skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you tell me what other thread that is? I did a search and didn't come up with anything except very old threads, and recent posts with no comments.
It's not only about the person cleaning the toilets, companies often have more than one employee that's paid too little.

Look at nurses for example: you need plenty of them in hospitals and nursing homes, they are (in my opinion) severely underpaid. Raise their wages by 50%. You can make an educated guess how that will influence the price of healthcare or living in a nursing home.
> I see pumps where the security seal is broken or the door isn’t fitting all the way quite often.

I'm always wary of these and find another pump/(or even station).

> Now I’m wondering how much of that is from people messing with them to get free fuel?

For a long time, the purpose of those seals, was to show that the state certified more or less 'the pump as configured is actually pumping one gallon when it says it is'.

Over the last decade, it has also become a warning that a skimming device has been inserted somewhere. (Of course, more recently, skimmers don't even -need- to do that...)

But in both cases, those were hazards more for the consumer than the operator, thus the lack of care given.
This is the crux of the issue. Most everything else herein is chin music.
At one point in the video, Rossman does imply that he is getting special attention because tech lobbyists (i.e. Apple) are trying to attack him because he lobbies against Apple when it comes to Right to Repair and has done so for years. Not only through criticism on YouTube but in government hearings. Specifically hearings about Right to Repair.
A perpetual bond has a finite present value. It's no more or less exploitative than a bond with finitely many payments and the same present value.
There are cases where someones entire life is founded on a lie and that no productive discussion is possible. Sure you can "discuss" these topics amicably but they always end up "agreeing to disagree". Nothing was changed, the needle wasn't moved.. the discussion was useless and unproductive.

The truly challenging question here is HOW do you have a truly productive discussion around these topics. Graham is right. The ONLY way is for someone to give up his identity. True dispassion. That is the only time when someone can truly discuss these hard topics "productively". There is literally no other way.

Your method involves sort of dancing around the controversial topic and having useless but amicable discussions. I think your advice leads to unproductive conversations and it's also really obvious knowledge that everyone is somewhat aware about.

But I'm happy to hear other peoples opinions! We can agree to disagree.
No, e-Fuels like this are a way to make fuel from carbon free sources and that means splitting water to make hydrogen and sucking CO2 out of the air.

The navy is interested in making e-fuels from electricity on nuclear aircraft carriers since a gallon of jet fuel delivered to an aircraft carrier costs a lot more than a gallon of jet fuel delivered to a civilian airport and the aircraft carrier has to slow down a lot so a tanker it refuels from can catch up with it.
That's not what legal tender means, and the expression "boot out of your mouth" is a new one to me. Perhaps you meant the more derogatory "foot out of your mouth"?
Because:

A) Impossible means impossible. In other words, there could be no truck if it is impossible.

B) After looking at Tesla S,E,X and Y, why would you think Tesla will stop after making a few trucks?
Totally agree a shitty job is unhealthy.
That’s baffling to me. Who doesn’t realize that that thing which looks and behaves exactly like all other code isn't code?
Exactly this. I think the equation will be different with AGI, but we're pretty far from that. This alignment issue is even difficult for humans, which also means it is difficult to convey it to computers, which likely means computers will be a lot worse at it. Especially since computers are targeted at general audiences. People are better able to understand a lot of context clues that a machine would have an incredibly difficult time. We all know that in order of communication ability it is: in person > video chat > phone call > text. Anyone on the internet has probably witnessed first hand people arguing that should be agreeing because of a slow growth of miscommunication. It is why we humans gesticulate (if that manager gesticulated vertically when saying "wider" you would have had no problems). We'd need to give these AI artists cameras (we're already giving them speech inputs fwiw) but and teach them a lot of things. I'm sure we could get there, but this is really far from where we are now.

There's something called the Gullibility Gap and it is created because we anthropomorphize things as humans. More specifically, we see machines doing things that ONLY humans can do and thus our propensity to anthropomorphize them is even greater. We think that they must be intelligent and thinking because the only other things we've seen that do the tasks that they are doing also are intelligent and thinking. But what we've forgot is that the non-machines are also generalists. The machines can only do their specific tasks.

There's also issues with how machines "think." We know that they do not think like humans, and so this does create issues and ones I doubt we'll solve anytime soon. And like you pointed out with emotion, that's not going to be something that machines can understand. Who knows if AGI will even be able to. But then again, often we have a hard time understanding one another's feelings. But sympathy and empathy were powerful creations for us bio machines. So we'll see, but I do think it is quite easy to over attribute what these machines can do.
Also, not sure if you saw my other comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33933186

I already established that (a) I'm one of those hello people. (b) I'm allowing this conversation to change my behaviour, based on the fact that I simply never had any idea that people could take offence from a "hello". If your definition of "learn" is "coming around to your point of view", that would seem to make me a counterexample to your psychological typology.

