skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this scenario the lack of performance was significant, so I would say it was necessary. If performance was adequate, different story.

For example. We have a redux based content editor that is quite slow. It is however more than performant enough for the use case. I would love it if someone refactored it though...
This is a stupid article. Clickbait without a real point to make. No argument why geo-engineering is inherently bad or unsustainable.

In the future of course geo-engineering will happen. Moving to renewables is already micro-geo-engineering. There will be a lot of geo-engineering in the future. Some bad. But mostly good.
I don't understand this, or the linked article. Can someone explain to me what possible reason there can be for responding with disciplinary action when someone proposes an improvement?
I was going to suggest the same thing. The spetnatz and some navy seals guys say it's the next best thing to a gym.

Check out this routine:

https://www.strongfirst.com/achieve/sinister/
"The one shown here, was found in 2018 in a forgotten cache in a West European country. Based on the manufacturing codes on some of the components, it was probably manufactured in 1962. "

"forgotten" it was not - KGB does not forget! just deemed useless to both sides and not worth the extraction risk later on.

also, i wonder if one of Putin's buddies used these back in the days when he was stationed in East Germany in the 80's.
Does PHP automatically scale infrastructure to meet demand? Can you bring up 1000 instances of your service for spikes in volume? And then scale back down when the spike is over? Without writing code?

Nobody is reinventing PHP.
The amount of hate is quite interesting... usually I get about 4 points for what I write (if it doesn't stay at 1), but any time it's about Bitcoin, it's -4.

Still, adoption is exponental, so I'm quite confident it just takes 10 more years to get to wide adoption.
How does someone grow up to be Machiavellian ? Bad childhood ? Extreme circumstances forcing them to always default in to a ruthless uncaring attitude?
I appreciate you doing this. Much wisdoms in the Book of Han as usual. Though I agree with a lot of points in there, the problem is power corrupt the wisest. Chinese has been through those issues so. many. times... Still making the same mistakes. There WILL be abuses of power, inequalities and social disruptions because of this. Cycle of life in deed.
Have you tried Vitamin D and magnesium aminoacid chelate / orotate / citrate.
But Saudi Arabia is our political _ally_
SF to release Transbay housing developer from grocery store commitment
Why modern men are losing their testosterone
The change made the program faster but nothing is simple. When the GUI and backend were different progresses there was memory space separation. It was impossible for a stray pointer in one to klobber the other. Also there was a protocol between the two - which could be used over the Internet.
The Manifesto:

https://activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html
More a frenemy, really.
You say that well. I associate this idea with Richard Florida, who has written about the Creative Class and the Tolerance Index:

"The map above shows how metros across the U.S. score on the Tolerance Index, as updated for The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited. The chart below shows the top 20 metros. Developed by my Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Kevin Stolarick, it ranks U.S. metros according to three key variables—the share of immigrants or foreign-born residents, the Gay Index (the concentration of gays and lesbians), and the Integration Index, which tracks the level of segregation between ethnic and racial groups."

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/07/geography-tolerance/2...
Flying over the oil fields is fascinating (I personally find the South Texas oil fields at night to be even more so), but the other interesting perspective that you get to see is the massive wind farms just a handful of miles away from the oil farms. They're harder to see on Google maps (since the turbines are vertical rather than taking up a lot of horizontal space), but if you're on a flight or driving through the area you can really get a sense of the scale of them. Some of them are even larger than the oil fields, and yet they hardly extract even a fraction of the energy.

For all the faults of Texas's oil fields, the state is also at the forefront of wind energy. But the reality is that we're still nowhere near being able to afford not drilling.
Neat coin! I just launched a coin project[1], but by carrying them in your pocket they’re meant to remind you to look for opportunities to help someone and then give it to them to pay forward. My first coin[2] has helped at least 3 homeless people in its short life.

[1] https://butterflycoins.org
[2] https://butterflycoins.org/coins/2srf
The article concludes:

It also reinforces reality that the only way to reliably make our climate safe for wildlife and humans alike is to start rapidly reducing carbon emissions. And we better get started soon.

I agree that addressing carbon (cause) is better than addressing temperature (symptom). But the conclusion as stated is incorrect, because what needs reduction is net carbon emission, not carbon emission. Rapidly increasing carbon capture is equivalent to rapidly reducing carbon emission.

