skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a solid tech approach too. I'm surprised there isn't more of this around GHA. It really feels like Microsoft calibrated exactly good enough, yet everyone seems to have their own piles of workarounds in published actions, even bigger piles in their infra, and then some more in the workflow yamls themselves, to get everything actually workings, especially when you need to support GHA runners, self-hosted runners, ARC runners, `act` runners, etc. If they can foster an OSS community around easy self-hosted, and then also offer a hosted runners product that is priced well. I'd pay 'em.
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Your choice using: 3270, Eclipse IDE or Visual Studio Code.
We need to take a serious step back as a society to declutter our digital lives. It’s why I want beeper to succeed so badly. It’s become atrociously difficult to just transmit text, it never needed to become this bloated of an experience.
> In a lot of urban locations, it is not legal to have a residence that is not connected to the grid.

Woah, I didn't know this. In any case, surely it's legal to have grid service to the house and simply not use it.

> I would not put it past the grid provider to come up with a minimum monthly bill

My electric company (a community owned co-op) has done this for many years. You pay $15/mo no matter what. Your power usage is billed on top of that.
Some of it is mispricing.

We’re getting the kids version of market pricing, but when you give people real market pricing without cross-subsidization, they tend to get confused/angry/bankrupt.

I still think they could do real-time pricing with some kind of cap that gets balanced out amongst all users, but the uptake still may not be there. It averages out for those that treat it as noise and still not a lot of equipment out there to take advantage of it at the personal residential level.
This is what allspice.io does
You can use Fountain

https://fountain.io
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_b...

Plenty of weirdly coincidental falls from windows:

> Ravil Maganov, September 1 2022, reportedly hospitalised for heart problems and depression, then "fell out of a window"

> Grigory Kochenov, December 7 2022, reportedly fell to his death from his balcony while officials from the Investigative Committee executed a search warrant for his apartment

> Dmitriy Zelenov, December 9 2022, reportedly felt ill and fell over a railing and hit his head, later died in hospital without regaining consciousness

> Pavel Antov, December 24 2022, fell out of window from Hotel Sai International

> Marina Yankina, February 16 2023, found dead after falling from a window on the 16th-floor of a high-rise building.

> Artyom Bartenev, June 8 2023, found dead after falling 12 stories from his apartment window.

> Kristina Baikova, June 23 2023, fell off her apartment at the 11th floor; circumstances of the incident have not yet been clarified.
That's in every EU country for tax and social security reasons, they want you to also be a tax resident there because that dicatates your tax, labor laws and employee benefits meaning it's familiar and predictable for the company.

There's no EU wide citizenship, employee regulations and tax liability for employees but are local for each country. They don't want you earning money in one country but spemding it and taxing it in another.

This is where the EU is weaker than the US and will keep missing the mark in software.
We are hearing about tech layoffs in some of the largest "tech" companies, but I'm not sure that we're seeing that in the many companies where tech serves the needs of the business.
There are certainly complicated physiological effects caused by fasting however the heterogeneity and limited number of studies make it difficult to draw definitive conclusions

Mental deficits are associated with fasting across a review of a variety of studies

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34595721/

Fasting can also cause other mental issues:
"Additionally, fasting was found to be associated with alterations in mood, including worsened mood, heightened irritability, difficulties concentrating, and increased fatigue, as well as an increase in depressive score in mentally healthy humans"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11639-1

All in all it remains highly suspect that fasting has anything but long term and short term negative effects. As I said in another comment it makes sense to me that so called "health fasting" tends to be more common among people who are already vulnerable and at risk for disordered eating. I will continue to spread awareness about the link between "health fasting" (as well as other health and diet based fads) and actual life threatening eating disorders.

There is a huge lack of research into eating disorders generally and even less research into the interaction of health fads and eating disorders. I encourage everyone to advocate and support any and all research in this area to combat misinformation spread by "health" gurus and companies looking to make a quick buck.
Docker changed to this system long ago AFAIK
Your home internet and your cellular provider can “attest” you make a monthly payment - right now, the scarcity of ipv4 and cell phone numbers often serve this purpose. A government agency or bank can attest you’re a real person. A hardware manufacturer can attest you purchased a device. A PGP style web-of-trust can show other people, who also own scarce resources and they may trust indirectly, also think you’re real.

Blockchain may be largely over-hyped, but from this bubble I think important research in zero-knowledge proofs and trust-less systems will one day lead to a solution to this that is private and decentralized, rather than fully trackable and run by mega-corps.
> 36, no skills, no job

> I want to make a similar salary.

Zero chance this will happen, buddy.
I agree that inequality is not a good thing, but a large part of the outrage is just the fact that it seems unfair.

