skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the view you’re espousing is basically propaganda as well. Corporate execs + all of the management layers below them are frequently promoted from within.

Viewing employment as a collaborative endeavor rather than a hostile negotiation goes a long ways towards improving both sides.

Finally, part of the issue is that basically none of the innovative companies in the US are union shops. Because of the ham-fisted salary control most US unions are known for, they are just seen as a way to get a company to pay more than the market price for a skill by forming a cartel.
House prices will fall long before that, so buying those houses doesn't seem like a bright economical move, to me.
Whoa whoa I'm not sayin people should be treated like shit. Just that that USPS example didn't really look all that good.

Burnout sucks and being exploited sucks. I'm all for unlimited sick days, being compensated for all the work and time you put in, getting the benefits that you're guaranteed by law etc. In exchange for that I sure would expect the employer to expect me performing well. Quid pro quo. The USPS example didn't imply that imho.
Giordano Bruno said that whatever has the most value and the least cost of storage becomes money.
Interesting. It looks like Rust and Swift will be competitors in this field.
People keep demanding they spend money on disaster relief and flood insurance. At a certain point it's better (cheaper) to demolish the houses in places that keep getting hit.

Yes, it'd probably be better if the government let people face the damages for the most part. Unfortunately it's consistently portrayed as a huge failing if, say, a president fails to respond to a hurricane quickly or decisively enough. Partly because of the usual partisan nonsense, but also because the local governments want the aid.
XLA and Weld do have similar optimizations -- at their core, one of the main things they do is removing inefficiencies like unnecessary scans over data, common subexpressions, etc. across many operators. The speedup in the benchmark you're referring to actually involved some NumPy code too for pre-processing, and the reason Weld outperformed XLA is because Weld could perform those kinds of optimizations across TensorFlow operators and NumPy functions (whereas XLA only optimizes the TensorFlow part of the application).

I also want to mention that this benchmark is from a while back (around 2017 I believe), so its possible improvements in both XLA and Weld will make the numbers look different today :)
At some point they will figure out that we're lying, and then they will elect another Trump.
Try the app HeadSpace. Super easy to use and very clear instructions. No candles or funky positions.

Also, I would say, the most important thing about meditation is not the technique but the habit.

There must be over a hundred or a thousand different meditation techniques, but if you don't practice them regularly, they are all worthless.

The most simple one for my taste: sit down (whichever way you want, ideally in a quite place where you won't get disturbed), close your eyes and count your breath from 1 to 10; once you reach 10, start over from 1. If you get lost (I know, sounds impossible, but it happens a lot), start over from 1.
The worst part isn't lacking opportunity. It's knowing that you lack the ability and are forced to live your life that way without any ability to do anything about it.

Opportunity is at least, largely changeable. Ability isn't.

Being average is the worst thing imaginable in today's society because nobody cares about average people.

I would give up anything to have the brain of an inventor. But it's something that has constantly haunted my mind knowing that I will always be sub-par.

It's even worse when you go through school and you're a top performer in your school work. You're given a false sense of being one of the best, only to be exposed in the real world as a complete fraud.
Should I start thinking about moving away from embedded software development?
Hi, i have been an embedded software developer for about 5 years now, and i had a constant feeling that my skillset has plateaued over the last 18 months, i feel like I'm not learning anything new. My job is a constant cycle of a)get some data sheet b)do some research c)write a driver.

I've gotten to the point where i don't think i can read anymore books about coding in C, i love the language and the thrill of playing around hardware, but I'm honestly not sure how i can further my career while maintaining technical roles instead of moving into management/architect type roles.

Would love some insight from fellow embedded devs.
These are when he already is employed at the CIA. The posts he is talking about are from before he got his security clearance, which was apparently in 2005. The positions appear very libertarian, but not racist or misogynistic. So these are probably things that he continued to post after his pondering, and that he has also outgrown.
Because a mortgage is only for 30 years. Our whole economic system is incapable of planning beyond 30 years.

I have lived in Florida for all of my 47 years. It is clear that some land is unsuitable for development when taking a long term view. That does not stop the mortgages from being approved.
Because you're linking measurements to small enclosed containers to try and make a point and it's simply nonsensical.

A small dog will put out significantly more CO2 sleeping beside your bed than all of those plants will. A person even more - if it was a single person, would you caution them against having another person sleep over due to co2 production? What if they were bringing in a third person to spice things up? Or more pets? Friends crashing on the couch downstairs?

