skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like we're spending an awful lot on picnic basket deliveries...
I’ve lived in Tokyo a few times and didn’t feel it was especially lonely for a big city. Or rather it has the potential to be as cold and lonely as any other big city if you just work and go home and don’t meet people. In some ways its easier to meet other expats because you have outsider status in common, though as some of them inevitably move I suppose it could get lonelier.
Less, because the way it invades those aspects is direct, and not indirect through other human beings. In our society, for power to work it has to convince the population of what power wants, which means that the political invasion happens by other people caring about politics. In a country ruled by a dictator, that isn't the case, because the dictator doesn't have to convince the population of anything, he just does it, and if it works and it's better then good, and if it doesn't then he can try something else (without having to reconvince anyone that now this something else might work).
Clarification: the Chinese HIV receptor deletion was not performed at Stanford, nor done by Stanford faculty. It was done by someone who had worked as a post doc at Stanford.
You have no idea what you're talking about. The original parcels of urbit address space were given away for free or as contest prizes. Then there were two crowdsales in 2016 and 2017 which both priced address space at less than one cent!

There were a few early seed investors as well. I'm not sure what their terms were, but I highly doubt they were massively worse than the crowdsales which occurred later in the project
Agreed that it reads very much like damage control
If there are other bosses available. If they are in any way different. If you’re lucky to stand out.

In practice, you’re far more likely to agree with fellow workers than with bosses. You have material interests largely in common, not largely opposed. That’s why unionised workplaces and industries have measurably better pay and conditions.
As someone who likes to make music with (analog) synthesizers, I understood some of those words!
The value proposition depends on developers, so mentioning the mysteries they have to go through is relevant to making a summary. It's a huge part of what makes urbit urbit.
I think you're going to far. Good luck writing a mobile app in ruby (as one example).
My bad, as a non native English reader I read 111.111
Okay so the gap is a x100 :0
Drug firms may deny actual Covid vaccine to volunteers who received placebos
From my perspective those costs are massive. I'm considering building a whole house from bricks which will cost $30-$40k. I probably won't spend $15k for electricity for all of my life. I don't understand western economy. You've got extremely costly electricity and you're claiming that solar power is good. It might be true for you, but it won't ever come to me at those prices. I'm paying $0.03 for kW⋅h. I'm spending around 200 kW⋅h per month, so that's $6 per month. I would need to live 208 years to save $15k.

Solar panels might be fine in some distant places where you're forced to use diesel generators. Diesel is not cheap. But where electrical grid is already in place, I just don't see it working.
Abstract:

Despite the advancements in software testing, bugs still plague deployed software and result in crashes in production. When debugging issues -- sometimes caused by "heisenbugs" -- there is the need to interpret core dumps and reproduce the issue offline on the same binary deployed. This requires the entire toolchain (compiler, linker, debugger) to correctly generate and use debug information. Little attention has been devoted to checking that such information is correctly preserved by modern toolchains' optimization stages. This is particularly important as managing debug information in optimized production binaries is non-trivial, often leading to toolchain bugs that may hinder post-deployment debugging efforts. In this paper, we present Debug2, a framework to find debug information bugs in modern toolchains. Our framework feeds random source programs to the target toolchain and surgically compares the debugging behavior of their optimized/unoptimized binary variants. Such differential analysis allows Debug2 to check invariants at each debugging step and detect bugs from invariant violations. Our invariants are based on the (in)consistency of common debug entities, such as source lines, stack frames, and function arguments. We show that, while simple, this strategy yields powerful cross-toolchain and cross-language invariants, which can pinpoint several bugs in modern toolchains. We have used Debug^2 to find 23 bugs in the LLVM toolchain (clang/lldb), 8 bugs in the GNU toolchain (GCC/gdb), and 3 in the Rust toolchain (rustc/lldb) -- with 14 bugs already fixed by the developers.
I don't mean to imply that it's not predictable—I just think it's relevant to note that it's completely unaccountable. You get a number, and that's your number.

Nor do I mean to imply that it's awful, or worse than X. I know from experience how unfair individual negotiation can be, having been on both ends of massive pay ranges for the same title and responsibilities at the same company. It's not all sunshine and roses in my current job as a software engineer at $BIGCORP, but I do appreciate the relative fairness with regard to pay, and the magnitude doesn't hurt either.

Still, it's worth pointing out that a) unions have done great things for workers across many industries, b) that tech workers usually have no institutionalized collective bargaining power, c) that many tech workers have essentially no individual bargaining power either, and d) that tech work has been following a trend of increasing commodification.
“Computer” seems humane. There’s a teenager down the street named Alexa. She apparently gets asked the weather a lot. :(
Have you found a way to download or torrent them all?
> It's inevitable; fossil fuels are on the way out.

