skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Swiss trains it really pays to plan ahead. IIRC I used to pay ~$20 one way from Lugano to Zurich airport, which took about 2.5 hours. That was some combination of an advance non-cancelable ticket and the residence discount.

The equivalent air transport was ~$100 and shaved off maybe 30 minutes once you factored in all of the transfer times etc.
I misjudged you by the looks of it, so I apologize for that.
What’s on Vladimir Putin’s Reading List?
I think it depends on how loud the noise is. I live in an apartment where 2 out of 5 days, someone steam wash their carpet, which means a van would park outside the building, making a loud, constant, humming noise for an hour. I can't nap to it; I can't work with it; it's as disruptive as leaf blowers and explosive-driven motorcycles. At some volume, we just don't adapt to it anymore.
Despairing for a company with a mission centered around agile process.
> you’ve already been thoroughly trained that quitting leads to trouble.

How so? Covering expenses ? I.e. Moving on to the next job? It’s not trouble if you don’t need to. Tech pays quite well, especially in terms of ROI of academic expenditures. If you lived / live modestly, you’re better positioned for financial freedom than classic pinnacles of success such as medical school.

I quit, and there’s been zero trouble. Quite the opposite. I’m healthier than ever. I didn’t accumulate tens of millions, but I did walk away with several in less than a decade of FANG. Once you do, you don’t have to live in high cost of living places like NYC or SF. At 4% annual returns on investment, it’s still more than the average American. Enough to even travel a bit, and save money in the long run ( by having the mental bandwidth to optimize a healthier life).
Over time, I've found that the most expensive real estate feature is silence.
That depends. TSA stops thousands of people from bringing firearms onto aircraft each year. Those are certainly not all terrorists, but it does indicate that, no matter the test results, the screening is necessary and at least somewhat effective.

https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/10/13/tsa-firea...

>> By October 3rd of this year, TSA officers had stopped 4,495 airline passengers from carrying firearms onto their flights, surpassing the previous record of 4,432 firearms caught at checkpoints in the full calendar year 2019
> dog crate

sorry, what is that?
1. The potential issue of 5G interference from cell phones is common across all planes and all airports, and therefore isn't special to this particular incident. If we were to enumerate all possible risks that all airplanes and all airports are vulnerable to, then we would never be able to finish this conversation.

2. As shown in the previous conversations regarding the 737 model , and all the outcry in the USA about 5G towers, it has been well established that The standard throughout Europe (which includes France) is that 5G towers are tilted towards the ground, reduced in power, and do not get so close to the frequencies used by radar altimeters. If you have proof of anything else, please provide appropriate links.

In particular, the towers here in the US are now going to 4000 MHz, which is why there is such a concern regarding older radar altimeters -- that cuts the buffer in half for the distance to the radio frequencies used in the altimeters.

All the manufacturers and operators in Europe have said that they are very safe from radio frequency interference for radar altimeters, which cannot be said for manufacturers and operators here in the US. Again, if you have counter evidence showing that radar altimeter interference is a valid risk in Europe in general or France in particular, please let us know.
Just because a part passes memtest86 and a couple of hours of Prime95 does not mean that that part is interchangeable with the genuine article, especially as far as an OEM who is trying to meet requirements is concerned. With a counterfeit, you have no idea what the MBTF is, no idea what the specific electrical properties are, no idea what the errata are, etc. etc. Even moving from an obsolete/last-time-buy part to the manufacturer recommended replacement might not go entirely smooth.
Well the "OK to talk about" is "OK to talk about in an age appropriate way", under threat of being sued by parents.
It's pretty bad and scaring me away. As I said the manager told me he thinks the team works 45-50 hours a week and to expect the 2am pager alerts. The main thing the manager/recruiter are trying to sell me on is total comp in the long run and a path to L6 engineer in ~2 year if I put in the work.
Works great for me, also see wearing ear plugs inside of noise cancelling head phones
After I taught a few semesters ago I took the material I had prepared and turned the skeleton into a github template https://github.com/evanberkowitz/course-base

