skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 350 million tonnes

That's more than the combined weight of all humans. Only about 18% of all worldwide plastic is recycled. That means that we literally are filling up the world with an entire copy of the worldwide population, in plastic, every year.
Ime, this threw a whole bunch of entry level laborers under the bus. When I entered the workforce, you could work up to 29 hours (typically flex scheduling) at an entry level position in my region. If you wanted any more, you either worked multiple jobs - both of which likely changed your schedule week-week, or worked for an employer who knew they could do whatever they wanted with you, because what they were offering was a rarity in the environment.
I would like to see the stats with people who are in prison for low level drug offenses taken out. I suspect the numbers would start to be much closer to the European numbers.

I personal theory is that there are two types of criminals - normal people who do the occasionally stupid thing (stealing a single item from retail or getting into a bar fight), and people who make crime their career path. The US model is to treat everybody as being in the latter group, while the Scandinavian model is to treat everybody as being in the first group. Instead we should treat people based on who they are, even if that means very different sentences for the same crime to different people.
I wish that the Affordable Care Act banned employer-sponsored group policies. The health insurance remains bifurcated between the individual exchanges and people covered under their employer's plan.
Yeah, maybe it was not an intentional scam and maybe he believed it. The guy I spoke with who claimed to know him said that his prototype did actually work to what he said. But I was not there and it still seems an interesting story.
They keep giving me questions from TopCoder. Stop doing TopCoder-based interviewing. You're ruining your company this way. I'm offended on principle.
They(rude interviewers) think that you are taking something from them, that you are after something they have. They believe that we(people looking for a job) are parasites, so they want to avoid us.
This is not really an issue with a machine prepared for live performances or presentations. Until now.

Portability is essential for some people, and MacBooks have pretty reliable IO.
An Uber (or personal car) also has the advantage of being able to take an alternate route. I used to work on the west side of Capitol Hill in Seattle and lived on the east side of the hill. Any time something like Hempfest or Pride was going on, it literally became faster to walk home than take the bus. If I was driving I could have taken an alternate route and gotten home in a fairly reasonable amount of time.
Although they should not dismiss it at all as it can lead to extremely successful companies. I have Dataiku or UIPath (they did it for years) as good examples. They leveraged their existing customers to test their first product, with success.
These are internal numbers and so stores are free to account for shrinkage however they wish. For many stores the process of accounting for shrinkage is a routine matter and does not require any extra process.

Also I wouldn't consider the NRF to be a state source; they are an industry retail group.
I’m sorry you focused on one verb in the sentence rather than the overall meaning of the sentence. You likely got my meaning but instead decided to focus not on the question but it’s particular wording. I think that is called pedantic, but I’m hesitant to invoke a word that might upset you because of my misuse of it.

I did not assume a conclusion when I asked that question.
> I could go on to show you how "centralized finance" returns over half a million scholarly publications on Google Scholar

Do you not know how to use Google? "Centralized finance" returns 685 results, and if you go through the results you'll quickly see that most don't even talk about the financial system.
I think that's a key point: you need to leave enough trash that it's evolutionary interesting to make use of that resource. It needs to provide a competitive advantage. Not sure we're here yet, though some environments like dumps could cross that threshold.

Oh, and time. Life is more diverse now than it was during carboniferous, but it still took millions of years for bacteria to learn how to digest lignin/wood.
The biggest gains I'd recommend for just about everybody in a tech field:

1) Continuing to stoke the flames of curiosity and discipline within yourself so that you genuinely love to learn and get slightly better every day without fear of perpetual burnout.

2) Confidence to ask questions in group settings so that you can quickly get to a collective understanding of the problem space and challenges at play.

3) Communication. Litmus test is being able to present what you're doing in an understandable and approachable manner that can get the right people engaged.

And to answer the spirit of your question more directly, some technologies that my team have found to be super valuable:

A) Hasura (GraphQL/ORM layer to interface with Postgres)

B) Pulumi (TypeScript IaaC)

C) React (nothing super new here, it just continues to be incredibly valuable to us)

D) NestJS (TypeScript-friendly framework that is like Angular for the backend)
> and documenting it

Sounds like you need two or three people dedicated to the task. Documentation is a whole profession by itself. Well, good documentation.
The article makes no mention of changes to insurance claims.
Property crimes are not being prosecuted by Travis County DAs, so the thieves are not wrong.
Isn't the speed of the sat irrelevant as it should correct for this anyways for all images it takes?
For me, it's mostly about independence. Living my life on my terms, on my own time, and on my own agenda is priceless. I don't have to ask anyone for permission to go for a walk or have a 3-hour long lunch if I want to. I can slack as much as I want as long as I keep the lights on.

