skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can take generations of working hard to break out. It took five generations for my family to break out of deep poverty into the upper middle class.
The timing is never certain, but recessions will always happen. So they are a certainty.
Thank you, good catch!

I was researching the provenance of a rare book just yesterday so this is particularly embarrassing
Exactly. Sex on TV used to be edgy and scandalous, but now it's just banal.

If it's not scandalous, not edgy, not meaningful to the story, and not even erotic, why would I want to watch it?

This is like being shocked that people report wanting less shoehorned-in product placement on TV
Is there any real need for ongoing development? Seems like GM has the features you need to get the work done.
It's not that crazy, e.g. the freeway system
That's just base salary. For Staff+ engineers making 600-700k at BigTech, it is probably still a block.

But for senior engineers at these companies, 200k is pretty competitive with the base salaries offered at those places
I just saw the nightmare fuel from u/em-bee (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013102) and I guess that would also be an option :D
Insane that the US government does not offer an API for it.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-economic-pe...

Here's what they think. Telling everyone to eat some charts while they're getting squeezed is not going to go over well.
I don’t think people mind the sex because of moral. What is bothering me is that I feel they use sex as a filler. To me it is one of the indicators that the story is probably lacking. Sort of like with the old Deathstalker movies where sex was used to try to distract you from how bad the movie was. People get that they are being distracted and react against it.
Surely the difference between a $1,000/month raise at your job and a government stipend of $1,000 is that to continue to receive the extra $1k from your employer you cannot drink and smoke yourself into oblivion? While with the government stipend you can, which I believe is what the commenter you are replying to was getting at.
At that size, you likely don't and shouldn't have wasteful committees and formal approval processes.

At that size, you probably have a certain pecking order of "who has the final say" and know everybody in the company. So the tech lead either dictates a technology, or somebody approaches them and makes their pitch as to why that technology should be used.

Or if the devs are trusted, they might have approval to try basically whatever technology they think will get things done best.
Ditching your commute qualified: worth –$40K/year in happiness
I forget what exactly caused me to stop visiting Slashdot. Probably the redesign was when I started finding other sites to visit. Same with Fark. Another big crappy redesign that drove users away. Then Reddit. When will sites learn?
Because corporations are not people.
I lived in Southeast Asia for a few years in my 20s - not teaching English, mainly just scraping together a living through random Internet bullshit, but I had lots of friends who taught English, and I've seen what a good springboard it can be for global travel if you want to live abroad.

But the main thing I'd say to anyone considering moving countries is that most countries aren't highly desired immigration destinations like the US or Western Europe, and thus most countries don't have strict and tightly-controlled immigration systems like Western countries do. If you want to go spend a few years in Thailand as a Westerner, it's laughably easy - just buy a flight and you'll probably figure it out once you're there, as your Western dollars/pounds/euros will go a looooong way.

(I apologize to any Thai people reading this; I know that digital nomads and other wealthy foreigners aren't universally appreciated in the countries they park up in. Am just sharing my own experience.)

I wouldn't want to live in that part of the world for the rest of my life, but the time I did spend travelling was the best thing I ever did and I have no regrets. I wrote about it here if anyone's interested:

https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/digital-nomad
They just received regulatory approval to acquire one of the largest game developer/publishers on the planet for $69b. They're probably feeling pretty invincible right now.
Every patient getting a different price should not be an issue, nothing is priced the same everywhere and there's plenty of stuff priced per client.

So the situation with the US is that, their spendings on healthcare is gigantic percentage of their GDP and Germany is a distant second with the rest of the Europe and the world trailing behind. US also doesn't have much to show for that spending, all the health and longevity metrics are worse than Europe. The defence is usually that Americans are paying for R&D and UK, Europe and the 3rd world are freeloaders. The counterargument is that, US relies heavily on immigrant researches that were trained in those countries those they foot some of the bill for the R&D and non-trivial costs of the healthcare in US is in administrative costs and not drug or machinery that was R&D'ed in US.

So we can argue over the issue all they long but the fact remains that there's lots of accounting differences so it's not possible to compare GDP number to GDP number and if you compare other metrics about the output of that GDP, the USA lags quite a bit behind countries with much lower GDP or GDP per capita.

US of course has it's own unique strengths, making it the dominant country of the world.
My parents until recently had a microwave made in 1984 that had that feature. It had a port for a temperature sensor probe that (I assume) you pushed into the food being microwaved.

I seem to recall that it didn't have a turntable, which is a pretty big negative, but probably required for a wired sensor.
How did you get 80%?
In general, it's just plain boring. The only information conveyed to us, the unfortunate viewers, is: "oh look, they are intimate now". If there's nothing else, please cut short once we understand they are going to have sex.

