skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author of this piece is mentally ill, since a healthy person would not cherry pick the most distressing reports they could find, from among the numerous bits of garbage that are always available, ignoring the other strong evidence that the doomsday they fear is very unlikely. It's pretty sad.

The fallacies are so thick that I couldn't read all the way to the end. But here's one excerpt selected arbitrarily:

"Grains, the basis of the world’s food supply, are reduced on average by 6% for every one degree Celsius rise above pre-industrial norms. We are now about one degree Celsius above and climbing fast; the oceans are warming twice as fast and have absorbed a staggering 93% of the warming for us so far. If that were not the case, the average land temperatures would be a toasty 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) above what they are now."

Notice the implication in the first sentence that pre-industrial temperatures (or maybe lower?) were optimal for grain production. But pre-industrial" is a completely arbitrary point in time as far as optimal temperature for growing grains goes. Grains were first domesticated about 10,000 years ago, during the "Holocene climatic optimum", when temperatures were significantly higher than "pre-industrial" times.

The bit that follows about the temperature being 36 degrees Celsius higher if it weren't for the oceans absorbing heat shows that the author lacks even elementary understanding of climate science. Of course, if the oceans stopped absorbing heat, so the atmosphere warmed more, the warming would stop when the higher atmospheric temperature produced sufficiently higher radiation of heat to space to counterbalance the greenhouse warming - which would happen long before it increases by 36 degrees (radiation increases as the fourth power of temperature (measured from absolute zero)).

If you too are convinced that "climate change" will be catastrophic, and are making major life decisions, such as whether to have children, on that basis, please think again. If you don't, you will regret it greatly later in life.
Somebody who knows they're making a diversity hire, generally (regardless of the actual quality of the candidate, which somebody making this decision probably never bothered to consider).
I'm not an authoritative source by any stretch but my anecdotal evidence shows many former colleagues getting a Rails fatigue of sorts and moving to other languages. I personally moved on to Elixir but no small amount went back to Python and PHP and some got to JS, Haskell, even OCaml and Rust and Go.

It's really not productive when even minor version bumps of Rails back in the days of v3.2 all the way to v4.2 were a nightmare to execute, often impossible. You were stuck with a ton of quirks for years, likely all the way to your next job.

Rails was productive, but only compared to a ton of other lame half-frameworks at the time. Nowadays it isn't special by any measure.

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So TL;DR: it doesn't really matter what Ruby or Rails are up to these days. Many people have moved on, the free lunch is over and the hype is gone. Which is a good thing: hype more often than not kills technology and doesn't enable it.
Do you have a source for this claim? As far as I know, that was just a plan that was not yet executed, and the building is largely uncovered:

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gigafactory-1-solar-panels-m...
1. My original comment was that the linked website is trying too hard to be INTP. I mentioned INTP because it has a very specific stereotype and no other word in the English language covers.

2. But because this is HN, SOMEONE is going to say that MB is pseudoscience.

3. So I needed to premptively respond to the would-be smart alec.
She’s relating her own experience and how it contrasts with that of the male physicists/programmers.
> I used to know a paramedic who would make sure that the ride to the hospital for such a cyclist was super bumpy and unpleasant

That behaviour is incompatible with a professional registration. (At least, in England it would be.)
Wow. Think they can improves the process and avoid these deaths. Compare that to India which has a much bigger scale and organizes elections in a much more organized manner without straining their workers https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-india-runs-the-b...
Working conditions a century ago were very different than they are today. Worker protections were initiated to balance the scales between employees and employers. Since then, living conditions have improved ten-fold. The gig economy is an effective solution that supports both employees and employers. The economy would be performing less optimally without it.
Prime numbers are defined as elements of rings, so we need two operations, the other being addition (understood as a group operation). So you generate 0 by 1-1.
> Non-black Americans are not commonly accepted into this community, so when non-black Americans say the word it's considered very rude.

Isn't it somewhat racist?
I recently moved back into academia. An internal equipment funding call, and all of the University’s calls, required at least a 40% gender balance.

As a new faculty member I had to scramble to find researchers in other departments with similar interests to mine and to join up with on a proposal. I had to trawl through their websites to specifically find women and it felt like stalking and it made me uncomfortable. Emailing these women felt creepy and selfish.

However I want to work with anyone I can. Were it not for this specific requirement I would happily had taken the time to contact people and get to know others organically.

Ultimately it’s nothing compared to the despondency you describe and I did get in touch with some great people that I hope to work with in the future. Perhaps this experience was necessary if jarring.

