skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>At what income level does one need to start treating the customer, that is enabling one to have a job, like a real human being?

At a sufficient enough and above. Below that the Clerks (as in the Kevin Smith movie) treatment is good enough.

In any case, "treating like a real human being" and putting on a show of smiles and friendliness US-style, is not even close to being the same thing.

In "real" human interaction, we understand the other as a person with their own feelings and mood, and we don't demand from anybody to exhibit a certain cheerful mood for us.

But of course this isn't about real human connection. It's more about "When I pay I demand those serving me to entertain me with smiles and pleasantries". The customer could not care less about the person serving them, or their condition, otherwise. "Real person" my ass.
I think we have to wait until the buildings are out outputing merchandise and making some $$$.
Jailer works well with ssh port forwarding.
Apple Music launches a Discovery Station to help you find new songs
It would be interesting to try and make that work. It sounds like basically you'd define a monopsony as effectively an employer relationship, rather than a contractual one. But there are lots of regular everyday businesses that work together in a monopsony relationship. Should we force all of them to consolidate into a single business entity? Or does this only happen for larger companies? Or only gig-style companies?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't fabs need plentiful water?

Why Arizona and Texas...?
I think even the "outside consultants" can use the Amazon marked vehicles, probably getting them leased cheaply just to as a further f-u to employment law. Just don't hurt yourself on the job, because nobody's there for you when it happens.
Capitalism has killed F1 races before they even started, in order to go to an F1 race in America you must pay an arm and a leg, while in Europe it’s a modest fee.
Yes, we're aware of sleepio. Unfortunately, sleepio is only available via their partnership with major employers, so most people in the US will not be able to access their program.

Both Stellar Sleep and Sleepio are based on behavioral psychology. Sleepio is a weekly program (I believe you spend an hour each week). From our experience and also through user interviews, we found that it's easier for patients to follow a daily program (we offer daily bite-sized modules so you don't have to spend more than 5 - 10 minutes a day).

Also good point! We do delve into sleep hygiene - that being said, our target audience is people with chronic insomnia (insomnia 3+ nights per week for 3 months or longer). While common advice such as “avoid caffeine after 4pm”, “limit alcohol in the evening to no more than 2 drinks before 7pm” or “minimize the use of blue-light emitting devices an hour before sleep” are helpful, there is little evidence that sleep hygiene alone is sufficient to treat chronic insomnia.
They're citing a study from the International Center for Quantum Materials at Peking University in Beijing (which has several Alumni from the Condensed Matter Theory Center at U of Maryland which is the twitter account) which goes into the matter in some depth and finds that chunks of the material are ferromagnetic and some chunks are diamagnetic and the whole thing is a semiconductor. They also replicate the half-levitation effect from the original video and which some people have replicated:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03110.pdf

The twitter account may have had a biased tone because they're actual experts and qualified to have a strong opinion.
Awesome post, really. One of the best I've read in a while!

Total side question, if anyone knows -- what tool (if any?) was used for the graphics in this article? The dot matrix looking map style stuff? I really dig it.
I retract my previous statement! If you're already doing the Co-authored-by, that is fantastic, then their names are clickable on GitHub, and the developers themselves will be able to directly interact through their own GitHub accounts if they are @'ed by the customer. This is great. Definitely advertise that aspect.

In general my advice is this is one of those gray area markets where it is extremely easy to exploit workers, so you should do everything humanly possible to make sure that:

a) workers in this program are progressing with the goal being they can eventually "graduate" to the point where a middle-man is not required. This won't be possible across the board but an evil version of this startup would be designed to keep workers in this situation as long as possible, so just don't be that.

b) Allow customers who want to direct hire specific workers to do so seamlessly and don't do hefty referral fees that are enough to stop a lean startup from being able to pull the trigger. I've personally witnessed startups unable to pull the trigger in such situations because they can't afford to "buy the person out" of whatever referral company owns them. Don't be like that. If you absolutely must do a referral fee, structure it so they at least get back the money in credits with your program or something.

c) Treat workers like the assets they are -- each worker that eventually gets a job through your program becomes a marketing asset that will drive referrals from their home country when they eventually find success and tell their friends how they succeeded. Make sure you have created a positive enough experience for them that they will actually recommend you and dear god give them referral fees when they send you someone.

That's my free advice
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See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37049221
I dislike banks as much as anyone else. But does it bother anyone else to see rules changed around? Wouldn't it be a better approach to tell people/corporations how they're gonna be taxed?
Good thing there's a university only a couple of miles away from the Richardson fab that specializes in training semiconductor and nano-fabrication which has quite a large international reach which has been massively expanding every year for the last few decades.
"breakfast skipping" -- implies that it's some sort of requirement.
Didn't the Touch Bar go away with Johnny Ive?
At least in my area, forging signatures for "must have signature" deliveries started during COVID and hasn't stopped even though many people are not actively dodging human contact any more.
Personalised learning: Edtech’s long-standing aspiration
Geopolitics are not after school specials about friendship being only thing that matters in life.

