skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mmm, no. It's the companies.

Nor did the companies ever take responsibility for
their products. In Shell’s study, the firm argued
that the “main burden” of addressing climate change
rests not with the energy industry, but with
governments and consumers. That argument might have
made sense if oil executives, including those from
Exxon and Shell, had not later lied about climate
change and actively prevented governments from
enacting clean-energy policies.

If there is a lever to make things better, and I stop you from knowing about that lever, I have stopped things from getting better. You can't argue that the lever might not have made things better, given that I was the person who suppressed the choice itself.

Alternatively, if tax day is in two months, and you do not know tax day exists, and I know, and not only do I deliberately choose not to tell you, but I deliberately stop you from knowing, then I am responsible for you not filing your taxes on time.

> Like how do you foresee the average person reacting if they can only get 5 gallons of fuel per week,

We would have had 40 years to change to electric cars and heating, so it wouldn't matter.

> that their food selection is reduced to what's available in a 50-mile radius of where they live?

Likewise the food transport industry would have had 40 years to transition their infrastructure to a sustainable state. Indeed, we might be using primarily hydroponics-based agriculture at this point.

> That they can't have air conditioning for more than a few hours a day?

The places that require air conditioning are sunny. Indeed, the entirety of america's energy requirements could be supplied by a tiny square of solar panels in the desert, so I do not see why in 40 years, air conditioning couldn't have matured to a state where it not only requires less energy, but also was sustainable.

> These are near-apocalyptic scenarios that we're talking about if reduce our energy usage to sustainable levels.

I mean, they are now, but as I have stated repeatedly, we could have had 40 years to prepare. Now we're 2 days before tax day, scrambling to prepare for the worst, because we never really had enough warning to set us on a path to the best.
Because by and large, you don't see these outages in GCP/AWS. Both of those companies have invested a ton of energy into creating regional fault tolerance and you rarely if ever see global issues. AWS has seen a few in years past but it's an exception, not the norm. Azure seems to have these issues on a regular cadence.
>If the BBC can solve that they have my business and I'm sure a lot of overseas business too

I meant that there's currently a market gap for a streaming service with a massive (persistent being key) catalogue of data. Netflix and others have a hodgepodge of TV/movies available, which come and go. I was suggesting that the beeb keep the service as it is in the UK, add the archive content, then release a subscription service overseas with access to the full range of shows. Having that amount of money coming into the UK would do nothing but good IMO.

I've seen some replies from others as to OFCOM regulations so it seems this is just a pipe dream at the moment.
Information Security is obviously an important area to audit.
Yes, lots of countries have long had next-day and same-day delivery, next-day is just new to the US.
Probably virtual reality. I tried it for the first time at an art museum a week ago and while I was only floating around an artist's 3D painting-like impression of her home, it still felt pretty magical.
Researchers Question KDD 2019 Paper Review Process
I'm old enough to have started doing machine learning before the deep learning revolution. When it happened, I predicted we'd see a resurgence in metaheuristics (of which ACO, used here, is an example), which just like neural networks in the pre-deep learning era, have a poor reputation among researchers. And it pretty much happened, though at first disguised as "bayesian optimization" [1].

I took an undergrad course in evolutionary optimization, and became briefly excited about it, so I'm fairly familiar with the ideas in that area. I think that similarly to neural networks, they don't really have a great mathematical basis to say what will work and what won't -- it's a lot of empirical experimentation. Do they work? Yeah, kinda. There's really few other options when you have to deal with large, combinatorial spaces such as neural network architectures. I do think a lot of research in the metaheuristics area, at least a few years ago (I haven't really kept up with it) is pretty bogus -- I lampooned it in a couple of "papers" (http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com/spectral.pdf and http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com/catbasis.pdf). Yes, all the citations are real.

[1] Bayesian optimization is great, though I find it amusing that people who wouldn't touch a genetic or swarm algorithm are totally fine with BO when it's really not that different.
Python for NLP: Getting Started with the StanfordCoreNLP Library
Microsoft Open Sources Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF)
> why bother doing anything productive at all

Just because there's something awful in the future doesn't mean you should throw away the present.

> What if you’re wrong? What does that cost you?

If he's wrong it costs him having raised a child. If on the other hand he's right but assumes he's wrong then it'll cost him having raised a child into a terrible world. It's a tough choice to make.
Make service in the House work more like jury duty. Everyone living in a district who meets the minimum requirements (age, etc) has their name thrown into a lottery. Representatives get selected randomly and have to serve for one session, then they go home.

Oh, and have Senators be appointed by state governments again, like they used to be.
Show HN: New cancer drug candidates (YC reject [W|S]17-18)
HN has an obsession about Paul Graham.
Throwing 500 VM's at your fuzzing target being an individual security researcher
There were networks of trade far older than even this between Europe and India.

