skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm halfway reading "Stumbling on Happiness," and one takeaway is that indeed people are happier when they take action and it doesn't turn out to be as expected, than when they do nothing. Your experience fits exactly that.

Coincidentally, I'm reading the book because I'm trying to decide whether to leave my small city teaching job at a and move to SV to get a big tech job. And the book and your experience suggest that it is better to leave and fail to thrive than to never leave at all. But may I ask why didn't you like it, or what should I look out for?
Your compiler doesn’t — and can’t — know what’s in your database.

To the extent you create a system that requires this constraint, you’ve created a brittle (and soon to be broken) system.

(I suppose there may be some case where all the data is all known up-front and will always be updated in lock-step with the consuming code/services but that’s rare in my experience.)
One way to look at these communities is that in many ways they are similar to IRC, except the interactions take place in twitch chat and discord. For example, the one game streamer I follow I certainly wouldn't consider a friend, but I do have some friends I have found through the community (in the same loose internet friend sense as some of the people i met through IRC and still talk to). Just like IRC channels were formed around a common theme/topic, these communities are formed around a 'personality' and shared videos.

For a technical equivalent to this, look at the EEVBlog forums. It's arguably the premiere forum online for hobby electronics discussion, but a lot of it also revolves around the EEVBlog YouTube videos. There are some people who don't watch, but they are in the minority.
SEC to Relax Audit Req'ts for Small Firms, Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud
Schachter and Ceglowski’s "LOAF", or List of all Friends, was a way to distribute a random projection of your email contacts publicly and anonymously. It was based on Bloom filters and actually I learned of Bloom filters by hearing Schachter's talk on LOAF at Eyebeam long ago. Basically you distribute the projection in an email header or signature and the recipient can probe it to see if they might have any contacts in common.
It's pretty simple and fun to compute these for your own use cases. Openstreetmap data is really useful here. One implementation:

http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2015/05/06_poles-of-inacc...
I can't test the index. If the index and workspace are different, the index is wrong. I would like an option to make the index go away (or else become a buildable filesystem dir), and stash whatever I don't want to commit yet.
In this case, I'm not sure I believe SQL is lower level than an ORM. SQL actually seems higher level than what most OO languages give you, and I wonder if that's a big part of the problem with ORMs.

Maybetthat's why the abstractions that ORMs give you generally seem more complex than SQL.
Interestingly enough, I feel that your grammar is pretty much spot on perfect, at least from this excerpt. It's the cadence and rhythm of the way you write and format your sentences that subtly suggest you're not a native English speaker.

Maybe the thing that most sticks out to me is saying "English writings." I don't think a native speaker would say writings, just "in their English", or perhaps "In their written English."

Your English is fantastic, this is me simply musing on what you're suggesting.
Except that that radioactive cloud was much less harmful than reported. And much less harmful than the emissions from our other power sources.
I saw what Target's same day pickup / two day shipping workstation looked like on Black Friday last year. It was two 6' workstations with a shared printer, tape dispenser, air pillow machine between them. Maybe 4 employees packing, and 2-3 employees picking items and either bringing them up front or to the back. I think they had a handful of pallets that they stacked all the boxes on and left at the loading dock for UPS. New orders were coming in every 10 seconds or so, but they could have handled 10X that.
Here's one with noise by day and night as well as a bunch of other metrics: https://berlin.placeilive.com/daynoise
A shell script to set up a macOS machine for design and development
It should be:

"Why <insert power generation> Will Never Be Inherently Safe"

All power generating has some risk. The idea is to create a differential and capture the differential. Inherently, generating power means capturing energy differentials and typically the higher the TWh the more damage when a failure to contain said energy creation occurs (think a nuclear plant, dam, wind turbine, etc.)

Safety in nuclear power, as with other forms of energy generation, have more to do with politics. Politics will lead to cutting or increasing costs and safety guards being put (or not put) in place. Arguably, pollution due to coal and natural gas is going to cause global warming and in turn many billions will possibly die from starvation.

Is that "inherently safe?"

I don't think anyone disagrees that it will never be "inherently" safe, but it may be "safer" or "cause less damage" long term to the general populous than alternatives today.
Depends on one's window of time when buying Craftsman. Anything in the last ten years is definitely crap, fifteen-twenty years ago was becoming hit-or-miss, anything older than that was definitely good. My father was a tool-and-die maker since the 60s, and always had Craftman tools. Err, correction, still has; I'm sure a ratchet or two has been lost to abuse (i. e., "cheater bar"), but last I checked the vast majority of his collection is intact.

