skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe my 2000s knowledge isn't as good as I thought, but were people carrying flashlights back then? My impression was that most people didn't, and therefore the flashlight that came with phones were a nice bonus rather than something that cannibalized flashlight sales.
Nice article, but sounds like it was written by an Uber product manager justifying their decision for surge pricing. My cynical view is that Uber predominantly benefits from surge pricing, and they pass the minimal amount on to their drivers, drenching their disadvantaged potential passengers with much higher prices.
This might sound harsh but, who cares about motivation.
I'm not motivated everyday. But what makes you stronger is doing things when you aren't motivated. But I also believe in what marcusverus mentioned.
Also, you do not have to spend hours on a task. Try to do one small thing a day or every other day. Could be 5 mins of learning, coding, or reading.

The other day, I was not motivated to work on my side project. But I needed to know how some small part of an external API worked. I dedicated 5 minutes to reading the docs. That 5 minutes turned into me implementing the whole thing.

You never know where a small bit of work that you do not want to do will take you.
Just my two cents.
Pandemic payouts and college debt forgiveness, lately.
Reagan's Welfare Queen is a prime example of how government support systems were not only dismantled, but met with disdain because of the feeling that they were helping undeserving people.
Looks like I may be in the minority, but I've had nothing but good experience in the month or so I've had a 5G phone (Samsung S22, Three network, mostly in and around Oxford, UK).
There is a 5G mast visible in the distance, and I consistently get 500-800Mbs down and 20-50Mbs up at home. Similar story when out and about if there is a 5G signal (occasionally download goes down to ~5Mbs). It's better than the ~400Mbs my Virginmedia home line maxes out at.
Technically they have PTO, but it has to be scheduled, and may not be approved, a month in advance. Which is unworkable for almost anything.
I've known people (white collar) to call in sick because their days will expire, in places that have lax enforcement policies, so I'm not surprised that some workplaces get draconian especially if it causes someone else to get forced to work to provide coverage.
There is a long history of mobile network carriers taking advantage of new technology to make themselves rich at the expense of a worse customer experience.
Replacing parking with dumpsters helps there?
Obviously(?) not stable diffusion, but the touching up of scenes is already there with the Pixel 6 magic eraser.

One touch removal of people and background intrusions (even goes as far as suggesting items for removal).

So, not far I imagine!
I think covid and the silicon shortage has shown us how JIT manufacturing completely falls apart if there's a delay in just one of your components.
> I am separate from them. I didn’t do any of that stuff.

You're doing it right now.
I do the same for my personal machine. It's acting as the router/gateway in front of several Docker containers (both HTTP and also other protocols, such as SMTP or IRC).

Disclosure: I'm a community contributor to HAProxy.
That Dallas plane crash recently had a new cell phone video surface where it is clear that the fighter started diving, but what is not clear is if there is a drone he was trying to avoid; and it's very possible that the apparent drone could also be a video artifact.

And upscaling tools/etc introduce their own information, and may cause it to make something appear to be there that is actually just compression noise.
You could probably message 3 random engineers at random companies and invite them to coffee and it'd be a better return on time invested for your career than writing cover letters. I'm not sure why you'd want to read 500 cover letters as opposed to reviewing 500 CVs.

And why on earth did you keep the job posting open to accumulate 2000+ applicants? Legal reasons?
So much for "free speech absolutism" I guess. Does the first amendment have an exception for swastikas that I don't know about? Musk is quickly learning that he cannot pick fights with Apple and corporate advertisers while being tens of billions of dollars in debt.
Nigerian Prince?
I prefer manual buttons when taking photos the traditional way. Too many digital screens these days deviate from a good solid device that does a few things really well.
>With a DB pension, you have to add agency risk to the equation. There is no need for that now when you can get a Vanguard/Fidelity/Schwab 401k and pay the same 0.03% expense ratio to get the same investment performance that a pension fund manager would. And you never have to worry about the pension fund manager stealing from it, or the politician directing investments to their nephew’s real estate company.

>I would rather have whatever normal cost the employer is contributing for DB pension given directly to me so I can drop it in VOO and cut out all the middlemen and reduce agency risk.

It's a tradeoff. The risks you describe are real, on the other hand, no reason why the pension needs to be actively managed. It's certainly perfectly viable for the pension fund to be managed by plopping money into a few low cost vanguard funds, and the reason it doesn't work that way is probably partly inertia and partly job justification. But your individual investment has a big risk too - what happens when you turn 80 (90? 100?) and the money runs out? What happens if the market takes a shit the day before you turn 65? Time to start buying Alpo if you're not in a pension.

