skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be no unions because the base premise of a union (monopolizing labor supply to force higher prices) is straight up monopoly abuse in the exact same way any other monopoly/oligopoly is. the end result is the same (higher prices, lower output, smaller pie for us all to split, dead weight loss).

your 2 wrongs make a right argument is something I am sympathetic to but don't agree the solution is a union. The solution is identifying the monopsony being abused to push their wages down and fixing that or recognizing there is no monopsony abuse and their labor is actually that low value and looking for ways to shift some of that low value labor into higher value positions via a number of policy tools (retraining, relocation, etc).
Its a canes, its pretty hyped up and they aren’t a business to open one on each corner. Its not as hyped as chic fil a or in an out that can get a drive thru line spilling out on the street on the moon, but its close.
I’ve been off the treadmill for two years. There is plenty to do here :)
Rustler crosses the rust/Erlang barrier relatively well, though it's error messages when you try to cross it wrong are somewhat unhelpful.
Most kids on most days do use it to disconnect, but conversely most kids also use it to do an assessment or study for a test at some point.
Is it even rechargeable? Nothing indicates this is any replacement to e.g. LiPoFe batteries in devices like AirPods.
We don't really do that though, population growth is leveling off on its own. Industrial revolution pretty much broke the malthusian trap. Now growth of economies fuels growth in GDP per capita instead of growth of capita. We've also made a few rather significant technological breakthroughs against the obesity problem recently. Human nature's proven to be a bit more complex than that.
Nawh, Kaabo's are just shit but are also all about selling parts. Unfortunately, very few e-bike repair shops will work on them because they're awful. It's worth noting that 3 of the Kaabo dealers in the US are fly-by-night, shady operations unconcerned with customer service and honesty.
Pure functional programming doesn't preclude side-effects like IO; it makes side-effects explicit rather than implicit!

At my previous job, we used pure functional programming to ensure that custom programs only had access to certain side-effects (most importantly, not IO). This meant that it was trivial to run these custom programs in multiple environments, including various testing environments, and production.
we should let older high schoolers use phones during the school day. phone vocabulary apps were invaluable for my SAT prep. the library is frankly a laughable substitute

that said, they shouldn’t be allowed in actual class
I mean, the problem with charging isn't really the charge times right now. It's the fact that every non-Tesla charger is a piece of shit... and the fact that you need an account on every single different charging company, and some app on your phone that won't work properly.
> find people whose views on one topic you respect – that checks the box in your head that says “this person isn’t totally crazy” – and debate them on the topics you disagree about

Find a point of agreement and then try to progress incrementally towards the area of disagreement. Pretty soon you'll find out who's got the crap assumption(s). This process is best carried out over drinks.
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I think you're absolutely right that generative AI art doesn't produce any "great value" at all, in terms of Art with a capital A.

But on the other hand, probably 99% of what professional illustrators do isn't, and doesn't need to be, great Art either.

They're just trying to quickly produce a hero illustration for an article, or turn an author headshot into a simpler sketch, or add some appropriate clothing to a background NPC. Being "formulaic" and "derivative" and a "canned form of expression" here is a feature, not a bug.

Which is why generative AI seems so great to me.

In terms of "kitsch" -- yeah I'd never in a million years hang something AI-generated on my wall as if it were fine art produced by a human soul trying to express something.

And I think the creator of Drawbert should focus entirely on this being a tool for being professional portraits for business and branding use, rather than "stunning portraits" or "masterpiece paintings". The former is what it actually is, the latter it ain't.
I would probably tolerate it until I couldn't anymore and then leave ungracefully. Ymmv
Which means she's managed to miss just $1,000 of possible bonus; her own bonus range is at least as tight as $6,500-$7,500pcm (i.e. only that wide if it were a single 'bad' month).
They don't mention any specific IPX rating, however they claim it's "rain resistant".

https://www.r-m.de/en-us/service/faq/

Yes. You can use the system in the rain without any concerns. It is protected against rain and splashes, but not against riding through rivers when the motor is submerged in water.

Equivalent of about IPX54. To me, this means it's not really waterproof (IPX?7) should it fall a puddle when it rains. Never spray it with a garden hose or pressure washer while washing. And, it's really a gamble to take it in the rain. Plus, like cell phones, they tend to lose IPX protection when repaired because of customary sloppy repair jobs that fail to restore gaskets.
I'm not into the latest EV power transfer technology, but that's more than the rating of a neighborhood distribution transformer per car. That's an insane amount of power to have someone casually handling. Would there be additional rules like in a gas station when charging up? Those cables and connectors must be massive as well.
I'd be interested to see a clip of Milton Friedman saying that executives are the most valuable employees.
Better the devil you know!
A lot of people work a lot harder for less than that 85K base too.

