skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Canadian opinion polls best. Here, less than 20% of people identify climate change/environment as a top priority, and support for a carbon tax is about 45%, with a bit less than that opposed.

Granted, the polls don’t measure apathy, but this doesn’t strike me as a society that is convinced climate change is a pressing problem. We’re more mildly concerned, and mildly supportive of policies aimed addressing it, even in a very limited way.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4811385/ottawas-unpublished-inter...
Add to that: you store the index in another cell in the array.
The community gave us low-latency live streaming. Then Apple took it away
> dull pretty fast in nature

Especially when a critter chews on it accidentally, or it gets crushed under foot and some ends up in the foot.

It's the dulling process that sucks.
Show HN: An educational RISC-V IDE, RARS, releases v1.3
> Meermin/Feit shoes

There's another company out of the US called Grant Stone who makes shoes in China. They are some of the best constructed leather shoes I've ever seen. Lots of people compare them to Aldens, which are double the price.
The Russian propaganda canard is worrying, because it is this thought-terminator that prevents considering that there are actual people with real reasons for voting the way that they do.

Are the Russian spy agencies conducting propaganda? Of course they are. Are they the reason Trump was elected, or people voted for Brexit, or the Yellow Vests are marching in Paris? Hell no.
Thanks Zaheer! While I have your ear: my recruiter at "other company" pushed back on increasing RSU comp by saying packages were larger in the past but have decreased in size recently. If levels.fyi displayed offer date it might help validate or dispel arguments like that.
It's not opinion, it's an announcement that they're moving their manufacturing to Taiwan.

"Giant Manufacturing is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan factory"

"Giant" is the brand.
Reads fine for me on iOS Safari and Google Chrome and Firefox Focus.

What were you trying?
My understanding is that YouTube is staying in the newer offices in Playa Vista and it's the Venice offices that are moving over to Westside Pavilion. This is still a couple years away.
This is just extreme whataboutism.

There is a vast difference between China spying on and locking people up for being the wrong religion, and the CIA secretly recording a conversation about the planning of a bombing.
>If I was on VM-Ware's executive team

You mean the product they've all but abandoned?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/vmwar...

>submarining virtualbox

Oracle will manage that on their own regardless of what Microsoft does. They already started by making the extension pack free to download but licensed so they can catch unsuspecting users in one of their famous audits.
Guess I must be a weirdo. Given a set of stairs next to an escalator, I always the stairs.
I guess we have to decide whether the it's "We have a problem with too many snake oil salesman!" or "We have a snake oil effectiveness problem".
I expect to see the high wages are highly concentrated in SV. My employer has a clear policy that leaving the bay area comes with a pay cut. Some folks think it's worth it. Time will tell.
Well, maybe what’s he’s doing isn’t just moving data around and copying formatting.

Maybe try answering a similar question using code and see how easy it is
> However, they will never achieve the value of bitcoin because many of them have forsaken the properties that give bitcoin its value.

A subjective opinion that is also irrelevant to the point. It doesn't matter how likely you think a fork is to succeed, the argument that computer software is impossible to change because "nobody would ever agree to those changes" is incorrect.
That's not entirely true. In the EU, there are lots of tags that guarantee product safety. CE marks (for electronics), OEKO-TEX (safe textiles), GOTS (organic textiles), etc. The US has some equivalent ones I am less familiar with. In fact, both OEKO-TEX and GOTS are global standards.

Some Xiaomi products have not been imported to EU because they failed to obtain CE marks. And you'd never encounter a product that smells formaldehyde with an OEKO-TEX label.

But I agree the information is quite asymmetric. As a customer, I want to know a lot more about how products are made. And I want to be able to repair them and source replacement parts.
I've tried Android Auto in a Sonata with touch screen, and Passat and a Q5 with rotary controller. The latter were far easier to use, once you've spent 5 minutes making sure you understand how it works.

