skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. The 30 second rewind is key.

My 1-hour commute each way is mostly sitting in slow or stop & go traffic on the same freeway. So 95% of my brain is available for comprehension. And I can always rewind if I get distracted by actual driving.

I can honestly say that audiobooks on my commute have changed my life. For whatever reason I just can't find a comfortable enough spot to read an actual book for more than 30 minutes at a time - and even that feels like a chore. It bothered me for 2 decades that I didn't read enough. Now I get 2 hours a day where I am transported into another headspace, inspired, engaged. I actually look forward to my commute.

The only downside is when I come down off Mt. Everest and show up at work - my motivation to do my job is pretty low. :)
cuz it's the cool thing to do. although way past it's freshness. it's like a fish on a hook.
It’s not about you trusting them, it’s about satisfying the requirements of the law.
It is almost universally hated. Your conclusion is wrong.
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Do we have any real information regarding if this is as a result of retaliation? The article provides evidence that at least one of the organizers claim they're being retaliated against; do we know how widespread this may be?
One way to interpret the results is that kids have no real preferences and want to be what they're most exposed to. They watch videos, listen to music, watch sports, and go to school, hence athlete vlogger teacher musician. In the 50s everyone would have been talking about the space race.
The one thing I noticed missing that should have been included was the unibody MacBook design. That was a huge innovation that led to massive improvements in build quality industry-wide. If I recall correctly, he played a much larger role in that design than the iPod, which is largely credited to Tony Fadell (although Ive definitely had a large influence on later iterations).
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>If increased productivity (of everyone in a profession due to some new technology) means less people are needed in a given profession, demand for employees decreases and thus wages go DOWN along with product prices.

Demand is elastic. Productivity growth triggers price declines and increased consumption in many industries. Most industries are not static, they continue to invest in technology (the underlying basis for productivity growth). The more investment they make, the cheaper it is to deliver their goods/services and the more they sell. This can push those industries to hire more workers and drive wage growth higher.
When it comes to nuclear, there are many many sites that would welcome more of it, because the local economy is built around it and the residents don't have the fears you discuss.

Instead, what stop nuclear investment is fear of economic disasters, rather than ecological disasters.

Nuclear has a horrifying track record when it comes to construction, bankrupting utilities, nearly bankrupting Toshiba, and in general being far too risky to justify the meager returns. If one is investing $10B on a 60 year timeframe, that investment is highly sensitive to changes in the up front cost, especially when those increases up front costs result in no greater revenue. Typical nuclear construction will be 2-3x as costly as anticipated up front, and delayed by many years. It's no surprise that investors don't want to take this risk for very mild returns.

Further. Anybody watching tech curves sees that, even 5 years ago, it was clear that using batteries to store wind and solar energy would be cheaper than nuclear very early into the lifespan of any new nuclear facility.

This means that the only route to nuclear would 1) a market where nuclear makes all its money for the year in the 4-6 week seasons minimum of intermittent renewables (unlikely), or 2) massive government subsidies that say "we must have nuclear no matter what, and we will pay the market to make that happen." That second route is much more likely to work, for the other governmental benefits of having nuclear (more nuclear engineers for subs and other things).
Definitely love using the library for audiobooks. I mainly use apps: Axis 360, Hoopla, and Libby (and a little bit of Overdrive). It's been a godsend for reading for me and saved me a ton.

I also use those apps for ebooks, removing social media from my phone, and try to read a few pages here and there when I would have been scrolling mindlessly before.
Or if my city has a web application in front of this database I can not leave the house and do my research comfortably in my own environment.

Still not seeing the privacy implication of driving for records and clicking for them when discussing a public record that by definition, is in the public interest carried out by wards of public service (public service answering points).
No offense intended, but maybe you're not thinking broadly enough? It's a breakthrough technology for biological labs now, sure, but a lab using this to get a bunch of papers or grants or patents really doesn't matter for the general populace in the short term until the research has produced some practical applications.
Sounds like the AirPods just aren't made for your ears unfortunately. They've never fallen out of mine, even on runs.
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>And that's the name of the game: Try to minimize pollutants.

No. The name of the game is to remove CO2 emissions. Because, as I've been told, CO2 emissions are an existential threat to humanity. Or is that not the case anymore?

