skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government sets minimums, which was absolutely necessary given companies like Spotify couldn't be bothered to pay me (an artist) what I'm worth.
> The short summary of climate change in Norway is that our country has become one degree Celsius warmer over the past 115 years

Honest question, how is 1 degree not in some kind of normal range or within measurement error?
Also curious what the performance is like?

We switched our staging databases to be on ZFS and saw inexplicable, very noticeable decreases in performance. Those trade-offs are fine for developer machines, but ultimately too much for our staging server where we needed to run UAT.

But, could of just been quirks of how we had things set up.
I believe you require a 32 bit computer and I think those were 15. So no doom :(
And on one of their status sites now: https://api.twitterstat.us/incidents/r4qbz7c69np0
Yes, but they get the majority of their water from the Catskills. Water is delivered using the force of gravity.
> Program Storage Space

Solar System
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Like an union, it has been brought up in tech from time to time.

https://mobile.twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1172279395035...
That's really well-done!

I like the "Source" buttons.
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The author supports most of the outrageous conduct of Alphabet/Google in general, and is only disapproving of secondary (though not insignificant) issues.

The main concerns of the author are:

> 1. Persecution and firing of transgender and gay employees for their efforts to reform the firm
>
> 2. Google Cloud sales to the oil and gas industry
>
> 3. Expansion into the weapons industry and the business of killing

But Alphabet is much more problematic to begin with:

* It is a vast spying operation in favor of the US government and corporate and state allies around the world - going through your searches, your mail messages (even if you just send mail _to_ people with GMail), your geo-location.

* It is a significant gate-keeper of visibility of Internet content: It passively and actively promotes and demotes search results (not talking about the ads here) through its ranking algorithms, but also in direct near-censorship of undesirable information sources. This is true not just on platforms such as YouTube but also on Search, and in the US, not just China, and involves Google operatives actively screening search results. If you are not aware of this, see:

https://www.blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-i...

and

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html

* I would also make the argument that, as a huge US corporation, it has significant responsibility for the maintenance of the current social order, with the ills of exploitation, huge disparity of wealth, high level of violence and violent homicides, poor health and other social services etc., degradation of the natural environment etc. in the US - and of the global order of dominance of the US over a lot of the world. Whether it goes into military products and services itself or just has the US government maintain its property rights and the financial systems on which it relies - is a matter of extent of culpability.

And while the author seems to touch on some of these points through a brief description of Google's nature as a corporation, it's strange that he stayed there for so long, and why those issues are the ones that broke the camel's back, so to speak. I guess there is some sort of a reality-warping bubble around Google somehow.
More importantly:
4.5 > Tesla provides dealer with description of car including said features!
yes, it's a lot better. first time a new MacBook Pro shipped with a new keyboard that is actually better to type on.
I don't believe that's a good portrayal of the situation. I doubt that there's anything all that special about the actual Saturn V engines. Sure, maybe nobody remembers all of the engineering details about those particular engines, and it would be hard to reverse engineer them. But I'm pretty sure we would find it much easier to design and build new engines of similar spec today. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and several other new space companies don't seem to have had all that much trouble designing and manufacturing new, powerful rocket engines.

Ditto guidance systems. Why try to replicate something designed around the constraints of hardware that seems ancient by today's standards? No reason to think we couldn't build something new with equivalent or better features on modern hardware.
Why not just move closer to work?
Are there any AMAZING startups working on treating the global warming marketing challenge as a direct response problem?

Politicians - including our sitting president - figured out that leveraging the ad tech of the FBs / Googles etc to micro-tune and micro-test messaging wins elections.

Who is doing the same for climate change?

Start with massively targeted message testing attached to an outcome that demonstrably has an impact on the problem.

No bullshit "awareness" vanity metrics.

I'm talking direct donations to projects that reduce co2 or recapture co2.

Direct donations to organizations or politicians that are demonstrably impacting in a similar way.

?????

Is somebody working to harness the brutal machinery of FB / Goog's advertising platform to do some good?

Can I help or write your first check as an investor?
> Giggle, founded by Australian screenwriter Sall Grover, supposedly looks at the bone structure of a person’s face to determine their gender.

Maybe they should be measuring skull size instead.
If you are thinking about this highly-cited study, that is not what they concluded

https://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489

> We infer that beyond about $75,000/y, there is no improvement whatever in any of the three measures of emotional well-being.

