skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iowa seems to have a law that forces billboards to be further away from the interstate. They occupy a much smaller slice of your visual field. It makes a difference.

It also makes a difference that they can't put too much text on them, because they're too far away for you to be able to read that. So you have visually smaller billboards with simpler messages on them. Driving across Iowa is more pleasant because of this.
I mean tumblr is a dead platform because of Apple applying the full force of its developer policies. It lost Three quarters of its active users in the span of a few months after the 2018 porn ban fiasco (which majorly affected sfw artists as well because the rollout was so botched) which the OP explains Apple's hand in.
Can you please not use a trollish username? We ban such accounts because it has the effect of subtly trolling every thread the account posts to. Maybe you didn't intend it that way, but these effects end up happening regardless of intent, and we've learned it's better to deal with this early than to let the problem compound over time.

If you'd like to pick a different username we'll be happy to rename it for you.

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Check out: https://fraidyc.at/
If it's to be believed, 40% of our budget is spent on education, 25% on health and human services, and 7% on prisons...

https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2008-09-EN/BudgetSummary/SUM/1249...

But also, people are really triggered by rain reclamation for some reason. They're not saying why though which is weird.
I haven't used it in anger, but it looks to me like the C# async compiler and library support helps reduce the need for large threadpools.

But it also looks like the GC was a major contributor, so that would not be as influenced by the differences between dotnet and Java.
The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated
The LNA is pretty much organised.
The issue with PGP was that encrypted communications were classified as a munition, not the concept of export controls. There is no civilian use for an air-to-air missile guidance system. There are plenty of private individuals with legitimate reasons to use encryption
Value? No, they're a medical device that I have to wear.
Maybe they're confusing "recursion" with "iteration"; and "iteration" in a similar sense to iterative programming and not to loop iterations.
Dominic Giampaolo, who made BeFS (the modern BeOS filesystem) works at Apple and is one of the main designers of APFS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Giampaolo
Whoa. I’m a physician now. I never never have guessed my article from 20 years ago would make the front page of HN!

BeOS was tremendously snappy on that hardware but I ended up missing applications on the Mac.
Totally agree re; kids and air pollution etc, it's getting better every year.

The $$$ is the problem. 3 bedroom in Zone 1 is 1.5-2m
> I complained about companies dumping their commercial scooters on pedestrian paths specifically for obnoxious marketing purposes.

When I think of obnoxious transportation marketing I think first of stuff like this:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/08/16/opinion-muscle-car-ma...

In one Dodge Charger ad they literally show a sign that reads “share the road” impaling a tree as their car blows past at a speed that’s not legal on any road in the country you’d find that sign on.

The fact that their automobiles kill and maim pedestrians and cyclists at a regular clip is a feature of their marketing campaign. It’s so preposterous and brazen that I still sort of can’t believe it exists.

The automakers know their cars are used irresponsibly and they literally feature that in their marketing. I’m sorry I just can’t get upset about a scooter lying on the sidewalk by comparison.
I specifically restricted my theory to sub Saharan Africa. Egypt and North Africa do indeed have history of technology and innovation. In sub Saharan African I don't even think the wheel was a thing before the colonisers arrived. I could be wrong but from all the history I have read and from speaking to old people we did have some iron works to make spears and arrows. No wheels, no bridges and no roads.
Protection from this comes from laws that ban DNA-based policies, not by being secretive about sequencing. If it is allowed, insurers will have no need to obtain DNA sequences in devious ways, they will just ask and refuse cover or charge more when clients refuse to get sampled.
'Caramelldansen' “Owners” Fight YouTuber Who Revealed Song Origin
This article may help. https://worldfinancialreview.com/meditation-app-for-2021-top...
This one contains a warning but also useful advice.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251840-mindfulness-and...
I don't think it's mission:impossible for some people...but for people such as myself, my editor really gave a sense of external accountability + pressure to finish. If I didn't have an editor, I'm 90% sure I would have stopped around 2 chapters in and tabled it for some other time (read as: never touched it again). Also, there are perks to having a formal publisher: you have reviewers, copy editors, and formatters who really make sure that things are really standardized. That really allowed me to focus on writing.
I am from Italy.

I live in Italy.

I am almost 50 years old.

Amazon is only the most popular choice of brand, but all other big companies act like that, unions or not.

I would say that here in Italy, were unions are pretty strong and have been historically even stronger for a long time, many companies have received undeserved favours simply because they employed hundreds of thousand of people (see FIAT in Italy) and in Italy the constitution at art. 1 says "Italy is a democratic Republic founded on labor" so everybody tries to preserve the jobs of those already employed, rising their salaries is not as important.

That's the bottom line, you might think people don't understand you, but truth is realism is necessary to address complex issues.

