skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm... isn't that exactly what I wrote? Besides, the CO2 that we humans exhale doesn't count towards global warming because the carbon in it is part of the natural carbon cycle. That's roughly the same amount that gets reabsorbed into plants that are grown for next year's food. What really matters is the carbon that is added to that cycle from sources outside this biological cycle. In other words, the 1kWh of electical power is strictly worse than the 1kWh of human power as long as some fraction of it comes from non-renewable sources. At best, if it were sourced purely regeneratively, it would be exactly even.
Sit through a meeting is a bit dismissive. Most of the meeting I had at the time were 1 on 1 meetings. They were more about sharing context with each other and discussing current problems on the team than figuring out complex problems.
Oh, no. I can't seem to be able to reproduce. Which OS and browser are you seeing this on?
Your post reminded me of how my own perception has changed.

I remember when I graduated college I interviewed and got a job and went to work at this company that in hindsight, had these awesome large high end cubicles, with wooden U shaped desks and tall partitions. Yet, I remember walking to my cubicle and feeling a pang of sadness. I could see this huge cubicle farm and I was being guided to my own "little" cubicle to go and sit in. Felt like a hamster in a cage - a small cog in a huge machine. Which I guess I was. All the managers had offices along the outsides of the farm, facing the windows.

But now that my expectations have been lowered further... I'd take that cubicle setup over an open plan office any day.

If space is at such a premium, the solution is to encourage more remote work. At this point, the industry, with its years of experience in outsourcing, offshoring and working with distributed teams has proven that remote work is an excellent and efficient model. At the very least, it should be far more mainstream than it is.
Its still better to test yourself then just accepting the stamps people put on their head.
> I feel like any time I update the OS on a device it gets slower

Never had this problem on Debian Linux, FWIW - even when upgrading to a new release. Of course sometimes stuff gets marginally slower due to new security mitigations or whatever, but not in a way that's even perceptible, let alone catastrophic.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'm not convinced that TV upsampling is generally good, but you make a coherent point and I'm going to try it out myself :-)
Does it have a refillable reservoir? If so, that's a great bargain if you like the way it writes!

Part of what spurred me to try this experiment is the feeling that the quality of the Uni-Ball lineup has been dropping, including the Deluxe. I still have some 10+ year old Uni-Balls (matte black plastic, not sure the real model name) that are better writers than recently purchased Deluxe modules. A true shame :(
180 days is generally how long it takes their system to adjust the charges and send you a semi-fraudulent bill instead of the fully-fraudulent one.
I have consulted with multiple software companies, two of which got acquired for millions of dollars, where the CEO could not connect to WIFI on a mac.

I also personally know a CEO of a medical device company (software based programmable IVs, whose company was also very successful) who didnt even know how to use email. He would have his secretary print out the email, he would write a response, and she would type it up and send it.

I'm not saying these are the norm per say, but it's possible to be the CEO of the software company and been technically illiterate.
Sure. The problem with Russia is twofold: They're doing it really effectively, and they're doing it to us.

We haven't ever seen a disinformation campaign that was this effective before. At least, we haven't seen one that was this effective against countries with free media and an educated population. (Though the effectiveness of this attack might lead one to question both the freedom of the media and the educatedness of the population...)

Them doing it to us may be "turnabout is fair play", but that doesn't mean that we have to like it, approve of it, or accept it.
Why do I have a feeling that the way these laws will work will be to add some "academicaly derived, politcaly approved" bias to certain machine learning models to push the results in the "correct" direction?
> Democracy in action. This is what everyone keeps voting for.

What's amazing is that, literally nobody goes to the polls hoping to vote for such outcomes, yet despite that fact, it is indeed what we end up getting. Democracy is simply unable to fix this.
Threads like these are why HN will never have a public voting log.
Depending on the situation, it could be reasonable to argue that you were under duress or undue influence to sign the contract. This is all situation dependent, of course, but it is probably rare that an individual would have the resources and wherewithal to win such a case anyway (which is another problem).
IBM did some productivity study in the 70s. Top productivity was 2 people in an office.

I had one of those IBM offices back in the day. Great for IT productivity.
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the danger from a cyclist running a red light is mostly to the cyclist

It's also dangerous to pedestrians. I see cyclists run red lights with pedestrians in the crosswalk almost every day, and many of them seem to assume that people will stop walking and yield to them. If somebody doesn't notice the cyclist then this can easily lead to a collision.
> Universal care is no different. If your surgery is deemed unnecessary, you really have no chance at getting it.

There is no reason to have it exclusively. Having single-payer healthcare with mandatory participation for residents does not preclude existence of healtcare providers that are outside of that system.