I would love some sort of bonus for a job well done.

More work being the "bonus" for good work is not really a reward.
Slightly related, has anyone managed to get some “joy of programming” (for lack of a better word) back after starting to learn a new (human) language?

I’m asking because I used to get that in the past (let’s say 10 to 15 years ago) by becoming interested in new programming languages every once in a while, but nowadays I can’t really do a “let’s discover Lisp/Scheme/Erlang” again, and as there are no new interesting programming languages that I know of (with the exception of Rust, which I might consider but it’s not really in my programming interests ballpark when it comes to its use because I’ve never been a C/C++ guy) trying to learn a new actual human language is the closest I can get when it comes to satisfying that intelectual itch.
Who decided it is a good idea to pass brands / companies specific bills?

If DJI is doing nasty things, prohibit the nasty things DJI doing in the law, not the brand. Then condemn DJI if needed. How do this law protect from any DJi competitor doing the same stuff (or even a spinoff company through a complex scheme)?
Maybe I am missing something, but how else would I test various exception handling paths?

There is a whole world of errors that can occur during IO. What happens if I get a 500 from that web service call? How does my code handle a timeout? What if the file isn't found?

It is often only possible to simulate these scenarios using a mock or similar. These are also code paths you really want to understand.
I'd say you're both right, based on my limited experience. I can't seem to do much in numpy or pandas without resorting to ChatGPT or a notebook-based assistant. I assume that need will go away with additional experience, but maybe that's being overoptimistic.

I wish ChatGPT had been around when I learned C. It would sure have saved the programmers in my neighboring offices a lot of grief.
I don't know but I have heard about companies spinning off smaller companies.
I'm not sure if that totally fits. There's a kind of signal amplification or de-amplification happening.
Knuth can be a bit of an acquired taste. In my opinion it isn't very useful to read if you don't fully commit to do the exercises. That will take time and a lot of it! I suggest you postpone this one. You have enough to study already.
Bad governing, and it only continues to get worse here. My decision to retire in a 2nd or 3rd world country is becoming clearer every election cycle.
you’re downvoted but this was my experience going to a school that “banned” smartphones
On that topic, static type checking can effectively be seen as a "unit test" that tests as well as documents the expected types for an interface.
We are limiting TV time to 30m per day and no pad/phone for our 4 year old kid.

IMO the issue is with the school, not us. Schools will inadvertently introduce pad as a learning device, and his friends will use such devices too. I hope they ban it in Canadian schools too.
> Were it not the same stuff over and over again, wouldn't you expect something novel (i.e. some other artist) to replace them, at some level?

Well, they do? It's clearly visible from the "number of artists on the chart" that the number has been steadily increasing back up since its 2012 low. I'd also say that more modern artists like Lil Wayne and Drake are far more likely to record a verse in someone else's track than the Beatles, which also makes drawn conclusions pretty meaningless.

But even if none of that were true, yes, I still believe more songs = more songs performed by the most popular artists. I don't think any chart-topping artist from decades ago could compare to, say, Taylor Swift's 4 original albums and 4 re-recorded albums released within the past 5 years! That alone explains, what, 50, a hundred of chart-topping songs by one artist?

The only thing I'm convinced from looking at a source is these three things: 1) musicians release way more stuff than they used to, 2) musicians collab way more often, and 3) songs that end up on these charts stay there for much shorter. Or to summarise it in one claim: trends come and go at a much faster pace than they used to.

For a non-music example of this speed, just check out Fallout. Released barely over 2 months ago, critically aclaimed, nearly everyone liked it... and now, just two months later, who's talking about it?
You're conflating "art commonly created by these AI-powered image generators" with "art that AI is capable of".

Just because most people create things that you categorise as kitsch should not fool you into thinking that's an inherent limitation. There's almost no limit to the kind of images that can be created given the right input.

Unless you want to define kitsch as "anything that an AI image generator is capable of producing"?
Vehicle to load type solutions will make the grid impact of EVs negligible. In fact over time it will help stabilize the grid and add storage for peak solar/wind generation. Imagine having most vehicles plugged in at an office building during the day for example, in a power outage the office building would be able to run off of the vehicles. Nissan in fact has such a setup[1]

1. https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/STORIES/RELEASES/nissan-wor...
The surprising tidbit here is that Amazon is significantly worse than Google.

