skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They win and rule by dictacting the world their own rules. Clever they are. Why risk a loss to anothers rules when you can win by enforcing your own rules on them?
Not to mention my finger hurts from using the scroll wheel so much.
I can guess.
The lady had incredible wit that would undoubtedly offend more than a few delicate ears. When asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence by her Round Table compatriots, Dorothy came up with "You may lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think".
(oh to be a fly on the wall during one of those lunches...)
The Browser Is a Confused Deputy
I'm doing exactly this - excited about the speed and screens on the new ones, but waiting for the longer travel keyboard to come back.

I can get along with my 2015 for now, but I really miss the Retina display and it is pretty slow for doing heavier stuff.
Only if their intention is to talk about how useless Mensa is and to break the fetishization of being a member of this club.
Or alternatively, personal CO2 scrubbers (already used as a part of diving rebreathers) become standard equipment for knowledge workers.
Homelink is not software feature on Model 3 (anymore), requires installation of hardware module.
> Then I'm not sure how you've stomached any interview with a private company.

Here's how: companies look for a professional to perform a job. You, as a professional, offer your skillset in exchange for paycheck. It really is that simple. There's no need to justify or excuse wanting to participate in such a mutually beneficial trade. Likewise, there is no need for the company to excuse or justify their need for a new employee.

Believe it or not, there are some companies out there that just look for someone who can do the job. They don't ask you why you want a job (or, gasp, that job in particular!), because it doesn't matter (and is mostly obvious anyway).

Stop paying salaries and you'll see how many of your employees aren't in it for the paycheck. Made-up stories about long term planning don't change that they're in it for the paycheck.
All the more reason to be glad when said company tilts away from the sort of fringe ideological positions described in TFA. A fortune 50 company shouldn’t be driving extreme positions; if you disagree, consider if they were driving extreme positions antithetical to your own.
There's no doubt that working at Google + frugal living can give a rank-and-file engineer enough "fuck-you money" to make their own calls.

I don't see that as a bad thing though. Just because it's not a liberty everyone has to stop working for a firm they find morally repugnant doesn't imply one shouldn't take the liberty if one has it.
What Is Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
It already made an appearance in the SoTU.
The post talks about Google supposedly persecuting LGBTQ employees for speaking up. But the linked articles only talk about them (possibly) getting retaliated against for protesting other issues, like border security or sexual harassment.

As an LGBT person (who does her fair share of activism), I'm not clear what the LGBTQ angle is here other than if the people involved happened to be LGBTQ. It seems like even if they are being retaliated against for their activism, it's not LGBTQ activism.

Did I miss something?
There’s absolutely no valid reason why my iPad should have been a perfectly usable - even fast - web browsing device 5 years ago and is now so slow as to be basically useless.
> Attacks like this were an attack on people’s jobs and physical security: if you can strip a reform-oriented pastor of their PCUSA ordination, you also strip them of their employment and their health insurance

If I'm understanding correctly, the argument with regard to "physical security" is that if you try to get someone fired, which would result in them losing their employer-provided health insurance, that they would have less security in their physical body.

Is there some other linkage to physical security that I'm missing? Because if this is the only connection, then anytime someone tries to get anyone fired, it would be deemed "an attack on the physical security" of that person. That seems a bit of a stretch (and overlooks the fact that there are other ways to get health insurance, either via another job or via the health care exchanges).

To be clear, I'm not weighing in on the specific circumstances of the example — I'm just trying to understand how physical security was implicate, and how the term is being used.
It's significant to a human that wants to know what has changed.
I live in France next to the Alpes and climate change is really real here. Next week it's expecting to rain on the ski slopes. In the middle of February!
Lots of glaciers are gone. Many of my mountain climbing friends say they can't do the runs they used to because the terrain is getting too unpredictable.

It's quite scary.
Reminds me of Quiet from MGS V.
> Impact the future of humanity

If Google disappeared off the face of the earth, every system, server, and employee, mitigations would be in place by the end of the week - and a year later it would be like nothing ever changed.

