skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal on Android is doing just that and I love it. But they announced that they will remove that feature due to too many users thinking that an SMS sent with Signal is secure (despite an open lock displayed next to the message)
Make a game of it: How many random bytes can you write (to random locations) before (your program | the entire system) goes badly awry or unresponsive?
I'm not a New Yorker, but a New York food person I follow has a small rant about how people obsess about the best NYC slice, but that the real point of NYC pizza is that it's available everywhere in the city, like that you are never far from a good NYC slice --- so that the idea of seeking out particular slices kind of misses the point.

NYC'ers: how bad is that take?

(None of this is to say that it's illegitimate for New Yorkers to have opinions about whether the NYC slices they happen to be near, or were near before, are better than the others --- in the same sense as there are Italian Beef rivalries in Chicago.)
- basic rebate: every person gets a rebate corresponding to a base amount of tax paid; this is intended to ensure poverty-stricken folks are not taxed out of subsistence (HHOS). This is like earned income credit but it’s streamlined so the bureaucracy is minimized and there is no magical cutoff. It’s optional so progressive types can refuse it.

How are you going to minimize the bureaucracy? Poor people are still going to have document all their income/assets to qualify for a rebate, richer people who hate taxes will channel their income through some sort of trust while claiming that their designer suits are owned by the trust and administrators are required to wear them like any other employee.

Hedge funds serve a purpose or they wouldn’t exist

As does Fentanyl, but I bet you don't think it's a good idea to sprinkle it on your cornflakes.
As does fentanyl, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to sprinkle it on your cornflakes.
No ones saying report location constantly, but it is a dick move to not let people know that you'll be disconnecting and be unreachable for a while. Otherwise it can be very concerning if no one can get in touch or if there's an emergency.
I support the abstract idea of replacing our convoluted tax code with an extremely simple, straight-forward one that avoids negative impact on the poor and maintains an appropriate level of taxation on those (individuals and businesses) with millions/billions of dollars who are not personally impacted the same way (when you have a billion dollars, no reasonable amount of even "high" tax is going to affect your ability to have shelter, food, etc like it would when levied on lower income classes). I am even okay with setting that threshold relatively high.

But this will never happen, and even if it did, it will only affect things at the federal level. The very way our country is designed and divided by states, counties, local jurisdictions makes me feel like we're doomed to complexity forever. However, simplification on the federal side would be a huge step forward. I don't claim to know exactly what that solution would look like but I think it is possible. I am not convinced "Fair Tax" is it, however.
Agree on food, but the analogy seems particularly apt for the environmental destruction wrought by coal, oil, plastic, etc.
I agree that implementing UBI right now is silly, but I do think there is a problem that must be solved. Eventually there simply won't be enough work to do for 100% of the population to do something useful (even for the incredibly generous definition of useful used today where finding new ways to show people adverts is the best compensated career available to most people).

Should half the population starve in such a society?
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> You don't need a stand mixer, it's a no knead recipe (long overnight rise builds all the gluten). You don't need a fancy super hot oven

That recipe is just focaccia with about half the olive oil, probably replaced by whatever runs off the toppings: https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/fat/ligurian-focaccia

- no stand mixer

- no kneading

- overnight room-temperature rise

- 4:3 flour-water ratio

- dough is dimpled in the pan before baking

The Ligurian focaccia recipe brines it with salt water, which you don't strictly have to do but helps considerably, and bakes at 450F, which arguably so should any cast-iron pizza because the crust won't crisp up as much at 400F.
>This allows them to reset already accrued PTO to 0, and then when the layoffs start to occur after January 16, they won't pay out that PTO (since, again, it is 0).

Except they're paying out all the accrued PTO in the April paycheck.
The arguments for it aren't impressive either.
Indeed. The commentor above is basically replying "I got mine!" Hopefully they don't get transferred to a less ideal manager later, seems like a very short-sighted viewpoint.
The industry of which we speak is not in the sciences. Maybe engineering. The earliest recognition of software engineering seems to only go back to the 1980s, but there is a lot of debate as to whether it is even that. It's probably closer to gardening. Unfortunately, the industry is too new to have yet fully recognized what it is.
So we should let those who can't work die?
Thanks for the guidance here. Where I'm really stuck is when tcpdump tells me about the presence of the offending traffic and correlating process. In this case, it's the Android "system_server" process and I'm not sure how to find the hook into it that downloads the malware.

In hindsight I should have made this an Ask HN post...
Or authenticators, such as Authy or Google Auth.

