skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the comment section of this article:

> Might this be a case of the Texas sharpshooter fallacy? I notice the lead author on the paper relates a windshield anecdote in The Guardian article. Is it possible that his observation of fewer insects on the windshield led to the original biased search terms?

> There’s at least one paper describing localized declines along busier roadways. It makes sense that day after day, year after year, road traffic will cause a lot of mortality.

> Martin, Amanda E., et al. “Flying insect abundance declines with increasing road traffic.” Insect Conservation and Diversity 11.6 (2018): 608-613. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/icad.12300

pretty interesting article altogether (sadly so).
Not sure that completely addresses the parent comment's point. Glass is definitely expensive for good reasons (watch some YouTube videos on optical lens manufacturing to see why), but even just a camera body for something like an EOS 6D is still $1000. The sensors can't be that much, full-frame or no, so where is the added cost coming from? Certainly not software or on-board processors. To the parent comment's point, you can get a full-blown flagship smartphone with a 6 inch high resolution screen you can actually use and a good amount of memory baked in for that price.
LAN IPs or WAN IPs?

If you're using public/private keys you can use the "from" option for the keys. But it's not fool proof.
> More importantly, it will reinforce your organization's demographics. If your trusted referrers are white and male, their networks will be overwhelmingly white and male and it's just putting up another block toward those not already in the system.

I'm not entirely convinced of this in the general case. I'm white and male, but probably a minority of the people I would recommend (in the sense of personally vouching for their technical ability) are also white and male.
It seems too preposterous to be real, did this meta study really only search for studies containing the word decline?

If that's actually true then obviously the results would show a decline. It doesn't even make any sense. Why would they do that if they want a real study?
> “However, it's possible to solve without using a country's-worth of energy to support a pathetic ~10 transactions per second.”

Great! I look forward to seeing your solution in action.
It wasn't clear at all in the article what it even meant when it referred to "final outcome".
They are really easy to connect. Ex addicts that keep addict friends do not fare that well. Peer pressure can push you up but can also pull you down, calling you to engage in self destructive behaviours when you are already having an hard time climbing to a better life.

https://quillette.com/2019/02/10/public-educations-dirty-sec...
https://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/new-stem-cell-delivery-a...
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Here are some worth your time and money. Look to indie games, mostly. Lots of great stuff in that space.

- Spelunky

- Don't Starve

- Factorio

- Oxygen Not Included

- All Zachtronic's games

- Stephen's Sausage Roll

- Stardew Valley

- Faster than Light

- Kerbal Space Program

- Dungeon Warfare (if you're a TD fan)

- Return of Obra Dinn

- Prison Architect

- Mini Metro

- Cities: Skylines

- Frostpunk

- RimWorld

- Darkest Dungeon

- Monument Valley

- Portal

- Journey

- Paper's Please

- This War of Mine

- The Witness
People just break your windows anyways because they don’t expect the door to be unlocked. Have heard this anecdote from friends twice. Also the people breaking into cars aren’t typically the most sober or mindful of detail. I had my car broken into a little while ago and they stole a bag of tools on the seat but ignored a like new MacBook Pro on the floor of the car. The point is that you can’t win and should enjoy losing.
For FR24, commercial bizjets are shown (i.e. those operated for charter). It's only privately owned and operated bizjets that can be hidden if the owner requests it.
Reasons AI Is Way Overhyped
My 8gig ram linux system runs out of ram and sometimes crashes when I run Android Studio. It refuses to use the default swap file on the ssd hard drive.I created a 16 gig swap file and set the swappiness value to 100. It only uses a few megabytes of the swapfile sometimes and still runs out of memory when I run Android Studio and then crashes. I ordered 16 gig ddr4 ram today and will remove the current swap file when the ram arrives. Seems like the only solution. I don't have time to burn another night reading up on this.
Interesting. I have never read that anywhere. I will research. TY!
Extra note: if you'd like to share feedback via email, hit me up at sahil@spase.io

I'll be sure to respond in < 15min!

Any feedback at this stage will go a long way into improving the product.
I switched back to mechanical keyboards (actual buckling spring from unicomp) at home, and a cherry mx brown (real cherry switches) at work. The only reason for the browns at work is it's slightly less noisy.

I hate every laptop keyboard I've ever worked on. The least annoying beyond the early 2010's macbook keyboards before they reduced travel. Now they're a bit worse imho.

I'd have a horrible time switching, and have tried a number of alternates. Ergonomic options, etc. What made the rsi stuff better was a simple, mechanical keyboard and being able to register a click without always bottoming out.

