skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for being tuned into my pessimism and helping me paint an even bleaker picture! =D No but seriously that was a very thought-provoking reply and I'm personally very aligned with the classic environmentalist solution but equally desoriented on how that could be "sold" on a global scale as a way of living. My political leanings is showing here so it comes as no surprise that my analysis is that the issue is with that sneaky quoted word. "Selling" an idea implies rational actors that could "buy in" to the "small life lifestyle" and reject the options readily available on the market, which would be a (potential) life abundant with short term kicks and a dopamine filled days with an endless supply of various things that are fun and "help" us in our daily life (but in the end will destroy earth). Which indeed is a hard sell, primarily because we aren't rational economical agents that can weight "guaranteed happiness the next decade" vs "my children potentially living in a desert fighting for scrap in 50 years".
What is the rationale in making something like a hearing aid require a prescription? I can understand addictive drugs, you don't want them misused. What about the million other things that require a prescription?
That sounds very similar to the Spanish Día de los Muertos.
Intentions are good, but I found this system confusing and not useful for me.

I use to use Everytimezone, but find Dateful's dual timezone display more useful for my needs.

https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

Edit: Added positive remark about good intentions.
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The links to the documentation should also be updated
https://docs.kicad.org/5.1/en/getting_started_in_kicad/getti...
> M3O is built on existing public cloud infrastructure using managed kubernetes along with our own infrastructure automation and abstraction layer for existing third party public APIs. We host the open source Micro project as our base OS and use it to power all the Micro Services, which provide simpler building blocks for existing cloud primitives.

Forgive me if this sounds a bit negative... but, aren't you just reselling another cloud provider at this point?

Why would I use you and not go directly to EKS or GKE?

EDIT: Looks like you use digital ocean.. but please don't use commit messages like 'fix' https://github.com/m3o/platform/commit/5c006d3390cf680d58f11...
When is this expected to go live? I thought we'd be there by now.
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> Attitudes to wages vary so much.

They're probably relative to the costs of living.

There's a job offer I looked at a while ago (just moments before the pandemic started), for a company in London. The pay was typical for non-FAANG companies. I did some math on it, and quickly discovered that:

- If I can do the job remotely from Poland, I'm instantly becoming a high-earner. There are jobs locally that pay comparably, but they're the ones other people point at when they say SWEs are overpaid.

- If I have to move to London, the pay is shit. I'd be moving with my family (wife and then a 1yo daughter). I'd have to rent out a smallish 2-room apartment on the other side of London, with 40-60 minutes commute one way (bus -> metro -> bus), and the pay would barely cover rent + daycare for the kid, meaning if we wanted to eat something more ambitious than ramen, my wife would have to either stay at home (forging daycare), or find a decent job herself. Forget saving any money.

Now, it's not currency power difference - it's cost of living difference. The little bits of money we'd be able to save if we reduced our standards of living hard wouldn't translate to much spending power back in Poland either way.

After doing the math, I've decided the value add of being in London vs. being in Kraków (a major city in Poland, with an active tech community) is not worth the reduction of quality of life, and near-complete drain of disposable income. I double-downed on remote work, enjoying costs-of-living arbitrage for as long as I can.

(And it's a matter of time before this ends. While the pandemic dramatically increased the choice in remote work jobs, it also put the topic of CoL arbitrage in the spotlight, so now businesses have it easier to coordinate and capture the surplus for themselves instead, under the guise of employee fairness.)

EDIT: also your German colleague might be a special case, because AFAIK in Germany, software jobs are underpaid compared to the rest of the world, even accounting for currency power and costs of living. A German colleague of mine, working for a German software company servicing industry clients, once complained to me that he's sad that on - in his opinion decent, for Germany - software salary he can barely afford to keep the family afloat, and that's with his wife also working, whereas a "bad, no-good" relative of his earns way more than that doing occasional construction work...
> I don't agree with equating paid employment in a free society with slavery.

If people only have the choice between being exploited by Amazon in conditions that are beyond reasonable (e.g. having to piss in bottles, not getting lunch breaks), by "gig employers" shifting entrepreneurial risk towards employees (Uber, but also hospitality that doesn't pay minimum wage so people are depending on tips) or being homeless, then yes it is modern slavery.
> I guess debian/ Ubuntu folks will choose bash, osx people will continue using zsh and the openbsd users will keep using that vanilla sh because of the vintage feel.

I believe that using zsh means, for the vast majority of users, using just a small subset of functionality that gives a better UX when compared to Bash.

Both me and my colleagues use zsh this way, and the times I've tried to figure out more advanced functionalities, it wasn't as simple as I expected.

