skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the legal level, unions are obligated to prevent wildcat strikes. That's why people talk about a grand bargain between labor and capital happening mid century: unions would channel labor conflict into a bureaucratic process, and in return capital would agree in principle to negotiate with the union.

In practice, union bureaucrats really dislike wildcat strikes. They dissipate the negotiating power of the union; they basically show the entire hand of the union's most powerful weapon, at a time the union views as suboptimal. And it's usually the threat of a strike, not the strike itself, that companies are more scared of: a company highy desires to avoid a disruption, but if it's already in progress, they don't have an incentive to negotiate unless the union has a really strong hand.
Note that they website will give you coupons without requiring that you sign in to an account. It works fine in Firefox private browsing or Chrome incognito mode too. This should let you get the discounts without giving away much information.

If you want to give away even less, do it from a mobile browser through some random open public WiFi network.
But creative people also need to do boring stuff from time to time. If they still choose Clojure, then apparently it suffices for these tasks.
Could it be possible that employees designing the google home ecosystem can't actually afford homes in the bay area? If everyone is renting, then they likely have to make do, and just imagine what owning a home might be like.
Having multiple different types touchpoints increases likelihood of conversion.

If you see something on TV, then overhear people talking about it on the street, then see it on FB, you're much more likely to buy it.

Even though each signal is weak and unreliable (and even together they still probably don't mean much) the connection in your brain is more robust.
GeForce now is a pretty poor user experience compared with Stadia, IMHO - it is definitely not universally more approachable at all. And only PC gamers with existing steam libraries have existing content to play on GF Now. But the thing is... I'm not likely to already own a game in steam, that I can't play on my own hardware. So the fact that my existing library is available to play, isn't much of a draw, in and of itself. I keep looking for excuses to play one of my games on GF now, but I keep finding I have no reason to prefer it over my PC.
give me some up front and it will for sure.

considering the nobel prize is about $1 million and all due prestiges, im sure it would
I remain unconvinced any of that matters in the slightest. A small slice of overly-online people will whine about anything.

Epic isn't in this to garner compliments on Twitter, they're in this for money, and while they've got a long way to go to beat Steam, they're seemingly on the right track. (See, eg, https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21064951/epic-game-store-...)
As others have said, current tech isn't quite there yet to replace screens in meatspace, but I think it's obvious to infer what general computing may be like 10-20 years down the road, if progress continues at a steady pace:

Laptops and tablets would no longer be distinct factors for mobile, because they'll be replaced by always-worn high quality AR glasses, which run off a phone in your pocket (as Apple's glasses are rumored to be) and project virtual screens into your view of the real world. The AR space may be shared by multiple users for public signage, advertisements or virtual pets and fashion, à la the anime Dennou Coil. [0]

Physical keyboards/mice/trackpads will probably still be around because I haven't seen anything to fully replace the need for tactile feedback, unless someone comes out with sensory gloves.

At home we would put our phones into a docking station for more processing power and to connect to a giant physical screen and sound system.

[0] https://myanimelist.net/anime/2164/Dennou_Coil
The End of the IPO as We Know It?
Fourth case of coronavirus in Santa Clara County
To a certain extent I find the parent post somewhat valid. If you think of "economy" as all the crap in my house that I want to get rid of, then sure. But ultimately we got to where we are (7B humans) by being a social species and developing the machinery to feed, clothe, shelter our population en masse. And machinery to make the machinery, and so on.

And much of that machinery may be subsidized by economy of scale that's driven largely by people's fascination with buying unnecessary shiny objects, the same way ads make free search and TV possible. Without that subsidy, the machinery to support life would be more expensive.

Our population may not be sustainable if there's a sudden dramatic and long-lived shutdown of this machinery. Maybe in the short term, sure. But over the long term even a minor shutdown could have big repercussions. Or maybe not. Interesting thing is, this whole covid episode, if it lasts a while, will help shed light on those questions.
If you want to have an actual conversation, I'm happy to. If not, let me know so I don't waste my time.

They do perform a service, sometimes teaching classes, sometimes grading papers, sometimes assisting with office hours. They get paid $2400/mo, putting them above median salary for full-time TAs.

Nobody is forcing them to go to graduate school in California and accept this job. This isn't something that they were coerced into.

The fact of the matter is that research is still a demand driven field. This is why you'll see stipends and grants to assist students in higher demand fields, like computer science.

When I was in school a few years ago, everyone knew that if they were not receiving a grant, they were going to be paying for their education. This isn't a surprise, and if they are willing to make the decision to fund their further education, that is something they should be able to do.
Well this is convenient timing.