Let's not overvalue an adserver, free email, etc. These services are important but never life defining outside of the relatively small number of people they have made RICH.
Yes, I flagged that bigoted comment, as it is the kind of comment that encourages flame wars.
What AI approaches are needed to fight Coronavirus?
Since the outbreak, healthcare organizations were utmostly stressed. Can AI make the difference?
This is a terrible headline, too.
It works roughly the same. Depending on the form of transit and the duration other in-flight options become viable as well (nintendo switch, smartphone games, web browsing, sometimes even working on laptop, etc)
The earth is kinda big. The sun strikes over 49,000,000 square miles at any given moment. A solid surface shade blocking 1% would need to be nearly half a million square miles if we could hold it in place like at lagrange 1. If we could launch a fuel that burns into a gas that can effectively block/reflect light that reduces the mass to about 250 sq. miles of fuel times whatever is the necessary density of the gas cloud.
Ah, kids these days...

https://wordspy.com/index.php?word=meatspace

Weird to consider that what I consider common Internet idioms were invented before many current legal voters were conceived.
Yes, I've seen the DIY videos of it, but I never felt confident enough to do it myself. And what would you do with the old panel? Ebay?
This is what people write when they run out of stock refresh grants.
That, and also good if the US gave a more serious look at capacity and resiliency building worldwide.
Then they should have said no to the paycheck earlier on rather than sucking on it for 14 years.

As someone else said, just a bunch of whiny SJWs.

Don't they have some caucus-voting app or something to go work on?
I have alot of experience with live audio, and from my understanding I can't see what the point of the Triton Fethead is? Is that used in addition to the pre-amp in your interface? If so why? Does the SM7B have super low output? It's not used much live, but when we did, we never had trouble with level, and I'm pretty sure an inline pre-amp would have added more noise.
So that's how this is gonna be.

Good luck.
When I lived in Moscow, there was a bit just outside of my metro station, a radius about 10 metres, where my bluetooth headphones would just stop working. Absolutely bizarre.
Random thoughts:

1. I applaud the fact that they are actually quitting the company to voice their disapproval of these policies. In my mind all the "internal activism" happening at Google and others is massively hypocritical. One cannot publicly criticize a company while enjoying cushy paychecks fueled by those very activities they despise.

2. If they think Google is discriminatory towards LGBT employees and minorities, contributing to climate change etc., they are in for a big shock once they are really out of the Google and SV bubble.
Agreed, I've had to use angular material in the past and never would again. I generally enjoy Angular though.
I found this video which seems to animate the concept nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udffed4Pq3g
Google spent decades selecting for these "moralizers" and is now reaping what it sowed; "don't be evil" was a cultural slogan that carries consequences if it attracts a particular kind of mindset.

And in a few cases, yeah; HR is shitting bricks because it's losing people who built the underlying fabric of the system (which anyone who has built a large system will tell you increases risk to the entire software company; they're pretty sure the exiting employee has written down all the mission-critical knowledge of how to operate the system riding around in their head, and Google has a corporate culture of minimizing the "bus factor" of key systems, but there's always a risk that the next time something significant catches fire, the employee with 1.5 decades of experience who just walked out the door is the one who could have fixed it fastest).

It'll be interesting to see if quality of product suffers (i.e. if there was actually correlation between technical competence and a care about the fate of the world and fellow employees).
> So you're proposing the Ecuadorian government should've given a whole lot of money to Chevron to be able to have a say in the matter?

Why would buying Chevron shares necessitate giving Chevron money?
Later models have some issues, my personal 2019 XPS13 has lots of graphical glitching issues on 19.10, My colleagues with 2019 XPS 15s on 18.04 have various display and performance issues while my 2017 XPS 15 is just fine on 18.04.

I'm hoping 20.04 will be a smoother experience once it's released (we only run LTSs on development machines at work).

