skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue type and ink were an integral invention.
I have a philosophy degree, and I believe it’s a big part of why I’ve been successful in technology. It taught me to think in patterns and layers upon layers of abstraction; while giving me general-purpose tools that can be applied to problem solving in complex, interrelated systems.

I thought I was making a mistake choosing that degree path over CS; but CS was making me miserable with the crazy workload — which ended up being a bunch of busy work that got abstracted away by new languages / frameworks by the time we all graduated (we started in a world of esoteric mainframe architectures, C++ and perl and ended in a world of java, php and python so to be fair a LOT changed). But I don’t regret the philosophy degree at all.
AT&T completely bricked SM-T337A trying to root. I should have read more carefully but every other version of that tablet is rootable except AT&Ts. Attempting to root with my version results in an endless bootloop with no way to restore because they havent released a signed version of their kernel to restore to. Obviously this is outside the ToS but my point is to elucidate that they protect their devices from modification to the low level baseband aggressively
Are not immigrants being accepted into Canada of higher wealth and skill than those being accepted into the U.S.?
Measured diagonally it's still the same head turning (ignoring bezel) whether the second display is level with the first or not.

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Or mount an ultrawide vertically.
Knorr Future 50 Report? Title should be changed to inform that it's not WWF report alone.
I’m guessing they went to top schools. That’s the issue. Humanity degrees at lower tier schools don’t open doors, and a lot of people are borrowing a lot of money to get degrees with a poor ROI.
I had it on an SE/30: 16 MHz 68030, maxed out at 8MB of RAM, 1M per stick. (Later you could get bigger sticks; I never did.) It had floating point hardware 5x as fast as the IBM PC-AT's coprocessor. The whole machine with 80M disk was $2400, in 1990 dollars. It had one slot, taken by the 10Mb/s ethernet card, and a 512x342 monochrome 1-bit-deep display.

It ran MacOS7's GUI, and it was as responsive as anything you run today.
Depends on your age; heat-related deaths among the elderly and other vulnerable populations are up in several areas. Is RE Reunion? If so, in a place like that if nighttime temps start failing to drop humans start experiencing heat stress.
Here’s some related material:

"It turns out that [amyloid-beta proteins] form [plaques] because they're trying to help us. They're trying to fight an infection," said Robert Moir, an assistant professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

"The Alzheimer's disease dementia that comes after years of this battle, are something like collateral damage from their actions. But it's not that it's intrinsically bad what they're doing. It's just that if you keep doing it for long enough the amyloid that is generated in this battle starts to become a problem in itself."

If this theory, which Moir outlines in a review article published in the December issue of the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia, proves true, it could mean researchers' current strategies to combat the disease — fighting the plaques — is misguided.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/dec-8-2018-why-are-users-tak...

The antimicrobial protection hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155252601...
nuclear is the safest and cheapest option https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2015/7057-proj-costs-elect...

https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2015/7057-proj-costs-elect...
Yeah, something like 60% of the country is basically uninhabitable... As for the rest, there isn’t really sufficient water resources to support much of a larger population without adding huge amounts of desalination.
That's not really the question though. If you have someone eat food contaminated with lead or mercury, they may not be able to taste the difference, but that doesn't mean it's harmless.

The question isn't whether you can immediately sense its presence, the question is the effects of sustained exposure.

And the fact that the placebo effect is a real thing doesn't really tell you that one way or the other.
In my experience the liberal arts classes I was required to take were all big 100+ person lecture -> memorize -> test classes. I tend to think a lot of the praise heaped on liberal arts is the fallacy that since these skills are not learned in STEM classes, they must be learned in liberal arts classes. It also seems like those classes are taught at a much lower level. Plenty of people fail out of STEM and go on to be liberal arts majors but not the reverse. I think that bumping up the difficulty to the point that people are actually failing out would go a long way to these majors regaining credibility, and I hope they do because I am not anti-liberal arts in principle, only in practice.
You can't legally steal someone's trash. The courts have ruled that once you've put it in public it's abandoned and fair game.

The police do this all the time to suspected criminals. They just pick up their trash and if there's evidence there it's admissible in court.
> but CS was making me miserable with the crazy workload

Didn't you have to do a load of reading/essays in the philosophy course?
Flat Belly Revelation Review, Work or a Scam?
This is what annoyed me a bit about the article. Sea level rise doesn't seem like that much of a problem.

If the foundations will still be tenable, and the buildings are built appropriately (e.g. parking garage for first level), they're going to be there.

For older ones? Hell, Americans were lifting entire buildings 6' in the 1850s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

Miami already has canals, so swapping transportation from roads to waterways isn't a huge leap. Where you really need a road, loft it up above the water. Roads are probably the lightest / easiest thing to lift.

