skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the listed article, a 9% draw down since extraction started in 1950. I consider this a concern and actions should be taken. But it seems like there is plenty of time to take action, and there will be lots of continuing warning signs such as wells that need deepening. I'm for taking action, but I think global warming is a larger problem. Oh hey, global warming will probably exacerbate the Ogallal situation!

Also, in evil mind frame here, if USA loses out on cheap food, perhaps it will deal a blow to the obesity epidemic.
Second hand market is probably flooded with these. Just a matter of physical distance of supply meeting demand.
How are we supposed to read these articles? They're pay-walled even from Google and outline.com doesn't work anymore.
Jenkins X requires Kubernetes and Helm. Not all companies are deploying like this.

(I work for Codefresh, a competitor of Jenkins X)
Competence compensates for a monoculture.

You don't see people complaining that GHC is de facto the only Haskell compiler.
Imagine having a switch fallthrough bug in code like this…
Perhaps a supersonic plane flying at low altitude would be more effective in shaking the water off the cherries.
Medieval Parasites
They are smart to use specialized sensors here (not sure which spectrum) to triangulate. You can get a consumer version of this in some floor cleaners now! [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/d/Robotic-Vacuums/Mint-Automatic-Floo...
I minimize my daily commute, recycle most things, that's about it, try not to worry about it too much. The anxiety available to everyone that I reject would be far too expensive for the potential benefit on a personal or global scale. This all started well before I was born and will continue far after I'm dead.

Settle down, we're not fucked. Lots of smart and motivated people have been, are, and will be working on it. (does this justification of inactivity have a formal name?)

Want to join them? Find them first, then prove you have something to offer. It's not an informal team fixing things at the neighborhood level, distributed among internet commenters. It's a huge and complicated inter-related set of disciplines filled with experts running at full steam around the world working with leaders and millions of dollars.
Subsidence is a widespread problem in the US:

Subsidence is a global problem and, in the United States, more than 17,000 square miles in 45 States, an area roughly the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined, have been directly affected by subsidence.

https://water.usgs.gov/ogw/subsidence.html

I can't readily find anything stating outright that there is subsidence associated with the Ogallala Aquifer, but my recollection is I have seen such in the past.
Horrifying PDF Experiments – JavaScript Breakout in a PDF (2016)
It could be a result of recent tax law changes. Many fringe benefits like on site food service for employees are no longer a deductible expense. So the cost of providing food to employees essentially went up by 40% overnight.
Incidentally, the filings and orders in this case are here: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/google-llc-v-ora...
I do think! And we do. There is a lot of contention around which posts count as abusive vs. good-faith. Some people would like us simply to ban whoever they disagree with ideologically. Since these people disagree intensely among each other, it's impossible to satisfy all of them. In fact, even just to not intensely dissatisfy anybody is impossible. For that reason, intense dissatisfaction alone doesn't help us figure out how to do better; for that we need links and thoughtful reflections. "Racist, sexist, cunts infesting" doesn't quite get us there.

I need to address your breaking the site guidelines. If you continue to create accounts to do that, we will ban your main account as well.
I would say that design has a lot to do with discussion.
Building a Cathedral
Corporations come in and buy farms that are underwater and then lease them to their previous owners. So farmers are working "their land", but aren't working for themselves and they have rent payments to make.
The medieval guild should not be viewed as an effective model. It ensured some degree of standardized quality of service and goods, but they also functioned to artificially inflate the price of labor by constricting supply. They we're discriminatory in who was allowed to join. A peasant couldn't just decide to become a watchmaker. An apprentice's family often had to pay to have their child educated. Many scholars have speculated that guilds reduced overall productivity.

That said, the spaces described in the article are not like this. They seem to basically be hackerspaces for artists.
I think WeWork's current setup provides meeting rooms and some temporary dedicated space for companies of 4-10 people, but the environment is not very conducive for productivity. Typically, they're loud, too cramped, and with have lots of distractions.
Golang Module Mirror now publicly available
> It's deeply scary and depressing

Yes. You have no idea.
How to Bypass 2FA with an HTTP Header
>Facts need to be backed up with evidence.

75 million shares priced between $15-17 for a total valuation of ~$11 billion compared to its original supposed pre-IPO valuation of ~$12 billion
Would you consider copying this to a blog (or maybe the Mediagoblin website)? Seems like a lot of valuable background/history that I'd hate to see buried forever on HN.
Multidimensional RNNs
diversifying is when you invest into different industries or markets. this guys is investing in the same building just using a different vehicle.
Lot of great stuff on here. However, here is the thing that worked for me since I was in the same boat as you: after finally releasing a project into the world and calling it "done", I felt SO much better than when I jumped from project to project every 1-2 months. Finishing a project is a different sort of "high" that I want to get again and again. My advice would be to pick something small so you can finish it and have that experience.