Although, even if we assume your assertion is true, it's a distinction without a difference in the context of the above thread.
Apollo 11 used a heck of a lot more materials and energy than a USB charger.
Yeah, it's tricky to see for sure. I don't pretend to have all or even some of the answers here, but since you asked, and it's a great question, I'll take a stab at it.

First, I'd just make sure that people are happy. If people are honestly happy and enjoying their job, they probably aren't having a problem. Talk to them and figure it out is the most direct way. Indirect ways I would say include:

Social dynamics: Does a team try to exclude a person from meetings, social discussions at work, social activities, etc? Is one person always alone? This is a bit fuzzier since it's about association, and you can't force people to be friends, but it can show a lot about team cohesion.

Work dynamics: I've worked with people who I was almost sure had it out for me, and they would purposefully drag their feet doing work or responding to issues. While this should reflect poorly on the person sandbagging, it's more common that the recipient is blamed for "not getting enough done." Especially with ramping up or helping out, by excluding certain members of the team, coworkers can basically set that person up to fail, while technically doing nothing wrong.

Reviews: Also look out for when people are punished or otherwise told they aren't doing good enough. The measuring stick for this can change based on the person being measured.

Opportunity. Are minority team members given the same opportunities for leadership and growth? Or does a team always give the best work to one or two people that the boss likes, leaving everyone else to clean up the mess? It's hard to prove that you can do the job if they won't let you. This seems to happen a lot in my experience.
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I don't see how that would be useful. Police are local and random internet streams are not usually traceable to a location, which is all they would be interested in.
Not enough I guess. Even then, a lot of big sellers get a discount from Canada Post, so often not worth it for them to deal with stamps.

And our domestic shipping is kinda expensive: often cheaper to buy internationally...
>I think only one good format is enough and JPEG XR might be it.

I think you meant JPEG XL here? JPEG XR [1] is a completely different thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR
Collective action is essential but the way forward is through smaller efforts as pilot projects and to prove the market.

Setting a good example doesn't inevitably result in everyone following along, but a proven solution is a whole lot easier to sell than a proposal that's never been tried at scale.
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Yeah, they are a little goofy. But other car makers looked at it and said "I can top that". And they did. I don't know why car makers want to make their EVs look so bad.
Demagoguery has a better track record than science at influencing people's actions.

For example, Dr Semmelweis who literally prooved hand washing saved lives. He was mocked and committed to an asylum by his colleagues, where he ironically died from infection after a beating.
The traditional ThinkPad keyboards are long gone (save for the T25 anniversary model). That said, they are still better than most other laptop keyboards I've tried.
> If I thought most Americans were unhappy these days, my reaction to seeing this poll would be to question how my intuition went so wrong, not to look for ways the might be biased.

That's putting undue weight on quantified data, and letting it shut down attempts to actually find the truth. Polls can be biased or badly designed, metrics can be gamed or not actually measure what they claim to, or the poll could be founded some flawed assumptions. If you assume your intuition is wrong when you see a "strong" poll result, you'll never discover errors of the kind I just enumerated.
A watt hour is actually 3.41 BTUs, not 3.85. A BTU is the energy to raise a pound of water by one degree Frankenstein. (An avoirdupois pound, not a Tower pound, a troy pound, an apothecaries' pound (which happens to be equal to the troy pound), a merchant's pound, an Imperial Standard pound, or a pound sterling or pound of paper, which aren't even units of weight.)

The specific heat of water is one calorie per gram per kelvin, so a BTU works out to one pound, times a calorie per gram, times a degree Frankenstein per kelvin.

A calorie has been defined as having various different values, since water's specific heat varies with temperature (and pressure!) but they're all about 4.18 to 4.19 joules, except for the food "calorie", which is actually a kilocalorie.

Pounds have also been defined as having many different values, even avoirdupois pounds; the values used include 6992 grains, 7000 grains, 7002 grains, and 6999 grains. (Troy grains, not metric grains, which are different.) The currently most popular pound is 7000 grains, but by international agreement it is now defined as 453.59237 grams, previous definitions in terms of the metric system having included 453.59265 grams and 453.59243 grams.

Finally, one degree Frankenstein is precisely defined as 5/9 of a kelvin, although Dr. Fahrenheit's original definition was rather different.

Working all of this out, a BTU turns out to be about 454 g · 4.18 J/g · (5/9)K/K, which is about 1054.3 J. A watt hour is of course 1 W hour · 60 s/min · 60 min/hour = 3600 W s = 3600 J. 3600/1054.3 is about 3.41.

