skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and you have a choice on what and how to aim, a pivot if you will, if you use a health faucet.

If you allow me quote myself ...

I find health faucets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower quite effective, except that one time it went terribly wrong.

These are essentially telephone showers installed next to the toilet. You switch them on using a valve/trigger and then manually direct the fire. Simple, cheap, no fuss.

This little guy, however, turned out to be a closet fire hose. It pretty much went from 0 to 1000 gallons per sec in an instant and just wouldn't let up. The valve was stuck. The extension hose was twisting and coiling around like crazy with the pressure released. The shower head was going full blast in my hand, initially directed at my rear, it was continuously pushing my hand away from anything that I was trying to point it to. It give me a visceral understanding of how jet engines work.

Working out a sequence of operations in my head to get out of such a situation while caught in a compromised and inflexible position, with only one hand free, was quite a challenge. I am not quite sure if I should be thankful that it wasnt autonomously powered and directed.

My first Japanese toilet experience happened @ Google (I was interning there at that time). When the water touched the derriere, it made me flinch and jump with surprise, as I wasnt quite sure what to expect, this was several years ago and Japanese toilets were still an unfamiliar object to me. And it really tickles the shit out of you ! (no pun intended)

There are ways to choose between a laminar and degrees of non-laminar, to full-on turbulent flow (all those controls must be for something), I would expect the former to be somewhat less flinch inducing.
I think there's less ageism in Europe - I'm German and in Germany and I don't hear the same stories as on HN about that. Pay is lower, though.
Lets not forget that the purpose of a lot of environmental studies is just to seek regulatory capture. Im not saying every time someone says we should take care of our environment we should all assume its actually a big corporation preventing competitors from finding alternatives bit it does happen.

I had a entomologist friend that pointed out that each little body of standing water has dozens of unique species of bugs and you can theoretically just say any piece of land needs to be conserved because destroying it will destroy an entire species.

Again not saying it would be good or bad to mine this stuff. (On first glance it sounds bad to reduce the oxygen we breath). Im just saying caution should always be used with this kind of stuff.
France's population is in decline though.

Japan has free healthcare for anyone under 18 as well as free daycare if your income is low, etc. Their population is also on decline.
When OS became a product input rather than the product itself, things changed
yeah except more than 720p in a browser. I'd actually pay for AppleTV+ if it would just work like any other streaming service with a regular browser.
Your bones get stronger when regularly stressed. Bone is added on the inside, not the outside, so you won't notice it.

I recall reading once that a pitcher's right arm had quite a bit more bone in it than his left.
>Companies get so much more out of people working from home - Microsoft has realized this and still broadly supports remote work.

This is what I find so funny. We accomplished more in the two years of full remote than any period before or since. Half the company now runs on software built during that time. But management refuses to acknowledge the fact, and mandated RTO.

I am 100% convinced that a full remote team can run circles around the same team in-office. Probably we will see a new crop of startups eating people's lunch that haven't figured this out.
It's just a troll, they specifically call out the shows containing peak woke and then said they don't subscribe to even have seen the content.
I just looked at their careers page. Dozens of engineering jobs but only in India

https://app.careerpuck.com/job-board/avalara
As a sampling exercise, go here: https://a16z.com/portfolio/

Select AI as focus area, choose your stage of choice, "Active."

Then look here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=S24&batch=W24&ta...

Combine that with JumpCrisscross's comment, and your take seems passing strange.
IMHO this is parody / troll, ex. note the timid invocation of "my wife's opinion so its okay to say", that's from the mind of a Woke
Ubuntu uses grub recordfail and has done so for years. Userspace records if the boot was successful and the bootloader can use this to change it's behaviour (eg. boot a previous kernel). I think by default it stops at the boot menu for user intervention but on a headless system you can configure it to automatically boot the previous kernel/initrd instead. I think Debian has the same but I'm not sure.

Ubuntu Core (eg. for the upcoming immutable desktop) also supports this kind of thing fully automatically.

So it's not just systemd and the alternatives are widely deployed already.

But anyway as others point out it won't mitigate risk on a system that injects bad code from outside of the boot process.
At those levels you just get inflation
I bike every day to work because I finally live in a place where there's bike paths/roads almost everywhere there's car roads.

I would never dare to do so where I lived before: I'd almost certainly be a blob of blood and guts splattered on the road by now.

It's infuriating how little thought is given to anything that is not a road for The Car. Billions of taxpayer money spent on massive road construction and repair but god forbid we build bike paths for 1/20th of the cost and 1/100th of the upkeep.
Ballmer was quoted in the Acquired podcast about his failed acquisitions “all we lost is money”.

