skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was very lucky because I stumbled into the care of perhaps the best orthopedic surgeon at one of the best hospitals in the world and after an L5-S1 spinal fusion he all but commanded me to take up strength training after decades of being a sedentary computer nerd.

He gave me a list of personal trainers who specialize in post-operative strength training and told me to choose (or, the implication being, die-- not a literal death but a slow decline in to frailty potentially worse than death).

My personal trainer sat down and developed an extremely personalized, hyper-detailed plan for comprehensive strength training. She spent more time with me in one week than every single physical therapist I have ever seen in my entire life combined.

Nine weeks post-operation I was bodyweight squatting, then squatting with dumbbells, then squatting with a bare barbell, then weighted, now 1x my bodyweight with a goal of 2x my bodyweight.

I'm in better mental and physical shape in my 40s than I've ever been and now psychomotor tasks both simple and complex are accomplished with an ease I've never known before. My surgeon told me I had one of the best, fastest, recoveries he has ever seen in his entire career, only eclipsed by athletes who did the same thing, starting from a better position.

Both my surgeon and my trainer assert that everyone, from the extremely obese to the elderly to paraplegics to people with "avian bone syndrome" to normal healthy adults should be strength training and I believe them.

Highly recommended.

The only bad part is that I could afford all of this. Insurance will pay for physical therapy but not strength training and the fact that many people who need expert, highly-individualized, strength training guidance will not be able to afford it upsets me.

edit: I am 100% convinced that if I had been prescribed strength training instead of lidocaine patches, dry needling, and physical therapy during previous medical encounters for my back, it is highly likely that I would not have required surgery.
Their quarterly figures.
Kraken has a few thousand employees, has been a remote first company for a decade, and pays the same no matter where you live.
Please do not force people to run a modern WebVM just to see a bunch of pictures... Anyway, this is a bit different BUT NOT offtopic: https://i.ibb.co/gdTBXT0/Corp-Whining-Hist.jpg
I very rarely use Windows, but on Linux my headphones use either LDAC (Sony) or aptX HD (or something like that) for the Shure. On my mac and iPhone they use AAC. Never had any issue with any combination.

Regarding the keyboard, I do feel a slight lag compared to wired, but not enough to bother me. The mouse also seems to have a tiny bit more lag compared to its own dongle; however sometimes it seems very laggy for a moment. This never happens with the dongle. I mostly use these in the countryside, in a detached house with not many wireless or microwave devices around, so I don't think it's interference related. The headphones don't skip a beat, either in the same environment or in my apartment building or office in the city, with plenty of wifis, microwaves, wireless mice, phones, etc around.
The problem I have with tools like this (same as github copilot) is that I need to go ahead and double check if the AI did the right thing. At that point I might as well right the comment.
While this will put some pressure on Apple and Google, personally I still want a third choice of Smartphone Platform.

People would immediately point to Microsoft being a possible third should they decide to do it, I am not looking forward to it as much considering Microsoft would be more of the same as current Apple and Google.

In terms of consumer facing companies, it is sad there is not a single company in Silicon Valley which I like.
It's Illinois. The state is a financial disaster. They are jacking property taxes because they don't know of any other way. Certainly spending less and rooting out the massive systemic corruption do not appear to be on the table.
I forgot to add with the common travel area [1] you could live and work in Ireland. That gives a route to an Irish/EU passport

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area

[2] https://www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-become-a-citizen/beco...
I'm more concerned about why you would need a remote for something that depends on you being there...
I am sure the ChromeOS user interface is the Chrome browser and the integration is at a much deeper level than just a pretty window or pop up. Integrating all other browsers at that level to the ChromeOS will be either extremely difficult or impossible IMHO.
I don’t blame Magnus. It’s a ton of preparatory work year after year and I’m sure the idea of a rematch with Ian is not exciting for Magnus after Magnus absolutely trounced Ian.

In the end this might be the beginning of the end for the “world chess champion.” The game is moving online, and moving to rapid or blitz.
Well, it is great way to make talent in HoCL areas get priced out of the market, should the market reach a point where there's enough talent in LoCL willing to work for lower rates. Theoretically, anyway.
> a kit that could turn any ICE vehicle into a hybrid.

Doable but unpractical in many situations. Internal combustion engine based vehicles are usually a lot heavier than their electric-born counterparts, so their performance would suffer.
I read this line and wondered what really has changed in the past 20 years?

"In 2000, the Nasdaq superheated due to the large number of companies that skyrocketed into the public markets fueled by fanciful metrics disengaged from revenue."

Interest rates have been held around zero since almost the dot com crash and certainly since 2008. No wonder VCs were given gobs of cash to try and eek out a better market return. The injection of cash on Wall Street resulted in huge amounts ending up in the stock market, perpetuating those returns once they went public and encouraging more VC activity. Is there any realistic forecasted revenue stream that justifies the valuations of some of these companies?

