skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah there are a couple of really scary factors that might compound into a catastrophe.

The Arctic permafrost is another such factor, it might amount to a twelve fold increase in atmosphere methane content if thawed.
It depends on how you want to compare them. You could look at it from a funding perspective. The total cost of ITER through 2013-2025 is expected to be 20-65 billion.

Samsung just revealed they are investing 50 billion to build an EUV foundry. This is on top of all the knowledge and assets they already have. It does not include the R&D to get to the point where you can just buy EUV machines, etchers, atomic layer deposition, etc.
Crossing the Strait is not expensive, and Chinese government is already offering residents of islands near-same treatment as their own citizens few years ago.
It is telling, though, that Richard was directly influenced by his father, but Joan had to get that influence secondhand.
You people say, "I'm in the toilet..."

Eww. The bathroom (or restroom) is the room the toilet lives in. Water Closet is fine I guess, just sounds so antiquated.

The toilet is the thing you poop in. When a Brit or Aussie says, "I"m in the toilet..." I just see someone standing in the pot trying to flush themselves down.

Also, watch out when you ask simple questions like, "Which team do you root for?" because apparently those perverts across the pond think that's a filthy question to ask.

At work someone asked me for a rubber. I sort of knew what they meant, but I had a condom in my travel bag so I gave it to them. The look of like shock was worth it.

Localization man... it's a bitch. Idioms take time to learn.
Have you ever stumbled through a technical interview and still gotten the job?
If so, what was your experience level at the time? What did you have to solve?
Looks like he bought Viacom which included MTV in 89

Interesting thoughts from Gideon Yago (of MTV News years back) on how Redstone's legacy should be union busting: https://twitter.com/gideonyago/status/1293567900096200710
Full article: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41559-020-1269-4

Fun sentence about the breadth of the data: "Types of arthropod data include grasshoppers per sweep in Konza Prairie (Kansas), ground arthropods per pitfall trap in Sevilleta desert/grassland (New Mexico), mosquito larvae per ovi-trap in Baltimore (Maryland), pelagic macroinvertebrates per tow and crayfish per fyke net in North Temperate Lakes (Wisconsin), aphids per suction trap sample in the Midwestern United States, crab burrows per quadrat in Georgia Coastal Ecosystems, ticks per person/hour in Harvard Forest (Massachusetts), caterpillars per plot in Hubbard Brook (New Hampshire), arthropods per pitfall trap and sweep net in Phoenix metro area (Arizona) and stream insects per rock scrub in the Arctic (Alaska) (Table 1)."

The crayfish and crabs surprised me, considering the title mentions only insect abundance.
Mobile data in US is very expensive. In India you can get 1GB data for $0.10.
> We’ve never thought that way about flu’s.

We certainly did about the 1918 pandemic, where all kinds of limitations were imposed to attempt to control the spread. The cost/benefit with typical seasonal flu is, obviously, not the same.
I'm really excited about this tool. It hits all the right notes for me in terms of flexibility and constraints. I've used it to write an academic paper, run collaborative retrospective sessions with my team, organize my thoughts, and more. I wrote about it here: https://www.bentsai.org/posts/2020-08-06-i-joined-the-kinopi....

Here's a fun one documenting my guitar setup: https://kinopio.club/-my-guitar-setup-iIo8rVWavPruON76J_GPt
Free portal to share your roadmap and gather customer feedback
From above, we can only conclude that capitalism and profit-oriented economy are insane. But people are still blindly defending them, just like the slavery was defended not so long time ago.
They're claiming that those cities are extremely dangerous.

But in reality, that's just innumeracy.
That would be a fair assessment, but did you miss the part where Google got a discount based on an agreement, then changed the agreement and started demanding additional concessions?

It is perfectly fair for the people of Toronto to push back and re-evaluate the value proposition of the deal if the other party is attempting to renegotiate.
Thanks for the link. Coincidentally a feature request to mash posthog with messaging went into an issue 10 hours ago!

https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/1414
> if your web app doesn't suck.