Critical industries are, well, critical. Securing redundancy for critical things is risk management 101, even on much smaller scale than geopolitics.
Something I've really enjoyed about software dev is it really is a super power to your users. Just hearing "Wow I didn't know I needed this" is very satisfying.
I can see from my Oura ring data that late night eating is hard on the body and the harm is correlated with the how heavy the meal was.

The issue is that it takes work to digest food. Your body does not get to rest as well when you eat late at night. You see it in your heart rate / hrv. Small amounts of carbs don't seem to matter much. A big protein meal is the worst.
>> All code smells of desperation.

> That's how I interpreted the title.

That's my point - even that is ambiguous.

Do you mean, "There is no code that doesn't smell of desperation" or "Of all the code that exists, herein lies the complete subset of it that smells of desperation"

eg:

(All code) smells of desperation vs. All (code smells) of desperation.
On the other hand, not having strong religious feelings was also pretty common in the Asian history. Especially in China.
Apple surely can see the complete catalog of The Who that I have in my library, including the vinyl albums that I’ve ripped. Not that the Music app could see it, but Apple could also see the eye-watering amounts of money we’ve spent on tickets to watch 75 year old men prance around on stage (via the tickets from the last three tours in Wallet).

So what’s the first song played on this new Discovery station? “Who Are You?” by…wait for it…The Who. Whether you’re a Who fan or not, is there anyone walking this planet over the age of 21 that hasn’t heard that song?
Basically:

US GDP per capita: ~$69k

Canada GDP per capita: ~$52k

Mexico GDP per capita: ~$10k[1]

China has a similar GDP per capita, but makes up for it in volume. China's total GDP is closer to the US's than to Mexico's.[2]

That, combined with the fact that Mexico seems to have a serious issue with cartels within their borders[3], and the constant flood of illegal border crossings gives the impression of a state that isn't particularly well run, despite the government otherwise being a functioning democracy.

Basically, I think if it got a better handle on its organized crime problem Mexico would be viewed much more favorably by the average American citizen. Hopefully the recent increase in economic activity and resulting GDP boost will help with that.

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=US+GDP+per+capita%2C+Ca...

[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=US+GDP%2C+Canada+GDP%2C...

[3]: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
It's odd but comments like yours would normally elicit something like anger, now elicit sadness. Why do you take this tone? Why do you willfully misunderstand my point? Why not take a charitable view?

I'd be happy if even half of that money actually went into a fab, and only half was wasted on lawyers, fees, studies, and wherever else free money manages to go rather than to actually building things. The timeline doesn't matter, nor does the fraction of on-shore chips made. You created those measurements out of thin air.
"Not even wrong." An event about whose outcome you by definition have no information ("I have absolutely no idea") is an event to which you cannot assign any probability, including by assuming it's a coin flip and then treating the assumption as axiomatic. It encodes no information whatsoever because there is none to encode, and it biases all future results because you're averaging over a range that includes "data" you made up.
You underestimate the gusto of data engineers/scientists to just assume types.
Regulation is what prevents competition so...
That’s why we can’t have nice things.
Train maintenance is not cheap.
Svelte 5 is going to be radical
A neighbor with diabetes is on Mounjaro. She's reducing her dosage because she not only has lost interest in food, she has to force herself to eat and it makes her nauseous to even think about food.

It's crazy to me to think that such a severe "side-effect" of a diabetes drug was not found during the trial phase. Just goes to show how little testing occurs or how narrow the testing results are that the drug companies didn't even realize it causes weight loss until after it was approved and they started receiving anecdotal evidence.
Humans are all humans, but some humans have it better than others, and even have the gal to demand those less fortunate, working some mind-crushing job for a pittance, put on a show for them...

At least waiters and strippers get tips for their show...
> They were responsible for the car, not Uber and its self-driving systems - that she was responsible for testing and overseeing.

I agree with your point about the driver but disagree with this. Tesla is testing it's product on people without their consent. In this case, their technology failed and it resulted in the death of someone who did not consent to being part of a autonomous vehicle test.
> The Ukrainian war has been very good to American exports of arms

By "exports", do you mean donations? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64656301
Having lived there for a decade, I must point out that you are painting a very one sided picture of the region. It's also a hot spot for Germany's populist right.

I've witnessed visiting Indian colleagues of mine being threatened on the street for having dark skin and racist demonstrations are a weekly occurrence. I eventually moved away (among other reasons) because I didn't want my kids to grow up in this environment.

It was quite difficult to hire international talent there for the same reasons.

