skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blaming the “companies” and “lobbyists” is such a cop-out. The companies are just giving people what they want. If people demanded a shift to a climate friendly lifestyle tomorrow, Exxon would have no choice but to follow suit.

Looking at the major trends of the last several decades. People moving to brand new sunbelt suburbs where they drive everywhere in SUVs. Buying disposable clothes, electronics, etc., made in China and shipped over the ocean. Even the token attempts at being environmentally conscious are ridiculous. I go to Whole Foods here in Maryland and everything is grown in f—king California. It’s a joke.

Nobody is willing to make the lifestyle changes it would take to have a real impact on climate change. And it’s not unique to the US. Canada and Australia have similar carbon footprints per capita, suggesting it’s more a combination of material wealth and low density. Blaming corporations instead of the people for all that is asinine.

And what are our best and brightest from Stanford, etc., doing? Figuring out carbon recapture? No, working at Google figuring out how to more effectively advertise disposable consumer goods that are shipped over from China, used a few times, and shipped back to China for disposal.
Your call for identification and distance from civilians is telling. You would be in the right if the enemy was an organized militia. But these terrorists avoid military patterns of behavior/organization. So what is the proper classification? Criminals? If that is true, the US military would be judge, jury and executioner in one.
> Who decides what is the 'best' product?

Impartial consumer advocacy groups comparing products on open, fair and repeatably measurable factors, for one.

> If advertising were illegal then how do people find out about products?

Same way people found out before advertising existed: word-of-mouth, trade fairs, product catalogs... and the question is always, does the world NEED the new product?

Is it beneficial for society if supermarkets carry literally dozens of different brands of simple plain white yogurt, of which half goes to waste because people mostly buy the cheap white label stuff?

Do we actually even need brands as a society? For many common goods the brand is actually irrelevant already. Think HDMI cables - as long as it carries a legal certificate that it conforms to HDMI specs, I don't care if the cable is from Amazon, Mediamarkt, or whatever the name of the Alibaba or ebay shop is. And I won't have any benefit from shelling out 10k bucks for a 20m cable over one that costs 20 bucks.

As societies, we definitely need to have a proper democratic debate and vote on how we want to (re)shape the relationship between consumers and producers. The current way is unsustainable.
How many were already using Wikipedia in the first place? I assume that before the ban happened it was already pretty much hidden from results in Baidu and the like?
I love how I can't select text on this website on mobile...
That's a really cool trick/abuse of syntax that goes back to the confusing `this` in javascript.

calling a method or function directly (when in the global scope) will set `this` to the global object. But calling a method or bound function could have a different `this`, and calling a function directly in another context can have a different `this`.

the `(0, funcName)` syntax works by evaluating each item in the parens, but returns the last item. (don't ask me why this is in the syntax, I genuinely don't know and have never seen it used beyond this as far as I know)

So that syntax is abused to basically (simplified here) reassign the funcName to strip out the `this` that is bound to it and reassign it to the global context.

It then evals that `this`, and returns it! Meaning it will always get the global `this`, or `globalThis`!

It would be similar to doing this:

var thing = eval
thing('this')
I didn't mean to communicate that, but your point is fair nonetheless. In my defense I think I was inclined to use the acronym "DE" because I had already read through the existing comments and had seen other discussions already taking place about double-edged safety razors and referring to them as "DE" so I kinda switched to that "in the club" mindset without thinking. My apologies if you'll have them :)
I think you're reading that sentence as if that's the only effect on the US. Also assuming the effect is linear in the change in temperature (is it really?).
I am all for controlling CO2 and moving away from fossil fuels but I also agree with you.

Climate is complicated, there are many complicated feedback loops going on. As just one example warming temperatures promotes plant growth especially algae which captures CO2 interning back to the ocean floor. Of course some of that algae is not good for us (red tide).

I am not worried about life on earth, it will adapt and survive, it has seen worse, I doubt we would turn into Venus, but its a slight possibility.

The issue is what happens to human society, it will most likely adapt too, but at what cost? Rising sea levels, food supply having to adapt, these things could caused great suffering to many, then again maybe not. I don't want my kids to suffer or their kids.

The point is we don't exactly know how it will play out so why push it? Lets get off fossil fuels as fast as we can, we know its the right thing to do for many reasons, one of which is to stop returning so much CO2 back into the atmosphere.
When Assange exposed Bush/right, the journalists and leftists loved him and the right hated him. He won a bunch of journalist/humanitarian prizes. Now that Assange exposed Hillary/left, the journalists and leftists hate him.

24/7 anti-assange propaganda by foxnews, cnn, msnbc, nytimes, wapo, etc and you get the current anti-assange sentiment.

