skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not against these ideas but you do have to zoom out a bit to fully realize the impact of each alternative. It’s not as simple as replacing a “bad” one with a “good” one, because there are side effects.

(I haven’t added up the total impacts of every option either; this is just something to consider.)

For example, glass is much heavier than the plastic used for bottles. If you have trucks/etc. hauling millions of bottles around the world, it will take more energy to move glass bottles. Glass is also fragile so it’s possible there is more shipping material or more random losses affecting cost. So then the problem is not just how to replace plastic bottles with glass but how to offset the added environmental cost of transporting glass.
Privacy, by one of the biggest NSA data providers?
Have you noticed they’re more expensive than other plastic toys? “Recycled” plastic toys aren’t much different from other types of “green” marketing - they’re charging for a slightly premium product but the market is niche: upper middle class people who care about the environment and aren’t super price conscious.
A ban seems foolish. First you need to categorize things as "single-use" versus reusable, and people will argue about that distinction. Then, you need do deal with the inevitable unintended consequences from miscategorized items or bizarre alternatives companies choose to replace plastic.

A tax would be much more straightforward.
I know nothing of InDesign so that's likely where my problem understanding came in :). At work, we have a lot of data-defined reports that will generate daily based on real-world conditions. These reports then go out to business users internally but they're nicely done because they'll occasionally get shared with external audiences. The way the team structured it, which I thought was fairly slick, is they built a bunch of RMarkdown reports that output to LaTex as an intermediary format. Then there's custom LaTex stuff in the pipeline that makes layouts & styling transferable and sharable between the reports. From LaTeX you can go to a number of outputs like html and pdf and it's (I'll probably catch flack for laypersons explanation) maybe a more print-oriented layout/typesetting system, versus html/css which came later. This felt maybe more relevant before than now :)
Right, this isn't a general hospital so replace general with children's, but the point stands.

If there actually two general hospitals, do what Toronto East General Hospital did, subdivide by location.
Scientific American Makes First Presidential Endorsement in Its 175-Year History
Apple is back to flat edges (similar to iphone 4s) instead of round
A lot of universities end up renaming buildings after later rounds of donors, so even getting your name up on the building isn't a guarantee.
Most people are some combination of financially irresponsible and uneducated. Honestly, with the numbers you have here I have to lean towards irresponsible regardless of whatever difficulties the middle class faces. Even at a median wage just doing the absolute bare minimum of saving 5%-10%, not even factoring in 401ks, would leave you well past this given the last few decades of market returns.
Youtube has been a thing for a long time, and a free service. Apple is doing the same thing except they're making much higher quality videos, with hardware integration, and charging money for it.

If video workouts were to replace fitness instructors it would have happened over 5 years ago.
> so you do a background check them, just not the standard, criminal/credit check

These things are not at all equivalent. It's a laughable false-equivalency to suggest that calling a few friends/acquaintances of someone is at all similar to investigating their personal finances, debts, criminal history, employment records, etc.

> You also base a lot of your decision about a hard-to-quantify "gut feel" from this coffee shop chat.

When I have a unit for rent, it goes to the first person interested. This coffee shop meeting isn't an interview.

These folks are going to be living in my home, this is the most egalitarian way for both parties to understand "is this situation tenable for both of us?" It's not an assessment or gate.

How else will they know they want to live with my family?
wow, the temtop website sent my laptop fans spinning with all the crap it tries to load, and that my content blockers went into overdrive blocking (especially, and inexplicably, from reviewsimportify.com).

still, i'm interested in getting a good pm2.5 monitor to pair with my air purifier, as air pollution is a much bigger issue than covid (air pollution certainly affects vast swaths of people across the world, persistently and largely invisibly, and is only getting worse over the decades).

is waiting for the wifi version (currently sold out) worth nearly twice the (sale) price of an m10?
Damn I'd buy an iBike.
Indeed, the power goes to the person who can successfully manipulate the most people. Historically that tends to be people who blame minorities for all the ills of the group of people most likely to vote, and come up with what seem like easy solutions (tax the rich, ban the immigrants)

