skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a homeowner in San Francisco... this is great. The cost of living has been too high here for ages, and the prices distort both our society and the economy. It'll be rough for speculators, but in the medium term everyone will come out stronger.

After the pandemic, we'll have the chance to see real businesses start here that don't rely on giant checks from VCs for viability; new restaurants will see more opportunities to take risks, as the cost to rent will collapse; and we'll end up with people moving here who want to live here, not those who despise the city but feel compelled to move here in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

I encourage companies to continue to support remote work. And, if you do hate the city, please leave, move to Boise, and let people in who will appreciate it.
Where are you getting this idea that 3 laptops were dropped off to this repair company? There was one laptop.

The repair shop is in Delaware, where Joe Biden was a senator for many decades and where the Bidens have held various political positions for many decades.

I suspect that you really don't understand the story that well. That is understandable considering the insane amount of gaslighting, misinformation, and censorship that is going on around it.
That's really interesting. It seems like in my area their system stays up and running but that's probably because lots of people have their home phone service running through Comcast.
> While I'm a big advocator for free speech (I think companies should act like Signal and wash their hands of it), there's a difference between a government censoring an event and a public entity

This used to be true but is no longer true, I'm afraid. Government and Public Entities are now colluding in suppression and censorship. There are no checks and balances, this is a government taking a stance, promoting a narrative, and companies attempting to garner social standing or the opposite, which is to garner social standing by non-involvement. Sometimes these companies are looking out for their own legal responsibilities and associations in the given government too.

My generation thought it was a good idea for companies to take moral stances on stuff. In a way we asked companies to regulate morality because the government could or would not. Deplatforming became a word propagated by activists for use against their perceived enemies at the time, which were largely the "intellectual dark web". Those tactics took shape, were refined, and are now being used by social media companies, the government, and law enforcement in what appears to be almost cooperation agreements to suppress and censor in the name of fighting misinformation "for the public good".

The juicy note here is that the same infrastructure that fights misinformation "for the public good" is nearly the same infrastructure that autocratic rulers and governments install to control narratives, beliefs, and the spread of ideas. Americans, much less the world, should be watching on now. What is the public good, who decides it, and what are the repercussions for being wrong? The last part I think is the most important, we cannot let the people who propagated these ideas and cemented them as a solution walk away unscathed in history.
They claim the temperature of the active zone to be about 2000°C. This is lower than most rocket exhaust. Still they claim twice the specific impulse of a chemical rocket; this means that the reactor is very-very lightweight.

I wonder how much radiation protection does it have, and whether the exhaust would be acceptable to use for a launch from Earth surface.
I think it was ironic?
Same, I saved my ssd/hdd, gpu and case and built a ryzen 3700x with 16gb of ram for less than 400 dollars altogether. My 1k USD laptop has half of that computing power, easily.
I mean, Terminus House was essentially turned into a large project where people were dumped, an approach that has shown similarly disastrous results in the US for decades. That's quite different from turning office space into desirable apartments.
That's just bad math.

You're hearing more about the supression than the suppressed story? That suggests the suppression worked.
it's not like the suppression has stopped the story. if anything it's spread it further for longer
If it's out of fuel then it can no longer generate any heat. The position of the control rods wouldn't matter, and it couldn't melt down. If you're referring to reaction mass (the hydrogen gas), then yes, you would need to insert the control rods to stop the reaction. Or land the reactor and use it to power your Mars colony.

If you do the latter, then you will have had to build it with another cooling mechanism in mind. That could increase the mass of the reactor and reduce your payload capacity, so you might not do it. Instead, you might include just enough uranium to make the trip, and no more.
> I'm also pretty jealous of OCaml's modular implicits,

Have modular implicits already been implemented? I thought they were still trying to figure out the details of the resolution...
They don't need jobs because we don't need those people to work. What we need them to do is stay at home.

There shouldn't need to be any debt involved. It should be as simple as printing money (the central bank can do this) and distributing it to the people who need it. Normally this would cause excessive inflation because it would be injecting extra money into the economy. But it shouldn't in this case because it's injecting money that was already there until very recently.
> Now if the government had ordered this moderation, that's where the idea of rights and first amendment comes into play.

That may be the latest popular interpretation of the bill of rights, but it is absolutely not in the original spirit of its authors. They were defined as "inalienable rights" granted to all people. In other words, your essential human rights to free expression don't get waived depending on who the offending party is.
I like SF, but symphonies, operas, ballets, and beautiful parks are like the common denominator of major US cities.

