skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The haze in Thailand is different from the one in Singapore.

In Northern Thailand it's locally generated in the dry season around March-April (forest fires plus farmers burning fields on purpose) and considerably worsened by the topography (no ocean, mountains on three sides).

In Singapore it's forest fire smoke from Indonesia blowing in with the winds, and it's usually during the summer (June to October, peaking around August).
https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Relational-Model-Database-Management-...
I disagree. It seems to be that collectivism, ironically, has made cooperation impossible rather than individualism. The government has taken on the role of "taking care" of your neighbor, so everyone stopped. Government guarantees you healthcare and income in retirement, so there's no need to have a family big enough to take care of you. And as the kid, your parents are taken care of, so your role is diminished. When a hurricane comes through and damages your neighbor's rooftop there's no need to pick up your tool belt, FEMA is going to cut them a check. People feel like they don't need to get involved in charity work such as feeding the hungry because the government takes care of that for the most part. Each one of those items and countless others seem like a great idea individually, but collectively it's destroying the social fabric of our nation.
The core of the problem isn't any sort of tax setup, it's the foundation of our economy. The first employee of a startup usually gets less than 2% equity.

Apple made $700k per employee in a single quarter.

Our whole economy is set up to funnel money to the top. We need a new way of structuring corporations to change that.
Raise taxes on the 0.01%, it's the only way.
Why is there no talk about the dramatic increase in the supply of workers over the last 40 years? Globalization has brought millions out of poverty and those people are now competing with Americans when they wouldn't before. It makes sense from an economic standpoint that the price of labor would not rise when the supply is increased and is likely the cause of income inequality in the US.
Unless you’re at Apple where everyone seems to have a private office with a locking door.
This is awesome. Purely out of interest, how would one go about a similar location database for arbitrary locations in space? PostGIS presumably assumes a spheroid planet; what if I'm tracking objects in interplanetary space? Are there any DB plugins (accessible outside of national space agencies) that can do that?
Cory Doctorow: There is violent revolution, but there is walking away
This is true even more so today.
That’s correct. Everyone has a private office.
I find multiple monitors easier to manage with a tiling window manager and offer a better "separation of concerns" in terms of grouping of active applications I want to see. But my home set up includes 3 28in displays so I may just have a problem, ymmv.
"Enjoying your job" is a perk most people don't get. To them, larger monitors, better laptops, offices with doors, etc are simply tools people use to feel better than you.
>>I was quickly assured this was a bad name for the role and that it primarily was a development role.

Next time, refuse to start unless they re-issue the offer letter with the corrected job title. For any future contract, always ensure the final and corrected version of the contract is in hand before counter-signing. One way to do this is scratch out the incorrect words or terms, handwrite the new words, initial the change, and scan the signed paperwork back.

>>I accepted the offer and forgot about any of my concerns until I started.

Everybody here agrees that the company lied, but next time accept the offer by scratching out the wrong words and writing in the correct ones. Then you will have legal grounds to fight back.
You are misusing the idea of evolution. Evolution requires a sufficient number of generations and individuals. I think both are not given in this context.
Do you know how far from the tree do these network travel? Do the other trees it 'communicates' with have to be right next to it or can they be some distance?

As someone who has a passing interest in mycology I find this as much interesting in how important fungi is to the world as are trees. It has many proponents who believe fungi doesn't get enough credit for fueling the world's ecology as plants and trees. Possibly due to mushrooms perception as being harmful to humans.

Thanks for the book recommendation (Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate-Discove...).
Student mistook examples of unsolved math problems for homework, solves them
You don't need to understand category theory to understand Cofree. It's not a very complicated construction. The Haskell ecosystem's provision of stuff like Free, Cofree, Fix, etc. covers a huge number of common constructions and saves you a lot of effort.

A common example of a "kind of hard problem" I see all the time on various tech sites (e.g. here) is flattening a rose tree (arbitrary depth nested array). Guess what? In Haskell, you can express the whole structure as "Free []". Hundreds of useful primitives are already written for you, including the thing you need to flatten the tree, "toList". This just goes to show that it's not a pointless masturbatory excercise in dragging math into software engineering; it's actually directly and immediately very useful.
No, certainly not. The other founder lives in Fairfax, and it was just an interesting coincidence. I didn't expect someone from OpenBazaar to come in and (a) be mistaken about Sam's roots, then (b) have Sam change it.

