skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Death Valley prides itself on being the hottest place on earth, based on the temperature record of 54.0 °C (air temp at 1.5m).

However, DV does not come out on top when looking at temperatures measured by satellites (EDIT: ground temperature, and less reliable.) From Wikipedia [1]: "The highest recorded temperature taken by a satellite is 66.8 °C (152.2 °F), which was measured in the Flaming Mountains of China in 2008. Other satellite measurements of ground temperature taken between 2003 and 2009, taken with the MODIS infrared spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite, found a maximum temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), which was recorded in 2005 in the Lut Desert, Iran. The Lut Desert was also found to have the highest maximum temperature in 5 of the 7 years measured (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009). These measurements reflect averages over a large region and so are lower than the maximum point surface temperature." According to [2], the record is 80.8 °C at Lut Desert.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_o...
[2] https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-2...
I don't think it's unethical to interview for jobs. You don't have to lie to progress through interview rounds; just say you're keen to hear more about the role and what the possibilities are.

(I also struggle with staying too long in jobs.)
IBM also plays tricks to artificially boosts the number of patents it gets. For example, for a computer-implemented invention, a patent application will generally have a set of claims for the method that a computer performs to implement the invention and a set of claims for the computing device itself configured to perform the invention. What IBM likes to do is to split those two sets of claim into separate patent applications, so one application just claims the method and another application claims the computing device. So when most other companies would only get a single patent for a computer-implemented invention, IBM would get two patents. So this helps IBM maximize licensing revenue in the example where they're just adding up the number of patents.
So let me get this straight - you become connected to those who upvoted the item before you, but not to those who upvoted after, right? So this incentivizes the avant garde, rather than the promoters of stuff that's already going viral. Very interesting.
I think it goes both ways. The stories we tell reflect our thinking, and our thinking is shaped by the stories we tell.

The cynic in me thinks that another problem is that fun is bad for business. Fun makes people feel good, and people who feel good aren't as likely to engage in retail therapy, and modern movies make a whole lot of money off of merchandising.
All major game engines and VFX packages, already support Metal.
And too much woke content
Edited my post to add a multi part podcast recommendation.
Oooookay. That explains... Some of the weirdness of applying for a Federal Government project. The number of wild gesticulations they asked me to do with my resume really turned me off from trying to take the job.

I asked why they were doing it, but no one gave me a straight answer. I mean, I get for them it was Tuesday, but when a major contractor starts asking you to brush right up against the line of equivocating, I can't justify moving forward without some serious explanations and levels of frankness I don't think many recruiters are comfortable with..
> I don't want to have to watch three previous movies and two TV shows to fully enjoy the movie that's in front of me.

I feel like I “missed” the beginning of all the super hero franchises and, even though I’m sure I’d enjoy them, I’m just not interested because getting caught up enough to understand what’s going on in the newer films feels like such a daunting undertaking.

At the start of the pandemic I thought maybe I’d finally watch them all only to find out there isn’t even really an agreed upon order they should be watched!

It’s an odd and (I think) new phenomenon: that someone can lack the prerequisites to watch a movie. Even worse: no one can quite agree on what exactly those prerequisites are.
I do not mind at all :)
It does. You just put all your actually build logic in an earthfile and call it from your github actions. A benefit of this is its easy to move CIs and you can test your build locally.

Here is an example githubaction script[1].

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/.git...
Did you mean to post this here? I think you commented on the wrong topic :)
I'm not sanguine about this actually having any staying power before they get distracted or have another internal coup and it goes in the dustbin with all the other UI schemes they've rolled out and then abandoned over the past decade.

I would put my money on WinForms being ported to Linux first...
Might want to give The Fountain a go then, sounds interesting.

To me the movie Memento is special, both the plot itself but also the question, what if it happened to me.
Placer is one of many, many platforms that do this. Assume any app that requests location permissions is selling your data. Hopefully anonymized.
sure, but that's why there are multiple vents? and you can run the a/c at a lower speed to boot.
No, it's not. Readability assumes that code is easy to read and easy to understand. This code is easy to read for those, who understood the algorithm already, but is hard to read for those who has no understanding.

