skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll provide it for free, or my employer can

Might be anecdotal data, but from what I have seen, the amount of people that are working from home with proper equipment and dedicated space is really small.
People work with their residential internet connection, which sometimes works well, and sometimes doesn't. They work on their kitchen counter on the 13" laptop screen on a hard stool. They work while their children are watching TV or doming homework in the same room on wednesday afternoon. They work while the maid is doing the vacuum cleaning. I could go on, but you get the idea.

If the offices where half as bad as those working conditions, there (rightfully) would be an uproar among the worker explaining how unproductive they are because of the bad conditions. But somehow all these problem magically have no effect anymore when they happen at home.

So business choose to provide a free place with premium computer screens so you can juggle all these windows, ergonomic chairs so your back won't hurt, both quiet and more social places depending on your mood, fiber internet connection with mesh wifi and redundant connection so your call don't look like a 3 FPS 640x480 GIF . And they'll ask that employees spend at least a bit of time in those.
Quake and beyond was when he and id brought in Michael Abrash, and IIRC Abrash helped a lot with the low level graphics of the Quake engine. Not to say Carmack couldn't handle it or it was beyond him but Abrash, a legend in the graphics programming world at the time, definitely helped move technology forward.
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I think we’re well past the peak risk and peak fear of COVID for the majority of the population (ages 0-70 and able to be vaccinated).

Whether we’re past the peak positive test result count is much less impactful on people’s attitude and proclivity to socialize.
> When Zoom acquired the team they said they would notify us if Keybase was going to be negatively impacted

I mean, at the time I knew that was a lie.
It's the Higgs field that gives particles mass.

https://www.britannica.com/video/185531/explanation-field-Hi...
> Manga magazines

Missed a great opportunity for marketing wordplay: Mangazine

Congrats on your launch!
It’s pretty easy to add backends to CUPS. They are just shell scripts. I’ve written a few ruby ones. Here’s an example of one I adapted for my own purposes:

https://ofosos.org/2018/10/22/printing-to-remarkable-cloud-f...
Thanks for the suggestion! I feel stupid in retrospect, but I've never thought to submit a bug report about docs being hard to use.

Also, SQLAlchemy is badass, rockstar tech, but in a good way. Only DB abstraction layer I've used that doesn't feel like a leaky, kludgy mess.
But then if there is a vuln in the industry standard system, then all cars will be affected.
I see. I did not know that was the case.
Why is that “obvious” and why is the “other” side the religious one and not your “design” assertion?

I’m not an expert on such subjects but it seems more closely related to the concepts of evolution to say natural selection does not show preference for abnormally long lived individuals because it is unknown or unimportant at time of procreation which traits lead towards lifetime longevity beyond short term hunter gatherer traits.
It would not, any more than it makes sense to turn any discussion that happens to involve anything Russian into a discussion of the war.
I hate to get all soap-boxy, but this seems like the right time.

Corporations are responsible for something like 70% of global emissions. It's nice that you want to help, and I do too.

But bottom line, it has been an absolute failure of journalism and our regulatory bodies that the solution to climate change is somehow up to citizens driving and consuming less.

Corporations can feed themselves regularly, but there are 730 million people on earth without access to clean water. Enough is enough!
I'm a 69 year old who made a conscious decision 12 years back to leave sales and management and return to my technical roots. Now I'm in a solution architect role where I'm expected to constantly stay abreast of the latest technologies. The pay is good. I don't have to do much coding, but I do some anyway to keep my hand in.

My advice to your Dad is to aim for a job in consulting and analysis rather than coding. Get some certifications in a SaaS platform like Dynamics or Salesforce or whatever. That way he can leverage his business experience and people skills. I've found that people who combine experience with solid knowledge of a software platform get quite a lot of interesting job offers, even if they are older. If he later finds out he has an aptitude and interest in development then he can go down that path after he has mastered the functional stuff.
Assets were much simpler. The screen was ~320x240 pixel so your 2D images were a handful of pixels from a couple hundred limited colors. An artist could bang out tons of images and sprites in the amount of time it takes someone to meticulously craft, model, paint, animate, etc. a full 3D monster today. Same thing for sound and music--it was much simpler and more manageable by one or small number of people.

Look at game jams today, like the 48 hour game creation contests. A lot of stuff that comes out of those are little 2D things reminiscent of games of that early 90s era. It's because it's still pretty fast and easy to make assets for that style of game.
> a phone can be a washing machine.

