jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This:

>when an object is dropped, it begins falling instantaneously.

Is answering a different question than this:

>the actual measurement confirms that the speed of gravity is equal to the speed of light to within 1%.

It is true that things drop immediately when you let go of them. Because they're already in the gravitational field. It is not true that when I drop something, a gravity particle from the surface of the earth (say 1km away) comes up and gets my apple, and until that gravity particle reaches it, the apple magically is suspended in the air. RRC covered this in the post.

It is the changes in the gravitational field that propagate at the speed of light. So if the sun vanished, which it can't, we wouldn't be flung away for 8 minutes.
Yes to the basic point, but note that (specifically) if you use BLAS in Fortran, you're typically losing a factor of several in speed, I'm sorry to say. Competitive serial numerical kernels typically still end up needing assembler (e.g. OpenBLAS, FFTW, ELPA).

I'm not sure why Fortran wouldn't be considered a high level language, if that's the implication (and it hasn't been SHOUTED since the 70s).
> Don't forget, Google is worthless without the content, if everyone banned Google from scraping content tomorrow it would go bust overnight.

You're making the same point I am, but drawing the opposite conclusion. If what these news sites are producing is so valuable and google is stealing it, why do they not just ban google from scraping their site?

The answer is that they were making money when they were the only way news got out into the world. Now that anyone can break news the news itself is not valuable. Google and Facebook aren't hurting these publications, the existence of the internet is.
- Burned out

- Depressed

- Anxious

- Covid-induced (likely) brain fog (maybe the depression/anxiety also is from presumably having covid back in April)

- Can't find a freelance client

- Broke

- Want a passion project

- Want to be part of a co-op not a cog in a machine

- Want to be on a team again

- Can't pick a side project to work on for some cashflow

- Too busy promoting my gofundme to pay rent

- Want to be a game dev this week

- Will want to be a systems dev next week

- Wanted to be a blockchain dev last week

- ADHD (apparent?)

- Mid-life crisis? Or is it just covid brain

- Wow, this has been catharctic just free-writing like this.

- Are you still reading this?

- Really bad schedule

- Brain struggling with organization

- MOTIVATION <--- mostly that..or the lack thereof.

- I'm 41, I guess as senior a dev as you can be in php/vue, feel like a junior dev, imposter syndrome.
The change that’s being described here is going FROM what you’re saying TO the realization that “politics” is not some separate thing that you can choose not to talk about, but actual issues that affect the lives of employees. People are tired of trying to ignore things that shouldn’t be ignored.
> It absolutely blows my mind that 99% of office roles are still 5 days / week, Monday to Friday - why is there basically no variation on this model?

probably because most people don't want variation? if you have to work forty hours a week, you might as well work the same forty hours as your partner/friends/family so you can easily schedule non-work tasks and social events in the evenings or on the weekend. if you have children that need to be shuttled to/from school, 9-5 aligns well with that.

ah I see from your website that you are questioning the forty hour workweek to begin with. I'm sure most people would happily work eight hours less for the same pay, but I'm not sure how much interest there is in 80% time for 80% pay. also going back to my previous point, the value of that extra free day is diminished somewhat if it doesn't align with activities you want to participate in or availability of people you want to spend time with. I guess you could just treat it as a "chore day" to free up more time on the actual weekend.
>Go off-grid for two weeks and there is a non trivial chance that some weird shit happened within crypto that is now an obstacle (crash or rally, outlawing, split, ...). That does not happen with US dollars.

That is fair, but it would be more accurate to say 'has not happened with US dollars since 1930'. Currencies collapse is not that unusual an occurrence, my own (German) grandparents live through five separate currency regimes in the same country. Being truly uncorrelated with most other investments can be a real selling point for a hedge like BTC.

Disclosure: I own several cryptocurrencies including BTC which I mentally categorise as 'collectables'.
I've worked on projects where I was directly responsible for landing client deals worth millions and I got compensated accordingly.

I bet you didn't. I've known people who've done the same sort of thing (technical architect in pre-sales), and their bonuses were about 1/20th of the salesperson's bonus for the same deals. Unless you've negotiated a bonus structure where you're compensated based on what work you land you never really get the sort of cut you should.
The TLS will necessarily be terminated by Apple, so they could definitely see the hashes if they cared to.
The Panzer IV is by far the most agile and nimble medium tank I've ever used.
is there some extension to mark links like this? popups, paywalls, consent forms. all of these, I don't mind if the link is red or if their domain is entirely blocked. I'm immediately not interested in such websites and it would save me so much time
This reminds me of the shipping container turned relocatable dwelling: http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbay/059MDU-lotek/...

