skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should question that metric. Also, a little gaslighting.

What I mean: if an administration doesn't like a given metric, it should get its replacement metric identified and publicized in advance.

It sure looks a lot like gaslighting when the world has an agreed upon metric and you say "just ignore that; look over here."
Have you been using Gitlab lately? I don't think they have any interest in nuances, as they still have problems with basic stuff.

Overall i'm pretty sure that "list about 20 differences" is relevant in some cases/procucts/websites, but not for gitlab - they just proved that by disallowing working on Windows (which wouldn't disallow testing on a VM).
They were definitely operating in an extreme legal grey area. Without a doubt it's straight up gambling. Yet they issue you a normal 1099 at the end of the year. It felt really weird having to claim a "political consulting" business on my taxes instead of just claiming it as gambling income with a W-2G. Not sure how they were ever legally able to operate in the US honestly.
I truly do not understand what the poster is mourning? I'm on iPhone 13 Pro Max using the latest iOS and this all seems to work as I expect...
I think part of the problem with perjury is that if it's detectable you only have hurt your own case, and if it isn't detected it can't be tried.

This might be somewhat unique in that the perjury charges relate to hiding evidence as well (rather than just running counter to the evidence). And, obviously, that Alex Jones isn't a cop, so that particular fetishism of law enforcement the US operates under doesn't apply.
The linux laptop they propose comes by default with an included Pro license, home edition would need to be selected extra. I haven‘t used Dell in a while, but I‘d assume that it behave like Lenovo and has the License Key baked right into the EFI, so there‘s literally no need to deal with any upgrade license if you proscribe which Laptop Model people are allowed to purchase (which they do)

They also mention multiple times that Linux and MacOS are free, as opposed to Windows Pro - which can reasonably be read as „we don’t want to spend money here“, since otherwise you could just strike these arguments and revert to „we don‘t believe Windows Pro is secure“, which incidentally they never say.
100% Agreed. The really aggressive "fuck Microsoft" rhetoric is going to burn a lot of these startups over the long haul. It's incredible to me the number that still seem to be operating in an ideological bubble that was originally created 2 decades ago.

A lot of Serious Business happens on top of Microsoft technology right now, and the companies responsible for tending to solutions in this space are made extraordinarily uncomfortable by this kind of aura being given off by vendors like Gitlab.

Can Gitlab really afford to alienate double-digit % of its TAM in favor of this ideological position? It seems like they are already having financial difficulties based upon other recent articles.
>is anyone else astounded at how poorly that went for Alex Jones?

No. I'm really not. His entire livelihood was based on talking bullshit and selling it. I had zero expectation that he could stop while dealing with some serious real world shit like taking responsibility.

FAFO Alex.
Thanks. Would still be curious about .ore specific macronutrients for things not listed
If your winnings exceed a threshold ($600 IIRC?), they need this to issue a 1099MISC. Any IRS-compliant service would do the same, including PredictIt.
https://archive.ph/mZaR9
I would be interested in actual data on if this is an increasing trend or not. When I was in college (graduated in 2015) most of my friends still had a job; be it to pay for school or to fund their weekend drinking activities.
If users were rated by the quality of their comments, you would be near the top. When I find quality like you provide, I bookmark the comments archive page to review later.

(While I appreciate what you do, hopefully this doesn't encourage you to spend time away from what all else that matters to you to write better comments.)
Please remove Pinterest, or at least lower their relevancy. So often when searching for images the are higher up then the source page the Pinterest image is from and don’t link back to it.
Not true at all. I've done work for insurance companies in the past as well. While it's true most of them will not diverge from their standard contracts, some are very open to clients suggesting 'custom' insurance no matter how obscure the clauses. The only caveat of course being that it will cost you substantial amounts.

> I also work in insurance industry as a software dev - nothing that I have seen would let insure someone who would go under-prepared. One could fill in form that he goes fully prepared but once lied insurance company won't pay anything.

If you break the terms of the contracts you won't get covered of course. Same as with car insurance where you won't get coverage if you were DUI.
https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1106505/why-we-expect-t...
Why Settle for Merely Reading a Book When You Can Master It? (1998)
Making hydropower plants more sustainable
I have a friend working for a company whose biggest clients are in the Emirates. One of said client is the government, and it is asking them to buy some very specific equipment, knowing fully well this equipment is only sold in Israel.

However, the Emirates cannot trade with Israel, and refuse to pay for any equipment labelled as coming from this country. Calling one of the officials, they asked for a solution. They told them to ship everything first to the UK. There, they should unpack every single object, and package them again with different country labels. Once the box has passed custom, nobody will raise the topic about the equipment origin.