One of my new team members couldn't get her brand new XPS15 to output to a 4K TV (1080p internal disolay) on 18.04 yesterday. The screen would just constantly flash on and off. We had to settle for her using 1080 for presentations etc on the office TVs as no combination of proprietary drivers or Nvidia on/off resolved it.
I think this comment feels like trying blatantly to pin OP into a bad position, honestly this is quite disingenuous.
> SD card reader seems to work

Holy shit, Lenovo finally switched from that non-standard Realtek thingy (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204521) to something that exposes SDHCI over PCIe?
> Are we ever going to get compilers to the point where we can squash things down to that size and efficiency?

No, because we'd have to support bearded bride Emoji...
Or if you only use the laptop for surfing through Tor and do all the heavy stuff (YouTube 4K) on a desktop
> Bright screen with anti-reflective layer

True! I've come to realize that anti-reflective coating is more effective than matte screen.
Godbolt supports Rust, and can show the LLVM IR: https://godbolt.org/z/GsccW3
How to Securely Erase an SSD Without Damaging the Drive (2018)
Even if it was actually feasible to regulate how much sun the Earth gets you'd have to consider these points:

1) Climate lag. There are some 40 years of lag between emissions and changes to the climate. Even if stopped all human emissions today temperatures would keep rising for 40 years.

2) Climate feedbacks. There are a number of systems (methane, arctic ice, etc) that will keep altering the climate even if we stopped all emissions today.

The next 100 or so years are going to be rough no matter what humanity does.
Why is it a requirement to fill every car? Why not provide transit along many routes and often enough to be useful?
> Why bring mass-insult style politics into this?

I didn't think I was?
Admire the dude who spend time tinkering and getting it right like that.
I have a T480 and I've definitely needed >24GB of ram before when running some VMs. It has come in handy. Don't forget too that the T480 has hot-swappable batteries, which is really nice on extended coding sessions where I'm not plugged in or if I'm traveling. Also, I love the rubbery feel of it. It feels solid in my hand and doesn't slip at all. Admittedly that is subjective though. :-)
It also doesn't help when TV weathercasters† show graphics that list what the "normal" temperature is supposed to be for that day. There is no such animal. There is an average temperature for a particular date, but there isn't a single "normal" number.

† In America, few TV weathercasters are actual meteorologists anymore. Some stations will claim they are, but often they are not. One way to tell is to look for the AMS logo next to the person's name on-screen.
Can't wait for 9300 developer edition, going to pick it up hopefully very soon.
Of course no building is full of a single thing. The one I worked in had full floors full of developers, that adds up to quite a decent amount.

Ironically, accountants and finance folks eat at their desks, so if you see people outside at lunch time, they might very well be technology folks. They'd be wearing shirts though, easily confused with business people.
Lightning Network and Mass Adoption: What’s Missing?
Probably fits your requirements. One interesting thing to remember about FreeBSD is that a lot of commercial users of it use it as a base for enterprise appliances (think storage arrays, proxies, DPI boxes, etc). This means that the project as a whole is fairly beholden to these users, who provide a nice chunk of the project's funding and many of its professional committers.

As a result, the project is less focused on desktop use cases and free software/security at any cost ideology than on a) not breaking all the complicated crap built on top of it and b) providing drop-in perf and stability enhancements.

So, yeah, if you want a performant network stack and a consolidated kernel/userland that values stability (both in the "years of uptime" and the no "hey guys, we're jumping to systemd!" senses of the word) FreeBSD is a good option. As a bonus, FreeBSD's manpages are really really nice and give you basically everything you need to get down and do some serious systems programming or box-tuning. Go check out `man 7 tuning`.

