skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Throughout time there have been cultures without the concept of private property. I've been reading recently how hard-hittingly critical Native American commentary on European culture was back in that day, pointing out all the numerous problems that come with money and private property. Kondairock for example, as related by the French author Lahontan.

Lethal force to defend a life makes sense. Most cultures do not approve of using lethal force to defend property.

There's also the problem of the shooter misjudging the situation, shooting some teenager's playing chase, for example, or someone with alzheimers, etc. I actually know of a drunk that tried to break down the door into his apartment, but it turns out he was in the wrong building. Didn't deserve to die.

But I understand why people feel this way. Nobody wants to be robbed. In our consumerist culture possessions are the most important thing to many people.
Haenyeo is more recent? Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says it started earlier than Ama.
i suppose supply chain management involves negotiation and business acumen, rather than manufacturing process efficiency.
A brick wall has less insulating value than a wood framed home with vinyl siding and drywall without any in-wall insulation. 4” of brick has an r value of 0.8, while drywall alone is at 0.5 before you add the 1-3.0 of the siding.
These satellites are designed to fully burn up on reentry, so no solid debris reaches the ground. Meanwhile, many tons of space dust burn up in the atmosphere every day, and meteors large enough to hit the ground happen multiple times a day on average as well.

Space dust contains plenty of things that are more hazardous than anything in these satellites. According to [1] the abundances on this page multiplied by [2] 40000 tons per year, the stuff naturally hitting the atmosphere each year includes 0.3 kg uranium, 1.6 kg thorium, 3 kg radioactive isotopes of potassium, 10 kg mercury, 18 kg cadmium, 50 kg lead, 72 kg arsenic, and 120 tons of chromium, among other things. This stuff burns up in the atmosphere all day long, and has for billions of years.

As far as emissions, one Falcon 9 launch emits 300 tons of CO2 and they've been launching one or two times per month to build out the Starlink constellation. Meanwhile commercial aviation emits 2 million tons per day and is still a small fraction of the world total.

[1] https://periodictable.com/Properties/A/MeteoriteAbundance.v....

[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-8694-...
My hearing isn’t too bad, I tested it and I can hear okay. My problem is decoding speech in noisy environments, it is somewhat delayed and iffy at times. I am more inclined to think theres an audio processing issue. Haven’t tested for CAPD - central audio processing syndrome and am not sure it would help me any if I have it. Im at the stage of accepting my weaknesses, I used to be hard on myself before.
> I find smalltalk with people I don’t really know to be extremely challenging and tiring. And yet with people I do know, or in conversations on topics where I feel confident, I struggle to shut myself up.

FWIW, this pretty much exactly describes an introvert. Being introverted doesn't mean you don't like socialising at all.
They are also "discrete", which kind of gets in the way of modeling continuous processes in this case. And not very good about modeling trillions of things at the same time due to communication overhead (both latency _and_ energy). And all of that is the "easy" part. The hard part is we don't even know what the system needs to look like.

Yann LeCun said decades ago that in spite of all the progress there won't be anything artificial that's as smart as a rat in his lifetime. In 2021 that bet is still a safe one.
2021 will be remembered as the year when all the jokes died. When everything is reality, there can be no satire.
The fact that literal boxes of rocks or brick make it through shows that the least bit of effort the returns department could do is not getting done. Seems hard to miss an opening of a box to find a brick/rocks rather than what is pictured on the box getting passed by anyone that actually opens the box. "Hmmm, a box of rocks. I guess Amazon does sell anything. I wonder why the customer didn't like these rocks? I guess they didn't have the original box so they used this Norelco Electric Shaver box instead" says no Amazon employee ever (too much credit??).
What you describe in the first sentence is what is now true, but was not before Adele's tweet.
You're leaving out the fact concrete cracks. We put lines in concrete specifically to control cracks.

There are some pretty massive advantages to using stick-built construction, it's part of the reason it's been so popular for so long.
You don't place orders with your suppliers, forecast demand from your buyers, account for lead time, etc.
I don't think the odds are stacked against them at all. The odds are stacked for them. Unless you are using an unusual meaning of the phrase -- the odds are actually stacked for even most people who do have co-morbidities.

