skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for others, but I find scientific literature is not written general audience to understand, for a variety of reasons such as (a) publisher limitation on number of pages (b) to communicate core message right without distraction (c) to not bore a certain people etc.

Not to mention, depending on the sub-fields, at least in AI, there is quite a bit of noise in papers as they are explaining _their_ viewpoint which might differ from broad consensus or disproven in future.

I find papers are typically written keeping in mind a specific set of people, who are typically in that particular sub-field for some time. In sub-fields like quantum computation, that specific set of people authors have in mind while writing paper are <100, and those are not newbies.

Newbies can quickly get discouraged reading a paper out of the blue. Picking the right papers at the beginning requires exposure to the field.

It's not simple.

I really hope what you said is practical. I tried. Hope it's my fault because the alternative option doesn't exist for me.
And they were renegotiation, a point in time where addressing such shortcomings was a real possibility. China is also not currently involved in reckless power plays. It was plain and simply better then the alternative.

We are stuck with people having an end of the species button and are left dealing with this somehow. There are two approaches, one is to do everything to prevent accidental triggering. You put a case over it and and agree to not make any sudden movements. Arms control is about giving both sides a clear picture that the other one isnt going to use theirs. In short deescalation, making sure nobody is getting nervous because we know that nuclear holocaust would be a bad thing.

The other is to use it as a threat. In short escalation.

It is quite clearly heavily escalating with the second approach in a time where the former is absolutely necessary.

Lets not sugarcoat it, such behavior is very much in villain territory. Its risking the end of the species for short term political power plays.

edit: Differently put, i am going to go out on a limb here and argue that increasing the risk for a nuclear holocaust is a bad thing. I havent seen many people disagree here outside of some posadist circles
By promoting colonization through expansionist, neoliberal policies.
The game still exists in companies that build physical products, but I've found it's not quite as bad there. You're right, SV is the king of lying, along with any publicly traded company.

My experience is small privately held businesses that offer physical product are the most pragmatic and 'honest.' The closer you are to the source of income, the less everything but the money matters. I like being only 1-2 steps from the money, because it means no one gives a flying fuck about anything other than the almighty dollar at all costs. At least that's a game I understand. More than 2 levels from the source of money and you're shit-deep into authoritarian politics land, where the name of the game is to buy social capital in the authoritarian structure of a corporation, with little direct ties and influence on the source of corporate persuasion (income).

That is, when you're too far from the source of money, such as middle management or lower in a large corporation, your only real way to gain power is to become the most cunning psychopath rather than maximize profit. As an engineer, I've 'engineered' my personal solution by only taking jobs where I report directly to CEO/CTO/President so that politics dissolve into "make money or die." I much prefer it that way.
I think your premise has some merit however it doesn't seem to be appropriate to this particular person or topic.
I know that, and you know that, and by the time my kid figures it out....

I'll have saved enough to send him to College.

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Comparing nationwide figures is misleading since there are huge disparities in funding between rich and poor school districts.
Yes but they work on feedback (if the washing machine has 5kg load, use frequency X, voltage Y, if machine has 10kg load ... they don't measure the load they measure how the motor reacts to their first guess voltage (this is called startup) and then adjust). Even comes with mechanical advantages: instead of using brakes, you just use the same motor and reverse the feedback.

Now if you want the ability to adjust frequency and voltage, at large power levels, you're talking about changing the parameters of an inverter. So what it's going to do with AC input voltage is AC -> DC -> AC* (* with different frequency and voltage, synchronized to the rotation angle changes of the drum of your washing machine). This comes with a second advantage: it's easier (and cheaper) to be tolerant to frequency and voltage changes in the wall plug, maybe even tolerant enough to have one device that works in US and EU (and ...)

You're doing this because the power plant is not going to change frequency or voltage based on how fast your washing machine is turning, but doing that makes the washing machine much more efficient.
Could you expand on your first sentence? I don't understand what do you mean that sum types are used when the type is unknown at runtime.
I don't think he had a say in that.
A few years ago I was getting a undergraduate degree in physics and I was dating a girl who had a theory of gravity. I don't totally remember the theory now and I never fully understood it at the time, even though she tried to explain it to me. The few times we talked about it, I tried to argue against her theory rather than just listening.