Of course you'd need to rent a truck to drive it around, but it expands similar to some RVs.
Or not wake up at all.
> A hacker looks at what's out there, and what's possible, shuts up, and builds something awesome with it.

Yeah, but a hacker also doesn't waste his precious life time with subpar and awful technologies (unless he's forced/paid to do so).

That's why in my free time I rather fire up emacs and hack away in Lisp instead of building JavaScript webapps.
My American shoot-from-the-hip response to this would be to consider the road differences. Most American roads, interstate, state highways, and main city throughfares, are able to accommodate large vehicles quite easily. This is not the case in EU cities built for smaller traffic volumes. Many American vehicles are built to spec for these roads, and the difference between driving dad's F-250 and a garbage truck becomes less significant. Tractor trailers, farm vehicles, and heavy machinery are classed differently. But a petrol-driven bus or heavy-load truck is not.
Sure, one could patch the application too, but that can also be done on NT.
It does not make sense to include minors in "wealth reports".
Use what you know. Laravel would be the best choice here in my opinion. RoR & Laravel have very similar feature sets, community etc so going with RoR wouldn't be any greater benefit than Laravel.
I don't know to what extent this is a problem at IBM, but I've seen a few places where it is a huge problem. And I agree with you. The "yay!" was sarcastic.
> Canada with 1.6 million is pretty surprising. That's roughly the same per capita as the US.

Home ownership, along with vacationing, is a core value of Canadian society. When you look at the average cost of a home (quite high) in Canada, along with this article defining "The 1%" as anyone with wealth of $798,000 or more, it's easy to see why there are so many Canadians.
I've been getting a kick out of watching the parent post go to -1 to +1 over and over again. seems like lots of people disagree whether or not the above comment was worth it.
I'm not sure, the two pieces of news are just quite close together.
It seems quite reasonable to presume that the target audience of Mac Pro users wouldn't treat SDD replacement as "routine maintenance" that would be done by the user, but have it done in a service center. And it's completely reasonable to assume that a Mac service center has other macs on hand. Disks on Macs are not really expected to be a user-serviceable part, if some weird techy wants to do that, they can (with some caveats like this one), but the process is designed with service professionals in mind, not DIY end-users.
large datacenters have hardware orchestration systems that let them turn off unused machines. There really is no reason to have lots of machines on but unused. At least, that is not a significant enough event to be a determining factor in hardware purchasing.
For comparison, C has 50 years. But C has evolved a lot and Fortran has evolved a lot in this 50/70 years.
If you have enough servers for idle draw to be more than a rounding error in your opex breakdown, then you have a strategy to keep idle time to zero. It doesn’t make any financial sense (no matter how low idle draw is) to have a server sit idle (or even powered off, but that’s a capex problem).
In our production experience, utilization had far more to do with the service owners (or autoscalers/auto-tuners) correctly choosing the cgroups and CPU scheduler allocations, as well as the kernel settings for cgroup slicing and CPU scheduler. We had Mesos clusters with 3% utilization and have Kubernetes clusters with 95%+ utilization. But we also have Kubernetes clusters with <10% utilization.
Obligatory "Not an accountant but": My understanding is that Uber assigns significant costs related to ride share to R&D, etc., to make it look like their rides business is profitable.

Certainly some segment of their core business is profitable. But at the end of the day, if all they have is a glorified cab company that is profitable in a few big cities and loses money everywhere else, that's not a story that sounds good to investors.
For me the real advantage is the shared information model with the backend that is trivial to serialize/de-serialize with something like transit-clj(s). It's like the benefit of js/node but with richer data structures: keywords, symbols, sets, maps with arbitrary keys, instants, uuids and extensibility via tagging. JSON is great, but EDN is so much better!
I was like you until July of last year. Started working exclusively on my laptop (I'm a c++ engineer) and I found that it forced me to be more organized. Vim + tmux lets me make full use of a smaller screen. My productivity has honestly improved as a result
> There is no need to "pass data to the GPU" because data is never on CPU memory, so there is nothing to pass from there. All network and file I/O goes directly to the GPU.

This is very interesting - do you have a link that explains how it works / is implemented?
For practical purposes, do you want to count these symptom-free infections in that calculation? Knowing this, would you want to do anything differently in how we handle this pandemic? I don’t see how this changes much at all about our present situation.
For a blog post about simplifying there sure are a lot of links embedded in the text to take your attention away.
Works fine on Android Firefox. They should put in a debounce function on the sliders so it doesn't update as it's moving.
Is it the car, or the app?
None of that requires "psychology, anthropology, philosophy", as the book author claims, since (as you noted), it tells us the sensibilities of its makers.

Bittani could build a city simulation with blackjack an...erm psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and see if who is interested in that - and if it's not just another reflection of the maker's opinions (just one that Bittani happens to prefer).
This raises an interesting question. Do we want computers to see "correctly", or to see how we see?

