skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about just technical competency, but also about trust. Does Apple trust Slack to the degree that they're basically happy letting them in on all of their secrets? Currently the answer seems to be yes, which is somewhat surprising. Somehow Apple does not trust their own employees, but trusts unrelated third-party service providers.
I’m from Turkey and I’ve been wandering for a while now what can I do to still have internet access if the government decides to shut everything down.

I’ll use thread to ask: what would be the cheapest way to have an emergency internet access? I guess Starlink kinda solves this problem but paying 100USD/m is a lot for a backup connection.
Except they don’t span multiple platforms and are locked behind app stores with 30% tax. There’s also no “view source” or “inspect” readily available for native so a substantial pathway for transfer of education, analysis, etc of apps disappears or is made opaque.
One of my political science professors in college claimed that they used to struggle to translate constitutional documents to Chinese, as they didn't even have an agreed upon word for "human rights" until the 1970s or so.

I think this is what the parent was trying to communicate. All humans may have certain inalienable rights, but not all humans fully understand the concept, let alone demand (or even desire) that their rights be respected.

It's kind of mindblowing to contemplate, but enlightenment thought has yet to deeply penetrate the mainland Chinese populace.
It's definitely being attempted but people aren't going to just forget how much better their lives were working remotely. I know it's not a for sure thing but that pressure is building.
CDC: Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections in Massachusetts
Too bad they can't get funding for these kind of experiments. A two seal study with no input on how the experiment will be structured is pretty weak. Two seals in a 15 foot aquarium with a planetarium for a ceiling? Humans get larger planetariums and who knows how I choose which chair to walk toward.
Is the word "employed" being used in the classical sense here? Such as someone having time off and benefits, and the like?
> we still don't have a robot that can take out the trash

Because it's hard to justify the $$$ on a robot to automate a job that takes 30 seconds once a week.

Modern people don't realize it, but an awful lot of household drudgery has been automated. I'm old enough to remember life before the microwave. What a marvelous time saver that is! You can even buy one from the thrift store for $10. I remember them being $1000, and that was back when a dollar was worth something.
"Citation needed" for most of the claims.
Considering how many of these companies have been able to operate perfectly, grow, launch products and post record profits over the last year and a half goes to show that that thinking is outdated and wrong.
I was commenting on the parent comment about Amazon being 'better'. I'm arguing that its just different than, and in addition to, brick and mortar stores. Not clear that its any 'better' for whatever a measure of 'better' is.
Chrome on Android has this as well as far as I can tell.
This rumor isn't true. I can see pro-wfh channels as well as random channels about video games and stuff.
I can't say I was "upset". Or that I am now.

Honestly I just looked at the ad and thought "I don't want to see that bullshit" and started clicking stuff so I wouldn't have to.
That is your opinion. They’re not unusable or slippery for me. I’ve never had a case on any of them, never dropped or cracked one, and get a lot of enjoyment out of the thin and sleek form factor. Your problem can be solved with a case. A thick phone has no solution to make it thinner.
There is no need to spend money on this. You can get an iCloud email for free and iCloud storage for very little. I doubt if Tunisian government can do anything to cough up credentials from Apple.
yes, basically the argument against 'whataboutism'. however I have a hard time to process the idea of 'follow what I told you, not what I have done' attitude.
The only reason they handed it over at all is their lease on the New Territories ended in 1997 and it was impossible to defend or administer Hong Kong without them. Even if you are convinced that they are the "rightful owners" of the territory, the ROC probably wouldn't find any better way to square that circle than the British would, and it seems less like a gift than an albatross to give it to them and ask them to try.
I work with a company that has teams spread out across the country and we collaborate via video and text chat all the time. It's just as effective.
One of the problems that the article started to articulate, but didn't fully cover is that even if everyone on the planet did similar things in the personal lives ... it is not enough. Energy use and emissions are all about industry. To a certain extent one can patronize low-carbon emissions businesses, but most of those are either low carbon to begin with (often with high margins) or are using bullshit offsets.

Really that only things that can reduce emissions are regulations & taxes or new technologies. And maybe geoengineering, but that is speculative enough to not enter serious policy debates.

Applied R&D is incentived very heavily via taxes, so we don't need to mess around there too much. Basic research should be better funded though.

Probably the best proposals we've seen are the various forms of cap & trade for domestic industry or treaty partners adopting a common market, with tariffs for foreign production outside of cap&trade regime.

The EU's "Fit for 55" is the only tangible step in this direction I've seen.
It’s actually been a great experience for the most part. I certainly wouldn’t call it “tedious if not infeasible”.

It’s a new platform so I don’t expect every single feature of every piece of software to work on day 1, but I haven’t encountered anything show-stopping.

