skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxpayers already subsidize the employment costs, by supplementing low salaries and lack of benefits via welfare programs, tax rebates, lower tax rates, subsidized healthcare, and countless other benefits. Walmart et al have externalized almost all of the true cost of labor to taxpayers.
>I like having two projects open in the same VS Code window (the project I'm working on and a past project I'm referencing), and it would be nice if I could use two different themes to distinguish them.

You could do it. Cmd + Shift + P and then "Workspaces: Add Folder to Workspace"
Mostly lettuce, some vegetables, and a few herbs
If it makes your interview for the next position go a little more smoothly on why you suddenly "abandoned" your job, then yes, I could easily see people taking a mere thirty seconds (if not less) to fire off a tweet.
> it should be be unprofitable to produce or acquire hardware specifically for mining it

If the coin becomes important or profitable, would this still be true? It seems like some of these coins replace direct energy use (coal/nuclear) with indirect energy use (create chips in factories from mined materials, all using coal/nuclear).
Every SSD spec sheet has a Total Bytes Written (TBW) spec and Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD) and many warranties say that they don't cover wearout beyond those specs. It's akin to a tire rated for 50,000 miles; if it fails beyond that it's not defective.
Strange to talk about this without mentioning Robert Becker, "The Body Electric".

For many decades it was effectively forbidden to publish anything about effects of electric fields and currents on living systems, on pain of losing access to grants and lab space. Becker had a unique arrangement with the US Veterans' Administration to study limb regeneration, and was able to sidestep the restrictions. It was sort of permitted in veterinary medicine, too, so that e.g. racehorses could get bone fracture healing acceleration.

In 1987 I attended a talk by an American researcher presenting in Szeged, Hungary, results growing beetle larvae 4x larger than normal through electromagnetic stimulation. She couldn't present at American conferences.

I never figured out, exactly, who enforced the restriction, or how, but got the impression it was connected in some way with protecting power distribution system and/or broadcast operators from liability.

So for all this time, the only effect that was allowed to be acknowledged was heating, microwave-oven style.
Apple vs. Facebook: Timeline of Events over the iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency
TLDR;

Should an employee have to accept ideological points for his company at face value even if it goes against his sense of workmanship or integrity? What about vice versa (companies vis a vis employees)?

How much does (or should) anyone's say diverge at Twitch especially from the dominant ideological creed (whether such a creed was employee-fostered or company-fostered)?

Where does one's technical achievement end and "the cause" begin?
I definitely recommend this podcast episode to get started: https://www.modern.finance/chia-a-new-cryptocurrency-launchi...

I’m a huge fan of both Kevin and Bram so this was a big geek fest for me. The tech is very compelling.
Ethereum Smart Contract Based Index Fund
Does this calculation include the energy needed to manufacture the drives (including all inputs)?
>Management took a stance against the employees.

Management took a stance. "Against the employees" is a reading, not a fact.

As I see it, there was nothing against the employees in the stance.

>Management cancelled their employees, removing their platform to talk about internal politics.

Because other companies have such a thing?

Or because it wasn't being abused to talk about BS (genocide accusations, and such).
And, let me guess, your political opinion could be largely quantified as being left of center?
I wonder if Comcast would be exempt because they own majority of universal.
Yes, but Boris real horror is, beside mum nobody called him.
This gives me a mental image of trying to fill a sheet of paper with a #2 pencil as fast as possible.

By the way, I am selling fully penciled sheets of paper for $USD one million each. They are unique because I am only human and can't fill the page perfectly evenl every time. They can be eaily minted as nft's for $USD two million. dm for details.
I don't know if anybody has done the math on how much energy/CO2 it costs to construct a hard drive vs. used in PoW mining with GPUs or ASICs but I'd love to see it.
MyOhMy.com?
I believe cell towers in hurricane threatened places like Florida plan for generator backups and flood countermeasures etc. That said I'm sure throughput is squeezed, but I don't think anyone really plans for a catastrophic scenario where large numbers of US residents lose all internet.

Kind of like saying "what good is Bitcoin during a hurricane Katrina scenario" but by that point its survival, not money you're worried about.
There’s another option: reducing hours of operation. Some hours are much more profitable than others.

That’s not necessarily bad for workers. It might mean holding more than one job, which is common in the food business.
Crypto-currency’s _only_ use case today, other than speculation, is illegal payments. For almost everything else the traditional banking system is faster, cheaper, and safer.
>are you going to blame the OpenBSD guys for the quality of software outside of their control?

Of course not, that's my point. In order to make an OpenBSD system usable for more than a rudimentary firewall, you need to step beyond the security claims that OpenBSD makes.

