skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how does a second probe in a two year span fits this theory? If you send out probes with the intention to crawl the galaxy for hundreds of thousands of years then the chances of two of them entering the same region in a two year timespan are nonexistent.
Apparently back in the day they were seriously considering ClF5 as the next generation oxidizer for rocket propellants. Implying that the rocket exhaust would to a large extent consist of HF and HCl. Yikes!
I'll again quote the point that is being made:
>As for Deepin, its Chinese origins tend to ignite controversy (and anxiety within privacy purists) in the Linux world
This is, at the very least, pure FUD. The implication is that Deepin is untrustworthy because of its Chinese origins. If that's true, then the implication is that everything of Chinese origin is untrustworthy.

Deepin has indeed been around for a while. It is, as far as I can see, fully open source. Is there any indication that it's doing anything shady? Would a shady distribution last for 15 years in the privacy-conscious, code-scrutinizing Linux world?

Even if there are genuine indications that Deepin is shady, I wish the article had just mentioned those, rather than vaguely gesturing at its Chinese origins as if it's obvious to anyone that anything Chinese is suspicious. That's what I think is racist.
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In a society where bike use is much more common, the risk to have a bike stolen is diminished by diffusing it among a higher number of bike users. Also, bike locks are a thing. Larger train stations also sometimes have dedicated bike storage facilities with CCTV and security personnel, which makes that threat even less likely. Also, bike insurances are a thing and they don't cost that much. Certainly much much less than the cost for a car insurance. (And that's before you take into account all the externalities of cars that are not correctly priced into their ownership.)
That actually sounds pretty useful - say the car gets 10 hours of perfect iradiation on a good day, that's 20-40 miles, that could be a sizeable part of a daily commute, not to mention cases where you have the car standing still for a few days.
If your daily commute is short, solar panels could provide enough energy to not worry about charging
It used to be just the brown tram doing a circle. Now it’s all trams within the CBD and extends the 86 down the end of Docklands
THis brings back the horror of trying rationalise SFPs during an office move.

A bunch of new kit, some new fibre, and my boss forgetting the difference between LC and SC connectors.

Add to that, our supplier trying to palm off knockoff SFPs
(SFPs are normally hardware locked to a specific vendor, despite them being made at the same OEM. This allows them to add a markup of >$300)

In the end I found an OEM SFP that worked with all our kit, and all our fibre and replaced them all with that. Anything shorter than 2 meters was swapped for a twinax (A coax cable with inbuilt SFPs) because they are more tolerant to being poked through things.
> The most sensible thing is to wait until conviction to pass judgement.

This is the most sensible thing if you're a juror on a case. Otherwise, judgment may be called for long before a trial even starts, particularly when it comes to dead men (or participants in an elite criminal network which operates above the law) who will never even be brought to trial.
A well built Unix based alternative to Mac would be attractive to many in particular developers.

Huawei can address the security concerns by using established open source software (which they seem to have).

Would be great to have an alternative to the windows/mac duopoly.
Dual class can, and often leads to bad corporate governance over the long term. Some stock indexes exclude or limit them. S&P Dow Jones for example.

This is complex issue. More discussion: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/08/22/dual-class-index-...
> Making a remote worker's income less attractive is one way to redress that balance of perception.

That sounds wrong, and there are now plenty of companies that are fully remote , for which it is the stationed-worker who are a burden
Looks cool and it works pretty well so far. But why no https?
For more related music, check out Anders Flanderz. He is a brother of Martin Molin (in Wintergatan, building the Marble Machines) and was a member of Detektivbyrån. There are many videos of him busking as a one man band on YouTube.
Yes, we're talking about big cities. People want to live near the center, but even at 14km is not matter of days. You need to wait.
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Not everywhere has a high theft rate and one can insure a bicycle. Cars need fuel, usually gas/diesel, but sometimes electric, and the costs to maintain is much higher.

Besides, if you do get in a pinch, you can roll your bike with you while you walk in many cases. In the cases where you cannot, you can usually leave it locked somewhere and fetch it later on. You can do this in ways that you cannot in a car.

Besides, a bicycle only takes a portion of the materials to make a car - even two of them only take a portion. It is still friendlier.
That's fair, but that's also stuff that you just can't really do in Java in general¹, so it's not useful for a comparison. The fact is that the vast majority of JavaScript code is pretty static and there's nothing preventing it from running as fast as Java other than man-decades of compiler engineering.

