skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think Apple invented pinch-to-zoom? CMU Sensor Lab had it back in ’85. Steve Jobs coincidentally visited soon after and later claimed to have patented the technology for the iPhone. That was shown not to be true in the big Apple vs. Samsung patent case.

References available upon request.
It's not very expensive, though I can't give you a price since I live in a rental apartment. As for rust: not a concern with stainless steel, our kitchen is almost 20 years old and the steel countertop and sink still look immaculate. A bit of steel wool or polishing paste are enough to make it look like new. If it wasn't for the look I bet most kitchens would come with stainless steel countertops
Hopefully that's the only documentation of my awkward teenage LambdaMOO days still in existence...
What if I don't want the keyboard monitoring my clipboard? Nothing should be monitoring my clipboard. If I choose to paste from the clicked, at that point you can look at it, not before.
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> Every insurer exists as an invisible boundary where cost is not passed to others.

How does that affect issues like this where an increase in overall costs would reasonably be expected to apply to all insurers?

> On top of that, insurance is optional.

More than 90% of the population has health insurance, which is well over the majority required to bring about legislation.

> If there were a guarantee, it would be indistinguishable from Canada (and practically every other country's) single payer healthcare system.

That certainly isn't true. Serious problems with the US healthcare system include AMA lobbying to maintain a doctor shortage, various patent laws and FDA rules that limit competition and increase costs and a malicious lack of cost transparency. None of that would be improved merely by routing the premiums through the government.
Is your point that having a new consideration clause to enforceable employment contracts is as impossible as a person breathing underwater? Not that you think it's a bad idea, just that it can't be done?
Here's your nitpick, then. This is a site self-selected for people who like to read, who do a lot of reading professionally as well.

If you're communicating to be understood, principle #1 is "consider your audience, their backgrounds, interests and preferences".
It certainly looked that way from the stream, but the drogue chutes can be on much longer tethers, so maybe it was out of frame? If they were able to do it without the drogue, that’s pretty impressive.
How the system is supposed to work is that if they aren't getting paid what they think they should, then they leave that company and let it fail. This will open up opportunities for other companies that pay better and aren't shitty to take over from the broken company.
Probably depends on what’s in the water. Quoting the original research paper:

> A phenomenon known as “white dust” is associated with filling ultrasonic humidifiers with hard water; inhaling this white dust caused childhood lung injury (Daftary and Deterding, 2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Pt9Lf9JzQ
Michigan's power grid is currently 62% coal and gas, before all the additional load from EVs and heat pumps. It seems like a sudden influx will be needed. Maybe something like an inter-union peering agreement?

https://www.michigan.gov/mpsc/consumer/electricity/data-pric...
Since you don't seem to be getting the point, let me break it down to you - you seem to realize that a marriage needs regular in-person interaction to make it work. Also, co-founding a company is another relationship where regular in-person interaction is needed to make it work. YC data seems to indicate that.
Not just in late-1700s Europe.

I spent years pursuing a cure for chronic illness, and at one point I crossed paths with a homeopath of sorts. Among other things, she gave me a fairly strict diet, and I still remember one sentence: "No tomatoes. They're poisonous nightshades."
I might be making stuff up here but I do remember the same happening to I think png and jpg at least once, to some degree.

It just sounds like typical growing pains from using non-safe languages (C).

I get the appeal for browser speeds, but I really wish we as an industry could move away from methods that encourage the same mistakes we've been making since we started writing in C.

It feels like we're using self tapping screws to build a bridge instead of rivets because it's faster. And we can just keep adding more screws if the bridge starts to sag.
> You can use that for selection as well, tap somewhere else on the keyboard.

Doesn't appear to work.

What does work is pushing a little harder (i.e. "force touch") with the same finger/thumb that initiated the move-cursor-via-spacebar gesture.

Only problem there is that sometimes the forcetouch doesn't register (no matter how hard you pinch the screen), or is too trigger happy and starts selecting text when you only wanted to move the cursor.
Without dignifying any of this supremely silly drama, that's not an option that logically avails. Both Serbia and Croatia agree that one of them is getting this territory.
Only time I want straws is when the drink is too thick to drink by tipping the glass. Like chocolate with quite alot of cream as decoration or some smoothies. Soda with too much ice crush ... just have too much ice.

I find it quite strange for adults to drink with straws. It is a child thing in my world.
Hah, I recall very well when this was posted. It was my first introduction to the bus factor[1], and I still refer to it from time to time.

