skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only three continents have been surveyed and the results are massive decline in every single area. These are areas divided by oceans and thousands of miles.

The areas not surveyed are places where it’s quite difficult to carry out such a long term study, like Africa and the Middle East. Waiting for a 40 year study to be completed in central Africa, one of the locations mentioned in the article, is quite the delay, and it may not even be possible to do at the moment. Delaying actions in Germany and Indonesia to wait for this is, very simply, asinine.
They remind me of Indian Step wells.
Then it would be HN front-page rage material. But I agree it's just a possibility, not a moral obligation.
Let me answer your question with an anecdote.

When my grandfather was approaching the grave and had to battle several serious medical issues, he hired a live-in nurse to help him with everything from cooking dinner to helping him on and off the toilet (she was a large Samoan lady). She took care of him full-time (not on a live-in basis, though) for a couple years, occasionally having someone from her family fill in if she needed to take care of something. The whole family got to know her quite well, and in a way she became a part of the family, performing the duties that the rest of us, for whatever reason, could not.

Would she have been there had she not been getting paid? No, but part of that has to do with the fact that had we not been paying her, she wouldn't even be able to afford a place to live or be able to fuel her car to come over every day.

Similarly, if insurance companies weren't paying the company that creates these avatars, which in turn pays the people who operate the avatars, these relationships would never have an opportunity to form in the first place.

As for my grandfather's nurse, she attended my grandfather's funeral with the rest of the family. Even brought her young granddaughter along with her. She wasn't being paid that day.

In other words, I think you're worrying too much.
> As a senior coder, this labor competency is responsible for maintaining and improving the performance of existing software code, with duties to design and update software databases under contract and direction from the assigned Government Product Manager.

Sadly, this sentence makes the job summary 100% better than many I have received.
Congrats on your retirement!

And enjoy your opportunity to work with whatever languages you like. The variety of tools available today is so much greater than it was in the 80s.
Simplifying EKS Deployments
It raises the question, if Snow Crash and Diamond Age hadn't been written, what would have techies invented?
Won't matter, a much larger percent of the frogs won't leap out of the pot. Then it becomes "normal" to charge and have ads and no "rationally behaved" corporation will do anything less.
Oddly in biology I’m seeing an uptick in R use as it’s easier to install and run tools in R for non programmers. The python 2/3 confusion (why doesn’t this google result work?), and various install packages (conda/pip...) seem to have made R
more popular. This is despite biopython which is quite good. The newest single sell rna seq analysis tools are in R.

R is a strang thing to me, though it has its moments (graphing). I still think pandas which gives python R like data frames is one of the great tools out there.
No, the reason why was France pegging to gold at a very favourable rate in the 1920s. The UK, obviously, was not short of colonies but got absolutely rolled in this period because they pegged to gold at their old rate instead of devaluing. This led to huge unemployment issues (even before the GD). Germany suffered because they were heavily reliant on flows of US capital causing bank failures (there was a tremendous boom between 25-29).
Yep was thinking about that. It has its advantages. Most humans need incentives to be good.
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC): Installation and Uses
The Case for Database-First Pipelines
Indeed. I have a hard time believing that a child moving around in a full 3D virtual environment isn’t building spatial skills. Have you ever seen an “old” person play Minecraft or a FPS? Effectively playing a game like that takes immense spatial reasoning.
Also spouses and grandchildren, in many many cases.
No self-respecting entrepreneur would talk to bootcamp angels! At a minimum, an M.S. in angel investing from a Top 10 school or preferably a PhD with at least 5 years of investing in FAANG should be the minimal angel qualifications.
Scratch, the programming environment from MI, and Sphero robots.
Again, the point is you need your engineers to diligent enough to do so. That isn’t always the case. Which is why I talk about checks being part of the standard language build tools.

Humans error. I’ve seen numerous occasions when stuff that should have been added into the tests wasn’t. Even from engineers who are normally thorough. I’ve also seen cases when competent engineers have written test cases that pass when they should have failed. Heck even I’ve done that and I’ve been writing software for 30 years.

The more a languages build tools can catch developer errors, the less you need to rely on developers remembering to check for them and thus the more time developers can focus on the project at hand.
This is insane... High density living provides a whole childhood of activities, both formal and informal.

I grew up in a midsized city, when I was a kid I could walk, bus, or ride my bike literally anywhere I wanted to go without really any notable restrictions, including parks with sandpits. My parents kept a draw full of bus schedules. The best part is there were literally kids everywhere, so you were never lonely even if you left the house alone. We'd organize pick-up games of soccer or baseball or kickball, etc. I even went ice skating by myself. Sometimes I'd just walk outside during the summer just to see which of the "neighborhood kids" were out. I'd spend hours just exploring the city on foot or bike, so much so that I'd come home with sore legs. All snow storms were followed by sledding in the park. I spent very little time with my parents.