It's not on the way out. Fossil fuel use is increasing and projected to increase for the next 3 decades at least.

solar/wind/etc account for pretty much nothing today.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...

And the 2050 projection shows that petroleum and natural gas use will increase and that even coal will rebound by 2050.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=41433

Also, that huge spike for "renewables" is mostly dams. Not wind or solar.
Original comment:

> The Germans paid for it creating the market/industry. Vast amounts. [...] If the Germans keep voting green [...]

Your reply:

> That’s rather inaccurate. [...] German electricity prices are so high because [...] German law mandates that these plants are not allowed to operate unless wind and solar are unable to provide sufficient electricity

So what you're saying is, German lawmakers mandated the Germans pay for it...

Your comment seems to be making some odd argument about the expense, as if it should be cheap? The original commenter was pointing out exactly that: it costs. "The Germans paid..."

> .
I think you'll find pretty big pockets of tech companies with a CCP promotion dynamic. You're usually better off being the "good man" who doesn't really do anything. Doing things has the potential to offend someone.
Planes can be switched out last-minute. I plan to check the plane type at the gate every time I fly for the next 10 years, and if it's a MAX, I'll reschedule my flight on the spot.

They claim they solved the software problem, but they didn't solve the physics problems created by the engine position (which necessitated the software in the first place).
I've been wearing mine because I expect it probably gives the people around me a slight benefit. I have no illusion that it's keeping anyone anywhere close to totally safe, and though common sense dictates that it does something, I'm not totally sure it does.
Sure, but you might need it to keep several trillion dollars of GDP afloat and ensure economic stability, which is a precursor for national security.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Labor how about how you learn some labor history, and how organization efforts spearheaded by the most privileged workers, however odious in some respect, did beget trends good for all.
mistake? As far as I can see, it could only be either intentional or the result of randomness.
Anyone here want to share their opinion's on Magento? The small time I spent with it left me with a feeling it was the most over engineering piece of software I've ever worked with. It's made to build a market for modules to buy and isn't made to run an e-commerce site.

All written in PHP.
No, changes cannot be retroactive (in general) meaning the prior law applied at that time.
For Beijing, what you described above is highly unlikely to be true. Not saying such corruptions do not exist in Beijing, corruptions exist everywhere in places like Beijing, just pointing out that you won't be able to notice them like the way how you described.

You are basically suggesting that the restaurant intentionally let a first time visitor (you) who they didn't know & trust to know the special relationship they have with the "chief of police". Why would they do that? A revenge to get rid of the guy?

It is also pretty strange to have "chief of police" accepting such high risk and low value "free meal" as gift. As a corrupted official, will you feel comfortable walking into a restaurant fitted with security cameras to enjoy your "free meal"? Sounds like a failed IQ test to me.
This reminded me of an interesting scheme I encountered in North Macedonia last year. The government now allows citizens to claim a 15% refund on VAT up to a cap of about 500 USD per year[1].

The only way to get this refund is to ensure that you are issued a 'fiscal receipt'[2] for your purchases. These have a little QR code which you can scan into an app on your phone.

Of course, the whole point of the system is to ensure that retailers actually declare revenue and therefore pay tax on it. I wonder if similar systems exist in more countries?

[1] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/02/c_138190143.htm

[2] https://www.geneko.rs/en/products/fiscal-products-and-soluti...
Having faith in the Kelly Criterion for angel investing
Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It
Let's say you're doing a study of fingerprint patterns. You anonymize a collection of fingerprints from a non-anonymized source by stripping everything but the fingerprint images. Because fingerprints are unique it seems like it'd be impossible to meet the GDPR criteria; even if the only thing that was left was the fingerprints, when compared against the source dataset they will be identified.
a) is this interpretation accurate?
b) if so, it seems that there's large swaths of data that can never be in compliance. What are the implications for medical research, for instance?
Operating in the aggregate is a fool's game. I am not the arbitrary worker who has more in common with the arbitrary worker. I am an immigrant with many immigrant friends from various countries. The arbitrary American worker wants me out and wants my friends out. He is no ally of mine. I will not stand with him.

There are other bosses. They are different. And my industry is superior to most unionized industries so I don't care.
> be very slightly less lazy

That is the key point, for me anyway. "Computer, all lights off" instead of getting out of bed when I've left something on is one of my lazy wins from voice control. Setting multiple timers without touching things with messy hands while faffing in the kitchen is another.
yeah android phones are totally safe from google
In rare cases, when no major or regional power is interested, they do that as the humanitarian backstop, yes.

I'm pretty sure East Timor is the only case of their stepping in for a government. Could be wrong? Other examples?
Hunter-gathering was an amazingly good lifestyle when only a few people were doing it. As soon as the density increases you start going hungry/running out of animals/getting into fights about food etc.