I for one don't have time in my life to be an expert on running an economy, creating an immigration policy, balancing the environmental and societal needs etc. I specialize in my area of expertise and use that money to employ others who specialize in their areas, and that includes government.
Except that government has a lot more political power than your average philanthropist. It's not even close. Tax money inherently involves political power, in a way that's simply not the case for philanthropic donations.
Ctrl+F "pratt", no matches. How is this technique still not widely known? (Though one of their sources does mention it in passing)
No one ever said the vacuum has to be filled biologically. The universe is a vacuum but even there you get spontaneous virtual particles getting created out of nothing as far as we know.
The joke is on you.

I do use V daily and enjoy it for the most part. You bitch about it on HN, without using it.

I find it pretty funny actually.
Most people just gloss over the names from experience, without caring much about who it was named after / the origin.
Was your girlfriend of age?

To the best of my knowledge the only thing Microsoft searches for and actions in user uploaded files is content that hits against PhotoDNA. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
If you have spent more then 5min to research that topic and you actually believe that I'm sorry for you.
A nice thing about the Fire is that it's cheap. They had a recent sale going on the Fire HD for $60, I think it's about $100 now. It's not an either-or proposition (at least not for me), more of an "iPad now, Kindle in a month or two" (or reverse depending on your more important use-cases) proposition.
High Output File Management
There is an intent to follow through when accepting the offer. Also, I'm sure you provide guarantees ensuring the candidate will actually be signed and not be quickly fired if you send out the offer letter, since sending the offer without the intent to follow through would be fraud?
Please, stop with the 12millinewtons -- if the effect is real, the cavity can be made orders of magnitude more efficient.

But it is 99.9999% not going to work at all, the emDrive would just be a cheat at space travel.

Something that can transform energy into momentum without shooting stuff back is the Holy Grail of space travel -- after a warp drive.
Postmark is no longer for transactional email only
That's actually true for most electromagnetic telecoms. Ten orders of magnitude between the transmitted and received power is usually the easy case. With more careful techniques you can do even twenty or more orders of magnitude.

And yes, it baffles me as well.
Great essay, thanks for sharing. In particular, the section you've entitled "The Bad" describes quite precisely that odd type of "brain fog" I sometimes get after spending hours at a computer with a mentally challenging task, even creative writing (especially when I'm stuck somewhere -- or decide to give up and call it a day).
And sometimes the legacy is just that the world is a better place thanks to their efforts, and has not much to do with having your name all over the place.
> Namely something after yourself is tacky.

I think it's a cultural thing. In some countries it would be considered very poor taste for someone to pay to get their name on a building. If it's an academic building, I think it makes more sense to name it after someone who contributed to the field. Or it could simply be the "CS building".
Are there even any Scientific American subscribers who would vote for Trump? Looks like they're just trying to capitalize on his crazy by getting new subscribers.
While I would have preferred that science publications not have explicit political bias, I am not surprised and in some sense even supportive of this move considering the current administration's explicit denial of science and disdain for scientists.
Just wanted to take this as a chance to show what our company is doing: https://yoganotch.com - a smart yoga assistant, powered by wearable motion capture (which we have been producing for a while).

just launched this year. Happy to chat with anyone who is into quantified yoga.

P.S. I am one of the founders.

P.P.S. Saw someone mention it :)
The context for most discussions of V is the over-promises about feature delivery the author has made. You could dig up all the old threads AGAIN (what, 5 times this year?), but that wouldn't really help anyone. Judging by the website, I don't think the general hype pattern (including the impossibly thin claims about compiler performance mainly measuring Clang) has changed all that much, though it appears to have slowed.

