skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hunch is that this is just one of the many consequences of our filter bubble culture. It’s just so easy to see the horrible news and choose to focus on something else instead.

I remember experiencing this myself a couple months ago after reading an absolutely terrifying account of sexual violence from a survivor of one of the camps. I almost threw up reading the piece, which I don’t think I’ve ever experienced before, and it took days for me to get the visceral images of the described events out of my head. I just couldn’t keep reading about the camps after that because it was just soul-crushing to read. I can’t begin to imagine what they’re going through, but attempting to made me sick to my stomach.

Unfortunately, I think it’s going to take images or video footage to get the public’s attention on this, just as we’ve seen with police brutality cases. The effort to read about what’s happening is just too much effort for most people.
Google is now starting to feel the economic impact of being a known "mercurial company" that cannot be trusted with any long term strategic partnerships. see https://gcemetery.co

As a customer, why would I "buy" a game that I will never own, on a service that is likely to close on a whim. As a game developer why would I invest time and effort supporting a new platform from a company without a proven track record in the game industry.

This will severely limit their impact on the industry, and the executives have nobody to blame but themselves for the lack of trust.
If they had sincere regrets they'd have had their bulb light up after the build-up to Iraq.
Right. The reason Common Lisp is called “common” is that it has a standard that allows anyone to build a lisp from scratch that will run any common lisp code essentially completely unchanged (obviously you need to adjust a bit where you hit the OS, but even the file access methods are spec’ed). If you aren’t conformant you aren’t a Common Lisp - you could still be a lisp. Clojure is a lisp, just not a Common Lisp.
Not at all, the casting model is fundamentally different from a device like a Roku. It's like the difference between subject-verb-object languages and subject-object-verb languages.

You want some video to appear on the TV, so instead of driving some thing that's attached to the TV, you cause that thing to pull the video, using your phone or other device. It has never "clicked" for me.
When there's nothing interesting to be said about a subject, there's a really strong selection bias for only un-insightful things to be said about the subject.

Like, no one's gonna write a whole medium post about "Companies with crappy business models get low valuations. Companies with good business models get better valuations"...
Key findings on the cost of organ and tissue transplants in the United States
IMO the biggest mistake they made was going with Linux instead of Windows. They were aiming to be Netflix for gaming but while Netflix could add any title to it's service as soon as they got the rights for it, developers need to port their games to Linux(& Vulkan) to run on Stadia. This is not an easy feat. For Destiny 2 Google had to depute a couple of its developers to work out of Bungie's office for over 6 months.

https://ajit.dhiwal.com/2020/01/google-stadia-shouldve-used-...
Asian stocks rise as central banks pledge support
This self promotion boast blog posts says nothing. Most data science people are self taught and don't study "data science" in college.
There is a separate setting for your home address in Google Maps. You have to update it there.
My problem with that has always been ...

If they were actually going out and enforcing that law generally, then it would have been reasonable. Maybe it would be a stupid law, but they'd be even-handed about it.

But, there's like, a ton of people you can find in five minutes on LinkedIn who are using "engineer" in the same way. They could have easily cracked down on that.

Instead, they leave the law mostly unenforced, and then throw the book at you the moment you make the government look bad with a well-documented study of traffic lights. What a crock. That's a blatant abuse of power.
If you read the rest of the article, you would see that the union is alleging that the UC administration was not willing to engage in negotiations to raise compensation for grad students, who were unable to afford their rent payments. It's no wonder a wildcat strike happened.

The freakin union negotiated on behalf of the grad students and agreed to the contract!

Where was the union when that was happening?

They are playing dumb. They had every opportunity to bring up that issue when the contract was open.

I'm pretty sure what happened was the union decided that the deal was good enough for everyone they represented and threw the grad students under the bus.
> Alright, but you know, that quite some people would add the US to that list, too?

> You know, private operated prisons, starting wars, torturing, kidnapping, dronestriking around the world called "extrajucidal killing" etc. etc. etc.

Sure, and you know what? If that were ever the justification for trade restrictions with the US, it’d be well deserved.

I’d prefer if we as a country took the moral high ground, but in the absence of that, some pressure from outside could be a good thing.
I'm a big fan of the STMicro nucleo L476RG. Multiple UARTS and SPIs, really low power, custom clocking and deep-sleep modes, 32x the flash of an Uno, and up to 80MHz. Comes in $13 arduino-like board, or a smaller $8 version like an Arduino micro.
I live in Maine. The State way up there in the corner of the states... Search for articles on 'billing issues' from our (largest) power company, Central Maine Power.... (It has been a pretty large deal for almost a few years now; Major cluster*)

Any guesses who they were somewhat-recently bought out by? Yup. You guessed correctly.