We can read articles like this, but there are also interesting facts like how a huge percentage of poor Americans have a problem with obesity, something only kings and aristocracy could suffer from just a handful of generations ago. Or die from overdoses (they have free resources to spend on recreational drugs).

Our poor people have transcended the traditional problems of poor people, they are no longer dying from starvation but now obesity. They don’t die of overwork but from recreational abuse of dangerous substances. I don’t disagree with anything in the article but it is worth looking at from a historical perspective.

I think my point is that yes things are unequal, but it’s also worth remembering how much the floor has been raised as well. I would prefer to try continuing to raise the floor rather than lowering the ceiling.
I honestly can't tell, is this real or a comedy sketch?
It is false that working for the 4th largest company in the world does not give your resume an advantage?

What evidence will you present in support of this conclusion?
Not sure I share this opinion, I game on a combination of Linux w/ a Windows 11 VM every day. I'm only really aware of two titles that are actively user-hostile with anti-cheat: Rainbow Six Siege and Valorant. Thankfully I'm not interested in playing either of those. I definitely will not run them, out of principle, unless they reverse their stance on considering a VM to be cheating.

The hoyoverse titles used to detect VMs, but it seems to have calmed down. (I was able to try Honkai Star Rail with no obfuscation effort on my part.) NVIDIA stopped caring about VMs in their GPU drivers a few years ago. FatShark almost made the anti-VM mistake with the new Warhammer 40K Darktide anti-cheat; I refunded the title during early-access and told them why. They reversed course before launch and that also works in a VM. - I've played many Blizzard properties (but not WoW) in a VM as well, though they tend to hate networked storage, for reasons I don't yet understand. (Had to setup iSCSI because my CIFS share over 10Gbit/s paravirtualized NIC was "not good enough", I guess.)

Windows runs in a Hyper-V VM by default now, anyways, so "running in a VM" as a heuristic is of questionable utility to me. (It's how the "Core Isolation" feature is provided.) The real irony is I can't even use the VM to cheat, anyways. The guest's memory is encrypted by default. Modifying it, or even reading it, from the host-side would be prohibitively painful. I guess a VM would perhaps obfuscate emulated/scripted inputs, but I use real devices, and a real USB hub on the guest anyways, because the latency and functionality of the emulated HIDs is awful.

Thankfully Steam is very pro-consumer: if a title I purchase does not run in the VM, or on Linux via Proton, it gets instantly refunded. The nice thing is it is actually in Valve's interest financially to push back on these devs: both to prop up the value of the SteamDeck, and to stop people like me from getting refunds.
There is also a lot of software that never ships because it’s intended to be internally used exclusively. 174 makes no distinction between internal/external products. I do not know if it makes a distinction between products and products-that-never-reach-market. I suspect it does not, since a core tenet of the regulation is that there must be some uncertainty of outcome in order to be research and development. Products that fail before reaching the market seem to fall in that zone of uncertainty and are likely deductible.
I suspect there is something political going on, concentrating power, and disdaining the value of individuals, compassion, and responsibility to build a better world (obviously, not any company's only considerations, but a balance -and now those considerations seem at an all-time low IMHO). In other contexts, the same movement disdains the rights, freedom, and lives of other people generally.

Or that could be a bunch of BS; it's hard to establish objectively. It seems so important, that cultural change, that I think it's worth talking about (and maybe someone else has a more objective, factual way to talk abou it).
That's true, and Apple has the capital to do pretty much whatever they want. I just think as we've seen with Google/Gemini it doesn't seem that easy to beat what OpenAI has going even with a lot of money to throw behind it. And I don't think Tim Cook is that much of a visionary but that's just my personal opinion.

I hope Apple does succeed though because I love their hardware and their silicon is great for AI applications.
How is this different from the humane ai pin?
I literally went through this recently with someone in my department. They wanted to know what professors did similar research to me at R1 universities of comparable rank. I told them no one and they didn't believe me. I sent them an annotated version of a bibliography to a survey paper I had recently written, writing down where each person worked. I just don't think they understand that right now, as an intern for a big tech company I am making more money than some of our junior professors. When I can get a full time position my cash in hand compensation goes up, plus equity and more benefits (like 401k). Who the hell would go into academia? You have lower pay, fewer resources, and more bureaucratic BS. There's lots of bureaucracy in industry too, don't get me wrong, but it's easier to deal with when you're getting paid more.

A post doc position wants me to move across the country, into a major city, and pay me $50k/yr for a position with low growth opportunities and where I will have to move again in another few years? No thanks.
I haven't heard much this year in New Zealand but '21/'22 was pretty bad for Xero and a handful of smaller companies. But overall companies here didn't see the insane 2020 growth of American firms. Hiring has slowed across the board, hugely.
Docker already uses many of these frameworks on macOS (look in Docker settings to confirm).
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> There's something persuasive about running jobs and I don't think it's because developers "don't want to maintain infrastructure".