This may be the least reasonable assumption I have ever read.
> All of a sudden you're spending 2x normal for a while. Not a lot of people can do that.

Then stagger it—an extra box of dishwasher tablets this paycheck, an extra box of garbage bags next paycheck. Overall consumption doesn't double.

The space concerns are very real though and probably harder to solve…that's my bottleneck
> imagine a world where phones were the primary consumers of the electric grid.

This is actually an interesting thought experiment. Maybe the best solution would be shipping powerbanks around?
I agree. A few years ago I went a year without a dishwasher, and while I complained about having to do the dishes every day, while I was doing it, it was kind of an escape. I eventually looked forward to it.

Time to listen to a podcast, or some new music, or to simply be alone with my thoughts because nobody wanted to be around the guy doing dishes. Very therapeutic.
> Our body politic wants all these protections but can't muster the will to do it "properly".

This simply isn't true - one party runs on being against all of these policies.
Or they could have been worried about not being seen as nationalistic to their peers and bosses, even if they aren’t that nationalistic themselves. A lot of nationalism in China is derived from social and peer pressure.
Individuals can make personal, effective efforts on this front.
One of the big problems with fancy algorithms is that they either access data out of order and/or do pointer chasing. Simple algorithms tend to access the data in order.

CPU's have a lot of logic for making in order data access very fast.
Yeah, I see a lot of comments going gray (grey?).

Sounds good to me—how shall we exchange that?
It can be shockingly difficult to get Google to talk to you while you have an account too. Unless you are a paying Google customer, it is challenging to get support.
They'll just move the goalposts.

They'll say "no this is unfair to uber and workers." Then when you suggest the safety net they'll say " taxes are too high " or "they need to work harder for more money to provide for themselves."
Both the US and Russia still use bombers despite having ICBMS and SLBMs. Bombers are an important piece of the nuclear triad.
Yep. US political and MIC leadership are trying to finagle Americans into a Cold War II with Russia and China, when all that is needed is business and economic disengagement if the regimes are really all that odious. The US itself lives in a glass house so it shouldn't be so eager to throw rocks.

I'm not a fan of top-down interventionist policies, they appear too brittle in a fast-moving innovative environment like we find ourselves in today. So if the US wants to stay on top of the semiconductor/AI/quantum/etc. heap, then the nation will have to find a way to make it attractive again for talent around the world to bring their families to live there. Starting with a well-educated population that uses rational cognition and fact-based decision-making would be good...
Covid-19 could push some universities over the brink
> While splitting the world into those who are “saints” versus those who are “pure evil” may protect oneself from pain and damage to their self-image, it ultimately stunts growth and development and ignores the ability to see the self and the world in all of its complexities.

I have seen this so many times in technical discussions that is not even funny. "I am right and everybody else are idiots" is a disease in many software companies.

Many technical solutions are trade offs. But creating absolute categories "solution A is perfect" and "solution B is bad" many engineers protect their egos and their own technical preferences. And that stalls growth, their own and the growth of the team.

> Those with a greater tendency for interpersonal victimhood also had a greater negative memory bias, recalling more words representing offensive behaviors and feelings of hurt

In technical environments, I have seen it related to bugs. The victimhood mindset tends to blame others for any production problems. And any try to bring an open and candid discussion is seen as an aggression. No technical review is possible as criticism of code or design is seen as just personal criticism and violently disregarded.

In the best companies I have worked for, teams are doers open to discuss designs without taking offense. All proposed solutions are understood as a trade-off between different options and that personal preferences may create bias on looking into problems. There is a growth mindset and are great companies were to learn and grow yourself. There is no evils or saints, but colleagues trying their best to solve a problem.
We could start by not calling it “idleness” when we paint pictures, learn physics or read philosophy...
How would they track you on a bus?
Considering how H1B are getting treated, let's not pretend we live in a world where talents move freely across border without restrictions. This is true for people from Taiwan coming to China for work though, there is almost zero friction besides a plane ticket and some paper work.
The idea that people prefer detached SFHs is just a talking point used to obscure an agenda. The current agenda is that incumbent landowners profit from scarcity. The old agenda is that SFH zoning excluded minorities. Either one isn't great. There is no evidence of a revealed or stated preference for SFHs among American homebuyers when presented with multiple choices. If people really preferred detached SFHs this strongly, we wouldn't need to enshrine the preference in the law.

