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BJJ is really what you make of it. I'm older, so probably tap quicker than necessary when training but my ego was beat out of me a long time ago hah. I'm also not competing, and I'm selective with my training partners. It makes BJJ one of the safest sports I've done outside of finger injuries. Snowboarding, wakeboarding, basketball, and football all hurt me way more to the point I 'retired' from them /knocks on wood.
My mom had a concussion in the 1960s and was repeatedly told by her doctor that she was not to do any activities that put her at risk of another head-injury for at least 6 months because sequential concussions are so bad.

You can imagine her reaction when the NFL played stupid with "we had no idea the players needed so long to recover" 40 years later.

I think helmets were, to a large degree, merely there so that the fans could pretend players weren't getting concussions as often as they really were. Boxing fans (and non-fans) are aware that getting hit in the head a lot is bad, but there aren't enough boxing fans in the US to fill a single NFL stadium, much less 16 a week.
EPA announces national regulations for "forever chemicals" in drinking water
It’s not an admin vulnerability, so there’s no hatchway. The real issue here is blindly passing user-provided input to a batch script, possibly from the Internet, and if you’re doing that then you’ve got much bigger problems. If you’re doing it using an account with any kind of privileges, you’re kinda asking to get broken into.
It would be foolish to underestimate the long term capabilities of a sufficiently funded and driven competitor
They're soaring now, they'll be crashing next. Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm.
Why wouldn't phishing fall under trust and safety? Perhaps not primarily - but it's definitely a trust and safety event.
> "The artistic and cultural aspect of writing is readily converted to propaganda usage," Linebarger wrote in the book's new conclusion.

And how!
Btw, I started out using it with KOreader but have ended up just using the built-in reader because it does everything I need. The smaller Boox devices are great too, but their USB plug placement decisions are sometimes VERY WEIRD (my Note Air has a hole in the case spine to allow me to plug in with the cover closed, for example—not a dealbreaker, just odd).
what is mongo's new licensing model?
I'm not sure why the bigger issue isn't being talked about more, but yes, algorithms and "AI" are deployed in fashions that optimize profit. That's it. Profit. It's only getting much, much worse.
What if the hourly rate is outrageous ?

I ran into an issue where my Mac basically wouldn't work for a remote job. Paid 1k for a gaming laptop and it was more than worth it.

I ended up making about 2x as much as I wouldn't of at a different job.

There's no hard rule here. If you had a job offer for 90$ an hour would you really pass that up because you didn't want to buy a Windows laptop?
>By "Rest of the world" you really just mean a handful of Western European nations with stagnant economies

Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South-East Asia, South/Central America and Africa all work much shorter hours than East Asian nations.
Speaking naively (I have no insight into the situation), I would guess that this is probably the result of the officials in charge not having technical understanding and contracting it all out. Contractors aren’t going to be choosing the quick or cost-effective option, because that’d undercut their profits.
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# Are these two lines actually faster than the
# interpreter creating defaults at call time?

You're proposing that the interpreter add a check for every default parameter in every function signature; that it should optionally fire off arbitrary code for each and every one. And when you consider that high-performance Python involves writing C extensions, your proposal would be to move that check out of the compiled code and into the slow interpreted space is, yes, a major performance hit.
Exactly. Our tax rates were cut (very slightly) this year, but valuations are still up so the tax bill is up as well. The city acts like we should be super grateful.
I'm dubious about this. I've worked similar schedules and I just didn't see a point in living.
Didn't it used to be that they broke often when you would keep them in the sun, even for a little?
I already answered re: slack above, but spotify is just slow, ugly, and doesn't conform to native interface expectations. Granted, this is also largely true of iTunes, but the issue is much less flagrant there.
It’s not everywhere though, FreeBSD for example doesn’t use it.
I go so far as to log all sessions, everything that comes across the screen. Sometimes it's a lifesaver or just convenient to be able to grep through everything to find a specific command, sql query, their output, etc.

One time long ago I wiped out a long crontab by using -r instead -e and got a perfect recent copy from my terminal history, so no harm done.
Are rents falling in Austin because they don't use RealPage?
> There have always been companies where certain opinions were deemed "controversial" and could get someone fired.

Can you provide some examples?
Well, this is hacker news, so a generous reading of the comment is that it is being mapped to semantics most of us here fully grok, and not as a general audience rewording for accounting.
> but they still contain too much starch and it is impossible to use them exclusively to provide enough proteins within a diet of not more than 2000 kcal/day, suitable for a sedentary life style.

Lentils have 26g of protein and 353 calories per 100g, and eggs have 13g of protein and 143 calories per 100g, so the ratio is 13.5 for lentils and 11 for eggs.

