skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The infrastructure wasn't improved? Pretty much all of the video conferencing tools are much better and tools that didn't have screen sharing & video calls added it. Plus the vast majority of people have actually used those tools now. Pre-pandemic group video calls existed via Teams but a lot of people never used them.

I doubt GS's internal culture applies to any startups... not every company needs an apprenticeship culture and it would be a large capital and time expense for startups. GS's model is very different (IIRC), hire a lot of young talent out of premier institutions, then see who's left after 2+ years of 50+ work hour weeks.
> I feel like the real problem will be when they start adding wireless connectivity that you can't disable

This gets raised all the time but I just don't see it being necessary - the vast majority is happy to voluntarily provide it with an internet connection. The ones like us who fight it is a very small minority not worth spending on including cellular modems (& the associated data plan) in every TV.
Russia, a giant country with a ton of natural resources.
China, a giant population that needs a ton of natural resources.

This is not a tough one to figure out.
Every business person knows no-code is the future and is the evolution of programming that's going to drive new innovation and make it cheaper than ever to develop products.

Everybody who has ever professionally programmed knows this is bullshit.
I read the article and I'm pretty familiar with the economics of healthcare. I spent years working on projects to shift away from fee for service to value based care. My point was that hospital administrators have nothing to do with manufacturing. The people behind hospital consolidation and some of the self defeating cost cutting measures aren't responsible for there not being a supply chain starting from specialized Canadian wood pulp, to machines that make fibers and materials, all the way to finished masks. If domestic manufacturers could innovate and deliver a better/cheaper product people would buy it.

It's ridiculous to think that we should have to manufacture every single important product domestically even if there are better opportunities for economically for firms and workers. We specialize for a lot of good reasons.

The article has a really naive view of economics and takes an uninformed protectionist stance.

for example:

>To put it another way, the modern imperative of maximizing shareholder value will always put efficiency and cost over resilience.

This means that the firms in question are aren't correctly pricing supply chain risk. Supply shocks will surely destroy a lot of shareholder value. But, paying too much for supplies necessarily means you have less money for things like pay, new equipment, etc.

Even for goods 100% made in the US from US raw materials there were still supply disruptions. If a large percentage of all truckers and loading dock workers are sick with COVID, you still won't have the goods have and where you need them. Goods weren't unavailable simply because they were made abroad, they often were sitting unloaded in containers.

There's more than a century of of economic research around protectionism and it's pretty clear that it doesn't pay off in the way it's proponents suggest. We got fucked on PPE because the stockpiles weren't maintained. The government promised the healthcare industry that ti the event of a Swine Flu like pandemic, that there would be a stockpile that they could draw from. So rationally, hospitals didn't keep their own stockpiles. The government after building up the stockpile initially, just didn't maintain it.

The big problem with the buy American initiatives is that they sound nice, but are in the end just handouts to favored businesses. If you require highway projects to only use American steel for guard rails, you end up with fewer miles of highway for the same amount of money. Trying to tie corporate welfare, jobs programs, and things like infrastructure together in a single initiative is a sure way to do all three badly. We've seen this for decades. And the more domestic producers rely on the government to tip the scales, the less able they are to compete internationally. It's a lose lose, for the false promise of "resiliency".
What is the technique to do this? Object pools?
I wonder if people working in finance can move as easily as IT people towards a job that does support (partial) remote work.

If so, this decision may turn out to be a liability.

Obviously, Goldman Sachs is a big name that may make people put up with this stuff, but still.
Oh it actually says that?

This is like working your way around a room and systematically greeting people by telling them you're a bit shy.
I believe AIM did more to teach my entire graduating class how to type than any educational software.
> It is pure insanity but America has a weird fixation with lawn.

It's classism. The entire point of requiring large setbacks with front lawns is to discriminate for homeowners who can afford to maintain a large completely useless surface.
I'd argue that environmental impact is a health issue.
printer business, your end may be near
Then you could not write mysterious blog posts about it.

Until it’s open source it’s a proprietary project. If it makes sense for the author I guess it’s a good idea.
Yes -- cravath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cravath_System
Yep. Bought a house last summer, in process of getting rid of the lawn. Less noise, less work, less chemicals.

I mean what would I do with it? Play croquet?
This video on how Russia is the last holdout of the Mongols is very interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ZqBLcIvw0&ab_channel=Kraut
What’s wrong with that? (Serious literal question.)
Oops. Here is Cory Doctorow's post (the jwz reference and link is about ¾ of the way down): https://onezero.medium.com/nonstandard-measures-cf47c67e8f05
You got very lucky that the lack of expected hardware didn't crash the boot process. If anyone is considering doing this, I'd suggest tampering with the analog part of the wireless radio instead, so that the OS still sees a Wi-Fi chip, just that it's no longer able to receive anything.
Yes, and Insula are for their servant, small commerce etc, but they are not like today's apartments, they just might look like. Upstairs people live, downstairs people commerce, produce bread, creates leather shoes, vases, ... with animals in internal courts since source food from outside is not that automatic and quick etc.