Swiddening (Agriculture but you move every year) was safer but much harder work by comparison. Higher population densities became possible.

Fixed field agriculture was safer still, but much harder again. Higher densities again.

Historically the people doing this were not usually permitted to leave (eg frequent proclamations banning them from abandoning their lands, soldiers brought in to round up those who had and bring them back to work).
Your laptop fans spinning is the sound of Java developers externalizing the costs of their enhanced productivity.
Other random results that have occured in real life:

In Bulgaria the same numbers were once drawn in 2 subsequent weeks.

In Germany the same numbers were drawn as in the Netherlands the week before.
Here’s what happens to your photos, according to the page:

The low-resolution previews are then scaled down and uploaded to FilterPixel servers for automatic culling of photos.
Vector is designed to work well with systems like Kafka, not to replace them. While it does have a _very_ simple durable queue in the optional disk buffer feature, it is nowhere near the durability, fault tolerance, performance, etc of a full Kafka cluster and we would not recommend thinking of them as the same type of system.

That being said, we do know of a few cases where Vector's in-flight processing and routing capabilities were enough that a full Kafka-based pipeline was no longer needed. This ability to push computation out to the edge and reduce the need for centralized infrastructure is one of the aspects of Vector that we're most excited about.
Why is this so heart warming to see, even though I wasn't a Winamp user. Skinnable software needs revival, we should let users have all the fun they can have.
For reference, list of large power plants and their output:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations

The largest solar plant is at about 2000 MW and requires a lot of land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park

The largest wind farm is not being used as efficiently as it could:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu_Wind_Farm
From covid? Pretty high, pretty sure I read 5-10% of people in infected. For these vaccines 0.0000001%. So I'm saying not zero but you're more likely to die on the way to get the vaccine (car/bus/stroll) than any long term side effects.
Why is it “special treatment” to want to read what you’re about to sign when it directly involves ones means of living?
Senior DevOps Engineer, Studio Infrastructure Operations (Animation)
> In theory, naval propulsion is more amenable to electrification than aviation, but that'll be tricky to do economically

Unless batteries get a lot lighter, ships are more likely to be powered by liquid hydrogen or ammonia, which are relatively straightforward to produce from renewable energy.
It's possible I don't understand your point, but it seems fairly obvious to me that doing a little bit of a thing doesn't mean you can't benefit immensely from doing more of it.

Hungry? Eat a cracker and you may be less so—and it may even make a material difference to your survival in an extreme situation—but it won't replace a full meal.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as by definition, if this constant is valid for how this universe is as it is configured now then significantly changing the universe will likely result in a different constant. How you might change the universe enough to cause a variation is a bigger question. Concentrating all the stars (mass) to one place might do it. Maybe not.

The flip side of that question is the larger and generally accepted as obvious statement: a constant with value "x" determines or reflects how the universe is as of now. The duration of that "now" is likely much longer than the earths entire existence.
> Ask for Magic Stick? Here’s an instrumental

Karaoke time! You can do this.
Chances are, these will be safe. Because one more crash even remotely related, would spell complete doom for Boeing. No recovering that one, ever.
If you want to know, the same system happens in Japan too.

When you get the offer letter it's an outline only. Then you either accept the offer letter as it is, or walk away. Asking for the detailed contract (called 就業規則 in Japanese) will always end up losing your job offer, because you have no legal right to see the contract before you join the company.

Some companies are so hostile (and this is the norm in my experience), that even very valid questions along the line of "Do I get severance pay if I am forced to retire?" or "How do stock options work?" will end your job application process right there because you will get labeled as overzealous.

Also, Japanese law doesn't require to state in the contract the exact position that you are hired into. So you will often get hired with the job description: "engineering team member". Of course HR will tell you mealy-mouthed or mellifluously that you are a senior/principal engineer and/or a manager, but none of that will hold any legal water in a lawsuit since your contract doesn't say so.

If you ask me, Japan and the US, some of the largest economies of the world are constant labor right abusers and the UN and other nations simply turn their head when this ever gets brought up.
Yeah I'd also class 足 as a pictograph.

It is a category error to put something like 足 (foot) or 母 (mother) as a 指事字 (what the article calls an indicator). 指事字 are abstract things, like "up" (上), rather than concrete nouns.
The team who developed it chose that so their product couldn’t be killed. Could you imagine the headlines?

True story.
But OP didn't use either of those terms, they used "775% chance per year", which you can interpret colloquially as a speaker of English.

