skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of theories, but one that never gets mentioned is, to carry infants on your back. If you're a tree-dweller that's the norm. Then when you go on the ground you turn from two-handed climbing to two-handed foraging. Need the hands free; can't be crawling on all fours.

To carry infants on the ground, you want to be balanced, have your weight on your hips. We see hips change once primates started spending time on the ground - they moved under their torso, as if to carry weight.

Typically, ethnographers and anthropologists of the past utterly neglected child-care or any other female activity. Because history.
Couldn't we just use proportional representation?
No Valheim?

I get it - you only punch the tiny trees, or just pick up branches and skip right to an axe :) But the progression / natural draw of discovering new things to craft as you touch new items is really good. And excellent procedurally generated worlds to explore.
So what you're saying is that the problem with Word is that it makes it easy to write unpolished and unprofessional documents? In your opinion, is that the fault of the word processor or the user? [0]

[0]: Not a rhetoric question that implies one answer to be the only "right" one.
colormind.io is great! They have a free API you can use to get random color palettes.

I was using it to get random (and hopefully pleasant) color schemes awhile back when you could still run Twitter bots for my cheesy “JustTriangles” bot [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/JustTriangles
Yes! A lot of modern political science research uses computational methods, big data, etc. Here are some interesting papers on redistricting, by the research group that wrote the package we use in this paper. https://alarm-redist.org/applications.html
this along with Google's push for SGE is worrisome to me
are you under the impression that 3 turn aways and 1 let in are distinct set of people ?
I don't think many people really use parental controls on Android or iOS. Its a feature thats there to make consumers feel safer, but anyone that tries to actually use it is going to quickly give up.

Small example: On iOS 'Screen Time' you can restrict websites to a whitelist, which seems useful. But so many things break if you do that - all kinds of login screens for different apps - and you dont get given clues to as to what urls need to be whitelisted to un-break things.

Sometimes with modern tech you're using a feature and you think "this is incredibly complicated and broken, there can't be many people actually using this" and I tend to get that feeling with parental controls.
> move towards central planning where you can allocate more intelligently

My understanding is that there's a lot of historical evidence to suggest that central planning would do the opposite of better allocating resources. Besides, with US government spending at around a third of the GDP[0] now, plenty of that is going on, already.

[0]: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP
Games journalism is nothing but poor takes.

Minecraft is still the most bought, most played and most watched game. This journalist wouldn't know fun if it creeped up on him and exploded in his face.
A lot of tech is probably colored by what was truly an exceptional decade or so in roughly the 2010s. Now, layoffs at larger tech companies are not an exceptional event, many companies have tightened up on expenses and hiring, and (even if not necessarily salaries) total compensation has probably taken a nosedive in many cases. (While housing prices are still very high in certain high profile areas.)
The salary requirement seems harsh for people working on non-profit, self-funded or early-stage.
I'd rather have headroom than running in an overcurrent situation. I hope than can provide more details about the capability and what they tested. I moved away from the stock supply many moons ago as it wasnt as stable anymore, plus of powering the accelerator board, plus the CD-drive and harddisk
I interviewed with Datadog yesterday for two engineering labeled "remote" and the recruiter said that was a mistake and that all jobs should be labeled as hybrid...is this true?
The problem is just about any foreign particulates at a high enough concentration will cause adverse effects when inhaled [1].

If the machine had a large residue of metal dust from manufacturing, or a grinding in the motor which made it into the airstream, there are severe consequences [2].

A similar issue could if there was some sort of wood dust [3] that made it into the airstream (e.g if they had a wood trim for aesthetics, and it was shaved down by the motor and made it into the air stream). If instead just the dampening of the wood caused mold spores to grow that made it into the air stream [4], that could also cause major issues.

So yes, in this case it's foam, but most foreign particulates are going to be a problem.

[1]: https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/chemicals/lungs_dust.html#se...

[2]: https://lunginstitute.com/can-breathing-metal-dust-hurt-you/

[3]: https://www.osha.gov/wood-dust

[4]: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aspergillosis...
I got trained in NASA soldering standards in the early 80s. Worked as a tech in college helping build test harnesses for an X-Ray telescope that was to fly on Challenger. Got delayed after the accident, but I think it eventually flew 20 years later.

They were very serious about this stuff, for obvious reasons. No rework possible in space.

I still use those skills on my home DIY hobbies.
There's a far better solution to gerrymandering than these creative ways to draw lines on a map. It's called proportional representation, and it's used in many countries in Europe (usually combined with the d'Hondt formula). FPTP leads to far more silliness than PR and therefore countries using PR have healthier political discourse and systems. Sad that the UK rejected the proposal to abolish FPTP in the early 10s.

