skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at amazon and had a medical exception for working from home. While obtaining the exception, the HR person in charge of my case would repeatedly call my personal cell phone to ask me questions about my disability. They did this 4-5 times despite my insistence that we keep all correspondence written and over email and despite me fulfilling all listed documentation requirements. Once my exception for my chronic condition was approved, they noted that I would need to renew every 6 months, because I guess lifelong conditions you're born with warrant constant validation.
This is ludicrous. The point of Z2 is a specific physiologic adaptation. There isn’t really any mental pain. Anything you can do to make your training more consistent is positive for your long term performance. Save the mental gymnastics for the actual hard days.

Staying in a hard VO2 interval or pushing through on those long threshold efforts is an actual mental exercise. Don’t push the belief onto people that staring at a wall in Z2 is giving you some gains. If it works for you then go for it, but it’s a wild mentally that thinks a physically easy ride needs to be hardened up.
But the idea of threads is that it integrates with the fediverse. So you can still view it from mastodon without ads right?
Fair question and I'm not certain. If I guessed, I'd say you're generally right, for now. I think it's important to keep that crap out altogether and maintain a refuge somewhere, where one can doff the coat, sit down and work alone. Yet a time where this is impossible is foreseeable without much imagination.
What constitutes a safe neighborhood?

One's personal definition could mean $1000/m difference compared to someone else's.
I think the main effect of social media is just in neutralising emotion and real world action. It give people a place to vent. And then they get angry when nothing in the real world changes. The power is still in the hands of a few geriatrics that can be bothered to go outside and do something. For the moment this benefited trump but it could just as easily swing in another direction.
The Prediction Market industry got out ahead of regulation and effectively chose their own (weak and hands-off) regulator in the CFTC. The requirements involved are not onerous. There are certainly jurisdictions where actual gambling is more tightly regulated. I am not exaggerating when I say that any pair of a good programmer and a decent lawyer could do the technical work to stand up a compliant exchange (they'd need capital, but, again, nothing insane compared to the capital you'd need for an unregulated exchange anyways).

I don't think you are at all correct about the relationship between Polymarket and other event trading venues. For one thing, Kalshi and polymarket are basically contemporaneous. For another, Polymarket plays at these games too (Polymarket has a former Commissioner of the CFTC on their board).

To the extent that Polymarket is playing in the legal grey zone, it's an active choice on their part, not a result of competitors' regulatory advantage or Polymarket's lack of access to regulatory leverage.
I think you overestimate the amount of people who even have severance clauses. That's pretty much silicon valley and C level stuff. The vast majority of office workers get fuck all if they are laid off or fired.
Pretty sure there's a massive difference in both the breadth and scope of the demographics of X and Mastodon/the Fediverse.
Oh right, I didn’t read far enough to see there’s no DRAM support - very unusual for a 286 system (at least a PC-compatible one). That’s a big tradeoff, indeed. Thanks!
I read somewhere TF will not be developed actively down the road, Google switched to JAX internally and TF pretty much lost the war to Pytorch.
Ok that makes sense, I figured it had to be something like that. They couldn’t possibly think they could legislate a single world market. As nice as that may be.

I guess that leaves me with the big question: why are there multiple markets. Why didn’t Apple just set up an EU one from the start? The shared market has been around longer than Apple has been selling digital stuff.

Maybe it just started out as a way to handle the different languages and sort of evolved to where it is today even though since it’s now more than just music it doesn’t make as much sense?
5 people (who also maintain a lot of other services like the linked TimeSeries service). The self-service to create new namespaces is pretty much autonomous (see attached link in the article on "Provisioning"). The stateless layer auto-scales up and down based on attached CPU/Network-based scaling policies. The exports to audit stores can be scheduled at a cadence. The only intervention is when we have to scale the storage layer (although parts of it also automated using the same Provisioning workflow). I guess the other intervention is when we decide to change the configs (like number of queues) and trigger a re-deploy. But thats about it. So far, we have spent a very small percentage of our support budget for this.
Based. Why the fuck do you deserve $10,000 for unlocking the door to an apartment I found myself?
The Wall Street Journal version of the OP article seems to indicate that the ruling did not apply to Polymarker due to it’s settlement with the CFTC in 2022 - but the language used is a little unclear:

> Polymarket has blocked access to Americans since 2022, following a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which accused the company of running an unregistered derivatives-trading platform. Traders say the ban on U.S. users can be circumvented using virtual private networks.

>Election betting was legalized in the U.S. under a recent federal court ruling, but only for CFTC-regulated markets, so Polymarket has remained off-limits to Americans.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fbi-polymarket-ceo-investiga...
Well, the other take-away is that if somebody can put in the work to do that to hopefully get included into a linux distro; what are they doing to get included into MacOS / Windows?
As a former user of in-trade and more recently of poly market, it is so annoying that there are laws against these sites. They serve an incredibly important function: letting people learn what’s happening in the world around us by observing a single number (e.g. % win probability).

