skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> especially on multiple screen setups where you can’t move the mouse from one screen to another if the resolutions are different (4k screens and an open laptop as an example)

What do you mean by this? That is absolutely possible.
I don't understand your comment. What is the context for "using it" in your second paragraph? Also, could you elaborate on how you see racism as being closer to oppression?
Reading the paper's abstract, definitely just bad science reporting.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35395195/
Biden delaying and screwing up Trump's plan to pull out of Afghanistan that was already in progress and getting Americans killed, leaving millions/billions of dollars of equipment, and sacrificing people who helped our soldiers to the Taliban is "the right thing"?
Complaining about benefits would be a weird flex though. The alternative of not having employer tied is still available.

A more rational phrasing may be: "I can buy insurance isolated from my employment, but I am priveleged to have the benefit and OPTION of taking advantage of employer benefits."
Also did this with netzero. Didn't like their software/UI "borrowed" their credentials and plugged them into Windows 95 Dial up networking FTW
Apple is Spyware. I use it out of sheer need.....not desire. it's a crappy ecosystem. it's a dictators wet dream....

Apple is the cause of millions of deaths of year....and they have no intent on fixing themselves. this is what made them big.....support from the global industrial complex..
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Checkbook.io ( a payments platform with a single API for sending payments)

There are 2 parts to any payment, the sender side and the receiver side. Bill.com has historically pulled all the funds from the sender's bank account and held them in a custodial bank account controlled by Bill.com to pay out the recipients

They have earned float on this amount and given they are a public company you can see from the historical statements what percentage of their earnings are from carrying such float. (It depends on the interest rate and given the rates have been low recently it was about 10%-20% historically, may increase or decrease)

They have decided to do the same on the receiver side now i.e. instead of disbursing funds to the recipient they will simply hold them until the recipient manually collects them. This is somewhat unprecedented in the payments world - I don't know of any other Business payments processor doing it. It's basically a paypal type wallet being foisted on the recipient without an opt-in

In so far as "Are they allowed to do so" ? Bill.com is registered as a Money Transmitter (not a bank ) so in partnership with their bank they can do this. From the principles of ...let's say "generally acceptable payment processing rules" this is bad, particularly since it's an opt-in

There are multiple other alternative payment processors available, including the company I work for
Tim Cook is a spook or a blackmail target ..
> There are people with a stroke, removed tumor or other brain injuries who recover (e.g. see Simone Giertz on yourtube). Don't underestimate the ability to adapt. Maybe you lost a few points. Maybe not. Maybe you didn't even fully utilize your brain anyway and with a few tricks you easily blow past your capabilities from before covid.

Stuff like this is not helpful. Unless you've personally had brain trauma, you probably don't understand what it's like to live with constant brain fog, and to spend extra time understanding abstract concepts that used to be easy. It adds up and wastes your free time. There are no positives about it.

> I know worrying can be a vicious cycle. Trying to improve is the best you can do to grab yourself out of it.

On the other hand, this is helpful. Because worrying about something you can't change can only make it worse. What helped me personally is adjusting my expectations (and expectations of others) and just living my life day to day, trying to enjoy it as much as possible.
Whatever you were doing with those faulty machines that failed daily was a problem with you, not a problem with running remote hardware. I’ve run remote hardware for 20 years and only have to physically go to the data center a handful of times per year (and never need to use remote hands support). It just sounds like you were using crap quality equipment and/or didn’t have remote access setup correctly.
If you deflate nominal GDP with shadowstats numbers, you'll find that GDP has been continually dropping for the last few decades. That seems hard to believe.
Also the reason why trains can't run uphill, while cars and trucks can.
The fronts looked to me like they were unfinished or had been really, really badly renovated. Those back photos look much better.
I guess…
If it’s a short-term problem and you’re living paycheck to paycheck, you’re screwed now but might be OKish in the future.

If it’s a long-term problem and you’re living paycheck to paycheck you’re screwed for longer.

Honestly, what’s the play here for someone who doesn’t own any significant assets and barely makes enough to pay bills each month? That’s what I read as OP’s point.
I'm with you guys here. My first program was an AOL...program. Learned how to program by copying some kids I met in private AOL chat rooms.

My first commercial program (shareware) was a legit AOL add-on (AoLOL!). Designed, built, and redesigned several times before I had the courage to ship it. Visual Basic 3.0. Used Win32 API to attach my program to the AOL toolbar (for AOL 2.5 and AOL 3.0). Had folks from all around the country send me a $14.95 check via US mail.
MM going out in 10. Type $$$ to get on.
> but it seems there's a misunderstanding of anatomy here

yes, I agree and it also is worth mentioning that it is being communicated poorly in many forums where people also misunderstand this

olfactory = smell

people, myself included, think there are filaments in our nose (the parts we can see and stick our fingers into) that this is referring to. great opportunity for more anatomically minded people to explain this better.
I don't quite see what is "fake" about the "fake artists". They appear to be real artists. Did I missunderstand something?
I'm looking at the replies to your comment asking about jobs/career page etc.

