skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep on making doomsday arguments about climate change. A few degrees is not going to cause the extinction of the human race (though it will cause a few million of unneeded deaths). But, there is an excellent economic argument. The cost of repairing damage due to natural disasters, weatherizing buildings and equipment for new climates, and even moving cities is astronomical. Sustainability initiatives are a bargain in comparison.
Back in the 1930s - before computers existed it was considered boring women's work (sexism intended). There wasn't much demand because of course computers were a room full of people running this by hand. In the 1950s when computers were invented males discovered programming was interesting and took over.

As such it is more the image is programming will be women's work than a reality because the reality is there weren't many programmers.
The OP message could have better said that 50TB databases are common these days when single metal or 24xl I3en or I4* instance on AWS can hold 60T raw.
> Average College grads make more money over their lifetime, period.

Stop this. The most accurate predictor of a person's lifetime income is the income of their parents. Children of wealthy parents are more likely to go to college. It's like saying "People who drive expensive cars in high school make more money over their lifetime, period".

I question the statistical literacy of people who make the argument that going to college has a significant causal impact on future earnings.
The video gives a wrong impression that most current is flowing along the Poynting vector. In fact, only a tiny amount of current is flowing directly, and the vast majority is flowing along the wires, as expected. The tiny amount flowing directly through the air is much better understood as an antenna effect, unrelated to regular current flow, and has nothing really to do with the Poynting vector.
I'd argue that the battle over desktop environment supremacy leaves desktop Linux less compelling overall. There is so much choice that it's paralyzing and new users constantly second guess themselves. You have thousands of developers doing their own thing rather than working together to make mainstream choices like Gnome more viable.
My first job as a teen was delivering newspapers (not sure that's really an option anymore, though). I also cut lawns in the summer. All of that was on foot or bicycle. Didn't have a car until I was 18.
You can use a service like Teleport or set up an SD WAN. I am using a split tunnel AWS VPN client service to avoid having to set up an Bastion server
I don't. Nor did the study answer that question. But that's my point -- consumers need to be reassured that their EV vehicles are safe plugged in within their home while they are sleeping.
Simulating the Universe with Density Functional Theory
I agree, I think building GUI toolkit first is a better idea than building a new DE before you have a better foundation. Not sure what's their rush with DE then. They can improve KDE instead, until Rust based GUI toolkit is ready.

Cross platform here is not easy, if you want that toolkit not to be ugly and have some kind of native look and feel.
My objection is maintaining an entirely unrelated skillset that I have never encounter in my day to day work.

It is a skill that you will lose if you spend a year without interviewing/leetcode practicing.

Sure I’ll do it, but you may as well test me on painting famous oil artwork from memory too.

> I don't understand why people prefer "here take home questions/work for 5 hours for free" over DS&A interview.

The alternative is hundreds of hours of speculative investment memorizing books/websites of algos. People will take full time courses on passing these interviews.
I am managing a company with a quite nice culture, performance oriented but with great emphasis on supporting each other. I like it as it is.

The "problem" with culture change is an extra 40% loss of people if the change is fundamental. Most companies have hard time even surviving this and it takes years for every 0 at the end headcount (like 3 years for some thousand people and 5 for hundred thousands). May not make sense on the short run to roll the dice and even might crash the company.

I would not be able to change this into something else without losing a lot of linchpin people.

If you are the CEO of a company that big (mine is small), you sacrifice a lot for this change. If this is not a matter of life or death for the company, you won't change the culture that much, I am sure.
The author is a lawyer, and appears to have experience in the space.

https://work.kemitchell.com/
The US doesn't have that same law. YouTube decided to do something similar of their own volition.
We do: all these are taken into account for satellites. In particular GPS is one of the prime examples as it is affected by both special and general relativity and how fast time elapses is critical to its function.
They don't have to sabotage Linux, Linux developers and the community does that all by itself (unwittingly).
Software Scarcity
Does that have anything to do with the DE though? Isn’t that a change that could have simply been made to the Gnome settings itself?
80% of hospitalizations in the US were overweight or obese, the number is even more egregious for under-65 hospitalizations and deaths.
What is your proposed alternative to copyright?
I didn’t say there’s a causal impact, I said that average college grads make more money.
Yeah, thats exactly what net income means. Its an accounting of the actual profits your company generates after all expenses. Its a standardized measure, which means you are able to compare apples to apples.

Both are oligopolistic market players that can command price, and then generate outsized profits from their large market share. Both have fat margins, that has nothing to do with how easy that margin is to take away. Average corporate profits (net income) run 10-15%, so any outsized margin beyond that is a good indication that the company is able to generate excess profits through whatever means.
Appreciation of engineers for the difficulty of an assignment like this seems bimodal.