The city itself and university are super nice though.
The logical analogue here is writing blog posts. It forces you to crystallize your knowledge in a way you thought you understood but didn't.
The Touch Bar is also on the way out, so there doesn’t seem much value in adding this API anymore now.
I did imaging on skin (for medical appliances, not for surveillance that I heavily oppose). While the tech has evolved a lot in just a few years, a tiny bit of additional light exposure can make a huge difference. I doubt surveillance cameras do quality images with a high dynamic range of light levels.
In Turkiye stupid tax rules make pickup trucks (e.g. Toyota Hilux) cheaper than more efficient 2 row SUVs (e.g. Toyota RAV4).
Do you have any idea how many crazy things are said by "Someone on YouTube"?
The EFF stands alone in its commitment to actually speaking truth to power. The ACLU has become just another arm of the DNC, same with the SPLC etc - repeating CNN-esque talking points. Same with the NRA - milquetoast arm of those in power.

The EFF will go after orgs that fund it, which requires true compunction.

FIRE is a good replacement for the ACLU, FYI. And John Brown Gun Club is becoming a better NRA.
>>is there a social/cultural difference in expectations of the interaction with people around us

For me, that is why I am glad automation is decimating the service sector. for the first time in years I was traveling so i decided to go into a fast food place so I could stretch my legs. I walked in, Ordered my meal on a Automated Kiosk, no one even around to talk my order verbally. Then when my order was ready someone called out my number and sat a bag on the counter. I took the bag and that was it, No interaction at all

It was the BEST experience getting food... I almost want to go in more because it had even less interaction than the drive thru.
John Carmack was on his show.
Suppose you need automation for machinery in a cutting edge fab, that would be much further in the future? They could ship from Taiwan, so the idea that this is a back up does not sound entirely wrong. Sounds like fan-fiction, too, true enough.

AMD is already there and Intel is building in Lower Saxony. Must be something about the region, perhaps the chemistry since the Erzgebirge has a history in mining. Meisner Porcelain for example beat Venice and replaced good old China (pun intended).

> No one walked back anything.

I'm not sure about that (haven't heard this story).

My impression is that EU sticks to discretion very much, and they aren't free from corruption. The US on the other hand is not known to play nice with matters of law in international affairs (Edit: shouldn't have said "international law").

Taiwan is a partner was the point, I believe. Of course they aren't going to give away the crown jewels either.
I trust governments more than banks and the people who run banks. More regulation is welcome, and occasionally, one off policy hacks are needed vs slowly tightening the regulatory regime (which gives banks time to adapt and avoid or evade; not good!). Move fast and regulate systemic systems.
When talking about open source tools, here are some:

KiCad may be used as a schematic entry tool for ngspice, especially for discrete or PCB-based electronics. You may watch several simulation examples (including oscillators) here: https://forum.kicad.info/t/simulation-examples-for-kicad-ees.... KiCad integrates ngspice internally, but may also provide external ngspice with netlists for simulation.

Another GUI to ngspice is XSCHEM, especially useful for IC design work (see https://xschem.sourceforge.io/stefan/index.html). Device models are available by the Open Source PDKs from Google/Skywater, Google/GF, or IHP. A growing community is supporting digital, analog or mixed-signal design flows.

QUCS-S (https://ra3xdh.github.io/) is a GUI for ngspice or XyCE.

Indeed device models have to be added manually to the devices in the circuit schematic, when invoking ngspice via KiCad or QUCS-S, except for some basic devices with integrated models. Models are provided by device makers, distributors or web sites like this one: https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/modelparams.html .
Is it really a smart business move from an economic point of view? Aside from some regional differences in vehicle/transport law (which I bet are not as different as you'd expect, a lot of this is federalized), this should cost Amazon more, not less. The scale works to their advantage. Having subcontractors is strictly more expensive since there's an extra layer of profit.
Ehh, I don't think we were talking about just JITs.

JITs are just some part of what's under the general "compilers" term
Yes, but Rust’s type system is waaaaay more sophisticated than your typical SQL database. Talk about “generic associated types” and you can see people start to shrink back in fear.

Plus, a surprisingly enormous fraction of the NoSQL hysteria was that “you don’t even need a schema!”
That 1% already the real GDP growth rate. Nominal growth is more like 6-7%, as inflation is a bit higher in the EU than in the US.
Examples of actual typograms [0]: https://aaronkuehn.com/art

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/typogram
companies have been doing this forever. google for example hires staffing firms for this reason.
Cost of doing business - just a really expensive phone plan for collusion.
I live nearby, it is finished and it is producing Teslas.
Nobody expects a delivery driver to ask "how can I help?" because their job isn't to take requests. They expect that from workers who's job is to take requests. A simple smile and "what can I get you?" from somebody taking food orders or the like is the expected norm in most of North America.

