skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is it like working at Google? I work at a startup, and these numbers are insanity to me. I have 10 years experience in mostly Haskell & FP (and that's what I enjoy doing). What would I do with my skills at one of the bigger tech companies?
> Then what is? My real-world experience also correlates.

HTML (non-JS) parsing, memory corruption, image processing, filetype validation and process isolation/sandboxing.
> ear measuring mics (e.g. https://www.minidsp.com/products/acoustic-measurement/ears-h.... )

That one sounds suspect but the only way to correctly measure headphones is on a binaural head.
> who would see their career advance if their findings confirm the doom and gloom consensus

There's a lot more money to be made by saying there's no global warming.
From the link you posted:

"As mentioned, satellites measuring the ice sheet mass have observed a loss of around 200 Gt/year over the last decade."

Doesn't that make the media right ?
What percentage of those are transitional jobs? I left school and worked a few years at terrible pay. But I'm older now and earn a good wage. I don't see a problem with people following these steps.
Because unfortunately, way too many of us depend financially upon poor security practices.
This is surprisingly not as insane as I expected. I was expecting to feel underpaid in comparison and they do make a bit more at the same level, but this actually makes me feel better.
My question for you would be, what exactly are you skeptical about? (Genuinely curious). Is that global climate change exists at all? Or that it’s somehow being misprepresented?

To me it’s always just come down to which do I think is more likely:

A) 99% of all scientists are intentionally duping society into believing global warming for some unknown agenda that they all share and we don’t know about for an unknown benefit

B) the people who stand to make billions (maybe trillions) of dollars by claiming that global warming doesn’t exist or is at least to some degree a conspiracy are behind the idea that globally warming isn’t real

When i want to find out who is behind something, I typically look at who stands to make the most money from their viewpoint being accepted as the dominant one.

To me it seems, given the enormous amount of money at stake, that scenario b is much more likely.
> Yeah, shellac isn't the most durable finish, but it sure is pretty.

+1
The majority of Signal users

I think it's really you who is making the extraordinary claim here and you should be providing the evidence. Signal's goal, as has been repeated many times in these threads is to replace SMS and other less-secure forms of messaging for as many users as possible, not to cater to somewhat off-the-beaten-path concerns over phone numbers. They are aiming for users of messaging. And they are making the very reasonable inference that most of those users are not hung up on identifying themselves with a phone number.

Additionally, if Signal's current users cared about the phone number thing that much, they wouldn't be using Signal to begin with. Where's your survey data that says Signal users just can't stand the phone-number-as-id thing?
So less time on touch devices or with a mouse. More time navigating and typing using a keyboard.
"But, because it may save bandwidth or help pages load more quickly, a tiny minority of our users choose to keep it off"

Yeeaaah Google. Thaaaat's why we don't load JavaScript from you ;)

I get it they can't make this opt-in and expect many to use it, but it'd be nice to see an opt-out be made available.
There is macchiato-sql [1] which is modeled on HugSQL. I've used it for a couple of projects, but YMMV. I tend to use sequelizejs since it works with most databases and it's well documented.

[1] https://github.com/macchiato-framework/macchiato-sql
Socialists Without a Plan
Why are sysadmins so ignored in things like this?
Google Walkout's Demand for Changes
Invent TensorFlow. Design a new language (Go). Invent new storage formats (Capacitor)
why generalize like this? indeed discussing virtually any subject with virtually anybody (except perhaps within academic circles) usually reveals how "stubborn, misinformed, anecdotal and delusional" their beliefs are

if i had to guess, it sounds like you have poor hearing ;P
Move protos around [0] :/

[0]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
What I miss are the album notes. It's easy to include a booklet with massive information in the CD jewelbox, but instead "they" dropped the notes. And these days, you can't even determine who wrote the song, as the track copyright information is missing. It's like ebooks, which often omit the year of publication.
My gut feeling is the problem matters more than the language. I'm hopeful with the push to microservices we'll be able to mix and match these things where we think they'll work best.
Your post is a gift. Thank you.
I'm not sure why you're skeptical. Scientists get a lot of flack for publishing "doom and gloom" results, even when those are accurate, and no scientist is particularly interested in overstating this effect.

Also, ".27 C" is not necessarily excluded from "about .2 C": it's not sufficient to simply compare approximate figures. There's a big difference in this context between ".2 C ± .5 C" and ".2 C ± .8 C". You would need to show that the observed result is entirely outside the predicted range, including both sets of error bars.

