skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably you could do the same thing with a `<script async>` tag, drip-feeding bytes across the connection and waiting for it to close. Though now that I've said that, it occurs to me that disabling JavaScript almost certainly avoids loading script hrefs to begin with rather than just not executing them.

Is there an equivalent with any other type of resource, that avoids deferring onLoad?
That’s why I picked the number.
Have you noticed any back discomfort from sitting in a stool or does the increased motion offset it?
The West is the outlier here. Most of the world has lived under dictatorships for most of history. China is a millenia-old civilization that has never been a democracy. The current regime may fall, but it is not written in the universe that it will progress towards anything resembling a Western democracy.

If I were playing the odds, I'd put money on democracy failing in the west rather than it rising in China in the next century.
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Poor fractals and fractal flames get ignored, even when generated with scripts. Sure, there's no "AI" (yet) behind fractals, but it is the most visually appealing of all simple-rule-based generative art IMO. Of course, my definition here of "generative art" is a bit broad. Then again, the idea of "art" in general has evolved under the guise of referring to end-works (works that don't do much if anything by way of utility). It went from meaning created by skill (the art of craftsmanship, requiring more unique motor skills / talent than typing at a keyboard) and created for beauty to simply meaning something that pleases something in some sensational way ("sensational" meaning "by means of the senses"). Thus, it's no surprise that computer-generated art is gaining traction, all the while we are in fact no longer creating Michael Angelos (for reasons beyond the scope of this comment)... unless you know where to look.
> Leica, a foreign company, is now apologizing about the ad (and has deleted it from their YouTube account)

Joining Mercedes Benz in that particular hall of shame:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/07/technology/mercedes-benz-ti...
more centralization, great. why not make search itself distributed by broadcasting the queries recursively and gathering results?
Yes, although, the thing about failure and success is that you can have an unbounded number of failures but you only need one success.
but biochar requieres high temperatures, which usually produces co2...
The problem with all this CO2 Storage is that we have a perfect storage for co2: Oil.
Since we burn this storage, we release more and more of that CO2 without anyway to put it back to storage.
The tree idea can maybe slow down the climate change, but it is in no way a solution, merely a short stopgap.
> to ask why drinking excessively

How did we go from just 'an informal employee gathering at a bar' to now 'drinking excessively'?
and just because the trees are in the ground everyone magically has enough water to care for them
I don’t understand your kvetching here. You’re mad because the victim hasn’t done enough in your mind to write the details for the public? Why not presume that she was clear in her complaint, given that Datacamp has already decided to apologize?

And why should she have to give a statement about wanting the executive to get fired? The submitted post says explicitly that is not what they want.

> It did not threaten to go public or call for the executive’s firing, but it did bring up how the growing rumors and uncertainty around misconduct at DataCamp have been a problem for the personal reputations of instructors.
And sporadic community-based strife prior to that, beginning certainly no later than the first millennium AD.
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I hope when I die I'll be worthy enough to ascend to whatever is the programmer Valhalla and I'll see Joe there, amongst the other greats.

I have never written a line of Enlang, but as I've seen the advantages of loading binaries at run-time as swappable components I get an inkling of the beauty of the idea. It's not near so easy in C# as it appears to be in Erlang.

Also, I nominate the name of programmer Valhalla to be called "Greenfield."
> metals (I have silver wedding rings I got printed there)

was it to save money? or for some unique design?
Maybe the crawl could be distributed somehow, and you could pull versions of the web from those distributed nodes via BitTorrent.
And suppose someone builds a service specifically to find illegal content? There will be pressure to block them and also remove stuff from the index. So you need a policy on who gets blocked and that's just as political.
These kinds of articles would be infinitely more helpful if they spelled out how the specific examples listed in the beginning can be derived as a consequence of the more general result. As it is, it's still mostly a bunch of general abstract nonsense, as one of my math professors liked to call it.
I don't think you can objectively. Money isn't a good measure, we all though that what someone gets paid is not necessarily in line with their contribution to a company or society.
Because in this case the executive has been told to limit his alcohol consumption at these events.
I've always thought it would make more sense if each web server could be responsible for indexing the material that it serves (and offer notifications of updates), so instead of having to crawl everything yourself, you could just request the index from each domain, and then merge them.
Alan Kay on Ted Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw

Steve Wozniak on Ted Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl0Wfs70rV4
> but I don't think the conflict of interest would allow for cost-effective large-scale access and pricing

Not for existing search machine providers, but I think there is room for new players to do this large scale. Imagine an AWS service that high performance access to crawled data as well as a number of indexes and a fairly simple search engine using this data. That would commoditize one of Google's biggest advantages, and anyone could, at least in principle, run their own search engine from the data. Because the market for this is much wider than traditional search engines just providing the data and indices for a pay-as-you-go fee could still be very profitable.
I feel like Shannon missed one point: a mind free of distractions.