So the "only two holes" track record doesn't really mean much if you're installing software from ports, which nearly everyone does.
This is happening everywhere in the world (except a few countries where most people are vaccinated and/or tested heavily): people ran out of money, goverments failed to help them, and at this point it's worth to take the risk of getting COVID for much more people than to stay hungry and get homeless.
Also note that covid deaths are around 10-100x more than the official records. To be recorded as official death, the person should have tested positive and have died in a hospital. Home deaths are not recorded as covid.

There are also reports from my acquaintances that deaths from private hospitals in grade 2/3 cities are not recorded as covid deaths nor are deaths even in government hospital where a test could not be performed before the death of the person.

Two big reasons for this wave are

1) The kumbh mela with 5-12 million people gathering in a tiny spot. This was supposed to take place next year but was pulled forward to appease the religious hardcore.

2) Election rallies around the country.
>Difficult as it may be for you to fathom, not everyone is a mercenary driven by money and greed.

I'm absolutely sure of the above. Just not these people.
Oh will you gtfo with your stupid agenda? You would've told him to hire people for racial diversity, and what, that would've helped prevent this from being used to stalk people? Or what's the next class of diversity you want? Smell your own bullshit that you're trying to peddle once in a while.
I wonder if it was inspired by well known this classic video explaining differentials.

https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI
Do you support all Chinese government laws? How about all US laws? Do you support all laws of all governments?

Many here are fairly libertarian, at least regarding drugs. Do you agree with every classification of every drug in US law and that all punishment for them is perfectly appropriate?

In the past you’d be denied banking for the color of your skin or treated differently based on genitalia.

Illegal is only defined by imperfect governments. So yes, it allows for illegal things, that’s a great thing.

It also means you won’t have an account closed for thoughtcrime, or cheering the wrong political party. It means an authoritarian government can’t keep you locked there. And it means you can avoid myriad kafka-esque dystopic mishaps of “the system”, nightmarish AI flagging slip ups that close your account or prevent you from sending money to a relative in need in another county because it’s Sunday or you forgot to renew you drivers license.

Not to mention you can now use code to manipulate your money, give early users real equity in your company and design fully digital co-ops, avoid some of the burden of blatant classist laws like accredited investors, and design incentive mechanisms for your startup that are guaranteed in code.
Hey, what do I know?

I'm just debt-free millennial with a fully paid off house and car looking to purchase investment property #2 on another 15-year mortgage while renting an apartment in Manhattan.
What We’re Learning About Ingenuity’s Flight Control and Aerodynamic Performance
There was a good Polymatter video about this very topic:
https://youtu.be/kJVj3vp-lho

McDonald’s model is pretty different from standard franchises.
As hinted by the article this is not news. PG has been doing that for almost 2 decades by now.
Cable operators are governed by equal opportunity rules for political candidates. Politicians extending this to social media will probably be the next step.
> Most SSDs aren't designed for the repeated writing Chia requires.

It doesn't require all that many writes. Problems come from a conscious decision to use a small number of SSDs as scratch space for a very large array.
Rocket looks set for uncontrolled reentry following CN space station launch
The downvotes you're getting seem to indicate otherwise.
Basecamp are the people who built it and wrote it from scratch, like DHH. Not 1/3rd who came later, landed on cushy jobs, and now leaves with a buyout.
Since Basecamp is a 100% remote company, the trans people can use the bathroom they have at their home.
Antarctic ice-sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says
I'm from the suburbs of Chicago and brick and mortar are very very normal there.
By default, no features are implemented in GraphQL. It’s a protocol like SQL or REST.

You can adhere to the protocol, and doing so gains you an ecosystem of tools to use, but you have to actually build the nitty gritty bits yourself.

Think of it this way: you can create a graphql schema for a calculator then implement it. It will do math, but store no data and definitely have nothing to do with a relational database.
I think it's more like if the player portrayed on the baseball card sold a certificate saying it's actually him on the baseball card with his signature on the certificate. The actual original of the card isn't traded. As the buyer, you don't end up owning anything new, you get just a signature from some guy.
I think that is a pretty bold statement. In my experience, while some openness and reflection in a company is healthy, when a team or a company gets too meta and spends a lot of time talking about their own interpersonal feelings and relationships, it can overall create a really uncomfortable vibe where everyone feels as if their behavior is constantly being judged. I can see how they might want to reduce that without it being a flex of power. I can also see how some employees might see it as a flex. I think calling it feudal really goes too far.
External GPU for MacBook Pro 2011/2012
Replace dead AMD GPU with PCB placeholder wired to external GPU enclosure with RX590
3.5 cents to PRODUCE.

Not to ship halfway around the world, warehouse, pick, package and ship.
The problem is that a broad "no politics at work" ban also limits you from calling out bigotry as that would be seen as political as well. You need a more refined approach rather than an all out ban hammer.

