skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't know that this thing existed like 2 hours ago and now you want to change the laws in our national parks to allow art installations across our parks? Why even have national parks and try to preserve wilderness?

Maybe we can set up a Starbucks next to it and some bathrooms too. It's the famous monolith! Come one come all!

> The purpose of the law is to improve the quality of life.

I don't see how litter in my national parks is improving my quality of life.
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Steps please. Asking for a friend.
https://ethresear.ch/ is probably the best place for technical discussion.
FreeBSD has bHyve which when using bHyve in production is a bit of a chunky cog; however when it's turning, it turns.

One of my servers just scored over 400 days uptime, hosting: Windows with a mixed various other *nix distributions adding failing RAM to the mix, I am astonished that I've had no issues.

If you use the latest release it's no-longer experimental to having a jail with it's own network adapter. In theory this allows you to then host multiple bHyve instances; in that if a user somehow breaks out of their Virtual Machine they are stuck to the jail rather then the Host-OS.

With such of a feature you can then lock clients in separate jails of their own, alone from any other client.
Divide and conquer usually works pretty well. Find some unsympathetic 5% here, another 5% there...
On the other hand I taught pandora to only play songs by artists that had done heroin, thats kind of cool, it has tons of variety from ray charles to jhonny cash to alice in chains, and it finds artists I had no idea about like James Taylor. Also, don't try to code while listening to my horses channel... There may be variety but there is also a common quality of alert-sedation.
I need to hate skinny people.
Carbon capture is certainly a viable technology. The question is whether the politicians have the will to act.

Emerging carbon capture technologies can sequester atmospheric CO2 at low enough prices.

Last I checked, the prices were between $15-$75 per ton, which translates into $0.15-0.75 per gallon of gasoline burnt. Other carbon fuels would have similar costs per energy produced.

We need to transition to a carbon-negative economy as quickly as possible. Current atmospheric levels of CO2 are not sustainable.
Take all interpretations of French politics/laws from American journalists with a good amount of salt.

This week there was already a massive wave of disinformation by the part of WP and NYT saying France was going the way of a famous 20th century authoritarian regime.
OK. Piss off.
Because then less people would want to be employed and would rather stay on unemployment benefits burdening the state and the other employers? Or maybe because slavery was abolished 200 years ago?

I knew a guy who worked night shifts because he wasn't getting notoced by the shift supervisors when he went out for a smoke. There were less shift supervisors on night shifts.
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The gospel of metrics in tech management is toxic.
This should be abstracted away, optimizing for compiler performance feels straight out of the 80s.
The cpu alone takes more than that.
india has a lot of muslims, and muslims are not happy with the ummah being put into concentration camps. seems logical that a country with one of the largest muslim populations in the world, in the largest democracy in the world would start protesting against china.
For now, and still in a very limited capacity. But I absolutely think a desktop mode powered by an iPhone is coming. It's almost certainly being tested at Apple, and the move to Apple Silicon only makes it more likely that this will happen. It seems reasonable that an iPhone or iPad could run containerized Mac applications in this mode. Which to me could be the biggest expansion to access to computing since the smartphone itself if it were to become popular.
are you sure that would happen? Make no mistake, I get that Western powers do have cultural and economic agendas (McDonald republics and such). But if you look at Japan and South Korea, they didn't really have significant protests or any "installed leaders".
> To nitpick a bit: anyone who answers that question for a living will be practicing engineering, not science. Just as an excellent physician can espouse wildly unscientific beliefs, so too can someone become quite good at the craft of engineering without actually doing much science at all.

Engineering is based on science. They aren't scientists but what they do is based on science.
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yea because nothing gets done on windows eyeroll
> What should happen here with a few _hundred_ entries of "SYDNEY"?

I'd say, change the case in the database to proper "Sydney" and have whatever writes a piece of physical mail do the transformation to the correct format?
That'd actually be acceptable to me, since I wouldn't feel the need for redundancy--but it looks like the cheapest 1TB SSD that can be found is $67, while I can get HDDs for $15.88/TB. That's x4.2 the price of an HDD, definitely not practical for me.
I have actually met medical doctors who believed in homeopathy. My point isn't that they wouldn't exist if things were taught properly.

For a start, schools could teach people about how we actually unravel truths from statistics. It's a bit unfortunate that one of the most famous books in the area is called "How to Lie with Statistics". But all those things you mention, did you learn them in school? No, you tend to learn the conclusions but not the reasoning behind.
This is why we need VR to get higher resolution
Thank Robert Moses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

“ But start looking at the decline of, and disinvestment in, New York’s rail lines—from the subway to commuter rails like the Long Island Rail Road—and you’ll find that those problems go back much, much further. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, they seem to lead to one man in particular: Robert Moses.”
https://ny.curbed.com/2017/7/27/15985648/nyc-subway-robert-m...
I wonder what the thermals are like on it.
Also how long you could have it on your lap before you have to tap out.
I personally find that manual return type annotations actually prevent some errors. A common case: I forget the return statement in one branch, and TypeScript is happy to infer something like number|undefined as the return type.
The electric company charges per kWh because it costs money to generate that kWh of electricity.
I drive automatic now, but I miss stick sometimes. One of our family cars was a manual when I was a teen, 20 years ago.