>Wind+Water is the lowest pollutant profile we know of currently

No. Nuclear is. Hydro works but is geographically dependent. Both Wind and Water have huge environmental footprints with enormous impact on local ecosystems.
It isn't deployed anywhere because it's expensive (just like building new nuclear plants!). That is very different from it not being able to do the job.

Power to gas is proven technology. CO2 to Methane plants exist today. See for example this EU project: https://www.storeandgo.info/about-the-project/status-quo/
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I don't know, this seems like a pretty weak article. Sometimes people just change jobs and there's nothing nefarious about it. If Whittaker had been fired for her activism, or even just felt forced out, wouldn't she herself be talking about it? She wasn't afraid to tell the media about Google mistreating her in the past.
When I went over the tiger book back at the university, our teacher had a cool approach to overcome that.

Generate bytecode, but in a form that could be easily mapped to macros on a Macro Assembler, thus we only needed to write such macros for each target platform.

From performance point of view it was quite bad, but we got complete AOT static binaries out of it anyway.
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I assume that a WASM backend could be created for Graal Native Image, so that it could compile Java byteocde to WASM ahead of time, but I wonder what benefits that would have over compiling bytecode to JS (as TeaVM does).
And the European wheelbarrow is vastly inferior to the Chinese one (see https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbar...)
Better to pollute Utah than in California?
Any even better solution, use a wired mouse and keyboard. Why do I need to deal with batteries for something that doesn't move more than a few inches from its destination? We've banned wireless peripherabls in our organization, because they cause more issues then they are worth. "My mouse is jumping all over the screen", "my mouse no longer works", "my keyboard is typing things I'm not typing!". 9/10 it's low battery, the other 1/10 is someone has paired accidentally with your machine.
Whittaker did not (as far as this article describes) say why she left.
Sadly, for you, the article does not say Tesla used tape in-lieu of heat-shrink tubing or even mention heat-shrink at all. It simply states a fact that "factory tape is high-quality and looks as if it’s shrink-wrapped on a part" to provide contrast to the product Tesla was using.

The usage of the tape, as suggested by the article, wasn't for electrical insulation or wiring protection.
Actually it is so bad and non ergonomic that there is a video from a keynote where Craig Federighi is struggling to use it.
You have to add in the delivery and registration fees, add in state sales tax and city/town excise tax, but then subtract the Federal and possibly state-level tax credits. So depending on the state your final price could be higher or even lower than the sticker.
Finally used one. It was totally fine. And kept me from using it plugged in 100% of the time, which is what I'd have probably done otherwise. Not like the touchbar which I have to all-but disable to make a Macbook Pro usable at all.
Melodramatic much? Not to mention completely wrong. The mouse is ergonomically perfect. The charging port on the bottom is the only “problem” and isn’t a problem at all unless you’re a poor person who can’t afford two mice to have a fully charged one ready to swap to at all times. If you’re that poor then you shouldn’t be buying Apple products anyway.
I think those numbers are old, as you can tell from the "excludes terrorism" qualifier. If you look at, say, the last decade, terrorism doesn't make any difference. This isn't entirely arbitrary: air travel has gotten a lot safer lately.

Doing the math using the data from https://www.bts.gov/content/transportation-fatalities-mode and https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles, I come up with 6,059 billion airline passenger-miles for the decade ending in 2017 (the last year provided there) and 66 fatalities, for a rate of about 0.01 per billion passenger miles.

In the same period, railroads did about 176 billion passenger miles with 94 fatalities, for a rate of about 0.53. Buses did 3,234 billion passenger miles with 486 fatalities, for a rate of 0.15.

The numbers vary in other countries, but I suspect they tend to vary in the same direction and in a similar amount.
There’s also a ton of general mice that work great.
What retaliation have they faced from Google exactly?
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Same thing happens to me, I have to really pay attention while listening to an audiobook, otherwise I lose the thread.

Also, why are audiobooks 5 times more expensive than their dead-tree version?

https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-James-S-Corey/dp/0316...

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781478998938-leviathan-wakes

That's crazy.
I think a reasonable compromise would be a sort of "public-by-default after X number of days, but private if requested so by caller".

