skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend works as a ER surgeon which is extremely physically and emotionally demanding. It’s a really hard job, but it’s also rewarding in a way that the worst jobs just aren’t.

As to manual labor, most of what’s been automated has been manual labor. Not just obvious stuff like dishwashers but heaters and cars save extreme amounts of physical effort.
There is no legitimate SWE shortage though. Most software can run in maintenance mode with minimal staff and no feature growth. A hospital is dead without nurses.
In this case they weren't even running the tool, just looking over reports generated by the dev team.
If we can ever get that kind of brain read technology so to speak, it can also finally settle the aggravating and mind bending question of whether your blue is the same as my blue. Wouldn't it be wild if our interpretation of colors were all varied?
There's plenty of 'report whatever fits our business model best and makes the most money'.
"There’s also the fact that degrowth is ridiculous on the merits. It would require central planning of the global economy that goes far, far beyond anything ever attempted."

I don't know, Pol Pot certainly cut Cambodia's carbon emissions. /sarc

How about all you wealthy people get your own wallets out and develop power that is better, cheaper and faster than the alternatives, then the poor could afford it anyway without their job being exported to China. Like the early Ford cars and mobile phones.

And I'm not eating grasshopper burgers.
This is an amazing change! Almost all credit card disputes I have seen are this category. This is a huge win for merchants and keep people honest.
Then let the motivational fines begin and see if that helps get things moving.
Fascinating! Though, I doubt that the jumping spider's view would have such a blowing DOF, as in the picture.

I guess, all vision systems (sensors and processing) would be optimized for primary needs, should these be food search, mating, shelter, and predator evasion?

As for dogs, I wonder if for them the "vision" is more than just optical pathway. It may be augmented with olfactory detail to "color" the visuals as needed for their priority. After all, colors is very notional concept, even to humans it's more than just wavelengths.
First, I am talking about actual Republicans - party members either in office or currently running. Reddit is filled with bots and people venting and has no bearing on reality. If you can point out any Democrat who has publicly threatened Republicans by name - either directly or through innuendo - such as the examples below, I will accept your argument. Otherwise you're just repeating "both-sides" nonsense.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/house-candidate-jerone-davison...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/marjorie-taylor-gree...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/us/politics/gosar-violent...
Minecraft bans NFTs and blockchain, saying they don’t align with game’s values
After Apple discontinued iDVD there was a significant gap (for me) for DVD creation at a reasonable price. Nothing that I’m aware of even attempts to provide blu-ray authoring (at least for Mac users).

There’s a lot of additional metadata that might be needed for anything worth sending to a presser - for example menus, but I agree, having a simple tool for DVD creation would be great.
The Bay Area usually commands a premium because a) quality of talent b) the ability to scale out a team.

Quality of talent means not only intelligence and skill but also people who have spent years working on the specific thing you are building (hardware/firmware, AI, at scale codebases or services).

If you assume that timezone matter and relevant experience working in large orgs is important, the Bay Area premium will continue for the foreseeable future.

Scale means you can hire 100-200 talented IC's within a year that meet the quality of talent criteria and have experience working and getting things done in larger orgs, the ability to do so also commands a premium.

Only a few other places in the USA have this scale, i.e New York and Seattle.

Coinbase the company I work for is fully remote and does salary bands by location. Within the USA, Seattle/New York and the Bay Area all are in the same top tier band. Also, the majority of our USA engineering workforce is still based in these hubs despite being fully remote for nearly 2 years. I don't expect this trend to change any time soon.
Hm, a bundle of maintenance mode software is a better fate than the usual "our incredible journey."
Yeah sorry but that excuse “because of the economy” feels like a half finished sentence. What exactly “the economy” do they mean? The sentence would make just us much sense if they said “because the moon”
I found the link incredible, and the fact its from 1999 is even cooler. Thanks for sharing
https://blog.roblox.com/2022/03/real-time-facial-animation-a...
This is correct. They are essentially a competitor of Vanguard. It's amazing how many people think they're some kind of hedge fund or prop shop making directional bets and gambles.
It's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are there only 6 emoji reacts? Do they realize that people prefer Slack because the experience is better?

