skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. Was expecting polished Debian-based OS for ppc architecture machines. Shucks.
> I think what you're looking for is a more rural existence.

Speaking for myself, absolutely not. The amount of things available in cities compared to rural areas is immense. I’ve lived in both.

Theater, music venues, libraries, restaurants, beer gardens, good food markets, schools. I have all of this writhing walking and biking distance. You don’t get that in rural areas without needing a car.
By this logic, why would it also jump over a lazy dog?
I work for AWS. I sometimes find that my values don't align with the company for which I work. Especially when it comes to the treatment of warehouse ('fulfillment center') workers and union busting.

But I also didn't agree with all the positions taken by previous employers dating back to when I was working at a grocery store after high school. That employer shipped most of our managers out to California as scabs to break a union strike for a time, and kept yo-yoing me between 25 and over 40 hours so they never had to classify me as a full-time employee.

Both inside and outside of tech, I found that you are very rarely going to work at a place which aligns completely with your values. Where you draw that line is ultimately up to you. I quit the grocery store over its bullshit. But at AWS, I'm ultimately helping companies safeguard the data of millions and millions of regular people.

Where you draw the line between your personal values and corporate reality is ultimately up to you. Do you think your work ultimately benefits the greater good? If not, I'd look at a different job.

Don't worry about not being employable in the future. Doing good work is doing good work. I have a very disreputable company on my resume (or, rather, I did). I got hired despite that. Did people ask me uncomfortable questions in interviews? Yeah. Did it stop me from being employable and getting a higher-paying job? No. And once I had more experience on my resume, I quietly dropped the company from my resume. I haven't found anyone who really cares what I did in 2013.
This is not a bad thing though, because enrollment is declining.

For example, my <1 year old daughter's generation is only 80% of what it should be due to COVID. Thus, we'd have to fire 20% of teachers.

My home district of Portland, OR is already starting to see enrollment cuts as people have already started their kids in the always-open private schools or opted for homeschooling as well.

So you have the combined forces of people choosing non-public options and simply having less kids. We won't need as many teachers.

Source: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/02/16/portland-public-schoo...
It doesn't, though. Google use other domains.
There are some people's money that's not worth taking for one reason or another. In the software world it's not uncommon to loose customers because the features they need would cost too much in support and upkeep vs the revenue it brings in.
Nice theory, can we say that the residential real state business is as unethical as crypto & social media?

Of course it depends on how you do this.
Before it arrives, you mean? That's still not something that a web page can't easily do.
> Thiel actively manipulates these same channels for his benefit.

That's what GP is saying...
I would think with a work laptop you are supposed to expect it to be spying on you at all times in every way possible.

Except of course as explicitly outlined in a functional "privacy policy".

Even then you might not be able to expect your unsurveilled expectations to be fully met as expected.
I did the northern route, NH to OR, July-Sept. It was getting a bit chilly towards the end, but the scary weather is storms you hit in the midwest in the open plains. Those tend to be worst in the late summer, I think. It's pretty terrifying on a bike in the middle of nowhere, with plains as far as the eye can see, when the horizon ahead turns black and you just watch the lightning bear down on you. People out there are really nice, though, and would often pull over and offer shelter.
43 and 50 lines were pretty standard on VGA, so it should be widely supported. I also remember setting 132x50 consoles but that ended up using very few pixels per character (and 80x50 is just that hateful CGA font, vertically compressed) but, at least, it didn’t have serifs.
Oh dear, yes. I read the biography of Jennifer Doudna by Walter Isaacson. It's a great book, but I really felt sad for Siksnys. Just because their paper got rejected by Cell does not mean that the paper came after Doudna and Charpentier's - after all, it was submitted earlier than Doudna and Charpentier's. The book overall was not very inspiring with the amount of persnickety politics - but then, perhaps, that's how science is, in the day-to-day grind.
> This research gives evidence that outgroup aggression feels good/rewarding. I’d tend to think this is hard-wired biologically.

This research gives evidence that rival college competition is fun to male college students.

The point I was trying to make is that this is a specifically narrow finding with confounding factors (mirrors the structure of sports programs, which are significant social activities at many colleges).

The study authors stretched the narrow funding into a very general finding, which is heavy editorializing. This stretching gets a free pass from many because it feels truthy, but it’s not great science.
That sync conflict window doesn't force you to lose data. Just check both boxes and you keep both copies.

