skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome! As an IC, I have a supportive manager but a lot of ad-hoc requests are just taken on, some of them don't make sense, and then I have to push back. When I push back, my manager supports me but a lot of time is wasted in meetings and slack messages to keep protecting my time to do actual work.

On the positive side, I'm not a confrontational/assertive person. So, I had to learn how to say no and to articulate well why I push back.
> $2000 barely covers rent ( 1 br LA/SF).

The market will develop housing for basic income people or you could always move to lower cost areas.

> We’d also need rent control legislation to prevent rents from rising to absorb the UBI.

Nope. If people are given basic income, the market will develop housing/services to cater to them.
Yes, I also went with the 1st one.

Basically the main thread sends a command to an io executor thread, and then waits on the result, which is done using atomics under the hood.

See e.g. https://github.com/cloudpeers/radixdb/blob/sqlite/browser/sr...

Can't wait to play with zaplib. Can you also use it as just a standard library without the GUI part?
> (most of eu), which was a thick forest, is now a desert

According to the world Bank [0], that is not what is happening. Do you have a better source?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?location...
Even if it's not obfuscated, what is this decompilation doing in the pico source repo? Are they claiming that is the real source code that someone wrote?
> I don't personally have a single friend in North America or Europe to whom it would be a "reasonable alternative" to travel on highways (where it is prohibited) by bike or bus and invest maybe 90 minutes to simply get to the closest grocery store and then be able to

Right. That’s like calling water wet. Of course we live this way, we designed our cities to make us live this way…

I’m not sure what you’re talking about w.r.t Europe. Even if you have friends that drive everywhere that just is not how most people live day-to-day.
Yes. Yes they have.
Quite sick that you and GGP are referring to Russia as a democracy. It's a dictatorship
Most companies treat employees as necessary liabilities to make profit and not assets. Flexibility only went one way, and people felt that life is too short to be treated like shit, so they left. Usually the bosses/managers/execs had tons of flexibility, but the employees didn't.

I'm not saying your wrong, it's just that it took a pandemic for people to realize that working in a shitty job for 20 years may not be the best use of their lives.
Yes, but Bay Area and Europe are different scale :)

While I was still living in the Bay Area, once I thought I could walk from the car dealership to the rental car company, because on google maps it looked quite close... big mistake.
I agree on all points here. Was referring to the post above your own.
List of 206 Companies That Are Just Continuing Business-as-Usual in Russia
Long distance logistics (should) use roads. Not streets. Urban societies should develop around streets, not roads.
Did they release it? If it is not FLOSS, I wouldn't trust it.
Comments like this make me really mad.

Do you know that Europe is _still_ buying from Russia??

Do you know that the US is also _still_ buying from Russia??

India does about $8Bn/year of trade with Russia. That's peanuts.

And nearly 50% of the tankers carrying Russian oil are Greek; and yet you don't hear a word about Greece.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.autocrop
Fortunately, it is mostly temporary. I hated crusts as a child but now adore them.
negative or positive, just high-impact things would be good to read about. I feel like if I download a porn video it'll be the only thing that happens this month. even just idly thinking staring at a wall, it seems that's the most interesting thing going on in the world and I wouldn't read about anything more interesting. just my impression, it didn't used to be this way.
Ignoring professional degrees like MBAs, MDs, and JDs, you either go to grad school to do research and/or teach in academia or to learn very specialized skills and go into industry. For the most part, there are usually less specialized roles in industry for people with bachelor's degrees.
Why use 3 overlaid square grids? Why not hexagonal or equilateral-triangular ones? It would have more uniform resolution.
> Where do your groceries come from and how should these people taking care of ensuring you get to eat get around?

What are you trying to say? You obviously don't need freeways and 6 lane roads running through city centers to deliver supplies to stores and restaurants.
780 cars/capita is pretty high lol... Is it supposed to be per 1000?

Btw it does depend where you live but in the Netherlands you can get by without a car mostly fine if you live in a city. The biggest issue is transporting larger goods (basically any IKEA trip), but it's certainly possible (eg by renting).
We already saw what happens when people are free to negotiate for themselves with people who possess most of the money and resources. People including children were working 60 hours a week in horrendously unsafe conditions for barely enough to live.

The government isn't an interloper inserting itself. The government is US. We are negotiating with employers in a fashion where we actually possess enough influence to make a difference.
> I met up last month with a bunch of CISOs and incident responders, to discuss the havoc that was this zero-day threat.

You can’t get over Log4j because you’re monetarily incentivized by it’s existence.

I really detest what the “security” field is like.
> Newton could see so far from standing on the shoulders of giants, the modern researcher can see so far from standing on the pyramid of overworked untenured researchers.

