skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7 is actually a catch-all for anything that's not 1-6 that are actually defined. Often 7 is used for PLA because it's common that way but it's not wrong if it's used for other polymers.

Your plastic bags are probably not 6 or 7, my guess is that they are recyclable material. They are probably just challenging to recycle because they fly all over the place when you collect them. I think this is basically why stores collect the film stuff, it's too physically annoying to handle it otherwise.

I think I see 7 mostly on things like to-go containers, cups, and lids. Of course straws are PET I think but they aren't numbered so they're always trash in practice.
Logically, yeah, that might represent a good reason to shine a light on the guy - but I don’t see the article mentioning those domains other than their inclusion in a graphic. Are they actually active? Lolis.xyz doesn’t load for me.

Those domains alone I would consider “smoke”, but in and of themselves aren’t necessarily nefarious. I own a variety of domains that I absolutely don’t agree with, but purchased to either resell or keep out of the hands of people who wanted them - political in my case, but still.
> To suggest that government is capable of acting dispassionately

Government is a massive beast doing all kinds of things at the same time. For example only 12% of all US governmental employees work for the federal government, it’s 24% at the state level, and 63% at the local level. The overwhelming majority of what the government does is run schools, libraries, maintain infrastructure etc in a rather banal fashion.

What makes the news are the rare exceptions which people actually find interesting. The 600,000+ bridges making life a little easier are generally background noise, but when just 1 fails that’s potentially national news etc.
I would even argue that rampant abuse might actually be threatening to GitHub the company.

MS may still be the type of company to change it’s mind about upholding the principles that GitHub runs on.
But what about the trees cut down to make new paper? As more new paper is needed if less is recycled.
Hejlsberg is an awesome compiler maker. His Turbo Pascal compiler was incredible -- in approx 30KB he wrote a compiler, full screen editor and library. He's not that good as a language designer. C# is basically a clone of Java with broken exception handling.

Here's the problem with C# exceptions:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041201011903/http://www.geocit...
Fun fact: dialyzer does not use your @spec’s to run checks. If you do provide a @spec, it will check that it matches, but it doesn’t affect dialyzer itself.
Not really. Addition and subtraction don't care about unsigned vs signed status, because overflow is identitcal in both cases.

Think of an odometer for a car with 999999 as its max number. 999,999 is equivalent to -1. So 500 + 999999 == 499 on the odometer.

A 32-bit register is simply a binary odometer, so the above concept happens with bits.

In "signed int", we print the number "999999" as "-1". With "unsigned int", we print the number "999999" as "999999". They are one-and-the-same. The only difference is your print() function.

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Multiplication and division change however. Your compiler tracks signed/unsigned status for idiv vs div, or mul vs imul instructions.

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With that being said: I think 64-bits is fine. Most computers these days are 64-bits, and those 4-extra bytes aren't very costly. Standard compression algorithms, like GZip, do a good job of finding those redundant bits and shrinking things down.
For sure this is true, my girlfriend is QC at a major game company and watching her work from home is _painful_. Though Citrix is better than Parsec, and both are far better than Remote Desktop (in a huge way).

I have been pushing for Stadia as a primary testing platform, but the backend is quite painful to use (please don't hurt me google, I know I signed an anti-disparagement agreement, but your backend is really inflexible).

But I think this is the 'old way of working', we're so fearful of losing devkits (and the software on them) that we keep them in the office, but that's not realistically much safer really.

As a sidenote though: it's quite fun to see the game working on a tiny little MacBook.
Except those five companies are dwarfed in size and market power by the one under spotlight.

The biggest chunk of US S&P 500 market cap is FAANG stocks.
A couple years ago, I had to move bare metal servers to my home to continue my job working at a VR technology startup, who had just decided to forgo their offices.

I took on an extra $150-$200 in power expenses per month, and it was absolutely treacherous trying to get reimbursed for this. The company never considered the costs they were funneling into the employees - apparently - until people started to complain.

I fear most people were put into similar situations - perhaps not fiscally, but in a procedural sense - during this most recent mass WFH migration.
Except by burning it as fuel, yes, that's basically what I'm saying. I don't think this would be news to a material scientist trained since the 90s, but marketing is strong.
The auto industry pulled out of racing for years after a disaster at Le Mans killed 80 people in 1957.[1]

The memo is interesting. The author is concerned about beefing up the remainder of the drivetrain to match a higher powered engine, but not about improving the stability of the vehicle. Today, it's all about keeping the wheels on the ground and the vehicle pointed in the right direction. Power is not a problem. Most racing vehicle classes today are power-limited in some way.

[1] http://www.superchevy.com/news/1705-the-day-performance-almo...

