skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then 1 block away was a well lit cross walk

> Although I am not sure why you think it is OK for that 1 dude to hold up about 40 other people

This is a perfect illustration of the US's driving-first culture. Let's do some math here. 40 people / 1.7 people per car average [1] = ~23.529 or 24 cars (which may be the case if it's rush hour, but probably not if it's not). If this is a 3 way intersection, and each of the cars is evenly distributed between directions (which I realize is incorrect, of course), then there are ~7.843 or 8 cars per side. Assuming an (informally weighted) average car size of 174 in. per car [2], with 2 ft of distance between each car, then the block length is a minimum of 1406 ft. Given that the average person walks at 4.6 ft/s [3], this distance would take 5.09 min. to traverse, just to get to your well lit next block. The average US commute is 26.1 min [4], which means just getting to the next block to cross at the well lit intersection would be 1/5 of the average commute, let alone the time most people are willing to tolerate to go to the grocery or pharmacy.

Obviously there are a lot of assumptions in this calculation, but it really goes a long way to showing how little American car-first culture thinks of pedestrian infrastructure, attractiveness, and travel times. "Just" walking over to the next, well-lit block, immediately makes a pedestrian trip for chores non-viable for anyone that values their time. To me, there also seems an in-built disdain for the time and safety of the pedestrian, and those attitudes do nothing but make it more difficult for Americans to do anything without their cars.

[1]: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tpm/guidance/avo_factors.pdf

[2]: https://www.reference.com/world-view/average-length-car-2e85...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_walking_speed

[4]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/study-states-with-the-longes...
> "I do keyword research ... I see what kinds of questions people have around the topic, and look for ways to anticipate their problems, and answer their questions, so that they will have a successful cooking experience. Lately, I’ve been adding more step-by-step pictures of how to make dishes, as well as videos, because Google says that readers want that."

That makes sense to me. More keywords related to search topics means more hits.

>Nelson thinks there's an element of sexism to the critiques she sees about recipe writing.

Give me a break.

> "The feeling seems to be that they don't think these writers have something of value to offer," Nelson said.

I mean yes, most people do not care about your home life.

> By sharing stories on blogs, people get to know the types of foods [and] flavors that specific recipe creators enjoy. You figure out who is a good match for your own palate."

Do this after the recipe? Oh wait, that would mean I don't have to scroll past more advertisements... This is what everyone is complaining about. Getting to the actual recipe is quite annoying, especially on phones without ad blockers.
And even when implemented, it will be not what the headline says. There will be plenty of cars in Oslo, it's just limited on a few streets and central areas.
the timing is of this article is rather suspect since NSO was recently mass-banned from Facebook...since no ones really commenting on this from the state actor or malware vendor side, i assume we just want to reaffirm the hacking groups business state in 2020
I've definitely experienced the anti-inflammatory properties and the anti-nausea effects allowed my mom to keep food down while going through chemo. It was the only thing that would take away her nausea.

I do agree with the parent poster about the more miraculous claims though and I think, personally those more miraculous claims create skepticism for the actual benefits.

I kind of wish everyone took a more level headed approach to drugs in general. Every drug out there has some benefits and drawbacks. Without proper study, we're potentially missing many benefits and won't fully understand all the drawbacks.

This includes approved pharmaceutical drugs too. Too many drugs get rushed out without fully understanding the side effects until people start suffering or dying.
You are very right. Edited to reflect that.
Eh, this seems like the standard corporate response.

While it’s brand may have suffered, the company still employs a lot of smart and creative people. I would hope that they tap into that pool to come up with better solutions than “hire better PR”.
Asked about this before. I was told no one cared since the real work is done in C and would not benefit from pypy. So the python level optimizations would not affect much.
> If your values do not align with your place of employment - quit.

Why? There are many avenues for change, why limit yourself to just quitting? People are more than just workers and consumers.
As a reminder, the NSO group routinely sells to authoritarian regimes that use the software to crack down on human rights activists and political opponents. Their software was used in the murder of Jamal Kashogi by the Saudis as well as being used to spy on journalists worldwide.
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> Even if they do indeed spend most of their lives relying on it, they must have enough competence & competence to be dropped anywhere in the country, with nothing, and confidently find their way back to safety & society.