I'm not sure these are issues; I believe it's how this terrible company just tries to make more money.
Isn't the idea that you remove the nickel and then go back to farming "normal" crops? So this is a one off way to mine without destroying the environment. And maybe a way to remove excess metals from soil too. Not a continuous supply.

Edit, I guess you could use this technique in waste cleanup too, so maybe once a mine stops producing you plant these trees on the site for one last load. Or you bring waste from the mine (high nickle etc) to farms like this and "replenish" the sites
I definitely respect and align myself with your workstation hygiene arrangements but maybe not on every detail.

> anything less than 4k on 27" monitor looks like crap
I run closer to 1.5K of native definition on a 30" monitor. I find this is very good and doesn't require any fancy tuning in applications or the OS's. I have the panel mounted as low as possible so that I don't have to tip my head back too much to look at the top.

I don't listen to music or podcasts while I work, I found I concentrate better in silence. I also have a door I can close when people are talking BS in the hallway, so my stomach doesn't scrunch up at the falsehoods. The speakers that play the mail alert were bought as cheap as possible at BestBuy.

I have the privilege of being able to carry out all this largely at employer's expense and I don't waste it.
Teensy is great, and the guy that makes it is super cool. Not enough IO on the breakouts for big projects tho, IMHO.
The annoying thing is that google dabbles in things.

I suspect (but don't know) this might be related to the 20% time thing where employees can spend time on any project they want.

But the thing is, google projects too far removed from the core advertising business don't seem to survive.

Sometimes they develop an open source technology or pave the way for something, but other times they suck the air out of nascent niches.
That's fine. They have hundrets of Elon Musks who innovate. https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii-2019-report
Google Stadia should've used Windows instead of Linux
It mostly worked on me if that was the goal. Except now my storage is at over 93% and I'm trying to figure out if I can just download my mbox file and delete all the emails for the next decade...
The arrogance here seems to be from misjudging the difficulty of the question. That is, it seems largely rooted in ignorance.

As for reckless, there's a wide variety of how much time people will spend preparing a question before an interview. Some people will spend days preparing a question. Others will just pick something off a list and ask it. I don't think everyone would agree that just thinking of a question is reckless. We also don't know how much time sethammons's coworker was given to prepare. Maybe he was told about the interview Monday evening, and had to conduct it Tuesday morning.
IIRC it was removed because neither the TCON or the external ports could process the LVDS or eDP streams that the internal connection uses. The old way was very simple because you practically just mux'ed the eDP to either the inside port or the outside one. I suppose you could do it with two TB3 connections now. But that makes it a whole lot more complex than just a mux and some support parts.
I'll give that a try later, although I think mine is hardware limited. It's probably because it's a cheap knockoff one tho, but it works for terminal use, or anything that has a high contrast.
For me, scripts and command line application startup time is mostly a solved problem. You can just use ClojureScript, Babashka or Joker for scripting and CLI apps that don't need to perform too much CPU bound work. And for CPU intensive CLI apps, you can now use Graal's SubstrateVM to have a native build which starts instantly.
In Germany if your appliance breaks down and causes damage to your apartment, your insurance will not cover you if you've made out of spec modifications to it.
I recently replaced a freezer. (Yes, this is purely anecdotal.) Comparing the Energy Star rating from my old freezer to the new one, I'm saving just a dollar a month. Now, I have no idea what the calculations would be to figure out the carbon cost of that electricity versus what it cost to actually make and ship that freezer. But I'm guessing it's close to a wash.

According to Energy Star's own website, "replacing your old freezer with one that has earned the ENERGY STAR could save you $195 over the next 5 years." I'm guessing the figures they're using are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, but that still doesn't seem that impressive when you consider the production costs. Which, admittedly, I have no idea of, but assume are not great because refrigerant and insulation are involved.
This is another factor to consider regarding carbs/starches, in addition to the more commonly known ones like GI:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch
Based on the firmware[1], I'm guessing esp32.

[1] https://github.com/O-MG/O.MG_Cable-Firmware/blob/master/READ...
As somebody in Santa Cruz, good ducking luck actually getting that house.

Finding a place off Craig's list is nearly impossible.

Last time I tried to use that (5years ago), the only call-backs I got from about 20 calls were landlords that recognized my name and I had known from other contexts (I've lived here a while). I ended up getting a place through other personal connections. Most local rentals operate on a network of personal connections here, with locals offering friends or other locals a deal to get by in an expensive town. Students never get this treatment, and often don't even get shown rooms.

For a grad student arriving without an extensive network, a room for $1700 isn't too bad.

