skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I sometimes feel like I'm at death's door when jogging outdoors. Myself and some Westerners I know haven't "adapted", even after years being here. The strategy is just always have ice water in hand if outdoors for prolonged time. I sometimes get laughed at for not adjusting to the heat, but I think it's just too much for some genetic lineages from outside tropics.

Unfortunately a large percentage of folks in HDB flats don't have AC, so I do fear for many citizens in Singapore. With global warming trends it should simply be a free or heavily subsidized utility here.
Plastic straws were never a trash problem in Norway, where I live. Yet restrictions and incentives were still implemented. It's viewed by most people as a rather hypocritical and annoying token move, leading to lower enjoyment of life for most people, with little if any gain, to the point of pushing people away from the green movement. Or perhaps that was the point all along? Sure paper straws deteriorate far better in nature. Except most plastic straws aren't thrown into nature. They're thrown in the bin, since it's mostly used in an urban setting and in cafés. Besides Norway already has a pretty well-functioning recycling strategy for plastic. Moreover, if someone were to drive off with a plastic cup and throw it at the side of the road – which most Norwegians would never do – it's still far more plastic in that cup than in the straw. So what's the point of banning just the straw? It boggles the mind, unless it's just silly posturing!
They absolutely have. It's much easier to switch jobs without moving than to get a job that requires a move. Their leverage isn't totally gone -- especially since full remote jobs are becoming more common -- but it's definitely reduced.

When you move, it's not just the hassle and expense, but also the life changes. Especially if you have kids, those are big.

Experienced software engineers in general are capable of moving to practically any major metro if they really want to. By your reasoning, all of them should possess the same pay scale, the same cost of labor.
> A math professor of mine said that the first step to solve a math problem was to know the answer.

Yes, I've learned the same thing in my MS as well. Before I put pencil on paper I need to have a rough idea why something is true.

The books sounds fascinating. Can you provide a link to this book?
Has any company said that they think their workers are less productive when WFH? Or less productive when less able to meet in-person on occasion? And so rate less pay for that reason?
For reference the rovers can do 100 meters a day. 10km in one day is huge.
https://data.gov.sg/dataset/wet-bulb-temperature-hourly?view...

The Changi airport weather station does not have any recordings of a 35C wet bulb temperature. And this paper suggests that it is a very uncommon occurrence as yet. What source are you using?
Not to mention getting to avoid the nightmare that is Python's shared-library situation (with virtual envs, etc)
the market does the factoring for them. to acquire the talent they want in a place like nyc they have to at least pay them enough to live close by. its a lot more expensive there than most other places. this until recently was a factor that affected everyone in the office, because they all have a certain amount taken out of their checks from society just to be in the proximity of their employer.

their families are their own business.
Huh?

3 daily calls is evil?
Should Wisconsin employers be expected to pay SF-equivalent salaries?
I think it's good to note that Yakutia is burning at a rapid rate.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/everything-is-...
You and I have very different ideas about the definition of democratic.
You are incorrect; that is UTF-8 all right!

If you manually change the encoding of the page to Unicode, the mangled character renders. The page just neglects to publish the correct content encoding HTTP header.

What's apparently not allowed on Reddit is rather the poor old ASCII apostrophe.
The thing is it's not even that large on disk most of the time (tens of hundreds of MBs in my experience). The main problem is the number of file handles - it takes a long time even to delete them all - but even then it's just not a huge roadblock. I don't do a clean install very often.
This feels like one of those prescient HN comments that are cited in the future. IDK, just... replying to say I was a witness too.
Their new surveillance tech is terrifying. How long until the Chinese government requires them to compare photos on their phones against a database of "communist party abuse material" and report violators?
It’s almost like the finance system we have today is the result of complex adaptation. It’s not perfect, but it seems less corrupt, more stable, more approachable, and more useful than the crypto space.
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> Isn't remote work obviously good for the environment

Probably not, since it seems to encourage suburban and rural sprawl?

There's commutes to factor in too, true, but I don't know if that's enough.

> especially in the big cities like SF and Seattle?

Big cities are good for the environment precisely because they keep large numbers of humans within a small area. Imagine if NYC's population suddenly spread out to all live in detached single family homes on large lots. The environmental devastation would be enormous.

In any case, commutes don't have to be that bad for environment. Electrically-powered public transit, or biking, have a marginal per-person impact on the environment, relative to the US standard of a person driving themselves a long distance in their gas car, alone.
This for once looks like something from Mac I'd like someone to introduce and adapt to Konsole.
No Adults in the Room
I use Synology but admittedly have don't have a deep understanding of networking or security. It works for me and is very user friendly.
> For TikTok I feel it's still at the stage where the makers, above all else, just want to be seen.

This sounds like what YouTube used to be like. I wasn't around much for it, but I can only imagine how fun it must have been in the early stages.
Although a welcome addition to Signal, personally would like to see the 'phone number sign up' 'disappear' from the app and instead add email signup.

