skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that period also roughly corresponded with the rise of the middle class and lifting the majority of the population to a level of material comfort that was (at it's peak at least) the envy of the world.

Most of the worst environmental damage today is not happening in the highly developed west, it's happening in the rest of the world that - understandably - doesn't care as much about saving the local animals as it cares about catching up to the material standards of the wealthy world.
Spark would be a good example
Interviewers who want to make sure you don't think Googling is shameful.
In which case OP should have no problem using the same solution for in-app purchases.
> In part caused by warming and related drying out of the landscape.

Nope. Maybe a small part than makes it happen at best 10% more often. But insignificant. You and those around you are worth well more than 10% than your parents.

You could have managed it locally at a state level, through education, prevention, preparation, treatment, mitigation, harm minimisation and repair but you didn't.

It's on you. You chose big screen TV's and pretending recycling matters instead.
I hope his google doesn't land on this thread:
The US 25 cent denomination coin or 'Quarter' has eleven ridges
So they are cutting payroll costs in a down economy. VMWare is just using this excuse because they think their workers will tolerate it.

HR is a cold calculation, and people forget HR's primary (and second and third) priority is to serve the company.
That's a excellent way of putting it, actually. (Obligatory "inb4 j jonah jameson pops up", though.)
People who understand what a VPN is know all these things. Those that don't are mostly just using them to bypass region locks on services like Netflix.
OK I said I wasn't going to lurk, but I have a problem.

Blacklisting isn't cancel culture, I don't understand how it equates at all. I think, we're talking past each-other a bit here just because cancel culture can be hard to define. It's defined by some as boycotting like "cancel Netflix". It'd defined by others as canceling an individual like "this person tweeted about XYZ when they were 17 fire them." It can also be, "Celebrity XYZ said something I disagree with cancel them (Kapernick comes to mind)." One is targeted against the less privileged and elevates those without a voice or a platform to celebrity. The other is just a re-branding of boycotting. The third targets celebrities who making a social stand.

I'd define the cancel culture I'm concerned about as the form that is against an individual who was not previously famous, doesn't want to be famous and is thrust into the spotlight without the ability to control the narrative or provide context. They got caught on a bad day and just want to be left alone. This is a form of "witch hunt" that thrives on the mob mentality of twitter and other social networks out there that feed on our baser human instincts.

I also think that canceling celebrities because you disagree with them is dumb, but that's privilege vs less privilege and I don't see it as big of an issue.

Cancel culture that's really just boycotting is not something I'm concerned about.

I'll re-iterate, the past had some awful and yet socially acceptable shit going on. I don't think there is a similar phenomenon where the mob went after other individuals in such a global manner. The level of cancel culture that I'm talking about wasn't a global phenomenon before. It wasn't more local, mobs stayed in towns and cities. But they also carried pitch forks and hurt people. So before we had, potential death in your city/town, and now we have humiliation and loss of job but globally. I dislike them both and if I had to pick I think the later is the obvious choice.

OK really trying to close this down now, but this conversation is more fun than what I'd be doing othewise!
I don't find it a super power. It's a trade-off. Very often education, health, finance and relationships get pretty damaged by it.

The upside is I don't do shit I don't find incredibly interesting. I'm perfectly happy as long as everything is on my terms.

The downsides have been my chronic inability to engage with anything not immediately interesting to me led me through a decade of very difficult unemployment, wrecking my health, being a terrible parent, and not being a great husband.

Though it's been a benefit to my professional software career, that has been at the expense of my health.
None of you have dealt with raccoons before. They are vicious. They are persistent. They will mess you up. You do not want to square up with a raccoon without the intent to walk away without causing massive harm. Because when a raccoon comes for you. It comes for keeps.
An organisation full of men of conviction, I see...
Hard to believe Scott Alexander doesn't have the wherewithal to find the right representation for something like this.
> particularly how a process for a command is handled through it's life cycle

fork(), execve(), waitpid() and friends

> also things like how redirection works

dup() ing file descriptors. dup2 is atomic alternative to separately closing a file descriptor and dup'ing to it.

xv6 book is freely available on MIT website - it teaches implementation of toy Unix like operating system.. as another commenter mentioned APUE is pretty popular too.
All of the B12 consumed anywhere in the world -- and all animals need it -- comes exclusively from bacteria. The bacteria in your colon produce thousands of times as much as you need, but you do not absorb so much as a nanogram of it. (Dogs and rabbits eat their own crap to get it.)

The process for absorbing B12, in the upper intestine, is the most intricate of any vitamin, starting with saliva. Apparently the huge variety of almost-B12 variants have to be filtered out, so as not to gum up the works.