We should pay more attention to CO2 levels than we do, especially in offices and particularly enclosed meeting rooms, but plants expire so little co2 in comparison to animals that there's really no reason to worry about them in anything regarding a normal situation.
Semi-related, pedantic remark on the title: in British English we commonly use the word "programme" in place of "program" for e.g. TV programmes and concert programmes. However, even in British English the correct form for a computer program is "program".
Sensitive to exposure -- 22% discount for properties that will be encroached with 1ft sea level rise, 6% with 6ft encroachment -- and to knowledge eg less discount in regions with less belief in climate change, except for investors who don't seem to be influenced by such local beliefs, substantially greater discounting after 2014 IPCC report (dataset from 2006-2017). Recommended read!
This is discussed in a book called "The Geography of Risk"

"The chief beneficiaries of the land boom at the coast have been the beach towns and property owners who perversely shoulder little of the risk of building in harm’s way yet enjoy most of the wealth, the report added."

https://longreads.com/2019/09/03/the-geography-of-risk
This sounds awfully lot like the car stereos from the 90 that you can change with aftermarket ones, and you can remove the front part so nobody steals it from you.
Rust is great, but this is an important comment! We used it to implement Weld's compiler and runtime, but we don't expect data scientists who use languages such as Python, Julia, or R to switch over to it; the idea is that these data scientists continue using APIs in these languages, and under the hood, Weld will perform optimizations and compilation for decreasing execution time (and these "under the hood" components are the ones that we wrote in Rust).
Disclaimer: I admit to only reading the blog post and not looking at the code yet.

I really enjoyed this write-up as well! But I couldn't tell from the post: does it have a distributed mode like groupcache? (I think the answer is no). I think nearly all decisions in groupcache are because of the word "group" :).

Similarly, it would be great if there's a "safe mode" instead of the (IIUC) "start dropping Set requests when overloaded". You'd naturally want most applications to be prepared for your cache to get blown away, so you should be prepared for it to be lossy, but I'd certainly want a knob for that :).
Awesome service! However notifications don't seem to work in Safari. It says "Notifications not allowed" in spite of me having set it to allowed.
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The rhetoric goes that the union is enforcing expensive outdated work to be kept to keeps their members employed. However I don’t buy that rhetoric. If that is the case, it is not the union’s fault, but the governments fault for hiring a corrupt contractor.
Islam is right about women.

You are called a right-winger if you like or dislike this statement.

As for the latter points, it's perfectly pleasurable for someone to go in idealistic/extreme thinking NSA is totally good and leakers are totally bad. Once hired he gets hit with reality which is more in the middle. The lack of imagination-reality correspondence is interpreted as a signal that there are systemic problems (as basically the opposites are true) and he thus undermines the bad system.
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https://medium.com/@amir.bar.shavit/console-a-lot-more-than-...
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No way. Unpaid overtime sucks. Burnout sucks. What I meant was that that USPS job description sounded to me like a cushy, untouchable asshole replying to emails passive aggressively every other day from 1200-1235hrs.

I'm not for exploiting people if that's what you mean. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
It seems like a pretty logical inference looking at the evidence.
Somehow I miss how is S13 E2 in any way relevant to the topic of the article here discussed, which is, as far as I understand, just about the problems brought to Boeing by Boeing's own management.
I think the green phosphor gave more (apparent?) light per watt.
Because we saw it coming. Apple made no secret of it.

And when running uBlock Origin on Safari became untenable, I switched to Firefox full-time and its been great.
I don't want to come off the wrong way here, and if meditation helps you absolutely totally complete YES THATS GREAT! I'm all for self improvement. But when everyone lists all the benefits of it, I'm not sure I understand how it would benefit me in particular. Let me explain.

Here on this page, so far as I can tell, the benefits of meditation are:

- focused on the now. Less worried about past/future
- less long-term, reason-clouding emotions
- more immediate focus
- less "head voices"

I'll start from the first one in explaining my question.

I'm very focused on the now already, it's as simple as that. I've had a lot of people in my life, with all kinds of different experiences with me, notice that I'm very calm and very unstressed. This is, simply, because I go through what's happening right now, deal with it, and move on. I don't dwell on what happened in the past unless there's something really important to be learned there, and I don't worry about the future beyond keeping my options open (try not to burn Bridges, etc). This has been a way of life for me, and it's already very calming and rewarding without the need for wasting huge chunks of my day.

My emotions are always extremely short. I can get angry and sad and what have you, but to this day, I've never once in my life been any one emotion for more than five minutes. Of course, I've still acted on some of them, for instance if someone betrays me I won't be mad at them at all in five minutes, but I'll still be wary. I've never been able to stay in any one particular emotional mode, even if I try to psyche myself into it. I just get bored.