Thats all.
oh OK, so no one will do anything about it and it's probably gonna happen and when it does it will be. out of the news cycle in a few days. noted.
Thanks for the hot tip on Alt+`. What a tremendously handy hotkey I had absolutely no idea existed!
The 19th century equivalent of driving freeways through poor districts in American cities.
How do you use a bloom filter? Because that's never been a limitation in my use cases.

The only times I've really needed them is when I needed to know a db row has been updated in this import run. (Can't fit hash in memory, updates happen in batch/async so writes haven't been made yet)

I.e. basically using it for dedupe
I keep hearing the trope of "people are paid the value of their work" come up, and it's completely false and absurd. People are paid the market clearing price (a.k.a. better or equal to the alternatives, given some reasonable amount of searching effort).

Yes, this means there are many engineers in SF that are actually/currently paid MORE than they would be in an efficient market (and there are many software developers in developing countries that are paid LESS than they would be in an efficient market). Right now there's enough money going around that nobody cares about market efficiency, but if we have an actual, deep recession in the sector, I expect all the music to stop (and the efficiency of the developer market to go up on the whole).

In software we can pretend to ignore these discrepancies, but it becomes patently obvious if you've ever dealt with international companies who discriminate based on nationality for people doing the exact same job (and not in software, where you can argue talent - literally the exact same job - two performers doing the same act in the same show. I've seen pay discrepancies of up to 2.5X or more for an American Expat in Hong Kong and a worker from the Philippines, for example). It's all about what your individual alternatives are.
Because when this happens en masse, they won't have enough "next person" to get work done, so they raise wages. That's how a market works (see: low wage jobs in the US now).
Lots of people here calling this gross, but at the end of the day I’m willing to bet there a lot of qualified engineers living outside of a Google city who would be stoked to work for 50% of a Google salary, let alone 85. Are they gross for accepting that offer?

You’re in the business of selling labor and Google is in the business of buying labor.
>> Just because the actors are domestic doesn't make it at all better. Domestic actors don't have public welfare in mind

No love for any social network from me, but there's a huge difference between a company looking for its own interest, and one being controlled by a state which may be in a hot (or certainly cold) war with your country in the near future.

You can surmise that FB will put its interests over your own, but you can bet that a Chinese owned media will actively look to harm you and the place you live, it's just a matter of time.
We had over 500 here in Bend, Oregon thanks to numerous wildfires to the west of us, last September: https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/15/oregons-air-is-so-haz...

It was an awful time. Couldn't be outside because of the air, couldn't have guests over because of the pandemic.
based-on the value they create, not all of it.

Of course, there is an argument that the workers should indeed get all of the profits, after costs, including founder's IP, reasonable return to investors, etc, etc, since they are the ones creating those profits.
The sensible way to secure it would be to have a device behind the router, in an isolated network which is the only network/device allowed to access the management interface. Then you tunnel/vpn/wire guard into that device.
Math itself- not always needed as i said.

But learning math (any math) is crucial.
My friend, the whole "study" is based on false assumptions and consist of interpretation of the data in the way which confirms these assumptions. This is not even science, this is some blog posting kind of crap.

Every bit of observable behaviour could be explained in terms of habitual behaviour and physical pattern matching, exactly what a trained NN will do - it will perfectly accurately separate patterns which corresponds to different quantities, while posses no notion of any abstract concepts whatsoever.

Animals pattern match, but do not have abstract concepts. Well, enzymes do pattern matching but not counting.
Fortran is quite heavily used in computational science domain. Both the "old" (F66, F77, F90) and the new modern F2003, F2008, F2018. and Yes, (modern) Fortran feeds my family daily (along with many other computational tools and skills). Modern Fortran is a bliss. The parallel features of it are quite advanced comparable to advanced modern MPI capabilities, yet with an extremely intuitive and simple "Coarray" syntax. It is a fully vectorized, parallel shared and distributed, array-oriented, also Object-Oriented, language. It has influenced and shaped the syntax of MATLAB, Python, R, even C++ numerical libraries by its simple powerful high-level array-syntax.
Gnome 3 absolutely wasn't horrible last I used it, I only had to fix the wildly inefficient alt-tab implementation and thta took a few minutes searching and clicking one checkbox I think.

(I think there was a nunber of issues with extensions but I guess that is fixed now.)
Linguistic representation can deal with what's-the-word-again place holders though. So, not being able to recall the name of an object or concept does not prevent linguistic thinking.
The only thing I miss about yarn when I switch to NPM is the way you can run package scripts without the word "run". Just "yarn build". It's the tiniest thing but it makes a difference with how often you do that. I hope NPM copies it some day.
> sounds good, but each SM drives 128 “CUDA cores”, each corresponding to a thread in the SIMT programming model. Per thread, we get about 0.09 bytes of memory bandwidth per cycle – or perhaps less awkward at this scale, one byte every 11 instructions.

