skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Humanity (as in the species of modern humans) has already lived through quite extreme changes in temperatures.

That's a disingenuous argument. I can regularly survive changes of temperature between 0 deg Celsius and 30 deg Celsius, but give me one between 30 deg Celsius and 60 deg Celsius and I'd die.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

Heating and cooling periods, true. CO2 in the atmosphere? Unprecedented. Why does the record above not go further back? Because that's the earliest we can reach with the ice core records. Scientists think that the earliest we've had comparable CO2 levels was the Middle Miocene. If we're going to have Middle Miocene again, we're going to have to go through a period of terrible food insecurity and societal collapse, alongside mass failure of many biospheres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Miocene_disruption
Sea Ice Growth Slows Long-Term Decline?
Sounds like you're on the right path in that you have a genuine desire to create great looking products. This means you have a respect for design, which is hugely important.

I used to be a back-end guy (I once co-authored a book on an ORM and just love middle tier and db shizzle). I had a huge appreciation for products that looked and felt great, but only had the back-end skills. I had a genuine desire to build skills in design so I could make better products.

If you want to take some short-cuts to build great looking stuff I'd do the following

- Build a mood board of stuff you think looks great. Set your own standards bar.

- Play around with Sketch or similar to learn how to get the look you like (this will make you think about UI design problems). This might take years but you have to start somewhere.

- Read "Design of Everyday Things" and "Don't Make Me Think" and a few other design classics. The principles stand strong.

- Get help from designers to bridge the gap between your skill level and where you want to be. When I started my company, I'd find designers who had a visual style I liked and paid them to help out.
> The subtext was that this had to remain a fairly small set of users.

You're completely right, and I think this gets to the root of what DNT proves -- that it was self-regulation under the assumption that it would not hurt advertisers or force them to change their processes for most people.

One can imagine an (admittedly unrealistic) alternate universe where DNT was off by default, but some kind of significant event caused a huge percentage of users to voluntarily turn it on. In that world, advertisers would probably still stop honoring the header. Because what they were implicitly agreeing to was, "we will stop tracking a tiny minority of users who might otherwise just block us anyway."

And to be fair, you can't really blame the advertising industry for not being on board with self-regulation that would force it to radically change its approach to business. I think that's why DNT still matters for illustrative purposes. It shows why consumer adblocking and anti-tracking tools need to exist outside of the control of the advertising industry. It can't be a partnership, because it's unrealistic and, frankly, unreasonable for users to ask advertisers to voluntarily kill their own businesses.

No tool that has an actual real impact on privacy to anyone other than a tiny percentage of already irrelevant users is ever going to come out of the advertising industry being "responsible". Any kind of voluntary standard that advertisers are respecting (using easily blocked cookies, creating well-labeled ads, etc...) only exists because most consumers aren't using it to protect their privacy or because advertisers don't have the legal power to get rid of it.
I hit C-x C-s all the time in IDE's and I think sometimes it inserts weird invisible characters into the source -- fun.
Title is highly misleading imo.

Article does talk about 'negative' impact of climate change.
But noone would call a "fade" a video that starts to fade out at 1h30m and fades out completely at 2h10m.
> It's very strategic on Microsoft's part.
They aren't the industry leader, so leading the conversation on regulation helps them to impact the market leader.

On the other hand, if Microsoft is sincerely worried about this technology (and potential negative impact it may have on it's image just like Amazon a few months ago), then it makes sense they would be lagging behind as they would be more concerned about assigning resources and releasing product?
I've been using this exact structure too, via Nuxt: Node/Express + Vue on the front end (with templates written in pug via pug-loader).

The benefit is that I can use scoped CSS on any given article I write to better match its content. And writing in pug is, to me, equivalent to writing in Markdown.

I import in packages if/when I need them, instead of relying on a plugin ecosystem.

But this is not a CMS: it's me writing pug, compiling, and generating static pages.

If this were client-facing, I'd need to drop in a CMS/db. But since it's only me, this system has been ideal.
I knew it was wrong. I couldn't help myself.
Do you suggest always hiring the first person that applies? There has to be some choosing function.
If their study is accurate, why it needs to be suspect just because they want people to use their service? If I provided a good service and my competitor provided a bad one, and I said "this guy does bad stuff, use my stuff instead" and you knew it's true - would you still use bad service just because I'd profit from you using the good one? That makes no sense.
If the driver became highly unstable after 2004, you can’t claim that the driver has been stable since 2002. That is all.
Ask HN: Are domain registrars gaming the system?
I recently found a nice 3 letter domain under the .mx tld. I tried visiting the domain but it wasn't registered, with no whois either. Upon trying to register it with Namecheap, I got as far the checkout, entered my credit card details, but the transaction failed. It wasn't my card, but the domain itself was apparently unavailable.

