skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who works closely with legal billing, I'm also calling BS. I can attest firsthand that lawyers regularly get deducted on bills for spending too much time on their tasks. There's an entire market (well over 50 companies) for reading legal bills and sending them back with reasons they won't be paid. Spending too much time on a task means it will take longer to get paid for it.
UFO narratives are convenient distractions from meaningful politics. IMO, what you're seeing is a legislative effort to avoid doing the jobs they were elected to do while appearing bipartisan and proactive.
But you could still use version control for drafting. You don't include version control history in your shipped binary but it's still very useful for coding.
The person in the article applied because of health problems.

>Denise said she hasn’t cancelled her MAID application because she still suffers from painful chronic health problems that haven’t been properly handled.
> dropped daily traffic by about 7% and the amount of time people spent on the Reddit website by close to 16% between June 12–13,

I have to imagine this is less than like... a normal holiday weekend or something. And it mostly recovered after/ is recovering.

> advertisers were less willing to do business with the platform while the protests were underway.

I'm sure this is true. I know it's true actually. They'll just wait a few days or weeks - it kinda fucks up some advertisers quarterly goals around their campaigns but they'll be fine.

> In general, I think the impact [of the protest] will depend on how long the mutiny lasts and what the final result is

The reality is that it's already pretty much over. Very few communities, certainly the big ones that make it to r/all, are fully locked down. At best they're doing the same exact thing as always but with some john oliver meme overlayed, which... is not going to discourage engagement at all. At this point I don't notice a difference except that r/programming, a place with some of the absolute lowest tier content for programming information, is still offline - a blessing, perhaps.

Any that are still offline are going to get reassigned to new moderators later anyway. Duh.

IMO the blackout was completely ineffective and also totally pointless.

a) There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding that the API changes are going to make all bots impossible. That's not true. Lots of bots will be under the API limits and get charged $0. The top 100 most popular moderation bots are exempt from the API limits (the most popular ones don't hit them anyways).

b) Apps that are designed for accessibility are being allowed to continue for free

Further, the alternatives suck. Sorry, they do. I hate decentralized fediverse UX as it mixes horribly with web browsers. Also, and I say this as someone who is 99% gone from Twitter and now fully on Mastodon, the critical mass just isn't there.

Anyway let me know if I've missed something about the billing changes or am somehow misunderstanding this.
Mac OS takes about one second to switch desktops, with at least half that time used for the last fraction where the animation smoothly slows down. It's fine if you only need it now and then, but when switching repeatedly for some task it gets annoying quickly.

Much worse: Mac OS fullscreen mode works by moving the current window to a new virtual desktop while hiding the statusbar etc, meaning you always have a one-second delay when entering and leaving fullscreen, with videos on Twitter and some other sites it's even slower. But the UI is responsive sooner than that, so recently I accidentally minimized all applications by clicking while the screen was still completely black.

Animations are difficult to get right, I always err on the faster side because waiting for an animation to finish is never enjoyable.
I see this sentiment a lot on Twitter and Reddit, but it's a an overpressured Copium tank

You can see a ton of polished, fun games that weren't successful by just skimming over lists of games on phones, Steam, or Nintendo Switch. I'm not going to bother linking any of them, since you're just going to nitpick and insult the work of random people you don't know, and it won't be a productive path of conversation.

That said, you can redefine your idea of "success" a little and make a comfortable living: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmwbYl6f11c
"There's some research out of Australia indicating blood donation/phlebotomy is effective at removing it"

Kind of a "no shit" answer, and not a real solution - you're just transferring it to someone else. Probably some moral conundrum in there about how you are worried enough to get rid of your PFAS but are giving it to someone else.
> I would think that knowledge of ETs would be very destabilizing for our society. Why go into work the next day if there are literal ETs visiting our planet? Why pay taxes? Why fight for generals who have lied to you? Why worship your god?

Maybe I'm being naive, but unless there was an imminent invasion, I don't think it would change most lives at all in any significant way.

You go to work because you need to eat and in order to eat you need money from working. You pay your taxes because there are penalties for not doing so. Generals and politicians already lie to everyone, so you keep fighting their wars regardless. None of these change for anyone unless there's some breakdown in society from some external cause, such as an invasion or war.

The only one of those that has any real merit in my mind is that it would probably cause some people to question religion. But the opposite could also be true and the religious types might herald it as evidence that there is a god because only a god could conceive of such technology.
I'm not sure what that would change legally, the contract signed is still the contract agreed to. Most of the time you either sign on paper or e-Sign a pdf neither of which will communicate the history so it would just help keep track of changes.
Here's the implementation we use at work. You might find some interesting ideas there. It's nicely documented.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/safe-money-0.9.1/docs/Mo...
"For the morbidly obese, exercise carries risk too — to joints and the heart, for instance"

Would any doctor actually tell a morbidly obese person not to exercise, because it would be too risky for their heart?

