skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to SF which has hot humid winters and freezing cold summers /s

Not sure SF's climate can be considered universally better. I think I would get sick of it never actually getting warm.
In a CBC article, they added the following comparable.

"Four years ago, when Michael Jackson's estate sold the remaining half-share that it owned in the artist's catalogue, it fetched $750 million US."

Important to note that Michael Jackson's catalogue includes Beatles, Taylor Swift, Elvis, Sly and the Family Stone etc.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/bob-dylan-universal-mu...
Unfortunately, for many of the online games that have logins, Steam forces you to create a new login, since they track commissions based on the accounts created inside Steam.

For Linux users, this if you want to use Steam, you have to start from scratch. I'd rather stick with Wine/Lutris, even if it is buggier.
Not that I know of. I'm glad it's useful to you.
Reminds me of the old joke:
VirusScanner: We found a virus on your machine called Windows. You you like to remove it?
Agreed. Watching Philip pump out release after release, and getting to test and see the daily progress was a game in itself. Whatever Valve paid (pay?) him wasn't enough.
In before someone comments: "But chances are you are not the person who needs something as complicated as TS therefore it's useless." and "If your code is more than a thousand lines then you're doing it wrong, all code should be <1000 lines that you throw out immediately and replace with new code".
Presumably it’s 40% at any resolution. Specifically I would think any two coastlines would increase proportionately for a fixed increase in resolution.
Do not move to Texas please if you plan to vote the same way that has made California as unbearable as it is today.
Adults in Japan walking an hour a day on average seems too high, seems like an exaggeration honestly.

If not - is their public transportation that bad? Or do they just skip public transportation for short trips?
I would think that Cyberpunk 2077 would have good Proton compatibility on day one. It runs on Stadia, which uses Vulkan.
This is true both ways though. If you're getting paid 140k, but your rent is 5k a month, you're only capturing 80k of wages, and the landlords are capturing 60k in rent.

If you're working remotely for 100k, and paying 1.7k a month in rent, you're capturing ~80k as well. That means more capital is going to the employers(who saves 40k) at the expense of the landlords (who lose out on that 40k).

I honestly think I'd rather have the capital go to the employers because a) it improves my value in relation to them (I now can argue that I should get paid more, because I bring in 40k a year more value than I did in SV) AND I have a financial interest in the company doing well (with options/RSUs/bonuses/etc).

The money going to the landlords starts to become very literally "rent seeking" where they will capture the capital without providing any productivity gains in return. You could argue that their value in "provide a location for people to live so they can collaborate more effectively" is decreasing with remote work, and they will have to charge less because the value they provide is decreasing.
I live in the Mission hills of SF Bay and pay $600 / mo for internet via mobile hotspot (LTE). HughesNet is terrible. Nothing else is available. I can't wait for Starlink beta!
>It's sad to me that any discussion of inequality has started to be so much more focused on bringing everyone at the top down rather than empowering those at the bottom and helping to bring them up.

Is there any way of empowering those at the bottom that won't take considerable energy, effort, or cost? Where should the resources come from to empower them, if not from the top?
I think there are two issues here. First, housing is somewhat inelastic in that it takes multiple years to respond to a rise in demand and plan out and build new housing even with a reasonably fast permitting / approval process. Second, due to labor and materials costs, the price of housing in many areas is far below the cost to build new housing so housing prices will necessarily go up even with maximum build rates. This can create affordability difficulties for the lower rungs of income.
Geeks: Give the Gift of Computer Security
Grandma is never going to install a password manager. That's your job, geek. Besides, it's a great, unique, valuable Christmas present!
+1 to The Fire Next Time

God gave Noah the rainbow sign -- no more water, The Fire Next Time

I found the book to be much more intellectual and insightful compared to modern pop-race-psychology or whatever the latest wave of books should be called.
I asked my friend what features he wants and he said seeing your history and favorites.
Funny you added those today.
If this year's summer becomes the norm I think it may be a bit too hot for places like Sacramento. And all the places I lived in SV so far have had A/C so that hasn't been an issue. But what's great about being near the bay is that at night, most summer nights, it still cools down way below 20C so it's easy to simply keep doors/windows open after sunset and close them in the morning to have cool air inside the house, without an A/C, almost every day. There are exceptions of course like we had this summer where there were 2-3 days long heatwaves with no drop below 25C at night, A/C helped with that.
Or just a rack mounted Mx Mac Pro.
It couldn't guess a refrigerator either. Apparently most people think they have four corners, which is a bit bizarre. It's pretty obvious they have eight.
Exactly the case. Plus, I'd trust someone like Jeff Dean who is accomplished and does not have a history of crying racism and "microagressions" at the slightest beurocratic issue. There are already a couple of posts on reddit from ex-colleagues who explained what it was like working with people like her. People are tired of "woke"ness.
Yea....except for how many decades have we struggled to build Bart into Menlo Park and south?
sub note: before anyone accuses this of being a growing conspiracy, I want to be transparent that I just flagged this thread and explain why. The reason why is that it seems thoroughly answered, and so I just want us to avoid belabored dramatic discussion
In case you read the entire article before looking at the author, this is by mchurch so you should take everything it says with a huge crazy egotistical grain of salt. Personal vendettas and hyperbole abound.