I understand the utility of them being public. On the other hand, I have made 911 calls that I definitely don't want to be publicly available, especially online where voice-recognition tools could be used to find a specific person's calls.
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I know some people hate on the ‘Dustbin’ Mac Pro but I really liked mine, it was more powerful and 1/5th the size of those big Dell T7500 towers.
Genuine question. Aren't most mics now USB anyway? At least any mic that is better that a 5 euro one?
I don’t agree with OP’s point entirely, but the theme of this article sort of supports it. It criticizes a positive step while presenting arguments that have no solution other than making poor people’s power bills go up substantially.

For me, it means the proponents are either unable to do arithmetic or don’t care about the results of their arithmetic.

There are tons of sites and subreddits talking about ideal world populations drastically lower than today’s. The easiest for me to remember is a monument called the Georgia Guidestones [0] that calls for a sustainable population of 500M. This is certainly a bizarre and rare monument, but it shows that people will spend a lot of money promoting the concept of a much smaller population.

I don’t think it’s an evil plan. I just see a combination of indifference toward the poor as evidenced by decisions that raise prices that are acceptable to rich and middle class, but very burdensome to many.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
What I find interesting is how vigorously Tesla denies everything, always, even when they're clearly wrong. They lose a lot of credibility that way; I wonder if Musk[1] realises that if he admitted the things Tesla is obviously doing wrong, he might have a hope of convincing people about the ones they're not obviously doing wrong?

And it's especially odd because so much of the article is just a bunch of nothing, but Tesla makes it newsworthy by denying everything. And 50 cents says Musk has a team analysing the photos right now to try and track down the employees who took them. ...to ensure they're fired and/or sued, of course; obviously Tesla would never see people who had identified problems as a potentially valuable resource.

There's a lot more interesting details if you dig into it, but wikipedia has a pretty good summary of the Toyota Production System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System). An interesting contrast, perhaps.

[1]: I mean, we all know who's behind this PR strategy, right?
I think what bothers me about all these Jony Ive articles is that they rarely differentiate between Ive the designer, Ive the art director, and Ive the product manager. Similarly, they fail to differentiate between whether something was good or bad based on its aesthetics, functionality, or market reception. In these articles, Ive is just functioning as a stand-in for Apple, as Jobs did before him. It betrays a lack of understanding of how companies (and design) actually work on the part of pundits and journalists.
A business analyst should be able to analyse how to get better return for his money. There’s probably not much other work that you can deliver in such small chunks, but there’s definitely work that can be performed in small chunks at a time.

That you think that you understand someone’s reasons doesn’t mean that you have to agree with or not think there’s are better ways.
This makes me think about something.

I don't work at a FAANG company, nor have I ever been to SV, nor do I know anyone who works at one of the many enormous tech companies around SV.

In the TV show Silicon Valley they have characters who sit around unassigned doing nothing at the Google-like company in the show. Does this actually happen? Are there people hired at these companies who just don't have a project? Its entirely feasible that Google could afford to do this just to create a dearth of engineers in the area.
I'm always reading/listening to two books at once, one audio-book, and one in a visual format. A lot of technical or older books aren't available in any electronic or audio format, and so I want to always be in the habit of reading visually so that I can accommodate those.
Realize Meredith and her crew are a minority of employees. We are talking < 10% of employees shared all her views.

Majority of googlers wanted maven. They wanted search in China.

Biggest change to culture is people getting tired of SJW outrage. And a focus back on our users and business
This is me- for learning 3d graphics (Maya, Blender), video tutorials are far more prevalent but less useful. I understand the ease of just starting a screen recording, but it's such a pain to pause the video every time I get behind. Text-based tutorials (with screenshots) require more planning on the part of the creator but seem more informative for me.

Now with math or science, video tutorials seem to better teach me.
Source was just a google of M5, but you're right that page says 10.9.

It was an argument against the "insanity" of a 10.5 time, you're right it costs quite a bit more.
I think any game is addictive. Having "gambling mechanics" certainly doesn't make it any better, but that's like saying alcohol causes a drinking problem. Yet many people that drink occasionally are not alcoholics.
Interesting to see as polarization increases, as it will given the environment, whether a company can break into two along political lines.

Has that happened before in history?

I wouldn't mind a seperate conservative google and a liberal google. Let the quality of the product offered decide which is better.
From this article:

> In an email to colleagues, Whittaker said her Google manager told her to "abandon [her] work on AI ethics" and blocked a request to transfer internally.

