skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Third option: the test ID is generated well before the test is taken.

When I donate blood the nurse pulls out a sheet of around 20 pre-generated identical barcode stickers, and attaches one to each piece of paper and bag of blood. This uniquely identifies my donation end-to-end.

Djokovic's PCR tests were done at two separate labs. It is quite possible that each lab is bulk-allocated a unique range of IDs every day or week from the central authority. You'd see big "time jumps" from one lab to the other if you assumed the ID was always in time order.

Depending on how they handle their range (e.g. if they are handing physical stacks of barcode stickers around) the code may not even always be in time order in the same lab.
> I'm just saying if you levy a huge accusation like "she gets private insider information" then you need to back it up with factual evidence.

Nancy Pelosi's husband regularly beats the market by large margins. You can find it suspicious or not. I've given my opinion. She knows her own mind, she has access to market-moving-information prior to the public, and she likes to buy stock.

She doesn't need to receive information (though she can). She just needs to generate it (which is her job). When you are in a position to move the market, you should not be buying options.
Jack Dorsey's Block to build an open Bitcoin mining system
I am ditching 5-year's efforts to code native apps and porting to js/wasm (as "native" as possible). Already have a beta that feels ok. Sad but true
Supreme Court blocks Covid vaccine mandate for businesses, except health-care
Payments Giant Block to Build Open-Source Bitcoin Mining System
The fact that a specific argument has been used in bad faith in the past does not mean it cannot be used in good faith.

Games are demonstrably something valuable: they are art, they are entertainment, they are a product.

NFTs are none of those things. They're just a new way to try to milk money out of people, who gain nothing meaningful in return.
I don't think that for this specific leaf of this thread that averages are what we're talking about actually. The immediate grandparent was referring (naively imo) to the differences between the highest possible reaches of academic financial performance. Otherwise I generally agree, except that my friend went from having zero prospects to being a pipefitter with a good enough salary to support a family of 2 and a house in a very short time. That's what seems most relevant. Who gives a shit about highest theoretical financial output.
> In the worst case, those eight hours are frittered away. Not quite relaxing, not quite playing, not quite doing anything. We may pop Netflix on the TV and alternate between Twitter, Instagram, and the news, not quite focusing on anything. Maybe the reason feels valid. We’re too tired to really do anything but not sleepy, so it doesn’t make sense to go to bed. Besides, what else can you do on a weeknight without spending money?

I was a mentor to a college students group a while ago (pre-COVID). It was fascinating to talk to students who couldn't figure out where all of their time was going. When we'd sit down and work on time management (if necessary, and it often was), they would often struggle to even recall what they had done all week.

Almost without fail, they were all convinced that the majority of their time was going to classwork and homework. Yet when they'd do things like open up Screen Time on iOS or otherwise actually track their time during the week, they were always shocked at just how little of their time was actually spent doing some form of work. They were also often shocked at how much of their time went into their phone screens.

It was helpful for me to observe how easily free time can simply slip away when people aren't deliberate about it. In some ways it was obvious because some students could maintain jobs, intensive hobbies, sports, and other large time commitments while also handling the exact same workload. Yet even without such extra obligations, their jobless peers were perceiving as much, if not more, pressure on their time. I've since learned to be much more mindful of exactly what I'm doing with my free time. Even still, I definitely pop open HN or Twitter more than I'd like.

Also, I'd like to provide a counter-antidote to this section:

> I often find that after work I’ll be “too tired” to play with my kids, but I know my wife needs help. So I’ll find ways to be around the kids without fully interacting with them. I know that certain things elicit complaints, such as being on my computer; I avoid those, but I still find other ways to distract myself from reality. When I do this, I don’t really enjoy my time with my kids, I don’t really rest. I’m just wasting time.

Everyone is different, but I find that playing with kids actually energizes me rather than further draining anything. It's a wonderful way to reset and shift perspective. Even when I'm tired after work, I can almost always get a second wind by playing with the kids. The same can't be said for collapsing on the couch.
I'm looking at the features page and trying to learn about the usability of these suites. Are there example pages we can look at and interact with? That'd be really helpful. I know I can give my email and try it out, but this is a security product so a lot of us are more paranoid.

Besides that, is there going to be a paid option for more than 1GB storage? If it works well it is an interesting product.
I'm actually fascinated by the climate change angle here. While it's already clear that our inability to tackle the climate crisis is having a physical, cultural and mental effect on our way of life .. a temporal one is something I don't think a lot of people have considered.
Show HN: Speedrun – A Side Project of Mine
I'll watch that this evening!

I used to race/rally $500 cars and had mentioned we had planned to do something similar with boats in the Caribbean and Moxie looked like I slapped his mother. Moxie and Stuart are arguably some of the kindest and smartest people I've crossed paths with in SF.
The call for MIT / Apache 2.0 licensing at the end of the post was surprising, given the issues that the author outlined.

