skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>IIRC, the author's name was Jonathan Amsterdam.

Googled his name and found this video by a person with that name, may be the same person whom I mentioned above. He worked at Google on cloud client libraries for Go. Queued to watch later.

GopherCon 2017 - Lightning Talk: Jonathan Amsterdam - Errors as Side Notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW2U9SGKKI

Update: I just watched the video, it's very short, and the tool he describes seems useful for understanding new Go code. I won't describe what it does - go watch the video (pun intended).
> 200% return on my money

You aren't getting a "return" on anything.
Even the worst case models predict that Earth will be habitable for humans for a long time. IIRC the worst that can happen in the next 100 years is that the sea will raise a few foots and flood some costal cities, change the sites where you can cultivate some food and cause hunger in some places, more floods and drought in many places, and kill many animals and plants. The worst case prediction is a huge huge huge disaster but it is still faraway from the point it is uninhabitable for us (and uninhabitable for roaches (and uninhabitable for bacteria)).
I like the idea. Now time to provide some feedback. Your landing page is confusing and I cannot tell what you do exactly. For example "Recruit Talent" is too broad and needs more clarity. "recruit the great to give you the best" probably is not a good choice of words. Doesn't sound like proper English (I am not a native speaker myself but I felt something weird reading that).

The question is who do you want to attract more: recruiters or candidates or both ? Obviously, it is a two-sided platform where candidates have to create their profile while recruiters have to come and search for them. So the landing page needs to be clear that this provides value to both parties.

For candidates, I would say something like "Make it easy for recruiters to find you instead of you finding them". Something like that.

For recruiters, it could be something like "Great profiles at your disposal to find talent that match your needs". Something like that.

Remember that YOU know what your platform or product is but people who somehow come to your landing page need to learn the same within a few seconds.
Ripgrep is now packaged in Debian
Twice the price for four times as many movies, without blackouts, but only from one theater chain.

And there's a better chance that the rules won't change next week.
I'd also add that this begs a serious question: who _do_ you trust to own the signal? A multinational corporation? A government? No one? Everyone?

Furthermore, how do you rectify disagreements over that trust? I may trust a multinational corporation (especially if I own stock in it and can vote on its directors), but you may trust your government, and our neighbor may not trust anyone.

Both of those questions need to be "solved" (if such a thing is even possible), but that's (obviously) a lot easier said than done.
Is petroleum for chemistry and plastics a GHG source? It seems like the carbon involved stays out of the atmosphere.
What exactly is wrong with encouraging parents to talk to their kids about historical context? Isn't that something we should encourage?

I am utterly bewildered by the contradiction in your response. On the one hand you cite a warning that explicitly tells parents to talk to their kids about the text and in the next paragraph you claim that such warnings tell people to "completely disregard" engagement. These are logically inconsistent claims. Please explain.
It is time to give AMD a chance. Intel is plagued by problems with the 10nm process technology resulting in no significant innovation on their CPUs' performance or power consumption for over two years now. And just recently they pushed their 10nm products even further back to the second half of 2019. AMD might have the first 7nm CPUs out by then. Of course process technologies are not easily comparable between fabs but it is still crazy to see Intel starting to fall behind in process technology - a game they dominated for decades.
You can't go bankrupt on student loans, so there's your young people with crushing debt that they can't discharge, much less take on other debts that could be discharged in a bankruptcy.
That sounds really cool, you don't happen to have any links to the Satellite Collision thing that guy put together?
Appears you and MJ are right (graphs start on page 24).

https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2017/CES-WP-17-54.pdf
"War against" ("War on") seems to mean it is a never-ending boondoggle that, at best, wastes a bunch of resources. Is there any example of these "wars" being a success? The three that come to mind are:

War on drugs: fail
War on cancer: fail
War on poverty: fail

Why is the economist trying to link climate change to this?
I would love to work with you or bounce off some ideas on how to changeup the somewhat legacy legal tech
Great theory, but have you tried to get a climate change law through Congress lately?

People vote for people who reflect their views, or at least freely, for whoever they want, so ultimately responsibility rests with the voters for the quality of government.
Ask HN: Advice for Fixing Bugs Correctly
I want to give something to my team[0] to encourage good practices when fixing bugs. People here have a bad habit of slapping an if statement or null check where it'll fix the immediate problem, without going further.

So I'm looking for something that gives details about getting to the root cause, checking that there's adequate logging/informative error messages, etc. I can try to put something together myself, but I was hoping there are good resources out there that will do a better job than I can.

