skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also appreciating the same as you quoted above.

But I keep defaulting to a painfully pessimistic imagination that is the costs are collectively going to be so moot so much sooner than any expectation, due to unforseen extreme results.

Am I going through a depression or something manic, maybe, because I don't believe we're not all suppressing contemplation of the outlier worse consequences of climate instability and as a result are walking blindfold in a kind of negotiated but half acceptable death march into a slower extinction and because of this unseen compromise on the range of forecasts that are shorn of the scariest conclusions we're investing in hope and eliminating healthy appreciation of the dangers, and ultimately accommodating skepticism too much for that accommodation to be without inevitable negative effects ?

edit: final words arranged for grammatical clarity, no overt meaning altered by edit.
I disagree with 2a. No reason why this shouldn't be a path that the user can edit to go one level "up" to /search/product/couches.

That's kind of the point of the article - these are parameters for the programmer, but are UI to the user.

Separating parameters by "&", except for the first KVP which is separated by "?" from the URL is not intuitive. On the other hands, they path editing is familiar.
At this point, you start hitting a problem from fundamental computation. When are 2 programs equivalent? Is it when they behave equivalently in any implementation or is it when there is a chain of rewriting rules that change one to the other.

The issue with the first definition is 2-fold. What set of implementations are you qualifying over, and what to do with weird programs that crash occasionally. This is similar to what happens in the given example. The program is equivalent to 'return 1' when f is always false. Otherwise, it might crash.

In the second definition, 'return 1' and the given program are just different programs, until you actually substitute an f and continue reduction.
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well if you're not good at programming contests would that entail a contemplating/slow programmer?

I'd rather pick an algorithmist and teach him/her to reflect than a so called "reflectionist" / "slow coder" and teach him/her how to solve algorithmic problems.

I'd be interested in knowing the guy's (catonmat) own reflections and experiences too.
How does this comment relate to Cirque du Soleil?
A guy tried to make a C-level formal language, even sexp based at first. After years he quit, saying it's probably impossible to have both (he wrote a long long article about the reasons, he didn't leave without explaining every problems in details).

Usually ideas filters in tiny bits, kind like genes. See closures, forever in lisp, but now in every languages while lisp is still niche.

The issue with theorists is that they see the world in abstract algebra / combinatorics, it's not fluff, it's just extremely high level thinking with extremely short notation[1]. It looks like straight BS until you spend enough time seeing that it translates into reality. Say something like prolog, where a few rules give you graph coloring. It's not theory only, it's actual application of different semantics.

[1] also, as in any group, they developped a culture and taste for some things, expressing everything in the form of arithmetic expressions. F^n <= iteration of F n times, it's a loop in average coder lingo.
I would love to donate to this person, and I couldn't find a way. Any suggestions?
1979 - Futurist Tells Us Of The Coming Computer Age
I might be somewhat biased on this, but I strongly prefer database metaphor over computing metaphor.

Every blockchain is essentially a shared database. E.g. Bitcoin is a database which keeps track of address balances (as a first approximation) and enforces particular authorization rules. It's a fixed-functionality blockchain.

On the other hand, Ethereum can serve as an arbitrary, user-defined database. Ethereum smart contracts are essentially like stored procedures in SQL databases -- they can be used to enforce arbitrary consistency rules.

And the reason why transactions are quite expensive is that you're paying to update everyone's database. You can modify things locally for free, but if you need everyone to see your information, you gotta pay for it.

And computation is there just for the sake of enforcing arbitrary constraints.
FYI you can make clickable subreddit links by using a subdomain, e.g. :

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Maybe this is unusual, but I've seen labs hire CS grad students to write their code. I always assumed this was widespread practice.
They are two types of business, first type business to business, software made to run internal in a company, the business run on this software, generally in this kind of software you use enterprise frameworks, the second type are business to consumer where anyone can made an account and use application, some software as a service are like that, they are too other types of web applications business to consumer.

When you allow that anyone to make an account and use your application sometimes you couldn't rely on enterprise technology and it's better to write everything from scratch or to customize open source solutions.

