skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If half the team is in office and half is remote on Slack, then the communication throughout (both useful and pointless) is much higher among the in person. Some simple examples:

1) quick clarification for a technical question - easier to turn back and ask your colleague

2) design minutiae which you remember after a 30/60min meeting is over - very easy to grab your coworkers in hallways or by watercooler and nail down

3) coming across interesting conversations among your colleagues by just being in proximity - not possible when you have to schedule a 30min chat for that

4) reading body language to know whether your colleague is stressed or relaxed or happy or sad - helps tailor your response which improves the communication

I haven't even delved into the timezone issue yet, which matters a lot even between colleagues on East vs West coast (let alone Europe or Asia). Meetings before 8:30am PT? PT people would still be waking up or dropping kids to school. 9-10am PT? Time for people in ET to have their lunch. 12-1pm PT? Lunch time for PT people. After 2:30pm PT? ET guys are already out for the day.
Eat cold lard for a month challenge.
Does that mean sleep is a bad thing, because it cuts off so much more happiness and joy than suffering? As important to eliminate sleep as death? I'd rather sleep forever and never know happiness than stay awake and ever feel pain. It just doesn't matter what you forgo if you aren't around to miss it.
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To add to your comment: Widelands is amazing too. A settlers 2 clone/remake/inspired.

https://www.widelands.org/
Security drives profit if it is marketed well. Apple does this. Think about even their branding for certain things, e.g. “Secure Enclave”.
I'm sure demand has also been going up, though I don't know how to disentangle that from inflationary effects--same number of people wanting to live here, but w/ access to more wealth.
In any event, it only drives home the point that the relationship between demand, supply, and price isn't something you can just will away, like an alternate universe Jane Jacobs applying Marxist economics.

AFAIU, San Francisco has built more market and non-market housing than any other city in the Bay Area, despite being geographically quite small. Unfortunately, that's a relatively low bar in the context of the Bay Area considering so many cities just refuse to up-zone anything, or approve projects in up-zoned areas.
> this would be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause

There's a lot of places where very few people can afford to live. Like Manhattan for example.

> Cities and states can't privilege natives over migrants.

If native own property they can continue living there as long as they wish.
Order theory has its own life outside of category theory (and predates category theory by many decades). It often gets lumped into lattice theory, though you also have lots of handy things like semilattices, partial orders, and chain-complete partial orders.

I have gotten far more use out of lattice and order theory than I have out of category theory during my career, but that may be "I have a hammer, so..." bias.
Took me an unhealthy amount of time to search for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25053553
Yet there is no contract with the government. It's law, policy, and regulation over which the individual has no say nor enters into using consent.

You also have to look at real world implementation. A super majority of insurances do not use flat rate.
If you want to use spare space to "mine" crypto, look at Chia from the creator of BitTorrent.

The space isn't used for anything useful like IPFS though.
> I believe Java did this deliberately to avoid the trouble that C and C++ have with signed and unsigned integer types having to coexist.

The problems really only come from mixing those types, and the simple solution is to disallow such mixing without explicit casts in cases where the result type is not wide enough to represent all possible values - this is exactly what C# does.

I think Java designers just assumed that high-level code doesn't need those, and low-level code can use wrappers that work on signed types as if they were unsigned (esp. since with wraparound, many common operations are the same).

> Java-style wrapping integers should never be the default

The ironic thing about this one is that C# introduced "checked" and "unchecked" specifically to control this... and then defaulted to "unchecked", so most C# code out there assumes the same. Opportunity lost.

While we're on the subject of numeric types - the other mistake, IMO, is pushing binary floating point numbers as the default representation for reals. It makes sense perf-wise, sure - but humans think in decimal, and it makes for a very big difference with floats, that sometimes translates to very expensive bugs. At the very least, a modern high-level language should offer decimal floating-point types that are at least as easy to use as binary floating-point (e.g. first-class literals, overloaded operators etc).

C# almost got it right with "decimal"... except that fractional literals still default to "double", so you need to slap the "M" suffix everywhere. It really ought to be the other way around - slower but safer choice by default, and opt into fast binary floating-point where you actually need perf.

> At least Java has the defence that they didn't know how it would pan out. C# has no such excuse in copying Java.

I think both Java and C# did it as an attempt to offer some generic data structure that could cover as many use cases as possible, since neither had user-defined generic types. In retrospect, it was an error - but before true generics became a thing, it was also a godsend in some cases.
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> log trains can only carry logs, passenger trains can only carry passengers

Not technically true since you can mix carriages, but like in Factorio having mixed trains is probably a bad idea.
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That's not remotely how it works.
Disappointing. As a Halo fan, I thought Cortana was a great name for a voice enabled assistant.
I can only imagine what the elegance and clarity when we start writing code in 3D.
Only in the same sense that navigating to https://news.ycombinator.com modifies your web browser's code.

