skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is generally what people in major cities and heavily urban areas like California, east coast of China, northern Europe think when they look around them, but then when you actually go look around the world, you suddenly discover that the earth is mostly vast, unpopulated tracts of land. Just traveling around can give a vastly different view of things. Do humans put out toxins and eliminate species? Sure they do, but in terms of consumption, the carrying capacity of the earth has grown dramatically over the last 200 years because of innovation and research driven by population growth, and there is still plenty of room *(https://www.quora.com/If-the-entire-world-had-the-population...). The more people you have, the more minds and resources you can throw at a problem.

There's also the interesting fact that my parents raised 7 children on the same amount of resources that most people raised 2; we were _way_ more efficient per capita than most households. Oddly enough, we were raised to be more resource efficient than most people. We knew resources were scarce, so we tried to be more efficient. Maybe the solution is to have more children, not less, then teach them to find solutions to any problems encountered. Heck, mine the moon if you need more resources, invest in hydroponics for food if you run out of space, don't start getting rid of the poor people. Then you'd just end up with a bunch of rich folk sitting in panda refuges.

EDIT: I only bring up the last sentence because the question always encountered when someone says "There are too many people." is "Who do you think we should get rid of, how and when?"

EDIT 2: I do agree that we should do better with taking care of the environment and avoid catastrophic issues from bad decisions, and I agree with the post below about both being able to be right. :D
Wait till 4chan gets its hands on these..
I love this idea, but sadly it's not for me. I tried this on my phone (going grayscale) and turned it off after 1/2 a day.
Too many apps rely on color to differentiate different parts of the app.

It definitely gave me a greater appreciation for the plight of the colorblind, and it's why for my own company's products, we always test in B&W, to make sure no functionality is lost.

Relatedly, does anyone have any links to some good research on why this works?

Edit: OP has pointed out that this tool lets you choose sites to have in color or grayscale, so that's a bit of a game changer, as on the phone it was all or nothing.
https://fair.org/extra/david-brooks-vs-the-real-world/

He's been around for decades, dutifully moving the goalposts being the 'reasonable' guy. But now he's just appalled the people he thought he spoke for voted for _that_ guy.

I do like that he's still around for the NYT's commenters. They remember everything.
I have a controversial view, correct me if I am wrong. I think democracy has a major flaw, because, most people are selfish/unfair and most likely vote for populist leaders. But, it has been so far saved by media because of the elitist journalists who want the world to be a fair place and were able to convince people to reject populist leaders.
With social media, these journalists are bypassed and the populist leaders are able to appeal to the people's selfish tendencies directly. This is an irreversible change and I expect the world to go backwards by several decades.
BTW the median household income in the uk was £27,300 compared to a lot of people in the media/add industries in London you would have to get to director level to earn 60k+

I few years ago I was the lead technical resource for an in house consultancy at RELEX and solved major problems for house hold names and I got paid < 1/2 what a train driver does for a 4 day week.

You both need to realize you are lucky and also learn some maths you colleague who earn 50% less than you is not coming out ahead.
To an extent though, it is! All of those vendors (some more than others) are pretty serious about Kubernetes, and they're a tiny fraction of the list[1].

I keep hearing that AWS Lambda has won serverless (Functions as a Service), but as a fellow K8S-bettor who abhors vendor lock-in and follows the news from CNCF friends, I'm not sold on that.

Azure has Brigade, Pivotal (Cloud Foundry) has Riff to compete with that, and I'd guess there are other solutions in the same vein that I haven't heard of; well both of these solutions at least are portable to anywhere you run your Kubernetes clusters.

As long as you don't leverage the other vendor SaaS APIs too heavily and keep as much of your control plane inside of Kubernetes as possible, you can always take the solutions you build there with you anywhere.

