skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this, but I can see how many people would have a hard time giving up the touchpad. The gestures are nice and I do have more control on a good touchpad. However, for my use case not having to move off home row beats touchpad gestures.
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Bystander has a different meaning online, though. Is a viewer located halfway around the world still a bystander when they are not governed by the law surrounding an event and may not have any way to influence said event? Is this same person culpable?
Its not that they aren't primarily related to it, most proposals are neutral as to whether a ton of CO2 is avoided or sequestered. It just so happens to be the case that its relatively expensive to capture and sequester CO2 from the atmosphere compared to emissions avoidance. The lowest hanging fruit is efficiency (better insulation, more efficient appliances, cars, etc), followed by lower carbon forms of electricity, etc.

We'll likely need to do sequestration but, assuming a gradually rising carbon price, it won't make economic sense to do it at scale until we've done the more cost effective things first.
I'd like to hire you for "just a job". I'm gonna make a big deal about how my company is "morally good" and "does no evil". Hitman OK? No? How about I hire you for janitorial duties at first, and slowly transition you to the death squad duties over 10 years? Don't quit, it's "just a job".
Google (and, really, all of Northern California) has been actively courting these high-minded idealists for a long time. The problem with these types of people is that they invent windmills to tilt at when they run out.
At least as much as philosophers know about quantum mechanics.
You're really not going to be happy with this site then. Even basic things with hard numbers for measuring can be wildly off.
Here's an easy example https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Apple_Pie_I
This recipe calls for 2.5 cups of sugar for 1 pie. If you add that much sugar to a single 8" pie, it's going to be nearly inedible. You can easily find other recipes that only use 0.75 cups per pie(a little low in my opinion).

With such a huge margin of error for just one ingredient it immediately makes me wonder if anyone actually cooked this before they wrote an article about it.
Those buildings are hardly full of developers. Most of them are accountants and boatfuls of bullshit jobs. I know because I work among them.

Look at Canary Wharf at lunchtime and tell me with a straight face that those are developers.
With contracting you should immediately subtract at least 10% of your salary for holidays, don’t you?
I see a great deal of garbage reporting on HN that doesn't get removed.

I was previously unaware of this fungi and I appreciate the discussion occuring.
Apparently OP does -- What are you asking?

Some people are motivated by the allure of fringe projects. There's usually a lot of exploration and learning involved with those projects, which can be very rewarding. Not to mention you gain a deeper appreciation for the unbelievable amount of work that goes into the projects.
Then you still don't have a good trackpad. Besides, the trackpoint is drifting across all models. I like to use it, but it's beyond my imagination why people think this is the best a manufacturer could do.
It seems to me that "I work for Google" is the new "I'm a member of Mensa" or "I went to Harvard."
Slightly related: I'm running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad and the trackpad is pretty painful to use (after using macOS for years). I went out and bought a mouse a few days ago for this reason.
If you only have 6Mbs DSL for an internet connection, you won't notice!
Finding security vulnerabilities is an industry that gains by the type of wide and open disclosure that is done. And revels and enjoys the process and profits from it. An overwhelming majority of vulnerabilities if not actively pursued and discovered would never be known so as to be exploited other than in extreme cases.

How about if I say 'hey Paul Graham' (using him as an example) I will give you 90 day to remove your home address from public records and if you don't I will then publish that address in the open. Of course anyone can find the info just like I could (let's say). But my act of making the info more widely know would put Paul at greater risk than he'd be if I didn't do that. Now let's say I find a way to profit from that activity. Now multiply that.
My daughters love Paw Patrol, the shows, the books, and the toys. It's fun, and we're happy to indulge them.

We don't subscribe to cable, so we're happy to buy the seasons outright and commercial-free.

She asked for the Paw Patrol Mighty Tower for Christmas. She already had last year's lookout, but whatever. It's not like we bought her a lot of toys.

But, what was a little creepy was when we realized that every kid at the same daycare asked for and got the same Mighty Tower. We know they sometimes watch freebie videos at lunch time, so maybe those videos have commercials?
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JPEG XL will support exactly that! We call it saliency-based progressiveness.
> 1. sets don't use the new dict's implementation

Yes, of course. That's why I'm wondering if turning dict keys into a set is slower now.
You can buy matte screen protectors. I put one on my macbook and it was night and day.
The point is about improving skills.

SAT performance is (largely) determined by intelligence, which is (largely) innate. If you're relatively smart and don't practice at all, you will score higher on the SAT than your less smart friend no matter how long they practice.

This applies even more so to height.