> You pay twice, first with your wallet, then with data

It's actually the same transaction. These devices are sold at a loss, the remained recouped through data brokerage or associated sales. For example, the Amazon tablet is in the region of $60. Materials cost alone would be $200+. Amazon expects you to buy books to read on the device, or use Prime video, or whatnot. These devices are notoriously difficult to root (hardware modification) for this reason.
> Why write in a statically-typed language when dynamically-typed languages have adapted the best bits and pieces from statically-typed languages?

Unfortunately, dynamically-typed languages haven't adapted the best bit from statically-typed languages: that all types are enforced at compile-time!
On the other hand, it would make it harder for big business to retain talent.
I think it comes from the "I tinkered with tech as a kid!" mindset. It ignores the fact that smartphones are about as low-friction and consumption-centric as it gets when it comes to distracting material. If you want kids to learn about tech, then do it in a higher-friction deliberate context like a desktop computer.
Type Safe SQL Select Query Demo
That's your costs where you are. That's not what they cost where I am.
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That sounds more like a legacy style board game than an actual trading card game.

Which seems to me like the better implementation of this technology, anything else due to its digital nature just feels like it is going to be exploited making any value disappear completely.

I think this would be an amazing idea for a legacy style game, especially since it opens up the possibility of resetting the game and it really simplifies picking up and playing later.

But I really don't think it will work as a TCG.
Yes. I actually think the Irish thing is less misleading then the fact that the headline implies some certainty about what are obviously just claims that may or may not be related to the decisions jobseekers would actually make when presented with an offer.
This is a both can be true situation. Its legacy was a cartel oriented around protecting profits, but the coordination nevertheless also reflected an array of engineering compromises that made sense. The situation we have now is that those compromises continued to have a rationale beyond the existence of the cartel.
"Bias" implies the possibility of "unbiased language model" which seems to be in the category of things that are on one hand, COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE, and on the other, still likely to be sold on the market because market wants it so much?
If the leaks indicate COPV compromise, it could eventually rupture, causing potentially serious damage -- especially if hypergolic fuel tanks are ruptured in the process.

On the other hand, if the leaks are at the manifold then starliner might become an ISS module indeed, but taking up an airlock is bad news nonetheless so they would still have to find a way to jettison it.
I hate how the current system is so dead-set on everyone providing every need for themselves while bailing out and subsidizing large corporations.

Consumer spending comprises 68% of GDP, but instead of getting some stability in exchange for driving the largest economy on the planet (by nominal GDP), we have to pay extra taxes on the already-taxed money that we have just for the privilege of buying our own necessities.
> Ukraine is literally doing it with rubberbands.

I'm under the impression that the supply-chain for Ukrainian drones basically leads to China in the same way that it does for Russia. For a "small" regional conflict, this isn't a problem to Ukraine because there's no way China could or would restrict supply of their cheap drones. But for a large-scale conflict, it would be a problem for the US to not be able to source drone motors by the 10,000's.
Although he did graduate high school two years early, so he had the intuition. Maybe his parents thought working food service for a bit was a rite of passage.
Can you really put a price on fun? No fun allowed? Why do we even need playing cards in the first place that's a waste of good paper.

I get the argument here but you really should keep things in perspective. E-waste is a real and massive problem. This is a tiny tiny project it is neither here nor there.

Say it blows up and becomes extremely popular (it won't)? Like any other piece of electronics solutions will be available. Cross that bridge when you get there.

The fun and education aspect is in fact better than physical cards and worthwhile.

Also if we really think deeply about it this project may end up being better for the environment not worse.
Maybe something like the food stamp program. I haven’t personally used it but it seems to work, considering I’ve never seen an emaciated homeless person in the US.
I’ve not used rust, and quite frankly I think a lot of the post is over my head, but I enjoyed the read nonetheless.

> I don't have any specific plans to turn this C proof-of-concept into a production-quality tool that would enable calling Rust from C, but if anyone wants to take it from here, I'd be happy to assist!

I laughed at this, I’d bet my bottom dollar it’s an attempted nerd snip!
What are some good examples of countries with a different healthcare policy and more entrepreneurship, small businesses, and/or craftspeople than the USA?
The bans are inevitable. It's only a matter of time before somebody tries to drop a pipe bomb on a politician.
Weird. I just bumped into this paper when I was trying to learn why Charlotte has such a confusing layout. I've never felt more lost.
IIRC no more nice guy is also a solid classic rock tune by Alice cooper
Because Canada will follow every stupid decisions from its main partner.
Alright here are three health care reforms that we could implement without going all the way to Universal Health Care:

1. Anyone who pays cash for a procedure should pay a price that is no more than the lowest price that any insurance company has negotiated for the same service.

