skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It take me about 5-7 minutes to drive to the nearest store (a "Dollar General" store)

Assuming you live in an urban area, this seem like absolute madness to me. Does this not represent a huge opportunity for someone to start a local grocery store business?

I have never lived further than 15 minutes walk to the local grocery store (and I considered that a pretty inconvenient location). Where I live now I have a 2 local shops ~1 minute walk away, with a small high street with a small supermarket ~10 minutes walk away. And I would say this is pretty typical across the entirety of urban/suburban UK.
Utah raised the limit to 5% a year or two ago.
This looks like a job for—Emdash Man!
A green cross definitely means marijuana dispensary to my eyes. Is it actually used elsewhere?
Even 15% is way too optimistic.

I'm not even convinced that the effect will be positive. A habit of blindly accepting copilot suggestions could lead to more bugs.
Scientists prove Turing patterns manifest at nanoscale
They could be paying a fee for candidates that get an offer.

Of course that incentivizes recruiters to get a single candidate multiple offers. On the face of it this is good for the candidate, but it makes me wonder about some of my previous experiences.
This is very applicable to me.

- I would save and invest a lot more than I did. In my case, I would have an additional 500K-700K easily if I just saved when I was 27. I am almost 40 now. This is without compounding. Kids, don't waste all your disposable income. I was making six figures in my mid 20s and had no obligation except some student loans and I blew money like crazy (Bought BMWs etc). I don't regret all of it but I should have saved more. Don't be me.

- Start a business. I always wanted to do my own thing but by the time I pulled the trigger, I was 33. I regret that. A LOT.

- Spend more time with people who love you and care about you. Don't wait for one fine day. They may be gone before you know it.

- Take better care of my body than I did. I am trying to fix it now but at 27, I could have done so much more.
I figure that if Amazon thought the game could be profitable enough, they could just take everything in it, including the source code (which they have a license to and conveniently access since you were required to use their repository services), change the name (to avoid trademark concerns), deny you access to publish it anywhere (which they can do because you're contractually obligated to use their services and their services alone), and publish it themselves.

Sure, they don't own it. But it comes damn close.
In case you need me to Google that for you some more...

US GDP is currently 21.43 Trillion dollars.

7% of that is 1.5 Trillion dollars.

The 2020 Federal budget was 4.79 Trillion dollars.

So, pensions are roughly a quarter of federal government spending every year and growing.
What does misuse particularly mean here? I couldn't gather that.

Does a child's toy, which is supposed to represent a first aid kit, with the red cross on it constitute a misuse?

Can a random private hospital not use the red cross?
Seconded. Haven’t seen this anywhere in Amazon.

Edit: Clarified that I meant within Amazon.
I watched Captain Lou Albano play Mario in the 80s.

Resident Evil? Pokemon? Mortal Kombat? It's already here. I actually don't care, as long as they are good. Not all MCU is bad (and I might even say little/none of it is bad).

Maybe a different comparison: a lot of movies now feel like processed food. Consistent and made-to-please, but limits to how great it can be. It is not ideal to live only on processed food.
Up next: Apple issues wide-spread takedown notice for all video games using their classic and instantly identifiable "apple" icon to signify food.
The paper from 1985 involves first roasting the pelletized lithium clay for a few hours at around 900F using a gas fired roaster, which isn't great for atmospheric CO2.

The new patent claims to use a new(?) discovery of ion-exchange that selectively extracts lithium from the clay, at temps from 20-100C. (Page 8 of the patent, under the "Detailed Description" section.) This seems much less carbon polluting.

If we're going to exploit the earth's resources at all, might as well do it in a way that minimizes the carbon.
> the next generation's math genius uses comic sans for the new math they invent.

