skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thing I think is funny is that so many people feel like their kids "need" their own bedroom, then as soon as college rolls around, "dorm life" is completely fine where they have one or more roommates living in a space that is often smaller than what their bedroom back home was.
Maritime and airplane emission is definite an issue after the grid power transferred to renewables. The problem is the low energy density and the variance in renewable resources.
I guess for transportation it is more practical to aim for net carbon neutral.
Edible Microorganisms to Counteract Agricultural Expansion
Interesting stuff but I wonder about the veracity of claiming that “every email you receive releases a hit of dopamine”. For one thing I thought the chemical models of the brain we have are far too primitive to know this. Secondly does this mean I can get high from reading emails? It’s not working.
I don't think the factor is for kids who did poorly. This is a bonus (AFAICT) added on top of a reasonable test result. One that indicates that the student had some hardship that they overcame to get the result. Which should make the result count more as the kid had to go through more to get it done.

Who's more impressive on average? Students with a 1200 SAT in an area with low crime and upper middle class income, or students with a 1200 SAT in an area with high crime and low income? There's a presumption that the latter probably had external challenges to overcome.
I am pretty sure he was describing the metaphorical "we", and is postulating that even the "experts" have a misplaced confidence in controlling these systems.

Furthermore, I feel this this could be an ideal application for AI. AI is outstanding at recognizing patterns that are often impossible for other systems to discover, so what would be better then to "train" a group of AI on nuclear plant safety and let them monitor all the systems in real time, looking for any group of subtle changes that, in the past, have lead to severe problems?

I'm sure I'm hardly the first person to consider this, so I was wondering if anyone has any info about using AI in this way?
Building a Serverless Comments System
Let me try to write something that may permit and generate fruitful discussion.

Do you think the repeated US copyright-term extensions, widely attributed to Disney, have been good public policy? Patent IP (Industrial Policy;) has lots of knobs and dials (duration, obviousness, scope, FRAND, etc) - do you think their current settings, nailed down by US pharma, are well adjusted to support innovation in other industries, like say tech? Do you think California's severe limits on non-compete employment agreements are bad for innovation? No? Neither do some other countries.

For example, TPP was spun as a free-trade treaty. But it was also sometimes described as bag of multiple treaties. One, free-trade. But also "IP" (copyright and patents). And ISDS. Let's leave the mess of ISDS aside. When the US dropped TPP, it was continued by other countries as CPTTP, keeping the free trade parts, and dropping IP and ISDS. After a time, the US came back with USMCA, forcing their inclusion. Canada was forced to agree to change its laws, to extend its copyright term. Something the US had long tried to force, and Canada had long resisted. The canadian press described it as arm twisting, and coercion. Here are US trade negotiators, acting, at root, on behalf of Disney. Why pay for regulatory capture piecemeal, country by country, when the US provides one-stop shopping for world-wide regulatory capture?

If Russia, with declining oil revenue and growing trade imbalance, but having nukes and bioweapons, forced the United States to permit the mass importation of Russian-provided narcotics, dwarfing the current opioid epidemic, would you be pissed? Yes, the Chinese still are.

But this isn't some vague "trigger" similarity. US trade negotiators, on behalf of the subcultures in which they're embedded, and the interests which determine their positions, are trying to coerce them. As with Canada and others. Maybe China will fold too. Or maybe not. Canada did push back on ISDS.

Call it a conflict of two cultures of corruption. In one, large incumbents do regulatory capture, and use it as moat, to avoid a threateningly competitive and innovative market. In the other, everyone pays off the government, and there's lots of other ugliness, but... there's a ferment.

Current US press coverage of China repeated reminds me old regime Europe writing about the US in 1800's. The US economy and governance and society were really corrupt and messy. And they changed the world. And the world is perhaps fortunate, maybe, that the dismal stagnation of Europe was unable to stifle that.

[Fyi, I'll likely not follow up on comments - sorry, I lose days that way. And this isn't the kind of topic HN does well. But there seemed some significant bits absent from the discussion, at least as of when I started writing this. So I toss it out there, FWIW.]
I think you're forgetting tax but I generally agree with your point.
It's been reduced and it goes from nowhere to nowhere. Seriously, Merced to Bakersfield?

Isn't the majority of soul crushing traffic happening inside the LA and Bay Area regions?
> There is no career hit associated with Facebook

Having witnessed it personally, yes there is. It's not evenly distributed. And if you do something amazing later on, people will look past it. But it's there in a way it isn't for e.g. Apple or Google or Amazon.

> People love to complain about Goldman Sachs too, but that still looks good on a resume

Goldman is universally respected within finance. Facebook is not universally respected within tech.

(Neither Goldman nor Facebook care about public opinion, outside of managing political risk, since neither sells its product to the mass market [1].)

