skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it seems neighboring Austria will fine unvaccinated residents[1], so it's definitely not a wild take. Second, totalitarian !== Nazi.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-22/vaccine-h...
> .. you saw a random article.. you don't even know if it's true?

That way nothing is true until it happens to you.
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Re. employees not showing up to defend the company: I always find it weird when people do that. There are only downsides to speaking about your company publicly.
Air pollution is a fairly local problem which means that each local government has incentives to do something about it. For example, in California, sales of two-stroke engines will be banned soon.

Indoor pollution in particular is something you can attack directly by buying an air purifier, which people with allergies have done for a long time, but with the pandemic and wildfires being more common in the Western US, it makes sense for more people to get one.

Globally there is a long way to go, but I was encouraged to read about BURN manufacturing, a company in Kenya that makes more-efficient cook stoves, and unlike many other attempts it seems pretty clear they work for the people who get them, based on a scientific study. [1]

From an effective altruism standpoint, reducing these very local sources of severe indoor pollution seems likely to have the biggest health impact of pollution reduction efforts, as well as being a way to reduce carbon emissions.

(BURN sells carbon offsets, though it's unclear how the money will be spent.)

[1] https://burnstoves.com/media/research
I think one source of anti-science behaviour might be betrayed expectations. I know that I personally have stronger expectations for academia and scientists than for other people. So when someone from academia, a scientist, an engineer betrays these expectations, I feel worse than if a regular person did it. There's a feeling of "If we can't even count on those people, what are we even supposed to do?". For example, at the beginning of the COVID pandemic (around January 2020), I read a lot about it. Lots of very smart people were saying that this could be a big pandemic. I talked about it with a doctor in a non-professional setting that told me to basically not worry about it, that it wasn't going to be anything huge. This time I was right and he was wrong. Was it because I searched more about it? Was it just luck? I don't know. But I know that it made me lose a bit of trust with that person.

I think the origin of this might be on how I (or we) see those people. You're supposed to follow what the doctor tells you, what the scientists tell you. But in a way, since you're supposed to follow what they say, they have some kind of responsibility towards you. And when they say something wrong, it's way worse than when a regular person says something wrong. It's like when you're young and your teacher or your parents are wrong, it's very frustrating.

Your example about the sugar industry is also a great one. Try to understand a bit more about nutrition, and soon you'll hear all kind of conflicting advice and explanations from very different experts.

I know that personally I have to work on myself and accept that those people are humans, and make mistakes, just like me. But just like telling people to eat less and move more didn't solve the obesity epidemic, I'm not sure that this solution will scale to a large population.
Well I just hope you and your wife learned your lesson never to remove your clothes again.
Sure. Every whiteboard interview I have had has been like that, but the expectation with coderpad is that you write executable code. I've never taken or given an interview on coderpad that was otherwise, which is why I was shocked that was even possible as a feature on the platform.
Otherwise you might as well use Google docs.

Anyways there was a tooling communication problem. Clearly Facebook was new to the coderpad thing, they should have come out and said so, they should have communicated that you won't be able to execute, etc.
You are smart enough to know that intentionally coughing on someone is not what I meant.
> I feel like removable SD card is a tech person solution but...

As an older person, I find this observation very interesting.

Today, I would consider people in general to be much more technically knowledgeable compared to people 20+ years ago. And yet, 20 years ago, removable storage was quite common, and probably expected of most devices.
Which phone tho? I don't have anything compatible with iOS so those are unusable. So, I get android. And nearly the only phones w/o crap-ware are Pixel or other Google Flagship. Advice?
The photos coming out of the google account seems like the least-likely scenario by far.
I've been using a .io for several years for primary email and side projects. I'd have about two dozen critical emails to switch of I got booted of .io. I had no idea it was a ccTLD.
I suspect "hatred of any sort of planning of any kind" is actually hatred for planning that fails to embody any actual strategy (and is therefor a waste of time because it doesn't help solve any actual problem except maybe alleviate non-technical vips anxiety with false hope). "formal approaches to PM" evokes just that sort of thing in my mind (kpis/goals masquerading as strategy, gantt charts, etc)
> People who work on Twitter, who have built a large following, who use Twitter to propagate messages, to network with peers, and to learn facts and rumors, would pay not just $4/month but $4000. Whatever the price Twitter would charge journalists, they would gladly pay; it's a cost of doing business.

No they wouldn't pay $4000 a month, you vastly over-estimate the willingness of users to pay for social media. Any paid social media was a complete failure. Twitter customers are the advertisers and data hoarders, not the people who tweet.
You shouldn't listen and believe anyone solely on the basis of their person. Many "scientists" or "experts" that you might believe in have financial ties and liabilities / political liabilities that prevent them from utilizing their expertise to full capacity. The world, money, and politics naturally suppress truth. The government told you the vaccines would stop the spread, limit deaths, and bring us back to "normal". Have you seen the numbers? Have you seen the quarantine camps? Upwards of 50% of COVID cases in some countries are among the vaccinated. Not mentioning vaccine injuries / deaths which the "experts" have told us are rare, but are bleeding more and more into each person's living reality.