Maybe if the touch screen were Tesla-sized it would have been easier to use, but on a regular sized screen, even switching modes takes much more attention with a touch screen, because you need to look at it, move your hand to it, make sure you're hitting the correct location, wait until it registers,m make sure you've actually hit the right spot. With a rotary it was "slide down, no need to look because it clicks, click or two clockwise (still no need to look), push down, quick glance that you're on the right screen, click clock- or counterclock-wise to select what you need. Much safer and easier, and you're not going to hit a wrong thing because you drove over a bump.

For entering addresses a large touch screen is nicer, but then a keyboard is even better, but since you're only supposed to do that while parked, so hitting a wrong button shouldn't be a big problem.
This is so. Both passive and active connections are at risk.
That's how you collapse economies.

To keep them moving, allow defaulting on loans, make the banks take the loss. They will stop issuing glaringly risky loans to the unqualified, preventing a 2008 style subprime loan crisis.
Tim Cook says Silicon Valley has created too much chaos
TIL! It's must be a fairly obscure one though. My English speaking colleagues and I had never heard of it, and it's not here https://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=unicity
On that same subject - it was interesting to me how much better fresh produce was in Italy. In no small part I think this is due to the fact that people have a pretty good ability to distinguish the quality of a lot of traditional foods there.

In the stores, the produce isn't usually as neat and tidy and pretty as in the US - you might even find a few bad bits and pieces, but by and large, it tastes really good.
If this was the reason you voted for Trump, I have some bad news about the trajectory of military spending.
We've been spoiled by Bay Area news sites that actually know what they're talking about when it comes to software companies.
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Costco is kind of famous for steaks and chops and (relatedly) wine. You can get a whole Iberico ham there! I have to believe all of this is a marketing/positioning thing.
After my last post [1], RARS got a lot more attention including people finding issues and submitting pull requests. This release covers all of the improvements the community has helped make over that time.

Additionally, this release includes an API to help educators grade programs effectively.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19457842
Why Your Email List Does Not Convert
Can someone steal your funds via your Exchange API?
Since Rascal has integrated Context Free Grammars, does this mean it incorporates the Earley Algorithm for parsing ?
Yeah, not sure about how they're measuring. By market cap, Shimano is about four and a half times larger. P/E is very close between the two; Giant's PY return is about 77 times better than Shimano's.
I was talking about Apple providing api to get information about screen time of other apps, so that these kinds of monitoring apps don't need such hacks.
To be fair, actual Socratic dialogue can be very effective and rewarding, without being patronizing. What you're describing there -- what the blog post is like -- that's just as awful as you said, or worse.

I couldn't get much further past this:

What is an object?

An object is a set of functions that operate upon encapsulated data elements.

...what?
It's more than news; it's everything else as well.

Even the music.

Go ahead and listen to pop music from any previous area - there is a lot of happy music, and a lot of slower tempo, beautiful music.

'Beautiful' stopped being cool in the 1990's, since then everything has to be trounced in some kind of faux-noir or whatever.

Even sad songs by Simon and Garfunkel are beautiful, honest.

Even the slightly cheezy soft rock like Air Supply, Chicago ... it was relaxing in a way.

Even the music was upbeat was still positive: 'Jump' by Van Halen' - a ridiculously rubbish but positive song, almost child-like.

Even the unconentious pop music of today lacks a kind of naivte.

It's in lyrics, timbre, instrumentation, production, presentation - everything.

My all time favourite band - Radiohead - is kind of guilty of this. They just can't be happy, now matter what. They must be dour. Have you ever seen an interview or video with Thom Yorke just clowning around the the lads, laughing, enjoying himself, not really caring about much at all? It's 'not their brand'.

