skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we should have the government do something about it, surely you agree?
Other have also commented, but this is mostly a marketing ploy. Non-GMO is not a regulated term and most things we eat have do not have a 'GMO' alternative.
Unions are no magic bullet. Germany with strong unions has the lowest pay for software engineers in developed world.
I really liked my System76 laptop until the AC adapter died. I looked around on their site to buy accessories and it wasn't there. Eventually I found you have to open a support ticket to get a replacement.

Not only did it take multiple days for them to respond (me without laptop), their resolution was to attach an invoice for one despite me asking for two. I didn't want to open a new ticket so I just looked online for an AC that had the same voltage/amp/etc and head, then ordered three. I have multiple desks...

The three arrived approximately a week before the one they sent out.

Also, you can't actually open these the way they've glued them shut inside by attaching the heatsink to the outer case. Might be a manufacturing defect but definitely can't open mine after unscrewing the bottom.

Never buying a System76 laptop again after this thing dies.
It's interesting that you think that they're "clearly" "second-class". I've never had a feeling that the contractors on the teams I worked on were treated any differently. Obviously I didn't know their pay/benefits, but that's even true of folks in different offices/countries that are FTEs.

If anything our contractors seemed to have looser schedules and would often take planned extended vacations for a month or so since they didn't have any real limit on vacation time, just however long they didn't want to be working.

If anything, inside of Ops stuff, contractors are usually amazing to have around since they often have worked at a lot of different companies and have seen different patterns and practices in person to compare.
>An individual's relationship with their immediate boss is one of those intimate things in life and it deserves sanctity.

I think there's a fundamental divide between people. Some see the workplace and the people in it as an integral part of their life. Others see it as a place they spend 40 hours a week that enables them to live their actual life. Neither are wrong and I think a lot depends on the type of company you work for. For me personally there's nothing intimate or sanctified about my relationship with my boss.

But I do agree with your general point. Being someone's boss can have a large impact on their life. I'd reach for terms like responsible, ethical, or kind.
I’m one of those weird people that still watches DVDs on my Mac.

A couple years ago they rewrote the dvd app and dropped a ton of handy features. It’s very barebones now.
>To avoid malthusian traps we do need per-acre yields to be higher and higher. Increasing yields is not just about farmers profits, also about feeding the world.

This is illogical. The only places that experience excessive population growth are those that haven't developed their basic agricultural sectors and rely on labor intensive subsistence farming which means having children who work on your farm is not a drag on your household. The reason why those people do subsistence farming is actually quite ironic, because they cannot afford to run commercial farms as those would have to compete with hyper optimized western farms so instead every poor nation is forced to sell its raw resources and cash crops and then buy food from developed countries.

You can't sustain a population on vanilla but since western and asian countries cannot compete on e.g. coffee or vanilla production in Madagascar that nation can use the proceeds to import rice. The problem isn't an inability to grow rice, after all, people do subsistence farming and live off it their entire life.
I might very well be mistaken, but this war and Russia's belligerence during the last 10 years never seemed to me a matter of ambition and territorial expansion, but rather desperation. Putin is 70, and his death will certainly plunge Russia into a period of turmoil. It doesn't matter if a successor is anointed by big P himself. The democratic opposition will see it as an opportunity for reform. The political and military elites will be fighting each other to advance their position. I'd be surprised if after Putin's death the Russian state could settle for a coherent agenda and foreign strategy within a decade.

The last time Russians found themselves in a similar position, NATO and the EU showed up at their doorstep. Baltic countries, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria... all of them joined NATO and/or EU in quick succession.

That's what I think Putin is trying to prevent. So the goal is to either have loyal buffer states (e.g. Belarus, Kazakhstan) or leave "unruly" buffer states (Georgia, Ukraine) in such state of destruction and disarray, that after Putin's death, Russia could get back on its feet before those states could focus again on entering international alliances. In other worlds, if I need 10 years to recover, I'll make sure you need 20 years, even if it adds a couple of years to my tally.

Of course this need of keeping NATO at bay exists only if the economic and political strategy of the state is to be an international gun for hire. It's a pity that the Russian elites decided to go for the easy buck with gas and military instead of developing the huge technical and artistic talent of the Russian people.

The irony is, after Iraq's invasion, NATO was incredibly unpopular in many European countries, and actions against Russia were seen as undesirable. I think fellow Europeans will agree that we saw Russia as an authoritarian state with old-fashioned values, but we were hopeful that one day we could have shared institutions and deeper political and economic cooperation. Now a lot of my fellow citizens perceive Russia as a direct enemy.
I find it insane that DVDs are still so widely produced.