The layout of different options is from bad to horrible. Especially arrow keys on some keyboards. Worst was one where the up arrow was left of the right shift key. Changing is hard and the difficulty cannot be understated.
The idea is that you are costing the police valuable resources for something you could have easily avoided by locking the car. Many countries have such laws. You have to take the proper precautions or face a fine.

An open door is seen as an invitation even for a thief that normally wouldn’t risk breaking a window. Basically for crimes of opportunity. And this applies to houses, cars, etc. Insurance companies will see it the same way.
> It is being used to help people send money to each other.

Probably 95% of it is being used for speculation/gambling and scamming the uninformed. 4% on drugs, and 1% on anything else. I'm being generous here. Bitcoin advocates are pool sharks, they want the rest of the world to be their marks.

Who the hell pays rent with bitcoin? Who buys groceries with bitcoin? Bitcoin could drop off the face of the earth this instant and I wouldn't shed a tear.
some people have kids in their 20s (gasp!)
This depends highly on the domain. I'm the only person on my team with any level of frontend work in the past ~2 years. And when I did, I was able to consult with UX experts and designers.

I can't say that theory is more universal than frontend, though anecdotally, for me, it is. But ui isn't universal.
Yes, it's been 2 years since the problem has been publicised and discussed but fake news is still widespread. So clearly it is a difficult problem that is hard to fix. But stop talking about it like you just discovered that fake news exists. I'm not sure what kind of discussion you were trying to start by doing that.
I did not expect the issues brought up about this study to be basic undergrad level research errors. Since all it takes is some db access and a short time, it would have been nice to get more info on studies that would have been worth including.

Of course the study in question is inconclusive because done very sloppily, but there is no indication by the critic as to whether there is reason to believe the data is available to reach a more verifiable conclusion.
> would prove nothing

It could surely prove something: those are reproducible builds. That means you can prove after some breach is detected that it originates from the given sources, if it is so. That in turn means that if something happens it won’t be Huawei employees who would investigate these sources. I’m sure that once a company offers the sources like this the company itself won’t plan to mess with the sources. Because then the unwanten intervention can be proved.
I dont see any points in the 3D for the given "problem" (shedule planing). No value is added right now.

For example, if you could have multiple calendars on top of each other (with transparency to view layers below) that would be some actual value.

Right now its just eye candy. I for one dont need eye candy.
Sadly, developers do it for free. https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ Pay with market rate upvotes. :)
> If I am a victim of fraud and lose my money, I have the concept of the rule of law to help me get my money back.

The governments ability to print money has absolutely nothing to do with its police force.

If someone steals money from others, then the police should go in and arrest them. The police don't need a printing press to do their job.

It is perfectly possible for the rule of law to exist, and for decentralized currencies, to also exist at the same time.
For me, what alleviated the RSI pain was switching to mechanical (cherry mx brown and buckling spring) keyboards.
> Yet when the Berlin Wall fell, East Germans ditched their Vita-Cola for Coca-Cola.

You can still get Vita-Cola and Club-Cola in Berlin, it wasn't ditched entirely. People drink it for nostalgia. Coca-Cola tastes far better though, as do probably a dozen other brands on the market.
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The personal email is gray.hunt48@gmail.com. the nature of the scam is a romance scam, over the course of a few months. No money has transitioned hands, and no response from capital one. What do I do from here?
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Is there support for loading data from Parquet files?
Jokes aside, I wonder how much time will pass until people start writing kernel drivers in BPF
> Let me ask you why do you use cash? For anything? Is it for?

In areas that are ahead in digital payments technologies, cash is dying out very fast.

In the US, you may want to use cash (as a seller) to avoid transaction fees. But in countries like Norway that has implemented a cheap national debit payment system (BankAxept), that's not been a big issue. Now the banks in Norway has implemented a common payment app as well (Vipps), which is free for transactions between individuals.. this has started to kill off cash in all the areas it held out before (sales of used items, buying cookies from scouts, etc)

> What with what? PayPal? There have been no alternatives, or equivalent to cash in the electronic age to date.

If you ask me, that's because making payment systems is actually extremely hard. It's just that cryptocurrencies pretend it's not, by simply ignoring a whole lot of real-world issues that you would address if you were making a payment system that wasn't trying to make blockchains fit the problem.

Most of the challenges with payment systems are social. Challenges related to what happens if there's an error, a scam, a theft, etc. Cryptocurrencies just avoid it all by saying there is never any errors, even when any reasonable person would say there is.