The fact is, one of the founders of potentially one of the biggest technological developments worked for Snowden's old employer and lives 20min from Langley. They're shipping Tor support with their next update. It seemed best to ensure everyone was clear about the players involved.
I do t think a pure electric vs pure gas necessarily has more electronic components to fail. A modern gas engine has many electronic parts that allow it to work and an electric drivetrain isn't exactly complicated. All the other aspects of a modern car are going to be the same; electric Windows, navigation, safety stuff. So I don't think there is anything inherently more likely to break, electronics wise.

Now the big difference is that it seems we have decided electric cars = autonomous cars. And I would agree that autonomous function opens the car to a whole host of electrical problems (sensors, computers, etc). But this would be the same in an autonomous gas powered car.
1) first amendment basically sats the government can not censor, but a private citizen or business can. But there is account effect, one should be careful of what they censor, last it affects society as a whole. But in this case the company wants to be a proponent of free speech.
2) in the United States hate speech is protected by the first amendment.
3) I'm sure there are plenty of dissertations on the subject. But a society is not free if they don't have free speech. One way to opress a group is to withhold knowledge and information.
4)i would say it is almost impossible to establish a guideline for what is and isn't hate speech. Hate speech does not mean "incite violence"
There's not really a meaning of "io game" other than by example. It doesn't necessarily have to have a .io TLD. Here is a community with some examples. https://www.reddit.com/r/IoGames/
I'm curious, in what sense is it insignificant? Quoting from (likely faulty) memory, 30% of federal budget comes from income tax directly, and the another 20% or so is covered by employer associated employment taxes. So out of that $11bn a day, Americans pay in $6.5bn every day. If we were to adequately tax the 0.01%, the budget would feel the difference.
Autotools is the opposite of what I'm suggesting. But maybe I'm missing some nuance in your comment. I think, though, that you may have read what I wrote, interpreted it as "new build tool", and immediately applied XKCD 927[1]. See my closing remarks in my last comment.

1. https://xkcd.com/927/
Also, it looks like JUCE is available for a one-off fee, if you don't like the monthly subscription. $700 once on an annual revenue of $200K seems reasonable, especially since there's the free-with-splashscreen tier to help you earn that first $700.

https://www.juce.com/get-juce
pretty much this. its why there was a lot of h1b visa abuse. top 0.01% doesnt want to pay a lot for tech workers but the demand is high, so increase the supply of tech workers.
And in response to the overload of cheap labor, the central banks have been printing currency -- which means that people who own lots of equity end up with more money than they had before. (more money with the same assets means suddenly your assets are worth much more money)

Also "hoarding" implies intent and capability. From all I can see, what's happening is the natural consequences of lifting billions of people out of poverty.
But you cannot do that!! I'm part of those who will get to be the 0.01%!! How could you take away my money that I will purposely wrote in my check from the monopoly that I will own with my company.
> What usually happens with these phones is they have something like 8GB or even 16GB, but they are poorly paritioned. It could be something like 5-6GB for /system (the OS) and they somehow only leave 2GB for the /data partition.

Oh, so you read bigbugbag's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15049992)

> > wow those people are lucky and high on consumerism, my phone had 2GB.

as saying that it's 2 GB after the system installation? That seems to make it a strange response to itg's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15049947)

> > > Considering how may people still have 8GB/16GB phones, I doubt it. On iOS sometimes you have to delete apps, especially ones that build up large caches like Facebook.

which is clearly referring to the pre-OS available space.
Not LibreSSL, but Apple replaced OpenSSL with their own library, Common Crypto.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Se...

https://opensource.apple.com//source/CommonCrypto/CommonCryp...
"switching" is a layer 2 term. At layer 2, frames are switched. At layer 3, packets are routed. An edge router routes, based upon the destination IP adress (unless you have policies that cause a packet to be sent elsewhere).

Layer 3 implies routing, by the way. A "pure layer 3 switch" is called a router.
that's why a lot of people opt-out of working

people are not stupid if it's not worth their time they rather not do
No, you can easily measure this stuff with "time". It was 75ms vs 3ms for python vs go... this is for some custom prompt he wrote, so this is the time it takes to get the new prompt every time he was pressing return. I don't think it's that big a deal, if it was navigation keys in a text editor then it's a big deal, but when you hit return you are usually executing something much longer than ~50ms anyway so it's not an overhead that's going to multiply that much.
It's nothing, if your expenses grow at higher rate.
I remember reading about this at the time and wondering where I could get my hands on the source code. What happened to this? After the burst of publicity and some MIDI samples, EMI seemed to disappear without a trace. Was it all just a hoax? Did David Cope abandon the software?
I know this isn't the right place to ask this, but where is Preact better than Inferno? (I don't use any, but I really want to know, since Inferno advertises itself as a fully compatible but much faster React alternative.)
Why then does the society with the flimsiest socialised provisions amongst rich nations (the US) also have on most measures by far the most precipitous collapse in social cohesion?
That is a very interesting thought exercise. 2002 me might also ask, "where's the screensaver?"
Now if they could figure out how to keep it cold without refrigeration.
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, elegant, and completely wrong.

