skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who 'talk' about unions at Google tend to lose jobs.

Let's just not let facts get in the way of feelings, eh?
DC-to-DC 1000BaseT 802.3at / 802.3bt PoE injectors already exist for loads in the 25W to 70W range, typically used for WISP access point radios on towers.

Not a consumer friendly portable thing, however

https://tyconsystems.com/products/tycon-power/poe-injectors/...
> experienced some sort of "cat got his tongue" situation where he temporarily couldn't even think or summon english to speak with.

Something like that happens to me sometimes. I get stuck for a word in Norwegian and suddenly find that I can't summon the English word either (English is my mother tongue but I have been living and working in Norway since '86).

I am now capable of being tongue-tied in two languages simultaneously!

But of course it all comes back to me quickly once I switch back to speaking only English.
Home+Remedies+For+Head+Lice+That+Are+Works+-+Health+Lines
>I (and many others) are of the opinion that you can’t truly be apolitical

Well frankly you and many others in this country are morons. The past few years are evidence of that.
If you are working at a FAANG you are already getting rich quick.

Working as a freelancer / small business hustler etc., bursts of success like this are extraordinarily rare, and typically fall between long seasons of not making much at all.

The upside of the freelancing / side hustling life isn’t the money, it’s the freedom.
I have a friend who has made an entire album with the OP-1 and as well full tracks with his Operator collection.

As always, its not the instrument - its the musician.
I agree, I think there is something important about cultivating curiosity.

This whole question got started in my mind after recently reading the book A Mathematician's Lament.

The comparison in the book is along the lines of memorizing methods and facts verse exploring ideas with the mind.

It's this idea of pursuing anything interesting just for the sake of it.
There is very little latency, actually. If it just for you and/or your family, there is zero appreciable difference.
One can oppose the existence of something on the basis of its location while not being opposed to its existence generally. See: NIMBYs.
> The athleticism required is pretty incredible.

Decent risk of injury at the high-levels - so you have to be very fit.
Is the law just?
I missed that flipping through on my phone somehow. Probably because FM radio was just another bullet-point under "wireless" along with 2 bluetooth modes. The lack of any visible tuning controls also threw me.
It seems like they're paying them just right if drivers are still driving for them.
This won’t work... burn burn burn
I can see tiktok being more popular than apple, people watch videos much more often than they buy phones. But microsoft being more popular than tiktok? What's so popular on that site?
> They do not need to take a stance on law circumvention or the right to privacy other than to uphold the law and maximize customer value.

The products and tools and services they sell are specifically designed to permit the circumvention of the law.

They are no different than people who make lockpicks in that respect. Technically the company couldn't care less what you do with the lockpicks. Maybe you're a hobbyist, or a locksmith. Maybe.

Some of their employees may be okay looking the other way, but not all of them will be. Based on the way this is going down it sounds like there was some internal drama about this, and they feel like it's best to part ways with the pro-law crowd.
That's the plight of open-source for biometrics. Wait around for something to show and it never comes, and you have to be an expert in the space to DIY something that will compete.
I understand what you're saying, but I can't find a way to save the opinions of the Bronze Age religions. They're so backwards compared to modern knowledge about medicine and other practical fields of science that a complete reinterpretation is usually required, and reinterpretation can assign any meaning whatsoever.

For example, I'm currently watching a lecture about the Higgs boson. The Higgs field was not predicted by any Bronze Age religions (indeed not predicted by any religion I've studied) and its purpose is wholly mathematical and not easily deducible from daily life. I have no idea how religion could possibly climb to study the Higgs field without shedding most of its superstitions in the style of the current scientific tradition.

It wouldn't be a problem for folks to carry these ancient beliefs, as a first-order situation, but belief begets belief. Restrictions on diet are not much of a problem, but restrictions on sexuality are completely at odds with modern sexology and sex education, and we're not even talking about the millions of lives laid down in the name of God.

Edit to avoid posting too fast: Yes, I am saying that our knowledge of science irrevocably changed mid-century due to particle physics. This is Kuhn's incommensurability [0] and it is an essential part of understanding science: Sometimes we make leaps of understanding which are so radically large that they undo prior understanding and render it meaningless.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commensurability_(philosophy_o...
And the worst part is that Palantir's software often misgenders and deadnames the trans migrants of color and they end up in the wrong holding cell.
Anyone know why there appears to be a steady daily +-5% wave on the HTTP/1.x vs HTTP/2 chart?
Let's wait till there are exploits based on that.
I'm in the Linux space. My GTX 1060 works just fine.
Other than the derisive "sheeple" response, why do people stick with iPhones when Androids have more desirable features?
Teenage Engineering makes cute, fun things, but more often than not they feel like they're very overpriced cute fun things for their functionality, and this is honestly no exception. In a sense they're like the Apple of nerdy products.

