skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aeolipile was literally the first item discussed in the OP.
Well, the "why not just" approach would be:

- Traffic violation if you enter the intersection when the light is RED.

- Traffic violation if your speed increases at all when the light is YELLOW.

- Yellow light must last at least Ty = A * L + T where: L is the posted speed limit, A is a accelleration that lawmaker must be exposed to 100 1-5sec intervals of annually before renewing the law establishing values for A and T for that year, and T is a reaction time that lawmakers must consistently (ie 100/100 tests) be able to meet (also annually).
You guys sure love your holocaust story.
Yes. I want to pay $500/user-month and get all the internal services and support of a big company, but for my small company. I want all the dev and ops tools to be chosen and integrated already, with maintained tutorials. This product can accelerate innovation.
Also, the problem of trust. Lying in an attempt to fool search engines and bring in more traffic is quite widespread on the web as is.
I really don't understand this backing of the state here.

There is a vast gulf between stating one is an engineer, which many people are, and that one is a PE.

Reminds me of zero tolerance rules at schools, where adults claim that they can't understand the difference between two very different things.
Yes the wages are low - but you have to compare the wage to cost of living vs just the currency transaction.

Also it is wholly incorrect to equate low wages with forced and unpaid labor.

Similarly, disregarding the whole concentration camp, torture, and murder as being a meaningless distinction is immoral.
Microsoft is a pale shade of its former self. Many argue that Ballmer departure was a good thing™. But I am sure it was the tipping point for a progressing irrelevancy. The situation is unlikely to change any time soon. Microsoft is bloodless and dying.

Azure brings them cool money now, but that's a temporary thing. Fast forward some years and they will degenerate into a hosting company.

Why? Because software is the king. The cost of software distribution is negligible, and hardware is commodity.

How? Imagine Kubernetes + Digital Ocean combo. Are they a big threat to Azure? Not at all. Digital Ocean is sweet and beloved, but Kubernetes is hard and clunky.

Now imagine a piece of software that eliminates all deficiencies. Let's call it The Killer. Now we have The Killer + Digital Ocean combo vs Azure. And not only Digital Ocean participates, take any other VPS or cloud-rental company. Take any other computer in the world.

Azure the Goliath will be defeated by millions of Davids in a blink of an eye.

Microsoft the company is going to face a harsh reality. And given the direction it follows today, it will have negligible chances of survival by then.
You wrote a lot but I am struggling to see your point. The TAs tried holding student grades hostage as leverage in their strike. Now some are withholding those grades for work they reviewed out of spite after being fired. They are hurting innocent students and potentially wrecking/derailing careers and lives. This latter part is a fact. The difference is that sone people here think this is an acceptable price to pay for the TAs to make more money. The rest of us think that’s a BS position.
The exec in charge of Stadia wouldn't be the one who makes the decision to drop it though. Her job is literally to keep the thing going until it's dropped.
Health security theater catches about half of cases.

It's not security theatre when it's that effective. It provides real benefits in terms of slowing the spread of the disease.

Wouldn't the prudent step be to globally announce a two-week quarantine of all arriving passengers?

The practicalities of that make it pretty difficult. And it means that large numbers of people who don't have the disease will be kept near those who do, meaning some of them are likely to die. (As happened on the cruise ship). I don't think the morals and ethics of this are as obvious as you are making out.
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I believe docs and sheets were from their acquisition of Writely in the mid 2000s, not something that's homegrown.

I wouldn't call docs and sheets good by any means; they're passable at most, with tons of missing features.
surprised to see vala is first class now. it's right there in the code binding snippet example.
I’d argue that the ability to go from one paradigm to the next indicates a scalable pattern. So for example, a country with real human rights and labor laws wouldn’t shift into this paradigm until it went through all the steps. China is one step removed from slave labor.

I have no data to back this up other than I think they have giant factories that make stuff for a couple cents on the hour.
The UC System has been defunding their academic positions and putting billions of money into upper management positions for generations. [0]

"UAW local 2865, a labor union representing UC student workers and teaching assistants, recently estimated in over two decades about $1 billion dollars have been wasted in upper-level UC administrative costs. UC Berkeley Professor Charles Schwartz, who has conducted extensive research on this subject, estimated that the total cost of UC administrative bloat had been $600 million per year. He has also estimated that UCLA in particular squanders about $54 million per year, the most out of all the UC’s."

0. https://scaleatucla.weebly.com/ucla-senior-management-growth...
Point of any measures would be to slow the spread of COVID19 and reduce the likelihood of an overwhelming wave of infections that cripples the health system, resulting in greater loss of life than otherwise would occur and unrelated mortality due to said impact on health system.