The way you put it, it almost sounds as if that wouldn'be great!
I had one class like this in college and I loved it. It can be a mixed bag though. I think a lot of people came (and continued to come) to lecture thinking it would be a normal lecture so they wouldn't do any of the reading/slides before class. I'm not sure what they got out of it. On the other hand, knowing the material allowed me to follow along with what was being said and even predict some of the points the professor wasn't going to make in the future.
Can't see how restricting usage of the symbol is helpful at all. Pure rent seeking

>In an increasingly uncertain world

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Yeah, many engineering and science fields are much more than just software, for example, so it's important to get access to and experience with various hardware equipment and even get to contribute on cutting edge work usually funded by various companies from industry.
I hope research on this continues. I’m willing to bet that we don’t even have to increase the hours for the 4 days of work and there would be a similar result.

Every time I truly run out of time for work in a week, it is due to poor management/planning and too many meetings. Obviously anecdotal.

I think we (as a society) are wayyy off to one side of the bell curve of productivity vs hours worked. If I had to guess I’d say a work week of 24 hours would be perfect (6 hours for 4 days). This doesn’t include lunches or breaks. If we had less time to waste we would waste less time.
IANAL, but if they don't actively protect their ownership they risk it legally becoming a generic symbol that anyone can use and which they have no control over. If that happens then it completely undermines its purpose and significance in disaster or humanitarian situations.
OT but it reminds me of that part in Borat where he's learning about not-jokes, and he says "This suit is black not," without any pause. Similarly odd sort of rhythm to the first part of the sentence before the comma.
Big Tech can afford to spend billions on patent moats for no other reason than to suffocate any small businesses that cannot raise enough capital to pull their heads above the water. An escalating fee scheme, while not wholly responsible for the problem, seems like it adds to it. It’s yet another barrier to entry that contributes to the enormous failure rate of startups.
I thought the same then started drinking non-alcoholic beers recently. Now I actually prefer the non-alcoholic versions, same taste but no harshness. It also fulfils the role where you’d have a beer but aren’t particularly interested in getting drunk or being hungover.

I’d also stress modern non-alcoholic beers are really good taste wise compared with what there used to be.
They sure are making buckets of money on it though
To the extent that the symbol is used for regaining health and being treated for injuries in games, I don't think it detracts at all from the Red Cross mission.

That being said, if the symbol was being used as the emblem of an evil army or crime syndicate in a game, I could understand them having a problem with it, however.
Not recent, but I believe subnatica had their submission to Japan rejected due to use a red cross on their med kits.
They do this fairly often. archive.is dates this page to at least 2018
In Europe, it's sometimes used to identify an ordinary pharmacy.
>which otherwise has basically the same grammar as English

German and English have similar grammar but they are very far from being the same. Particular here with commas. Clauses in German are almost always marked with commas. English uses the comma much more sparingly.
I've been doing some googling and it appears that the US isn't actually building new steel plants. The only capacity increase I could find was bringing old plants back online. All the old stuff (other than recycling) uses carbon. Do you have a link showing what I missed?

US Steel has started to look into hydrogen production, but hasn't built anything yet. [0]

Europe has some pilot projects for hydrogen-produced steel but nothing operational. [1]

We certainly should make that conversion, and also ensure that we use green hydrogen for it, but that's a big change and there won't be much economic incentive for it before we have a decent carbon price. "Renewable hydrogen-based iron production can become the least-cost supply option at a carbon dioxide (CO2) price of around United States dollars (USD) 67 per tonne," but "the hydrogen energy used would equal 1% of global primary energy supply." [2]

Carbon capture during cement production of course also lacks economic incentive until we have a carbon price, but I haven't found a specific price it would need.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-steel-norways-equ...

[1] https://bellona.org/news/industrial-pollution/2021-05-hydrog...

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.12997
And all for the low, low price of $660/issue. (https://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/Lite/Subs.aspx?doi=...)

"This isn't always how it works."

In my experience, "Other publishing staff: performed proof reading & copy editing, did the layout & type setting" was not done by the publisher.
Isn’t there already overproduction of PhDs?
That 3.2% is by weight, while everyone else uses volume to measure alcohol content. 3.2% ABW is equivalent to 4.0% ABV.

