skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider the associated penalty in the US as a bribe of public officials and cost of doing business. It takes a special level of hubris for Americans to go “noo, its different because we have due process”, when the user experience of a simpler bribe and slightly more convoluted bribe is 1:1
Why do they use thermal printing for receipts? Is it just cheaper because you don't have ink that runs out? Less moving parts so less maintenance?
Honestly, have been long tenured (comfortable) at my current job for the whole of pandemic so only have second hand experiences through my direct reports. But on the whole I think remote work has made this problem kind of worse. When I was new I could walk over to someone, gauge their mood or how busy they are and have a direct conversation. Even if I lacked the ability to communicate my problem clearly it was definitely easier to get help. They could just see where i was stuck and get full context. Here for every simple thing people have to ping one on one on DMs or in group channels. There are few problems with this. One in large channels a person who asks a lot of questions is looked down upon. (Shouldn't be in an ideal world and we keep emphasizing this with processes and what not but it's human nature). Plus unlike an in person conversation every question you ask becomes a part of permanent/semi permanent record which discourages people from asking questions. Also you don't know when you are interrupting people. Even if you dont expect an answer right away when the person doesn't respond for a long time you naturally feel resentful. And repeating my earlier point it's much easier to provide full context when somebody has your undivided attention by showing them instead of typing out what you think the problem is.
I've been using SIP on my Android phone for a couple of months now, and QoS hasn't been an issue at all. I'm using Voip.ms so I can have SMS and MMS. There's a SMS app but it doesn't support MMS; MMS messages are emailed to me and I just log on the Voip.ms portal and message there. I use Linphone as the client, and Strongswan for VPN.
WFH don’t require working at home, you can work wherever you want.

Laptop + 5G means you can work outside for much of the year at a local park etc. You can do all that coworker social stuff with your friends rather than people you happen to work with.

Even if you do stay home skipping your commute and eating at home saves significant time and money every week you can use to again socialize with people you want to actually be around.
What is heritability, really? Just a ratio
This does explain why Playstations are not dynamically priced, but it fails to explain why concert tickets are not dynamically priced.
Thank you for either 1. being humor-deficient or 2. intentionally misinterpreting what I stated for your own self-righteous indignation performance opportunity.

Even if you removed my snark, if one looks at his prosecution as a byproduct of the change in the cultural climate, a powerful entity being actually sent to prison for behavior they historically got away with is in a way, a 'cancellation' of their impunity, which is fundamentally a good thing, and (hopefully) precedent-setting.
XLSB Files: Because Binary Is Stealthier Than XML
according to wikipedia, coffee contains MAOIs, which i imagine are not the kind of drug you can just stop talking suddenly. it’d be interesting if a pharmacist could chime in with their thoughts on this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Pharmacology
Maybe something like the write protect switch on LTO tape cartridges, so that if compromised you never overwrite the tape when trying to restore.
I watched a startup implode going live with a $50k/mo AWS bill because their setup was too "future facing" (read: over-engineered for current scale)
Mark Fisher is not even the most important intellectual voice from Warwick.
Yep, but so do anxiety disorders associated to a “possible cancer”.

Living hapyy is more important than living for lots of people.
> It harms all of technology and by extension anyone who participates in the modern world. Just like any malware or other antisocial behaviour.

Sure but the problems are in order of significance are:

Putin invading Ukraine

Trusting things from NPM

This author adding malware to his package

I'm disappointed by the chorus of "keep politics out of tech" that seems so prevalent on HN, though not surprised. In general I'm in the "don't be a dick or cause problems" camp but when things are this completely broken I think anything goes. Countries are made up of people, people en masse can effect change, but often times the vibe of that one poem holds true, doesn't effect me so I don't care. It's wrong to stay silent. Every bit counts, it's only death by a thousand cuts if you actually make all of the thousand cuts, if everyone who's social responsibility to make a cut thinks "this doesn't matter anyway and i don't wanna be a dick" well... look around you at everyone who's got theirs and doesn't care.
Problem I faced in past with a dedicated QA team is, the development process is often faster than QA. Which puts QA in the backseat with each new release. Also, human coordination becomes a problem as there will be a small configuration of which QAs team might not be aware of e.g. A/B configurations, hotfixes, etc.

On the other hand, with devs writing tests is there is learning curve and most devs have not written tests or think of it as a chore. They also don't have end-user perspectives and have biases towards things working.

Ideally in my opinion testing should be shared responsibility, where devs test feature they implemented and the QA team add checks from an end-user perspective.

