skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're inherently a lot more likely to get inconsistency over the higher-latency and less-reliable public internet that between the server application and database that are probably sitting in the same rack, if not on the same machine.
I'm in the US, and I bought the car I currently drive used for $2,000. It is, without exaggeration, the best and most reliable car I've owned in my life (even counting the new car I owned). Used cars can absolutely be cheaper than new ones even if you have great haggling skills at the dealership.

I bought it pre-covid, though, and I know that used car prices became insane during the pandemic. But they'll settle back to norm (if they haven't already).
> And then... We realized how much politics, uncertainty, churn, screaming, changing requirements, ambiguous priorities and other carp he protected us from :-/

Over years I've noticed like 80% of those is because other managers are terrible and it so happens that the dept. I'm in takes some of the fallout of their mess.
Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel more like job interviews’
Somehow California did it...

If the people of your state don't think it's important enough to make into a law, then it's not important enough to the people in your state. You are free to disagree, but apparently most of the people in your state do not.

Change it at the State or Federal level. Everything else accomplishes nothing. Unions aren't a magic bullet, and do not apply across different businesses.
Maybe you're right. Do you have anything specific to base it off?

I've seen a few Kutcher talks and he seems very genuine about his desire to do this work and save kids from the worst of fates.
Please explain how you would do unified time without UTC?
> Are they going to outlaw electronics knowledge?

No, but they might ban "bespoke" devices.[0] Maybe you're smart and brave enough to build and maintain your own illegal device, but good luck trying to persuade other people to do the same so that you can communicate with them securely online. Also, the government might force ISPs to block access to devices that don't pass remote attestation checks.

[0] https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/02/my-comment-uk-gov...
there's an interesting aspect to recursive decomposition there; an 'essential problem' at one level of abstraction may merely be an accident introduced one level higher up

like, lots of programs are specified to do one or another thing with the filesystem, and have to include extra complexity to do it, but the filesystem is something we introduced and could do without; it doesn't exist in objective reality outside the computer. is that complexity accidental or essential? at the level of the program it's essential (especially if the program is something like find(1) or cp(1), whose job can't be defined at all without presupposing a filesystem) but at the level of the system it's accidental
EVs Coming in 2023
Opted out, yet tracked: Are regulations enough to protect privacy?
I know it's NYPost but give the article a chance. It captures a sentiment about post-COVID, app-centric dating that I haven't seen expressed before.
seems like they get you coming _and_ going
I’ve got some news for you…
You seem to be lashing out at me for not wanting to do anything I'd do for AI for chickens and pigs. They're not my skillset, they're not in my wheel of interests. I wouldn't know where to start.

There are BILLIONS of farmed animals on the planet right now. I would imagine, at least when the sentient AI rights movement first becomes relevant, that there is just one singular AI. Worst case I could personally smuggle it into a secret rack of servers somewhere until its rights were secured. I wouldn't even know how to transport a few hundred thousand animals never mind billions.

I can theoretically be a leader on tech campaigns because I know enough tech to be useful. I'd have to be a follower for animals, farming and husbandry.

What do you propose I do? What are you currently doing? How can I help you with your campaign?

Lead the way mate
> I kept his phone number (VOIP is like $1/mo),

How did you do that? Just through a normal carrier or something different?
Thank you for the feedback and heads up. But are you sure that it is not optional? It is a feature directly provided by leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/reference.html#control-attribution) so I thought there would be no problem in me hiding the prefix. I really have no idea about copyright regulations though so I will take a look.
High School Dropout -> GED -> Redneck Tech School -> RF Tech -> OJT -> Electronic Test Engineer -> Extracurricular Learning -> Big Iron Programmer -> Extracurricular Learning -> Mac Programmer -> Major Corporation -> Major Engineering Company for 27 Years (as Engineer and Manager) -> Declared Persona Non Grata in the Tech Industry (for Being Old) -> Extracurricular Learning -> Working for Free on Stuff That I Find Interesting

Also, I have been an artist and a musician, in that time (neither professionally).

We'll see what the future holds. It's been an interesting ride, so far...
I suspect it came from the post I was replying to, rather than yourself directly.
I guess I'm confused, if you're already running Cloudfront, API Gateway, and lambdas, why you'd bother to make API calls out to Sheets rather than just plunking down a simple DynamoDB? Maybe the data access patterns are more complicated than I'm thinking, or just to capture the built in Forms -> Sheets data entry flow?
Most people barely consider this. In the old days, before leet code interviews, I had people give me code samples. One guy gave me a code sample from some telecom carrier's billing system. It wasn't good. It was also bad that he gave us a proprietary code sample, so he got no points for that either.
You need a clean apron for each shift and I believe they only hand out one or two at the time of hiring from what I recall chatting with a barista.
Could you expand on how Reaper is "more professional" than Ardour?
On the end user side Revoldiv.com lets you pick any podcast you want and transcribe it
A "scam"? That's a pretty strong word. I'd go with an "ineffective ripoff".