It is common for Americans (and maybe others?) over 50 to develop an autoimmune reaction to some part of the process, and lose most ability to absorb B12. (You may notice shooting pains in your arms if you get this.) Then you need to take 5mg daily supplements. The micrograms in meat and dairy are then not enough.

So, if you think you are eating meat for the B12, surprise! that is not where it comes from. Homo erectus probably got enough from the dirt on everything, and grubs.
And in the Linux kernel, a large part of the SCSI codebase is also used for many non-SCSI storage devices for its convenience, hence /dev/sdX.
If someone moves from CA to a state with no state income tax, the savings from that piece alone could make up most of the salary difference. If your gross pay is cut by 15% but your post-tax pay is only 5% lower, you've still got way more earning power in WA, TX, NV, or FL.
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A lot of the old silicon created in the 80's are unobtanium -- particularly certain chips in the Amiga hardware line.
> Battery technology is improving at a far faster rate then hydrogen technology, its not even remotely close. By the time your predicted ' (1, maybe 2 iterations away)' happens, batteries will have made 5 iterations.

I'm curious what this is based on. Last I checked, the li-ion batteries of today are basically the same from the ones we had 10-15 years ago. Sure, a little more silicon, a little less cobalt, but ultimately the same chemistry.

The biggest change for fuel cells is that they're moving from science project to mass production. There will be easily orders of magnitude reduction in cost. While this won't go forever, for the foreseeable future we should see a much faster rate of change for fuel cells and not batteries.
> It doesn't look like fun to figure out where to insert something in a pages-long document with sections that like like ))))))))))))).

What kind of editor doesn't support jumping between braces? The version of Vi that shipped with 2BSD in 1979, supports that feature[0]. Both Gedit and Notepad++ highlight matching braces. Sure, if you're doing your editing in Notepad, you might have a problem, but pretty much every other editor either highlights, supports jumping between them, or both.

[0]: Grep for `.iP "%" 15` in this document from the Minnie archive of the 2BSD source code: https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2BSD/doc/vi/vi...
We used to get B12 from bacteria in the soil, but these days we clean our food immaculately, and we're also ruining our soil. My understanding is that B12 deficiency is a potential problem for everyone; vegan diets are just under more scrutiny. Also, the whole notion of "supplements" is not very useful; it's all just food. I don't know how B12 is produced, but if they're growing it by culturing the same bacteria we used to get B12 from, we have only industrialized the same symbiotic relationship we already had with certain microbes.
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Unrelated, but I noticed the anchor said Allied as "a-LIED" instead of "AL-lied" I'd typically hear today. I wonder if that was the typical pronunciation back then?

Edit: it appears the pronunciation in the UK is the same one used in the audio, according to https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/allied.

I'd hazard a guess this means the US pronunciation has evolved over time
Yes, burning wood is carbon neutral in the long run but clearly emits carbon now (and the earth gets hotter now).

It would be nice to think about maybe collecting undergrowth and turning it to charcoal in something like a kiln and then burying it - reverse coal mining. Of course, we'd want to stop regular coal mining first.
I feel like the opposite - they're popularizing ADHD and I just watched "What is ADHD?" episode and pretty much every human on this planet can relate to it.

Who doesn't make careless mistakes? Who isn't ever late to anything? Who hasn't had a hard time to focus on something?

It is doing a disservice because people who actually have severe ADHD are perhaps shunned and the weight of the word "ADHD" becomes less meaningful.

It is similar to the urban popularization of "OCD". It is even used in regular conversation without people realizing that it is a serious condition that can't be lightly taken.
Interestingly this time around, Bing and Wikipedia seem to be on the side of censorship, and google now as back then still blasts the name open. Rare teams!
Exactly, this is like HR 101 right? These companies didn't even have to deploy a new payroll system, let alone invent anything. If HR people spent more time innovating and less time at conferences they'd figure out how to cut your pay when you log in on vacation.

I have never in my life worked for a company that had an office and no remote workers. There's always someone in Montana or something. This is not new, at all.
My account might be shadow banned for some reason?
that logic only works if you're saving a large fraction of your paycheck. If you're spending most of your paycheck, that invariably winds up getting taxed somehow, and only the overall state tax revenue fraction matters.
How are these posts even being flagged? It's on a 10 day old post. Who is reading and flagging those?
> DO NOT fall into the 'Write code in C++/Python and run it on FPGA' trap. A lot of youtubers seem to be promoting stuff like that for beginners these days which is just sad.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of this statement. Imagine if people said in programming, "Don't fall into the Rust/Python/.NET trap. Use Java."
Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will replicate successfully
Sonoma County, CA here. Can confirm it’s not some lost art and controlled burns were common.