Another example is public schools in Italy, where unions prefer two teachers at a shitty salary than hire half of them with a substantially higher salary.

Why?

Because that's two jobs created instead of one, during their time, it sounds great in the brochure.

Of course not all unions are equal, of course some of them are fighting for better salaries, bit when the choice is between better salaries for less people or same old salary for more people, they will always chose the second.

What you get here is better social welfare, more work protection, paid holidays, paid sick leave, but much worse salaries than in US because that's not a priority, better salaries for everybody means that companies will start questioning why they should pay more people that can barely do their job, after years of doing the same thing over and over and nobody wants to discuss about that.
Unions first.

In Italy salary negotiation is mostly collective, if you hire someone to do job X at salary Y, you have to give the same amount of money to all other workers with the same job X.
If you hire Alice and Bob to do the same job and Alice is better than Bob, you can't pay her more than Bob. It's illegal. You can't even promote her at will if the contract requires a minimum seniority before stepping up (for example: minimum two years). I theory its purpose is to avoid favoritism, in practice it completely annihilate the incentive to do better at work.

The only way to negotiate a better salary is working as a contractor, which is another can of worm entirely here, and that also means renounce to almost all the protections.

Don't assume people don't know shit, try to assume people have experience on how a perfectly good solution in theory is going to fail miserably in practice.
The multi-threading was probably part of the reason. SMP was quickly becoming more and more common place with even Power Macs having a second processor despite Mac OS 9 and it’s predecessors not supporting SMP (applications had to specifically be written to support it).

Likewise on Intel, you had Windows 9x that didn’t support SMP so you were stuck with the NT line if you wanted multi processor support. I recall NT4 being pretty poor for desktop usage due to patchy driver support but Windows 2000 was amazing. Linux and BSD weren’t really desktop ready either.

So BeOS was basically a workstation class operating system designed to be running on lower footprint hardware (the comparison someone else made to Amiga is pretty apt).

As much as I typically hate Windows and prefer Linux and FreeBSD, Windows 2000 was pretty solid release and particularly when you place it in its era where only BeOS really competed with it in terms of performance and stability on commodity hardware.
Sorry, but garden-variety internet comments and cheap personal attacks don't rise to the noble level of moral obligation. The comment plainly broke the site guidelines. That's not allowed here. If people have noble moral duties to fulfill, they can fulfill them without breaking the rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Every release had a ~2 factor in performance improvements between the public beta and Tiger (10.4). Performances degraded a bit with Leopard (but improved again with Snow Leopard). That’s why Tiger is a bit of a high water mark for PPC machines. It was very useable on a G3 from 1999, albeit with a more recent graphics card for Quartz Extreme and quite a bit of additional RAM over its initial specs.
What proportion of SWEs make the kind of money that Dan Luu and the author are talking about?
31% of the world’s adults are ‘unbanked’ and rely on cash and dark credit. In the 1970’s a similar amount lacked electricity. It’s global ways of living are remarkably diverse, and I for one hope they stay that way. Homogeneous is bad for our species.
I block ads in my browser primarily because I want to block the ad networks from collecting information about my browsing habits. Doesn’t really apply here.
What do you mean? iPhones have a hardware button for mute/unmute?
Ditto MG.
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Okay, that's basically what I figured, but it's not clear how you are supposed to input the chord - does this assume you have a MIDI device connected to your computer?
Unfortunately the ticket covers much less than the infrastructure cost. Then public spending covers some of it but ads are needed to fill the gap. Public money that would be spent to cover the ad revenue would not be spent elsewhere (in a hopefully useful way). I hate subway ads just as much as you, but wanted to make this reality check.
https://archive.md/YJ95m
My claim is that's because you don't pay any attention to what your city government does and so you only notice when they mess up. But never when they don't.
On Windows, we have the xperf and wpa toolset that makes looking at holistic scheduling performance, including processor power management and device io tractable. Even then, the skillset to analyze an issue like the one presented here takes months to acquire and only a few engineers can do it. We have dedicated teams to do this performance analysis work, and they're always in high demand.
Inflation and taxes are all the generational investors care about, and most have trusts that are tax free in perpetuity!
Actually yes. There are these "tea promoters" on the main street in my city. They would get in your way, and sometimes even literally grab you, to "ask a question", which is inevitably "do you drink tea?". This is a scam scheme where the next step is to take you to their store nearby, offer you a sample of their tea, and then it surprisingly turns out that this needs to be paid for and costs an exorbitant amount. Of course, this breaks every consumer protection law possible, but way too many people are amenable to guilt-tripping.

