skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't want to fumble around in your pocket to find cash for the parking meter

Keep quarters in your car and pockets. Sounds stone-aged. But it worked in 2000 and 2010 also.
Most of what you have shared can be easily explained. IT trying to be responsive to you by making sure you have a laptop seems reasonable -- they may be concerned if they wait after Christmas, it would lost in the shuffle. They just made not have had the EQ to think delivery affected you, especially if you gave them address to ship it to them.

Since you're working with a tool (and want education), your manager just may want to expose you to the vendor to help you succeed. It may be that talking with the vendor in this way may not be easy to set up.

And I say this because it sounds completely normal to me for this size of a company.

That said, if "best intent" is still not enough to justify their requests and actions to you, then that's on you to decide the work style and company you like. And if you feel you have the opportunity to pursue opportunities elsewhere that best fits your comfort zone, then you should.
Managing different projects with different Ruby versions with rbenv has been the bane of my existence the past couple weeks. Why isn’t this experience fleshed out better by now?
I get where you're going, but unfortunately this is not apt -- the fungibility of coins was specific design point for Bitcoin (and for money in general, which is where the analogy surfaces). NFTs are by design and intention not fungible; they are not divisible nor combineable nor substitutable.
Even in the US, there's a segment of the population who are getting themselves killed by not getting vaccinated and then refusing to accept proper medical care at the hospital because they believe that COVID is a conspiracy and that medical practitioners are in on the scheme. They roll in 5 days after they start showing symptoms with low oxygen levels hoping to find a doctor who will prescribe ivermectin and vitamins to become self-fulfilling prophecies when doctors refuse to treat them with things that aren't approved or helpful.
> For all that I despise Java's ridiculous boiler plate, I always know exactly what's going on

Not my experience at all when doing Spring Boot, talk about magic. Rails looks dead simple compared to that.
I'm really not sure. I'd guess that, say, YouTubers who provide extras to Patreon supporters often feel a much higher sense of obligation.

As for the legal aspect, I'm speculating based on just a bit of knowl she about contract law: If you give something as a donation, I don't think that constitutes a contract. If you give something with the promise or expectation (by all parties) of something in return then it begins to strongly look like a contract.

I could imagine a lawsuit against a Patreon recipient if they collected $1m while promising something to supporters and never delivered. (I'm not sure people would bother with a lawsuit, but I could see grounds for one). I think it's a bit different if the exchange was more informal, like "Hey I'm making X for my own enjoyment, I hope you like it too. Click here if you want to send me coffee money" and then collected $1m on that but never finished the project.

There's a lot of subtleties though, and plenty of contract disputes revolve around whether or not a contract existed in the first place (written, verbal, or implied)

So, if you start saying "I will maintain foss project X if supporters average $Y/month" then I think that really muddies the water on legals obligations in many jurisdictions. It may not matter if you call them donations or not. After all even with donations to non profit there can be an expectation of return: a plaque on a wall, name on a building, etc.
TL;DR Maybe regulation of massive mining cartels can have positive externalities by making distributed mining pools more profitable
They can't switch because if they earn money they are obliged to pay as per my agreement. There is no more discussion to have if you don't understand that the law does not exist only people exist.

I don't have time or will to waste time trying to force people into common sense more than I have with this hybrid license (let's call it that to avoid the collision with dual license).

I have just invented the hybrid license, enjoy!
Name a product you hate (but you pay for/use it)
The public adores the big tech brands. It's less "riding on" and more just the fact that outside of folks in tech, people really really like these companies. They are well trusted, people have positive views of the people working there, and people believe that the companies are generally well run.

Almost all brand surveys will have most of the top 5 be the tech companies you know and which HN loves to hate. That's not trending downward. It's trending upward.

The upward trend indicates that it isn't "riding on" but simply being considered good because they are.
I might agree, but consider my dark patterns example.

The author of the article was super mad, lambasting tech companies left and right for dark patterns, called it a bunch of different synonyms of immoral, etc.

His own paper, The New York Times, has a dark pattern system so pervasive that people here, on Hacker News, had to tell their bank to block payments because they couldn't get to the end of it. I've seen this story repeatedly here.

There's no way that didn't come up during the author's research. The author chose to completely ignore that and publish anyway. And The New York Times chose to make a huge deal out of it. What does that say about their ethics?
Anil Dash and Kevin McCoy invented them in 2014. https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/09/monegraph
> It's only when they get cancer, or finally meet some form of humility that they see the inherent advantages they had over others for what it is.

People with terminal diseases also usually become religious. Perhaps atheists are faking it too.

> the world looks like a meritocracy, and it isn't.