Segfault.org had a lot of fun jokes, just look at the front page from that time[2] which includes some future-predicting ones like "Netscape 6 Special Edition To Feature Extra Ads"[3] (not Mozilla as such but).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010616172138/http://segfault.o...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010619114515/http://segfault.o...
The fact that the automaker CEOs (and even POTUS) were putting out statements that they didn’t believe a strike was imminent only to turn around and see 150k workers authorize the strike says a bit about their mindset.
And it demonstrably costs jobs and shuts down businesses so there are fewer jobs.

Just because you don't like basic supply and demand market forces doesn't mean you can just wave your hand and make them disappear.
> If theyre smart they won't take this shit either.

What do you suppose the chances are of 100% of other countries imposing a similar tax on this type of food?

> Nice of you to let Americans sacrifice their health on $othercountry's behalf though.

Stop subsidizing it and you don't have to tax the subsidy back out.
"See, old computers really were pretty snappy!"

Most of the desktops I saw people using in 2004 had like 256-512MB of RAM, total. They've got 512MB of just graphics memory. And then on top of that its a GPU from 2010, so this isn't "an early 2000s machine" to assess what performance would have been like. Try running on a SiS graphics adapter on-board with 256MB of RAM, and I imagine their results would have been a bit different.

And then they've got a 480GB SSD? That's an absolute monster of a drive for 2004, practically nothing would have come close to the latency and throughput available on that drive. Even a 32GB SSD in 2004.

I always see people remark "wow look how snappy old computers were" when they're essentially built like $10,000 machines if you were to actually have those specs at that time.
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I think you're having a kneejerk reaction to the first sentence. Read the rest of the post, where I propose how workers could be protected by less controlling laws.
This is ultimately a study in bias and how we choose to take pictures of the same things.
Is it a common impression that consulting the kernel source has gotten more difficult since 5.x for getting the same knowledge?
What about positions that are considered negative value usually called "cost centers".

What about the fact that higher educated skilled workers are going to require bigger slices of the pie that will enviably reduce the money available to lower skilled workers? Even though this happens everywhere all the time people tend to act poorly when it is brought attention to.

I've found in my life that low skilled/entry people often are surprisingly unaware of just how much lower paid they are than people with college degrees/skills/experience. Usually when they find out they either quit or silent quit and have to be fired.

Not 100% disagreeing or anything, just pointing out its more complicated than it seems.
Each IRS audit agent annually recovers more than 10x their salary in previously unpaid taxes...

That money is used to pay for things that the government does. What exactly is your beef here?
Why do they need to be criminalized in the first place?
You're probably right. A the same time, companies with offices far away from urban zones would have a good rason to reconsider their RTO policies.

This all is academic talk though as there are no plans for either criminalizing long commutes or transferring their costs on employers.
Naw, you have no free time because you live in a food desert where you can't even walk to get groceries and you're stuck in your car for everything. You're totally dependent on a giant, expensive, resource-intensive monster. It would be nice to have options, but you're locked in.

(walking is VIM, the Escalade is IntelliJ)
thx all, yeah, suspected as much. I guess it's also their maiden trip, so maybe they'll tune up the route in the future. I think when Acela started in Northeast it took awhile before it was regularly up to speed
Again, this is surely not a new discovery for these people. TFA is obviously their biased explanation of events. But the behavior of the Croatian authorities could still be "surprising" if it was substantially different from past interactions. E.g. lack of formal written notice.
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I agree, styluses are great! Placing the cursor and highlighting text on e.g. a Nintendo DS is a lot easier than on an iPhone. (Everything else about typing on the DS sucked of course, but it's not like Nintendo put substantial effort into that experience.)

I do find that e.g. the Apple Pencil doesn't have a small enough tip for text selection to work well, it's really made for drawing.
Heh my bad... I like Reed butt not enough to know that.

Guess it doesn't matter now.
The New Colonialist Food Economy
While it is unclaimed de iure due to a border dispute, Croatia is currently asserting its de facto sovereignty over this land, as clearly demonstrated in this event, with Croatia enforcing its laws in the area and ignoring or rejecting any claims of sovereignty of Liberland.
I disagree. First, we need to separate anger and cynicism. Anger is an emotional response which is sometimes useful for motivating action, but I think the vast majority of anger in the world is unjustified and causes unnecessary suffering. Almost all the time, it is better not to respond with anger and instead take a rational, impartial approach to solving problems.

Cynicism is more of a general attitude toward other people -- being distrustful of everyone's motives and assuming they are motivated solely by greed and self-interest. Granted, sometimes people's motives are truly bad. But again, I think the vast majority of cynicism is toxic and poisons our ability to see the good in people. Most people believe that they are doing the right thing. What we really need is to look at the systems and incentives that cause them to behave the way that they do.
Didn't Ballmer do a cost-benefit study on this in '07 only to determine that if you struck Linus down then he would become more powerful than anyone could imagine?
The depth and detail that you experience when viewing these images stereoscopically is incredible… and then to consider that the shutters were not synchronised, that this was a complete fluke is just wild.