From the time I was a child to now, controlled burns have basically vanished. It correlated with people moving here.

Propublica recently confirmed this anecdote:

https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-...
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There are exactly zero plant sources of B12. Or animal sources, either.

100.0000% of B12, anywhere in the world, comes from bacteria.
That’s how the real world works. Big companies get the best deals when you buy in bulk. You have more negotiating leverage. The days of the indy developer making it big on the App Store are long dead. The best chance you have is selling a service surfaced by an app. In that case, you won’t be paying any in app fees.

But with the limit being $10K. The difference between Apple taking a $3000 cut and a $500 cut is not going to make or break your business.
Eh, it won't last. There will be enough competition for engineers that salaries will rise again. Also this won't apply to talent the company doesn't want to lose.
Inevitable, I guess. Timed tests are mostly useless.
That's just the $750k from the article title divided by 50 million posed in the comment.
This might be what you're looking for. I came across it while searching for this stuff: https://mailinabox.email/
"lab based meat will save us at some point in the future and then I'll probably switch if they're indistinguible from real meat"

Why isn't that the answer? Nobody wants to be out of the animal husbandry business more than the meat producers do. Even if they haven't realized it yet.
This is a bit of an unjust to the history of sociology, and science writ large. What Weber does is help establish, axiomatically not experimentally, the base definitions for the system of sociology. So yes, it is a fiction from another system, but it must be assumed true in that system. This is, ironically given your accusations, a purely mathematical approach to creating a field.

It is taught in 101 because it is important when teaching a subject for the learner to be able to answer “And what again are we doing here?”
“Height matters in whether someone is considered attractive”
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Protobuf renaming?
Annual discount rate the rate by which you want to discount the future cash flow. For example, 6% means that $1000 in a year should be valued at $1000/(1 + 6%) = $943 in today's dollars, because if one has $943 today and invests it, one can probably get $1000 in a year. The recommended rate is the long-term (10 yr) government bound return rate, which is about 6% in the United States.
As someone who has mostly written early stage software with 1 to 3 developers, the single most reason to skip tests is the rapidly changing APIs. Also it is ok to ship somewhat buggy code. Use case validation and speed trumps accuracy.

Also invariably a lot of early stage code is in the front end and FE testing is very time consuming.

What has been immensely helpful is an automated build and deploy system, which quite honestly is very expensive to build in the iOS world. I just want a one click deploy to a clean machine every time I decide to deploy. This is kinda trivial in the backend world using containers but not so in the iOS world.
> the first 51% of communication is repetition

Is this a famous saying? It sounds nice but I hadn't heard it before. (And Google doesn't pop up anything obvious.)
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How to Make a Harmonograph?
What will you do when your "mandate" is ignored?
How Long Can You Survive on Your Remaining Savings?
No one has ever had their salary set by JUST the value they provide for the company. If anything, the value they provide is simply the CEILING for how much an employer would pay them; if they paid them more, they would be losing money and it would be better to not have the employee at all.

Employers pay the least amount they can in order to attract and keep an employee. That pride is set by supply and demand.

Remote work vastly increases the supply of available workers, which will drive down wages. While it also increases the number of companies that need employees, most of the ones that aren't in the major tech centers aren't really competing for those highest salary engineers; they simply don't generate enough value from an engineer to be able to afford those higher salaries.
Do you know of any company that runs a product with this many users globally on 100 people let alone 10?
Because the Android store does not even attempt to block their privacy shenanigans.
Make no mistake. These problems are solvable. There is an active political will (via the majority of people). Yet, the three States that are burning millions of acres are apathetic right now. This could be solved for many years going forward. Raise taxes (the richer, the higher the fee) then fix the problem and also force the Federal Government to do a better job with their land. This isn't just a State/local govt problem a large portion of the West Coast is owned by the Federal Government.

Trump is brazen, you now have political coverage to be just as brazen to fix these issues. We should be expecting more from our leaders because what we have now is a poor rationalization for shitty leadership. 16 of the past 20 years have been record breaking fires in California, this isn't a new problem. It's just long overdue to be solved.