I've read a few points of the article, and although they make sense as improvements, they apply mostly to the scripts domain. I don't recommend writing zsh scripts, because they're subtly different from the (unfortunately) standard that is Bash, besides not being supported (at least until a short time ago) by (the necessary) Shellcheck. If one wants a better experience for scripting, they're better off with a non-shell scripting language altogether (ie. Python).
Newfoundland is 30 mins different.

Really this is just an offset in letters. Make the offset in numbers. I love the inner clock face idea.
I wonder if that is because they are about to release the Fairphone 4 and sold out of the last. You'd think they'd shut off the orders though if that were the case.

Edit: Checked their shop and now says Out of Stock: https://shop.fairphone.com/en/fairphone-3-plus

You might have gotten unlucky on timing right at the end of orders.
One issue with your graphical clock being modulus-24 is that it interferes with everyone's lifetime exposure to analog clocks that are modulus-12. Losing that spatial awareness of where the hour hand "typically" sits makes it harder to read.

I think simple text list of different locations and their current local time is much easier to mentally parse.
It is all of our duty when working in/with America/ns to use 24h time as often as possible. Same goes for metric.

Americans call it "military time" because the US military uses it. I like to remind people that the entire rest of the world uses it, too, and that 12h time should just be called "American civilian time".
They don't have to be a driver of outcomes, just an indicator.
Admittedly it's up to the language whether those two types should be considered identical or not, but there's nothing wrong with considering them unequal.
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Interesting, I did not know it could do that - need to take a look into it!
FYI: In Germany, a lot of Amazon workers are unionized already. There are nation-wide unions that are not workplace-specific, and if I remember correctly, Amazon workers in Germany were on strike at least once.

In Poland however, unions are often frowned upon because of Poland's past, although there are one or two small workers union that have been helping the warehouse employees.
The website simply says "Temporarily out of stock"
You're going to have to do some intermediate checks if you want stuff like x/sin(x) to behave.
> It would be "better" to burn coal and plant new trees than to burn wood and plant new trees.

From a purely CO2 perspective, trees are just stores of carbon, just like coal. I don't get how one is better to burn than the other? If anything that should come out in favor of burning trees, because wood contains more hydrogen bonds (that oxidize to H2O instead of CO2) and because newly planted trees grow much better in logged forests than they do in coal mines.
Neat abstract but I guess I'll need to use scihub to read it?
You should write a follow up and link that to the original post.
> all-optical computing

The keyword here is ‘all’. There are some things optical computing is bad at. However there are some things it is unparalleled at. For example, light can multiplex. It can have much lower energy losses. It can run at much higher frequencies. It is by far the best way to transmit information at extremely high data rates. Even within a chip, free space optical communication has massive theoretical potential.

Your comment would have been an excellent one without the last sentence.
Well, in the case of Turkish, the old works were still in Turkish, except they were written in arabic alphabet. They were just republished in latin alphabet.
Hmm, a paid search engine - wonder how they handle the spam SEO problem, but is an interesting idea
Thanks for sharing, gotta look into this!
It takes a while for the time spent learning emacs/vi to amortise itself. You need to learn the key bindings, the ad hoc scripting language, and the substantial API. And throughout it all, there's the constant temptation to switch to something easier like vscode.

I tried learning to use Org-mode as a Markdown replacement over Doom Emacs. At some point, I switched back to vscode+Markdown and it felt like a breeze. I'm not a SWE, so the payoff would've probably taken too long to happen.

I also tried using the Maxima mode for Emacs as an interactive CAS. The only thing I got was Latex-formatted output and the same Emacs-like key bindings that you get in any terminal emulator. No auto-suggestion/Intellisense to help you navigate and avoid learning the API, so I wasn't overly impressed.
Have you worked at/with GDS or is this an opinion you've arrived at from afar?
OrgPad.com went to Hetzner from DigitalOcean because of this. We saved some money and actually get a comparable quality with IPv6. That is not bad at all. Of course, Hetzner don't have such nice graphs for the VPS, there aren't many features like managed databases etc. that DO has, but we don't need that since we manage on our own (which is also one of the reasons we get better performance for less money).
IPv6 at DO is really more for ticking a box instead of real production use. E.g. DO Spaces don't support IPv6. You can't run SMTP on IPv6, because DO uses somewhat non-standard /124 for a droplet and you can't have a IPv6 floating prefix/ IP.
Nothing precludes you from using bash scripts even if ysit fish interactively. Just set a shebang in the script, or run it with bash script.sh.

That said, personally, for anything more involved than a one-liner alias kind of script, I turn to python, or PowerShell on Windows.
Great empires always die from internal rot.

