skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you live in California, they still have to give you actual PTO and it _does_ accrue even when they say "unlimited". I had to use this banked PTO (I lived in CA, my company was in OR) during medical leave after a surgery (PTO means I'm fully paid, medical leave means you get less than half of your regular salary).

So, if you're in CA, you're protected somewhat, talk to HR and take your PTO.

Unlimited PTO is never good for you, its always good for the company, it allows them to not pay you your earned time when you leave. People with "unlimited PTO" tend to take _FEWER_ days off than those with actual PTO.

There is a bunch more details here: https://founderslegal.com/how-does-unlimited-pto-work-in-cal...
They/we do accept the divinity of Christ, we just don’t accept the Nicean creed version of the Trinity.

That version of the Trinity wasn’t/isn’t universal and other accepted Christian churches that don’t follow the Nicean creed - something shared with Jehovahs Witnesses.
well since you were in egypt, also maybe because she was a woman
It was XCCS (Xerox Character Code Standard) which is really the predecessor to Unicode. Both initially were 16 but character code spaces (Unicode was later extended) and Unicode developed by many of the same folks in Unison with Apple.

I was at one time on the XCCS committee and involved with Unicode development before it was called Unicode when I was at Both Xerox and Apple.

A lot of the Japanese feathers were developed with Fuji Xerox, namely vertical text support but the typing method virtually keyboard support was done by the international team headed by Joe Becker who was the Architect of all the multilingual stuff.

Albert in his comment preceded my involvement some trust what he says about earlier development over what I remember.
As always, the gap between reality and propaganda is hilarious. Soviet workers and their colonized subjects spent their leisure time filling in for the massive failures of the state to provide anything resembling their promises. Some excerpts from my childhood:

* Family outing to the fields to harvest carrots to pickle for the winter. This would be bartered with other families who went to harvest other veggies, so that your turshia would not be too monotonous.

* Going to my friend's apartment to roasting and canning peppers, because no one has to money to buy the factory made stuff. And if you did, you still wouldn't want such poor quality.

* Helping my dad unload window frames for firewood. He worked at a window factory and was able to redirect a small truck full of finished wooden frames, which we could break down and burn for heat over the winter. Sure, it would have made more sense to buy actual firewood or coal rather than steal finished industrial output, but you can't afford that on a regular salary. And it would have made even more sense to offer district heating, and the government had such plans, but you'd freeze long before this became a reality. Eventually we did get district heating - about 6 years after communism fell.
This is very common in technical documentation, specifically things like RFPs (Request for Proposals) <-- Is to state the acromyn the first time, and expand it and throughout the RFP you can then use the acronym, the real reason this is important is that RFPs --> $MONEY and thus, will be scrutinized by the "penny pinchers" who will lack a lot of domain knowledge being addressed with an RFP for a project.

For example, I, as a Director of OPs was constantly educating our CFO on cloud spend, and would have to kind of train him on technical matters while at the same time explaining where all our costs are etc...

Or when designing a huge project (I have worked on many projects with budgets over $1 billion) and going through vendor selection processes, where we review the RFPs with the vendors and the finance holders for the project, there are many times when one has to justify telling Mr. Money Bags why simply accepting the cheapest offer is not sufficient.

This was actually a type of work, which at the time felt tedious, but now I realize how much I actually liked this aspect of my career.
Ask HN: Why does Chrome use subpixel rendering on every site except Gmail?
When black fonts are displayed on a monitor, they are smoothed in two ways:

- regular font smoothing - grey pixels are used to make lines seem smoother

- subpixel rendering - colored pixels are used, to effectively increase horizontal resolution

When I look at some text on Google Chrome, I see different techniques used to render black text in different places:

- subpixel rendering: tab bar, URL bar, PDFs, Google home page, other random web pages

- regular font smoothing: Gmail

Even if I zoom out a lot (making the text almost illegible), Gmail is still rendered without subpixel rendering.

It seems like a weird choice (assuming it's not somehow unique to my setup).

Does anyone have an idea why?