On the flip side, is this partially responsible for the declining productivity of science? We're effectively tying brilliant new talent to the whims of elders. ultimately as anyone who runs a large organization will tell you - you aren't going to get ground breaking work from a large org.

Do we need more diffuse science?
The situation in Ukraine is more black and white than most others. That India can't recognize that both surprised me and disappointed me. It would make a big difference if they dared to speak out against Russian agression. Even if they would like to remain on friendly terms with Russia they should recognize the atrociousy which Russia displays in Ukraine. Putin needs to hear it also from India.
> However, the power structures in academia are heavily skewed and toxic. Individually graduate students have little recourse when they are wronged. Life in academia is hard. You have to work long days, the chance of success is very low. At every stage the probability of getting that next job is very low.

A "research precariat" is what keeps German universities going as well. This is an international issue; even the OECD seems to have studies on the subject. Would be interesting to see a cross-country comparison of who really has the "best" universities --- or university systems, as this kind of issue does not tend to be specific to one institution.
Research on whether reading fiction makes you nicer
Not necessarily, e.g. non-synthetic zen sparseness.
>is it still "child proof"?

I'm a dad, and I have a soapbox to stand on and talk about child proof container. I have memories of my young children discovering over-the-counter pills and rat poison.

BUT, there is a distinct population of people who don't need or want child proof pill protection, and they should be served, too.
yes I've stopped seeing news about what you call the impending WWIII.
It seems to me that hierarchy is ingrained in nature, and human nature is an extension of that. There will always be a hierarchy in any system of living (and therefore competing) organisms.

It seems more productive to focus on making sure the difference between the top and bottom doesn't get too extreme, rather than lamenting the fact of nature and wishing there was no such thing as competition.
Same with me. Cleaning is stressful and sometimes physically painful. (Bad back and RSI) The only time it’s not is when I’m manic and then it gets really obsessive and doesn’t stop until I injure myself enough that it’s too painful to continue.

Cleaning in silence is like nails on a chalkboard. Fortunately iPads and streaming video are a thing.
I was getting at the fact that most musicians are not professionals.

it is fine to wish I wish for a world where musicians make music because they like it, and as you added, many do make music just for fun.

However, the musicians that that sing and dace on command even when they don't feel like it are a different category.

I think it is weird to expect someone to work when and where the customer wants, but also do it for fun and not for money
There is no decompilation here.
ProteInfer: Deep networks for protein functional inference
What do you mean by opportunistic?
Would you go so far as to say the improbability is infinite?
This data is old, but shows that despite similar numbers of vehicles people in other countries drive many fewer miles. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar4.htm
Well, Russian recovery will depend on how fast and how completely governments lift sanctions and “forget”. Although it’s possible the guerrilla movement in Ukraine will be impressive.
Sounds like you weren’t doing the right things in the gym. Which is fine if that’s not your thing, but your quality of life will suffer to not have a fitness component.
If true, this is so sad, and cruel. I agree with the libertarian defence. While he should have known what his compartments were being used for, the same accusation could be levelled against, say, Apple when criminals use an iPhone to communicate. Given the mass usage of iPhones, it seems reasonable to suspect that some of those sales are going to result in criminal activity. Very surprised this kind of angle wasn't used by the defence.
Obviously, the whole anti-car movement, sentiment, whatever we call it, is mostly centered around urban societies. You don't see many stroads, parking lots the size of an European town and multi-hour traffic jams full of single-occupant SUVs among the wheat fields in the middle of nowhere.

It would be great if even rural communities didn't need expensive, polluting cars to be able to live their lives, but AFAIK they're not a priority now. Cities are where it's all falling apart.
> Elephants have solved cancer.

Unfortunately untrue. You are referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox but as you say 5% of Elephants still die of cancer. Elephants have evolved other mechanisms to protect against cancer because they have more cells (more copy errors) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210204131438.h...

When thinking of cancer, try to think of the incentives of the organism to avoid copying errors, which are eventually deadly. So many deaths are direct effects of copying errors (cancer), that the human body gives most cells a lifetime of ~40 duplications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit measured by telomeres) before killing off cells (cell senescence). Senescence causes the majority of other deaths i.e. the root cause of death is often indirectly due to the body’s mechanisms to prevent cancer. The mechanism to cause senescence has to be robust to error, so that mutations are unlikely to defeat cell death. A metaphor: the body tries to keep the tree of all cell duplications as a balanced tree - and cancer is when one node has enough error that it can reproduce and unbalance the tree.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2016.044... links to better information, and it has a lovely summary: “We assume that selection favours short telomeres as a mechanism to protect against cancer. At the same time, selection favours long telomeres as a protective mechanism against DNA damage and replicative senescence.” We have evolved compromises that protect us against DNA copying errors, but those compromises are imperfect (from a longevity POV).

