skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The work matters, no question, just not enough to be compensated proportionally to its value. No, the money and prestige don't belong to the people who actually make the things we use and enjoy, it all goes to the top where it belongs. If you're obedient they'll keep you around, but certainly some other slave could have done the same work for cheaper so don't get too comfortable.

Now my company is very different, we have respect for our workers and let no part of the employee go to waste. When you've outlived your usefulness your ulna will be fashioned into a long spoon for serving gruel, and the dome of your skull becomes a fine bowl. We actually use half of my former cofounder's pelvis as a frisbee during offsites!

Your work will outlive you, and continue to aid the company for many years after you've been decommissioned. That should be enough to comfort you in your final moments, as you await incineration.
The rockpro 64? But that is limited to 4gb, it looks like it's going to be another year† before pine64 is ready with newer SoCs that would be likely to support more RAM and they will again be missing a lot of kernel support.

(† well actually they will have prototypes shipping to some developers in the next months.)
Awesome. We have something to talk about.

What these studies show, is that given a set of pictures with faces removed, college age women will point to the pictures of guys who go to the gym when asked to say which one is more attractive to them.

Sure, I can get behind that. As a bisexual male, I also kind of get it. People who are in shape are sexier, duh.

Without even digging into the pitiful sample sizes (n=61, n=131) or the fact that these studies were conducted on an incredibly limited and not at all random subset of the population (college age, at one particular college). The conclusions this article comes to and the ones that you have come to are fundamentally different.

This paper is drawing conclusions about specific, visual sexual attractiveness, fixed for all other concerns - ceterus parabus, if you will. It assumes that all other things are equal.

The conclusions you have so quickly come to, are based on the assertion that all other things are equal. They are not. There is a complex system of other sociological cues and interpersonal relationships that signal whether you do or don't want to be with someone.

Think of all the other things you, as a male, might find sexy about someone. Are they into video games? Do they like the same music as you? Are they successful in business / art / a particular 'scene'? Are they smart? Are they bold? Are they funny?

What you have done, in essence, is to assume that women are simple, and easily understood. I would argue that this is patently ludicrous.

Merry christmas.
Sure. Just that the moment (if) he settles it with CCP under the carpet, all this "grandson Ma" stuff in the comments will stop overnight.
"life is a 4 billion year old software project" :-)
macOS claims to be UNIX yet "XNU", the macOS kernel, is an abbreviation for "X is not UNIX". "Linux" refers to a kernel, inspired by Minix, which is an abbreviation for "mini-UNIX".
Thanks for writing this out, feels like I could’ve written it in many ways.

I would especially recommend it for young people. It helped me see the components of my conversations and relationships that I was taking for granted.
Thank you a million times over for SwiftUI and Combine — you can just tell this workflow will be the future for the whole Apple ecosystem, and we may finally see a reincarnation of webobjects!

I’m kind of gobsmacked by your story. I guess Apple’s real innovation is implementing what appears to be a multi-domain, cross functional strategy in silos. You get the benefit of ‘experts’ in their function, while getting a cohesive interdependent product from higher level direction — and the beauty is that when it’s all assembled the pieces fit.
This was one of the big old ATT COs
Or see 29 days ago, when this user last posted this exact same link.
N501Y itself has already appeared around the world. By itself, it does look that it is not more transmissible (see Prof. Francois Balloux's Twitter for some explanations). The deletion, again by itself is not new, and also in this case it doesn't seem it has (on its own) increased fitness over the others.

N50Y has also a similar antibody neutralization profile as the non-mutated version.

Of course, these data refer to the mutations on their own, not together.

More on the deletion (on its own, again): while it is supposedly tied to a faster entry into the cells (twice as efficient in experimental assays), it look like it has lower fitness in absence of an ongoing immune response (it would lower in presence - but not disappear - in the immunocompromised patient it was first found into between treatments with convalescent serum).
Old school bell core CO
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning CSS well?
I want to learn CSS well so I can make any UI my imagination can come up with.

What is are the best resources your recommend for learning CSS considering that I already have a background in programming and some basic knowledge of CSS.
Windows 3.x ran OK with 1MB of RAM if you only used a couple of applications at the same time. It wasn't the fastest thing and swapped a lot but it was usable for Word, Excel and the like, as long as you stuck to contemporary versions, as later ones tended to be more memory-hungry.
Agreed; this kind of thing seems like a more attractive target for unused peak capacity of renewables. But it only makes sense if the capital costs are low enough that the economics still work even if it's only run part time. Which is a pretty high bar.
I'm using AWS Athena with S3 at work right now to replace a huge service with a few SQL statements that run about 500x faster with about 1% of the CPU and memory assigned to the pod. Not the exact same thing, but it's amazing what good old boring SQL can do vs. a huge Python monster. There are about 500 loc now, vs maybe 5000 loc with the slow version.
Doing this on a public holiday seems to target a business/infrastructure, as opposed to people. Where was the truck parked, is it obvious that the target was AT&T?
My eyes used to hurt from staring at my screen. It got a lot better after turning down the brightness to ~15%. With the same strategy I can comfortably read in bed on my iPad with the added benefit of colors and 120Hz. I recommend trying this if eink feels much better to you. Another notable side effect is you might end up going back to light themes.
Looks like you're looking for the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