Boring is the new sexy.
How do you measure playback latency? Is there a way that an end user can do it as easily as measuring rountrip latency?

Edit: clarification.

Also, is there some measurement being done to come up with the latency given in the following dialog?

https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io/qjackctl-screenshots.html

Or is that just the result of arithmetic for the given configuration options above it?
> In ec2 you stop it and start it. It’s on new hardware. If you run bare metal you’re screwed.

You mean, you reimage? That is the slow step, you reimage, and plug the new server. Wait a bit, and your service has one more server.

> With bare metal you got to shut down and replace.

You take the disk out and plug a new one. You don't turn things off because of a disk.

No doubt, those are costly. They are also rare (disk failure is less rare, but still rare).
But Trump can use it... cause we're not at war?
I'd just like to add to this: I find it absolutely reprehensible that The White House is trying to blame this on Russia, even coining a phrase "the putin price hike".

Inflation is hurting Americans, and the war in Ukraine is killing Ukrainians. The idea that these people would try to use one of these things to advantage themselves politically instead of addressing the suffering that their policies are causing (and changing course) is reprehensible to me.

There is a daily White House press briefing that I suggest everybody watch (you can 2x speed through it). Here is a link to today's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-AMwJbXQY

Just the way that they talk about this is so...vile. 8.5% inflation is a nightmare. You're in charge. Take ownership of that, and for the love of god stop trying to use the massacre of innocent people in Ukraine is a political tool for youself.
On the (far) outskirts of major tech cities. Like, 50 miles out.
This is how it worked and 486 PC at the time would happily overflow AIM32.exe and stop responding thanks. Sanitize those inputs!
> What's your general impression regarding price levels in the US? How much has your grocery bill gone up?

My grocery bill isn't in a vacuum. Does anyone buy the same basket of groceries constantly? My career has been on a steady rise and my lifestyle has inflated.

> How about rent?

It's up a TON in many LCOL places - but in many of the most expensive places, it's gone up less in the last 3 years than normal (and in some places down). Either way - 67% of people are homeowners, and their payments went DOWN a lot because the Fed allowed everyone to refinance at historically low levels.

> What about restaurant bills? Services like haircuts?

My anecdata is that I'm shocked so far none of this has gone up. I do expect it HAS to go up probably 10-20-50% eventually / soon. But I haven't seen it happen yet.

> Whats your credit card bill look like, excluding gasoline?

Again - who's credit card bill is in a vacuum?
>if you have to ask you are not in the need to know

Does it really need to be said that we don't all know about every program/service available to us that we could use, and thus could occasionally use someone telling us about them?
The article implies that there are productive ways to engage a bad-faith interlocutor in good faith. It's a shame it doesn't go into any details about what that looks like.
> won't inflation lead to mechanically higher stock prices, specially if it's demand driven?

Yes, to a point. Stocks are priced in nominal dollars because revenues are earned and dividends paid in nominal dollars. Endemic inflation screws with an economy, however. That reduces its productivity. First real returns falter. Then investors abandon the market.
Inflation is typically reported year over year
Is Kubeflow Dead?
DeepMind: Optimal training of large language models
OVH has a great dedicated server offering. Definitely a great bang for the buck compared to AWS (if you can handle the downsides of course: security, backup, setup, handled by yourself).
That hallway gives me strong middle school vibes. Or maybe that one older building on a university campus.
File/folder search for Windows. Super fast, one of my favorite small pieces of software.

https://www.voidtools.com/
Barcelona-Madrid vía the "Puente Aéreo" (air bridge, freely translated) is the closest I have seen. There are departures every half hour, you buy one ticket and can take any of them. Boarding is also very fast.
I think you’ve done a good job of summarizing the landscape – it matches my experience.

The progression seems to be the decline of the nerd-nerd monoculture in the professional tech environment. With some irony, the increase in diversity is from the non-neurodiverse. Product managers, engineering managers, vertically integrated teams.

I believe on the most part this creates healthier productivity for the business – but likely at the social expense of the neurodiverse. Their technical skills can be more readily exploited by the hustlers.
Youtube is bad enough sometimes.
Here's an idea: the single-topic, short-lived political party.

Imagine a political party created to achieve one focused accomplishment, and then literally dissolved once it's been achieved.

The more bipartisan support the accomplishment has, the better. Say a political party whose primary focus is to get term limits for members of the US Congress, a topic with broad bipartisan support [1].

People of all political persuasions could join from across the country. The people in this party might differ in major ways, but they agree strongly on this one topic.

