skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have remote employees but it is harder due to the following hurdles:

- State specific employment laws in the US. We are in NJ and if I hire out of state, we need to register a business in that new state. Large companies have money and teams for this. Smaller companies, not that easy. I have done it personally so speaking with experience

- Internal hiring can add more issues. SUre we could find a EOR or just do 1099 etc but it is never that simple. I lost a good senior candidate recently because he wasn't comfortable working as a contractor legally since he is in the UK and he would have preferred local UK benefits/tax system etc. He didn't want the hassle of doing his own invoicing etc. We looked into EORs but didn't seem good enough for just 1 person.

- Tax, Labor and Legal implications due to the point above

- Timezone issues. No, a fully remote job cannot be completely asynchronous even in tech. You have to be available for the team whether it is meetings, urgency or collaboration in general. If you want to be fully async, you are better off working as a freelancer (even then, you will need to meet your clients though)

- Remote work in my opinion requires a higher level of discipline, honest and integrity. Yes, I truly believe that as I have experience hiring some terrible remote workers (outright liars) vs some of the best ones. The best ones have all those qualities. Not that easy to find. Lot of people need a bit of discipline frankly and remote work makes it even harder.

It is not that we don't want to hire remotely. We do but the barrier to entry is higher in my opinion especially for smaller companies.
True, but every system needs some exception handling. The US Constitution is a long-running system but contains several broad exceptions relating to war because that's an existential problem.
FWIW, I'm typing this on my framework right now, and I'm in Europe (Netherlands). So it is available in parts of Europe. Don't remember them promising delivery in all of Europe though?
“If you are using an online period tracker, get off it and delete your data”
They are controversial amongst laymen, as evidenced by the discussion here.

They are not controversial at all amongst psychologists. The notion that IQ tests have predictive power is about as settled as the notion that "people get sad sometimes".
Yeah that movie was awful, over-hyped and over-budget, too, just like Roberts' greatest unfinished game Freelancer
I wasn’t very charitable with my interpretation there, you’re right incentivizing more people to walk is definitely a good a thing.

I think a lot of the smartwatches have done a decent job at that, though there of course is the overhead to buy and wear one of them.

But even as someone who has been getting daily exercise for at least a decade now and doesn’t need encouragement, the little awards my Apple Watch gives me for hitting my targets feels good.
Deep Learning on Graphs
I literally don't get why JSON is bad:

[{row1}, {row2}, {row3}]

The fact that it can do more is in no way a negative. Can even make a limited JSON parser with reduced capabilities. And with JSON can do more definitions like header names vs column names vs just arrays of arrays.
In addition to the ones I had in my ears. It's not a normal thing for me to carry. I had thought I lost a pair of earbuds. I keep an extra set of cheap headphones at home, so I put them in my backpack. And then it turned out my main earbuds were in my jacket pocket, so now I'm carrying two pairs until I get home tonight.
I had Graal on a shovelware CD, but back then we didn't have Internet access at home. I could start the client and walk around on some of the maps that were included, occasionally interacting with scripted characters, but mostly just picking up jars and throwing them around. I didn't know any of the back story and no documentation was on the disc, so it turned out to be quite boring after a while :)

Also when you went to sleep in a bed, your body disappeared and only your head remained visible, floating above the pillow. I found it pretty funny for some reason.

Edit: this was the Java version's homepage: http://web.archive.org/web/19990423103617/http://www.cyberjo...
New users on my systems commonly ask me "what implements your pps process search?"

When the shell itself filters the output of ps, then removing a grep is unnecessary. Note this uses POSIX shell patterns, not regular expressions.

