skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those blocked by a paywall, Real Engineering did a video on it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbRVNxL44c]. The most interesting aspects to me were:

- The drone is not a quadcopter, they are too inefficient. Mini plane design.

- GPS device is directly attached to the swappable battery unit to ensure it is always connected to a satellite, eliminating satellite connection delays when the drone powers up.

- It is launched into a sky by a powered rail. It doesn't need to land to deliver the goods, the items get parachuted down. No infrastructure needed on the receiving end, the item just drops from the sky.

- For landing the drone flies past an aircraft arresting wire while hooking onto it which decelerates it and causes it to swing down (suspended above the ground). Easy to retrieve.
Is this something that you know from actual restaurant cooking experience? Because high end restaurants lean extremely heavily on the concept of practice sessions where the cooks practice individual dishes over and over and perfect the mise en place for a specific menu ahead of time. Especially high end restaurants go out of their way to make sure that any experimentation will have been done ahead of time and not discovered at showtime.
Shall take a look, thanks!
> I quite like being a programmer.

This job is truly an anomaly. There are very few careers where you can earn top 1% income with no degree, no physical exertion, under 8 hours a day "on the clock", the freedom to quit any time and have multiple new offers within days, etc, etc.
Obsidian with the Todo plugin and tags.

I am also a part of the cult slowly building a personal database in obsidian to use as postmortal-simulation training fodder later.
The article is talking about deliberate practice at an individual level. No conductor, no orchestra, no collaboration.

I agree there are incompetent men-in-the-middle managers who make things worse. It didn't occur to me to think about that in the context if the article, plus, I've had the joy if working with excellent project managers, too. So the bad conductor ex machina didn't click with me.
> Naturally, this has major consequences for social attitudes about work — and the viability of performing labor in times of crisis. What sets zoomers apart, according to common narratives, is their determination to be fulfilled and defined by other aspects of life. They expect employers to recognize that and promote policies and benefits that encourage work-life balance.

At first, I thought this paragraph was a direct quote, as it definitely shows the author willing to make fairly strong claims on her own account. I feel the norm here is for the author to be neutral and use quotes and data to express the point.
> No.

No back to you. :)

> The measurements mentioned in the story obviously failed them

The measurement didn't "fail" them. It told them the truth, that is that she didn't have electrical activity in her hearth. If they would have seen a different rhythm they would have given her a different treatment. For example if they would have seen one of the shockable rhythms they would have given her the appropriate shock.

> so they went with their own judgement instead

Instead? From what you say it sounds like there is some rule preventing people from continuing efforts if they see a flat ECG. That is not true. The medical providers didn't use their judgement "instead" of the measurement. They used their judgement factoring in all the things they measured, known, heard, and sensed. (including but not limited to the flat ECG measurement)
Exactly what happened to me this afternoon. There is no going back from this for me…
I don't really think this clip is a good counter example.

I'm pretty sure 95% of the population would be able to guess correctly, in a blind test, who is Joshua Bell and who is me playing some stuff on the violin, and I'm actually quite alright at it. Still doesn't mean they'd stop on the subway for either one of us...

I'd still call bs on GP's father being able to tell between a 700 and 4000 set of speakers on a REAL double blind test, but between a 100 and the others? I don't see why not. There's lots of crappy cheap hi-fis on that price range.
> > “My dad got a job straight out of high school, saved up, and bought a house in his 20s,” said Anne Dakota, a 21-year-old receptionist from Asheville, North Carolina, who earns minimum wage. “I don’t even think that’s possible for me, at least with the current money I make.”

This anecdote is presented as the norm, but it’s actually far from it.

“Minimum wage” is the tip off that the journalist went out searching for the most extreme anecdote they could find. For all the talk about minimum wage jobs, only around 1% of jobs actually pay federal minimum wage. That number is falling rapidly as it becomes trivial for anyone to walk into a $15/hr job with benefits almost anywhere except the smallest towns.

Of course it’s not possible for someone earning minimum wage to save up money and buy a house in their 20s. Minimum wage jobs are literally the lowest paying jobs a person could possibly find. Anchoring expectations that no job should exist unless it pays enough to buy a house in your 20s in any city you want is blatantly unrealistic.
I am currently remote, but considering tactically moving to NYC because the increase in pay is better than the increase in rent / col. It serves no benefit to the company (even harms it) but that's HR for you.
Yeah, it would be better if instead the first world countries stopped destabilising governments and stealing natural resources in the third world. They might have a decent chance at developing independently then.
Historical median inflation-adjusted incomes have increased around 14-16% in Asheville since 2005 [0]. So there is something to the idea that this person's father probably went and found a home in a then-unknown location, rather than starting out with the expectation that he'd be able to live in a trendy, high-cost locale as an entry level laborer.

