skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't gleam this information easily from the article, but I presume these surveys were given to each age group at the same time.

If that's correct, couldn't age (specifically life experience) play a large factor in the results? Certainly as I get older, my perspective on work -- and everything, really -- has been changing.
get off tinder and get on to eharmony with a profile like "I'm interested in getting married"

then see what happens
Products that fulfill wishes make profit.

Wishes by themselves don't make anything.

In other words, wishing it so doesn't make it so. It takes a lot of further action on top of the wishing.
Printing Therapeutic Proteins in 3D Using Nanoengineered Bioink
This is basically a reformulation of the Birthday Paradox. Even with a large variety of makes and models of luggage (cf. 365+ days in a year), the chances of any two being the same increases superlinearly wrt passengers.
That's only true if birth rates also remain constant across time, which is not the case.
If you don't have better ideas for improving your packet size at least push your JSON through msgpack. Using strings as keys (properties) is ultra bad for your bandwidth too. In general JSON is only suitable for turn based games.
I think a TV uses WAY less carbon than flying to Greece, yes. I didn't say you have to be carbon neutral (although make no mistakes, many people do think that). But there is a difference between going carbon neutral and not wasting several tons of carbon on replaceable activities.
taxes to fund those not working would be required to absorb the productivity gains
I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
Online forums for random topics used to be the last refuge of the mentally unstable. I've moderated several forums and saw this behavior first hand; a banned user would spend so much time and effort trying to stir the pot and get back at the forum's owners for their Injustice. I often wondered why would they choose to waste so much time in a niche forum rather than go do something productive.

Naturally, nowadays they have online forums that _cater_ to this kinds of individual (4chan, some subreddits, etc). Nature, um.. finds a way.
I also saw this kind
Mozilla is very conservative with rollouts, very afraid of user complaints. Of course that is understandable, but I wish they did more cold-turkey YOLO decisions anyway :P At least they should've enabled WebRender for everyone on Nightly and Beta a long time ago.

My daily driver is Firefox Nightly with WebRender + Mesa-git + FreeBSD -CURRENT on a Radeon RX Vega. Haven't seen any GPU related crashes in months, it's very stable actually.

> reverse them, somehow, assuming that gfx.webrender.all hasn't broken about:config

well, safe mode is a thing, but you can also use MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 instead of the about:config prefs.
A lot of this could be addressed by employers being more comfortable with part-time or less energetic employees; I'm sure there are a lot of people who would want to do some work during the week, but not 40 hours, nor the 10 hours of commuting that would entail.

The "make them go back into the workforce" argument needs to deal with the realities of aging and low-level chronic illness, or you end up with Amazon-style painkiller dispensers on the walls of the workplace.

(Note that a lot of the state pension debate is basically the same as the UBI debate. But most of the well-off pensioners you see are on either deferred compensation from more generous times, or savings, or property value)
It is well understood that history not a nice, neat, little linear progression. It is full of stop and starts, stagnation, dizzying S-curves, revolutions, backlashes and regressions.

Apollo was a wonder, yes an outgrowth of the arms race, but also a manifestation of a purposeful and unified nation that just doesn't exist today. It was unsustainable, but it was also very long time ago.

I find your views that "things are hard, so we shouldn't do that, and we should never get off this planet" unfortunately common. Here's two things to consider:

- Sending people to space is not just fancy. Today's robotic missions are like trying to fill a swimming pool with a pipette. In 7 years Curiosity has driven a total of 8.6km - an slow afternoon stroll for a person. Every single little action is planned and executed at an excruciatingly slow pace. Nothing can be fixed or adjusted. InSight ran into a rock and now it might not be able to burrow it's instrument down. Digging down 3m might prove too much for that robot, a trivial task for any human.

