skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question I'd ask in this situation isn't whether the service was good, but whether it was so bad that I think the employees involved don't deserve to even get paid minimum wage.

But ensuring the minimum wage is paid should be the responsibility of the employer, not some random customer. Everything is backwards here.
I'm guessing it's something similar to these, they come in different brand names depending on which country you're in and I can highly recommend them, having tried many different earplugs myself. Much more effective than the foam types and almost as cheap:

https://www.amazon.com/Macks-Pillow-Soft-Silicone-Earplugs/d...
Cease-fire and dialog to resolve conflicts. Willingness to make reasonable consetions and pow exchanges.
Are there any good books that cover what happened with US companies like HP, Compaq, RCA, ... ? How and why they went from producing top-notch professional equipment to selling off their core engineering departments and reduce themselves to brands for cheap consumer stuff?
As soon as a 51% attack is executed, trust is the coin would plummet and so would its value, not even accounting for the fact that selling an entire market cap would zero out the coins value to begin with
Condoms effectivement is 98%: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/male-condoms/

If you have sex twice a week (which for a young couple is very conservative), after a year, you've reach 100 attempts already.

You then better hope the two patners agree on wether or not keeping the baby.
Why wouldn't you include a default example that works every time?

What I tried doesn't work...

invalid json response body at https://tweetpik.com/api/images reason: Unexpected end of JSON input

Can't get thread older than 7 days old
If you implement your own ifunc instead of using the compiler-supplied FMV ifunc, you could do your benchmarks from your custom ifunc that runs before the program main() and choose the fastest function pointer that way. I don't think FMV can currently do that automatically, theoretically it could but that would require on additional modifications to GCC/LLVM. From the sounds of it, running an ifunc might be too early for you though, if you have to init OpenMP or something non-stateless before benchmarking.

SIMD Everywhere is for a totally different situation; if you want to automatically port your AVX2 code to ARM NEON/etc without having to manually rewrite the AVX2 intrinsics to ARM ones.
> Accurate sleep measurement is, on a day-to-day basis, far more valuable than many of the features advertised on this system.

What's a good consumer device nowadays for that use case? I remember looking for some good sleep tracking (and heart health tracking) a couple of years and got hopelessly lost.
Why does the staff allow this racist troll to continue to post?
Sounds a lot like victim blaming to me. He only found those reviews after he went looking if people had similar experiences. My assumption is that those negative reviews didn't stand out on AirBnB itself, and thus he made the choice of renting the property.

And like he said in the post, we wasn't even able to leave a review, so it seems like many people with negative reviews were in the same scenario.
> Or maybe you land in a new country, the iPhone is like "hey I see you're in a new country, want a data package?"

Does having a SIM tray stop you from replying to that prompt?

> and you could just opt-in to something straight from your phone and be connected before you even get off the plane without needing to buy a disposable SIM card.

Does having a SIM tray remove your ability to choose?

Meanwhile, people use multiple SIMs even without leaving their home town as some mobile internet providers offer better services than bundled voice+internet services, having to use multiple cellphone numbers is a reality, and actually subscribing to separate services in multiple countries is a thing as well.

For instance, right now I have two SIM cards from two separate operators from two separate countries in one of my phones, and I would have a third if that was an option. Why is this suddenly a bad thing?
And yet another tech positivist discovers the reason why decades of regulation for certain industries are in place.
Witness: 16 comments with 16 different opinions.

Note that this is within the very small subsection of the population that even has any interest in how central banking works.

Can we all agree at least that for something so fundamental as our central money supply, we do a pretty horrific job on making it clear and understandable - much less interesting?

Side note: Why the fuck would full employment be a goal of a central bank. Talk about paperclip optimization.
I had no idea FlightGear's space shuttle simulation was that detailed. I'll have to try it, I only flew it in X-Plane, and IIRC there was no ascent phase.
I'm more annoyed than excited. Each new version brings in a load of new stuff I really don't need. Features are basically never removed. The whole things is becoming a cluttered mess.

