skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what to make of this, given the redundant, monochromatic content about being on-call. It doesn't appeal to me. A magazine format is not appropriate for such a narrow focus. You're not going to gain the continuing readership without a sufficiently broad appeal.

Also, the introduction of putting down the rest of the industry while simultaneously extolling your own ideas is very off-putting, especially if we haven't heard them yet. The strength of the Stripe brand matters not; I do not know who you are.

That said, Stripe is a great company and I'd love to hear more about how they are doing things. But please, if you want me to pay attention to you, sans the hubris self-congratulatory tone.
Startup tech writers, take note. This write up has been more helpful than many in the past. Thank you very much Reddit developers
The original Facebook was a one man operation
For those interested in this topic, I recommend "Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction" by David Catling. Catling details nine celestial bodies in the solar system that could potentially harbor life, and discusses Enceladus is some detail.
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Regarding Uber braggers (pun intended): Who cares! If they build it they will not come.
That is bad conjecture. We have no evidence of life anywhere besides earth, microbial or otherwise. Exoplanet research and this new data has found planets that could conceivably host life, but that's it.
In either the day-to-day or 'team-building' events, does anyone have office cultures with a consciously positive attitude to 'shy' people?

I think the whole subtext and title of this article shows the ignorant extrovert's problem. The article is judging whether the extroverts should bestow their social acceptance on the introvert.

Just because you are the only one talking does not mean there's nothing more to be said. And just because you are talking does not mean there is anything to be said.

On the flipside, are there cultures that have disdain for unbridled extroversion and gossip? North America seems to revel in both those things but the biggest hits to company morale I've seen have always been from the 'outgoing' spreading their negativity through multiple separate conversations or steering meetings on downward spiral narratives.
Which is what I was referring to by some practical output; however it's possible and common to acquire knowledge without there being immediate things to do with it. Certainly the knowledge is progress, but you called it the most significant in human history, that's a bold claim, care to expand on how so?
So... osquery?
Every airline will drive your bags the next morning (or whenever it is they finally arrive and they find them) - they are legally required to.

I'm far more impressed when my bags catch up with me in some remote location in the middle of the third world you have to give directions by people and landmark :) But so far they've gotten them to me without fail.
Thunderf00t video in 3... 2... 1...
Q: How many Northern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Hella!

Q: How many Southern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Totally!

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal? The Perceptual Dialectology of California [1]

"This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state). Quantitative analysis of a map-labeling task carried out in Southern California reveals that California's most salient linguistic boundary is between the northern and southern regions of the state. Whereas studies of the perceptual dialectology of the United States as a whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular regions of California less with distinctive dialects than with differences in language (English versus Spanish), slang use, and social groups. The diverse sociolinguistic situation of California is reflected in the emphasis both on highly salient social groups thought to be stereotypical of California by residents and nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) and on groups that, though prominent in the cultural landscape of the state, remain largely unrecognized by outsiders (e.g., hicks)."

Extra credit question:

Can you locate the isogloss [2] designating the "101" / "The 101" line? [3]

[1] http://stanford.edu/class/linguist159/restricted/readings/Bu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogloss

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4347ZE0NQM
To me the parallel with Schindler's list is pretty obvious.
He was a nazi that put Jews names in a list for industrial workers to save them from concentration camps.
In this case we have a Jew that put workers in a list to steal their money.
For sure is not a good taste joke, but I can see the point.
"Many "recreational" athletes push themselves harder than olympic competitors. Their bottleneck is talent and they attempt to overcome this with drive and determination"

I would re-label talent as "genetics". [0] There is a genetic profile of people who have the advantages of speed and endurance over mere mortals. [1] Then there is the rest of us. With respect to "drive and determination" I agree. Taking into account age (youth is another measure of fitness), no amount of training, preparation, conditioning or pharmaceuticals make up for this genetic deficit.

Reference

[0] For example the relationship between ACTN3 and sprinting: "Top sprinters may have key gene" (2003) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3183119.stm

[1] "Physical Performance Predictors of Success in Special Forces Assessment
and Selection" http://dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a245729.pdf
Would you give us a citation for this point? AFAIK, a corporation was a Legal Person as far as the law went.
"I have to go buy an adapter."

A lightning to 3.5mm adapter is included in the iPhone 7 box.
Well fancy that! I stand corrected.

Thanks for pointing that out!
VT, sudden cardiac arrest and cardiomyopathy survivor here. I also have an ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator) like the subject in the article. From a technological standpoint it's an incredibly interesting thing. On one hand I have this fantastic piece of implanted technology that has on different occasions saved my life. It has a 10 year battery life, supports wireless communication and at regular check ins provides a wealth of data to the electrophysiologist about ongoing heart activity (I'd love to have my own API with at least read access to the device).

