skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Nearly half of US office workers expressed concern that AI might take their jobs in a February survey by investment banking biz Jefferies.”

I struggle to find this to be a meaningful metric because I don’t expect the surveyed workers to be an authority on the subject. All this tells me is that they think they have a bullshit automatable job and that they are scared.

Human history is littered with people being afraid of technology while it is actively improving their lives.
Meh, that’s a lot of words to say you want all of the benefits of an open system, but without any of the problems.

Maybe let’s legislate a good-guys-only crypto back door while we’re at it.
I believe RIP Medical Debt ARE the “collection agency”. They buy the medical debt for cents on the dollar from the hospital, then cancel it out.
Polkit is entirely redundant (dbus has its own permission system, not that you need it) and it's trivial to build a linux desktop without it. (None of my systems have it installed, e.g.)

Dbus is harder to replace, since the complexity addicts at Redhat and KDE decreed it to be The Default Linux IPC, but realistically, most programmers who think they need could do with a solution 10% as complex and 10x as fast. (dbus-broker is a step in the right direction, but not radical enough.)
Very nice! Reminds me of OpenBenches: https://openbenches.org/

You've missed one 'airports' in the footer: 'This page lists pianos that have been confirmed to be in airports around the world.'

Thought about branching out into train station organs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station_organ?us...
The article says #rgb is used 25% of the time... but Chrome gives a warning about it
Looking at google, to help you understand, you could use the word "communalism", here it would mean to "significantly prefer/select from a specific religious group".

Here an example in India:
https://vajiramandravi.com/quest-upsc-notes/communalism/
They wrote an article on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...

> The Times also looked at whether to capitalize white and brown in reference to race, but both will remain lowercase. Brown has generally been used to describe a wide range of cultures, Mr. Baquet and Mr. Corbett said in their memo to staff. As a result, its meaning can be unclear to readers; white doesn’t represent a shared culture and history in the way Black does, and also has long been capitalized by hate groups.

Assuming you _actually_ care about the answer to the question and aren't just looking to get angry.
https://imgur.com/a/8aEmtDy ?
Historically, it was designed to resemble C#, yet transpile to GNOME-like GObject-based C code, to provide an alternative way for GNOME developers to get higher level language syntax without having to depend on Mono/C# (which was very controversial at the time).

So the biggest difference from C# or Java is that there is no VM. It is mostly syntactic sugar over C and GObject.

At least, this was the case last I paid attention 15 years ago.
I like how a foundational layer of maslov's hierarchy of needs is just something we shrug off as unattainable to many, but god forbid we discourage people from chasing profits at the expense of all else
I implemented a Snapcast client[0] in Rust, with the goal of having synchronized speakers, using only an ESP32 per speaker. I didn't get to the ESP32 part that weekend though, probably it'll come on the next one.

[0]: https://github.com/DavidVentura/snapcast-client
Sorry, should have flagged as sarcasm. American Airlines yearly reporting said they had ~52 billion gross for 2023 and that is just one airline. At a 2% profit, that is 1 billion (or 1,000 million) in profit for the year, just for them. Not sure what the gross revenue for the entire industry is.
I absolutely agree. I learned the hard way that they cannot be trysted and will use the different communication channels to their own advantage. Still kind of shocks me as a German who usually went with “they do weird things but you can generally trust the state”.
Well, according to this: https://www.space.com/dancing-black-holes-merge

"Based on all the observations of gravitational waves, astronomers estimate that there are somewhere between 15 and 38 black hole mergers every year within every cubic gigaparsec of volume in the universe (about 1/12000th of the total volume of the observable universe)"

According to this: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/40-quintillion-black...

"By combining information about stars, black holes, and stellar and cosmic evolution all together, astronomers have the first robust estimate for black holes in the Universe: 40 quintillion"

So, just for black hole mergers, it would be really, really rare. There are probably orders of magnitude more black holes that are just orbiting each other.