2. Anyone who buys a health care plan from the marketplace should get a price that is no more than 10% higher than the cheapest negotiated price any company pays for the same plan.

3. Anyone should be able to deduct the cost of health care for income tax purposes, not just companies that buy health insurance for their employees.
I would 100% believe this is a Gumroad product. There's even the Gumroad logo in the header, and you can only login with a Gumroad account, obviously linking to a page at gumroad.com. It even says "powered by Gumroad". Check out 10.2 in the ToS you are bound to: https://gumroad.com/terms

I would strongly suggest making it clear you aren't associated with Gumroad ASAP, because Gumroad is *required* to protect their trademark here. This is the easiest C+D a lawyer at Gumroad will ever have to draft.
It is so much more difficult than it used to be to get trustworthy information about the quality of products. Seems like you have to already know of a hobbyist turned youtuber/blogger who has ideally done deep dives into a class of products or at least some relevant product reviews (or has a large subscriber base with active discussion threads).

Even trying to find such a content creator on the fly can be dicey since so many of them are doing paid reviews or at the very least are sent free products + incentives. That, or get lucky googling site:reddit.com/r/[subreddit] [product] to find a thread that isn't too recent, isn't overrun by shills and isn't woefully out of date and full of deleted/overwritten content.
You mean they would have to offer a good job with competitive wages, enjoyable work conditions, good benefits (mat leave, paid time off, sick pay, etc.) and a good career path?
> I don't understand how anyone would expect to gain more bandwidth from a mesh.

Well, if you had an hourglass-shaped mesh network which was congested at the narrow point of the hourglass, and you recruited an extra node that gave you a second link across the narrow point, by adding the node you've doubled the bandwidth between the bulbs of the hourglass - and improved the redundancy.

The problem is a lot of people imagine this will happen every time they add a node, making the whole thing infinitely scalable. Whereas the reality is any time you add a node that isn't crossing the narrow point of the hourglass, the congestion gets worse.
> At best they simply don't care about being associated with such a agency. Otherwise they actually enjoy the idea.

You can assume that, but it's like saying that anyone working in big tech supports child labor in lithium mines. In the strictest sense you're kinda right, but a lot of these people are legitimately stupid and don't know how the sausage is made or think they're one of the "good guys". I'd rather those people have a late change-of-heart than continue to stay complicit in things we can both easily agree are immoral.
The most interesting cultural artifacts have always been media…in large part because that was all which has survived since antiquity, excepting a few lucky buildings.

But this is not necessarily inherent to media.

Perhaps the most interesting, long-standing cultural artifacts we are currently creating are not in the realm of media at all.

Space travel
The internet
Generative AI

Even though movies are undoubtedly dominated by a few stars, I don’t think the legacy of our time will be the movie Legally Blonde 2. When people think about the period 1950-2050, they will write more about the rise of companies which were capable of mass producing intelligent and what people did with them.
Wyldcard creator here, thanks to HowToWare for the interview.

Since the intention is a children's toy, I'm trying to get the price as low as possible. This display size is cheap because it's intended for grocery store price tags ;)

Flat Flex e-paper displays are available but much more expensive. Plus, the magnets in the cards which let them mate to the base take up most of the thickness. I'd have to rethink that physical interface entirely if they needed to be much thinner. My next step will be to design an actual game and then I can come back to size for a v2.
The problem with discord is that there is no permanence or visibility to it on the open internet. This is both good and bad. You can't search for problems you are trying to solve unless you are part of that discord server. Communities can get deleted and that's that. On the other hand it is more private and there is a direct connection rather than waiting for people to respond to your post.
I'm not putting steaming poo on my badge, it's the concept of customization that's easily shared- "For the social let's all use our lab's logo, and tonight we can use our student org's logo, and tomorrow for the society meetup we could put a picture of the organism we study". Conversation starters (perhaps I do want to put poo on my badge) in what is a social event with many rapidly-changing sub-contexts. Sticker and pin collecting is fun though, so maybe not such a compelling use-case.

Smaller meetings provide markers for name-tags all the time, that's different from the conference-provided ID I'm required to wear in a conference of 6k+ people.
Design is Testability video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBOn1e113Ak