Pompeii Lakshmi (1CE):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii_Lakshmi

1st century Roman coins found in Southern India:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_trade_relations

Really, all these guys had to do was get to the vicinity of Rome or Constantinople, and catch a connection, and they were there.
I like hard things. Most of what I do is going "the hard way" so it's just natural for me to push through. For example, I taught myself to code using only the internet as a resource at night after work before changing careers to do it full time. People told me getting a tattoo on the ribs was one of the mores painful spots, so that's where I went first.

I guess I get the thrill out of pushing myself and succeeding -- or learning from my failures.
As he said, it is a much older version. As with everything the cost decreases over time to the point that it no longer outweighs benefit.

Put another way, this is the unfortunate flip side of free unlimited talk and text.
I think it's not just that question and this is what I dislike about the whole discussion. It's all about Boeing and no one is also asking "if proper procedure was performed for runaway stab trim (again, a generalized memory item) would the plane have crashed? And it does seem the sentiment is to hell with anyone suggesting pilots and airlines involved share part of the blame despite evidence.

I could also ask, would the plane have crashed if it WASNT a max and another stab trim system failed?

It's both. We need to look at everything otherwise we will end up solving only 1 part of the issue.

Edit: To address something you mentioned about root cause (in aviation it's almost never a single root cause and I will give an example that shows such cases here). Let's look at another situation: Assume P&W designs an engine model a plane uses. The plane they are used in has in-air engine fire procedures that must be performed in order to mitigate disaster regardless of the engine model used. Now imagine the new engine design causes more engine fires. If pilots don't manage the problem appropriately when it occurs, what is the root cause? The poor engine design? Improper training from the pilot? In my opinion it's, again, both. Poor training coupled with higher chance of system issues.
I've been working on software that meets at least most of the objectives this outlines, and for the same reasons.

The concept was blown off by my "Group Mentor" in Startup School last October, which was a bit disappointing, but it's good to see it being discussed here and maybe it will get some legs as time goes on.

I'll be releasing a simple app soon that, hopefully, demonstrates the advantages in a way that's easy to digest. At this point I'm not expecting much positive feedback though. It doesn't use any of the current trendy tech and there's nothing truly new or whizbanging about it. It is, however, fast, solid, easy to develop and modify, and runs on any server without having to install anything other than a web server.
I never understood this differentiation either. "I like the people but not the leaders". Who do you think put those leaders there in the first place?
It isn't a particularly high salary for an experienced developer here in London, but struggle is an exaggeration. The majority of people in the UK and even central London are paid less than this.
Is there something about what scientists know that makes them better people?
Reddit also has a policy of banning unmoderated NSFW subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/a5xz9b/a_word_on_u...
Even VMWare has support for running containers on their platform now, so yeah probably.

Cisco Nexus switches can run Docker workloads also.
If you try chrome canary, there's a feature you can enable that removes the incognito leak.
Here's an example of a project I worked on under this program - a website for a local community developer meetup.
No paper is strictly objective and it's not supposed to be.

I think that's completely fine as long as the direction is clear and the reporting is accurate.

On the other side of the spectrum we would have, for example, The Wall Street Journal.

While I personally believe that some of their opinion writers are even worse than some of The Guardian's opinion writers there's no doubt that The Journal delivers some stellar world class journalism.

Or would you apply a different standard there?
i'm sure they've cracked some of them and can brute force others faster than anyone realizes. but they also are probably very good at targeting specific people/machines and getting the encryption keys they want, especially if its being used to encode a large amount of data. i keep a low profile and avoid doing illegal things so i'm not really concerned but it still sucks that privacy is disappearing because its convenient and profitable
I find them inconsistent from an individual-liberty perspective. I see no contradiction between opposition to Article 13 and support for the GDPR.

On the one hand, Article 13 compromises the online publishing capability of anyone (either individuals or businesses) who lack the ability to hire both large legal departments and large developer teams who can implement content filters. It entrenches the power of the 800lb media gorillas and kneecaps everyone else. It also enables censorship systems by crippling the capability of individuals and small hosting businesses to publish material at will.