Maybe they sign a legal contract to bind them to both vote in favor of term limits if they're elected, and to elect to bring that up to a vote on the floor of US Congress until it's passed. Some consequence would have to exist I suppose. But with that would come the small, focused party's endorsement, and resources from its supporters.

Does such a thing exist? Has it ever?

[1] https://mclaughlinonline.com/2018/02/08/ma-poll-voters-overw...
AV1 support is already available in libwebrtc!

So when I started building Pion the target use case was to make it easier to build scalable servers. Instead of interacting with a WebRTC servers REST API to query information/load balance I wanted to have it all in one code base. It also is really useful to have Media+Transport decoupled. Lots of use cases I didn't realize grew out of that.

* Teleoperation/robotics (https://github.com/Ragnar-H/TelloGo)

* Control remote software (https://github.com/m1k1o/neko)

* Cross platform file sharing (https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole)

* Sending pre-recorded media (RTMP/HLS/RTSP -> WebRTC)

* Custom DataChannel servers/bridges (https://snowflake.torproject.org/)

Lots of other cool ones in https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion I need to update it. It has been a bit since I have looked through https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pion/webrtc/v3?tab=importedby
Anyone thought of bioengineering? Some organism, like kelp or algae that would concentrate uranium in its body.
Well, do a lot more than just see if a dish sells well or gets sent back more. I meant head deeper down that rabbit hole. To quickly think of a few things, building customer profiles, personalized menus, personalized menu item combo pricing, variable and surge pricing perhaps so busy hours cost more etc etc.
Apple CEO escalates fight over App Store regulation in rare D.C. speech
Ah yes -- the Erdogan school of economics.
So Russia provides a ton of oil. Oil is an input into basically everything you've ever owned. The instability and lack of supply of oil as a result of the war is driving an increase in the price of oil, which is driving an increase in the price of goods. An increase in the price of goods means a decrease in the purchasing power of the dollar. This is how inflation is calculated.

Ergo, the Russians launching the war in Ukraine significantly contributes to inflation.

Is it solely responsible? Of course not. Does it contribute? Oh most definitely.
4 yo because that was a time I felt my first information hunger, I can even remember some books I have read at that time.

Way more interesting question is how to get a decent censoreship to the kid at the age X. F.e. I would not introduce kid to Tor before maybe 7 yo.
Interesting counterargument from AI researcher François Chollet (creator of Keras and one of the main contributors to TensorFlow): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V-vOXLyKGw
>I don't think fuel use is included because it's a price index, not a use index.

Theoretically this should be adjusted via lowering the basket weight for fuels (if consumption indeed does drop).
As it turns out, people are paid in nominal dollars, not real ones, and what happens id the nominal prices go up, while wages stay stagnant in nominal terms, so they fall in real terms.
Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems [pdf]
>But am I the only one who, going back to something I haven't touched for two years, has to re-learn my own code?

No, that is perfectly normal, and it starts much earlier, weeks sometimes days after leaving the code.
Depending on its complexity and level of its abstraction.

You mentally build something highly abstract without much emotional or bodily bond.
Your brain has not much incentive to rememeber it.
I think that depends a lot on which stage your startup is at, what your level of funding is, etc.

Definitely not as clear-cut as you seem to imply.
What do you mean? Perhaps you’re looking at the change (inevitably decrease) in the value of fiat currencies, not the change in the purchasing power of an ounce of gold.

The purchasing power of an ounce of gold in terms of real goods that can be obtained is remarkably consistent over human history, taking into account productivity increases which make everything actually easier to produce (rather than making gold or fiat currencies more “valuable”).

This is a characteristic of gold in particular (above all other commodities), due to a number of factors related to its density/portability, longevity, malleability, and the consistent rate over history at which it’s been extractable from the earth. It’s a rather peculiar if not spectacular equilibrium.

It’s a nice benefit that it’s also rather pretty, and interesting to consider to what degree that matters.
You are free to believe whatever you want. But if those beliefs are resulting in zero outcomes they don't matter.

The more complex an issue is the less it matters what the entire chimp troupe is jabbering about. Especially on social media,

Cuz even if there is one chimp in some corner that stumbles upon something useful, the current Like based architecture of social media that promotes and favors the most mindlessly ambitious, attention craving panderers, makes zero guarantees that chimp will ever be found. FFreedom of speech hardly matters in such a system. There is just so much noise drowning everyone out
> Maybe I’m looking back with rose-colored glasses but I remember Visual Basic being intuitive and approachable for beginners

I think those are indeed some heavily tinted glasses. I got a job programming out of HS but took night classes to get a degree in network admin. The first programming class I took was VB (never used it before) and completed the semester project the first day, then added a bunch of extra features the next class and was asked to help teach other students because the guy couldn't keep up with everyone that needed serious help (literally everyone). Still not sure if it was because they were overthinking the structure of programming or if their thought processes just didn't naturally gel with it. Changing the way they thought about it seemed to work best

The positive was finding joy in helping them learn, the negative was the next semester in a networking course we were learning outdated tech and was asked to help again. Instead of paying the school to teach their classes, I continued to spend my work lunch in the server room with the admin guys showing me the ins & outs of networking/servers etc and I helped them with their scripting skills. Never went back to school - it was a complete joke.
> and the cloud provider takes care that the backups are sufficiently spread to be disaster tolerant

Except against the disaster of the cloud deciding it's not worth to keep you as a customer, or the cloud having a distributed failure, or the cloud getting out of business...
I second this.

