skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should be more concerned that global CO2 emissions rose last year more than that emitted from air travel, and we’re nowhere near hitting 2C by 2100 (closer to 4C).
> The result of:
(num_person-hours_saved_by_SO * num_of_developers_in_world * dev_hourly_rate)
must be staggering. I'm sure companies around the world can point to SO for a non-trivial percentage of bottom line revenue.

There's also a negative effect on global developer skillset when developers don't have to dig deeper into things or read documentations because they can just find a working example from SO. Although Stackoverflow still probably has a positive net effect for global skill of developers regardless. But a developer who learns from the bottom up will most likely outperform a developer who relies on finding working solutions from SO in the long run. And while a company prefers to have a solution right now for monetary reasons, the quality of developers the global workforce has in the same long run dwindles when the primary goal is to save developer hours "right now". Again highlighting that I still do consider SO a net positive, just that it is not a flat out black and white hours saved function
How many contribute back to it?

Would we know if they forked it?
This is very cool! I hope that with time someone will produce a version with Python code examples (though there's now so many graphing libraries for Python that assuredly not everyone would be pleased).
401k plans have huge society inefficiencies. If someone dies early, the 2 or 3 million they save up in a 401k plan is wasted. Pension plans can capture that inefficiency and provide superior value over 401k plans as a result.

Annuities try to bridge the gap. But I admit that I don't know too much about them.

Stocks and stuff are nice. But what happens if you die early or outlive your savings? At an individual level, you cannot plan such a thing. But a decent annuity company can provide value by smoothing out that kind of variance.

Pensions were a combination of stock plans + annuities. The main issue with Pensions is that people live a LOT longer today than they used to 40 years ago: medicine has gotten much better. So most pension plans (including Social Security) have underestimated how much they need to pay out.

"Fortunately", the American life expectancy is dropping due to the opioid crisis. So maybe things will be a bit better for pensions / annuities / Social Security than we expected just 5 years ago.
That's the easy part! The hard part is putting the munitions and go juice at that launch base, providing security, comms, etc.
How many bits do you think it takes to precisely indicate a location on the surface of the earth?

If you are using 2 angles, I guess the place to start is with the circumference of the earth, which is 40 million meters. So to get within a meter, you then need to encode your angle with enough precision to indicate a single one of the 40 million possibilities.
Ask HN: How do I make sure blog stays up after I die?
Assuming it’s not something I want to burden friends or family with.
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> Stack overflow is a 50/50 gamble

Only when asking questions.

I find in my work I read/use 100 questions or more for every 1 question I ask. SO is amazing 99% of the time, and a bit of a gamble that 1% of the time when you have a specific question you couldn't find resources on.
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You're probably thinking of either the AC130 or Blackhawks operating un-escorted.
We're making SecureDrop.org open source – SecureDrop
Why should we tolerate any mean remarks at all?
a GPS nit: the Google Play Store's "timed publishing" feature lets you accumulate changes to your app's store page hours or days in advance of an update and then click a "Go Live" when you actually want to publish that update and make those changes publicly visible.

but apparently it's not quite atomic. the Timed Publishing documentation notes say: If you ... add release notes to your app’s “What’s new in this release?” section while you're in timed publishing mode, they'll be published immediately.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

that's so confusing! if I want to update release notes about a new release I'm going to make live soon, why would I want them to be published immediately? huh?
Talking with people who live in Delhi (in both English and Hindi), I got the sense that 'dilli' is becoming increasingly rare.

I am overall rather tired of the city-renaming craze. It seems like expensive bike-shedding at best. You end up with ridiculous scenarios like renaming 'Madras' to 'Chennai', where 'Madras' in fact is a native, historic Tamil name for the city, and 'Chennai' is the name of Telugu collaborator with the British.
I've stopped contributing to the Webmasters page a couple of years ago because of this.
NATO is definitely serving Western European interest. NATO is probably the major reason there has not been a land war against NATO members since WW2.

Since the 1950s the Belgian military policy has been that it will do whatever is required of it as a NATO member.
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In general, I have a rule of thumb: if the question is "does Graydon know about $LANGUAGE", the answer is almost always "yes." I haven't specifically spoken to him about it, though.
gosh I love the downvotes boys.

hypothesis confirmed
Also, add a plugin that forces https everywhere.
I think to a degree it's also: Stack Overflow killed many of the other spaces you could have asked for help before. Hand-holding a beginner is easier if you can go back-and-forth, e.g. in a forum, but those mostly died out because lots of traffic went to SO (also a general shift away from forums in general, but I believe SO vastly accelerated that for programming topics).
Were you reading that as sarcasm? From Steve's other writing I've seen, and his comments here, I don't think he was being sarcastic. I think he's literally expressing something along the lines of "Oh, that's not what I would have assumed, but it's an different way that I may or may not have thought about much. That's cool, I'll see how it goes."