If you have all of the qualities that shannon described, but you were born poor, you'll spend your talents trying to feed, cloth, and house yourself and your family. These are the distractions I refer to-- the distractions of life.

Only once you no longer need to worry about the basics can a mind be free enough to contribute something novel to the world.

This is why I think it's important knowledge workers have a good benefits and pay package. If they have health insurance, for example.. that's one less worry... which reduces their cognitive load, allowing them to perform their work better. Minds only have so much bandwidth, so to speak.
My point was that the added cost should be reflected in the collection of waste, not the point of sale, because there aren't any externalities yet, and so there isn't anything to calculate.

As for landfills being cheap, that isn't a bad thing. That means the externalities at those sites are low. I live near an old one that was turned into a 50 acre prairie restoration space with about 2 miles of walking paths and full of wildlife. As others pointed out, burying carbon does sequester it. Methane capture merely prevents it from getting back out when it is nutrient and water dense (aka food waste).
There's a reason why we set the bar for prioritizing safety over speech at credible, immediate threat rather than an abstract threat. Effectively every movement or political group has committed acts of violence. Whether its Islamists blowing up marathons or shooting up nightclubs, or right wingers shooting up churches and mosques, or liberals trying to assassinate congressmen at a baseball game. If you look hard enough you can point to deaths or criminality caused by most political speech, and use that as justification for bans.
Tolerance and diversity normally stops at "it's cool we're doing things differently, as long as nobody gets hurt". Why would you be tolerant of people being abused?
This seemed to happen with Gord Downie of the Canadian band The Tragically Hip. He was given a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, but had the energy for a cross-Canada tour a few months later. He was much loved across the country, and though the band’s arena-sellout days were mostly behind them, they blew the doors off with sold out shows at the country’s top venues, culminating in a nationally-televised concert. I’ve always marveled that he got the chance to have this touching denouement to his career, and I’m glad he did. And I’m very thankful that I managed to see them in Vancouver.
And the religion involved in the bombing have centuries of history of violence, yet most other civilizations seems to be cool with it (China being the exemption).
PubSubHubbub was intended to be something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
It's funny how much Muslims help trample the human rights of other Muslims. Whether it's the Saudis or Iranians or the Yemenis... or the Central Asians. In the West we have achieved the fabled brotherhood of the Ummah through humanism where as in most Muslim countries are out for other Muslims' blood often using Islam as a justification.
> These solutions didn’t appear out of thin air because people get bored one day.

I certainly did not say these architectures appeared out of thin air. They were invented to solve the problems of internet-scale companies.

> Micro services solve tangible, real world problems.

Incorrect. Microservices solve tangible, real-world problems when they are applied to the correct problems. Microservices might also create tangible, real-world problems whether they are applied correctly or not. In fact, that's one of the points of the article, if you read between the lines.

> gRPC isn’t necessary hard to debug, and it brings a whole host of improvements over whatever ad-hoc mess you used before.

I don't know what you are referring to. If your microservices are well done, good for you. You still need to optimize the transport, which is a cost you pay only because of your choice of architecture. If you used thicker services or a monolith you would have different problems, but not that one.
> "food islands" where people in certain locations only have access to junk food and fast food.

Surely they also have access to the food that they can buy at the store and cook themselves?
> 1) It's unusual. Historically, C# is more of a businessy thing, with a bit of game stuff on the side, mainly in the form of scripting. Extremely high performance C# code is even stranger.

Unity is C#, no? I remember reading that they are moving most of the traditionally C++ 'backend' engine code to C# now, too.

Edit: Found the article: https://lucasmeijer.com/posts/cpp_unity/
Oh for sure, there are smart people everywhere, as I note in a comment elsewhere. In this case, I was simply returning one overly simply retort with another.
> Is there an equivalent with any other type of resource, that avoids deferring onLoad?

If JS is disabled the event doesn't really matter and any asset can be handled this way. I just use the favicon because it stops the browser from showing a loading spinner so everything looks still and nobody assumes there's anything going on in the background.

You can use persistent connections like this in other strange ways too. For instance this is a no-JS chat that's even able to update the connection count by sending a bit of CSS lazily: https://harmless.herokuapp.com/main
Performance, I guess. Also, a schema. Eg json has schema but most apis I know don't use json schemas.
I run an audio engineering business.

At first it was just a project of passion, but years later and a not insignificant investment in gear, software, and other equipment has left me with a side business that nets a tidy bit of income.

