skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify a bit I wouldn’t consider a break year by itself as a deal breaker, and I love to travel myself. I just have strong opinions on people who do it frequently (twice a year?), vocally, try hard to sound “hardcore” (camping and trekking) and make it part of their identity.

I didn’t start that way but just noticed patterns over a decade of meeting such folks. Some of the reasons include:

1. Many are often trying really hard to find meaning in travel, as if a forest or a mountain trek would suddenly change their outlook in life. Correlated, many of the most depressed folks and people who struggle to find their place in life I know almost all universally “like the outdoors” and would rate a trek in a beautiful path as their ideal past-time.

2. They look down at least subconsciously at the “urban” way of life as if they’ve somehow disconnected themselves from that hypocrisy. Like you realize you burned down a few trees personally (the equivalent) by flying to Hawaii right?

The general wisdom seems to be that travel will open your mind to new perspectives and tolerance but I’ve not experienced that personally. The folks who travel seem to do it mostly for pleasure, and rarely
Appear to have gained any real insight into any worldly process. In this connected age if you want to understand the ramifications of capital punishment in China you don’t need to travel there to know it. In fact you might get a more unbiased picture if you don’t.

An analogy here would be like learning science by making a vinegar volcano or that “heavy pendulum to the face” trick - in principle it’s science I guess? And everyone’s happy to do it, but the kids don’t learn much at all, and clearly given the scientific acumen of the American public which grew up with this stuff they haven’t learned much about what science even stands for. Probably the same with travel.
> “What’s clear is that Google doesn’t have to do this,” Rosenfeld told Reuters. “Google has paid these workers at 100 percent of their prior wage, by definition. So it’s not like they can’t afford to pay their workers who choose to work remotely the same that they are used to receiving.”

This right here is the money quote. Google is rolling in cash while paying its employees $X, no matter where they are. Now, they want to say "Oh, because you live in $PLACE, we're going to pay you less."

Did the value to Google of the work these people are doing suddenly go down? No, and not even if they were previously working from San Francisco and now working from South Lake Tahoe, or even Bumfuck Nowhere.

Google knows this. That means this can only be either an attempt to force people back into offices (which are located in more expensive areas), or an admission that they're not willing to pay people for the value of their work -- literally, not paying people what they're worth. Either one of these is a really bad look, IMO, and not really a smart move for Google.
We did this in the 50s to Mexico and the result is the modern Mexican state. This is truly one of the worst things you can do.
JPL has run the numbers on this as part of the engineering study. The solar panel shown in the concept image (in the center) charges a battery that gives MSH a 10km range or 5 minutes of hover time after charging for a day. It would have its own comms that could reach orbit.
The special cases you bring up are scenarios where there's a significant externality offsetting the fare.

If I take a rideshare to the airport, I don't have to leave my car in expensive airport parking for several days until my return. That can pay for a significant markup on the trip charge.

If I take a rideshare to a bar, I'm trying to dodge a $10,000 DWI ticket.

If I use one intermittently in Manhattan, it's likely part of the "few people own a car in Manhattan" dynamic, which is tied in part to having to pay hundreds of dollars per month just for parking said car.
Today’s EVs are in some ways a hack. The energy contained in the battery is far less than in a tank of gasoline.

To achieve range, most EVs are more aerodynamic than your average ICE car. Towing a battery out back would be horrible for aerodynamics and thus horrible for range.

Furthermore, EVs achieve good EPA ranges by doing better in city driving where they can recover energy via regenerative braking. They do worse at highway speeds since air resistance increases superlinearly with speed. Towing something bad for aerodynamics at highway speeds would be doubly horrible.

Lithium batteries must be kept within a temperature range. Too hot and they combust because the liquid electrolyte is flammable. They generate waste heat when discharging. If you don’t get rid of that heat, your battery will combust. That is why EVs have heating and cooling systems for the battery. Your towed battery, if you are extracting power from it directly, will need that.

Phones deal with too much heat by shutting down or throttling CPU speed. Some EVs have crawl mode but not for excess heat AFAIK.

Just buy an EV with more range. I think the Chinese standards could allow for different amounts of energy contained by the battery. For example, you can use different battery chemistries with the same form factor (nickel vs iron).

