skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not friends with the cast of a TV show either. Game streaming can be much more interactive. I follow a player on YouTube who plays XCOM 2. His followers build the characters, write their biographies and so forth. Then the characters appear in the game and their authors contribute diaries about what happens to the characters in-game ... and since XCOM 2 has a "bond" mechanic, and since it takes 100+ hours to play through, and since unlike other games it's very common for characters to get killed in-game, the experiences can be pretty rich. It's just a bunch of self-organized randos on the internet, not friendship or community, but as far as what you can get out of staring at screens it's near the top in terms of interactivity.
"Which no one has demonstrated workably or economically."

This is false. There are several tests of capture underway, where it's working at least within other parameters. [1]

As for economic viability, that may or may not come with scale and integration.

The bigger question is obviously the long term implications of storing CO2 (i.e. will it leak) etc..

"It's insane to dig up coal and oil, burn it for energy, then spend MORE energy capturing all that CO"

No, if sequestration can be viable, it would be 'insane' to ignore it.

If it increased the cost of burning natural gas by 2x, it'd still be cheaper than anything else.

It'd be irresponsible to ignore possible vectors of innovation.

Why would you build solar equipment with unreliable output at 7 cents kww instead a reliable natural gas / sequestered operation with 3 cents kwh?

"Much simpler to leave the coal/oil buried and get your energy from other sources."

There is no plan to going to get all of our energy needs from wind and solar, so I don't know what you mean by 'simpler'.

Carbon fuels are by far our best source of power, if we can capture CO2 efficiently, than we should.

The apparent 'anti sequestration' attitude that seems to prevailing here in HN is naive.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-carbon-storage/japa...
Bezos has moved on.
FYI Target has a service called "Restock" where you can get items the next day. I've used it a few times and it's not bad.
You can buy detergent and they'll overnight them from some warehouse in Illinois or whatever (I live in Georgia...). I'm sure the shipping costs them an arm and a leg. I think they can streamline their operations but maybe they just wanted to get out a MVP.

Only time I had an issue was last time I ordered formula for my infant it came a week late. It was really an issue of the courier (FedEx) but I got a refund, and the formula came a week later...so free formula. Yay?
New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011
It's quite a bit more tenable when you admit to yourself that anyone who is nominally putting in 60-hour weeks as a knowledge worker is only actually working for 35 of those hours anyway. Studies show reduced productivity after that point, so you're just going to burn out engineers, and all you'll have to show for it is a butt in a seat.
Had heard of this (and in fact more generally that (ex-)Borland products are popular there, which is good, but thanks for mentioning it.
Possible evidence they could be thinking about this: a few minutes ago I filled out a survey of their's about my last Walmart.com purchase, and one of the questions asked was if I, or an immediate family member had a Sam's Club membership.
Does F still have resume prestige? I predicted more than 10 years ago that someday having worked at Facebook would be the resume stain that you wear for life. Has it not yet come to pass that having worked at Facebook is a red flag? Sure, you are probably smart. But anybody that lists Facebook on their resume is going to find a lot of their interview time with me going to probing their ethics.
billions and billions down the drain for symbolism. Mostly private individuals like me payed that via crass energy taxes. It's nice that you get enjoyment out of seeing solar and wind farms but in the end they'll do nothing but serve as testament of the hubris and stupididty of politians.
Price should stay down if you look at it as substitutes.

You can rotate your National Amusement(Viacom/CBS/Paramount), Disney/Fox/Hulu, Comcast/UniversalNBC, Sony, ATT/DirecTV/WB/Turner/HBO, Netflix accounts. They arent a contract. You have the incumbents (Disney, NA, Sony, Comcast, ATT, Verizon) vs the tech giants (Netflix, Apple, Google, Facebook.) One thing to notice is that Sony, Disney, and NA are now the odd ones out not owning an ISP. You buy one for a month each, cancel, switch to the next one.

It ends up being a LOT cheaper than cable if you rotate, and probably more expensive if you decide you need all channels at all times. The ability to rotate through them is a huge plus over cable/satellite.
I find myself hearing about weird titles & demos in a lot of places (IRC's, Comments on Gaming Forums and Other places) and search for their videos all the time. And I do go back from time to time to appreciate how far gaming has come and for the memorabilia of childhood games by watching the gameplay/trailers of the same. Someone needs to step in and do a Gameplay/Letsplay database of sorts for future reference maybe?
The latter. It's a device I use to address everybody reading the thread.
This article contains almost a dozen character attacks on the forbes author- basically every time he is mentioned. Both authors seem to be far off from the number of deaths and cancer rates estimated by the World Health Organization.

https://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/backgrounde...