If that interpretation comes across as negative, then I think you either must view most interactions with the world as negative or you've somehow managed to surround yourself with "yes" men...
The immigration situation for skilled/educated workers, has to my knowledge, always been extremely bad in the US. Right now, it's gotten worse to another level, but it's not like it was anywhere close to good before. There is no founder visa. A few rare people (including you) have managed to get the O-1 visa; but that's usually an extraordinary difficult endeavor. Even getting a new H-1B is incredibly hard, with your chance of winning in the lottery less than 40%, and there being a significantly long (~7 months) before you can even start working. Moreover, you're prohibited on having majority control over your company on an H-1B, and need to ensure there's a board that can fire you. So there's that.

Then there's getting an EB-1 approved ... I don't how you managed to get it, but kudos to you on that. From what I've read, it's incredibly difficult, and usually an order of magnitude more difficult than getting an O-1. Immigration guides often say you need win the Nobel Prize in order to qualify for it. But I've also heard luck plays a huge factor -- in terms of who your adjudicating officer is. Anyways, there's very little info out there (on the interwebs) that talks about how to succeed with an O-1 or EB-1 application. (It would be great if you could write about it.)
I use Podcast Addict on my Moto and gpodder on Linux. In both cases I have a massive subscription list that downloads episodes daily. The server that supplies them knows only that I downloaded it, not whether or not I actually listened or that I listened to a few minutes and then abandoned the episode.

The purpose is to have a wide variety of material to listen to in my car (via Bluetooth) in which I do not have a data connection.
Yeah, great stuff from awesome people!

Did not mention it, but of course we used redis to keep track of the rates. :)
How long a time frame are you talking about? 10 years? 20 years? 3 months? 1 year?

If it up to 1 year, find a company that lets you pay up front and pay up front. Also cover domain registration as well.

It becomes harder the longer you go though, with time frames like 50 years you'll be looking up trusts and etc.
So you'd design your own UI + graphs?
Can someone explain glitch.com to me. I looked at the website and I don't have a clue what it does or why it would be useful? It looks like some meme game.
I tried so hard to understand the Stack Overflow mindset, but the costs were too much. They treat every question as the X-Y problem, so you have to anticipate that and preemptively answer them in your question. They'll criticize you for asking a question about Apache since it's not Nginx. They'll tell you you're too dumb to be trusted with Linux if you have to ask something about file permissions.

This started to leak into my real-life conversations at work and I realized I was being condescending and arrogant. I feel like Stack Overflow and the related SE sites genuinely made me a worse person. I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've never seen anything so toxic.
The responses to your post are roughly what I would expect from posting on stack overflow.

Everyone there is just looking for someone to snipe at for internet points or they're an academic who IMO are even worse. 2019 It's a joke.

The archives are useful but that's about it.
While SO has been a great resource over the years, a significant concern as I see now is the too rapid churn in many topics like various JS frameworks, android development, etc, where things are moving fast, accepted answers are frequently obsolete and have become misleading or wrong, and I have not come across mechanisms to handle this situation.

Also a fragmentation into multiple subject sites also isn't a great idea IMHO, now for some categories for example you have to think of cross-posting to get maximum responses.
Might it be easier to have a web page that has a chronological or reverse chronological clickable list of links you want to give your students?

Then instead of sending them a shortened link to something, you just put the link on your page and tell them there's a new link for them there.

That would also make it easy for students who want to go back and review older links you sent. Instead of digging through prior announcements to find the right one, they could just go to your links page.
Eh, view those cost comparisons with a grain of salt. Something F-35 proponents have been fond of is quoting the flyaway cost of the F-35, against the total procurement cost of legacy aircraft. They'll exclude all the testing, tooling, and r&d costs from the F-35, then exclude the procurement and support costs to finagle a unit cost number.

Meanwhile, the quoted cost for something like a Super Hornet includes support/maintenance and some one-time costs.

As for the F-15X order, that is to supply an Air National Guard squadron, which is currently using old F-15C/D's. They were not slated to switch to F-35's, so the idea was to just supplement with F-15X's in the meantime. IIRC none of the ANG squadrons are switching to the F-35 in the near future.
you're literally telling me what I sound like. that's one hell of a splain
> some people feel like these laws don't apply

That's catchy, but doesn't address the crucial question of which people should be held accountable for using a tool in a discriminatory way. You could argue that the publisher bears some or all of that responsibility, and I'd be fine with that, but shouldn't the advertisers bear some too? Why is HUD only going after Facebook and not them? Hint: the advertisers don't have all of that juicy user data.
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My 'best' answer is an answer to a question which received downvotes and was almost deleted because it was badly asked.