That said... the real killer of the city is likely to be drinking water access. Groundwater in porous limestone means saltwater infiltration doesn't just flood, it mixes with freshwater.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-29/miami-s-o...

Reconfiguring height is a one-time problem. Desalination of all your drinking water is a much more expensive problem.
>I mean, it's half the cost of nuclear

it's not https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2015/7057-proj-costs-elect...
> Second shock comes from car commutes. South & East England is pretty flat. But the road network really needs an upgrade. For example, highway interchanges are often roundabouts (!) leading to absolutely massive jams.

Roundabouts are actually way more efficient than junctions (and a lot safer) because of the low speed. I can imagine it must have been a big shock coming from the US tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4PW66_g6XA&t=507s

> Third thing is housing. Bad quality, and land controlled by a few leads to really high prices. Plus, low density and the aforementioned transport issues make it really hard to buy in cheap places that are a bit far away.

I mean the UK is a small place and supply/demand tells us the land is going to be expensive.
I work in Farringdon and live in Enfield. I commute through Tottenham. I've been attacked in Tottenham twice in the past couple of years.

This is a pattern through a lot of London. Central London has a lot of well-paid workers, but even then almost nobody can afford to live there, unless they're happy with tiny flats or sharing. So they commute to nicer homes outside the city center. And the slums - and Tottenham is essentially a slum - see these well-off people travel through their area, and try to take what they can, because they can't see a route out.
Well, then you need to size the governance of an undemocratic country.
GPS atomic time rolled over approximately midnight UTC this Sunday morning, but ignoring leap seconds. GPS is 18 seconds ahead of UTC and 19 seconds behind atomic TAI. http://leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm
I just use MSYS2. Everything I want from Linux, nothing I don't.
"Fly-In, Fly-Out" rather than a FIFO collection
> highway interchanges are often roundabouts (!) leading to absolutely massive jams

A common quip in the UK is that the solution to any traffic problem is to build a roundabout. I agree they are terrible in congested areas, but I think Brits have a certain fondness (or stubbornness) for them.

> Lastly, education is expensive and there is a lot of elitism. In the US, I think it's not so difficult to get into e.g. Stanford

Stanford is far more elite than Oxbridge - I don't know how you could think otherwise. The price of admission makes it so, plus extreme competition. It's a poor comparison.
Agreed.

I don't really think that nuance really enters into the debate though.

So surely that can work both ways. If we paint all immigrants as skill-less criminals, than we can also lump this guy in with them, to show the other side.

My intent was to show this as immigration as a success, rather than immigration as job stealing, so often portrayed in the media.
> I found them far more similar than the media would have you believe.

For what I know, methamphetamine causes negative long term effects whereas regular misc amphetamines (generic adderall) don’t if you aren’t overdosing or abusing it.
It kind of “smells” like when you see articles saying that there aren’t enough people for the “x” job, even when they are paid 2x the average salary.
Most of the time I realised that in those cases it was just a semi-covert advertisement for the industry in question, and digging in the real numbers you can see huge differences with the numbers reported in the article.
I’m not saying that this is absolutely the case, but certainly the narrative seems quite similar to what I experienced in the past...
> Or not needing a 4 year college if it aims to be vocational?

US colleges could absolutely drop the fourth year tomorrow if they wanted to. Many excellent European universities get it done in three and get results just as good.

The real waste of time is the US PhD - doing in seven years what could be done in two or three.
This was a "study" of three people?

This would better be named an experiment.
> It's not too long ago since establishing a link between cancer and EM Radiation.

What's this a reference to? Last I read there was no established link between cancer and EM Radiation[0].

[0] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...
This is a joke, right? Call me when they sell this at my local groceries' (for cheap).
Why doesn’t it always have to be about politics? I swear, right-wingers get their panties in a bunch any time they’re confronted with the fact that the strong majority of people with advanced education disagree with their values...
It's pretty limited: Boston, New York, San Francisco, San Jose.

Yes. Living somewhere is very different to visiting. But I think it's fair to say that experiences of public transport are usually much worse when you live there. That's because you have to experience it during peak times (i.e. getting to work/school) and throughout all the periods of engineering work. And of course you use it a lot more (and will probably better remember the few terrible times it failed compares to the many more boring times it Just Worked).