Years ago I see a reconstruction from a famous historian (Alessandro Barbero) about ordinary Roman's life, unfortunately I can't find it now...
There don't seem to be many people interested in cognitive architectures. Maybe we should form a club?
UDRP Domain Complaint Process: Dos and Donts
Same happened to me in muy 30s, I'm in my 50s now and it hasn't changed. I have casual acquaintances at work and at the gym, but none are close (as in, we don't get together outside of those settings).

I also am never in contact with friends from school, old roomates, etc. who I did everything with at one time.

When my kids were younger, I was part of another group of adults who were parents of kids involved in the same activities. But now that the kids are done with all that, those adults never kept in touch.

It seems normal to me, honestly. I think friendships are matters of happenstance and cooincidence and when circumstances change the friendships are rarely kept up. People who have long-lasting adult friendships will probably realize that those friends are neighbors or have some other external commonality. If those things would change, the friendship would quickly fade.
One of these I really like that has been around forever is https://robohash.org/ You can generate different variations of robots, cats, and humans.

The source is available as well, and it's also a python module, which is great if you're writing python apps. I found it rather simple to integrate inside of just about any flask/fastapi/django application.

https://github.com/e1ven/Robohash
I agree that it's dismissive and negative, but golly were those characters obnoxious and at least semi-toxic.
This has been noticeable, companies are trying to hire translators en-masse, often low quality ones with shitty pay.

Lately I am seeing more and more media with absolutely awful translations, not just streaming, but games and whatnot too.

Things we have now:

1. Serious translation studios that hired several political activists that will happily butcher the original script to fit their worldview.

2. A ton of freelancer translations that work for low pay, often fixing machine-translated scritps, and do a crap job overall.

3. More serious translators but that don't have time and pay to actually know what the subject is about so they just plop down a more literal translation, often with weird results as words with multiple possible translation might end with the version that makes no sense in the context.

Some exmaples past few weeks from what I saw in media:

1. more than once I saw media that the translation was forcibly shifted toward left-wing politics OR had all sexual references removed and/or towned down, sometimes both.

2. I saw both games, movies and series released recently that not only had the usual errors, but had outright missing letters, mojibake (yep! never expected to see mojibake in modern media, how people make that mistake?), phrases that someone obviously pasted from another document but selected it wrong and thus is missing parts of it and so on.

3. Was watching "Last Kingdom" yesterday, noticed translators weren't sure how to translate some things and in each episode the translation of some specific words or phrases changed, sometimes more literal, sometimes less, but wildly inconsistant.
The Segway got a lot of pre-announcement hype. It was referred to as "It" and a lot of well-connected people were allowed to see It and talked It up (at least in quotes splashed around the news) and the hype was way too much for the actual thing. Which got a "That's it?" response from most people and the press. It was supposed to be revolutionary, as big as the PC. It was a scooter.
Francis Bacon teaches metallic transmutation
I would think it’s not all the same, and point out asbestos has very bad side effects. So I too would rather breathe paper than other things. Ideally just air though.
Isn’t that what video calls are for? Whenever I want to talk to someone and not leave a paper trail I get on a call.
Sure, but nothing stops the would-be word-putter from crafting an entirely novel false narrative.
Slightly off-topic, I wish we could have journalists as authentic, insightful and engaging as this former comedian turned advocate of the people. Jon Stewart is an absolute treasure of a human being who obviously cares deeply about the issues facing everyday folks. That his kind of investigative, inquisitive interview style is so rare, is telling about the sorry state of affairs of mainstream journalism today.

He explores all sides of issues, but with a focused lens on the negative impact on regular folks, without partisan hackery, left vs right divisiveness, or intellectual dishonesty.

Why can't we find and promote more journalism of this flavor? It would dramatically increase the level of discourse in this country.
If you live in the city they will eventually come and mow it for you. The fines and fees will be added to your taxes. I had it happen to me when I owned a house in Rochester.
What would you have instead? Seeing greenery is good for mental health.
Do you have a picture of what it looks like in full display? I have been thinking of trying clover on mine.
Ask HN: Most Reliable Modern Refrigerator?
After our Samsung refrigerator of <7 years failed yesterday I recalled HN posters mentioning how criminally unreliable are modern refrigerators.

I've benefitted from many a great advices I saw on HN about appliances, so I am hoping the collective HN mind could have a suggestion about this indispensable household item.

I know one solution would be to get a vintage fridge, but I would really appreciate the energey-saving and the ice-making features of the modern ones.
create not done.