The question submitter never returned, my answer is left "unaccepted" and the submitter has never had any other activity on the site.

Despite that, the question has had ~15k views earning the submitter the 'famous question' badge.

My answer was never 'accepted' so it doesn't have 'famous answer' badge but the ~30 up votes it has had has given me over half my SO karma.

Instead of taking the time to understand the question actually being asked, others just downvoted the both of us and moved on.

SO answers shouldn't be allowed to be marked as duplicate.

If someone is asking then either they failed to find the "duplicate" based on their search terms, or their problem is subtly different and the other answer doesn't help, or they don't understand the other answer.

In all those cases, just marking duplicate and closing the "duplicate" doesn't help anyone.
I'm not conflating anything. And as I said, none of this is sandboxed like WebAssembly so it's hardly a comparison anyway.
Can they seal the container?
" I say sadly because businesses should have matured to the point by now to make unions unnecessary, and employees should have evolved further to see the problem."

Without a counterforce it's just a matter of time until we regress to ever worsening conditions for workers. Capitalists never gave anything away voluntarily. We need unions or other workplace regulations to keep things in balance.
do Garfield phones count as single use?
Why Should I Use a Reverse Proxy If Node.js Is Production-Ready?
Kong Cloud is a SaaS version of Kong Enterprise.
I use https://antennapod.org/ . It's excellent, open source and works with BBC Podcasts (for now).

If Android users can't choose independent software to listen to podcasts that's too bad.

(It uses the iTunes database apparently)
While management is definitely culpable, aviation is not like most software development shops in that legally speaking, your engineers do have final say. If they don't sign, nothing ships. An engineer is expected to do more than acquiesce to management's demands. It is, in fact, an engineer's job to say "no" to any implementation plan that jeopardizes the public.

There is a case to be made whether it is reasonable to expect an engineer to branch their scrutiny beyond what small slice they are given, in which case there was a failure at a higher level to distribute appropriate units of work such that the entire thing was thoroughly vetted. The problem is, that is extremely difficult to prove in a court of law, and it is not uncommon for high level management to hide unethical practices behind indirect communication methods without committing them outright to paper.

Call me a romantic, but at some point, as a bunch of engineers on a project, you need to be able to fully grok and model the entirety of the system as a whole. It seems that level of integration would have brought these problems to light much faster, and without the bloodshed. I can't imagine that work not happening unless it was being actively discouraged. If one or several engineers had pushed back, or a manager been thinking more about product quality/safety rather than delivery/profit, that work may have been done, and we wouldn't be talking about this now.
> BBC sounds

A new program being forced down listeners ears

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jan/20/bbc-sounds-app...

....
One typically indignant fan, Nigel Metheringham, tweeted: “Bring back (the podcast) #Fortunately to an open feed, rather than using it to prop up a shoddy service.”

The loss of this favourite podcast to anyone who downloads from other sites, such as iTunes, or for listeners living abroad, has now exposed much wider dissatisfaction with BBC Sounds, which is receiving low scores on app-rating sites. Criticism focuses on the lack of a sleep-timer function for Android devices, a failure to reliably display track names, the difficulty of sharing content, on claims the search function is ineffective, and on the limited menu of content from other podcast providers.

....
What usage lifetime justifies the total lifetime of a plastic object?
Out of interest here's a list of alternatives and why they're worse than plus codes: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
Question : What do the unarmed people do

Answer : Get in the train to the gas chamber
Apparently I do? Not sure what you want to hear here, but management does listen to me and my engineering peers. Sometimes things are a bit gray and fuzzy, but in this case here where they definitely are not, I am absolutely certain that there would be no overriding of our arguments.
By "revocable, per-user keys" do you mean each user is given a unique URL to download premium content from or is some type of cryptographic DRM being leveraged?
> An iframe added to page by using a JS script that sourced from direct IP address

This can kind of page tampering happen if your connection to the website is not encrypted (http:// instead of https://)

For practical defense against this, you can install the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere which attempts to redirect you to secure versions of websites.

If there's no secure version of the site available, there's not much you can do to prevent this besides changing your ISP or using a VPN, however this just moves the trust issue to a different entity.
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From practical and philosophical points of view, if the container and its cargo are stuck at the bottom of the sea forever, is it really a problem?

