skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the lowest earning employees on the totem pole is a bit of an easy scapegoat for high costs when executives make an exponential amount in comparison. I understand that if they weren’t in grocery they could be making similar amounts in another industry—my argument is more that the disparity between employee and executive is too great, regardless of industry.
EVs are not disruption, those are pushed by regulations and subsidies. Germans basically decided to dismantle their car manufacturing industry.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but... isn't that cookies?

I think expiration fields on cookies are optional (correct me if I'm wrong), you just can't rely on them sticking around because the user might clear them (I'd have control of which sites could set permacookies for when I didn't want to be tracked too). Which is honestly desired behavior, I'm assuming you would want the ability to delete a permacookie.

Cookies can't be synced through Firefox sync (I thought they could but just checked and my bad, they can't) -- but there's nothing preventing browser sync from handling that, and Firefox sync is E2EE so it would as secure as any other transfer method. It wouldn't be too hard to build a browser extension to allow exporting them or importing them manually; cookies are just text content so they're trivial to inspect and manipulate and even manually copy and paste into new browsers through the dev tools.

As a login mechanism, having a permacookie is somewhat insecure so most sites use expiration dates. I'm sympathetic to the desire to be able to override that, but... the mechanisms most sites use are things like signed tokens with expiration dates checked serverside, so there's not much a browser can do about blocking a website from doing that. Short of using stateless key-based authentication I'm not sure how it would be technically possible to get rid of that behavior.

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I'm being a little bit disingenuous here in the sense that... yeah I want native file access too. I understand that cookies are not the same as native file access and the controls aren't really the same. But that's a much larger conversation with much larger scope and with more implications for browser security.

But if you're talking specifically about login, it does seem like cookies are mostly doing everything you want and your bigger problem is just that websites time-out logins? And that Firefox sync doesn't currently sync them, which... an extension could handle that.

What is the non-permanent part of a cookie, is it just that user controls for clearing cookies aren't granular enough and they're too easy for the user to accidentally delete?

I guess mobile too, iOS safari will clear localstorage sometimes. That's a very real issue (and a big reason why I want native file access), but it's less of an issue for login since occasionally losing your login permacookie isn't a big deal, it's only a big deal if you lose offline serverless webapp data.
I used to to this when my Vons operated it’s own fleet. Then they switched to instacart and it went dramatically downhill. Cold items sitting in their hot trunk, 4-hour delivery windows, and an order that just never arrived.

The Teamsters did a good job. The underpaid gig workers don’t. (And frankly, I’m not sure I blame them.)
I'm yet to see prices going down, or at least not going up at the same pace as everywhere else, because a supermarket chain implemented self-checkout.

I don't think anyone buys (pun intended) the argument of self-checkout being there to enable lower prices for consumers.
Analog Is a Privilege
Absolutely, the closest state to NY with a "right to try" law is Connecticut. Pennsylvania also has one. https://righttotry.org/in-your-state/

Edit: Also, the federal law applies regardless of location: https://righttotry.org/rtt-faq/

"I do not live in a state with a Right to Try law. Can I still use Right to Try?

"Yes. S.204 makes Right to Try the law of the land. So long as a patient and treatment meet the qualifications of the federal law, Right to Try applies, regardless of whether the patient’s state adopted Right to Try."
>These job cuts, according to the employee, were driven not merely by a CEO’s misguided “bet,” but rather a shift towards replacing full-time employees with cheaper contract labor

Good Lord, how much cheaper can you get than Canadian labor? They already get paid poorly and earn about 1/2 or less than their US counterparts. I guess the lack of jobs is why they can pay so little, explains why so many Canadians flee to the US first chance they get.
> the preferred IDE was the cloud-based web app

possibly, not everybody is ok with using a not so good editor, no debugger integration and keeping their ssh and pgp keys somewhere else than a local machine.
IMHO that's called stealing
They could also attempt to slow down the deforestation of the forests in Brazil.
> Germany has a few premier universities, but they still haven't recovered from the Nazi era.

Dude, under which rock have you been hiding?! How does "not recovered from the Nazi era" manifest in your opinion?
I followed my left-leaning parents' advice to get paid for doing something I love. But luckily for me I love coding.
Self-service checkout at the store exit is such a wasted opportunity. In my (non-USA) grocery store I can scan product with my phone while I'm walking through the store and putting them in the cart; afterwards I only have to pay. Not having to take everything from my cart, scan it and put it back saves quite some time, even compared to cashiers scanning. There's also a handheld scanner for people that can't or don't want to use their smartphone.
it's a sequel to popular predictions like the Euro will collapse tomorrow, the EU will collapse, Germany will be de-industrialized, with renewable energy the grid will collapse, ... and much more. It's largely part of a propaganda war.

