skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if async forum communication / semi-interactive celebrities can adequately replace the 'piece' of human interaction that makes prisoners go insane in solitary confinement. I'm sure we'll find out soon.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of Sylvia Plath's fig tree - [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7511-i-saw-my-life-branchin...] which I always think about. I've observed that it's useful to think of the one future that you would sacrifice all other futures for. Which would be what exactly do you value?

On regrets and mistakes, Jordan Peterson talks about this sort of thing in a beautiful way as the idea of "redemptive mistakes", and that "people are a lot more unhappy when they look back in their lives about the things they didn't do than they are about the mistakes they made while they were doing things" - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGDnSWmqhM]. It has stuck with me as I try to be more permissive of myself making mistakes and being imperfect.
Interesting, thanks! I'd love to read more about ways to encode video that allows streaming at a variety of resolutions with a minimum of redundancy, if anyone has any links.
Tor Browser not safe without manual action
> coat them in a known carcinogen

That's actually the opposite of what's going on. From wikipedia:

Starting in mid-2008, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) deployed around 400,000 balls in the Ivanhoe reservoir with the main objective of preventing the formation of a carcinogenic chemical, bromate, which forms when naturally occurring bromine reacts with chlorine in the presence of sunlight.
I think OP's point is that many of the tools necessary for a totalitarian state are in place. The Stasi and NKVD would have loved tools like this. America once aspired to something other than "papers please".
SciAm made the same battlecry (plea) back in the 90s. I supported it then as I support it now. But it didn't work then and won't work now.

Because we don't understand the enemy.

The remedy isn't messaging, framing, engagement, empathy, discussion, or whatever else rational people hope will induce irrationals to step into the light.

Trying to sneak science thru the infotainment propaganda blockade ain't gonna work. And is a waste of effort.

Perhaps the alternative is our own media empire.

Fox News was run at a loss its first decade. Something like $500m/yr is spent, at a loss, on the right wing noise machine. All those popular alt-right sites have patrons.

Does the left have anything comparable? In scale and gumption?

I don't know if it'd work. Reason ain't sexy. Versus the outrage and fear factory. But I'd like to try something new.

--

Also, impartiality and objectivity is a trap. Just tell your story sincerely, unapologetically. The opponents will blather regardless, so don't share your soapbox.
For all we know they would have otherwise cut 30,000?

I don't think we should be enacting laws based on promises anyway. The effects of tax breaks are reasonably well understood without the need for promises.
Because it's fun, mostly.

Also I have a lot of trouble actually remembering things and keeping my projects straight. By writing blog posts, even if I don't publish them, I can keep things straight.

I also needed to use picsofbread.com for something.
East2 – Unleashing Airline Rewards
Less than half of Americans have a passport. [1] And it has nothing to do with photo ID, it's the fact that they forced the states to adopt REAL ID under the pretenses that they would make photo IDs more reliable and difficult to fake (back in 2005), and now they're using the photos they collected to create a facial recognition system.

This needs to be voted on by a full session of Congress and debated in the public sphere, not quietly rolled out at a few airports to normalize it.

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/after/p...
True story. Until a few years ago the only place outside the US that I had gone was Canada, so a passport was not needed.
Well, I had a trip coming up to a country other than Canada so I finally had to get a passport. Upon beginning the return trip, I was stopped at security. Before I boarded the plane, I was magic wanded ... again. Not wanting to be one of "those" Americans I held my tongue. Upon landing back in the US, I got stopped again at security. Back on home ground I could be as belligerent as I cared to be. But they just ignored me and went about their search.

Only thing I could think was it was a new passport. Pissed me off though. That's just stupid.
Isn’t that risky - what if you suddenly have to travel with business and there’s a delay getting a passport?
Australian residential customers are paying the highest electricity prices in the world [1]

Any solution works if you have unlimited amounts of other people's money to throw at the problem

[1] https://www.afr.com/news/australian-households-pay-highest-p...
400 hrs of commercials a year? How much TV are these kids watching a day?
I was about to mention category theoretic connection but the post mentions Bob so I need not say anymore.
Then you'll be pleased to learn adverts are also available online :)
Borrowing items to display is not the same as giving away your own when you’re bored with them.
> I can't help but suspect that these ad-free kids need to be exposed to some advertising in an educational context so that they learn to recognize when somebody is trying to con them into buying shit they don't need and probably didn't want in the first place.

It's not like they spend 24/7 on Netflix, they are probably getting bombed with ads more so than ever in history out in the real world. And even more so, probably even more aggressively than the commercials they are missing by using Netflix.
Long term? Some kind of storage solution in combination with hydro power and, my preference, natural gas as it burns much cleaner than coal.