I once lost the sense of smell (anosmia) and feared it was gone forever. Later I went through a stage where my brain was getting incorrect signals: awful hydrocarbon phantasm smells came and went.

Then, one day, long after I had given up trying to do anything about it, I realized that I could smell again! My old friend was back!

Total time from loss to restoration: about 4 years.
Actuarial Life Table
The public transit alternatives in Germany are just as expensive. Take a train in Germany and see for yourself.
isn't this effectively the curated list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/best
> You seem to believe your views preempt those of your students’ parents.

I'm a parent too. I believe that my kids should be able to be their own people at school. I don't know everything that happens with them there.

> You are exactly the type of educator this law is intended to target

I don't work for a government entity. But nice try at being vaguely menacing.

> You should not be keeping secrets from students’ parents in the first place.

I'm just curious if this is what you really think. Anything that happens at school-- anything kids express-- should be rolled up in journal form and provided to the parent? Or is there any role for discretion?

> Actual abuse is illegal. Report it through proper channels.

Waiting for actual harm sounds bad. And there's plenty of harm that's legal or nearly so: if they want to force the kid to leave home on their 18th birthday because of what I told them, that still sucks.
> If you're young and healthy, no.

...unless you have concern for spreading disease. Some only think of themselves.

> it's strange so many people are defending an industry

That is strange, who are these people defending the industry at large?

I'm recommending getting vaccinated against diseases, not the Sackler family. This is a comment thread about COVID.
Would upvote parent more than once if I could.

> I went through a mad phase where I had loads of extensions installed in my main browser. Then all these stories came out about addon authors getting contacted by shady actors who wanted to buy the addon so they could add malicious code that siphons off personal data. Now I just have uBlock Origin and that's it! I trust it NOT to be taken over by bad actors.

Addons increase the number of parties you trust and also can make your browser more vulnerable. As we say in our openening paragraph https://www.privacyguides.org/browsers/

These are our current web browser recommendations and settings. We recommend keeping extensions to a minimum: they have privileged access within your browser, require you to trust the developer, can make you stand out, and weaken site isolation.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint#Browser_fin...

- https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

> Addons also have exploitable bugs in them, and also having multiple 'privacy addons' can mean some overlap in functionality where the tracking protection is redundant since it's covered by another addon. Like who really needs Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo privacy essentials, and then uBlock running all together?

Which is why common methodology now is very conservative. If you look at the research Arkenfox has done https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions they recommend very few extensions.

> And with browsers shipping with fingerprinting mitigation, and having the option to surf strictly HTTPS sites, some addons are becoming redundant, like HTTPS Everywhere & 'useragent spoofing' addons which can actually make you stand out (privacy.resistFingerprinting:true in Firefox FTW). The trick is to blend in with a useragent, not stand out.

RFP does more than just adjust the user agent. User agent spoofing does *not* work.

As soon as you allow javascript there are dozens of metrics that can be used to profile you and to determine exactly what browser you have.
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak fined for breaking lockdown laws
> A ec2 instance or other vps requires the exact same maintenance as a bare metal server. They are essentially the same except one is virtualised and the other isn’t.

Definitely not true. With a dedicated server, you need to handle backup and security yourself.
They would also evolve over that same timeframe, likely even faster since they were already more advanced in this scenario.
Reddit is the B2C version of Zapier here. It's ripe for unbundling. You're safe from Reddit itself because historically they've moved very slowly for some reason (though marginally faster, lately), and you're safe from the big players (Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok) because of Reddit's reputation for going after a (now) older, "savvy" customer base that is hard to monetize.
The powers that be have concluded that a significant fraction of the population suffering IQ loss due to long covid is preferable to continuing to print money to bail out the economy.
Your pronunciation seems better, in retrospect.
Fair point, I guess the point is that unallocated resources - space/power/servers etc. can become huge stealth money sinks, eating budget every hour of every day. Being cognizant of the consumption economics before you stump up for resources is important, as is fitting the investment model to match those economics. Setting utilization/allocation targets are just one way of measuring if those models efficiently match. This is true for any service or resource consumed.