skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Free market capitalism or common law or the internet is not culture,

In the current age social media can replace local news sources; smartphone cameras can produce a mass of video evidence of authority figures abusing their power; messaging apps can allow protesters to coordinate with their conversations unreadable by the government; foreign corporations' automated censorship copyright, fact-checking and truth-in-advertising decisions arguably have more power over what citizens see and what apps they can run than local laws; and a important chunk of your white-collar worker citizens have to learn a foreign tongue to access the tools of their trades.

If you think these are "not culture" your definition of culture is very different to mine.
> With each new release, they add evidence that they were correct.

Is it though? If the goal is human-level AI, or hell, even rat-level AI, the evidence is pretty convincing that you should be able to train and deploy it without requiring enough energy to sail a loaded container ship across the Pacific Ocean. Our brains draw about 20 watts, remember. This suggests to me that no, in fact, scale will not get us "there".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/06/17/deep-learni...
"[...] for a single person, exchanging a long commute for a short walk to work has the same effect on happiness as finding a new love."

I can directly relate to this. I went from spending ~2.5 hours/day on the train to a 15 minute walk about five years ago.

It is hard to overstate how much it changed my life for the better.
Haha yeah, definitely meant Sioux Falls. I can see the ambiguity, sorry about that!
The global arms race for AI has definitely started. Unfortunately, most states don't appear to be aware of this.
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"Honstly officer. I didn't click on that link to CA imagery. It was my webcrawler."
1) was "keeping up with their skills", not "trendy". "Keeping up with your skills" does not mean "know JS/ML/k8s" for a wide range of developers.
It’s actually some what ironic considering how much SV pushes for diversity and inclusion.. unless you’re over 40.
If we are going with anecdotal evidence, I'm 55, in top 1% in my field with comprehensive knowledge of modern and cutting-edge technologies. After age 45 was denied promotion and had to look for another employment; was fired (from another employer) at age 52, was out of work for 7 months and had to take a position way below my level. Still there but could be fired at any moment (cost cuts, esp. under current circumstances). Receiving a lot of calls from headhunters based on my excellent linkedin profile, but never went pass first interview in 3 years.
ML the language or Machine Learning?
You're welcome! Scroll Reverser no longer working well in Catalina is one of the main reasons that led me to create my own solution to the problem.
Yeah my wife and I live in an apartment building in a mid-major city on the US east coast and we looked into a PHEV (wanted the tax credit), but it just wasn't workable. I looked for garages and lots with charging stations but couldn't find one.

In effect the tax credit seems like a subsidy for detached single family homes, since I really don't see how you can swing it any other way.
I have a slightly different hypothesis on #2.
Tech workers are busy. Learning and we are overloaded with actual work. We don't have as much time to play office politics. Also, A lot of the problems we face are hard to communicate and we end up facing them in isolation.
No; that was clearly just an an example.

Understand that a colony on the Moon isn't there just as a proof of concept. Its there to do something, probably industrial. Running billion-dollar industrial processes only when the sun is shining, is clearly a downside.
The point of psychology research is to actually try to measure this, e.g exactly how much does this actually make you happier, and take a large sample of people.
Your personal anecdote doesn't refute anything...
Sounds like you might be burnt out rather than broken. If it is burnout there are ways to recover and enjoy developing software again
Yes, but does it work on android?
I think when I broke my collarbone I would just peck at keys and use my mouse more (which I could access with my right, “good” hand).
#2 describes a trend in every sector and business, there are a lot of people that find it harder to get work as they get older because the value of a skill set/knowledge base evaporates. From coal mining to payroll.
I know quite a few game and embedded developers of all ages from 20s to 60s - none of JS/ML/k8s seems to be particularly relevant to anything they do.
As a counter example to the "success" you mentioned.

Again if I got it right a "common user" got stinged because of a dashcam.

The Italian example you refer to is actually a success, like most other ones, I was objecting not to the Law in itself (that is IMHO a good one) but rather on how it is applied, here and there, in spots and seemingly in a random way.
I think he means “ obvious, immediate, substantial economic value” to non technical people. It take little effort to imagine how to monetize it even for regular folks.
> For middle manager's WFH is terrible. They can't account their time for what they did

What do you mean, "account their time for what they did"?

As a middle manager myself, I am graded on my projects getting done on time. I don't need to fill out some sort of timecard. Do you?
But do they weigh any less? With solar in orbit, storage requirements may be far smaller. And batteries have got to be the biggest weight component in the system.
Browser extension uBlacklist* can "Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results". It also supports DuckDuckGo and Startpage. You can add subscription like those ad-blocking extension. Maybe this is what you want.

