skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Failure to define your meaning of "bog" in the opening paragraphs leads to unneeded frustration.
I bought mine in 2011 for $37k (single room apartment with kitchen and bathroom/shower, interior freshly renovated). Exterior renovated in 2020 (free, mix of utilities and eurofonds). In the 2022 winter I didn't turn on radiator once during the winter and temperature remained above 22°C. When I search similar apartments now they cost $90k. Tax/trash/utilities are $150/month. Everything is walking distance away.
At prevJob when we were in early stage I remember building a ton of features from the ground up which were useful to our end users.

Post IPO all the late stage jokers from companies like MSFT and AMZN started coming in and I remember the torturous bike shedding and endless documentation for doing simple stupid shit like adding a single attribute to a data model or changing border radius on a button for the design system.

Added literally no value for the users.

Actual user issues were deemed “not important” because they were a bit complex or some PM with the right credentials but none of the empathy would think it’s low priority.

Not to mention the endless self patting on the back and “psychological safety” type people who showed up that spent more time doing everything but the work.

Meanwhile our poor users would suffer in their already difficult jobs and get an unwanted UX redesign instead.

Honestly made me lose respect for FANG crowd. I’ll rather work at startups or my own company than work at some late stage place. What a nightmare.
The thing is, what is a luxury to some is an “essential utility” to others. How many people really need gigabit internet? Is that “essential”? 20 years ago you might have been arguing that cable television was essential.
Pretty common, but small and rarely noticed [0]. Probably lots of construction and geotechnical engineering wouldn't have survived anything significant at least in the Northeast

[0] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=38.03944,-79.33228&extent=45.75219,-63.86353&range=search&showUSFaults=true&baseLayer=terrain&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22starttime%22:%221900-01-01%2000:00:00%22,%22maxlatitude%22:42.816,%22minlatitude%22:41.2,%22maxlongitude%22:-69.593,%22minlongitude%22:-73.592,%22minmagnitude%22:0,%22orderby%22:%22time%22%7D%7D
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942880
> 5 families have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined.

Does that say more about the five families or the 120 million other families in America? Wealth is, after all, created out of thin air. Paint a painting that other people like and you've created wealth. Likewise, stop liking the metaphorical paintings those five families have and their wealth vanishes. How did most Americans become so boring that five families are responsible for 50% of all that is considered desirable?
Seems wise to get out in front of the impending backlash.
> No matter how bullish you are on the potential of AI, it's horrifying and categorically unethical to use them to decide who to kill.

Is it any more horrifying or unethical to decide without AI?

> It creates the possibility of atrocity with no accountability.

Who was held accountable for hiroshima? Or do you know how much atrocities were committed to create israel? You act like we had accountability before AI. We've never had accountability for atrocities. Just victor's 'justice'.

AI can be better than humans when it comes to atrocities. It can be as bad as humans, But it can never be worse. Humans set the standard.
Felt it in Hartford, CT!
In terms of weight, CO2 emissions, durability, and protecting the product, plastic is probably a lot better for the environment as a whole than a lot of “sustainable” packaging.

In the grand scheme of things plastic is a very minor part of our environmental problems - though it does have some nice pictures you can take. However, it seems to attract a bunch of people who think they prove their environmental commitment by irritating people as much as possible.

Multi-use plastic bags and paper bags are much more energy intensive to produce than single use plastic bags. Paper bags also fail at much higher rates (handles come out, small tears propagate rapidly, any moisture weakens it).

In addition, paper products such as straws and cups need to be coated for use with liquids. The coating (likely PFAS) is probably worse overall than if the straw or cup were just made out of plastic.
The paper and cardboard products weigh more, which at Amazon scale means an incredible amount of fuel used. The trade offs aren’t cut and dry.
We have small ones every 10 years here too, in the Rhine valley. The first time is a bit "wtf". There are area where people are not at all prepared, so it's just an ubris thing: "oh well that was an earthquake I guess", and then you go back to your pre-earthquake-activities.
Read the manual page, I’m not going to type it all in here.
Also in MA on the second floor. Two of my roommates were standing and didn't notice it, but I definitely felt it sitting down
I'm in Forest Hills (fifth story) and at first I thought it was the usual extreme wind we get because the windows were shaking heavily. Then it got worse and I realized what it was when I felt it through the floor.

