skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As they should. That is the point of technology.
I am really curious about the points you make in your post.

> This Nature article was debunked by other researchers.

Who are these other researcher? Care to link to their research on this?

> when in fact 60-70% of the mining power comes from a single row in this table: Antminer S9

How do we know that?

> It is not unrealistic to imagine the proportion of CO2 per kWh could be in a century 20% of what it is today.

Again, how do we know that?
The dependencies do change depending on the user. Different version of libraries will be in different locations, may require different build flags, etc, etc. Likewise the build may support a range of compilers which require (sometimes completely) different compiler options for a successful build. This is the reason autotools existed in the first place (and it was only intended to even out the differences between 'POSIX' systems in the first place).

In general though, if you're just talking about small projects, I have found the easiest way to incorporate smaller librares into a build system is to just ignore whatever build system they are using and re-write the build in the larger build system (even if they are the same tool!). This is mostly because the current state of build systems is so terrible.
IIRC, the Airbus A320 uses several older CPUs like that, but also Motorola 68k CPUs (sometimes as a mean to have 2 functionally identical systems with pieces from different manufacturers and different implementations).

I would not be surprised if they still use 68k in the A320 NEO.

Between specification, implementation, validation and testing, the cycles in the aircraft industry can be quite long. 5 to 10 years usually. And it's also quite costly to validate a brand new system. That being said, given the safety requirement, it's for the better.
I would rather the Chinese have my pr0n logs and such than Google / Facebook / NSA

Preferably nobody would have it.

I assume American VPN providers are all gathering data
for the NSA. Russians for Russia, China for China.
A good video on the topic:

https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw

It’s not a homelessness crisis. Homelessness is a symptom. Our cities are in the grips of a heroin & meth epidemic. Until we acknowledge that, it won’t get better.
It would be nice to have independent reviews of vaccines from companies so that consumers could make informed decisions. Vaccines are generally good, but the accountability to keep them that way is not as strong as you'd think.

And yes, man made pollutants are still the disaster of this century. Just because we've removed lead from gasoline doesn't mean everything else is fixed.
One of the few games where I actually enjoyed "working" within a game to gain money. I was so surprised by the game.

It really was an unexpected and eye-opening experience that didn't really get replicated besides maybe by GTA.
>the government needs to collect and verify all information anyway.

That's a great point. IRS already has most of the information and infrastructure to fill out your taxes. Third-party solutions have to build large chunks of the same thing from scratch.
While the material discussed in the article and new, the phase of matter is not new. The term is called non-newtonian fluid. Believe it or not you can make material with these properties in your own home.

An inexpensive, non-toxic example of a non-Newtonian fluid is a suspension of starch (e.g. cornstarch) in water, sometimes called "oobleck", "ooze", or "magic mud" (1 part of water to 1.5–2 parts of corn starch). The name "oobleck" is derived from the Dr. Seuss book Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

Because of its properties, oobleck is often used in demonstrations that exhibit its unusual behavior. A person may walk on a large tub of oobleck without sinking due to its shear thickening properties, as long as the individual moves quickly enough to provide enough force with each step to cause the thickening. Also, if oobleck is placed on a large subwoofer driven at a sufficiently high volume, it will thicken and form standing waves in response to low frequency sound waves from the speaker. If a person were to punch or hit oobleck, it would thicken and act like a solid. After the blow, the oobleck will go back to its thin liquid like state.
European data supervisor investigates Microsoft software used by EU
Live Webcast and Reddit AMA of the First Result from the Event Horizon Telescope
There is nothing wrong with single contributor languages. But for every C there are thousands of flatlined github repositories of single contributor languages. Building a language is a marathon, not a sprint. It takes years and years to grow something worthwhile, and this requires a lot of persistence. In the meantime, technical challenges, finances, family, and even busses get in the way of languages being fully realized. Having a team rather than a BDFL increase the chances of a language flourishing and persisting.
TBH it feels like all of BBC news has been turning tabloid for the past 5 years or so - many articles feel click- baity and sensationalist.

It's not just written media either - I hear Radio 1 news sections from time to time in the car, and they are so basic and devoid of information it's like they're designed for young children.
That's what scares me
The federal deduction for state and local taxes doesn't require knowledge of local rules, just the amounts paid. If you overpay in tax year X and get a refund in tax year Y when filing your local tax return, that's covered in federal tax year Y.
Cool topology ... makes me want to apply a Riemannian metric and see if Berlin pops out!
Do you mean the sample videos on the home page? All working well for me. What do you get when you click them? They should point to Vimeo and open the video in a lightbox.
> surprised how few people use Microsoft SQL Server.

Ok.

> I guess most people don't work with databases at all?