What they are testing in algorithms contests:
1.) the algorithm is correct with various test sets
2.) the performance of the algorithm, running time in milliseconds, there you should to know how to measure time complexity of algorithm with O(N)
3.) memory consumed, there you should know how much memory you are allocating for variables, for example a variable of type byte consume 8 bits

I think that programmers which has prizes in algorithms contests are suitable for business to consumer applications because there they will find a challenge, this kind of programmers will be bored to dig in enterprise frameworks.
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From the last line of the article:

> If you’d like to support my work, you can purchase prints of my photos. You can also learn about and support the world of the Free Burma Rangers here.

http://www.kainoalittle.com/prints/
The real problem that weboob wants to solve is that websites tend to provide both the content _and_ the presentation layer, with no way to separate the two. Even though all the elements are standardized, it's impossible to fetch only the data and display it the way you want, unless the website provides APIs which is far from common. Weboon wants to provide that.
I hope this thread doesn't get hijacked with political discussions. I'll spare my comments at least. Let the story be told through the images...
I think it's just clever satire. I especially like the "about" page.
For what it's worth, you can buy prints at their website: http://www.kainoalittle.com/prints/
Do we need specialized graph databases?
Salto-1P robot: Researchers show off its bouncing talents
> i just said that the australian project has little relevance to companies who do seek energy storage, because their reasons, motivations, are different, and this greatly affects cost sensitivity.

>>All i'm saying: If there's a real economical solution for the big problem of energy storage, real deployments are the test, not politically/risk driven deployments, or psychological/marketing[1] driven deployments(like we see with the power wall)

Because other energy companies aren't worried about political risks? If that was the case, why would companies lobby government officials/politicians at all anywhere in the world? I'd think all energy companies have similar considerations, but how they choose to weight them may be different.

A theoretical company might save $300 million dollars in yearly operational costs with a upfront cost of $1 billion to $INSERT_WHATEVR_BATTERY_SOLUTION_PROVIDER, but if they are exposed to $26 billion to "investments" of a $100 billion total that are expected to perform for the next 30 years and have to revalue that suddenly (to the downside, to be clear), then I know they are going to think twice about how to move forward.
I once read a blog post of an American doing medical tourism to India. I can't find it now, but I think Americans agree with you.
Yes, but not after they've added the dongle protection (and new (driver based?) check system).
Personal ethics and society ethics don't always match up and don't have to. Society ethics should be utilitarian, optimizing general welfare from a third person, objective point of view. Personal ethics is inherently subjective and tied to your personal point of view.

Personally, I (and most people) support systems of societal ethics (such as governments) because they work for me most of the time. Not necessarily always.
Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nordstrom, umbrellas.
Maybe there should be a google translate like thingy for programming languages. Atleast the main keywords get translated. Would make lives easier. (Python would be a great language to have such a feature as it has more verbose identifiers than most other languages like C or C++)
Golang has made it to the top 10 of most popular programming languages
Well' 2.7 is quite different in that hundreds of millions of lines of code, and huge production systems, will remain in that for the next 10 years at least.
I was saying you presented a weak argument. Graphing the differentialquotient multiple times is more trouble than it's worth.
I'm failing to understand how this is different from say buying a compute power from AWS or GCE. Isn't it almost the same except the transaction is done through ether instead of traditional money?
These are amazing images. Images aside, photographers like these put their lives in danger everyday to get images like these.

I would gladly donate. Also, would be neat if they also took Bitcoin and Ethereum as a donation option.
What else should we talk about in this thread? About how sad it is that nobody wanted to buy her photos, or about how great it is that she's giving them away?
"But the soldiers had fed me and given me a seat in their Humvees, and the refugees had tolerated my presence on some of the worst days of their lives. They very rightly expected that I would tell their story."

You could have explained a little about the death of newspapers and other media outlets, and how much existing footage/photography there is of conflict in Iraq (to say nothing of Afghanistan, Syria etc). They should have been under no illusions as to the likelihood of any particular photographer getting their work paid for and published. It's like the Simpsons joke about space missions. The first guy landed on the moon and it's the story of the century. The 12th lunar mission though? Meh - what else is on. Trying to get a western, especially an American, audience excited about another batch of photographs about fighting in the Middle East seems like something of a tall order. Even outside of the news photography has died a death. Anyone can take an adequate photograph nowadays with cheap, simple equipment so few people are willing to pay a professional.
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Why would no one buy these amazing photographs? Either OP is bad at finding a buyer or photography is one tough job.
Individuals commit suicide all the time because of the pain they feel. Do we want a government that does that to society? Obviously not.
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>People expect more from conversation, as opposed to sloppy thinking where the author projects their own biases out to the world and expects people will agree with them or be polite enough to be silenced

Yes. They expect people to be able to freely share their opinions and observations without others knee-jerk calling them "biases" and without demanding citations for things people can judge for themselves, as if every talk has to be mediated through some (often crappy, but just formal) statistic.