0: https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/north-carolina/ashevill...
Irritatingly imprecise wording on that page:

> Here at Martin-Baker, we run an exclusive club that unifies all pilots whose lives we’ve helped save: life membership of the Ejection Tie Club is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, which has thereby saved their life.

Does that mean you need to be a pilot to be a member of the club? Or does being a co-pilot or passenger qualify? And if you're testing the ejection seat (wittingly or unwittingly as in the case of this article) in a healthy airplane, such that it isn't a life-saving technique, do you still qualify?
I totally agree there are real concerning trends. Just earlier today we got some great examples from Rob Henderson https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/no-one-expects-young-me...
>Is there an established "kittens to terrorist" pipeline?

Yes, its what Eli Pariser described as a Filter Bubble, first identified in Google Search results. I wonder if there has been some code sharing going on between Google and Youtube, or if team members have jumped ship?

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/08/eli-pariser-ac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

Some youtube holes can be good but considering the untapped potential of Youtube for DJ mixes as background music for coders, I find the youtube hole incredibly frustrating.

I mean I've only just found this DJ and its pretty decent mix and her previous work is quite good as well, but considering she is Ukrainian, I wonder if this is Youtube's pro Ukrainian political policy in effect?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYC8KkNIkZk

I found this decent mix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vHRUsP20dQ) only after listening to a couple of 145bpm German Underground techno mixes.

I mean what were the algorithms thinking?

The only link I can see is its from the Boiler Room in Berlin and Berlin is where you can find some decent German underground techno, plus the time of day is a factor, ie trying to slow down someone's Dopamine stimulation at 4am in the morning?

But if you listen to some of the more established DJ's like Boris Brecha, Carl Cox, David Guetta, Adam Beyer or brands like Creamfields, Global Underground, Tomorrowland, Resistance, Transmission, Hooj Tunes, Essential Mix, you'll get stuck in youtube holes left right and centre and the quality tends to get worse the longer you listen. I mean their algorithms dont know how to curate DJ mixes, just like most people cant take people on a journey of aural delights when DJ'ing.

One other thing I have noticed with Youtube is bank holidays in the UK, they tend to promote borderline illegal car activities, things like cruises where people lose it leaving the cruise or speeding videos, more so on August bank holiday and the last May bank holiday. I'm left with the impression Youtube is trying to incite illegal car activities, so maybe the NY Times and the Guardian do have a point!?!
> He could've been a plumber/electrician/welder who would do really well in the current market.

False.

A plumber making $80k (US median seems to be around $60k) isn't going to be able to save up for a down payment if they're paying a typical mid-sized city's rent (~$1.2k a month). Not to mention housing costs going up during this period of saving up.
That is not how fractional reserve banking works, people - or, to me at least, it gives a wrong impression.

Say we are in a fractional reserve banking system, where the required reserve is 10%.

I deposit $1M at the bank. My bank can now lend $900K to you. You can now deposit $900K back at your bank. Your bank can now lend $810K to someone else, and so on and so on.

The geometric sum of this is "1/reserve_ratio"; so if there's a 10% reserve ratio, then the initial $1M deposit can lead to $10M of loans outstanding. No single bank is loaning out more than is being deposited with it.
do you read everything on the front page? o_O
It’s wild that the ejection sequence failed. Some two-seat aircraft have a “forward both, aft self” ejection mode for these types of events where you don’t trust the guy in the back to make good ejection decisions, and I originally assumed that was what happened here. Oops.
I don't see why not, as long as those programs don't need platform-specific drivers. In the end, the ARM programs will all speak X11 or Wayland, and those calls should transfer back to the native display renderer without any issues.

I've had more challenges getting the necessary dependencies installed for foreign architectures than I've had issues running them through qemu. It's honestly surprising how easy it is and it makes me wonder why Windows doesn't have something similar.
One person can't manage everything. In a democratic country you need a lot of people to mobilize from a different direction.

That's eg. Why the damage of trump has been relatively low.
CRANE first. If the A and E are not both present and there are no green consonants,
HOIST, else figure out a word that tests common di- or triglyphs (ch, cri) based on known letters that also contains O.
Off-topic. [0]

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Koss headphones are the good headphones. Better than the Beats headphones at least.

And yes, with quality headphones, the equalizer can do some of the work. But it's generally better to have headphones that match your hearing, so you can focus on the fine tuning with the equalizer instead of trying to brute force against a major difference.
>But, to be clear, those expectations are coming from the author. That’s his perspective of what the world thinks, based on his interactions, based on what he chooses to read, listen to, etc. He's not describing anyone but himself.

