skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was addressing the commenter, whose life was not totally ruined. In fact, it seems he didn't lose his job or face any consequences other than a conversation with HR, if that. You are clearly talking about a completely unrelated conversation and projecting quite a bit here.

You describe being sexually harassed in the workplace, and you had every reason to complain to HR yourself. I hope you did so, and I further hope you weren't dismissed when you did so--which does unfortunately sometimes happen.

As for the rest, yes, bad actors exist in some workplaces. Don't be one of them, try to handle those you encounter professionally, and maybe ask yourself: why the women you see acting badly prompt you to throw around ridiculous terms like "gynocentric justice system" while the men you see acting badly don't seem to register at all.
St Tropez's Islands – Snorkelling for Sealife
Technical debt is a great metaphor exactly because it suggest the suboptimal code is due to a deliberate strategic decision.

If you just say that some code is bad you will get unproductive reactions like people getting defensive, trying to assign blame etc. Calling it technical debt allow you to call attention to an issue while avoiding blaming anybody.
Or we could try to legally limit how much corporations can lobby.
well, technically you need less silver in orbit since you can use extremely thin films which just wouldn't survive on the ground. but yeah, it's still a very impractical proposition.
Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”
Pilot New Smart Pillow
There is a board game called Kolejka [1] from a non-profit in Poland that simulates the adventure of waiting in line for staples. It’s actually quite fun, and you get a taste of life under such a regime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolejka_(game)
potentially very dumb question but could you build hydro power solutions(from the ice melt/run off) that you then get clean power from / help cool ice...? So out of my depth here but genuinely curious. Also appreciate building a hydro power plant on a very unstable platform (ice) is problematic just curious of other solutions to generate hydro power...
Intellisense was working 100%, but I stopped using it after that because I switched platforms. I don't believe it's worse today, VS Code as an editor is a joy to use (I use it with TypeScript).
Nice. I looked around online and it seems like others have attempted something like this but I didn't find any project that looked complete. I have a Basys 3 board which has VGA and USB I/O, so I hope to actually get from Nand to actually playing Tetris on my homespun platform.
Tech engineer? Looking for fast promotion? Use a mentor
> If this isn't violence, then why shouldn't I stigmatize you? What do you care? ..... If speech, association and the implication of violence are so trivial that it cannot constitute violence

You seem to have the idea that any act/speech which isn't literally violence must thus be trivial/acceptable/unobjectionable.

Do I even need to explain why this is wrong? Obviously there are many acts which are unacceptable and objectionable, which are not violent. E.g. If you called my boss and made up lies about me being a pedophile to try to get me fired.

I can kind of sense that you're trapped in your own definitional games here. Since you've so long equated "any objectionable thing" with "violence", you are now having trouble following a text that depends on the difference. By erasing these language distinctions, you've actually been conditioned to be unable to follow the reasoning that would make you understand why they're wrong. I just have to ask you to step back for a moment, consider my example above about the pedophilia lies, and try to remember the distinctions that you were surely once familiar with. Violence is an objectionable thing; not every objectionable thing is violence.
I saw on the Adacore website a success story for another company that sells smart metering products, so it is nice to see all the work in this space. There are plenty of major vendors as well with smart meter products and the accompanying software.

What company do you work for by the way if you can say?
https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/04/15/here-are-the-cool-feat...

> Huawei is known for innovations and the new EMUI 9.1 is stuffed with several new features worthy of note. Among them, the most striking is Huawei’s new self-developed system performance innovation tool – EROFS (Super File System) and Ark compiler.

> The Ark Compiler brings support for architecture level optimizations resulting in significant performance improvements. It will make the Android system more responsive and robust against different actions. Yu reveals that the new compiler can improve system fluency by 24%, system response by 44% and enhance operations of third-party apps by 60%. It will further strengthen multitasking by optimizing several processes and resulting in better speed and performance. Improved battery performance, faster execution speeds and compatibility across all new Android devices term Ark as the best alternative for ART (Android Runtime).