Those are open-source solutions built on SaaS platforms, and the fact that things like those exist... is pretty much the only reason I'd consider those platforms? Even potentially say that I'd prefer them over AWS (except that we're an AWS centered shop, where you can also run Kubernetes if it's your fancy, and that we do all of those lock-in things...)

[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LxSqBzjOxfGx3cmtZ4Eb...
I set up a DAF when Google went public in 2004. I've spent 25-50% of it in the intervening 13 years, despite best intentions. I sure took that full tax break in 2004 though and have compounded the value of that annually. So in my case the DAF has not worked as a great way to funnel money to actual charities. It just sits idle, compounding. The tax break I got seems to outweigh the public benefit.

The psychology of having the DAF is funny. I sort of feel the virtue of having donated to charity every single year, just looking at the balance. When I do make a grant from the DAF I don't really feel like I'm doing anything more worthwhile. Also it's a bit impersonal because you have to recommend the grant then wait several days for the DAF to actually allocate. OTOH it's nice having a pile of money I've already "spent" that I can use to give to things at a whim.

I think the solution is to require DAFs spend some large portion of their balance every single year. Charitable foundations are required to distribute something like 5%, but I think 10% or more makes more sense for an individual's DAF. There's also a strong argument that charitable donations shouldn't be tax deductible at all, remove this whole tax gimmick and economic distortion. I'm not sure I fully buy it (and the transition would be brutal) but it is worth reading: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2012/06/09/sweetened-char...
This seems similar to how slaughterhouses make more money off the rendered fat and other "byproducts" than the meat.
The hearing was a big joke. Zuckerberg simply avoided answering difficult questions by talking about something else entirely...
Razer’s slick new gaming laptop does the Blade line proud
Plaid was just starting 5 years ago :)

we currently don't have an updated official go library for our API, but shoot me an email (charley@plaid.com) and can shoot over some recs for third party libraries
The last few minutes are interesting and might answer your doubts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly2-2Wk90pw&t=2h15s
One way of quantifying it really roughly is to estimate the total caloric value of worldwide food production and divide by the population, to get a global estimate of calories-per-person. According to one estimate, anyway, that's been steadily rising and is now around 2900 kcal/person/day [1]. There still is hunger in some parts of the world, which suggests that the problem is distribution not happening correctly, whether due to logistical or economic or political issues. This seems to be true even if you do the averaging per-continent: the continent with the lowest per-capita production, Africa, still produces 2600 kcal/person/day, which should be plenty to avoid starvation.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-supply-by-region-in-...
Legal battle over mystery 90-year-old bank account's £400m for the national debt
To me Microsoft seems the least bad option these days when there aren't great FOSS options available. I've had a strict no Apple policy for many years so while I wait for the Librem 5 Windows Phone seems like my least bad option. I looked into some of the open Android based alternatives a bit (Lineage etc) but there don't seem to be really great options currently.

For maps I should probably look at Open Street Maps more but I mostly use maps on my phone where being on a Windows Phone with limited app selection the built in Microsoft solution is the simplest / laziest option.

I'm a VR developer so I'm primarily working on Windows for the foreseeable future. Microsoft options end up being the fallback there too (why I sometimes use Edge or Bing over my usual choices).
> None of it matters for smaller projects, but it did mattered for larger projects and in particular for large projects under time pressure.

In my very limited experience with Oracle, it sucked for a small project for two reasons. The client library took multiple seconds to load. And the connection string I had to pass was almost impossible to figure out.
No, as I wrote, I would assume any use of CoreFoundation types are only used in platform specific code (dealing with UI, system events, etc.), which would be a minority of the code base, and entirely unique to the platform.

Using CoreFoundation in such code is entirely sensible. Generalizing a sort for something like this would be a waste of time with no gains (as long as the functionality is used correctly, like not assuming a non-specified sort to be stable).

However, for the actual business logic, the hierarchy would be:

stdlib > large third-party cross-platform lib > small third party cross-platform lib ≈ homegrown implementation.
It's pretty crazy to see Sweden preparing for war against Russia, while a much bigger threat to both native and non-native Swedes resides in the streets of major cities like Stockholm or Malmo.