>Assuming you work for the government in the US, this is false. Government entities in the US are allowed to use whatever nonsense assumptions they want to value liabilities, and obviously they undervalue them now and lay the extra cost on future taxpayers. Hence the underfunded DB pension and retiree healthcare crisis plaguing many taxpayers.

You're confusing the pension fund liability with the actual long-term cost of the plan. The cost of the plan can indeed be gamed, but there's not much point. It's just an actuarial calculation with all the assumptions that entails, and the actuary shows that long term, investment of this amount is sufficient to cover all costs.

The liability is the part that can be gamed for political purposes - either maximized to spread fear/blame, or minimized to get a politician money to spend today. But importantly, the liability doesn't really have much to do with the long term cost of the plan, except to express that past funding has not been sufficient to cover all costs.
Blockchains, What are they good for?
This has nothing to do with editing. Modern smartphones combine multiple pictures for each picture you take, and have very sophisticated demosaicing, noise reduction and color grading. No app needed.
This is interesting, but how does it compare to Pulumi and Terraform? Is Cloudknit intending to compete with these?
The proposal to add seven sick days passed the House and got a majority in the Senate, mostly (though not quite exclusively) ‘blues’. It’s not who unions are voting for that’s the problem, it’s the filibuster.
We can talk about the “white response” to desegregation in the same way we can talk about any other historical event involving massive social change. This does not mean there is absolute uniformity. It means a pattern emerged and that by and large this is how members of said group reacted. For instance it is an undeniable fact that white flight from major cities occurred. Of course not every white person fled a city but, as we normally speak and communicate, it’s correct to say that white flight occurred.
Austen is a terrible person and has been caught lying dozens of times and always hides behind the "we're just good people trying to help others" line to distract from the fact he and the rest of the lambda school staff (which is just all of the un-hired grads so they can boost their already pathetic placement rates) are scammers and frauds.
Fuji has dynamic range settings DR100, DR200 and DR400 which can help for sooc jpegs. I only wish my xt-30 did auto-bracketing, instead of having to combine the bracketed exposures manually on a computer.

https://fujixweekly.com/2017/10/18/fujifilm-x100f-dynamic-ra...

https://www.jmpeltier.com/fujifilm-dynamic-range-settings/
It's the first time I've seen such an unpolished experience in a major Nintendo title.

Yet, I've enjoyed the latest Pokemon vastly more than the previous one (Sword/Shield, didn't play legends of arceus). Personal opinion, of course, but shaking up the usual Pokemon formula did a lot more for me than performance and polish.
There’s a couple issues I have with this. The 20 year rule for jobs that “wear out your body” is a blunt heuristic. The military uses this, but it applies to both infantry and admin while they aren’t equal in terms of physical demands. Same goes for civil servant positions etc. it’s a bad measurement.

Secondly, the idea of retirement is an anomaly in human history. And it’s not clear that it’s particularly healthy for the individual or society.

I think there’s an argument to be had that in a productive society, people shouldn’t feel financially insecure. But I’m not sure giving 2 years of retirement for every 1 year of employment is the best way to do that.

Funding better benefits is certainly an option, but hard to do while also keeping costs down. Unfortunately, it seems like Americans prefer a consumerist economy and are addicted to cheap shit.

My personal opinion is that if rail (or air traffic controllers or whatever) are so vital to the economy, we should be willing to treat the workers as such.
Glad you asked in earnest! I was thinking more about work environment, possibly bullying etc etc, anything harsh on the body and mind. Of course your system could be setup to a working level, but you'd need more of other controls or incentives to rectify the kinds of problems which can lead to work related health issues.
I just like the red color being tired of black or silver consumer electronics. Never did an extensive research what Product Red means. Thanks for posting.
>Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands… The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

-- some idiot 50 years ago. Glad things have changed!
Reg a Filing Costs
Does anyone have experience filing for Reg A . I need to know how much it costs to file Reg A for an offering and how long it takes . I am assuming it’s close to impossible to do it without a lawyer so can someone share their experience on how much it will cost end to end to do a reg a offering. I am thinking of a business like arrived homes
Has anyone ever wanted to work? There's a reason it's called "work" and they have to pay you to do it.
"If i were a coder in my 20s again, i know exactly where i would go work right now. what an incredible moment."
I remember seeing a chart of this a few years ago. Digital camera shipments peaked at >100M in ~2010 then fell off a cliff and 8-9 years later were <10M. The sad part is consumer digital cameras funded DSLR development so DSLRs have kind of plateaued as a result.

