skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contract is broken. There is just no hope for the future. Living on the streets can feel like a better option.

Everyone is getting hired on as a contractor and getting shitty health insurance and getting treated like dirt.

Everything is too expensive. College enrollment is dropping down the toilet in a time we cannot hire enough public defenders to run our courts. Hospitals are closing due to lack of doctors.

Health costs will bankrupt you. Rent is INSANE. .2% of the US population is homeless.

Meanwhile the conservatives are whipped into a frenzy over the same "cancel culture" BS the party has been propagandizing for decades.

The 1% are killing the earth and stealing everything you produce and laughing while you bleed in the streets. But yeah, lets obsess over a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the populations sexual preferences.

The oligarch class of this country would rather let the whole thing burn than compromise ANY of their privilege.
My experience is that data-driven companies get into self-reinforcing circles:

- Data shows not a lot of customers use Linux

- Which leads to poor Linux support

- Which leads to not a lot of customers using Linux

That's not specific to this either. I've seen companies discount continents of people due to lack of customers on those continents, which was often due to inanely easy-to-solve problems. But if you only have 0.1% of your market in China, why bother with servers which are inside the Great Firewall? If 0.1% of your population is Spanish-speaking, why bother with i18n?

Data driven companies have an inherent bias towards /current/ customers, and away from /potential/ customers....
There is a lot of confirmation bias in these stories.

Half the issue is that people have been indoctrinated to expect home ownership and long for some golden age seen on TV that never existed.

Home ownership was never universal in the US. It has been within a few percent of 65% since the 1960s[1]. It was always out of reach for the lowest earners, like those that make minimum wage.

Some people whos parents owned houses will inevitably be unable to afford them themselves. Some people whos parents couldn't will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...
Apple ruining the experience....they make decisions and typically it's just them want to flex...they are so annoying. Trillion dollars and just unable to offer simple services.... pathetic
> I feel the norm here is for the author to be neutral and use quotes and data to express the point.

I think if we're bullshitting ourselves about (all) news media we can say it's neutral. But really it's just a bunch of assumptions. The appeal of news articles is like a reverse Occam's Razor: the more assumptions the better

But at least the author is a little honest and says "according to common narratives" aka "I'm bullshitting"
DP proofread from book scans and upload the proofed and processed text to Gutenberg. Standard ebooks takes the Gutenberg texts and further enhances them. So they're operating on opposite stages of the pipeline.
I've been waiting for mine to break after my last fresh install on Fedora 27 (when i got an SSD for the first time). I'm on Fedora 36 now and it's been fine. I've been waiting for a new computer to do the next fresh install.
Dozens of Bucha civilians were killed by metal darts from Russian artillery
> Don't use the service.

This is fine if:

1) The true extent of the tracking was disclosed. Before the GDPR that wasn't the case.

2) In practice, this only works for small services with lots of competition. For services which have a monopoly and/or oligopoly (and all of them are equally bad), this isn't a solution.

Maybe the GDPR can be relaxed in a few years/decades after other regulations against monopolies take effect or the monopoly/oligopoly problem self-resolves, but in the meantime I think the current state of the GDPR is valuable.
Well sure..
Then everybody, please stop blaming C, C++, php or wordpress.
If it's the "wrong" way, remove it. Don't even deprecate it. Just hard throw an error.

There are 10 tiny buttons next to each other. You press the wrong one. Was that your fault or the fault of the designer?

Stop blaming "the user". In this case, not even a software engineer, but usually a sysop or power user.
To phrase this slightly differently, you might say they dreamed of a good life for their family; working for Mr. Ford was the best way for an uneducated father to do so.

Is this a dream of labor? IMO, no. The work was the vehicle to their dreams, not the dream itself. Perhaps this is too fine a delineation, but that's my view of it.

