skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it is not _literally_ impossible to kill a grizzly with a handgun. But, to quote yourself:

> Handgun can work, but what if it doesn't?

The point is not that it should be forbidden to bring guns when you hike in grizzly territory, but that by experience, many people who do are also the least knowledgeable about bears (and I say it that way to stay polite). Who cares if I let meat leftovers next to the campsite, I have a gun! Who cares if I go down a trail rangers explicitly told me not to because of the bear presence, I have a gun!
I wouldn't begrudge her that hard for finding something that adds a little joy.
Or make the panels much thinner but also much bigger so we can save on street lighting; astronomers will want to use orbital telescopes anyway.
yes, it's log scale
Google Scholar pulls up many PDFs of it: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=18169154965353534...
Oh! Don't feel too bad. While the late 70s and early 80s were a great time to be alive (and interested in small computers,) there was still that nagging feeling that if you could only get a system with just 64k more memory, you could do WONDERFUL things, instead of the mundane things you were working on.

But I will say... the thing that made it interesting to me in retrospect is none of us knew what we were doing. I mean sure, we could write code, but we wrote it in languages that let us shoot ourselves in the feet. repeatedly. The first time I saw Smalltalk was like a religious experience. The day I realized why I couldn't use Smalltalk for "real" systems was like losing my religion.

On the hardware side... it seemed there was a new peripheral every week: 3" floppies, 2.8" floppies, 3.5" floppies, hey! an affordable hard drive!, voice recognition, head mounted displays, etc.

No one seemed to have figured out what the market would want to buy and certainly not how to make it at a profit.

And to me... that spirit of adventure... the "hey, let's just try this new thing and see if it works," was what characterized that era.

And you, right now can have the same experience. Just go out and learn about something halfway new (like how to use LISP in a modern web stack. (okay. maybe it's not that new.)) And try to find a group that's experimental.

The hardware and software tools we have now are INSANELY better than when I was a kid. Approach the market with that "beginners mind" and it'll be great.

And from the description of the timing of your arrival in computing, you're probably senior enough people will need to take you seriously.

-cheers!
So here's a simple framework for this:

1) Learn the things that are most likely to actually move the needle on climate change. There are a bunch of frameworks for thinking about this, but I think https://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/intro is pretty simple. Each wedge is a viable chunk of a huge path to mitigating climate change.

2) Search for companies that solve each of these problems individually. A company that sets out to solve "climate change" is unlikely to succeed in my view, but a company that sets out to make it easy to switch from coal plants to natural gas plants by bringing together the right financing and tech transfer might be easy.

3) Rank those places in terms of your likelihood in moving the needle for them. Nuclear power plant? Maybe they really could use an excellent software engineer, maybe they've already got a great set of people or it's not that important for their business. But maybe those same nuclear power plants desperately need an excellent quantitative person for their sales team, which is really what will move the needle for them.

I'd also suggest sourcing the companies through some of the VCs that have had success having world transforming success. Despite not loving Peter Thiel's political leanings, Founders Fund has funded Space X, The Climate Corporation and Oculus that each have/had a real shot at knocking out a wedge by themselves. Some places have a great track record for backing ambitious moon shots.

(Disclosure, I used to work for The Climate Corporation. I did go to work there because Peter Thiel talked about it in his Stanford Startups class though, so I think that counts as taking my own advice.)
the problems aren't usually technical as much as political or 'business' generally (though sometimes technical stuff presents challenges, certainly).

There's almost always an assumption, I've found, when coming in to existing projects, that they "really" work a certain way and maybe there's just "a bug here" or "some small fix needed over there". Sometimes that's the case, but more often than not, even after those things are 'fixed', nothing actually does what the people in charge thought it was doing. They've sometimes fundamentally misunderstood what they'd required/specced out with a previous team, or, in some cases, the previous team really didn't know how much they didn't know, or in a couple case, they were simply lying for months on end, cashed checks, then left.

"rewriting a system you don't understand is pretty hard" getting a team to successfully spec out what they need is pretty hard, imo, regardless of whether it's greenfield, rebuild, or clarifying expected behaviour in a current system. The big challenge I've come across with "incremental changes to existing systems" happens when it really doesn't do (and never did) what people thought was happening.

"No, this isn't calculating daily compound interest - it's calculating monthly."

"No, the reports aren't able to be regenerated from previous points in time because historical information was never stored anywhere - you simply now don't have 4 years of data you thought you had - the previous reports you were told were being regenerated were just being pulled from a cache."

Fixing problems like above may mean battling through lots of bad code and many many contentious discovery/planning/testing meetings, and... the result is now someone has a 'functioning' system running on codeigniter 2 with hard dependencies on php 5.2.