On the other hand he does a great job describing the PTSD the accompanies the torture and pain the device can deliver. There's something psychologically unique to the fact that this device is embedded inside you, capable of delivering a horrific blow enough to knock you off your feet at a moments notice. From a PTSD standpoint it's as if your assailant is always with you, but permanently implanted within. You can't ever escape it, there's no opportunity to remove yourself from the environment or the factors causing the PTSD. You have to learn to come to grips with that, I've found that makes the recovery much more complicated.

Beyond that, glad to see the cardiac risks of extreme athletics start to get some public attention. There is a certain pull in extreme athletic circles to chase numbers, a sort of oneupmanship to push the limits of what the human body is capable of. Unfortunately at times it's not pretty when some find exactly what those limits are.

Edit: To give it some perspective, I was 31 years old when I had my device implanted.
I don't think it's related to this plateau, but it sparked the question:

If the global temperature were to increase by 1° would that cause a net gain or loss in electricity use?

If you oversimplify you'd assume that since heating is more expensive than cooling consumption would decrease, but I imagine it might also depend on where the majority of humans are located in terms of climate?
One thing I like is that it's very targeted. I have a two stage gas furnace, but I also have a leaky, draughty old century home. At night during the winter, it's cheaper to use space heaters in the bedrooms and let the main floor fall to 12C.
To like PARC you need the following things:

1. A monopoly that prints money

2. Company desire to investigate cool stuff

3. No pressure to productize the research

4. Smart people hired and given lots of leeway.

I think parts of Google, Microsoft,AT&T, and IBM are/have been like this.
Also they were kind of time constrained. WebGL would have been definitely more performant but it has all sorts of hardware issues at times in different devices. I've done plenty of WebGL over the years and seen random GPU crashes where you have to restart the entire machine to unlock your self out.

The canvas trick with typed arrays is brilliant. Using requestAnimationFrame is what any front end dev who knows perf would do. Its like the front end version of cdn with 1 second time out trick.

Also using a layer of library whose code you don't understand in a perf critical application is quite risky. Its better to stick closer to the native browser APIs which you are familiar with. We once had to throw away a library and rewrite code from scratch because their assumptions failed when pushed to the limits. The rewritten code was 100x smaller in size and 10x more performant.

I would have loved to work on something like this but it sucks reddit doesn't have any presence in Seattle.
That would be 3840x2160, right? What effective resolution do you use?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093970
Presumably we could look for ¹²⁹I in deep Antarctic ice cores?
But for fact that said individual was said prior, and that I am slightly in a similar domain to him, I would not know which (singular) particular individual half of that points to
You're probably right. We are pretty welcoming, but on Hacker News I definitely feel like every single state we're in just gets a giant REJECT stamp from everybody. The one exception is maybe our Austin office, because Austin seems to get an honorary non-Texas label. Working for government customers also seems to earn us a giant REJECT stamp around here. Aside from this particular article, "low-level" feels like another REJECT stamp.

I happen to like all that, but I'm not the average Hacker News reader and I know it.

To convince your family about the Melbourne, FL area: you can afford 5 acres, or a house on the beach, or a commute of less than a mile, or a huge McMansion. You can surf all year long. I suspect Texas (Austin and San Antonio) and Virginia are pretty good too.
I certainly wouldn't count America out. However, looking at the numbers in terms of growth, there's been a pretty steady downward trend since (an unusually high) 2010 Q3: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=dmxz

Although the very last recorded quarter could be the start of a trend reversal... Regardless, you're correct on your original point: a reduction in energy usage would not be due to an output decline in manufacturing (which is the most energy intensive sector in most modern economies).
Dying over here trying to figure out why they had phpBB installed.
I'm talking conditional probabilities here. Conditioned on the natural, our track record isn't bad. Conditioned on synthetic substances, just in the last century we have thalidomide, high-fructose corn syrup and this wonderful collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Withdrawn_drugs
I wish I had enough spare cash to take you up on a bet that you could implement this in less than a weekend. Maybe HN can crowdfund paying you for two days at $1000/day to replicate, versus your time and a $3000 rebate if you can't.
The best part of the article:

"If you're on a newer mac, you may have to use a USB adapter, like an animal"
This will make finding those UFO videos really easy!
In a way it feels the same way how some people behave with respect to their lack of belief in a God entity. They are so militant and fussy about being an atheist that they end up making atheism another religion in various ways.