I now have two out of work successes I can point to, and more importantly I now feel guilty wasting time on side projects that aren't a part of my third release I'm working towards!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781549
Plasma simulation sounds really damn cool.
A similar disaster is playing out in Mexico City: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647180486/mexico-city-thirsty...
I've worked for extended periods of cafes. Heck, I'm working from one right now.

It doesn't work for 100% of your time. 20-40% maybe but not more than that.

There are many issues with cafe work:

- Lots of cafes are bothered if you stay for extended periods of time.

- Unstable or No wifi. You have to rely on Data unless you have it unmetered.

- Not always you'll find a charging outlet for your computer. Granted, I don't have this issue with the mac.

- Sometimes, you don't find a free/available place. So... you go to search again.

I think cafes are good for breaking the mood. But not a workplace for remote workers.
$400 for a month is close to $20 per day or $2.25 an hour(4 weeks*5 weekdays). If the environment WeWork gives provides a boost in your productivity, helps you network with other like-minded individuals, increases your brand exposure, provided extra amenities, decreases the cost in comparison to your current environment, etc. Then it may be worth it.
Liability is a huge issue. Lots of sociopolitical changes need to take place first.
Norway finds Beluga whale wearing GoPro off Arctic coast
It would be interesting indeed to apply the same study to commercial products.
This is going to be spectacular to watch.
You are just using the same storage duration as the containing object instance, and the C++ type system only gives you any guarantees for automatic, static, and thread storage duration. These all correspond directly to lexical scopes. The type system does not have a way to express dynamic storage duration, but Rust does because Rust has move semantics in the type system. C++ has move semantics, but they are runtime semantics built into the implementation of the library and not part of the type system, so you get no compile-time checking that you used move semantics correctly.

Phrased another way, I'm just saying that the C++ type system only expresses two types of storage durations: those tied to lexical scopes and dynamic storage durations, and provides no checks for dynamic storage durations.
> For one thing, the fact that other people might not be competent enough to think for themselves is not a justification for banning those who are from doing so.

Who is banning anyone from doing their own research or thinking? Not the FDA, as near as I can tell.
It's like the old joke: If you can't pay back a $1 million loan, you have a problem. If you can't pay back your $1 billion loan, the bank has a problem.

If WeWork can't pay the lease on 29,000 square feet of office space, WeWork has a problem. If they can't pay the lease on 2.9 million square feet of office space, the owners have a problem.
I don't know about you, but I have to use the bathroom 1-3x during the day and I hate leaving my laptop to the public while I go, but I also hate packing my whole setup up and sleeping my laptop.
For a summary, try Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-results/alphabet...

Eventually, It'll be hard to not argue that some part of revenue and profit misses arise from activism against serving the US government, or opening a China search engine.

At that point, will Google choose to pursue business interests or pander to activists?
I think it's not even a hedge or experiment. Everything else they do is smoke and mirrors to keep themselves out of the anti-trust cross hairs.

If all they do is search, they have no competitors and are a defacto Monopoly. But as it stands, they can pretend they have many competitors by being in lots of different tiny businesses.

Alphabet helps the narrative as well. Oh, Google is a monopoly? Well that's just one of the many businesses we own. Never mind that we lose money on everything else and sell fewer smartphones in a year that apple sells in less than a week.
> On the other hand, simple deployment, no VM startup time and fast compilation speed do offer real advantages for some.

Java application servers have been offering this for a long time now. Just drop in a .war file and your code is running. No need to restart, and the .war file has a small size.
Ha - cool! Haven't seen your channel yet. Hope to catch you again one day somewhere. Last time we met was in 2016 I believe.
The Creation of Trust
Agree in all cases. Bamboo was actually ok for a little while; but then they got rid of the cloud version which made it a bit more niche.

I also like to plug VSTS in these conversations. It’s really nice to be able to drill down from feature roadmap to build status in a single tool without a lot of config. I haven’t built anything complex in it personally, but hear nothing but good things from the teams I work with who do.

Edit: looks like I had the bamboo thing backwards; but I remember I stopped using it for a reason :)
Oh wow neat. Pity I only use email on the iPhone now.
Are there any good in-repo issue trackers that integrate with GitHub? Like a bot that listens for changes on a GH repo and commits the information to git in a format that could be migrated to a different service down the road if necessary.
Your son done goofed!!!
To each their own. I adore this atmosphere.
After going up by the same amount in the last two weeks.

I've seen this pattern in previous quarters: irrational increase in the days before earning, then a fall back to the same price. Not sure what's happening, could be option/day traders.
> If my coworker can spin up a new, valuable product, they should be able to multiply their comp as quickly as they can compound value.