In case it's relevant, I'm using:

- Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

- Google Chrome 112.0.5615.49

- NVidia driver version 525.85.12
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When making legal arguments you'll often do things like: "this recommendation algorithm is legal because any algorithm would be legal, but even if you don't accept this then this algorithm is legal because it didn't consider the content of the video in making a recommendation, but even if you don't accept this then..."

That they asserted that any algorithm would be legal doesn't tell us that their case stands or falls on that assertion alone.
We need much more than a single reported percentage to say if it's worthwhile or not. (Especially if it's just a ratio of divorce and marriage rates, not a ratio of marriages ending in divorce and marriages ending by all causes)

I'm not familiar with Portugal, but in the US, marriage confers many benefits; and if you were expecting divorce as a 94% divorce rate suggests you should, you might avoid entangling finances and be careful about how real estate holdings were set up so that the divorce could be easy and simple too.

US benefits include different income tax treatment (sometimes better, sometimes worse), unlimited estate and gift tax exemption, greatly eased hospital visitation and other administrative benefits, somewhat shared access to government old age benefits (social security/medicare), etc.

Assuming the divorce is simple and low drama, it's definitely worthwhile to be married for a long term commited relationship, if long term is at least 10+ years beyond the commencement of marriage.

If the divorce is messy and expensive, then yeah, it's a waste.
I’ve lived here for three and a half years now and I’ve watched this play out in real time, several times.

There are numerous factors.

Most folks marry young, largely due to the expectations of the religious older generations. This has changed, but only recently - so there’s a dip in the marriage rate while the other causes of divorce remain constant.

Additionally, most folks live with their parents until they get married. This… leaves people ill-prepared for many realities.

Money is hard. A lot of people go overseas to find work, for months or years at a time. This has inevitable ramifications. Additionally, money worries stress relationships in general, and money worries are seemingly ubiquitous.

Also, many older folks who have been married since the 70s or before have divorced in recent years, as they were often married due to the constraints of the estado novo - geography, socioeconomic class, lack of options or opportunity - and without children at home providing cohesion find they have little in common. Empty-nest syndrome but on a grand scale.

Finally, the Portuguese legal approach to marriage makes it easy - more often than not, there is a complete division of assets throughout the marriage, and divorces can be executed quickly.
Interesting! Do we know how soon after it started tumbling they fired the self-destruct ?
> I mean, we have not tried it with modern computers

Sure, but considering all the information you'd need to compute (I'd argue we're close but probably not there yet), is this okay? Are there disadvantages to this data collection? Do these downsides outweigh the upsides? I feel like these conversations are so difficult because everyone comes in with certain assumptions, assumes others have them (even if explicitly stated otherwise), or are dismissive of any other concerns. We need to be on the same page to have real conversations.
That's something that Microsoft research wrote two decades ago. And those results were well known in the NLP community.

Example: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
(Michele Banko published a few similar papers on that topic)
> They believe they can make more profit with the cash than the price they're paying in interest.

But they already have a giant cash hoard. They are going to be making less in interest on that cash hoard than they will be paying in interest on their bonds. This is what is frustrating about a lot of these "hand wavy" responses. Nobody misunderstands how borrowing works if you think you can invest it into something more profitable than you pay in interest. What is confusing to a lot of folks is borrowing with this money while at the same time having stacks of Treasuries earning a lower rate.
Meh. You don't get the list of every worker who was involved in the supply chain that ensured you got the laptop/tablet/phone/other device on which you are reading this. So, why is software or a developer special?
> the core functionality of “let me put $X in an account so I can use $X in the future”

> Note that this is exactly the core functionality that Bitcoin provides.

People who bought BTC 1 year ago would love to use that functionality today, but that's not actually on offer. The actual offering is a lot more like buying an equity... you might be able to get $X out in the future, or a lot more, or a lot less. Maybe there's a reliable stablecoin that could provide that though (and maybe that's what you're eluding to).
Essentially added a "Storage" tab and configuration management in Vercel for selected integrations. And then charge a premium for that:

- Vercel Postgres pricing: https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-postgres/usage-and-pr...

