skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where you're coming from. But other email providers also don't scan your mail. I guess it's a question on how well they do the other things that Gmail is on top of (spam?)

I've been using Fastmail for a few years and it's great though I still haven't offloaded all my Gmail to it.
At least with Windows, you can install something like w10privacy and easily quash most of the phone home staff.
No such thing for Android and iOS.
Off the top of my mind; mouse & trackpad, sound stack, bluetooth stack, hd/4k content streaming, no hdr at all, using multiple displays with different dpis...
I tried every recommended driver&setting for mouse&trackpad. They are all terrible compared to Macos. The whole story of using multiple displays with xrandr, xinerama etc. is a joke. Agreed; you get a better experience with Wayland regarding that but then you lose the ability to do screenshare for the most part (without doing hacky stuff instead of doing work).
Are there any Personal Finance apps that gives you your own inflation number by tracking your spending? This seems like such an obvious feature but I've never seen it.
Depends on the type of music you play, Overall, I find PRS designs among the better but some find them sterile. Also the crazy flame top designs can be super expensive and many find them over the top. That said, the bridge, pickups, and tuners are all examples of better designs than the big three. Wrap around bridges for example, hold tune better, are easier to setup and intonate, and are easier on the strings than the traditional stop tail style. Locking tuners are a big advance also.

Instead of brands because those are often tied up with the look of an instrument, I'd recommend you look at the individual components. Locking tuners, wrap around bridge or floyd rose (not a cheap knock version), coil splitting or active pickups or other pickup advancements.

I'm a couple years removed from playing so this might be out of date but I really liked the PRS SE line, the mid-pro level Jackson line, and some of the mid-priced G&L line (Leo Fender's second company and set of designs). I tended to play blues and metal so my selections really fit that style.
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I doubt either works well, but I think corporations like Amazon are likely to be more susceptible to public and investor pressure because their relationship with the public and their investors is voluntary and can be unilaterally ended by those parties, while the government's relationship with the citizens is not voluntary on the part of the citizens. We can stop using and investing in Amazon if they don't listen to us, but we can't do anything against the government except voting for a another politician who will probably do the same thing and is in any case unable to actually change things even if they wanted to.
Huh? I thought it was the plot of "The ministry of the future"? Also written by an SF author (Kim Stanley Robinson). Ah well I guess great minds think alike. It is not an unlikely future.
I use a vpn but im logged into gmail and youtube so that kind of defeats the whole vpn thing. Chrome logs itself in if I login to gmail or youtube.

There are pretty obvious solutions, don't use chrome use opsec, but google has a lot of power to de-anonymise me and I just want to surf the net without big brother.
If you think GarageBand might work, you're ready to make a podcast.

The only road to "best and easiest" runs through crappy and hard.

You don't need to go shopping. You need a script.

Good luck.
Why is there so much strange stuff going on in Canada these days?
It’s the Future (2015)
Zig is still not 1.0. I can forgive its lack of docs at this point, especially how surprisingly readable the std lib is.
Honestly many applications don't need the level of safety that rust provides (for small single threaded cli apps or cloud lambdas, just allocate into an arena and throw everything away when the program quits, no UAF or DF because you're never freeing)

At the other extreme, if you're writing an operating system or a language VM, you probably want contextual allocators (like an allocator that takes a runtime argument like "which green thread I'm allocating on") which rust makes extremely difficult.

If you really need memory and resource safety I think the best answer is to be patient. Zig is very easy to parse and I imagine it will be the case that static analysis build tools will come about which can do what you want out of rust.... Being decoupled from the compiler chain you would be able to run fast but guard your prs to main/dev/release (as you see fit) with static analysis tools that will protect you with the safety you seek in an isomorphic fashion to "how rust does it". There's no reason why someone couldn't write it now, but with a lot of things (like ZIR/AIR) being highly unstable -- and these are what you're likely to want to statically analyze for such a tool -- for ones sanity I don't recommend building out a tool like that now.
Just read that one-paragraph summary, but... yeah, duh? I thought it was common knowledge, at least within the ML field, that network biases come from skewed training data, not from an issue with the model's architecture?
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Every worker in the US should be free to unionize if they want to be in a union.

I don't.

Don't tell me what to do.
No errors, but two regular log messages and two warnings:

webParams: {startingYear: 260, surfacePoints: Array(0), camera: {…}}
(warning) THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture has been deprecated. Use THREE.TextureLoader() instead.
> Jb.loadTexture @ three.min.js:990
> createSphere…
lastAddressFailed true
(warning) THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture has been deprecated. Use THREE.TextureLoader() instead.
> Jb.loadTexture @ three.min.js:990
> createClouds…

Edit: I figured something was missing so I tried disabling uBlock Origin in case it was blocking some assets, but that didn't help.
Good points.