The morphology, function, and complexity of the modern phone is such that it probably isn't even recognisable as a phone from even thirty years ago. The concept of what a phone is has gone through so many changes, from a device that sends audio down a physical line, to what it is today that very rarely even has a physical line attached, that it probably demonstrates how words and identity can evolve new meanings better than any other example you could have picked.
Multiple 3-sigma excesses explained by the same model are potentially much more significant from a Bayesian perspective than several unrelated 3-sigma excesses.
IIRC a lot of our data about human splenectomy comes from World War II, where it was performed often enough that some long term followups were possible with sufficiently large n
This is going to be my last word on the topic, because as you say my original comment is being painted into going to bat for MS, which hasn't been my intention. I've read the Verge article, the whistleblower's original words, and looked at the PWC slides. I understand the numbers involved. You ask me why I think MS looked the other way. I don't know. This article is already speculating enough, and my comment was to call that out. I've already put more effort into clarifying myself than my investment into the issue should really dictate.

As you say, this is down to corruption or stupidity, and as Hanlon's razor goes, "never blame on malice what can be explained by stupidity." I look forward to the SEC investigating the whistleblower's accusations. Whether there's bribery or not, it's worth looking into. I don't think there's enough to convict anyone on based on what's offered here. I hope to be reading more detail on what exactly has been happening here at some point. However, I do see a world where this was stupidity. It happens quite often.
I see we had a similar childhood. I have sketches somewhere from when I was around 11-12 describing such a device.
Curious how you find other cultures and belief systems are? In Hinduism, at least I can attest that there is the concept of "mourn and move on" in that the body is not even preserved, it is freed of its physical form through cremation. The fire into the funeral pyre is instilled by hand by the eldest son - it's a poetic closure.
Perhaps starting your comment with "bs" is not a surefire way of getting your thoughts considered seriously..
Indeed. I'm glad others feel this way. I thought I was in the minority for washing my backside after every number two.
Wtf USA, I’m moving to Australia
Discussed already with a different main link¹, and to late for me to delete.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30806875
And memory is limited. What if one were a forgetful god. What if that is _already_ the case?

Possibly where the Alzheimer's patients are told the same joke over and over, and it does bring them joy, comes to mind.
Do you put minutes before hours when you tell time?

Day before month creates some ambiguity regarding if you’re talking about the near past or near future.

If you consider MMDD a single unit, it doesn’t make sense to represent it backwards. You need to be able to tell that 0402 is a bigger base iterarion than 0302. If it’s DDMM 0203 and 0204 don’t appear to be an entire base count apart.
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I would imagine few people with a strong grip have everything else in their body weak.

So a strong grip might correlate with strong everything else. By the way, strong hands are controlled by strings and pulleys - it's really just strong forearm muscles.

It would be interesting if the study was for people with JUST a strong grip, like folks who were always in a chair.

I remember reading of another study where people who were pear-shaped were healthier than people who were round. Turns out that people put on weight at the waist first, and as they put on more weight, it moves to the chest and shoulders, so...
I remember watching the news like 20 years ago about garage doors where thieves were buying universal door openers and driving down the roads pressing the buttons to find houses where it opened to rob them.
it's not a matter of "if", but "when" they will reach a trillion dollar market cap.
what do you think is the causative factor?
In some sense that's the cosmological constant problem and it applies to all particles, not just the Higgs. If a field with zero excitations were to weigh something (more specifically, have a positive energy density) on the scale of its single-excitation mass, it would be larger than the observed energy density of the universe by dozens of orders of magnitude, even if you're just talking about the extremely light neutrinos. But in fact, zero excitations looks to weigh zero...or 10^-60 - 10^-120

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem
I'm in this camp here. The article does a poor job framing the actual involvement Microsoft had and the whistleblower's writeup doesn't do a good job either. They did provide instances in the original whistleblowing that bad things did happen.. but they also showed that a lot of them actually got some sort of punishment/reaction instead of just pretending situation normal. A buyer, a reseller, and a seller working together to find a price that works by lowering the cost of goods is not a bribe since you know nobody is getting paid. They seemed to be heavily extrapolating that the buyer, reseller, and the Microsoft rep are splitting the proceeds of the cost mismatch regularly outside of normal revenues for the reseller and Microsoft. There needed to be a lot more sensible storytelling from the whistleblower pointing a finger and blowing the whistle at specific people who were doing the accused tactic.

There's a lot more extrapolation of facts into a narrative from the original whistleblower post. Trying to say that licenses that were bought that never were used was bribery is just confusing. Even I have licenses for things kicking around that I never installed but intended to someday. Whole projects can get planned, licenses purchased, and then for one reason or another scrapped but the licenses (or other material from vendors) are still 'bought.' For the bribery to mean anything (or like that other commenter who tried to whip out FCPA randomly) someone has to get enriched by the experience other than the reseller selling something and paying Microsoft its share. The whistleblower post didn't do that well.

