skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could consider coming to Switzerland. Working 32hrs/week is very popular there. For example jobs.ch has 7368 offers in IT right now and 2138 of them have the "80%" option.
One of the nice things about Oberon-07 is that the compiler I’ve played with could compile itself and the standard library all in a tiny fraction of a second.
The US is already at Soviet levels: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-sovietization-of-the-ameri...
Hoare said "I don’t know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran". He also said "ALGOL 60 is alive and well and living in Fortran 90", which is a decent compliment from him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilatant#Applications

I'd say that shear thickening fluids as used in traction control systems can be seen as an analog clutch.
I get it and agree that four day work week would be nice for mental health, potentially productivity, etc.

My question to you: why 4 days? Why not 3? Why not 2? Seems as arbitrary as 5.
Japanese can't read this font
Why not exterminate the Palestinians, then?
Sure, if you do the same for real art.
Couchbase vs. Aerospike Benchmarking [pdf]
Yeah, that's been called "Manf" for probably over a 1,000 years now.
Is solving the ketchup bottle problem like nuclear fusion, the solution is always 10 years away?

The flexible plastic bottles mentioned in the article are just as bad, for some reason they make them very thick.

Anyone know why ketchup doesn't come in a toothpaste like tube? That feels like it should work. What am I missing?
valuation should not increase linearly based on revenue. the market winner will eventually get the lions share
You are correct. It's a pity they didn't focus on our society is affecting men and women differently- for example 90% of men being excluded from online dating, or many small liberal arts colleges being 70+% women, or women unable to find a man to have children with (sperm bank stats are super interesting), or both sexes having zero expectation they will own a house, or retire, ever- and how this is going to shape our society in a decade or two.

I posit that the lack of economic future for most people is the driver- same as in Japan and Europe.*

* For example, the labor force participation "of the population age 25 and over fell for all education groups except those who had not completed high school": https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/educatio...
I'd be amazed if it's that little in test equipment.
Braniac is back? I miss that show
> ... represents the work it took ...

> ... represents the equipment and electricity it took ...

Work does not give a thing value.

You could hire 1000 workers with 1000 shovels to dig 1000 trenches 1000 meters long and then fill them all back up. That would represent a lot of work but it wouldn't be worth anything.
U.S. Government Provides Dad Joke API
> If you call yourself a NEET, you spend plenty of time on the internet, because the term really doesn’t exist offline

Eh, not really. I'm pretty sure the term existed before reddit.
UK stats going back to 2010 [0]

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-neet
Same here. I let it stay suspended. Weeks later it came out that Twitter had a flaw that let anyone see your phone number.

It will be a cold day in hell before I give them my number, and I survived the Texas icepocolypse this year.
This post reflects very positively on MIT. Reading this paragraph would be beneficial to anyone who is aiming high and encountering the impediments that come with that pursuit.

“If you are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line. That your path isn’t something MIT sets you on, it’s something you make yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make wherever you are as amazing as you can (as you already are), then someday you’ll look back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay.”
That's the problem with philosophy. It's archaic. It doesn't self improve. Christianity and Muslims have been around almost as long as philosophy. It doesn't make their opposing views automatically valid nor does it eliminate the randomness of some arbitrary beliefs in each respective religion (why is jesus named jesus, for example).
It's time to mention the name of the NABOB archiver, it seems. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460317
You and I have had quite different experiences. After 30 years I have [seen] most projects meet budgets. Time frames have varied more but that's usually driven by client scope creep.

We estimate all the time.
Game theory? Distributed systems? Cryptography?

The technical challenges in crypto are much more interesting than that of a FANG company’s (i.e enterprise software and widgets)
In Spanish too.
That was the idea behind this nuclear industry PR piece from a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26213984

Predictably, it didn't bring up the costs (though of course the first comment on HN did) but it tried to play the "environmentalist who has seen the light" angle pretty hard.

It's actually kind of weird how many articles like this do get submitted to hacker news. Link says "it's safe & making a comeback", comments say "it's just not economic and no" <- this has happened quite a few times.
>Not to mention the numerous human rights violations China commits against its minority citizens and the people of Tibet.

https://www.insider.com/inside-forced-sterilizations-califor...

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914465793/ice-a-whistleblower...

We don't really have the moral high ground here. After we stop violating the human rights of minority groups here we can judge the rest of the world.

>Now, imagine an unchallenged China, potentially subjugating its neighbors by force, including India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines.

Why do we treat America like some special case. You don't think our military bases which cover the entire world are subjecting anyone ?

