skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because in every case where a person says they "need" to print one can fine a more economical, more environmental, and easier solution to printing.

None of the examples highlighted in the comment I responded to should be required for ANYONE to print, not just me. Electronic versions of each of them are better, more effective, cheaper, and have less environmental impact
Another Litter Robot owner here (we are onto our second one) and I feel it does cut down on the smell.

The litter won't stay in the open part for more than 10-25 minutes and then it is cycled into the drawer which is relatively contained and has a charcoal filter on it.

We have two cats and end up changing the drawer every 2-3 days. I have a friend who manages not to change the drawer for a week and I do think it starts to smell then.

The main benefits are that we don't have to tend to the litter tray that often and when we do we only need to pull out the plastic trash bag, tie it up and replace with a new one. I also think it uses a lot less litter as we never have to fully change it out like you do with normal cat boxes.

It's an expensive item but I think it's definitely worth it. Get a reconditioned one for $50-100 less as they are perfectly clean and they will get messy pretty quickly anyway.

We pair ours with Nature's Miracle cat litter which has baking soda and other deodorizer in it.
I'm not sure that it's slow moving. It's just that it generally grows on the edges, and unless you're out near the edges, you've no idea how quickly the edges are growing.
>I'm sick of people pretending that they know more about brain chemistry and human behavior than the thousands of professionals and the decades of research devoted to the topic

The "thousands of professionals and the decades of research devoted to the topic" were mislead by pharma companies propagating the erroneous idea that depression and other problems are just chemical imbalances in the brain that are to be fixed with medication and that's that. So you can hardly blame them.
Wonder what you could get, if you would feed in the archives from high profile image agency, such as Getty.

They have tons of high quality images with descriptions.
This also affected Sony tvs, I was super annoyed by it - I dns blocked their ad servers with pihole and now I get ads for YouTube, play store, and google music. Clearly the baked in placeholder ones.

It’s not ideal but I can tolerate it more then actual ads.
I'd like to ask how you used the notebook. diagrams and drawings? quick notes and thoughts? what was it like and what was your thought process like?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj received people every day for decades and answered their questions. He made it very clear that the answering just happens without anybody doing it, and he continued doing it even in the presence of the pain of terminal cancer, weeks before his death. You could call that commitment, but Maharaj said otherwise. Source: Jean Dunn (Ed); "Consciousness and the Absolute"; Acorn Press, 1994

Then there are lots of books written by people whose "ego died" (although what does not exist cannot die), and from own experience I can tell you that writing a book requires a lot of momentum--or what you call commitment.
Unfortunately under capitalism I also need to buy food and shelter and not just survive on vibes
Thanks for asking, I'm in a similar situation and it's very useful to have more data about this :)

It should even be a page on big websites.
> one does _not_ rent property on OLX and there are only some areas that are desirable (i.e.: have to look and feel of central or western europe).

Interesting. Why not? The apartments look pretty legit.
MacBook Air M1, but with two 4k monitors?
Can you do that? Is anyone doing that? One external 4k monitor doesn't decrease performance, but will two be an issue?

I have two 4k monitors and thinking about switching to a MacBook for portability. Don't need much performance since coding and runtimes are on a server, but I'd hate for the UI to get sluggish
The Apple on that comes with a iMac or Mini. It's old and corded and feels just right.
Sure, farmers can be rich, but I was responding to the general statement (or implication) that farmers en masse are becoming rich.
It depends on how broadly you define 'ego', as people committed to a cause larger than themselves are often extraordinarily dedicated & productive. Priests, teachers, explorers, scientists (driven to find a cure for a genetic disease), etc. Their motivation might have a small component of individual ego ("I found it!"), but mostly it's egoless service to a significant problem they observe in their society/world.
For me, the biggest problem with REPL-driven development is the handling of global state. That's why there's no fewer than 5 (!) actually-being-used Clojure libraries for handling it.
100%. Bought our Brother HL-2340DW, a $97 black and white wireless laser printer, and it is still going strong. Original toner too.
I personally use literate programming to maintain my "dotfiles", mainly NixOS [1], and I _love_ it. I like to describe all possible alternative tools, why I don't use them, possible tools that look nice, random ideas and blog posts that describe parts of my config, add TODOs and screenshots, ... in short everything that is really ugly to do inside source code comments. Also I gain structure; adding headings to a 3000 LOC config is very nice.

For tangling I use lmt [2], as it works with Markdown and also play nice with Emanote [3] (full syntax highlighting inside the code blocks.). That means all my "dotfiles" are inside my Zettelkasten [4] and can be navigated like any other note I have.

[1]: https://nixos.org/

[2]: https://github.com/driusan/lmt

[3]: https://github.com/srid/emanote

[4]: https://zettelkasten.de/
Sofia, without a doubt - the capital.