Why? What use case are you thinking here? That's survivalist escapist fantasy stuff, nothing to do with the requirements of most modern living. Even in the case of the hypothetical EMP natural disaster, you're probably not in wilderness, you're in a major metropolis surrounded by people and navigating social dynamics will be more important than being able to sew a goat into a cape.
You can have your own views and you are allowed to speak them as you wish. What you can’t do is make your personal views appear as if they are also the company’s views.
This is how we do it at work. Features and major changes go into trunk, which gets released in the new versions. Bug fixes get released in earlier versions and up.

We do major.minor version numbers, with even major versions being releases and odd being development versions. We also have an user-selectable way to pick version (major and minor) of our program at launch. So if we "dun goofed" in one version, the user can always just relaunch the previous version which worked.

Right before xmas I changed it so that if you didn't enter a first name, it would skip the rest of the name and address fields. This went into a new major version, so users were not that surprised to discover this rather big change in UI flow.

However I had missed that in one special case, users were required to enter a postal code. The user that reported this could then just launch the previous major version until I got that issue sorted, getting bug fixes for other issues in the meantime.
I'm gonna sound really cliched but I have become really fascinated with Psychedelics thanks to the Joe Rogan podcast.

I wouldn't say I am depressed but as someone who doesn't drink, smoke, drugs or take caffeine. I really want to try them.

The fact that mushrooms have been used by shamans all around the world since neolithic times, is truly fascinating.

I hope to try them at some point although at the moment I have been trying Sensory Deprivation Tanks and it really has reset my mind and emotions.
I don't think Psilocybin mushrooms or LSD are used as a club drug.
Steve's Google Platform Rant (2011)
Yes, however with Kubernetes. The containerd project is brand-new.

End-user community:

https://www.openfaas.com/

End-user case-studies and KubeCon talks/recordings:

https://www.openfaas.com/blog/kubecon-san-diego-highlights/

https://www.openfaas.com/blog/meet-us-at-barcelona/

Blog posts and meet-ups from the community over the past 3 years:

https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/community.md
It's worth noting that they were testing with 10mg and 25mg, which is equivalent to about 2g and 4.5g of dried mushrooms which are significant doses (e.g. far from microdosing). They reported no significant negative effects on cognitive and emotional functioning which is surprisingly positive for such an experience. Instead it is just the expected psychedelic experience.

As to safety, the LD50 of psilocybin is pretty well established at very high levels, with physical effects being unreported below that.
Same, you also get 10x longer battery time in airplane mode!
I will definitely concede that I may have the 6" measurement wrong. Heck-- I may have actually put my hand right on the PC.

I stack running hard disk drives, all of which have large neodymium magnets inside them, in close proximity all the time with no ill effects. It makes no sense.
ST's microcontrollers were really popular in Chinese-designed electronics before GigaDevices cloned them, and the STM32F103 - which is the one they initially cloned - was especially so. Its popularity in China is almost certainly why they decided to clone it in the first place.
There are proper channels for affecting change internally at a company. It's clear that these channels are working to some degree since an internal faction just pressured the company into adopting an aggressive climate pledge.

My sympathies end when you get exactly what you were asking for from your employer in a negotiation and you continue bad mouth them to the press.
I don't think you can just look at the futures, have to see price series for pork prices in China, e.g. https://www.pig333.com/markets_and_prices/china_106/
That new policy sounds a lot like the old policy that prohibited Amazon employees from speaking publicly.

I hope that there's some nuance I'm missing there, I was glad to see that Amazon had dropped the old social media etc. policy.
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It's not an PR thing, it's mostly an internal communications issue.

Google championed a culture that allowed SJW-ism to thrive in its own rank that isn't really true of other large companies. Cheerleading social progressivism and then forgoing its "do no evil" motto and then trying to act like any other big corp created massive cognitive dissonance among its own employees that isn't true of other companies.
The giveaway is in the text; "Machine Learning" is being propped up to support cloud architecture by the big 3.
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This isn’t true of the areas of greatest concern, where Gondwanan rainforest is burning. Eucalyptus is the newcomer, and it is fire-adapted and hot weather adapted, it out-competes the ancient forests where there are fires, and the nothofagus does not grow back.
If the company has 100,000 employees, any of them should be allowed to "speak for the company"? That's not likely to be workable...
Alright. It seems that you are getting agitated and I'm not sure what about. I made the points I wanted to make, so I'll leave them at that. Saying that I'm gatekeeping is baffling.
No problem, it works exactly the same. You can use the README or just remove "-armhf" wherever you read it.
I know he made some people angry, but I very much consider him one of the good people. So much so that I cited him by name (along with three others) in my goodbye letter as people I missed and whose departure signaled a change in culture.