Short to mid term? Same as above, only that storage will have to be replaced with something else. Since coal is clearly favoured by the system in Germany coal has to replaced by itself. Coal is just the worst alternative. Unfortunately nuclear is no option in Germany, until storage tech is sufficient it could nicely close the gap.
C wasn't fast compared to many other high level compilers on mainframes, some of them still being sold by IBM and Unisys, which kept the original system languages instead of throwing it away and rewrite everything in C.

And on 8 and 16 bit systems, any junior Assembly programmer could easily outperform code generated by C compilers.
I think this is great and interesting, but do CL compilers optimize numerical code anywhere near as well as Fortran compilers?
Unfortunately, there's no format yet that's both significantly better, and somewhat standard.

There are PIK, FLIF and FUIF, all of which have very nice progressive loading, but they're totally experimental with no plan in sight to get them standardized.

The closest to becoming standard (or de-facto standard) is AVIF, AV1-based HEIF sibling. The compression there is great: half size of WebP, so regardless whether it's progressive or not, it's going to load fast.

In the meantime there's still room to improve rendering of progressive JPEG. The blockiness of early progressive stages is mostly an artifact of implementation in libjpeg. The smoothing could be much better, so it can look more elegant.
I really hope this picks up and I'll keep a close eye on this job board for sure. Great idea!
My goodness, they sell a bunch: https://www.walmart.com/search/?cat_id=0&facet=retailer%3AWa... (substitute amd for intel in that query if you prefer) including a $1,629 Ryzen Threadripper $70 cheaper than Newegg, free 2 day delivery or local store pickup. The multi-thousand dollar Xeons seem to be more in the receive next week category, but a couple of the most expensive 18 or 28 core, $3K plus or minus, are 2 day, at or just a bit more expensive than what Newegg is charging for them.
Hey thanks for sharing. I had a look it is good component builder. It has got nice features. It looks like it cannot generate code matching a framework.

Ui-editor will generate framework specific code. Right now it works for react js.

They don't have to build components in terms of repeated framework syntax code. Instead focus just on events, state, reducer.

Future plan of building components from acceptance criteria is under thoughts. And ui-editor will solve better along with that.

Feel free to clarify if I missed to explain properly.

-From mobile.
GPS is a pretty good example of that. While it was developed by the US military, civilians world-wide use it every day. I'd call it a transformative technology. Turn by turn directions, self driving cars, drones (not military), cameras, phones, etc.
>Diversity in science is not just for optics. We need scientists from diverse backgrounds in all senses of the word—race, ethnicity, gender, class, ability, geography, etc

If you don't want science to be attacked politically, don't politicize science.

We don't need to make sure that our scientists represent every color of the skin spectrum with a representative range of disabilities. We need objective, competent workers, with a diversity of scientific, not cultural views.
I would assume it is using some sort of public-private key encryption to generate the fingerprints. I say this because they say "anyone outside of CBP." So with the proper key, and fingerprint, you can probably reconstruct a photo, or some sort of deepmind type image.
Right, but the question still is: did AT&T invest that $1 billion? AT&T's capital expenditures in 2017 was $21.6 billion, and $25 billion in 2018: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/at-t-s-capex-to-rise.... In 2019, it is expected to be $23 billion: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/at-t-expects....
The article claims nearly 4.5 hours per day. I find that hard to believe... I don't know any children (in my admittedly biased sample) that watch more than an hour or two.
The energy in the batteries weighs almost nothing, the batteries are just the storage mechanism, like the gas tank. To make a fair comparison between these cars, you almost need to compare not just the weight of the fuel but the entire system to convert that fuel into kinetic energy: the weight of the engine, transmission, drive shaft, gas tank, fuel pump, oil, cooling system. There is almost 500Kg of stuff in a typical passenger car to convert that gasoline into motion, the transmission alone in some cars can weigh almost 100Kg.

Right now a Tesla Model S weighs about 450Kg more than a comparable luxury car (Audi/BMW etc) and the battery pack (including cooling system etc) weights about 545Kg by itself. Another doubling of battery energy density would bring Teslas much closer in weight to a comparable gasoline car with the same range. In fact one would expect the range to go up for the Tesla by making it lighter as well. Teslas are notoriously heavy, even for an electric vehicle, an energy density of 400 Wh/Kg for batteries should bring weight parity between electric cars and gasoline cars for the same range and the same amount of cargo. That seems like the only weight number worth comparing.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? We've had to ask you this before.

If someone is wrong and you know more, reply with some of what you know, so we can all learn. If you don't want to, that's fine, but in that case please don't post anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Netflix puts the ads directly inside the shows they control themselves. This way no adblock can censor them, and Netflix can prance around pretending they are saints for not showing ads.

Example "Hey let's call an uber" says character A.

"I watched X on netflix yesterday" says character B.
All the vertical integration Apple has been able to muster hasn't prevented more open competition from growing in the smartphone market, so your point continues to remain moot.