With many learned skills, though, if you invest time and are thoughtful about how you approach your learning, you can get to 95th percentile fairly easily, despite that seeming quite impressive. Many participants don't put the time/effort in, and many of those who do don't do it in a remotely efficient way. If you do both, you are virtually guaranteed to get to a high percentile across a wide range of skills, mostly independent of your innate ability.
Sure! There's many jobs out there that will help solve climate and energy. You don't have to found the company yourself or personally invent the new battery technology. Many companies exist already and need all kinds of professionals: software dev, finance, marketing, data analysis and more. Many companies work on products that will help us adapt and mitigate climate change. Tesla is the famous one, but there are entire industries. Then there's the nonprofit space. There are dozens of green groups working in the USA alone, ones you've definitely heard of and ones you haven't. Universities are conducting important research and educating on these issues. And there's government as well, scientists, regulators and policymakers.

I've been working in the nonprofit space for 10 years and trust me when I say that we need highly capable and motivated tech professionals. Go here and start looking at job postings in your country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_organiza...

No one person will solve a planet-scale issue like climate change, but each person who decides to pick up a bucket and start bailing water will mitigate the impact. Be the change.
There age tons of factual articles about climate change. Though it does not interest many people.

Kudos for those guys for trying to tell the story differently in a hope to reach a broader audience.
> Now, I dream of working at the suburban office park I can get to in 5 minutes (during rush hour) from my house, which is right across the street from my kid's day care.

I agree with the appeal, but I've always found the biggest issue with this dream is the need for utter stability. If you quit your job, you might end up with a new one at an office 30 minutes down the highway. If your partner works, it's even harder to keep two commutes low. If you move with each new job, you may have to uproot your kid and send them to a new school.
Thanks, I'll check those out!

I'd also like to mention cooks illustrated (they are online at https://www.cooksillustrated.com/, but my primary experience is with the printed magazine form).

I don't know if I'd call them 'scientific', but I like the detailed accounting of the authors expectations, along with failed attempts and adjustments.

It's not completely what I'd like to see in a recipe book but I think it's the closest example that I can think of.
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Bruce makes the excellent point that it's not just a company. It's a Fortune 50 with a reach to touch a couple billion users, the technical competency and contacts to make decisions that impact the future of humanity, and is undergoing a significant cultural shift from the kind of company it is perceived to be by past reputation.

If one finds oneself in such a circumstance, it's a correct thing to do to speak out about it.
Carta needs these services to thrive as a private equity marketplace/"book entry" recordkeeper, while anyone building a startup for these services would be better served getting funding and an acqui-hire from Wall Street and other traditional financial services orgs with incredibly deep pockets.
Yes, it'd be the same as if you were on the phone with the person.
There's a consistent narrative that people join Google to make the world a better place, and that Googlers keep the working culture bright and not evil. These exposes are about challenging that pre-built image.
You don't know in advance when ordering might be useful, though.

Class __annotations__ was new in 3.6. For its original use there's no need for ordering. They were ordered, because dicts were ordered, but only as an implementation detail.

Dataclasses were added to 3.7, after 3.6's features made a nice syntax possible. If __annotations__ hadn't happened to be ordered already then I would guess it wouldn't have been made ordered just for dataclasses - dataclasses just wouldn't have existed.

Making everything ordered in one go opens up possibilities you haven't even thought of yet.
I do not agree with the conclusions of this paper because it ignores a massive factor that is leading to this type of segregation - Access to housing.

If one wants to send their kids to a good school you HAVE to buy a single family home in that school district. For some reason, many of these homes are massive McMansions with 4 bedrooms, 2 car garage, backyard etc. This makes it even more expensive to either own or rent (compared to an apartment) and completely inaccessible to a lower-middle-class family. The property tax based funding model skews this inequality even further.

Access to good education is a very good way to move up the social ladder and the way its currently setup only locks people out.

Either there should be no restrictions on zoning for housing or you have to force state-wide pooling of property taxes to fund schools. I understand some states use a lottery system to assign children to schools but I don't know if it really solves the problem.
We're in the exact same boat. Our families will just not stop buying gifts for our three-year-old. We have two 'solutions,' which are sorta kinda working but are not totally satisfying:

- We end up making a lot of donations to local thrift stores, women's shelters, and other charities immediately following holidays and birthdays without telling our kids about it. The toys they don't play with simply disappear.

