skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average machines in 2006 were mostly desktops with hard drives of 80/120/160GB. Average machines in 2019 are mostly laptops with 500GB/1TB of storage in many cases much much faster ssds. This is less than one order of magnitude in the last 13 years. I personally would like to use that extra space for useful tools and multimedia not bloated chat apps.

uTorrent is perhaps another bad choice.

uTorrents first public beta release was in late 05 Qbittorrent was released in early 06.

By the time about anyone was aware of uTorrent Qbittorrent was already a thing and as good. uTorrent went on to become first proprietary and ultimately ended up installing malware on users system and mining coin whereas Qbittorrent is still awesome.

Slack with its famously crappy performance and battery destruction is probably another bad choice to make the case although I hear its improved lately. Maybe wait another year to use it as an example so people have time to forget how much it sucked.

I would totally stay with comparing say visual studio code to visual studio and hope your audience doesn't remember Emacs and Jetbrains products are also cross platform without electron.
Almost every company that hires software developers are corporations or another limited-liability structure, such as an LLC. These entities exist at the sufferance of the society that grants that charter. They have no natural rights of any kind and they are granted the opportunity to exist so long as they provide benefits to the society granting that charter.

So you're asking what is, to me, the wrong question. To me, a more valuable question to community, society, and humanity is "why are we not putting them in a hammerlock and demanding decency?". Like--is there economic benefit to hiding this stuff from workers? Or is there greater economic benefit to at least some significant level of transparency with applicants and with workers after they're hired?

My guess is that that transparency is of significant social, as well as economic, value.
I'm agnostic on that :)
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> - Dogs in parks

They are often disallowed as a result of dog owners not cleaning up after the dogs. Other considerations are whether horses are allowed in the park, if there is wildlife that is threatened by dogs, or if there are things like soccer fields that might be torn up by a dog.

> - Dogs off leash in dogs-allowed parks

Leash reactivity is real. Google it. Leaving your little Fluffy off-leash in an on-leash park is a recipe for disaster. I'm not a lawyer, but you'll probably be found liable if a fight starts out, even if the dog on leash 'starts it'.

> - Dog poop infractions

Good! Bag your poop. Carry it with you until you can dispose of it properly. And that doesn't mean using a private person's garbage without permission.
That is super cool.

But admittedly when I saw the title i was hoping for a mini version of those massive flipboard signs. Those things are amazing.
Also most apps are not the only app running on my system. I might have 16Gb, but I'm currently running multiple browsers with multiple tabs each, a PDF viewer, a spreadsheet application, a music app, an IDE, multiple terminal windows and a search program (Everything).

Spotify manages to use only ~150MB. If it tried to use 1GB I would replace it since I have more important things competing for my limited RAM.
The other point (I assume) the OP is making is that they don’t need the money, at all, so if they can get it then go ahead and take the risk. A poorer person _needs_ that money, so it’s less a patience thing and more a calculated risk tolerance thing. But the wealthy do like having it reinforced that they earned their wealth because they’re better...
There is one thing that I don't understand. I plant 1000 trees, I sequester the CO2 I create by driving, heating my home and all the activities done by third parties to keep me alive (food, hospitals, etc). But that CO2 is still under the sky and most of it will be released when the trees die. It's not like we're pumping it back into oil fields or coal mines and never see it again. So this 1T trees initiative is a stop gap measure to buy us some time but it won't solve the problem. But it's better than doing nothing.
I don't think anyone has memorized it, but everyone who was around when "open source" was first introduced and we debated it to death (compared to "free software") knows that the source being available isn't enough.
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Right, I was asserting that people often use voice chat who don't ever do voice calls. Basically, we're in agreement. Hell, I'm almost 40 and I don't like voice calls
Just me or something isn't quite right about the numbers? Intuitively, shouldn't the survival rates of the white and black kings add up to exactly 100% in each type of game, even given the rules and interpretations that the author laid out at the beginning of the article?
In my experience, those aren't decrypted. I see company generated certs for most https, but not banks and healthcare sites. I'm guessing there is some sort of whitelist.
Maybe he mummifies his poop?

Me? I throw it in a city trash can.
I tried, and could not. And I’m baseline a little skeptical because the NHS has a history of pushing very poorly designed fad research precisely like this.
> the bare edges of the canvas suggest that the woman has agency, physical and otherwise; in Morisot’s garden scenes or beflowered interiors, the dresses melt into the background, refuting the viewer’s possession of the figure. Morisot’s messy brushstrokes—some of the most daring among her contemporaries’—suggest that “woman” is pure fiction, an idea bursting at the seams of the experience it supposedly names.