I just received a citation for making a right turn at a red light 0.3 seconds after the light turned red. I had already been preparing my arguments for why my actions produced the safest possible outcome, but these materials should prove exceptionally useful in our case.
#LearnToCode comes to mind
Definitely cool... been looking into using neon with electron myself, this might be a good alternative for something lighter.
"People often move to rural areas because they love nature, but ironically this is actually a terrible thing for nature."

Oh this is one of my pet peeves. It's usually the people who claim to love nature the most who will go live right in the middle of it, thereby destroying it. It's like saying 'I love animals so much! Bring me another steak!' I eat meat, I'm not making a pro-vegetarian argument here - just pointing out the hypocrisy. If you really love nature (and not 'living in nature', which is different), you buy the smallest apartment in the city that will fit you (and your family where applicable).
Atmel Studio. It was very easy to set up, and can call AVRdude for uploading. It has the ability to import typical Arduino projects, so you can either keep using the Arduino libraries or convert the project to pure C/C++.
They pay for original YouTube content and they paid for some exclusive VR games. Not sure why they're not doing that for Stadia but it has to be intentional. Maybe they don't think its really ready yet?
Makes sense to me. And I think another factor is that with ads, users are the product, not the customer.

If customer service is the foundation of a business, it drives a certain attention on the individual experience of every user, and there's a real incentive to be a customer's #1 choice by the customer's own criteria.

But Google's relationship with the userbase is statistical, not individual. As along as enough people look at their ads, that's good enough. They were never intending to please everybody, and so don't really have to pay attention to the details.

So it's entirely unsurprising to me that they're failing at gaming, which is very much about delivering amazing individual experiences to one's chosen niche. Ditto their failure in social networking. In both cases they built something that sounded good on paper and could be adequate for some people, but never succeeded in being truly great for enough people to capture an audience.
Interactive Sierpinski Tetrahedra
Meh.

This query is just a key lookup, so the response time is likely to be well under 10ms even if you're not trying very hard to be efficient.

If using a stored procedure or a prepared query with persistent connections it'll be most likely be under 1ms if the data is stored on SSDs or in-memory. In this binary format, you need about 6 GB.

For some scenarios such as small cloud web servers, fast storage or lots of ram may not be viable. So if you're storing this on mechanical drives, the random nature of hashes means that for practically all queries the db engine will be walking the B-Tree pages and then the random I/O seek latency will dominate.

Some quick back-of-the-envelope maths: You can fit roughly 300 hashes into a typical 8KB page, as used by MS SQL Server as a random example. That means it'll build a 4-level B-Tree index for the HIBP database.

Unless you have less than 1 GB of memory, the first 2 index levels will become cached, leaving 2 random seeks for each lookup. At a typical 3-5ms, this is about 6-10ms of disk I/O latency, which will likely dwarf all other overheads.

Now keep in mind that the OP was trying to optimise a workflow that took 33 seconds originally!

Using a proper database has a ton of other benefits. For example, it becomes trivial to fit into modern asynchronous web application programming frameworks as yet another async call. Literally 1 line of code using Dapper or something along those lines.
> Google often seems to have the attitude "if we build it, they will come, and if they don't, the idea was never feasible in the first place".

This comment echoes Paul Graham's observation about the wrong attitude founders often have about initial growth [1]: "A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist."

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
You are probably right. I apologize.
For someone who claims to not like pretension (sic), you're being pretty pretentious.
Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread
> Like, wildly cheap, subsidized gaming solution until they own the market and then turn up the price

They're probably too concerned about antitrust these days to try anything like that.
My new Samsung washing machine started leaking water onto my floor within a couple years of purchase. At least the Wi-Fi still worked.
This whole sector is currently just super weird.

GeForce NOW has been somewhat successful but has had support from both Bethesda and Activision recently pulled.

Meanwhile, Google is just kinda half-arsing it around, even tho they would easily have the money and infrastructure to create something like a "killer-app" for the scalability of gaming in the cloud.

But apparently there isn't any attempt at something like that, so what's even the point?
> 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.

