skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlimited in standard in pure software; AFAIK it's not standard in anything dealing with atoms.
This is the fundamental flaw with unions in the United States. In other countries, if a company retaliates against their employee union then all the other unions will refuse to do business with that company. The point of unions, which no one in America gets, is that the union should be directly involved in business decisions. So as soon as there is a union, those employees have to allow that plant to close. Management just doesn't get to run around doing as they please. That's the whole fucking point.

I'm not interested in being part of a union if the only points of negotiation are pay/hours/benefits.
I want a say over profitability overall. Who we do business with and how. What products we offer, and why. And how we service and treat our customers. Google employees banding together to prevent the company from entering certain lines of businesses, for instance. That is progress.
Congratulations, I guess.

Actually, Ukraine ranks above average and median when it comes to HDI. At least a couple of weeks ago.
> 10 minutes of a c6i.32xlarge costs less than a dollar at on-demand rates in the us-east-2 AWS region.

That assumes you have an AWS account. There are legitimate reasons to not have an AWS account; for instance, you might not want to risk accidentally racking up huge bills, or you might not have access to a payment method AWS accepts, or you might want to avoid using services under USA jurisdiction (due to GDPR concerns or similar).
>You're likely disturbing everyone even if you're not on speaker.

yeah but in addition to one guy speaking normally half the time, you also hear a distorted voice coming out of the shitty speakerphone the other half of the time.

>Cars act as weak Faraday cages. Using a phone inside a car increases the power output required to reach the tower. Similar if you are in a low reception area.

That's partially canceled out by being able to use hands-free calling in your car, and placing the phone on the other side of the car. I suspect the inverse square law will cause you to get less radiation exposure than you holding the phone using your arms.

>It takes maybe 5 minutes to log into your router and set the schedule. Not much effort at all.

the "effort" also includes the time you have to fiddle with your router to turn it on when you need wifi during the night for whatever reason.

>Why? You realize the microwaves are contained to to inside of the machine by it's shielding, right? The allowable lifetime escape limit is set at 5mW.

yet, when I place my phone inside the microwave it still gets wifi reception (yes, I tested it with 2.4ghz wifi only).

>Routers can have much higher power output than that. I think the US limit is 1W. This is also something that runs almost continuously as compared to a microwave that runs for maybe a few minutes per day.

inverse square law applies here. chances are when you're operating a microwave you'll be standing near by. at the very least you need to be next to it to turn it on. meanwhile the router is probably tucked in some corner of your house.

also, I suspect you can apply the "runs for maybe a few minutes per day" argument to wifi as well. if you're not torrenting on your wifi 24/7, it's probably not pumping 1W 24/7.
> “low pay” despite having 3 months vacation every year

My kids' teachers get in as early as 5am, and I'm frequently getting emails and grade notifications from them as late as 9pm. They're not working anything close to 40 hour weeks during the school year.

> despite other workers in other industries going to work every day

This seems like an argument for unions in those other industries.

> Lest we forget the studies showing the harm to society, especially young males, that comes about from them being brought up in a “progressive” matriarchal system that in many areas teaches them that they’re bad.

Ah, yes, "the studies". A great citation.
Sure, but there are many kinds of interpreters!

I was involved with one that wasn't really demanding in terms of computation, but was distributed in a way that required a lot of speculation and rollbacks. The functional approach was pretty sweet.

Highest speed bytecode interpreter is actually one of the few loops where I prefer assembly to C, as the instruction mix, branch prediction and even the use of stack can be weird from the PoV of a modern optimizing compiler.
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I mean, maybe not as coordinated the hands, but try telling an organist[1][2] that feet can't be coordinated.

Models are just that, models. They often don't actually reflect reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal_keyboard

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4XeClV_NCQ
I don’t understand why not having NaNs would increase simplicity. Isn’t that just moving the problem of detecting various forms of over/underflow from the CPU to the programmer using it?
I don't know what it looks like elsewhere, but I found a Grain Transportation Report for the US that mentions that "In 2020, containers were used to transport 10 percent of total U.S. waterborne grain exports."

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/GTR031720...

I think wheat is usually bulk, not containers. I live in Portland, Oregon, that has one of the top US grain export ports and for a while there was no container traffic here. I recall the reporting mentioning that things like buckwheat and lentils shipped in containers and had to be sent to Washington and couldn't make use of the barges that brought stuff from Idaho into Portland but wheat used the bulk transport.

Whenever there are major disruptions like this, I wonder how much of the increase is just due to various people saying "we know people will be desperate, let's raise the price as much as we can" (or a system of indirection that accomplishes the same to make it seem less like that on an individual level).
Its very on brand that the first response to this on HN is more or less:

"Okay, hear me out, but what if Unions in America are really _too strong_?".

