skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all different in character from modern VC in the valley though. People were not forming firms with the intention of seeking out tech startup investments in a systematic way like they do today. A unique culture has emerged since then.

When the traitorous eight left Shockley, what they did would have been career suicide on the east coast. Now it is encouraged in Silicon Valley corporate culture.
So… a clipping buffer so avatars can’t occupy the same space? This feels a lot less controversial than they are trying to make it sound.
With your naked eye, you won't be able to see them, except on deploy, which most of the pictures you see around are. The satellites themselves are getting better at "being dark" and the image processing algorithms are getting better at removing them, so I don't think it will be much of a problem, specially for deep space astronomy that is nearing a revolution with more launches more cheaply.

Astrophotography might be a different story, but I haven't seen much uproar after the dark starlink satellites got deployed, but maybe I didn't look hard enough. Either way, it is still a smaller problem than ground light pollution, so maybe fixing that can give us more slack to deploy more stuff.
Source? The closest I could find is [1], which says 10 μg/m3 annual mean and 25 μg/m3 24-hour mean. It is for outdoor levels, but I can't imagine why the same chemical would be safer to breathe depending on whether you are inside or not as you breathe it.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(ou...
> We have experimentally estimated in our preliminary study that the apparent T1/T2 values for gray matter and white matter were approximately 330/110 ms and 260/100 ms at 0.055 T (vs. 1300/110 ms and 830/80 ms at 3 T51) while CSF maintains long T1 (>1500 ms) and T2 (>1000 ms).

That's not particularly different from normal MRIs, and the achieved resolution is not that much worse than normal MRIs. The scans have lower contrast (and repeated/longer scans is one way to improve that) and using for functional imaging will make that worse, but honestly it doesn't seem to have suffered very much at all.
We probably will have to agree to disagree, but I’m trying to see the message I think Apple intended to sell and I think trying to sell a replacement for or an alternative to computers is a lot more in line with how they’ve always marketed iPads. The reason to look at their intended message specially is because this is the marketing gimmick that colors their PR and lobbying campaigns.

I don’t think it is severable from the manner console manufacturers operate either. They sell locked down computers with operating systems and license the software that can operate on it. In terms of functions and capabilities, they’re as Turing complete as any other machine, you just have to jump through extra hoops to run unlicensed software and they take explicit action to prevent this or make it more difficult.

The intended use is basically irrelevant. A device that’s there to operate Facebook or Spotify or a device that’s there to operate Halo or HBO is functionally still just an entertainment device. Where they significantly differ is that Apple licenses a broader array of software and Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo license mostly entertainment software (games, video apps, music apps and comic book readers). If you actually bought an Xbox to do the functions you could on a Windows PC, you would be disappointed but not because there’s some inherent Xbox property preventing this, but because Microsoft does not license Xbox software in the manner Apple does iPhone and iPad software nor allow unlicensed software to run the way it does on Windows. That’s a corporate choice, and because that corporate choice was made, it would be a bad choice to buy an Xbox for those functions or else some people might actually choose to use an Xbox to check their email or do whatever else they do on their PCs. If you think about it, $500 is not bad for a decent gaming computer that lets you get rid of your PC.
I used Google Allo frequently to communicate with peers privately. Then it became just another messaging app that Google axed.
I assume the reason is more banal - that Iceland is a high cost of living country. I can't imagine groceries to be very cheap. So after those high basic expenses, I'm sure there needs to be enough fun money left over to throw at the Icelandic economy.
What do you mean by conflated? The tracking and profile building is how they correlate results with ad impressions. That this data is then also used for training the models and identifying the user coefficients is just a different use of the same correlation data (a website visit is just another type of ad conversion, after all).
Event-driven models work great when you have problems that can be modeled as series or sets of reply/response events or cycles. It does not work great when your problem is stateful, when minimum latency is important, when your problem is essentially one reply/response cycle or naturally sequential. The internals of a 3d engine should probably not be event-driven (the api might be, however). A program for listing files in a directory should also probably not be event-driven. Nor a program for computing solutions to differential equations. A text editor definitely should be event-driven.

That said, IME, event-driven architectures are more often than not the right choice for complex software. It's just a very intuitive way to model software.
'final fantasy vi remaster date' is probably a better search to make the point.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ff+vi+remaster+date
I'm curious what makes them expensive. In Japan they are basically free (covered by national insurance for which the price is low). I believe at one point Japan had the most MRI machines per capita. I think the government just decided they were worth while and got a bunch where as in the USA they were seen as a money source and they generally charge $1k to $10k ?!?!?!

I'd love for the expensive ones to be disrupted. The dream is we get some attachment for our smart phones and turn them into Tricorders.
Yeah essentially they're saying people that are well off can come spend money there longer than other people. In typical Iceland fashion it excludes any path to permanent residency.
For everyone discussing the 1M thing:

The median Icelandic salary is approx 600,000 ISK for context. So it's higher than the median, but not insane by any means.

