skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some initial evidence that teacher unions may influence school openings. From the abstract:

Using data on the reopening decisions of 835 public school districts in the United States, we find that school districts in locations with stronger teachers’ unions are less likely to reopen in person even after we control semi-parametrically for differences in local demographic characteristics. These results are robust to four measures of union strength, various potential confounding characteristics, and a further disaggregation to the county level. We also do not find evidence to suggest that measures of COVID-19 risk are correlated with school reopening decisions.

http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3684867
The issue is that hiding the millions of cases there would be if the virus was not eradicated given the end of all containment measures would be completely impossible.

Also, this isn't outlier-positive performance, it is the expectation given the measures that were taken. I don't see how the virus could spread with the strict measures that were imposed.
That is a well constructed image. In reality the man has multi million dollar vacation houses and is quite ruthless in business.
I highly recommend Fork which is both windows and Ma; https://git-fork.com/. It is a native app, great interface and makes a lot of git features easier to use for me.
The vampire accelerator is not Amiga.

It's a closed -buggy- FPGA reimplementation of something like 68k (nobody outside them knows exactly what, there are rumors it's based on a ColdFire core that was leaked by mistake) with some custom extensions that are underdocumented and have nothing to do with classic Amiga systems.

The entire platform is meant to lock you into their proprietary FPGA core and is totally counter the spirit of the Amiga which was the ultimate hacker's machine.
hahah good point. The bug I discovered was in the erlang compiler, which does not have UB (in the language being compiled), and threading bugs are either rarer or obvious.
Lots of companies have built on top of snowflake.
Supabase is also free, and if you just want to use Auth that’s perfectly fine.
Almost no one remembers and it's safe to forget previous Google TV. Meanwhile Xbox Series X/S is confusing and Xbox / Xbox 360 / Xbox One shouldn't be forgotten. So MS is worse for now.
All of the benefits we have seen of Arm devices completely disappear when you put Windows on them. I can’t imagine a Windows Arm computer actually having good battery life if it has to spend all of its time doing emulation.

On top of that. Windows runs horribly on the type of energy efficient, relatively low resource devices like ChromeBooks and iPads.

Not to mention that outside of Apple designs, Arm processors are really not that performant.

Yes I know Amazon is doing custom silicon for servers and networking chips. But that isn’t really relevant.
I use Uber and Lyft all the time during Re:invent which is, by any reasonable measure, a large event. It works great and works even better than Amazon's buses (which themselves are pretty good) if you need to cram a lot of transit into your workday.
This is a great comment. It's full of business knowledge and explains the reasons behind the technology. Nonetheless, if you've actually experienced this type of technology as a customer, you're super frustrated with the exactly 60s response times to every single chat message, and the useless back and forth to actually get the task accomplished. The task which, usually, costs the company money, so they're reluctant to make these interactions faster.
> All registered companies in all US states must respond to bona-fide customer correspondence sent to their registered address.

I’ve never heard of such a law before, but if one exists, it would be individual state law since corporations are incorporated at the state level. Do you have a link for this?
I swear by flightfox. I have had extraordinary service with them. Worth every cent. I can't tell you how amazing they have been for me and my family the last months.

https://flightfox.com

I'm not kidding. They got all my international flights refunded and booked flights that I thought were impossible. Paid for itself with each booking that needed expert attention.
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Two words: plausible deniability.

Incidentally, this is also why you should separate your work and personal life.
How they're built has nothing to do with the immense complexity of building them, it has to do with the land. Everything about a house is tied to the land it sits on. The regulations, the building codes, the architecture, its particular uses, etc. None of that's going to get walked back because local communities won't let it.

I think the best this company can do is to become a sort of SquareSpace for housing. But we've had pre-engineered houses before (remember the Sears Catalog homes?). And we have commoditized housing now, they're just called trailers. You could totally scale-up houses by stacking trailers (that's roughly how wooden homes are built today) but either nobody wants it, or nobody's been able to scale it and make it appealing/significantly less costly.