I've felt at least one other in the last year or two here but my wife in the other room did not. This one was the strongest I've been through though.
100% happy user base is really something to be proud of.
The flip side is companies that are not active participants in the open source community (but know they use open source), are pinging all their engineering managers and asking "are we exposed to this!? how do you know!?".

So while it's useless noise to you, it's likely triggered by being on the receiving end of communications like "Hey, my boss is asking if $PROJECT is vulnerable because of a terrible article he read in $MAINSTREAM_MEDIA_PROPERTY?" times however many bosses are harassing their reports.

"I don't want to craft an email reply to every single person, just put up the no-op blog post and be done with it."
> Episodic tremor and slip (ETS) is a seismological phenomenon observed in some subduction zones that is characterized by non-earthquake seismic rumbling, or tremor, and slow slip along the plate interface.

New Jersey is nowhere near a subduction zone, or any plate boundary.
I think this goes against common sense. We often see articles shared on social media or on link aggregators like Hacker News. Sometimes we read them. Sharing links on the Internet is easy and works well. Surely that matters?

But other times, you share a link and nothing happens. And it might not be a lot of traffic compared to what Google or some other large website can deliver randomly. And you might not benefit at all from a lot of strangers reading your article for some random reason.

So why post anything in public at all? For me, since I just write short comments, a little bit of feedback is enough. I wrote about something I’m interested in, someone upvoted it, so it was worthwhile. I don’t care about reach. More users, more problems.
We've been creating indirection ever since the first homo ancestor carved/fashioned a spear tip or arrow, or the first metallurgist poured a bronze sword. But.

There's matters of degrees. And this is just one or two steps away from full autonomous murder.

Reminds me of this section Frank Herbert's God Emperor of Dune:

... She would carry with her forever afterward the clear sights and sounds and smells. The seeking machines would be there, the smell of blood and entrails, the cowering humans in their burrows, aware only that they could not escape . . . while all the time the mechanical movement approached, nearer and nearer and nearer ...louder...louder!

...like the terrible machines of that apocalyptic vision, the predator could follow any creature who left tracks.*
Giant kelp forests on Tasman Peninsula survive marine heatwave
I experienced a 4.8 earthquake about a month ago in Tokyo, and noticed the shaking significantly. In Manhattan this morning, I didn't notice the 4.7 earthquake at all.
I thought it was a train or truck going by
> So why am I being allocated to work on in such waste of time like it?

When this happens, look at the money. Who is paying for it, how are they paying for it, and can the money be used for other projects/programs.

I've been in similar situations where work had to be done on X even though there was little work to do or no point, but there was money. Y had more value, if we could work on it. It was funded from a different source which didn't have money (or did, but not enough to bring us over) and we couldn't use money from X to support Y.

It's a very frustrating situation, fortunately not one I'm in anymore.
The Lego model has a scale problem. Some of those arrows are a LOT bigger than others. It's not a minor issue when discussing the economy, as a whole.
It means no meme filesystems will be tolerated. There are tons of operating systems out there if you don’t like ffs.
See

https://www.reddit.com/r/memphis/comments/zkmi7e/amazon_prim...
Japan, Taiwan, New York, this is apparently the year of the earthquake.
Show us your failed 3D prints!
Tremor-endlessly helpful
> ... "just use a player that supports .srt"

Which is pretty near every video player in existence these days. Hardcoding the subtitles into the video is just plain rude innit?
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I totally agree, which is why I wrote "even if you have some problems with particular implementations of some brands of capitalism" - and I certainly have some problems with the American brand of capitalism.