Although it is likely that such providers would be just a small part, as for patients it would have zero monetary marginal cost to use providers that are part of system, so they would likely use providers outside of the system as a last resort or if there are significant non-monetary cost.
Although, they already managed not to screw up US immigration (if we're being US centric here) which indicates they can figure out relatively complex problems, and have the drive to get off their ass and do something. Whether it was legal or not, for most people immigrating to the US is a huge pain in the ass.
This quote is often used as a dog whistle by far right groups. In their definition, “weak” is caring about others, providing services to citizens like healthcare and education etc. “Strong” is then the Trumpian ideal of a successful self made business man who takes no nonsense from no one and gets things done regardless of their snowflake feelings (sic).
Hospitals are protected businesses in the U.S. To build one you need a "certificate of need" in most jurisdictions in the United States. I.e., they are government-granted monopolies. They behave like government-protected monopolists do: they rent-seek.

If you want to see affordable hospital care you have to see the protection removed and competition allowed and encouraged.

This is happening to some degree already. Nowadays we have unprotected, standalone ERs, urgent care clinics, and specialist clinics. But it's not really enough, not yet.
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>> And it still doesn't mean that the original password can't be recovered if the password db is compromised.

> Why is that?

Because if I have the password db and the blinding value, I can just run a password cracker like hashcat over it to recover the original password with a reasonable probability.

Modern password cracking rigs with multiple GPUs can try out billions of hashes a second. If you know the salt or blinding factor, you can often recover the password.
Good advice with #1 - getting a business mentor is helpful in learning the business goals/concerns of the organization your product supports.

Interesting advice with #3 - have not considered this before. I like how your approach empowers dev A and, as you say, "ends in trust".
> but you also learn new things

I don't buy it. Most people are trying to get shit done so are wearing headphones and for the people that aren't, you only overhear people who happen to be within earshot radius from where you're sitting and only if you're somewhat paying attention or not otherwise distracted, and of that stuff you do overhear, how much is actually relevant or useful? In my personal experience, the amount of times I overheard something in the work space (as opposed in a social space area like the break room) that was useful or relevant to me has been far, far less than the amount of useful stuff I've encountered in places that had a "be vocal on slack" culture.
I hate to say it because i was trained to rise against forces and give my all 100% of the time, but in an env. Where the economic incentives are simply not correlated to productivity, I will not work more than nec. To not get fired.

Usually by then my efforts go to finding a new job, bc at that point i feel rather imprisoned.
So I worked in a legacy industry and they co-located a couple of teams near our biggest client. They decided to put in place an open office concept for the engineers and support staff, and gave the VPs and sales guys private offices.

Especially when we first moved into the office the VPs loved to take the customers on a tour and stand at the top of the space and tell them how great this open office was. I was in a bad mood one time when this happened and the VP asked me if I agreed (with the customer) and I said, "it is perfect for what it was built for, it was built to show our customers how many resources we have and to imply that we have no walls separating our BUs from working together." He was not happy, but also had no lines of responsibility to me or my business segment.

And like all open offices it was loud so everyone put on headphones and we had zero cross-BU interaction and very low inter-BU interaction. At one point corporate tried to push a no headphones rule because it looked bad when they brought in customers and it did not land well in the cube dwellers. A compromise was reached to not allow headphones when customers leadership visits where planned, about once a month.

My biggest problem with the design was that they guy in the desk that faced me spent around 80% of his time on conference calls. Now he wasn't loud at all, almost never said anything on these calls, but he would sit silently with his headset on staring directly at me the whole time. Now he wasn't looking at me, just looking forward but it was really disconcerting.

What I always find funny about the whole concept is that the open cube was really first imagined by Taylor as he tried to apply physical labor efficiencies into the office world. You would have everyone in an open office with the manager slighly raised up behind everyone so he could monitor them to ensure everyone was working at peak efficiency. Plus the modern leader of open offices, a company I forgot the name of in Colorado implemented and pushed open offices into the modern world, and then killed the practice internally in less than 2 years.
I guess the examples are so simple so that every bash user can translate them easily.
Yeah, stepping off on a high speed is painful, but on a bicycle it's just impossible.

Brakes on my scooter are pretty decent, I can quickly stop even when riding fast (tried it a lot of times). Some scooters have 2 breaks - for the front and back wheel. Mine have just back wheel breaks.
Not really. In the US, you get medical coverage if you are old, an honorably discharged veteran, or indigent (either through ER or Medicaid).