Vaccine evasion is happening, and it doesn't matter whether it's delta or omicron. Would Pfizer pay for a study that proves their vaccines are worthless? Would Fauci, who hands down government money in the form of grants, give a grant for a study that would demolish the pharma companies that he has his money tied to?

The vaccines obviously have SOME efficacy, but just enough to make a product that sells. If someone sold you a new car, and didn't tell you it would break down 6 months down the road, wouldn't you be angry? They polished the car just enough for you to buy, without telling you what lurked in the shadows the entire time.

Virologists knew the roll-out of a non-sterilizing vaccine would end in the scenario we currently have. Period.
I’m always mind-boggled at the level of acceptance in the industry of clear misuse of ccTLDs. Is having “input/output” in your domain really so cute that it’s worth tying your entire business to an incorrect ccTLD? Especially when we have so many new cute, built-for-purpose geek-cred gTLDs like .dev.
He is being EXTREMELY disingenuous.
Based on the current state of GMail I don’t think anyone at Google gives a fuck about spam.
Assume all companies behave this badly or worse unless frequently and rigorously proven otherwise, and you surely will be much closer to correct on average than someone who puts trust in these companies' public reputations
I think it matches that Google salaries are trending relatively downwards compared to the competition. They only want people who are Google obsessed.
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My thoughts on microservices...

They're fine. But what's NOT fine are nanoservices. I did security on a project once where it seemed that every function was its own microservice. User registration, user login, and password resetting were each a separate microservice. It was an utter nightmare.
> Health decisions, prosecution decisions, and so on are explicitly devolved from the government

Yes, although UK Govt ministers tend to retain accountability when things go wrong, at least in the eyes of the media.
In swedish we call them "consultant brokers", like the huge company eWork, require two references to receive your application. Well they did when I was active with them, more than 10 years ago.

Which was very frustrating, as I needed to check with my references before sending, and often they were never contacted.
The README[1] is enough to understand, this is a really funky implementation and does nothing to bring useful functionality into the kernel.

It relies on TokuDB, which is a database server meant for userland, already a complex piece of code, patent-encumbered, probably well tweaked but heavy. It does not port that to the kernel, rather it reimplements userland interfaces in-kernel. For example, the file-based interfaces TokuDB expects are proxied to files in a different filesystem.

B_epsilon trees are a useful data structure, they may have a place in filesystems, but it will take a from scratch implementation to prove it.
Repackaging TokuDB's patented fractal trees with extra duct tape does not address any needs outside of superficial marketing.

[1]: https://github.com/oscarlab/betrfs/blob/master/README.md
How about make it so that the "hidden" photos on a phone require a security code/biometric to access? I've always been shocked that this isn't the case with iOS (don't know Android), it seems so obvious and simple.
Yes, but I'm talking about to the individual, not the company.

Someone with a full-time job often has not just stopped interviewing elsewhere but resigned from their current job, and began planning a move for their family, and now will struggle to put food on the table.

Possibly derailing an entire semester of school is just a bit different.
A browser, but not like any other
This loophole is solved by making it that declaring the land as such status means the land is commited to that use for a minimum number of years that makes the conservation meaningful. Something like a decade minimum with a high bar for converting it for other usage afterwards. Farmers in the UK for instance already have some incentives to leave some fields alone.
I’m fully vaccinated but I won’t force anyone else.
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For which definition of "we" and "people"?
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You don't feel secure for GOOD reason.

Still shouldn't have to feel that way.
I saw just the other day that microplastics cross the blood brain barrier in mice anyhow.

https://newatlas.com/environment/microplastics-blood-brain-b...
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> Again that's a generic response

Like I said, he always manages to say exactly the right things so the people who support him will read between the lines, but leave just enough ambiguity so those same people can quibble constantly over whether that was what he really meant.

> hypotheticals are always trap

He could have just said "No." Or "I have no such plans at this time." if he wanted to sound like a typical politician. His circumlocution is legendary, because it allows everyone to believe what they want to believe. Politicians all have this problem, but Trump elevates it to a whole new level.
I agree. And if I could've done it over again i would've used all burners. Maybe next time I will.

But overall, I don't see how there's any danger besides the code being stolen or lost.
1) They can run display ads (linked to search terms, not users) on the results page, and nowhere else.

This eliminates the conflict of interest where spammy results kick off ad auctions that the search engine profits from.

At this point, revenue would be proportional to: market-share * expected-number-of-searches-before-success

So, the dominant player (with market share near 100%) would be incentivized to make the first search or so produce crappy results.

2) This incentive can be eliminated by throttling the rate at which ads are delivered to a given user (such as by repeating the same ads for free on search refinements, or simply skipping ads on search refinements).

