skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm pretty sure as a kid I wrote over a few (bad) retail VHS movies this way, tapes that served more value as blanks.

Now that I think about it, I've never gotten a Blockbuster/Hollywood Video rental that was damaged in this manner. This method of property destruction never even crossed my mind. It seems so obvious given how easy it is to disable write protection. Was I just lucky or were people more considerate back then?
I frequent a bunch of home automation related subreddits and FB groups.

In 99% of the cases shitty HomeKit functionality is because of crappy WiFi. People are using whatever cheapo crap their ISP gave them for free.

1) Get a better WiFi access point, disable the integrated crap your ISP gave you
2) Use either a HomePod or an AppleTV as the home's central hub, don't connect it via wifi.

This will most likely fix any issues. I've got a wired AppleTV and Unifi for network stuff. I've had zero major issues with HomeKit. A few lights refuse to respond at points, but it's a Zigbee issue, nothing to do with HomeKit.
This is an interesting take. I was speaking with my brother about the Genesis game Shinobi (part 3). What drew me to it was that it was so hard. You had to concentrate and really get good at it if you needed to play the game and reach the (rather disappointing by modern standards) end.

Modern games which I've played are more like movies with a limited amount of interactivity. Maybe it's just generational but I do think there's a good amount of "dumbing down" in not just games but educational and other content in general.

Apart from that, I was tickled at playing this. I used to smuggle this game from friends at school on 2 5.25" double density disks. There was so much trouble to get games and play them. Damaged disks, the fear of getting caught by the school staff, "friends" who would give me games other than the ones we agreed upon. Hard to imagine a world like that in a world where I can type a URL into a browser and play the game.
Yeah, but we're not in the matrix yet, so optimizing for real life has other beneficial side effects.
I was thinking this thing might be useful somehow for dealing with ropes perhaps. Maybe some way to carry rope around in a ball maybe?
It's less about current situation than belief about the future. The homeless can believe that they will catch a lucky break, even irrationally.

Highly-informed internet people with very realistic understandings of the prospects available in 21st century capitalism find it harder to delude themselves.

If you don't believe in the future, you become unable to act for yourself (depressed).
We're 16 years away from the overflow. In other words, some of the systems being put in production right now are going to be around, untouched, unchanged, when it happens.

Yes. It's getting close. Windows XP, released in 2001, still had a significant presence in 2017, 16 years after introduction.[1] 42% of companies still had some XP systems running back then. 11% of machines were still running it.

[1] https://community.spiceworks.com/networking/articles/2719-wi...
You avoided working for less than you believe you're worth, and the company hasn't employed someone on more than they want to pay. These are good outcomes.
I don’t know: my kid lives in Manhattan but works for a California company. His previous employer was one too. He says it’s the best of both worlds.
The public sector also includes research universities, where the delivered output is certainly not deterministic. Salary transparency works there too. Maybe because the academia evaluates everyone's merits and achivements publicly all the time, so people are used to transparency.
Yes this used to be a fun hobby. All my favorite films were TV runs and i'd have to time the stop button so I minimized any commercials ending up on the recording. Same goes for recording audio on the Radio onto tapes. It was a simpler time back then.
Wired connections to Apple TVs and numerous wired access points make a world of difference. And good quality routers/access points.

I would not even bother with Homekit (or any other system) without a higher end wired home networking setup.
Haskell is my favorite language, because my apps never crash, and there’s a single unifying semantics (everything is a function).
I believe you're arguing semantics. If we're being strict about the definition of insurance, we should also be strict about "free healthcare". There's no such thing. Somebody has to pay for it. If it's the government, they do so using money collected from their citizens. You can call it premium, tax, payment - it doesn't matter. At its core it's a system of distributing risk - which is insurance.

In my mind, the alternative to health insurance is paying market rates out of your pocket for everything. It's not a good idea and that's why most of the countries have universal health insurance coverage.
I quite like the idea of progressive carbon taxes btw. Everyone has an annual allowance for basic living necessities-this may include eg driving their old car to work or hearing their house.

Anything on top - air travel, second homes, big cars etc - you pay for the carbon.

Maybe doesn’t sound like it’s converting to 0, but at least it differentiates between optional and essential fossil fuel use (or socialises the cost of carbon removal if you prefer).
But many extremely high paying, high agency jobs do have public or public ish salaries. Biglaw as one example, and functionally big tech as well. I know the salary ranges for my level, and the level above and below me, at Facebook and Amazon and Google. There's some numbers and a formula based on your performance rating, and for like 95% of people, those numbers and that formula will be within 5% of your compensation. There's lots of agency, and a fair amount of variability within a level (25%), but how your performance impacts that outcome is fairly well understood.
>as it appears obsessive

Do you see the irony here?
What if you don't have a driver's license? It's not like any of those are a requirement for software engineering jobs
This is indeed true of movies such as Disney’s Song of the the South. You won’t find that anywhere;; even eBay prevents sale of the DVD.