- If the gift is something we want him to eventually play with but that he doesn't have the attention span to remember in the near term, we just hide it in a closet and give it as a 'gift' for completing his 'good behavior' chart later on. He's always surprised and excited. Nice win-win for us.
> If we taxed emissions at every level things would get so expensive people would riot

Indeed. The carbon tax would have to be implemented gradually so that the market can adapt. We should have started doing this 20-30 years ago, unfortunately we're out of time and humanity will have to make some very drastic and difficult decisions.
It is bizarre how good mac laptop touchpads are. I've used a number of Windows laptops and nothing comes close (caveat: I've never used a top-tier Win laptop).
I use a Thinkpad T490s and it works great with Ubuntu out of the box. Only thing that doesn't work is clicking the touchpad for right click, but since the Thinkpad comes with physical left and right buttons that was a non-issue.
While I don't particularly agree with any of their points, (Seems a bit SJW-ish, mixed with some climate drama) at least they believe in them strongly enough to actually stop taking a paycheck from the company they've come to hate.
Is the information to be ingested the short text or the photography?

A picture says a thousand words. It also contains far more kb of information.
I just recently bought a T495 and am really happy with it :) I also opted for the (pricey) screen upgrade, so YMMV.
> This round of tests was under an Ubuntu 20.04 snapshot

in my experience, both browsers performed very differently under Windows than under Linux (Manjaro). both mozilla and google clearly spend more time optimizing for the overwhelmingly more common user (Windows).
They probably see leaving as being excommunicated from a huge social circle that they value greatly.
Who is making a big deal about it? It’s a Tweet-sized comment...
I think you may be massively underestimating how much your friends who work in finance, international relations, law etc are making, if you think this. It's a whole other tier of compensation and social status in the UK. PPE's and theology graduates making literal million-pound bonuses.

In the UK it's the humanities students who run the show and get the real money.

As a concrete example - I think basic new grads at Linklaters, a pretty pedestrian, non-sexy law firm doing boring routine corporate stuff, not Google-style super-stars, get £83k https://www.legalcheek.com/2018/10/linklaters-bumps-junior-l.... That's an open application, not something targeted at particularly talented specific people.

I think that's more than even Google new-grad pay in London. Google! The highest of the high tier international tech companies. How does it compare to what you see engineer new-grads getting?
It operates on the 5GHz frequency, instead of 2.4GHz of 802.11b/g (802.11b was more popular when 802.11g was still a draft).

Not sure if that was a factor or just that being less popular there was less investment to make it "better".

I don't think I ever saw a card supporting 802.11a exclusively, it was part of a chip supporting multiple standards. And then you would always use 802.11g.
US congress is funding sulfur aerosol as well as sea salt cloud seeding research, from what I heard with experiments. I feel that even nobody in the community thinks it's a good idea we're getting kind of desperate since so many politicians are asleep at the wheel.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/us-geoengineering-re...
The problem with these types of people is that they actually care about more than the paycheck. ;)
Oh, now I understand your point. That makes a lot more sense. I've bought into the "offices are more expensive" for years but never considered the one-time costs as more of a write-off / deprecation.
What is the line between policy tangents and ideology tangents?
Can you define "lowball intelligence?" That seems like a bigoted term and probably violates HN rules.
My point was that corruption isn't inherent to any economic system, but an unfortunate part of the human condition.

Trying to scapegoat a particular economic or political system as inherently corrupt is naive at best, and disingenuous or dishonest at worst.

And there's never been (and never will be) a 100% capitalist society, so even if they could be corruption free it doesn't help much.
Another of these things I don't get. Matte screens become unreadable with indirect light. I've been a long time ThinkPad user.

But dim screens just don't work, no matter if it's matte or not. Bright screen with anti-reflective layer work much better, hate to say that.
The historical background for those interested…

The ordered dict for Python was originally an implementation detail, part of a more compact dict representation that was first proposed for Python in 2012 [1], implemented for PyPy in 2015 [2], and merged into CPython 3.6 in 2016 [3] [4].

[1]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1...

[2]: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff...

[3]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-September/...

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12460936

The decision to add it officially to the language spec wasn’t made until Python 3.7 in 2017. [5]

[5]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/1... "Guido says ‘Make it so.’"
"hey, why are you leaving?"

"imo the company makes its money in some really shady ways."

"what's next for you?"

"oh, I'm retiring.. made a lot of money here."

???
I'm certainly on the climate change team (if that's what you call it). But are articles like this good or bad?

When confronting climate change deniers the standard response is "weather is not climate". Saying it's hot today or cold today isn't an indication of climate change. It's what occurs over hundreds of years but especially the last 150 years.

It seems we are sending mixed signals saying that one day or a decade shows climate change. Then on the other hand we try to tell people one day or a decade is too short of a time to see changes. Yes we are certainly are seeing the effects of climate change now and it is real, just look at atmospheric carbon levels.

But saying it should be colder this time in the winter or last summer it was unusually hot. Anecdotal evidence isn't very reliable. My mother in her mid 70s told me her father (my grandfather) was out plowing the field in late November when my mother was born. Now if it's warm in late November people scream climate change.

