skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very cool. I have been working on a way to get a hestmap of distance from roads to plan Backcountry hiking trips but this light pollution data seems much simpler.
I hope getting humans to Mars can inspire more investment in space travel and exploration, or even another space race... but I'm not sure that it will happen. Putting 1000 people on a ship seems like a pipe-dream adjacent to full-self driving at this point.

At the moment all of this feels like a mistake... for the cost of a manned program we could be sending out dozens of probes and rovers, not only to Mars but to more interesting places like Jupiters moons, Io and Europa, the former being the most volcanically active body in the solar system, and the latter one of the most promising places to find liquid water.
MongoDB vs. ScyllaDB Benchmark
I've never heard of anyone in the US having an employer cover their gas in a non-company owned vehicle.
Emulation Everywhere – By Babbage – The Chip Letter
Stick frames can go up remarkably quick. The install also doesn't need any specialized tools that contractors don't already have, so speed and labor isn't much of an issue.

Getting long beams from a log tends, I think, to be harder than getting small dimensional lumber. The timber also tends to need to be higher quality, especially if you opt for a design where they are exposed (such as vaulted ceilings).

Mostly, it probably comes down to where you live and how available the materials are; if good timber is easy to get, there's probably more contractors available who are accustomed to working with it.
On principle, yes. The superbowl halftime show is a good example. As an observer, sometimes its hard to tell if the artist in the halftime show is being paid by the NFL to entertain the fans or if they are paying the NFL (effectively accepting a negative wage) for the chance to promote their personal brand. If they can accept a negative wage when they want why can't I be free to negotiate the same for myself?
If you use DALLE3 the results are astonishing. No more issues with hands and legs. Give it a go.
A release is a release, regardless of the frequency. Quality control or lack thereof is an orthogonal issue.

Don't presume to know what users want. Early adopters often prefer to get new features as soon as possible even if that means working around defects and usability problems. Conversely, some enterprise software vendors still release on a very slow cadence because their customers don't want to do frequent acceptance testing or user retraining.
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I moved out of CA but it was already 0.40 a couple years ago. My friends told me it’s close to 0.60 now. I’m more curious where you are, I’m in a low(er) cost of living and I still pay 0.17.
I had planned a trip to the Haleakala Crater in Maui for the highly-recommended sunrise, and our airBnb turned out to have a pretty significant ant problem, so we ended up going a few hours early.

I don't know why anyone would even mention the sunrise considering how incredible that night sky was. The experience was similar to seeing the grand canyon: too big, beautiful, and intricate for my brain to take it all in. It was absolutely breathtaking. Also, absurdly cold (we were well prepared and it was still not enough)

The sunrise was fine. Very pretty, to be sure. But the main event was that night sky, for which I would have shown up a few hours earlier than I did had I known about it.
This has been around for a long time called Peter Answers as a modern take on the Ouija. See, e.g., https://www.peter-virtual-tarot.com/
I get your point but "mature" is already used for "not new" software a lot.
I don't follow. Which standard is that? Many (most?) artists do in fact fail, particularly if they're unable to find a creative way to differentiate themselves. Society generally shuns plagiarism. We call out things that are deemed as "knock-offs", whether they're bands, video games, movies, books, or clothing.
It's easy to get 50% by flipping a coin or rolling a die. Choosing to use this method is an example of free will overcoming determinism.

As far as why humans are natural pattern-generators, music is illustrative. If timing and frequency are random, that's not enjoyable music. Probably has something to do with resonance and the fundamentals of neuron biochemistry, e.g. the neuronal recharge time after firing, etc. This seems to be a general feature of evolution, look at squid color patterns or reproductive timing in algae and so on. It's probably a fundamental feature of all living systems, and could be linked to astronomical phenomenon, orbital parameters and light/dark cycles, and even down to subatomic processes, in which oscillation is always going on - but at this level, true randomness seems to exist in various processes like the timing of nuclear decays in a sample of matter. This inherent randomness at the root of everything seems quite real - hence, free will exists. I guess.
The owner of the last company I worked for did that instead of giving raises for a while - the renovation was expensive - so everyone stopped caring about the business and then the company fell apart and he had to sell it. Invest in your people not your stuff and things.
Thanks, I had missed that. It contains the phrase "don't use shitty tools", but I'll leave it to you to decide whether OP honestly recapitulated the same argument in their passing reference. The two seem somewhat different to me.

> As to this laughable claim […]

This is a response to a specific point which rewmie has made several times. They seem to genuinely believe there is literally no difference between M-series and Intel chips:

> There is absolutely nothing I can do with my M2 laptop that I cannot do well with my cheap old Intel laptop. Nothing.

> there is absolutely no concrete reason that justifies replacing a MacBook bought in the past 3 or 4 years with the M3 ones. None at all.

