skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not wanting to work longer hours

As others have pointed out, working longer hours is actually counterproductive. The 40 hour work week and paid vacations were not introduced out of kindness, they were introduced because employers found out that they actually improved overall productivity.

However, particularly in highly cognitively demanding fields, even 40 hours is likely too much, actual productive work is more around 20-25h per week at best. If you try to do more, you will accomplish less.

> eventually become overpaid and uncompetitive status.

Yes. If you continue to do the same things in the same way, you will definitely be uncompetitive. As you grow and grow older, you should be accumulating at least knowledge and hopefully a little bit of wisdom.

As the old joke goes: "One chalk mark $1; Knowing where to put it $49,999."

Meaning you have to find ways to leverage your hopefully increasing abilities to shift into jobs/roles where you provide more value. Like bringing architectural oversight to teams/projects, mentoring, answering questions. If I can prevent a more junior developer from spending a day or two chasing down a blind alley by giving a couple of minutes of advice, that's pretty valuable. And scalable, because I can give a few minutes of advice to a whole bunch of developers over a given workday.

Or if I manage to introduce an architecture that reduces code by say 50% while at the same time making the code simpler, I've just doubled the team's productivity, with likely more compounded savings in the future.
I didn't mean that that people aren't aware that such things as books exist, which of course would be absurd.

I meant that people aren't aware of the serious and scholarly books that exist because they don't experience the serendipity[0] of seeing them in particular, or en masse, in the bookstore.

[0] IIRC, serendipity is actually part of the design of library arrangement systems (Library of Congress, Dewey, etc.): Books are arranged so that you will happen across related information when you look for the book you came for.
Okay, you win.
Are you sure that is not the mean wage?

1. The link says average, which usually implies mean.

2. The mean yearly income for an individual in the US is ~$45,000[1], which, assuming 2080 working hours per year is ~$22/hr. That seems almost a little too coincidental.

3. The median yearly income is ~$30,000[1]. If the median wage is truly $22/hr. it must be for part-time work, which still comes up about $20,000 per year short compared to the numbers from the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
Airlines already do ban people, and have them dragged off planes by police when they behave badly enough (and sometimes when they want to stay in the seat they paid for). You seem to be suggesting that bad behavior on planes is prevalent enough to warrant a crackdown.

I fly several times a year, and that does not match my experience. If I've stated your position correctly, why do you believe a crackdown is a good idea?
This article cites a measurement from Mauna Loa Observatory.
Governing body: No IP addresses for governments that shut down internet access
Not really a fork, more of a child/derivative distribution. Hard to call them a fork when >99.9% of their packages are straight from Debian.
Increasing CO2 does not necessarily result in more plants. The feedback cycles are complex and there are other limiting factors.

Imagine, for example, if the oxygen concentration was increasing instead. Would you expect humans to multiply faster and reach a new equilibrium because of it?

Concentrations have indeed been much higher in the deep past. The concern isn't destroying all life, it's damaging or destroying civilization.

There are theoretical techniques for blocking solar heat. It remains to be seen how effective or practical they would be in the real world. There is a lot of potential for unintended consequences.
Hmm. So what would be the advantage over Dask, which lets me scale out over a cluster?
Have you seen Kindle MatchBook?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/ep-landing-page

Or Shelfie?
http://www.shelfie.com/
They dump it because it's not cool anymore and nobody is wanting to buy hot water from them at a cost that makes it worth their while.

If they had the capability to cool the water fast enough then they'd use a closed loop cooling system and wouldn't need to pump fresh, cool groundwater.
Ah, I think I see.

React is a templating library. Nothing more, nothing less.

It takes a state ("props"), a template ("component") and renders the DOM tree. That's all it does. (Non-templating uses like react-router are kind of hacks, rather than intended use. YMMV, of course.)

However, it's more complex than previous-generation templating libraries (that had emitted strings, rather than operating on DOM trees), because DOM trees are stateful. This is why React is so huge, when compared to, say, Mustache.

(And, of course, it's really easy to mess things up by putting application logic right in the component class. And, I'd say, sometimes it's really tempting to do so. Mustache/Handlebars doesn't have this only because they're specifically designed to disallow such things.)
Not all plants are on land. Algae blooms are becoming a huge problem for a few reasons and increasing CO_2 is one of them.
They might allow it, but in civil litigation liability hangs upon the balance of probabilities rather than being beyond a reasonable doubt as in criminal trials. So a court might well allow it but that doesn't mean a jury would find it persuasive.
You could, but then you still have the original data in the original location which needs to be scrubbed. And go does not, to my knowledge, provide semantics that allow for doing this in a way that should be considered cryptographically reliable.

The go runtime might optimize away your memzero, or it could have created other copies that you don't have a handle to.