The last conclusion is a little off. Everybody who expresses any opinion is describing "his perspective of what the world thinks, based on his interactions, based on what he chooses to read, listen to, etc". That doesn't mean they can't also coincide with a general trend, for example "societal expectations" at large.
It's not the same system. In the EU the executive dominates the legislature because only the executive can initiate the process of changing the law. The executive in turn is controlled by one person who is not selected via any democratic process or in fact any documented process at all (nobody really knows why vDL was selected as current EU Commission head).

That's why when you read about EU law changes you so often read about negotiations between the Parliament and Commission. In the UK the executive branch implements the will of the legislative branch. In the EU the Parliament is often found implementing the will of the executive. Technically it's not a Parliament at all, due to this lack of the "right of initiation".
"Heading out to Eden, hey brother

Heading out to Eden, hey brother

Gonna live like a king off whatever I find

Gonna eat all the fruit and throw away the rind"

- Star Trek, "The Way to Eden"

Every generation thinks they invented sex and every generation thinks they invented utopias. They'll outgrow it.
>actually contribute something worthwhile to society

Such as? We expect them to get buy on little money, no insurance in a lot of cases while they have to deal with the rude public, random scheduling changes, and being treated like trash by their managers.
Me (29M) and my wife (30F) have a little girl (8F) who I'll be calling Anna.

Now, Anna has very thick, blonde and curly hair that my wife adores. Ever since she was a toddler, she'd spend hours doing her hair every day, braiding it, straightening it and styling it in all sorts of ways. Our bathroom cabinets are always filled to the brim with a bunch of hair lotions, oils, creams and other fancy products I don't even know the names of. So I think it's more than fair to say that my wife's a bit obsessed with the whole hair thing. Anna, however, has never been too fond of getting her hair done, or of anything that involves having to sit still for more than a few minutes.

Before she got it cut, her hair used to reach past her waist. And while it looked lovely, she hated getting it brushed and every morning used to be a screaming fest between her and my wife. Lately, she'd been begging for a shorter haircut. My wife ignored her whenever the topic was brought up in hopes that she'd forget about it, but none of that ended up happening.

I think Anna realized she was getting nowhere with her mom, because she started asking me to take her instead. I was reluctant to at first because I didn't know how my wife would react, but I agreed when I saw just how excited the kid was over something as simple as a haircut.

So yesterday I drove her to the hairdresser, where she got to flip through a lot of magazines and pick a picture of a haircut. And when she chose a really short clipper cut, I knew I was gonna be in deep shit with my wife. At that point though, there was no turning back. I mean, what could I have really done? Told her that no, she can't get the haircut she was so over the moon about, all because her mom wouldn't like it? I couldn't do that.

So we went ahead with the haircut, and by the end of it Anna couldn't stop smiling. She went around the salon showing it off to everyone and even asked me to take a bunch of pictures even though she normally hates having pictures taken of her. We did get one rude comment from an older woman at the salon, something along the lines of 'You can't even tell if she's a boy or a girl now', but Anna was way too excited about her hair to notice, and if she did notice she didn't care.

When my wife got home from work that day though, things quickly took a turn for the worse. She refused to even look at Anna, locked herself in her room and cried then got in the car and drove off. It's been a day now and she's still not back, it's honestly starting to worry me. I knew she wouldn't react well to the haircut but I wasn't expecting her to take it this badly. The kid's upset too and no matter how much I reassure her she still thinks she's in trouble for getting her hair cut.

AITA? I realize how attached my wife was to Anna's hair, but at the end of the day I still think it's just hair. The kid's old enough to decide these things for herself and she was really happy with the haircut, so I don't think I did something wrong here.
All the more reason to adopt the bohemian philosophy and pursue other pleasures if one finds working these modern jobs unfulfilling, only so much time on this earth.
Bad comparison, the whipped cream actually serves a purpose not just a perceived purpose, Snake oil <> a treat. There is nothing wrong with buying nice or expensive things, but being lied to and ripped off, I take issue with that.
THANKS!

I am going to try this with my kinesys at work. The ergodox I have is for home.
What a gentleman.
It will send one signal to the in-group and another to the out-group, however.

Those people don't really care much about what the out-group thinks.
Hearing ability overall doesn't decrease with age per se. Hearing aids are common, but not in the 30 plus population. Our hearing does evolve in the ultra high frequency range, at 12kHz and above, but I'd argue that's not a very useful part of our range anyway, unlike the octaves our human voice ranges in. I'd say hearing and especially listening gets better with age, so investing in better acoustics is always a great experience.
i think the problem is that these folks browse social media too much and reject the reality

the reality is that not everyone of them will end up rich, beautiful and famous... in fact only a tiny tiny minority will
High-skill tradespeople often make more than architects. Not at the star level, of course, but architecture is generally a poorly-paying field for the amount of schooling and intellect it requires.
Software development is very much an exception. It’s one of the precious few fields with compensation that’s somewhat tracked with inflation and has a somewhat reasonable barrier to entry.

