skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its simple propaganda from the war department..
Many, including most of the LucasArts adventures like Full Throttle, Monkey Island 1-2, Day of the Tentacle. Also strategy classics like Command & Conquer and Red Alert. For some reason, they still manage to feel old.
At a point in my life I treated my income per month as game score for many years, I guess it will be category of hedonism ?
The real fool in that story was the Fed brother. How could an FBI agent really believe that running to the local cops was the best thing to do first? That is a complete misunderstanding of every aspect of USA criminal justice system. I don't know how that guy avoids getting drummed out of the bureau after this podcast.
Pretty much this - making $100k in SF is considered low income (102k is "low income" for 1 person, 147k is low income for 4 person household according to Housing and Development) and you likely don't qualify for any rental by yourself, not even a studio - you wouldn't be able to meet minimum makes-more-than-x-times-rent requirements.

From my experience, the physical-virtual divide isn't quite at 100k, but it's more job title dependent. Many places are already swapping lower paid support/helpdesk/call centre staff to WFH; however there is much more rather gross surveillance and preventing from fooling around, timed login sessions, etc compared to engineers that can go run off to do laundry in the middle of the day.
In theory perhaps. In practice, their primary incentive is to pick the most popular fork, because otherwise people will move away from that stable coin.
Probably downvoted because there are a plethora of sources out there for you to easily do your own checking on.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/climate/electric-vehicles...

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/05/20/are-el...

- https://www.wsj.com/graphics/are-electric-cars-really-better...

There may be some articles from not as reputable sources that may find the answer to be a little more controversial... The TL;DR is generally: yes... electric is always greener, it's just a matter of how much. As they become more and more sustainably powered, the difference increases.
The Mad Genius Behind Sea Monkeys [video]
Business school
Those are pretty much already answered, and by many people. The Wikipedia link goes into that :) Data suggests we are currently looking at 2 degrees temperature change as a global average.

While everyone is free to come up with different answers, there isn’t anything credible at the moment.

A friend of mine programs climate models based on latest mathematical insights and data. For 10 years he would put his hand in a fire that it is happening and it will be bad.

Point by point :
How much is changing? 2 degrees hotter on average.
How does it affect weather? More outliers such as the recent heat wave in the NW of USA.
Is it a big deal? Yes, because it unbalances a lot of eco systems and our ability to cope with it.
History of global temperature? Has been measured for hundreds of years now and we can deduce temperatures before that.
There is a lot of disagreements between scientists? No there isn’t (97% banks on man made climate change)
Clique nature of academic fields? That’s an entirely different topic and doesn’t change the data.
It is not object oriented. Interfaces and struct methods with composition and not inheritance is much more C than Java (no not overriding methods) kind of the C or compiled version of duck typing. Reading thru OpenSSL code is not that different from reading thru Go code. Typed but not a artificial hierarchy of types.
You're missing the forest for the trees.

Printed books (given acid-free paper, parchment, or velum) have lifespans of centuries.

Papyrus has a similar lifespan, for original works, not copies. (Copying is an obvious data preservation mechanism, though it has its risks, notably transcription errors, omissions, and editorialising.)

Clay tablets, not subject to physical shock, persist for millennia. Much of archaeology is effectively clay-shard-ology.

Spinning-rust or SSD disk drive life is measured in single-digit years.

That's 2-4 orders of magnitude difference, of the medium itself, which is absolutely not irrelevant or trivial.
Isn’t one of the beauties of lisp is that you don’t need much from the language creator. It should be far more stable than non-lisp languages, and you can implement most ideas with macros outside of the core language.
This was my interpretation of Carroll's interpretation of the may worlds interpretation :-)

I'm an avid listener to mindscape podcast and read of his books, so I'm likely "indoctrinated", as I don't really know much of these things.

