skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make 150k / year. I'm an SDE 2. The problem isn't the monthly payment, the problem is the down payment.

And you've said in several places how engineers make 200k+ after 5 years. Maybe in total compensation and only in FAANG; but there are a loooot of engineering companies in Washington and the Seattle area that aren't getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock that's increased 5-10 fold in the last 2 years.
Earth Source Heat open house addresses community questions
I've never thought of holding a door open for someone as being a personal sacrifice on my part. What am I missing?
It depends on the alternative you are suggesting. No taxes? A bureaucracy so vast that can handle all imaginable edge cases? Individual discretion of the tax assessor? I think all these could fix this particular problem but might lead to worse outcomes overall.
I'd disagree that it is misleading.

I'm betting browsers (or at least FF) make it deliberately hard to tell if the browser is in a "has WebRTC capability but it's disabled" state (to avoid fingerprinting), so I don't really place the blame on the author.

Disabling WebRTC is something that was deliberately done, so that's on you to remember that you turned it off. Sure, the message could be more helpful and say "this website requires WebRTC to function", but a browser with WebRTC turned off is in fact not supported by this service.
> With a stock Linux

What is a stock Linux?

Want to be amazed. Check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

I mean, there are family trees...
I always thought of myself as a big Coppi fan too.

When you look at riders like Bartali, Coppi or Monsieur Jacques the only thing I can conclude is that these guys led more “interesting” lives back then.
Ms docs, as in msdn documentation? Nothing's perfect, but actually covering almost every single class it's better than what other languages normally offer.
Perhaps Apple should switch to a programming language with a garbage collector.
Toyota is a good short.
I don't understand this attitude. I spend countless hours trying to keep my wife's work computers working. Getting windows to connect to a printer is a frequent ordeal and fixes seem to always be ephemeral, things soon breaking again. Her Macs are not as bad but still have lots of hiccups.

Meanwhile I've been on Ubuntu for more than a decade and as far as I can remember, for example, printing consists of printer just magically appearing in my apps without me ever having to install anything and I press print and it prints. That's user friendliness to me. At least for my workflows (mostly web browsing, software dev and office stuff), there is vastly less fiddling and head scratching to keep things working on Ubuntu.
I find compression algorithms to be frustratingly bad.

For example, my scanner has an 8 color compression mode. Great! So I scan in a piece of paper printed in 3 colors - black, white, and, say, green. The green comes out as a dithering of multiple colors. Why can't the compression format figure out what are the dominant 8 colors in the scan, put out a table of the RGB values of those 8 colors, then compress to 8 colors? This would look and work great for an awful lot of scans.

Another problem is b/w photos mixed with text. Setting the scanner to staic level black/white pixesl works great for text, but terrible for photos. Setting it to greyscale works great for photos, but terrible for text. Oh how I wish it would recognize greyscale areas and use greyscale for them, and black on white text areas and use static black/white pixels for them.
Well, if you go back long enough when you could use a larger area for a given output of salt, then - once you prepared your pan once, you could just let the water evaporate completely, and then scratch the salt of the surface. If your pan can be made of rocks than that should probably be even easier.

Other than needing some decent sunlight and not super-high humidity - what am I getting wrong?
I hate evoking empathy/sympathy, but with my child being gone, I really think it's important to share the real story and things that made our/my situation worse.
That's a good point: if they are literally about to release it, it's much more similar to stable than beta.

I tried to look at historical timing, and it's kind of confusing. For example, Apple said they tested "prerelease Safari 14.0.1" in October 2020. But the initial Safari 14 came out on 2020-09-16, an 14.0.1 was a security update released on 2020-11-12 (which I would expect not to have any web compatibility or performance changes).

My overall takeaway is that what Apple is doing here is unremarkable and not misleading.
Toyota is dead and a good short.
This was attempted in New York City and failed miserably.

Property values rise in locations that are highly desirable regardless of government or market intervention. It has more do to with the surface area of the earth than any particular policy.

A government system will result in similar issues - Look at the retirees and trust funder tenants living in mostly-empty 4 bedroom rent controlled apartments in NYC.

You have to allocate the limited space somehow. You cannot fit more people into one square meter of land without building higher or denser, and building higher is not always a simple option.
Comparing to NHS is mismatched units.

But it's 12% of all Medicare premiums
> While you claim to oppose the postmodern idea that there is no truth, you’ve ceded the premise to the postmodernists by framing truth in their terms of objectivity and subjectivity

I do not. What I am saying is that knowledge—if such a thing exists at all and is worthy of defense by humans—can be addressed in a rational, objective way.

Lots of things are approximations, but we do not deny the existence of categories as useful phenomena or an epistemological tool. To paraphrase a famous exchange of ideas, GB Shaw: "All chairs are quite different" vs. Chesterton: "Well how do you then call them all chairs?"

