skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn’t hold at all. The blog era was a golden age of indie pop, expressly because there was no dominant platform. The blogs themselves hosted mp3 singles along with the journalism. The way we found the blogs was by each blog having a blogroll, a list of links to other blogs with associated tastes. The bloggers were almost always locally employed. They were talent buyers, musicians, indie labels and writers for local dailies. It led to a surge in music festivals that hosted gobs of smaller musicians as a result. A booming industry that was glorious for the enthusiasts like myself.

The major labels started buying the smaller labels as imprints and hiring the blog owners as representatives. In turn, the musicians that conformed and followed orders survived, and those that didn’t died. As the blogs dried up, Shazaam and Spotify filled the void of access to singles while social media filled the void of journalism, to the reluctance of the audience.

Likewise, the print journaism industry ran a similar course, with MTV and Clear Channel taking the place of local radio DJs. The issue seems to be the tendency to conform local markets to a broad average. For a corporation, it makes no sense to have local tastemakers. They always tend toward a cosmopolitan ideal but in the end we get nothing but a monoculture that alienates everyone.
This doesn't matter as NYC is built on a river that provides plenty of fresh water every year. It needs to be treated and filtered, but at much less cost than desalination.
> If we look at recent AMD [1] and Intel [2] results, it is clear AMD isn't gaining much.

This surprised me as well, but your explanation makes sense.

I'm curious as to how the new Ryzen 4000s will affect laptop market share. Because offering 8C/16T at 15W is just terrific.
In the 1970s, they used to show us films in school about how the world was going to run out of fresh water in ten years. It's a message I still remember.
The real fun with the AGC on landing happened on Apollo 14, with a flipped bit in the abort landing flag. Percussive maintenance temporarily flipped the bit back, giving enough time for ground control to develop a hack.
Didn't they just ignore the warnings on Apollo 11? And I think it was non synced timing references rather than strictly resource availability that got them on 11
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It's hard to hear people object to Google on moral or ethical grounds when they don't mention the fallout from programmatic advertising. Google pioneered this technology, which has had an impact on both our security and privacy, and the company has been caught exceeding the public's data collection expectations repeatedly. Now, after looking at the company's most recent financials and noting the CPC declines, I wonder less about the fallout of programmatic advertising and whether it was all worth it. I'm now left thinking more about whether we've got the right measure of human smarts or intelligence. I mean, these were the smart people, right?
I think the old ThinkPad keyboards are gone forever now. All models are chiclet.
Oh blame the third world for climate change because they are busy building their economy & uplifting of their poor.

Has the colonists accepted the responsibility for their plundering of once wealthy countries that's called "third world" now ?
That's an argument, but not the one you made above.

> The idea of basic income seems like a better path forward, in terms of preserving artistic integrity (i.e. not "make money" or "please your fans" as the motive for making things). Everyone will get enough money to survive, no matter how much your ideas go against the zeitgeist.

As in, the Patreon model isn't the best for artists, a better model is a complete rework of the economy, which would remove the need for artists to please their fans.

Extraordinarily trivial.
I suppose the cost is a good point, but I don't see a reason to have a problem with it besides that. Other modern shoes would probably represent an "unfair" advantage when compared with shoes from previous years.

The easiest way to remove this variable, of course, would be to hold bare-foot races. But then, what about the shorts and the tank tops...
I think that's right. Our ECO church, which split from PCUSA, is a very large one, with 6 locations. The services are always full. The reason for departure, though, was the building/land ownership, not the same-sex issues. I don't think there was much (or any?) discussions of same-sex issues during the split process.
Based on my reading of the article, the customer bought the feature. Tesla didn't mean to sell them the feature, but they did. If there's another way of looking at this, I don't personally see it in the article text.

> When the dealer bought the car at auction from Tesla on November 15, it was optioned with both Enhanced Autopilot and Tesla’s confusingly-named Full Self Driving Capability; together, these options totaled $8,000. You can see them right on the Monroney sticker for the car:

To me, that reads as Tesla accidentally selling something that they didn't mean to sell, at a price they didn't mean to offer. But that doesn't change anything from the customer's point of view. The customer/dealer bought the addon package that was advertised by Tesla itself as included with the car.

A company shouldn't be able to sell me a device with features advertised as enabled, and then after the purchase is over retroactively decide, "we didn't mean to do that, so let's just pretend we didn't." What they're doing here is trying to retroactively alter part of the transaction, which is crazy. It's the corporate equivalent of me buying a car for $30,000, and then issuing a chargeback a month later because "that was an accident, I only meant to offer you $22,000. So let's pretend that you accepted that."