Anyway, there was this blogger who wrote on minimalism (quite famous in circles where people celebrate anything by Apple). I realised how his posts contained thousands of words about something as banal as a standing desk (yeah it was from the time when those desks were the new wheel or fire). And that too with too many glossy and (what I call) subtly pretentious shots of Moleskins, fountain pens, glasses, empty wine bottles away from that desk but in focus and what not. Note that those photos were heavily edited, with many filters applied on them. It was anything but minimalism. Most of the readings I've done on minimalism defeats the very purpose of minimalism.
If life was not there, I would wager that life is exceedingly rare in our universe.
Then you get early warning that you need to be paying attention, rather than silently corrupting your data by swapping some coordinates around.

No, a real-world case is that I have a giant program that uses my own geometric primitives, and now I want to start heavily using a library. I know they are just fricking 3D points or quaternions or whatever. Yet because of some weird ideology you want to increase the amount of gruntwork I have to do, and make my life much less pleasant.

You don't want an 8-dimensional point literal that takes 8 arguments directly, that's never going to be readable. You might want to use a builder. More likely you want to load it from a data file or something on those lines rather than constructing it directly. Where are you even getting these 8-dimensional points from?

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

In Haskell (or indeed in C) it doesn't necessarily have performance implications; an 8-element structure may have exactly the same runtime representation as those 8 elements being passed distinctly.

Wow, okay, this conversation is over.
Money is a necessary ingredient, but I've been in and near enough very costly endeavors that produced very little brilliance to think it's probably not even in the top 3 most important ones.
Amazon Employees Pressuring to Cut Advertising Ties with Breitbart
Why italicize she?
I always dream of something that would make easier for foreigners to open an US bank account, I now people that went to the US as tourist and could open an account there, but there's no way to do that via internet without actually visiting a branch in person. Don't seems to be so difficult is it? Seems very much its just a internal political thing.
It's also stunningly poor in lots of cases. Largely because the system has no idea of the reality it's talking about.
I've lived in three areas in LA -- Hollywood, downtown and Marina del Rey. I walked all the time, to most of the places I needed to go. I currently live next to a Ralph's, with another Ralphs, Gelson's and Pavilions within 0.5 miles. Plus tons of restaurants, banks etc. And between Uber/Lyft and the Metro Rail, I can get anywhere.
always wondered how exactly this process works.. you can date the stone itself, but how do you date the shaping of the stone?
Because it's a correction
> so the sooner that can switch over the electric, the sooner we can drop the 36% of energy being sourced from petroleum.

but it's not a 1:1 relationship. A lot of electricity in the US comes from burning petro-fuels like natural gas (if you count natural gas as a petro fuel) or coal.

There was a study[1] last year that argued that driving a Tesla in Ohio caused more pollution than driving a BMW 3-series, because the source of the Tesla's electricity was likely coal.

1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-cars-are...
"Dude" is typically understood to be male.
Here you go: http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/scien...

Mining wasn't banned until 1991. And as the article outlines, Antarctica is a really, really inhospitable place, to the point that it might be easier to colonize a different planet than to colonize Antarctica (I'd probably prefer equatorial Mars over Antarctica) and even mineral extraction would be very complicated.
The solution may be more doping and genetic engineering.

As cynical as it sounds, people who're motivated like this are not going to just give up overnight on something they've worked incredibly hard for several years, even decades. I've personally experienced some of this...
Change to non-canonical lighting and it fails on classification tasks.

Add non-standard background noise, and it also fails on hearing tasks.
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anyone know what framework they used to do visualizations?
It's also stunning how poorly it performs in a real world (i.e., non-human-prefiltered photo) scenario.

Like autonomous cars or security cameras or robotics.
> As population growth slows it's only natural for electricity to as well.

You missed the point. It's not that growth in total energy use is slowing, like growth in population is slowing. The point is that per-capital energy use is _declining_. You can't describe a decline as "slowing growth" with a straight face unless you are a Fox News commentator.
United can learn a thing or two from Jeff Bezos's annual letter about customer obsession. Trust your customers rather than treating them like idiots and with suspicion.
Think:color wheel. Every improvising musician (and some classical musicians as well)holds a similar diagram in their heads when practicing common chord progressions like ii-V-Is and rhythm changes, and the blues, etc... and on and on. Each note/chord in the western scale pulls against others next and opposite to it in the same way, regardless of the key one inhabits in any given moment. These relationships are dynamic; variables, in a way, pulling against one another in an interconnected system. The tonic(I, or "c" in c major, for example) has a "home" quality, the dominant (V) has a cadential quality in relation to the tonic, etc., and each chord has its role. Within this system, one can create the illusion that one is "in a key" that one is not actually fully in for the overall work-- this is like nesting methods in code. Loops are loops and the idea remains the same no matter how big or small, no matter the coding language. Chordal relations in music are the same. This diagram may be what Coltrane holds in his head as he plays patterns and repeats motives in a given solo to imply chordal relationships and "transportation" from one realm to another. These realms have anticipatory meaning we all understand unconsciously, even if we are not professional jazz musicians. (for example, we all feel the need for "do" if it is left off the end of "do re mi fa sol la ti...." in "Do, a deer".) There is nothing magical about Coltrane's diagram that I can see that is beyond what most improvisers hold in their heads as they practice patterns over chord changes. And yet, there is something wonderful about how these chords and notes create inherent meaning and character roles relative to one another-- like the color wheel. It is still cool to see the way Coltrane represented these for himself in his own mind, (in other words- how simple his ingredients- they are the same as ours, and the result!)implying how he practiced improvising, and the path those patterns may have taken.

