skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both agree and disagree here. Agree because you have outlined a reality here. Disagree because, on aggregate, the expectation of making neurodiversity confirm is toxic and is a major barrier to productivity and workplace cohesion.

Basically;

lazy / inflexible management = productivity losses
flexible & inclusive management = empowered people + awesome results
Also Wirecard fraud happened underneath the noses of the authorities who were provided proof from journalists and they still couldn't see it.
The original Oculus Quest was pretty much that. Granted, they had an unrealistic amount of talent on their side and a decent history taking stabs at the whole "consumer VR" thing.

But I mean, look at it - the first Quest was $300-400, fairly comfortable, self-contained and standalone with tethering capability. If you just wanted to watch TV or browse the web in VR, that's what you'd want to buy. Oculus made the Steam Deck of VR, and all the other business models seem kinda extreme by comparison. I doubt we'd be seeing the reservation towards Vision Pro today if there weren't cheaper entertainment-focused headsets already on the market.
Venus has a Moon called Zoozve. Sort of
I don't think that can kill you.
I tried Restic again but, its repo size is 2x of that of Borg which allows you to fine-tune compression, and Restic doesn't.

So I'll keep an eye on Rustic instead (it is much faster on some hot paths + allows you to specify base path of the backup; long story but I need that feature a lot because I also do copies of my stuff to network disks and when you backup from there you want to rewrite the path inside the backup snapshot).

Rustic compresses equivalently to Borg which is not a surprise because both use zstd on the same compression level.
Farmers are truly geniuses. They have to be a combination of agriculturalist, meteorologist, engineer, mechanic, handyman, builder, vet, hydrologist, and now we're adding technologist to that. They also generally have an amazing work ethic (getting up before sunrise, working in the blazing heat all day, etc). Not to mention dealing with disasters like diseases, weather events, accidents (lots of sharp blades, tools, etc).

Massive respect for them. Even with this tractor, this guy likely does more work than the majority of people. They feed our entire society with a ton of work for very little reward. We don't give them the respect they're due.
I can't believe I'm going to defend YouTube here, but I don't agree with this.

YouTube Red/ads, and sponsored content in the creator's videos are totally separate things, and should stay separate things.

I'm not a creator myself but I've done some research on the idea and there are basically three ways to make anything like decent money with a YouTube channel, in increasing likelihood of success:

1) Get stunningly popular over a short period of time, a.k.a. Go Viral. This is almost entirely down to luck, so is not a strategy for normal people having a serious go at it.

2) Accept (and generally beg for) donations from subscribers via Patreon or similar. Optionally, lock up some percentage of your videos behind a subscription via Patreon or similar. This only works well if you can generate a significant following that will not also abandon you the instant you decide to start monetizing things.

3) Product placements and sponsored content. Typically this means accepting a significant chunk of change in exchange for a 3-4 minute ad for a VPN or some crap smack-dab in the middle of your video.

Notice that nowhere in this list is "rake in the cash from YouTube ads" because there is no such thing. Yes, YouTube pays creators _something_ for ads, but unless you are the top video creator in your broad field (e.g. LTT -> computers), you are never going to be able to live off it. (And we'll put aside the difficulties that content creators regularly encounter with monetizing their videos through YouTube ads, due to bogus copyright claims, and false positives from the AI thinking it heard something politically incorrect. And to be clear, YouTube will still show ads in demonetized videos, it just keeps the ad revenue to itself in those cases.)

So if you are paying for YouTube Red, you are REALLY only paying YouTube, not content creators. This is why most semi-serious content creators go with either the donation or sponsorship model.

You may wish to know about Sponsorblock, a browser extension that clips out sponsored segments. It only works if at least a few people have marked the sponsored sections before you watched the video. It works a lot better than it has any right to.
Pedantic snark aside, "cobra chicken" is god damned hilarious.
I have a deep love for cool retro term, I am sad that the project is mostly abandoned and has multiple issues on MacOS.

IMHO none of the other retro terms look nearly as good.
I really suggest looking at the reply: <https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04254.html>

I know nothing about what they're talking, but the response appears reasonable and mature, seems to engage in the substantive issues without responding to the anger/flaming, and looks like it intends to de-escalate and move forward. Torvalds' reply to that is more measured <https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04260.html>.

There's a step back in tone a few replies later, but if you go through the next dozen or two messages over the next couple of days, it seems like things go a totally different path than might be expected from the linked submission.

Anyway, I thought it was worth a perusal. Good example of how to respond to something like that.
Exactly. You can't trust any of it. Its all just CGI.
A more successful Git branching model
In the ever-evolving software development landscape, one of the most influential ideas of the past decade has been the "git flow" working style, thanks to the iconic blog post "A Successful Git Branching Model." Here, we suggest an updated workflow with less long-lived branching.
Private Eye also does this, and not only in legal correspondence.