[2] http://speedace.info/lead_wedge.htm
Savings also add up, so everyone's balance will land somewhere different depending on their lifestyle. Commute has a cost, buying lunch has a cost, less sleep has a cost, wearing shoes more often has a cost, etc...

(I expect another one of the "surprising industry suffering from covid" articles at some point about lack of footwear sales)
Yeah, he seems about as trustworthy as Mike Pompeo. The government in China, like governments elsewhere, might well be doing terrible things to millions of people. If that were true, it would be good to have actual evidence of that, rather than the hot garbage described in TFA or, frankly, an anonymously posted video that appears to show a few hundred men shackled at a train station. I can't even tell whether those men are Asian, let alone Uighur as Guardian confidently assures us. It isn't clear, for instance, why the texts on the uniforms of both the "prisoners" and the "guards" use Latin rather than Chinese characters.
Lie he said/quoted the in-between part of meetings and office work is missing and I think it's essential.

IMHO Trying to emulate office work procedures with video conferences isn't helpful.

A move to out-of-office work should go hand in hand with a move to more async leadership and (technical) communication.

> what we gain in work-life balance

Might be nothing or even massive negative depending on the combination of your (home) environment and personality.

Remote work has the uncanny side effect to make it harder for people which have certain kind of problems, like abusive parterns or a otherwise "broken" home, addiction, depression or some other mental problems.

Sure at the same time it can enable some people with mental problems to work, through often under the condition that their problems are already handled well.
There is no contract, verbal or otherwise, because there was no consideration -- Martin would not have received anything in exchange for giving his presentation. (Intangible benefits like "exposure" don't count as consideration for the purposes of contract law.) The conference never had any obligations to him, and consequently he has not lost anything by no longer being engaged to speak.

Even if there had been a speaking fee, the conference could have fulfilled their end of the contract by paying him but not having him speak. There is no scenario under which the conference would have been forced to allow him to give a presentation.
I first founded a start up for the fantasy of winning the lotto, which mostly didn’t happen. I stayed in start ups for the reality of being my own boss (as a founder) and the fuck-you status[1] of being a recognized world expert in a niche field. Maybe it’s time you switched career tracks inside your industry?

[1] Meant as comparison to “fuck-you money” meaning you’re rich enough to never have to work again, and therefore stand up to BS when you see it, not fearing the consequences. Alternatively, my “fuck-you status” is being so essential that you can just nope out of shit you don’t want to deal with and your employer works around it.
Oh, shame, perhaps my thoughts on this are a little premature...
Why Greenland Is an Island and Australia a Continent?
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Is the video hosting down?
"We're sorry, but this video is not available."
I am blind, have never tried Edbrowse, but it sounds utterly tedious. A Mainstream browser is the only option if you actually want to get things done. I use Firefox with the NVDA screen reader. It is often repeated that command line programs are naturally more accessible to blind people, but it simply isn't true in many cases. Most blind people I know prefer accessible GUIs to command line programs. Think of something as simple as ls - you have to read the file names with the screen reader's review commands, then if you don't know the exact spelling of the file you want you have to get the screen reader to spell it one letter at a time. You then have to type the command plus file name, and the only thing that helps is tab completion. In a GUI, you read the list of files with the arrow keys, stop on the one you want and press enter to open it or ctrl+c to copy or what ever. It is far less keystrokes to perform the same task.
It is useful because the company was trying to gauge how many wanted to work from home permanently and wouldn’t care if they never had an office to go to.
<rant>
This whole "wow I thought implicit type coercion in JS was a joke" style comment got old 10 years ago. If you look at where JS came from (the 90s browser) and what it tried to do there then you should be left with few surprises looking it JS code snippets. If you don't understand what a language was designed for and how it evolved how can you be surprised at the results of code snippets? Because it's not the same as every other language? What would the point of the new language be then?</rant>
I was hoping we we would find more "Inside bill's brain", then just toilets.
Well put. It took me around a month to get into the WFH mood (point 1). I have a dedicated room and I don't see (at least for me) WFH feasible without one (point 2). Regarding point 3: unfortunately, I cannot control that.
>Technically, these aren't being blocked. They're being audited. The payments will still go through.

They buyers are literally getting a message saying "This transaction cannot be completed because it violates the PayPal User Agreement" [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/ArchieMcPhee/status/1304437732584771584
Why? Git is such a worse, over-engineered experience.

Github won, so we're all forced to use git now, but mercurial is really a simpler interface and a more straightforward mental model.
But that is still a popularity contest, of sorts. In general, any ranking system is a popularity system. Which is logical, as there is no objective ranking of books. That is, it isn't an ordered set.