I feel driving manual encourages a deeper focus on the road ahead and deeper connection with how your vehicle operates. You tend to plan ahead a bit more, be more aware of hills and curves, cars slowing down ahead, etc. – anything that'll make you need to switch gears. You could still have distracted driving, especially on highways, but driving stick lessens it, I think, though I have zero evidence to support that feeling.
Small nitpick, but as of last month, G Suite has been officially renamed as Google Workspace.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21503649/google-workspace...
Because being an employer doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever you want to an employee.
Awesome. Sent you an email!
Now, I'm no conspiracy theorist, and of course we don't know anything for certain, but is it even remotely possible that this could be a prototype of the Xbox Series X?
Ethereum just had a consensus failure that caused a loss of money and shut down transfers at one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world (Binance).

The minimum deposit for ETH2 is a very small percentage of the total premined (i.e. out of thin air) ETH that insiders were beneficiaries of. Take this event with a grain of salt, even the creator of Ethereum says the meat and bones of ETH2 is still years away.
hah. gold is not that rare. even an entry level billionaire could afford a monolith this size
Eventually, the politicians will have the will to act, because everything will be either on fire or flooding. Even conservative voters are starting to come around to that realization.
Yeah that was a shitty approach. Stuck at same sort of place. I did an order of magnitude more commits than my peers last year. I had to explain that it's because commits are cheap which makes experiments and rollbacks easy, not that I'm code jesus or something.
Birkin bags and other impractical luxury goods are simply a signaling device.

Humans care about what other humans think. This is often good, as the negative formal and informal sanctions of peers is what keeps the human animals from murdering each other.

Birkin bags and luxury goods are a mostly harmless byproduct of this human desire for approval.

In writing this comment, you are signaling to your HN peers how Nobel and virtuous you are, in that you only care about things like art and writing—-hoping for internet points in return (just as we all are).

The problem is, the government does not have unlimited resources, and most of us lack the intrinsic motivation to do anything useful for others.

If given everything for free, we’d like to think we’d spend our time creating great art and inventions—-but really we’d probably spend 99% of our time on Netflix and social signaling.
The draw for BSD is the BSD license - it is not a "copyleft" license, you do not have to redistribute source to those whom you provide with binaries. Same reason Intel chose MINIX over Linux for the Intel Management Engine.

As such, Linux will never fully substitute for the use-cases that BSD provides.

More or less - BSD focuses on developer freedoms while GPL focuses on end-user freedoms. GPL does not provide you the ability to redistribute binaries without source, while BSD does, so BSD is desirable where obscurity is an element of depth in defense (eg Sony's playstation OSs, Intel ME, etc), or where you simply don't want to redistribute your derivative code (MacOS X, etc). GPL also does not allow you to link GPL-incompatible code (either proprietary or non-compatible open-source licenses) that you don't own and can't relicense to GPL compatible, as that inherently locks off a significant amount of code that you might potentially need (what if you are licensing an audio decoder from a well-known German standards institute?). It simply is much easier for developers to work with with BSD license, as it does not attempt to be "viral" like copyleft code. Here is the code, don't sue the authors, end of story.

Frankly it's somewhat impressive that GPL has done as well as it has, the necessity to only link with GPL-compatible code has become a pain point but the kernel project has enough clout to get people to license patches however the project wants (see: ZFS and the kernel devs trolling by relicensing files out from under them). GPL is actually an enormous pain from a licensing and corporate IP perspective and BSD avoids that.
Perhaps, but making a funny film isn't as simple as getting people who are "funny" and letting them run free.
As if that's the only thing people don't react about?

Their jobs got outsourced, the police kills without penalty (especially blacks but any race will do), the lobbies run amok, their wages have been stagnant since the late 70s, their employers get increasingly more power over them, health, housing, and college have skyrocketed in costs, ...