I don't think it's true that all non-execute corporate jobs are meaningless, and I've worked at at least one company that mchurch has. Some jobs at some (many?) companies are actually slowly and methodically creating value for humanity at large, and many bosses I've had are not soulless whip-bearers but in fact also determined to make their lives mean something through their work.

That being said I think it does levy some specific good criticisms against PG and silicon valley. It's definitely true that PG has a conflict of interest in his postings, and that the narratives about society that he pushes also happen to be ones that he benefits financially from. It's very fair to compare his views to Ayn Rand's. And it's certainly true that tech and science reporting aren't held to nearly the same ethical standards that other types of reporting are.

Some good points and food for thought, but don't lose too much sleep over another mchurch rant.
I will try to shorten my first reply.

> Why should I care and why is Google's dirty laundry here in the open?

Because Google is big and powerful and how Google treats its workers matters to everyone in the software industry.
Shouldn't there be an unflag or vouch option though? (I seem to remember ther was at some point, but I'm not sure.)
Oh yeah I don’t meant to put finality behind my statement, it’s just one piece of the puzzle that I have put together during my brief time here. I’ve had fun conversations with people that have lived around here for many decades, including my own grandparents who have lived here for even longer. It’s a city that has changed a lot, and meant many different things to many different people.

You hear fun stories from all kinds of characters hanging around dive bars here :) I had some good years hanging out at Lucky 13 and making tons of friends, but alas they are going out of business (for reals) now too :/
They could use HBM as L4 cache. Though it still wouldn't be cheap.
Yeah, a “total loss” to me is a fire where the car is worth $100 to a scrapper. To insurance, if every fender and bumper gets dented, it’s a total loss, but I’m happy to continue driving it, and it still has $2k+ in parts.

A family member made money on a not-at-fault accident where they would pay $2700 to a repair place, but they took a cheque for $1900 and got it fixed for $950 (parts and labour).
A number of people over here just use “flag” (against the rules or robust discussion) for “flog” (anything irking or against the tide). Flagging should only be allowed to super-users, say karma 5000+, that is people with loooong experience over here and the utmost reputation, which actually make them moderators in pectore.
“Radioactive water” in this context means “normal water with trace amounts of tritium, which emits radiation that is less harmful than sunlight”.
There is a vouch option already.
Discord and spotify are both electron on Linux, so I would imagine it would work.
Does Truth Exist
That's a really cool backstory about the coffee machines. Props for keeping the old Flash-based machines updated and sustainable and out of the e-waste pile.
Note: This is biofluorescence (absorption and reemission of light from living organisms), and not bioluminescence (biochemical emission of light by living organisms such as fireflies).
This issue is absolutely infuriating. I have to run certain calls through an external VoIP system in order to record them, because intentionally or not Google has gotten call recording in Android into an utterly broken state. Most of the time proper call recording is not possible. Some of the time it might be, if you have rooted the device, for some devices. It is next to impossible to figure out what the case is for a given device unless you buy one, root it, and try. I have resorted to using an old-fashioned stick-on microphone made for a desk phone and an external voice recorder in some cases, but this obviously isn't a very portable solution and given the obvious potential of smartphones it's ridiculous that external hardware is required for such a basic feature.

A feature that Google themselves once made a big point of offering with Google Voice, but one wonders if that's just because it was a feature of Grand Central they didn't feel they could cut without losing too many users---not that Google Voice has ever felt like a very active product on Google's end, with the decade plus UI stagnation and Google Hangouts integration.

There is some technical complexity involved here because, at least on older phones, during phone calls the baseband seizes direct control of some audio hardware, so the speaker audio may not "pass through" the operating system at all. But it used to be that call-recording was straightforwardly possible on older devices as a baseband feature and for the large part it seems to have been intentionally removed after the first generation or two of Android devices.
The author has tweeted why he took out the Substack article: https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/133604413712937369....