> it boggles the mind how anyone could justify replacing any MacBook pro with a M3 one by claiming "pros don't use shitty tools", as if MacBook Pros packing an Intel core 7/M1/M2 suddenly became shitty laptops just because Apple released a new one

I likely disagree with your position, and believe you have made some bad faith arguments, but you're at least compos mentis.

> But if you spend some time learning about our industry

Whoops.

> you'll realize that not all development workflows are identical, and not all have the same bottlenecks, and for many tasks an Intel-powered Mac is not a bottleneck. Surely you can understand that, or aspire to understand that.

Would you mind restating what you believe my argument to be? Because this reads as a patronising non-sequitur to me, and I'm sure you're not intending for it to land that way.

(If you are pushed for time, I'll do it: nearly everyone spending thousands of dollars to upgrade their computer has what they consider to be a good reason for doing so, whether that reason be boosting their self-esteem by having the latest toy, or a mild performance boost in their day-to-day work. You may not find their interpretation of "a good reason" to be persuasive, but there are likely to be many areas of your personal spending which they would see as imprudent or rooted in tenuous reasons. This thread is full of people incapable of understanding the reasons others have for upgrading and making emphatic sweeping statements. Everyone is different. News at 11.)
If you mix a small SSD and a large HDD into a single bcachefs pool, and set it to 2 replicas, do writes have to succeed on both devices before returning success? I.e. is performance constrained by the slowest device? And what happens when the small SSD fills up? Does it carry on writing to the HDD but with only one replica, or does it report no space left?
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Well the number with two screens would be zero, because you can't do it. That doesn't mean people don't want to do it because 0% of the laptops do it. They're just unable to.
> Living in Utah which tends to be a very anti-business-mandate place

Very non-coincidental that Utah has one of the highest concentrations of MLM businesses in the country.

Or the "industry" of "youth treatment" that is centered in Utah. Conversion therapy, etc.

Thousands of allegations stretching decades of abuse, physical, sexual and emotional, federal inquiries.

And still the Utah Office of Licensing rubber stamps its inspections of such facilities:

> analysis by APM Reports and The Salt Lake Tribune reveals that those inspectors almost never find violations. More than 98 percent of the time, they check the box marked "compliant." Across the 670 reports, the data reveals inspectors assessed more than 53,000 items in total. But they documented only 861 deficiencies. That means inspectors determined that treatment programs were noncompliant only 1.6 percent of the time.

> The most common ding? Not having the proper employee paperwork.

You might sit back, "entertained", by California. But pretending like Utah is some utopian vision is equally laughable, or would be if it didn't come at such a high cost.

Perhaps there's a middle ground between Utah and California.
> there is no reason for most of them

Yes there is, it's crime. Street lights deter crime.

Also simply driving safety. Driving with just headlights causes more accidents than on a well-lit street, since visibility is so much worse.

I love to see the night sky as well, but I don't want to pretend there aren't extremely good reasons for street lighting, and those reasons aren't going away.

That being said, are there ways to reduce outdoor lighting of giant industrial parking lots, of stadiums at 3 am, or whole floors of skyscrapers when 99% of people have gone home? Sure. But at the same time, reducing nighttime lighting by 50% isn't really going to make any difference in sky visibility. It's more about not wasting electricity.

I'm talking mostly about urban areas though -- in rural areas where there's already a decent amount of visibility and the population is small enough that most roads already don't have street lights, then regulation can actually make a difference, e.g. banning always-on floodlights on people's driveways.
No chance in hell that work at home expenses are anywhere near the lease cost (or even taxes!) for office space. Not even in the same order of magnitude.
The working environment will be determined by market forces. If you don't want to RTO, go work for the many, many companies that allow remote work. Yes, it might mean a pay cut or working on problems that aren't your favorite.

Until people actually change jobs over RTO policies in large numbers, companies will continue to transition to working back in the office.

And why wouldn't they? After all, if employees are unwilling to take a job with lower pay or less exciting problems over this, how much do they really care about it?
Apple's lack of serious long-term dedication to 3D gaming is such a self-own that makes their 3D gaming benchmarks feel weak & thin.

I'm hopeful the Game Porting Toolkit + advances in this years macOS (Gaming Mode, better support with MoltenVK and SPIRV-Cross, etc) start a publishing shift toward macOS as a target platform, but I can absolutely see Apple taking their foot off the gaming gas pedal again.
I saw the headline, and was going to send this to my friend who i got a job at a California company who now works remotely across the country, then realized she works for the company that owns nolo.com

Cute, i wonder if they're reimbursing these days, because they didn't reimburse anything when i was 3/5ths remote 11 years ago.
I don't buy it.