I can go to the websites of those, download the stable release, read tutorials and then use them for actual work, surely?

(Whether I should is another matter)
Yeah it is certainly a tension between designing for your aunt and for power users. I do think simply making your posture configurable with sensible defaults for the masses would go a long way toward quelling my unease. It’s the “because there are 100 aunties and one of you, sorry, you must be like your aunt” that’s frustrating.

Re TLS: I’m referring to the encrypted server cert. It breaks inspection middle-boxes since they can no longer dynamically generate a response certificate on the fly. I’d just like the ability to say “hey I actually run and trust my middleware, TLS please run in proxy mode” even though I also agree with the new TLS behavior as a good default in general.
Malicious compliance in action.
I don’t know anyone who thought mavis beacon was real, this feels like hype for the documentary and nothing else.
Some people might be paranoid that the TV would automatically connect to any unencrypted Wi-Fi in range, but I think it's an urban legend as I've never seen it properly demonstrated and documented.
> You are right in that I incorrectly referred to it as a “blue law”. But it is an ordinance.

Mayhaps the mis-reference was due to most cool-season lawns being buegrasses?
Go home, put your phone in the drawer, and use a wired ISP.
> Until it’s open source it’s a proprietary project.

I do not quite understand what you mean by this, are you saying that unless they accept contributions it's propietary?
> I don't want DuckDuckGo to filter/sensor based on "politics of the day". I don't mind them tagging results.

Agreed on both. Maybe it should have been done sooner, to avoid looking reactionary. Though I understand why today that propaganda may be considered worse than in the past.

> Sure, but there is clearly a difference here.

There's a difference, but not significant IMO. Just like misleading results should generally be penalised, to help people get to the information they requested.
Of course, but there are always going to be moments of friction, where some amount of "un-niceness" or even anger is at the very least understandable, if not justified.

Plus there's a difference between "be nice" and "go the extra effort to be nice". You can be perfectly friendly and nice and you can strike up some chit-chat and develop a low-key "relationship" with someone.
I'm curious if Chinese hospitals would actually be overwhelmed. Most of the limitations in US hospitals are due to inefficient human resource allocation - our system incentivises many optional and low priority procedures, because that's where the profit is. A lot of our hypothetical capacity is "wasted" since our government can't go and tell e.g. dermatologists to start treating COVID patients and relocate to regions that are harder hit.

In a managed economy like China, is this as big a deal? At least conceptually they should be better able to reallocate scarce medical resources than we are.
.cat STLD
Every year you make trades and flip a coin. If it's heads you're in another year, if it's trails, you're fired.

It takes a lot of churn to get a time tested leader.
Frankly, Brexit had invalidated Brexit. There hasn't been a single opinion poll on favour of the (spots) move since before it happened, and now if anything the folly of isolationism is becoming increasingly apparent. Led by donkeys indeed.
What have you tried to deepen friendships?

These things do not happen by accident.

Think of it like a marketing funnel. At the top, meeting people at a club. In the middle, hanging out 1:1. Bottom of funnel is doing something that requires commitment and self disclosure.
Let me summarize: not damaging the enviornment might cost money.

Yes, and it is worth it.
Agreed. In which case, the parent just needs to say, “No, we do not chew on batteries, they are dangerous.” And lock them up tightly and doing whatever necessary to ensure the child has absolutely no access to them.

Sure - the child will be upset, but that’s part of parenting. It will be running with scissors next week. This parent might as well come back with questions on how to rubberize the scissors rather than prevent the behavior. Putting your foot down is just necessary.
I'm in London. Everywhere is a relatively wet environment almost all the time.

And my local borough at least have plenty of high moisture wooded areas whether or not the grass is cut short, so allowing more of the open grassland to grow out would not make a material change.

Ticks are uncommon here (EDIT: Here being in my borough; there are definitely parts of England where it's more of a concern - and if I had a dog or if I was wandering around more in the woods, I'd still check for ticks, just in case) - some have been found in adjacent boroughs e.g. in Richmond Park, but that's thought to be due to to a high population of deer, but even there the proportion of infected ticks is tiny.
> Why not?

Because it wasn’t purely ethnic in nature with Protestants and Catholics on both sides of the conflict. Trying to summarize it as ethic conflict was therefore also also incorrect. Which why using ethic tensions is so often misleading, it seems appropriate in many situations when it really isn’t.
In sum, insurance companies are not selling their product at a loss, and if they are operating efficiently, they aren't selling their product to you at a loss either.
To expand the quote;

> graduates every year, who learn from experienced bankers and build networks face-to-face. The experience also encourages teamwork, which is central to the firm’s culture

I’m pretty sure the result is not teamwork!
How can people forget Samsung Galaxy S5, IP67 with removable battery.
Don't know why you are being downvoted - you are right about many aspects and this isn't a simple project at all that a fresher right out of college can realistically execute.
As with ad-hominem, this isn't actually a fallacy - it's just declared as such by people who don't understand Bayesian reasoning. Using informed judgement helps us separate fact from fiction.
less that specifically and more the general attitude
Also certain kinds of nasty insects like ticks, chiggers, no-see ‘ums, etc.
I've decided you're right. I typically advocate for the plain reading, and the plain does state that.