So when the old farts bemoan that old Craftsman quality, they're talking two decades ago.
Large scale power generation is inherently unsafe. Making all those electrons jiggle is going to require some serious stored energy and wherever there's stored energy there's potential to release it all faster than intended.
There's a cloud of particulants from burning coal and oil over most of Europe--- and it has killed orders of magnitude more people than contamination from Chernobyl.
Rjukan (the town from the article) is also a great destination for ice climbing. Lots of frozen waterfalls only a stones throw from the road.

Only a couple of hours drive from Oslo.

In case you need an excuse to visit.
So, if something will produce 7'000'000'000*100TWh, it will be Ok if it kill all humans on Earth? It's just 0.001 death per TWh.
An old trick learned in Denver: if you think you might get schocked by a light switch (or other object), touch it first with a key. The discharge is spread over the whole of the area where your thumb and finger touch the key, and you don't feel it.
> ... deaths per TWh ...

The thing is we have not yet seen "worst case scenario" for a nuclear power accident. As bad as Chernobyl and Fukushima were, MUCH worse accidents are possible.

We don't know what the actual death/TWh is for nuclear is yet because there hasn't been "enough" TWh's.
This is a load of fucking shit. Burn victims of any stripe (however many) aren't a rational justification for invading in 1991 or 2003.

Sorry. It doesn't work like that. The Iraq invasion has severely fucked up civilization. It solved no problems. It created many problems. It showed deep, deep flaws in how international decision making gets resolved.

On some level, it leaves us with irreparably fractured politics, and they'll get papered over in another decade with something worse.

But yeah, burn victims, sob stories, and fawning commentary. Keep it up.

Who reads this shit?
Ask HN: What happened to the print quality of science books?
First I got a thermodynamics book from Amazon and the print quality was so bad that I returned it. I thought it was a pirate print (although I bought it new and directly from Amazon).

Today I picked up two orders from the local bookshop: The Logic of Science by Jaynes and All of Statistics by Wasserman. In both, the type quality is much worse than in my older science books and textbooks. The contour of letters is not sharp, pages look like what I used to get with my inkjet printer. These are hardcover editions, each costing over 100 USD.

Is this the new normal for science books? Any hint to avoid bad surprises? Did editors just drop the ball on printed books?
A ton of great innovation comes from Universities and the National Labs. I would argue most innovation comes out of basic research funded by the government. Interestingly, in a lot of ways this research is subsidized R&D for American corporations and startups. Much of what gets funded in basic research is set by lobbyists. It makes sense, not many companies can sink millions or in some cases billions of dollars into R&D that may never have commercial applications. There was a really good book review about this in a Physics Today issue a few years back (I cant currently find it).
> Your compiler doesn’t — and can’t — know what’s in your database.

At compile time, yes it can. Not inherently the compiler itself, but at compile time the process can fail to build if your models do not match the schema in the DB. Diesel, for example, keeps the schema in code and (optionally) compares it to that of the DB. Ensuring that at compile to your code matches the schema of the DB.

That of course doesn't handle changes to the schema post-build, but I hope no one is ad-hoc modifying their DB :)

edit: And this becomes even more of a local, isolated solution if your ORM is also managing your migrations. Which, in the case of Diesel, it also (optionally) does.
It's important to remember that with the death of net neutrality in the US, this may not be the case forever.
You don't even need to go that far. They can just decide to remove the video for any reason, or block it in some parts of the world. This happens all the time.
The sibling to this by jrumbut has great suggestions! Personally, I made some good client connections through other freelancers in different markets, like video FX and graphic design. They often have clients that also need dev work. Or, sometimes you can find people who want it but don't know it yet; you can start a good conversation like, "you know, there's some good tech out there to add X to your site, so you or your customers could do Y much more easily." Sometimes business owners don't even consider some of the options available to them through commissioning custom software!
Based on your first link, I'd re-interpret the bar chart titled "What are plastics used for?" to imply that consumer products actually make up a much higher percentage of plastics.

My assumptions are that packaging for consumer products ends up in the "packaging" bar and not the "consumer products" bar, and that plastic-based consumer textiles similarly end up under "textiles" and not "consumer products", and probably something similar happening with stuff hiding inside the "other" bar.

And yeah, I do think that we as consumers should take some responsibility. I would like to some regulatory action or excise taxes, sure. But, even without that, I can still at least try and put some demand-side pressure on things by, for example, preferentially choosing products that aren't in plastic packaging. Or even avoiding making a purchase altogether when it's not necessary to do so and my only options come in disposable plastic containers.
I don't have a problem with delays... I have a problem with them being deliberately misleading about delivery times on their product pages.