I most receently used the site yesterday to see what the incumbent Australian government’s reelection chances are after they tabled ‘ID and age requirements to use social media’ laws, but polymarket didn’t seem to have Australian politics odds, so I was left using oddschecker, which is inferior due to the annoying way it displays odds and it not storing historical data.
I think its absolutely good for open source. At the very least it is something that future people can point to and show that an open source app doesn't block success.

Sure, it would be better if it was an open source app for an open source protocol, but it is still something.
The overwhelming majority of their publication on organics has an unmistakable bias toward D- sugars ...
Good, I hope they hammer Apple. I moved country and lost around 2/3rd of my TV and Film library, box sets partially complete, films disappeared, TV shows too.

I was attempting to build a small collection of decent stuff and didn't expect that I would have to move country, much less that my library decided to stay behind. So pissed off.
A few native birds have developed novel strategies for dealing with them. The jabiru will repreatedly drag them through water until they've released all their poison before consuming them, and the native magpie has learned to flip them on their backs and eat them through their stomachs.
So far. Will that continue is the question.
OK. It’s good to get confirmation on that.

Now I’m just left with the question of how Apple ended up in this configuration of stores. See my reply under the sibling comment to yours.
> Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump withdraws US military assistance

They should start now. If Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed for Director of National Intelligence in January, any intel the US has on such a program will get sent straight to Putin.
G'day all.. checking in with my usual 2 (or 20..) cents.
I'm loving this article, and discussion, I always learn lots from these.

Eventual consistency is a nice phrase to highlight. I feel (https://fosstodon.org/@simonmic/113444957161144239) the same way.
For me it's about not feeling you're on a time-sensitive treadmill, where if (when) you fall behind, you might risk losing data or never catching up.
(Though book-keeping regularly is still advantageous because it's less work.)
I believe the "pure function" style of many PTA tools, where all inputs are known and the output is deterministic, combined with version control, are a big part of this.

For newcomers, I like to make clear there's multiple styles of doing plain text accounting, including:

1. Entering all your own data by hand (optionally assisted by data entry tools).

2. Downloading data periodically from banks (as CSV, OFX, PDF, or whatever you can get) and importing it once to your journal file.

3. Downloading data periodically from banks, keeping that as your master data, and frequently regenerating journal files from it.

Each of these has its pros and cons, and there are people successfully using each of them.
hledger's own docs focus on methods 1 and 2.
Several third-party workflows using method 3 have been built on top of hledger; Full-Fledged Hledger that OP is using is the best known.

1 requires nothing but hledger.

2 adds: either manual bank downloading, or setting up one or more bank download tools/APIs; plus maintenance of conversion rules/scripts.

The workflows implementing 3 add: a recommended file layout, a recommended process, and tools/scripts which depend on these. They bring some benefits (a well documented featureful workflow) and some costs (added complexity). This isn't justified for all users, so don't think you're required to use these workflows.

More details: https://hledger.org/workflows.html
Clicked link, heard Firestarter, A+ for meeting expectations.
Yes. I still dream of an alternate universe where Commodore survived. Perhaps we'd all be using Amiga Unix instead of MacOS.
Which airline is that cheap from SF to Paris? Sounds interesting. I'm in Europe myself
Seems particularly true for tools that have operational implications. It's very easy to justify why something should be for-pay when it's indispensible day in and day out.
lol what? Vitaliy recommends watching movies during Z2 stairmaster sessions (2-4 hours long). No athlete/trainer says they have to be boring. If you have access to mountains, doing a long Z2 hike in a beautiful area is totally beneficial.
Now I desperately want to see drum breaks made with brake drums.
No, it has much more to do with he changed his tone on EVs after Musk started to publicly supported him and pretty much said the phrase "I had to, he's helping me".

Or all the people he pardon'd in exchange for indirect money.

It's literally transactional.
The Rubaiyat (1120 ACE)
If like me you're interested in the basics of elliptic curves, point addition, and the abelian groups that result then check the first third of my page at https://curves.xargs.org. It only gets you half way to an understanding of this article but might leave you less mystified.

You can also continue through the rest of that page to see how we use this math in cryptography, such as in key exchange.
I presume you also feel strongly that people should call health/life/car/homeowners insurance "gambling?"

Because insurance is quite literally a prediction market.