For an example of geoengineering addressing carbon instead of temperature, see https://projectvesta.org/
It is interesting that B. Stroustrup first looked at Algol 68 as a potential base for introduction of classes into a statically compiled programming language, and then he turned to C - probably because Algol 68 was already as complex as is now C++.
That's what I first thought too. There's was obviously a decision to separate the processes, but the performance gain of combining them was probably more meaningful in the end...
Cheap and plentiful oil helps poor countries dealing with climate change way better than expensive and inflexible renewables. This is the actual dilemma that is worth discussing, not whether rich nations who can afford the way more expensive and much less scaleable renewables. But most of the political elite dont care cause they have found a new political course to use as a way to control many voters.
TL;DR:

1) Developer gets project approved partly conditional on reserving 70% of retail space for a grocery store.

2) Developer deliberately allocates only 10 (ten!) parking spaces to the entire retail footprint (not just the store!).

3) Surprise! No grocery chain wants in under those limitations

Result: developer gets out of commitment. The 55-story building will have no inherent or added grocer. Ka-ching!
You actually can't just 'vote' to change the public sector at your will. In fact very few things are Democratic in American government. The closest you could get would be voting for politicians who pinky-promise to try approving plans to try implementing something that's probably not even what you want but will cost twice as much.

The government very much works like a business does: there are worker-bees, managers, committees, higher people in charge, crooks and thieves, power-abusers and criminals. On the other hand, the private sector is literally made up of competing groups and individuals who are looking for success when the market is fair.

The same problems above exist in some businesses as well. The benefit with the private sector is, when we find corruption we can destroy contract, sue, and find a competitor. You can't do that with the government.
What makes you think noone will choose a similar path to yours with the same passion?
It's a book about incompleteness, undecidability and other nasty surprises in math. Nobody expected them. So an unexpected nasty surprise of an unsolvable problem is somehow relevant to the book.
Buy it from the source for 65 GBP http://www.cpbook.co.uk/
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I dont think mechanical challenges are necessary for a wicked problem, but political and ideological challenges always are i think, i would have to think about it some more
are you guys independently wealthy to have this lifestyle?
It's not that simple. People have pride despite what they claim. If I rewrite an entire feature that someone did just because i think my way is better, you gotta be smart in how you think that should be done. Respect other people pride and work or dont expect them to respect yours.
Sigh. For the skeptical downvoters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj4AcjyuV38
> Don't blindly assume government can impose whatever they want onto the people

I see absolutely no evidence that this is true.

> social unrest can cause disaster

I believe that’s what the re-education camps are for.
Here in San Diego (El Cajon) area there are a few flocks of wild parrots. You can hear them from a good distance.

http://www.cbs8.com/story/27356961/flock-of-parrots-flying-a...
> What’s the “value” of a database designed for plutocracy?

Being a future plutocrat :)

In both Stellar and Ripple every new address effectively burns a small amount of the native token. Let it spread
> faster than natively implemented

It still depends on your implementation. The same code will take about 1.2x as long to execute in wasm (of course this means that a slightly faster implementation can be faster over all).

> Is Visual Studio Code using WASM?

I have read on HN that they use Rust for some internals, but so far I haven't been able to confirm it. It would make sense for things like intellisense to be compiled, but don't forget that with Electron you can still access the platform with all iits capabilities, so you wouldn't need wasm.
I do not agree with this. One bit. He was not the sneaky party.
Don't projects like Linux use a system of module ownership/lieutenants?
Renewable power can be less expansive and more reliable for things like small islands and places where importing oil is hard. Not to mention the fact that it's much better to build clean/green infrastructure first.

Of course a micro grid system like I'm talking about might also use some Dino fuels too.

http://microgridnews.com/microgrid-value-propositions/
Going extinct: why corporate giants die
> but that often means replacing or voiding the efforts of coworkers or bosses.

Comment: Having a work environment where people up discard and replace the the work other people have done is really really bad for moral. If you let that stuff happen continually you'll end up with a team where no one cares or takes ownership of anything.
Why would any company with a monopoly make any effort to improve itself? Fines have zero effect, as they are just passed onto captured customers.
Slightly OT from the main takeaway, but I wonder if this could be sped up further by only doing a single pass, and maintaining a stack (implicitly sorted) of elements which are greater than everything seen so far, and popping them off when they're greater than the current element.
Everyone is entitled to their own use-case of course, but let me phrase it a little differently:

If you recommend me a dish from a restaurant, but you can't describe the flavors, texture, and quantity in a few sentences, then why are you recommending it?

"It's awesome, the flavor is spicy, salty, and smokey. It is charred on the outside and greasey and chewy inside. It is a very hearty and filling dish."
How do you measure the people you've lost? I love Poland, but it's intolerance has chased away some of its best people. Every LGBQ individual I meet was eager to get out of Poland. Every artist hates Kaczynski. Every intellectual from Poland seems to find it easier to live in London or Paris, rather than Warsaw or Krakow.