Tldr - they built an alternative to Dalvik and ART that's quicker, and they were going to release it for Android even if all this didn't happen.
I have no doubt the older 737s are safe, but they're still crappy planes to fly on as a passenger. Given similar cost, I'll pick an Airbus instead. It's like taking a road trip in a 1967 Mustang vs. and car from 2015. Even if you don't have any incidents, the 1967 car is going to be a pretty lousy experience as far as passenger comfort, noise, and ride quality.
It should not be an either-or proposition when the stakes are so high. We should work full time to have governments work on breaking climate change speed (reduce/limit emissions, alternative energy, carbon tax, etc.) while at the same time work on scientific methods to fight climate change, if possible (e.g. Prometeus, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240.
Restoring Nature to the City
Are humans advanced enough to engineer around sea rise and temperature changes?
The big deal from this ruling from AAPL and QCOM's perspective is the terms and scope of the SEP licensing (now must be component-level). Before their recent negotiation, Apple was never even a licensee. These terms have been in place since prior to the first iPhone.

There is, IMO, some validity to the claim that Qualcomm's SEP portfolio enables a significantly different device. Their analogy refers to the ipod and the iphone, whose BOM in some cases differs by only the modem and yet it allows them to charge their customers an enormous markup. Arguably the value-add of that part and the patents it leverages must be a large portion of that markup, so perhaps it's fair to consider the device's cost with respect to the royalty.
> Most stuff degenerates to duct tape

Sure, but here the point was exactly that could literally do what they wanted. It didn't and it shouldn't had gone that way with the resources they had.

> So if you build a better mouse trap, will anyone care?

Potentially I think it could, given that the customers were raging and pissed off and the fact that it was unstable.

In the end, I am actually thinking about doing it even just for myself, to follow a project from scratch, and if it turns into something good, otherwise, still experience.
the latest climate-engineering proposals for sunshades involve placing a cloud of reflective or diffracting solar sails at L1, not in close earth orbit over any specific region.
Actually they didn't read it well
Wow. I'm trying to get work done over here. Thanks a lot.

(No really, thank you! This is great)
This seems to be data for males (conscripts) only. It seems they didn't examine correlation with lower-IQ mothers, which may have been a factor.
Kinda makes me wonder what the absolute limit is. Is a 3 atom transistor possible?
Usually the first thing I check in a project like this when it ends up on HN or Reddit is their symmetric cryptography features. Not because of any particularly scientific reason, but because it's a good heuristic on whether or not it's worth the time and energy to look at the rest of the code.

Tanker's looks like this:

https://github.com/TankerHQ/sdk-js/blob/master/packages/cryp...

Seems pretty OK to me.
No, the scale of energy potentially captured would not come close to the amount of energy needed to cool tons of water below freezing.
Comcast VP: “we do not track customers’ DNS data”
You can violate things like ITAR with open source, and the ITAR rules will take precedence.

There are a lot of ways you can restrict FOSS software - even fully FLOSS DOD codes are not supposed to be obtainable from places like Iran and North Korea.
Yeah, it might be interesting to put together a list of most impacted products. Depending upon the rate, the impact of a revenue based system on car manufacturing could be huge.

And, in practice, I'm not sure that the result would actually be better than a simpler consumption tax.
I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression that whether a plane is cramped or not is largely up to the airline not the manufacturer, since it's the airline who actually makes the decision about how many seats to cram in, and what sort of seats to use.
China does accept the reality of climate change and is enacting policies against it. It might not be nearly enough but it's not fair to lump them with the USA on this one.
As others have pointed out, they missed a very crucial detail, and then didn't edit their post for some reason.
>From my European perspective both those parties are firmly capitalist and right-wing.

I hope that "anyone who believes in capitalism is therefore right wing" is not a mainstream European perspective. You can have a pretty darn socialist government without seizing the means of production.