Their Pocket Operators are the closest thing to a "cheap" product they have and even then, last time I checked, they don't even come with a protective case, which I personally find preposterous even if it goes against the aesthetic. One single drop and it'd probably be game over for a $100+ toy.
I don't think this line of thinking is wrong, as often it is better to just start with Postgres. But Firebase does offer some nice advantages at the start of a project.

1. Generous, hosted free tier. I don't have to fiddle with setting up a database or paying for it. And I really do mean generous. You can run a small business off the free tier if you code it in a way that doesn't use unnecessary reads and writes. I've done it.

2. Development speed. It's all schema-less, which is (sometimes) one less thing to worry about at the start of a project. Firestore is the fastest way to get a functional proof-of-concept I have ever seen.

3. Realtime. This means your frontend gets instant live updates out of the box. This can be pretty hard to achieve with other solutions, but comes free with Firestore.

4. Securely connect directly from the client. This means you don't need a backend at all, which is a huge win when you're just tinkering.

5. Amazing cross platform support. Setting up the connection to the database from iOS, Android, or Web takes a matter of minutes.

Now, a lot of these early wins come with growing pains later on. But early wins are still a great thing if it is the difference between your project getting off the ground, or failing from the start. I don't really use Firestore anymore, but there is a lot I liked about it.
Considering borders are meant to control access to wealth and opportunity, you could argue the answer to all of your questions is very much "yes".
If you professionally write software that runs on or own any electronics with semiconductors or lithium ion batteries you are profiting from child slavery, war, and exploitation of workers through the rare-earth elements mining industry that provides the raw materials to produce these devices. That's not to mention the crimes committed during manufacturing chain of said devices.

This is an impossible moral standard. Yours is just as impossible. The FBI and DHS do a lot more than just deport immigrants. Palantir does more than just aid in deporting immigrants. If everything were so black and white the above statement would likely describe what you do as well.
You're right, and I'd never considered it before. Thanks for the link.
Companies are inherently political. If nothing else they support capitalism and oppose taxation and worker's rights.
>A functional definition of privilege is that politics doesn't matter that much to you.

Not only nonfunctional but moronic as well. You don't understand privilege or politics evidently.
There's still plenty of room for nuance.

As an example: I strongly oppose oil pipelines, but a couple of years ago I had to assist with emergency network maintenance on a very large, very controversial pipeline that I do not like at all. My job required me to do what I was hired to do, and I didn't let my politics get into the way. The issue was resolved in a couple of hours, and I returned back to the projects I was working on for other customers.

But we still had a conversation at our company about what it means to support customers that we were uncomfortable with, and we ultimately decided that the views of employees should help guide how we conduct ourselves as a business. That if we noticed that our customers are doing harm, and we believe ourselves to be contributing to the harm, we should voice our concern and decide if we are operating morally and ethically.

The pipeline was whitelisted, because we don't actually help build it on native land, and we don't help drill the oil out of the Earth. We only help keep the sensors working, and those ultimately exist to keep the pipeline from failing and doing damage.

But we have preemptively decided that there are certain businesses that could use our services to contribute to harm, and so we have a process for keeping ourselves in check.

I worry about "apolitical" companies, as they have decided that they no longer care about judging the moral or ethical issues surrounding their business decisions, and have instead decided to operate entirely based on what is legal.

And it goes without saying that acting in accordance with the law is not the same as acting morally and ethically.
> The FTC won at a district court, and then Qualcomm won at an appeals court in a somewhat insane decision that revealed that the judiciary is out of control and increasingly untethered to what the law actually says.

Anyone know more about this one?
Prrrrhhhhrrrrpft (splatter...)

Excellent capture! Personally I'd wish for a "fan-edit" of that, melded with Wall-E :)
Helping to deport illegal immigrants isn’t morally objectionable unless you believe that border control itself is morally objectionable.

Even if it ultimately becomes accepted as morally right, it certainly does not reflect the current views of all but a tiny minority of US citizens.

Vice is just profiting from creating moral panic here.
How did the mortgage and insurance companies get my private data in my Google account?
Many in the US (and to a lesser extent Western Europe and Australia) seem to answer that last question with a "yes." It's never addressed why border controls by China, Mexico, or really any non-Western country aren't also "reprehensible."
This is one of the bigger problems I encountered when mentoring junior engineers: Many of them grew up consuming a firehose of hyperbolic Twitter and Reddit content, thinking that it was an accurate representation of the real world. Worse yet, some of them essentially learned their social skills from Twitter debates and Reddit threads, mistaking angry online arguments for normal adult conversation.