I remember taking a small university course on Ethereum, and getting an introduction smart contracts, trustless environments, and so on. We then heard about a couple of example projects, and were finally asked for our own ideas.

Now, after learning a bit more, I'm pretty sure none if the ideas presented either by the lecturers, me, or the other students really benefitted from the trustless environment, which is mostly what you'd use Ethereum for, and arguably what you pay (a lot) for during contract execution. Yet there were so many ideas about what could be done using smart contracts which were really cool projects on their own.

I think a big world computer with nodes that can perform calculations, react to user input, be called from other nodes, and exchange tokens and information, is somehow an incredibly natural abstraction that humans can work very well with. So, agreed.
>Well, that’s not suspicious at all. Any of the parties involved could conceivably benefit from his accident.

I swear, the latest generation of conspiracy theorists are really pathetic.
Another reason is hosted content that someone really wants gone from the internet.

Of course the efficacy of attacking a service with lots of content is questionable, but the plan is to put on so much pressure that the service removes the content.
Yet comments here mention Steam, gaming, photo editing software, and I myself do video editing -- all of those are not going to be packaged by Debian.
Hertz doesn't care about customer complaints, other than as a KPI that they A) still have customers and B) aren't "wasting" money on such luxury things as making sure the customer's rental is actually available when they contracted for it.
It might be possible, were it not for the fact that the advertising industry has their customers so convinced that the stalking they do is truly effective compared to a mix of scatter-gun approaches and simply advertising in relevant places. No one will buy advertising services from a company that says “yeah, we don't do that thing that everyone else says is essential”. It doesn't actually have to be effective, those buying advertising services just have to be somewhat convinced that it might be.

(I'm separating the ethical matters in advertising from those in selling here, even if spreading awareness through advertising was made less unethical by removing the stalking and other irritations, that still leaves a lot of room for unethical sales techniques)
Amazon-owned Audible lays off 5% of staff
Please, I'm not in the right class nor do I have the right family to get such a position.

Are you a C-level exec? It's strange to me when working class people defend them.
It depends? With defined contribution plans the payout absolutely depends on the market returns.

Even with defined benefit plans there's an indirect connection -- with higher expected returns, employers will offer larger pensions.
yeah one flow for all the stages is the way. I like having a "status" column, and have a different task queue depending on the status
Counterpoint: This doesn't apply to Google, because Google has _always_ amortized their developer comp, but Google still layed off a thousand people. So, maybe this is just an excuse?
So I am going to float another conspiracy just for fun sakes…

USA and Israel think Iran have got a bit close to figuring out Stuxnet culprit, they put out a story and use a poor guy who can’t defend himself against the accusation of being involved, one who happened to have had a tragic accident with a motorbike and who so just happened to do some work in Iran. And boom, the death is suspicious so there must be truth to it all…

That is probably more believable (to me at least).
The operation to install the pump was in 2007 but the damage seems to have started in 2009 when Iran started to replace the centrifuges. Stuxnet was publicized in 2010 but Iran might have found out about it before that time.
where a car is salvaged, we must crystallize at once any difference between our carrying value and the market value of that car

Hang on though, this part has nothing to do with repair costs. This just sounds like an accounting issue, right? If anything I would expect this to benefit Hertz since they could write off the higher loss in their taxes immediately, instead of waiting until future years to write the value off via depreciation.

On the other hand, I can see how this would make their numbers look worse at a glance since it shows up as though they lost money, but in fact no actual assets have been lost; they have the same car, it was repaired, and the repair was paid for by insurance, but now it looks like they took a loss because an arbitrary accounting rule forces them to adjust their balance sheet in a different way than they would otherwise.

Not sure if I'm understanding this right but it sure sounds like Hertz is flat-out admitting that they're making sub-optimal business decisions to make their numbers look better. Wouldn't that be a blatant violation of their fiduciary duties?
I, and my family, are now literally asking on every single thing, "Is that covered by my insurance? Will I be billed extra for that?" Like, over and over. Stupid system, stupid questions. At a recent minor surgery I must have asked it 10 times, and once for these little grippy socks they wanted to give me for my bare feet. And yup, they cost extra. So, get 'em out.
That is an entirely different problem and more of a red herring than a talking point.

"Better" is entirely relative and using a western-centric framework to assert a "hierarchy of goodness". However, it is not an objective frame, and there are plenty of detractors both endogenous and exogenous.

What is really of interest here is one, the consolidation of wealth into a pinhead of the population, and two the egregious and worsening condition of wealth distribution in the US. Which I would argue exacerbates the global condition through manifold conductors, in essence it's imperialism-via-market but in equal measure an unabashed use of threats in other capacities to keep other countries in line.