On top of all that, if you don't have a "Microsoft/Office365 Business" account, you can't even connect/join a meeting from a handful of clients, depending on if you're chatting or teleconferencing. Only Chrome/Edge works on browser, I can't remember if Android works at all without a business account, the Linux client kinda works? It was such a pain when I tried to interview with a Teams-using org that I think I just sent them a Zoom invite, which of course just works everywhere.
Also, The North American Water and Power Alliance top bring water to California from Alaska by building nuclear powered pumps and atomic blasting out new channels. After failing to be adopted the plan in later years has been picked up and promoted by the Lyndon LaRouche Movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...
why build two toolkits that are similar?
Just go straight to land-value tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I'll never trust stock photos again
The US based startup I am working with used to give 1 additional holiday each month on last Monday as Mental Health Day since we had to move to WFH after pandemic.
Last year it got acquired by a listed company of UK. The first thing they did was to cancel this saying it was not in their policy.

Most people did not mind loosing 1 day holiday per month but all of us felt that new company did not care about it's employees.
You could try watching movies based on books:
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/great-movies-based-on-books
The term "abduction" was coined by CS Peirce to describe the process that puts hypotheses on the docket to be tried by induction and deduction. Sometimes folks use it to mean something like "inference to best explanation", but that's not how Peirce meant it.

> Proposals for hypotheses inundate us in an overwhelming flood, while the process of verification to which each one must be subjected before it can count as at all an item, even of likely knowledge, is so very costly in time, energy, and money -- and consequently in ideas which might have been had for that time, energy, and money, that Economy would override every other consideration even if there were any other serious considerations. In fact there are no others. For abduction commits us to nothing. It merely causes a hypothesis to be set down upon our docket of cases to be tried.

— CS Peirce (Collected Papers §5.602)
Tesla sells most of its Bitcoin holdings
Quite true. Best case, we're seeing DJ Spooky style culture jamming/remixing. But more likely it is as you write.

On the other hand, the market for stock photography was already decimated by the internet. Where previously skilled photographers would create libraries of images to exemplify various terms and sell these as stock, in the last decade or so, an art director with the aid of a search engine could rapidly produce similar results.
Since you brought it up, what’s the output of uname -a on Solaris 11?
The Jetsons had it right all along
So.. ROI?
It isn’t someone’s personal/unique suffering that I am invalidating. They are saying that we are having uniquely depressing times _in general_ which if you take a brief look at history is laughably invalid.
Atlassian reveals critical flaws in almost everything it makes and touches
Yeah, an interest refund would be a creative way of dealing with this.
That's wrong. Induction is the process of empirically producing natural laws.

Our givens are the observed state of the experiment before (i.e. the antecedent, or "premise"), and after (i.e. the consequent, or "conclusion" of) an event. These givens are the only observations.

Induction is the process of creating an inferential rule (e.g. a causal hypothesis) that allows us to deduce the given consequent from the given antecedent (e.g. by applying a formula).

Abduction has different givens. In that case, we have observed consequences, and are given a set of inferential rules (e.g. natural laws) that could have produced the observed consequence. We then try to acquire evidence to support theories about which (unobserved) antecedent led to the (observed) consequent, by using one of our given inferential rules.
Yeah, and McDonald's is one of the most popular restaurants. Doesn't say much about the quality of restaurants in general. There's a lot of a wildly good, life-changing fiction out there.

A couple hints:

Almost all fantasy is terrible.

Almost everything the internet likes is terrible.

Almost everything in a series format is terrible.
It doesn't mean that at all. When we need one feature we write it, rather than exposing the 1000 features of an open-source library to the internet when we only need one feature.

We won't write it ourselves if we aren't sure we can do it well, i.e. we're not going to roll our own encryption. Those are the types of dependencies we do use, and upgrade once a month like clockwork.

The point is not "don't use someone else's encryption library," the point is "don't use someone else's LeftPad() function that takes 3 lines to write". That gives us fewer dependencies, which makes it easier to upgrade all dependencies regularly, which is good for security.
> cannot get a fix on the same reality as their neighbors

I believe this phenomenon was way more severe in the past. The reason you notice it now is because these meme cones are rubbing up against each other in public forums. In the past, isolated communities wallowed in their own wacky shit totally unchallenged. Pick any major religious movement of the 19th century and tell me they had a firm grasp on reality?
My company has unlimited vacation. I take time off regularly, and the CTO explicitly calls me out on it in all-hands meetings as someone to emulate.

A coworker that typically holds the heavens up like Atlas felt like he's burning out, so he's about to take 3-6 months off to do yoga in Switzerland or something. Everyone's happy for him. It sucks for project schedules I'm sure, but it's better to take a break and come back fresh than burn out and leave. Another coworker just came back from a 3 month sabbatical, and her fresh mental state will be a great productivity boost.

