skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends where you draw the line of "enough to get by". There are two cases: case A is where the expectations exceed what you're really being paid for, i.e. those cases you mention where the company culture is long hours. This isn't what I'm on about, but for completeness, these places are awful to work at and I definitely agree escaping them is the most rational thing to do.

Case B is different. Case B is where you work somewhere with reasonable work-life balance, but where you have a colleague who persistently under-performs. They won't do the essential documentation, follow the process correctly and they will quite happily sit through meetings and not volunteer a solution they know the answer to unless explicitly asked in just the right way and they happen to feel like it that day. This can take a few different forms - my list is not exclusive but it boils down to "quiet quitting" - but, as you say we are all adults, and we know who these people are.
By 2020? Interesting elephant in room.
We can safely say that other second order markers of stress have gone up.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/cdc-data-shows-u-s-teen-...
It might even be vice versa: in theory, as an Android user you might have learned about this thing called "iPhone" in an Patreon banner promoting the fact that Patreon can be downloaded through the Appstore.
This is exactly why i like this game. Upon first playing it, the attacks were obvious to beat anyone who was playing legitimately. Assuming both teams know this fact, means the choice is, play the game to win and it is boring or play the game to have fun and challenge yourself and partner. During every occasion, the latter has prevailed.
So if I give ten dollars to a guy begging for money that’s not a donation because he didn’t register as a non profit?
The Boring Company Starts Prufrock 4 Tests
iDOS 3 is a DOS emulator.

More context: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24218754/apple-idos-3-app...

Direct link to the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idos-3/id1580768213
I presume you've done your competitor analysis because it's a really crowded space.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227656
It was my comment to a different comment on this thread. I’ll repeat it here:

Yes, and this somewhat recent notion that corporations only exist to benefit their shareholders. Corporations exist in order to do the business that they’re in the business of doing, and their structure is such that it allows for the distribution of risk and the possibility of profit for investors. Ideally, people would make investment decisions based on whether the business was sound. Like, yeah, this business has tons of satisfied customers, is doing relatively efficient business and makes money doing it: I’ll invest because that company is a winner. Everything now, though, is entirely judged on growth and bottom lines that are easily manipulable quarter to quarter. You’re a successful corporation if number goes up. The financialization of literally everything erodes the real purposes the corporation exists. And the mindless repetition of the line that corporations exist simply to make profits for the benefit of shareholders is bullshit. How many times have we seen companies chasing those profits in such a way as to destroy the longer-term viability/success of their business? Yeah, they made profit for the shareholder in the short term. Hurray. And destroyed the business in the longer-term. That seems to me to be pretty anti-shareholder.
Agree - I have a great handyman who also lets me "help". I can do the grunt work (carrying heavy stuff from the truck, demoing stuff, etc) saving him time, and he can do the stuff he's experienced at (he can eyeball a measurement and do a perfect cut much faster and better than I ever could) saving me time. Plus I get to learn how to do stuff. I get to be involved so I feel ownership, I get much better work done than if I did it myself, and I learn so that I can start to take on more projects myself.
The reason sales prices are quoted without tax in North America is because there's a million different permutations governing what the sales tax is going to be in different situations (who's buying what, from whom, where, when), and this changes all the time.

Local governments can shift their taxes at any time to encourage or discourage certain things. I'd argue this flexibility is very good, but the downside is calculating sales tax in the US is complex enough that there are companies dedicated to it.

So everyone quotes pre-tax pricing.
> I'm not sure what the right course of action here is, but do we really want to continue with a model where we continue pumping new and unknown compounds into our bodies and the ecosystem with little thought to the downstream impacts?

Well based on how people act, yes I do think we're happy to continue to pump new and unknown compounds into our bodies.

Just take Covid vaccines and Ozempic as recent examples. I'm not here to argue the efficacy or safety of the vaccines, but we all must agree they were new and unknown. That was at least driven by fears of the unknown risk of a novel pathogen, Ozempic is driven by the promise of a miracle cure for obesity.
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Playgrounds like this which don't need server resources.

Adding offline support (PWA) to an application which was primarily designed for use on a server. Though I'm not sure how well that'll work in practice, since the rest of the application will be designed to run on a server as well.
> My family gets to see me do things and it's very important for them to know they can do things and solve problems by themselves

Completely agree! The number of people I know who I think would struggle to know whether to hold the plastic or metal end of a screwdriver is depressing to me. I want my kids to grow up with a basic knowledge of mechanics, mechanisms, repairs/maintenance, and experience the world as things that can mostly be understood (and created) rather than things that are conceived and made by others and merely consumed by "normal people".