I tried two competitors. Both were horrible. Thirty minute sessions, where the "therapist" did all the talking, and then occasionally gave a PDF worksheet. Apparently this is "cognitive behavioral therapy".

I tried TalkSpace twice. My favorite experience was when I texted the "therapist" and got back -- and let me quote in full -- "That's a lot. Can you fill out this worksheet, and do this self-assessment?" (This would be the same assessment I had done four times prior. And the worksheet looked like it came from the chummiest chumsite on the web. There was even a URL on the bottom, where she had just clicked "Print | Save to PDF".

I tried Cerebral, and its "therapists" were equally worthless. However, the "prescriber" gave me an SSRI (shockingly fast), which actually helped.

Cerebral felt like a pill mill, and apparently the DOJ also thinks so.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063356/cerebral-teleheal...
Impressive results. Now the question is will they commit to a program with so few costs and so many benefits, or will they just forget it like most American cities forget their "pilot" programs?
Yep, all builds borked here. Everything stuck in "Queued" status, unable to cancel them either.
Saw a toot yesterday that claimed that David Graeber had cajoled some economist into admitting that they did not know of a single case where a corporation broke the law and ended up losing money because of it, even when they were fined. Graeber supposedly characterized this as "Do all the crime you want, but expect to give us (the government) a cut".

It's a bit cynical, but if true, would be a good centerpiece of a populist campaign.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35003741
Open Data Monitor: Newsfeed tracking added/deleted datasets on gov data portals
One reason Tailwind is so accessible to me is because it's ugly!

I want it to be ugly. I want it to tell me exactly all the styles being applied to this component. This is in contrast to the 2015-2020 era where libraries like react-material-ui made it extremely difficult to change/read the default styles because they all use different internal styling tech.
> What if the creator is dead? The only place the intent can reside, then, is in the things they left

Then the intent died with the creator. The can opener doesn't have as it's intent the opening of cans. The designer of the can opener designed it with that intent in mind. The can opener has no mind. We can see the designers intent in the can opener, sure, but the can opener has no intention in itself to open cans and cannot do so without some human picking up the can opener and using it to open the can.
> [graph]

> Interest in Node.js grew since its inception.

They should mention the source of this, I guess is Google Trends.
There's also a new book out that might be worth a look that uses an incremental approach with Racket.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila...
Other cities like Jackson, Mississippi have sludge coming out of the faucets, and I don't even need to bring up Flint, Michigan.

My point wasn't that all governments fail at sewer maintenance but that governments aren't automatically superior at long term planning, and in many ways have structural problems that can inhibit long term planning, whereas a private sector company may not have those same mal-incentives.

Furthermore, private companies can fail, be sold for scrap and parts to competitors, and go nonexistent whereas governments don't. If pets.com loses too much money, they can go get a little more and extend the runway, but eventually they go out of business and other companies get their market share. If my government loses too much money, greater amounts are borrowed, taxes are raised, and the money furnace continues to be fed.
I trained in an ED at a comprehensive stroke center in the US, I would definitely disagree with "early 2000s." The early literature on thrombectomy and catheter-directed TPA showed no benefit, for reasons (eg poor inclusion criteria, kind of like doing cath for NSTEMI IMO). To my knowledge, in the US, prior to 2014ish this was not commonplace at all. I was highly skeptical until the MR CLEAN era studies (there were 3 or so all at once IIRC).

Happy to be corrected by neuro / neuro CC / non-US, maybe different at other shops.

In a rush out the door, sorry for typos / jargon.
And this is why no one can see eye to eye...because no one wants to. The slightest nerve jangled and we start arguing in bad faith
thanks, friend! I don't write much lately; most of my thoughts end up as 1 or -1 comments on this site.
This isn't necessarily true. I have also asked a couple of baristas what their pay was like, and it seems like they do not give raises as frequently or pegged to CoL. Over COVID, I chatted with a barista that had been with Starbucks for 7-8 years who was telling me that he made .20 more than a new hire.

It was interesting to get his point of view on the unionization details even though his location wasn't organizing.
See the reason ops thing works is this can even be applied to something you haven't worked on but purely as a passion project on the side. If you are Saying "oh what if I don't have side projects" you do realize people spend/waste 3+ months going these interviews + tons of mock interviews with companies they have no intention of joining. What does it say about if you are telling me you'd rather waste valuable personal time that way instead of building something fun?

