skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m having doubts a lack of capital is stopping Canada from producing vastly more foodstuffs. For one thing, agriculture is (literally) bread-and-butter business for banks. And there’s been sort of a capital glut. Meaning: a semi-solid business plan will get you all the capital you need, for little more than 0 % interest.
> People when left to their own devices are able to make judgments based on their individual circumstances

The pandemic also revealed that when left to their own devices, people make judgements based on their own individual circumstances without any consideration whatsoever given to the circumstances of others. People were having COVID parties in an effort to intentionally spread the disease -- that should tell you everything you need to know about an individual's capacity to think in terms of public health.

> like having social gatherings in venues with better ventilation, or only with people in a low-risk demographics, because again, a one-size-fits-all solution cannot be adaptive/intelligent the way individuals can.

The idea that we can let young people do whatever they want while isolating and protecting the old and vulnerable has always been false in our society. Many vulnerable people died as a result. It's created paradoxes where we send kids to school because they are not vulnerable; meanwhile their teachers are in fact vulnerable and have predictably died at a frequency that has created teacher and substitute shortages.

> The US saw a massive spike in fentanyl overdose deaths in 2020, showing the steep cost of social isolation - which lockdowns exacerbate - for public health.

Fentanyl has been a problem long before the pandemic, and many of the places that are most affected by increased fentanyl deaths over the last 2 years have imposed the least restrictive lockdown measures [0]:

Alaska – 385%
Colorado – 382%
Louisiana – 378%
Mississippi – a 373%
California – 370%
Texas – 350%
Oregon – 303%
Kansas – 303%
Idaho – 283%
Alabama – 271%

Florida, a state which advertises itself as the state of freedom, and whose governor has positioned himself as an anti-lockdown champion, has the worst fentanyl deaths in the entire nation. So I don't know how much you can say about the causation between lockdowns and fentanyl overdoses.

One demographic that has seen the highest increase and absolute rates of fentanyl deaths has been African Americans, particularly young men and teens. If your contention is that fentanyl is a drug of despair, why are you assuming lockdowns are the source of that despair? During the summer of 2020, African Americans (and Americans of all backgrounds) highlighted one of the most pressing concerns in their community: police violence against black men and teens. Have you considered this despair as a possibility for the increase in overdose deaths (particularly considering many of the states hit hardest have very high black populations)?

[0] https://www.route-fifty.com/health-human-services/2022/02/st...
Maybe if you are apathetic by nature?
Yawn.

What's important to the majority of computing tasks is boring, doesn't need super computer sppeds or IoT sized products
This lament is really narrow sighted.

Resources are cheap for the majority
Since it's home videos, and thus not slathered in DRM, nothing special. Just Handbrake: https://handbrake.fr
I wish more companies understood that their problem with "The Great Resignation" is (often but not always) rooted in (in their shite approach to) onboarding.

If you hire open minded, qualified, and "free thinking" people but don't spend the time to get them to believe in your "product" (i.e., organization) then just like any other sane and self-respecting customer, they will look elsewhere.

Why? Because they can.

And these orgs not realizing most of what they have left is "can'ts"...well the cycle will just continue. Text book insanity.
Worked in the vicinity of a guy in one of our US offices who flip flopped between employee and contractor a few times on his own initiative. He eventually settled on a FTE role when he became a manager and to my understanding that was a company decision that no we can't have a contractor manager.
The books were not given away, they were lent, with significant DRM-enforced restrictions, whilst libraries were closed. What they did was allow multiple users to concurrently borrow a single work in some cases, where previously this wouldn't have been allowed. But they also had the support of multiple physical libraries while doing this, so there's that too.
I think part of the issue here is “a company” isn’t a particular human being or team that is specifically incentivized to “give a shit about the employees.”

What this looks like from my vantage point is: anyone who is a director (manager-of-managers) or up is assuming that the line managers (managers-of-non-managers) has it taken care of - their team, their plan, and they can speak up if they need guidance.

The line managers, OTOH, probably don’t individually onboard terribly frequently, even though as a cohort it’s probably constant. So the feedback loops / improvement cycles for a given team are all slow, and there’s no inherent incentive for those managers to try to boost the overall experience. Unless they’re the sort to go “hey, maybe my peers know better plans,” they will all individually toil at this and create an overall sucky picture.

Being perfectly honest, I was in that boat myself until this article appearing this morning prompted me to ask my fellow EMs what they’re doing, and whether we could find a way to improve it overall.

Even if we do though, it’s still going to suffer from tragedy of the commons a bit, unless we deputize some “onboarding improvement” project team to actually drive towards a clearly stated objective.

tl;dr - what feels like “this entire company doesn’t give a shit about me” could just be “my manager is doing what they think is the best possible, given limited resources, and having little-to-no support or awareness from the rest of the organization - and that little bit just isn't enough for me to feel understood and cared for."
I have two recent perspectives about onboarding.