Grafana and Minio have both moved to AGPL / dual licensing from permissive licenses to stimulate licensing sales and revenue. As the maintainer of OpenFaaS, it's been a struggle to correct the balance of corporations freeloading [0] vs. contributing code or finances.

GitHub Sponsors has also given very mixed results [1]

In the same week we saw the maintainer of a popular OSS work almost throw in the towel [2]

After 5 years, we're starting to see customer interest in paying for OpenFaaS - but only by holding new features and enhancements back i.e. Open Core.

There are still problems with this approach, and paying customers end up funding all the R&D required for the free users - amongst other things like competition from hobbyist users who covet features that are more appropriate in production than on your Raspberry Pi cluster.

[0] https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md
[1] https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1479870599853924352?s...
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/13/opensource_apacheplc4...
We’ve got internal mobility portal and process, other teams regullary publish open positions and you’re free to move unless there are couple impeding issues like PIP. There are couple interviews, one is about tech stuff, just to ensure that you will be able to carry on (I switched from Java to Node stack recently) and “culture”, to ensure that you’re ok with the way team works and don’t seem like a toxic addition. It is a normal situation to hop teams and no one thinks anything special about it.

I recently switched from between tech stacks and quite different ways of working and different products.
Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers can't legally set premiums based on vaccination status. However, employers are generally allowed to cut their contributions to employee insurance premiums on that basis.
That's one perspective.

Another is that we're in a highly competitive industry. Our shitty code is severely hindering our ability to move fast and respond to competitive pressure. Had we paid more attention to quality while building earlier versions of our software we would be building an insurmountable competitive advantage right now.

NB: there are non-shitty parts of our codebase which have been able to evolve effectively as the company has grown. So I have definitive proof it's possible to produce good code at the MVP stage.
Hah I had the idea to do this but not using OpenID (show a token on an account to prove you own it) - kudos to using standards!

The use case was stealing the userbase from a stagnant competitor allowing everyone to keep their existing usernames on my platform.
We’ve been running VMs at near native speeds for a decade. Docker on Mac runs 20-50x slower mostly due to poor I/O which is a platform “feature”, they are already on the latest hypervisor framework provided by Apple.
Multi-account containers are separated cookie/state jars that auto spawn on tabs based on URL rules , they don't need a lot of resources other than maybe kilobytes or a few MB of extra memory per account container. CPU wise and overall memory wise it isn't much.
Comments like these always remind me of a particular time in the early 2010's when I was into 90's UK DnB. Good Looking Records had a bunch of songs published on their channel. I had a playlist with dozens of songs I've enjoyed and couldn't find anywhere else at the time. Then one day, poof all gone.

Granted, since then, a bunch of older DnB songs from this label resurfaced on YouTube, uploaded by various users. But it was a pretty dry couple of years for me. I was only able to find a couple of songs for sale on Discogs at the time, and many more lost because once deleted not even the artist/song name showed up in my playlist so I didn't know what to look for.
> Cocoa was not only a joy to the end user but for t he developer to write apps
on.

Cocoa is still there and has hardly changed. Maybe there are some new macOS capabilities that it doesn't provide the right access to, but I'm not sure what.

macOS will only ever be the best development platform for macOS. For cross-platform development, it's always going to be worse than Linux, just because the Linux world takes x-platform seriously.
I think that was always the point. Rewarding creators was the pretext for this system, not the reason.
I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet. There must be some technical reason for that.

Is Widevine problematic?
I appreciate this feedback. Maybe it won't surprise to read we definitely thought about this!

Certainly for 2022, we could look around at how software gets made and distributed and try to spell out something more specific. In package metadata. In README. In a COMMERCIAL file. In the repo on lines with a magic string stated in the license. But for better and worse, we've learned to stay humble making assumptions about how those things will continue to happen in software development and distribution. Everything's subject to unexpected change.

In the end, we had to be conservative with this, since "breakage" in the contact method could effectively make the software permissive. Once you put software out there with license terms attached, you can't go back five years later and hunt down all the copies people have made, on the Internet and privately.
I mean, look at Java Futures and Streams API. Like, who the hell designed this crap? Didn't they have C# and Scala to rip-off? And it's stuck forever.
Is it possible to configure my computer to run on TAI and then use the timezone to say that I'm TAI+10:00:37. When a leap second happens, treat it as a DST transition.
I'm very excited about this! I’m looking forward to combining this with ARCHITECTURE.md[0] files to make some kick-ass documentation for our company’s devs for our repo(s).

[0]: https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html
Total comp with some mild stock appreciation. My entry offer was $950k+ when I joined last year. https://levels.fyi has several data points similar to mine, look at the L6/L7 IC tracks at most FAANG.