*: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist
A good visualization of those numbers: https://www.electricitymap.org/map
And Gold broke $2000 for an all-time high.
Nice! Looks very similar to my side project, StatusGator[1]. I can tell you that status page aggregation is a hard challenge. I have lived and breathed this for more than 5 years now.

1. https://statusgator.com
My anecdotal evidence does not match your anecdotal evidence. I'm approaching 50, and I've had about a dozen jobs in tech starting in my teens. I've never worked anywhere that didn't allow on-the-job time for learning, and the majority of my employers have both actively-encouraged it and financed it. I also learn on my own, for fun, as my career started as a hobby and still interests me, but the vast majority of my education has been paid for during normal work hours. I also actively seek out new and interesting technology when switching jobs, and I switch jobs when things stagnate. It's what you have to do in tech, regardless of your age. If you stay too long at a company that isn't advancing your career, you're going to go stale. This isn't specific to tech either. How many mechanics, lab technicians, chefs, marketing people, stock brokers, architects, lawyers, etc. could find a job today if they hadn't learned anything in 20 years?
Thanks for sharing. I'm currently doing fullstack web development and find it not as interesting anymore as it used to be (close to 6 years now). I'm trying out various projects but it is either need higher learning curve such as deep Math (i.e., machine learning, graphics) or domain specific knowledge which I usually don't have expertise about.

I guess it is part of the learning.
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A novel measure of segregation, experienced isolation
> I've heard that peltier coolers aren't very efficient or powerful, so this isn't surprising

Yes, the ones you can buy under $1000 apiece are only %3-%5 efficient.
These are mostly things you can control and easily fix.
I’m legitimately not sure democracy will survive modern, sophisticated propaganda techniques, plus an open, international Web, plus losing the ability to more-or-less trust audio and video recordings that we’ve grown used to over the last hundredish years. Between state actors and, eventually if not already, transnational corporations waging info warfare, I kinda doubt the institution can take it. Too much info, too fast, from too many sources.
I agree with this, the nuance is though that many interviewers are convinced they filter out the #2 with their pet CS quiz questions with no regard for experience or what the company actually needs. Not talking FAANGS, this is smaller companies reaching out to recruit senior devs they supposedly need.
I like solar and all, but I will say that just looking at the farming practices of these growers, this transformation will likely be shortlived (I am thinking in terms of generations, not in terms of seasons). Yes, the solar allows people to rapidly deploy solar to use as pumps, but those pumps are also depleting the aquifer. They are probably not putting anything back into the aquifer with practices such as rainwater harvesting (earthworks and improving infiltration, rather than rain barrels).

In metro Phoenix, AZ (here in the States) we have been seeing something similar as the deep water have been drying up. Arizona is at the bottom of the water rights (from the Colorado river), and people’s solutions have been to install an electric pump to get at the water. With so many people draining off of the aquifer, people who have been depending on the water have been having difficulty with getting consistent water. Many of them are finding that they have to try to sell the property. What they have not been doing are things like, capturing the rain that does come to the region to irrigate crops or landscape; use of greywater; use of a composting toilet (which cleans waste with the carbon cycle rather than the hydrologic cycle), and otherwise conserve drinking and cooking water. Tuscon, AZ and Flagstaff, AZ have residents and public policies in place that does a much better job with this than Phoenix.

With cheap solar added to the mix, what will happen is that it hastens the aquifer depletion.

So those poppy farmers are not thinking with whole systems or thinking in the long term. On the other hand, if they were thinking in the long term, they probably would not be growing poppy as a cash crop in the first place. Perhaps small batches to make high quality anesthesia for local use, as part of of a more diverse crop. You don’t kill off your aquifer, and you don’t make something that will kill off your customers. You’d have nothing left.

My conclusion is that that the market forces, while transformative, is also very limited and short-sighted, and there are better ways for humans to interact with each other.
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I would guess, if it is a real thermal image, that it was taken just after the device was removed to show the users _skin_ temperature.
Because for some of us, it is a means of self-expression.

When I travel, I take lots of pictures and write travelogues about the culture of the place, and about the unusual things that might surprise me or my friends on social media. I also often try to engage with people in the local language (I usually start cramming with spaced-rep apps 2 weeks before the trip), so it's a linguistic journey as well -- I write about conversations too (that said, Basque was very difficult and nobody cared that I tried to speak it. No luck engaging in Catalan either, most folks just switched to English. But Korean was helpful in Korea, as was Portuguese in northern Portugal).