Maybe in the 1900's, but in modern times?
Yeah but that works because New York, Chicago, California, and Texas are all the same country.

If you kick out people you don't like and expect them to go to different countries it will end similar to those migrant boats in the Mediterranean.
It explains nothing, anything in this thread will be pure conjecture unless there are peer reviewed studies that indicate otherwise.
They won't understand, they'll just think they do. Just as if you talked about the dangers of "chemicals" and how dihydrogen monoxide kills thousands of people a year.

I've seen countless disagreements on numerous topics caused by people thinking they both have the same definition of a term and even more instances of confusion because the intuitive implicit definition that came from the example usages they'd seen of a term was a non-representative subset of the things matched by the explicit definition.

Nuance and clarity of language matters, otherwise you'll ban "chemicals" and discover you actually have no sane definition of it and are inflicting a lot of unnecessary suffering.
Yes, I manually put 2π in the html <title>, while the <h1> has the KaTeX rendered math in it :)
… and the article footer being constructed, so that it can become outdated would seem to imply a somewhat limited understanding of technology
The partners will make more money. The lawyers doing the work will make the same amount of money while dealing with twice as many clients.
This issue with Aaronson's response is that it comes from the perspective of first accepting Chalmers' "Hard Problem of consciousness". The "Hard Problem of consciousness", despite the name, is actually a statement of position. Briefly, it states that:

a) We have experiences, like being hungry, tasting a strawberry, seeing blue, etc.

b) It's possible to imagine a being which located food when hungry, ate when necessary, used colours to navigate the world, etc, but did not have these conscious experiences. To put it another way, what we've learnt so far about how the brain works gives us great insight into how we would eat, navigate, etc, but does not give us any insight into either how or why we would have conscious experiences.

c) Therefore conscious experiences are not explicable by physical brain processes.

This is a belief arising from an appeal to intuition and does not present a testable or falsifiable proposition.

Integrated Information Theory (which I am not a vigorous proponent of) posits that the experience of consciousness is related to the level of "integration" of a system. However, if you come to this while believing in the "Hard Problem", that cannot possibly be true, because IIT relates consciousness to physical properties of the system such as connectivity, but the "Hard Problem" defines consciousness as something which does not arise from any physical property of the system.
The Highly Sensitive Writer
But your lawn guy stays in business - which is relevant to them and to you (for as long as you're a customer). If the market is efficient, there should be reasonable competition that you can switch to that more aligns with your needs.
A better push would be to prevent the food industry from poisoning us with ultra-processed food and corn syrup. Having food regulation would go a long way in preventing obesity and many other negative health outcomes.
You can fail at wordle and get the correct answer revealed at the end.
Aside: the quip "when people go to a DIY store, they might buy a drill, but what they really want is a hole in their wall." is such a bad take. No, what they want is a drill. If they wanted a hole they would borrow their friend's drill. But they just moved into an apartment or house, or they're starting their life of collecting DIY items, and one of the things they're going to need to own is a drill. The person that follows this adage and tries to figure out a way to trick them into buying a hole is an asshole. The person who directs them to a good, durable, versatile, high-quality drill is in the right. If both sides of the transaction could clearly see who is doing that and who isn't, everyone would be better off --- but in tech they usually can't.
I had to google it, PIP=Performance Improvement Plan
Man this applies to me. I got an bioengineering degree and had to go to the US to find work. I started at $30K in the US and now I'm up to over $350K/yr. Would love to come back to Canada but the horrible expereince of applying for over 100 jobs and no interviews was disheartening.
"Raises the IQ of both countries"
"diabeetus"
Are you similarly against treating type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc as we should instead be having lifestyle changes, avoiding the risks that lead to those diseases, reducing environmental risks?
Interesting article. I landed on 'game development' as a way to keep some form of artistic practice alive while I have a 9-5 because they're affordable to make (albeit time expensive) and essentially act as gesamtkunstwerks that can absorb as many other hobbies and interests as you can cram in them. Photography? Analogue synthesisers? Geopolitics? Shader coding? All material for building your game world. There's also the slim but not impossible chance your creation sells a few copies. At the very least, you might pick up some useful skills for your dayjob.