Apple can sustain the revenue loss as long as it has to stomach to do so and as long as it can justify it for other business reasons - like maybe making the bundle more attractive.
> You're right that recent trends have been bad, but offices have always been like this. There's a reason "this meeting could have been an email" has been a cliche for decades now and even before that the office was generally depicted as a place where you either pretend to work or desperately struggle to get work done in the face of endless pointless bullshit.

What? My workplace pre-covid assigned us 1-2 person offices and had a handful of dedicated meeting rooms. If someone was having a loud conversation in the hallway you'd either close your door or ask them to move to a meeting room. It was almost as easy to focus there and then as it is in my home office now.

The company I'm at now has an open floorplan with no assigned seats. The few employees who are actually in the office are often on calls with people at one of our other locations. There are enough people who do this that there aren't enough meeting rooms for everyone to take a call in private.
I think it's more of a Roku-issue. I have issues with Peacock, Paramount+, and Hulu on Roku. Getting a more expensive Roku stick instead of the TV default helped.
>like Illinois charging for certain digital services

I live in IL and haven't heard of that. Generally if something is a 'sale' it's taxed though. I miss the old days when anything purchased online was some gray area they couldn't figure out if they should tax or not.
Yes but the problem here was bricking the OS
I agree with you but I do think it is valid, from a scientific point of view, to test this hypothesis and to answer the "why" behind changing preferences. It is also possible that overall desire has remained constant but lack of access to contraception, or increased family pressure or other factors contributed to higher birthrates in the past.

I'm not sure what you mean by "even raising the question in the first place is overreach." On an individual and personal level, it may be inappropriate or rude to ask the question. On a government level it is more complicated as I think that while government has no place in interfering with an individual's personal choice, I think there may be utility in understanding changing social trends over time, as a government that is "by the people, for the people" can better represent its constituents and form policies that its constituents want when it understands them, demographically.

But most important to me is that, on a scientific level, it is just data and knowledge. And in my opinion there is never such a thing as "too much knowledge."
Buses are great as long as providing a good level of service is a priority for transportation planners.
To be clear, because the article isn't obvious about it: the $20B figure is total expenditure since its inception, not a yearly figure.

For comparison, Netflix spent $17B in 2022, and $13B in 2023 (it was lower due to strikes). Disney spent $33B on content in 2022. Meanwhile, Apple spent $7B in 2022. (All numbers from Google top results).

So Apple's still spending significantly less than main "competitors", of course.

It's extremely weird for an article to give an all-time spending figure and then call it "unsustainable", when obviously sustainability depends entirely on spending per year compared with revenue per year, and this article doesn't even talk about the revenue side at all (Apple TV+ costs $9.99/mo. standalone.)

It's also hard to define "sustainability" when it's not even clear that Apple's goal is to make a profit directly, but may be to take a loss that is less than the perceived marketing value that this adds to the Apple aura/brand.

EDIT: my comment is referring to the original URL for this post which was https://wccftech.com/apple-tv-expenditure-crossed-20-billion... , not the Bloomberg article which the URL has since been changed to
So feed it to kids!
Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator
So annoying, I wrote this extension some time ago to get rid of relative dates in github

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yyyy-mm-dd-gi...
The important thing to understand here is that you shouldn't write on a latex balloon with a Sharpie. It works well for a while, but when the balloon inevitably pops or deflates, the Sharpie ink will re-liquify and get all over the place. Then you will learn the meaning of the phrase "indelible on porous surfaces".
Yes, exactly like 640K sounds like a power of two, if you're a MS-DOS user.

But in a way, this is right since:

<no of bits>
2 = <no of states>

When the number of bits is 0, 2^0 = 1: 1 state. A state machine with one state is certainly possible.

Problem is we need 2 or more states to do anything useful with state. We can draw an initial state bubble in a state diagram and not add any states; it can even have transitions back to itself.

So maybe monostate is not exactly a misnomer; it's just weird to mention state about something that is not useful for working with state.
They just don’t advertise their shows, at least where I live.
That's probably not uncommon since municipality borders don't follow county borders.
> Why is it some shock-horror thing that people worked less?

Exactly. If I have to have 3 jobs, then with this money I "only" work 2 jobs, I'm working less but almost certainly have a better quality of life.
I have three major gripes with Apple TV (plus and otherwise)

1. The website is ass. i’ve attempted nervous times to sign into my gaming PC before giving up and using my Apple device. Great for my Apple device but ass if I ever want to watch it on my gaming PC , meaning i’m consuming less media on it. This makes it uniquely terrible for its other goal of folks purchasing their media on there since it’s linked with Apple TV. Idiotic for a streaming service.

2. There’s no consistent release of shows to watch all year round. Netflix imo is the only services that releases stuff every month. for other services this is no issue since they have a backlog of content for consumers to consume but Apple TV+ does not have this pleasure imo. for a service that relies on subscriptions for its revenue, it’s the worst to plead for its case.