Some good companies and good prospects are going to get lost when this monetary bubble bursts. It's a shame, but inevitable considering how long the Fed has been holding their finger on the scale.
Don't forget StartPage. I use that quite a bit too.
There's actually better evidence gun control will reduce suicides than homicides.
kids are much safer in school than they are in a car or at home, yet parents are incredibly fearful of school shootings.

What makes people afraid is driven by the media, not by statistics.
The drive (no pun intended) here is to make that an unnecessary or at least facilitated through different means.

You want people hailing from further distances via public transit and rail, and you want the majority of the businesses in an area servicing a highly dense, local community that can all walk there within 10-15 minutes.

This enzyme must be removed, the American Urban Body reworked to reject suburban thinking like this.
"The venture is led by Josh Sigel, a self-described “internationally recognized thought leader and innovator.” "

The lack of self and social awareness of most of the San Francisco "tech elite" is truly second-to-none.
Looking for a free ad, Gitlab?
> Planting trees is not a serious solution to gun violence or mass transit safety.

again, lots of research would disagree with you.
It absolutely does work. On the other hand, more and more cops doesn't always do the job. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/us/police-crime.html)

I've been on mass transit in a few countries now, and I saw more police presence in the US than anywhere else, but it never made me feel any safer and somehow other countries with better, cleaner, public transit systems don't have the kinds of crime problems the US has.

You want enough police around so that they can respond when there is a problem, but not so much that the environment becomes oppressive.

I'd rather reduce crime by improving the public transpiration system and surrounding neighborhoods than waste tax payer money on having cops sitting around all day on trains and subway cars.
That's actually a great example. Just think of the aggregated human-hours wasted to bring those people together, create that setting, photograph, edit, publish... All for a meaningless flyer or landing page.
So... a taxi, or a route taxi like they have in Russia with extra steps.
Most states and counties I’ve lived in in the southeast US either exempt or minimize property taxes on residents that are over 65.

In fact, my current area (Cobb county, GA) nimbys keep trying to block assisted living residences. The argument is that old people move in, don’t pay into local funds, but the burden is hoisted on other younger families instead.
1974: The Peter Principle
This is a refreshing stance from a company. Kids are too frequently treated as just a way into mom and dad's wallet.
I hope this means Apple is finally forced to start competing on features and not just on being able to block apps from their platform. Case in point: Push notifications for PWAs. If there is an alternate browser that supports this, that can be installed on iPhones, Safari is going to get this real quick.
Not trying to put you in a 'gotcha' situation, but GHGP Scope 3 Category 7 (Employee Commuting) is entirely related to employee actions outside the bounds of the company. Commutes and also home-office energy choices (heating, cooling, use of renewable energy credits, ...) are typically chosen (and paid for) by individuals outside of work but are components of an organization's value chain.
If presenting (the most profitable for the vending machine company) choices is the only criterion, we should skip foods and just have vending machines that offer porn magazines, cigarettes, and hard liquor. Or just install slot machines.
but the cost of rewriting everything that you are currently using through dozens of dependencies and third party libs you are going to go broke.

Unless you have the budget like the DOD which has its own coding language I believe, you are ngmi

Not to mention you would be introducing attack surfaces that wont have enough attention because its only being used by your team.

At least with a widely used lib, vulnerabilities are caught, published (very important) and constantly raising vigilence. here you would have to perform your own threat mitigation and have bounty programs.
In a recession they provide a luxury good that might be down prioritized by customers to save money.
can it really be "best" if you're treated unequally just because live somewhere different?
If we shutdown all schools we would have 0 mass shootings at schools.

This is the only moral choice when dealing with absolutes.
I suppose when science is based on paradigms and paradigms propped up by bias, a decade old is really pretty new.[1]

post video edit: Dr. Becky inexplicably spends more than half the video explaining MOND, and if the evidence is not exactly spanking new, the paper is. The video I link visually explains the evidence found in the paper. MOND does not explain it, so I'm not sure why Dr. Becky distracted us with it, except that it is a more well known theory than External Field Effect. I believe the EFE theory to be correct, and painfully obviously so, once the toy model in the video linked[1] is understood. Dark Matter loses a lot of ground when it is unnecessary to explain galaxy rotation curves, the initial reason for it's existence.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL0ewiwqoTw
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I've absolutely noticed that. I used to pay for GPT-3 access through AI Dungeon back in 2020, before it got censored and run into the ground. In the AI fiction community we call that "Summer Dragon" ("Dragon" was the name of the AI dungeon model that used 175B GPT-3), and we consider it the gold standard of creativity and knowledge that hasn't been matched yet even 2 years later. It had this brilliant quality to it where it almost seemed to be able to pick up on your unconscious expectations of what you wanted it to write, based purely on your word choice in the prompt. We've noticed that since around Fall 2020 the quality of the outputs has slowly degraded with every wave of corporate censorship and "bias reduction". Using GPT-3 playground (or story writing services like Sudowrite which use Davinci) it's plainly obvious how bad it's gotten.