It's a shame because digital cameras can serve some specialist purposes that phones simply can't. I have a camera that can shoot Full HD @ 960fps. I have another with a 200x optical zoom (this is not compact). And another that's waterproof to like 30 meters. I also have another compact camera with a 20x optical zoom.

But I really feel like manufacturers have failed to innovate in the smartphone era. It should be trivial (ideally, seamless) to save photos to your phone. Various implementations for this are just bad like one camera I have is a Wifi AP and you have to connect to it. They usually require running custom software, which is typically just bad.

I'd also like to be able to put a camera on a mount where I can remotely turn and tilt it, focus and zoom.

For years photographers have said the best camera is the one you have and it's true. That's why smartphones destroyed this market. But manufacturers didn't really do that much to close the usability gap.
Completely agreed. Although I'm not sure the balance of trade-offs needs to change due to recent events, I certainly believe it's worth discussing.
That's a republican-non-zero-sum take on things. It's also trivially easy for people to find local examples to point at (often in the same family tree)...but the reality is: Society costs money, money you don't directly get to direct...could go to roads, or police, schooling, food for the poor, satellites, military, unemployment, retirement.

it's EASY to say 'I don't want my money goin' to those slackers' when your money is going to a whole lot of additional societal benefit...and it even benefits you.

At the same time, fewer labor hours are needed for society to function. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE will be working less and less over time.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/column-the-amount-o...
> This is beside the point. From the paper:

I was asking someone who made a specific claim, they were not quoting from the paper. I'm asking him about the claim they made.

Specifically the person said "A great example of this phenomenon is the white response to desegregation in the United States. White union workers voted against their labor interests".

In the context of an article titled "Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group.

If the person did present an example of something claimed by the article, the article cannot be used to substantiate it, the article cannot be an example of itself, it could contain examples, but this was presented as an independent example, which needs independent justification.

> > Do we have any insights into their state of mind when taking these actions?

> Often we do

Do we have any for the specific instance in question?
Yeah, coming from a country with strong labour laws, it's mind boggling that this is legal in the US. I think the realist view has to be that the market ain't ever going to fix it, companies are always going to try to get away with as much as they can, and the people have to force the Government to bring in minimum standards.
One could argue YC is close to that too. But instead of having them in house - their relationships with TechCrunch, HN, etc are a broad megaphone to their desired audience.
Day trading, a big one is advertising agencies. Basically call every doctors office etc and offer to run FB ads for them for 1k-2k a month pay + ad costs. Then find a few other clients and just relax.
There was an article here the other day about how it's not a swastika, it's a hooked cross.

The people who actually use swastikas would like to be disassociated from the murderous megalomaniac who appropriated their symbol and used it is his white supremacist propaganda.
It’s heavily automated where I shop. I know because I write software for the robots at some of these customers and 3PLs. I watch the robots do their thing on a big board.
Username checks out ;)

Glad I'm not the only one suffering through this misery!
But people who could make 250$ per hour don't want to work lol. Scalability of work on output is definitely not linear. If I had to work 10 hours a week on anything I want I would definitely perform much better in 4 weeks than a person working 40 hours a week for someone else can perform.
commonwordliteralmeaning.com is very 90s .com boomish, not very Future.
Perhaps this is solved by requiring all accrued PTO to be paid out, and by requiring a minimum of X number of days where you can call out?

States with sick leave policies have stipulations like these:

https://www.lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/_docs/ReasonableNotice...
But it's not optimised to work with Apple's CoreML (yet), isn't it?
Agreed. From a marketing perspective, it makes sense Apple called it a phone. People already had mobile phones on them so you had nothing to lose with the switch. Had they positioned it as a PDA¹ it might’ve been seen as an extra unnecessary device for business people. They’d need to waste effort assuring people it made calls and sent SMS messages so it could be used instead of the phone. An improvement to your current device is an easier sell than a replacement.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant
Browser vendors could solve the issue by distributing two editions of their browsers, one only trusting certificates accepted by the EU and one rejecting all the certificates in the list by the EU.
This seems to be happening less and less often, though.

ProRail has pretty aggressively been removing most track switches not in regular use, reducing their chance of failure at the cost of not being able to reroute around any issues that do occur.

At the same time they've been replacing busy railway crossings with tunnels, and closing or protecting the 150 or so remaining unprotected crossings. The total number of accidental collisions is down to less than one a week. There's still about 200 suicides a year, but they are also actively trying to prevent those by adjusting the infrastructure.