As we fritter away our opportunity, others will fill the void. Perhaps ironically in this case, we'll eventually find ourselves with new masters that don't care about things like diversity and inclusion.
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Why Wikipedia matters, and how to make sense of it (programmatically)
That price was for a global deal, not just the UK. 50.5M is likely higher than Giphy's UK revenues for a year. It does seem punitive.

TFA also says that Austria fined FB ~10M for the same deal.

It might all have been priced into the deal as some other comments have pointed out. If the goal is to truly deter, then the CMA should perhaps make FB unwind the deal at least in the UK.
That's rather brave of them
Nothing really, but kicad don't run or maintain the user forums. They are a knowledgebase but they are not the offical knowledgebase.
> you guys just want an absolute monopoly on sex

because your fellow (female) nationals choose to have sex with Americans? Is America responsible for these choices?

Are "unaware partners" getting just porn? Should women not get to choose who they have sex with before marriage?
Same thing for me. Ear protection + AirPods = Silence. What I like about the AirPods Pro is they actually fit INSIDE my over ear protectors.
Totally agree. I will add that the hype is typically ignited because a technique have shown real benefits in a particular domain. The problem comes when the technique is treated as a panacea and is applied uncritically outside of this domain. This eventually cause a backlash, which may even hurt adoption in the original domain where the technique was successful.
Nice. Let's recruit this guy/girl asap.
Spamming HN while looking to promote their own product in a rather off-putting way... I can't be the only one to think this looks like a project born dead, producing no sufficient traction in its own entirety to attract people, hence the OP's acts. *sigh*
Old white men wanting to control everything, including women. Especially women.

Religion is used as an excuse, but that's also just old white men wanting to control people.
The problem is that there's a very low percentage allowed in the biomass/coal mix. In the Netherlands this loophole is used a lot to prop up the green power stats.
I imagine there are some physical markers. The stress hormone cortisol might be used to help diagnose it. Sleep problems aswell.
Need to try this out!
I believe I'd prefer the remainder of dividing Unix time by seconds in a day.
These comparisons are also complicated by two other factors:

American school systems are expected to provide special needs care. One aide for a child with severe disabilities might cost as much as their teacher. This is one of the most common reasons for charter schools giving the impression of producing higher scores at lower cost – if you don’t have a robust program, the most expensive students won’t enroll.

American schools also enroll a very broad range of students with the expectation that they’ll make it all the way through high school. That includes children of recent immigrants who have very limited English proficiency, and the deeper poverty which the U.S. allows without tracking those kids into early graduation or a secondary system. When you compare international test scores among socioeconomic-matched students, the U.S. scores well – not Finland but solidly among our peers.
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Isn't the point here that they've already integrated the business - otherwise why not just comply with the disclosure requirement?

Also not sure that we can measure the value to Facebook in this way. This is about strengthening Facebook's core business which is worth (just guessing) > $500bn. How much value it adds is unknown but I bet it's a lot more than the acquisition price.
This depends how you define “gone wrong”. In evaluating rational functions (a useful tool for approximating all sorts of other functions), one efficient and well behaved algorithm is the “barycentric formula”, based on interpolating function values at various specific input points. When the input is one of those points directly, this formula results in Inf / Inf = NaN. Evaluation code needs to check for this case, and then replace the output by the appropriate value for the input.

±Inf is a very natural output for many kinds of numerical codes.
Yeah how many stories have we heard about startups that were killed when everything crashed just as they were getting popular?

I don't think you need super high quality code, but everyone uses "we don't have the time or resources!" as an excuse to completely ignore code quality.

Putting a reasonable amount of effort into code quality isn't a lot of effort anyway and pays for itself in a very short time. Like a year or two.
I lived for 30 years in what you would call Spain and never heard about that.
The regulation in Germany for the 10 hours hard limit is actually quite important, as it's implemented via the Arbeitszeitgesetz (ArbZG) [1].

If you have an accident and it turns out you worked more than 10 hours that day, social insurance won't cover it and you're basically broke for the rest of your life if it was an accident with say, a hospital stay and an emergency operation.

Also the 10 hours max are only possible if on average within the surrounding 24 weeks (6 months) you work less than 8 hours. If it's more than that, you're also not covered by insurance.

My point was originally just pointing to this example that 12 hour or longer shifts aren't possible in some countries due to endangering the social insurance there dependent on local laws.

The addition I suggested had in mind that you could see "which shift" is working there from when to when so that it's easier to coordinate in such scenarios.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbzg/BJNR117100994.html
I guess the idea is you'd have to know "Our Denver office hours are between H and W, and they have lunch at hour P.", so you don't schedule meetings at P:00.

