skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article is currently erroring out so I can't see what it says, but hydrogen isn't super easy to store or transport. It's also a whole other infrastructure system to have to set up, where the already-popular electric cars are already struggling.

https://smartgrid.ieee.org/bulletins/february-2021/green-hyd...
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Foxcoon has been modern slavery for long[1], in case anyone doesn't know. Workers are suffering from sexual harrasment as well as poor working conditions. It seems like that someone assumed this started only after the covid-zero thing, but it's actually not. (though this has definitely made the workers' lives worse)

That's how the "advantage of low labor cost" works.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
no I disagree this is comedy, the whole charade
It's true, or was at least: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-suns-logo-is-on-the-back...
> Why is it corporations can "layoff" without notice but as an employee you are expected to give 2 weeks notice?

Both sides can equally give as much notice as they want. 2 weeks is only customary, but also seems to be rarely honored on both sides. If an employee gives 2 weeks, they’re often just walked out the door and stay on the payroll for 2 weeks (for any job more complex than menial tasks, no meaningful transition can be completed in 2 weeks, so it’s better to reduce any risks immediately). Companies often give severance packages longer than 2 weeks to avoid being sued, on condition of signing some paperwork to that effect.
It's WSJ's wording from https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-emp...
It's just data, is my point. Events are harder, require actual processing.
The best estimate I found was from May of this year. At the time they estimated somewhere between 7.7 and 23 million cases of long Covid in the US.

Compare that with 1.6 million people getting a cancer diagnosis every year, about 40 thousand traffic fatalities and 2.2 million injured in traffic accidents.
This reminds me of the Woz/Jobs divergence--Apple under Jobs did well.

Without experiencing Project Cambria/Quest Pro, I can still imagine the hard-to-believe-it's-not-real feeling of presence with the incremental improvements + real-time facial expressions. That does seem important to be able to demonstrate. I haven't as yet heard reviews that express this though.
Perhaps go on mini-dates with your wife? Coffee shop, park, etc
Kind of like building a house on an old burial ground. Trouble abounds!
"to Vintage Specs" is a slippery slope with a lot of different meanings. Behringer recreated the venerated V3340 VCO so they could mass-product dozens of synths based on the retro architecture. Thankfully they didn't go as far as marketing their clones as faithful recreations, but it does beg the question as to what "vintage specs" mean.

Fender seems to have a ravenous fanbase, so I guess they'll be the judge of it at the end of the day. Does make you wonder, though.
> Wondering how the displaced engineers will impact the rest of the job market

That dream of making local (San Francisco) pay while living wherever you want will quickly evaporate.

I survived as a software engineer through the dot-com crash. This isn't even a crash, this is just seems like a minor correction to "normal" for most of these companies with head-counts through the roof.

But SV salaries were abnormal, and that should be taken into account. There are a lot of us, doing a lot of the same stuff, for a lot less pay out there.

Why? For all sorts of various reasons. And this is now rapidly taking into account the entire globe.
That's a little too radical for my tastes.

On the vitro, I leave rice and noodles boiling for six minutes, other pasta ten, then turn it off and wait ten minutes for the water to be completely soaked.

The really useful trick is to measure the water (or broth) needed relative to the rice or pasta, so you can leave it unattended, just using a couple of alarms of the phone.
Seems like this would limit the supply of housing, though I don't know what problem it is that you're trying to solve?
Hydrogen production is still very costly and energy inefficient. If we had excess renewable energy, this may not be a problem, but today it's an issue, especially if you're producing hydrogen using non-renewable energy sources.
The 5% rotates by definition if anybody is hired or fired, as will always be the case.

5% unemployment is never going to represent 5% of the workforce being perpetually unemployed, as many sob stories try to implicitly portray it as.

If an individual is perpetually unemployable, then it doesn’t matter if unemployment is 5% or 1%, they aren’t getting hired anyway
It is also the only way to cook an egg without an egg piercer.
Watch McDonald’s put up a restaurant.

I went to school and they changed zoning along this big road where I lived. When I can back from winter break it was unrecognizable and the stores were open.

Now in CA - voted for high speed rail and was absolutely promised it would not go over budget. The first contractor quit in disgust SNCF and started doing projects in Africa saying they were less dysfunctional :)