And so this is what they do.
That doesn't sound practical at all. It doesn't matter if you have direct contact or not, everything down there is that hot, so you're gonna be that hot. Existing oilwells already flow fluid through at a fairly high flowrate - high enough that eroding parts is a concern - and it's not enough to get the temperature down much. You're gonna need something a lot better than "just pump some water though" to cool things down enough to get the MTBF back up. And that's before accounting for how much heat this rock melting microwave laser thing plus it's power transmission lines is adding to the environment.
https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/225468/federal-reserve... - no quite no-one...
And make a screenshot to verify that you encrypted your disk ;))))

The lost art of (fleet-)administration.
> Deliberately lying to it is a direct attack on its mission and should be considered a criminal offence.

This is almost the definition of perjury.
> This company pretends it has the moral high ground, but like most of corporate America, they always have an eye on Chinese profits.

To be fair, it's not fair to use this as an occasion for Apple bashing or America bashing.

The whole Taiwan thing goes much deeper. For example, if you look at ISO3166, the country code standard.

If you look up Taiwan in ISO3166[1], you will see it listed as "Taiwan (Province of China)".

So, if a supposedly neutral international body sees it fit to maintain the link, then what hope have you got for individual countries or their companies ?

N.B. The UN does the same [2]

[1]https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TW
[2]https://service.unece.org/trade/locode/tw.htm
>believe the expert

According to his tweet it wasn't so much fake news, but appeal to authority he wanted to make people aware of.

https://nitter.rako.space/EtienneKlein/status/15537792036524...
It's a valid point, but at the end of the day my family wanted something that "just works" and they look to me for guidance on hardware so when they were ready, iOS it is. I think Google misunderstood the critical importance of owning a high quality user experience for video calls on Android devices.
It still is easier to copy, when you own manufactiring process.
Ask HN: Any luck applying the pomodoro technique to coding?
I know very little about this topic, but one thing that strikes me about the argument of AI being far away from real intelligence due to just "gluing things together" is that it is non-obvious to me how we as intelligent creatures aren't just extremely sophisticated gluing machines.
> Postdoc research?

I obviously can't speak for everyone but, yes, at least it's been my impression that mathematical GR as a research field in mathematics is quite disconnected from physics and its existence, to some, completely unknown. Only very few people like Chruściel manage to bridge the gap and talk to and collaborate with people on both sides.

To give a few data points:

If you mostly do research on e.g. gravitational waves (think LIGO) you're usually far away from the typical geometric-analytical questions surrounding the foundations of GR and much more concerned with e.g. numeric simulations, elimination and modeling of noise and systematic errors, machine learning and such.

Years ago, I talked to a professor in theoretical high-energy physics (mostly string theory / supergravity) and asked him for career advice because I wanted to do research on gravity and especially black holes. He told me that "GR as a research field is dead" and that, if I wanted to study black holes, there was "no way around string theory". Sure, he was probably biased and clearly living in a bubble relatively far away from "classic GR" but it still says a lot I would say.

I mean even the people working on the Event Horizon Telescope don't know too much about mathematical/foundational questions in GR. They are much more interested in modeling and solving their specific problems, in this case: radioastronomical problems, problems in relativistic plasma physics etc. (Source: I have spoken to two leading scientists at the EHT about mathematical questions surrounding GR.)
While nix can be very intimidating to get going, I think for just getting developer environments spun up it can be somewhat simple. I highly reccomend trying to add a `flake.nix` to your projects. It makes on boaring new devs a breeze https://medium.com/immuta-engineering/nix-and-skaffold-for-p...
So Senator Grassley believes porn spam will free the USA's libido and he's doing his part to encourage a sexual revolution? </sarcasm>

The outright alignment with criminal elements by the GOP is becoming severe. State Treasurers are punishing banks that don't promote coal despite the economics not working (since when do Treasurers get to decide which businesses win or lose?), state legislatures are making health decisions without being doctors, candidates are running on a platform of promising to alter votes, misogyny and white supremacy are being embraced. Is the FBI investigating any of this? I get the distinct impression that rule of law is breaking down.
Haha, wonderful!
I enabled arrows keys on every single keyboard on the Android devices I owned. I use them to move the cursor and fix mistakes, usually by tapping and adjusting with the arrows. Faster than attempting to tap at the right spot. Are there no arrows on iOS keyboards?
Others have mentioned that this may just be a problem with the Neato software.

The issue I was having with the neato is that is exactly what it was doing. It would come off its dock, do a scan around it. And if things were too different it would go back to its dock and complain that it has been moved.

So I had to find a place that things never moved, but that proved difficult. Even small things like the trash can shifting or books on a shelf shifting seem to throw it off.

I finally got to the point that I basically tricked it with blocking it from seeing certain things near its dock but that is less than ideal.

Now once it did that initial scan it seemed to be mostly ok, but it did seem too often get lost near my computer where the chair often moves. It would constantly tell me it was lost and I had to pick it up and put it back on the dock. Or my favorite was when it seemed to try to dock on the other side of my home.