Not much documents are needed in order to start working with an agency due to the fact that the market is starved for IT specialists.

It's not uncommon a person with 0 experience to start at 2K BGN which is around 1K eur.

Ranges are ( these are NET salaries after tax):
- Super Jr -> 1k - 1.5k EUR

- Juniour -> 1.5k - 2.5k EUR

- Mid-Level -> 2.5k - 3.5k EUR

- Sr. Dev -> 3.5k -> ~4-5k EUR without being a people manager

It's full of collocation workspaces like:

https://betahaus.bg/en/

http://soho.bg/index-en.php

https://cosmos.camp/

http://cosharehive.com/

https://trevorworkspaces.com/

etc. etc.
Seems like the industry wasn't a fan when the Yukon government tried warning labels: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-alcohol-warning-l...
I don’t believe the Boots Theory of Socioeconomics applies here. It rarely applies to luxury goods.

1. A phone can easily be lost, stolen, or damaged beyond repair. A $25 phone isn’t 8x more likely to break than a $200 phone, so the damage/lost/theft risk is much higher with the $200 phone.

2. People that buy $25 phones are presumably okay not having access to the latest versions of apps and the latest security updates.

3. $25 is 8x cheaper than $200. Even if we assume a rapid rate of replacing the $25 every 6 months it would take 4 years before the $200 phone pays off. That’s a poor ROI for $175, and the $25 phones will probably last longer than 6 months.
Although it's worth noting that there are other non-toilet alternatives as a middle-ground that also let the cat perform natural burying behaviour without there being old poop in there - like a self-cleaning litter box.
It's not a one-sided problem. They could do wire transfers, but that would be a substantial cost for their client side users, since most (American) banks charge $20-30 for outgoing wire transfers. It's not obvious to me why avoiding chargeback issues should dominate all other concerns, as bad as it is.
He's talking about the very common phenomenon of thinking you are a scientist when you're really just a crank (or you've become one). And this has to be read in the context of all of the previous points, which are about being an effective researcher or communicator. If truly no one recognizes "the importance of your work and the genius of your ideas", I suppose it's possible that the whole world is wrong and you're a misunderstood genius, but it's more likely that your work is not as valuable as you think it is and it is time to do something else.
I have had trouble with charge backs with Chase. Generally, I think they are pretty good to work with, but I would not suggest them for any large purchases.

You are correct about credit card companies, but for whatever reason, Chase has different incentives.
It’s the same in Canada. I had to setup direct withdrawal for a strata (condo) fee by visiting my strata’s bank with a “blank cheque” (print out of a .png from my own bank’s website, trivially forged). The teller had already set up the monthly withdrawal before I reminded her she forgot to even check my ID!

It gets worse too - once I moved and wanted the withdrawals to stop, my own bank claimed there was no way they could stop them, only the withdrawing bank could cancel
it. Of course I wasn’t a signer on the strata account as I was no longer a resident, so was completely reliant on them to stop.

Legacy features doesn’t even begin cover it. Those people that keep all their money under their mattress aren’t quite as insane as you might think.
+1

Honestly never understood why joining startups is meant to be so amazing unless 1) They are working on exactly the niche that YOU personally want to work in and 2) The startup's company culture is exactly your kind of weird/niche culture too. IMO unless it's a perfect match, you're going to have a bad time as there is less stability and diversity of ideas/experience in small startups.

I love large orgs because there are tons of characters, experienced professionals and frameworks designed to support and enable me. I can always move projects when I get bored or something isn't right.

I would join a startup however if there is something very very specific I want to build and I want to circumvent all the corporate barriers/rules to move fast and ship something. But so far, I've not felt that yet.
Is it standard practice for commercial HVAC to have some kind of UV light/ozone/X pathogen killing mechanism somewhere in the ducts? Or would that only be installed on a HEPA style system going for a certified clean environment?

I would naively think that exposing the forced airflow to the treatment would be both simpler and safer than installing a system into every room with people.
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That's my point with having a trained UX designer who knows what they're doing. They can improve a design much better than the average developer or designer because they have more training. An average designer or developer is going to hit a ceiling and be spinning their wheels creating variants with minimal improvement. This is why a/b testing is overrated. In other words, too much emphasis placed on testing, testing, testing and not enough on UX design.
Nice! That’s the best I’ve managed as well.
How do we know they did chargebacks for two years? I see 6 items, which I'm guessing is the 6 months that my card issuer limits chargebacks.

If that's the case, then the freelancer could still be well ahead on his slice of the credit card fraud.
As someone that indulges in both legal and pirated games, the benefits isn't in downloading content, but extra features. Stuff like auto-update, cloud saves, friends list, etc.

