skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand and accept the comment. What I was trying to point out, and maybe didn't point out well enough, was that China and India have different systems, values and expectations, meaning that businesses expecting a like for like replacement will eventually end up being disappointed.

Doing business in a federal democracy comprised of diverse states and population like India and a top down controlled economy like China has different implications, no matter what. There is a very valid case for India improving conditions for people to do business there, but even if those things happen, the value proposition will still be different when compared to China and in the end, at some point, a compromise to profits will have to be made in favour of values.
> It's only gotten marginally better over time due to people gaining better comprehension of technology - yet somehow we haven't caught up with our own privacy invasions as a whole.

It's time for both the US and the EU to vote out all the incompetent morons of our parliaments...
I have an HP-41CX+ app. I think I was using a free or entry version and I mentioned it in a review so the author sent me an upgrade to the full CX+ version. It's pretty great although it's complete overkill for me. It obviously lacks the feel of the physical calc but mine died years ago.

There's a good HP-42 app as well although I'm just more used to the 41 so that's what I use.
That's all the old version of the protocol that we keep up for archival EDIT- took down the old explore site with a redirect to avoid future confusion
It might been a more interesting comparison to use SIMD units from the GPU given the unified memory.
Yes, just nobody has implemented it. It's kind of a pain. Also it brings up the question of whether GDB ought to implement a terminal so you can debug curses applications inside the TUI, which is even more of a pain.
I don’t know for sure, but I think some of this is up to the reader’s interpretation.

> BioNTech simply plugged the genetic code for the spike protein into its software. On Jan. 25, BioNTech Chief Executive Ugur Sahin designed 10 candidates himself.

When I read this, I didn’t take it as dismissive of BioNTech but more (1) a brilliant demonstration of the technology they’ve developed and (2) admirable that the CEO is still in touch with the underlying research.
Bank transfer.

When you open a new back account in you new country, remember to aks the SWIFT/BIC code of your new bank and IBAN number of your new bank account. Then you give SWIFT/BIC and IBAN to your your old bank and ask them to do the transfer. Because it's so big sum, you probably have to do it in person and show ID.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num...

https://www.iban.com/iban-checker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9362

In the new bank they have to ask the origin of your money and you just tell them it's your own money and your are moving. Because it's back transfer, they don't have to hold it until they verify the origin like might do if you try some hard to trace method.
I don't even really disagree. But I should be able to expect that they can't advertise what they can't deliver.
Seasonal themes as an alternative to resolutions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
I'm lucky not to have eye or hand trouble from heavy computer use, but now that I know a fast e-ink monitor like that Dasung exists, I really want to try it.
> Tax cuts and subsidies are equivalent.

They're not. One can't cut taxes below zero, for starters. Some industries need more than just having negligible taxes to get started, especially in capital intensive businesses.

Furthermore, the idea that the only lever that the government has to induce people to do things is lowering taxes is completely absurd. Tax cuts didn't build the Hoover dam, the interstate highway system, nor send a man to the Moon.

The government can use targeted investments, messaging, procurement, tax cuts, and so on in order to move people towards certain outcomes.

The day that the US government announces that they'll buy 100 million masks a month for a strategic reserve or replace all of the mobile devices for all federal employees, as long as they're at at most a 50% premium over the cheapest option and are fully traceable from raw materials to finished product as being fully built in the US and allied countries, is the day that people will start investigating if it's possible to do so, and start trying to do so if it's possible.

> This seems like something you need Democrats to do rather than something you need Trump to do.

It takes two to tango. Many other countries are able to pass laws and make progress, even in complex multiparty negotiations during minority governments.
This suggests that a speed limit is beneficial if it's set near the engineering-recommended limit for a road, but becomes detrimental when set significantly below that level: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212135021.h...
Banning or taxing out of existence foreign investment on real estate and pegging the fed rate to zero will accomplish the same thing without needing to care about minimum wage. Shenzhen minimum wage currently provides workers in China with a higher standard of living than US minimum wage does in the US.

Only difference is that the wealthy in the US will carry more of the burden instead of the working class.

And that’s why we don’t have many advocates for it even though it will solve the manufacturing problem almost overnight
> And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s.

God damn, I can vividly picture the bald 'free-market' eagle screaming "freedom" in the impressive voice of a red-tailed hawk.
1) Don't sit too close to your monitor(s). They should be as far away as they are big, so if it's a 23" monitor, at least 23" away from your eyes.

2) Place the top of the monitor at eye level

3) THE BIGGEST: The 20/20/20 rule. Every 20 minutes, look at an object 20 feet (6m) for 20 seconds.

These three changed my computing life forever, and for the better, especially since I'm on a computer 10 hours a day most days.