... given all the above, which range from quality of life to life and death matters, and which not much protest has been done, surveillance is close to the bottom of the priority list...
I love the fact that someone did this such a long time ago and then just waited patiently.
I didn't say they would jeopardize their growth. I said they would learn. They might use coal, but it will be a 60% efficient not 1% efficient system like what we used for the first steam engines.
There’s a lot more to ML than just Siri. Photos, for example, utilizes it pretty heavily. Here’s an interview with their AI chief to give you an idea of the scope:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/apple-explains-how-i...
I seem to recall there is a monolith floating in space somewhere in Eve Online.
That is a good point. Although, in principle Proof of Stake could use any number of algorithms, and thus the trust could be based on something other than who has the most resources. In general for distributed systems, trusting based on reputation is a common idea. "Circles of trust" was how the original Ripple concept was explained.

The important question is not which of these ideas is better than each other, but which is better than existing infrastructure.
Japan has had installed leaders since the WWII. The occupying army is still there.

South Korea has had installed leaders since the Korean War.
Where will that continued cost reduction come from? I think there's still a bit of room left, but not a whole lot. The panels themselves are commodities now where many of them are close to materials cost. There's probably a bit of room to cut in racking and in figuring out ways to make installation easier.

Not that any of that is really a problem. Solar is plenty cheap enough, but I don't see a mechanism for it to keep up its precipitous decline in price going forward for many years to come.
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First impression to me was that it is some sort of modern kinetic projectile[0] from aircraft weapons' testing. I've read US army used something of that shape in recent conflicts, but probably of smaller size.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb)
I mean, it’s pretty cool. There’s that fact. But my guess it’s probably being drive to top due to the parallels to 2001. I’d imagine there’s a large Kubrick fanbase on HN, if not just a 2001 fanbase.
I wonder if other vaccines can be similarly improved via the same method.
People like this make OpSec hopeless.
> optimizing for compiler performance feels straight out of the 80s

I think you're misunderstanding this situation based on the suggestive word, "compiler".

TypeScript's type system is Turing-complete. That means you can theoretically write programs with the type system that cause the compiler to never complete.

Instead of thinking about this as optimizing a compiler, think of it as optimizing runtime performance of a program by better understanding the language that the program is written in.
Well, I haven't read Snow Crash, but this excerpt is neither "over the top" nor camp, and appears quite prophetic given 2020.
Yes, but this thread is about how doing so costs more than renting if you exceed the data cap.
And forests are different:

> Northeast, maple–beech–birch forests

> 25 year old forest: 1,760 lbs of CO2 per acre per year

> Northeast, white and red pine forests

> 25 year old forest: 9,826 lbs of CO2 per acre per year [1]

With global CO2 emissions [2]:

35 billion t / (2000 lbs / acre)
1.561×10^8 km^2 (square kilometers)
≈ land area on the earth ( 1.4912×10^8 km^2 ) [3]

maple–beech–birch forests would not cut.

35 billion t / (10000 lbs / acre)
3.123×10^7 km^2 (square kilometers)
≈ 0.46 × total area of crop land on Earth (2012 estimate) ( ≈ 2.62×10^7 mi^2 ) [4]

pine if used on half of crop land. That's managed forest, no wild forests allowed.

[1] http://medcraveonline.com/FREIJ/FREIJ-02-00040.pdf

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=35+billion+t+%2F+%2820...

[4] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=35+billion+t+%2F+%2810...
If TS could compile to asm.js you certainly could. (The fact that it can't is a big reason why I believe it's a fundamentally bad solution to writing JS scaleably.)
Uploading more than 1.2 TB in a month is extremely normal for anyone using any online backup service such as Crashplan, also. Especially when you first set it up. Comcast has vastly increased the cost and hassle of using such services, now, for all its customers. Customers should react accordingly: punish Comcast severely in the marketplace wherever possible. Unfortunately, a lot of customers don't have a 2nd good choice for broadband where they live, and Comcast knows it.
Contrary to what people here are saying, this does not boil down to "Self promote in violation of the Reddit rules." Among other things, it talks about first validating the idea and it also tells people to read the rules of the sub before self promoting.
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I thought that the newly-released HP Reverb G2 has a high-enough resolution for desktop work.

Could anyone with experience confirm?
The memo initially said to design a 7" screen laptop, but the " character got lost in communication.

This is how this monstrosity was born.
We don’t live in a reasonable world. The world we live in is increasingly more black and white.
No, capital runs the world. The people who have little don't want to risk losing it and the people who have a lot have no reason to risk losing it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25177334
But Apple doesn't exactly have a history of "paying taxes".
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The "Idiosyncratic rater bias" is a bit confusing to me, since it starts already with Bob being an EM, and to counter it is suggested to write from the manager's perspective. So what are managers supposed to do when they are falling for this bias like Bob did? Was either the example or the solution different initially? Maybe it's just the phrasing. (Hey, EM-Bob, try to write like a manager … — Erm, I am one. Duh.)
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GNUstep existes but it never really took off.
The screens on the sides are Thinkpad screens. There was one with a pull-out 800x600 auxiliary screen in addition to the 17" (IIRC) screen.
What I figured from the Internet is technical proficiency in random fields isn’t rare, but a stable, provable, predictable proficiency, on top of passable level of social acceptability, coexisting in a single consistent humanframe, is what is rare.
>That said, I fail to see how effective employee monitoring would be via Office 365. I don't know who would be evaluated on number of emails sent per day, unless they were some sort of support personnel.