How I'd respond to homophobia in the workplace: I will call it out and expect that person to get the hint and no longer make homophobic comments at work. If they repeatedly continue to do so afterwards then yes I'd expect them to be fired, but it will not be out of the blue or without warning.

EDIT: I think the current top thread already better formulates my opinion so I suggest reading that instead of continuing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001075
The difference is punching up versus punching down.
Check out http://btrdb.io/ which is a similar idea. It's a distributed database as well. It was designed for storing billions or even trillions of records for electrical data from hundreds of sources at once.

It was written by a couple of friends of mine and others, so I'm not sure how it compares to the article link, as I'm not a databases expert.
I think the people who work more than one personal project are likely to be people with something ADHD, which I have, I work no more than 4 projects -

1. whatever I employed to do
2. Maybe writing an article
3. Longer term writing
4. a side technical project

I find that the longer term writing is something I can do when I am sort of burned out by the other things, it helps give me more energy (even though it uses up my time of course)
>I would say they are similar, the chart is to demonstrate that they're two ends of the spectrum of dehumanising and hatred.

In the sense that moisture in the air is the other end of the spectrum of waterboarding.
How did it take so long for India to have a second wave?
People often buy things with money to survive.
I'd also point out that organizations can have incentives align with accessibility and inclusion rather than discrimination, accidental or otherwise.

For example, having a textual version of a video or image makes your page more optimized for basic search engines.

Now, of course, the same incentives could lead to dark patterns, lack of privacy, or even dividing people further, perhaps becoming a platform for divisiveness.

Personally, I think that we can identify and mark certain dark patterns as illegal, outright. We can encourage plugins and browser settings to enhance privacy. The hardest question is how much we need everything to be perfectly accessible and to not cause further discrimination or harm. That last one is difficult. I think ultimately the best answer we have is to classify some bad actors like we would dark patterns. This forum is an example of how rules and community can lead to better civil discourse online, but it's not necessarily as diverse as it could be due to those same rules. I think there will always be an unregulated middle ground where no one takes responsibility until they (a) have to and (b) understand how to, and that's especially true of government services at local and regional levels.
If have a hard time believing people are going to just sit at home staring at the wall because they loose their jobs.

If you want to argue that the minimum wage increases unemployment, and that the unemployment tends to be long term, go ahead and argue.

But don’t ask us to take it as an article of faith.
There is a game about turning the universe into paper clips:
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

It has one of the most beautiful endings in my opinion
yeah. Functional Neurologic Disorder is real, but its cause is not well understood and isn't to do with neurotransmitters running out. one of the hallmarks is psychogenic seizures - they look like epileptic seizures but EEG activity is normal. FND is a neurological condition caused by psychological stress or trauma.

it's also regrettably used as a wastebasket diagnosis if doctors can't find what's wrong. I was paralyzed from the waist down with spasms running through my legs for an hour, and recovered through the night. neurologist didn't find anything and diagnosed me with acute paraplegia, possibly caused by throwing a clot. my psychiatrist changed that to FND when the MRIs came back clean.
It comes down to convenience. I really like print books. I prefer them whenever I am reading something non-technical. Sometimes, even for technical content, I prefer print books, especially the books with which I will spend a lot of time.

BUT.

You cannot really carry print books. I used to live as a semi-expat pre-Covid, and my bags would always be full and heavy with clothes, food, water, etc. Carrying more than one or two books would be impractically heavy. Additionally books quickly fill up your 7 kg quota allowed by plane companies.

So, I only buy print now if I am sure that I get to stay where I am for the period of time in which I will read a book, or if a book is so valuable to me, that I have to have a physical copy in my collection.
The most puzzling thing about this wave is that even the young aren't being spared. From the start of the pandemic, I assumed it was patently clear that it's the old (>60 age) are vulnerable.

What I am seeing in Delhi is people from all walks of life without any comorbidites succumbing to the disease - peoples in 30s, 40s, and even 20s. Granted death rate of younger people isn't absolute zero, but in India, it's happening way too often. Could it be because of lack of hospital care? Maybe, it would interesting to see death by age group for hospitalised patients.

Unfortunately, there's no way to investigate this since I don't think there any publicly available data that shows deaths by age group.
It’s so weird to see this argument on HN. It rings eerily similar to the “I got nothing to hide” argument in the discussion about surveillance.
I don’t think it’s fair to fully blame these businesses. If they pay their workers a “living wage”, whatever that is, then they need to raise prices just to remain profitable. Customers see the price increase and go to the next restaurant down the street. Of course location, quality, etc matters but price does too, and a business trying to compete in a price-sensitive industry is going to be a bind.