P.S.- I'm co-founder of startup https://crusher.dev making QA easy by using a low-code approach.
To be fair, chmod 777 is a perfectly acceptable workaround for a single-user, single-purpose system.
I didn't see it mentioned, I think I "epistemic literacy" is the other side of the coin. I see examples of people demanding citations for reasoning that is part of a work, of people just not understanding something, or of only really being able to blindly follow based on province or authority without trying to reconcile back to what they know.

If there is going to be a standard for legibility, there should be one for literacy too - it's especially important when learning from a debate where readers and writers (or sources and sinks) switch roles, to understand how different positions are engaging with each other's arguments, not just how they are making them
> It seems to be a general trend that countries with variable-length area codes lack well agreed upon phone number formatting conventions. In the UK, for example, there is also variability (albeit much less of it). This speaks to one of the disadvantages of variable-length area codes: they make digit grouping more difficult, as there's a logical desire to group around the "area code" but it's not obvious what part of the number that is.

It’s trivial for computers. For example, using Google’s libphonenumber [0]. For example, Poland uses `000 000 000` for mobiles, and `00 000 00 00` for landlines. libphonenumber knows how to handle this [1]:

<!-- Mobile, pager and a few fixed-line numbers.
(70 numbers are formatted as per mobile numbers, based on information from some Polish people). -->
<numberFormat pattern="(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d{3})">
<leadingDigits>
21|
39|
45|
5[0137]|
6[0469]|
7[02389]|
8(?:
0[14]|
8
)
</leadingDigits>
<format>$1 $2 $3</format>
</numberFormat>
<!-- 9-digit fixed-line numbers. -->
<numberFormat pattern="(\d{2})(\d{3})(\d{2})(\d{2})">
<leadingDigits>
1[2-8]|
[2-7]|
8[1-79]|
9[145]
</leadingDigits>
<format>$1 $2 $3 $4</format>
</numberFormat>

[0]: https://github.com/google/libphonenumber
[1]: https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/resourc...
The reason the case was tried in England:

A defamatory statement is presumed to be false, unless the defendant can prove its truth. [..] English defamation law puts the burden of proof on the defendant, and does not require the plaintiff to prove falsehood. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
If you already read Japanese and are just looking for a tool to help with the workflow, one tool that’s really promising is Serifu, a translation markup language being developed by translator Paul Starr: https://github.com/papatangosierra/serifu
Yes, it's not a 50% chance of false positive. It's 50% chance of false, given positive test.
The only way to stop this is to give the whistleblower a large cut of the fine: say, 50%. That will drive up the incentive to whistleblow; otherwise, all you get is a pink slip and a spot in the soup kitchen line.
The test taking ability is highly correlated to real world ability on practical tasks. See, for example, Hunter and Schmidt, “The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings.” (1998), which summarizes a mountain of research over almost a century, and in fact finds that test taking ability is strongly predictive of real world performance.
Ask HN: Command line flags?
Was watching [this curl talk][talk] from Daniel Stenberg and he included a graph of the number of command line options that curl has accepted over the years (around the 6 minute mark).

Got curious if there's any prior art/research/projects/attempts/thoughts on shipping command line software that rids the use of command line flags. Other than config files, I can't imagine what they'd be replaced with.

[talk]: https://vimeo.com/692145160
> the QA team not going out of their way to test things the engineers didn't explicitly say to test

This is the exact reason why QA team should have sufficient autonomy to design test cases on their own. If QA team is dev-driven, they will hardly bring any value, but they surely bring a lot of overhead.
Last time I checked (years ago haha), you would use Tesseract OCR and some other translation tool. There are more sophisticated methods now that include AI to include visual context for translation (https://syncedreview.com/2020/12/31/japanese-manga-translati...).

Not sure what’s most popular or open source now
Indeed. How many of us have friends made through gaming over the ‘net? I’d wager 50%+
From macOS to Windows – A one year review
One issue in India is that local governance at level of cities and towns is very weak(very few know who the equivalent of the mayor of their city is). The state(as in say US states, not federal level) government basically runs the show.

So, the state government does woo corporations with incentives to come to their state, but once the company reaches the level of permissions and deals with local officials who are looking for a cut(and in general, it is hard to fire these officials), the companies have to face the bribes process.

You can transfer bureaucrats even if you cant fire them(and this does happen though sometimes for the wrong reasons). But the bribe network also involves local politicians.

The intractable issue is that the journey to power of the top leaders in the state government involves taking support of local level leaders who either have some local support base or money which can be used for campaigning. In return, these local leaders demand a cut of bribe money which the top leader is obliged to allow or else risk losing their support.

Of course, this is not an all encompassing explanation and some leaders are much worse(corrupt far beyond any political necessity) and some better.
> You are (implicitly) asking people to conform to your design, though. Or would you continue working on it even if you were the sole user?

