skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, Google meet maybe better, but how many people pay with money for Google meet?

Meanwhile, Microsoft has customers that pay with cold hard cash for their Office 365 subscriptions, even if some of their products suck, they still make plenty of money.

Whereas, if any major regulatory body from EU or the US were to crack down on Google's ad tracking empire, a lot of their products would collapse as there's nobody paying for them with actual money.
When I was satisfied with my job, it was because I worked on stuff that's highly visible and somewhat impactful.

But then the company grew, and I found myself relegated to some armpit of one of our backend systems, with legacy code so bad Lovecraft credited it as an inspiration. What I work on tends to be completely invisible and doesn't feel aligned with the company's successes at all. Now I find my job saddening.
It's only "conspiracy theory nonsense" if one is completely unfamiliar with how gaining access to the Chinese market works. I've been involved in more than one of these kinds of operations. These companies' primary goals when dealing with American companies (and, I'm guessing, any foreign company) are: 1) acquire IP so that China can control it; 2) acquire data on users, especially Chinese citizen users, but in general all the users. The notion of "competition" in the sense you imply is at best a distant second consideration. These companies can and will subvert what a typical Western capitalist would view as their own interests in service to that, because otherwise the CCP can and will destroy them.
Fantastic article. Did not expect cross paths with the phrase “edible dormouse supplier” today.
probably not a problem for me given I'm in a jurisdiction without DST! Thanks for sharing that information
Everything is a graph at my job, and I love graphs. We're using neo4j, but not just a single instance; we're providing a platform for users to setup their own neo4j instances. We offer various tools to import, edit and extend graphs. There graphs are defined by a taxonomy that's a graph, and users can define their own taxonomy according to a root taxonomy which is also a graph. It's graphs all the way down here, which is great if you love graphs.

And we get a lot of freedom. Neo4j does not use a schema to validate whether the data obeys a particular structure, so currently our taxonomies aren't binding, but I'm trying to figure out if I can make them binding in neo4j by stretching the plugin mechanisms a bit further than we've done so far. Not because anyone told me to, but because I think it's something we need.

It's a very relaxed atmosphere to dive deep into some very interesting topics.
I think that at least one of the reasons is that the topic of many of his stories/novels is blurring the boundaries between the reality and non-reality (however that is defined in each novel). This is a recurring theme, with neither the reader nor the protagonist(s) being sure about things:

* DADoES / Blade Runner: Who is an android/replicant and who is a human?
* WCRIfYW / Total Recall: Which memories are real and which are implanted?
* Ubik: Who is dead and who is alive?

The filmmakers love this concept as it has many parallels with making films - see Inception and Matrix as examples.
Maybe because PKD could actually write? Heinlein, Pohl, and Anderson have interesting ideas but none of them can do character development, emotion, depth, etc. PKD instantly draws you in with fully formed characters in a world you can connect with emotionally.
I remember in the late 70’s or early 80’s riding my bicycle to the convenience store to buy my mother a carton of cigarettes.

Technically I think you needed to be seventeen to purchase them in Michigan at that time, but I just told the person behind the counter I was buying them for my mother. I was around ten years old.
Wow. Where and when was this?
Sure, and people should certainly be allowed to run businesses like that. But a barista job shouldn't be one that someone has to take in order to make ends meet.
I might be misunderstanding you, exactly because I am a social scientist, and we have different kind of vocabulary. Maybe a definition by group instead of an understanding of reality that differs. Your approach looks to me more like what the social sciences critique as a paradigm, the positivist approach, where everything has to be law-like, "nomothetic". From there a stack of ontological/epistemological revelations are following, (the postmodern is one of them). But I think our backgrounds are very different, so that would need a few cups of coffee or tea :)
I don't know, the solution seems pretty obvious to me. Put a hard cap of something like 50 worked hours per week, or, alternatively, mandate double pay for hours after 40. This plus financial incentives and free daycare actually has a chance to work. They're only addressing one leg of the problem.
I can’t perform 9 x 9 x 9 without the screen freezing.
Yet another data point for us to rethink how we can improve the sustainability of open source.
This is actually a narrow statement.

Look yourself in a mirror. Do you even comprehend yourself? You're an incredibly big bunch of cells, of which only very few of them have any chance of continuing on. If you're male, it's not even real continuation, it's just part of a molecule.

We're hardwired to seek out and go with the most superficial of models, I guess because that's the most efficient way to go about in life.
What the hell, how can you be so colonial you think it is normal to deny someone the right to their name just because it doesn't come from that one language you ever bothered to learn?
Long Drive Cars provide self drive car rentals at affordable in Hyderabad (Uppal Medipally, Kukatpally, LB Nagar Kothapet, Madhapur, Warangal).
Goodhart's law is very similar in concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Seems drastic to me. Most companies don’t do Scrum or similar.
But it was up front, in genuine print, not buried on a terminal.
Embedded software engineer in the renewables sector. I feel somewhat competent in what I do, I love my team and management, I have a sense of purpose. The pay is sufficient; not as much as elsewhere, but that doesn't really matter given the rest of it. The work is sometimes fun, sometimes stressful and sometimes boring. The team culture and sense of purpose makes the hard times feel fine.