[1] Goldman recently started doing this, though
I'm in a small Midwestern city so my cost of living is very low compared to some places in the USA. I make less than some of my colleagues in larger cities but even with student loans and getting ready to buy a house, I am quite comfortable. Even still, I look at some of my coworkers who are making what I'm making and were freaking out when they changed our pay schedule so we would get paid a week later. What the hell are they spending their money on that one week is a huge deal for them but it isn't for me? Sure some of them have medical bills and children but I was still surprised that it was such a big deal to so many people.
wasn't a large amount of corruption surrounding this deal specifically a major plotline in true detective season 2?
Indeed. I like to think that pretty much any food with a marketing budget falls into the "clearly junk" category. Food is 100% vital to everyone's survival. It doesn't need marketing. If a lot of effort was put into selling it to you, it's probably not good for you.

Come to think of it, this probably applies to more than just food.
This is a bit weak/clickbaity, it basically is "we got weird traffic" and TLDR its some people with macros and a couple browser windows... Its not "bots are posting fake news" its more like "they're real fake clicks on ads"...
I don't think that people who care about privacy could possibly affect what Facebook does by working there.
This article seems like clickbait. The article doesn't provide any tangible evidence that consuming information impacts creativity.

Personally, I find that stimulus helps a lot with idea generation. Walking around, talking to friends, sitting in a bar, reading, etc. The more information that comes in, the more information that can be processed in unexpected ways. In contrast, just sitting in an empty room alone usually generates fewer novel ideas.
>and the never-ending political battles that pop up with every project completely incapacitate development.

This is distinctly a CA problem.
I hope you didn't pay them for it. Telling me up front you're going to send something, while expecting payment, unless action is taken on my part does not absolve them of letting you keep the item free of charge.

Put another way, shit shows up in my mailbox for which I took zero action? Mine now.
How does Stadia advance Linux+Vulkan? The games run in a data center (and they're not running a standard Linux port, the presentations I saw made it sound like they were running basically another console port).
> The ... state had [originally] planned to build a 520-mile (837 km) system ... from Los Angeles to San Francisco ... Newsom said in February the state would instead complete a 119-mile high-speed link between Merced and Bakersfield...

Um... That's not really gonna help.
> When my parents were working, a simple factory job by one person in the family unit was enough to get them a house.

It may be that it was just a complete anomaly - in human history, it was never possible to achieve this, barring a couple of decades in one country (USA). And after it, even in the US, things got back to normal. It may be that your parents' generation was the luckiest generation in history.
I took a compilers course from Prof. Porter, and at the time he invited undergraduates to write a simulator for his relay computer. I remember thinking, "why in the world would I want to do that? I want to work on the next big thing!" Fast forward to now, I've never worked on the Next Big Thing, and am instead slowly, though enjoyably, building Ben Eater's 8-bit SAP-1 when I have some free time. It sort of feels a bit like building a ship in a bottle. I just wish I had taken Professor Porter up on his offer and maybe scratched an itch when I had a little more energy and free time.
You're assuming it would broadcast long enough to find the station, not a hit and run operation. And even if there was a constant signal, they could be using a repeater.
It's really shitty if this is a selective action against California and not large projects overrunning costs in other states. At the same time, when the project costs 10x what was promised, saying no seems like a good thing. If this kind of cancellation was applied to all projects going as poorly as this, it'd be a really fair decision.
Very interesting talk about Stadia, latency, Linux, Vulkan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdz4b5psrhE

> The inside story of how DOOM came to life on Stadia. id Software delivers a bird’s eye view of real-world Stadia development from conception to execution. Learn how high-performance games are made on Google’s new streaming platform. Recorded at GDC 2019.
I find it hard to imagine making that kind of money and blowing through it all, but I do know that my wife and I put together make 3x what I would have considered more money than I would have known what to do with when I was a teenager… and we still end up every month with nothing left over.
Right. Diminishing returns are a force multiplier in the gross hours of work equation. It’s the whole reason why some managers incentive “butts in seats” vs. “quality of output.”
Also in the news: water is wet.
Also because they exist. People who would move to CA but don't because of the housing problem can't vote to fix the issue.
It's unbelievable how awful we are at building high speed rail, or any rail at all in this country.
> A fall in acceptance rates may mean saturation in needed roles at Facebook.

No. If Facebook didn't need those people, they wouldn't have extended an offer to them in the first place, so it wouldn't have affected acceptance rates.
> you see these disadvantages all the way down the line: SAT, college grades, LSAT, law school grades, Bar exam passage rate

Can you say more about this? Do students who (presumably) leave home to go to college still have as-significant challenges after? How so?
By 'crashing down' I mean a stiff housing price correction.

