skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculative clickbait is not the same as market-moving stories, and this isn't an article about Bloomberg paying reporters for clickbait. Market-moving stories are the ones valued by traders in making decisions, almost tautologically since trader decisions are the market. I don't see why the editors would have different incentives than the reporters.
It's a web application of mine, it's not ready yet ( performance wise)

What you see is rss import and custom actions ( eg. A button to add a new link to post to hn).

I dogfood it as a bookmarking web app and rss-reader currently, but it can do a lot more
It would be interesting to understand the fundamental difference why ARM systems can even boot without a BIOS and a BIOS chip. Of course they also need to have their DRAM configured, but when compiling U-Boot I don't recall any complication like stackless code. Just that your address space is extremely small in the beginning.
Ask HN: Shifting from Security Consulting to pure development
How would one break into pure SRE roles after 4 years in cybersecurity consulting (network securtity).
One of the upsides of legalization is that a lot of the false claims made about marijuana are going to come under heavy scrutiny.

Some of this will be good for marijuana enthusiasts, but some will be bad.

I've lost count of the times I've been told by marijuana fans that marijuana is not addictive, and that smoking it is not bad for your lungs. I expect both of those myths to be refuted in the coming years.

In particular I expect to see studies demonstrate a link between marijuana smoking and lung cancer, followed by years of denial by marijuana producers and smokers, similar to what happened with cigarettes.
I disagree, to me that sounds like another reason to leave Facebook.
I don't think this is related to what bfred_it is saying.

To me, he's saying "if you have 1500 friends, use Facebook's follow/unfollow feature to improve your S/N ratio while still being friends with those people." That is, rather than privacy (controlling outgoing information), he's discussing the ability to filter incoming information.
Sorry, but this type of thinking bothers me. The scale of the problem at hand is so enormous that individual action is essentially meaningless.
Is a lack of self-control the same thing as addiction?
I just have a single strike policy for most of my friends. I unfollow anyone as soon as they post something I don't want to see. I don't tell them, obviously. It works quite well.

Scrolled down just now and saw one post of someone running a 10k, a complaint about not having a holiday on Monday (haha), an ad from Triplebyte, a photo of the SpaceX rocket launch visible from the city, pictures from Yosemite, a birthday, an ad for Fairy, and a friend cosplaying.

Not so bad. I'm fine with that.
So isn't that enough to prefer social democracy over capitalism?
> Python has to know the encoding of the "file" string by the encoding off the source file.

Not when it's a string literal like in your example.

The string "foo" has no file, not in the past, present, or reasonably-predictable future. Ditto for the literal bytes.

> It then also has to know what the encoding of the b"file" string is because it is explicitly specified.

Explicitly specified by who? Where? When?

They're just bytes, they don't have a text-encoding yet, or perhaps never: It could be a picture file, or a random seed.
You are not defined by your job or pay level, do not become compulsive about the ‘social prestige’ 1 job gives over another

Watch more Sadhguru videos on YouTube to get a better view on life.

Don’t learn java as your first programming language.

Start spreadsheets on a bunch of life areas instead of just scrounging together data every time a form or tax return needs to be filed (job, living location, investments, etc)
Loved this rabbit hole. Thanks!
You can buy credits here https://www.goldstandard.org/get-involved/make-an-impact for projects that have been audited and certified.
I've always wondered how that works. Is there a standard that is enforced or is like a charity that you have to trust?
it is true that 'red' meat alone is the 80/20 tradeoff you can make to reducing the carbon footprint of your diet, just like solving a bottleneck in any other system its important to focus your efforts on the top 1 or 2 things, not the 4th or 5th thing.

exactly what things are #1 - 5 for you will vary by country and lifestyle, but assuming a coastal-american/northwestern-european "tech worker" bias, its: #1 children, #2 cars, #3 heating, #4 electric, #5 flying, #6 red meat.
So only climate change articles on HN, anything else is deckchairs?
That is very interesting spec, but also alarming. It contains:

> The meshsub router offers a baseline construction with good amplification control properties, which we augment with gossip about message flow.

This is notoriously hard to get right. How to prevent spam, posioning or Sybils in your gossip network? Scientific work on p2p overlays and gossip is hard to publish now at venues like Usenix or NSDI. After Newscast from 2003 it seems you need strong identity to make these systems attack resilient. An unsolved problem.

Thank you for this insight! We will put a university student team on exploring this likely vulnerability in IPFS/libp2p.
My wife and I are turning 30 and our parents are starting to pressure us to have kids. However, we had both decided against having kids because the thought of someone we love worrying about global climate change crisis is too much for us to handle emotionally. We tried explaining our concerns to our parents but they don't seem to give a shit.

