skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austin might get freezes periodically, but they do not get the same ice storms that Dallas gets, certainly not as frequently. The blizzards that Oklahoma and Kansas deal with, Dallas gets a taste of that for 2-3 days a year, but that 200 mile north-south buffer between Dallas and Austin is a significant one.
It is too bad no details are supplied about how he may have cheated or evidence. Mr. Carlsen thought something was wrong but could not pinpoint what it was or didn't feel like coming forward about details. With all the scrutiny on these games, I wonder how someone could cheat.
> Whenever someone says money doesn't matter...

Are you claiming that's what I said? Because I'm searching my posts for the phrase "money doesn't matter" and am coming up empty.
> The political debate is 100% about

Not sure your list is equaling 100%. As a life long Texan, the red and blue lines are far and wide here and purple is thriving in certain areas; largely based on transplants. The purple, and especially the blue part that is changing the gradient; is to be feared by the MAGA republicans. Even people I consider non-extreme GOP Texas standard politics over past ~50 years type people do not want to tolerate the reality of modern day homelessness. Our culture in Texas is very NIMBY on this topic. Zero tolerance as in "I will pull out my shotgun if you step on my property." Nearly every pre-Y2K teenage boy has a story to tell about that if they grew up in Texas.

I suppose I consider this part of the cultural phenomenon that comes with growth. Although, fused within politics. Also, economics because the reason this is even happening is the city of Dallas has been losing to it's suburbs in the economic department. That's why so much office space is vacant. The pandemic ruined it for sure but it has been bad for a long time.
OWID says 19–13m²/MWh depending on the panel type, no idea for which location but let's go with 15 m² for a rough idea.

We need about 900 TWh of energy in the country. A calculator tells me that's

$ calc 900TWh/MWh\*(15m^2)
(900 \* ((terawatt \* hour) / (megawatt \* hour))) \* (15 \* (meter^2)) =
13500 km^2

The country is about 42000 km² big. We won't want to get 100% of energy from photovoltaic, but also we'll need overcapacity to compensate for losses in storage and, to a lesser extent, transmission. Presumably, the land is currently not unused. I don't know what area is currently used by roofs and parking lots, that would be interesting to put this in perspective.

I was under the impression that roofs are not enough by far; perhaps it works when we add parking lots and cover all roads, or perhaps my knowledge is outdated (also because batteries have evolved since I first heard that). Either way, we'd have to cover gigantic amounts of land with electronics. Not saying it can't be done (I don't know enough about it), but not having any hydro to speak of, little space far enough from villages for wind, and no nuclear in the mix for the sake of argument... it sure seems daunting.
If memory serves, the axis powers (Japan and Germany) did even aid to some small extent.
Pilot's ultra-fine pens are great, though for the money, I think the Juice and Juice Up 0.3mm pens are nicer all-around than the Hi-Tec C. A bit less scratchy, more comfortable to hold. Just in case you needed a rabbit hole to fall down, again. :)
Are you an employee who worked his/her way up or are you one of those who were acquihired?
> ...without a clear indicator of the author's intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.

This checks all the boxes on Poe's law:

[x] Parody
[x] Reductio ad absurdum intent
[x] Extreme view
[x] Mistaken as sincere
If your files are under version control, you already have a generic change detection mechanism that can give you a shorter list of changed files that need to be checked for formatting. For example, you can run code formatters in pre-commit hooks. Mercurial's "fix" extension rewrites commits using formatting fixes that can be focused on changed line ranges. Of course, the purpose of this --cache feature is still valid for other situations.
In my opinion the key is to live your life believing that (for the most part) what other people think of you is not important. Assuming you have a good moral base and are not actively doing things that are actually a detriment to society or individuals then why let some random person you barely know dictate how you feel about yourself?

That being said I think it is also important to recognize that for the smaller subset of people you do genuinely care about you should also very much care what they think of you. There are exceptions to this, of course. If you find someone excessively judging you from this group then it might be time to rethink what you are doing or if you should be invested this much in them in the first place.
Solopreneur is massively different. There are some communities, imagine reddit for your subject etc but often will be filled with beginners. If you are missing that busy feeling and communication I don't think you're going to get it unless you formally startup and hire others.