When you put it that way… certainly these sorts of projects are more rewarding and validating if other people find them as useful as I do, yes. I'd consider it a success beyond all expectation if KyuWeb saw even the modest usage numbers of Gemini, but even a fraction of that would be very motivating. So let me try again at answering your question.

> why do you think that you believe that other people should be limiting themselves to what basically amounts to your idea of "incredibly simple"?

Because I think there is a hole in the "market" for a system of interlinked hypertext documents which is just that and nothing more, and I think KyuWeb is a way to fill that hole in a manner that balances usefulness and ease of implementation better than the alternatives.

But yes, others are free to disagree or offer their own solutions. :)
Assuming the word "hybrid" is being used to mean that an individual employee has to go into the office for at least some amount of time per week/month/whatever:

Here's the issue I have with the main argument I see against remote work, or rather the main argument I see in favor of forcing people to commute to an office ("satisfies the need of some workers to have regular face to face interactions with coworkers"):

I want to be at home, and I am fine being at home. Why should I need to go to an office because of a coworker's need for social interaction? I don't need that social interaction. To me, the argument always seems very self-centered from the point of view of pro-office people. Let the people who need that social interaction go to the office, and let everyone else stay home if they want. There's no reason that someone should be forced to go to an office because of the needs of other people, especially when those needs have nothing to do with work.

This is like arguing that I should be wearing a certain color of clothing because some people like to (or need to?) see that color. That's not my problem to solve for them.

I get plenty of social interaction outside of work hours. There should be zero expectation for me to spend more time, energy, and/or money (getting ready, preparing or buying lunch, commuting both ways, etc.) so that people who aren't my friends get to look at/talk to me in 3D.
A long time ago we tried to do something similar with a jira kanban board. We were using thermal printer paper with a repositional adhesive, like post-it notes.

You need a printer with integrated cutter, the Epson TM-88 used here will work. You can directly print and stick.
For our use case the 80mm width was a tad too small. If you're printing "landscape" on the thermal printer, the text is not big enough to fit a ticket title in a reasonably sized sticky note. It works, but it's not really readable from more than a few meters.

The paper is from MaxStick (no affiliation). Depending on your use case, pick a glue pattern without full coverage (e.g. center adhesive), so you can easily move the paper without having to pry your fingernails under an edge.

https://maxstick.com/

https://github.com/wannessels/stickyprint
If this is completed, it is more likely it'll become the next version of Qubes.

There's no sense on running Xen if this does exist.
My point is that you can’t reverse all the advantages of the years of previous testosterone (i.e. male puberty) just by cutting today‘s testosterone levels. You can make that person perform worse than other males, sure, but it’s not enough to reach a level playing field with females. There may be exceptions for specific sports - I’m talking about the general case, which is what we base policies on.

In general you also can’t give a female athlete sufficient testosterone to counteract the absence of male puberty and make them competitive with men. You can make them better than non-doping women, sure, but it’s not enough to reach the level of post puberty males, and the more you give the worse the impact on their health. The GDR already ran that experiment.
The article linked in the comment says this:

"If you must give paper receipts, look for “phenol-free” paper, which is safer for human health and has fewer environmental effects. Three types that do not contain BPA or BPS and are competitively priced contain either ascorbic acid (vitamin C), urea-based Pergafast 201, or a technology without developers, Blue4est. The latter uses a coating that reveals an underlying dark layer when heat is applied."
That "small" group would consist of something like 100 people, not 5. If you want to appeal to nature, it's less natural for your family to be your entire social circle, than for it to include casual workplace acquaintances.
yes, it's full of BPA.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
Going a level further, the claim that the systems fail is itself tough to support!

Let's say two million people have been seriously inconvenienced by airport screening. We have to ask if that's an acceptable price to pay for the benefits? But do we know the benefits? Can we know the benefits? We actually don't know if the policy deterred anything, or even if someone who wanted to do something bad had their knife or liquid explosive or whatever confiscated and just abandoned the plan. It's purely a hypothetical so you're going to support the view you want: "we don't need to do all this because we don't actually have a big threat" or "we have successfully prevented any more attacks."

After all, we often see discussions here of foolish companies that underfund their security teams because "why are we paying so much for this when nobody has cyberattacked us?" ;)
If you get it, I'd subscribe immediately. I just need to read volumes 33-36 to finish it out, but I don't want to buy them, as that seems kind of a waste... and I don't want to pirate them either.
I think it's dangerous when we look at gigification as a "who cares it will work out somehow".

Imagine how up-in-arms if they gigified programming. It has already happened in places, but what if they wholesale a price per line of code?

This will get a lot of replies but honestly, a codebase that is spaghetti from gigification may be cheaper than non-spaghetti codebase at 100k - 200k/year * number of developers and work just as well for the domain it is in.