> Webpack is an abomination to anything simple and clear, many dev hours are lost on it.

Check out Vite. It's basically Webpack with sensible defaults. Still the same bundling paradigm but it's been so much easier for me to use. Also way way easier to add plugins in Vite.
yep, soundcloud popped up in my head immediately. Another missed chance by soundcloud.
> Anyone even remotely concerned about privacy or constitutional rights

There goes 95% of America.
Maybe you could organize a social event? These things start the old fashioned way, by bringing a pie or cookies over to a neighbor and introducing yourself. I get that it can be weird if everyone is preset to be skeptical of each other though.
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This is from 3 years ago. How is this getting voted up?
> although I think it is a very naive and misdirected one since the role of a free press and our political institutions are far more important to protect us from tyranny in my opinion

I certainly understand that these institutions are more important, but, to play devil's advocate, it could be easily argued that those institutions have already failed exactly because of the unlimited money you pointed out. Without proper protection from those institutions, one could say that firearm rights for individuals are even more important.

That said I definitely support reasonable gun control, as long as its implementation did not eventually lead to gun prohibition (another fear which I understand).
Better than the brand is the picture of the device (before fire, hopefully) as all the yumcha brands off of Alibaba will usually keep the exact same physical characteristics.
There's a massive difference between taxing something like "being black" or "renting an apartment", where it's either an immutable part of who you are or something very difficult for many to change due to something like socioeconomic status, and something like smoking, which, while yes, it's addictive, is still a choice.

And, again, it's a choice that is actively harmful to the smoker and everyone around them. So if you really want to make a point, I strongly encourage you to find a different example, because this one just sounds like you're a smoker who's angry that they have to pay more in taxes to continue to be able to pollute the air with carcinogens.
I think this is far more situational. ~20 years ago, the passably well-to-do apartment complex I was living in was (in some sections) absolutely crawling with children. Many of the units had sliding glass doors opening onto nice courtyards, it was a block or two off the main roads in a decent residential neighborhood, and there was a city park half a block away. If your unit fronted on one of those courtyards, you either liked the "all day, every day" noises of kids playing (and shrieking a fair amount), or else you moved.

OTOH, that apartment complex was designed and built ~1965 or so, when having kids was far more the American social norm. And their business model seemed carefully tuned to attracting longer-term renters.
Isn't this an answer to the original question then?

> Since when a company has the option to “recognize” or not a union?

The company has the option to ignore the union if not enough employees are members, or the employees aren't important enough.

How does it know how many are members? They have to tell it or they ballot them.

If the union doesn't have this support, the company ignores them.

I don't get why that's so hard to understand?
> next to no appeal to me

That’s sort of the point. I’d kill myself before I’d live in a small town again instead of San Francisco. I can walk to 10 grocery stores, 20 restaurants, literally find all the food I want, and the public transit is pretty good. Who wants to raise kids in rural areas where there won’t be any opportunities for them?
Fair enough! Hopefully you found my comment kinder and more useful than the OP’s.
Two things about Dynamic Land that I love.

1) Bret brought the computer into the world, instead of bringing the world into the computer, e.g. Oculus or Vive.

2) The operating system that senses the world and reads instructions from objects is influenced by Smalltalk, and from what I understand allows for Smalltalk like programs to run on it in the form of object instructions and interactions.
The vast majority of Canadians are concentrated and live near the US border.
Anecdotal: my wife and I are waiting for a home to start a family. We're not even going to stop contraception until we move in. The second we do, we'll start trying.

Fortunately it looks like a 10% correction is all we need, and, fingers crossed, it looks to be coming.
Yes and just realized my first link was broken so have fixed that. The primary source for that post is here: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-11469-001

Robert Hogan and his team have also explored the topic quite a bit e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308730537_Where_is_... - their references include the previously study as well as others.

There is also a good amount of literature around "achievement motivation," which in many cases is a surrogate term for ambition in the research context although the argument can be made that they are not completely synonymous. However they generally reach the same conclusions. Also the underlying causal factors related to ambition - high conscientiousness and extraversion, low neuroticism, higher general mental ability, etc. - predict higher achievement outcomes in research as well.
> C# development is ideal in Visual Studio, I could look at Vs code more, especially its debugging, but I don’t think it comes close to VS.

Some people like visual studio more but vs code works great for c# on linux. You only really need visual studio if you want the gui builder or you're doing windows c++ stuff.

> I think you have to use Mono Runtime w/o Windows which has poor performance.