It happened several times where they used the term "same/one-day" delivery yet at checkout the delivery time was 2-3 days out. So... in other words... they knew damn well what the time frame was, but deliberately chose to use "bait-n-switch" like methods.
Lowes might sell Craftsman tools, but Stanley bought the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craftsman_(tools).
It's very popular to criticize the Energiewende as a failure because it apparently failed to reduce CO2 emmissions of the whole country. And of course, it's true that Germany could have had greater reductions if nuclear was kept alive instead of coal. But the Energiewende actually changed Germany. Suddenly everywhere you go you have solar panel farms and many houses have them on their roofs and there are wind turbines. It was a cool time to live in germany to see these projects realized everywhere. They were done in an era where the price of renewables was very high compared to other technologies. The big contribution that Germany has done to the world with the Energiewende is:

* demonstrating that an industrialized nation actually can start a gradual transition towards renewables and most importantly

* by buying renewables at high prices, helping the manufacturers to get the price of renewables down. I think it's partially thanks to Germany that renewables have become the cheapest form of elecricity generation this fast, with impact observable around the globe!

From that second point alone I think the Energiewende should be considered a success. Could it have been better? Sure. Is it perfect? No. Do I like the high energy prices now? No. But I'm definitely glad we had it.

Also consider that we here Germany in fact do have a nuclear catastrophy right below our feet in the form of Asse 2.
mot (not mos)
interestingly, i was not aware that erlang didn't use SSA in their compiler before this version
Yes, though most Uber employees (and tech company employees in the SF Bay Area in general) are going to be above the 22% bracket, and thus will owe more tax instead of being owed a refund. This is especially likely if the employee is mostly vested and thus settling a large block of RSUs all at once.
Only because it's so expensive. There's probably a lot of demand to pay $5 to skip a trip to the store or get food delivered. If Uber gets it to the point where a driver's trip encompasses retail goods, restaurant food, and a passenger at the same time the business looks pretty good. Tough to get there of course.
I am surprised Disney didn't just buy out universal. If they did they would own all 10 of top 10 grossing movies of all time. As it is they own 8 out of the 10 with the fox purchase.

It feels like Disney is becoming too powerful. I am surprised regulators didn't look harder at the Fox deal.
Funny thing is ordering out of the USA to Canada is way better with usps because they turn the package over to Canada post, which if anything only charges gst. Everyone else rips you off with huge brokerage fees
You just need to visit r/datahoarders to verify this claim. No, I don't understand it either, but it is definitely something people do.
Picking the car is a gigantic hassle. Inventory is inconsistent and salespeople are complete idiots.

Once you actually pick a car, then you have to haggle (unless you want to trade money for time and just accept that you’ll get ripped off), refuse the hard sell on a bunch of BS add-ons, haggle again when they try to hand you a final agreement for more money than you previously worked out, and finally leave with your car.

And if you’re very lucky, like I was last time I did this, they’ll go ahead and file a lien on your car even though you didn’t finance it, mildly fucking you over when you try to trade it in years later.

Compare this to Tesla, where you place an order for exactly the configuration you want, the price is laid out for you in advance, most of the paperwork is done ahead of time on their web site, then someone drops the car off at your house, has you sign a few things, and hands you the keys.
I don't understand why this isn't already a thing. The audio is already separate from the video on their end.
Thanks. I'm basically at the point where I've exhausted my network and some of the work has just dried up. I guess this is good, because I've been really efficient and actually gotten some of my clients to a place where they don't need much anymore.

I'm also at full time employment but I miss the autonomy and working from home.
You have a cite for that waste? That's not remotely correct. The marginal cost to ship one package across the world is literally pennies, that's why our junk is so cheap. The cost to drive to one store for one shopping trip is two orders of magnitude higher.

Buy online and save the planet. I'm serious.
From the article:
“I hate seeing my country as the dumpsite for the developed world,” said Yeo Bee Yin, whose full title is Minister for Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change, and Environment. She declared that “no developing nation should be the dumping site for the developed world.”

This hypocrisy is appalling. They just have to stop importing those plastics with the false promise they are going to recycle it or dispose of it properly while they get paid for it.

Nobody is forcing Malasya to take anything, in fact Malasya is happily engaging in a bid with other countries to import that garbage for the best price.

If these countries weren't lying this all time and only took the plastics they can actually cleanly dispose of or recycle, the West would be (at a greater expense is true) getting rid of them properly during all this time.
Just to continue the discussion: 4,500 Wh/kg is still a 10x improvement on this new state of the art, and over a 20x improvement in current popular battery chemistries. Gas looks pretty good.