How does that follow?
Building a Simple JavaScript App with Solid – Blazingly Fast UI Library
The message from the Java updater applet wasn't exactly clear about this. I hate being cynical, but I feel like that was probably by design. I was under the impression that any commercial use of Java, JDK, or JRE required a paid license.

Thanks for clearing this up.
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They did, technically. The Form 1040 this year is only half a page. However, many people need to attach at least one schedule, which is just the rest of the form broken up into multiple pages. It's less of a dramatic change and more of a weird format shuffling.
Is that a problem? Isn't that how technology should work?
If you're an amateur of exotic states, try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
(I'm a product manager on the serverless team at Google Cloud)

The early access was based on a user account being added to an access list. But, I'm not sure why your team member had access without explicitly asking for it.
I feel similar about Organic (or "Biologisch", as it's called here). If I eat meat, I prefer it to be from an animal in a local field than meat that has all the right certifications but was shipped from the other side of the world (which happens).

Palm oil is a similar issue. It was supposed to be very environmentally friendly, but it's not if they're cutting down rain forests to grow it. Direct knowledge of where it comes from still beats having the right names and certifications; if that's all that matters, companies will cut corners to tap into that market.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19613812
Bitcoin certainly has its share of problems. There is nothing true, however, about Bitcoin causing climate change.
Orbital Index, Issue #7: Electric Solar Wind Sails
Sweden will vote against the copyright deal/article 13
We asked respondents to evaluate their own competence, for the specific work they do and years of experience they have, and almost 70% of respondents say they are above average while less than 10% think they are below average. This is statistically unlikely with a sample of over 70,000 developers who answered this question, to put it mildly.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#developer-pro...
What's the point? That one doesn't have the features from version 12, either.

spatial navigation, bittorrent, author mode, full page indexing for history, mouse gestures, key bindings editing, icons/buttons customisation, cycle show images/cached images/no images, shrink width to fit screen, presentation mode, panelise web page, navigation bar, tab preview pictures, custom icon sets installable from vendor homepage, all menus customisable by editing ini files
What it takes to release & market a successful free to play game [Path of Exile]
They've made millions from the appreciation of their houses, but they are still active in preventing new housing to try to juice their returns even more. It's a problem of how many Americans see their house as their biggest investment (and if you were a granny who bought in California 50 years ago it likely is). So naturally these wealthy landowners who bought property decades ago are going to fight to preserve their investment, but like the article points out, they're actually slowly killing their investment.
I think making arguments about programming languages fitting the hardware to explain their popularity doesn't make much sense outside of high performance or low level system programming. The obvious counterexample is languages with garbage collection, which is enormously popular (e.g. Github's five most popular languages by repository employ garbage collection: https://githut.info/ ). Another popular feature is dynamic type systems.
I wonder if these are “real” cybercrime groups or just people from poor countries trying to make a living by scamming each other.

I would expect these FB groups to be more like scam sites Alboraaq or Cardmafia than “real” crime forums like Verified.
I'm just providing facts. NYT fired a ton of editors, because they're expensive.[1]

They've also hired younger, cheaper writers.

As a result, the overall quality of the product has fallen, noticeable.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2017/06/new-york-t...
Why don't they just arrive early most of the time? For passengers, being early is as good as "A0".
A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars in sustainable mobility
Some are "negatively" prejudiced (racists), some are positively prejudiced (~progressives). Very few people in my experience are able to think about this topic in a purely rational and non-emotional manner.
"Over half of respondents had written their first line of code by the time they were sixteen, although this experience varies by country and by gender."

This really surprises me. Is it that common to take programming classes in high school? I suppose nowadays it is, but can anyone else confirm that was the case 10-20 years ago?
https://youtu.be/WNH7BIzqWNI
Oh, wait. The Java updater does not install an OpenJDK build. Why are you using the Java updater to deploy server applications? Oracle's free OpenJDK builds are here: http://jdk.java.net/

Anyway, the fact that you're using the updater means you're on Java 8. The five-year-old JDK 8 is past its free updates for commercial use. If you must keep using 8 (and continue getting updates) for commercial uses, you must either: buy support from Oracle (same as before for JDK 7 past its end of free updates), buy support from someone else, get OpenJDK builds from other organizations (like AdoptOpenJDK), or continue using an out-of-date version.

This has always been the case with old JDKs, except now you have a few more options than before. The best option is, of course, to upgrade to the current JDK (12), and keep getting free updates forever.
Agree that good community doesn't necessarily equal large community.
I live in Boston, which I believe is somewhere around 17%, and in the central neighborhoods I lived in, percentage of households with families was < 10%. Despite being small, it was a "good" community in that you got to know many of the other families in the neighborhood, I coached local sports, etc. It didn't feel small because of the density of the area AND people were generally on foot or transit and not driving. Running into a family we knew was a daily occurrence. All of those things contributed to making a small population feel much better.
The function of dream sleep (1983)
This is an amazing project! Probably one of the most useful ways to actually find quality job listings. If only Craigslist would offer site-wide search natively.