That is to say people assume that logical equivalence is the same as logical entailment.
Tesseract: 4th Dimension Made Easy (1980) [video]
I'll second The Art of Doing Science and Engineering. Oustanding book that covers problem solving approaches, traps to avoid, and how human interactions deal with tech.
That would require both an "agency ready to do uncontrolled explosion in public" conspiracy and "they can't splice fiber quickly enough"... anti-conspiracy?
Yep it's the main spot in nashville for voice stuff. Has local access switches (dms 100), tandem, and LD goes out of there. At&t I think also has their long haul optical transport and some core ip backbone stuff there.
"Sorry! The URL you requested was not found on our server."

IA link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201224170020/https://pages.cs....
The V-model is interesting. I'm a student and kinda new to the different development models.

How to decide whether such meticulous design is necessary or not? In hindsight Btrfs may have benefited, but how to decide when to and when not to in the future?

I would also be interested to know what tools are used for this. The ones I looked at seemed quite dated.. :-)

Thank you for answering! This is very interesting to learn about
So were these homeless Chinese proletarian people in favor of Ma before? What happened? Why it coincided with his falling out of favor? :)
Linux wasn’t always this bloated. My first Linux system had 3 megs of RAM. This was back in 1993. A 386SX laptop with 1 meg on the motherboard plus a 2 meg expansion. I could barely run X.
Yeah, when I started at Apple shortly after the iMac was introduced, those firings were already being referred to in the past tense. The rest of the Jobs 2.0 era was characterized more by the near-absence of major layoffs, as far as I can tell. I believe the Power Mac G4 Cube Team was decimated for mistakes that were not entirely theirs. The .mac team was reportedly decimated. But those are the instances I can think of, and neither of these were elevator-style summary firings.
I was surprised how effective pretty primitive homemade shaped charges are.
Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan - A beautiful perspective on our place in the Cosmos, and how convergent scientific discoveries can be. I think his model of how we learn about our own planet from studying other worlds applies more broadly to learning and knowledge in general - we can learn so much by exploring and solving new problems.

This is more provincial, but I think Neal Stephenson's Fall; or, Dodge in hell makes important statements on the current and (possible? likely?) state of the future of the Internet. It's inspired me to start several projects lately - that drive is why I love good sci-fi.
> If a search change demonstrably has a negative effect on company earnings (even if users like it) it will almost certainly be reversed.

This is completely false. I've personally been involved in launching ranking changes that negatively impacted revenue substantially. I didn't find out until months later through the grapevine, and only in vague terms like "ads had to scramble." Versions of them remain in production today. Revenue projections were never considered as part of the launch decision, nor have they they been consulted as part of evaluating subsequent versions.
This is the year of Linux on the desktop
Ten-ish years ago I worked on a trading system. NASDAQ created a new regulation that required us to change how our system worked on a very tight deadline. As an eager eng manager I was ready to pause other projects and dive into it.

My business folks said there was no way this regulation would go into effect on time. They bet none of our competitors would comply in time and the exchange would have to extend the timeline by many months.

So we did nothing, and they were right.
> Google should be asking from a product perspective if they are providing the search results the user is most likely seeking.

I never want Pinterest. I don't have an account. I don't want one. I will never want one.
Hydro is a double edged sword. Washington produces 70% of its energy from clean hydro, and supplies almost a quarter of the nation’s hydro power. Nothing is free.
Sometimes the goal is just to change the color of an object while retaining the shadows, highlights, and textures. Suppose you had a picture of a blue car and wanted to know what it would look like in yellow.
Where to start? Besides that it's oppresive, based on bad science, reductive, reactionary, and small-minded.

Those feelings of insecurity are there because of a conservative cultural context, that shames difference and enforces conformity to an arbitrary norm.

Put bluntly, this system of belief will prevent you from learning real things about the world. If you constantly avoid genuine interactions with people because those interactions scare you, you'll never learn why those interactions are not actually scary.

I would direct you to Plato's cave. Petersen is asking you to take the shadows on the wall at face value.
I feel the same way about advertised prices like $99.95 or for gas, even $1.99 9/10.