Maybe instead of asserting dominance on each corner of the globe we could address homelessness and child poverty ?
Great article and all blog, bookmarked

Some other juice photos

Narco Submarines Covert Shores Guide - updated

http://www.hisutton.com/Narco%20Subs%20101.html
> someone who likes to be prepared, who doesn't think they'll ever need it, and hopes to never use it

If 40% of the population think they need to be prepared, there is probably something broken in that community.
I haven't heard anything about NDAs that prevent you talking about the general area of your work at any of Musk's companies. There are certainly people on LinkedIn talking about what they do.

Look at any FAANG presentation. The VP of the department introduces a PM, who may have a senior engineer with them. The other 98% of the team isn't mentioned.

> That's kinda sad, isn't it?

Why don't you start a thread about it. Poll workers and see if they find themselves upset by it or not. Don't just borrow offense on their behalf.
https://fatherhood.gov/jsonapi/node/dad_jokes
The 4chan syndrome. Make common words into racist dogwhistles.
Mattering NABOBs (2005)
Enough AI hype and we'll hear sentence like this: "it seems he actually used 'photoshop', an obscure tool allowing the user to manually create deepfakes"

That said, the minimal skill and the 30-60 minutes required probably has been a barrier to malicious photoshopping in the past and so a deepfake site might still serve to propagate nasty schemes like this.
An appropriate initialism will be created to represent them in media. I'm thinking Young Emigrated Extra Terrestrials.
Yeah, it's basically "world ends: women most affected"
"Nowadays, this idea has a dramatic name: Spaceship Earth. And the idea there is that outside the spaceship, the universe is implacably hostile, and inside is all we have, all we depend on, and we only get the one chance: if we mess up our spaceship, we've got nowhere else to go. Now, the second thing that everyone already knows is that, contrary to what was believed for most of human history, human beings are not, in fact, the hub of existence. As Stephen Hawking famously said, we're just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet that's in orbit around a typical star, which is on the outskirts of a typical galaxy, and so on.

Now, the first of those two things that everyone knows is kind of saying that we're at a very untypical place, uniquely suited and so on. And the second one is saying that we're at a typical place. And, especially if you regard these two as deep truths to live by and to inform your life decisions, then they seem a little bit to conflict with each other. But that doesn't prevent them from both being completely false. "

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_chemical_scum_that_d...
correct, it doesn't, but using a quite common scheme like this makes onboarding and reasoning about git-related issues easier. YMMV.
Oops.

Haven't even been aware of that.

Anyways, irritation over 'cowboys entering into the field' still stands, because it happened in Austin, TX.

Yeehaw!

;-)
I prefer "blocklist" and "allowlist" which sound more natural to me, but you could certainly use "denylisted this IP".
Nope, but I discovered that the older one liked to drink water from the bathtub, so there's that.

He's in kitty heaven now, but the younger one proved to still be an avid shess player when my SO had to take him along with her while she was working seasonally as a hotel receptionist. He found a worthy opponent there, so it might have been him from the start.
> If you are unable to move about without inhaling smoke that is injected into the scene by someone else it’s an active scenario.

Walking around while infectious is also an active scenario.

> Getting sick is part of life, viruses and bacteria don’t have morals.

Part of death as well. Unless you're willing to get infected by anything and never seek healthcare, this stance is disingenuous.
Is this really true? Surely they should be able to decompress it with virtual memory - you tell them exactly where to look for each operation. On the other hand, it will take you much longer to compress the file if your lookback window is larger than your available memory.
Balkan – bi-script typeface system consisting of Latin and Cyrillic scripts
I'm a consultant / contractor. I never think about it as "in it only for the money". I try to provide value as much as possible.
Too late to edit, but it seems the tide has already turned: for what I think is the first time I'm net positive for defending Israel. Maybe I've become more careful over the years, but personally I think it is more about HNers starting to question the media narrative.
How is stripe not bigger than PP.. i swear few people use pp these days
>That's a thing? I didn't know you could do that on purpose thought it was a side effect of slow internet.

Well if you don't have it enabled, the area that is shown would be proportional to how much you have loaded (eg. if you have 50% of the picture downloaded then the top half of the picture will be shown, but the other half would be blank/transparent). If you have it enabled, then you might have the whole picture shown at 5% downloaded, but it will be super blurry, and as you download more it gets progressively more detailed.

I don't think the author/publisher purposely used this as an effect, it's just an overloaded server and whatever image editing software he used had progressive jpeg enabled.
> when there are scientifically known biological causes of said beliefs

This is false, at least to the degree of accuracy, potency, and certainty as you present it here. They are "part of the picture", but one small part, not the overriding majority of how people make choices about what to believe.

> then you're not aligned with current scientific knowledge

Yes I am. You are not. You misrepresent the degree to which the things you've mentioned impact the things you claim they impact, and I'm beginning to think it's a malicious choice to do so.
I wouldn't go as far as calling it "willfully bullheaded" as I do believe knowing when somebody creates a pull request can provide some data points worth mulling over. Having studied hundreds of popular open source projects, there does seem to be a pattern as to when people prefer to create a merge request, which is mid week.