I keep questions, slides, written notes, etc. controlled and semester-specific things in a directory that isn't tracked.
Ya I sometimes just keep track of newsletters I like in a doc, then make the rounds when I'm in a reading mood
Bill Murray + Richard Benjamin + Tom Davis + Al Franken + Dan Aykroyd + Laraine Newman + Garret Morris + Jane Curtin + Rodney Dangerfield + Gilda Radner

What could POSSIBLY go wrong??? ;)
Mobile GameDev Playbook (podcast) https://open.spotify.com/show/7KPT3GT0HI35dsd5dUsf5K?si=0dnd...
On top of that, if anybody knows of similar for folks who sleep on their side I would like suggestions//insight.
Trumpet fortunately is one of the few instruments that you can reasonably practice with a practice mute. I have the Up Mute and it works amazingly with only a little backpressure, no complaints from any neighbors. Woodwinds are much more difficult to keep quiet though.
I just want to throw out that in ear ear plugs, applied correctly, are the reason I can sleep in a multi-person appt in SF. Serious, probably best qol improvement I’ve made
Good point. I also like to think that as an experienced engineer you have some autonomy over what you want to do and where you think you can provide the most value.
Nice domain name!
The only reason right-to-die isn’t something universal is because the dead can’t vote. They suffer immensely and the usual feedback loop that mitigates societal problems and suffering is cut off. So every day thousands of people suffer terribly for absolutely no reason at all.

Doctors will actually euthanize patients by giving them morphine. They can only legally do it if they are using it to treat pain. They slowly increase the dose as needed. They will hover over an unconscious patient and claim that they are in pain and therefore the morphine dose needs to be increased. They repeat this until the patient dies. It’s a workaround. Because everyone is selfish and stupid, nobody wants to confront reality and just formalize it.
My quality of sleep shot through the roof when I started sleeping with earplugs many years ago. Much deeper sleep. Now, I can't fall asleep without them.

I have an unproven theory in my head that shutting off my hearing while I sleep, quiets my subconscious and even when I'm asleep, my ears are still working so this helps another part of my brain rest as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam...

Might be what you're looking for.
The FHA Disparate Impact stuff is an obvious example, revoked TPS status for Haitians, and, of course, family separation.
After months of being effectively homeless I moved in to a new place 3 weeks ago. There's this stupid air ventilation system making noise 24/7 and it's already driving me up the walls, and that's with the windows closed. It's like having a car idle outside your house all day and night. Because it's newly built I couldn't have a viewing; normally I would have just passed, but I was kinda desperate. Been trying to contact them about it for 3 weeks too.

At this rate I'd rather lose the deposit than live here for a full year. Road noise a silent hum is fine, but constant "brrrr" is just ... ugh ...
Will the additional money truly impact your life in any measurable way? If it's just going to cause your investment account to grow a bit faster, unless you're planning on FIRE, you might as well strike that consideration from your decision making and compare the life/work balance you have versus the prospect of interesting work. The former could change if you stay but it sounds like you're pretty comfortable that it won't. The latter is by no means guaranteed. Really seems to come down to just how much is the boredom at Microsoft eating you up. If it's crushing your soul, taking some risk might be justified.
https://archive.ph/h8Yfa
https://archive.ph/RA2C8
“dog whistle” comes from supersonic dog whistles that dogs can hear but humans can’t, not just whistling to call a dog. The analogy is that a speaker can use a phrase that most people won’t notice but their intended audience will understand.

Maybe you already know this and I misunderstood your comment.
- https://www.milkroad.com/
- https://topstartups.substack.com/
- https://latecheckout.substack.com/
- https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/
yes, if you put a flat-earther and a scientist in one debate, people just thinking that 'oh, maybe earth is flat!'
Keep it to a reasonable volume, keep your head on a swivel, wear your PT belt and you’ll be fine. Deaf and hard of hearing folks aren’t getting mowed down in droves.
Sorry, I don't really get the relevance of that objection.