It’s also something that I adore doing, and hence a massive plus. I get to mix and master a whole variety of music, from classical to ambient, to EDM, and it’s always a pleasure to work with artists whether they’re new to it all or seasoned professionals.
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I’ve don’t some crown moulding and can confirm... it’s the corners that are a killer. For me, silicone covered all. :-)
> Filtering out spam, pornography, and other undesirable or illegal content would be done at the service level,

No, it has to be done before, at the infrastructure level. There are jurisdictions (Germany, for one!) where even the storage or publication of links can be illegal under certain circumstances. With the new GDPR law and whatever is coming up in the US, the situation is even more unclear as it is trivial to embed protected personal data into URLs.
And that was my point too. Stockfish and houdini both play very human like moves; that's if we can even define human like moves.

Stockfish frequently sacs pawns and minor pieces for space advantage
> For example we have yet to see what can happen if a nuclear plant is sabotaged - that's not FUD

That's FUD. What are you proposing is going to happen that would be worse? You can't get a nuclear explosion; the fuel isn't weapons grade. You can get a meltdown and a hydrogen explosion, but that is what happened at Chernobyl. It leaves behind a hot mess and a large cleanup bill but hardly anybody dies. Especially if you're not an obtuse Soviet bureaucracy that dispatches ordinary firefighters to deal with it without adequate training or equipment.

> They consume alot of water resource as well, for cooling.

Water isn't "consumed", it starts off as H2O and ends up that way. It evaporates and then condenses again somewhere downwind.
Good stuff, just a question, why c#?
Glad it helps. :) Although, with 400GB, I think any tool would probably get similar performance, since it's likely bottlenecked by your disk's read speed.
how is this news? China has a sophisticated government-social process to silence everything within minutes.

Media surpression was one of the ruling party's long term commitments.
TIP: find a student born and raised in Beijing/Tianjing, they are much more likely to talk about politics. My father’s favorite story was about drinking with the student leader at the night before 89’s event happened.
I can tell you how I reason to it.

According to many sources, but I will cite this one[1] a single tree converts about 50 lbs of CO2 in a year. There are three trees on my property, a city tree (planted by the city) and two Birch trees planed by the original developer. All are deciduous so lose leaves in the winter but we'll give them full credit anyway, so call it 150 lbs of CO2 a year.

My rooftop solar system nominally puts out 5.2 kW of power under full sunlight, although efficiencies cut that down to around 4.8 kW net into the grid. I have over 10 years of data from the system, drilled down though it averages out to about 4.5 "solar hours" per day with an average daily output of about 22 kWH per day or about 8 MWH per year.

The US Energy Information Association (EIA) tracks a number of statistics, but the one that is most relevant is the number of metric tons of CO2 per MWH per state. You can see California's number in this report : https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/california/ is 474 lbs per MWH.

Using that number, my rooftop solar system "saves" (which is to say doesn't generate) about 3,792 lbs of CO2 a year. Which, is way more than the 150 lbs a year the trees are taking out of the air. This is why the 1.2T trees, or 160 per person, is such a large number. A family of four would need to plan 640 trees on their lot, which would remove 32,000 lbs of CO2, which is a lot. To match my solar panels I would need to plant an additional 76 trees.

What you can take away from that is that solar panels in places where you can't put trees are a solid alternative. And planting trees rather than letting unused land sit idle as a field of grass is also a good plan. As a home owner, solar, even in places where it won't generate all your energy needs, will help cut CO2 emissions.

[1] https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/treesofstrength/treefact.h...
Somehow I managed to snag one of the Thinkpad models that doesn't have an SC reader option (T420p), which is disappointing, because this seemed like a cool thing to look into and experiment with.
> A few other neighbors who were maliciously caring for their lawn

I think you meant meticulously, but it works either way. :)
> I can’t think of a single person of color that I know, and I know many that has had a poor interaction with the police.