I also believe sex scenes could be really great at showing subtle personality traits or relationship between characters, a good example of "show, don't tell". But it's awfully under-exploited and often ends up as a cheap filler...
Was a Xiaomi Redmi.

I wouldn't recommend it for privacy, but them giving me the choice means manufacturers can do this if they want.
Megacorp Boondoggles sounds like a lucrative market.
I used to read them in my youth, what is the controversy?
Depends on whether your definition of "guaranteed income" is "unconditional payment" or "guarantee that your income will never fall below x amount".

IMO, the former does not make sense while the latter is more sensible and indeed a type of welfare.
> Of course "most watched event" is more complicated, but I'd still bet on the moon landing, soccer and the Olympic opening ceremonies making up the top, rather than war or terror attacks.

IMHO, that makes my point much stronger. If sports got higher ratings than the Moon landing, it's a clear indication we're in a bubble that inflates the importance of and interest in space exploration.
The Flâneur Accountant
Just Gen Z? Sex that doesn't add to the plot detracts from the plot.

Older generations had a hard time getting porn, so sex sold in stories, but with porn and erotica wildly available, a good, interesting story is much more compelling.
Oh please, this is just repackaged "Don't give poor people money, they'll just spend it on drugs" drivel.

Even if you're telling the truth, you're advocating a state where people suffer because you personally couldn't handle a tiny bit of welfare.
So you get incredible Nielsen ratings for an hour or two, then what?
Perhaps that’s the confounding variable that ruined everything then. When internet access wasn’t a given and updates couldn’t be signed with activation servers downgrades were still a viable option but now they’re dead and buried
whether that was the right choice will be seen in a 20 year timespan, given how soviet-like the direction EU has started taking looks like they might end up winners in this equation.
Proven? At what scale?
Whenever the topic of OS-bundled browsers comes up, I always wonder how Apple manages to get away with iOS (Maybe also macOS?) + Safari in the EU, especially considering the fact they even restrict the browser engine (on iOS).
It will be, eventually. Not ready to share it yet
Happy to hear! It's a short list made lengthy because of different providers, the details are in the readme: https://github.com/lucavallin/verto/tree/main#adding-a-new-p...
How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs
Thanks. You have ever so slightly improved my life. I should've done this earlier.
And no way to adjust the sound volume.

In a nutshell everything Instagram does!
% python3 --version
Python 3.11.6

% which python3
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3

% brew info python-typing-extensions
==> python-typing-extensions: stable 4.8.0 (bottled)
Brian Cantrill is a legend. We're gonna need a sequel to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4. Very happy to see them ship.
Having had a Ureteroscopy procedure, I can say it sure as hell doesn’t feel minimally invasive. It (well, post-op until they remove the stint) was almost as unpleasant as the kidney stone.
> Going to the office is no longer a necessity. It's a choice. And we wanted to know what, if anything, would cause people to voluntarily choose to go back to the office when the entire rest of the world (including the comfort of their bed) beckoned. And we're happy to report that the results are in: Mostly no.
In general you have to open the IDE from a terminal that is running in the context of the nix environment, and then everything will "just work" (except for issues sometimes with nix being readonly)
In 2020, the then president of Brazil said he would reveal which countries were the consumers of the illegally extracted wood from Amazonia. [0]

No further news were heard about it. There were even a startup that would use DNA to certify the origin of the wood, allowing traceability.

The "efforts to halt trade in illegal timber such as the EU Timber Regulation and the US Lacey Act" can greatly contribute to reduce this process: harvesting those trees isn't cheap, and without buyers paying large sums to aquire it, it becomes non-profitable.

[0] in Portuguese: https://exame.com/brasil/bolsonaro-diz-que-revelara-paises-q...
% which llm
/opt/homebrew/bin/llm
One is a rate of growth and the other is a rate of spending. It would be like comparing that you spend 8% of your income on food and that you got a 4% raise this year. The two numbers have nothing to do with each other other than using the same unit.
That’s a feature not a bug. In Seattle cars are a lot cheaper off they weigh 6k lb or more as they are tax exempt
If you want humans on Mars, first you need a self-sufficient logistics chain on Mars. We've made breathable Oxygen on Mars, and we should be able to make a Von Neuman probe to send, and set up that supply chain. Instead of having it manage itself, we simply make it remote control, and we don't have to worry about run-away issues.

We should be able to go anywhere there's large enough of a fraction of the resources required for human life. For instance, if there's NO phosphorus, instead of just a smaller percentage, it's no-go, unless we're willing to live off a stockpile imported from elsewhere.

