skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, the harder you search for things that can transform you, your thinking, the rarer it is to find them. I might find something impactful, but it's possible no else can relate to that feeling. Sometimes the most unexpected things can change your life. I recently re-watched the movie _Groundhog Day_. I found it pretty amazing the first-time, too. But second time, I thought that there couldn't be a better metaphor for life. I do realize that the writer didn't intend it that way, but it doesn't hurt to draw your own lessons. I found a new value in being kind and trying to seize the day.

Much of impact is dependent on context, and where you're in your life. I have often tried popular recommendations but more often than not, they haven't worked for me. The transformative books have happened to be the weird ones that often don't get talked about. My advice would to read wide variety of interesting stuff. And don't think too much about how to change your thinking. It will happen naturally without effort.
While true, is that relevant? I can easily see Apple siding with a business as large as AA over a single person trying to make a useful app for people.
Two thoughts:

1. Wow, that looks like an extremely useful app if you're a flight attendant!

2. How is their employer not providing this functionality? I guess maybe they are, but only parts, or it's a shittier version. But still.
Right: storage is mostly 19th-century tech, battery chemistries and catalysts excepted, that only needs building out. But we need not feed the trolls.
It would be surprising if AA doesn't offer this set of information already to their employees via internal systems.

It's difficult to see why AA would allegedly want to block it since it seems like a net benefit for their employee's productivity.

Maybe AA IT hasn't yet combined all this into one big user-friendly app, and therefore they want to punish the perceived disloyalty of the flight attendants.
We don't have all the info, but let's not kid ourselves that mental illness can't be visible from a distance.
And 4chan got much worse over time, there's no reason it had to be rejects at all. The toxicity was entirely self directed.
Of course Intel segmenting ECC out of the client market is a major factor…

… which does not mean other factors are "irrelevant"…

… and also the price differential in ECC memory is not only a factor but also a metric as it shows that ECC memory has a "non-mainstay" surcharge created by the vast majority of users going for non-ECC. If demand were equal, the price would be 9/8 = 1.125×.
> Javascript just plain sucks.

Can you say why? I don't agree/blanket statements like this seem sorta silly.
Honestly, this whole Kanye thing has made me sad. (pardon my language for a minute) It's a world of shit taking advantage of someone who plainly needs mental health support and assistance.

It's sad to see.
I mean, for a good chunk of the last decade, there was plenty of stuff that was pretty squarely in the Overton Window which was being suppressed because it wasn't sufficiently left-wing.

* A progressive data analyst at Civis Analytics Tweeted research on the efficacy of non-violent protests, and left-wing activists pressured his employer into firing him.

* A progressive journalist with The Intercept published an interview with a black man who felt that police brutality was a problem, but would have liked to see more attention for other problems in his community--similarly, activists (including coworkers) pressured his employer to terminate him until he eventually resigned.

* A university professor used a Chinese word that sounds vaguely like a slur in English, and the university was pressured into suspending him.

* A utility worker accidentally made the "OK" gesture, and activists pressured his employer into firing him.

* A boy wore a MAGA hat and the entirety of the mainstream media along with several celebrities sent a frothing mob after him, his parents, and his school falsely claiming (despite hours of publicly available video evidence) that he was participating in a racist tirade against a Native American elder and Vietnam veteran.

* A Google employee responded to a request on an internal message board with criticism of Google's hiring policies (specifically addressing how the company could foster more diversity), and left-wing activist employees pressured Google into firing him, and virtually the whole of the mainstream media falsely claimed he published an "anti-diversity screed" as a memo to the company.

No doubt Parler has become a right-wing hub, but for a good while anything that wasn't toeing the most extreme left-wing party line was considered to be "far-right extremism". There was some pretty legitimate demand for a free-speech platform, and I'm strongly of the opinion that if we were more tolerant to discussing some of these topics out in the open (which is in part to say, if our institutions were more aspirationally neutralist and objectivist), then fewer people would have found answers from far-right folks, and we would have less far-right extremism than we do today.
Ubuntu and OpenBSD are at completely opposite in the user friendly spectrum. You're a better off moving to Debian.
I've only tried Raspbian on PC.

It's just tweaked LXDE. Not bad; bit basic. Not as flexible as Xfce. In general a poor copy of Windows 95, like virtually all Linux desktops.

As I wrote here:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/linux_desktop_feature...
> The key is: you must make enough profit to justify dedicating engineering and legal techniques to defend your scraping.

