skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where did I express any distaste for actually descriptive terms like “bourgeoisie”?

Who do you think the elite in a capitalist society are? “Elite” is accurate and descriptive, and more common in casual conversation, than, e.g., “haut bourgeoisie”.

(And “bourgeoisie” alone is different, as it includes the petit bourgeoisie, who are both less of an elite, though still one compared to the proletariat, and much less significant in terms of the thing being discussed, control of commercial real-estate.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management
In my experience, just doing work you are told to do is the surest path to burnout (at least for me). If I am allowed to pick an area I concentrate on, I remain engaged and excited about the project and spend more hours per week on it. From manager's POV is that so bad?
Yeah maybe, but maybe its helpful to think what the holders of commercial real estate debt do to avoid the catastrophe? Surely, they are not just sitting and waiting. The offices are empty. The companies are doing just fine. There need to be external pressures applied to bring people back to the offices, I'd think.
But they are turning currency-controlled Chinese Yuan/Renminbi into US$.

Surely that's worth losing a few percent on each sale?

Anyways, just bought some bike lights from there for the first time that were cheaper than aliexpress (I buy quite a few to donate to my bike co-op).

Got a too-good-to-refuse offer at payment window for 150 6" zip ties for CAD$1.79.

Impressed that they offer a $5 credit if my order arrives after 11 calendar days.

Wouldn't touch the app though.
The floating point behavior is the obvious part, the === operator is the head-scratcher.
Most of my unemployed friends have taken 10 months or longer to find employment. Some are even local in California where it seems like there should be more opportunities than seeking remote only.
Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867.
Their page is unclear and slow as hell, while they claim they're clean and superfadt. So, bullshit detector ernt over the scale for a lot of people.
Setting up a global leader key for macOS with Hammerspoon
Did you read the study you linked? "face masks did not significantly impair basic language processing ability" is right there in the abstract.

Besides, that's the best you can do? "We found that children have a harder time discerning happy masked faces from angry masked faces?" And that's the most concrete harm you could come up with?

My dude. Children died. Hundreds of thousands have a lifetime disability now.

I'm not talking about masking at home, or even in elementary schools. Those settings can be covered with air exchange and filtration. If American adults actually cared about children (and people with disabilities), they'd wear real masks in airports and on public transit and in crowds.
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Many don't see this way. His criticisms were funny and on point to boot ;)
It's not though, it's simply another option in the market. More options are always better than fewer. No one is forcing anyone to take these gigs, and the relationship between gig provider and worker is frankly none of anyone else's business so long as it's consensual. There is none of your air or water being contaminated.
Prefer svelte/kit. Simple and quick and just generates quite simple websites you might have written by hand about 10 years ago. And Rich Harris seems to be a decent guy.
> Very soon the judge is going to just say "send over your CSV file of all the cases with identical facts".

Until a couple people challenge the court case and the 1000-case lawyer looks like a crook. Remember that the CSV doesn’t actually include the required information to fight a case in court, just enough to win a default judgment. The penalty for illegal debt collection is severe and they’re a lawyer standing in front of a judge, they can’t exactly hide from the law here.
Municipal and government workers are different, as they can always demand whatever they want because they don't have competition and don't need to turn a profit so you're stuck with them whether you like it or not. What else are you gonna do, get your permit from another country's government? The government's monopoly is the real leverage here.
It’s a well known quote attributed to Henry Kissinger and others.

A professor of mine who did some entrepreneurship used to say academics are pussies in politics compared to industry people.
"On the side of the angels" !== "angels". Just means tending to have the right motives.

But at any rate the hosted product and the open source code are orthogonal, right?

You can't use one to guide your opinion of the other. This is the point I am making: we are interchangeable consumers, and yet we invest emotional energy in the pretence that we are not.

Nobody in their right mind would believe that Coca-Cola would prefer you on some emotional level not to be a Pepsi drinker. And yet we, as consumers, allow brand interpretations (Coca-Cola is classic and Christmas, Pepsi's logo looks like an obese person's belly) to gain emotional strength; we extend our personal identities with brand loyalty.

I am slightly late to this party; I perhaps used to think that brand loyalty in customers was something that was meaningfully measured and acted on, and I suspect until the mid-eighties it was, to some extent. But companies are beholden so completely to the whims of their shareholders, or worse their private equity owners, that it's impossible to believe that the continued happiness of customers matters much.