That is: no, not at all.
On the other hand, if I think more about it, it may be a key strategic interest of Taiwan to ensure that USA and EU don't get any reasonable onshore fab capacity in the near future - if Taiwan (and trade with it) becomes irreplaceable for USA and EU, possibly even more irreplaceable than the trade with mainland China, that would ensure that USA and EU would be motivated to defend Taiwan against any attempts of forceful reunification.
Can't they do this for apps too? Treat them as "less trusted", instead of doing all that bullshit with shipping bundled scanners, and the insane policies that make it impossible for me to take a screenshot of transaction details in the app...

(Yes, I know. My role as a user isn't to have opinions - it's to dutifully enjoy the software as-is, and visit the "offers" section on a regular basis.)
tidyverse packages in R do this. Normally, you might have something like this:

df = someFunctionThatReturnsADataFrame()
newDf = someFunctionThatTakesAndReturnsADataFrame(df)
doSomethingTo(df)

Since R lets you define your own operators, they took '%>%' and defined it as "pipe the return value from one function as the first argument to another function," so you can do this:

someFunctionThatReturnsADataFrame() %>%
someFunctionThatTakesAndReturnsADataFrame() %>%
doSomethingTo()

No need to name either the temporaries or the function arguments.
More usually, in k8s configmap.
A big difference is that the software running on Apple devices is less complex. For example there is significantly less hardware support. iMessage only talks to other iMessage instances (eg no browser support). There is only one web browser engine. Third party apps can't do JIT code generation. Older APIs are actively removed, breaking existing apps (vs providing backwards compatibility).

In general less complexity is better, but it also constrains things. For example it took until recently for third party iOS to be able to do NFC. Android had it since ~2012.
A time system useful on Mars needs additional consideration; considerations we haven't given it yet. It requires more thinking than just time zones. The various things we've sent to Mars haven't had any need for a colloquially time; they're computers, they just know that 21,872 seconds or whatever into the day is that far into an 87,755 second day and that's good enough to calculate shadow angles and expected solar panel efficiency from.

If we were to build a colony on Mars with normal people doing normal everyday things, we need something more than that. The first question we want to ask ourselves is, do we want to keep the SI defined second? If we don't care, then we have free reign to do whatever we want. We can define a Mars second to be 1/86,400th of a Mars day, and keep the 24 hour, 60 minute, 60 second time system we use on Earth. Or we switch to a metric time system, with a 10 hour day, 100 minute hours, 100 second minutes. Or a 1 day long day, and deci, ceni, milli, micro days. Or whatever.

If we want to keep SI compatibility, we need to keep the second. The Martian solar day is 87,755.224 seconds long. 87,755 factors into 5^2 * 53 * 67. So we can do 25 hours per day, 53 minutes per hour, 67 seconds per minute to give an 87,755 second day. Unfortunately there would need to be a leap second once every 4-5 days.

Then there's the question of the calendar. Perhaps fortunately, this gives us the opportunity to restart from scratch, because the calendar we use is such a goddamned clusterfuck, even worse than our time system. Unfortunately, the number of days in a Martian year (668 and change) does not lend itself to a clean division into tidy periods. You could have 23 months of 29 days each, with each month having 4 7 day weeks plus one holiday. This will give you a 667 day year. Add another annual holiday at the beginning of the year, plus an optional leap-holiday in the middle of the year.

Or you could split it up into 37 months of 3 weeks, each with 6 days. This gives you a 666 day year, so sprinkle in 2-3 bonus holidays per year.

There are a lot of considerations. It needs to be given more thought. Hopefully more thought than we've given to Earth's timekeeping systems.
I think people are very worried since only richer countries are getting significant amounts of vaccine currently, poorer countries are in the backlog for vaccines, so we most likely see some kind of mutation from those countries by the end of the year and maybe at least a couple more years of lockdowns and new booster vaccines around the globe. I think this is far from over.
Let's say ideal data exists in some hypothetical company which will convince you. What would it look like? Asking because this is an area where it will be impossible to get meaningful data unless a big enough company runs an A/B test over a long period of time to measure the impact on career development.
I gave you an example of an Apple product with known garbage audio quality.

And you compared it to a refrigerator.

Sorry. My brain is clearly insufficient to understand your hyper-advanced reasoning.
> racist applications of eminent domain used to remove "undesirable" (a euphemism for black) neighborhoods

I'm sure white trash neighbourhoods were not welcome there as well.

Anyway, I'm not ready to continue conversation where everything is considered racist, sorry.
but is it web-scale?
Eggs – $1.61 per 2,000 calories

Spaghetti – $1.49 per 2,000 calories

Pinto beans – $1.39 per 2,000 calories

Whole milk – $1.37 per 2,000 calories

Peanut butter – $1.25 per 2,000 calories

White rice – $0.41 per 2,000 calories

Top ramen (beef & chicken) – $1.82 per 2,000 calories

Potatoes – $1.79 per 2,000 calories

And if you do more research, you'd see that a loaf of bread is about $2 for about 2000 calories.
I do not live in the US, so YMMV, but I can only re-iterate that this has absolutely not been my experience.