Not being able to adjust monitor brightness using a 3rd party tool for a few months until the developer adds the new hardware isn’t really the end of the world.
Wow, what an actual leech of a human this Jill MacKay.

Disgusting sense of greed and lack of morals.
Note, from Deadline (): "UPDATE 7/30/21: To Clarify Legal Status Of Amanda Knox. The 2007 case of Amanda Knox, the American convicted in an Italian court of murdering her roommate (after being convicted and spending four years in jail Knox was acquitted and freed in 2011. She was later definitively exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court Of Cassation in March 2015), was the impetus for writer-director Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater, but in the 10 years since beginning, abandoning and starting over, it has evolved into something much more – and much better."

I find it interesting that they mentioned she was convicted twice in a paragraph about her legal status, with the acquitted and exonerated part relegated to a parenthetical. And to have a plug for the movie.
It is exactly the same for me (native spanish). I hear greek and it takes me a second to be sure it is not Spanish.

Even talking to greeks in English sometimes a random Spanish word pops out in Spanish (rarely happens in general).
Longest part is waiting for the old one to drain.
> NYC commercial landlords

It’s difficult to overstate the political influence these landlords and especially the associated developers wield in NYC and NYS politics.
The resume on the blog says University of Lasi. Google returned something about Romania so is assume that’s where he is.
> See how stupid your logic sounds when it is told from another perspective?

It makes no sense because the Declaration of Human Rights is morally right, and China's refusal to acknowledge them makes them by definition evil.

And before you try moral/cultural relativism in saying that 'well, they think they're right/ Sharia followers think they're right'. Even if you managed to argue that position well, that only means that there is an irreconcilable gap between the moral cornerstones of civilisations, and because of that, we will at some point have some huge war to figure out which one will turn out to be right.
Has the situation around booting from a USB-drive bettered for the Raspberry pi 4? Last time I tried, I couldn't figure out how to actually make it work.
I agree with everything you’ve stated. Just curious what others think. Thanks for sharing.
What do you charge them?
Against the resources of a nation state, you are no match.

Don't fool yourself.
> If we want a return to competition of yore

I think we're beyond that now. I really do.

We thought we were going to get Weyland-Yutani, but I think we're going to end up with Bezos-Walton instead.
They also claim all of Mongolia, so maybe that should be given to them as well?
An io_uring context is a thread pool, except the worker threads are kernel threads. The userland application posts an operation request (poll, open, read/write, etc) to a special mmap'd buffer that is dequeued by a kernel thread dedicated to that context. That kernel thread then either performs the operation itself, or if it's a potentially blocking operation (i.e. file read) passes it to another worker thread. The results are then posted back to another shared buffer-based message queue. (I'm ignoring what happens when the shared buffers are filled, which has its own implications--good and bad--for performance.)

It's basically no different than a typical multi-threaded userland application using a ring buffer message queue, except the worker threads operate in kernel context and can access unpublished kernel APIs.

But like all multi-threaded designs, the performance choke points are always the places where you need to either obtain a lock or use atomic operations. The problem with locks are obvious. But atomics operations absolutely destroy the performance of pipelined CPU architectures, both directly and indirectly (e.g. if working data is being passed to a thread scheduled on a different core).

Ever wonder why software transactional memory never really succeeded despite the hype? Because a lock often only requires a single atomic operation, whereas lockless algorithms often rely on a whole series of atomic operations. In practice lockless algorithms, while they scale well asymptotically, have horrible absolute performance.

I'm not saying that io_uring's operation queue is intrinsically slower. My point is that 1) context switches, especially in Linux, aren't that slow and 2) all the atomic memory operations have real costs. So the relative benefit of the message passing and worker thread architecture (which is a fixed cost in io_uring, much like a context switch for a syscall) isn't as great as you'd think. It's almost de minimis from the perspective of whole-application architecture.
I'm guessing you're referencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE
Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details
TL;DR: Consider listing your contact details in your HN profile!

There are lots of interesting conversations happening here on HN. But sometimes people might want to continue the discussions even after threads fall of the front page.

Have you considered listing your contact details on HN so that people can get in touch with you more easily?

If you want to do that, please note that it’s not enough to fill in the email field on your profile. Only the HN admins can see that field.

If you want others to see your e-mail address etc, you need to explicitly put it in the about text area.

Some members want to keep a low profile and I certainly respect that. But please consider what you might be missing. There’s also no requirement to use your main e-mail address. One could also use an alternative e-mail in order to stay pseudonymous.

There are just so many interesting people here so I thought that one might not want to miss out on all interesting connections that could occur. For example, interesting job offers are not uncommon here.

Just my 2¢ though, do what thou wilt. Peace!
Okay, to make this clear: the company that I am talking about earned a 67% return on investment...does this sound high or low level of profitability? Margin tells you nothing, businesses are not valued on margin but by return on capital (of which margin is a component but not the only component).

