skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the past couple of weeks, I've come across quite a bit of anecdotal evidence suggesting that a lot of people in the US -- but especially those earning below median income -- badly need to earn more to make ends meet. Food, energy, entertainment, sneaky hidden fees, and high interest costs seem to be the main culprits.

With unemployment near its lowest rate in 50+ years, the pressure is largely on employers to pay up if they want to retain good people.[a] I wouldn't be surprised if we see labor costs rising in the near term, putting pressure on companies everywhere to raise consumer prices further.

Some economists and government officials claim that inflation is under control, but the anecdotal data I'm seeing suggests it's too early to sing victory.

I hope I'm wrong.

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[a] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE/
> That sounds odd, do you buy particularly expensive ingredients?

Yes. Far more expensive than the cheap ingredients like the flours and oils of fast food. I focus on making my food as nutritionally dense as possible, which ain't cheap. But I ate a lot more than my share of fast-food first and did a lot of damage with it. I'm positive I'd be dead if I didn't change. That would certainly be a lot cheaper.
>As for the system problem, that is solved by building 5% more observing capacity.

If this is to somehow come from existing funding sources, I'll need a moment to pick myself up off the floor laughing. ;D Obviously those sources are already at their budget appetite.

Or maybe this an Efficient Market / Pigouvian suggestion, where megaconstellaton operators pay (and pass on to their customers) into an Astronomical Reparation Fund worth ~5% of current global astronomy funding, to be distributed to astronomical grants and construction of new observatories? Because sure, that seems fair.

If you truly believe (as do I) that we value internet access more than the loss of scientific data, then you'll agree the internet users can easily reimburse scientists for the damage and still come out ahead. "You broke it, you buy it."

> If you add ~5% to your grant proposal

..then I'll add 10% to mine!

It's a race to the bottom. Eventually folks get sick of it, so they enact rules and enforcement mechanisms to prevent padding. In the end all we accomplish is transforming an efficient & high-trust system into an overhead-laden, low-trust system.
Kayaker's hours trapped under rapids – writes about out of body experiences
Starting from my discussion in [1], you can find a sort of antiderivative of natural numbers by finding which natural number (if any) ∫F_n maps to. Note however that D is not injective and has no inverse.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327885
I don't know man, there's a ton of immediately observable difference between a $100 Amazon acoustic guitar and a Henkes & Blazer dread...
Thank you, that was the number I was remembering as well, but it seemed so crazy low I didn't want to repeat it. Even a dysfunctional U.S. Congress should be able to cough up that much money.
I have a personal rule that if I can remember the last time I ate fast food, it's too soon to eat it again. That seems to space it out to no more than a handful of times a year, and I agree that seems to be about the oftenest I would like it to be.
> OpenThread is by Google, and not the thread group.

Wow. So Google is in the Thread Group, and so is licensed to practice and ship the technology; which they do, in the form of OpenThread, under a permissive licence.

BUT anyone that uses OpenThread for anything at all is exposed to legal action unless they cough up the fees. Is that right?

So this is hard for me to understand: Google's OpenThread code is open to be inspected, and you can contribute to it, under a BSD-like licence; but Thread Group holds the IP, and reserves the right to sue. As always, the patents covering it are not listed, and some of them might be submarines. I don't see why it's called "Open" Thread, if you probably can't even use the library without a Thread Group licence.
No time limit for copyright claims but very strict limits for anything to do with labour rights - and they still keep telling us it's a country of laws.
what are you supposed to use instead, JSON-RPC?
Businesses need software to be less complex and easier to develop so it is cheaper.

I can’t imagine manual memory management on these large scale projects with a high variance of developer scale and opinions.
I’m saying that if confusion and annoyance has been the norm, then a quick translation for the general audience is in order.

Even better would be a differentiating name, but I realize
that’s unlikely.
Pretty soon after the initial launch of Jam.dev I tried as an alternative to Bugherd. At the time it was only screenshots and annotations and we were missing the browser information provided by the currently used tool.
It seems it's time to try it again, after many evolutions. As we mostly did frontend development and wanted feedback from clients, the killer feature for me was the selection and capture of a specific HTML element.
Could be, but in this case it may actually have real world implications.

LED wall displays are becoming more and more common, I’ve already seen ones that cause annoying reflections on road signs as they turn the retro-reflectors into a disco ball.

I’ve skimmed through the paper and I can’t understand how likely this to occur unintentionally in the wild but their strobing pattern doesn’t seem to be that aggressive so a combination of the animation itself on the sign and LED strobing due to PWM control can quite possibly cause similar interference.
Hm this seems potentially dangerous, doing MCAT practice I got:

Which of the following is NOT a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system?

serotonin
glutamate
acetylcholine
dopamine

Neurotransmitters in the central nervous system include serotonin, glutamate, and dopamine. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter in the peripheral nervous system.