Spend a day listening to music any time before the 1990's, especially the slower tempo stuff (of any genre, big band classical), and it changes your demeanour.
Yup. I worked at a company selling enterprise equipment, and they were absolutely opposed to entering the consumer market precisely because low-information customers push everyone into a race to the bottom.
Harassing people into giving out their personal details by claiming they're from immigration, at least according to some articles on the subject.
What I suspect the phone companies didn't plan on is the complete devaluing of one of their only distinguishing features (over cable/ISP), the ability to deliver phone calls reliably. Nobody wants to get a phone call now... they are 90% spam!

I wonder if in the future people will wonder why they are called phone companies? Maybe this is all part if their plan to move us to paid SMS or some other thing, but it seems more like an oops.
Yeah, I actually was convinced that it was a great idea and tried to apply it a bunch of times when trying to help teach others. It always worked out really badly.

The Socratic approach can be great when everyone's on the same page, but if you are teaching people from the ground up then all you'll really do is come off as a jerk.
My lesson for today:

"Sometimes, the reason that a conjecture is very hard to prove is simply that it is false."

Worth to see:

https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/sansation-in-the-m...

Congratulations to Yaroslav Shitov!
Agreed. But it depends on the computer. On the old vectorized machines like the Cray Y-MP, it was always just a mental model. On even modern embedded systems w/o virtual memory, it's pretty close to being really real.

(I find that the P.O. Box number thing to be a useful general abstraction for me, but it doesn't seem to convey the concept well to people who are confused. Hence the intent behind the intent of my question: "Does anyone know how to effectively teach pointers?")
AES Java Encryption Performance Benchmarks
In two's complement (the usual binary representation of signed ints), -0 is the same as 0.
Although I am quite familiar with Roanoke, VA. I didn't get that at first, thanks for pointing it out. I thought you were making some kind of redneck joke.

Incidentally it is 343 miles from Roanoke VA to Roanoke Island, NC.
It might be because these companies are investing in movies, tv shows and games because movies, tv shows and games can bring home those sweet, disproportionate billion dollar paydays.
I was more implying things like paper, but I see your confusion.
I didn't understand pointers until I understood all variables were all a certain size and stored in a specific place in memory. Which I didn't really understand until I'd been programming for a while.
You may be "willing to bet," but this is just you asserting that your premise is true. Do you have any data? My claim that free and low cost university-level education was available outside the US is easily verifiable with a 10 second Google search.
Mind pointing to some of the evidence that it's a weird supply side issue that is automating jobs without making people more productive?
Short answer: yes it is common for a building not to last long periods of time (unless properly maintained). I recall a civil engineer telling me once that most “tract” homes only are designed for a 35 year useful life. While I can’t find a reference for that, I did find this Quora article from a structural engineer:
Answer to What is the design life span of a building? by Vishnu Vijayakumar https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-design-life-span-of-a-buil...

Note: while he quotes 60-80 years, the concrete is still in that 30-40 year timespan.
There are notable exception to this in most industries, but it’s got to be a hard path to walk. Somewhat amusingly, most people’s favourite brands tend to be the more quality ones, if my circle is anything to go by (which is a trap). If it’s what they buy is a whole different thing.
Is the following an accurate summary of your position:

"There actually aren't dollars that are being moved into tether's accounts but fabricated database numbers. These fabricated numbers are then exchanged for bitcoins but the other people of that trade (the people buying tethers with bitcoins) somehow never redeem these tethers. Despite the tether to dollar exchange rate not at a discount there's a mass delusion. This delusion will continue until bitcoiners buy 10 million tethers for one bitcoin. The dollar-bitcoin market doesn't affect the price/supply of bitcoin."

Because that's what it appears to be. Do you know how a eurodollar works? If not, you would learn much from just that instrument.
Bicycles are something that you need to be careful buying. Don't buy a BSO - a Bicycle Shaped Object. Just because it looks like a bike, doesn't mean you can comfortably ride it. An entry level bike is about $1200. You can comfortably ride it for hours, or up hills, carry a heavy load, it won't easily break, and it'll have a smooth ride. I feel bad for people that go out and buy a BSO; BSOs ruin cycling. We need to have laws in place to prevent crap from reaching the market.
So, I'd like to point out that some of your assumptions about performance may no longer be true. Optimizing compilers are REALLY good now-a-days, but one thing you can do to really trip them up is introduce a bunch of pointers.

