skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries. I agree that “nobody wants to work” is a thought-terminating cliche. I think it is a dumb oversimplification, like “there is no such thing as a labor shortage”.

The process is that one generally comes on as an uncredentialed deckhand or mechanic and accrues necessary seatime, then takes courses and passes tests. One must pass an annual physical and be subject to random drug tests. The deckhand must be able to get a TWIC card and a passport if doing anything international. Candidates with previous problems with DUIs, child support, etc. have trouble with this. Then you have to be willing to live in cramped quarters with 3-5 other men 24 hours a day. All of these requirements cut down the pool of likely candidates.

One has to work at this job for a few years to be able to have accrued the seatime and learn on the job and take some courses and then take a test.

So even if I could pay a deckhand $500k per year, that doesn't fix the problem we have today. That deckhand will not be a captain for years.

And most deckhands don't have the aptitude to become captains.

You don't have to take my word for it. You could talk to anybody in the industry.

See, e.g.,: https://www.google.com/search?q=tugboat+labor+shortage
Apple bought NextVR (and shuttered or stealthed it), whose sports-broadcast-in-VR platform was fantastic even years ago when I watched NBA games in my original Rift. No one has really stepped into that space since.

Concerts in VR are a real and big thing already.

Examples:

Fatboy Slim: https://youtu.be/u1ulTKJNj7Y?t=145 (watch for at least 30 seconds)

Notorious BIG: https://themusicuniverse.com/meta-announces-exclusive-notori...

Megan Thee Stallion: https://www.livedesignonline.com/news/bring-thee-hottieverse...
Nobody is commenting because if you click the link you're hypnotized for an hour
Can they not just monitor the statistics from an incoming <insert phone system collective noun here> and notice that they're randomly calling millions of numbers per small unit of time and swapping their caller id for every one of them... and then just block them?

Is there a legal reason they can't? Is it a liability reason?

What's really getting my goat the last year is the scam center pretending to be Comcast / XFinity / AT&T / Spectrum offering to lower my bills. They constantly rotate through the four companies and often also have my name, stolen from one of those provider's databases.

I've stopped calling them scammers on the phone and call them thieves, or "chor" in Hindi. Often they hangup immediately, but 1 in 10 or so get sheepish and embarrassed.
I've seen the reverse, Gmail suggesting additonal people I may want to include, although I don't think that's based on the message body. I personally wouldn't want more server-side content scanning, nor would I want the bloat of it running in my browser.
Reality hasn't collapsed in on itself with this outage. So I guess we're OK ...
COVID vaccines proved that if WW2 were happening today, during blackouts half the country would turn all of their lights on and set out spotlights because they believed the war was a CIA psyop.
How about banning calling people with robots? Then enforcing it.
Yes. The beta channel for ChromeOS seems to have a new release every week. I usually ignore it until the Linux shell or Steam stops working, then relent and let it reboot.
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=46

There's live images and video for a wide range of timespan. I linked to one at 8 weeks since the source article I responded to was limited to < 10 weeks.

The field of view of the camera is quite small, but there's also an MRI image at 9 weeks:
https://www.ehd.org/gallery/407/9-Week-Fetus-MRI-Animation

The most notable difference, aside from the details visible close up, is the fact that there is no red whatsoever in the images in the guardian article. The samples were very carefully cleaned to avoid looking organic at all, and promote the author's argument that so early in the pregnancy it is "just tissue".
literally no idea what you are talking about. I have no connection to facebook, Meta etc whatsoever.
The losses increase with distance, and decrease with higher voltages, which is why most cross country transmission happens at 740kVAC. But still, the energy you're using in your day to day life is almost always produced with 50-100miles of where it's consumed, because transporting it longer distances make losses uneconomical.
I think getting information about devices in and connected to the system would be easier from Linux; might be nice for device and board programming or diagnosing USB devices.

