skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a certain rhetorical device being employed here where a hopeless situation is being presented, followed by an intimation that, if workers fight for it, things can be different.

He's right, on the whole. The Office, the institution, gives executives a sense of place and purpose. What fun is it to be in charge if you can't make people squirm? It's not about money for these people (they have enough). It's about power. Of course they want their favorite toy back.

This being said, the Soviet system didn't fall immediately after Chernobyl and neither will global capitalism after Covid-19, but the process seems to be starting. It's possible that things will fall right back where they were; it's also possible that there will be opportunities to force change. I don't think we're even halfway through the Covid era, even if (as I hope) the worst of the disease itself is over.
That would be wrong too. I don't know who said it, but a well known quip about them is that they are neither Christian nor scientific. (It may actually have been Mark Twain for once, he had a brief disappointing interaction with them).

They believe Jesus (but mostly the founder, Mary Baker Eddy) came with secret knowledge of how you can heal by thinking the right thoughts. This is possible because, basically, objective reality is an illusion/all in your mind. On the heresy scale, if JW is a 3 and Mormonism is 4, i would say Christian Science is 10.

They regularly come up in the news when their kids die from rejecting medical treatment in favour of faith healing (or maybe correct-thinking healing is more accurate).

CSM lost almost all its connection to CS along with the decline of the cult's popularity.
Binance.US has license in US for crypto trading and at the same time their parent company binance.com is evading US sanctions. License can be revoked by SEC and DOJ can order FBI to seize Binance.US
I was living there during the Berlin city governments (failed eventually) attempt to control rent by just regulating it down - they assigned an actual value to each apartment, and mandated that was the new rent.

Naturally, the estate agencies took them to court over the extremely debatable constitutionality of this.

We kept paying our old (not revised) rent based on some legal advice while the court case went on. The difference was close to a thousand euros per month (dramatically overvalued tiny, old apartment)

People who switched to the lower rent, ended up being forced to make back payments, which financially crippled a lot of people I knew there.

This happened alongside corona, so it wasn't like people could just easily hold on to money.
(Having said that, it does seem that recent data isn't really backing up the "pros" of mask mandates, at least in the US. Though the studies seemed focused on hospitalisations, rather than actual infection rate.)
Can confirm. It's on page 243, in the "Arrays" chapter, and is referred to as the "exchange sort." The actual code is:

/* Sort the array
for (i = 0; i < array_size - 1; i++)
for (j = i + 1; j < array_size; j++)
if (array[i] > array[j]])
{
int temp = array[i];
array[i] = array[j]:
array[j] = temp;
}

So that's from the late 80s.
I think I'd be more willing to go to the office if I got a large pay raise to but only because there's cheap housing within walking distance of mine. If I had to commute every day again I'd be pretty upset. Maybe if I could count the drive against the 8 hours I'm supposed to be in the office (so it would be ok to get there by 10-11am instead of 9 and leave by 3-4pm instead of 5.)
No it doesn’t. If you use Books with iCloud any book you add on any device will be automatically synced with the others. Works really well.
The idea that a dude with an AR will take on a platoon of MRAPs is comical. The founding fathers were talking about the ability to raise a well regulated militia when there was no standing army, not kids shooting a schools.
A better analogy would be: "Canadian man smoked marijuana despite US marijuana prohibitions."
Costco is the best!

In addition to having a great curated product selection that one can trust, they appear to treat their employees well as they always have a great attitude and top-notch customer service.
It becomes a massive issue in trades if you want to migrate to another country.

Some countries are very stringent about accredited qualifications for certain trades.
And militarily, as well as economically, an invasion of Taiwan is a lot less clear cut than it was before the war in Ukraine started. Plus, Taiwn would be an amphibious invasion, against a very well prepared and supported defender.
Any recommendations for a good portable CO2 monitor?
> Care to explain why you think NULLS DISTINCT is the "right" default behavior? What problems does it solve to warrant additional complexity by default?

It's the most consistent with the equality behavior of null values elsewhere.
Yes it does, suffer.
The media is always doing their "There aren't enough specialists" chorus, meaning "we want to pay less than we are right now by hiring cheap labor from India" and similar low wage areas.

Meanwhile hype driven recruitment is the norm.
I've come to the conclusion that those companies aren't really looking for people to hire but use job abs as a means of free advertising their oh do modern companies.