> The magazine often deliberately misspells the names of certain organisations, such as "Crapita" for the outsourcing company Capita, "Carter-Fuck" for the law firm Carter-Ruck, and "The Grauniad" for The Guardian (the latter a reference to the newspaper's frequent typos in its days as The Manchester Guardian). Certain individuals may be referred to by another name, for example, Piers Morgan as "Piers Moron", Richard Branson as "Beardie", Rupert Murdoch as the "Dirty Digger", and Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III as "Brenda" and "Brian", respectively.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#In-jokes
I understand what you mean. It's just that I object on principle to this notion that using system calls is "wrong" or "something normal people aren't supposed to do" as if the libc programmers have special privileges. It's these constant warnings about and fearmongering around the system calls that made me want to use them in the first place.
I sell software and services to farmers. Running an on premises server that their business depends on is way beyond their capabilities. Our company tried that, it failed horribly, and the farmers blamed us. They want us to provide it as a service that always works, however it's made they don't care, just pay.
Salesforce Lays Off 1% of Its Workforce, but Why?
I don't think I agree. There are small shops (<500 employees) that really do treat people well. I've worked at smaller places that have given decent salaries, no-cap PTO (and actually let you use it without fuss), no overtime, yearly bonuses, shutting down for two weeks during the holidays, and actually listen to employee requests/concerns.

When you work at a FAANG, you know you'll be sacrificing some of those benefits and taking on more stress for much higher pay. The current climate is much worse than that though. It's a complete no-empathy/give-no-fucks environment, and that's not ok. Garbage in, garbage out.

I'm not looking for a hand-out, I just want to be treated as a human being. In return, you'll have a productive employee.
Am I misunderstanding this? You need JS to load the WASM module anyways, what does "requiring JS" means here?
The volume today is 22 billion. 2 billion in downwards pressure would lower the price but it’s really not a huge deal.

Most deals like that are not done on the open market though.
(Actually I see this has already been discussed ... search for Zoozve ... but I'll leave it here anyway).
Hype isn't popularity, its usually a loud minority, and the kind of people happy to jump on anything.

That said, Zig is cool, and deserves some attention
Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots [video]
I would also argue that email is superior in that it's searchable and captures context.

by all means, use teams/slack/etc for discussions, but understand that they don't replace email, they enhance it.
But it uses warc files inside as the archive format. It seems weird to call it a replacement when the original is still present.
You could set up a system that supports both. If you want to be verified then you opt-in and then you get a special green check by your name. And also provide a bunch of tools to allow you to filter based on the green check -- e.g., I don't allow DMs from non-green checks or don't show me any content in my feed that isn't from a green check account. So you have the option to decide how much you want to be in the anonymous versus verified world.
>There is nothing that I’m aware of that says banks or digital service providers need to collect any more information than is necessary to provide the service they offer

And what about all the information that is necessary to provide the service they offer, like the real-time location of everyone's cell phone and who calls who when and for how long or all the DNS requests? Sure, a company doesn't have to retain this information and market it for resale, but providing these sorts of services necessarily entails access to a lot of information that most people would consider private, but which the third party doctrine says isn't.
I guess the ones who aren't convinced are supposedly the intelligent ones?
Takata also makes different types of inflators, and cars often have different types of inflators in them at the same time, and all of these airbag recalls have been on specific inflators made at specific times or specific lots that were known to be problematic. Some were also only recalled when the vehicle was sold or operated in humid areas.

I had a vehicle that was recalled once for the driver side airbag, and then later called back for a recall on the passenger side airbag. IIRC some cars early on were even recalled for the same inflator twice when it was found that the replacement inflator had issues.

There's all kinds of details in the weeds here.
It’s a pendulum - management is still traumatized by COVID and are reacting to that. I hope in a few years we’ll start heading back towards more freedom for workers
I remember 15 years ago or so someone wrote a pluging for me-tunes that was downloading the lyrics of your mp3 by scraping internet. It was brillant (now standard in placetify). Afew months later he receive a C&D from the fruit people. How sad the big tech can get away with this.
Nothing can replace intelligence potential, i.e. IQ, because it's a prerequisite for a lot of activities. Just like the height in the basketball.
You're fine to view it that way, it's a reasonable view. My point is to highlight that there's other views.

What I mean is that mind is to consciousness what matter is to the brain. It is a property of the universe, that manifests itself in ways that can form memories, identities, self awareness. But underlying these systems there is pure awareness, in the same way that all matter can be reduced to the same fundamental particles.