But I had the distinct impression that Carrol believes that all there is is the wave function of the universe and everything else (including the many worlds) are emergent phenomena. In a way many worlds are "real" in the same way that "chairs" are real.
'Havana syndrome'-like mystery illness affects Vienna US diplomats
Not the OP---I agree they're very different, but there's a striking resemblance in how both countries think their political and intellectual culture is civilization's crowning achievement and the entire world should adopt it. (Of course, the US has been more able to do export theirs than France in recent decades.) IMO this shapes both countries' relationships to the rest of the world.

I have less first hand experience, but I also think the level of distrust in the government (esp. central / federal) among rural populations is particularly high in both countries by developed nation standards.
I've just looked into this recently and the sad answer is no. It's a really fun game and perfect candidate for VR. Really a shame they couldn't make that happen.
There's nothing wrong with a professional giving advice. The danger is in a professional giving advice and not accepting the liability for malpractice harms that comes with their professional license.
>This was because we often had trouble finding qualified candidates that were either already local or willing to relocate to the area. Visa sponsorship was a much more compelling reason to relocate than anything we could offer US citizens.

Seems rather unlikely. What I guess you might mean is that you couldn't find qualified candidates at the pay ranges you were offering.
Archivists have a decidedly different view of this situation than you do, which answers your "who cares" rhetorical question.
By grinding up a wide enough variety of batteries you can get a pretty consistent mix. You then smelt it to metal as if it were ore.

The waste gasses are the most expensive to treat properly.

Sure, some catch fire, but most smelters are kinda fireproof already...
Just a word of caution, after 7-10 days of fasting, you can get refeeding syndrome. This can be pretty unpleasant and dangerous, and is best avoided.
Pentagon’s SOCOM to begin clinical trials of anti-aging pill next year
Now I know why Americans say i-RAHK...
The cynical-but-likely-accurate take is that researching language modeling has a higher ROI and lower risk than researching robotics.
> 76mm for the late war Sherman's vs 120mm for M1A1/2/3 Abrams

And the Shermans were notoriously undergunned. The Germans had 88mm guns on tanks since 1942 with the Tiger I, and had anti-tank guns up to 126mm (which was even mounted on the Jagdtiger tank destroyers ( of course as everything late war German, in pitiful numbers)).

The Soviet KV-2 had a 152mm howitzer in 1939, and anti-tank guns up to 100mm. The IS-2 had a 122mm gun, and was used since 1944.

Today's main battle tanks are closer to heavy WW2 tanks ( in terms of size, armament, protection, etc.), so compare apples with apples, shall we :p
About 1/3 of Germans still don't bathe every day. 1/6 of the French don't bathe every day.
> but habits are a real thing

I wouldn’t disagree, but I would question how widely applicable this is across cultures and socio-economic strata.

In particular it would be interesting to compare the commonly accepted folk wisdom (e.g. “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”) with a more objective analysis (if such a thing exists).
I don’t know about the STEM fields, this is from the business school, which is a cash cow funding other programmes.
> having the better understanding of the mind that a professional has can't lead to worse advice, so he too should be accepted giving it

That seems simplistic. If people know he's a Dr, and they do, they might treat the advice differently.
If you mean in tank-to-tank combat, then yes. Specifically, when deployed at night (thermals) on flats (firing out of enemy detection range) - it would be able to make its kills and retreat faster than it can be chased.

In direct combat, nothing short of a direct artillery hit (unlikely) could kill it or render it unable to defend itself in the short term. Let's say it got ambushed by 3 AT teams within 50 meters - the AT RPGs / recoil-less rifles of the time could do nothing to the armor, even rear.

In reality, any super-weapon, and its supply chain would be hit with massed artillery, bombing runs, and special forces.

It also has vulnerable optics and tracks as was mentioned earlier.

Furthermore, even if it took out 40 tanks (each round is a kill), it would not be significant in a major WWII engagement.

