skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this greatly oversimplifies the situation. If you find that people love your apples and are buying them too quickly, you might want to tell a friend you'll that if they'll help you sell your apples you'll give them some of the money. You've now incurred numerous tax obligations, requiring an EIN, PRWORA reporting, worker's compensation, citizenship requirements, required benefits, time tracking for overtime compliance (depending on FLSA designation), insurance obligations, and probably several other steps I'm missing (occupational licensing is a big one; let's hope your apples aren't really hair cuts).

Do all these requirements protect people from their employers? Well… maybe kind of. But no, in most circumstances you can't simply start interacting with other people without a lot of red tape.
Who is fighting this and where do I send money?
Is it worse for adults / elderly? Are the long term risks of RSV as fuzzy as covid?

By the way, I'm not claiming we should be more strict about any of this, but on a personal level I'd rather do my best to not infect others.
AFAIK most devs cross-compile on a beefy machine then debug in the Pinephone (or have some fancy configuration to do it automatically). I personally develop/compile/debug all on phone (but I know I am an outlier in that regard).
I do know what big.LITTLE is about thanks. No idea why you’d think otherwise from my post.

Of course Alder Lake is benchmarking well because of it.

My point was ‘already’ makes it sound like Intel is rapidly adopting this technology - not 11 years after Arm.
I don't like that they're sick, but I do like that sick workers are calling out. Ignoring the inherent effect of limited amounts of sick time that don't correspond in any way to how much you might get sick, there's a lot of pressure in some industries to still come in to work even if you're sick -- particularly, perversely, in some high-contact industries like nursing and food service.

This has obvious negative consequences.
Less is more: multiparty session types revisited – Proceedings of the ACM on PR
Would it matter? The address has to be valid and once input it is the unique key. I didn't see any address validation on my end (which is also an option for other forms).
> I propose that a grassroots initiative is started with the intent to develop a new system for implementing democracy, the goal being to run in parallel with the current system and then one day replace it.

You backpaddled. So you still want democracy? What you actually want is to organise a coup. A shadow government that one day replaces the official one. You want a coup.

In your initial comment you complained about democracy itself therefore signaling you would prefer a totalitarian regime. Wanting a coup and a totalitarian regimes goes hand in hand.

> Teaching epistemology and logic to the masses would yield massive benefits across the board imho.

Very well, do it!

Maybe then you will realise this last comment is word salad.
Facebook own WeChat?
Wow… I run uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Firefox Tracking Prevention, Little Snitch, and a pi-hole, and I only had to allow one domain on LS for this to work. That's a better experience than like 99% of the internet for me most of the time.
> This all depends on how well your UBI keeps up with inflation.

Well, sure. That's more or less a given, but it's also an implementation detail, not a problem with UBI as a concept.
thanks, that was the piece that I was missing
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-dark-sate...
Foreign seafarers say they were tricked into servitude on Iranian ships
If you want to explore deeper, there's some fun (and well commented) open source GPS processing codes in Octave/Matlab [1], coming from the excellent book [2]. Those are compatible with cheap RTL-SDRs. [3] also looks nice, but as I recall is Linux only.

[1] https://github.com/kristianpaul/SoftGNSS

[2] https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~marsy/resources/gnss/A%20Softw...

[3] https://gnss-sdr.org/
>So, perhaps the better question is: Does it serve you better to believe there is free will or no free will? And leave it at that.

From a pragmatic analysis the answer is pretty straightforward[1] (Spoiler, believing in free will is better if you value moral behaviour). Glad I chose to believe in free will!

[1]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.200...
alright so 1% of $1MM is 10,000.

amazon has revenue of $457B. 1% of that is $4.57B.

so, while amazon might be able to keep $4,570,000,000 in profit, not sure your small business owner making $1MM in revenue will be ok with $10,000 in profit.
How should one interpret this (and other "it's very slow, short battery life" comments) WRT the newly released "pro" model? Are these the primary issues improved upon?
> (you know, after the second "end" in the end-2-end)

The "end" in E2EE is the end user, or software acting on that user's behalf as their agent—not software acting for some third party such as the service provider against the end user's will.

Integrating digital spies into peoples' devices is not the answer.
No this wouldn’t work. They track the amount over the course of the tax year. From this perspective 600 $1 payments is the same as 1 $600 payment.
Aren't they often out of stock?
Omicron is less likely to show up on rapid tests and maybe there's a discrepancy in that tendency between adults and children.

My wife and I got it on Christmas from my family. She, I, and all of my family members have had three vaccine doses. All of my rapid tests were negative but my PCR was positive.
> If the PinePhone isn't a good choice is there another good more FOSSy phone I can turn to? I am sick of Google, and I have neither the inclination nor funds to join the apple ecosystem, anything else I could do?