Other than sending our parents reports like these, any suggestions on how we can convince our parents that having kids and subjecting them to a lifetime of dealing with global warming might not be such a great idea?
Lack of self control is absolutely a symptom of addiction.
The revenge of the coach was very painful
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We even have likes (with the thumbs up image to click on) on our company wiki. It's all so stupid.
I've been using the chrome plugin "Kill News Feed" for several years and took the app off my phone. I feel like a have a healthy relationship with FB now. If someone wants to send me a message, I'm still there. If I need/want to look someone up or tag my family/friends in a photos I can. But the feed is gone, and I won't get sucked in.
As a general principle, I don't think we have any reason to still believe technology can patch social problems
I was following some people on twitter that I found extremely interesting... to later realize that all the articles they were posting were from HN.
Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
That is what is done, age is an approximation.

So far, these rules aren't enforced against cars in England, only buses and heavy vehicles in London must comply. It's similar in some large cities in Germany and Sweden.

Example: http://urbanaccessregulations.eu/quick-guide-key-schemes?cit...
I stopped using Facebook by deleting the app and only using the messenger app and messenger.com
I hear you, but your claim that Windows Update is "frustrating and buggy" just doesn't mesh with my experience, so it's hard to relate to your concern. I don't think I've ever noticed Windows update running, except for the once-a-month or so times I've come back to my computer and it's been restarted. Hardly "buggy" or "frustrating".

Admittedly I don't think all Microsoft updates that get pushed out are security patches, but there are a lot of configuration options that give me control of how and when updates get applied. I find it hard to understand what the situation is that these controls aren't enough to work around any potential "critical" timeframe I might have.

Besides, for important stuff that must be up all the time, everyone knows by now that *nix is the way to go, right? This is not anywhere remotely new. Running Windows is implicitly trading off 100% availability for... whatever else Windows offers (gaming compatibility, for me).
Ok, fair point - but redux is great even if your app is small.
As I said in my reply to that, it could also be in combination with the much faster memory / caches on A12 -- see https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
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Why would someone use this for $7/month? Or even if it was free, how is it a better alternative to countless other email services?
So is this a symptom of addiction, or just lack of discipline? I smoke plenty, but I know when and how to stop.
Of course, I think the issue here is that inhaling burnt particulate into your lungs is generally not wise.

I don't doubt cannabis addiction is a real issue, just like alcoholism. Still, there are safer ways to ingest it, hopefully those will become more popular.
Actually, you're an asshole who likes pot and uses it as an excuse to behave badly. My drug use history reads like War and Peace and I don't have any aggressive or obnoxious episodes that I feel terrible about because I always considered that no matter what strange thing I put in my body I was responsible for for my own behavior, inebriated or not.

This person needs help, and the first thing they need to do is take responsibility for who they are.
Well there's the rather famous Intel issue that got some upvotes. I think they focus on platforms with a lot of users since that has the most benefit.
JS perf has tightly tracked single threaded CPU perf for a long, long time -- as long as I can remember. That said, it is certainly possible memory speed is also a factor, see https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
Don’t bother. It’s your lives, her body and ultimately nothing to do with them. Head over to /r/childfree on reddit to perhaps get some better advice but fundamentally it really has nothing to do with your parents, or anyone else, if you have children and your reasons behind that choice.
The video of the stage maneuvering is great (1 minute):

https://twitter.com/RogerCraigSmith/status/10491304561578106...

Another longer video (8 minutes):

https://youtu.be/TVHAoxyHO9c

Official livestream with views from the rocket and some views from the ground (at the time the interesting things happen):

https://youtu.be/vr_C6LQ7mHc?t=1148

What we see is the shutdown of the 9 engines of the first stage, separation of the the first stage from the second stage, ignition of the engine on the second stage, turn of the first stage to point engines-back, ignition of 3 engines on the first stage to boost back toward the launch site, separation of the two halves of the payload fairing from the second stage and them falling, the first stage maneuvering using cold gas thrusters to navigate to the launch site. The first stage eventually lands ~1400 feet (~420 meters) from the launch site. The second stage reaches 600x600km polar orbit [1], separates from the satellite payload and usually for LEO de-orbits to sink in the ocean. There was no attempt to recover the payload fairings this time because of waves, apparently.