Very counterintuitive thinking.
Curious, is this happening across all of FB / Meta, or some specific orgs like AR/VR, AI/ML, Labs etc?
"Some benefits are excludable for sure, a union isn't going to fight a non-members wrongful firing case."

This is absolutely false. These are just a few anecdotes but there are several

"An arbitrator in 2007 found that teacher Alexis Grullon had victimized young girls with repeated hugging, "incidental though not accidental contact with one student's breast" and "sexually suggestive remarks." The teacher had denied all these charges. In the end the arbitrator found him "unrepentant," yet punished him with only a six-month suspension."

"In 2016 and 2017, Poway Unified School District officials found that Westview High School coaches Derek Peterson and Tim Medlock sent inappropriate text messages to underage students. Those officials found that they violated school policy and in response, issued each of them warnings. Both men continue to teach at Westview High."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443437504577547...

https://voiceofsandiego.org/2019/08/15/how-do-misbehaving-te...
> Interpreting law is, generally speaking, a pretty objective task

No, it's not. It is highly subjective; the various canons of legal construction all require subjective judgements, and selecting and prioritizing between them is subjective, and that's not even getting to the degree to which in practice those canons are invoked as post hoc rationalizations for decisions reflecting a jurists ideological and personal biases on the matter at issue.
What works for you is what works for you, but I don’t think putting the middle of the screen at eye level is good advice for most people.

Moving the head is indeed a bad thing, but you’re not supposed to tilt the head down, only the eyes.

All ergonomic advice says to put the top of the screen 5 to 10 cm above eye level so that the eyes can move to any spot on the screen comfortably without having to tilt the head. It is straining on the eyes to look up, so having the top of the screen too far above eye level causes people to tilt their head backwards to look at the top of the screen. I used to raise my screens and had exactly this problem, with lots of shoulder and neck aches. Now that my screen is at the ergonomic height I can work entire days without having neck or shoulder discomfort.
Alien, actually.
Interesting. Thanks for the idea!
Just because market rates for manual labour are rock bottom, doesn't make it morally justifiable that amazon workers are paid slightly above that when the CEO gets paid 200 million dollars.

To be clear: my primary concern is not that the CEO is paid too much, but that the gap between them is so great. As a company grows more profitable, that profit should be shared amongst the workers, not paid out as insane executive compensation.
The water level is going down, so the rate leaving is already higher than the rate coming in.

If I understand it correctly, had there been no dam, the river would already be dry.
The value tends to hold a lot better, too.

I just sold my old 27" Thunderbolt Display on Facebook Marketplace for $200 earlier today. Apple stopped selling it in 2016. I think I bought mine in 2014, but recovering $200 on an eight year-old discontinued monitor isn't bad.
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I could be wrong but it seems like it reached it's peak during and immediately after the construction of those cities.
TBH it had me going. "Well, I guess we finally need to define this in an RFC." "Maybe this will helps against TLA spies hiding backdoors in critical infrastructure." "Surely automatic theorem proofing could help with this." And "Oh..."

I have had a terribly humorless day. The dryness made me chuckle in some deep hidden place.
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It's an interesting theory but how many times can Wolfram say 'predictions are coming' and then not deliver without eventually getting dismissals?

Feynman once said it is trivially easy to create new theories. What's difficult is creating a new theory that is not only consistent with every observation of the world that has come before, but also that makes useful new predictions.

String theory at least makes new predictions like supersymmetry. So far Wolfram has described how GR and QM can be derived from his model but only in a hand-wavy way, he hasn't come up with the 'update rules' that actually produce anything similar to GR/QM. Just as string theory has so many free parameters that some argue it can basically model anything, Wolfram's method arguably has infinitely more free parameters and lacks specificity without concrete information on what the hypergraph's update rules are.
Nice!

Where can I get the posit tee-shirt? Asking for others :)
> To be clear, there’s nothing inher­ently supe­rior about func­tional program­ming. (Despite the fact that these self-contained func­tions are also known as pure func­tions.) It is not the way computers work at a hard­ware level.

Hah. Weird way of approaching it but okay. Here's the thing: it is exactly how computers work at hardware level. If you look at an electronic circuit you and a program written in a functional way, the equivalence is almost 1:1. The circuits are self contained and you compose them to generate a new output from the inputs that are fed in.
If someone was serving in Korea at this time, they aren't going to show up in these records, are they?

EDIT - the Census would have been conducted in spring 1950, while the first troops arrived in July 1950. So presumably they would have been on military bases in the US and then perhaps counted in the census...
Linux security fix briefly breaks DMA
He mentions Copy 'Em [1] as a clipboard manager. Does anyone else use this? I've used Clipmenu for years, but it doesn't appear to have been updated in many years and is now a bit buggy.

