skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decriminalizing possession has little effect (especially short-term effect) as long as the production and distribution are still handled by the black market.
I don't know what Internet hole you found yourself, but a simple Google search shows the exact opposite. A 2020 Business Insider article states "Costco is well-regarded in the retail industry for its high pay and desirable benefits." And it's not all hourly pay, but all the other things too, which include things like guaranteed hours, bonus free memberships (for friends and family), free food and a health care plan that includes vision and dental, 401K, after-hour shopping, etc..

Hell, Wall Street analysts have complained for years(*) about how generous Costco's benefits are to their employees. IMO, those WS Analysts can blow it out their backside; the employee turnover rate at Costco is ridiculously low 6% (**), and blows their competitors out of the water.

I certainly don't work at Costco, but have one relative (2nd cousin) who does, and they know it's a good thing (they bounced around retail for years before landing Costco). Of course nothing is perfect, and how Costco treats the Sampler/Tasters is less than admirable, but I won't let perfect be the enemy of pretty-damn-good.

(*) 2006 NYTimes article
(**) 2020 Business Strategy Hub survey.
The only major downside with hooks is that they are sort of non-intuitive imo. Writing UIs with hooks once you grok it properly is really nice and terse. What's your beef with them?
I think engineering onboarding is one of the most overlooked ways to increase organizational productivity. I'd guess that the average tenure of an engineer is about 3 years. From my experience I feel confident in my abilities at a new company after 6 months. That gives 2.5 years of good work per engineer. I've been working on an engineer onboarding tool to reduce new hire ramp up time. I'd love to hear your feedback https://gainknowhow.com/software-companies.html
How to Autoscale Kubernetes Pods Based on GPU
Steps to scale Kubernetes pods based on GPU metrics
Windows MSDT zero-day now exploited by Chinese APT hackers
I used to keep track of the state of machine translation some years back.

I think the way you measure the success of an automated translation is edit distance, i.e. how many manual edits you need to make to a translated text before you reach some acceptable state. I suppose it's somewhat subjective, but it is possible to construct a benchmark and allow for multiple correct results.

The best resources I knew back then were:

VISL's CG-3 self-reported a competitively low edit distance compared to Google Translate: https://visl.sdu.dk/constraint_grammar.html -- It is a convincing argument that in order to beat Google Translate, you want less fuzzy machine learning and more structural analysis. But the abstraction unfortunately requires a rather deep knowledge of any one particular language's grammar; having a PhD in computational linguistics helps.

Apertium has an open-source pipeline: https://apertium.org/ -- seems to be much more like an open-source approach with a quality similar to Google Translate (although I don't know if it's better or worse; probably slightly worse in most cases, and with a slightly lower coverage).
I believe a real glimpse of the future you're describing can be seen with AWS CDK's L2 or higher constructs: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk

We already have the tools to have a cloud-scale application dynamically redefining and re-allocating its infrastructure. Give those tools some time to mature, and I'm sure the capabilities will be awesome.

A good example is the common database backend. A lot of groups have some RDS instance provisioned someway to somehow serve some frontend. Over time, the number of users grow and the RDS needs more resources provisioned for it. My last 4 jobs, it was always someone's job to check the provisioning or respond to an alert and bump the provisioning up to whatever the next rung was. In the not too distant future, this type of task will be handled by a mildly intelligent CDK application.
That is absolutely fine, if that is what you want. Things like this are the reason that I wrote the article in the first place.

One of the first things I do on most of my Linux boxes is to install Google Chrome. I regularly encounter websites that won't work correctly without it, and I have work to do and I need stuff to function. I have to be able to join video calls, so I need Zoom and Teams and so on.

But other people are purists and don't want proprietary apps. For instance, I have had colleagues who were happy to use Chromium but did not want a Google binary on their computer.

It's good that there are distros that accommodate this range of preferences.

I often see people saying "Fedora is the new Ubuntu", including in the comments here. I personally strongly disagree with that. I personally find the range of tools and drivers and so on in Ubuntu to be useful and helpful, and Fedora excludes many of them. I do not like upgrading my work machines more often than I must. Once every two years is acceptable; once every six months is not, and skipping a version and hoping that it works OK every other version once a year is not OK for me.

I want the option of stable LTS releases. I think that's really important. Fedora doesn't offer me that, for valid corporate reasons. CentOS rebuilds are not the same thing as Fedora, and if I ran Fedora on my laptop and, say, Rocky Linux on my production machine, I would have to accomodate the differences.

I personally really dislike GNOME and find it a pain to work with. I have discussed my issues and my concerns with the GNOME development team, personally. They do not share them or feel they are important. Fine; it's their project and they are free to run it as they wish.

But I can run an Ubuntu LTS with Xfce if I prefer; I can't pick that as a built-in option in my earlier example of Rocky Linux. It's GNOME or nothing, unless you add external repos such as EPEL.