The comment elsewhere in this discussion by "enragedcacti" is spot-on: if the law requires everyone to eat black beans, it will seem like everyone strongly prefers black beans.
A fingerprint is essentially a password printed on your fingertip. And the second link is more about determining whether someone is who they say they are beyond passwords provided.
Hyperloop: Pipes of Fancy
I use my personal phone number as my pager when I am oncall. That doesn't feel abusive.
> It seems like this would create a perverse incentive for useless people to pretend to have been useful; they can't just accumulate enough money to go idle without having a backstory to justify it. To appease those who are still working, every member of the idle class needs an excuse (e.g. they sold their company to Google for a few million $).

There is a book on that: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bullshit_Jobs
For the same reason why newspaper ads are rarer these days I would guess - next to nobody goes to them for their ads so the prices demandable tend to be lower than commodity or harder to fufill.
Does it really get to 150°F inside a dishwasher?
I think someone attempting to get an Uber pickup (or getting dropped off by an Uber) in the middle of CHOP/CHAZ might have had some problems. Particularly at night.

Or any "drop me off within the ongoing protest" ride, really.
Everyone stopped pursuing them because the massive falloff of effectiveness at higher yields. The explosions got large enough that the difference in air pressure at higher altitudes meant that more and more of the energy released was going straight up rather than directed at the ground.

I'd call that an engineering limit.
How did you get the full HTML dump?

They only gave me a "converted site" in my gdrive when I downloaded from the migration manager.
Yes, that's the reason why shopping at Costco isn't the solution to everything. I don't want to store 300 toilet paper rolls.
I am pretty sure that you cannot "activate" a work contract by opening an app. What is the notion of "activating" a contract anyway, I mean legally. Does something like that exist in US law?

I would doubt that, and I would also doubt that you can simply define opening an app as the beginning of a legally binding, entirely new contract with as many implications as Uber's driver contracts have. I am pretty sure that in reality, Uber signs a contract once with a new driver, after checking his background, driver license and everything, and that contract is active from that point in time until explicitly terminated by either party. Just closing the app does not terminate it, neither does opening the app create a new contract. Closing the app just amounts to the driver leaving his "workplace", opening it again amounts to the driver entering his "workplace", but the contract under which that work takes place is the same and active all the time, it just gives the driver a lot of leeway with regard to how many hours he wants to work.

That is a generous employment, but it is an employment nevertheless in nature.
Is Heroku Down?
Returning 'An unhandled lowlevel error occurred. The application logs may have details.' on pricing/dynos page.
> a) remove all bits of food with regular washing, stack next to sink

Sorry, what? Sure, you can't put large chunks of food in a dishwasher, but isn't the main point of a dishwasher to... wash the dishes for you? If you're pre-washing, what's the point of the dishwasher?

That said, I also do not own a dishwasher, since hand washing is so quick and easy.
It's working today! Did you have to make a change, or did some caches just get flushed or something? I've seen a couple other github-hosted-page issues like this, but I have no idea what the cause or fix is.
I disagree with that, i think the various mix of cheap insecure IP-cameras present on any small store and elsewhere poses a far greater privacy risk than a well managed and frequently audited system one would expect from google.

The cheap security cameras are relatively trivial to gain access too at scale and you can run facial recognitioning on their video with zero accountability.

At least with google and facebook you get a non-zero level of accountability.You can still summon their CEO in front of the public somewhere for questioning.

Or if you're an EU citizen you can demand you data be wiped off.

You can't practically do that with an insecure patchwork of security cameras. This is why I think the privacy concerns for this project were quite misguided.

