skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reason that someone might appear to be "just standing around" is that they're acting as the spotter for the operator. This is a pretty critical role. There are many things buried in most places, both documented and not. When you're going to dig a hole, at least in the US (and I'm sure other places have similar processes) you're supposed to notify mark the site in advance, and any owners of buried "things" are supposed to come out and mark them before you start digging. Now whether these thing (pipes, cables, etc.) are marked or not, someone needs to be keeping an eye on the hole. The operator typically doesn't have great visibility into the hole, and it's the spotter's job to keep a close watch on what's going on. If the spotter sees anything (sand, caution tape, PVC, etc.) they'll communicate with the operator using hand signals to provide increased precision of operation for delicate work, or frequently send the machine out and hand dig over/around whatever may be in there. Until then, the spotter may just be "standing around"
You introduced 'generic', as far as I can tell? Maybe they're personal, family, including children, etc. all sorts of things perfectly reasonable not to want 'on the internet' but to share with somebody else specific (by using the internet, sure).
> Poverty, insecure work, sexism, racism, interpersonal conflict, etc all clearly associate with depression. The vast sums of money spent on looking for the chemical equation of low mood might be missing the forest for the trees

Finally. Finally finally finally. I had a therapist my first go-around tell me, when I asked if I should be on medication, that “sometimes people are depressed because their life just sucks, so let’s see if that’s the case before we consider a chemical intervention.” And he was right.
> "We are not interested in preserving the Eskimo as a hunter. We are interested in giving him the opportunity of becoming a coal miner."

Wow and they say old times were better lol

They were so careless with nature and people
HELOC.
I used to be a top rated developer on upwork even before they renamed upwork from Odesk. I stopped using them since 3 years ago and I would suggest you to keep away from it since the platform has become very predatory over the years.

You need to pay upwork continuously to be able to bid on jobs and you can pay even more to see other people's bids. It has become sort of pay to play scheme.

For example, they advertise and allow you to create a free agency account but you can't apply for jobs until you upgrade to agency plus.

There was also a recent case where upwork permanently suspended a freelancer's account without any recourse where the freelancer had $2000 in their account. I am sure that's not an isolated case knowing what Upwork has become.
There are two kinds of improvements, those of the land itself (like a new road or a water pipe etc) and those like houses or businesses. LVT directly includes the former, as they would be included in anyone's assessment of value (whether that be a government assessor or the owner). However, the value of the land is also indirectly linked to the improvements like houses. If you make a piece of land more productive by building on it then the land itself becomes more valuable, as will nearby land.

So with either kind of improvement the tax can go up, but LVT still encourages development compared to property tax as undeveloped land will still attract a greater proportion of tax than it would under a property tax.
Startups are probably more flexible to work with.

I'm looking for a contractor at the moment: https://travelmap.net/jobs/fullstack-web-developer
anyone who works on their personal side projects on company's times and hardware, risk that the results will become ownership of the company. it's also a bit dishonest and immoral tbh...

I would check the employment contract asap.
This is great, I love it.

Why do the images load so slow though?
Learn Programming Through Building Pokemon Games: Route 1
Hey! I'm Mike and I'm writing my first tutorial on how I learned how to build Pokemon Games. It's a work in progress, and I'll be posting updates here, but I'm excited to take on this challenge!

https://mikercampbell.gitbook.io/gotta-code-them-all/

Whenever I learn a new language, framework, design pattern, or technology I build a Pokemon Game in it. My goal is to use everyday technology like Node.js, Elixir, Go, Postgres, Redis, React, and others to show you how to build Pokemon Games in a way that you could apply the concepts discussed in any other technology.

The Course is broken up into Main Quests and Side Quests, where Main Quests include everything you need to build a game, where Side Quests delve into architectural and scalability, such as Caching, Graph Databases, Web Assembly, etc., and things that I'm just curious about so you can see me use these principals to learn Tech in realtime.

In the end, you will have a Real-time, playable, deployable Pokemon Game clone, with varying degrees of parody depending on what Main Quests and Side Quests you choose to work on.

I published my first Chapter (or as I call them Routes), and am looking for feedback and advice, as I've never done this before!

I've been meaning to do something like this for some time, as I would really like to get into Developer Relations, so I have the goal of getting good at this, and feedback would go a long way.

It was this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093879) that inspired me to take that first step!
> The angles or points of the perimeter are uncountable.

Surely they are countable (countably infinite). The construction algorithm given is a loop where each loop iteration adds a finite number of edges.
> It's 1T worth of... what?

US dollars
Does buying more bonds while raising interest rates means that the wealth is transferred somewhere?

- Countries with broken economy like Italy win

- Countries that kept their economy more viable lose

- Zombie companies will keep going?