1 - https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1049167565904388096
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CodeLingo vs. Linters: Making parsers for automatic code review
it absolutely cannot be fixed by individual action alone

it also absolutely cannot be fixed without mass waves of individuals acting.

its an AND not an OR
see thats the thing, when people want to talk about another behavior they don't like, saying addiction is fine, in the context of "friends, families and obligations are neglected for this one thing"

when people want to defend something, they rely on a stricter medical definition about how reliant the body becomes on another source of chemical it would have otherwise produced. This is something that marijuana doesn't satisfy, it is currently accepted that the brain doesn't stop producing its own chemicals, so therefore "you can't get addicted to marijuana", but

With gambling addition, video game addiction, etc, there is no debate about whether this is self control issues or whether there is a drug that offers a chemical that your body now stops producing. its a self control issue, we colloquially call that addiction.

the marijuana scene has needed to draw distinctions to get this far, now its time to quit the semantical debate and help with a solution that doesn't involve locking up parents and taking children through child protective services.
> France can offer robust services while California cannot,

France offers much more social security than whole US.
I saw multiple of my most talented high school friends lose their spark to pot. They’ve now made about 2 years of progress in 20 years’ time.
I just wanted to say that I walked away from Facebook about a year and a half ago now. I didn’t delete it, I just logged out and uninstalled the mobile app. It’s all been totally fine. The most social social media I use now is reddit, where I’m more just talking to people. I don’t post status updates anywhere, and often amazing things happen to me that I never tell anyone about. I eat great meals and don’t share. I became vegetarian and am going vegan and almost all of the people I would have told before have no idea, but it doesn’t matter at all. I’m just living my life, and when cool things happen I share them with the people I’m around.

With the continued leaks and breaches on Facebook, I’d like to do what the author does here. I do want to download the information, but then I’d like to delete my account.

I still wish there was some kind of social media platform like Facebook from 2008, but it’s not that big of a deal. I’m glad I don’t get stressed by some app on my phone all the time. People who want to talk to me email or text now.

I think social media could work. But until then, consider letting go of the existing platforms are stressing you out. We do just fine without sharing our day with the internet, as long as we have good people in our lives.
It's not 40% faster at "almost all other benchmarks". In Geekbench 4 single core, it's about 15% faster, and in many other benchmarks about the same. That's why the official guidance from Apple is that the XS should be 15% faster. Having seen the other low level benchmarks, I was really surprised when I saw the Speedometer results..
Interesting : )

I've found one person to admit they preferred KDE 4 series.

Everyone else seems to prefer the older 3 series or the newer 5 series, me included.
That’s great, but that doesn’t mean other people can’t have different experiences with pot.
As far as climate goes, what matters is the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, not where they came from. Greenhouse gases stay in the atmosphere for varying amount of time, depending on the particular gas.

Whatever we finally decide we need to hold warming too, there is some maximum level of greenhouse gases that we can allow without warming going above our limit.

If we take that level, and figure out each country's fair share of that, what we'll find is that the West is responsible for way more of the greenhouse gases present than is their fair share (with the US the farthest over its share), and India is way under their fair share.

It would not be unreasonable for India to feel that it is unfair that the West used cheap fossil fuels to boost itself to first world status and in the processes went way over their fair quota for greenhouse gases and now wants India to stay way below its fair quota and give up cheap development to balance that.

To make it fair, the West would need to subsidize India so that it can afford to become a developed country without having to use the cheap fossil fuels. Another way to think of it would be the West paying India for having used up India's quota for allowed greenhouse gases--essentially a kind of retroactive cap and trade system.
Marijuana is pure Soma. The people pushing, fighting for legalization are digging their own grave in one form or another, especially as far as sentiments of freedom are concerned - the government wins one way or another.

You cannot argue against sobriety without appealing to inherent weaknesses of human nature. That alone speaks volumes in regards to the value of this drug.
No. India is not an Islamic state. It may become the new US, though.
If you can’t at least say which of two projects will take longer, the architecture must be fucked to hell.
The Web still needs to catch up with some of Symbolics Lisp Machine development environment features though.

However, I like to think about it as carrying a Xerox Workstation or an IBM mainframe on my pocket, as both iOS and Android trace back to them.

Smalltalk, Lisp, Mesa/Cedar, bytecode environments with micro-coded CPUs, or JIT services on kernel with portable executables (IBM/Unisys).
I agree, it does sometimes feel that everyone is taking crazy pills. Why did everyone start caring about mutability all of a sudden?

I really like MobX ATM. It's a lot easier to explain to new people as well. Redux is like... too much...
That subreddit seems to be about looking down on people who have kids more than anything.
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not sorry, that type of thinking bothers me. the scale of the problem at hand is so enormous that scabs and slackers excuses are essentially meaningless.
It is an addictive drug. Much less addictive than alcohol or tobacco, but still addictive.