Most recent audit committee reports are that everything is on track. We will see

One argument on ballot was 10 years of planning went into project before ballot - so starting 1998 or so - 24 years later now
I wish I could use my physical CD collection as a "pass" to download high quality rips so I can skip the part where I have to do the labor of ripping them myself.
Why does it not? The ethics of forced vaccination notwithstanding, if China is okay with using its authoritarian rule to impose massive lockdowns repeatedly, surely it'd be comfortable using its power to force vaccination?
On top of AAPL growing their advertising business at the expense of their competitors is more accurate.
What do you say about this, people of the UK? Was the massive problems in your energy costs really something that happend decades ago or was it more in the last 8 months?
Elliptic curve cryptography is usually done with prime fields since there have been too many breaks against systems using binary fields, the ones that these cpu instructions operate on. Binary field arithmetic, as people have mentioned, are used widely for error correcting codes, and to a lesser extent in cryptography for modes like AES-GCM and inside of AES itself.
And pour-over is just you manually doing what the drip coffee machine does for you.
Good luck to all my ex-Metamates, I hope it's not as deep a cut to the bone like what Elon did with Twitter. I'll be shocked if Twitter doesn't suffer multi-day outages by the end of the year given how deep some of the cuts sounded.
Rough guess (based on info here: https://demaco-cryogenics.com/blog/energy-density-of-hydroge...) if stored at 700bar is 400L.

Which doesn't sound right. Can someone correct me please?
My wife is much better than me. She is also good at Scrabble. Something about being able to recall words with "letters in specific places".

To me, a word is a word and I struggle with piecemealing them.
I've moved twice so far (didn't like the (lack of) moderation on the first instance I was on, the second one is shutting down in a bit and they gave everyone advance notice so we all moved off) and it's very painless, not worrying at all.
> while certain companies is reaponaible for basically all emissions.

those "certain companies" are exclusively energy companies. the energy they provide can be used for things like boiling water. it's good to hold companies responsible, but don't delude yourself into thinking individuals can't have an impact. the energy we use is a collection of a whole bunch of small things, added up (and a couple really big things, like driving cars and raising cattle)
They’ve been teasing an EV Cub for a few years now. Excited to try it out. I just saw shots from some friends in Japan here this weekend where they were putting an electric CR through its paces (their offroad only dirtbike line). I believe it was a Honda GO related event.

Like the US, Japan allows people to ride a 50cc (or equivalent ev) moped or scooter on the street (when license plated) with their regular car license, which is why they’re going after this size.
First, 3.1% is kind of big.

Second, there's legal definition of Mass Layoff as per WARN act.

> at least 50 employees are laid off during a 30-day period, if the laid-off employees made up at least one third of the workforce

> 500 employees are laid off during a 30-day period, no matter how large the workforce;

> an entire work site is closed down and at least 50 employees are laid off during a 30-day period.
Itll take a few years and in the meantime China will age out of feeling frisky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
One is another communist regime and the other has issues with even basic electricity and running water.
We'll be making hydrogen from saltwater with sunlight and wind energy in ~15 years or less. There's a race to own these industries right now.
Honestly this view over the long term leads to the worst outcome for everyone, especially when adopted my any number of people.

Possibly the best outcome is getting enough people that would elect politicians that would enact new voting systems like ranked choice and move away from a two party system that will eventually collapse this country in extremism. Just don't blindly and willingly accept that the two party system is the only choice. And do not let an objectively evil person win because you want to remain neutral, cause your neutrality is gone if they get elected.
I want to keep my hair for the very specific reason that I don't want to have to always wear a hat in the sun. Hair is useful!
I am surprised to learn that this originated in ADHD communities. A huge part of my mental life that sits firmly within my ADHD diagnosis is hyperawareness.

If there are people around, I have at least several mental threads running monitoring their state. It doesn't matter if they are present physically or digitally - nor whether I can see, hear, or smell them, see message notifications from them, or am simply aware of their presence. It's incredibly useful in many situations - but means that I only achieve focus in complete solitude.
I can see that happening in a few steps:

1. State cuts funding

2. Public schools need to raise tuition to make up the difference

3. The gap in price between public and private school decreases

4. Schools need to improve their product to attract students in order to make up for this lost savings

5. Schools work to improve amenities and add ancillary services (and this can now become cyclical when other schools improve, sending you back to step 4 again)

6. The administration bloats as they hire people to work in these new areas.

Basically one person's "administrative bloat" is another persons "investment in attracting students". I think really the only difference between the two is whether the return on investment is positive or not.
The Lord helps those who help themselves; so help yourself to everything you can get your hands on.
Elon should buy Facebook then.
What if one's political leanings does not include supporting a racist party?
If you get even an error-corrected rip, why would that not be perfect? I guess I’m failing to understand how any of this could improve accuracy in any way.
Their claims about a ceramic membrane for the fuel cell, and the elimination of the platinum electrode, are certainly interesting on the side of fuel cell technology. In the past, fuel cells had a real lifetime problem (i.e. imagine having to replace the vehicles engine once every three years under normal use, at similar cost, i.e. at least several thousand dollars).