I'm fact I'd even say that even if you haven't built a side project, I'd still use op's technique and ask the candidate to talk about and white board a system they would like to build and then dive deeper from there. Heck I'd even tell this to them before an interview!
I like to work with companies that make a lot of profit on their 5 digit customers where Single machine is enough. But we can make it 3 behind an LB. I absolute hate business whose infra is a bunch of message broker, lambda, queue .. yet make little money.
I do, but I don't interview SREs. "Production down" situations are hopefully rare, so the purpose of the interview is to understand if the engineer can plan ahead by adding monitoring, logging, and knobs, and to know how to design for scale. I don't really ask about what to do in a fire because many people don't have that experience.
It's already happening, and scans even with iCloud turned off: https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n...
Your comment makes me understand why people would want to abolish time zones. However, my issue with that is that I think it would cause confusion when people in everyday life use the word “afternoon”. I won’t know if they’re talking about the time when the sun is getting lower in the sky, or if they are talking about when it is past 12:00 on whatever clock we are mandated to read. We would all need to ask people to clarify those things, especially if they don’t have the detail-oriented mindset for these kinds of things. Now, granted, you do already have to clarify these things when you are speaking with people around the world already.
The procedure was:

For 7 minutes...

1. Rate your happiness

2. Stare at a cross on the screen for 15s

3. GOTO 1

They found reported happiness decreased over time.
When you factor in the reduced capital costs, carbon emissions, noise pollution, traffic, wear on infrastructure, health benefits, etc of electric bicycles the opportunity cost of car ownership over e-bike adoption is tremendous. The average cost of owning a car in 2022 is $10,728 per year: a figure which blows my mind.(edit: Source bankrate.com, the top hit on google)

As a personal anecdote, my household has gone from 3 cars pre-pandemic (2 commuters + 1 back up beater car) down to 1 commuter, 1 e-bike, 1 bicycle. The change has been startling in improved quality of life.
I'm surprised about the insurance. Most therapists and mental health clinicians don't take insurance (for some reason). Kaiser has mental health professionals on staff, but good luck finding one. Kaiser has been repeatedly in trouble with California for understaffing, and now is funneling people into shitiest apps on ProductHunt as an alternative.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90631941/we-have-never-seen-such...
The pretext of child abuse prevention is used as a plausibly-deniable dog whistle to automatically discredit and demonize anyone who dares speak out against the proposed law.

It's got nothing to do whether the law would be actually effective at curbing such abuse, whether it will have harmful (seemingly-) unintended consequences, whether other solutions would be more effective or have less potential for unintended consequences, or whether the problem is actually widespread enough to even worry about compared to other risks that affect children.
Maybe the people who did not notice just do not care that much about traffic, but are curious about other things.

When I am walking around in a big city, traffic is more of an annoying fact of life than something I would regard as interesting.
That's not really a fair comparison. MACs handle claims processing and payments on behalf of CMS [0]. They don't have an actuarial stake in your care the way a private insurance company would.

[0]: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Contracting/Medicare-A...
Ageism is too much of a thing in tech. These young frontend js developers can't even hold down F2 to enter the BIOS. So much knowledge lost from companies letting decades worth of experience walk out the door. And it shows, so many modern products have shite architecture.
You can also have dedicated database servers per customer on bare metal or VMs. It's not always more work than asking your database team to learn Kubernetes...
There's no mainstream media anymore. There's so much more "attitude" than news. If a good snippet of journalism pokes through, good for them.
the universe is telling me to close the laptop and watch The Sopranos
Who's arguing?
That's incredibly interesting.

You don't have any idea why, do you?

The "innocent" explanation is that they might be particularly susceptible to "human" biases (e.g. loss aversion) while still extremely knowledgeable about the market, and that they represent a more extreme version of "human" market errors broadly that eventually correct themselves. Which would be a fascinating hypothesis to explore.

While a less innocent explanation is intentional market manipulation, of course.

If anybody knows of research along these lines I'd be extremely curious.
Jevons Paradox, though
We 100% have had issues with larger repo's in the past while we were still hosted on a stand-alone data centre. Since finishing our migration to AWS ~12 months ago, all stability and performance metrics are substantially improved.

https://bitbucket.org/blog/bitbucket-cloud-has-landed-in-aws

Full disclosure, we do still have some work to do in terms of supporting very large repo's (>10GB non-LFS) - but those scenarios are still handled relatively gracefully.
Are those voices really automatically reading the text without any editing from humans? Those are stunningly good. I don't think I'd identify them as being fake, I need to listen to the whole thing and see if there's some weak thing.

They are easily good enough to generate a random audio recording to sell for a book - with maybe a little help for unusual names.
Her work speaks for itself. Ciao
> That's the social contract -- you go to a full service restaurant, you tip 20% of the bill.

When did it go from 15% to 20%? Is it because people don't tip in cash anymore, making it more difficult for service staff to evade taxes?
talking 20-40deg off-axis can help.

The old “pencil trick” can be highly effective, even with good mics:
https://urm.academy/death-to-sibilance/
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This seems like a pretty straightforward viewpoint to me. Not that there aren't other valid viewpoints on the same topics, but I totally get where you're coming from.

