skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profit in a market economy is derived from a voluntary exchange of goods/services for currency. I buy a Ribeye because I obtian more value from the Ribeye than I do the $18 in my bank account, However if that ribeye goes to $25 I now value the $25 more than the Ribeye so I dont buy it instead I buy a Chicken Breast.

These are choices I make in a free(ish) market. Companies offer their goods, I choose to buy or not

Similar with labor, I go to the market offer my knowledge and labor for a Wage, if I set my price to high companies will refuse to hire me, if I set my price to low I am missing out on profit.

Income Taxation is in no way voluntary exchange like that, the government with the full authority to initiate violence injects itself with a demand that for every hour of labor I sell I must provide the government with a 10-40% cut of not only my profit from the sell but the gross transaction price. They do so under the threat of violence (aka imprisonment) if I refuse their order.

The fact is that the government, like a common thief, says to a person: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a person in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.
Those are the general arguments in favor of Affirmative Action, but neither explain why we only apply them selectively when we feel like it. "Mom went to college so so can I" is relevant for people who lived in the 50-90s, but for those entering college today, the mother is more likely to have a college degree than the father. "Father went to college so so can I" should be the intention today if we want to fix gender inequality in college graduates.

The “oddball” feeling is also very real in profession where a single gender represent over 80%. It was one of the finding in a government report in Sweden why so few men chooses to enter the education profession. With a majority of people working in profession with significant gender imbalance, universal affirmative action would help to reduce the problem of people perceiving a toxic working environment. A universal problem should be solved using universal methods.

For normalizing, there is two primary strategic methods. You can treat people special as with affirmative action, or you can treat people being there as being normal by treating people as individuals. Both methods works, but they also work against each other. Treating people as special create hostility and resentment, while treating everyone as individuals has the risk being perceived as supporting statues quo.

And yes, we can start at the top. Affirmative action at college applications is not the same as affirmative action at board members. Affirmative action should be universally applied using common rules, but that is sadly not how it get applied. The few times people try to make common rules for affirmative action it get abandoned quickly because the wrong group benefited from it, or it get removed based on anti-discrimination laws.
The good thing about self-publishing (in particular: ePublishing and/or print-on-demand publishing) is that you can go back and correct your work whenever you want to.
Came here to praise Magit. Even if you don't know Emacs, Magit is worth learning (and not entirely "emacsey", has its own interaction paradigms). Even if you don't plan on sticking with Magit for longer, it will illuminate your path towards better understanding of Git itself.

The only danger is it will spoil you.
By definition, you're only seeing the support requests that aren't handled through Stripe's ordinary channels. For every one you see here, there might be 100 or 1000 that are resolved just fine by Stripe.
This has the marks of a colour revolution.

From the false news spread constantly being spread by Masiha Alinejad, to the focus on a small but growing group of protestors, to the massive social media campaigns trying to flame the situation both in and outside of Iran, this is well coordinated.

Mahsa Amini collapsed at a facility and was never hurt. No signs of being beaten are visible on her hospital pictures or her entry into the re-education centers. And yet the protest started from a few handful and started growing over several days.

This is a coordinated campaign of disinformation and protest.
Eh, what about group 3?

3 The group of people that think that git is powerful, and that CLI is not the best but still learnable, and that acknowledge that for some inexplicable reasons some people cannot seem to learn git somehow.

I think the problem is that the scope simply grew. Back in my svn days, "merge branch" is something only senior engineer does for entire team and not every day; patches are exchanged by emailing entire files or .patch files; rebase is imposible; you "stash" with "cp file file.old"; and history rewrite is something that happens once or twice in your carrer.

And with git, you are basically expected to do all of that, every day, even if you a just starting.
I am on the fence on this. At 23 with mental Illness and the drugs she was taking, I think a full review of her treatment is needed.

This has a bit more detail and somekind of review was done.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/brussels-bombing-survivor-shan...

But I think all Doctors that treated her should be looked at in more detail.
Another idea: decent, effective decks of cards exist for other platforms like Quizlet - just figure out how to convert them (there are apparently some extensions that do this as of now)
I know but there’s also a thing called company culture
If he didn't deliberately to make DALL-E look bad than he did it out of ignorance of what DALL-E's strengths and weaknesses are. Your evaluation of what is "simple" and what is "more complex" aren't in line with what DALL-E is capable of.

DALL-E isn't good with symbols like letters and numbers. It can't do even very much logical / mathematical reasoning. So a graph is one of the worst choices.

What it can do is make aesthetically pleasing images that match basic descriptions. So there are more "complex" images that DALL-E can produce than basic graphs.
So I guess anyone working at a German company will want to make really sure their HR department is in on this before leaving :p
What speed do you use the first time around?
> Some depressed people will commit suicide, but the government should not facilitate this.