The postmodernist sleight of hand is to say that perhaps because there are differing contexts that there is not a universal tendency; such a commonality is either non-existent or should be disregarded. They would not categorically discard visceral human experiences that lead to say "thirst" or "hunger" or "anger", but they will claim that there are not common phenomena that engender "awe" or "wonder" or "intrigue". I disagree with that statement. That humans can reliably classify things that are "beautiful" across cultures (and have done so for millenia, even when they hate each others' cultures), shows there is a common tendency towards taste.

When thirsty, many people drink water, but the postmodernist looks at the few drinking Brawndo and has to deny the generalization that water quenches thirst but of thirst entirely.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cuelang+types
I take it that you are not aware of Dr. John Snow[1] who in the 1850s demonstrated that Cholera was a water born illness that came from drinking contaminated water.

Or of the "Great Stink"[2] in 1858 that was caused by so much sewage in the Thames, the main source of water for London, that it forced Parliament to actually do something about it.

By and large, yes there were fountains and village wells. But that water was usually contaminated because Europe at that time didn't have great sewage systems. People pissed a shat where ever they happened to be and that usually were near the very water sources they drank from.

[1] https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
One interesting point I saw in in a paper on fan cultures was about how taste can serve to continue existing relations with media. That there are people who can understand taste and pick out what's good and worth enjoying, and others cannot. The paper in question applied this to dynamics within the My Little Pony fandom (and Bronies in partciluar).

When the self-identified Bronies were questioned about their enjoyment of the show and its relation to the author's intent, many of them were quite happy to denigrate or take a paternalistic view toward girls' (and children's) entertainment in general.

The authors of the paper pointed out that the narrative of taste (reflected in, say, how the fans described the animation style, voice acting, themes) of the TV show allowed the adult (predominantly male) fans to continue society's general disparagement of childrens' and girls' TV. The adults, the narrative goes, are the ones with taste, who can identify and select what's good, and the girls - the intended audience - have no input. Some paternalistic attitudes involved the idea that the show would teach young girls critical thinking skills, other responses said that the show's quality would teach young girls to appreciate higher quality TV (implicitly, the kind of TV that adult fans approve of, with messages they approve of).

Ironically, this also extended to the author of Season 1 of the show, Lauren Faust - who herself has said that she wanted to create a show that was a break from the typically low quality of girls' entertainment as she saw it.

Taste (and community policing of who has it or can have it) can be a force for exclusion and maintaining hegemony. I think fandom can become a microcosm of what we see play out in a larger scale with highly educated (typically rich) people deciding what media is good and what's bad for the poor.
What do you mean? JBlas exists. Colt exists. There's probably others but I'm not super up to date on Java things.

Numpy is just wrappers for BLAS and LAPACK.
some people think of rice as filler, others (like me) really enjoy rice.
It affects all processors that use this type of DRAM. Apple uses LPDDR5x and from what I've read, they don't have ECC, so this attack should work fine on M1.
At the risk of simply repeating what countless others have said elsethread, I must say I thoroughly enjoyed reading your comments on this discussion.

You've managed to scratch a mighty itch that's been bothering me for a long time. I finally have somewhat of a framework to think about it a little more, and I have you to thank for that.

In particular, this bit is pure gold:

> I think po-mo thinkers exist in a simulation founded on that base deception, and they try to convince others that their story (made of language!) is the substrate of our reality, but every time someone gets on a motorcycle, skis down a mountain, prevails over an MMA opponent, hunts food, rides a horse, jumps out of a plane, has sex for pleasure, or has some other peak human experience, the simulation disappears. All the neuroticism that forms the hall of mirrors of false equivalencies, evaporates, and what remains is gravity and time, the physical and the real, and our aesthetic experience of it.
Society actually needs all of what you mentioned:

- specific allowances (paid parental leave, paid sick leave) for obvious reasons

- "blanket" paid time off outside of federal holidays for recreation and stuff like parents dying

- extra PTO or working hours reduction to take care of sick/terminally ill relatives

- wages big enough to allow everyone working full time to save a meaningful amount of money

Most developed countries outside of the US have realized this. All countries in Europe have the first two points already covered (paid parental, sick and general time off), Germany has the third one covered since 2012 ("Familienpflegezeit").

The only thing we all seem to be lacking after decades of wage starvation and neoliberalism is the last one - but COVID-related disruption is likely to incite a massive paradigm shift as the market goes from an employer market to an employee market and companies are pulling production back on-shore for a myriad of reasons.
Well what you resonate with is melancholy, sadness, misery — not depression.