Took down that Substack not out of cowardice but b/c:

(1) Though I've endured 100s of death threats and experienced zero actual deaths— I'm hardly fazed anymore— they affect people close to me._

(2) I discovered SS is YC. On moral principle, I will no longer be using Substack.
It's amusing that every positive thing about Japan or Korea will have someone going "AcKtuALLY, Japanese/Korean kill themselves more, blah blah blah..." as if to invalidate them, whether or not it has anything to do with the subject. To that point, I'd rather take my life by my own free will than succumb to avoidable diseases/health complications as a result of the failure of my society and its institutions.
The author of that blog was banned from HN years ago, and he very much deserved it. If he can't comment on posts here, I don't see why he should be able to dodge that ban by submitting self-authored content.
I was thinking more about international travelers who deem the world to be their inexpensive playground only to come home sick with things that "should" be easily fixable but often no longer are:

Increasingly we are also seeing antibiotic-resistant bacteria from overseas reaching Australia through returning travellers.

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Global-travel-and-antibi...

Antibiotic resistance is also intricately linked to travel health and has many implications for travellers. Overuse of antibiotic medications for ailments such as traveller’s diarrhea has contributed to the spread of antibiotic resistance. In Southeast Asia, for example, ciprofloxacin and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics are no longer effective in treating traveller’s diarrhea since they are resistant to Campylobacter, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Shigella bacteria.

In Pakistan, extensively drug-resistant Typhoid Fever is growing since antibiotics such as ampicillin and ciprofloxacin no longer work. Cases have been reported in returning travellers from North America, the UK, Denmark and Australia. Travellers can be at the forefront of antimicrobial resistance – we are sentinels that can provide clues or alert researchers to developments on the ground.

https://www.iamat.org/blog/fighting-back-against-antibiotic-...
Wikipedia explains it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing
I read this top to bottom at first and was amazed that it could guess something so abstract as the notion of a concept.
Those libraries are providing a lot more than just simple validation though. Bunch of advanced validation rules, masking, etc. I'm sure if you dive into any of those modules you'd be able to see why. Not saying there isn't dependency bloat but it's not like people are creating these for the sake of it.
>Shoes are obstensibly removed to prevent the destruction of planes, not their hijacking.

Perhaps that's the stated reason, but I think you and I both know it's security theatre, just like the "no phones in flight" rule.
Riddle me this, would SpaceX not have built out Starlink if they didn't get this subsidy?

Since they already put Starlink satellites in orbit without any guarantees of subsidies, was this good use of government funds?
A bunch of people who bought Oculus Quest 2's are being locked out of their hardware because it requires a Facebook account and they'll automatically close new accounts with low activity (playing Quest doesn't count apparently) - so it seems that if you create a Facebook account purely to use the Quest 2, you'll be locked out if you don't share enough pictures/make enough friends.

I will NEVER use a currency that requires a connection to my facebook account.
Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews
I mean CDPR staff did get death threats, let's not forget that in this story.
Because people are writing applications, not forms. As software engineering has gotten easier, customers have demanded more complicated applications.

Modest SPAs do have a lot of code. So does a C++ Win32 application that calls into some central datastore. The complexity is not a byproduct of languages or libraries, but rather the customer's complicated needs.
That'll be a nice Hanukkah/early Christmas gift, depending on when it lands :)

Will there ever be a way to show on gitter that a gitter account and a matrix account are the same person? I'm pretty active on gitter right now, and I'd like to choose a homeserver to have an account on so that my messages from the gitter client (logged in with gh) and the messages from a matrix client are from the same user. Would github login allow that?

Edit: also, what's the plan for private/invite-only gitter rooms?
Disagree! This is a smart way to go about this. As they say in the article, “Negotiation with that category of country isn’t all that easy,” whereas they can form effective policies in their absence and then gain momentum to pressure others to join.
HN isn't exactly the most positive of places sometimes, in the comments, and I've been downvoted for comments that don't make sense to be downvoted unless you had something against me as a poster (like my recent 0 voted post about a System76 laptop). I don't care about downvotes, I don't care about my vote numbers at all (other than being able to report posts and not be "green"), but it's weird that the HN community thinks it's above such petty "censorship", or whatever you want to call it, when they constantly downvote topics that aren't in keeping with the general conservative and commercial/capitalistic slant that goes on here.

I wish the political or murky topics could be separated from the clearly technical ones, I would ignore the former as much as possible.

I have no idea if this article was good or bad, mind you, but there is a point to "HN is toxic": HN'ers preach "free speech" then downvote/flag anything they don't like, so the community is "talking out of both sides of it's mouth", which is pretty toxic.
They're high in starch, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Potatoes are a satiating food, and its starches can improve microbiota. However they're often consumed with excess fat which, on top of adding more calories quickly, can yield a higher insulin response. Potatoes themselves aren't low-GI foods either. Leptin resistance is often associated with weight gain. In general high fiber foods avoid those pitfalls.
> $600 / mo for internet via mobile hotspot (LTE).

I'm not familiar with that area but my mind boggles at this amount. What kind of speeds do you get? Are that ISP able to offer a cheaper deal of some sort, eg 12 months? Why is it so much!?

Wishing you well, I hope you get Starlink soon in your area, or any alternatives.
Good.