Unfortunately this means I now must advocate for the overthrow of the US government, or at least the exitship of the UN Charter and all other treaties which expand power beyond those enumerated in Artice 1 Section 8.

Edit: Actually I'm still not sure. Article 6 says, "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in the pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme law of the land;..."

Congress is not authorized to enter into a treaty which would violate the constitution, so how could they enter into a treaty with the "authority of the United States" if they are not authorized to do that?
Sounds like all those Goldman Sachs employees have some decent leverage. It must be easy to switch jobs if you have worked there for a while.
As someone who tends to be a super inconsistent lawnmower and often goes 3+ weeks in between mowing, I'm not sure I totally agree.

Leaving the lawn to grow out for more than three weeks makes it pretty unusable, especially for our dogs, with giant weeds (with spikes that hurt the dogs' legs) and thistle bushes and whatnot, and when you do mow it takes 2-3 times as long and the mower tends to get clogged up a bunch, and you need to extra careful about not hitting a rabbit or other nest, which might have been built in your yard because the weeds got so deep.

When I do mow I do try to leave some patches of clover for bees, though, and let some thistle plants grow in a few clumps.

I do wish people wouldn't obsessively mow and poison their lawns with weed killer to keep their lawns only consisting of grass, though. Nothing wrong with dandelions and clover and the occasional thistle.

As for polluting, I use a plug-in electric mower, so it doesn't really pollute much. I do wish electric mowers were the norm.
presumably it will have enumerables instead of for-loop with iteration variables to avoid off-by-one errors… oh, wait
Wow this was really cool! A little slowish but very creative and different from the standard website experience. Highly enjoyed poking around.
Every once in a while, a startup like this comes in, writes some advertorial blog post like this to promote their usually proprietary no-code platform. "The future is here, no code YAYY!". I WANT to believe this, it will make life easy for consultants and IT heads like me if it actually didn't have some important short-comings.

The first and most obvious one is proprietary - difficult to migrate logic. Once you sign up for these platforms, it's a death trap with no way out. Sure, you got to market faster than you competitors, but now you want to build your API for a government/large client? Whoops, you better have a billion dollars because we charge you per request or some other insane pricing model.

Oh, you want to customize your logic? You have to use this specific workaround that doesn't just make sense. Oh you want this particular feature X for Apple? Nope, sorry, we don't support it.

The most important of all - as a consequence of the lock in - When we have a 3 day outage because our engineer had a beer on Friday night and pushed a deployment, we take down your entire business with us! Nope, you can't even do a thing except watch all those cancellations on Stripe due to our mistake. Guess we'll give you a $20 rebate on your next billing cycle for our troubles. Sorry!

Like I said, I WANT to support no code movement. It WILL make my life so much easier if it actually worked the way I wanted it to:

1. No BS workarounds if I ever wanted customizability.
2. No lock in, I want to deploy across multiple cloud vendors for redundancy. Your deployments should not have to affect mine. The only way it could work is if you used a hosted image that is kind of open source that I can build and deploy on top of. No depending on you for everything.

The almost real no code exprience I was super impressed with was the one demo I saw using Open AI that actually wrote an entire portion of React code base with just a few clicks. Such a platform (if it exists) not only gives me full control of the code (If I want to), but I don't have to depend on you for deployments so you can charge me insane pricing for server costs, etc.

Until then, thanks, but no thanks.
No code only looks attractive for demos and investor slides, but for IT people like me, I'll pass, no thanks.
> Hare fits on a 3½" floppy disc, which are available for purchase.

Computers with a 3½" floppy drive may not be available for purchase :-)
>one of the programmers might well have had a mother or aunt named Mavis.

Or a typing teacher.
> Any insurance is a conflict of interest. *

* Except group catastrophic

Ultimately, it's a math problem that must have a positive answer for the insurance company. If 100% of policyholders make claims, you generally pay that profit yourself.

However, in group catastrophic policy, the numbers add up. Substantially <100% of people file claims, so premiums can be set much lower, effectively giving you protection against an unlikely scenario at reasonable cost.

My grandfather was an actuary, and constantly griped that low-deductible policies shouldn't even be called "insurance."

If you want to create something like a national health benefit, do so. But don't confuse people by mislabeling it.