skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A calm cool efficient process where people clock in and out and are measured at their output

I think measuring a person's output rather than the input, the blockers, the whole process holistically is a method doomed to fail, and repeating the same problems you're trying to solve.
I’d like to validate your hunch as an individual barely over 40. US born and raised and started hourly jobs at 16 (grocery store, retail, movie theater) and post university landed in corporate America.

First-hand I’ve watched the changes and stagnant wages. The lack of loyalty or even fiscal responsibility (Enron as big one but smaller happen a lot going bust) or stability via buyouts or whatever - it’s become a mercenary market in 2022 and without cover anymore.

There was enough bad behavior by Boomers to perk my ears up. Then I realized they have to work until death because they didn’t save and somehow expect social security they gutted for wars will be there. Sorry, I’m not paying for luxury sunset years - especially with this healthcare “system” and costs involved. This is the unfortunate future to confront. I’m ticked and ready.

Once a person frees their healthcare from a job, it’s a lot easier to move with stability on a big expense / risk. The younger generations want work life balance, meaningful work, and know employee wages have been suppressed for DECADES and are moving the needle and I’m with them.

Now good FTE remote jobs don’t even ask for references or waste my time with peeing in a cup anymore - which was standard practice 5-7 years ago. Times change and I can tell which way the wind is blowing. There’s a bit of unspoken reckoning going on that is trying to re-build a middle class at the current mark to market stats (eg average working couple income not over $100k but more than $200k or more).

Or, in short, this is Adam Smith’s invisible hand taking supply and demand and slapping career managers and executives in the US so hard teeth break.
Use zenrows. Got it. It's clickbait but it does provide a good summary of how cloudflare's anti bot stuff works.
You like it because it’s carbs, fat, and salt with a tinge of acid (pickles jalapeños for nachos, tomato sauce for pizza roles) to clean it up. It is reduced to its essentials in these cases, but effective none the less.
Every time I try to think so charitably I end up driving behind somebody who chucks a plastic water bottle out their window into a national forest.
not sure what you're alluding to. you can easily navigate to 4chan and have as many controversial public conversations as you want. or you can make irl friends. or you can see a therapist and confirm that you have an antisocial worldview. many options for you, friend.
I wear hearing aids for moderate hearing loss. They are optimised for picking out speech from the background sounds and in the open air or rooms that have good acoustics my comprehension can be better than people with notionally better hearing. But some sounds are very effective jammers for hearing aids, notably running water, boiling kettles and, unfortunately, the ambient noises in typical restaurants.
Your complete original statement was "causing various states to (disingenuously) disagree about how to replace the lost documents"

If "various states" happen to "disagree" then it has to be a statement issued by the governors and legislature of those states. The members of Congress are most definitely not "the states". They are popularly elected nowadays and are not selected by the Governor or by the legislature of their home state. They have actually zero authority in their own state.

If a bunch of Congressional representatives happen to disagree, that's just Congress disagreeing. Congress can make whatever rules it wants with regards to a presidential election (see Bush v. Gore as I already stated) including delegating the results of that election to the Supreme Court. I suppose in fact they could actually explicitly pass Federal law determining the outcome of a local school board election if they wanted. In fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if such a law exists already in some form.

If you can't understand that "the states" is not Congress, you have no understanding of the United States.
AFAIK you only pay a cancellation fee if you want to cancel a subscription early (E.g. you booked a yearly plan and then cancel it a few months before renewal), which of course is legal.

At some point there was the hack that you could switch your subscription to a offer they throw at you when you try to cancel, and then that counted as a new subscription, which you could cancel within the first 14 days. Not sure if that still works.
I was one of them which is maybe why I want to be as far from the low vertical resolution smeary VHS world as possible when it comes to film/Tv.

Of course, the frustrating limitations of the past become the faux-nostalgic aesthetic of the future (there’s like a Gibson quote for this I think?) I’m all for fake tracking artifacts in a music video.
I (a middle aged European) feel a bit silly now. I've had an American send his CV to me which listed "cursive writing" as a skill. A was bemused as for me it falls in the same bucket as "tie laces" or "ride a bike". IE something that has no value because everybody knows how to do it.

How wrong I turn out to be.
The explode function is probably jumbled because the order is different in different languages you've encountered.
Just to give you a blow of reality check, an octopus is considered as least as smart (including sociability and all) as a cat. If not even more, considering its capacity for problem-solving.

I see intelligence/consciousness as orthogonal to lifespan. Sure it's cruel that such a smart species would die after mating (by the way if they don't mate they live several decades), but that does not remove their capacity of planning, self-reflection, empathy, etc etc.