This is just completely wrong (like 10 years out of date?). The dotnet runtime is the same on both linux and windows now as of .net core (now just ".net" as of .net 6+)
They must have changed the exact quotation, because I distinctly recall it saying something about "my state".
That's the way to do it :P
Proctoring software is used for anticheating. It invades your privacy and has false positives.

It watches the eyes, but what if you write the problem on scratch paper and look down at it then up to the screen? Does it flag it as cheating?
Technology: the cause of, and solution to, all of our problems.
Young interaction designers have been ranting about this for a while, but I for one do not want what they think I want. I like flat screens and want flat screens, even in VR
Funny you should ask!
We (Bit Complete) have been building a code review tool that sits on top of GitHub and lets you do stacked reviews like Gerrit or Phabricator.
It's currently in open beta at https://www.plz.review, give it a spin (and would love some feedback!)
Some countries will embrace bitcoin, just like some individuals will. Those who embrace it first, will benefit the most.

I think this will be the great divide for this century. Countries with hard money standard and free market economy vs. countries with inflationary money and centrally planned economy. Everyone has to pick their side.
I'd say it's very similar to how it has always been but now it gets international attention.
My monthly mortgage payment on a nearly 4,000 sq foot home on nearly an acre is about the same as local monthly rental of a 2 bedroom apartment. I can't decide if I got a deal or if local rental prices are crazy high.
Right, because as long as the USA has a system for them, all is good for everyone else in the world. /s

Anyway, even FedNow is not enough. Europe has SEPA, Brazil has Pix. India has NPCI... and yet, they still haven't solved the side for micropayments and transactions still can be reversed and are not anonymous.
Oh for acoustic, I really like the Blueridge guitars and Seagull guitars. Seagull are made in Canada with pretty great materials and designs but much cheaper than most American made instruments.

I'm more of a high end custom guy for acoustics, in my experience you get what you pay for MUCH more on acoustics. If an electric plays well, you can make up a lot of sound from the amp (tube or modeling if you need variety), good pedals, and aftermarket pickups. Acoustics sound great when you play them or not. I always tell people to spend on the Acoustic and balance it out with electric.
Technically many stores provide level-3 data with cc transactions, which include itemized details, but no idea how a consumer would get it. The exchanges give better rates the more details the merchant provides, level 3 being the highest detail and lowest rates so many of the large merchants provide this data. It's one way they avoid paying sign up bonuses on gift card purchases.
I'm curious as to whether or not anyone has any comments on that wild Microsoft Surface "mouse," or "knob," or "dial," or whatever.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-dial/925r551sktgn
I'm shocked - shocked, I tell you - that a service hosted on Microsoft servers is threatening privacy.
in germany and austria time limited renting contracts are illegal. renting is always month to month, but landlords have no rights to evict anyone ever unless they do damage to the property or fail to pay their rent for at least a few months, and they still may have to sue to actually make the eviction stick. the only exception is landlords who only rent out a single home, and they can prove that they now need that home for themselves (or for their kids). these are not common though. most landlords are agencies that manage multiple properties.

so as long as you pay your rent and don't do anything illegal or damaging, you can't be evicted. the worst that can happen is a rise of the rent, but even that is often limited to not go beyond the average market rate for the area.
You know what I will have to contend the critical comments on this one are spot on. CBC marketplace is a good indicator.

You can still literally just go to the USA and get a sim chip that costs less to use in Canada than it does to do the opposite. Hmm.
Ask HN: New employer cannot guarantee work after training. What should I do?
Based in UK. I started a new position at a company that trains people in various cloud stuff (Azure, AWS, Salesforce). For the first 12 weeks, we (the cohort) study and gain some certs and then after that, we get placed with a client to work on some projects.

However, after 3 weeks and 1 cert later, we were told that the company can't find enough clients and we may need to look for other jobs soon. We still have about 5 - 6 weeks left for training and another cert to attain. If the company can't find any clients in 6-10 weeks, we will most likely be let go (their words).

The problem is that most of us cannot go back to our previous jobs because the way we left wasn't ideal - the training started way too early and we had to leave during our notice periods. On top of that, certs are kinda useless without the experience to back them.

What would you advise us to do in this situation?
I don't even use Steam's cloud save feature. Too many stories of game servers or other data servers disappearing over the years. I'd rather rely on myself to backup my saves, even if I'm not that trustworthy of a custodian of this. At least if I lose something it's my fault.

As a bit of a "privacy nut", I'm more careful about what I leave on other people's servers than most people I know, though, so I acknowledge I'm not anywhere near the median on this.
If you listen to marketers fast cars make you younger and handsomer and give you a full head of hair.

Don’t look at how things are sold, look at how they are. In this case it’s code, of course there’s complexity.
Anonymous digital payments cannot coexist with government KYC and AML regulatory requirements. You're asking to solve for violating financial regulatory mechanisms with technology. It's a data privacy and governance issue.