In other words, there are additional costs borne by an EV with a towed battery beyond what you would have with an external battery pack for your phone.
I wonder if people will start renting mailboxes in high income areas.
Could be:
https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/24744

I know this bug has hampered our use of ceph at singlestore. Note that this is not an eventual consistency issue. When it happens the list command will permanently miss files.
One problem is the software on the router is likely to be outdated and vulnerable, and upgrades are not under your control.
Isn't that what Amazon did? Week they did buy homes, but they provide a homeless shelter
This is, frankly, disgusting. What a way to show how little they actually care about the very people bringing in the tech and fresh ideas that keep Google afloat...
Samsung Introduces Industry’s First 5nm Processor for Next Generation Wearables
n of 1, my grandmother begged for her old life back every single day for months before she passed.
It's just a trivial excel table. The Hillel sources are a bit tricky to get to - their URLs are:

https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/brown-universit...

http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/columbia-univers...

http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/cornell-universi...

http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/dartmouth-colleg...

http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/harvard-universi...

http://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/university-o...

http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/princeton-univer...

http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/yale-university

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges has a decent summary of other demographic data.

For the US, I used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

Unfortunately I could not find many numbers from eJP, except those in the https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat... article. Perhaps you will have better luck searching.
Exactly. I'm a gay man, but most of the content I watch on social media platforms isn't "gay" content.
You can see how the whole thing would fold up in the linked article, there's an image from the white paper that shows MSH fitting into the same size aeroshell Mars Pathfinder used. It would run on solar power and recharge itself, just like Ingenuity.
Australia’s lockdown demonstrations show how quickly protests can go global
What's the point of rewriting the whole stack?
Apple has been using some dark patterns to force people to use iCloud. Telling them they haven’t finished setting up their phone. It notifies you until you sign up for the free tier, and then when that’s filled up it pesters you again
As usual, human intervention in ecosystems results in a disruption of processes that every organism in that system specifically evolved to live in. There are second and third order effects of allowing endless deadwood accumulation, pretty much guaranteeing that fires will be catastrophic. Not only do they cause super hot fires when it finally happens, but deadwood cover doesn't allow the usual plant life to take hold, increasing erosion and water retention, speeding the drying out of the forest.

Deadwood around lakes and streams can really screw up fish and other wildlife, too.
Maybe partly because everyone who wants the facebook app already has the facebook app.
From TA:

> Among problems that were used by the department to blackball unwanted candidate students, these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution that is difficult to find.

Could someone explain the mechanism here? I can understand how this would hurt any relatively unprivileged group, by requiring certain "gotchas" that have nothing to do with people's innate ability or level of education.

But is there anything further? I.e. were these problems well-known among students who had already passed through an unfairly discriminatory gauntlet?
This ditch full of sims, without a car in it is yours. There are meny like it, but this one is yours. Even though it is in the middle of a perhaps overbuilt desert where it really ought to not be as ridiculous to have a car as it is say in the urban east coast, where you just need a car to escape the retail trap that has replaced sensible urbanity, this ditch is yours. Now crawl in and die already, god damn it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmrOQ4BizCE
It baffles me watching people acting like clowns for a few views/bucks
No, im replying to this

>> setting text size in pixels instead of points

> "px" in css doesn't correspond to literal pixels on the display.

You ”justified” (I don’t know the intent of your comment, really) the use of points because pixels don’t match physical pixels.

> The comment you're replying to is my comment arguing against using "pixels instead of points".

Are you really arguing that using points is better than pixels on the web? Now that’s a brand new opinion.

1 point is always 1.33px. You’re still using pixels but indirectly.
It's a UNIX system! I know this!

https://www.wired.com/2015/06/tech-time-warp-time-unix-saved...
My understanding is that it's not just peat, but may be either surface trees or roots burning. I don't have good information on that though.
Depending on the housing market $1250/month for a 1-bed might be affordable. Quick google showed average rent for 1-bed in Tempe is $1,654.
Agreed, we should stop ceding the language we use to describe this betrayal of trust to Apple’s idiot marketing division. These aren’t child safety features. By the time CSAM has been produced the child has already been harmed. Also pedophiles, may they be tortured barbarically and may their barbaric torture be televised by mandate on all those little TV screens that squawk at us while we’re getting gas until every last one of them is too scared to ever go near another child again, will simply turn off iCloud photos, or iCloud, or whatever 3rd parties Apple will let in on the surveillance.

This will not help keep a single child safe. It’s not a child safety feature, it’s an adult surveillance feature.
What numbers are you looking at where cold kills more people than heat?
Your answer is seriously "race mixing bad"?

No, what keeps people homeless here is giving them homes and money for food. This is trivially verifiable.
With a "brand name" like Google, you can certainly get away with a good amount of this sort of behavior.
It's fine that prisoners are raped all the time, but we should definitely make sure they aren't talking about anything naughty on the phones.
If you clicked on the link you are commenting about, you would have learn that we are talking about 35°C wet bulb. Which will kill you, whatever your age, your health, or what you try to do to overcome it. Basically, without air conditioning, so without energy, you are dead.