So here's my attempt:

1. Remove subsidies including tax writeoffs like depreciation. Either an asset brings value or it doesn't.

2. Tax revenue not profits. Either you make a profit selling a thing or you don't. Fancy tricks like buying an item from a fully owned subsidiary and selling it at a loss to compensate for profits from services is not realising the value your services and products bring to the economy

3. Change the paradigm from employees serve the company to companies serve the employees. Companies are a way to insulate participants from economic risk of a capital-intensive activity, not a way to structure tax affairs.

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Disruption is bad for business.
Current government policies penalize income (39.6% at the top bracket) and subsidize company-sponsored non-monetary benefits (health, dental, vision, meals, commuter benefits, ESPP, 401k matching, ISOs, NSOs), so not all that surprising that workers see less income and more of non-monetary benefits as a result.

The workable solution through a tax policy might include reducing the number of brackets for personal income tax, dropping personal income tax rates within those brackets, and removing deductibility of all aforementioned corporate benefits as a trade-off.

I don't see a wave of pent-up consumer demand though, as cheap and easy credit de-couples spending and earning. A lot of economists predicted boost in consumer spending as oil (and gas) prices fell over the past few years, but in reality all that spending had already taken place years before, and consumers simply used gas savings to deleverage their credit accounts. Household debt is peaking again https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/business/dealbook/househo... so any additional savings or boosts in earnings will likely go towards deleveraging.
As far as I'm aware, none of the studies on increasing minimum wage have shown this.
To each their own. I love the fact that I can't see pixels on my retina iMac at 220 PPI. It makes reading code much nicer.

I still have more than enough room for a few buffers on screen.
Actually you get 3) the cost of the output of that process goes up, leading to a small price rise to the end user.
What does having worked for Booz Allen have to do with anything? I'm very sorry there was a mistake about Sam having once lived in Virginia but it doesn't matter at all. It has nothing to do with anything and I'd appreciate if you'd be up front about what you think is going on.

Edit: The way you said Sam changed his location as if it was a reaction to you is beyond hilarious.
> experienced person you can ask questions of every 5 to 10 minutes

Please don't abuse your peers' goodwill this way. Write down your questions as you go, meet about stuff too abstruse to straighten out over email, and add what you learn to the docs so the next newbie will be less of a burden.
Consider facts: React is over 40k lines of code, there are 30+ classes/methods to be aware of though maybe 10 of them are commonly used. Would you call it "minimal"? There is still a lot more that could be done with a smaller API surface and much less code.

Compared to Angular, it might as well be a micro-framework, but by objective measures it's not so simple.
This is a pretty provincial piece. Marriage has been transactional for thousands of years. To this day, the practice continues around the world. I have a colleague in the US who has an arranged marriage (he was born overseas). But of course, let's pretend that "romantic love" is the historical norm (versus recent movie invention) and we've somehow fallen from this expectation.
Just throwing out a question here - What evidence do you have for the order of events? e.g. "The government has taken on the role of "taking care" of your neighbor, so everyone stopped" - how do you show that it wasn't the rise of urban centers, where you had too many neighbors to care for, that led to government stepping in where individuals were failing?

For each of the items you list, I can see it going the direction you describe, or instead going the other direction, with government stepping in only after individuals were clearly not taking care of the problems. How do you propose that we can tell which direction it went?
I live in a country with universal healthcare and it works pretty well much of the time, so perhaps I don't have the same perspective as you. But some of your examples ring a little extreme.

Do you really suggest "having a big family" as the way to survive health problems and retirement? Because that's how it works in some (e.g.) SE Asian countries, and life there can be very harsh indeed if you strike adversity and don't have family to care for you. Some people are infertile, or have lost their children.

Not to mention that simply populating the world with more and more people is kind of environmentally short-sighted. I'd rather have the government bulk buying my meds, and lighten my overall footprint on the planet, rather than harking back to ancient times when there was little or no government, and family was everything.
Socially advanced European nations do not have cooperation and social cohesion problems. What makes America unique?
Yeah, I was just thinking how some of our seemingly established forestry principles of thinning out overgrown portions of forests to keep it 'healthy' or engaging in selective logging could be disrupting some of these networks.
> It makes sense from an economic standpoint that the price of labor would not rise when the supply is increased and is likely the cause of income inequality in the US.