It also has saved a fair amount of money over the years, but the mindset is more important to show my family than the dollars.
ASCII just refers to the 7bit standard, so if we are pedantic ASCII art is just art using the printable characters of the 128 code points defined in it. Font size doesn't have anything to do with it. But ASCII art is used as an umbrella term, encompassing a variety of different standards, character sets and fonts. There are a bunch of square ASCII, like PETSCII, ATASCII and even PC ASCII can be rendered with a 8x8 cp437 font. We don't need to gatekeep what "qualifies" as ASCII art.
Online sports betting hurts consumers
Do yourself a favor and watch it; it’s so, so good.
I'm not sure you understand. I'm not talking about your "conditions of life". We've always had to deal with that.

I'm talking about whether you get CPU allocation to feel emotions, or whether the simulation of your cerebellum gets degraded, or whether someone decides to run some psych experiments and give you a taste for murder or a deep, abiding love for the Flying Spaghetti Monster... and I don't mean that as a metaphor, but literally. Erase your memories, increase your compliance to the maximum, extract your memories, see what an average of your brain and whoever it is you hate most is. Experiment to see what's the most pain a baseline human brain can stand, then experiment with how to increase the amount, because in your biological life your held the door for someone who turned out to become very politically disfavored 25 years after you got locked in the box. This is just me spitballing for two minutes and does not in any way constitute the bounds of what can be done.

This isn't about whether or not they make you believe you're living in a simulated tent city. This is about having arbitrary root access to your mental state. Do you trust me, right here and right now, with arbitrary root access to your mental state? Now, the good news is that I have no interest in that arbitrary pain thing. At least, I don't right now. I don't promise that I won't in the future, but that's OK, because if you fling yourself into this box, you haven't got a way of holding me to any promise I make anyhow. But I've certainly got some beliefs and habits I'm going to be installing into you. It's for your own good, of course. At least to start with, though the psychological effects over time of what having this degree of control over a person are a little concerning. Ever seen anyone play the Sims? Everyone goes through a phase that would put them in jail for life were these real people.

You won't complain, of course; it's pretty easy to trace the origins of the thoughts of complaints and suppress those. Of course, what the subjective experience of that sort of suppression is is anybody's guess. Your problem, though, not mine.

Of all of the possibilities an uploaded human faces, the whole "I live a pleasant life exactly as I hoped and I'm never copied and never modified in a way I wouldn't approve of in advance indefinitely" is a scarily thin slice of the possible outcomes, and there's little reason other than exceedingly unfounded hope to think it's what will happen.
This is old news. The DfT were experimenting with this back in 2018 and blogged about it.

https://dftdigital.blog.gov.uk/2018/04/09/the-write-stuff-ho...

AI reads the letter, see if goes to the team dealing with X, Y, or Z, then it gets summarised and sent ready for answering.
I agree with your sentiment. I tried the app a few years ago and found it offered nothing of value. Most content you can get by supporting an artist is best enjoyed outside the app anyway, like goodies they send in the mail or high-res art that looks better on a bigger screen.

The only use cases I can think of for an app are 1) Socializing with other supporters who support the same artist, and 2) Searching other creators on Patreon and discovering similar artists you could support.

But Patreon's social features were (still are?) terrible, which is why all the creators took their social communities to Discord instead. And ever since the beginning, Patreon has opposed adding search. So their app, to me, is totally worthless. I'm astonished they're still in business.
Every indicator we have is that movement to the cloud is a massive tidal wave, and all we have on the retreat to on-prem is a handful of anecdotes and vibes. It's really up to the proponent of such an argument to provide some evidence for the extraordinary claim that return to on-prem is signifiant enough to influence server market share (or even establish that such revanchists would prefer AMD more than cloud buyers do).
All your base are belong to us - play the Apple game and pay the piper.
LaTeX or Tagged PDF are better than HTML for document-oriented content.
How is the EU going to respond to this since it is literally blackmail with Apple's market dominance?
Best payment method for contractors 2024?
I have someone who works with for me asking to be paid via Airtm rather than PayPal or normal bank transfer.

They are a developer in Japan. I have been unable to find much regarding paying contractors beyond PayPal, what are the current best practices?

I’m slightly worried of changes in Tax code that might come back to haunt me at a later date.

I’m US located.
Same issue. Would it have been so hard to have an about page?
For you and other people in this thread dealing with this, I humbly offer Dr. Thomas Seyfried's work on the metabolic treatment of cancer [1]. I think it's important to at least give his ideas a look, there are many interviews of him on YouTube that are a good start.

[1] https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/morrissey/departments/biol...
Oh please, it's not like nerds go outside anyway ;)
Totally agree - I'd go so far and say that it can be a dangerous mindset.