Have you actually spoken to somebody 'in power'? Go to the next council meeting, speak to your local mayor, call a local representative. We have been doing this for over a year now and in my experience they know very well what the toll of lockdowns is.
> My biggest concern is a fixed-supply currency gives no government the ability to provide stimulus if necessary.

If people have consensus to fork and create more coins, then so it will be; but that decision will not be made alone by a single actor.
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We do fund programs to feed people - for example the federal food stamps program, which is formally known as SNAP (https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assista...). Around 10.5% of households in the US experience food insecurity, a term that includes both households with uncertainty but no disruption to eating patterns (for example households successfully relying on federal food assistance programs), and also households that experienced disruption to food patterns at some point in the year (at least once). The definitions of these terms are at the USDA website (https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...), and there we see 4.1% experienced "very low food security" in 2019, meaning they experienced disruption to normal eating patterns at least once during the year.

SNAP covers 11% of Americans, and its covered benefits were expanded by 40% at the start of the pandemic (https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-...) - so it's not like no effort was put into trying to manage food insecurity under the pandemic. However, we don't have very precise metrics on how well people are covered by SNAP. Because the definition of "very low food insecurity" includes those with disruption to eating patterns at least once in a given year (from self-reported surveys), we don't have measures for sustained malnutrition or hunger.
Again? The last time a major incident like this happened was just 17 days ago. Less than a month. [0] The root cause of this was the whole of Azure going down (Again): [1]

I wanted to start the month without GitHub experiencing some form of 'degraded performance' or worse. But then when I saw that Azure went down in another thread [1], I was hoping that GitHub would not be affected by this and this was all an April fools joke, and once again I was disappointed; right before the holidays, this happens.

Time to rewind the number of days since GitHub was down counter and to consider self-hosting once again, like I have always said from time [2] to time [3] and again [4].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469640

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666338

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26465269

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26301659

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439518
Azure outage related?
My impression is that Nautilus and Quanta are, among pop science magazines, fairly high brow, but that Nautilus is substantially more likely to use human-interest narratives (e.g., the opening vignette) to keep the reader's attention. Is that right, or do I have the wrong impression?
Teams is down too
My guess is they need to allow mainstream investors to get some of their eggs in the Coinbase-Bitcoin basket, so then they can really ramp up and involve the VC-Finance Industrial Complex to further buy into the MLM-Ponzi scheme.

Edit to add: Your 3 downvotes have convinced me, especially because most certainly they didn't come from users financially incentivized for Bitcoin to gain popularity.
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thats what they said when the dotcoms busted in 02 though
> A full day's worth of calories can be had for less than $3

The problem is that people often don't have that $3.
Seems like it's coming back up? Sites that were giving DNS errors are now resolving for me.
Right.

The result for headlines of 65 chars - shared 50,000 more times than 60 chars or 70 chars - seems too incredible to occur at random and suggests instead that a popular news source has implemented a 65 chars policy.

[Edited to note: Yep. YouTube is dominant as the popular publisher in this review, and truncates headlines at 66 chars - that's what this article observes]
If China attacks Taiwan with its newly minted aircraft carriers and large fleets of smaller ships, who will defend them?

Now, I'm pretty sure the USA still beats China in a fair fight. But if the USA is playing defense with Taiwan, the picture is very different. China is far closer and therefore has more nearby support: in particular, air support and cruise missiles.

In a neutral fight, keeping our fleets outside of Chinese radar / aircraft range will be rather natural. But if we're talking about Taiwan specifically, its clearly a different picture: China can pretty much pepper any ship near Taiwan with its airforce and/or cruise missiles.

China invades Taiwan is probably one of the potential fights in this "Terrible 20s" period, where China has enough advantages to seriously consider the move. Not necessarily because of Chinese military spending (which has increased), or technology, but because of simple geographical advantages.

A proper invasion of Taiwan isn't even necessary. Chinese naval forces can start a blockade and really mess up international trade.

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China vs South Korea is a bit further out but still within a zone where the Chinese Mainland offers a strong advantage to a hypothetical Chinese attacking force.
There are other factors besides money at play. I only know the basics so I'm sure someone can do a better job, but a few examples:

* Food deserts. Many low income neighborhoods don't have grocery stores, so residents would need to take public transport both ways with all of their groceries.

* Building on above, it takes time to cook your own food. Especially if you're riding the bus to the store, and to work, and to pick up the kids, etc.

* Education. Many low income people are taught mcdonalds is the cheapest food, and so thats what they buy. Can you blame someone for something they do not know?

* Financial planning and decision making. Same as above.

Its difficult for us to understand the low income situation. A family member of mine is a counselor at a high school for kids who get expelled. All these kids want to be lawyers, police officers, or government workers when they grow up because they've literally never seen a white collar worker in real life. They don't know that data science exists, much less step 1 in getting there.
Cortana's Revenge would be a great name for a System Shock style thriller.