There's already heavy government intervention in the housing markets, that's the problem: developers can't simply buy land and develop it to it's maximum potential. There are regulations that prevent the market from meeting demand, hence the skyrocketing prices that can't be addressed by increasing supply.
If you apply for a scholarship based on your heritage, how do they decide if you qualify?
>...Renewables + storage are now cheaper than nuclear as a carbon free and dispatchable resource.

Trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variations. For example, one estimate is that Germany would need about 6,000 pumped storage plants which is 183 times their current capacity:

>...Based on German hourly feed-in and consumption data for electric power, this paper studies the
storage and buffering needs resulting from the volatility of wind and solar energy. It shows that
joint buffers for wind and solar energy require less storage capacity than would be necessary to
buffer wind or solar energy alone. The storage requirement of over 6,000 pumped storage plants,
which is 183 times Germany’s current capacity, would nevertheless be huge.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/144985/1/cesifo1_wp5...

>...The current expectation in the utility industry is that by the time next gen nuclear is commercialized, the grid will already be >90% carbon free.

What is your industry source for this? Getting the grid to be >90% carbon free is a huge undertaking and won't be done anytime soon.
Hardened Library for AES-128 Encryption/Decryption on ARM Cortex M4 Achitecture
>In March 2018, the state forecast project costs had jumped by $13 billion to $77 billion and warned costs could be as much as $98.1 billion.

I love train travel as well but that is an obscene amount of money. I wish they would upgrade the existing tracks so that traveling from Emeryville-LA Union station goes from 10 hours to 4-5hrs (and runs multiple times a day)
Well nuanced response, this is. Perhaps you'd like to read my comment again and address something I actually said? Would be happy to discuss.
IT doesn't have to be that expensive. Plenty of families have children on $30k/year (one income). Their kids don't get to go to summer camp, nor do anyone get a lot of nice to haves.
> I don't think there is any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise

I feel like Google started that way, and then lost its way sometime between 2009-2012.

Projects like Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Summer of Code, Google Reader, Google Open Source, Google.org, and pulling out of China didn't really have much of a business justification, but were simply something good that they could do. Unfortunately they're a public company, and when you start struggling to meet analysts' (perpetually inflating) estimates, being good - or at least not evil - is usually the first thing on the chopping block.
This bill would have created enormous resentment on behalf of homeowners, the ones who would have watched ugly four-story boxes go up in their neighborhoods. They would have wondered why the problems of the big cities were being dumped onto them, and the answer is found no farther then Weiner's list of campaign contributors.

https://votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/129655/scot...
Why Has San Francisco Allowed Comcast and AT&T to Dictate Its Broadband Future?
I think your parent commenter gave you a very valuable marketing feedback and you should take it seriously and not deflect it with the diplomatic yet hollow "everyone's experiences are different".

Did you agree with their feedback? Disagree? State it plainly, no one is going to sue you for it. :)

Many people who frequent HN are quite busy professionals. I too quickly close web pages that show zero code, or motivation for creating the language, or brief install instructions. To me it means that the creators can't present well and that leads me to assume that their programming language is bad at expressing intent as well (and thus verbose or confusing). Is this a wrong assumption? Very likely, but the first 10-30 seconds of percepting something new are not rational. That's a widely accepted psychological premise in marketing.

You might disagree and that's okay. Marketing however isn't at all about what you like but what your average site visitor likes.

So, finally, what was wrong with the code samples? They might have been too simple to be useful but they still did send the right signal to your busy programmer visitor -- IMO.
It's a bit more than that if you give it a full read...
Microsoft: 'We're detecting 5B cybersecurity threats on devices a month'
Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about this business. I do think the following could be a good explanation:

If removing a bolt takes 2 minutes and moving from corner to corner (at height, carrying a power tool capable of unbolting the bolts) another 2, you can gain 2x8+3x2=22 minutes per section removed by removing the bolts before the dismantling crane is attached to the part. Multiply by 6 or so on a day, and you can go home two hours earlier (or pay all personnel involved for two fewer hours), and (possibly the most important factor) rent that heavy-lifting crane for two fewer hours.

Also, you probably are right that the heavy-lift crane takes more time to do its work than removing the bolts. If so, the workers who loosen the bolts are mostly waiting, but they are still being paid.

If removing a fully tightened bolt takes more than one person (say because the tool used to do so is big and heavy; these bolts probably are inches in diameter), while removing a loosened one can be done by one, it also pays to have two persons loosen all bolts in the morning, send one home (or to another job) and only pay one in the afternoon to remove the loosened bolts.
Security Update from Stack Overflow
Can't say I'm surprised. While in general the USA has had a very hard time with new infrastructure projects California has always taken it to the next level.
It may not be uncommon in some regions of Bavaria/Austria to directly communicate negative emotions. It is also not uncommon to personally insult the person who caused the negative emotions.