- Neon Postgres pricing: https://neon.tech/docs/introduction/billing

You can properly still buy Postgres directly from Neon or choose another database provider: https://vercel.com/integrations#databases
Biologists are moving to the clouds with SkyPilot from UC Berkeley
Not trying to start a Musk pile-on, but I thought this was an interesting data point.

There are lots of lists of what Musk could have done better at Twitter, so I would ask... what has he done right?
Show HN: Built a platform for startups to share updates on their progress
I created a platform where startups, businesses, and students can share updates on their progress.
MDI subwindows work fine with canvas acceleration, though...
AI can help to identify Cancer

https://mayankvikash.in/posts/Cancer-can-be-identified-easil...
Ncose Launches Campaign to Ban All Adult Content from Reddit
Why not go one level deeper and see that depression and loneliness at this scale only came with modernity? They were far, far lower in traditional societies which modern technology didn't touch. Trying to fix what technology brought upon men with more technology is a delusion. See the book: https://ia800300.us.archive.org/21/items/tk-Technological-Sl...
Note that international trade is possible using just the Great Lakes, without needing the St Lawrence River, since the lakes are next to Canada.
Sending PG text to the users is already what the company started doing, so I'm not sure how that's different.

Sending PG text to the AI would be for... what? Not offending the AI?
So, I am surprised the Fediverse is not mentioned. Already bigger and better than anything Nostr is trying to do. Why reinvent the wheel? Or why not join the wheel?
> But divorces per 1000 inhabitants? Is that per year or what?

yes.

"Divorce rate" implies it's the rate of failed marriages to existing marriages. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages:

https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+...

Which is down from the peak and is an obvious inverse of the marriage rate:

https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/taxa+de+nupcialidade-530

which is at an all-time low. The only thing this 94% statistic represents is the decrease in marriages.
I've only ever seen them in airports (where people frequently sit for an hour or more between flights) or in hotel rooms. I've never seen one on a trash can or somewhere that you wouldn't already be waiting for something.

A few years back there was a startup that had kiosks in grocery stores to charge while you shopped (locked into a little cubby hole), but those seem to have disappeared too.
Nope. Ben Thompson's take here is actually more compelling. The CMA is hoping to help the nascent cloud gaming market when many a company has tried and failed and is -- I think -- needlessly punishing Microsoft in order to help the cloud gaming initiative that hasn't even proven is a viable business model.
If your business can't pay its bills without forgoing its legal and moral responsibilities, it has failed.
AI makes non-invasive mind-reading possible by turning thoughts into text
And what coup happened in your country?
So considering the scope of your other responses, what do you suggest someone that lives in America do? My supposition is that the realization that the US healthcare system is broken won't be a great companion to lonely people.
Who, exactly, is responsible for the FBI, CIA, NSA, et al. if they over-reach?

We tend to believe there's an implicit checks-and-balances system in place, but the most dramatic historical time time a government official wanted to defund a secret-holder of the government was JFK.

In other words, how is this not a quiet dictatorship by another name?
Or some bosses I've had.

I actually can't wait to start reporting to GPT, how much crazier can it be?
I guess you could create a global set of labels specifically for that and make the client apply rules corresponding with the local laws.
Sure, they want to argue the most extreme interpretation of 230 to get the court to either side with them completely or "compromise" by getting to what I wrote.

At the same time they are lobbying congress to keep 230 the way it is but do what I wrote as a compromise if they have to.

They just don't want to lose Section 230 protection because it would mean the end of user generated content. Without 230 protections, every user submission would have to be reviewed before going live, even here.
AI semantic decoder can translate brain activity into continuous stream of text
I’m very glad you’re open source. Username checks out ;)
The trouble with this approach is that it only works because basically nobody does it, so there'll be no kids around his age there to play with.

That might be an acceptable tradeoff for you, but it's worth knowing about beforehand.
This would not only provide a break from work but also offer opportunities for personal growth and exploration.

This could reduce the career growth penalty for mothers. Companies may be hesitant to hire or promote women to leadership positions, fearing that they will take significant time off for childbirth. However, if taking sabbaticals every few years becomes normalized, women wouldn't be viewed as a special liability for taking leave around childbirth.