On the one hand, you have https://xkcd.com/793/ responses:

> You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>. Easy, right? So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?

Just pressurize the tanks, and meter the flow with some valves. Easy, right?

They move to the other side of the distribution after a little more thought, when they they realize it's simply infeasible to put thousands of horsepower in a pump that size, and declare the whole endeavor completely nonsensical and impossible.

Ran through this on a recent project involving an automated sewing machine. At first, it seems ludicrous that you could tie knots thousands of times per second. Oh wait, it's a single motor and old cam-driven tech from the 1800s, available off the shelf for a couple hundred dollars?
Is that a serious question? World War 2 for starters...
> Arcade games were designed to extract quarters from consumers

I think the point of the article is about making games less fun and more grinding, preying on gambling addiction, the gatherer-hunter instinct (gotta catch'em all), and the sunken costs fallacy (if I stop playing I lose all my efforts).

Take Pokémon Go, which is free to play, and the transactions are optional and not completely pay-to-win. The main game mechanic is mind-numbing repetition, the same actions done tens of thousands of times for meager rewards, and the occasional good reward, chasing the moving goal post. That game is not fun by any stretch of the word, it's a grind designed to keep players trapped for years.

Paying quarters for having fun for 15 minutes was better than not paying for mindlessly grinding. Games are supposed to be fun, not exploitative.
I genuinely can't, after 20 years or so of trying, get my head around why people think that, but it seems like everybody except for me does think that, so I must be the one missing something.
> Any epidemiological connections to WIV? There aren't any, just the original fact that the outbreak happened in Wuhan

other than multiple published papers and NIH reluctantly admitting WIV did THOSE EXACT genetic modifications https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...
Ok but what does that mean. What makes for having an agenda that isn't already encapsulated within "the things that are n steps ahead in your speech planning?". If intelligence works in a way that is fundamentally different from GPT-3, what specific thing can't be accomplished by simply increasing the steps planned ahead in the next GPT?

Suppose we do more of the same to build GPT-4, and now it can stay focused for whole paragraphs at a time. Is it intelligent yet? How about when GPT-5 starts writing whole books. If the approach of GPT starts generating text that stays on topic long enough to pass the Turing test, is it time to accept that there is nothing deeper to human intelligence than a hidden Markov model? What if we're all deluded about how intricate and special human intelligence really is?
Sway is a window manager, not a DE. The right thing to compare it to is Mutter. I also use sway, but quite a few of my applications are from Gnome (like evince, nautilus, gnome-calendar, fractal...).
Writing GTK4 apps sucks, at least in Rust. They removed so many idiomatic ways to build apps, and all you're left with is a shitty component system that forces you to write incomprehensible UI layout code instead of leaving it to JSON/XML languages that are much better suited to the process. In any case, gtk-rs's bindings after 9.0.0 are hardly usable, and require me to re-write entire apps just to get them to launch in the new and "improved" GTK4 wrapper, now with incredibly blurry text, compositor issues and broken stylesheets... sigh.

I, for one, would love to see someone fork GTK3 for desktop purposes. GTK4's development has almost entirely been predicated by the GNOME team (despite how hard they deny it), and additions like libadwaita has made GTK unusable for many. After Pop_OS! was publically harassed by the GNOME team, I kinda expected them to take that project up. I can settle for a desktop fork all the same though.
It's not 100% Rust but I think you would expect that GTK itself is fairly well tested - probably much better tested than any new app you write that uses it, so it is still worth it to write that app in Rust.

And it has to be said that memory safety isn't Rust's only compelling feature. It also has a pretty great build system, a decent library ecosystem, a very strong type system which gives you an "if it compiles it works" experience surprisingly often, probably the best multithreading system, etc. etc.
But is it going to be faster, what I really want out of a Linux desktop is for it to look nice, but not eat up in indefinite amount of RAM.
The perjury part needs to be enforced heavily. Literally arrest them for fraud
> Many skilled trades are not that hard to learn

If they're not hard to learn, then imo it's not a "skilled trade".

> those who know it just pretend they are hard to keep people out.

> Of course with an engineering background I know how to read all the different tables and understand where the numbers came from.

If you're an EE and you're referring to electricians, I would argue that electrical work is not an easy concept for most of the population which is one reason for its market demand.
It is possible to ask non-asinine coding questions in interviews, though, and it seems to be a good idea to do so if you want to ensure that you're hiring somebody that can program a computer. Simple five-minute loop-free "write an expression" problems are effective filters.
>Trades are overwhelmingly what people do when they don't go for a BA, and often have houses and children far before college graduates.