A lot of the actual Next-Big-Thing-ism seems to be coming from excited users rather than the author himself. There is a GitHub issue entitled "Very long term consideration: what it takes to get a language adopted by Google?"; there are others about getting "parallelism & concurrency for seamless local and distributed programming" and similarly extraordinarily lofty goals. People love being part of the winning project, and the overall hype history has drawn them like moths. That's OK, they can all go hang out writing V programs and wishing upon stars. It probably shouldn't bother people as much as it has.

When should we "police people feeling proud", then? Here I think there's not so much harm. Legally speaking, pretending he's in my jurisdiction (AU) for a moment, seeking donations can be trade or commerce, and then a bunch of consumer protection laws may apply, esp. ACL s 18. But you still need people who feel they've been wronged. Show me someone who tanked a heap of money into it on the pitch alone and I'll change my mind, but I don't think that's happening.

On the point of design vs actual quality, you can get an idea of OP's perspective by browsing through the GitHub issues. To be fair, the project is only a few years old, but some of the issues there are simply alien to me. It just doesn't seem like it was written in a language that has the features V has. Every new feature seems to have missed matching an enum variant somewhere. I don't understand how a compiler could exist that appears NOT to be made of building blocks that don't completely break when you add new features. I just can't relate many of the errors people get to a "Parse -> Valid Syntax -> Type Checker -> IR -> ... IRs ... -> Machine Code" progression. This is what makes me think it's not going to survive very long -- those kinds of bugs don't simply stop cropping up.
You have to rationalize; if their endowment is that large, they aren’t prioritizing enabling more students to attend with reduced or no tuition.
regardless if you're a billionaire or not, at some point money is for keeping score. We all have biases that influence our desires and actions; he was able to indulge his more fully.

What's your proposed alternative to the amalgamated actions of rich individuals? I'm not sure what else could work better, and we've certainly seen worse collective approaches throughout history.
Also from Deus Ex Human Revolution

https://www.behance.net/gallery/2097912/Deus-Ex-Human-Revolu...

Love to see details like this
An Open Letter from Economists on the Estate Tax

To whom it may concern:

Spend your money on riotous living – no tax; leave your money to your children – the tax collector gets paid first. That is the message sent by the estate tax. It is a bad message and the estate tax is a bad tax.

The basic argument against the estate tax is moral. It taxes virtue – living frugally and accumulating wealth. It discourages saving and asset accumulation and encourages wasteful spending. It wastes the talent of able people, both those engaged in enforcing the tax and the probably even greater number engaged in devising arrangements to escape the tax.

The income used to accumulate the assets left at death was taxed when it was received; the earnings on the assets were taxed year after year; so, the estate tax is a second or third layer of taxation on the same assets.

The tax raises little direct revenue- partly because the estate planners have been so successful in devising ways to escape the tax. Costs of collection and compliance are high, perhaps of the same order as direct tax receipts. The encouragement of spending reduces national wealth and thereby the flow of aggregate taxable income. These indirect effects mean that eliminating the tax is likely to increase rather than decrease the net revenue yield to the federal government.

The estate tax is justified as a means of reducing the concentration of wealth. However, the truly wealthy and their estate planners avoid the tax. The low yield of the tax is a testament to the ineffectiveness of the tax as a force for reshaping the distribution of wealth.

The primary defense made for the estate tax is that it encourages charity. If so, there are better and less costly ways to encourage charity. Eliminating the estate tax will lead to higher economic growth, which is the most important variable in determining the level of charitable giving.

Death should not be a taxable event. The estate tax should be repealed.

Signed,

Milton Friedman
Ads have been around as long as human societies have been around. Just look at the murals of Pompeii for example, or the rock walls in modern day Syria with commercial advertisements. As long as humans have something that others want, there will be advertising.. unfortunately.
The government is however a democracy, Bill Gates isn't.
Or if you want to have an even funnier example, Bucharest and Budapest.

