skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think I have a warped view of SR. Yes the idea that you win more than 50%, you’ll eventually get there is flawed. Especially in lower ranks where there’s an overcrowding of salty folks who leave, throw, smurf, pick heroes not based on need and just straight up don’t play the objective. I agree that the logic works at higher ranks, but it simply doesn’t at lower ranks. Performance based SR is important for lower ranks and that’s something that straight up gets ignored. It’s especially brutal because there’s no way to reset your SR (it carries over from season to season) except creating a new account and losing all the progress from thousands of hours of playing.

I find the competitive in OW especially bad considering other games like Apex really do it well. There is simply no excuse to ignore all of these problems. I’ve literally had games where 5 of my teammates quit, and I sit through it because I’ll lose SR to only find that I lost more SR by sticking around. It’s inexcusable.
>This really isn't a the good example of pro-safety critical design you think it is, cars have exactly the same "back doors" as this airbag vest at the engineering / electronic control level.

You're going to have to back that up to convince me of that, because as I said, AFAIK that's the not the case (not that I know much on car safety mechanisms -- but I've yet to hear/see anything suggesting to the contrary beyond this statement).

>It's not fair to frame it as an anti-failsafe, when it was designed to prevent shutting down after the ride starts.

You know what; that did the trick. I'm convinced.

You're right, if they designed it as purely a boot-up flag (it turns on, or it turns off, but it's designed to be 100% up unconditionally once on) then it doesn't conflict with anything I've said. There's no additional risk being introduced that I can imagine from this setup -- beyond that inherit to the problem.

I still find the framing pretty dumb -- they should have just called it a rental -- but otherwise I'm fully convinced this is a non-issue.
No system is perfect. In the US, even if you buy our very expensive insurance, you might find yourself on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in hospital bills.

You might get treated by an out-of-network surgeon without knowing about it, so your insurer passes the full cost on to you.

You might get picked up by a rescue chopper and have the insurance company later deem it "not medically necessary" and leave you with the bill.

You might have gall bladder surgery and after the fact have your insurer say they're not paying because it was "elective".

Two-thirds of bankruptcies in the US are tied to medical issues. Personally, I'd always considered the financial security Canada's healthcare system provides to be worth the drawbacks... but then again, I live in the US.
I have no idea who you're talking about, but curiously I ran across this random example of a company that seems to have a particularly onerous process for cancelling a subscription:

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/gcz2dg/mansc...
Amazing thanks! I'll have a dig through. I'm incredibly fascinated with video codecs but it does my head in.
If the developers of the game ever actually played the game, and experienced /2 or /guild, what we wanted was 4chan/reddit with the pretty visuals of Dal in the background and an occasional puzzle/challenge. Instead the developers thought we wanted more to do (anyone wanna do dailies? lol), more pretty colored loot, and dungeon clears (without really "earning it").

My favorite moments (and most hours spent) in that game were being so under-geared I'd drool in blues while I /inspect people in IF, desperate to find the next party/guild good enough to get some myself. Trying to figure out the perfect combination of saps and traps to kill a 3 pack. The occasional fear into a second pack, but the even more rare "teamwork" to actually survive (...thank god I threw up that soul stone, I almost never do...). What we got was item levels, rng oranges, and more rng loot boxes.
Impressive strawman, even if this were remotely true, just because news channels twist the scientific conclusions outcomes to suit their biases. The problem is with the media and their pre-equipped intentions, not the scientific community.

Otherwise, you will need to cease conducting science all together. Stop all nutrition studies because some wacko nutritionist is going to spin it off as a magic snake oil cure.

Blaming scientists and impeding scientific exploration is preposterous and dangerous.
Greenwald is a closeted white supremacist. Haven't you heard?
Just put your game in my steam wishlist! I love typing games, and its nice to see new ones getting created.
I would like to continue working from home, as I've found it allows me to better align my time with my priorities and to be more productive. Since I'm in a great relationship and keep up with friends, I don't feel isolated. I don't miss the 2 hours of commuting on the N each day. I didn't expect any of this to be the case - I thought WFH would make me depressed and lonely.

That said, I know many people who really miss being in the office, including many former colleagues at Google. Some of them have kids, while others need the social aspect of in office culture. I really believe that at least half the company wants to work from an office.

That makes me wonder what happens with the other half. Having part of a team work remotely isn't ideal for those people - they end up being left out of things. On the other hand, it doesn't really make sense to just forget everything we've learned from the last year of remote work and force a big percentage o people back to a situation where they're less productive.