From the aforelinked Guardian article:

> In the letters, Stapleton said that two months after the walkout, she was demoted and “told to go on medical leave” despite not being sick. The demotion was reversed after she hired a lawyer, she said.
In a capitalist society that doesn't respect human rights, like the USA this may happen.

It also happens in poor societies that can't afford to enforce these rights.

But there are countries out there which strive to uphold these rights, no matter if one affords to pay for various services or not.
Looks good for Google to me. These protests were getting out of hand, and their demands were showing some major entitlement.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-walkout-organizers-say-th...

>In a message posted to many internal Google mailing lists Monday, Meredith Whittaker, who leads Google’s Open Research, said that after the company disbanded its external AI ethics council on April 4, she was told that her role would be “changed dramatically.” Whittaker said she was told that, in order to stay at the company, she would have to “abandon” her work on AI ethics and her role at AI Now Institute, a research center she cofounded at New York University.

>Claire Stapleton, another walkout organizer and a 12-year veteran of the company, said in the email that two months after the protest she was told she would be demoted from her role as marketing manager at YouTube and lose half her reports. After escalating the issue to human resources, she said she faced further retaliation. “My manager started ignoring me, my work was given to other people, and I was told to go on medical leave, even though I’m not sick,” Stapleton wrote. After she hired a lawyer, the company conducted an investigation and seemed to reverse her demotion. “While my work has been restored, the environment remains hostile and I consider quitting nearly every day,” she wrote.

Both are now gone.
Liz Fong-Jones (who left Google earlier this year after some 11 years there) tweeted about this last night: https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1150960547803860993

Of the walkout organizers alone, four out of seven have now left.
FWIW, when entering my CPGE [0] in France, our math teacher asked we forget everything about math except: natural numbers (0, 1, etc.), addition and multiplication. Everything needed to be scraped and "taught correctly", and it took only 2 years to get back up to speed (the entire program for the school year is available (in French): https://prepas.org/ups.php?entree=programmes).

Math is incredibly simple to build from scratch (as in: doesn't require a ton of knowledge) [1]. How long it takes for it to "click" though is another matter: I've had a very hard time with calculus and basic logic in first year, and thoroughly failed my second year.

I don't have a book to recommend though (everything was taught in class, no textbook); though I remember vaguely some books that others here do recommend.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_g...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom
I developed terrible tendinitis in my fingers using the Magic Mouse within a few weeks of purchasing one, I've never had a peripheral cause me so much pain in my career.
I used to use the original Magic Mouse at work, which used AA batteries instead of a stupid lighting port to recharge.

I came to appreciate the Magic Mouse quite a bit. I found it perfectly comfortable, and having what is effectively a super long scroll wheel is great. I also appreciated the easy horizontal scrolling, and the ability to switch spaces with swipe gestures.

I switched only because I discovered how nice the tracking quality of gaming mice is.
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A gas core engine was tried at least on standby power levels in sixties. The experiment was called "Baikal 2" and made for testing of RD-600 and EU-610, not much info on them in English.

I myself don't think that economising on fuel is that much important. Back in sixties, enriched uranium and plutonium were still though of as extremely pricey to be expended with propellant, thus the development went an extra mile to get as much oomph out of the fuel as possible.

But thanks to few decades of military industry making u235 and plutonium production cheaper, an option with expendable fuel looks easier.

My own thinking: get a conventional expander cycle rocket engine and add hexafluoride injection past the turbine. Then, you add moderator and reflectors into the combustion chamber. Voila, a much easier solution. Even easier than a solid core reactor as your don't have to think much about reactor not melting, and reactor control — just adjust the tap on the heaxafluoride.
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"Whitaker is part of a group of six women (...)"

Finally, women that complain about actual problems.

"sexual harrassment (...) conservatives (...)"

Ugh. I don't know the details of it all. But it seems nowadays all critique always has to be about conservatives and or sexual harrassment.
I seem to remember reading an article on "rest and vest" employees.

Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14943146
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They're the people making Google work. Why shouldn't they be entitled?
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Yeah, that has to be my favorite use-case for the force-touch on iOS. The way text selection works on iOS has never felt that smooth, but force touch takes away some of the worst pain.

Shame it’s got zero discoverability. Most people I know are surprised when I show them that. It also has quite a steep learning curve for some. Plus, some of the more advanced useful stuff is pretty hard to use - for example, did you know you can switch to text selection by “pulsing” your finger twice while pressing the keyboard?
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