But maybe I am wrong and there are some bug US cities with great public transport. I'd be genuinely interested to know since the article gave no clues.
I have a hard time believing this would be the norm at a sufficient number of companies that it would justify picking up one of these degrees. Knowing technical skills when applying to technical companies seems like a safer bet.
> Naturally, when working with two monitors, you have to turn your head more often. When working with two monitors,

I’ve also noticed I move my eyes a lot more with bigger screens. Notably working on a dell 34” ultrawide. Whereas small screens - even down to the MacBook 12” - with efficient use of alt-tab and Alfred can be very productive. You don’t loose time looking for something. However when you workflow needs two side-by-side panes but no more, 27” is a bliss.

In my experience in web development, coding usually needs 2 browser windows with 10-20 tabs, 5-6 terminal windows, DB GUI, text editors with 2-3 related projects open, logs views, OS task monitor, and a couple of misc. apps. Might as well work on a small screen with less eye browsing but efficient use of keyboard shortcuts if context switching is that high.
I too suspect a pre-determined conclusion. That said:

Edinburgh, like London, has a single integrated transport authority (Transport for Edinburgh) albeit legally it's much less powerful than London's. I suspect that might be relevant.

As a tourist (I've never lived there, only visited) Edinburgh certainly _felt_ like an integrated system where I shouldn't expect every journey to involve negotiating new obstacles, unlike in my own city where any substantial journey is likely to involve understanding how the different bus and train companies have different ticket policies.
>Average wind turbine generates = 3 MW

it doesn't work like that , capacity factor of wind is almost half of the capacity factor of nuclear
With soft degrees, where you go to school matters a lot. At the large state school I went to, many of my friends had soft liberal arts undergrads. The only successful ones wound up as faculty members in mid-tier schools. The liberal arts classes I took were among the worst, with the most closed minded professors.

When people quote Silicon Valley stars like Reid Hoffman (philosophy, Stanford and Oxford) and Benedict Evans (history, Cambridge) look at the school too.

Communicating clearly, and thinking systemically are very important. I’m just not convinced that most colleges and universities teach those anymore. The people who have it get it elsewhere.
Consider this: a salary of €500 in Romania would net you the same purchasing power as someone who earns €1500 in Denmark. How would that work in a capitalist economy?
I’ve seen philosophy, English and history majors work in tech, I’ve never seen the reversal.

Personally I’m a little worried about ageism, something that doesn’t even enter the mind space of any of my friends with degrees in the humanities.

So maybe there is something to it. I mean, they had much harder times finding jobs than me, and aren’t rigoursly headhunted, but every one of them found jobs.
I also studied both, but only graduated with a History degree. I find some of the things History has taught me that CS and engineering lacked were: critical thinking, understanding power in human relationships, writing to think deeply. But the main topic that it has drilled into me is to consider Second Order Effects.
> And the equivalent idea applied to vaccines gets us measles outbreaks.

Not at all. Vaccines have been proved to work not even for decades but centuries, and they're extremely efficient. Moreover, as with all drugs, nobody denies there are risks and side effects, and that people from risk groups shouldn't take them. That's very far from a blatant "all non-ionizing EM radiation is 100% safe for humans" that some people believe. I myself am agnostic as I read studies supporting the views of both camps. Therefore I think the scientist who signed the above call have every reason to call for more research and global cooperation as to defining what safe really means.
The Windows update situation is one of the primary reasons I've switched all my machines to Linux. It's infuriating to open my laptop for something quick - either to show someone something or to get some work done on the bus - and be greeted by an inescapable update screen that lasts minutes.
Precisely, I would also expect they went to top schools. A philosophy degree from Harvard looks interesting and eccentric. A philosophy degree from a school outside the top ten or so is not interpreted the same way.

I majored in philosophy before moving to mathematics - it was phenomenally interesting, but I wouldn't be impressed by a candidate with a philosophy degree these days. A lot of people who hire humanities degrees from top schools talk about things like "diversity of thought", but I think if that was the real reason they might look for candidates outside the top schools.
`Three people were selected for the study` Pass.
Ask HN: Can Programs Be Sustainable?
Technology and platforms change, but can software be written, or a programing language be written to grow with these changes?

This thought process came up after seeing the post about Dieter Rams and how he designed products to last forever.
Redundancy is not equivalent to Fault tolerance.
Roundabouts are fine for cars on slow to medium speed roads - 20 to 40mph at a push. But they are a lot less efficient for longer trips. You don't get roundabouts on motorways or big dual carriageways. Slip roads and grade-separated junctions - often grade-separated roundabouts - are more efficient for time.