Selective travel bans would seem to be just as effective for this, and a lot more practical.
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Good job, never used Data studio, it looks like a nice way to make quick prototypes.
I wonder if anyone might be interested in using a single API to get all the data instead of scraping it from different sources at this point. The API I did for my project (https://coronavirus.gg) might serve this purpose, if anyone is interested...
If there’s no other choice...
Looks like a great product, will checkout!

Curious, how do you do your change log? Is it automated or do you just update a page/doc?
Meh, it works well enough. I’d ask Napolitano or the UCSC faculty whose grad students are striking if it’s working extremely well for them. Grants are scarce. CA negotiated a single contract for grad students across nine different campuses all over a huge state, and no one seems happy with the outcome...sure I’d rather be chancellor, but ‘extremely well’ is a stretch
Is that possible? Presumably Valve controls the firmware on those devices.
Proposing, designing, building, maintaining, scaling, duplicating, etc complex systems that handle billions of dollars in commerce a year, billions of events a day, petabytes of data, etc.

Successfully doing that is a lot, lot more than being just a software "developer".
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Article provides really some terrible examples of IPOs that failed. All of those companies were unable to deliver revenue even close to what were asummed during private investement rounds. System is not broken and it punishes disfunctiinal businesses pretty well.
“The Times so dominates the news business that it has absorbed many of the people who once threatened it: The former top editors of Gawker, Recode, and Quartz are all at The Times, as are many of the reporters who first made Politico a must-read in Washington.”

It’s the double-edge sword of our new world. As our world is moving faster than laws, there’s this tangential excuse that all these companies use as competitors for why their once markets, are completely evaporating. Sure Ben’s argument isn’t the greatest (listicles had to happen to pay for the News division). I’m just disheartening that for the time being it just seems the nature of the game. The room is either niche or a oversized conglomerate of algorithm-based decision making...and not always the good kind.
> Does Google's inability to diversify its revenue stream make it more vulnerable to disruption than say, Amazon, in the long run?

Yes. If ads went away, Google would collapse. Google's core search experience is not that good any more, though it's still the best in town; you have to wonder what would happen if Amazon or Facebook decided to actually go after search in a serious way.
These graduate students are TAing labs. It's nowhere near a full time job.
Slave wages? How do you figure? Are you comparing eg Foxconn wages to wages of Western workers in Western factories? If so then that’s a ridiculous comparison to make because COL and culture are so different.
Which just underlies the problem with unions: not only they are compulsory institutions that force you into their ranks whether you want it or not, but even those who join them don't get a fair representation and have to strike on their own.
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Sure you want to get in an airplane?
I think this is an important point.

The grad students want more pay because housing is so damn expensive in Santa Cruz. Why is it expensive? Because the city refuses to build enough.

If their pay doesn't go up, I assume more an more applicants will just pass on Santa Cruz and go for a school where housing is more reasonable and their pay covers most of their expenses.
Sometimes thinking of an idea is the hardest step after all.

How many of us have just sat there how many times, with all the tools we could need at our disposal, but not sure of what to do with them?
> If there is a working application of fog nets feel free to post a link with actual photos and number of litres recovered.

Did you look at the linked video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4GHGBov15U

I share your skepticism about most of these "projects", but I think this one might at least be real. They claim 200-400L per day from 60 nets currently in operation, and show video of a bunch of ~3m x ~4m nets in operation.

> It only can happen around the ocean where it's pretty much rain, but it doesn't rain and the saltwater contaminates the water supply and you own rich sea side housing but can't pipe it in from a near by town.

The video (somewhat to my surprise) pointed out that a subset of these caveats are indeed requirements. It requires fog, and a light breeze. It does not however require that the seaside housing be "rich", nor that it be even be housing. In the examples shown, the area is next-door to a slum, and the water is being used for small-scale crop irrigation on otherwise unusable land.

I think this may actually be an example of good news coverage. Please check out the video and report back whether you stand by your #fakenews conclusion.

(There are comments on the video saying that Abel, the purported inventor, is fraudulently claiming that these are his own invention, and that in fact the prototypes were designed by visiting Dutch or Israeli students. But I consider this separate from the claim that that technology is necessarily fake, as opposed to just extremely site specific.)
I agree.

My hope is that I am as ignorant about our society's capacity to bootstrap important technologies, as I am in my own capacity to do so.
The resale market props up Apple retaiy prices and profits.
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Capitalist class? The government owned and run UC system?
I don't think you can call multiple elements to a protocol a "confounding factor".

Study: "wearing a mask and washing your hands has been shown to stop infection."

Critic: "This study is worthless, it can show which of these procedures was effective!"

Study: "uh, err..."

Confounding factors would uncontrollable factors that people couldn't implement themselves. People can clearly wash their hands and wear masks.
We don’t know her life to say this wasn’t her best choice.

Besides that, people with different backgrounds and life experiences bring different things to the table which is great for a research environment.