This is a weird/incorrect way of looking at memory bandwidth on a GPU. You can saturate the memory bandwidth without using even close to all of the threads available. I'm not sure why the author chose to use this metric rather than simply running a benchmark.
Tabs should be auto grouped in a interest e. g. "cangoroo obsession". Within these threads, the repeated common elements (authors, producers, stars, most recent visit, Nr of visits) should allow to sort it hierarchical. Now bookmarks are a echo chamber of obsessions and we are to blame. Tabs get sorted by the obsessions they are part of, creating meta tabs. Society collapses on its own weight.
Building an Inclusive Digital Future
I've been thinking about this, and it's seeming like childhood exposure to prolonged heat and humidity may be what gives you the ability to handle it as an adult.

It's just an anecdote, of course, but there are notable examples of people i think should be from genetic backgrounds that could handle the heat that can't, and vice versa.
There's a difference between making a Unix-compatible/Unix-like (a la Redox, Minix, Linux, the BSDs, macOS, etc) and having POSIX-compatibility + interfaces (a la Haiku, Serenity, Windows + Cygwin or WSL, etc).

One is just reinventing the wheel, even if it means "having useful software"; the other is attempting something new while offering tools to make porting useful OSS simpler.
> Supplements can mitigate the problems to an extent but are inferior to natural sun exposure.

Inferior how?
The lockdowns, and media promoted fear and hysteria are the pandemic, not the virus.
Not cost of living. Cost of labor. These correlate a fair amount, but not 100%.
PetCode: An Operating System for Your Pet
I’ve been saying for years now that we’ll most probably see a time in our lifetime where you need to wear a (light) space-suit style thing to go outside in some seasons. Insulated and actively heated/cooled, possible with air filtration for pollution/smoke/etc. There’s already been some companies playing with the idea as a prototype/art/statement level but I truly think it’s inevitable that it becomes more common.
It is referring to how to use a bloomfilter. You can use a bloomfilter instead of a hashtable in some situations and it will be more space efficient at the expense of accuracy but the article talks about other uses for them as well.
Fear propaganda from fearmongers. Once you know the subject, and that it's from the Atlantic, there's no need to even click on the article; you can just mentally write it yourself. They said all the things you know they're going to say. Fear, fear, fear.

That's what comes to us via the internet. What's coming to you via your eyes and ears out in the real world? Maybe you think you're seeing some unusual weather, but everyone always thinks their weather is weird. Have you actually checked for historical precedent?

You might find it eye-opening that the storm you thought was particularly terrible hardly even ranks compared to storms of the past, the worst of which happened over a hundred years ago. Maybe you think it's unusually hot, but historical records might disappoint you. Checking for precedent is discouraged these days because it's often very inconvenient for the CO2 hypothesis.

Food for thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tqpTH3m40
I've worked with people who were TDD maximalists, Agile / Scrum maximalists, microservice maximalists, Gang of Four maximalists, and even a MongoDB maximalist.

What has become clear to me is that the silver bullet doesn't exist. Pick the tool for the job, and accept that exceptions exist for every rule. The maximalist is too rigid, and in the rigidity is arrogance and ultimately failure.

I would even say that if you take someone who is obsessed with something like TDD, and then ban all engineers from using TDD, it is quite possible you get a better product. You don't want TDD for every problem - sometimes it simply is a barrier to success.
I still wear mine. Recently visited family who live in $RED_VOTER area. Got a bunch of looks from the locals. Nobody said anything - and who cares if they did? I've learned to say "fuck off" in multiple languages (thank you internet!)
> Supplements can mitigate the problems to an extent but are inferior to natural sun exposure.

I've never heard of such a claim, and that seems unintuitive. Why would that be? Do you have a source you could direct me to to learn more about this?
中国已经放开生育政策了，多孩政策很急迫的提上了日程
Sundar said they think 20% will be full remote.
You could sum up most hobby OSes in this manner. My main metric for when it's moved from simply hobby to a potential functional OS is a) are there additional contributors and b) does it have a USB stack.

Quite a few alternative OSes check A, very-VERY few also check B. And only one, that I know of, checks B but not A.
> They're the only small group being considered. Of course they're gonna be "by far" something. Many other small groups have above-average representation in academics.

Maybe small in the US as a whole, but in the Ivy League they are 17.2% - the 3rd largest ethnicity, almost as large as Hispanics and Blacks combined.

But lets suppose they are being discriminated against. That would require some other group, that makes up a significant % of the Ivy League, to be unfairly privileged (otherwise it would have a negligible effect on the % of Jewish students).

