skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A blank/empty building or space is only as right or wrong as why it was made and what is done with it.

A grey box is ugly, and even disfunctional if the function of housing humans is any different from the function of storing items.

But a grey box may also be a canvas, which ends up being the very opposite of ugly and dead and inhumane.

One of the great appeals of the loft/industrial thing is the space is reconfigurable at will. You can have very inventive and artistic weird beds hanginging from chains at novel elevations and producing interesting spaces underneath, curtains for divisions that move around and can be opened to make a big open space one day and cozy spaces the next.

There is no single form that is really the one true best form. The ability to change is more soul-filling than anything.

It's not practical and most people can't afford to have 3 homes where one is all cozy spaces that feel like a claustrophobic rat warren after a while, and another that is all clean sterile Ikea which is a refreshing break from the rat warren for a while and then feels sterile and un-fulfilling after a while... one perfectly valid approach is an empty space, but empty for the sake of it's configurability, not for the sake of the emptiness itself.
> Minor offenses are still offenses

The problem, as is always the case, is that "minor offenses" are not equitably enforced.

So if the local white kids are hanging out at the corner of the park smoking weed, no one cares. No one posts to Nextdoor. The police don't show up. But four young hispanic men walking through the same white neighborhood (to get to a job, say) will freak someone out and a busybody post to nextdoor will end up getting them stopped. Oh, and it turns out that one of them has weed in his pocket. There's your "minor offense". It's still an offense, right? It deserves police attention?

You're looking at this with a microscope. No one is saying don't enforce boring laws. People are saying do it fairly. Nattering busybodies on Nextdoor are the opposite of fair.
Doublings are much more intuitive than powers of 10.

If most logarithms were taken base 2 it would make a big improvement in their comprehensibility to laypeople.

For closest link to western music, use binary logarithms represented using duodecimals. It makes a very nice simple system for approximate arithmetic, since 1 digit after the duodecimal point is enough to represent 3 and 5 reasonably closely. (The same two approximations that make our music sound harmonic also make approximate arithmetic easy and convenient). Of course, that would work even better if we switched to using base twelve for general arithmetic and metrology, overall a big improvement over the often inconvenient decimal system.
Let’s rephrase this story a bit.

A company hires someone out of college, trains them and has them working and integrating into the company for about a year and a half, but then the government, because of a literal lottery, requires them to randomly replace them with someone else.

And you’re surprised a company that has spent all that money and resources on hiring someone and with the known hit or miss nature of hiring wouldn’t want to replace them with a random new candidate?

Edit: And it gets better. They don’t need to replace the person if someone else accepts the job. They need to get rid of that employee who they are happy enough to be spending tens of thousands of dollars on that they wouldn’t need to on their citizen counterpart, even if their possible replacement didn’t accept the job. Merely if the possible replacement’s resume fit the minimum requirements of the job.

That’s why companies rewrite the position to be hyper specific. Because if there is anyone else available eho can meet the bare minimum who applies for the job, even if they aren’t interested in it and will never accept an offer, they are required to get rid of their existing multi year employee who they are happy with.
>Were you one of the kids who was good at sports?

Yes but I also had a good teacher who was good at setting up teams and so on in ways that avoid the typical pitfalls of not picking the awkward kid etc. With the teacher I had there wasn't any of the bad dynamics many people here seem to associate with PE. Which I think speaks to the quality aspect. Those issues are not inherent to sports but simply the result of teachers failing to do their jobs right.

In a general sense though I think the slightly challenging aspect of competitive sports and the physicality around it is a good thing for development if it's done right. The unathletic kid needs to learn to deal with it just like the stuttering kid needs to learn to speak in front of audiences and the shy kid needs to learn to do a presentation or a play.

These things prepare people to not avoid and get through things they're not good at and the social dynamics around it in a safe way ideally.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The ice cream truck jingle has been sampled in popular music.[0] The article suggests in a correction that the song should never be played.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBN_ikibtg
It is an impression (possibly an unfounded/unfair one) and the whole point of my question is for others to give me their opinions.

Nim is certainly a feature-full language. Look at the left sidebar on https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html and you will see a lot of things listed! I wonder how many of those features work well with others, how many work partially and how many are somewhat abandoned.