I don't remember specifics but terminal use felt odd on macOS to me. I do Terminal no problem from Linux, but maybe it was the file structure or command syntax on macOS that felt different.

Niche hardware stuff is likely cheaper to manage on Linux. I had to buy SwitchResX to set a higher resolution for my monitor, but I can do it from kernel parameter (video=), xrandr, or EDID override all for free on Linux.

eGPUs acted notably differently from macOS vs Linux on the same laptop, and iirc it had to do with the Apple firmware doing something differently when booting non-macOS. I preferred it on Linux because it shut-off the iGPU completely but required full shutdowns to switch to internal; hot-swap worked fine from macOS even on unsupported TB2. Iirc there was also some EFI binary that could be booted first before Linux in order to trick the Apple firmware in keeping macOS-specific config, and I kept that on a flash drive to boot from the rare times when I wanted dual graphics. Windows was even more different in that the eGPU straight up didn't work.
Forcing people to take the covid vaccine violated the Nuremberg code. Do we see anybody on trial for that? It's never what you do, it's who has the power to hold you accountable.
Jump to conclusions much?
£10 GBP a month for a AS with an IPv4+IPv6 subnet + worldwide POPs that allow you to advertise your subnets over BGP? How did you pull that off? I've researched this a while ago and just the IPv4 subnet alone was at least 10x that amount if you are OK with leasing it from less reputable sources.
Pretty cool! The question is how cool?
I don't want to sound like i am downplaying you understanding of the JVM. But i still have to ask : efficient as compare to what ?

From having played around the JVM, and spent quite a bite of time optimizer large spark workload , from the limited Monomorphization, to memory and cache inefficient object model, to the limited inlining depth, absence of code compaction ( for i-cache performance), the poor registor allocator etc... the JVM is really not up there.

I think it only shines when compare to things like go/python/javascript that the JVM can appear to be great.
Ah yes, then you download an app for that. And that app has its own updater.

Then you realize you want your mouse and trackpad to scroll in reverse directions. So you download an app for that, which comes with its own updater.

And then you want a flat acceleration profile for your mouse, and you download an app for that. That, too, comes with its own updater.

Next, you realize that the Mac app-based cmd-tab sucks and you'd much rather have Windows-like behavior. So you download an app for that, which also comes with its own updater. (Yes, yes, I know the arguments Apple users bring out, it's always been done this way on Mac etc etc. Still really bad.)

Then you get a taste of auto-tiling on Linux and spend a couple hours setting up yabai and skhd (thankfully updated via homebrew), before realizing that you'll need to turn off SIP [1] for a semi-usable experience.

Then you do go and turn off SIP, and you realize that your iOS apps no longer work because macOS has DRM built into its hardware that detects if you've turned off SIP.

And then, one of those apps prompts you for an update, and in doing so it steals your keyboard focus while you're typing. And you say "is this what I spent $2500 to experience", and cry.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai#requirements-and-caveat...
Because it's OK if their guy does it. According to them, he's working on the side of the angels and to better humanity. Whatever that means.
I don't know but I suspect because of billing requirements to give Apple of a 30% cut of any in app purchases.
"suicide"
Morris Chang (TSMC) in Conversation with Jen Hsun Huang (Nvidia) [video]
So exciting!

Just FYI, the wikipedia page for LK-99 has a very useful tracking grid of replication attempts with sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99
> and legitimate consensual sex work

What is legitimate consensual sex work? For those of us who don't transact with prostitutes, all we know about this is a stream of narratives we've seen on tv and in film. Julia Roberts falling for Richard Gere, or Maggie Gyllenhall refusing to have a pimp "manage" her.

Yet, I remember reading one account of a porn actress, who despite signing all the paperwork, waivers and contracts and such, later claimed that every single act felt like rape to her.

Even when there are no pimps or sex traffickers, many claim that they feel coerced by circumstances. Exploited by their clientele.