And there is no more 3.2% ABW/4.0% ABV beer in Utah, the limit was recently raised to 5.0% ABV.
That seems like a great outcome, no? Allowing room for a gradual transition to a net positive societal outcome rather than requiring some phase shift.

I like bars and hanging out in them, and it would be awesome to preserve the atmosphere with less and less alcohol consumed.
That Amazon or any company has such a plan is actually laudable. I was under the impression that folks who are not performing just get given a 2-week notice. But it's likely more profitable to rehabilitate or retrain an underperforming employee than to go through the process of hiring and onboarding a new employee. None of this is out of altruism -- it's a cost benefit analysis (see also the scene in the Fight Club movie where the un-named narrator explains the math behind his company issuing a recall or not...)
German does not the same grammar as English have.
> In your civilised society I will never, ever use a new merchant or a small merchant. One vendor that promises easy refunds would be the only place I would ever shop. Small vendors and new vendors can go hang. Hell, it might just kill internet shopping all together.

What if that merchant was your friend? Or someone you knew personally? What if the merchant was recommended by someone you trust, like how small business has worked for millenia?

Otherwise, yes, you're right, you shouldn't buy things from people you don't know and/or don't trust, even with the ability to request a chargeback. That should never change.

> We have these systems in place for a reason, and it’s to stop uncivilised merchants from doing what they’ve been doing as long as merchants have existed.

No, that's not at all why these systems are in place. They would never have come to be had the U.S. Congress not passed the Fair Credit Billing Act in 1974 [1], which essentially outlined the mechanics of chargebacks, amongst other billing "errors".

To boot, consumers aren't a blameless party here. Fraud has existed on both sides of transactions since trading was a thing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Billing_Act
I can't see how that detracts from the symbol - if anything, it makes it clearer what it represents. If there was a game with Nazis carrying red crosses instead of swastikas or something, this post might make sense, but it just seems unreasonable to me.
If video games or art or movies are depicting the appropriate scenarios, such as a scene involving army medics, wouldn't that be a constructive use of the symbol? It would spread awareness and education.

A green cross would confuse people.
It is ubiquitous in Italy. Maybe blue would be better in the US, if it can be made different enough from the insurance company logo.
- “a gum and two dr.Peppers were added to your pickup order”
It's not an insinuation of anything, they're trying to emphasize the gravity of what they do to discourage casual use of the symbol. Their intention is in the headline.
Two cold spots are not better than one. If you're claiming that the approach you describe is more efficient, then I agree with you. But for me the 'vents pointed away' approach is still subjectively more comfortable, though it does take longer.
I don't think they are insinuating that. I think they are claiming that pulling the Red Cross into public domain dilutes its symbolism from the neutral humanitarian organization they intend it to stand for, to "generic medical symbol potentially used by anyone", which could potentially open personnel up to violence.
The second trade show I went to (as an exhibitor), someone warned me that a lot of wannabe investors walk the floor trying to get a gestalt of the tech industry. Those people are not going to buy our product so don't let them wind you up on a topic.

Very much explained some experiences I'd had at the previous trade show.
What about double secret probation?
The people doing the research don't get paid for publications. At all. Ever. It's just part of their job.
I'd really question the claim on C#/.Net being the best Web programming language. Yes, you can eek out a performance benefit over Python, but many people prefer Python and its frameworks over C#. It's also proven to be a viable road for startups.

IDEs for Python have improved a lot, and the more passionate Pythonists might fault C# for actually needing IDE tooling for being bearable...

I can see why you would prefer C# over PHP, C++ and Java for Web programming though.
I think a common approach is “I know this job is garbage but if I can last 18 months, my resume will look much better”.....or.....”maybe my manager will be alright and the bad stories will be less relevant”
It may be illegal but it's hard to prove collusion.

It certainly doesnt require whole teams of people. It requires a few senior managers to be in on it.