But anyways I agree SF is beautiful in many areas, and no one should listen to any opinions of SF from anyone who calls it "San Fran" :)
Ah, well as with most OCaml planned features I gave up on waiting. Maybe they haven't finished this one.
8h * 5W * 2 = 80Wh per month

Question - where did you get 5W from? a LED nightlight?

More realistic, a washroom is using 60W MINIMUM.. most have those light bars above the mirror and they are closer to 300W.

I recently replaced my Halogen lights with LED and cut the kithen lights from 600W to ~60W. Substantial savings, but how many people replaced everything with LEDs?
Reasoning about haskell performance is hard because it is a lazy language and the compiler pulls a lot of tricks. In SML, code is executed in some sense roughly in the order it is written whereas in haskell it is very hard to know when something will be executed.
I know that users flagged it. That’s exactly my point. Users wanted to bury this.
I agree. Fabricating damaging information on the eve of an election is easier than ever, and impossible to correct. Allowing propagation of such fabrications is to be complicit with the bad actors responsible.

Disinformation could be tolerated if we, as a society, have the time and means to determine its veracity. But with the ticking clock of an election, disinformation is too easy.

Some countries have laws prohibiting any political news stories in the run-up to an election for precisely this reason.
There is always that one person not using headphones, or with microphone gain setup way to high.
My favorite is when someone tries to treat either a Zipcode or a CVV as a number.
A permanent shift of even 5-10% of the workforce to permanent remote (which _will_ happen; far too many people with negotiating power have realized that this is an option now) will drastically alter commercial real estate.
The name is request for comments, but the meaning is technical internet standard. This RFC has already been published, so it's no longer just a draft.
You may be right in practice, but according to Twitter the claimed reason was hacking/doxing, not misinformation -- in fact, the opposite of misinformation!
So the main important idea I think this paper does is articulate and name a construct that appears in a lot of high level compilers already!

In functional languages, you want a sort of lexically scoped basic block that doesn’t need closure allocation to represent each branch/right hand side of a case/match expression.

In oop compilers, you’re gonna want a very similar internal to represent object methods, because again your methods all share the same object/closure environment.

They then are also useful to represent mutually recursive /goto basic blocks
Sorry for my lack of semantic nuance. Most of the leasers rely on payments from their subletters to pay their leases, so the effects will translate over in either case, just with more "buffer time".

There are also a fair amount of 1-year direct commercial leases, depending on the area.
Purism physically destroys components that won't run libre firmware.
That's a sad but odd story. The woman got quality and timely medical attention, but one of the baby twins died during childbirth.

The mother lives in NSW close to the QLD border and wanted to go a Brisbane hospital (Brisbane = capital of QLD) for the birth, but flew to Sydney instead to avoid 14 days of hotel quarantine (probably at their expense) in QLD.

I'm sure the level of care was equally good in both hospitals. The outcome may have been the same regardless.
Maybe people's brains are (metaphorically) on a hertz cycle that is perfectly calm/in sync when the outside stimulation as at the same "frequency".

It's like when you try to fall asleep watching/listening to something. Too boring and your mind wanders and you dont fall asleep. Too exciting and you're thinking about things while keeping up with the original thing.
Well fucking said but both times the stimulus was enacted we neglected large portions of the economy. If we do so again it wont be fixed and hello deep depression.
> I have a friend who's a millenial who barely knows how to use his desktop PC (It's a Mac) but is fluent on his iPad/iPhone.

This worries me not because of any open computing concerns, but because of how FUNDAMENTAL general purpose computers are to nearly every decent paying professional job out there. All of them. No one daily drives Excel or Salesforce One or edits video or codes websites or balances accounts in Quickbooks on an iPad. Literally no one; we're decades away from that being mainstream, if it ever happens.

Everyone needs to be computer literate. Being a wiz on your iPhone or iPad does not, in any sense of the word, make you computer literate. Kids growing up with these closed-off devices quite literally destroys the fire of desire for learning how computers work, or even accidentally gaining a glancing knowledge with them enough to hold a good office office job.

Companies like Apple endlessly mouth their desire to get more kids to code, then their arms release devices so closed off that even trying to take a quick peek at how they work triggers eighteen system integrity protection alarms. You can't have it both ways, Apple.

Well, whatever. I don't really care. It just means more ultra high paying jobs for me. Apple (and Google, and to a lesser degree Microsoft) are literally actively sabotaging their own talent pool, guaranteeing that they'll never be able to hire enough people while paying the ones they do hire a ton of money.
2. Good to know. I needed to do a "sudo apt install libpolyml-dev", because otherwise it wouldn't link.