That’s employee hostile. Effectively you’re creating a system where compensation is based on your ability to “engineer” placement on a hot team/product.

Ultimately it’s bad for a company as you’re signaling that political savvy is valued above skill, and less directly profitable teams become ghettos.
I'm in Seattle, the people behind me are in home construction, in front of me is a company working with boutique spirits, there is at least one healthcare company here, an IoT company, and a mix of some other fields.

With entire teams being here, it isn't all programmers. Sales, marketing, biz dev, and engineering are all sitting together and participating in the community.

As for @ home versus at an office, I am far more productive at an office. So much so that I have a nice home setup (I have one ultrawide instead of multiple monitors!) but it is worth it for me to commute 40 minutes to get here.

(I of course have friends who prefer their home versus an office environment!)
This is a bit like '%r' or repr() in Python, the Debug trait in Rust, or the Show class in Haskell, but it doesn't really address what most pretty printers need: highly customized formatting, as used in Wadler/Leijen pretty printers.
Consider running VSCode in docker? https://coder.com/
In the US a big factor is the very high sugar tariff. So I'm not convinced that taking all the fingers off the scale would make for much healthier!
I'm still on buildbot, but it's definitely showing its age and I'm hoping to move off of it within a year. I've been keeping an eye on Chromium's buildbot replacement, LUCI (https://ci.chromium.org/). It's still light on documentation and the source is very internal google-y (they seem to have written their own version of virtualenv in go). However, based on the design docs it does look like they ran into a lot of the same problems I have with buildbot, specifically the lack of support for dynamic workers, and how underpowered the buildbot build steps can be.

https://github.com/luci/recipes-py/blob/master/doc/user_guid...
Assuming you have the room _and the time_. That's really what much of the woodworking machines give you; they get a lot of rough work out of the way quickly. If you like the rough look, you're practically done. If not, you've gotten to the point of the fine finishing faster.
Last place I was at had their unmanaged Jenkins servers get compromised and used to run crypto miners.
Looks like this new platform is getting flooded, and Nintendo's quality control is not keeping up. A game like this should have never been allowed a release - just from the poor visual quality alone.
Endocrine disruptors are used throughout agriculture[1]:

> Food is a major mechanism by which people are exposed to pollutants. Diet is thought to account for up to 90% of a person's PCB and DDT body burden.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor#Routes_of_...
This is the hidden reality for most co-working spaces, I think
My handwaving analysis would be that advertising around search is slowing and instead mostly growing around content - this is because the web has matured and users are now educated on what it has to offer. They spend less time searching and browsing the web and instead spend most of the time consuming content (via streaming services and social feeds) through established platforms (youtube, instagram, netflix, spotify, twitch, etc.). And Alphabet's main content platform youtube is somewhat harder to monetize.
'League of Legends' Studio Faces Employee Walkout, Promises Changes
Super good post. Long ago I realized that I'm a starter and not a finisher, yet I often end up in SRE type roles that are all about finishing and I struggle to have any motivation to work on things that just quite frankly bore me to death.
Trovata.io Is Hiring Data Science and Angular Devs in San Diego
Democracy Doesn't Belong Here
Send an email to jobs@trovata.io and I'll make sure it gets to the right person :)
Spend $350 on a Keyboard (2016)
https://www.spacious.com/ might fit your requirements.

They have a few dedicated spaces, like Union Square in Manhattan, but mostly rent spaces from restaurants that are closed during the day I think.
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
Ok. So if I may ask, what happened to you? If you don't want to say, that's fine.

I have had many kinds of ludicrous mistreatment or misunderstandings in life, but I try to not extrapolate them to all humanity, or even everyone expressing a political view, or even expect that they recur from the same set of characters.
Security Cameras Vulnerable to Hijacking
This has been a thing on the stock market for a very long time and is not Google-specific. Basically every ticket is going to see action prior and subsequent to earnings reports.
The Battle of Winterfell: A Tactical Analysis
Moving makes sense I think, not just because of environmental issues but because it's not healthy to have all the country's leadership and wealth concentrated in one place. Hopefully they can figure out a way to move the capital that results in less consolidation of power and not more, and that isn't bad for the people and environment around where the new capital is placed.
New discoveries coming out of academia are lucky if they are a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars away from being an actual drug. Usually what comes out of academia is an idea or starting point, not a drug.

And no, drug innovation is not highly subsidized by the gov't. Just look at budgets. NIH budget is $38B, of which a fraction is actually spent on research leading to new drugs. PhRMA (just the largest drug companies) spent $71B in 2017.[1] And that ignores the billions spent by VCs to fund start-ups, another $13B in the first 10 months of 2017.[2]

Adding it up, private spending on drug R&D is probably 5-10x that of what the gov't spends.