Thank you, this is indeed the point that was intended. It's not a direct case of the food manufacturer saying "Hey we have socialized healthcare, let's make healthier chips", it's the government thinking "Damn, we have a lot of obese people, let's have incentives or rules that make manufacturers produce healthier foods".
Remember: that's just the people who both went to a hospital (say 1/20) AND were tested (say 1/5) because test kit rationing with overly-strict criteria that lack common-sense. That implies the real number of presently (as of writing) infected people in Santa Clara County is around 100-1000 (wide margin of error due to inputs).
Likewise, I use https://github.com/plerup/makeEspArduino
The MBA took over and is afraid to show weakness with labels like "Beta".
That's actually pretty similar to how Google's safe browsing (used by Chrome, Firefox, Safari but not Edge) works. Instead of sending Google your full URL (although that's an option), you can make some transformations, SHA-256 the result and send the first few bytes. The server then replies with the full hashes matching these prefixes. Then you can check whether your URL is on the list. Very similar.
It depends. If living closer to family means living in a development clear cut from the forest, that isn't sustainable. If it means adopting a life of spending 95% of your energy for transportation on moving the vehicle itself, and shipping 1 off goods from far away ports aboard diesel trucks from one side of the continent to where you live, that isn't sustainable either.

You just have more options to live sustainably in the footprint of a large city than out in the countryside. For example, you can ride electrified mass transportation for your needs, or find everything you need in daily life on a bike ride or even a walk around the neighborhood, and take up less space on the surface of the earth by utilizing the vertical axis. Plus if everyone worked remote, your whole family can move to your building, as is the case of some of my neighbors in my apartment.
You may also consider using a bloom filter to do this: https://github.com/62726164/bp
This article seems misguided.

It's assuming Stadia is "floundering" because it doesn't have a ton of indie titles, assuming those are "critical" for success.

But are they? The article is clear that Google is working with "EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft, 2K Games, and Rockstar Games".

Google is obviously consciously choosing a product strategy of starting with major publishers rather than indie ones.

Now I don't personally know if that's the right strategy. But it's clearly the strategy Google is pursuing, so they should be judged on whether that's working.

Judging solely on the presence of indie titles just seems weird.
You're being downvoted but I kinda agree with at least parts of your post. I live in a smaller city in the southeast (and have lived in similar such cities my whole life) with a little over 100k with around 500k in the metro and and probably a large number of people I see on Tinder are looking to find someone to marry. Mind you in in my early 20s.
> Epic gets everyone who would buy that game on their platform (minus the people who are outraged by the exclusivity deal)

IMO, it's more about a game store's expected longevity.

At this point I will probably never spend money on a game that's not on Steam (unless they go out of business) simply because:

1. I've gotten burned too many times by non-Steam stores that have later gone out of business.

2. Steam works really well.

I suppose a few people might be outraged by exclusives. I think most people just want an experience at least as good as games-on-dvd.
But that's kinda the problem. If Google doesn't care what developers think, they are very unlikely to succeed with Stadia.
In the graphic near the bottom of the article.
> through direct government control of all food consumption and production

This is an alarmist representation. Incentives can work just fine in a market-driven economic system, witness the most recent tax cuts that were passed into law. Would a generous tax cut for stores that sell mostly fresh food be that bad?
If you're going to sort the hashes then might as well make a jump table of the first n bits and a binary search from there.
When you say "interpolation" do you mean "smoothing"?
Interpolatiin is filing in missing data. Smoothing is adding error to eliminate discontinuity.
MCSE = Mentally Challenged Systems Engineer
>Also I am sure the janitor at the University is paid decently and loves to work there. Reason is there are not as many people lined up for that job and basic economics takes over.

Janitor and other unskilled labor jobs at public universities tend to pay crap but are highly sought after because they usually come with the union negotiated benefits package that makes them a better value (than local work in private industry for more money and less benefits) for many people.

Back when I was doing those kinds of jobs I wouldn't even think about wasting my time working for a public university but I was young and needed the money more than I needed healthcare and 40hr weeks.
Wouldn't interaction with the particles that modified that portion of spacetime destroy the entanglement?
All those solve the "two codebases" problem by piling levels of complexity one on top of another. It's fire-sure way to make developers unhappy and code unmaintainable in the long run.

React Native was the best shot in this market, but adding the worst UI framework in the history of software – typesetting markup language (HTML), set of global classes for styling with magic words like "!important" (CSS) and hackish scripting language designed under pressure from Sun in 2 weeks (Mocha, renamed to Javascript) - on top of the already complicated stacks yielded all sorts of problems: from dependency management hell to unforgivably slow UI. Even AirBnB – the largest React Native shop over there – abandoned it altogether and returned to native iOS/Android development. My own experience working with React Native project for 1.5 years (with ClojureScript added on top for coolness) just reassured me that 5 layers of complexity is worse than 1 layer :)

Flutter design is so sick, that unless I'm writing own native plugins, I don't even touch iOS/Android layers. So it's basically single layer of complexity from the perspective of the developer and it's a game changer in this field.
Just with some fast googling, I think they're paid in about the same range as US PhD's. Or am I mistaken?
Meanwhile, the ancient Maytag fridge in our lab has been going for probably 20 years without fault (fingers crossed). I know there’s probably some survivorship bias, but it really does feel like appliances aren’t built to last anymore.
East Asian and Central Asian food is still extremely salty, so nothing is being replaced. People in Asia overall consume far more salt than even Americans.[1]

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/where-is-the-salt...
Consumer Reports used to rate individual products and sometimes manufacturers with rankings and try to estimate TCO/repairs, but when I subscribed to the digital subscription to lookup gas water-heaters and gas tankless water-heaters, there were zero reviews. Maybe they've cut-back to just rating cars and TVs? I don't know.