I've done it for the last 4 years and basically worked alone. Had some contact with others over discord around related subject and companies but overall it's quite isolating. I even have clients and telegram chats but right now I message once a month with performance updates. You need many people in one place to get a regular level of communication.
That is confusing. Perhaps they liked it better than their previous national anthem The Stripe-Spangled Banner?
In hindsight we should’ve replaced the fossil fuel industrial base back when oil was $10 a barrel.
None of the researchers I read on renewable tech took that study seriously. From what I recall, I believe it makes some incredible assumptions that are very sketchy. Like assuming the need for massive amounts of grid storage (like four weeks or more), and assuming it’s all a single battery chemistry (that contains cobalt even though most stationary storage has already moved to other chemistries). In the real world, the actual grid storage requirements won’t be anything like that, there are other battery chemistries that might take over some of the market from lithium-based ones (like sodium or sulphur based), lots of storage will be pumped hydro, some will be flow batteries (not just vanadium but zinc-bromide), plenty of copper conductors can be switched to aluminium, energy efficiency measures (like heat pumps) will reduce the amount of energy needed compared to gas heating, etc. etc.
Guess we are going to have to increase mining of it and find a bunch more sources of it then. Which is literally what humans have done for every raw material out there !
About 40% of US corn is used for fuel ethanol [1]. About 90 million acres of corn are planted in the United States [1]. So around 36 million acres of corn are used for ethanol. Solar farms generally require less than four acres to produce one GWh of electricity per year [2]. Therefore at least 9 million GWh of electricity per year are available by displacement of corn ethanol alone. Total annual US electricity consumption is presently around 4 million GWh [3].

In summary, "the assertion" is false.

1: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feedgra...

2: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56290.pdf

3: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
Good, looks like outsourcing the core creativity and imagination.
Next make a robot, which pointless builds those objects.
Your child now can go consume corporate video streaming content.
‘DOWNLOAD NOW’ hahahahaha
It’s a drop in the bucket for LEGO enthusiasts who spend hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars a year on legos.
This. The EV revolution isn't here to save the world, it's here to save the automobile industry.

LRTs with overhead catenaries are electric vehicles without batteries. Let's build more of those.
(Ex-Googler)

These people aren't on teams you interact with. They have a low enough employee ID and/or a sufficient level that they just mill about on a passion project.
I do not work at Google but that is what I have heard from every friend of mine who does. In fact they have all said that it was almost a shock working there at first just how competitive it was. Then again I am sure there could be whole departments with completely different mentalities.
There are plenty of people, today and in the past, who do not have compassion for the homeless.
There’s a second amendment nut joke in there somewhere.
Write because you have something that you want to talk about, not for the sake of an audience.

This is coming from someone whose blog has zero readers.
I used to have a membership for the common area. Then I realized I only go in about twice a week so I switched to OnDemand which I'm happy with. Since Covid restrictions have ended I've also been using coffee shops more.

If you're like me you'll appreciate the novelty of switching environments frequently. :)
Depends; these would seem like the kind of decisions that affect the long term a lot more than the short term.

In the long term, this could severely impact the perception of Google for prospective employees, which in turn could hinder their ability to hire talent.

They spent decades building the image of “one of the best” employers for skilled software engineers, and they could potentially throw that away with just a few bad decisions.

It’s precisely because they’re still making boatloads of money that this makes even less sense.
The world of the tech millionaires who barely work (2017)
VFX is also the one hollywood industry that is notorious for massive exploitation of the VFX artist. And also the only non unionized part.
I was replying to "xwdv" not you
Probably a better way to say this is “we are currently trying to cover the world in a slightly thicker layer of lithium than we are lead”. Lead’s everywhere! Including in (non-EV) car batteries and until recently some forms of petrol, which are pretty much everywhere.
1. The original headline ends with a question mark.

2. Betteridge's law of headlines applies. (The text explicitly says that he does not attempt to solve the mystery of Tom Bombadil.)
> Is Flanderization just synecdoche - where one attribute becomes the reference for the whole, or is it a new co-oridnate on the spectrum of metonymy and simile?

Not quite; it's a character development process, not a figure of speech. The final result might lead to the attributes being the sole reference for the whole, but what matters is the process.
You know we have homeless people in Canada, right? Like there's a lot of them in Montreal which gets a fair bit colder than Dallas.
Lol. No, they buy new builds with microtransactions and then watch it build them.
Thinking over my last few programming book purchases, they're really more or less textbooks. I get them for the structure they provide to in-depth learning, which usually doesn't work so well with online materials.
They are a de facto monopoly on online advertisement networks worldwide. Unless the management deliberately pilots the company into the ground, their cash cow will outshine the competition out of sheer inertia.

The quality of decision making is seen when the rules of the game change and the companies are forced to adapt. This may or may not happen this cycle, depending on what happens to interest rates.
I dunno my time is worth more than that per hour. And sorting all those pieces will take more than an hour. So.. it's cheap.
> Do other developed countries have these kinds of problems?

The short answer is 'Yes'.

The long answer is 'Yes, they do.' It may be more prevalent in the US, because of its particular political climate, but its omnipresent.
>as they have every right to be.

I don't care if they technically have a right to do so, but they try and remove the usage of LEGO even when its usage falls under fair use.

