skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they might consider THAT true, I suspect it has more to do with being able to track which companies and countries are doing what business with whom everywhere - especially if that includes countries they aren't supposed to be.

Tracking containers port to port everywhere would be a MOUNTAIN of useful intel.
“As I often repeat,”

no one knows who you are. already you can tell this was not written by an intelligent person

“Yet most empirical studies fail to find any connection between extraversion and career success.“

right off the bat, obviously the most “successful” people don’t have careers at software companies. this sounds like those conversations people have like “are we living in a simulation” that would only make sense if you were unfamiliar with the subject matter. obviously the most powerful people in the world are the types of people who can form relationships with other powerful people. it seems like the premise of this article was to make nerds who make six figures feel better about themselves compared to the popular kids they went to high school with.
If solipsism is real then my imagination has God-like powers. But imagination is not so powerful, reality is much more complicated.
I've gone through a divorce that went through the courts. I've also gone through mediation that was required by that court. For unrelated matters, I've gone through mediation, court proceedings, expert witness testimony, etc.

My first advice is to never go through a court proceeding when it can be avoided. My second advice is to speak to a lawyer - early - to preserve your rights and those of your children. That's non-negotiable. Always preserve your rights and those of your children.

Those two advices can often contradict each other, so consider and take them how you will. Until the dust settles, you won't know which will cost more, a lawyer or not contacting one.
You'd need to move the people too. That can work, but it will take some time to do.
I remember BASIC in the 80s when all I had were arrays of integers or strings. To have complex data structures I used one array per field. I don't think the CPU had cache though (Z80) /grin
I'm from the prairies. Personally I don't feel claustrophobic but big wide open skies are something I miss when I'm elsewhere, and feel happy to return to. It really is kind of special, though I'm sure most visitors don't even notice.

Prairie thunderstorms are also kind of amazing. Though my perception is they're getting rarer and shorter.
The great thing is that we can all blame our own political bogeyman (ACA) for healthcare costs for expensive medical equipment bought to avoid lawsuits, and not say, the enforcement of HIPAA on electronical data 17 years ago. The answer will surely lie in first blaming a political enemy, then vaguely hinting at something relevant (litigation).
Cynicism is the right course here. There's no way he legitimately believes this thing is sentient. I'm just watching to see how he goes for money and/or fame. I think that must be the real goal.
The moral of the story is
1. Use credit cards that has limits based on your top ups. COMPANY CANNOT CHARGE MORE THAN WHAT CASH AVAILABLE IN THAT CARD. Card app can also temporary disable the card at any time as you like.
2. As public, dont give advice about seeking arbitration help. Do like BLM, boycott and viral spread the issue. Dox if possible. Bombard their c-suite with hate mails. Now I've seen this way more helpful and powerful than ANY legal means.

Company these days are way more powerful than individual in legal arena. They have the advantage of corporate lawyers and cash to burn you out. The only way is exactly what BLM did effectively.
What kind of web technologies are you using to put this together? It looks super sick already. I love the automated guidelines when you try to align two pieces of text on the canvas, so useful for this type of drawing applications.
As humans we get prompted all the time, it's called having a job. Or you could even say the environment is prompting us.
It shouldn't be that scary. I've been married coming up on 10 years in January. I've been the sole income provider for a large majority of the marriage.

I wouldn't be able to make the income that I do without the contributions my wife has made to making my life easier, and in general keeping the more administrative aspects of life under control.

I'm in a marriage with her because I love her and respect her. Part of that is recognizing that it is our income. Part of that is recognizing that even if our marriage were to decay to the point of divorce that I would still care enough about her as a person to want her to be able to establish a new life.

I'd advise the friend of yours to create a relationship their spouse wants to be in. That's how you prevent the downsides of alimony.
Phone companies track you by virtue of your phone talking to cell towers, and they do sell your data. What OS or software you run on the phone is irrelevant. Recent versions of Android do not allow user-level applications to read the IMEI/IMSI as far as I know, but that was not always the case. And in any case, it doesn't prevent the carrier from tracking you.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...
https://www.wired.com/story/carriers-sell-location-data-thir...
https://www.ccmihub.com/blog/fcc-fines-mobile-providers-sell...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/06/at-t-verizon-...
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-sel...
Surely that has to be a mistake?
I used to be obsessed with Tetris (both on the console and the 40 line clear version on the computer) and ended up programming a version of it that maps one key on the keyboard to one "slot/rotation" combination for each piece. Amazingly, there are enough keys to cover all of the combinations, so each drop is just one key press. Ended up getting some pretty good 40 line clear times for this weird version of Tetris; it felt like I was typing to play the game. I don't know if anyone has done something like that since then—that was probably a decade ago.
yeah, I was just asking why you thought it was appropriate to extrapolate (if you had any reason to believe that the shady incentives you mention, translate to a different field, versus them being completely different in this regard)
stop blaming your ex for your choices.
I'd rather have tax returns be public (like Norway) than have laws requiring salary ranges.
Believe it or not he's learning a ton of soft skills that college fails to teach that are paramount for real life success. During college I "wasted" my time playing videogames, speedrunning, striving for high scores, and forming communities. I graduated with sub par scores but I still managed to be more successful than any of my college buddies (even those with perfect grades).