These are choices and reasons to pick one distro over another. Some are important to you, and that's fine. I am not telling all Fedora users they are wrong. Their choices are valid for them.

I also find the choices in Debian to be restrictive. I quite like where Ubuntu sits, for my own machines. But I run multiple other distros and I am always looking. Recently I have been quite impressed by Alpine Linux:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/26/alpine_linux_316_rele...

I also have a mid-spec laptop running ChromeOS Flex and it's very pleasant to use, too.

There's more than one way to go.

But a lot of distro advocates forget that. They are so deeply committed to their own choices that they forget that other people have different preferences.

So I tried to write a piece summarizing what I personally feel are the key problems and issues for me with a bunch of the major distros.
hehehe <_<
Great advice! I would also add it that don't make what you do for work your hobby. Some on here might disagree with me, but I've found programming in my free time just feels like I'm at work.

Explore new hobbies while you have down time. If engineering is your thing, give woodworking or machining a try. Maybe take up a sport or cycling, physical activity is great for your mental health. Just try being more outdoors
With the beans / lentis thing - your body does seem to adjust to this eventually. You can also try putting a few pieces of Kombu (seaweed) or Savory in with these dishes, I think there's a few other herbs and foods that help with digestion. Also throw away the water if your soaking dried ones, it's got quite a lot of good flavour but for some people it makes the digestive issues worse.
If the commute takes an hour each way, I don't really care if someone's driving me if that's two extra hours away from my family (and likely missing dinner every night).
Even most workers at big corporations are more like nurses and doctors than butlers and chauffeurs: the goods and services they produce ultimately go to ordinary consumers, not multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos. The billionares get wealthier, and that wealth is measured in the same dollars as ordinary people's wages, but it's not the same thing at all. For an ordinary person, especially someone less well off living paycheck to paycheck, those dollars represent a claim on actual goods and services they can use. Bezos' wealth is mostly just the shares he owns times the last price they traded at. There is no way to transmute a chunk of Bezos' wealth in nominal value of shares into there being more income representing more ability for normal people to buy stuff that helps them live, even though both are measured in the same units. If anything it's the other way around: supplying ordinary people with more goods and services more efficiently makes his net worth go up and supplying less makes it go down. Failing to understand this lead to some really bad thinking early on in the Covid pandemic when share prices dropped and people interpreted this as proof that concern about the economic consequences of Covid measures was just wealthy people complaining that their horde of wealth was dropping.
Posted in the wrong thread, I assume? The relation between Excel cells and beer-cooling icicles is tenuous at best.
yup. This is why I never tell anyone that I use Copilot.
> The demand in urban housing comes from rural areas going decrepit: schools close, no higher education at all, no fast and reliable Internet and 4G/5G mobile connectivity, no public transport, rotting roads and bridges, no banks, no medical services, no shopping, no employment, no entertainment other than drinking and shooting tin cans. If you want to live a modern life, there is no alternative to moving to urban areas.

I'm a city dweller, and I think this is an ugly, misinformed, elitist comment.
Different aspects will be differently portable (e.g. funding will region specific, modulo field specific schemes).

Having a PhD (in a relevant field) gives you domain knowledge as well as knowing where the pitfalls are, and a PhD in general will mean you're at least familiar with what questions to ask/who to ask those questions.
We have WeFunder and StartEngine. I'm sure there are a few others by now as well.
I didn't expect a sea monster at all. Actually, I expected a fungus.
The efficiency of human labor in a lot of these industries hasn't increased enough to justify the full cost of the labor. There's next to no efficiency increase you can get out of a truck driver or a waiter. Getting all of these people into industries that do have a better human labor efficiency is going to be hard.
> all the same benefits without using Kubernetes

That's the catch, if running your app on a manually setup VM is equivalent to running your app on Kubernetes then you don't understand what Kuberentes is or provide.
I remember hearing much the same words (cf. “My job is to make myself redundant”) in 2004.

I’m fairly sure this was the goal at least as far back as when ship builders switched from high-skilled artisans to carve each pulley for the sails individually and by hand, to using jigs so that low-skilled carpenters could make a lot that were almost as good for a fraction of the price.
Defn: ClojureDart
> employment taxes should be lower.

I am unconvinced that this is the reason that businesses don't pay workers more.

Workers are usually paid according to their _replacement_ cost not the value they bring generally. In an ideal equilibrium, where the worker can push back against the employer equally, sure. However, that's seldom the case.

Businesses also push back harder by hiring _definitely_ exploited workers, e.g. in agriculture and meat packing, or by hiring contractors.
It honestly sounds like you've confused Kubernetes with some other platform.

Running a big Java monolith with 128GiB RAM footprint in Kubernetes works well. It's at its best when deployments are infrequent and traffic patterns are stable (or at least predictable).