Cancer is an area where there is extensive misinformation as to the root causes, and “the cure for cancer” is non-sensical: the cure would require eliminating DNA errors in all cells within the body. Currently we can fix some individual errors (specific cancer therapies), or attack dividing cells.
If I put myself in the shoes of someone truly malicious, I would request a backdoor in the chip implementation itself. Hardware is hard. Once you put it in the customer's hands they can't change much. Hidden opcodes or combinations/uses of legitimate opcodes that trigger undefined behaviors on the platform as a whole are the way to go. Firmware on the other hand can be patched or replaced.

It's probably an Easter egg or an undocumented workaround for something.
It does happen where it's been regulated that it's the producers responsibility to pay for the full cost of disposal. Because it's cheaper.
Would a death or a retirement have the same effect?
What happens if you remove it?
Ok, but the author's method was likely a raise of ~$500 to $600k in 3 months.

It may be true that doing all this stuff the long way IS better, but there's no way it is more efficient.
I don't mean micropayments, I mean we have an ad infested surveillance web competing with an informative web, but because of how browsers work, the mere presence of informative sites doesn't much help escaping from the ads and surveillance. The problem is browsers enabling the surveillance and we should back away from that. Gemini had the right motivation, but made what I'd call newbie errors. I'd rather have something about like HTML3.
Whole Eastern Europe has mostly Russian military hardware and guess what, we are basically enemies with Russia and we manage.
We buy new equipment from Western countries now but large majority of equipment is still Soviet made.

Choices.

BTW. Regarding the oil and gas, India started buying when it didn't need to
. EU is dependent on that oil and gas (Eastern Europe was forced on that dependency, Westerners stupidly joined) - e.g. cars will stop on streets, people will freeze in houses (ok, maybe not now, fortunately Spring is coming, but we still have 0-8 Celcius here, not fun to be in unheated house in that temperature).
And we try to stop it, e.g. in Poland we worked on that and hopefully by the end of the year we can stop importing gas from Russia.
The article is probably sponsored by some real eastate developer group who wants all those pesky parking requirements gone, so they can build 1k unit buildings with very few parking spaces allocated.
How much do you want to bet that that study was funded/done by people who are against cars?

I find it very hubristic to think that a single study is more valid than years of observation from people whose livelihoods depend on being right.
this is great! lol @ "EU High Representative Josep Borrell announces that the European Union and Italy will resume their diplomatic operations in Kyiv following the end of the war."

Like, radiation cleanup operations will resume once radiation has reduced to a safe level. um, little problem there chief.
What's being shared online?
What if street parking was more reflective of the actual costs and drastically limited the amount of time you could park? This could mean the likelihood of a spot being available in front a story very high.

I forgot what city implemented this (may have been San Francisco) but they made street parking triple the price and only for 15-30 minutes. As a result businesses in front of street parking got more customers.

I'm trying to search this on google, it may have been a paper put out by strong towns. I remember an episode of econ talk discussing it here:

https://www.econtalk.org/donald-shoup-on-the-economics-of-pa...
I wrote the following reply to the person adjacent to your comment, and I will paste it hear as I feel your comment had the same spirit:

Some languages have unfortunate misogynistic and transphobic/monogendered built-ins. This is problematic for a large minority of the LGBTQ+ population and many Native/Indigenous/First nations with different linguistic cultures. The USA is one of, if not the, most diverse country in the world with people from all over.
It is to me beautiful that the country can embrace both the latinx/hispanic population and at the same time say to these marginalized groups "we hear you, we listen to you, and we understand you."

To me the fact that the WH and President Biden use these important ungenderizations is a very important step, just like the federal desegregation of schools. It demonstrates how far we have come in just two generations. I have though met many latinx people who prefer latin@ instead, while others say that it reduces the language for non-binary folks.
That's a material exclusion.

Regardless, for the parent's example, it sounds like a mis-alignment in expectations between the PhD candidate and their advisor.

I wonder "Why is this coming up now?"

For options, I don't know why the PhD candidate can't accept the lesser option, graduate, and then switch jobs. Or...maybe the candidate made a crafty tale to accept another job without getting called out for a disingenuous "love letter."
Anecdotally certain areas in London shops with parking near or in front of the premises seem to survive better than shops that have no parking at all.

I've seen certain areas in North London with no parking on very busy roads die within months of opening, repeat cycle of new shops that come and go, I can't imagine the costs to outfit some of these places.