>I don't believe that currently ostracized strains/ideas/people will somehow inherently come to power just because democratic socialist ideas become mainstream.

The fact of the matter is that these totalitarian beliefs are not nearly ostracized enough for that statement to be anywhere close to reasonable.

On one side of the isle it's considered perfectly reasonable to violate all sorts of rights as a hurdle to buying the tools of self defense. On the other side of the isle it's the same thing but for abortion. This is but one example. These kinds of people won't just find a way to use the popular movement of the day to push their beliefs.

Sure they might make things more socialist if that's what the people demand but don't think they won't also work on their totalitarian pet project at the same time.
> ... Dave Clark, the company's senior vice president of worldwide operations.
>
> "Just saying... thanks for the suggestion. We MF'ing love you and our drivers," Clark wrote.

I was surprised at that part.
Tend to agree and here's some telling evidence.
https://youtu.be/SzHd5bmEdU4
One aspect of this story that stands out for me is how a vote was triggered by a shareholder, Amazon tried to block it and the Securities and Exchange Commission told Amazon that it did not have the right to do so.

That right there shows a template for how large corporations can be taken to task upon social issues that raise concerns.

Whilst any vote will be non-binding, to completely dismiss and ignore such a vote (if it passes), would be something the board of directors would be wary of. More so as those same shareholders who can pass and reject such votes, have a binding vote upon who sits upon a board of directors. Hence a level of self-preservation holds in such positions if they where to go against the wishes of shareholders in any non-binding vote.
So did the mess that C++ become.
To be clear, the 2m increase is the analyzed 95th percentile (very high end) of the estimates of this meta-study, when you take both glacial melt and glacial expansion. The median values for low and high estimates are 69cm and 110cm.

Not that this isn't still terrifying, worth of action, worthy of international collaboration, and so on. Just let's be accurate about our titles.
Tell me about it. When I mention that Andrew Jackson was a racist, genocidal maniac who has no business being on $5 bill some people get all upset saying we want to erase their heritage.
Chicago AWS Summit: Things to do, eat and see. Rec's from a south-sider
It also potentially opens up Qualcomm to litigation by licensees that have over-paid.

Of course the Apple law suit is the first thing that springs to mind. Apple alleged harm very much along the lines of that described in this judgement. They probably settled because Intel wasn't able to supply modems for their next Phone and they couldn't wait any longer to cut a deal with Qualcomm without risking their roadmap. However, this judgement might re-open a window for them to sue again.
Sure, but I think most “workaholics” are attempting to work towards a position like that, if not the founder then a major shareholder of a startup that will make it big, portfolio manager of a big fund, partner at a m&a firm or bank, etc.

I think arguing that it’s insane to work 80 hour weeks as a dead end test engineer at a large stagnant company is a straw man. Most people have a tenable goal in mind.

And at the end of it I don’t see the majority of them being fat alcoholics.
There is silence from Microsoft, including a silent removal of Huawei laptops from their retail offerings.

Fingers crossed, there will be an Ubuntu (South African) version of a high end laptop coming soon. Not sure what the CPU will be for that though.
Options were invented for farmers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(finance)#Historical_us...
"Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers"

But seriously, Qualcomm is the worst company ever to work with (except maybe Oracle). They are like a gorilla - they won't budge no matter how hard you push. Every little thing costs licensing money - from documents to tooling. We have a Qualcomm SoC for my current project, and support is abysmal.