But if you really want an other example that would escape your argument, take the crow. (no cortex, but a wurst)
People are using the term “public town square” consequentially not based on if the forum is publicly owned. It is an analogy, that you still seem committed to interpreting it in a way it is not useful, even after I explained why it is used and tried to remove the analogy as the crux of the argument.

The degree of control a site like Twitter has over public discourse is unprecedented. You may not use it, but almost all of the people in the world who influence world events do, and are influenced by the decisions the employees at Twitter make in how they regulate the flow of speech through their platform.

Your comparison to MySpace is a clearly deficient mental model - MySpace did not have the capacity to cut off a massive distribution channel to the president of the United States nor did they have the capacity to suppress stories in the media to a degree where they could influence elections. There is an endless array of arguments I could make to destroy the premise that something like MySpace was in the same universe of influence over events as something like Twitter. Scale matters, and the nature of how the platform is used matters.

If I write a tweet and it goes viral, it can reach tens of millions of people, many of whom hold immense amounts of power and influence. This is a materially huge shift in the nature of public discourse.

Liberalism takes as one of its core assumptions that society progresses through the free and fair exchange of ideas, allowing people to debate and change their minds. This organ of progress, public discourse, has evolved to now fundamentally include a small number of social media platforms that most people use to discuss current affairs among themselves and the powerful. That they may die one day is irrelevant: the power their employees wield presently over the shape of discourse and who can participate and how is far beyond what people should consider acceptable.

Hopefully this helps, but you seem committed to a very shallow comprehension of the events going on around you and their importance to free society.

Also, fwiw, I ran a BBS in the 90s and have run several online forums over the years.
> In high school (gawd, 30 years ago now), we had to memorize the opening of Canterbury Tales in Old English. I can still recite the first few lines. Why? What was the point of forcing students to do that? It's taking up precious space in the very limited memory banks.

Some schooling focuses way too much on rote, memorization, etc. But........

IMO, we often get the main point of education wrong. It's not so much direct transfer of useful skills or a body of information-- though these are still important. Instead, I think the ability to be disciplined, systemic, and learning how to learn things and accept challenge should be the main goals.

On a limited basis, practicing the skill of memorizing poetry and reciting it to a class can be a useful exercise. Now you know you can do that, how to do it, and about how long it's going to take. You were also forced to engage with that particular content in a deeper way than a casual, unmotivated reading by a high school student would have resulted in: the overall cadence and structure is cemented in your head as much as the very words.

Education used to be very memorization and recitation heavy. Leaving a little bit in seems useful, even though it was the kind of thing I hated most as a kid.
> a challenge to secretly improve a codebase without anybody noticing

That is how it should be done in any case anyway. Improvements should get slowly rolled out without disturbing the users and the business.
Tough, given the difficulties the last few years I guess.

But Terasic have the FPGA board listed for pre-order with estimated shipping at the end of this month.
I haven't had opportunity to get one before either, so I'm not sure how the availability for expansion cards has been.
Of course I mean donations, either through your family, church, or beyond. Of course it’s possible, there’s even a network now called Samaritan’s that facilitates this.

The hospital can turn of course offer to foot the bill, but can do so only after you’ve exhausted other options. But none of this is forced.
That's the same for me. I had to use it for every (non-math) assignment from 3rd through 6th grades.

I found it much slower and more cumbersome, and I have not used it since.
My very first email account (when starting university in the early 90s) was via Pine on a unix machine; and i loved it! Sure, the excitement of "a new tech thing" was there, but also the fast, productive simplicity of it all: i can send a message to someone anywhere in the world quite easily! Years later when i started getting into linux as my personal machine/daily driver, i tried using mutt. Mutt didn't stick for me then. I give mutt (and other terminal clients like it) tons of respect, but for me it has been more an issue on my preference side; and nothing against mutt. And, now over the years (with linux very much my daily driver for years now), I find myself leveraging the terminal much much more - e.g. reading RSS feed via newsboat, etc....sort of a return to the basics, but basics that enable me to be far more productive. But one of the areas where i still can't seem to be comfortable in the terminal anymore is email. I think its because of attachments that i constantly need send and receive, and maybe the workflow for that is not ideal *for me* - i don't know. Or, maybe I've gotten so used to Thunderbird, that my brain seems happy there, where it has been happy in the terminak for other areas - who knows. In any case, i welcome more terminal apps! Yes, keep on improving mutt for others, but maybe this new one might work for me (and others who haven't clicked with mutt and its ilk). Kudos and good luck to the makers of Meli! (Who knows, maybe i'll give it a spin)
What is your setup like? I feel like your comment better describes a problem with subwoofers. I've had plenty of enjoyment from bass throughout my life, but I still don't see the need for a sub anywhere near watching TV or movies. Never mind the related issue of highly-resonant perfunctory ones bundled with cheap consumer gear.