Using LEGO in the examples you gave would fall under fair use.
Why not just... play with the LEGO?
Wondering when all the Arnis/Eskrima aficionados are going to come out of the woodwork and proclaim that canne de combat isn't effective or that a practitioner wouldn't stand a chance against a good eskrimador ...
Yes. It's almost genius. "required to a special light"? "this is broadcast... by the military"?
Every new apartment calls itself a luxury apartment. Don’t get hung up on the marketing buzz words. Each new apartment that is constructed lowers the rent, particularly on old apartments. Dallas, compared to other cities, has done a fantastic job building more apartments. Rent keeps going up in Dallas because people move in faster than apartments can be built and inflation. The solution isn’t to require non-luxury apartments but to keep allowing apartments of any kind to be built. A luxury apartment today is affordable housing tomorrow
Reading on a bus would make me barf in 5 minutes
There are. Some are very collegial, others are...not quite Amazon, but they lean in that direction. Never work in Payments.
Back of envelope Math:

According to linked calculation Solar PV needs 19 sq m per MWh per annum

Per Wiki final total energy consumption is 7050 MTOE which translates to 610 TWH

Multiple this by 10, 1.5 to account for energy losses,1.5 for capacity factor issues and 3.33 for growth in developing countries. Rounding up say the world needs 6000 per annum

Area needed = 6000 * 10^6 * 20/10^6 = 120000 sq km

Even in a densely populated country like India that is roughly 3% of the total land area

The challenge off course is installing it cheaply and balancing demand, supply, transmission etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_tram_in_Delhi_-_LIFE_(2...
Whether or not it's a decent job doesn't change the fact that it's an editorialization. The chief addition by the submitter ("resolved within 24 hours") doesn't match the timeline given in the article and isn't even claimed within it.
My old company hired a CFO at ~800 employees, and the cost-cutting measures looked great on paper, but we lost a ton of excellent talent from them. The CFO eventually left, thinking she had done the company a huge favour and made a blog post about how well she did and how she did it, but we were objectively in a much worse spot.
Lithium is a psychotropics.

I wonder what would be the unintended consequences of exposing the environment with higher concentration of lithium. (the thicker layer)
docker swarm is dead
No thanks. I'd rather have my own vehicle. Much more convenient.
Muse: Designing a Studio for Ideas
The cool thing about art, in any form, is that it can speak to different people in different ways. When asked "what does it mean?" an artist often replies "what does it mean to you?". Ultimately you may love, or hate, the art, but at least you feel something.

So maybe it's elitist to see a world where only a minority create. If so let me accept that badge with honor.

As you say, all children create. Somewhere, somehow, most of them lose that burning urge. Perhaps it is the convenience of modern life. Perhaps it is in the willingness to fail. Perhaps because they are prepared to risk more.

Yes, perhaps our education, wherever you are in the world, plays a part. It prepares us for a future, and we eagerly milk it for the future we see for ourselves. And clearly even more than education our parents, society and culture, and gently or firmly pushing in the direction of a stable quiet life with a "real job".

The musician, poet, painter knows that you can't make a living doing those things - by and large creators are not well paid.

So a day job there is, but the creator creates. He writes at night, he plays in a band on weekends, he paints the sunset from an exotic holiday shore.

Today tech allows for even more - and blessed are those that find a way to make creating pay and through the work can keep their creation joy. There are more aspiring film makers on YouTube, more aspiring rock stars on Spotify, more aspiring Writers on any blog platform.

The audience is closer, yes, the route to full-time is more achievable than ever. But for every megastar there are 100 dad-bands, with 5 followers, creating music because that is its own reward.

In our society today its not that the elite are the only ones "allowed" to create. Creation has never been so accessible, our lives never before so overflowing with free time.

If I am elitist for creating, then I wear the badge with pride. I encourage others to join me. Creation is open to anyone who cooks a meal, types on a phone, can wield an instrument, who can grasp a pen.

And yet so few do. So few are prepared to fail, to risk inconvenience, to expose themselves to public ridicule. It just isn't them. (and that is perfectly OK.) Creators are easy to spot though, it's in everything they do. They create. You can't make them stop.
The floating advertising and popups on that inc.com url are absolute cancer.
Google has over invested in AI research projects and, while they are pumping out good research, they aren’t exactly pumping out great products. If I were Pichai I’d trim the fat there first. As for rest and vesters, it sounds like it refers to senior people who have climbed the ladder high enough to coast at “meeting expectations” which obviously is not good enough grounds for firing someone.
I was looking for anything objective to back up my impressions and I found the 2021 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index – https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021

Looking at major English speaking countries – New Zealand comes 1st as least corrupt country in world (equal with Denmark and Finland); UK is 11th; Canada and Ireland are equal 13th (along with Austria, Estonia and Iceland); Australia is equal 18th (with Belgium, Japan and Uruguay). The US is equal 27th, with Chile. So yes, among major English-speaking countries, the US is the most corrupt.
> How insignificant am I in relation to this vast universe?