However, without knowing the vehicle's mass and performance characteristics, the 2000 km claim isn't very illuminating. Maintaining the hydrogen fueling system is also problematic. It'd be interesting to see what the numbers are for fully loaded semi trucks hauling goods from point A to point B, that seems like a more realistic use, and whether they'd be more economically and energy efficient than electric semi trucks.
I self-publish my novels, and I've had steady if very low sales year after year (certainly not enough to live on) and I have friends who have chosen the small independent publisher route and have not been happy with the results at all.

One of my friends sold ten (!!) novels in the 1990s to a small publisher, but they sold in low volume and never earned out their advance. When her publisher dropped her, she wanted to republish them herself. The cost to buy back the rights exceeded all the money she had ever earned from the publisher for the entire series.

I guess what I'm saying is this: anecdotes are not data. Some will find success with the big publishers; many will not. Some will find success self-publishing; many will not. And some will find success with small publishers, but again... this is rare.

Success in writing is just really really hard. No matter what route you choose, luck will play a significant factor. The quality of your writing will also play a big role. Writing really well, exceptionally well, is probably the hardest thing of all.
Well, Germans like to use three-phase power for their electric ovens.

(Still nominally at 230 Volt, but it's not quite the same as two-phase power.)
Or they just hire everybody else's employees? Anecdotally, we tried to hire during the past few years as a mid-sized, well known tech company, pretty much nobody showed up. It got so bad we had to stop giving coding tests because nobody was passing them.

And this is with great pay and perks. I can't imagine how are traditional companies were hiring tech people.
Yes it was in the water to begin with, that’s what hard water is.
It's simple if you use the Foreign Death Conversion Chart.
The problem is you need airflow or you generate carbon monoxide instead of carbon dioxide. So simple solutions can get more heat but also kill you.
Creating highly interactive web applications is far easier using React (and the surrounding ecosystem) than using plain Javascript.
FAANGs and unicorn startups hire the people who pass their interviews, which has nothing to do with what school they went to. They hire people straight out of bootcamps, and schools of all tiers.

And many with little skills could grind leetcode and make 200k with no past experience. I became wealthy through egregious tech pay, I’ve seen it all firsthand.

Were you asleep at the wheel through the whole Covid bubble?
This map illustrates how much of the world has allied with NATO in this conflict. (https://country.eiu.com/asset_images/1632029946.gif)

What I keep hearing from my own contacts in Asia and the Mid East is how much the war is not-of-interest in their societies. What I've heard third hand about Africa is they are watching this with a sense of schadenfreude.
That might work. Another path is thru the Senate. It would take only a relative handful of democrat people (say 100,000) to move their voting state from California to North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming and vote in Democratic Senators.

(This is from, possibly dodgy, memory, The Economist had an article on this about six months ago that had a detailed plan with all the numbers.)
The thing about Facebook is that it started from connecting people: friends, families, long lost co-worker, etc. Nowadays, there's so much outside content (some of is interesting sure) that it's a lot more like Reddit or Twitter.

And the Metaverse feels like more of a detour away from other people. I liked Facebook when I got to connect with a bunch of people I hadn't seen in year. I don't want it to be like Mike TV from Willy Wonka. I get plenty enough escapism from movies and shows.
I think it's interesting to see how much most people around here and reddit are convinced hydrogen personal vehicles won't work out while at the same time the largest carmaker seems very much to believe it will be the future.
Microsoft perfectly blocked running (outside of dev mode) homebrew/"backup" by hacking since Xbox One for now. It seems that they are really great to lockdown hardware.
25,000 employees, that seems insane. They are approaching a 1:1 staff:student ratio.
>Do you honestly believe no one wants VR and AR?

That's not important question, that question is, do enough people want this that it will pay off.

I mean I heard that 3D TV was the shit a decade ago, but we don't much of that around.
Verdana is the font of the New Millennium and I will not entertain competing suggestions
The growth in VR headsets is quickly becoming a hockey stick. 5 million in 2020, 8 million this year, 11 million projected next year, with an install base of 25 million.

To put this in perspective, there were 8 million PS5 sales in 2022, and 6.5 million Xbox X.

I realize this is not quite an apt comparison, and I’m lumping all VR headsets from all manufacturers together. But this is rapidly becoming a big deal.
Yes, they are crooked. If you don't realize this yet you're young or stupid.
Cellphones.
Continuous vs noncontinuous overcurrent rating.[1] Depending how you get your appliance approved, you can draw more. The actual requirement is 3 hours, but like all regulations you have to look at intended usage:

[1] https://www.csemag.com/articles/understanding-overcurrent-pr...
Isn’t it problematic to heat water in a microwave?
Kind of a blanket comment and seems a bit spiteful and unfair. Granted interviews at those companies could use a refresh and there are probably “leetcode” programmers there for sure, but there’s also plenty of talented developers at those companies.
I'm curious how many are paying cash and how many are using delayed financing to make cash offers? The latter is usually just a mortgage + a fee to get the advantage of a cash offer. I know these shot up in popularity during covid but I don't know where you'd find stats on the split.