Edit: reading more comments, I'm seeing people say that Monroney stickers aren't applicable to used cars? Is the argument that the sticker on the car shouldn't be taken as advertised features? But even then -- wouldn't Tesla be required to tell the dealer what features the car actually had?
Totally! But look at the 1800-1900 mark, what were the emissions then? It's crazy just how little CO2 was released that made that sharp flow immediately start, I would have thought the would be some ramp up phase, but I guess not!

Isn't it amazing how little CO2 from 1800-1900 was released compared to today? But it still kicked off this drastic change in slope?

I'm very skeptical would could in our best efforts globally get down to 1900 levels just given how many more people there are, and they need to eat.
Let's just go back to naked athletics like the good old days of Grecian olympics.
And yet, Windows XP and IE 5 still have a nonzero market share for some reason.
"When NDA prevents using open-source licensing"

It doesn't. It just means the PlayStation 4 parts are simply not open-source. MonoGame is available under the MS-PL, and MIT-alike. The PlayStation 4 backend is available under non-open-source terms to authorized PlayStation 4 developers.
Thanks for doing the work to get the RMS noise and signal levels.

Yeah just casually comparing it to other random videos and podcasts, IMO it's really noticeable.

I was going to post a screenshot comparison of that between all 3 videos but it's probably not worth the effort. It's tricky to compare just by hearing because headphone quality plays a massive difference. On some headphones you can't hear anything but on others you hear all sorts of stuff.

Here's a funny story... I recorded a video course once, and even with a dynamic mic, RDX, etc. a crow was going BERSERK outside of my window, like you would think it was having a fight to the death with a pterodactyl.

Since the video came out pretty nice, I decided to keep it in as a joke since it didn't last too long, and during a spot where it was super loud I decided to throw up a 1 second picture of a crow.

Since the course has come out, I've had about 20 people e-mail me asking me why I showed a crow picture while talking about Docker. Turns out, they couldn't hear it even after I mentioned why I did it and requested to them to play it back a few times in a loop at max volume. Some headphones are just mechanically limited to not emit certain frequencies. Sadly, these are common frequencies in voice, instruments and random background noises that humans can hear.

A pair of MDRV6s can go a long ways. It's no wonder they are used in almost every recording studio.
I think if someone is so good that the obstacle between them and a world record (or even placing in the top X%) is just a piece of gear, then they are likely to be sponsored. That calculus is easy for the shoe manufacturers. If you can give someone a pair of shoes, and have them perform in the top 10% of every athlete in that sport, you do that all day. Where that cutoff point is is kind of up to the manufacturer.

Unfortunately, there will always be people on the bubble, whether it's from an equipment affordability perspective, or performance. It's still true with your solution. Additionally, the more rules you impose, the weirder shoe manufacturer behavior gets.
Climate change deniers mainly deny the human influence on climate, so even if you can convince them the earth is heating up, it's still a "natural process".
>I would have noticed this weird term in random text in the past.

Well, no so weird, I'm not a native english speaker, and I've seen the term hundreds of times over the years...

It's also quite common on HN:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
“Oil and gas companies use cloud computing so I’m not going to work on cloud computing” doesn’t seem much more valid to me than “child pornographers use encryption so I’m not going to work on encryption”. It’s a technology that exists, and people will use it to further their goals no matter what you personally do.

There is a simple, well-established way for society to discourage certain activities without damaging the shared infrastructure for other activities. It’s called a tax. If the externalities you (we) are concerned about were reflected in a carbon tax, it would not be up to individual employees to disproportionately risk their livelihoods and families like this. The project spreadsheet would come out differently for a reason that directly corresponds to the societal problem.

So to me the moral imperative is to make sure that tax comes into existence, rather than making a not-very-impactful personal sacrifice that you may or not be able to afford.
> LGBTQ people were treated well, and in no way discriminated against

I know don't know where you've worked, but I would maybe reach out to some current or former LGBTQ coworkers and ask them if that's in line with their evaluation. In my experience, that discrimination _isn't_ very visible
For multiplicative values, 1 is effectively the zero axis.
There are architectures that are just fundamentally C-hostile. Perhaps the most famous one is 6502. No efficient way to implement stack based parameter passing, generic pointer arithmetic, and lots of other bits and pieces.

You can still use C on 6502, it's just not very fast.