Depression is knowing that, say, being stuck in that relationship/job/location makes you miserable, knowing that you can and should get out or otherwise change the environment that's crushing you — and still believing the voice telling you that you should lay low and do nothing about it, that nothing you do matters and you shouldn't try to change it.

>enjoyment to find in life is all the experiences along the way

Depression is not enjoying anything anymore. Imagine all your favorite food suddenly tasting like paper. It's the same, but with everything you've ever done.

Depression will tell you that this is just how things are from now on, and forever. That it's pointless to even try.

Depression is not lack of happiness. Sadness, melancholy, even misery and pain aren't depression.

I sincerely wish that nobody would resonate with what I'm writing here. But I know that there are many who would.

And I want them to know that the voice telling all these things isn't you and is just fake news that your lizard brain broadcasts as a protective response to something that isn't even there.

Being trapped in a bad job isn't the same as being trapped in a literal lion's den, but your lizard brain can't tell the difference.
Python, historically, has not had zero-overhead exceptions. There is a runtime cost associated with a try block. 3.11 will be adding zero-overhead exceptions, though, per https://bugs.python.org/issue40222.
> Alright, so what about their iWork suite? On second thought, forget about it. People are using Google Docs or Office 365. Next...

I'm only able to get away with it because I don't have to send anything other than PDFs to other people very often, but Apple's office-type apps are the only ones of their sort that I don't hate, aside from a few less-integrated and less-stable open source alternatives (Abiword, Gnumeric, that kind of thing—and I'm not even 100% sure those are still around). Google docs and Office 365 are terrible and I pity people who have to use them.
No, EM radiation beam still obeys inverse square law.
Interesting take on Fussell. I just realized there's a connection to the taxonomy that Venkatesh Rao uses in the Gervais Principle. Middle class and middle management having the same qualities in relation to their adjacent groups.
if "on the local lan" is offline enough for you, take a look at kde connect, connects all your devices with file transfer, cross-device copy'n'paste etc.
I'm trying to figure out what "further encourages discrimination against people of child bearing age" means...

Anyway, businesses have had to be forced to not do things that turn out to be bad for their business, up to and including not killing their customers and employees. "Obviously it can't be better in all dimensions otherwise everyone would be doing it" is the ultimate conservative arguments, since it means nothing could ever change---obviously we have reached the optimum, right?
Maybe they could point some bright colored lights at the field and flash them when the play ends? That seems like a pretty low-budget way of achieving the same thing.
Your comment seems to be dead (along with the last four of yours) which suggests you might be shadow banned? I vouched for you, hope it helps.
> They're not rich enough to do it all.

That kind of indicates Flint shouldn't have switched their water supply if they couldn't afford to do it w/o lead-poisoning the population.
You're wrong. You can definitely add thermostats, doorbells, cameras etc. to Home (I've done it). And you can definitely add health insurance cards, frequent shopping cards, etc. to Wallet (I've done that too). Please don't state things that are just factually incorrect.

> Alright, so what about their iWork suite? On second thought, forget about it. People are using Google Docs or Office 365. Next...

For collaboration, yeah, you're stuck with what everyone uses. But considering the actual software itself, iWork is very nice in my experience. Fast, reliable, and the interface isn't a total shitshow like every other office app out there.
What's strange about all this to me is the whole "duck curve" that we've heard so much about doesn't seem to be factored in. Or if so, perhaps I've misunderstood it.

My understanding is that peak solar is maybe 10-4ish but peak demand is 3-9ish. Doesn't that mean you'd prefer to make investments ~5000mi (5 timezones) west of your main territory?

Here in the US you could do a lot having the west coast pick up a lot of the evening demand for the east coast, but then you'd need floating solar/wind or whatever to pick up the demand for the rest of the country as the sun continues to head west.
Good point, what about asking ref to press some button when the foul is detected. Then, some small watch could vibrate and notify a player. Sounds like a simple enough idea to implement.
Sounds as pretentious as what it describes.
Flying a B-17 is very expensive.
Tibet uses science to improve protection of cultural relics
I believe Windows 11 is that last desktop machine UI we'll see for awhile from Microsoft as they intend to refine and improve this one and stop irritating people with changes. I'm happy finding work arounds for things that don't work for me. For example, I can no longer read the time from the task bar from a distance, so I have a browser tab loaded with a time service that I like better. https://www.clocktab.com/
I switch to macOS after successive updates of Ubuntu caused audio to be a pain in the neck (due to PulseAudio), no longer waking from sleep, and wifi not working. This was quite a while ago. Audio still doesn't work by default on my Ubuntu 18 system.
Yeah that's exactly the calculation were looking for.

Do you want me to run the numbers for a person under 18?

Trust me it will be drastically less chance of BP from covid than the vaccine.

