skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your analogy is misguided. Fresh water is indeed a limited resource. Just because you have it in plenty, it doesn't mean that commercial entity is incapable of drying it out thin. And once it's gone, it might not be back for few hundreds or even thousands years. Look up on internet about upcoming crisis for drinkable water. Any natural resource extraction should be regulated properly. For bottled water companies should pay the cost of plastic pollution as well.
I think the biggest factor is actually time. Raw time.

In college I had 12+ hours/day I could spend doing anything I wanted, even accounting for classes, studying for midterms, etc. Multiply that across 4 years and you have 17,000 hours to spend all of your energy on. Some people do choose to go down that rabbit hole, and out of those people some will be successful.

Now that I've been working in tech for a few years, I feel lucky if I can find the mental energy to work on something for 4 hours/day outside of work.
There should be (authenticated) differentiations between what the credit agency does, what you do, and what third parties do.
HN has emergent behaviour.

Like an ants nest or a physical human community or a corporation the behaviour doesn't reflex individuals or even necessarily the majority of individuals.

Shrug, I wasn't even saying the dumb things were common.

But I do think these emergent memes bleed across to real world issues.

While people think it's ok to think hundreds of years ago people were stupid and paid 'really' ridiculous amounts of money for tulips, they will also be susceptible to allow war propaganda like what's coming out of North Korea or Iraq. People are people, do we really think the North Korean's are that dumb they think their leader doesn't poop or see the whole Iraq 'Latif Yahia' saga.
I got this on sale for about $160. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LJ8EXU/ref=oh_aui_sear...
New virus on Android steals bank card data
OH, that's a _netmask_. It took me an entire day to figure that out. I thought /0 was a path :)
Municipalities would do well to remove sodium fluoride & other industrial by-products...I mean "health additives"

http://fluoridealert.org/studies/brain01/

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/health/fluoride-iq-neurotoxin-...
> why isn't journalism the same? in the past they would publish erratas and mea culpas.

They still do. But it doesn't matter (and I don't think it ever mattered) - if you lie on the first page, and next week put an errata on the second page in small print, that correction isn't doing anything. Most people will not read it anyway, and by the time it's printed, the damage to readers' cognition is already done.
Ask HN: How to Build for the Next Billion Users?
Given that the next billion internet users will majorly come from places with strong views on culture like Africa (1.2b) & India (1.3b); what will need to be prioritized when designing and building products for these people?
Show HN: Ethdasm – An Ethereum VM disassembler/decompiler
I wrote an Ethereum byte-code disassembler and pseudo-code generator. This was meant as a hobby project to learn about the EVM and probably doesn't work for some cases.

https://github.com/meyer9/ethdasm
Open Liberty: An IBM open source project
Even better, it's linked with Starwood, which is often more valuable.

https://www.spgpromos.com/uber/
jesus christ, do you work with nestle by any chance!
Just the application or would you want to get pinched every time you would want to log in? Sounds really painful.
Also, those publications almost by definition can outpublish you.
Anti-vagrancy laws are not the best way to reduce homelessness
My perspective is that our planet is small but there are lots of people. "Biology is variation" so there are wide distributions of properties. I like the idea of "Equal Rights" (and also think that it's necessary). The systems that are critical, including the human systems, are non-linear and intertwined. The combination of these is that the human society needs to find - invent - how to organize itself.

This is very much in the spirit of the thinking that led to the American Constitution, and Tom Paine's "Instead of having the King be the Law, we can have the Law be the King".

We need solutions that allow further thinking and design to be done.

One way to look at this is to ask questions about "human nature" and to what extent does it need to be followed and to what extent should we try to teach (even train) the children to act in "designed ways" -- for example, not trying to take revenge.

The interesting and difficult parts of goals like these are that we have humans in the mix while trying to come up with better societal designs. For example, even the best forms of socialism have been "gamed" incessantly, and often fatally, by humans only interested in "harvesting" for themselves.

This is one of many reasons why well thought out versions of social reform have often been destroyed when the implementation phase is started "Every one loves Change, except for the Change part!"
As a runner I’d appreciate the corresponding app to remind drivers to look both ways before turning right.
The only thing I'm upset about is the fact I'll need to wait 3-6 months after it's released for AWS RDS to support it...
"Perfect for identical twins!"
There you go https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
It also doesn't explain jellyfish, which are so far under the sea that they don't see direct sunlight.
That affected about 230 homes who were not EBMUD customers. It's fixed now. Somebody connected an irrigation well to the potable water system.

(Agricultural areas often have both non-potable and potable water systems. Stanford does, incidentally. Stanford has a private water system, with Felt Lake as a reservoir. It's mostly used to irrigate the golf course and lawns.)