On top of that we have to deal with ever-evolving ideas about what consent even means. That one cannot properly give consent if one party is more powerful than the other (and how could that ever not be the case, when one is a man and the other a woman... does not plain strength count as power in that scenario?).

In one episode of Californication, Fox Mulder's sitting there mocking a man that showed up with the hooker, calling him a pimp, asking where's his feathered velvet hat, and the guy drolly explains "I'm just here to make sure creeps don't try to beat up the girls".

It's very unclear whether there is such a thing as legitimate consensual sex work, or that humans are even capable of formulating a reasonable definition of consent that would satisfy idiot frat boys and feminist activists both. To call this "tough" is world-class championship understatement. It looks absolutely intractable.
Isn't the issue that, if you switch away from a service after an incident, it doesn't necessarily mean that the alternative is going to necessarily be better? GitHub clearly did things poorly, but is Gitlab or Bitbucket better? Or have they just not happened to have messed up publicly yet/recently? Is swapping away just playing musical chairs at high cost to your dev team having to constantly migrate until you've run out of services to migrate to?

I don't say this to imply that everyone is equally bad, but to question if is obviously as illogical as you seem to think it is to stick with a company that's had a major security debacle. What certification can you get from another CI vendor about their security procedures that CircleCI wouldn't have given you 2 years ago, or your internal Jenkins team wouldn't have offered?
People do not buy multi-thousand dollar hardware&software combos from companies with unknown histories of software patches, product line commitment, warranty coverage, etc. That's why there's so few operating at those price ranges.
Green mountain power covers most of the state (by area, if not by population) and their tariff sheet says says they charge $0.18kWh up to 7600 kWh/month (after that you have to move to time of day rates). If you use a smart charger that can turn itself off during peak demand periods they have an off peak demand EV rate of $0.14/kWh, or if you can charge off peak (outside of 1pm to 9pm) for $0.137/kWh

https://greenmountainpower.com/rates/
I believe you’re referring to the HP 16C which has hex/bin/oct.
Ollama is pretty dead simple, with no dependencies to manage. I just didn’t realize I needed to open the app when using it via the terminal, and it sounds like even this wrinkle will be smoothed out soon.

I’m a non-technical founder so if I can do it, pretty much and HNer should be able to do so!
For some reason what my brain keeps imagining is pulling out a drawer of a cabinet and it being perfectly silent and butter smooth because it uses mag-lev instead of wheels.

Mag-lev based bearings might be nice too.
Maybe in some cases, but that requires time and expertise. It may not be worth it in many cases.
Our company signed a huge 5 year deal with microsoft for azure services just today. We evaluated all major providers for more than a year, Microsoft offered the best terms by far, and we were able to meet all of our needs using it just as well as with AWS or GCP.

Honest question, why was the decision wrong? It does not matter to me eather way, I’m just an engineer that was brought in to consult on some aspects of the contract.
All work for pay involves some sort of "coercion" depending on how you define it - if my company ain't paying me, I ain't showing up for work. And even if I was independently wealthy and wanted to do some work, it probably wouldn't be this work.
Just throwing out there that the "trafficking" topic in the media is largely a moral panic from the culture conservatives working with the police to call all sex work trafficking, as that juices their numbers for the scale of the problem, giving both group more supports/donors while doing nothing to help victims. This is a gross mischaracterization.

Here's an article by a former sex worker on this, and how decrim, Backpage, etc. are better for reducing the numbers of victims in sex work and the severity of what they deal with.