If you think there's no alternatives, I'd say you're very US-centric. Outside the US there are lots of places that are already most of the way there.
Gold is a fringe commodity valued by a similar small subset of the population that values bitcion. And yeah, I'd say that those people are also causing similar problems to bitcoin because they incentivize significant environmental destruction. Even worse than bitcoin, they also increase the costs of real commercial use cases for gold.
> only things "worth a lot of money" get the attention? This leads to many dystopian scenarios IMO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsil_Trouble
Was expecting this to be about the great insect robbery: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/06/st...
So many books we will never read.
So… My first instinct when I read debunking efforts like this is to try to check out who is doing the debunking. I'm not an ecologist, so I don't have the necessary background knowledge to evaluate the merits of the studies in question. But here's the author's CV:

https://ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/research/

She got a PhD the same year as me, 2014, so that's pretty early career in academic terms. She's published a series of pretty standard sounding academic papers in a range of standard sounding journals, which is a positive credibility signal for sure. She does a bunch of public outreach work for the environmental sciences, which is great. I liked her effort to explain in plain language what scientific evidence is:

https://theconversation.com/scientific-evidence-what-is-it-a...

So in general, as an academic in social science, I tend to find her post credible here on general this-looks-like-a-fellow-academic grounds.

This being said, I hadn't heard of the institution where she got her PhD before (Charles Sturt University), and I find it a little bit interesting that on google, pretty much the first hit says "#CSU works closely with industry, ensuring our courses keep pace with change."

Like it or not … when an institution positions themselves like that, it makes me wonder a little bit about whether they really can support unbiased environmental science, since industry has huge financial stakes in the outcomes of environmental research.
IMHO Very very long term India will do well.

In the short to medium term however investing in India is extremely risky. The primary reason is lack of trust and dishonesty at a fundamental level.

Law enforcement and judiciary are a joke. I heard it’s not uncommon for court cases to take 20-30 years. The institutions that promote a trustworthy transactions are nearly absent or ineffective.
Here's the problem: you're dealing with a multiple prisoners' dilemma situation here. Theoretically, the best solution for all (candidates and companies) is to have a thorough, standardized, and real-world based interview process. If every company cooperated, then you could have that. But, when there are companies out there that will bring candidates onsite for ~5 hours after a little more than an hour's time commitment, that means I could theoretically do 5 of those interviews in a week. No other company is going to start demanding multiple days of an interviewee's time given that every other company's process takes ~1 day of active participation by the candidate. So, you need to limit your "thorough, standardized, and real-world" process to taking no more than a day.

Here's a process that might work, that I actually would participate in:

1. ~20 minute recruiter chat to establish basic levels of fit/compatibility.

2. ~45-60 minute phone screen.

3. Onsite consisting of 1 hour behavioral/cultural interview, and 3-4 hour programming task, preferably based on a real problem or task that arose in the company's code base, suitably extracted, simplified, and scrubbed of proprietary information. Internet resources are allowed, as is asking any questions of the interviewer, without penalty.

You could bring me in at 11 AM, do the behavioral interview, take me to lunch, then have the afternoon to do the programming task, and have me out by 4.
Sadly, I don't think clean energy will save us, even if deployed greatly. Because we're fundamentally incapable of doing anything else - or even imagining something else - than pursuing growth, renewables, so far, are simply adding megawatts on top of fossil fuels, not replacing them.

People keep thinking about how technology will fix stuff. But technology doesn't fix cultural or anthropological problems.
I believe we all view the world through our own filter with our own interpretations and I believe that just because that we perceive something does not make it objectively right.

It does not matter if it is a big thing like racism or something small like how you look. It is also pretty disingenuous to immediately go to accusing me of saying that my experiences is as bad as racism, I never claimed that. Racism as a concept is big and it is obviously something that affects people deeply but it does not have a monopoly when it comes to suffering either.

One young white middle class boy in my school was bullied so badly that one night he hung himself from a soccer goal. I did not know him or the people who bullied him but I suspect that the things he was bullied for was not worse than racism as a whole but I also suspect what he experienced is far worse than any hurt any racism this mathematician has experienced.
It's a theme I hear a lot when I see interviews of powerful business people - you don't do anyone a favor by pretending something that is bad is good.

Agreed that the OP took the wrong lesson - the fix is not to lower standards, the fix is to learn to deliver honest and complete feedback with empathy.
Thinking more about TaxJar...I wonder if they are at any risk of employees of an existing firm doing work for TaxJar on the current company's time and equipment, which would in many cases make the TaxJar code the intellectual property of the former company.
For a non-age-related one:

It's a lot more socially acceptable for members of one sex than it is for members of the other to be too busy with career stuff to spare much time for their families.

