skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magnetic tape is typically used for backup or archival purposes most of the time though, so that might not be such a big issue and they'll be used for a similar purpose
> I think the employment gap is hard to explain for either role.

What percentage of each week was spent:

• designing, coding, or otherwise building the product
• selling or marketing
• researching the market and interviewing customers
• other
Dozens of balls are used per game, not just one, but yeah in principle they could check them. The only reason I can imagine it being hard is the balls get pretty banged up from dirt, bats, sweat, etc. — not sure how well illegal grip substances would survive.
The controversy over Bill Gates becoming the largest farmland owner in the US
Bummer as in I don’t trust Intel.
Our last parliamentary election in Fall 2019 led to a sweeping victory of green parties [1], as the summer 2019 was extremely dry and hot.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-election-idUSKBN1WY...
I don't think so either, but in my comment I'm talking about animals eating other animals, not animals farming humans.

I have many examples of animals torturing other animals, for nothing else but pleasrue. Where I live, there is a small clan of seven cats. I see them playing with their food often. I don't know if you have cats and if you've seen them hunting and seen what they do when they catch their prey, but it's revolting. At least we don't do that to the animals we eat.

I also have examples of animals killing other animals just to kill them, not even to eat them. Ten years ago two dogs sneaked in the chicken coop and killed 40 chickens, piled their corpses high, and didn't eat a single one of them. Four or five years ago, some stray dogs got into the goat enclosure and killed five goats and a few chickens. They left the goats half-dead with their guts streaming out of their bellies, and again didn't eat them. This year, stray dogs snuck in another goat pen and killed three goats, including a young kid.

Humans also kill senselessly, if left to their own devices. But, in modern societies, they are not left to their own devices and there's strict laws against such behaviour. And this behavior is absolutely not the behaviour of farmers.

The humans who own the goats and the chickens in my examples slaughter maybe one or two goats and a dozen chickens a year. Slaughter and eat them. Nobody who raises animals kills them for fun, first because killing an animal is not funny at all, second because animals are valuable and humans who raise animals respect at the very least that value, and many also hold those animals very dear, care for them better than they care for their own children, and respect the fact that those animals die so we can eat their meat.

You will not learn all this from anti-meat eating propaganda.

You will also never see any vegans or animal rights activists going to farms and helping the farmers care for the animals. All the vegans and the animal rights folks care about, is that other humans stop eating meat. What happens to the animals we raise for meat, that never seems to be part of the conversation, unless it is to show images of animals in industrial farms to shock other humans into quitting meat. In vegan and animal rights propaganda, you hear about the atrocities, about the horrors of the slaughterhouses, about fluffy baby bunnies having toxic substances dripped in their eyes- but you never hear about the farmers who stay up all night helping their cows to give birth, or keeping vigil over a sick ewe. Because that is very tricky to portray as torture, and the propaganda is that humans torture animals, always, no matter what. This is a lie, a disgusting lie and it is only serving to put small farmers out of business and leave their land and their animals to the hands of the industry.
You have a source for that?
Try helloSystem and register your experience: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe/blob/master/INSTALL.BSD....
What Apple and Google executives missed telling workers to go back to the office
I was a bit confused at first since in French, the word "Draisienne" is used for the dandy horse itself. But apparently Draisine is also in use in French (first time I heard about it, native speaker). You learn new things everyday !
Go through enough psychedelic ego deaths to know that death is not the end, just as birth is not the beginning. What is it like to wake up having never gone to sleep? What is is like to go to sleep and never wake up?
Do not fear death, fear never living. Do not wait until death to realize you were never alive. If you live so fiercely that you do everything you want to, there is nothing missed by leaving.
Why? Sweden produces almost no electricity from fossil fuels. Virtually all is hydro or nuclear. No infinite demand showed up when we built our nuclear plants, instead we just shut down our coal and oil plants.
> He publicly denounced use of “sticky stuff” in 2017 and 2018 and tweeted about how much more rpm his pitches would get when he experimented with it. When nothing came of this his spin rate increased dramatically and he won the Cy Young award in 2020.

I kind of feel for the guy. He tried to do the right thing and shine a spotlight on this issue. No one cared, no one did anything. So now he's got a 9-figure 3-year deal instead.

In his shoes, I'd spend a lot of effort collecting evidence that his coaches and managers are fully aware of what he's doing.
Not a big deal at all. A great number of people are always looking to change their job at any given time. During the pandemic maby were reluctant to act on it, so it could have created a big delayed volume of resignations. It is not a problem because would be a lot of candidates to fill in the ranks, who too have quit their previous jobs.
I don't understand what the issue is here. OP is using a Linux laptop to get a CS degree? I did that 10 years ago with less compute resources. At this point I would assume that a majority of CS students are using laptops (with a significant amount on a tighter budget). In my experience at 2 Universities, compute resources are supplied to complete the required course work (cloud or lab).
I agree with the other comments - I wouldn't worry about it too much. If the projects were pertinent to the work your trying to get - throw them on your resume and call it good.