If you're going to claim that the entire nuclear industry is evil, and that it's technology is fundamentally dangerous, maybe it would be good to compare it to a competitor like fossil fuels. Their pollution can cause over a million deaths per year.

https://www.who.int/airpollution/ambient/health-impacts/en/

Comparing the two by casualties per unit of power generated, this makes nuclear power appear something like 100 times safer. It's a simple calculation and if anyone's interested I could add the numbers here.
me too. those peeping tom machines are such a farce in the overall tragedy that is security theater.
Why would the government currently being run by people who are perfectly happy with this want to sue?

It brings up an interesting point. The supposed motivation of the tax cuts was under the guise that it would increase jobs and mean more money for employees. I have a hard time believing anyone who voted for the tax cut actually believed that. And the people lobbying for the tax cuts are not legally obligated to make good on any of the things they said would happen when the tax cuts went through.

The most likely thing is the people who were elected and passed the tax cuts are held accountable and then the cuts are rolled back but don't hold your breath.
UNIQUES are definitely "structural".

In fact, your the foreign side of the FK needs to be covered by a unique constraint (including PK, which is simply a UNIQUE with slight differences).
This is a pretty condescending take, and doesn't really seem rooted in anything substantial.

The core of your argument revolves around the inevitability of needing to drop down to raw sql for performance -- care to elaborate on that? It seems overblown, I've worked on some apps at decent scale and optimized quite a few queries and I haven't encountered this pattern of needing to throw out the ORM altogether in more and more places.

For any simple to moderately complex queries, the ORM is generating the exact SQL you would write by hand... There are a few pitfalls -- by default you may be fetching more fields than you absolutely need, but this is fairly cheap as long as your rows aren't super wide, and any good ORM offers an easy way to pluck only specific fields that you can use in hot paths. It's often easy to end up with N+1 queries in an ORM, but that's also a well-known access pattern that you learn to avoid with a little bit of experience and doesn't require raw sql. This latter is one area that I think a lot of ORMs could really improve upon, in terms of making it harder to do the wrong thing for inexperienced folks. But it's hardly a reason to throw out the whole tool, you can write n+1 queries in raw sql too.

I would agree that very complex queries can be more tedious to express in an ORM syntax. A good rule of thumb for when it's worth dropping down to raw SQL from the ORM, is if the shape of the query results don't match an object shape anyway -- i.e. for complex analytics type queries that are doing aggregations. But again I don't see much of an argument for throwing out the whole ORM just because you want to write a small percentage of very complex queries in raw sql. Use the best tool for the job. I don't think there's really al performance argument for these types of queries either, a really complex query can still be just as slow written in raw SQL. The solution to scaling these kinds of queries in a hot path tends to be denormalizing or precomputing or caching parts of the data.
No the 'general rule' is that in certain situations you do something not to appear to be disrespectful in some way. So for example if you were to work at Ycombinator the 'general rule' would be to try and encourage others to use yc instead of someone who competes with YC. Ditto if you work for a department store it would be typical to be supportive in some way for your employer (who gives you a job) and not if you can afford to shop at one of their competitors. For some reason this has been lost in the new economy.
Is this real? Have security disclosures finally jumped the shark?
and how are these PV users going to cover their baseload?
But doesn’t Siri require internet connection for all requests?
> It isn't really fair to compare it against reactors built anywhere else

It is fair when you're talking about human hubris and what it can lead to. Chernobyl (and other reactors like it) should've, could've, would've done x,y,z, but that disaster did occur, that area is totally uninhabitable, and the people living near there still are affected.

Just because it's better than other solutions doesn't mean it's -inherently safe-. "net less of life" isn't really a good statistic because living things are also affected.
I'm unfamiliar with the quality of this publication, but it reports on a study suggesting younger forests are better at carbon dioxide sequestration than older forests:

https://psmag.com/environment/young-trees-suck-up-more-carbo...

'Tropical rainforests, the revered "lungs of the planet," were once thought to take the cake when it comes to carbon sequestration. But a new study adds to a growing body of evidence that other types of forest may actually be better at sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere. Specifically it finds that young temperate forests may be more effective carbon sinks than are old rainforests.'
Wow, both the nim forum and the D forum are extremely slick and fast. They both deserve praise.
That Amazon announcement was a bait in disguise. Amazon can pull this off because they have massive logistics efficiencies that are optimized for their e-commerce business.