I'm looking to add Nim to my arsenal in the future. I'm positive on the language -- please don't misunderstand. I just wanted some opinions!
Your argument would be more convincing if Microsoft wasn't on the list. Even by the evidence you present, _both_ high tech employers are large H1-B consulting firms would be impacted.
There are many, you're just not seeing them because they're probably out of your usual tech bubble. Check goodereader.com for their eReader reviews. They often review eReaders which are running Android with web browsers in it, recently they reviewed a couple eInk smartphones, including a color eInk one.

There is a lot going on in the eReader world but it is at the fringe of the tech bubble of SV. It is in Europe and Asia, specially Asia.

The usual FAANG companies don't want you using that stuff because it moves you away from their silos and platforms. If you start using a device to read books away from their profiling disguised as social interaction, away from their ad machines, and walled garden shops, they lose money. Oh boy, that sounded way more conspirational than I wanted. What I want to mean here is that since these type of eReaders do not favour major tech companies from the USA, they're usually not covered in their platforms or news media that follows SV stuff.
> Given the variation amongst different varieties of English, a phonetically-based reform would be tricky.

Spanish has managed to do that. It has as much variety in its dialects as English (e.g. some dialects have very different "c" and "s" sounds or "b" and "v" sounds while others don't), yet all in all the orthography is quite regular and phonetic.
But what IP would be violated for x86 emulation? It's clear that Intel only threaten chipmaker who tried to add x86-emulation-acceleration ISA to the silicon. x86 ISA is complete 17 years ago, which mean a lot of patents has been expired today.
I’ve been on a news diet for a couple months. Kind of a relief to see this at the top of HN after hearing someone in one of my classes talk about how it felt like the world was ending, because if this is what Hacker News is worried about, the world is probably gonna be fine.

Btw, try doing a news diet. I highly recommend it.
It was an analogy about how benign it is and not exclusive to cisgender courtship. Things that make me attractive in one environment make me attractive in another environment as well, compared to putting on a hallow mask temporarily for women. Oddly enough, I don't mind their makeup.

> It also feels to me that the urge to pursue a large volume of experiences in this gamified way is an attempt at finding validation without being vulnerable

Or its exclusively an attempt to have sex with a variety of people that look like the people I always wanted to have sex with, and it is as fulfilling, entertaining and intriguing as I expected it to be? I was wondering if you considered that.
Do you also understand it in the owner/slave context? Want to get rid of 'owner'? What other words are you willing do expunge? Will you be able to say anything at the end?
Common Crawl's public dataset for May/June 2020[1] weighs in at 53TB (compressed).

As of 2019-05-15, SanDisk's 1TB SD Card was listed[2] for sale at $449, and the SDUC standard[3] today provides for storage volumes up to 128TB in capacity.

Elasticsearch[4] is a mature, proven and freely available open source search engine, and new entrant search engines continue to become available.

We might still be a few years out from this in practice, but I'd argue that the search engine that could most verifiably preserve your privacy would be one that runs on your own personal device(s).

[1] - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

[2] - https://commoncrawl.org/2020/06/may-june-2020-crawl-archive-...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#SDUC

[4] - https://elastic.co
Ask HN: Bad idea to have side projects at early stage startup?
The title says it all - I’m wondering what the HN crowd thinks about working on side projects while working fulltime at an early stage startup (~10 employees). Would love to hear from both from the founder and early employee crowds.

While it goes without saying that the projects don’t interfere with my work responsibilities , they do prevent me from putting in extra time - weekends, nights, etc - which isn’t expected, but I could certainly be giving more.

I know that leadership is, at least on the surface, fine with employees having side projects. That said, I worry that it signals a lack of interest / motivation in the company. Is this a bad look, even if it’s nominally “OK”? Are early employees expected to be “all in”?

Part of me also wonders if I have to work on side projects to be fulfilled, why am I working at an early stage company instead of big co; but that’s perhaps a seperate question.
For me it wasn't totalitarian but "corrupt beyond salvation" (think bottom 50 on corruption index). A friend of mine recently went back and lasted six months before he came back to the US - he opened a startup and had to deal with bribes, threats, blackmail and "forced partnerships". I myself would never go back there.
All of that stuff can be good, but has tradeoffs. Longer pipelines result in worse branching performance, caching interferes with write-heavy code that's mainly about moving data (like for games), and so on. I feel that putting extra transistors towards large numbers of cores with short 4 stage pipelines (like in early PowerPC) would have been better.