Maybe have a look at the Fairphone, the last iteration seems neat, and it's compatible with several FOSS OSes (at least Android based ones, but I think other too).

Best is to use a second hand/refurbished phone: better for the planet, the price, and you can choose carefully a model compatible with the FOSS OS you would like to have.

PinePhone (Pro) is not (yet?) good as a daily driver, but it's a great platform if you want to develop for various OSes (booting on a new OS is as easy as switching SD card). With the new keyboard accessory, it's a great super small and portable computer, and the community is very active.
The US post office gets a lot of crap thrown at it when in reality it is quite well run. They're totally bootstrapped (stamp sales pay for everything) and take no money from taxes. They service every household in the country, rain or shine. They've scaled from nothing to hundreds of millions of customers and survived hundreds of years. They move millions and millions of physical goods across the entire country in days. If this were a startup or private company we would be in awe of their track record.
The ruling party during Covid will suffer independently from the orientation.

Take a look what is happening in the UK (Covid policies combined with self destruction on the side of the PM):

https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/148312195316683571...
> Of course you can’t describe a human’s behavior purely in terms of genome.

Phenotype, whatever.

> It’s only post Harare as long as the hardware it’s good enough for the purpose.

Most human brains and bodies are good enough for most human purposes. Sure, there's large variation between humans, but the variation between populations isn't great enough to be significant, as far as I'm aware.
"Incident" is not minimization - it is specific jargon in the financial regulation industry for exactly this kind of thing. If your bank had $15M stolen, they would also call it an "Incident".

Vice loves writing incendiary articles about things they don't understand. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai's name looks familar, pretty sure his writing has peeved me previously in the same way.
Although absolute sacrilege to many, but I would honestly support a really explicit syntax to compose particular tables and indices. Not even in top of regular SQL query, I mean its own first class language.. E.g. "Take this index, restrict to this subrange; for each row, pick a row using this other index on the foreign key" (but it wouldn't have to be imperative like I've phrased it).

There are times when I already know how I want the query to execute, and I have to iteratively fiddle with the query to indirectly trick the planner into doing that. There's just no excuse for that arrangement. Even if I've made a mistake and my plan couldn't work efficiently – at least let me execute it inefficiently so I can discover and debug that.
I think GPU performance is still continuing to improve on the software side. Most SBCs have such poor drivers that their full potential is never seen.
a friend who lives in Seattle visited over the holidays and then spent Christmas with his family in Minneapolis. everyone in the family tested every single day and suddenly almost everyone went from negative to positive... but only a couple had the mildest symptoms possible, the rest were entirely without symptoms. nobody got even as sick as I did the last time I caught a cold a few months ago! nevertheless my friend said they "all got covid," which is hard to square with seeing my multiple-comorbidities-having mother be the sickest she's been in the thirty years I've been alive, from having covid for ten miserable days straight back in 2020. obviously this is going to be an unpopular opinion but the cynic in me can't help but think that controlling the supply chain of tests (going from them being available everywhere to suddenly in-demand and available nowhere to now suddenly easy to obtain again) is being used as a means of controlling the current number of "cases" reported, making the pandemic seem like it's still ongoing and deadly and terrible when it's kind of pretty much over in reality, and has been for awhile now, at least out here (maybe major population centers are different, I have no idea).
Most of this is wrong even for a few years ago when fanciful western projections of PRC campaign ovre TW was extra wrong.

PRC planners have concluded it can take TW without US intervention ~5 years ago. US/JP planners have finally admitted the same this year. Reality is TW has an extremely outdated military that's not at all well prepared or well funded. It doesn't have any extensive asymmetric training, nor is the nation determined to fight insurgent style if shit hits fan. Those are all US porcupine wish lists, and none of it was / is remotely reality.

The consensus understanding right now is sheer imbalance in capabilities (PRC has both quantity and quality) means PRC will be able to do to TW what US did to Iraq. More or less annihilate their military from the conventional fight within a few days after which PRC operations would be relatively uncontested.
If you're not programming in Rust and Julia, are you really programming? /s
Yeah republicans with strong focus on diversity and inclusion.
I believe this is most likely going to hurt hair cutters, strippers (and similar sexy workers like ig models), others who get tips like valets, small time weed flippers..
These folks might get reported for higher amounts and not be able to write off expenses (easily or legally) and so will be easy targets/victims of this reporting.

