skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I am not trying to to defend the counter but am I missing something or is there quit a large logical gap in your hypothetical?

I assume if I am doing the hiring, then I will also be responsible for the additional hiring/firing, selecting the right talent, choosing the right way to compete against existing product/services? Is that not continued activity as I grow my start-up into a category-defining enterprise? How to allocate that profit, into R&D, more people, sales, etc, aka growing a company?

Then after doing that for 10 years that company is now worth billions of dollars and I own it. I don't see where in this chain I have done the exploiting?
Because it makes it easy to do journalism and get paid to do journalism.

The get paid part is important. You like one writer on substack, you give em 5 bucks a month. You like someone else, it's exactly the same process to give 5 bucks.

It's the same as Twitch (for gamers) - where people give 5$/month to people who just stream themselves playing computer games. It's because it's a single click and it's the same click for all other streamers.

The barrier substack has broken, is the shitshow that is payments online - they did it for journalists, twitch did it for gamers, onlyfans did it for chicks showing their body parts, etc.

Of course the problem that'll destroy Substack is when they will inevitably raise their fees, piss off their writers and in 10 years, some other Substack like thing will pop up, that'll do the same thing and so the cycle continues.
Yes, I'll admit I didn't use Apple laptop naming as an example because I simply can't remember how it works.

Related, I have two old Mac Minis here and I can't tell which one is the several years newer one without finding a tiny model number printed on the bottom of both, looking them up, and comparing the specs.

I for one have no idea what ipads are better than what other ipads. Is Air better or worse than regular? How does that relate to Mini, in Apple laptops Air was the smaller laptops, but now there's also Mini?

At least companies leaning heavily into number-based schemes tend to make models with larger numbers the fancier more expensive ones. Acme Frobnicator 6400 is generally a lot better than Acme Frobnicator 3000.
The First Liquid Robot, and It’s Unbelievable
https://archive.ph/cbC9v
Looking at the repo, I see this:

Before using this application, make sure you have
Appwrite server up and running

Then I looked ad Appwrites website for a while.

Since Appwrite probably did not write all the components (Like a database) themselfes, wouldn't the first thing one wants to know what components make Appwrite? I can not see that info anywhere on the website.
How much wealth should one be allowed to accumulate?
Every organization that's willingly complied with a government committing crimes against humanity(including US government) shares responsibility for those crimes, and longer you do that more responsible you are.

Yandex has created a news aggregation service that worked flawlessly and has been most internet users news site go to in 2011, but after massive protests yandex was "forced" to turn that service into a blatant propaganda machine. And yet Yandex decided to fully support Russian government and keep being russian, focus their attention on different kinds of russian market, and almost didn't try to expand on foreign markets(that would free them from government grip)
Few small notes:

- personally I think agriculture is one of the few (semi)industrial sectors who can really run on solar: we do not need tractors, we use them just because we have invented them as a replacement for animals used for similar "traction" works, nowadays we can lay out rails (like we have for certain irrigation bot on scale) [1] with enough self-orienting solar panels on top to power slow motors and slow pumps to slowly traverse a field for irrigation, fertilization etc. It's already a bit doable a step at a time;

- we can't use only natural fertilizers (manure, ammonia from urine etc) just because we are too many, but a less giant population can. For instance Canada, Russia probably can live well enough with only natural fertilizers;

- nuclear, fission since it's the sole operational on scale we have, go well enough with industry since modern industry have almost constant loads and NPP easily produce constant energy, surely they are not really renewable BUT so far they are the lest polluting and more effective mid/long term solution usable on scale, with enough heat and electricity we can't replace mineral coal for steel production, we can't fly airplanes [2] but we can reduce much their demand so buy 50-10 year of time to develop something else;

- about consuming less: I've built a new house, with good insulation, VMC, p.v. etc so now I consume much less and live better than before, BUT to build it I've used many resources and the same apply to us all. It's easy to say "we can consume less" when to reach that goal we need to consume much more... It's not much different for food: if I buy a bit of land and build a kind of plant for poultry, trouts, a bit of crops, freezers, oxygenation systems for the water, auto-cleaning and recycling systems for poultry rooms to make fertilizers etc I'll not be self-sufficient in food but can probably produce enough to survive in a no such bad manner. Unfortunately that demand a gazillion or resources just to nourish a small family for a not that big timeslice (plant do not last more than few decades and nothing makes possible rebuild them with local resources). That's to say: we are a society, we are interconnected, we can't progress alone, we can't survive without a certain critical mass of humans working together spread around the planet. That's the hyper-big issue.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/media/9165/june17_datafeature_schai... or simpler https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/wheel-line-irrigation-s...

[2] yes, few nuclear airplanes have been experimented with limited success in the '70s but they were left in the oblivion since they are just too dangerous and barely capable of fly themselves without any load.
I figured that the NYT would go for the identity politics angle when building a takedown for one of their budding competitors.

