skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar story here, the Finnish collective agreement, which covers IT workers, spells this out explicitly:

* For every hour you're available for on-call you get your regular hourly rate.

* For every incident, which involves you working, you receive twice your hourly salary for the duration.

So companies based her tend to have that as standard, though I'm sure some companies would pay more to stand out.
the educational system is there to sort people with something vaguely relevant in the current economy. that is all.
No, there is a proper us code-compliant solution for outdoor 240 receptacles - it’s that 4 prong 50amp one … you see them coming out of the ground at ski resorts, for instance, and they are also used on those outdoor PDUs you see at concerts and parades …

Edit: I think it’s a 14-50r.

Edit2: You almost certainly don't need these. A plain old 20amp 110 receptacle, on a dedicated circuit, GFCI, is a perfectly reasonable and code-compliant receptacle to put all over the outside of your house and will power anything you might need.

I can believe that a 15amp (pressure washer, weeder, etc.) might seem underpowered but I am skeptical that a 20amp one would be ...
I am reading "Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive" by Philipp Detmer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XTNHRR5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...). It is a great book for the layman, and explains a number of processes in simple and lively analogies. My understanding of the immune system increased greatly.

However this paper of all the interactions is at a higher level. I could just barely relate it to what I know. As an engineer I appreciate the presentation of the data and the amount of thought that went into it. I will have to study the paper more.
That used to work for me when I was younger. Just power through it. Make all the mistakes yourself. Now I am older, and I prefer learning from the mistakes of others. I ain't got time for brute force.
Because they want to be. I like rifling through old photos/videos my parents took of themselves and me and my sister and other family members. We get start talking about what/who
has changed since then, make fun of old fashion choices, and otherwise reminisce.

Photos can also help jog memory of a specific time and place that you otherwise would not remember.
Does not really inspire confidence when half of links on the page does not work.

* mailing list - Does not work

* news - Broken

* donate - Broken

* Overveiew -> Install -> 404; however Install works.
Something that’s always bugged me about streaming protocols of this type is that they prevent processing pipelining.

If trailers are used for things such as checksums, then the client must wait patiently for potentially gigabytes of data to stream to it before it can verify the data integrity and start processing it safely.

If the data is sent chunked, then this is not an issue. The client can start decoding chunks as they arrive, each one with a separate checksum.
Alarmingly accurate, I think most PMs accept that their role is a sort of well-intentioned grift.
> can be shortened to "I just like MacOS and I really hate Windows, period"

Which is a perfectly reasonable stance. I have used Mac OS, Windows and Linux for many years each, and Mac OS is the one that supports my use case the best. If your experience differs and you picked something else, that's fine too.

There are no winners and losers, because those choices are not part of our identity. I'd be happy if we could move past that, because one more year of this debate won't settle anything.
Because at a certain point: time > cash.
I'm in graduate school now, and I took some CS courses in undergrad ~20 years ago, and fundamentals haven't changed as much as the superficial garbage that is all the rage in industry. There are new approaches and capabilities, especially around deep learning (largely because we've replaced the push toward higher clock speeds with a push for parallelism, and almost everything is close enough to a parallel problem that a neural net can do the job), but the fundamental ideas don't change that much because real computer science (as opposed to industry wankery which pays $500,000+ but rots your brain) only accepts ideas when there's at least some evidence they actually work.

So, if you studied computer science in 1990 and kept the knowledge up, you'd still know a fair amount of what's relevant today. The problem is that what's employable isn't actually computer science, but trendy industry nonsense... the real CS is just in place to be an IQ test, a first-line hiring barrier.
Yes, we didn't make any changes in how quotes retrieve content with the announcement we made. We changed how we show snippets for quoted searches.
12 bar venue was still active in the early 2000s. It was still the place to go for instruments in London until about 10-15 years ago.
That's not inflation as much as our society's shattered version of a meritocracy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32377009 got more traction.
Many successful artists have not undertaken university-level training in their art.

However, most of them will have been trained by someone who did.

Reduce arts education funding at the highest level and the reduction trickles down to the lowest levels.
Note though it's not fuel cost we're taxing, but carbon, so more efficiently made fossil fuels would be cheaper and have less carbon tax, even if they are chemically indistinguishable from other fuels and contain the exact same number of fossil carbon atoms.

Things like, does the delivery truck have an efficient engine. Does the refinery use green or gray hydrogen to desulpherise the inputs, do they buy their fossil fuels from Norway vs Russia and so on.

It might only be a small difference but small differences across the whole economy is how the carbon tax is supposed to work.
My parents were factory workers in socialist eastern block. Recently my father recalled that Wrangler bag, he received when he finally had money to buy branded jeans was status symbol on par with the jeans itself. Currently I'm earning maybe a half of what's advertised as average dev salary in US (which admittedly takes me much further, where I live - maybe you guys should consider relocation?).

