skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious how do you handle search? Is that even a use case for you?
The Missing Autistic Girls
Why bother with parsec when rabb.it exists?
A great deal of our forests are not "natural forests" anymore, and are mono-cultures that may be even more susceptible to issues of climate change (forest fire, pine beetle, ...). Managed (young) forests also hold less carbon than mature forests.

What I've been hearing is that one of the problems with Canada's "managed" forests is the reduction (in BC, at least) of deciduous trees which apparently can act as firebreaks [1]. BC (and the pacific northwest in general) has seen a steady increase in the length and damage caused by the fire season. It is April and we are already battling large fires in the province.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/it-blows-my-...
I don't like bugs but my intuition will help me
That is basically my entire argument, hybrid battery units remove a bunch of pain points with electrification. Like having over-head lines in you switching yard, lines through tunnels, on curves, bridges and grade crossings.

I think someone else brought up that with electrification you could also put traction motors in rail cars like is done often with commuter rail systems. And there is actually no need for the battery to be part of the locomotive either. Think old steam trains with a coal car.
The question is if they still exist
Every time an article on this topic comes up, I read the same responses in the comments, here or on Reddit.

Yes, it's cheaper not to emit than it is to reclaim, but how does this comment contribute to the solution? Even if everybody stopped emitting CO2 today, we still need to remove many Gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere to save the planet. Planting trees is cheap and is PART of the solution.

Similarly, every time an article about direct air capture (DAC) comes up, somebody complains that we should be planting trees instead. This is ALSO a very unhelpful comment, because in truth we need to be doing both DAC and planting trees. Even if we reforested all the depleted forests of the world, there would still be gigatons of CO2 to remove.

The answer to every proposed solution to climate change is not whether "this or that", it is "this AND that". We need to be doing everything: reforest, DAC, wind, solar, nuclear, synthetic meats, etc. The whole kit.
The thing that jumped out to me was how well the team managed their psychology. They state that after several pivots they were in the dumps and running out of money...yet their launch copy for Segment was peppy, optimistic and ambitious.
Sometimes the operators of a service will contact the ArchiveTeam and work with them to speed up the archival process. The file hosting service pomf.se did this when they were shutting down.

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Pomf.se#Archivin...
Whoops - what I meant was that the domain name is available!
Calm, quiet, peaceful, and secluded. In many ways, the opposite of what it is like right now.

And a bigger vegetable garden than I have right now.
I'd rather we didn't either. If we trust you enough to let you visit, work, whatever, then we should treat you respectfully.
Understanding JVM soft references for great good (and building a cache)
On the bogosity of speculation: Guessing the price of the original Surface
I don't know about Commento, but I do know that as a user, Disqus has never been good for me. A few years back, I realized that if a site used Disqus for its comments, that was functionally the same to me as the site not having comments at all.

It's too bad that Commento is a hosted service, though. That's a major drawback to using it all by itself.
> Very few BI products have actually surpassed 100 users at target installations. And beyond 1,000 is a real challenge that only few, and even then with a lot of assistance, can support: Tableau, Looker, Microstrategy, maybe Birst, maybe Domo.

At one point Looker was essentially a web application with a query service that could be scaled by adding more servers behind a load balancer. Each end user is essentially working in a shared nothing environment and the query engine is driven by metadata stored in a git repository. Looker itself did not manage cache or analytical processes. All of the real effort to scale was in the database backend.
How the IRS Was Gutted
A summary:

Let's protect people from the ideas and content we think is bad to provide a better platform for our advertisers, then blame our focus on revenue as the reason for why we didn't focus more on censoring the content our advertisers and corporate leadership find offensive, so that we can continue to generate ad revenue, which we call "responsible growth."

This article is littered with fascist ideation. Like this line:

> “YouTube should never have allowed dangerous conspiracy theories to become such a dominant part of the platform’s culture.”

So, this "dangerous" information needs to be removed, since it's apparently harming the public who are assumed to be unable to think for themselves. The same public, who, apparently, likes conspiracy theories.

>“The primary goal of our recommendation systems today is to create a trusted and positive experience for our users,”

But what if you had a positive experience and were enjoying the way the algorithm populated new and unusual conspiracy videos? Sorry, you're out of luck. But hey, Google is making sure you get "trusted" information now. What a relief!

>The company’s lackluster response to explicit videos aimed at kids has drawn criticism from the tech industry itself.

The lackluster responsibility in parenting has resulted in explicit videos being aimed at kids by an algorithm that is incapable of discretion.

An algo that, apparently, works so well that humans need to modify it so we don't popularize popular content we find offensive.