It's easy for folks like me to slip into using it every day. Never got as far as the author in this, likely because I did always have a day job to hold down, but I spent quite a bit of time baked every evening. I also don't feel it was quite as wasteful of my life as the author does, nor did I embarrass myself like that, but certainly you don't get a lot done whilst constantly stoned.

It's never been too much effort to stop either, the cravings tend to pass very quickly, but if there was any left in the house I'd quickly cave. I do wonder what would happen were it to be legalised here. I'm very, very much in favour of that because the legal situation around drugs in the UK is ridiculous, counterproductive and just stupid. But if cannabis was available at every outlet that currently carries alcohol, would I still be at it every day, making excuses to myself for being tired and groggy in the morning, and in the evening having "well just one more toke before bed"?
Nice, thanks for clarifying, I stand corrected. This is great to hear/see, do you guys also have benchmarks yet?
Not all numbers are stored and operated on as doubles, no. They are treated as if they were though. V8 and Spidermonkey (idk about the others) store and handle integers that fit in 32 bits as 32-bit integers.
I think we need to start wrestling with the idea that the anticipated climate crisis is impossible to stop and that it's worthwhile to begin preparing to live in a world with a warmer climate.

The reality is that most people don't care about climate change and the world's leadership is increasingly hostile to the idea of dealing with it. Even if our leaders were willing, the absolute dominance of private industry in this regard precludes any possibility of progress on the issue of reducing emissions.

On the other hand, we might be able to develop technologies that mitigate the impact of a warmer climate or begin developing and researching strategies to take advantage of agricultural possibilities that might be opened up by a warmer climate. The worst thing we can do right now for the populations that will be impacted by this is to assume there is a possibility that we can curb this disaster rather than taking these 40 to 60 years to brace for impact.
> It's missing the point in the sense that plain SQL has properties that are not desirable for blockchain's (valid) use cases. Consider Git. Git could be implemented using plain SQL, but it's not. It's not implemented with SQL because SQL would be centralized.

Fossil is definitely not centralized. Fossil is implemented using SQL.
I highly recommend this article in that same vein

http://benediktmeurer.de/2016/12/16/the-truth-about-traditio...

This is when Chrome on Android finally started to turn a corner, they've done a fantastic job. JS perf has increased 50% from 2016 to 2018 in Chrome/Android. Sadly Android is still hamstrung by extremely mediocre Qualcomm SoCs but they've made huge strides on the software side.
It's not actually all that secretive. There's two related levels though: personal and corporate.

As soon as you're making more than a few hundred grand, or you become a junior on a ladder that looks like you'll get there, people will get a hold of you on the personal side.

On the corporate side, as soon as you touch offshore, one of the big 4 that you already work with will suggest some tax optimization as a matter of course.

It's always weird, requiring whole pages of A4 diagrams, and you'll never really understand why these constructions work.

Some of the ones I've been offered have been downright ridiculous. One involved setting myself up as an advisor on rap lyrics. Another required me to publish my own poetry. IMO the weird ones are the most aggressive, and it's always sold as a tax reduction, so I've never gone ahead with them. It just seems too good to be true, and someone's gotta pay for social expenses.

On the corporate side, it's a bit less clear cut. You have a duty to shareholders to more or less do what everyone else does. There's also the fact that some governments actively court firms to set up shop with a discount, which is a sort of mutually beneficial bargain.
Just that you can post something and then your circle of friends / family can view your post. At their own leisure. You don't have to write an email and send it to people and such, and try figure out which friends want to see it and which don't.

IMO 'Facebook' should be a /dumb/ social network, dumb in the sense that it's features are basic, once built it doesn't need a billion features added to it.
Throw in world of Warcraft and it’s 0.23 years time lol
Something I've always wondered is if Google is such an awesome company then why are there so many ex Googlers?

It always feels strange to me that it seems like every second person on HN used to work at Google, but all of them say how great Google was.
This is a test I did on myself to check if I'm addicted to sugar, so please take it in that context.

Reduce your intake by 50% for about a week. Do you see a craving developing in you that's affecting your day to day life? Such as fatigue (both physical and mental), lack of focus, interest etc.,? If the answer is yes then you are probably on the verge of getting addicted. I'm not a doctor but my guess is that next stage is the lack of awareness or the ability to know when to stop which is a clear sign of addiction.
Of course it is addictive, otherwise people wouldn't come back to it after the first try.

And as for harm to lungs – does anyone really think that combustion products (regardless of what's burning) can not be harmful for human body?