skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in a coworking space -- not a WeWork (only because they raised my rates to almost $3500/month for a single person office) -- and it currently has a 95% vacancy rate.

In 2019, they had a 99% occupancy rate.

The most successful coworking spaces near me have a restaurant, a bar, and nice multimedia event spaces with Satellite TV -- all expenses that I don't think Regus, WeWork, or Expansive would ever spend money on.

Those spaces, that have amenities that are not things that you could get at home, have waiting lists for offices.
Masking saved thousands of lives from other illnesses. Keep your dna to yourself and mask up
I'd tell them anonymously. Register a new protonmail account and email support at Backblaze with some incriminating evidence that you're actually in possession of what you claim, and then offer to mail the drive back to them.
They're pulling that "info" from the conspiracy theorist website zero hedge.. that it conveniently aligns with that site's support of Putinist Russia should be noted. The German law limits public space heating to 67º which doesn't seem like it should be nearly enough to cause this kind of failure..
Are cases really rising? It looks maybe a little higher than the summer right now, maybe depends on the area. Nothing like the last two autumns, thankfully. We'll see about winter. They keep saying some new variant is going to break through but I don't see it yet.
I hear you but I'm only going to mask up if required. I've gotten 4 COVID vaccines, caught COVID, and I've never missed a flu vaccine.
There is really not much to look forward to in Europe besides trying to police others.
A hell of a lot safer than a WW2 reactor!
I'm thinking about this periodically.

I expect that - in addition to mere time restriction from the outset - ensuring that the kids are sufficiently busy with leisure outlets and spending enough face-to-face time with others their own age will go a long ways. At the core of it, the addiction we have, as social media is concerned, is to each other, excepting the mindless never-ending-scroll entertainment part of it.

Not to say I would overschedule, but would take care that they a) are registered to at least one sport for the majority of the year (intramural is fine), b) have the means and habit to make use of things for creative ends, or to get out of the house and explore. If that foundation is there from the start, might not have to pry the phones/tablets out of them.

I can't very well completely cut off any access to devices because the SO and I use them and it will just become a sore spot, particularly as the kids age.
I doubt there will be a part 3.

I assume Villeneuve got the deal safe for two parts but the numbers don't justify a part 3.

Maybe a TV show could raise more awareness.
Lol, debt is never robust. Exhibit A.
Oh, I can:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703957/

Thomas Wolfe brought Maxwell Perkins a "book" of over 2,000 pages, and he was still writing furiously. Perkins still said "we mean to publish this" and brought it down to a manageable length.

Alexander just needs some tough love.
I setup airbyte cloud when I was tight on resources and needed integrations done fast, had no bandwidth to spend a day or two working on the ETL flows.

Overall it's been good once it was configured. Ran into way too many issues for a paid platform though that gave me concern few people are actually using it in production.

I did spin up a local instance with docker compose and you get some integrations not available in the cloud hosted version.

I'm hesitant to give it a recommendation - their support is responsive and tries their best - eventually solving issues - but if something breaks and you lose visibility into marketing spend or something you NEED... it's not been 100% stable for me.

E: to be fair to them - APIs change and break sometimes - I get it, I manage like 40 APIs in our airflow - but taking 3-5 days to fix something you need for production is risky.
Not in absolute terms: the fact that 97% of Americans in 1913 made less than $80,000 equivalent per year is more a testament to America (and broadly the world's) staggering poverty relative to our current wealth.

Put another way: you can't tax destitute people (at least not for long, and not without losing your head), but can absolutely can tax the average American household in 2021[1].

[1]: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...
It's a real phenomena and I'm not sure why it's happening. Every time without fail, the writer's are always uninterested in the source material and mostly known for some imitation of a not so great show.

If you're spending literal billions, why not hire a big shot writer who can actually work with the source material instead of shoe horning their fringe political opinions?
I haven't even had a cold in years. Masks are brilliant. I even prefer to wear one now while bicycling, even though there is no health reason to wear one outdoors, just because it keeps my nose warm.
In ‘05-10 timeframe we had a selection of Sun machines around the engineering department running various software and were even evaluating new Sun hardware for file servers when ZFS was new.

Later on in eh, 2015 or so I worked at a company providing backup software that was tested and worked with every niche unix hardware under the sun. Usually to support large legacy industrial companies, think defense, materials, etc. who still used the hardware.

Banks will also use these things mostly for legacy reasons. The software got written once and has been working and validated for decades, no reason to rewrite it for a different OS just because.

Price is usually not a major factor when compared to the size of the business and number of employees.
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>While Python doesn't allow circular dependencies between modules, it won't stop you from introducing circular dependencies between packages.