But it persists because it works. I suspect call for pricing works as well. Especially for enterprise, and they are who you are usually targeting with that kind of prices.
> It did not prevent different package managers

But did these UNIX package managers actually materialize? I guess my point is: is UNIX at all relevant? It had some really good ideas that were worth copying, but the world has moved on to greater ideas.
> That is, learning them will help you identify your own beliefs that are worth questioning.

But the OP's point is that they're actually not a particularly good way of identifying that (particularly the rhetorical fallacies). Many if not most things people believe which are incorrect do not involve any logical fallacy. Conversely, if I wanted to identify which of my current beliefs are probably incorrect, beliefs I hold largely because of the appeal of authorities supporting them, for example, would probably be a very bad place to focus my doubts.
IIRC, X11 ran fine on my 486DX2-66 with 4MB RAM with Linux 1.2.13.
Bingo, media overhyping this thing at every turn.
To warm up the old catch phrase, I regret to inform you that the cossacks do in fact work for the czar…
I'd sometimes put my early 90's Mac into grayscale mode. In my case, it was because my Mac only supported 8 bit color, but in grayscale, the shading was much better. 8 bit grayscale was the equivalent of 16 bit color in terms of clarity. Removed the dithering or weirdness in certain images.
We must learn to live with hydro power and dams. It’s such an incredible and clean source of energy. It’s low maintenance and has a high duty cycle, with only nuclear being a more consistent. Dams are also how many parts of the US irrigate crops for our food.
Absolutely, public policy is nothing if not the art of tradeoffs
Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU
Growing crops in cities will put an end to food waste
Ok, so I had a few stories in mind when I was writing that comment, but mine don't even compare to yours.

I'm sorry you had to go through all this.
I worked on several contracts at Apple. Since the secrecy supports Apple's success, I don't see the secrecy as an issue. It all helps pull off that "one more thing" moment.
Epstein more than likely tried to blackmail at least the British crown. You'd think that people wouldn't try and antagonize a family that owns their own torture tower and shows it off to tourists.

Regular corruption is fine in the West though, it's a victimless crime. For people who matter anyway, not the peasants who have to drink drilling oil fluid.

The point is that in the West there are clear and mostly unchanging rules that everyone knows.

In China not so much. Today you're the richest man in China, tomorrow you're an enemy of the people, next week you have tragically fallen to your death taking a selfie from a ladder. All while doing the same thing everyone else in your wealth bracket does.
George Hots interview by Lex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3gNaAVjQ4

Lots of topics covered: self-driving, immortality, UFOs, cryptocurrencies, Tesla/Waymo/OpenAI, GTP-3, AI, book recommendations.
Taking your questions in turn:

1) The conversion will always be energy-negative due to the laws of thermodynamics, as a sibling comment mentioned. This is true even of existing fossil fuels, though we tend not to think of it that way.

2) The process of converting CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels leads to a decrease in atmospheric carbon. Burning these fuels or fossil fuels (what I assume you mean by "the existing process") produces an increase in atmospheric carbon.

This means it's possible to create a net-positive, net-neutral, or net-negative outcome with respect to atmospheric CO2 concentration depending on how you balance these two processes.

As you point out, "zero emission" doesn't mean the same thing as "no net CO2 release"; rather, it more often means "zero emissions of CO2 at the point of energy usage," with CO2 emissions usually occurring elsewhere. That said, with a system of hydrocarbon fuel production from air-captured CO2 it is genuinely possible to have "zero emission" mean "zero net emission of CO2 over the entire energy transport process."

EDIT: The key enabling technology is, of course, carbon-free renewable energy, of which solar is likely to represent the lions' share as time passes.
Others here have hit on the main points, and Richard Dawkins has made interesting comments on it in The Extended Phenotype. Here's my distilled answer:

Death due to ageing may be dwarfed by death due to other causes. For example, look at short-lived mammals like rodents: An individual is likely to due of predation before senescence. And, everything has a cost: The (short-term) survival and reproduction cost you pay must be worth it.
Pinterest’s user-base is surely minuscule compared to the amount of users using Google Image Search.