But I wish them good luck! The sooner we can get city councils to start allowing "unusual" home zoning, the better. I want my Tiny House permit, god damnit.
I'm in the same boat as well :) . I keep a mac laptop for work/consulting stuff and otherwise have a linux box and several rpi's for my linux hacking hobbies :)
Yes. I have a Clevo laptop with an nvidia GTX 1070 GPU. I'm using the proprietary drivers and have hybrid graphics disabled in the firmware settings. I monitor the power usage of the GPU at all times. It idles at ~8 W and spikes to 30~40 W every time Kitty is in the foreground. That's comparable to running RetroArch with some shaders.

The Intel GPU caused kernel panics during video decoding last time I tried using it so I do not have any power usage data for it.
That's not an entirely accurate picture of Adbusters. They were never exclusively anti-advertising, it was always an anti-consumerism (and anti-capitalism to a large extent) organization. Advertising is just a manifestation of consumer culture.
That’s great - feel free to email any bugs or feedback and we’ll fix it up ASAP
Er, a few problems with the reasoning here:

1. Windows developers did not build large parts of the product on any regular basis. Windows took ~18 hours to build on incredibly powerful build lab hardware -- as soon as it took longer, it was time to buy a new build lab. Incremental rebuilds were notoriously flaky, at least in the days before https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL. The most common dev loop that I saw was to install a recent dogfood build (so APIs and binary interfaces were reasonably recent) and then repeatedly rebuild and clobber binaries on that install.

2. The only real build-configuration options for timebuild were architecture and compile mode (dbg, chk, fre, opt). There wasn't an option to build or not build parts of the tree.

3. raymondc's reference to "kernel-colored glasses" is about viewing things from the kernel side of API guarantees. This is more an applied lesson in Conway's Law.
Progress. It's hard to build a society when the people in it don't have anywhere to sleep, or keep their consumer products.
where's the rom dump for betty's voice?
This is exactly it!

If you spout liberal ideas at a conservative company, you will find disagreement. If you spout conservative ideas at a liberal company (most of SF tech), you will find yourself out of a job.
Will my brand new Sony Android TV update to this?
The worst hold music I've heard was an advertising jingle for the company I was calling. Listening to that over and over will drive you insane and make you hate the company for putting you through it.
Dick Costolo on leadership at Coinbase
I think fundraisers should be banned as part of the process... or perhaps max contributions should be capped per student. They almost universally benefit the kids who have better connected and wealthier parents.

One immediate example: a local school had a fundraiser for portable air cleaners for each classroom to help reduce the risk of covid. The poorer schools have nothing, and of course the poorer schools are in poorer neighborhoods where there are more minorities that are already disproportionately impacted by covid.
AWS looked at Timescale's new license and named their db Timestream. Haha, classic.
Haha, that's awesome. It's interaction like these (and pretty much this whole thread) that make me think that there is value in this idea. It just has to reach some completion with a good UX ...

I have a bunch of git-bug.tld domains so I guess I'm all set already?

I'd be curious to see your project. Maybe there is a good idea in there? In any case, you are very welcome to join the party.
Isn’t this just a google home mini? What’s new about it?

I was kinda hoping it’d have the sensors like smoke/c02/air quality along with the other home mini features, but it looks like it’s just using the nest name?
Neat. I've been tempted to try writing a Sharp LR35902 LLVM backend... Probably would be very close to Z80.
Yes. You're trying to encourage a lot of innovation, but your bad alternative scenario seems to be innovation gone wrong. I'm not sure how I could remove either part of that while keeping the spirit of your argument.
The snowflake team came from Microsoft.
The main advantage is that knowing Apple’s past transitions (68k -> ppc -> Intel) they will get third party developers to write native software and not be dependent on the emulator. Apple will then drop the emulation layer and have a more efficient platform.