The just world hypothesis is a powerful thing.
A first concern is how to actually secure it.

There have been numerous vulnerabilities, back doors, default passwords etc in Qnap products; search HN.

In some cases devices have been attacked with ransomware even in private networks (no ports were opened to internet) through UPnP.
> Here are the top ten box office films of 2020

But see, 2020 was an aberration. You have to look at 2019.

Sequel, remake, sequel, sequel, comic, sequel, sequel/comic, remake, comic, sequel/remake,

Oh. Oh no. Let's keep going for top 20, yeah?

Sequel/remake, ORIGINAL, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, video game, ORIGINAL, comic, comic. (from boxofficemojo)

2 in the top 20.

Let's keep going?

ORIGINAL, remake, sequel-ish? sequel, sequel, (US) remake, ORIGINAL, sequel, ORIGINAL, remake, tv-to-film, ORIGINAL, comic, ORIGINAL, sequel, sequel, sequel, ORIGINAL, sequel, sequel, ...

Let's stop there, but don't assume for a second that all the remakes and sequels are top-loaded - they may dominate the top of the chart but they go pretty far down it too.
My first degree was in math. I've frequently discovered that I don't understand the notation in math papers. What does the paper mean by the harpoon (↼ arrow with half its arrowhead) and how is it different than the waved arrow (⬿ arrow with a wavy shaft)? Each discipline has its own conventions, is the backslash a set difference operator or is it matrix division. Is alpha, α, an angle in some trig equation or is it the minimum assured score value in alpha-beta pruning? It takes a bit of time to dive into a math paper. Even the universally understood symbol for integration (∫) can mean different things. Is it Riemann integration or is it Lebesgue integration? Is it symbolic or is it a numerical approximation. It depends upon context, and the context is communicated between mathematicians by the subject of the course, the preceding results in or paper, or just a few asides by a professor giving a lecture.

Computer scientists (I've been one for roughly 50 years) introduce their own academic notations. Is circled plus, ⊕, a boolean exclusive-or or is it bitwise exclusive-or. Take a look at Knuth Vol 4A, it's chock full of mathematical notations embedded in algorithms. He uses superscripts that are themselves superscripts, how are those supposed to be entered with our text editors?. What about sequence notations like 1, 4, 9, 16, ... we might suppose that it is just the integer squares, but the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences lists 187 other possibilities. Is the compiler supposed to guess what this is?

Well, if mathematicians use these concise notations, why shouldn't programmers? I believe it is because mathematicians don't want or need to take the time and space needed to spell out these operators, variables, and functions in their papers. It's not necessary for mathematicians. Other specialists in their field can figure out what the symbols mean while reading their papers. Their students can understand what a blackboard capital F (𝔽), likely a field in a class on abstract algebra.

Programmers are doing something different. Their programs are going to be a lot longer than most math papers or lecture expositions. The programs have to deal with data, networks, business rules, hardware limits, etc. And everything in a program must be unambiguous and precise. Programs are large and can be edited many times by many people. For these reasons, I'm inclined to favor programing in plain language with plain ascii.

See:

Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4A, Combinatorial Algorithms

The on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences, https://oeis.org
I appreciate the warning but I don't feel like the author added anything besides the usual "crypto is difficult, stay away from it". I completely agree with it, but as a developer I didn't get any advice on how to operate in that situation.

I can't tell my boss "no, I won't do it because someone on Twitter said I shouldn't".
My issue with lecture notes has been that I always read through them too quickly to grasp the material. On the other hand, videos seem perfectly paced for me or I can change the speed and rewatch things that don't make sense.

There's an aspect of change over time that you get which isn't that easy to show on paper. It helps me better relate one concept to the next.
Before everything shut down last year, my local theaters played a showing of a classic film each month, often Hitchcock. The few I went to had plenty of attendees.

Another local theater took the lockdown as an opportunity to do outdoor socially-distanced showings of previous blockbusters, like The Dark Knight. Plenty of attendees there, too.