I cannot offer you anything other than good intentions. I’m an engineer and I work with fluid mechanics. I want to work with the people who do the actual work, not the parasites who do all the talking.
Yes, I receive praise and promotion even though I feel like i don't actually ship anything. I can only deduce that people like me and so they speak well of me.
I assume you mean social justice.

You must realize it's a false equivalence: oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends. For example, our society oppressing serial killers (for the mission statement of keeping people safe) is much more worthwhile than serial killers oppressing our society (for the mission statement of indulging urges, delusions, etc.) to any reasonable person.

And, of course, I think you have to be very divorced from reality to think that social justice is, has been, or will be as oppressive a force as religion is, has been, or will be to begin with.
Thank you for sharing this nice snippet from your life.
I can quote my experience from 3rd grade here. After being an average student for first 2 years, I came first in my third grade with 73%. I was proud and shared the report card to my father. Unfortunately, at the same time, a girl from neighbor also showed her report card to dad and he saw her 96%. He looked at me with a sigh in his eyes and said its good but it is not anyway near to 96%.

I was literally pissed, that I worked my ass off, and my father doesn't care that I am first as well in my class. He cared about the difference in percentage. So, I decided not to give a damn about my father's approval and till now I still give a damn about it, as he always comes out with some really high bar.

I recently have learned the Mantra to compare oneself today with oneself yesterday, or the week before, or a month before, or a year before. You can always find a balance of good and bad with the passage of time.
I got my dance shoes there too. It will be hard to find a shoe that is comparable.
The article doesn't mention this, but it looks like this happened after a leveraged buyout by private equity firms in 2012 (similar to other big retail chains like Toys R Us or Sports Authority)
The city of London has the same voting system (sort of)
"M₆₇ is not a prime" was also a famous single-slide silent lightning talk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson_Cole
> The vast majority of companies won't implement a security policy that strict

Maybe such policy should be the default; by default the employee should be able to run only applications installed (or approved) by their sysadmin, and applications are sandboxed like Android's ones.

In 80s when DOS was developed, there were no easy access to the Internet, no phishing letters and viruses, so there were no risk in running different executables. But today this outdated security model simply doesn't work. You allow employees to download and run executables and they open "yearly-report.doc.exe".

Maybe desktop system developers should look at iPhones and Androids. It is difficult to dowload and run a virus on an iPhone; and it doesn't require the user to deal with configuration settings - it works out of the box. Something similar could be done for desktop systems: a pre-approved catalog of known "good" software and a simple UI (that doesn't require special skills) to whitelist any other software.

Also, I think that applications and documents should look different; today you can assign an icon of Word document to an executable; running an executable is indistinguishable from opening a document; that's wrong. Maybe applications should be located only in special application directory and run from there.
While your point is taken... I write and contribute to free/open source tools. I can afford a Mac, but will not buy one because there's zero incentive to me. While I'm not sure this project would help, if a free or very low cost proper emulation existed, I'd use it.
You using google mail?
Project managers in stack ranked companies.

edit - there is a vicious little set of incentives in certain corporate environments that almost guarantees bullying and fucked up mind games unless the manager is some kind of a saint. Mix stack ranking and any kind of external weighting on a manager and they will comply with the weighting by hiring the person they can get to fail the stack ranking so as not to screw with their project team. And unless this person is lucky enough to be oblivious, they have just entered hell.
At my place of work, a tech company with expressly progressive values, we've done a survey. The statistics show a very sharp distinction between men and women. You should ask my management -- who keeps promoting men and shutting out women. We've got some women rising in the ranks: hr, technical writing, marketing. But never on the R&D side.
And other people care about natural numbers being the set of cardinal numbers for finite sets. Others want the set of natural numbers with addition to be a monoid. And actually most-known series in analysis are usually indexed starting from zero, because that's when the formulas are usually simpler.
It might be possible that you are too harsh on yourself. Are you familiar with Imposter Syndrome?
There's a gender paradox with suicide. Men die very much more often than women in most western countries, but women have much higher rates of self harm and self-reported suicidality.

This is a complex phenomena.

But if women start using more lethal methods we will see the ratio of male:female deaths by suicide change.

To prevent suicide you want to address the misery that causes people to feel suicidal, and since women report similar levels of misery we need to give them some focus, and that focus is currently weak in research and prevention efforts.
It should not be a FIFO. They probably want diversity of countries, ISPs, devices, etc. According to your profile you're located in China so they're surely not short of Chinese test subjects for a VPN ;)
Same here, haven't seen this before. Sometimes whether a post gets attention or not depends on the time of day it was posted - I'm glad the moderation system allows reposts for some articles.
The only reason I brought it up is because they called out iOS as "just adding it" when Android has had it for years, even though the original post said nothing about iphones.
The difference with farmers and other occupations is that there's such a strong emotional bond. The land has been in the family for generations. Failure is simply not an option. When the end comes some can't emotionally handle it.