Neutron star and black hole statistics I leave as an exercise for the reader ;)
>Where the problem comes from is that people put off procedures that are necessary because they are afraid of the debt.

there isn't a singular problem in a country where your credit score can dictate the quality of your future.

Yes, you should put out the medical fires first, but to pretend that it's smooth sailing afterwards is to be blind to half of the issue.
> I badly want to learn the historical reason for this insistence that non-Italian-speaking foreigners must understand the contract they're entering into. They wouldn't put up these hoops to jump through unless someone's gotten badly burned in the past, right?

Turn the situation around. Rich Italian imports wife from poor country, … easy to imagine how that can lead to all sorts of bad situations. It’s one of the ways human trafficking for prostitution happens.
In Sweden you can sell your company either to used as a "shelf company", meaning the buyer will later resell it, or you can sell it with the promise that it will be dissolved/liquidated and not resold.

It seems much more popular to sell it to be dissolved since there are some risks involved with someone else using it in the future.

So I can understand if it is not very popular in Germany either to sell a company to be re-used.

What surprises me is that it seems to be a good sized market in Germany for someone to provide a service where they buy your company and later dissolve it, but the service doesn't exist (?)

The formal process in Germany seems simple enough. Just sign a sales contract at a public notary, the buyer replaces the CEO, and you're done.

Since this doesn't really seem to exist (?), I assume the potential liabilities for the buyer are so great that the service price would be much too high?
> This is of course influenced by the patterns they learned.

So is your brain. So is mine.

> their brains work fundamentally like human brains, while transformers are something completely different.

I brought up the dog/cat analogy because those animals, while intelligent, are unbelievably dumb in some ways that are difficult for humans to comprehend. When people say that LLMs can't reason, they typically bring up certain tasks where the LLM falls on its face. I could bring up cases in which my dog fails in some task in a way that is completely incomprehensible to me. He's intelligent, but he has some puzzling blind spots.

Transformers mechanically work very differently from the human brain, but they also share a lot in common. They are a neural system that learns an internal representation of the world, and which is able to use that representation to reason about novel situations and give rational answers.
A Map of Known Pulsars (Interactive)
“On average, they found, employers contacted the presumed white applicants 9.5 percent more often than the presumed Black applicants.

Yet this practice varied significantly by firm and industry. One-fifth of the companies — many of them retailers or car dealers — were responsible for nearly half of the gap in callbacks to white and Black applicants.

…

On average, companies did not treat male and female applicants differently. This aligns with other research showing that gender discrimination against women is rare in entry-level jobs, and starts later in careers.

However, when companies did favor men (especially in manufacturing) or women (mostly at apparel stores), the biases were much larger than for race.

...

Being gay, as indicated by including membership in an L.G.B.T.Q. club on the résumé, resulted in a slight penalty for white applicants, but benefited Black applicants — although the effect was small, when this was on their résumés, the racial penalty disappeared.”

That’s more positive than I expected from the headline! The problems are improving and concentrating.
I guess it solves for tiny community centered around a clean language, which it has, as well as Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments mostly written in Vala, like ElementaryOS and Pantheon. Related HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32787251
Pretty sure draw.io _used_ to be draw.io

Probably DNS issues that come from using other countries TLD led them to change it?
As someone that came through London Heathrow this morning - most of the time it's because half of the gates are switched off, seemingly for no reason as far as I can tell. Combine that with the fact that US, EU and UK passports can all use these in the UK, I'm sure if i went to the "other countries" line I'd probably get through faster
Yuki Matz, Dave Thomas, José Valim and Others at EuRuKo in September
Unpaid debt ages off your credit report after 7 years anyway.
Can anyone prove if they actually follow through?

If not, it is completely meaningless then isn't it?
What it's like to run Htmx in Production
Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
There's far more to a RAG pipeline than chunking documents, chunking is just one way to interface with a file. In our case we use query decomposition, document summaries and chunking to achieve strong results.

