skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find when I start worrying about what my desk looks like that I’m just procrastinating. I have noticed no correlation between my desk being messy or stylish with actual focus and productivity.
Mine is clean and perfect at the start of the day, then it gets destroyed over a day or two then I clean up and and clean it and start over.

It's a good way to work tbh, resetting the environment is an effective way of getting into a productive headspace easily.
> this law would require it to be on any job posting.

And companies will still avoid listing a salary, and just say 'Not accepting applicants in Colorado or California' as they do now[1] to get around the Colorado law.

1. https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/
On a related note, you might be interested in the book "How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler" by Ryan North. It addresses that idea, of restarting civilization and reinventing the technology that has been most helpful.
from their youtube comment:

> Good question. For efficiency, we try to keep commonly used terms such as letters as short as possible. Note that the words we use for letters all one syllable, whereas the NATO phonetic alphabet are mostly two syllables. The words we use for spelling are also chosen so that they can be chained together easily and quickly, eg “harp each look look odd”. Easy to say quickly without slurring
>The only thing that would touch that pain was opioids.

I had a similar experience, albeit (and thankfully so) much more short term. I had spine surgery (lumbar laminotomy[0]) to address spinal stenosis[1] that significantly weakened my right leg and was prescribed oxycodone after the surgery.

I had prepared for this by acquiring significant amounts of cannabis (concentrate, butter and flower) to address the pain, but for four or five days, cannabis was insufficient to address the pain.

After the first two days I reduced the dosage and frequency of taking the oxycodone as I was concerned about dependency.

I will say that the first two days (full doses at four hour intervals) made me understand why some folks end up dependent on opioids.

My takeaway was that short-term use for acute (vs. chronic) pain, opioids are very effective.

For lesser pain levels, cannabis is also useful, with the caveat that cannabis doesn't actually get rid of the pain, you just don't care.

Your experience (and mine as well as that of many others) make it quite clear that (at least in the US -- elsewhere too, but legal regimes are different elsewhere and I'm not necessarily familiar with those) cannabis should be removed from schedule I (and potentially moved to schedule IV or removed completely) of the Controlled Substances Act[2], which would allow more widespread research into pain management and other medical uses.

I hope you don't find yourself in that situation again.

[0] https://adrspine.com/treatments/lumbar-laminotomy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_stenosis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act
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Forests are not very good carbon sinks except in the short run.

They have three problems when used as carbon sinks:

1) They tie up land for one, otherwise, non productive purpose (the wild species living in them do not mind that, must be said)

2) Once fully grown they reach a carbon balance. This can happen surprisingly quickly, a few decades.

2) Forests do not simply sit there like a rock. Eventually they will burn unless managed. Then they simply release all that stored carbon into the atmosphere.

Regenerative agriculture is a much better carbon sink. The process of storing the carbon increases the soil fertility so it is a win/win. Soils can get very deep so there is not a natural limit like for forests.

A draw back is measuring the carbon sunk. I do not know of anybody doing that (a market opportunity?). An important part of carbon farming is selling the "carbon credits" (a mad bad and sad idea, but it is a thing) to do that there must be an accepted measure of carbon sequestration, like there is for trees.
makes sense - cannabis is one of life's pleasures, after all
Looks like it should be incorporated into LibRedirect
It's worse than a marriage. At least in a marriage you can get divorced.
I have parents, neither are in the tech sector, that believe this. I would say a fair number of people outside of tech believe this too. I have also used vocational rehabilitation services and they don't treat those jobs with such disrespect, but I definitely got the feeling some jobs are stepping stone jobs.
My view is no more colored than yours apparently.
No, because employers have an upper hand and more information (in most scenarios of buying and selling labor).

The benefit of the law would be to give all market participants access to more information, but it is also important not to unnecessarily restrict any of the market participants.

It will be obvious that if a labor buyer is putting out $min wage to $1B pay ranges, that they should be ignored and/or they will get the worst applicants. For a labor seller, they will know to avoid labor buyers that cannot provide a decent bottom pay for their job listing.
Netflix's stated policy is to be the top payer for every role. Pay is the only reason to not stay away from Netflix.
i. can't. agree. more.

been building sensors for research for 5 years with all kind of SDKs, even a 30k camera is a nightmare (that one got decent support tho).
I sincerely hope this will be open source. Otherwise it'll just be another niche thing like various cool things in smaller languages.
Hmm

In my country there are probably 2? 3? serious semico companies

And shitton of JS-using companies

Maybe this explains why embedded/hardware/firmware devs are underpaid?
Fascinating take! I've never heard this view before, thank you for sharing it!
It wasn't a personal letter addressed to you so naturally it fails to account for your ignorance. He's writing for long-time readers of his blog who already understand the context, his style, his relationship with Gruber and Markdown, and so on. Perhaps, given that you haven't got a clue about any of that and don't seem to know what irony is, you should reconsider whether your rude comment is justified.
The lie here is that many companies have as much as 75% of compensation in non-salary items (like equity, bonus).