I'm not sure what your link demonstrates. I didn't say that healthy people can't die from covid.
I see, you just don’t believe that additive manufacturing is a truly new paradigm and that there are parts that can be constructed now that were previously just non-constructible.
The only risk in memory overclocking is that it’s not stable and your data gets corrupted in memory sometimes. Which, well, who gave you a guarantee that it won’t happen on stock specs? Nobody without ECC ;) So run a memtest and you’ll be reasonably sure it’s good enough.
David Reid, they took over a bunch of their storefronts
Strong agreement here. For the net-contributor class, it's absolutely brutal.

1) Incomes are lower than they used to be in the US and Europe than they used to be. Lots of talk about Europe's social saftey net, but less about the lack of well paying jobs (especially compared to the US).

2) Instability of work- our generation does not expect to have one job their whole life. We face being laid off without warning even from very well paying jobs. Unless you are financially independent, this makes it scary to plan for the future.

3) Living far away from parents + family that provide free childcare.

4) Several massive recessions that have severely damaged the professional prospects of the younger generations, to the point where they have significantly less wealth than previous generations did at the same age.
People in society are disagreeing about the accuracy of the devices and arguing about it. Kinda circular logic to insist that "this law is about the be passed, therefore it's the will of society, and therefore is correct."
The Barbapapa family built their house like this in the 70's as well:

https://live.staticflickr.com/1787/42134502335_045815b1ee_b....
At this point we have to do everything, including preserve all forests and planting a lot of trees. The problem with the promise of sequestration through forests is that many people think that they can use trees to offset continued release of greenhouse gases. “I’ll take that flight to Hawaii but I’ll plant some trees so it evens out.” But we need to stop releasing greenhouse gases now, and those trees might sequester the corresponding amount of carbon in 60 years. And that is only as long as the forest doesn’t burn (as fuel or unintentionally) during those decades.
This essay, pubished in April, received a lot of responses from other political commentators. The author (Tanner Greer) linked and replied to some of them in this follow-up:

https://scholars-stage.org/further-notes-on-the-new-right/
> This list, together with already mainstream features, turns a programmer’s learning curve into an uncompromising cliff.

This is because many insist on having one giant programming language to do everything both low-level and high-level together. Rust just follows C++ along this same path. The resultant language will always be a complex compromise that is suboptimal for almost everything. For example, both Rust and C++ have too many high-level abstractions to easily reason about where allocations will happen and their manual memory management makes lambdas and async painful. I personally would favour the use of multiple languages. Such an approach is commonly emerging anyway due to practicalities, e.g. Python/C/Fortran use in machine learning.
I don't know why the false assumption that Bitcoin fees are expensive keep propagating. Just last December $166 million was transferred for $1.25. In general I've never had to pay more than $5 for a transaction fee. Also, I don't know if living in a totalitarian regime a long time ago makes you all that much more an expert than OP.
The origin of tech debt is well understood among experienced development teams. If it were possible to avoid it simply by planning, then they'd simply plan to avoid it right at the beginning. It's not possible to avoid tech debt by planning because tech debt is not really an oversight. Tech debt is a direct result of the wrong priorities.

The development team does not set the priorities. The team are simply the builders, like a construction team. If you tell a construction team to change what they're building in the middle of building it, your project will take longer and become more expensive, and structurally/functionally will end up worse and worse as you continue to build on something not designed for it. Or if the builders simply decide to skip vital steps to move faster, then of course debt will follow; don't install a vapor barrier in your new home and you will soon find a quite large debt after it's completed!

The only way to prevent tech debt is to have good priorities and not change them mid-way. If you design it well, and have experienced developers, they can built it right the first time with no debt. But if priorities are compromised, debt will inevitably follow.

In terms of the "tech wealth" listed here, what they really mean is "be able to do your job"; have the right tools and processes so you can get something done in the right amount of time. Again, that's priorities. If you don't have some automation or tool, you have two choices: you can buy it, or you can build it. Building it costs more money and takes more time - debt!! If the priority is reduction of short-term cost, the development team can't just plan around that.
Banks are typically a little more disciplined about being compliant with the law than motorists.
I'm starting to understand why some people go full "sovereign citizen". If I were American I would eventually go crazy from the sheer complexity of every aspect of life - complexity which is only there because there's a profit motive.