Here are some ways it helped me kickstart my self taught software engineering carreer:

- I learned how to enter the zone almost on command. I recognized my triggers and exploited them.

- I learned how to moderate a community. Now I see the fruits of that because somehow in the two companies I've worked at I've been seen as a leader even when I was a junior developer.

- I learned that learning stuff wasn't really that hard. It mostly requires dedication. I memorized speedrunning routes from google doc files for several games and it translates well into the experience I've had of reading documentation to learn a tool.

- I perfected my English. As a non-native speaker, practicing English with natives gave me the tools to now work for companies abroad that are astronomically better than local ones in every conceivable way.

I'm sure there are other benefits as well. There are also some risks such as social isolation, but that really depends on the player's surroundings more than anything.
Employer doesn’t have to approve shit. They probably won’t even know, I’ll leave my address the same as what it is, and just forward my mail. It isn’t really their business.
Pretty amazing - near the end of the article they discuss just that,

"Although tree-thinking biologists used to think that hybridization was extremely rare, genetic studies have shown that it actually happens all the time. Human DNA indicates that early Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals and other extinct hominins. Conservative estimates suggest that at least ten per cent of birds hybridize; among South America’s largest group of birds, that number is thirty-eight per cent, according to one recent study."

"Semi-lattice", networks; I guess it's a lot more complicated than I ever imagined.
Vitess does something similar, "query coalescing", which was designed for loads that are very read-heavy. If 1000 requests come in that end up making the same read query from the database, and they all came in in the same 50ms that it takes to get the results from the database, you can just return the same answer to all of them.
If you used the money to build renewable infrastructure, most of the money would still end up in rich people's pockets, because typically it's rich people who own the means of producing infrastructure.
I suspect they’ll move to Container.v6 and that everyone will dislike because the values are harder to read to say… then the industry will take an additional decade or two to actually start to use it.
Rich people don't keep their money under the mattress. It's invested in assets that make it available to the economy.
What BS is this?
"I need some Os!"
"No! Not hose! Os!"
Just like Chromeboxes, some models require the removal of a screw or a jumper while others need a special USB cable (cheap and easy to diy). I don't know about other models preventing the unlock, but if they do exist I would avoid them at any cost.

You can find here if your model is supported: https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-function-memo

This might be relevant to this exact pattern

const getThing = (async function (arg1, arg2) {
console.log({ arg1, arg2 });
return arg1 + (arg2 || 0);
}).memo();

console.log(await getThing(1)); // New promise
console.log(await getThing(2)); // New promise
console.log(await getThing(1)); // Returns promise from earlier
There’s a battle royale version of Tetris on the switch that sounds very similar - you can alter your settings of who you attack too, targeting those who attacked you, those in the lead, etc… I never won but got top 3 a couple times :)
Maybe.

2 weeks after mass graves were found outside Kyiv.
2 days after Macron wins the election and is congratulated by Putin.
Tensions were heightened in unusual ways. Motive was probably not in short supply.

Disgruntled worker Vandalism? Anti-tech vandalism? Attack on broad flows of traffic by a nation-state?

Or maybe a highly targeted attack against an unidentified victim entity who relied on multiple redundant links for security/comms in a sexy French movie-style heist? Someone should check to see if the Mona Lisa has been replaced with a fake.
So to summarize, we have a fairly good idea of Heisenberg’s position on nuclear war at the close of WWII, but there’s quite a bit of uncertainty around how much his position was changing at the time.
I'm not from the area, but isn't Manhattan well known for its tall buildings? How would those buildings' shade affect solar panels closer to ground level, e.g. warehouse roofs and parking shade structures?
It doesn't seem to be a valid or useful test.
How to cut a cable is not exactly a secret.
> Choose to not make every day the same. You're free!

For us, once we all went remote, the day just started earlier. Whereas we used to start at 10 we begun starting meetings at 8. The assumption being that nobody is commuting, so why not start the day earlier? This also helped accommodate others in non-Pacific Americas timezones. This means you have to jump straight into meetings and each day can't be materially different, unless you make your after work life different.

> Be deliberate about arranging calls with coworkers, friends, family. Just hang out on a call.