So folks who do not know any better could still work for 1/4 the market rate.
I'm not sure I agree with this type of legislation. Most of us have experienced that developer value add varies hugely. I think what bothers me most is that it seems to be a push for pay banding. We re individuals, I'd prefer to neogitate on my own terms.
Because it doesn't allow it, there needs to be a reasonable belief by the employer that the job posting may be paid within that range. If a complaint goes in front of a judge, they would probably find that $1bn/yr is not a reasonable payment for a job.

See the proposed amendments to 432.3 (m) (1).
The net effect is that the average Joe reads his payslip and just see his share of social insurance contribution - and then complains that his employer his paying him too little, without knowing how much social insurance his employer is paying.

Hiding seems appropriate.
Any chance we can get a nuclear-powered iPhone which lasts 4 years?
Or you just use free-space optics. If you use lasers you can even (in theory) use DWDM and get xxx separate connections of 25, even 40 Gbps each. Line of sight is required but at some point someone will get it working with satellites. I believe line-of-sight >100km 400 Gbps links have been done.

Oh and once you get past ~900km the fact that via the satellite you have a straight line with ~100% the speed of light (as opposed to 2/3 speed of light with fiber) the satellite connection to LEO is actually faster than fiber. In practice it's less since there are no zero-delay zero-loss regen stations. Every 300km the signal needs to be converted to electrical and back, which adds (a lot) of latency. With satellites this isn't done, saving further time. And all of that is ignoring that when putting fiber of the surface of the earth you cannot just follow a straight line, so you have to add distance for avoiding other people's property too.

And perhaps relevant to an internet shutdown article: laser free-space optics cannot be located unless you're directly in the path of the laser. These links cannot be "denied" to anyone with sky access.

It's just reliably aiming a beam at a moving satellite that's currently beyond our technology.

Currently 40-50gbps to a satellite is the practical limit.
I used to work in large scale eCommerce too, I would never claim distributed supply chains is trivial. But this was not in reply open source Amazon, this was a reply to the idea of a distributed Uber (the parent comment to mine).

That to me, feels quite in line with Web3's capabilities. The hard problems to me don't seem to be technical in nature. I think the bigger hurdles will be business related. But this is a tech conversation, so here is my thoughts.

The way I see it, Uber enables 3 primary capabilities, for which it takes a major cut, and commands total control over drivers:

1. Driver Ratings

2. Payments

3. Match Making

I think web3 can solve 1 and 2 on-chain using smart contracts relatively simply. and if you use a chain like Avalanche, it can be done with low fees (cents) and with fast transaction finality (seconds).

The match making capability should not be on chain. For that i'd design a simple rest API using traditional technologies that consumes configuration from the chain. This service can be deployed on Akash, and paid for by taking a small cut off each transaction or devaluing a utility token... i'd build a DAO to govern the whole thing, and i'd distributes votes based on activity in the drivers pool.

Are there probably problems here? yeah, this is 3 minutes of thought. But i'm sure if I cared to, I could design a functional system in a weekend.
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Not without 5 years of OS and application support. That's the primary reason I "junk drawer"'ed my previous iPhone. Had the OS and app support still been there, I might still be using it today.
The reason is $$$

Unfortunately, USB has more features than USB manufactures want to support. So, the end result is a bunch of those features are optional. That complicates everything. Is this a USB-C cable that can support PD 3.1? Who knows! Because, not all USB-C cables NEED to support PD 3.1, some of them just need to transmit data at USB 2.0 speeds. Those can be made super cheap.

This is especially bad when talking about things like devices. Sure, every device now-a-days has the USB-C connector, but does your phone really need to be capable of doing 80gbps on that port? Nope, so it's optional. (and would be sold, rightly so, as a power saving measure).

Every USB feature has a fast, cheap, low power tradeoff going on and the standard allows for you to mix and match features to your heart's content.
Just this summer I noticed that the magnets on the back of my barbecue thermometer were picking up a lot of magnetic sand from the local riverbank. I went back with a super-duper magnet-fishing magnet and found that probably 20% of the rocks there were magnetic. I've explored a little bit, and (mind blown) there are magnetic rocks all over the place, from cliff sides to rocks in my front yard to gravel from my friend's driveway. I haven't looked anywhere outside of Oregon and Washington though, but it seems like rocks with significant (presumably)-iron content aren't rare at all.
It’s more that we should get rid of things which add risk and don’t offer much security and focus on getting people to use the real security measures. I’m still seeing vendors claim they have to run Java as root on Linux because it needs to bind on port 80/443 and it’d be nice to stop having to haggle.
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Cheering you on!
> We collect information necessary to help deliver the best experience possible with our products and services.