Just to nitpick, while it is a very potent foot-gun, Python absolutely does allow circular dependencies between regular modules; here's a good write-up about this:

https://stackabuse.com/python-circular-imports/
> I can't imagine it making sense in a post-pandemic world.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I think it makes more sense. If companies would rather not get invested in holding real-estate long-term in an uncertain economic and work climate, then having a much more flexible office situation makes a ton of sense. If the business they're starting doesn't work out, they're not left holding the bag on real-estate that they'll then have difficulty unloading.
At a certain point, where you have such different views in countries like Hungary (Hungary wants to placate Russia or something similar leading to not helping Ukraine, wants to block Finland and Sweden from Nato, wants to disable/reduce/destroy democracy in Hungary, wants all that stimulus money from the EU to keep coming in), we just have to say we'll go our way, you go yours. Unity required for so many decisions means the extreme minority of 1 can extract too much. Similar thing for Turkey and Nato.

Either that, or the groups (EU, NATO) will have to change their rules to allow a few no votes on things, or they'll just become broken orgs. I'm sure Russia would offer almost anything to the wanna-be dictators in Turkey and Hungary to get them to vote no on these things. These "complete agreement" democratic groups don't work when some leaders are dictators.
My first time using Oracle, I was trying to migrate magazine articles to a different DB system. Oracle "helpfully" and silently truncated the magazine content at a certain size, leaving most of the articles unfinished. The Oracle experts were incapable of producing a dump or report of the raw articles. So, I tried myself. I tried multiple tools, and every single one would truncate the field regardless of my settings, except for one. The Java ODB driver gave me the whole thing. So, I had to write a Java program to extract it for me.

In the end I learned that Oracle can't even output it's own data properly, even with the help of experts. I also got to learn what installing Oracle software was a really like (it was brutal).

So, no, I would not recommend Oracle to anyone, ever.
I think Suarez's "Delta-V" would make for exciting TV.

And oh my god, while looking that up I discovered he's got a SEQUEL coming in a month? Well, thank you for reminding me that Daniel Suarez exists.
Got a giggle out of this one: a diagram which tells us that wings are tilted surfaces which get lift by deflecting air downward. Author never heard of Bernoulli's ideas. Makes me wonder...
I love my neighborhood tags! Yeah some of it's kind of a lazy scrawl and that's annoying, but the really audacious, big production stuff is (a) aesthetically pleasing to me and (b) adds an interesting element to my urban ecology. Fascinating to see which tags get repeated in different parts of the city, and whenever I find a new one by a name I know it makes me feel connected to the place I live in an exciting way.
Honestly, I'm not sure a super long adaptation is necessary for Project Hail Mary. I could see all of the major beats getting done in about 2 hours or so. There are chapters with fairly long descriptions of the experiments that could be summed up in just a few seconds of screentime. People who want to see the math can read the book. Part of making a good movie adaptation is realizing that film and print are different media and a fully faithful direct translation rarely works very well. The movie ends up bloated and overly exposition heavy, sometimes forgetting that the audience can see what is going on.
> Even with Chernobyl only 100 deaths are directly attributed to the disaster and there hasn't been any statistically observable rise in effects like cancer since.

The trouble with taking the position that only 100 people were killed by Chernobyl and everything else is just estimates, is that holding such a position in good faith means chalking off similar back-of-the envelope estimates for deaths caused by exposure to coal plant emissions...
I was under the impression that droplets are only part of the picture and that sick people are in fact spraying tons of much small particles into the air as they breathe.
Medical masks are not a symbol of anything. They’re a legitimate way to lower the risk of spreading germs from your own mouth and nose. They’re also marginally useful at keeping germs out. The fact that they got politicized in the USA is more a symbol of the problems with the USA than anything else.
I for one welcome the resurgence of decentralized internet forums. Twitter can be fun, but it shouldn't be the only game in town
FWIW I watched Andor on the advice of a friend (I'm also not a Disney guy, nor really a huge Star Wars fan past the originals) and really loved it. The Star Wars tie-ins are a bit besides the point, though the design references are neat. It feels like a movie about an insurgency against Franco, just set in the future.
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Haven't read the ESC's guidance document, but clinical trials are going to change drastically in the future.
Telesurveillance and telemedicine will become much more acceptable now.
I don't get the positive reception I'm reading about Andor here.

I've watched it since I've seen it mentioned in positive light multiple times - the rebellion plotline is nice but main character development is super dragged out and feels pointless - the arduous childhood flashbacks, dramatic sister searching - to end up screwing in Miami - so many episodes felt weak and irrelevant. The heist was dragged out far too much - who cares what sw goat milk tastes like ?