https://medium.com/@cathyreisenwitz/how-to-actually-fight-tr...
Some of their systems are fune. Knowing wich ones, thats tough
Is it 'figured out' or is cooperation an emergent principle in democratically free societies? Many factors involved, but these kinds of society level observations are better ascribed to political bodies, rather than physical minds
I'm not having any of this. So what if other people think it's bullshit. As long as YOU don't think it's bullshit, that's all that matters and everyone can go...People will wish they have bullshit jobs when they are gone and can't provide for themselves/families.
You used to need a whole js build system because old browsers were still out there. With the death of IE11 and the death of non blink Edge, basically every current browser finally supports the full api. But this happened when functional js is the big thing and being class based the custom element api isn't as popular as it should be.
According to the paper: Tc = 110 K, or around -163 °C. This is still pretty "cool", the existence of room-temperature superconductivity remains unverified. But assuming this paper is true, it means the material would still at least be a legitimate high-temperature superconductor in its own right, and the original claim would probably be cleared from being a deliberate fraud.
Bombing hurricanes, eradicating mosquitoes... what could possibly go wrong?
Is this one also written in Word so it automatically loses LaTeX-credibility, as was commented under the first paper? (:
Encouraging evidence that the recent work on room temperature superconductivity might be real!

Still waiting for confirmation from multiple labs.
I dunno about the Mac but the Windows Store is a ghetto in Windows. Real applications are distributed with ordinary installers, you only go to the Windows Store because you need some crapplet to work the scanner on your printer or something.

Oddly, you can download games with Steam and it “just works” but I’ve had the database for the windows store get corrupted numerous times and been told by support and MS devs that I should nuke my account and reconfigure all the applications I use every day just so I can attempt to run one crapplet. It is silly because I know there is a utility to rebuild that database that runs when you do a feature update.

Do you think any developers would be using the app store on mobile (and giving up 1/3 of their money) if they had a choice?
I disagree. First, there have been many RESPECTED scientists who have thrown it all away for fraud. This happened RECENTLY with retracted papers on near-ambient superconductors so you should be wary. Just like cold fusion claims. So it’s possible at least one of these did, too. Another possibility is they fooled themselves (see Feynman’s quote) and maybe one of them faked data to help garner credit.

Secondly, there is no middle ground here. If it’s a room temperature superconductor like some of their data showed, then it’s Nobel Prize.
Could someone explain why this is important? What is the consequence of the existence of Superconductors like that?
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#annual-greenh...

Agriculture is 4th there, animal ag is 80% of agriculture (by land).

It's all approximations anyway.

Emissions from Animal Agriculture—16.5% Is the New Minimum Figure

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352100490_Emissions...

"For emissions from animal agriculture, we have a potential range between 16.5 and 28.1% based on the FAO GLEAM 2.0 estimate presented here and Poore and Neme-
cek. Given the shortcomings of the second FAO report, the number may not be as low as 16.5%, which should be seen as a new minimum."

And last but not least, these are just the emissions ... there is no reforestation potential of pastures, biodiversity loss, other forms of pollution, ... the list is too long.
I worked at a place that used Azure and was told "When Microsoft has a problem, customers understand, its like a natural disaster, can't be avoided. When AWS has a problem customers say 'Huh, what's AWS, fix it now'"

I can't remember any outages in the few years I worked there though.
i was under the impression that they had made massive investments and really turned that around ... or is that ironically only windows? (or just a mistaken impression?)
I'm very much conservative about this paper because while the graph in Fig. 3a says $T_c^{zero}$ being 110 K, the "zero" resistance is actually only 1e-5 Ω (!) and even if the sample is possibly superconducting its critical temperature would be much lower than 110 K anyway. I'm aware of the difficulty in obtaining larger samples, but the label in that graph is really misleading regardless.
Isn't it a faux pas to put the degrees-symbol after the unit K?
Cooler than dry ice but less cool than liquid nitrogen.

(Wakka wakka wakka)
This is pretty silly, prohibition has been an obvious failure in both drugs and sex work.

Firstly, it's a human rights issue, people ought to be able to engage in the commerce of their choosing with only reasonable restrictions. Prohibition is an unreasonable restriction, enforced according to a set of puritan morals that are no longer even popularly held. After all, alcohol is more addictive and more harmful than many schedule 1 drugs. We're not enforcing any kind of consistent moral principle here, we're hewing to the arbitrary views of people who are long dead. I personally do not find prostitution compatible with my moral sensibilities (I'm a prude, I'm just a libertarian prude), so I don't engage with it, but I'm not interested in prosecuting those that do any more than I'm interested in criminalizing pineapple on pizza.