Who cares enough about movies that they want a physical copy, but not enough that watching standard def video blown up to 1080 or 4K is fine? That Venn diagram must overlap far more than I think it does.
If I remember a piece of media but find that it's been lost for good, it's like I've lost a small part of myself.

I could not have phrased it more perfectly myself. Those things are a part of us. Back in the day your preserved memories were a journal, a book, a photograph, a videotape. Now they live on the cloud and all it takes to lose part of it is for a creator to decide that content doesn't suit their brand anymore and erase it. Just going through your Youtube Liked Videos list and seeing how many are no longer available should be enough to send a cold chill down your spine.

If I like it, I save it. There are some things I suspect I may have the only existing copy of. I wish someone would come up with a site archiver like HTTRACK but built for archival of modern websites that are full of content not hosted directly on the site's server.
Haven't looked into what a nuclear war would look like, but would non-Nato, non-nuclear weapon holding counties be affected that fast? Suppose I lived in Niger, would most people I know be dead that fast? Would countries just hit any ally to the opposition immediately? I understand that the entire world will be affected and eventually the effects will be felt.
OK. So that's using a render of a NERFfield as input into photogrammetry? Yeah - that might be more feasible. I was talking about directly generating a mesh from the NERF density itself (marching cubes).

But NERFs can capture and render things that are very difficult subjects for photogrammetry: Fur, vegetation, reflective or transparent surfaces etc.
Yeah, where did I read it, I think John McCarthy checked it out along with...who could it have been...definitely him.
Definitely seems like a lot of false positives. Lots of pianos in my neighborhood (Brooklyn NY) that no way exist
They sometimes forget to update the .Deb version

>@Romario74 That is not the case; while on Snap they packaged v77, if you look here you will find that the Spotify devs have not been updating the .deb releases. Re-packaging Snaps is less convenient than using a .deb tarball, and is being done through scripts by this Github project, which is in turn repackaged by @Edu4rdSHL.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify

So i run snapd on system
Channels with usually long-form content are now polluted with those - I hate it.

If I wanted shorts, I'd just go to TikTok and get the original thing there instead of a knockoff version.

But there's a reason I stay on YouTube. A reason that's unfortunately impossible for the "growth and engagement" camp to understand as their salary depends on not understanding it.
What do you mean “said nothing” as in they stopped showing up and management pretended nothing happened?

Or the person died and they didn’t say it was a suicide.

Because if it’s the 2nd, that seems pretty normal. My right to know doesnt trump the family’s right to privacy.
As an Alpine user, Flatpak is invaluable. Snap isn't supported because it requires systemd.
The UK has done plenty of big projects just as well and often better than anyone else but I think the problem nowadays is twofold:

1) Health and safety legislation has evolved to an extent where construction companies can simply not take risks. Of course, this is a great thing if you're a construction worker who enjoys going home to his/her family each night but it does mean that big projects become bogged-down in planning and ensuring that nothing can possibly go wrong from a safety aspect.

2) Sub-contracting of specialist roles where you (as a main contractor) are reliant on multiple partners all being on top of their game and focused on the end goal when, in reality, everyone is out for themselves and happy to sabotage progress for the sake of an easy profit, ego boost or backstabbing opportunity.

From the outside these kind of projects always look easy but from the inside it's a wonder that anything actually gets done.
I had a coworker who passed from cancer some years ago. He never acknowledged it but he knew it was coming. When his time finally came his wife talked to the team leadership and invited all of us to the wake. I thought it was incredibly thoughtful of her to do so. We were all given a paid day off work and went to the wake and met people from his family and personal life. It seemed a little strange that even though many of us weren’t really part of his personal life, we were still part of at least some small part of his life nonetheless. I thought it was a really nice way of dealing with it.
Historically, it's not actually all that wild when you consider that women are the ones that take on all the medical risk and took on most of the economic risk associated with being pregnant and later with having a child.

Remember that in many societies up until recent times sex outside of marriage was seriously frowned upon but the woman was often punished much more harshly than the man (if the man was even punished at all).

Women, then, needed birth control more than men did because pregnancy had more severe consequences for women than for men. Relying on men to take care of birth control requires the woman to put a lot of trust in the man, who might not have nearly as strong an interest as the woman in that birth control being successful.
The discussion isn’t about what’s good for you or what’s natural, it’s about whether the government should be able to impose extreme restrictions on what we consume and how those restrictions are implemented.

43 states allow the sale of raw milk in some form or another, but this sale is largely restricted from grocery stores. Of course the FDA recommends limiting the sale of raw milk, why wouldnt they? On a commercial scale allowing the sale of raw milk in grocery stores could be disastrous. But it’s not consumed on that scale and that’s outside of the context of this discussion - which is about it being legal to drink (not sell) raw milk.
Right, but git itself has no concept of code reviews, if that's what you want, maybe you shouldn't be looking for a git server, but some mechanism for code reviews.
I agree with you, I could never bring myself to invest my own livelihood into these walled garden ecosystems where you're a digital serf beholden to an overlord who can take your years of effort whenever they want.