Trump hates him, Hillary hates him, the establishment hates him because he exposed corruption. Corrupt people don't like their corruption exposed. Also, the elites want to start wars in venezuela, syria, etc so punishing assange and setting an example and possibly discrediting/getting rid of wikileaks is in their interest. Wouldn't want truth to get in the way of more wars.
Sorry everyone for the outages on sklivvz.com. @Azure's DNS stopped responding to @Cloudflare and broke the site's CNAME. Added an A record now. I'd like to know what happened to Azure...
He's mostly concerned with the learning curve of HTML and CSS, so I'd say that it's a success so far - no tooling got in the way of his learning. We haven't gotten to using the database yet...
The original design of the government was to have only 1/2 of 1 branch of government Democratically Elected. That being the House

The Senate was appointed by State Legislatures, this was changed with the 17th Amendment

The President is Chosen by Electorial College not a democratic vote (which I support BTW)

The Judicial Branch is Appointed for Life.
This is currently being done on Wikidata for information that is more easily represented in a database.

https://www.wikidata.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

Some infoboxes on Wikipedia have values that are automatically synced to the related Wikidata entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infobox
> just about everyone would interpret that as pre 2016 and post 2016 attitudes and not an arbitrary last year and this year

A poll last month [1] found 73% of Americans have opinions on Wikileaks. The most common response for Julian Assange, on the other hand, was "don't know" (42%, versus 27% responding similarly for Wikileaks).

I'd guess the 38% who find Assange unfavorable is largely unchanged from, say, 2015. I'd also guess his favorability was higher in 2012. (That's what made Correa's political arithmetic around granting Assange asylum stick.)

Under this hypothesis, people didn't start hating Assange more in 2016. His base of supporters simply eroded until most didn't care about him either way. That turned him into a normal person. Normal people don't get to hang out in embassies all day.

[1] https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
If you read the rest of my post you'll notice I did mention Dorco with context:

> It's sometimes pointed out that (in the past, at least, cannot confirm this is still true) Dollar Shave Co. is just reselling handles and blades made by a company called Dorco. While true, it turns out that buying the DSC-branded gear is actually cheaper in most cases than buying it straight from Dorco, unless you buy a lot at a time.
> The perception of Google’s quality is as much because we all know when we write an article how to make informative titles and content, and knowledge if we’re too spammy we’ll be punished.

Errr, I personally hate the top articles google presents me for pretty much every query. Keyword stuffed long-winded texts that hide the information they are promising in the headline somewhere in multiple irrelevant paragraphs or just don't provide it at all. To me, Google's perceived quality has fallen significantly over the past five years.
When "this enemy" traces it's lineage back to cultivation by support from the US government...

1. Stop selling weapons to terrorists for decades.

2. Stop toppling democratically elective governments and propping up dictators.

3. Stop killing children with vaccination programs.

4. Stand away from drones and identify yourselves and go onsite to find militants.

5. Stand away from civilians and don't run the financial operation of your global hegemony through downtown office towers.

6. Stop kidnapping and torturing innocent people at black sites.

7. Stop killing for a President who openly advocates killing family members of the enemy.
The Kalman filter assumes that all errors are gaussian, that all updates are linear (i.e., new state = linear function of old state), and that observations are linear (i.e., what you measure is a noisy version of a linear function of the state).

The extended Kalman filter allows for state updates and observations to be nonlinear, by the straightforward expedient of replacing them with linear approximations near to the current estimate.

The ensemble Kalman filter also allows for nonlinear updates and observations; instead of keeping track of the expectation and covariance of the state (i.e., everything you need to define a Gaussian model, things that behave nicely under linear transformations but not under nonlinear ones) it keeps track of an "ensemble" of sample values, applies the update and observation functions to those, and then estimates expectations and covariances from this ensemble. It's a sort of Monte Carlo Kalman filter.

A couple of other things worth knowing about:

Intermediate between the extended KF and the ensemble KF is the "unscented Kalman filter". Like the ensemble KF it estimates things using a number of samples; but instead of propagating those samples through repeated steps, it picks the sample points at each step on the basis of the estimated expectation and covariance, and uses them only to compute new expectations and covariances. More expensive than the EKF but copes better with substantial nonlinearities.

Extrapolating beyond the ensemble KF is the "particle filter", which uses the same "track an ensemble of samples" approach but gives up the assumption that all the errors are Gaussian. You need a larger ensemble to get good results, I think, but it can cope with a wider range of scenarios. (I find the name "particle filter" annoyingly distracting; the "particles" are the samples, which I guess you're supposed to think of as a cloud of points in possible-configuration-of-the-system space, and of course it's a "filter" in the same way as the Kalman filter is.)
Ask for a three month Sabbatical. If you've been working for a company for some time and have done well there, you might be surprised how eager they are for you not to leave outright. The reason for the Sabbatical? Have a couple of ideas in your head if you feel the need to explain yourself, but don't say burnout:

Trip around the world, meditation retreat, extra-tech study, family reasons, whatever.

