skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing inhuman about any of the three school pictures here. They're built to a human scale (not too tall, decent amounts of internal room), have generous numbers of windows, and are set in outdoor space with grass and trees.

There are, on the other hand, lots of practical problems with this kind of building. The flat roofs have a tendency to leak, they're decades past their design life, thermal control is poor, they're riddled with asbestos, and a number of other issues. And lots of people think they're ugly. But this doesn't make them inhuman, just a flawed solution to a real-world problem.

I think it's easy to forget just what difficulties the UK was in for building in the 1950s and 1960s. There was a spectacular shortage of housing (a baby boom and the effects of WW2 bombing didn't help) and a chronic shortage of both money and skilled labour for building. There is, bluntly, no way that enough traditional brick and stone buildings could have been put up for there to be enough schools. So you can certainly argue that better cheap and/or mass produced buildings should have been made, or that the aesthetics were bad, but writing off all the architecture without understanding its context is unhelpful.

[Edit: in my view, the most inhuman feature of the images is the fencing, but that is almost certainly not original - security in schools was really stepped up from the 1990s onwards]
FWIW, I agree with you, but some people prefer to enjoy their job rather than maximize dollars per effort. I don't entirely understand them, but I can't tell them their life goals are wrong.

life to work and work to live are both perfectly valid approaches.

I do feel it is important to own your decision. if you chose money, don't complain (too much) about how boring your job is. if you chose passion, don't complain about the pay. most people get neither.
P.S. Software and Hardware wallets are little different but you can loose either in many different ways..
I have added a small edit which clarifies this point. However, I do not consider my definition to be "out of whack with the rest of the world".
just curious -- is this project part of your role at stripe or just a (highly polished) side project? I know that Stripe has been investing heavily in better Ruby tooling, e.g., sorbet.
I've seen this movie before, Total Recall.
Yes - but that house is probably affordable because of the savings they've accumulated in Seattle/SF.
The original quote is 20 years so seems like there is agreement!
I built part of that Zynga light tunnel thing that they had in their office at the time (We used Parallax Propellers to drive the LEDs). It was a fun project.

Everyone I talked to while I was doing the work told me that the money was excellent but they hated working there.
Uhhh I'm not particularly a fan of Bitcoin, but implying that this is anything like violence is absurd. I gotta go against the trend of anything you don't like that could conceivably lead to somebody being harmed somehow is the same thing as actual violence.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's like when a programmer is surprised their optimization didn't help when they also admit that don't really know how a computer works.
I think that was one of the casualties of the painful transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4. I really loved KDE before but KDE 4 was completely unusable for a year and many UX concepts were thrown aboard or have just not been ported, really sad actually. KDE 3 was paradise for power users. I wonder what KDE is like nowadays though
Putting structure aside for now (although I agree we want an answer to that), I don't see why we even want governments allocating capital to projects like this
in the first place when the space is already very competitive with loads of private money. It seems like a classic case of big government doing big government things to justify their own existence.
Do you think gambling is not addictive? There is very little difference.
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Interesting to see this show up on HN the same day as this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25605211

I have absolutely no problem simultaneously enjoying the products sold by megacorps (Apple in particular) while also believing I would likely want to curl up and die if I had to work there. I can't stand anything even remotely approaching office politics and corporate culture and have worked freelance most of my career. I most definitely want to keep it that way. =)
Thanks. I’ve been doing something similar, I’m using Go to run multi process python systems.
> There are licensing requirements, safety requirements, and other rules that apply to restaurants that don't apply to other businesses.

none of which are addressed in any way whatsoever in this new law. nor does this law add any licensing or safety requirements for the delivery person or delivery platform.
So when do you decide to leave? Do you have a magic dollar amount? A particular mental health symptom you're waiting to develop? I'm not sure what you're waiting for. Four years at a company is a long time; it's not like you'd be accused of nonsense like job-hopping.
On a similar note, and for a great read, I highly recommend Ian Frazier's "Travels in Siberia." I found out about it because The New Yorker had published some excerpts from it, and I was instantly hooked. Frazier's writing is both engaging and laugh-out-loud hilarious. It was written several years ago, so things are probably a lot different in Siberia now.

https://smile.amazon.com/Travels-Siberia-Ian-Frazier/dp/0312...
While I assume you're talking about those without bank accounts in this statistic, it's also not true of most bank accounts in the US either so far as I can tell.