The pictures I take are not of umbrella drinks or beaches, but of local people doing their thing. I take pictures of subways and the little details that reveal the systems-thinking behind the subway system (which differs all over the world). I take pictures of pieces of technology that are localized to the domestic culture and reveal the way people interact with physical objects (Japan had so many gems). I almost always go on a walking tour so I also get to document the history that I learn along the way -- seeing physical spaces are great, but with a walking tour you also get the time dimension through storytelling.

My social media posts are an invitation to my friends to see a world that they've not seen. I often travel alone, so writing about my experiences and explorations helps me feel like I'm sharing those experiences with my peeps back home. It also helps me feel less lonely -- yes, one makes friends on walking tours but those are fleeting and you never ever see them again. The most gratifying interactions on social media aren't the likes but the comments that start with "what's that?".

Telling stories on social media also helps hone your storytelling skills. I once took a course in flash fiction (i.e. really short fiction) writing which was nice and all, but the real test of flash writing is in telling stories on social media where you have to get and keep people's attention with words and pictures within the constraints of a single post.

It really depends how you do social media. Done right, it can be extremely gratifying and can elevate the experience of travel.

(there's nothing wrong with the performative aspects of social media if you know what you're doing. Take Anthony Bourdain -- sure, he was making a TV show (trying to get the TV equivalent likes as it were) but he also portrayed cultures with an artistic sensitivity that none of the other chefs had. Gordon Ramsey for instance goes to a country to show the locals how he can cook better than them...)
The implications in your comment are gross, but to respond to the underlying question:

Using a bank as a poor person is stupid expensive. Have less than 200$ in an account? That's a monthly fee. Use your debit card less than 15 times last month? That's a fee. Need checks for that account with only $100 in it? Most people get them for free but you pay. For a time, TD Bank was even applying transactions to your account out of order so you would incur more than expected overdrafts and accrue more overdraft fees than you actually should have had. They lost a court case about that and had to pay people a few dollars, because class action suits are a travesty of justice often.
The article doesn't show the original context for the photo, but I imagine it's an image of the body after using it, not while the cooler is attached.
>According to research conducted by Tulane University in 2009, 2.3 million Americans lived more than one mile away from a super market and did not own a car.

0.7 percent of the population isn't too bad.
Ah, training - I remember that. Sadly I was only ever "treated" to a couple of "real" (paid-for) courses at the start of my career and the rest was on-the-job.
> I'm 35, so kind of in the middle.

And this is exactly the problem with tech. At 35, you're only about one decade into your career.

Lawyers, doctors, professors, etc. at 35 would still be considered relatively young, with plenty of time to become partner, senior surgeon, obtain tenure, whatever. But you're now at peak salary, and can expect inflation raises now.

And worst of all, you've got 30 years left until you can obtain Medicare, so if you aren't working full time at a job with decent benefits, you're absolutely screwed, especially if you 'dare' decide to have a family, 30 year mortgage, etc.

People often live 'till mid 80s nowadays, and can't receive any sort of benefits (in the US) 'till mid to late 60s. If your career is peaked and trending downhill at 35, and you're not making millions of dollars in your prime (professional sports, fashion model), there is something wrong with your industry.
I was refering to their initial elections:

I don't remember that Duda's first election at the time caused any trouble (it was a defeat of the the incumbent)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/duda-wins-polands-pre...

Also Orban's initial election was a surprise, but not undemocratic for what I know (I remember there was a number of scandal about oponents before.)

What happenned after the elections, of course, is a different thing...
100k in Montana will practically get you a palace on 100 acres lol
Indeed... better link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23963877
This is very well put, and why I am one of many who are just rolling our eyes at most news coming out of long-time established news sources. The pushing of narratives has reached levels that make almost all news regarding politics untrustworthy.
How often do people do a cross continental trip of 1000km+? Like honestly.

Same argument I heard back in the day on why so many buy estates instead of hatchbacks “in case I move a cupboard”. Like how often does that happen in life?
That's fair, and looking at some of the founding statements it seems they were much more interested in getting the tech out there and available to everyone equality and didn't seem to be big believers in regulation. I think I am projecting my own belief of the importance of regulation onto this.
>> but I've had a couple older coworkers who seemed to be in that place, which just seems like such squandered experience.