For those that don't know the backstory, Bucharest is the capital of Romania. Budapest is the capital of Hungary. Romania and Hungary don't like each other. The safest way to get a crowd to boo as an entertainer you is to mix up the two names :-)

Or, for more embarrassment: https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/400-athle...
Even smaller stuff gets bounced around at that level via Brownian motion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion

HEPA filters can catch really small stuff from this even if technically it could fit through.
You make a good point that mainstream media is and has been an attack vector; however, your comparison "3 networks vs 100M people" is a bad one--obviously the choice is "3 traditional media networks vs 3 social media networks".
What do you mean when you say this place has "turned into reddit"? Are you referring to the generally lower standard of comment quality there? If so, that's ironic.

Imagine a virus so unpredictable that you might take anywhere from 0 to 14 days to become infectious, and you could end up anyhwere from unknowingly and asymptomatically shedding the virus to dead from it. Imagine that.
Mythical Man-Month in 2020
Doesn't this hurt the poor while enabling the rich to continue being wasteful.
Yes, `somedate` is mutable.
> Anec-data: Turned down an $800k Principal ML Scientist job at a FANG. Interviewed with a director who couldn't answer what I would be doing / working on.

I agree that's weird. Edit: although when did this happen in the interview process? It's pretty common to first decide if you're interested in hiring someone in general and later do the match-making to a particular team/project. Maybe not at this level though...

> Facebook is notorious for this, lots of friends get absolutely eye-watering salaries to sit around and provide 1% lifts on click-through-rates.

It's worth it to Facebook to pay someone an absolutely eye-watering salary if they can get a 1% lift on click-through rates. This work doesn't interest me, but it's absolutely not the same as otabdeveloper4's claimed "These guys are hiring 'top talent' only as a defensive measure, so that upstart competitors don't get them."

Disclaimer: I work for a FAANG. I don't work on advertising but it obviously supports my salary.
How do you know? Do you believe everything Apple tells you? Do you even know what type of encryption they are supposedly using in the cloud? What about when you login to your iCloud account, do you not think they can access your data if they wanted to?
Good timing! -- I hate filling a pill keeper but keep forgetting to take my dose, or forget if I DID already take my dose. So I made a gadget.

I took a 1"x1"x6" piece of wood, put S M T W R F S on the side, drilled 7 holes on top, and I use a thumb screw that I move when I've taken my pills today. A golf tee or nail would also work.
it takes two to tango

entrepreneurs without workers are just some guy in a room with an "idea"

at some point, the distribution and sharing of the profit becomes unfair (workers also risk a lot too, as they can be fired at-will, and loose thier livelyhood at any time at the whim of the owner) and this is the fundamental problem we are facing i think
What problems do you refer to?

I think of things like lack of affordable health care, widening wealth inequality, and police brutality.

Millennials won't solve any of them as long as half of them still think their vote won't change anything, so they stay home and allow the boomers to elect Republicans and centrist Democrats (Which are essentially DINOs).
How does this compare to Badger[0], another similar in nature key-value store in Go?

What were the trade-offs which made it necessary to create something new instead of adapting what exists?

[0]: https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger
Saint Francisco was also a person at one point.
Uneraser Ways for File Recovery
At this point over 3 million acres [1] have burned in CA alone. So, seems like some of the 20 million acre backlog is getting burned through this year.

1: https://www.fire.ca.gov/daily-wildfire-report/
A software that helped me quickly recover deleted files from my PC.
Employment offers in the US rarely establish contract. Employers often rescind offers that have been accepted by persons for a variety of reasons. Similar for employees.

Sometimes a party that can show they relied on the offer and then suffered money damages after it was rescinded can get some relief in court, but it is rare. Typically these cases are folks who accept an offer, quit their job, and move across the country only to have the offer rescinded or the position is eliminated soon after they start. Most often employees harmed this way lose in court unless there is strong proof that the employer knew they were ending the position before making the offer.
>They don't look very edgy

Good. Edgy is icky.
I've really wanted to be a part of a tech co-op, and I wish more existed. There are several in most major cities that I've found, but they tend to spin up and down after a while, so I'm not sure what's current.
> 1. Option/Result are unified into a single type, ?T.