Cold, instead, will not kill you if you are able to cover yourself with a sufficient coat and/or you are able to start some fire.

Most places in the world, even in rich countries, neither have air conditioning nor sufficient energy power plants to cool everyone.
I was addressing "Airships just don't work in strong winds".

You subsequently shifted the goalposts.

There was no transatlantic passenger airplane travel until 1939. Two years after Hindenberg disaster. The comparison ... is largely pointless. Though given the lack of heavier-than-air transatlantic commercial passenger flight, and as a consequence, no heavier-than-air commercial passenger fatalities, if you insist on the comparison, airships still lose.

https://www.panam.org/explorations/681-1st-transatlantic-pas...

Passenger liner sea-based travel remained the principle mode of transatlantic crossing until the 1960s, with passenger air travel only becoming significant with the introduction of jet powered aircraft in the 1950s (and late 1950s at that).

You seem bent on insisting you're correct at the cost of denying all contradictory evidence. You fail to even acknowledge the points. Even where you have relevant points, they're lost due to that bias. That's strongly disengenuous, impugns credibility, is a bad look, and is quite frankly exceedingly tedious.

I'm done.
It’s just like how businesses love to incorporate in Delaware or tax havens. All Employees can be based out of sf regardless of where they actually do their business. Just make an app to let people rent out their mailbox and forward it. When 500 people use the same address it will be just like the companies do!
> Whatever the full and subtle meaning of “in essence the same” is, Heidegger fails to address the difference in ethical weight between the two phenomena he compares, or to show a path for just political choice.

The first half of the article has some neat summaries of Heidegger’s thought and it’s reception, but I’m alarmed about Blitz’s sudden jump into the ethical and political at this point. I know he’s a political philosopher, but these texts, especially QCT, are about where and how it us possible to experience the world as itself any more. You can’t defer to ethics to adjudicate a crisis of perception. A good reader of the essay would need, at this point, to go back and understand what is meant by the phrase “prepare a free relationship” with technology.

It’s just… odd. This turn by Blitz. He knows grouping these things is a provocation. He knows the provocation is to help us try to grasp the extent to which the fate of things is determined by the “enframing” in which they (may) appear. Then he just appeals to a normie’s average sense of the ethical difference between agriculture and genocide?
Excellent point. Woods not seen for interfering trees.
It's hard to get a good sense of scale from the image, but the solar panel on the concept is about 0.5m in diameter. JPL has run the numbers as part of their engineering study, and MSH would be able to recharge itself in a day.
I think they actually phased that saying out a while ago, lol
My friend, I am not here to dispel your misconceptions, but I'll just note that you find HN a worthwhile community to participate in due to level of discourse here, then the same "para-social addict" label is applicable to you by your logic.
I wonder if we'll ever see some sort of Apache Accumulo as a service in the AWS commercial offering.

Also, kind of interesting that the former NSA chief Alexander was recently given a seat at Amazon's corporate board. I'm sure the lawyers for Microsoft, Oracle, etc. will not use that in their appeals complaints.
No fuel, no fire.
Nothing new here.

Worker compensation in Corporate America has a cost of living adjustment (COLA) multiplier. It’s calculated as part of the salary base and takes into consideration the location of the worker, among other things, in adjusting up or down offered compensation.

Google is simply making this transparent to workers. Just because someone was hired in a high COLA multiple location doesn’t mean they’ll keep that multiple when they voluntarily relocate to a low COLA area.

This is standard HR practice across all of Fortune 500.
This kind of reads like this company has come up with this scheme and now they are trying to sell it by forcing prisons to use it through legislation or at least pressure from congress.

Notice that even though the headline says "U.S. Prisons mull AI" the article actually says an unspecified congressional panel and an unnamed Democratic congressional aide are pushing for it to be "studied" there are zero mentions of prisons asking for it beyond a note that a sheriff in a town of 21,000 people claims to have solved a crime using it.

Feels like the real story here is corruption.
No company pays employees the value of their work. They pay the minimum they believe an acceptable applicant for the position would accept.
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Yeah, California desperately needs a plan to thin vegetation in it's forested areas. But it's disappointing people trying to leverage this aspect to "don't worry about global warming" or "see, it's really the environmentalists' fault".
someone call the firefighters.
"all IPs on the Internet."

I believe all IPV4 addresses. Skeptical on IPV6. Though the ntp pool thing was clever.
AFAIK most prisons in the us are not privately owned, so the people doing the lobbying probably aren't private prison owners with yachts, it's prison guard unions.
Maybe for now. Do you really think they're going to be able to attract top talent in 5 years if this policy continues? I also expect that if this holds, there will be a fairly large exodus from Google to companies that don't have such a policy.
Come on, doesn't everyone under 40 just want to keep the college experience going... and going...?