New updates brings features that might be important or useful to some subset of users, while to the rest of us they are something we need to deal with, either remove if possible or learn to ignore. Personally I use iMessage, a browser and a few other apps, but fairly irregularly. That mean that any addition to iOS is an annoyance. The lock screen, with all the gizmos, annoying and pointless. Personalization feature... Sort of pointless if you don't also allow me to disable the gesture that turns on the camera, seriously that is the ONLY personalization I wish to do.

It's understandable that they don't make it, but I'd like an iOS light. One that has the bare minimum of features, for those who use their phones for calls, text messages and a few basic apps.
I think Orbiter recently became Open Source, not sure what came out of it.
> You can now

There is an optional feature where you can choose to share your current location using a satellite even if you don’t have coverage.

It would be stupid to use this capacity to track users because the data is not worth more than what you can get for free if you just cache the location and wait for the user to move into cellular coverage again. There is no conspiracy here.
TV's and PC's made my eyes bleed immediately. I'm a non-native English speaker and I can't help wondering if those are actually signs that it _was_ written by a native English speaker (US, or otherwise).
Headfull Browsers Beat Headless
i love programmer socks :3
Kodak, Polaroid
I think the idea is to use that money to stop higher energy prices driving inflation
I use zinc oxide. Brands vary, some suck IMO. The one I use doesn't show, provided that it's rubbed in really quickly, certainly within less than ten seconds. My wife prefers another brand, which also has the same time limit.

This means: Put a largish drop on a fingertip and rub it in, then repeat, and repeat, and repeat. If you squeeze out enough that you need to keep it in the hand instead of on a finger, it's going to show.
I had no idea it was this bad behind the curtain. My association with Flash is positive, though entirely for the animation culture it engendered and not the problems like these. I wonder whether Director/Shockwave was any better?

Also, mad respect to the developers at http://ruffle.rs, who are having to do it _again_! Maybe they have a chance to implement the Flash runtime cleanly.
A backup cable is definitely still a useful feature on Bluetooth headsets. My Bose QC-35s seem to only be able to pair with two devices at a time.

I always switch to the cable if I want to use them with my Linux laptop as repairing is a pain in the arse.

I've also found the cable to be very useful for anything that requires both sound quality and a microphone at the same time. Over Bluetooth and even on my Apple stuff they seem to switch to the headset profile to use the mic and the sound then becomes aweful.
Keybase was providing a solution to something most normal people did not even realize could be a problem. It was a great idea, solving a really big problem. But the awareness of that problem was very small. Hence the ability to monetize a solution aimed at the general public was also very low.

I still love the idea, but I don't see how it is a business.
The lack of self-awareness by the author is honestly astonishing.
Hydro just uses gravity to make the pressure for the turbine instead of heat + phase change.
I'm just not sure if it's sheer hyperbole or people use the word completely differently.

For instance we don't talk about Sony inventing a new Walkman, or Lenovo inventing the Chromebook Duet. Or Tesla inventing the Model S. Does Apple invent new bluetooth earphones ?
I care. I am sure other people who read such articles care. And there might be yet another category of people who find it inspiring to such an extent that they are moved to act or change something about the way they do things.
> where the scientific papers are coming from and what companies are doing research of value.

Genuinely curious: what are the companies that are doing research of value?
Yes, we only eat the legs :)
May very well just be selection. The strategy is prevalent because it works, not through the machinations of some machivellian mastermind but because other strategies don't work.
This method is more a hack to confuse the compiler than a clean solution, and now this unused variable could stay in the code forever because the compiler won't ever mention it again.

Using `_ = var` to prevent the error is just as bad as handling Java exceptions with empty catch blocks.
First time posting my own project anywhere.

D20Kit (previously Synk) has been my long time side project that tries to allow online tabletop players to experience the audio ambiance of a setting in sync with each other (within a 5 sec buffer).