Not trying to be snarky, I know certain religions actually do consider insurance to be gambling.
No. Rent is a function of supply and demand in the market and not landlord input costs. There are houses in SF that would carry mortgages of like, 8-12k, but can only rent for 4-6k. This is why people say that land value taxes won't be passed on to the renter. It doesn't matter how much it costs you to hold property. Its market value is its market value.
Morphadron from the EA Need for Speed series must be jungle as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POxdm5dW7wE
This looks great, especially for developer docs! I'm going to check it out.
Everything is not the same, but everything can be quantified and ordered by some metrics which may discard some irrelevant info, yes. I disagree that it's content-free, there is probably only syntax at a fundamental level so whatever the semantics you've created in your head, they also reduce to syntax in the end. There are little to no semantics in the standard model of particle physics after all.
For context, the Biden administration has systematically harassed crypto startups these 4 years.

Typically they get "debanked" without explanation, and it's really hard to run a startup without a bank account...

This podcast with a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz tells the stories:
https://youtu.be/g4jWb-0nj44?si=_hK92xyF56lG0ezd&t=100
sure -- all true in 2018; right about then pyTorch passed TensforFlow in the raw numbers of research papers using it.. grad students later make products and product decisions.. currently, pyTorch is far more popular, the bulk of that is with LLMs

source: pyTorch Foundation, news
> Law enforcement shouldn't tolerate crimes being committed on its watch any longer than necessary.

That is simply not how it works and for good reason. If it were, imagine the consequences. Most charges would never lead to a trial or a conviction because law enforcement would have acted on the very first sign of criminal action instead of investigating further or working their way up the chain. We'd only end up arresting low level foot soldiers and the higher ups would get away every single time.
>good luck compiling LLVM on it

4 cores, thus 2GB/core. Plenty.
> Gitlab did great in their IPO, and they're 100% remote.

Gitlab is down 47% all time since their IPO.
Ridiculous is also that they say this when Polymarket gave Trump only 60%-40% odds. They're falling for the same logical fallacy as everyone who knows nothing about prediction markets.
These things are not mutually exclusive. Remembering numbers didn't hinder our ability to remember our contacts' names.

We don't know how brain exactly works, but I don't think we can now do some things better just because we are not using another function of our brains anymore.
Makes sense.

Would you be willing to share more about any of those situations?
An N100 running QEMU will be slower. A machine that is faster running QEMU will cost a lot more.

For example my 6 core Zen2 laptop runs my primes benchmark (small code, long-running, the best possible case for qemu-user) 10% slower than my VisionFive 2. If you want to run a whole emulated OS then qemu-system is a lot slower than qemu-user.

My i9-13900 laptop runs the same benchmark in qemu-user 2.6x faster than the VisionFive 2, but it also costs 30x more -- or about 2x more than the Frame laptop with the JH7110 mainboard. Or 5x more than the original DC Roma laptop with the JH7110 now costs ($299).

If you want a RISC-V laptop then Frame is a very expensive way to get one. It might be higher quality, and it will be upgradable to better specs later.
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1856841521334816928

they are investigating Polymarket itself
Heck yeah. Still pays the bills for me after 20 years and with Micronaut, Quarkus and even Spring boot the story around startup time and memory consumption is great. Tons of devs to hire, insanely good tooling/monitoring/debugging tools - why not use it?
TFA saved the best line until the end.

> "And I suspect no one in attendance would have predicted that in the 21st century, people groan at the thought of another virtual meeting."
It can backfire though, you no longer have 5th amendment privileges because you can't say anything incriminating (you're pardon'd from the crime).

So you have the take the stand and testify.
I'm in Europe and I always liked flying on Ryanair. They're not bad if you just pay for what you want. You have a lot of food choices where 'premium' airlines give you a sandwich you might not like. You can buy priority boarding without having to accumulate frequent flying points. And they're still cheaper than the pompous airlines when you pay for the addons.

If you try to get the things without paying, eg bringing too much baggage, that's when they fleece you. But just follow the rules and it's fine.
Generally, when newspapers endorse a candidate that runs on the editorial page.

How did Musk use Twitter to promote his candidate? Was it on whatever the Twitter equivalent of editorial pages are? Was it promoting posts favorable to that candidate in people's feed and/or demoting posts favorable to other candidates?

Details matter in these things.
The behavior of cp is standardized across multiple operating systems. It should do the same thing regardless of where it is run.
IME the comments almost universally had no value, and were very often toxic. I wouldn't want that on my website - why? What value do they add for anyone?

Nobody allows that on their website now - that was before many lessons were learned. HN doesn't allow anything like it (and never has, afaik).
I disagree. The problem is that this whole job doesn't need to exist and is parisitic. I've lived in multiple cities and never once dealt with a "broker" when renting an apartment or paid a broker fee, directly or indirectly. This system isn't normal, even in the US.
These terms are semantically equivalent.
> I can only assume because that doesn't happen, they would rather not say, which in turn actually says volumes.

If a CEO posted on here, “Here’s data that shows RTO was better for us” would that change anyone’s mind here?

No, people who hate RTO would continue to hate it.
Just russian invaders
Kinda. Yes they have flaws, absolutely they do.