It takes very little time to allocate space on the stack and not too much time to copy data from one register to the stack or another register. Very often, if you don't use pointers, the compiler will take your data and throw it into a register and reference that register directly in the method you just called (free).

Now, if you are going to allocate on the heap anyways, then sure, it makes sense to start looking into things like object pools. But that wouldn't be a baseline I'd start with.

Objects with a few ints or longs in them can be passed around free or nearly free with modern compilers.

Here is an example of that concept in action

https://godbolt.org/z/G6r0X6

You really don't get much faster than that.
From 2 above:

"Its charter is not the science of climate change, but the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts, and heightened competition for natural resources."
Fathers Became Software Engineers for Their Families
Shimano doesn't sell bicycles, just a lot of bicycle components and accessories.
Robots weld all kinds of complicated things - cars for example. Why not bikes?
What I mean is that the sites don't care and don't bother.
Ah interesting. One thing that might help: we collect # of Years at Company. There isn't a way to filter on the compensation page for it but you can click a row to see this info. Additionally, on the main page if you click on a level at a company > click View a few data points > chart contains a feature to filter by years at company. We're working on standardizing this display functionality across the site with better filtration / search.
I think that's only half true. There are standardized controls but the dash configurations and wiring harnesses are specific to each model and then even for only a few years. So I'm in agreement with the BOM arguement generally. Also it's a marketing selling point. Consumer wants the shiny new thing.
Can't help but wonder if he mixed up black holes with the colloquial "air pockets" or something.
Shimano is the world’s major bicycle-component manufacturer, but they do not do much production of frames or complete bikes, and Giant certainly leads in that regard.
There are lot of small things that to me personally add up to a much bigger annoyance when using macOS. Lack of official hypervisor means I have to use 3rd party stuff - few times I used it I had kernel panics on wakeup. Old versions of all command line utilities - need brew to install that which has broken on me at least once. Updates are slow - both in terms of availability and installation times. If I need new stuff, I am forced to upgrade to entirely new major release.

Compare that to a rolling release distro like Arch or fast moving one like Fedora or slower moving Ubuntu LTS that gets HWE stack upgrades life is really easy. You get a built in hypervisor (KVM) that can be used by the Android emulator, your libvirt VMs and docker. Want to run dtrace/bpftool - no need to compromise security. Need latest GCC - easy enough to get - it goes on and on. Not to mention the package managers are pretty good on all Linux distros now a days.