As for focus, for as long as I can remember I've been able to put myself in a hyper-focus mode where all other thoughts, about anything else (including bodily functions) just go away; where external distractions such as noise just don't even register anymore. The longest I've been able to do this is eight hours, where I sat down to work on something and didn't speak or eat or go to the bathroom until I was done, in a noisy crowded room, completely unbothered. This is something people seem to describe as a superpower you gain after meditation but I've never meditated once in my life.

As far as the "voices in the head" thing goes, I hear this from people a lot, where they describe their internal experience as if they have someone else second guessing them or pointing things out, like a Freudian super-ego given its own internal dialogue. In all honesty, I've never experienced this. I don't really understand what people are talking about when they describe this.

So I guess my question is, why should I, specifically, meditate? It sounds cool, I'd be willing to try. Are there any other benefits?

Also; what the heck are the head voices people talk about?
Typically a throwaway email is used. Question is, is it worth filtering through the spam to pan for genuine emails?
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It's bandwagoning. When someone uses that phrasing you can safely ignore what they're saying.
Which RAII principle would you say would be broken in this scenario?
I disagree only with the grandparent post's argument that an administrative approach would be bad because a subset of people would be worse off under it.

I think that type of reasoning is fallacious because every policy leaves a subset of people worse off (you can just choose your preferred subset to make the point). Including the status quo.

I like your kidney analogy, and I think it makes a strong counter point that is worth considering when weighing up policy ideas.

Though, the status quo in that analogy looks to me like the majority of people in the world currently are having one kidney removed during childhood, mostly to feed the middle classes and build toys for them. Some unlucky ones have two; they are sick and dying. But we couldn't take a kidney from the healthy middle class folks to give back to those, could we, because voters in the middle class feel like they've worked (and continue to work) very hard to get their kidney from some unspecified source we don't like to think about, and they object to the meager spoils of their hard-earned spare kidney being taken for redistribution back to the people they came from.
Can confirm -- I checked it out on my phone and the street view location is 10 meters away from where I currently stand (Davis Sq, Somerville, MA)
Slightly OT, but I just saw this last night and thought it was hilarious:

You should call it "entropy", for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. — John von Neumann, suggesting to Claude Shannon a name for his new uncertainty function, as quoted in Scientific American Vol. 225 No. 3, (1971), p. 180.
> The strongest thing on my desired, but not required list is simplicity. I find looking up language features, and quirky 'clever' api's incredibly tiring.

Indeed. Clever apis are a disease endemic to the JavaScript community. expect(me).to.puke.when(i.see.shit.like.this());

> The ideal language would be one I can memorize, and then never have to look things up.

You can't memorize C. The idea that you can "hold C in your head" is a myth, and propaganda repeated by C pushers. In reality, the gotchas surrounding undefined behavior are so numerous and subtle that you're much better off using something else, even if it means accepting the complexity that is C++. (In reality, what you want is a language such as Rust that has well-defined behavior.)

> I need a platform that I am confident will be around for a while.

Don't get your hopes up. The closest we've had is POSIX, but POSIX is showing its age, and in the modern era churn is the rule, rather than the exception. More than a decade old? Rewrite it! New framework came out? Rewrite it! Developer fell in love with some flashy new technique? Rewrite it! Not enough nonbinary PoCs on the dev team? Rewrite it!
My browser is too simple to support location pop up dialogs (it's some lightweight webview wrapper from f-droid with a workflow that I like), I figured it wouldn't work but after a few seconds it fell back to IP based geolocation. Very happily surprised :)

And like someone else already said, street view works fine with a coarse location like a city name, so long as the name is unique and you don't end up in another country.
The “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” is a trope of the left. It constructs a strawman argument of how people on the right think to discount the reasons they actually vote against entitlements and anti-business legislature.

I know of nobody on the right that has voted with that mindset.
I don't know if it's universal, but Australian culture (and maybe Chinese for all i know) has gone fully down the route that the purpose of universities and education is purely for certificates to present to employers.

Indeed, the notion that you would go to university to "learn", or god forbid, continue learning irrespective of employment and wage opportunities, or pay money for learning that didn't have an employment or wage outcome, would be seen as some kind of mixture of stupid/bad decision/literally non sensical.

University, and academic publications and structure, makes a lot more sense once you accept almost no one there is interested in knowledge.
> Do you use any app, follow any particular style?

I've tried all of Calm, Headspace, and Insight Timer. I liked Calm's guided meditations; when I started the guiding helped me a lot. I'm currently using Insight Timer purely as a timer without any guidance.

The style I follow most closely is vispassana, often translated as "insight" or "seeing the world clearly" or the trendy term "mindfulness".

There is no "best" app or "best" style, only what works for each individual. I would caution against falling into a paradox of choice problem where you keep trying different apps or different styles in a search for the "best" one. Much like exercise - the best exercise is whichever one you can do consistently.