Microsoft both never drops backwards compatibility and third party developers never transition.
Buffett likes to tell the story of Rose Blumkin, who founded Nebraska Furniture Mart, and worked until she was 103. Once she retired, she was dead within a year. This is meant to serve as a warning to other Berkshire managers thinking of retiring.
Wrong premise, wrong conclusion. Land costs are the majority, not construction costs.
I really wanted the book to actually be called 'Elements of Programmnig' - there would be some sort of deep message in that...
If that someone is a guest worker the job posting is legally required.
and massively inefficient. the roads, the driveways, the garages, garage doors, the walkways, the easements, roofs, the eases, hvac systems, water heaters, the plumbing, the extra windows, the extra walls, the extra electrical/phone/cable/internet, and more... all done over and over. might as well have built one huge building and shared all those redundancies and infrastructure costs, while maximizing space and energy efficiency.
I would consider an offer from coinbase over FAANG now based solely on this move by their CEO. I say this as someone who has worked at Apple, and bluntly told multiple Facebook-email bearing recruiters to F off.
Use incognito mode in browsers. It clears cookies, trackers can't work without persistent cookies. I use it by default and only inconvenience is logging in more often, but its just two more clicks. And a good adblocker too.
This seems like a great credit card benefit. CC's offer all sorts of "cash back", "insured against loss/damage", "miles", and other things to attract customers. How about a "no hassle cancellations service". How about: "Switch your monthly Comcast bill to pay through us, and cancel any time with one quick call or do it online!" CC company gets a nice stream of monthly charges out of it.
I am guessing all of the Berkshire companies are either integrating into snowflake or have.
Personally, I'd be far more interested if 9x leaked, because its architecture is definitely quite different from more "traditional" OSs --- it's actually more like a hypervisor. Or, given that MS has already released the source code to earlier DOS, maybe they may open-source it in the future...

That, and the NT series has already been extensively documented both publicly in various papers and by people like Mark Russinovich and leaked in the form of WRK, 2ksrc, etc.
I'm about to buy the first license for Windows in the past decade specifically because I believe that OBS runs better on Windows and want to switch my next broadcast to be OBS on Windows instead of OBS on Linux. To be clear, OBS has run amazing on Linux, but there appears to be more mature high quality 3rd party plugins for Windows. The fact that OBS works so well on Windows and Linux is amazing to me, and a ton of respect for the team to make that happen. But with empirical evidence that both you and I are paying Microsoft for an improved OBS experience is a good enough reason that Microsoft should also financially sponsor OBS.
Haha, well now we know how The Matrix came to be.
> is close to impossible to evaluate (and fire bad) teachers in public schools

It is harder to hire new (good) teachers than it is to fire bad teachers.

My first teaching job paid $29,000 a year in 2004 and I had a CS degree. My classmate who I went to high school with, same college, same major, same minor, and moved back to the same town.. his starting salary was $80,000 and they paid for him to get his mba. He works at Google now.

16 years later and I make $60,000 teaching (because I moved to a much wealthier district). Next week I start a new job programming for $80,000.

Who is going to teach cs in my place? Who is going to turn down $80,000 - $100,000 for a $50,000 teaching job... In a school with 3000+ students, during a pandemic?
I think the reason Firefox hasn't exposed it completely yet is to deal with accessibility issues.
High rises, not mobile homes, are what economies of scale look like for housing.
I see some references to Presto, but does anyone know what this engine is based on? Seems vaguely similar to Druid but it's hard to tell.
RAD! I think you should watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-239_(film) , if only for the end, where something similar happens :)
can we run text mode doom over ssh mayhaps?
Insofar as it represents a fundamental and existential inequality in society, it certainly is.
I run a website with no account or login. Is there any way to get 1-2 USD/CPM in revenue without using a privacy destroying ad network?
> I am completely, and 100% over lean philosophy/training/gurus.