It also works if you have philanthropic, non profit, or unconventional backing to pay for these defensive resources. If this app is providing substantial benefits to the AA crew around scheduling and QoL, their union might consider providing some backstop/support.

https://www.apfa.org/
Same. I think uBlock is the answer.
Is that Federal income you're referring to? I'd assume individual states would not count that as income, otherwise they'd be concerned that employers could not relocate employees to their state.
I agree on most of the bullet points.

As a Software Architect (the SRE mirror role :) I am following https://12factor.net/ and that guidelines simplified a lot my CI/CD pipelines.
Helm + K8s is complex but you can easily enable to change some param and redeploy in a very fast and relable way.

And yes, docker outperform ansible on a lot of use-cases in my humble opinion.
Ask HN: Better to contact VC via website application form, or personal email?
Many VC sites have an application form to submit investment requests. They also list their team's LinkedIn and contact info openly.

Which method increases the chance of a response (or a quicker one)?
My understanding is that it can't be refused to settle a debt, for instance your restaurant/bar/hotel tab or for paying your car note, mortgage, taxes etc.

However, a store owner can choose to only accept bottle caps or conch shells in exchange for their goods if that's what they want to do. If you go up to the register and you tell them you want the widget, you have to pay whatever they're asking in exchange. Doesn't have to be cash, credit or even money of any sort.
I take your point, but 2 of the people I refer to had serious stage of cancer and would have died otherwise.
They would just not merge. They would instead sell the trademark and buildings and then close down and payout their shareholders.
I think the real answer is “then why are you so bad at tracking money?”.
I agree. I was thinking about granularity / specificity but wasn't able to form a coherent train of thought. I'll give it a try.

In my part of the world rents are often very naively indexed, say with CPI or CPI+. That is currently an issue, but usually pretty well functioning. Any individual has no influence on the CPI. So the CPI has a feedback loop, but no characteristic of influence.

In an AI world that characteristic of influence is indeed not clear at first. I can only expect this to be a pretty dark AI considering the 'Great Succes' it is for the owners. I expect it to vacuum data from brokers in order to calculate a "willingness to pay" combined with a "propensity to pay" to calculate individual and portfolio optimal increases.

How is this (/ could this be) collusion? Because the rent increase on property X1, owner Y1 (that is private information, at least I presume for the US rental contracts are 1-on-1 and not public information) is input for all the distributions over properties X and owners Y.

I think your point that other market characteristics have a large impact on collusion (yes / no / degree) is subtle as well.
Most people building stuff quickly in serverless seem to eschew the concept of local entirely, and it's something I've recently started doing too. I make a code change locally and it gets picked up by the deployment of my stack associated with my feature branch the second I save the file.

It's an uncomfortable concept at first but I find it's helped me build things faster and has ultimately led to less rabbit hole chasing across multiple categories of issues.
Don't forget that, at least in the US, employers also implement key loggers, mitm, silent webcam activation, push notifications triggered by power events/playing media/browser activity, etc on their network and worker machines
Your comparison is flawed and oversimplistic. You might as well consider the US as a former British colony and consider that British colonialism faired quite well.
One other aspect that wasn’t in the article is how vehemently states enforce their monopoly status on lotteries.

I’ve worked at companies that run various sweepstakes, and there is a huge legal concern around not accidentally turning into an illegal lottery.

You think just by not charging people to enter you avoid it? Oh no - the laws are setup where basically if you are running any kind of contest, you are an illegal lottery by default unless you meet certain criteria.

A “contest” must be a game of skill. A “sweepstakes” may have winners randomly chosen, but you must have (free) alternative method of entry. Etc

States are very clear: they are the only lottery games in town!
When I mean science I mean the scientific method, which is pretty universal, and you won't find a better tool to get to the bottom of things. You don't need a comprehensive understanding to find objective truth either. Newton's theory of gravitation is a really crude approximation to general relativity, and yet it's all true. Unfortunately for us the world doesn't exactly work like our intuitions suggests, so relying on them is not enough to understand it.

I don't think religious people are mocked for speculating, they are mocked for being dogmatic, but at the same time completely changing the interpretation of their dogma to serve their purposes, for power no less.
Where Architects Go to Test Their Wackiest Ideas
I'm sure media coverage helped. Back in the 8-bit days in the UK there was a regular BBC TV show for computer buffs that introduced a lot of the concepts, and each platform had a minimum of one glossy magazine per month full of tips and info - I remember reading about assemblers for both ZX Spectrum (Z80) and Atari (6502) in these kind of publications, that were widely available at regular newsagents.
>Why are employers increasingly being so hostile with their workforces?