3. No watch history. Whenever I hear a new show recommendation I immediately open the tv app and add it to my up next. The Tv’s app’s ability to connect to various streaming serves makes it the nexus for most media. Why the hell does it not support the opposing feature of saving the history of what just watched? It should be so easy for it to add on a Letterboxd like feature from there.
I went from a pretty physically active job in facilities management to an IT role working from home about 3 years ago and have had a slew of physical issues that I think are related to sitting down 10+ hours a day such as sciatica. I real a book called "Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World" by Dr. Kelly Starrett and it's pretty damning. Similar to the old comparison that smoking a cigarette takes ~7 minutes off of your life, they claim that every hour you sit down takes ~11 minutes off of your life.

Regardless of everything I have read about sitting down being terrible for you, I just can't seem to get into a routine of standing up. Once I sit down for an engagement / lunch / etc., I just simply don't make it back up that day. I have become terribly lazy, I guess.
My experience has been very good.
I wouldn't say TA work is not required. It all depends where the funding for the position is coming from. If the university is funding it without any extra grants or cooperations, TA work is definitely a huge part of being a PhD-student.
In this case, the direct memory addresses are literally needed.

The addresses aren't being generated internal to the program, so there are no "handles". They are referencing external data by design.

That's like saying "you shouldn't use a hard-coded volatile pointer to reference a hardware device". No, you literally need to do that sometimes; especially in embedded software.
I use https://toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/
> And similar proposals like the Negative Income Tax would cost far less money and have none of the presented downsides.

It all depends on how you tweak the numbers; in theory a negative income tax and a guaranteed income cost exactly the same amount. A guaranteed income of $1200 taxed at a marginal rate of 50% is just the same as a marginal tax rate of -50% on an income of $400. That being said, there are some pretty big negative externalities to a negative income tax, in the sense that it even further overburdens the tax system with knowing people's exact monthly income (assuming monthly payments), which is not-at-all straightforward for the poorest taxpayers whom presumably such a system would be designed to most help.
I'm saying embargo or not no one can claim moral authority when doing it.

Its not about the actions it's about the justifications.
Being less informed isn’t really a reason for antitrust because the only lock-in is your own lack of very basic knowledge.

If your average Joe was unhappy with godaddy’s service they could do some research and switch pretty easily.
The U.S. Government also pays farmers not to grow crops! See, e.g., the Conservation Reserve Program (https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-...).
Seconding sibling comment, all you need is:

brew install dotnet-sdk
dotnet new console -o ConsoleApp --aot
cd ConsoleApp
dotnet publish -o .
./ConsoleApp

(it may take extra time for bulding it for the first time, particularly pulling in IL Compiler dependency, but all subsequent compilations will be fast)

Feel free to comment out `PublishAot` property in .csproj file if you don't want AOT (i.e. using libraries that want JIT), or use dotnet watch and run commands for quick iteration.

Note that for rich editing experience you do not need C# Dev Kit (which requires an account), only a baseline C# extension which has all the good bits. For running and debugging the project out of VS Code - upon first F5 press it will suggest generating config assets for .NET project it managed to find in an opened folder - just agree and it will work on the next F5 press.

You can also write C# with Neovim and csharp-ls.
Definitely a scam. This issue was recently created in the repository the email mentions:

https://github.com/fluencelabs/dev-rewards/issues/141

stay away!!!
The problem is that the leads are not consistently white enough?
yup!

Plus, as a parent, my #1 goal is to raise them with my full attention, teach them all the values, etc. Otherwise there is no point.

Parenting is full-time job. Daycare is lazy parenting.
We faced that as well and that's one of the reasons for the diversification across clouds
You're welcome (:
Even if, say, banks and insurance companies could move a couple of hundred thousand Windows endpoints to fully functional zero trust tomorrow, they'd still need something on the endpoint, if only for log aggregation and detection. It is certainly awesome if the bad guys can't move laterally but you still want to know they're there.
> Because people have no problem spending tons of money on other things

We have record numbers of Americans who can't afford their rent, record numbers of utility disconnections for non-pay, household debt is at all time highs and people are struggling with the rising costs of food.

In whatever bubble you live your life in, people might seem like people "have no problems spending tons of money" but looking at the state of things in general it's very clear that Americans are struggling.
Clearly there is a preferred age group amongst the electorate, so the open market solved this problem
That sounds like a huge negative to me. How much will it worsen with age?

Really for males there is condom (big downside in feeling) or surgery with chronic pain as option. Great options.
Internet access after the telcos were forced to share their last mile fibre?
My fav perk is having clean toilet and not shared with the people who don't understand why that brush is there on the side. Well maybe they know but they might also be super important managers who don't have time to be decent and not having time to wash hands because they have to make a dump and have 30 sec to get to the next meeting to shake hands firmly to assert dominance.