Edit: changed this tautological sounding sentence - "None of the countries using PR suffer from the sillinesses arising from FPTP."
Part of the reason I stopped using Word was that I absolutely abhorred 2007-and-beyond’s equation editor. I was using previous versions of Word with Mathtype for my math homework, but I found the new equation editor really hard to use. Around the same time I had coincidentally to Linux, and OpenOffice has an even worse equation editor.

Pandoc was a game changer for me. I picked up LaTeX equation editor pretty quick, and being able to write markdown was so much more pleasant in my mind.

It’s not perfect; tables are a pain still, but I have no desire to go back to Word.
Lots of jobs pay cash. Esp the jobs with shortages at the moment.

This is not a problem.
The library is clean and well documented
And btw it’s still on sale on iTunes for 19.99 for the complete series. Just picked it up before I posted this :)
This solution is still based on a concept of defining districts by presumed voting patterns of the inhabitants. Is it really that hard to define districts sensibly purely based on population density/distribution?
A handful of our cities have the worst crime in years, places like Seattle in a generation. It’s more that statistics don’t match up with people’s experiences because they are skewed by combining entirely unrelated places together. Similarly, you can claim it’s the best economy but lots of people are not working the kind of jobs they normally would (and not just in tech) and/or are working multiple crappy jobs so unemployment rates can be deceptive when trying to understand sentiment.
I'd go as far as to say that mistakes will always happen, so even if this was a design defect, it could've been handled in a way that doesn't result in people going to prison.

As soon as you catch wind of this sort of issue, this is what should be legally required to happen in order to escape lengthy prison time:

- immediately take full responsibility and take your products off the market

- work with relevant agencies to identify impact and produce a list of everyone who could be affected

- recall every device that could possibly suffer from the same issue

- offer to pay for preventative medical exams for any customer who's suffering from any early symptoms

- offer at least 7-8 figure sum of money to each victim's family

- fix the design defect and publish a full transparency report that details the issue and how it was addressed, verified by a relevant agency

Just to rub it in, Philips gets to settle without admitting any wrongdoing.
The fed is considering dropping interest rates because the commercial real estate market is absolutely effed if they don't and they "need" to protect banks and the wealthy.

WSJ article on the pending "Doom Loop" https://archive.is/MOzr9
What is an example of something you cannot talk or ask about of someone who is on the other end of a video call?
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check it out. It's been a while since I've tried a 17 inch laptop but it sure does look nice.
Wouldn't limiting the degree of policy change per time period just be a win for whichever side supports the status quo? Why would people being hurt by the current system ever support that?
My Ruby compiler is, I'm sad to say, languishing. I got it to a stage where it does compile itself successfully (to 32 bit x86 assembly - 32 bit was still a reasonable choice when I started...), but it has plenty of bugs (and only compiles itself due to workarounds for those in the compiler source to avoid triggering them) and doesn't support most newer Ruby syntax, nor Regexp's or Float's (other massively limitations too). I keep telling myself I should at least fix the bugs at some point and strip out the workarounds, but so many other projects at the moment.
And then there's those of us who play EVE Online or Prosperous Universe and lean into spreadsheeting hard.
>Public perception matches people's experiences.

Going back to the crime example, was this true? People's perceptions contradicted crime statistics. Are you claiming that the crime statistics were wrong and people were somehow getting increasingly victimized?
I think this happens with any game - or in fact any life skill actually. In the beginning everything is novel. You play for fun, you enjoy the activity. And after you've done it for a while, you decide you want to be a little bit better. And to get better, you start having to do work - real work. You have to start repetition, you have to start crunching numbers etc. to get incrementally better.
xmonad team checking in.
Did I get shadow banned for no reason?
All recent post in my submissions are greyed out and I don't see any interactions or see my posts from my friend's hackernews feed :(
I remember being most productive at work when I was also indulging in Factorio. Maybe I should get back to both.
I still wonder how much of rebase/squash-heavy workflows would disappear if UIs like GitHub and the CLI itself defaulted to `--first-parent` style views (with optional drilldown) and used the power of navigating a DAG for a little more good. All of this good commit metadata lost just because subway diagrams are pretty but also so many people find them confusing and messy. Or because GitHub shows commits as a flat confusing list with an order that only makes sense if you saw the subway diagram but GitHub's default view doesn't draw the subway diagram.
> That may or not match the measures that economists and rich people care about, like GDP or stock market gains.

If you don't think that positive GDP growth is good, wait until you experience negative GDP growth. :)

As someone who has a few more decades until retirement, I could personally go with cheaper stocks so I could buy more know for future use, but I'm sure my older (some-retired) relatives feel differently about market downturns.

> Down on main street, people are cutting back because they can no longer afford the lifestyle they used to afford.