Haven't used SMS in 10 years. I had to send a SMS to opt out of one of my carrier's options and I had to do the whole setup for Adnroid's Messages app because I have never opened it.
Internally? Imagine a grid of wires where each address is one vertical wire and each bit of the output is one horizontal wire. The output wires have resistors pulling them up to 5V. To select an entry in the ROM you pull its corresponding vertical wire to ground.

Now here's the clever bit - there are diodes between the vertical and horizontal wires. When you pull a vertical wire to ground it pulls all the horizontal wires connected through diodes to ground, putting a 0 on those pins.

In a real "mask programmmed" ROM the grid is more square, so there are a lot of horizontal lines grouped in 8 bit bytes.

In an EPROM the diode is replaced by a little MOSFET. By applying a high voltage to its gate it'll stay charged basically forever, switching on and forming a "0" in the output.
But it's a reoccuring theme in so many science fiction, no matter if print, comic, movie etc. since that genre exists.

Masses of people living in walled cities, while the wild outsides are forbidden for the commoner, with variations like only the elites are allowed to go/hunt there, or more recently that autonomous robot gardener/harvester/hunter/killer thing.
Same Words, Different Meanings
So genuine question, because I am in the middle of building a dialog system that I'd like it to work with multiple languages -- it sounds like in the worst-case scenario we can encompass all of that behavior by just having a toggle in settings next to the pronouns for specifically those languages: "use masculine word variants / use feminine word variants".

If even that; if I know someone uses "el", then "el mar" isn't a problem, and I know to use masculine word variants in other locations. Is there any scenario where knowing that a user/player uses "el" to refer to themselves wouldn't allow you to derive what gender-variant of another word to use when referring to them?

I guess if someone is using completely agender pronouns (I don't know what that would be in Spanish) I'd need to ask about feminine/masculine word variants, but I'm still struggling to see why I need to know their actual gender.
please get a "rules of the road" booklet from your local driver's services facility and read it.

assuming you are in California: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/california-driver-han...

operating a motor vehicle in the United States requires that you have this entire booklet (or that of another state; they are all nearly identical) memorized, cover to cover.
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What I also find a bit strange is when people feel the need to tell you what their sexual orientation is, even though you didn't ask. What's also strange is when you consider what you would have to ask them to have them give you that as their answer.

And in some cases it could even be considered as sexual harassment.

Example: "I am lesbian" in other words means I'm sexually attracted and may or may not have sexual intercourse with another woman.

Now try to think of questions you would have to ask to receive the above as the answer.

Maybe it's just me, but unless asked, it feels very inappropriate to just tell people with whom you have sex or wish to have sex with. Especially when the topic of conversation was about something completely different and in no way related.
Have you ever witnessed a Spanish-speaker saying “bienvenido” to a woman?
Great feedback! It is available on Apple and Spotify currently via rss, I will look at Podcast Addict! I will also embed widget on the homepage. Thanks!
Speaking of this, why aren't taxes on dividends higher than taxes on income from a job?
For a counterexample imagine you are born on a space station where it costs $1,000,000 per year to provide air for you. Should you have to a work a job to breath air?

The problem of universal basic income strategies is that they only work when the earth is far below its human population carrying capacity for the current technology level.

If we were at carrying capacity the idea would be ludicrous because you not working would result in one of us starving to death.

Pre-civilization there was a very strict limit on human populations based on the natural resources they could extract via labor. Anybody who didn't work starved in short order.

Universal basic income is basically inventing a new right to tax other people for your sustenance (much like feudal aristocrats) in times when we have food surpluses.
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These different approaches really compliment each other - most of the memes you've categorised are used in a variety of situations and therefore not suited to text searching. Meanwhile if you're looking for a specific meme that you've seen, text search is the way to go.

Ideally there would be a best of both worlds where you could search memes by "characters" or "formats" in addition to text.

As feedback, it would be nice to search all memes from the homepage. The search on https://www.memeatlas.com/meme-templates.html also seems to be broken.
A bit disappointed that until pretty recently I'd still see "Flexport is hiring" advertisement posts on HN frontpage
I think you might almost understand how it feels when someone makes gross generalizations across the entire US :).

One thing I keep learning about the EU is ... do not generalize using Germany as the baseline. There are many areas where Germany is the odd one out, not the standard.
I understand why a Coleman camp stove might be a viable substitute, but why would you be better off with a system which performs worse in every way? This perspective also sweeps aside the living conditions of rural Americans, many of whom own a large gas tank which is refilled a few times a year via truck. They go this route because many regional electrical grids are simply not reliable enough even in the absence of a major storm, and a gas connection is not possible.
Full quote:

>The narrative: Apple uses the green bubbles as a PR tactic to make Android users seem inferior.