My first game (not available anymore, but it was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfMHzbFL-w) sold maybe a few thousand copies, but it briefly hit the front page of reddit, indirectly led to some other fun opportunities, and got the chance to get a feature on the App Store (...though I didn't see the email until way too late), which was probably some of the most fulfilling stuff that has happened to me online, as someone that keeps a minimal online presence otherwise. But commercially? It would be considered an abject failure by any studio that had to keep the lights on. As far as hobbies you don't have to leave your desk for, game development carries with it so much possibility. Which is also what makes it so dangerous and alluring for so many, I think.
Average price includes luxury places. Spend a couple weeks searching and you won't pay the average.

Inflation, sure, it's still not gonna be more than 700$. My 500$ figure is literally from 2022.

Rent insurance is 30$ per month, anything else is optional and your choice and also not that expensive. That does not add up to 2500 per month.

And yeah, I know transit costs money, just get a pass. Work pays for it, and if they don't you can deduct it from your taxes.
These new drugs are not a replacement for a health diet and exercise. Drugs like Ozempic, or Wegovy, aren't a permanent solutions, once you stop taking them the effect stops and you can't take them forever. They are only meant to get you motivated and help start up a lower calorie diet.

We are also now seeing people where diet and exercise simply isn't working as expect. There was a study that indicated that PFAS pollution affects the metabolism in some people during the night. Normally you still burn calories while you sleep, but for some elevated PFAS levels causes their bodies to basically stop burning calories during the night.

You're not wrong the pushing lifestyle changes should be the primary goal, but the world isn't that black and white. Peoples circumstances are different and ignoring pharmaceuticals on principle isn't particularly productive. Just like ignoring lifestyle coaching is foolish.
Videos of the thing being built show a very sloppy epoxy job of joining the titanium ring to the carbon fiber hull. There seems to be no dust control, no climate control, and no attempt to make sure the epoxy is free of voids. I've honestly seen more care go into random youtubers making "river tables" than the epoxy job that went into this critical structural junction.
Why is it beneficial to sort random IDs?
Imagine the kind of data Quest Diagnostics is sitting on.
Cars was pre-Disney and one of John Lasseter's pet projects (some say being the original idea before Toy Story even).

John Lasseter in general is an interesting thread to pull there at that point because there are many competing narratives. When Disney bought Pixar Lasseter moved in charge of all of Disney animation. So there are the narratives that Pixar didn't see a noticeable change because the boss was still the boss and the boss was still reporting directly to the C-Suite, even if the C-Suite changed dramatically. There are also the narratives that because Lasseter originated at Disney Feature Animation and may have felt that Pixar was always the "mistress" and DFA the "wife" that Lasseter "sabotaged" some of Pixar's efforts in favor of the marquee brand, the historic brand, DFA.

(There's some evidence for the "sabotage" narrative: after the expense of The Princess and the Frog failed to impress the C-Suite and DFA turned to primarily 3D animation DFA was encouraged to compete with Pixar, built a very different renderer and something of a different tech stack in general. It seems easy to argue that DFA's tech quickly got superior to Pixar's. There are environment and crowd shots in Wreck-It-Ralph and Big Hero 6 that Pixar still seems to struggle to match years later. Personally, I thought it most noticeable in Soul where most of the wide establishing shots consist of "empty clouds" and its version of New Orleans feels both empty and claustrophobic. At nearly the same time Soul released to Disney+ DFA released a lovely short of a digital New Orleans with gorgeous establishing shots and crowd work and it felt almost a direct flex on Soul and exactly what Soul was lacking in its characterization of New Orleans. [This was Us Again, which was theatrically attached to Raya, as much as theatrical attachment of shorts mattered in that strange year.])

It's probably one of those cases where both narratives are "true" in their ways. Pixar never really saw a different boss and seemed to continue down a lot of the same path, including two Cars sequels because Lasseter loved Cars. Lasseter likely did see the competition with DFA as a part of Pixar's success pre-buyout, so continued it hoping it would keep Pixar hungry and innovating. Lasseter seemed to try to genuinely juggle obligations to both DFA and Pixar

(The "mistress" versus "wife" analogy being an especially cruel one, but seemingly quite appropriate, for me to pick because the end of the thread was that Lasseter was eventually fired from Disney for being a sex pest; though don't feel too bad about how "canceled" Disney tried to make him because he still heads an animation company. Ironically one again with weird Apple connections because Apple TV+ has been buying most of their streaming rights. [The goofy Luck was the first notable one from that company.])

(Further aside: I also don't think A Bug's Life has aged as well as some think it has. It had great quality compared to its competition at the time, but outside of that context, it's "fine" and hasn't aged well. I think that is also evidence that maybe Pixar was "never" a masterpiece factory, not even pre-Disney buyout.)
I hope he wins.

