skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even have a mailbox and now I need to have one, and actually read the mail - which I'm unable to even reach as I'm often thousands of kilometers far. Will you do it for me? I just wanted to have comments on my site...

Not all websites are ran by huge companies. Actually, most are not.
Skunkworks [1] is a really great book by the designer of the propulsion system (and subsequently the first stealth airplane). I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know how many drill bits you burn through trying to build a titanium airplane.

1- https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/skunk-works_ben-r-rich_leo-jan...
Easy. One is a kernel, and one is a distro.
> Feature detection stops being better when a) your supported browser list stretches into the early 2000s around the world and b) you are in a latency sensitive environment where it is unacceptable to degrade performance of the latest browsers.

So whitelist “safe browsers” with server side user-agent sniffing and send the rest a bigger bundle with feature detection. There is no reason not to serve users of modern browsers the latest feature just because you fail to detect them in on the server.
I once got around two thirds through a certificate for flying ultralight planes. It sort of stopped making sense to me when we were practicing emergency landings over forest and I was told to aim for trees with thinner trunks.

This is sitting inside a cramped metal can with the engine in your lap and propeller in your face. There are so many ways to die in that situation that focusing on the diameter of tree trunks was just too much for me.
I have no idea. Usually I remember which one typically has the lower price and stick with that one unless there’s a temporary convenience factor, then I might go to the other one.
Those two things are orthogonal. Pervasive online tracking wouldn't be fixed by implementing "proper encryption". Google will still track you, HTTPS or not.

Besides something tells me that the same people who oppose things like the GDPR wouldn't exactly applaud if governments decided to pass a law to make TLS mandatory for instance. I'm sure if that were to happen we'd soon hit semantic satiation for the phrase "regulatory capture" in this very forum.

So what exactly do you propose governments should do to solve this particular problem?
What right do we have to require them to do anything ? They're not manufacturing it because they want to, they're doing it because developed nations buy it. They closed the pipes because their internal production has reached their own recycling capacity. It's time we do the same.
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> This may be wasteful, but it's safer.

You’re missing the point again. Safer than what? If everyone drove low-speed light vehicles, we would be safer too.

We’re in a “safety” arms race, where you’re only safe if you’re in the largest size vehicle possible. Buy an escalade and you are “safe”. Buy a Yaris and you’re risking your life for better gas milage and cheaper car payments.
What's interesting about this study is that they non-scientifically conclude that 'control' is the reason more powerful people are less stressed.

But the reality is, most powerful people do not have 'control' over much.

CEO's who were not founders have very little control.

The 'general' layer in the Army, my god man, it's extremely political.

The reason I suggest is a degree of psychopathy: they just don't care. They accept their status, look upon other people as ants, and are mostly concerned with gaining favour from people at their level or higher.

Secondarily, it could be because they are mostly financially secure - unless something drastic happens, they won't have to worry.

Earning only $500K/year is a different zone than $80K. You can do the golfing, skiing, travel, day spa - i.e. whatever gets you in a happy place. You have the 'second escape home' and can send your kids to college without too much worry.
+1 to this. Author is primarily concerned about financial costs without taking into account all other externalities that such hoarding such data causes.
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There is no RDBMS that will choke on a table with every animal in existence in it.

To my knowledge, the two most common ways of handling this: self-referential nested set[1] and with a join table[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model

2. https://coderwall.com/p/lixing/closure-tables-for-browsing-t...
just for your sanity in a relational database alway put a root id for hierarchies. Also, you might want to skip the null and use a self reference depending on how you need to build the hierarchy. Root only matters if you have multiple hierarchies in a table.
There's no problem with posting questions like this to HN! If it gratifies intellectual curiosity, it's just fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I should add something important, though. This submission works because there haven't been similar questions recently. If it started a pattern of people posting questions of this sort, that would quickly be less interesting, and therefore off topic by the curiosity principle.
He's not talking about an object hierarachy, but more of a type hierarchy
The difference is this time lessons have been learned. Browser vendors are now actively working together. The HTML5 project has done a great job in collecting and codifying real world behaviour.

No browser will ever implement the current spec because it's shifting sand. A smaller but stabilised spec that can be extended is much better for everybody who isn't a major browser vendor.
Actually, you are right.
Totally agree with you. At my current company we've got a devpy repository where almost everything is ancient. Even trying to add a more modern version for your own service doesn't work because some people have pinned versions and some people haven't. It's not ideal.

