skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy -- if the contract has a notice period, they go on “gardening leave”. It’s common for this to be specifically covered in contracts.

If there’s no notice period (legal only in “at will” states, I believe) then it would seem reasonable to fire them immediately.
I always thought poor americans couldn't afford general cooking ingredients and end up eating a lot of fastfood?
If you want in-depth reading on this topic I would suggest The Okinawa Program. Excerpt from the amzn marketing blurb:

> scientifically documented twenty-five-year Okinawa Centenarian Study, a Japanese Ministry of health–sponsored study. This breakthrough book reveals the diet, exercise, and lifestyle practices that make the Okinawans the healthiest and longest-lived population in the world.

I can't offer any infomercial-like anecdotes about how life-changing the book is because it sits on my bookshelf. I need to get that off my bookshelf, re-read it and introduce some new habits.
It's funny to me that PG's staunchest supporters are likely the antithesis of what he espouses as the true hacker -- bootlickers who believe that his wealth and/or knowledge and/or business success make him far superior to others. So superior, in fact, that he is beyond reproach.
This headline is only part of the story, looks like ~10 ISP's were awarded sizable subsidies.

While i am not a fan of subsidies in general, the ISP space is particularly tricky for free-market forces to ensure competition. The capital requirements are overwhelming in many cases for a traditional startups, leaving the only other option as local/municipal votes, which have been successful in some areas.

Long-term, i could see internet access to receive utility status in the states. Until that happens, funding ISP competition, particularly in rural areas feels like a wise move.
I've seen it whole but it seems to have weird consistency - jumping between topics kinda often
It's more common than you'd think. The fact that you still care after all this time and also admit that you can't is actually commendable and very rare. There's nothing worse than an idiot dev who thinks he "has developed a sense". Congratulations on avoiding that fate for 22 years in row ;)
Calling SV compensation “very high” seems short-sighted these days if you don’t already own a house here (and assuming you want to own your own house).

The compensation just won’t seem so great when you’re paying off millions on a mortgage and wondering if the industry will still employ you once you’ve got a few gray hairs.
Because she is was an ethicist in google, an AI company. People are very afraid that google fired her because they don't care about bias and unethical use in AI.

So, for us that care about google's use of AI and ethical use of it, it's important to understand what happened.
I don't think the person in question is calling for government action, here. It seemed to be raising the topic of whether criticism of PG was forbidden on HN, and if so if that would be a problem. Not necessarily saying I think there is a problem, I haven't thought about that long enough to have a firm opinion, but the fact that the question is raised isn't really related to the fact that HN is a private forum, since I don't believe anyone was advocating that HN be prevented by law from removing articles critical of PG.

It's much like how freedom of speech gives one the right to say whatever one wants without government coercion being applied, but that doesn't mean people cannot discuss whether what is said is appropriate or meritorious.
It appears you saw the word libertarian and got caught up in a blue/red debate rather than contemplate what was written.
Can't built a better future with blind optimism either
I've known a few people where walking was physically just too much for them. Generally very morbidly obese and there was no way they could follow the walking advice even if they wanted to.

I'm talking about people that literally had spinal fractures from standing up (pretty sad really).
This is legitimately what we're doing. We're bringing in really junior folks and spending years training/improving them. Unfortunately that doesn't help now. I thought it would be easier this year to hire due to COVID and layoffs, but it just hasn't been.
I've lost a lot of weight through the pandemic which is surprising for me because I've basically stopped rigorous exercise.

I attribute this to lower appetite, regular walks and little to no alcohol. I did not expect to lose this much weight.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
The other bit I'd add is Google will be silent externally for legal reasons, and not to read into that. The internal messaging was likely truthy and omitted things. Timnit Gebru also omitted some important things in her twitter posts.
Isn't 20Q machine learning though? It says it's a neural network that learns from players.
I have no doubt, that's after all how ideology works. Have a small group of users trained to rapidly flag content that goes against a certain perspective allows a minority of opinion to have control over this community while at the same time allowing the moderators to wash their hands of everything.
Yeah... there've been something like 5 top posts on hn in the past week about this incident. It's ridiculous
That's $11.47 per month, per customer. Slightly over 10% of current pricing.

> Funding is distributed over 10 years, so SpaceX's haul will amount to a little over $88.5 million per year.
Yeah, I wasn't familiar with the author before, but I more or less agreed with the contents of the article. I appreciate that Church recognized the unpopular nerd narrative in PG's essays. It always felt flat to me.
I wouldn't say the inconsistency in weather is the issue... It's that the homes are ancient and landlords don't want to update them. Why update when you'll not get significantly more money for it (and then have to pay lots of property taxes)? It's why many of the homes that are bought in my neighborhood are completely torn down by new owners and rebuilt. Every single street in my neighborhood with a recent sale has a tear down + rebuild happening.