When improvising over changes, it is easy to get lost in a compositional idea and lose one's place in the form. Maintaining a simple "relational data structure" like this circle is way way to maintain one's balance a place in the overall form and structure. Jazz musicians work to internalize this in practice, so that in performance, they can be free and expressive while still within the form. And then...there is Dolphy.!!
Sublime uses skia as its rendering library, which is what blink (chromium frontend) uses for rendering. May be electron can provide a nicer api to interface directly with skia.

By giving performant lower level access to render, may be VSC can move some of the perf sensitive code directly to compiled optimized binaries.

Sort of like what node native libraries do.

Sublime does some pretty great dark magic. I was impressed to see vscode approach similar speeds to sublime in search. I believe there is plenty that can be done to make rendering fast, reduce memory consumption and make it a bit light weight. But it would require access to metal APIs
As a foreigner who's been to both, I'd say LA is a little better. There seems to be less urine in the streets. If you're talking about pure visual aesthetics, I'd also say LA wins, just by a little and primarily because of Santa Monica.

In the grand scheme of things though, I don't think either rank very high, even among American cities. Chicago and New York have far nicer architecture.
Anything in geosync is there* until the sun boils the oceans.

(*it will rather quickly wander from its original position, but it isn't leaving orbit or crashing down.)
That depends. To whom do the police officers swear their loyalty?

If their highest authority is The Constitution and they are trained and act as if it is, then maybe it's OK.

But, this is a church. The church's highest authority is not The Constitution and that immediately calls into question who is the highest authority for any police officer hired and sworn by the church.
Nintendo Sold 906,000 Switch Consoles in US During March
Yeah, the differences are kind of interesting -- check out the last section of this article http://legendsoflocalization.com/funky-fantasy-iv/ for some comparisons of Google-translated Japanese text from Final Fantasy IV before and after the switch.
What, gay?

(I wasn't going to, but skimming his words, I can't spot what this is a followup to; so I thought I'd ask, though with that initial jocular quip.)
Along with what everyone else said (I've set up retropie, follow the instructions and aside from some quirks it's easy), there's a handful of 3d printed cases you can get for that extra retro feel. Here's a few examples, some people offer for purchase: https://all3dp.com/raspberry-pi-nintendo-nes-case/
It is special because it happened in a different era and its technological and cultural ideas are no longer legible. Time was computers were for mathematics, now they are Potemkin villages and vehicles for almost stunning cultural paranoia and new sectarian hatreds.
Its ugly compared to most places tbh.
A few years ago I measured the power consumption of various devices around my home, using an inline meter of unknown accuracy (e.g., TV plugs into meter, meter plugs into wall outlet).

There weren't many surprises, but my cable TV boxes were disappointing: Two different models both used the same amount of power, 25-30 W, regardless of whether they were 'on' or 'off', and no matter how long they were 'off'. No other devices that drew any significant power behaved this way; in comparison, my laptop used 1W when asleep.

The cable boxes are merely computers, and not even general-purpose ones - i.e., only a small number of predictable features have to be implemented - and the vendor is complete control of the hardware and software. There is no reason an effective sleep mode couldn't be implemented. And think about the mass deployments of these devices by the cable companies - how much power could be saved by investing in some very standard, available tech, and add up the impact on customers' electric bills and the environment.

However, I wonder if other models of cable boxes are the same.
Nice blog post citation. Jazz musicians absolutely love to dig into these structures from https://www.worldcat.org/title/thesaurus-of-scales-and-melod...
..but some are better than others, and having that personality trait isn't necessarily a choice
How do you know these claims are 100% false?

Assuming they have no valid quotes are just silly. I think it's pretty clear why, the huge risks of retribution.
Oh heck yes, El Segundo and Hawthorne: http://www.walkinginla.com/2016/Jul24/07_24_16.html

My daily walking commute is between these two cities. El Segundo is home to several firms as it's a particularly business-friendly city. Meanwhile Hawthorne is best known as the home of Spacex.

The In N Out that several of us go to more often than we should is in one of the photos.
Amazing Lego model of EELT telescope