[1] https://alamedaca.gov/waterfaq
How does the native partitioning compare to something like Timescale's hypertables?
Would running a computer simulation for that be classified as terrorism?
Does JDK 9 set things up for Graal or are you just making a statement on Graal independently of this news?
What apps/services sucks up the bandwidth? I know 7-person families (where everyone has a computer/tablet) that are happy with 50 Mbps.
It would help if you explained "why" it's a bad idea, instead of just listing examples of stores doing it.
And even if you could manually verify the binary output of a compiler and prove it correct, you still don't know that the CPU itself is not malicious.
Farmers need to decide if they want a future or not. Milking the earth for profit while poisoning the world is a crime against humanity.
absolutely agree. SSN started life as a unique identifier, that's how it should have remained. It's a pretty terrible super secret password.
Quantum Superposition and Entanglement Explained
shoot me an email - I might have some work for ya.
I'm not sure what the value of a more accurate scale would be for a bathroom scale - your weight varies by far more than 100g just based on what you've eaten and how much water you've retained.
> If you never wanted to do something that was a "crime against the planet", we'd all be living in caves.

Let's not broaden the subject here. It almost sounds as if you're arguing that "oh well seeing as you can't get away with committing a crime against the planet let's just go the whole hog".

> You can't avoid it in a modern society

You can definitely make personal choices without living uncomfortably (depending on where you live your choices available may vary). In my home town (not USA) the water is perfectly fine and I see a lot of people using reusable water containers and simply using tap water.
> Apple makes revenue from ad sales

Is that even true? They pulled the plug on mobile ad sales a year or two ago (http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/18/after-abandoning-i...), where else would they make advertising revenue?

And in any case, a company who makes 99.9% of their revenue off of non-ad sales is definitely would never be categorized as an advertising company. My grocery store is paid to put crest at eye-level, that doesn't make them an advertising company...
For what it's worth, Walmart pays their employees more than minimum wage. Their employee's use of welfare is also biased by Walmart employing a disproportionate number of single mothers.

There are likely solutions to this, but placing the entirety of fault at the feet of Walmart seems a bit disingenuous.
Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability
This solution for loading the scripts is great. We have been experimenting with this and browser sniffing was our approach. Will start testing this new approach. Really makes integration and fallback much easier to manage.
"A recent, worrisome working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research reported on the tinder of the last conflagration: the national sense that housing prices were going up every day and that there was no way that a buyer’s reach could exceed his grasp. It’s true that bankers made loans to Americans wildly unqualified for them — but the notion that buyers on the lower end of credit distribution began to default in unprecedented numbers isn’t accurate. In fact, the rate of default in the subprime market throughout the bubble and the bust remained steady compared with before the crisis. It was buyers from the top and middle top who account for the skyrocketing rate of default — and it wasn’t that they were buying bigger family homes that they couldn’t afford. It was that they were buying additional houses to flip for a profit, and when holding on to them stopped making financial sense, and with no personal and emotional connection to them, they began walking away in huge numbers."
The new jaotc is built using Graal. I think (but not sure) that Graal can be used with difficulty on older java.

But java9 is general availability for this .
That's an interesting perspective, but I think those activities have fairly different risk profiles. Voting is a collective behavior and its harms are therefore smoothed through averaging. Gun violence isn't really like this. If 1% of the population votes in a crazy way, that's not such a big deal, but if 1% of the population engages in gun violence, that's an enormous problem.
The researchers lost sleep to research sleep.

A follow-up question I'd like to see researched is jet lag. Why do the jellyfish sleep during those hours? Can they adjust their circadian rhythm to a different time zone?
You're right! Been using audio software for the last 20 years yet somehow I missed this. Will be fixed. Thanks!
Most European countries have aging populations, so it seems fair to assume that healthcare costs there are rising as well.
Waugh on the Merits
It start to set up things and the AOT feature uses Graal.
Not even "probably" right. Eg Quantum Physics is more complex than Newtonian. OcRaz is a heuristic that advises that simpler hypotheses should be tested first. It's not a magic SCIENCE! gun.
Honestly I think this is just a symptom of over optimism on any company's part. This is sort of like how everyone thinks they're better than average at driving. All companies want to believe they are better than average at hiring. They also "choose the best" when, really they're just choosing the best from their limited talent pool.
There's already much finer granularity in stores, thanks to wifi-based tracking (even if you don't join the network [1]), so this ship has sailed.

Refining GPS accuracy only modestly improves the ability to track what stores you are near. Wifi-assisted GPS tracking that exists today probably tells advertisers everything they need to know already.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper...
Also remember that the common pattern of journalism today is to lie in the headline and then correct the lie in the article itself.