- If humans don't have outward goals, we're much more likely to just look inward and spend our collective energy tearing each other apart. Without looking outwards, the entire Earth will become one giant vapid high school.
Strong Preferential Ion Heating Is Limited to Within the Solar Alfvén Surface
Your personal anecdote doesn't match the data. You and your peers are the exception.

https://www.wepc.com/news/video-game-statistics/#pc-gaming

74% of all the video games and computer sales were sold in digital format form.

That's just one source. You'll find similar numbers confirmed elsewhere.

PC gamers overwhelmingly buy digital, either from Steam or other digital storefronts like GOG, Greenman Gaming, Epic Games Store, Origin etc.
Chin up man! I met the woman of my life at 35 and we're now in our 40s with two wonderful kids.
Ultra-selective ligand-driven separation of strategic actinides
I would suggest tank controls to reduce server CPU (with event based protocol) and make the game a bit more playable, try my controls: http://aeonalpha.com
Or 1 in 172 bags, or about 1 bag on every other flight.

You're in line at the boarding gate, ready to get on the plane. You checked your bag before going through security, so you're happy you don't have to lug it around, lift the heavy monster up, and try to cram it into a small overhead-bin on the plane. However, you notice the gate next to you is boarding as well. Between your flight and the other, one checked bag will go missing. Do you feel lucky?
Ah, this brings back fun memories. Over a decade ago, Microsoft SQL Server had English Query to do the same thing. Developers had to define all the words & relationships that would be used, and keep them up to date over time. Microsoft discontinued it around 2005.

I remember briefly working with it and realizing, “No, this is never going to work because users have a tough time spelling things accurately.”
My company has people who retire at 40 with full pension. To get that though you have to work in some nasty conditions for 20 years. We do our best to make it safe, but there is only so much you can do to make liquid iron safe. I retire at 65 like most people: developing software is not nearly as nasty.
Why exactly do you need to go to Greece?

I didn't say you should just watch TV. Instead of swimming in the Mediterranean sea in Greece, you can go swimming in the nearest lake or ocean. That is what I mean. The food, also you can experience in a local Greek restaurant.

But for seeing the Acropolis, yes, I'll claim that watching it on TV will be sufficient. Let's face it, you'll probably watch it through your camera lens while you are there, anyway, and then watch it on TV at home.

If you want the grand feeling of being on a hill, go hiking in the nearest mountains.

Again: why exactly do you need to go to Greece?
ooh, the code for using Wayland subsurfs for "DirectComposition" is already there! Nice! :)
Only if productivity have not increased.

It has not, alas.

Take cars as an example: if we were building Fort T models, then yes, they would cost peanuts (especially Chinese copies). But for every dollar of productivity increase we add two dollars of safety devices, emission controls and new shiny gadgets.
Nonprofit boot camp infiltrates college computer science curricula
All the money paid for compendiums is for services provided by Valve. Valve also pays all the taxes that come with this fact, e.g. VAT. Yes they promise to give 25% of the revenue to prize pools and thus far have done so, but from a legal standpoint it's no different than buying skins in League of Legends.

Contrast this to an actual crowdfunding site like Kickstarter which does not pay VAT on the collected money. [1][2]

However perhaps you didn't like that my point could be viewed as if Valve is transferring money from non dota related profits to dota. That's of course not true, Valve is a business and profits from dota. I fully admit that and thought it didn't need mentioning.

--

[1] https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005139493-...

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/help/taxes
Non-paywalled papers:

• Symbolic representation of numerosity by honeybees (Apis mellifera): matching characters to small quantities https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.023...

• Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaav0961
If the wind falls below 2.5 m/s across the entirety of Britain's coast... that would be an unusual event to say the least. But in the incredibly unlikely event that happens, the UK can buy electricity from the continent (and vice versa). This already happens today with non-renewables.

If the wind stops blowing across a significant area of Northern Europe then something has gone seriously wrong with the Earth.
Also check these two as a complement:

https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx

https://github.com/jonmosco/kube-ps1
>People tend not to consider the positive impacts of gaming, but I think there's something to be said for MMORPGs.