In the Rust version of my library (and maybe in the go version, it's been ages since I worked on it), I go out of my way to make it difficult to copy data from runtime-managed memory into a secret buffer. You can do this, and it makes a best-effort attempt at zeroing the data when you do, but you lose a lot of hard guarantees when you do.
Let's just say the Mr. Taplin got his way. I cannot imagine any site allowing any user content without a heck of a screening process. I really cannot think of a scenario that would allow discourse on the internet except in private forums or irc channels with no logs.
> careful ... bidding wars

Why not? Yes prices can become high, but isn't that the work of the researcher? If the company doesn't want to have to purchase expensive bounties, they can either reduce the exposure (less legacy code, fewer APIs, more firewalls) or use more strict security rules.

I'd feel safer if LastPass' bounty was higher than the value of the assets I put in that vault. If the value of a single vault (mine, actually) is $10,000 and the bug bounty is $2500 (which it is), how can we persuade discoverers to sell to LastPass?
"solve the problems" varies wildly from call to call, one could be that they haven't paid their bill and got cut off (but it's your fault obviously), it could be a physical fault with something that requires a return or engineer site visit, or any one of a million things.

99% of the time the person answering the call is there as a buffer, cheap fodder infront of the more expensive people who can do things. You either have a very expensive resource manning the phones and working inefficiently with long wait times or you have the meat shield filtering for you.

I've been on both sides of this (meat shield and technical fixer) it's driven by about 30 layers of management so it's always a mess, the alternative is the Google/Valve model where there is zero support.

(Yes i know support is good on paid Google products. It's not on the free ones)
Hey there! Thanks for building this. I hate to rain on your parade, but your approach, unfortunately, won't work as currently written[1]. You have to manage the memory yourself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14174500
There are tremendous opportunities in renewable generation from a programming/hardware hacker perspective. Turbine and solar controllers and software, for example.
We build a completely overlooked set of software and hardware devices that I think will revolutionise the field [1]. We also make secure smart meters that do accurate measurements, as none seem to exist yet that are correct and secure. There is an large number of websites and apps needed in this field.

I would say we are in a similar position as the 1980's, everyone is active in this huge growth market of making proprietary networking software and hardware, almost nobody sees it will all be obsolete in a few years when the internet arrives. Our startup will be ready with the tools needed when this transition happens (in renewables).
If you are interested to work on this, email merik at fiberhood.nl

[1] https://metamorphresearch.org/images/FiberhoodWhitePaper0.9....
> you could think the moon is square, doesn't bother me one bit. i'm living my life, not yours.

The problem is when this wrong headedness starts to interfere at a public policy level, like climate change.
Hi! I'm his cofounder, we can be reached at mail@basdevri.es :)
Systemd has cool things, but it is a monster. I'm glad this alternative exists.
Frontier charges you for every bag checked, more for a carry on, and even more for each subsequent bag. https://www.flyfrontier.com/travel-information/baggage/

If you're paying specifically for the service, and it is mishandled, you're more likely to complain.
It's time to stop breaking up any companies.
Haha, yeah we've made it! Thanks!
That, and he's a adjunct communications professor with no experience in antitrust law
Foster: an easy way to publish your python packages
Evaporative cooling, like those cooling towers next to hydrothermal power plants.
> We need look no further than the conduct of the largest banks in the 2008 financial crisis or the role that Facebook and Google play in the “fake news” business to know that Brandeis was right.

I couldn't really get any farther into the article than this.

How exactly is "fake news" supposed to be a symptom of abuse of monopoly power?

Are we supposed to believe that Facebook and Google's smaller competitors rigorously curate content to ensure factual accuracy?
Pretty sure horse carriages were around a lot earlier than 1400, unless you were thinking BC.
Not only border checks. I have to fly about once per month. Just a German domestic flight. It is bad enough.

But on the other hand - I really love to surprise the airport staff with exceptional friendliness and respectfulness. The look on their faces when encountering a friendly human being cannot be described.
One thing I thought about a while back related to this. Predictions show that increased energy in the atmosphere results in stronger storms. Storms are not preserved in the historical record, so how bad will they be? The relationships between temperature and energy tend to be supralinear...

Has anyone looked at common species from warm earth periods to predict storm severity? I remember reading that palm-like trees used to be the dominant type. These trees still are in island areas mostly because they are extremely resistant to storms. They have few leaves and thick trunks.

Are we setting ourselves up for a future where average wind speeds are 5x higher and hurricane-like storms devastate the landscape every year or so?
Should We Be Sending K-12 Students Who Hack Their Schools to Jail?
> There is no serendipity at Amazon.