If everyone came from the same background and experiences it wouldn’t be great for research.
Because they want to keep getting Chinese money. It’s that simple. Same reason the NBA will work to expand in China despite the outcry of Western fans lol

China found the ultimate life hack: money. Who they can’t buy they will either try to kill or starve economically.
Okay, so here is a question for you. What would virtual slave wages look like if it actually existed in this world (I’ll operate on the supposed fact it doesn’t exist)? And to follow up, what would a society reliant on that labor be like?
You can do better than binary search here with interpolation search since the data is equidistributed. (You can do it for any data with a known distribution, but it's unlikely to be worth it for any data set that isn't linearly distributed.)

Roughly, instead of picking at 1/2 every time, you pick b/256 in, where b is the current byte value. That gets you log log n search. (You can of course pick 2 bytes, or 3, or...)
Sure, but the person I was responding to didn't talk about the price factor at all; they simply stated it was the best media player.
Not sure if this will help, but with my USB-C monitor the default brightness/contrast is poor, and requires manually fiddling with the settings on every boot/resume from sleep, so I found a Linux utility that does the fiddling for me:

cat ~/bin/brightness
#!/bin/bash
#
echo "increasing brightness/contrast of external monitor"
/usr/local/bin/ddcutil --display 1 setvcp 10 40
/usr/local/bin/ddcutil --display 1 setvcp 12 10

Tie the above in with your init/resume scripts and you're good to go (assumes that your issue isn't limited by the hardware itself).
SUN used to have the SPARKstation Voyager which was meant to be a portable desktop as well.
Workplace stress and cost of living have to be factors. Our generation is stressed out and maxed out in so many ways. Even if you go to a good college, get a good degree and “do everything right” workplaces have no loyalty, they outsource mercilessly, and all the essentials like housing, healthcare, and college cost 10x what our parents generation paid. But hey, we’ve got cheaper TVs and computers... productivity is way up but none of the gains have benefitted workers or society. We need to start taxing billionaires and redistributed wealth to the workers. Enough of this extreme income/wealth inequality.
I tried https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/e38ad

And sure enough:

214943DAAD1D64C102FAEC29DE4AFE9DA3D:2413945

Wow, 2.4 million for "password1". Apparently "123456" is the most common password of all time. Even random phrases and memes I tried were pwned, like "The Lord of the Rings" and "correcthorsebatterystaple"
True, but for some people (not me though lol) if the media is not dropping bombs like “genocide” or “holocaust” then they are lying and enabling the CCP.
A photo can't show people being starved to death. The video you linked to doesn't even show obviously starved people. Why do people feel the need to make up false information instead of letting the facts speak for themselves? Are you afraid somebody will go "oh, just slavery, that's OK, as long as it doesn't look like the holocaust I don't mind."?

Also, that video may be showing conventional criminal prisoners. We don't know.
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I had to have a control board replaced on a Maytag Dryer, under waranty. Since I watched the tech do it, I could not shake from my head -- "this could be a tiny script plus a RPi or an Arduino with a Relay board" Is anyone working on something like that, or are liabilities to great?
> So notice the lambda (i.e. what we are assigning to the variable 'closure') is now capturing v, not x, which is why it doesn't see the change we make to x, i.e., why it returns 2 instead of 4.

Yes, but this goes back to the scoping issue: in python, lambdas (and functions in general) don't capture. The only way to close over something is to pass as an argument. So to get the lexical closure behavior that rust provides, you have to add extra stuff in the python. This indeed makes the translations not mechanical (and you can add the lambda back in the rust, it doesn't hurt anything in these examples), but to get matching scoping behavior between rust and python, you need an extra layer of indirection in the python.

> Bringing in mutable reference data types like vec is I think not really relevent to what's at play here.

Of course it is, because in python everything is a reference. There's no such thing as a value type, and this is precisely where the difference in behavior comes in (other than the scoping issues). A rust RefCell is the thing that most naturally matches the actual in memory representation of a PyObject.

As for your digression, eww, although you forgot to actually do the sneaky part. This would be the actual demonstration, you need to modify the list in the closure (a real closure), and set it after the closure is created and before it is evaluated:

# capture x in a closure
def closure(v):
def inner():
mutate(v, 2)
return v
return inner

capture = closure(ref)

ref.set([3])

> Are you familiar with scheme?

Unfortunately not.
I have formed a pet theory that wheeled luggage was dependent on the invention of roller blades.
Thanks sir, I used react-chartjs (https://github.com/reactjs/react-chartjs).
I am scraping/parsing the website every 30 min for now and then storing the result in a NoSQL db and exposing the result as an API for my frontend. Maybe letting others use my API would be helpful (well, you could use it without my consent without much trouble I guess hehe).
Plus the 'select' predictor from WebP lossless :-)
I only mentioned it as a major contributing factor to her having insufficient financial resources to complete the program. Plainly, she would be able to accept a cheaper housing situation if she did not have a child, and housing is her dominant expense. You yourself called that out, so I don't think it's out of bounds for me to mention it.