It's just common decency. Imagine I'm having a bad day and go to shop to get lunch where I meet a worker who's also having a bad day. We could both smile and say hello/thank you and go about the rest of our days, or we could both lay into each other and make our bad day the other guy's problem. If we both choose the first, we both benefit. If we both choose the later, we both come out worse. So which is better?
If we could get Republicans to stop their Two Santa Claus policy we would be much better off. Unfortunately, enough folks believe their propaganda and we get this.
> When compared with the destruction of the bank, making sure that supervisors can see what an employee is getting up to is a pretty small waste in comparison.

But they can't see this according to the comment to which you're responding; that's the problem.
There are loads of jobs related to the fabs surrounding them though. Lots of companies designing the things these fabs will end up actually producing, lots of testing the things these fabs produce, lots of integrating these things the fabs produce. The technology services supporting those companies making the designs. Etc.
Looks like it's still around! https://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm

On the home page:

> Click the "Home of the Worlds Longest Burning Light Bulb!" image above to see the Bulb-Cam in action

Which...wasn't the most intuitive, admittedly!
https://archive.ph/U8wbQ
I do not at the moment, but I agree that I need to start writing about my off-grid and battery-powered (mis-)adventures. Most of my battery management is bespoke hardware and I’d love to share it.

I also do not want to highlight the creepy side of remote living because that just attracts the wrong type of attention.
Can we have energy companies next?
Pocketing record profits during this situation is just disgusting.
My blog about my Dad’s work with Oppenheimer and the new movie
There is an artist who has a Tumblr featuring characters in the style of Richard Scarry that parodies professions that many on HN would be familiar with.

https://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com/

It's one of the best things on the internet.
The issue isn't capital or demand, it's the insane Single Family regulations and the NIMBYs that defend the status quo to the death.
> Hiring a subcontractor is common business practice for many purposes.

It's common and (sort of) fine if the subcontractor has many different clients. Like a cleaning service or whatever who works for a ton of separate companies all needing to have their floors mopped.

But if the "subcontractor" only has one client? That reeks of escaping union or other labor agreements, illegal liability shielding, questionably legal tax / social security evasion schemes or other unethical behavior.
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I mean, the real GDP. I understand that the GDP does not include illegal activities. Even if not, money laundering is included in the GDP [1].

[1] The Relationship between Economic Growth and Money Laundering,
a Linear Regression Model
I carry a purse, but, because manliness requires it. I call it my "everyday tactical carry bag"[1].

[1]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0039N0JKQ
Good point. I forgot about the broken record that was gaming drivers.

I was specifically referring to AMD's investments in a unified computing stack (their equivalent of CUDA) which were supposed to bring them to computational parity in the AI/ML.
Readers don't need a heavy web browser at all.

Even for a minimal html, everyone uses a different "minimal" subset.
Imho being an expert doesn't allow you to be biased. I would say that the more expert you are in a topic the less biased your voice should be.
I think that this is a larger factor as to why Google search sucks these days than SEO is.
> I think it's easy to sell hating on GRRM

I'm not selling that, and neither is ACOUP.

He's merely evaluating historical realism according to the claims of the respective pieces of work. GRRM claims he set up to write a fictional version and a more "realistic" take on "medieval society"; and claims other depictions are like "Disneyland Middle Ages" -- his words! However, his take is actually less realistic than romantic epics like Lord of the Rings.

Other than that, I really enjoy both. It's a critique, not hatred :)
There's a bit of general dev snobbery to assume that data scientists can't code, or don't want to learn to code, or are able to understand so many other things but not a compiled language or a static type system.
One good thing with broadband is that the FCC is making companies publish service maps.

I've heard from multiple people that they've looked at the map and forced companies to make amendments when they claim to offer service in an area but don't actually.
Site is called noclip, and there is not a single Quake map >_>
Amazon won't find other people in this labor market--the service sector has been absolutely on fire with hiring, employment, and wage growth now and throughout the pandemic. Letting COVID rip has killed and disabled millions of workers and put tons of pressure on service jobs.
"Courtesy with customers is forced on them? My god!"

I worked in a call center for two years, for three different companies. Yes, (fake) courtesy is forced. The customers of one site were so difficult that courtesy was scripted (there were scripted interactions for frustrated and for rude customers)
Politeness and respect is sadly a service in the world of consumer-facing business, which means the amount of it that you get is going to correspond with how much you pay and how much the server is willing to give away for free.
If the argument is that politeness should be a free service, same as a bathroom and drinking water, then just be mindful of the quality of said bathroom and water relative to the amount the employees are being paid to take care of those things, and wonder how politeness would fall into it.
How is this different from having laws on the books that ensure all citizens are breaking the law at any given time? Doesn't feel like how laws are meant to be used