It's the famous "write-only" problem of the Perl language, which uses symbols heavily too.
I wonder how improved traffic could be if we somehow had managed that people driving alone would be driving in a vehicle that is suited for exactly 1 person. (although now I'm having pictures in my head of the insane traffic in India's cities... :))

Maybe electric vehicles could be an incentive to downsize vehicles?
“Unless it impacts your performance during working hours” — Shouldn’t the employer just note the poor performance and tell you to improve, rather than police your personal life? Under your reasoning, an employer could require a certain number of hours of sleep per night.
I was just starting to get a bit comfortable in my county. (Marin County)

I just heard an acquaintance is in the ICU with blood clots in his lungs due to Covid. Young fit guy, but didn't get vaccinated.
Where I'm from, they go to a lot of effort to make it look obviously different. Soft drinks will come in a large glass which is different from a pint glass that's used for beer, and will always have a straw and ice unless you ask them to leave it out. Rum and coke comes in a highball glass, no straw, usually a garnish, and no ice unless you ask for it.
Learn to homebrew, I regularly make a 1.8% NEIPA. Tastes fantastic and it's a fun hobby on the weekend.
Once phonorecords of a musical work have been publicly distributed in the United States with the copyright owner’s consent, anyone else may, under certain circumstances and subject to limited conditions, obtain a “compulsory license” to make and distribute phonorecords of the work without express permission from the copyright owner.

U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 73 - Compulsory License for Making and Distributing Phonorecords

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Maybe something like this, but for patents?
Ask for a lime with it and no one will ask any questions.
> State management and the custom capabilities when you need them are amazing

JS devs just rediscovered MVC with some added immutability and that’s all. Hardly more productive. Also, I don’t see your point on custom capabilities - please add a slight modification to the date picker widget. Oh, you have to reimplement the whole thing with some insane number of divs, while you can trivially override certain parts of it in most desktop libs.
AI is very old term. But "new AI" is all based on big data. Most of the small data algorithm is always been used and still being used in medicine etc. But when you talk about "new AI" you mean deep learning which is very data hungry and except last 2 none of the algorithm has anything to do with deep leaning.
> standing outside ringing the bell while watching our trading activity

Do you mean ringing manually the bell of the end-of-the-day of the stock exchange? When they rang it the first time, didn’t they catch them not going out of the building?
As I understand it, this is also how proxy services that offer "mobile IPs" with millions available function as well. Kinda makes me pine for the good old days where they just annoyed the crap out of me with ads.
Take this with a grain of salt and bias on my part. But indie movies from my perspective seem to be stuck on the "weird". They have to be "weird" (or "different") otherwise they're not "indie" but rather low-budget "b-movies" that I think everyone despises to some degree. Unless of course they end up being a hit in which case they're cult-classics.
> The GOP is not in favor of a perfectly free market and never has been

I don't agree that this is just Liberals reading things into GOP positions, the GOP does position itself publicly as a free market party.

Whether or not their actions line up with that philosophy isn't really the point. I do agree that under Trump people may have gotten a bit more open about the fact that they reject liberalism and/or Libertarian philosophies. I have seen a relatively large increase in Conservatives telling me that they don't trust the free market to solve problems. But in general, the official party messaging hasn't changed just because the actions don't line up with it.

Of course, there's a lot of different Conservatives, and different areas/groups have different beliefs. But in my experience, if you step into mainline Conservative spaces and talk to (especially older) Conservatives, they will still tell you they believe in using the free market to solve problems. They will tell you that the government shouldn't decide outcomes. They will tell you that the free market solves discrimination. They will usually tell you that mandating equal access is government overreach. And these people are not Libertarians. They're not arguing for completely unregulated markets; but they are arguing for free market solutions for problems like discrimination or bias. They generally tell me that legislating for equitable outcomes in representation instead of processes is incorrect. The fact that people can find hypocrisies or disagreements or differing opinions about to what degree the GOP favors market solutions to problems -- that doesn't mean that the GOP is not cultivating a very specific view of itself and a set of narratives that it likes to tell about itself.

It is, of course, a mistake to assume that genuinely held political ideals and actions from party think-tanks are going always going to match a party's PR, but it is equally a mistake to assume that differing opinions or actions from party members means that the PR is irrelevant or that it shouldn't be discussed. Most ordinary Conservatives I personally know outside of think-tanks or extremely engaged groups would disagree with your assessment of their own party. They believe (right or wrong) that they are free market Conservatives. When I talk about their beliefs, I'm not parsing out, or reading into, or guessing anything about their internal representation of their motivations. This is what they tell me, this is what they think that their party stands for.

