skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will never understand why teachers both do lots of extra work and complain about it. Teachers aren't slaves. If your job requires you to work 12 hour days quit and do something else. If you like working that hard, then why complain?

Plus, my own experience in the public school system as a student tells me not all teachers are working 12, or even 8, hour days. Again, if you want to be a good teacher - why complain that it's hard? Just be the best teacher you can with eight hours of work. It's not like teachers are fired for being bad.
It just worked for me. But I don’t have any gear older than 2015. Here are the device requirements: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212757

Looks like you need a Mac from 2015 or newer and an iPad from the same year. Depends on the model though. Similar to Sidecar, I think it depends on video encoding/decoding features introduced in Skylake chipsets, along with some newer version of Bluetooth.

There might be some hacky stuff you can do to get it to run, but I wouldn’t expect good performance or reliability.

You could always run the iPad with calendar/reminders in split screen with no Universal Control - if you have a gorilla arm.
In Texas traffic tickets are criminal offenses, generally class C misdemeanors. I don't think we're unique in that, either. For this reason many questions baout crimes you may have committed will ask "other than misdemeanor traffic offenses" or such...
> I feel like I don't even know anyone in my company hired after March 2020.

Video call them? Work on something together?
You cannot automate human interaction. Children learn through human interaction.
Vast overkill in this respect is historically accurate; the VT100 was built around an 8085, for example.
I don't think the problem there is the pagination (or lack thereof). This page has 103 comments right now and is 204K (31K compressed).

HN is pretty minimalistic, but the point is that text data isn't really what makes requests very large. For reference, 2MB is enough to include an entire book and then some. All of Dune is about 1.7M uncompressed in epub format (and ~1.1M compressed as an epub file). HN threads, Jira discussions, etc. can get pretty large, but I have not seen any yet that have started to approach the size of Dune.

Images might add more data, but those can be loaded on-demand when scrolled into view pretty easily.
We can't use our old battery-swappable (physical keyboard, headphone jacks, etc) phones because the networks they run on, which also run just fine (UMTS, CDMA2000, CDMAone, GSM, etc) have been shut down.
If you want to qualify for unemployment (in the US), don't get fired. Losing your job through your own fault usually disqualifies you from collecting.
LOL, it generally takes me going through at least a dozen interview processes to both:

1) get to the offer phase

2) get an offer that isn't a lowball
OLED is "low brightness" at 200-300 nits. 100 means that if there's any ambient light at all, the contrast ratio is ruined.
Google calendar has live export as ics file, parsable by any ... standard calendar tooling.
While I might agree that it would be nice that code without a license was public domain, that's most certainly not the legal situation we have right now. If there's no license, you can't redistribute it at all.
And also, somewhat related:

Aerogramme Writers' Studio: "Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling"

https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-...
My MiL’s place is a few minutes from the beach. When we visit, I mostly use it for nighttime walks. I would go crazy spending every day on the beach.

But boy is it great for a stroll with ice cream on a hot summer night.
I would leave. Not because I don’t like the office; but trying to force employees to do this doesn’t sit well with me. Remote first with optional office for those who chose to should be the default strategy.

Anecdotally Ive continued to receive a similar amount of recruiter emails as I did before the market downturn a few months ago. So my current thinking is that tech layoffs are companies force purging to please the Wall Street gods while demand continues to stay stratospherically high for technology.
You get this functionality by using Firefox profiles. It's a separate browser instance with completely separated history, extension, ...

It doesn't work like containers though, you can't open a new tab in a new profile.
Such standards necessarily may become more flexible as we head into a recession...
> just handwaves about design and 'waterproofing' that are easily debunked by the Samsung Galaxy S5 Active from 2014.

Not to mention continue to be debunked. I'm typing this comment on a Unihertz Titan. Ostensibly waterproof (and in my testing it seems to care very little about whether or not it‘s wet). Still has a 3.5mm jack.
I quit Apple early June because of this reason. Found a new job with better pay. Starting September.
The 8008 was invented for a terminal application -- the Datapoint 2200. So not only were VDTs effectively microcomputers since the 70s, but Intel's main processor line up until the present day owes its existence to VDT applications.
Getting fired is not the same as being laid off. If they fire you for insubordination (which is what not reporting for mandatory office attendance would be) or bad performance, they don't have to pay you anything. If you're laid off, most companies would give you at least a few months of pay in compensation.
While we're at it, I'm not so sure this internet thing is really going to last.
I like commuting, I like smalltalk, I like dropping by people's desk to ask a quick question, and I don't mind it when people do the same to me. I like getting to know people, I like going out for lunch with coworkers, I like building relationships with people. I like knowing the identity of those I work with beyond a Slack pfp.

