skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a road trip there is some inconvenience yes, but for the rest of your driving life there is less gasoline station trips you have to make. Say you road trip twice a year and have to waste 45 extra minutes in an EV. But in an ICE vehicle you also have to make about 30 gas station trips a year, where with an EV you just plug in at home and never do that, and no oil changes as well.

So the relative total pain depends on how often/long you road trip.
Theres a lot more reasons that can lead to job loss other than technical competence.

Being in a union gives you a slice of ownership in the company you're working in. It allows you to have support if you're getting bullied. It also creates a wonderful dynamic with your coworkers.

But yeah, framing this as a technical problem is missing the point entirely.
The documentation for Stripe is pretty great. It's the one of the easiest things I've integrated.
I can't reply to your comment (I'm not sure why it's dead) but there's a time limiting on editing a head-line (and maybe a limit based on up-votes and/or comments). Since you're new, I don't know if you can edit at all (it's been a long time since I joined).

One thing I can tell you is that you should join the community and participate for maximal benefit.
I'm sure there's an ISO standard :-) I've never seen that anywhere else though. Admittedly, tech has generally gotten away from emphasizing titles much to the point that it's sometimes a slightly contentious topic.
In tech the workers have a lot more negotiating power because you aren’t trapped by heavy capital equipment costs. Still unions help with some of the shitty practices you see like the pip shenanigans at Amazon.
There is a cost but if you need or want a stable place to work for more than a few years without burnout they help with work life Protections
If Russia "wins", Russia still loses, yes.

But Putin might win, the way his brain works - how happy he'd be, with more land, even if it's barren and flat and no people
But "solidly middle" is still working class really.

My sister has a degree, and is a nurse of a about 5-7 years. Her husband also has a degree (and even went to private school) and does local government procurement paying ~35k. I'm sure the author would describe both as "solidly middle".

They're still wondering how on earth they're supposed to pay for childcare, energy, mortgage. If the car breaks down, they're in trouble.
Documenting and Debunking Dubious Footage from Ukraine’s Frontlines
The corollary of this is that, as a user, you need to do your best do ensure that when your account is broken into, that it doesn’t matter to you either.

To get there though, we need better email hiding (Apple’s Hide My Email is great for this, you can get unlimited randomly-generated @icloud.com addresss that forward to your real one) and for sites to not actually need your real name or personal information.

If done right, if randosite.com gets all emails and (even if plain-text) passwords leaked, it wouldn’t matter because only Apple can tie the email to my account, and the password would only be good on that site anyway.

If a website actually needs my real address and name for billing information, that’s another matter maybe, but even then who really cares? The existence of my home address and name doesn’t much matter if they can’t tie it to any other online identities. My address is in the phone book too… it doesn’t really give anybody new information.
There's a reason why Nvidia hasn't already patented this stuff. Even if patents can't be directly copied, they can inspire the competition to do similar work.
sure and this enforcing right now during Ukrainian invasion is complete coincidence /facepalm
I agree that 99% wants this to be over with, but in a country of 44 million people (minus however many people the Russians have murdered) that's still 440,000 people, and even if only half of those people are actively resisting that's still 220,000 people to fight on their homeland against a 150,000-200,000 person strong Russian army, and even then you have to subtract some number of Russian soldiers who are in pure support roles, etc. whereas you don't really have to subtract that number for the Ukrainians. And those are very conservative numbers and the Russians are really not getting any help from the locals whereas the active resistance fighters for sure are getting assistance.

Now imagine we take those extremely conservative numbers and put the number at say, 3%. Whole different ball game. Especially when the defenders are armed to the teeth.

I do agree it's a big if, but I think in this case it's proving to not be in doubt so far. Eventually Russia is likely to "win", though I'm not sure what their victory conditions are... maybe installing a puppet Ukrainian government that's not recognized internationally and then some large number of people want to get on with their lives as you say and maybe 80%+ of the population stops resisting, but if people keep resisting (back to my post) I just don't see what Russia is going to do here. Maybe they'll conscript hundreds of thousands of Russians?

I'm thinking that Russia is likely to add a puppet government and then take the military and keep fighting on to Moldova and march through and bring the Belorussian military to the Baltics. We are only at the opening stage. My fear is that they start conscripting Ukrainians who, as you say, just want to stay out of trouble but get thrust into combat anyway and have no choice but to shoot back. All of sudden by conquering countries and conscripting people, Putin enlarges his army. But I just don't know how the logistics of that work here. Either he will continue and press on and it's going to get really crazy or here soon the entire thing is going to fall apart drastically. Too bad the Ukrainians can't march on to liberate Moscow and Russia.
> probably not actually working

This is how we got the hilarious "but I don't work!" clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZ52-XgUjA
No offense, but this all sounds extremely unlikely. Human beings simply don’t operate that way, even under extreme conditions. Assuming that source exists and is the way you recall it, I’m guessing it was some kind of propaganda.
I think that's an issues with this medium in general. The utility decreases as the barrier to entry increases. With this title in particular, I'd just as soon spend my resources (time, energy, money) to GTFO the couch and climb something in Reality™.