I just think it's silly to blame "profit-seeking capitalists", which is really just another word for "people who want to get the most value for the lowest cost", which is everybody.
I wish I could buy slightly thicker paper bags that lasted 10-15 uses for 8 cents apiece. I would gladly buy boxes of those instead of the cheap crappy single-use paper shopping bags. I reuse the paper bags as much as possible. The reusable bags are often made with plastic or plastic fibers. At least if a paper bag makes its way into the environment the wood pulp fiber gets digested by bacteria and fungi.
I really hate git a lot and wish I didn't have to use it. I find that it gets in the way and adds complication without providing compensatory benefits. I consider it a step backwards in version control.

I've often wondered why I seem to be in the minority on this opinion. Most devs seem to be OK with it, and many love it. I have no idea why.

The only thing I can think of is that git operates in a very specific way and either your brain is in sync with that way or it isn't.

One thing I disagree with in the article:

> More specifically, it doesn't work offline

It absolutely does. Maybe the author is confusing git with one of the bit-based services like github?
karens ruining it for everyone... maybe the best thing is laughing
How much other work does your team have to do? Is it possible that things are slow, so you've been assigned to something so your TL or manager can show what you're working on instead of saying "panqueca is just sitting around doing nothing right now?"
> just don’t use straws

This is what I do. Not sure why straws are so popular. I heard restaurants pushed them because it made people drink more/faster, but most places have free refills these days so that doesn't really make sense anymore.
Cents Only to close all 371 stores and wind down its business
I feel you man :). I got back into the game with Dungeon Crawl Classics, which while not explicitly inclined toward story gaming, hooked me immediately with the nostalgia vibes. I started playing in the back of the bus in fourth grade, and playing DCC gave me the same feeling I had when I opened the box and had to color in the dice.
I don't think we're on the same page.

> It depends on why you play though; the "combinatorial explosion of overhead" is only a problem if you're trying to min/max, if you play for fun it's more "What character do I like" or "What wings do I find pretty".

Exactly. These choices don't affect players in the same way.

> The most important thing: Don't tell others how to play. Don't tell them "you should pick X because it's the best" unless they explicitly ask for it. Let people play their own way, and don't push how you play games onto others.

I definitely agree with you here.

As a designer, you're defacto telling people how to play by designing choices like this. You're punishing casual, competitively natured players with >700,000 options because they care about performance.

If you don't derive fun from winning the trade-offs are mostly irrelevant and you can simply ignore most of the problem, choose a configuration based on fewer/simpler dimensions (I'm going to pick yoshi and the egg kart because that's awesome), and avoid most of the decision space. This type of player probably wouldn't care if all the configurations performed the same or more likely could be annoyed that their desired configuration performs strictly worse. (If the choices meaningfully affected gameplay, like having an ability to lay eggs or something, that's different).

On the other hand if the dedicated, competitive players are going to solve the optimization problem and coalesce configurations down ~10 choices. The problem space is also irrelevant to this type of player.

But posing this problem negatively affects competitive people who aren't dedicated to the game. Now they have to consider an intractable problem while their friends are waiting on them so they can actually play the game. I know this because I've sat there plenty of times while friends scroll through all the different options wheels/karts/gliders/characters for minutes until they gave up and said something like "Whatever, I just want to race".

So why not just give 10 performance profiles and the same combination of cosmetic choices as before?
$ git config --global alias.subduct rebase
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I am not sure how anyone could possibly be expected to take this comment seriously. “This one is the first that killed people who it shouldn’t”.