In my opinion it's better to go with a single choice of where security video with identifiable faces is going instead of having no clue who's tracking you.
I'm not personally happy that that choice is Google given their screwup with nest and with 3rd-party dev access to gmail, however I think the practical outcome is a lot worse when not choosing anything at all.
Ah. That makes perfect sense now. Thank you
IIRC, Oregon requires postal ballots to be received by election day.

Also IIRC, Washington's (State) rule is received by certification, which is 21 (?) days after election day.

Changing to the Oregon rule is floated most every legislative session. We've successfully beaten it back. But one thing I learned as an election integrity activist is the Powers That Be will keep trying until they succeed.

FURTHER:

Back in the day, the Undeliverable As Addressed (UAA) rate was %1 for First Class mail. Meaning %1 of postal ballots were not received by voters. And %1 of cast postal ballots never got back to central count. In my county, that's over 10,000 ballots lost in a general election.

Anybody worried about USPS's performance should probably be doing their own measuring of UAA and other metrics.

Any way. I'm VERY CONCERNED about the USPS monkeying with stuff that ain't broke. Ensuring postal balloting works as expected takes A LOT of effort.
Juvet: A chat bot framework for Elixir
>>Corporations may become as great a threat to personal freedom and liberty than the government.

Quick rhetorical question: Who do you think is funding that government?

The corporations (and the class of people at the top of them) have always been the greatest threat to freedom, at least in America where there was never a king.
You have never seen people complain about advertisement where everyone illustrated are male?
A 'Tiny' Nation in Outback Australia
That's a fair point but if you can afford two, buying twice the amount is actually cheaper since you can buy it at Costco, etc. I do have two rolls of garbage bags, etc. but I also recognize it's not doable by everyone. GP's tone is a bit off putting even if it is a valid suggestion for some people.
Since it's HN: Bill Gates has mentioned he likes washing dishes. I can't stand it myself.
.. did not read, serious BS radar alarms.. lifelong California resident and this absolutely does not match my observed experience.. Particularly since the Malathion spray event, which showed massive elimination of larger spiders and colorful insects, by direct observation with my own eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack
PPP is incredibly misleading and is often useless as a comparison mechanism. The same car in the USA isn’t somehow cheaper in China (quite the opposite, Russia also), a lot of adjustments made in PPP are straight out differences in quality of life expectations.
Another important reason that "idleness is more relevant than ever" is climate crisis

https://cepr.net/documents/publications/climate-change-works...
As long as there's a safety net, I actually don't think sex labor should be outlawed as long as all parties truly consent and there's no drug addiction or shady trafficking going on. And no Uber driver has ever asked me for a bump or picked me up acting high, so I'm sorry but I don't buy that argument.

If better jobs existed, drivers could go there now. If any company can fulfill these regulations, I would expect it to be companies that already have market share like Lyft and Uber. If they choose to shut down because they can't meet these regulations and be viable businesses, then I'm not really optimistic about your other argument either. Personally, I'd be even less likely than ever to try and do (or invest in) an Uber-like startup after this decision.
That's one interpretation, and I am by no means trying to defend Facebok, or their privacy team, but it is an extremely uncharitable interpretation.

There are many, many, many folks who work in positions that allow them to provide for themselves, their families, and their communities while working for objectionable organizations.

Look at all of the public servants who are keeping the lights on and trying to keep the US government running. I guarantee you there are folks who absolutely abhor how the system is run, and despise the leadership and politicians (regardless of which leader is in power), but they show up every day and do their job, and try to help people.

It's not ideal, but when you get a burger it wasn't made from a spherical cow of uniform density either...
Facebook, Snap Held Talks to Buy TikTok Rival Dubsmash
From Hospitality to Hipsterism: When Big Isn't Beautiful
But in this case you are assuming a worker wants those things. They might not need various benefits (health, etc.) as they get them via another job or a spouse.