As a side thought, can you imagine how boring skydiving in VR would be?
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson raises $20M in 24 Hours to Self-Publish
I think I’m a unicorn. 14” M1 Max, triple displays, albeit with two cables. We also have an M1 Pro in the house w/ CalDigit TS3 (non-plus), which is driving dual 4k’s without issue.

I’m confused why the author didn’t just purchase one of the cornucopia of Thunderbolt 3 (or 4) docks that do everything including display output.

Triple config (M1 Max):
- OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock, connected to 2 4k displays, network, speakers, USB devices
- 5k display connected direct to the mac

Dual Config (M1 Pro):
- CalDigit TS3 dock, connected to 2 4k displays, speakers, ethernet, USB devices

Works perfectly, and we have no complaints about either config.

Why Is the 5k direct connect? Because there aren’t any TB docks that support 3x displays when pushing > 4k; I’m unclear if it’s technically possible.

I had previously run triple displays on a 13” Intel MBP using an eGPU. I wrote about that journey here: https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2020/09/27/three-displa...
I'm from the US, and when I was in college I took a British Airways flight for the first time, and on the way home I got a stern talking to from the gate agent in London about fraud because I chose some random foreign (to me) royalty title.

For a few years after that I got random junk mail addressed to the Viscount =).
Took my a run to understand how to play. Thought I had to click on the titles to pick what colors I wanted. Got it the second go though!
Fitbit recalls Ionic smartwatch for literally burning fat
Agreed it sounds more like 30 updates per month :)
I got the answer on the first try in 5 steps but I felt like I was a bit lucky. Reminds me of playing 24 and Krypto.
Fun fact: We are being shown how dangerous this internet is. With scary looking numbers of attacks per quarter. Until one scrutinizes the slides to see that not our mothership is the target of these attacks, but that these numbers (somewhat in the range of 350 - 500) are global numbers on companies of any size.

Since seeing this I became even more of a cynic. If they want to scare us - at least they should do it intelligently.
Doing well in a grammar school works to an extent but still disproportionately less than say Eton. You can see this by just looking at current cabinet ministers
My Battle with Post-Finasteride Syndrome, Part I
EU, US close to replacing defunct Privacy Shield II
A 10-Year-Old Nuclear-Blast Simulator Is Popular Again
Because our moral values are wrong.

We should be celebrating richness, not poverty. Unfortunately, victimhood is trendy these days and I feel most of it can be traced back to marxism.

Why should we celebrate richness?

If you're richer than your peers you did something that society considered valuable. Money is the ultimate form of direct democracy.

Now, we can argue that people in Wall Street are screwing up people left and right, that governments can print off money and that governments can force people to give them money.

These are serious issues and I'm the first one to say something should be done about these - but still, the people in Wall Street are providing financial services that businesses find useful. And those businesses provide useful services to people, so the richness of Wall Street can be traced back to useful services.
Governments printing money affects the market via inflation.
Nothing much can be done about governments taking money from people under the threat of incarceration (unless you have an army), but the government is, in most countries, a form of indirect democracy - so the government still end up providing some value to end users with the money they forcefully took. Sure, part of it get burned in the inefficiency of centralisation and bureaucracy but most of it keeps going around (eg. by paying contractors to fix the roads).

Therefore, I think becoming rich can absolutely become a moral value and I think the world would be better that way.

In the words of the working class hero 50 cent: Get rich or die tryin'.
Is there any evidence of Bill continuing his friendship with Epstein post 2008 after criminal conviction?
Just throwing another opinion in the mix. I think it's healthy to recognize one's own work in addition to that dumb luck. It's certainly lucky that we liked computers but it's also true that a lot of us worked hard and took advantage of our lucky situations. That's not to say we succeeded on hard work alone, far from it - luck is a crucial part, but it's also unfair to not give yourself a little credit sometimes.
If big corps can call limited things unlimited, why now "agencies of one"?

I mean, it is unlimited, within a reasonable use, and the agency is the one to define what is reasonable use and what is not.
>how easy it is to reliably fingerprint users who are blocking javascript and canvas and other web features.