This is one of the more concise benchmark comparisons, in this case having a 3.6 GHz i9 and 1.4 GHz Pentium 3 (released starting in 1999):

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+III+1...

So this is 8 cores vs 1, at 2.57 times the clock speed. So per-core performance has increased:

(18892/299) * (1/8) * (1.4/3.6) = 3.07

A 3x fold increase in 20 years is admirable but 1/3000 what would have been predicted if performance had followed Moore's Law. To me, this indicates that per-core performance stopped really increasing sometime around 2005 at the latest. That's why fabs moved towards lower-cost mobile and embedded chips.
I think I side with Slavoj Žižek here.

When I become dictator and send you to Gulag you can have two servings per day of rotten fish-head soup, because I like you!.

And I promise not to call you names.

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It's a massive distraction. GitHub, and / or whatever other organisation, deplatforming words will have approximately zero effect.

I'm willing to conjecture that while we are busy patting ourselves on the back for reducing the use of word combinations like master / slave another death in custody will occur.

And in that way it's a distraction while the harm continues.

It's a distraction while the powerful continue to not immediately retrain the police en masse to not deal with everything by a progression of escalating violence.
You eat those on the side, particularly lettuce, spinach, broccoli etc in as large of quantities as you'd like because they're low in carbs.
Because what is an “offense” is designed to capture a certain kind of person who harms the public but leaves the other, much more harmful kind, untouched. What is the harm caused by stealing a package off a doorstep compared to creating a Facebook ad for oversexualized garments targeting young girls? Compared to marketing addictive pharmaceuticals to people who do not need them? Compared to issuing a fraudulent AAA rating on a mortgage backed security and selling it to a pension fund? Which gets the police involved?
As a German, I recommend you take a look at Turkish. It's fantastic as there are zero exceptions.

Learn the phonetics of each letter, and you can literally speak any word.
>Dissertations tend to be difficult to find if they are not already listed on WorldCat or in ProQuest

My university library has a dissertation office with a copy of every one of them back to 1931. You may not be able to find them online, but you certainly can if you go in person during business hours. Is that unusual?
> and get rid of the `ß/ss` mess.

Swiss Standard German got rid of ß :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Standard_German
Do you feel like they're laughing in mockery to make you feel bad, or just because it sounds funny and they actually want to laugh with you and not just at you? I was in Sweden for the first time last year. Besides learning the proper pronunciation of my given name ("Ahndairsh" with a slightly hard "sh"), at one point I noticed the words "Hej hej" written on a bunch of things. I asked them what "hedge hedge" means, and they had a good laugh teasing me about it (it's pronounced "hey hey", and seems to mean about the same thing as the English). I laughed with them and it was actually a bonding experience with my new friends.
Western American English has 14 vowels and some parts of Eastern have 15 (the caught/cot distinction).
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Except the Romanovs never had a seat on the security council.

In this case, the Republic of China did have a seat, and continues to exist although the landmass they control has shrunk primarily to just the island of Taiwan. They didn't found a new country and call it Taiwan, they're just called that by others for political convenience because calling them by the Republic of China (their original and still official) name unnecessarily provokes the PRC.

The Communist Party officially established a brand new country (the People's Republic of China) once they won the civil war and had control over the mainland. Due to controlling the majority of the landmass originally controlled by the ROC, they were eventually after several decades recognized by the UN as the government body allowed to represent China at the UN (and therefore the permanent seat on the security council held by that position).

But the entity that originally held that seat has never ceased to exist, even if the land they control has shrunk drastically since the UN's original formation. Which is why you could plausibly argue that they have claim to the permanent seat on the security council, rather than the representative of the PRC.

But like I said, that's likely to cause all hell to break loose. As the most direct way for the PRC to respond to that maneuver would be to militaristically assert their claimed sovereignty over the island of Taiwan, and fully dismantle the remnants of the POC that govern it so that it does cease to exist and the above premise no longer holds true. Which would escalate horrifically as other UN member states step in to prevent that. Hence why it's a nuclear option, and not one that is likely to ever happen unless China sufficiently provokes the international community to the point where they see that as an inevitability, and just want to maneuver into a position where they can respond to it from a seemingly unified position without the inconveniences that would present if the PRC still had veto power on the Security Council.
What dialects are you aware of? I don't know anyone around me that says menchun, everyone I know says menshun
Can you write a bit about why this over other pan zoom libs.
> if Apple can afford to put an overclocked / high-binned TSMC chip in the lower-cost iPad but has to put a low binned i5 in the Air doesn't that say something about the relative economics / yields.