I either ignore them and walk around them, or loudly tell them to fuck off. If only the police would act on this as vehemently as on anything even remotely related to opposition politics...
I think there's a lot of pressure to get the spectrum in the hands of wireless carriers. They spent nearly $100B on that spectrum and Verizon and AT&T are anxious to put it into play. T-Mobile already has mid-band spectrum for 5G at 2.5GHz and they're seeing customers on their mid-band spectrum get speeds of around 300Mbps. As their mid-band coverage expands, Verizon and AT&T won't want to be left behind. Likewise, the administration would like for the US to be seen as a 5G leader. We see articles with headlines like "US carriers advertise 5G, but their speeds lag other countries." A huge part of that is that Verizon and AT&T haven't been able to deploy new spectrum.

I don't know enough about how far around airports they'd want to block C-Band from being used, but in a city like San Diego, it would probably block off a decent amount of the city given where its airport is. In a place like New York, how far would you want to block off? Clearly not all of bravo airspace, but how much is needed (maybe you know how much Canada had to block off)?

I'm not sure that the FAA is rolling over. In some ways, saying "we're going to make air-travel suffer huge problems if they start activating C-Band spectrum" is saying "if you activate C-Band spectrum, Congress is going to start having hearings as to why the government is letting wireless carriers prevent people from traveling." I think the FAA is noting exactly how bad the situation might be if they go forward with C-Band plans.

I think it's also a situation where people might be unsure who has authority. Can the FAA ban wireless signals that the FCC says are ok? Can one government agency take another to court despite being part of the same administration? At some point the administration controls both and might need to make a decision.

But I think there's a lot of pressure to let C-Band go forward. Wireless carriers are looking to 10x their wireless networks and it seems likely that wireless home internet will become a big way that more rural areas get high-speed internet (even C-Band signals can get decent range with good antennas and using low-frequency spectrum for uploads).
It's possible I underestimate, but I have worked in all the relevant fields of simulation, ~20 years of running various simulations on large HPC, built the largest instance of folding@home using idle cycles inside google data centers, published papers simulating proteins, developed infrastructure to process the voluminous data, etc, etc. Quantum computing remains fantasy (in terms of being useful for science).

It's unlikely even if we improved computing hardware many orders of magnitude beyond all reasonable predictions, that the calculations would be able to simulate all the necessary details; most of our simulations now are based on many approximations due to hardware limitations.

As to the question of "what level of fidelity is required to turn a FASTQ of somebody's genome into an accurate model of the resulting human, with some sort of realistic environment also provided", that's so far beyond what is even remotely comprehensible it's not worth speculating about in terms of science fact; it's just fiction.
The great thing about the concept sometimes is it covers a few times, all but one or two times, and actually all the time.
> With numbers like that Twitter could, profitably, hire dozens of engineers that do literally nothing else. Just tweak thread pool sizes all day, every day, for service after service. Even though it's a boring, manual, "noncomplex" thing, this type of work is clearly valuable and should have happened years ago.

The issue is that once you hire a dozen engineers to do this (say for 5M a year in total), and they do it for a year, they save mid 8 figures (keep in mind this was the largest service, so the savings across other services will be smaller).

Then can they keep saving mid 8 figures every year?

I'll paraphrase something I previously wrote privately, but imagine you have some team that's able to save 10% of your fleetwide resources this year. They densify and optimize and improve defaults. So you can now grow your services by 10% without any additional cost increase, and you do! The next year, they've already saved the easiest 10%. Can they save 10% again? Can they keep it up every year? How long until they're saving 3% a year, or 1% a year? And that's if you keep the team the same size, where its clearly loosing money! If you could afford a dozen people to save 10%, you can only really afford 1-2 to save 1%, but then you're likely to get an even smaller return.

Unless you expect to be able to maintain the same relative value of optimizations every year, 3 or 5 years out, its not worth it to hire an FTE to work on them.

I should note that I've experienced this myself: I was working in an area where resource optimization could lead to "significant" savings (not 8 figures, but 6 or maybe 7). My first 6 months working in this area, I found all sorts of low hanging fruit and saved a fair amount. The second six months, 5-10x less ROI. I gave up even trying in the third six moths, if I come across a thing, I'll fix it, but its no longer worthwhile to look.
oops. feet.
I have. Your responsibility as an adult is to have greater patience and self-control than your child. Nobody said this was going to be easy, did they?
Sure, but being secretive about your DNA seems like the prudent course of action until those laws are in place
It’s separate from the Facebook service. It’s equivalent to an Oculus account with the name change.
Have you ever encountered any insurance implications from it? eg: questioned whether you have ever had a genomic test etc. and had to answer yes and then them wanting to see results?

I guess in your case where nothing actionable is found it's benign. It will be the cases where there are risk factors for late onset things - cancer, diabetes, heart disease etc. where it would get sticky.
The Epicurean’s Guide to Christmas – Indulge in friendship, celebrate gra (cont)
Hedy Lamarr a famous movie actress invented fhss and the navy never paid her despite using her invention and making it secret.
Gradio: Create UIs for your machine learning model in Python in 3 minutes
> I think OP is expecting a level of competence from interviewers that simply doesn’t exist anymore.