However, focusing on the temperature record is pretty disingenuous. It's been proven beyond doubt that humanity is liberating gigatonnes of fossil carbon, which is proven beyond doubt to warm the planet, specifically by 3.7 W/m^2 per doubling. The actual rate of warming and total climate sensitivity are interesting areas of research, but do not themselves have any bearing on whether that warming will happen.
> What happens when a goroutine accesses cold data in mmaped file? It stucks for a looooong time. During this time it occupies an OS thread from GOMAXPROCS threads, so other ready goroutines have reduced number of threads to be executed on. This leads to CPU under-utilization.

This is not very true. GOMAXPROCS doesn't determine the number of threads (M) in Go runtime. It determines the number of logicial processors (P). There may be more system threads created as needed than GOMAXPROCS.

When a system call is invoked, until it finishes, it is true that the caller goroutine will be parked with a system thread, however, the thread will detach itself from a P, so that the P can assign other goroutines (G) to other threads. So there is no CPU under-utilization.

After the system call finishes, the parking thread will try to find a P to attach or put the caller goroutine in a queue. So I really think there are really a little context-switch overheads in calling system calls. (Just a guess)
Canada: Investigation into StatsCan over collection of financial data
> Luther’s axiom, he said, was that if you could read the Bible and have a direct relationship with God, everything would be awesome. But what ensued was 130 years of conflict due to polarization. Half of the population wanted to reform the church, the other half didn’t, he said.

It's hard to say that this is bad. Before Luther, there was one system, like it or not. With/after Luther, some people undertook to reform the system. You can argue one side was better than the other but the fact is that under the first system one set of power brokers ran everything. After, there was at least some diversity.
Sure: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224.... Also look at Google Project Zero writeups, and similar CVE details for Firefox and Safari.

Some are related to JavaScript (notably, it's hard to exploit V8 if the browser isn't processing any JavaScript!). But the vast majority are memory corruption and sandbox escape issues.

Disabling JavaScript insulates you from a nontrivial - but nontheless minority - subset of browser vulnerabilities.
Ryan Zinke, Trump’s Interior Secretary, Faces Increased Ethics Scrutiny
The comparison doesn't make sense though. There's absolutely no reason you can't build an interface using single-page that functions to the end-user identically to any multi-page form. You can't necessarily do the reverse (multi-page to emulate single page), but that is also irrelevant to the top level -- if the SPA has 10 times the complexity to build an identical UI, then it's probably going to be harder to maintain for no value to the end user (which isn't to say no value).

What I got is that they built different UIs and found one of those UIs was better than the others; that says nothing about single-page vs multi-page. Maybe it was easier for them to build the "winning" UI as a multi-page app, but I didn't see that being said.
James Graham. “Other phone companies sell your data to advertisers. We don't.”
James Graham
"Other phone companies sell your data to advertisers. We don't."
https://www.communityphone.org
That's very likely the case, but presumably you'd get an even sampling from the users of other languages. It would be interesting to see some more surveys focusing on the larger JVM ecosystem though.
How can an unscrupulous scientist sign up? Nobody has offered me any money...
"The dichotomy between precision and impact is a false one." I love that sentence.

I hear time and time again strong disagreements on climate change, that simply boil down to a lack of precision on both sides. I also hear people called climate change deniers when they try add precision. It really doesn't help get people on board to solve the issue. We don't need propaganda to get people to take this seriously we need to build trust instead.
Ctrl f. But yes hacker news doesn't have the greatest UI.

Back to your main point. I don't think it's out of touch. It's different information or values. Do you think it's not annoying for me to not have JavaScript and have slow or broken pages? I know and feel the same thing, and I imagine anyone using no script does as well. It's just not worth it to me to let privacy be degraded for some speed.

I think this is due more heavily to being more informed about the situation than the average person, rather than different values. When Facebook starting getting in the news about all their privacy violations, Facebook MAU went down and the number of accounts deleted went up. That indicates that once people are aware of what is going on, they make similar choices about interacting with the companies.

The difference between many people on hacker news and the average populace is that we can both install something like noscript, and have a rough idea of how to interpret the options on it.
What about a version that doesn't need to install anything, like Google Translator? https://translate.google.com/translate?tl=es&u=https%3A%2F%2...
Show HN: Procedurally generated shirts from Wikipedia
Looks pretty good! Will join.
Audiophilia is a study in contradiction. The ask is a flat "uncolored" accurate sound. The gear that sells for ridiculous prices is usually tube gear with limited bandwidth and makes ~15 watts at 5-10% (admittedly usually even order harmonic) thd. Hardly uncolored.

