skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are running into a real issue where private industry with too much power can effectively make something that is legal illegal. For example Visa refusing to process credit cards for adult websites.

Maybe it is time for government to step in and even though these companies are private, of it becomes a system wide problem they need to force them to host such legal content. Especially companies that want to be considered transparent carriers such as the phone company.

For example requiring all business to accept cash as payment.

What is the point of having laws of industry in the end decides what is legal?
Rebooted MoviePass says it had over 460k waitlist signups within 24 hours
There are plugins for VSCode, VS, everything JetBrains and Neovim. What else could you want?
RISC-V isn't, fundamentally, about pin level compatibility between manufacturers. It's about the ISA and its design. It's closer to AMD/Intel both providing X86 and x64 chips. Software will (mostly, modulo proprietary extensions) run on both, but they are not physically interchangeable. A EE/CMPE (or, more likely, team of them) still has to design the actual physical chips, and that's not necessarily going to be given away so freely.
If it's like this forged Chagall which you have sent to this expert panel in France for authentication, the panel will unilaterally destroy it for you:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/design/chagall-sothe...
Because you have work to do that isn't coding.
I respect Sabine but I am skeptical about the paper she puts forth about limited uranium supplies.

See the late Prof. MacKay’s work on the subject, considering fast breeder reactors to reuse the fuel and ocean extraction of uranium: https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_164.shtml
> Amazon runs the platform that sells everything so they shouldn’t be allowed to buy anything.

The issue isn't Amazon buying something.
The issue is Amazon buying something to force them to use their services hence circumventing competition.

EA may previously have used GCP to host their services because they provide a better service and are cheaper.
This forces AWS to do better to compete against GCP and the end-consumer purchasing the game will pay less.
I went into this with an open mind, like maybe breaking yourself off your typical smartphone goto's of Apple/Samsung/Google is a more doable experience these days. But I'm a few paragraphs into this and it's already highlighting how everything just seems like hell.

- Lost his SD card with the photos he took the day he got the phone. I haven't lost a photo since I started auto-backing them up with Google Photos in 2014

- Photo of the leaflet which I assume was taken with the PinePhone looks like it's from a 2008 smartphone

- Seemingly case options are so limited he went straight to 3D printing one? Perhaps that was just for fun

- Had to use a glass screen protector made for an iPhone that works good enough but doesn't fit exactly

- The phone shuts down on impact(!!!)

I can't imagine putting up with this for a day before giving up and buying a normal smartphone. I guess if you're really into tinkering and you view these issues as fun problems to be solved it's fine, but I want to think about my phone as little as possible. Someone texts me, I read it, reply, and shut it back down. I don't want to potentially wait through a reboot because I bumped it wrong, or concern myself about photo backups.
I have seen its codebase, and even took some inspiration for my Elephas app. The founder is an expert I can say.
I’ve yet to find a strong argument against the claims of centralization via outsourced hosting. Hypothetically, a devastating attack on the mainnet could be triggered by a network outage, or Amazon simply complying with U.S. laws.
It's more complex than that. The cost of slaves is non-zero regardless of how you shoulder the burden of them; feeding, keeping them in line, giving them tools for their tasks, and so forth. What would've excluded the use of early steam engines for them would've been their higher cost versus their potential output.

Plus, industrialization didn't start with the steam engine, it started with the water wheel and windmill. Whether it was grinding grain, cutting wood, or even running power hammers (some smithies were found around rivers), the industrialization effort before the steam engine was nearly three or four hundred years earlier than the official starting of the late 18th century as told in popular narratives. In fact, I believe there's evidence of industrialization in Europe happening as early as the 11th century in some countries (again, windmills and water wheels running milling and other labor intensive operations).

Another problem with the Roman economy was the lack of complex financial arrangements and instruments. There wasn't any conception of the modern loan or corporate bonds in their world which are integral to the acceleration of industrialization and the growth of capitalism. Rome basically couldn't industrialize because its people and its norms were incongruent with the possibility. And even if some ancient engineer magically did create a simple two stroke engine, there wouldn't be any incentive to invest as to produce them with regularity. At most, they would've been a curiosity of the wealthy with little usage beyond some minor conveniences.
For context, this is what 100W of LED looks like [1]. Those signs don't come anywhere close to this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsrAV1Qh4fs
This is what mailinabox does (https://mailinabox.email/) to combat spam and it has worked remarkably well. In the few years I've been running my own mail server I have received ZERO spam in my inbox.

