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Google doesn't even pay well enough to treat people poorly. They're wagering an awful lot on the premise that working for Google is prestigious enough to sustainably attract and retain talent.

Meanwhile a smaller tech startup will pay better and give you way more of a hand in shaping the product, and maybe even not work you 80+hours a week. I'm not sure what the appeal of the big names is for devs.
If you want to drive real circuits or fly across actual countries then real world data would be awesome, but for anything else it probably wouldn't be. Compressed game world environments (eg mountains next to open grass lands next to coastline next to forests within a few miles of each other) are designed that way because that variety contributes to the game being more fun. You don't get that in the real world.
other discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20658901
My inside-FAAMNG experience has been that most employees seem to be not interested in the politics and are primarily focused on doing good work (people in their 20s), or on putting in their 8 hours and going home to their families (people >30 mostly, of course they also want to do good work, just have additional new priorities in a young family).

Then there is a vocal minority who leverage that no individual's performance really affects the money printing machine. They blatantly view the company and its resources as a means to further their political goals.

They come across as incredibly entitled and tone-deaf against the actual working class or people actually suffering from oppression (say, women being incarcerated in Iran for decades for taking off their veils, or protesters in HK). No matter how petty and entitled the request, anything denied is interpreted as some larger act of "violence" against them.

What I didn't/don't understand is why management allowed that to happen. Either they actually believe in the political goals themselves, are afraid of the conflict, or believe it just does not matter for the company.

I think what management fails to understand often is that giving in to a demand is not viewed with gratitude but merely as accepting what's naturally right and good. In other words, giving in to demands 1..n does not give you credit when demand n+1 is posed. The ultimate conflict is just delayed.
You are correct that if you use your energy before it gets on the grid you are fine.

But that is quite hard for most people to accomplish, most people are not at home during daytime when the panels generate most. The time my washing machine actually consumes energy warming up the water is relatively short.

The largest part of the power consumption of my home owners association is spent on lighting, the other part on the elevator which is most of the time just idling and peaks when someone uses it.

Batteries are inefficient and still expensive. You could warm up a boiler for hot water during day but I think that is done more efficiently with a heat collector instead of pv->electricity->heat. You can warm up your house, but you have to have very good insulation otherwise most energy is lost by the time you get home.

Anyway, in practice the change in policy can have a huge effect in return on investment time.
Open ear headphones have no seal, either. The parts that contact your head simply set the distance between your ear and the driver. This is simply open ear headphones being held a set distance from your ear in a slightly different way. Anything else is pure marketing.
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China had its own cultural revolution during the same time. It isn’t remembered fondly and is often used as an excuse to nip any protest in the bud.
In my experience, they can sometime help and sometimes they can't. If they understand your issue, it can be easier and quicker to talk through your issues with a friend. Deep, buried anxiety issues are not understood by people that don't experience them. I, a completely healthy young man, constantly worrying about my heart, was met first with concern, then with dismissal as my issues didn't disappear after a week or so. You can become very annoying to friends. People who understand might be better. In my opinion, a therapist is the best, everything is inferior to that.. But that's just what worked for me.
I generally enjoy longform journalism but this is an exhausting read.

May have been better as a series of articles.
“After it was unveiled parents loudly objected to the proposal. Less than a month later, the district repealed the proposed new school start times. As Dimitris Bertsimas, a professor who led the MIT team, pointed out in a presentation about the solution, those who favored the status quo had the most to lose. “When your kids are affected negatively, it is hard to see the big picture,” he said.”

Joi Ito wrote on this https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2018/12/05/what-the-boston-school... :

“In very polite email, they told me that I didn’t have the whole story.

Kade and I met later that month with Arthur, Sebastien, and their adviser, MIT professor Dimitris Bertsimas. One of the first things they showed us was a photo of the parents who had protested against the schedules devised by the algorithm. Nearly all of them were white. The majority of families in the Boston school system are not white. White families represent only about 15 percent the public school population in the city. Clearly something was off.”