Nobody cares for effectiveness above a certain company size. Even if the company crashes the managers will still get their bonuses and golden parachutes...
CTI?
Oh! Can I edit this post to make it a poll? Or should I make a separate post just for the poll?

Newbie w/HN polls here.
Because I want to be able to double check claims made by an article. Do you take claims with face value?

And why the hell would you think a auto translation feature would be adequate to figure out the nuances of law text?
Be worried, a majority of us is actually thinking about it.

https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.leparisien.fr/amp/societe/pe...
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The free market doesn't apply in that sense, but it is clearly the way forward in the sense that Carbon Taxation/Pricing and other schemes are clearly going to be more effectively than government intervention.
It probably wouldn't be in such great shape after impacting at high speed though.
I agree with this. I think it's also important to regularly check it with your manager and ask about how your performance is being perceived and if there is anything they could suggest that you improve upon. Keep the feedback loop tight so that both of you can address any problems as quickly as possible.
No. I don't want to get rid of bankruptcy. And for the most part, the cost of bankruptcy is baked into the cost of private loans.
Here's a good comparison. Portland has a population of ~600,000 and there were 50 traffic deaths in 2019: https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/12/vision-zero-por...

What Oslo has been able to accomplish is truly astonishing.
From my PoV, FIPS is bureaucratic nonsense and people trusting in it deserve what they are getting.

It might have had sense a long time ago, to ensure that vendors don't do something ridiculous and call it a day. It does mandate certain thing that are common sense and good practice, yes. But you can't really mandate security via a checklists from 10 years ago. Government can't keep up with cryptography, software bugs being discovered, new threats and so on. It's just too slow, and requires more than just going through a checklist.

The exact details of how things are done at the lower level are simply insane. It's very common that the FIPS-certified product has security strictly lower than non certified one, e.g. because the certified FIPS base had bugs, that are known, trivial to get fixed (3-liners, etc) but can't because that would take months/years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to re-certify the whole codebase being patched.

The whole thing was probably created by lobbyists to create another corrupted channel to monopolize and overcharge government and related institutions, just like many other nonsensical laws in the US.
> Comcast says customers will be notified as they approach their monthly data limit, but the ISP currently doesn’t give its customers a way to independently verify meter readings.

You can check your usage on their website or in their "My Account" mobile app. The app is particularly easy...open app, hit "internet", and scroll down a little.

Yes, that's not "independently verified", and I've seen occasional complaints that it is wrong, but:

• Those complaints are always that the Comcast number is too high, not too low, and since it is the Comcast number that will be used to determine if you've gone over, that's the one you want to use.

• In most cases I've seen, the Comcast numbers turned out to be more accurate. The person claiming they were too high did something like fail to account for upload traffic, or their monitoring didn't include IPv6 traffic, or only covered wired traffic.

You might think IPv6 would not be significant, but Disney+ definitely can stream IPv6 and Amazon Fire TV devices will use it when available. I watched several 4K UHD movies that way and according to the traffic stats on my TP-Link Archer A7 router the traffic to the Fire TV Stick was under a gig total. Next movie I used tcpdump while watching to verify that the stream was indeed IPv6, and reported not counting IPv6 as a bug to TP-Link. I'm pretty sure I also saw some of the apps on my Samsung TV using IPv6 streaming.
He's skipping company meetings and minimizing one on one communication, it doesn't sound like his boss is the absentee one
That's what the alien overlords will say when they put humanity on trial.
From "gene" (as in DNA, genetic screening) and "-cide" (killing), litterally "killing a gene", in the most literal sense of the word.
For people who have not used TypeScript:

I've never had issues with the TypeScript compiler being slow, and I write my types with as much complexity as the underlying data/situation demands.

I have several projects that consume dozens of REST APIs, and I have types for all of their requests and responses, and my compilation time is still fine.
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Being an employee is an investment, so I use the team/market/product model. Tech choice is also an investment that signals an expected return. I'd say a company using enterprise tech is indexed more on optimization problems than explosive growth.

Fine if you want stability, but if you are naturally oriented toward higher risk/reward environments, platform choice is a cultural signal worth asking questions about. When the chips are down, you take what's on offer, but if you are making an active decision from a stable position, you can leverage culture tells to derive the right questions.
No, they are on big bits of equipment.
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Is your productivity also a function of pixels? Sometimes, when I have a deadline approaching, I simply ask for more pixels.