Depending on the lifestyle (or parts thereof) in question, this may not be a bad thing. Certain lifestyle (aspects) may be imprudent, e.g., "How Much is That $70,000 Truck Costing You?":

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/02/how-much-is-that-70...
Yes. They don’t peer with every other company in the world directly so it would be written into the existing contracts between the major companies, who would collect from their smaller peers.

This already works: a staple of these threads is some European user who has sender-pays service expressing surprise that this is a problem because it’s so rare in their experience. Those countries can still receive international calls.
Pistorm would be 5V. But yeah, perhaps an idea to move away to this instead... Most likely less power hungry. Haven't had the time yet... The place I am in is hard to get shipped in reliably.
Yurop is getting kind of screwed over by a couple of wars on its periphery that are interrupting things like natural gas and shipping.
Here are some that I read that I recommend:

https://tldr.tech/ - Overview on Tech News in a summarised digest, skip if you're not into daily emails, otherwise great.

https://architecturenotes.co/ -- Software Architecture focused, weekly.

https://terminaltrove.com/ - Focused on new and interesting terminal tools, weekly newsletter.

https://www.pointer.io/ - engineering and leadership focused, current favourite, 2 emails a week.

Some of these have the option to subscribe to RSS feeds as a bonus too.
Tell HN: Stop using LLMs to apply to jobs
It’s really easy to eliminate them because they all answer our hiring questions the same way.
My parents moved in and, being old, stream TV all day (instead of cable) and end up using about 40 GB per day with 1080p. We keep hitting our max of 1.2 TB set by our cable company (because there are others in the home!).

I should probably see if my router can bandwidth limit their mac addresses...
On the other hand, if you meet any of those criteria, perhaps it's not the best use of your resources to be a digital nomad in Japan.
I've always felt that a simpler solution would be to just increase the number of representatives.

In 1912 (the last time we added more), the US population was ~90 million, and it's currently at around ~340 mil and we still have only 435 representatives.

1912: 1 rep per 20,000 people

2024: 1 rep per 780,000 people

This doesn't "solve" gerrymandering but it does blunt the effectiveness of it (among hopefully some other positive effects.)
"It feels like no real kids are testing the parental controls"

Or... hear me out... they don't really want adequate controls to be put in place in the first place?

And, yeah, I have many many beefs to pick with Family Link.
The data indicates the lowest quintile is gaining the most:

https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2022/

If anything, the middle and upper middle is experiencing decreased quality of life, for example not eating out as often, because the lowest wage workers in restaurants/hotels/farms/etc are seeing wage growth.
Better to build a garage, plant a row of trees, or steward a community organization. Something that you can show your kids and be proud of. Open source software work even.

Some entertainment being necessary, I feel the vast majority of people do it too much.
A funny if it wasn’t so sad example of this you can look up is the migrant caravan storyline. I recall just before at least three election cycles the “migrant caravan coming for your jobs trekking from Central America” plays nonstop on right wing news channels, and then totally disappears post election, only to appear again as if by magic just before the next election. Doing a quick search it looks like the largest migrant caravan ever has been making its way to the US since 2018.
The Unseen Hero Protecting the 'Mona Lisa'
Is this a real question?

After deregulation, executives figured out they could write themselves checkes indiscriminately. So they have done so ever since.

The conversation in the E-Suite over annual salary is entirely about "Are we gonna get our full bonus this year?" Not "Is our rank-and-file pay fair and equitable?"

Known companies that reported "No raised this year, no money for them." Because executive bonuses soaked up 80% of the profits. In fact, if they don't soak up the entirety of the profits with bonuses, they're doing it wrong.
That’s not, at all, what the article was about. Though I get the knee-jerk need to react as negatively as possible, as quickly as possible, to a headline.

Speaking of “hate” and other online fads.
Sleep apnea is mostly a grift. Doctors go along with it because they don’t really care for obese people. It’s pretty scandalous if you look into it. The sleep apnea industry exists to sell machines first and foremost. Very little science involved.
Better hope you stay on their good side, and don't say anything their CEO doesn't approve of.
If anyone else was looking for what snet0 suggested and where, here's their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39227851
Punching monsters isn't much more fun than punching trees, especially when all sorts of monsters gives the same reward like in many looter shooters. In a crafting game you punch things because you want the specific loot, in a combat game you punch things for no reason other than the thing being there, that distinction makes a massive difference.
In the US I haven't had such a call in more than a year. The US already cracked down on spam calls (that is routing spam calls). You may remember complaints about how bad things were a year ago though, but things change.