I then revisit the web address, and suddenly there appears a domain company's landing page with a message saying the domain is for sale and it gave me a UK number to call. Intrigued, I call the number (it was around 3 am in the UK) and it connected me to a call center in Eastern Europe, where the operator let slip that the call center belonged to Namecheap. This made me a little suspicious that perhaps Namecheap deliberately failed my transaction, registered the domain in order to get me to pay much above the standard price of the domain.

So I want to know: (a) has anyone experienced something similar? And (b) is this legally permissible? It sort of reminds me of front running in the stock market where the market makers are taking advantage of their privileged position...
Also, there has been a use of "strongly typed" to denote the idea that alias names for types such as integers are incompatible.

In this sense, Pascal family languages were called "strongly typed", whereas C isn't, because a typedef int user_id_t; isn't a new type, but just a name for int that can be passed everywhere an int can be passed. C character handling is also "weakly typed": characters are just kinds of integers: we don't need ord(ch) to get a character's code, or chr(n) to produce a character. C implicit arithmetic conversion behaviors are also weakly typed in this sense.
Yes! The API feels very much like using PyTorch from Python, and implementing models and working with tensors purely in C++ is very convenient. We're using it for our research platform for StarCraft: Brood War (https://torchcraft.github.io/TorchCraftAI).

[disclosure: I work at FAIR]
Repl.it is hiring infrastructure engineers to scale an open compute platform
Forget Mission, Vision, Company Culture or Company Values
in 2022 start of fleet cars don't mean fleets should replace 30% of today's car ownership.

If you live in any city or suburb in USA today, electric bikes from Bird, Lime, Skip companies are left on the rode side waiting to be activated by mobile phone from anybody.

Same thing start with self-driving electric cars starting 2022 . It starts with 5% (in number) of today's cars in a given neighborhood. You just activate with mobile phone as we all do TODAY with these electric bikes/scooters in our neighborhood.

As you know google's Waymo just started these on-demand cars in Phoneix Arizona few weeks ago, any pre-registered users can hail this self-driving car from phone. There are keeping a safe driver just sitting idle as of today.

I am confident on January 1, 2020 ( in select USA cities) Google will have No safety human driver and cars will be parked in neighborhood just like these Bird, Lime scooters.
The engine isn't the only component of this.

ICE car maintenance is often required due to things like needed oil changes, broken timing belts, transmission failures, and other things that do not exist in EVs. When it comes to the fiddly electronic bits, ICE cars actually have more of those. For example if your mechanic tells you that your Mass Air Flow Sensor needs replacing, you're about to have a bad day. But that part doesn't exist in an EV because it doesn't need to regulate the flow of air to the engine.

Some parts that both have also fail less on an EV. For example out of your list, the brakes get approximately 1/3 of the use because most braking is done through regenerative braking.

I am aware of one part that fails more. EV tires need more frequent replacement because EVs generate more torque, particularly at low speeds. While drivers love the fast pickup, your tires don't.

As for independent assessments, attempts like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191... have been made. Maintenance was less. By enough in some locations to make the actual total cost of ownership less. As real world data accumulates, more and better comparisons will be made. But given the principles of what is involved, it is pretty clear which way the long-term comparison is going to wind up going once electric technology matures and construction costs come down. (The biggest component of which is that batteries are still on their long-term 7% per year cost reduction.)
Same here; I'm awed that just about every bit of green is parceled into pixellated rectangles, punctuated by a webwork of roads and small towns at certain junctions.
> The code generator can be statically analyzed in the same way that an interpreter can.

Unless the state of static analysis has somehow changed significantly without me realizing it, no, this does not help at all. While I can (to some extent) verify the code in the code generator itself, I cannot verify that the code generator will not generate arbitrary code unless it lists out all the code it can possibly generate, in which case it's, well, an interpreter. The task of verifying program behavior is now shifted from static analysis on a compiled binary to dynamic instrumentation of a running program, which is much harder to do.
Assuming you are not using this while driving – I imagine the drag would be ridiculous – and it can actually be stored in some way, it's not too terrible. You'd be driving at night, The Martian style.
You should - many regulators around the world are modeled after FCC. When I was doing regulatory test work for RFID readers (which were transmitting at 1W ) IIRC Canada, Korea and Japan were very similar to FCC.

Additionally - if you are in Europe - regulations are defined by a body called ETSI (https://www.etsi.org/). For RFID these regs were quite different from FCC - we had to do listen before talk and a variety of other things to ensure compliance.
>Slack is competing against the likes of Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) Teams, Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google Hangouts Chat and Cisco Systems Inc’s (CSCO.O) Webex Teams in the so-called workplace collaboration market

How is Webex competing with Slack? Slack is for chat-based collaboration with people in your workplace. Webex is for scheduling video calls.