Anecdotally, during my years as a sysadmin I ran a bunch of FreeBSD boxes alongside a bunch of Linux boxes - similar hardware, similar tasks. The FreeBSD boxes would routinely run for literal years without a hiccup, while we never got a similar level of stability from any other OS.
This is like saying the President of the United States has no effect on the country because the person in office is replaced within the span of a day every four or eight years.
I once did the LA transit ride from Thousand Oaks to Pasadena and back entirely by transit (40 mi one way by driving, transit was more circuitous than that). More frequently, I would take Thousand Oaks to Hollywood or Thousand Oaks to DTLA transit trips. The Red and Gold lines seem quite reasonable. Though short of something I would want to take daily given that I lived far away, it was still a lot less exhausting than trying to drive from Santa Monica to the other side of 405 during the afternoon. Now I’m in a different city and take transit daily.
And working for Google hasn't been fetishized?
> Theoretically 802.11a is the same speed as 802.11g, but in practice it drops off super quickly and means a “simple” page (like gmail/outlook) is loading in 30s-1m.

Nope, that never happened to me. I use 802.11a for the same reason as OP (Intel card on FreeBSD plus a 5GHz only network), an iperf3 test reports a perfectly stable 22.2 mbit/s. More than enough for surfing, in fact Tor limits the bandwidth more than this Wi-Fi :)
Fortunately transit doesn't need density nearly as much as long straight lines to run on. If you can just convince your local council put in long through streets every half mile transit can work well in low densities. The much hated cul-de-sacs is fine so long as there are direct walking paths to the through streets so nobody is more than quarter mile from both an easy-west and north-south street with transit.

(Note, in metric countries, go with 800 meters between through streets for 400 meters to a through street - close enough)
https://i0.wp.com/thenib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/mist...
> Note that when I say 95%-ile, I mean 95%-ile among people who participate, not all people (for many activities, just doing it at all makes you 99%-ile or above across all people).

This is the start of the second paragraph of the article, so it sounds like you disagree with the premise of what we're discussing
"Is there a text version of this thing."

Text-only browser is easiest way.

links -dump https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595

Netcat-like programs, or wget-like http clients, will also suffice

x=$(echo y|tr y '\004');
curl https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595|sed "s/<p /$x&/g;s/ *//"|tr '\004' '\n'|sed -n '/<p /!d;s/<\/p>.*/<\/p>/;/./{/<p /,/<\/p>/p;}' > 1.html

firefox 1.html

Add the 1080p videos to the end of the text:

curl https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595|grep -o https[^\"]*1080p.mp4|sed 's/\\u002F/\//g;s/.*/<p><a href=& \/>&<\/a><\/p>/'|uniq >> 1.html

firefox 1.html
JPEG XL use cases and requirements [pdf]
Is there a way to make it non-discoverable? I don't see that option on my Nexus 6P running 8.1. You can just turn bluetooth on or off.

Or is it just discoverable when you click "pair new device"?
Correct but many people do it's quite common. Most ordinary vehicles these days tend to be around $30,000. That's a bit more than the total yearly take home pay for someone in my region making minimum wage. Even used at half that is a large amount of money to spend on a vehicle.

People scoff at multi millionaires spending hundreds of thousands or a million dollars for a sports car. But that's a small amount of their total net worth or even their yearly salary.

Cars are so expensive to own too. I don't think people realize how much it costs to operate a vehicle let alone but it. The AAA says it costs about $7,000 per year in expenses; gas, maintenance, insurance, depreciation.
Ask HN: How do you actually sit properly?
Does anyone have tips on how to actually sit properly and abide by some best practices? I'm noticing my posture is really not up to standard lately..
Socialism isn’t when the government does stuff.
Being principled and high minded is wonderful when you are financially independent. Given Google’s amazing financial success, I’d imagine the author is or should be financially independent and can choose to do whatever he wants. Some of the rest of us are not in a position to be as ideological.
Teslas do not upload their video anywhere. I have seen no proof otherwise, and nobody who monitors their car's wifi (watching for software updates) has noticed. Where have you found this information?
> if you can strip a reform-oriented pastor of their PCUSA ordination, you also strip them of their employment and their health insurance, because you can’t serve as a Presbyterian pastor if you’ve been stripped of your ordination as the result of a church judicial action.