Laptop users- get an external screen or a laptop stand that allows the screen to follow those rules.
> I'm not a Googler but wasn't Gmail a 20% project? (And maybe other Google products that I don't know?)

I think the parent meant they didn’t see a 20% time project come to fruition while they were there, not in general
This is actually one of the instances where racial and ethnic diversity is really crucial, and not just a totem to allude to in CEO speeches.

Our genetic makeup is very varied and we know that a lot of medical conditions only manifest in people of certain heritage, or disproportionately among them.

It is far from unthinkable that some ethnic group could react to a novel vaccine badly, or at least in an unexpected way.
Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants
Basically amounted to corporate handouts, with the way the money was mispent. I don't think the issue is that the labor class is getting too big a share, cases like this should make it clear that inequality that's at the root of these problems
Exec comp is definitely a little-known function of most major companies. Normally folks would outsource that type of work to consultants, but Google was big enough that it needed 2 of us full-time.

We helped the CEO and SVPs figure out how much to pay the company's top ~100. That meant we were hands on with performance bonuses, equity packages, hiring negotiations, promotions, and more.

The coolest part about it was getting to frequently join Laszlo Bock (head of People Ops at the time) when he met face-to-face with the CEO (first Eric, then Larry) and the SVPs to discuss all of the above. It got to the point where they all began to recognize me, which was pretty darn cool as a 20-something-year-old.

A byproduct of all that exposure was that I ended up being privy to a huge chunk of the "corporate drama" taking place in the upper ranks. It's been 7 years since I left, but as I'm sure you can understand, getting into details is probably a bit of a no-no :)
OLED, ColorVeil, nightmode
I don't really have any distance issues seeing. I'm technically slightly farsighted.

What I do have is an astigmatism. Getting glasses (it was free with my work insurance) made a huge difference in my ability to stare at the screen all day.

If you find yourself _ever_ squinting at the screen, go get glasses. Or if you feel your eyes get "dry". They're both likely symptoms of an astigmatism.

I can use my computer and phone without glasses fine, but after ~4 hours I start to feel fatigue. And text is _slightly_ crisper with glasses on.
Countries are virtually never 'unwilling to sell', and there are quite a few different countries out there.

PPE shortages in hospitals were because of unprecedented demand levels, not because China didn't continue to export it. A country is actually a lot more likely to have problems handling that kind of short term demand shock if it relies entirely on domestic manufacturing
I'd like to posit that if we had something other than first past the post we wouldn't have had Trump. And Trump definitely fueled the us vs them mindset.
How do they know it was backed by a foreign government?
I would immediately suspect China or North Korea but that seems too obvious and a bit of a setup?
... to clarify, I made up that 'gphotos' alias in the command line - I have no idea what the actual alias is ... but it is all documented here:

https://rclone.org/googlephotos/

... and you can, indeed, rclone directly from google photos to your rsync.net account, etc.
It's not baffling: the Pfizer vaccine required extremely cold temperatures to distribute and was more expensive than other vaccines under development.
But crime rates do not by themselves entail retributive or punitive punishments. Because some demographic has high crime rates says nothing about the effectiveness of rehabilitative policies. People simply are more likely to have a punitive stance when the offender is of a different race.
IIRC 2x256 on 3xxx series. Doubt a 1x512 is available on 5xxx series.
>Technium with consciousness, but he does assert that as an entity, it possesses something identical to or closely akin to intentionality.

Average human brain has about 100 billion cells, according to some source.

Number of Internet-connected devices is approaching 1 billion, and each device is in some ways more capable than one brain cell.

The capability of these beings has gone from nothing beyond exact repetition to playing chess and controlling entire systems with humans as elements of the system.

They are still children, because they are immature, still developing very quickly, and still unable to reproduce independently.

A new being has come into existence. It is gradually developing ideas and intentions. Just as with bio-life, eventually the beings which just happen to have a tendency to self-reproduce and have "motivation" to perservere will win out over other kinds.
I wouldn't say I know very many laws. I happen to know a few relevant to my fields of interest. They are memorable to me because they state complex ideas in brief, understandable ways. Rather than trying to learn a bunch of laws for the sake of knowing laws, look to your field for the important ideas and you'll often discover that someone has written formulated a "law". Most folks know Murphy's law, a general one, perhaps Occam's razor, and there's also Sturgeon's law and Godwin's law. In computer science you have Conway's Law, Brooks' Law, and Moore's law.

You probably already know quite a few laws, just not that they have names. "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely", and "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" come to mind.
Its gone be interesting. Check out the youtube channel, TheLimitingFactor:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIFn7ONIJHyC-lMnb7Fm_jw

He is finishing up a series on Tesla, and he will be doing a series on Solid state after that as well. He also has interviews with people form industry on his channel and his second
channel.
And as a European I'd pick a Japanese city any day. So I guess the grass is always greener somewhere else :)
Has anyone tried to improve eyesight using the techniques in Getting Stronger: https://gettingstronger.org/2014/08/myopia-a-modern-yet-reve... ?