So sick and tired of reading countless DevOps Kubernetes Microservice AWS GCP Azure AI ML Blockchain finance job ads. And you have to be proficient in their proprietary cloud service they use to create apps and services.
Sorry but there's just so much ignorance out there and I'm tired wasting my time reading those.
My time is better spent on working on my own stuff than reading those arghh infuriating job ads that make me feel like the least 18 professional years are worthless and doubt myself as a human being because clueless idiots are ever chasing after the next hype and requiring their applicants to do the same. Sick and tired and angry.
I would guess that island conditions naturally lead to (at least tacit) price collusion, such that the entry of a multinational might not lead to prices going down. (In the US, the classic case is White vs. Packer, about gas prices in Martha's Vineyard.) IKEA prices vary a lot between countries. https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/121925681/no...
Elevators enable skyscrapers.

I don't know, are skyscrapers better or worse for the environment than lower-density buildings that don't need elevators?
I do something similar by running Calibre Web on a raspberry pi and then using KyBooks on my devices. It works really well.
I think my point still stands.

People will move for one reason only, when they are in a 1/3 minority or smaller, and when they move they will only move to a place where they are not in such a minority, which alters the balance for the other people living there causing the chain reaction.

It's a neat mathmatical toy, but when you spell out what it's doing it's tautological and obvious, which is cool for maths, less so for social policy.
> boo fucking hoo. why is that a big deal? why isn't china on the banned list if there is oh so trade war with them?

Completely irrelevant whataboutism.

> is binance an american company? if not then why should it care about american sanctions?

I suspect you haven't an understanding of the long arm of Uncle Sam.

That's also not accurate, after all many countries in which they do business have sanctions against Iran. The EU for instance. The UN. [1,2]

But beyond that, I think you'll find that US' view of its jurisdiction includes any businesses that do business with Americans. Even if they pretend not to do business with Americans with a '.us' entity set up under the 'Tai Chi' [3] framework to attempt to evade regulators. Especially if they have a long history of looking the other way over VPNs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran#UN_sanc...

[2] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions/iran/

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/10/29/l...
"New and Improved" is corporate speak for we spreadsheeted the flavor out of it.
There is a rampant war against math. I don't know when it started, but it did. But what people ignore is that math is mandatory in hard science. So people thought that math was the obstacle put in their path just to block them. They asked to get rid of the obstacle, but they failed to understand that it was not there to block their path, it was mandatory.

Reality always win.
Could you give any explanation for why anthropological studies on contemporary society would be published if not to share their findings?
Can you please provide some examples (anything other than Oracle)?

I do a lot of programming with stored procedures in MySQL and being able to single step stored procedure code is something I’d like to try.
https://colornames.org/ Has 17.9% colors named already.
Saudi opposition leader killed in Lebanon
I've come across this kind of advice many times and I've learned to identify it for what it is: a recipe for a boring and ossified intellectual life.

What works best, I think, is to go with what deeply interests you while periodically challenging yourself with things that are out of your comfort zone. This way you can start anywhere - in my case it was Harry Potter, but it can be anything else: LOTR, Stephen King, anything. A possible progression would look smth like: Harry Potter -> the Hobbit -> LOTR -> A Song of Ice and Fire etc. Each step is a bit more challenging than the previous. Once you get to ASOIAF the world is your oyster: you can focus on history, sociology etc.

Always challenge yourself, always approach things critically, always pursue things that spark your curiosity, not some static list of "great books". With enough time you'll get to some of the great books anyway, but you'll do it in a way that makes sense for you.

Also, use books as tools, make notes, fold pages etc. Buy cheap paperbacks, use them, re-use them. Become a professional learner, not a coffee-table "intellectual" full of other people's pre-digested ideas.
A fun thing about those 80s wire-frame graphics: many of them weren’t CGI at all. The desire for the “computer 3D” look was such that quite a few film-makers faked it up using actual 3D models painted to look like wireframe.
So did GitHub, and Signal for their users? But we are not screaming at them are we?
I clicked on the right door about 10 times and the left door about 10 times but did not receive any car or a goat in any of them.
They're free to ignore US sanction laws as long as they don't want to receive money from US customers and US dollars from anyone.
>It seems hypocritical for a man who proclaims to be a philanthropist working against climate change to make arrangements to benefit financially when the most prolific electric car company on Earth decreases in value. This rightfully, calls into question Gates’ personal values and motivations

(a) Who said Bill Gates thinks electric cars (and luxury ones at that) are a significant part of climate change fixing? If he doesn't, then he can short any electric car company and still be compatible with his "anti climate change" ethics.

(b) Even if Bill Gates believed so [that electric cars would be a big part of fixing climate change], as a capitalist he wouldn't think that failing electric car companies companies would do that. He would believe that climate would be helped by electric car companies performing well. So to short an electric car company that he believed would perform badly would be fine - if anything it would help separate the wheat from the chaff.