If someone wants stateless microservices with immediate scale-up/scale-down, then that's more like a FaaS ("functions as a service") and they'll be better off with OpenFaaS instead of Kubernetes.
Is there a case for an "unlivable wage" when a family member wants to add to the family budget, even though other family members (a spouse, or parents) provide the bulk of it but not exactly enough?

Clamping the lower bound of wages may put many of such people out of an opportunity to make some money. In other words, should a summer job for a teenager pay a livable wage?

This, of course, works best if the job is not taking 8 hours a day. I don't see why working multiple jobs, each of which takes a part of the day, should be considered bad; actually, my son worked this way for some time, which allowed him to pass a rough spot in job market in 2020-2021.
I'm sure they exist, but I've not encountered any. Most managers are there to manage, not intimidate.
Why have all modern operating systems (that have more than 100 users) moved away from GCed languages?
My org also uses LastPass
> The put-down to me was where it said: "it's very easy to...", but failed to explain it beyond a few words.

What do you mean by "failed to explain it beyond a few words"?

OP stated in no uncertain terms that this approach was followed in lit-html, provided a link to a page from lit's site where this approach is thoroughly explained, and if you really want to look closely at real-world implementations you already have the link to lit-html.

How much more do you want to demand from someone in order to point out in a web forum that someone made a mistake?

Also, what stops anyone from posting any question asking for ay clarification?

Or are we supposed to jump right onto the "I'm being persecuted" mode?
This sounds like they’re firing people who manually edit and fix maps.

While it’s job that requires quite a bit of skill (my family member used to do that for other companies), those aren’t people you can redirect to R&D, at least not without heavy retraining.

Real reason behind it, is IMO, preparing for recession and finding nice sounding reason for layoffs.
If you want high wages and human well-being, your decisions about how to allocate society's limited resources need to be made in a way that respects the consequences of those decisions. When you don't, the results are ugly.

Because of its centrality and importance, we should be more rigorous about how we approach the economics of the labor market, not less. That's not "neoliberal reductionism". It's the universal laws of economics: the readily-foreseeable consequences of our political decisions and regulations that define the allocation of society's limited resources. When instead we are too-precious about how we treat labor (disrespecting fundamental economics in the name of justice and equity, living in ignorance of the consequences), then we will find stagnation instead of growth, higher rates of unemployment, more inequality, and more poverty.
The situation is a bit weird in The Netherlands. Some PhD students are paid employees (AiO), their gross salary is ~31000 to 40000 Euro per year (I think this is excluding vacation money, but including 13th month).

Then there are PhDs that get a scholarship (bursaal), that is only around 24000-25000 gross per year.

Not too long ago, there were only employee PhDs, but some universities really love the scholarship system, because they have to pay less tax, so it's a lot cheaper for the universities.

My wife had a PhD scholarship in NL and it really had some large negative effects after finishing her PhD:

- She contributed 4 years less into a pension fund, since bursary PhDs do not build up pension outside the state pension;

- In her next academic position, they didn't consider her four years of PhD work as working experience, while they did do that for me as an employee PhD. So, she was set back 4 years in salary growth.

- She finished her PhD in August and started a full time job after her PhD. Because she had an income that went over some threshold, she had to pay the taxes that the university dodged by using the scholarship system. She worked the rest of the year at a loss (the taxes were higher than the income from September-December).

The worst part of it is that many foreign PhD students do not realize that there is a two-class system.
Hang on, I don't think it's true that this had to have provincial agreement for this to happen. The federal government makes criminal law in Canada, not the provinces.

But if you're looking to trial this and you have a province that is asking to be allowed to try it, then using the province as the experiment ground is the obvious choice.
I really like that GPT3 translation, it seems to flow a lot better just reading wise and doesn't make me pause.

Is there a dedicated GPT3 translation service?
I'm glad to hear it.

I suspect that part of the reason is that the smaller shops I looked at were based in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn's agesim is much worse than Silicon Valley. Also, I was interested in the kinds of startups that are probably dominated by energetic younger folks. I do native Swift (Apple) stuff, and have a lot of experience with things like SDKs, and hardware control/communication.

The bigger shops tended to have a lot less interesting work, but were also a lot more "stolid" in their approach to recruitment.

Like I said, I was looking for work that I found interesting. I'm sure I would have been able to find work that was less motivating.