It is squandered. It's one thing to know the right path based on experience. It another to be able to share that experience in a way that benefits others and helps them understand why it's the best choice. Nobody knows everything either, so having a real conversation can result in learning both ways.
As far as I could tell Scroll Reverse reversed all scrolling, so when I walked away from my desk, I'd have to kill it to use my trackpad normally.
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Thanks for the feedback ocdtrekkie, I agree that this should be clearer. We'll work to provide a clearer picture of what the platform would do. In general, we're building a public issue tracker for the internet.
Docker overriding iptables rules, in my case. I was using somebody else's project distributed via docker-compose config, which made the port for elasticsearch public, which I was not aware of (I don't normally use docker or elasticsearch). Luckily I was able to regenerate the data stored in elasticsearch, though I had to do it twice because it got wiped again after regeneration and then I had to google what the hell is going on.
> between teachers and other kids, young children have eight hours of constant stimulation

Not always eight hours, sometimes school can be boring ;)
Training an AI in 2020 is best thought of as a capital investment. Like digging a mine or building a wind farm, the initial investment is very large but the operating costs are much lower, and in the long run you expect to get a lot more money out - a lot more value out - than you put in.

Training GPT-3 cost $5m; running it costs .04c per page of output.
I've heard it said the US could feed the entire world!
Any insight into why bandwidth is so expensive?
I expect if the author learns about this exchange he would never ask a question that has even a remote possibility of inviting speculation about levels of his knowledge or practices at a company where he happens to work at the time (in other words, pretty much any question at all) using his name.

That kind of public ridicule and possible resulting flak from management is why more and more developers participate in knowledge exchange by asking questions from under a throwaway pseudonym (much like user5994461), and only answer or edit other questions from accounts that connect to their identity in any way.
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and Facebook is currently generating billions of voice profiles based on recorded WhatsApp sessions. Soon these profiles are sold to advertising agencies.
This is great. One of the biggest challenges I find with WFH is the lack of serendipitous communication/idea flow and the sense of loneliness that comes with being by yourself all day. While remote work has many benefits and the principles make sense, it would be great if some of the positive's of office work could be recreated in remote work

Potentially there are software solutions that help solve these issues?
The “Protestant Work Ethic” was built around the notion of a two-parent household with the parents specialized such that one works outside the home while one works inside the home. It also assumes a significant social safety net in the form of family and close community support via churches, schools, etc.

I understand the gist of what you mean, but I think you’re really pointing at the idea of the “nuclear family,” and the “two-income household,” both of which are post-war ideas. Specifically, Elizabeth Warren wrote an entire book about this “Two Income Trap,” how much more fragile it makes families, and why we should be working to get back to one-income being a reasonable option so that more people could choose it when their circumstances demanded it.
An isolate is a v8 "virtual machine" running in-process with many other such machines, virtualization is provided by a userspace program

A process is a "virtual machine" running on-host with many other such machines, virtualization is provided by the kernel

A host is a "virtual machine" running on metal with many other such machines, virtualization is provided by the CPU

Metal is a "virtual machine" running on microcode with up to 3 sets of sibling architectural state (did any vendor ever implement 8-way SMT?), virtualization is provided by the silicon

It's turtles all the way down

Even better if the isolate is itself running an emulator, in which case it's also turtles all the way up
Great points. Once you get used to the dopamine high of people "liking" your posts, it can get hard to relax and enjoy the actual experience. And switching off your phone/camera is not really what you want either, because you genuinely want to save the memories digitally.

My solution was to basically completely stop posting publicly. I still take lots of photos on trips, because I enjoy photography too, and want to save the photos, but I am doing it for myself. There's no pressure of other people liking it since apart from my close family, no one will get to see them [1]. And as a result, my photographs have organically skewed towards capturing more faces and natural expressions, and not just landmarks.

[1] From a tooling perspective, Google Photos private albums are awesome for my use case.
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As blueeyes has already pointed out "Legislation in one nation will simply handicap that nation." I don't have a lot of faith in our legislators ability to legislate safety without relegating us to an AI backwater.
> Knee implants

Source? I would expect these are much more common in obese people than in habitual runners. My understanding is that runners have been found to have healthy knees, e.g. with a bit of googling I find [1][2] (but haven't read them).

> significant negative hormonal changes for men over 50 miles/wk

They have found somewhat lower testosterone levels, but I don't know of any study finding negative health impacts. Do you have a source for "significant negative"?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5179322/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556152/
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I could probably get used to it if I used only macOS, but I use Linux and Windows most of the time and switching scroll directions when I use macOS gets frustrating. That and physical scroll wheels scrolling "unnaturally" is what seems natural to me, @dashwav explains why I feel that way quite well in their reply to another comment.
If you're "at work" 24/7, you're doing it really, really wrong.

0700-1600 only for me (almost four years 100% WFH).
I map “natural” on the touchpad to moving the page. I map “natural” on the scroll wheel to moving the scrollbar. Both are “natural”, but opposite.
I expect them to be higher by the end of the year, I think it’s just how their large delivery batches line up.

Tesla M3 (LR) was the most sold car of any type (ICE and EV) in Norway last year.