This article reminded me of that experience—especially the description of vague images. I think I could have used some advice from this guy, or at least some empathy.
Ok, so it wasn't Lombard Street... Relatively hilly? Is that better?
Large companies as a matter of policy will refuse to provide references. All they will do is confirm Names and Dates of Employment (not even titles).
It's also possible that the extremes are actually the two global optima. But I agree that personal temperament and perhaps upbringing has a lot to do with it.
Another secondary benefit I appreciate is trekking poles keep my hands higher and assist with circulation/lessen blood pooling in my fingertips.
I mostly agree with this, but not necessarily the part about the Ethernet connection. If you do a significant number of meetings with video conferencing, you'll be much better off with a wired connection where the latency and jitter are both lower than over the typical WiFi. It's one of the easiest things you can do to improve how your face and voice appear to your colleagues.
"Obamacare created new gaps that absolutely sucked - made over 58k and self employed? No subsidies for you and paying a skyrocketing premium higher than any reasonable home mortgage with a 10k deductible. Completely unrealistic. And then the IRS hit you for thousands in penalties via the individual mandate."

I am currently paying $800/mo for a "silver" plan in a state that did not accept the extended Medicare. No, I don't get subsidies. I believe my deducible is roughly $2000, although I don't know because all of my costs have been covered, including the trip to the emergency room after I wacked myself in the eye. (The out-of-pocket limit for 2022 is $8700 for an individual. (https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...))

Before the ACA, individual market plans were cheaper (although for the first couple of years they were comparable), but did not cover asthma (as a "pre-existing condition). Hello, $750 daily inhalers.
But are they?

If that 30% take goes away, you think prices will come down by 30%? Or do you think companies will get 30% more profit?

Software and other similar goods occupy an interesting space. They obviously take time, effort, and other resources to produce. People should be compensated for that. And people who want to enjoy what's been created should be the ones to compensate for that enjoyment, i.e. if I watch a movie, I should pay to watch that movie in some manner. If I use software, I should pay to use that software.

Subscription models, purchase of physical media, etc. are all valid options and each has their place.

However, and here's the point, there comes a point where you've collected enough compensation to cover the cost of producing that item. Everything after that is pure profit. And if you're selling at pure profit, the only reason you're looking to avoid that 30% is to claim it yourself. Because you could just give away the product at this point.

And if you want to bring in overhead into this, Apple has overhead as well. And they do deserve to be compensated for what they bring to the table.

"You're overpaying by 30%" feels like an argument the competing large corporations want to convince people of as to have the populace on their side. When the reality is that, if that 30% goes away, their profit just increases by 30%.
How about leave it asap and pay reparations?
I wonder when Java or Swift will finally get around to adopting 'self effacing references'. It's 2022.

[1] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/SpecialCombinatio...
Should 100% demand a work supplied device for work. Or at worst buy a cheap second Android to use as a work device. There is no circumstance where using your main personal device for work is a good idea.
This is ARM now. Look at any SBC out there and you'll see soldered RAM.
The nice thing that we no longer have to care due to now-imminent nuclear war, have we?
And we had solid intel under the Obama administration that the Russians were cheating w/ INF. I am a huge fan of INF and think it was one of the great achievements of Cold War arms control. I also think it didn't make sense to keep it given Russian cheating and the fact that China's not covered at all.

Cheating isn't new with Russia: during the Late Unpleasantness, the SA-5 system was given an ABM capability in clear violation of applicable treaties.
I have nearly zero understanding of physics, but the discussion of states and rules reminds me of the Wolfram stuff that came out.

Is there any connection here? Are state machines really amazingly compelling on a psychological level, to someone who knows math well?
As a longtime armchair attorney who has closely read summaries of cases like this on Slashdot for well over the past decade (IANAL, BTW)...you could go the lawyer route but this basically amounts to your kid being a minor in school which means they don't have full legal rights, and the interpretation of 4A is likely up in the air here anyway. Constitutional rights don't necessarily apply at school or anywhere near school (see bongrips4jesus case), your kid is a minor anyway (another special case), and a school doing this for the sake of "preventing cheating" may not fall under the umbrella of unreasonable search.

There was a PA school district back around 2009 that issued laptops to students preloaded with spyware that let school staff watch students through the webcam, while the students were at home and not doing schoolwork. Neither the students or parents were informed of this. IIRC the FBI got involved but nobody actually got in any real trouble, I'm not even sure they were fired.

I wish things weren't this way. You could maybe use Wireshark and black hole anything the spyware tries to connect to at the router, or maybe add the addresses to the hosts file on the machine itself (not sure if ChromeOS lets you do this).
Kind of surprised the author didn't describe getting refunds -- the behavior here seems like it should have triggered European consumer protections.
I think it's now a managed device and that won't help.