Oh, and I passionately hate alarms. Don't want to wake up every morning just because someone decided for me that I have to be somewhere.

Sidenote: Good decision-making matters a lot. You can work for thousands of hours without having anything to show for it, or you can work for an hour and make more money than you've ever made in your entire life. Scary but exciting. See Taleb's Mediocristan vs Extremistan: https://people.wou.edu/~shawd/mediocristan--extremistan.html
I'll admit that I've honed my writing through online comments, though in a direction I'm not sure is valuable elsewhere ;)
That’s a long winded way of saying “ok boomer”.

Seriously tho, google “boomer ellipses” and you’ll find many theories for why people do this.
I guess that's the thing though, is the frequency of occurrence up or is the frequency with which these events are recorded up?
Many of the fragments could be combined to form coherent sentences with minimal or no modification. At the moment it's one long run on sentence with a bunch of ellipses spread throughout.
About 10 years ago, I had a job with one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in Times Square, running several huge LED displays, including one that used a camera feed for interactive experiences with the audience.
I don’t know too much about the specifics, but at the time I worked there, all of their screens, including the one that used a camera for AR stuff, were driven by Mac Pro towers running OS X.

So while I can’t say if this is still the case or not, in 2012 many of the times sq billboards were being driven by macs.
You are making the assumption that deprived areas lead to crime, but maybe it is crime that ruins areas because nobody wants to open a business there, and those who can (generally those who would provide a positive, stable influence) leave?
It looks like your account is using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. Can you please not do that? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

When an account crosses the 'primarily' line of doing this, that's the line at which we start banning, for reasons explained at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
But its logo has the 12 gold stars of the EU flag over a blue cloud.

And it has the EU TLD.
Google, Stack Overflow, Copy/Paste.
> you can just send the binary blob to the GPU and decompress it in a compute shader

Surely this exists already?
>It was a rather frustrating experience because none of my existing knowledge worked.

Well, it is a new language

>I could see the field I needed in the object in the debugger, but for the life of me couldn't figure out how to get it.

I would need more context to help you out here. You had SomeObject with a child SomeChild and couldn't do

let a= SomeObject.SomeChild ? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

>I had to write some really weird `if let ...` thing that would extract those fields into local variables that I could then use.

Sounds like this is importing from some file or something, and whoever wrote the code below you just made everything optional and chucked all the responsibility for that up the chain. I'd have to see the code but it sounds like bad design.

>Also, immutable everything by default. You can't overwrite function arguments within the function itself, like you could in Java and C++. And unwrap, unwrap, unwrap, unwrap, unwrap everything.

That's a feature not a bug. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if you have

func twoStrings(a: String, b: String) -> String, _why on earth_ would you ever want to be able to override that func's params and feed it something else? a/b would be a completely unexpected type and blow up/fail to compile. If you're routinely needing to do this, you haven't embraced static typing I think. Swift Generics are a potential option.
SAP is like Salesforce or SoftBank, in that nobody can figure out what they make or do, but the suits keep shoveling boxcars full of money at them for some reason.
There still exists the classic solution of offsetting video output through a projector (or on a monitor using vertical alignment) to place the dot offscreen right? If we're talking about people dropping tens of thousands of dollars on equipment that feels like a modestly acceptable short term solution.
> They're going to have dedicated video output cards that would not be affected by this. Those cards are specifically for having 100% control over the output.

Um, no, how about the built in one worked fine, didn't require me to buy a very expensive additional piece of hardware. This change took away functionality that worked before the upgrade?

> let's not start with the idea that pros are outputting directly from their computers without the right hardware.

If professional means derives income from work, you would be wrong. If pro means works for an organization with unlimited budget, you would be right.
probably because software engineers don't get paid nearly as much as in the US.

Also, there's less of an entrepreneurial mindset in europe. DO a good job, get paid, work life balance. Very different set of goals from america
https://globalcomsatphone.com/satellites-and-their-altitudes...
The way to get UBI is to first replace all Social programs with the negative Income Tax. You solve the social problems, you stop the welfare trap, and you put the economy on the Path to a UBI.

Until we replace all social programs with something better, less corrupt, UBI will never work
My dad is a boomer and he manages to write coherently. I'm not quite sure it's purely age related.
> Why can't Microsoft make a product like Preview for Mac which allows for such things?!?

