skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Grad students aren't even really workers

"As part of its commitment to transparency and public accountability, each year the University of California publicly reports employee pay data. The report covers UC's career faculty and staff employees, as well as part-time, temporary and student employees." [1]

I think the commonly accepted definition of worker is someone who is an employee and not a manager. Grad students are pretty clearly employees, according to the UC system.

[1] https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/
Can a USB device posing as a keyboard also supply charging voltage?
If that's the case, they should consider some kind of official statement that they'll provide support until at least X date.
So what happens when more people start using ad blockers and advertisers move more toward FB where ads are harder to block and better targeted?

Out of the major tech companies - Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google.

Google is one of the least diversified and has been the least able to pivot over the past decade.
You're assuming consciousness is a single bit, when that's not even true in humans. How "conscious" are you when slowly waking up? It varies by circumstance, too, e.g. I'd say I'm certainly less explicitly self-aware when I'm walking a familiar route and not thinking about much than when pondering my place in the universe. It's easy to imagine a mind that only had the first kind of experience. We don't even need to consider easy cases of variable consciousness like sleep (maybe with lucid dreams), sedation, coma, etc.

Consciousness is a matter of degree, and there's no hard evidence about how low the scale goes.
Theres a Greg Egan book - Schilds ladder which has something like this, very quantumy.
Read the article because I was curious what major the grad students had, but was disappointed in the journalist not detailing this fact. In my mind it does make a difference. I doubt the students were in math for example.
You don't need to buy hardware for Stadia (sort of). At the moment, I do think you need to be invited by an existing member, to get an activation code , without buying the "founder's edition" - which is a controller and a chromecast ultra.

But in general, you don't need either of those things to play games on stadia. You can use any controller (or kb/m, and any device that runs chrome, AFAIK).
I really don't think the results would be significantly different.

I tried to make changes and run his benchmarks, however the DB seeding is in Rust and it fails to compile on my machine....
I just don't see the market for this. Powerful computers are becoming cheaper and cheaper; the PC game market is continuing to expand.

I don't see the comparison to other cloud media services like Netflix or Hulu- on Stadia, you have to pay for the service AND the individual items, instead of just the service. As far as I know, there isn't any other business like this. I don't think this is appealing to consumers.
Biological pigment that acts as nature's sunscreen set for space journey
Two reasons. First the drug could provide better results than the most perect diet it is worth researching period. It is under fewer constraints than an organic system.

Second, because the theoretical good and the actual results don't align. We could end many STDs by only monogamously coupling for a generation but that isn't going to happen and virginity pledges haven't helped at all.

If "the right way" doesn't actually help in practice can it even be called right?
It’s easy to sit in an armchair and claim you’ve found the moral and ethical solution, but there are moral, ethical, and logistical ramifications to instituting a two-week quarantine on all overseas travelers including loss of life.

Are you also going to quarantine every pilot and flight attendant for two weeks each time they land, given their close proximity to possibly infected passengers? What is the point of a quarantine if it’s been shown we can’t reliably detect all cases (when dealing with such volumes)?
My husband lived in Tulsa for a while, and he grew up outside Tulsa in Sand Springs. We both were in Tulsa for a few years. Unless something major changes in the last few years, Anything worth exploring in Tulsa can be seen in a couple days. Going outside of Tulsa in all the little towns- Skiatook, Bartlesville, Sand Springs, Cleveland, Mannford — people will look at you as if you landed from Mars. It’s some of the most backwards, racist places. These aren’t great places to live or raise a family.
In the abstract you're right that equality is subtle and complicated, but it seems to me that in practice, most practicing software engineers just want value-equality on garden-variety data structures most of the time (remember == for Strings in Java?), and that for this use-case, a leaky abstraction is fine--preferable, even. At least, the alternative--forcing users to consider the subtleties of equality even in circumstances where it can be safely ignored and having them memorize dozens of cryptic equality operator names--is excessive and unnecessary.
The “Double GP Glitch” of Dodonpachi Explained
You did the math!
As they should have done much sooner. If you refuse to do your job, you don't deserve to have that job. Plain and simple.
Fungi found in Chernobyl feeds on radiation, could protect astronauts
The ultimate "Initial commit". Care to share some reading on this that you found interesting/intriguing/enlightening?
Another piece of fluff software reinventing the wheel for profit. I can have most of those features with a decent .nanorc config.
It's Mardi Gras lol
You're both right, kinda. Geforce Now was in a ..closed-ish beta (you could get in, but they made it seem exclusive) for years. I honestly don't remember if it was called that when it launched. The polished product is what recently 'launched', and configuration is super simple. In fact, it was the xbox controller's instructions I had to turn to to figure out how to put it in bluetooth detection mode.
Feels like this could be a case where DRY could fix a bug in one place
- rather ART

Is Android-specific, created specifically for Android, and it's almost as if the aim here was to develop a cross-platform framework that could at least target the two major mobile OSes in existence, one of which ships with literally zero Java anything. I brought up HotSpot because that's (part of) the canonical, actually-built-to-run-on-multiple-platforms JRE.