The university has abandoned these students, and so has the town.
In the 90s I was in the vanguard of “paper” MCSEs - I knew this computer networking stuff was interesting, but had no idea where to start. Back then, the core exams were all NT 4.0 related, which clearly is mostly irrelevant now, but the electives, Networking Essentials and TCP/IP are still rather relevant. The certs were good in that they tried to make sure you knew the basics of everything, and there were lots of electives to choose from (such as IE 4 Administration, which I passed, lol). In the end, I think that I agree with you that these certs have little value once your career is established (I skipped Win2k certs, and didn’t get a ton of new knowledge studying for my Win2k3 certs, which were my last). The real crying shame is all of the latchers-on who pushed these certs as effectively a get rich quick scheme. I wonder if MS is getting out of this cert biz to get away from that as much as anything.
Wow, your university treated their staff like shit and you're mad that the associated materials are gone. Open up your brain a bit.
For me this year the best improvements have come from time - these have the highest returns monetary wise too as most are free.

- Meditating (Headspace or Waking Up App - try the 30 day trials)

- Heavily exercising 3-4 times a week ($15/week gym)

- $8 Gratitude Journal app

- Eating clean and cooking (cheaper than eating out)

In the last 10 years (I'm nearly 30) I've invested a lot in coaching, training, conferences and books - nothing has really helped even close to as much as the above. At the end of the day my increases in salary have been mainly from keeping a critical mind, not further training. A great daily practice also makes every book I read much more meaningful.
Here it is!

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/sun/NeWS/The_NeWS_Boo...

The ability to "psh" to the NeWS server and play around with PostScript (much like the Chrome Developer Tools now lets you do with JavaScript) was crucial to making NeWS fun.

The PSIBER Space Deck was trying to make a visual Smalltalk-like or Lisp-Machine-like development and debugging environment for NeWS, that let you visually browse and edit PostScript code and data structures and objects and processes in the system.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-shape-of-psiber-space-oct...

The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines — October 1989

Written by Don Hopkins, October 1989.
University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Computer Science Department, College Park, Maryland 20742.

Abstract

The PSIBER Space Deck is an interactive visual user interface to a graphical programming environment, the NeWS window system. It lets you display, manipulate, and navigate the data structures, programs, and processes living in the virtual memory space of NeWS. It is useful as a debugging tool, and as a hands on way to learn about programming in PostScript and NeWS.
Who are? There isn't any mention of law enforcement in the article.
During 2019 I was living in Paris and really wondering what I was doing there

If one is bored living in Paris, the problem isn't Paris.
> The less they do, the better

You are g’damned right. I like purpose-built, high quality things/tools that do one thing perfectly. TVs are another example or where this goes wrong. Irons, toasters, blenders, microwaves — all products that I will happily spend more money for the fewer features they have.
Someone working on a very bad NH chatbot, by the looks of it. I don't think I've ever been that disjointed and markov-chainey.
I’ve never come across a bug due to application of DRY, but I have seen many bugs because of “harmless” duplication resulting in inconsistent code changes several months later.

Even aside from DRY, extracting a block of code to a function or method gives you an opportunity to name the block of code, which often significantly clarifies the intent of the code so, I’ve always tried to error on the side of overly DRY
> The war had no clear objectives.

True for the US side, and thus was unwinnable.

Not true for the Afghan side. Their goal was to expel the invaders. Their goal accomplished, the only possible conclusion is they won the war.
Google is the world's most expensive post-college hiring and training program, subsidized by the core search/ads cash cow.

But it's a really bad one. They killed Reader because it would let them abandon some legacy infrastructure. All other businesses don't have that luxury. They deal with annoying challenges head on. Google's unlimited money basically lets them abandon products when maintaining them stops being fun, or when extra work is required to power through the last 10% and make that product viable for take-off.
The whole grad school equation is foobar. Universities import foreign labor and they under pay given their monopoly where paid positions exist. They also rely on students obtaining external funding.
Your link is an extremely thorough investigation into prison labor in China. Thanks for sharing it.

It doesn’t justify China’s actions, but note that the US is not much better, at least in terms of raw numbers. We have over two million people in prison:

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/incarceration-rates-by-r...

and many (most, I think) of them are forced to work:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html

We are much smaller than China, so as a percentage, a much larger percentage of our population is forced labor.

You could argue that the people in these prisons are all convicted criminals, but enforcement and sentencing in the US varies widely by race, especially for non-violent drug offenses.

It is likely that approximately a million of the blacks and hispanics currently in the prison population would be free if they were white (either due to lax sentencing, or lack of police enforcement).

It shocks me that there’s no real discussion of this issue in the US. Ignoring the ethical issues, forced prison laborers are paid a tiny fraction of the minimum wage, stealing paid jobs from unskilled workers outside of the system.

Given the recent populist turn in national politics, I’d think that there would be bipartisan support for reforming the system, but for some reason there is not.
> tell me how not having any union is better for all than an imperfect union.