And of course, have your mind made up in case the answer is no. Make it clear that you've decided to take the time off regardless, but would really like to return to work for them in three months.

I've done this very thing myself. 2-3 months off, going part-time, etc. The cost of losing your experience and abilities down the road usually out-weighs any short term difficulties it presents to the company.
Have to second the emotional and relationship aspect of it.

The general physician I went to initially to kick of the quest for diagnosis obviously had an interest and gave me a book called “the answer” (edit).

If you are Swedish: “hemligheten”

In english the tag line (translated by me): “from moments to lasting relationships”
War crimes are what losers did.
But the US accepts collateral damage willingly by executing attacks that will harm or kill bystanders as part of the plan.
Yeah sorry, like I said, never did look closely into either of them before. Knew that Haxe had multiple targets but aside from Neko and Flash and JavaScript I didn’t remember the others. Should’ve checked the Haxe website also.
I don't think he supports Trump, I think he knows how evil the Clintons are.

Here's what I think the Clintons and their "foundation" were up to: Selling out the US in every way possible. The e-mail server was part of a sophisticated information sell operation that included their own plausible deniability, but basically foreign intelligence agencies paid to get access via numerous charities and other clean-looking channels. The primary beneficiaries were the Chinese, who Clintons were already doing business with even when Bill was President.

So we had the Clintons selling out the US at the highest level.

Now, knowing that was the case, do you think what Assange did could be characterized as supporting Trump or just trying to put and end to something so utterly corrupt that it defies comprehension? Seriously, the Clintons are the same as the Rosenbergs who, by the way, were executed for their crimes.
One thing I noticed not mentioned is whether it is possible for there to be a negative SEO attack on these agencies to try and get them blacklisted. I work for an e-commerce company and we've seen comment spam and all sorts linking back to us which we certainly didn't initiate. So black-hat SEO isn't always black and white.
The problem is that most data can never be verified. A source may never be fully accurate. A source could be a bunch of BS in the worst case. Even government data and media-based data frequently contradict each others.

For recent events we have already seen large press groups spreading misinformation. So when do you know when they actually produce facts or produce biased BS? At the end of the day somebody makes a call and we know nothing of their affiliations.
There will always be people that claim something in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's not a rational position, so it quickly becomes very complicated to figure out why someone would keep holding on to it. It can be (and frequently is) different for each person that holds an identical position so it is also not a super useful thing to figure out. Unless you are trying to unpack why a loved one holds an irrational position, of course. But the venue for that is maybe not HN :)
snitches get stitches
Relevant links:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport

Obviously a top post on HN gets you more attention, and shames Google but for others, Googles does have a process in place.

Note: I have never used the process, an cannot vouch for it's legitimacy.
Project manager, product owner, technical manager, innovation lead, business development officer, account director, head of operations, manufacturing manager are the main ones from my tracking list. I've tailored my CV to show accomplishments in areas relevant to each role.
It's shocking to me that in public discourse being caught cheating is now "sabotage".
> - I'm not good at understanding existing codebases. It is not that I can't fix a single bug or implement a new feature, it is just I'm slow. How can I improve this? I'm looking for something like a job simulation at home, like list of tasks to do in an existing codebase, with explanation or even guidance. I don't want to start another stupid practice project at home while I stress myself out about when will I find a job again.

The best way to improve this is just practice, plain and simple. Check out an open source project you like, and add a feature. You don't even need to create a PR for it - just do things you think might be good / useful - but add them to existing projects. It takes time to figure out how to separate signal from noise with other people's code - you just have to put the hours in.

> I have problems at paying attention in meetings. I struggled through the whole university too. I understood and learned almost everything at home for 5 years. Sometimes I even got asleep during important classes. I'm not talking about 1.5 hour long scrum groomings or reviews, sometimes I can't even pay attention during a 15 minute long standup in the morning. At my lost job they found it as a serious problem. Where to start?

If you can rule out a disorder like ADHD, then some of the best things you can do to improve concentration and attention span:

1) Get enough sleep (you mentioned falling asleep sometimes - a good sign that you're not getting enough generally)

2) Eat well, and regularly.

3) Stay hydrated

4) Take regular breaks (go for a walk, get some fresh air)

No solution is 100% effective - but they're things that have helped me.
Stores actually charge for preferred locations within the store/product section. They also charge for end-cap locations etc. There are lots of marketing options for within the store alone, and is generally even then still less biased than typical advertising.