[0] By "my team", I really mean about 20+ people I work with. We all work on the same product, but I'm not working with most of them at a level of detail where I can give hands on advice.
Q: Which part of the Web is public (like the roads)?

A: None.

- Apple is a private entity.

- Verizon (and all other ISPs) is/are a private entity.

- Telecom equipment and communication hubs are private entities.

If they wish, they can make you a non-existent entity (on the Web). We have two options:

- regulate some companies as utilities

- build a public network (just like the roads).
I am impressed the number of answers though!
Because the theaters don't need MoviePass to offer discounts? They can offer discounts directly to the consumers. MoviePass is an intermediary to the transaction that offers no value and tries to consume value.
UK vs. US food: What I learned during my time abroad
One of the use cases for BFR is a sub-orbital hop. That would probably work for India (depending on orbital dynamics).

With Falcon, no way. The boosters land out at sea, but nowhere near that far out ;-)
Laws are a reasonable (thought still incredibly difficult) solution in the parts of the planet that have the rule of law. Large parts don't, and we need different solutions in those places because this is a global problem.

As an example, see this report about cheating on an international agreement about CFCs (https://www.nrdc.org/experts/david-doniger/chilling-news-spo... which) were supposed to have been phased out worldwide by 2007.

Unfortunately, we don't have the international governance in place to attack this problem, and we might not until its too late. Still, you go to war with the army you have, and this is the one we've got.
Commuting using a 50+MPG vehicle is an option for the vast majority of humanity and would make a huge difference. So, it's not like the average person has zero options. People drive ~3.22 trillion miles in the US using 142.85 billion gallons = ~22MPG so a 50% reduction is completely viable.

Further the first 50% reduction is the lowest hanging fruit. We don't need to get to 100% to make a huge difference over time.
It's still priming the responses. If the interest is in drawing a truly 'scientific' result, the hypothesis/wanted-conclusion shouldn't be in the prompt used on participants.
This is amazing and I’m jealous of the idea. Wonderful!
Then it sounds like an option that should exist when reading your feed rather than something that requires the action of each individual person per tweet.
Equally, who can explain what most of the AWS services do in less than 10 words? Therein lies the problem I think.
I am appalled at the ads I see targeted to that generation for cash out refis. Why would you want to do that to your kids?
Key word being Boston-"area"

I think Boston is often taken to be a very large geographic area. For example, PillPack (one of the flagship examples in this article) was actually founded -- and still headquartered I think -- in New Hampshire. But to put that in perspective, Manchester and Nashua New Hampshire (the two largest cities in the state) are both less than an hour drive from Boston.

To be fair PullPack does have a Boston presence as well but I feel I need to point it out because I don't think New Hampshire often gets enough credit. It has a disproportionately high tech population for a state its size.

I also don't think Boston gets enough credit. The shear amount of innovation and academia happening in Boston and Cambridge, MA is astounding.
This is very good news, though they don't really show their work on that five year number. Are they waiting on a specific operating system to drop below a certain level?
But then they would have to take the marketing questions out of their associate level certification exams.

1. Which service would you use for DNS record creation?

A) Route 53

b) Amazon Cloud DNS

I joke, its an extremely low quality question regardless of the name. Some of the questions on the exam were pretty insightful, especially the ones that covered problems and what steps you would take to resolve them. Overall, the AWS associate level certification did feel like a giant marketing ploy, but my company wanted me to have it and paid for me to study and take it, so it was a nice relaxing break from the day-to-day.
Yea, that was a crappy sentence to begin with.
I was replying to a post that seemed to me to emphasise the primacy of the law in the decision; having worked in Brussels I'd say there's little the Commission does that is not political. I'm honestly not trying to straw man.
Was there a serious attempt to begin with? Yes, there are some efficiency gains and in some developed nations CO2 emissions seemed to stagnate, but much of that seems incidental (for instance partly caused by the Great Recession 10 years ago) and rarely part of a coordinated effort. Though I guess you can at least partly credit the rise of renewable energy like Solar to some government programs.

Wonder how much faster the effort would have been if we had an actual cap-and-trade system that encompasses the global economy instead of the lackluster attempts which aren't legally binding, only cover limited industries or have an oversupply of emission certificates to render the system useless (like the European one).