Tomorrow an asteroid may, very unluckily, fall and strike me so as to kill me. It would not be due to my merits or lack thereof.

Yet if you want to get ahead, you should generally work hard and do the right things while being sufficiently savvy.
I’m hyped about OCaml for some time. I might finally give it a go.
Clearly someone loved Sneakers at Apple because that's the default voiceprint password.
It's maybe not apples-to-apples, but it's an instructive comparison like comparing the energy consumption of a day of Zoom calls to a business flight.
Thanks, this is very helpful, as I can see all the icons in a single click, without having to go to each github repo for each packages.
Absolutely. For me the mental health benefits almost outweigh (sorry) the physical ones - however of course it also demonstrates just how connected the two are.

On top of that my thinking is so much clearer too; it doesn't even have to be a big session for this to take effect, so I often sneak a quick one in if I have two meetings with only a small gap.
New York State Considers the First Fashion Sustainability Law in the U.S.
> In humans, humour is a debugging process

I always find it amusing that we evolved brains, developed computers to crudely mimics our brain, created words to describe said computers and we now use these words on us as if we were computers ourselves... it's almost insulting, we're not computers. Your memory has nothing to do with ram/ssds, your brain isn't a cpu, these are all one way over simplified analogies
Think about why it SHOULD but doesn’t.
Yeah, so something I used to do was buy used servers from ~2010 or so (5-6 years old at the time).

Due to the fact that CPUs really haven't changed a lot for servers (at least for the stuff I was doing), it was a relatively cheap way to get 40+ core computers for less than a thousand bucks.
> US is also a super bad infant mortality rate compared to other countries:

Access to healthcare is quite low in the US compared to most of the 50 countries ahead of us. We also have higher levels of poverty, ESPECIALLY for a lot of parents/children.

GDP is irrelevant. The paper says:

> In 2013, the US infant mortality rate (IMR) ranked 51st internationally, comparable to Croatia, despite an almost three-fold di erence in GDP per capita

If you have high GDP per capita, and more poor people per capita, and health care is not free - you're going to have more people not accessing health care and suffering the consequences.

In this world - I would expect infant mortality to be much higher even when the healthcare systems are equal.
The trick is to declare it out of scope and bury the follow-up ticket.
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times Paperback – March 27, 2011

Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact--in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans.

https://www.amazon.com/First-Fossil-Hunters-Dinosaurs-Mammot...
Unions reduce profits by giving employees a voice to protect themselves, demand the compensation they deserve, etc. It's therefore inevitable that corporations (Google, FAANG, or any others) will try to preempt or destroy them. It is their duty to shareholders.
Yes, let's. Because it's the same company that colluded with other Silicon Valley firms to keep the pay artificially low relative to market value through non-solicit handshake agreements (https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...).

The best trick management plays against workers is to convince them that their opponents in the game of capitalism are other workers, not management. Are software engineers over-payed? It's entirely possible, but that isn't justification for their company illegally screwing them any more than Amazon is justified in screwing its warehouse employees.

And as a movement, the message for labor organization would be powerful if Google employees successfully unionized: that even well-compensated employees deserve the benefits of collective bargaining against a corporation that is structurally incentivized to screw them when it can get away with it.
Take-Two wants their mobile presence that's why they bought Zynga. The same story was with Activision-Blizzard when they bought King. Both Take-Two and Activison-Blizzard want to show their investors that they have strong mobile presence and strong mobile revenue.
> Signal operators can also inject messages to people.

Did you check this, and can you demonstrate a server-side message injection so that the Signal clients display the injected message correctly, leaving the recipient vulnerable to spoofed messages? Would be nice to see for the security community.

> What holds true in both systems is that if someone does this, it's detectable thanks to E2EE.

What also holds true: One system enforces E2EE; for the other system E2EE is optional, depends on the client, and while spoofing could be detected thanks to E2EE, all clients we checked didn't detect it (Gajim, Conversations, Psi+, Profanity).
There's no paper work, just a verbal agreement to start a company.

As for the customers, there needs to be a demo because this particular project doesn't quite work for consumers at this stage. To begin with it's a SaaS for businesses. Meaning we'll have to pitch it directly to the business at first.
Every time populism rises, people flock to the "left" and "right", that is the key symptom of a crumbling society. People who work in Software need to understand that they have it easy, and as for myself, even with a good software salary, buying a house is still hard for me, and i'm lucky in that i have no student loans after i graduated.
And it is now up for me.
"I want you to die" -> neutral

https://test.nocodefunctions.com/api/sentimentForAText/en?te...

"kill yourself" -> negative

https://test.nocodefunctions.com/api/sentimentForAText/en?te...