Or at least I can't seem to think of a single city in Western Europe where throwing actual hand grenades around is a pretty usual crime other than Malmo. [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43667367

[3] http://www.euronews.com/2018/04/10/sweden-has-a-problem-with...

[4] https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/violent-crime-in-sweden-...
To be fair, you have to be very careful with the power of the laser as you can easily fry what you are looking at.
Chrome iOS.
Well the holes in your arguments are deeper than that. A viable strategy need not be the only or even the optimal strategy.

If couple has kids and those kids find someone in a local tribe then both tribes and lone families would have worked. In effect you are trying to redefine his argument not just in terms of recorded history but also both couples not an individual one.
Invisible Asymptotes
The unappreciated risk in a setup like this is that multiple donors could inadvertantly give the DAF sizable impact in voting shares. As I understand it, the Fund, not the donor, owns and votes any donated shares.

If two cofounders sign the Giving Pledge and each give 50% of their voting shares to the same, local DAF, the DAF winds up with more shares than either donor. And it can vote them as a block.
Previously (related) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109290
YouTube subscriptions work fine with RSS, just to add to this. I have them added to my ttrss, don't even have to log in to watch videos (which is not exactly 'breaking away from YouTube', but I think it's a healthier approach.)
Evolution of altcoins
Population increase is a response to increased resource availability, not a cause of shortage (at least, until you reach chaotic breakdown states). If the primary resource limitation is food (as in many poor countries), when the food supply grows, population grows. In wealthy countries, where the primary resource problem is money, population stays flat or even shrinks - children are expensive!

Food supplies have grown tremendously post-WWII, thanks to Green Revolution agriculture. Earth's population has doubled in the past 50 years, but food is actually cheaper than it was 50 years ago.
Check out Nocturne (originally from Blacktree, of QuickSilver fame). It even has a full red monochrome option (in case you need to finish that paper at 2 am but don't want to keep your roommates awake).

I really wish Android and iOS had a full red monochrome night-vision mode.

Short of that, for Android, you can switch to monochrome directly in Developer mode: https://www.trishtech.com/2016/02/how-to-turn-android-lollip...
Except that the article is paining it as if it's this crazy new thing and the government and Amazon must be stopped in their collaboration to turn America into a police state.

When in reality it's just a service that's been around for a while that offers a technology that other people have, and was available to law enforcement long before Amazon started selling it to them.

What is the news here? That Amazon sells their products to the government?
I love old instruments for that reason. I have a couple 100+ year old violins and people often think that means they're expensive, but it really doesn't. You can go to music or instrument festival and get a 100+ year old violin for less than $500. People made student violins 100+ years ago, and they're not "fine" instruments - high quality modern instruments would cost much more. But I still love that one of them was played in a remote, one room cabin during some pretty cold winters in the 1920s. The other one, I have no idea how it got over to the US, I can only wonder about it. Steerage, maybe?
Hmm. The one thing that stuck out to me was "millions of promotions" - how are you quantifying that?

Are you developing/looking to develop this yourself internally as a retailer, or are you building this out on behalf of a retailer? Some of the other bits you've mentioned certainly sound complex (although this might be how you've approached these combinations of options and products), but not outside the realm of a Spree/Solidus or Workarea style implementation.
There is a theory that this is how coffee originated - someone over cooked the berry brew and roasted the beans.
Its also toothless and has no powers to speak off.