It had to be.. week 1? that they bombed a children’s hospital. They even shot a few of their own who were escaping captivity.
Google's collaberative is probably miles ahead. it's been awhile, I've not used it since I was paying for Japanese lessons.
Was on a call with my boss reluctantly explaining how kubernetes works. I felt the rumble, thinking it was just my discomfort with the state of affairs in my company. Might as well have been a fart in the wind.
Only if giant worms attack.
No I don't think I want to pay more for goods and services because that way it generates more taxes. That's never gonna be a goal of mine.
Same here in northern NJ just outside Manhattan. It was extremely noticeable, my cat also freaked out briefly.
Found the google engineer!
It does nothing to those barriers. They are still absolutely the same. Unless you're trying to argue that somehow guns magically imbue in people the intent to kill.

I assure you, they do not. In point of fact, the hobby can get rather onerous to upkeep due to maintenance costs and the burden of magical thinking individuals like yourself employ, necessitating constant vigilance and correction.

People kill people.

AI, gun, explosive, makes no difference. Long as there are two blokes atound with irreconcilable opinions/worldviews, somebody's gonna want someone else dead. And that is the problem. The tools do not move until the mind employs them.
Android is a good example. Open a few different apps an note the pop up diffeences base on whatever API was used.

The biggest questions were widgets and audio issues. Apps they couldn’t find etc. I’m not advocating for Apple, but their system does have a few advantages that open source projects could take cues from.
> What’s the alternative to plastic straws?

not using straws?
It’s actually “moderate shaking and light damage expected”[1] but go off sis.

(1)https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
This is not the first time you've made a post like this - just because it's a weird pet peeve of yours does not mean you are right.
The word "probably" is doing a lot of lifting in this post.
This is actually the most useful thing I’ve read in this whole comment section so far.

Thank you for reverse-engineering proprietary hardware and writing integration drivers for it. The world needs people like you.
Something like buspirate might work
Likely Ramapo, but what do I know.
I’m making a super slow version of C that is totally memory safe.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gij9UQy_JEQ&feature=youtu.be

It’s so slow lmao. 200x right now. But I can run curl and ssh so that’s something.
Anything you can learn from it? Anything you'd like to try, now that there's no consequences? Can you spin it for LinkedIn karma?
That's far from useless though. There have been times where I've wished that I had an I2C expert so I could say "this thing is acting weird. Here's a bus analyzer and there's the code. Go fix it."
LLMs are the best thing to happen to command line tools. I get so much productivity out of them now.
very wired, indeed; everytime i had to do it. but i think it's worth the effort because everytime someone refrains from making others responsible for their own problems, the world get's a bit better to live in for everyone.
While GPT and other AI tools have been incredibly useful in work and outside work, we must consider the negative impact it has on the society.

They promote their AI tools in such way that companies actively try to replace their employees with these tools, leading to more layoffs. Unemployment Insurance is either not enough, or in some cases people are ineligible to get it (I worked just over one quarter in NY and my application was rejected). There is no UBI (Universal Basic Income), also people who struggle with rent cannot get housing.

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft and others are causing layoffs and they are happy to do that because of greed (profits and prestige of having great products). While people are left struggling to survive. When these people have nothing left to live for there will be an increase in petty and violent crime and thus affect all people.

We need better care for the people affected - housing, food, health care benefits and helping them get their next job by providing opportunities to advance their career / upskill or change career.
Felt it too outside of Boston. Thought the heat pump upstairs was having a serious malfunction.
Deep in the bowels of Mt. Sinai, a clandestine IDF bunker guards a terrible secret: a giant useEffect() loop that controls all the murderbots, individually, by their hardcoded names. They didn't have the budget to research memoization yet, so it runs a bit slow, but it was fine on powerful enough hardware.

The ballistics were all calculated in WebGL, leading to a global GPU shortage the last few years. And sometimes they'd get the viewport size wrong, which is why there was collateral damage :(

Having learned their lesson, Israel's next AI project will stick with the tried and true and be written entirely in CSS instead.
A variation of this is why owning your house has (historically in the USA) been such a "deal".

Because you put 20% down (or less) in cash, borrow the rest, and the appreciation goes to you. At 20% down, if the house goes up 20% you've doubled your money. At 5% down, it's 4x (minus transactional costs).