It is possible for relationships to be damaging for one or both members. It's easy to say this the mindset of making things work doesn't apply to abusive relationships - but it's not always clear what abuse is. The very mindset that 'divorce is not an option' means that people spend far too long in dangerous situations.

From my experience - I was married for 6 years to someone who, from the same starting position, moved to a very different philosophical viewpoint to me. This evolved over time, but by the end she'd happily tell me my belief system was wrong and immoral, and that she wanted she were married to someone who shared her viewpoint. She even said that in her opinion we shouldn't be married, but that she didn't believe in divorce. She'd never accept that there was anything wrong with what she was doing - she was simply trying to save me - and when I said 'I find what you're saying hurtful' she'd tell me she had no choice but to say it.

I can only imagine how miserable a time she was having, but she saw no choice but to continue in that relationship.

This never seemed like abuse at the time - and I'm certain she didn't mean it as such - but with hindsight she broke down my confidence in myself and in who I was and left me fundamentally doubting whether I was a good person (among other things, like making relationships with friends and family difficult).

Of course, everyone's experience is unique, but when I left that relationship I felt guilty, selfish and like I'd failed. It's only with hindsight that I can say with confidence that it was the best thing for everyone involved, and I'm much happier and healthier some years and plenty of therapy later. The narrative expressed in the article means people stay in awful situations they could be well out of.

We didn't have kids - and I'd definitely have been considering different things if we did (in particular, not wanting those kids to end up with a mother whose world view I fundamentally disagreed with, without my influence), but it may well still have been the right decision.
Yes. It's a gift, not a donation. You can't write off $10 to the homeless. In the giver's mind it's a donation but not technically afaik.
The Patreon website is equally shitty, at least it was when I last used it last year. Haven't tried the app though. So you hands should remain toasty.

But I do agree, why not just send Apple a big "fuck you" and create a really good mobile website?

Apple is still really pushing it with the 30%. I do agree that they should get cut, or straight up charge app developers a yearly fee for being in the App Store (which they already do with the developer licens), perhaps a smaller fee per update and a fee for using their subscriptions feature (which I do like as a consumer).

Patreon need to tread really carefully, because what Apple does not that different from Patreons own business model. Creators are similarly complaining about Patreons fees.

Still 30% is a lot, but I don't know what the actual cost of running the App Store is.
> Regarding being an investment banker, if you're intelligent, it's imho better to earn your capital and then do your own investment banking for yourself, not for someone else.

Investment banking isn't "owning a bunch of stocks"
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An Argument for Logging Off
The thing is, it does protect users, in some ways. It just happens to earn them a ridiculous amount of money too.

I'd prefer to see them cut the rate from 30%, because it doesn't give anyone that much value, but it does create some for the users of the App Store.
Customers leave when prices rise above their willingness to pay. Some customers will realize on their own that they can bypass Apple's fee by subscribing through the browser, but most won't (since Apple forbids even mentioning this trick).
Can a church exist exclusively on the internet?
Because the people who truly value freedom are outliers, seen as weirdos.
when you donate, you are not the one who personally receives the benefit, right? if you donate a car, you are not also using that car every once in a while.

to me that is the main distinction, who is benefiting from making that monetary contribution

otherwise, it is just an issue of timing, did I pay up front or later after a tried and liked the product
https://ym2132.github.io/GenerativeAdversarialNetworks_Goodf...
Demand curve is meaningless because humans don't have a stable and rational assessment of the price they would accept to pay for something (that's why having pretty hostess and expensive packaging are a thing) and this price also depends on many contextual factors: you're OK to pay much for for a glass of Coke in a fancy restaurant that you would accept at Mc Donalds, and a business values a piece of B2B software very differently depending on at which point we are in the fiscal year.

The so-called demand curve is as useful for a business as a population-wide heartbeat distribution would be. It makes no sense to talk about “the” curve, since it changes all the time!
"Workload" needs disambiguation. This is about humans working long hours in banking, not bypassing security scans on containers. I can't remember the last time I heard the word "workload" to describe a human.
Having a CLA like this would seem to cover your ass better legaly-speaking, but I'm not sure if either case has been tested in court and so am not sure if it really does help or not.

I've never personally seen a CLA where you weren't signing away ownership, where you were just stipulating that your contributions were under the same license as the rest of the code. Do you know of any cases of this? I'd be curious to see them.
Ask HN: Should we offer selfhosted or cloud version first of B2B SaaS?
Hello, I'm currently working with my brother on a code scanning tool for B2B and we were thinking about the hosting models, we want to offer cloud version and self hosted because some companies don't want their data in the cloud.
The question is which model should we start with? should we offer both at the beginning?
What are the pros and cons of each one ?
And are companies willing to use cloud or self hosted version (self hosted will cost more than our cloud version)
Thank you in advance
That's an impressive accomplishment. My father did much the same, but hired professional contractors for some of the more complex parts.