But it's pointless to ponder about that. It's not there's a lack of ideas regarding possible solutions, it's a just lack of foresight by humanity. We probably can't even blame previous generations, because we would have acted the same in their situation.
At the beginning they only had a page about the pricing and it looked as if they intentionally made it very technical-minded so as to make it only accessible to experts. Which would have been a good thing, to avoid too much support load from the endless wordpress beginner crowd.
>> It's not (necessarily) some highly complicated secret software available to a limited number of organizations that could keep it under wraps - currently, any decent CS undergraduate student could make a passable facial recognition system as a study project if they really wanted to, using only generic, freely available image processing / machine learning resources (i.e. nothing specific to facial recognition that could be regulated or restricted).

Well, stealing candy from a baby, or robbing an old woman is not hard to do either; anyone could do it, with even less skill than "a decent CS undergraduate student". Yet, it is illegal to do so and there will definitely be consequences to any such attempt.

In other words- something doesn't need to be hard to do, in order for it to be illegal, neither are there fewer consequences for performing illegal acts that are easy, rather than hard.
The original title implied the 150 mile distance was significant. Consider however that the stones for the monument came from Wales too and are much much heavier than a corpse. Also it's entirely possible the "corpse" was alive when it left Wales and died en route or at the monument. Perhaps they were involved in transporting the rocks.

So my question was, what's the significance of the distance here? Doesn't seem like there's much and that it's just British people being British about their distances.
Yeah, but laws are made by older folks, who vote at 3-4 times the rate of younger folks in midterm elections.
Someone filing in the 35 to 44 category in 1991 would be in the 60-69 age range by 2016- basically it's the same age cohort declaring bankruptcy at a high rate as they age through the categories.
Based on the current political climate, this kind of action also seems to be a ways off. While a clean revolution in laws like that of the 1970s would do much to bring about change, it will be a while before things are bad enough for enough people to care and push for these laws. In a capitalist society, I think money talks more and it talks faster. I think op is right that innovative solutions that are cheap will do more to bring about change.
Looking at those icons makes me physically uncomfortable haha
Which is a generally awful thing, because they bypass the need for a 2FA token.
> Basically, the space you take up at peak time is another membership they can't sell because of potential overcrowding.

Is that really a thing? I've _never- found a gym that has said "no sorry, we can't sell you a membership because we're full"
I don’t know about the US, but I talked with a someone who runs a cinema in Germany and he said that for example Disney dictates the prices, leaving him with small margins. This is also the reason why they have to sell a certain amount of drinks and popcorn (at a high price point) to stay afloat.
You're right to a point. The hotter it gets on average, the faster the less fit die due to various heat related reasons. Once it hits 31c@100% relative humidity, land mammals die.

So it's on a rolling scale up to 31C. At or past, yeah its a binary cliff.
Sort of...

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/21/opinions/sutter-6-degrees...

I worry that all the sink holes appearing in Russia are massive methane deposits which are probably are not factored into estimates. It being this hot in Europe and specifically the UK for this long is insane.
Is chemical/plastic production really a source of emissions? After all, oil is used in the production of plastic because plastic has a bunch of carbon in it.
> In the group of 100 people, even if 99 people will ban something, 1 person will still use it.

This is the nirvana fallacy. We don't expect people not to drink and drive ever again, but we still ban it.

And like drinking and driving, not only can we ban something, but we can find how we can defend against it (such as education and making it easier to get taxis home). So, the question:

> Isn't it better to find how you can defend against something

can be easily answered with: "Why not both?"

> What sort of thinking is this?

Reasonable, logical thinking that has succeeded in the past.

Does this mean it's the correct solution here? I don't know. But this isn't illogical by any means.
$18 at the Regal near me for "RPX" (aka premium times) in Chicago.
I don't really get your point, a lot of existing things are "no-go" for people with disabilities. Skiing is impossible if you can't use your legs. Going to the movie is pretty much a no-go if you're blind (I know audiodescription exists for some movies)

There should be options for people with disabilities of course, and AFAIK 2D movies still exists and are not going to die anytime soon.
But what are you debating for ? Do you want a global ban on 3D because it can not be enjoyed by everyone ?
Yet another article that emphasizes how absolutely garbage our politicians are. They are also actively complicit in Trump's war against environmental protection and the continued apathy that began before Trump.

The problem is that environmental driven campaigns have been incredibly ineffective. Perhaps it's our responsibility to generate noise the same level of that with Net Neutrality?
I got a solid 3. When using AWS I only look at the colors... Not the symbols.
AWS do put a lot of work into their icons set. That said, we (draw.io) get a lot of direct complains about the icons because:

1) They can't find certain AWS icons (the problem is it's there, they didn't expect it to look like that).

2) They change and move between sets rather a lot. That was more a problem previously, the set hasn't actually changed yet this year.

