the rent by any amount and then Bob has to look for a house again.
Yeah, the proactive part of it could become so much more than "it's been two months since you took a long weekend— I cleared your calendar so you can have next Friday off," it might also be "and here are 2-3 possible options for gifts for your spouse / activities to do with the kids that weekend / options for date night / birthday cards to send to Aunt Flo / etc etc"

I've never had someone be this role for me, but I definitely know I waste a lot of time during the day (both working and non-working) thinking/fretting/researching these kinds of things, and I could imagine it being a real boon to be able to fully set that all aside, knowing it was in good hands. Nothing is a silver bullet on being able to focus on the things we want to focus on, of course, but it would be one more set of excuses to remove.
Ask HN: Is it selfish to want free, non-subscription apps?
I've recently moved to Mac OS after a life on Windows and Linux (because M1 seemed quite good). I was honestly a little shocked by all of the paid apps (both one-time fee and subscription) on Mac OS. For example, Bear, RogueAmoeba apps, Fantastical, Paw, etc.

Have I been spoiled by FOSS? And am I being selfish for wishing these high-quality apps were free?

Also, an opinion question: would it be unethical for someone to clone (non-unique) features from paid apps and then release the software for free? If you spend a lot of time and effort on that, you could potentially screw over another dev's source of income, but would it be better for everyone if high-quality applications were available to all for free?
Yeah, they should engrave the button sequences into the back of cover of the controller. There are only 4 or so. Or the settings onto the buttons themselves, if each button is associated with one setting. That would be the fix for mine…
“I remember one day we tricked two dumb high-school girls from town into the fraternity house and made them put out for all the fellows there ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Aardvark

I read Catch-22 in high school, and that bit felt plenty disturbing at the time.
Inflating the currency is much more likely. It is how the government will escape a crisis when they cannot lower interest rates any more. That said, I think land is finite and will keep pace with inflation.
When you live in a walkable area your grocery bags become smaller and your trips more frequent. You go to smaller neighborhood markets for your day to day things like milk, meat, and produce. You get dry goods a little at a time during your other more frequent trips.

You make bus trips to get to work or do stuff anyway so it’s just a stop on your way home, not a big deal.
Ask HN: Any licensed contractors here on HN?
I'm working on a new project and I'd love to have a quick chat with someone in this space - specifically California.

Just for reference, it's https://www.parcelplot.us - We're actively looking for partners - but any advice would be much appreciated.
really, your response to parent comment is ... "but it doesn't work for everyone"?
My understanding was that the F22 is more for a forward stealth air platform that is also intense at air to air. The F35 in “beast mode” is a gun truck in military jargon and isn’t really all that stealth at all. The F22 and F35 are meant for quite different missions and they’re best paired together.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/f35/news-and-features/raaf-fl...
I think my favourite part about the bug report is that it was closed as a duplicate!

> This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1538615: Cat causes login screen to hang.
> and suddenly the value dropped by $300k, I wouldn't care

You are saying that now but when it actually happens to you then it becomes real and different people react differently when it actually happens to them.
The Guardian's report gives more detail:

Two Norwegian journalists investigating conditions for migrant workers in Qatar ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup ... Hours earlier, during a live broadcast for the Sportsrevyen news show on conditions for labourers working on World Cup venues, Ekeland had told viewers there were “stark contrasts”, with some workers “doing awfully”. ... Ekeland and Ghorbani had been in Qatar since 14 November and were due to meet Abdullah Ibhais, the former communications director for the 2022 World Cup organisers, who has since publicly criticised the Qatari regime. However, Ibhais, who is appealing against a five-year prison sentence for corruption, was arrested hours before the planned interview.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/24/norwegian-jour...
Save them. make a trust or will to publish in 50 years after you die. then it will be history. very interesting for everyone, and no legal issues.
There are some rail options for those commuting from Stockton:

- The Amtrak San Joaquins train (https://www.amtrak.com/san-joaquins-train) connects Stockton with Richmond, where passengers can transfer to BART.

- For those headed to Silicon Valley, the Altamont Commuter Express runs from Stockton to San Jose (https://acerail.com)

I'm looking forward to the California High Speed Rail project being completed. This will make a commute from places like Merced, Madera, and Fresno much more feasible. Currently it's possible to drive from San Jose to Fresno in less than three hours; the bullet train will likely cut the duration of this trip by half.

I agree with you; it would be nice to see some nice transit-oriented developments spring up around train stations in the Central Valley.
Write a hit novel or song?
Real estate you can do pretty well. Or other forms of sales. Those are the ones that pop to mind that don’t require serious specialized education or licensure.

Other forms of engineering - civil, etc. but that will require a degree. Economics - same deal.
Lawyering. But that will require a JD and working your way up the ladder.

Nursing is probably not something you’d consider comfortable but can be very lucrative, especially travel nursing or becoming an NP. But will require you to lift a finger.

If you have the capital - become a landlord.
Left-wing trash site, don't bother
I'm not sure I understand your point about SA. The fact that SA1 and SA2 share the same name is just a superficial coincidence, and given that SA2 is way more famous and controversial, changing the subject to him was an offtopic tangent. That seems obvious, no? You weren't the only person who did that, and I responded to the others the same way.

You can't go by upvotes alone - fluff and indignation routinely get lots of upvotes. This is a weakness of the upvoting system (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). A countervailing system is needed, and at HN that system is the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) plus moderation. So I'm afraid you're stuck with our judgment about what's substantive, if you want to keep commenting here.