Btw, this topic has been discussed ad-nauseum elsewhere.
4 theorized mechanisms of action for ivermectin against SarsCov2.
https://youtu.be/9bgcgiutrw8
I didn't define race in any sociopolitical way -- precisely the opposite, in fact. The socio-political aspect comes from the Nationality+Ethnicity parts.

My wife is Chinese, and feels a racial kinship to Asian people from many countries: Japan, Korea, Vietnam, ...
Refers to all as Asian.
>That said, they can ban distribution of misleading content. It's their right, and no one can dispute that. I'm not sure what people hope to accomplish by expressing outrage over this.

Since when is encouraging mega-corporations to act morally a bad thing? Or some sort of waste-of-breath, as you imply here.
Please don't attack other commenters or put words in their mouth. Parent didn't suggest you blame Dr K.
Or my favorite, poipaas.com
To me, F# is the pragmatic functional language with the most appeal, but being on .NET maybe it’s not even niche.
Difficulty bombs were connected with consecutive Ethereum protocol upgrades - not just POS. Most of them ended up with network upgrades.
> As an individual, there's a game theory aspect where if you believe you are paid more, it is not in your best interest to share that information.

If you're really able to provide your employer with more value than other employees, it's in your best interests that other employees' base pay rates rise, because you can raise your rates in relation to them and the additional value you can offer.
I didn’t have a SNES growing up, so the ports on the GBA were godsend for me. Other than that, developers got crazy creative with the hardware, despite its low power. Aggressive Inline had pseudo 3D and licensed soundtrack, there were cartridges with rumble, tilt and light sensors. You could use the console as a GameCube controller. I still remember playing Castlevania under the lamp in our living room (the screen of the original GBA was terribly dark) when I heard the new about 9/11. I also got a flash cart and dipped my toes into developing when I was about 15. Fond memories!
Good question. The article is only talking about so-called permanent magnets. Hunks of usually metal that exhibit this property under the right conditions.

Sibling comment seems like it already covers the rest.
I feel like I have the necessary foundations of CS so I think it is a good starting point for me but the main goal is to maximize my time to get the necessary foundation in CS to do well at my job as well as open up my possibilities such that recruiters don't throw away my resume once they see "Biology with CS coursework".

In terms of networking and job placement, I am thinking of applying to in-person masters programs (USC, UCLA, Stanford, and Cornell) but that would put be in some debt (40-50k). After reading this article, I am utterly lost.
I did this for a year or so. I worked with a company called Global Knowledge, and was introduced by an acquaintance. I had to get certified with AWS but was fed 1-3 courses a month for a few years. Pay was about 1300/day. There was some travel, and that was reimbursed, but there were also plenty of online courses. (I hear the pay and needs are different now.)

I would use one of these intermediaries to get started. They sell into different corporations and have an idea of what technologies and rates are like. They may or may not have courseware you can use as well.

Of course, you won't get as much money as if you do it directly, but it'll be easier to get started. Make sure you don't sign any exclusive agreement, though I expect they will always require you to sign something saying you won't approach their clients. But you should be able to have your own training clients on the side.

One in the Colorado area who I've heard good things about (and talked to, but never worked for) is Develop Intelligence http://developintelligence.com/ Happy to intro you to them (contact details in my profile). I'm also happy to intro you to my acquaintance, who is still doing technical training.
It's kind of interesting with socialisation dynamics - my team now has an E2EE Matrix groupchat (we don't post any PII/proprietary data/source code/etc here) because we used to have in-person discussions about various potentially volatile subjects that were verbal and non-logged that people were hesitant to post on Slack or Teams or whatever equivalent exists. It also helped make 1:1s less corporate/more honest and "logged"

And I guess semi-jokingly trashtalking other teams that caused outages and were ludicrously incompetent but kept protected by office politics.
How do I find more people that think like you to associate with? My circles either A. were totally ignorant of stuff like Cat Person because they don't read a whole lot of anything or B. latch on to stuff like Cat Person and engage with populist ideal narratives. I've basically isolated myself from most people I used to talk to and engage with because I couldn't take lying for politeness sake about how I perceive reality anymore.
You're right about the performance of single-threaded vs multi-threaded Elixir. However, I used web apps as a comparison because they are the most common use case for Elixir. Considering here Elixir performs very well, performance could be one of the reasons why people choose it. In that case, being aware of performance pitfalls is a good thing.