I'm sure the renter to owner market in Sacramento is different than the bay area...
> 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.

Sounds like a perfect fit for Google's new Chief Legal Officer. Or maybe SVP Social!
If video is more your thing, Stephen just wrapped up a long, interesting livestream about combinators, and the life of Moses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2G5xSz0NQ
I think there is a term in California - fired “with cause” - but I’m not sure if that has bearing on unemployment eligibility.
Downvote this dumb fanboy comment all you want, but just wanted to state for the record IMO we're gonna need a prize bigger than Nobel for Wolfram.

This post is fantastic. So data rich, so detailed, it really puts you right there.
Quantity. In the US, many actually eat meat with every dinner and much of fast food is way outside of safe quantities with ease. Once you get used to the large amounts it gets really easy to feel underfed at safe quantities.
What is up with potatoes? Within somewhat recent history, humans ate diets composed almost entirely of potatoes...it did not kill people in large numbers.

Obesity in the case of countries like the US is largely due to an excess of calories...maybe other stuff is bad for you but the evidence for that is kind of hard to demonstrate when there is so much obesity. I feel like this is kind of why there are problems with obesity. People lose their mind over stuff like bread and soda, and not overall calories.
Depends on your game. My current obsession of choice, Cities:Skylines, eats RAM first, CPU second and GPU is a distant (distant!) third.

I've never heard any game complain they had too much CPU
I mean, I'm not from or in Denmark but that's how the article is worded, so I would assume it's like that.
Oh absolutely, I was just responding to the idea that Microsoft is completely dominant in education and always will be. Google is offering a service that works, and solves a lot of problems with integrating education and technology.
Easy access to nature means I can go on a scenic five-mile hike between lunch and dinner. It means I can see a beautiful view without planning a day trip. I can meet with groups of friends of all fitness levels and enjoy a pleasant afternoon outdoors where we all have fun.

I can go see thousands of migratory birds a few miles from my apartment. Half Moon Bay is 30-45 minutes away, depending on road conditions. Fairly strenuous hiking and rock-climbing in the Santa Cruz Mountains is also 30-60 minutes away. Santa Cruz itself is not much farther.

I have lived all over the east coast for most of my life, and this degree of access has made an outdoors person of my notoriously sedentary self.
Thats the steamiest HN has ever been! Watch out, that big dude dang might just ban your ass!
One reason we tend to flag down meta drama like this is that, for the most part, people on HN don't have a good mental model of how moderation works here. This is a good example; it can bother you that people flag stories, but everyone over the (low) karma threshold can flag anything --- if you do it abusively, you can quietly lose your flag powers, is my understanding, but that's it. It's not a conspiracy.

I flagged this post, just to be clear: it's drama about drama. There was an excellent post yesterday that was critical of Paul Graham: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25325716
If we were talking about Linus Torvalds, Jim Keller or Raja Koduri someone who is actually an industry driver then sure. These are individuals who have had considerable impact on a piece of technology whose names I can recognize for the tech they built.

I have no idea what or how this individual matters at all or the tech that she is relevant in. Not everyone at FAANG are industry leaders, and there are several cogs just like at IBM. I fail to see why I should care for every individual starling who can't stand out other than the company they work for.

This random individual along with James Damore and that random FB grad are not on the same level.

Your arguments tell me more that FAANG should be broken apart. Public attention and scrutiny would achieve nothing in affecting Google's decision making here.
Hello,

Based on your writing, it seems you have a level head and a good angle on world history

I am hoping that if you have any books that deal in the history east of present day Germany, present day Italy, and or south of Madrid (directly/indirectly) that you really liked or found especially engaging or informative that you might remember and graciously share what they were if it pleases you to do so.

I am at a point where I am starting to appreciate what I am "rooting for" in western Asia/northern Africa which was a step in my study of northern/western barbarian history (frankish, gaulish, Norse etc etc) that made everything more fun and interesting to learn and therefore easier for me to study and accumulate interesting information

Because you seem very reasonable, I am thinking if you liked any of those direct/indirect history books that I might like them too

If you read this comment, thank you for your time and attention. I hope that you and your loved ones are doing okay in these difficult times.
Perhaps he was trying to install Windows 10 using a USB stick.

The various software for that builds the image for either legacy BIOS or UEFI, and they're not interchangeable. Rufus, for example, lets you specify the mode.

Alternatively, if you can't install it in UEFI mode, you can switch to legacy BIOS/CSM mode in your machine's BIOS (or vice versa).

It gets worse - some Win10 ISOs themselves are made for either UEFI (most common) or legacy BIOS, and they can't be set up the other way.

You can clone or run Win10 legacy BIOS/CSM installations on other machines/drives (useful if you plan on swapping/upgrading), while UEFI will only run on the specific motherboard/CPU you installed it on.