Cartoons have also been censored:

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

https://deadline.com/2021/03/pepe-le-pew-space-jam-2-new-yor...

Many cartoon shorts from the 30s and 40s with blackface and other offensive material has been edited. I can’t find references right now, but have noticed this personally.
I'm curious, are there any ~~competitors~~ alternatives for Letsencrypt?
Having a sprawling extraterritorial landtheft entity you call a country with concentration camps and constituted by dispossession and apartheid is rather hard to hide or spin.
I've had several instances of ACME bot deciding to randomly fail behind Cloudflare, so I've switched to using CF Origin certs on a few hosts. It's not ideal, but it works for my public needs. I'm still running PiHole locally with no certs, which I dislike.
I can't elaborate more than that, but I was under the impression that in some places software licenses can be enforced with contract law, and in other places with copyright law.
Not a silly question at all. Firstly, heat pumps do not need to extract heat from the ground, they can also extract it from the air or a body of water. The heat moved from outside to inside a building will always leak out eventually, returning to the environment. In the case of air heat pumps this means there is very little change of local air temperature over any time scale.

You are right that extracting too much heat from the ground will make the ground around the exchanger too cold, which will make the process less efficient and have negative environmental effects, which means it is illegal in many places. Smaller systems like for homes are usually very shallow and will regain enough heat from the air and sun over the course of the year. Larger systems can be problematic. The common solution to this is to use the ground as a thermal battery (or install a thermal battery in the ground, using it for insulation). Then you can use your heat pump to extract heat in the cold season and in the warm season you can cool the building and move that heat back underground. This has the extra benefit of being even more efficient, since you are basically just trading heat and cold from season to season.
It depends on where you are. In many places sports gambling is starting to be cracked down on.

Plus having a single state owned lottery is better than 1000 shady companies competing, and lottery revenues can even be used for state budgets.
the one without holes has different sized nodules which would also correlate with counting
It's not free. Maybe your privacy is worth nothing -that's up to you to decide- but mine is close to priceless. So to me using Google maps would be hugely expensive.
Avoiding embarrassing facts is one of the examples.
This is of course non-sense, as OpenSea has been taking down collections aggressively for months now, including in some high-profile cases such as the Cryptophunks.
Unpatented 'World's Covid-19 Vaccine' Wins Emergency Approval in India
Title shortened to fit, original: Unpatented Shot Dubbed 'The World's Covid-19 Vaccine' Wins Emergency Approval in India
"A more recent preprint published this month on the physics arXiv claims—controversially, it must be said—that frozen tardigrades can achieve a state of "temporary quantum entanglement" when incorporated into a superconducting qubit (quantum computing's basic unit of information), and then be revived again."

It's amazing what those little creatures are going through since we discovered them.
There are a lot of employers here.
I am sure that society in our world would call you delusional if you used that argument in front of a judge for copyright infringement of a Mickey Mouse NFT for example.

I already discussed that recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29715994
The graphics and sound are from the PC version.
I also found CBT-I useful but it doesn't solve the underlying problem (if there is one). For example, if Insomnia is a side effect of depression. Also, for leaving bed after 20 min if one doesn't fall a sleep. I got this advice as well - go read a book or something. But when I wake up at 4am the last thing I want to do is read a book. I prefer closing my eyes and get some rest / light sleep until my alarm goes off. While it's not sleep it's still restful. Listening to something with headphones helps me.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

My older brother was convicted of murder, currently in prison serving a 40 year sentence, physically assaulted my mother and put her in hospital when he was a teenager, theft, drugs the whole lot.

Even though she doesn't want much to do with him, she still can't bring herself to cut all ties.

Parent-child ties are a strange dynamic.
I have to say that many of my fondest memories from all kinds of systems; games, work, play, all of my favorite times were when I was finding an unscratched edge in a model. There’s something superlative about finding a hack, a way to obtain something that the designer of the game did not intend. The feeling of “I know your game better than you do” is something I shall never forget.

Those fleeting moments where you have a temporary advantage gained without malfeasance but with pure cunning and skill (or cleverness if we’re being bold), those are the happiest times in my life.