Walmart has to do way more because their core business is still walk-in retail. They have to literally force their model to make this happen and that's why you get low reliability on the customer offering and an unprofitable dynamic in the business operation.
This comment breaks the site guidelines, is unacceptable on HN, and is generally beyond the pale. Please don't vandalize HN this way. More generally, please don't post unsubstantive comments, especially not on such a highly charged topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For anyone interested in a deeper (but not dense) introduction to how and why Feynman diagrams work I’ve found a lot of pleasure going through this blog post below.

https://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/02/14/lets-draw-feynman-...
Lives wasted.
Cheat Sheet of Machine Learning and Python Cheat Sheets
If you cannot see that the March for Science is part of the problem of the politicization of science, then you are lost all the same.
The more quiet moments there are to reflect upon my thinking, the easier it becomes to notice and correct. I wouldn't call it suppressing, trying to apply 'force' in cognition usually leads to more internal conflict instead of resolution, at least in my experience.
At this point, saving video games seems like saving examples of drinking glasses from you local discount store.

Humanity simply can't save a copy of everything from all time. We should let more go. By preserving everything, we're decreasing signal to noise, IMO.
My undergrad capstone was working on this project, specifically looking into if researchers could use imagery data as a way of answering research questions quickly. I found that they they prefer to just use the raw data.

It was actually pretty interesting hearing about programming from the perspective of researchers. They run into many of the classic problems that beginner programmers face but as a culture they don't have the tools to solve them (like for example, they need version control but no one has heard of git).

https://andychase.me/files/meetings_draft_1.pdf
That'd be very job-specific.

It's probably misguided to aim for highly quantitative measurements. If productivity is measured as output per input, you have a lot of flexibility in how to define the relevant output - e.g. hitting well-defined product goals or milestones (versus e.g. lines of code, which seems wrong).
A Topological Analysis of Communication Channels for Knowledge Sharing on GitHub
You go from 30 to 35 straight to 60 when im thinking 40 hours a week. I dont know about you all but if i work 5 to 10 fewer hours a week i would get a lot less done
Dave had “fuck you, pay me” programming skills
Classic Computer Science Problems
Isn't a state driver's license considered a basic photo ID? There's no reason not to accept one.
or: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-...

“Why are you summing up millions of things when the answer is just one function?”
I didn't think I'd changed my default either, but I remembered I did run a shell script to set up "MacOS for developers" when I first got it, so maybe that was an included change.

I think all that demonstrates is that the default is bad for you and me. My parents use Macs, and I've watched my mother work enough to know she relies on the "This Mac" behavior regularly. She is a teacher, not a developer.
I'm always wary about this; when companies say they delete the bio-metric photos. They may delete the photos (even if they actually shred the photos), but they are still training a bio-metric model to better identify you before the photos are deleted.

> Biometric Templates: CBP creates biometric templates of historical photos and new photos for matching and storage. Biometric templates are strings of multiple numbers representing images that can be matched against other templates that represent facial images. These templates are irreversible and cannot be reverse-engineered by anyone outside of CBP to reconstruct the photo, meaning that these photographs are not recognizable outside of the TVS system.

So even if no single photo of you is on their severs, they still have a fingerprint of your face that can positively identify you.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/biometrics/biometric-exit-faqs
If you have never travelled outside the US you might not have a passport.
I think the Fox News brand has probably rendered the rest of the Fox brand somewhat undesirable. At a minimum it's just too quickly associated with politics and divisiveness to use for entertainment products that are meant to be a pleasurable diversion.
Exactly. We arent talking telecom spectrum, oil supply, rail road track. We are talking owning the IP to too many movies? Theres a cap on how much art you can own?

What if Disney was a private collector and bought up all the words art, and sealed it away, or charged admission at a single museum.
I can see those potentially displacing millions. Can't imagine how millions would die.
If You Don't Respect Your Users, You Don't Deserve Their Respect
Periscope feels a lot like Looker. What are the differences?
> Im sorry but 30 to 35 hours a week, especially at a startup is just not tenable for any company except a small lifestyle company

You're right, its still too much. If you want the best engineers to do their best work, I'd put 30 hours as the upper limit.
Thanks, great info and references!
I'm not sure you'd report that as taxable income, so it would probably be closer to 'post-tax'.
From the point of view of a numpy user, the stack is 100% Python. You just import it and don’t worry about it.
>Everyone already has a passport.

I'm pretty sure most native born citizens don't get passports unless and until they make plans to travel internationally.
Comparing SQL - a 4GL - to assembly language seems disingenuous at best, to the point where the Blub paradox applies. (And lo and behold, just four days ago you compared SQL to Lisp on the basis of incompatible implementation!)