I'd be happy to have more showings like that.
> The discussion in this thread is written more as if Amazon is pushing out capable talent.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they have a stated goal of cutting the bottom 10% every year? I gotta think that can't go on forever without hitting the "capable talent" unless managers are hiring sacrificial lambs on purpose. Hmm, I feel like I've heard about that somewhere...

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-managers-performance-...
It's not the same legally as an ordinary trademark, so I don't think that's their exact motivation. I think the idea is that they want everyone to know about believe that the emblem is only used for Red Cross activities and therefore that it's bad, and even a war crime, to attack those displaying it in a conflict environment. If people have seen it coming up in other contexts, that intuition or association might be weakened.
A green cross would confuse no one. It's already used all over the world. You've probably seen it and the color hasn't even crossed your mind.
thx phndrenad2. funny i just searched "chisel gpu" and found two:
https://github.com/jbush001/ChiselGPU
https://github.com/Chlorophytus/broccoli

half-float we'd like to do by using a dynamic SIMD-aware 64-bit ALU that has auto-partitioning. we do however already have an actual FP16 implementation
https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=ieee754fpu.git;a=tree;f=src/iee...

or more to the point, one that is compile-time configureable with one parameter (bit-width), so the same HDL does FP16, FP32 and FP64. i'd like to make that dynmaically-SIMD-configureable but it'll take some base work in nmigen to do without massive code-explosions.
I'm not confused about your views at all.
It does seem strange. If they wanted that emphasis they could have used a quote.

> "It may just be a game to you but" Red Cross spokesperson tine said "it means the world to us."
It’s not an Economist article, it’s an 1843 article. 1843 is an Economist spinoff that focuses on “culture.” It let’s them take risks while preserving their core product.
A few months ago I chose a random set of iOS apps to decompile and view their included libraries. Its amazing how much tracking is going on. One interesting that I recall was a Bluetooth library in a convenience store app. Seems like they had Bluetooth beacons around there store and it would use the phone to track you as you walked through the store.
Learning how to work with 3d gaming tools/libraries now, just so I can create a simulator where you kill a bunch of defenseless Red Cross workers (all wearing the symbol of course) in a crowded office building.
just mix a regular 5% beer with lemonade, as many people do in summer
Seems to be a reference to geopolitical instability. In modern times (post WW II) the Red Cross is seen as responders to natural disasters. But it seems they feel they’re increasingly responding to man-made disasters (e.g. armed conflicts). That’s at least my interpretation.

(Edited to clarify timeframe)
I found it absolutely shocking that Furnace Creek has a (well-watered) golf course and a whole bunch of air conditioned hotel rooms, despite being in a clearly inhabitable location. Exiting a fully air conditioned room at 20 degrees into 45+ degrees heat feels like literally like opening a furnace door. The sheer waste of energy to keep that hotel cooled down to those temperatures and golf-course playable year-round is just ridiculous.
The exact time is subject to debate.
AFIAK bubbled water is acidic and it can hurt
mucous membranes.
Fearful Symmetry
Patents mean that you basically need venture money to being anything to market. If you're a whiz-kid programmer who makes a new OS by the time you're 16, you're just going to get buried by patent lawsuits unless you can get YCombinator money to fight it.
Maybe https://skrooge.org/ perhaps?

There's also a big list of alternatives to GnuCash at https://alternativeto.net/software/gnucash/ which you can filter down by various tags (open source or not, operating system, etc).
Even better would be support for Windows instead of WSL.

I've really come to be frustrated with the a pattern where developers treat "it builds on Ubuntu LTS WSL2" as the same thing as "it works on windows"

Could I do something like run one build on a windows CI host and also test that things behave the same way on linux and mac.
I've written a few small, personal tools in GTK-rs[0], and it's GUI-enough for me. I love how quick it is to whip up apps, and how well it supports tools like Glade to build more complex apps.

[0] gtk-rs.org/