But well, I don't think it really works. Add another timezone to the mix and you're going to get a jumble of letters you won't remember, you'll have to write it down, and at that point you might as well use a diagram like this: https://everytimezone.com (which I think can also be made analog, just add a few lines for "Lunchtime in London", "Lunchtime in Denver", etc.
I have a PhD in physics and studied graduate level mathematics. Naive set theory is sufficient for basically everything except a few instances, where you have to bite the bullet and invoke the axiom of choice. But this happens rarely and typically is only relevant for instances where there are more constructive but less general approaches.

For the most part sets are used as a notational device, you almost never use any axioms about sets explicitly. If you asked most professional mathematicians to give you the ZFC axioms (or whatever) they would need to look them up.
"Furthermore, future johns would avoid her if they knew that she had filed charges against a previous customer."

That's the point, you don't want rapey Johns as your customers.
What an unazshedly interesting article.
it's true in my experience. NaN/Inf was always a bug and resulted in needing to rewrite the calculation
Not sure about ByteDance, what did they rebrand from?

Snap - this one worked, but I think partially because it's a name drop, rather than a full rebranding. I think it has higher chance to be successful (like "Apple Computers" -> "Apple" or "GrabTaxi" -> "Grab"), because it expands on the current brand instead of trying to be something different. I think if Snapchat rebranded to "Spectacle" or "CamCom" or something different, we'd still be reading "previously known as Snapchat" for years to come
> All of the managed forests in Europe put together are unable to sustain these wood burning furnaces and they are happily importing wood pelets from the US/Canada/Malaysia etc. (often with tax payer subsidies).

> None of this energy generation is carbon neutral and absolutely none of it is sustainable. It is the wrong model and an even worse implementation of energy policy.

It sounds you're making a couple of mistakes along the way: presuming the current state of biomass output is at a steadt-state, and following a miopic train of thought where you confuse a ramp-up stage with a steadt-state.

Regarding the current biomass output being out of sync with production, the Guardian article that sparked this discussion states quite clearly that Estonia's problem was that it's licensing process failed, motivated by the need to grab the most EU subsidies they possibly can. Therefore this motivates spending as much cash building up infrastructure that's largely overprovisioned. This is a systemic problem with all kinds of EU subsidies, but that does not mean the potential biomass production level should be interpreted as a fixed variable and everything else should be solved with regards to it.
> Amazon warehouse employees? If it's so bad, leave. It's just feeding the beast to accept the now well known conditions there.

Unfortunately, the current economic system comes with an air-tight protection from such dangerous ideas: if you don't work, you can't live. So, unless there is some place that deigns to offer better conditions than Amazon warehouses, your choices are to work in these conditions or just die.

> What I observe is that more prestigious jobs get away without unions getting in the way. In tech, there is generally a distrust in political factions forming to supposedly fight for employees benefits.

This happens more in newer industries, where unions are more actively discouraged from the get go. Older prestigious professions do tend to have unions, at least in my country. Dctors have unions. Actors and screen writers have unions. Magistrates (at least those working for the state - prosecutors, judges, public defenders) have unions. I think civil engineering is not unionized, but that is more of an exception.

Even more, some areas in tech are some of the most disfunctional working environments around, and unionization is becoming a hot topic. Look at the recent Activision Blizzard or Ubisoft or Riot Games scandals.
I suggest that these newsarticles be rewritten like this:

„Facebook fined 8 hours of revenue for breaching order in Giphy takeover investigation“
Personally, I thought they were being sarcastic.
I really hope they bring MagSafe at least back to the air in next years rumored redesign and refreshed chip.
Nothing. It would be highly discriminatory to declare any one forum as the official one. The user bases across various languages are huge (in fact English is not the majority), electrical engineers are also highly tribal and have their own various communities that are very large. Trying to centralize them into one english forum is downright disingenuous.
I'm very impressed by some of the advances in neuroscience over the last 10 years or so. It seemed like the field was stalled for a long time since the 80s but some new technology and clever experimental techniques have got progress moving again. I wouldn't be surprised if we hit another sticky patch, I suspect it's going to be a long road to solving this problem, but it's exciting to have new ideas and demonstrations to think about.
It shows up on HN every now and then (though I wouldn't say it's very common). I use it when discussing potential spoilers for books/shows, because HN doesn't have a "spoiler tag".
I like this. It's probably a lot easier to adopt than my version which is basically a full day split into 10 parts (basically French Revolutionary Time) but the same across the whole world, and the clock face rotates so that local solar midday is always at the top of the clock. https://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/
The largest power station in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station

In particular for this topic, it has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass, in addition to 1.29 GW capacity for coal.