Secondly, that study doesn't show that it made trafficking worse. It showed that it increased inflows of trafficking. Of course traffickers will prefer open markets to closed ones, that doesn't establish a causal relationship whereby increased openness lead to more net trafficking. What this shows is that prohibition makes trafficking happen in someone else's back yard.

Thirdly, you're linking to a 2014 article about a 2012 study, which is ancient as far as an academic paper goes. Is there really no more recent study? Browsing Google Scholar is evident that this is an active area off research.

Here's a 2021 one I skimmed to cherrypick an article that finds decriminalization more effective ("Although it seems that partial decriminalization has greater benefits with fewer disadvantages, it is not without defects."): https://brieflands.com/articles/ijhrba-106741.html

Why should I find your article more authoritative? (I'm looking for a survey article on the subject presently.)

Fourth, once you've prohibited something, it's next to impossible to intervene to make that market safer. If we want to find the traffickers, we're going to have an easier time in a lit market then a dark one.

Lastly, I'm just more inclined to listen to sex workers and trafficking victims about what they would help than to look at descriptive statistics. Statistics are cool and useful, but predictive mental models and lives experience is a better source of policy. Statistics is better able to tell us that something isn't working than what that something is, why it isn't working, and what should be done about it.
30% fee and slow review and release process. And really, what's the point of the Mac App Store?

Wonder what percentage of Mac users actually use the Mac app store... maybe I'd be surprised.
Google Fi is an MVNO. They give you a sim, service is provided via T-Mobile mostly. (It used to have Android required special roaming on Sprint, but T-Mobile absorbed Sprint, so that's moot)
My point is Apple is taking their typical approach which is more Tesla - start at the high price point option to define a space and then work your way down.

I don't think we're going to stumble into good immersive AR/VR by cobbling together OEM parts bin specials to hit a $400 price point day 1.

It seems obvious that the displays & optics need to be as good or better than top of the line phone/computer displays, not worse. So I don't see how a remotely immersive experience can happen even at the $1k price point.
They're far more efficient than a combustion engine, but electric motors and associated controllers/inverters do generate heat, and lots of it. DIY electric car conversion hobbyists struggle with this big time, for example. Cooling loops w/ pumps, fans etc. It's not as bad as the battery pack, but still a thing to design around.

I get the impression there's room for improvement esp in the inverter space.

Cars of course being only application of electric motors. I'm no electrical engineer, but I gotta think stuff like generators must have challenges?
Do you sell to businesses? I.E., b2b ot b2c?
> No, it would only be coherent if you also accept the other premises I put forth (which I'm fairly certain you don't, but you haven't really acknowledged or debated them so hard to say for sure, suffice to say they are not commonly help premises).

You attack my argument by saying it's illegible. You are a libertarian and I understand that it's a viewpoint that people have but they don't fully consider the actual ramifications of those policies. It is odd that you are so incredibly dismissive of an argument that tries to help people and that you don't see it as a valid argument.

> Yes I absolutely favor freedom of individual choice over preventing all individuals from making choices that may not be best for them

It just seems silly to me that you acknowledge that it's not OK to ruin society completely but it's fine to ruin only some lives all because they should be able to make a short sighted decision that they will regret.

> This is nonsense. Addiction is indeed very powerful, but in our society we still consider these individuals responsible for their actions. Being in the throes of heroin addiction is not a valid plea to escape a murder conviction, and indeed it shouldn't be.

I am guessing you've never had a hard drug addiction or known someone that has had it. How is it nonsense? They literally want to stop and know it is ruining their lives but can't stop. All because you want people to have some silly right to take hard drugs for some bs ideal. How about have some empathy and try to minimize misery? What is best for human kind in the long run?
And/or maybe demand has decreased as people have settled on alternative boards...