Your right that chunking is just one piece of this. But without quality chunks you're either going to miss context come query time (bad chunks) or use 100X the tokens (full file context).
hacker news finally did something about reposts and automatically upvoted the post. I tried to post this and was instead taken here. I actually tried searching for a prior post but it didn’t show up.

Working paper doi: 10.3386/w32313
Yeah the real story here seems to be that solar panels now so cheap that people can waste them on pointless stunts like this.
The non-reporting is only for cleared medical debt, which means it was paid off. Also it has to be under $500. Which we all know in the US. There is no medical bill under $500. This thing that Biden Admin did is useless for people that have medical debt.
https://www.cnbc.com/select/medical-debt-credit-report/
Arguably? Definitely!
Absolutely not. I've lived in 2 cities in Germany for 2 years and Germans are the nicest people I've ever met. That's my second immigration and I travel a lot, so I can compare.
I found this while searching if my brilliant app idea had already been done. My city had a smattering of bike spots marked, mostly in the downtown area. I've been filling in what little parking I can find in the plazas in my neighborhood. Zooming out and seeing a busy shopping block with hundreds of car parking spots and only a few bike parking spots certainly puts our transportation priorities into perspective.
> Leadership is about people, not about tasks

That may be true, but I wouldn't say that the average human manager is particularly good at balancing these two aspects effectively.

There are a lot of "leaders" I've worked for whom I'd gladly replace with Llama 2, let alone a future AI that's actually intended for it.
To be able to execute, save, and share your flows, you need to log in. My favorite thing to do is probably congregate date utilizing some API request nodes or just in one big Python script node, then feed that in a variable prompt to AIPrompt node and then email what it generates.
My wife has a problem at airports related to her name. When we married, she changed her name from Ann Betty Smith to Ann Smith Jones. That is, first name Ann, middle name Smith, last name Jones. Some federal agency or another entered her name into their database as first name Ann, no middle name, last name “Smith Jones”.

Now her drivers license is “Ann” “Smith” “Jones”, but we signed up with TSA Precheck and it expects her name to be “Ann” “Smith Jones”. Every time we travel, someone at the airport has to reconcile it.

We’re currently in the middle of spending $600 to legally change her name from Ann Smith Jones to Ann Smith Jones. That’s what the ad we had to run in the newspaper says.
Real physical acoustic pianos have a latency of about 30ms (the hammer has to be released and strike the string).

Musicians learn to lead the beat to account for the activation delay of their instrument - drummers start the downstroke before they want the drum to sound; guitarists fret the note before they strike a string… I don’t think keyboard latency would make rhythm games unplayable provided it’s consistent and the feedback is tangible enough for you to feel the delay in the interaction.
Overlapping doesn‘t work due to the fact that individual small cells of a bigger panel - when shaded - greatly diminish the output of the entire solar panel.
This thread is discussing limited-liability companies. You're personally liable for that Kleinunternehmer, in Germany your only option is a GmbH.
The Shackleton story is one of the greatest tales of survival and rescue of the 20th century, if not for all time. This discovery is as amazing and significant as the locating of the Titanic or the K-129 submarine. In those waters, the Endurance should remain intact for centuries.
> A secondary goal was to prevent merchants from getting and storing your payment information. So that's perhaps a plus.

Can Google or Apple see what is being purchased through those apps? I'm assuming not, but not knowing the answer to this has kept me using my credit card to tap with since that method doesn't add yet another company into the mix (at least as far as I know). Especially one, in the case of Google, whose main business model is selling my information to others or using it to target me for ads.
> The data is published in English as well. https://www.destatis.de/EN/Home/_node.html

Dankeschön.

If I'm reading this right (I may not be, see previous comment: I am not an economist), half of the revenue is spend on social security: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Government/Public-Finance/...