As long as you ignore all the other aspects, like inflation, maintenance, etc, you have a pretty darn good return on paper.
Which also apply to dark {energy, matter}, the flying spaghetti monster of cosmology...
A number of years ago, in SoCal (where earthquakes are nothing too special), we had a similar sized quake (maybe a tad bigger). One guy from Denver was out and his eyes went big and wasn't sure what to do -- everyone else just kept talking and moved away from the big glass windows haha.
I'm in Brooklyn and felt it while on a call with an NJ resident who was the first to say "are we having an earthquake??"

Do earthquakes have a propagation speed? Might she have felt it before me?
4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones
If norway or norwegians cared so much, they wouldn't be pumping out so much oil. Norway is a top oil producer on a per capita basis ( along with saudi arabia, qatar, etc ).

If norwegians care so much about the environment or climate change, let them take out their oil platforms first.
when a war goes wrong, they never blame themselves

Arguably the German nation/culture has done this. At least in large part. Not sure any cultural repentance would ever be enough though.

I also feel like there is in Canada at least a growing understanding of the horrors of colonization and attempted genocide and assimilation against First Nations here. Whether that ultimately leads to reconciliation and a better path forward is hard to say.
I was laying in bed and thought I'd sleep a little bit more. the earthquake wasn't violent, but certainly noticeable. It was similar to someone walking on my roof, without the banging.
I thought it was hilarious. Perhaps I’ve suffered through one too-many corporate culture synergistic vision realignments…
Sure, I think the price is reasonable for the service. Calling it 'cheap' is a stretch however.
It is very obviously not "literally nothing", given the amount of people chiming in that they felt it.
I think you’re mistaken in regards to Apple. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/01/17/apples-...
Lavender's history has biblical roots. It is referred to as Spikenard in the Bible. Mary used it on the infant Jesus and anointed Jesus after the crucifixion when she was preparing him for burial. So it has a "life and death" connotation which makes a lot of sense when you think of the system as a roulette for those chosen to die.
Measuring Latency of P2P Remote Control: Watermarks and Math to Reduce Variance
I did it just today to convert a Filipino movie I yt-dlp'd from WebM to MP4. Teen me would be so excited by this excellent new world of ours.
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Yes, the speed of sound (through the earth, so faster than the speed of sound in air); yes.

In California, typically usgs has earthquakes posted before I can feel them. They didn't have this one a few minutes after I felt it, so I feel like automatic earthquake detection is off in this area of the US.
its informational.

TREMOR - NO life or financial loss

EARTHQUAKE - life or financial loss
It’s weird that they consider Proton VPN their only real competitor.

Have they had a look at Mullvad VPN?

Mullvad has done a lot for privacy as a VPN service, including but far from limited to:

https://mullvad.net/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-future...

https://mullvad.net/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructure-b...

https://mullvad.net/blog/2022/5/3/we-now-accept-monero/

https://mullvad.net/blog/we-have-successfully-completed-our-...
For laypeople, "earthquake" = "shakey shakey".

No further distinction is needed, warranted, or desired.
They travel in waves through the rock!
If I had life in prison or a death penalty hanging over my head at work after getting all the prerequisites to be a judge I better be getting paid seven figures or I'm either becoming a scrum master or a defence attorney trying to abuse the guillotine to ensure client satisfaction.
I distinctly remember the first time I created a Twitter account (& probably became aware of Twitter being a thing) was the day when a similar earthquake was felt in NYC back in 2011...
Yes, that's exactly what you did. You cited that the us government did heroin or whatever, to back up the argument that the headline to the op post is so provocative that it must be government propaganda.

That's a garbage line of logic.
> Although the fact that this guy was anonymous to start with definitely indicates that accountability isn't the goal here.

Well, it isn't. This is a strategic choice, and one pretty much every military took