- Mortage owners lose (some European countries have floating rate mortages)
But you can mint Tether or USDC on demand and use that to buy BTC.

As long as no one tries to cash it into real money the BTC price goes up and so does the market cap
just set an alarm on your phone, I can't understand how someone could have this problem.
Carbon Language – Who is it even for?
votes are not the only thing that contributes to points, subcomments come into play, not sure how their points factor in
No, I defined it already. You keep trying to show me that my definition isn't good enough, but you haven't yet established why that discussion is relevant to my main point.
Mass and volume are at a premium on any satellite. Adding attachment points and access panels would have reduced the capacity for scientific instruments. Since NASA has no repair capacity now or even seriously planned for the future, it was pointless to design for serviceability. Building and launching a whole replacement JWST would certainly be cheaper, considering that they have some experience now.
I have not had a good experience with Upwork, as far as looking for work.

My experience was that I got 100% scam and dangerously unhinged contacts. Not one single valid proposal ever came my way.

I have heard great things about Upwork, but always from people who wanted to hire, as opposed to be hired.
I have a simpler explanation: boredom. Public opinion was probably getting bored of the big tech trials, which means they might not be fired up about voting for those politicians. So now politicians are pivoting to a different, more attractive cause. Votes are all that matter to politicians. It's unfortunate that the great unwashed still haven't realized this.
Vanguard is probably biggest shareholder of many companies, because the index funds it runs are huge.
>90%, maybe 93%, of project managers, could probably disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency.

Wait, what?
People need computers / smartphones

They don’t need the latest one every year, so buying one every few years is fine, but they need one at least

And for big families, typically you will need a smartphone per person — computer can be shared
Missing from the comments here, Big Tech in many cases, especially as far as social media is concerned, acts as a private extension of our intelligence agencies. We wouldn't want to regulate our own intel assets into irrelevance.
Yes, I just added my email to my profile. If you click on my name, it's in "about".
ah yes "anti-competitive" and not "pro consumer"

nice choice of words
Are we taking about the same comment? We’re taking about one that mentions an alarm, not an album.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163781

And yes, I get that it rutina the fun to break down the logic too much, but you specifically complimented a style, and claimed the persona generally “had a gift” when there was no obVious style that made the comment funny, just the fact of the alarm being long obsolete for its intended purpose.
Apple Agrees to $50M Settlement over Butterfly Keyboard Complaints
Human rights are for human beings. Corporations are not people. They're just made of people, like Soylent Green.
Even if that wasn't the case yesterday it is today. The plumber doesn't have the luxury of caring WTF FB and Google are up to when his van eats $100 of gas every day.

There's a baseline amount of economic stability in one's lifestyle that's needed before people care about fairly abstract and diffuse problems like big tech and the environment.
>and tend to buy what they _don't_ already have.

Ehh....in the time I was there, they bought Tableau _and_ Datorama in the same month, and they already had reporting/analytics features (although not as in-depth).

They also bought a dozen or so machine-learning companies that all did similar (or even identical) things over the span of the 5 years I worked there.

Famously, they bought Heroku, and then completely ignored it (including internally -- there were efforts at one point to have Heroku be the "way forward" for internal development on PaaS providers, and they scrapped that entirely while keeping Heroku more-or-less running).

I'd say Salesforce tends to buy whatever shiny thing gets Benioff's attention for the moment, usually because he talked to somebody at a conference. The guy tends to ram through quite a few questionable business decisions, and these days Bret Taylor's job as "co-CEO" is mostly "cleanup crew" for Benioff's various whims.
So lockdown mode disables any attachment except images on their messaging app, because parsing these has often been introducing exploits.

The fascinating this is that this parsing would happen on a process which even _has_ privileges to trigger any exploits. Parsing a message should be done far far away from the core OS operations, high in userspace, by a sandboxed process that can't break anything.

Based on previously seen exploits, it seems messages are handled by rather privileged processes. I wonder if there's a reason for that (e.g.: special messages can trigger privileged operations?)
Most of those have a very long lag though.
The EU is more corrupt. All China needed to stop EU statements on Human rights was some investments into Greece and making a few calls[1].

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-un-rights/greece-block...
You hand-waved away the advancements in robotics like it was nothing. You ignored the significant technological advancements behind the space telescopes, focusing instead on the relatively mundane transportation method. What's up with that?
> It can be lifted and reapplied without disturbing.

From a screw? That seems implausible but I'd love to be proven wrong.
I agree. So are corporations.
yes, that's why he gave certain groups more preference. He talked a big game but wasn't new.

Remember how he, like most recent presidents, shilled for the apartheid state israel?

