skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP but some might be: illiquid alternative investments with lockup periods, investments that require investors to be "accredited investors", funds with large minimums, outright purchases of investment real estate.
Hydrogen plumbing is not really a solved problem so I challenge the "less mechanically complex". Those hydrogen atoms are really small!

The margin on shipping is low enough that I suspect they looked at everything they could get off the shelf before settling on this one, which I agree is complex. It will be interesting to see the long time life of these sails.
I really appreciated this taxonomy! It lines up with my own experience; but I've never thought about it this thoroughly.

One specific type of comment that I've found valuable is a sort of BDD in my tests.

testMethod() {
// GIVEN a <specific type of thing>
<setup code>

// WHEN the <specific operation is done>
<do the thing code>

// EXPECT <specific effect>
<assertion code for the effect>
}

These are like "guide comments" but with more structure. I find that they help write tests and also make reading tests transparent.
We are not going to get anywhere until those that benefit from any action pay. Those that will benefit from any action are mostly not even born yet.

Imagine if the people of the future living in a trashed world could travel back in time and pay us to do something now. How much would they be willing to pay? Probably far more than it would cost to fix. All they would need to do is invent a time machine and they could come back to now, pay us to fix the problems, and they get to live in an intact world.

Given we haven’t had too many visitors from the future flashing the Benjamins around, time machines are likely impossible. We do however have a magic way of allowing the future to pay for actions now as long as we act on their behalf. This magic is called long-term zero-coupon bonds [0]. The idea is we issue a whole lot of zero coupon bonds due in 50 years (or more), use the money to decarbonise the economy and pay off the owners of all the carbon, and the leave it to the future to pay the debt with an intact world.

I gave a talk on this idea a bit over 10 years ago which I have up on my blog if anyone is interested [1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-coupon_bond

1. https://www.tillett.info/2015/12/13/preventing-global-climat...
Ha! A close cousin to what I call "Resume Driven Development". Most engineers don't want to add to or maintain something someone else built prior. Since most people are working on and inheriting monoliths at small to midsize companies, the "micro services are what successes like Google do" era has been a real boon to RDD because you've got this great ready made justification for a rebuild. It would be a much harder sell to rebuild a better 2.0 of your monolith. In most cases, you don't need to do either for business value. But we pretend it is needed so that we can get a chance to do something blue sky for a change. I'm pretty conscious of when I'm RDDing but I've seen a lot of folks really delude themselves into thinking there is an urgent need to rebuild. It's very amusing watching RDD theater play out.
I don't understand why someone would downvote this, as I thought the norm was to downvote inappropriate and unjustified comments, not comments whose opinion one simply doesn't share especially when as in this case the comment recommends something that is scientific fact: one can reduce one's carbon and methane footprints by abstaining from meat.

If you don't like this comment isn't it better to respond with your reasoning?
You kind of have to force compliance. With proactive action, it always seems overly aggressive to force compliance. With reactive action, it feels okay as you can honestly point at things that improved due to your force.
Some people still don't think humans landed on the moon. This is not a battle over facts. It's a war.

The real problem is that people will torture a fact, like a PoW, until it'll tell any story they want it to tell. Even if that story has no basis except for delusion of the torturers.
I would add that so many tenses in other languages also feel excessive (there are only three in Russian). And so does using the verb "to be" for the present tense: in Russian it's enough to say "I developer". This and the wide range of diminutives are the best parts of the Russian grammar, everything else is overly complex.
In California this has become noticeable to even the casual watcher of real estate. Per my earlier comment about people who are speculating and trying to 'flip' houses, I'm seeing pretty rapid price rollbacks on houses that were previously sold < 18 months ago. My speculation is that these people are trying to unwind their position because the market is softening and they don't want all their capital tied up waiting for the rebound.

The combination of higher interest rates and tax code changes which limit mortgage interest deductions[1]. While $750K seems like a pretty high cap for limits to kick in, in the Santa Clara county, the median house price is over $1.3M so that is over $500K of mortgage interest you can't deduct.

That changes the calculus of buying an expensive house and I would not be surprised if that is reducing the number of buyers.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-new-tax-law-will-...
You never came up with any negatives about working on google cloud or really gave any useful information. You must have some relevant things to talk about.
ARM did it, not Apple.
This is certainly a possibility, but I would assume someone with the resources to pull this off is smart enough to realize that it would quickly be discovered if the whole thing is bs, especially as the story involves some of the US's most valuable and powerful companies.

Also, why the need to make up a false story to make China look bad? There are plenty real issues that make China look bad. Before I get accused of some anti-China bias, the same could be said of the US. If I wanted to make the US look bad I'd focus on any myriad of foreign policy or domestic concerns that show it's failings before I concocted a story that would soon be discovered to be a fabrication.
The post mentions cloud security.