And the python situation was really bad, but things have improved a lot in the last 4 years.
> doubtful many will follow through

Yeah, it's perhaps a decent way to measure sentiment but not at all likely to be reliable to predict actions. You can "consider leaving" your profession in the next year for 30 years straight. If there are no attractive alternatives, you're just not gonna do it.
My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the USA and have the USA do the spying(hacking?) and get the data from them.

European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.
> you can fit all 272 Apple USA retail locations inside of its parking structures

Preeeety wild. I really hate car culture. What a waste of space and resources. Also, the sunk cost here is why Apple will have a hard time ever fully embracing remote work.
I've had a couple of bikes stolen in my lifetime. One thing that would prevent me from enjoying the trip as much is a fear of having my bike and all my gear stolen.

What do you do with your bike and gear if you want to stop and so some sightseeing?
That would simplify things, but clearly humans have made some moral progress (even if we may have some ways yet to go...) without anything quite that drastic?
Just tried, I was curious. Answer is yes but not very well.

So you can generate a picture say 'picture of a boy playing with a ball' then go into edit mode (think this is new) and erase ball, then change prompt to 'picture of a boy playing with toy car'.

It will keep the original elements of boy not erased and put in a toy car. The character is kept the same but doesn't work as well as you might think as the body, face pose are the same.

Still, you can see this getting better over time.

Only got access this morning, hard not be impressed.
No, but it is an on-topic reply to your objection.
Democrats only care as much as their corporate overlords pay them to care
Well yes, but you asked about possible monitization and how they seemed scarse, but there's actually lots of value in creating these kinds of systems. You even came up with one of your own now :)
My solution to this problem is to avoid libraries and projects that have one of those darkmode Web 3.0 scrolling pages as home that tell you in countless ways with lots of graphics why their project is so great. They usually aren't, and they are nearly always unfinished. In contrast, I've never had any problems with libraries whose home page is text only + links generated from Emacs org mode.

Good programmers don't waste their time making fancy web pages.
You confusion is a failure to understand what heat pumps are doing.

An electric heater uses 1000W of electricity to increase the energy in an air volume directly.

Heat pumps use 1000W of electricity to transfer energy from one area to another.

In the former case, the energy in the warmed air is entirely from the supply of electricity.

In the latter case, the energy in the warmed air comes from the intake air and the electricity is only used to move that energy around.

So absolutely a heat pump using 1000W of electricity can move 3000W of thermal energy from the hot side to the cold side.

This, by the way, is why you're absolutely right that efficiency is variable, as it depends on the energy gradient between intake and output.
But that is literally what your examples are doing! Either not doing business because of lost trust or establishing trust before giving money.
Yeah, Honda Trail 150. But, of course, it's over 50 pounds and new over $3K.
Two noteworthy dimensions when considering difficulty of job, especially as it relates to other professions, including highly-compensated tech workers:

(1) Average salary of teachers is approximately 40% less than the average salary of any STEM-related-field worker).[1]

(2) Schools are a unique legal environment with respect to torts and the criminal law in that actions against teachers which would in other contexts constitute unlawful acts appropriate for remedy in courts is instead most often investigated, adjudicated, and penalty rendered by a combination of the school’s head, administration, and resource officers.

There is also the non-emergent but nevertheless constantly renewed concern about the viability and mortality of teachers and students with respect to mass violence as well.[2]

[1]https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf

[2]https://www.chds.us/ssdb/
This has been around for a very long time, long enough for Cheech & Chong to parody it [1].

Paraphrasing what Woody Allen said:

I took the Evelyn Wood speed reading course and it really works! I read "War and Peace" in a hour, and I had perfect comprehension! It's about Russia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Woodhead_Speed_Reading_...
> Dante

Not precisely. "Envy" literally means what rhetorically can be rendered as "having eyes sewn shut": it means "not seeing" (Latin "invidia").

That the envious can be admitted to Purgatory and cleansed through penitence seems to signify that those eyes consciously sewn - which is the actual condition, as per the above - can be part of a process to develop a more subtle sight, also considering that envy is specified as grown out of a focus on earthly goods (so, an idea is to "close the earthly eyes" and learn to see the spiritual goods).

In other words, "if you can't see (which is envy) the spiritual goods, close your eyes to the earthly ones and refocus".
I don't have a car. Cyclists don't need your advice, we know it's increasing our risk to ride around idiot drivers.