Consider yourself lucky. Here's more anecdata: few years ago, I was biking back home (Upper Haight) and missed a stop sign. For context, I'm latino, south american especifically, but look kindof european. The police officer stopped me, really courteous asked for my papers and before looking at them explained really calmed that I had missed a stop sign. I gave him my chilean driver's license (I had not applied for my CA license at that time) and then he immediately changed the tone. He tooked my papers to his car and then came back telling a story how much I liked to ignore rules and I had a "pretty long record" (I have not, that was first ticket in the US). It didn't matter what I said, he became more agitated and violent and only because I kept my cool and basically said yes to everything (frisking and lots of very inappropriate questions), he gave me a ticket and left. I'm sorry, but in here I just avoid cops, I don't trust professionals that have poor training, are poorly paid and can't control themselves when there is some danger, which is the thing they should excel at. I'm obviously generalazing here, but this is also reflected in the linked article and, IMO the core of the Nieto murder.
How could you possible make such a DHT? We live in the world of NATs, especially symmetric NATs, where each mobile phone user gets assigned a random ip:port every time it makes a connection. DHT, on the other hand, needs every node to have a persistent address that can be contacted any time. In other words, with the NATs, a DHT node cannot cache a bunch of peers and contact them later because those peers are no longer available at those addresses, so every time a node re-joins DHT, it needs to restart the bootstrapping process from scratch, from those initial hardcoded bootstrap servers. Effectively this makes this DHT a fully centralized system. WebRTC cannot solve this problem.
Anyways I disabled favicons on my computer from when I installed it, because that is not a feature I use.

I did not know of this specific use before, but now I do.
Can't access the link from Germany. Apparently Project Gutenberg is blocking German IPs because of a court ruling.
I also did my first interviews around 3 years into my career (almost 2 decades long so far).

It was too early - I didn't have the technical expertise yet to judge someone else, but much more than that, I didn't have the soft skills or indeed any idea how the hell to interview another dev. I shouldn't have been doing it, but at the time I was the only dev at the company. I look back now and cringe at my naivety.
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Rice contains arsenic??? I just found out a few days ago my favourite vege, bamboo shoot, contains cyanide... and is sold pre boiled to remove it...
I'm not into AI, but it's been a while that from hearing of it I've been percieving that there's quite a gap between AI and human intelligence, which is embodied cognition. It appears to me that human reasoning concepts are vastly sized and paced by the physical and biological world, while this information is not accessible to a highly computational AI.

E.g. human sizing of time is highly linked to physiological timing, may it only be heartbeat pace.
More generally, all emotional input can gear reasoning (emotional intelligence).

Only my 2c on this. Not sure how accurate it is.
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It can be shown both bottom-up and top-down, but I prefer the bottom-up: Photosynthesis is usually an order of magnitude more efficient than photovoltaics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency

...an individual leaf might be peak out at 3% efficient, but it is operating just a portion of the year (maybe about a third to a half at full performance) and also much light gets reflected, absorbed by branches, or misses the leaves entirely.

Additionally, photovoltaics peak at 40% efficiency but get about 15-20% efficiency typically and can function the entire year (unless fully covered by snow). And they're displacing electricity produced primarily from fossil fuels which are burned at 30-40% efficiency.

Now from a top-down perspective: forests (in this case calculated by replacing cropland with forests) are estimated to sequester about 2 to 10 tons of CO2 per acre per year. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40562.pdf

In principle, an acre of about 40% solar photovoltaic system with a 25% capacity factor could produce about 3.5GWh per year. But typically, about exactly one tenth that is done in practice: 0.35GWh/year/acre.

Since you'd be displacing electricity from the US grid, which is currently about 420 grams of CO2 per kWh (based on my calculations of the most recent eia.gov figures, but you can find similar figures by Googling), that's equivalent to 147 metric tons of CO2 per acre per year for typical photovoltaics (and over 1000 metric tons per acre per year in the idealized case).

This person's calculations reach similar conclusions: https://www.solarpowerrocks.com/environment/installing-solar...

So absolutely, it's better to use solar panels than trees, at least until the grid is fully or nearly-fully saturated by solar.

...BUT once we fully clean the grid, trees have some advantages:
1) they efficiently suck CO2 out of the air and store it, not just produce the energy. That means you can actually draw-down CO2, producing negative emissions.
2) They're scalable. A tree is like a solar farm, CO2 direct air absorption system, and a chemical factory but can be planted as just a seed. It may not be "efficient", but being self-replicating and scalable is pretty powerful.
I’m going to preface what I’m about to write by saying yes I understand life happens and I’ve carried a balance on a credit card charging high interest at one point in my life.

- If you have a credit card with decent cash back/rewards program. The interest rate is going to be higher. If you are carrying a balance month to month. You’re doing it wrong.

- If life happens and you do end up with a balance and your credit is decent, you should be able to get a no interest for x months, no interest balance transfer.

Credit Cards aren’t a life necessity. Homeowners insurance and car insurance are. Taking advantage of the rules as they exist is not unethical. Insurance fraud is both unethical and illegal.
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I have read it. If you have a point you want to make, you're welcome to make it.
Why hasn't anyone started a Betterment for basket options?
Speed, schemas, code generation, built in backwards compatibility, extension points, public service definitions, introspection to name a few.