The inability to make transfers immediately and without fees between accounts held at different banks is bizarre for those used to UK banking.
Something that's always fascinated me about Jainism is how Mahavira seems to resemble the Buddha so closely, at least at first glance.

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

https://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Buddhism_and_Jain...
The teacher faces the same problem. Taxi/bus drivers have the same problem.
>Mobility in entry-level jobs isn't as bad as you make it out to be (I worked plenty of these as recently as a year ago).

Having been there, too, and knowing many others who have had similar experiences, I don't think you fully understand what it's like for most people working low-wage jobs.

>There are zero jobs in the world without a dark side. Or as you say, "blood on their hands". Even the tiniest non-profit, village bakery might accidentally source ingredients from exploited farm workers in 3rd world countries, or pay tax dollars which goes into US war efforts.

There is an important difference. The bakery accidentally sourced those ingredients - and I'd expect them to change if it was brought to their attention. Megacorps deliberately and cognizantly engage in the behaviors we're discussing. Everyone is required to pay taxes, so that point can be dismissed. We are accountable to our country's misdeeds, but in a much different way and with a much different approach for addressing the problem. You can change your employer (as a tech worker enjoying excellent mobility) much more easily than you can change your nationality.
Considering how old Pelosi and McConnell are I think 75 may just be the minimum age for political leadership in the US right now. The fact that Biden ran with 78 shows that he has a big ego so I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t let go in four years either. Maybe it will be 78 years old vs 82 year Biden with 86 year old Pelosi leading the house and 80+ year old McConnell in the senate. Trust no one younger than 75 :(
Of course. My experience is that children generally take to activities they find easy, and avoid activities they find difficult.
There is a middle ground between passive and aggressive called assertive. That is what one should aim for.

The world chews up and spits out good kids. I vowed early on that I wouldn't let anyone shit on me again and it really shaped my early life, not necessarily for the better. I overshot assertive by a decent margin.

Fortunately, I eventually settled into a healthy middle ground. I do wonder if there is a method of preparing "good kids" for the world of shit they are about to encounter in a manner that is a net benefit to them (ie. Not scarred or jaded by it). Not that I'm ever having kids.
How to Order a RTX 3000 Graphics Card from Amazon as a Software Engineer
https://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/ Obligatory
Anecdotally, I've heard of that more at suburban schools where you pretty much have to access and leave the campus via car. At my high school in Chicago (2003-2007, ~2,000 students) we were free to leave the campus at any time and often spent lunch at a nearby hot dog stand or sitting in the park and hanging out. The only restriction was that you had to re-enter through specific entries so they could check school IDs. I think it's because the school is in the middle of the city and very pedestrian friendly. One kid I knew even lived across the street from the school and would go home to make himself some lunch. I know from friends and family that suburban high schools in the Chicagoland area were more strict with their off-campus policies as there wasn't any pedestrian access to the schools. I just think suburban schools don't want traffic jams in the parking lot during every lunch period.
The way I interpreted is, this torture culture is not a recent development. It already existed during SJ watch.
OP is seemingly banking on being better at marketing than Apple is. I don't think it's a smart bet.
> But, for most values of Bigcorp that anyone could name, there's clear evidence of ongoing unethical behavior.

This slightly missed my point:

Bigcorps engage in a lot of behaviour, some of which is evidenced to be unethical. Smallco engages in less behaviour, which is not evidenced. You have no way to judge if it's more unethical.
Graham Hancock has never pretended to be a scientist, so what he writes is, by definition, not pseudoscience. "I don't like it" also does not define pseudoscience, as much as some wish otherwise.

Much of it is pure speculation, and rot, but his direct observations -- he actually does go places, and takes copious, excellent photographs (his wife is a pro) -- have proven reliable; much more so than his armchair critics. He is scrupulously careful to distinguish observation from speculation, something many of his critics could learn from.

Ignore both the speculation and the armchair critics, and you may learn, too.
Wow. If malicious code can be signed in the first place then that's where your problem lies, not from how many download it.

Now we'll have to deal with every game release giving big instructions on how to circumvent this message. Great.
"People should have been practicing healthy eating habits and exercise routines such that their immunity to virus would be of multiple order of magnitude more than what it currently is."

Difficult when you're an 85 year old with dementia in a nursing home.
I would argue that the role of a leader is to provide the coordination that effective cooperation requires - in a sense, to foster interdependence.