This is not a positive. Option<T> and Result<T, E> have semantically different meanings. This is like saying integers and strings have been unified into a single type: string.
Don't you remember when all those nude celebrity iCloud photos got leaked?
> The (common) security model of GNU/Linux is for today/2020 in my opinion pretty bad for desktops and totally unacceptable for phones.

Would you please expand on this for desktops? or reference any kind of document? Thank you.
Fewer features and fewer lines of code, and those LOC are written in Go, which is the language in which CockroachDB is written and which, presumably, for which their team and tooling are best optimized. It's a reasonable thesis.
"Chuck Feeney is what Donald Trump would be, if he lived his entire existence backward."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/nyregion/james-bond-of-ph...

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/talk-cheap-rich-guy...

It sounds great but I'm still puzzling over this phrase and trying to grok it
> Can't you see where they're going with this?

Can you see the slippery slope you're invoking? Apple owns the operating system you use. That is where it stops in your example. They don't force ownership of software, the network stack, the gym you visit (lol), where you work, etc. Where's your head at, other than "ApPlE BaD"?
Trump has a 50% approval rating, so I would guess there is some level of overlap between the two groups.

Probably a fairly small overlap, but it almost certainly exists.
Or their motivations are as they say they are ...
Take this with a grain of salt, however. You will see some of these "red flags" in a Google or Facebook interview (I've done both), and yet they're some of the world's best places to work, and you can have a _great_ time there.
Cool product if it really works. But too much work and friction to put on the sensors if I want to quickly do a workout.
What a huge mistake.
"Using plastics for items which inherently are only used for a few minutes or an hour"

Of course it makes sense. Plastic is cheap, light, watertight, strong, and mallable.

It's kind of a miracle material, except that it's too stable. If we had a version that decomposed in a year, it would be awesome.
> I've installed Intel's Driver Update Utility and it keeps the wifi up to date from them rather than Windows Update.

The problem is, Intel's all newer drivers are broken for that particular card, even the ones installed by Intel's Driver Update Utility (I've tried that too, yes).

It's the same time that Intel's e1000e Linux drivers started breaking older cards so, there's something off in that department IMHO.

The add insult to injury, both Windows and Linux drivers' release notes claim that the cards in question are supported by the respective, newer drivers.
Cement Plant and power plant integrated Project Opening
Instrument DGM / Sr Manager – Power / Cement Plant
Mechanical Maintenance Engineers- Power & Cement Plant
Raw Mill Operation Incharge / Project Manager
Mechanical Project /Commessioning Engineer – Boiler / Turbine & Cement Plant
Production Incarge / Manager
Electrical Sr Manager For Power & Cement Plant
Instrument Eng For Power plant & Cement Plant
Project Incharge – Instrument & Mechanical For Power Plant
Project Manager – Electrical For Cement Plant
Engineer / Jr Engineer – Chemical /Mechanical / Electrical & Instrument / Production
GET – Electrical / mechanical / Instrument / Chemical / Production & Civil
Electrical Eng / Sr Engineer –For Power / Cement Plant
Project Incharge – Mechanical / Electrical
Electrical & Mechanical HOD / Manager – Power Plant
PLC / Scada Manager
CHP Mechanical Maintenance HOD / Sr Engineer / Engineer
DCS Engineer For Boiler & Turbine
Process Engineer For Cement Plant
Electrical Maintenance Engineers- Power Plant & Cement Plant
DM Plant Incharge / Sr Chemist / Cemist
Mechanical Maintenance Engineers For Power Plant
CHP Mechanical Maintenance HOD / Sr Engineer / Engineer
Project Manager – Instrument
Admin Incharge/ Manager / Admin Officer
Logistic Manager
HR Officer
Accountant / Sr Accountant
Dispatch Manager/ Incharge
Store Incharge/ Officer
Safety Officer Manager / Ast manager/ EHP Officer
Safety Supervisor / Fire Fighter
So does shell script and several modern programming langs. The sky hasn't yet fallen.