On a truly POSIX shell that does not support "local," remove the keyword, and change the braces to parentheses to force the function into a subshell.

pps () { local a= b= c= IFS='\0'; ps ax | while read a
do [ "$b" ] || c=1; for b; do case "$a" in *"$b"*) c=1;;
esac; done; [ "$c" ] && printf '%s\n' "$a" && c=; done; }

$ pps systemd
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? Ss 5:11 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize 22
557 ? Ss 0:19 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
...
I was agreeing with the comment I replied to, who assessed that Rust was the less "magic"-y language.
the average person don't have any idea what's a hardware token.
google is not catering to HN readers, they're catering to your grandma, your parents, your little brother/sister, your tech illiterate neighbor.

They couldn't care less about the habits of a nerd on archlinux with ublock, noscript, firefork a vpn, hardware tokens and 2FA everywhere with recovery code split in 7 different location.
This is a really fussy question, but I notice something odd in your link:

> The typical farm in Brazil produced corn and soybeans in 2020. Corn was a second crop following soybeans and was produced on approximately 78 percent of the typical farm’s acreage during the five-year period.

For corn to be a secondary crop following soybeans, at the same time it's produced on 78% of the farm's acreage, something has to be weird. Either soy is so much more productive and valuable than corn that its yield can be worth more while less than a third as much land is devoted to producing it (why not just grow more soy?), or a given acre might sometimes produce corn but more often produce soy over the five-year period, while being counted as "an acre used in the production of corn".

Then, the productivity of the farm is given in yield per hectare. But we've already seen that "hectares" is a funny measurement. What's the yield per hectare-month?

Also, this is fully compatible with American strategy being to use as little labor as possible:

> Labor costs as a proportion of total costs were relatively higher for the typical farms in Russia and the Ukraine.

(Annoyingly, the article's chart doesn't display the detail the article discusses. But "operating costs", the category that includes labor, are anomalously low for the US, beating everywhere except Argentina.)

On that model, high productivity per acre would be more of a happy coincidence.

Not relevant to the topic, but sad:

> Economic profit for the five-year period was positive for the typical farms in Argentina and Ukraine. [But not for Russia, Brazil, or either US farm.]
Not the OP but I take every opportunity to brag about my Zojirushi SM-KHE insulated mug. I use mine every day -- cold coffee and tea are a thing of the past.

I have several friends that really like their Fellow Carter Everywhere mugs if you want an alternative.
Nintendo's UIs are annoyingly slow but they're better than the average Japanese website, which is a lot worse than the IRS. They seem to enjoy online stores where the checkout process is 10 clicks instead of one.
That was my biggest potential concern before getting one. Now that I've been using one for a while I can confidently say: I strongly prefer 3:2, and I will never get another laptop with a 16:9 monitor.
The article explains how Nintendo products kept flopping leading to a two tiered employment system designed to cut costs.

"The Nintendo 3DS was released in 2011 and immediately stalled, burdened by the lack of a compelling launch line-up, the rise of smartphones, and a $249.99 price point. Nintendo was forced to move aggressively, slashing the system's price and rolling out special benefits for existing owners. A year later, Nintendo released the Wii U, which fared even worse."
That's the cocaine dealer uniform where I live.
Amazon is full of these boxes, you can use any of them that support new android versions + 4k/8k.

The software I use for torrent streaming is a Kodi add-on called "Elementum". For a similar app that crawls all of the steaming websites see "The Crew".

https://howtomediacenter.com/en/install-elementum-kodi/

https://kodi.expert/best-kodi-addons/the-crew/

It really changed the way I download movies. No need to keep a NAS or collections when you can just stream anything on demand (unless you use private trackers w/ bandwidth caps where streaming doesn't make sense).
Plenty games went the other way. For every stylish Grim Fandango there's been dozen of Superman 64 and Bubsy 3D, where the developers spent so much time trying to get graphics to work that they had no time left for gameplay or story.

Shiny tech means there's much less fighting with the technology that's needed. You can take advantage of that today you don't need to optimize every clock cycle and spend the time polishing up the gameplay.

Also, some stories require a fair amount of tech. Superman 64 should have happened in a bustling Metropolis, just like Cyberpunk 2077 does. But it was impossible with the technology of the time.
It's still corporate but it's much less visible. Now many things look cool and transgressive - including elements of startup culture - but the goals are still corporate.