Fortunately, most of them are quick to pick up on the reality that they’ve been misled, but a small minority try to turn the workplace into an extension of a Twitter flame war at every opportunity.
people upvote it because they think it's cool. That's how the system works.
Kids really love silly. I think this is key to getting them to think.

For example, with my very young niece, I would tell her nonsense stories, where there's a purple lion on the back of the turtle, etc. Keeping track of this weird story kept her gears spinning.

Other times I would tease her and say that my name was her name, or that blue was purple. I would try to mimic her voice, or draw out syllables in a funny way. The net result is hilarious conversations where she is explaining very carefully why I am not her, and why colors are different.

Basically, keeping things fun is useful for everyone, but even more for kids.
More surprising for me is Mobile vs Desktop at 35% to 65%. I thought it was closer, or more like 50/50.
Ask HN: Which RSS feed reader do you use and why?
that's 5-10 minutes to set up the connection. a different article on the subject cites the same source saying that the usual time to setup is multiple hours. the times you quote are actually best in class by an order of magnitude:

By comparison, Hall emphasized that it took him between five and 10 minutes to set up and connect a Starlink terminal. And a single person can set up one of the devices: “It doesn’t require a truck and a trailer and a whole lot of other additional equipment,” Hall said.

“I have spent the better part of four or five hours with some satellite equipment trying to get a good [connection]. So, to me, it’s amazing,” Hall added.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-respond...
Author of that article and plot here. SPARC is projected to have energy gain Q >=2 and potentially up to 11[1]. ITER is projected to achieve Q of >=10[2] so I would guess that SPARC's expected triple product would be in the same ballpark as the projected ITER datapoint, perhaps slightly lower, though potentially the same. We'll see!

[1] http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001075

[2] https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/2845
Hopefully people dieded because of this...
These policies don't have an effect in a day - it takes time.

People need to move - if Amazon wanted to move it would take them years just to build a new campus; let a lone try to transfer employees. People are sticky to a location, so the city can extract more and more from them until they eventually decide to leave. It will slow growth as people choose not set up there; it will make the economy less flexible as people have few choices.

These policies will destroy wealth and will hurt those who currently do these jobs. Remember the people doing these jobs are doing them because they're the best option available to them - this include far more than just the wage.

It's going to be harder and harder to find jobs for low skilled workers in Seattle.
They say
"To investigate the pervasiveness of online tracking, The Markup spent 18 months building a one-of-a-kind free public tool that can be used to inspect websites for potential privacy violations in real time. Blacklight reveals the trackers loading on any site—including methods created to thwart privacy-protection tools or watch your every scroll and click."

But the EFF's Privacy Badger does exactly this. It's possible that I'm missing something, but how is Blacklight "one of a kind"?
> Next up is disputing definitions, also known as an argument about semantics. Debates that reach this point can languish and falter because they immediately become about philosophical semantics, rather than the argument itself.

This is a good point that I find very difficult to follow. Often at work for example, I find myself in a debate over the next 'right' thing to do, but this is hard when there is not universal agreement on what is 'right'.
Being “apolitical” is of itself a political decision to uphold the status quo, which is a problem considering how racist, sexist, and classist the status quo is. I would 100% take the exit package, I wouldn’t want to work for a company that’s okay with the status quo. I got into tech to make people’s lives better, not to help oppressors oppress their victims more efficiently. But that’s just my opinion.
It seems more like an unintended consequence, not a design choice by Apple.
People have to come to the conclusion that there is a gap between what they want, what is currently allowed and what is sustainable. The fact that something is economically viable doesn't mean it is ecologically viable.
We essentially have terrorist organizations like the ACLU that hound companies until they meet their demands. Thats a primary reason why.
This is the "slippers and sex toy" deflection. If the user's don't like the slippers (new features) they can use the sex toy to fornicate themselves.
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Where is it defined that ‘borders are meant to control access to wealth and opportunity’?

I meant that seems like something you could argue, but it also seems very reductive and certainly not a given.
Need to make sure taxis have to pay this minimum wage too... let's see how that works.
Amazing how just a nugget of bad info can change things.

Back in Satellite Controller school in 2003 we were taught geostationary is 28,500 miles. So even since then I've been using that as my reference point.

In reality, it's about 35,786km, or 22,236 miles[0].

That means the minimum RTT time is 479ms, given the perfect scenario I previously laid out and zero equipment delay. Which isn't a thing.