As a millennial in my 30s I was fortunate to be able to break in and start earning a nice paycheck without a college degree, but even that possibility is deteriorating now due to a sudden flood of entry level applicants. Companies are now seeking mid-level-to-senior candidates almost exclusively because they don’t want to bother with training and mentoring a newbie, they want someone who can hit the ground running. There are still some possibilities for one to get one’s foot in the door with barely paid or unpaid college internships but from my perspective the gates are slowly closing.
i agree - I have been using it for years and found it much better than Ubuntu in general
This is part of why I left my job. I had the realization that my dream (homeownership/2 kids) was untenable with my income (~$135K TC) in my area. I could certainly get the credit for it, but my life would be one long hardship living under wage slavery, being house-poor, having little free time, paying exorbitantly to watch others raise my kids, and not having the opportunities I currently have...

I kinda gave up on that dream, being priced out. So I quit, either to make a TC which can afford that life (>$200K/yr) or to live the rest of my days in a hedonistic manner. Current plan is to grind leetcode/sys design and apply to high-TC companies over and over until I can afford the life I want, or die trying.
> kjølen can mean "the fridge" as in "put something in the fridge"/"put something in a cool place"

I could be wrong, but I would guess "kjølen" would translate to the "the keel" in this case? Perhaps refering to the shape of the mountain range looking like a keel up-side down.
Really, you thought a post titled "Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism" would be about information manipulation using modular arithmetic?

It was an interesting interview, Yanis Varoufakis is quite thoughtful.
Thanks for bringing this up. All 'generational discourse' is written by lazy journalists as a quick way to get people emotionally invested in an article without having to do actual research, and without the possibility of being proven wrong about their vague claims.

I find it particularly annoying because it's also an example of prejudicial ingroup/outgroup formation based on demagoguery. I'd go as far as saying it shares some of the same elements of racism-based demagoguery, but the targets are vague enough that it doesn't cause the same extreme social problems that racism does.
> Nix goes the other: what if we built a system around this concept.

This is what I'm referring to. There isn't anything currently as far as I'm aware that takes it as far as Nix. Sure, Arch has archinstall and there is also cloud-init.

There are examples of using JSON to help manage that:

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/blob/master/example...

But, ultimately I believe a lightweight Go/Rust tool that takes a YAML file and does essentially the same thing will prevail.
Yes, I already use Thunderbird from official tarballs and going to do so for Firefox after upgrading to 22.04.
I chose j just because I could.

Why do you lose ctrl-j? There is another ctrl on the left side of the keyboard. Uh?
Thanks. I'll give a search for you.

The Baron seems nice, but maybe more bulk than I need (but not too much more). I mostly need to make alot of custom plates, flanges, and mounts so we can get various pieces of equipment fixed into a brewing pipeline with automated valves I am wiring together. I have already worked out a pretty good 915mhz radio and valve network so I can automate a number of steps in the brewing process. I just need a bunch of custom fittings. These can be aluminum, so a lighter weight and smaller sized CNC mill seemed like the right spot.

Any thoughts on a more table/benchtop sized unit?
Recycling being too expensive can also be a sign that it isn't worth it.

This only works because it's subsidized from all ends: the hotels are subsidizing it to get some PR out of it, and 20k volunteers are subsidizing it with free labor (according to the article).

Soap is cheap. I can buy ~400 g of soap for a dollar, at retail prices. This covers the entire supply chain to produce it, get it to the store, and sell it to me, and the price isn't just the price, it's also a rough indicator for the effort and to some extent the environmental impact.

I wouldn't be surprised if the shipping, the production facilities, the fuel for the volunteers commuting etc. made this a net-negative (compared to throwing out the leftovers and making new soap at industrial scale) not just economically, but also for the environment.
Property rights are legal claims that are independent of possession. If I lend you my car, you don't become the owner of the car. Being in possession of the car keys doesn't make you the owner either. If it would, it would mean that a thief could steal the keys, and become the new owner. That's the complete absence of property rights, because it would mean theft is legal. If you don't understand the difference between ownership and possession you need to go back to elementary school.
Anecdote: I am Gen Z. This story holds true for my parents and I.

My dad was a solider in Latin America, my mom, a nurse. Their job required, at most, 2 years of education beyond High School.

I am a data analyst, with a Bachelor's and a Master's. I earn more than they both did together, adjusted for inflation. My friends are in "specialized jobs" as well -- some even being doctors and lawyers. We still have zero hope of affording a house, let alone retirement.

Edit: for anyone wondering, my education was completely free as in my country college is free and I took my Master's in a Nordic country, where education is also free (I worked there to support myself too).
If my wife and I want to challenge ourselves, we'll start with the solution to the previous puzzle as our first guess.