Would you be okay with privately run Futurama-style street kiosks, though? https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Suicide_Booth
Sorry, you're right. I was maybe too focused on being efficient rather than polite. I'll edit my comment
Thank you for giving Supademo a try, guys

The issue was with the Chrome extension, and I updated it.

If you are using extension Version 0.0.0.1, kindly update it to the latest Version 0.0.0.2.

Here's the link to the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/supademo-beta/jblb...

Let me know if you still face the same problem.
I once had a client who was a hosting company here in town.

Customer Service was their #1 priority, I watched the owner straight up fire people over it.

Companies _can_ be better, but the thing to understand is that for many (most?) companies are a vehicle for money, nothing more. There is no pride in a job well done, or doing right by their customers. This may seem like a cynical take but keep in mind, the wording I used there (vehicle) is not my wording.

That company I was talking about earlier was ran by a single man who took pride in what he did. I watched him fire a payroll company after the 2nd time they were late on payroll. The first time he sent out an email and told everyone he would personally give any employee money that needed it to make it through when their paychecks actually did come in.

IOW, he was a good guy who had 100% control over the company and chose to run it in as ethical a manner as he could (this has nothing to do with religion). Having said that ... dude was cheap as well, but the one area he never scrimped on was customer service.

Stripe is a vehicle for making money, it's a numbers game to maximize money.

Posting on HN is a technique to potentially cost Stripe more money, and as a result, they're more likely to respond. In addition, many people who actually DO care within stripe are insulated from customers, whereas on HN they're not.

The two confounding factors create a situation where you're literally more likely to get good customer service complaining about it on the internet than going through officially sanctioned customer service channels.
Yes, but it's much easier to turn it on/off from control center, so I just have to leave it in airplane mode.
This is your regular reminder that climate change means moving the distribution; outliers on the hot ('snow-free') side get more common and outliers on the cold ('big snow') side get less common.

This is absolutely due to climate change.
I have a shortcut in my browser bookmark bar just for this. I have been writing bash loops for more than 20 years, but only very sporadically (like 2 times per year).

For some reason, I cannot remember this structure.

P.s. never had this problem with PHP, Python, Java...

P.s.2 I have this shortcut for batch (Windows) and PowerShell, too. :)
Did you work with an editor or purely self-edit?
It's not quite exactly the same API - you'll need to do some testing afterward - but if you're using Moment idiomatically, nearly everything should just-work
I can believe it's a state law--or even a company just doing it as a matter of CYA policy. I assume it's pretty easy to run a background check without someone knowing though. And of course it's quite common to provide reference although I don't know how commonly companies contact them--I suspect not often.
You’re not curious. You’re being disingenuous.

If you were actually curious, you’d read the article, which goes into a lot of detail about the unsafe work conditions, the equipment breakdowns, the unstable hours, the student debt making the unstable hours even more precarious, and so on.
True! And that applies for every case. Even if you have 100% isolated mains with solar or battery, you'll get 50hz from neighbours (especially apartments) and power lines close by.

I remember having this issue when working in a recording studio during college, even when we switched to battery and turn the mains off, we'd still get hum in some guitars.

Funny enough I was recently reading an interview with producer Michael Beinhorn and he mentioned having some "mystery EMF/RFI event" happening in New York around 1997, coming from a specific block, and he had to relocate a recording session to Los Angeles because of how strong it was interfering with the guitar amps and other equipment [1].

[1] https://gearspace.com/board/interviews/1385579-interview-mic...
Last time I tested Kate's vim mode the g letter did not work in insert mode.
Kate looks great but seems even more overwhelming to configure than Vim
This is a neat writeup. I think the ESP32, alongside similar microcontrollers that tie communication via complex protocols so close to direct interaction with the physical world for such a small energy cost, are really amazing for teaching, inspiring, and empowering otherwise "non-technical" people. Of course, you do have to be able to program, but I think we're making great strides in making that as easy as possible with things like CircuitPython and EduBlocks.

Also, this kind of shocked me:

> none of my followers had ever seen functioning WOL on any 10 Gbit/s card.

Those cards are way too expensive to be lacking such a useful feature!
Why/how is dignity a factor here?
That's weird.

I came here to check that someone had linked to that video, but in my mind it feels a lot longer ago than Dec 2021. I feel like that video should be 3 or 4 years old.

It's doubly weird because that normally happens the other way around, where I think something happened about a year ago, and it was actually 3 or 4 years ago. Or I think something happened 5 years ago, and it was actually 10-12.
Not OP, but as someone who has some experience with anti-depressants, I had a similar reaction.

Antidepressants are tricky. They can take awhile to work, and usually the goal is subtle changes in one’s brain chemistry.