That said, I can see value in providing a score not just in the items, but on the ranking system used. Could even be adaptive based on genre. (Indeed, I would love a system to see if any books have factual errors and such. But, that is just trying to reinvent the citation systems of academia.)

And understood on the mobile. Same boat for me.
Unemployment rises across Latin America as Covid-19 continues to hurt economies
Huge difference: when Higgs was predicted there was a clear path to how to find it. We do not currently have a theory that describes a way to find LCDM that is not begging the question of its existence (not circular reasoning), although we do have several shots-in-the-dark that are ongoing (and a handful that have concluded with no observation).

Also IIRC, Rubin's seminal observations on dark matter were in the 60s too, and dark matter was postulated in 1930.
I'm talking about the 90s.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
Yes, but the recommended daily allowance for an adult male (which you said was too little) is for regular people - most people aren't athletes and shouldn't be eating like one.

> I am however not sure of their profiles; proteins are a group of compounds, not a single one

Maybe look up what plant based athletes eat if you're concerned e.g.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elite-athletes-who-are-vegan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegans

Seitan, pea protein and soybean products are all very high in protein for example.

> Typically since animals eat plants and not the other way around, animal-sourced proteins are a superset of vegetable ones.

Can you offer any proof that this is true + significant in some way compared to a plant based diet? How are plant based athletes performing at a high level if it's important? These kinds of statements are things that people cling to so they can keep a high meat diet, which has an environmental impact.
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> It is, but very weakly - basically a secret string stored in the SMI.

Which, incidentally, is "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
Have you ever used tab auto-completion before? GPG's CLI is actually pretty intuitive and self-explanatory. You can also type:

gpg --help

Or,

man gpg
For some reason, dark matter brings out the crazies. It was true when I worked in physics, and it's still true now.

People need to understand that physicists do NOT consider dark matter to be settled, in any sense! The experiments are not done to polish up any theory... they're done because all of the theories are awful, and guidance from observations is necessary for further progress.

I also still fully stand by my previous comment on this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23666620
This is a bit of an aside, but it never ceases to amaze me how many would be tech hubs try variations of Silicon Valley in their (maybe informal?) branding. Silicon hills, Silicon fern.. (I knew a couple more but I’m forgetting atm). It’s not like it’s the name which made it what it is.
Based on not traveling, a $50/month delta between me not being in the house at all vs. being there full-time is actually about right. But then I don't live with someone. But simply not being in the house for 10 hours a day doesn't affect things much. Admittedly I use AC minimally.

That said, I'd be happy to concede that working at home costs me $1K/yr. in costs I wouldn't have were I to go into an office every day. But that has costs like commuting (for most people) too.
I don't really understand the universal dislike of doxxing. I understand that in certain circumstances it feels like a violation but in others it just means adding transparency to which people are taking actions thta have a tangible affect on our world.

So basically if this is doxxing, I'm all for it in this case.
Someone else said that they use https://www.macstadium.com/, which does that.
> It doesn't matter if Gates was kind or rude

The legal system is made of people, and people are exquisitely sensitive to social stuff. It's just not expedient to ignore that.
But why do we need cryptography if we are not trying to keep it anonymous? If we remove the requirement of anonymity then the task is not much different from counting upvotes on a video. Which is easy to implement, and easy to verify by different parties running the summation algorithm and by people checking their vote status on the site after the result is computed.
I don’t think utilities are expensive enough to compare to the explicit costs of commuting by car (fuel, wear and tear, insurance) and the implicit costs of commuting (increased morbidity/mortality risk from driving, opportunity cost of time needed to be allocated to commuting).

Especially if the house isn’t completely empty when you’re at work.
my understanding of DNS is that it actually uses ".tld.domain.subdomain" as a representation, it is just the URL format that mixes them up
Why take 60% of the rating space up by negative ratings? It seems like what you really care about is degrees of goodness.

An alternative approach:

1 - I disliked it.
2 - It's OK
3 - This is good
4 - This is great
5 - This is a must-read
I am just another armchair physicist but saying there is no detection of dark matter sounds a bit like circular reasoning. You detect matter like your phone in your hand through electromagnetic interaction. We have detected that there is something in space that completely disregards electromagnetic force, but exerts gravitational force. Hence the idea that we have not detected it is simultaneously false in 2 ways:

- it cannot be detected the way you detect your phone in your hand or see light so your definition of detection seems to escape the basic premise of dark matter: its ability to avoid electromagnetic force, and also,

- we have detected it through gravitational anomalies
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> I took on an extra $150-$200 in power expenses per month, and it was absolutely treacherous trying to get reimbursed for this

Well, fuck that... if it's company hardware and there's no reimbursement, power gets cut to that rack at 5PM local time.
I think some people take the "plastic recycling is not viable" to mean that all recycling is not a thing, so I wanted to make sure I didn't misunderstand you about things like glass, cardboard, paper, metal and so on.