Showing you have a passion for a field/tech. etc. will probably be a plus.
I'm not sure I believe the conclusion based on the survey. Resigning and "thinking about quitting [your] job" are very different things. I've spent my whole working life thinking about quitting but I've rarely actually quit, the pandemic hasn't changed that.
They also have a lot of money that doubtlessly pay for CO_2 generation outside their borders. It's hard image that the 22 billion CHF the Swiss have in China won't be using substantial amounts of coal power for instance.
> Surveys show anywhere from 25% to upwards of 40% of workers are thinking about quitting their jobs.

How does this compare to the figure over a longer period of time?
I think of you Google price discrimination or similar economic terms you get some explanations for this.

If you just have one price, you cut out people who can't afford it and people who can afford to pay more get away with more of the surplus.

If you have several prices and create just enough difference in the product that it doesn't change the expense much, you can suck dry every class of user.

Bit of an MBA trick.
Under the sun sounds so weird, should be something like - stopping the sun
I assumed they were referring to the spontaneous work-related hallway chats that middle managers and executives claim are so important. I'm not OP, but I relate, and while I'm not big on small talk I'll engage in it because I respect my colleagues and I don't want to snub them.
A setting called “use end-to-end encryption for all backup data” hidden in a submenu, with appropriate warnings all over it to make sure average Joes don’t turn it on. (Hell, make people buy a developer account if you’re really worried.) The fact that Apple won’t allow e2e even as an advanced feature is pretty telling.
It's called 'market segmentation'. It's why there are different brands of soap powder from the same manufacturer even though they are all essentially the same.
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This is done with cores/memory banks that didn’t pass QC. For example, a 6 core CPU and an 8 core CPU might have the same die as a 12 core CPU, but 6/4 cores, respectively, were defective, so they get disabled. I don’t think they’re crippling fully functional hardware.

See here: http://isca09.cs.columbia.edu/pres/09.pdf

Also here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2721

“When AMD produces a Phenom II die if part of the L3 is bad, it gets disabled and is sold as an 800 series chip. If one of the cores is bad, it gets disabled and is sold as a 700 series chip. If everything is in working order, then we've got a 900.”
If Joe costed you $100M and his behavior was exceedingly erratic, why didn't you let him go? You should be happy to have such a problematic employee go. If you _did_ let him go, why are you stalking him and make his life even harder? In both cases, I would rather talk with Joe directly over a manager who's either lying or causing harm to his employees. It's also not like hiring managers form some kind of a club, warning each others about bad hires.
Windows 10’s news and weather feed on taskbar is a mess
Meanwhile I've thought about quitting and then also quit a whole bunch of times. Business as usual over here.

(Turns out the grass is pretty much the same in most places.)
Young people were more likely to vote against the CO2 law than older people [1]. They also are more likely to be affected by increased costs of living and traveling that were proposed, due to much smaller incomes and budget.

[1] https://nzzas.nzz.ch/schweiz/gar-nicht-so-gruen-junge-stimme...
Hiring is just picking up. If you didn’t grab the best people during the pandemic because you had an incredible glut of qualified people applying, good luck doing that shit now.
It’s probably because someone was lazy and didn’t want to put a 404 screen up for if the issue was private. But this is lame.
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That's true, we build Alternative knowing the advantages and drawbacks of the market. Besides data, we tried to build tools that help you to make your choices. We relied on scraped data and reviews.
> You could have some kind of entity that buys up supplies when the price is low

How do you know the price is low and to start buying or wait because the price might fall down more?
Know nothing about baseball. What I can gather from the article:

"Pitchers head in there before games to swipe tongue depressors, which they use to apply their sticky stuff to wherever they choose to hide it, then return afterward to grab rubbing alcohol to dissolve the residue."

"Once baseballs are out of play, they are supposed to be thrown into the home dugout, where they can be collected by MLB for analysis. Some teams, observers note, have tried tossing especially sticky balls into the visitors’ dugout."
While not a tangible benefit for them, they do get a more secure network as a result.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/i-dont-know-of-a-big...
Im quitting and not looking for another job. Gonna use the savings to take a gap year, or a couple, work on some stuff I want maybe. Maybe more involvement in OSS is coming too?