However this is wrong. Acetylcholine is both a PNS and CNS neurotransmitter. The rest are also CNS neurotransmitters.

Here is an example of a real question that is similar but accurate: https://quizlet.com/explanations/questions/which-of-the-foll...
Court rules against Activision Blizzard in $23.4M patent dispute
Why the hell this idiotic website thinks I automatically want to watch their videos.
You don’t tip for takeaway unless you’re a mark.
like everything else, the common people are suffering. it's not just fast food or restaurant prices. even regular groceries.

then you hear someone from gvt saying rejoice the economy is booming. same as economists, forgetting people don't eat numbers.

just wish we had empathy, for our fellow human beings that's all.
My Eaton all-in-one CAFCI/GFCI circuit breakers CHFN115A1CS are acting up and are tripping without reporting a flash code (either nothing or solid on after reset). Older models CHFN115AF (CAFCI-only) and CHFN115DF seem to be fine (along with those older ones in 20 ampere varieties, but I don't have any of the new A1 in 20A).

Unsure if it's the electronics inside or just weird things being induced onto the power line that they don't like. Some of the tripped breakers had no load at all.
Well nobody is entirely sure how many tactical nuclear weapons Russia has. Nobody is really sure of much really. Do you remember that early propaganda wave about needing to only give Ukraine $xx billion more because Russian was imminently running out of missiles? It was Stoltenberg that called it the 'critical phase' of the war, then repeated by all the media, late 2022 if I recall correctly. Everything on these topics is at best kind-of-sort-of-not-really intelligent guesses. We can't even get the vaguely right ballpark figure for their conventional warheads, and there's minimal effort to keep that classified relative to nuclear.

But strategic nukes are a different beast those simply because of their size and requirement for specialized launchers, as well as their relative incongruence with conventional weapons delivery devices. You're not launching a strategic nuke out of a conventional rocket system (as could be the case for a tactical nuke) for sure! So this makes them, more or less, able to be reasonably estimated. It's still a pretty big guessing game, but it's generally going to be at least roughly in the right ballpark.
Ethnic grocers are also not national chains trying to extract every cent of profit from a community.
I agree with your assessment of walking out of a grocery store with two bags costing ~$200. I went to Canada to see the eclipse and was absolutely shocked how cheap it was to go to the grocery store. Not only was the currency conversion in my favor, the prices were reasonable and aligned to what I remember from pre-pandemic times. $200 Canadian had a completely full cart. Americans are absolutely being price-gouged.
No, but it would be nice if the bar had some kind of tooltip associated with it denoting who it's for.
when your eyes are motion tracking an object there is no cutting-out going on, that only happens when the brain intentionally decides to track a new object
In comparison to many of the lazy movies of today I find The Matrix still as jaw-dropping. Even the two sequels tried to push the envelope.

But the original one was just so brilliantly made
Try it at 00:30. In many places a Taco Bell is all that’s open.
> I tend to go multiple years between eating at a restaurant of any kind

Man, not to derail from the topic, but it never ceases to amaze me how varied our lifestyles can be. My wife and I have always loved going out to eat at restaurants, it would be a strange week where we didn't go out at least once.
From my perspective, food delivery apps have always been in the category of an extreme luxury, and I’m still somewhat shocked how many people seem to consider them as something to use on a regular basis.

I find them useful for placing an order in advance if I really want takeout, but then I go pick it up (I know there are still fees involved when ordering through an app, but I’ll often use the app just for the menu and call the restaurant directly to place the order). At that point I’m usually ready for a break in whatever I’m doing anyway.

But for people who order regularly, being able to cook and feed yourself is an essential life skill that should not be replaced by getting food delivery all the time.
Poor storytelling in modern cinema.
Girlfriend sent me pictures from Aarhus, DK. Was absolutely stunning!
'"Capturing the energy of a planet" isn't even a coherent concept.'

Galactus would like a word.
Uber recently charged me $75 for a single medium pizza - that never came. They refused a refund.

The delivery services have become outright fraud operated at scale in their desperate attempt to maintain profitability. It’s not going to work.
Likewise. My shower takes quite a long time to run hot, and I can usually hear when it has reached the point where it is no longer too uncomfortable to get in.
That depends on what "living wage" actually means.