2018 - the company eventually grew to 60 people before getting acquired for 10x revenue. I was the then new CTOs 3rd technical hire and the fifth technical person overall. He was bringing engineering in house. They were using an outsourcing company at first.

I onboarded myself, I scheduled a meeting with sales and the product owner and asked them questions as if I were a customer.

The CTO gave me a small project and I reached out to people when I had issues. It was much better than getting a brain dump. I learn a lot more by struggling through releasing a feature.

On the other hand, my next company was BigTech where there are standard corporate, division, subdivision and team specific onboarding.

They were both appropriate for the maturity of the company. But even in the latter case, I learned by struggling through a feature as part of my onboarding.
I don't see many other options.

For 1 slint/flutter/lvgl expert in the field I can find 100 experts in React or Node. I try to design systems where it's easier (management translation: cheaper) to hire developers instead of making it harder. Or finding someone that claims to be an expert in Qt or Flutter and the best they can do is a flashier version of the examples off of Github.

Perhaps Flutter will survive Google and become something useful. But I really don't need to learn another language right now.

Slint does look interesting, however. Kind of feels like QML in a number of ways. But, again, GPLV3 or commercial so it's going to be a lot of work to move.
What I wonder is do they still actually make those or are they just burning through current supply? I can't imagine they still sell too many 10 years on...
> I was the person who hired him and even during the interview process we didn’t use cameras

this is so bizzare.
So Apple can limit the availability of perfectly useful 'last year model' phones in the used market that competes with their new models. Evil genius (aka good capitalist).
I agree but have found turning on the camera and keeping it on for most meeting does help.
> pretty much anything plays DVDs nowadays

Like what ? I don’t think I own a single device capable of playing back plastic discs in any format.

This was maybe true 15 years ago, but not today.
I want to argue that you should neither eat meat or an vegetarian diet, especially if either is produced through artificial fertilizers. As an Baltic ocean diver I am almost daily reminded of the destructiveness caused by farming, and I continuously witness the horror of asphyxia when low oxygen water get flown near the areas I dive, and when the visible-from-space algae bloom occurs. Artificial fertilizers is such a huge problem that practically every single fresh water lake in Europe is considered damaged by eutrophication. Sourcing food free of that is a major step to reducing ones personal climate footprint.

Eggs are actually great if you have your own flock of chickens. They work almost for free in keeping grass down without requiring fossil fuels or complex machinery. They are almost perfect in handling food waste, and they can reduce harmful insects and weed without using any herbicide or pesticide. For insects they are likely less cruel than poison, and do not spread the poison to bees or birds. They also fertilizer the garden in a very natural way. A fairly small flock can easily maintain the need of eggs for a small family, often producing so much that you want to give it away to friends and relatives.

A bit of an anecdotal but when the natural gas prices went up after Russian invasion of Ukraine, one food product that got hit hard was fresh tomatoes. Farming them during off-season is very energy intensive and so require a lot of electricity, which in most countries mean a lot of fossil fuel. Even if you use renewables, that is energy that would otherwise go to to displace fossil fuel. It is indirect, but fresh tomatoes is right now connected with fossil fuel and war. Meat is also effected, but analysts seem to argue that people can easier switch over to farm more animal feed than they can fix the energy dependence on Russian fossil fuels. People could stop eating fresh vegetables when its off season...
What China means when it talks about NATO's eastward expansion
The best bet for getting GPU deep learning support, I use Anaconda/conda, using the Apple M1 channel. That said, I usually use my Linux GPU rig or Colab for deep learning.
safe is trivial to define. all the safe languages defined and implemented it.
with rust we are still waiting for those promises.

remember how eBPF was formally proven to be safe also? until meltdown came along and all those proofs fell down.
I don’t know what is meant by abysmally long but it seems they are trying to rectify some of the shortcomings. It’s certainly better than nothing at all and I would hope if you’re imminently suicidal that that would put you in the urgent category though: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-people-patients-mi...
Many of my longest friends are from online relationships, be it people I met online or from people I met in person but where circumstanes have left irl meetups very infrequent (e.g. moved countries).

Compare that to my IRL social circle which has turned over a few times as my college friends and I scattered around the country post-graduation, or as I've moved around since then.
Yes, we are all listening to Arestovich daily and sometimes even more often. He's the comforting voice for ukrainians and officially an advisor for the president Zelensky.

Meanwhile as we speak we have reports of russian soldiers with radiation poisoning arriving in hospitals in Belarus. While the reports are not yet confirmed, we fully expect that to happen: some of the russian troops are stationed right in the middle of the the Red Forest. Radiation levels in these woods were quite high by themselves even after all these years, but digging that specific soil with tanks and boots - that's a whole lot different story.
Yes, that was back in the day I still used to subscribe to Linux Format, had an email signature with something M$ on it and still believed on the year of desktop Linux.