Which means that if you only skim headlines, you're learning bullshit.
The Empathetic Engineer
30 million gallons is about 92 acre ft of water. California uses 70 million acre ft of water per year. Alfalfa in California uses 5.3 million acre ft/year. So this plant uses 1/10 the amount of water a very small farm would use. It is hard to imagine it but 30 million gallons is a very small amount of water. If the article said "In San Bernardino, Calif., Nestlé has long paid the U.S. Forest Service an annual rate of $524 to extract about 92 acre ft of water, even during droughts" people would think "That's not much".
It will be hit and miss for a while until the ecosystem stabilizes. A project using Groovy/Griffon didn't build because of issues related to reflection and I had to disable a lot of the reflection "fences" introduced in JDK 9.
Weird. Nothing in this article seems to relate to reality. I wonder if this is a story to keep people healthy minded, who are too scared to switch to another company or two incompetent.

I mean, we know for about a decade now that the way to get raises is by switching the company every 3 years. That's just how it is. And there are even people that go corpA->corpB->corpA to make more money.

It would be reasonable to assume though that this kind of growth is shared unequally. Some people just can't make that step to accept that this is the system now. Some people really wouldn't get a job at the next company no matter how hard they try. And some people are just shy.

But I don't think that the average here on HN is from the second group. It should be common practice for people here to get their raises by getting new jobs.
You're right, this is the standard way to manipulate knobs. I'll be fixing this. Thanks!
It was a great listen!

“The conflict was no longer farmer versus weed, but also farmer versus farmer. When his neighbors illegally sprayed the pesticide, Wallace reported it. After harvest, Wallace was shot and killed.

On today's show, a murder mystery – about how a weed divided neighbors and led to Mike Wallace's death.”

Here’s a link to the episode: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/02/531272125/episo...
Show HN: GeoPIP: Reverse-Geocode with Geojson Point in Polygon (PIP)
> However C++17 is quite safe, provided one doesn't follow "write C with C++ compiler" idiom.

No, it's not. There is no use-after-free protection among other things. It doesn't matter how much you write code like C or not: it's just not safe.
15cm GPS accuracy has been available commercially since about 2002. Trimble and Novatel both sold units. But you had to get a subscription to a service which had a network of ground stations measuring propagation errors through the atmosphere. The correction signals came in from a geosync satellite. You also had to be able to see about five satellites.
> What is the best way to map objects to/from JSON? - What is the best way to map objects to/from a database?

If you are doing heavy sql queries, then it might be beneficial for you to use an ORM. There are plently of those out there, so choose one you like. Just create structs for your tables and run your queries.

If you are doing light/moderate sql. Just have an interface for your db calls, wrap your responses in a struct and use json tags for json encoding/decoding.

> What is the best way to prevent a request from crashing the server and killing a bunch of unrelated requests?

I use negroni. And its recovery middleware does exactly that.
>Fresh water is indeed a limited resource. Just because you have it in plenty, it doesn't mean that commercial entity is incapable of drying it out thin.

I'm not sure you've been to Michigan. They aren't pumping this out of an aquifer.
Unless one is employed in healthcare.
Not to mention changing your DNA if it gets compromised will be difficult.
Definitely farmers, but not only they, but everyone.
Mongo is the boo.com of the database industry
Thanks for the kind words :)

The hardest part by far was making the timing rock solid - it involves syncing between the browser rendering engine and the audio context timer.

My solution was based on pointers from this comprehensive post:
https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/audio/scheduling/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/identical-twins-g...
Will try that. Thanks!
Yes, I'll be fixing that. Thanks! :)
I've been recently enjoying a YouTube channel by a guy who turned his yard into a sustainable "food forest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-VskDFPpM

That is the video that led me to it, but after I saw it I went back through his video history to see how he got the whole project started and to see his progress over the years. He has a video in there where he recommends a series of books that he learned from, like Albert Howard's "An Agricultural Testament," Sepp Holzer's "Permaculture," and Masanobu Fukuoka's "One Straw Revolution." I've gotten started reading the first two and they're really great books.
Among many other shortcomings :)
For starters, I'll be fixing the knob touch issue.
> turning profits into loan payments and avoiding taxes

To loan any money from an offshore entity they would have to transfer the money to the offshore entity first, and to initiate that transfer they would have to earn that money elsewhere, which would generally involve paying taxes.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but your description doesn't seem consistent with my understanding of the index-only scan feature that's been in PG since 9.2 https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Index-only_scans
I never understood why a market scheme for water, pursuant to which every household gets the first N gallons every month free, where N is more than what most families consume, and where everything past N is set at auction (or some other market mechanism), is not feasible. It literally only requires large water consumers (and businesses) pay a bit more and throws a bone to most voters. It also, finally, stops treating water as an infinite good.
Tesla works with AMD to develop its own AI chips for stand-alone cars
Wireless Charging Is a Lie
Well no, I can't.