Point being, if most of those cash offers are really a 30-year mortgage in a trench coat, the peninsula might slump very quickly in the near future.
That wasn’t the initial question.

Shareholders clearly get paid commensurately with their ability to make wise investment choices. There’s nothing more equitable than that

What other outcome could or should there possibly even be?
About twice as far for a given amount of energy input, BUT that's leaving out the energy density of hydrogen fuel cells vs li-ion batteries. For grid storage purposes, batteries might be more efficient. But for automotive purposes, for an EV to go as far as a hydrogen vehicle, it'd have to be much bigger & heavier.

In a sense, hydrogen makes the grid work harder, but once it does, you can squeeze it into a smaller/lighter package that can go much further than a similarly sized EV.

Edit: A readable primer: https://www.theautochannel.com/news/2021/11/03/1066723-toyot...
Ha. We are going to be rainy here in SoCal this Tuesday. Which is almost as rare as an eclipse occurring.
Why there's more to being smart than intelligence
Price of the land might be cheaper? Also more space for expansion.
Likely could cost Apple tens of billions in revenue..

If it were that bad, Apple would have said something more in their press release.

If things get worse, there will be another press release.
It should be pointed out that research universities were always ill-equipped to deal with a high demand of university classes.

What is better is the hub approach of key-research public universities, say five per state and then ten commuter campuses that re-use courseware from the research facalities.

In fact in the USA several states are moving to this model, including such states as Indiana.
I used to use my Senseo to make ramen so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"You might also like Margin Call (2011)."
Error-correction in audio CDs can correct errors up to a specific threshold of corruption.

Additionally, there is no way to know that you've passed that threshold -- the drive will just return bits, with no way to guarantee that they're correct.

A better description for this is "passive" error-correction. To try to get a 100% bit-perfect rip, it's preferable to start off with a drive that you know minimizes errors in the initial read process.
I recently upgraded from a Late 2013 MacBook Pro to the base model 14 inch MacBook Pro M1. It cost me £1,729.00. I'll probably update more frequently now (I'm thinking every three years) but even if I didn't here is the cost breakdown.

1729 / 7 years / 365 days = £0.68 / day

Personally, for what you get, I think this is an incredibly reasonable subscription. I would love to know the percentage of people on this thread that are moaning about official support being dropped after seven years who happily spend £2.72 (4 times as much) on a coffee every day.
Did you check https://github.com/docker/awesome-compose by any chance?

This repository is officially maintained by Docker Inc. These samples provide a starting point for how to integrate different services using a Compose file and to manage their deployment with Docker Compose.

Now comes the best part - Docker Dev Environments. For every sample project, there is a section "Dev Environments" when clicked opens up the app directly on Docker Desktop. Have a try !!
That link doesn't really give the full details. The Plaza Accord was agreed between 5 major economies (US, Germany, Japan, UK, France) to depreciate the dollar against those other currencies.

If we take this statement in the link:

> the intention of the Plaza Accord was to correct trade imbalances between the U.S. and Germany and the U.S. and Japan

Then:

a) Why were Britain and France interested and why are they completely omitted from the article?

b) Why didn't Germany end up in the mire like Japan?

It seems to me that Japan's officials agreed to something that either didn't suit its economy or the management of its economy was subsequently mishandled (not hard to believe given the ~25 years of finance scandals that are linked to the heart of government[1] - it's not hard to imagine things weren't any better in the preceding 15). As such, I'd also be very interested to know what OP was referring to because I'd find it hard to believe if it was the Plaza Accord.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/17/business/international-bu...
I would say “hiring big” in the context you mention is nowhere near the level of hiring mentioned in the parent comment.
Awesome. this is the niche that will win.
I mean this is mostly nonsense right?

The data is digitally encoded 16-bit PCM, and already has builtin CIRC error correction, there is no "quality" or "accuracy". Your software/hardware either correctly ripped the data or it didn't and this can be trivially verified with crc32 against CUETools or AccurateRip or whatever.
dude do you expect the guy to say "my entire team were utter dipshits; never hire them"
Yes, I understand that but I don't see why marketshare should stop anybody from using or liking Linux.

The original comment says: "it won’t work for most people", not "Most people don't use it".
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - George W. Bush
I think credit deserves some blame. Schools charge the maximum they expect students to be able to pay, and when students have significant leverage through the bank, those costs rise with it. Very similar conditions in housing. I think administrative bloat is a consequence rather than a cause. Now that the faculty lounge has replaced the factory floor as a reliable voting demographic for you-know-who, I don’t think the subsidies and waste will stop anytime soon.
Yeah this is my anecdotal take. Haven’t looked at studies on this, if they exist, but in my experience, reading monospaced fonts for several paragraphs is tiring.
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nice cartoons! :D