BTW, I'm one of the main people quoted in this article, and feel it turned out pretty well. Feel free to ask me followup questions, though I don't guarantee answers.
Tens of billions? No, it wouldn't make a difference, and I think it's highly debatable that those tens of billions would be better off in the hands of the fed. I imagine the people actually giving away billions of dollars don't feel that it would be.

The 2019 federal budget was $4.407 trillion. let's say we're talking about $20B in voluntary tax overpayment (good luck with that!), which would represent .004914% of the budget. That would pay about 3% of the interest on US debt in the last year. It would change nothing.

However, increase the marginal tax rate and you're talking about real money. Maybe in the meantime we can spend a little less on the military, but that's a tough sell too.
Just build a USB-powered hard-drive drill, duh.
The only book I've read that I would call "Computer Science-Fiction" is The Footprints of God: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1515812.The_Footprints_o...

It's pretty good. Centers on AI (but isn't a cliche Terminator-like scenario) and gets into very philosophical territory by the end, and has the pacing/tone of an espionage thriller.
You were "disgusted" by the talk? The controversial parts were spelled out in a post Moxie wrote 3.5 years ago, with the same title. The only deviations are new privacy-preserving features Signal is building, one of which is intended to address the most common objection to Signal (the use of phone numbers as identifiers).

The talk wasn't "censored"; the conference made a mistake by recording and posting it in the first place.
The first chunk of that article is here[1]; worth deciding for yourself if you think this qualifies as speaking for the company or not. As you say, this may or may not be the specific objection.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/24/climate-change-ai-and-ethi...
They wont change it, as they will be paid lots of lobbying money to not change it.
Just habit. Beef, chicken and pork are collectively referred to as "proteins" within the investment community/people who follow Ag and Food companies.
I’d steer you toward kava kava as a legal and otc way to change your mind and emotions for the better or more open. Also St. John’s wort.
I’ve never really understood the seemingly widespread dissatisfaction with the Finder in macOS 10.5 and newer. Over the years I’ve used it alongside WinXP, Win7, Win10 and various Linux environments and while the Finder isn’t perfect, I find myself bothered by it much less frequently than with Explorer/Nautilus/Dolphin/etc.

It’s a must to enable the status bar and pathbar (both under the View menu) but after that it’s fine.
This is the "you may only effect change if it's pre-approved" argument.

Appeals to authority all the way down.
Similarly, Helsinki (about same population) had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist and 0 children killed in traffic, but 3 people killed in motor vehicles.

(The above figures are only for road traffic; several people were killed by trains, but those are excluded from calculations because of politics.)
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Right, but they haven't been classified as an illegal drug in most countries until recently.
What kind of work are you looking for? Seems you should be founding more startups :)
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Superhot VR sells 1M+ copies, joining a small club
It's probably more closely comparable to the STM32F103-based boards which cost about the same amount as it but have better software support. This is sort of a derivative of a clone of that exact microcontrller.
They say the low protein content of recent US soybeans was what affected their sales even earlier. I wonder in which relation these events stay to each other if at all.
I mean... it's context to make it relevant to US readers. You didn't see me say there was a direct comparison to be made.

And you're kind of contradicting your claim that it's totally useless. 121/million vs. 1/million shows at what order of magnitude the comparison takes place, which is good enough to contextualize things, and your example of Austin further shows that the order of magnitude isn't far off.
I think this is the case to most companies when you move onto the 3rd generation of leadership/CEO, or if you are 3 degrees separated from the original vision. You see this with most projects/companies etc.

Too much dilution in vision, other priorities take center stage of a public company.
In addition to writing on the Signal blog and on Twitter, he's on HN regularly addressing questions about what he's doing; you've had plenty of opportunities to engage with him directly. This seems like a swipe you're making for its own sake.
This may sound absurd, but you actually need some (mostly settled) philosophy to determine what “facts and empirical truths” are.
Working in tech is not "all about risk"; being a founder/entrepreneur is in any industry, but just an average employee that writes code is hardly risky.
Bullshit article. It conflated two very different things:

>investigation” into one employee, Maren Costa, over comments made to the media that called for the company to do more to tackle the climate crisis.

No major company appreciates random employees deciding to be self appointed spokesperson for what the company should do. Very different from the amazon is against climate change stuff being implied here.
For me this quote of the investigator being informed by the software manufacturer is the best part of the article:

> "No, that can't be right. Why would they do that?" the official said he asked his contact, thinking it a joke.