I feel we are going a bit off topic here, but I’ll say that you have to deal with a lot of frustrating situations in these large organizations, so it tends to wear you out. Startups, in my experience, are more fun if you are a person who thrives off being productive. Still to this day, I look fondly at my “early startup employee” phase, I have never been able to be so fulfilled in my professional life ever since, despite my compensation going up 10X+ from those days.

Plus, a lot of people on HN routinely and proudly state how they would never want to work for companies like Meta or Google for ethical reasons, so there’s that too.
> some kind of restriction on the usage of that code is necessary to protect the developers from freeloaders

That's exactly the point of the (A)GPL! It prevents freeloading because you have to release your contributions back to the community.

The developers on this site just hate the GPL because the lawyers at their company won't let them use those libraries.
Let's say there's a social norm to "go to college if you are smart enough or hard-working enough" for lower income families and "no matter what" for the wealthy (since all you need to be successful anywhere is wealth). If that were the case, they would be self-selecting into college on the basis of their own perceived ability to succeed there, confounding other related measures.
Youtube will also seemingly halt the "results" about halfway down the page to insert a section with personalized suggestions completely unrelated to the search query. Baffling.
Firefox was down last night
Firefox stopped working last night due to "Infinite loop in HTTP3 hangs socket thread". Seems to be working fine again.
Has anyone tried to create a modern version of Flash / Director? Feels like those tools had already solved these problems nicely 20 years ago.
If the rent in SF (with 1h commute) is fine, MTV wouldn’t be any worse.

I have lived within 15 mins car/public transportation of the office(s) I’ve worked at in SF and SV for years and paying the rent has been more than worth it.
The phrase "public license" generally means that it's a license for everyone, all comers, as distinct from a private license for a specific customer or counterparty. I would describe all the licenses on Blue Oak's permissive license list (https://blueoakcouncil.org/list) as "public licenses". Except perhaps for some of the truly defective ones rated "lead'.
I've been shouting this from the rooftops at anybody who'll listen for several years.

The trick to fix our college system is simply allow student loans to be discharged through bankruptcy, like any other loan. It is a simple incentive shift that changes the whole dynamic of the higher learning industry. All the problems with it that we talk about nowadays will right themselves and everything falls into place with this one weird trick.
people have been trying to make various competing alternate DNS roots a "thing" for about 22 years now, and I would wager good money that less than 0.01% of the worldwide installed operating system base for client devices are configured to use them.
> What happens to the other people, the people you won't pay for?

Not sure what your point is. All who qualifies is paid for? If you don't qualify you can take classes to make you qualify, also at no cost.
I’m not telling people to go to college, I’m saying that college grads make more money than non grads
This. I use it to download music that is not for sale because they are either original content of small artists or they are covera and instrumentals; even if they fall under fair use, they can disappear forever and for no good reason.
If you decide to use a bastion host, why not use a security-focused OS like OpenBSD?
Epstein-Barr virus may be leading cause of multiple sclerosis
> 1) Skilled trades pay better than most bachelor's degree track jobs.

I fail to see how this is a problem, and whether it should be fixed. The very idea that people that went through college deserve more is insulting for tradespeople as well as the source of bad incentives to go to college. If anything, the society would probably benefit from colleges focusing on transmitting and advancing knowledge, rather than being paid fast-lanes for people who only give a fuck about the payckeck.

This idea that some works deserve fair pay and some work deserve abuse (the worst being "burger flipper", "student job", etc.) really need to die. If you don't think it deserves fair pay and respect, you don't deserve the service.
Agent based modelling already looks like a toy that isn't a toy. I think we'll see more and more of it as time goes on.
Awesome. Sorry for assuming that you meant this will always be the case.

I'm not sure all sabotage it unwittingly. I think there might be some deliberate sabotage in Mozilla which gets funded by Google. A browser is a key component of a Linux desktop. I don't think we should pin our hopes entirely on Firefox, but explore all options.
Romania has something similar as well. If you own a business and want to play even ambiental/lounge music (even free music) you need to pay for a license. Of course the money collected that way doesn't go to the original artists.
Yeah fair enough, I totally get that.
Amazing! Mermaid is great. Happy to see it get more widespread adoption!

This will make it much easier to keep documentation up to date. Much easier to change 1 line than to generate new images and take an updated screenshot or export, especially if you dont have the source file for whatever editor generated the original image.
> but you can do $1M revenue (imagine it sans profit!)