Perfectly said (and perfectly sad.)
On the plus side, this could come handy against skynet
That is absolutely ludicrous. Monopolies are terrible for everyone except the owners of the monopolies. I've never heard anyone argue for monopolies before.
This is very bad (albeit completely unsurprising) news, but I really don't see that the word "threshold" is appropriate. Is there some special bad thing that happens once 410ppm is reached, that's qualitatively different from 400ppm? Nope.

The article itself is quite clear about this: e.g., it quotes one climate scientist as saying "These milestones are just numbers, but they give us an opportunity to pause and take stock and act as useful yard sticks for comparisons to the geological record." I suspect it's the usual story: journalist writes reasonable article, sub-editor puts needlessly overexcited headline on it.
The threat of anti-trust to Google is good enough, I hope it's not acted on. It makes them try to play fairer than they would otherwise eg making customers can export their data. I feel like they've made more of an effort on things like GCP to make customers not locked in than their competition because they are the most in danger of getting busted up.

It'd be too bad though to break up yet another company that does interesting long term projects with a comfortable cash faucet because it is too successful.
We have all these 'words' like standardization, fragmentation, duplication that sound good but seem unworkable in open source without creating a monolith.

There is a real risk this approach ends up concentrating power and influence and destroying dynamism. I suspect Linux would not have got to where it is with 'gatekeepers'.

For proper standardization the design and development has to be done openly with the collaboration of major open source vendors and inputs of users to prevent one entity gaining control rather than now of trying to push vendor controlled projects as standards which looks too self serving.

If the project is already done the vendor should be willing to give up control to a 'standards body'. 'Standards' can't be controlled by a single vendor. It's not a standard then.
TIL that you can drag and drop videos from the browser to download them
This is awesome! I was a pretty serious (classic) minesweeper player and was even ranked pretty highly internationally. Curious: did other people have their intuition translate "incorrectly" at first? I kept on blowing up cells because I hadn't yet fully internalized the changes that occur in 3D (I know the rules are the same, but the "pattern recognition rules" are not quite the same.) It was really interesting having to step back and rework out the implications of things in 3D. In some vague sense I feel like this is a bit like how some mathematical theorems hold in certain number of dimensions but not others (e.g. random walks). Cool game!
The problem with ignorance in the internet age is you can now find sources that confirm your wrong headed ideas, entire ecosystems even.

When I was young, lonely and isolated, the internet was a godsend: it connected me to like minded individuals and expanded my horizons. It exposed me to a world of ideas about science, technology, history, politics, music, etc. at a time when everyone around me was mentally stagnant.

That same power to connect can lead people down a dark or dangerous path. Approach the internet with an uncritical mind and you could emerge as a flat-earther, anti-vaccer, or worse.

I've tried to explain to a friend why vaccinations are a good idea, and I get a bunch of crap about how modern medicine doesn't work for her, and how she took a homeopathic vaccine, went to India, and didn't get ill.

I once knew someone who bought an expensive electronic detoxification device. The idea was you held on to the handles and it sent purifying waves through your body, killing any parasites. She insisted on showing off her stool after the process was complete. She said she could see the little "bugs" that had been in her system. Then we discovered that she had forgotten to put in the batteries.

I knew someone else who wanted to invest in a $50,000 machine that made similarly dubious claims. The idea was to make the money back by selling treatments. Thankfully her daughter talked her out of it.

Gullibility is a dangerous thing, especially at the intersection of personal health and second party financial incentive.
The post is talking about unpowered glide profile - the vast majority of air travel is in commercial jetliners which can and do glide, providing a major advantage in case of problems.
Large scale water cooling systems are open return systems.

Basically they pump in cold water and pump hot water back out.

Cooling the water is expensive and ineffective on large scales.

Beyond that you have evaporative cooling which is used for large scale HVAC systems in this case the water simply evaporates away into the atmosphere.
The USPTO has a bulk download option[0]. The datasets are available from ReedTech[1].

[0] https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/bulk-data-produ...
[1] http://patents.reedtech.com/Public-PAIR.php
I couldn't make it to the end of your comment to know what points you were trying to make.
The example given is forcing them to sell DoubleClick. I think Android is a great example because that was an aquisition at one point. Google pays Apple for default search placement so a similar arrangement could be made.

The article is a bit vague and hand-wavey (and the title is a bit off) but I would definitely say that Apple is hugely monopolistic, for a company sitting at #1.

Apple has a stranglehold on iOS browsers by forcing App Store browsers to use Safari's renderer and web view.

And being vertically integrated, the hardware and software are both locked-down in ways that restrict a consumer.

Why can't I install macOS on non-Apple hardware? Why do I need macOS to develop for Mac/iPhone? Why can't I replace the battery or install memory easily on my Macbook? Each of these are shady, manipulative business practices, and lo and behold, Apple has the greatest market cap (and least competitive pricing.)
Emacs and VIM are probably those two software pieces that to me look like from another era that I have not lived through and thus cannot get my head around.
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QSC=quality, service, and cleanliness.