(Nothing to me underscores this more than people overexerting themselves to find positive things to say about Apple's Vision Pro launch, which was so terrifyingly dystopian and anti-human that it made me feel physically sick as a long-term Apple customer, and yet I type this on a Macbook that I would generally say is an object I emotionally value using!)
microsoft has been trying to remake their public image to court the os devs they previously shunned

google hasn't needed to market themselves like that

feeling any sort of 'trust' towards either, outside the context of something like a legitimate business contract, seems to me like a media literacy problem
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What do you mean it 'doesn't work'? I use Preview to delete pages, convert to black and white, annotate (redact, add signature, circle, highlight) on PDFs weekly.
I've always found it interesting that XProtect is completely invisible to the average user, whereas MS Defender is very much in your face (at least it was last time I used Windows). I suppose it's to quietly reinforce the narrative that Macs "don't get malware".

If they do, but you never know about it before its dealt with, to the average user it's as good as it never having happened. Unless of course, damage has been done/data stolen/etc - in which case I suppose the user never finds out?

I really wouldn't mind a UI for XProtect buried somewhere deep in the settings.
Well, unconditional love does originate from the favorable treats you mentioned, but its also the stories you had with them, your experiences, your ups and downs. Everything that made your life a little more worthwhile by simply standing by your side. Past a point, i believe it is impossible to end that relationship voluntarily, for both sides.

If it was only because for who they are, I dont think your love for them would continue nor evolve, it would be a simple materialistic jealousy, never making it past conditions (hence, unconditional love).
Aren't all of those political problems caused by lack of civic engagement and general understanding of the population putting politicians into power?

It's not a real problem so much as an artificial one.
Question for the community: we're building a "talent pool" on top of our mass psychometric testing SaaS (hrpotentials.com). Our key thing is testing cognitive ability(ie ability to learn and problem solve) with computer generated tests, remotely.

Anyway: would you join such a talent pool (and submit yourself to free testing that takes an hour)?

We know it works in less in-demand fields as a way for employers to more objecitevly rate candidates. But the question is, if we can turn it into a tool for employment-seekers to get better opportunities.
The author's enthusiasm is infectious and you can just feel how excited he is when the House of Leaves connections become more clear.
The state of the art in this area is that training and studies are almost as trustworthy as intuition.
Have we considered not even attempting Skinnerian behavioral modification on children?

The feedback already exists in the outcomes of the child's actions, for example, their grades in school. Why do we need to add additional praise or blame on top of the existing feedback? The scores are what they are, and the child can react to them as they are, interpret them at face value.

Of course children can be guided and/or pushed to improve their performance, but that involves advice and instruction, not praise and blame. If you want to help a child to do better at, say, math, isn't it better to do some math with them rather than doling out praise or blame and then sending them off to their room with no other effort from the parent? How about demonstrating to them that effort leads to improvement?
The computer itself was from 2011, and it was last used in 2021.
> Most Western instruments produce “harmonic” sounds that, when analyzed as Fourier described, have relatively strong lower overtones f, 2f, 3f, 4f. The overtones of several of these sounds will match when their fundamental frequencies are related by simple whole-number ratios.

I've always had problems with existing consonance theories along these lines, probably out of ignorance. I believe that consonance probably has something to do with partial relationships. But it always has seemed the existing theory regarding consonance and partials is half baked at best.

Harmonic sounds have partials at f, 2f, 3f, 4f, and so on. So let's take C and G, a perfect fifth. Will say f = C. So C's sawtooth has partials of

f 2f 3f 4f 5f 6f ...

G, at a perfect fifth, is 3/2 the frequency of C. So it has partials at

3/2f 3f 9/2f 6f 15/2f 9f 21/2f 12f ...

The only overlaps are 3f, 6f, 9f, 12f. That's pretty thin gruel given how fast these partials drop of in amplitude (for a sawtooth, a partial at xf drops off as 1/x)

Now consider E, a major 3 and also considered highly consonant. This is 5/4. So we have

5/4 5/2 15/4 5 25/4 15/2 35/4 10 ...

That's an overlap of just 5, 10, ... with a super fast dropoff.

Now consider Eb, a minor 3 and also consonant. This is, wait, Eb can't be approximated in rational values at all, um....

And if you just have sine waves, rather than sawtooth or whatnot, they consist of a single partial so there's never any overlap -- you're back to the pythagorean square 1.
Saudi Arabia Is Here, and the FGC Didn’t Have the Courage Either
Thank you! I’ve seen Astro referenced and praised many times, gone to the homepage, and clicked around, etc.

That second link is the only one I’ve seen that explains what Astro actually does.
Do you have some sources? I'm interested in this topic as there is also asbestos in my house.
As a daily vscode user, I can report that it doesn’t have my mindshare, I’ve just adopted a realism wrt Microsoft’s state sanctioned monopoly and need to get work done. It’s convenient only because msft can make it inconvenient not to use it. My feeling is more Stockholm Syndrome than one of msft earning my “mindshare.”
He just wishes that those pesky redwoods were all gone
Haha, let's delve into the humanities core: what is evil?