Another thing to consider is the weight of the equipment needed to convert the stored energy into "whatever." For a car, that is the weight of the drivetrain. A typical car engine+transmission weighs 300-600 lbs depending on the size and power of the car. Two Tesla model S (no transmission needed) motors weigh around 150 lbs.

This weight advantage is significant when you realize that 20 lbs of gas weighs 120 lbs. So when considering the density of a "useable system" with all necessary conversion equipment then electric is starting to catch up. Gas still looks best for most cars (also consider the convenience, and price factors), but I'm pretty sure gas will lose within our lifespans.
I've had a few fakes or knockoffs -- mostly low-cost electronics that I didn't care too much about.

But one of them was an AC adapter for my laptop :|

After I plugged it in, my laptop smoked. Well, more like sizzled. The manufacturer replaced the motherboard for me. After it happened, I examined the two AC adapters I had (real + not-real) and they were virtually identical except for some font and mark differences.

That was enough for me to change my shopping habits wrt to expensive electronics and to start using review analysis sites for everything.
Isn't this a version of a la carte? I don't want Disney content and with these separate apps I don't have to pay for it.

In reality I think most people's dream is access to everything ever made under one app for < $20 akin to Spotify.
You may be lucky enough to have avoided learning about the shitshow that is consumer grade "routers". They seem to constantly be trying to come up with stupid shit they can do. Many of the "high end" of the spectrum of garbage have things like OpenVPN servers and samba shares off the included USB port.

They are all hot garbage and should not be used.
Show HN: Pose estimation+OCR in an iOS app–point at a word and find its meaning
This focuses on just one source of plastic pollution, of which there are many. I found this resource helpful to understand more about the broader scope of the problem:

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
Hah, exactly the opposite situation for me with USPS in Brooklyn - they've got a key to my (large) residential building, and are the only carrier who can reliably deliver when my super is busy with something and can't accept a package. I'd opt out of Lasership in a heartbeat if I could, they're wholly useless.

Realistically, I just buy a month of Prime if I know I'm going to be needing lots of things soon (spring cleaning season or whatever), and don't keep an active subscription for the rest of the year. I found myself not using most of the new perks, becoming increasingly skeptical of product authenticity, and not enjoying the prices going up and up every renewal. Its a lot easier to walk over to Target or sit on the train for 15 mins to get to Bed Bath and Beyond / Home Depot than it is to sit around at home all night because Lasership marked my package as "delivered" 6 hours ago but doesn't intend to show up until 10pm.
Even if radiation is your only concern, coal emissions disperse a lot of radiation into the environment! (Still not very much radiation in absolute terms - but more radiation than the nuclear industry emits.)
Used and loved it back when I was on OSX. Thank you for your work! Much appreciated!
One thing I don't understand why Walmart hasn't invested in: change the web interface!!! Their website is just not attractive at all!!!
I read the article and find nothing in it that I would consider nationalistic or that would stoke a flamewar. Can you please explain what you meant? Thanks
Ray Mears documentary "The real heroes of Telemark" is also worth a look.
Clients care about the value proposition, and this is the right time to be heavily specialized.

1. In SEM and SEO both, technical performance is blossoming as a crucial need in both search engine ranking and the ad bidding process, say nothing of the benefits to mobile conversions and decrease in bounce rates. All of this is well-covered in numerous e-com/retail studies. There's significant value here for companies if you can articulate why. AMP isn't a cure-all in any way, and many clients are going to look at the investment versus return and decide instead that the investment in optimizing what they already have is worth the price.

2. Accessibility is also massively growing, due to increasing litigiousness and the contemporary view that the ADA covers websites in general as opposed to individual legal mandates (such as those in public education, healthcare, etc). There are also specialized, legitimate certifications such as the IAAP [1] where you can pretty much write your own paycheck with the amount of consulting work out there.

But you _really_ need to know your shit for both of them, and increasingly, specialized consultancies in these areas have formed or are forming to go after those companies. You're not going to get away with half-assing it either--especially #2 due to the legal liability--and you'll absolutely have to demonstrate your value. Additionally, this actually opens up opportunities to consult for companies that make site builders and other tools, to ensure they're thoroughly considering these specialized aspects of development.

There's also still a lot of good remote roles out there for more experienced folks; about 3/4 of the Front-End friends of mine clear well above $100k/year working for established companies and startups in a 100% remote basis. The best way to get into that realm is networking; the adage that the most important way to get where you want to go is through networking is true, as is the adage that a good percentage of the good jobs are never even posted.

But as for the bottom-of-the-market, I started back in '97 doing those types of small websites, and there's been hardly any appetite for freelancers in terms of being able to make a sustainable living of it. If you're going to go this route, you need to land profitable fish with a real need and actual money to pay you with.

[1] https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/certification