“Optimizing the algorithm for greater “equity" also meant many of the planned changes were "biased" against families with privilege. My view is that the fact that an algorithm was making decisions also upset people. And the families who were happy with the new schedule probably didn’t pay as much attention. The families who were upset marched on City Hall in an effort to overturn the planned changes.”
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> The license plate font doesn't distinguish between 0 and O

When the German license plates were redesigned in the mid 1990-ies, also a different font was incorporated, which was engineered explicitly to thwart similar-shape attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift
Vim pulls in over €60k/yr, and has generated more than €1m during its lifetime, for ICCF Holland.
Case law has further defined "cruel and unusual punishment". The Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia established that punishment must not: "by its severity be degrading to human dignity", "a severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion," "a severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society," or "a severe punishment that is patently unnecessary."
severe punishment that is patently unnecessary.

I think it would be difficult to argue that any of Michael Cicconetti's creative punishments are "severe". Conversely, they appear to be relatively lenient compared to orthodox punishments. Additionally, the punishments are arguably the opposite of arbitrary, being designed to match the specifics of the crimes.
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Arab Spring started in late 2010, if I'm not wrong.
Freenode is a good place.. the /list command will show you channels once you connect. Popular ones are #hardware, #linux, #windows, #python, #debian, #bash, ##networking, etc. There is a channel for most major technologies.
The article misses the point a bit. There are 3D maps of the world, or rather, you can make your own on a weekend. Topographic data is out there for most things, the problem is just it's very inconsistent and of course, resolution. And I guess for the whole world you do need a decent computer.

To prove my point, here is some art I made [1] from open data (I think NASA) with Blender and QGIS, meaning free software stack on very much a normal computer. My model was the state Schleswig Holstein, a german county, but as said, you can find data for pretty much everything. The resolution is not astonishing, but enough to spot Germany's only high sea island, the "Wattenmeer" where tide causes some spots to lie below water level on average, the mouth of the Elbe and more cool stuff when you know where to look.

My point isn't to downplay the effort of EarthDEM, I just want to make more people aware of what is already very much out there :)

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/rZUTajX
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App developers have already trouble "jumping" onto the latest version of the one or two mobile platforms they support, I doubt there would be much enthusiasm to add another one to the bunch.

Indie developers often support only one platform because any more than that is practically infeasible with a small team (n<3) to do if you have a modicum of respect for your clients.
If they are selected randomly

(On the other hand, if you go to a board game convention and ask 20 people if they like board games...)
No idea I was pushing your buttons. Sorry.

Actually I don't see where you did use that term?
There is no seal. A seal implies a lack of air movement and sound isolation associated with closed back headphones. Open back headphones have no sound isolation in or out. The parts that contact around your ears with HiFiMan's simply set the distance from the driver to your ear, in a comfortable way.
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I spent a part of my youth on Open Projects network especially in phreaking channels, I think real hackers are still there. Also I think that some of them decided to be more public and start to be active on Twitter or Telegram communities.
It's similar, it's just that groups (esp. those focused on resource accumulation) are less moral than individuals. Whereas individuals might have ethics, dreams, a different way of thinking about the world, companies are tightly constrained in how they act without a stick beating them.

For example, all these CEOs I'm sure know about climate change and might even feel despair about it (or believe we'll invent some carbon capture tech, or believe they'll be fine in a bunker in New Zealand because they're rich). However, imagine being a big executive that would have to make decisions contra the interests of their investors. The institutional pressures would make it near impossible, and if they resign in protest, they'll simply be replaced with an ideologically correct replacement.

So you can see, individual hopes and dreams are ground up by institutional mechanisms, making the comparison not very straight forward.
That sound even more like Google's modus operandi when it comes to browser development!
>As an example here in Australia I can get free 1m resolution DEMs of cities

source please?
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I mean, that's how you'd train the main algorithm, right?

I'd fully expect to see these interventions fed back into the algorithm so Google can better predict "this search term is likely to be targeted by partisan or otherwise suspiciously motivated actors".
It is a market failure.

The incentives of the owner need to be aligned with the incentives of the tenant, that is the failure.

Either, as you point out, tenants need to be given powers to install solar panels, and given security of tenure to take advantage of the long term investment, (which seems to me would go further than mere planning regs). Or incentivise the owner to install solar panels, this seems more straight forward, although might not necessarily benefit the tenant.
Indiana had a school district on the south side of Indianapolis that tried to stop busing students (https://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-indiana-schoo...). It was a mess, and frankly due to the irresponsible way the state handles funding schools. Certain districts around the Indianapolis area, refuse to approve tax referendums for their schools, while others have voters that are happy to fund education. It's unsustainable long term.
As William Seward said there is a higher law.
I regularly have chuckles with friends about entitled tech workers. Complaining about the type of bottled water, the gym compensation plan, the type of company laptop.