Also when Sam still tried to make a living out of selling SDL support without much luck.

Nowadays the only way to get studios to care is to port Windows binaris into Linux, despite Android, even Google is now creating their own flavour of Windows emulation for Stadia (not that will save Stadia anyway).
>> I never understood what Putin's end game was here with this war

His endgame is to prevent free democratic elections in Ukraine. He sees Ukraine as the country most similar to Russia. He wants to prevent elections in Ukraine, because what works in Ukraine will work in Russia. And the very last thing he wants is free elections in Russia.
You reduced my argument to stupidity by removing the early access part. You said early access to an album, meaning because you bought X token-ticket, you get access to an album which is not released yet, or else it wouldn’t be early access. Of course if the album is already out, then yeah most people at the concert are going to have had bought already. But then you don’t need early access via token-ticket.

Unless you are meaning that the artist performed a new album at this concert, now I get to buy it ahead of its actual release because I attended a concert. This makes more sense logically and is probably what you meant, but it seems like a very specific and even one-off use case. Not to mention that, due to torrents, once this “early access” album is unlocked with a token, it’s practically going to be unlocked for everyone because other people aren’t going to wait and at least one of those token-ticket holders is going to seed it.

> you're in a fan community where it's ok to be a fan and people aren't going to criticise the fact you like this particular band

I suppose this is similar to a forum but membership is gated via purchase of a token-ticket. It’s an interesting use case for sure, but in my opinion is unnecessarily financialized because now I have to buy a ticket to the artist to join a forum/subreddit?

This doesn’t even solve the fact that if the artist doesn’t offer concerts in your area or even country (eg South America), it doesn’t really matter that you have all of this decentralized and distributed technology gating things up because the actual point of centralization, the artist, isn’t touring where you live.

“No not all forums, this would just be an extra VIP forum.”

I guess, sure, this is a technology which enables a VIP forum. I am not sure how useful, popular, appreciated, etc. those are, not to mention the fact that you can already implement that without tokens by requiring unique ticket serial numbers and then you don’t have the problem of everyone’s membership to this VIP forum being public knowledge (as is the nature of the blockchain), but fair enough.
It’s not the only way a city can make money, so I wouldn’t exactly describe it as necessary.

One day they’ll switch to a Boston Dynamics Safety Bull and put up a museum of shame memorializing the historical approach, and the tourists will come to see that.
This is probably something I can google, but could you point me to some info about why the plow is a disaster? It seems like one of those things that made it possible for a huge increase in the number of people not starving before it became a disaster.

I imagine it has something to do with erosion, but I'd like to know more, and you seem to have a position on the topic.
Glad you are asking this question... but... I think it would be wise to ask what a respondent's motivation for building/maintaining their open source project really is. Often times, monetization is really low on the priority list.
It does support changing the font
Just visited Ballantyne, NC. I can see why boatloads are migrating down there ;)
Thanks. In the CD ripping world, Exact Audio Copy does a lot of tricks in software, eg. I think it puts the drive in raw mode and will read slowly and several times, so you can get good results on arbitrary hardware. Does Handbrake do similar? Is there some fundamental difference with [the non-DRMed] DVDs where the hardware is more important, and software is less able to compensate?
Using it for fixing availability is fine, but I disagree that it provides protection.

I don't deny that in theory someone could deploy a Firefox zero day that steals ssh keys and that having an abnormal setup via docker could throw a wrench in that, but you are essentially relying on obscurity of your setup which is not an acceptable approach - in the same way that the obscurity of TempleOS would not be a good security approach.
Essentially, most of open source is slave labor for big tech who can build their services on top of the "contributions" while extracting ridiculous amounts of value from them and giving maybe pennies back to a single sponsored contributor.

This could be changed essentially overnight, if Big Tech wasn't against it. For example, it is trivial to add payment to something like GitHub. There could be PRs that are behind a paywall and someone would have to pay for the contribution so that it can be merged; and ban 0$ dollar PRs.

The fact that someone can come into my open repository and tell me something completely orthogonal to it is an "issue" makes me vomit (and this basically reveals the whole sham of GitHub). Posting an issue should probably be behind a paywall too now that I think of it; but you deposit it to the maintainer / repo owner / assignee.
My theory for why such moments are utterly magical: For a brief moment the non-place becomes a place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
Flatpak with Dockerfiles and yaml config! :)
We're pretty terrible at it, honestly. Look at half the crap we eat currently, I wouldn't describe much of it as "long-term safe."
I keep hoping that the next version of iOS will include the possibility of adding other instant messaging service backends as iMessage plugins. It would finally unify messaging on iOS.
The problem is when they have more services than sysadmins. While the sysadmins are busy upgrading the git server, the logging infrastructure suffers. They pivot to work on that, now the CI/CD server is down/slow/randomly breaking. But the sysadmin that knew the ins and outs of it left last quarter so the new sysadmins don't want to touch it. Oh, and management doesn't prioritize any of this stuff, so actually jumping two versions on the git server is a much bigger, fragile ordeal now than it was a month ago.
> Once you say that “they need you [the manager] in a time of crisis” you are putting the tragedy in a work-related context.