Wikipedia lists nine possible explanations for stotting. The author, however, simply picks the one that fits his story.

There are also multiple explanations for sexual evolution.

I can hold the belief "Defund the Police" as a poor or as a rich. So it's easy to fake this signal. Also, I don't see any evidence that this belief is held mainly by rich people.
> there won't be any work left for humans

Good. That's the goal, and we can stop inventing stupid make-work for people when that happens. Jobs aren't the goal, making robots do all of the work is the goal. You're falling into the myopic trap of assuming that the current way of things won't change along with generative AI becoming commonplace.
Even better, I have a hacked-together-in-a-weekend-for-a-class app for windows on the Microsoft store that was uploaded using a school account I can no longer access eight years ago.

I have received literally daily warnings that the app will be delisted if I don't fix a laundry list of issues including security vulnerabilities, outdated libraries, new EULAs, Icons in different sizes, etc.
Despite all of that the app is still there and able to be downloaded (just checked).
And that outlier is the last /significant/ difference in performance.

M1->M2 wasn't that big, generally seen as a small incremental improvement at best, and the last few Intel updates barely moved the needle between them.
I think the big difference is that with virtual meetings you're essentially spending an hour staring into a fixed-distance lightbulb, which is more fatiguing than having a variety of distances and things to look at.
re: less dogs

I visited one of Google's offices and I noticed they let them bring dogs. I think they said there's an approval process to make sure they're well-behaved. I'm not a dog owner but I bet the ones who do would prefer not to leave their dogs alone all day.

Just to nit-pick one thing. But that one thing could be huge to a lot of people. (I personally would feel better with people in the office since I live by my self and most days go to a completely empty office to work. Then again, I live across the street from the office. When I had to commute I didn't bother on those days. A few people come in a couple days of the week and we get coffee and lunch which is nice.)
> I think it's already flawless.

It's behind even Edge on features, let alone Vivaldi or something.

• No integrated option for vertical tabs

• No integrated ad-block (I know there are reasons but still)

• They broke the old extensions system, and its replacement is inferior

• Bundled development tools 99.9% of users don't want or need

• Built in Win98 era profile handling when this is the OS' job

• Can't sync toolbar settings or search engines

(as per discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38048385 )

• Needs custom stylesheets to even hide the immovable built in tab bar

• Needs `about:config` tweaks to enable custom stylesheets

In re the last 2: FFS this is meant to be the customisable FOSS tool here!
You could also just require that controllers be signed with a model type. Let the people organizing the game decide.

Ya all want to play with cheats enabled on your Fuxsor Ceatboss 6000's. Go head.
Yeah, I almost flagged it. My spam detector was broken on this one.
I always wondered about the round edge discs, that stood out and made them feel more premium quality. Didn't realize it was specific to Nintendo. I still hold that the Wii U is one of the most underrated consoles in history, I still have mine and love it. The homebrew available takes it to a whole new level and provides probably the best emulation platform for playing retro games from Wii all the way back.
Maybe it was a licensing thing, but this should have been in XP 20 years ago.
Did you press any keys aside from 'd' and 'f'? If you haven't then they've won.
In agree in the abstract. In practice, we are very over-indexed on these deconstruction type issues by selectively reopening old wounds, often along racial lines, which isn't leading anywhere good, defiantly not to mars.
The first time I saw the Milky Way with my bare eyes, I almost fell over. The sky looked like static from an old TV set. There were so many stars, it was overwhelming.
Correct me if I am wrong but the only material differences between contractor and employee status are

1. Who pay's the employer side income taxes. Contractors pay both sides.
2. Not eligible for benefits, you have to go to overpriced open market.
3. The contractor can deduct reasonable expenses they incur.
4. A contract will not necessarily be renewed whereas for an employee, the assumption is the job will be there in perpetuity.
I don't see what that has anything to do with unix or stdio? The read/write syscalls will happily transfer much larger buffers. If an application invokes the syscalls directly with 1-byte chunks it's on the application. userspace IO buffering to amortize syscall costs exists in pretty much every language.
I work at Motorola and we get M1 airs unless you specifically request a Linux laptop. I wouldn't call it low end though. Low end is an Intel i3.
You didn't answer his question - why are regulations on teaching your own children in your own home so necessary?
Puzzles about oncology and clinical trials
You need a bigger desk not a bigger room. Make some compromises and remove some other furniture in the room to accommodate your bigger desk.
How is Google buying search defaults on all iPhones in any way unethical? It's not like they're buying them and then burying the searches in a landfill. They paid Apple's asking price for search defaults. Microsoft or Brave could have bought those same search defaults but didn't. Apple has a limited amount of search defaults on iPhones, it was up for sale, Google bought it. Where's the ethics question?
It is not an open plan. There are a lot more strategic choices you can make with plants, walls and sunlight to make it more interesting. You would have to hire experts though. And yes a pure open plan is terrible. I knew it when I first set foot in one.
I tried to evaluate Kafka usage for event sourcing: <https://github.com/eugene-khyst/ksqldb-event-souring>. More out of curiosity. But never tried it in production.
The always-ongoing efforts to create productive office spaces do not justify RTO. It's unfortunate if an office design is commissioned that is later (or immediately) not fully utilized, but implying that this justifies RTO is purely circular reasoning.