Because the threat of unemployment isn't so severe right now, so they have to do things the older way by just scamming people into indentured servitude.
I think "never" is too polarized, maybe "be skeptical of" is a better suggestion.
As much as I dislike Uber, $27B is nothing if it succeeds in monopolizing any aspect of transportation.
Proposal: have every US adult pay a flat $52 extra in taxes a year. This amounts to $1 a week. Let's say this collects $150 million a week, assuming 150 million taxpaying adults. Have the government hold a nationwide lottery where, every week, this $150 million pot gets split into 500 parts and handed out to 500 different people. That's 500 random people a week receiving $300,000 dollars, a life-changing amount of money for most people, and all it cost them was $1 to enter. Then, abolish all other lotteries (EDIT: referring to the state-run lotteries).

Obviously this doesn't change the fundamental probability of lotteries, but most people are happy to pay $1 for a remote chance of winning $300,000 (and you can even let people opt out if they don't want to participate). It preserves the entertainment aspect (broadcast the pulls and make a weekly event out of it), creates a shared cultural touchstone (maybe dectuple the pot for the week of Christmas or something), while also eliminating the weird perversity of our current state-run lotteries that prey on gambling addicts.

EDIT: Can I ask the downvoters to elaborate?
Thanks, I'll certainly give that a try!
Some people forget what it's like to be resource-limited. Not so much that a lottery ticket will make or break you, but enough that you can't afford to do the "nice" things like... go on a decent vacation, where 4 bucks a week isn't going to amount to anything.

Now, if you go into the lottery with the idea that you're gonna win, you don't understand math. But if you buy a ticket every time the jackpot is above $100M, then you're usually taking a short mental vacation by dreaming about what you'd be doing with the money. You could go on the internet and look at the vacation places you'd be going to, or the homes you'd like to live in, etc. It gives people with limited means a sense of freedom from the dull lives they've been living.

I'm not going to argue that the lottery isn't predatory or that it's a bad investment. I'm just saying that these stories usually result in comments where people with assets show their whole asses with disdain for people who aren't well off. It's not completely about the money or the math and it never has been... and for a generation that cringes every time boomers claim that Starbucks ate your savings, you've got some nerve complaining about people show spend $4 a week on a fantasy.
Ill concede on "regift". It seems I was wrong about the prior meaning.

The OED traces the word back to 1837, but it was used primarily to mean giving a gift multiple times. In fact, it states that the definition of gifting of an unwanted gift is a predominately north american (although I have used it myself - no doubt through coming into contact with it through popular culture).

There ARE example uses in that form that predate the Seinfeld show (you can find them by searching google books) - but they seem exclusively Indian English.
How about we just go back to not using one big central social communication platform and go back to the spirit of using separate independently owned forums, chatrooms and websites for our little niches and communities to prevent this issue.
No, because the employer isn't loaning you money. In fact it would make much more sense if the employer gave the employee money as a lump sum in exchange for some agreement, much like a relocation or signing bonus. Instead this is the employer pretending its training is worth real money on the real market. In the Reuters article, an esthecian was charged nearly 2k for leaving a shitty job because of "training", despite already independently having the license necessary to do the job and no one reasonably paying that beauty parlor 2k to be educated.

Additionally, certain education-related loans do in fact disappear! Loan forgiveness is a real thing.
Usually we'd use the word "schedule" for that (American here). "Roster" is used mainly to mean a "list of people".
Show HN: A social network like Hacker News, but in audio
I am working on this concept for a while and would love to get your feedback.

Do you think I should add an option for a guest-user to comment?
My best attempt to steelman this argument is that training is a transferrable asset that the employer can't recoup.

Consider if you are an aircraft mechanic who is given a set of tools by the employer. Most people don't think it's unreasonable for the employer to ask for those tools back when you quit. In contrast, they can't ask for the training back.

Imagine if you agreed to work as a doctor for a charity if they agreed to pay for your training. Then upon completion of years of training, you quit to go work in the private sector to get more money. That seems like an extreme example, but it illustrates the point.

It would be interesting to see if employers give the equivalent funds as a bonus to an employee who comes onboard pre-trained. My guess is they don't, which would undermine their point somewhat.