Open web is where it's at, and windows application though even windows is starting to get locked down and having other problems.

The future is clearly web, for me at least.
> For example, the Island browser gives security teams control over simple functionality such as copy-and-paste, screen capture and content downloads.

Are investors really blown away by such "features"? Most people have a webcam near by or a second phone. Surely this can't be the killer feature set which justifies so much investment.
I always wondered what the justification for something like this[0] was. It's not really connecting two natural areas, and seems like with all the internal infrastructure like alarm systems, lighting, and fans that it would be wildly more expensive than just building the bridges and overpasses.

0: 49.972706, 8.272086
I don't know how easy it is in Ruby so I cannot give you a comparison.

However it is very very easy to write Python bindings for a C/C++ library with minimal work. Solutions range from "just works" like ctypes to "actually integrates with the language" like Cython. You also have automated tools for wrapping like pybind11 which does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
I had a forest walk today. Cleared my head and reminded me how beautiful nature is.

I think people are disconnecting way too much from what's real and embracing what's not real.
Businesses definitely have the ability to choose customers, barring violations of the Civil Rights act of 1964.
One can implement these standards. Problem: it's work.

They supported things like TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, X11, RPC, NFS, DNS, HTTP, ... The machines had C compilers, too.
> These don't seem like the right steps

With google’s communication skills, I still can’t fault OP.
We lost a coworker to COVID-19, early on during the pandemic. It was surreal to go from seeing his smiling face in the hall to reading the company-wide email about his passing. We had a virtual memorial service, and his friends, parents, and colleagues were all invited to share their stories about him. It was an emotional experience. For all the things I could complain about at that company, how they handled this situation was probably the most comforting and humane thing they could have been done.

It still makes me tear up to think about. He was so young and so cheerful. So full of life. Having faced loss like the article describes, I can't say that the nature of the loss makes much of a difference. Death affects everyone close to it, pretty universally. Questions about whether it was preventable or not, fair or unfair, etc., only serve to color our painful rumination.

Every so often, I'll remember him, and I'll repeat one of his catch-phrases to a friend who was on his team. Inconsequential as this might be, I like to keep the good memories of him alive.
For Jupyter, it depends on the workflow. Especially with data sciences. In data science, you spend a lot of time playing with the data, testing things, drawing charts, computing, etc. When you do that, the cost of starting a python interpreter, loading the imports, loading the (usually big) data becomes a real pain 'cos you iterate like hell. Working in a REPL becomes really important.

But even more, working with Jupyter allows you to work out a very detailed explanation of your thought process, describing your ideas, your experiments. Being able to mix code and explanations is really important (and reminiscent of literate programming). You got the same kind of flow with R.

As data scientist, I'm concerned about data, statistics, maths, understanding the problem (instead of the solution). I don't care about code. Once I get my data understanding right then comes the time of turning all of that into a software that can be used. Before that, Jupyter really gives a productivity boost.

For the code part, yep, you need other principles where Jupyter may not be suitable.
How some "simple" rules and (presumably) some randomness shaped up our universe.

How we extract math from nature and find new applications for it.
In re: #1, the brain has pretty precise timing. It's fairly easy to develop the ability to, in effect, set internal timers. Most people who know this only use it for waking up at specific times, but it can work for anything.
I think you could dunk a basketball from midcourt easily if you trained for it.

It baffles me when people think X or Y are impossible. Sure, for some things you need to work a lot. Genetics plays a huge role. Where you where born and your environment matter a lot.

But at the end of the day you can do many more things that you believe you can if you apply yourself.
It can be the other way around, where people using DVDs don't have fast Internet or don't realize how convenient video on demand has become.
TLDR healthy people live longer than sick weak ones, what a revelation

reminds of that recent study about Viagra users living longer, same nonsense
Sounds more like the game was and is no more. Let's be honest, not a lot of men try to trick their partners into unexpected pregnancies.

Edit: oh I guess you mean that men will pretend they're not taking the pill while they are. I agree with you then.
Not acknowledging a death is wild, but a lot of organizations normalize only discussing positive project-related accomplishments.

When the day-to-day doesn't address the simple human aspects of work, it becomes even harder to address the difficult aspects.
Since noone actually responded about the side effects of Trestolone, I can give it a try as a steroid user. The effects of Trest are very similar to testosterone. On one hand you feel great, get stronger, your workouts are more fun, libido and confidence through the roof, and you feel a general sense of well being. On other hand it's very strong and it aromatizes into methyl-estrogen, so if you don't dial in your dosage perfectly, you may experience estrogen related side effects - you can get very emotional for no reason, get hormonal acne or have your tits grow. To actually use it a proper birth control, would require every day injections and an endocrynologist to oversee your hormone levels. I suppose that's mostly why the research has been abandoned.
> matplotlib doesn't score highly on usability.