There are significant issues at the moment, but most of them are at NS and other transporters. They are critically short on personnel, and recruiting new people isn't going very well. They've had to cut the number of trains by about 10% already!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104637/
It’s a good point but probably a temporary one. The Apple ecosystem already treats all devices as equal; if I lose my phone I can do 2FA or call 911 from Watch or iPad at least, typically laptop as well. There’s nothing special about the phone device.

Google, Samsung, and others are catching up there and it won’t be long before the same is true, though they will probably have a greater proportion of devices without cell modems.
And being sold used for 700-ish. Heck, an ancient D700 beats any smartphone whatsoever at larger prints and screens. You do have to do some post-processing yourself, true. And you need proper optics, there is only so much you can crop out of 12 MP. Smartphones take great pictures, and I love the fact that it gets a lot more people into photography than back during the film days. making art more accessible can only be good. But let's not kid ourselves, the reason why smartphone photos do look so great is a ton of heavy automated post-processing in device. I'd prefer to have that same functionalities available as stand-alone post-processing software. Or not, I'm fine with darktable.
One advantage I've noticed to the stereotypical "photographer loaded with cameras" gets people to pose/realize there's a photo being taken. They don't react to a phone in the same way.

That and actual lighting from real flashes (I'm talking multiple flash sources, etc) seem to be the main thing that "real" cameras have left.
When I was in grad school in an analytics program a couple decades ago, JIT was all of the rage among the Ops Management professors. It was gratifying to see one of them actually apologize on social media for the problems wrought in this era by the dissemination of this kind of thinking.
It's slightly less dangerous because they don't have guns. Still very dangerous though!
I successfully used this map to report my local ISP informally to the FCC to have them run service to my home - which they said they could not locate on this map.

Let that sink in.
I'm sure that's one interpretation. And yet Tucker is the most watched cable news show last I checked, so clearly most Americans don't agree with your characterization of his speech.

Furthermore, drawing a causal link between Tucker and the shooter is speculative at best.
> Those are civil offences; they're not "banned", the victim has to sue for damages.

Is that not still a form of punishment? And a reason why most people would refrain from saying these things?

> > Threats. Blackmail.

> Those are indeed banned, i.e. criminal. They are both effectively threats. It's a criminal act to threaten a criminal act.

A threat is a threat to do something illegal. Blackmail is a threat to do something that's often completely legal, but sufficiently embarrassing that it would still make the target change their behaviour.

But as with libel and slander, the fact that they're illegal doesn't mean they don't happen. In fact, there's plenty of people threatening others online. And often it takes a judge to decide whether or not that threat counts as a credible threat. And then there's indirect threats, where the threatener doesn't directly threaten, but directs others to do it. Possibly in an unspoken way. And sometimes the vague things someone says can still inspire a mob to storm the Capitol with a gallows from which to have the Vice President.

Where do you draw that line? And can you only draw it after people act on it? These issues are incredibly complex, and very context dependent. And pretending they're simple is going to make us ignore all the edge cases. And there's a lot of those.
By taking on obscene amounts of debt for what amounts to a personal project, Elon Musk has made himself the poorest man in the world.
I use mine to also terminate TLS and proxy mosquitto (mqtt) traffic. mosquitto's TLS configuration is a pain and it's so much easier to have it all in one place.
Good riddance. The Future they're selling is not the future I (and others) want.
> hope they also fix the blurry and poorly tiled textures and "low-geometry" environments

That sounds more like the limitations of their 2015 Android phone hardware these games have to run on.
You would so, so totally love how the residents of Versailles, Indiana, US, pronounce their town's name. I'm very 'Merican and it makes me want to bang my head into to a wall.
Often it's the other way around.

Just look at nurses. They are chronically underpaid, yet still do their jobs.
I would hang around friends houses and use their Commodore Amiga 500 and IBM 8088 machines.

My first computer was a Hyundai 486 SX/25. Mind bogglingly large butterfly effect on my life.
If you're a coder in your 20's and you're not degrading yourself for the chance to be in the same room as a wealthy man that doesn't care an iota about you or your life, what are you even doing? /s
Is an archive.org entry admissible in court? Is there a legal precedent for this?

Would it be admissible as evidence of Russian war crimes in the Ukraine war for example? Evidence of ear crimes put up on social media, taken down because they violate terms of service, but still preserved in a way that validates they're legitimate.
Exactly what is going on really. Employers unable to envision that maybe it might not be worth it to work for your company are getting punished as information flows faster. The youth is not lazy, just has better information.
Launched ten years ago: https://www.dpreview.com/products/nikon/slrs/nikon_d800

Currently available for ~$600: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=nikon+d800&LH_Sold=1&L...
Gresham Smith Wins Top Prize in ACEC Tennessee's Engineering Excellence Awards