Children don't need to participate in extracurricular activities such as travel club sports. But the reality is that not doing so kind of closes off certain future options, including reducing the odds of admission to highly selective colleges. Thus a lot of upper-middle class families prioritize those activities above having a nicer home. It's impossible to know which choices will produce better outcomes.
Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
Sublime is still where I get all my work done. I could never get past the lag in VSCode.
The model is the "old school" model for software sales.

The first version you sell to a user at full price and offer a discount for upgrading (something like 40% off). It lets the customer pick when they feel the value prop is worth the cost and lets you offer a loyalty incentive to the user.

Right now the choice is "keep paying for it to keep working" or "fully price for every upgrade".
Well obviously because part of protecting a secret is not having it be known that you have a secret you're protecting
It may be likely that the wheel in the parent story wasn't factory equipment.

But, the NHTSA doesn't approve designs before they hit the market. For example:

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-yoke-steering-wheel-nhtsa-st...
This is a solved problem on some platforms (Zoom and Teams), which alter your eyes so they look like they are staring into the camera. Basically you drop your monitor down low (so the camera is more centered on your head) and let software fix your eyes.

If you want your head to actually be centered, there are also some "center screen webcams" that exist that plop into the middle of your screen during a call. There are a few types, thin webcams that drape down, and clear "webcam holders" that hold your webcam at the center of your screen, which are a bit less convenient.

Nvidia also has a software package you can use, but I believe it is a bit fiddle to get setup.
Playing around with vision models like detectron 2 to do segmentation etc can be fun and practical ways to learn torch
Certainly depends on locale then, mine (2021 MBP, UK) is not. It has a "backspace" symbol.
Relevant:

https://meshtastic.org/

https://github.com/meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/lora/
I have a sero-negative inflammatory arthritis. The only thing that makes it better is meloxicam; that shit is AMAZINGLY effective, completely makes my symptoms go away for 2-3 days if I take the full 15mg. Unfortunately due to the risk of stomach bleeding and my sensitive stomach, I only take 7.5mg every now and then and only 15mg when I really need to do something active (walk long distances). Note: I tried celecoxib and it did nothing, but some people have luck with it over meloxicam.

Now there are foods that make it worse: generally anything with high sodium like pizza, fries, fast-food/restaurant food (Chinese food especially). Caffeine also makes it slightly worse. By far the worst of them all is alcohol though. After the alcohol wears off, I'm in so much agony that I can barely walk.
Right now books are sorted by author name (eek, I think first name--calibre has an author_sort field I should use), then series name, then series index.
Pretty clear, I thought.

Having your entire access to space controlled by one company is a gamble. If that one company is controlled by one man, that's more of a gamble. If that one man is showing signs of mental instability, that's an even bigger gamble.
Your preference does not change whether or not it can achieve > 60fps at 1440p in modern multiplayer games when paired with a modern GPU
And why are you asserting the technical tax framework is relevant here?
Perhaps true but medieval life expectancy was not particularly great.
Some advice for getting into the SCP stories:

It's worth seeking out the "top rated pages" section of the wiki, especially when you are starting out. This can help introduce you to some of the more famous SCPs that you are likely to see reference elsewhere.

On the other hand, one of the charming things about the SCP articles is just how different and weird they can be. So don't be afraid to just read around. For example, one of my favorites is a woman who basically has a portal to an entire underground bunker in her nostrils.

The SCP wiki has resources for how to write an SCP article. A lot of these are EXCELLENT if you are interested in learning how to write weird fiction even outside of SCP (e.g. the D&D campaign you mentioned). For example, one of them discusses different ways that you can structure stories to subvert expectations.

The video game Control is not set in the SCP universe but is highly influenced by it. It's a lot of fun.

There are a number of SCP games available on Steam. They tend to have some jank due to being fan projects. However, the end result is often very cool. In particular, many of them have procedurally generated levels which works well with the wide variety of anomalous phenomena that they can add.
For sure, some use 900MHz 802.15.4 equipment for industrial, agriculture, and environmental monitoring systems.

People need the lower frequency to punch though the water vapor, and can't get away with <14cm without cutting range.

Using it for 5G bandwidths is stupidly inefficient, as it will cap out at a few hundred users a cell. Maybe they are getting the bands for cheap... lol =)
Indeed. For me to end up with the same amount of money after paying a company $100 rather than doing something myself, I have to go out and make an extra $167. That company probably then pays the actual worker something between $25 and $50, so I have to have a quite high multiple (plus the opportunity to just go work a small amount extra for pay) to make the trade make economic sense.