That said, and Ive mentioned this before on HN. My (now late) uncle had a bunch of audiophile friends in Dallas. He hung around folks who had spent upwards of 500,000 (yes you read that right) on audio gear. I can't forget the time I rolled up to a modest middle class home, only to find out that inside of this house was a pair of Focal Grand Utopias (selling retail for 250k at the time, though he said he paid around 60k for the pair). He had 2 750 watt tube amps, current era but the brand escapes me. For source material he had a heavily modified Technics SP-10 with 2 tone arm/cartridge combinations and a boutique tube phono preamp. This fed into a similarly heavily modified Dynaco tube preamp from the 1960s. When he really wanted to get serious, though, he had a studer 2" tape machine and a sizable collection of low generation master tape copies. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes I would say my uncle was full of shit when he told me about it. You know what? it sounded freaking amazing.Im sure it is 90% placebo, and 10% the fact that he was able to play high bandwidth audio to concert levels with no stress or strain from the amplifiers. Was it worth 6 figures of money? not to me. But I am glad I got to hear it...
Go work for a think tank funded by the Koch’s
I think point four justifies the article brilliantly.
Well, my first link follows with this quote: "Since IPCC’s first report in 1990, assessed projections have suggested global average temperature increases between about 0.15°C and 0.3°C per decade for 1990 to 2005. This can now be compared with observed values of about 0.2°C per decade, strengthening confidence in near-term projections."

But guess what. My second link, the NASA one, shows the global increase of temperature between 2001 and 2011 to be 0.03°C. The IPCC estimate was not that conservative, was it? Should I say it was aggressive by a factor of 6?

Nope, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying (and what IPCC is saying) is that generally their predictions appear to be in line with the outcome, and not to be very conservative.
>but it can also prevent a (compromised) server from seeing your password

If the server is compromised, then there is no protection of your cleartext password at all. This is because the entity that compromised the server can replace the original JS with anything, including new JS that sends your cleartext password off to their own host as you type each character.

The only activity on your part that can save you against comprimised servers is having a unique password per server (i.e., not reusing any passwords).
The Web has been doing lots of things poorly for a long time as well. I know I've seen some implementations of date-pickers I don't like, and more old school implementations without date pickers that were just clumsy.
1. Work for SpaceX

2. Work for NASA

3. Work for your local space agency or aeronautics concern

4. Amass a large amount of money through software engineering and donate / invest

5. Amass a large amount of money through software engineering and create your own colony initiative
Hi, sorry for being late.

At the moment I live in México / USA.

I would love to provide feedback to help standarize and design protocols.
Update: You can now hear your candidates for congress, US senate, and governor, and candidate statements (where available). Demo below
https://twitter.com/SpeakUpAmerica_/status/10572773500883681...
Climate change: Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated'
Still better than supporting IE6.
Those companies get flack for it too, e.g. https://slate.com/business/2018/10/amazon-artificial-intelli...

In case you didn't click around the page, note that one of the applications they are proposing sounds similar:

> Basilica lets you easily cluster job candidates by the text of their resumes. A number of additional features for this category are on our roadmap, including a source code embedding that will let you cluster candidates by what kind of code they write.
First, in what way are you skeptical? That the planet is warming? That humans have anything to do with it? That it’s a result of greenhouse gas emissions? That its effects will be catastrophic?

Others have addressed your direct question in more detail: the predictions keep getting worse because a) the original predictions were conservative (“there’s no way it can get that bad”, “there’s no way we won’t begin to react”, etc.), b) we’re getting more data from recent years as the planet does begin to warm and seeing that it’s happening faster than many models predicted so new models have to incorporate this new worrying information, and c) there’s often biases in reporting on top of these other things.
generalizing what "audiophiles" want is like trying to generalize what the "blacks" want or what "canadians" want. it makes no sense. what sounds 'good' entirely depends on the source and the listener. so immediately you can see there is no right answer. if you want to listen to old elvis records maybe they sound best on old 60s gear. theres supposed to be some noise. all the girls goin crazy listening to it back in the day -- they were listening on the AM radio! the noise was part of it. listening to classical though -- have you ever been? no speaker can reproduce that experience. some come close; they are not noisy speakers. then there is bass, some people love to have lots of it layered thick on top of everything they listen to. some do not. etc, etc, etc
OCB2 is not a block cipher; it is an authenticated encryption scheme built on top of one.

The scary thing here is not so much the error in the proof, which does not have many repercussions beyond OCB2, but that it went 14 years without being discovered. This despite the OCB2 paper, which introduced XEX, being highly influential. Every time something like this happens, confidence on the security of all "provably secure" schemes is undermined.
It seems like the common thread of gab members is slime, but regardless I am rather disturbed at them being kicked offline by their domain registrar which seems a bit removed from the content business.