I can understand the not getting sick part, but I guess I never really suffered from colds that often. (Though I know some people who get them four times a year -- if this is you, I sympathize)

I know this website has a selection bias for introverts but surely I cannot be the only human who feels this way. The worst part is that anyone who wants WFH can have it, but I cannot have what I need. I pay for a WeWork just to get me out of the house, but that's basically nothing more than an expensive home office. My job is still 100% slack and zoom with everyone else in their bedrooms. WFH makes me depressed.
I have had that happen (being the fault of the blocker) but for these it’s problems I’ve had even with blockers disabled
Welcome to dependency hell.

But then many packages are so trivial that they shouldn't even require a license.

Same goes for abandoned projects.
Air conditioning wasn't really a need in most places historically. Vernacular architecture relied heavily on passive solar design as the default. This uses less energy and also provides superior human comfort.
The fine was for not giving notice. They have implemented the same battery saving update on several more devices without any objection from the regulators because they gave notice for those.
> I say ego is independent.

I agree. but I find the concept of "ego" problematic.

The concept arises from Freud, and I think the author's explanation of ego as a boundary is a fair presentation of Freud's conception. And Freud's model is fairly convincing. It has a lot of explanatory power, but it doesn't make many testable predictions; it might be so, but it might not.

The word "ego" is used a lot by Buddhists, and I think the way they use it is unhelpful; they use it mainly to mean the belief in a permanent, abiding self. But they also use it to mean selfishness, the desire for power and so on. I take it to refer to the psychological structures we build to protect us from psychological threats. In that sense, I think it's useful to think of the ego as a boundary.

So I accept the idea of ego as a protection mechanism. But I think it's a natural and unavoidable response to interacting with a world full of psychological threats; I don't think your metaphysical beliefs are going to have much effect on such fundamental self-protection instincts. On the contrary, my view is that your metaphysical beliefs will be a reflection of your psychological attitude to the world around you.

I don't think that faith makes you a better person.
For sure, like Adam Neumann, who is backed by Marc Andreessen of a16z. Marc was recently in the news for not wanting the poors in his neighborhood. They don't even try to hide it anymore.

Adam Neumann, Vibes Landlord

https://www.curbed.com/2022/08/adam-neumann-residential-real...

VC Billionaire Marc Andreessen and Ultra-Wealthy Neighbors Thwart Housing in California Town

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/vc-marc-a...
See article 11 of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...

It doesn’t necessarily mean a return to the classic Nokia pop off the back model. As long as it’s user replaceable a couple of screws wouldn’t be a problem. But e.g. soldering the battery to the motherboard, or gluing the case together with no reassembly prospect would be issues.
How does this explain the existence of televangelists, megachurch pastors, church ladies, gurus, generally abusive people in religion?
Young users in Sweden: a story about a launch of a Telehealth startup
Hi!

Today, I would like to share with you the story. And this story will be especially useful now, during the crisis, when it is necessary to reduce various costs and solve the dilemmas of expensive hiring.

Our task was as follows: to create a more Scalable Version of product asap without hiring in-house specialists, saving resources for a business development, but with a focus on strong architecture and designs to engage more students.

We have created a mobile application for students and consultants and a web application for school principals, which provides more effective communication between tutors (teachers/school managers) and students.

So I prepared case. In this article we want to talk about:
1. The idea of the product and the detection of problems of potential consumers.
2. Difficulties in the development of a telehealth startup and ways to solve them.
3. The development process.

Read Here: https://nozomihealth.com/10-000-young-users-in-sweden-a-stor...
It sounds like any large organisation.

Which is usually inverse if there is a lot of friction with quality developers, because it distracts a lot from what they actually want to deliver.
> "there is no amount of renewable energy that will make [enjoyable living standards] a sustainable way of living" doesn't make environmental reforms seem very palatable to me.

Imagine that those environmentalists are correct. Doesn’t advocating for change, palatable or not, make them at their core more pro-human than most? They are, after all, trying to make the human species survive.

> If it's substantially less than the current population, then the cure is worse than the disease.

If that is the case, then there ain’t no cure that any elected politican can pursue.
The law says the exact opposite of this advice, it is a good way to get to know some lawyers though.
[Throwaway account but a real answer nonetheless].

I will quit in a few days due to a combination of various factors. I found out, way too late in my professional life, that I was exploited by all the companies I worked for. My salary being too low, and the ridiculous number of days working from home are important factors but it's not limited to this.

An old friend called me recently and offered me a job at his company. I thought about it for a few days, talked to my wife about it, and accepted an interview. That's where I discovered that I was being "exploited."

I will have interesting tasks, I'll work on modern C++ again which is good since I have been lazy about it and didn't improve for those past few years, I will have up to 4 days of WFH per week if I want, and I managed to get a 40% salary increase (yes, 40%).

