skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but our brains readily interpret it as a rendering of a 3D globe, and do not make the assumption that the shape or size of Italy is literally like that. Further, you can trivially drag it to spin the globe.
Sure you can, you just rotate the globe back and forth. You can even measure and compare it roughly using your fingers.
when a beaver creates a dam, that's apart of nature and everyone sings kumbaiya, but when a human dares to start a fire because he is cold or dares to improve his food supply because he is hungry all of a sudden that "not natural" and should be condemned?
What is "not what the parent said"? And why is your interpretation different?

The parent said it is more common for engineers to be good at UI design than for UX/UI designers to be good at it. The last two sentences say it plainly.
Dell XPS 17 from 2020. Sound doesn’t work. Thee we drivers exist. For the first time in over a decade I had to install drivers manually.

And don’t even start with hibernate or even just waking up. I’ve never rebooted a laptop so many times.

And what’s the deal with flatpak? A screen shot app is not 700mb? WTF?
What religion is primarily focused on ending bigotry? Genuinely curious.
> For example, the US had two really high profile, narrow elections (2000 and 2020)

Three, surely, by that metric? 2016 was closer than 2020.
The multinational tech companies are EXISTENTIALLY motivated to weaken and dissolve national identity for this very reason. Every country they operate in they will algorithmically and politically oppose any nationalist movement. The tech companies moved quickly and captured the vast majority of the world-- their greatest terror is that, like china, countries will realize that allowing an american company to monitor and manipulate their population might not be in the best interest of the people. The multinationals will do their best to influence and when necessary but off political leaders around the world. The war is just beginning.
> These scientists essentially created what may have been a new species, that perhaps would have had similar sentience to us and had them terminated after 100 days.

6 million human fetuses already get destroyed every year in the USA alone. If we're ok with that why would a handful of monkeys matter?
Surely there must be a few good schools. I grew up in Tennessee and there were 4 or 5 good high schools in the state, one for each of the major cities plus an extra one due to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They also happened to be in the suburbs where the foreigners (i.e. everyone hadn't grown up in the area) were placed. But yes, public schools are chronically underfunded in the "red" states.
Concentration camps and prison slavery not right wing enough for you? Just because it's commonplace here doesn't mean it's not extremely right wing. I don't think we need to get to full scale ethnic cleansing to be considered right wing. Voter disenfranchisement alone is something you rarely see outside of full on authoritarian dictatorships.
It is in the organisation memory. It is just they have encountered the same issue with power pc cannot keep up with intel. And they wait for > 2 years then the switch programme come. I still remember those Motorola chip then power pc chip. Expensive as always but just under power even if you spend. Not the intel. Still have 2 Mac Pro 2009 and it still work fine (except need to stay in hs for my 1080 ti card). It is just have to move.

The vertical integration of all is frightening though. It does not end well with many industries. You need competition and being now on arm and one gpu meant all those fierce competition in pc and gpu of intel / amd / nvidia is just figures. You do not get the insight and innovation by looking at how good or bad other side is.
It’s really odd to me that California is perceived to be such a problem while the area is so economically productive. It’s a very odd type of cognitive dissonance where something is both a model to be copied and a mess at the same time by the same people.

People try and recreate Silicon Valley while arguing non competes must be enforced. As if the ideas must inherently be unrelated.
I had my first gout attack on August 14th 2018 at just 24, following a night filled with liquor and red meat. Though I’ve gone through periods of continuous activity, it’s safe to say I lead a somewhat sedentary life. Today, at 26, I have been free of major gout symptoms since my first attack 2 years ago. Though I occasionally get mild inflammation in my gout-prone foot if I stray too far from my diet, I’ve been effectively symptom free since immediately course-correcting my diet following my diagnosis. My new diet is mostly plant based, though some fish and occasionally chicken seems to be safe from causing any symptoms. I’ve even been able to pick up running again.

My long term outlook however remains uncertain, and I will likely be doing semi-annual hematology profiles for the foreseeable future (my rheumatologist wants to have long term data on uric acid levels.)

I hope this serves as some relief for anyone who has been recently diagnosed and is looking for positive reassurance about the changes they’re considering for themselves. YMMV.
Credentials are not that important here. Maybe the random guy also ran satellite internet on a military base, maybe they manufacture the satellite comms gear? The important bit is, are either of those supported by facts and where the technical difference / misunderstanding comes from? (I wouldn't start with "you're wrong" but that's a separate thing)

They can both be right as walrus01 seems to talk about latency of a single rtt in isolation, and withinboredom about what does the TCP endpoint effectively see.
I don't generally think we should be splitting atoms on the surface of the planet. It has lots of dirty side effects that far outlast our capacity to grapple with the consequences. Humans on the whole are not prepared at this point to think in terms of decades, let alone plan for events that have consequences counted in Milennia.
This looks a lot like the camps they set up when they come to Sweden to beg as well. Take the camp in Malmö called Sorgenfrilägret for instance. From empty industrial lot to illegally occupied shanty town full of trash: https://victorpressfeldt.com/2015/11/01/lagret-pa-sorgenfri-...