What is new is now AI can fake voices and conversations. This makes the cost of such SPAM is lower, and also you can frame someone else. Both of these give incentive to find work around to the current systems (no system is perfect)
Burnley Football Club | Business Analyst | Full Time | Burnley, UK | On site | no visa

Burnley Football Club play in the English Premier League. The club have large ambitions and I am looking to hire the first Business Analyst to help work across the whole club to help breed a culture of innovation and technology adoption. I am the CTO and have recently joined and there is a lot to do!

I'm looking for someone who has a technical mindset and an interest in understanding all areas of a professional football club then please drop me a DM on here with more information about you.

I will update with a direct link to the job posting
The university of Michigan sentiment survey has recently seen huge increases in positivity. Some of these metrics are still pretty low, but going up. http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/
Private equity came for autism therapy
As a teenager, I really enjoyed watching Farscape. As an adult, I definitely feel a lot of the flaws that the show has. But, they didn't compromise on wardrobe or set design or on the characterization for the main characters. Pretty much everyone had some sort of arc going on more or less all the time. And besides all that, it was legit scifi.

But the thing that stands head and shoulders above the rest was Wayne Pygram's Scorpius. You simply do not get villains of that caliber every day.

Interestingly enough, Pygram also plays Tarkin in a blink and you miss it scene in Revenge of the Sith. Which makes me think that we missed out on something very special with Rogue One. Instead of CGI Tarkin, I really wish they could have had Pygram sprinkle some Scorpius magic into a Tarkin role.
> Then, from November 27, we redirected the efforts of a large part of the Cloudflare technical staff (inside and outside the security team) to work on a single project dubbed “Code Red”.

Why didn't they start this effort BEFORE there was an incident?

> we undertook a comprehensive effort to rotate every production credential (more than 5,000 individual credentials

Bearer credentials should already be rotated on a regular basis. Why did they wait until an incident to do this?

> To ensure these systems are 100% secure

Nothing is 100% secure. Not being to see and acknowledge that is a huge red flag.

> Nothing was found, but we replaced the hardware anyway.

Well that is just plain stupid and wasteful.

> We also looked for software packages that hadn’t been updated

Why weren't you looking for that prior to the incident?

> we were (for the second time) the victim of a compromise of Okta’s systems which resulted in a threat actor gaining access to a set of credentials.

And yet they continue using Okta. The jokes just write themselves.

> The one service token and three accounts were not rotated because mistakenly it was believed they were unused.

Wait, wait, wait. You KNEW the accounts with remote access to your systems were UNUSED and yet they continue to be active? Hahahahaha.

> The wiki searches and pages accessed suggest the threat actor was very interested in all aspects of access to our systems: password resets, remote access, configuration, our use of Salt, but they did not target customer data or customer configurations.

Totally makes sense, I'm sure the attacker was just a connoisseur of credentials and definitely did not want them to target customer data.
Very good response, can I ask you for a way to find your company? I am working in the same space.
None (just a data point for you!) - with very few honourable exceptions I detest email newsletters and being force-fed stuff...
"We have temporarily disabled raw data download as an additional precaution to protect your privacy. We don't currently have a timeline for when this feature will become available but will keep customers informed of any changes."
How to you reconcile abolishing political parties with the right of free association?
Yep. Even though I myself am in tech, my family background wasn't as affluent as other people in the industry.

As such, I feel a bit of Schadenfreude from people who lived with a golden spoon hyperventilating about what is by most standards a fairly normal tech market (or at least, used to be the norm before 2015-16)
Appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains
Abolishing political parties is not possible, people form factions and coalitions based on common interests, and those coalitions form coalitions in order to achieve their goals. You can have a multi-party system, a two party system or a de facto one party system, the difference is that for the latter two, the final coalitions happen beforehand and are presented to voters as a fait accompli.
It’s impossible to abolish parties. It is possible to change the election system so that a plurality of parties form a government.
Isn't it though, if you consider the entire context to be part of the state? It seems like his argument is based on an assumption of the Markov model only using the current word as its state.
> It’s really easy to eliminate them

Isn't that a good thing?
>If the job is going unfilled, it isn't paying enough (either for conditions or to meet worker needs at some level), simple as that.

For an individual Role, yes. for an economy, no, because you run into supply limitations.

But anyways, that isnt the question. The question is which jobs add value and how to structure an organization so that it is efficient and effective.

If your organization is crappy enough, you might not be able to get net value out of roles, even if you fill them.

>900+ US school districts have moved to a four day week to retain teachers [1] [2], for example, because they have no other choice.

From what I have seen in California Schools, there is more than enough money for teacher salary, but the grift and organization is the problem. State funding is ~ 23k per student, you have 30 students per class, or $700k/class. The average salary of public school teachers in 2021–22 for the State of California was $88,508.
Who knew Garry Tan was this based!