When we got older it was mall and movies, record stores, arcades.

We also had a back yard, shared between six families.

Sometimes my parents would even send me on errands for them.

I had an after school job starting at 16 and I'd never be able to if I had to be driven there, my dad was always home, but without a car. I'd take the bus there.

I was rarely home, it was amazing.

Compare that to the suburbs or rural areas where the only way to get anywhere is a parent driving a kid somewhere. Sounds stifling. My parents would never shuffle me around everywhere. (In fact, I didn't even care for it as an adult, sometimes I just wanted to go for a walk! But leaving required a car, no sidewalks, traffic much too fast for a bike)
I don’t think Haskell or OCaml are more verbose than Python.

Other traditional languages are adopting type inference, etc. We could be near an inflection point where we get statically type languages that are as convenient as Python.
Google pays MILLIONS to Mozilla Firefox.

FIREFOX IS NOT A LEGITIMATE ALTERNATIVE.
One common case where this is attractive is where you have a bunch of "public" functions built on top of each other, with the higher ones passing that parameter on and not otherwise caring what it is:

high_level_function(src, ...)
...
mid_level_function(src, ...)
...

mid_level_function(src, ...)
low_level_function(src, ...)
...

low_level_function(src, ...)
...

If you can make the low-level function generic one way or another, you avoid having to duplicate the higher-level functions.

Another case is where there are two or more parameters that you want to be generic in this sense: if your only option is duplicating the function you can end up having to define inconveniently many variants.
Just found out he passed away - this sucks - way too young.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Daglish

Ben Daglish Remembered: Wastelands loader (Underworld, 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj6Amy1Bmeo

He is also in the "From Bedrooms to Billions" documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRsLOUYL3mk

EDIT: he wasn't just funny, I remember him as a very positive spirited guy.
Then the solution could be a compatible float spec, and a way for users to switch it on (and the old spec off).
Pyre: Facebook's static type checker for Python
Human work was for a long time a luxury product.

It's the reason a hand-made swiss watch is so expensive, because you are literally paying a person to waste his time working on a trinket. Basically you "own" his time, and this is a luxury product.
Cities around the world are pursuing joy by fostering social change
Managing Kubernetes RBAC Groups
I lived in a small town from 5 to 9. Had friends nearby, and lots of nature to play in right outside our doorstep. We invented all sorts of fun and games, and had a really good time. At 9 my family moved back to the big city. Not as much nature to play in, so stayed more indoors.

But overall I'm glad we did. As a teen there was absolutely nothing to do in the town we moved from. Drugs became a really big issue I heard. At least the city provided activities so we didn't get bored out of our minds.
I like to use the analogy: just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can fix a car.

Honestly, some people just treat computers as magic despite using them every day and having it explained what it's doing. We don't need to expose kids to computers more -- it's literally impossible not to -- we need to get them to -- or not squash -- their desire to ask 'why', 'how', and 'how can this be changed'.
Framed as old is not an insult, people love vintage cars :)
Other thought experiments are certainly possible, but mine is about the stated gamble, in which you cannot predict. That's what's meant by "unshared environment", it's poorly named, the environment you talk of is "shared environment". As I said, I don't know that this is true in the real world, but I don't think it wildly implausible. (Maybe tortured mad artists are a better example than nerds.)

Tay-Sachs is the first example I know about, of some genetic strain of humans being deliberately bred out of existence. Phrased like that I think the idea would alarm many people. But it has not. (I should remind myself more of the details of this story.)

Thought experiments aside, note that it's not obvious we need a single new mutation to make much smarter people. We just need the shuffling of the deck to place more of the existing + variants into one body. This will obviously be the goal of embryo selection, and I think would also be the goal of explicit editing. I'd wager that many more of the Nobel-sized brains alive at the end of this century (and the next) will owe their existence to one of these kinds of engineering, than to population growth.
> Microsoft has a similar program

My, um, psychic powers for predicting the future tells me anybody with autism issues or even just introversion who goes there will be penalized heavily in the stack rankings (which they no longer formally do, but informally...) at performance review time for lack of "visiblity" year after year and eventually be washed out of MS as "good attrition".
:) part of doing good work is calling out bullshit from the past. Think of it as a Martin Luther moment for them.
Funny marketing idea by enhancv.com
How Does Pinterest Work and Make Money? Pinterest Business Model in a Nutshell
To Russia with Love: Deploying Kubernetes in Foreign Locations
Indeed, I didn't find it all that hard to configure a role in the production account that has the permission to launch containers that the CI environment can assume. I locked it down as much as possible but if the CI environment gets hacked someone could launch a container in the production environment.

I did think of a way to make this more secure but I haven't done it yet - you could write a script that waits for input from a website where you have to log in via SAML. The script then passes the AWS credentials for the role back to the deployment task. Effectively, it's a second step authentication process where you'd need to be authenticated using a security key for the deployment to proceed.

