skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 14 members are Australia, Canada, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Portugal, and the island nations of Fiji, Jamaica, and Palau.

So at least Japan is on board.
"Most Japanese citizens live in very walkable cities where public transportation is convenient, safe, and affordable, and not many households own cars."

I want to believe that quote is true.

I know very very little about Japan and the people who live there. Internet says about 70% of people there own a car.

Doesn't that mean people who live in Manhattan (or other walk-able cities in the US) should have similar fitness levels? I also know little about fitness levels of people who live anywhere, but does it follow that if it's the walkable city making the difference, then people in Paris, NYC, London... any walkable city would have the same fitness level?
I created https://orangesite.sneak.cloud to track such things, as some things that make the front page that are off topic to HN are nonetheless interesting to me/good links.

A lot of what gets modded is total crap, though, and is low-quality in addition to simply being off topic.

Source here: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite
Tech hiring is broken, more than likely they were right under your nose the whole time.
Agreed, however after months of being "Linux only" (Manjaro KDE + Proton), just this weekend I broke and installed a Windows as a dual-boot option.

90% of games with Proton "just work" like you said. It is amazing.

But then there's that one game that doesn't work, or works but with half the fps... for me, it was Death Stranding. It runs at 60+ fps at 1440p on Windows, but runs at half that on Proton, with horrible artifacts/frametime on Linux + Proton (even the community mod "GloriousEggroll" Proton version).

If CyberPunk is any good, I'm going to buy it and want the best experience... for now, that probably means Windows, unless by some miracle it works on Proton with no issues.
Ask HN: Extracting Spotify’s Podcasts Subtitles?
I need help with a simple Spotify project. Both the MacOS and iOS version of the Spotify app supports English subtitles for podcasts. I’m trying to find a way to download the subtitles for offline usage. I tried downloading the episode for offline play but the subtitles never download and require internet connection to show up.
An example of a podcast with English subtitles is Joe Rogan Experience. If I can find out a way to extract the subtitles with their timestamps that would be perfect.
Quick background for people thinking to themselves "Toledo? What?" Toledo OH used to be a fairly wealthy industrial city (second tier to cities like Detroit, Cleveland, etc.) with a fairly wealthy business class. As a result, the city zoo and art museum is better than expected for a city of its size and current economic status.
It is funnier to me because the quotes are actual historical quotes (to be fair, there probably was no "Laozi" historically), whereas you see fake quotes for Laozi/Confucius/Buddha all over the internet.
Top AI Milestones achieved in the Year 2020
I think the point is that success comes from the accumulation of many factors; the best you can pull from them is a thread of attitude. "Success" is thus really an emergent phenomenon coming from a bunch of independent decisions, sometimes with feedback between them.

This is why efforts to "duplicate Silicon Valley" fail. Also why Europe was unable to move the locus of financial transactions from London even after the Euro. In both cases, there are plenty of things to point to but nobody really knows.
That somebody is probable only partially right about a partial business unit within Apple. People tend to buy it for the package deal, not for individual specs. At volume, those are the much more valuable customers than the 'buy a single computer' crowd that often talk about their modifications they want to make.
> We're

He did a demo where he virtualized an OS. That doesn't mean you can't boot another OS.
What is the connection you are making between suicide and being fit from walking more? I think it has more to do with the long work hours crowding out leisure time, aging population, fewer job opportunities due to stagnant economy, and massive inflation in real estate turning people into debt slaves.
FB gets criticized a lot in HN but Twitter isn't. IMO Twitter is absolutely the worst platform for things like these because of the prevalent mob culture. It is very easy to organise people using your influence and they can easily hound out any dissenting opinion.

I will have to search for them now but I saw people doxxing some of the current Googler's identities if they agreed with the resignation. This is extremely toxic.

Even the old media seems to love Twitter and it escapes FB level of scrutiny.
My uninformed interpretation is that Google wanted her gone and jumped at the first opportunity they got. If they wanted her around I don't think the reasons they've given for letting her go would have been dealbreakers.
I guess thats how research stays WEIRD.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/05/weird
I'm still using Bootstrap and Jquery for my side projects.

It helps lower the amount of technology I use in my stack.

From my experience maintaining frontend technology is not as simple as backend.

I've come to the conclusion that data is the most important thing, so my concentration is mostly on getting the database right then build out with a backend rendering framework. So the presentation is not as important in the initial phases and bootstrap is good enough.
For the curious.

> The 35 states where SpaceX won FCC funding are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
i dislike these kind of articles for it's click baitey'ness. worse..someone might take it seriously.
"My last date is <X>, BECAUSE I'M RETIRING."

If you immediately fire someone for that, that may be illegal age discrimination.

Cheers.
China cares about recycling and sustainability of their own resources.