Unlike assembly, which is famously redundant, SQL doesn't have much to abstract away, and the majority of counterexamples are covered by macros. The things that it really can't abstract are the implementation details that you want to care about when you optimize. Some parts could be a little less clunky, in the same way that the C language could be a little less clunky, but the successful track record of SQL over decades speaks volumes: it's not the stuff going on inside the database causing people the most grief, it's the programming goop that gets attached to it.
This article and your assertion are a really good example of how falsehoods become an unquestioned part of the accepted narrative. AT&T never "promised to create a net 7,000" jobs. The article admits as much: it quotes AT&T's CEO as saying that AT&T would invest an additional $1 billion, which is equivalent to 7,000 jobs. The article never analyzes the truth of that claim. It never determines whether AT&T actually invested that money. (In fact, AT&T is in the middle of a big push to deploy more fiber: https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/att-plans-to-expand-fiber-in...) Instead, the article points to completely unrelated layoffs that resulted from a merger. (There was also the question of who exactly this "promise" was made to. The article quotes Stephenson's comments in a speech to the Economic Club of New York, not any sort of filing to the government.)

The same is true for the "promise to build out a fiber optic network." AT&T never "promised" to do that. The arguments at the time were that deregulation would lead to higher investment into things like broadband. What nobody anticipated at the time was that the mobile revolution would happen, and all that new capital would be redirected to building wireless networks instead. That doesn't make the original claim a misrepresentation. And from a practical standpoint, it's better that all this money got invested in mobile instead of building FTTH.
That one's easy.

The solution to corrupt government is good government, which people are free to elect if they choose. And the solution to corrupt corporations is to be tough on crime, ie - regulations with real teeth. Which the good government, that people can elect if they choose, can easily enact.

Now if people don't want to elect good government, if they want to stick with the sort of government they are currently electing term after term, well, I guess I don't know what to tell them?

But yeah, solution to electing corrupt government officials should be blindingly obvious. Don't do that. Elect officials who are not corrupt. When you hire someone for your company, depending on the position, you likely do a criminal check, a credit check, a general background check, a drug check, etc etc etc. All those kinds of employment related checks we all have to do. Most of us don't do that when we vote, we just kind of say, "Meh, this guy's on my team, I'll vote for him."
Short discussion on this Cisco vulnerabilities earlier today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19902923
Are they actually using this on domestic flights? I know the article mentions flying domestically but I haven't seen any evidence that this is being used for non-international flights.

The whole point of this is to implement the Congressional mandate for exit tracking without the more traditional exit controls of getting your passport checked and stamped upon exit (which most countries do).
How about next time we want to give a company a tax break to incentivize job creation, we make it a rebate payable in five years, contingent on the jobs actually being created.

Of course, that assumes 1) that giving a tax break is actually an effective mechanism for creating jobs, and 2) that the people involved are not corrupt to begin with. I'm not sure either is a safe assumption.
The US government is one of the biggest investors in innovation
I have even heard of left-handed pens. They're shaped exactly the same as regular pens. The difference is that they contain faster-drying ink.
I found it interesting that the section that explains the name of this vulnerability is way more thought-out and verbose than any of the other sections. It's almost like they had a linguist on the team and the emoji name was his prideful contribution.
Actually, Amazon just announced they are willing to throw money at you to start a company to do delivery for them.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/amazon-offers-employees-10...
You find it normal to carry around passports for domestic travel? How often do you travel?
The pieces of the puzzle that all go together:

REAL ID, federalizes drivers licenses for creating a database of photos for facial recognition and metadata.

Enhanced Passport--the requirements for getting the photo include not wearing glasses and not smiling, ostensibly so that their algorithm works better.

Facial scanning at airports, so they can build up as big a database as possible.

I'm surprised they didn't require full fingerprints for REAL ID.

How much further do we go before the tyranny becomes in your face enough?
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At least for me, the USPS often does last-mile delivery for Amazon. Given that Amazon has already made this work, it seems reasonable to think that Walmart could have made it work as well.

And personally I haven't had them lose mail in years. I know this varied by region, so maybe it's just where I live now. But if anybody can make a large organization up their game, it's another large organization who is paying a lot of money.
The thoughtbot jobs say they are 40 hour a week jobs in the description.
> There are next-generation image formats that support progressive rendering better than JPEG, and compress better than WebP, but they're not supported in web browsers yet.

Is this now standard, do they all do it or just some of them?
And if they recover? You know in every other country in the OECD if you get sick, you go to the hospital, then they cure you and you walk out. That’s it! No liens, no debt, no bankruptcy. If you give it a chance you might just like it and if not, you can always go back.
Appreciate your insights. Yes, I agree, need to make multiple changes to it.
Besides the fact that there is no such place anywhere in Germany or Western Europe there actually is point in that argument. Which is the question who should have nuclear power plants as it is impossible to get rid of them. A country like Germany where tight controls can be reinforced or someone else like say Ukraine or Czechy.

The other point is that fact that you need the distance in case the plant blows up. Which implies it can blow up. Which is true as well (unsinkable Titanic, tsunami safe Fukushima, you name it) as technology can and will fail.