If he power washes it, I believe it's still locked down to the school, I could be wrong thought.
What an original, dismissive, red-baiting-ish comment. Next it's gonna be the other classic dismissal, "whataboutism". Truth is, I despise Putin just as much as the next and am fully against the war.

Oh and Mohammed bin Salman understands you. See what I did there? Didn't take much effort.
Which phone? Silky smooth on pixel 4 using Firefox
Works fine for me....
I don't like the idea of having to chain multiple dongles(I know the advantages, being able to choose a good network adapter, etc.) but I'd still pay decent money for a single device that I can leave on my desk with everything plugged in without the need for additional interconnects. (I do see that they make actual hubs as well, might check those out.)
Let's see what side of the argument Apple lands on when real user data protections are enacted with stiff penalties. Otherwise their entire schtick is "do as I say not as I do". They have the money and political connections to push real change through, they just profit too much by being the sole data broker on iOS (see Google paying them for preferential treatment).
See you again in 7 years! :(
It's terrible behaviour. Flip it around:

"Hey, would you like to come to a dinner party at my house on Saturday. There's a 50/50 chance that I'll turn you away at the door."

Don't make your indecisiveness other people's burden.
I've been through this rodeo myself. I've been happily using for years docks made by Hyper over USB-C (and now over TB4). When on the go, I use the official Apple dongle for HDMI and USB. If I need more ports, Hyper and Anker both make USB-C hubs that are very solid and actually work.

I totally agree with the author, most of the products on the market are garbage, and many are the same garbage with different names. To a large degree to solve this issue you need to stop shopping on Amazon. Almost everything listed on Amazon not made by Anker doesn't work. Either buy directly for Apple, or buy from directly from small companies that focus on solving accessories for the Apple market (e.g. Rain Design, 12South, Hyper, CalDigit, et al). This is definitely not limited to USB-C hubs, and encompasses nearly all products. Buying direct from high-quality companies is always better than trying your luck with random brand-named Aliexpress specials sold through Amazon.
That was discontinued over 6 years ago. In 2022, it isn't a great monitor, either.
Explanation and link added!
I've always just been straight with my employers whenever it hasn't worked out and I've decided to move elsewhere. That's not to say that there isn't a need for finesse.

I actually ended up going back to one employer after a year or so, when it turned out that they recognised that my criticisms (primarily focused on unfeasible expectations w.r.t. work-life balance and pressure on teams to deliver) were valid and took major action to flip things around. Whether they recognised the validity of my criticisms because of what I said, or simply because of more people leaving, I cannot say. I don't remember any conspicuous absences of familiar faces when I returned, so I like to think that I was actually heard.

As with any form of diplomacy, there is an art to the delivery. If you're going in with criticism, do so with well-reasoned argument and reference to something provable or better yet numerically presentable, and point out how the criticisms negatively impact them as a business, rather than simply saying that you didn't like [x] or wouldn't have to do [y] at competitor company [A].

And for heaven's sake don't make it personal -- I mean, this isn't something I've done, but it seems pretty basic that getting personal is a no-no.

For example, if you're moving for a better salary, highlight the fact that they're lagging behind in industry sector [P], and as a result you won't be the only one leaving. If they want to retain talent, they must reimburse the talent competitively.

Contrary to the beliefs of some, managers are people, but they don't always think like people -- they're effectively paid to not think like people, but rather to think like a business, to embody the needs of the business.

As a result, human considerations can take a back seat, they can be reluctant to react to change especially where it involves spending money, and they can ignore facts because they haven't been the subject of a pie chart. Explain something the right way, however, and you can affect positive change.**

As others from the UK have said, references are immaterial. I've never had anyone check my references, and I know this because when I got started in software dev 10 years ago, my references were entirely fictional.

** sometimes
The old, it’s a private company so they can set their own rules (see all the responses to Twitter censorship accusations).
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I never left.

I mean work gives me a laptop.

But my desktop is from 2014. i7, 32GB RAM, I updated the GPU to a 1070ti w 3x 1440p monitors. And better keyboard and mouse, mechanical keyboard and mx master 3 mouse.

Why use a laptop?
Show me a laptop from 2014 that is still good.
8 mm (in copper, which is rarely used for powerlines, if at all, it is super expensive and heavy) is huge for a single conductor, and your typical overhead powerline is concentric shells of tens of conductors. Negligible: has no practical effect on the construction. It's in the 4th significant decimal or so for a typical powerline segment, dwarfed by plain resistive losses.