- Kotlin/Native

The state of Kotlin/Native is _far_ shabbier than the state of AOT-compiled Dart, and that's in 2020 (not, you know, 2014 when Flutter (then Sky) initially kicked off). It's interesting to me how in discussions like this people act as though the development of the project in question started literally yesterday.
As the name suggests, the "Australian Strategic Policy Institute" is a think tank for Australia's armed forces. It would save the outright lies for special occasions like 2003.

On the other hand, it doesn't pretend to take a neutral point of view. The strategic subtext is to warn Australia's neighbours that "them as makes muslim slaves of Uigurs, want to make ... oh, hang on, we keep forgetting that you're muslim as well ... slaves of you." Which warning will be all the more effective because it's quite possibly true.
You're being downvoted because what you're suggesting is fundamentally impossible and not at all how game netcode works. You're also ignoring many other latency bottlenecks from controller input, monitor refresh rate, client CPU/GPU, server CPU/GPU, the network, and probably others I'm completely unaware of.

At best Google is handling most of the graphics rendering, but those graphics are still being encoded/decoded client side by different hardware. All the other bottlenecks also remain.

50-250ms latencies are game breaking in many contexts and game genres. Google does not sync these latencies between clients because that would also be game breaking. If you're interested in reading more on these topics checkout some of the gamedev literature for Doom and similar "early" FPS titles. They're filled with fascinating hacks for making clients seem like they are in sync when the truth is anything but.
They’re pretty good though. And also cheaper. The same argument could be made of chips.
At least via shield tv, typing is the absolute worst, I agree. However, I've only had to log in to steam once, now it just does it behind the scenes. It's actually kinda hacky, you can see it launch Steam, launch the window, then maximize. That said, it only takes about 5 seconds to launch a game this way.
I could be wrong, but I've always thought this was connected to Burning Man (masks are functional there).
This is a great read:

https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.html/

Never mind the clickbait-ey domain. Lyle McDonald is a nutrition authority and well respected. Though on forums he’s self-admittedly volatile.
Horse racing is the only parimutuel wagering (you are directly wagering against the people around you via pools) in the US, but it is dying-- slowly being replaced by slot machines. There is so much data, almost wholly controlled by 2 companies: Equibase and DRF, and the former is the only one who remotely offers data in a non-pdf manipulable XML format. The entire industry kind of missed the boat in promoting data accessibility and novel handicapping applications (MLB/NBA/NFL are just now getting on board, but horse wagering by nature is very historical performance based venture), it has always been a 'me first' mentality full of proprietary applications and formats. Combine this mentality with states legalizing slots and people preferring to click a button and hear a bell instead of looking at a page full of numbers and using their brains, and you'll see why handle is down ~50% over the last 15 years and tracks who don't get slots through state legislatures end up closing.
I think the point being made is that when the government bears the cost of the externality it is more incentivized to address root causes, as it is a direct driver of savings. I am always looking for this sort of alignment of incentives when structuring a project, and it takes some effort but when you can find it it's dynamite.
hey, I'm interested in checking this out.
please contact me via the email in my bio.

Would love to buy this.
Qt has a company behind so is more professional, better documentation, better cross platform support, less bugs.

This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0 is about the reasons Subsurface (a diving app started by Linus Torvalds) changed from GTK to Qt. Things might have improved from GTK I can't tell and also for simpler GUIs GTK might be enough.
> There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it that I have been able to discern.

In sufficiently complex software, things can appear to be random (or magic), even when they are neither. — I seldom trust myself to declare something random in computer technology, just because I haven’t figured out the pattern (yet).
Hobbyist devs: Learning Git can make you a better developer
Everyone gets micromanaged for a moment until they move on. On your first day, someone micromanages showing you where the restrooms are and how the breakroom works. Then they never do it a second time.

In practice, you can revisit even a small point like taking notes as often as the other person finds experimenting with your advice makes her a better engineer.
I'm putting 5 years on when it overtakes buying the console in market share.
I'm not too sure who this reflects badly on: You, me or those "consulting partners".

I can quite happily make money without invoking Satan or Oracle/SAP/Cisco as you choose to call him. What on earth is an Adobe? Sounds like a real earth element, probably worthless unlike the real ones.
I had that happen to a test redis instance on aws (my bad for missing the port auto-routing in the cloudformation script I was trying out). About 24 hours and a bot had placed what I think was a Bitcoin mining program on it through the redis persistence mechanism.
That looks cool, but I prefer each of my monitors to have a 4k resolution, not all of them combined to 1080p.
Apple already had it's own standard in place before Miracast was created.