Again, to make your case, you must argue that Apple products are categorically different from any other device available on market and that they are preventing new entrants from competing with it, which is so blatantly not the case here.
Great list of programmer laws, ideas, and understandings, not just "The Law Of Leaky Abstractions" (which of course is a classic in its own right...)
I didn't realize that it's cheaper to export used plastic than process it within the country.
Depends on how cheap it becomes to synthesize it from air using electricity, in which case it just becomes an alternate battery.
I would agree the resume prestige has diminished from what it once was, but I think it's a little far to suggest that any rank and file ENGINEER would have compromised ethics just from choosing to work there. Facebook uses cutting edge tech and pays really well, I would never hold it against an engineer young or old for accepting a position that very likely offered more compensation than they've ever had before.

If you are interviewing Facebook execs or management it would seem reasonable to question their ethics.
Thank you for mentioning that, as a non native speaker I was a little confused.
I block all JS and have a comprehensive blocklist for just about every ad service there is. Stuff usually loads damn fast (ok, when not broken by JS missing, an acceptable price to me, I get speed and safety for free). I always recommend people try it.

It's fast enough except when webbish types do stupid things.

Just yesterday I was looking at a Scientific American article which was held up by an entirely pointless 2.6MB gif, this one <https://static.scientificamerican.com/blogs/cache/file/80C44....

Quanta articles are bloody nuts too, check this shit, a 4MB animation that tells you nothing. Fucking nothing. Absolfuckinglutely sweet FA. (Edit, forgot link; here: <https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-p...)

We have a fast web, what we also have are idiots - technical solutions to idiocy aren't solutions.

(NB 'scuse swearing)
They care about productivity, but that's more difficult to measure directly, so they need some proxy metric for it. Hours worked seems like a reasonable metric that can be applied to the broader workforce.
I'm pretty mediocre at skill based games in general, and the whole time playing fortnite and games like it, it just felt like my only purpose in the entire game was to be some fodder for a "more important" player to shoot for their entertainment.

Non battle royale games at least give me a chance to have my own moments of "glory" instead of consistently using me to avoid having to build any actual gameplay
>I'm surprised they didn't require full fingerprints for REAL ID.

They do in California!
Seeing a pattern here on Engineers just calling it as it is, and wanting employers to do so too.

It ain't gonna happen - its the same thing as in PR-speak where a company will deny wrongdoing, speak in platitudes, etc, even when everyone and their dog knows what the real story is.

Engineers will just need to do their own due dilligence and find out through other avenues what the culture and working conditions are really like - I think this is just the reality of corporate culture. There are very real and tangible benefits of being employed and having a stable month-to-month paycheck, instead of striking out on your own, and the sooner everyone just accepts these annoyances and moves on with life, the sooner they can concentrate on the things that really matter.

Basically, don't hate the players, hate the game.
If I had to choose between the systems, I would choose the non-adversarial approach. There's a famous paper, "Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans
Do It", https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti..., where I first learned of the German system. That paper was written in 1979, and since then, Germany does have plea bargains (https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-upholds-plea-bargains/a-1...). But in the US, plea bargaining essentially is our criminal justice system.

I'm curious why you think it allows for more corruption than the US system. Something I find compelling about the German system is that the primary point is not to decide guilt or innocence of the accused, but to determine the truth. (See https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj/vol34/iss2/5/).
But what countries are taking this trash?

I mean, isn't the entire crisis that China does not take the trash anymore?

So if we have all this trash, why can't we just put it in a landfill?
Safety of common food additive questioned after study reveals effects on gut
Worth. Every. Penny.

I went to my parents house with my son. He was 4. They turned on cartoons. Then he said, "Dad why'd you change the show? I don't want to watch this." It was a commercial. I had to explain commercials to my son. It was at that moment I realized how much of my tv watching as a kid was commercials.
You choose the shows your kids watch; you don't get to choose what commercials a cable/airwave channel shows you.
I think their follow-up thesis this is accurate:

Maybe the most realistic thing we can say is that while brand likely matters a lot for getting candidates in the door, once they’re in, no matter how well-branded you are, they’re yours to lose.

When I was interviewing, that was entirely true. Visibility and branding matters for initial contact. After that, I turned down interviews for all sorts of reasons. Interviewers that lacked social skills, interviews that asked for too much work, interviews where once I met the team I decided it wasn't a good product, and in one particularly egregious case a recruiter who initially asked for a resume then didn't respond until a month later with a two sentence message that the position got filled but was there another one I wanted to apply for?*

Based on my experiences job searching, if it weren't for all sorts of perverse incentives and bad actors who would mess up a name-and-shame blacklist, I'd wholly support such a list.
Power reserves do not generate power, and they do not provide power in the orders that a nuclear power plant provides. If you can build something fast, it is not necessarily good. I think 10 years for a nuclear reactor is a bit of a stretch though. I think currently the initial infrastructure with a reactor or two is built in around 7 years, while adding additional reactors might take 3 or 4 years. And the building speed is quite fast in comparison I think. If you think it in terms of watt per year, a decent sized nuclear reactor gives 430MW/yr while building solar plant of that size that fast is quite an endeavor to take. Solar power does have the advantage that you can plug it in nearly instantly, but in the long run it cancels out.
The 80km (actually 50mi) evacuation requirement was made up by the complete idiot Gregory Jaczko, at the time, unfortunately, chairman of the NRC, but still stupid enough to think that zircalloy can burn in air. Yes, this stupid and corrupt man has done a lot more damage than any nuclear power plant ever could.