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¹ Possibly excluding reflection. It's been a long time since I used the Java reflection APIs and I have no idea if you can do things like add class fields named after arbitrary strings at runtime. Even if you could, presumably this bails out of jitted code so the situation is basically the same as in JS.
Though obviously equivalent, I think as a percentage 95/5 and as a reduced fraction 19/1, they both have value in different ways to the non-mathematician. Giving 2 intuitive handles on a thing instead of one is helpful.
Especially as he goes on to state:

> It feels like a difference of four people when, in reality, it’s a difference of 80. That’s a much bigger difference than we expect.

I had to stop reading here.
Mao had a policy of bird extermination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign

"birds are public animals of capitalism"
the side effects of going after a union purely for this reason will need to be properly quantified before you can consider going down this road.
removing private ownership of prisons is a no-brainer in comparison
I think most concepts of transhumanism are yesterday's crave for hoverboards.

Still, I don't think all his fears are unfounded. While I am skeptical about artificial general intelligence that suddenly surpasses our ability to reason, I am more concerned about specialized agents that quantify nearly everything of our lives and gain influence through human actors overestimating their abilities and therefore creating a data burocracy that will indeed have problems with bias.

Not arguing against the transhumanist tech lead that might have or might not have a form of cocaine addiction that at least supports people dreaming of more advanced AI.

More concerned about the people that buy into it and treat it as gospel. I mean it comes from a machine that doesn't have these aweful restrains humans are subjected to...
It’s not just software that is the security concern. What Chinese silicon is on there?
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That’s true. But when you have to travel across the city multiple times a day for meetings, it’s so convenient.

Yeah, I hear you on the short trips. I just wish the state would take over Metro and Yarra and provide all of them for free
You can join a research lab as a software engineer, or even start a PhD.
I know two product managers, both are remote.
Finally a proper tool for reviewing notebooks. When is the author expecting to have connectors for Azure DevOps?
If it can generate enough energy to move the 1 ton vehicle for 2~4 miles, it seems it's pulling its weight, literally.
> Isn't this just plain racist?

Nope. When people say "Chinese origins", they mean it is designed in People's Republic of China, which many people distrust for political reasons. If it was designed in Taiwan or Singapore, which are also populated by Chinese, it would be called "Taiwanese" or "Singaporean" origin, and would not make any controversy at all.
Liberals and downvoters are designated primary targets. Weapons free, my friends, weapons free.
My food budget has been around $80/month before. Saving that much on transportation would have been wonderful.

And I don't see how free transport makes folks take transport more. People still need to have places to go to, after all, which generally cost money.
It's the opposite of cool name. Anthropomorphous means resembling human being, this was nothing like human, it was quadruped.
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The bikes are not very expensive, you can buy them second hand for about 100-150 EUR. And what do you have to maintain in a simple bike? Just adjust air pressure every couple of month and that's all.

Owning a car in Amsterdam is crazy expensive due to parking. For example, the parking costs at my office is about 500 EUR/month (only to park during workdays between 7AM-7PM)
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Honestly it seems like a nice idea. The idea that a car can go _entirely_ on solar on it's roof is clearly off-limits for now, but that doesn't disqualify the idea entirely.

Say I use my car for the daily commute and I'm some 10 miles away from office. I work 8 hours in the office in daytime, and leave my car in the parking. For when I'm going back home, my battery would be topped up.

I'd need to recharge my car much less, once a month maybe.

Also, say you can do 300 miles with a full charge. Depending on how fast you go, you'll do those 300 miles in 5 to 10 hours. So on average, a the solar aid would give you some additional 15 to 30 miles, ie 5%-10%. Which sounds nice to me.

All with the current technology. Obviously there are tradeoffs, in R&D, price and weight.

But it seems like worth pursing, log-term.
more than circular, it offloads the meaning to another term, which is the functional style. Just read a dictionary, you'll see this happen lots of time, where, for example, the definition of an adjective just references the definition of a related noun and that's it.
I think the link you have this pointed to is incorrect - it should be openlunar.org
It will be interesting to see how this changes interactions between Amazon employees and impacted Whole Foods workers in downtown Seattle.

For their warehouses most employees are shielded away but with Whole Foods it's different. Amazon employees go there every day in the thousands. So, I'd imagine some kind of compassionate move by employees will occur in Seattle.

Or employees just stop going to avoid the awkwardness, and use delivery... we will see.
I agree that governments should be addressing these issues, my initial post was mostly about how they are not doing that, and at the same time actively telling us that everything is great.