It does this without a live audio stream and allows you to play/pause/loop/shuffle single track audio or playlists and maintains all participants hearing the same thing at the same time.

https://d20kit.com

I still have a lot of work on mobile parity, but I think most of the features can be accessed from mobile. It's very niche and it's got some usability issues I need to iron out. If anyone does try it out I'd love to hear the thoughts/hate mail about it.

Apologies if you don't like having Google auth be the only option.
> The SIM tray adds manufacturing cost and complexity. It's also a structural weak point and makes waterproofing harder - which adds to warranty/applecare+ costs.

Please explain then why I have been seeing iPhone 13 ads that showcase how it handles all sorts of drops and spills and sprinkles and kitchen hazards while sporting the SIM tray.

Unbelievable.
The lessons from Khan Academy are some of clearest, most distilled courses I've seen.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroec...

Salman Khan, its founder, used to be a hedge fund analyst.

I won't read hundreds of pages of dry economics any time soon. But maybe the books recommended in the article would be useful as a reference.
A dollar in your hand is "redeemable debt". It's future value that you've been promised, presumably for having prior given up something of value, like your time or some tangible good.
Oops, yes, that was a typo. ES5 came out in 2009 so my timeline would have had to involve some time travel shenanigans to work out.

Having the man himself confirm my understanding of the history of JavaScript means a lot, thank you.
thanks, it did not occur to me that they might be able to make use of NDAs in this way (forcing me to document everything discussed in case of legal action), I guess this brings up a fundamental question on where the line is between company proprietary/protected knowledge, and then knowledge/expertise one builds up over many years working on and becoming an expert in a niche area?
I can see how you would say that I'm propagating a myth that it's all in your mind.

What I did not question was the existence of the noise. Like any health care professional would do, I was asking for an explanation between sound, control, safety, and suicide. Without more information, the conclusions seemed like a non-sequitur, much like how I would want to see how to connect the dots between noise pollution and gang-rape. Hope that helps.
Whats the worst that they can do ... not let you have a facebook account?
What's your minimal rating when you book? I found out that anything lower than 8/10 is really bad on Booking, which was counterintuitive to me.
For point 5 you should add and emphasize that one should never overlap wheels with the rider in front of them.
It's probably (possibly?) a Mark Twain reference:

"If your job requires you to eat a toad, do it first. If it requires you to eat two, eat the bigger one first."
You can get multiband sonlar panels with efficiency in the low 40% range. This is similar to coal, nuclear etc.
Thinkpad x250 with full hd ips panel.
You can add an additional ssd if needed and 16gb of ram.
It has a nice docking station, you can exchange batteries
Very slick! I'm definitely your target audience. Interested to see how this develops. :)
> Don't generalise all of Europe without checking the statistics.

If you admit that WhatsApp is the dominant messaging app in the whole Europe except for a hand-full of countries, and still in spite of your admission you still try to pass Messenger as ubiquitous in Europe, you shouldn't be talking about generalizations.
https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished
What's lithium hydroxide used for in fusion reactors?

Edit: A bit more searching turned up an answer. It's a neutron absorber. So it's used as a shield to stop the neutrons leaving the reactor?
With all due respect, you immediately question that there is a problem.

Why ?

I take what OP says at face value, there's a problem, can any of us help.

Who are you to judge what's loud for someone else ? Or cold, or hot, or anything else ?

If that's how you reply to a plea for help and information, I'd suggest you don't reply at all.
Uhm, wouldn't the Ukrainians need a hundred thousand POWs first in order to exchange them for the deported children?
it's not really the point, but there's no reason to think your meal was cheaper because of the low wages. if you're the restaurant owner, if your labor costs suddenly went down, why would you lower your prices?
Unless they hit a fundamental limit. Think speed of light.
Yeah me too! My first thought was, but frogs are... delicious? What is he even talking about?