I’m not a doctor and was never taking more than 1-2 meds at any one time, but the article made it sound like the primary things they tried involved “throw some more meds at it”. And these meds can also directly impact one’s emotional state, sometimes to the point that they make things definitively worse.

When dealing with things that happened to us, meds are like a cast or bandage. They help hold things in place while healing happens. Healing from trauma doesn’t just happen by taking meds. It happens by doing sometimes grueling internal work.

> That the victim and doctor went up to that because they found it was a good laugh, and a fun joke to carry over 6 years?

This is a pretty bizarre conclusion.

Obviously none of us have all of the details, but to me, the takeaway is “maybe throwing more meds at this is not the answer”.

To conclude this is not to imply that they didn’t take what they were doing seriously.

She even reflects on this in one post where she mentions that maybe meds aren’t the only solution.
I like reading this site, because it has a few good commenters, and it’s focused on tech and programming, whereas the front page of HN sometimes looks completely dominated by politics and culture topics. It isn’t perfect, but it’s quite good.
I feel this comment.

I'm working though Stripe integration for the first time. It's one of the worst APIs I've ever dealt with.

I couldn't find a single place advising which webhooks to listen to - or what their payloads should be - for simple subscription behavior. It's actually inconsistent in places.

They built and accrued all of this complex billing behavior for all of these incredible upmarket needs, and in the meantime they forgot about the simple cases.

I almost used PayPal or Square. Perhaps I should have.

Stripe seems to have moved on to upmarket.
What's with all this underestimating.

If Russians can do something that's rockets. Their space rockets have 98% success rate. Land ones are probably at 99%.

"The Soyuz rocket was first launched in November 1963 and has since flown more than 1500 times. It is one of the most reliable launch vehicles, with a 98% success rate."[0]

[0]: https://sci.esa.int/web/mars-express/-/31036-launch-vehicle
Keychron K8 is a relatively cheap TKL mechanical keyboard with just enough useful features (windows/mac layout switch, bluetooth/wired switch, back light, hot-swappable keys, etc). Get the one with red switches if you don't like clicky buttons.

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k8-tenkeyless-wir...
I assume they didn't answer questions or requests from women, or otherwise silently refused to directly work with them.
I have a solution for you: be less productive. Seriously. Ramp down slowly so no one noticed, but just stop caring how much you get done. It doesn't matter. Or at least it doesn't matter nearly as much as you or your kids.
Of course Scotland has a mild climate in places where people live, probably comparable to coastal Norway. However, the article discusses Scotland being snow-free even in the mountains where it is rare that the snow melts all the way.
Ghost is $300/year just to show up and not have extreme limitations on customization. You can't even increase the size of the tiny fonts on the few available themes to something accessible on the base plan.

Wordpress.com recently completely revamped its pricing, pissing everyone off, then walked it back. And it's unclear what motivated it, or what's to come. This is the kind of omen that preceded Patreon's fall from obvious choice to reluctant best option of a bunch of bad or incomplete solutions. Automattic's pricing is more reasonable now, but the single $180/year plan they tried and walked back from hangs over it. It tells me they wanted to shift away from casual bloggers (like someone who doesn't want to worry about maintaining a .org install) to people who are willing and able to pay triple digits for all the features for business or personal PR purposes.
What if the Wikipedia can be received in the raw and taste tested cooked? The latter captures the reflection from a subject expert aided by a panel of four judges who happen to be interested learners getting the sealegs to become experts in their own right eventually and the project is funded by a grant and prestige for the expert. There is a timeline of expert review recorded and commentary.
Discriminating in favor or certain minorities is as close as you can get to balancing the injustice. Consider how many covert ways there is for biases to systematically screw over people, and how impossible it can be to definitively prove.

* The things you were exposed to as a child. Whether or not you know/see people who look like you in a certain career path.

* Whether or not you feel like you fit in at certain classes in school.

* The biases of your mentors and whom they choose to invest in. People favor other people who they feel are similar. This impacts who gets opportunities for further training positions. Who they write recommendations for. Who gets opportunities for internships. Each of these choices compound, as people with more opportunities look better than people with less.

* The biases of your peers and coworkers. Who gets blamed when things go poorly. Who gets credit for successes.

On the individual level, it's usually difficult to point out exactly where the injustice occurs to know how to address it in real time. As a population however, you can tell that it occurs. People within these groups get no benefit of the doubt. They will have to overachieve to get the same opportunities as others. With that in mind, it becomes much more reasonable to essentially reverse discriminate. Given two people with the same resume, with person A being from an underrepresented group and person B who is not, the best candidate is likely A who has had the additional burden of biases.