Of course, such a job - a job an uneducated man or woman can be the "breadwinner" for their family with - barely exists today. My own father made $40 an hour as a lineman for Mountain Bell (plus a pension), back in the 80's. That exact same job today pays minimum wage, with no retirement benefits.
Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (2015)
you don't need to ask permission for functionality cookies, only tracking and such
Submitting a form with toggle controls set to the off position is not “building Twitter”.

The only reason this would take 3 months rather than a few days is if:

A) they were lying before in the old cookie popup

B) they are dragging their feet out of spite

Not sure which is worse honestly.
I think this is the official french military report on this: [1].

1: https://omnirole-rafale.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Rappo...
I know you already declared it "fruitless" but it's worth looking into the decades that the USA and other countries spent using all the political, economic, and military force they could to prevent these countries from protecting themselves from foreign predatory selling, it's probably part of the picture.
I am 30 years old. I graduated with a degree in history. I taught myself how to program, got married to a programmer as well, and now we live in a very desirable area.

My suggestion to anyone who does not dream of labor: if you don't want nice things, that is fine. Nobody is stopping you from living in a low cost of living area that may or may not have its issues.

But if you desire things in life, there should not be a mechanism that magically redistributes these things to you, or makes them available to you at a "fair" price.

No, the only "fair" thing is that you work for the money needed to purchase what you want, and you have the freedom to choose both what you do for work and what you want.
That support comes from Gnome Online Accounts.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts/Provider...

Last time I tried it, that only supported the virtual drive thing, so no actual files locally.
I'm using a very custom keyboard configuration and I'm doing all my config using Linux's xkb (X Keyboard Extension).

I'm for example using "modifier + ijkl" to send actual arrow key codes so I don't need to move to the arrows key cluster. It's not unlike gamers using wasd or esdf: ijkl mimics the arrows keys cluster. It just "makes sense". The modifier is always under my left thumb (I'm using a japanese keyboard, so the space bar is very narrow and I'm using the key at the left of the spacebar as the modifier for ijkl (and for other shortcuts). This is sweet because as actual arrows key code are sent, this works in every single program as if the arrow keys were actually pressed. I'm sure it can be even better: say by doing it at the keyboard controller level, bypassing the OS entirely but what I have works well enough for me.

Another trick: a modifier dedicated only to my window manager. Anything I need to do that is related to the WM gets done using a dedicated modifier. Never clashes with any single program. Bliss.

I do other cute things: OP mentioned using Emacs a lot... I configured things I use in Emacs all the time, like ivy / avy, to never require the pinkies (I removed the keys supposed to be pressed by pinkies from the list of available candidates).

Stuff like that. I spend countless hours on my keyboard setup and, to me, it's perfect. I did that years ago and since then I'm a happy camper.

> And then my mind has blown up.

Then I have one for you: you can use something else than ctrl to do ctrl-x in Emacs, using ctl-x-map. I'm using "key at the left of my tiny space bar + ." to do what ctrl-x does. No pinky and both hands are used (instead of doing left hand for ctrl and left hand for x).

> No more weird thumb positions, or elongated pinkies.

I don't really understand how you can get weird thumb positions on an ergodox though...
>Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia:

There are videos on Youtube with captured Russian pilots who ejected their aircrafts in the recent Ruso-Ukrainian war and they all had pretty big gashes on their necks and their overalls soaked in blood from all that bleeding like a stuck pig.

Apparently the canopy and ejection system acts like a guillotine on Russian aircrafts, but that's just what I've heard, I'm no expert on soviet era ejection seats, so if anyone has more info on this would love to learn more.
That is seriously disgusting. They're sacrificing a baby's health for profit. Do they have no limits?
I’ve seen the ambiguity in “unlimited PTO” as well. At $job we’re starting to talk about “mandatory minimum PTO” instead. Everyone’s required to take at least one contiguous week every quarter, and hopefully more besides.