But on the other hand, the GDPR is a law with serious teeth that takes power back from those 800lb gorillas that rely on unethical bulk-surveillance business models. It empowers individuals to regain some privacy should they choose to exercise that power. Businesses with ethical user-fee business models have nothing to fear from the GDPR, because for them, the protection of customer data from advertisers isn't an undue hardship. It's a core feature of their service. And let's not forget that the GDPR actually has quite broad exceptions for news agencies. The GDPR can't be used as a censorship tool in the same way that Article 13 can.
How to increase train use by up to 35% with one simple trick
As someone who does a lot of work in payroll (in eastern europe...) the swedish system sounds like a dream.
> My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3

From my experience, that's sort of low. I never thought my neighbors had so many guns, until I started spending time at the shooting range. A common site is a trunk packed to the gills with firearms. The "gun guys" buy them like the "sneaker guys" buy Nikes. They usually won't talk about it, unless you express interest or go shooting with them.
If the results showed people voting normally, spreading their votes across their options, isn't that a failure? What's the point of switching to quadradic voting when you get the same results as the old system of selecting 15 bills?
I find the terms eigenvector and eigenvalue to be especially opaque, it does not give any hint as to what it means at all to me.
BountySource is one option. You can post a GitHub issue with a bounty; it doesn’t even have to be your own. You can also contribute to other bounties.

I added to a bounty to support inline code comments to Gitea’s pull request UI. It was the one feature I truly missed after moving from GitHub.

The issue was already on the roadmap, but wasn’t getting the attention it deserved. once the bounty hit a couple hundred bucks, someone implemented the feature and claimed the bounty. Money well spent.
There used to be literally three channels. We've doubled!
There's a certain amount of poetic justice here for Remington, seeing as how they acquired Marlin and then fired all their expertise, completely ruining the brand. Good riddance.
It is flexible. We need to be available for client meetings, but otherwise we are encouraged to work at times when we do our best work.
there is a democracy index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

there is something similar for voting systems but it isn't as elegant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system...
> Wind and solar are hardly renewable.

How so? Of course one day the sun will die, but for now I think they're close enough.
Does Postgresql have index size limits? I know in SQL server one thing that can bite you using varchar(max) is that if later you want to index it, it can fail if anything is over 900 bytes as that is the index size limit.

Its a run-time error too so the index may get created no problem then later someone tries to insert a >900 bytes value and it throws.
HTML5Up Plus Panini Static Generator = Cool App
Location: New York, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Have US and EU citizenship, willing relocate to other US cities and Europe.

Technologies: C, Python, DevOps, Swift, FireBase, Bash, Linux,
NGINX, Flask, mySQL, SQLAlchemy

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xsRNQeXD6JW_Z7J6zCHNyRzYfUx...

Email: kevan.lucchini@gmail.com

I'm a developer that loves tinkering with new ideas on how to implement a feature in a product. I'm design driven and passionate about working with people. I'm experienced in back-end technologies and DevOps, but can take on new languages and frameworks, as I have learnt everything I know in the span of a year.
I wonder why not call it Lisp + Rust
Agree with you AND the op. I think it's really nice to receive warnings but we also need a corresponding - don't do this, but do this instead. Developers want to follow best practices...we just need to make it easier across the board to figure out what the better way to do that thing is. I like Airbnb's linting guide which shows don't and do examples for each rule.

Warnings (necessary and useful for quicker feedback loops) only tell you not do something.
EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants
Anyone know what happened circa GCC 5 that changed the version number scheme? It felt like GCC 4 was around forever and now they do whole number increments every year or so.
> but let's not pretend me or you are responsible for the industrial levels of pollution

Let's instead pretend our chosen lifestyle of abundance and wastefulness doesn't factor into any of this at all?

Who do you think these companies are selling their products to? Thus financing their operations in the first place? Externalizing the blame for this solely on the industry, like consumers have zero responsibility or impact, might be convenient but imho it only serves to shift the blame from one party to the other and vice versa, so that ultimately nobody feels responsible and thus nobody starts acting.

To tackle this will require efforts on both ends. Because the industry will simply react by "There's demand for it, so we do it", while consumers go "The industry is doing it, somebody needs to force them to change, but don't you dare to inconvenience ME!".

Literally, nothing stops us from doing both: Being responsible consumers and properly regulating the industry.
Actually, why not choose all representatives by lottery?

I don't think representatives need to have any particular competencies beyond being representative of the interests of the population. Hired staff can take care of things that require particular abilities.

I reckon that a wholly random set of representatives would act like a direct democracy where every voter is free to fully focus on the issues, is allowed an entire staff to help them, and can consult and coordinate effectively with other voters. I think that could work pretty well.
Well the Beebwas never going to compete with billions of dollars of borrowed cash ploughed into anything with a pulse. If this is "can the beeb compete with the new production houses of Netflix / Amazon /Disney" then no is the answer. If its about the market share of iPlayer in the Uk (which is mentioned) then it may have been a different kettle of fish.

But really - they were massively outspent. Yet programmes like David Attenborough's Planet are top rated shows on their rivals. To my mind that is the Beebs strength and should stay that way.