I personally know multiple people that were fired from multiple jobs each because they would regularly call in or show up dead to the world specifically because of WoW. At one point I had 2 room mates, both got fired within a week of each other and would stay up playing WoW being incredibly loud in the living room for 18-20 hours at a time, often disturbing my sleep.

This is not an uncommon thing. People get incredibly addicted to these sorts of games chasing fictional lives, not contributing to society, letting their health slide into oblivion and even often spending actual money to purchase in game items. There have even been deaths and murders directly attributed to such games.

There is a reason people don't focus on the positive, those with negative impacts on their lives far outweigh those with positive I imagine.
Thanks, Twitter threads are part of the worst hacks ever.
There are definitely international study opportunities, though the direction usually isn't reciprocal. For example, while Indian students are interested in universities in English speaking countries, there is a sizable international student population in India from East Africa, the Middle East, Iran, and the immediate neighbourhood. Premier institutions, that indian students would kill for, reserve a percentage of seats for students from SAARC countries on the basis of their SATs scores. Private universities offer nicer hostels and emenities for foreign students.
Does evolution even predict that it would have been practically weeded out? As far as I know we don't even know what causes people to be gay.

Some things can't be weeded out by evolution, e.g. we will never lose major traits that are developed in the first weeks of an embryo's development, as everything that develops in the later stages depend on the first.

Non-hereditary traits aren't obviously weeded out either, and I don't think homosexuality is (always) hereditary.

Has there really been any research by evolutionist biologists suggesting that homosexuality should have been weeded out and it's an anomaly in our theories?
My instinct was the opposite. I happened to be on an A321 this AM so measured it with my phone.

Acceleration was about 0.4 g with peak of 0.5 g. Second stage climb (5-10K) was 0.2g nose up. Rest of climb was 0.1g. Decel was 0.3-0.4 g also with a peak at 0.5 g.

On the big engine Lears, I’m quite sure the accel is higher than braking plus reversers. Airliners might also have higher accel rates on shorter runways as they often do power limited takeoffs on long runways in the interest of maintenance economy.

Related, we had a hold for weather at the destination, so I checked the pitch of the plane in the hold. It was 0.1 g nose up, which was quite noticeable when walking up the aisle to the restroom.
that's an interesting thought tbh
And the challenge with the current learning software is that they treat each one of these forms as a separate flashcard. So, you are learning surface/contextualized forms of the verb rather than understanding how to use the verb itself in various contexts.
We built an entire industry around increasing engagement stats and trying to convince the permanent servant underclass to buy more stuff.

You'd have to be utterly insane to find meaning in that.
I'm treating any retirement benefit I have as essentially worthless unless it's a defined contribution cash amount in a fund in my name. For example I'm not realistically planning on my state or military pensions existing in thirty years.
I think a lot of people get too hyped up by farfetched sci-fi ideas, than actually study the logistics.

Some still take the logistics of sending a small crew for a visit at the moon (which are still over the top, and we've still haven't managed to repeat in 50+ years) and wish them away through handwaving to "colonies on Mars" and "colonizing the stars".

(Meanwhile we have the far more human friendly oceans, right here on Earth, which we haven't colonized yet -- a common theme in the 70s --, and we seriously discuss man kind living on foreign planets and what have you, with 1000x the difficulties).
"all entertainment is escapism"

Yes - but not all entertainment produces the same amount of carbon dioxide. That's the point.

If you say you need to travel to Greece for entertainment, it seems even less justifiable.

At most you could say it is educational and opens your mind about different cultures and so on. But even for that, I'd say the costs are not warranted, and there are many other ways to learn.
I just deployed it to my free heroku account to see if I could get it up and running, the lag is immense haha :D
Hero engineers can be deadly to team culture, it's time to retire those capes
They took this one directly from Fox. I saw it on Reddit yesterday.
Making its Sign In with Apple mandatory it starts to feel less like brute force
Not sure if you fully understood OP. I think what he is saying that he wants just one flash card for all variations of

Come como comer comiste etc.