What I found most amusing about that article was the lack of mention of Bari Weiss, the extremely popular Jewish journalist who wrote for the NYT for years before joining Substack and quickly becoming one of their most popular paid newsletters. It seems like a pretty relevant detail in the Substack story, but because it doesn't aid the narrative of the platform being a haven for right-wing white males, NYT naturally left it out. Pretty poor reporting, IMO.
I think the one you are replying to understands this, but the point is that "the last few writes" may be executed in different order by the underlying hardware and this might confuse the filesystem.
Salt raises blood pressure. That's just simple chemistry. High blood pressure causes all sorts of problems. That's medicine.
Case in point, no left turn during specific hours of specific weekdays.
You're right. Uber obviated the need to pay for transportation. WeWork obviated the need to lease office space. The world will never be the same.
It may be something you can physically do, but it’s not something that’s allowed by Spotify’s terms of service.
Slow drones won't be able to engage an F-35 in A2A combat because that's primarily determined by energy state. A Cessna 172 can carry about 100lbs of weapons after taking fuel and pilot into consideration. A Stinger weighs about 30 lbs or so, so three could be carried. Range of the Stinger is about 5 miles, so still sounds plausible.

So your cloud of Cessnas could conceivably carry 60 Stingers. How will they detect a fighter flying at 30K? A 172 can only get to about 15K in perfect conditions. It flies at like 100mph compared to a Mach 2 F-35.

Again, short of being a suicide bomber trying to kill an F-35 on the ramp, this idea is ludicrous.
The Eternal Russian?

Similar thinking was part of WW2 propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2YenLG_rQ (Fun fact: script written by Dr. Seuss.)
Fuck them indeed, but I can’t wait for a competitor to come out with something that checks all six boxes without the drawbacks of Apple, I need a computer that can do those things now.
I don't want to kill Slack
Steve Butterfield (founder of Slack) half-jokingly said he wanted to kill email. Despite their massive success, they failed at it. Email is Lindy.
Hence, by piggybacking on Gmail's robust features, our bet is to help coworkers solve email-led tasks without relying on other tools (like Slack): less context-switching, less emails, more spare time.
I don't know of any job where people didn't routinely get healthcare where they do now.

What I do know is that these days you'd be very hard pressed to find a job that pays less than "what a skilled tradesman makes at their first job that's better than entry level" that doesn't also cap you at 30hr whereas that wasn't the case before. So now everyone who had a poorly paid job before now has two of them.

Accountants, administrative assistants, maintenance people, custodians, delivery drivers, CNAs, etc, etc, have had their hours cut to avoid paying benefits.

I too would be interested in numbers. If there is any improvement it seems to be confined to some industry I am completely unaware of.
> Masks restrict the amount of goo that is dispersed with a sneeze or cough. They reduce the chance of randomly touching mouth/nose.

These are merely theories on how masks may reduce spread. They do not change that evidence supporting universal masking is not good.

> They signal to others that you’re aware of the current risk profile, letting them despise how to interact with you, etc.

That in no way justifies mask mandates. The referenced article is about a mask mandate being axed.

> My point is the arbitrary political nature of covid.

Both sides of the political spectrum has erred considerably on COVID. Both Trumpists and the hard-left have kowtowed to their own fears instead of following the evidence.

Had we "followed the evidence", we would have never panicked about the outdoors, not even from the beginning. We would have dropped concerns about fomites and touch-spread almost from the beginning. We would have dropped masking requirements far, far earlier than what happened. We would have figured out a way to deal with supportive care needed during surges instead of panicking on each surge. We would have let experience from similar viruses inform us more strongly, rather than acting as if we had no prior experience of coronaviruses or respiratory viruses.
Fun project. Thanks for sharing. Got a good laugh at this. Maybe add a “creased corner” feature and residual staple holes.
That's exactly the point that the GP is making. It's not that they were incapable of creating the technology, they just didn't see it as useful. Similarly, the Neanderthals may have been capable of sewing, they just didn't do it.
Army has been the most despised and low-status part of Russian society for the last 30 years, and mandatory service has been something that anybody with any means tried to avoid like he'll for even longer. The only people who go into an army career are those who don't have any means or talents for anything else.
Atari ST has something similar with the "Magic Sac" plug-in module. You needed Mac ROMs for it but since both were 68000-based, it was modestly easy to do. I had one back in the day.

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/283329-magic-sac/

https://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n3/magicsacpro.html
A more subtle example: the Washington Post gets COVID statistics from John Hopkins, which uses "date reported" for COVID cases instead of "episode date." This means percentage increase (or decrease) since a week ago can be wildly wrong when states backfill data, as they often do.