I don't trust any store to keep list of my games forever, sooner or later they will all fail.
The pace at which they were releasing new albums was also unrealistic.
This is very helpful, thank you. This whole thread is making me realize I should read up more on hash differences/implementations.
Yup. "Pay to play."
> I need to tap screen to start writing

I think the issue here is that, though the cursor is in the searchfield, the keyboard doesn't appear? I have no idea how to handle this. Even if you could make the keyboard appear automatically, it's also not obvious that you would want to, because you might just want to read your notes. (And then how to make it disappear?)

> I need to save what I wrote — can autosave happen in a browser app?

I've thought about that. Some issues:

- In thinktype, you write and search using the same field. So autosave would also save every search.

- The notes id is the time that you saved it. Not sure how I would handle that with autosave.

> Save button moved off screen to the right

Wow, that sucks. Can't replicate that, no idea what might cause that. Can you post a screenshot? Is the issue that the entire thing is too wide? Is it possible that you zoomed in by mistake?

> I think new text should be at the bottom like in chat apps, but maybe it's just my taste

I've thought about that. In my view, that makes sense at best for one line texts. If you have longer texts, and you want to read through all of them, then you have to keep moving back and forth. Scroll through a note to read it, scroll up again to find the previous note, and so on.

> I presume it wouldn't work offline?

It does work offline. Notes are stored locally using IndexedDB, and the code is stored locally using the cache interface of the service worker API.
Seems like personal bias at play here

I have no problems using paperless tech to mark up documents, I do it every day. Highlighting, scratching out text, making notes, etc all on Manuals, Specs sheets, maps, etc. I use (or have used) Android Tablets, Windows 2n1 systems, Remarkable, Remarkable2, and Supernote's for these tasks

Similarly you talk about cell phones being better than desk phones yet thousands of desk phones are still sold every day and when new communications platforms come out targeted to business there is a clear drive to have "certified" desk phones in additional to mobile clients and other soft phones (see MS Teams Certified Deskphones)

So you say the technology is not there to switch to paperless tech but thousands have done just that, and you claim the technology is there to move away from Deskphones yet thousands have not...

So.....
I was just recently talking to someone about this and what we realized was that printers are such a specific device the only companies making printer components are the ones making printers and they're probably not going to sell components to a startup clearly trying to compete with them (or at least not for a low price). And since printers and scanners use a lot of very specialised parts, you'd basically have to develop and manufacture them from scratch. High costs->low margins->low return->nobody wants to invest. Plus you'd get destroyed by the incumbents immediately because they'd just lower the prices for a year until you went bankrupt and then raise them again.
I've had a lot of success switching to freelancing by using Toptal and ATeam. You can go full time right away and you don't need to find clients. Feel free to email me at dan@axelby.com if you'd like to chat.
> Makes absolutely no sense.

Well, for me, it's just not ergonomic. Unlike something like Python.

I solved this year's Advent of Code in Common Lisp in an attempt to learn it better. I determined in the process that the language was awful by 2021 standards and if you wanted a Lisp that was actually usable, go with Clojure or a decent Scheme.
I see you haven't read NASA's aforelinked blog post where they explicitly detail the sorts of complexity it would add.

Since you've indicated an unwillingness to read the blog post I'll summarize briefly:

A camera on the "light" side of JWST would need its own heat shielding and wouldn't show us any of the instruments.

A camera on the "dark" side of JWST would need to function at temperatures close to absolute zero. It would somehow need to do this without disturbing the ultrasensitive instruments on the JWST.

This would have been needed to be accomplished with, essentially, 10-30 year old technology as the designs for spacecraft like this need to be locked in far ahead of time due to the incredible complexity of deep space launches.

In both cases the cameras would need power and data cable routing, and given the various harsh constraints involved (complexity, budget, liftoff weight, size) would have involved compromises in some other area.
> If the client had paid with stolen crypto (as they paid with a stolen CC), then, yes, the freelancer would have been paid, but the person whose money was stolen would have been screwed.

Since delivery of products/services isn't reversible, all that making transactions reversible accomplishes is changing which party gets screwed when there's fraud.
How to Tackle Career Stagnation?
Macrochips: A collection of laser engraved, 4 inch slate tile microchip coasters
> The faculty is so sick that they don't have enough people to run the school.

Bullshit.

Assuming that 20% of the teachers are sick (=coughing or not feeling well), which is a ridiculous overestimation, schools can still work perfectly well.
That just means that 20% of the lessons will not happen. And if the schools' administration is not completely useless (I admit that may be a long shot), some of these lessons could be replaced by other lessons.
> I can always move projects when I get bored or something isn't right.

This comment is so underrated. In most big companies, if your manager is an asshole or the project is boring, you can always move to a different role.
Measured, realistic, and unexciting takes like this are so rare in these kinds of discussions. Thanks for contributing yours.