I believe that it is impossible for any group of people to work together without some form of leadership taking place. I also believe that the bigger the task, the more important it becomes to have good coordination and leadership.

Of course, that‘s not to say that there aren‘t plenty of „leaders“ out there who‘s idea of their job is to „get other people to do things for you“.
School was pretty good about letting kids go to the bathroom. I only remember one or two times that people were denied (they were misbehaving).

There was one time a kid got denied wrongfully because the teacher thought he was part of a group that was causing trouble right before that. He had a half-empty Gatorade bottle in his backpack from lunch... he was sitting in the back of class and chugged it while the teacher wasn't looking. He then refilled it with a different yellow liquid, if you know what I mean. I'm a bit surprised the teacher didn't catch him and that nobody freaked out and snitched.
I sometimes wonder what it would take to visualise the state of a system in a game engine such as OpenTTD[1]. Then I remember the video of VMware's VMWorld 2017 event keynote speech[2] where they did such a poor example of VR - cubes representing virtual machines which you could virtually throw into the trash to delete them, or pick them up and move them to another host to use VMotion. It was a poor combination of low quality uninspired use of graphics and 3D space, and individually managing servers one at a time for things VMware DRS will do (load balancing moving of VMs between hosts) and things you don't want to be doing by hand (individually provisioning and removing servers).

I'm not convinced that a game engine is capable of showing enough information compared to flat text, tables of numbers, graphs, and things made as web pages or documents where you can scroll down several pages. In a game engine, the things you aren't looking at end up far away, smaller, easier to miss. Text usually has to be bigger to be readable. How do you bring things to attention without just replicating a web browser showing a page of stats in a game engine? How do you make "work" possible without replicating a right click menu in-game, or a popup Quake style command line?

How do you envisage an RTS game interface doing work - what kind of work, and how does the interface help with it?

> "The test (as I imagine it now) is making work fun enough that my 13 year old self would want to do work."

A game you have to play for 6+ hours continuously, cannot quit, cannot pause, cannot undo/retry, almost cannot die or lose, has no story, no end to get to, and is a repetitive grind?

[1] Isometric world map full of moving parts, metrics and graphs https://linuxhint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OpenTTD.jpg

[1] which has overlays for things like cargo pressure in two directions https://www.openttd.org/screenshots/1.4-cargodist.png that could be displaying network link load, etc.

[2] https://lukaswinnnet.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/vmworldeu20...

[2] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EiKyR4X5kxs/maxresdefault.jpg
570GB of Common Crawl post-filtering, but only 40% of CC data was seen even once during training, though CC is only 60% of the training data. You could work through the math to find the rough size of GPT-3's training data, but it sounds like The Pile is of comparable size.
Definitely, I don't want to understate how important things like that are; but I feel like the average person is already aware of the need to dedicate significant resources to improve air quality, and would even be happy if their tax money went to this cause. But yet I cannot say the same about anti-aging, and I think very few people are even aware that it is a real field with extreme potential to begin with.
How are they sourcing/funding the compute to train these massive models?
The purpose of QE is to cause inflation, the federal reserve is explicitly trying to avoid a Japan situation where there are low interest rates and deflation [0]. To avoid a deflationary spiral [1].

I can't find a source that explains the mechanism for how QE affects the economy.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/051315/what-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Deflationary_spiral
Also empathy and altruism. You have to care about how everyone is doing and how the whole group feels.
If staring at a wall paid $10m/year, would you really care about future employability? I'd do it for 3 months and then fuck off to enjoy the rest of my life.
> Although clearly you represent the everyman and can be the one-person-focus-group for the bike market!

The bike market represents the bike market. As I said, these have been around for 10+ years and nobody buys them. It's not my opinion that these are undesirable, we know they are undesirable based on sales numbers.

Bikes with Automatic drive trains aren't popular in the US.
... or Europe.
... or Asia.
... or anywhere.

They are more expensive, heavier, and harder to work on than traditional bikes. Half-assed automatic shifting doesn't make up for those issues.