Btw, you should open-source this on GitHub. You should also include a crypto/paypal donation option.
Further reference: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Few people are so openly ignorant, but this is a very common belief.
Kind of a shame that I can't browse that site using a VPS on a tier-2 VPS provider (Vultr)
it's a release, a N month long release but it's a release
I lived in Berlin for a little less than a year. Coming from another city with a huge commuting infrastructure (NYC), I found the BVG's communication patterns to be comparatively pleasant: concise, accurate, and legible. I liked the original map a lot. Although, it's hard to bash the MTA too hard, here: there aren't many parts of Berlin that are as rail-dense as lower Manhattan.
By far the easiest place to network is within your current company, so your first priority should be doing a good job and building relationships there. You're network will naturally expand externally as people you currently work with leave your company.

Networking doesn't just mean meeting people for the sake of meeting people.
* Volunteer for tasks that get you in front of customers or internal teams that you don't normally work with. You'll build relationships as a side effect of good work.
* When you accomplish something that may be applicable outside your team, ask your boss if they could find out it if any other teams would like a demo or presentation from you.
* Whenever possible prefer face-to-face conversations over email, IM or tickets. Even if an email or ticket is required, start with face-to-face. Introduce yourself if you haven't met face-to-face before, even if you have communicated electronically before. This builds relationships so much faster.

You say that you are a person that "does what it needs to do without much fanfare and goes back home". I used to approach my job like this, and I too got really frustrated where things where headed when I hit 30. At the end of the day completing your tasks is only 50% of what is necessary to have a career, the other 50% is relationships. At 31 I decided to make an effort to get out of my comfort zone, and I can draw a straight line from this to where I am now (went from mid-level dev to sr dev, and now tech lead on a big project in 3 years).

By far the best resource I have ever found on this topic is the Career Tools podcast. I would start with their "Solution to a Stalled Technical Career" cast (https://www.manager-tools.com/2005/06/solution-to-a-stalled-...) then browse the map of their old podcasts to find the ones on networking, presentations, meeting prep, how to introduce yourself, etc to find stuff you're interested in (https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/relationships). They give advice that is specific with steps you can follow immediately, not just general guidelines.

I also highly recommend their interview series, but it's not free ($150). IMO it is well worth it, even if you're not interviewing any time soon, if you're like me talking about yourself is incredibly difficult, and learning how to talk about your accomplishments crisply, truthfully and confidently is an extremely valuable skill for those times when you meet someone senior (or anyone really) who asks about what you're working on or if you've done anything interesting lately.

Another good resource is the book "What got you here won't get you there by Marshall Goldsmith which talks about similar things and how sometimes to take the next step you need to learn new skills, not just hone your existing skills.
"This is a transient town...people come here to work from all over and it's a completely separate issue"

While true, this elides over a pretty large issue with minorities in tech. In general, the "transient after college" phase, where high potential students move to high potential areas is a privileged position that most people aren't able to participate in for many reasons. Maybe its because your parents (or brothers/sisters/nieces/nephews etc) are struggling and you need to take care of them day today, maybe its because you already have student loans up to the hilt and feel that living at home is a less risky proposition than moving across the country to a place where rent is going to be 2x the size of any paycheck you've ever received, maybe its because you feel the community you come from needs you more than you need a tesla. In general, the types of people who have these types of issues that drive them not to migrate are going to be high performing, but lower wealth, and thus on balance more likely to be non-white all else being equal. IMO, a great way to help make "tech" a more diverse industry would be to open offices in Atlanta, a city with a large black population, and a very good university.
I have an alternative, as mentioned in the comment. I use a Waterpik.

It's gentler than sticking a piece of plastic string between your teeth and more effective at getting trapped material and plaque out.
Huh? This article is ridiculous.

> It’s called “schedule creep”, or padding. And it’s a secret the airlines don’t want you to know about, especially given the spillover effects for the environment.

So… let me get this right… because the announced scheduled arrival time is announced as being an hour later than usual… somehow the plane spends more time in the air and is worse for the environment…

I think the author missed their morning cup of coffee.

> Padding drives higher costs in fuel burn, noise and CO2

Again, with the unsubstantiated and ludicrous claim that an airline giving itself room on the schedule for operational issues not to cause cascading effects somehow means more time in the air, more noise, and more emissions.