The problem is between advertising and inconsistent/misleading studies, you cannot trust any person, product or company at this point and imho the system itself will fall over eventually and there will be restrictions and regulation that follows.
Oh please. Tell that to the people occupied by them from 1968 to 1989. I'm happy to put you in contact.
Civil disobedience means accepting the consequences of your actions.
Front end Weekly Digest (6 – 12 May 2019)
Reminds me of an ex-boss of mine (and a pretty smart one, at that).

He left the company I was working for to manage IT at his father's smaller company. Needless to say that he soon received a visit by some "SEO specialists".

So he received that visit of two well dressed, soft spoken dudes who offered their services asking them: "What's your company name again?"

Typing it into Google his next question was: OK, so you're high powered SEO specialists. Would you mind explaining why your own company is not to be found in the first two pages of Google's search results when I search for you company by name?"

Let's just say it was a rather short visit.
You have a point, though, from what I have read, I do not think the airplane would become unstable prior to the stall, merely less statically stable than its predecessors.

Boeing may be denying that MCAS has a stall prevention purpose only because to say so might put it in the critical systems category, requiring additional training. If so, this would apply as much to the fix as it does to the original version. To acknowledge that it has a stall prevention function might require an additional AofA sensor as well as additional training.
Past: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Schiit%20Happened&sort=byDate&...
Thank for the photos. That video and The Sun are horrible.
She can get pregnant and use the courts to force you to pay child support for the next 18 years. I'd say it's no less serious.
The election outcome is obviously much more multifactor than that, but that doesn't change the fact that Assange was coordinating with Gucifer 2.0 against Clinton. Wikileaks wasn't neutral in that election.
> the `(0, funcName)` syntax works by evaluating each item in the parens, but returns the last item.

This is just how the comma operator works in other languages such as C and C++: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator
Sometimes you have to play by the rules, bending them to your own needs.

I agree with her points, but she's stubborn. I highly doubt that any judge could understand the reasons of her behaviour: if you spend most of your work time slavishly applying laws, regulations, .. legislated by someone else, it's not in your mindset.

It would be really much more simple an pragmatic to give them the spectacle of the grand jury. She could even answer with something such as "I need to follow back after consulting with my lawyers".
Yeah I would. The current system is essentially torturing people into testifying.
What I wish someone told me about speaking at tech conferences
"the few genuine victims of rape" kinda gives away your attitude on the subject. At least you know that this sort of misogyny isn't well received in polite company and decided to create a new account for it.
I used to work at a fitness tech startup, but then when it didn't work out (heh), I took a step back and wondered what industry I wanted to be a part of. I wondered if a software engineer could help contribute to fighting climate change, so I started asking around.

I found a job in solar, then eventually started my own clean energy software company. Every day I wake up with the incredible feeling that I'm getting paid to fight climate change. If feels good, and I'd like to encourage you to consider joining the industry, too.

It turns out there's a huge need for software and other tech skills (data science, sysadmin, etc.) needed for the energy transition. With the deployment of so much "intermittent" generation like solar and wind, we need fuck tons of software and communications infrastructure to run a new "flexible" grid. For example, the California ISO is using neural networks to formulate the day-ahead markets, and recently started letting aggregated demand response providers (e.g. companies who manage smart thermostats) bid into the market as distributed generators.

So if you're thinking what can you to help fight climate change, the best thing you can do is get a job in the climate change fighting industry. Start googling around for jobs with climate change keywords ("solar", "wind", "clean energy", etc.). Start showing up to clean energy events (if you live in the bay area, check out my bayareaenergyevents.com). There's so many people in this space who came from other sectors, and it's incredibly easy to move up or start your own company doing some specific thing you think is needed for the fight. Also, feel free to reach out to me or read my previous comments on this topic.

"They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!"
Is Stackoverflow still accessible in China? Or how do programmers work there?
Ehm, good question; it's been a while since I read about this. I think, but don't pin me down on this, that his being kept in a single country would give the US enough time to draw up a formal extradition request for that specific country, whereas if a country isn't able to hold him, the request might not come in time.

Hopefully somebody else can chime in with a more reliable explanation.
Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that China uses in Xinjiang
Interesting comment. You make it sound like the real internet happens to be US-centric. Yes, many important projects are hosted on Gitlab and Github, but there are also other ways to share code. And these alternatives might not be that well known to us developers in the western world.
I'm no US apologist and thankfully I've never been in such situations but civilians at risk of these might well be living in situations where they have some very nasty, oppressive people mixed in with them and being an even greater risk to them than such (supposedly) carefully used weapons.

In such cases they might feel grateful that the US is doing this. Might. Maybe. 'Terrorists' is such a useful word.
Are you looking to develop your technology?