It's almost like their own measure of success isn't the happiness and wellbeing of their citizens.
California prisons are pure hell. Listen to a few min of this interview; it's eye opening (warning: prison language)...

https://youtu.be/2I4imzTOpQM
I was actually surprised by your choice of xkcd, even if it is a fun one. For me the most relevant would have been 1266 - 'Halting problem' : https://xkcd.com/1266/ which is one of my all time favorite.
Look at the bright side, in 4 years he's bound to have had a free day on February, 29th!
I'm slightly confused regarding your position, are you seeking open borders, or solely the elimination of birthright citizenship?

I think there's enough responses in the thread regarding open borders that I won't belabor that point again. To the question of birthright citizenship, I'd probably be ok with eliminating it if we replaced it with service-based citizenship a la Starship Troopers (to include volunteering in the Peace Corps, volunteer firefighting, and maybe law enforcement). But it leads to the question of: if people (including native-born ones) don't meet the citizenship requirements, do they become stateless persons? Do we deport them? To where?
I think your project is really cool (perhaps because I've been working on a graph database (Neo4J-compatible) in Rust to learn it, so I understand your motivations...)

While doing that, I came across the 'sled' crate as a wait-free KV-store. If does blocking I/O, though, but it might serve as a starting point for working on the storage side of things. As it uses traits to express the interface, I'm not sure it could be made asyncable using the current language features.

I'll definitely been looking at how you did the async parts.
The point is to show that with 95% for every 1 person saying "no" you have 19 people saying "yes". With 99% for every 1 person saying "no" you have 99 people saying "yes". The common denominator is one "no".
This, unfortunately, extends to the rest of the world's energy usage:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

Don't buy any coastal property! Unless you're 70 and don't care about leaving anything behind. The sea water will come.
I have issue with this: these panels would still capture enough energy to drive at least 2-3k kilometers annually - that's at least 10% of your typical annual mileage, so nothing to sneer at.
Maybe I'm naive, but in my mind besides their ecosystems and superficial syntax differences there isn't that much functionally different between Python and Ruby, with the major to exception of blocks in Ruby.

In which case the decision between the two seems to be between a thing and a slightly better version of itself. I totally respect that many people see this differently and probably exactly opposite but to me it always feels really hard to justify using python for this reason.

Just for fairness sake I'm not trying to trash python. I think it's a great language.
>Tying the salary to the cost of living looks like a way to cheat a worker out of the value they generate.

Where do you think profits come from? Profit is the difference between what you pay your workers and the value of their work.
>If the car is driven four days a week for a maximum of 50 kilometers a day, there’s no need to plug into an outlet, NEDO’s Yamazaki said.

50km is just as many kms as I commute to work during a week. Perfect prototype for me already. For longer trips I prefer motorcycle.
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There is some stealth helicopter model that is secret and was used in the operation to kill Osama, it may be a heavily modified UH-60.
I'm not the author of the article, but I sometimes use the same approach because in my experience saying 5 people out of 100 does not have the same effect as 1 in 20 even though mathematically they are same. It provides a mental check if you are still ok with your original perception.
But things changed completely when the 'Black Notebooks' were published a few years ago [1]. They showed antisemitism to be a much deeper part of his thought, and it's much harder to argue that he just paid lip service to Nazism. He explicitly asked for them to be published last of all his writings [2], perhaps because he knew how controversial they were.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/13/martin-heidegg...

[2] http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/martin-heideggers-black-n...
As millennial and house owner in Berlin, I totally disagree with those statements.
If you try to rent an apartment as a family of 4 (say, min. 85-90 m²), you have to pay at least something not less than 900€, excluding annual costs review, electricity, internet and so on. On top of that, there's the "incremental-steps", set usually on 3%.
Sure, owning a house is not easy and requires efforts, but in the era of 0% interests or negative interests, buying a house in a Big City IMHO represents a far better investment than keeping money in a bank account or giving away for rental.

A House can also work as insurance: if for some reasons you are facing economic difficulties, you can think of selling it and moving in a smaller apartment. As renter, what happens if you're already in difficulty and can't afford to pay the actual rent?

I hate much everything of the "rental" services: you can access something but you can't own it. What happens if in 10 years I want exactly access that thing again? Will it be there? I'm sure it won't and there are tons of examples already (See: Disney content flying away from Netflix, Music disappearing from Spotify due to copyright/labels, Games not available anymore on Steam due geolocalization, etc. etc.)
"the salary should be based on the value the employee is bringing"

This is really so vague as to be meaningless. A McDonalds can't operate without someone at the drive through. So isn't the value of the drive through worker incredibly high since they are essential to the operation of the business?

No. Labor Economics tells us that an employee will be paid at the market rate. They are paid based on how many other people are willing and capable of doing the job and what rate they will accept.
> (I apologise for weird response, but couldn't find a better way to get my point across.)