We tried this but it wasn't the same. Eventually, everyone ended up on their phones while on the call and slowly nobody started showing up to social Zooms. Zoom calls are fine for work but just don't allow the same sense of presence that being in the same space in real life would offer.

> If you don't already have hobbies, you want to discover some that you enjoy. Do something that creates nice memories with your spare time, and that isn't the same as your work, or just relaxing.

But my coworkers and I have so much shared context. We spend 8 hours+ together. It feels like a waste to pretend that we just don't have anything in common despite the time.

Don't get me wrong I love how easy it is to start my day and how little time is wasted commuting. I love the coffee I make at home and I love being able to eat my home cooking or talk with my partner over lunch. Being able to use my home bathroom is majestic. But there's definitely things lost working remote. Maybe if you're a remote worker at a hybrid or in-office company where expectations around most employees are in the office, the above works, but at a full remote company I'm not so sure.
Solar power gets expensive at night.
It's possible to distinguish between past in future states if they exist in the same light cone. It says this in the wiki you linked to

> However, if the events are causally connected, precedence order is preserved in all frames of reference.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is also out! I believe it has more players online.
> How extraordinary is it to claim that something capable of holding a lucid and eloquent conversation might be sentient?

you've got to squint _real_ hard to think that any of the LLMs are lucid and eloquent.

(and honestly the bar for sentient is probably lower than that. no shortage of people who aren't lucid or eloquent, let alone both.)
GPT-3 can adapt on the spot with just a task description or an example. No retraining.
There is a secret: setting your life up to make “just doing it” more likely to happen.

I live by work to make sure I have no excuse to not start my day. I find someone at an office to go to the gym with me at lunch, and people at the gym who are there at the same time. I grab food with other people who I know are healthy. I pick up my son, who I also make sure goes to school near work and home, and put down my phone when I’m with him.

Work from home makes only one of those things simple and self reinforcing. Without a standard office I often feel like my life is falling apart.

And I’m not the only one! I fully expect sentiment on wfh to come full circle within the next two years.
It's basically the cost to list, store, sell, and ship a small item on Amazon, plus $1-2.

You pay the markup to get the item quickly, and for easy returns.
Gonna drop my pet conspiracy theory here and say that a Chinese person had to have come up with the asinine Fibonacci system everyone uses for estimation.

Nobody ever uses anything above 5. If you do, you end up story splitting/slicing it until you have a bunch of <5’s. You’re left with an estimation system of 1, 2, 3, and 5. Four would be really fucking convenient to use but we can’t because of the system. Who superstitiously hates the number four more than anyone? The Chinese.

I’m joking about the Chinese thing, of course, but the Fibonacci system really is stupid for estimation.
@dang Dated 2012
If that is how they go about it

They could also just blow up all government buildings from afar
I plan on including programming languages of all types. The repository is quite new so it is still missing many common programming languages.
I know next to nothing about Quebec, and so cannot contribute anything there.
Good advice about talking to a lawyer and not going through a court proceeding.

I suspect you will never know which cost more, but you can reduce the cost of any single path by finishing it as quickly, and with as few twists and turns, as possible.
It's downvoted because its a broad populist statement that isn't actionable in that form and doesn't provide any value to the discussion. In contrast your take is a lot more nuanced and something that actually can serve as a basis for fruitful discussion.

Banning advertisment outright is about as realistic as banning humans from communicating.
Meaning that coal transported by train is still a major energy source? Globally that is still accurate unfortunately.
The issue as well is catastrophic failures.

Superconductors get VERY exciting VERY quickly if they ever quench, and that is a property of the current and superconductor. You can't carry infinite current.

They may be more efficient, but they come with a whole host of challenges that make them difficult to use over long distances or in uncontrolled environments, which is pretty much what you'll have to deal with for long distance utility level power transfer.
Between oops and sus.

In this case, it appears to be a mistake. That a number was accidentally reused.

But a concern could also be fraud, theft, smuggling, etc. A “bad” container that was supposed to fly under radar mocked up to look legit if anyone checked.
You can easily run a grid on 60% renewables with essentially no storage at all. We have a long way to go before 60% of the world's primary power consumption is switched to renewables.
Two somebodies each have to replace half their shit. Net shit doubles. Extra-juicy.
Everyone talks about losing focus at home, oversleeping, and doing other activities during the work day. For some reason I've had the opposite problem. I used to get into the office around 8 AM, take a lunch break, go grab dessert or take a walk in the garden later, etc. Then I'd leave around 4:30 PM and forget about work until the next day.

Now I wake up at 5:00 AM and basically work non-stop in the same spot (sometimes a coffee shop in the morning) until 6:30 PM. I skip breakfast and lunch altogether, because I've found that without walking around the office campus I gain weight too quickly.