I've never had a gap year, it was all school, then immigration, work, university, more work. Any holiday time you fly back home. I kept hearing its not unusual for people in the west to take gap years, so thats what Im doing.

edit: thank you all for advice, encouragement as well as for cautious pessimism. By the amount of upvotes Im hoping Im not the only one doing this. See you out there!
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Live to see them, most likely. Live to personally experience them become so bad your quality of life even begins to approach something close to "doom", probably not. Assuming you are reasonably middle class or above and living in a G7ish nation of course.
S/he's very sorry for misusing "starbase", s/he means a station.
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Apple is an obvious example that comes to mind but I can not think of any others. Anyone have some fun household name examples of the rise/fall/rise phenomenon?
Should be good for wages then.

Unfortunately my company already did our yearly compensation adjustment. 2%, of course.
But it's free for first 12 months only.
It would be super easy for the NYPD to give me tickets for jaywalking too, but they don’t.

The reason this was not enforced is because nobody cared and most people involved didn’t really consider it cheating, not because enforcement is difficult.
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Why do people keep posting this? I have no idea where this meme came from. It's not even 1% of global energy consumption. Cryptocurrencies in general are absolutely not environmental disasters. I agree, bitcoin is a useless coin but it's not even close to having any real environmental impact.

Investment in environmental disasters? I'd suggest the developed world stop trading with China but we all know people can't live without cheap consumer products, including the computers we're using to post our opinions. How about we drop the USD instead? It's literally backed by petroleum and the US military. Hard to think of anything with a bigger environmental impact. It should be easy, right? Just quote petroleum prices in cryptocurrency. Simple... The hard part is surving the inevitable US invasion and destruction of your country.
We live in a hodge-podge of privacy violations.

The government abuses privacy. Private industry (especially Big Tech) violates privacy.

It will take a new generation of courageous politicians to sort it out. Until then, we're in for more of the same.
During the pandemic it was almost impossible to find qualified engineers.
You write all the same code as you would your microservice, you just don't bother exposing the public methods over a network protocol, you just import them where you want to use them.
We can see a similar drift toward complexity in the written language by looking at text messaging in the modern day. The old system was that e.g. "before" was written "before". Now it might be written that way, or it might be written "b4". The second form is easier for the scribe, but requires a lot more knowledge on the part of the reader. The shorthand, which makes things difficult for the partially-educated (such as foreigners) is a result of mass literacy. If text messaging had been restricted to formal elite-to-elite communications, they would have gone on writing "before" the same way they'd been doing it all along.

I suspect something similar contributed to the trend you describe in Akkadian texts; with Akkadian in decline, the only people using it would probably have been more familiar with it than average. And that familiarity would let them use it in ways that wouldn't have made sense to a merchant's wife trying to send a letter to her husband abroad.
> When I was growing up in Italy in the '80s, peeing against houses was considered a bit rude but somewhat normal in a pinch.

I don't know what part of Italy you're from, but I don't think that would be considered normal at all (I'm italian too). It's quite offensive, the least you can expect is somebody yelling at you, possibly someone coming to slap your face (rightfully so, imho).
IBM will have - as the seller - a hard time arguing they weren't aware of the problems with delivering the 10 nm process chips on time or even at all on a schedule that was still commercially interesting to GF. For the 7 nm process the same holds to a large extent: if the company could not deliver on its 10 nm promises any bets involving the 7 nm process were instant long shots.

IBM knew very well what the state of the division was when it got rid of it, it will now have to prove in court that it could not have known that this was a real possibility.
Definitely an issue with personal rail travel, whether from the opposite direction or an unclearable traffic jam in the same direction, and whether two rails or mono.

See also: Shweeb - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/shweeb-how-new-zealands-hy...
We have about 4 months to find a lost satellite
As well as the pandemic causing employment uncertainty, as @Andrew_nenakhov says, there could be a temporary downturn in the number of resignations in the last year and a significatnt portion of this "great wave" is potentially the numbers catching up again.

I also think that because a lot of people lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic, some industries moreso than others, the market may also be temporarily saturated (at least more so than usual) with candidates at the moment, which will dampen the number of resignations.

Having said that, I personally am receiving just as much recruiter spam as I was before.
This isn't that weird. People will always prefer avoiding short-term money losses than a danger they perceive as being "in the future". No one will ever win a referendum about levying taxes, no matter how important or just those are. That's why countries like Italy explicitly forbid referenda on economic matters.
If a cyclist ignored the law and entered a roundabout anyway then I would definitely stop. But if they're waiting in front of a yield sign then obviously not.
> Otherwise, direct bank transfers are a good and respectful option by default.

Have you ever dealt with fraud at any reasonable amount of scale? This is an absolutely _terrible_ idea.
That's because there is a huge variance in the quality of chips produced because the process isn't 100% precise.