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I use a T495s with the 400-nit low power display and it is by far the best screen I've ever seen on a laptop. I have no idea what you're talking about; of course, if you go with the 1366x768 screen that Lenovo seems to continue to offer inexplicably, you're shafted, but the 1920x1080 400-nit screen is incredible. It's matte, thin, extremely low power (powertop tells me it's under 1W right now at 30% brightness, which is already too bright for a well-lit root), and is easily replaceable. And it's not touch either, which is an advantage in my book.
What kind of feedback? They never gave me any specific feedback when I interviewed
Regardless of whether one believes “collective action” is desirable on a global I don’t think it’s possible. I think our policy and planning focus should be on adaptation over trying to fight against the changes that appear to be occurring.

Human beings adapt. We are now a technological species, and can alter our surroundings to quite a large degree. As things change, we should be working toward improving lives - our own and those of others - and better positioning ourselves to exploit the advantages that our future holds.
Thanks. I don't. I don't intend to. And I don't have to.
Imagine if your shoes had some sort of linear bearing system that would allow you to glide over the ground, preventing energy loss while allowing brief rest periods.

I don't know if I can even satisfactorily define running itself on the spot, but I'm pretty sure I know it when I see it.
I question how much an employee should concern him/herself with how a product is used once it's created. You have to let certain control go after a point. Or if your product is open to everyone, you'll have to live with the fact that people may use it in ways you disagree with.

Xerox or Canon (or whoever) probably makes copiers that these "bad" companies use to make copies. Lenovo or Apple probably makes hardware that they use also to further their functions. Ford/GM probably supply them with vehicles. Farmers grow crops that get into the the meals that their personnel eat. Pilots and flight attendants probably have knowingly transported their employees.

Why don't the employees at all these other companies object like Google employees? Why do Google employees get a special right to withhold consent for their product to be used in a setting they might object to? Why is oil/gas the sector that they object to? Why do some causes get their favor and not others?

I get tired of people picking and choosing their annual causes to be outraged about. And the LGBT part of the manifesto is ridiculous.
> The solution to climate change is not to make energy producers like oil and gas companies go out of business.

It absolutely is... Or at least make them change into non-oil and non-gas companies.
Are you claiming to be able to "hear" resampling, and I dont mean 20 year old naive implementations like Cretive SB Live. Sample clock, and its phase is irrelevant as long as you pass Nyquist threshold, reconstructed signal will be indistinguishable from original.

You might want to read https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
There are a couple weird things in here:

COPY drkiq/Gemfile Gemfile
WORKDIR /opt/app/drkiq
RUN bundle install

This appears to be leaving out copying Gemfile.lock so you have no real idea what versions of dependencies are being installed here. This is not safe. Also it's installing a bunch of dependencies that are not needed in production, a better bundle command would be something like: `RUN bundle install --no-cache --jobs 4 --without development test`

RUN rails webpacker:install
RUN rails assets:precompile

Why is `rails webpacker:install` being run here? This is very odd. As a general tip, I would also not compile assets as part of the docker build, but rather externally then only copy over the `public` directory afterward. This removes any need for `node` or any related development tools/packages in the production image.
... and that is why computers traditionally saved 32-bit seconds since the epoch ("Unix time"). These days we have 64-bits typically but the principle is similar. Only use the funny human units when setting stuff that's visible in the UI; in the back we avoid it.
Now you dream of an absurd and unsustainable lifestyle.
> 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.

The article isn't making these points at all; it definitely seemed to be looking at a much longer picture, at least that was my takeaway.
Not showing the growing live part of it, kind of missing the big picture:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/239276/growth-of-the-glo...
EDM and Techno experiences, unlike Pop, are hardly reproducable at home to begin with, they can't really exist without the events and their PA systems.

Techno is it's own beast, it's most surprising, that it didn't get flogged to death by commercialization. EDM had the stigma to be perceived as a fad by most to begin with, a non-sustainable stardom driven branch-off that has used up it's novelty quite fast.

Music rights themselves still seem super expensive, when they are not meant to lure in customers, when it comes to video games and how they are shut down left and right.
Or you end up just leaving behind all the people who don't really care about it, and thus it is never fixed.
What a fantastic and succinct description!
Thank you so much!!
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/china-landed-moon-missio...
But we're sitting here misunderstanding what the hosts people actually want from DNS and why they're frustrated with the current state of it.