Poland was the great innovator of Western science when Kopernicus looked at the stars, but Poland was remarkably tolerant at that time. Have you read "Poland Was Shockingly Liberal During The 1400s"?

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/poland-was-shockingly...
You can try WinEdt. It's extremely configurable. It's not free, but you can try it for 30 days. http://www.winedt.com/
It seems like a good portion of the essay was tongue-in-cheek, but this part really struck me. I came here to post exactly this excerpt, and was glad to see someone beat me to it.
But Stasi ceased to exist in an orgy of shredding, so it might very well have been forgotten.
I wouldn't feel dumb about it. People often look at very difficult problems for a very long time before they conclude a solution is impossible and later to be disproven. I would expect this one to be any different. Yes, there are currently no known solutions, but that doesn't preclude a brilliant mind coming in down the road with a solution.
Thanks! That machine looks pretty awesome, and it even supports ECC and core boot.

I might have to pick one up and see if I can get more SATA through the mini PCIe and have to be a storage server that also routes traffic. I've been hoping for an ARM chip, but with ECC, this might just win out.
My advice applies to the worker who has done enough research to feel confident that they've found a vastly better way that is likely to meet with resistance.
China today is in the position that the US was in 1942 - it possesses the world's greatest manufacturing capacity. That alone can be a war-winner. But China also possesses the world's greatest source of military-age men.

The US thinks that the best technology trumps the greatest manufacturing capacity. That's the same mistake that Germany made in WW2. It doesn't matter if your weapons have kill ratio of 100:1 if your opponent can throw 101 weapons at them.
The repair/upgrade costs are passed onto customers too...
People will argue that there is vendor locking with Now 2.0 - it has its own config file and way of doing this.

But i am running express and the config is tiny, just few lines. If you use some cloud db provider for db that you can host yourself (like postgres or mongo in my case). You can move to your infrastructure without any pain.

Mind you using Express is not the "ideal" way Zeit seems to push. It is exactly like with PHP - you are supposed to use simple files and leave routing to webserver. I think they forget that there is no PHP framework that uses this. All of them use the "Front controller" pattern and webserver basically routes everything to it. There must be reason for this.
You're clearly leaving out some important detail, which makes me think this is 100% your fault and you were being stupid, even though you want to play the victim
Many people incorrectly equate home-schooling with being a shut-in. Home-schooled kids generally have more positive interaction with adults to learn these social norms, and they have activities with other kids.
Can virtual currencies challenge the dominant position of sovereign currencies?
two more links:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cpuc-pg-e-us/california-r...

https://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-pge-falsified-gas-pipel...
You've missed the important point entirely, you're not making the "money"

I'll take a wild guess that you've given your money that's accepted everywhere, in exchange for Stellar and Ripple because you want to sell it to someone else for more than you bought it?

Once you look past the marketing facades it's basically penny stock with a slow database that's incompatible with almost everything else.

It's good to look into the details behind the folks who make all these free tokens:

https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-jed-mccaleb-settle-suit-over...

As part of the settlement, McCaleb has sold his equity in
Ripple, and has agreed to sale controls on 5.3bn XRP owned
by him and his children.
As I said I don't find that lifestyle desirable but it still may beat commuting 2 hours each day and sitting in an office.
Adobe is not known for their security. PDF is also known to allow remote execution via PDF. Default reader on most systems being Adobe's reader, yeah, I'd avoid it. I know this is shifting as browsers incorporate readers, but the format is tarnished.
An excellent filesystem. I've already reduced my storage capacity by 73%. Keep me informed of any upgrades in future.
I'm not in this arena at all but Amazon's lambdas seem like a way bigger architectural decision than azure vs AWS or Oracle vs sqls
Capitalism developed within the past 400 years or so. Markets existed for millenia. I don't want to sound rude, but these are just basic facts.
Reagan didn't spend the USSR into disintegration.

The USSR collapsed as it did due to the dramatic oil price drop caused by Paul Vocker's strengthening of the dollar in the 1980s. Oil is priced in dollars, so if you considerably increase the value of the dollar, you'll sink the price of oil, which will hammer most foreign oil producers. The dollar index went from ~80 to ~160, from roughly 1980 to 1986, by far the greatest dollar move in modern history. Oil moved inversely to the dollar gains. The USSR economy was heavily dependent on the price of oil staying as high as it was in the 1970s (oil went from ~$20 to $100+, levels it had never remotely seen before). Having gotten used to the price of oil being so high throughout the 1970s, their already weak system was unable to absorb the outsized shock of oil plunging from $100+ to $30 during ~1980-1988.