Also, your points about margin are all wrong...supermarkets control both the price they charge and the price they pay. To give a simpler example (you are confusing lots of things like having low-paid staff) is HFT a profitable business? Margins are the lowest of possibly any business known to man, these firms are usually making significantly under 1% or even 0.01% on each trade...that ignores two things: they don't take an opportunity unless it is profitable (gas stations are another example, margins are low but essentially fixed), and they turn their portfolio over thousands of times per day. If you earn 0.01% that isn't a lot, if you earn 100 000x per day then that is very profitable.

And I explained why retail does. If retailers aren't necessary, why is Amazon so large? Are Chinese factories just choosing to set fire to money? You explaining it does not make it true.

Again, Trader Joe's is a perfect example. Because people care about price does not mean they don't care about anything else. This is the mistake that MBAs at retailers made, they chose to compete at a game they would lose. Again, the reason why consumers perceive their choices in that way is because that is how retailers have chosen to compete. There are lots of other models (you named one, Trader Joe's grew by competing on price AND also choosing to narrow their range significantly...the same model was actually used by dollar stores, they actively chose to run against competitors who tried to carry everything...competing on price does not mean that you have to compete on price alone).
Like film cameras.
Management at all levels across all SV tech companies personally own homes whose value depends on centralization.
non-self-hosted? how do you know? I have worked at 2 different FAANGs, and both use self hosted versions of Slack. Why? because most people prefer it over other internal tools. Is it secure, I dunno. Is it the best options? Probably not.
Interesting... HomeBreeze has quickly become an important B2B relationship for the home pros we work with. Although a lot of what you're describing is for construction, which we don't serve, your comment makes me think that we could be giving homeowners access to great contractors who they wouldn't be able to otherwise access.
That was my thought, but I'm guessing the retrofit would be really expensive.
I'm not grokking your argument. Are you calling the forced enslavement and "re-education" of Uyghurs and so many others "harmony"?

https://tenor.com/search/you-keep-using-that-word-gifs
But the question of whom you would want has nothing to do with who is the "rightful owner" or the one who enjoys the support of the people they claim to govern.
Unfortunately no, Gamma doesnt reduce the power consumption of the LED backlight of the monitor.

It may in fact increase power use a bit because rendering black pixels needs more energy to excite the crystals.

I haven't contacted Apple because I don't think they are interested in implementing such a thing really. I've written more about why I think that here: https://lobste.rs/s/2zajeu/journey_controlling_external_moni...
If there's one thing Economists are amazingly bad at it's predictions.

Not that it prevents them from producing metric tons of it.

And why shouldn't they?

People gobble them up and never hold them accountable for getting it wrong.
That's actually good since most psychological research is not replicated and many times when they try to replicate the results are different.
Yes? Apple has thousands of vendors and suppliers, some of them their direct competitors (e.g. Samsung). A lot of them are in countries where Apple can't even enforce NDAs and protect their IP in fair courts. Trust is a fundamental aspect of doing business at that level.
This is the equivalent of saying "I know some SWE whos entire job it is to make bright and shiny buttons on web pages to entice old people to click on them for ad revenue, it's all he does and he makes bank for it"

You don't particularly seem to have the best grasp on the breadth of a career in ME/EE

Furthermore... if you're going to give an example, please don't make it one of the most beauracratic red taped government jobs program. Yes, we all know what happens at Boeing is not exactly contributing much to society nor giving fulfilling jobs at this point. Entry level Google doesn't particularly do so either, but you can start $200k w/great benefits & all you have to do is have enough accreditation to get thru initial resume screening (which is not much) and then have grinded leetcode for a few months.
"The delta variant is now the dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 in Israel, where researchers now estimate that the two-shot Pfizer vaccine is only 39% effective in preventing an infection within the country."

Source: https://www.salon.com/2021/07/28/pfizer-vaccine-less-effecti...

Um yeah, they're great.
> Chicken Little fatigue

To use a different fable, let me point out that the moral of "The boy who cried wolf" isn't that you shouldn't listen to liars, it's that if you get used to ignoring warnings you'll eventually end up with no sheep.
Traditional historiography (and Chiang's contemporaneous American advisers) held just the opposite.
Getting people working in NYC is probably good for reducing carbon emissions. Even working from home few places in the country are people going to be carless and certainly are less likely to live in environmentally friendly housing.
> Britain should have handed Hong Kong over to it's rightful owner, the Republic Of China.