What can help is government regulation that raises the wages at ALL restaurants. Then consumers don’t have a choice. I grumble more about paying an extra 4% on top but what am I going to do, never go out again?
Seems more related to starvation than hacking.
Because not everyone has enough money to feed themselves in the US. Start from a position that everyone should have food assistance available if they want or need it.
Alternative explanation. In japan people dont care anymore and we are hit by a new wave which is definitely looking like a new peak of infections. Add to that absolutely no border control and lazy authorities and thats a recipe for things getting out of control.
You might be interested in what Anton Blanchard has been up to with the power ISA soft cores, it seems like his work has spanned the bulk of the FPGA toolkits, and I think his latest is taped out for the SKY130 run. His work is also being adapted for an openBMC replacement, which would offer an opportunity to dust off some old Xzibit templates, so thats good.

https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt

https://github.com/antonblanchard/chiselwatt

https://www.efabless.com/projects/29

https://gitlab.raptorengineering.com/kestrel-collaboration/k...
Which countries have this happening?
What are you talking about? That's the single thing Optane is very good at.

Oh, wait, are you only aware of those 32GB Optane cards? They make much bigger ones and you could do the plotting process directly on them.
Let's call it super audio-only. When you talk to someone on WebCall, their voice will be clearer and more present than it is in most real-life situations. This alone is worth everything.

But there are many other aspects. Whenever you call someone on their phone, you interrupt that person in the middle of something. When you set up a call with Duo, you give the person a bit of lead time. I love this.

In the future, telephony will be much better than what it is today. And it won't be video.
They haven't decided Chia is the one; big miners have been rushing into every new coin that launches, including Filecoin and now Chia. It's a "deal flow" approach where you mine 50 shitcoins and hope one pops 1000x.
Yes, but are people upset with the status quo due to a legit grievance, or a political orientation?

I suggest that the status quo at Basecamp was probably in any reasonable reality just fine. The movements to 'eradicate systematic racism' seem to be afoot mostly in the places that are already the most self-aware and tolerant.

This is the interesting paradox and it's why I believe that the social organizers at most of these already tolerant places are antagonists out to enforce the worldview they 'read in a book' in the workplace, out of a misguided attempt at moral justice.

Contrast this with blue-collar union formation, which is almost always in good faith in the sense we would expect, not that unions are perfect either.

I don't doubt those trying to start a union at Amazon, but I do doubt highly paid white collar workers thinking we all need some kind of 'major overview' of workplace conditions to ensure their view of the world is put in place.

I'm sure there is always a kernel of truth in demands (i.e. no making fun of names!) but that doesn't necessarily justify broad social action.
No I would call them out if they make a homophobic comment at work & expect them to get the hint and stop. If they don't stop then yes they should be fired, and it has nothing to do with Islam.

You seem to expect this to be an inevitability but I've worked with plenty of Muslims in my 18 years career as I live in a city with almost half a million Muslim residents and I've never encountered a Muslim being homophobic at work.

I have in the past called out people making misogynistic comments at work & generally people do get the hint and stop doing that. If they don't then you've identified a problem.

EDIT: I think the current top thread already better formulates my opinion so I suggest reading that instead of continuing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001075
690k, while a lot of money, doesn't seem like it's worth it at Netflix CTO level. He had to have been making many multiple of that every year; why risk that kind of career for that level of payout?
Who said they were high performing? They had the best team money can buy almost but I'm really not sure it was high performing. Looks like it had a lot of problems and I'm sure it affected productivity.
Aren’t you essentially saying that because the government spends lots of money on welfare/social support, it gets to control private business too?

If the state chooses to offer benefits, great! But the state shouldn’t blame businesses having to offer those benefits.

If the state wants people to have more money than the market provides, the state can simply increase benefits to that level.

Wage subsidies are supported by both conservative and liberal economists.
Sure, but I don’t see how that changes the situation. There are three possibilities; you make a series of commits that are each complete and can run on their own, you make a series of commits that can’t be run on their own, or you make one big commit at the end with the full feature.

If you are doing option 1, you could make one PR per commit, and each one could be squashed onto the main branch (although a single commit squash doesn’t do much). You can then use git bisect at a later time to find out which of those commits broke something.

If you make a series of smaller, but non-functional commits, you won’t be able to use git bisect no matter if you squash them or not. If you squash them, git bisect will only tell you that the whole series of commits introduced a bug or not. If you don’t squash, git bisect won’t work because the build and/or tests will fail on the non-functional commits. You don’t gain better discoverability by not-squashing.

The third option of one big commit makes squashing a moot point. Either way you only get one commit.

My point is that you don’t get better discovery power by not squashing.