It doesn't matter if information is true or false. YouTube's stance on "objectionable" content with a holier-than-thou-you-can-trust-us-to-filter-content-so-your-toddler-can-mainline-garbage-without-your-input is outrageously disgusting.
Biological process are generally a slow controlled burn. Compost burns the carbon for the energy that creates, releasing CO2.
If you live in Seattle, perhaps you have friends who work at Amazon who can intro you to someone in the right team? You're trying to deal with a giant bureaucracy, so access to someone on the inside is going to be really effective.
They often offer either the simple option or the custom-built option basically:

- Stripe Checkout (https://stripe.com/docs/checkout) vs implementing your custom credit card form and using the API directly (https://stripe.com/docs/charges)

- Standard, Express, Custom options for Stripe Connect (e.g. take money from someone and give it to someone else): https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts
Exactly! Not to mention that reversing desertification and deforestation need to be done anyway. The Amazon rainforest is producing 20% of the world’s oxygen. Why not focus on that, Bolsonaro? But how can we get the world to change its focus?

This is the biggest contributor to CO2 pollution:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...
I've just finished a Stripe integration[0]. Given Stripe's developer first reputation I thought this would an easy job that wouldn't take more than a couple of days. Boy was I wrong! In the end, it took me about 3 weeks.

Small disclaimer here, I was implementing Stripe Billing, not Stripe Payments. The Billing suite is a lot more complicated compared to the Payment suite.

Nonetheless I took me a really long time to figure out all the special cases such as: renewing a card, switching to a different payment method, up/downgrading a plan, multiple currencies, etc.

At some point you'll be almost finished with the integration and only then do you find the need to implement webhooks for certain asynchronous payment methods (especially needed when you are in Europe). Once implemented, webhooks give you endless new workflows to handle, and many race conditions between your frontend and backend. So it constantly feels like one step forward and two steps back.

I don't think it's Stripe's fault though that my implementation took so long. Stripe's documentation is pretty solid. It's just that billing touches just about every part of your stack (frontend, backend, database, testing, tooling, accounting) and it's painful if you find out you have a bug that caused you to over/undercharge a customer. You need to take your time to get it right.

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Visual Studio 2019 Released
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET has strong free-speech policies. But they do expect you to be technically competent. If you're not comfortable with the command line and wp-cli (if you're using WordPress), you probably won't be happy with them.

If you checked them out years ago, they've since added support for custom HTTP servers. It's not as flexible as a VPS, but they're no longer limited to static files, PHP, or CGI. You can now run Django, Ruby-on-Rails, etc.
I'm surprised this piece doesn't mention The Life of Brian:

Followers: "Speak to us master, speak to us!"

Brian: "Go away!"

Follower: "How shall we go away master?"

(59 minutes into the movie)
Isn't this from 1 year ago?
I used Rabbit quite a bit but latency has gotten really bad lately. The hardware acceleration and my solid upload pipe makes parsec significantly better to use.
> DRM absolutely benefits them because it ensures that only parties they permit are allowed to access content, for the same reason it benefits other media companies

The fact that every pi8ece of Netflix content is on the pirate sites within hours of release would prove otherwise. Netflix is well aware of the uselessness of DRM.

And you're right, they probably did negotiate DRM free licenses. But you missed the other part of my post -- the cost for implementing a separate DRM free pipeline was very high, and there would be little ROI to the business. Not having DRM on just the Netflix content would get very few new customers, if any. How many people would say "man I would totally sign up for Netflix if only their own content was DRM free, even though I'd need a DRM enabled player to play everything else, and oh yeah this only applies to web streaming anyway."
> Only no one cares about that.

I really wish people would stop saying this. It is a completely idiotic statement. There are hundreds of people throughout history that quite literally gave their lives for privacy, as recent as one generation ago. Complacency and the silent majority does not equate to "no one cares about that" otherwise, you wouldn't have so many privacy centers and advocacy groups throughout the country.

> Most people don't have anything to hide from advertisers.

"'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings Of Privacy" https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... It's a good read, and I hope it convinces you otherwise that privacy is as important as ever, even in lieu of fallacious "nothing to hide" arguments.

From the paper, the easiest way to debunk the "nothing to hide" argument is to ask easy questions.

"I've got nothing to hide."
"OK, so why do you have curtains or blinds in your home?"
"OK you have nothing to hide, so can I see your past credit card statements?"

If we all have nothing to hide, why don't those interested in our private lives show us theirs? It's the ole "Show me yours and I’ll show you mine" adage.
>That's why Chef Inc. has been building Habitat;

Isn't that just, Docker?
OK.. this is the second time today I've dropped a reference to Polar. Not trying to spam HN I sware :)

Polar is sort off like Evernote but mostly (for now) focused on book annotation (PDF and web content).

https://getpolarized.io/

I'm trying to nail the work flow where you read a book on your computer and can easily annotate highlights as 'notes' and then those can become sort of like notes as in Evernote.