Seems like the author is projecting their own opinions onto Morisot's art.

That being said, it's incredibly sad that women were so devalued and minimized in that time.
They have some English pages on their website, although they haven't been updated in several years: http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html

If you make fun of the errors in the translation I will make fun of you mercilessly for not knowing any Spanish at all.
I'm not sure if that's true. Based on what I've read, older trees sequester carbon at a higher rate, according to [1]. I would like to see the counter claim.

https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/method-calculat... page 8
Restaurants are notoriously low margin businesses, I doubt there’s much room to move up in wages, which is also their greatest cost.
you could have an outer TLS tunnel that accepts the MITM certificate, then do HTTP, then a websocket upgrade then your VPN-over-websocket. Or fake pipelined HTTP that exchanges data bidirectionally.

But really, you don't have internet access at that point, so you shouldn't expect internet software to work.
> implementing what the standard says

do show me the standard that regulates how browsers ought to display identity of the site. because everything you've said is irrelevant otherwise.
That may well be the case, but May didn't have to ask for an extension to Article 50 or have a man as her Chancellor who was totally against no deal. She chose to do those things. And it was - to nobody's surprise - later revealed that she never even brought up the possibility of no deal with her EU counterparts.

In the end, the current cabinet is much more likely to try and implement the Conservative's actual manifesto. The only reason you describe that as immoderate and extreme is you want them to fail to do so. It wouldn't be considered so if "UK" and "EU" were replaced with random tokens and presented to people who weren't invested in British/EU politics.
It's far less than what a professional tree planter will manage in a single day in Canada.

It's definitely possible for any healthy adult.
> if all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions were reduced to zero immediately.

Bluntly, do you know how many people that would kill? Kill by lack of air conditioning, and lack of transportation for food, at a minimum. Lack of growing food, too, given how mechanized agriculture is now. It's not just a matter of needing "strong global policy". You need a way of making that transition without the transition killing large numbers of people.
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The problem is regulations. If the river is already hotter than the max temperature allowed as output, then it’s not possible to operate, for regulatory reasons. Temperature delta is on the order of 0.1°C
Interesting. The existing version uses stock powertrain components from Bosch that are common to several other small EVs. I wonder if they have developed a new lower cost system internally.
> find something to do with all the wood

Perhaps use it to build long-lasting structures, such as houses?
Original title: "Sign of the times: China's capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down"

I'm not sure why you felt you needed to change the spelling from Muslim to Moslem.

These days, the Moslem spelling is considered antiquated and may be a homonym for a negative Arabic word[1], making it uncomfortable for them to hear. I haven't asked any Arabic-speaking friends, so can't confirm that.

Otherwise, using the word is not unlike usage of "Oriental" to describe East Asian people -- it's not necessarily an insulting word in and of itself, but it has a troubling colonial history attached to it[2] that has led to it being considered insulting.

1. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/524

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/1...
Yeah I wouldn't bother either. Bikes seem like the first thing to go to chaos once the police make it obvious that it isn't on the radar.

It's like an athlete in combat sports not hiding the fact that they are gassed. There has to be some attempt to guise the reality or the situation devolves even faster.
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Have you ever looked at a seemingly clean surface with a UV light? It's surprising how much invisible ick there is, and it pops out since it visibly fluoresces. This might be a useful way to see the spills?
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It's an interesting idea, and most don't realize that LEDs can serve as input devices when the wavelengths match.

But on most devices you would need to modify the software to reconfigure the LED output pins to become those inputs. And once you have access to the software, do you really need to inject more software via this method?
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This is what I've been told as well from distributed systems experts. It's more "exactly-once most of the time" but believing that it will always be exactly once in all failure situations is delusional.
+1 Ok. Good points. Thanks.
> in context of browsing web sites in the browser, www is absolutely redundant information.

Please cite the relevant standard that says so.

> since you're so much into standards, there is no standard for how browsers ought to display identity of the site provider that is being browsed.

Which is just willfully not understanding the problem? There is a standard for which URIs are equivalent to one another, and I linked you to it. Browsers displaying one URI as a different URI that according to the relevant standards is not guaranteed to be equivalent is obviously in conflict with that standard.