:D
Everything you just wrote has made me understand that I should write on a balloon with a Sharpie.

This sounds fun. Thanks.
People have different definitions of UBI, but in my mind 'basic' doesn't translate to quitting your job and not working. People in a functioning society still have to work.
While some people can raise a ton of money for ideas that don't seem to make sense, the majority of others won't raise a dime. It's a matter of access (which could be a signal for early investors ability to cash in for later investors.)

For investors in the art market, they will invest in some artists and not others, irrespective of how appealing the art is, as provenance is the signal for ROI.
"Remember the "Day in the Life" vidoes? When was the last time you saw someone showing their amazing workspace, the free food, the amentities and all that? A few years ago they were everywhere. Now? Nowhere."

I do remember! Also I was always wondering where those people worked. Perhaps those videos were from FAANG companies ... but most of the developers never worked there! Point is that those videos were not representing anything.
I mention that merely to illustrate that our hypothetical $200k developer has good things he could be doing with his limited discretionary time.

The time spent fixing a bug for $100 doesn't get magicked out of nowhere - that's time that could be spent meeting friends, doing sports, spending time with family, reading books, creating art, enjoying good food and wine, learning new things, or even sleeping!

For a similar concept expressed in a wordier way, read about Maslow's hierarchy of needs [1]. Our hypothetical developer's physiological and safety needs are fully met - and their unmet needs won't be much helped by $100. I avoided this and chose the wording I did because some of Maslow's wording like "self-actualization" and "transcendence" kinda invites confusion IMHO.

Far less confusing and questionable, I thought, to merely argue that sex is more fun than software development. But apparently not...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
I clicked in to this topic to make these exact same points, but you did a better job of it than I would have.

My employer mandated a minimum number of days in-office per week and then implemented the flex desk system with all of the drawbacks that you outlined. In my company's case it's a little worse: There are, in fact, often no available open desks in my workgroup. Furthermore there's no enforcement or discipline with respect to day-of desk reservations.

So this means that about half a dozen employees have permanently camped out at a "flex" desk, essentially claiming them for their own. Everyone I guess "knows" that those aren't real flex desks in practice, or at least nobody wants to stand out as the asshole who kicks Richard off his de-facto personal desk.

For the desks that aren't permanently camped nobody bothers to use the online tool to actually reserve them. They just show up at some point during the day, and if there's no jacket on the chair or backpack under the desk or something, they just sit down at it and start using it. If you reserve the desk in the tool before coming into the office often you'll arrive to find someone sitting there who hasn't bothered to use the tool to reserve it. So then you don't have a desk at all and need to camp out in a common area on your laptop, surrounded by 3 or 4 other people blabbing away on Zoom calls.

If you confront them to kick them off the desk they'll usually move, but that's a really uncomfortable thing to do and makes you look a little like a bully to everyone around. "Dude, you snooze you lose. Dick got there first. Why don't you just go to the common area where all the other late-coming slackers have to go?"

It's a productivity hellscape that I do everything in my power to avoid. I've resorted to dropping by the office a few times a week just to badge in and grab a bite to eat from the microkitchen so that I show up in the query that management runs once a quarter to make sure everyone's badging in often enough. I also make it a point to walk prominently by several other desks and saying "hi" to people to give the illusion that I'm "in the office" on a semi-regular basis.

The first time management tries to turn the screws to deal with my behavior I'm triggering my plan to move on to a role in another company that's fully remote.
Yeah, it's flat out a bad take. If the AI is utterly incapable of doing anything useful, it would be utterly incapable of being an existential risk.
This will be tough to answer because you've supplied a vague standard. According to the Unabomber, electricity is not a real solution. Where shall we sit on the spectrum?
Is this really the case? I've seen countless companies pull their employees back to the office, either full time or part time. With the economy slowing, I don't see that workers will have much say in it.
Disagree.

With savings comes extra cash.

And extra cash can only sit on the sidelines for so long.

Until company’s are lured once again in to making bigger, larger, scalable bets.

You need engineers to explore new hypotheses, to drive growth, to explore these new possible markets.

Greed always returns. Idle money, stagnant growth helps no one.

You don’t scale a company with savings. You scale up by spending.
so it's a handout to companies. corporate welfare. probably no worse than currently - a lot of companies in the UK are subsidised via the benefits system because their employees can't afford to live off their wages.
Private equity has mastered this formula in the last decade.

Throw as many unrelated businesses that you can buy for pennies on the dollar into a basket. Claim it is now diversified. Decrease expenses by allowing all of your good employees to run for the hills screaming while not replacing them. Post one year of record profits by sacrificing quality in the name of quantity. Re-capitalize in order to generate a massive return. And then rinse and repeat on your next victims, I mean ventures.