Of course, I'm aware that random man-made things polluting the oceans is a bad thing in general, but in this specific case, if the plastic is just stuck there forever, is it still pollution in practical terms? The electronics inside the phones probably won't pass modern environmental standards (e.g. RoHS), so let's forget about the electronics for now and only focus on the plastic.

On the one hand, does the plastic release toxic chemicals in high enough concentration as it decomposes (slowly?)? On the other hand, does the container and its cargo somehow become a new shelter/habitat for certain species of marine life?
I guess I am making what you call an "absolutist" free speech argument. I think controlling dissemination of ideas is bad no matter how much you disagree with them and no matter how much merit these ideas have. I would rather white supremacy was out in the open, debating their point of view with the rest of us than them hiding in private forums and dark web feeling persecuted and stewing in their own little circle jerks. And the same goes for any idea, good or bad, scientifically proven or not. Flat earth, white supremacy, climate change pro and contra, feminism, men's rights and everything else. I think censorship is a tool of a very limited value, there are a few rare cases where it serves the public good and a lot of cases where it is misused and it doesn't matter whether the intent of the misuse is good or bad.
Where do they go from here? It seems every question has been asked and every new question has a 50/50 of getting closed by MoDeRaTorS as off-topic.

Gamification probably got them here, but is it a recipe for continued success or a detriment to StackOverflow?
I'm into it, we are living at the dawn of amazing technology surrounding these topics.

I consider Neuralink the most important concept company in the world
If the sensors and computers that manage the control surfaces of any modern fighter fail, the plane crashes anyway, so they still need to be there. Not having to route everything to the cockpit can simplify design and improve ruggedness.

A lot of the resistance against this comes from the fact robots don't get medals.
Its basically become ModOverflow

edit: Thought I was coining something here but it was actually coined in 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870816
Jurisdiction sets no limits to itself, but to other jurisdictions. Australia can request extradition of anyone from anywhere, then it's up to that jurisdiction to decide whether to comply, which may or may not be situational. If the country believes it's a problem, then it would deny the request.
Your fun shouldn’t require bothering other people who don’t want to be involved. I think that’s the issue.
> The real crime being the inanely happy songs thrust upon parents everywhere.

Bah! The best song in The Lion King is "Be Prepared"
It was the the largest browsers in Indonesia and India, at least in part because it's marketed as saving $$ on data by blocking calls to download ads and other scripts[1][2].

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2130205/alibabas-uc-mobile...
[2]https://marketingland.com/alibabas-uc-browser-beating-google...
This article's intended audience is clearly the subset of ML engineers that have a practical rather than a theoretical/academic background in ML. I'd argue it definitely has a use as a practical guide to understanding an original approach to RL, which looks like it has good potential. You could fairly argue that the article could use more mathematical grounding to what's being explained, like AMS blog posts tend to be. However, consider how afraid of mathematics a lot of the CS crowd tends to unreasonably be. The pedagogy of the article is noteworthy, it helps the reader get a hold of the jargon and ideas of this burgeoning approach. It prepares them for further research, kind of like Quanta Magazine tries to do, but it allows itself more technicality, in line with the blog post format. It's not an easy task given how multidisciplinary meta-RL really is, and the author does a rather great job, IMO.
Obviously it depends on the nature of the union but in general I think unions are good.
We're debating this internally at work, ad nauseam, and one of our engineers put together this post on why. Just in case others are having the discussion. There are merits on both sides. I think it's particularly hard for talented devs to want to work "with a template". But, as we look to serve the business, what is the RIGHT answer?
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I'm confused, throughout the article it mentions contractors being in oil facilities. But it also says "Orbital receives location data without any personal identification information and aggregates it."

So how do they know these people are contractors? Or are they just measuring the raw number of people in the oil facilities?
Ask HN: Is connectomics useful in the quest for AGI?
Do you think having the wiring diagrams of biological brains will prove useful in our understanding of complex cognitive phenomena such as self-awareness?
Not to bring this thread down too much, but it reminded me of a sadder mystery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discover.... Hopefully it gets solved as well.
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Most assured way, place it in a managed trust with enough money to keep it running or a way for it to generate enough money that it fills the trust with operational funds to cover costs. While you are alive you control the trust, upon your death it would be managed by a trustee.

Probably other ways, but this one will work, that is how family assets are handled many times and also can handle tax complications cleanly etc. There are multiple legal structures btw that accomplish the same thing. If it is truly critical this is the tried and true way to make it happen at least to my knowledge.
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Agreed.

I hate the web on April 1st.