Doesn't seem all that different.
Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday
I was in the exact same position as you.

I had a kindle voyage which I jailbroken to put Koreader on. Because of the micro USB and lack of water proofing I decided to upgrade (the device was around 8 years old).

I got a Kobo Clara 2E, installing Koreader was very easy and works very well. Absolutely recommend.
> Worse, it won't ever work if you intended it to be a JavaScript replacement because it cannot integrate into the interaction of the surrounding page, because it is a sandbox without compromise

That is a pretty bold statement considering that Blazor actually does allow you to ditch JavaScript and very much integrates with the surrounding page.

It is true that for manipulating the DOM, Blazor internally needs to go through JavaScript as there are no direct WASM-to-DOM binding (yet).

But you, as a developer, can develop sites that runs its interactivity using webassembly instead of Javascript.
Clace uses SQLite as the filesystem for storing app files. This has some advantages in terms of being able to store the file etag hash value, brotli compress the files, deduplicate files across apps (especially useful for preview apps which have lots of duplicate data) etc. Clace is also designed for very light footprint, thousands of apps can be installed on a server. Since apps are lazy loaded, the memory/cpu load on the system is minimal.

Clace request routing is designed for Hypermedia driven apps. This makes HTMX driven user interfaces easy to build since the full page and partial request are automatically handled at the routing level. See https://github.com/claceio/apps/blob/main/utils/bookmarks/ap... for an example app.

https://demo.clace.io/ has some demo apps, all running on a single Clace server instance.
Not to mention that construction has seen little gains in productivity over the past few decades resulting in the Baumol effect in the industry. There's little reason that constructing new housing cannot be automated to the degree that car construction is automated, but a variety of regulatory hurdles and little foreign competition makes building construction prices rise steadily. We need a well-funded startup to pull an Uber and indiscriminately sidestep regulation to disrupt the real estate market.
GPT-4: big jump in math/reasoning
Well... I feel slightly better about Boston constantly pushing back being able to use our phones as tickets after seeing the timeline for the transition and how just that they are still doing this.

What is it about public transit in the US that it is so... bad? Inadequate funding seems to be the easy one, but the MBTA (Boston) doesn't even handle the funds it has well. Yeah it needs more funding but there is also just a core issue to how it's run.

It is sad to see the state of public transit in this country, particularly in dense urban areas where we should be discouraging Car use as much as possible.

I am very curious what other countries are doing that we are not.
I have had koreader on my Kobo Aura One for years without any problems. I haven't needed to mess with it or update koreader or anything which is nice, don't even remember how I installed it.
I think there’s a loophole with endurance athletes and asthma medication as well. But I would not immediately think, “mood or judgement altering” there.

We are still looking at whether over the counter pain killers are mood altering substances. I’ve seen circumstantial evidence of this in myself. (Though I don’t think I’d want me or a friend to fight on painkillers - reduced coagulation and bruises are no joke).
In Europe I believe you can request an 80% work week, I've seen job posting and heard it second hand. Here's a Swiss example, https://threema.ch/en/jobs#openings of 80-100% jobs

In North America there were and are a number of companies that operate or operated (pre-layoffs etc, ZIRP free money RIP) on a 4 day work week. You can search "4 day companies" and you'll find a list. Some companies still operate on a 4 day week, so it wasn't necessarily a ZIRP-era only thing.

US congress or someone in government proposed a 32 hour work week -- unlikely to be passed of course or get any traction any time soon.

But in general, there's growing mainstream sentiment towards trying and exploring shorter work weeks.

If AI/AI-enabled-capitalists doesn't enslave us, those grandiose promised AI productivity gains may push sentiment further in that direction.

So "moving towards" is a fair description.
Yes that's exactly right, the extremely complex and clever code in ffmpeg that's understood by about 12 people in the world and is the basis for the entire media consumption in the world isn't where the value is, some gui frontend is.

Do you work for microsoft?
Disabling script signing on dev machines and requiring signatures on production scripts sounds like perfectly reasonable behavior to me. I know a lot of people are scared of pki but it’s way easier than people think. Signing things is a one liner, I keep certs on a portable HSM and it’s really low friction.
Your so-called internet account, pseudonym or otherwise, is always a fictional identity – which is to say not an identity that is related to any real person. While our understanding of the technology no doubt assumes there is a real person pulling knobs and levers behind the scenes, that's just an implementation detail. If the software was updated so that the human lever pulling was replaced with a suitably advanced generative AI, nobody would notice. Nothing about the experience would change. It is not about people. In that kind of venue, it is all about the software. There is no attack on you, a person. For all intents and purposes, you don't exist.