Can you please not blame a technology for the idiocy of a professional liar?
Bill Nye Shocks Audiences by Saying It Like It Is: The Planet's on F***Ing Fire
This is how Linq in .net works.
Some states have still not gotten with the times and converted to "Real ID" security in their driver's licenses. Because they're easier to fake, they're not always accepted but YMMV.
Honestly, if you haven't seen the advertising now rampant in the new Netflix interface, then you haven't been paying attention. Everyday I'm bombarded with "ads" on Netflix for shows that my family wants no part of. Things that seem either offense at worst, or at best misguided as "positive" offerings are frequently shown.
> the demand for custom built sites are at an all time low.

The demand for custom built static sites you mean. Dynamic (i.e. functional) sites, aka "web apps" are extremely popular. Every man and his dog want one (often even when they don't need it).
Regular tv does this equally if not more.
>"30 Hour Jobs is a job board for job seekers and employers who believe that shorter workweeks can lead to increased productivity and higher job satisfaction."

Doesn't mean you actually have to offer only 30 hrs.
Also I don't get why German does have very limited transfer capacity between Norway,Denmark and Sweden. Those countries have lot cheap renewable energy.
Im not saying it is or isnt the plan, but weve only really seen it as the plan from the press speculating. Disney hasnt really come out and said what IT wants to do with hulu. A year ago, Iger said they were going to continue to fuel it with content. Everything else is conjecture.
AFAIK this is only for international travel, so you should be bringing your passport with you regardless.
>Just because it's better than other solutions doesn't mean it's -inherently safe-.

I re-read the parent to your comment looking for the words "inherently safe" in vain. I don't think they are claiming it is inherently safe.

My 2c on it is that yes, it is important to recognize the failures and lessons learned when moving forward. However, we don't bring up the Model T when discussing road safety today. This is similar in the sense that design, oversight, and general knowledge of nuclear is much more advanced today than when Chernobyl was built. So, yes we need to think about Chernobyl. No, it isn't fair to directly compare Chernobyl to Gen IV plants.
The destruction of the environment affects us at the present too
I still don't understand how a receipt helps for this use case. Can you explain in a bit more detail?
> Seems normal to carry some ID like a passport when travelling, to me.

Some ID, yes, people try to have one all the time. A passport though? Most people I know only ever carry that for international travel. This is about domestic travel.

> Hotels often ask for ID. You don’t know if your plans will change and you’ll need to fly straight to another country, etc.

Yes but that's for international travel. We're asking about domestic travel because this affects them just the same.
What you're doing (only mentioning you want part-time after you get offer) is a good first step. More suggestions:

1. You're underselling yourself in this page, so you might be doing that in your interviews too. E.g. "SALE! For a limited time only - 40% off!" Yes, it's a joke, but you don't want to make jokes about how you're cheap when you're looking for a job.

2. Let's say you talk to company A, they give you offer for 100% time, you say "can I have 60%?" and they say "no". Don't walk away. Instead, say "let me think about that for a week or two." Now, when the next week you get offer from company B, you can say "I have an offer from another company, but I like you more... maybe we can work something out. How about 60%?"

Having that extra offer makes you seem more valuable.

3. Don't give up. Sometime this takes a while, and if you treat this as something you're practicing, every interview you do you will help you improve.

(I also wrote a book about negotiating a 3-day weekend; 60% is harder, but it's the same basic advice: https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/)
Good point, but subtle product placement is a TON better than explicitly pushing sugary cereal as a "part of a wholesome breakfast" for 2 minutes straight.
Calling the march a part of the problem is a cop-out excusing the real problems - the political response to science that spurred the march, the political response to the march itself, and mass-media's role in the politicization of science. If we say that the march is the problem, then we're saying that we should be taking at face-value anything the lobbyist talking heads of Fox News and CNN say about whatever they're pointing their fingers at.

Climate Science denialist PR campaigns by Koch Industries are politicization, and it feels filthy wrong that we're overwhelmingly pointing fingers at the scientists and grassroots actors responding to these campaigns instead of the groups publishing and hosting the lies.
I guess I gave away my age there didn't I?