The one place matplotlib sucks is any kind of interactivity. But other than that, matplotlib has the best, most intuitive interface of all the python plotting libraries I've tried. It's also one of the few libraries that doesn't rely on generating html for a webbrowser, which makes for a miserable workflow.

I still think Matlab's plotting is untouched by open source options.
See, I feel like it's almost the opposite - I like salaried because I work my 40 and then feel no guilt for slacking off after that unless it's an incident/emergency. If I had a contract that paid me for overtime/hourly, I'd have days where I didn't have anything going on in the evening and it would be harder to not just put in an extra couple hours of work for some extra money.

It feels like a similar debate to the "unlimited vacation" discussions. It really depends on what your natural proclivities are to determine which option of the options is "a bit evil" and which is "natural"
Thank you for sharing this. It's an interesting observation that the people who may best be helped by what I call "movie therapy" would be the most resistant to it, as they are not in the right frame of mind to consider new ideas or perspectives. It's one of those terrible ironies of life.
Over 450 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia – But Some Remain
Do you average deaths over the past 5 years? Or 10 years? How do you correct for population growth? How about age distribution? What if you had a flu pandemic and deaths were 5% higher 3 years? Correct for that or not?
I read it as he broke both his arms in a way unrelated to the snake?
I don't believe that Canonical or Red Hat would make any money from having a better GUI. Most of their (paying) customers are probably just running servers, or maybe running some simple dumb terminals for nontechnical employees (like a Point-of-Sale where the user may open a web browser or something).
I say this both being a non-unionized often-contractor, but in some other industries that would be the union. Ignoring all the politics sounds that, growing up I certainly got to witness my dad’s coworkers and union come together to help out their members personally when tragedy struck, as well as planning social events and fundraisers. Some parts of union can be really bad, but they’re not exclusively bad.
the funny thing is that all of the apps that run in Electron use much fewer resources when run in the browser itself. so thats what I do.

i don't think many people outside of us technical folk care about electron apps using tons of resources to do what they need to do. (many folks run chrome, for example).
I didn't see it in Icculus' resume: https://icculus.org/resume

but it does look like there was a recent project to make it happen: https://github.com/juliogonzalez/sc3u-linux
Five minutes spent thinking about this question is five minutes you could have been talking to customers instead.
Oh, I'd prefer to be a paying customer.

The issue is price structure. Github and Dropbox are great examples where I can be a Pro user and invite free users to collaborate, and it works great.

What we're seeing is a trend towards pay per seat with extremely limited guest capabilities if they exist at all. That's generally okay for businesses where $20/user/month is a rounding error on salaries. It just doesn't work for personal use.
Does that work outside of JS?
Mental health isn’t underdiscussed, it’s just not discussed seriously enough.
Was Ukraine invading Russia from inside civilian inhabited address of Mariupol?
Advanced economies are only growing via immigration, there is no population growth through reproduction.

Also the planet will be just fine, it is us we’re worried about.
Computing Linkages
To be honest, Wave didn't have any momentum at all, it was dead mere weeks after release. No one cared. Besides marketing-avid people. They try to keep their business a startup, and that's ok.

Likewise, you won't blame Clubhouse for closing their product.

But Google did close some very used products, with tons of momentum, among my favorite are Picasa and Reader.
a bit off topic, but my rss feed had this story from 3 different sources side-by-side -- all published within an hour of one another. All had early access to the paper[0] and were timed for when the embargo lifted? ... or everyone's just into snakes now

The Atlantic write up was the best of the three, including a lot more background (snakes have a vestigial lung!?). NPR had a disappointingly click-bait trope style headline.

> This trick keeps snakes from suffocating as they squeeze and swallow their prey
> NPR - 1 minute read
>
> How Boa Constrictors Breathe While Squeezing the Life Out of Their Prey
> NYT > Science - 1 minute read
>
> You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time news
> The Atlantic - 5 minutes read

[0] https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/225/6/j...
I would love this for 3D printers. I’m calling hacker spaces and libraries trying to find one close to me.
this package requires using JS for your stack. your options are much slimmer for other languages.
Which begs the question, why has nobody built anything better?
it's quite amusing to hear Liverpool Street's mainline railway station described as high level when it's buried 30ft underground

it was originally buried so that it could connect up with the Metropolitan Railway (today's metropolitian line on the London Underground)

this was so that in 1875 the Met could use the mainline railway station as terminus (whilst their own was under construction)