I think it's even harder to separate those concepts if you throw all recycling in the same bin.
How today, YouTube is able to offer closed captions on nearly any video
> You missed Amazon, Google, the Linux kernel, Microsoft, Apple, ... which big company isn't using Rust at this point in production?

You could have said the same thing about Haskell (hell, you could even say MS invented Haskell, or at least MS research people, fwiw) . It's absolute meaningless. Big companies have many projects and in random languages.
Of course, when faced with a few loud complainers, you would never consider yourself to be right, and them wrong. You would recognize the folly of your ways, and the wisdom of the crowd that was right all along.
Current chips don't even actually support 64 bits of hardware address yet, seeing as few users can afford 2 exbibytes of DRAM and shuffling around a full 64 bits of hardware address is a noticeable tax on the chip.
> "it would be good to have actual evidence of that"

The following Wikipedia articles seem to cite many references on what's happening to the Uyghurs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
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I'm happy to discuss this topic with you as long as you're willing to hold up your end of the conversation.
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There is literally malware spreading by masquerading as the Epic Games Store: https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-lokibot-trojan-malware-cam...
I’ve seen and used the Maybe version of this a few times, I really like this Typescript feature. Using it for errors is clever :)
Huh? I thought there's always been an obvious answer to this...

Cat girls

edit: ahh... I love the part of HN that can't enjoy even the lightest of humor. FWIW: I have a severe chronic/borderline terminal health condition that is near certain to leave me dead quite early, not to mention the hell it's brought upon my physical body. In 10 years or so (maybe even sooner) - it will probably be something that's editable out in vitro. Also... I'm young as it is.

Let me have fun with my dreams of cat girls. Maybe you'd end up enjoying them too. :)
Alternatively: https://github.com/str4d/rage
> His wife looks after kids who are at school most of the day again

This is the real story.

Suppose you're a company that pays someone a really handsome salary. It's a man. Do you want him in the office, where he is guaranteed to spend 0 hours taking care of kids, or at home, where it's not guaranteed?

Don't pin this on the wife. Do you think she'd rather he drive 2 hours a day and not take care of the kids, and get paid $400k/yr, or nothing, because whatever he's doing is actually very competitive and there will always someone else gunning for that job, so this obsequious rehash of the "well just work part time" idea that exclusively programmers engage in does not apply? So there is no actual option, part time take care of the kids?
> Nope, now Nvidia is going to destroy that progress and set everything back another 5+ years.

You're blaming Nvidia. You should be blaming SoftBank and Masayoshi Son: bunch of fucking hucksters misleading people and making bad investments.

Now they need to sell ARM to fill some of the gaping void that has resulted. They couldn't care less who they sell to and what the outcome of that sale will be. I have nothing but contempt for them.

An absolutely miserable turn of events.
> For the system to be a democracy the representatives have to represent the desires of the people who have elected them.

Not necessarily. It is very well possible for people to vote for representative they hold in high esteem even though they do not agree with them on several matters. It is very possible for representative to go against what is the current majority opinion, and even be reelected afterwards, because in the meanwhile theirs choices have bee proven right. That's why in representative democracies there are elections for a certain role only every several years, to decrease the relevance of immediate issues on the vote, and give more importance to other factors such as broader ideals and the trustworthiness of the candidate.

You can very well prefer direct democracy, but it is not the only, or the one true, kind of democracy.
> physicists do NOT consider dark matter to be settled, in any sense

Almost every honest physicist will say that. But not all physicists are honest, and I don't trust that there is a positive correlation between honest scientists and loudness in the scientific community, especially where it interfaces with the general public. And if you want an explanation of why dark matter brings out the crazies, I think that's as good a reason as any.
Thanks, I'll have to do some more research on how those absentee ballots differ from the current system. Do you recall if there were changes to mail in voting based on this election?
Or Google could just provide long term software updates for their hardware like Apple does. Just because the browser portions continue to be updated sounds like the other portions won’t be.
Please test with NVDA. It is free and very popular. Jaws is becoming less and less relevant mainly due to it's cost, and the fact that NVDA is perfectly usable for most things. If you do want to test with jaws, there is a demo that works for 40 minutes.

By far the easiest screen reader to test with is Microsoft Narrator because it is included with windows.
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Stupid question, but how do I access the size of an array using this fancy new declaration if it were to be added? It doesn't seem like any sugar is there to provide "range based for loops."

Wait I would just use `sizeof` but then I'm still doing pointer math then?
With the removal of the 'web' button, could we possibly get a non paywalled link?