The HOC and HOL can do you for contempt if your really piss them off and if the HOC select committee say Mr Zukerberg is not a fit and proper person that would have major consequences - see how even Rupert Murdoch went before them.
And the pre-installed firmware hasn't been modified at all.
Yes, the thermodynamics alone are vastly different between an Elephant and a mouse, let alone between an Elephant and a bacterium. We are somewhat fortunate that life can exist across such vast scales, as it really gives us a lot of things to study and think about.
Costs less than $200 to setup an LLC around here. Not a major obstacle.
In fact, a lot of the gigafactory tech is Panasonic's. They lead the battery cell manufacturing at the factory.
On a browser in portrait view it cuts off the end of the line and you have to scroll to the end and start of next line each time. Landscape view is fine.
I remember learning this in high-school as part of propositional logic, and it was essentially described "the opposite of a contradiction":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction

Is the teaching of propositional logic common in the US?
"Guy Verhofstadt, who leads the Liberal ALDE group, says the activity of fictional social media company the Circle in a 2014 novel seems "very near to the reality" of Facebook's role today."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(2017_film)

"German Christian democrat MEP Manfred Weber, who leads the centre-right EPP group, ... asks Mark Zuckerberg why the company has not stopped access to user data to all developers, not just Cambridge Analytica.

He says he would be interested in his arguments as to why, given Facebook's power, its algorithms should not be made public.

He also asks Mr Zuckerberg to name a competitor it has in Europe, and asks him to "convince him" with arguments as to why his company is not a monopoly that should be broken up."

On issues raised relating to competition, [Zuckerberg] says that communication is a "competitive space" where people have "many choices".

"It feels like there are new competitors coming up every day," he notes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-parliaments-44210...
Have you tried Yergacheffe? It’s even better in my opinion.
The boring observation that I can make is that the folks living in that dystopia were very good at thinking that it was a dystopia. I know that's a circular epistemic wormhole to get into, but simply liking the authoritarian surveillance you live in doesn't remove the features that make it authoritarian and intimately surveilling you.
One more prestigious date to add to the 14-years long (and counting) "Zuckerberg Magic Apology Tour". Quite the show.

(For reference: https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t...)
However the responsibility has to fall on anyone on that chain of delegates.
"“Philip Cross” not only carefully tends and protects the Wikipedia entry of Guardian editor Katherine Viner, who has taken the paper four square into the neo-con camp..."

Uh, ok, I'm not saying the Guardian is perfect or anything, but I lived in the U.S. when it was ruled by neocons, and read the Guardian from time to time (then and now). For all I know Katherine Viner is neo-con, but the Guardian is not a neo-con paper. I found it hard to take the rest of the column seriously after that part.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126954
I found scarves harder to learn. You can learn to juggle three balls in 30 minutes:

1. Hold one bean bag in your dominant hand while standing, facing a wall, about a foot away.

2. Drop the bag. There, that's over with. (You'll be doing it a lot.)

3. Pick up the bag.

4. Toss the bag from one hand to the other, keeping your elbows loosely at your sides, until you consistently have it arcing at about eye level before descending to the other hand.

5. Do that 100 more times.

6. Hold one bag in each hand (drop them once, if you like).

7. Toss from your dominant hand and, when the bag is at the top of its arc in front of your eyes, toss the other bag. Catch them both.

8. Repeat without pausing another 100 times.

9. Hold two bags in your dominant hand and one in your other hand. Toss the first, wait for the top of the arc and toss the second, wait for the top of the arc and toss the third.

10. You're juggling. Drop all the bags to celebrate.
Recursion doesn't mean that you get to ignore the base case!
Where Brooklyn Tenants Plead the Case for Keeping Their Homes
This is kinda similar problem to the advice given of "Build Something" given to new programmers. For a long time, I thought that meant "Build Something completely new and fascinating" and I would spend days trying to find something to build, see examples of it already present and give up. Recently I have realized it doesn't really matter. Sublime text had the first release in 2008, a time when I would have said Text Editor market is saturated. Visual Studio Code was released even more recently, and still gained sufficient market share. Now will you write the next Sublime text? Probably not, but that doesn't mean writing a new text editor, music player, heck even a todo app is a bad endeavor to learn. And it'll be really hard to write sublime without writing a notepad clone.