The audio only version of AirPlay (AirTunes) goes back a decade before Miracast, and the version that also supports video predates Miracast by two years.

It would be nice to be able to add an iOS plugin to add system wide support for Miracast instead of just having some apps choose to support it.
> I am inclined to believe this is accurate

You shouldn't. Almost everything ughyur and xinjiang related has pretty much been shown to be propaganda and from highly questionable sources. You should be inclined towards skepticism.

> however I don’t know anything about the organization producing the report.

It's literally australian government/defense propaganda.

"The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a non-partisan defence and strategic policy think tank based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, founded by the Australian government and partly funded by the Australian Department of Defence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_In...

Not saying the treatment of ughyurs are good or bad, but the first casualty in every war is the truth.

The more interesting question is how does government propaganda make it to the frontpage without much pushback?
I'm not really saying any of those choices is wrong (although clearly you can make design mistakes that make the leaks problematic, if you pick (c)). It's more that none of them are clearly right.

Really I'm rejecting the idea that that equality as presented in CL was any of: wrong, design by committee, or something we have learned do better since '84.

There are historical artifacts in CL that aren't great (cf filesystem stuff) but this wasn't a good example in my opinion.

I hear your argument - not fully convinced other than in a 80/20 sense. And CL was not designed as a language to leave the 20% out in the cold.

To be fair I don't find clojure compelling as a lisp but I don't think I'm being biased in above.
"I don’t trust Oracle enough to stop pretending that Graal doesn't exist."

Did I parse that correctly as: "I don't trust Oracle, therefore I pretend Graal doesn't exist"?
>That is, you’re just not that hungry. Or if you eliminate an entire meal (IF), you ”save” a ton of calories.

Or you replace high calorie food with food that does not have much calories. Like lettuce salad, which has like 17kcal. Then you would need to eat over 10kg lettuce salad to get the required 2000 kcal. That is hard to do and hard to overeat
In our BigCo they've already instituted the "tell on your officemate" policy which is easy to do thanks to the beautiful densely packed open floor plan. So we're prepared and will do great.
It's in bionic updates.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic-updates/firefox

http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_73.0.1+b...
I have to say that I don't really recognise that thing about using JDK classes. I've worked with Clojure for 2 years on a big government project (maybe 50 Clojure devs) and it was full-stack Clojure all the way down. We never used any Java libraries either, but of course basic Java/JS interop is a pretty normal occurrence in Clojure when doing a certain type of code (like reading and writing certain binary files to disk, you'd probably reach for the Java Standard Library). For 99% you need no interop in Clojure. ClojureScript is a bit different as you often do need to access HTML elements or various singleton objects like js/window or js/document and have to use JS interop.
Shinola?

https://www.shinola.com/power-supply-5-port-usb.html - $185 power supply
We need to be able to live alongside and get along with people who think differently than us, or we'll just keep getting more polarized.
The graduate students had union protection. They chose to disregard the contract the union had negotiated and membership had ratified in 2018 thus throwing away that union protection.
Is there anything that actually builds the pipeline for you?
Maybe the number of anthropology researchers we deem appropriate as a society is actually not that high.

Maybe if these people want to do anthropology research, they can, but at their own expense.

When I was looking into doing grad school, I had no illusions that if I went in without a grant that I'd be doing anything other than scraping by. I have no idea why anyone would expect anything else.
I'm sorry about partially misinterpreting your words - it was not intentional. I'm getting myself a cup of coffee to improve my level of attention for the rest of the day. :-) Anyway, I'm glad that we're on the same page on the core issue discussed.
It's interesting to me how a company like Google can still do things so half-assedly. You'd kind of expect with their resources, they'd to flirt with an idea, then if they commit, to do it fully. Like, wildly cheap, subsidized gaming solution until they own the market and then turn up the price.

The only answer I can come up with is, "this _is_ their version of flirting with an idea." In which case I think the problem is nobody else realises that given the scale and price tag.
Vienna, Austria - Friday around noon, multiple supermarkets, urban

Water: didn't notice (tap water is perfectly fine here), but pallets of canned beer, soft drinks or energy drinks (???) in nearly every shopping cart.

Food: no "panic", but (nearly) empty shelfs for the cheaper varieties of dried pasta, rice, flour, sugar, canned chili con carne / goulash and so on. Shopping carts fuller than normal. But no shortage for almost all other products.

Sanitary: low stock on toilet paper, almost no stock on soap and sanitizer.

Supermarkets more crowded than normally at this time, shopping carts fuller than normal. People even joked when queuing at the cashier that this is just their normal weekend shopping (piling 60 rolls of toilet paper on top of the cart).