There's very little evidence they care that their fishing fleets are destroying fish stocks halfway across the world.
I was seriously considering adding Linux support for my game, that already has turn-based multiplayer, and this thread was the last thing I needed to convince myself it could work.

Performance may be an issue. I wonder if people would be ok with electron games sold on steam running on linux...
I consider any code that's written to be "speculative" until its design has been vetted by another engineer. By speculative, I mean that there's no expectation that the code will be approved and merged in its present form. An architecture document is simply a good way to get that buy-in. If I write down what I plan on doing in a document, and then solicit feedback on it from a coworker, there's a very good chance that the same coworker will approve the resulting code without anything but bug and style fixes. If you're exploring the problem space, yeah of course go ahead and hack away at some code. If the experiments go exceedingly well and you end up with production quality code, go ahead and throw it in a PR for review. You have to be receptive to "bike shedding" feedback, though, since the PR is the first opportunity you gave for folk to give that type of feedback.

It's also perfectly reasonable to write and distribute a document that effectively says, "I have no idea what the requirements are, but I have an arbitrary idea for how we should proceed anyway." More often than not, your coworkers will help flesh out the requirements, or agree with your arbitrary design decisions. Either way, it's a lot easier to have that type of discussion on a free-form wiki page rather than in a github PR that you already spent 4 hours getting to compile and pass test suites.

Re: soliciting feedback, even verbose architecture documents tend to be relatively easy for your coworkers to digest. It is communication written for human consumption rather than machine consumption, after all. For one thing, you can have a lot of fun with them. One of my recent arch documents had at least a dozen MC Hammer puns in it. I had no trouble getting anyone to read through that. Also, if you give your coworkers the opportunity and they don't follow up on it, it does give you the high road in any eventual PR contention. "I mentioned this a week ago and asked you for feedback on it, why are you making a fuss about it now?" Not that you should be setting up your coworkers like that. You should make a good faith effort to solicit feedback, and keep politely pestering folk until they get to it. Until you get buy-in, any code written is still speculative, even if you tried your best and your coworkers let you down.

It helps to lead by example. If you prioritize giving feedback to coworkers over your own implementation work (reading their documents, doing their code reviews in a timely way, etc.), then your coworkers will tend to notice and reciprocate.
There is also some overhyping of Japan's extended lifespans. A statistically significant number of japan's very old have been linked to various forms of fraud, enough to impact average lifespan calculations. After several horrific cases (deaths not being reported) a nationwide effort was made to locate the very old (>110). Many have not been located. Many of those small japanese villages with phenomenally old populations were a myth. People were staying on the books long after death.

"More than 230,000 elderly people in Japan who are listed as being aged 100 or over are unaccounted for, officials said following a nationwide inquiry."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071
You don't think that any of the points rang true? Not even

>He got to experience what most of us wish was the real world, as the real world.
I'm pretty sure you're also describing Singapore.
That's nice to hear. At some point I will likely upgrade. My cooktop and oven are on different circuits and my cooktop is currently on a 10 Amp circuit. Every induction cooktop I've seen so far demands either a 15 or 20 Amp circuit, so the upgrade isn't going to be as simple as I'd wish.
> agree that person putting work into it should be able to decide their own code.

I take the opposite of this approach. If my reviewer felt it was worth their time to put in the work to provide feedback, then I accept their opinion. 99.99% pr feedback is not worth escalating to a ping-pong or face to face meeting.
It's all about quantity and calorie density. You'd have to eat 27 potatoes a day to get to 3k calories, which is on the low end for obese people. Unless they're eating every potatoe baked with heaps of cheese, sour cream and bacon bits then it's not that bad for your weight, at least
It depends on who you ask:

1) If you ask me, this is a story about an influential technology company, one whose approach to business has an outsized influence on the entire industry, has unethically fired an employee while making mis-statements to cover it up.

2) Others will say: this is about a ethicist being unfairly treated with different standards because of her gender and race, a microcosm of what it is like to be a minority race and/or female in the tech industry.

3) Still others will say: This is about an employee who disrupted the workplace. She rudely interacted with her colleagues and prominent names outside of the industry (Y. Lecun). She prevented collaboration by making spurious claims of sexism and racism.

4) Another line of thought that is a variant of #1: This is about an employee who did not follow company rules and processes. She was fired as a result. The statements privately and publicly about "resignation" were an attempt to not publicly disparage her

Did I miss any others? With a nod to the Rashomon Principle, your interpretation of these events depends on your perspective.
If those are just criminals I take my words back. I assumed it was something like what Australia does.
I'll be the first to admit that I actually prefer tacos and burritos made from "Grillers Prime Crumble" but I think that has more to do with not having to deal with the extra grease in my already sufficiently moist "texmex". So, I am empathetic to the "why not just use soy and flour argument" (as far as taco filling goes) but don't image I will ever be pleased to eat petri-meat. The thing I can't get passed is (for me anyways) "lab grown" meat is just gross, no matter how it is reconstituted.