Just the other day I was helping a relative who had gotten a soundbar because her TV's speakers broke. She was complaining the sound carried too far to other rooms. I found the equalizer settings and turned down "woofer" which seemed to help, but then I read the manual that it only applied to an external subwoofer so I was left wondering if it was the placebo effect. Turns out there was a wireless subwoofer placed some distance away. I showed her the equalizer settings if she wanted to turn it down even more, and told her she could also just unplug the subwoofer if she wanted. To her, the inclusion of that box was actually an anti-feature.

And for other frequencies, I'd say middle-cost "prosumer" gear generally exacerbates dynamic range problems, being decent at low levels but distorted at higher levels. My Thinkpad speakers sound like crap all the time, and my receiver+speaker setup handles higher volumes without sounding louder due to distortion.
...fundamental rules of cinema...

This is a matter of taste. Does anyone really expect to enjoy every movie?

I love subtitles, but I accept that not everyone is comfortable using them.
You're welcome elteto, all the way.

I have little idea when I cannot be understood, and it helps me to know when I do in fact communicate plainly.
I was reading every tool is a hammer by Adam Savage and he also has a variant of short term and long term task lists. He essentially keeps a mega checklist for each project which can have infinite resolution and be as fine-grained as he needs it to be. Then for his daily lists, he pulls in tasks from various mega-lists. I thought it was a neat approach and it’s been fun to adopt it.
I couldn't understand how everyone was able to understand the puzzle and solve it without hints. Took me a few minutes to realize this is an interactive, click-and-drag game. I don't need any hints now. :)
Cursive and block letters are not your only options. There is a wide range of legible handwriting between the two.

For example, "Italic" handwriting has (imho) the advantages of cursive without the excessive strictures.

https://www.italic-handwriting.org/exemplars/display/welling...
> That's weird considering that I'm over a decade older than you and was allowed to turn in typed papers

I had the same experience as the GP commenter. Early elementary teachers were insistent that cursive would be the future of your handwriting. As soon as I hit 5th grade, teachers either didn't care or explicitly asked for typed.
I maintain my own FOSS threads signals/events libraries in C++ [0] and in rust [1] (atop of parking lot as a futex shoe-in) and I disagree. This has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the semantics of the locks. Writing concurrency primitives is HARD and the more functionality your API exposes, the more room there is for nuanced bugs in how everything interplays with everything else.

[0]: https://github.com/neosmart/pevents

[1]: https://github.com/neosmart/rsevents
I wrote cursive for many years. In the end, I found it to be slower to write, slower to read, and uses more ink or graphite. Also there's a possibility to smear words when moving the hand back to finish the t's and i's, and the extra movement there also seems inefficient. In addition, with block letters I can fit more on a line legibly, using less paper in the end. I'm not really sure what the advantages are.

I do think it can be useful to know. There might be less cursive out there now then there was, but I do come across cursive documents from time to time and I'm happy that I can read them.
I’m on the other side of Deel as an employer. How do you like working with them as an employee? I want to make sure the experience is great for those I’m paying.
Interesting discussions can happen on pretty much any forum/platform.

It's not the 'where' that matters, it's the 'who'. It's the people having the conversation. I've had meaningful conversations on Disqus more than once, which normally you would not think would be a place you could have such conversations.
I’ve stuck with vimwiki + fuzzy finding for years and it’s worked without any issues. If you’re into vim based tools, and haven’t tried it, I recommend checking it out.
If there's still time, the parent post would be more readable with the typos fixed.
Yep, as the prior comment suggests, the business is legally sat in the US, even if no shareholders or employees are there. I'm the main shareholder and one of the employees (although hired through Deel, a third party service) – so I receive personal income for which I pay taxes in Europe, but that's got nothing to do where the business pays state or federal tax.

Might be different with a LLC, though. This is a C Corp.
If you're right-handed, yes. Those claims never proved true for southpaws like me.
> Why is that of course? I mean I get that technically they can do that, but should they be allowed to? If apps need to follow some sort of guidelines to be published on the App Store, wouldn't it be unfair if Apple don't have to follow those guidelines?

If you trust Apple to control the underlying software on your iOS device that, for example, is supposed to enforce all the other restrictions, then you are already extending them far more trust than you extend to any other app. It's not clear to me why that trust would end at a notional border between "the OS" and "an app".
Ask HN: What do you do in your free time?
I am trying to find more ways I can spend my free time on besides playing video games and going for drinks and coffees with friends, and occasional sports. What do you do in your free time to relax?
Not even an Enterprise variant for unlocking LDAP/SSO integration.
You demonstrate that English is not an STD. Academia vs Discipline. One is institution one is practice. I understand it's the weekend but lay off the beer.
Rich people on yachts?

I've been having these types of conversations with my brother nearly every day of the week for the past two decades.