This was shortly after the Austrian government presented rules for handling COVID-19 and told people there is no reason to panic, while journalists reported on the first "Hamsterkäufe", low stock and rising prices. Half a week before Austria had no confirmed cases, now its 8 in Vienna and 14 in whole Austria, but likely to rise with new announcements on Monday.
Yes that is the elephant in the room. Another one is infection and esp. death of medical personnel. There will be severe tests of every country's medical system.
With prisons the government bears the cost, and would benefit if fewer people were in prison. In practice, it has lead to for profit prisons and judicial corruption.
> They need to prove to the world that they can long-term commit to major challenges even if they are suffering in the short-term.

Isn't that Waymo?

Disclsure: Work at Google, but opinions are my own.
Is your question: Do real devices do this? None that I'm aware of. Are they allowed to do this? I would be astonished if the USB-C specification has a big list of what is or is not allowed to volunteer power, seems like just an opportunity to fail more than necessary.

But anyway, suppose phones are smart enough to refuse to charge from a keyboard. These cable are remote controlled. So you plug in your phone, it charges... and then a minute later when you're distracted it gets told the charger went away... and now here's a keyboard. Attack in progress.

I reckon you could work out a procedure e.g. pretend to be power for 90 seconds, supposing experience teaches that's how long people take to forget they plugged the phone in. Then, turn the power off. Watch. An attentive user may notice, unplug their phone and try again thinking the cable may be faulty. Re-enable power when the phone vanishes. If not, after giving them say 30 seconds to notice switch to keyboard mode. Or you could just wing it. A lot of good physical penetration testers "wing it" all the time.
I had a similar experience. It took me a long time to find out if "personal hotspot" is turned on, iPhone will always ask to trust when connecting to a computer.
> 87% of Americans do not have pensions.

By “pensions” do you mean defined benefit plans only?
The oil oligarchs strongly opposed renewable energy because it would simply replace oil, gas and coal consumption. New governmental regulations that forbid their companies from selling their products are of no use to them. If you don't believe me, do a google search on: fossil fuels stranded assets.
More Young People Are Lonely – and They're Using Drink and Drugs to Help
Why should they expect a living wage for sub-demand fields of research? Why do my choices to achieve financial stability override my experience prior to that? When you're from a poor family the decisions that these striking students are making are befuddling.
Last week some nice folks assured me tooling was good in Clojure; and not a total time suck, and so I'm getting ready to take the jump I think... but, one thing I'm still really skeptical about... is embodied in this paragraph:

> The way the languages are integrated today, Clojure developers doing full-stack development don’t really have to think about data serialisation/deserialisation. Writing code for frontend and backend differ mostly just in the way that the different implementations access the host platform. The functional aspects of Clojure, especially the immutability and focus on referential transparency, ensure that source code is mostly split into chunks of highly portable code, with the host-interop conveniently put aside in its own sections. You can move code between frontend and backend at your leisure.

Is it really that good using Clojure across environments and runtimes?

I ask because I tried all of this with Scala years ago (I loved the language) and Ruby to an extent, but it was pretty miserable or rather there was really no reward but more effort on my part. I.e. I'd spend more time annotating, bridging, and learning how to interact with the different runtime than I would writing actual feature code[1].

Or like what are the killer libraries everyone loves? Do they (libs/frameworks) support different clojure runtimes ("hosts?") outta the box? Is it easy to write "pure clojure" projects that work for any clojure project?

The one I know about or have heard most about was Datatomic, which always sounded freakin' brilliant, but I don't fucks with non-free databases. Arcadia I just saw and it looks cool but, it also seems like a dumb mountain to climb, if that's how I wanted to start screwing around with Clojure.

[1] Tools like Scala/ScalaJS and RubyMotion (back in the day, heh), were the reasons I ended up a polyglot. They're great tools, if you know the platform, if you don't, you're pretty much still fucked... but once you know the platform it's kind of hard to want to use them.
The nice thing about GLib/GObject is that you can use it from any language that has C interop, which is practically every language.

And that works even better now with GObject Introspection, which provides a generic way to access any GObject-based library from any language (kind of like COM's typelibs or WinRT's projections):
https://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Notes on Note-Taking [pdf]
It must be awful to have to settle for the 50th percentile income in an area as a brand new worker.
Whereas I from the Curated Garden fanclub want the ability to wander through the garden to enjoy the scenery and eat the fruit without having to understand the first thing about gardening, or how to identify fruit that are not safe to eat (the gardener does that) or which plants aren’t safe to touch (gardener takes care of not letting dangerous plants into the garden).

Does this mean that certain attractive but dangerous plants will be excluded from the garden? Yes, but that is by design.

If you want to bear the risk of toxic fruit and poisonous plants and feel that you can do as good a job as my gardener, go ahead and build your own garden. I won’t visit because I do my care for spending time to distinguish grass that is safe to lay on from grass that will poison me.