But it still rubs me the wrong way to think that this society is leaving the business of "creation of cultural norms" to crybabies. Show me a group that's complaining about being said "hello" to, and I'll show you a group that needs to check their privilege.
Waiting for the obligatory, "Bitcoin solves this" post.
True. For better or worse. Sometimes I feel a little anxious when I can't work.
> We sort of form our own "lanes" based on where we think the lines SHOULD be.

And that is exactly what FSD does. You can search YouTube, there's plenty of examples if you want to see how it performs in different weather conditions. Snow is challenging but not impossible.
Pinocchio Paradox
There is a limit though - as life goes on and becomes more complex, there will never be a case where all pending business is taken care off and there are no worries. For example, children and pets will continuously generate little messes and handling them one by one will leave no time for anything else. With age, one's and one's partner's energy levels also become limited and if they do all the work as soon as it's pending, they will have no energy for anything else. Have to pick and choose and learn to tune out things that are not realistic to immediately address?
Almost none of working age Soviet people of early 80s had personal experience of losing a family member or being shipped away, yet they drank like sailors permanently stuck in a port.

This is mostly due to the blandness of life, and partly due to almost absent survival-related risk and stress. Your income and housing is guaranteed, even if often crappy and small. Why bother?
You are probably right. How would a list look like? In no particular order, perhaps:

Cancer
ALS
Alzheimer
Diabetes
Covid
AIDS

?
So, it's a proxy war after all?
Restaurant food and construction are in the non-tradables sector, so we can just look at places where these jobs pay more by virtue of location - such as expensive city cores, particularly outside the U.S. Looks like they still have restaurants and construction and they're priced roughly the same as anywhere else, so paying low-skilled labor so much more can't be affecting them all that much.
This kind of collector is so disappointing. They're very visible in games right now, but I've seen them in toys, and I'm sure you get them in everything from stamps onwards. They don't play the games, they don't play with the toys; they don't really care about the subject except insofar as it lets them feel superior to others with smaller collections or less thorough knowledge.
> In fact, it could be that the test was successful and now Chrome is waiting on something else before it adds proper support.

Waiting for libjxl 1.0 is reasonable. Though I can't help but to think it would be less work to just keep the experimental feature in there until it is stable.
Encouraging worse security practices (dumping SSO for password logins) for an ideological goal that helps no one's privacy.
And they were right; nobody should use DHCP with IPv6. It is like bringing horse carts into space age.
The ugliness is something I struggled with a bit when I was first using Transcrypt to create React applications with Python. Even though that approach is more of a 1-to-1 Python-to-JS mapping instead of a Python wrapper, I felt all the calls to createElement affected readability. But once I started using a Python decorator to wrap the components in createElement, the code got a lot cleaner. Here's a basic example based on the official React tutorial:
https://github.com/JennaSys/tictacreact2/blob/main/tictacrea...
No I use HTML, CSS and JS or TS with esbuild.
By making it it well and entertaining.

There are entire YouTube channels dedicated to it. Septic sucking is a function of capital costs not labor costs.
A large factor in the valuation of Tesla is the notion that Tesla is not "just" a car maker. There used to be a good case for that: Tesla, by necessity, led the way in a more integrated electronics architecture for EV controls and infotainment. Self-driving looked promising. Breaking the dealer model in the US was very attractive to anyone who had a bad experience with car salesmen.

But, in the end, everyone puts their trousers on one leg at a time. Car OEM valuations will probably be higher than in the ICE age, and probably lower than $TSLA is today.
Exactly, wealth is being concentrated at the top to such extremes that there is no more excess money in the lower/middle classes to tap. So somehow or other the increase in wages will have to come from the wealthy, whether through intentional redistribution, market forces, or peasant uprisings. Likely some combination of all three.

Eventually it just becomes a physics problem. If $100 exist in the world, and one guy has $99, and you need to fund something that takes $2, you have to get $1 out of the rich guy somehow.
Labor wasn't the issue, it was UX.

Users wanted responsive UIs and Gmail showed the power of AJAX in the browser. In the mid-2000s, server power, network latency, and maintaining state were the challenges. The UX was more powerful when the client tracked state, only requested the data it needed, etc.

Things have flipped. SPAs became bloated as abstractions were introduced. Network latency and server power is not an issue anymore. Rendering a bunch of HTML is as quick as rendering JSON.

As a vet of the IE7 days, I love this trend. Leveraging the best of server compute and browsers is going to simplify web app development a LOT.
The excess of sugar in our diets and the inflammation it can cause is linked to so many diseases. I'm not surprised to hear Alzheimers is one of them.
Not sure what an exhaustive list would look like.
Please feel free to "star" the issue for jpegXL support. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

From reading through the justification for the removal it seems this decision was (in part) due due to some erroneously compiled benchmarks:

> http://storage.googleapis.com/avif-comparison/index.html

"That test was done in Chrome without even using the latest version of chrome! There were many performance improvements since. Additionally, the color format (yuvj444p) used is a color format no sane person would use for JpegXL. If they were to test different color formats, they would see JpegXL wins in all of them, except the exact one they used!" (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...)
That's the correct answer!