There are no barriers to what we can discuss. No eggshells needed. He's a rational, intelligent person. I certainly wouldn't put our conversations on Twitter (or Reddit or xyz), who has time or care to deal with explaining to morons/irrational people/mentally ill people/partisans/whatever why their feelings/emotions/politics/opinions aren't the center of the universe - and who cares what strangers and anons think anyway in most circumstances; their opinions, their thoughts, their feedback, it's all overwhelmingly worthless.

I have a couple of friends I can do this with as well. They're out there, find them.
There are also separate devices that take an audio feed from the TV/monitor and feed it to (multiple) bluetooth earbuds. Very nice for viewing after the rest of the family has gone to bed.
There have always been people who don’t care,

I’m saying that the demographic corresponding with tech enthusiasts who were excited about DTS, THX, 4k, Blu-Ray, or complained about 240p video on YouTube seem to care much less now.
When one knows nothing, everything is equally unknown and mysterious. That has no bearing on the complexity of the subject.

There is a finite amount of knowledge on Roombas, and we have all of it. We don’t know if there’s a finite amount of knowledge on insects¹ but what we do know is already sufficient to eclipse the knowledge on Roombas, especially as it intertwines with the rest of biology and life.

I ask again:

> What separates humans from insects? And by extension, what separates us from a self-reproducing Roomba?

Your answer to that question is paramount to understanding the basis of your initial argument and have a continued productive discussion.

¹ Especially with evolution and the environment constantly mixing things up.
Adobe Illustrator and other infinite canvas platforms provide a compelling case against this. Forcing yourself to draw pictures of what you’re taking notes on especially in studying software systems where the ideas are abstract and not necessarily visual is really useful. The added ability to nest concepts inside other concepts like Russian doll note taking is also pretty interesting. You can also screen clip whole articles and paste them next to your drawings and notes. Infinite canvas note taking is probably the most useful thing I’ve ever discovered in terms of learning technical systems.
Will laws be put in place ahead of this tech to prevent private industry, state and federal governments from abusing this system?

e.g.

- Auto-deducting money from someones wallet for infractions a minor crimes such as jaywalking detected by facial recognition?

- Locking someones wallet if they say something that upsets the government?

- Limiting access to the wallet for specific services if the persons social credit score is too low? this may also be in the works

- Protecting transactions from government agencies snooping without a warrant?

- Protecting transactions from private industries harvesting and machine learning behavior? This is already done with credit and debit cards. A centralized digital dollar could in theory track the same data for cash transactions. This data does exist but is harder to gather into a centralized database today.

Are there laws on the books today that would protect people from these and other use cases? I ask in good faith because I know that people will do what people can do. I believe this question is important. Implemented without proper protections can weaken faith in the system and the IRS stand to lose a lot of money.
Thanks for your feedback, I forgot to mention the execution speed in the post. The number guessing game example (44 lines long) in the Usage section actually runs with an instantaneous response time on the terminal. I added some remarks on the execution speed.
Truth hurts, huh? Downvote without rebuttal means you admit I'm right & it makes you angry. Thanks.
There are multiple strategies working in tandam.

At the very bottom the entropy coding uses a hybrid of LZ77, Huffman coding and multi-symbol rANS. This is complemented with context modeling which should be pretty familiar to anyone knows Brotli.

For the lossless (modular) mode the main strategy involves finding a good decision tree to compute a prediction for each pixel, which can be learned for each instance (thus named "meta-adaptive"). This mode allows for a number of additional transformations, some of which also function as a progressive encoding.

For the lossy (VarDCT) mode the actual transformation is a (vast) superset of the original JPEG, but a lot of more transformations---mostly related to DCT---are available and there are tons of contexts for each coefficient that can be exploited. Not exactly specific to JPEG XL, but libjxl also features a very good psychovisual model to optimize the resulting visual quality.

Besides from those main modes, there are additional whole-image transformations, color transformations (images can use an absolute color space named XYB when they are allowed to be lossy) and image features. Lastly, images can have multiple frames, some of which are animated and some of which can be merged together when the frame duration is zero, with fully configurable blending modes.
or the university could just .. make recordings of the lectures? why should students be burdened with realtime handwritten audio transcription? if you miss even a single sentence it can fuck up your understanding of the entire rest of the lecture. but with video you can just pause and rewind, speed up and slow down however you want.

it's even worse in math / physics / anything that uses a blackboard -- you have to copy down what the prof draws on the board as well as what he says aloud. two simultaneous information channels, bottlenecked by handwriting speed and muscle cramps. students frantically copying down things by hand as professors talk is a ridiculous outdated ritual that ought to be binned.
> an octopus is considered as least as smart (including sociability and all) as a cat

You're misconstruing your source, if you have one.