Most people, given the time (which they necessarily trade away) would, I expect, prefer a definitively ethical, sustainable, robust product - however this comes at a cost (which is what they purchase with their increasingly devalued time) and so what we end up with is a consumer-driven market where people don't have enough time to peer down the rabbit hole of ethics and sustainability, instead opting to take the wheel for what best appears to suit their demands. This is then papered over simply by hand waving that introducing the Western market regime is improving conditions globally, which I'll again point out that this is relative. And I think this then suffers further amplification because, it seems for a great many decades, that the US itself has been suffering a slow decline. This itself has many impacts, for instance it has been increasingly salient that something like home ownership is becoming less prominent and so the social fabric must be altered. These dynamics may take a lifetime to shift to meet equilibrium, so you'll have to forgive the many hundreds of millions of people for their disinterest in global affairs when the social contract their forebears penned them is burning to ash.
You pay income tax based on where you live though. So I can earn money from Germany, but if I live in Estonia, my taxes go to Estonia. Most remote workers I know are set up as LLC's, and they simply invoice their clients for the work, entirely avoiding any tax or social security issues for the employer, since you the employee have to deal with it yourself in your own country.
What exactly can an org do. We hire outside verifiers and then meet their standards.
You don't have to take their word for it. See the SOC audit reports for yourself:

https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/DocumentPage/6ee23fc7-20d...
That seems like it would be hard to ever make a financial return.

Say a battery costs $10k and a home uses $100/ month electricity. If you assume electricity is free at night to fully charge the battery and meet energy demand, that’s 100 months (8 years) to break even. Real world costs are going to make it quite a bit worse than that.
It does make financial sense for many though, because risk exists. In a big downturn would you rather be laid off with a paid-for house or laid off with a mortgage and a bunch of stocks that just plummeted in value?
At the moment only 636 Teslas for sale. https://www.hertzcarsales.com/used-tesla.htm
Germany: as a senior the market looks ok, although a bit slower and customers seem more hesitant to start expensive projects/hire additional contractors. I get a few job offers now and then, enough to not be unemployed long if I wanted/had to switch my employer.
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There are rules to deal with this. Lots of French people near the border work in Belgium for example. They are even actively recruited.
Lots of things are really hard.

We all know it’s easier to eat garbage than to exercise and eat healthy. We all know it’s more expensive. We all know it takes some degree of knowledge of what and when to eat.

That isn’t the point. It’s that HARD and UNKNOWN is not faultless.
Yeah, you can but as LLCs, not as direct employees.
What I mean is, are you lawyer in this field? Did you read a book about it (what book)?

I see things that are clearly wrong afaik (unless I misunderstand you), and others I don't know about. So I'm wondering what the source is. I can cite cases too, but I really don't have expertise.
n8n is a direct Zapier competitor with source available ("fair code license"), https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=janober is the founder.

Lots of interesting ways to extend workflow systems involving LLMs and interfaces to them.

https://docs.n8n.io/choose-n8n/faircode-license/

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=n8n
Exactly - I feel that folks in the US or Western Europe who are in "low cost areas" are in for a shock, as in many ways they have the worst of all possible combos. Either you're in a big "tech city" where being present (often in person) provides a tangible benefit that your employer is willing to pay for, or your essentially bidding on cost, where someone in a lower-cost country will be able to beat you every time.

I've been in tech for a long time, but this is the first time we've had a significant downturn where remote/videoconferencing options have been so good. In the past it felt like executive cries of "we'll just outsource everything!" always backfired because the communication and management overhead (not to mention varying quality levels) had been extreme. Now, though, with everyone used to remote work, why bother looking to save a few bucks hiring in Wichita when you can save more, and get just as good if not better quality, hiring from Cordoba Argentina?
In EU since Jul'23 cross-border remote work is free of extra taxes and similar obligation if done up to 50% abroad. One can come to Germany for 3 days and come back to his country to work for 2 days remotely and spend weekend.

More here https://socialsecurity.belgium.be/en/internationally-active/...
SARS-CoV-2-related pangolin coronavirus causes 100% mortality in humanized mice
If you think that a company's market capitalization isn't high enough, you can always buy its stock. Conversely, if you think it's too high, you can always short it. Not financial advice.
I'm surprised medical billing scams aren't rampant, considering it's 100% normal to have a bill from from an unknown company show up asking for payment for unclear reasons for a procedure done a year ago.
So as long as there is someone more miserable than me, I can't want something better?
I don’t disagree that you get an advantage, I disagree with the conclusion that you’ll be able to land virtually any job as a result.

It’s simply false.