Potentially. It probably also says more about the relative product positioning of the iPad Pro (high end, max performance) vs. MacBook Air (slim, light, and by requirement slower than the MPB so that the products are correctly differentiated).

The point is you're reaching. The A12 is a great part. TSMC is a great fab. Neither are as far ahead of the competition as Apple's marketing has led you to believe.
Perhaps the tool behind https://rewind.website ?
I wish these kinds of complaints were considered off-topic on HN, for the same reason paywall complaints are, because they are detracting from the content in an entirely obvious, predicable, uninteresting way. There are apps to summarize tweets to help them to be more legible for those who prefer that.

It makes sense to use Twitter to reach his Twitter followers. That’s reason enough to use Twitter.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
I do wish Apple gave people the ability to install outside apps like Android does, though. Treat it like Android and Windows do: give people a bunch of warnings (e.g. "this generally isn't safe", "don't do this unless you're actually sure you know what you're doing", etc.), force them to dig through some deeper menus to disable a default a setting, and you'll prevent 95% of people who would otherwise ruin their devices with malware.

I can't imagine an open source app store on iOS like F-Droid being anything but beneficial to end-users. The only reason it doesn't exist is because Apple doesn't want to let it exist.
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Statins are poison.
Also (if we leave aside the abusers like InfoSys etc), employers pay an additional cost for H1B visa workers (comparable salary + the cost of sponsoring the visa itself). Presumably this means there is a net benefit to the American company doing the hiring to be hiring these H1B workers. Seems like a win-win situation here all around.

If the concern is with abuse, then let's crack down on that.
There is an incredible amount of confusion surrounding cholesterol, mostly because of the incredible amount of bad/old/incomplete science around which many major medical associations base their recommendations.

To put it simply, using "cholesterol" as an indicator for anything is a completely oversimplified view originating in the 50s, when we didn't know enough molecular biology to know better. We've since moved on to breaking out LDL (bad) and HDL (good) cholesterol. However, as it turns out even that is too simplistic. There are further sub-classifications of LDL, such as large fluffy LDL and small dense LDL. If subclasifying LDL - Low-Density Lipoprotein - as "small and dense" seems counterintuitive, I agree. I feel like it's a result of the order in which we learned about all the forms of cholesterol, and a reflection of how complex the system is, and perhaps how much more we have left to fully understand it. As it turns out, so many of the perils of what we thought was caused by "high cholesterol", and then "high LDL/bad cholesterol" seem to be most strongly correlated with the small/dense LDL pattern. The irony is, we've been measuring everything but the main culprits, gaining an incomplete picture of what's actually going on, then ended up with wildly ineffective or harmful dietary recommendations as a result. A low fat high carb diet may reduce your cholesterol, but it can wreak havoc in so many other ways.

Bottom line is, eating a low carb, high fat diet increases all of your cholesterol (subject to individual variation), but seems to exert favorable effects on the overall ratio of the individual particles, which may be the important thing. If you're really interested in what's going on with your cholesterol, ask for a LDL particle size test, then you may be able to draw some more meaningful inferences. [1]

To me, it's a good hint that if every physical and mental aspect of your body improved on a diet, it's unlikely a bad thing. Best to discuss these things with your doctor though. Diet science is still a frustratingly murky field, so it's pretty hard to navigate right now. If you want to understand why, I highly recommend Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.

[1] http://education.questdiagnostics.com/faq/FAQ134
France is an administrative concept, Europe a geographic one.
Not an expert, but one interesting feature is the ability to keep a connection open across network changes.

In TCP and UDP, connections are identified using local IP address/local port/remote IP address/remote port tuples. This means, if my IP address changes, (e.g. because I connected to a new WiFi network) all TCP connections that were active before must be abandoned. With QUIC, supposedly, an identifier separate from IP addresses is used, so there are ways how a connection could be resumed. (I'm fuzzy on the details though)