Are Bosch and/or Miele any good still?

Also, Kirby vacuums eat Dyson's for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks.
> Cheap writes, in an OLTP sense?

Sure, but HIBP is most certainly not an OLTP workload. It is updated infrequently as a batch process. The official mirror was last modified in July 2019!

Whenever a "new set" of millions of passwords are leaked, the HIBP maintainer(s) merge it with their existing data set of millions of passwords.

The "update" process is to download the new data set... and that's it. It's already sorted.

The only step I'm suggesting is to simply convert the pre-sorted HIBP SHA1 text file to a flat binary file. This takes a constant time and requires only a tiny buffer in memory.
Also important point 3:

They've promised they'll let you download DRM free if they ever shut down steam. Yea yeah, promise from a corporation, but still.
Different locations have different engineering codes. This is in part why US states do not recognize each other's PE assignations.
It's simple but so captivating.
LOL.
Pithy _and_ correct!
It's a bit of a tired trope that we always have to mention "racism, etc" when taking about things like small towns, as if it's an established fact when it's really more a prejudiced assumption about how people from small towns or certain parts of the country feel.

If someone is an upstanding member of the community and fits in with cultural norms, they will usually get by fine regardless of skin color. Of course sometimes this is not the case, but it is no more so than in cities where people of different races often self segregate into distinct communities and there is often latent racial tension.

For those who have had bad experiences in small towns or communities, it's dangerous to generalize personal experiences to vast regions or large groups. That just perpetuates bias and prejudice.
I love it! I can identify a number of native plants, but I use it for hikes when I spot something that looks weird. I found native orchids at my work!
No, it wouldn’t be worth it.
I wonder if someone could create an Apache style foundation where companies can donate their game stores and game servers to it. It would also act as an archive for free games.
Genetic clues hint at hidden virus cases in Washington state
>Nobody is forcing them to go to graduate school in California and accept this job. This isn't something that they were coerced into.

What is the significance of this point when literally no one is forced or coerced except for slaves? By this token absolutely no one should be striking for higher wages - they should all go work somewhere else. Oh wait...

>They do perform a service, sometimes teaching classes, sometimes grading papers, sometimes assisting with office hours. They get paid $2400/mo, putting them above median salary for full-time TAs.

Medían where? The entire United States? California? Santa Cruz? And exactly why is that relevant anyway? It's quite possible that the median wage isn't enough! And this would be part of the process for raising it.

>The fact of the matter is that research is still a demand driven field. This is why you'll see stipends and grants to assist students in higher demand fields, like computer science.

When you look at the average salary of a tenured UC professor (the kind that takes on grad students) and the average salary of appointed administrators (deans, provosts, etc) it's very hard to believe that the issue is lack of money and not allocation.

I also have no idea what cs/stem has to do with this. Most stem PhDs don't get more money either (most do not have fellowships nor their own grants).
"The calls pursued him to his wife’s hospital bedside where she was being treated for cancer."

Also, it's not easy to ignore someone who's threatening you with law enforcement. Because they're threatening you with law enforcement.
> "will this information still be relevant 10 years from now?" This is so true. It basically applies to every single learning resource that is out there, especially good books that withstand over time. I always found certifications a waste of money and in a way I'd glad if all of this IT certification industry disapears for good.
What does owning a home have to do with the comment above? Calendar integration has nothing to do with whether you pay a mortgage or rent.
Happy to help. Please share the net metering info to anyone who might be considering rooftop solar/distributed generation in your area!
You're not alone. As an American, it's something I'm aware of too. Vegetables especially seem to be cooked in a way that barely retains their textures, unless they're very lightly steamed.
They can't keep that promise because publishers are free to implement third party DRM. You can't blame Valve for the shutdown but you can blame them for lying.
I wrote a very, very simple Makefile awhile back utilizing the arduino CLI options.

https://github.com/mcastorina/laptop-remote/blob/master/Make...

Haven't used it since then, so YMMV.
There are tons of cities near my family. Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids. It's not a dichotomy.
Public data sets for testing and prototyping