In Canada, you get Medicare-like primary care, benefit from price controls on drugs, and can buy secondary coverage to get more. In the US, you get to subsidize drug development for the world and enrich a variety of different cartels.
We've literally toppled free governments, administered LSD to vulnerable people without their consent, and started purposeful rumors about important people being <insert bad thing here>. What makes you think the CIA wouldn't run a child sex trafficking ring for "the greater good"?
Interesting. So which TV adaptation is the one worth watching?
medical procedures, for people with insurance, is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US.
My example is skewed because I also really enjoy my work, but I fully intend to stay in my current position for the rest of my career because I have a real office with a door. I work in Silicon Valley and just cracked 6 figures in total compensation this year. By far the biggest reason that I have no interest in considering moving is the seeming impossibility of getting a cubicle, much less an office, anywhere else. So empirically, I will give up anywhere from ~50k-200k to do work I enjoy in an office with a door.
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The nut is on a threaded rod, and in the locked state is jammed up against the plate, so it shouldn't work its way anywhere absent rotational force.

(i missed that the rod was threaded in my first read-through, too)
similar at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22250733
There are definitely problems with the open office but one thing I can say is that there is truly a different energy to the office when it's open and people can chat spontaneously. Some of my best projects have started this way, as have all my office friendships.

I'd definitely get more heads-down work done in a private office setting. However in that setting I'd mostly be annoyed I couldn't just work from my home office, since I'd be commuting to spend 80%+ of my time alone anyway.
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Idaho stop: What a great sounding idea. Would like to see some data showing there is no negative accident/health effect to have some solid arguments.
There's a LWN article on it: https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/
> "Obviously not everyone can pick up and relocate to the woods to experience the unobscured beauty of the sky. But there still are, for now, places where you’d expect not to see artificial stars passing overhead."

Well the writer may expect it, but it hasn't really existed for a long time.

If Starlink enables me to live somewhere like the western states or the great north woods and still work remotely and stay connected with the world then this is a tradeoff I'm more than willing to accept.
It would be interesting to see how it fares against Peppermint, which is known for working really well on low-end hardware.

Also, I'm curious if Clear Linux is also fast on hardware that is slow not because it is cheap but because it is old. Would it speed up my Core2Duo laptop?
I agree, but like I said it's not enough for me to switch. I use Optional<T> whenever I need to return null. The only outlier there is the JDK which most devs should know when it's returning null to you.
> That's not literally the only thing you could do. You could quit.

Well, that's one big choice to make haha.
Definitely! There are some dedicated offices for those who need them as well. It’s just the support and dev teams that have open offices. Both of those teams do a lot of informal communicating internally and externally so it’s nice for them (I’m on the dev team and do a mix of focus work and communication).
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This is very common even when people have no sense of needing to “hide” what’s on their screen... it’s just a natural fight vs flight human impulse to he worried about who is walking around in your space.

Even worse for the large fraction of the population who are introverts.
The dumbest thing about open office plans is everyone puts on headphones and wants to communicate through Slack. I've got an idea. Let's all commute to the office and pretend we're remote!
> The materials that go into that binary which don't come from the project itself are external dependencies.

Not sure what you're on about... any piece of software is going to be composed of smaller pieces. What's wrong with that?

> There is a dependency on a Java VM implementation

Only for developing it.

> GraalVM

GraalVM is many things. This is compiled using GraalVM Native Image which compiles JVM bytecode into a native binary executable. There is no JVM hidden away in that executable either.

> and on a Small Clojure interpreter

The fact that it uses a a library (by the same author) for interpreting Clojure - what exactly is the issue here? If he didn't separate that into a library it would be fine, but the moment it's modular it's an issue to you?

> GraalVM has some kind of updater, "gu", that's looks reminiscent of npm:

GraalVM includes a command-line utility and that means it has the NPM cooties...?
I find many (other) cyclists' safety arguments don't place enough emphasis on the danger of annoying someone in a car. They can hurt you intentionally and they can get away with it.
It's more aout getting rid of what slows you down (bloatware/fat distros) than it is about linux (the kernel) itself.

Who else finds that animations/smooth scrolling just breaks the flow/gets in the way?
Millennial here, Working in IT (Support and Development). I work for a company that had existed for over 50 years, they gave me a dedicated office, The productivity increase is incredible, I'm reluctant to ever change jobs because I'd lose my office and become thrown into the pile of people in the center of an office (Hell).
I made an estimate and while it was higher than I expected, the increase in power is not anywhere near what you mentioned.

I'm using the value of Cd * A from here (0.6 m^3): https://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/aero/formulas.html

That page also indicates that the vast majority of the energy expenditures on a bike are due to drag.

The fraction of energy needed to get up to speed divided by the energy expended due to drag works out to: (mbike + mhuman) / (Lblock * rho * Cd * A) where mbike is the mass of the bike, mhuman is the mass of the human, Lblock is the length between stops, rho is the mass density of the air, Cd is the drag coefficient, and A is the projected area. I can post the derivation if anyone is interested.