In everyday life, most of us are happy to accept the "reality" (in whatever philosophical sense you choose to use) of all sorts of personality traits that exist only "in the mind": kindness, eloquence, sense of humor, willpower. If you likewise accept the reality of "gender identity" as a mental trait, then I don't understand why it makes sense to insist that trait is only meaningful when it's "fully formed" -- can we say that about any aspect of our personality?

I don't know if this exact question has ever been scientifically studied, but it seems pretty clear that if you offered people the choice to push a magic button and permanently change their body to the opposite sex, the vast majority of us would pretty confidently say, no, and a small minority of people would be equally confident in answering the opposite way. That's close enough to "objectively measurable" for me.
My issue with my current neighbor (which is why i listed it) is mostly being woken up by the playing. I sleep late on weekends, I guess he wants to practice at 9am on a saturday for a few hours. Its the first thing I hear, he wakes me up, then im stuck listening as i try to get up and out of the apartment. Its also random playing in duration and time. Sometimes I think hes finally done then i get shocked by some loud scales or a random burst. Ideally I would just know how much he wants to practice and when. I'm sure we could figure out a schedule or something. I also offered to split the cost of some sound dampening thing for his saxaphone.

I like to think I'm reasonable and I understand that compromises need to be made for people in our unfortunately crappy apartments. I don't think its fair for me to try to shut down someones practicing. I get people do what they want to do. It sounds like to me likely your neighbor was unreasonable.
Did AWS offer you more than ten days PTO? I saw on levels.fyi that is the listed starting point at AWS, which is noticeably lower than other employers like Microsoft.
There's a chart in the tiny face paper [.] that compares face size against accuracy. The paper concerns on detecting any faces instead of recognizing a single face though. Seems we can shrink down to 24x19 and still maintain 50% accuracy.

[.] https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Hu_Fi... Figure 9
Is that supposed to be Switzerland? I heard about it being an option there. Also, there is MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) in Canada.
"Indeed, one of the starkest differences between white and non-white democrats is that white democrats overwhelmingly believe that religion isn’t necessary for morality, while about half of non-white democrats believe it is"

I generally find white left wingers so hard to love because of the complexes and attitudes commonly connected to this sentiment. I try to forgive them for what I can't unsee as progressively dehumanizing everyone and everything in the spheres I have little choice but to inhabit, even though they give us no such quarter. The thing that pulls me out of anger at that tribe is sadness, when I think that probably (driven by forces that increase published statistical likelihoods) at least one atheist/left-winger I've read a mean comment or message from has killed themselves and is no more. If I feel they are dehumanizing, the correct reaction is to rehumanize.
I'm happy to read something from someone who has achieved my goal. I just joined a FAANG for the first time after 5-8 years as an engineer ... and I'm counting the years until this is me.
I quit running Plex a few years ago.

There were plenty of little annoyances but then one day it seemed like all they cared about was becoming yet another streaming service and all I cared about was streaming my own collection.

I switched to Jellyfin and found that Videotape on XBox One S works perfectly in ways that Plex never did... Like I can watch a TV show an have it really play the next episode the next time.
Microsoft FORTRAN-80 is an implementation of FORTRAN 66. The "shortcomings"
are:

- No COMPLEX type
- Specification statements must be ordered FUNCTION/type/COMMON/EQUIVALENCE/DATA/statement functions
- differing storage requirement for types

then again, even MATLAB (for example) doesn't need COMPLEX
Check out any state abortion laws lately? How about something called "teaching actual history?" And the best one "we didn't want to teach kids about gender differences, so now teachers are going to ignore gender entirely" in Florida.

But please, do go on about the "Bush-era evangelicals." I'm sure they've totally calmed down since then.
I have yet to find noise cancelling headphones that don't give me 'stuffy ear' feeling.
Two Decades of Network Science: As Seen Through the Co-Authorship Network
>Apple is too big and has too many potential internal whistle blowers to run a clandestine email monitoring operation.