I didn't say anything about being "polite enough to be silenced" (heck, I'm not that polite myself) -- just to engage with counter-arguments and that "You've made a general observation but it doesn't hold for me specifically or my friend Jack thus it is invalid" is not really an argument.
> A strawman who clearly doesn't actually understand how computers work

Fixed that for you. I had good informatics teachers 10 years ago.

> quantitative reasoning

As in complexity of sorting functions? We did that, non-rigorously.

I just don't see how, say, meiosis and mitoses or vulkanism are any more mandatory to learn than e.g. Codd's normal forms or the workings of an ALU.
Where are the screenshots? Where is the demo video?
> who pays the costs for australian emissions *:
> - people living in australia -- 0.3% of emissions
> - people living in world excluding australia -- 99.7% of emissions

Not that straightforward. Effects of emissions is global, yes, but there are also local effects due to pollution, certain chemical byproducts, etc... meaning the local cost is higher than the average worldwide cost.
Bladerunner did a fantastic job of challenging this idea. If your memories can't be trusted then who are you, really?
"Earlier generations would have laughed at that because they had mostly figured it out --- though not via studies, just over the millenia. Early to rise, tend to the ranch or the herd, a little bit of this repair a little bit of that repaint, flowers for the bees, good amounts of siesta, good amounts of fiesta, spring/rain/well water and fresh local nourishing food from better soils with no processed concoctions engineered for hyper-palatibilty.."

Yeah... or you know, be pregnant once every year or two and have lots of children, all ending with a real chance of death. Grind your own flour and hope you have enough food in the root cellar to last the winter. Slave away in the kitchen most days, and laundry takes all day - when you do it. Lose some of your children to polio or smallpox, cholera is more of a threat, and an infected cut can lead to death. All while also taking care of your mother-in-law. Oh, and I almost forgot - don't own property or have control of your own wages.

And it can be even worse if you are a minority, servant, or slave.
Nice article about type theory.

> Why there’s so much research around types if perfectly applying them to programming languages is impractical?

Somehow Haskell does this perfectly. Whaddya say to that?
How large is user's generated content in average? Have you considered S3 for your use case?
Storage in DDB can be quite pricey (when combining storage cost and and read capacity usage cost)
Which language did you use? Is the code opensource to have a look at it? I also play with the thought of implementing a HN clone in Rust.
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In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm [pdf]
Oh yes. Backups for DynamoDB are a pain in the ass, especially as AWS doesn't offer an out-of-the-box solution for that.

That Data Pipeline + EMR solution mentioned in the blog post (here is a better link for it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/latest/DeveloperGui...) has several drawbacks:

- too many moving parts, especially given the track record of EMR

- might not even be available when your requirement is to keep the data in the same AWS region as the DynamoDB table, as only five regions support Data Pipeline

The best approach I've seen so far is to use DynamoDB Streams and an AWS Lambda function to create incremental backups in an versioned S3-bucket. dynamodb-replicator (https://github.com/mapbox/dynamodb-replicator) implements that together with some scripts to do management tasks like back filling an S3 bucket with data which is already in DynamoDB or joining incremental backups into a single file.

It's still pretty unpolished and definitely needs some love, but I think it's the right approach.
I'm not sure I follow what's happening here.

Doesn't the person selling the house pay the real estate agent? Why would someone sell their house for ~$5k less?

This reads a lot like buying a vacuum cleaner at 10% off sale and thinking you saved 10%.

Redfin helped sell the house at the price the market would bear.
The Small bordering on Medium size company I work for has a 30KW solar array on the roof of it's factory.

With batteries they'd basically be able to run the factory close to off grid, while the equipment requires high peak power it's average load is vastly lower.
He's trending hard, took me a few seconds to realize he was the 18650 dude I watch every week on youtube.

I'd love to emulate his work.

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Nice story.

That's almost exactly how I got started too. Had a successful Kickstarter campaign for a Docker course a few years ago and then continued moving forward.

The only difference is I went to Udemy from the beginning but I'm slowly transitioning away from them and onto my own platform (Thinkific at the moment).
That's a disgusting thing to say. Before calling police officers pigs, consider that they're the ones who show up to fight for your life when you need them. There's definitely ways to improve policing in America, but the vast majority of them are honorable people doing a dangerous job and serving their countrymen.
Both are back in sight these days.
Have you thought about building the reverse application? A service that screens out all throwaway emails so only users who register with a real email address can use a service.
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There's of course Ars Technica, but for finance-meets-technology-meets-basic-socioeconomics nothing beats Matt Levine's Money Stuff.

Archive and RSS feed link here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff
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Perhaps these photos do not 'fit the current narrative' or go against the editorial policy of the news outlets.