3. Thanks for the tip! That will save me a world of pain.
Matias' laptop pro ticked all the boxes for me (tenkeyless, full travel, damped ALPS-clone key switches, macOS layout/markings, clunky retro-inspired design, long battery life) and it really was fantastic (though the keys do have a tiny bit of play) but then one of the brightness keys stopped working. :( I'm still using it though.

Prior to that I used Apple keyboards which work fine but have low-travel chiclet-style keys which aren't as nice to type on (they are much quieter for office environments though.)
The NY Post writing staff agreed with you, so the editors published the story with a fake byline.
Against by local onsen owner is a main blocker. It's hoped and some develop is ongoing, but we also like onsen.
I’m from Denmark and when power went out I was television worthy news. I don’t actually recall it happening more than once. I never experienced a power loss in the five years I lived in France. Now I’m in silicon valley, the tech hub of the world - with 3rd world internet and power that goes out every time the wind blows.

Just reporting facts.
Apple have made major improvements to their laptop microphones in the last few years. On cameras, while they’re usually very bad right now, laptop cameras will never be great; there’s just no room for the optics in the lid. No laptop has had a lid as thick as a phone in decades.
Do you really think that it's out of "political expedience" that sites are blocking links to probable foreign disinformation? Or is it out of a moral interest in not being pawns of the bad actors who stand behind it?

This kind of disinformation is dangerous, and we are vulnerable to it precisely because we value freedom of speech. That doesn't mean that we're morally obligated to value all speech equally. Obviously false and dangerous speech should be suppressed. Twitter (and other sites) is taking a moral stand, not an expedient stand.
> I fully expect there soon to be completely partisan social networks.

As if that already isn't the case...
Why fix sunrise and not sunset? And how do you handle extreme latitudes, where the sun might stay up for days without setting, or set half an hour after it rises?
13 (and the most important one). Desktop computer can be used at the desk. I don't have to carry it around, nor it distracts me from my "non-computer time" elsewhere.

Desktop computing FTW.
I do not think anyone is confused about whether or not the bill of rights applies to private companies. Free speech is an idea that can be extended to all types of speech.
Impressive work! I embarked on a project with a similar problem - can you identify locations in tweets from their messages during hrricanes? People mostly don't geotag their tweets but just mention street names in non standard ways. My naive solution was to use full text search on the postgis openstreetmaps dump but if there's a more elegant solution (that's free and can scale to millions of tweets) I would love to know more!
It's funny you mention Boise; that city, and many parts of Idaho/the west, are undergoing their own insane housing price inflation at the moment that's surging through the pandemic; real estate prices are a serious problem in a lot of places that aren't SF/NYC.
One clarification: thrust-to-weight says something about an engine’s mass (by definition), but specific impulse only says something about the exhaust velocity of the propellant (i.e. the impulse per unit of mass), not the mass of the engine.
Do your compiles write multiple gigabytes of data? Within seconds?
It wouldn’t be a black swan event, it would simply be a variable that got re-toggled on. As in, there was a large black turn out for Obama, and there wasn’t for Hilary. What if we turned that variable back on to true for Biden? That’s about all the rocket science involved.

We’ve seen that variable before.
Working from home 2-3 days a week is not what I would consider "remote work," since you'd still need to live close to the office.

From my perspective, this is worst of all possible scenarios. Employees are still shackled to an expensive city, but now they must pay for housing that supports a dedicated "home office" space (e.g., a larger apartment with an extra room, or carving out part of their living room/bedroom). This is just shifting the cost burden of real estate from the company onto the employees.
> the US could have treated Coronavirus seriously early on and helped keep numbers down

How?
I think the data from the article on subleasing really supports this. The absolute explosion of all this unused office space available for sublease means there are already loads of companies who wish they could escape their rent payments, and very few of them will probably want additional space any time soon.
To be fair, quite a few Android phones have unlockable bootloaders. You go to the manufacturer's website, download a utility or request a code, and you can then also install whichever OS you want.
I run a Linux distro on a Macbook Pro and I disagree with you.

Sure, I'm as annoyed as you and the author about UEFI, but as long as I can install an OSS bootloader and launch whatever I want, I'm good. It may be a pain, but the tinkering capability is still there.
If it wasn't possible to tinker with it, less people would buy that laptop.

Having closed hardware is a problem and it definitely doesn't make me feel safe. We may all be full of NSA backdoors, but to be honest I don't care much about it and I assume a large part of the tech knowledgeable feel the same way.
I suspect this is why Open Hardware is not more prevalent in the market: not enough interest.