Entire season could be condensed into a one and a half hour movie and nothing of value would be lost.

Not saying it's bad - but far from "the wire in SW universe" or other praises people seem to be singing it.
You may not be a fan, but that's not going to stop me.

I have spent years having to endure the horseshit from places like Theranos, WeWork, and the entire cryptocurrency industry. I knew it was horseshit. The people spouting it could have known it was horseshit if they had bothered, but they did what was in their short-term interests without regard to harm to others.

I am going to enjoy seeing them get whatever paltry and belated comeuppance that karma visits upon them. If they ever suffer as much pain as they've inflicted, I might change my tune, so feel free to come back to me then. But in the meantime, I will enjoy whatever sense of justice served I can extract.
Given the experience of the meh version of the Peripheral on Amazon and the uniquely literal visions proffered by Neuromancer, I imagine it will be difficult to bring the brilliant novel to a brilliant film.
Haven't Skia et al been GPU accelerated for ages?
Hell yes! This should really be an Anime.
They went so far afield from Gibson's story that I ended up very disappointed.
It always does!
He didn't make it seem natural, he made it seem neutral. I have no idea why, but he left out key information and incredibly important interpersonal scenes and focused instead on big army scenes.
Protection isn't binary. At society scale these small changes add up.
As a general rule, I don't think public discourse is aided by assuming the worst about others.

There's a saying: when somebody tells you who they are, believe them.

Paxton has already directed its Department of Family and Protective Services to treat parents as abusers if they even look into their children transitioning:

https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-MastersJaime2022...

Texas leadership, and Paxton in particular, have put forth numerous other mechanisms to interfere with the lives of trans teens.

This is not a case of "assuming the worst". This is a case where very, very bad is already happening, and worse has been clearly signaled.
This isn't just hopes and dreams though. There's an economy of scale argument called Swanson's law which is expected to continue for the forseable future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law

There's also quite a bit of research going on into different cell technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-cell_efficiency). The current physics wall puts it at about theoretical 4-fold increase in electricity per square meter compared to what we have today without consideration of the cost of manufacturing or longevity, which is expected to again, continue to improve.

Also as far as land goes, people are really bad thinking at scale. If you look here: https://www.seia.org/research-resources/major-solar-projects... you'll see all the installations and the ones planned. The sun doesn't shine every place, on every day, sure, but when you have that kind of coverage it's a different story.

There's a lot of arid desert out there and lots of potential for combining solar panels with existing food farms through something called agrivoltaics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics ... many crops do as good or better with shade so this is just a straight increase in profit per acre for those crops with the dual use of energy generation.

This is all pretty new. The cost tipping points in favor of solar just happened a few years ago. We're seeing one of Clayton Christensen's graph of disruptive technology in real-time right now (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity where solar went from being the most to the least expensive in about a 5 year period)

Everything hits a physics wall, of course but not only does it look like there's still plenty of runway with solar before we get there but there's also lots of unexplored opportunities such as, just throwing this out there, a solar capturing wind turbine that can cleverly capture energy both ways. The point is this is still extremely greenfield
Felt the same way. Yes, its celebrated for its visuals but somehow that was 2h 35min hours of 'nothings happening'.
I wonder if a toggle to show/hide posts from unverified accounts would work better for most users. Have you tried something similar with your forums?
If it's so cheap, batteries included, why are the most optimistic industry projections only putting it at 20% of the US grid by 2050? [1]

Why are they projecting that coal gas consumption will continue to grow, year over year for that same time period? [2]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50357

[2] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/production/sub-topic-03.php
Yes, Germany is one of those few outliers in the 27 EU countries / Europe 44.

Land mass or self-perceived importance from within notwithstanding.

The result of Germany’s remarkable interventions is remarkable in its mediocrity.
no this is a consequence of environmentalists fearmongering over nuclear energy and the german politicians who used it as cover to sell out their country
The closest we will ever come to an authentic Neuromancer adaptation is the movie Johnny Mnemonic.
Do yourself a favor and watch Andor. It’s the least Disney-ish Star Wars property there is since they bought the IP, and the first time I’ve truly liked Star Wars since I was a kid reading the Thrawn trilogy.
I always need to remind people when this book comes up: If you like Neuromancer, you must play the game Soma.

I picked up Neuromancer after playing Soma and finding it to be the most incredible story driven game I've ever played and wanting to devour all it's influences, and Gibson was certainly an influence.

Don't read about it, don't look at the plot, just start playing the game and at least make it to when you meet the lady.
They are referring to Mayak, and however ugly you're picturing, it's probably worse: a Chernobyl-level radiological release, but on deliberate as operational procedure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak
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What is the human touch and why do we value it? Maybe the answer to this question is in terms of reevaluating what we find important in _the human touch_.