LOL, just squirted the tea through my nose. That would have been an epic troll move. Unfortunately (for HK) the british empire had long lost its spine by that time and could only bully tiny nations, not powerful ones.
Hey Ahmed I live in Tunisia too. You seem to be young enough to not remember how it was to live under the dictatorship 10 years ago. I'm a political activist from the Pirate Party, and I've been arrested twice under the dictatorship and I'm not as worried as you are. Send me an email if you want to chat. I'm slim@pirate.tn
A relevant, though long video on the subject from Louis Rossmann:

West Midtown Manhattan's businesses are going, going, gone....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPhbiuDo6I
Ya I use DDC as part of a KVM, it works pretty well.

I have a usb switcher with a button, and then my desktop I have coded up to switch the input on my monitor when the keyboard appears/disappears (udev rules trigger that).
Streaming Video from the Mouse (2020)
Why exactly is the 2nd price higher? What purpose does that serve/what does it signal?
Well as things stand now they are in most cases very well compensated employees of major companies who are working on these projects as part of their job.
How does converting a stablecoin to cash work when you are in an unfamiliar country and don't have a local bank account?

I assume cryptocurrency exchanges won't mail you a wad of cash. Maybe they'd mail you a check, though, that you could cash at a local bank? Though many banks will not take checks unless you have an account with them. And the local check-cashing places will take a cut of the proceeds (though that might be acceptable given the situation). Even if that does work, you might be stuck without money for days or more while the check gets to you. Hopefully whatever you managed to bring with you will hold you for that long.
So are you acting as a general? Like are you providing the parts and marking up the labor?
Didn't say yours does. In many crafts there are people addicted to the formerly necessary discipline of the craft, than the purpose of the craft. Photographer has a lot of people like that such that its predictable.
It’s a 1M items, not nodes. Each item is a Go interface{}, about 16 bytes each. the benchmarks actually show that the tree is around 36MB.
> Then they were one of Amazon’s first casualties!

They're still in business. I browsed one last month. I was amused that one entire rack, 6 shelves, was filled with "Trump is Evil" books. Somebody at that store doesn't like Trump :-)
TIL google translate doesn't do ROT13.
I'm curious if this is just normal supply and demand or something else too. I have never been able to get an eink screen at any cost approaching the Kindle - continually, everywhere, the cheapest way to get started with eink is to jailbreak a kindle and just load your own images onto it.

A 7" b&w non-backlit eink display would cost several times over that of a 5-6" kindle, which doesn't even account for the wireless chips, display board controller, or anything else, even for a loss leader.
Dev says right at the top of the entry that they are writing from Romania. Quick Google shows an average software dev salary of 4800 USD per year. If that’s average, seems like 7x monthly of a junior salary checks out.
> For example, if you drop out of school, do drugs, and commit crimes, what are your odds of a successful life? Zilch.

This also depends on luck, search for the fundamental attribution error.

One can't decide where one is born, and in some places the hostile environment you live in, can cause you to take those decisions/behave like so.
It seems like we should just stop using ML for feeds.

My twitter feed is always hate. I don't actually comment, or engage other tan reading. And I am continuously being suggested post that are clearly bias to somebodies agenda.

I also fallow CNN breaking news. And the comments are complete trash. What is worse, is some small town thing happens, and now you have millions across the US and the world upset and outraged about it. While the issue was tragic, I am not sure it is healthy for society as a whole to be so connected to things that play nearly zero in their life.

I know, I know. Somebody is going to say "but they do play a role in their life". And I am going to reply. The only role they play is in that they saw a tweet or a reedit post or a 12 second clip with a loaded title that tries to convey that this bad thing happening is "status quo" and it is so outrageous that it happens and we all need to stand up to do something about it.

When in reality we are dealing with a world with ~8 billion people in it, where if 0.0000001% (8 people) of the population experience something bad to them in a given day, that we have systems in place to ensure that the vast majority know about it and get outraged, and are made to feel as if this is some huge problem that everybody needs to be involved in.

Listen folks, shitty things are going to happen, and they are going to keep happening, and it is going to seem like the problem is going to get worse and worse as the population grows. But we will never have zero bad things happening, and being outraged over and over about something that simply won't ever be corrected is a huge burden on society as a whole.

I challenge folks, especially the ones who get outraged at twitter post, reddit post, or stupid things said on HN to take a month off from social media. You will find the world is a much better place than you think it is currently.
Chesa got 14% of the vote. And my gut feeling on city sentiment is right, he’s going to get recalled.
I can't find a graph of Walmart employees over time, which may not be surprising since it seems that they only directly employ about 50k of the cited 1.6M total.

However, the graphs in this article from 2018 make it fairly clear how the trendlines for Walmart vs. Amazon compare:

https://www.pymnts.com/consumer-insights/2018/walmart-amazon...

Assuming the relationship between those curves is still roughly the same, it seems clear that Amazon's employee growth is likely to take it past Walmart's numbers within a couple of years.