Given that Russia used his energy exports to Europe as a weapon, things are getting more expensive and complicated, but Russia has failed so far to achieve its goals. One of these goals was to destabilize European countries with propaganda and energy shortages.

Germany hosts now a million refugees from the Ukraine and billions of Euros are being spend to provide help and to dampen the economic impact. A large part of the population sees that life gets more expensive. Countries like Poland are even more affected.

Positive effects: the need for the EU and NATO is clearer than ever. Also positive: the US provides a lot of support, thanks to the Biden administration.
That’s no big deal, they could immediately turn around and sell the half of the business (QuickBooks, etc) to recoup a good portion of that.
Fwiw, those long lived API keys in AWS used as an Argument are since years not considered a best practice. Short lived creds for the win!
Were you able to find a copy? I found this on archive.org -- https://archive.org/details/introductiontoap0000stra/page/n9...
Gets complicated, fast, when you start considering the legal concept "of sound mind and body" - why it exists, what it means, when and where it finds use... For a good historical case, Jonestown.

"Regulation" vs "Information" also gets complicated, fast, when you consider global supply chains - for recentish news, checkout the stuff on heavy metals in Trader Joe's chocolate - how does all that information propagate to the final consumer? How does that consumer have the knowledge, skills, and time to process it?

(As with all things, IMHO, it's about balance, and, IMHO, balance comes from forces in opposition. "You are the ultimate authority on your body" is one force.)
> Either that or Saudi Arabia paid him to put a wrench onto the mechanism

It's a cute theory, but if someone wanted to ruin Twitter, there are countless cheaper, simpler ways, than buying it... and then on top of that "paying him" to ruin it.

I mean Saudis have money, reportedly the family has around 1.4 trillion USD worth in wealth, but that's wasteful even by their standards. I'm sure they have other things to spend on rather than obsess over Twitter in particular and spend a significant percent of their wealth on killing it.

I'm not a big fan of the "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" saying as it's often used to explain away actual malice. But in this case, no one even wins from this. Not the Saudis, not Elon, in a few months it'll be apparent the conservatives got nothing from it either.

It's just blind incompetence and arrogance. There's no one to keep Elon in check.
It's funny to me that you're calling sit stand desks niche and suggesting that it shouldn't be one of the first things to look at when the second item the wirecutter article talks about is a sit/stand desk.

Besides, standard external keyboards are not much more ergonomic than a laptop keyboard. They're typically only a little wider so the wrist placement is often still pretty bad.

An external screen at the right height is going to be far more impactful than the keyboard until you get into ergo keyboards.
It's not necessarily far away. It's diffuse.

Unless you are educated about climate or ecosystem dynamics to contextualize your lived experience in a wider (space/time) scope many will use faulty heuristics and faulty memory to rationalize or ignore it any way they want.

This might be an issue that's ingrained deeply into our limited biological computing machinery/wetware. And this is also Great Filter material...

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
Is it any better trusting random third party companies who had enough cash to register their own TLD?
Memegen is unbearably whiny now, but doesn't feel like it's because Google hires whiners. It feels more like valid employee feedback, accurately capturing valid worker sentiment toward shitty, randomizing leadership.
Kinda hard to be either without being left-leaning
Honestly the best part of troubleshooting is when I find out I was just being a massive dumbass the entire time. I go tell my team, friends, wife, etc, “I fixed it, I was just a dumbass, all I had to do was [thing]” and I revel in it because that shit is funny.

The angrier I am while troubleshooting, the funnier that reveal is for everyone.
I think that working in the same position every day, for hours, is going to have bad effects even if you are in the best position. If you always stress exactly the same muscles, it's going to start hurting at some point.

So my solution is to change it up. I often change the setup of my screens, I switch between keyboards and mice, sometimes I work on my couch on my laptop, sometimes at the office, occasionally at a standing desk.

I think the variation helps.
It was not stupid decision. Those plants were at end of their life, extending their life would be very expensive. There were no major investment in this industry for past 20 years. French nuclear plants have the same problem, and will be retiring soon.
Can you make it work for more than the first post, for example here on HN? Sometimes I can force reader view in Safari, even when it doesn't want to, by pressing CMD+Shift+R
We also cannot represent all natural numbers or rational numbers in a computer. But the ones we care about, we generally can. I guess one question is whether there are uncomputable numbers that we need to compute for some purpose other than just computing it as a challenge? And if there are such things, how is it usually done? The theoretical definition of an oracle is not problematized by being uncomputable by Turing machines, but it is in uncomfortable tension with the driving purpose of the definition. I think that is a bonus. I think we should pause to consider the relevance of numbers that are uncomputable.

There are a number of real numbers that one can define which can depend on whether we can prove something or not. It may turn out that we can never prove it and the number is never resolved.