They seem plausible -- certainly that populations that don't look far away seem to need to correct their vision more, which implies behaving differently could lessen or reverse the effect. But I don't know of them being tested. I'm curious to get n higher than 1 before devoting resources to it.
Oh shit you created indieshuffle?

We're getting way off topic here, but I'm curious what your thoughts on the current state of the world on music blogging is. I was pretty big into following the music blog/hype machine scene in 2010-2014ish, and it seems like the other streaming services (particularly Spotify) have more or less killed that world with the exceptions of the biggest blogs, which seems pretty unfortunate to me.
I'm reading the wiki on them (admittedly not the best or most unbiased source) and I don't really buy that they're white supremacists since among other things their leader is afro-cuban. But fascistic sure, I could see that.

Without playing the enlightened centrist card too strongly I don't see anything particularly more disturbing about the proud boys than I have from antifa. Of course antifa can't be accused of being fascistic since their name is literally "anti-fascism" and if you call yourself anti facist then obviously it is impossible to be a fascist.
I got a TI to go off to engineering school because HPs were still a real budget buster. As I recall, a scientific TI calculator was still about $200 in 1975 dollars.

But calculators were dropping quickly in price and a couple of years later I was able to pick up a discontinued HP-55 which I used for years until I picked up an HP-41CV with financial pac for going off to business school. (I probably had one of the horizontal format HP RPN calculators somewhere in there too.)
I don't know why you would expect that. There is copious evidence that, over time, the signal from advertisements and statements decays. There are a few companies that still follow policies they put in place decades ago, but it is the unusual case.

Moreover, "unlimited storage," of course, does not mean unlimited storage forever. Nobody and nothing can give you forever. It means there is no limit presently.
Yeah same
>Other applications like language parsing and compiling is likely going to be a second class citizen moving forward, since Apple doesn't care about using their machines for general purpose development regardless of how many of us buy them for being solid Unix platforms.

Ah, the endless Apple-hating complaining...

https://gohugo.io/news/hugo-macos-intel-vs-arm/
thank you for introducing me to MacStadium!
Thomas Seyfried- Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies
Cash in a suitcase might be illegal in your destination of choice.
> What exactly does that work entail

We helped the CEO and SVPs figure out how much to pay the company's top ~100. That meant we were hands on with performance bonuses, equity packages, hiring negotiations, promotions, and more.

> I suspect successful 20% time projects are the ones where permission is not required, and don't need someone else to implement?

Part of my proposal was that they bring me on to help them run their fledgling music blog, so it wasn't so much that they needed to execute much themselves -- more that they needed to decide the music blog was worth having a dedicated employee. At the time I think they were more focused on trying to get all their licensing ducks in a row.
I've been at Google for 3 years and have 20%ed the entire time I've been there on: grpc-go, Drive, and Go tools (gopls, etc).

I think it's fantastic. The whole 120% thing is up to the individual: there have been times I've made it a 120%, and there are times when it's been just "take a friday off to work on other stuff". You end up getting less of your "job" done but my managers have always been supportive.

It's been great for sanity: some weeks/months feel just, like, meetings and chore work. It's great having that one day a week to work on a rockstar feature request in some fun project. It's also cool to work on your dream projects without the luck/physical move/whatever to get on the actual team. (you can effectively work on anything since no project is going to say no to free headcount)

It's also nice because it spreads your professional network in the directions you choose to spread it, rather than the more organic spread that your normal job entails (assuming luck and available are big drivers of where and which projects you "end up" working, rather than 100% your choice). So, maybe I don't work on project X today, but I can 20% on it and build up those connections, and later in my career I have a much better shot getting on the project. That agency is a nice feeling.

So, as far as the employee happiness goes, I think it's fantastic.
> The hack involves the NTIA’s office software, Microsoft’s Office 365. Staff emails at the agency were monitored by the hackers for months, sources said.

> The hackers are “highly sophisticated” and have been able to trick the Microsoft platform’s authentication controls, according to a person familiar with the incident, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the press.

> “This is a nation state,” said a different person briefed on the matter. “We just don’t know which one yet.”

I bet it was someone on r/wallstreetbets
pre-exit, I presume.
This is an insightful comment that clarifies and distills some of my own thinking on the subject.

The blind pursuit of efficiency optimizes for the macro numbers at the expense of gutting the structure of the labor market and lived experience of people.