as far as we have discovered, any one of us is among the most beautiful, remarkable, complex things we know of, and on top of that we have emotions!

what's the sun? fusing hydrogen. What's Jupiter but a big hurricane? what's a black hole? these things are large, but they're lacking in subtlety, variety, and complexity compared to us. What's in between them? nothing, vast nothing. It's the rest of the universe that so far appears to be insignificant to me.
I dunno. I remember seeing quite a contingent of people not doing very much work at Google. You're walking to a meeting, pass by the game room, and it's always the same group of people playing ping pong no matter the time of the day. You try to grab lunch in a 30 minute slot between meetings, and there's a 45 minute long line to get food. Some people appeared to have a lot more free time than others. I certainly didn't have it.
This option should allow you to adjust the volume on your peripheral AND your device, instead of only adjusting it on the device which may max out via software.

This is something I set religiously on all the Android devices I use for audio-only media.
First topic - Linear Regression in 3 Minutes
It's an unusual arrangement, but it is absolutely something other countries should be adopting. Canada's equivalent thereof (as well as its equivalent to FEMA) was completely not up to the task when it came to last year's flooding in BC.
Almost nowhere in the history of the world does safe drinking water flow freely out of the tap. The US has been one of the exceptions due to the tireless efforts of professionals working under a political system that saw itself as stewards of all citizens present and future and treated public goods as apolitical entities to be shepherded rather than used as political footballs. That is no longer true and water crises are just the tip of the iceberg.
If we are asking specifically about state governments diverting federal funds earmarked for a particular purpose into something completely unrelated – I honestly cannot think of any instance of that ever happening in Australia. I'm not saying it has never happened, but I'm not aware of any examples. Have any Canadian provinces done that? Any of the UK's devolved administrations? I am thinking that particular form of corruption may well be, in the English-speaking world, somewhat unique to the US.
This really highlights one of the big advantages for nuclear on this crowded planet.

I wonder how it would look if you factor in land that has become unusable (to humans) by disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima, amortized appropriately of course. Perhaps this was accounted for already.
The Smalltalk-80 core classes. Some parts left me breathless on first reading in their beautiful simplicity, and some burnt permanently into my brain. Class Boolean, for example. I could probably reproduce it exactly now after not looking at it for decades.
I use pyminiracer to great effect for that sort of scraping.
This is great article. Thank you for sharing!
Just yesterday my 9 year-old proudly revealed his latest flying creation, created - as almost all our children's Lego builds are - entirely out of his own imagination and from the multiple tubs of bricks that sit next to his bed.

Each new Lego boxed set gets built from the instructions exactly once. Admired for a while (days to months), then duly ripped to bits and the pieces are used to build much better things that then can - and do - change on an hourly basis.

I'm not about to interrupt my kids' creativity by even telling them about this app. They need less screen time, not more.
I assumed many of the users are kids, whose time per hour is worth hardly anything. If they didn't have this app, they'd instead just play with the Legos the old-fashioned way, which accomplishes roughly the same goals.

This seems neat, and if there were some basic functionality (only smaller projects, or a limited number of complex projects per month), I would give it a try with my kid. But there is zero chance I'm going to introduce a subscription that costs $7/mo that would likely be used a handful of times each month.
I am option 4 but it's never going to get me very far up the leaderboard. So I just grabbed one of the funny numbers in one of the /8s and called it a day.
Almost everyone would give lip service, at the right time and place, to values like charity and compassion for the homeless.

But there are many, many people who would never for a second even consider the welfare of homeless people as a factor in any decision they ever make, personal or political.

So for all practical purposes charity is definitely not a universal value.
You can get this right almost every single time by always assuming it's bullshit.
Let’s say Hans Niemann cheated somehow. Then he would not be able to cheat in the future, because security measures will tighten up, and he will drop like a rock from his current 2700 level to his true level. If that dous not happen, then he did’t cheat.
Undoubtedly true! It would be great if there were feature gating so that kids could use this app even if their willingness/ability to pay is much lower.
They aren't :)

The main thing I guess is dealing with C APIs in C++. You do have to use C APIs in Rust as well though, but maybe dealing directly with plain C APIs is less common because of how annoying it is. The only way to avoid that pain is to make a Wrapper library that exposes a more idiomatic and possibly "safe" interface. C++ can wrap C APIs just as well though.

I agree with you though, C++ has been doing RAII for a while and I'm not sure why people seem to think Rust invented it. Idiomatic C++ APIs and code are just as "automatic" as Rust for the most part!
In high school debate, it was referred to as "grounds"- essentially, laying out definitions for terms important or relevant to the topic established the terrain, to use a battle metaphor.

If you're using the same words but with different beings, it's like two opposing forces not being on the same field of battle.

Two ships passing in the night is another metaphor, and is probably more common in English as a phrase.