Sometimes all that’s needed is for the manager to not be a giant fucking dick.

My aunt passed away a few years ago, and I took a few days off work to go to her funeral (a few hundred miles away).

When I mentioned that I was going to take a few days bereavement leave, my manager at the time responded by rules lawyering whether the death of an aunt qualified under the company’s bereavement policy (it did). He otherwise said all the right things, but that’s what I remember nearly 10 years later.
Not sure what you are talking about.

1. Stripe has revenue of $bn 8, Visa $bn 25, and Coinbase $bn 8. Are you suggesting that Coinbase provides as much utility as Stripe?

2. The equity market cap is about $tr 100, so Stripe and Visa together take about 0.03% of that per annum.

Mind you: That is way too much. Credit cards are an inefficient oligopoly, and they've been fined by regulators for their extravagant fees. That's a whole topic in itself. But: Crypto is 10x worse.
On the other hand, even if you want to regularly eat meat, between public land hunting and raising rabbits and chickens, the ability to take the production of the meat you eat into your own hands is a lot more accessible than you might think. Even if you live in an urban setting.
If they are aware but still do wrong anyway, I'd argue it's NOT effective.
> Oogway then responds with that line, which is basically saying no matter what he does, he's not going to prevent Tai Lung's escape.

This is the difference between fate and destiny. If what we do does not matter, then that is fate, which is very confining, like a prison where you are restricted from having any meaningful impact on your own life. If fate were true, we could all just sit in a room quietly, waiting for fate to intervene and lead us by the nose down a path we never expected.

But that doesn't sound like the life we experience. We do make choices, those choices have consequences, and our lives are different because of the paths we took. This is destiny, and it has to do with what we choose to focus on, good or bad. If you spend your time doing things that are healthy for you and others, you and those around you become healthier. If instead you choose to focus on potential catastrophes, then that is what you and those around you experience.

And this kind of focus will likely enable the catastrophe to materialize because part of you will be working to fulfill this negative expectation to justify all the life that was wasted in worrying about it.

I believe this is a tenet of Karma in Jainism:
"There is no retribution, judgment or reward involved but a natural consequences of the choices in life made either knowingly or unknowingly."

"a good and virtuous life indicates a latent desire to experience good and virtuous themes of life. Therefore, such a person attracts karma that ensures that their future births will allow them to experience and manifest their virtues and good feelings unhindered"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation
Global Hunger is not caused by actual Ukrainian war, that's just another push toward global huger, but causes are far more broad and large part of them came from our western world, who colonize vast area of the world imposing a development for corporate profit so harmful that on one side push a "quick" straw fire that push up global population in the illusion of infinite growth and on the other destroy large ecosystem to a point they can exists anymore.

Also some thinkers like global hunger as a means to fuel big unrest and countless deaths both to artificially lower the actual human population, after having pushed it too reproduce for equal "business reasons", just to overturn the table to start other the same model again.

I'm just curious about two things: when (not if, reading the history a bit) a sufficient mass of population will comprehend who's it's real enemy and if the human life on Earth will survive... Of course, history say that certain kind of people always survive, as a cohort, but...
> I truly dislike command lines with hundreds of arguments. IMHO, A boolean logic would be clearer on the intent than a combination of -t -T -not-T etc...

I get that. I guess its a case of where the complexity is, which is going to be subjective. One has potentially confusingly similar CLI options, but with simple value form for each option. The other has a single clear CLI option, but the value form it takes is more complex.

`tricorder -i foo -t 'RoleA&(DC1|DC2)'` or

`tricorder -i foo -t 'DC1,DC2' -T 'Role'`

Ultimately if the capability is there, that's a great positive IMO, regardless of how you choose to expose it.

> I'm not sure yet if parallelization should be the default or not. Also I've not yet learned Tokio and Async programming in Rust :P

Right, I hadn't actually got to looking into how tricorder handles calls to multiple nodes - if it's not concurrent it actually wouldn't be able to replace the deployment helper I mentioned, but that doesn't mean it's bad or wrong. Every tool doesn't have have solve every problem.
So you are agreeing with Yoric then? Doubling up in energy infrastructure increases mining and manufacturing, which then increases pollution. But then you say it's propaganda?
for this I would use CHM, ordered minimal perfect hashes with external mmap'ed keys. still constant lookup, just the position needs to be stored in the value also.
Vector is being used here in the epidemiological sense, not the mathematical sense.