skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're willing to pay a million+ a year you just need a couple people.
This is still "just" a weather phenomenon, not a change in the local climate.

Events like this happen every so often and it's really hard to get some actual statistics on this, because reliable measurements only started about 150 years ago.

This means that extreme weather with occurrence rates of say once every 500 years and below are incredibly hard to classify and evaluate for statistical relevance.

Whether this is just a fluke or a recurring pattern with increasing frequency cannot be ascertained from a singular event like this.

> so why shouldn’t we expect to see record temps near 150-175F by the end of the century?

There are certain limits and differences in where and how temperature is measured (air vs ground, shade vs unshaded, etc.) so it could be argued that such temperatures have already been recorded in the past (see [0]).

Such isolated phenomena, while being great at scaring the crap out of people, aren't the most dangerous or impactful consequences of climate change and ruthless exploitation of natural resources, though.

The loss of drinking water and arable soil is far more critical than a few days of unbearable heat...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_o...
And this applies to everything, not just source code.

I’m just presuming we have a future where you can consume unique content indefinitely. Such as instead of binge watching Star Trek on Netflix you press play and new episodes are generated and played continuously, 24/7, and they are actually really good.

Thus intellectual property becomes a commodity.
I would bet this as applicable as the Facebook posts of my parents friends something like, 'All my content on this page is mine alone and I expressly forbid Facebook INC usage of it for any purpose.'
I’m pretty sure I missed some opportunities in the early part of my career because I took job requirements too seriously.
dbt Labs raises Series C at $1.5b
Not sure that not disclosing your conflict of interests is legal.
It's because computer science isn't about programming...
I don't think so.

The code that is already used to train should be problematic for them, not only new Code in the future.
That's why we use the term "Climate Change". A freak heat wave and a freak blizzard both show that climate is changing, and not for the best.

Two sides of the same coin, we're fucking up our climate.
From the link pjmlp posted [0], to install extensions in Gnome 40 you need to install a 3rd party browser extension (not available through Firefox add-on store) and then from your package manager install the browser-shell-connector. These will let you enable and disable extensions, but you still can't configure them.

To configure your newly enabled extensions, you need to install the Gnome Extensions flatpack.

And to do that, you're off to the command line to add Flathub as a remote repo.

I don't know that the desktop icons extension requires any configuration, but based on the fact that you need an extension for it I'm guessing that there are similarly weird decisions being made elsewhere, and being able to change extension settings is going to be useful. And to get to that point you have a four stage install including a trip to the command line?

Why not ship Gnome Extensions by default with the OS? Is this like Steve Jobs with his "you're holding it wrong" remark, and people who want to put icons on the desktop are supposed to just stop wanting to do that?

[0]: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-40.html
Have you read much about climate science? The IPCC Summary for Policymakers report is a really great introduction to what's happening: https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/ Relatively easy and quick read, with references back to the full report if you'd like to go deeper on some topic.
this is so common in coastal places in Southern India. no death in 15mins here.
Not sure what OP meant by "several years" but avg business like restaurents/bars take "several years" to break even but OP is saying its actually going to turn profits. 7 years isn't a long time at all to become profitable.
Well, it does look like they were able to save money on demolition costs.

Jokes aside, this is a horrible tragedy. It would be interesting to know if they had earlier warnings as well and if that didn't contribute to ignoring the problem as there were no major consequences.

It would be interesting to know when in 2018 that the report was finalized as that would be around the same time as the FIU bridge collapse.

Seeing things like this makes me very wary to have joint ownership as the majority can hold the minority hostage on things like repair.

And what could you do in this situation? Sell your unit? If it collapses in 6 months to a year and kills the person you sold it to, what is the morality of that decision?
How much has the temperature increased so far? Lytton broke the previous record by 4.6 degrees Celsius(!). Clearly the world hasn't increased by 4.6 Degrees so the peaks are much larger than the average increase.

As more energy enters the system is gets more turbulent, leading to wild swings up and down with greater extremes at both ends. Normally stable systems are becoming wildly disrupted.

"The North Atlantic Jet Stream fluctuates between the Balkans to the south and Scotland to the north. Some 300 years of tree ring samples taken in both places show that the jet stream has become far more variable in the last six decades and more extreme in its positions, which results in more severe climate events and a more rapid shifting between extremes on yearly, monthly, and weekly timescales."[1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/wild-swings-in-extreme-weather-a...
If you take one bath a week with water at 10°C, but on the last week you take a 90°C bath, your average over the year is only 1.5°C rise, but you're still dead.