For more info, the technique is called greylisting https://postgrey.schweikert.ch/
Amazon Is Reportedly Set to Buy Electronic Arts
Slavery is usually the reason given why the North industrialized and the South did not pre civil war.
Typically when wood warps it doesn’t un-warp on its own when the humidity changes again so I would guess not. Although from TFA it looks like they’re investigating reversibility:

> The team is also exploring whether the morphing process could be made reversible.
No, but the journalist needed to create some content. Here you go, it’s written. I really can’t connect RISC-V and the fact, that I can’t buy some digital and analog components. There is no processor in voltage regulators, PHY, nor in ADCs/DACs I use. These dumb parts do not benefit from RISV-V in any way.
Surely the main point is that the Romans didn’t need an industrial revolution of the type we had later.

They had no need to pump out water from deep mines, or need to reduce the cost of labour for producing cheap goods.

They certainly had an architectural/construction revolution so would have likely have developed similar solutions to the same problems if they had them.
Correct.

If there's an issue about whether a question is admissible, the lawyers argue it. If the judge decides it is, they just say "Overruled; answer the question."

That's why your lawyer will tell you to look at them before answering.
Here in Brazil, as everywhere, there are some ultra bright signs now - even gas prices - that are as annoying to me as hearing loud music in a otherwise calm place. Yet no one gives a f* about this.

I wonder if most people don't even notice this?
With that kind of experience level and assuming your abilities are consistent with it I'd agree with others that around £600 is a reasonable target. That's assuming you're finding work through a recruiter who will mark up the end client rate but working outside IR35. If you're willing and able to find clients directly you can push the rate up a bit because there won't be that middleman taking a cut for a while. If you're working inside IR35 (which almost always means via an umbrella company these days) then rates more like £700-750 are a reasonable target.

The market has been taking a hit recently with all the uncertainty combined with the usual slowdown over the summer season so if you're looking today and you want a quick start then you might have to settle for less. But schools go back next week and everyone is back to work after holidays so then we'll find out how much of the drag has just been the usual seasonal slowness and how much might be with us for longer.
Math is here not for explaining something, it is supposed for talking about.
haha oke I didn't think about this as a possibility.
Hooking Go from Rust
I think this is a great opportunity for a whole series of MIT-style hacks:

- Put the text on a gay-rights rainbow flag

- Put it on a Canadian Flag

- Make it a very very small poster

- Make it a very very large poster

- Make it an ad for your new start-up, with the text very very small in the corner

- Put otherwise profane words on the poster but have 'In God We Trust' on it too

- Make a word cloud with the text in the word cloud somewhere

- Make it as offensive as possible to the writers of the law with 'In God We Trust' on it. Like, ads for The Bunny Ranch, or for your DnD club, ads for the nearest abortion clinic, etc.

- Make it useful to the students with the text on it. Put helpful notes about how to use your phone to cheat in class, what teachers you suspect of dating each other, how much the principal makes in a year, etc

- Cherry pick laws you want to highlight and have the text on it.

- Have it be outright campaign ads for politicians with the text on it

In the end, the law is so poorly written that it essential makes staff into full time poster putter-uppers for literally any message you want to have sent. You only need to pay for the poster. This opens up opportunities for the students and teachers.
It's a natural approach to anyone familiar with the pattern matchers explained in old Lisp books. This is not just hindsight because when I first read this chapter in Beautiful Code I stopped after the problem statement and wrote something similar before reading the rest.

(I didn't choose exactly the same grep sublanguage to implement -- it was something like supporting the most basic escaping instead of ^ and $.)
Mostly the North industrialized, whole the South relied on slave labor as long as they could and then sharecroppers and other forms of barely-not-slavery.
What does genetic diversity have to do with anything?
An FTE will pay anywhere from $200-$1000/mo for single person healthcare (subsidized by the employer. A contractor will pay closer to $1000-2000/mo for similar coverage. Retirement is pretty shit even when company matched, so the numbers are mostly even between contractor and FTE.
I think that was what the parent was pointing out: it's not a matter of if the surgery costs anything, but of how it is paid for.
I have a deviated septum and allergies. My nose gets plugged up pretty quickly.

Peppers make it much easier to keep things clear up there. It gets to the point where I start to crave peppers.

I rarely eat a meal without some kind of hot sauce. I've been leaning more towards Sriracha until this year's shortage, then reverted to Tabasco.
Germany (and not only) is only wealthy by extracting vast amounts of wealth from other countries. This is done through unequal exchange, like poorly paid immigrants in Germany, ownership of factories in other countries with low wages, extracting resources at tiny prices from other countries, giving out loans at usury rates to countries who have been made to have no other choice, etc.

Germany is failing to generate enough energy because the system of exploitation it is based on is beginning to fail under its own internal contradictions.
There was very little direct cross though. The industrialized places (cotton milling etc) almost never had enslaved workers. Those were mostly on the plantations.
Doesn't gmail offer the choice of "marking as spam" or "marking as spam and unsubscribing"? I always just choose "mark as spam".
Erlang is a bytecode VM, so "compiled" for sure, and is pretty much the pioneer of hot upgrades.