So why are CEO salaries still going up? Is there not increased competition for C-level positions in companies from globalization? If not, why not?
Then you end up with people like I clean up after, who don't know the difference between layers 2 and 3 and can't understand out why putting 1200 clients (spread across a few dozen sites, linked by microwave connections) on the same layer 2 segment causes problems.
Agreed, this is how I expect things to shake out. A tech company when partnering with non-tech people needs to be the right set of circumstances to make work.

Say if one of those doctors quit and did this full time for you pushing sales to other doctors, maybe it would have worked. But trying to build a product with people not at the same commitment level is hard.
See this is where we'll probably never agree. The "all sides" argument, I think, is terribly flawed. There will always "be another side" however there's no guarantee that that side is equally rational or any way valid. That's how you end up with anti-vaxers sitting at the table next to doctors, oil exec sitting next to climate scientists, and intelligent design proponents sitting next to biologists.

It's impossible to rationally debate ideas with no rational foundation; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence not calls to physical violence or pronouncements of superiority. A world in which "whites are the master race" is just an unpopular view that we should welcome as opposed to an unfounded assertion backed by no evidence is not a world in which any "net positive" has been added to society. When the burden is put on rational people to offer counter arguments as opposed to the extremists to offer evidence rationality loses every time; just look to vaccines and climate change.
Project Intu is the new platform for embodied cognition
Another factor I don't see talked about is the increase in women's participation in the workforce. When wages were higher it was common to only have one breadwinner in the family. Today women are more likely to get a job (or two), which is bound to depress wages. The perverse effect of lower wages is that families are forced to take on more jobs than they did before, which depresses wages further. Not sure if there is causation between women's participation and wage stagnation, but logically it seems possible that this would cause a downward spiral. The more wages suffer, the more jobs/hours/years people are forced to seek to work, the lower the wages.
Office pods seem to be less than $10k, why can't we get those rather than five-foot slices of purgatory?
I think the idea is that it just doesn't make a mess, but it might also have advantages refreezing from a semi-thawed state. Might have positive implications for shipping/distribution where a crate of ice cream sits at a loading dock for just a wee bit too much time before making it into freezers.
Most of them derive annual income via capital gains, and it's pretty much a voluntary tax. One either borrows against the asset, so zero selling occurs, or harvests some tax losses from other assets before they execute a sale on an appreciated asset.
I'm curious how much of an effect the forestry industry has on these mycology networks as long as the trees get replanted. After coming across this quote:

> In Sweden, scientists studied a spruce that appeared to be about 500 years old. They were surprised to learn that it was growing from a root system that was 9,550 years old.

> In Switzerland, construction workers uncovered stumps of trees that didn’t look very old. Scientists examined them and discovered that they belonged to pines that lived 14,000 years ago. Analyzing the rings of their trunks, they learned that the pines that survived a climate that warmed 42°F, and then cooled about the same amount — in a period of just 30 years! This is the equivalent of our worst-case projections today.
I am just adding to the existing crescendo but here is my take:

* If it is not written down, it is meaningless. Never believe anyone's verbal assurance, especially if it is someone whose compensation is tied to your assent (such as the interviewer, it seems.) This is true generally for many areas of life but is particularly true of transactional interactions such as buying a car, signing up for a job, buying a house, etc. Pretty much if the person dealing with you will suffer no consequences of lying to you once you have agreed, you should insist on seeing the concern addressed in writing.

* Better late than never re. departure. If your next potential employer quizzes you about the short duration, present the departure in positive terms ('misunderstanding in the details of the role', etc.) I will also roll out a platitude by saying that you get one shot at life and it is not worth it to be miserable. You have the fortune (depending on your country of residence, true for the US and Canada certainly) of being in a good job market so anyone with half a sense will snap you up pronto.

* The longer you stay in this job doing phone support and looking at code, the more time you will lose building up your future skills. Effectively, the longer you stay, the more you are dulling your ability to move to a non-technical-support job in the future.

* Stackexchange has a job-advice board and you should consider posting there to get additional opinions if you are still concerned.

EDIT: Added one more point re. career.
Here's an article which argues that wages have not been growing in line with productivity since 1973 because, since then, workers have been compensated with fringe benefits of increasing value, in lieu of greater wages.

[http://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/productivity-a...]

I'm sure that this is not the whole story, but I bet it's a big part of it.
I'm glad we're such a hot button topic. When I left my previous job to do what I cared most about I'd have never thought people would care as much as you do. I'll make my first sale on our new version dedicated to you.
Or create a more widespread culture of stock ownership.
> what if I'm tracking objects in interplanetary space?

I guess you'd just want to store the orbital information of that object, as it probably won't stay at a fixed position.