Maybe I'm off base and people just didn't like them because they are ugly. Who knows, but since it's been 10+ years now I think it's clear they aren't the fix-all for getting people on bikes Shimano designers thought they were. Maybe, just maybe, your mom and your sister aren't the perfect bellwethers of the needs of skittish would-be-bike-riders in the world.
I am only claiming that the comment is not abusive. If it violates the snark guideline or similar, then sure, lock it up and throw away the key.
Oops - set intersection not difference.
Medium's automatic dark mode made this hard to read and I couldn't find a toggle to turn it back to white... This is a bit concerning to me as a web developer who likes OS dark mode but is not convinced of web dark mode (especially an automatic non-immediately obvious optional one).
Also known as lying. It is blatantly obvious that Apple selectively enforces their policies. Anyone who has ever published multiple apps on the app store knows this.
Apple themselves have featured this app[1], which feels like they endorsed it before.

1 - https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1470456860
if you are a regular person of no interest for politicians, your been choice is a backdoor from the least influential agency

so if you are Chinese you better stick with American security, if you are American you might consider chinese/Russian security etc
So... what's the point of the site?

It's just a bunch of buildings. The onea I saw could be labeled just about anything (hospital, office, court, etc).
The font used in the components is Segoe UI.
Depends on what you actually want. I use a mix of Obsidian and Joplin.

Joplin is very similar to Evernote, but much more pleasant. It is open source and is actively developed. You own you data and you can us ethe ap on any device. I wrote a small intro about Joplin -> https://rasulkireev.com/joplin/ .

I use Joplin as a storage for some of my thoughts on different topics. I organized my library with the PARA method. It works like a charm.

I use Obsidian as my Zettelkasten. I don't try to use it as my productivity driver. As a simple storage and connector for my thoughts it is perfect.
These kinds of things exist, though the rate that they are adopted varies widely.

In Psychology, for instance, there was discussion back in 2015 about per-registration in the field [1]. Since then, tools and repositories have been created to help facilitate per-registration [2].

But again, they are not universally adopted. Some of this is probably generational—academia is quite conservative, and doesn't change quickly. A new generation will likely use these tools more. Other times, fields are more insular than others, and so such tools will take some time to diffuse into their community. In the meantime though, things have improved, even if only somewhat, across the sciences.

[1] https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2015/08/pre-registrati...
[2] https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereg
So what ended up happening to her?
People usually start off by debating the principles related to spying, surveilance, backdoors, especially in China related articles. Once the fact that most likely Intel CPUs or Windows can be safely considered "backdoored" is brought up, those same people pivot to "who backdoored it matters".

No, it does not. A backdoor is a backdoor and once it's out there it will sooner or later be used by everyone with enough resources, making the "who" irrelevant. Any Windows or Intel backdoors are very likely now in the hands of all major intelligence services around the world.

But let me frame it in a different, albeit slightly crass way: if you have a turd floating in your soup can you honestly say there's a good answer for "who put it there?" that will make you like that soup more?
"isn't"
So glad this eventually found its way up to the top -- reading fogus' yearly review has become a fondly held tradition.
How do you access/edit it on the phone?
You're comparing a known with an unknown. We can judge that the known is unethical. We cannot judge either way on the unknown. It follows that the only possibly ethical choice is at Smallcorp.

And I'm sure we could make a much better argument for it if we substituted Bigcorp and Smallcorp with actual options you were deciding between as a prospective employer.
There’s a way to get other implicit nodes in Firefox...
I'm kind of surprised there's 800GB of text in the world.
If you're a computer scientist or a physicist and you want to criticize biomedicine, please go work in the field for a couple of decades. It gives a wonderful perspective.

After two decades of working in biomedicine, I returned to pure software engineering/computer science because biomedicine (especially the US, but everywhere, really) is so messed up structurally, it will never recover. It will only get more expensive and less effective.
Happy New Year to all HN members and HN I am a new member just joined today.
These companies copy my menu, images and all. Mark up the prices incredibly. Market my menu to customers with inflated prices as if they are the restaurant prices. Then they also charge a delivery fee on top.

Customer drives by the bricks a week later and keeps driving because I have terrible prices.

Worst of all I have no idea the transactions are happening, and the companies are directing drivers to not divulge they are not the actual customer.
A few months ago I heard of a school in Berlin that removed toilet paper from the bathrooms and forced kids to go to the janitor to get their three sheets of toilet paper per day. And as icing on the cake the janitor didn't acknowledge that teenage girls need more paper than boys.

This story aired in TV and probably it's no longer the case. Also it likely bends the truth a bit, but nevertheless this is so unsettling and absurd that I wanted to share it.
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