Perhaps because you are paying for software that eats into your profit margins?
Almost all of the time that "utility" isn't controlled on-chain, so it requires trusting the people/company backing it. So it doesn't need an NFT, they could just as easily maintain a database.
Maybe we're just getting philosophical about word meanings here but how can you have governance that isn't imposed/hierarchical/authoritative? If whoever is making the rules says you can't do something and someone wants to, then the governance is the process that stops them. If someone is prevented from doing something, that implies a hierarchy capable of preventing the action, and that capability would have to be imposed by an authority.
I'm US based, so any formulas I come up with tend to be in Imperial, not metric.

Bad jokes aside, do you want bugs committed before a set date to be ignored in the calculation, or receive a lower weight?
Study Finds Cannabis Compounds Prevent Infection by Covid-19 Virus
To be fair much of rocket science is essentially extreme plumbing
I did some work on this as well.

One thing I think this analysis seems to be missing is taking into account letter position within the word set. If you take that into account, it actually shifts the first guesses, since you're far better off to discover a green square than a yellow one.

There are some pretty weird words that pop up if you do this analysis, so I've settled on some that are slightly suboptimal but won't make me feel like a robot every day.

I will say that "cares", in my analysis, is a significantly better option than the author's suggestion of aeros, because "e" is more common in position 4 than in 2, and a is much more common in position 2 than 1.
Fight your wordle bot at https://botfights.io/game/wordle
I'd guess that the why is irrelevant too.

Why? The parent got their child a tutor. Why can't poor kids have that? They're parents can't afford it.

Over and over again, better food, better housing stability, not having to work while doing school, etc.

The cause still comes back to some parents being wealthier than others.

It's classist to think wealthier parents are more virtuous in some way than their poorer peers
It definitely pisses me off that billion-dollar companies can't be bothered to write native apps for desktop platforms anymore, but not enough to make it worth it to forgo the benefits of Electron apps and web apps as an end user.
> From the point of Handshake authors, Zooko system uses blockchain resources, but does not help with main mission (make Handshake team super rich by taking over existing DNS system).

Actually, I gave the idea to publius for this as he had mentioned. I'm myself excited by the no-censor DNS root system, but I'm passionate about the ownership of your own 'namespace' generically much more so than the DNS. That's why I made a pull request [1] to Bob Extension for example which later enabled publius (in his own words) to make applause [2].

I did also see what happened between publius and the admins of that discord, which is just another Handshake discord as there is no official Handshake discord, and I don't agree with what happened either to be fair. Political discussions can occur in much more mature ways on both ends of the spectrum.

[1] https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension/pull/15

[2] https://github.com/publiusfederalist/applause (very cool)
I personally appreciate the regular reminders to update my local copy of youtube-dl.
Beautiful code: typography and visual programming – talk by Peter Hilton
The marquee athletic programs (football and sometimes basketball) generally are cash-positive.
Maybe I missed it but did they cover logging all keystrokes entered by users over the bastion? (In the case where you need to log into it first vs merely doing port forwarding)
Fully agree, and the implication is that even fewer people should go to college.
Second Life’s founder is returning to reinvent the original metaverse startup
People may not care whether apps fit in visually (I do, but I acknowledge the vast majority of people don’t), but I think the subtle differences in behaviour caused by software having to or choosing to reinvent the wheel is a major problem.

It’s always small things like keyboard shortcuts, focus behaviour, placement of controls, but it’s all one more roadblock to using the computer. The more we have to consciously think about what we’re doing because we can’t rely on consistent muscle memory, the less effective of a tool the computer becomes.

It’s not even just the Electron/web based stuff either. Drag and drop in Office for Mac doesn’t work the same way as every other Mac app, and it throws me every single time.
They have enough money to solve any problem, including through acquisitions of potential rival technology. They also have enough influence to steer standards in a way that suits them. I haven't been interested enough to check, but I just assumed that their developer ecosystem was healthy enough; other than push-back against the fees in the appstore.

Although, I had also assumed that developers would be moving toward web-based apps anyway.
I honestly can’t use another DE after using OS X.
Monzo – Our Tone of Voice
See also Telidon, a Canadian technology that had similar goals to Minitel but saw only limited implementation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telidon
Nothing. You are correct of course and my suggestion is fatally flawed. Can’t edit my comment unfortunately. Guess that’s a reminder not to do half-assed protocol engineering while watching Netflix :-}
I'm sure this will cause Colleges to lower their admission price right... right?
Which is why far fewer people should be getting them. The immediate needs of most people far outweighs the desire to learn about liberal arts.

Which is why these degrees were sold with the promise of good pay. If you want to blame someone for framing college solely from a wage earning potential perspective, point the finger at the people selling college degrees to kids.

There should not be guaranteed student loans for degrees that don't provide competitive dollar careers.
I used to work for a Swedish telecom and observed a Swedish team in that setting. Without anything flashy, without big words and too much noise they had _so much more work_ done in a given week that my current sexy employment, I am still astonished.