Doing this at large actually will reduce the biases. As it becomes normal to see the underrepresented group in a career path:

* More kids will see people like them in the career, leading to more trying it

* Classes will be more diverse and welcoming so more will stick to it

* Mentors are likely more diverse as well and will give opportunities to other people that look like them

* When you don't stick out, it's more likely you'll be treated fairly by peers and coworkers
Posts on social media aren’t an indication that a company is ineffective via normal support channels. Rather, the customer is not satisfied, and feels broadcasting the issue is the best avenue of escalation. There is still a high percentage of cases closed satisfactorily you never hear about, or customers that never open a case because their needs are being fully met.
> a rich black American kid" implies, at least to me, that our hypothetical Asian student isn't American

blink
And then will mothball them all in a few years when they become unable to produce at a competitive cost.

They will produce a lot of kWh and displace a lot of CO2 in the meantime. But nowhere near what the same money spent on solar and wind would have.
96% percent of users opted out on iOS. Prompt engineering can only reduce that number so much.
> Letter grades will be given as follows:
>
> * 90% - 100% of total available points => A
> * 80% - 90% of total available points => B
> * 70% - 80% of total available points => C
> * 0 - 70% of total available points => F
>
> Within each letter grade, there are +/- grades given at the discretion of the instructor. (Exception: there is no A+)

...what? O.o

They don't offer a grade 'D' anymore?
It's not 'one thing', it's a series of measurements over time.

> "Since the late 1970's there has been a significant reduction in the average number of days with snow lying, based on a sample of climatological stations at altitudes between 100m and 400m. The average rate of change has been 12 days per decade, which has been associated with changes in mean temperature during the winter months. The average number of days with snow lying across Scotland as a whole during the winter (November to April) is reduced by 9 days for every 1.0oC increase in mean temperature."

That's from a paper published in 2000, which is useful to look at because it makes projections for avg time periods (30-yr means) centered on 2020, 2050, and 2080.

These projections from 2000 are kind of interesting. We don't seem to be in the absolute worst-case projection (current snow loss in the Alps appears to be 77%, not 100%, for example [1]):

> "Whetton et al. (1996) have used GCM’s to simulate changes in snow cover in the Australian Alps using a mass balance approach (snowfall less ablation). They conclude that in a worst-case scenario, all snow will have disappeared from the Alps by the 2020’s. Barringer (1996) translates snow cover into altitude of snowlines which, under a best case scenario, retreat upwards at the rate of 10m per decade, rising to 52m per decade in a worst case scenario. Hantel et al. (2000) translate incremental temperature changes into numbers of snow days which, at lower altitudes, would mean a reduction of 31 days in winter and 42 days in spring for a temperature increase of 1oC."

[0] CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHANGING PATTERNS OF SNOWFALL IN SCOTLAND
J Harrison, S Winterbottom - 2000

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/alps-getting-greener-thats-not-184713...

What (if anything) to do about this reality is a matter of debate, but there's no mistake that steady global warming is taking place, fairly in line with projections dating back several decades at least.
Tonic: A low profile component framework
I had only recently learned of No Agenda from an acquaintance a week or two ago. Very interesting perspectives! I plan to listen more regularly when I can.

I bought a Beelink mini PC a few months ago because theirs stood out as a solid AMD alternative to the Intel NUCs that I was previously a bit underwhelmed with.

Had no idea the No Agenda guys were also talking about them!
So I looked into that, and their Discord explicitly says not to use it for support. So I am confused?
This is a pretty solid AR headset as they come. Definitely a step up from their first release. The optics/display are much better and they have patched some of the worse UX bugs that made the original really hard to use. But this is still a useless product. The price point isn’t the issue. It costs less than a Next cube (adjusting for inflation). Ask the serious question: among people who work for companies like Magic Leap (who get a unit for free) how many hours a day do they use it? In my informal survey the answer is about 0.01 hours a day or about 5-10 minutes a week. I have frequently encountered people with several years of “experience” with AR headsets who are not aware of basic ergonomic issues with the display. The reality is that even people who are paid to use these things don’t get much use out of them. We still haven’t discovered the killer app? A great excuse but we have then clearly found a lot of things that are not the killer app so subtract that from the projected TAM. If these is going to be used all day every day then you would see a lot more people using this all day everyday right now.
POSIX time isn’t “in UTC” regardless of that. UTC is just one of many timezones you can use when specifying which point in time timestamp 0 refers to. You could just as well use EST or anything else.
I don't have any gripe with it other than one thing:

Lack of widgets. We have people writing emoji pickers in JS and placing them in documents, and some of them work horribly on mobile. Then there's the caveat of emoji pickers being already available on mobile and no such JS widget is needed. Then there's 100+ variations of dropdown menus implemented in JS, which all have their own bugs, don't work well on mobile, and are already somewhat natively available on mobile anyway so the JS widget is not needed.