Plenty of Lisps and Schemes are compiled (though often to bytecode) and can typically dynamically replace parts of the program.

I think ability to hot upgrade seamlessly is more a statement of "how much of the data structure shape is carried at runtime" / "how likely it is old and new API data structures happen to interoperate", and how likely it is that one can convert old runtime state to new runtime state. And that one can be seen as a trade-off; close to the metal control over memory layout is a performance gain, but in practice trades off this kind of flexibility (in theory you could make it work, but it's probably a lot of work).

https://www.theseus-os.com/ is an experimental kernel that can restart/reload/upgrade Rust components at ELF library boundaries. (State internal to a component has to be discarded unless you program a converter. Then again most JS web development hot reload discards internal state of a component.)
Is that what y'all call hyperbole 'round hyea.

How could I have know in advance that it would have been a strawman of your opinion? I didn't know you existed until a second ago.
To clarify. I don’t only mean your own business overhead, as I assume you can operate a basic contracting business for less than 35% of annual earnings. What I mean is that employees cost businesses around a 35% premium for benefits, employee side payroll taxes, liabilities, etc. In actual fact if all my employees were happy to take a 35% pay increase to become contractors I’d bet it’s a good deal for the corporation.
> The economic realities of the field just make it too risky to allow an exceptionally gifted individual to remain out in the open publishing research that could potentially destroy your business model.

This seems a bit of a stretch, doesn’t it? It seems that you don’t have to suppress CS research to prevent it from having an impact, you can usually just politely ignore it after it has been published.
At the time slavery existed, north was much more industrialized then south. The free labor ideology made North have a lot more small producers trying to innovate and earn money in market.

South ressembled and seen itself more like aristocratic gentlemens so to speak. Slavery meant that trades and smaller production were jobs for slaved, looked down at.
4,000,000,000/(24 • 60 • 60) ~= 46,000

And their mps definitely scales based on time-of-day, illustrated by this blog image[0] from this blog[1] (given their CPUs are only really handling messages).

0: https://assets-global.website-files.com/5f9072399b2640f14d6a...

1: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
I am seeing the side several are trying to point out, and sure, it's fine to educate on the issue or title inherited / given and what have you.

However I must disagree with "Why is a prominent British film-maker"... nobody would click..

At least for me, and I assume many others in the US - Seeing:

British X about Censorship - is a thing.. just like when we see British comedians talk about gun rights or British news people talk about Y thing.

When it things in the Bill of Rights or similar documents, we are going to take influence differently than if it was British person X talks about Tea or Ships or something.
I wonder what would have happened in the absence of coal/fossils. Obviously anything requiring higher temperatures than possible with charcoal would have been off limits for a longer period. But what would have powered an industrial revolution instead? Solar? Whale oil? Vegetable oil?
the North won because the South hadn't industrialized
If you don’t charge by the hour and the half day unit is optional, what’s your recommended unit of time or work to measure by?
Well I have been cycling on the roads since I was 12 and I have cycled to work all my career but the last 2 years so I know what a busy road is. It is hard to talk about safety / how stressful riding a bike is because it is totally personal. I am used to traffic in a way I am not hyper anxious on the road while my gf is literally frightened in the traffic and it is not entirely corelated to the actual danger.

For a 35km bike ride (used to do that), you definitely want a shower. For a 10km mostly flat ride? Take it easy and you should be fine just with a short cleanup and possibly t-shirt swap in the bathroom.

I've been known to ride with studded tires in the winter, works really well. It is actually safer to ride a bicycle with studded tires than a car with winter non studded tires on black ice in winter. It means a bit of investment in a dedicated bike/wheelset though. Same for riding in the dark. Blinky 5€ lights won't do but reflective wearables and decent bright front and rear lights can do a lot to increase visibility and safety.
We really need to add a special license requirement for vehicles over a certain size. You shouldn't be able to drive something so dangerous without additional training and restrictions. In addition we should enforce safety standards similar to commercial vehicles. Reduced speed limits, additional licensing fees, and stricter inspections. Also, traffic laws should be more heavily enforced for this class of vehicle with licensing revoked if they cannot keep a clean record.

Driving a truck or an SUV that weighs more than 4 tons is a huge responsibility and we treat it the same as driving a half ton econobox. If a cop sees a 4 ton SUV breaking the speed limit on a residential zone the penalties should be much harsher than a small car, motorcycle or cyclist doing the same.
Now that the euro is at parity (more or less) it might not be the case.
The question only makes sense if you subscribe to the European centric idea that the Roman Empire fell with Rome and the medieval era was a set back. The truth is things continued to progress in the Eastern Empire, the Abassid Caliphate and in imperial China.