I'm pretty much at the centre of the Ikigai venn diagram.
MR4D started with:

> I really get tired of this sentiment because it’s become a lazy stereotype.

To me, the comment was presented as general evidence that MBAs run companies better than people with non-business educational backgrounds. Otherwise, what's the point?
There are huge problems with immigration in France and it's been a growing problem for the past 40 years.

But contrarely to what people think, crime isn't IMHO the worst of them. The worst is the feeling that the cultural norm of the country, as well as its "visual" identity has shifted from a european country to a (mostly) african one ( and please read the rest before making hasty judgments on what i'm saying).

To understand the problem, imagine going to a few remote rural areas in japan in 40 years and each time only see tall 7 feet blond and blue eyes people, speaking swedish and not finding sushis or ramen anywhere.

I like all cultures, and i believe there's great things everywhere, but that's why i'm also a bit sad to see "traditional" France (whatever that means) disappear.
I had used Doomgeneric as basis for bareDOOM; DOOM running within the barebox bootloader. Back then there was no sound, but it was fun adding support for PWM PC speakers.

If curious, here's the online demo: https://www.barebox.org/jsbarebox/?graphic=1
IQ doesn't mean everything. Some people with very high IQs are terrible at making use of them. Theoretical smarts aren't always as practical as practical smarts.
I have had several conversations where I explained that the consequence of a policy decision would be negative, and then the policy was rolled out anyway.

For example, I explained that if it takes a foot-high pile of paperwork to obtain an internal use SSL certificate, then the highly predictable outcome of that policy is not "greater security", but unencrypted HTTP everywhere.

The inevitable response to such feedback is that "people ought to do the right thing", which is laughable on its face. Nobody, and I mean nobody in their right mind will subject themselves to months of paperwork, procedure, and pleading for something that they consider to be optional.

"But, but, the right thing is for them to jump through those hoops anyway!" is the typical response to such logic.

This kind of argument is just futile. Someone up high has decided that they know better, that human nature will bend to their will, and will forge ahead despite being told they are wrong.
New MIT method uses 2D materials to “catch up” with Moore's Law
What's the difference from an eternal session?
Did not know that about “quesadilla“! Made me think about the fact that you’ll often hear Latino food service workers (only dudes in my experience, come to think of it) refer to “burro” instead “burrito”, thus reversing the diminutive.
It was/is fraud, yes. Typically the way you open a card in someone else’s name on your account is by adding them as an authorized user.
How is snus different from snuff? Cursory google seems to suggest you can buy snuff in the UK, which is also powdered tobacco that you put up your nose
We do the same but count the person's availability at 100%, instead we just create and story point the support ticket as usually taking more or less half the sprint (our support time is half the time of the sprint).
I had a music teacher whose lessons consisted of his dictating to us from the back of an LP sleeve whilst smoking a pipe. Bizarrely, I remember rather a lot of his lessons.
Why should there be a comparison here?
Looked him up, it says he kept $7.9B for himself.
The mandatory minimum wage where I live is $18.69/hr, which is higher than the median wage in many European countries. Any tips or mandatory service charges are always in addition to this and many waiters make more than the minimum wage.

Replacing tipping with a 20% mandatory service charge -- tried many times here -- results in the employees earning less money, empirically. Eliminating tipping is unpopular with employees since it is effectively a pay cut.

Proponents of "no tipping" policies in the US are not going to be successful until they address the elephant in the room of reduced pay for employees. Unlike in Europe, US employees know how much money they earn with tipping.
It is not about the population getting smaller. It is about the population getting smaller at an alarming rate.
There is a big overlap if only because governments complain about both in their official communication to the public.

Regarding the economy, I think we need to shift paradigm from measuring the size of the economy overall, which indeed obviously benefits from ever more people, to focusing on figures per capita. Ultimately the whole point of economic growth is to make people better off individually and we can do that with a decreasing population, in fact perhaps a decreasing population helps achieving that by forcing companies to increase productivity as much as possible instead of relying on abundant and cheap labour.
I wonder — hot water is pretty cheap. Maybe size and number of espresso shots are independent… only the latter should matter for cost I guess.
Indeed. As they say, eternity is very long, especially towards the end. For proof, check out this video that explains how eventually even protons will give out and evaporate.