They put in a minimal effort to provide support and only after you've completed the onerous requirements to submit a support ticket. It involves retrieving tons of dumps and logs and such using their various Q-tools (which are very buggy and half-baked; many of them cost $25k+/year to license). Most of the time they'll just shrug and say "works on our setup" and refuse to help. We'll spend hundreds of man-hours debugging their crap until we find the issue in their kernel driver and then they won't even acknowledge it was a problem and will say "qmi_wwan is an open source driver. We do not support it." Right, so you expect everyone else to maintain and fix the bugs in qmi_wwan even though virtually ALL of your customers use it and you yourselves rely on it as a critical piece of your development platform. Good one, Qualcomm.
The only unethical part of that was exempting them from war crimes trials; although I think that was only really relevant to those directly ordering the use of forced labour in the V2 programme. The rest were treated as some combination of prisoner of war, asylum seeker, and defector. They didn't exactly want to remain in Germany to be captured by the Soviets.
I looked it up: youtube-dl supports that site as well as hundreds of others.
> the people who start companies are the most individualistic members of society.

So they're all like each other in that they are all unique individuals, like the lads in Dead Poets Society!
He brings up a good point. How can one reliably distinguish between an Amazon drone on-the-clock and some moron's amateur drone snooping around peoples' yards? There just isn't a way right now, and I don't see a better way any time soon. Any way of identification from the ground will most likely add weight, and more weight == higher cost to fly.
Same situation in NYC, but there are many more people like this. The great majority of police, teachers, and other city workers in NYC are natives with homes bought in more affordable times, because nobody else could afford to live here on with such a low paid job.

The house I share was bought for $30,000 in the early 1980s, paid for by a single uneducated emigrient worker.
Show HN: Pipefile – Automated File Collection Drip Campaigns
Thanks for trying it. As I mention elsewhere, Empirical is pretty limited right now because this is the first beta release. If you run into something specific that's missing, please let me know about it, ideally on the issue tracker:

https://github.com/empirical-soft/empirical-lang/issues

That way I'll know what targets to hit.
Gitlab 11.11 released with Multi-Assignment for MRs and container enhancements
If you are interested in seeing a map of sea level rises, the NOAA publishes a website with one. At 7 ft there are significant coastal differences.

https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
The first problem is what you do with the billion displaced people. That’s not a tech problem, so much as an ethical / pragmatic problem.
Two worthwhile autobiographies - Phil Knight's "Shoe Dog" (about the growth of Nike) and Kay Graham's "Personal History" (about the Washington Post)
It is quite easy to get RTL from non-recursive C code.

Unroll your calls, assign a bit to each statement of your program, create state machine that compute state bit transitions and resource changes. And off you go!

You get TTA that is as flexible as can be.

The optimal RTL is slightly more complex, but also does not require hand written RTL.
Again I understand that they can, and in principle they have the right to ban people from their platform. My point is that they shouldn't, so you repeating that "they can" is irrelevant. A friend of mine laid this out more eloquently here: https://wissler-jensen.com/declaration
Or, as XKCD said it... https://xkcd.com/603/
Sending our smartest women to spend their most productive child bearing years at university is not sustainable if we want to raise or maintain population IQ via the traditional breeding methods. Hopefully these same college women will get us enough skill at manipulating genetics to surpass the incredibly slow optimization process of natural selection. It is currently a race against time. Which will win out, gene manipulation or dysgenic selection?
We probably don't want all powerful entities in the world working together on anything anyway. Nothing good can come of that. A diverse range of localized solutions reacting to local experiences and problems is better than top-down central-planned solutions.
They were shipped out of China prior to Trump's ban on Huawei. The decline in perceived value occurred after. There was no such decline in China.
u'i mi pu'i tavla fo lo jbobau .i la lojban ku zabna
Eiffel and Ada are languages for proper software engineering.

Go not so much, specially given its toy type system, where one cannot even do Type Driven Design.
It's there. You don't get a city as big and diverse as SF without plenty of things going on at night. You just need to know where to look.

I find it surprising that hardly anyone here mentions music or the arts. Shopping isn't the only nighttime social activity. Go to the theatre, play an instrument, learn to dance.
There is no contradiction. Iceland study states upfront that genetic decline size is 10 times smaller than environmental effect and is masked by it.
Five books to read this summer – Bill Gates
Evidence for this can be seen in the widespread misuse of the word rate.
Yeah I can't seem to wrap my head around people blaming Google for making products that other people can't improve on.
I don't see the word "orbit" used at all, except by you.