...

>With the recent spate of Google firings of LGBTQ employees for their activism, including Laurence Berland, Rebecca Rivers, Sophie Waldman, and Kathryn Spiers, I see far too many similarities to what we experienced in the PCUSA twenty years ago.

not advocating any specific position, just noting a pure logical difference - being fired from Google doesn't stop you from being software engineer at another tech company.
I definitely agree with everything you said. I have had some productive 1:1s where they led to interesting changes to my work.

But those enlightened managers are rare.

And then the flaw with interviewing your manager is that you often can’t control your manager once you’re hired. I’m currently on manager number four, just one year in to my current role. The other ones all quit or were interim managers.

So for me, it just seems so much more likely to fail than succeed that it’s hard not to take it as a probable waste of time. I wish I could just say no thanks, I don’t want to have 1:1s.
I experienced a brownout a few months ago that destroyed three of my in-wall smart switches. I assume it was the flash memory that got corrupted or destroyed.
90% seems optimistic. I don't think that many Python projects are running the most recent version in production. From personal experience, upgrading to 3.7 was especially a pain because of packages that used "async" for variable/kwarg names.
Apparently some people don't understand what I'm driving at, so I'll explain:

V8 could choose to look at both microbenchmark performance and real web performance, as both are useful signals for how V8 performs in general.

The only reason to not use microbenchmarks is because you think they will somehow lead you astray and cause you to optimize things such that user experience actually gets worse. But, frankly, I find that incredibly unlikely, and I'd love to see actual examples of such a thing.

Otherwise, this just seems like, and now I'm going to return to that idiom: throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater, here, simply because someone somewhere decided that microbenchmarks are universally "bad" while website performance tests are universally "good".

Of course, this presupposes that this is, in fact, what the V8 team is doing.
> the IPCC reports are quite optimistic

Because they have been using outdated models and ignoring feedbacks.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/new-climate-models-p...
Regarding (2): while it's true that the average is absolutely terrible, that can actually increase the importance of not letting the leaders off the hook for screwing up.

i.e. the world ought to look more like the leader, not the average; regression to the mean is not desirable.
I just switched from an older XPS13 to a 2019 ThinkPad X1 Carbon.

With Fedora, everything (except the fingerprint reader) just worked, even firmware updates. No configuration, no messing around, the entire process was flawless.

I don't care for the fingerprint reader, and the USB-C dock uses DisplayLink, which is beyond awful.
Visual photo-processing bandwidth is far higher than reading bandwidth, so in some ways it's the superior way to consume information.

It can also far more emotional and evocative, while reading can be more analytical.

Why not combine the two? After all, that is literally what advertising does -- give some message with an emotionally-charged visual to reinforce it.

I'm not saying this is advertising (though you could make that argument through a cynical lens), I'm saying it's using the same tools that have proven to work so effectively you see you billboards literally anywhere on earth where humans congregate.
> Well, it didn’t work in the PCUSA, where activists eventually won the fight to remove homophobia from the church constitution, and won the fight for marriage equality; and it’s unlikely to work at Google.

I go to a PCUSA church and have a different view of this. Churches that did not agree with the changes to PCUSA's position split from the denomination and created the ECO denomination, which retains the prior position on same-sex relationships. So it's not so much that PCUSA "won" as that there is effectively a schism happening, with some of the largest churches from PCUSA departing.
American Democracy Is Dying
Why the hate towards someone who is talking about their experiences at Google?

Do I sense jealousy?
Especially stupid because the company that hired Michael Jordan literally did hire Scottie Pippen.

They are basically saying they want the best performing person in the world but don't want to give them the supporting team that actually makes their exceptional performance possible.
Seconding this comment. Equal Experts, which is a large consultancy / contracting firm pays around £500 per day or a bit higher if my info is correct. I know people working in finance whose rates range up to around £1000 per day. Earning around £200K per year as a contractor is not unusual. I know many people who do this.