It's been clear throughout this thread what was meant.
This is a really interesting read for me as a non-Japanese (non-Chinese, non-Korean). I learned that the idea of pictograms is largely misunderstood after reading "The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy" by John DeFrancis. It is quite a fun read to start, although it drags at the end due to my lack of knowledge.
It’s very rare that something is unleashed that wasn’t previously extant and leashed.
"Race" already had a meaning before these "modern scholars" tried to redefine it. If you want to describe ethereal or nonexistent things with some word, go ahead and create your own word.
Last time I tried a Zachtronics game I thought it was awesome and that it was far too much like my actual job so I refunded it. Would have played so much of it if I was still in school.
Especially one that can scar your lungs.
(am Googler but obviously not speaking in an official capacity)

My understanding from articles I've read is that it wasn't her job to maintain the product. It was her first time interacting with that code base, and she intentionally altered the defaults of the code review tool so that the team responsible for the extension wouldn't be informed of her changes.
> "At the time there was an internal "company within a company" called Bogus software. It was really just a server where bunch of guys having fun hacking Windows to learn about the API tossed their games. A program manager on the Windows team saw it and decided to include it in Windows 3.0. It was made clear that they wouldn't pay me other than supplying me with an IBM XT to fix some bugs during the school year - I was perfectly fine with it and I am to this day."

That's something very few places understand. The like button was also created at a company hackathon. If you create a space where all there is to do is create and fill it with highly compensated smart folks, you'll get output like that.
A New Campaign Seeks to Preserve JRR Tolkien’s Oxford Home
Yeah the click zone on the object where you find the bank account is so small I thought it wasn't clickable. In the end I looked at the JS and then it became clear where it was and that it was actually clickable.

PS: Marwin sounds like a dick. He's whinging about her holidays and doesn't even know about her newborn, clearly didn't give her maternity leave either. I don't think I'd actually help him :D
What professional purposes are you imagining?
District heating already deploys rather large thermal storage in surprisingly compact volumes. The picture here is 2GWh:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#Heat_accumula...

When powered by heat pumps, I imagine this could be used for cooling in the summer as well.
Gave the interns a summer project.
Yes, Wimshurst machine is exactly what I was talking about!

Thank You very, very much!

I found a few more modern looking ones on Amazon already and now that I know what it is called, it is only a matter of time to find the one we used back then!
HN Headline may be misleading. The article's headline is: "Many Trial Volunteers Got Placebo Vaccines. Do They Now Deserve the Real Ones?"
An American tech union, full of Americans who have never been in a union, would probably not be like other American unions for just that reason!
It's there actually, inside part of the desk, which you don't need any knowledge to open. Just assume the person is stupid :P
Spotify search is terrible. It routinely misses exact text matches.
*possible, and in low % of people, and none have been shown to be more than a few days.
I’ve seen earlier versions that were beyond impressive - this was an instant buy at only $200, just get one - you won’t be disappointed!
It really does appear to be a constant.

One of the things the cosmologists are always doing is looking for anomalies that might indicate that some "constant" really has changed over time or distance.
The good people at CitizenLab are absolute hero’s exposing the digital terrorists that sell their warez to despots.
Meet the man from Dom Pérignon putting the spark into sake
There are a lot of tools in a union's negotiation toolkit. A full-union work stoppage is the most extreme, rarely deployed. Other measures include rolling work stoppages, delaying response to manager emails, not attending meetings with management, not answering non-customer-impacting on-call pages during certain hours (I'm sure support would be widespread for this one in particular lol) - you can come up with more ideas on your own. My brother, an EMT, is part of a union that does "plainclothes" strikes where they just wear street clothes instead of their uniform, for a softer example from another field.
Can you contextualize who you are, so that I can better understand “us”? You mention seriousness as an absolute virtue, but if it fires people for a harmless, easily correctable mistake in an internal tool, it is just misguided and an excuse especially if it “happens” to serve some ulterior motive.
More and more we'll see a few companies like these make the decision to reward value added instead of playing CoL games to try to squeeze the bottom line.

In a business where you can cash in several times the cost of an employee in profits and where some hires are literally 10x as compared to the average engineer, it makes absolutely no sense not to try to get the best.

With remote, that just means they can get the best and brightest from anywhere in the world to apply there first.
I only lived in Tokyo for a few months, but I felt like there was a lingering loneliness paradoxically exacerbated by the high population density. Growing up around Southern hospitality set a high bar, but even compared to less friendly parts of the States, it was hard to strike up random conversations that were deeper than anything superficial. It's a hard culture to break into if you're obviously a foreigner because of the high language barrier, and you start seeing the same faces in the expat circles after a while. Still a great city where I made a lot of deep connections, and I wouldn't pass up an opportunity to park myself there for a few years.
And if what he tries is working for the dictator and not the population?

And China's social credit system looks like "indirect through other human beings", at least in part.
As a Radiohead fan I could live with the occassional misplaying of Ok Computer.