But it's not a mere coincidence that history contains the substring "story" (nor that in German, both "history" and "story" are "Geschichte") — these are tales of the past, narratives constructed based on evidence (usually), but still narratives.

Language models may well be superhuman at teasing apart the biases that are woven into the minds writing the narratives… At least in principle, though unfortunately RLHF means they're also likely sycophantically adding whatever set of biases they estimate that the user has.
The generous interpretation that it makes them nauseous instead of giving them an epileptic attack.

I’m nearly certain for 90% of people the problem is entirely psychosomatic.
How can I access USB devices in a cloud workstation setup
I recently moved my workstation to a cloud setup and I’m struggling to access my USB devices remotely. I need to use specific hardware like my POS scanner but the cloud environment doesn’t support USB devices directly, and it’s been a real headache.
Has anyone managed to connect their USB devices to a cloud OS? Any tools or methods that have worked for you?
Thanks!
Once you exclude proprietary (jetbrains) or not-really-open (vs code) tools, it is a non-issue.
Well, sure. I can remember phone numbers from 30+ years ago approximately instantly.

I don't have to remember most of them from today, so I simply don't. (I do keep a few current numbers squirreled away in my little pea brain that will help me get rolling again, but I'll probably only ever need to actually use those memories if I ever fall out of the sky and onto a desert island that happens to have a payphone with a bucket of change next to it.)

On a daily, non-outlier basis, I'm no worse for not generally remembering phone numbers. I might even be better off today than I was decades ago, by no longer having to spend the brainpower required for programming new phone numbers into it.

I mean: I grew up reading paper road maps and [usually] helping my dad plan and navigate on road trips. The map pocket in the door of that old Chevrolet was stuffed with folded maps of different areas of the US.

But about the time I started taking my own solo road trips, things like the [OG] MapBlast! website started calculating and charting driving directions that could be printed. This made route planning a lot faster and easier.

Later, we got to where we are today with GPS navigation that has live updates for traffic and road conditions using systems like Waze. This has almost completely eliminated the chores of route planning and remembering directions (and alternate routes) from my life, and while I do have exactly one road map in my car that I do keep updated I haven't actually ever used it for anything since 2008 or so.

And am I less of a person today than I was back when paper maps were the order of the day? No, I don't think that I am -- in fact, I think these kinds of tools have made me much more capable than I ever was.

We call things like this "progress."

I do not yearn for the days before LLM any more than I yearn for the days before the cotton gin or the slide rule or Stack Overflow.
It seems to me that the payout for the employee would need to be enough that they never have to work again because of the risk that they won't be able to find a new jobs after having a lawsuit on their record.
> lying about it because they want to spin it in the quarterly earnings report

They're lying to employees, not investors. They don't want to pay severance.
This is a fair critique! I think that's a badly designed question. The questions most people are talking about in this thread, however, are not.
> But more won’t be able to be _learned_ in less time

What makes you think that? I feel like I’m able to learn faster with LLMS than I was before.
> I don't think he's plain wrong. Almost any non-living product is born out of software. If Japanese products are good, the software taking care of developing, manufacturing, marketing, selling, transporting, maintaining, rma'ing the product must be good.

No. For a physical non-software-driven product, those things are pretty much orthogonal.

If a product is good, it's due to the attributes of the product itself, and those are mainly due to the design decisions and priorities of the manufacturer.

All the things you list may make the business more efficient and more successful, but they have little to do with the kinds of products I'm talking about.
Whats the "I can only assume because that doesn't happen..."

what are you assuming doesn't happen? I think I might be overly dense, but I still don't follow.
> Why shouldn't a virtuous and transparent government

That doesn't exist.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129791
Gambling has been a huge disaster for the country as a whole. If it were up to me, I would have already banned all gambling platforms in the country. But to make matters worse, the government is studying a state-owned gambling platform.
OK but what if that serial murderer were running for president? It would be wrong to deny the people their chance to be governed by a gleeful psychopath.

As HL Mencken once said 'Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.'
> people who hate RTO would continue to hate it

It's honestly mindblowing that we're having so much difficulty parsing multiple optima. RTO works. WFH works. Hybrid works. They don't each work for everyone or every company. But these are preferences, not hard and fast rules.

It's like people arguing over whether driving on the left or right side is better. It doesn't matter. As long as everyone in a system is in sync, it works.
Ryanair doesn't really fly to those anymore though. They just fly to the low cost terminals at the major airports now. Here in Barcelona they just go to El Prat, not Girona.
I think they correctly judged that the general public wouldn’t care one way or the other, whereas in Japan they knew they would be publicly crucified if they kept it going.
Random smarty pants internet people always crack me up... like -- Amazon is super successful company. Like, maybe they know something about being a super successful company?
Yeah because If you are constantly pushing anything over a gig through WiFi you are doing it wrong.