I haven't traced it but the New York Times and Google seem to have similar problems.

Usually it's better to look at the state's website or the CDC, but they have different dashboards that often don't calculate the same useful metrics for you.

Or at least, they'd be useful if they were right.
I wonder if at some point they'll have to go into "growth mode" and look to increase revenue, and there comes in ads and paywalls. I think they are great right now because they are young and aren't beholden to such things. Time will tell.
Hey, the market for dog shit is growing since there's a looming fertilizer shortage due to the Russian invasion. Growth market... add in a scheme for tax breaks through city clean up initiatives, you may just have an opportunity.
It seems the control group was following the current advice while the experimental group went beyond it, which would mean this study has nothing to say about the efficacy of the former.
Oh, then clearly I was mistaken. Take your upvote!
> Individuals and their employers should work out any deal that makes sense for both parties.

Let me know how that works out for 99.9% of the population.
How much money can a person make before they start shortchanging others?
That still suffers from the stress at the end of the week.

Say an auction closes at 5pm Friday... I bod $500k on Wednesday. Somebody bids $501 Friday 4:50. I bid 502... they 503, right up to the last moment.

And if the site is like some online car auctions, any activity in the last 5 minutes extends the auction by another 5 minutes. So, 504... 505... and on up until somebody walks away.

A home purchase is the largest single thing most people will ever buy. It's going to be emotional, even if the buyer manages to stay calm.
> What is actually problematic is, if anything, an imbalance with potassium

Spot on with a caveat: you cannot balance out to much sodium by consuming more potassium.
Very nice. On thing I would like to see a rotation range for multi page PDFs. A 10 page document won't all be identical rotation. One might be -0.2 and the next 0.3.
"The population of brown bears that polar bears are descended from" are presumably dead, right? The current population of brown bears are likewise descended from the same population of brown bears.
I found a lot of mentions of "Postgresql" in repository: https://github.com/ydb-platform/ydb/search?q=postgresql

Is it build on top of PG ?
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Apple and Google are giant money printing machines. How is this relevant?
Keeping an Eye on Markets, Musk and Misnomers
Dog feces is acidic and shitty fertilizer because dogs are primarily carnivorous :(
There's definite grounds to sue the Citation Processing Center, at least to get them to stop assigning these tickets to him.
Please keep your personal politics off hacker news. Your one sided opinion mirrors the western propaganda position and i can literally turn everywhere to hear it.

I have followed this entire debacle since the US did its coup in Ukraine in 2014 and actually understand things like the broken Minsk agreement and the 14k Donbas civilians that have been slaughtered by Azov battalion since 2014. The assertion that Russia is doing this to capture land to enrich itself is pure fiction. This is the Russian cuban missle crisis. I don’t agree with Russia invading Ukraine but on the other I understand it. The fault on this lies with the US and NATO and their creeping desire to place nukes closer and closer to Russia. The US’s illegal bio weapons labs in the country are also a big problem.
For me the throttling without yt-dlp was often slower than the video bitrate, makeing it unusable for streaming.
This is a great point! I still don't think this excuses it though. I think a journalist has a responsibility to at least know the limits of their understanding and not try to exceed that with numbers they don't understand. The author of the mask example about New Zealand could have stopped with the headline, as that's the only news-worthy part: Masks are required for two more weeks on public transit.
The project uses Appwrite as a backend. Appwrite solved problems like database or real-time. After you have the Appwrite backend ready, you can use CLI commands from README to prepare a project for this specific repo (project).

Regarding the question about components, not sure if I understand. I found out all about Appwrite and its services from documentation on appwrite.io
Is it possible that salt intake is just correlated to heart disease because the real foods causing heart disease (highly processed foods with refined vegetable oils, sugar, preservatives, etc.) are loaded with salt?

Anecdotally, I put salt in everything I cook - sometimes to the point where others find it salty. My blood pressure has always been firmly in the healthy range (low 30s Male).
I think the former too, most hot startups are just money-burning-machines.

Recently I stumbled upon a company founded in 2019, with more 1500 employees, that’s about ~500 employees a year.

That isn’t growth, at all, that’s something else.
I agree the New York Times really isn't that great.
We're about 14 years into a historically-8-year market cycle without a recession. I'm very concerned about how hot the fire is going to burn the next time the forest ignites.
We're all subject to propaganda from vested interests --sometimes that propaganda aligns with our values, other times not. But all these services provide propaganda --not in the advertising sense, but in the psychological manipulative sense.
> Are Amazon warehouse workers or delivery drivers really as productive...