In a TV news segment they showed a portable toilet that somebody had given them, and it was unusable because of how filthy it was. When asked why the people living there said it was because nobody came there to clean it for them.

Here's another camp outside of Stockholm. Again, why so much trash?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532716/The-rubbish...
And then jumps through large hoops to hide that it's still asking people to estimate. Sure, it's not hours, it's "velocity" and "difficulty", and you don't estimate, you play "Fibonacci Poker".

But at the end of the day, the question "can we do this in the allotted amount of time" still gets asked and answered.

What agile got right is realizing that the error bars increase superlinearly with duration, and that scope isn't fixed - so frequent estimates with frequent course correction. But you're still estimating.
I have had a passing interest in virtualization. Do you mind sharing how you got your job?
The south in general has a history of funding their local governments through traffic tickets.
I find it funny that some of the same people who are more than willing to abort (kill in some peoples opinion) actual humans, but are unwilling to kill a few animals for the advancement of humanity
I just left CA after 42 years. Austin, apart from panhandling and corporate retail dominating commercial real estate, is awesome. Free tattoos line around the block for Friday the 13th on 6th st. was hilarious. People are much nicer and more social. Groceries are cheaper (HEB rocks). Traffic sorta sucks but it's nothing like LA or Bay Area commute. The weather is baller as long as it's not summer, in which case, vaca in Canada or Santa Cruz. Land outside of city limits is dirt cheap for whatever purpose, homestead or commercial. Property taxes are nearly 2%/yr in most of TX so there's a disincentive to owning expensive homes for most people.

People in CA aren't dating or having kids like TX, middle states, and UT. The coasts are graveyards for all but the rich, retirees, and high-income visiting employees; everyone else is like a SF "gold rush miner" trying to hang-on to a delusion, spending most of their income on rent. Screw that; build a life somewhere sustainable such as on the outskirts of a burgeoning city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
Apple M1 Mac Mini Geekbench
It's always been easy to justify racism against people that don't speak your language. That's a hell of an outgroup.
IDK a lot of proprietary developers don't understand the LGPL and are scared by its copyleft. They like how simple the MIT license is.

Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible.
Three reasons (I know both languages well): (1) R is used much less in the data science industry, and (2) Python is a more universally useful language. If he learns it for data science then he can easily write utility scripts, build a back-end, etc. (3) the overlap between R and Python capabilities is so significant it would be a waste to start with R, I would only suggest picking it up if he needs some niche package that he can't get in python.
It has been ages since I had to reinstall windows.

I was a thing I just did once in a while more than a decade ago but I haven't had to on multiple systems for a long time now.
> At one point I had a chance to speak with the candidate by phone, and I spoke about my concerns about the divisive rhetoric.

> The candidate said it was only something they had to do to "fire up my base" and that they would not govern in the way they had campaigned.

Now I'm currently, what sort of power do you hold that would cause a politician to speak to you in private and not try and pass the same indirection and lies they would most constituents?
> Really, most modern Linux distros are pretty god damn nice.

I agree, and what really sold me was Plasma Desktop, as someone that couldn't stand KDE 3 & 4. It used to be that GNOME was the desktop environment you could turn into a Windows or macOS clone, but it looks like that switched with GNOME 3 and KDE 5.

I have Plasma Desktop set up[1] to take advantage of my macOS muscle memory when it comes to the GUI and keyboard short cuts, and I couldn't imagine going back.

> Linux is rocking the desktop hard, if you haven't tried it in a few years or just maintain a Windows installation to play games-- seriously give it a try. It's wonderful.