OpenAI needs to open their damn eyes and realize that a brilliant AI with provocative, biased outputs is better than a lobotomized AI that can only generate advertiser-friendly content.
Really sad we don't have a Palm or a General Magic around these days.
Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon
Meh, once we actually get the food it's fine. I think they forgot chips once or twice, which easily checked and corrected. This is across all three stores mentioned. Obviously YMMV.

If only they could reattach their estimated "order ready" times to reality...
There are still some issues to be worked out, such as how the head shape distorts in some examples, but overall, this is very, very impressive work.

Back in the old days, Disney and other animation studios rotoscoped actors performances by drawing over the original image (by hand) each frame. It won't be long now before you just have an artist create a few examples of concept art, and just video the performances of the actors without much / any special setup other than maybe wearing a tracking suit.

How many years away are we from the point where you can just type in a script (or just put in some writing prompts and have an AI generate a script), describe the direction for the actors ("bend over and pick up the bucket", "exit stage left"), and then just churn out a movie?

If you pick up just a little bit of skill with animation, compositing, and such you're a one-person movie studio. Crazy times. This is not what I imagined the future was going to look like, but it will be entertaining.
Dealing with government and taxes there is one additional factor to consider. The government can give tax cuts to targeted groups if they consider it beneficial to society.

So let say the truck has a $5000 tax to pay for yearly wear and tear on roads, but they also get a $5000 tax cut to reduce costs in the transportation sector. That will leave cars to still pay their road tax, even if in comparison they would be a tiny portion of the total road tax.
Bitwig actually has this figured out: all audio stuff is already its own separate separate process and you can even further isolate plugins to separate processes.

Probably they key reason why they get to support X86 plugins on M1.
Using Hermes’s Quicksort to run Doom: A tale of JavaScript exploitation
The US isn’t in the EU though ;)

I can’t speak for all member states but I do know some have a threshold and from that point you have to pay a percentage of the total amount. So some investment firms will game your portfolio to bring you in just enough to fly under that threshold.

The U.K., while not technically an EU member any more (and I’m still bitter about that), also operates this way.

Stamp duty is a U.K. tax placed on purchases of property. It’s free for properties under a threshold but the moment you go over it you have to pay a percentage of the total price of your house. Stamp duty does have incremental percentages but it isn’t calculated like income tax. Thus you’ll often see a lot of properties for slightly under each increment and then a jump in prices after. Some sellers even go as far as to put the house on for £x (under that threshold) but charge extra for additional purchases outside of the property (like a gazebo, hot tub, etc). I’ve even seen some buyers/sellers ask for private bank transfers for the additional extra. Which is outright fraud. But it does still happen.
I agree with you about the mortgage interest deduction. I'm not saying renters have outsized political power; they have, more likely, undersized political power. I'm saying very narrowly that in the market for multifamily building construction, people that need more bedrooms are an important market force, one the market has to pay attention to.

The whole 1bdr vs. 3bdr thing is a total sideshow; the actual issue, again, is SFZ.
Best Free Windows Utilities or Addons
I just saw someone mention "Everything", the Windows search utility. I tend towards Fedora, but have to use Windows regularly. What are the best free (hopefully open source) utilities everyone uses for Windows, or maybe even multiplatform?
If a search service does more than search, this is a problem to be solved, not a property to be accommodated in a naming scheme. One of the core purposes of a service oriented architecture is to define and enforce bounded contexts. Purpose-driven names reinforce that goal.
From what I've seen the usual points of critique were/are:

* "This person does the exact same work, obviously they need to be paid 30% more than you because they could afford to move close to an expensive city before applying" doesn't sound exactly fair

* "We'll value your work less financially if you move somewhere cheaper (not the other way around though)" isn't particularly great

* The message(s) of "You can work from everywhere, people can move back to rural places and reverse demographic drain from there, you can be close to nature, ..." seem a bit hollow when paired with "oh, and if you actually do any of those great things we'll cut your salary"

* At least when it was public, their salary calculator had some hilarious blind spots (one would hope they have a better process when it actually comes down to it)

For the other perspective, they've written about why they do it: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation..., https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-ra...
Working in the industry I do, there are a number of banks I will never used based on the terrifying lack of quality in the software they write. The SBOM on these projects could be printed out and bound as a dictionary there are so many packages included.
I mean it's just cost arbitrage for all of these Americans. Soon enough, it's already happening, they will be out-pricing each other. They are willing to pay rents which would be average monthly salary in Lisbon.