Money is the root of all evil! Specifically, money is means where whatever evil was done to achieve some amassing of "wealth", once converted successfully into "money" it is washed of its sins and passed onward to successive generations with no exposure. This is a core of money combined with the limited liability corporation, the other major sociopath-washing mechanism of capitalism.

Examples:

- southern chattel slavery

- oil/gas earnings with global warming

- cigarette industry

- prohibition-era criminal organizations, or really any outright organized criminals that manage to launder their money successfully

- Chinese and Russian oligarchs exfiltrating their fortunes to the West

The core component to the concept of money at the level of the elite is ethical and moral laundering.
Elites are fundamentally people who have power over you. Your boss has power over you.
Maybe the salaries are down and there is higher competitiveness between candidates because people are able to work remotely from low cost of living countries? I'd be happy to take fully remote staff eng/tech lead for 140k USD, because in my country I can make half of it for the same position
> Your experiences are too similar to what I've seen. I don't think the public preconception has yet to realize this is what reality if looking like for many people rather than the headlines about no-recession, jobs everywhere, low unemployment.

Both can be true. Many people can have a reality of not being able to find buyers for remote work performed on computers. And the data indicating non remote work, possibly not performed on computers is widely available (albeit at an undesirable pay to quality of life ratio for those in the former category).
I'm on mobile, too lazy to make it into a userscript.
If I am ever forced into office, I will look very productive as I update my resume, schedule interviews and spend hours on https://leetcode.com/ every day! The butts-in-seats managers will probably want to promote me by the time I hand in my two weeks notice.
Thanks for sharing.

I don't agree with the take away. My parents told me my whole life "don't do drugs", and so I didn't. And no one in the family was into drugs.

What's my point? Not sure. I guess I also hate lies with a passion, and additionally there's multiple ways to get the outcome of not getting your kids to do X. I don't know what it is, but some kids when you tell them "don't do X", they want to do X. I guess you and I, luckily, aren't like that, and I suspect maybe that's a large part of why your parents "don't smoke" thing had an affect on you.
> Why would I need to know their names?

Why would you need to _communicate about programming_? Because it's a core part of your job...

> That's great if you have prioritized trivia

Every interview question can be characterized as trivia if you squint hard enough.
The metric for intelligence has been the ability to retain information, and show such ability by regurgitating memorized data.

The metric became the target, and the regurgitated data became the goal, and not the memorization or rationalization that was intended. Data over substance, and recognition.

We learn about the wars, and their consequence in order to learn from the events. We do not learn about wars so that each of us can spit out meaningless numbers such as the date of the war, what route was taken, and who was fighting. The why is more important than the where. The How is more important than the when.
Why even call it a team then, and what would be the point of stand-ups for such a group?
At the civilian level. Who knows what exists out there... :|
A good idea, did it.
I would say the line between malware and most mdm packages is up for debate
No one wants to believe this. But it is absolutely true: there is no healthcare system that can save everyone forever.

The growing assortment of treatments to combat issues that arise naturally through aging gave rise to the expectation that we can live longer. Technically, that’s true, but the collective cost of care starts to go exponential. At some point, we must acknowledge that we will go bankrupt trying to save everyone.

I wish there was a way for people to check out before they become such a burden on society. Until then, we had better make peace with the reality that “death panels” are choosing for us, because we as a civilization can’t afford for everyone to live their longest possible life.
That could work except there's just as much BS in devops as in dev. The fact that this job title exists at all to me is a symptom of the same problem.
Paul Bourke's website is a fantastic resource for understanding all types of image projections and related conversions. There's a lot of good information there, written very accessibly.

I wrote a tool a few years back for stitching fisheye images together, and his website was by far the best introduction for wrapping my head around the problem.
is there away to run this on AWS instead.

we were looking to explore Llama2 for internal use
As someone that skated through 2008 employed, this seems worse to me. I've seen people that are good take a year to get a job. Some even left willingly last year only to faceplant into the current situation.
Why is Microsoft Evil?
Microsoft is often described as evil on HN.

What has Microsoft done to deserve being labeled as evil?
If you look at a 30 year old language and realise that most of the progress in mainstream language design over the same time period has come from copying it’s features, at what point do you start to think it might be worth learning?
That's an interesting point, I guess the whole thing is rooted in not wanting to communicate to kids that their success is the result of innate, immutable talent. But if the kid didn't actually work hard, and you praise their hard work, you're still kind of communicating that.
These arguments are painting a bike shed: the attack surface is not zero but it's still dramatically reduced and controlled. Nobody said anything about "letting someone I don't trust into the server behind the firewall" which of course is (cough) "not best practice."

Also, containers mean that one user can make changes (install/upgrade software, etc) and not adversely affect another user (incl their security stance).
Its really disturbing how whiney Europeans (I assume you are) are with their superiority complexes.