My attitude, which may not be satisfactory, is that we do what we can and we should have a language/framework for facilitating that. I think the oracle approach highlights what we know and marks what we can't compute clearly. I call it the resolution of the oracle. I don't want known precision to be lacking just because of a poor definition of what a real number is.

As for the example being algebraic, it is a particularly nice example and it is the same example in every example of a Dedekind cut. Another example of such a rule, one which is not algebraic, would be whether pi is in an interval or not. Given a<b, one rule could be that it is No if b < 3 or a > 4 or sin(a)sin(b) > 0. Alternatively, it would say Yes if a >= 3 and b<= 4 and sin(a)sin(b) <= 0. To compute this, one needs to compute sine of a and b sufficiently precisely to determine their sign.

The flavor I am trying to convey is having a definition convey a useful goal. The interval approach says that we are trying to generate precision about our inaccuracy. I think this is something which would greatly benefit those learning about real numbers. Most of the time, the error is presented as secondary and an annoyance, the concerns of the error propagation in further computations is pushed to the side, and it is all relegated to experts or computers. The expansionary nature of arithmetic in error propagation is pushed to a usually unsatisfactory discussion about significant digits.

My goal here is to change the mental framework so that these concerns come to the forefront. Ideally, they also come with useful tools to handle the uncertainties such as ways to compute how narrow the input intervals need to be when doing a computation. And maybe, just maybe, students could become more comfortable with fractions.
So the plan is screwing over the company you're buying goods from?

Where can I like and subscribe for more of these amazing life hacks? (/s)
I retired at 30 and it didn't stick. The real difference is that I only think about working on things I am interested in working on.
Are ginger and blonde the only two options here?
"The particulars aren’t so important. What matters is that guys start clocking quality time together, preferably without wives or girlfriends along."

So why make reference to pickleball?

Why not just say "The cure to Male Loneliness is to spend quality time together"...

Controversial take - pickleball is just tennis for people who aren't athletic enough to play tennis...
> anyone can take anything into their own bodies and governments can never, ever prevent them.

Thought experiment: There is a magic drug or parasite where any dosage (whether deliberate, accidental, or fraudulent) will force the person into a single-minded violent quest to get another dose.

For the next month, another hit is the most important thing in their world, even if that means selling everything they own, cutting off their own leg, or murdering their children. Repeated doses cause mental confusion and are eventually fatal.

Are you still comfortable saying that nobody can make any law against the distribution or consumption of THAT substance?
In the UK, the self checkout machine has a weighing scale built in, and you select the type of produce while it's on the scales during checkout, much like a cashier might. I prefer it to the code system you find on the continent.
The NYC area grocery chain Fairway–of which most locations have sadly closed after a bankruptcy in 2020–took this concept a step further with a mobile checkout app, you could weigh your produce and enter it into the app as you shopped (as well as scan package barcodes), then pay directly in the app and walk out. A clerk would sometimes audit your bags, but it was so much better than the typical American supermarket self-checkout.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fairway-market-mobile-checkout...
If Signal wanted to lead by example on the privacy front, they would have stuck with their initially federated design, wouldn't require phone numbers, and wouldn't (have to) hide behind obscure and unverifiable workarounds (SGX enclaves, sealed senders, ...)
> I don’t know, seems fine.

Sure, on paper. However, energy prices and increasing curbing down on CO2 emissions drive heavy industry (the one Germany was built on) away from Germany. It's getting worse and this is the story line in the mainstream media.

The best example here is Viessmann take over by Carrier Global. In the midst of a heat pump boom, a Germany company manufacturing heat pumps sells itself to an American business: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/us-takeover-german-heat.... The reason? Many believe it's down to how expensive and difficult it is to manufacture these in the EU in the current eco climate.

This shows where the German industry is heading. The media often reports that about 30% of heavy manufacturing industry is thinking of leaving Germany and moving to the US or other places.
Learning safe passwording is now a life skill.

As or more important as house keys
They're discount hacking.
I've seen one, in Wesley Chapel, FL. The vast majority do not.
The mean quality of life is sky high compared to 100 years ago and it is such thanks to the advancement made.
Are there any examples of sim games like this being used by real cities? I could imagine it'd be a useful visualization for where tax revenues are generated/utilized at the very least.
> To extend on this: application developers can actually guarantee it, because they control the compilation process, which is what decides if it aborts or not.

They can control that panic isn't compiled as abort, but even then, if there's a destructor that can panic, then if it panics during unwinding, it aborts. So even the app developer cannot guarantee to catch all panics.
Hot on the rails of multiple government agencies pushing hard to erode end-to-end encryption. Seems like things are going to get interesting.
Saudi Arabia’s Catastrophic “Everything” Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGBB-717AI

It's on his channel
I am now completely dead inside.
Anything to keep the oil and gas money rolling in.

> As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans’ plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month, the signs of rising global temperatures could not be ignored. Smoke from Canadian wildfires hung in the air.