It's really sad.
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This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead.

I used to keep a few channels open at work all day long in 2007. #j2me, #java, #c. The conversation was active with no more than a few minutes of silence at a time. People would say good morning at the start of the day, goodbye at the end, they would talk about their weekend. It was like a virtual break room where you could ask tech questions (except #c was hostile to questions, those guys were weird) and make friendships.

It’s not just less active now. It’s dead every time I look.
To me, Google Maps/Earth seems to be one of the most advanced web apps in the world.

Gmail and Translate are, indeed, not extremely exciting.
That also means they don't get many of the benefits of modern society, I would think. What do they do when their child becomes a type 1 diabetic? Or goes into shock from an allergic reaction?
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Your arguments are circular and repetitive. Publishers do not want AMP. Users dont care about AMP, just fast sites. "Instant" is a marketing gimmick and makes no material difference when sites are fast enough. AMP is not necessary to make sites fast enough.

Google can influence site speed through SERP rankings, speed that is lacking primarily because of its other products, but instead it's forcing AMP pages. This is the fundamental problem that you are not acknowledging. There is no way around AMP if you don't want to lose ranking on an existing search results page.

FB doesn't treat IA ranking differently from links. RSS doesn't treat content differently. Apple News doesn't even support the web and can already accept RSS feeds. They also get plenty of critique that you're ignoring. Have you ever worked with a publisher?
There's not really a huge difference between supercomputers and a large number of ordinary computers these days. The computational hardware is basically the same. Only the communication interconnects are different.

I strongly suspect that they don't need a supercomputer, but they had one available and it sounds cool. I sit one building over from the ~13th largest supercomputer in the world and I've definitely used it when I needed a bit more computing power than my laptop could provide. I used the supercomputer because I could, not because I needed to.
I do think there's something to be said about trying new experiments for nation states with different operating models. There's obviously been mixed reactions and outcomes with places like Liberland and Seasteads (not to mention the micronations) but I'm hopeful that a small country like Estonia/Lithuania/Singapore/Rwanda that wants to be internationally competitive will innovate heavily in governance, economic models, etc.
Modern passports have an online functionality, you can unlock that plus hardware for fairly cheap (<50€ IIRC), which lets you use your passport to authenticate and you can, similar to credit cards, have the passport reported as stolen so it no longer works.
Sorry, I misunderstood
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And every console maker has 100% share of their app markets. Should we break them up to?
> the most popular web frameworks are from Google and Facebook

Curiously, that's mostly not the case on the backend - Django, RoR, Express, were all created by individuals or small companies.
This account seems like /r/sino is leaking.
I would not recommend MT. It fails many tests, that state is big, the code is complex, and it's not very fast. For non-crypto PRNGs, I'd reach for PCG or one of Vigna's generators.
What is VSCode missing for you to call it incomplete?
I'm not sure what you're saying sounds like a total disagreement, but could you link to a few that did take into account ESG? Oftentimes, I find that when there seem to be exceptions to the rule, on closer inspection, there is something important about them that makes clear why they were able to do it.
The whole comment mentions China. I believe this is another one of those fake news campaign running across Hong Kong as mentioned in news.

HN is not fake news medium but is being made to generate fake news with conflated facts.

Been on HN since it's birth, not fake accounts like yours or people downvoting critical comments with facts. Hopefully some moderator on HN reviews these comments for facts not conflated facts.
The article mentions "conversing with beings which cannot be perceived by anyone but the person themselves" as a canonical example of hypersanity.

I find that pretty comparable to "believing you are covered with spiders when you are not".

>you are conflating epistemology and ethics

The interpretation that the idea of hypersanity refers only to ethics is due to you and you alone, as the article states nothing to that end, so please do not make claims about my thought process that amount to "you are wrong because you did not arrive at the same conclusion as me". It is not only disingenuous, but also arrogant and short-sighted.
All the districts in my area are begging for school bus drivers. The pay is going up and some are offering full time benefits for driving part time.
I've also seen them offering to split the morning / afternoon shift and paying teachers extra to drive buses instead of coach after school sports.
I can imagine dictionaries as being useful for:

1. Pre distributed dictionaries for commonly transmitted data types. Ie: web browsers could ship with a shared dictionary that is generally helpful for JavaScript, then servers could negotiate and send a specially compressed version for those that have the dictionary.