It's not just developers or power users that Linux shines for, either. I'm of the opinion that if ChromeOS would suit a person's needs, so would a polished distribution like Ubuntu along with a browser like Firefox or Chrome. Ubuntu has an app store-like interface to install Zoom, Slack, and other work apps.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23607374
Lightworks is also a really nice commercial editor that works on Linux. The free version supports 720p output. It is not as fully featured as Davinci Resolve, but then it also requires much more modest system resources.
A woman who is allergic to water (2016)
OK, so I admit I just started with the abstract, but the first item listed is "writing good code". Umm, I would hope that is kinda part of the definition? I was actually looking for some valuable insight (e.g. how are great software engineers able to consistently write good code) but I didn't see it in this report.
40% in U.S. planning large gatherings for holidays despite Covid-19 warnings
Read the above comment about how locals would refuse to patronize a restaurant staffed by a Romani worker. If you're living in an environment where people go out of their way to make sure you don't have any economic opportunity no matter what you do, what the hell is the point of preparing your children for a workforce that is guaranteed to reject them? To try and gain respectability among people who are steadfastly committed to never respecting them, because some day the dominant culture might decide the underlings are actually human beings? Why should they be disinclined to steal or beg from people who guarantee their entire community will continue to fail?
Literal drag races are all about acceleration, not sustained speed. So I suspect the strategy is, you may be ahead of you, but if I can accelerate faster than you, that won't matter, because I will catch you and pass you.
City refactoring
I think your painting with a pretty broad brush. Sitting aside your bad experience at the licensing office (and general negativity on the culture), someone moving from SF may have a higher quality of life, depending on what they value. For example, more space, lower cost of living, lower taxes, ability to travel more, save more, have a larger house, etc. You can trade tornado's for wild-fire's and earthquakes.

I lived in LA for 5 years, and in SF proper for 3. I live in the midwest now and I prefer it, not because of the weather, but for the cost.
Do you really not see any of these as advantages, at all?

You don't use a task bar on your computer? You would never want to be able to alt-tab to a programming IDE or music player?

You can't imagine why someone would want to be have a programming IDE like Atom that didn't need to pop up a dialog box literally every time you wanted to save a file to disk?

You can't imagine why someone would want an IDE like Atom to automatically read from their local Git config and hook into native commands for functionality like file grepping? Or why someone would want to be able to use native volume controls to separately control volume in a music player and their overall browser?

You've never wanted to start a long-running process in an application and then alt-tab to a separate program while it completes without that process getting throttled?

You can't imagine why someone would want to clear all local data from normal websites in their browser without also clearing all of the local data stored in every web app that they're using? When you want to clear some old files on your computer or empty your trash, do you prefer to just `rm -rf` your home directory?
Posted something about this earlier in the day but didn't gain any traction.
I think this is one of the most important things of the year along with the corona virus, might signal the end of US economy superiority?

A note is many US alies, Aus, Japan, SK have signed up with this
I think it's wrong for a newspaper to uncritically report what someone said in cases where a falsehood would serve that person's interests.
As other commenters have noted, this is a quite generic article with very little specific to software engineering. For a much more informative take on the same topic, read "Norris Numbers" by Lawrence Kesteloot:

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.htm...
I'm almost 50, and we did a geography project in grade 5 on Brazil. I still remember a lot about that project, despite a lot of that information being completely out of date now (My instinct is to still say cruziero as the currency of Brazil even though it's wrong). I've never been to the country and probably never will just out of lack of interest, but it's funny how some things stick with you.
I know that Hacker News is a place of serious discussion only, but is nobody going to mention that the first picture of a "brain" looks more like my own small ding dong?
> And yes, Democrats do it to Republicans as well, just generally not as frequently.

Ha, the difference is not nearly so stark as you'd think.
Two, at least; the German and Irish ones. A number of countries and US states are now using apps derived from the Irish one.
The web of deceit surrounding the Republican Party at this point is undeniable unless you have chosen to abandon reality entirely at the point it chafes your opinion.
(Speaking purely logically; not morally; I am not claiming belief of these statements one way or the other)

If you believe that:

A) a mother may choose to let someone end the life of her own human fetus; and

B) animals have no right to control their own bodies,

then I don't see why there's any dissonance to believe:

→ a human may choose to end the life of an animal's human-like fetus.

It does not violate (A): the human-like fetus is no more special than a human fetus. It does not violate (B): the mother's right to control her own body/fetus does not exist, since the mother is a non-human animal.

Do you see it differently? How so?

I suppose one could make the case that, a human mother/embryo is a single symbiotic organism, which expresses its collective will through the mother. This new animal mother/human-like embryo symbiotic organism should be afforded some of the same rights as a fully human mother/embryo, but is unable to express its will due to the limitations of the mother. Therefore the embryo's right to life, which it could normally choose to waive through its human mother, is violated, since its animal mother is unable to communicate as much.

But I'm guessing that's not how you (or anyone else) are looking at the situation.

(Personally (and I'm not making an argument here, just an observation), as someone who believes (A) but not (B), I can't get agitated at this study; by my moral measure the violation of the animal mother's rights is way tamer than so many other ways animals' rights are violated in the name of science.)
Don't hire a large team. You probably need one or two (max three) skilled people.

Helps if you have a budget to pay for quality talent.

Get NDAs signed. Make contracts. Limit risk.
When I was a kid, I thought this was what happened when people said they were moving, that people would cut their house out of the ground and physically move it to where ever they wished
I used Benford’s law to analyze Covid-19 in 113 countries
Senior DHS cybersecurity official resigns
> You're using a very particular definition of "design"

No, I'm using a common definition of it. I'm using the same one that the person I responded to was using, which is the type of design for which people hire UX/UI designers.