A steelworker or a coal miner may feel sadness at fifty that they have to start over, but they always saw the mill or mine as a necessary evil. The best option they had to provide for their family.

I have a friend who told me the story of his great grandfather losing a piece of his farm in the depression. My friend said we waited eighty years but we've brought it back into the family where it has always belonged. He got into an auction with a neighbor and clearly overpaid but he was so joyful. Almost like he paid a ransom to get his own child back.

But the rest of us better be grateful that they do it. The hours suck, the risk is high and the pay is low. If there wasn't such a strong emotional bond we'd pay a lot more for our food just to get people to do it.
> We're expected to fail, left out of meetings relevant to our duties, and wither into obscurity with the excuse "well I asked everybody" time and again, forgotten and excluded.

This sounds like the experience of almost every employee in every industry. Very, very few people get to work on truly influential and interesting problems. And from what I've seen at several big companies, no one simply gets asked to do that kind of work (in a meeting or otherwise). If you want to do that kind of work, you have to find a way to contribute yourself. If you wait for "duties" to be assigned to you, you'll get assigned the work no one else wants to do.
What you describe is the difference between a career that a lot of people can aspire to and a highly-specialized job that has traditionally relied on being able to draw the best of the best from a wide talent pool.

There will always be a need for a few ridiculously good men and women in military aviation. But going into aviation thinking you'll end up in that position is like trying out for high-school basketball under the likely misapprehension that you're the next Michael Jordan.
I offer a service that provides you with your own macOS VM, running on real Mac hardware. https://zeromac.com It's billed by the hour, so if you just need to quickly test something, it's pretty cheap. Buying an older mac may be more economical though if you need to develop software long term.
My wording is confusing. I’m aware these are tracked.
Shoes is one of those things I almost never need to buy, now that I'm an adult and fully grown. Even the very cheapest ones can last me 10 years or more without wearing out.

Actually, it's the Nikes that wear out much faster, it seems.

PS:(edit)
I walk around a decent amount and even go running 6 to 9 miles per week. Even a super cheap pair of running shoes won't show any holes in it for 4+ years at least. The Nike ones I had started falling apart in just in less than 2 years.

And yes, I do have about 10 pairs, but tend to stick to 4-5 pair at a time time. and I don't throw them away until the wear is so low that an actual hole forms or even multiple holes/rips form. most of time just get some plimsolls, those tend to last forever.
I've tested it some and it appears to work great. Will be adding this to a number of my projects. I greatly appreciate the work you guys have put in.
In a hurry, so unfortunately I can not translate key arguments, but there were some German publications which actively criticised this study. Summary article can be found here: https://www.electrive.net/2019/04/20/experten-entlarven-elek...

It links to articles [0] and [1]. Most notably, though, this isn't at all a scientific or peer reviewed publication.

Hans-Werner Sinn is a well known German economist, Christoph Bruchal is a material physicist and Hans-Dieter Karl seems to be a former employee of Sinn's economic institute (ifo) who isn't mentioned in any common research publication platform.

[0]: https://www.focus.de/auto/elektroauto/studie-zu-klima-folgen...

[1]: https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/mobilitaet/ist-das-e-auto-ei...
"Harassing" people for speeding is one of the things we have the police for.
One god-fatherly advice: you won't get a data science job by just reading these three books. You need to work hard and do other things too. Like working on many projects.
Neat! That's an interesting way to detect phishing.
No, the issue there was normalizing a specific, dangerous workaround. Not sloppiness in general.
These would have been fun!

For the bomb one, are there protections for taking the binary and running it in an isolated environment?
So I gather that by "expressly progressive values" you mean "disingenuous progressive values".
Big cities don't have to be bad to live in... but they often are.

Sofia isn't anything special but it has quite beautiful neighborhoods which are of course quite expensive to live in.

Back yard? You only have that if you live in villages with like 2000 people. Our capital is so crowded that the real estate agents feel really proud to advertise 68m2 apartments with two small rooms and a tiny kitchen, it's that bad. Good views? Forget about it.

(I am considering moving out of Bulgaria to Vienna/Austria exactly by the way; but I'm for the moment too scared to do it.)
It's one step away from VX junkies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/
Well to be fair, they are in long-term stakes, wrong since these companies do end up impoverishing them. It's the problem that nobody without a backup and savings can think strategically, which is the paradox and issue with a predatory capitalist system .
Sorry to hear. I hope it gets better. Hang in there.
Interesting article on doing more manufacturing in America. The problem is that this is an extremely expensive and niche product.