I presume it's some nonsense application of antitrust laws preventing this.
I mostly just disagree with the framing of the question. But, yes, I reckon the average retired person contributes as much/more to the GDP of the country than the typical wage-earning person.
Limited brain capacity in humans and birds
> You will be able to sell your NFT for a potential profit as the value rises on the secondary market if you choose to.

Or the value will drop and you no one will want to take it, even for free, because the buyer must pay the transactions fees anyway.
Yes it is. Notifications can pop-up if someone forgets to disable them. Any OS prompts can pop-up on the display. You don't leave those types of things to chance.
Aside from the "this won't pass and isn't seriously intended to" thing, I think the other big question for me is, of non-exempt employees, who actually works a 40 hour week?

My understanding is that the most recent stats put median weekly earnings at just about $1k and the exemption line is $684/wk, so certainly less than half of workers are non-exempt now.

Of the non-exempt workers in the US, how many are working, for example 3 different 20 hr/wk jobs, or 2 30 hr/wk jobs? How many are working 90 hours of mixed gig-economy "jobs"? I get that the pandemic changed a lot about the labor market, but previously the trend seemed to be towards workers having to stitch together multiple things to support themselves, and it's not clear that the proposal really has caught up with the idea that a lot of work isn't done by "full time employees" any longer.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime
The sad reality is that 32 hour work week only makes sense for certain intellectual and creative workers where
1. productive output doesn't have a strong correlation with input hours
2. have the competitive labor market to have any productivity loses absorbed by the employer.

For the typical worker this is designed to help, this would just be a 20% reduction in productivity. Employers would either reduce pay, increase prices, or hire non CA workers where possible (either remote or open an office outside CA).
>Swift itself is also quite nice - although it’s evolving really, really fast and tutorials/howtos and such go stale really quickly. Swift can and will drop language feature at the drop of a hat. Just today I wanted to do a simple C++ style for loop only to find this was removed completely from the language.

What are you talking about? Swift has had (and still has) basic for loops since 1.0. What am I missing here?
Finnish man blows up his Tesla Model S with 30kg dynamite
I have the opposite experience. When people typically stick around for the majority of their career, there's no incentive to capture knowledge thoroughly. Onboarding time was noticeably longer because of it.
When I was young, most stores displayed a bold sign "ALL SHOPLIFTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED". I haven't seen those signs in ages.
Show HN: Python decorator that enables arbitrarily-deep tail/non-tail recursion
The fatal premise is assuming Google Maps updates these areas frequently enough to provide useful info. The military security implications of Google Earth have existed since its launch and Google Maps by relation is no stranger to it. This is not new info and it hardly counts as "knowledge" much less with "power".

Reconnaissance satellite technology isn't US-exclusive (https://www.dw.com/en/modern-spy-satellites-in-an-age-of-spa..., Ctrl+F "Spy satellites in numbers") and those who have a meaningful need to track B-2 movements most likely have their own tools that are up to date, more accurate, and not bound by laws or regulations a US domiciled company is subjected to. What we see on Google Maps is almost guaranted to be 100% "trash" from a military intelligence perspective because actual valuable information has always been obtainable without Google Maps for entities who are capable and in need.
I just clicked on the first one I liked (grape - in telecommunications), and it was just closed down due to insolvency. It mentions it had 500,000 users, which baffled me that they couldn't find investment for such an obviously liked and used product. EU startup landscape looks a bit depressing honestly.
NAPS2 is primarily a scanner app, but it can also import existing PDF files, following which you can re-arrange and manipulate pages: https://github.com/cyanfish/naps2
that's entirely dependent on whether the bacteria can exist within the gut of the aforementioned marine life. If they're eating plastic, and ingest that bacteria, and it starts to act on all of the plastic that's been stuck in their system for years, that would improve the situation.
Oh, I loved the Moomin books as a child! I read them in English, and the language use was a delight; I didn't even realize they were a translated work until I got older. How fun to learn that a quality translator worked closely with the author to keep the magic alive in a different form.
For many, Big Government is probably a big part of it here in Belgium. The public sector is so big that many software engineers can spend their entire career as overpaid government contractors.
something just in case you need to over-engineer it quickly: http://postmodernize.telnet.asia
Unless you aren’t military and then no infrared for you
I've been involved with several live productions in large arenas where there were multiple very large LED screens (48 feet wide I think) as well as being webcast to a significant audience. The A/V budget for these events was 7 figures. Several semi-trucks full of equipment for A/V. I don't know if that's professional or prosumer, but it seemed very professional to me.

100% of the computer graphics at these events came from PCs and Macs with their default video output. Some even came from the HDMI output on a Raspberry Pi.