He was a harder to control stooge so he was ditched for biden who can't even speak properly.
It's not absolute, but it's a "smell". And I was responding to a silly partisan talking point without any value.
Greenpeace Says IAEA Downplayed Damage at Chernobyl by Russian Troops
You didn’t disprove what your parent said. People still just tap yes on them. I ran an experiment and put little snitch on my wife’s laptop. She just clicked “accept” every time it popped up without question.
> Apple isn't even the market leader in EU, and EU is going to regulate them.

They have a monopoly on iphones.
Their debt is worth 10 % less than it was a year ago in real terms, so they are arguably in a better situation now than in the past.
Coding Interview Prep for Big Tech (FAANG) – and How I Became a Google Engineer
I was mostly referring to the points we see on our comments themselves, like the one that would be on yours (it should now read 2 or more, because I upvoted it... unless (and that's my point) someone else downvoted it))
Port knocking maybe?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking
That is a an excellent point. My wife's English got much better from us watching Friends with subtitles too. I gave them a DVD player and a few movies, thanks.
What studies do you want? There are multiple studies linking air flow to probability of being infected with COVID. It's all but settled science now. Do you need a study that specifically looks at people on a plane to be convinced?

The fact is that air on an airplane is exchanged much more frequently than air in any building. You're not at very much risk unless people sitting in your immediate vicinity are infected and contagious.
Can you do concurrent reads to a disk? I actually don't know the answer to this. I'm pretty sure you can't on an HDD, but I don't know about an SSD.
The value that cryptocurrency provides is as a payment network between less trustworthy parties. In cryptocurrency, there is a net transfer of wealth from users (in the form of transaction fees) and owners (in the form of inflation/block reward) to miners, who provide value by securing the network.

But I agree that in terms of literal dollars, you could define some sort of "Gauss' Law of Economics" along the lines of:

The amount of dollars a financial entity has is equal to the time-integral of the rate of dollars entering the system minus the rate of dollars leaving the system.
FWIW APL is pretty influential to Matlab which is the inspiration for Numpy, etc. I think the trouble is that the authors are right about the importance of notation but they were also making the first pass and they made some choices that proved to be off in practice.
The Chinese people don't seem to overthrow governments at a particularly quick rate. The last three dynasties before the revolution lasted about 210 years each.
That is also a form of corruption though. Voter sentiment shouldn't be prioritised over protecting democracy and the constitution.
A site that big is clearly distributed and parallelized in addition to the caching.
Wait, so in what sense is it a monolith then? :D
The industry will always find ways around regulation. And what we’re left with is a confusing set of spaghetti laws.
He reads the audiobook as well, it's definitely worth listening to.
What difference does them being a US company make? They're listed on the NASDAQ? The CEO lives in the US? Seriously, what does it mean to be a US company?

> look at Airbus, InBev or LVMH.

I did. Google's EU division had more revenue than any of those companies worldwide. It seems like Google's EU division (which is an EU company owned entirely by Google) is a bigger EU company than any of those three.
That's an interesting point I hadn't thought about before but it should have been obvious. Crypto is inherently inflationary to the system as a whole, since you're increasing the amount of currency without increasing the number of goods.
Can we protect land for nature and carbon by simply buying it up?
I don't know about rails but I've been part of Codementor (https://www.codementor.io/) for a while now and I found it works really well for small time contracting and building up relationships that can lead to bigger contracts.
It's wrongheaded to go about horse racing from the viewpoint of "betting on the best horse". Even if your judgement is a bit better than average, the track takes a 15-18% vig and you'll still lose money unless you outperform that.

The right way to think about it is "finding a good bet". A few times a day you find a situation where a place or show bet is terribly mispriced compared to win. The tote board gives highly accurate odds to win but sometimes you see place or show paying almost the same as win except you have two or three chances to win instead of one. In a case like that if you believe the win odds are fair, place or show is a slam dunk and you can really make money that way.

See https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Beat-Racetrack-William-Ziemba/dp/0...
Eve’s new motion sensor is the first with Thread
IIRC, those fees are charged to the merchant in order to process transactions. Traditional credit cards are similar in theory. For example, American Express has long had the reputation that in addition to the cards people know (Green, Gold, Platinum, etc.) technically being "charge cards" that need to be paid in full each cycle, merchants pay a higher fee to accept them.

^ Offset of course by the fact that most customers have pretty good credit to begin with and probably spend more than your average Visa or Mastercard.

In addition, I would also expect them to be paying for integration into someone's payment infrastructure to provide other services - PayPal, Stripe, Square, and the like.
The idea of 1link [1] is to offer a link page similar to what you can do with Linktree [2], but specifically designed for indie authors. For now, the main addition compared to other services is the ability to showcase your books by displaying a beautiful animated 3D cover.

I have some ideas for future features, such as having one page for each book and aggregating data like reviews. But instead of building features that no one will use, I’m communicating with potential users to see what problems they need to be solved.