This is weirdly out of date, I don't know why the link was to a URL from 2013 whose content is about 2017, but it says for that year, 57% was social security: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Government/Public-Finance/...

> This isn't what I said.

Indeed, it was an example of the category alone, and not even intended to imply you have that specific detailed opinion.

Thing is, the stuff I linked to are all vague large-scale groupings, and I can't dig into any of them and say "Max Mustermann from the… *rolls dice* cultural affairs department, is spending too much on… *rolls dice* trying to promote Sendung mit der Maus to… *rolls dice* the Swiss" — and even if I could dig in at that level, I wouldn't be able to comprehend the value, only the cost.

(Würde jemand sagen, "von allem den Preis, von nichts den Wert", oder ist das nur die Uberzetsung des Oscar Wild Zitat?)
I mean, there is the whole scrum shebang (along with “scrum masters”, charts, etc.), which I had an “opportunity” to try multiple times before and hate with passion.

And then there is just a daily eng standup with no bs involved, which I like and found it useful if done properly (aka no going on off-tangent stories that have little relevancy for everyone else). We just join the meeting, all give status updates, ask any questions or talk about whatever is needed to be discussed to move forward, and that’s it.

Super useful, fairly informal, no time wasted. For a team of 4, those daily meetings would take us 15-20 minutes at the very most, and that’s accounting for questions/discussions. Often enough, they would be under 10 mins.
a credit score locks people out of an entire tier of purchases that could reasonably be paid off over time if they weren't entirely opt-ed out by credit, it isn't just fancy phones and internet services.

i've known home-owners that can't get financed for things like air conditioners because of medical debt -- and they were home owners -- and large appliances like that constitute large purchases espescially for those on fixed incomes; this essentially means there is a group of people that own homes, , likely retired so they're working on a fixed income and could surely use the flexibility of finance options, need to finance the repairs, and can't because of unrelated medical debt.
Vala compiles to native code, no VM or runtime required other than GTK+.
That is slowly changing.

One small example - my dermatologist always mentions the cost of procedure or medication, at least in very general terms (X is available as a generic, or procedure A costs more than B). She can't get into details, since that's all negotiated on the back end and obfuscated behind my copays and deductibles. But, it's better than nothing.
The article says the Netflix adaptation isn't available in China, and that they are watching it through vpns or piracy. There have been domestic adaptations of it, that I assume are generally available.
Pure propaganda.
> but haven't seen any apps built with it yet.

The gitg git gui is written in vala. I've used it for several years because it allows easy staging of individual lines, as well as reverting them.

https://github.com/GNOME/gitg/tree/master/gitg
Five U. S. dollars:

https://www.dmachoice.org

I've done it, and in a matter of weeks the junk just disappears for the most part. Lasts ten years, and I think we're about due for a re-up at our house, as the junk is leaking back in.
Hi, I like it, maybe u can try to add SEO tags so new pages can get indexed
The most charitable explanation I could come up with for this is that many Microsoft-owned 1st party code paths try to change the default browser to Edge, and Microsoft can’t find them all.

So instead for compliance the compliance team makes it so all the existing Microsoft code to edit the setting doesn’t work any more and only the code owned by compliance team can edit the setting.

This has the “unfortunate” side effect of also breaking 3rd party code that edits the setting.
In the UK the e-gates are not automated. Your picture goes a few meters to a staffed desk who operates I think 8 gates.

It's an efficiency measure not an automation and as such is subject to the usual staffing problems.
All 3 of my (german) banks for example. One bank here (N26) even only allows a single(!) smartphone for 2FA. So if I lose my phone... well, screw me.
I Tried Tesla FSD
> So I have to click twice, change domains

If you start from the github source code repo, instead of starting from the official website.

I guess.

If you're determined to be disappointed, I suppose you'll find a way. Whatever.
Loved that, thanks. I had a cat that I was told it was a male when given to me only to find out it was a female when the 1st heat came :) I also kept its male name.
Would the Times capitalise a reference to a black Brit or African?