When I got my first Samsung phone, it came with Samsung's keyboard installed. I looked at the privacy policy and saw that it was sending every single keypress to some third party whose privacy policy said it was used for market research and to guess at things like the education level and intelligence of the user. Who needs malware when Samsung ships keyloggers. I uninstalled it then did the same with every other Samsung app I could. They obviously don't care at all about people's privacy. On the plus side, I found some great apps that way like simple gallery pro and markor.
Photos, please.
They jumped the gun a bit with the page, but what I have been able to piece together so far is that they renamed the WASM runtime from Lumen to FireFly and FireFly is what powers this through WASM.

So OTP is running natively on the phone.

This is essentially React Native reinvented with Elixir, which to me is pretty awesome because I really dislike React Native although we have done quite a few projects with it :)

Edit: Totally mistaken, I stand corrected! Turns out I jumped the gun instead. Hopefully FireFly and this CAN give me the RN replacement I desire.
They try very hard not to be specific, but the industrial heat accumulators are usually just water.
In other news, MDMA users don't have holes in their brain.

Turns out that when the funders of a study are biased and leading, they get the results they want.
If they post $1 or whatever small/min wage, I think we can now at least assume they intend to pay the lowest stated or allowed.
A lot of history happened before people started using petroleum and its derivates
100% agree, it is normal to exhaust all legal avenues, especially if you have no conscience or soul after you ripped off, lied to, and scammed a bunch of people.

No new evidence to report (or needed, imo).
To (probabl mis) quote the Economist magazine, when adjusted for other variables the gender pay gap disappears.
High end displays can. 8k60Hz at full (8-bit) color depth and chroma (4:4:4) is around 64Gbps. The article notes that with some features of the spec to reduce bandwidth, this enables "8K144 HDR with Display Stream Compression and no chroma subsampling" with room to spare.

It's a common complaint of even current generation displays & docks that dual display 4k 60Hz docks are few and far between, and good luck getting even one display at 4k 120Hz on docks. My experience there is mostly miss, rarely hit.
To be fair the UK (or rather England) isn't exactly an examplar when it comes to water quality.

https://news.sky.com/story/huge-increase-in-raw-sewage-relea...
Pipe data from any source to any destination without Airbyte server
Not super useful without a tuner, receiving every frequency at once.

Perhaps the next step up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxhole_radio
With CA (and WA) passing it, I predict it will stop in 3, ... 2, ...
We've managed to kick the can down the road, just like with Y2K, so we imagine the problem wasn't real, and didn't learn anything as a society.

Stating the obvious:

We didn't learn shit, we're an energy blind society that believes globalization and the status quo are here to stay, and the pandemic was just an anomaly. We'll be getting back to normal soon. The kind of society that trusts economists and believe that anything is possible, if there's money to be made doing it.

My bet is that Peter Zeihan[1], Nate Hagens[2], and Daniel Schmachtenberger[3] are far better guides to the future than most. If we manage to avoid Nuclear War, the world is about to undergo deglobalization, and this will in turn have massive economic consequences.

[1] https://zeihan.com/meet-peter-zeihan/

[2] https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/about

[3] https://civilizationemerging.com/about/
Sure, so if that is true, you will see employers listing jobs for $200k to $500k, and Netflix listing jobs for $250k to $600k.

This price transparency law will give applicants the ability to see if Netflix is bluffing when they say they offer top pay, without having to waste time actually applying.
Is it required that the actual job pay adhere to the salary range posted, and no different? How about if companies pay more than the range quoted, so that they simply post low salaries and negotiate up? If it's not required, then how is it an improvement on the situation that everyone is still basically negotiating what he/she can justify?

Also, what does it do about the situation when a job's compensation is largely not salary but stock?
The government in Mississippi collects Billions in tax revenue and wastes it... like every government.
Or maybe the reader can do better than isolate a sentence out of context and assume bad intent. It’s obvious this is not to be taken seriously. It’s a few paragraphs on a blog, FFS.
You can get little USB power meters but they only tell you voltage and current, not transfer capability. Actual cable testers cost thousands.
When I saw this thread I went and checked my inbox to see if I had received an email telling me I was caught by this breach. I haven't, but what I do have are like five emails from my carrier in the last two weeks desperately trying to get me to upgrade to the latest Samsung phone.

I have a Samsung from three years ago. I don't want to upgrade or replace it until it actually breaks, as constantly upgrading phones strikes me as wasteful. However, when I see this shit as well as all the Samsung apps they don't let you delete or disable from your phone, I am very tempted to just splash out on a Pixel to install GrapheneOS.
I was under the impression that most builds of the JVM used jemalloc by default.
In addition, generating electricity in a large power plant is significantly more efficient than doing so on a small scale even after taking transmission loss into account.