(c) Billionaires can claim to be all kinds of things. Don't pay so much attention to what they sau they believe in. When it's not for the money (like BS "charity" and "foundations" created for tax purposes), it's for control (political power). The rest is for those who still believe in benevolent billionaires and the tooth fairy.
That by itself totally explains the trend. There were enough intelligent people back then, but they just didn't go to college. This is alarmist, virtue-signalling, click and rage bait journalism.
Same here no luck getting it to run on Win or Linux. It looks really cool.
Lots of people, both rich and non-rich, spend a lot of time on their phones and watching TV that could be used to read instead. It's a choice.
I wonder, what are those management jobs that earn so much more and what's required to land one?
Thanks for pointing this out; I had only clicked on the description link and hadn't noticed the difference.
You didn't read the whole thing. The point is: Europe has not since WWII. That is definitely machinations of the us at work. Whatever shitty motives the us had pre-wwii, like fighting wars on behalf of dole, something has changed, and if you don't understand that and take the lazy mindset that "history never changes" you're gravely mistaken, and in fact you won't be served well in general.
American Airlines ending Ithaca service despite objections
This sounds amazing! I'm going to have to try it out tonight.
That’s nonsense and mostly a big oil talking point. In the south every single home has at least one large A/C unit, most of which draw the amount or more as an electric car being charged and yet the grid doesn’t fall over when it’s noon and everyone’s air conditioning is running full blast during the summer. This is like that old fable about the English power companies having to fire up peaker plants during the commercial breaks of soccer games because of so many people putting the kettle on.

Further, most electric car owners I know charge at night when the grid usually has excess capacity. I personally am on a time of use plan where I get free charging from midnight to 3AM, and that’s the window in which I charge my electric cars every day.
I mean, default is pretty interesting that it's at the top.
Oh no, it's another pie-in-the-sky battery company with no papers. I'm serious: running a search for their Chief Science Officer, Yet-Ming Chiang, with 'iron battery' provides no relevant results:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47&q=yet...

And of course YM Chiang is the only remotely chemistry-related official on their Team page:

https://formenergy.com/team/

There's a serious plausibility problem with an "iron-air battery": the electrolytic reduction of iron oxide has been a holy grail of steelmaking roughly since we learned what electricity is. If you could reduce iron oxide at room temperature with electricity, you would revolutionize the steel industry and rapidly eliminate ~4% of global GHG emissions. See e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30348046

Oddly, this is the second scammy iron battery company I've heard about in less than two months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=scythe&comments=t

Meanwhile, real companies with real technology like Gelion [1] and EOS [2] are making real batteries and not getting attention they deserve. Gelion's lead researcher actually worked on the technology they're selling [3] and EOS mentions 21 patents on their technology page, and they're willing to tell you which ones [4]. This is what real science looks like: they want to show you how it works.

1: https://gelion.com/gelion-endure-battery/

2: https://eosenergystorage.com/products-technology/

3: https://www.sydney.edu.au/nano/industry-partners/case-studie...

4: https://eosenergystorage.com/patents/
You don't have to trust them, the organ harvesting is well documented and criticized by human rights organizations. Don't make the mistake of being agnostic about their victimization just because they are an usympathetic right wing person cult.
Thanks. It seems that the issue arises from value equality vs optional value state equality.

To me, a more natural way to treat NULLs is to think of NULL not as a value, but as a state. Several customers with a street=null all have street property in an equal state. However, an equal state doesn't mean the value is also equal, as there is no value in that state. Option type in functional languages models this perfectly:

'a option =
|None // no value here
|Some of 'a // value of type 'a

So, when checking, if customers have the same street we need to check the value. So, comparision is only valid if street has value defined. Adding null check in addition to equality check to ensure that the actual values are equal feels most natural to me (as this is how it's done in most languages).

Unique constraints should not be a problem. Unique constraints are about values. So if state is NULL there is no value and so constraint does not treat NULL states as equal values. Adding a keyword to change constraint behavior when needed, would be best IMO, as it would need to be rarely used.
> I believe it's profitable for Lockheed, etc., but isn't that at the expense of the American taxpayers?

It's generally both - they're getting both American and foreign taxpayers to pay for their stuff.

> And doesn't the foreign location usually make money from the base being there?

If you're only looking at the direct impact of the base, sure, it tends to mean there are a bunch of young American men with money to burn around (though they also tend to be a not entirely positive influence in terms of e.g. sexual assaults). But the full package of obligations that goes with it tends to add up to something that's costly for both sides, and the people with the supply contracts are the only real winners.
VinFast partners with ProLogium on solid-state EV batteries
If this is true, why hasn't he made it public long before now that he was essentially lobbying within government in support of Uber's illegal operations?
> In any status-conscious society (read: any human society), given enough time, the people who make it to the top will invariably maximize opportunity afforded to their affinity group (i.e. offspring) at the expense of everyone else.