Average is just that. We have a lot of water that is much harder to drastically change the temperatures over, but the land can have wild swings. 2°C of average change is about 10°C swings in temperate climates.
If AI can replace us with difficult tasks, it can repress us. How are you going to agitate for a UBI when AI has identified you as a likely agitator and sends in the robots to arrest you?
I looked into building an adu a few years back, and I can backup most of what you said. At least in California, in an incorporated city.

We worked out that it would cost us $30k in fees, and required spending before we could even dig the footers. Things like a soil test, inspections, variance’s etc.

You can always build an ADU, but it’s a rich mans game. And not really accessible to most people. We calculated our unit to cost roughly $80-90k, and would be almost 2x $/sqft of our home. A remodel made more financial sense, but the above problems still persist.
I read stuff like this on HN and think that many of you must be living in a different physical reality.
That's a hell of an outlier.
Meta-response, but what is with the carriage return after every sentence, (and sometimes in the middle)? It's a jarring way to write.
Semi-permanent trailers are common. Most camper trailers are not designed to go cross country - they are for the family who does a couple in-state vacations every summer. (at the cost of fuel a mini-van + hotel room is the same price as a truck + camper if you drive for 10 hours every day - that is assuming you have the truck and camper anyway and so there is zero cost to buying it)
It’s starting to look like the end mate. The only people who will be left are the ones who can survive.
I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH.

Sure it could all work out fine for them. Maybe employees will grumble for a bit, then settle back into office life. But maybe it wont’t. There’s a very real possibility that you lose a non-negligible percent of your staff (disproportionately the most talented who have other options), handicap your ability to recruit replacements, and destroy morale for the remaining. For companies who’s entire value is the intangible human capital of their workforce, this seems like a pretty big fucking risk to take.

I get it. Maybe you think WFH is long term unsustainable and it will erode corporate culture and what not. But the point is it’s pretty clear that it’s not short-term unsustainable. Obviously companies have survived for a year without the train swerving off the tracks. Why would any rational company want to be the first back? Why not just wait six months after the other FANGs go back to see what happens? At worse you lose a half year in the office, which clearly isn’t that bad. At best, you potentially save the entire company from collapsing.

Making such a big push to go back in September instead of waiting until January just seems reckless to the point of irrationality.
They got the TR3B Astra now, not sure if viable (I guess they'd only use it in an important assignment (ala secret helicopter used in Bin Laden raid) or something or in 20-30 years).

It kinda hovers instead of propelling itself forward.

Funnily enough it looks a lot like some black triangle actual UFOs (e.g. not American, probably alien), so there's a lot of overlap with ufology and "conspiracy "theories"" so some people claim it's fake.

It uses a nuclear reactor + mercury.

Something tells me the mercury needs constant refuel though, probably would have to be deployed from an aircraft carrier.

https://matrixdisclosure.com/tr-3b-black-triangle/
I think company policies and advocacy has actually made a significant positive difference on some of these issues. In some of the big banks and other corporations, HR departments fall over themselves to promote LGBTQ representation, minority right champion programmes, inviting in diverse speakers and setting up representation forums.

Yes I know most of it is meaningless me-too bullshit and to an extent is even done cynically to make themselves look good as much as enact actual change. It's largely done to make hiring easier, but nevertheless the fact that big companies openly and publicly promote these attitudes does matter to politicians. As big employers, companies get a say in local, regional and national policy development. They comment on and influence advertising, safety, accessibility, transport and zoning regulations. They are big donors to political campaigns. Over time the fact that they have consistently and persistently pushed the same narrative has I think had a normalising effect.
I'd be working in banking, probably ending up a commercial lender since there would be a vacuum for the VP and a few other positions in a few years as they were all in their early 60's. Would've been a guaranteed "you literally can only get these jobs with experience" type of deal for me. No bank hires commercial lenders without experience. They won't even hire college grads who studied it. Way too many obscure things you can only learn in the industry. So you still have to work your way up!
And most people who consider the job are driven away by the economics of it.
> I seriously doubt there are very many (any?) entrepreneurs worried about that.

Why is that?
"We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set"

If it's spitting out verbatim code 0.1% of the time, surely it's spitting out copied code where only trivial things are different at a much higher rate.

Trivial things meaning swapped order where order isn't important, variable/function names, equivalent ops like +=1 vs ++, etc.

Surely it's laundering some GPL code, for example, and effectively removing the license in a way that sounds fishy.
Interesting game-theoretic play: play chicken with return to work plans. Big co promises remote-first work indefinitely, scoops a bunch of talent from competitors who return to office first, then later go back on their word when nobody else is offering those terms. Even if some get to stay remote new hires may not be offered that.