Has anyone else used CE, or other clipboard managers?

1: https://apprywhere.com/ce-mac.html
Late to the party here, but -- if you haven't checked out other interactive fiction, you definitely should! This would fit right in.

Also, btw, "examine" (or "x" for short) is a popular alternative to "look".
“They’re too stupid to know what they want so I have to lie about facts to them.”

Why is that an acceptable strategy for your side but not the other side? Could it be that you might both have valid viewpoints?
What is important is more a library where the easiest thing to do is correct, and making it really hard to make mistakes. Make the encrypt/decrypt function the only public api, with as few args as possible. Manage IVs under the hood so the user can't accidentally reuse them.

That's the approach taken by NaCl, and arguably the only one worth considering.
Agreed. I would waive oral arguments at practically every opportunity, except that I feel like the judges usually ignore all the written motions and decide based on who is wearing the nicest bow tie during oral arguments.
My understanding of the public school system is that administrators and football takes up all the money, and the government will forcefully end teachers strikes.

The teachers union is probably the only thing keeping public schools running in a country where a political party explicitly wants them to fail and will sabotage them for political gain
After looking at several records, it appears that Hispanics have a superscript 0 after the 'W' for white. Hispanic, strictly speaking, is not a race as people from Central and South America have different percentages of spanish, indigenous and in some cases african ancestry. I wonder how it came to be regarded as one in the US (I'm not american).
> Asserting that SCOTUS decisions are apolitical and "objective" is inherently political.

Maybe, it's definitely false, in any case.
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I think part of the fun of 914's is how raw they are. Once you get all the individual car's eccentricities down its the same fun, but you feel like its all your secret on the good days when the car is working as intended.

The fact that they are dog slow is made up by the fact that your sitting on this little motor making a huge racket. Its the "I must be going fast, given how much noise i'm hearing" thing.
The point of using Mein Kampf is not that it's a great work. It's a terrible one, poorly written and full of platitudes and barely competent thinking. It's also an important one, being the "Magnum Opus" of Hitler. If you're going to teach the holocaust properly, you should let his own words speak against him. Anyone can write a crappy book. Anyone can get the wrong message from a crappy book. The import of Mein Kampf is that you are directly refuting Hitler and are unafraid of taking him on. If you're too afraid to talk directly to his "points", you are giving him power even in death, giving the power of mystique to his followers.
Sorry to hear that you have had this experience, but a lot of us can use the levity right now.
Google’s ex-HR chief says ‘hybrid’ work won’t last
"...Google says the policy “balances the best of being together in person and being anywhere” — but the company’s former HR head, Laszlo Bock, doesn’t think it will last.

...Bock told Bloomberg that “Googlers” who come into the office less frequently will be at a disadvantage for promotions, pay bumps and desirable assignments...

He added that executives at Google and other large companies are itching to get employees to their desks.

“’We’ll get everyone back into the office eventually,’” Bock claimed one executive recently told him. “’I just don’t want to pick that fight now.’”
MS Wordpad. I use it for quick notes, logs, writing drafts, etc. It is small, simple, unpretentious, incredibly good at what it does, and has been around forever. I'm not much a Windows fan, but I have not found anywhere anything similar that I can like more than Wordpad.
Was going to make the same suggestion. The Evan Doorbell tapes you link to are great for learning about that lost world.

I can remember that when I was a kid, once you started dialing, the phone would go silent--almost. What you would actually hear was hiss, ghostly clicks now and then, and, occasionally, very quietly, down near the noise floor, short bursts of tones - beep boop boop beep boop beep!

I learned about blueboxes and the like later (in what were histories by then) and I know what I was hearing was some kind of crosstalk, but I never found out whether the tones were MF tones (one telco switch signaling to another to set up the call, in the voice band, but just before the phones on either end were patched into the circuit) or (similar, but different) DTMF tones from modems and fax machines on the local circuit. (I vaguely remember occasionally hearing tentative tones like from a real person pressing buttons.)

All the electromechanical hacks from the midcentury systems that were sometimes still in place in the 80s and even 90s are fascinating -- the earliest direct dial systems had to set up the connection digit by digit because they had no memory. Later they invented systems that could remember some of the digits by temporarily connecting your circuit to a literal mechanical stepper on the telco end that would replay those digits to the next switch down the line (and then disconnect) once you had dialed enough digits to fill it up.
Watching a skilled organist do their thing is mind blowing.
> Schools give a fixed number of PhDs every year.

There were 55000 phds awarded in 2020, up from 40000 in 2000.
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Or you know, occasionally you accidentally create a new front in the culture war which is far more expansive and destructive than the side effects of the original problem.
Guild versus Union?
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