I'll never mentally separate "lab-grown beef" from "soylent green" or whatever the human goo was called in Cloud Atlas. I would gladly eat the garbage parts that end up in a "Ball Park Frank" than any petri-dish cow. Even if they call it wagyu and massage it in sake, I'm not going to eat it and I can't imagine how anyone else would.

Part is parts (as they say) and if surplus parts end up making my hot dogs tasty then I'm glad to do my share to make sure as much of the "real" cow is used as possible.
It’s paradoxical that so many devs bemoan apples closed system, which allows you to build literally anything you want from Unix command lines up to the best pc and mobile Uis in the world, but love developing in a UX trash heap walled in by HTML.
It is also over 10 years... so maybe a set of free equipment and $8 off a month?

Note: a traditional cable company got more than $1B is subsidies, so maybe the distributed model is actually cheaper. Depends on replacement costs and lifecycle (in both cases).
If you can chat with them, you should be able to initiate a call from the chat window (handset symbol top right). Screen sharing is to the left of it.

At least that's what I can do, and I'm in multiple orgs.
The fact that gofmt removes whitespace between arithmetic operators drives me insane. Fortunately, rustfmt and black don't do that, and I've been largely able to avoid writing Go for the last year now.
I recommend the book Deep Nutrition on this topic.
Have you checked Extend (paywithextend.com)? They partner with banks - like Amex, City National Bank, Comdata, Silicon Valley Bank, and several others - to let you create and distribute Virtual credit cards directly from your existing credit card.
That's taking slow software and complaining that it's slow due to hardware rather than making the software itself faster, either by rewriting it or optimizing it another way.
never using docker again...
Well, Japan is one of them.

> The group of 14 looks nothing like the usual assemblage of international leaders recruited for global initiatives. France, with its vast array of overseas territories that gives it one of the planet’s largest ocean footprints, was not invited. Nor were the powerhouse players of Russia, China, or the United States.

> “Negotiation with that category of country isn’t all that easy,” says Vidar Helgesen, Norway’s former Minister of Climate and Environment and the driving force behind the project. “We decided to get a group where high politics wouldn’t get in the way and we could be focused on the task.”

> The idea, Helgesen says, was to gather a coalition of the willing—a like-minded group of countries with the ocean deeply embedded in their culture and history—to conduct discussions that would be underpinned by science.

I think this looks like a good move. IMHO, a big problem with environmental challenges is this idea that a solution has to be some all-or-nothing affair, and because of the perceived insurmountability, nothing gets done politically. Getting a group of nations to do something because they _need_ to seems like a good fire under people's asses to get the ball moving.
No, but maybe they have a pre-existing condition and could be in danger if they walk too much or walk uphill--and may not possibly realize it?

A friend of mine, who is obese and takes a lot of medication, and also who has recovered from COVID, started getting really lightheaded when we walked uphill about a block to our parked car.
This comment made my day.
Maybe the article was flagged after the author deleted it from Substack? Flagging an article just removes it from the front page, and since the link is broken (as commenters complained in the thread) then flagging it makes sense.

Edit: this comment seems to corroborate that theory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25336393
This legislation won't drive innovation. It'll just move the burning of fossil fuels out to the electric power plant instead of at the consumer level.

Burning natural gas to produce electricity to power electric heaters at home is actually worse from a CO2 perspective than burning natural gas directly for home heating.
He wasn't a mathematician by trade, and the ageist term "elderly" bothers me. He was 62. That's 4 years older than I am.
> But in September, we opened bars and restaurants and gyms, inviting pandemic spread even as we knew the seasonality of the disease would make everything much riskier in the fall.

Were people talking about seasonality? I mean, sure, I bet you could find people who mentioned it, but it seemed like popular opinion was on the effectiveness of masks, lockdown, etc.

And when asked for evidence they point to the drop...which oddly enough coincided with the season change.

It's like seasonality is always brought up as a reason to fear the virus (Biden with the "dark winter"), but then casually dismissed when the virus recedes (you never hear "bright summer" - you saw that idiot lawyer with the reaper costume on the beach).

Cuomo was doing a victory lap, selling his bizarre posters claiming NYC figured out how to beat it and get over the hill.

Anyone paying attention can see the curves are seasonal and if any of these interventions worked we wouldn't be facing another rise.
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0030.html :)
I will jump on a call with you and discuss your website idea
I didn't say anything about "immediately firing" anybody, cheers.
This is a clickbait title. It has as much information as (the more obvious) “Japanese People Say Fit for Life With This One Neat Trick”.