So I think whether they're right or wrong about what their party believes is worth talking about and reflecting on. If younger or more involved members of the party have dropped those positions, or if the demographics have shifted -- the party doesn't seem to feel a lot of urgency to reach out to older/rural Republicans to let them know about that change -- at least not in my experience in the Conservative communities I encounter.
Not really. The management team can make mistakes too. In those cases, it is not clear whether it is better for the employee to know. There is no clear cut obvious answer to this, unless you assume everyone is an emotionless robot.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/777098293/2-former-twitter-em...
I prefer the stout, but yes, agreed.

Weirdly, my favorite NA beer right now is a store-brand red ale - President's Choice from Superstore.
My point was, even reflashing libreboot wouldn't be enough, you'd have to also reflash all the small controllers here and there (hoping you hadn't missed some), and somehow do it in a way each controller cannot lie to you and just pretend it has been reflashed.
> Of course, this can’t last forever. Markets are always and forever cyclical. Nothing ever goes up and to the right forever. It would be delusional to assume otherwise.

> But if you’ve been yelling at people for years and years about fundamentals you’ve missed the fact that a tidal wave of money and demand for assets has trumped every historical metric in the book.

Of course, this makes sense and I already knew this. But what I'm looking for are articles or blog posts or reports on where we're headed in the next few years. I know that nobody can predict the future, and I know that there will be a time of reckoning for the excesses of the present. But some hints on what exactly to watch out for as triggers to some sort of snowballing crash would be useful...even if the unwinding takes a long time. I'd be grateful for any reading recommendations.
. . . That's not what people mean when they say "half finished". It's when a game with a defined scope fails to meet that scope. You might not like the dearth of content with those titles but there is no indication that they were ever meant to go beyond what was provided on release.
changed the comment :)
>Calculators are generally useless in Calculus. Or at least they should be. Calculus is a process, and normally you are graded on that process, not on the answer.

Yes.

It's been so long since I took calculus but that's the reason why we weren't allowed calculators in my Calculus class. All the formulas needed for the test were also provided (as we weren't being graded on our memorization skills either)

My professor also said don't bother doing simple arithmetic just to simplify an answer - leave it at 12/56 or whatever.

Turns out, it was a really, really great system.
There seems to be plenty of online, non legitimate, markets to exchange Isk for cash.

https://iskmarket.com/en/Sell-Eve-ISK

I'm guessing not a few people are earning a living from Eve.
>why would they be trying to actively get rid of people?

It's extremely demoralizing to work with people who are bad at their job. It makes me feel as though my hard work is unappreciated, because someone who is not working hard gets the same treatment.

Sometimes the employee is slacking off, sometimes they are bad at their job. Either way, if their failure to contribute is bringing the rest of the team down, they have to go. Otherwise, the good people leave to get away from the bad people.
> There are way more iPads & macbooks out there than there are nintendo switches, and if apple actually made a set of dedicated serious gaming hardware & efforts for the platform they would wipe nintendo on the floor.

I really doubt it, Apple's model of constant updates requiring constant developer upkeep is incompatible with single purchase games. Only exploitative games as a service with recurring revenue can thrive on a model of endless upkeep. Its a big reason (besides Nintendo's first party quality, an attribute Apple has not demonstrated it is capable of) why the App store is defined by low quality p2w service games.
Totally agree on this "They ain't movies. They are some weird algorithmic process that has created things that last 100 minutes or so." look at "The Tomorrow War"
>Thousands of programmers giving away their professional advice, spending their valuable time…for what exactly? Imaginary internet points?

Before Stackoverflow, people were answering questions on USENET newsgroups without any award of points.

And before USENET and the internet, hobbyists would gather to trade advice on building home computers. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club

The common theme isn't the points... it's that people like to be helpful and share knowledge.

>Open source is another one: here’s my code that I’ve worked so hard on, spent countless hours on - please have it for free, my labor is worthless.

There are multiple motivations for open source. In my case, I did it because I could get more value from the community's enhancements than the "free code" the community got from me.

>It’s like they’re actively seeking to bring their own value down.

Neither of your 2 examples look like erosion of labor value. On the contrary, it shows that not every activity associated with programming has to be driven by the exchange of money.
Yep. ProtonDB and WINEHQ mentioned in other replies here are both excellent sites for that sort of information. For native Linux games, sites like Steam, and Itch.io both have little icons (often a little "Tux" the penguin, tho on Steam it's the SteamOS icon) you can look for which labels those games as bein' natively Linux. Obviously any game or program you install directly from your Linux distribution's package manager (app store, basically) will be native to Linux.