Would a preferred computer vision system experience the Checker shadow illusion? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

If yes, computer vision will be as fallible as ours. If no, then there will always be examples, like the ones presented, where computers will see something different than humans.
It really bothers me that so many people in this thread are talking about the game, their formative experiences with it, how much they enjoyed it, and not the man and his health issues caused by the unreasonable expectations set upon him by his employer. Right now, the only thing the top comment has in common with the original article is that they both mention "Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory".

It bothers me on one aspect because the article is only tangentially about the game, so this talk about the game is really all off-topic and distracting from the bigger issue of healthful work-life balance. But even worse than that is the aspect that it is because of this single-minded attitude on the consumer side that employers like Ubisoft put this sort of pressure on their employees.
It's interesting that efficiency is the key figure that we use. The more pertinent numbers are surely break even point - how many years in a standard installation to return the energy needed to make the panels. The next key figure is probably (in a domestic install) how much of a households energy can be produced with a standard install.

In many ways efficiency is irrelevant. If a panel were only 5% efficient but that produced 200% of a families power requirements in a normal install and broke even after 1 year that would be awesome. On the other hand if a panel were 95% efficient and returned 5% of families power requirements and broke even in several decades that would be terrible.

It seems a rating that shows how long it takes a panel under [a properly defined] "average" solar illumination to pay for it's own construction (both in money and power) would perhaps be useful and not too difficult to test and verify.
Did you read the part where I said: "To each his own"? If you love your Aeropress, then fine. But when people make claims like, "The perfect cup of coffee" or put BS in their FAQs, as Aeropress does, then I'm calling them out on it.

I have the creds to do so. I have tried every brewing technique you care to name. I do quantitative measurements, right down to the composition of the water, TDS, and pH. I have lab-grade equipment. I also am developing a cheap solution for making an ideal coffee brewing water to SCAA specifications. This is not my first rodeo.

Now to your "where did you get the idea": This is a known issue with the Aeropress (google for Aeropress crazing). Because it is plastic, it cannot handle the higher brewing temperatures required for proper extraction. The plastic starts to warp and crack.

The recommended "solution" is to use a lower temperature. This produces a different cup of coffee than higher temperatures would. You may like this cup. I prefer a cup that is properly extracted. To each his own.

But when people are publishing BS, I'm gonna call it out.
Pretty cheap compared to other spin classes or gym memberships.
Do you have any cleaning of your water? I.e. https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-wa... ?
Although considering the PDP-11 came long before "the internet", they might have a solid air-gap defense.
> do you think they should be forced to sell items on their platform that they don't want to sell?

Yes. They're not doing the selling, the merchant is. Shopify sells software, not things.

Toyota doesn't refuse to sell me cars because they don't like where I might drive. HP doesn't refuse to sell me laptops because they don't like what I might write on it.

Shopify's actions are just as ludicrous as the two I just mentioned above. The virtue signalling corporate nonsense (and that's what this is) will eventually backfire
This texture had me smirk. :)

https://opensource.apple.com/source/Chess/Chess-408/Styles/G...

Wonder what their workplace policy is. It’s pretty much “don’t ask, don’t tell” around here.
But if you pay lower salaries, you can hire more people.

There is very little difference (imo) between 3 employees @ 40hrs per week vs 4 employees @ 30hrs per week. There will be more administration and onboarding admittedly, but this should be balanced by more productive employees (i.e. less burnout)
Each of those actions can be done via Audio Return Channel (ARC), and perhaps most/all of them via HDMI-CEC. About 50% of the time the Chromecast Google TV we just bought can adjust the tv's audio itself (unless we are casting to it, in which case it does nothing except pops up a notice to check settings, which we have thoroughly checked).

But there's still a lot that can not be done. I change my Samsung monitor's brightness, gamma, & "lean-back" view mode multiple times a week. On my projector I switch between "quiet" & normal mode, & adjust keystone & zoom depending on position.

It'd be awesome to de-interface the TV, to create machine-to-machine interfaces that let the TV be a "dumb" screen while still being able to fiddle it's knobs. We could definitely go middle-way by returning to the tv having an "on screen display" only, some menus for configuration, but I'd love to also expand the digital controllability of these things, such that Rokus & GTVs &c can integrate with, become a comprehensive modular hub/brain for controlling the TV.
At this point I don’t think the market will react negatively to anything except interest rates going up.
The situation is probably closer to this: Lots of people went into a room and asked someone what their birthday is. Only you happened to have the same one, so no one else said anything.