It looks like the primary advantage of a device like this is that you can make use of heat that would otherwise be waste.
The biggest thing stopping you might be the cost difference between 100 feet of cat7 versus a 100-foot certified Thunderbolt 4 cable.
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And many qualified applicants will simply ignore postings entirely with wide bands where the low end would be a pay cut for them.
Have led multiple teams on Elixir projects across a few companies. And while I still love the projects, the community just isn't there anymore.

I hope this project sparks some renewed interest in Elixir!

(That said, the linked site has basically zero information or examples)
And/or a combination of "it worked with 3 handful; I'll note it down and not mess with it"
Yeah, I remember seeing a picture of Einstein sitting at his rather messy desk years ago. Haven’t tidied up my desk since.
How does it impede a labor seller’s ability to negotiate?
I don't know much about Aussie politics, but is there more to becoming a republic than removing The Queen from her largely ceremonial role? I'm guessing the Governor-General she appoints would become democratically elected instead, but what other differences would there be?
You got a lot of open space in the middle of your country. How about visas abound, but you have to go live in the NT.
I don't get why they discarded

for/while... as label1:

__for/while... as label2:

___break label1

suggestion. It actually seems a good enough idea to implement that. And it's rather concise. I often need to break deep inner loops to outermost and doing it with flags is... strange.
Ah, fair. A single eruption will not perturb the long-term trend, but we're discussing the short-term incident in Pakistan, and a single eruption can have notable short-term impact. (I don't know anything about whether the specific eruption in question could have any impact on this specific crisis in Pakistan.)
In fact, here's a diff of AGPL and SSPL, provided by MongoDB: https://webassets.mongodb.com/_com_assets/legal/SSPL-compare...

They took AGPL and modified it a bit to arrive at SSPL (See Section 13).
> If you are successful, are experiencing success or may experience it in the near future PLEASE FUCKING GO AWAY.

What? The hostility in your message felt bad and, and as someone who desires to help, hurt my feelings a little. For what purpose?

Clearly you're in a rough / tight spot, and hurting. I hope you find a way to feel better.

Best wishes, MD.
Totally agree. For complicated system, this essential complexity won't go away no matter how you make the UX "friendly". But good tooling will help users grow to understand the challenge of the problems as well as to appreciate the power of the solution. For people who are really interested in the solution, they will eventually dive deeper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
And why the reference to Geordies - natives of Newcastle - when the plant is in Sunderland?

Google maps tells me those two places are only 14.3 miles away. So 1) that's pretty understandable to conflate and 2) a lot of people from Newcastle probably commute there.
Until we hit a critical mass of states with this legislation.
I mentioned in a previous version of this discussion that PCIE5 NVME is specced to > 14GB/s, and I'd really like to have external drives capable of that.
It will help me greatly when job hunting as I will be able to immediately filter out the 90+% of jobs which would be a pay downgrade for me.

These laws don't outlaw negotiation. Not sure what you're talking about there.
There's a difference between outright censorship and not promoting garbage conspiracies and hate speech.

I've been on the wrong end of a FB ban for the stupidest reason and I get how that can be no fun. But then again, it's FB and it's a tire fire of trash. What ev er.
> a) I bet some insane userland processes fuck with their stacks

What do you mean by "insane" here? In standard C you get char** argv, and the arguments live on the stack. I believe you are allowed to modify those cli arguments through the pointers, it is not undefined behavior.
The people who will benefit most from these price transparency laws will be at the low end of the pay scale, like fast food workers and drivers and retail and hotel employees.

They may not address price transparency for people who receive equity compensation, but it is still a great start to help those at the bottom.
There is even worse than that. He also wrote:

> I

Which clearly means that he takes full credit for the whole Markdown implementation. What a scandal!
Once labor gets commoditized, yes. The factories do make the the widgets, with the people working there pushing buttons. That's why there's all this hand-wringing about immigration, cheap foreign competition, unions dissolving, worker bargaining power, and capitalist abuses. If the workers made the products they'd just find new factories and this wouldn't be an issue.

Programmers for now do make the software, in that there's a dramatic difference in the ability of a good programmer vs. a mediocre programmer to actually complete a project, and they're compensated accordingly. That'll likely change in a decade or so, though. Then the software will be largely already written, and it'll be maintained by management structures with commodity programmers slotting into roles in the org chart. It's already happening for many roles.

It's a perspective shift from "here's a laborer making a product" to "here's a role for how the product is made, and any number of different laborers could slot into it", and it happens when there are enough people with the skills to make the product that any one of them can slot into it.
Don't disagree, but the challenge in this area is that no two people are alike and so the market price for developer-a is not the same as the market price for developer-b. Related, it depends on what job you are applying for as the same person applying for two different jobs isn't going to automatically end up with the same compensation.

I'm not saying that some transparency wouldn't help, just that market pricing for labor doesn't work the same way it does for a commodity.