Perhaps you use some sort of fiat tumbler like privacy.com enabled for instant payments, where the merchant doesn't know who you are, but the money transmitter will still be required to keep records of the transaction and have a license.

(disclosure: i work in risk/compliance at a fintech)
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In fact, if you're in a bind and need a USB C charger that will work reliably, you may want to pay the cost to get a genuine Apple one. (I won't order Apple chargers from Amazon; I get them direct from Apple or a real retailer because I don't trust the co-mingling).

Some of the power-tool brands are beginning to make USB-C devices, those chargers should be reliable also. Here's Dewalt: https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcb094k/usb-charging-kit
As I expected, you haven't backed up your claims. Maybe you should admit they aren't true, at least to yourself.
Could you? I have been remote for about 4 years and I have difficulty doing my job if my internet goes out for even an hour during my working time.

I also have issues doing my job if I can’t stream audio/video due to speed issues- and this happens even with a hardwired connection on occasion.
The new methodology is clearly the better one.

But headlines like this serve to reinforce the notion that somehow the "official" inflation figures are wrong. Which gives power to politicians who deliberately push this narrative; which is to day, dishonest ones.

The fact is, lots people hear that "housing prices" aren't included in the CPI, and interpret that as housing costs are not included. There is no nuance for most people; for them, housing "prices" and housing "expenses" are the same thing.

Normal people who are not economists or interested in economics at all are voters. It behooves people in the industry to speak clearly and plainly about these topics. Failure to do so hands that opportunity over to unscrupulous pundits who will speak plainly, but with a bend that favors their political opinions.
Accidentally installed Fedora onto my dad's desktop instead of an attached USB drive.
This is just plain terrible decision from UX perspective, which is why most people fell in love with mac in the first place.

I would definitely fire all responsible people if i were Steve Jobs.
So, I feel like their conclusion is somewhat obvious since they're studying firms as the basis of examining hierarchies. I think it's quite obvious to anyone that a CEO makes more than a VP and a VP makes more than a Senior Manager and a Senior Manager makes more than an intern within most corporate hierarchies (within the same firm), so in this way, of course the conclusion is correct.

But this completely fails to examine /why/ hierarchies are established, and how people end up at various rungs within that hierarchy. It has been my observation over a nearly 20 year career that there are people who want to be told what to do, there are people who want figure out what to do, and there are people who want to tell others what to do. When you combine these preferences, people who want to figure out what to do and then tell others what to do end up rising up the ranks, because the lower rungs of the hierarchies are dominated by people who want to be told what to do. The hierarchy creates stability, both social cohesion and economic stability for the firm, and it provides a clear pathway of progression for those who enter the firm anew with ambitions to rise.

It is is no surprise, then, that hierarchy has a large effect size on income. But stating such a thing isn't heretical as they author proposes, rather it's so blatantly obvious that nobody bothers to even consider it. After all, the realities of social hierarchy aren't that interesting, unless you're studying deeper to get to the why, how, and what for.
Many people will, sure. But there's many people who either need or want to sell and that puts pressure on prices. Seen this many times in past decades in California at least.
Yes, this is obviously what it should have been called.
> I can't even fathom the idea of a union with no members at a given company or organization "just showing up" and trying to get the management to bargain with them on their workers' behalf. It's just utterly nonsensical.

That's how many unions work.

For example look at what is happening with Amazon warehouses - existing external unions turn up and try to recruit workers.

You also see it for example in the UK where unions have a political party and try to use that to change labour laws through normal government elections.

Whether or not that's nonsensical is a matter of opinion!
I wouldn't equate the least viewed with unpopular. They may not show up well in search for lack of content.

I've come across plenty of articles which were low in views and only have a handful of lines of content. I would love to expand these articles, but the "culture" of Wikipedia actively works against this.
I’ll have a look at this, thank you.

In what ways do you feel like TiltFive supersedes what Dynamic Land is doing?

[EDIT]: After reviewing the marketing materials, it looks to me that this project is orthogonal to the goals of Dynamic Land, and they don’t really serve the same purpose.

1) Dynamic Land is intended to allow for computing by interacting with real physical objects, and seeing the outputs displayed back in the real world without augmented reality hardware.

2) TiltFive seems intended to allow for holographic display of traditional or specialized game content onto physical objects. More like advanced AR than tangible or physical computing .
Here's an absolutely crazy idea that I had the other day... Since Zig has comptime, couldn't a Zig reimplementation of SQLite use comptime for compile-time query compilation? Including generating native code for fixed queries? So far I haven't been able to come up with any counterargument for why this wouldn't work.