My main point here is, even if you are writing about the most mundane topic, in CS there is bound to be something, a different command line flag, a different point of view, something old rediscovered etc. just by the virtue of writing on it. Will it happen on your first attempt? Probably not.

You can start to write about the most mundane or the most esoteric thing. Only with practice would you find a niche, and there eventually will be some gems.
>makes Magento unbeatable

I don't know if you've had a look at the other comments in this thread, but if Magento was actually unbeatable, let's just say I'd still be coding in PHP today.
I would think the key if you’ve been in business for a while and have lackluster growth would be to sell investors on why the new direction you’re going in has so much more potential than what you’ve done so far. Even if it’s not a pivot, it might be better if it sounds like one. That way, instead of extrapolating from your current numbers (bad for you), investors can give you more of a clean slate.

Already having a userbase, revenue, a team, etc. in place is a massive advantage, because these things are so hard to accomplish. If you tell the right story, you should look infinitely better than an early stage company that pivots due to lack of traction (and the latter get funded all the time).
How can he say, as the title of his blog goes, "there is no epidemic of loneliness"?

I can see how he has a case for questioning the statistical basis of someone who is arguing there is an epidemic.

But how does that disprove any such epidemic exists?
The equivalent would be https://github.com/choojs/nanomorph, choo's diffing engine based on morphdom.
Subtle background effect using canvas
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Oscar Hammerstein?
I went looking through the source code and found that the adjustment window is indeed defined in block time as PastBlocksMax = 12 while nProofOfWorkTargetSpacing = 150 (half a minute for each of 5 different pow algorithms), giving an expected adjustment window of 12 * 150 = 1800 seconds.

Apparently, the adjustment window, which needs to be way longer than the allowed timestamp drift, is in fact way shorter...
At this point, I only know a couple other people who use Jabber (I hate the XMPP name). I think OMEMO (double-ratchet encryption like Signal uses) and the Conversations client for Android (which supports a good "baseline" suite of XEPs -- Jabber extensions) have a good shot at revitalizing it, though.
This extension should be one CSS line, why does it load 3 libraries as content scripts?

:root {filter: grayscale(1) !important; background: #fff}

I wish extensions had a native way to whitelist/blacklist websites. Until then, you're better off adding that line to Stylish.
Highly recommended to watch https://youtu.be/Io6JjgckHbg
And as you likely know, these are dinosaur contemporaries who are from that general lineage. So great example.

"The earliest fossils are from the beginning of the age of dinosaurs, in the late Triassic."
Speaking as someone who has worked as a PostgreSQL DBA for over a decade, in environments ranging from hundreds of queries per second to hundreds of thousands, I can say with confidence that your assumptions do not map to my lived reality, or that of any other DBA with whom I've spoken about the challenges of working with developers who think the database is a black-box dump-truck they neither have to understand how to use well, nor care about the implications of using poorly.

1. "Actual programmers" tend to have net negative clue about which data access patterns are appropriate. It is, for example, staggeringly common for me to have to explain that a "table scan" is often more efficient than random IO ("index scan") — even on NAND media — if you're reading more than some threshold of the data in a table.

If you (the general "you") understand data access patterns that poorly, no, you absolutely should not be dictating query plans. If you think "hav[ing] to worry about stuff like locking and transactions" is an imposition, you don't want me to sit in your interview. I will hard pass.

2. See above.

3. The relational algebra is not a "strange paradigm". It's very, very simple. "Strange features" like what? Ordering? Aggregation? Set intersection and exclusion?

4. I don't even understand this complaint.
Regarding French gastronomy, and specially comparing to the Spanish which I know the most about, I heard a French acquaintance saying that it's pretty bimodal, with lots of so-so places to eat and many amazing but expensive spots, leaving little place for the middle of the road reasonably good and inexpensive places. Could someone confirm that?