I’m not saying that 100% of all users with a Pinterest account use their website/app, but many of them will of course opt to use Pinterest’s website/app for their image searches, which means an even smaller percentage of the Google Image Search users will have a Pinterest account.
But not most people doing a Google search. Anyone who is not on Pinterest has its result page spammed with useless links.
I was the first person in my town to get residential ISDN back in ~1996. I was a fledgling admin on the network team and work paid for it. It took me almost three months to help the local telco get it up and running, but we could never get 64kbps on the data channels because of some weird issue with the switch. (Still beat the hell out of dial up)

I think your comment is the first time I’ve read or thought about the DMS 100 since then.
i find this line of thinking far more pathological than talking about putting your phone down or whatever — “don’t try to improve yourself, only the credentialed professional can help you”. do you actually think this way about yourself? it sounds like learned helplessness
Why don't you create your own wrapper that replaces names you don't like with pretty names you like? You can as well promote it, get lots of stars on GitHub and ultimately create official Git wrapper for your kind of people. It doesn't seem too difficult. I think it could be a single shell file.
Wgat was used in the olpc xo-1? The reflective mode looked really, really nice.
LastPass with auto-rotating 56 character passwords every 10 days plus 2FA MFA (with SMS text message options disabled so only using authentication app), and using Yubikey security tokens for Gmail (Advanced Protection Program = Free. https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/ )

I literally don't know any of my passwords to any of my sites, save my last pass master password. I also use alias email email accounts that are unique for each account so that when I get spam I know which site leaked the email address.

http://blog.lastpass.com/2015/05/auto-password-change-now-av...

Break into one of my accounts, and I'd be super interested to know how.
Which one of following levels of information you can put in your public resume?

1. I worked at Apple.
2. I worked I’m MacOS division.
3. I worked on MacOS UX.
4. I worked on MacOS dock enhancements.
This article doesn't make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion.ht...

Obviously a telecommunications/switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core.

The other thing that's particularly odd is the fact that the attackers appear to have broadcasted some sort of warning or evacuation message from the site of the bombing prior to the explosion.
That's some Mr Robot type of stuff.
At least for image search, I use a Firefox extension called Unpinterested. I'm very happy with my search results now. Note: I had to toggle an option to make it work only for image search, because it borked other Google results.

I remember when Google added a functionality to block domains entirely from your results. They removed it soon after though; I'm guessing some big advertiser was blacklisted many times.
Fish are amazing, but do you really think they are SMART? In my experience, fish are incredibly stupid and wholly reliant on instinct. I suppose instincts can seem like intelligence sometimes, but if put into the wrong situation, fish will make the same mistake over and over and over again.
To be clear they evaluated the dogs and adopted the ones that could be homed and placed the rest in a non family setting so that they could rehab them before being adopted out.

To revisit the prior statement you made

>but I don't think these shelters should be pushing these dogs onto families. Especially ones that have killed family pets before and are being advertised as "good with children"

If the article is intended to support that never defended position it does not do so. In order to evaluate that a journalist or interested party would need to investigate the adoption procedure and figure out if adopting families were properly informed.

Furthermore to be clear 3.2 million dogs are adopted from shelters. I was unable to ascertain how many dogs are rescued from dog fighting rings annually but surmise it is probably measured at most in the hundreds. This is to say that something on the over of 1 dog in 10,000 is a refugee from dog fighting. The fate of a tiny number of ex fighting dogs is of almost no relevance to the overall pitbull question.
> I think that odds are reasonable that UK strain, based on what we’re seeing so far, may well be more infectious than the existing ones. I hope I’m wrong about that, and I want to re-emphasize that I very well could be.

> At the same murky level of clarity, I’m not seeing anything so far that makes me think that it causes a worse form of the disease, and I very much hope that I’m not wrong about that.

> As for vaccine effects, my money is on the antibody response from the vaccines still being protective

Seems to mirror other scientific opinions I'm seeing at the moment but obviously it's early days.

The key concern amongst the general public seems to be "will the vaccine still work?" and on this point there seems to currently be a reasonably strong consensus along the lines of "there are currently no indications that it won't".
I would think buried utilities, they lost power?
Taiwan (and some other countries) used phone surveillance location-tracking to enforce quarantines:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan...

That is like using ankle bracelets for tracking people under quarantine, just worse.
What evidence do you have that Xi's reign has been bad for China's progress?

China's progress has been quite impressive recently. An intelligent benevolent dictator is probably the best form of government, the problem is that dictators rarely remain benevolent.

So far though, it looks like most of Xi's decisions have left China better off. Their infrastructure is now significantly better that the US. Investments abroad are positioning them well for the future, and they are even taking the lead in terms of carbon neutrality.
> and fb or console games.

Btw., what are "fb games"?
You cannot draw an equivalence between America's prison population and the CCP's literal concentration camps. There's a lot you can say about the failure of the justice system, the failure of its policing system, the yawning generational failure to address race and poverty in this country. Of course black people are going to be disadvantaged to breaking. So we demonstrate for our black sisters and brothers. We rally our voices and let out our primal screams that are heard around the nation.

No screams will be heard from the Tibetans and Uyghurs. No reporters in China will tell their story. They will be broken and forgotten in silence. There is an ocean's difference between the failure and neglect of US institutions to protect its black people from harm and the determined, targeted extermination of millions of people of race not Han.
Why have either? Why even set a value more than once except as an optimization?