I worked a lot with the production companies behind these shows and it seemed to be SOP to use a regular Macbook with Powerpoint to drive the displays.
> Cops are sourced from the general population

They are notably not. Usually, immigrants are drastically under-represented compared to general population (at least in Germany, you have to hold German or European citizenship to join the police force).

> so incidence rates need to be compared to the general population

Oh hell no. Police officers act on behalf of the government and with powers that are both far greater than those of ordinary people and not immediately appealable. As a result of that, police officers in Germany are actually held to extremely high standards by law (§34 BeamtStG - https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/beamtstg/__34.html) and receive at the very least two years of training.

I won't say our police are perfect (because they aren't, they still are a bunch of bullies), but they are orders of magnitude better than the trigger happy, barely educated (seriously, 360 hours of training?! - https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_9dd5d48b-2152...) morons that make up the US police force.
Your sincerity moves me, so I will absolve you of my focusing on what words mean. So much for accuracy and semantics, which, by the way, contrary to popular belief, is of vital importance to understanding what you are saying and it being understood by anyone else.
The prototype looked like it worked, but it didn't. It was pretty clever though and even though I don't know 100% sure how they did it I had figure out enough to make them very uncomfortable.

The setup was a small device plugged into a TV, and then you could pick any one of iirc 8 movies that they would then show a sizeable chunk of. As far as it being a scam: they believed they could make it work, but there is no way that they did not know that they were presenting a rigged demo.
About which OS are you talking? On MacOS and Linux, a program can go to full screen mode without any user interaction. The last time I saw a powerpoint presentation on Windows, it also didn't have a menu bar or task bar in presentation model. So what are you talking about?
UpCloud is rather fantastic for what they offer. Of course, it's no AWS or GCP, but for my needs UpCloud has been just about perfect.
This seems to be the key part:

> This legislation would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

It doesn't mean we're all suddenly working 8 fewer hours. It doesn't mean anything at all for exempt employees (like most of us engineers).

It would only mean that hourly, non-exempt workers would be paid 50% more for hours 33-40 every week.

It's a symbolic bill, though, so it's not actually intended to pass.
> k8s is a terrible experience and a terrible abstraction. I'm not smart enough to do better but I'm smart enough to know it terrible. It's snake-oil

If you're running Kubernetes on bare metal then I don't blame you for having a bad impression. I can't help you understand that your problems are almost certainly to do with a group of "hardcore Ops" guys trying to do everything GKE or EKS gives you for free while neglecting your actual needs, not to do with Kubernetes itself, which is most useful when Google just creates a cluster for you and you can immediately start dumping manifests into it.

> at my company, a bunch of devops folks that deployed k8s 80% of the way left soon later to make 2x the pay as contractors at other companies to help them push through their last 80%. This is another reason that there is a lack of parity on the new infrastructure. Unfortunately, everyone is still stuck at 80%. Strange.

Again, this isn't really to do with k8s is it? Probably better to point the finger at management for not retaining the people who they needed to run k8s or listening to your complaints trying to work with something 80% done instead of 100%. At my company we used k8s 110% for everything and have amazing support for it, and as a dev it's a dream come true. For people who don't understand Ops, it can be difficult, but when you open the "DevOps" box of saying "Devs own their services in production" for the first time, you're bound to do a lot of learning. I see this in my teammates a lot, who have basically zero understanding of how things actually deploy or run once they've left their local machine.
i doubt they'd remove it for security reasons - as you say, there's nothing secret about what this plane is doing here. more that they'd remove it for the same reasons they remove clouds or any other in-air objects that obscure the thing they're actually trying to take photos of.

the plane isn't part of the map, so it shouldn't be on the map. even if it's not obscuring anything, they use satellite photos to generate building outlines, and this isn't a building. given how many planes there are flying all the time, and how infrequently you see them on google maps, they must make an effort to publish satellite imagery that doensn't have planes in it.
Fully nationalized systems (e.g. UK) experience significant political exposure which is mostly avoided in subsidized markets (e.g. Japan). This can lead to occasional shortages, and it makes life a lot worse if you work in healthcare.
It had a natural constituency, one with money, who fought for decades to make it a reality. Thats how you effect change, you fight like mad for 40 years to make changes, the less money you have, the longer it takes.
Sure and a bank is just someone else's safe as well, while we are doing the ridiculous reductionism thing
You might as well replace app developers with gnome developers except then it wouldn't be a revelation because the project has always felt that way.
And you've never met a VJ with an old macbook pro?