Most Etsy sellers can write off some expenses for materials easily, and johnny mowing lawns can likely claim no need to file with total income below threshold, do those won't be worth much time.
This is going to devastate some people with very large and unexpected it's bills.
I wonder if they intentionally overlapped with Greenwald's book on Govt surveillance [0]

> No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. It was first published on May 13, 2014 through Metropolitan Books and details Greenwald's role in the global surveillance disclosures as revealed by the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.[2] The documents from the Snowden archive cited in the book are freely available online.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Place_to_Hide_(Greenwald_bo...
I’ve used it for a while in German and in English and I was impressed, too, with its recognition performance. Even the small and therefore fast language models perform decently. However, a major downside is that it doesn’t do punctuation, new lines, capitalization, and similar. This means that you have to edit a lot of the recognized text by hand, which obviously spoils the fun. Having said that, the front end code is in python and you can easily hack it. With a small handful of lines of code I was able to address some of these issues somewhat.
Another project for Google to "kill"
Is "overflow" a term used to express "computed for every row"?

I can see where the optimization would come from, when comparing `created_at` with a fixed value `now() - INTERVAL...` (assuming PostgreSQL is smart enough to evaluate it only once and reuse it for all the index comparisons), but the word "overflow" throws me out of the lane.
I didn't write a single thing about my enjoyment of the game?

But it's fascinating how your difficulties of differentiating players and teams trace directly back to the lack of non-monetized character customization, and that just passes right by you like a non-issue.

Maybe you enjoy fighting in the clone wars, I think it's greedy design and not conductive to good gameplay.

20 years ago non-commercialized mods got this right, I really don't see why wanting it to get right in massive AAA titles, with a pretty rich and established history in exactly that, is suddenly such a controversial opinion, on HN out of all places.

On one hand I get called out for wanting more than only the purest "core-functionality" ("You can shoot people, what more do you want?"), on the other hand people disagree with the notion of how these "low-content" version are very much "f2p" versions, as a lot of content that used to come out of the box is now relegated and hand-waved away as "playing dress up".
The worst case is you input someone else's address (whether by mistake or on purpose) and...they end up getting free COVID tests. Not really something worth validating.

USPS does have ways to validate your address, for example when you set up mail forwarding or the daily digest thing.
I work on the team that maintains Guice and we are working on a new release. And no, Guice is not abandonware since it is widely used inside Google. As part of this new release, we will be making some changes to the build setup so hopeful future releases will occur more frequently.
I wanted mine backed up outside of Apple and not in weird format (Time
Machine bundle). It’s much harder to do than I’d expected.
"At United Airlines, CEO Scott Kirby said nearly a third of the workforce called out sick on one day alone at Newark Liberty International Airport.

At MOM's Organic Market, some of its East Coast stores have had to deal with 15 out of 50 workers out on a single day.

And at the community health center Mary's Center in Washington, D.C., half of the COVID-19 Response Team tested positive for the virus over the past few weeks."

The article literally starts with the CEO of a public company that employs several tens of thousands of people saying that 1/3 of their workers at one of their busiest facilities called out sick. The MOM's source is...their Chief of HR. The sources for the hospital were its CEO and chief nurse.

Whatever ideological point about journalism you thought you were trying to make, you did not make it.
I Cannot Buy an EV
Direct democracy isn't the only way for voters to express their will. More than 60% of eligibile voters participated in the voting system last presidential election. Does a voting system that continues to be endorsed by a majority of the people not express their will?
They were around christmas as there was a sudden surge in demand. I believe that they're back to normal now. You can also get them posted, usually arriving next day, for free, which is what I do
You authenticate against a Matrix server (the “homeserver”). This can be a server that you host yourself, or one that is readily available (matrix.org is the most popular one).

This design is fairly similar to email where you can be @gmail, @hotmail, or @whateveryoulike.com
> Let's say I buy 10 bottles of water wholesale for a dollar a piece ($10 total)...

Except that the price of water varies based on the season and you are obligated to sell water at a fixed price when it is convenient for the buyer and buy water back at the same time when it is also convenient for the buyer (duck curve).

Over the course of a season the buyer has stated that his intention is to buy as much as he sells and be net-zero every season but refuses to store even a single bottle of water (e.g. batteries). The buyer would be very upset if water always be available at any time of the day or night in reasonable quantities. The buyer doesn't want to pay any costs for bottling (peaker plants, hydro), storage (batteries, pumped hydro) or water distribution (grid).

The buyer has a habit of buying water when there is a drought and it is expensive and sell it back to you when there is a flood and water is cheap. The buyer doesn't want to change his lifestyle so that his water usage was more in-line with with the seasons (e.g. smart thermostats, lifestyle changes). The buyer has zero incentive to reduce his overall usage below current levels.

You are expected to sell water on credit and track and collect from buyers every month (billing) but the buyer doesn't believe that he should have to pay for that for that because you have to do it anyway. Sometimes you don't get paid but the buyer wants to be guaranteed he will be paid even when you don't get paid (credit risk).