I suspect though that the latter is exactly what will happen to some extent based on Google's own statement, which is a shame. But we all have to give things up for work and many Googlers would be very reluctant to leave.
Signal Tried to Use Instagram Ads to Display the Data Facebook Collects
I think that 60% figure is misleading, it must represent people who have just come in to pick something up or drop something off. I'm working at another company in the valley, that is much more HW oriented, and its less than 10% of employees who are coming in with any regularity.
> It just doesn't work when half of the team can walk by each other's desk, do some impromptu planning, and the other half are spread out across the world effectively uninvolved in these conversations.

Seems like giving people a choice is the right idea. Maybe being less involved in these impromptu conversations is a worthwhile tradeoff for being able to live where they want.
> Generational mobility from poor to rich is easily possible, but you can only do it through hard work and education.

That doesn't sounds like "easily possible".
Bitcoiners see a less stuck-up version of bitcoin in doge and that scares them.

Without cashflow or consumable utility only memes designed to convince new buyers to buy from earlier buyers remain. Turns out many people prefer the doge meme to the bitcoin meme, and rather than network effects both only have linear popularity as speculative memecoins.
There aren't many places with natural gas significantly west of I-5 in Washington. There's a main artery down WA-12 to Aberdeen and the harbor, and that's it.

There's no natural gas service anywhere else on the WA pacific coast, nor the northern coast of the olympic peninsula (Sequim, Port Angeles), or the west bank of the Hood canal. The entire Olympic Peninsula is without natural gas except for one metro area. They actually have to haul tanks full of the stuff to the paper mill in Port Townsend to use.
Surprised only half.
Oh, definitely: video on the SE30 was maybe 100x60 pixels? And as you say, not 30fps.

I was just reacting to how everything here seems to emphasize the “it does b&w dither video” aspect over the “large format and high frame rate” aspect.
Still the market will finally decide whether the arbitrage could work out. Plenty of companies aren’t changing pay based on where you live, namely Spotify.
What if a front-end engineer wants to switch to back-end (or vice versa)? Do they need to stop coming into the office, for example?
counterpoints: Google let's you install alternative app stores, and more importantly, Google has fantastic open source tooling for installing your own os on Android. and a gentle, enabling slightly weird pro security but pro do what you will perfect-compromise on chromebook.

google puts no locks on your devices. the actual vaudevillian shit show horror monsters you failed to properly identify are the carriers & device manufacturers, which are in cahoots to maim & limit devices.

that's not Google's fault. buy a phone or chromebook from Google & it will give you the owner a fair shake as such if you want.

notably chromecast & Android nearby share are excempt from this respectability, are viciously proprietary. but I can't think of a simgle other major consumer device designer doing anywhere remotely near as much good. it's the jerks taking that design & locking it down that are fucking scum. fix your anger, aim true. google is consistently white knighting the everliving shit out of the situation, best as they can.
> the president is not an "ordinary" user and should have much stricter rules to adhere

Why do elected positions need to be held to a different standard?
I’m a firm believer of intellectual curiosity. There is no such thing as a stupid question when asking about somebody’s person journey.
The Limits of Facebook's Oversight Board
Would be interesting to explore the effects of larger families with educated parents. Poor families do tend to have more children, but it's a boring statistic in my mind. There are many variables that accompany poverty that could easily hold more sway in the child's success. It seems like the coupling of more children means a child is less mentally stimulated being a red herring. Lonely children would seem to be stimulated less than those who can daily interact with their siblings. Also there has to be some value in the child's upbringing with parents who improve their parenting styles over time. It's a bit obvious for anyone that has had a larger family that one makes more parenting mistakes with the first children. Parenting is a learning process after all. Anyways, I think this study is a boring example of bias confirmation by a few P-values without much new information. And like everyone has also some how thought of (why wasn't this mentioned in the study) - inheritance (whether bequeathed or retained) is the elephant in the room.
As I like to say, "The Soviets may have put the first man in space, but we put the first American in space."
...and British Columbia did its first test of its public alert system today. (Cell/LTE based).
Timely?
> That's it, the end of geographic arbitrage. No more working from the mountains on a Silicon Valley salary. Hope everyone enjoyed it while it lasted.

Location-based pay has been the norm at Apple, Google and Facebook already.
I think it's the only social network to have a char limit on posts? that simple feature, believe it or not, is a massive amount of its core value.
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Most of the best players in the world end up playing in the mlb so it kind of makes sense.
> AR and VR are both solutions looking for problems today. The technology is already there for a killer app but no one has figured out what it is yet.

For me the killer apps would be replacing my monitor/TV/tablet/etc and providing an IRL add blocker. The technology for that is definitely not there yet.
I got a refund on something that explicitly said no returns, no refunds when I bought it. Was a $800 automatic driveway gate opener.