In the same way that something like a car or a brain can be made from these same fundamental building blocks, an identity and a self can be made from fundamental mind-properties that are just inherent parts of the universe. They become identifiable as "a person" at a certain scale in the same way that a group of particles becomes "a car" at a certain scale and distance.
More & more feels like the real-world is becoming minecraft.
This has been discussed numerous times over the years, you can read the court documents for the "kino.to" case which was very similar here: https://openjur.de/u/961112.html

The key is usually the part where it's done with the explicit goal of making money exclusively off copyrighted material ("gewerbsmäßig begangene unerlaubte Verwertung von urheberrechtlich geschützten Werken"), that's also why the court case of TPB was so focused on how much money their ad business made.

Google, YouTube and other similar players are very well integrated in the whole DMCA takedown process and you can't really compare them.
As best exemplified by your conflation of faith and superstition.
That's not how that works. If Toyota doesn't do the recall they'll be forced by the NTSB. Recalls are how manufacturers avoid regulators cramping their style.
Glad to hear I'm not alone.

Question: do you think this would still be a problem if only 1:1 chat was allowed (no group chat existed).

I've often wondered if the real problem is group chat / channels, and not per se the 1:1 type of chat messages.
I really want to use TRAMP. Basic editing works but I had a lot of trouble getting lsp based programming modes, like rustic, working.

Maybe I should try again. Terminal mode works but requires a lot of workarounds and copy/paste integration isn't perfect.
My 3D printing scraps were the first thing I wondered about too.

I have a box or two of just scrap PLA because they said it was recyclable/biodegradable. Not much about just how specific the conditions needed to be.

It can't be that hard to homebrew some sort of extruder to remake the filament, can it? Who needs tolerances?
This captures a lot of how I feel too.

I've said before that I use my phone very little, but it really needs to work when I need it, like to make or receive an urgent or emergency call or message (or increasingly, unfortunately and to your point, to authenticate myself somehow). To be assured of that, it seems like one can't stray very far from the mainstream. I only go as far as using MVNOs (to get my cost down to $5/month) and Google Voice (because I don't want my primary phone number and data tied to a particular device or MVNO). Even those choices lead to some glitches that I can tolerate but, say, my wife wouldn't.

I agree that all non-emergency things are better done on paper or on my laptop rather than on a 6" touchscreen. If that's where a phone excels, it's missing the point.
If you have not received a C&D before then the reason to consult with an attorney is to evaluate the risk. A lot of legal trouble arises from assuming you understand something when you actually don't. (Ask me how I know.)
Dumb take, anybody can hold Bitcoin.
The correct answer could be brown cows if the diary farm that the milk that your chocolate milk brand of choice comes from uses a cow breed with predominantly brown coloring.

But saying “I don’t know” is probably the most appropriate response because they could be more colors than just black and white and brown cows, like you said. There are even orange cows that a dairy farm could be using!

But the grandparent comment is likely complaining that most people don’t know where their food comes from. And that is a fact. I get a CSA box and so I can identify where my produce comes from but the milk? I would have no idea what kind of cows it comes from. I know it’s a local farm but the color of the cows? I would have to make the trip.
Why f#ck would anyone ever want to contribute to the Linux kernel when you’re in danger of being on the receiving end of a rant like that…
I hope the author really does mean "home lab" and not "home production". Having run my own personal disk array for over two decades, this is like the opposite of what I've come to want. The simpler and more straightforward things can be, the better. Otherwise when things fail (and they will fail, despite that redundancy (or even perhaps because of it)), you'll end up with circular dependencies that make diagnosing and fixing things quite painful.
Do people actually hire programmers without any experience in programming? I never realized that.

But I also had a similar experience when getting into sales (almost did a bootcamp and an acquaintance told me to just apply for jobs, they were right).
A coworker's wife's friend is an attorney. So he's "his family's attorney" now, because of course he is. My landlord is a dentist, so he's my dentist now, because of course he is... That's how it mostly works... I guess :P
That is one solution that is impossible to implement. We must recognize that any system that involves people must involve involve people.
No it's not. Some of the stuff https://decodeproject.eu/ has been working on seems apt for this, specifically the attribute based credentials stuff.
I don't understand the situation.

If you publish a popular app via an alternative app store and don't pay Apple, Apple can still block/remove your app?

Then what is the point of alternative app stores? I thought it's about who controls which apps get blocked and which get onto the phone?
Is mine sand suitable? The sand used in cement is very specific shape and size. I think that is what makes it so difficult to produce.
Thank you so much for such an insightful comment! I think you touched on some very good points. Generally speaking, the Telegram / HTTP integrations are separate, but you're about the get_summary() function - that's mainly because it's used both in the Telegram bot and in the CLI interface. I love the idea of letting extensions live completely separately from the core, will think more about it!
I've recently picked up Farming Simulator on PS5, not so much because I'm into farming or anything but it's a great little game for shutting your brain off for a while. There's no point to the game, beyond just farming, which is great because you can pick it up and drop off whenever, you're not in the middle of some narrative.