Btw, client can run rust in WASM, so no reason to keep javascript in there either!
That was my thought too. The author says that the memory usage grows extremely quickly; I wonder if there's a way to reduce it.
Should You Be Eating Less Salt?

Probably not. More likely I should be eating more Potassium. I like most people was not getting the 4-5 grams required per day for an adult which resulted in cellular low potassium, something doctors could not see in a blood lab test as that only measures K+ in the serum.

I have since corrected my intake of potassium and my resting heart rate has reduced to safe levels and I am no longer on any prescription drugs. Salt and Potassium require a balance that is maintained by the kidneys. Even the healthiest kidneys can not balance that which is not there.
We tried using postgres for a rewrite of an existing system but the lack of support for columnar data made it not possible.
Well, scrum literally says that the team should have skills needed to get the job done, so you can still defend scrum, whereas agile says about putting people's interactions over processes and about pursuing technical excellence, so creating tech debt is still not agile.
So, I'm not sure if we can agree on that, but, arguably, I believe it is not scrum or agile that are failing, but management who doesn't want to be agile or/and follow scrum. This is my experience numerous talk I had on escalated level when my team was rising issues with management.
What's the difference between "all normal driving conditions" (your definition of Level 4) and "all known driving conditions" (your definition of L5)?
https://www.youtube.com/@LowByteProductions/videos - Previously called Low Level JavaScript builds various low level or fundamental components from scratch in JavaScript/TypeScript and a bit of C lately I think.
> I think you are missing the point.

I think it's because your point is orthogonal to my point which was in response to the someone upthread who implied that masculinity as a definition is changing, and that change means that women are finding the new definition attractive.

My argument is that it doesn't matter what the prescribed definition of masculinity is, women are going to find attractive what they've always found attractive.

Same with men.

If it were at all possible that experiences in ones life can change what that individual feels attracted to, efforts to "cure" homosexuality would have been successful.
Are you balding?
The point is not to get free energy. The point is to turn energy into hydrocarbon fuels that can be used without net carbon emissions, especially for vehicles that aren't easy to electrify.
Nowadays you likely end up doing some compilation even with ELPA, because you get a substantial speedup from compiling elisp to native code, and afaik none of the repos compile it down that far.
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
"Responding to change over following a plan"

These are 2 of the 4 tenets in the manifesto for agile development [0]. They go on by saying:

"That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more."

Essentially, choose tools. Follow processes. Periodically and permanently reevaluate. If following the plan creates an impediment to interactions, or makes the people dissatisfied, respond to these changes. Rinse and repeat.

[0] https://agilemanifesto.org/
It’s a ‚come and work at twitter‘ ad video. Didn’t they just fire 60% of their employees?
There is an interesting cult I only realized after this affair, namely a group of WebP haters. Apparently there are a lot of them but weren't visible until JPEG XL is seen as a "solution" to WebP, and many of them became a vocal supporter for JPEG XL at any cost. So that's a big part of the cult.

Another part is probably a growing opposition to Google and Chrome. I had to explain again and again that JPEG XL was also jointly developed by Google (Research Zurich) and Cloudinary, but you can still reasonably argue that Chrome aligns better with Google's own interest than Google Research. And if you apply the same stringent criteria to AVIF, AVIF doesn't stand well either---it would have made zero positive difference if AVIF was deployed this year and not 2 years ago, and libavif is not that small. As AVIF and JPEG XL have their pros and cons when compared to each other, this alone can be seen suspicious enough from outsiders. Keep in mind that Chrome is now the Web Browser so there are a lot more to expect from them, like or not.
Oh that's interesting, thanks I didn't know that!

Sometimes these things are hard to solve. I think that's why they call it IBS or "leaky gut" and not a specific condition. Where maybe one food disrupts gut bacteria while another feeds it.

I just did a quick search and kale seems to have about 30 times less oxalates than spinach, so I may switch to that. My experience with kale was making smoothies with it, but they didn't make me feel good, and I found out later that high concentrations interfere with the thyroid and maybe other things. I'll probably try it cooked instead, or stick to broccoli.
What is the temperature of the clear night sky from the surface of Earth?
They can be in the EU. They can screw up their budgets. But there is no need for them to be bound to the Euro. Plenty of countries that are part of the EU but don’t have the Euro. I’m happy to do business with them and I’m happy to let them have their way. But I won’t tie the stability of my savings and my currency to their falsified financial statements and unsustainable economic model… :-)

Never understood why we wanted them in the Euro. They should have their own Greek currency they can devalue every couple of years by 50% or so to stay competitive
From a very high level I wonder if we could use nuclear power to drive a CO2 capture mechanism to ‘make up’ for all the time spent burning fossil fuels instead of nuclear?
> Can you plug a mouse or trackball into a PS5?