I see it perfectly fit to get you point across. Will copy method in the future when necesarry
First: It's just horrible to build a company culture around assuming pettiness. I'm not saying that it isn't true that human beings are often petty. But you shouldn't optimize around being a great place for petty people to work at.

Second: Being forced into an onsite job in a city with high rents and bad traffic is bad. Being taken advantage of on salary for living in a low cost-of-living area is also bad. One badness doesn't cancel out the other. There are just so many instances I can think of of going to a manager and making some argument that's a variation on the theme "Can you please stop treating me badly?" and the response being "We treat all these other people badly, so if we stop treating you badly, that would be unfair to them!" Well, that's just not a valid argument! I don't want to be treated badly, and if not treating me badly implies not being able to treat these other people badly, then maybe that's the route you should be taking, goddammit!
Thanks for asking. I am fine. I've recently changed jobs and now I work from home with occasional travel - and even though it's strenuous, it's much more comfortable. I have flexible hours, fixed pay every month, paid vacations (oh thank gods yes). My kid is gradually getting more social with us (he's almost 3), and spending time with him brings us great joy. We're all healthy, we invest time into our relationship, we do our best to sleep much, exercise, eat well, and it seems to be paying off, which is great, because this time last year we were getting ready to move across border, and soon before the move, we've had a serious health crisis (my wife was hospitalized for 10 day, and got out exactly on the day of the move).

What could be better? Well plenty, of course.

We could be saving money for our own place faster. But we partially use it to enjoy day to day and treat ourselves. I consider it money well spent, regardless of my wife's guilt feeling.
We could be spending even more time together. But this is mostly because my wife is currently learning python programming and software testing in order to get back to job hunt. It was a conscious decisions, and her weekend school ends in a couple of weeks anyway.
We could be spending more time with our friends. But we're all busy people, and we try to be understanding that it's difficult to find good timeslots.

So, it's all temporary hurdles, not really hardships.
Does it have replaceable parts? I am willing to pay good money for a computer just like Mac, but which can be upgraded piece by piece.
That’s just propagandist garbage. I’m alive because the Canadian system works, a few times over.
Used to work in Nicaragua for a US company with a local office. We were definitely being paid a lot less than our peers working directly in the US locations, at the same time we were being paid what was at the moment a lot more than the standard for other devs in the country.

There would have been no incentive for that company to open an office in Nicaragua if they would have had to pay similar salaries than what they were paying in USA, i mean, we have a lot more employee benefits and protections. Of course i would have loved to get more money out of it, and i feel we were delivering equal value than our peers, but if i think about it, the economics wouldn't have made sense.
I live in a city that has free bus transport since 2014. The buses come to my nearest stop only once a hour or so, so there still are many commercial carriers, and I pay more times than I don't. But the change has definitely made me consider going by bus much more often. I'd say that free transport, parks and free (usually outdoor) gyms are one of the largest QoL (quality of life) improvements that cities can do.
‘My boss lets me set my own salary’
The infinite-loop Rust issue is old, and the asm "" fix had been known for a long time. I wonder what is behind this seeming perf over correctness decision.
The pilots seeing it wasn't what drove traffic. It was suppression of terrestrial explanations and lack of critical thinking by reporters.
It's beautiful math, yes. But a miracle? I don't know.
Hardly, you could easily cover any extra energy needs with a few spoonfuls of olive oil worth about $0.005
Interesting that you only mention copying on Huawei's part but not how Apple has copied features on their IPhones from Huawei and other Asian phone makers.
Well that's certainly interesting...

I used to work for the guy who pushed the original Qt acquisition at Nokia. He later on, after the Elopcalypse, moved to Huawei to head one of their R&D units.

Wouldn't be at all surprised if he and his teams had his palm prints all over this one. Custom media players certainly play to his history and strengths. (Shot in the dark: I will guess that the media player is built on GStreamer for the codec support and exposed through QtMultimedia elements.)
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What about a decent sized solar array + batteries at each ferry terminal, and relatively fast transfer to the ferry of however much power is needed for the trip.
It doesn't get around the fact that it still makes way more sense to put those panels on your house roof and charge from that. The house roof is in direct sunlight for much longer than a car.
This does not really dispel the whiff of racism that undoubtedly exists, does it?
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I've been working for a company where people optionally do remote work from home; the difference in communication and team cohesiveness is stark to me.

When people are colocated in an office (and I guess this is a generalization), there are more incidental chats, knowledge-sharing, status-updates, stress/challenge-sharing etc.

I do better work and get more done at home though, and from an environmental perspective it seems like an obvious choice.