I just spent a week on a family vacation, then another week volunteering at a solar car race, and then another few days visiting family. I was looking forward to actually getting some focused work done this week, but now I'm out sick and only have the mental capacity to read HN and sleep. I suppose I feel about as productive as I usually do, since I can still respond to people on slack all day!
Early in the war, "someone" (obviously Russia) released a deepfake of Zelenskyy giving a speech telling his soldiers to surrender: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/1087062648/deepfake-video-zel...
Party's over! Back to IRC!
About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.5
The obvious counterargument here is that having lawyers write 4000 page de-risked evil genie wishes just normalized the concept of dealing with evil genies. Apple can negotiate around the margins - maybe they stop making their ad tracking identifier opt-out or something. And indeed, that seems good, we increased privacy compared to the alternative. However, this isn't the full picture. Apple is the one who provided that ad tracking identifier in the first place. More generally, they brought a lot of users straight into Facebook's open, gaping maw.

Furthermore, the lawyer isn't just de-risking one evil genie wish, they're de-risking millions of them. Apple does not just have Facebook on the App Store. They have millions of apps. And as you can imagine, many of them are barely reviewed garbage or outright scams. If these apps tried to get distributed outside of the App Store, nobody would trust them. But them being on the App Store gives users a false sense of security. Apple switched from being highly selective in the early days of iOS to doing bare-minimum checks because the latter made them more money.
I get around it by using specifiers in strings and using string substitution before passing off to the Regex
More like a) well-funded || revenue-generating firms competing in a limited pool of local talent and b) high salaries have yielded high costs of living, so to hire local, we must pay said premium
Malware occurs in both environments and often comes through the default app store.
Forced institutionalization would be far more common than prison for political dissenters in 1970s already.
It’s hard to discuss animal vision without bringing up the mantis shrimp, which is somewhat unique in this regard and also very bada*:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
They're also lucky HipChat got acqui-murdered.
I was working for a friend's company acquired by Salesforce. They didn't bring him on board. I left after one day. My buddy working next to me left after one month. Others after him. It was a small company. Maybe disrupting a culture isn't so great an idea.
THAT Reduced Their Database Load by 80% and Response Times by 40x
I pay for a YouTube premium family plan so my father and grandfather don’t watch YouTube ads.
We’re affected. EDU in Midwest.
And, to fully refute the BS of nobody wants to work anymore:
"More workers now hold two full-time jobs, defined as more than 35 hours a week per job, than at any point since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began collecting this data in 1994"

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1549859727978516481
(link to Washington Post story)
Tesla Sells Majority of Bitcoin After Turbulent Crypto Foray
Thanks. Will try again.

Edit: Joined the discord via the beta and got in. Thanks a lot for the heads up!
What happened with a16z is truly amazing.
Not sure what org you were in but Apple engineering orgs I was in always seemed to “power down” around Thanksgiving. Trying to schedule meetings or get new things done was tough.

Tim got in the habit of giving everyone Thanksgiving week off, and while I don’t remember the specific Christmas shutdown schedule, PTO days were generous enough that you could supplement two or three and create a 2 week vacation.
Coders everywhere suddenly become more productive...
feel bad for the people living in areas cited like Coventry and Rugby who will suddenly have far more air traffic overhead
Sydney, Aus. Been down for a few hours now.
"I've not seen this in real systems, therefore it can't exist" ?
I'm good at what I love and the world needs it. Also it's a 6 figure salary. I just followed my passion, never really followed the money. Many people I met who followed the money and desperately failed. As a result spending years on something that just didn't work out. Think for yourself and plan you future accordingly to your situation.
Go on, I'm happy to be corrected, less so for people to make unhelpful asides.
s/distributes/distributed/
The document argues that the NEL was fair use in IV. B. Here is part of what they say:

>In those unique circumstances, the Internet Archive reasoned that the technical controls
limiting the number of concurrent lends to the number of non-circulating copies Internet Archive
or its partner libraries had on hand was not necessary. Id. ¶ 71. Given the massive number of
books sitting idle on library shelves, doing so would not increase the number of copies of books
in circulation above the number of copies libraries had bought and paid for. Id. ¶¶ 92–95. The
Internet Archive still imposed the full array of other protections—lending books for limited
periods, using DRM software to protect the books from being kept outside that loan period, and
so on. Id. ¶¶ 34–35. And under those unique circumstances, lending books in that way was fair use. As with
CDL, analysis of the data reflects that the publishers did not actually lose out on any revenues as
a result of the NEL.
Arguably anything in the docs that say "Run nix-env ..." is wrong, or at least not the flakes way of doing things. It would be much more clear if the docs just came out and said "nix-env is deprecated, move to flakes, here's where to read the flakes way to do things".
What's wrong with sharing the information?