> and i completely stand by the statement that serving different content on "name.com" and "www.name.com" is utter incompetency.

Great, I understand that that is your opinion. But the standardized consensus differs from your opinion, and the standardized consensus has precedence over your opinion. If you think the standardized consensus is insane, then work on changing the standardized consensus rather than promoting breaking interoperability.

> then why did you bring it up?

I didn't. Different host names are not redundant, that claim is simply your invention because you don't like that they are not redundant.
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I'd expect Google to respect my time, they don't
Is your external display a much higher dpi than your built in screen and are we basically talking about desktop OS being shitty about handling mixed dpi?
The funny thing about holding back compensation until the last minute is that we're not negotiating until they've decided they want me. They're exhausted from the search, have found someone they want (and I know it), and we start negotiating.
I had a stupid thought yesterday that I need to run numbers on, but I wonder if following would be possible:

Allocate some large area of ground for planting fast-growing trees. Dig a large and deep hole in the middle; something like 20 meters in diameter x 500 meters in depth. Let the trees grow; when they're mature, cut them down, throw into the hole, and throw a bunch of dirt (from the mound you made by digging the hole) behind them. Plant new trees, rinse and repeat until the hole is full, then dig another one somewhere near. Would that even make sense as a carbon sequestration facility?
It should also be considered that they are dealing with exponentially more prospective employees than you are prospective employers.
Thanks for the suggestion, dind't know about that forum.
I thought the cooling towers at Tricastin were only for the fuel enrichment part
This [1] at least has an reference section, but most of the actual research listed is based on audio not visual.

I suspect that this article is an advertisement for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s new book, The Healing Arts which is available from Unicorn Publishing Group. I get the feeling any data, if available, is in the book.

1) http://www.lahf.org.uk/sites/default/files/Chelsea%20and%20W...
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Invicta on Youtube has a good historical overview of the 'actual' kreigspiel game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seIA9tukDs
The UK manufactures more stuff than ever before in its history. Do you realise that? The "decline" of British manufacturing is only a relative decline - other parts of the world grew their manufacturing base faster.
After reading the 2018 IPCC report for policymakers [1] the major thing I took from it was this:

The stated impacts of further warming aren't grave enough to justify nations taking the steps needed to mitigate them.

For example, the more immediate and impactful conclusions from the report are these:

In urban areas climate change is projected to increase risks for people, assets, economies and ecosystems, including risks from heat stress, storms and extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, landslides, air pollution, drought, water scarcity, sea level rise and storm surges (very high confidence).

Climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent conflicts by amplifying well-documented drivers of these conflicts such as poverty and economic shocks (medium confidence)

To which most readers would more or less shrug and move on because it's not tangible what these general impacts look like and unclear why they couldn't be mitigated or absorbed at the time of event.

Said another way, it would take a MASSIVE and unprecedented shift to the average, and an increasing portion of the global populations way of living, to slow warming significantly.

Namely, "to restrict global warming to 1.5°C, global ambition needs to increase fivefold." That implies that the current state of the global economy would effectively ground to a halt.

So what people hear is: We must completely change our lifestyles to prevent some chaos somewhere unknown down the line. I think all of social science tells us that humans are bad at this kind of long term planning.

The challenge here is that there is a huge gap between what is meant by climate scientists with statements such as "the very foundation of human civilisation is at stake" and what people can "touch and feel" making the sense urgency seem overblown.

Even things like "Cyclone Tracy is a warning" fall flat because "there have always been storms" and the causal relationship isn't direct - it's statistical and that's not something that politicians and the public generally can grok.

Contrast that with something like WWII which the US was staying largely removed from, until Pearl Harbor happened. That was a direct, causally linked, explicit and objective event that pushed an entire nation to change their behavior - but it was also time limited.

I'm not sure what needs to happen, but my guess is that until there is a "Pearl Harbor" for climate change, which I don't think is really possible, very little substantial will be done.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/AR5_SYR_FINA...
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OP here...I would happily go through checks and balance and accept sometimes I would have to appeal in a system where the goal is to help. In the US system its adversarial from the outset and the goal is to deny. I cannot even read some of the reports from various offices because they enrage me so much. Lies and excuses. You hear story after story of people in even more dramatic and urgent need being denied, terminal illnesses with boss legs missing and just obvious stuff. Denied. It's a terrible system and a shameful blight. But it's working as intended according to half the nation...and not good enough in their view as their first stories on the topic will always be dramatic tales of abuse and cheating.
I thought it was just me - that was super hard to read.
> Revolution will bring our societies together

That's... one possible outcome.