You want those multiple conductor arrangements anyway to reduce the corona discharge.

If you go up to multiple KHz then it will become a problem.
> It might be because they have a mood disorder, or chronic fatigue, or social anxiety, etc etc.

This is a babies excuse. If you're an adult, you should be actively dealing with this. However, it has become fashionable to wear a psychological condition on your sleeve. People who use this as an excuse have likely never been diagnosed and probably aren't even trying to deal with it. Either way, those are their battles, and if it means they are flaky, we just won't be friends. I've done the hard work to get myself out of a social anxiety disorder and can easily tell who actually has similar issues and those who are just lazy flakes.
Really?!

I'm amazed!!!

It's really funny how Google services' - and now Microsoft's - just keep on failing on Firefox.

Even more amazing is that they take soo many time to fix and never before another one takes it's place.

Now... One could argue that's a result of a different rendering engine... But also funny is that it happens between chrome and edge also, sometimes...

Go figure...

And that's why I keep using Firefox...
Can you name 3 such opinions that he does not like?
Can you name 3 incidents where he tried to silence someones opinion?
Were you around for the buildup to the second gulf war? The rhetoric against Saddam Hussein was not terribly different in tone than that against Putin. People were similarly outraged and many people wanted us to invade because of all the awful things he did, e.g. his treatment of the Kurds. In fact, pretty much all the major conflicts that have happened in my lifetime have been accompanied by a call to action based on moral outrage. I don't mean to offend, but it seems to me it's people such as yourself who have abetted our participation in so many conflicts, and precious few have been better for our involvement.
You are completely failing to grasp the level of tyranny here. Schools these days often will not accept non-Chromebook devices.
The interesting thing is how we might adjust as a society with something like universal healthcare. In theory, it's possible the accident might not have happened at all if we decided as a society that e-scooters, alcohol, and weed, were all things that lead to expensive care, and we highly restricted them to help control health system costs.

Although it also depends on how that universal system works. For example, some systems require people with "preventable" conditions to pay an extra tax for their services.
From the text of the American Choice and Innovation Online Act:

COVERED PLATFORM.—The term “covered platform” means an online platform—

(A) that has been designated as a “covered platform” under section 2(d); or

(B) that—

(i) at the time of the Commission’s or the Department of Justice’s designation under section 2(d), or any of the twelve months preceding that time, or in any of the 12 months preceding the filing of a complaint for an alleged violation of this Act—

(I) has at least 50,000,000 United States-based monthly active users on the online platform; or

(II) has at least 100,000 United States-based monthly active business users on the platform;

(ii) is owned or controlled by a person with net annual sales, or a market capitalization greater than $600,000,000,000, adjusted for inflation on the basis of the Consumer Price Index, at the time of the Commission’s or the Department of Justice’s designation under section 2(d) or any of the two years preceding that time, or at any time in the 2 years preceding the filing of a complaint for an alleged violation of this Act; and

(iii) is a critical trading partner for the sale or provision of any product or service offered on or directly related to the online platform.

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I like almost all of the provisions specified in this bill, but these "covered platform" conditions are totally absurd and in my view make this bill fatally flawed. These laws should apply to everyone, otherwise they simply incentivize the very behavior the bill is penalizing for every other company in the market. This is because exploiting the targeted behaviors will create a massive competitive advantage next to the handful of larger players that cannot engage in them.

Further, metrics like MAUs are arbitrarily defined and arbitrarily measured even without getting into the question of bots, shared accounts, and users with multiple accounts.

Finally, the idea that the legality of a business strategy should be determined by how much an owner of the company is worth is ridiculous on its face; if a practice is deemed illegal it shouldn't be excepted just because the owner of the businesses loses some net worth. The Open App Markets Act also has a similar provision for 50 million users. Why? Stop trying to carve out special cases for particular businesses, this is a fragile and disingenuous approach to legislation.
The silence is deafening...but, I'd expect nothing less from this particular author
It seems a bit biased to only list the places that will become uninhabitable due to say high temperature (the losses), without also listing the places that will become inhabitable thanks to the exact same thing (the gains)

It's not clear to me that say an expansion of the Sahara or the desertic part of Australia won't be more than mitigated by the large amount of land currently covered by permafrost in Eurasia.

A proper accounting of the phenomenon would show both, if only to refute my naive take.
Matt, I've been in a few conversations on this topic, so I finally wrote up a complete answer, and I quote your questions in my essay, which I've posted here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/what-work-can-be-done-f...