At my last company (a smaller startup) we used to have a Jenkins job which would open a pull request with all of the requirements.txt updated to the latest available pypi version. That worked pretty well, you always had a pull request open were you could review what was available, it would run the test suite, you could check it out and try it, hit merge if everything looked good and roll it back if it caused an issue somewhere. It made it easy to trace where things changed but not as 'cowboy' as accepting all changes without any review or traceability.
It would be a bad thing for the world if we got cold fusion and Google controlled the entire stack, yes.

This is because in the long, long term, allowing a company to dictate how a technology this important is used could hamper our ability to build on it or improve it. Over a long enough timescale, it would be better if we delayed getting cold fusion so that we could get the same technology later in a less encumbered form.

If cold fusion is possible, and Google stops working on it, we can still get it through other means. Other people can pick up Google's slack. If Google manages to crack it, and as a result is able to put legally enforceable restrictions on how it's used, then that's it. There's nowhere to go from there.
One can engage with Marx's writings without being "Marxist", and certainly without being Leninist. I think of when Matthew B Crawford wrote his excellent Shop Class as Soulcraft. He used Marxist terminology about labor in order to critique Taylorism and the social harm of scientific management, in terms of removing worker control over their own production. And he got lambasted from some corners for it, even though his argument was not by any stretch of the imagination socialist, much less "Marxist". He responded by pointing out that if you're going to talk about the value of labor at all, you'd be a fool to not use Marx's terminology, because otherwise, you'd have to reinvent the wheel.
I fill up once every 4-5 weeks. I'd gladly pay $4 for a cleaner, well lit, easier to access and less busy gas station. I'm balancing all these things in the 5-10 seconds I have when I'm trying to choose between gas stations.
I appreciate the conversation and will take another look into whether or not my raw impressions for my ads are getting mixed in with organic impression numbers.
Ok, let's analyze it.

1) Ok, this can be a problem.
2) Citation needed. It has lowest number of deaths per kWh. By your logic, planes fall out of the sky, and many people die, so we should never use planes and rely on more deadly methods.

As for pebble bed reactors, mistakes are normal when doing something novel. See the problems LHC faced. Luckily LHC had better funding than nuclear.

3) It's a thousand year problem. The rare metals in average phone are a more of a forever problem. They will never decay to a less toxic compound.

4) Yeah, this is true.

5) Not sure about this one, I see lots of FUD on all sides.

To clarify, I'm not claiming nuclear power is an angel that will save us. But it's a devil we'll probably have to live with if we are to go 0 carbon in near future. Going 100% renewables requires a revolution in battery tech, and a revolution in how electric grid distributes electricity.
It varies. The physics part is oversimplified and, at times, overdramatized (the threat of a megaton-range explosion being a particularly egregious example). The range of characters is highly limited by the format of the series (hence the fictional Belarusian physicist meant to be a composite of many characters, but really just serving as a narrative shortcut to compress the whole thing into the length constraints they have). At the same time, the visual setting is very accurate (part of the filming is done at Ignalina, the site of another RBMK reactor plant with a similar workers' town, etc.) and the general atmosphere is vastly more true to life than any other dramatization of the accident I've ever seen.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: while I have you—could you please stop posting snarky and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? You've done it a lot, unfortunately, and we've had to ask you multiple times already. Continuing this way eventually gets your account banned.

I don't want to ban you, so it would be good if you'd fix this. We're trying for a different sort of internet discussion here, as the site guidelines should make clear if you review them.
You should listen to the Chernobyl podcast to get a sense of how insanely dedicated they are to capturing every possible detail They took a few dramatic licences (a few characters are composites) - but, by and large, the stories are told lockstep in as close to a factual account as can be told.
Something like an Electron app but lighter? How would you be distributing this?

https://electronjs.org/
Google can do what they like, of course. Perhaps they'll even make some money off it and create some useful device. I doubt Google has any greater access to SMEs - which in this case would be academic physicists - than ITER or CERN. I do believe that a dollar invested in tokamak research is more wisely spent than a dollar invested in cold fusion.
Regardless of the writer's intentions it is probably having an effect. I was formerly fairly pro-nuclear and since watching the show I've begun reconsidering my position.

It isn't that the plant failed and the vivid depictions of that which have most affected me. It's the depictions of the knock on effects which were barely stemmed after the failure that have caused me to reconsider.

The most concerning thing about Chernobyl is not the initial explosion. It's the impact the secondary and tertiary disasters could have had if the Soviet government had not acted to mitigate them. Those are cases in which millions of people are affected and regions the size of Alabama become uninhabitable. I personally was not aware that a failure at a plant could cascade into those kind of issues. I didn't realize that Chernobyl could have been much much worse.