It is however hilarious that the dns registrar in question is those mega scumbags godaddy!
Right; and there are real studio monitors, like https://meyersound.com/product/hd-1/ (popular for film) and the Yamaha NS10 https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/yamaha-ns10-story , popular because it's so bad that if it sounds right on the NS10s, it'll sound right on anything. You don't always want a near-field critical listening device, and most studio headphones must be durable first, leak as little sound as possible second, be cheap third, and sound amazing fourth. Watch some videos of {your favorite artist} recording and look at what they use: it's probably something like a Beyerdynamic DT880 Pro (~$200), Sennheiser HD 280 ($100), or Sony MDR7506 (~$75). Professional musicians on-stage will use something like a Sennheiser ew 300 personal monitor system with custom in-ear monitors (JH, Westone, Sensaphonics, or something cheaper and universal-fit like Senn IE 40 Pro or Shure SE series). Aside from DJs getting paid to wear them at shows, most professional musicians aren't using gear from big-box retailers...they're using stuff from Guitar Center / Sweetwater / zZounds / Musicians Friend / that little music shop around the corner, who sell actual professional equipment.
>mass accumulation for the 2017-18 year was way above the 30-year mean

What exactly does this mean to you? I'm curious what exactly the "a-ha" moment (even if it's relatively minor) is that you seem to be expecting when you add in the phrase "have you heard."

And I don't mean this in a negatively rhetorical way, like "what are you talking about" or anything. I'm honestly curious about your thought process when you came across this fact for the first time.
what do you think of a game like Cuphead?
That’s true, but this is culture as defined by Internet traffic, which is pretty reasonable. Everyone knows a lot about the aspects of culture they care about, by definition, so it doesn’t make much sense to have a test for that.
Consider the ever-accelerating pace of industrialization in previously third-world countries. China currently has twice the carbon emissions of the US, and very little of that existed when climate change estimations started in the 60s.
Thank you for the offer.

Sadly I do believe that the power consumption of blockchain / crypto technologies is, at this step, pretty bad compared to what they can solve.
God, those Springer books are horrid. All the algebraic geometry students in my grad school department had copies of Hartshorne fallen into multiple pieces. One originally got a copy whose pages were printed at about half-size with huge margins around the edges. But my favorite was the person who ordered a Complex Analysis textbook, got a book that said "Complex Analysis" in big letters on the cover, only to open it and find a completely different book.
I'm not sure if it quite qualifies as browsing with JS disabled but I run UMatrix with the default settings set to disable all scripts on a site. Then I've set some common domains I trust that greatly improve usability (things like ytimg, paypal, some common 3rd party scripts).

I'd say I browse the web normally. Plenty of sites load normally with scripts disabled (and may even be more pleasant to browse). Maybe a 25 to 40% of sites I hit I'll happily enable 1st party scripts and a couple of known CDNs that'll will be enough to have the site working. For I'd say 5% or less of sites I'll have to actually engage and think if the calls to a 3rd party api are required or if the cloudflare/amazon are actually part of the domain and there for a good purpose or may be being used to serve up nefarious code.

One of the things to consider about the above numbers is that they only really apply for the first time I visit a site. With exceptions for when a site changes how it's implemented (or a3rd party script calls a new domain) which is nice to know anyway. (Or when the tool I'm using to block scripts changes (3-4 times over the last 15 years + another couple for not transferring whitelist data to new machines)).

I wouldn't really recommend my approach as something to get into for 2 main reasons. Firstly because the web does work much nicer when you just turn scripts on and say 'to hell with the privacy and security concerns'. Secondly there is a fair bit of otherwise useless knowledge built up over the years of doing this that mean this set up is significantly less onerous than it would be for someone who only just starts doing it and needs to look up every 3rd party domain.

Having said that I would highly recommend that you should install some script management with the default more permissible settings (rather than my more draconian ones) as it breaks very little, takes little effort to fix most of the things it does break and will stop well known tracking and malicious sites.
That sounds ideal.

Any suggestion about where to start looking at? Sadly in my current location neither goverment nor companies have too much interest on going green.
Go into business for yourself with enough vitriol to gain the attention of the bannons, malkins, and coulters of the world? Join a company like shell, which has been doing “the climate science” for decades? Idk, we live in a great time for unscrupulous people, I’m sure you could find the opportunities if you tried.
I would love to do that. I'm probably not experienced enough to find a work on it though.

But it's something that I will research for sure.
A CRDT which models edits of arbitrary text with essentially unbounded revision history (required for merging) almost certainly can only grow (monotonically?) in size. Maybe you can be smart about compression, but I don't think it can ever shrink. Someone smarter than me can probably formally prove this with an argument about entropy while considering a series of particularly pathological edits.

But you're right that I'm wrong when I say "[all] CRDTs are generally append only structures." I meant to say "text-revision CRDTs are generally append only data structures."