So, ambient temperature and pressure, along with elemental composition, are really the only hard limits.
It's a UBI that interfaces with our current system and limited budgets.
Usually sanctions like these are not lifted in a matter of years, rather decades. Same will apply to Russia, we gave enough examples
The responses that completely ignore addiction and mental health need to die.

Can you address what the parent described about mental health and addiction?

Would you rather invest $10k into someone who has shown you they're reliable, or someone who has shown you they are unreliable?

Please answer both questions.
This is true of literally everything with a modem in it. Tracking via tower triangulation has been around for 20 years or longer. Also the entirety of your browsing history is tracked and logged by your ISP and also given to three letters agencies. And companies like Google give basically unrestricted access to all your data. Nothing is private anymore.
(I've just asked my cousin, and he says Google Assistant is not enabled)
I don't understand why you would compare total compensation at Oxide with base salary at other employers? Total compensation is the relevant figure across the board, and senior (as in, experienced, not some specific levels.fyi tier) engineers often make significantly more than $201,000.
This idea that static analysis, runtime checks, and automated tests are somehow in competition with each other is possibly the single worst outcome of the protracted dynamic vs static typing flamewar that the profession's been having for the past few decades.
> There's no such thing as “Voluntary Marxism”.

Sure there is. They're called communes.

> Its false to say all American communes have failed

Name one that hasn't failed.
Here:

https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/news/75-percent-of-exclus...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01189-3
It's an argument for doing the right things.
Banks are basically the ideal "this is just text, tables, and forms" website that html 4 was perfect for.
I do not know what would compel normal users, but clearly the point at which people change browsers is when they get a new machine. Get it to have good integration to get bookmarks off of one's Google account (there are APIs for that). Get it to have features that the techy people will want to use and deem it necessary to talk about them to their circle of non-techy friends. This is how I saw chrome take over - lots of techy people teaching their friends that chrome works better. My mom won't use anything but chrome unless I tell her otherwise, for instance.

As far as features that techy people appreciate, it has no tab containers, and it probably has too much telemetry for my taste, so I won't be recommending Edge over Chrome to anyone, I'll staunchly defend the dwindling marketshare of Firefox.

Also, marketing has got nothing to do with exploiting one dominant product to shove another down the users throat, that's just an evolution of a blind by-the-numbers guided marketing strategy that was A/B tested against all other solutions. Chrome didn't get to where it's at by doing this, they did so by doing actual marketing.
I have a lot of experience with hyper-converged infrastructure. "Miles ahead" how? Oxide's control plane barely competes on basic functionality that OpenStack had 13 years ago, let alone VMware which is miles ahead of OpenStack. The hope is that the simplicity in hardware and network/storage/compute architecture will drive dividends as they improve their control plane software.

I don't discount that it's a great achievement towards simplicity in the racking approach for rack-scale use cases (having lived through Dell VxRack's nonsense), but let's not kid ourselves that any DevOps team could manage this - do they understand BGP peering? Three phase power requirements? Cooling? ZFS? How about basic maintenance migrations ala Vmotion or DRS? (kidding! they can't do it)

If you don't think Oxide will require an ops team, you may be wish projecting.
> As a US taxpayer, I would love if Europe started carrying it's own weight militarily rather than having our taxes pay for European security.

Why does your government push Europe to pay more for the military? Why would that interest you? Why don't you just move out your army and stop caring about Europe?

> The Ukraine conflict at least seems to have woken some Europeans up to the fact that they need to contribute equally to NATO instead of just relying on the US.

So the Ukraine conflict pushed Europeans to do more of what the USA wants them to do? It looks like it was beneficial to the US, after all. Pure luck that it started so suddenly :)

> But there doesn't seem to be much of an appetite in Europe for trading social spending for defense spending. It's more fun to dunk on American healthcare and pretend that Putin just really wants to be buddies.

I think your army should just stop "protecting" those evil and condescending Europeans. Just leave Europe and let them suffer for their choices.

Not your continent, not your damn business.
families would not have one of the spouses or one of their young children claim a separate home as their primary residence, because they would have to actually live there (thus separating them from the rest of the family) for it to be their primary residence

> You don't say anything about residing in it.

of course I did, that is what primary residence means: the place in which you primarily reside. Obviously you cannot legally claim a place as your primary residence if it isn't.

whatever laws and regulations China has around that, they aren't the ones in effect here
Selecting for lack of ambition may have some negative consequences on your businesses' ambition.
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> Or do you really think Google is paying billions without stipulating that Apple can't offer a choice during setup?

If you do get a choice at startup then there is nothing to sell since there is no default. So yes, if Apple isn't selling the product then they don't get any money.

But Google paying Apple has nothing to do with it, Apple would make billions selling the default to Microsoft otherwise, they wouldn't give you a choice at startup. The only thing that would give you that choice is if laws ban Apple from selling the default search provider spot.