My current employer refused all my demands: salary, WFH, support from the managers, budget, ... I will get most of that elsewhere. I will miss my colleagues who are very competent, but I will NOT miss the management and the crazy answers from the HR department. They will freak out though when I send my resignation letter as I became a central point across all the teams, but it's their loss.

End of the rant!
I probably would if mine were actually taking a stance. It's been mixed messaging so I'm on the fence.

I'm in a fairly odd situation, however. Prior to lockdown I was already WFH. Oddities are coming...

After the lockdown started we went through at least two leadership changes. Now I'll [eventually] have to self report by 'filing a request' to make the WFH status official.

It doesn't sound like it's something likely to be denied, but rather something I'll regret later.

I'm now having to basically have this same negotiation again six years later.

If I have to do that, I may as well do it for more money. I don't recognize my role [or team] anyway after going through the tumbler
>Google "gadgets" don't work in mobile Firefox unless you spoof the user agent.

how is that firefox problem if the service is actively hostile towards firefox?
> While watching her, he realised the pictures would be out of focus because of the settings. He then decided to design a camera that won't let you make a mistake. This camera is the Olympus Pen ee series.

I’m a bit surprised that the author doesn’t explain how the camera prevents out of focus photos (but mentions the auto exposure feature instead).
There are much worse things than being terminated.
Yes, you can dehydrate your tissues by eating dehydrated silica gel. But when hydrated it's a Generally Recognized As Safe food additive in quantities up to 3% (5% in the EU). You can probably eat a lot more than that but it will grind up your teeth. (By the same token, someone could strangle you with a PTFE cord, a fact that has no bearing on its toxicity.)

Quartz is not amorphous silica, and unlike amorphous silica, it's carcinogenic if you inhale it.

You don't get nanometer-sized structural changes in teflon by scraping it off your skillet with a spatula. You're being ridiculous.

I'm interested to hear what response you get from biologists when you propose to them that natural selection might be inoperative in the split-leaf philodendron. I imagine they'll wish they had a PTFE cord handy.
It sounds like Sam was a major source for this new book
Amusing to see “check if the handle opens the door” as an explicit step called out multiple times.
Video calling is part of the job. My company even makes an explicit effort to do remote "happy hours" (on the clock!) with games and quizzes and so forth. But just like any long distance relationship, digital communication is no replacement.
You read a lot more politics into this popsci book review than I did, friend.
In practice, yeah - we could have also simulated slow / unstable connections but never found those features needed the same level of automated testing.
It cannot be the responsibility of the distro packager to make sure the licenses of the software aren't lies. That's just not going to happen.
Pasta one-liner wins best joke award at Edinburgh festival fringe
You'll get a brand new sealed S20+, for the same price
Why can't you just be you, together with other extroverts, and stop trying to convince others to come to the office?

As people are discussing if they should quit over having to come to the office, you can also think about quitting because you don't have an office to go to?
It looks like this is a link directly to the PDF on one of our servers. You can link to e.g. https://archive.org/details/FDNYforcibleEntryReferenceGuide and it will serve from one of the servers that can source the item even if this particular server is offline, and will be valid in the future if the item is ever moved off of this server.
n.b. Why did Douglas Hofstadter include him in Goedel Escher Bach (I had to research, thought I'd share)
We just rejected a military contract because the company wanting to hire us sent us the most ridiculous NDA I have seen in a while. The first job amounted to thermal design and simulation. Two weeks of work, maybe three. The way these contracts work, we might not hear from them for a year after that, or five.

In exchange for two weeks of work they wanted us to sign a wide-and-deep five-year NDA. Five years. For two weeks of work.

What’s worse is the work did not require disclosure of anything proprietary at all. Power, area and environmental conditions. That’s it.

It’s just silly.
Google gives the following definition of apocryphal:

> (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.

So it seems to be certainly apocryphal.
It's not nit-picking. A layman presented with this explanation might get the impression that a "problem" is being "solved", which implies there is some utility to the PoW algorithm, rather than energy being wasted for the sole purpose of proving that energy has been wasted. In fact, even the word "Work" in "Proof of Work" implies the same. Proof of Waste would be a much more apt description of what is actually happening.
So this life of total leisure is the thing we all want, and it is for that reason the capitalist system seems to work. Someone has to provide the labor that allows you to continue in a life of leisure.
>>The worst part is that anyone who wants WFH can have it, but I cannot have what I need.

Some employers are mandating back to office, so this option is being taken away. Those that prefer to WFH are not able to have what they need/want.

I'm always curious why those who like to work in the office are opposed to letting employees choose what they wish to do.

>>My job is still 100% slack and zoom with everyone else in their bedrooms. WFH makes me depressed.