And that is my problem. I believe fundamentally in human fallibility. We and our best machines will always find new ways to fail. Always.

In some cases, the risks are acceptable. Such is the case with flying in a plane. No matter how good aircraft and our safety procedures get. The loss of a plane, however tragic does not impact the future of our planet of our species.

What's more, the law of large numbers says if you make nuclear power ubiquitous, it's almost a guarantee that some 1/1000, 1/10000, or even 1/1000000, event will occur.

For me, I'm not against nuclear now but I am much less gung-ho and that's due to this show. I look forward to learning more though and perhaps my opinion will sway back.
This one?: https://gfwaas.github.io/
"The UK has already almost entirely replaced coal"

Indeed. I'd rather take a global approach to what is a global problem though. Germany and Eastern Europe are still burning plenty of coal that could be offset. We are all on the same grid I believe.
Math has a syntax to write imperative algorithms in too. Came up in the Discrete Math course I took, for things like finding GCD.
No, everything about the aircraft is obsolete which is why no other country has attempted to develop anything similar. The J58's are really dated, though most of the thrust is generated by the inlets when supersonic.
'What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone'; everything except SMS, MMS, email, phone calls, video calls and web browsing. Makes more sense for a place like Las Vegas.
What about the upkeep, insurance, storage, and maintenance? I suspect(?) those would be substantial.
I see where you're coming from, Masonic. Having an open-source product would add a layer of trust, especially if you host it yourself. However, there are people who would not want to go through the hassle of self hosting, and we believe that these people deserve a commitment to privacy too. With UpHabit, we created an inclusive app that while hosted on our own servers, come with our promise that we’ll never sell user data.
It isn't an uncommon thought. Unfortunately this isn't very popular, partly because it is actual socialism (which is even less popular than social systems). In general I think it is also too late to introduce such a system. You have to get ahead of the curve before people realize what they have got, sort of like in Norway with the oil fund.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_funds
Fantastic! I'm extremely excited with this update on the Rust async/await syntax! I have been following the blog posts and the issue tracker for a long time and couldn't wait till this day arrived!

Eagerly waiting for the 1.37 release!

Great job Rust Team!
We had this piece of news the other day:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19979626

ARM, a UK company stops doing business with Huawei because of US pressure.
>In my experience, public schools are under far more pressure to do this than universities are. A major part of this pressure is manifested in the tendency to standardize exams, leading to hyper-focus on exam prep at the expense of general learning.

Funny anecdote, when I was in (public) high school my school district calculated your "GPA" with additive bonuses for honors classes and AP classes. If you pass an honors course, it adds 0.08 to your cumulative GPA, for an AP course 0.16, with the top students in the school district usually graduating around a 7 point GPA

On top of this, the guidance counselors were really pushy about making sure every good student took every AP class available. Once I had to argue with a guidance counselor not to put me in AP history because I didn't like history. She put it on my schedule anyways and I had to go back and transfer out.

Turns out teachers get bonuses, and the school gets bonus funding, when students pass AP exams. I would assume there's also GPA based funding for the schools, but I don't know of any specifics except that the schools are measured for 'improvement' which certainly hints at structural incentives for GPA inflation.
Going to wait a couple more months to see if 16c 39xx shows up, or a new Threadripper... also on a 4790k.
I personally can't remember anyone that didn't go to college tell me that its not worth it. Either they say its not for them, they don't like sitting in a classroom, or they were faced extraordinary circumstances where they decided to pursue an opportunity.

> And we can't accept people who have been to college saying college doesn't matter, because their revealed preferences are different and/or they're hypocrites

I would accept the argument of a college educated individual if they actively discouraged their children from attending university. Telling strangers on the internet is easy, but with your own children you have skin in the game. To me that's more telling of their true beliefs
I'd attach it to an email or send it over slack and hope html opens with a sane browser on the other end :)

more like https://github.com/remy/inliner

or https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/single-file/

But I guess these have the 2MB limit and I don't know if maybe more limits.
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It's all explained by Worthington's Law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbU4VRs2rro
this is a designer's perspective: your mileage may vary.

I find it helpful to differentiate between a mentor and a sponsor, even if the line does blur between the two as a lot of times people are specifically talking about one. Of the two - a sponsor is better for career advancement, while a mentor guides you as a holistic person. Having both is ideal - and they can be separate, different, or the same people.

(people contain multitudes, as the saying goes).

Mentors were better for me in the early years immediately after college - a few art directors who sawed off some rough edges of the "design eye", taught me the basics of how corporations (and their politics) worked, gave me a variety of projects so I could slowly figure out what I liked/was good at (versus not). Good managers are essentially mentors for the whole team.