Wait, what am I saying. Americans want to retire to somewhere like this too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Villages,_Florida

"Urban" my butt. Still, beats the hell out of North Korea.
Of course they can, since Windows ME.
Terrorist becomes Domestic Terrorist very easily which is code word for dissident. Imagine being a government and being able to suppress all damaging dissent and free speech? The same thing has been happening for years in the US using the tech companies as proxies.
I'm still a little confused what the "harmonic surprise" is... is it a genre shift within a piece of music? Is it related to chord progression? Is it a key change?

The example in the article seems to hint at "harmonic surprise" referring to a simple genre shift:

>With its stark, sudden shifts between choral melodies in major chords and menacing percussive elements drawn from the trap subgenre, the song constantly defies the listener's expectations throughout. That's why "This is America" also tops the list of pop songs rich in so-called "harmonic surprise," or points when the music deviates from listener expectations.
Or digging a hole or holes, and running air and or water through them, like has been done for thousands of years in very hot places.
This second paragraph of the article clarifies this. The largest ever fire was last year's August Complex. It was called a complex because it was a merger of several smaller fires. This fire is the largest ever "single fire" (having a single source) and the second largest fire of any kind (single or complex).
> Our survey of the climate record from station data reveals many global TW exceedances of 31° and 33°C and two stations that have already reported multiple daily maximum TW values above 35°C.

I only did a quick skim of the paper, but I couldn't actually find which two stations they were talking about. I'm curious as to which two places they were.
1) recognize: https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-transgenderism-not-sup... (one example of thousands, I’m sure)

1) legalize: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_the_Un...

2) I am specifically contesting that assertion. We appear to have a case of violent agreement here. One of the earlier posts suggested that lack of a trans person with 10+ million views is evidence that TT is suppressing content. I contend that the relative unpopularity of trans-related content (only hundreds of thousands or a few million views) is well explained by structural factors and no intervention on TT’s part would be needed to create that outcome. If anything, my experience is that queer and trans content is overrepresented on the platform relative to what you’d expect based on the IRL population/demographics.
You know that, I know that, and Google knows that. But, a lot of people don't, or, at least, they don't admit it to themselves.
That's really sad, I'm sorry she had to go through that.
I wouldn’t say Seaside, the new urban community where the Truman Show was filmed failed really. It seems to have held on to some sense of year round community that is not completely overwhelmed by the vacation crowd. I always liked staying there before it got too popular because it felt like a tiny functioning city with book store, arts, year round jobs etc, not like a vacation spot that turns into a ghost town after September.
The vendor they cite as an example of providing this service in the article says they use AWS on their website. Presumable they Speech to text is being done by AWS's Transcribe service.
Apple is working on it... kinda? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-commits-two-poi... I'm not saying that initiative is bad in itself, but Apple has historically fought tax assessments according to https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/silicon-valley-companies-lik... and that money could have improved things over time instead of forcing a crisis now. They also expanded their offices and built a new headquarters in a place with little housing. https://48hills.org/2015/11/another-16000-apple-workers-look... So they actively made it difficult for the "the government" to work, e.g. deny office expansion that could not be staffed with available housing, or pay for housing expansion.
Doomscroll usually isn't an issue. Tree Style Tabs collapses a tree you're not in by default. So by default you only see the top level tabs, and your current branch is expanded. If your screen is 1080p or higher, you can easily see ~20+ tabs in single view.

The trick is to not switch tabs by mouse. Firefox searches through open tabs with '%' prefix. So I don't have to doomscroll ro find my tab. And the tab that I'm currently viewing has full context history open, instead of just homepage as per your suggestion. Our workflows could be different, but two levels of context is bit limiting. Right now, I have 3 trees with 3 layers of hierarchi and one tree with 4 levels. Occasionally I've reached 5 or 6 levels, but those are very short lived and cleaned up immediately.

The biggest advantage this setup provides me is that I can offload the tab (and by proxy work) state onto my machine instead of holding it in my brain. This comes handy when working on multiple things simultaneously, because I can focus on task in front of me, and when I switch to different task the browser retrieves and presents its state from where I left it.
definition of how to piss off your employees!!
This has always been true though. The employee in the London or Tel Aviv or Bengalore or Toronto offices of Google (or any other company for that matter) are not paid the same $ amount for the same role/contribution.

Companies have always paid people "market value", never what they can afford to pay (which for some companies is less and other companies a lot more).