So the best chips which have the least errors in the manufacturing process are sold as top tier. The ones which have more mistakes in them get their defective parts disabled and then get sold as lower tier ones
As you can see, it makes the program self-discoverable.

Instead of having to go back and forth between the --help output or a man page and the command you're typing, you can just read as you go.

This is great for non-trivial tools used occasionally by people who don't live in the terminal (aka most users).
>they would have to resort to primitive barter

This is a common myth used to support a gold standard and it's wrong. Barter was rarely practiced because it is too impractical and theoretical. Ledgers and debt existed as soon as imbalanced trade existed.

Paying later is a form of debt. Paying too much is a form of debt. In tribal communities people simply kept the ledger in their head. Some of them used physical objects to remind them of their debts but that is not any different from writing numbers into a notebook.

Common ledgers were tally sticks [0]. You just take a long object and use a knife to mark how much debt you have. They even had a resurgence in medieval Europe because of a shortage of precious metal coins.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick
This already happened at the company I left two months ago. We had been acquired a few months before the pandemic started, and the people who had not left by February 2020 mostly buckled down to ride things out. So there was remarkably little turnover for about 9 months. Once the vaccines got approved, it was like the dams burst, and people started leaving left and right, particularly senior engineers. (My guess is that, like me, they had dependents, so didn't want to jump ship until they felt like the worst was behind us.)

Basically a year's worth of departures in a very compressed timeframe. Not a good situation for the acquiring business, especially since they prided themselves on a longer hiring process than comparable companies.
I think you're a bit confused, the parent was talking about a political solution to the climate change problem of which there is barely hints of so far.

You're talking about the solution to the political problem of appearing to care, which is what we've seen a lot of and that, almost by construction, don't actually do much to arrest climate change.
Let's say you want to add redis for caching purposes. If a service does that, users of that service don't have to be aware of it. If a library does that, users of the library do have to be aware of that.

Same problem applies, if your library suddenly wants to access another service (like S3 or some other AWS service).

You can of course maintain a stable API in a library and you should but that restricts the changes you can do to that library. A service I could rewrite in another language without users noticing.
You do not have to match the speed, but you should.

Sending the data fast enough to the drive will reduce both the total time required for backup, when the drive is active, and it will also avoid starting and stopping a lot the drive during the transfer.

Both eliminating the start-stop cycles and reducing the total active time will increase the life of your tape drive.

On my server I have 128 GB of DRAM, which makes it extremely easy to ensure maximum speed without wearing a SSD.

When the backup starts, I create an 80-GB RAM disk, larger than the up to 60 GB archives in which I collect the files sent to backup.

With less memory one could either use smaller chunks or use a SSD instead of the RAM disk, but that seems wasteful.

Then the archive files are buffered in the RAM disk and written in one command, without pauses.
An anecdote: a handful engineers I've worked with (and they're all high quality) have resigned from traditional bigtech to work in open source finance within crypto.

It's as though pandemic solitude gave many the mind-time to ponder their authentic values hierarchy.

I'm glad more bright minds will be spending less time working directly or indirectly on ads. It's hard to watch.
Make sure you post it to Show HM when it's ready, I would definitely check it out.
I can imagine a few other factors that might be playing into this:

* People who have moved, and now want a job closer to home if they want/need to go into the office.

* Companies who have hoarded cash during the recession and can now offer big salaries.

* Looser bonds with colleagues they only see remotely

I've no idea whether and to what extent any of these things are true, but it's definitely easy to imagine a big move around. That said... I'm not seeing much change in volume on the typical job boards so perhaps it's all hypothetical.
True, never mind many false alerts or alerts where the main developer is already online and looking into.
It's not a "commodity", it's nearly 30 years of engineering that would take a multi-billion dollar investment to even come close to replicating. If it's so replaceable, why does everyone (except Apple) use Linux? When was the last time you bought an IOT device that ran, say, QNX?

All software is "just plumbing". The shiny-shiny on top is the mere tip of the iceberg and not what makes everything, you know, actually work.
Yeah I think 100% of workers think about quitting their job.
You can check out ConfigArgParse[0]. It allows you to use command line arguments, environment variables and config files to control the behavior of your scripts. I'm not sure if you can use it with gooey or not.

[0] https://github.com/bw2/ConfigArgParse
The article sounds quite negative.

Sounds like people are discovering it's actually not that hard getting off the teat of a boring 9 to 5 job ... I'm not sure why that would be a bad thing.
Thanks for the correction -- I think the confusion comes from "secondary" which is 11-16 in the UK, so "secondary chemistry" is fairly basic (I have it, and I know nothing of chemistry)
You may be right but this seems extremely presumptuous—how do you know the people will go back vs taking a gap year or other extended hiatus or field change?
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