I've also noticed Win10 in UEFI mode can BSOD with no chance of recovery when undervolting too much and causing it to freeze/BSOD. Something must be getting corrupted, and it won't run again, ever. Legacy mode works fine.
While true this doesn't really answer the question.
I've packaged up Gnash as a snap, for modern Linux
Do you think the Zoom web client should have fewer than 10k lines? Or be broken up? What about Google Docs?
> As for warped pans, I never had that problem -- all my stuff is thick stainless steel-clad pots and pans.

College, I had thin aluminium because I was broke. Everything was warped.

Thinner non-stick pans also warp really easily.

Thicker pots and pans take longer to heat up, sometimes a lot longer. e.g. My 1.5q pot can take over 10 minutes to boil water. Making hard boiled eggs is annoying, to say the least.

(I'm using gas, and one of my back burners is too weak to even boil water in my thick 3 layer pots...)
Lockdowns, Science and Voodoo Magic
Buying Signals the Customer Is Ready to Buy
My first few play-throughs were a little disappointing; it got them eventually, but not until 30 questions or so (water bottle, headphones), but this one astonished me:

Q19. I am guessing that it is a woodstove?
RIGHT
18. Is it soft? No.
17. Does it come from trees? No.
16. Can you put something into it? Yes.
15. Can it bend without breaking? No.
14. Is it colorful? No.
13. Does it have four legs? Sometimes.
12. Does it have legs? Sometimes.
11. Does it weigh more than a duck? Yes.
10. Is it used for entertainment? No.
9. Does it use electricity? No.
8. Can you buy it? Yes.
7. Can it be placed on your head? No.
6. Does it come from space? No.
5. Does it come in a box? No.
4. Is it pleasurable? Probably.
3. Does it get wet? No.
2. Do you hold it when you use it? No.
1. It is classified as Concept.
Something's off but I chalk it up to beefy config and some specific games. None of my games run on my laptop (hd 520 igpu) I can play games like the witness on windows, hl2, the cave, the talos principle, portal 2, dead cells, etc. and none runs easily on Linux. Except Dott and kentucky route zero.
It’s Bloomberg Tech, remember when they told you your servers all belong to the PRC? They’ve been schnookered before.
This is cool, thanks!
It seems to me that Apple supporting discrete GPUs is inevitable. They likely want to continue supporting external GPUs for the MacBook Pro, once they do that, supporting internal GPUs is not a huge jump. My feeling is they will ship a blazing fast GPU on the base Mac Pro and offer optional discrete GPUs for people who want that functionality.
The fact that this got flagged off the front page within minutes really undermines your point.
You are comparing an entire country with a single downtown. I will let you work out for yourself why that can lead to misleading results.
Not for me, I don't like him for his extreme vitriol. He says he has no reason to dislike Paul Graham, but he clearly hates him with a passion for his views. Dissect and disagree with his views, no problem, but the extreme nature of Church's rhetoric makes me not take anything of his seriously. How can one be seeking truth, as he says the intellectual must do, with such blinding hatred?
iPad Pi / Hicksdesign
The story here is Denmark's tremendous job in utilizing renewables for energy consumption [0]. The country's economy has almost no stake in oil and gas revenues.

- About 2,000 persons worked in the oil and gas extraction sector in 2016, and another 1,000 persons in extraction of gravel and stone, or in total about 0.1% of total employment in Denmark" [1]

Compare this to Alberta whose oil and gas section employs about 145,000 people and has a similar population size (Denmark: ~ 5 million; Aberta: ~4 million)[2]

It seems the journalists here, instead of keying in on the success in moving to renewables, have spun a sensible and uncostly decision for Denmark into a politicized headline which would be extremely costly elsewhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Denmark#:~:text=Denm....
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Denmark#Natural_res...
[2] https://alis.alberta.ca/occinfo/industry-profiles/mining-and....
> ... he really doesn’t know what “the real world” is. He never experienced it. He raised venture capital in the 1990s when anyone could. He sold a bunch of Lisp code to Yahoo. Good for him. He got to experience what most of us wish was the real world, as the real world.

I expected to read a more focused breakdown of Paul Graham and why he isn't a public intellectual but instead the author claims PG is wrong on his views about society because of his own unique experiences within it. But then the author goes on to make the same broad generalizations for the rest of the essay.

> People end up in “regular” (non-executive) corporate jobs for a variety of reasons— low socioeconomic status of origin, wrong educational choices, and bad luck— but the system is set up to tell them it’s their fault. They’re told they should expect no better than these demeaning jobs because they “aren’t entrepreneurial”— whatever the fuck that means, because the private-sector apparatchiks who boss them around aren’t entrepreneurs— enough for a better spot.