And not one for each
Instead of telling men to slow down and take care of their kids we tell women to forget about kids and follow men in their insane quest for professional conquests.

This is really true.

It was just assumed that the “right” goal for women was the same career focus as men have always had.

It won’t surprise me if that changes in the future once families realize the cost of it.
Biochar/wood ash/humic substances ease trace element stress in contaminated soil
yeah, why can television show it?
Luma+Sleep+Huge+Mattress+Savings
These changes can just be made for persons born after a certain year, to limit or eliminate any broken promises by delaying implementation.
The ecological impact of a few cats is tiny compared to that of a human. If you really care about the environment, don't have children and maybe kill yourself too
Ugh this happens to me all the time, but on the other hand I'll sometimes be scrolling through a pdf with my trackpad, but typing in a pane on the left, so I do find it quite useful to have that split between kb/pointer focus.
> Nearly half of all bags that go astray do so because of problems with flight transfers, Sita says. Delayed flights have knock-on effects - your bag just doesn't make it to the connecting flight in time.

> And a significant proportion of missing bags are down to passengers or handlers simply picking up the wrong one.

The former does seem like a hard problem without restricting people's ability to switch flights or delaying flights further to allow for luggage transfers.

I wonder if there is any room to improve the latter on the airline's part by adding visual variations to the tag without impeding the function. Like randomly assigning colors and giant emoji to be printed prominently on the tag, so that it is easier to distinguish at a glance whether it is really your bag.

(I mean, you should already be checking your name tag when you collect your bag, and people already add their own flair to their bags, but obviously not everyone is.)
When an app asks for access to your location, you are given three choices - never, when using, or always. How technical do you have to be to know that when you allow an app access to your location - it has access to your location?
I agree & I immigrated to Canada within an year of graduation and is now a permanent resident of Canada. US H1B & OPT is BS.

Students from India and China should tread carefully. All this trouble and high tuition fees will land you in financial & immigration trouble.
This is probably the most unambiguous case of high profile racism and homophobia on there and YouTube still won't do anything about it. What motivates people to keep defending Google?

Google has rainbows painted all over its brand for Pride month. I wasn't fooled, but I expected more subtlety. This is almost villainous. They couldn't keep up the act for a full week.
The Perpetual Diamond: Contrast Reversal Along Edges Create Appearance of Motion
One corporation to pollute them all
What is the server written in?
What a shitty neighborhood, when the main concern in the lives of your neighbors is the price of the houses they already own!
This part of the article:

> There is another trend in Japan's scissors world, one in which new ideas are being applied to cutting performance. Cutting ability is not determined by sharp edges alone. Blade shape, the angle at which the blades come together and how the blades move against each other also significantly impact performance.

... immediately brought to mind proud Japanese designers doing their best to make scissors in the swordsmithing tradition of Japanese katana's and whatnot.

Nine minutes and five seconds into your linked video[0] it actually mentions a former swordsmith-turned-scissormaker from the late 19th century who applied his understanding of sword making to make better blades.

Oh Japan, how I love that reality is often better than the stereotypes about you <3

(also hate it when it's about a negative thing, but in this case it's great)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_ySi7mjeE&t=9m5s
> Fortunately, these biases can be modelled, quantified and accounted for. We have taken this into account in our analysis using True Benchmark® technology, so we can be sure to tap into the generational effects.

Not sure what it is but supposedly they accounted for it?

I will note that the boomer data seems oddly noisy compared to other demos.
Agriculture App Development Company
Automated systems that are infallible are great. Most are not infallible, and they should just provide notices to humans.

Humans should (be adequately trained to) review and handle considerations where termination of service is involved.