(Hat tip to the "Sunset Grille" webcomic, where I stole this line from a character.)
Keep in mind that the 600-1000 number is for "tree age 0" which is a sapling about 6 feet (two meters) tall - the germination/survival rate for planting smaller saplings or seeds is much lower.
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A related observation; we try to teach critical thinking but it never really gets spelled out how uncritical thinking works; so students are generally unprepared to recognise it in themselves.

Uncritical thinking isn't the same thing as stupid. It is possible to make really great decisions and achieve the preferred combination of wealth, fame and influence by thinking intelligently but uncritically.

Uncritical thinking as far as I can tell boils down to trusting authority figures. That works really well for people with a slight knack for choosing reliable authority figures. You can see it in action when people start treating learned facts as faith-based truths.
I hate how now whenever it is hot people on the news are like "so, weatherman, is this due to global warming?" and they always say something evasive-sounding like "well climate change is going to make extreme events like these more likely so we can't say for sure blah blah blah".

Of course it is! Ugh. Don't beat about the bush. Saying "we can't be sure" just lets people ignore it.
The website host can absolutely distinguish between the two (two clicks on title bar). I guess this change has another upside of forcing website hosts to have working web server configurations
Well, that's the problem with getting averages though. London is relatively fine, there are issues but very broadly speaking there is enough officers there. The problems start outside - in Manchester/Leeds/Doncaster the numbers are so low that what I mentioned above happens daily. If it's "just" theft or burglary and no one is hurt forget about any investigation. Even if you have CCTV of it happening, the police just don't want it as no one would review it anyway.
When the switch the SSD came the price per GB was high and machines/ssd actually went as low as 30GB.128/256GB ssd are still very very common.
I have been working in some fast-growing software companies. Every few years, we change office and get one in a better place, with new furniture, fancier each time, tv monitor is everywhere, each wall had pictures and was colourful.

I had to go to the hospital, nothing serious. It was so extremely sad to see 30-40 years old furniture, dark rooms that had never been re-painted, power outlets had been refurbished for the new European type. There was a sign that said, "Do not leave weelchears in this zone". Of course, there were wheelchairs as they did not have space anywhere else.

It felt so completely wrong. Are we, as a society, investing in the right things? Austerity in Spain means that there is no money for hospitals, education, etc. Anything that is not live-and-dead is a luxury. Meanwhile, those companies, all registered in tax havens like Malta or Ireland, had money to spend in fancy breakfast, new furniture every few years, unused monitors in every wall, ...

We know that to go to a hospital is a bad experience as you would like to be anywhere else. Why do we make it so much worse? Why we do not invest in life quality?

I know that there are countries where it is worse, I am happy that everyone in the country had free health care. But, it could be much better.
That would be really amusing. Those are called Solari boards, by the way, after the manufacturer (Solari di Udine).

Maybe someone enterprising might (or has?) created a character flipping routine that mimics the search through the tiles and set it to the authentic sounds?

The attempt by that company to create their own digital version is really bad. (search youtube for it)
Muslims prefer the spelling muslim not moslem and is infact the spelling used in the article.

Moslem the way it is pronounced actually has negative meaning (opressor I think). Regardless of how one feels towards the billions of followers of islam, I am not in favor of calling them by a term they see as evil and derogatory, especially when it isn't even a quote from the article.
wow, crazy how small Pi has become!

I remember trying to do a similar project for the bus stop at the corner of my street to know when to leave to catch the bus. It was fun, but I never really finished when I realised how big just the Pi would be (still powered by usb-a, etc).

Nice to see this one so well executed!
I don't get it. Why not just keep a smaller part of the fleet with radar absorbent skin in top notch condition (and barely use it outside mission, thus keeping it in a good condition) and keep the other part of the fleet entirely without this feature, for usage in scenarios where it's not needed?
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Steve Jobs was not magic, nor is he the only person with vision in the world. Expecting one company to continue to make paradigm breaking technologies every other year isn't realistic.
I think one of the reasons technical interviewing has become so cumbersome is because companies are very reluctant to fire employees who are not working out. Thus, they have to make sure it's an absolutely perfect match up front.

Wouldn't it save time and cost overall to hire fast and fire fast? Make it very clear that your first two weeks are a vetting period and your first 6 months are still probation?