There is just not a lot of good information that was provided by the whistleblower to actually connect all of this money that he estimates at $200 million to any sort of reality. Do I think he has enough beef for a employment law retaliation case (if he was in jurisdiction US law)? Probably. Did some people commit bribes and Microsoft was fined/Microsoft fired people? Probably. Do some resellers who are external to Microsoft end up violating the FCPA or 'normal US business ethics' in some regions? Definitely. But they aren't in the US, so the right venue for whistleblowing the activity is in whatever-country-in-question under their laws. Just based on the article and whistleblower post it sounds like there is just an assumption that micro problems in his local leadership were macro problems. I am not convinced.
As fellow Twilio user who did not receive this email - I think you should follow their advice… it’s of course possible they sent to you in error…
It depends if his policy has a clause that terminates coverage if you're killed while committing a felony.
See here: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
Most "complaints" about generics in Java have to do with type erasure. It's a tradeoff at the end of the day, it opened up the JVM to host many high quality languages like Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, etc. Haskell also does type erasure as far as I'm aware. Furthermore, the JVM is now getting generic specialization for value types, so types like HashMap<int, Object> become viable without the cost of boxing.

Inheritance based languages enable covariance and contravariance in generic types, something that comes in handy in many occasions.
besides being very helpful for edge case uses such as for differently abled people (maybe this is subjective) but I don't find any of these to be exciting or mundane life quality improvements at all for the general population.
As I understand shebangs, one could use something like this:

#!/usr/bin/lic run
Magic eraser on Pixel?
> it would be torturous more than soothing

Relevant Asimov story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
Conversely this is a cube that can't be cheated by smashing it into pieges like those plastic ones.
Back in late '80's out of St Andrews and Glasgow, there was a bunch of research into persistent object environments. Here's a paper:

https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/papers/download/MBC+88.p...

In short imagine Java or C++ objects, but they can live in a soup in a persistent database.

Imagine if your programming assignments at school, were "open this database then write a client to talk to the object retrieved." That's what we actually had in PS-Algol in 86. Super cool!
Your examples are excellent. To a "normal person", some of them seem so unimportant. And yet.

I would be fascinated by a real history of this stuff. It'd be almost impossible to find someone who could do it honestly, though.

Having lived through it, I remember op-ed pieces, which I can no longer find, that I clearly remember as events that shaped the way people around me thought and talked.

For just one example, I clearly remember reading an op-ed calling for the word "gross" to be used against those who stood in the way of feminist aims. The idea was that physical disgust was a "conservative" emotion thay could be repurposed -- and that women's role as arbiters of sexual attractiveness could be useful here. Now today I still occasionally hear the word "gross" used in this way. It's almost a shibboleth. If only I could find that op-ed!

Here's another empirical example (US chosen as it leads Europe in these things):

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=g...

We can see the exponential plain as day. What I want to know is: What was the spark, the seed, the detonator?

The problem is, it's fundamentally, mathematically, difficult to run diffusion backwards, let alone an explosion, let alone viral reproduction. "Was it the lab or the wet market?" Lyapunov exponents get in the way of telling. And self-interest. And actual -- yes, though I hate the word -- gaslighting by the actors themselves.

But the history hasn't quite been erased yet. I think a dedicated person could piece a lot of it back together.
It has rough edges and is still super earlier, but I am building something along those lines for Python with the deployments on Aws Lambda at https://staging.cdevframework.io.
I think you can get the carbon credits if you can make the system work.

You should work out the economics: the volume of water one of these tubes can transport per year times the amount of CO2 dissolved in that much surface water divided by the installation cost per tube. The flow rate may be low because the relative pressure is very small: only a few feet of water.

I suspect the tubes will be very expensive to install. They need to be long (many kilometers) and the ends need to be anchored, so it probably costs a lot to install each one. You can look at other things installed underwater like pipelines and telecom cables to get a ballpark estimate.

If you can remove a ton of carbon per year per $1000 installation cost, you might have a viable project.
Not sure why this is downvoted. It was one of my personal hypotheses. It's a bit unusual to look at docs on mobile, or even the Svelte REPL (though using on mobile has helped me spot various UI/UX bugs with my own code).
Because persistent storage is about as fast as ram. (Not yet but eventually)
Old houses can be pretty leaky between the garage and living space. Or doors can be left open. But many vehicles’ remote starters have a timeout exactly for this specific safety concern. Between this and modern catalysts, remote starting a car in the same room as you isn’t even likely to kill you.
I bet code reviews with markers are fun though.
> Not exactly. Women have the power to choose abortion but men don't. Men however are liable for financially supporting the child. The greater risk is with the man.