"jump off a bridge" -> neutral

https://test.nocodefunctions.com/api/sentimentForAText/en?te...
Cable tv and cell phone service.
In the US healthcare was intentionally tied to employment as a means of controlling wage inflation during the 1950s by Eisenhower. He had pushed for the "middle way" of private nonprofit health insurance that could be purchased individually or by employers. As inflation began to spike, the administration added new tax benefits to encourage employers to compete on providing benefits rather than higher base salaries.

Roosevelt also tried to institute a national scheme in the 30s but labor unions were split on notional vs. employer provided and it became a wedge issue that scuttled the plan. Truman's push for that same national health insurance plan was shot down in ~1949, partially killed by AMA lobbying.
>Some commentator once noted that those elite with the highest levels of wealth (say top 1%) don't disbelieve Marx's analysis of the world and capital distribution.

Top 1% global income is about $60,000 a year. Many Americans are above this, yet I doubt that they feel strongly about what you mentioned.
Tell him to up his game and use torrents already. It might not help for games (I think Steam has done a pretty effective job of pulling people into its gravity). But it would certainly fix the divide over movies.

Unless of course he's using it as a way of avoiding getting sucked into too much entertainment in general. But there is such a thing as moderation.
Some mining facilities have been found by thermal imaging. Unexpected heat output (say, in a barn of a closed farm) is often connected to marijuana growing and may result in a raid.
Author here. Your understanding is right, and I meant that old congestion control algorithms was only using the information of packet losses.
That study proves exactly what I said.

It describes an ideal situation where people are wearing well fitting medical grade or better masks with a virus as transmissible as Delta.
I mean, what is that code worth?

Yes your time as an engineer is valuable. And your time building that thing was worth taking a risk and learning something, in my opinion. But you don't have a business if you (or they) haven't found users clearly willing to pay.
Google Play Services that is installed on almost every phone out of the box can, and Gboard can trivially communicate with it. So yes, it can.
> Ruby gets complicated when people start throwing around metaprogramming where they shouldn't.

This is true. Thankfully it appears that the broader Ruby community has recognized this as well, and has moved away from metaprogramming to a large extent. It's still there, but you don't see it utilized nearly as frequently as you once did.
Exactly. You don't want regulations merely for regulations' sake. Regulations need to be governed by a simple, transparent set of values, and enforce only those, but enforce them well and consistently, and keep the regulator accountable for how those values and regulations are enforced.

Blindly trusting regulators to know what's best is just as bad as blindly trusting corporations to know what's best.
Nope, because they play at even odds, because the computers are all 120Hz.
AIUI, old cars are usually grandfathered in to these laws based on the model year. So cars manufactured before 1965 don't have to be retrofitted with seatbelts. And your Model T doesn't have to meet modern emission standards.

On emissions, a quick google gives me this:

> most states provide some type of exemption specific to older cars.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/emissions-and-your-co...

But classic cars are not a big interest of mine so I don't know the details.
IKEA cuts sick pay for unvaccinated staff forced to self-isolate
Forgive my inexperience with crypto, but wouldn’t a solid implementation of Proof of Stake, as Ethereum is attempting, solve a lot of these energy demand issues, and therefore government angst and regulatory shutdowns?

TFA didn’t mention PoS, and I have gotten the impression that the crypto community regards it the way people talk about fusion energy, “the future if someone ever figures it out.”

HN is more knowledgeable about crypto than the average bear, so I’m wondering if this crowd expects the crypto bans to cool off once PoS is (ever) proven with a mainstream stablecoin, or if I’m missing any crucial details.
Cheese Making
>most of my life I'm lonely, depressed, anxious, stressed

You answered your question. Change your lifestyle, I know that it is easier said than done but try.
"Can have all cause mortality data from every year that tells us excess deaths."

Well, sort of for n-order impacts, but not for direct numbers. To do that the other variables have to stay the same, which clearly isn't the case with the affects of lockdown and medical system strains (increased drinking, drug use, mental health strains, etc; less preventative care and access to medical care, etc).
Ask HN: Are “superstar programmers” more independently-minded?
And if so, why would companies want to hire them?
Writing open-source software to get rich is a bit paradoxical to me.

Would Linux be as popular now if it was dual licensed from the beginning?

Everyone who wanted to install Linux in a company had to pay $99 per CPU?
(or whatever), or PostgreSQL, GNU tools and so on.

If you dual license it, can you legally enforce who can use which?
Can you take a company to court if they are using the tool that is
open source as well as dual license?

Opensource is a fad now. Everyone wants to make their software "open source",
make the world better, while at the same time making billions., and getting
really mad if someone else is making money off it.

Though the term open source is not so worn out and tired that it is nearly meaningless since people use it in all sorts of ways.