Corollary I guess is that some of us might be able to lock in a remote-only position if we act now.
It's further south than all of the UK (except the tip of Corwall), the Low Countries, half of Germany, almost all of Poland. Then again, I guess those places are frozen wastelands.
I just wasn't sure if they were saying fake conspiracies are more boring or real ones are more boring. I could imagine it being either. I suppose the ordering of the sentence implies it's the former that are more boring.
So we give away the world to the 1% and are supposed to be satisfied with the "privilege" of being able to eat?
Eh. For managing only 15 engineers in a non US market, 65k might be the going rate. If the OP is money driven, join a big firm with the resources to double their salary. Given the current talent market, they should be able to easily make that happen based on their ability to get the proper visa. Of course they may have to sacrifice a great degree of autonomy and job satisfaction to make that happen. Only they can decide if that tradeoff is worth it. Titles mean nothing, work experience and ability to contribute is everything. I'm a VP, have 20+ years of experience, and manage an engineering team of over 250 people. Different animals certainly.
Agreed. I meant it more in terms of what I see people do after the first 10 years working or so
That does not mean that you give them license to your code. In fact some or all of the code may not be yours to give in a first place.
I've read a bit about it. I'm aware that there will be more heat waves, but I have seen no expert claim anything remotely like 150F. There are concerns that some parts of the world will begin to exceed a wet bulb temperature of 98 degrees more regularly, which would be very bad, but still a far cry from actual oven temperature heatwaves.
Hi, author here.

I didn't intend to submit this one to technical news sites like HN. I hold my technical blog posts to a higher bar than my opinion pieces, and this is definitely the latter category. I don't mind that someone else decided to submit it, but it's one I intentionally omitted.

I get asked a lot, "Why are there so many furries in infosec?" and "Is everyone secretly a furry?" a lot. This post was meant to share my observations on the inside, rather than make a strong argument about society at large or provide lessons that can be extrapolated outward.

If you'd like a sample of the sort of thing I would submit to HN from my blog, the most recent post is probably https://soatok.blog/2021/03/12/understanding-extended-nonce-... (although it failed to attract any attention).
I remember there is an old explanation of Python implementation on Youtube, the inner workings, I have never watched it. But I couldn't find it now
I disagree - most Republicans I know agree climate change is occurring. The issue is the other party vilifying/putting at risk thousands of jobs currently in the legacy fossil fuel industries, not to mention essentially raising prices on everything for the regular person.
It'd work to everyone's favor if a sound transition plan is agreed on, which gives the folks in the legacy industries preference to clean energy jobs/businesses.
yes. i am down to HN and Reddit. Google calendar and telegram. I don't even know how to find cool stuff online anymore. Google SERPs are all business driven now unless you're research news.
> Smart people acquire mastery in much shorter chronological time

...and lots of people don't, even after 10 years working in the field. Not because they're not smart, of course, but it's common.
Once the wet bulb temperature crosses 35C sweating is not enough to cool the human body. Even healthy people die within few hours.

In some places that temp has been crossed for short time already. When people are poor and there are blackouts the situation can become catastrophic.

In Jacobabad (Pakistan) wet bulb temp recently crossed 35C.
"Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people...
You don't know my mother-in-law.
Lots of notable people in computing, and in particular game dev, do not have a college degree, yet it continues to be insisted upon by employers. My suspicion is that it is because it is an effective class filter. If you're high class enough it won't matter because you'll just network your way in.
These posts are silly. Sure there are some that will leave their full time office to a more flexible one.

I myself do not want to go back to our open office layout full time and Im checking out my options. Still though its going to just be a small percentage. Of course there might be more slowly over time as more remote/hybrid opportunities become available.
It is the process you broadly describe, and more. I use it and it has turned addictive. The very registration of texts into a priority queue (SuperMemo implementation) relieves from stress inherent to keeping reviews of high volumes of possibly disparate, disconnected, badly formulated, texts, prior to properly formulating them in active-recall form (usually question and answer pairs), to commit them to memory.

Because these reviews are distributed (it is a separate algorithm to the one governing core Q/A repetitions) and also interleaved with other material, you are encouraged to operate on portions of texts on each review, giving your brain a chance to consider different successive improvements, such as:

- transformation into smaller portions (which are themselves registered and subject to distributed review),

- introduction of supplementary material (e.g. other articles, multimedia),

- better wording,

- contrasting with other sources,

- personalization.

It beats the single exposure to material and upfront "ankification" (formulation into Q/A cards), in which biases—such as single-perspective bias, or recency bias—are prone to manifest more strongly in the formulation of your material. Furthermore, because the sources of information tend to remain unreviewed after this (i.e. kept off-system), there could also be a tendency to accept their premises or claims without competition from other sources.