Where I'm from organizations which have both "National"(or adjective referring to the nation in question) and "Association" usually settle on being a corrupt clique - without any influence in matters other than their internal ones.
lol, well I'm glad I got my point across, one way or the other.
PDP-11, a single 1-word (16-bit) instruction that, if run from the top of the RAM, overwrites all of it with copied of itself:

MOV -(PC),-(PC)
I don't know of any comprehensive studies that have been published one way or the other. I know sometimes the computer causes accidents and sometimes they help prevent them. That said, I've yet to see anything that indicates they prevent an appreciable number of accidents - it's usually pitched as driver convenience and data collection for self-driving.
Imagine a police officer stopping you at the side of the road. "When was the last time you drank alcohol?" "A couple of months ago at my brother's birthday party, I had a can of beer." "Step out of the car, you are under arrest for drunk driving."

This manichean logic worked wonders last time it was tried.
One problem is that the big companies (that, for the most part, pay the big bucks and people care about and other small companies look to) are market movers. If they are known to be doing some alternative to leetcode then leetcode-type websites and study programs will pop right up to optimize for whatever new metric they have. If they start to prioritize things you've built over ability to perform, you can bet your bottom dollar that within a week there will be a million guides on crafting the optimal cookiecutter project to get in the door at Facebook available on the web. And the signal will lose its value. A signal has to be costly to acquire and algorithmic prowess, although made easier through things like leetcode, is costly for everyone to acquire which is why it holds its value.
> the incentives are still structured the same, towards despoiling the commons

No, they aren't; that's just the point. When the commons becomes unusable, nobody can exploit it any more. And if that happens quickly enough, the short term benefit of exploiting it is not sufficient to outweigh the long term cost of it becoming unusable. That seems to me to be happening in the case under discussion. And once it happens, there are only two options open: (1) figure out how to not exploit the commons, i.e., all the parties who want to use it have to come to agreement on how to use it sustainably; or (2) nobody gets to use it at all. If there are significant benefits to be gained by using the commons, as there certainly are in this case, there is a strong incentive for the parties to figure out how to do option #1 instead of just giving up and taking option #2.

> they keep fishing right into the collapse, they don't even stop when their haul declines, just invest more in becoming more efficient at depleting the commons faster.

The reason this works for overfishing (where it has indeed happened) is that fishing is not the only source of food. Once overfishing has completely depleted a fishery, people just switch to other food sources.

In this case, there is only one Earth orbital space, and it doesn't seem like there is any viable alternative to providing the kinds of services that are being provided by satellites. But if that turns out not to be the case, if some of the players are able to find alternatives, then yes, that would increase the likelihood that Earth orbital space would not be cleaned up by the individual market participants.
> I see what you mean, but do they really?

Yes, they really do. E.g. if the company was dissolving went into bankruptcy proceedings the employees would have a claim.

> If I leave work one day (say, in the middle of the week) and don’t come back, does my employer owe me pay until the day I left?

In my jurisdiction we have at-will employment and it works both ways - either party can terminate the arrangement at any time. In practice, employees usually give notice so as not to poison relationships.

On what basis would an employer not owe an employee for work performed?

> the employer does not owe the employee anything until the pay is actually due, as specified in the contract.

You have confused owing a debt and a payment schedule for the debt. When you take a mortgage on a house you owe the bank money (probably a lot of money). The fact that a payment schedule exists doesn't change the the status of the status of the debt nor does it prevent the bank from paying interest.

Second, you are assuming there is contract - in my experience most workers are not operating under a contract.

Of course, I'm speaking for my jurisdiction (in the US).
Wait… different branches for different environments? Wouldn’t you run into the same problems?
They're already smuggling them out of the country in shipping containers.
I’m a life long Texan. I’d agree with it being about property and it one’s right to protect at all means. In a sense, we feel it’s a Wild West mentality. We shouldn’t have to wait for cops to come, much of the state is rural and out of reach of first responders, or reasonable response times. I’m not sure most people would actually shoot someone outside their house, doing minor property damage/theft but they would pull their gun if they had one (many of us do) and it could escalate from there.

However, saying that, I recall when I was a kid it was legal to shoot someone just for stepping on your real estate property (or was widely believed if not current law). I recall “exploring” in rural areas and being encountered with people with rifles telling us to “get off their land”. Usually with a “next time I won’t ask, shoot first” type comment. If I was an adult/POC, it could have gone any direction.