I hope it wasn’t too hot out during this event. You can always count on America to do the right thing after exhausting all other options. Almost there.
Yes, they love a little wine in a glass wine just like many humans. I never had to fashion a funnel, but it sounds like a nice trap.
Some FDA APPROVED cancer medication cause many severe side effects, for example, Opdivo/Nivolumab[1], my father used it and it seems to help, but caused other long term side effects, which seems will never pass.
1: https://www.opdivo.com/potential-side-effects
Agreed. I called because I need a human to fix my problem. If it could have been fixed on the website I would have fixed it there.
Same, this is barely “an introduction to Rust error handling in 2023”
Self checkout shoppers should be timed just like cashiers. I swear everyone else using the self chicken are moving in slow motion.
Similar praise to the unfortunately named Ultimate Hacking Keyboard.

Split keyboard that can be rotated and titled exactly to fit your needs was the difference between bilateral pinky side pain radiating to my elbows to absolutely no pain in a matter of a few weeks.

That, and it's a damn fine, steel cased macro-able keyboard.
The mean quality of life is irrelevant if the mode quality of life is only a tenth of that.
The biggest weakness of Germany is its unending love affair with the totalitarian Russia, a setup lasting since centuries and bringing misery to millions.
On macOS:

> Unable to open libEGL

No idea where to get that.

And,

> thread 'main' panicked at 'texture not found at path: assets/sprites/blue_noise_512.png
Blueberries do fine in Oregon and Washington, west of the Cascades, so I'm not sure what's going on with yours.
Vesta Control Panel (like CPanel but simpler)
> This is unsurprising for the EU's largest population, though.

It's more difficult. The contribution to the EU depend on the economic situation. Germany is the largest net (!!) contributor, by far.

Countries pay to the EU and receive from the EU. A poor EU country with large population will receive much more than they pay.

For example France has half of Germany's net contribution, but does have more than half of Germany's population.

Poland OTOH net receives almost half of what Germany pays.

Most EU countries receive more from the EU than they pay.

Germany is the largest net contributor and the third largest per capita net contributor.

9 countries pay more than they receive and 18 countries receive more than they pay. Of the net contributors, Germany is paying by far the largest amount.

For example:
https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...
My brother had an excellent metaphor:

> Say you're a runner. In the beginning of your competitive career, you get the most gains by becoming a better runner. And then at some point, you get more gains by shooting (or bribing) the ref.
I don't see how that's a better position than general automation, which software has been chipping away at the bottom rung of for decades. Most jobs outside of mass produced SEO Buzzfeed garbage are not about generating large amounts of believable sounding prose. I could see it chipping away at the bottom rung of customer support, but that very quickly turns into work where real decisions have to be made and an 80% correct output is not acceptable. I'd be extremely surprised if any half serious company lets an LLM decide whether a refund should be processed or rejected, for example.
I don't think close enough to deliver unless it's changed--about 40 minutes away. And I can't/wouldn't want to do a complete grocery shopping at Whole Foods anyway.

Used Peapod once upon a time when I was on crutches for months and dropped it as soon as I could walk again.
I haven't seen a single instance of disrespect -- just justified frustration for the outage and lack of communication. There seem to be a lot of frustrated Fly.io customers and a vocal number of Fly.io fans.
The other key detail missing was that this was just an experiment that was going to be active only on a small set of machines for a limited time. They wanted to get data on how much it impacts users workflows, what the opt out rate is, etc.

There's not even a current plan to continue limiting access after the trial period ends, much less a plan for expanding it to more machines.
The Republican party really embodies the old adage that the Americans will always do the right thing after they tried everything else. Looks like they are at the bargaining stage now.
Yes, I was referring to the grandparent's comment about Jupiter moons and .io that can't be used. Odd wording from my side.
There are a couple of comments on how search engine x dropped feature y on date z (i time periods after competitor j did).

Can anyone recommend a site that tracks those changes?

I find myself getting annoyed by serps of a given vendor and I might even be adopting to changes but ultimately jumping ship towards the next best thing if I can’t figure out a very low-effort way of influencing the results in my favor using flags that suddenly stop working - all I notice is a significant degradation of result quality.
> pushed by regulations and subsidies

a sort of disruption it is... ;-)
In a word: pragmatism. Bun is pragmatic where Deno is “by the book”. Node.js globals like process are Bun globals. You can use require() and import in the same file. Bun is faster, easier to use, and more compatible with the JavaScript ecosystem. There’s less new stuff to learn. And that also makes Bun easier to try in new and existing projects.
Have you as a customer interacted with LLM that replaced a human role?

I don't think experience with pre-LLM chatbots is relevant here.
And as the Earth burns away and we choke on the smoke we rejoice as we have our AI entertainment and we can go quietly into the night.