I don't agree that performance is a moot point if what you use is slower than some alternatives, and I think that's the main point where we disagree.
Norway is technically not in the EU, just the EEA (European Economic Access) zone. But we do it the same way. Our tax authorities get all information they need from employers, banks, stock brokers, etc. Each citizen then get a tax settlement report and can submit a pre-filled tax statement online. You make any adjustments to taxable income or tax deductions that might be missing, and then you are done. Pretty simple.
It was amazing to see that the computing power of the SNES could be replicated in an affordable battery-powered handheld device few years later.
Maybe the reason for the lower level of happiness, more time spent complaining... is different (unfair) pay for essentially the same job. How about treating the cause instead of blaming the messenger.
Someone using the term "vicious cycle" doesn't need help naming the problem. They need strategies and tactics.
The Squadrons flight model was atrocious, IMHO. It felt like first person FPS, except you have the craft around you.

I wanted to love it to death in VR because it looked so nice but the flight model was not my piece of cake.

The cockpit immersion was so good.
Please keep in mind that there is more to software dev than web programming. Rust may not be popular as as server language now and never may be, but there are multitudes of other reasons why one should consider learning Rust.
Them telling you not to discuss salary is super illegal.
What an embarrassing take
I used to run home from middle school to play Tie CD. It's my favorite game of all time. This looks amazing.
What are you eating during your four hour feeding window?
Junior, Middle and Senior are useless titles
Yup, like I said, not as ergonomic as Clojure.

In clojure, it is:

user> (defn bar [x] (+ x 1))

If you want it inside a namespace named foo, then it is:

user> (in-ns 'foo)
foo> (defn bar [x] (+ x 1))
Will you expand on this? Switzerland's model of what?
In some fields, there is no need for masters degrees at all. For example in physics you can get a bachelors and career out, or get a PhD and be a physicist (industrial or academic), but there are no jobs I can think of that a masters would qualify you for that a bachelors wouldn't.
On gog.com, remakes and updates come out pretty regularly. The quality varies wildly. But there's definitely an enthusiastic market for them.
AlphaStar[1] is an AI program that plays StarCraft against humans. The second version, that has a limited vision of the map and a limited number of clicks per second, plays quite humanlike.

> * In order for the human animal to function, we need to understand the past, predict the future,*

AlphaStar can do that (or at least simulate that). It it has seen a invisible helicopter, it remembers that. It also understand that the opponent has build an airport to make the helicopter and invested to research the invisibility feature. So other research are probably delayed. Also it expect to see more invisible helicopter in the future, so it builds detector for invisible units. Does it understand the past and the future or only simulates understanding?

> understand the motivations of others

If it sees an airport that is researching invisibility, it probably guess that the opponent wants to make invisible helicopters, and want to use the helicopters to attack it's units or buildings.

> and come up with stories about the world we use to convince others and facilitate collaboration. Human society wouldn't be possible without consciousness,

AFAIK there is no multiplayer version of this AI, but it would be interesting to see one. It will be a difficult problem to choose how much communication to allow between to AI so they can play together, but not as a four-handled player. Also, how to interact with a human teammate. But it doesn't look impossible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStar_(software)
Intelligent Civilizations May Have Spotted Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet
When I do sports (riding bike every day for at least one hour in mostly anaerobic mode) after not eating for at least 18 hours or so (which I don't do often), I feel like I've got unlimited resources of energy available.
Because the web application is only an emergent phenomenon once consciousness has already entered the equation. Without an observer, the website is nothing more than the sum of its parts; only we view it as something else. The CPU, machine code, all of the I/O mechanism, eventually just create an illuminated image on a screen that is only its emergent whole when viewed by a conscious observer who sees it that way.