For non-game software (and even some games), https://alternativeto.net/ can help you easily find Linux-native alternatives to software that you know the name of from other platforms. Also great for finding interesting software alternatives for your other platforms (iOS, Androin, Win, Mac, etc) too.
I'm interested in similar proposals that can provide the basis of some common syntax that could be transpiled to other functional programming languages https://github.com/adsharma/py2many

I'm less interested in the syntax (will take anything accepted by a modified ast module), more in the semantics.

Here's a syntax I played with in the past:

def area(s: Shape):
pmatch(s):
Circle(c):
pi * c.r * c.r
Rectangle(w, h):
w * h
;;

def times10(i):
x = pmatch(i):
1:
10
2:
20
;;
return x

Two notes:

* Had to be pmatch, since match is more likely to run into namespace collision with existing code.
* The delimiter `;;` at the end was necessary to avoid ambiguity in the grammar for the old parser. Perhaps things are different with the new PEG parser.

Code is on my github.
> “Product/Infra” maps neatly to the psychology of how engineers pick projects and their motivations for learning to code. Broadly speaking, there are 2 types of engineers2:

> “Product-first” engineers are obsessed with using code to solve a user problem and they see code as just a means to an end.

> “Code-first” engineers are obsessed with the abstractions, architecture, tools and libraries in the code. Elegant code is the end.

> Product-first engineers map to “Product engineering”—building, launching and maintaining features that solve user problems. They often love being in the same room as designers and product managers to learn about users, and they love finding technical opportunities that can improve the product.

So the main line of reasoning is that Frontend vs Backend can paint you in a place where you don't fit. Even combining the Front/Back and Product/Infrastructure axes I still can't describe what I like to do: Platform/API development. That is taking an understanding of the product/business domain, factoring them down, implementing them with a code-first mindset. It isn't exactly elegant code being the end, but having composable interfaces that separate conceptually. Add to that supporting and working with product developers who tend to be frontend/mobile either in-house or third party and sometimes other platform developers.

Early in your career, Frontend/Backend with a particular framework/language will sufficiently filter your options, as you specialize you will tend to be more specific. There are many axes as you specialize, for instance I work with several datastores in great depth. Oddly the frameworks/languages that were good filters hardly matter anymore as the solutions tend to be easily represented in any. I'm more than competent with frontend but my interests and concerns would still be described as backend. I ignore any opportunity described as fullstack.
Ideologically patents are suppose to promote innovation. The original idea and spirit of the law was that for a limited time monopoly you disclose all details on your invention instead of keeping it all a secret to yourself.

Obviously this is no longer the case as the problem is (1) too many patents on broad things and (2) too long of a monopoly term for todays fast moving technology.

It's been 150 years since we established the patent office and the only big things that were changed was moving from first to invent to first to file and increasing the monopoly term from 17 to 20 years. I think a 5-7 year monopoly term is much more reasonable and would maintain the original spirit of the law.
Heads up, Topo Chico has the highest levels of PFAS of all carbonated water drinks tested by Consumer Reports:

https://www.consumerreports.org/bottled-water/whats-really-i...

PPT PFAS for various brands:

1.1 - Perrier Natural Sparkling Mineral Water

1.16 - La Croix Natural Sparkling Water

1.24 - Canada Dry Lemon Lime Sparkling Seltzer Water

1.66 - Poland Spring Zesty Lime Sparkling Water

2.24 - Bubly Blackberry Sparkling Water

6.41 - Polar Natural Seltzer Water

9.76 - Topo Chico Natural Mineral Water

(brands that are <1PPT in link)
> “Should I tell an employee that I entered them into Focus?” the question reads. The response: “Do not discuss Focus with employees. Instead, tell the employee that their performance is not meeting expectations, the specific areas where they need to improve, and offer feedback and support to help them improve.”

The headline is editorialized. IMO whether you’re told you’re in Focus or not is irrelevant. If your manager is telling you you’re not meeting expectations, that’s plenty of signal of what’s going on.

The discussion in this thread is written more as if Amazon is pushing out capable talent.

There’s a more fundamental question - are we saying once you get hired, your job should be permanent, regardless of your performance?
“Bad mergers” and noncompete clauses targeted in Biden executive order
The Traveler Framework to Goal Fulfillment
If your "enterprise" software doesn't generate $18/month, then you probably don't have a viable business model and should use the community edition. I don't take the Oracle hate seriously when it's all the latest fashion to pay much, much more for your CPU because it's hosted by Amazon. The alternative of "free" services in the Google-sense (ie data-mining users to sell to third parties or develop other products) seems worse, personally.
'Ivermectin not a viable option to treat Covid-19 cases, new study finds'
Fantastic. Thank you for that! Excited to give it a listen