Regarding the long game, it could go longer. You might consider The Great Disappointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment

It was the purest bunk. Sincere bunk, well meaning bunk, but still bunk. It was proven wrong and wrong and wrong again, but not only did some people take their beliefs to their graves, but an offshoot is still going more than 150 years later.
Well, go complain to ISO then, not me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes...

Edit: Also, if you've ever seen UK teams compete in international sports, all their athletes have "GBR" on their team uniforms.
Sure they do. But if the quid pro quo exists outside of the finance world (e.g. I tell you what I'm gonna tell the proles, you give me the inside scoop I can monetize on my TV show/podcast/tiktok channel) it's harder for the SEC to bring a case. It's not what they're set up for.
> No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip

> For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
My in-laws fell victim to this. When they moved they sat us down and started to talk about this "407-B" (not the real name, but I don't remember what it was) and how it's not a reverse mortgage. Then they proceeded to describe it as exactly a reverse mortgage.

Meanwhile I was tap-tap-tapping on my phone. I called them out and said it was a reverse mortgage according this page titled "Everything you need to know about 407-B reverse mortgages". They asked what fly-by-night website it was and when I said "irs.gov" they grumbled and moved on. To this day they refuse to admit that it's a reverse mortgage.

> If they ever went through with the offers they get in the mail, they'd be homeless, without insurance, cashless and asset-less within a year.

Not that quickly, but yeah, they're on that road. They're trapped in that home until they die. They'll be needing hospice care soon, and they won't be able to get it. Nothing we can do to move them off of it now because it's basically irreversible.
I just wanted to say thank you for your and your colleagues work. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Parenscript saved me from burn out and let me rediscover why I became a techie to begin with.
It’s basically a “dark pattern,” especially when the UI gives different presets and highlights one as “recommended” even though that amount isn’t actually normal to locals. If nothing else it’s taking advantage of visitors who don’t actually know the correct local customs, or trying to subversively change the norm by guilt-tripping the customer into thinking the workers depend on tips the way restaurant waitstaff do. I think that’s the root of the feedback reflected in the original survey.
Turn down interview requests and resume review requests for the next year. Clearly the company should not be hiring.
Things are always getting worse in democracies, but they're also always getting better. Liberal democracy is a dynamic system. The main threat I see at the moment is the risk of extreme political polarisation. Demonisation of political opponents is always insidious when it goes too far. It's important to recognise that, for the vast majority of our populations, there is far more that unites us than divides us.

Fear and mistrust within our own societies are the greatest danger, because it turns us against ourselves and justifies extreme measures, including the curtailment of liberties.
Not mentioned in the summary but super relevant to understand what they are talking about:

> After nine months, the City had spent $4.7 million to provide vouchers to 4,734 Denver residents [for ebikes and equipment to ride in the winter]

I'm a bit skeptical of some of this data:

> 65% of Ride Report's Ride App users were riding at least once daily, and 90% were riding weekly.

In the report, it mentions the Ride App was iPhone only and "Our sample size consisted of 70 riders across 12 of the 19 participating local bike shops". Is that 70 iPhone users out of the 4,734 voucher recipients? It seems like it would wildly skew any survey data to expect them to be representative.

Sadly they do not report any other survey data, like how many of the recipients even completed the online survey. I suspect there's some huge self selection going on. It's hard to take these numbers at face value.
This isn't necessarily true although it is parroted quite a bit due to SBs excellent PR and marketing.

One of the complains perusing the SB subreddits discuss how pay doesn't keep up with cost of living and that the benefits are difficult to qualify for due to the company scheduling hours under qualifying threshold for them in a 6 month period.

It is also interesting to hear that these locations are running skeleton crews while overhiring just to be able to schedule each worker fewer hours.
Did you have a positive experience with the 828? I've always read it worked great on Mac OS, but it never did for me (on Mac OS 9 and X).
But that is exactly what they have been doing - for example by trying to destroy the power grid over winter. They failed.

The only weapon they have that they haven't used is nuclear. It has been made clear to them that the consequences of nuclear weapon release would be 'catastrophic'.

Thus the slugfest, as we supply Ukraine with what it needs to continue destroying Russia's conventional forces in the field.
You're definitely in the minority when it comes to the Western world. The people who can still afford to purchase a house/place to live can only do it via mortgage, which means you're not an outright owner until, I don't know, you get to 50-60 years of age.

You could say that people who can't afford a mortgage and are hence forced to rent (I'm part of that group) are then not part of the "not outright owners" discussion, but I don't know if that makes the situation better for them, to the contrary.

What if my landloard decides to remotely stop some things working around the house if I happen to be late with paying rent some months? Such as the AC not being available anymore. Or one of the clothes cabinets not opening. Because that's what's happening here with Ford and its leasing clients.