This calls for an interrobang. APPLE?‽!

This is an absurd reversal of the burden of proof - where I think you go very wrong is to imply or assume the natural state of a large organization is compliance with legal or ethical norms. There's a reason they have legal and compliance departments! There's a reason the laws and rules keep metastasizing! And the same silos that allow lack of compliance, allow potential whistleblowers to be intimidated - "you don't understand the context" they can say.

Every time you take one of those online courses at the beginning of a job, they tell you to report anything unethical or illegal to a hotline or ombudsman or something, and then they tell you that you will be protected...unless you make false or malicious allegations, of course. You have to be pretty obtuse or literal not to understand the threat. They are telling you how it will go down - I mean, what sort of asshole would make a federal case out of the CEO parking in handicapped spaces?

Or, maybe I should've just gone with sarcasm and some hyperlinks:

Apple is too big and has too many potential internal whistle blowers to run a clandestine wage fixing operation, and huge conspiracy theories are nonsense, which is why this never happened:

https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/03/apple_wagefixing_clos...

Also, Apple is too big and has too many potential internal whistle blowers to run a clandestine insider trading operation, and conspiracy theories are nonsense, which is why the person responsible for insider trading compliance definitely did not insider trade Apple stock:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-10

Next up: Ukraine is a conspiracy theory!
I would highlight this paragraph: "A wise man once said, disease intensifies narcissism, especially if it is terminal. Interpreting that as advice rather than critique, I’d like to be self-indulgent for a moment, and share what I hoped my life would be. I trained as lawyer, and had wanted to go into human rights. Things don’t always turn out the way you expect, and I ended up in corporate law, living a lifestyle unworthy of myself, and making the world worse year on year. On a dark day, I sometimes wonder if this is the universe’s way of balancing the wrong I did. I tried my best to be a good and kind person, but ultimately, I know my job was one that made rich motherfuckers even richer. I’m sorry."
Survivors can vote. I got to watch my mom die of cancer like this.

I'm reminded of the line from Constantine, where he says, "Like pulling demons out of little girls. WHO IS THAT FOR?"

https://youtu.be/-828wM9lpLw?t=107
A user in the Zig Discord posted this gist which apparently implements the program TFA was attempting to implement: https://gist.github.com/sharpobject/49bd88416e68606d7812d609...
Cool! Please let me know when you have something to test. Email in profile.
Sometimes I get the feeling the US medical industry is 50% people who would sell an allergy pill that gave ten percent of patients lung cancer and 50% people who would rather watch thousands of people die in screaming agony than test a pancreatic cancer treatment that caused erectile dysfunction.
Elon has decided not to join our board
I want to know how he writes so much every day. Matt, if you're reading, give us some tips.
Before Russia makes it to the Brenner Pass? Quite a while.

Or, before Russian saboteur and/or missiles take it out? They could take it out immediately... but they probably have closer and more important targets to point their missiles at.
> One of the few countries I've been to that takes noise pollution seriously is Switzerland

Not in my experience. From my rented flat overlooking Geneva, when I was working there as a consultant, I used to get the (happy) screams of the kids in the school next door, the thump of heavy metal from the next flat, the whine of aircraft coming in to the airport and the clank of rubbish going down the waste disposal system.

All in all, I would rate it noisier than my flat in Wood Green, North London.
This misses a key value of Pinterest -- the collaborative filtering of "people who pinned this also pinned ...". To me, that's a huge value of Pinterest which you won't get on a self hosted instance.
rust might be more vulnerable in practice because it's so easy to add 3rd-party code (and update 3rd-party code).
Nice!

I made something similar (although web based) but much simpler years ago to suit my planning, which is still in use by many others.