I guess you could define another language that mostly looks like C, but built around particular CPU architecture quirks.
I want to pay once for something that works as advertised. If I buy a car and the airbags are bad they will fix it. If I buy a device and the software fails I expect it is fixed too. I'm not asking for features, I'm asking for bug fixes, which if you had a perfect text plan would already be fixed.
I suppose that's true if you never update the OS. If you do, I don't think it's fair to say there's no reason.
The builtins have some optimizations from the compiler and interpreter that Python-defined classes don't benefit from. The dict type especially so, because it's used to implement so many things.
People are using it in the context of "should I take a job that I like more which pays X or should I take a job I like less that pays 2X"

If X is 10k you should go with the 2X job. If X is 150k you should go with the 1x job
The first thing I noticed is that the format grabbed my attention, I liked it too.
This is so ridiculous. Not only are rich countries the biggest polluters per capita, but they're responsible for most of the total emissions since the industrial revolution: https://www.wri.org/blog/2014/05/history-carbon-dioxide-emis...

Any one country isn't enough to make a difference, but we're all in this together, and The West bears more than its fair share of responsibility. Pointing your finger and India and China just makes you look like a selfish hypocrite.
Can't speak for TFA's hardware but suspend/resume works fine on my lenovo x1 6th gen running freebsd, with the only caveat being that I had to load some drivers that were not loaded by default. (I think it was called acpi_ibm. Manpage says that's for the Fn key combos, maybe it was something else.)

FWIW, suspend/resume is probably the worst, fiddliest thing about free OSs on a laptop.
The angle is virtue signaling and potstirring. Its low hanging fruit to earn plaudits and make it seem like you're doing something. In reality like you said there is nothing to indicate the employees were fired for being gay or trans or whatever. The later reference to 'concentration camps' drives home the kind of person this guy is. Gay and trans people should be disgusted this person is using them in such a dishonest way to score points.
Landships sound like the plot of some dystopian future film; ecosteaders fight off the scavenger bands.
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It's also a moderately different can of worms to work on projects like breaking enemy encryption during a war (Turing), building and programming more and more powerful computers to help design nuclear weapons (von Neumann), developing a network protocol for DARPA's national computer network (Cerf and Kahn), building microchips for bombers and missiles (Fairchild Semiconductor), and it goes on from there.

Clearly, optimizing targeted advertising on the internet is a higher moral calling.
These people are delusional. Good riddance and good luck finding employment elsewhere.
"If it takes [mistruth] to get [policy change I want], isn't that a good thing?" vs. education and truth? Where does that slippery slope end?
Alphabet is 70% held by institutional investors so those investors might ignore something like this. Insiders are reported to hold just under 6% of the shares and the remainders are out on the market. The holders of the 30% of shares not held by institutional investors may have a good question as to who exactly owns Alphabet and who gets to set its direction.

There are employee-owned companies and worker cooperatives out there. Alphabet isn't one of them. The cost of buying up all the shares to turn it into such a thing looks fairly large at the current market rate.
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That same argument justifies slavery because it was legal, since slavery makes profits. Your argument is also subject to the ad-hominem logical fallacy [1], and does not actually counter the idea that Google is harming society and that employees should contribute their efforts elsewhere. Additionally, this appears to be the author's attempt to change society, to the greatest extent they can do that is unique to them. They do however, volunteer extensively, in their "Beyond Google" section, weakening a significant part of your ad-hominem argument.

Overall, the author is right in trying to promote people to leave Google, as remaining quiet weakens the whole point of them leaving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
- How many Apollo 11 guidance computers would you need to run Doom?
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"borders become irrelevant"

On the contrary, citizens become more nationalistic. The pendulum will swing right again. EU falling apart already due to it.
>You start with an _empty_ array, then (somehow) set the third element of that array? That makes very little sense.

Well, there's no reason a language could not initialize an empty array to some initial capacity, either on declaration or when you add an indexed element.
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Nice visuals/UX, contributing to a better understanding of changes.

FYI, happened last year: Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed’. Government made the right choice, but a few (prosperous already) affected by making less money complained: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/norway-oil-drillin...
I've seen a lot of tutorials about getting a rails app to run with docker, but this one is more complete than most. There is some good stuff here.
> One cannot publicly criticize a company while enjoying cushy paychecks fueled by those very activities they despise.

Quitting one's job is disruptive enough that it's reasonable for one to make several good faith attempts to make changes from the inside before pulling the trigger. And that includes making public critiques as people from every industry do all the time.

There are of course cases where one only gives lip service in order to gain social karma points while continuing to rake in the dough. But separating those cases from the actions of reasonable, ethical people takes more than setting a "one bit" Manichean flag for hypocrisy.

Don't get me wrong-- skepticism should be used when assessing any critique by someone still collecting a paycheck. But rejecting all such claims out of hand strikes me as flip and extreme. Or at least doing so requires a persuasive argument, and you did not provide one.
What I do is I let the cat catch the dot, and right where the dot was, throw a treat. So it's almost like the treat came out as a response to cat catching the dot. I could automate this, but I won't because it's so much fun for me too.