We were actually discussing this one day at the office - have there been any serious security breaches at Google? Are they really just that good?
I admit to being tired of this vague moralizing. We're in this mess because of corrupt energy industries and fucked up factory farming on a global scale, not because I like chicken nuggets. There is absolutely zero chance that we avoid global warming because enough people voluntarily switched to a vegetarian diet. It's a non-solution, just like everyone biking, turning their a/c to 85 and heaters to 60, etc etc. It will never, ever happen unless government makes it happen, and I'm sure advocates know it, and I'm therefore forced to conclude it's just some weird eco-shaming.
This explains everything. BTW does float=>int conversion a lot in JS other than the implicit 32bit bitwise operation?
The article seems to paint a rather non-crisis economically, perhaps unintentionally:

> The United States, it said, could lose roughly 1.2 percent of gross domestic product for every 1.8 degrees of warming.

I guess that's in Fahrenheit, but again.. not really scary numbers. We're talking about two years of ordinary productivity growth being lost over a decade+. Bad, but nowhere close to resulting in the future being worse than the present, much less society ending.

For how much we all worry about global warning, why are the estimated GDP numbers not coming in much worse?
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To retire.

I'm just slightly kidding.
You can configure DRF permission classes in the interface definitions, so there's some security.
"There exist no words in any of the languages I speak which can express my hate of GNU and GNU/Linux."

And I stand by that statement: if I didn't, it wouldn't be on my biography. I think it's fair and honest disclosure, rather than philosophy and playing with words. I mean what I say and I say what I mean.

Still, ad hominem attacks on someone with an opposing view do little to further your argument; at best, it comes across as nothing but opinion.

For my part, I provided citations to make my point. I regret that you didn't seem to read through them before answering.
Is it just me, or does this phrasing make it seem like he's full of it?

"With further deep-learning advancements, especially on mobile devices, we'll be able to produce completely photoreal avatars in real time."

What "deep learning advancements" is he referring to?

Doesn't surprise me that he's being sued by his former VP of Engineering for fabricating the truth (and assault and battery) at all.
I think philipov is saying that the reason politicians are not acting is because they do not believe any action is possible.

So, if they believe no action is possible this also means they view this as the last round in a game of prisoners dilemma they've been forced to play for most of the modern era.

So, in their view, there is no more downside to defecting.
He may not be in the article, but he did keynote the Internet Archive’s Annual Bash last week! So he's not forgotten.
You don't need quotes around education. Education isn't an imaginary thing.
> This is scalable only if they managed to encourage more talented individuals to choose institutional kitchens over commercial ones.

I'm not convinced that this is as difficult as you make out. Commercial kitchens don't usually pay very high salaries, but there is a social status achieved by working for a top-end restaurant. Large-kitchen institutions may not be able to compete on either, but their longevity (compared to restaurants which come and go) allows them to invest in people, taking interested low-skill candidates and bringing them up through a kitchen's roles in a predictable way, including possibly financing culinary degrees for people working their way up.

It's not like Wodni is doing something particularly different (? for lack of a better word) here. Instead of buying from low-quality suppliers whose prices were higher for ensuring consistency at wholesale scale, he bought from a multitude of high-quality suppliers at wholesale market rate. He then, using experience and education, adapted to the differences in inventory that come with working with small-scale suppliers, while ensuring that his budget was efficiently utilized by not wasting anything (e.g. saving fish bones for stock instead of buying fish stock from a supplier). Yes, that requires education and experience to do and do well, but I don't see why more institutions couldn't invest in more people to get that education and experience.
Google is a black hole that sucks in the best talent. I'm sure once you're there it's a singularity of extremely talented engineers. So if anyone were to have good security practices, it would be Google.
Is it? The Google repo posted by 'orangea is maybe the first one I've seen.

I mean, let's flip it around: when I need a lib for language X, why would I want to download it also for languages V, Y, and Z (+ all language-specific cruft)? Especially in this day and age, when dependency management in project involves build systems pulling repos automatically?

Or, put another way, library is one project. Python wrapper/client is a different project. Go wrapper/client is yet another project. Etc.
They're also playing football for a living and not attending their 4 HIPAA and document retention guidelines training in 18 months.
Would be cool if we had an ESP8266 and ESP32 friendly implementation for IoT
An end to ROP/JOP
That's fine and all, but so is every major tech company in the public cloud space. And humans make mistakes regardless of how talented or brilliant they may be.
Thanks - as I suspected it is really complex and very dependent on the assumptions.