If I was to take a quick guess I'd say what is important (at least to me) is the experience of 'x'. There is some kind of value in participation. Such as participating in the experience of building a thing as a creator. Or the participation in the experience of receiving a gift one created. Or even the experience of being an observer 'I participated in going to "y".'

That's a rough paraphrase of something John Dewey says about what "art" is. There's also a lot written on the human condition in continental philosophy, and stuff like "being."
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Slow Horses too, that's ace. Mythic Quest has been a surprisingly good watch with some proper brilliant moments. Jason the Mammal in See is pretty good.
You might want to try the Wranglerflange (I have not tried this myself)

https://thewangerflangecompany.bigcartel.com
I do this to get it out, then I rewrite it to take all the parentheticals out.
You can't do a study that way. People do or do not wear masks based on emergent social acceptance, regardless of government actions. If you want to do a discontinuity study you have to evaluate actual mask usage in the real world and discover a boundary discontinuity. You can't just do it by jurisdiction and assume that the government proclamations work. People wear masks when they aren't required, and they may not wear them when they are required.
Just imagine if he had simply gotten the rights to Flash Gordon- his adaptations would have no doubt been good, but science fiction as we know it would be completely altered.
It is a symbol of fear and control.

Why do you think this? I see someone wearing a mask and I see someone with enough respect for their fellow man that they don't want to get them sick. That's not fear or control, that's compassion. I don't think compassion is uniquely human, but it still is humanizing.
> retrofuturistic '80s-early '90s form of the genre

I really hope this is the direction they don't go. Cyberpunk should be a forward-looking critique of modern society, not retro-futuristic trope-baiting.
My concern: Coming soon, yet they haven't started filming yet? WTF?
Tchap is doing great actually :)
I assumed it was a tax the EU applied to global business, not a globally-agreed tax the EU signed onto.
If you're forced to wear them on your face, yes.

Covering your face, as a primate, is not a natural thing to do. Our brains have huge areas dedicated to recognition of subtle differences in facial features. We're literally wired for facial recognition. More than almost any other feature of our bodies, our faces define us as individuals.

Assuming that obscuring the face has zero cost is clearly wrong. I honestly can't believe I have to say this out loud.
Hmm, now that's interesting. I wonder what is the most someone would pay for a single sentence assuming it gives you the required information.
While I agree that the parent comment is making huge assumptions about delivery options people have access to (both for geographical and for cost reasons), there are options in the middle.

The majority of stores (grocery and otherwise) introduced curbside pickup options early in the pandemic, which at least provides more options for someone who doesn't have access to or can't afford delivery, while removing or minimizing the time they need to spend in-store.

Not a perfect solution, but the options are not "delivery or starve".
worth to show it to my kids :)
The post holiday gathering spike is rather obvious. Not just for COVID but for everything. We really should have test kits, and people should test BEFORE travel. A national level policy of full refunds if tested positive (for any illness / disease) could help prevent the needless spread of illness.
French is L2 for me, so I might have under- or over-translated it.
I believe they're supposed[0] to be singing "wilt u met me vrijen?" and have translated to my local dialect.

(TIL why DE:der Freier == EN-US:john)

[0] the song was actually broadcastable on US radio in 1974, so some minor infidelities may have been committed.
This is why chairmen exist. Your group probably needs one.
> car registration, etc... we require strong ID'ing

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "strong"?

I've been involved in precisely three car purchases over the last 20 years, and I don't recall what was involved in the way of ID checks. Have the feeling that at most some government-issued ID may have been pulled out of a wallet, presented ... and glanced at. The dealer handled the registration in every case.

Oh, and in all three of those purchases we drove a (brand new) vehicle away from the dealer having paid not even a deposit and clutching a paper invoice(!) with the verbal instruction to pay it "straight away".

Guess we seemed trustworthy :)
> You can not force these things.

Why not?

Computer Science & programming are my passions.

I work as a Software Engineer. I'm not passionate about the projects I work on at my job, but doing so pays the bills.

Why can I not make use of the same discipline that brings me into work everyday to bring my own product to market?

__My issue is in identifying what other people want.__

The CS & programming topics that excite me (i.e. compilers & PL design) haven't had marketable products since F/OSS won in the '80s/90s. The backscratcher I'd design to scratch my own itch(es) can't compete with thousands of free ones worked on by an order of magnitude more people.

I highly doubt every successful payroll/billing/HR startup founder was intrinsically-motivated to build their product.

I'd be satisfied building boring CRUD like https://bonus.ly if I could turn it into a small, successful "Lifestyle Startup" and coast.