If there's a designer out there willing to create an alternative set, we're more than willing to add it in and see what people prefer. Probably more constructive than just saying "they are bad", show us something better.
Just so you know, an app password downgrades the security of your 2FA+Password pairing, and I never use app paswords because of that. If it was somehow possible to intercept the password used in the IMAP handshake, then that means access to your inbox without 2FA. This is why I am a huge fan of web-based clients and not things like Thunderbird.
If this is true (which it might be, I haven’t studied these systems in detail), then an obvious fix is to get the AI to randomly train with ‘weaker’ versions of itself (perhaps while the strong instance is handicapped) in addition to the latest generation.

Several levels of weak opponents should be used, with varying probabilities, to tune the AI’s robustness against real-world, imperfect competitors.
Deep learning. CPUs do data augmentation, GPUs do linear algebra. I already have a Core i9, but it’s “only” 10 cores, and it’s struggling to keep up with GPUs
Markets aren't very good at accountability at all. There are numerous examples of banks/utilities/you name it, just carrying on ignoring the public outcry. The BBC is accountable because it's state run, and so there is a lot of infrastructure in place to force change, fine it, take it to court etc. Further, just because the BBC is a public broadcaster, doesn't mean people have to watch it, or even pay the license fee. The BBC isn't a state monopoly, it's just a state run broadcaster, I think you're confusing the two.

Prime example, license fee revenues are currently falling, because people have been watching online and using services like Netflix, so the BBC has been looking at ways to change their whole model to keep going.
"Plastics emit GHG as they degrade": https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/plastics-emit-gre...
That's the technology behind: s2geometry https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/12/announcing-s2-libr...

Annoying that techcrunch could not find that out.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/uTZHO
Some gaming motherboards have USB 2.0 ports designated as gaming keyboard and mouse ports. They then have additional software to manually adjust the polling rate higher than the USB specification, often allowing for 1000Hz polling rates.
Perhaps the problem is simply with intent.

Shutting down coal power would achieve all climate goals for several decades and we can in fact just kind of do that in most places. Government subsidies are what's keeping coal power plants online in many locations. The problem is that this would impose costs on business owners, or force banks and/or governments to pay out large sums to those business owners (not that large though: tens to hundreds of millions per plant). In other words : governments worldwide would have to scale back what they're doing for a short while to instantly destroy their climate goals.

In other words: government, elected CHOICES are what's keeping the biggest co2 producers online. Governments absolute unwillingness, in Australia's case, to pay out relatively small sums they agreed to pay decades ago, and of course not getting a budget increase out of it.

Laws that are proposed, almost without fail, go after individual, totally insignificant co2 producers, and impose large costs on individuals for marginal, or even net negative gain (e.g. well known example: for the longest time, and maybe even now, solar panels were net-negative, and certainly, in the short term that's still true. Certainly in the short term switching to solar power increases CO2 emissions, it doesn't reduce them. It may become a net positive after 10 years of constantly using the panels, under idealized conditions).

Suggested changes to individual lives, like forgoing cars entirely, impose yet larger costs but thankfully for now governments are mostly unwilling to do this.

At what point do we get to conclude that the intent of climate action parties is simply to exert power over individuals, to capture government, regardless of all costs to the climate ? That these parties not only don't care about climate change, but are actually willing to sacrifice the climate, just to gain power ?

Besides: I think it's extremely telling that nobody is willing to consider geoengineering (artificially lowering out planet's albedo). We know methods to do that, and of course all governments promptly decided that was off-limits (with, get this, "what if we're wrong" arguments. Look: either climate prediction works, or it doesn't. Denying geoengineering solutions is little better than outright denying climate change entirely).
Climate Change has the Republican army on its side destroying the environment at any chance they get.
Will We Ever Be Able to Download Our Brains Like in Westworld?
Blender 2.8 Eevee is reducing rendering by factor of 100, with a modest reduction of quality. It's basically using game rendering techniques, but instead of catering to realtime, it'll take a couple seconds to produce a frame. It's almost entirely GPU driven, so in the future there may not be a need to really go full Threadripper unless you use Cycles daily.
I read fiction every night in bed before going to sleep. I used to read mostly paperbacks, at some point partially switching to an iPad. After getting myself a Kindle Paperwhite (the version with the high-DPI screen) I haven't bought a single paperback nor read a single novel on my iPad. I just vastly prefer the Kindle form factor and worry free usage (cheap, light, plastic) to either the hassle of keeping a book open or worrying about dropping my iPad.

Being able to read in direct sunlight is a nice bonus.