You state this as if it's an inescapable fact instead of something that we as a society should improve upon.

Case in point, I grew up in a "working class" factory but thanks to socialist policies of affordable and state-sponsored education, I got a college degree and work in IT now. Everyone should have that opportunity IMO.

Of course, your point does stand, because our government started to pull up the ladder behind me; first with policies to reduce "eternal students", people who abused the system and stayed in school until their 30s because they got paid; then with getting rid of the state-paid thing entirely, changing the whole scholarship system to a loan - leading to young graduates to start their career tens of thousands in debt. Great start, keep 'em financially weak. They seem to be reversing that, but there is a whole generation now that has suffered under it.

TL;DR, I think education at all levels should be free or cheap / affordable, to avoid education becoming something for the rich elite.
There is a world outside SF. Some places had great taxis, others had awful and most somewhere inbetween. Uber used the same underhanded tactics in all places.
Since we have some PG devs here: Can we please have a way to reorder columns?

Coming from MySQL, this is one of the first missing features one hits. It's like moving to a new house where you're told you can never clean or move the furniture without moving to a new house.

It leaves the unfair impression that this is a "toy" db. "What other basic features is it missing if it doesn't have this?" Please don't think of it as trivial; first impression are very important.
I thought it might be that. Yeah.
Yes but unironically
Intel SGX2 Support Poised to Land in Linux 5.20
And in lots of other places. London tried to ban Uber due to pressure from Black Cab drivers but the push back from the public was massive; everyone was sick of Black Cab drivers either refusing to drive you because your location was inconvenient, or not accepting card payments, and generally being really expensive.

Uber was great in its early days, presumably because trips were being subsidised, but I hardly use it now. The regular taxi companies seem to have got their act together and there's little difference, they can even be more reliable for things like booking an early morning trip to an airport. I still only use Black Cabs as a last resort though.
Citation please?

For reference, I was in a PhD program in the humanities at the University of Wisconsin, and it was definitely not fully funded.
That's exactly what they are doing. They created Binance US as a separate entity due to this issue (among others).
> while still controlling the resources

Except they’re not. And they won’t be able to. For the time being, light insurgency and the threat of shelling all but foreclose resource development in eastern Ukraine for years to come.

This is Russia’s Afghanistan. Except unlike the U.S. or USSR, Russia is not a superpower. (Its economy is eclipsed by California’s. And its military struggles even miles off its border.)
A grappling match one of the opponents is better prepared for and working of a well rehearsed game plan.
Using a VR cricket simulator to explore the effects of pressure
Just keep writing. It gets better.
https://aranet.com/products/aranet4/
For a very long time I've taken the view that things are almost never as much the way they are as we think they are. We're in a constant state of veering from over to under estimating things.

When the pandemic happened there were a lot of people (especially on HN) screaming about how the office was over and we were all free, we'd be sipping Martinis on the beach in the Bahamas whilst logging on to zoom. Then the pandemic started to recede and a drum beat emerged of how everyone will come back to the office in the end.

I think the truth is neither. Technology and infrastructure has evolved significantly in the last 2 decades bringing us to the point where we can do significant parts of our jobs from home. And for some people that'll be their preference, and for some companies that'll be a preference too. Either because they see it as a way to win and retain talent, or because they find ways to cut costs.

One of the hilarious side notes to this is in the UK where a particular politician decided he was going to insist every civil servant return to the office - leaving passive aggressive notes on their desk if they were absent. Naturally, this politician isn't a details man, and so wasn't aware of the slightly inconvenient fact that the British Government were saving shed loads of cash by not needing desks for everyone and in some sectors, like the Department for Education, the number of employees out number desks by a factor of 2:1.

Hybrid work is here, it's been here for a while. The pandemic just brought more attention to it.
Tour de France: Too Fast to Be Clean?
This is adjacent to the notion of a "Flâneur", someone who idly wanders a city with nothing in particular to do, but who engages with it intellectually and socially.

It very much requires a high level of privledge or, in more rare cases (these days), the ability to survive in poverty looking like a homeless person yet still be interesting and welcomed by others.

For Gen-X, this was also known as being a "slacker". It was good while it lasted.
Show HN: CursorWalk, a random walk implementation on the mouse cursor
Well Zelenski tried - saying he wouldn't join NATO, offering to stick to the Minsk agreements and offering to chat to Putin and sort it out. Putin doesn't seem interested in that though and wants to take over part or all of Ukraine.
Wouldn't that just encourage Uber drivers to be slow in picking up and wait for people to bid?
They may be "files" but I have thousands of them on my devices. And there is no way in the world I'm managing that through Kindles interface.