At other gigs I’ve seen the same things you fear, where “unlimited” means “as little as possible.”
There is nothing to invent in the metaverse space that hasn't already adequately been covered by Second Life and others. FB could build an SL clone with perhaps improved tech or a different business model based on advertising (blech). But there's nothing to envision here. He's spending the money to get into a business they're late getting into which isn't really a business anybody wants anyway, as demonstrated by the failures of all the other VR and meta platforms to get any serious traction.

The metaverse today is Fortnite. Good luck to FB on becoming Epic Games. I don't think so.
Not hacking, but for beginning EE: There are a few toys like the "Squishy Circuits" on the market. I personally loved the 100-in-1 electronic kits from back in the day. But that was during the Glory Days of Radio Shack ;)

I'm also getting into ODROID. A curriculum around open handhelds, consoles, and peripherals is what's needed here...

https://www.hardkernel.com/
There's no exclusion of politics from HN, and never haws been (since it was renamed from Startup News in 2007) other than a few days in 2016 when we tried a brief experiment with it and got quite decisive results.

At the same time, not all political stories are on topic. If anyone wants to read about how we draw that line, there are past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
I've suffered from life-long depression, since I was around 5 years old. I won't go into the details here, but it will suffice to say that it's been a fucking horrible waste of life.

A couple of years ago I was prescribed ketamine (multiple times a day, taken orally, a non-psychoactive dose) for an unrelated chronic neuropathic pain condition... and I feel like it's cured my depression! It really is an absolutely incredible drug - I only wish it was more widely available to others in my situation.
Brave claims to have more than 50 million monthly users, that's nothing to sneeze at (almost 1/4 of Firefox). I think the reason it's not that popular at least on HN is because of the whole cryptocurrency aspect of the browser. You can however turn all of that off to the point it feels like using a vanilla Chrome (without all of the recent privacy BS and with a built-in ad-blocker that's not affected by Google's attempts to cripple the API ad-blockers use).

https://brave.com/transparency/

https://brave.com/2021-recap/

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Google has a very strong interest in developing tracking techniques that do not require cookies, so they can appear to be on the side of the public with respect to privacy, while also securing a competitive advantage for tracking in a post-cookie world.
If someone says “vote for me, I want to defund the police”, I’m not sure what to believe. Do they support a terrible policy (defunding the police)? Or are they lying? If they actually get in to power and actually do defund the local police, I don't think we get to complain about the outcome.

It might be an ASD trait, but I really like to take people at their word. Please speak what you actually think. I have a hard time trusting people who say one thing while they believe the opposite. Especially in politics.
The "ownership" model on DP means that they're left with a huge backlog of fully-proofread drafts stuck in the "post-processing" stage that never see the light of day on PG. On WS the equivalent to post-processing is a community-driven process, there's no fixed ownership but only the do-ocracy of those who put in the work.
A homeowner can take $100,000 from a home equity line of credit and drop it into his savings account and create $100,000 in new dollars with a button click. The bank didn’t need to “get” deposits to make this happen as the deposits are created when the homeowner took out the loan. The new dollars and the liability are just entries in the banks balance book but the dollars can be spent like any other dollar at that point.

If the next day the homeowner moved all the money back and paid off the equity the dollars are destroyed. This is how a bank works.

The size of a banks balance sheet and the number of dollars it can create is constrained by the amount of shareholder equity (by regulation). Regulators typically require a 10 to 1 ratio of loans to capital which has potential for fraud.

Just imagine if you had 10 banks levered 10 to 1 and you took all the deposits and put them on black at the local casino. Half of your bets would yield a 10x return on capital and the others you’d lose all your capital (and all your depositors money) but on average you’d make 5x.

Because of the risk banks are highly regulated and regulators require that named individuals that can be held personally and criminally liable for fraud and auditors who also can be held personally and criminally liable as well.
I start with REAIS and YOUTH.