Assuming an 8 kg bike, 90 kg human, 200 m between stops, and an air density of 1.2 kg/m^3, stopping adds 68% more energy.

This is dependent on the weight. If I crunch the numbers for my own weight, stopping adds about 56% more energy.

So, this is higher than I expected, but I don't think it's so much higher that it justifies running red lights.
I'm glad you were able to recover, eventually. I hope it wasn't with too much change to your life :(

This is why I drive. All arguments aside about how cities "should" be, I don't live in one where I can magically waive a wand and make things exactly like I want them. And a permanent brain injury (or a major hand/arm injury!) would be really bad for my career.

So I also don't actively practice contact-martial-arts anymore.
Yikes. This is a serious safety issue. Imagine if this wasn’t an EV, and someone started a car while in the new owner’s garage.
Don't downvote me for having an unpopular opinion, but aren't too many social media / youtube / hn / reddit distractions in today's world, and an open-plan office helps diminuate them?
Who cares? That doesn't do a good job showing why this software is useful. At first glance it makes it look like everything is just more complicated.
I'm not aware of anything that will do this offhand, but I think that's probably the future of upscaling and restoration - software that looks at a video, identifies all of the objects, learns as much as possible about their shapes, textures, lighting and movement by analyzing all the frames available, then makes an 'educated guess' about what it can't figure out and essentially renders a new scene in whatever resolution and framerate is requested.

I can only imagine the amount of input data and processing power required to do that, though. Probably a decade or two away.
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Immigrants are also forced to develop their own peer communities and support networks since mainstream culture, stores, and media don't cater to them. Growing up I was surprised by how low the expectations were for my American classmates from their parents.

A "goof off" from my community would be struggling to get Bs while a goof from the non-immigrant groups would be struggling to pass at all. And being a "straight-A student" was a baseline expectation rather than a marker of being a rare and special talent. The bar for how many sacrifices parents are willing to make to set their kids up for success is higher too. I got a B- in Math ONCE and my parents immediately hired me a tutor and started forcing me to do remedial exam drills, which is a reaction I don't think I would have seen in the average or median American household among my peer group.

I don't think it's any special level of intelligence among the immigrant community, but I think there is sort of an "Overton window" of cultural expectations for what are normal ways to spend your time, what's an appropriate spread for grades to be at, or what things you should be prioritizing in life. I think immigrant communities maintain an Overton window that prioritizes scholastics over the mainstream culture.

This is probably in large part due to selection bias since the immigration process chooses the cream of the crop, but the durability of this tendency across generations is probably set up by the higher standards I talked about.
I've found Optional<> to at least ~help~ with the null issue - as we still don't have value types it still does come with a runtime penalty but most of the code I write and deal with these days has a no-null policy: if it's optional it's Optional<>, everything else defaults to sane defaults or 'empty' (usually immutable) objects. There will of course always be nulls in legacy and performance sensitive code but it is at least ~something~.
Embedded chips are generally cheap. CPU’s sell for ~1,000x the price of most embedded chips. X00$ CPU vs X0c 32 bit microprocessors / microcontroller etc.
I'm saying that it's good for a citizenry to be healthy. When a government is encouraging its citizens to stay away from treatment because of prohibitively high costs to access it, that is not good. It is a public service since it serves the public to keep everyone healthy.
No way...a nice sized cubicle is 100 sqft, and Class A rents in Manhattan are under $100/sqft/y. So the actual office space is something like $10,000 or less per year.

Of course there is other overhead, but space itself is in that range. So the max savings, in the most expensive market in the US, is under $10k per year.
Why do you think any compiling whatsoever is involved?
The danger is actually the bike lane, because it puts you in the drivers blind spot, that kind of accident is so common it even has a name, it is called right hook (in right driving countries). It is easy to learn to avoid collisions with cars while driving a bicycle, one of the main lessons is do not ride on the bike lane, specially in intersections you should be in front of the other driver not on its side.
Considering how much of the population keeps voting for this system, I don't see that happening for decades at the least.
I don't think anyone's talking about free markets, just private ones.

Those laws exist because capitalist forces incentivize healthcare providers to limit competition.
Just waiting for that 50 EUR Strymon BigSky clone...
First thing I do in any rental car is turn off any remote tracking, mobile apps, clear out bluetooth and turn off wifi if equipped.
I'd say one main reason why cyclists want to avoid stopping is that with a well-adjusted bike seat you should only barely be able to reach the ground with your foot when stopping making the whole process quite awkward.