It’s far better to have a lower per capita GDP with a more equitable distribution of resources (such as a higher household income across quantiles)

It seems clear that some level of tariffs, caps on FDI, etc are “good inefficiencies” if done correctly.
> Don't sit too close to your monitor(s). They should be as far away as they are big, so if it's a 23" monitor, at least 23" away from your eyes.

So if I have two monitors side by side I can have them a lot closer than if I had one ultrawide monitor?
In the heyday of 20% time, Google had more money than they knew what to do with and the engineers were generally overqualified. Remember that in the early 2000s Google was famous for hiring people with PhDs and asking them build web servers.

Within that climate, 20% time was a great policy. Nobody needed "permission" to take a day out of the week to write a better source code management workflow or a config file VIM code completion for the internal codebase or improve build times or fix an annoying bug in another team's codebase, or even just generate good will for the company by contributing to open source projects. It was good for the company, and good for morale.
The reason foreign real estate investment is so high is because the dollar is the reserve currency of the world, and since those countries produce so much they have a huge excess of dollars but the US produces so little they have nothing to buy with those dollars. The only thing the US can realistically offer is land, if you ban it it will only accelerate the collapse.
Good point. I suppose I'm just talking about the feel of the Aeropress and, say, Nalgene bottles. That plastic feels somehow less "cheap" to me than most plastic electronic devices. I wonder why?
>XCode is a good example of what I mean. It's a terrible developer experience for anything but targeting Apple's platforms

It was and is built as an IDE for Apple's platforms/languages, so this point is moot, and doesn't prove anything general about macOS as a platform.

It's like saying Emacs is bad for developers, because SLIME doesn't really play well with Javascript coding...
They admitted the policy needs rewording, and it has since been changed. IMO, Porter should have left it at that.

Demanding work from people or dropping it their lap, while you have no relation to them nor are they paid for it, would (IMO) be impolite, even if a policy somewhere stated they will give their firstborn to the first one that asks.
There at other manufacturing centers than China. I don't know why people keep it repeating this line. Where do you think China gets their things made? It SE Asian countries. And they're making in roads to Africa. That's what we should be doing. We have a president talking about shhole countries-- destroying international relations is gonna do a lot more damage in a war. We should be building diverse business relationships with competing economies.
The ISPs have tried some 'fake unlimited' plans over the years, which got a lot of pushback. eg, unlimited data but you're capped at 2G speeds after 10GB. It's a model that totally sucks for normal users who happen to hit the limit, but could work better in a storage context: full speed instant access to a 100TB archive blob isn't quite as much a day-to-day personal essential as basic mobile data. And if you DO need fast access, there should be a path to pay for it.
At my company (BigCo but not FAANG or SV), we have 20% time, but it's more for personal learning than side projects (and when it is projects, it's fine if those are just to learn, and not to help the company directly.)

Execs call it out and focus on it too, so managers will even be happy to hear you're using it (and say "what can we do to get people to feel like they can use it?")
> It's not always visible from the outside, but Atlassian now has swathes of valuable internal tooling, built with love by developers who were invested in solving their own productivity problems.

Can we get some of that same love put into the actual business products?
That kind of throwing up your hands and exclaiming my corrupt side is better than your corrupt side is a necessary step in the escalation of political violence and the ascendency of authoritarian regimes.
Echoing this: periodically focusing on a distant object seems to help my eyestrain substantially.
What mattered on A/UX for application developers on Apple platforms was the System APIs layer ported to run on top of X Windows integration.

Likewise, anyone doing NeXT development was focused on Objective-C frameworks all the way down to driver kit.

As Application developer on a NeXT, the tune was all about WebObjects, Renderman, EOF.

Applications like Lotus Improv, Wingz, and those being put out by Omni Group were the meat of the kind of applications that people considered to use NeXTSTEP, not BSD command line utilities.

Pretty much patent on commercials like NeXT vs Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg

Or Steve Jobs opinion on UNIX users,

https://www.cake.co/conversations/rZXhqtP/that-time-i-had-st...

and later when back at Apple

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2591327/apple-hopes-to...

AIX is definitly UNIX, because it isnt' like A/UX, NeXTSTEP, OS X or iOS, where the UNIX layer is there more to bring stuff into the platform, while the main developer stack is something else.
Wear terminal eyeglasses and keep the screen at least 1.5 meters away.

This type of eyeglasses are not for helping with poor eyesight. They're specifically for reducing strain on the eyes when focusing at short distances for longer periods of time, which is the core of the problem.

Before I got a prescription for such - which has completely solved the problems I suffered for a long time - I had to resort to tricks like taking frequent breaks just to focus my eyes on things at longer distances, which is only a band-aid rather than an actual solution to the problem.
Indeed -- but it's worth noting out that GPU code is closely analogous to SIMD, anyway.

(And PyTorch can be and often is run on pure CPU.)
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