I find brushing off abortion like this a tad ridiculous. Sure one could say the 'risk' is greater. But abortion carries with it emotional, and physical trauma, not to mention a lot of women are still met with shameful looks in today's society for doing so. It isn't an easy process, and I think comparing it with financial liability like this is a bit.. "Insensitive", I think the word is.

Even still, some women are not comfortable with abortion. And in that case they will be taking a greater risk.

Like I see what you're saying, but I don't think the comparison between abortion and financial liability is something we should be doing.
No question about it, no one is immune, "to err is human". Also true that assessing performance of tasks requiring complex judgement is itself error prone. Credentials alone are an insufficient baseline. So for all kinds of roles auditing mechanisms are necessary to monitor performance. And truly responsible professionals don't object to quality assurance measures, in fact they want to know if their performance declines in some respect.

In my observation it's problematic when rules become intrusive, overly restrictive, or needlessly punitive. At that point monitoring no longer serves its nominal purpose. There's a proper balance that's minimally adversarial, making it work requires mutual respect and constrained interaction between professionals and reviewers.

I think that's the source of a significant share of the problems in our health care systems. Way too much energy is wasted on battling phantoms. Not sure how the trends can be reversed. Best advice to patients is to make sure to strongly advocate for themselves. I know both sides as doctor and patient, I know how big a challenge it can be getting what we need despite layers of roadblocks and potholes on the path.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

seems it is mostly the fossil fuel industry.

"The report found that more than half of global industrial emissions since 1988 – the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established – can be traced to just 25 corporate and state-owned entities."

A good chunk are even state-owned!
I'm not quite sure where you get those ideas. I've only ever said that Amazon absolutely has a comp structure designed to kick people out within four years, and that I thought their stated pip failure rate of ~30% was low based on my personal experience there and elsewhere.

I do tend to think individual managers are people. This is true.

We are, however, so off the plot of this thread getting into ad hominem territory now that we're moments away from Godwin's Law. Best to leave it here.
Quite typical of golang pushing more complexity onto the user in order to save complexity in the compiler, then claim that golang is a "simple" language shrugs.
I bought mine! Excited to try it out. I think I'm going to hook it up to a scheduler and have it print a to-do list for me every morning
> OS research hasn't stalled

It most definitely has. But, there are people working on the field regardless.

Here's a very similar project out of Waterloo : https://www.rcs.uwaterloo.ca/pubs/sosp21-aurora.pdf
If you want to host it yourself, Vaultwarden is an excellent self-host option.
Photosynth?
That's a strange title. Regarding falling. One of the most important things is to sit or lay down immediately when you feel bad, like nausea for example. I understand the fall can be sudden. But sometimes people have a couple of seconds to react and they look for a something nearby to hold on. But then they pass out and fall.
I heard Bitcoin will solve everything
Are you saying average PC users never used TeamSpeak?
As to who would need the OS state surviving reboot, what comes to my mind is things like Mars rovers and other autonomous exploratory vehicles. Currently these use cases are filled by VxWorks[0] among others but a fresh approach might yield some advantages.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks#Aerospace_and_defens...
I think that's a terrible way to look at an any type of career. Any job can be outsourced, the important thing is if the person brings value to the organisation.

In sales or sales engineering it is easy to measure your impact. I cost $X and I bring in 10x in revenue. But it is a lot harder to measure the value of someone in a back office or development role, but it doesn't make them less or more valuable to the organisation.

Every company defines value differently. I work for a university, we have desktop support engineers who could be easily outsourced if you only looked at them as low level techs, but they care about our mission, about teaching, research and learning and put in 10x the effort that an outsourced low cost tech would from one of the big firms.
Out of Office: The Case for More Paid Vacation Days
It does seem that way but it is the official motivation from the creators.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30747352
Yes, that was overly loose wording on my part. I wanted to convey that there are rituals and formalisms around wearing turbans.
Consider the difference between modern Egyptology wrt the history of the pyramids and the "history" of scientology, Xenu, and alien spirit volcanoes.

The first is far more epistemically legible, the second is pure ideological fantasy (or sci-fi, considering the author. )

There's a much smaller gulf between Principia Mathematica and the history of Egypt - differences in recorded historical facts allow for differing interpretation but the possibilities are constrained and have a huge amount of overlap with hard science - we can be almost as sure that Tutankhamen was a real king as that Abraham Lincoln was president of the US, and the certainty of both having been real probably exceeds five 9's. The probability of Scientology being real, as she is wrote, is probably below 0.1e-100.

From a Bayesian perspective, you can be 100% certain of things like your own subjective experience, and from there you can presume certainty for things whose probability or improbability exceed some threshold - you might never know if Tutankhamen was a nice guy or generally a prick, but his existence is founded within enough other certainties that you can (probably) assign that fact the moniker of "100% real" with great success. The same with "Xenu is cult nonsense."