Having a house and children as soon as possible isn't a win. It's what happens when you lack imagination. There's so much more to life than pumping out kids at 21 in your 3/2 in fly over country.
History and experience tells a different story [1]. Never trust a library that is maintained by GNOME.

1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
Nah, but I don’t like claims without evidence. That’s how misinformation spreads. I’ve already laid out my source for believing college grads make more money than non college grads.
The issue is that Rust is extremely opinionated at to how code should be structured and there is going to be considerable interface friction with a system that is built around aliasing data every time there is a callback.
And does anyone really use MS products?
I don’t think it has much to do with the pandemic, although that might have served as a catalyst.

The real driver seems to me to be the internet. Never before in history was it possible that even two people living together as husband and wife can be living in two totally different universes.

Yet this is precisely what’s happening today, thanks to Facebook, WhatsApp, video on demand, click driven news and the good old filter bubbles. Social cohesion erosion, seen in that way, is the inverse of the web’s ever increasing push towards more choice, personalization and individuality.

It’s like I dating. If you can always say “next”, all possibility for depth and growth and commitment evaporates. In fact, these things start to look like old fashioned justifications used by people who just didn’t have that choice.

And so it is today even with news. If I don’t like what I see, I do not have to be tolerant, or expose my own ideas to the possibility of being questioned, eroded or proven false. I can simply block the offending outlet and instead consume only content that agrees with my own beliefs.

Whether this is good or bad is anyone’s guess. But it seems to be the general direction in which things are going.
Apple's motto is screwing over developers in the name of customer satisfaction and decency. Usually they're in the right, including in this situation.
Somebody had to take notes.
Plaid is not some tiny startup... They're almost 10 years old and Visa tried to buy them for $5B a couple years ago.

That doesn't mean you should trust them (I don't), but just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they're not big.
Just the other day I was thinking this would be a great way to smuggle contraband, but that assumes anyone outside the 'scene' knows what the container signifies.
So funny I missed this behavior. Maybe the feedback then is there could be more gradations/tweaking for us slowpokes out there (especially since it appears other folks missed it as well)

Also I should have lead my original comment with kudos to the maker, didn’t mean to only leave (apparently inaccurate) critical feedback!
I was drugged unconscious by a gay man in my early 20s, and "thankfully" I became conscious at the beginning of whatever he had planned; it took me months to even realize something had happened due to whatever drug he dosed me with fucked up my memory.

I had used MDMA recreationally years later and I knew that had helped my PTSD some, but it was only when I did a session years later in a therapeutic setting, just myself and the facilitator, was I able to fully connect to, sit with, and process what happened to me; literally the stimuli of what I would/should have felt then was able to process - as if it was stuck, once processed allowing my body to no longer think it was in that situation (so heightened stress state, heightened baseline stress reduced greatly).

MAPS.org (Multi-Disciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies) relatively recently did clinical trials with 100 treatment resistant participants, to treat veterans with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. They had an average of 17.5 years of treatment resistant PTSD. After 1 year, 80% of the placebo group had no improvement, 20% had some. With just 2-3 sessions where MDMA was given, after just 1 year, 80% of participants no longer qualified for PTSD diagnoses - and 20% had some or none - a complete reversal. From my experience it's true - it just allows you to connect to overwhelming/overriding stress that short-circuits your system, allows it to flow and essentially melt away - though it can take talking about it to put the experience into words, to process it, to help by breathing through it, etc.

All this to say that even if you have ever done MDMA recreationally, e.g. gone out dancing with a partner or friends, I'd recommend anyone who hasn't done it in a different context, a "safer" or quieter/therapeutic environment, where you're not using music and other people to distract from yourself - then I'd recommend people look into doing it; there will slowly be legal clinics opening up, though I've not kept track of who's leading that at the moment or where the progress is. E.g. there may be more depth to the experiences that you'll be able to process with the help of MDMA causing more serotonin to release at once than it can on its own, and the only way to know is to try.
Show HN: Colab Notebook to create AI-Generated Pokémon in 2 clicks
I don't consider ARM better unless you have billions to spend on custom silicon like Apple.

The power consumption is inline with any other ultra-low-power x86 (~15W TDP for the CPU). That's pretty comparable to a Snapdragon XR2 with ~10W TDP and worse performance.

Users would want to use proprietary apps that are only compiled for x86. Emulation for those on ARM is not particularly feasible for any acceptable performance. If you're buying a laptop now, you would not buy an ARM device.

That being said, I'm not married to x86. But I don't think ARM is the future, either.
Why we carry watermelons? (2014)
Sadly, I realised this too, when nobody listened to my cry for help here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423

Any chance someone can help me still?
Now it'll be interesting to see where states and large companies go, as they still have the freedom to impose mandates.
But when will the torturers be prosecuted?
> Stop this.... I question the statistical literacy...