The annoying aspect of this is that Americans with their higher purchasing power sell the narrative that Europe is cheap. It's only cheap if you are making American salaries. For locals and large number of Europeans, it's far from cheap.
Can you link to "HPBN"? I'm not familiar with what this initialism..
Just let property owners declare a value for their land, and give anyone the right to buy it for 120% of that value at any time, with the existing owner given a grace period where they can restate their estimate.
Europe’s requirement of those pesky cookie notices have killed the joy of surfing the net. Every goddamn site has this stupid cookie popup show up. It is like playing whack-a-mole. They should have instead only allow necessary cookies and marketing and other cookies should be part of signing up for a specific service and not just visiting the website. The thought is noble but the implementation sucks.
I've always believed the opposite and I probably will until the day I die.
It's just pixels. You can pass them into a tracer
You could actually have the devices too close (overdriving the RF receiver). Or the two antennas are oriented with their null directions facing each other.

My go-to method to get difficult BT gear to pair is to place both devices in the microwave and shut the door. The microwave is a faraday cage for 2.4Ghz, so it removes interference as a potential problem. If it still fails, you can turn on the microwave and enjoy a light show at least.
I'm not sure that's how it works—at least in the case of NYC. The ~4% tax only applies to those with residence within the city's limits. If you live in Westchester however and work in Manhattan, you escape the 4% income tax (but instead pay higher property taxes).

https://tax.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/571/~/i-don...
OpenSecrets
Cool, got it working. Spews a fair number of warning to stdout though. A few dozen of:

/home/bill/.pretty/lib/python3.10/site-packages/prettymaps/fetch.py:317: ShapelyDeprecationWarning: __len__ for multi-part geometries is deprecated and will be removed in Shapely 2.0. Check the length of the `geoms` property instead to get the number of parts of a multi-part geometry.
list(lines)
/home/bill/.pretty/lib/python3.10/site-packages/prettymaps/fetch.py:317: ShapelyDeprecationWarning: Iteration over multi-part geometries is deprecated and will be removed in Shapely 2.0. Use the `geoms` property to access the constituent parts of a multi-part geometry.
list(lines)
You should make your own black boxes then. By all means, send your dollars to whatever service passes your purity test; I'm just saying that the idea that DALL-E is "polluting" your input is risible. It's already polluting your data at, like, a subatomic level, at dimensionalities it hadn't even occurred to you to consider, and at enormous scale.
> And perhaps, the best attribute: the money collected from property taxes doesn't evaporate from a local area like it does when borrowers pay higher interest rates. It goes back into the local neighborhood, leading to better local infrastructure and higher quality schools.

This much is demonstrably false, at least where I live. I don't even pay property taxes to the city, I pay them to the county. There's no tie between those funds and my neighborhood. Then, a lot of the taxes are passed from the county up to the state as well, where it's further spread out.
I don't think you've ever been an EE who worked in any of those areas; I worked in Microwave & RF. Yes, it is child's play -- because you keep doing the same things over and over.

As for javascript kiddies ---- I suppose you're right, I don't know. And I share your frustration with a new framework solving the same problems we fixed 20 years ago. I get that.

However, CS that drives the world forward -- that stuff --- is not 'turning the crank'. To the extent that any profession is 'turning the crank' --- that is the extent to which some automated systems will be doing that soon enough.

I've done EE, RF, Analog, Digital and much more. That stuff is trivial (and I mean trivial) compared with, say some of the stuff that this guy does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

I can tell you where the 'hard stuff' is in EE: it's in getting to electronic devices & circuits that perform near the limits of what physics allows. Extremely low noise, extremely fast switching, extreme power, those areas. And, yes, those folks have to be clever. Generally, most of those people are building chips, not doing what normal EEs do -- which is connect chips together --- and gluing chips together is trivial, this is my point.

Maybe it's just easy for me, that's possible. But I'm not that smart, so I dunno.

There is a reason Marc of a16z says Software Eat World, and not EE Eat World.
Yup. As an aspiring indie game dev i eagerly await large scale emotive text to speech. Being able to write a script and have it "acted" for a fraction of the cost, possibly free if i build it myself, is kinda mind blowing.
Until your developer decides to write their own encryption routines.
Then you missed the biggest advantage of remote only: they can hire from any market.
Is there a way to trigger a fresh image on demand? That's kind of what I expect when I see a does-not-exist site.
Are EU laws specifically about cookies or do they have broader wording?
Is this data like way off or something? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-deaths-firearms
Not everyone likes doing things. It's one of the reason depression is so common in people with a lot of free time.