Let's change the rhetoric from "cycling is dangerous" to "driving a car is a serious responsibility".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1

In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.
Are you talking about the x-client-data header (which isn't unique, but is relatively high entropy at <= 13-bits)? [1] that is used for evaluating the effect of experiments that Chrome is running on other Google services, which does include ads. But it is not used for personalization (I wish they would say that publicly).

For example, when I look at a Google Fonts request in Chrome developer tools I see:

x-client-data: CKe1yQEIkrbJAQiitskBCMS2yQEIqZ3KAQiVocsBCOeEzAEIhKvMAQjys8wBCL+1zAE=
Decoded:
message ClientVariations {
// Active client experiment variation IDs.
repeated int32 variation_id = [3300007, 3300114, 3300130, 3300164, 3313321, 3330197, 3342951, 3347844, 3348978, 3349183];
}

Each of those numbers represents an experimental treatment that is currently active for my Chrome instance. (It looks like more entropy because it's multiple values, but they're all derived from a single 13-bit per-instance seed.)

[1] https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat...
I love that too, but I find it sad our si-fi worthy machines can’t do what a VT-220 could in the early 80’s.
Keeping data centers at 68F is a huge waste of power. It makes perfect sense to run them at the limit of what humans can tolerate (but no further).
Yeah, I have seen similar experiences, hence why I am a boring tech kind of person.
>This way their entire military gets actual combat experience, the troops are always fresh, and the moral is high. Same with equipment, regular maintenance, etc.

Russia's military, of course, noted for their experience, freshness, and high morale. Along with having properly maintained equipment.
Yes, this bookmarklet will transform webpages into a more readable form:

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You can also find it here: https://www.locserendipity.com/Hyper.html

If you want a TTS system, this one is free: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html

If you want to increase the rate of speech, download the HTML of the page and change to_speak.rate=1; to whatever rate you need.

Use both together for an even better effect. I once read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in an evening with these techniques combined.

If you want to try a method that flashes text with a pivot character, I have tried and implemented that, too: https://locserendipity.com/Speed.html
I’ve done a couple of tours years back in Europe.

I did a few multi-day charity rides here in California. Some of those included stints on a stretch of 101. You realize how shitty our roads can be.
Yeah it's definitely not what you would want if you were building a community. But maybe it's ok if you just want cash.
Pretty simple, cycles get their own cycle on lights at crossing, and you ban right turns on red. Right turns on red are such a stupid idea, a tiny time saving for a minority of people, but a huge increase in risk for vulnerable road users.

As for branch junctions along the road, priority is given to bikes going in the direction of traffic, and you build tables across the junction, reduce junction radius, both force cars to slow down when turning into junctions, and make it clear they need to look for other road users.

These are all solved problems. The Netherlands publishes an extremely well respected guide on exactly how to build people-centric road infrastructure that massively reduces collisions and road incidents. There’s no need to reinvent anything, just look at countries that have road death rates at a fraction of what the US has.
It's not just dev time vs cpu time.
The thing the article mentions and what I was trying to echo is that software is slow and overcomplicated despite that. It would be unusable without fast hardware.

But people are used to programs being slow and bloated. People and companies are rarely willing to pay premium for efficient programs. So here we are, gluing stuff together so that we're fast to market with every next feature while collectively wasting lifetimes as our apps load and perform basic actions.

I am not even saying it's wrong. There are plenty of things I'd rather have now and slow than later/never and fast. Nor I am saying given the time I'm capable of making all our software significantly leaner and faster. I am just echoing the disenchantment and some frustrations.
Maybe you can set it aside as a tech demo, but the ask to please show this to your children feels somehow creepy to me. They are still so young and impressionable, and providing them with perceptibly incoherent stories and imagery just seems.. off.
More precisely, in Europe firing someone has consequences for the company. So they would need rather more motivation to do that than an artfully worded leaving email.
After cycling in Toronto for too many decades, I found rollerblading facing traffic worked better with the driver population. If the oncoming car or truck was coming too close I simply went on the sidewalk or grass.
> it was hard for me to understand some papers in closely related sub fields, and that was with working experience in that area.