It seems logical to me that you'd only want to grant visas to people who are "above average".
I'm currently working on a vue + vuex server side rendered PWA with client side hydration.i found the perfect UI component library which only adds ~3mb of overhead,which went paired with Chart.js and of course wrapped with VueCharts.js should be able to query a graphql endpoint to process the results and display in the browser. What do you all think of kubernetes, overkill?
Could you please share some information about your project? I'm also interested in mind map and note taking apps combination. (I've looked through your https://linktr.ee, but don't find info about project you told) Thanks!
I've been an SDE at Amazon for 8 years. What I've noticed over time is that the quality of hires and employees has gone down. I think the stack ranking is partly responsible for it, because it couldn't evaluate engineers in absolute measures, but only relatively.

This is where your cards analogy falls through, in a deck of cards, you know that there are better cards you don't have in your hand, you know exactly what your Jack is worth in absolute terms.

At Amazon, you can have a Royal Flush, and because of stack ranking decide to discard your 10, and if you know your poker, that makes you go from the best hand to one of the worse.

The issue is you wouldn't know your 10 at Amazon was a great engineer and a key asset to your team, and that all replacement candidates are going to be worse, except now you've lost precious time, ramp up, and moral, as well as a great employee.

For a smaller company, it might make sense as you're building a core team and might need to go through a few people before you find a set of good ones, but where Amazon is now, at its size, over time, it has lost engineers that in industry wide averages were above it, and it has created a reputation that hurts it from attracting them back or other engineer's above the industry's average.

Due to this, Amazon is becoming a second pick. Good engineers will pick Netflix, Google, Microsoft, and even sometimes Facebook (due to their higher comp) over Amazon. And since all these companies hiring process are the same, it's common that someone who can pass the Amazon interview can pass one of those other ones as well. In fact, almost 70% of everyone I've seen be released from a PIP went to work at one of the other big tech companies.

The other big problem is that the stack ranking works like American reality TV competitions. It doesn't matter if you've excelled year over year, if you have one bad year, where for whatever reason you get identified as a low performer, you'll get PIPed. In my experience that's often contextual, a new manager or you look like a bad performer because the business and leadership couldn't figure out good projects for you to work on and own that year, or they themselves couldn't get their act together and you're a scape goat. Other people on your team might have performed better simply out of luck of having been assigned better projects.

Amazon used to get away with simply finding the best talent, but in my experience there, that's now backfiring, and instead of growing the best talent, their quest to find it is turning into a system that recruits more and more mediocre talent as time goes on.
“ Consciousness is simpler than we make it. There’s no hard problem. ”

Certainly the hard problem goes away when you define it to be simpler.
It's twice as long as their standard visa
Friend refused to take small computers seriously, this was late 80s. Reminiscing about Control Data back in 60s. Looked up specs, even then an 80386 with math coprocessor could run rings around the CDC systems.

Don't get me wrong, the CDCs were great achievements, it was just my friend didn't keep up with the times. He'd gone into non-technical work so he can maybe be excused.
> Or maybe the cake mix with dried egg powder didn't taste as good.

It's not one or the other and can easily be both reasons.
That's not really a high salary for the people of hackernews in the US and I'm sure most Euro countries.
The non-carriers are not a control group unless we are 100% sure that the assignment is random. I find it hard to believe when the vast majority of population are carriers.
In EU credit card fees are capped by law, and the duopoly is surviving just fine, just with less obscene profits. Should do the same with mobile app stores.
Picasa - The offline photo management program. The last version might still be around for download, but once you have multiple faces tagged in a photo, it randomly swap them... a nasty bug, which now can't ever be fixed.
Kitt Peak Observatory is 50 miles west. When I went on the tour they said that they get more light pollution from Phoenix 140 miles north than from Tucson. The streetlights in Tucson have covers that direct the light downward which also saves energy because you are not wasting the light going up into the sky where it doesn't help any people.
> Ok, so we've taken away all these rights from unvaxxed people. What rights do you believe this has that allowed others to exercise?

The Article 25 right to medical care, which unvaccinated people can put at risk by overwhelming hospitals with ICU cases.

I also consider getting vaccinated to be one of the Article 29 "duties to the community".
The most annoying thing for me about cooking on resistive electric is that changes in temperature are extremely slow. I can't add heat as quickly as gas, and when I want to take it away, the heating element retains heat for a long time.