It's like the saying about hard drives: however much more space they get, people still find a way to fill them up. Same thing with my time apparently.
Of course their model was not conscious but I disagree that we can never build a conscious machine based on symbol manipulation.
You're telling me your solution is to do the same thing we used to do with forced birthday party celebrations, but more frequently? UGH!
Haha that’s cute. Here in china the GFW now simply routes the IPs to blackhole. False positive by virtual host or CDN you ask? They don’t care :)
Honestly, how can you all be so unwilling to push back that you tolerate starting at 8 instead of 10 because the commute vanished? I'd walk if the longer day was enforced rigidly (e.g. by constant monitoring or meetings).
>The technology now exists to theoretically cover many hundreds of square km of Libya in photovoltaics and take the electricty to Europe

It really doesn't. I'm a huge fan of back-of-the-envelope maths, and this idea raises some very fun questions. How big would the power line be, if the UK (where I live) was powered entirely by solar panels in the African desert?

The UK's average instantaneous power consumption is around 100GW. Assuming a capacity factor of 5 (which is probably far too low), the power transmission system needs to handle at least 500GW. The current (and somewhat unproven) state of the art in power transmission operates at 1000kv, and can carry 5GW per pylon system. We would need 100 of those operating in parallel. As each of those has a minimum separation corridor of 100 meters, we would need to persuade all of the countries along the route to give us a 4000km x 10km strip of land, as well as the approx. 150sq km of land needed for the panels themselves.

This leads to another fun question - if you want to install 150sq. km of solar panels in the desert and still have enough useful life left in the panels when you're done, how wide does the road need to be to carry all of those, and how many trucks will you need working that several thousand km route?
> I really struggle to understand what this all is good for.

Defence?

If your secrets (or more likely, your nation's secrets) might be exposed by a quantum attack, then you'd better understand how such an attack might work, so you can defend against it. Nations (some) do research into chemical/biological weapons to learn how to defend against them (purportedly).

That's a "devil's advocate" answer. I lean to the view that, for very big secrets, it's better not to have a secret at all. At least, don't have secrets that need to be kept long-term. That sounds glib and handwavy, and it is; but most secrets seem to get out, sooner rather than later, and usually not as a result of someone cracking the cryptography.
> Ok so now you've changed your argument yet again.

Like I said, you are arguing in bad faith and quibbling over an honest mistake when I explained to you exactly why you're wrong. I've presented the evidence and you refuse to acknowledge it, so there's no more to discuss.

> Like, do you think that someone who doesn't get into their stretch school is unaffected just because they're stretch is a state university and not Harvard

Even if the scenario you're proposing existed (the acceptance rate at these state schools is well over 50%), affirmative action still wouldn't affect white people. Whites, for example, are admitted to Harvard at around the same rate that they are to the University of Washington Tacoma [1] [2] or to SUNY Stony Brook [3]. So regardless of whether you're talking about some random state school or Harvard, and regardless of whether affirmative action is allowed (as it is at Harvard and Stony Brook) or not allowed (UW), white people are admitted at around the same rate. In fact, in some state schools in the deep South, whites make up over 60% of admitted students, despite affirmative action being allowed there. That is by definition, unaffected by affirmative action.

> We live in a society, and I try to support policies that will be good for society, not just ones that will be directly beneficial to me

Affirmative action is bad for society. It is racist and reduces the competitiveness of the nation as a whole. It violates the Civil Rights Act and will hopefully be illegal come the next SCOTUS session. It makes some white liberals such as yourself feel better about yourselves, that's it.

The fact that you believe you know what's "good for society" and no one else (especially not minorities! [4]) is exactly the sort of white supremacy that progressives nowadays embody.

[1] https://studentdata.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/...

[2] https://blog.collegevine.com/harvard-university-diversity-st...

[3] https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/irpe/fact_book/data_and_r...

[4] https://www.vox.com/2019/5/9/18538216/diversity-workplace-pe...
Amusing because it's kinda true; although there are a # of startups in the area where the pay is decent (not big tech salary or crazy RSUs by any means). IIRC Sysdig was founded in Davis before they moved to SF.

Tech meetups in general have lacked but non-tech related meetups have always been good - board games, etc.

I think people are more well rounded and realistic about work / life balance than Bay Area tech and that's what makes Sac seem a little sleepy.
I had found a perfect work-from-cafe-outdoors spot

Until a bird shit on my head

My quest continues
The arguments against nuclear are based on long history of economic failure. The same tired excuses are always trotted out. It's all someone else's fault.

Money talks, shit walks. The captains of industry and finance are treating nuclear like the failure it is. No money for this money pit.
Took me about 5 years to build good work from home habits.