They’ve started trying to see if the can help you use/install the product but that’s the only inconvenience
There's been quite a bit of tremor activity in the last month. I don't know if it is a change from before, but over the last month (2021-04-01 - 2021-05-06) basically everything west of I-5 from Portland, OR to Redding, CA has had deep tremors.

https://pnsn.org/tremor?starttime=2021-04-01T00:00:00&endtim...
Why Apache Pulsar Is Essential to the Modern Data Stack
The Google equivalent of a chipping block in most cases is not getting promoted. But Google has a very level-focused culture and many Googlers are highly motivated to keep getting promotions, so the incentives are there.
It depends. Some services are much more suitable than others.

Some services are 1:1 ratio. That is, uploading a file results in a download that only works once. So that makes them rubbish for malware, you have to be spear phishing somebody and even then it buys you less than using Tor would.

Some services are only encrypted in transit. So bad guys can't intercept or alter the data, but at rest on your server it can be scanned for malware, copyright infringement, whatever the provider wants to scan for.

Some services cost money to use which is an obstacle to bad guys who most likely want more money and not to be paying money up front first.

Firefox Send was encrypted in situ (the keys live only in clients, so the server doesn't know your keys), it was free to use, and it allowed either unlimited or very large ratios.

So that makes it potentially very attractive. On top of which, it has this nice trustworthy Firefox name. Grandma Jenny's kids have told her not to go around installing stuff from just anywhere, but they did tell her _Firefox_ is trustworthy after she got flustered when it auto-updated. How is Jenny supposed to understand that this link to Firefox Send isn't Firefox?
StarCraft I meta evolved for decades even though blizzard stopped updating the game. It’s hard to get that kind of depth from a FPS game, but CSGO’s Dust II is iconic in part due to it’s constant refinement but also near perfect balance adds strategic depth when players explore subtle interactions.
they're allowed to do a lot, like take it as a salary for first time candidates. they often hire family for various roles.
I doubt that high of a percentage is so paranoid or stubborn that they would quit over it. My guess is almost everyone will either get vaccinated or a medical exception, and then just complain about it in the office.
It's just very, very smug.

It's not wrong but it's very pedantic and not considerijng that the reason I didn't spell it all out and cite a bunch of sources is because the entire subthread is besides my main point. That shit is exhausting.

Not to make an argument from authority but having dealt with OCD and a lot of caregivers over a decade and having been in graduate level academia for a decade I know a little more about scientific research and how it ideally works than the poster gives any credit for. It's just very rude and not half as smart as it thinks it is.

Yes, I know what a literature review is. I mean, in their words, come onnn.
What about keeping your primary residence's mortgage to something low enough that you could reasonably cover with an easily obtainable emergency fund. Then include unimproved (or improved) land with no buildings on them in your asset mix. The main thing that increases with housing is the land that the house sits on. With no house, you can hold the land without any maintenance costs. Unimproved land has lower taxes. Of course, in this case you are using land as a store of value. What is better is an asset that returns value without having to sell off pieces of it. So land with a rent-able building on it can be both a store of value and a true investment (that returns monthly dividends). But it also comes with upkeep costs and risk.
She may be able to get a job based on her past experience, but 20 years is a long time ago. I imagine the thing that would most convince hiring managers is a recent project (in a technology that she wants to work with) that shows that she still knows her stuff. I'd recommend she take a couple of weeks (or a couple of months depending on how urgent it is that she gets a job) to build such a project.
Get a good night's sleep for 7-8 hours. One tip that can improve your over well being and lays a good foundation for rest of everything you are going to do in life

Will recommend the book - "Why we Sleep"
> The government will compensate participating businesses for any higher costs incurred by the changes, such as the need to hire additional staff

This is strange. They're paying companies to hire extra workers so everyone can work fewer hours? Sounds more like a jobs program than anything.
> you harm people out of the office

I have seen this implication frequently in these discussions, that remote workers will get fewer promotions, lower ratings, etc.

The assumption is that this therefore makes remote work non-viable. I don't really get that. Trading off better compensation through promos and ratings is just a business decision for the potential remote worker.

Personally, I would trade never getting a promotion again for remote work. Google and the other companies like it already pay very, very well. If you've reached E6+, it's "FIRE in <10 years" well, even if you get "meets all" ratings forever. If you're in that position, you can be making 10x the median household income. You've basically won at money.

Commuting is miserable, and I bike, easily one of the two least miserable methods (walking being the other) of doing so. Open offices are miserable. Flexibility at home is amazing. Having my own space is amazing. Making my own food for lunch, in my kitchen, is great. Feeling unfocused and deciding to just take a nap in my own bed for an hour.