I have not cooked with induction; it should be better on both points.
Dumb question...but is this considering income before or after taxes?
It's pretty straightforward to follow when consciousness ends, with death. In my mind, a harder question is when does it begin? After one cell, two cells, a trillion cells? If a scientist can pin down the moment it starts then that may lead to more progress on the other questions.
Maybe if you meet someone there and get married?
I really wanted to enjoy Eve Online. I like the ideas behind the game, such as permanent ship loss. It meant that crafting could be profitable, unlike WoW, where throughout its entire history, it's always been more profitable to sell the materials to craft something than to craft it and sell the result.

But the execution felt boring as hell. From what I understood, late-game combat is basically rock-paper-scissors. Early-game combat is just telling your ship to maintain a specific distance and auto-firing your weapons then going AFK for a couple minutes.

This video sums up how Eve felt to me: https://youtu.be/4c6jafaiPh8
Where is the option for "your basement"?
A Theory for Debugging Unfamiliar Code (2020)
(In progress Taaalk) Repopulating the Taaalk Database from Archive.org
Not really, GTA5 came out in 2013, PC culture was culminating in 2010, but peaked in 2016.

Before, it was mainly concerned parents (think of the children!)

Now, it's PC babies (South Park ref. that concerns the same phenomenon) complaining / cancelling
Japan? Japan is currently closed to the world, and it had a history of doing so.

So, I share your desire. I do not expect it to happen, thou.
I had a friend travel to Iceland. She was a student, so doing it on the cheap. Didn't eat a lot while there as the food was so expensive.
Europeans could read Egyptian inscriptions for two reasons:

- A descendant language had been preserved in the Coptic Bible.

- The Rosetta Stone provided a parallel text between Egyptian and Greek, and Greek was well understood.

But the ability to read Greek gave us more than just an understanding of what the Rosetta Stone said. The Greeks wrote a lot about Egypt, too.
> junior developer salaries are within this reach in EU capitals.

Junior developers make 75.000€ after taxes? They make about 50 - 60.000€ BEFORE taxes.
> Also, I've never met a flat-top stove that wasn't a terror to keep clean.

To me, a flat-top stove is a lot easier to clean than a gas stove with lots of grates and uneven surfaces.

Just compare these two stove tops:

https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Built-I...

https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Built-I...

Same size stove, similar number of heat elements. One has a bunch of grates to move, potentially wash elsewhere. Then there's knobs to remove to clean under them, the knobs themselves having various curves and flat sides to clean. The whole thing is a bit of a pan itself, so there's stuff to clean around that. The burner heads are round protrusions from that pan so you need to clean around them and then clean them as well.

Compared to the other stove, which is just a flat piece of glass. No protrusions. No edges. Just a single flat surface. To me, that single flat glass surface is way easier to clean. I don't even get how one could argue the other is easier to clean, there's far more parts with their own geometries involved.

On top of that, the glass cook top is more or less flush with the rest of the counter, does not have any grates or any other uneven surfaces, so its useful even as just additional counter top. I can easily put other small kitchen appliances on top of it and those appliances have a flat, solid bottom to them instead of trying to get the feet just right on a grate and then have them be inches above the rest of the counter top.

We have an older GE Profile glass cooktop with touch buttons on the right side. I was originally planning on tearing it out and putting in a gas stove when we moved in, which wouldn't have been too difficult as there's a gas line in the wall capped off as I guess a previous owner had a gas stove before they redid the kitchen with electric appliances. The benefits of it being a completely flat nearly counter flush surface and being far easier to clean in my opinion make up for the loss of more instant heat from a gas stove, so we're going to keep it for a while.
I don't think that's super conclusive. As others have mentioned, Californians are awake and during their workday right now, other timezones may be sleeping, and some might not see the post at all because they tend do read HN less on the weekend, for example.

I would not be surprised at all if California has a big share, but I don't think this poll is a sure enough way to gauge that. It would have been more insightful if California wasn't one of the top answers right now.
Many people find much to do, even in icy cold climates! Some even prefer it.
I definitely agree that it's a retconned explanation, but it also makes sense for where we are now in the games industry.

I'm in my early 20's, and have never played HL. I suspect that's not super nonstandard.

So I agree. It should've been released, but they missed the boat, and now we all have to live with it.
But then you also said

> Lockdowns used in this manner are entirely unprecedented, and the long-term results cannot be known by anyone, only guessed at.

So which one is it? Are your studies useful, or can the results only be guessed at, and so what's the point of your 400 studies?

> The longterm results of anything for which a long term has not yet elapsed can indeed only be guessed at. The fact I need to point this out to many people is striking in its resemblance to some kind of mass delusion on their part.

It's amazing that you tell other people this yet don't seem to understand it yourself.
JIT compilers run machine code without any overhead, when it comes to actual execution. And the overhead of the compilation can be pushed to another thread, cached, etc.
I run a (pretty successful) self-hosted analytics platform[0] and I am no longer writing tests for it. I did have tests at some point, but they were slowing down development too much, whenever something was changed the tests had to be updated, whenever a new feature was added, new tests had to be written.