Point being: they've put a lot of effort into modelling the different tractors and first time I used the in-vehicle perspective I was amazed at all the screens and knobs and dials and levers and what not. They don't really do anything in the game, it's just for show, but man they are complex beasts clearly.

Then again, I can definitely see the value of at least some of these features. Like you spend an inordinate amount of time just making sure you get maximum yield from a field, while keeping costs low, so having a screen tell you how much fuel you're consuming per turn or whatever is actually pretty useful.

Anyway, I absolutely agree – farmers are incredible! I have a whole new appreciation for farming equipment and farmers in general, just from playing this silly game.
> the developer will have to pay 0.50$ per download and each month to Apple.

(It’s per year, not per month.)
Canada Tax Planning Using Private Corporations [pdf]
> Surely everybody who cares about a good terminal experience uses some third-party client already?

Unclear. The built-in Terminal app is pretty good otherwise, and true color isn't necessary for a lot (most?) of common terminal usage. It's not so poor that all command line users would definitely have a third party app.
The superstitions and anthropomorphizing from AI clerics are concerning, always on the lookout for the "one weird tricks" that is rumored to make prompts work better, like adding "please" and "thank you".
I just like passing in options to QEMU on cmdline. This works well for some older OS like Windows NT on MIPS, or Ultrix.
Likely internal opinion based on observed external actions:

> Of course not. They're on the platform using it, viewing ads, aren't they?

> I mean, it's a shame that some people die, because they won't be able to view ads, and the negative press might impact other people's opinion of the platform leading to potentially reduced ad view, but, heeeeeyyyyyy it's easy enough to prevent certain platform-hostile opinions from being surfaced too much on the platform, you know? "Vagueries of the Algorithm" and all!

(insert a large rolleyes here)

I'm sure we'll get the Standard Tech Appopollylolly: "We are so, so sorry that you caught us enabling this bad behavior, and we will try to do the work to ensure you don't catch us doing it next time."

> The lawsuit, filed in South Carolina state court last week, accuses Meta’s social media platforms of causing a range of problems in children, including depression, low self-esteem, anxiety and eating disorders. It alleges that Meta uses algorithms to aggressively target adolescents and does not do enough to keep them safe from harm.

Of course it doesn't. Depressed, low self esteem, and anxious? That's their dream user - likely to be online a lot, and easily influenced by Meta's actual customers, those paying to influence the thinking of others. The more people like that Meta can produce out of formerly well adjusted individuals, the more money they make. Their incentives are entirely opposite that of larger society. Healthy, well adjusted, offline individuals are mostly worthless to Meta, because they're likely to be on the platform far less often. You just need enough that the platform looks like it's well adjusted people on it.

I hope the lawsuit succeeds. It's long past time for the social media companies to face the consequences of what they've created for their own short sighted profit numbers.
If the policy of the OS is to for programmers to only use libc for syscalls, perhaps that's a valid caveat to asm syscalls, but I don't think Linux is such an OS.
Are you assuming that said clauses are coming in with layoffs? All I see is that they are part of a contract on day one, which is where it would make a difference.
Exactly. Going further, it's the default for there to be a gap.

Managing a remote team is much harder than managing an in-person team.
Also of note, updates count as downloads.
Slightly cheaper meaning $50 to $160 according to Google. That seems like a really stupid thing to skimp on, so don't blame the consumer for this dumb decision. That's like 1% (corrected from 0.1%) of the price of a new car or something like that! What dumb engineering, what was KIA thinking?!

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I understand the reality of capitalism means a constant race to the bottom, I just don't like it.

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I am "posting too fast" so here is a response to a post way further down than this, so I don't lose my text I tried to comment with (Also, what the fuck HN!? I'm not one of those flame-baiters!? This is one of the few places I am comfortable talking to strangers and I get this bullshit...)

I think you would have to define the minimum level of effort necessary to steal a car, then say that cars which do not pass that bar are probably defective. I would say the minimum bar should rise as tech changes, and today we could say the minimum is that an unskilled thief (a 'regular Joe') should not be able to steal a car without any specific knowledge. At least, I think that's reasonable.

In this case, meth addicts could break a window and use a screwdriver to steal a car without an immobilizer, so that seems like a defective product to me.
Neuralink Implanted a Device in a Patient's Brain, Elon Musk Says
I agree, but they tend lean too heavily on Apple as their tech overlords and compare everything to their products.
Somewhat related, these people are turning glass to sand from recycled bottles.

https://www.tv20detroit.com/news/national/turning-recycled-g...
To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife (2015)
One thing I find frustrating about the Github Actions's runner pricing is that it's calculated on a minute basis. Couldn't you bill by the second instead? Maybe set a minimum to 1 min but after that charge by the second?

I assume this is done to cover the time that the VM reboots between jobs?