In those regions the feedback scale is shifted as follows:

1. No complaints: Good work done

2. Minor insults: acceptable work delivered

3. Heavy insults on personal level: delivered work should be enhanced

4. Person stops talking to you: delivered work is insufficient
yes. exactly right. the first leg should have been somewhere near the Santa Ana Freeway from LA to Orange County -- or somewhere else near a large component of California's population.
> To be clear... the scientific method is literally a debate club.

To be clear... it's literally like a game of chess, only without the two dices:

https://books.google.at/books?id=AWhFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=front...

Worth reading how the science already looked like in 1683. Please don't try to dumb it down.
That's just plain incorrect. There are already mainstream AAA titles targeting Vulkan published for Windows and macOS (via MoltenVK). Doom Eternal will only target Vulkan on PC
: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_7
I'm a happy Newsblur subscriber. The developer has continued to extend and improve it since the days when he was suddenly mobbed by Google Reader refugees like me. It's got great uptime, I've hardly ever had an issue with it.
Yeah... this is a CA problem not a US problem. Had a similar amount of money been given to say... ND or MT to build some other structure it would have been done before the money was ever divided out.
The Half-Truth of First-Mover Advantage (2005)
I just don't think the authors observation is very good. He is essentially saying that "a rising tide lifts all boats". But in reality it is the boats that are important more so than the tide.

The invention of the sampler created a huge amount of value. But mainly by a handful of companies and music scenes. If you wasn't for Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London, Bristol or wherever else the change would have been marginal. Just like climbing wouldn't necessarily improve without places like Yosemite.

You can even go further and say that it isn't just specific groups that make progress, but that they define progress itself. There isn't much as such saying that free soloing in Yosemite is what progress is. Or even that climbing is worth progressing.

There also can't be many who believe that technology haven't made e.g. trains significantly better in past decades. Yet, China now have much more advanced trains than the US which is arguably better at technology. That is presumably because China is building boats rather than praising the tide.
Just to take a pulse, but am I in the minority that finds Quora to be a great great resource to learn on a variety of topics ? I know HNers are often critical so wondering what others think. Some say Quora's time has well faded and it is no longer used as much, but I'm not sure about that..
Yes, I've seen it too. As you say, it's not evenly distributed, and it also depends on other factors such as when you started working for them and what your role was.

But there's definitely some amount of stigma associated with having Facebook on your resume. The interesting question is whether that's temporary, or whether it will become even more pronounced over time.

I could see it going either way.
> Where exactly is the complexity?

In understanding the question.

At any rate, you still haven't replied to my job offer. I need you to do two weeks of free work for me.
And this in a single-party rule state, even. You'd think this could work in California if it could work anywhere in the US.
Interviewer was not a guy and would have been my manager.

I guess I'm glad it went this way for other reasons. It was for an entirely new team within Uber to build something very specific that nobody had done successfully yet (though there was a paper about it...it's security-related). The manager was an external hire and the entire team was to be as well. This was a big warning sign to me that management didn't care very much about this team or if they accomplished what they set out to.

4 years later they still haven't delivered on that feature yet.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city:

Global Power City Index

The Institute for Urban Strategies at The Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo issued a comprehensive study of global cities in 2018. They are ranked based on six categories: economy, research and development, cultural interaction, livability, environment, and accessibility, with 70 individual indicators among them. The top ten world cities are also ranked by subjective categories including manager, researcher, artist, visitor and resident.[13]

Global Power City top 10: 1. London, 2. New York City, 3. Tokyo, 4. Paris, 5. Singapore, 6. Amsterdam, 7. Seoul, 8. Berlin, 9. Hong Kong, 10. Sydney.
77 billion for a train in 2033 ? And people wonder why we in the US think the government is completely unable to run these types of projects effectively. Total joke.
> Illinois

To the surprise of no one, things are going slower than expected: http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/February-2019/What-Happe...
Sounds like a single point of failure if the pilots rely on ATC too much. Low visibility landings and such.
Not always. Some are well funded. Others the rich kids from the nice neighborhood go to private schools, so the rich parents don't care about public school funding. Often poor parents don't care about school other than a cheap daycare and so they don't fund the public schools well either.

Note that school funding and outcome is not well correlated.
Hi; try it now! I GIMP-ed the image such that the non-transparent pixels are pure red, and only slightly opaque, instead of 100% opaque pinkish white. It looks about the same on a white background. Thanks, again.

I tested it with a lightly grey background, as well as heavy gray.

This little experiment really made me notice HN's hard-coded light grey background box, BTW.
The T-hunting game is usually pretty spicy, with intermittent transmissions and propagation hacks. A repeater adds no difficulty at all.... just DF the input of the repeater.