Every provider needs to offer a paid level of support for when the client's tail is on the line. Verify their ID and maybe fingerprint them, and then restore their access.
> The lack of the several minute rage, and complete lack of ministry of love and truth being named as such does not change the fact that all you need to do is look hard enough, and the level of duplicity in saying one thing but doing another, and disguising it through legalistic doublespeak is rampant.

That's all of human history, not some new development, and hardly the core of 1984. There is no state control of speech and thought, no enforced caste system, no eternal war, no thought police.

This sort of histrionic posting is why "literally 1984" has become a meme mocking the people who say it.
This is a push by the DoD to make American's believe in US military and intelligence superiority—only a supremely powerful government would be able to coverup the existence of extraterrestrial life for 50+ years.

World order is changing. China is a rising military power. People may even see foreign spy aircraft (e.g. Chinese weather balloons) over US airspace. The DoD would rather you believe it's aliens. This kind of propaganda works great on older boomers in particular because they've been conditioned to believe it all their life.

The US military is not able to coverup something like a crashed alien spacecraft. They couldn't even stop a dozen men with box cutters from crashing planes into buildings. I would not be surprised in the least to find out that the 9/11 conspiracies were funded by the DoD—probably by the same people doing this nonsense now. Again, "they" would rather you believe in a supremely powerful government with space lasers than have their true incompetence unmasked.
I’ve been at it for a year now and still a long way to go, but not only is it satisfying when you see each feature come to life but my skills at my day job have never been sharper, it’s been worth it just for the experience and mental “strength training”.

No business feature in my 15 year career has ever come close to the complexity of shaders, trig, and physics!

In the end whether I ship it to market or not I will always have the satisfaction that I literally achieved my childhood dream and, if I recall correctly, fame or riches was never part of that equation.
>so ... what should I do?

>replace my pans

>Get a reverse osmosis filter. Replace your cookware with something that doesn't contain PFAS. Don't use storage containers for food with PFAS. Check your water bottles.

Oh, so all of that would be a good start for anyone and everyone.

The test can help to determine if something, like blood donation, might be a reasonable course of action for a specific person.

This is a great test and a worthwhile addition to our understanding of how prevalent these substances are within the the body.

Any reduction of PFAS in the blood would be beneficial as they are endocrine disruptors.
I think by "shared American values" you mean values held by > 50% of Americans. But "issues related to race, gender and sexual orientation" really are issues minorities are facing. And I don't believe > 50% Americans are against minorities having more rights. Are they?
Opposite, I'm saying people who participated in those protests are being targeted by police. Virtually everyone does some illegal things, if they really want you they can get you for something. Police surveillance and police violence are done by the same police.
The important thing to remember, for immigrants, is the power of unions. If tech workers unionize, the opinions they espouse will be like these from this thread, which I will quote below. Once they unionize they will have power. Once they have power, they will act on what they say they want here. Read the AFL's (largest union in the US) arguments against immigration[0] and you will see many of those below mirrored there. This what software unions will want. This is what they will push for. If you join them and give them power, you will find yourself suddenly on the outside in the cold. There is a thing Americans say which I like: "When someone tells you who they are, listen".

They will talk about how you reduce their wages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36511005

> Artifactually (sic) increasing the supply of workers suppresses wages.

They will consider you bad for "regular citizens".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36510490

> So, that means inflation and it is bad for the regular citizens.

Your existence will devalue their education

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505802

> Given that it is much more expensive to gain skill when you are a native, the government somewhat pulled the rug from underneath the locals who spend a lot of money to go to uni etc and were hoping to have a decent return on their investment in education.

"Getting rid" of you will be considered a good idea

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36506071

> I think US will benefit in the long run getting rid of these h1bs.

You won't be considered to have "original values"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505919

> People of often having a cultural, religious and moral background completely different to more-or-less original value Canadians? How will that work?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policies_of_Americ...
Unofficial Webhooks for Notion Database, Render, Digital Ocean
That is a good thing, right? Turing completeness is rarely a desirable property
Lots of firms (usually bigger ones) use version control internally. But it can be a mess to try to get two or more firms, their clients, etc., all to use version control, let alone the same system.

Pretty much everyone uses track changes in Word, though. And if not they should.
Good point. I'll make a note to add some stories tomorrow.
I Use KeePassXC[0] on the desktop and is really great. It is open-source; not an Electron app, it is written in C++[1]; there are browser plugins to auto-fill user/password/TOTP codes; it is local-first: not tied to any cloud vendors and you can easily sync the database file via any cloud system if you want; there is an Android app that can use the same database.

[0] https://keepassxc.org/
[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc