skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"using your legal identity at work is unnecessary"

Uh, employers in the US are required to verify employment eligibility. One submits an i9 form.

For contractors / etc, you still need to submit information for 1099.

What am I missing here - if considering the US?
I disagree. My experience with codebases with programmers who program like that is that you eventually get memory leaks, some of which are near-impossible to debug or fix. You pay for that kind of thinking down-the-line.

Enabling new design patterns == good

Not thinking about what happens under the hood == bad

Catastrophes are rare, but expensive enough to cost more than thinking things through.
That is some 4 dimensional chess right there
YouTube shorts surpass 1.5B monthly active users
Textbook weak leadership.
>"Tech at the moment sure, but there's nothing that stops the geographical location from shifting. There are skilled IT people around the world, there just aren't that many tech hubs like Silicon Valley."

Except that tech in the US is also NYC, Seattle, Austin and Boston too. It outgrew the SV hub years ago now. Those locations are the results of location shifting.

>"Finance? Remind me again how much debt the US has and how close it was to defaulting last year (saved by being forced to raise the debt ceiling yet again)? Things aren't looking much better right now."

"Finance" is used to describe the industry of and around investment banking. It is very different and distinct from the context of the US Treasury which you seem to be conflating. Further the US was never even close to actually defaulting on its debt last year. What happened in October was a bit of political theater around something known as the "debt ceiling." This is simply the agreed upon amount that congress says the US can have outstanding. This is very different from sovereign defaults that result from not having the means to pay. There is a primer here [1].

It's also unclear what you mean by "Things aren't looking much better right now." Despite experiencing the same stubborn inflation as the rest of the globe, the US has had something of a miracle recovery since the beginning of the pandemic. The unemployment rate as of May was 3.6% which is about what it was before the pandemic. There's been many other bright spots as well [2].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/debt-ceiling.asp

[2] https://www.thebalance.com/how-is-the-economy-doing-3306046
And so it begins, The start of another arms race.
> personal preference is to trigger a recession and reduce inflation

These aren't binary outcomes. Tight money does nothing to ease supply-side bottlenecks. It does little to target demand displaced by rising energy prices. If those are the principal drivers of inflation, tightening could depress non-energy demand in a way that causes a recession without alleviating inflation. Stagflation. (To be clear, we're not at tight money yet.)
I just wish it was done earlier and more cheaply during otherwise good times.
I understand what you are talking about, but i just dont have that perspective. I just came back from replacing the mudgard and drivers door on a Citroen. Its going back to service in these minutes.
I'm not sure high karma gets you anything on HN. I'm in the thousands and most of my posts go down the memory hole.
I don't disagree that people are suffering from a condition and feel the way they do. I'm sure if I had it, I would feel the same way. I don't care one bit what clothes you wear or what name you want me to call you.

My problem is mainly when I think about other, similar conditions, like elderly people who think they are 8 years old or patients who think they are celebrities. I'm not asked to think of them in the manner that they think of themselves. Another example: a teenage girl with body dysmorphia identifies as obese, but you'd have to be evil to go along with that dysmorphia. It just seems to me that this one case is different but I can't point to a good reason why.
Well looks like it kinda worked anyway, I went and looked up Popupular since you included it in your post!
A key driver to inflation is that wages for lower-income workers was finally starting to rise.

Tanking the economy will hurt these people the most. But yes, inflation would flatten.
> I consider it treason to continue to promote lies about election fraud as it attacks democracy.

I consider support for the obvious election fraud treason.. the only lie is we actually have a functioning democracy and legitimate elections.
Yeah I mentioned Rust because it's muscling its way in to many use cases which don't really need 'zero-cost abstractions' and can definitely afford a GC, e.g. say microservices. A lot of work has been (and continues to be) put into OCaml to make it very competitive in these areas.

For truly performance-sensitive work of course people are going to choose C/C++/Ada/Rust.
> If you want to compile code your wrote 20 years ago, use a compiler version from 20 years ago.

I want to compile code i wrote 20 years ago alongside code i wrote 10 years ago and yesterday, not just compile some old project. Though even compiling some old project should be as friction free as possible too.

The point is that once i write some code that i know works, it should keep working in future versions so i wont have to worry about updates (which is now the case with both Free Pascal and Lazarus/LCL - i even use the development versions directly from the repository).

> Forcing backwards compatability hinders a languages growth and forces it to stick by decisions that, in hindsight, may not have been the best.

And ignoring backwards compatibility forces all users of the language (which unless it is a toy project, are way more numerous than the developers of the language) to waste time keeping their projects up to date instead of working on new features and/or bugfixes for their projects.

Also Free Pascal does have a way to avoid this (to some extent) using modes and modeswitches - the former affect the Pascal dialect being used for a file (which can be mixed with other files with other modes) and the latter enable/alter syntactical features that would otherwise break existing code, thus allowing it to be improved piecemeal without breaking anything else.

AFAIK similar features exist for some other languages (i remember reading that Rust's epochs are meant to do something like that though i don't know if files from multiple epochs can be mixed).
On a related note, anyone know if there's a site that shows you (decent) part-time coding jobs?
I do gardening in my spare time but I also enjoyed playing Stardew Valley - a game where you bring back to life an abandonded farm.

Video games have faster feedback loop compared to real life. You progress and get rewards much faster. For example, I could finish an entire growing season in one long evening of playing. And it's not just scaling time. The tasks themselves are simplified to balance complexity, difficulty, and fun. You only have a handful of tools that never break. You don't have to worry about plant diseses, pests, droughts, floodings, or freezing temperatures in spring. The only thing you need to manage is watering (which you have an infinite supply of) and crows (which are repelled with a scarecrow).

The barriers of entry are lower too. There are games that let you drive a truck of fly a plane; things which would be prohibitively expensive in real life.
Human beings are capable of all kinds of petty emotions for all kinds of petty reasons, most of which are irrelevant to the discussion at hand. As a society, we recognize that prejudice, especially against the vulnerable, is particularly bad.
Amazon says its drones will deliver packages to backyards this year
With Vogtle 3 & 4, the only nuclear plants coming online in the US, the construction costs are now projected to be $30 billion for 2.2 GW. We'd need ~1000 of these size plants to power the US. That's not going to cut it either.
Every time I try out one of these (relatively) smaller diffusion-based text-to-image networks, it only makes me want DALL-E 2 access that much more. I tried "two corgis riding a dragon" and... well, I will have nightmares at what it generated.
No, the post was attempting to demonstrate how the medical system is effective and works as intended by correcting the use of UPPP, when any sane rational person would never have suggested in the first place.
interesting that it is for >= 36 hours. i always heard 24, so i'm grateful for the extra half day of buffer.

though i also no longer live in the northeast, i hear it's a wicked bad year for ticks.
Does anyone else feel like op did not read the article and is just taking a stance for the sake of taking a stance?
Trust me, I can easily overeat calories without carbs - on keto - and gain weight. It’s a lot easier to choose not to, however.
True in very large stretches of the US, as well. Though we also have a bunch of huge regions with beautiful, varied, striking natural environments, of course.
Well I got bad news, everything that happens in US Federal politics today is partisan. That's not an excuse not to try.
If you think the dollar is worth less then no doubt that's reflected in say gold prices, which were between 1600 and 1900 from July 2011 to April 2013.

They are currently 1800.

If all that extra money had devalued fiat currencies globally (at roughly the same value), why hasn't gold increased?
Wouldn't it still be possible to do contracts for $599, but like... one for each jira ticket/github issue or something? You could hypothetically set things up to not know who was resolving tickets, right?

I mean it seems like a ridiculous way of getting work done, but fundamentally possible.
> So, how am I supposed to use Google Maps?

Atlas data can be sent to the map application without the map application sending personal data back to the atlas provider. If that means the map application can no longer be "free" (funded by user giving up their data) then so be it. Of course the atlas provider could log users and which map regions they request, but the point is to regulate that logging so severely that the data becomes a liability not an asset.
The parent mentioned keeping a list of functions called, so a note on calling frobnicate_something isn't lost.
Had a coworker that just indexed everything, and it worked too.
> Chop shops are by definition for taking apart motor vehicles.

Using the term to describe taking apart bikes has also become common. Language evolves. Don't blame me, take it up with *gestures at all of human history*.
And yet we think we'll get all phones on USB-C before too long
"Divided" is not competition, it is "conquered".
Ubuntu Core seems to be Snap As A Service. Snap is mostly open source (everything except the actual store backend because "it would be complicated" to do that).

If you fork it and remove the connection to Ubuntu's cloud ecosystem, you'd probably be end with a barebones Ubuntu Server install. When all you need is Ubuntu Server with Livepatch, you're probably better off using that.
Rainbow's prices are competitive, at least they've been in business for
about a century and don't seem in any danger of closing.

The point is that without investors expecting a return there's no ROI.
Grocery stores can pay a living wage without gouging customers and
without investors. It seemed to me that you might have been implying
that without investors there couldn't be grocery stores.

Another factor to consider is that wages and profit returned to
the workers will tend to stay in the local economy longer, contrasted
with ROI which typically would be stored in other investments?
My approach is to always buy the first "stuff" cheap and then try to use it the best possible way. If it breaks or I see the limits with the "stuff", then I go for the good and expensive one. This way I know I need it but I can also better assess the quality.

This of course after having spent too much on high quality "stuff" with little use.
Aren’t level 2 systems supposed to be exactly this backup for humans?
Energy prices which have LATELY, MAYBE, been driven by failed attempt of the US applying sanctions to Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.

Reminder: https://www.csis.org/analysis/biden-makes-sweeping-changes-o...
when you can't compete, complain.
> Sugar cane crops are burned every year, it returns micronutrients to the soil and allows for mycchorizae to re-establish before the next season

Holy cow, have you hit a nerve in me! I lived years in two Mexican cities adjacent to Texas, and I swear they burn the sugar cane when the winds are southbound, so all the contamination ends up in Mexico. Early winter you can see greyed skies and small amounts of ash and soot everywhere. Burning the cane makes it easier to harvest, but there are machines now that do that job, and as a bonus, you don't dehydrate or sterilize the upper soil.

To be fair, some farmers also burn their crops in this side too, seeing how little environmental regulation there is. December and January are hard for your lungs there.
I think we need a ban on all three and heavy penalties for those caught doing it. Not just a fine that could be potentially a cost of doing business.
> inflation was clearly caused by injecting trillions into the economy for "covid"

Yes, that juiced the demand side. At the same time, the supply side was kneecapped by shutdowns and other "mitigation" measures. More money + fewer available goods.
I agree to all of that. That said, data also has a positive value, for society and democracy. Our societies need data to find fair, just and equal solutions, e.g. to resource distribution. This is not possible without data, and location data is the most important of all.
I had a boss (construction) identify himself as a racist, use the N-word, and tell me he was glad to be moving to another state where there are fewer black people (but "Mexicans are okay").

I don't feel one bit sorry for you.
from another source:

> The authors concluded that a single 200-mg dose of doxycycline given within 72 hours of a bite from an I. scapularis tick was 87 percent effective in preventing the development of early Lyme disease

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2002/0215/p714a.html
There are plenty of snacks that are keto-friendly: beef jerky (no sugar added), boiled eggs, celery + peanut butter, smoked oysters... the list goes on. Yes, cookies are not included in that list, if that's a deal-breaker for you then it seems like this diet wouldn't work for you I guess.
Could you please give information about "few hooks"? I need to install add9n that is not on recommended list.
LittleBigPlanet was a blast on creative/user-made maps.

You could have a fairly stupid concept (free-falling sponge, with a shark that follows you while only in water), copy the whole level and mod it to whatever new state you wanted.
Absolutely hilarious. I'm reminded of every single Republican lawmaker who grandstands against gay marriage, only to have it be revealed that they're having affairs with other gay men.
Automated tech factored in 392 car crashes in 11 months, regulators report
> Ladies would have been fighting tooth and nail for a good man

They probably already were.

I have heard factoids that the emphasis on heavy makeup and dressing up among Eastern European women was as a result of the dearth of eligible young men post WW2.
The surveillance industry is very hostile to the idea of letting the public know what's going on and giving them a choice. If people consent to it after being informed, then fine. But they need to be told and asked.
Right, but optimizing tail calls won't lose that structure. But sure, just using goto is a slippery slope to confusion.
> I'm a very "out" antifascist, and I've lost jobs due to my public not-liking-fascists

That kind of statement makes me curious. What kind of behavior do you exhibit that has cost you jobs?
Interestingly enough I have found Twitter's recommended tweets and showing me tweets that people I follow liked as an added benefit. I've started following many different people across tech with different view points and I feel that is a positive. The caveat to all this is that I don't know / haven't met any of these people in real life.

On Instagram I mostly follow my friends, I want to know what they're up to. My usage of Instagram dropped off the map once my feed turned into
- Friends Post
- Friends Post
- Ad
- Friends Post
- Suggested Post
- Ad

It really just feels like the content I want to see is being smothered and thus I've mostly stopped using Instagram.
Google maps can still work without any of your data.

> I like to be able to see all the restaurants and places I went to

This isn't difficult to implement either without sending any information out.
S3 is not particularly good in latency. I guess there are lots of cache on pageserver? Must be lots of engineering work to keep it robust.
> Are there any >1GWh thermal battery facilities?

I don't know about that, but for comparison, the "world’s biggest battery storage system" opened last year in California[0] at 400MW / 1,600MWh.

[0] https://www.energy-storage.news/expansion-complete-at-worlds...
One of the other aspects of being poor is the assumption that any windfall you get will be nickeled and dimed away from you pretty soon, so the only way you'll ever be able to enjoy it is to spend it all immediately.

That turns out to be the opposite of frugality.
I agree the input lag and scroll curves in later IE was some of the best I’ve seen. Firefox was as good for a time but is now (slightly) worse after changing to a more chrome-like curve

They really went all out on input lag reduction for Windows 8 touch interfaces. I remember some videos from the time where they showed off such low input lag that scrolling and drawing almost perfectly tracked finger movement. Perhaps not so impressive today with iOS as a benchmark, but Windows is still king for desktop input lag
To what male Senator Warren are you referring?
> We need a ban on collection of that data

If you send me data, why shouldn't I be able to collect it?
What do you mean by "payment function"? Is it a one time purchase? Is it a subscription? If it's a subscription, then you must check that the user has a valid subscription and how do you do that? Is it at the request level in your application? If so, you know you can't hit the API of whichever server you're using for every request because the latency will be really, really bad. What will you do, then? Save the data into your database? If so, you'll have to think about syncing data between the service provider and your database.

It depends on what you want to do and your use-case and requirements.
The AMA is literally lobbying Congress to expand residency program funding, and even putting their own money into it. Did you even read the article?
Yep, all you really want is plausible deniability if you ever get audited - you may in fact still have a deduction not allowed by the IRS, but as long as you did it in good faith, you shouldn't be liable for any criminal offense.
I would argue that, as far as popularizing sequence comprehensions goes, C# (LINQ) was probably more influential than Python.
Something I haven’t seen discussed much is the impact of inflation on the existing federal debt.

This is actually a positive for taxpayers as the federal debt will become cheaper. Obviously we’re still spending a ton and are issuing debt at higher rates now, so it’s not some kind of magic cure or anything.
Inflation is driven by consumption, the bulk of which is done by the lower/middle class. Inflation in construction/housing is an area likely driven by upper class
> A 2010 profile of Patterson in the Times Magazine portrays him as a brilliant marketer closely involved in every level of the publication and promotion of his books. According to the profile, Patterson felt so strongly that “Along Came a Spider” should be advertised on television that he produced a commercial at his own expense. He urged his publisher to release the subsequent titles in the Alex Cross series with a signature style of cover art, making himself not just an author but a brand. This marketing savvy is another side of Patterson that’s absent from “James Patterson.” Instead, the author presents himself as a “blue-collar kid” (his father was an insurance salesman, a detail also not mentioned in the book) who lucked into the best job in the world. In the book’s first chapter, he ascribes his success to a saying drummed into him by his grandmother: “Hungry dogs run faster.” Yet the ravenous ambition that so obviously drives him is a subject he skirts again and again.

Seems like a case of childhood emotional neglect: a void that can never be filled no matter how much achievement.
I assume capital gains on the increase in nominal value. The government gets a cut of that. Kinda acts like a wealth tax.
I don't think you even need to go full keto to get benefit from this idea. I often just eat eggs and some veges for breakfast on weekends (knowing full well I will be hungry for lunch) and this has helped me control my appetite, be satisfied/satiated and not gain weight. (I practice IF as well though during the week)
The Chernobyl miniseries greatly distorted the impact of the meltdown. They cited the "bridge of death" where everyone supposedly died. In reality there are zero known deaths among people who watched the meltdown from that overpass, and there's even interviews with people who were there. They cited a death estimate of 60,000 when reputable sources estimate 200-1,700 deaths.
> Your government could say it's illegal to receive money under these circumstances, and they basically do. But think about what that means.

That you're committing tax fraud and will probably spend a non-trivial amount of time in prison for tax avoidance as well as having a significant portion of property seized to pay back taxes?
I have seen it also go other ways though - I think it really depends on the family and how they deal with being poor. Families who are poor in currency but very rich in love and social connections seem to still produce great adults who might have some of the scars you are talking about but also are able to overcome them.
The proposal to be explicit is fine, but there are alternative proposals which avoid this problem too:

- Only tail recurse once the stack is n objects deep. Having a 10,000 element stack trace isn't helpful.

- Keep a log of which functions were called, but not a full stack trace of each call. That's O(1).

I mentioned both of those in my post.
Thanks you, +1. If we don't take responsibility for our own problems, to me that spells trouble.

I don't intend to pile on against President Biden, but his recent speech before the labor union sounded like a kid blaiming the dog for eating his homework, when he never did his homework.

I will probably make a bunch of people here mad at me, but there is so much to blame on both political parties. Putting Wall Street's and the War Industry's interests unapologetically before the American public's interests can only go on for so long before everything crashes.
I'm not convinced. I agree that Russia/Ukraine is not the main driver of inflation (certainly isn't helping, though), but I would look more toward supply chain shortages than money-printing. Prices go up when things are hard to find but the demand is still there -- not exactly grad-level econ.
The phenomenon of responding to a statement with a "well what about {quasi-related|unrelated topic}" is called Whataboutism[1].

I think most people use it because they feel there is a larger systemic cause not being addressed by treating a specific symptom, but it does tend to read as a way to shift conversation away from the topic at hand.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
> it's a better feeling to think that you now understand the gears of history through this new lens

This is the thing, there's no harm in reading something like this where the author may be "pushing a narrative", but so long as the reader maintains a modicum of critical thinking I see no harm.