Finding the little edges where things just don’t quite add up, shining a light on them, and wielding them as your own; that’s the stuff from which real hackers are made.
Probably because it is more about deliberate information asymmetry and this provides a pretext.

I have very rarely seen a startup actually cast a net this wide if they're truly looking for senior candidates.
Just curious: What is the advantage of this setup over a timer switch socket for the Espresso machine?
The problems are that it's subjective, so will lead to arguing all the time. And the truth is often closer to, Sandy negotiated a higher salary when she came in,maybe because she made more at her previous job.

But the biggest problem is that if you wanted this "fixed", you can only raise salaries of people who make too little. Lowering salaries of people who make too much is usually a legal impossibility.

So the effect will be that you risk ending up overpaying everybody instead of only an outlier now and then.
This is not what fungibility means. A coffee mug used by Guido van Rossum may be non-fungible with other brushes of the same make, merely because I value its provenance. Everyone unaware that I am willing to pay a premium will treat it as fungible. It is irrelevant how many other copies of the cup exist.

Similarly, you can create a thousand NFTs linking to the same content, but no one cares except misguided NFT skeptics, who somehow think this is an important fact.
Listening to something you can focus on should help. I like meditation videos of at least one hour.
So repulsed by this. Learning custom DSL with opaque semantics that will leave you scratching your head when something goes wrong and tool behaves not like you expect. Why people opt into such tools at all?
> DFAs and NFAs may seem like academic novelties but they are amazingly powerful for certain problems.

They are the same thing as regular expressions. It's safe to say they're not being dismissed as academic novelties.
Magma open-source project for building mobile networks
probably it was the average family but not the median family, which of course means that the high end dream consumer family was paying much more than that.
Right. Which is still called insurance.

Medicare in Australia: https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/medicare

> Medicare is Australia’s universal health insurance scheme. It guarantees all Australians (and some overseas visitors) access to a wide range of health and hospital services at low or no cost.

Medicare in Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canada-healt...

> Medicare is a term that refers to Canada's publicly funded health care system. Instead of having a single national plan, we have 13 provincial and territorial health care insurance plans. Under this system, all Canadian residents have reasonable access to medically necessary hospital and physician services without paying out-of-pocket.

Hope you're feeling better now. That kidney kick must have been hell of a painful one.
The CDC slashes estimates of omicron's prevalence in the U.S.
What if you got it down to 0/month? I think you're thinking too small.
Really nice tool, thanks!
Ancient Rome had a population of 800k though, compared to 10k in Great Zimbabwe.
> The reality is that even the most transparent companies out there (eg: Gitlab) do not disclose individual salaries.

This is not the reality. For instance, here are the salaries of everybody who works at Buffer: https://buffer.com/salaries

Once you step outside of the USA, it becomes more common – for instance, everybody’s taxable income is a matter of public record in several European countries.
First the Zuck steals your attention, then he steals your land...
Naturally they were only a reality in university campus and big companies, my first thin clients were X Windows IBM terminals and green phosphor text ones used to connect into DG/UX used on campus.
Can you recommend a path to start with mindfulness meditation?
Thanks for the discovery of these books :)
These games aim to be "rewarding" and therefore worthwhile. In many ways, these types of games offer an alternative world and life that's more rewarding than reality.

You could look at the existence of these games as a triumph of capitalism. We have raised productivity to such heights that the real world does not provide enough grind to sate the need for reward, so people literally invent fictional realities to create more opportunities for grinding your way to a reward.

What is missing here is purpose. The reward could be more than just meaningless progress in the game. For example, why couldn’t you have a game were the grind is designing tailored-for-one phone cases, which then get printed and shipped in the real world. People could be ordering an NFT-backed guaranteed unique phone case, and many people would be willing to pay real money for that.

That these games have a grind that amounts to meaningless work disconnected to physical reality seems like a failure of imagination and a waste of opportunity.
And for those who like to tinker and want to integrate all devices into homekit: homebridge

https://homebridge.io
They always felt super precise to me, without requiring a lot of dexterity.
Airalo is data-only plan, so you have to either use another SIM card for making phone calls, or use VoIP/Skype/Viber/etc.
> And the truth is often closer to, Sandy negotiated a higher salary when she came in,maybe because she made more at her previous job.

Perhaps that's what these laws are attempting to address ;)
Very easy to customise script xvfb browser recording here:
https://github.com/grayleonard/xvfb-record
Giving John such an explanation for why his salary is set as it is and what he can do to get a raise is not a problem for an employer. It's about the best possible case for them really.