It makes sense, I suppose, within American vernacular, though that same logic works for American whites (versus white people in general). It is somewhat funny if you think about it in terms of only American Blacks getting the capital "b".

> Assuming you _actually_ care about the answer to the question and aren't just looking to get angry

I consider this a nothingburger. But the repeated juxtaposition in this article gave a light all-caps feeling to Black versus white. I don’t think I’ve noticed the style choice since when they announced the change. Someone else might have noticed it for the first time.
It's really not. Plenty of people feel this way.
That is a _huge_ shift of the goalpost from "US is worse than third world countries"
> It is very faint and tacit, like you're perceiving a very abstract high-level representation of an object, instead of seeing actual "pixels".

Some people see details, some see colors, some see black and white, some see a misty fog, some see nothing.

It sounds to me like you're somewhere towards the aphantasic end of the spectrum, but I couldn't give you the exact percentile.
I'm sure HN users are technically competent enough to change the default browser setting. Not so sure about the average Windows user though...
How well the countries are doing? Nominal GDP/capita has been relatively stagnant in most of western Europe:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
Mysticism is defined through ignorant perceptions of life [video]
Rather intelligent deconstruction of delusional mysticism.
Making locally executing code think it's running on K8s
It’s hard to sell enterprise support if your product is simple and easy to understand.
This is only about founding a GmbH. Only to avoid high liabilities. ("beschraenkte Haftung")

A normal simple Einzelunternehmen is trivial. I needed about 2h just to avoid the trap of the Gewerbesteuerpflicht (tip: system software counts as freies gewerbe, application software development not!), went to the "Steuerbehoerde" (local tax office) and that was it. No "buchhalter", just Online Elster 4x a year for the USt, and 1x a year for the ESt.
Same as in the US or every other state. I did that in 3 countries so far. The US was easiest.

An engineering office is more complicated because of additional mandatory expensive IHK insurances and membership fees. TKK (Techniker Krankenkasse) is always better
https://github.com/LittleLightLittleFire/airprinter :)
I'm speechless, thank you very much! =)
Palmsy is a device-only "social network" to satisfy your posting itch
US-based panel manufacturers won't benefit.
I think I got in a rabbit-hole with it around 2010 for the same reason of liking C# but not liking who backs C#, but I already had enough not marketable languages
I initially read it as "AI might take their jobs in a February survey" and it got me thinking what exactly the AIs would be surveyed about. If the AIs will be asked about whether they'd like to take on each particular type of job, I can absolutely imagine the AIs rejecting some as not worthy of their time and leaving them to us.
> is useless for people that have medical debt

Strongly disagree. Being able to take your time to pay a debt when in a cash crunch without worrying about the long-term impacts on your credit is material.
Are there any moderately wealthy nations that use this system? Certainly, among OECD nations, that's not used.
The Mölln arson attack: 3 Turks were killed, including two children
The Solingen arson attack: A Turkish family were killed, three children and 2 women
NSU Murders: 10 Turkish small business owners were murdered
Hanau Attacks: 9 people were killed by far-right terrorist
March 2024 Solingen attack: A Turkish-Bulgarian family was murdered by arson attack.

2021 Report by Turkish Foreigners Community:
https://nfrt.blob.core.windows.net/nefretsuclari/PageModule/...

Only in 2021 there were 300+ attacks recorded towards Turkish people.

You have no clue how many unrecorded attacks have been carried out Turkish people in day to day life in Germany.

The truth is so obvious and EVERYONE ignores it. If you ask white Germans why they organize large protests for George Floyd and virtue-signal how liberal they were and yet they never raised their voice for all these murders and violence, you'll reach the racism in their heart.

The difference is that Turks do not accept the victim status and take measures in their own to protect themselves.

They even formed a gang just to protect themselves from skinheads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Boys

Any more citation you need? Do you need help digesting the truth?