McOpCo stores have to follow all the rules and policies that Oak Brook dictates to the franchisees, but they also have to be profitable. Oak Brook was often out of touch with how life was for franchisees, and would make requirements that just didn't jibe with making a buck. A franchisee would make the decision to either emphasize or de-emphasize a new policy/procedure, and deal with the consequences from their regional manager if it became an issue.

McOpCo stores weren't immune to business pressures either; having to follow (in theory) all the policies and regulations imposes a cost on their business. And one of the keys to a well run franchise was a stable management team and stable staff under that team. With McOpCo stores being a stepping stone for managers to climb the ranks, it was harder to develop the team cohesion that a good franchisee could.
I read that the era of nuclear testing noticably decreased surface temperatures for some time. If we can't figure anything else out we could probably settle for blowing up a bunch of cleanish lead wrapped nukes out in the ocean every couple months? It sounds terrible but if done right it would have little impact to life on earth
Without Safe Harbour, what sites will survive?
I basically agree with you, but I will state that I was not attacking any journalists.

Sensationalism sells. There are both good and bad reasons behind that truism. At the moment, the publishing industry is in crisis. I see no reason to look any further than a dire need to increase sales as "motive" for a particular publication apparently revisiting this particular on-going drama repeatedly.

My sister was a journalism major in college. She was significantly involved in the school paper in high school and was awarded a journalism scholarship that helped pay for her college education. She went on to do other things and is not a journalist, though an early job of hers did involve working on a publication. I also had a class in journalism in high school (where I was disliked by the teacher for failing to be enough like my older sister, whom he had adored as a student and contributor to the school paper) and I was State Alternate for the Governor's Honors Program in Georgia in the subject of Journalism when I was 15. So, I got my toes ever so slightly wet in journalism in my teens, then, I also went down some other path instead of becoming a journalist.

I assure you, my remarks are in no way intended to be an attack on journalists.
How exactly is the amount of a public resource consumed by a private company a "trade secret"?

What utter nonsense. Someone in SC should file a FOIA request on principle.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t30c004.php
The article describes an in situ (ground based) measurement, that is sample based.

You can get CO2 concentrations from satellite remote sensing, as well. Usually they use spectral analysis of CO2 emission/absorption lines in the infrared. This is a passive measurement, but active measurements with lasers are used in ground based and airborne measurements now.

These measurements are of CO2 within a given (vertical) column of air -- where the infrared light came from -- whereas the Mauna Loa measurement in TFA is localized to air moving past the sample station.

One starting place for CO2 data is: https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov

This summary of Los Angeles area ground based measurements hints at some of the complexities of integrating these different data sources: https://megacities.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/collection-network/ .

Other pages on that site indicate the extreme spatial and temporal variability of CO2 in an urban setting. That's why the comparatively pristine Mauna Loa site is so important.
http://nginx.org
How is it better than e.g. enabling Vi-mode in your inputrc and just using a "vanilla" commandline REPL?

shell and multi-term have been very uncomfortabe to me, while I really liked Evil mode, the Rust linter + formatter + Cargo integration and Projectile, and Helm was pretty nice as well.
> I don't know much about climate science ... I'm just skeptical that the rising CO2 level is as dangerous as it's made out to be.

Respectfully, is this a mindset you apply to other aspects of your life?

Let's say you leased an apartment in a large building, and after an inspection, numerous structural engineers said the building was in danger of collapse. Would you say "I don't know much about engineering, but I'm skeptical it's that bad", or would you demand the building management take steps to correct the issues?
CO2 impacts more than plants. For example "Rising CO2 levels reduce protein in crucial pollen source for bees"

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q2/rising-co2-...
The threat of anti-trust measures hasn't been great enough for the SEC to block the mergers that put them in control of the majority of Internet ads. It's astonishing to see how awful the ads that Google (Alphabet) serves are.
I think they meant Facebook and google being the ones who decide what's fake news and what's not.
I take serious issue with you acting like some authority on what is or isn't a waste of time. It's arrogant and destructive, to yourself and others.
try orgmode, way better than anything else
Allan Holdsworth, Virtuoso Guitarist Who Amazed His Peers, Dies at 70
I live in a school bus, traveling the country

I'd love if you could share a couple of lines on the economics of that, like what your setup and ongoing expenses are like, and what's the biggest headache it involves. If you prefer, my gmail address is the same as my username. Thanks.
How three Howard University grads broke techs glass ceiling with an app
Then that recruiter is utterly worthless and you should contact the tech lead a at the companyuestion and let them know.