Then again, the mythical perfectly spherical radiation pattern dipole antenna that we base all dBi off of isn't a thing either.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
Wouldn't this only apply to employers that want your HN name ? And I've never seen a post that asks for that. Related however, is Blind. I think they do a good job setting up a pseudonymous community of like-minded individuals.
What is the relationship between NaN and undef in llvm IR?
>you are profiting from the racist deportation of people who just want a better life.

This seems like a oversimplistic take on undocumented immigrants. Yes, they just want a better life, but they're also violating immigration laws to do so. Not deporting them sends a signal that violating immigration laws okay and disincentives people from going through the proper channels.
rich narcissists??? on HN?! the shock!! the surprise!!!1!
If they're just using DNS lookups, probably windows update, telemetry, crash reports and other automated traffic.
Even if you have a part-time job, you should be paid enough that if you were to be working that job full-time you would be able to support yourself.

If you're not being paid enough to live on 40 hours a week, you're underpaid.
Within a year of that speech the 24th Amendment was ratified to the constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. He won the Noble Prize a little over a year later. I'd say people agreed with the message above all else because he truly appealed to a shared, universal humanity. This couldn't be done, especially in that era, without a large amount of people supporting this. An Amendment - think about that and what it takes! It almost has to be universal for that to happen. People supported these ideas. It is a myth they didn't and the evidence is the product of them.

I don't think these landmark legal events occurred because people demonstrated so much what the man and his supporters were saying. I believe people miss the forest for the trees and think if they just get a group of people together they're somehow right or will get their way. But it's about what you have to say and how you say it that matters. Peacefully organizing is a great vehicle for that but you still need the goods.

The violence that happened in the later 1960's set so much of it back IMO.
Which is all dealing with retained, mutable data. Period. I'm not making the comment for the sake of pointing out _levels_ of abstraction.

I made the comment because such an abstraction doesn't at all map to reality.
I hit a tricky compiler bug a few years back, only after the bad code had been released to the public. Fortunately the bug manifested as some wasted performance instead of anything too damaging.

The issue was that extern C functions didn’t have proper type checking of the parameters. The header said one thing, the
cpp file something else, and they were very subtly different. The compiler didn’t complain. At runtime the caller would pass some values and the callee would get complete garbage, but only on 64-bit architectures. I tested on 32-bit at the time and never saw it myself until it was too late.

To be fair this one is mostly my own bug. I call it a compiler bug too because I expected the compiler to have my back and it didn’t.
You missed a huge part of my comment: it would take 20 (not 15) years of global battery production to get the United States to have enough storage to reach 80% renewables generation.

As in, if we stopped manufacturing smart phones and electric vehicles and dedicated all batteries produced in the entire world, then it'd take 20 years to fulfill the storage required to reach 80% renewables for just the United States. We would still need to build storage for the rest of the world! And that still leaves us with 20% of our power coming from fossil fuels. To get to 0% we need 3 weeks of storage not 12 hours. Even if battery production increased tenfold, it'd take 80 years of global battery production to fulfill the storage demand to get only the United States to 100% renewables.

And the US only makes up ~1/5th of the world's energy consumption. To get the entire world to 100% renewables it would take 4,000 years at current levels of battery production. Even if battery production increases tenfold, or one-hundredfold it would still take much longer than the 15 years it takes to set up a nuclear power plant. Like I said, if you're worried about how long it would take to decarbonize, stay well away from intermittent sources of power.

Nuclear power plant construction has high latency, but you can build multiple plants at once: France took about 15 years to bring it's nuclear power generation from 10% to over 80%. Each individual plant took year to builds but in aggregate France built a nuclear plant every 100 days.
Ok, in this case, I think the situation is fairly good. De-facto standard for raw Vulkan in Rust is Ash [1], and raw GL can be worked with GL-rs [2]. It's when you go higher levels where things start diverging more.

[1] https://github.com/MaikKlein/ash/
[2] https://github.com/brendanzab/gl-rs
> "Just do you job and don't voice contrary opinions" is a pretty radical political opinion if you ask me, so your definition of "apolitical" is only "A"-political because you are so intensely in opposition to non-status quo beliefs that you disregard them completely.

Which is your personal opinion on the matter. What do I suggest for you? Start your own company and allow your employees to have their political views expressed as part of your ethos (or Manifesto if you can relate more to that).
This kind of matches my personal experience. 16:8 fasting is barely even touching on the benefits of fasting. 24 hour (One meal a day no snacking) is pretty much the bare minimum where you see any benefits. 36 hour or every other day is the sweet spot for me between sustainability and effectiveness.

Also noticed that stuff like heavy cream in coffee sabotages fasting really easily for my body type.
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