skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- 1 main desktop pc - 2019 (i9 9th gen, nvidia 1080ti)

- 1 work laptop (zbook i9 11th gen, nvidia a200)

- 1 macbook (m1)

- 1 synology nas

- 1 wife laptop (very old netbook-like)

- 1 ipad (2018)

- 1 kid laptop for school (windows, i5 8th gen)

- 1 windows laptop (6th gen, nvidia 1060, used for kid gaming)

So that's 8 in total. Besides the xbox, a dormant nuc, a few smart phones, a hue hub, a couple of rpis, android tv, a few chromecast dongles, a nest, a couple of android tablets, a system for managing my solar panels, and maybe I forgot a few.
Its also a dick-move, and might get you a bad rep as reward for the hard work of forking and maintaining the "free" fork. Seems it'd be more likely a non FOSS competitor stealing some of the IP to make a competing product and take your payed customers.
On another note, forcing all videos under 1-minute to be YouTube shorts is a horrible idea. My dog recently passed away, and I started uploading short clips of him to share with my grieving family. Now anytime I watch a clip of my dog, it's followed automatically by a short of some influencer I've never heard of toting some new hot meme.
This is basically what I was getting at. Everyone has different definitions of "good" and to limit it strictly to "Survives the current market" is both limited and asking for abuse. E.G. I would argue there is absolutely nothing "good" about US health insurance companies, but they continue to be financially successful.

My belief in their goodness, or lack thereof, has absolutely nothing to do with their finances. It is the same reason I won't invest in Crypto currencies or NFTs. The line may be going up but so is the global temp. Not good.
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> Your argument would be more convincing if sugar tax had not already been successfully implemented in my country.

What's your definition of success? I never argued a sugar tax could not reduce consumption of sugar if that is what it is. Just like an obesity tax could incentivize people to lose weight.

> We have an obesity problem,

Did your sugar tax fix the obesity problem?

> not a skiing problem.

Skiing is a statistically dangerous recreation and causes costly injury and death, healthcare system would be better off without it, so why not strive to also eliminate it? I didn't say it's the same magnitude as obesity but multiple problems can be addressed at once.

> And a lot of people were unknowingly intaking hundreds of empty calories from soda for basically no reason.

You must tell me what country this is which does not have the most basic food labeling standards yet has made significant progress in their obesity problem!
At one point the airforce thought nuclear tipped Surface to Air missiles scattered throughout the California coastal foothills were a good idea
> All those whiners

It never ceases to amaze me how completely unsympathetic people are towards other people just for wanting different things.
If it was a big deal to me I wouldn't post.

But I am interested in the varying responses / votes over time, specifically when it comes to the topics I mentioned.

Community voting patterns are interesting.
I know you are kidding, but Quanta is not ELI5. It's more like ELI am a college graduate, at least, with a very strong interest in math and physics, intense focus, and a willingness to deploy that focus.
Are you sure you're not thinking of the F-19 model that came out in the very late 80s? I was a bit of plane nerd at the time - by early adolescent standards, at least - and I remember all my books being blindsided by the F-117's ultimate form.
> As far as I know, the only contraceptives conservatives want to outlaw are those that cause abortions -- namely those labeled as "plan B".

Check the news again. There are already ideas going as far as "condoms for married couples only".

Also, some "plan B"s mean large doses of the standard contraception pill. You can't ban one without the other.
Telling someone they can't use your service is not anti-competitive.
But "isEven"???

That's one line of code in your utils module...
Another commenter put it best: "I've never had so much fun just reading about a game while never having the desire to actually play it".

EvE Online is a deeply interesting game, and I think it's a testament to how long the game has been relevant. But while I love reading about the economics, wars, scams (EvE allows player scams in game), I could never see myself actually playing the game. It would suck up far too much of my time and money.
Oh haven't heard of it. It's probably Katia Sae? Ty, bookmarked a video and an article on it, gonna go trough it in a bit :)
I like and use poetry, it generally just works.