I don't even know why I'm replying to you, but here we go

So I should ditch all this and rely on cloud services I guess. Cloud services are hosted in magic land where they don't use any power, right? If you use any cloud services, you are just as bad as me.

I have 17kw of solar on the roof. As we type this, I'm exporting 10kw of power back to the grid. I generate enough solar to completely cover all of my electricity usage, and during the night when I'm pulling from the grid, my power plan is sourced 100% from wind or solar.

All of this is my hobby, but also helps me learn skills for my job. That job is 100% work from home, which means I don't drive pretty much at all. I'm sorry my F150 offends you, which has less than 10,000 miles on the clock despite being 5 years old. That same F150 also gets better miles per gallon than a lot of regular cars on the road. My wifes Ford Escape (A compact "SUV" if you can call it that" gets worse milage than my truck. But I'm sure if you saw a Ford Escape, you'd be fine with it right?

Where in the post did I say how much power all this uses? You said "power... so much power" yet you don't even know how much power it uses...

I won't even go into detail how I've removed over 1000sqft of concrete on my property, how I've planted an 800sqft native wildflower meadow, have a bat house, use rainwater for plants, etc etc. But no I'm just such a terrible American. Grow up.
streamable.com just removed a random video of mine for “community guidelines”

I use the site to save random Twitter and Youtube videos. They aren’t publicly shared. Kind of disheartening to see a random video removed without knowing which one. And all for paying $108/year for a simple convenience.

Definitely downloading all of them and canceling.
At conferences and the like I've always been super-impressed by the Google folks I've spoke with and listened to. But it's also my understanding that Google doesn't let just anyone "out in the wild" so I assume I'm pretty much seeing one end of the barbell (or probably a smallish slice of it).
So the public access one isn't private and secure?
I see lots of employers who are not picky. Hotels, grocery stores, hospitals, warehouses, construction crews, transportation businesses, etc.

Employers in one sector being picky is not evidence of all employers being picky.
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Yes, the down syndrome kids may find a job, but for same reason they struggled to go far in school, they will also struggle to go far in the workplace. This isn't surprising.

But it is faulty to think that going to college will cure what ails them. Statistically, most people who are capable of graduating from college do. Everyone capable of graduating from high school does. Those who fall short, so to speak, were held back due to limitations of themselves. The same limitations that hold them back throughout life.

As before, incomes have held stagnant. There is no premium. If you're born a top performer, it doesn't really matter what exactly you do – the numbers show that you have always been a top earner. College didn't change that. If you're born with down syndrome, it again doesn't matter what you do – the numbers show that you have always been a bottom earner.
> The smooth brained shitheads ran with their version of "lab leak" and poisoned all discussion of it. They were of course egged on by right wing opportunists around the world to push their favorite bullshit narratives.

Actually there was a concerted effort by high ups in the NIH to conflate the two, not right wing opportunists.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-suppress...

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/19/covid-origin-nih-emails/
Flashbacks to me waiting for 2Pac - Changes to come on so I could hit the record button on the tape deck.
Let me tell you how all this works: you see, Team America is funded by the corporations, so they fight for the corporations... while they sit in their corporation buildings... and they're all corporation-y... and they make lots of money!
Shareholders, local/state governments that are basically in the grip of developers and real estate investors/landlords, Wall Street, cocktail parties, (bad) middle managers rioting, the feeling that if your underlings have all the freedoms you have they're less like underlings and more like peers, the usual class warfare stuff.
I don't. I gave up. It became an impossible task for me due to the lack of feedback in any possible action I take. I feel like I'm playing tennis alone in the court.
Well, they were responding to a claim that:
"food you get in Whole Foods is at best similar to what you find in a petrol station in Europe"

which is quite absurd. I'm yet to find such gas station in any European country and I've been to at least half of them. Also Whole Foods seems to be quite a bit average even when compared to European supermarkets in most countries.
Considering that many countries take a copying fee -- which is intended to cover lost revenue from exactly this use case -- for cassettes, harddrives and other storage media, yes yes it should.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
If they knew the main reason they have to shell out hundreds of dollars to upgrade their computers and phones is because of lazy/shoddy developers they would care.
I've seen some interest on HN for the Roman Kingdom, Republic and Empire.

For a very interesting history of Rome, from the 2 foundation myths (Romulus vs Aeneas) until the end of the "Pax Romana", I strongly suggest the book "SPQR", by Mary Beard.

She is a very respected scholar on Ancient Rome and she has a lot of documentaries on Youtube.

I just started the famous "Decline and fall of the Roman Empire", by Edward Gibbons, covering the period after the SPQR book. Still in the beginning, to early for conclusions.
I do it, come arrest me.
I'd download a petrol car too if I could - Come at me tomato soup throwers!