Therein lies the challenge, though. Some people, especially people who didn't grow up before the likes of Reddit, fail to understand that people and software are not the same thing. The things that fly online don't fly the same way in person, but there is a prevailing shift, particularly with the younger generation, towards treating the in-person experience the same as the online experience; to see them as the same thing. That's where we see problems emerge.
Deutsche Telekom, Airbus slam plan allowing Big Tech access to EU cloud data
Yep. Labor laws that can be bypassed by outsourcing+importing are a complete joke, this was known when they were passed, and the resulting "compromise" reflects the reality of who was actually in charge. We need to fix this, but we'll have the same opponents as we had before, so it will be an uphill battle.

It would be pretty funny to see Capitalist America twist Communist China's arm into un-fucking their labor relations. The irony would be palpable. Alas, this is going to be one hell of a tough sell in Capitalist America precisely because we are Capitalist.
But isn't it really slow (like 20x or so) than native FFMPEG?
Also, it is difficult to sell a solution of "well - we aren't really modernizing the system, we are just putting a fix in place that pretends like it is a floppy drive."

I would guess higher ups don't want to spend money on a band-aid without really fixing the problem.
More kobo love :)

After aching eyes from being a heavy reader of ebooks on my iPhone, I got the cheapest most basic kobo - basic even by the standards of the day when I brought it - and instantly fell in love.

Haven’t needed to change default software, haven’t needed to enable WiFi etc. just need a usb cable and calibre app and it all just works great.

My fiction addiction is through the roof. Never realised how big a deal getting a kobo is.
Then this would be one of those cases where working around a problem (the lack of negative numbers) actually resulted in a superior product. You don't want negative numbers because that would require the description of a category to change based on whether it is positive or negative. You wouldn't want to be changing "Assets" to "Liabilities" every time the number goes below zero.

You don't need negatives in accounting, because anything that is affecting a number differently than the rest (reducing rather than increasing), needs to be accounted for separately. Imagine showing negative revenue. That would be mostly useless. You want to see how much revenue you had, and in a separate entry, how many expenses. Imagine how misleading it could be to show $0 in expenses last month, when in reality, you had $100 in expenses, but you subtracted $100 out because you returned some big purchase from last month and got a refund.
The Law of Supply & Demand is to blame.
I think this is the strongest argument, but the sticking point is still the interface actually integrating with the OS environment well. Otherwise Java/C# would have taken off as a de-facto portable solution decades ago (and, in fact, this seems to work pretty well for stuff like games where native integration isn't a factor—most of my favorite games these days run on some sort of managed code, and in fact modding would be much more difficult without this).

Granted, at least the browser code uses native widgets, but the look/feel and layout still tend to be way off.
I could see it working with boxing treating someone trapped in the corner as a knockdown (1 point deduction) and moving them back to the middle. Nothing will truly prevent concussions in heavyweight fights though, a single punch coming from an unexpected angle can be enough there.
https://archive.is/MAfYj
Correct! I had an @x.com email address when I worked at PayPal a long time ago.
I thought it had been a while, only felt somewhat confident in saying 2 to 3 months ago.

This article doesn't really add anything and its from a major site, so that makes this even more confusing.

I mean, not that we should not talk about it and we should continue to shine al light on it. But, idk something about that feels weird.
Seems unlikely unless the company has a very high profile, and even then I don't think anyone blames the rank and file for executive-level offenses. Most of the big tech companies have constant investigations and fines imposed. Google and Tesla have ongoing discrimination lawsuits but I doubt that affects their developers looking for jobs.

If you have knowledge of or participate in something you know to be illegal that makes the news, that may come back on you.
Internet price hikes for low-income Americans in May as federal funds run dry
Some notes on For loops
Price fixing and no penalty for leaving units vacant.
The downvotes are interesting to me. Apparently Hacker News readers think Hacker News isn't social media. The ratio of user generated commentary to content on this site is 1000:1.

Is Substack social media? I don't know. We can't measure (don't know) what percentage of Jon Haidt's audience came from people who heard about his books or saw him on TV appearances. He should have a dashboard showing what audience comes from Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and syndicated news (like Business Insider). Substack is social media in all the ways that matter - it wouldn't exist in the absence of Twitter and Facebook, surely, and syndicated news like Business Insider which would cease to exist in the absence of Twitter too.

This is to say that the reason media critics are hypocrites is because they're really saying, "Anything that amplifies voices or ideas I like is good, especially mine, and everything else is bad." Like yeah, sure Jon Haidt, maybe your opinion about TikTok would be different if you were a successful influencer on it. You would simply say that there are more good things than bad, and that you shouldn't throw the baby away with the bathwater with it, or whatever. Well I think Substack is just a bunch of low effort syndicated opinions, but I have the wisdom to not say we should get rid of it, or that because Substack is stupid, people reading it are stupid. It wouldn't be true, but it would be a vibe.