But, congrats on using up your luck for the next month or so. :)
Single core performance, maybe. Not much else though. But the apple's do quite well on perf/$, perf/watt. The M1 mini is pretty competitive at $700 for a fast silent desktop.
> And it's telling that you're blaming the people upset about that for any possible consequences rather than the Trump supporters who stormed the Capital with pipe bombs, guns, knives and zip-ties for taking hostages, believing in a fictitious conspiracy theory about a stolen election

Pipe bombs were in the DNC/RNC headquarters and not done by this group.

They didn't have "guns, knifes and zip-ties" .. I think there were 4 charged with guns? None of them used them. The only person shot and killed was a Capitol Officer shooting blindly into a crowd, hitting a white unarmed woman, nearly hitting another Federal Officer. I wonder if he'll face charges. I wonder if that woman will get memorials in her honor. Did you know she was an Air Force veteran?

There are videos of the people in the capitol taking selfies with capitol police and walking around peacefully. Weird coup.

> Neo-nazis

I saw people who supported Tump. I didn't see any neo nazis. There was one man with a communist tattoo, and some fucking QAnon idiot with a racoon on his head who should go to federal prison.

If you really think this was some kind of insurrection, I feel sorry for you. It was nothing of the sort. It was pittance compared to the burning down of a fucking police station by BLM rioters.

"oh I'm so scared. The peasants in the village have made their way into the royal court and sat at our golden seats and found our candy desk!"

Anyone who broke or stole anything will face federal charges and will go away (and should). But classifying that entire group the way you have is disingenuous. Especially compared to the rioting and looting that's been endorsed and encourages as being good and righteous by the left wing media.

The media has told us setting things on fire by BLM is fine for months and now they're acting like 1/10th of that is the end of democracy.

> “But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
I had completely forgotten that we actually had one back when I was living with my parents, because the cordless phones we had allowed you to call out and take calls, but also call any other cordless phone attached to the same base station.

We didn't think much of it at first, but it was actually super useful because going upstairs was relatively inconvenient and shouting didn't work if we were wearing headphones.

Today I guess we would just whatsapp each other.
Forrst guys, you need to buy forsst.com asap, I've just misspelled it 3 times.
US rules for 4-way stops are easier to deal with - if you are the first to come to a full stop you get to go first (people learn to judge that little jump on your shocks as you actually stop) then people take turns (N-S then E-W then N-S etc) - if it's unclear then the NZ-like rules take over.

Yes NZ has occasional pedestrian crossings, but not at the one place we most need them (roundabouts) - what we don;t have are ubiquitous ones (at every intersection)
Odds are not that low. In the 55 years since opening this high school would have had at least 20,000 unique people associated with it.

Expected number of cancer cases would probably be several thousand.

Claims of primary brain cancer derived from social media are probably not too accurate. A proper study is going to discard most as being confused with other cancers. So now you aren't looking at an unimaginable rate.
What if it's getting better because it's fitting reality more tightly by cutting off slack neurons? :)

According to the chart there, your largest gray matter volume is at 6 and greatest cortical thickness is between 1 and 6. I'll leave it to you to decide whether your brain is better now than at 6. (Assuming you're reading this while being significantly older than 6.)
In this vein, an app I've been using with some friends is BeReal[1]. It is intended to be more of an Instagram substitute rather than this which feels a bit more like a substitute for Facebook.

The idea with BeReal is that every day you get a notification at some random time (it changes every day). When you get the notification, you have 2 minutes to post what you're doing at the time. The app takes one picture of your environment with the main camera and one of you with the front-facing camera.

It's not perfect and if I was developing it there are a couple things I would probably change to keep a little more in the spirit of "being real", but it's a fun thing to be on with friends.

[1] https://bere.al
I’d managed to forget how much I hate SPARQL. I really wanted to love wikidata but SPARQL ruined it for me.
The 3x speed increase is interesting. Do you have any further details?
I think for people like us engineers who don't spend a lot of time developing our "visual sense", it can be hard to understand what the big deal is about painting and other visual arts.

For me the breakthrough was when I realized that the colors I think I see in the world are all lies. Try this: look at something near you that's a uniform color. Looks like one color, right? Wrong! Light hits the object, and bounces off in a million different ways depending on physics. Your brain interprets these light rays as a single composite color for each object, but it's not the physical truth - it's just a simplification to deal with overwhelming detail. If you want proof of this, just look at what a digital camera sees. Pixels that the brain would consider the same color... aren't.

A big part of the artist's journey, perhaps the main part, is in developing the ability to break through the brain's natural conceptual abstraction layer and see the world much closer to the sensory raw data that normally goes unnoticed. Ironically, the better an artist manages to reproduce these low-level details, the more their work will seem obvious and like something anyone could do!
Freedom of speech/expression is a right of every individual on this planet. Any regime that does not support that should face pushback from its citizens, businesses, and other countries.