Sounds like you'd imagine a permanent eclipsing body is something that would employ an orbital insertion into earth orbit, which is your own assumption.
So just like everything else then. Whatever solution you have, there will always be risk of horrible failure.
What's the problem here? If a drone is flying around you're not exactly allowed to interfere with it anyway?

If it's a drone that crashes or causes an issue, then presumably the Amazon drones will be tracked/registered and hobbyists wil llikely have to be conforming to their local laws wrt registration
Google has no contractual way to prevent someone from using software released under a fully open license. Therefore the US gov has no way of forcing Google to do something they simply can't do.
Firefox OS is discontinued as well. And there is more Blackberry tried, Nokia (MeeGo) tried, Ubuntu tried. Samsung still tries with Tizen btw.
Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
I have used Sailfish OS on a smartphone and it's awesome so far. I love it.

Russian govt is using it in their offices. I hope more countries seek out alternative OSes.
I'm always excited to see posts about CQRS and Event Sourcing. My current project is entirely ES/CQRS-driven and it's been a revelatory experience. I can't understate it. As Charity Majors says:

> And while storing raw events may be "expensive" compared to any single optimization, all optimizations can be derived from raw events.

> The reverse is impossible.[0]

But I have to say: the resources that this site links only served to confuse me. Greg Young may have popularized these concepts, but watching his talks left me with little practical implementation guidance, and Udi Dahan was even worse, much, much worse, in terms of leaving me helpless and confused.

What really helped me was "Designing Event Driven Systems"[1] a promotional book by Confluent that nevertheless has many great sections with practical advise for implementing these patterns. Likewise the CQRS/ES FAQ[2].

And while this post says you don't need Kafka for CQRS/ES, Kafka sure does help. Kafka Streams is the ultimate tool for CQRS/ES. It contains all the primitives you need to do CQRS/ES easily. I am in the process of writing a blog post about my experience and am looking forward to sharing it. People love React/Redux, state as a function of reducers, and time travel debugging on the front-end: there is no reason you can't have all the way down your stack. Kafka Streams makes this possible, and much easier than you'd think.

[0]: https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1115537408705957888

[1]: https://www.confluent.io/designing-event-driven-systems

[2]: https://cqrs.nu/Faq
If China bans iPhones I'm 100% positive they'll just be smuggled in.
Edit: I can accept that kite plans can be on topic for HN. I also don't mean to stifle anyone's curiosity about kites or kite building.

I suppose I expected something more akin to "Kite Plans, Experiments, Observations, and Results that SoAndSo ran" or "Specific Kite Plan and Notes" to be linked on HN.

If you're new to kites, good news, it's a lot more fun than it should be.

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I am confused, why this link is on HN?

I enjoy kites and have used this site before, but what makes it worth the front page of HN? It's nothing new, their site hasn't really changed in years, and it is somewhat off topic.

Was the poster just fired up about kites? Am I missing something?
So how much was the actual global sea-level rise in the past 10 years and how does it relate to previous estimates?
It depends on what you want to do as this industry is HUGE. Do you care about metering and working at the solar panel or wind farm level? Or maybe on the actual energy markets that commit and dispatch all generation in a region? Or maybe the vendors that write the software for those markets? Or you could work for the utilities or IPPs that own the generators...or the state public service commission that control state plans. There is also FERC and NERC. There are companies that sell energy storage systems...the list goes on and on.
US laws apply to everyone because US laws are extraterritorial in nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction
Really, all you need is for the CEO and perhaps the board of directors to lose their jobs. Sure, they'd get golden parachutes and it wouldn't seem sufficient, but people in positions of power don't like losing their position. If you did that, it would be sufficient to make the next CEO (and board) think twice about doing something similar.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be happening.