Focus on being a trusted global provider of high quality programming. Dont try and be the Saturday night entertainment for 18-24 year olds.
If you cannot see what I mean about how that quote was potentially deceptive because of its lack of context, I don't know what to say to you. (but I'm not one of those who downvoted you)
I prefer aks engine to aks. https://github.com/Azure/aks-engine

- Azure control nodes have problems all the time, running my own is easy
- With aka engine multiple nodepool support is easy and not a “preview”
- we use low priority nodes and those are not supported in stock aks, and it won’t probably for a year
Getting elected, that's their job. They are either campaigning or raising money.

I think the biggest problem with this is it would be used selectively and always move to one direction, and nothing will be mutual. Someone's going to choose what elections are used with tokens, and it will only go into that direction.

Don't use politics, or the law. It's there to cap the violence. Stay away, do things on your own. When you go to these big places, DC, Wall St., Silicon Valley, it really is other people taking over.
> Moderation is no solution at all when you think about it.

Contrariwise:

Compensated emancipation was typically enacted as part of an act that outlawed slavery outright or established a scheme whereby slavery would eventually be phased out. It frequently was accompanied or preceded by laws which approached gradual emancipation by granting freedom to those born to slaves after a given date. Among the European powers, slavery was primarily an issue with their overseas colonies. The British Empire enacted a policy of compensated Emancipation for its colonies in 1833, followed by Denmark, France in 1848, and the Netherlands in 1863. Most South American and Caribbean nations emancipated slavery through compensated schemes in the 1850s and 1860s, while Brazil passed a plan for gradual, compensated emancipation in 1871, and Cuba followed in 1880 after having enacted freedom at birth a decade earlier.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_emancipation
Is this true for most real life workloads? There's that famous rule-of-thumb indicator for latencies: https://www.prowesscorp.com/computer-latency-at-a-human-scal...

It doesn't seem to be that the orders of magnitude are so close as to require totally rethinking mainstream kernels.

Or am I looking at this the wrong way?
I doubt that’s true for professionals working in central London.

Where would you live on that much money? You’ll spend your life and most of your money commuting!
My argument hinges on the belief that people in general are going to hold on to a plurality of opinions, and tend to backfit facts based on those opinions.

What you are attempting to do is tie the definition of acceptable to "impartial" science. This is tempting because it's authoritative and currently lines up with what you want. But it is a dangerous path because while the scientific process itself is impartial, the focus and interpretation of it is certainly not! Much oppression has been justified by pointing to some groups "innate qualities" and then asserting they need to be "helped".

It's also insulting the various struggles that have gotten us to this point, and shirking the current struggles. Did slavery end because some scientist finally got around to discovering that by-gosh Black people are actually the same species, and then everything just fell out? Or was it generations of iterated struggle to both self-organize and wrest acceptance from wider society, which is still going on?

I did state something very plainly that is not innate - men having sex with men. The desire may be innate, but the action is not. And sure, you can respond well that's just a proxy for an innate quality of gayness. But I'm not asking you to address this argument as if I'm making it right here, but rather to think about it if it was being made by someone in power to justify ongoing persecution of gays. "Being (innately) gay is fine, just don't put it in our faces". If you think society only moves forward, I'd call that a massive blindspot.

Even if something is not innate, path dependence can make it effectively so (eg living in a trailer). Ultimately, the scourge of identity politics doesn't care whether something is innate or not, but whether it can be used to sow divisions and divide people into ingroups and outgroups. And that's the real root of hate.
I don't see the truth in the center.

The federal government has been corrupt my entire life. I don't see any reason to give them additional money or power.

If anything, I find national liberals wrong, and state liberals more correct.

I wouldn't mind paying for things my area uses, I have some oversight.

Nationally trillions of dollars gets lost.
I wonder how this technique could be used to develop specific-person optimized user interfaces. Of course, it’ll probably be first used in ad-tech.
Heh. That quote is from Richard Bellman. Same guy who was one of the authors of that book I'm criticising.

But please allow me to disagree with you. The term programming/programme predate programming as we know it, and he was free to use it in the sense of 'scheduling', much like a radio or TV schedule. The dynamic also makes sense as the schedule (or whatever) picks its next state depending on a previous/simpler state (hence a 'stage' in multistage, though I can't understand his use of 'time-varying' here). I think it's ok.

I'd rather punch mathematicians who won't bracket over mathematicians who try and protect themselves and their work from over-powerful, deeply stupid people.
Cosmos, a decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains
As a firearm enthusiast, the answer to "How many guys does one need?" is always "Just one more." <grin> It's a fun hobby that I can spend time with my kids.

They also make great investments as a quality firearm holds it worth and often increases in value.
I’m not trying to say it’s my opinion.
New Analytics feature of AWS X-Ray: How your serverless apps can benefit from it
A Video for Mark Zuckerberg
The poster thinks 'tis neurotypicals which one cannot escape, I believe.