Grade separated junctions also take up a lot of space and divide communities, so I'm not 100% in favour.
I might do that myself, that sounds really cool. I've never imagined doing that before.
Interesting, this is very helpful. I like your points. And I'll be sure to work on "test driven development" as I learn more about coding and software development, thank you!
I will just say this was not my experience. In my Arab Israeli crisis class, for example, we were encouraged to see and role play Palestinian and Israeli points of view, as well of those of the various nation states involved. You can’t get much more politically charged then that, and we needed to genuinely understand very “conservative” and “liberal” policy points of view.
Reminds me of this Irishwoman who joined the British army in the late 1600s and managed to remain disguised as a man until she was receiving treatment after being wounded -- but only for the second time!:

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

It's so amazing that it's hard to believe. For example:

"She was so successful at passing herself off as a man that a prostitute claimed she was the father of her child. Rather than give proof that this was impossible, [she] paid child support to the woman."
Acute high-dose radiation is a significant health hazard. We know this from atomic bomb survivors, the Chernobyl first-responders, and some other instances, and it's horrible.

However, lots of people have gone around into low radiation zones and found really sick people with horrible diseases, and claimed it was linked to the radiation. What they haven't done is linked those diseases to low-dose radiation with anything near scientific rigor. It's very often just confirmation bias. "There's low-dose radiation here, and cancer, therefore low-dose radiation caused this cancer."

I'm not saying we have enough data to show that low-dose radiation causes no cancer. It just doesn't cause an easily-measurable amount, if any. A counterexample is places like Ramsar, Iran, where the natural background radiation is 80x higher than average. Would you guess that the cancer rate is higher than average?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran#Radioactivi...
Show HN: Genlink – Generate redirect link in static way
As I understand it, it's a fundamental limitation of how Xorg and is dependent on compositor support in Wayland.
Yeah, you have point. I am certainly not in favor of large energy companies stealing their way around paying for the long-term containment of spent fuel rods for example. People should be held accountable for the damage they do and the waste that they cause. Offloading of negative externalities should be reduced as much as possible. For example, meaningful taxation of carbon emissions or the set up of a nuclear waste recycling and emergency fund where required contributions are determined by external auditors.

However, I am still a staunch defender of differentiated learning from the past and rational planning of the future. Given the information we have right now, nuclear might actually be an important (probably temporary) piece of a rational plan for a good future. Moving forward means setting the stage and right incentives for people to learn from mistakes, improve and grow.
That's very strange to hear. I'm not sure where you studied but when I studied history at university papers were assessed in terms of argument construction, and how you assessed other historians work, and all you said had to be referenced in some way. Whether the lecturer agreed with your conclusion or not was not the basis of your mark.
I have had great success with Schema Spy[0]. It documents your database and includes a schema diagram.

[0]https://github.com/schemaspy/schemaspy
It was on HN front page some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18355680
An Open Letter from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook
People don't like to spend money until they're in real pain. If you don't go to Disney because you have purchased a car that can't go there unless there are electric charge stations, I don't think that's painful for them yet.
Show HN: Tool for test cases that care about the generated directory structure
Well maybe but I think that's an issue - encouraging people, especially from those form working-class backgrounds, to take the safe bet rather than fulfilling their potential. Working-class young people are encouraged to take a safe job in the local area living a limited life, while middle-class young people with the same ability are encouraged to stick their necks out more to go to the top universities and try for the top jobs.
Because home and hotel rates keep rising relative to minimum wage.
With 5G latencies, you can remote control more things (like excavators). Which means less need for humans to be physically present, which means less transportation (read: cars), which means less pollution.

Looking at the bigger picture, and counting in energy savings innovations on the basestation/network level, and so on, it might not be a clear-cut "5G spends more energy".
I misread the issue is about the Lock screen and not the login screen, my mistake. That's a bummer! But you're saying they've fixed it, woohoo?

The phenomenon of the "current Linux distro" is an interesting one, too. I used to be a desktop Linux evangelist (guess I still am too, but now I use a Mac since it's what they handed me at work...)

Stuff like this is why I always recommend Debian Unstable for a desktop for developer use. Finding out that the developers already fixed a thing that's bugging you, but you can't have it because the reviews and publication process which puts the fix into your hands won't take place for another 3 months is infuriating.

It is transparent though, even if it's infuriating. And you can also choose to use Debian Unstable, which I found in many years never to have been a bad decision.
law enforcement doesn't search for unreported crimes period. Some white collar crimes are reported such as when someone uses your credit card or steals your identity. Crimes such as bribery are not reported, they merely stumble across it. The reality scandal is tip of the iceberg, there's so much bribery and corruption going on in life that never get reported.
This doesn’t tell you about any data sharing that happens serverside.
For those like me getting a "you are browsing in Private Mode" window: http://archive.is/SIz0z
hope people will listen this obvious article , nuclear is cheaper, safer and need less resource's than any other type of energy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/09/frances-nuclear-clean-...

https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2015/7057-proj-costs-elect...