People also end up in these "regular" corporate jobs from high socioeconomic status of origin as well. I also know many people who are from low socioeconomic status of origin who have escaped corporate jobs or avoided them entirely. The vocabulary used by this author seems to suggest that certain people are given corporate jobs against their will and they can never leave. In reality, people apply to jobs that they have the skills (but more likely the qualifications) to get so they can support themselves but they could always try to start their own small business or a company. My parents are both uneducated and from poor socioeconomic backgrounds yet were both very successful as small business owners and while it's fair to say the world today is not the same as it was back then, technology and online resources make it easier than ever to start a business. Not everything needs to be a venture or enterprise scale company either.

The point is that this author paints a picture where workers are just forced into cubicles against their will every day and forced to work 40 hours per week when they only have 5 hours of actual work to do (which is again, a massive generalization) when that's just not the case.
What do you install it from and what software do you use to build the installation image?
That's right. It's a decision driven by emotion.
> They can do whatever they want with posts
?
Can someone tell me what the living heck is `Fuzzing`?

I read this twice and I really don't have a single clue other than it having something to do with or requiring fast memory?
Journalists got access to an early version of Gebru’s paper and reported on it: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
Thank you. Potatoes get such a bad reputation as a staple.

I think it has to do with the fact that there’s zero marketing budget for a food sold for $1/kg and, like anything else, can be prepared in a healthy way or horribly unhealthy way.
There's was an incident a while back where 2 engineers were joking between themselves about a "big dongle" and the woman seated in the row ahead heard it, turn around, took their picture and posted it online. It ruined everyone's life including hers. I thought we learned from this that airing things publicly is fraught with danger. I imagine there is a time and place for it, but very carefully with intention.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spirale...
It kinda doesn’t, it’s nonsense really. They’ve got good examples though (see TailwindUI) and you can directly copy html which includes the css classes and you’ll get their design exactly.
You don't need to overtly harass people to be deliberately abrasive and annoying.

A whole lot of this seems pseudo-honestly crafted just to troll.. e.g.

> So, let’s talk about this. No one gets bullied in American culture because he is smart; people get bullied because they are different. It is as true in elementary school as it is in high school. It is more true in the typical workplace than it is in high school.

Riight. Not all types of being different are equally celebrated, and high school and middle school are some of the most political and unkind places in our society. For a whole lot of us, leaving school did in fact make things better, but he just dismisses and invalidates this experience in a way that's loaded with vitriol and mockery.
> the gazzilions of helpful ones are ignored

That doesn't seem to match reality - every single 'pg article, "off" or "on," routinely ends up at the top of HN, often multiple times.
Here is the site with the media=print hack:

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/201207_DiW4_9712575effac2...

You can see it displays the no CSS version around 900ms and then it takes until 1900ms to display the CSS version.
I believe that is incorrect.

California has laws that make it safe and easy for employees to go form a startup at the drop of a hat.

In California, regardless of their employee contract, employees own the inventions:

- made in their own time

- made without using the employers equipment or technology

Other states (Texas?) give employers an enormous amount of power over their employees, even giving them rights to the ideas in their heads.
> Not only are our energy prices among the highest in the world - how does 40 cents pr. kWh sound?

That sounds like a great way to reduce carbon footprint. All renewable power is used, so every extra (marginal) kWh used comes 100% from CO² producing generation. A price high enough to affect consumer's usage will reduce the carbon footprint.
The MMO programmer in me fantasizes about making yet another MAG-like (ps3-era shooter with upto 128 players) game. That kind of thing would be so much cleaner to do on a completely server-side platform.

However, a large game like that would need a large budget to back it. Without Stadia being more popular I don't see anyone throwing all their eggs in that basket. Because it could only run on Stadia and nowhere else.

One way to mitigate risk would have been to build for both Luna (Amazon) and Stadia. But neither are very popular, and one is Windows-only while the other is Linux-only. So my risk would actually double, not mitigate since I have to develop for two platforms.

I'm ignoring xCloud since it's just a bunch of Xboxes and no thanks.

For smaller, mid-size/indie studios which are not building a massively multiplayer game, I just don't see the up side of making a Stadia-only game. They wouldn't be trivially portable to other platforms and players have learnt to live with network latencies.

So, unless a Google-owned studio does it, I don't see truly cloud-first multiplayer game happening. Assuming that's what you meant by "cloud first".

OTOH Ubisoft does ship their games on Stadia and I'd be curious to know if the experience in, for example, The Division 2 is any better. Even if the game doesn't scale the number of players in an instance, they should still get some benefit of being on Stadia. It doesn't seem to be a very popular mode in the game's subreddit though.
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I do some editing and do a write up of the kinds of changes I made and why and try to help clients up their game because I know resumes need to be rewritten and customized for each position. It's not "one and done," so this is kind of like resume coaching.

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