Again, I do see and accept the evidence of climate change but I know people will see my comments as denial. I'm not denying it at all I'm 100% convinced it's just the phrasing and personal anecdotes I see disrupting the message.
You don't want to know about the results discussed at conferences where there doesn't have to be consensus on how bad it is/could be.. the IPCC reports are quite optimistic.
I have this exact model and have attempted to use trackpoint under Ubuntu and it is just slow and I'm constantly overshooting my target. I'm so much better with the trackpad that I really wonder how people that use trackpoint swear by it. I must be missing something.
It is extremely self important. The fact that so many people with these proclivities have gravitated to Google can not be a good thing. I have to imagine Google HR is not too troubled by shedding noisy moralizers within their ranks.
It seems to me that you can't think that consciousness causes quantum collapse, and also hold to a purely materialist idea of consciousness. Because if consciousness is a purely material phenomenon, then it arises from a bunch of interactions of quantum systems. Then "consciousness causes quantum collapse" reduces to "a bunch of quantum interactions cause quantum collapse", which is kind of unhelpful.

To put it a different way: For this to make any sense, consciousness has to be something different. It can't be just material.
That's great! Keep up the good work and nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
I love playing Backgammon, I find it to be an almost perfect blend of skill and luck, while also being much more accessible than something like chess. It's easy enough to learn on the fly, and after only a few games you start recognizing patterns and strategies and it really motivates you to get better. I find it's a pretty good way to get a more intuitive grasp on probability as well.

It's also easy to teach other how to play and get hooked. I have lunch at the same spot almost every day, and I bring a backgammon rollup travel set with me so I can play with whomever might be interested in a game. Most often it'll be the owner or her staff (I've taught six of them how to play, so far!) but sometimes random people will come up and say "what's that game" and we're off to the races. Great conversation starter!
To sneakerheads, fashion and aesthestics value far more than function and performance. Sneakerheads being a [large] subset of the current streetwear trend, exclusivity is another major factor for inflated prices in streetwear and sneakers.

Timed and location specific drops of exclusive, limited edition, special colorway variants of shoes, clothes and all other types of popular gear raises value. As mentioned, StockX majorly drives the market, and the exclusivity leads the savvy (or obsessed) consumer to seek advantages over others: bots, bulk buying, captcha solving, DDoSing, proxies, and the usual exploits are employed. The prices and value may be ridiculous but obviously, it's worth it to someone and there's lots of money to be made.
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Siri can be used for many things when the device is locked.
When you say SJW-ish in this context, do you mean you disagree with their assessment (i.e. helping oil companies do their job cheaper is bad, improving the technology underpinning combat drones is bad when the country that uses them demonstrates irresponsible use of them, supporting with labor a company that fires labor organizers is bad)?
I like matte screens too but my problem is their brightness. T495s comes with a 250 nits screen which can be quite dim. The Intel models have more screen options.
What information is that based off of? How do we know we won't be able to use technology (whatever that means in this case) to solve it?
We can build those things in Europe, we have the know-how, what we lack is that glorious risk friendly VC funding and the huge, homogeneous consumer friendly market the US is, crucial for rapid product scaling/expansion.

The EU market is super fragmented due to differences in language, culture, income and regulations so it would be nearly impossible to successfully scale a service made for Swedish consumers to the Italians for example. As another example, the Norwegians only pay with card while the Austrians only pay in cash.

That's why almost every EU country/region has it's own local website for jobs, classifieds, real estate, etc. All this fragmentation coupled with the lack of risk friendly VC funding means there's no chance for big players the size of FAANG to rise up from Europe.

When ambitions software companies from Europe have a good idea and want to grow fast, they just launch directly in the US market, ignoring the EU for the beginning. It's simply a much easier and profitable market.
I have one at work and it's not, I ended up using my personal MBP13 instead.

Fan seems to struggle to dissipate even 25 watts of heat. Sometimes it would be sitting at 50+ degrees C, just idling.

I asked our IT guys if I can repaste it, but they told me it's still on warranty. It might help, but I'll never know I guess.
I wonder why OrderedDict isn't outright deprecated (or reimplemented as a trivial wrapper over dict).

You can get the first/last key of a 3.8 dict with dict.keys() and reversed(dict.keys()) which you can then delete to reimplement OrderedDict.popitem.

Deleting a key and reinserting it will let you reimplement move_to_end.

The only cool thing that OrderedDict's implementation might be useful for is to move to front (or anywhere else not the back) but it doesn't expose that api.
The amount of energy lost in this circumstance is too small to invest effort into reclaiming it.

It is unlikely to be both cheaper than lead and equally reliable.

One day we may find a commercial use for this, but replacing lead with fungi in this context is not likely.
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