Maybe don't buy spyware from malicious actors. It's ridiculous that investigators with this amount of power to invade on suspects most intimate areas of life aren't close to sufficiently briefed.

Does somebody have a source on which agency the European official is supposed to be from? Using spyware that's also used by authoritarian regimes must be a bad joke. Not that our German homebrewn spyware would be any more ethical but I'd have thought that EU level agencies would at least do some level of due diligence.
In a way NSA did publicly disclosed Eternalblue.
I think it depends on the definition,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_drug includes them
I guess this boils down to difficulties in building strong relationships remotely. I would definitely recommend traveling occasionally to build relationship with your remote folks.
Pulsar is better designed than Kafka in every way with the main trade-off being more moving pieces. That's why the recommended deployment is Kubernetes which can manage all that complexity for you.

Pulsar also lacks in the size of the community and ecosystem where Kafka has much more available.
' GigaDevice similarly claims “complete compatibility” between its new GD32V RISC-V microcontrollers and the classic GD32 series of MCUs based on Arm. '

https://www.eetimes.com/gigadevice-intros-general-purpose-ri...
How long did it take the scientist at your firm to synthesis the disease and spread it around?

You are monsters.
For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, there's an article on the second page of HN right now (458 votes last I checked) by Google's former Head of International Relations about why he left the company. I think it's very worth reading. There's some extremely interesting (and damning) stories about his experience at Google since 2008.

Here's the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935446

While this might (and almost certainly should) hurt Google's brand, I think this issue applies to any big for-profit company. I doubt that Amazon or Apple are much different.
It's more efficient for them to donate to 100% things they want, instead of volunteered taxes which go into the big bucket. But, if everyone volunteered more taxes, the donations are now more efficient, because they represent compromise on what to spend taxes on. (Alice gets stuff Alice likes, Bob gets stuff Bob likes) Forcing everyone to "donate" prevents others from defecting.

Also, "If you don't like war, what's stopping you from laying down your weapons?"
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Probably too hard to analyze. How do you know what the demand for meat is like? Will people just switch to other foods if it becomes too expensive? If pork is costing me $50/kg, maybe I start eating potatoes and nuts? Maybe other factors force the price down anyway. I don't know - I wouldn't.

Just buy shares that are good for the long term.
It's also my impression - from my modest exposure to DL over the past two years as a student taking courses - that deep learning must be overcome to reach AGI.

Specifically gradient descent is a post hoc approach to network tuning, while human neural connections are reinforced simultaneously as they fire together. The post hoc approach restricts the scope of the latent representations a network learns because such representations must serve a specific purpose (descending the gradient), while the human mind works by generating representations spontaneously at multiple levels of abstraction without any specific or immediate purpose in mind.

I believe the brain's ability to spontaneously generate latent representations capable of interacting with one another in a shared latent space is functionally enabled by the paradigm of neurons 'firing and wiring' together. I also believe it is the brain's ability to spontaneously generate hierarchically abstract representations in a shared space that is the key to AGI. We must therefore move away from gradient descent.
"“Now you Asians come to the microphone too. I know you don’t like to ask questions.”"

I actually listened to a great podcast recently that expresses why this might be, and the trick is not to demand more interaction but to give everyone an opportunity to write thoughts down first. Then the differences sharply decrease.

What this shows me is an unfortunate lack of education in recent sociological research, but also a lack of curiosity to pursue. Weird for Google.
Interesting thesis! We looked at the name, but never had that thesis. Maybe same could be said for CVGW (the avocado guys)?
I played this game in the PC, back then. It was one of those games I've consireded like "top game" for D.O.S. What a nostalgia bump I've got.
Based on the replies, I'm obviously wrong on Stockholm, although I remember otherwise. We walked a lot there, the hotel was way outside the city center.

Maybe it's because I was paying attention to tourists like me who obviously reluctant to cross on red in a foreign country.
At least Pinball Dreams did and googling suggests Cannon Fodder. I suppose a few more must be in there.

Edit: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/196/4616

Also The Settlers

Black Crypt - http://hol.abime.net/126
Links - http://hol.abime.net/892
Universe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_%281994_video_game%29
Read the other comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936523
How on earth is it impossible to logically derive a Leap Day every four years in a consistent spot, especially compared to any other calendaring we already do?