May I have my happiness-pass now please? :-)

> The real advice is to fight tooth and nail to try to get oneself and family to financial safety.

It is. My parents surely did and I'm also going to (btw calling this privilege and guilt tripping over fact, that somebody's parents are decent human beings is kinda weird).

This is how life works. No reason to obsess over some places being shitty. There's less of them than a few generations ago (fun fact - my city still has its old beheading stone. Thankfully not used for couple hundreds of years).
Look at a high level journal and top published papers. Most papers come from certain institutions, mostly from developed countries. Those institutions don't live in a vacuum but have a big cultural and economical environment around them that would take decades to build from scratch.
More in regards to the way The Sims handled expansions. With every sequel, all the expansions you bought were worthless. They're not cheap either; an expansion cost the price of an AAA game. With The Sims, EA popularized the model of selling incomplete games.

I think the casual players are the ones who hated it the most, while those who played the Sims hardcore got the most out of their money.
Diffsound: Discrete Diffusion Model for Text-to-Sound Generation
Wood is a sponge for water. Exposing the grain of your wood to water even for a second will draw in far more water than a woodworker would be comfortable with. You may dry the outside of the wood in a few seconds, but the moisture has already been pulled into the wood like a straw, and this will expand, causing your wood to swell, bow, or even worse, crack or check.

Trying to clump the dust with moisture would also probably jam your machines and break them.

Just leaving a newly flattend piece of wood in your kitchen overnight will twist or bow the wood. experienced wood workers know that you actually use correct measurements to "pull" the wood into being square, more than you rely on the wood being 100% flat or true.

We actually have perfectly good methods to work wood with extremely little dust.

Cabinet makers will sharpen their chisels to 16000 grit very easily and quickly by hand. The chisel cut is so smooth that almost no dust is produced.

A hand saw that is sharpened correctly can crosscut wood very efficiently if you have proper technique, which also produces less dust.

Using a properly sharpened hand plane is roughly the same concept as a chisel and produces almost no dust.

The reason we have to have dust collectors now, is because there simply isnt a better way to mass produce furniture, or for a hobbyist to crank out a dining table in a weekend.

The machines give you ridiculous speed and precision for little effort. The trade-off is they kick up a tremendous amount of dust, and currently there is no better way to reduce dust while keeping powertools.
Primitive Technology (happy he started uploading again): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

Tom Scott for a lot cool facts and things I knew nothing about: https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo

Xander Budnick because I love his travels and amazing filming & editing style: https://www.youtube.com/c/XanderBudnick
I learned how to debate in IRC, not university. These days, people seem to learn how to debate in Discord.
Hong Kong Investment Bank’s 2,325% Surge Baffles Investors
For the love of me I fail to find an article again about the different approaches, Scrum, waterfall or whatnot, and hoe they are used at start-ups, FAANG, large non-tech companies. I found it through the HN front page...

Gist of it: FAANG is very flexible as long as things get done (hinting at really understanding how things work), large corps somewhat flexible between teams (understanding in principle how it works but still being big corps) while start-ups stick to one methodology (sticking what some founder knows, or thinks to know). Brackets are my interpretation.

Based on what I saw in the last year in my current job, that rings true. Agile is the latest shit, so we aoply it to everuthing, from hardware development to ERP roll outs. Not sure if in those two cases it is the right approach.
Note: This is fun and all, but beware of taking the “Post-apocalyptic” premise too seriously. Down that road lies only hard drive hoarding and becoming a prepper.
From your link:

> Web mining is infeasible due to the large memory requirement and the lack of directed rounding support for floating point operations in both Javascript and WebAssembly.
I probably meant what you name as "finance capitalism" - the expectation that if you invest money you get a return on the investment, so you are encouraged to invest more money.
"Always"? Depends on what it takes to increase supply, and how long it will be wanted. As I noted, the writing is on the wall for grey hydrogen, so building out grey production capacity would seem a poor place to put capital. So the price for grey probably will not come down.

Meanwhile, green depends on supply of electrolysers, whose factories are still under construction, a process hard to rush. Its supply can ramp up only as fast as electrolysers can be obtained. Efficiency is still improving fast, so buying too many of the old, inefficient ones may also seem unwise. And, the cost of power to operate them is falling as solar and wind get cheaper.

At each of various production-cost points on the way down, more people will find it practical for them to use hydrogen at that price.
From a readability and aesthetics perspective, this doesn't look great imo.
An infantilized workforce is a weak, controllable, unthreatening, cheap workforce.
In modern society you're either a consumer or a worker. There is no space for "thinking": that leads to questioning authority and that is not to be tolerated.