My feeling (and has been confirmed by the iRobot) was that at least a camera with decent AI could account for a moving object vs most other things being the same. It is far from perfect, but compared to the Neato the camera has been leagues better.

I am very curious though how other Lidar system handle this since I would assume that there is a lack of data available to identify a change in environment vs a moved object.
Because we have spent the last 6 years watching dozens and dozens of bad actors get away with it, and never facing repercussion and we have become incredibly cynical of anyone wealthy ever facing justice.
Monopolies don't foster innovation, which is the implicit claim you are making.

If the ROI on a lab is the best of available options and the company has sufficient capital then... it will get done.

Being a monopoly makes the capital part easier, but a non-monopoly of sufficient size would make the same decision.

And the direct effect of monopolies on innovation is even worse: that the directly stifle competitors.
Already on my rapidly growing to do list!
https://wdpauly.medium.com/fall-update-empire-and-revolution...
Yea I'll email you
It's capital expenditure, not salaries. And even then companies pay less in the US to reach median income than they do in Italy for the same.
I guess I'll be able to drop LDAP when LDID will be introduced.
I think I heard you can have many questions answered if you happen to meet the flying spaghetti monster.
I remember you and other from Google search trying to gaslight us in the comments, claiming that there was no problems with quotes.

No problems huh? Why does this article exist? Lol the hubris at Google...
Hey, it looks promising. I've tried to use it in my site but I able to leave notes only on start page. Is it possible somehow to dive through site and leave notes anywhere?
I'll make sure to mark Gitlab off a company I apply at if I look for a new job. I'm totally blind and have been using Windows screen readers for the last 25 years. The switching cost to Mac or Linux appears to be incredibly high. I've attempted to use both and after brief usage was not able to get close to my productivity on Windows. Maybe that would change if they were my only option but I'm not going to risk poor productivity at a new job on that. I focus on back-end development and since WSL came out, I've not run into any situation where I can't do what I need using Windows, WSL, and VS Code.
As a non-American, I find Google's location awareness is already unmatched. It's what keeps me using Google over the alternatives. Googling a thing (business, place, location) near my house will give it as the first search result. The alternatives will often give me the title of something in the US.
Rehiring I'll bet.
> the Emirates cannot trade with Israel

Is "cannot" really accurate? Isn't it more like they voluntarily chose not to do so?
I don't want to type
or parse duplicate tags and angle brackets. It's nonsense for a human readable format.

I work on low latency distributed systems where performance does matter. We use proto wire format mostly. Proto has its own human readable text format that I prefer because it's more convenient than JSON (no commas, unquoted keys), but I'd pick JSON over XML any day.
Some of the machines are already 100s of millions of $.
> And where does the light that shines on Proxima Chorisii come from?

Some suppose it is the faint light emitted by alien bacteria as the rotten portions are consumed and replaced by subnuclear paprika condensates.
Also the always-looming threat of Microsoft telemetry and BSA audit. You can do everything right as far as you can tell, abd they can still come in and make your life miserable.
I'm raising my kids in a subdivision that has a pool, a playground, and several parks close by, this is very standard for the subdivisions around here. My subdivision is full of kids unsupervised riding bikes, playing on the playground, riding scooters. All the subdivision roads have a low speed limit and its very easy to go miles on dedicated bike lanes that aren't just painted lines on a busy road but instead are separate paved areas off the roads. It helps that I live in one of the safest states in the union and that until relatively recently this was a very affordable place to buy a house and have a family.

This exists in a lot of the newer larger metros, places that have seen lots of growth in the last 10-15 years.
Does this answer your question? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349581
China could easily turn that data over to American law enforcement if they wanted to see a person they considered a threat to them arrested but that person was outside of their jurisdiction.

China and Amazon are both threats to privacy.
> Your pen can be converted into an "eye dropper" pen with a little bit of silicon grease and a small rubber gasket, and you'll rarely need to refill it.

Please expand on this. I’m utterly confused as to what you mean and why you’d need it.
Yeah, it's not actually for a teleprompter - I'm using it as my zero-parallax video conferencing solution with a Canon R5 as my webcam. I'm currently using an 11" iPad Pro using the excellent Duet Display software which does the horizontal flip [1] and it works great for that. I'd like the display to be larger though, but that requires upgrading the teleprompter too and I've been toying with that hence my question about monitors that can do the horizontal flip. But I think I'm just going to mirror a 24" monitor underneath my videoconferencing setup so that I can better see presentations during meetings.

[1] https://www.duetdisplay.com/
Cryptocurrency never seems to track against real world events. Kinda makes you wonder how much of its volume is legit.
Does Nix still build a lot of things from source? When I tried it a while ago everything took forever to install because it was compiling locally. Do they have the concept of repos and repo mirroring?
I initially liked it, but gradually grew to dislike it. Having to press hard on the screen of a hand-held device that would be quite expensive to repair if dropped is just not a good idea.