No. OP has not realized that the job market has plenty of charlatans who can talk well, but can't do the job.
I think that's not going to happen because single corporations have no power in choosing wages. The labor market does. In the labor market the wage will reflect the market value of the job.
Almost all current jobs already have market value above minimum wage (only ~2% doesn't).
For the ones that don't, it's because well either the job is not valuable/the person is not skilled enough.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2019/home.htm
Yes, better comfort is necessary for using it whole day. I am guessing Apple's tight vertical integration will drive the weight down to 300g (and maybe a bit less), while distributing it evenly so the face doesn't get smashed.
It sounds like you want a portal like MyYahoo or iGoogle, popular in the early 2000s. You could add widgets for RSS, weather, stocks, and lots more. Too bad most of those are long gone
Interesting book. Thanks for sharing I will be sure to read it. My dad chaired the local history society for our tribe for a long time. I have been to some of these historical sites dating back about 100 years. I have always had an interest in the topic.
> Sure, that’s all fine.

Really? Seeing anti-vaxxers as sub-human is fine?

Even the Bush admin opted to argue that certain types of torture aren't really torture rather than go down the rabbit-hole of claiming that certain people aren't really human.

If one's position is to the right of Cheney and gang, one's ethics have definitely taken a wrong turn.
But think about all of your past classmates and coworkers and whether any two of them were exactly alike.

Even within a specialized class or career the people there will have wildly different backgrounds and life experiences. Hence their sense of calling from a personal standpoint will be unique..
Yes. That future, Q1 2022, isn’t far off. It’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
Probably you'll find a DOS emulator in App store. Install it inside and enjoy
This approach reminds me of Haskell's effect systems.
This probably isn't helping, but I've learned to be super motivated to go outside even right after getting out of bed.

My solution was to not make coffee at home and instead getting it from somewhere outside. It's five minutes there and back. For coffee!

Then I've started buying groceries too and suddenly the day got much longer!

But that's me. I can power through things. You might be interested in a more "organic" approach, which puts you more into balance with nature.

Getting up at eight is far too late.

Instead get out of bed when the sun comes up, or a bit before that, and go to bed earlier than you did before ... of course. Go to bed either when you're tired, or when you want to set yourself a specific amount of hours of sleep.

You're welcome!
Sure but Mercedes isn't known for cheap maintenance either.

Going with the Honda analogy here, you can rebuild an Acura engine for a lot cheaper, or still replace it entirely for cheaper than $22k.
It would have helped to do a more benevolent analysis/interpretation here. For example, you mentioned yourself that lead batteries need checking, change of fluids, etc, most of which noone does.
i see quite a bit of overlap between the book and his lecture series on distributed systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...

These lectures give a more theory based approach, while the book is more based on discussing practical systems; now both are covering distributed systems as such.

Now the distributed system audio course on youtube is extremely accessible (i listened to them while taking walks with our dog)

The book is also great, Kleppmann is writing in a very accessible style.
If I understand correctly, it is because they want to support arbitrary queries and so a single index would only help for certain queries but not others.
> They are saying you should consider if and how your privilege helped you out

Yes, they are. "Check your privilege" is often used to say "you didn't do that."

Even if you assume that "privilege" is a big reason why you had an opportunity, there are almost always many people with the same "privilege" who didn't do said thing.

Moreover, it's almost always some skin color argument. There are many "don't look white" people who had privileges that I didn't have but I'm supposed to "check my privilege."
"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

I understand the license. Based on your response and Microsoft's attribution change I don't think you understand the argument. I won't patronize you however based on the non-response.
I love what this nurse is doing. Something that doesn’t come through is how loud the air purifiers are in make-shift negative pressure rooms. The smell of incontinence. Foggy face shields and sweaty isolation gowns.
I agree. I actually found the GP link more interesting than the posted link. Not that the original wasn't interesting.
Yes, VR is TV on a nose, but it's here and can be bought. Neuralink is way more important tech, but it is years/decades away.
Employee management/HR systems like Rippling or Gusto should be able to handle basic SSO/software access and hook into employee onboarding and offboarding.
That's correct, you can infect other people if you're vaccinated, and you can still get infected even if you're triple vaccinated. Break-through cases are very common, as witnessed in highly vaccinated nations that are still struggling with huge outbreaks.

Your conclusion is essentially the right one, the leading vaccines (particularly the mRNA vaccines) can dramatically lower the risk of a bad outcome if you catch SARS2. They do not stop the spead of the virus and do not ensure you won't catch it.