The HN title should be edited to mention the author’s conclusion that Japanese people stay fit by walking.
Walking is Amazing but clearly not the main factor here.
Wind is often available at night. Currently, there is not enough renewable capacity to handle everything, but that is changing. As storage gets cheaper and more common (in electric cars for example), it will get more practical.
IKEA to stop printing catalogue after 'successful career' that spanned 70 years
What text editor did you use before? I think the biggest advantage is an IDE, not the language itself.
This was after the portal page and agreeing to the terms of service, etc.
A lot of places building codes "require them" at a high level, and then more local building codes strike provisions like this, or provide "alternate paths" to legality. It's disgusting.

Like around here, the building code in one city requires a certain blower door score to pass. But doesn't require blower door testing if you say you followed certain "sufficient" practices. There's no way most of these houses would achieve a sufficient blower door test score, but they all "comply with code".
Think the scene at the end of Terminator 3.

Also, doesn’t hurt to plan for the unexpected right

Also what if just the Bay Area got wiped out?
Before I “switched sides” to anti-cheat, I used to write and sell cheat software for CS:GO. I had a registered company and purchased an EV code signing certificate just as your post suggests, even getting my cheat drivers signed by Microsoft. I am very familiar with the process given than I’ve seen both sides now.

While other anti-cheats maintain white lists or blacklists of vulnerable drivers, I’ve chosen a different route that doesn’t have the same pitfalls you suggest. Our anti-cheat also doesn’t run 24/7, only when the game is running.
Never forget even if your gym free life style is keeping you fit, you would be so much more fit if you actually went to the gym.
Yes, entire project is open source - check https://github.com/hrvach/espple/tree/master/user
And walking helps digestion too.
undergraduates aren't employees and have total freedom to do what they want with their intellectual output. However, they can just decide not to give you any money if you make trouble.
It's really unfortunate. Cloud allows rapid iteration, but doing a bit of self-hosting/colocation is such an insane cost savings that I think a lot of folks are really missing out on. I know at least 1 startup I worked at that would've had a more comfortable runway had they not went wholesale into AWS instead of playing it smart with hybrid. Paying a small team of folks even an astronomical salary to keep a small number of servers up 24/7 and use cloud where it makes sense (S3, elastic CI/CD with EC2) should still be saving some companies 6+ figures a month.
Australia is comfortable doing their per capita bit plus extra destroying arguably one of the most valuable biological assets in the world (the Great Barrier Reef), so it’s kind of sad to see the hypocrisy.
Looks like the 5900HX is looking like it could, although we don't have all the details yet. Note that Zen 3 is still on 7 nm while M1 is 5 nm, so there's an inherent performance disadvantage.
Nod, nod, nod. Thanks for clarifying :)
Rents are still among the highest in the country. There is plenty of demand.
> I had this issue and ended up replacing my set of cheap and cheerfull, thin-ish and slightly warped pans with heavy, thick stainless steel ones that hopefully don't have a tendency to warp. So far so good.

Gah, same, but now my triple clad stainless steel -> copper -> stainless steel pot takes forever to heat up because of how thick it is.

I bought an electric kettle for tea but that doesn't help keep noodles from taking 16 minutes to make, the first 10 of which is boiling the water.

Now I am using gas, so my next purchase is going to be another cheap thin pot that heats up before the rest of dinner is done.
You may have missed that he mentioned the whole EU :)
A million tons doesn't even sound like that much?

1 million metric tons = 1 million cubic meters. That's only a 100m cube of water..
There's some of that, but you gotta wonder why the Outer Sunset isn't coated in luxury condos?

I think it's just that SF is very young, as cities go, and it's been the oddball city, you didn't move here in the past for a good job, you came here because you were weird, or queer, and wanted a place to fit in and be welcomed.

All these normal folks with great jobs moving here is very new, 20-25 years at most.
Michael Church definitely has an axe to grind, and it’s certainly fair to complain about that. I personally think that he’d sway more people to his side of thinking with a less acerbic style, but that’s just me.

The issue is that a polemic against PG gets downvoted and removed, but Taleb’s polemic against Nate Silver doesn’t. It certainly makes it look like the subject of a polemic is more important than the tone or content of the article being posted for very specific people.
Maybe because “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” ?

I find the safest way of learning math a reasonable coupling of history of maths and maths, since you'll have to learn Euclidian geometry before going further anyway.

ps. I don't have strong opinions and I'm clearly biased as this is the path I chose myself, but your comment made me eager to speed up my pace.
I live in 02142 and I'm under the impression that this is already what they do....
That’s about whether pay is owed. I’m certain that Google did not simply stop paying her checks, but told her to go home and that the remainder of her employment would be paid out. I suspect that’s enough for the law to agree that she was terminated voluntarily.