The real problem for companies is when the explanation comes down to "Sandy negotiated harder than you", "Sandy got a higher offer from a competitor so we had to match it to keep her", "we're paying you significantly under the market rate and are hoping you don't notice or aren't too bothered by it", etc.
Floors need to be tidy for the robots to do their work (no clothes on the ground). There might be places that are difficult for the robot to clean without help - chairs might need to be put out of their way. In my home I put a plank to make a step smaller, if I don't, it can't go to the bathroom.
While Forbes does have some articles from paying contributors, these are marked. Articles from "Senior Contributors" involve paying the contributor, not the other way around. So not really like Medium or Substack (Though these do provide some remuneration to those who restrict their articles to paying subscribers, I believe.)
carburetors exist on more than just cars. Lawnmowers, ATVs, motorcycles, etc.

Given that someone is already skilled in engine maintenance, seems unlikely they wouldn’t recognize a common engine component in all classic cars and most small engines.

Furthermore, what’s with the argument that someone would be completely unfamiliar with an object/event/concept that existed before their time? I see this argument used from time to time, and it’s baffling. Are you completely unfamiliar with everything that was not longer manufactured after you were born? Does it surprise you that a ton of young people are interested in restoring classic vehicles (and electric retrofits) and there is a large online community of such?
All good points. I think we will have to contend with either paying for peaker plants to mostly sit idle, or an increase in blackouts that will coincide with a cloudy windless week.
How would you use this as a sex toy
Interesting. Never heard of that before. Definitely not the case in the two US states I’ve lived in when I was an executor.
Looks similar to me with https://dagger.io/ but with lisp instead of cue. I’m looking forward to see where this space goes.
Games and music seem to have managed to defeat piracy. And when it was just Netflix before the fragmentation and greed of the movie/tv content holders no one I knew downloaded.
IME it's usually because they'd be prepared to accept less not because they're actually less productive.
That you can leave for vacation, forget about this automation until well into your trip, and still be able to turn it off without calling the neighbors or your kin who might be living nearby.
Show HN: Ansible Doc Generator – Easy documentation for your Ansible roles
Haskell is a general-purpose language, and Nix is made specifically for package management and system configuration. So Nix is significantly easier to learn than Haskell.
Can you try ripping a Joe Rogan episode with your setup? His podcast introduces ads even if you pay and while yt-dlp worked for a while now they are encrypting with Widevine (for supposedly his podcast only).

Here is a link to an episode to test: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DsunsN5MGI0CWwvuaxZdt

To date I have not found a way to rip this other than recording the episode on Desktop. The main use case for me is that when I am driving, I hate when it randomly stops the podcast to talk about some underwear brand and it is hard to skip and not cause an accident. :)
Why keep a utility object alongside wealth objects?
While they were annoying to deal with, took up a lot of space, and had fixed configurations...

I do miss me some ribbon cables
> For a really basic example, that opportunity to double your BTC that Elon Musk is always offering his followers is literally the gp doubling scam, the most common Runescape scam from 2 decades ago.

Isn't this kind of thing illegal with real assets?
Those apps you mentioned are the pinnacle of what open source software can look like for me. Blender was always powerful but when they put effort into redoing the UI it was a complete game changer.
There’s a continuous tension between capacity and load. We’ve been fortunate that technology (and untapped resources) have largely placed capacity above load for much of our lifetimes. Spare capacity tends to be followed by an increase in load. Remains to be seen if technology advances can keep capacity above load. If not, load will decrease, either gradually or drastically, one way or another.

It’s really a restatement of supply and demand. Prices that are free to respond to an imbalance between the two keep the two in balance. Prices have been low for a long time because capacity has been high / load has been low. As load increases faster than capacity, expect prices to increase,
Another year is almost over. These days, in my early thirties, seeing people without homes, knowing families struggling through divorce and job security, i really do get teary eyed. How is it that china can have concentration camps… there’s no point.

I dont blame Zuckerberg, i blame myself and us for believing in capitalism, for chasing riches, i blame liberalism. “Be yourself, realize yourself, live your dreams”… No… Be there for those around you, hear their drems, realize them…
Locally Optimal
Levels seems to be restricted to a few well known names though.

This is why I'm happy to go through third party recruiters. It's in their own interest to not waste time with people who either can't be placed or need a certain pay range, so you can ask them in the first minute of conversation what the job pays and they'll tell you. Plus they'll know the salary of many many people, as their own compensation depends on it.
When providing infraestructure for clients, we ended up writing the Ansible, and then docs describing what we had done. We created this tool to generate documentation automatically from magic comments we include in Ansible. This way, we automate things and be sure everything is up to date, saving lots of time of writing.