Furthermore, during these sabbatical periods, there could be programs created for potential career switchers to try out new jobs. These internships could provide workers with opportunities to explore different fields and find work that aligns with their skills and interests. This could ultimately benefit the economy as a whole by increasing job satisfaction and promoting a better match between workers and their jobs.
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>It encouraged workers to vacation with groups of relative strangers as opposed to their friends and families.

This can actually work out well. I experienced something similar in the US while on vacation. I was traveling with someone from Glenwood Springs, CO to Denver, CO via Amtrak. We went to the dining car for lunch an since there were two of us and space is at a premium, the Amtrak policy was to seat us with one or two random strangers. We sat and had lunch with an oil executive and someone's grandmother and it was quite an interesting experience and we got to meet two strangers. It was actually a highlight of that train trip.

I feel like the experience of having unplanned social interactions with strangers is often missing in modern American life. I don't know if the Soviet style of assigning vacation groups via a worker's committee would be pleasant, but I can't help but think things would be better if we had more situations where we are "forced" to engage with strangers.
This feels like a solid PR piece for NordVPN.

While I do agree there is predatory pricing that takes advantage of IP geographic information, and that USA pays more on average because of USD - the whole article is a marketing mouthpiece for nordvpn.
Yes, the townspeople are choosing to shop at the market that has the best prices/best selection/whatever else walmart has that makes it preferable to other stores. Walmart's executives set their prices based on the cost to get products. Prices constantly change in reaction to supply and demand.

You seem to have figured out though that markets don't work without competition. Luckily the grocery market, at least in most places, is robustly competitive. And the government should step in when that is not the case.
The Twitter example is a really good one. Google obviously choose to take things to the extreme by arguing that even deliberately pro-ISIS algos should get protection, but one more moderate outcome could be something like "YT is only liable if they specifically designed their algo to recommend the problematic content".
the Soviet citizen also had “freedom of expression” and the right to freedom of speech and to redress the government.

That this farce of a “constitution” is being quoted without irony on hacker news astounds me.
I'm an adult gamer, and I also own a Valve Index VR kit.

VR is fun, but has serious limitations. A nice way to take a walk on the rings of Saturn, but no way in hell am I going to trust it with my privacy. And it's totally overkill for something like scrolling cat-meme videos or wishing someone happy birthday via social media.

Plus the Index is pretty good but it still gives me headaches and dizziness after extended periods.

I absolutely think there is more to come with VR, but it's only after there is already a flourishing ecosystem that social media will find its place there, not before.
The norm is a 4 year vesting period - but if you are doing important work and having a big impact, you'll be given more grants over time. Those will then come with a new vesting period. This is a very normal way for Silicon Valley companies to retain their engineering talent.
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I think when you're using a desktop OS with tiny high-res icons and fonts, then higher res beyond 1080p matters. But for video games they generally have big fonts and icons because they're made keeping in mind a lot of people will be viewing them on a TV from across the living room.

In most cases a higher framerate or better bitrate would be a more improved experience than more pixels.
Even developers at Open AI played almost no part in the developments at Open AI. 99.9999% of the work was done by those who created the content it was trained on.
The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 Pulp Fiction film.[8]

- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History
Inflation % vs interest % doesn't directly matter. If Im spending under a certain amount of the interest income, and reinvest the rest, its always going to be inflation beating.
Why? Because the state is doing the stealing? Or because people been programmed to accept it?

I wouldn't mind sharing my money if it was actually put to good use by competent people, but that's far from the case in any country I've lived in.
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> What happens when govt. goons tell you to write down a list of your cloud accounts (email, storage etc.) and their corresponding security credentials and threaten you to not leave any out?

That's why you uninstall all apps and delete your browsing history. They have no way to know how accounts you have, or where they are. Unless you leave those traces on your devices.

If you're super paranoid about it, you can create a few cloud accounts and seed them with innocuous or otherwise fake data. That way you have something to provide, but it's nothing of interest.