On a somewhat related note, single parents simply aren't going to have that kind of time.
mending (even attempting) is a great opportunity to learn how things work. there is no downside trying to dismantle anything that you consider broken,
Web Security at N26
This is bad advice and confirmation bias. It is written by a new grad barely a year out of college at their first job, with no frame of reference to compare to. From illiquid stock options, overexposure to corporate politics, poor pay, opportunity cost of lost BigCo wages, network and career expansion opportunities and career minting potential, there are objectively more downsides than up to working at a startup. That's not to dissuade folks from working at one. But it is to say that the incentives are heavily biased towards those who are more senior and who can come in early as a senior IC, or later on as an executive.

It is easy to discount risk until it's too late. You will have growth opportunities at large companies -- whether you do at a startup is not necessarily the case, no matter what you are sold. You will have to fight for that high visibility work, to get illiquid options, and in all likelihood, a stunted career track compared to if you had just done your early years at a good BigCo.
Most of the time, it isn't what you know, but who you know. It's unfortunate.
Has someone slapped Android on a decent camera yet?

Samsung did this: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/samsung-nx1 but gave up the market in 2015.

That was likely a good idea from a cost-benefit perspective, as standalone cameras continue to decline in unit volumes: https://www.dpreview.com/news/7719403699/cipa-s-november-num..., but it's a shame from a technological progress perspective. You are totally correct that a camera body really ought to be an Android device, but camera makers have not done that—which likely contributes to their fall in unit sales.
You're conflating literal theft with metaphorical theft. One of them is theft; the other isn't.
Your understanding of why bitcoin uses energy is completely skewed. Bitcoin doesn’t use energy to process transactions or ensure a functioning p2p network, bitcoin is the first time in history of money, that money can be expressed as energy units.

Bitcoin doesn’t use energy, bitcoin is energy, or more specifically bitcoin is as much energy as people value the function and security of money.

Trying to reduce it is absolutely misguided - if you figure out a thousand times more efficient way to generate sha hashes (mine bitcoin), it won’t matter in the slightest - bitcoin mining difficulty will rise thousandfold and exactly the same amount of energy will be spent going forward.
Users of Emacs can use artist-mode to do this in their code at any time.
What dependency system anywhere on earth is free of the problem of "two things require different versions of the same library"? I don't see the relation to JS at all.

I've had this problem with JavaScript-before-npm-existed, Python, apt, Homebrew, Portage...
Interview with Leon, a Journalist Teaching the World to Play Chess
There is really not much there with Monument Valley.
> On the other hand, I genuinely do feel theory is really important. While not knowing the minutia of a tim-sort doesn't indicate that you'll be a bad engineer, not knowing the runtime efficiency of a sort can lead to some really awful code. Not knowing when to use a hash table instead of a nested-for loop can be a sign that you don't really know what you're doing, and not knowing some rough theory on concurrency indicates that I might be stuck debugging your race conditions or deadlock.

Theory is important but what's more important is how someone applies the theory to actual problem solving.

Reversing a binary tree isn't testing your knowledge of theory as much as it's really just testing memorization of a very very specific application. Knowing how to reverse a binary tree or how a hash map works is pointless if the person can't identify when to use them when solving an actual higher level problem. No one is ever given a binary tree and told to reverse it in the real world, they are given a business problem that you identify can be solved efficiently by modelling it as a binary tree and reversing it.

I'd bet most of the good people who fail the "reverse a binary tree" type of questions would succeed if you give them a realistic problem to solve without forcing a very specific solution onto them. Either they will come up to the realization that the solution is to think of the problem in terms of binary tree or they won't.

And neither is a terribly bad answer either. If they recognize you gave them a problem that can be represented as a binary tree and efficiently solved by reversing it then there you go, not only did you prove they knew the "theory" but they knew how to apply it as well. If they don't recognize it you gain valuable insight into their line of thinking and they might find novel ways to represent the problem and apply other theoretical concepts that solve it efficiently (maybe more maybe less).
You could, but I would be concerned that it would not have quite the density one would want without heating and compacting.
really did not intend to troll in the first place - maybe a little in the second. I find the sensitivity level here a bit shocking. thanks for the response though - I'll take the feedback and add supporting info in the future.
It's just a few keys that change. If you stick to one layout per task/language, muscle memory will take care of that.