With Windows the downside was that WSL 1 was slow and macOS was faster than that although slower than Linux for FS operations etc. But now with WSL2 pretty much matching native Linux performance and allowing you to use docker natively - it suddenly becomes a much better option - can buy cheaper hardware that does what you want to without relying on Apple to give you the right keyboard, # of ports etc.
I've had the opposite problem before - I preferred to take the stairs, but they shoved them off in the corner and put the elevator in the center of the building.
Giant is a Taiwanese company. I've had quite a few of their road bikes and mountain bikes over the years, and they have all been excellent - superbly designed and built. All made in Taiwan too - it seems only their cheaper frames are made in China (https://cyclingtips.com/2015/02/a-tour-of-giants-taichung-fa...). From what I've heard, a majority of the world's high-end bicycle frames are manufactured by Giant and Pacific Cycles in Taiwan, then re-branded.
Google has an engineering office in Austin. Could be someone who took their Bay Area salary with them. Same with Pittsburg. Uber has a presence there and SFBA transplants take their SFBA salaries with them when they move.
Interesting strategy at Mazda. No plans for electric vehicles and no more touch screens. Brilliant or insane plan I'm not sure, it might make a nice niche for them.
that’s why we need regulatory bodies and, yes, tariffs which should factor all those additional costs: to environment, human rights, etc.
I wonder if they're seeing an opportunity here to ride on other people's advertising - with so many VPN providers sponsoring content creators heavily on YouTube, maybe the public will actually know the term and understand the idea of the feature without Mozilla having to do much work.
I think this is one of the few places where blockchain would be more help than hurt. Provenance of materials, location of manufacture, even tolerances and standards applied could be tracked across multiple independent companies. Of course, enforcing what goes on the blockchain would be a whole different can of worms. This sort of tracking is important in manufacturing standards (ISO9001). Coupling non-central control of the manufacturing record would be very helpful implementing standards like ISO9001 and allow third party analysis of "manufacturing quality" and "environmental impact" ... even better if it can be integrated into manufacturing instruments that can register a step automatically. Shipping and supply companies are looking heavily into these types of applications.
war1025 said that the healthcare being stupid expensive is an unfortunate fact of life, not the single-income family.
The USA can't provide that scale and industrial power? Seems like the elephant in the room.
If we look at history on the large scale, it seems things have generally gone upwards: health, wealth, and liberty. That being said, the upward trend means even greater dips occur than were possible in the past. So, the general optimistic trend of history is countered by the previously unimaginable horrors of the 20th century made possible by our great progress.
I can agree that the rhetoric and division is heated right now to levels near what it was in the mid `60s - early `70s but I don't think we're as close to that tipping point as some might feel. By the mid 70s things calmed down a lot.

It feels to me like we peaked in the year after Trump was elected and things have been easing since. I'm basing this mostly on my FB feed but I think it's a fairly good barometer to gauge it because I live in an area where 76% voted for Trump. They were riled up when they did that.

My right leaning neighbors are posting near as many anti-liberal memes, almost no flat out lies about "liberals", and not much at all about Trump. This past year I started asking them to "make a list of things Trump has done that is good for us." and none, not one, has taken me up on that. Not even the "Wall" has been offered as an example.

This doesn't mean most won't vote for him again, but it probably does mean not as many will vote. They're not as motivated as they were in `16. Not as feisty. And they don't have near the disdain for Bernie, or even Biden, as they still have for Hillary. They really do not like her.

I have not heard a single one of them support Trump saying that he should get more than two terms or be appointed "President for Life". Right now almost none of them are posting anything at all about Trump. In fact, they haven't worked up a good outrage since the Kavanaugh hearings.

Very few of my FB friends trust the big Corporate Network News anymore on either side. They're all producing to much "Opinion" which is blatantly one sided and they all focus on the same "News of the hour" stories.

The result is the level of awareness of bias in those "News" reports has increased a lot the past couple of years and overall people are beginning to ignore it more now than they are to react with passion.

It was getting scary for awhile there though.
Track upvotes on Slack and spend them on real-life perks
>But it's a lot of trouble to find high quality items these days. I want to own few things and keep most for the rest of my life.

I concur on both fronts.

Might I suggest you check out thrift or second hand stores?

I have a collection of old aluminum cased power tools made in the mid 20th century in North America, and I think the most I paid for any one of them was $12 CAD.

They look amazing.

You can take them apart quickly and easily if you need to re-grease them.

You can re-wind the motor if you somehow manage to short it out.

They don't need a warranty, as they have proven themselves over the past 50+ years already.

Etc.

We've made a LOT of quality products over the years, many of which make their way into thrift stores sooner or later.

Paying 10% of what something would cost brand new, and getting quality that is typically 10x greater than the brand new version is a steal imho.
I no longer use phones to call people except the odd family member through WhatsApp (which is only because they're too old to use something more civilized, like Discord rooms).

The telephone network just seems like some vestigial leftover only used by pollsters to scare us with 80-year-olds' candidate picks in midterm elections.
A step further, it seems most people's favourite brands tend to be ones which were high quality in the past. Its a rare situation where that quality continues as mass market appeal arrives.