I personally don’t like to agree with these laws, but I don’t see any reduction of crime and I’d like the ability to protect my home and property without having to think about whether I’d become a criminal if I did have to use my weapon.
If you're the one making the challenge to an unsubstantiated claim, you're the one that could do the posting of information to proves the claim false. Otherwise, you too are just making unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, you get this kind of conversation debating who should offer the evidence rather than just offering the evidence one way or the other. It wasn't my thread, but I knew it to be one way, found the evidence and posted that as a counter to the argument. After that, it's kind of case closed unless someone posts a counter link, but nobody has done that. Instead we've gone back and forth on when to post a link.
I can't read that article, because I don't have a WaPo login, but previous evidence indicates that people are having fewer children than they'd like to.

See here:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/upshot/american-fertility...

Matthew Yglesias also touches on this in this interview about his book, One Billion Americans, which argues (in part) for more pronatalist policies:

* https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21449512/matt-yglesias-on...

It turns out that it's really difficult and expensive to raise children and more people will want to do it if you make it less so.
Thanks. This is an interesting comment…I had not realized coding styles in c# had changed in this way
Geofoam and this: microplastic leeching sites for the next 100 years.
... and dirt/mud.
Kinda weak article.

It doesn't address the issue that light water reactors have two troubles: (1) water-to-steam heat exchangers + steam turbines are an order of magnitude larger than gas turbine generators, thus the economics aren't compelling even if everything went right, and (2) things don't go right when you try to build one.

Particularly, many people cart out the old books from the 1970s that compare the price of nuclear to the price of coal burning power plants, but beating coal is no longer good enough. Nuclear has to beat not just the imaginary low prices of renewables (cheap when they are available) and the price of gas turbines fired by natural gas, with or without carbon capture.

You could make the case that the AP1000 is over the hump, they are turning them on reliably in China now and will turn one or two one next year at Voglte in Georgia. The problem was never that environmentalists fought them, it was that the factories that were making parts for the first time struggled to make them successfully.

Gen IV reactors will run at higher temperatures and, if coupled to gas turbine powersets, could be a lot smaller and cheaper than existing reactors. They all face serious challenges ahead and weren't pursued with sufficient urgency in the last 20 years.
Take the other offer. We're talking twice your current base vs imaginary money.
I think framing it as tech investment makes it easier for management to see it as a trade off with features. Features show the manager's work, "tech investment" by itself doesn't, so the moment there's any tension between the two, feature work will win.

The important thing is to have a way to show the value of doing that work.

Call it debt, wealth, or whatever. But, measure some KPIs, establish a tech debt/wealth workplan with predicted goals, execute, measure again, and use it as proof. The fight for buy-in to continue incorporating that work in the schedules and plans.

The alternative is creating the work standard of having "20% of your time can go to anything you think needs fixing, no questions asked. Above that, ask first." Just like Code Reviews are no longer seen as skippable (ahem well mostly). That 20% is ALWAYS on, regardless of any deadlines, planned work, be it features, training or peer reviews.
I see it very differently.

The "Blue wilderness restrictions" I think of are banning logging, banning mining, banning new farming, banning dams, etc.

The "competing resource needs" are balanced in favor of keeping rural areas pristine, so city people can go hiking there and marvel at the untouched nature.

Most people live in cities, so when legislators decide these things, the city people priorities win.
Bitcoin ‘Undermining the Dollar’–Hillary Clinton Issues a Surprise Warning
I still just use System.Diagnostics for debug statements, any left overs are no problems in production code, they don't even get compiled.

I'm interested, what's the advantage for you to using ILogger instead?
Which specific drugs and therapies are you talking about? I followed the development of the vaccine and it was clear from day 1 that this was the safest vaccine that scientists had ever managed to develop. It's really a marvel of biological engineering. The same techniques are now being utilized to develop therapies for cancer and HIV. [1]

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28101688/
Well said, and I think every new language should take its learning curve seriously. A language should get one of one's way, so they're thinking about their project's inherent complexity, not about the language's complexities.

I might be biased, but I'm excited for Zig and Cone, which I think will make it easier for newcomers to the low-level space.
$0.07 is the FMV for the Common, which of course is not liquid and you don't know what preferences the Preferred Shares have, so its really worth some amount less than $0.07... so less than 28k.

> We raised totally about $10M
> My cash comp is around $60k.

Why are they only paying you 60k if they have 10M in the bank? Get a raise.
"we currently do X, that has downsides, we could do Y instead"

"but we currently do X!"

That's... a weird line of argument?
What Happened to the Millennium Tower?