>I can’t say Apple doesn’t enjoy that dynamic. But by now, you know there’s a lot more to the green vs. blue bubbles than perception. The difference in color represents a very real difference in functionality, technology, and privacy

Like you (and the author) said it's the Blue "E2E-secure full-featured iMessage" versus the Green less-featured, less-reliable SMS, and the ONLY way into the "important signal" of Blue is for your conversational partner to buy a (more expensive) iPhone. It's wrong and reductive to pretend that it's "just" a PR tactic, but in the same vein we don't have to pretend that security and user experience is the only benefit Apple gets from this.
The default state is that there is land you can use to get your own food.

So people claiming all the land in the world is a problem.

UBI in this form is not "something for nothing". It's trading control of land for a share of that land's bounty.
Skeptoid episode about this incident:

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4241
https://archive.ph/ULExl
> I know exactly what to expect when I set my induction stove to 8 (out of 10) and let my daily-use pan heat for 1 minute. That's the setting at which I can temper oil with dry spices without burning them.

Same, I just turn a knob and it outputs the same BTUs every time - it isn't random.

>An induction stove can heat anything quickly, not just water. And importantly it can rapidly change temperature, unlike a resistance electric stove.

Again, I'm generally not too concerned about speed here. But yes, I'm very much concerned with changing temperatures quickly which involve not only the heat source but just as importantly, the cookware which leads me to....

> You can just use one of these:...The benefit of copper is supposed to be precision temperature control, but as you said, precise temperatures don't matter for day to day cooking.

Copper is a superior material because it changes temperature extremely quickly because it is such a great conductor - it's not about precision (except with candy making where induction could be great) rather than reactivity. When I turn the gas up the pan reacts to that change immediately and when I turn the gas down it reacts immediately to that. Unlike a material like cast iron which can store a lot of energy, it doesn't react to changes in input quickly so is not suitable for many things - you can't finesse a cast iron pan very easily. Seriously, get a nice gas range and a high end copper pan and cook with it - you'll be amazed. It's why so many chefs insist on the combination of gas and copper.

And no, I'm not buying one of those useless disks to make a copper pan work in induction. It kills the entire point of a copper pan and just gives you a cool, high-end look without the actual functionality. I'd feel like a complete fool because I would be.

I'm happy induction exists for people that want it or believe gas will harm them. But it's not for everyone and there's extremely good reasons many people want to cook over open flame. When I'm not using gas to cook you'll find me outside burning wood fires to cook with.
Flexport slashes 20% of global workforce over weak 2023 volume forecast
If the manager doesn't support a reasonable amount of vacation time, then there are almost certainly other issues. It is hard for me to fathom the intersection of "good manager" and "doesn't support vacation time" not being NULL. If someone is in this situation, they should vote with their feet - the manager clearly doesn't have their best interests at heart, and this will impact them on multiple dimensions.
Yeah, I tend to agree. I guess we'll see which companies can make it work and what happens to the projects if they don't.
Love this. Early on, I think engineering teams should have a really strong hand here.
This is how I explain my refusal to learn anything about the varieties and nuances of "good coffee". If I learned to appreciate good coffee, would I still be able to enjoy common dinner coffee? I fear not.
The backstory here is that when we saw how akkartik was using the tool, we decided to double down on this particular usecase and we built hnfollow.com as a showcase of what could be done with the tool, but holding your hand every step of the way.

We even posted it to HN but dang rightly rerouted us to this proper Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33533830

In the meantime, we launched "Scheduled Val" which let you schedule a val with a single click, and it somewhat made hnfollow.com unnecessary because most of that tool helped you manage setting up an interval, tracking its ID, and cancelling it. Now you can just fork this single val to your account and the interval is synced to the val automatically: https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob

The one extra step that akkartik alludes to is also important: you do need to define some folks to follow. How to handle-hold users through this process of forking + customizing vals is a real design challenge for us. Would love any suggestions!
No one in recent history thought it was a chemical imbalance. But there was a recent paper on it yes.

Here's a real mind bender. In social anxiety (at least), people on the same antidepressants will have detectable differences in neurochemicals based on if they were told the pills would work, or won't work.

Mind bender.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01682-3
Love it, will include for sure!
If you don't care about performance and "zero cost abstractions" and are more interested in Rust for its memory safety, then most of your Rust programs end up with a lot of syntactic and library bloat to add those "costly" (but convenient) abstractions back in, like explicitly cloning or wrapping types in Rc and Arc or just always taking ownership of borrowed data by constructing owned types with it. And then there are lifetimes which can be and are elided in almost all uses cases so they're ultimately just confusing whenever you actually have to deal with them. C.f. Swift, where the default is in my experience what "higher level" rust programs end up looking like, but with much nicer and cleaner syntax. And Swift has a very nice rather memory safe API for calling into C or otherwise just generally accessing scoped pointers when needed. This same api can actually be used to expose more performant apis to underlying data etc. when needed. It's kinda the reverse of Rust.