Once you reconsider, the answer becomes obvious. The Roman Empire didn't experience the Industrial Revolution because the necessary technological advancements were yet to be invented. Humanity needed one thousand more years to reach that point and during this thousand years what was the Roman Empire morphed into something different.
Teslas are now old enough that there's large-scale long-term battery degradation data available. They lose roughly 1%-2% of capacity per year (that's a linear approximation, actual degradation is steeper in the early years, tapers off later). So after 15 years you'd expect 70%-85% of the range left.

Modern EVs have battery management systems that keep their temperature and other factors within the range that's gentle for the battery. EVs also have some spare "inaccessible" battery capacity that prevents them being (dis)charged to extremes that would shorten their life. 15-year-old EVs will be fine. EV batteries aren't your cellphone batteries.
Yeah that really surprised me. I live in a 1-bedroom in NYC and am almost at 1000 kWh/month, especially because of the recent heat waves.
Ah! thats pretty cool. I wasn't aware of that.
Only about half of the United States was a slave economy. In the north where slavery was not prevalent, industrialization outpaced the agrarian south. Then after the US Civil War, industrialization took off with the First Transcontinental Railroad being completed in 1869.
Put chargers in next to the street parking spaces? Worked pretty well here.
I think there’s a lot to be said for the two stage argument. First stage water mill powered factories and canals for transport. Second steam and steam railways.
Of course you don’t! The notebooks are glorified repls and you can also have literate programming without interactive notebooks. What notebooks get you compared to alternatives is both things at the same time.
This genuinely made me LOL
It would be poor form to change rates mid-project, and difficult to do if there's a formal agreement or statement of work involved. As I get to the end of a project I start looking around for something new, if there's more than one option I use rate to help decide which one to do. If one project (A) is more interesting or I like the customer better, they get the current rate $x quoted, but the other (B) gets $x+25. With an offer from B in hand, it's easier to ask A to match, and almost always they do. Same with salary negotiations - much easier to negotiate from a position with options.
Keanu Reeves in Ukrainian Photoshop textbook error (2020)
He never studied to be an engineer. He doesn't have his name on any designs or inventions within his companies. He isn't an engineer. A lot of claims have been made that he also hasn't actually coded anything that's been used.

The guy is a liar, look it up.

Go on youtube and search "elon musk debunked". There are lots of videos with sources showing how elon is a fraud.
They innovated in areas where slaves didn't helped.
The Burroughs 5500
That's nice for John Carmack
> Pointing to Europe that has suffered from the pandemic, and now suffering from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and going "Now the US is doing better than Europe".

What’s wrong in pointing that out ? Europe has spent money on social services but can’t keep it’s citizens safe

No covid vaccine production, land war on the continent - things are great until they are not
I use Refined Hacker News (https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news), which helpfully highlights the OP in the HN orange.
Is that inside or outside ir35? This is CTO-Head Of level pay for a contractor in london. Unless you work in a hedge-fund, in which case that is attainable even as a IC
Instead of zooming I think a better approach is Windows-within-Windows. Or is that the same thing? You don't need to "zoom" so much as "enter" into a sub-desktop. Which is different than multiple desktops side-by-side.

Smalltalk had/has this feature. You create a new "project-window". You can then "enter" it and within it you can open any number of windows including project-windows.

This works really well with programming where you are performing a task which requires a set of windows to be open, a class-browser, method-browser, change-list-window, debugger etc. As you are programming you soon discover you will need to do something else "first", perhaps fix a bug. You open a new project-window and "enter into it" to do that. Your current context of whatever you were doing remains as is in the parent window. Perhaps you leave an open debugger there halted at a given stack-frame, so you can continue that debugging later. Maybe even tomorrow.

When your bug is fixed you close its sub-project-window and come back up to what you were doing before.

If you can't fix the bug immediately you can leave its project window in place but exit into the parent-project and do something else there while keeping the bug-fix project open, and visible as a window-icon in its parent project-window.

The same approach could be adopted by the whole OS, and in a sense Smalltalk is an OS. So I'm waiting for MS or Linux or Mac come up with something similar. Not "multiple desktops" but "nested desktops". Or is there something like that already (outside of Smalltalk)?
I have been in consulting for several years and then back to permanent positions.

What advice do you have for people who are happy to do technical work but find too stressful (in terms of 'people skills') to manage clients and the networking side of sourcing clients?
It's no more evil than paying cash and making them ASK you to renew. Designing the service as a roach motel is what's evil.
But why is that a problem? I do not disagree with you about the crisis (at all!), but the only reason we care is because we're human beings - because we defined this to immoral and also because it endangers human (and other) beings lives. IMO, I find it makes very little logical (and frankly also moral) sense to say as a human being that wildlife conservation is more important than the lives of other human beings.

I know you're not saying quite the same, but this reminds me a bit of an "unpopular opinion" I came across once, which stated that people must die because there are too many people living on earth...

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