I haven't quite figured out all the details yet but that might help you get the assurance you need.
I'm pretty sure its a city and suburbs issue (just from news articles), but I am at a loss as to how to get the statistics to prove either case.
American Academy of Pediatrics is a bit of a paternalistic joke. A lot of the “evidence” for their recommendations is from garbage observational studies. There’s also an ideological tilt towards whatever is the fad among upper-middle class parents (I am talking about their lifestyle recommendations and such, not obvious medical guidelines like vaccinations).
There is on macOS, (for all 'apps', not just Chrome) but not, I think, on any other platform.

I don't know why anyone feel anything more than indifference about it; I find it annoying.

I used to use a tool (I think it was called RedQuits) that implemented the windows closed -> app quit behaviour.
Sam Software Automatic Mouth
Yes, I also tried to google if airbus grounded thier entire fleet, but nothing came up, so I thought there were not any systematic issues.

Im not a comercial plane enthusiast either.
Not sure. Who knows what hides inside Intel ME.
Ask HN: Why does HN have no ARIA labels nor titles?
These things are quite useful for accessibility, which the HNers talk about a lot as important. Wondering why their favorite news forum doesn't have any?

I once lived next door to a gardener / landscape architect who had an awfully messy garden. He said that's the way it always is.
Why not Rust? I am in a similar situation to the author. Python handles most of what I need, but that last 20% I need more.
You probably don’t need input type=“number”
If you’re worried about what’s in the Intel ME, then you wouldn’t buy another Intel or AMD
I have Firefox (with accidentally permanently 50+ tabs open) on a touch bar MBP and it's fine.
Unless you're spending all your income, you cannot use Numbeo and other CoL calculators to make comparisons between gross salaries in different countries.

I'm Swiss and I worked in Berlin, I guarantee you absolutely don't need to make twice the salary to keep your standard of living. Taxes alone mean that above a certain salary, you actually need to make more in Germany.

And while the situation is better than in Switzerland, Germany isn't some kind of paradise for parents with young kids. All the people we hired and relocated from overseas had trouble finding Kitas.

https://www.thelocal.de/20180524/how-a-childcare-crisis-is-l...
> That is a UX problem right?

Ah yeah - I do recall author making that distinction ("user" UX teams vs operator UX teams).

> I especially want to emphasize tools for your Customer Support staff. These are rarely prioritized, but they imho have a far better RoI and customer satisfaction impact than any UX change you can do. CS are operators.

That's a good point. Right now my team does give tools to CS related staff but you're right they're not prioritized, the UX is horrible (b.c it's "designed" by developers who were tired of having to troubleshoot themselves), and devs get pissed / act surprised when the CS people dont use the tools the "right" way.
There's a simple remedy to the problem of becoming dependent on a single entity wrt the programming language you choose: use only languages with "official" specs (by ISO/IEC or another respected org) and multiple implementations. That's C, C++, ECMAScript, shell, and a couple niche languages such as Ada, Fortran, and Prolog.
Sure, but an iPad isn't a full 3D environment. And even what people call full 3D environments don't include all the stimulations of actual 3D real life, e.g. inner ear balance.
A man who tried to make a supergun for Saddam Hussein
As I understood the article, in one part of the experiment they set up alternate regions of heat and cold within a sample of graphite using interference patterns from two laser sources. When they turned off the lasers, instead of the hot regions dispersing their energy until the troughs were the same temperature, the hot regions "overshot", becoming cooler than the (former) troughs, with wave-like behaviour.

This seems to me like energy is momentarily flowing from a cooler region (the former "peaks") to a hotter area (the former "troughs").

Would a Real Physicist be kind enough to explain to me why this doesn't violate the 2nd law? Probably the answer is "you misunderstood".
Interesting. I'm wondering how it stacks up against ConEmu [1], which has been the MVP of terminal emulators on Windows for a long time now.

[1]: https://conemu.github.io/
AKA, yujiintl and others.
Still have a nice 4000K "remote phosphor" >95CRI, >80 R9 BC series lamp in my room. I considered their 1900K VTC (normally >98 CRI, but at that extreme iirc "only" >95 CRI) series LED's for true candlelight effect lighting, but they don't stock them (anymore). If someone does a kickstarter for a batch of them, I'd back it though.
Harddrive firmwares have been reverse-engineered, often are ARM-based and flashable. In principle it can be used for similar payload delivery as lo-jack.

Any PCIe device that has flashable firmware could also be used to perform DMA attacks on systems that don't use the IOMMU for memory isolation.
Dataforge UUCP
I don't think Safari supports webp, on either desktop or iphone?