Obvious answer: No dues. Not commenting on whether that's a good tradeoff, mind, but it's an answer.
Teaching needs a large pay-bump. If you only hire the lowest common denominators you're going to get the lowest result. I've seen so many teachers move on to other jobs just because it doesn't have the pay needed for basic living.

Stop calling things like this socialism, futures depend on good education.
With a central-server game all clients agree on the game state (it's the server's state). With a peer-to-peer game you need more complicated protocols, but you still fundamentally end up with all clients agreeing on the game state.

Suppose Player A in San Francisco and Player B in London see each other on their screens and both click the shoot button. Neither of them can know who shot first until a network roundtrip has happened between them - hell, if their timing was precise enough then under relativity it might be physically impossible to categorically state that one was before or after the other. So either each sees (on their own screen) that they have shot first and this is later contradicted for one of them, or neither of them sees their shot being made until after the network roundtrip has happened. That choice and that tradeoff has to be made, and I don't see that cloud gaming makes any difference: either you have latency for everything you do (and whether that latency is between a thin client communicating with the game server or a thick client communicating with another thick client is really neither here nor there), or you will see inconsistencies.
If somebody bargains on your behalf, and you have no way to reject what they bargained for, can you really say that they acted in your behalf at all?
I really like the idea of intentional loopholes. It is a great way ton conceptualize what I have been doing for a long time.
In my opinion there is a certain feeling of satisfcation when feeling like the domain is modeled completely. Uncertainty or loopholes leave an itch to scratch. That's why people insist on modelling addresses.
Adresses which are a fundamentally easy thing, should be easy to model.
Like what, a house is on a street, has a number a city a state and a postcode. All of them are obviously required. And then you get into actual addresses. People who live in a village without a street. Some countries have no states. Some names can be extremely long. For example my condo adresss is 62 characters alone.
I think the only thing you can rely on for addresses is postcode, city and the rest is free form. But that feels so unsatisfactory.
> Even some simple recommendations from leadership (CDC) would be encouraging to see, but we keep being fed a “nothing to see here, no need to panic” politicized message.

Which recommendations are you missing? (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/get-your...)

And the advice not to panic comes from medical experts.
Run my examples, they work! Python absolutely has real closures...
Grafana Visualizer on the MESG Testnet
Epic brute forced their way into this space and still have an inferior product. Your comment might be one of the few times I’ve ever seen someone speak halfway positively about them.
As a guy who has been involved in supporting python.org and the Mailman project since 2003, I am super happy to see someone else post a link here about Mailman! See also http://www.list.org/
Use Playstation 4 games to train and test machine learning models
> and just targeting students / researchers directly.

Sounds like a win-win, yeah? So, sorta happy ending...
Connect Aragon DAOs to webhooks and more
Our Samsung fridge's drip pan gets frozen up every couple of years and has to be defrosted or water starts collecting in the meat and vegetable drawers. They apparently used a metal heat conducting rod that was a little too short to work properly.

But sadly, no WiFi to fall back on :(
No doubt they're an ok word processor and a mediocre spreadsheet.

That's not what they are though. They're really good group collaboration on docs, particularly content, and collaborative lists with owner assignment. We do a huge amount of editing / signoff / planning / workbacks / etc in them.
Fascinating! I need to find a new fridge (new apartment, the fridge spot in the kitchen is a stupid size); will look into the refurb approach.
I was amazed when my mom’s garage door opener broke to learn that they’re almost all the same inside and made by Chamberlain.

I recommend you all remove the metal cover every 5-10 years and grease the nylon gears with marine grease.

Once they dry out, the gears turn to snow.

Also spray lithium/Teflon grease to the rollers and other moving parts.

Overhaul costs about $60 in parts and an afternoon.
If you're running windows, someone found this worked and allows them to run

flutter doctor --android-licenses

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/16025#issuecomment...

If you just want to try out flutter, I wonder if you can avoid the android stuff by just running on ios and when they are ready the desktop and the web.
In some U.S. jurisdictions (like mine) you can turn left on red, when turning from a one-way street onto another.
Covid-19 – webcam app to detect and discourage own face touching
This app does not exist, but if anyone here could build it, I am sure it would be popular. Learning to not touch your face is one of the best things you can do to prevent transmission of viruses like flu and covid. surely it makes sense for businesses to use this. It just has to beep or flash when you touch your face so you learn not to do it.

Just want to put the idea out there as I am not able to build this myself
Hum, that's one of my favorite things. Some JDK APIs/libs are quite well designed, and when they are, Clojure doesn't bother re-inventing the wheel, which is a great thing in my opinion.
If it’s safe to reveal so, what made it safer to turn than to stop in your case? Having a hard time picturing such a scenario.