In a real counter culture the goals are aggressively anti-corporate.

The most impressive part is the way that individualism has become almost entirely a corporate creation. You "express yourself" by choosing and displaying products, all of which are either corporate or sold through a corporate monopoly (Amazon, Ebay, Etsy). The middle classes are allowed some artisanal choices, but only because they signal a more refined and informed kind of consumerism.

There really isn't much evidence of individualism which isn't assembled from some combination of corporate-friendly competitive ambition, Veblen signalling, standardised rebellion/outsider tropes, and political and religious tribalism.
> Places that allow the rich to prevent themselves from being taxed by their home countries do not deserve existence.

You are falsely assuming that every country's tax policy is reasonable or fair. Look at the United States policy on foreign assets which effectively amounts to double taxation for no other reason than "we don't like rich people" / "we don't like our citizens not living here".

> We need to get this money back under our control - if only to prevent social unrest from the 2/3rd of the US which have less than 1000$ in liquid savings.

It's not your money to begin with, it belongs to the people who rightfully earned it, not the government, nor the poor. Peoples' assets don't exist to serve as piggy banks for social programs and redistribution.
Oh look, an internet expert. Since you’re so confident, what makes the business model not viable, exactly? Is a complicated kind of non-viability that’s somehow plastered over by the company’s wild profitability?
I had a friend who dabbled in rare collectables and he told me you can almost always find a broker willing to insure, quite literally, anything.
He's playing the victim and calling them haters.

It's a legitimate criticism about the art style. No one is "hating"

Unless we're at a point where saying anything negative is "hating"
Relatively small potatoes
Completely agree. Unfortunately a ban unless strictly enforced doesn't lead to much - in the UK all pit bulls are banned except for staffordshires(which imo should be banned too), and you still see owners walking their bullies and american pitbulls down the street as if it was nothing, sometimes witnout a leash even.
I found it funny that in an article pushing for variation, used two video games examples(https://papersplea.se/ & https://obradinn.com/) from the same author
Yes, tableau
What's wrong with the sub?
Concurrent React
He is long term investor, and probably invests without strategy but by researching "the reasons".

Trading strategies is more for shorter term investors, when circumstances can change very fast while you are visiting bathroom, and induce significant losses, that's why you need stop loss to limit your risks in such cases.
I don't disagree.

I actually played through and finished EMI. I think its tonnes of fun and arguable better than CMI.

But I won't say the tank controls didn't ruin an otherwise great game
Google asks for a phone number in this context even for accounts which are integrated with an external identity provider and for which Google does not need to (or rather: must not) provide a recovery option. Furthermore, in most countries, phone numbers (especially mobile phone numbers, as suggested by Google) are very susceptible to targeted attacks, so I hope that Google does not use them as a recovery option even for non-corporate accounts.

I think it's some sort of state machine glitch that this account feature only becomes available after adding a phone number. I couldn't come up with any other explanation. And I really hope that the static passwords stay indefinitely because the XOAUTH extension for IMAP is brittle, hostile to open-source software because of the API key requirement, and does not add security anyway. (I wouldn't mind manually rotating the passwords once per quarter, though.)
Is there any work to unbundle web assembly applications from the browser? And further, break apart the monolithic web platform API bundle into something like device drivers?

Because let's say you just wanted a 2d game engine using SDL without shaders and using the mouse. Why do we need to drag the entire browser with 1000 APIs and features into it?