That doesn't mean it's arbitrary, though. We have to stay within the bounds of what the community supports, or else we'd provoke a huge backlash and chaos on the site. Since there isn't a huge backlash and chaos on the site, moderation practice is within the bounds of what the community supports.

I'm certainly not intending to insult you and don't mean to insinuate anything; I'm just trying to point out where your comments have been breaking the site guidelines and conventions of the site, the same way I would with anyone. For better or worse, that's my job.
Button accordions come in two kinds: classic piano full scale, and melodian, which is a harmonica attached to bellows and buttons. It's the same "what you get push and pull can differ" model, which real accordians don't do: same note push and pull.

I am unsure what a Bandonion does. Wheatstone concertina (yes, the guy who made the wheatstone bridge I believe) are also same note push-pull. More buttons. more. Wheatstone concertina sell for $10,000 or more. Melodions sell for $100

Zydeco typically uses the harmonica-aligned melodion. Bandonion music is what Astor Piazzola plays.

(can play a melodion. cannot play piano accordion or concertina)

Jimmy Shand is god. Just saying.
It's pretty hard for my IoT devices to spy on me with no internet access on a separate VLAN.
The surface area of a lawn is several times that of a concrete surface.

Walking into a forest, I notice the air is several degrees cooler than outside.

Even a house made of clay will be a few degrees cooler in certain weather than one made of concrete due to the increased surface area and evaporation causing cooling.

It isn’t rocket science. Greenery makes the earth a much better place.
Mirantis webinar on Docker swarm (Nov 2021): long live Docker swarm
It currently only supports two nodes connecting. The older jacktrip code supports more nodes, and FarPlay says this feature is coming later.

But yeah, this would help a lot I think.
Yeah, the fund is expected to run out in 2034 now. And then we'll see what happens.

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2021/tr2021.pdf
Reminds me a bit of Citroen DS, which was also revolutionary aerodynamic. Yet practical. And VERY popular.

Here's a video about the DS's aerodynamics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD1_WQQAwzw
Well one can analyze that type systems are till the hell freezes over. I personally do not care as this precise knowledge (assuming it is formalized and exists) is of zero value to me. When I want to walk I just do. I do not dwell on the details of the walking process.

Anyways most likely you do know well what I meant. JS vs C++ for example.
The issue is whether a vast difference in quantity and price creates a difference on principle.

For example, if surveying a person in the 1970s cost $300k per year to have them constantly followed, the cops needed few other limits as the cost alone means it won’t become pervasive.

But if you can get almost the same surveillance in 2021 for $10 per annum, nothing qualitative has changed - but the primary control on overreach has gone.
It wasn’t a good comment, but will confirm sketchy things happening at libraries in our area. Pretending they don’t happen, or being upset at their mention is not helpful either.
You might argue that animals don't have intentions (especially if you never observed one closely). However, it seems difficult indeed to believe that a cat has less intentionality than an abstract Turing machine -- or your desktop computer for that matter.
I use Apple's TimeMachine backups as my sources, and BackInTime on the Linux boxes I care about, so I'm backing up an archive which preserves previous versions of files. I push 12 rolling monthly archival copies of them into AWS Glacier, and keep one of those as an annual archive. That's costing me around $200/year in Glacier costs. I've only ever done a restore once from there as a test, from memory it cost me ~$30 in retrieval charges.
Is the music industry’s future on the blockchain?
Relatedly: Since most people on this thread probably don't know this, we are often under surveillance from high-altitude aircraft. It's incredibly creepy.

Book about this:
https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare-ebook/dp...

Video example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSeU-OnI8E&t=7s&ab_channel=...
so are they missing a cover from inventory?
All of this is a contortion of the concept of social security, and you should lead with the redefinition.
The article slightly annoyed me by saying, “Why one does backups? To have a copy of data at hand if something goes wrong.” Not, I think, the best way to put it, per your comment.
Not sure I understand the point of describing a free plugin as "overrated" if it does at least one thing very well. I don't think many would even agree that it's limited to one good reverb function.
Nope. That is why posting this sort of story is not useful.
Mate Rimac from Rimac Automobili claims [0] that engineering a car is far more complex than engineering an aircraft, because:

1. the expectations the manufacturer places on the operators are wildly different (eg: car drivers won't deal with checklists, type ratings, etc.)

2. the expectations the operators have from the manufacturers are wildly different (eg: car drivers care about their UX and the perceived value, whereas pilots mostly care about their job security)

[0] In German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALxDIxRrns
I can’t get super happy about this because it should never have been illegal in the first place. Thanks for reverting something incredibly dumb.

But this also makes me mad. They chose to legalize one of many wrongly illegalized substances and now barely mention the others (testing, boo hoo). They better do some criminalization (obligatory Portugal reference).
One of the most realistic takes in this thread, thanks for sharing. I strongly agree. I am severely disillusioned about the early promises of crypto that I espoused. I have settled more on your view, but I think we will cull out the garbage pets.com equivalents and in 10 more years we will see serious companies that are publicly listed developing large scale financial games. Whether they have any connection at all to existing tech (99% of which I think are not just bad but actively toxic scams) is tenuous at best.
> would it be unethical for someone to clone (non-unique) features from paid apps and then release the software for free?

Not at all. I haven't been an apple user in a long time, but from what I recall, a lot of the paid mac apps were just rip offs of open source projects anyway. The focus on payments and purchases really turned me off of the major commercial operating systems, and I don't think I could ever bring myself to go back to them.
I'm surprised this works for you. Every time I've tried to use my GV number for MFA it's rejected. It's easy for companies to check if a number is assigned to a "legitimate" mobile provider and if not, they just don't accept it.