Is there some overlapping use-case of either one that I'm missing?
Slack supports video calling now. My guess is that's what they're referring to.
Quite usable, all of TorchCraftAI uses it https://torchcraft.github.io/TorchCraftAI/ :)
Facebook fined $11.4M in Italy over data misuse
> I don't know why there is so much negativity in the comments here.

Probably because as of right now it's vaporware with a marketing budget. Drumming up hype for something you haven't released yet is a pretty good way to get mixed reactions.
How did you check the whois? Through an online interface or i.e. by running whois through terminal on mac?
A carbohydrate is not a simple organic structure, the synthesis of molecules like that is quite complicated, and involves a lot of inefficiencies and filtering out of by-products.

Chemical fuels like methane or ethane are far simpler, and just inputting energy and synthesising them from basic building blocks is difficult to do cheaply and at scale.
So? In that case, we can still transport diesel to the disaster area if necessary and use generators to charge the vehicles. No reason to put the diesel or gas in the vehicles themselves, as long as they can charge reasonably quickly.
I've only seen it for remote islands, but people carried the fuel needed to get back to the mainland on the boat, and potentially extra if it was needed for cars or other boats on the island.

So there is a fuel distribution system, it's just very small-scale, or informal.

This probably already happens for remote farms etc — it's cheaper to have a large fuel tank, and pay for fuel to be delivered to it, rather than trying to drive tractors and other equipment for hours to the nearest town.
I think he mentioned GPU just as an example of acceleration via dedicated hardware. In the keynote, one of his example use-cases was sending SOUL code to execute on a set of digital studio monitors (ie: speakers with their own sound card).
That's almost exactly the situation we're in now (with the _slight_ difference that it's before I can use the response to a request).
Google should buy them.
And the result is a JPEG holding both the original JPEG and ... text? JPEG and text is a horrible idea. Even with best quality settings, compression artefacts are visible.

Why don't you offer SVG export? That would solve all problems and make the embedding into websites really easy. You even can embed your JPEG into SVG (base64, you will loose a ~30% in file size but the lesser storage for the text gives it back).
I think internment camps is a more apt description without invoking some implicit notion of genocide in this case.
Yep. When over 30% of Americans are obese, and 12% of them in poverty, I find it hard to believe that we really care that much about individual humans. It all seems like anti-scientific knee-jerk moralism from people who don't really understand the technology.

If this gives us a chance to improve humanity, we should embrace it. Yes, there will be missteps along the way - but the ends justifies the means.
But isn't that the optimal outcome because $19B dollars indicates it was clearly very valuable to Facebook and it's not likely he would have created it if he was working full time at Facebook.

That there is a stunning amount of randomness in hiring is, I think, by design.
Is the end user (commenter) responsible for UX or the HN web designer. In this case I'd argue both are.
Fun fact, Goldman built a Slack-like chat service in house that they've spun off into a company called Symphony. It's pitch is that it's more compliance-friendly for heavily regulated orgs like banks. Also, it sucks.
I doubt it. The founders the company saw Flickr starve to death after its acquisition. Surely they don't want the same to happen to Slack.

Side thought: I wonder if Flickr could have become what Instagram is today if not for the acquisition!
I have seen several ex-colleagues do that sort of thing with no or very few rejections in the process.

They had to interview and receive offers from several companies though. I imagine the number of people that can just "send out a few emails" to get that result is very limited.
You literally can't write a portable "hello world" command line app in WASM. It's the worst "write once, run everywhere" of anything. Which is expected because it distinctly does not provide any standard APIs or syscalls. There's no standard library. At all.

Someone may attempt to add a batteries-include system that uses WASM with a bunch of platform-abstraction libraries, but WASM itself does not provide that. And isn't going to provide it.

You can make a portable library with WASM, assuming you have zero dependencies on anything, but that's about it.
Wouldn’t fatter people naturally try to switch over to low calorie sweetener in order to lose weight? whereas non fat people might just enjoy sugar instead?
It's both stupid to attach an implicit TOS to an HTTP request and stupid to attach one to an HTTP response. I want to see us move away from implicit TOS. I don't want to see us go farther down that hole.

It's like claiming, "well, if my local factory can dump toxic waste in the river, why can't I?" You're right, it's a double standard that you're held to more accountability than your local factory. But the correct way to fix that double standard is to go after the factory, not to say, "well heck with it, everybody can dump now."

My ultimate goal is to keep the river clean, not to make things fair.
I wonder, is this a positive externality? I spend my free time doing this course but do I get paid more? Or do I just deliver more value to my employer at the same price?
See Webex Teams.

https://www.webex.com/products/teams/index.html
This seems incredibly weak because they haven't shown causation -- or, in particular, disproved reverse causation. (That people struggling with weight gain are more likely to use sugar substitutes.)