If you look at reddit.com/r/uberdrivers, Uber mandating everyone be employees is.. controversial.
The reason for not being able to use regular dishwash soap is because it makes lots of suds which floods your dishwasher.

And by "floods your dishwasher" he means "makes enough suds that they escape from the bottom of the dishwasher door and spread themselves across the entire kitchen in a giant soapy mess.

Found this out when my grandmother, who had never seen a dishwasher before and had no concept of "dishwasher detergent," came to stay for a while.
Not everywhere has perfectly clean tap water. See https://www.today.com/news/family-discovers-their-tap-water-...
Yeah! Back to the taxi monopoly which was the epitome of employee fairness and top customer service!
But out of all things you could do before leaving office, in the middle of a pandemic, why would privatizing the post office be in the top 5? A small and maybe easy win amongst your crowd?

Maybe this is so hard for me to see because I have very very fond memories of the post office. I had the same mail carrier deliver mail for almost all of my childhood. He became a pseudo-uncle to me. He was always there.

And it's hard for me to imagine that people have anything but love and tenderness for the USPS.
They did do that; see the Alcatel Pixi 3. Firefox OS is regarded as one of Mozilla's failures.
Donald Trump impersonator Sarah Cooper is coming to Netflix
Even taxis claim their drivers as contractors.
All this thought about the economy and working and idleness doesn't take things far enough. What we really need to abolish is human metabolism. The fact that we need to eat and hustle to grow and acquire calories and nutrients is the real oppressor. We need to scientifically find out how to stop metabolism so we all don't need to work and will never starve. Attack the root of the problem. Next in line is mortality.
I think it's your day to do dishes.
Fancier TVs are not going to make their ~miserable~ (edit: too heavy word) lifes more meaningful. That's what capitalism has made you believe in order to keep you in its chains voluntarily.
"The corporation can spend money on whatever the hell. That's why they set it up." oh that is not true at all ... fiduciary duty doesn't work like that.
Yeah. Surely a lot of people who "need" it for incidental tasks like checking their shifts (mentioned already about 5 times by commenters) or a payroll site would adapt if they didn't have home internet or especially, if home internet wasn't a reasonable expectation.

In my last several white-collar jobs I could have got by without home internet with only small inconvenience.
I read it as "the family will become dehydrated and need to go to the ER if there's not water in the chiller, because straight from the tap is UNACCEPTABLE"
The reason this didn't happen is two fold.

First, workers gain skill by the hour. It's more efficient to have forty hour work weeks for a workforce of half the size than twenty hour work weeks with the same size.

Second, many things in the economy are arms races. Housing[0], cost of education, status goods, actual arms for our militaries, etc. We have enough productivity for things like food to be very, very cheap but it just drives up prices elsewhere.

[0] Specifically land value, but also housing in the physical sense since raw materials and labour are not unlimited.
You hire a digital marketing agency or a marketing manager that has contacts inside Google Ads to get you unflagged. I work at a national nonprofit and while we could handle the marketing in house, we simply get too much in donations from Google Ads to risk being randomly flagged with no recourse.

$3k/month to an agency to handle all the Google/Bing/FB ad campaigns and A/B testing and to deal with Google's automated BS gives us close to 10x the ROI.
Hmm sure, but it is not a requirement that your underlying algebraic structure should commute, so I think original phrasing was misleading. The bookkeeping allows you to commute a specific list of objects, even though the underlying operation is anti-commutative (i.e. exists a,b a.b != b.a).

At the moment of computation, you can build a new structure that commutes by enumerating the data. I guess it's true that you need a commuting intermediate data structure to be able to distribute.
I live in a condo for $1775 in an area where a mortgage would be $3500 a month + $150,000 down. I have a spare bedroom as an office and I get gigabit internet. I'm walking distance to shops, restaurants and a grocery store which likely wouldn't be true of any SFH I could even remotely afford. I have zero repair costs and anything that breaks gets fixed by the homeowner or the HOA.

I'm sorry to hear that your experience has been bad but I'm very happy with my shared housing and there are a lot of people who feel the same way.