I give up. I hope nobody takes this article seriously.
Cars do have that. It shows up as "rolling resistance" in the tires when the vehicle moves, which varies depending on tread depth and inflation pressure. That drops to zero when lateral motion stops, though, and even the worst possible operational configurations won't cost you more than about 3% of your fuel. For boats, greater mass to float means deeper draft, and more resistance on the hull when it is moving. All that gravity-fighting energy is basically nothing for a ground-based vehicle when it is at rest, but manifests as a percentage loss when it moves. You can only escape it with a perfectly rigid, perfectly spherical object, on a perfectly flat surface.

If an aircraft even has the capability to hover in place, it usually has to expend even more fuel to do so than flying an orbit or holding pattern. The ideal way for an aircraft to handle the counter-gravity force is to push an infinite amount of air downward at infinitesimal speed. A helicopter would want to have infinitely long rotor blades, rotating at an imperceptibly slow rate. Obviously, we can't do that, so very long blades spinning slowly enough to see them move is the best compromise we can manage. The output of a jet engine is a relatively small amount of air, moving very fast, but the jets push the craft though the atmosphere, and the wings translate that forward motion into pushing a larger amount of air downward just a little bit, for more efficient lift. Vectoring the engine thrust downward to hover in place means you lose that efficiency boost from the wings. Also, rotary-wing aircraft that are heavily-laden experience "coning", which reduces hover efficiency by making the force from each wing slightly off vertical, and some of the lifting energy goes into canceling out a lateral wobble.

Keeping a plane in the air for another 15 minutes of fighting gravity just isn't significant compared to the effects from changing its speed away from the aircraft's efficiency optimum in order to arrive 15 minutes later, or from fighting air resistance by doing a holding pattern at optimal speed and altitude for enough extra distance to expend another 15 minutes. As long as the flaps are not extended, the plane is just not very concerned with gravity.

Also, once you hit about 11 km/s, you don't need to expend any more energy on counteracting gravity, anyway. At that point, it's all about atmospheric drag.
Of all the service sector jobs, bank tellers being underpaid is the most ridiculous. If you are a bartender, I expect you to understand drinks. If you are a musician, I expect you to listen to music. If you work in a bank, I hope you have some financial stability!
NYC however has excellent connectivity to Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. I used to live in LI and my commute was pretty decent and my rent in LI was very affordable.
I love all the new features that Firefox has been coming out with. They understand their users perspective.
Yeah I was able to get an estimate on the birth of my child, too. But then lawyers had to get involved between me and Banner Health a year later, over a bill from an anesthesiologist they said didn't exist, with contact information at which no one said I owed any money, that was never billed to my insurance company, for an epidural that ended up being done quite poorly. In the end it was considered to be my responsibility because of a paper my wife signed while in hard labor agreeing to pay the bill. Fuck the whole industry. That's not even my worst experience - just the most recent. I basically don't visit doctors or dentists anymore because the biggest health threat I see in my life is the massive surge of blood pressure I get at the mere mention of insurance companies.
Really sad how almost all the comments in this thread are negative.

As somebody who has lived in Berlin since 11 years, whilst having studied the official transit map and the big BVG physical map of berlin for hours:

This is a really great improvement over the official one
it gives me a relieved kind of pleasure to look at. I can really feel how all those expectations from the physical map finally find a home in the abstraction.
Oddly satisfying!
> feasible: possible to do easily or conveniently.
> likely; probable.

Support for monads in Rust is not possible to be added easily to the language, nor is it particularly probable. The features that come with the imagined syntax in the blog post are non-trivial additions to the type system.
Length of videos should be expressed in x:xx, not x.xx
I suspected your hypothesis was correct, that as the percentage of passive funds grows the pricing information of each stock would decrease. Then the question becomes, where are we in terms of what percentage trades are done as a passive investment vs an active investment.

Luckily I was able to find an excellent resource that dives into the exact questions we're discussing:
https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1803j.htm

It also makes a note that a lot of active investors allocate funds into a weighted index basket to better match index returns, so it could be that both active and passive funds are contributing to the same price insensitivity.

As a final supplemental to the paper given above I also looked at the PE ratio of the S&P500 per year:
https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio/table/by-year

One thing I would also expect is that as passive investing becomes a larger and larger part of the market we should also see the PE ratio rise.

I found a site that gives the PE by year (https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio/table/by-year) and calculated the following (2019 estimates removed).

For all the years 1871 to present:
AVG. 15.7
Median. 14.775
STD Dev. 7.25

For 1980 to present:
AVG. 20.72
Median. 18.15
STD Dev. 11.18

PE ratio for 2018 was 24.97, which is very high for all of history but seems reasonable for 1980 to today.