I do plan to create some automated tests, but mostly for the set-up part, so the installation always goes as expected on different environments.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com/
Really what needs to happen is another New York Times story. The market for engineering talent is so tight right now that if this lands with new data points, Amazon will end this practice for another 3 years before quietly resuming it.

I have friends with horror stories about Sr. SDMs going behind their back to put down names they fought to save. Imagine that SDM now having to tell that report they're at risk of being fired at a performance review.

L6 SDM is the most difficult job at Amazon.

---

SDM - Software development manager.

L6 - Entry level for the role (L5 SDMs exist, but are more rare).
> Human eyes have about 25 stops of computational dynamic range (about 7 stop without the stuff the brain does), cameras only win because they can do crazy long exposures and are not continuous video cameras like eyes are.

That may be true, but your eyes have an aperture of 'only' 7mm (when you're young). That's not a lot of area for photons to get into.

Get a pair of cheap 7x35mm (or 7x50mm) binoculars and now the aperture is 5-7 times larger (and the area is more, per πr^2).
It’s only dependent on the mass of the other object, not the mass of the object whose acceleration we’re measuring.
“ It is possible to be conscious because otherwise your body wouldn't be able to survive.”

False, we can program a roomba to seek out electricity to ‘survive’. E.g. zombies
Not all purchases come immediately after clicking through an ad. They may come days later, even. Knowing that "this user who purchased this product saw this version of the ad" and "this user saw the other version" is what attribution is.
It's not clickbait.

I've been to oodles of talks on the problem. It has had special sessions at APS meetings and I've watched acquaintances and colleagues expend meaningful fractions of their careers attempting to resolve the Proton Radius Puzzle.

If an appeal to authority is required -- Nature gave it the cover. https://www.psi.ch/en/media/our-research/protons-smaller-tha...

Pohl's measurements were incontrovertible, yet they disagreed with decades of work. It has been a big problem in a quiet community for some time.

If someone has a reliable angle to resolve the problem, it is big news. Enough really good physicists have tried and failed to resolve the conundrum that one should wait to see if this new approach holds up, too.
To be fair, our power grid does have a tendency to fail regularly across the US. Texas last year, California's rolling blackouts, NY blackouts, etc. There's a reason that upper-middle-class homeowners have been buying Generac generators en masse.
It's that adjusting that's the problem in the UK - it's winter that the nights are dark enough at a reasonable time, which means sitting outside in the dark with no lights for an hour at near freezing temperatures.
I don’t like what they do, but I also like their products.

Now what?
That seems deliberate. You want rich people to dump money into the economy.
The best time is usually Wednesday at 3pm.
I mean, this is why I wrote Nodewood: https://nodewood.com/

I strongly prefer the explicit nature of JS programming, where you don't have to know a bunch of Rails-y magic to know where a certain symbol is coming from, it's just defined in the file you're working in (to pick one example). But I completely agree that the time from Start to CRUD in Rails is a killer app.

I keep kicking up new projects in my spare time, and for every one of them, I'd have to set up the application scaffolding, linting, set up a layout and basic design rules, figure out user management, and if I was getting serious, set up subscription management, team management, etc. Rather than rewrite it every time, I figured I could make an actual library out of it so I have a decent base to work from, and then turn it into a product, because I can't be the only one who has these similar issues.

Also, Nodewood isn't alone out there - there are all kinds of Rails-ey bootstraps or starter kits out there for all kinds of languages. Now, the fact that everyone thinks "Ruby" and immediately thinks "Rails", but they don't think "Node" and immediately think "and a starter kit" means Rails has performed some amazing marketing mojo, but that doesn't make it fair to compare JavaScript to Rails, the author should be comparing JavaScript to Ruby, or Rails to a Rails-ey bootstrap.
the testers and approval costs are per app though, not per transaction. the infrastructure is per download.

what cost does apple incur per iap on somebody else's payments service?
Nice whataboutism, except Mobile Safari is intentionally crippled to not support PWAs well.
How can they make that number 10x bigger hrmm
Really interesting, thanks for these details, I haven't tried any of this since segwit and taproot, good to hear about that 7cent fee on an L1 transaction.
Just to add: this is not a joke, though it could easily be seen as one.
So this is long-term visa which:

1) Is not visa, you have to not need visa for Iceland to qualify
2) Is not long term, it's valid up to 180 days

On the other hand, they recognize remote workers which kind of fit somewhere in between tourists and people who come to work, which many other countries don't.
This should happen with pizza, yet we see dominos successfully applying a monopoly strategy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2019/04/30/fortress-ma...
Good point. Cargo inspection? Luggage inspection? I dunno.