I want slightly more expensive products made in the USA and I'll pay a premium for it, but nothing astronomical.

If I can pay 20% more on coffee and chocolate to make sure the farmers were paid a living wage, we can do similar things in the US. I understand that US wages are much higher and make this more difficult, but it would be a step in the right direction. Globalism has brought down prices and made many things very cheap and affordable, but at what cost?

I'd like comments from anyone with more understanding of the issues.
I feel like they do. Outside of work I get text, calls and invites to go out with others. I’ve even received holiday cards from their families.

I try to be as genuine and forthcoming in helping those around me learn and grow with anything I learn as I grow.
I'm not sure where to go with this, honestly.

From an electoral perspective it's counterfactual: my family in the midwest have roughly 1.5x the electoral power I do. Historically speaking this has led two democrats in my lifetime to win the popular vote but lose the presidential election. So I don't think there's an issue with those voices being unheard in elections-- quite the opposite in fact.

On the other hand, I see where you're coming from. The loci of money and power in the United States speak loudly and listen poorly to the half of us that see stars at night. I think this has been to conservatives' advantage, although that seems to have more to do with preexisting cultural affinity than shared policy goals.
Bankruptcy law is a solution to the financial problem of "owing money" but in the case of a farmer you also own the land and means of production, and bankruptcy means forced sales of it, and it effective destroys that lifestyle for you, forever (nobody is starting a farm from scratch these days).
This resonates with me.

Think of it as an opportunity to see how effectively you're promoting your work. Are you just letting your work speak for itself? Environment depending, you could benefit from a strategy for [shameless] self promotion.
Ah but this is HN. Do you know about the farm lobby? I hear it's big, and unlike the Silicon Valley lobbyists it's bad. Also Monsanto exists (well, they haven't been called Monsanto for some time, but whatever) so it's basically for the best if farmers kill themselves.
Escape will always exit fullscreen in browsers, which is a SAK that is well publicised.

We aren't trained to press escape before entering passwords, though.
Your lazy comment is in bad faith.
A birds eye view of the catastrophe (yes, I believe that is the correct word):

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/may/01/unexp...
It's not the cyclist's fault when he/she runs a stop sign or a traffic light? Explain? It would certainly be my fault if I did that in the car.
(All of the comments on this post say they are from 10-15 minutes ago, but I remember reading them hours ago, and Algolia shows they were made days ago. <- For potential future reference, my/this comment was posted at 3:42pm US/Pacific on April 28th of 2019.)
TANSTAAFL

Have that ingrained in my mind since reading Abrash forever ago.
Example project how to use Express and GraphQL
Hell, we can look at Voat and Gab as well for example of sites where absolute free speech as a principle has failed to result in any sort of good outcome.

Conveniently these sites are ignored or handwaved away or are somehow only because of censorship.
The top-rated comment on this article, describing how obviously farmers aren't really committing suicide because a survey was bad, that's in bad faith.
> Face it, humans (you, me, bigshot CEOs) all act primarily based on simple emotional wants and desires, most of the time.

Some people are mentally disabled and can not regulate a desire to use Facebook, but if you tell all the able people that they're incapable of reasoning themselves out of it, they will become less able.

Facebook works on network effects, if people still healthy enough to quit can do so, Facebook becomes inherently less attractive. If you tell people that they are inevitably ruled by their passions, many will just take the faustian bargain and hope somebody swoops in to save them from themselves.

I don't think this is a good strategy, especially if you're not proposing any actual solution (and no, swift legislation is not a practical way to deal with this situation, given how divisive that is).
It may also be a matter of principle. I won't buy macs even though they are sexy and I have the money for it because I don't agree with its practices. My theoretical customers shouldn't suffer from it though
I see this one limit of free speech as a good thing because I agree that it limits the harmful effects we would otherwise have in our society. We're literally talking about limiting the influence of people and their symbolism that stands for killing people because of their religion, denying the holocaust and similar. Especially in light of the German history that strikes me as pretty reasonable. Just like we don't need nazis recruiting at our schools (which is a thing), we don't need normalization of white supremacist propaganda on mainstream social media.

I'd feel better if we lived in a society where we wouldn't have to lead this discussion in the first place but since that's just not the case education and limiting propaganda seems like a good way to go.
If everything were standard then a screen reader could confidently identify fraudulent content.
"oppression in the name of a more just society"

Sounds an awful lot like the worst parts of the 20th century.
10 years?! Do you ever walk anywhere?