The thing that blew my mind: when things started getting very weird, and I was thinking "ok but we're roughly at the end now", I checked the indicator. It was only half-way. It is a 30 minute video. And the time speeds up logarithmically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
Ah, that's bullshit. I've been all over the world and I'm guessing by your comment I'm more travelled than you. Currently, I'm in the Philippines, where there's no tipping. Go ahead, come down here on a trip and see what happens. No tipping. And the service is abysmal because nobody has any incentive to be an excellent waiter or waitress.

What you don't understand is that tipping became a thing in order to reward good service and provide a decent income to service workers. It's not perfect, but it's there for a reason.
Been using it since I was back at Uni, 2012, and have paid for both myself and another account recently.
Would the Americans With Disabilities act apply here?
I don't think this has been said enough recently. The ethics of what we're being asked to create is something we all need to consider. I have a lot of friends in tech and I'd say a majority of them have been confronted with ethical dilemmas like this in their work.

It's starting to feel like the era of "don't be evil" is over and everyone is financially stressed enough to do whatever it takes to make a buck. This will obviously become an exponentially increasing issue as AI tech continues to proliferate.
indeed they are, but it should also be noted that the same investors were behind the hiring spree in 2021-2022 - FAANG massively expanded hiring (as it most of tech tbf) as we all raced for a bigger slice of that juicy globalised, digitised, remote first future we all thought was gonna be happening. Different world now, as we are in hostile de-globalisation, meaning smaller markets, increased costs, less trade - and therefore less investor return
I created a snip with the relevant portion of the conversation:
https://share.snipd.com/post/0bb82eea-e7a0-4d4e-b234-8471dc5...
Perfect companion for this C graphics library: https://github.com/tsoding/olive.c
> There is no reason to include UTC or time zones in your data model.

That is a bold claim. Not everything is about the entity viewing the data, sometimes it is about the entity producing the data. Not storing the timezone is losing some information.

A few examples:

- The "Date" header in emails include the timezone (or UTC offset) of the sender. It allows the recipient to know whether the email was written in the morning or the evening.

- A SQL query that builds a report of restaurant orders per hour needs to normalize for time of the day in local time otherwise it is not possible to know whether people order lunch at 11 am, midday or 1 pm.
Uhm, frankly I'm not sure. Quick Google reveals a few differences but I'm not sure why one is banned while the other one isn't.
I enjoy my job a lot. I work at a public utilities company in a managerial role.

We sometimes have interesting problems that requires us to think a lot. That’s a lot of fun.

My colleagues are funny, so we laugh a lot.

There’s a lot of red tape that sometimes drives me nuts. On the other hand it’s really satisfying to manage red tape efficiently.

This is probably an unpopular opinion but being good at office politics can be satisfying.

Oh, and being able to program at my company is a superpower. Superpowers are fun.
Well, if there is a global environmental crisis and the world "is running out of time", surely that's a good thing? Population growth has been happening at an alarming rate...
The discussion was about wearing a mask when on a plane, not about wearing 24/7. Nobody asked for that so don't straw man it.

In some Asian countries it was already common courtesy to wear a mask if you even suspect you might have a respiratory disease before Covid. Saying everyone suspecting a respiratory disease should stay at home is fine but detached from reality, people need to go places.

Ergo, wearing a mask in closed spaces is a compromise between being grounded and being an a** h***.

Edit:

About this

> I do contribute to the wellbeing of the 95+% of the people who choose not to wear a mask and want to engage in human connection with the full range of emotional and facial expressiveness we were blessed with for that purpose

What exactly is the benefit strangers in a closed space (like public transportation) get from seeing your facial expressions? What kind of human connection do you expect with strangers on public transportation? Believing the viewing of your face to be to the benefit of the public is narcissism unlike any other.
It's 2023 but I still think a lot of iPad based POS have a poor ending transaction UX. It needs to be a cute, super clear and simple "All done! Turn the screen around." It's jarring to sometimes be dumped at the item selection menu that is meant for the cashier. Or it just says "Thanks!" without a direction to put the screen back how it was.
>This takes cops off the desk, which they’re rarely against unless you’re a nutter.

Is this something you have actual experience with? Because it doesn't sound plausible to me. Of course, I don't know where you live so it could be different there.
> The risk is check bouncing.

Checks aren't a thing in most of the world. Opening a bank account is hard because of know-your-customer laws.

The civilised solution to this is very simple: cash! Until you get you bearings and have a bank account opened, just use cash.

Tourist in a country where your debit or credit cards don't reliably work or come with extra fees? Cash!

Buying a second-hand piece of furniture from someone else, and don't feel the need to expose more information than necessary? Cash!

Electronic payment system goes down while you are in the queue at the supermarket? No problem, because you always carry a little cash for backup. (I've had this happen to me several times.)