That said, I was very surprised by the quality of the article, and the writing. I was expecting yet another bucket of self-help motivating bullshit and it's the opposite of that! And also quite funny.
I don't know, seeing huge red chunks in diff view might be the most delightful thing for most programmer, red definitely doesn't indicate wrong for most people in this context.
you put the the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-AH-ble.
Jesus, this guy knows how to write.
As mentioned above though, as the company has to cover a lack of tips Uptoinimum wage, they won't be paid under minimum (at least that's what I'm taking from this).
I'm really skeptical of your argument. To start with, you mention that many presidents majored in History-- but the prestige came from the law degree that followed, not the history B.A. (which maybe is popular due to history's focus on political events).

Secondly, you suggest that the study of History centers around high level decision-making. I'm not really sure about that. Assuming you're right, this is also the case in business school, where the decisions being analyzed happen to concern private enterprise rather than the government.

I do like your point about the relevance of Silicon Valley history. But I suspect that it's much more important to be obsessive and passionate about a piece of technology than to know the story behind previous attempts. Palmer Lucky rebooted VR with incredible dedication to the product, not an academic understanding of the field.
Nope, I just print-to-PDF onto my Desktop and then dump all my .pdf files into a "PDFArchive" folder once or twice a week.

I've got over 70,000+ .pdf files in that archive now. Its very easy to query for data in this archive - ls is a surprisingly useful search tool when combined with a few |'s and grep's... and pdf2text is highly useful as well!

One of these days I'll get around to making some word cloud tools or so, maybe scanning the archive to find my favourite 3rd party sites, etc.
Could someone please enlighten a physics noob?

As i understand it, nuclear fusion could (as soon as really achieved, i.e. there exist commercial plants) provide more energy than we are currently producing by all other methods. And if we can produce it, I have no doubt we would use more and more energy.

Which would mean that all this energy must end up somewhere somehow. What I would like to know is, don' we then (just in another form) contribute to the heating of the planet again? Are there any studies/theories about that? What would the impact of the ever increasing energy release/production be?
I'm only 50% joking when I say the most impactful security measure Microsoft ever took on Windows was to add pretty picture wallpapers that change automatically
You are quite correct, sorry for the typo.
So if I have environments A, B, and C and each has a dependency ML-package-1.2 that's 100 MB, it means there's one copy of it in each environment? Meaning 3x100 MB?
Key advance in physics could help enable super-efficient electrical power
They can't do anything. I was not getting proper name in fb, so I changed my name in ID a bit using photoshop and they accepted without any issues.

Just block out the ID numbers and all and how will they identity?
Yeah I thought the obvious answer is because they taste good!
I planned to write a series of articles about how to build distributed applications on Akka Clustering, now, there's no need for that. I wish I didn't recommend Akka to my friends.
Thanks.
I think your comments on encoding a sequence of bits/pi is a little misleading. For example, in the case of the first 10 billion digits of pi, you do not even need a program to calculate it. One can just use a lookup table which maps the digits 0 through 9 to the frequency they appear in 10 billion digits of pi, which is <40 bytes of data. You are confusing the entropy of the digits of pi, for which the order does not matter, and the entropy of the sequence of pi, for which the order does matter. In the latter, you would want compare the probability of observing the exact sequence of pi compared to other sequences of numbers. This is an entirely different question. Because the sequence of digits of pi is deterministic, its entropy is 0, i.e., if one had a machine from which you could sample "10-billion digit sequences of pi" you would get the same sequence every time.

>strictly speaking the shortest possible encoding of a sequence of bits could be smaller than this would suggest, since it's possible a pattern exists that has escaped notice.

If it is a deterministic pattern, then the entropy of the sequence is actually 0. Otherwise the existence of patterns is something that the entropy computation already takes into account, and is in fact the entire point. In practice, finite sample sizes introduces noise and means that we can only ever estimate the true entropy, and Jensen's inequality implies that all such estimates are higher than the true entropy of a system, so that we observe even deterministic sequences with noisy filters. This is perhaps the clearer version of your point.
Nigel Richards learnt the words from the French dictionary but can't speak French
The whole printing and delivery process, however, is not.
If there is, I couldn't find it.