Far from having an even remotely non-referential understanding of consciousness, we don't even have a non-referential understanding of the referent website as it exists in our perception--it just comes back to the same questions that a lot of physicalists seem to refuse to even acknowledge. I know that when I view this screen I see what I see as red, and I know that the material of my brain and the screen are responsible for that, but that does nothing to address what the referent red is in the first place.

How can consciousness be an emergent construct when emergent constructs are only identifiable as distinct from the sum of their parts by making use of consciousness?
>Cases of the condition have been reported elsewhere in the world, but US officials say the numbers in Vienna are greater than in any other city apart from Havana.

Hadn't heard it was this wide-spread. What are the chances their own security systems are at fault? If not, then at this scale couldn't thermal imaging spot something?
Sure, and my dad, a three-tour, volunteer Vietnam vet, as well as friends and family in the modern military.
Games remade that come to mind, some from the same people or reusing the old codebase:

* Warcraft 3 remastered

* Theme hospital -> TwoPoint hospital

* Dungeon Keeper -> War for the Overworld

* Jones in the Fast Lane -> No time to Relax

* System Shock

* Descent -> Overload and also Descent Underground
How dense are you?
I believe the 1/3 making over $100k is actually looking at households and not individual workers.

For individual workers, $100k is more like top 15-20%. For full-time workers, 75th percentile make $81k ($1,557 per week) and 90th percentile make $125k ($2,405 per week)[1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t05.htm
A friend of mine and I went through the same bachelor's degree program. My friend ended up continuing on to get a masters degree. Even my friend admitted they just went for the degree to get the degree. In the end, my friend went back to the job they were doing after the first degree and has been there ever since.

Even by the end of the bachelor's program I took, it felt like I was kind of wasting money. As soon as teachers started trying to convince us to move on into the masters degree program, it was just a hard no from me. It would have cost the same as what I'd already paid for school, if not more and wasn't going to lead to a significant increase in job opportunities.

By the end of that last year, it had become a lot more clear the school was more about making money than anything else.
Battery powered long distance flight is unlikely because gasoline/kerosene has 5 times the weight energy density of lithium ion. Short haul flights may be viable. Hydrogen fuel cell planes even better because hydrogen has 3 times the weight energy density of jet fuel and 15 times lithium batteries.
Sounds like the locals really liked you. :)
> but there are no jobs I can think of that a masters would qualify you for that a bachelors wouldn't.

Typically, community college faculty (and sometimes university lecturers) require a minimum of a master's in the field, and at least the first is as true of physics as it is generally.
The 6th grade robotic team I coach built from that example this year.

Note that this just comes up with coordinates in the 2D image for body parts. And that there's a lot of error and noise, so it's a long way from those list of points to a 3D kinematics model. But a tracking filter and linear algebra would get you a fair bit of the way there.
> lack of … higher Ed or better performance.

It sounds like now you’re being relatively underpaid — if they value her lack of skills at the same level of your having skills, something’s gone wrong.

In fact, according to your definition, this is exactly a scenario where a pay disparity “should” exist. Perhaps you should both be getting paid better, but there should be a difference
I really don't like them.

In my small company where I work, they call me team leader. Sometimes when I interview frontend devs, that are supposed to be junior, they know more than I do.

At least in theory.

I always see people say that "Hey, Middle should know this and that". Or "Junior should at least know this".

Why? Is Junior in Google and Junior in a small random company are the same skilled devs?

I think instead we should talk only about skills. What company needs is: hey, we have a VueJS project that uses a lot of d3.js. We need a guy who knows that. He might not know algorithms, or have a wide experience in high-load. We just need that guy, call him whatever you want.