My thinking was the area just isn't right but less than 200 meters down plenty of free short term parking and the area is bustling with businesses that have been around longer than I can remember.
UC and CSU deliver thousands of rejection letters. ASU wants to fill the void
(edited) Hmm, maybe you are right, it is not that easy to tell. Those bytes at #441 are still mysterious.
> Again I want to contribute to humanity and this planet,

I assume you're going to travel on a "humanity" passport...? Or are you going to eat some crow and "pledge allegiance" to some country?
Lol corrected. Yes, 1000 people. I just googled for it, but having travelled extensively in Europe, I wanted to comment on what people of Bay Area really think about Europe. It is very...VERY distorted.
Do the Real Numbers Exist?
I now baptize the "ask a rubber duck pre-made questions": the Rubber Drucker technique.

This is an interesting post. There is much discussion about software and whatnot here but not about the stuff of which software is made: thoughts.

The way I handle thinking while programming is to think through writing. I handwrite much of my thought process while programming. Which allows me to stop at any distraction and come back to work easily. I call my writing: my secondary memory; and my working memory: my RAM.

I hope to see more posts of this kind by a diversity of people. "What do you ask yourself or do when [insert situation here]". About programming and more.
That doesnt follow - if you get paid by the hour, a mandatory reduction in hours is a mandatory reduction in pay.
Does Apple make any claims re: cohort tracking? Their communications seem to focus on individual tracking.
Dont forget the upcoming end of this year world famine (not in the news yet). Way too little fertilizer was produced to to gas pricing since autumn last year. (i think)
You are right to be wary, if there is a cryptocurrency element to a project I immediately stop paying attention because it is almost certainly geared towards inflating the token values through raising ridiculous amount of money.

The people that come out to defend those projects almost certainly owns token. How is this not an unregistered security?

There's a reason the Bitcoin developers:

- were anonymous

- released bitcoin weeks after the ruling on e-gold

- continues to remain anonymous

They clearly knew the implication of e-gold and US security laws.
Well, that's because slow collapse is what is happening. And you are not allowed to point it out.

There's too many overproduced elites, and if you are not willing to play ball, there's 80 guys willing to "denounce" you and take your job.

[1] https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/crises-of-elite-c...
Reminder to update your HN profile:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=acconrad
It truly is, and it's not only the judicial, but also the executive system.

Our police force is full of right-wing extremists and their networks, which lead to numerous scandals within the last few years, but a systematic study of those issues was repeatedly shot down by the former minister of the interior "Horst Seehofer".

Only the recent change in government and the current minister attempts to do something about it.
It’s really hard not to be sarcastic answering this. And I don’t even read or watch the news.

I don’t know where you live but I’m honestly surprised that Covid or the Russian invasion of Ukraine hasn’t had an impact on your day to day life.
I spent two years commuting by bike and bus and by doing so I was much more aware of the stores within a 5 mile radius of me. I wanted to stop and spend my money and time BUT it wasn’t worth missing my bus or risking my bike getting stolen so I never stopped. This was in Los Angeles. If buses were more reliable & enjoyable I would have stopped or gone back on weekends, and if I could trust my bike to still be there those businesses would have benefitted.
A friend (university science lab technician, in a field that didn't pay like CS) would make approx. $2/hour extra money in the evenings, from some Web site that directed her what topics to write articles about. Google the topic, rapidly skim, distill/rephrase it to a certain word count. (I suggested she could make a lot more working in a cafe, but she was physically exhausted from being on feet all day in lab, with lots of moving around heavy objects.)

I guessed it was used for filler content for SEO sites.

A question is whether that company would save money by using "AI" text generation, when they were paying real humans so little, for arguably higher quality.
You'd need a very hot cup of tea to calculate just how infinitely improbable.
Academia is a cult – Karen Kelsky – TEDxUAMonticello
"which means I can negotiate my life as I see fit"

You seem to have absolutely no clue what life is like for most working people, combined with a frightening lack of historical context. Can you describe in precise detail how you expect an unskilled laborer to successfully negotiate an agreement in their favor when the employer can wield their vastly greater power without any government hindrance?
Beware a thing: the classic production of the '900 manufacturing industry do just require organization because anything is done on the assembly line, but creative works (witch means anything not already designed and now in mass production stage) is another thing. You can't subdivide a problem in tasks effectively until you figure out how to solve it in the first place, you can't easy share ideas quickly without "work's social life" etc.

To be more precise, it's doable but demand years of experience, our society except for very few jobs lack such experience and as always anyone want young people with decade of experience behind...
> permissive zoning allowing commerce near to housing

Generally people who want to reduce car dependence are advocating for this zoning alongside their advocacy for transit and bike lanes.
Your point being?

They literally hosted Russia Foreign Minister week or two ago.
They abstained in votes against Russia for that invasion in UN.
US warned them no to go in bed with Russia. Do you think EU or US will look kindly to support India now?
The film the KLF didn’t want you to see