2. Streaming buffered data: eg before sending video, send a dictionary. This is useful because we are interested in compressing each chunk well, not just the overall file. Relatedly - a compression scheme where you need all bytes before you can decompress any is rather useless here.
Ontario changed their provincial laws a little while ago which makes EV charging "mandatory" to the effect that a condo/apartment building must do it unless they can produce an engineering report that says it (a) be some kind of safety hazard, or (b) would compromise structural integrity.

All new builds must have at least the conduit in place (if not the wiring). I wouldn't be surprised if having EV stations becomes a selling point in pre-construction marketing.
Related HN discussion about the incident from June https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20267790
That's not what the research I found I did when considering working out there - basically racism.
MapBox, and I believe a new Unity Map feature, both offer this.
China's policy towards Hong Kong since the 1997 handover was to integrate them into China by showing how wonderful China would be and essentially convince them that they were better off being part of the Chinese mainland rather than a British colony. By 2019, though, it's become patently clear that many, if not most, people in Hong Kong have come to believe that there integration into China would amount to some sort of Chinese colonization and would destroy their heritage.

You're still doing a wrong to the people of HK by forcing them into an arrangement that they don't want, so it is in no way justified by righting previous wrongs.
It's a bit sad, but I believe "protests" have lost their meaning. All of what you described were meaningful events, but it these days some one is always protesting something. For instance, there are "women's marches" every year turning out tons of people in a society where equal rights are constitutionally enshrined. That probably doesn't merit such an event.

My concern is that if, Heaven forbid, there is ever again something worth protesting to that degree, no one will pay attention. Regular Americans, rather than being swayed, will look on and say, "Oh look honey, the kids are protesting again."
True evil is MBS ordering the murder of journalist Khasshogi. True evil is invading and conquering Crimea. True evil is murdering your generals with anti-aircraft guns or watching dogs tear them apart while still alive.

Serving banner ads across sites does not even remotely compare.
May I suggest to you two HN's noprocrast feature. I think, you spend way too much time here. ;)
A look at LibreOffice’s new 6.3.0 “fresh” release
Am I the only one who is confused by all the recent uproar in open source? I think open source software should be created purely based on joy with no monetization expectation from the creators.

On the other hand, people using the software should have no expectations either, they should be grateful for the gift they have received.
I believe the spirit of OSS should be contribute if you want to, if not, that's also ok.

If you demand compensation for your OSS work or you demand the OSS maintainer to implement features yesterday, you're doing it wrong.

I feel like the spirit of people creating software for the sake of software is fading away.
Driving a school bus requires a CDL in every state.
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The supermassive black hole in our galaxy recently erupted and we don't know why
Note that your link is to one of the leaders, which always explicitly give the opinion of the Economist akin to The Editorial Board in the NY Times.
China has a different culture. One reason that western people having protesting culture because of historically authoritarians are less powerful and less cruel than the eastern ones. Take the 'nine familial exterminations'[0] as an example.

It will most likely become a totally different cyberpunk society, with modern cities and massive surveillance coexist, instead of being another US.
I'm not really following your analogy. A video game isn't a car, a car is a means of transportation that depending on your situation, is a requirement in order to get goods and retain employment. A video game is a hobby for most people, it's like watching movies or television. I'd say it'd be more similar to how people reacted to Lost's final seasons rather than a broken car.

One can separate the launch of the game, where clearly there was a lot of confusion and misleading information, from the events since. They have issued free updates for years. They received death threats and other harassment as well. I'm not saying you have to like the game, but I'm just confused as to what they're getting with.
20 min ago I added my email address and clicked "get app". The page talks about free download, am I missing the download option?
National parks are not a perfect public good since they do have a practical limit on usage, unlike say, a lighthouse or clean air. Given this scarcity, a pricing mechanism such as tdaltonc suggests is reasonable solution.
AFAIK, those 538 people follow the decisions made earlier by the majority people.

Those 1200 definitely aren't.

Yes, the US system may not be perfect, but to put both on the same balance is such a misleading comparison.
I put up something like this here https://github.com/rajaravivarma-r/focus-dns. You can give this a try.
This is just over the past couple days: https://i.imgur.com/WUFiL18.png

I wouldn't call it dead at all.
Can you really say that a collection of fan-fiction is in any way historical?
It’s definitely a thing https://ahrefs.com/blog/negative-seo/
Good ol' computer science