Weekis: https://weekis.com
> China also doesn't share our value of craftsmanship

Obviously we share theirs since we’ve shown were interested in cutting costs at the expense of quality.
I saw dozens of bugs in apps that didn't handle iOS 10 correctly. They looked at one digit to determine what the device's capabilities were and saw a "1" so they did whack stuff.
I don’t think anyone is arguing for totally 0 checks. People just want to not need to unpack their bags, empty their pockets, take off their shoes/belt, and to be able to carry a water bottle.
A little home for your dog within your home. It helps them feel secure and that they have a space that is their own.
Call me an authoritarian, but 'bad apartment etiquette' is one area where I wish there was a social credit score to impact.
My dog Walker publishes a WhatsApp thread with videos of all her dog walks on it
Elon Musk is not joining Twitter Board of Directors
>All potassium is always radioactive

While practically true, this is sufficiently imprecise to bother the more pedantic variety of nerd; for accuracy I therefore quote the relevant section of Wikipedia (a resource we should give daily thanks for):

"Naturally occurring potassium is composed of three isotopes, of which potassium-40 is radioactive. Traces of potassium-40 are found in all potassium, and it is the most common radioisotope in the human body."
I have not come across any solid resources that actually lay out the theory of MMT. Do you have any recommendations?
One thing that wasn’t included in this article but is amazing is being able to deactivate an email address. It results in a total dead end for whomever it was given to.
I found Iceland to be very quiet as well. Likely since there's so few people to make noise in the first place.
As someone who lives in an area that gets weeks of heavy cloud cover and little wind, it is sad to see this get voted down.

Porting electricity over HVDC from half a continent away (with several metro areas in-between soaking up supply) just seems impractical when we could have small reactors distributed around in smaller, more resilient grids.
weekly space news: https://orbitalindex.com/
I 100% agree, but it's not nothing, and the person I replied to isn't the only person who saw the comment.
They are not only beneath, they are organs of the state government and have no separate sovereignty of their own. They’re like wholly owned subsidiaries.
I read them in Feedbin. It provides me with a dedicated mail address and allows me to read newsletters as if they were RSS feeds.
The presence of (a billion) apps like this make me feel like in another timeline they figured out some kind of simple, mostly text, very limited programming language/markup that's somewhere between HTML and (Turing Complete) Javascript, maybe Hypercard-esque?
I bought an "acoustic white noise generator" which is effectively just a small fan in an overlapping enclosure that you can rotate to find a pleasant tone, and it has been a game-changer for my sleep.
>The U.S. did invade Iraq, using the authority granted in U.N. resolution 678. That was not a crime either, because it was carried out legally.

The UN explicitly stated that the invasion was illegal. I even remember the chief inspector declaring that he should have gone back to fishing instead of wasting time because the US had already decided to invade Iraq on false pretenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War
"The invasion of Iraq was neither in self-defense against armed attack nor sanctioned by UN Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force by member states and thus constituted the crime of war of aggression, according to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva"

Remember "freedom fries"?

The war hysteria was as rabid then as it is now for "pro ukraine" bullshit of arming both sides and letting blood spill.

Amazing mental gymnastics white washing the millions of people murdered by US in desperate search for their oil.
That's not a bad idea. Might try that when I get home.
So, a kennel? Forgive me, I am not a dog person, though I quite like my cleaning ladys little doggie.
> If you asked me as a kid how someone burned out from their career, I’d have said by video games or drugs.

Interestingly, these can be the _result_ of creeping burnout. Video games, consuming something (drugs, food, etc) to distract or find a sense of fulfillment.
The Antiquities Act of 1906 does not give the President power to declare National Parks; only National Monuments [1]. This is a mistake in that episode, and the link you cite also mentions this (see the "Trivia" section).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_Act
Arbitration costs companies far more than lawsuits do. There was a guy that used to make tons of money off Arbitration clauses. Basically, the company is on the hook for hotel stays, transportation, food, etc. for the arbiter as well as anyone else that may not be local to the venue in question.

The reason companies went with this approach was to stop class action lawsuits from happening, which is where the real damage happens. One enterprising law firm started doing pooled Arbitrations (filing for hundreds or thousands at a time), which costs the company more than a class action would. Some companies have removed such clauses because of this.