I also published the HTML template for free on Gumroad [3], if anyone wants to use it on their website :)

[1] https://1link.st

[2] https://linktr.ee

[3] https://scastiel.gumroad.com/l/author-link-page
How would Apple counter fingerprinting?

Already pointed out this issues in a prior point here 14-days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32006436

From that comment: “If Apple is logging if this feature is on and sending it back to Apple, it will result in targeting from nation states even if this feature is “invincible” - which I have no reason it is; basically, nation states demand list of users subject to its jurisdiction.”

Obviously there are likely other ways to fingerprint Apple devices with lockdown mode on, but to me, at the point you need “lockdown mode” likely should realize the doing so will likely make you more of a target.
The Delta Works in the Netherlands were a pretty good idea IMO

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
I personally hate infinite scrolling and would choose pagination over it for most things. Infinite scroll is essentially just pagination but with auto-loading the next page, without numbering...
Still cool as a learning tool!
...The EU using an update to a rule as a pretext? Yeah, never happened ever.
“Last year, Bolt Financial, a payments start-up, began a new program for its employees. They owned stock options in the company, some worth millions of dollars on paper, but couldn’t touch that money until Bolt sold or went public. So Bolt began providing them with loans — some reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars — against the value of their stock.

In May, Bolt laid off 200 workers. That set off a 90-day period for those who had taken out the loans to pay the money back. The company tried to help them figure out options for repayment, said a person with knowledge of the situation who spoke anonymously…”
Those are very avoidable. Try work apps like slack, teams, concur.
>People do not run a single benchmark tool when comparing hardware, they use multiple.

Most Youtubers base the performance of the CPU on Cinebench. They definitely aren't Anandtech, where CPU is measured with SPEC.

>Cinebench is part of almost every hardware review for a good reason: its characteristics (CPU only, not dependent on cache, memory speeds nor timings) are well understood and provide valuable information on a specific aspect of the hardware.

Cinebench is being used as an end all CPU benchmark too often. Just look at the author I replied to.

Again, if one were to use one single benchmark to denote the performance of a CPU, they should use SPEC. Absent of SPEC, they should use Geekbench. Cinebench is pretty far down the list.
“There is no longer any excuse when building in the cloud for using RDBMS”
No one is saying that the last 50 years have not been good for progress, or that these discoveries do not have value.

But to claim that they amount to more progress than all of the rest of human history combined is objectively wrong, especially given the amazing advances of the 50-70 years preceding them (1900-1969), which did fundamentally revolutionize human knowledge and form the scientific advances that all subsequent progress is based on, from planes to rockets and from QM to fusion reactors today.
Beyond the impact of any specific policy, these decisions lead to the very obvious conclusion that oil faces significant political headwinds during the Biden administration and is therefore a bad investment right now.

It's fair to argue that this is right decision for the future of humanity, but not to claim that these policies have no effect on short term energy prices.

Long term, I think the country (and the world) are still divided (though HN clearly leans hard against oil). The future for oil could go either way, depending on the results of future elections.
That's the link I used to learn it, it's available online from that link for free. If you look at the CRC - it's an easy read, designed that way on purpose. Chapters are streamlined and much shorter, reads much faster. It's not quite a how-to guide there's definitely some challenges.
Doing God's will.
There is literally a move to do that. They are openly campaigning to repeal the Human Right Act and replace it with something that strips away most protections that are currently available to people whose human rights are violated by government.

The main changes being proposed are to give the government of the day more power and less judicial oversight, not parliament. Most changes are about removing people's ability to take the government to court. So it is the government of the day that becomes more sovereign, not parliament.

The changes don't affect parliament at all.

UK parliament is and always was ultimately sovereign on these issues. That was already true, with or without the Human Rights Act, and even when the UK was in the EU. (Otherwise there would have been no need for the UK to create its own Human Rights Act.)

In fact it was the UK parliament that put this judicial oversight of government in place in the first place by passing the Human Rights Act. Fashions change, and the current lot in power want to take the oversight away again.
Yeah I agree. That was kind of my point also -- the "decentralized" block-chain is pretty reliant on centralized exchanges.

Real jobs is an interesting one. To the individuals yes they are real. To the economy there is no value creation and therefore the work done by these companies is just ultimately burning investor dollars & the planet in a lose:lose situation (as with everything crypto related).
I work in the healthcare space - (I am no expert on how to fix it), but my two cents is there is so much inefficiency right now across the board that is just crying out for automation and complete revamp in how services are provided - which I suspect amazon could improve - if I had to guess though, where they are going to run into problems is if/when they start treating providers (MDs, NPs, PAs) like interchangeable widgets, that many will not want to work for amazon and will head for the exit - unless the pay is much better than they can get elsewhere.