It feels like Rust is two languages in one: a high performance zero cost abstraction language that tracks pointer ownership, and a package rich and hyper explicit application language build atop all the guts. That's why I say high-level application use cases, because most high-level applications are not concerned with raw performance but rather with functionality and user experience. The parts that are concerned with throughput can be implemented using tooling where those knobs are available. I have enjoyed writing a cli and api server and various libraries in Rust. But every so often I am left wondering when Swift might be able to replace it for my higher level concerns. Alternatively, it would be neat to see some effort put behind a "convenient rust" type of compile mode for modules where you could compile with things like implied clones, unified owned vs reference types, auto-arc/box, etc.
Beware, the macOS version is historic (as is macOS bash version).
A quick search shows they take half as long to dry a load as electric. Operating costs are also lower. Gas does cost modestly more up front though.
In the southwest it's tacos instead of pizza, in my experience.
It's true, but the compatibility is limited.

I had to resort to tricks to make Makefiles which work both on Linux and macOS. I had to mandate the use of GNU make on Macs in other cases.

This is on top of having BSD vs GNU coreutils for things like grep, awk, etc, and the ancient bash on macOS.

I really wish there was a self-contained tool that could work like make (building a dependency graph and only doing the needed things), with reasonable string / list / map processing built in. (In a limited way, GNU make is such a tool.)
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> Normally, it is pretty difficult to fire people

How is it difficult to fire people? These tech companies are using at-will employment agreements.

>In United States labor law, at-will employment is an employer's ability to dismiss an employee for any reason (that is, without having to establish "just cause" for termination), and without warning,[1] as long as the reason is not illegal (e.g. firing because of the employee's gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability status). When an employee is acknowledged as being hired "at will", courts deny the employee any claim for loss resulting from the dismissal.
> the maker movement has ultimately failed.

I know. I went to the wake. After the TechShop failure, the TheShop failure, and the Maker Faire failure, there was a meeting in Sunnyvale where some of the people responsible made excuses. There was a speaker who'd bought the remnants of Heathkit. But they'd gone retro, re-issuing old kits.[1]

TechShop used the business mode of a gym - people sign up, pay a fixed monthly fee, and show up occasionally or not at all. It didn't work. Gyms can get away with way overselling memberships. Most people come a few times a week, max. Usually less. Gym equipment is rugged and not complicated.

None of this is true of a workshop. The people who will pay $100-$200 a month want to use the shop. For some, it's their primary workplace. Machine tools are maintenance-intensive and have many consumables. So the operating costs per customer are far higher.

TechShop, as we customers found out in the bankruptcy, was never profitable. The San Francisco location was said to be, but that's because it was assigned the revenue for the other two bay area locations. The business model was very Silicon Valley - lose money while growing, plan to dominate the industry and eventually make a profit. Didn't work.

It's not impossible to do this, but you need cheap land. This usually means some kind of subsidy, often being part of some publicly-funded facility such as a library or school.

[1] https://shop.heathkit.com/shop
But it's grounded in an incorrect belief that humanity existed in some kind of idyllic prehistoric state before civilization where nobody had to work. And we can return to this state of life.

Most contemporary evidence on hunter gatherer societies indicates the opposite: it was highly violent with intense competition between groups.
Gandalf and Tolkien Streets opened in Warsaw district nicknamed “Mordor”
It's not going to be half of the population. We are approaching a world where 1% can contribute useful work and the other 99% cannot contribute anything beyond entertainment. Then the question is why should the 1% accept a governance structure where they get only 1% of the power for 100% of the work?
Whatsapp? I also liked Hangouts, but they botched it.
Verily lays off 15% of employees
No. US homes run on 240V, not 120, and not 115 * 2. We provide a center-tap neutral so you can split the single phase 240V if you desire. And we do exactly that for many smaller circuits, including the majority of wall sockets.
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The grinding discs shatter. Wear a full face shield.
It's actually the perfect cover: the last place anyone would expect you to hide an alien is directly under a sign that says "alien here." Ingenious of them to pull it off and play up this "tourist attraction" angle.
Great concepts, will definitely include, I totally agree with you on smaller over larger personally (at least, early on), and letting the roadmap be highly flexible and informed by what you learn from each release.
The macOS version of GNU Make is stuck at 3.81, which I discovered does not print the information needed by vim's quickfix feature when traversing subdirectories using `make -C`. Installing the latest version of GNU Make (4.4) using `brew install make` fixed that problem.
Yep. How I write on HN is different from how I write in Twitter or Reddit.