I don't care about computer companies making more user friendly devices; we can find a way to hack whatever or just start buying laptop parts from China and make our own laptops.
What worries me is if the government will decide to ban cryptography or introduce regulations that force me to change how I tinker with my computer.
There is no “offending party”. Freedom of speech means speech cannot be compulsory. What would be contrary to the “original spirit” would be forcing Twitter and Facebook to amplify speech they don’t want to.
Keith Jarrett confronts a future without the piano
Depends on when you leave. Orbital conditions are optimal every 26 months, when it's a 260 day trip (~8.6 months).

More detail: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-07-19/What-is-a-Mars-launch-...
Which city are you in? I suspect the time pressure might be of a different magnitude in a city with a denser population, where the rent per sq ft might also be significantly higher.
They haven’t been merged. One feature that gives some brevity is type directed constructor disambiguation which allows you to omit the module name when accessing record fields, matching values, or constructing values, provided the type can be inferred in a certain directional way (rather than the more general unification based type inference which is used by the type checker)
Of course they flagged it.

Even more ironic is you missed the point of the post anyway, and your core reply here off: it wasn't meta-discussion, it was an entirely different discussion on the overuse of flagging on this site with examples of how it's happening + call for comments specifically on how to change flagging. In fact it was constructive, and the tone tempered.

Not being able to discuss changes to the flag system itself because it gets flagged is a big... red flag.

It's become used for "I personally don't agree with this" instead of "this is off topic, inflammatory, illogical, etc". Once you go down the path of allowing flagging for personal distaste, you've lost.
Yeah Russia took The Crimea from the Turks almost 250 years ago. Western designs on the place never have anything to do with the people that live there. Always blow up in their face to determent of the various peoples that live there.
I read the whole article, though.
In case anyone is interested in how a UEFI bootloader could be implemented, I wrote a deliberately simple, teachable example: https://github.com/ajxs/uefi-elf-bootloader

When I was learning there was definitely a lack of well-documented UEFI bootloader code publicly available. As someone new to the technology, you definitely don't want to sift through ELILO to find out how Linux uses UEFI.

If I did this again, which I'm sure I will, I would not use GNU-EFI. I would use a cross-compiler to build a PE executable for the EFI executable directly, without using GNU-EFI. Still, GNU-EFI is a good place to start. It's much easier to work with than EDK2.

Forgive my self-promotion here, I feel it could be relevant to interested parties here.
I usually have at least some broad, high level understanding of what tech outside my narrow scope looks like.

Reading the comments here I have zero clue what you're talking about.

Is this what my less technically inclined colleagues feel like when people talk about e.g. machine learning and Python?
1. Twitter is absolutely a journalism play. Look at the front page.

2. Neutral doesn't mean "whoever can game the algorithm wins"

3. Less than 50% of Americans are opposed to suppressing sharing of articles like the one suppressed.
You can call it "censorship" or "content moderation." I don't care, the distinction is meaningless for this conversation. The only meaningful argument is what Twitter (for example) CAN do (legally), and what they SHOULD do (morally).

Clearly, Twitter is legally in the right to suppress this information, because it's their platform. They can set the content rules as they like, as arbitrarily and capriciously as they like.

More of a judgment call, but I would argue that Twitter is morally in the right as well. This is obviously a case of carefully engineering disinformation, using America's value of freedom of speech against us. If they don't suppress it, Twitter is actively aiding bad actors, with very serious consequences. Twitter does not want to be in the business of content moderation, but in this case the information is question is so obviously falsified; it is spread so obviously in bad faith; and its consequences are so obviously dangerous to the nation, that they are justified in taking a moral stand against it.
I cooked two HP 17 inch laptops running finite element analysis tools for --the irony-- a thermal management project. They just couldn't handle the sustained load, even with external fans aimed at their air intake areas.

I've always used self-built desktop towers. When it's time to upgrade we build them five or ten at a time so every system matches. It makes for a much simpler build and bring-up experience.

In this case I needed to continue working, and so I decided to task two HP laptops on the network as external processors for the FEA tool. I have to say, they worked great for about four weeks. During that time they experienced about 18 hours per day of continuous processing. Fun while it lasted.
Is the nuclear engine thrust only usable from the orbit forward or could it be used in the first escape stages? I don't understand the engine's lifecycle and how it combines with other rocket stages.

Can the engine produce the peak power needed at liftoff? Or are its main benefits realized over the course of the trip instead?
You'll still get a good five years out of a Hackintosh box. If you build it from the right components and use OpenCore https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/ its really not too hard. After Apple drops Intel support you can always switch it over to Linux or Windows.
Why Microsoft? github.com is managed by GitHub, Inc. (that is owned my Microsoft).
It is like complaining to Volkswagen if your Porsche gets broken.