Thank you for pointing this out !
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That’s not what they did at all, it’s just a 3rd claim on the disputed land. They are leveraging the ambiguity on the Serbian-Croatian border caused by the Danube river’s changing flow. They are just trying to exploit a technicality, which is definitely entertaining.
I'm not really part of the Linux community so I feel a bit confused. It definitely seems like it's meant in jest, though at the time of writing, there probably would have been a real concern around business continuity.

Am I just wildly missing the joke?
So if I pay a bunch of guys to enforce "my property rights" over their house, then it is my house right? So now I'll force them to pay rent for it or my private thugs will evict them from "my home".

Is that what they want? That is how society worked before we had modern governments. The only way to prevent this is to have a government who tells me I can't just bring a bunch of thugs and take stuff from people.
The company Apple bought had functional modems that they were selling to a lot of customers, before the acquisition. So, Apple could just ship those. But they were always markedly inferior to what Qualcomm had, and those customers were willing to take the lower quality for much lower price.

Apple thought that they had designed and built their own CPUs, GPUs, etc... so they could easily take this inferior product and turn it into something that was at least as good as what Qualcomm has. They were wrong. The problems they're trying to solve are partly patent encumbered, but only partly. It turns out that the same ecosystem advantages that Apple enjoys around some of their products are also the same effects that protect Qualcomm from competitors, and even as big as Apple is, they still can't break down those ecosystem barriers.

Since Apple is not willing to ship a markedly inferior product, that means they're stuck using Qualcomm modems, until their internal teams can deliver on what they promised. If they can deliver.
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> Makes you think about the sort of progress in worker protection that was made since then. But also this kind of story reveals how people are still ready to profiteer from such deadly practices, if given the opportunity.

It’s not just people “profiteering” though? The story mentions workers standing at Home Depot. These are ordinary homeowners hiring these shops to custom cut countertops for them. It’s not some mega-corp mass-manufacturing counter tops.

And now half the people who should be trying to put a stop to it are instead talking about how we need low skill, low education foreign workers that can easily be exploited to keep consumer prices low.
Also, it's laughable to talk about power consumption when the PC is controlling an industrial system that's using many kW or even MW of power. At that level, 10W vs 100W is noise.
From my understanding the POTS "sidetone" was a hack around handsets/headsets that too effectively blocked other sounds. What people really want are "transparent" headsets that don't block too many other sounds in the space the person occupies, or block only the "wrong" sounds.

I've watched enough musicians do sound checks to know that monitors are often more for hearing other parts of the band for coordination. Common requests are to lower the volume on their own instruments or eliminate their own instruments/voice from the mix in their monitor and stronger highlight their rhythm section or harmonies. But of course it varies heavily from artist to artist (which is why soundchecks exist and can take a lot of time, no single solution for everyone).

While television studios have had all sorts of reference monitors, no one ever called film and movie studios "unprofessional" and they still call their playback/reference monitors "dailies" for a lot of good reasons, even now that they aren't shooting on actual film anymore and they don't need to wait for film prints at the end of the shooting day anymore.

It's not unprofessional to want to avoid immediate, rough feedback and prefer an executive summary at the end of the day, even if the technology exists to do things immediately.

> The good news for you is the ability to turn that feature off! So what's the complaint?

Good news, there's an entire linked article here that includes many of the complaints. Partial, poor tl;dr: there is a rising mental health battle happening because of such "default features" of constant self-camera monitoring. The article here includes several strong reasons it should make more sense to default these features to off and let people opt-in to them rather than opt-out. General mental health and wellbeing is a good enough reason to change defaults. Also, in the comment you replied to with sarcasm, I added the complaints that even if these default on features weren't deleterious to mental health, they are distractions that often impact people's focus and attention spans in meetings. I also think that's a strong reason to default these features off, though it is still a lesser reason than the mental health issues.
Yas! Paper trails and more paper trails. Follow the money and handoffs
That's part of what I worry about, because I talk with musicians, and the impression they give me is that they are basically making music to try to get "picked as the winner."

IE: We look at what's doing well on the Spotify/iTunes/YouTube/ect... lists and then make our next single look our sound toward what will make it on a high ref list, or we pay someone to do something for us that will get us on a high ref list. Apparently, the first one from their perspective was "kind" of working, and the second worked much better.
So is (almost) all of Europe. Only four countries besides the US actually meet their obligations to fund NATO, and though they've given more by GDP than the US to Ukraine, it isn't by much.
I have really tried many different tools since 2020 and none of those worked as well as an in-person whiteboard sessions with 3-4 colleagues.
Ah, I had assumed that was base pay + role adjustment and not with all the other normal allowances, my comparison to an O-8 was on base pay alone.