100% with you here. Especially the ones preaching 'optimizing' your personal life by getting rid of any capacity beyond what you use in your daily life. Once you peel back the glossy cover they almost always, in real terms, translate to "save money by mooching off your friends' equipment and work space".
FWIW, the isolation can be a source of opportunity as you are freed from ordinary distractions. Many years ago I read a bunch of the great works of literature during a long winter of discontent. None of the books were "assigned" or "required" as it was just me saying "OK, War and Peace, let's see what all the fuss is about." And some of those books are still some of my absolute favorites to this day. YMMV
It took me 3 reads to dismiss the idea this was about Google Music (which is getting the axe anyway :(. Somebody should get fired over failing to build an audience for this great service)
so so much doesnt have articles written about it and evidence only exists for a limited time

I’ve seen a ton of stuff on Empire that wouldn’t have a direct link and Empire is gone now
Maybe the outbound fiber link for Ziply CO is damaged by the wildfire? It's probably on poles instead of buried due to cost reason. If that's the case, then the CO would route all traffic thru Starlink.
The fact that you are able to not care about these things is a privilege you enjoy. And not caring about them is a political decision that you've made.
Thanks for the correction, good to know.
The person you are talking to costs way more than that.
That just means apple should have done a better job securing the chip. All of these management chips have a bad history of security look up HP and Dell BMC chips as well
It's not snarky. It's good natured, and justifiedly awesome and elegantly mocking the bullshit of these ridiculous JS afficianadas/os. I was hinting the hype in 2014 with shadow v0 and the promise has been broken.
8 bytes will have a non-negligible (say, 1 in 1 million) chance of generating the same identifier twice even if you only generate a few million million IDs -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#Probability_t... and look at the "16 hex digits" row. Depending on your use case, this may or may not be a problem.
Not quite -- he's rebounding from internal demands that he make particular political speech and seeing employees "walk out" when he didn't. None of the issues are relevant to Coinbase and its mission and he doesn't want that distraction in his company.
Really? Because they're back to normal while the rest of us don't have lives anymore.

There's so much fear of dying that nobody is living, we survive and endure, but that's about it.

There are worse things than dying, life is risk.
My dog also won't have the carbon footprint of another human on the planet.
I think you're missing the fact that running a successful school is much easier when you can kick out anyone you want for any reason.

Schools have been underfunded for decades. They're part of our failing infrastructure. Teachers pay for supplies out of their own pockets. Education 5% of our federal budget. The military is 60%.

You can blame the specter of incompetence, but it's ultimately our fault for electing leaders who aren't acting in our best interests.
Presumably these companies are acting in a way that they believe will maximize their profits. That is what we expect them to do. Corporations are not democracies. Labor unions exist to give workers more of a say in how they are treated by their employers. If they want democracy in the workplace, these workers should organize to advocate for fairer treatment.
I completely agree. Cancelling a service should be as easy as asking the bank to block the payments. The problem will solve itself.

Gotta be careful with online service accounts though. Doing charge backs actually violates their terms of service and will probably get people's accounts banned/deleted. Not a good idea to do a charge back on something like a Steam account with over $2000 spent on it. The woes of DRM...
No, no. Mainstream is actually a stream in Scotland, pronounced a lot like "mine stream", and also the name of the surrounding region and a village therein. The programmers living in Mainstream are True Scotsmen, and the first garbage collected language that these True Scotsman Mainstream programmers used was in fact Java.
Hey friend, here are some random ideas for you to fend off loneliness. I’ve been doing all of these myself:

- Have a quasi-solo dance party (quasi because you’re still dancing with these people, albeit in a different slice of space time): https://youtu.be/VZClzm3K__4

- Join a teamwork oriented MMO (WoW classic?)

- Do a virtual happy hour with your family or friend(s)

- Go for walks in the nearest nature area (you’ll probably run into people) or post up in a local park

- Join a dating site like OKC, even just to browse or chat (and even setting your location to a faraway city)
> Much of Lisbon was built under Salazar in the 1960s, it doesn't look half bad and 50 years later it's holding up extremely well.