If you can put the "it won't work" aside - imagine they figure out that it does. That rage right now - how is that not applicable to the people getting gigified right now?
I wholeheartedly agree - I am working on a very technical new build at the moment and cannot listen to music when coding for it, but when I switch to maintaining stuff, I reach-out for my headphones.
In my experience, devs make terrible QAs, since they know what the code should do and never think of things like "pasting a novel into a textfield" and the like. They also tend to be much more expensive as well. Combine the two, and it's just not at all an efficient use of a company's budget.
Yeah PHP! You rock!
So we say something like, "the test is 99% accurate, giving a ~0.99 percent positive test result reliability across the tested population."

Is there a specific metric word or phrase for this less than 1% positive test result reliability?

Edit: Looks like hadmatter responded with the term I'm looking for!
I bought one of these because it was advertised as usb, but it being Bluetooth-with-special-(mobile-only!)app-only meant that I returned it. Nice to see someone jailbroke it :)
I think this is dead wrong, actually. There are a lot of minorities who adopt certain styles, language, or even names, precisely as a way to fit in better with the (in America, white) majority. I am white, but I was born in a rural area where people have a distinctive accent. Growing up, I was told by some teachers that we needed to shed the accent and adopt a more conventional way of speaking so that people wouldn't look down on us. One teacher even shared his own experience of intentionally modifying his voice in college so that he would get more respect.

If a person modifies their methods of speech to better match a different identity group, for whatever reason, would they not begin to receive the level of privilege, or lack thereof, associated with the other identity group?

Now I agree that a person can't claim an "African-American identity" just by changing their skin, that seems wrong. However, if a person looks "black" then they will be treated by society like they are black, so they have to some degree shed white privilege. In the case of Rachel Dolezal, this actually worked to her benefit because of the social justice circles she was in, at least until she was unmasked. The way others treat you is related to the way others perceive your identity, not the "census definition" of your identity.

Trans women often look completely feminine. In that case, a stranger would treat them as a women, unless said stranger knew of their sex. What is privilege, if not the sum of the ways in which other individuals treat you? So, these trans women do not have male privilege, at least going forward.

Sometimes, trans women don't look feminine. They are visibly transgender. In that case, they are probably not being treated like women. However, it's glaring obvious that openly transgender people aren't treated very well by society at large. If you don't believe this, then try an experiment. Wear a wig and a dress (if you're male), or a get a haircut and "he/him" pronoun badge (if you're female), and spend some time hanging out in public spaces. Be sure to visit the bathroom. I think you'll find out pretty quickly the type of abuse that trans people face daily.

So, if openly trans people are treated badly, perhaps even worse than women, then logically they have less privilege. The radical feminist objection that they retain male privilege makes no sense.
> If not the office, workers are better off using some social working space, but unfortunately WFH is so tempting and easy most will resort to that. Psychologically it's not ideal.

I would caution against the presumption that people will do things that are "bad" for them because they're convenient and you have to force them to do things that are "good" for them instead.

In these comments you can see examples of people who are going to co-working spaces. Obviously they feel they need it and I support them. Personally I have no interest in going to a co-working space. I love my WFH solitude and autonomy, and 2021 was the most productive year of my life work-wise.

Is this psychologically bad for me, regardless of my own perceptions and experience? I suppose it's possible, but I don't think some random boss with the power to fire me unless I come into the office is a better judge of that than I am.

Random boss is not enlightened by virtue of being a boss. Surely anyone who has nodded their head to a Dilbert comic knows that by now. Random boss will do what's good for himself, not what's good for me.

Paternalistic, collectivist authoritarianism has dominated human thought for most of our history. It's only recently that individual autonomy and freedom have become more influential. I think that's a very good thing and I'm not going back.
I was calling the National Review, founded by William Buckley, the famous conservative pundit, a left wing rag as a tongue in cheek way of saying even super conservative publications call it meritless.

I considered it as obvious sarcasm as calling Fox News a left-wing front of the Democratic Party.
All rolls are a single large jpgs

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3. https://www.whalingmuseum.org/pano-roll-3-test-qual-10/roll3...

4. https://www.whalingmuseum.org/pano-roll-4-test-qual-11/roll4...
This is not, generally, the law firms but legal investment companies (often founded and or run by ex-attorneys). There’s two, under reported, investment strategies in law. The first is funding class action lawsuits for a cut of the return - occasionally this can be paying out the actual class before a judgement and betting on getting a higher return when the case settles or is adjudicated. The second is this one, which is paying out to people who have already won a case and need cash fast before the normal payout date. It’s essentially payday lending for smaller settlements.

The billboard guys are just, usually, getting paid their normal cut of a lawsuit.