> I need you to square this circle for me. If Google were so confident that people would pick Google of their own volition, why would they bother spending billions?

Because otherwise Microsoft would spend those billions and now Bing would be the default. Defaults matters, but if you force the user to make a choice they would pick Google due to brand recognition.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/microsoft...
It also probably has the same caveat that shock wave lithotripsy does too, where if the stone travels below the pelvis, the procedure can’t be used.
I have no problem with "carrying Google's water" in this case. They have as much right to computing freedom as we do. They should totally get to enjoy that freedom on Apple devices. As should we.

This is completely independent from Google's surveillance capitalism problem. We should deal with that separately by turning personal information into massive liability. Society should make it so it costs them literal truckloads of money to know even a single bit of information about any human being. They should be scrambling to forget all about us the second we're done transacting with them.

> sell a mobile console appliance

Nope. I personally don't believe such things should be allowed to exist at all. Computers should always be real computers at all times. This "appliance" nonsense is everything that is wrong with computing today. Infinite potential, wasted.
> Ironically this looks like the realization of Richard Stallman's dream where users can help each other if something doesn't work.

How is it ironic?
> Direct cash transfer value is mostly proven from a social work/benefit perspective.

There is basically nothing in social sciences that are a consistently reproducible fact. “Mostly proven” is Orwellian double speak akin to “the science is settled”
Also note their use of 'marginally disabled' here. If you have a disability but are still considered 'able to work' you don't qualify for medicaid or medicare. Keeping health insurance becomes super important and ACA plans not only have very thin networks, but are often exceedingly stingy when it comes to approving specialty meds even if your doctor considers them medically necessary.
I tried pfSense recently but I didn't love configuring my network through the UI. An API or something would make it amazing. But maybe that's the DevOps in me talking. I've been mostly happy with VyOS since then.
Homelessness will boom even more (increasing land values and taxes while on a fixed income), and small businesses will close (old buildings have low prop tax, and with most buildings triple net, the landlords don’t pay the tax).
This is a false dichotomy: we should be aggressively dismantling both of these companies for having distortional market power.
Unsurprised that this got no response. I linger around groups that take this hardline view, and the overwhelming consensus there is that Covid is a permanently debilitating disease and that the aggregate damage the gp is talking about is a certainty.

This is posted on a lot of the social media that prays on people with medical anxiety. Nothing credible is ever provided.

There are two sides to every polarizing issue like this. In this case, the Covid doesn’t exist crowd are loud and the Covid irreparably damages you crowd are hunkered down in their homes and sticking to their in group.
Definitely Hoffman, definitely.
If you can sign a yearly bandwidth commit (not sure what the minimum bandwidth requirement is, but 1PB / year may be in the ballpark) - you will get prices that are extremely competitive (maybe like 90%+ off base list pricing?)
This point is understated. One of the main reasons cloud is so attractive to executives is the smaller devops footprint compared to a traditional on-premise deployment.

A solution as lightweight on operations as Oxide challenges this premise at its core and assuming the capex is not outrageously high, it might suddenly get very attractive.
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See zeldman's 2006 article about when "web 2.0" turned into business speak. It was cringeworthy then.

Not sure why ppl think this is some new insight: Slashdot was "web 2.0" well before "web 1.0" was a thing. We had a reading group that went deeply into this after the publication of Kurzweil's "Age of Spritual Machines" (1999). AI is the baby of humanity, it will be trained on the web, blah-bitty blah blah.

Crypto and AI having nothing to do with the platforms or the delivery style/agents. IMO, "web 3.0" == "mixed reality 1.0", so I am biased
I'm 38 and I agree, but I don't think it's that attitudes are changing. I think writing has just been on a general slow downhill slide for a long time, and badly written sexuality just naturally stands out more (it's more "cringey").

Part of bad writing is the mis-use or over-use of sex - if the cause of the trend is an increase in bad writing, then it doesn't mean we intrinsically dislike sex scenes now more than before.
“guaranteed income” or “guaranteed minimum income” is not “unconditional basic income”; the former is often a name for a means-tested program tha provides an income floor, but not necessarily a boost beyond that floor.

OTOH, nothing in the article or the linked article I checked suggests this is means tested, its background tested (currebt foster youth originally, former foster youth for the new expansion), self-selected (application required), and randomly selected from the eligible applicants.
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CustomerAI can now code and maintain serverless functions
Sex themes were already an established trope in spy fiction at that point. Books, television and movies.

That was a large part of the appeal of the genre. You're talking about a movie released a decade and a half after fans had been ogling Emma Peel.
I thought the U in UBI stands for Universal?