Ugh. Why?

You asked for a statistically grounded conversation, so let's do that.

Let's start, for example, with pdf page 25 (and surrounding context) of https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/causal_educ_earnings.p...

The analysis done in that paper is a good starting point for a productive conversation. We could discuss the bounds on various coefficients and decide whether the conditional statements about those coefficients made in the paper have clear answers in either direction. Or we could critique the various modeling assumptions. Etc.
Things like this have been around for nearly (at least?) 10 years, but are not well-known outside of spaces that care about telco-style demarc & OAM systems.

An example from ~2012 would be the RAD MiNID which is available in a handy "sleeve" format where you can use your normal SFP with the smart SFP.

Pretty cool to see a writeup of this sort of thing (and increased vendor representation).
I like Mr Mitchell, and I am glad that he is attempting to do something that so many people shy away from for obvious reasons. As a developer of a fairly popular open-source tool (Aether), I have an interest in following the software licensing discussion in detail, though I am not a lawyer.

My general impression is, if you excuse my flippance, this license has holes so big I could drive the fully unfurled James Webb telescope through it. I don't mean to be dismissive, so here's an example:

> `... indefinitely, if the licensor or their legal successor does not offer a fair commercial license for the software within 32 days of written request'

This is the escape hatch condition inserted for the safety of big companies that stop qualifying for the small-business section of the license. Except ... what is fair? More importantly, are you willing to spend six years in court arguing what 'fair' means? Because that is how you end up arguing what is fair in court for six years.

To be fair (ha), the license tries to firm up the term somewhat by defining the term later on as:

> A fair price is a fair market price for a fair commercial license. If the licensor advertises a price or price structure for generally available fair commercial licenses, and more than one customer not affiliated with the licensor has paid that price in the past year, that is fair.

Great, but what happens if the software has not been purchased before? How is 'more than one customer not affiliated with the licensor' going to be resolved? What does 'affiliated' mean and how broad we are talking about here? Unknown, until there is a software product that uses this license, gets very popular, and then we get to see the answers in court, through the poor developer dragged through hell.
I find it interesting that Gatorade has been short for months. Costco puts a limit and I've seen them bare on shelves for a while (and the other day). Not sure why...A quick google shows that PepsiCo dropping the ball no supply chain, workers etc...so it's interesting that much of this blame is put on Biden (#BareShelvesBiden) when really it's the free market and management that should be blamed.

I have recently seen certain shelves bare of cereal and what not. So what do I do? Just buy a different kind of cereal and move on with life.
Do you really not understand that most people don’t want to use custom i3 configs?
Why would it be legally invalid to exclude blondes or people with a brother named "Mike"? (Obviously it would be immoral and stupid, but that doesn't make such an exclusion legally unenforceable.)
I'm sure there are some pipefitters who make a lot of money, but we should go by averages, not outliers.

The average for "Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters" is $56,330 per year, according to the BLS. For "Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers" it's $110,140 per year. For "Physicians and Surgeons," it's $208,000 per year.

We also need to consider that running your own business is a lot of work, and doing physical labor can be hard on the body. One of the benefits of office jobs is that you get high pay, stable hours, relatively low stress and get to work in an air-conditioned room. So I would still prefer that over skilled trades even if the pay was the same.
Regarding 2, aren’t they basically gnome if they are using gtk, as per your logic?
Defining AAA games is kind of hot or miss, but off the top of my head for 2020.

(Micro Transactions)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, The Last of Us Part II, Fallout 76, … and it just keeps going that’s plenty to say it’s infested the AAA space.

Don’t get me wrong I understand the revenue potential, but I want a freaking warning label because any micro transactions is an instant pass for me.
> misconfigurations of SSH (accidentally letting root log in with no password or something) or a zero day in SSH

these are entirely valid concerns. defense in depth, principal of least privilege. humans make errors.
Man imagine how great the world of music would be today if Napster won in court 20 years ago.
imagine if you were actually an oil painter...you pass the interview with flying colors and show up to work and there is nary a brush in sight
The tier of exploitation is forced relocation, analogous to PoW camps. PRC makes use of capitalism to develop and grow while relying on force (through coercion, intimidation, violence, discrimination...) for "efficiencies"--for the greater good.

We've seen this kind of thing many times before. Rule with an iron fist; if caught, deflect, lie, blame it on low-level leadership, corruption, or just statistics.
Go-go System76, life has to be fun why to keep suffering?
Are you a lawyer or have specific knowledge in this area?

This thing is weird enough to me that I'm not sure I'd have any idea, myself, and I've spent a good deal of time understanding and reading about copyright and licenses.