I do agree that GitPrime, GitHub Insights and other similar solutions are pushing developer metrics in a dangerous direction, by latching onto low hanging fruit metrics. I written a bit about what I believe is a positive direction and this is focusing on impact, which I talk about at

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26457072&goto=threads%...
I’ve got a true admiration for this mobile eye cto, after seing a presentation he gave 4 years ago (can be found online), where he explained the current theoretical limitation of ML for autonomous driving, at the time where tesla was saying it was just around the corner.

It takes some guts to publicly state « we have no clue how to do that thing our ex-customer now competitor claims is able to do , and we think nobody knows how to do it safely, and here’s why ».

It’s even more exceptional when you compare it to the gigantic amount of crap that many israelis startup advertize , surfing on the reputation of the country for being a startup nation (i can’t count the number of cancer cure that i’ve seen israelis biotech companies claim)
I think China has pretty strict limits and taxes on importing vehicles as a way to support local manufacturers.
Unlikely - a spoon sinks in it.
Texas had no power because they forgot everything they learnt the hard way from their "once-in-a-decade snow storm" they had 2011.

Coal piles freezing solid because there is no roof, gas valves impossible to operate because nobody would put a box around them, no water too cool reactor cores because the pipes froze: these are not failures somehow cascading from the fact they build some windmills.
I said "apparently" because my source was a screenshot of a tweet saying "Sorry for that.", just as this Gizmodo reporter also saw.

* https://gizmodo.com/twitter-banned-me-for-saying-the-m-word-...
Some clients request brand new boosters, and some mission profiles require losing the booster. I think there is no danger of them ceasing to build booster.
They raise the dilemma of how to topple the oppressive Israeli regime.

I live there (well, "here" for me), and it's already intolerable if you're a Palestinian; for Hebrews/Jews there's a process of gradual decline in democratic freedoms and a slide into religious obscurantism couple with jingoism. Not that this didn't exist before, or that the government had not fostered that before, but it looks like it's gradually "letting loose".

(This is mostly, but not entirely, independent of the governing PM, Netanyahu.)
Buying an NFT from anyone other than the original artist does not support the artist in any way.
I came away from the article with the same feeling.

The article came across to me as a bystander criticizing a hoarder for the colour of their trash. It comes across as "look at this mess" rather than something helpful or interesting.
It's probably a sizing issue, given how much ketchup gets used, you'd need a lot of toothpaste tubes, and making them huge would lead the the same issues as you get with other containers.
The real game changer will be self-assembling displays sprayed on a surface. Imagine a spray can where you could put a display anywhere with wireless connectivity.
True.

They don't get high valuations because their earnings fluctuate a lot, and their average profit margin is like 1-3%, as compared to like stripe or apple which probably has like 30%.
And then it becomes comes time to dismantle them, and they turn capital intensive again.
An account of the 1984 test: https://www.railmagazine.com/trains/heritage/it-s-a-lovely-d...

And the BBC Six O'clock News report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo22l4wJdx8
The lock in a washing machine door works like that, which is why it takes two minutes to unlock.
Stripe are an engineering first company. You even see the Collison brothers posting here on a regular basis. Creating great tech is built into the DNA of the company.

Great to see them investing further in their home country as well, and mentioning that some of their global leadership team will be based in Dublin.
Open borders for thee, robo-snipers defending the border for me.

If Southern European countries set these up on the shores to defend against vessels arriving from North Africa, the Jewish media in the West would go mental.

The only consolation here is that, from the videos I've seen, an automated gun that indiscriminately kills Palestinian children anywhere near the border is only different from Israeli snipers in that it won't laugh and upload the footage afterwards.
> What about the hidden cost of nuclear? The waste storage. The security measures (can't have terrorists walking off with the nuclear waste). The constant need for inspections, audits, etc. And that's before you consider the corruption and the gravy train that is basically associated with funding existing plants using massive amounts of public funding.

Nothing wrong with pointing out issues/costs with nuclear, in fact it's good to point out the issues with nuclear so it can be properly weighed. I'm just trying to point out issues/costs of only using renewables, so we can weigh those as well.

> Nuclear being too expensive is the main point of this article. That seems upsetting to a lot of nuclear proponents. But I don't see a lot of arguments to counter that core point.

I think your missing the point. If you ran your entire grid on just solar and wind, no nuclear, or coal or natural gas peaker plants, you'll find that wind and solar is no longer cheap, and is much less resilient to exceptional circumstances.

> I don't get your argument about mining.