It'll depend on the software developers to support trackball/mouse inputs.

For example, Code Mystics's Atari Flashback Classics Vol. [0] contains a version of Centipede (1980) by Atari which used a trackball for a controller.

However, users cannot use a trackball or mouse as a controller because Code Mystics did not build support for anything except PlayStation controllers.

As a then-contemporary Centipede high-scorer, the play experience is awful.

I'd like to find more space- and money-affordable ways to play Centipede than a cabinet replica. [1]

[0] https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/developers/games/5013

[1] https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/arcade-1up-arcade1up-a...
Nurses are highly skilled and highly paid workers, they do however have nursing aides for the grunt work.
The old and rare book market is still completely old fashioned. Most of the best books on the field are out of print and themselves hard to find (we collectors horde them).

See my other reply to you about bibliographies. There isn’t a central repository because we’re talking about millennia worth of very messy data [1]. Instead we have to first find a bibliography (usually itself an old or rare book from the same decade or century), make sure its not full of shit, then use that to identify the books we’re actually interested in.

Edit: should have added a disclaimer that I collect books that were published before the ISBN was a thing. There’s definitely an ISBN database

[1] collecting pre-Gutenberg manuscripts is insanely fun, hard, and eye wateringly expensive
This is so overdue. I'm ecstatic to see this finally happening. The frontend framework bloat trend honestly went on ten years too long. It was like the thin client and thick client debate turned into the thick client and thicker client debate.

People will roll a gigantic create-react-app mess for the tiniest of frontend projects. Yes, it's an instant codebase! But that's all code you have to maintain. Stuff like hotwire and htmx can't come fast enough.
How often is this a concern in practice? It’s a question I’ve been thinking about a bunch and the answer I keep coming back to is that most of the time, encoding the type in the data exchange format isn’t actually very useful. So I would be interested in use cases where it is.

Are you just trusting that the types coming in are going to be the correct ones? What happens if someone sends you `{“foo”: “10”}` instead of `{“foo”: 10}`? Do you validate with a schema up front? In which case your code already needs to know what types it expects and can convert them. Or are you letter the incorrect types run through your system until it hits a type error at runtime somewhere?
Even the site you pointed to show average 18% decrease in size compared to best but slow jpeg encoder.

"JPEG XL lets you recompress an existing lossy JPEG losslessly” This is such a niche usecase. Who cares about bit more lossy compression for an already lossy compressed file.
> without parallelism, each stage in the pipeline would need to fully buffer its intermediate state before forwarding it to the next stage.

That's how DOS implemented the pipe syntax I believe.
Sure, but an embedded database is still simpler than client/server. For many tasks, postgres does not offer any meaningful benefit over sqlite so why add the complexity?
I wish governments issued perpetual bonds. It would make thinking about finance much easier if you could directly convert a stock to a flow and vice-versa.
Is it really worse now though? As a full-stack developer since 2013 (Django on backend since the start, React on frontend since 2015), I think it's finally getting better in the past couple of years, and I think it was worst between 2016-2019...

After years of not knowing what to use because the libraries I've used 2 years ago are no longer maintained or their APIs changed 3 times since then, there's now Next.JS which seems like a well supported, batteries included, opinionated framework with good documentation...

with vite and esbuild on the rise, the days of fiddling with webpack and other complicated build configurations may soon be behind us...,

typescript vs. flow seems to have ended with typescript being the clear winner and having great support in most libraries, frameworks and IDEs... (although I'm a bit scared that the JS native type annotations proposal may again fragment the typing world here...)

browser-side APIs are no longer evolving so rapidly, IE11 & EdgeHTML are dead and there aren't that many features/bugs specific to Firefox/Chrome/Safari anymore...,
I generally find Avro to be a better replacement for CSV than Parquet. It’s a better drop in for the typical CSV use case of “process this file row by row”.

Parquet is great, don’t get me wrong.
Whilst I appreciate where you're coming from, I have seen many articles posted here in other languages - mostly German, from memory - that have not received this treatment.
Surely this is why standards are important. An email server could use whatever logic it wants to determine which account to deliver an email to. But if email is to be used by other services as an authentication mechanism there certainly better be a widely adopting standard for how emails get delivered.
Yeah, I saw that one but other stories around the same time say something different. Were you able to find an arhive.org page that actually shows the extension listed as malware?
> accept you have

Bad framing. More like, "be aware that you may have unchecked sides". There is a difference.