The key difference is that most of the fingerprinting attributes listed in the article, most are very innocuous and/or easy to change (ie. unreliable for fingerprinting). That includes:

1. pointer type

2. prefers-color-scheme

3. window size

4. @supports

The only other one (local fonts) is interesting, but is still easily changeable and conceivably be mitigated by removing all non-default fonts. This is in contrast to canvas/webgl fingerprinting which fingerprints both the software and hardware parts of your rendering stack, and is nearly impossible to change.
I have narcolepsy so I may provide some clarity. CPAP is useless for narcolepsy as narcolepsy is not breathing issue. Narcolepsy is a neural condition in which the body does not properly gain energy during sleep resulting in daytime sleepiness.

This can be aided with a multitude of drugs, all of which affect the brains prefrontal cortex which also happens to be the part of the brain where ADHD, BPD, and anxiety/depression stem from. This can mean you may have any one of those conditions or just select symptoms in addition to narcolepsy.

I cannot answer about the Prozac specifically but I can say Modafanil may exacerbate problems the patient was unaware of or would rather avoid at a cost of trying other drugs. Likely OP did receive consultation on many drug options with potentially preexisting depression being a factor in choosing Prozac.
Offset by the fact that you get many of the good properties of a Prius and a Corvette at once, and don't pay for gasoline or oil changes. (electricity is generally an order of magnitude cheaper)

As well, anyone buying an EV today, should the worst happen and they need a new battery after ~8 year warranty, the prices of batteries has been steadily dropping.
no power plant was blown up, there was fire in administrative building

and it wouldn't be first time in this invasion for Ukrainians to destroy something and claim Russians did it

also we are here in HN where people discuss in civil manner, if you can't do it you should seek different venue
International students trapped in Ukraine appeal for urgent evacuation
Seems that they are available? https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601357282
There is no steady in high congestion areas with lots of on and off ramps. The rules are nice when there is no congestion and plenty of room to spread out, but the problems are inevitable at rush times or at chokepoints.
Are you getting video over that multi-km link?

I looked into long range 700 and 900 mhz systems a little bit, but it seemed like they were much more geared for control plane and telemetry type data than being saturated by a real time video feed.
We are talking specifically about tech workers. My company’s headquarters is on the opposite coast. Remote work is a thing.
I think one of the things going on has to do with a decade or so of 'reality' TV being a primary source of entertainment for many (most?) people. And in particular one aspect: the 'sob story'.

On any TV show, and in the media in general, there are a few different competition formats (a la Bake Off, The Apprentice, BGT, etc.) but all include a 'sob story' element, particularly near the end as we get to know more about the contestants. Every single person selected by the producers for these shows has some factor in their life that they've overcome to get this far.

Individually, this makes for an engaging TV show, we warm to the characters because they have a good story, but overall the effect is damaging, I think. The effect is to create a system that only allows people to feel successful if they've overcome some terrible adversity. It's not enough to come from a comfortable, middle class background, do well in school and then lead a moderately successful life. What have you really achieved if you've done this?

Most people in the UK live reasonably comfortable, stable lives (modulo class). Since—according to my theory—people need to feel like they have something to overcome in order to be allowed to feel successful, people will overstate hardships, and focus on and amplify negative events and circumstances in their lives in order to feel validated.
My MacBook Pro M1 14' emptied it's battery overnight
This was with the lid closed obviously, and nothing running AFAIK. I opened it up just now and it booted up and showed the error message: Your mac was closed because of a problem do you want to reopen all windows or something to that effect.
Does anyone know anything about that and how to prevent it?

https://imgur.com/a/r6tXMdf

Thanks
>This is a callous viewpoint. My heart goes out to the Russian citizens living in an effective dictatorship.

You call me callous, that's fine. It would seem others agree with you as I'm quite downvoted. I have a surprising number of Russian interests like Chess. The Russian chess community rejected this war.

We have to remember that our liberal democratic way isn't the only way. It is not our place to tell other countries how to run their countries. That is up to the Russian people to decide. Do they agree with Putin and if not, are they as strong as the Arabic people? Will they overthrow Putin?
Mushrooms: Next big thing in environmentally-friendly packaging, construction?
BBC suspends its journalists' work in Russia
Agree, now the challenge is creating the same environment/opportunities in a remote setting!
It's a fantastic example of both how to create memorable high entropy passwords, and a class of passwords that many systems don't allow.

I don't think anyone, even the original responder, views it as an actual password we should all use.
If you think you are the top 10% of management favorites then you will not benefit. If you are a middling engineer then you will
I don't know what society you are referring to, but in the US, that is no where near the case. Here are some numbers of teacher to student ratios in the US- https://www.publicschoolreview.com/average-student-teacher-r...

Those numbers don't include other Full Time Employees like aids, tutors, and other support staff that work with students.
Obviously money talks, but a school like Eton would be more willing to take a somewhat wealthy aristocrat than a common as muck lottery winner.