It'd be awesome if there was a standard "doNotTrack" style variable for CLIs.

With wrangler we went with WRANGLER_SEND_METRICS, as well as a user prompt to opt in/out.
I don’t get it, could someone who understands explain how this worked out? Like, wasn’t it on some kind of blockchain? like did they send their stake to the “ether”? (buh dum tiss)

This isn’t making obvious sense to me based on how very little I have paid attention to what these defi platforms actually do.. aren’t the coins and exchanges just nodes and a P2P distributed database with consensus driven transaction records, asymmetric encryption, metadata and some rules?
> corporate training

I guess Apple, with its $2.5 trillion in market cap and net profit margin of 24% still has a lot to learn from Joe at "Corporate Training e-books LLC".
Isn't that one of the big positives of being rich? You can use your funds to get anything that civilization has to offer. If you are salty about this then it's not even a far reach to be salty about rich people in general. They have better food, better entertainment, less pollution around them etc, etc. Which all leads to them having a more longer and fulfilling life in general.
Even back when they had 5k/month worth of donation they were amazingly efficient, now with 200k/month they're killing it even more.

Blender is an amazing example if what happens when you don't waste your money.

This is the opposite to for e.g Mozilla which is very corporate, abandons projects (FirefoxOS, Servo, Pathfinder, etc.), funds completely unrelated projects, fire their engineering team to increase the boss salary and hire even more manager coming from Big Tech or elsewhere who never worked on (or cared) about Firefox

On a more positive note, I think we're going to see something similar to Blender with Godot Engine. They only have 15k/month and the progress is very fast
yes this is certainly a concern - it's a 100 vs ~100K type situation , but the niche area is fairly small. based on observed behavior it's quite likely that I / new employer will be turned into a scapegoat, this worries me sometimes but then I also realize that I wouldn't be looking for something else if I was happy where I'm at
I don't know what was between him and his daughter but it's hard to comprehend how busy one can get. A guy in his position, I'm not surprised he would not have time for kids.
Who cares? Don’t expect high quality audio from consumer products.

Get a pair of good wired in-ear monitors or full blown headphones if you want/need high resolution audio.

AirPods = convenience, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Probably Google, but it's hard to tell since most of the good stuff is hidden (backend infrastructure).
FWIW, I think this is among the better pieces that I have found on HN recently.
The last paragraph of the article admits that this is almost certainly just made-up “research”. There are no facts here.
"This is Bob, our human customer representative. His job is to agree with the robot while technically being a human."
Rebecca Parsons – Building Evolutionary Architectures: Principles and Practices
Mach Game Engine in Zig
A dilemma as old as art, isn't it? Will you stay true to your most profound convictions, even if it consigns your work to obscurity? Or will you compromise, gaining more attention and influence, but for a lesser artifact?

We wouldn't be having this conversation if uBlock was a Firefox-only extension. It would have no momentum and no traction, barely any feedback, and nobody would care what gorhill had to say about improving the internet.
The first paper mentioned, Money Creation in the Modern Economy, is available here:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
That's untrue in some circumstances, and misleading in many others.

Some folks are making around minimum wage anyway, and some employers steal tips. At least a steady wage gets you something easier to fall back on.

It should be said that minimum wage is low enough that fast food often pays more. So yes, you are correct that minimum wage isn't competitive enough. You'd have to pay more.

Few might trade tips for minimum wage, but trading tips for a steady income? Sure. No more getting shafted. No more getting stuck with low-tipping shifts because someone else is more liked by the manager (folks get punished with low-tip-earning shifts). Customers won't be able to have so much leverage over you because they will no longer be directly responsible for your week's wages.