We would never consider the idea... that an IV drug users chance of getting AIDS
.. is the same chance as the rest of the population.

Yet for some reason people are okay with the idea that a healthy 18 year old has the same chance of negative outcomes from covid as an UNhealthy 75 year old. And that the response should be commensurate.

Very strange to me how we don't differentiate population and lifestyle adjustments to covid statistics.

VERY strange.
you sir have bad taste in pizza
Thats fair, but I still think that a 15,000Km undersea cable adds a lot more complexity and cost when compared to diversifying renewable low carbon power generation within Asia

Also the cost of laying that cable is going to be baked into the cost power coming from Chile, and this might make it far less economically viable when compared to adding redundant power generation capacity in Asia.
By the way, this is a good lesson for everybody to invest in a reverse osmosis water filter.

Engineering failures (either due to structural, legal, or political failure) happen all the time.

Having clean water is obviously good and having a backup is even better, especially considering the consequences.
This thread is devolving rapidly but:

> Not even, the application is making GET, POST and PUT requests to send the file to a /link endpoint

Capableweb definitely said the file is being sent to the server. Not sure how much more literally that could be said, in fact. You somehow managed to quote the second line of that comment (some might say "cherry pick") while completely missing the first line where they explicitly said what it was claimed they said. Genuinely not sure if you're being deliberately misleading or have some of the worst reading comprehension I've seen on the internet.
> I am forced to use a Windows machine sometimes for work, and to me the unpardonable sin is that Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come to my office and all my open sessions are gone. How do you turn this off?!

That's the neat part, you don't! Windows loves to revert those settings after every major update, even if you dig into the registry and scheduler and change the settings at the source. It is one of my biggest gripes.
First party bloat is arguably worse.
Hopefully, this fixes the pay cap on the current positions. Government contractors would receive compensation of 25%-50% more than federal employees for the same work.
It is hard to retain federal employees when private sector are poaching these employees because they already have the training, skills, and security clearance.
It's not just about poorly designed relational models. It's also about impedance mismatch when converting relational models to business models. You end up automating that using object-relation mappers and this leads to a hardened and immovable design. Eventually, the business will ask for a significant change and the tech staff will put forth their costly assessment for that change. Then the business has to decide to either rewrite the system or to pay for the tech debt or (worst case) hack the new features into the existing architecture. Many times, it all gets punted and the business lives with the complexity.

I've seen this way too many times to back off of my assessment. Relational models do not, in the long term, enable an agile business model. It is an anti-pattern even if it takes years to reveal itself as such.
I've really come around to appreciate the cringe. When you see obvious models or extremely bad painted backdrops edited in it makes me appreciate the attempt. Maybe I'll feel that way about bad CGI one of these days, but practical effects just hit different.
Yes, that's why I prefaced my statement with "in an ideal world." Obviously we would need better public transit and urban planning before we can tax cars to oblivion. 8.3 million is still less than the 10 million that the DoT prices for an infrastructure proposal will save a life, so I'd still say the money at least wasn't wasted. It's debatable whether it was actually worth it, but consider that if we were purely utilitarian, we would all be like Bill Gates and prioritize eradicating malaria.
Yet another website to add the user-scalable=0 sin bin
It's interesting that your list defining the "best browser" doesn't actually include properly rendering web pages and the general issues that safari has as a web browser outside what you mentioned. "Fast" is interesting, as if something doesn't work, is it really fast? I routinely see how Safari fakes speed. Being able to read a web page before someone else doesn't make it faster if you can't also interact with that web page. And while battery efficiency is critical, rarely do I know someone who is only using safari. And while being "native" is nice, it also means its use is limited to just the Apple ecosystem.
That's why pollution taxes are a great idea. You want people to alter their behavior to avoid the tax.
that made me laugh out loud. excellent
>Romans of course had clean water through fountains and aquifers. Some of that tech was lost through the dark ages, but surely by the middle ages it was rediscovered?

Are you arguing my word usage is incorrect? Yes there was some previous attempts but check out this link
https://www.freedrinkingwater.com/resource-history-of-clean-...

>Fountains of clean water are a staple throughout European towns. After all, water is the lifeblood of humans. And if not a fountain, then at least a village well.

Access to water is a thing to be sure but clean water was something else.
It reads like the additive would have fixed almost everything for every house with lead plumbing. I'm not surprised an additive would have improved the situation, but I'm skeptical it would have avoided all of the $600M spend.

A similar article with more detail...I'm still reading it. https://www.materialsperformance.com/articles/material-selec...
This is a key point. At a more organisational level many big firms saw these systems as just a cost to to be minimised and not central to their business and to be invested in. Often maintenance would be outsourced. So now the documentation and expertise just isn’t there.