But I don't think it is a good idea for the average person to have too many set words. Unless you have great knowledge of the dictionary of legal words you might need extra clues to word order etc. ie I recently got a game with a letter repeated 3 times.
I've seen video of a lot of protests in the main square. They have been happening since the first occupation. I would describe the size of the crowds as being in the thousands. To be honest, it's not a city I have followed closely - but there was at least one protestor shot (not killed) by the Russian soldiers. A referendum at this time would not be considered very legitimate, given the circumstances.
Text file or org mode. For something really big I guess I'd consider an issue tracker, but I've never had to do that for any personal project. I've been at companies obsessed with using technology for this and it's always been a waste of time, especially when they churn to a new system without fully migrating and deleting the old system. Even if they make the old system archived/read-only, you end up having to look into 5 different systems to see what you are working on. I always tell myself that if I'm ever roped into a tech lead slot, I'm going to leave the choice of issue tracker up to the other devs, but will insist that there be only one system and that all the previous ones must be merged into it.

Really, IME, the technology doesn't really matter. I've never seen a tracker that scales really well, and unless very large scale is required, afaict they are all about equal.
The font size setting is hidden under the "GNOME Tweak Tool". The good news is that over the last couple releases, the GNOME settings have improved bit by bit and now also include some things that also used to be hidden in the Tweak Tool.
> "Maybe I am relying too much on the Socratic method, but my questions were mostly to dig in for Truth, not to grieve you."

Oh. My. God.

A Socrates complex.

I give up.
> In 1989, when baby boomers were around the same age as millennials are today, they controlled 21% of the nation's wealth. That's almost five times as much as what millennials own today.

> Many previous reports have found that millennials are, on average, worse off financially than their parents and grandparents were at the same age, despite being better educated.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/09/millennials-own-less-tha...
Big Data vs. “Working Data”
Answering this bit first:

`Good point on indirect rates - I was being too quick there. Salary costs can be lower because you have to layer on fringe as well (which can be a separate pool or just a direct calc). So salary * 1.X (fringe) * 1.Y (indirect) = total award?`

Yeah, this is how that math works, at least at my institution, with some rare exceptions.

`25% sounds awesome - that's in cool and interesting projects range! Do you have responsibility for other positions. Not sure how it works where you are, I know someone who was very stressed because their proposals "carried" a fairly large group of folks.`

It really is awesome, and I'm tremendously privileged to be in that position. It's especially nice in my field (infectious disease epidemiology) because in basically all outbreaks, the work we do is uncompensated for ~ 6 months or so and then you sort of hope for grants to back fill it (I had, for example, done my best work on the pandemic prior to getting any funding for it).

You have however nailed the primary source of my stress - keeping "my" people funded. Graduate students (the downside of my position is its in a place where TA lines are functionally non-existent), postdocs, etc. are my responsibility, and keeping them funded is most of the reason I write grants.

We're experimenting for some staff positions (because 100% funding a staff scientist on grant money is daunting and terrifying for a single PI) with using a pool of funding, to address that while four of us may be able to pay 25% of a data analyst, none of us can pay 100%, with gaps in that backfilled by some institutional resources.
Could be that not having a set number of days avoids the payout, as I believe is the case in the US. Another charitable interpretation of their comment might be “Unlimited PTO is at odds with Canadian law, so potentially could be illegal.“
I agree with all of your complaints, but will say Gnome nautilus integration is working pretty well these days, and allows me to interact with it more like a filesystem than a shitty webui.
In most houses the oven takes much more time in relation to the amount of food cooked. When I'm cooking for 2, the air dryer gets used heavily. When I'm cooking for the full family it's the oven.

This would also correspond with the decrease in average family size over time.
That's so cool. Well clocks counting down are sometimes more useful than clocks counting up. In fact where did I read that NASA's countdowns were til ten but then to build up suspense for television, they counted ten down to zero.

And in fact that was better, with computers that's often better. So literature and cinema, the concept of suspense, actually improved science AND made good television at the same time.