It is however slow as molasses and its error messages are sometimes worse than a stack trace.
Are you saying it's not challenging to have a billion-dollar exit?
Is this serious or a bad attempt at sarcasm?
I think that is the case, no? The majority of research is funded by the government, i.e. taxpayers' money, even more so for basic research. The better question is why we taxpayers have to pay publishers to access research funded by ourselves.
So what you’re saying is that minority groups must accede to the demands of the majority without question or criticism?
I switched from installing Python with Homebrew to using asdf and I've been very pleased with the results. With Homebrew, every significant macOS update would break all my virtual environments. With asdf this is no longer an issue. The ability to set local versions of Python for different projects is very nice as well.
Generally, I don't think they're particularly popular, but a package that depends on them is popular. Or in fact, a package that depends on that package (that depends...) is.
For me, 1 iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021).

And a couple of Raspis for more invasive stuff that I do (red teaming).

Less is more, yes I am old.
It's an ugly problem. The farmers actually have first right to the water over the cities, even if they use it inefficiently, due to the oldest laws in Arizona: water right laws.

That's right, the first laws in Arizona were about water and grabbing someone's water rights is some messy law.

Yes, we need to be talking about some drastic solutions in the area, yes, but it's not as simple as it seems from the outside.
> I played for five years but I quit after I calculated I was grinding for $1.72/hr.

It's weird how that made you feel worse than grinding for $0
some things can be estimated, others not so much

often folks don’t know if what is being estimated is actually knowable.

building something new pre product market fit is a crapshoot until it’s not.
Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps?
I am up to my eyeballs in subscriptions and would like to know about some apps that use a perpetual license. I am finding that I would prefer to own my apps instead of renting them.

Bonus points if the app is native and even more bonus points if the developer is indie. Here are my suggestions:

- Typinator: https://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/
- Tap Forms: https://www.tapforms.com
- BBEdit: https://www.barebones.com
My understanding is that it just works. They're still all in the same process, and SQLite has all the information it needs to do joins. Transactions get more complex but are still atomic.
> Well the difference is that banks are highly regulated ...

probably why there is so many instances of banks getting caught laundering money for criminal organizations by the billions

> They are heavily audited and have strict rules about speculation.

you can audit blockchains. you can't audit a bank's database and have to way for the next panama papers leak
it's not a ruling it's a draft opinion
Then just don't execute both trades... and everyone can quote on the current bid or the ask price, you should do it too if you're afraid of crossing the spread.
The valuation was never rooted in reality. Are the price/sales ratio back down to reasonable yet?
I certainly don't think 'legal' necessarily implies 'moral'. Sometimes they're the exact opposite. There are also things that aren't legislated that should still guide us.

For example, it's not illegal to be an asshole to someone. But that doesn't make it okay either. It's not something that's ever going to be legislated, and I don't think it should be. Tax rules, on the other hand, should be legislated, because the same people will always take advantage of them if they can. I don't see purely voluntary tax as working (though a certain type of libertarian loves to suggest exactly that).
We’re certainly not going to agree on this heightened morality you’ve applied to sex. But ignoring that for a minute, I’m sure you’re aware that complications are not exactly rare during pregnancy. The majority of women who undergo abortions are already mothers. You can handle the high stakes carefully, you can want the pregnancy, and still wind up in need of an abortion. To say that without “liberal attitudes” there would be “no need for abortions” is terribly naive.
You are right that the language could be stronger. This was the outcome after a few rounds of proposals and counter-proposals. I believe that in the context of an overall agreement with a "just cause" provision, which we have tentative agreement on, we don't have to worry about "bossware" at all.

> The company could still use such software on employees and claim it was doing so for security purposes, for instance, or maybe even just to make sure the employee was working (without evaluating the work product).

This article will be incorporated into a larger collective bargaining agreement that specifies people can only be disciplined or terminated for "just cause". The most common "just cause" for termination is a failure to perform one's job duties. Our employer could not use information gleaned through software surveillance to demonstrate just cause, much as police officers can't introduce evidence obtained illegally in court.