I think we're about 95% of the way towards having something killer and I'm still putting on the final touches.

Right now you can read and annotate amazingly well, create flashcards, highlights, and comments.

The remaining things I need to polish are to add support for annotating area highlights and to have better management of the annotations.

We have web and mobile is coming along too.
I would assume Google would not even be allowed to let third-party developers use their DRM implementation even if they wanted to. The real stakeholders would grumble a stern no. If this is true the real fix would be to patch the copyright law, IP licensing, and the contracts with content producers.
Alien Abductions Are Memories of Child Birth
Great find! Definitely provides a lot more context
If life came there on one of our probes, and at least some of it found Mars to be hospitable enough to spread enough to generate gas on this scale, then we can start growing at least some Earth-based single-cellular life on Mars, right now. We might be able to use that to start terraforming Mars, if we chose to do so.
Pop-Corn Time would like to have a word with you
Before you ask, here's how :)

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/tmux_for_collaborative_editi...
Does your training dataset supply that info about each object?
Not according to reviews. According to reviews, IOS 12 is very performant for 5s. I know it works well on the 6s series.

The number of applications installed doesn't matter. iOS will purge apps if they are running in the background and take up too much CPU or memory. You're not going to have > 10 apps running in the background. More than likely, you won't have any third party apps using CPU time in the background besides playing music or VOIP.

EDIT:

Just realized that you may be referring to macOS. In that case, that would be RAM and/or disk dependent (SSD vs spinning hard drives).
this is very well done!

too bad browser selection api will cause LOT of bugs of this kind https://streamable.com/0gc8j
It’s more than that.

If at every moment someone is selling a stock, someone else is buying it, this argument would say the stock is worth zero. Because for every person trying to buy it for X someone is “buying it” for -X.

But of course, X is what matters. That’s how we calculate market cap and it measures overall effects
>That's another symptom of poor goal selection. If you can miss a goal and somehow receive partial credit it was a poor goal. If you can exceed a goal and get extra credit it was a poor goal. Targets should be selected because they need to be hit, not just to give you something to aim at.

Do I understand what you are saying? OKRs should not be roofshots or moonshots, but just commitments? If so, that's not what the majority of literature I've read on OKRs says. Hmmm....
They had training on runaway trim. All they needed to do was follow the memory items.
Cool gag. Predictably, the links are nonsensical. It further shows how no one algorithm will outpace all algorithms, i.e. no one thought to rule all thoughts.
At least not all of them has been posted on 4chan, 8chan, 2chan, or whatever; having been cum on. That's good though.
That's so awesome to hear! Our team is partially geo-distributed, and so we care deeply about helping improve the way that modern teams can collaborate together. Let us know how things go after you upgrade to VS 2019!
Escapism might just be the case. I know from my own experience gaming was just a way to focus on something else besides a cruel reality. Eventually moved to programming and realized later what was happening. I'm sure if life had been different, I would have done a different career and one that's more social with the focus in a social aspect.
They probably did negotiate DRM free licenses. But the cost for implementing a separate DRM free pipeline is very high, and there would be little ROI to the business. Not having DRM on just the Netflix content would get very few new customers, if any, especially given that this whole argument only applies to web streaming anyway.
If you have a Synology NAS, DS Note is amazing. It's a full featured Evernote/OneNote clone that you self-host on your NAS. Mobile clients available. Easy import from Evernote backup, etc.
I think part of this, at least, it eating meat much more sparingly.

Eating less meat gets mentioned whenever a climate change debate appears here. Perhaps my own position as a meat eater makes react somewhat critically to this (when I was a vegetarian, I had trouble with my digestion that eating meat seemed to solve).

With that caveat, I should say that even if producing less meat was a good solution to climate change, individual abstention seems unlikely to be a path that's going to get us very far towards this change. One can see various social movements against a variety of products which don't by themselves prevent the production of these products. Whichever actions one might describe in a "ten things one can do to save the planet" list, those actions will done by a limited number of people, determined by sociological factors. Moreover, reduce the demand for X environmentally product from group Y and you decrease the price, stimulating demand from group Z.

More concretely, I have friends are homeless and nearly homeless. Eating less meat might be healthier and less environmentally destructive but these people aren't going to make that choice because their choices and values revolve around what lets them survive. And broadly, if producers of a product can't sell to one group, they can find another group.

My claim is that any shift in agricultural CO2 production is going to require regulation, whatever choices some consumers might make just won't change things and to various extents, acting as if these choices are a program does more harm than good.
> That's a benefit for those who consider it a benefit.