So which group do you think that is? You said Asians are discriminated against, so they're out. Maybe you think there's too many Hispanic or Black students, despite being 11x less likely to be accepted into the Ivy League? Or is it non-Jewish whites, the most under-represented group, that are also the most privileged?
Well, I think the appeal of outdoors is certainly very broad.

In modern connected society, nature is a great refuge. I think you are conflating a few namely “time in nature”, people who enjoy solitude, and broadening horizons with travel to new places. IDK, I guess I feel, even in my tech and urban circle of friends, there is a great appreciation of nature and that it is pretty healthy. I’m sure some people patch up issues in their life with it. Most of the folks I know aren’t Doing the Instagram, travel, my life is awesome thing. They just go to nature for a nice scene, chill, peace and quiet, read some books, contemplate life. Do it with friends who enjoy it.

My take, I love getting deep into nature for solitude and quiet. It’s a forcing function to disconnect. The travel is just a means to new vistas, but we usually drive to places. The point isn’t really to broaden horizons so much as to see new places. I don’t really broadcast my lifestyle. I don’t promote it to others. I just do it. I also enjoy many things only urban and suburban life really offers (martial arts, etc). Anyway, you touch on some good points, but I also think the views are narrow and don’t capture the spirit of why many people are drawn to nature :)

Balance in most things tends to lead to a deeper and healthier relationship with those things (nature, travel, etc) over time.
There's another aspect here, too. Companies get tax breaks to put offices in certain locations, and those tax breaks are frequently based on having a certain percentage occupancy.
> What you're proposing is me, in another state, city, neighborhood, paying for your states issue(s).

"An Associated Press Fact Check finds...High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red)..."

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxe...
是的，中国政府是务实的。
University of Padova has turned out a lot of impressive people. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin

Further back, Galileo taught there.
Notably, this is for mobile phone sensors, which are highly "physics constrained" and need every trick in the book to achieve decent image quality.
Thank you! I appreciate the clarification.
I figured they got better video encode/decode with real hardware and not in the web. But it also makes sense they can do better networking the lower to metal they can get. I was using a 2011 mac air, and web client was worked but the app install was like magic.
Easily. Currently I have a choice to not use their services and I exercise that choice.

I don't trust Google and I don't trust Apple. Apple can perform the same process on their iCloud servers but choose not to. The way they are approaching the problem speeds up the erosion of privacy.

In other words I reject the false dichotomy you are presenting.
If you need twice the time on public transport than in a car, then your public transport is just not very good.
I think the huge potential is lenses may become cheaper, given they don't need layers of precisely curved glass anymore.

That said, if only Sony is making these, they'll just keep the prices the same to rake in more profits.
Registers and cache are used together, though. And shared memory is the same as the L1 cache, but manually controlled.
Ah, that makes more sense now.
> Except that a Google employee moving to someplace with a weaker economy has not reduced their leverage. These are people who have the power to simply move back.

A Google employee that moves away both changes the pool of options that employee has (only companies that offer remote or local ones in his new place of living - versus companies in (SF, NY, whatever)), and the alternative options that the employer has (he is now being compared against a much larger pool of people who can work remotely). That is indeed decreasing leverage.
I think most photo companies (and even MS) have patented curved image sensors at this point. Everybody has been saying that it's the next big thing, but it's probably hard to produce and I'm not an optics engineer to actually chime in on how much improvement it can have.
All of Pelevin novels.

If you’re into philosophy, humor, and understanding meaning of life, but in exciting adventurous form.

https://www.amazon.com/Victor-Pelevin/e/B000APHFPS/ref=dp_by...
Was about to reply with this exact sentiment. If the page is about you or your service, propose the updates in the talk page (ideally with reliable third-party sources).
Do you think that having more extreme weather events will reduce the number of weather related deaths, or increase them?
> If you are using their [Nvidia's] driver on any version of UNIX, then you will most likely not be able to switch back and forth between the console and your graphical environment.

This is flatly untrue. I'm running Debian and using the Nvidia drivers with a GTX 1070, and switching to the virtual consoles and back to X has always worked fine. In fact, sometimes I have to switch to the virtual console to rescue my session when light-locker eats itself.

> In fact you often cannot run multiple graphical environments simultaneously either, something that is unheard of in the Windows world, but is a given on UNIX systems.

I haven't ever tried this... it might be true. What I have tried is starting two X sessions on laptops with switchable graphics that can use both at once (so one X session for the integrated GPU, and another one with the nvidia driver for the Nvidia GPU). This works fine.

> The only way to work around these issues is to use either the reverse engineered open source Nvidia driver, or configure X to use the generic VESA driver.

In my experience with several generations of Nvidia cards, the Nouveau driver has always been a slower, buggier, worse experience than nvidia's driver. Look, I want Nvidia to release and upstream their driver source as much as anyone, but in my opinion, the author is overstating their case here, and this weakens other parts of their argument that may have some merit.
PostgreSQL?