My point about mining is, our current course to fighting climate change relies entirely on mining, were making the switch from the Oil and Gas industry to the Mining industry for our energy and transportation markets. This change is going to have huge impacts on the world, mines are quite capable polluters of the local environment, setting up mines in developed countries can take a decade or more, which is the same problem nuclear plants face. Mining is also quite controversial for many good reasons, so there is significant push back from locals and environmental groups whenever and wherever a mine is proposed. All of this means a huge portion on mining takes places in countries with lax environmental and or human rights standards, which just exacerbates the problems.
> Completely preventable medical errors kill TEN TIMES as

> many Americans as firearms do, even including suicide-by-

> gun as a firearm death (which, incidentally, far oustrips

> firearm-related homicide or accidents).

This is quite a jump from guns to medical errors and I think this is comparing apples and oranges. It seems absurd to me only fix "burning" issues because then only mediocrity can be reached. It's better to fix root causes. That said, I wonder how many of these errors happen because both medical personal and patients are under extreme stress due to a bad financial situation, a dangerous neighborhood etc.

Imagine you live in a neighborhood where people have guns and actually use them. Wouldn't you be a bit stressed out and thus being more prone to make errors, communicate incorrectly, both as patient but also as nurse/doctor?
am i the only one that thinks fintech is massively overvalued? especially square etc, or anything adjacent. sure they have great growth and revenue but i don’t see any path where profit can justify the value
The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) https://www.jobqualityindex.com/

>The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) assesses job quality in the United States by measuring desirable higher-wage/higher-hour jobs versus lower-wage/lower-hour jobs. The JQI results also may serve as a proxy for the overall health of the U.S. jobs market, since the index enables month-by-month tracking of the direction and degree of change in high-to-low job composition.
Bitcoins only true value is that it is the biggest/first, and it's limited. If any of the other cryptocurrencies catch up with it in terms of market capitalization/popularity then bitcoin might also lose a lot of its value.
My search for "Lana e" failed; did you mean something else? Or could you direct me to an explanation?
Easiest way to benefit from decreased value of the dollar is to switch companies and demand a more fair salary. This at least worked for me. Companies will start hiring engineers at a higher rate are less willing to increase compensation for existing engineers if they don't have to. Most people do not ask for what they want.
> The second point is that renewables today have become so cheap that in many cases they are below the basic operating costs of nuclear power plants.

Because nukes have stagnated for close to half a century. Bit of a head slapper.
We're getting downvoted for this but I'm not convinced that most people read past the first few sentences. The article was clearly not really about NEETs.
Anyway, yeah - to level these sorts of complaints against society's self-described losers - seems a bit "punching down" to me.
How about hashed identifier derived from phone number ?
Except it’s low space. And signals travel faster in air than in glass. And the path is likely more direct.

Just space alone isn’t enough to say the latency will be worse.
Lunar Swirls
This is even more difficult if starting a new job and changing your job qualification - eg. moving from SWE to product manager. Making that kind of leap without being able to rely on a physical office environment is too difficult.

This Government response to COVID, and WFH, seems to have frozen people's career and social status as it was at the end of 2019.
> Legal rights that the artist wants to sell alongside the token can be legally enforced.

For the first sale. I'm not sure current contract law permits any legal rights to follow the token in subsequent sales.
That is fair and I apologize for the characterization, it’s a generalization not meant to apply to everybody. I have been on both ”teams” as engineer and manager as well and either way it’s something you have to take into account as you work on or manage the people.
>(which I did not contend)

By contending nothing (YOU) imply anything. You need to type class your variable, otherwise it's assumed to be of type Any.

>That is indeed my point when claiming that you contradict yourself. I believe your criticism would benefit from nuance.

The nuance is just missed by you. I did address this. Multiple times. My initial post did mention that science and logic arose out of philosophy (and by implication is a part of it). The failure in this case is technically not on me, it's on your usage of the argument.

>I agree. I think the misunderstanding lies in your belief that X can be anything on the face of the universe. Not everything is equally worth asking the question what we mean when we talk about it. By popular convention, religion, science, aesthetics and logic are worth it. Philosophy therefore turns to them rather than rocks.

And my claim, which you don't agree with, is that aesthetics is just like the rock when compared to philosophy of science. That is the category error. If you can lump science with religion then you can lump it with rocks too.

If you claim X is not anything that can possibly exist. Then type class X for me. What is it? Formalize your claim. Because by not type classing X you've basically said anything goes or you have not said anything meaningful at all. It's equivalent to saying "My argument is X" and then not defining it.

This is the essence of the argument. My claim is basically X is typed really poorly and arbitrarily with little formalism let alone sense.
That would make things much easier especially to have the expiration date automatically update. But also to set a default for all sites on a server.

It would also be nice to have libraries for the popular frameworks