I think with that information my point still holds. I am taking and easy role and living at the edge of a major metro area(so lower cost of living) and pulling in 200k. With “sea pay” I assume you are on boats for a time? Also all the strict regimentation that comes with the military jobs(the UCMJ is a lot stricter than regular law). The military can’t pay as well as civilian jobs they need to pay significantly higher because they are asking for significantly more.

For instance would you have been as willing to walk away from the role if it was paying 500k? If you were then maybe you just hated the life but given how many people I knew in ROTC who admitted they joined solely out of financial considerations, I doubt a pay difference like that wouldn’t significantly affect retention rates and recruitment
Tomatoes aren't exactly the nicest looking of plants either.
Why is that how the ‘system is supposed to work’? Who decided that?
The fact that such a simple endpoint-only control loop (mostly) just works is one of the most amazing parts of the Internet to me.

Still, it has its limits – the most obvious one to me is mentioned in the article: The optimal buffer size for each hop that TCP (or similarly flow-controlled traffic) traverses depends on the average delay and bandwidth, but these are per-flow quantities which an intermediate router can't properly estimate in principle.

I've played around with Linux's excellent fq_codel a bit with promising results in the past, but ultimately, that's not a solution in the spirit of the Internet (dumb routers, smart endpoints) since it depends on looking at individual flows, something routers aren't really supposed to have to do.

I really hope that something like Google's BBR will become the de-facto TCP congestion control algorithm in the end.
It's obligatory to note this when it comes up: tomatoes are in the nightshade [1] family. The greens and fruits of many nightshades are poisonous.

The obvious kinship is probably best demonstrated visually.

The common tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gc5_tomatoes.jpg

The currant tomato, also edible and close wild relative of the tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botanisk_tidsskrif...

Belladonna, toxic (Atropa belladonna): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atropa_belladonna_...

Datura, toxic (Datura stramonium): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datura_stramonium_...

Mandrake greens and flowers, toxic (Mandragora autumnalis): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mandragora_autumna...

Mandrake fruit, toxic: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mandragora_autumna...

I have only a layman's interest in botany so I lack the vocabulary to describe it well. But a tomato plant has the overall structure of a datura plant, bushy, similar stalks, similar pattern. The leaves look a lot like belladonna, datura or mandrake. The flowers look like diminutive mandrake flowers. The fruit looks a lot like mandrake fruit.

If I had never heard of tomatoes, the close family resemblance would make me very reluctant to eat one.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae
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That system only exists in libertarian dreams.

In reality new companies don't just pop up out of nothing overnight. And especially in the US, where labor protections are nearly non-existent compared to the rest of the developed world, the new companies tend to he worse than the ones before them. See: gig economy. See: Tesla's record with unions.
Let me introduce you to body language, tone, facial expressions and personal energy, which are simply not captured in slack or zoom or phone calls.
That's cute, it should read" "opt"-"out" "
Nobody wants a long commute. You know why people do it? Obviously you can think of it if you try for five seconds. Criminalizing commuting blames the victim of the housing crisis.

Here’s a less cruel and weird law that totally solves the problem. When a city permits a company to build a place for a person to work (an office seat for example or a factory job) the city must also permit a house or apartment. Ya know so the person who works there can live there without displacing someone else. Because the guy with the shiny new job can afford an expensive place to live. You know who can’t? The bus driver who hasn’t had a raise in ten years. The librarian. The school teacher. The grocery store checker. They all get pushed further and further away. You think they like waking up at five to get to work by 8?

People commute to Mountain View CA because the city added 30,000 jobs and zero new houses for a decade. Had the city been forced by law to permit the housing it 100% would have gotten built. There was space, there were plans, there were requests. The city did not permit the construction. If you don’t believe me see the vacant lot at 1601 Bayshore pkwy. Zoned for hotel, a vacant muddy lot because nobody wants or needs a hotel there. You know what people want and need? A 50 story dense condo building. You know why it doesn’t exist? Because it is not permitted by the city. (by the way permit is a fun word. Consider for a few moments the two meanings that apply in this case and how they collapse into one)

But never mind, blame the victims.
Fine. So advocate for fixing OSHA instead of revamping the entire health care system.
I didn't say that Indian sources are biased.

I said the ones that I found seem biased because they bring in a lot of clear opinion into the matter.

Consider the same is true about the US - if you try to find information and land on FOX News and the Wall Street Journal Opinion page, you will see a lot of bias.

I see the same with the Indian news stories I find. I can see the bias.

Is there a Indian equivalent Reuters or Associated Press that has data on internal opinions on Khalistan?