Cash is the ultimate fallback in civilized society, and worth protecting.
Agree; with PLA there’s a definite recognisable smell.

Also, when I first got my printer, I had it running in a corner of my office room and found I would reliably get a sore throat after a few hours printing. It’s now shifted to the basement with a extractor fan nearby.
The rational, logical, _intelligent_ population they should want to breed the most will respond when the environment encourages them to live like humans and have children.

The article touches on this, but the entire demand structure and set of expectations in society In Japan (and also at least in the US where my observational experience is) is counter to being human. The barriers to being part of a community, of interacting with others in third places / spaces, of having time to focus on family instead of the job. Society as a whole has gone crazy in a relentless quest to extract all the value it can, forgetting the very reason it sought to do that in a blind quest for numbers.
Well on the bright side we’d have to be incredibly stupid to pick the latter, right?
> In countries without social safety nets, younger generations are expected to directly support older famility members.

And in countries with social safety nets, workers pay to support other, retiring workers. With increasing lifespans, sharply decreasing numbers of workers, and relatively early retirement ages… the wheels are going to fall right off the train, unless robots save us.
how long until they start pulling their catalogs?

> Not my concern, I will just rollback to having an offline downloaded library if Spotify / All you can eat music stops being "Easy"

>Will you stop listening to music if/when the unprofitable music streaming services shut down?

No, I will just stop paying for it.

>What happens if/when Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple are barred from tying and bundling their services?

Yarrrrrr

>will simply revert to pay per song/album and legal battles instead of wasting resources on listeners who aren't willing to pay a meaningful amount for music.

Then they get nothing from me..

I think it all rolls back to - > Would they rather have 1 million listens at 0.5P or 1 million listens at 0p.
Exactly. I'm just getting a sandwich, man. Even I'm not that excited about it.

And this in turn, diminishes the whole thing. Can I _not_ pay for the false charm?
I think this analogy fails in a number of ways, the biggest being that the assumption is the driver has "just started" and fails "one race". Neither are true for the executive in question.

Not only that but the analogy even fails for F1 because there are reserve drivers and an infinite number of people who want to be F1 drivers, there'll never be an "empty seat"
??? --I don't understand. You can drag windows without holding down any modifier keys.
A lot of it is caused by lack of sunlight exposure. A number of Asian countries have epidemic rates of myopia:

https://healthland.time.com/2012/05/07/why-up-to-90-of-asian...

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/05/asia/myopia-east-asia/ind...

The solution is to get children more sunlight hours for proper eye development.
I wouldn’t count the land area, really. It’s mostly tundra. Doesn’t something like 95% of the population live within 100 miles of the US border?
I've been to Japan many times. Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya. Japanese culture is exceptional in many ways—you can't pretend that their culture is normative when applied to the west. My point still stands. You can't pay service staff minimum wage or slave wages and expect good service. This is why the tipping system developed.
That's fair. Still not sure Spotify's worth £20/month though but I wouldn't describe myself as someone massively into music.
> That functionality would have to be created for this particular situation, which I highly doubt Apple can even do at this point (and google likely can't either).

Wow, really? "Refund remainder of 1-year subscription that started on X date and ended prematurely on Y date" seems like a pretty basic feature of a payments system. The inability to do that says more about Apple (or Google) than it does anyone else.

> If you have any beef it is with Elon Musk, not with Twitterific.

I don't have a beef with either, as I don't use my Twitter account, and didn't purchase Twitterific.

People who bought Twitterific and pay for a subscription don't have an ongoing business relationship with Twitter/Musk, they have one with Twitterific. When the company you pay for a subscription service stops providing that service -- for whatever reason, even reasons outside their control -- the right thing to do is for the company to refund the rest of the subscription.
>> It seems like most casual listeners just don't understand this

I very much understand it. I just don't care.

There will always be some form of music. I pay my money for it. If they can't get by on some agreement from the record industries, I really don't care.
Huh? Computation can't happen without state. Everything you make has a state, otherwise it won't really do anything interesting.
USSR bred reasonably well up until its breakup without religion.
You don't necessarily need religion in order to wish to continue yourself beyond your lifetime.
Yes, this was exactly my thought. An ashtray to my mind is a beer branded plastic type thing. They also weren't entirely fireproof so they were often slightly melted if someone left a lit cigarette on it, or the contents set on fire.

My grandparents ashtrays were ornate glass structures though.
It’s disingenuous to charge 50¢ more for a few oz of water.
Thanks! I'm not directly affiliated.

I see someone at Sourcegraph has been tracking this issue at https://github.com/sourcegraph/handbook/issues/3666
Where I live in the US, mandatory minimum wage is $18.69/hr. Tips are on top of that. It has less to do with a living wage and more to do with the fact that the employees make less money with a mandatory 20% service charge than they do via tips.