I've noticed this too. The reason why I think this happens is because if you're an employed scientist, then the system is set up in such a way that you HAVE to publish, or else you lose your job. If someone criticizes your paper, and it gets pulled from publication, then thats the same as having never published anything in the first place. Therefore, the technique to survival is to write your paper in such a way that repels criticism as much as possible. The easiest way to do this is to write it in such a way that makes it hard to read, but not in such a way that makes it obvious it's gibberish.
Isn't it the same as asking why do we pro create?
Also you can hit the twisties with the motorcycle :) I think both are very different as well for the reasons you have mentioned. I think it depends a lot on where you want to go in what amount of time. On a weekend on the motorcycle you can travel to another country in Europe, on bike it wouldn’t be possible for me because the border is too far away. I believe it’s two different philosophies, for me the motorcycle is the middleground between car and bicycle. Depending on the motorcycle you have a different kind of freedom compared to a car.
People who assign confusing house numbers and confusing street names have a special place in hell. What if an ambulance won't reach you in time because of an address confusion?
do you remember what lounge he used for the lecture?
I too read books lovingly, however when I switch to school mode, my reading needs to improve. I am really slow at reading and taking notes. So much so that I am often behind in reading intensive classes.

If anyone has advice, I am desperately in need.
I think that's generally an issue with android auto corrected in the latest version. Essentially android auto has a fixed aspect ratio so only part of the screen real estate is used unless it fits exactly. Latest version is supposed to allow fluid layout.
Last time I got a mortgage I had to turn over financial history and have credit checks run. I have definitely had to pass background checks as a customer before.

Your landlord asks you to post a security deposit.

We literally have an entire credit worthiness sector.

You can also invert this and take trust as a default and only ban misbehaving customers.
The minimum every developer should know about Unicode and charsets
I am not aware of the high memory usage issues. Also, rhe permissions issue is related to poor packaging, more than anything else.
It’s a cash flow issue, not a cost per unit issue. The “buy in bulk” mentality doesn’t work for cash-strapped individuals, and could potentially force them, for example, to choose two instead of all three of: bread, tuna, mayo because minimum size laws have priced that individual out of the market. How does one make a sandwich for lunch then?
Yeah, most of the cycle infrastructure north of the river isn’t great. South is substantially better, the difference is stark. Thankfully it’s getting better north of the river, but a lot of that infrastructure was built before TfL realised that half-arsed infrastructure just doesn’t work. You either need to build proper infrastructure, or just not bother. Thankfully those lessons have been applied to the new infrastructure that being built, include all the stuff south of the river which is more recent.
1) Yes, much like if someone finds your credit card number, they can't use it without your name, CVC code, and zip code.

2) It doesn't matter how secure you make it, because if your payment system is impenetrable, I'll just steal your account on some site where you've already enabled payments.
Service jobs are gone, and lower cost of living with this inflation?
Crypto industry braced for fallout after weekend meltdown
I wonder if there isn’t a smarter way to do it if we remember we are not running a terminal, but showing a stream of frames of what a terminal should show at intervals given by the monitor refresh rate. You only need to write to the graphics buffer 60 times a second for most screens. With the kind of processing power we have, we could easily do sub-pixel motion blur for fast moving text.
Compensation in the US can be complicated.

Some rural districts near me are offering houses and cars in lieu of actual dollars. These districts are chronically understaffed and quite poor. So other forms of value have to be transferred in order to attract teachers.

Not that it does any good really. The houses and cars tend to be in bad condition/s, and then there's a fun little federal tax burden you get for being gifted such items. That and the rural districts tend to the end of the road for a teaching career. Since the pay is so bad, you can't save up to move back to a city district, or get more professional credentials, or advance your career in any real way. That and you have to live in a really small town as an outsider that doesn't really 'belong' there.

I feel for those districts, but the math is the math. It's not worth it to become a rural teacher if you have other options.
> plan and get ready for the next school year

I don't doubt all of your points, and can imagine the frustration, but regarding the summer off being interrupted by planning work, what's to plan? If you're teaching mostly the same thing year after year, wouldn't you have an established plan that doesn't require significant modification? What does "get ready for the next school year" entail?
I think the person you’re responding to is pointing out the intellectual dishonesty (or complete ignorance) of Hellen’s comments about the cause of inflation. Not necessarily the consequences, but yes— the ignorance leads to consequences for all of us
I suggested a similar thing and couple of people dropped in with more specialized knowledge on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425690
Someone made a statement of opinion without supporting evidence. You followed that up with another statement of opinion without supporting evidence. As a result no consensus was reached and this entire exchange went no where.

Why do you think it was an arrogant and toxic statement? Do you disagree that financial journalism is better? Do you think finance journalism itself is toxic? Do you have evidence that a belief such as "finance jounalism is generally more excellent than others" is toxic in some way?
Grocery stores are pretty low trust environments.

If you literally are getting banned from grocery stores and starving the answer is probably "the prison warden has a legal duty to feed you".