DDG is still in step 1, where the upside on market share is much greater than the upside from spamming low quality results to increase incremental ad display rates.
It was a joke but I edited my comment. Apologies.
And here's another, slightly more technical talk from him about the "wave function collapse" algorithm he uses for procedural generation in his games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcZb-SsnrA
> are there other good applications the GPU pipeline tends to be useful for?

Pretty much everything compute-bound. SpaceX presentation about rocket engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI Unreal Engine 5 presentation about rendering many millions of small triangles using compute shaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMorJX3Nj6U

> Are there guidelines on how complex a program you can run on GPU cores and still reap benefit?

Arbitrarily complex. Many real-world GPGPU programs are split over multiple compute shaders / kernels. When implemented properly, they even run in parallel. This is critically important on Windows with DirectCompute, because 2 seconds TDR timeout. When a single compute shader takes more than 2 seconds, the OS concludes the GPU’s hang, resets the hardware and reloads the driver.

> What are (vague, order of magnitude) limits on program size and size of the different memories you have access to?

Technically unlimited because you can stream data from system memory, disk, or even internets. Practically, most modern GPUs come with 6-12 GB VRAM, for optimal performance you’d want your data to fit there. When doing micro-optimizations, another important number is amount of on-chip memory, the order of magnitude is 64kb per core.

> Can you do monte carlo simulations, decision trees etc?

Monte Carlo is a great fit for GPUs, just don’t forget to seed your RNG with SV_DispatchThreadID or an equivalent.

Trees are tricky. GPUs share instruction decoder and instruction pointer over 32-64 hardware threads. A straightforward implementation of binary trees gonna be suboptimal due to divergence of these threads. Often possible to do something else instead.
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I used to run out of high-speed data on my cell phone plan towards the end of each billing period. Many websites/apps don't work at all at such low data speeds. Google Maps is basically unusable at low data speeds. Of course this trade off between performance for users vs ease of development has been with software for decades... see Andy and Bill's Law.
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I have literally no insight into the actual text used by Stripe for offers, so I can't say if they misrepresent their nature or not. The point was just a general one – that in most cases, I would expect an offer to be contingent on references and for those references not to be contacted until I'd accepted the offer.

The expectations around this could, of course, vary from region to region.
Do you have an email address or a method of contact?
And people wonder why Apple wants to try to keep control of iPhone repair processes.

This is one of the big reasons why.
Should add 2020 to the title. This is the relevant paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853

I am curious to hear what HN thinks of calling these things robots. These are frog embryos that have been surgically reshaped and had muscle cells implanted in them.
The film sure looks like Avatar. The 7-volume manga series, on the other hand, feels more like Dune, especially after the second or third book. It goes much deeper into the ecological and political history of Nausicaa's world, shoving her unwilling into the middle of a world war and shaping her to become a different kind of Messiah figure than the cute version of the film. The landscape outside of the Valley of Wind is far from the lush green of Pandora, and in fact is just as deadly as Arrakis is. Also, giant worms.

But if James Cameron takes an interest in the Nausicaa universe, he'll probably develop an actual flying contraption that looks and works just like the moeve! Absolutely no complaints about that, either. :)
I've never intentionally turned on google Photos backup since I use Dropbox instead, but I still notice it turning back on periodically.
I believe if you kill the parked domain industry it will be harmful to legitimate businesses. Why? Because these domain squatters provide a valuable service - making sure domains are still purchasable by legitimate businesses, even if at a premium. Get rid of them, and people will go out and get various domains they like and might use one day (or redirect to the same spot), with no intention of selling them. More domains, not fewer, will languish.
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> Look, face it, some people like taking nude photos of themselves and they like sharing them with their partners. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.

It doesn't have to be "wrong" for it to be stupid, and trusting your private life to a device you literally do not own is. This isn't victim blaming, this is recognizing the fallacious logic that most people have when approaching this subject. Call it tech illiteracy if you want to be nice, but I'll just call it "dumb".
The "Chrysostom" Great Seal Bug, 1945, USSR, created by Léon Theremin, who also invented the early electronic musical instrument bearing his name. The bug remained installed in the US Embassador's office for 15 years, though it was recognised as a listening device in 1952.

https://hackaday.com/2015/12/08/theremins-bug/

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Those automated edits should be classified as such, and shown in some other way.
No, job contracts are pretty rare. At-will employment, where both parties can end employment on zero notice with zero reason (legal discrimination aside), is the norm in the US. Some states (CA being the usual example) have more employee protections, but AFAIK do not require contracts.

Typically, for a white-collar job, you'd interview and receive a job offer contingent on background check and verifying previous employment. That offer would have a salary and start date and that's about it. HR might hand you a benefits package at the same time.

Sometime on or before the first day of employment, you'd be asked to sign NDAs, confirm legal eligibly to work, and similar paperwork, but almost never a contract.

Senior leaders often have contracts because their terms are more complicated - golden parachutes, etc.
New term, thanks. This one is useful.