Just add something like a framebuffer and mouse input to web assembly. Distribute via IPFS or something.
Ok, since you don't think a 6 year old can play with any dog unsupervised, how about a 12 year old? Would you let a 12 year old play unsupervised with a pit bull? How about with a chihuahua?
Are they? Didn't they somehow unilaterally suspend rent payments for the entire US, even though that is well outside their granted authority? And what social norms did lockdowns involve, exactly?
More like legitimate criticism that is brushed off as "haters" and "mob"
That seems bad. I think one possible worse case new variant (aside from one that kills better) would be one that causes no deaths and just gives everyone long covid while evading vaccines and prior infection. The US government would not do anything about it because it does not kill anyone, so the entire labor force would be decimated.
Amazingly I had never heard of this! A link to the past was one of the first (and only) first party games I owned on the SNES and I played it until it almost fell apart. A multiplayer version would have been amazing!
I just ate a plate with mash (very generous portion) last weekend, here in south England.
The other choice was chips.
No. Because that isn't what they do (I am talking about fundamental investors: Marshall Wace, Point72, etc.). I have no real idea what they do or do not do but they trade over shorter time frames where there is no change in fundamental information (i.e. they are trading based on liquidity signals which is, essentially, what market-making is now).
I think the OP's point wasn't that one should skip insurance, but that one simply shouldn't offer a $10000 prize for a hole-in-one. He's doubting that you would get 5 extra players by offering such a prize, and that the players wouldn't have a sufficiently better experience to justify the event. I'm not sure: your advertising likely becomes a lot easier if you have "$10000 Prize" in big letters at the top of the page, and if someone does win, you probably get all sorts of free press. In the end, it probably all depends on the purpose of the event.
I don't think that will apply here. What those states are doing is pushing enforcement off onto private citizens, who aren't bound by Roe v Wade.

Private citizens can't enforce criminal penalties, so you can't use those kinds of laws to hand out prison sentences or executions.

Still a valid point about the expansion of anti-abortion laws, though.
Encountering a foreign language AND the metric system. The stuff of nightmares!
ideally the paper would be in a safety deposit box / safe and not stuck to your monitor.
Your cutoff point might be too short. The most empathic manager I ever met came from there, spending 1 year 9 months.
I'm moving towards vanilla JavaScript for my platform, and one of the things that I've discovered is that if you have a reactive data source then you don't need a lot of framework. Granted, I'm taking advantage that the core platform is much more stable than a decade ago.
Sorry about that, I'll have to figure out how to wrangle that dependency's CSS.
Russian Cinemas Are Showing Pirated Movies Downloaded from Torrents
Some of their older platforms had some pretty questionable UX decisions, but with the Switch I feel like they finally nailed it. It's simple and effective.

Even RetroArch copied the Switch UI, which indicates that at least the enthusiast community feels similarly.
Is Lisp + message passing a bridge too far? ie https://lfe.io/
Does Lisp on the BEAM hold any appeal for you?
I can think of at least 3 major groups doing anime in the USA:

1. Crunchyroll (aka: merged with Funimation)

2. Netflix

3. Hidive (aka: Sentai Filmworks)

Amazon Prime tried to do a thing (and still holds some licenses), but I don't think they have done any recent anime. (Especially with the stupid "double-paywall", requiring both Amazon Prime + an anime-specific subscription to get access... it was doomed from the start by bad business decisions)
> that allow the rich to prevent themselves from being taxed by their home countries

That is a big list of entire countries if you include legal persons in the definition
https://archive.ph/0TtYO
He's being a baby here.

There's a proper way to take criticism from a passionate fanbase of 20+ years.

IMO the criticism is absolutely justified, just from looking at the screenshots and trailer.
Or events that didn't happen, or memories formed differently from how events actually occurred...
In Texas and can confirm as I've been to one. My mom was a participant of cow patty bingo in the late-80's/early-90's. It was part of some radio station contest for a car. Everybody that called in and won a minor prize over a quarter was invited to a party with the bingo as the big event.

They had a large pen, say a quarter acre (about the size of 2 basketball courts) divided up into squares. The participants drew a number, went into the pen to find their spot. After all the participants found their spot they let the cow out to roam around. (You need a fairly docile cow to have people on the field when this happens)

In our game the cow started and did most of it's business on my mom's square, but finished on an adjoining square of young single blonde. I'll let you guess how DJ ruled who won the car. (hint: wasn't my mom)

> Are people watching the cow with bated breath?