From reading the DO response, it does sound like humans were involved (eventually). However, unless a customer's use of the service is posing an immediate and severe threat (security, DoS, whatever), service should not be stopped until AFTER a human has adequately reviewed the situation.

Stories like this remind me why sometimes it's better to use smaller providers who are less automated...
Growth will have to stop anyway at some point because the world is limited and it'll be a while until we can mine the solar system. Either that or the notion of growth will stop mattering (we enter a simulation, post-scarcity society, or society collapses)

As they say it's easier to picture the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
>65 used to be retirement age (for men at least), it clearly needed raising years ago

How old are you? Have you tried working at most jobs (not just some office job) as 65+? Have you tried programming as such?

If you mean "paying pensions for people 65+" was too much, and we needed to cut that, I'd understand. And sure, raising the retirement age is one way to do that.

Still, it's not the best way to solve the problem. Nor is it "needed" for any other reason (e.g. because people of 65+ today are more capable than in the 70s).

>Most are perfectly able to work for another 10 years at least

I take it you're in the 20-40-max bracket?
PowerPC Mac in 2019: Is It Still Useful?
It's one of the most predictable features of capitalism that after a while any productivity gain becomes widespread, and on doing so its profits are distributed among consumers, not producers.
I doubt there are many users out there who care if someones analytics stuff breaks.
I was responding about how the only concern for a CEO is being ousted. I was giving another reason to potentially not do certain things.
> That’s a really fair and reasonable response. Not sure what else people really expect here.

If you nuke VMs, under no circumstances do you also nuke access to data, backups, etc.

Because if it wasn't for "social escalation" (aka: mob justice via HN and Twitter), this 2 person company would have lost everything.

If you terminate a customer for $reasons, the data still belongs to the user, and not the company. And the company should still be legally required to provide the data on a reasonable timescale, like FTP access for 7 days.
Yes, but that's a different kettle of fish.

I'm reading Garbage Land at the moment and she mentions that garbage collectors have an incredibly dangerous job, more dangerous than policemen or firemen, for example.

They're risking their lives to do a necessary job, and in that case I see no problem with the early retirement.
I'd say it's pretty mundane code, like perhaps 90% of what I usually see.

If I were trying to reduce redundancy, it would become more like this:

printf("Relaunch%s", relaunched? "ed... but did not exit?\n" : " failed\n" );
setSignal("relaunchFailed");
So I've been working with SwiftUI for the past day and I am completely blank on how one would implement a collection view, like one with multiple rows. I did succeed to do it myself with a VStack and multiple HStacks, inside which I basically put the cells. Did they show this in the demo or was it a one-dimensional collection view?
Motion resonance w nearby moons–origin of gaps in ring around exoplanet J1407b
This article is useful for showing how some workers can get screwed in the transition from a pension to a defined contribution plan.

I don't think it's sound on social security. Something needs to happen and nobody really knows how the political system will react. But it seems like the most likely scenario is some combination of deficit spending and more taxes, because cutting benefits is politically untouchable.
I find that anecdotally, I really REALLY hate being connected to shit during a hospital stay. A nurse waking me up is infinitely less disruptive than having another dozen sensors on me permanently.

Doubly so when, now nurses have to track uptime of all those sensors.
Yep and anyone reading with a bit of critical thinking skills will quickly discover they have one or two simple premises / theses and then 500 pages of fluff repeating it over and over.
You don't need be an expert to know that quality of life has changed too.

If you want to live like the 1970s you need a lot less money. No cable TV bill for your 19 inch TV. No cell phone or internet bill. Your car has an AM only monophonic radio (unless you splurge on an aftermarket 8-track player), and no AC unless you are rich. Those are just a few of the areas of life that people have upgraded.

I contend that if all the people who worked on the above were spread out to the jobs of the 1970s with just automation applied the 30 hour workweek would be practical. However people have chosen to use the extra time automation gives them to develop more luxuries in life.
I really appreciate job postings with salary ranges. Thanks!