Until it does people will probably still be shipping jpg/png as standard.
Netflix’s ‘Love Death and Robots’ Is Hit, Miss and Extremely NSFW
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474818
An example: pandas.read_csv

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...
Invalid ZIP

so what if I'm not in the US? (I'm in London)

I put in a random number just to get in. Now it says I'm in Austin Texas.

Then I saw "All searches are based on your location"

so I quit
My entire workstation is an Ubuntu VM hosted at my office. I just need a simple SSH client that works well on Win10. Nothing has been as good as the chrome extension Secure Shell. I've used conemu, putty, mobaxterm, and countless others. But I always come back to secure shell. I hope this one is good enough to replace that because I just want to get rid of chrome.
If you like video game music, I can't recommend the excellent "Les Démons du Midi" [1] podcast.

Yes, the brief commentary between tracks is in French — but music still is front and center.

[1]: https://www.geekzone.fr/tag/les-demons-du-midi/
Because last version of firefox doesn't deserve this message. I have become suspicious of all message of this sort with time, I feel they are purely dishonest 95% of the time, and dishonesty is insulting.
Wow, thanks for sharing your actual experience. When I made my sibling comment (about being jealous of city kids as a burbs kid) I admittedly thought it was probably at least a bit of a "grass is greener" thing, but "great" to have confirmation that the burbs really are as relatively bad as I thought. :|
> "A toddler who learns to build with virtual blocks in an iPad game gains no ability to build with actual blocks,

Based on what ACTUAL evidence?
Oh, that's sad..

May his music live on. RIP.
* I want to act locally to help fight climate change (by allowing more people to live in a walkable neighborhood within a car-free commute of great jobs)

* I want my friends to stop leaving the city and state

* I want my daughter to be able to afford to move out of the house in 20 years

* I want the lusher culture population density brings (better museums, more art, more interesting foods and shops, a wider variety of orgs and interest groups for me to join...)

* I want my kids schools to be less desperate for teachers, who currently are constantly quitting because they either live here and can't make ends meet or they live far away and burn out on their commute

* I care about the plight of others
I am not from the USA, but regularly watch CNN and Fox News. For me they are entertainment and without informative value. They are not news, but political commentary.

From outside It is amazing to see that if you watched only one or the other, the USA appears to be in opposite types of catastrophes.

Similarly with r/politics and r/the_donald, the echo chamber in both of them is so strong, that it prevents rational conversation.

Personally I have seen that CBS News seems more moderate. However I think the best news for any country are the ones provided outside the country (like Aljazeera, BBC, France24, MDR, etc)
So, no reason then. That overhead is like microseconds and you can disable it if it bothers you (you have to configure web browsers for MITM anyway).

I actually disable QUIC myself, because I've noticed it slows everything down too much on some home routers.
What the hell, I don't even think that's theoretically possible considering their network speeds. Like even if you were downloading 1 22gb file that would take hours
>Given the penultimate paragraph where they say - “You shouldn’t expect to increase your IQ or anything of that nature,” How could the above statement be true? What measure is there to say "this behavior we are seeing is increasing learning ability of the brain while not increasing the IQ"?

Here are some examples:

3 days without sleep will give you IQ performance 20 points less than your previously measured brain IQ. That doesn't mean you permanently got dumber. Similarly, exercise can make you perform better at cognitive tasks, while still retaining the same IQ.

Reduced blood flow to the brain (e.g. due to apnea/obesity) can make you actually lose tons of IQ points (sometimes even permanently). Exercise prevents those things.
Ionic Thruster + Light Levitation = Flying Drone with no moving parts. Wish i can see this in my lifetime.
Sorry, but I care about my rights, even if you are only experimenting ideas.
Modelling uncertainty is definitely a useful tool to have, but I'm not sure why the author expects there to be a "scientific" (a.k.a. mechanistic) way of doing it.

In normal programming, there's no fool-proof formula for picking the best data structure or the best algorithm. If there were, we could just write one program to write all other programs and be done with it!
Sure. But I think Pizzagate has shown us that there's enough weirdos out there who'll show up to a place demanding answers.

And don't forget, people are strongly died to locations. If Reddit decides that a particular photo is located at 287 FM 772, that's someone's house, and a name can easily be associated with it. Nobody wants to receive a Google alert that their name is suddenly popping up in /r/find-a-pedophile
I've been hypothesizing that people from countries that are closer to the equator prefer higher color temperatures ("colder", white light) than people from northern countries, who I think prefer warm light. I could be wrong, of course.
Tangent: like Python in your terminal/shell? See also https://xon.sh
Not a "Real Physicist" but the information is not being lost, it's only being kept static-ish. This is the same as that waves don't violate the 2nd law (it's telling that they being called the phenomenon second sound.)

> The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time.

So instead of entropy increasing, it's hanging around for a while. No violation, still unusual though.
Vis-à-Wiki (Visual Knowledge Management)