P.S. I have zero faith that this will be fixed. It's fairly clear to me that the entire political servants aren't actually leading, they're apathetic while the country literally burns. It's not a difficult thing to ask that our elected leaders stop this in the short-term, let alone the long-term. It's difficult when we rationalize their bullshit, so expect more.
The same US and state governments that used to regularly practice controlled burns in the Pacific Northwest, later banned those controlled burns, to devastating consequences. It's only been the last few years that we've seen a reversal of that, but it's been too little, too late.
Is the salary drop pretty steep?
Former environmental engineer here. Landfills are not that bad indeed but only if they’re properly constructed - i.e. concrete bed poured, geological survey done beforehand and the seepage of stuff into the ground and settling is continuously monitored. The problem is that constructing _proper_ landfills is hideously expensive so regulations are skirted all over the world. Then you have problem of the stuff decomposing and seeping into groundwater, etc. It’s not all milk jugs and bottles. It’s paint, batteries, motor oil, old non-RoHs electronics that seep mercury and lead everywhere, etc. That’s the main problem with landfills.
Respect for a sentence I would expect from my 5 year old?

One of these years I'll understand this place! I just know it!
Haha hi from Montana.
You probably aren’t any more terrible than most other developers in the workforce. You really can’t be that bad because you are actually capable of some level of self-reflection, which is completely counter to the following.

I frequently observe that so many developers are experts, but they are experts in the way that my children are experts. They talk a big game to hear the sound of their own voice: Dunning-Kruger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...

This is evidenced on HN right now where the top thread on the front page is a security anti-theory with many clueless comments full of conjecture not based on any form of experienced security practice. Information security jobs require certification and education while software jobs only require passing an interview. That said it’s easy for any software developer to believe themselves to be a security expert when in reality actual security experts won’t have anything to do with them.

Worse still is that since this is all vapor with ego and self worth riding on it people quickly become hostile on any discussions of the subject. That completely brazen emotional insecurity isn’t something common to actual qualified professionals.
Surprisingly, chicken hypnosis is a real thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism
Where do all the taxes collected by California go?

I live in Massachusetts and we have a substantially lower overall tax burden. We also have the best public schools in the country, and the highest rate of health insurance, due to our very generous MassHealth program. What is California doing with their tax dollars?
A unregulated market for toys won’t prevent you from buying lead free toys if that’s a valuable feature to you.
I couldn't load an image with this, though. Overall, it's lacking many features, too many to be useful. Key feature missing are keyboard commands, efficient ways to convert bezier handles (smooth to corner).

I use Sketch, and I highly recommend it.
If I remember correctly I saw an interview with one of the original people leading up gov.uk.

It came across one of the frustrations was gov.uk is a long term product, governments switch and their leaders switch every few years as do the priorities so it’s hard to work with a long term roadmap.
Those don't make the moment better: they take you away from the moment.
Thanks for making this app! I'm super excited to use it as it's much faster than Spark. One thing I feel missing is ability to snooze the email and batch mark as read. Do you have plan to add it?
Apple updates the browser between major OS updates.

Apple added YubiKey support (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/12/12/apple-ios-13-3-i...) for 2FA in Safari in 13.3 and they added better mouse support to Safari as well as other built in apps between major releases.

Firefox is losing market share and almost completely dependent on Google for its survival. If Firefox tries not to support something that the rest of the industry is supporting (like the web based DRM) the rest of the industry just yawns.
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Gold: A local docs server for Go, shows type implementation relations in brower
You have to look at other taxes: lots of people move to “low tax” states and then realize they’re making up the difference in property and sales taxes, or lower quality services.
It's true that states need to get revenue from somewhere, so property tax rates may be higher. But the property costs are so much lower, even high rates would result in lower tax burden.

Basically, other states do not necessarily raise as much revenue as CA overall. CA provides lots of services (which you may or may not use), which contributes to the high overall taxation.
Yep. I'm in FL, working on fancy virtual machine software. I have coworkers in TX.

These places are not for everybody. Lots of things that save money are just offensive to the typical CA voter. The words "Don't California my Texas" came into being because crowds of CA voters would evacuate from the mess they had created, then vote for more of the same. If they succeed, then where will they go?

So don't just look at the price. You might hate the policy, culture, and law.
I think the issues with reprocessing low-level nuclear waste (which is what I think this would be) would be more political and economic than practical. But if we truly were running out of rare earths? Both of those would go away.

That being said, I would rather live near the power plant than the reprocessing facility. MUCH rather. But another few square miles of superfund site is a fantastic trade for the coral reefs of the world.
Here is a recent update from Christian Schaller on PipeWire [1]. It looks quite promising; it's especially good to see that PipeWire comes with shims implementing the ALSA, PulseAudio, and Jack API, so it should be a drop-in replacement.

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/09/04/pipewire-late-summ...
The only loophole I can see is to have web app stores because you can’t ban browsers. Web apps may improve greatly as lower level browser APIs like Houdini become available but I don’t think that will be enough. I think that html should be replaced by cross-platform native apps distributed over http.