Some reading on green exercise:

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_543531_en.ht...
We've switched to box and whisker plots for most of our statistical reports, they give you a good idea for various important percentiles and adding average indicators is fairly simple if desired. Even for things like latency this can be quite useful.
This isn't really political. Both the left and the right fall into this camp.
Maintainer of Colonel Kurtz here! It's super awesome to see positive feedback. Thank you!

CK is our workhorse for tons of sites, and we've struggled to come up with a good general pattern for editing horizontal layouts. We'd happily take suggestions, however. I'll admit it's one of the more awkward things with the editor.
Reminds me of the B-52, which first flew less than 50 years after the Wright Flyer, but will have been flying for about a hundred years by the time it is retired. Feels like we haven't really fundamentally changed aviation technology since the early days, just incremental improvements in materials.
That pop-up when I click the 3 dots is way too slow, it's really annoying. Those buttons should probably be visible on hover.

Or better still, just show them on the side maybe. It takes too many clicks to get work done. (IMHO)
I feel that the clue is really in the name, wealth is stored “value”, and value is well, a “value judgement”.

If you have to strip away all uncertainty from the universe to support your position and further posit hard materialism and then qualify with “in practice it’s not discoverable but philosophically it’s there” then I feel we are squarely in angels dancing on pinheads territory.

Physics itself does not need such violent axioms to get useful results! I think you would be hard pressed to find a physicist who would claim a plausible conservation law for “subjective beauty” (another kind of value), yet this is also a consequence of your premises.

You’ve explained that you are a materialist but not really anything useful about economics as practised by humans. Who are, perforce, rather limited.

You could equally well say “there is a ‘true’ value for every thing, but only god knows it”. That statement would be exactly as useful and (as an aside) just as unprovable a belief.
gitlab and some internal sites
Yes. I deliver such software. The downloading can be done over a network, however there should always be another mechanism in place to ensure only an authorized version runs.

For example the vital computer compares a coded key compiled in the executable code with one read from a physical dongle. If it does not match, the system refuses to start. The dongle must be replaced separately by the person installing the software.

It’s just an example. There are plenty of variants possible.

There are usually also check lists, where the running version is displayed and verified on a safety related display to confirm the upgrade succeeded.
FYI, Rust's safety goes beyond that. Its ownership model keeps you safe from data races, unlike, to my knowledge, GC languages.
Isn't it still live and well?
Nice headline, leaving out this detail until the second paragraph:

"Customers will receive refunds."
Our team actually uses tmux all the time! That said, we figured there was room for an awesome collaboration tool for folks that preferred GUI-based editors/IDEs.

In addition, you can start a Live Share session, share a terminal, and then use Vim/tmux/etc. from there. A bit of overkill, but still kind of cool :)
Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains
You should read his site, his IDGAF attitude is pretty funny. The FAQ section is the most entertaining.
On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year
Ah and yes of course the software is checksumed and you must verify the sum to make sure you load what has been certified and not some random piece of $£%# pretending to be it.
Looking at one component and saying it’s safe (qualified with ‘if you know what’s going on’) misses the point. In fact it’s an engineering style response because it shows some myopia.

Safety in an aircraft means getting passengers to their destination without injury or loss of life. Boeing failed here - blame lack of training, single sensor dependence or software if you like but there was certainly a failure.

Now no one really cares if MCAS is problematic - any solution needs to resolve the underlying fault.
I cannot get YOLO to detect at 30fps, even on gpu machines. This was true when I tried keras yolo as well as following the instructions for c compilation on this page.
> no need to learn Ruby

Instead we'll just learn yet another ad-hoc language clumsily built atop YAML, and put up with Norway always being false when abbreviated. :)
I don't seem to remember there ever being a resistance to vaccinations growing up, beyond me being six and hating the doctors office. It makes me wonder how this started.

I've yet to actually meet someone who is against vaccines. (Or thinks the earth is flat, for that matter.) But judging by the posts on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, et al, it makes it seem like every other person on the street is believing this stuff.

People naturally want to combat bad ideas with facts and such, and outrage culture loves having a scarecrow to pillory. Anti-vax and Flat Earthers are natural targets, but I can't help but wonder if all the soapboxing is just spreading their message far and wide--when without attention, it simply would have died out.
Even if we work with averages, it takes on average 2 years [0] to make it from entry level quant at a hedge fund to senior analyst. Senior analysts make on average $750k/yr [1] in total compensation (primarily bonus based) at a mediocre hedge fund. The expected value after 6 years even at a less than mediocre hedge fund puts you north of a million post-tax.

The typical track is 2 years as an analyst @ $200K/year and then 4 years as a senior analyst @ $750k/year. Do the math.

[0]: http://www.streetofwalls.com/finance-training-courses/hedge-...

[1]: https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/266401/the-salaries...