This is more of a "huh, someone should do additional research" paper than anything conclusive.
This competition seems unnecessarily heated but I’m at least happy there’s so many exciting wasm projects out there.

Also your two projects must be collaborating somewhat because it really looks the nginx.wasm file you’re distributing is the one wasmjit compiled! Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think there’s any other way they’d end up being byte for byte identical.
I assume car companies are going to start installing 1+kWh solar panels into the cars within 20 years. At a minimum it’s a significant net win for self driving taxi companies who get more more range for free every day, while looking more ‘Green’.

As to post disaster recovery, solar is actually very energy dense assuming your talking weeks of recovery. A gallon of gasoline is only 33kWh before generator effecency drops you to say 11kWh per pound. That’s great if your talking a 24 hour safty net, but sucks if it takes 3+ weeks to bring the grid back online. (33kWh / 7 / 3 / 6.3 pounds = 1/4kw per per day per pound at say 33% effecency that drops to 1/12kWh per day per pound. Need that for 24 h a day and your talking 1/288 kw per pound of fuel. And at the end of 3 weeks you need even more fuel.

On the other hand a pallet of solar panels in a field or parking lot can be setup with some boards and not much else. You will need an inverter, but with just that you drastically reduce the need for fuel even without batteries.
How much do CEOs of tech companies make Pre-IPO?
There shouldn't be many all-day interviews. If you are honest on your resume and there is a phone screen, your chances with the interview should be pretty decent.

The company doesn't like all-day interviews any more than you do. Multiple highly-paid people get distracted from their normal duties to interview you. With both you and the employer having a cost to bear, the interview should mean that both you and the employer are pretty serious about you being hired.
You won't because it's a toy problem, not because it something only greybeards did in libraries written decades ago.

Asking someone to describe the simplest possible transformations on one of the simplest data structures isn't a stretch, and this is coming from someone without a CS degree.

EDIT: And that's not to say Google doesn't have a screwed up hiring system. I know someone who implemented a dynamic programming problem correctly, with the appropriate big O complexity, but was rejected because the constant time factor was slightly higher than what the interviewer was looking for. That's a BS decision; Max Howell's was not.
I can't offer much advice, except this: you should treat the two questions separately:

1. Who do you want to deny business to.
2. Who you can, legally, deny business to.

A lawyer can answer #2, but only yourselves can answer #1. Be careful, as too much internal debate may split the company along ideological lines - in searching for where to draw the line, you're likely to run into issues on which you (strongly) disagree (reminds me of http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ ).

It might be best if the boss draws a line somewhere that won't make too many people angry (and reserves the right to decide any gray areas on a case by case basis), and quickly ends the discussion. Anything else is, in my opinion, asking for an ideological war.
I find it surprising that nytimes takes 2nd overall, top in news category. It means nytimes is doing things better than others, and the news industry is very motivated to figure out how to make digital work.
China is absolutely in no way Communist, in any way. They are full on corrupt capitalism, but still it's capitalism. They can proclaim whatever they want. Personally I think they have been making a slower transition vs Russia where the oligarchs and mafia flat out took over. While there are incredible inequalities in China, Putin is the biggest and wealthiest mafia head in the world.

But it is absolutely not surprising they are not doing wealth redistribution. That would actually make them a Communist nation
For things like endowments, the general assumption is that you can get a 4% yield that keeps pace with inflation, without touching principal. So you'd be up to $300 million per year today. That's about $2.50 per BART ride of $750 per year per BART rider, which is a believable number.

The problem that you're ignoring, however, is that the relative cost of building infrastructure today is far higher than it was in the 1970s. If you built BART today, it wouldn't cost $10 billion in today's dollars. NYC's recent projects are running $1.5-3.5 billion per mile of subway track. BART has 28 such miles. That's $42-100 billion, not including the other 70 miles in the system.

So what if BART had cost $8 billion ($50 billion in today's dollars) instead of $1.586 ($10 billion)? Instead of having to great $2.50 of value per ride to justify the investment, you're up to at least $12.50. Or $3,750 per daily BART rider. Is each BART trip generating that much value compared to doing the same trip in a car?
a lawyer. (facepalm)
>Taking control of the Supreme Court.

Or maybe even Constitutional Tribunal? :-)

Anyway, I'm still waiting for examples of opposition oppression, not squabbles between politicians and part of judiciary (which, I hope, is not considered to be opposition).
From what you say, you have what you consider a personal problem that you want to work on (at work or not).

If you search the HN archives you'll probably find tons of advice for networking, making sincere friends, changing careers, etc. You may also benefit from therapy.

Best wishes!