When I use the term, I mean classic GNU and Linux open source.

For people who get angry about the inability to make enough $$$
on a GPL license should also ensure that they are not using
GLP licensed tools/apps/code in their work.

I have no problem with people making proprietary software and selling it.
I dont have a problem with people making GPL software and offering to sell it.

I dont like the duality in wanting to be "cool and open source saving whales"
and at the same time expecting billions off the product.
I have a different suggestion. Start with a single line. define an api for move, insert and delete. figure out how to display this line, associate the cursor with the current position and how to map keystrokes to these simple functions. Add commands to load/save this one line file. Also some convenience functions (move to star/end of a line etc). Add simple search, search and replace. Next extend this to as many lines as you can display on your screen. Add more commands. Add commands to operate on a sequence of lines. Next allow arbitrary number of lines, and arbitrary length lines (now you can see only a rectangular slice of the file). Add commands to move that window, move lines around etc. Resist the urge to micro optimize or do so early. Just use the simplest data structures that help you write the clearest code. Later you can profile the code and fix slow parts.

I suggest this as it will force you to solve problems yourself as opposed reading about other people’s solutions. Basically learn by doing. Learn by struggling to come up with solutions and data structures, thereby developing some insight. The stepwise development should help focus on a small subset of problems at a time. Don’t be afraid of changing data structures as you gain knowledge. In fact write code to make it easy! Use a language that won’t trip you up in low level issues such as memory management. The api will make testing easier. Armed with this knowledge you’ll better appreciate and understand other people’s solutions as well!
Thank you very much! great work!
"I think all governments want to downplay the degree of deaths”

That is really unsupported. There is also the opposite desire, e.g. to justify unpopular covid control measures.

Hospitals definitely have a financial incentive to classify any death "with covid" as a death "from covid."
Preach! 4 years without FB. The only thing missing is to remove WS completely and I'm set.
Investors > Intelligence.

AI.

Artificial Inflation.

Artificial Inflation creates pay-walled-region-locked-time-gated content.

We are being priced out of life because of Artificial Inflation.
OCaml had threads. There even a Threads module in standard library. The limitation was that only one thread can run at any given time.

P.S There were ways around it, like calling an extern C function which will spawn a new theead and call and pass the control back, but those were almost never used.
(co-author of the OCaml memory model paper here)

The details of the 'LDRF' (local data race freedom) property are described in detail here:
https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2018-pldi-memorymodel.pdf

The performance numbers are in the paper abstract: "our evaluation demonstrates that it is possible to balance a comprehensible memory model with a reasonable (no overhead on x86, ~0.6% on ARM) sequential performance trade-off in a mainstream programming language". It's a little higher on PowerPC but still very usable, and RISC-V overheads should be roughly comparable to ARM.
CS:GO is a game with a tiny map just like Valorant.
Exercise is such a wonderfully vague term.

For example I get nowhere the same effect from 10 minutes of walking as I do 10 minutes of squats - perhaps lights for reps superset with shoulder presses, very short breaks.
My 2012 Dell XPS14 is still my preferred laptop even without any upgrades or tinkering. I have a somehwat newer XPS13 for work that is also decent (but not as good as the '12), and according to the calendar I'm due for a refresh but like you when I look at what's available I don't see any reason to go through the hassle of an upgrade, never mind the cost.
For containers you need a load-balancer in front to handle failover and rolling deploys.
Past seven years hottest on record – EU satellite data
I assumed it must've been the non-manufacturer people who loved it. Because there have been an absurd amount of complaints from the people in manufacturing.

I guess, it could be awful at Tesla, but maybe GM is even worse?

I know GM had a REALLY bad reputation in the days of the NUMMI plant.
Globally, the 7 Hottest Years on Record Were the Last Seven
I don't know that it "has to", as the last overload has variadic arguments. (Caution, I'm not a Java expert).

This is likely for JIT performance, with virtual method lookup. C# does the same thing with string.Format - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.string.fo...
As a member of the union, you have a vote on the union's position on issues. This differs from your options outside the union, where your only "vote" is to quit, which (pathologically) concentrates within the company the opinion you would have voted against.
A union is a business association among people who market, sell, and deliver the labor of a single individual. To repress these associations of business results in inefficiencies that obscure the true product of the market.
It's definitely worth a lot more than what I got so far. These guys aren't scammers, they're just not very good at running a software project, and I was too desperate to take charge.

Even 1/3rd of a good business is a hell of a lot better than 100% of a bad one, or never being able to get anything off the ground at all.
I know few companies in India who for some amount would write essay, thesis for students. A large number of them are from US. These companies make very good money from them. Yeah everybody cheats, maybe westerns are very good at hiding it.