Your suppliers are being mandated to reduce the amount of waters being pulled from aquifers (fossil fuels) and are saying that the cost of water during droughts will likely rise over the next 20 years. In addition we'll likely see more floods and expect that prices of water during a flood may go negative so you expect based on his habits that your buyer will lose you more money then in the past.

The trucks you use to move water around are old and have caused accidents due to poor maintenance (fires) and need to be replaced with more expensive models (buried cable). Nobody wants you to build warehouses since the 50's (hydro) because they are ugly and all good land for warehouse has been used but you are running out of warehouse space. This is leading to scenarios where entire communities haven't been able to get water and people have died.

The relationship with this buyer is massively one-sided and a money losing proposition. You have been sued because of the accidents and have gone into bankruptcy. Your buyer is a middle-class home owner and when you talk to him about the challenges he doesn't want the relationship to change and he expects that he won't pay more over the next 20 years. Costs for other buyers have roughly doubled in the last 10 years and are on average poorer then your homeowner.
One minute? That's terrible. What kinds of tests and how many are you running?

> We never run all of our application’s tests in local development. It’s not a good use of time and will never be as fast as running them on CI.

WTF this is bad practice. Developers should always get in the habit of running tests locally first. No test should require running in the cloud. And, even more, it's actually rare that CI is more performant than your developers' machines. You should invest in your developers.

> Our whole test suite locally takes around 12 minutes running serially on a MacBook Pro.

That's really really really awful. Most projects' tests, even when they're poorly written, still run in 3 or 4 minutes. My own tests run on the order of single-digit seconds.

> We haven’t put much effort here because it’s not something our engineers ever run.

Well of course not. They can't iterate fast if they're slowed down by tests. That's why tests have to be fast!

> This gave us some speed gains, but we wanted it really fast. Our infrastructure team set us up with some 64 core machines

Holy schnapple if I had 64 core machines, a complete test suite would finish on the order of tens of milliseconds!

I'm glad ya'll have gotten your tests down from 12 minutes to 1 minutes. There's a ton more improving you can do though.
I'm so lame, I was hoping they'd have wrapped this in an Electron app for the "Download" option.
I got a "beta edition" PinePhone circa Sept. 2021 that wouldn't run without locking up or resetting for more than a minute at a time. Tried a bunch of images with different memory frequency settings but no dice.

Mine was probably just a dud but it was still an expensive paperweight.
Pay's so low at districts in our area that anyone who's not already doing it and has free time isn't gonna sign up for even more exposure to Omicron, for what they pay. Talking like $100-120/day and no benefits (of course), depending on the district. Even for this low CoL area, that's shit pay for someone with a degree. Between the low pay and the nature of the work (no guaranteed work, may have to travel to any of several places for work on a given day, background checks, et c.) they'd basically already tapped all the people willing to do that, at the rate they were offering, before there was also a pandemic on top of it. And unlike teachers if a sub gets omicron they just aren't getting paid, for that or any other job, for a couple weeks.
There was a couple of weeks over Christmas where it was tricky but has been fine before and after
> I don't want that to be the government responsibility, as it then opens the door for it to be used in ways that limit our freedoms: a system that's too perfect can uniquely identify you, in ways that prevent disassociation (ex: the place of birth on the passport is of great interest to some totalitarian places, while only citizenship should matter..)

You mean like social security numbers, which tell anyone where you were born, down to a fairly limited range of zipcodes?

Or how about driver's license databases, which include your ethnicity, possibly your religion, etc? You think the guys in black helicopters are going to let a pesky little thing like "get the state's drivers license database" stop them, particularly when there's already a national clearing house system so states don't issue duplicate licenses, licenses to people who owe money or have had their license revoked, etc?

General hand-wave-y conspiracies about national ID cards making it easier for everyone to be death-camped are just a right-wing attempt to harm federal government effectiveness so they can continue to hamstring everything it does and then shout about how ineffective it is and thus it needs to be cut.

If the government wants to ship you off to gas chambers, it can do that just fine without a functional federal identity system and in the meantime everyone's lives would be significantly easier. Imagine if everything you did with local/state/federal government and healthcare no longer involved a page worth of identity crap, just presenting a free ID card.
At SOME states and SOME local levels. My town in the Houston TX Metro area offers nothing of the sort.
It does. But when you're watching your database, and therefore your business, crash and burn because it decided to change the query plan for an important query, all these "problems with existing Hint systems" sound very irrelevant.

I'd love to have a way to lock a plan in a temporary "emergency measure" fashion. But of course it's hard/impossible to design this without letting people abuse it and pretend it's just a hint system.
It appears that omicron almost always returns false negatives with the rapid antigen tests for mild cases.

Since omicron is the vast majority of cases in the wild, and nearly all cases are mild (and the ones that aren't are probably going to get a PCR test anyway), rapid tests are practically next to useless now.
It does appear to be regional. Check out https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/call-in-...