I would love to cycle more, but I fear for my life riding on roads with traffic. I have seen far too many killed cyclist with my own eyes - in fact when I think about the only dead people I have seen are cyclists and motorcyclists.
The 2018 DevOps RoadMap
The obvious difference is that a human on a bicycle is moving on the order of 10 times less mass than a human in a car. Like my sibling post notes, it could be different for, e.g, a motorcycle, but a cyclist also produces about 0% of the SOx, NOx, or particulate emmissions of those vehicles, whichever is a somewhat different conversation.
Enjoy life while you can, it won't be here for long.
MacBook Pro 15" because our entire org runs on MacOS. It's fantastic since we have Linux/Unix infrastructure and also have iOS/Android apps to build. It's great for everything we do and they're super reliable.

Can't imagine working on anything else.

Some of my colleagues have an iMac + MacBook Pro setup. The iMac is at their desk and the MacBook Pro is for taking to meetings and working from home.
> Are engineers just lazy and prefer the industry status quo framework and some config scripts to the work of actually building software?

It's worse than lazy, it's the new way of doing engineering that is glueing together ready made components.
JP Morgan just laid off a ton of Mortgage brokers fwiw.
Democracy, eg the populist mob, killed Socrates and will likely kill the species too.
Some additional root-causes:

* Ex-engineer managers pointing out that technology, then either brown-nosing or incompetent engineers running with it

* Tech debt: throw-away prototypes / experiments forced to production products

* Engineers padding their technical resume (probably intending to transfer before the debt is due)

* Engineers reusing existing knowledge instead of learning

* Premature engineering, small teams building for a big (hypothetical) future instead of building everything that comes in between

* Consultants / Contractors

* Low hiring bar

And plenty more. It's usually a systemic failure, with multiple parties failing to do what's best for the the customers and the business.
Not really. What do you think the role of an editor is exactly?
It's because other languages like Python and Julia would usually just use something like Jupyter Notebooks, and those can be converted to PDF using nbconvert.
We'll likely never see a housing crisis quite like 2008, at least not a for a while, but many cities really have overshot reality. I'm in Nashville and it's absolutely insane what people are asking for houses in bad neighborhoods or houses in good neighborhoods. It might not be a lot if you're moving here from California, but if you're from the region even Atlanta or Charlotte, you're getting a bad deal. Condos last I checked were cheaper in Charlotte and Atlanta in good neighborhoods than Nashville. Even in surrounding cities it has greatly outpaced rationality. Homes in East Nashville are up almost 300% in 8 years. That's not normal.
But that seems even more bizarre. Who has the resources to do that but not the resources to come up with a cleaner frame up than this? If the aim is to make China look bad, why target a US company (Supermicro) instead of a Chinese company like Huawei or Lenovo?
It was a comment by someone on some forum. Someone looking for similar sites as reddit (so was I) and another user who had replied had mentioned about HN a forum which is almost as good or as bad as reddit just that people on HN like to believe they are inherently better than reddit. I am not sure which forum it was - maybe reddit itself.

MeFi [0] and OneThingWell [1] are the gems I found in the same thread. Sadly OneThingWell's author took a long break due to RSI. Other forums/communities I found in that thread are/were SA [2], SDF, Barbelith [3] etc.

I guess it was just when I had got access to readily available Internet (before that it was weekly an hour or so in cyber cafes). I had immediately signed up everywhere (there were dozens) and SA is the only I never really got used to, never really stayed there.

[0] https://www.metafilter.com

[1] http://onethingwell.org

[2] https://www.somethingawful.com

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20051024234650/http://www.barbel...
IIRC it turned out to be impractical and was shelved after the test runs.
I would say looking at those graphs that the interest rates going down from ~1982 look pretty correlated to the real house prices going up till ~2008. Especially for the post 1999 or so period. Then we had the bubble, then we had a crisis from a slight raise of rates. House prices move really slowly. You also probably want to look at real rates rather than nominal rates, for some of the period rates were high because inflation was also high.

If interest rates keep heading up it's a good bet we're setting up for a repeat of that last crisis. Let's hope the banks are better prepared and have loaned money to less questionable people.

It would also be instructive to see the shorter term rates, not everyone finances for 30 years.

So I would say in theory and in practice interest rates have major impact on house prices. We would not have the bubble without the low interest rates as people wouldn't not be able to finance the purchase of those houses at those prices.
Rice paddy fields also produce a significant amount of methane as well.
No, it was influenced by J2ME
>>> A "creative index" is another term for a "fund."

I agree with what you are saying, but I'm referring to the previous commenter conflating that a "creative index" or passive investing strategy is a fund, or needs to be implemented through a fund structure.