Is this the only thing anyone is ever concerned about? How about employee general well-being? The fact that average worker wages have been absolutely stagnant while average worker productivity has soared since the 70's? Maybe it's time workers won something instead of just getting squeezed for more productivity.
Additionally, they are less capital intensive than ever, so founders have more options for funding than ever

That pushes up prices
> that we ourselves consider very important

I was with you until that statement. The concept of "importance" itself is also something we ourselves consider ie. you're not a monkey therefore you don't know if importance is even a thing for a monkey, or if it is and that it appears that they prefer bananas over AK 47's you're still not a monkey so you won't be able to be sure.

Therefore to attribute having the same concept of importance as us to another species is absurd.
by this standard pretty much all americans are war criminals. get off your high horse
Haven't some new-construction apartment buildings in China been left mostly empty, while others start crumbling before they're finished?

As for Tesla, the market can stay irrational longer than one can stay solvent. If not for EM's cultlike fanbase, I doubt it would be this overvalued.
There are quite a lot of hidden singular sources and you have to be very wary of them. One such fake source is anything that gets leaked or comes out of government, it could be the very same person/source going to multiple news sites presenting multiple pieces of fabricated information. Its not uncommon for a lot of political news to be singular source, just because its on every news site citing multiple sources doesn't make it true.

The other possibility is a chain where manipulation can take place in a non obvious way. For example reviews of PC hardware like CPUs on release day. It might appear as if you are reading many different sites with differing review methods but in practice all of them were likely provided a CPU and motherboard by the same manufacturer chain. Both AMD and Intel have been caught in the past providing golden samples for reviews and motherboard manufacturers auto overclocking boards. SSD manufacturers providing MLC for review and then switching to TLC NAND once it hits retail. There are so many scandals that involve this sort of thing that its very hard to trust reviews that aren't retail sourced and recently too.

Reading multiple sources of news isn't enough, you have to analyse where it comes from and how it could have been manipulated and falsified based on where the chain of custody of the news item comes from, a much harder problem and largely impossible given how the news hides its sources.
I don't think people are talking about the profitable companies, but about the endless list of companies who are valued at billions and have yet to turn a profit.
Or any Robert Anton Wilson fans (there are dozens of us, etc).
I really hope this isn’t real. I thought this was just a fun project.
Lovely interface. What does your tech stack look like?
> He's right that stimulus checks directly caused labor shortages

Citation needed.

> inherited $4M dollars

There it is! With just a small loan of $4 million you too can be a titan of industry.
> Because it makes it easy to do journalism and get paid to do journalism.

It makes it easy to write and get paid for writing; the incentives are very much against doing journalism, and even the former journalists on substack that I’ve seen mostly aren't doing journalism, and some are quite open that escaping journalistic standards and norms and was a big part of their motivation.
I’m giving up on laptops and sticking to desktops. The desktop I built myself has never given me any problems and it can be repaired, upgraded, and serviced on my own. I really think laptops are just trash and people are delusional about their usefulness. That’s my opinion, damn it!!!
Edit: the downvotes would seem to mean my "often accurate" generalization here is not accurate often enough to be worth saying, which I'm willing to believe. No level of detail in a HN comment can substitute for hours of research and talking with a lawyer, of course!

A good indicator is "do you have to fill out a timesheet". If you do, that means you're probably paid an hourly wage, and you should be paid overtime; if you don't, you're probably salaried and overtime-exempt. As usual, it's more complicated than that if you get into the weeds (e.g. in the news article linked in the comment you're replying to), and having a lawyer interpret your employment contract is probably the most authoritative way to figure that out if you feel your situation is unusual.
Absolutely. I'm not trying to point to buying a house as the answer for everyone. If you're not planning to stay in the area for at least a few years, chances are you'll be better served by renting. Everyone needs to do their own math on what they're wanting in life, there's no one-size-fits-all when it comes to housing.
I fail to see what part of the article is "political." The article states the facts, the books being banned, gets a quote from an opposing voice taking a jab at Florida republicans, and reiterates this is not the first time that Florida republicans have tampered with school curriculum. These are facts it doesn't matter if it was done by republicans or democrats. I would expect NPR to report the news regardless of whodunit. That's news, a change was made, the people who made the change are mentioned, an opposing opinion is supplied and prior history is shown. Just because you may support or dissent to the actions taken of the parties involved doesn't make the news political it just makes it news.
At some point in my education, it was pretty common that some teachers sent us scanned PDFs instead of the original PDFs _or_ even more hilarious, gave us the printed scans of the PDFs.

I assumed that this software is basically a tongue-in-cheek reference to that, I had no idea this can actually have a practical purpose.
In Vancouver the city plan shows no more single detached houses anywhere. Everything is at least a few stories high
If you are a computer professional, it is described in https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17e-overtime-co...
Reinforcement Learning will shine. From starcraft, even with all the handicaps, AlphaStar was capable of out maneuvering and outdoing humans in micro(management) without breaking a sweat! Now remove those limitations and let the stuff run on the hardware the US military has access to and you have a truly lethal swarm.