In general, things are never simple, never black and white, never simply good or bad. Things are never executed by just one person, or even one group of people, and are never executed in isolation. Everything is connected to everything else, every variable is dependent on every other variable, every action, good or bad, gets a reaction of some kind, and on and on. Social dynamics are complicated. Political dynamics are complicated. The economic incentives that often drive behavior are everywhere and aren't necessarily thoughtfully created, maintained, or even widely understood.

Its easy and it feels good to get on Twitter or on Hacker News and yell "Yea screw school administrators, they're the problem!" But it is too tidy of a worldview to even approximate being accurate and saying it doesn't help anybody get closer to solving the real problem.

If you want to help, go get involved in your local school system... if you don't... you don't need to have an opinion on every single little thing, just read the article and move along.
My cat got blocked one time. It just happened one day. Came home from work and he was meowing painfully, and kept doing it. So I took him to ER.

Did you notice warning signs in days prior? I typically don’t check litter every day so possible I missed subtle signs earlier
Not sure if you ever tried a DSRI but it could be your serotonin levels are fine but your dopamine levels are out of whack. SSRIs are just one class of drug. Speaking from a history of anxiety and depression, the wrong drugs were not helpful, but the right drugs opened up a whole new version of self. In my case, that was buproprion.
They all have a fixed-length internal state and will have internal state collisions regardless of the output size. (Basically, they "consume" input into the state and then "expand" the resulting state into the output.)

Suggested reading: Sponge Functions - https://keccak.team/files/SpongeFunctions.pdf

"Informally speaking, a random oracle* maps a variable-length input message to an infinite output string. It is completely random, i.e., the produced bits are uniformly and independently distributed. The only constraint is that identical input messages produce identical outputs. A hash function produces only a fixed number of output bits, say, n bits. So, a hash function should behave as a random oracle whose output is truncated to n bits."

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_oracle
If they live and vote in your city, shouldn’t they have a voice in the place they live?

> Those who are here illegally and will vote for more free stuff and those who are incredibly wealthy and will vote for more tax breaks for themselves and their properties.

The wealthy are already doing a fine job on tax evasion, I’m deeply skeptical that there are a game-changing number of wealthy non-citizens in that group. As for the “free stuff” argument – even liberal U.S. cities rarely give things away without many strings and historically this has always been a net economic win because people who aren’t in poverty participate more in the economy. I’d be shocked if it cost the city even half of what, say, the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually due to lawless behavior by the NYPD.
> How do I get over constant failure?

Constant failure? You are highly compensated and have a mortgage for a house, presumably in a very high cost of living area. It seems like you are an insecure overachiever and need to reframe things.

> My manager left a few weeks after I started, my onboarding buddy has been absent, and the fear has started creeping in again that I'm alone and can't hack it in this high performing team.

That doesn't sound like a high performing team. Stop putting dysfunctional startups on a pedestal and denigrating yourself.
This bank and banking system specific. My bank (Canada) doesn’t offer any dispute option either.
I don’t understand why this person doesn’t go back to Robin, who apparently is great but got all kinds of work done for free, and ask him to either make payment or set up some placeholder tasks and pay for those as a way to make up for the reversed payments.
The whole thing shows how dangerous and stupid panic can be. There was a lot of media freakout, because drama drives audience. That's where the public health people should have been saying "it's serious but not catastrophic, take a deep breath". And that's where our government and citizenry should have taken a long, hard look at what these recommendations involve. Instead we dove into an extended exercise in groupthink.

Because Covid's broad parameters were known to the experts and attentive laypeople in February 2020: spread through the air and quite infectious, but not particularly serious to a healthy individual. The importance of risk factors was strongly expected but not known for a fact. Analogies to the Spanish Flu were drawn, and dismissed by the experts.

And the expert response was basically "this one thing is more important than anything else, and minimizing it takes priority over all other concerns". Anyone asking questions of their recommendations, never mind criticizing them, was labelled as anti-science. The "expert" response to serious and informed questions, some of them from excellent medical people, was dismissive and condescending.

But it was obvious that its spread could only be slowed, not stopped. It was clear at the start of "Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread" that the facts on the ground would be pretty much the same after as before. So the logic leading to the first fifteen days would lead to the next fifteen days, and so on. But because the first lockdowns were supposedly just two weeks, their cost was minimized. No one spoke up to the obvious logic of their perpetuation.

Our public health experts failed to push against the fears, and failed to address the obvious consequences of their recommendations. They failed to honestly consider and respond to questions from other scientists, who, if not "public health experts", certainly had the training and intelligence to pose serious questions. And we, as citizens and in our government, failed to question those experts, and to conduct a proper layperson's analysis of their technical statements. All in all, a very poor performance by all of us.