If you want to learn a useful skill, just attend the same country club your daddy did. That and the legacy is all you need. Education is a good place to drink and get laid but you're not going to need it.
>my insistent trolling of the project on forums like these occasionally contributes to the push to progress

You really believe that right?
Fleshlights for dolphins maybe? .. sorry for being obscene ...
How Russia’s troll army spread on YouTube and Instagram
Surprised it is not mentioned but :

- for software : balabolka (free, portable, customizable, tons of functions). Also DSpeech.
But then you need to find the voices depending on the languages you need (some are free and/or already part of windows)

- chrome based browsers can do it through javascript and many voices are available (example from [1]) :

function speak(text) {
var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
var voices = speechSynthesis.getVoices();
msg.voice = voices[10];
msg.voiceURI = 'native';
msg.volume = 1;
msg.rate = 1;
msg.pitch = 2;
msg.text = text;
msg.lang = 'en-US';

speechSynthesis.speak(msg);

}

speak('Short text');

speak('Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Dynamically procrastinate B2C users after installed base benefits. Dramatically visualize customer directed convergence without revolutionary ROI. Efficiently unleash cross-media information without cross-media value. Quickly maximize timely deliverables for real-time schemas. Dramatically maintain clicks-and-mortar solutions without functional solutions.');

speak('Another short text');

Then you can make a "Bookmarklets" to read aloud whatever you selected, for example.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21947730/chrome-speech-s...
PPE is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy,_politics_and_econo... for anyone else unsure
It's not that it gets specifically deleted. We just don't have infinite space. There's always new pages coming along. Like trillions of pages out there. So we might not get back to revisiting a page and it falls out of our index while other content is added.
> This “district” is in fact a single project, albeit one incorporating some historic fragments, in the ownership of one company, Consolidated Developments.

Holy cow. That's as zero-imagination bland corporate hellscape as "Umbrella Corporation", "Omni Consumer Products", or any similar corporatocratic dystopian nightmare.

Did they decide that "Evil, Inc." wasn't subtle enough? Or was the goal to come up with a name that couldn't be satirised?
"the lockdowns also saved a lot of lives"

No, they didn't. This has been studied six ways from Sunday. They had no effect.

"Probably millions"

Lol. If you're an epidemiologist, sure, they love fantasy numbers like this.

Actual numbers of lives saved are probably negative, given the apparent absence of any impact on case numbers combined with the poverty and loss of access to healthcare they created.
I visited Pompeii a few years ago. I love the feel of ruined cities for some reason. The roads were quite interesting, and were basically an open sewage system. There are stepping stones to cross the street. The stones are strategically placed so that horse-drawn carts can pass through.

It was interesting to see the differences in residences between the haves and have-nots. The poor seemed to occupy little more than a capsule, if memory serves. Then there was the house of a well-to-do family a short distance away. It was the house of a politician, as I recall. So, even in those days, there was no such thing as a poor politician. Then there was a residence of someone rich, that actually had a private garden. Everyone seemed so packed together, with the poor rubbing shoulders with the rich. Mt Vesuvius was beautiful in the distance. coming from the harsh harsh land of Scotland, I do wish I was in the warm landscape of Italy.

I wonder what constituted the middle class in Pompeii.
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That is true, but also remember the air gets relatively thicker as you get smaller, so flight gets easier.
The old form or substance discussion. Some compabies have the substance, e.g. Toyota when it come to lean, some have both form and substance while the majority implement the form without getting the substance. The latter also wonder why things don't work as expected...
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https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/megl

It's not looking so hot during premarket hours but it was close to $340 earlier. I can't understand what exactly is going on, as it seems to be another case of $HKD.

Don't take this as investment advice though, I would not touch these stocks with a 10 ft pole.
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That's a bit of a red herring. How Agile looks today doesn't bear much resemblance to how Agile was described in the manifesto.
First, we need to clarify. The problem is that you cannot use GRPC from javascript (yes, there's unofficial, and sketchily supported, hacks, but read on for why they're required)

He explains the problem that caused this, in his opinion, in the article, but not very obviously. The problem is protobuf encoding. It's key-length-value (key identifies the field that follows, length is the length of the value, value is the value). A message is thus "KLVKLVKLVKLVKLV".

The second thing is that repeating a key is always valid (not just when it's declared as an array of values). If a field is repeated but it's not an array, then the newer value overrides the previous one.

(this was done so that if you have 20, or 2000000, massive protobuf files listing, say, urls visitors used, and you need to combine them, you can just concatenate the bytes together and read in the result as a valid protobuf. Also it means you do streaming reads of any protobufs coming in)

So:

1) you don't know when the message ends because you don't have a length field for the entire message (only for individual fields)

2) you don't know the message ends after a given number of fields, for 2 reasons. A, some fields are optional, and may or may not be present. B, even if all fields were sent, a newer version of an already-sent field might be sent to override the previously sent value.