> or maybe even just to make sure the employee was working

That would fall under "time taken to complete the work".
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Is this from before or after the 3 decades of unreproducible social science studies?
I really enjoyed your theatrics, moist was a nice touch. Do you ever feel like an article can be written for its intentional expected negative backlash? What better way to do that then honestly present the frothy maw right up front for all to be disgusted?
> based on their facial expression

Phrenology is still pseudo=scientific bullshit even when the calipers[1] are replaced with an "AI" black box of software.

> Just need software that punishes employees who aren't happy enough at work, then we'll have a proper nightmare.

"RSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die"[2]

[1] https://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2006-06/16...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo
The majority of the posters here are IT practitioners. Stupid patent rules get in the way, and there is a visceral reaction to them.

It’s a tough, nuanced issue. I don’t think anyone is happy with the system, but many stakeholders have a vested interest.
1x MS Surface Book running Linux - my personal machine
1x Lenovo X1 (work issued)
1x Asus laptop (runs Windows 11) for my son’s school
1x MacBook Air (2013), too old but still runs like a charm
1x recent Mini ITX custom build for MS Flight Simulator 2020 (Windows 11)
1x HP Microserver Gen8 running TrueNAS Core, serving files to the home and backs up everything
1x Qotom with 4x LAN interfaces, my firewall running opnSense (FreeBSD based firewall)
1x beefy x64 server with Hetzner, running FreeBSD 13.0 - offsite backup from home NAS using ZFS / sanoid (thanks Jim Salter), mail, VMs, hosting for clients, backed up to offsite storage box using Borg
I’m not a lawyer, but that sounds like such a violation of wiretapping laws.

I don’t know of any zero-party consent laws for audio.
Unless it’s a hierarchical remote-first tech-only company, in-person is the only way to really see the business problems and stay in the loop. And when (not if) the current tech boom busts (which may have started) the remote jobs that are lost won’t come back to the US.
Let's do a mini Ask HN here in the comments.

Is it a good idea for me to buy Yubikeys or Titan keys for my personal Google account? My wife's? My childrens'? Will that make it less likely, or more likely, that I eventually get arbitrarily locked out? These are accounts that we use on Windows PCs, Chromebooks, and Android phones. The keys would never leave the house. I think.

I know the phones sorta fulfill this function already, but lost phone = big trouble, right?
As a data scientist removing dislikes seems as bizarre as saying you can no longer use true/false negatives in any of your evaluation metrics, but are limited to true/false positives.

But YT is only limited users to that, and has stated they themselves will continue to use dislikes in the algorithm to serve up content.

So, YT using dislikes to serve you content, good. You using dislikes to select content, bad. Got it.

Speculatively, I imagine they just make a lot of money off total crap, which people see right through and don't like, and letting people see what their fellow users don't like just hits YT too hard in their already obscenely fat wallet. But that's just a guess, obvi.
You have to understand the primary purpose of that whole industry, which is not what most people think, in order to answer the question about what they were “afraid of”.

Let me just put it this way, you are correct that the concern with employee monitoring makes absolutely no sense, because that’s not the right perspective, assumption of motivation.
- 2017 iMac with Linux ("light" general coding, note taking)

- 2021 Ryzen 24-core 64Gb RAM (heavier stuff, remote k8s dev, etc)

- 2021 Intel MBP (90% of the working time there)

- 2021 7-inch Pocket Book (for fun really. I call it my "Emacs machine")

Lying around:

- 2015(-ish?) Macbook Air, now with Linux. Such a great little thing, can't bear to get rid of it

- Half-a-dozen ugly, plasticky PC laptops. Did their job, but my eyes just refuse non-HiDPI screens nowadays.
I built a good PC last summer to get more perfs and it's a joy to use: really silent compared to my laptop and so much faster.