> Any recommendations for a beginner?

This will sound counter-intuitive, but lower your expectations. You'll hear lots of stuff from experienced meditators about how life-changing it is, and I'll echo that sentiment. But it certainly doesn't feel life-changing at first. If you go into it with high expectations, you'll very likely get disappointed and frustrated.

> Also, how long do you meditate in a day? And do you meditate daily?

I've done 10-15 minutes a day, every day, for the last 800-something days. I've also done two separate silent meditation retreats, of 2 days and 5 days respectively.

There are 1440 minutes in a day. If you meditate for 10-15 minutes a day, that's just 1% of the day. Something that helped me establish my daily practice was a commitment that I can do anything if it only takes up 1% of my day.
> they shouldn't receive any benefits established through collective bargaining agreements.

Why not? I can just demand that my contract looks the same as the unions, anything wrong with that?
I agree with you; that's what I meant when I said I don't agree personally with simplistic redistribution.
this [0] website and the book [1] it references might interest you:

[0] https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-na...

[1] https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
Hmm, I'm using FCM for notifications, maybe it behaves differently in Safari. I'll take a look later. Thanks for the report.
Joy on Demand.

Free to read on Kindle:
https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Demand-Discovering-Happiness-With...
This is exactly what's continually drawing me to Zig for this sort of thing. Any function that requires memory allocation has to either create a new allocator for itself or explicitly accept an existing one as an argument, which seems to make it a lot easier/clearer to manage multiple allocators for this exact use case.
FORTRAN – The Pioneering Program Language
This is great! Just wanted to ask did you miss out Iridium flares due to API quota but then found out on HA that the next one is in 10 days for my location (northern Serbia). They were much more frequent last time I checked (10 years ago)
Would help if the abstract didn’t uses phrasing like “benefits whites.”

It doesn’t benefit whites, it benefits kids with rich parents. Similarly, Affirmative Action benefits kids with lesser academics, but explicitly based on their race.

Perhaps if they want to draw apples-to-oranges comparisons they would do well to point this out.
Well don't let Trump know this unless you want a trillion dollar coin minted. He'd probably do it just to spite Obama.
> when you can implement the vast majority of C++ features in native C

No, you absolutely cannot, even in principle. C++ is not "C with classes" and some syntactic sugar like it started out. That's not been the case for many years already.

Also, even the features you can implement - you won't; you don't have the person-years for that. You will have to, need to, use libraries. For those you need to compare the libraries available for C and for C++, and C comes up quite short (not just because C libraries are also usable in C++...)
> President Obama is one of those who must think the sea level won't rise dramatically for a while, given he recently bought property near the ocean.

This is a silly talking point. Obama, like other past presidents, is now fantastically wealthy to the point where a few million dollars in lost property decades from now isn't much to worry about.

He wouldn't be fazed by, say, a doubling in food costs, either. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be devastating for lots of Americans if their grocery bills doubled.
I think it's reasonably interesting that quite a few of the top posts are now dead projects.
Sure thing. It's just that that USPS job performance description didn't really sound all that respectful of your coworkers is what I'm sayin'.

If some employer is taking advantage of you you should quit. I do understand that not everyone is in a position to say 'fuck you' to a person/entity that's taking advantage of him/her and that that's a situation a union can help in.
Not a taxonomy, but you might like it anyway. https://twistedsifter.com/2011/05/impressive-moats-around-th...
> I'm on the side of color theory in terms of visual harmony.

I have this unpopular opinion that a lot of color theory in terms of visual harmony - like much of psychology - is a bunch of p-hacked pseudo-science;-)

The most telling sign for me is that the relationship between harmonic colors most often are (and have been for a very long time) defined by certain simple angles in a color wheel. While the specific angles have always been the same (like 180 degrees for contrasting colors) the underlying color wheels have changed drastically[1]. Even today the angles are most often interpreted in relation to the hue circle of the HSV (or HSL) model which takes a very simplistic approach to hue angles compared to perceptual models like CIECAM.

Fortunately not all designers fall for this quackery. I especially like the summary of the chapter about color harmony from Linda Holtzschue's book "Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers":

> * No single factor determines color harmony. All elements of a color composition contribute to the overall effect.

> * The complementary relationship between hues is a strong basis for harmony, but it is not the only basis. Any hues used together can be made to be harmonious.

> * Even intervals between colors contribute to harmony. Even intervals are pleasing whether between colors of different hue, different value, different saturation, or any combination of these qualities.

[1] https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/vismixmap.html
Good suggestion, I'd like to add some info about the satellites. I made the "night mode" for Street View with an SVG filter applied to the street view canvas with CSS.