If you aren't interested, why take the time to write a complainey reply which adds nothing to the conversation? Seriously, it's annoying for other members of the community to read, and several superior options exist:

- Simply ignore it and move on with your life

- Press the "hide" link that HN generously includes for every story

You're welcome, WatchDog.
The areas most severely overpriced in America (university education, medical care, housing) actually have massive government involvement, and in my opinion that's not a coincidence.

Of course there's legitimate reasons and benefits for some of that involvement, but maybe the pendulum needs to swing back a bit.
In my case, the street car noise was roughly comparable to a garbage truck, but much more frequent. Significantly louder than a diesel bus though, and not as flexible. Better than diesel buses are trolley-buses; electric buses that use overhead power lines like the trolley, but with rubber road tires instead of train rails. Those are really quite, but aren't as flexible with rerouting as diesel buses. But between the trolley-buses and diesel buses, I think streetcars don't have much of a niche. I just don't see why a city today would opt to install streetcars if they could use trolley-buses instead.

Motorcycles are definitely the worst offenders though. Not all motorcycles are loud, but the loud ones are really loud.
There is an anachronism were the following circumstances collide:

- lending is limited to the original bought copies (a library cannot create more copies of a book for further lending)

- digital lending requires sending the data to another device creating a copy

- digital lending has near-zero marginal cost (specially at scale)

- digital borrowing has near-zero marginal cost (no library membership, single click borrowing for some minutes or some hours with single click return)

IMHO I think Archive is legally in the right and it is only due to the previous circumstances, Archive.org collaborating with _a lot_ of libraries, and the tension between the older/traditional socialist/communal lending practice vs newer/contemporary private property laws that allows this conflict to emerge.
Most banks are very loosey goosey. They shrug off his fees and will still go on doing it the same way.
I was excited to hear about this, with visions of having my luggage tracked though each terminal and stop like an AirTag and reducing the change of loss or delay.

Alas, the main benefit is that you don't have to print out a luggage tag at the airport. You still have to wait in line to hand your luggage to someone so they can check if it obeys the checked requirements.
Checkers Was Solved
For the longest time, I had this idiotic system where I copy my old “Documents” folder as a sub directory on the new Documents folder.

after a while, this became all archived on an old Linux box in my basement running Samba so everyone could connect to it.

Eventually I gave up and archived this on a our service.

These days I treat anything on a PC as ephemeral. Almost all work is done in GitHub, Google docs etc. these are major services, so I’m not too worried in the near term.

Yet I shudder to think what I’m going to do when one of these single points of failures goes away.
> Couldn't someone with a cheap windows PC and a pair of monitors + misc. data feeds just replicate it for considerably less money?

No.

The data feeds are ridiculously numerous. Something like 35 million assets have pricing pipes to Bloomberg. On top of that are specialised reference data; like an App Store, there are entire businesses built on serving over Bloomberg. The terminal transforms those data through tens of thousands specialised, constantly-maintained tools. Every user has a unique set of mission-critical functions they would need replaced to switch. Then there is the support; <Help> <Help> brings up an analyst who can take a spreadsheet and turn it around as a completed work product. Bloomberg’s sales reps, who speak like twenty languages, including corporate speak across every major bank. (Bb Messenger is overrated in my experience; trading without messenger is annoying but possible and plenty of industries roll their own.)

OpenBB is a Fisher Price oven to the industrial analog. It captures the motions, but devoid of their underlying meaning and power.
There are definitely people there who are relishing in this change. Such a sad mentality, but I remember reading plenty of whine posts about why it’s unfair for Heroku to not use GUS or, why does X acquisition still get to have free lunch.
Not sure from your comment if you understood that policide is like homicide or infanticide, not suicide. It's a wonk term about destroying a political party or system.

Politicide is like genocide, except you target only members of a specific party, like how the Trotskyists were killed by Stalin, or what Pinochet did to Allende's party in Chile. I haven't read this anywhere, but I assume that one usually follows the other.

I may have actually mixed them up in my original comment now that I look at it. Serves me right for spending too much time on Wikipedia.
Baidu unveils autonomous vehicle with detachable steering wheel
Absolutely I don't know the price of bunker fuel off hand so I googled it.

Are you saying you think that the price of fuel has dropped in the 4 years ? Because looking at the oil market that seems unlikely.

No argument on the pollution item. I'm not anti-electrification in general and yes I had read the article. I just think we should be looking at low hanging fruit. Airlines and large ships are going to be the hardest/most expensive to convert.