What you describe is one of my concerns with UBI, but the devil is very much in the detail.
the phenomenon I describe is much simpler, and is remediated by having the backlight of a 60 Hz display have a very short single on strobe. If they backlight remains on or flashes multiple times during a single frame then the pixel will draw a long streak on the retina (because the eye was rotating to track a depicted moving object)
One is reminded of the "flying flags at half mast" custom (in the U.S., at least), where it has happened more and more often over time. Should all flagpoles just be made twice as high, since some good person has died every day of the year? It's a hard problem. Fortunately, it is also a problem that doesn't really _have_ to be solved.

Letting @dang (or whoever it is) decide is not a perfect system, but it's probably as good as any other. Imagine if either Biden or Trump died, the storm that would ensue if one side wants the black bar and the other is outraged at the idea.
> should HN black bar become community driven?

How do envision it would work?
How much effort do you think is it worth building out and maintaining such functionality?
This is just a consequence of the inflation countermeasures working.

During the inflationary period, people were flush with cash, demand increased, there were shortages, everyone raised prices, profits surged, companies hired workers for higher wages, people got more money, etc.. Everyone was mad because they got big raises, which were obviously the result of all their hard work which corporations suddenly saw and appreciated for a large percentage of people all at once and _also_ "greedy corporations" suddenly en masse decided that they no longer wanted to be charitable enterprises and decided to raise prices to steal money from the pockets of hard working americans.

Or, you know, there was a bunch of inflation and wages and prices went up in parallel.

And now money is no longer flowing into the economy, some companies went too far raising prices anticipating more inflation, and now they're losing sales and that's hurting profits, and they're going to end up cutting prices to increase sales and maximize profits again.

Nature is healing.

I think a lot of people have the impression that inflation reduces how much stuff people can afford and generally it's fairly neutral in that respect. There's a certain amount of production and a certain amount of demand and in general it will balance out and no matter what's' going on with inflation people are gonna be able to afford the same amount of stuff. I think people had this idea that if we got inflation under control that suddenly everyone would be able to afford to buy all the stuff they wanted to buy, and they just can't.

The main reason inflation is bad for most people is instability and you have to keep getting raises to keep up with prices. You get a raise, you can suddenly buy some stuff you couldn't before -- prices go up and now you can't again. Then you get a raise, can afford to buy a bunch of stuff, and prices go up and now you can't again. (not to mention that toll it takes on saving, but even that isn't that bad if you own stock instead of holding cash, because asset prices inflate, also)
Thank you, Internet stranger. This LLMNR/mDNS dichotomy has been on the back of my mind for quite some time. You've made it clear.
I live in a developing country. We stopped buying cakes/pastries long time ago, as they have become way too expensive for the quality. Home baked stuff is like 1/3 price for better quality.
I don't think there's a linear scaling — unless you think somehow wages are the only expense for companies like Walmart.
I mean, it is a country of laws. Just...some of those laws are pretty bad. For what it's worth, the Court in this case is narrowly focused on correcting a lower court's interpretation of the Copyright Act, not something in the Constitution or something fundamental, and on a first glance, I at least feel that their conclusion is highly justifiable. That doesn't mean the Copyright Act isn't fundamentally broken (it is, on my opinion), but that's trivially fixable by Congress if we get appropriately minded representatives.
Sydney, Australia. Temperate climates have a lot of grey sky, and we've had a lot more recently.
Here in Finland the terms for 3.5" floppies is "korppu", a type of hard biscuit, do distinguish them from "lerppu" "floppy", which refers to the older 5 1/4" discs that actually flopped around.
I am looking at the foto webcam images too and haven't seen the aurora myself, but the photos show a much longer timespan:
For Wildhaus the first image with a pink/greenish glow is at 22:22

https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2220

and this continues through the entire night
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2230

till shortly before sunset, where the exposure time probably shortens too much to capture the color of the the aurora
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/11/0420

Other locations:

https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ewa/2024/05/11/0330

https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/glecksteinhuette/2024/05/1...

https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/hochleckenhaus/2024/05/11/...
This entire discussion is about the price of goods going up even though people aren't being paid a living wage, so I'm not sure what argument you're making.
Then maybe we shall keep the man with an axe away from them.
People might remember the faux-cassette tapes with an analogue audio input, that you could use to play music from other sources on a tape-only car stereo.Does something similar exist for legacy floppy drives? Like a fake floppy with a micro SD card slotted in.

Packing it into an actual diskette might be challenging - I guess you'd need to read an encoder on the rotation. Perhaps if you had some legacy musical or scientific instrument with a tape drive you'd be better swapping out the whole drive with something that presented as a floppy drive to the device?
Cars on Film
No. Not everything, especially something this inconsequential, needs the input of a community. I actually can't think of a bigger waste of resources. A committee of elected folk to decide if someone's death warrants a 50PX bar being black?
Long term it will help. Those bypass surgeries aren't cheap
They aren't floppy. They're just called that because old disks really were floppy and the name stuck.
Details of what??! Things you already know you "Directors" (really they're just managers) do, with approval or instruction from the CEO?