Ownership of traditional mainstream media is cloistered in few hands and those hands have agendas for editorial policy and friends in high places.

Chomsky's Manufacturing consent well demonstrates how this is achieved bottom up: i.e. one isn't so much told what to think but hired because of ones views and worldview.
Beam just seems like Google trying to somehow get on the Spark train without just running Spark, too bad Beam's support for analytic use cases sucks compared to Spark.
I use Borg to incrementally backup /home to a Kimsufi server with a 2TB hard drive which costs around 20€/month.
To be honest, sounds like a plan, because I'd like to know the former and I agree with the latter.
It is a great idea. I am not sure it can make money, but it is genius. Have you thought about making the ring time random rather than set?
Or there is an active interest in resisting on-the-ground journalism about this conflict. Photos of soldiers killed or wounded are still subject to restriction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/world/americas/27iht-photo...
The First Word Exercise
There are things that are not supposed to be shown on the traditional media, dead soldiers being the first one that comes to mind.

Maybe these pictures go against the prevailing vision the media wants to disseminate.
I find it strange any employee would need to be specific about a sick day.

In general, we as a culture tend towards confidentiality about medical conditions.

I have rarely used sick days when in a salaried position, and take a bit of pride in that. But when I do, I expect to not need to explain myself. And I have no problem on a personal ethics level using a sick day for pretty much anything that feels beyond my control, unavoidable, unexpected, and would prevent me from doing a good job.

Maybe that's not the exact letter of what a sick day is for in my employment agreement, but I've never been questioned about a sick day.

I am under the impression the stipulations about what a sick day can be used for are protection against abuse by employees who will game the system. Since that's not me, I don't give it much thought.
Anecdote: in the last half year, and GraphQL. Proponents are coming out of the woodworks and saying all sorts of crazy stuff about how it is better than REST, and the meetup attendees are eating it up without any hint of skepticism.
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Ethereum is very simple in essence: it's a Turing-complete version of Bitcoin.

The way you transfer a bitcoin from one person to another is by creating a Bitcoin transaction that contains an input script that fulfills an in-blockchain output script with which a number of bitcoins are associated. The output script may say "provide a public key that hashes to <some_hash> and a signature, over a transaction (which sends the bitcoins to a new output script) that redeems this output, that verifies against this public key".

Bitcoins script language -- conditions be fulfilled to transfer tokens associated with one output script to a new output script -- is not Turing-complete, which means it's limited in how complex a condition can be set up for redemption. Ethereum's script language is Turing complete, allowing arbitrarily complex conditions for fulfilling an output script (which allows you to transfer coins/tokens from that output script to a new one).
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"death of newspapers and other media outlets" decreases supply of such images - armchair bloggers have less means, infrastructure and connections to do it.
Photography is a tough job. It's wracked with internal politics, people playing favourites and in general just a lot of work. Honestly, it's easier to get $250k in VC funding than to sell your first break out photo essay (even if it's brilliant). I'm not an actor, nor a novelist, but I imagine it's a lot like trying to get your first big role or your novel to even get read by an editor. It's a painful grind on a day to day endless cycle of rejection.

Let's not even start with the fact that news staff jobs are basically non-existent, so most of these photographers are going into war zones with no backup support, no insurance provided for them, and it's all done on spec, so it's literally laying their life on the line with, if you're lucky, $3k for two weeks worth of getting shot it. We could then get into the mental health aspect of working for very little, very hard, while also facing the very real prospect of death every day (remember, probably no insurance for therapy or zoloft back stateside).

This is just for war photographers. For your day-to-day working photojournalist it's actually worse for pay and you have to be on call 24/7 or else they'll move on to the next guy/girl and you're out of rotation. Good luck going on holiday.
Customer UUID would only be well-distributed for queries of customers.

If some customers are more active than others in a given unit time, some customers have more data than others, and customers' data is keyed by customer ID then no, it's not a well distributed key.
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Research does not say that people produce more when working 40 hours per week
One of the other costs of fossil fuels that isnt. mentioned as. much is the resultant pollution and environmental degradation. These externalities are real. Due to the air pollution that gets trapped in the LA basin, Los Angeles has the worst air pollution in the US. 1300 lives are cu5 short each year due to the smog and over the course of a lifetime, breathing the air will shorten your lifespan by a few years.[1]. Also, air pollution is thought to double the risk of dementia in women according to a recent study. [2]

Another grave consequence of bith global climate change and localized pollution is the loss of biodiversity and the chance to study and learn from other organisms and their unique genomes and adaptations.

1 http://www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/journa...
2 https://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v7/n1/full/tp2016280a.html