Lisbon has construction spanning from Roman times all the way to today. Most of the downtown was rebuilt after an earthquake in the 18th century.

Besides public buildings, there were a few residencial neighbourhoods and social housing built by Salazar's regime, implying that 'much of Lisbon' is his legacy is factually wrong.

Moreover the "Estado Novo" architectural style promoted by the fascist regime was meant to bring back themes from traditional portuguese construction, with a lot of masonry embellishments. This is the opposite of the monotone pragmatism of the soviet blocks.
Yea checking out the author seems to provide the needed understanding.
Each piece of land is a one-off. Its non-fungibility makes it real property. Buildings are built upon foundations. Each foundation is site built. Each site must be prepared first.

Building is always one off because of this. It’s why a car parked on a plot of land is not a building. Even less of a building than a tent.
Yeah, I currently work for a company that does a time series DB for industrial applications (think power generation, mining, etc).

Backfilling/inserting old data is common. Control network connectivity is not always great. Sometimes you need to do fill in old data.

Forecasts are also a common use case (e.g. forecasting grid demand/capacity), so not being able to handle future data is another limitation.
It's funny how you get ads when you pay for movies and TV shows, but you don't if you obtain them for free.
Ok, here it is https://ricklove.me

Here is a post that explains some of the content that is interesting: https://ricklove.me/cool-stuff

Let me know how it does on a slow connection.
I would expect that percentage to be very, very low. In fact, among the people who are making spam PRs, such as adding "amazing project" to the README, I would not be surprised if that number was zero, or at least close to it.
It would still help to standardize..
Alexander Stepanov (the author of the book in question, and the co-creator of the c++ STL library) and his way to approach programming is inspiring and sadly unknown to the great majority of developers.

If you want to have an idea of the content of the books, there is a lot of resources on his web site : http://stepanovpapers.com/ (it's quite messy but the content is worth the effort)
Not really specific to Paint, but every program that happens to display the overlay colour will experience the same effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_overlay
Thanks for the alternative (KSUIDs) I took a quick look at it, and from what I can tell, if you aren't generating thousands of IDs 1 per second (or more) they achieve the exact same result. [0]

I find the argument that ULID won't work under extreme and harsh conditions proof that it's just fine for many of us that simply do not work on systems with that kind of load/requirements.

I appreciate seeing the weaknesses of ULID, as this helps me choose whether or not I can live with them. (which I can)

Again, thanks for the detailed reply, it was very helpful.

[0] https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid/issues/8
"Bring out your XP CD, copy PINBALL.* from it, and EXPAND the files (yes, you will have to either guess the correct extensions or hunt through installation files, but it's not rocket science)."
LOL, wtf is this shit?

Luckily noone has found mine :D

Edit: LOL, those PRs are cancer.
You don't have to use a clean room methodology. Decompiling the code and reimplementing the functionality is a perfectly valid approach in any jurisdiction that permits reverse engineering.
Unfortunately with old age, mental health can be unexpectedly fragile too. Alzheimers, dementia, strokes and much more.
School also puts kids at the mercy of other kids who make fun of them or worse beat the shit out of them and break their glasses.
after the edge update, when i started my computer, edge opened itself and forced me through a "first run" mini tutorial thing that i couldnt skip or ignore. it wasn't even a "you have a new program" prompt, it was a "YOU ARE USING EDGE NOW".

one of the updates most certainly was not just a mime handler update. They pushed a new edge (when they swapped to chromium) and rather than leave people with old edge as their browser, they just flat out set new edge as your browser without checking what you had otherwise, and set it to auto run on your next boot.
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I worked at a custom jewelry shop in college. I was told about the fantastic 10 year bonus when the carpets are torn out and incinerated.

Unfortunately I didn’t stay long enough to benefit, but I did find quite a few small diamonds when they would catch the light just right.