For boxing they should count down from ten to zero, in fact.
Indeed. I'm an EMT and because of cases like this we're taught not to assume a cold or drowned patient is dead until they're warm and dead.
Personally I just use a brother DCP L3550cdw, I can print 3000 pages of color content for just 100 € in consumables, and it works just fine on any OS.

Due to HP’s war on third-party ink and toner, I just can’t recommend them.
People, aren't buying these for their looks, but for the false claims of performance. That's the issue, the lie, not the price.
I always offer to sign non competes with an amendment that says they must pay me for the time that it’s in effect, usually they remove it because it isn’t that valuable to them. I find almost universally asking for compensation for strict contract clauses sees them removed fast
I see "I flew backseat Mig-29. Will always remember pilot pointing at my ejection handle "please do not grab this, my government will be unhappy with both of us" [emoji]"
Assuming a "spiritual" dimension, it's fair to say that there are an infinite number of ways to navigate it.
You should receive a response unless your email goes to spam and I fail to fish it out. But the response to the GP question will probably say "Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but" - followed by what is at best a guess.
What’s your title and your employer’s market cap? I need to know how seriously I should consider your opinion..

Yes, Nix is incredibly complicated and needs to improve to see more adoption.

I was just commenting on the weird flex of the OP.
Black-Sholes is the most famous algorithm at their intersection. PDEs are a good area to understand and have applications in most applied CS fields, so if your interests change you can apply your knowledge to other fields.
> Interesting point about non pilot crew though - although there must be a fairly limited number of fast jets that have mission crew with ejector seats.

I mean you're reading an article about one, aren't you? Also the Panavia Tornado. F-15E, etc.
Very, very slowly. The Little Divergence, where Western Europe started to grow faster than any region had ever done before in a sustained way, started in the 1300s. It was the 1800s before the Great Divergence[1] happened and it became obvious that the West was doing something new in human history, sustained economic growth large enough to outpace population growth, that could be sustained.

Europe generated the capital to invest very, very slowly. The joy of foreign direct investment is in but having to spend centuries saving up.

[1] ACCOUNTING FOR THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
Stephen Broadberry

http://www.ehes.org/ehes2015/papers/Broadberry.pdf
This was my thought as well, maybe the key was considered sensitive and getting it on the ROM would have exposed it to more people than "necessary"?
I’m not suggesting you are - but that gives you no basis to claim it is a guaranteed cure for all sufferers of depression.
2014 is just when kogir made everything be HTTPS and also moved the static URLs under news.ycombinator.com.

You can get earlier like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/2021*/http://www.ycombinator.com...
Emil Kirkegaard tried to sue one of the writers of that article, lost the libel suit and got himself nearly £40,000 in debt. He's now being counter-sued:
https://oliveratlantis.com/emil-kirkegaard/
Chemical weapons aren't banned because they're effective, but because a) the way they kill is so cruel b) they kill indiscriminately.

Cluster munitions are banned by some countries (notably not including the US, China, Russia and India) because they leave UXO that is likely to explode later, killing or maiming civilians.

Just like the other examples (e.g. machine guns), I don't see drone swarms getting banned. Slaughterbots will be a documentary one day.
One of them explicitly set an expectation that I was expected to take at least 4 weeks per year.

That's interesting. In my state, you are owed accrued unused vacation time on your departure. One of the biggest reasons for going "unlimited PTO" is that there's no accrual, therefore they owe you nothing.

Does explicitly saying "4 weeks" put them back in the hook for that, or does saying "expect" get them back off the hook again?
Someone should calculate how many copies of the array you need (as a function of input data size) to make that sorting strategy work with reasonable assurance that the original data is maintained.
This is a good answer. It forces the dialogue about the issues, and you either align or realise the relationship for what it is - one way. It hopefully helps build mutual trust but does also risk the relationship failing if you can’t agree on important things.