Work computers running on Manjaro:

- Desktop AMD 5800X with 32GB RAM, bought in 2021
- Laptop Dell Precision 5520 with 32GB RAM, bought in 2017

Little homelab:

- Ubiquiti Dream Machine
- Synology NAS (DS918+)
- 4x RaspberryPi 4 on Raspbian, forming a Kubernetes cluster with K3S
- Ubiquiti UniFi Flex to power the Pis with PoE

Otherwise:

- A reMarkable
- A Chromecast Ultra used for streaming games from my computer to the TV with Steam Remote Play, also works when at a hotel (!)
- A RaspberryPi 3 connected to speakers, running a simple PulseAudio server that I can remotely connect to to stream audio (very little latency compared to the misc AirPlay implementations I tested)
Pikka - Color picker - https://pikka.app
JSON Editor - https://theapiscout.com/jsoneditor/
A deep dive inside a sneaker bot business
I don't disagree with you but pyenv is just nvm for Python. You use it to manage multiple Python versions without touching the system Python, which tends to get people into trouble.
Shopify’s Audiences tool gives brands better targeting in a post-iOS 14 world
The problem is that violence gets attention and sometimes conciliatory action like nothing else.

Riots and terrorism generate world headlines, while peaceful picketing rarely gets anywhere near the attention (unless it's also met by violence, as the nonviolent demonstrations and sit-ins were during the Civil Rights struggles in the 60's).

I am a pacifist myself, and am completely against violence, but I can see why some people who have less of a problem with it might find it strategically advantageous.

The willingness to resort to violence is a great part of the reason that the world is as much a hellhole as it is now.
I have a hard time taking this seriously when it doesn't even the biggest mention climate change. Talk to me when Lake Powell stops being able to generate electricity and the West coast runs out of water.
Not the OP but

> The "money" the very wealthy have is not cash sitting in a checking account but usually shares in some corporation. That absolutely has utility if you want to continue having a say in how your company is run.

So what? That’s the cost of of going public. That the wealthy found a way to abuse it (share classes) means they’ve made the stock market less useful for everyone else.

> Besides, should the government come around and check for any property that it deems you're not sufficiently utilizing and confiscate it from you? It seems like that policy could be abused.

You’re jumping the gun here but…

The government is already involved in property rights. There is no concept of ownership without a government supported legal framework.

A government is expected to be involved with limited resources, and discourage undesirable outcomes while encouraging good ones. My government does this through tax benefits and tax penalties.

I don’t see most people asking for more than this.
Good idea! Maybe a note that attests that your 1 token is backed by government certification? What about making that note green, to make sure people understand that it is the real thing?
I found it very confusing, is the chart trying to be a timeline?
Ballmercon is wild this year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp2-EUKQAI
The obvious response is: "do it, you won't."

They might scare the new grads with that sort of talk, but we've seen what happens when you outsource jobs with the sole aim of saving money.

Those of us old enough to remember those times, also have a special rate for helping to clean up projects which started that way. It's usually somewhere in the 200-500% range.
Can someone explain this to me as if I was 5 years old?

Is it a way to activate and orchestrate workers based on a pub/sub message structure?
This old dog is reminded of trn(1), "threaded read news".

See top right: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Trn_cons...
I wouldn't say those tools are "redundant or not needed". Tools like pipenv add features on top of pip and venv. Stuff like separating development dependencies (e.g. mypy), since you don't need that stuff at runtime. Pipenv will also move transitive dependencies into a lockfile instead of cluttering your requirements.txt (or rather Pipfile in the pipenv world).
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Keep in mind that even your blue-ray disc is highly lossy compressed.

Almost every source you can get your hands on will be lossy compressed - unless you generate your own - but even then, most consumer devices don't even allow recording into lossless formats.