Failure to contact the name server should not cause a failure in name resolution. It should mean that the server isn't getting record changes.

Caches suck for this use-case. Great for the public internet but terrible for intranets. I want DNS clients to replicate all my internal zones from the masters and then serve their own queries. Records don't change that often so "bad things" would happen far less often if the failure mode was the client was behind on replication.

It's the same story with DHCP and AD. If DHCP worked so that leases were basically indefinite and servers would keep using the last address they were given we would end up with fewer total problems. All server addresses are reserved anyway and change on human time. Just propagate the changes when they happen instead of having the client ask every time.

This is what all the rsync people are ranting about. They want a DNS system where the server pushes record updates to the clients. We're over here building chat systems based on message brokering and WebSockets but doing it for name resolution is suddenly weird?
I don’t mind what anyone wears as long as you can buy a pair for $49 and run 1000 miles in them.

What’s not cool is it being acceptable to use $250 to buy ones way into success, and it’s even less cool teaching the kids that money is required for attaining goals. Goodness knows they are under enough pressure on that front as it is.

Perhaps a World Rally Championship style homologation, but where shoe manufacturers have to show they’ve sold X thousand pairs at Y multiples of the local Big Mac price, as proof of availability to general public at a price that doesn’t promote consumerist elitism. But where’s the profit in that?
I wouldn't be so certain.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/streaming-...

https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/artists-vs-spotify/

That music industry money isn't going to the artists.

https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-streaming-...

(Ironically, Napster's streaming service appears to pay the most out of all of them now)
IIRC, the SGI Origin 2800 could go up to 512 MIPS R14000 processors. It's one thread per socket but, with 512 sockets and a single memory image, it'd most likely end up crashing htop. ;-)
Mac user here. Still use a desktop Mac mini daily, but have replaced my 13" Macbook Pro for a 14" Thinkpad running Ubuntu.

So far so good. Haven't had nearly the amount of hardware issues reported in this thread. Only the fingerprint scanner does not work, despite best efforts to install its drivers.

The hardest thing for me so far has been customising it to behave like macOS. The muscle memory of keyboard shortcuts is too hard to shake. But I've changed most of them.

Another thing to point out. The display scaling sucks. I have found anything between 100% and 200% unstable.

Edit: mine is a budget L380 model. Pretty good value for under $500 (current clearance price).
Or you could just run the subways in LA more often/not full. Then the experience would be enjoyable and living near the lines would become more desirable, and the more people take the transit and then oh look spread starts to contract a bit and your long term plan is starting to materialize!

It would be idiotic to create an LA train system designed to handle only the amount of people that will busing it within the first year.
Then perhaps companies should price these devices accordingly to correspond with flawless performance during a pre-specified time period. Right now, if we spend $1,000 on a new XXXYZ Phone, there is no commitment to flawless and essential updates from the company. As they release new devices each year pretty much, it would be in a company's (shareholder-driven) best interests to encourage their user base to upgrade each time a new device is released. This tends to drive the need to intentionally degrade older devices via updates for industry leading companies, by driving annual revenue upwards on a more predictable schedule.
People understand things through stories, narratives. All of which are oversimplifications. Always. Therefore, for any given popular one, you can always be the contrarian well-actually guy. You can always point out the broader inconsistencies, and you can always find a gotcha or implied hypocrisy somewhere. When all else fails you can always fall back on tone-policing like you did here.

I know you're not practicing active "denial", but consider the degree to which you chose to be a headwind or a tailwind. Tone policing is being a headwind.
Matt Groening would be so proud of you right now.
Ferrari makes more profit from licensing and apparel than they do from selling cars.
but then very poor countries will never be able to get to the development level of the rich countries because they’ll be energy limited. Buying a car (even if electric) could push them over the quota. Where as folks in the west can continue driving their giant SUVs.
Totally agree. I sent this to a few clients noting 'when we talk about digital storytelling, this is a good example'.
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The analogy is a bit extreme, don't you think so? Isn't there a difference between developing a technology and actively taking part in selling it for a use-case that you disagree with?
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You're attacking a strawman. The people trying to effect change aren't merely complaining online. There has been substantial real organizing afoot.
I'd go with selfish ableist asshole over insensitive clod.

The reason it's hard to raise this "real problem" without coming off that way is being you are absolutely just being an ableist asshole. Yeah it's a real problem that people who have trouble walking or traveling need to get around. Sorry that's mildly inconvenient. Maybe you should just quit being lazy and walk.