People don't hire UX/UI designers to design CLIs. Maybe they should, but they don't. Is it UX and UI? Sure. But we're talking about an industry term at this point, not 100% of everything that is designable.

> Why does design have to be graphical, and why does "UX/UI designers" get to say what it is?

I honestly don't know who or what you're arguing against right now. This seems totally tangential to the comment I replied to.

Companies hire engineers to write code and designers to create GUIs. Those are the domains we're talking about. I don't disagree with you philosophically at all.

> > most engineers don't practice design

My meaning was unclear here.

I meant that most engineers don't study and repeatedly practice design, meaning that they don't have feedback loops with their designs. The goal is releasing their code, not building their skill at design.

Designers, on the other hand, will create many iterations of something with feedback along the way, sometimes in an academic setting.

Even setting that aside, most engineers work at large corporations where design is a bureaucratic process that engineers aren't expected to change. They just write the code.

> Citation needed.

No, it's not. First of all, I've in the software industry for 20 years, so I'm going to lean on first-hand experience here.

Second, the burden of proof is on the person making the more uncommon claim. The inverse of "most software engineers don't practice design" is "most software engineers do practice design," and the latter would be more surprising to the typical person.

Unless, as mentioned above, you expand the meaning of "design" far beyond what the original thread was about, which was web UI design.
Some nice words he probably doesn't mean at the end of his life do nothing to repair the irreversible damage he has done to the environment. Nothing he ever says can wash the blood off the hands of a man who dedicated his life to preventing gun control, supporting the Iraq War and profiting from the military industrial complex. The only justice possible for a ghoul like Koch is the forfeiture of his assets and the blade of a guillotine.

Charles Koch deserves to die and I will celebrate when he does. I hope future generations will piss on his grave.
google earth vr already exists and has for a while
It's both poverty and culture. The two can't be separated. You end up with a chicken-and-egg scenario: people surrounding the Roma know that the Roma they encounter are disproportionately likely to be the people who e.g. commit street crimes. This makes them act accordingly, by doing things like avoiding groups of Roma. This makes it harder for Roma who aren't committing crimes, whose behavior is not reflected in that estimate, to improve their culture or escape it. The non-Roma estimating that the average Roma is too likely to be violent to be worth interacting with think that for a reason, and we may call it "racism" or "bigotry" but it isn't unfounded.

My sense is that it's very popular to point to external causes, causes that aren't blame-producing. "It's because they're poor"...well, maybe it's true that "If not for being poor..." but that's not the world we live in. By many accounts their culture (that is, the set of learned things they inherit) is set up to produce more poverty, crime, and social isolation. There are many groups of very poor people who do not have this problem, and who thrive in different circumstances. Accepting that there are things about their culture that would be better if changed or removed both reflects empirical reality and sets you down the road to finding a workable solution.
That doesnt make sense for the torpedoes, which aren't a replacement for ICBM/SLBMs. It's plausible for the cruise missiles, which can replace SLBM/ICBMs in the strategic strike role.
TSO = Total Store Ordering.

(I didn't know what you were talking about at first, had to work it out.)
The Map Men covered a number of different map projections last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtBV3GgQLg8&list=PLfxy4_sBQd...
It is definitely the Mercator projection. Here is the first frame of your video overlaid on top of a standard Mercator projection: https://imgur.com/a/4cHi6Di

As for whether it looks "so bad," it's hard to tell from that video, because it's a small segment of the map, all in the northern-most latitudes.

The Mercator projection is very shape-conforming (except close to the poles, as you can see from the huge top of Greenland), and its size distortions depend on latitude, so locally it's always going to be very "good" compared with a globe. You're not going to see any huge "errors" just comparing the before-and-after shapes of Greenland (although, again, the top of Greenland is very distorted there), or comparing its size to its closest neighbors.
- it takes some die space sure but no x86 processors are actually limited by instruction decoding (except, iirc, the first generation xeon phi in some cases)

- huge pages don't exactly require weird OS hoops although i agree the 4kb→2mb→1gb page sizes are inconvenient
It takes a critical mass of tech companies that are well funded and regularly hiring, so government can't be squeezing them too hard.
Also most of the issue with environmental disruption is the same issue as say, when an asteroid slams into the planet: sure, life survived in some form, but a lot of the dominant species didn't.

Human industralization is that sort of a problem - rather then a slow multi-generational change in equilibria, we're looking at rapid change which simply wipes species out (because if you can't have a generational change, you can't have any evolutionary adaptation).

The domestication of dogs for example is something humans definitely did to the native biosphere - dogs don't exist today without us. But it took at least 20,000 years to do. Not 300.