What I'd really say is that a single, low-income parent-or-other-person-who-won't-have-roommates should probably not move to Santa Cruz (or Beverly Hills, Monaco, Chelsea, Dumbo, the Chicago Loop, etc.). I get that this is a controversial viewpoint for some folks, but it just seems like fundamental personal finance to me.
Having worked in a company that was more of a PR exercise than something intended to actually generate revenue, it's an interesting mix. You get the time to engineer everything really well, you're encouraged to use the latest technology, go to conferences, and improve your own skills. At its best, it's the same kind of "blue-sky engineering" that you hear about people having done at Xerox Parc or Bell Labs. But without that bit of pressure to actually deliver something, it's very easy to get lost in overengineered architecture, and if someone high up makes a bad design decision it's very hard for the consequences to be brought to bear in a way that matters.
Chromecast has gotten a lot better about not losing connection in the last few years, or maybe it's because I have Pixel phones.

If you have Google Home, the voice control is awesome. I feel like I'm in the future every time I tell it to pause.
Slave wages...sometimes is that or no job at all. BILLIONS of people live on $1-$2 a day, obviously any salary will be less than $65K plus benefits.
I mean you saw they made their democratic endorsement a joke because they now wanted to play the TV game. Plus for a global paper; the editorial staff is the typical costal elite. It’s going to be a delicate balance to keep it up.
There's a bunch of science fiction stories about teleportation and duplicates. Usually most don't go into the theological aspect, more about the ethical. As in you should destroy the source once you verified a safe creation of the destination to "balance the equation".

But yeah, like the Star Trek Replicators they can create virtually anything... though there's always some bit about some elements unable to be re-imaged. Though you raise another quandary of being able to play-back creation of objects including organic living elements (food, tea, etc.)... Mad science playing with the subject data and creating instant mutants...
Seem like God's coronavirus wasn't enough. I expect more impact and also onto the country's that buy from the CCP
Define "fair representation"

And, tell me how not having any union is better for all than an imperfect union.
> This is why you'll see stipends and grants to assist students in higher demand fields, like computer science.

They get the same salary more or less. The only difference is that they don't have to TA, but only research.

Doesn't change how low that salary is.
This is not regional in scope. UCSC is part of UC. If the wall breaks here; wages go up everywhere else.

UC had to break the union before they got everyone involved.

Your calculus disregards the additional carry-on costs for parity when the 9 other UC campuses follow suit.
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I'm sitting about 2 feet from one right now.

The dot pitch is about the same as a 22" 1080p or 27" 1440p monitor, so really it's like having 4 1080p displays but with no bezels and a much smaller desk footprint.

It's great, cheaper than those ultrawide displays but with more resolution at the top of the screen for music players, email, etc. The built in TV speakers are more or less the same as desktop speakers but with no extra space.

Having a large 16:9 format display is also a million times better for games and fullscreen video.

My only complaints are that the refresh rate is limited to 60fps and the display lag is 20ms. I'll probably upgrade when HDMI adaptive sync becomes more commonplace.
Oh, I 100% agree. Too politically risky.
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Work at a slave factory and stay alive or die in a prison camp. We can keep boiling this down all the way if we need to.
You can take any random supermarket bread and say it happens to not be as good as your standard, but the process that makes it mass market, making the dough and freezing it in the factory, and baking it in a store, I don't believe has to meaningfully compromise the quality.

I don't know how it would be better, but I don't think it has to be worse.
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I'm guessing you're getting down-voted for that last bit.

For one, it's missing the point about what everyone said is important about gaming, and hits the point that everyone said google doesn't understand about customers. why do you think 'deliver scaled computing at the highest possible speeds' = good at gaming? its kind of typical google, 'we offered the best X statistic, therefore they must like it.'

for "if anyone is going to deliver cloud gaming, my bet is it's google.", No. If I were to bet money, I would say it would be someone who is good at cloud, or good at gaming. Google is good at neither.
What I want to know is where to find a Clojure and/or ClojureScript job. I got a taste of Clojure on a project late last year and became enamored with it. So much so that I would love to find a job where I can use it at least part of the time.
> The US is a closed shop country, so it is illegal for students to simply cancel their membership in UAW and join a graduate student workers union.

Wow, and there are people arguing that free market will solve it!
Trusting your gut is not enough
> Weirdly irregular syntax.

"Irregular syntax", as in not consistent with itself? Or, with historical LISPs? Some examples would be interesting.
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I genuinely think doctors may do that if the government doesn't provide masks, doctors would still want to treat patients and ensure their own safety as best as they can.
[not a lawyer but] Also you don't legally need a ToS—It's fine to go without it for a while (especially while you have 0-100 customers)
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