[1]https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/phrma-research-developmen...
[2]http://www.pharmatimes.com/magazine/2018/december_2018/a_rec...
I am decidedly not a coffee snob, but agree that almond milk in coffee isn't great. I've tended to use coconut milk because it has some creaminess to it that seems to work well in coffee.

I'll have to see if I can find oat milk to try.
> I don't trust the "move fast and break things" approach with for-profit healthcare.

This is a non-sequitur. Why is it relevant what you trust or don't trust? You should can be free to conclude for yourself what methodologies you trust, while allowing others to disagree with your judgement given their personal risk tolerance, scientific disagreements, etc. It's one thing to have an opinion on a scientific matter, its quite another to enforce it on an entire nation-state.

> With open source stuff like this, it works because nobody is pushing this tech for any reason other than it works. But if commercial products were able to move at this rate, we might see a lot of snake oil because companies can be pretty effective at producing misinformation.

A company also wants to produce tech that works -- people tend to buy tech that works. If they are lying about their evidence then we already have laws against fraud/false-advertising/tort-law which should be enforced.
The most beautiful 3D graphics simulation (open source work in Blender, 2013)
Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle
Another "me-too" for GitLab CI. We migrated away from Jenkins to it and it has made life day and night easier. We went from builds and such failing at seemingly almost all the time to builds for Windows and other platforms consistently building and undergoing analysis by other code checking tools
You kind of have to think of the human toll on those workers too. Granted they are free to leave which helps but still. That’s a lot of weight on ones soul.
Should've named it Wrmhole so it's appropriately 21st century. Dropping vowels is all the rage.
And if a large percentage of the buyers are index based funds, that leads to a multiplier effect for the sellers and non-index fund buyers.
> "... has an offensive UI..."

> "... suck massive genitals..."

I cannot believe that this is the top-voted comment.
I feel like they'll be just fine if they just advertise themselves as being falafel patties. I'm pretty thoroughly not vegetarian, so I ain't gonna reach for a veggie patty if the only reason it's being sold is because "well it's not beef!". Sell it to me as falafel and I'll eat it because I happen to like falafel.
regulatory complaints work wonders too
> My takeaway from the last 30 years in computer science is that errors are not exceptional. They occur often and should be accounted for near the code that generates the errors.

This is exactly opposite my experience. In 90% of cases there is no way to recover from an error locally and I should just fail at the highest level, possibly retrying a few times.
> Competence compensates for a monoculture.

Sometimes. But motivation matters. The motivation behind ghc is clearly and unequivocally to advance the Haskell ecosystem. The motivation behind Chrome's dominance is another thing entirely.
No cure for Alzheimer’s disease in my lifetime
I’ve always thought about, to the point of almost trying to make one myself, is that this kind of thing would be a great addition to home security systems. If you ever had an incident, you’d be able to see what devices were around at the time, giving you a solid list of leads on who to investigate from there.
I think the dark horse feature of wework that may make it relatively recession proof is that recessions might increase demand for wework office space. More unemployed/underemployed white collar workers might turn to wework offices to work in startups or just to have some sort of office environment to get things done in
https://twitter.com/notch/status/22330335379333120
It definitely would increase the friction of adoption. The perfect is the enemy of the good and all that....
Being poor is waiting for biocapitalists to decide your condition is profitable enough.
I've read both Salt Dreams and Water for a thirsty land : the Consolidated Irrigation District and its canal development history. The first is roughly the history of the Colorado River and water issues in Southern California. The second is the history of water development and water rights in Fresno County, California.

Fresno has a surprisingly rich history in that regard, one I never hear about outside of reading that one book. It is basically the modern day equivalent of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

When settlers first arrived in the area, it was mostly desert with some greenery along the rivers. After canal development, it became a lush landscape. The book contains incredible before and after photos.

After canal development, low lying areas turned into de facto lakes. They eventually turned some into groundwater recharge ponds.

During some years, Fresno has actually raised the ground water level, though it only gets 11 inches of rain per year. The county played a critical role in the creation of water rights laws in the state of California, as well as in the history of water development tools and technology. Multiple patents were developed in Fresno County.

If you are concerned about these issues or do work related to such, I highly recommend reading the book.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/water-for-a-thirsty-land-the-...

(Salt Dreams is also an excellent read.)
Only monthly plans? Have you tried pay per card?
Doesn't buildbot have dynamic workers implemented as latent workers? [1]

What do you mean by underpowered buildbot steps? Are you implementing your own step classes?

[1] https://docs.buildbot.net/current/manual/configuration/worke...
Micro-Influencers Are the Future and Soon We Will All Be Influencers
Back in 2008 there was an amazing demo of realtime dense optical flow on a GPU[0] but all the links are dead now. I've searched hard for another comparable implementation since then but had no luck.

Does anyone have a hint on what technique they might have used?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssINeWRb58M