But a demagogue sure can. I guess it would be more accurate to say that they take humanity from a lot of people who belong to certain classes with a lot of words, but that's a messier metaphor.
- Two-income households: doubled the labor supply without making an equally large increase in demand (NOT A DIG AGAINST FEMINISM, JUST TALKING NUMBERS)

- Automation. Not talking AI. Just old-fashioned mechanical engineering and micro-controllers. Not going to name any names, but almost every practical thing you buy is made in only a handful of factories, and those factories don't need very many people to run at full-tilt.[0]

- BS Jobs. Most of the US defense spending is make-work for engineers/welders/managers/subcontractors/etc working on projects of dubious strategic value. It sure as hell doesn't go to the soldiers. 30% of hospital payroll is admin staff. Higher ed is the same story.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/how-just-...
Yes because there's no real agreed upon definition of "super star" developer. So we're all super stars?
I was talking about who appoints the judges in the lower courts (like the one in Barcelona behind the operations being discussed). But if your point is that the Catalan administration is part of the Spanish administration and the Catalan legality can be traced back to the Spanish constitution then I fully agree.
> along with healthy security habits like proper secret generation and frequent rotation.

While having the populace in general be security aware would be a great thing, it's barely possible to get them to do even basic shit like not putting credit card numbers and other secret information into an email and sending it to anyone who asks nicely.

Educating people on why 'healthy security habits' and 'key rotation' doesn't mean locking the front door and hanging their housekeys differently is pretty much a non-starter.
It is, but the health issues are a completely separate discussion.

As for distribution of sodas, beers and other beverages - given the pattern of their consumption, it makes more sense to have them in containers than to try and make everyone's home connected to "tap beer".

Now, we can continue this topic into realms of packaging of foods and other items, and I'm going to say it up-front: I consider the modern amount of packaging on things to be a crime as well. E.g. pre-packaged meat in plastic containers vs. getting it wrapped in paper by a clerk at the meat stand.

I understand that convenience has value, and I wouldn't personally even care about this if we had a working, efficient recycling infrastructure. As we don't, I do care.
First of all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem, and that's something that you of all people should know. (Or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_(database_systems)... in the article that you linked.) Please read the rest of my previous comment.

Repeat after me: PostgreSQL isn't ACID in a distributed system.

PostgreSQL isn't actually ACID when your database is multiple machines. PostgreSQL isn't actually ACID when you set up your first read replica on RDS. PostgreSQL isn't actually ACID when you use streaming or logical replication. PostgreSQL isn't actually ACID when you start sharding your users table. PostgreSQL isn't actually ACID in a world in which people need to scale out from one big box. It's eventually consistent, which is even less than I can say about MongoDB on a single-document level.

Personally, PostgreSQL is my favorite DBMS. It's well-engineered, extremely mature, and has lots of great features. Working seamlessly and providing strong guarantees outside a single box, unfortunately, isn't one of them. Not yet, at least.

To address the rest of your points: those people are using MongoDB wrong. PostgreSQL basically stops working well too, once you start mixing transaction processing and business reporting and BI in the same box at scale.

If you're going to claim that MongoDB is bad because it's not ACID or somesuch, you better hold PostgreSQL to the same standard, and understand precisely why it is that the two systems were built so differently.
Very kind of you. :)
Basically, the US needs a national ID "card" with PKI system... not to rob people of their privacy but to free them from the tyranny of marketplace anarchy which resulted in the absence of global unique person identifier de-facto globbing onto a number meant for
pensioner and disabled benefits. Basically, it should be illegal to use SSNs for anything but Social Security. Taxes should have a tax ID for taxes alone. Instead, secure public key systems to authorize or refuse requests with authenication and nonrepudiation, using a public identifier that can be shared widely but isn't also a magic access authorization detail.

As it happens, IIRC, circa 2000, US schools and universities had to change their databases and systems to not use SSN's as student IDs because of identity theft problems extending from this very core problem.

The US through law must deleverage SSNs and make them public-safe, and promote/mandate a real PKI non-profit system for authentication and authorization for the greater good.
That's because we, individually, already have enough bargaining power or so we've been led to believe, at least.
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It's not clear to me what good this does.

Say a narrow set of "information" sources follow this model and produce quality journalism. Meanwhile the vast majority of traffic continues to go to "entertainment" journalism and shoddy reports spread widely.
For the context, this proposal was made by this journal director to JL Mélenchon, the far-left candidate in the election (who got 19% of votes, i.e. not a marginal) hoping it would be included in his political program.

It is a well-thought proposal by someone who knows the press industry well. It of course has leftist bias but I suspect that while there can be political criticism, it is probably pretty solid.

I don't know how applicable it is in the US though.
This reminds me: I really wish the Pebble Core happened. A computer on a keychain sounds pretty entertaining to say the least.
Why would tax funded make-work result in lower wages across the board?