I'm not sure if anyone is immune to media criticism hypocrisy, even Alexandria Ocasio Cortez criticizes Facebook while in the same breadth spending millions on political advertising on it. What can we do?
That's exactly what I thought of. Hopefully that model can shield from any lawsuit attempts.
GP was referring to the ends of a bell curve in a meme picture. I’m not sure what you are referring to but I think it’s something else.
Loki 3.0 release: Bloom filters, native OpenTelemetry support, and more
It actually does, in case anybody wonders. But it seems as if it's not fine tuned to chat, or i'm doing it wrong at the moment. Getting a lot of duplicates and non useful answers.
> There's little reason that constructing new housing cannot be automated to the degree that car construction is automated

What experience do you have that you would be able to make a lofty claim like this?

Are the people working at DR Horton and Lennar and the like missing something obvious? I figure businesses that construct and sell tens of thousands of homes in a year are at the bleeding edge of figuring out how to most efficiently construct a house.
In my own research, I found that home testing was not always great. If you wanted an accurate and broad test, you had to send samples out to a lab. It wasn't massively expensive ($50-100), but it was close enough to the cost of a filtration system that it's probably not worth it for an individual.

If you want to do it for your town, that's great! Perhaps your local news station would be interested, too.
I'm not even a car person, and I can name 2-3 domestics attempts during each of those eras.

Nobody's ignoring anything. It's just a hard market for them to sustain because demand is reletively low here and margins are thin as part of the market's intense price sensitivity.

It's a good place for new/foreign manufacturers to gain brand awareness because niche demand persists but it's not profitable enough for any car maker really benefits to focus on here, where luxury/design/size all invite much bigger profits
You are correct that this would be much simpler if the only goal was to replace the floppy disk part of the system.

The floppy disk angle is there to make a good headline. The article makes it clear this is a much bigger project than just replacing the floppy disks.

"The detail[ed] project schedule will be finalized once we have a contractor onboard. This is effectively a multi-phase decade long project that starts with pieces of market street subway and pieces in the surface. Ultimately our goal is to have a single train control system for the entire rail system," said Tumlin.
The trick is, most work doesn't require you to be super productive. For example you could literally sleep through a lengthy meeting.
Do you have any recommendations?

I assume this is the one you’re talking about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

I was curious, went to the end (page 699!) and it’s pretty interesting. But obviously it’s hard to find the important ones.
This would break every website that wants to track what links you click on by sneakily rewriting the link under your nose. Which, to be fair, is a use case that I'm all for breaking, but it would make Google mad, so it won't happen.
Yeah, GP really undermined their point with the whole "google x" and see.

For most people who aren't accountants though, the spreadsheet thing is correct.
How to live without your phone
I love my Kobos (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39993062). When they die, I'll replace them with another Kobo. It's so easy to get things onto them. For my Libra, plug it into a computer (or iPad) with a USB cable and it shows up as a drive I can drag files onto. The Elipsa supports Dropbox and Google Drive so I can add files those ways, too. It also has built-in Libby integration that lets me reserve and download library books from the device itself.

Of course they make it very easy for you to buy books from their own store, but I've never felt like they made it artificially hard to ad content through other methods to benefit their own book sales. That's different from what my friends tell me about their Kindles.
I think the government is involved which means the task must primarily be an effort to funnel large amounts of money around to just the right people while facilitating all the best changes to whatever they can find within N degrees of separation from the project itself, (where N approaches infinity.)
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> Labor laws that can be bypassed by outsourcing+importing are a complete joke,

All labor laws can be bypassed by importing; it's a natural economic consequence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_price_equalization . Only restrictions on trade can slow the equalisation of wages across two countries.
> No longer can you just throw something out there, no matter how stupid

Obviously this is not the context you're talking about, but I find this issue with brainstorming type sessions these days as well these days. Not just work sessions either, as another example, I'm on the advisory board for a local club, and the first meeting was really barren for quite a while.

It's gotten to the point that I always make sure to voice my philosophy early on - "not all ideas are good, but many good ideas start out as bad ideas and become good through conversation" - and proceed to throw a few incredibly stupid ideas to the group to break the ice. It seems to help.
I find it weird that not everyone agree Meta and Facebook and social networks in general are doing some good the the society and our democracies; yet they manage to spend incredible amount of money/energy/time to develop solutions to problems we aren't exactly sure are worth solving…
Not OP but personnaly I preferred the traditional approach of FastMail who has been in business for long time and are doing only mail while Proton seems too gimmicky to me. Coming from VPN business (and having proved not being that reliable) didn’t help. I just don’t believe their marketing, especially the CERN confusion.