I feel that most WFH proponents are in the minority, or on the spectrum of wanting to have the option to go in sometimes. So hopefully you won't be 100% on Slack/Zoom if employees are given the choice.
Dozens of writeups of unhealthy companies, mainly from ten years ago.

https://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/p/blog-post-index.html
Smaller companies will let you go and say you shouldn't get unemployment insurance, but if you appeal they won't bother to contest, so you can collect anyway. This works especially well if the company's HQ are in a different state than were you work, but it also depends which state you reside. It's not solely about so-called "at will", though.
From a link the article:

While historical approaches to finding this content have relied exclusively on matching against hashes of known CSAM, the classifier keeps up with offenders by also targeting content that has not been previously confirmed as CSAM.[1]

[1] https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/using...
> The idea is that when you donate to charity, the money is never “yours” - you never benefit from it.

Of course you do. If you didn't benefit from the donation, you wouldn't have made it.
If that's the case then it's too bad. Better for them to be in juvenile prison than stealing from or assaulting students and teachers.
That theory doesn’t apply as strongly to recessions as it does financial markets.

Recessions just aren’t well defined, and you’re not going to know for sure if you’re in one/were in one until months or even years after it started because you need to collect a whole lot of data on the economy. But you do start getting early signs. It doesn’t have to come all at once in a huge market crash. That is actually pretty rare. It’s totally possible for an economy to slowly wither and then falter.

Both China and Europe are in trouble. Europe’s energy shock could be painful, but it has the potential to be short lived. China’s property market looks like a real mess, and could have huge political consequences that extend beyond its borders.
for me just like agile broke my software enjoyment, annual iterative hardware release broke hardware enjoyment.

they intentionally don't build things to last, because the focus always how to sell you next product for you to consoom.

one company especially bad, talk about environment while release same product every year with minor changes. changing the appearance of the OS's every year because marketing needs to give superficial illusion of newness
Why quit? There are no companies or startups hiring my occupation for in-office-only. There are no job boards that curate in-office-only hiring postings. I could quit and go WFH for another company but that doesn't solve the problem.
There are loads of variants on aliexpress - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001744549862.html

You just need to make sure you get the one that's set up for how you want to use it, i.e. the one in the linked write-up is designed as a 'hat' some come with a simple ribbon->SPI breakout, some come with no adapter/breakout at all.

I recently did a project with a similarly sized 3-color (black/white/red) screen like this one - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002842153362.html

Which was lots of fun, I used a RP2040-zero board to control it, hooked to an internal USB header on my gaming PC, and it now shows... well it shows the time and the CPU/GPU temps because when I finally got it working, I lost the will to do much more with it :)
I'm in France which is quite decent for labor rights, but the only time I have been let go, I had to wait 6 months before getting any money because a bunch of judges and lawyers had to fight to decide who would get money and how much.

It's good in theory, but in practice you can't count on that money, and you must find another job ASAP to feed your family.

I found a better job and I will quit because it's way faster for me to get out of my current company's mess.
But if you upload to the blob store first, then add to the transaction (in your db insert) with the id (hash or not), what happens if the db transaction fails? You now have to work out a way to delete off the blob external store. Or change your application so that that it doesn't matter if it's left on the blob store ('cept for money).
I sincerely thought there might be something here related to The Mote in God's Eye [0], a pretty good book by Niven and Pournelle about far off future alien contact.

I was dead wrong, but I'll still take the time to link it for the heck of the coincident names.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye#Crazy_...
Agree Also,
> The thing about the Google Pixel 6a is that in the U.S. market, it’s a great value phone. There are basically no other offerings in the U.S. that can provide as complete an experience at that price range. Flagship chipset? Check. Great cameras? Check. Long-term software support with timely updates? Check. It’s got all the basic boxes of an excellent phone… but it costs $449.

Do you want a phone with these features for a great value? I don’t understand the article’s criticism??
> paraphrased from an essay of reminiscence known as ‘Schooldays’, dating from 1800 BC Mesopotamia: "After he gets his packed lunch from his mother and sets off for school, everything seems to go wrong: the hall monitor beats him for being in the wrong place, another teacher beats him for tying his shirt up wrong, the Sumerian teacher beats him for speaking Akkadian and his cuneiform teacher beats him for just being terrible at cuneiform."

Whoa - I missed that "paraphrased" bit on first read and mistook this for a translation, which seemed really odd. But even paraphrased it refers to some kind of formal education for young children. Was that present in 1800 BCE Mesopotamia?
“Death of the Author”
That’s an immature shortsighted idea which is why it hasn’t been implemented. The environmental damage caused by eliminating them would be immense.
>>So... those of you working at companies demadning a return-to-office... are you going to quit?

As with most situations of this nature, it's infinitely easier to make this decision if you already have a decently competitive job offer in-hand.