So yeah, maybe I'll never get a promotion. But, I don't think I'll do poorly enough to get fired, so... good enough for me.
To clarify, the claim I object to is that inflation is currently, at the present moment, "running rampant." I agree that if the Fed does not handle things carefully then there may be problems in the future.
> I sometimes wonder what "or eligible to obtain the required authorizations"

For stuff that goes beyond just being a US Citizen or Permanent Resident with no criminal record:

If they want you to do an SF-86 with the US OPM for a Secret or better clearance, it really means "if you even THINK you have something negative in your personal background, don't waste our time or yours in applying"

(reference: I'm one of the peoples whose full set of personal data was stolen in the OPM data breach)

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

Not really in any way SpaceX specific, but this is something you will commonly see if applying with any large defense contractor/US-based aerospace industry firm.
I straight up put in for a refund on the remastered War3 after they did that. Voting with your dollar is always a good move.
I'm just waiting for AI to get good enough at tutoring that we can get one-on-one education. Bloom's two sigma problem[1] has already shown us that most students are nowhere near their potential, and tutoring is too expensive to give every student their own tutor so we're stuck with this inferior education system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
> Some of them have kids,

Who takes care of the kids while they’re at the office though?
I don’t agree with this at all. Almost every couple I know has some shared interest and almost no couple I know shares all of the same interests as their partner.

In other words, if you like technology, sports and philosophy, it’s not that hard to find a partner of either sex that will share at least one of those interests. Or if your interests are cooking, concerts and wine tasting, same thing.

The compromise needs to come from needing your partner to share every interest. But we do the same things with friends of our same gender. They don’t need to share every interest we have, just one.

And I don’t agree that you will be lonely forever if you want a partner that shares a stereotypically gendered interest. I know men that have fallen in love with women over baseball and others over art and others over fantasy fiction and others over yoga.

Sure, maybe your odds are reduced but they’re a far cray from “staying single forever”.
> because the route of I5 is fairly arbitrary, geologically speaking

You sure about that? From Olympia to the Oregon border I-5 sits on the lowest, flattest stretch of land between the coastal range and the cascades. That's why it keeps getting flooded out by the Chehailis river.

To the north, through Whatcom County the route is anything but geologically arbitrary: it's the unique route that required the minimum amount of blasting into Chuckanut rock.

Parent post seems like a pretty city-centric view of the world. The dozen or so miles that pass through Seattle might be arbitrary to within a Seattle-diameter, but that's an irrelevantly small part of the freeway.
There is not a significant tsunami risk from a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake in Seattle, due to its topography and distance from the fault. The biggest risk in that regard is from the Seattle fault, a thrust fault, that runs through the middle of Elliott Bay, which can both generate large water displacements and can cause large subsidence of the land (i.e. it can literally sink a dozen feet during an earthquake). Seattle is geographically very vertical, and heavily shielded from the open ocean, which limits the tsunami effects.

The real risk is civil engineering in nature. While the fault is some distance away, it will shake hard and for a long time. Unreinforced masonry will probably be destroyed, and Seattle has a lot of old masonry in some neighborhoods. Some older structures not up to the current seismic code will likely fare poorly. Seattle has had enough local 7+ earthquakes that a distant offshore 8-9 won’t feel too much different, but the shaking time will be much longer. Landslides are undoubtedly a risk.

Portland will likely fare much worse than Seattle. A modern steel or wood-framed building constructed in the last 20 years will very likely survive almost anything, they are built for it. Older steel and wood buildings that are still standing have already been through some earthquakes; not as large but they won’t immediately collapse.

The real problem will be restoring infrastructure in the aftermath.
It's also possible that repair mechanisms can be induced, with the body making more repair enzymes under higher damage load. If so, this would imply the danger from a single particle would be higher at low doses where less induction has occurred. This is radiation hormesis, but of a kind that means LNT could be underestimating the danger of very low doses of radiation.
East Coast Early Bird, West Coast Night Owl
Similar story for me. I was really into model rockets from age 7 to 11, and went to Euro Space Camp.

I studied Engineering, but made the choice to go into electronics rather than aerospace because of my nationality issues (see recent comments).
This could actually happen (deep negative real rates), but by no means is guaranteed. There are far, far more indebted large governments out there.

If it happens yeah pretty likely getting real estate and preferably on mortgage will do splendidly.
Has this improved? I've seen recently browser built in drag and drop (that people don't use as of, but as a base in lightweight dnd librairies).

I don't remember having that last time I had to implement serious drag and drop, about 4 years ago.
Almost no one is back in the office currently. The 60% is people who are expressing interest in returning to the office according to employee surveys.
Oh gosh no — not full screen or full frame rate. As I mentioned in another response, “full motion” in my head did not translate to “full screen” so the claim emphasis (again, in my head) was more on the “(dithered) b&w video on old Macs” aspect.

Kudos!
yet you found them :D
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An observation. This is the second time today we've had a submission link to github, even though the main repo is on gitlab (the first was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27047243)
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