In the 1950s the USSR barely had an oil economy at all. From 1960 to 1980 (they passed the US in oil production around 1975-76), their oil output had climbed by about seven fold, making them very dependent on that resource.

Had oil remained high, the USSR could have continued to spend as necessary to try to keep their system together. For an economy as dependent on oil as theirs was by 1980, removing that much revenue by tanking oil from $100 to $30, is a deadly wound on top of an already shaky foundation. While very plausibly their system would have failed regardless eventually, a high oil price would have likely bought them more time.

The dollar is what broke the USSR. It's also what threw Russia into a sudden and dramatic recession after Crimea and curtailed their pursuit of further territorial annexation (at least for a while). The US stopped QE and signaled the beginning of rate hikes, which sent the dollar soaring and took took oil from $105+ in June 2014 to under $28 in about 18 months (the global economy was growing fine and oil had been in oversupply for years; it was the dollar move that popped the market). Oil tanked immediately after the Russian Crimea events in July-August 2014.... The dollar is by far the greatest weapon in the US arsenal. If you want to restrain Russia, push the dollar high.
wow, he sounds like an "anarchist" in the same way "anarcho-capitalists" call themselves "anarchists". that guy could have benefitted from reading literally any theory instead of just skipping to going off on his dumb John McAfee bullshit from the sound of it

a tenative good riddance from me lol
I see this repeated so often on the internet, but it is scientifically false. We start out as male or female at conception. XY and XX are determined at conception.

As a matter of fact, women who go through the IVF path can actually choose the sex of the embryo they want implanted in their womb. The womb has nothing to do with the sex of the baby and the female is certainly not the default. A woman can literally choose the sex of her embryo outside the womb and implant it.
They are a tiny fraction of people who died from DNA issues.

People with personalities also have neurons and wonder of wonders a centural nervous system.

PS: It’s hard to get good numbers for this stuff as but many things like drug use my pregnant mothers can cause significant developmental issues. But, everyone has several random mutations and mental problems from them seem to be far less common than other issues. Especially when you exclude things getting passed down over time and just look at new mutations.
Show HN: Chrome extension to remove annoying autoplaying video from Netflix
Unless people are made individually responsible for their actions. The fines are easy way when you get caught.
Not worrying about infrastructure implies trivial portability between IaaS providers... Is that at all true?
There's no evidence that Russia had any significant effect on who runs the US, even if you accept all of the claimed attempts as true, whereas it's universally accepted and documented that the US got Yeltsin elected: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/03/spinning-hilla...
At least from the electricity perspective, renewables are both cheaper and more flexible than oil for developing countries. They do not require dependence on a constant stream of imports, because the resource - wind, water, sun - is already there.

They can be built at any scale, from rooftop solar to utility-scale wind power, so they don't require the access to capital involved in building large thermal power plants.
Show HN: Kubernetes Production Runtime: Kubernetes ops “get started pack”
Still no CVE assigned, and no-one has requested, not even via https://iwantacve.org/
I think it was that this was cheaper and easier to implement, so they didn't bother doing the better option.
Having been around for the GPLv3 debate this sounds exactly like it. A lot of gut feelings with very little in the way of factual knowledge of what copyright law is, or what the current problems we are trying to deal with are.
Each does one thing well. Imagine Boost, but with every feature available for cherry-picking separately.

Because there's almost no friction to add a new dependency, it's often easier to add one simple thing than roll your own.

Note that nobody uses 1700 dependencies directly. Your project might use 5 deps for the 5 things it needs, but each of these libraries will use a few libraries for smaller pieces of functionality their library is composed of, and so on.
> Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.
>
> Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!
Runtime modifications to the Objective-C runtime (e.g., objc_allocateClassPair) will have to go through libobjc, just like they do in Objective-C. I could provide friendlier interfaces to libobjc, but I don't plan to.

objrs already supports optional methods (for externally-defined protocols), though using them is the same as in Objective-C (you still have to call respondsToSelector: first). I've thought about adding an additional API that simplifies this a bit (i.e., a method that returns an Option, where it's None if the class doesn't respond to the method, or Some(fn) if it does (where fn is a closure you can use to invoke the function)).
When the Clipper fiasco happened in the States about 30 years ago, it didn't take long before the US started being left behind in crypto work by the rest of the world, especially by open-source crypto like PGP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
But you also see this in cases of developmental trauma / CPTSD. There is some relation between the two conditions, but it is certainly not simple.
Am I correct in interpreting your comment as saying that human women generally have less variance in (gendered?) traits than human men. That's an interesting observation if it is what you meant.