Smart beta is really just factor investing with very tight constraints around index tracking error. i.e. It's seeking out high beta and low alpha by design, so given it is aiming for some variation in alpha, I think your argument makes sense.
Digg died, or went bad or something. The exact process is hazy at this point, but I’m pretty sure there was a direct switch.
Hey Mark, pretty sure you're talking about floodsub, which is a naive implementation of pubsub of top of libp2p, not actually 'libp2p'. Libp2p is quite a bit more than a simple p2p pubsub library.

In any case, floodsub is just one option you can use for pubsub on top of libp2p (one with a notably high level of reliability and minimal cross network latency for infrequent messaging). We also have a tree pruning gossiping implementation called gossipsub. Take a look at the spec: https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub...
Download for free. Thank you Mr. Graham.
7  times that deepika show her deep cleavage
Scientists can now grow weed in space
The twitter commenter's pics are incredible. Looks like a flare inside a nebula.
Apple did it, not ARM.

Apple designs the chips:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-designed_processors

Specifically,

Apple has an ARM "architectural license", which is for
companies "designing their own CPU cores using the ARM
instruction sets. These cores must comply fully with the
ARM architecture. Companies that have designed cores that
implement an ARM architecture include Apple, AppliedMicro,
Broadcom, Cavium (now: Marvell), Nvidia, Qualcomm, and
Samsung Electronics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Licensing
There very much are people who miss the USSR. Some are paid for it. Some honestly miss it because... well, I don't want to go into analyzing national mentality here, but there's a Russian saying that goes "if they are afraid of us, it means that they respect us". And people certainly were afraid of USSR.

This perceived loss of respect drives a lot of nostalgia for the USSR.
Also known as “Deloitte”.
Do Project Zero's blog posts not focus on Google products purposefully, or is that just a perceived bias?

I understand and appreciate the work Project Zero does; it makes us all safer when these bugs are found, and fixed. It just seems like the only project zero blog posts that make the front page are aimed at Microsoft or Apple.
Reminds me of jsPlumb: https://jsplumbtoolkit.com/demos.html

This could be good for ETL tasks where you have to take data from one place, transform it and load it into another place.
My best friend in high school introduced me. We would both read it on the way to school and then discuss our favorite articles from that morning over lunch.

One of my fondest memomries of him was all the days when he would be so excited about something that he’d read that he’d dash up to me and give me a rushed synopsis before class started.
New Macbooks and Imacs will auto brick if independent repair is detected
It has something to do with the fact that few people live that long.
> reasons explained at length

Which are actually these two fairly cursory "explanations" that are more arbitrary commandments rather than transparent reasoning:

> "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create them routinely. On HN, users should have an identity that others can relate to."

> "HN is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different forum."

I do understand that this isn't a true public forum as it's hosted by a VC fund with the intention to draw in intellectually curious people, building up a brand through high quality discussions, and then monetizing the resulting social network by supplying capital to promising entrepreneurial-minded members of this self-selecting cohort in exchange for equity stake and company control.

Anonymity is the direct antithesis of consistent identity -- it's impossible to support both concepts at the same time. The only way I can think of that someone might see both as compatible is if they view YC as some entity that is to be trusted as an all-seeing benevolent moderator that seeks to keep participants protected from the scary strangers amongst the crowd with even scarier ideas.

The problem with that guardianship model you seem to embrace is that not only are the type of people drawn to the bazaar of faceless minds the exact demographic you seek to be winnowed from the chaff as golden gains of mettle and vitality, but in your attempt to weed with caustic principles you end up scorching the fertile soil and years later no fruit will bear.

As a suggestion to YC in general, I'd say it might be beneficial to your long-term success to transition into a fully anonymous forum instead of just becoming yet another incarnation of every other social media platform as the more canny devotees to open ideas realize the next exodus is right around the corner.

Identity is the path to the dark side. Identity leads to reputation. Reputation leads to consistency. Consistency leads to conformity.

You of course are free to ban me and the others who do not agree with the site guidelines. But when the time comes that you are left to face the withered crops from the diseased seeds you've carelessly sown, you'll remember that there was an alternative that you not only ignored but stamped out in careless spite to keep things as they are rather than the potential of what they could be.
Maybe someone who knows satellites can help here. I assume with one gyro the satellite still has pointing function because one gyro senses in 3 axis, but that if that one gyro were to go it would no longer know where it was pointing or perhaps without enough accuracy for science.

But... it’s a telescope. Couldn’t it determine direction from images received from a spotting or wide angle lens? Does it not have one?
Well those particulates and gases are still produced in the production and transport of food. If you eat more food then more will have to be grown and transported.
SRE being Site Reliability Engineering - it is there in the text but easy to miss.

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The Register's article on Super Micro (written a few days ago) mentions this incentive: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomber...

> Bloomberg reporters receive bonuses based indirectly on how much they shift markets with their reporting. This story undoubtedly did that.