Kinda? I mean if the prize is good it's fun to watch.

> Are plots closer to the gate considered better?

Might be worse actually. Usually they run the cows into the pen instead of letting them just mosey in. When and where the cow does its business isn't even known to the cow. The cows can take a while to go too, better part of an hour sometimes.
These are natural examples of ecosystems evolving toward a pareto distribution after a punctuated equalibrium. Think of it as another example of the great winnowing of variations that followed the Cambrian explosion. The cultural explosions were the invention of books, radio, television, internet, etc. Those disrupted the prior pareto distributions, and it took time to reestablish them.

It's a general feature of complex ecologies rather than a specialty of cultural or economic ecologies.
You can see this in their offerings. They are consistently 10+ years behind the times in terms of multiplayer and online. That they are still so popular is a credit to how divorced from reality multi national corporate mega giants can be and still succeed. Their games and online offerings, for the most part, frankly suck compared to their competitors. They are alive purely on the strength of the 5% of good games they put out by rehashing the same 3 franchises over and over and over and over.
If you use an android, you can set it so that it does location just off GPS which is a lot less precise and doesn't seem to update as often. The other day I went downtown for a ballgame, sushi after, and then home, and the only place it picked me up for the day was the light rail station when I bought my ticket early that afternoon
Ultima Online was actually ahead of its time in many aspects (it sort of still is).

The concept of 'shards' which many MMO games embraced (sometimes not even supporting as many players). Only Eve Online really rejected the idea.

The in-game 'economy', by having player craftable items, done in a way that IMHO was way better than what WoW came up with. It wasn't restricted to crafting. Mages could charge for portals, ditto for healers. There was robbery - you could either demand money or pickpocket people.

Law enforcement was limited to cities and had to be called.

Housing! That was actually in world, not another instance. There was actually a real state market. And scouting for empty spots was a viable 'profession', even if informal.

Full PVP - in fact, I'd say that the non-PVP servers actually caused its demise.

One concept that was not embraced by later MMO games was 'no levels'. Only had skills and attributes. And items were not a big deal. Sure, you could yield a very rare magical sword, but are you really going to risk losing it? Most people would fight with cheap weapons and armor and only take out the special stuff in limited circumstances.

I could go on.

I think there's a modern 'Ultima' game that could be birthed from what Origin came up with decades ago.
Sure if you look at box office numbers and the billboard hot 100 you will see this picture, but that is really just telling you about older millennials and above. What about artists who post their music to SoundCloud or Bandcamp? What about all the short-form content on YouTube? What about true crime podcasts? What about big name production houses who skip theaters and go direct to streaming on Netflix or Apple TV? What about all the people whose primary form of content consumption isn't any of these but rather TikTok and Snapchat?

The real conclusion IMO is that the methods of distributing "pop culture" have been turned on their head, and traditional media is now playing catch up. Nielsen numbers and Billboard charts and all similar metrics are now irrelevant to the conversation.
DNS queries are still leaked (from most users) regardless of end-to-end TLS. There is of course DNSSEC and DNS over HTTPS, but those are not used by the majority.

Another use case you missed is downloading/uploading pirated/copywrited content. Good VPNs receive DMCA notices and throw them in the garbage.

You are right that VPNs are not useful for many use cases and they can give users a false sense of security.
Many apps on your phone are entitled to read WiFi SSID's, mapping your location as accurately as GPS - and indoors, too! Go ahead and google "where am I" with a native Android/iOS search app with your VPN enabled, you may be surprised by the results. Not to mention accelerometers and other sensors can reliably predict your movement and location, too.
+1..get a yubikey or similar device, problem solved.
Don't go to stupid places filled with stupid people doing stupid things and you'll likely be okay — and this includes bars after midnight just about anywhere. Nothing good happens after midnight, but I digress.

I see we both watch the same YouTube channel!
Tuning Whatnot’s Data Platform for Speed and Scale