I ended up reducing the force setting to the minimum, and still felt it wasn't practical.
This is idiotic. Gitlab will shell out for MacBooks but not for a copy of Windows Pro?
It's not the designer. It's the product "manager" that makes these dumb choices - even when their UI/UX team pushes back.
Maybe I'm delusional, but I think the Fed is raising rates just so they can lower them again.

Look at what happened to rates between 16-19. They slowly raised rates in little baby steps, but the moment the 2019 economy started to weeble-wobble, they cut rates almost in half. And when the economy fell over in 2020, they cut rates back down immediately.

It took them 3 years to raise rates from 0.13% to 1.70%, but less than a month to go from 1.60% to 0.05%

https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...
TypeScript Type-Class (Impure – Pure)
Check out this example for using the Future type class (more examples in the package)

import { Future, tryFuture } from "../src/future";

async function impureAnswer(question: string): Promise<number> {
if(question === 'The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?')
return 42
throw 'Wrong question'
}

function pureAnswer(question: string): Future<string, number> {
return tryFuture(() => impureAnswer(question))
.mapL(err => typeof err === 'string' ? err : 'Unknown error')
}

async function main() {
const q1 = 'The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?'
const q2 = 'What is that?'
await pureAnswer(q1)
.map(answer => console.log(answer)) // 42
.mapL(err => console.error(err))
.run()
await pureAnswer(q2)
.map(answer => console.log(answer))
.mapL(err => console.error(err)) // Wrong question
.run()
}

main()

main()
It's always tough to tell, because we don't have a comparison to anything else. Maybe society would've seen more innovation under the same circumstances without the government backed monopoly. That you can get X units of innovation even within the government is not controversial, I think. It's whether you can get more than X units with the same input without government (or monopolist).
Force touch and 3D touch are the same feature - they just called it 3D because “forced touching” had a bad sound to it.

Currently it’s “long press”. I think they did this so they could remove the physical layer required for 3D Touch that took up space.

The UX was better for the force sensor though, it was instant feedback based on user action and didn’t require a delay to detect.
I used to be a fan of Asus devices but their quality has gone down over time, and it wasn't that high to begin with. At this point the only product of theirs I stand behind is their routers, and that's only because the quality standard of the router industry is even worse.
I guess is is for developers and business but in some other areas Windows would be hard to avoid: physical security systems, guest management systems and a few others.
> It is a tax cut for property owners and a tax raise for land owners, yes that is the entire point, to make housing cheaper by taxing it less and taxing the location monopoly more.

But...California has a tiny overall property tax rate. A revenue neutral change to an LVT (unless it's revenue neutral on the far side of the Laffer Curve) might better meet some abstract concept of fairness better, but isn't going to have a meaningul impact on price of... anything.
Why intel? Aren't EU supposed to become independent about top-notch chip manufacturing? Scam? Oh, and node size?
I live in a condo complex that used to be a high school.

We all have electric heating and cooking, because there wasn't gas connections (which is annoying, but tolerable). We all have 14 to 16 foot ceilings (which is actually kind nice). The bathrooms were all somehow renovated and some plumbing rerouted. We have shared laundry downstairs (which sucks, but not as much as living in a tent city).

Someday there should be an actual HN article by an expert breaking down what's involved to renovate an office into apartments. It's clearly not impossible.
> where the fundamental problem is the tension between nicely structured primary keys that tend to improve spatial locality in the storage engine, and unique but otherwise opaque identifiers that avoid running into Hyrum’s law when communicating with external entities and generally prevent unintentional information leakage.

I tend to use an integer for the database PK & internal associations, then an external_id that is used with external party data exchanges.
> How much of the awarded money does the plaintiff actually receive as compensation in such a case? Do they have to share some of the awarded money with the lawyers?

Depends on the agreement with the lawyers. The two main payment terms are:-

A) you pay your laywer their fees no matter the outcome. In this case you keep all the money awarded to you.

B) A contingency agreement. In this case you don't pay the laywer directly for their fee's however payment for your attorney's services is "contingent upon" your receiving some amount of compensation and the award is split based on the agreement. NOTE: Some types of cases can not be based on contingency for iirc ethical rules reasons.

It _COULD_ be a fee based contingency agreement saying "If we win, you will pay all our fees", but the more common agreement is the award sharing agreement saying for example "If we win you agree to pay 33% of the award given".

> are they also entitled to the punitive part of the damages?

Yes, however often punitive awards are often capped which the jurors are not told about. So lets say X state caps punitive awards to 1 Million, but the jury gives 10 million, the punitive award is reduced to the 1 million cap.
Ummm yeah… stop judging me :(