As it has turned out, what I'm doing now, is highly motivating, and I no longer have a desire to go back to the rat race. In the aggregate, I'm glad things turned out the way they did. A couple of startups missed out, but I'm sure they'll be OK. I'm not God's gift to programming. I know that I am doing great.
Yup. I have seen my friend has permanently controller connected with soundbar than XBOX and controlling the spotify through the XBOX.Here is the full guide
https://audiospeaks.com/speakers/soundbar/
Its neurotoxic like meth and coke. It might not be as dangerous and the damage is less persistent. But it's way more harmful than cannabis or psychedelics. If you want to group drugs by harmfulness, it is definitely together with the other stims.
Here is a hilarious translation using the WIPO translate tool (it's trained on patents)

DWARF is 34 years old. There is a knife of small thickening butenes in the middle of the life of the person. To solve the problem in which, although it has been found that there was only an unimindeterminate address before the third time, the parent is dead when it was noticed, and it was treated as unattended and unattended in the parent conference, and it was found that there was no unattended parent in the parent meeting.
Typing Errors (1996)
Kubernetes just solves the long-standing problems at a certain level of infra.

But like everything else in tech, solution of the problems at a given level enables everyone to do much more and build more complex systems that do more complicated stuff on top of that level. We always push the frontier forward with every new solution.
> I don't think using intuitive associations with words helps clarify things
Sincere question: do you think that "think using intuitive associations with words" can be safely translated to "compute using intuitive associations with words"?
I don't think so. Therefore, even if thinking is also computing, reducing thinking to boolean algebra is a form of reductionism that ignores a number of emergent properties of (human) thinking.
a nice addition would be the possibility to plot data
IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy; but may be wrong. Which is to say that I don't recall there having been such a trademark policy at the time. Isn't it actually the "Old BSD License" that retains the "may not spaketh the name" clause?

(Bitcoin is also originally a LF project; in Git, like BitTorrent, and similar to BitGold only in name, for a reason. Bitcoin initially lacked a Foundation to hold trademarks, in particular.)

The choosealicense.com table of licenses in the appendix is a service of GitHub, and GitLab also donates free CI build runner minutes for Open Source projects:
https://choosealicense.com/appendix/#trademark-use :

> Trademark use

> This license explicitly states that it does NOT grant trademark rights, even though licenses without such a statement probably do not grant any implicit trademark rights.
I think so many layoffs happened in 2020, and there haven’t been as many layoffs since. Resignations look huge in comparison.
Before criticizing Gemini one should read the mailing list archives. I haven't heard an objection yet that wasn't raised and addressed already, typically months and months ago. You might not like Gemini, but it's unlikely that you've got an original reason for it.

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I think of Gemini as like the Haiku form for poems: yes it's highly restrictive, but the art is just in expressing yourself though the form.

People coming around and protesting that haikus aren't sonnets, or that they aren't suitable for writing plays, are missing the point, IMO.
Proving your point, the Kineto proxy turning that into HTTPS + HTML:

https://gemini.envs.net/x/gerikson.com/gemlog/gemini-sux/Win...

Kineto is written by the same person who wrote Gemini (Drew DeVault), showing us that Gemini as a protocol isn't really needed for transport to share Gemini content, which can be just plain HTML anyways.
Unrelated to machine translation, the Japanese text appears to refer to a concept which has the Chinese slang 家裡蹲 jiālǐ dūn, "home-squatter".

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%B6%E8%A3%A1%E8%B9%B2
To be clear, I am not saying it is the reason for sure, just that there are a lot more factors to this than the direct wage.

Part of "lower wage taxes" would roll down to "less government support", which would theoretically roll down to "more people seeking gainful employment", which would affect the supply/demand curve of the labor pool, etc.
> schools close, no higher education at all, no fast and reliable Internet and 4G/5G mobile connectivity, no public transport, rotting roads and bridges, no banks, no medical services, no shopping, no employment, no entertainment other than drinking and shooting tin cans.

I live in a rural area.

Schools are open. Higher education not only exists, but the local community colleges partner with the state schools to give full access to us rural folk without having to commute in to the school. We have fiber to the home in many areas, high speed access in almost all the rest of the areas, and projects underway to fill in the gaps. We have 4G all over, 5G on a few towers. I can see 3 towers from my home, so we are not exactly disconnected. Our roads are doing fine - the local taxes pay for road maintenance quite well. Yes, we have banks. Farmers probably need more banking than you would expect. We are well covered there. We have medical service in every town and they partner with the state teaching university for specialist care, so we're doing OK there, too. Our unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in decades. Shopping exists here, too.

Rural areas are shrinking because people prefer cities. But we are not decrepit and you absolutely can live an enjoyable modern life here.
This is great! I didn't know this existed, but it looks like for self-hosting this is a much better solution than BitWarden proper (as it is lighter). This shall go on my synology.
Nice work, chootisk. I can see our systems are quite similar, with some adaptations to preferences. For me, week numbers and weekdays are what I think about, and dates (2022-06-01) is what I need for communicating with others.

Your syntax highlight sounds like a nice addition.
I find the fact they all completely modify the meaning to something else very confusing.

Japanese can be ambiguous, but not that ambiguous.

I lean towards the GPT3 translation being closest to the truth.