Uncompressed video is mind bogglingly huge.
I don't know why you think I'm not serious because trolls spam and political manipulation is a thing on the internet these days, Google it! Care to answer and further explain your arguments?
I got a

- main desktop PC (AMD Ryzen 5950X, 64GB, 2TB SSD) I use for basically everything when I'm doing stuff at home (dual boot Linux/Windows)

- a recent 2021 14" MacBook Pro (which replaced an older 2016 MBP) for university

- a 4th-gen iPad Air with Pencil (mostly note-taking and occasional media consumption)

- my previous desktop PC (Intel 3770k, ~12TB storage) stuffed full of storage, just a place where I can throw data I don't immediately need anymore

- a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 512GB SSD attached, running some home services like DNS

So 5 in total not counting my phone.
I love how this is getting around because it seems like such a weird headline, but any EVE player current or former will just go: "yep makes perfect sense"
The rationale for Premium Bonds isn't really the tax it's the fact that people like gambling.

It turned out that persuading Aunt Sally to buy the new baby £100 of investment that will earn interest and might be worth something when the baby goes to college is hard - whereas Aunt Sally is much more interested in buying the baby £100 of scratch-offs with a tiny chance it wins big but most likely it gets nothing. This is before scatch-offs were legal in the UK as they are now but NS&I tweaked the numbers to offer a product that is (from their point of view as a bank with many savers) just a bond, but from the individual saver's point of view works like a lottery.

https://www.nsandi.com/products/premium-bonds
I have to imagine that the social element is what makes it addicting, since I found it to be a rather constricted slog particularly if you aren't sociable. DF/Rimworld sort of accomplishes the complex-sandbox thing for solo players, minus the drama.
> Packaging your app for running in production, `pip freeze > requirements.txt` and `pip install -r requirements.txt` is the "official solution", it works well enough.

It doesn't though. The default format for requirements doesn't specify which requirements are top-level and which are not. Updating dependencies on a project that doesn't have this distinction is complete pain. It also doesn't work when "production" might mean different environments with different Python versions.

> Packaging a lib for public distribution, setuptools... I don't have enough experience there but not many people need to actually use it.

Actually, using setuptools and setup.py (or a modern equivalent) is very helpful for packaging scripts and commands, defining top-level dependencies or other things. It's much easier to distribute a wheel file to production than a full repository.
That's a bit misleading--you can only stake for 10% if you agree to lock up a large amount of money in CRO for a long period of time, and if you agree to a three month fixed-term deposit for the USDC you're "staking". CRO exposes you to arguably more risk than the staking is worth, and the fixed-term deposits have the downside risk of crypto.com literally collapsing and not being able to pay you back.

If you want staking rewards on USDC (from crypto.com) without a fixed-term deposit, the best you can do is 2%. If you want to avoid having to lock up $40,000 in CRO for a minimum of 6 months, the best you can do is 1.5%. Given that you can earn 0.7% on a FDIC-insured deposit in actual USD, that's not much of a deal.
Oh 688 AS thanks for the flash back to the golden era of gaming in my time. Reading magazines about new games. Going to local game shop and checking out the box (giant box compared to today). Rushing home and waiting for install of each floppy disk. The games, though limited in visuals, where really captivating.

688 attack sub. LHX. MIG-29 Fulcrum. F15 Strike Eagle. Jetfighter 2 (included the YF-23).
So one thing I've always wondered about EVE. We all know about the "corporations" in the game and they seem to be ingrained in the culture of EVE. Were those "corporations" started by the creators (like the Alliance and Horde in WoW), or are they purely player created?
Well in 2019 you coughed to conceal a fart, in 2022 you fart to conceal a cough.
Could you have even disliked without logging in?
Something something blockchain.
No no no, the name of it needs to be an acronym as well.

The Freedom-to Always Rip True Act.
I don't understand what the problem is:
1) you install ONE version of python, more can't coexist in your environment usually
2) then you install your packages in a venv (because python provides tools to configure this)

Only part 2 is a problem of the Python ecosystem, part 1 is a problem of any environment to run binary programs. It applies to C-compilers, node, ..., perl...

Naturally, as most people involved with Python seemed to agree with that view, there was a lot of room for "improvement". And people got their improvement aplenty. Other people just realized that this is a general problem and nowadays instead of keeping around their /opt they now use something like spack. Which allows you to install a range of python-versions just fine. As well as C-Compilers. As well as perl-versions.