She loves it. I also make a 'buzzing' sound with my mouth whenever the dot is out. This does an amazing job at training the cat to come running to me whenever I make that 'zzzzzz' sound (which can save their lives at times).
Eh, that just seems like a matter of where you set your standards. The environment shifted to slightly reduce the barrier to be horrible, revealing which people were below the new waterline. IMO, if all it took to be horrible to others is a little anonymity and/or groupthink, you weren't that decent a person to begin with.
Most inexpensive mics ($100-$400) are cardioid only, but I’d say the most important information is how to do placement. Beginners think in terms of pointing the microphone at a sound source you want to pick up, but you should also think about what directions the microphone rejects and point the mic away from noise sources you don’t want to hear.

That, and stop putting the mic so damn close to your mouth.
The problem is that as long as you remain an employee, you have a LEGAL obligation to act in the interests of the Corporation. That is the nature of Fiduciary Duty - something all employees are legally bound by.

You may "voice your concerns" all you like, but while you're an employee, it is your duty to ACT in accordance with the directions you're given, and in the absence of explicit direction, in the interests of the company.
We are a bunch of extremely aggressive, highly intelligent gadflies and that’s the way we like it
Please - cash your big checks built on the back of misery and then complain to the company about their violent attacks on your "physical security".

You don't need to change your job - but if you are getting paid very well to do a job, then posting long internet postings about how terrible it is to work at an "important organization" risks getting you some eye-rolls.
I agree it's not tremendously difficult to learn. The problem is that many people don't have the instinct to learn it. If left to their own devices, they'll just write code satisfying whatever requirements they're given, without any impulse to discuss or question what the requirements should be. I've seen many times where another team said "oh you shouldn't do X, you've gotta do Y instead", and a junior teammate of mine just accepted Y as another requirement instead of thinking about whether it was the right way to go.

So you don't want to give people the level of independent responsibility a senior title carries unless they've already learned how to avoid that.
If they stuff them only into laptops with 8GB RAM, 1080p displays and no Thunderbolt, it won't change much either (see Lenovo).
It’s still Tetris I guess, but have you tried Tetris Effect?
Wow, this is something that's been bugging me constantly. Thanks for the tip.
Someone should make a wikimedia for various cooking techniques.

That would actually be useful, unlike this random assortment of non-curated recipes.
this person is definitely mentally ill and does not realize they live in a bubble
The question is, whether that dealer bought the car with the autopilot included. If yes, he can sue Tesla, if not, then it was ok for Tesla to disable it. And the updates point to the fact, that the car was sold without autopilot as a feature.
Rest heart rate and life expectancy (1997)
One way to approach this perhaps is to look at emissions per capita. Norway, as an example, is a way bigger offender (or at least has been, haven’t check recent data) than China by this metric.

And it _is_ a political problem at this point. You cant really demand change from people around you if you’re not prepared to do the same yourself.
Is your argument that because something is legal, it's ethical? I want to make sure I understand your assertion.
So you are okay with this guy dishonestly connecting Google disciplining this workers for an unrelated issue to LGBT rights?

Would you be okay with a story from FoxNews saying Dems has a policy of targeting black people because they happened to throw out a black activist disrupting their meeting in the name of gun rights?
The article references some google trends data on electronic dance music, but if you query for EDM instead you get a different picture: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2010-01-01%202....

I don't follow the EDM scene personally, so I don't know if interest has been on the decline in recent years.
> the President of the United States has no effect on the country

Thats not remotely analogous as the point is about the effects of the magical disappearance of google on humanity. Your analogy wouldnt be how the disappearance of a PotUS would not cripple the US, as that contradicts your view...which I have difficulty grasping.
Buses in bay area and in SF take forever as well
>Don't know if this could actually be the case in practice, but theoretically the ordering could allow for a timing attack to glean some bit of information when performing a linear scan of the map (size of the map, relative location of the data, etc).

An attack where the attacker has access to your ...program code and can run instructions there?
In that case, leaks from a "timing attack" would be the least of your worries...

If they just provide an input to your program somehow externally, then whether you put that input into a map or an ordered map or not is an implementation detail. You could make your program rid of the "timing attack" in 100s of ways... (or have one, in 100s of ways). That doesn't make an ordered map more unsafe than any of the 1000s of ways to have a timing attack.
In general, in Linux it's best to run TR1 and TR2 in NUMA mode. Not sure about TR3.
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In which part of there is no point in trying to argue "fairness" in who-gets-what if "fairness" is not the point of the Welfare State am I losing you?