You're right, of course, that the problem can be fixed by only allowing a single top-level message that is decoded in a nonstandard way (and frankly support for this could be added to the official protobuf libraries and it can be made to work by making this requirement optional ... Even concatenating can still be possible that way)

The problem here is rigid, immovable adherence to their own standard (ie. not incorporating a change like demanding KLV on the top level message in an RPC connection, or having a special concat-compatible, one-field-at-a-time decoding, because an architectural decision made 15 years ago said not to do this. Then make this mode required for the HTTP case)

This was an organisational problem. Not that they don't trust each other (obviously a browser developer doesn't trust many people, security really demands they don't. This is not where the problem is). GRPC failed to consider the fallout of them choosing the nuclear option of just dropping out of browsers in order to satisfy an old internal requirement without modifying their design. They chose this outcome, because they couldn't deal with achieving 99.9% of their aims as opposed to 100% ... and missed one of their main aims, let's say they achieved 50% instead.
They've been commercialized for some time.

Quick DDG search for "portable desalinator" finds many hits, like http://watertreatmentcorp.com/1-6-emergency-portable-desalin... with:

> The JHH-SWBX series portable desalination watermakers are designed to convert salt, brackish or unknown water sources into pure drinking water within seconds and with just a push of a button. This makes it ideal for applications that require an easy to use watermaker, such as field operations, fishing vessels, salvages and more. Our products feature an ideal size, making them portable and ready to use anywhere. These watermakers operate using AC or DC power according to customer requirements.

The abstract for paper at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.1c08466 . even comments "many reverse osmosis-based portable desalination systems are already available commercially".
You have to weigh the balance: is time spent reading books with second hand knowledge worth more than time spent actually doing it and learning first hand? At some point you have enough knowledge to stop absorbing lessons from others to start adding your own. The most obvious ones are explained in five minutes:

- keep an eye on your cash, it is possible to go bankrupt with a viable business just by running out of cash on hand

- limit recurring costs

- limit recurring costs

- don't hire until you really have to

- sell first then perfect your product

- limit recurring costs.
Giving everyone a single vote in democracy makes no sense, we should just air drop paper pamphlets all across the country and let anyone who collects them vote once for each pamphlet. If they fall on privately owned land, the owner of the land gets all of the pamphlets.
Google claims the longest mooring chain is 17km long.

That makes a 1 mile chain not seem unlikley.
"Public health measures didn't put your family in poverty"

They very obviously did do that, and attempts to deny their impact is a form of "socialism washing".

"Stimulus should have gone to people directly and not companies, but that's communism or something."

Great plan. Give people printed money so prices all immediately rise, and then forcibly destroy all the organizations that produce things, ensuring prices immediately rise again. Yes, printing money and giving it directly to people whilst the economy gets shut down IS in fact communism, which is why we are now dealing with the consequent poverty. And it was all for nothing, because the public health measures didn't have any effect.
Just extrapolate what elderly (90+) contribute to society now. Before even thinking about longevity, we need to eradicate degenerative diseases that make old people useless in society - Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Dementia, Arthritis, ...

There would also be a necessity to allow (and even force) euthanasia for people in persistent vegetative state.
How come people have 3 cones and 1 type of rod with a different peak than any cone, and yet we don't all have tetrachromacy?

Shouldn't there be some level of light at which they are all active? Or is there?

Are there special low light colors that can be seen in very specific conditions?
Do you also have scrum-of-scrums? Because that is out DevOps team's latest idea to speed up an ERP project. So we get scrum masters instead of functional ERP experts and consultants. I am curious so, what a scrum-scrum would actually look like...
Are there some laptops that don't make a ridiculous amount of noise cooling?
I currently own and am using a Dell XPS daily. Every laptop I've owned has been an absolute noise factory.

Hell, I'm not even launching Steam because the laptop gets too hot.

Are there some laptops out there that are actually well-cooled?
DuckDuckGo refused every independent audits

DuckDuckGo android app leaks your identity and websites you visit to them [1], issue they closed with a surprising reply

Issue happened again years later [2]

DuckDuckGo got caught with their shady terms with Microsoft (bing tracker drama)

They estimate 70M-100M users [3], you don't make 100M a year with that amount of users, either Microsoft overpaid them for the tracker, or they are hiding something

It's impossible to find their detailed earning reports, so nobody can confirm their claims, and yet it's being promoted as a privacy focused search by the media all around the world, why? despite these major flaws? i don't know

So who knows what they do else?

[1] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527

[2] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/2004

[3] - https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/on-a-growth-tear-duckduckg...
It is amusing how this article completely ignores Easter Front.
What is longtermism and why does it matter?