One of those previously mentioned art directors became a true sponsor - he continued to give me more high profile projects and strategically dropped my name in VP/EVP meetings so I could snatch up those coveted projects with the reasonable skill level I had. Survived two rounds of layoffs due to him, as well. These are the people that you can and must be loyal to - watch their back, and they'll watch yours and groom you in a good way. There's a lot to the art of soft power behind closed doors.

The where/how question is trickier because other than looking within my org, it was just a matter of vibes and who I connected with on general chemistry level. If you find yourself in water-cooler talks with an authority figure fairly often and both of you enjoy each other's company, odds are that they would make a decent one. Look for someone with integrity, who doesn't gossip but has that sixth sense for being right about org changes, and skilled in their own specialties.
great for data that is mostly read intensive. not so great if you want lots of writes.

@maxk42 approach with the relationship table works well for both read and write intensive applications.
> Huawei put the industry on notice late last year, when it completed a cable between South America and Africa.

Somewhat tangential, but not I'm curious about how undersea cables deal with the tectonic plate movements and any volcanic activity on the plate boundary. Then I found this interesting article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/seafloor-cables-carr...
I don't see why you'd need to override await, because unlike in other languages Rust doesn't implicitly insert machinery for facilitating task execution. You need to provide your own task executor, which is the part that embedded environments would want to (and will be able to) have control over.
Personally, I feel like trying to keep track of every last expenditure would just cause more and more strife between us.

As long as all our long term financial goals are being met, I'm content with what we're doing. And since they are, I am very much so content.
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I believe you shout "Не стреляй, я сдаюсь." a bunch.
That is an incredibly misleading definition, to the point the term loses all meaning. It would be more honest to say "by not accounting for all negative externalities".
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Why to you consider the XHTML 2.0 elements more "semantically sound" than the equivalent HTML5 elements?
>at least as close as hydrogen molecules at roughly 2000 atmospheres, and maybe much closer,

it is just a liquid hydrogen density. If any cold fusion is there i would bet that it would be some play due to huge electron cloud of Pd.

Pressure/atom distance wise - the high pressure experiments using diamond anvil compress hydrogen up to 1M+ atm . That is still well below the Jupiter core though, and so naturally no fusion, yet one can make things interesting say by zapping that pressurized hydrogen with laser. Should get NIF style results with much less power or alternatively much better results with the NIF power.
I think we really underestimate the entrepreneurship required to be an indie rapper and break-through. Marc Benioff freely admits he stole marketing ideas from MC Hammer and his street teams when launching Salesforce.

E-40 is a marketing super genius. He's been rapping and producing since 1990. And has had so many brand extensions since the mid-90s from energy drinks to wine to tequila.

You never know where you will find inspiration!
It's probably being overloaded by HN readers right now. Try this: http://web.archive.org/web/20190509220204/https://www.sr-71....
If you did that then you might as well nationalize the universities because otherwise they'd shut down.

Some would, others would thrive by delivering what their students want (a qualification and the jobs that follow on from that.) A graduate from the University of Waterloo would be considered the equal of one from Stanford given equal results. That isn't the case now.

I imagine most universities would hate it but anything that threatens their cosy financial situation is going to be opposed.

Universities have the right to grade their students, as organizations made up of individuals in a free society.

Would you support universities having the freedom to sell grades? $100,000 for a first class degree, $150,000 for a masters? No study needed.

They can be regulated just as any other organisation can be if society decided that's what they wanted to do.
My guess is their chiplets may have defective cores that are being disabled, and they aren't getting high enough yeilds on 8-core chiplets to release a 16c pair CPU yet.

I doubt they'd hold back on offering a significant bump over Intel's current offering with a 16c/32t mainstream cpu.
It cannot exist as a macro or function, because it transforms the code in ways they can’t. Macros can transform code, but the final output isn’t something representable in stable Rust, and so it would not compile post-expansion.
I learned how to be a machinist from the owner of the local tool shop who was an ex-tool and die maker. I learned systems programming from various helpful people in IRC and people who have advised my internships. I learned physics from other grad students and my professor.

Just make friends with people who have the bandwidth. I also strongly disagree that mentors are overrated. They're necessary in some disciplines, and helpful in most. Learning without a mentor is like running open-loop. As a new student, you often won't even know the right questions to ask. How will you know what to google? How will you know if you're developing a bad habit?
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A lot of journalists are freelance- is the NYT an exception to this trend?