Worse than that: Implying that not wanting to come into the office is tantamount to not wanting to do "good work" is antagonistic and disrespectful. I would never work for somebody who treated humans like that.

Ultimately you are committing the same fallacy as many other proponents of universal RTO - that every person is the same, or that the people who do better working from home hurt the people who do better in the office (but not the other way around, somehow). They are not mutually exclusive.

Also, snacks and coffee do not "keep people boosted". They are nice. What keeps people boosted is motivation, productivity, the qualitative nature of the things they are creating, responsibility, communication, quality of life, using the bathroom in peace, salary, health, leadership that gives a shit, private space to work, a comfortable environment (clothes, temperature, noise), not being miserable for the potential benefit of the vertical, and not giving your free time and mental energy to a commute.

NONE of this indicates, implies, or necessitates an unwillingness to "do good work" or a lack of commitment. I express these feelings as strongly as I feel them, and yet I am also obsessive about being productive, engaging, educational, having great teamwork, and creating value. I am no quiet-quitter nor cynic when it comes to my work.
Most of those that were discussed have been implemented. The new list is here [1].

What you see is that they implement different features with Google obviously wanting the browser to be a full blown OS. So they added things like MIDI support and web pages being able to access the battery.

The problem with many of those features is that they have been shown by researchers to either (a) be insecure or (b) allow web pages to uniquely fingerprint your device. This is obviously an anathema to everything Apple believes in.

[1] https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+121,edge+118,safari+17.2...
>- The companies you interact with all have easy access to everyone's DNA and can make decisions based on things like who is the most likely to get addicted to gambling.

Yes, that is exactly my point. In these hypothetical dystopias, this is going to apply to "everyone's DNA" and not just some subset of people. In order to fear volunteering your DNA, you need to fear a very specific level of dystopia in which this illegal DNA discriminating becomes common, but companies don't do anything illegal to acquire the DNA data.

It is like imagining that people could have escaped Nazi persecution if they just never admitted they were Jewish. Dystopias don't work like that. The evil people aren't going to give you a choice.

If we are going to live in a dystopia, it likely isn't going to be the Goldilocks dystopia in which just the right amount of evilness exists for this to be an issue.
Right. LLMs have content that isn't copyrighted too.

But humans like LLMs do have copyrighted content. That means humans are breaking the law that LLMs are also breaking.
Your response seems to be driven by hubris in the effort and expense you put into your office setup. I’m sure some people would enjoy it, but I hear “snacks and coffee to keep people boosted,” and vomit a little in my mouth. I’ve never seen either not used to make up for a lack of compensation, or an attempt to keep people working longer with more time away from their homes and lives. I think you may want to have a harder look at why you’ve done so, because I don’t think it’ll be for your employee’s benefit.
That sounds great, and I'm sure a lot of people would choose to travel to that office to work. Equally, there are people who can replicate that environment at home, or close to home (by renting office space, for example) who don't need to travel to that office. Choice is key.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question of whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.”

- Foreword to A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, 1949
And that rule is?
"Stop using Brave."

https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

He's right.
As accurate as a coin flip. Not particularly interesting in the end.
I placed it in quotes because I see it as a disputed concept that not everyone considers to be valid, and which doesn't even have a consistent definition amongst those who do. The main problem being that it conflates knowledge of one's own sex with a desire to be the opposite sex.

The brain scan research, like the paper you cited, seeks neural correlates for a very strong desire to be the opposite sex, such a strong desire that the subject seeks medical treatment to change their appearance - which isn't really the same thing as having a 'gender identity'. Interestingly, homosexuality is also linked to sex-atypical brain structures, and in studies where this factor is controlled for, the structural differences seen in brains of gender dysphorics all but disappear. Curiously, what is seen instead are alterations in brain networks that mediate body perception, somewhat like what is seen in anorexics (though, by contrast, we don't label them as having a dissonant 'size identity' or anything like that).

I see women's rights as being distinct from and in conflict with 'trans rights', and don't really understand what you mean when you say they are the same on an ideological and philosophical level - could you explain further please?
Dumb question, is this not a readily available IP block that you can buy? Better yet, why haven't industry partners licensed royalty-free IP for this?
Maybe for some, but it has certainly benefited me more than my employer because I value my time.