Issues I can find with it usually arise from the desire to meet tight deadlines: it is counter-productive to distributed reviews, crystallization of knowledge, and memory consolidation, to rush the process. The SuperMemo implementation also has a vast toolset, which may be hard to grasp in the beginning. This article[1] provides a coherent explanation of the process from a user perspective.

Edit: SuperMemo 15 and above are incremental-reading-enabled; there are freeware downloads and trials should you be inclined to try it[2].

[1]: https://www.masterhowtolearn.com/2019-08-06-supermemos-incre...

[2]: https://super-memory.org/english/down.htm
The Importance of Inventory
Do you have a source on this please?
Was the name chosen because four numbers provides exactly enough ROPE for the product owner to hang you with?
Google copied an interface(declarative), not code snippets/functions(implementation).
Copilot is capable of copying only Implementation. IMO that is quite different and easily a violation if it was copied verbatim.
One major “secret” to advancing in a technical career is learning how to give accurate estimates. It certainly has been for me...

Seems like there's a hint of survivorship bias. The author will eventually give a bad estimate. There's no secret or trick otherwise it would be widely known by now.

Even the video games industry has been coming around on this in the last decade. This is a sector of the software industry famous for making aggressive, impossible deadlines for itself. It has ruined countless lives trying to hold to them. The smart ones talk about milestones and road maps. They don't announce release dates until they're basically done and ready to cut the release.

This is the conclusion you come to after you churn staff year after year and people leave in droves and never come back.

An aggressive sales team can ruin a small company. If what they sell is a deadline and promises they can't keep your team has no control or autonomy. People feel good when they have autonomy over their work and feel in control. They get burned out when their company/career is on the line when an estimate they were forced to make blows past due to forces outside their control.

I always recommend selling on what you can control. Promise only what you can deliver: your skills, experience, and knowledge. You can try to estimate how long it will take you but you will be wrong 66% of the time. The people in those studies were also as smart, or smarter, than you. There is no secret.
You need to better define "we" and "screwed"

People without access to clean water and cool shelter (air conditioning) have and will continue to die. People with access to it will survive for awhile, until their access is denied or breaks from the intense stress of novel weather. Other life on the Earth will adapt, just as it adapted when the dinosaurs went away 60+ million years ago.
What happened to WTC 7? There is a 45k+ bounty for any credible refutation of the University of Alaska Fairbanks study:

https://ine.uaf.edu/projects/wtc7/

http://westviewnews.org/2020/01/09/engineers-pledge-45000-re...
There are a lot of risks to a rewrite of software. Doubly so when created in a silo. It pays to see it from the perspective of the company.

Additionally, you either worked on your own time to do so or you worked during company time. If you did this on your time, you should take that as a lesson to use your time for yourself, including looking for a new job if the situation isn't rectified. If you worked on this during working hours, then you may have wasted your employer's time and money. Be wary of doing that type of thing.
But probably 0 years experience in "the mobile graphics pipeline and interaction across display and optics", which is the actual job.
I am very explicit with any screeners I use that any of these X languages or databases are qualifiers for the job.

I haven't really had any issues finding folks with experience outside of our stack when doing this.
Its complex, for instance one scenario for Europe in the long time is actually a drastic cool down, incl. Something like a possible ice age due to global warming.

The gulf stream (of Mexico) is what keeps parts of Europe warm. With melting ice, oceans are diluted which will cause the flow of gulf stream to slow down and not be able to reach Europe which will have "interesting" effects.
Even estimates that are requested explicitly as estimates and not quotes have a tendency to be used for planning other dependencies.

Once other dependencies are scheduled around a estimate, missing that deadline incurs rescheduling costs so no one wants to see it missed.
I can't remember where I read it initially, but the take that I love about estimates goes something like this:

Software is trivially copy-able, and as such large software projects are unique enough that accurately estimating them is impossible. This is in contrast to something like building a house. I build a single house, figure out how much that cost and now have a very good reference point for how much building that same house over and over will be.

I really like the approach that Basecamp recommend in Shape Up[1] where the team pivots to reasoning about work in terms of appetitie rather than expected time.

[1] https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.2-chapter-03#setting-the-appe...
The problem with this is that you increasingly have to put your trust in the hands of a shrinking group of owners (people who have the rights to the automated productivity). At some point, those owners are just going to stop supporting everyone else (will probably happen when they have the ability to create everything they could ever want with automation - think robot farms, robot security forces, all encompassing automated monitoring, robot construction, etc.)
Where does it stand now?