If you come into a hundred million overnight, that doesn’t make up for your previously deprived life and the associated markers (lower register, lack of childhood polo lessons, no time/money/inclination to go play white saviour in the third world)
Intel, AMD and other team up to develop industry standard for chiplet technology
So sad. Damn these heart attacks.
Most people expect that internal combustion ban to be delayed, or expanded to allow hybrid vehicles. It just isn't practical to shift the manufacturing base and transportation infrastructure to electric in such a short time. There will be too much political pushback.
Are people with bad information objectively correct? (Everyone overpays illogically for product because of deliberate misinformation, or whatever)
Yes, I agree. Its plausible to me nuclear power plants should have special protection during time of war.

The chief issue is that, unlike something like cultural artifacts, power plants have significant strategic military importance. Perhaps a rule that (a) fighting be confined outside a certain perimeter and (b) plant workers have special protected status like medics, and are required to obey shutdown orders if the invading military takes control of the perimeter (so that the invaders don't have incentive to physically destroy the plant).
Because it's not speculative garbage like literally all crypto is.
What's the alternative to 24hr on-call?
This is a weird take because in the agency world (agencies of many, if you will), the long-term trend has been in the complete opposite direction: a retainer model is increasingly being replaced by project-based and time-and-materials work.
I have 3440x1440 and it works fine - I run 100 hz on my work MBP. Which is Intel, granted, but 3440x1440 is strictly less than 4k, and we don’t see an epidemic of people noticing that their 4k monitor is running at 30 hz on their M1 MBPs.

50 hz happens to be the limit of hdmi 1.4b (at 3440x1440), it sounds like somewhere in your chain you have something that is running at legacy speeds. Could be your dock, could be your monitor, could be an active adapter cable.

I’d start by making sure you’re running DisplayPort and not HDMI. HDMI is more or less a “legacy” port these days, as far as workstation usage is concerned. And unlike DP there is no embedded HDMI support in USB-C Alt Mode so any sort of USB-C to HDMI adapter needs an active converter - which may be your hdmi 1.4 bottleneck.

(note that the "passive" HDMI mode that full-size displayports offer - aka DP++ - is an optional part of the spec. It's so widely implemented on full-size ports that most people don't realize it's optional, but embedded DisplayPort implementations like eDP or USB-C Alt Mode, Thunderbolt, etc don't implement this feature.)
> Starting with the Basic interpreter that got Gates started. That was stolen from DEC.

Uhm...no. The DEC computer they used when developing Altair BASIC was a PDP-10. DEC BASIC and Altair BASIC were both written in assembly language. The differences in architecture and memory constraints between a PDP-10 and an 8080 are too great for it to be feasible to steal code. At best you could use the PDP-10 code to learn some algorithms and then write your own versions for the 8080.

What people saying it was stolen from DEC are probably doing is getting confused over Gates and Allen's use of an 8080 emulator they had written earlier for PDP-10. When they decided to do an Altair BASIC they modified their 8080 emulator to be an Altair emulator and did all the testing and debugging of their 8080 BASIC on that since they did not have access to an actual Altair 8080.

That PDP-10 was owned by Harvard, and there was some question over whether or not using it for a commercial project like that was something students were allowed to do using their free accounts.
I've never seen claims like that without asterisks and small print saying "up to a reasonable amount" where "reasonable" is completely undefined.
Because they create an incentive to practice BASE jumping or free solo climbing I do not watch or support this kind of movie. Watching a tightrope act without a net is similar.

They are amazing people. They are free to do what they want.

I am not going to contribute to their possible sad end.
I would say it's unhealthy to think of it as only luck.

It's luck that you like something that is sought after in the job market. But actually spending years learning about it, and sometimes learning things you may not like so much because they are needed for the job, takes effort.
I don't know how DesignJoy works. I can say that a common model in this circumstance is the person is a salesperson who outsources the rest of the operation to a network of subcontractors, including project management, AE, and fulfillment.

Sometimes this is called a "network agency".
The "subscription" model seems unlikely, as today companies do their work mostly "Just In Time" or in the industry lingo - Agile style. To a contractor this means the requirements when he goes into a project are not clean, so he can't reasonably price the project.

The hourly rate is in place so that in this relationship, work means more time for the consultant and more resources for the company wanting said work, this is the way it should be and keeps everyone on the same side.

If you mean, like others mentioned here, a model where a company pre-pays for some amount of hours this contractor promises to allocate for this company (at minimum) - this is called the "retainer model", this is fine and is a good idea for small tasks and not a big ongoing project
> There is extensive evidence that Bill Gates had a close relationship with a serial criminal pedophile, sex trafficker, and rapist. It’s all pretty out in public at this point.

Citation Please

> How would your wife feel if that statement could be made about you?

Well that's understandable if its true.
>But I guess they know better about reliability of their particular solution.

I wouldn't be as sure as you are.
Good! That incentivizes them to start their own thing, leading to more innovation for the rest for us.