They seem to be the first defense contractor in a long time, maybe ever, with a specific eye on controlling costs. It may not be this way forever, but for now the taxpayers should get the savings where they can.
I mean, I read it, and assumed the rest of the guide was also tongue in cheek.
Why are you counting from AD 1, which nobody alive at the time called AD 1?

It's natural to align the decades, centuries, an millennia with a decimal radix. You've got the year digit, the decade digit, the century digit, and the millennium digit. Decades are always talked about this way, e.g. "the 80's", and I'd wager that most people think about centuries and millenniums this way. The fact that the year number is defined as the ordinal year since the approximate birth of Christ, beginning with AD 1, doesn't strike me as particularly relevant.

In other words, I'm not "counting from" anything. I'm describing the decimal year number in a manner that's natural for the radix.
I don't care I'm mocking the entire sentiment. Every single thing I've ever heard about how "SF used to be" sounds even more unappealing than what it is today.

"Oh wow all the currently nice neighborhoods were sketchy ghettos? How quaint!"

but at least artists could live there!

As soon as you leave SF you will realize how weak and absurd the various generation's arguments about SF are.
Debugging Nanos Unikernels with GDB and Ops
Ah right... I guess whenever I look at that neural-engine's specs, I'm actually personally more interested in the VLIW DSP they got in there. VLIW-DSPs can calculate a lot of things, more than just neural-net training.

I guess that API is good enough for the deep-learning hype train however.
Yes, if only we had our plastic straws, then all the problems in the area would magically disappear.
> The bottom is still decently high even in Midwest cities

Yes, and I also see the push for remote work also affecting the demand side of the software labor market as well as the supply. There will be even more push for good collaboration/communication work process software. It's still a fast growing market.
That would presumably be because many people now believe that bringing down a few super rich to benefit many non-super rich is a net positive for society. The conversation in the US has definitely shifted slightly now along the scale from trickle-down economics to universal basic income.
I've worked on various broadband-related projects as a grant-writing consultant (https://seliger.com/2009/11/13/adventures-in-the-broadband/), SpaceX will definitely not be the worst of the bunch and will almost certainly be among the top quarter.
Categories of personal information collected
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This was probably set at the operating system level, i.e. you selected "zh_ZH"/Chinese at some point during setup. Upon installing a browser, it reads your OS language preference & then passes that through to websites via the accept-language header.
USB 3.0 flash drive made with Microsoft's own installer tool from their website (from another Windows machine). So just to be clear, it fully completes the installation and boots normally the first time, but fails to boot after I install the first Windows Update. I have successfully run Windows 10 on this particular device in the past, which is weird. I only reinstalled it to use a larger SSD.

Some Googling suggests it might be a USB device issue. I also have a weird issue where out of nowhere my onboard Realtek Ethernet stopped working in Windows (though works fine in Linux), so I've been using a USB 3.0 Ethernet dongle.

Something's rotten with my machine. But I'm not exactly sure what. I'd likely use it more for work related tasks, but it's so frustrating dealing with this crap that just plug my MacBook into my monitor and call it a day.
Seconded. This notion of "stacked diffs" is extremely powerful and I miss review systems that lack it. Currently using it for years now in Phabricator by following https://medium.com/@kurtisnusbaum/stacked-diffs-keeping-phab...
People with means tend to locate in tax havens, not places that have good amenities. Presumably with sufficient resources, you can produce any sort of amenity you'd like.
I cube them, boil them, and eat them with mustard or hot sauce. Even with ketchup isn’t that bad. Or I toss them into a soup or stir fry.

Mash potatoes involve peeling them. That’s a waste of time and nutrients.
Is it possible to swap GPU assignments from the host OS to a guest OS and back, or does it require some motherboard-level/boot-time settings that make that difficult?
I’m not going to comment on the specifics of what we do besides what I’ve already said. I will say that I’m really pushing to change the perception that all anti-cheats are bad and are user-hostile. I’m trying to build a product that shows that anti-cheats can actually respect user privacy and provide a positive player experience. And I’m trying to do it by better engineering.

Vanguard I believe would intentionally bluescreen you if it detected you’ve disabled PatchGuard. They had very good reasoning to do so, but I wouldn’t do something like that since I believe it’s user-hostile. Battleye I believe actually doesn’t use TLS last time I checked, using some sort of home brewed XOR cipher which is a bit scary. And of course remoting into computers is unacceptable under any circumstance.
This is indeed what will likely happen given how many people actually don't love working full time remote. So all these media stories will swing the other way afterwards. Also way easier to cut people when you don't have to see them in the office every day.
mchurch is basically resentful of anyone else successful, and feels the system must be flawed for not recognizing him a genius.

Indeed, while he doesn't consider Paul a Public Intellectual, I'm sure he considers himself one.