It seems like an overall bad policy. If you hold someone against their will, you're bound to risk sub-standard work for the duration of the contract.
This is a perfect example of how the “rational agents” theory breaks down. From a mathematical POV what you do is clearly irrational, yet as a human it is perfectly sensible to do what you do, spend a couple of $$, have a bit of fun and move on.
Bah. Plenty of uncertainty guessing consumer confidence, inflation, and banks' and the Fed's monetary response.

How much should I invest, save, or spend?

It's a continuous game with your life savings at stake.
This is the most anti startup logic I've witnessed on here. Many startups have succeeded while violating all of these rules.
...that, and the crowd that complains about not being allowed to say offensive things anymore.

EDIT: and downvote me for pointing that out. Interesting attitude for "free speech" supporters.
These guys are prevalent in nyc. You can always spot a group of these zealots in hot spots like times sq preying on unknowing passersby baiting them into conversation and bullying them
> he genius is almost every human can relate to the jokes but they’re executed at a high level of talent so it’s all elevated.

I argue that people who don't think Seinfeld is funny remember it as a show that their parents' watched, and they didn't get the jokes, because they were kids. But if they were to give it a serious shot as an adult, they would enjoy it.

Once you grow up and start interacting with adults, the humor of the show lands. So much of the humor revolves around the petty conflicts we have all the time in adult life.

Jerry's lack of talent compared to everyone else is pretty funny too. I love scenes where you can tell he's holding back laughter while everyone else is nailing it.
Splendid isolation is a delusion that makes the world a more dangerous place.
I don't think it counts as Outsider Art (Art Brut) if the artist has had formal training.
You can force a person to stay at a job, but you can't force them to work effectively. Especially in high-skilled jobs.
It's very possible for bipolar disorder to manifest late / have a late onset in life
I came here to articulate the counter position to this because people are solidly on the side of the app developer. If you run a business and your employees access your information to do their work through an un-contracted intermediary, it's a real security risk. The information can be filtered or maliciously corrupted, and the company can be easily blackmailed.

I don't think the law offers any direct remedy. The best thing for AA to do is force the app developer into court and make them pay legal fees if they don't want to contract with them, compete by making something better for their employees, or contract with someone else to provide the service. It's costly on all sides but table stakes for running a business in a competitive market these days.
One side story. There is no comments / voice on the AA side. Read like a biased article. "become a must-have" reads like exaggeration
I have bipolar disorder which is characterized by extreme highs and extreme lows. Ye is manic right now in my estimation. Bipolars like me and Ye have lives of periods of success and periods of failure. You can read about bipolar if you'd like to learn more.
I think the parent comment's choice of "minimal work" was key. In my experience, KDE requires quite a bit of work to set up because it encourages you to adapt the system for your workflow. GNOME, on the other hand, encourages you to adapt your workflow to the system, which is minimal out-of-the-box, and IMO doesn't take much effort or work to do so.

Regardless, I think once KDE is set up to one's workflow properly, it stays out of the way and can remain out of the way on new systems by transferring the config files. It just may take a lot of upfront work to get to that point and you can get easily distracted tweaking the minutiae over time. For that particular reason, I also prefer just using vanilla GNOME (with only the AppIndicator extension for DropBox and Steam tray icons). Granted, that's a "me problem" because I get easily distracted and can never stick with a specific setup when there's so many options available for me to tweak.

TL;DR: Both KDE and GNOME can be minimal, but the latter requires "minimal work" because it's minimal out-of-the-box and there's not much work that can be done.
>I wasn't aware there were English speakers who didn't know the word roster either.

I know what it is, but maybe the people that don't use schedule or timetable?
The difference is Kim chose to go to Lawschool so she could become a lawyer, and the firm that hired her was helping her pay off her debt as part of her compensation. That situation is a little dystopian, but pretty different from what's happeming in the article. They are required by their work to get this training (so, employees are not choosing to do it) and sticking them with the bill.
We are not booking flights or taking driving lessons. We are (hopefully) engineers and scientists. I find it perfectly acceptable that you chose to accept the abstraction of the machine. You may benefit from knowing electrical engineering, but I believe the benefit is slight. Knowing the history of the field is non negotiable however.

You don't need to know how to heel-toe to drive to the market, but pretending that it's not a useful skill to master driving is ridiculous.

Are you driving to the market, or are you a serious professional?
The critical bit is probably the "legality checker". Absolutely no way an employer would offer one of those.

Reading between the lines, flight attendant scheduling is probably quite .. adversarial, as shift scheduling at restaurants can be. The employer would like employees to have the minimum information so they meekly accept the shifts they're given.