You at Serp API took applicants for granted.

Now we'll reduce the flow of applicants.

What kind of game did you think you all were playing? "Screw these engineers, we can just kick them to the curb like trash. Hahaha! Who cares? They're disposable, they can't do anything about it."

See how that works? Ohh how the tables turn...

Don't worry-- You guys don't value job applicants anyway, as demonstrated by your behaviors. You won't miss them.

Note: I am choosing to treat your leadership like they treat job applicants: I am not giving you feedback.

Instead, I am giving feedback to everyone-- right here in this thread. And in next month's thread. And the month after that. This is what happens when you disrespect people with whom you share a open, public forum.

I think it's best if we all learn together.

Does Serp API provide feedback to rejected applicants, when those applicants put hours into their take-home project or test?

Given that no answer has been given on this, I assume the answer is No.

That was my experience and the experience of 1 person who commented, and possibly the 7 people who upvoted the initial reply I made.

That's basically punishing engineers-- disincentivizing them from applying to your company (and other companies who do this).

So, I am just here to let all Engineers know:

Serp API will not respect the time you put into applying to their company.

As is the case with many companies.

We engineers should all speak up about these practices. Companies will change if it effects their brand.

You negatively effect my resources? OK, I'll do the same back to you. Let's all play the game of not respecting each other and see where it gets us.
Yeah! And surgical tubing slingshots. A very small construction project where they can learn to use a speed square. Tune the slingshot or catapult until it can launch a handball into a 1x1 meter square some distance away. Also a great way to wear the kids out having to run and collect the ball.
Using OpenAI's API in React without exposing your API key with Gateweaver
I don't see how going to a fast food place saves you time: it takes significant time going to the fast food place, waiting in line, driving home. And at home you can multi-task--while waiting for the food to cook you can put the laundry in the washing machine, sweep the floor...large numbers of household tasks.
How amazing it would be to be able to harness the power of a star... to mine crypto.
I don't disagree from a nutrition standpoint, but the very American innovation of cheap food arriving at your table fast now being seen as too expensive isn't a good sign from an economical perspective. This is like saying that if gas hit $10 that it's actually a good thing since people should drive less anyway. Like, yeah, but that's really not the key issue. Maybe the word orthogonal is what I'm looking for here?
I actually think it is better to not think of derivations as a generalization of derivatives; but to think of derivatives as just one of many examples of a derivation. That the name 'derivative' comes from calculus and became the name for this abstraction is just a quirk of history. You could also consider the notion of a linear function to be a generalization of derivatives. Or even the notion of homomorphisms in general.

Having said that, there are many usages of other derivations where the calculus inspiration is clear, even if the geometric meaning that motivated the calculus is lost.

For instance, we often talk about polynomials over arbitrary fields. In general, there is no way to graph such polynomials. There is no notion of tangent lines, slope, "continuous", or even "less than". There is, however, still the notion of roots and the multiplicity of roots. These notions turn out to be quite important.

When working with any polynomial, you can define the "formal derivative" as a derivation that also satisfies D(x) = 1, D(a) = 0 (where a is an element of the underlying field). This operator behaves as you would naively expect a derivative to behave over polynomials. In Galois theory, it is important to distinguish between polynomials that have repeated roots, and those that do not. If you have a polynomial f(x), you can determine this by taking its formal derivative f'(x). Then, you can easily compute their greatest common divisor [0]. If this is a constant, then you know f has no repeated roots.

[0] Using Euclid's algorithm, this is a purely mechanical process that can be done without needing to factor either f or f'. A similar trick has actually been used to attack real word cryptography. If there are secret primes p and q, and a public number pq, many cryptosystems assume that it is infeasible to determine what p and q are. However, if there is a bad random number generator, you might get 2 different keys that share a prime, so have the public numbers pq and ps, then you can easily determine that p is a common factor, from which you can easily recover q and s. This means that you can look for a large collection of public keys and try this attack on possible pair of them.
Not an American, so I may have incomplete information here, but I've read about "food deserts"[1] in US cities, i.e. neighborhoods (usually poor) where there are no grocery stores in reasonable distance and the only affordable source of food for poor families are fast food places.

That's a problem in itself but it may mean that the headline "fast-food prices rising" may not be as ridiculous as it sounds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
I'm very liberal, but you have to admit that democrats held power at least as long as republicans over the last 30 years. There's plenty of ratfucking from both parties.
I mean to say that the Oberth effect is one phenomenon, and that the lack of a feeling of acceleration is another effect.

The Oberth effect itself is not responsible for the lack of feeling of acceleration during the assist.