Years ago I faced a situation with a Rails app which "just needed a few modules finished and a few tweaks". It was done in Rails 1 and had insane amounts of runtime monkey patching. 3 different Rails shops I went to indicated it was not worth the time/effort to try to 'upgrade' what was there. They'd rebuild greenfield and salvage what bits they could from the previous project.

Many of my experiences have been with smaller organizations (less than 50 people - sometimes less than 10), and there's rarely a full team of competent IT people who can review/vet/verify. "Never rebuild from scratch" - it's not bad advice, but it has a lot of assumptions that aren't always true.
Syncplay: Client/Server to Sync Playback
The Wanikani (paid) spaced repetition software does exactly this for learning Kanji. It's exceptionally well thought out, both in order of dependency and frequency. I'm currently using it, and I love it. I still use Anki for vocabulary, but wish there was something as polished as Wanikani instead.
Very interesting. I did not know non dollar deominated us treasury debt exited.
I'm not denying that, i am just saying it wasn't my experience at the time. Also since I had to pay for every minute of connection I didn't really browse through various sites, I only connected to visit a specific site or do a specific thing.
Wow...a flashback to the 80s! That US Robotics modem was my pride an joy (same one they have pictured, but came out in the early 90s). My first modem was a 300bps, and 2nd was 2400. This was a huge step up, and was painful waiting for BBS's to upgrade their 9600's to get that sweet speed. IIRC, it took about 7 minutes to download a 1.44MB floppy.
I don't get it. If it has an all-core frequency of 5GHz, doesn't that mean they've left some single-core boost on the table? Or have they hit some other limit and this part is basically free of thermal limits?
Starlink satellites captured on camera over Poland
That's the beauty of capitalism: the costs of production are externalized and so far-off or abstract that they cannot be immediately realized by the actor.
Your comment is extraordinarily cynical and judgmental, and seems completely detached from an observational article.
Still marketing SMT. Interesting move.
I know a recruiter that specializes in durability in the netherlands. Not sure they do much software engineers though.
https://www.sustainabletalent.nl/

I have pondered about a more sustainable career for a long time. But the opportunities did not match my talents, hope it works out for you.
I read it as that she is aware that the driving is costing money as well but that at least this way she is spending someone else’s money to do shopping instead of her own money.
Well if you are looking at large risky breakthrough, Maybe AI to control fusion plasma? Or maybe something to help promising ideas in carbon capture?
Asia Times – The Conflict to Come in the South China Sea
She specifically mentions factoring in her costs, and the comment that you cite was about the fact that she enjoys shopping but is spending other people's money.
Buying gas for your vehicle is far off and abstract?
There is a startup trying to do just that: https://astronomy.com/news/2019/01/billboards-in-space
uBlock Origin has been useful when it comes to protecting my family computer. There are so many hostile ads and websites out there. I highly recommend it (or Pi-hole or some other good filtering tool).
"Instacart told NPR that more than 50% of people who shop for the app are women. DoorDash said women make up more than 50% of its "dashers" in rural and suburban areas and more than 60% in urban areas."

This ratio seems quite normal. Anyone knows how it compares to Uber/Lyft?
Keep your IBAN secret, it could be easily abused
New Plastic Can Be Endlessly Recycled – Smart News – Smithsonian
That is why I wrote, "what made them great", and that was true of BYTE for more than a year. Adding consumer material did not displace enough great material for a while.
Why wouldn’t Huawei just buy a switch? Why would the customer tolerate someone spending 10x longer on an install and taking apart all their other crap? For that matter why were they able to take apart the other switches at all? Wouldn’t that have taken the system down? Were they storing inactive equipment in their live rack? None of this makes a lot of sense.
Three Dead Trolls and a Baggie did a video on this topic a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9R-2X9Bl5w
I don’t mean to begrudge, just pointing out that people don’t consider driving for 1 min costs them $0.60+ (prob $0.70 in CA) with a regular ICE vehicle. Plus the risk of being involved in a collision (greatest risk to one’s health that Americans face), plus of course pollution.

These externalities are never accounted for, and which lead our society to behave in suboptimal ways. Not to mention allowing all these on demand delivery and ride hailing tech companies to buy drivers at very low cost.
Can we make satellites with materials which don't emit or reflect in frequencies which pass the atmosphere? So those satellites won't send energy which would reach ground-based observers?
Thats needlessly accusatory. It seems they are the equivalent of (male) uber drivers and according to the article they get some extra income but not a lot.
You're complaining that a blog post on the site for the Polar software contains ads for the Polar software?
One thing I love about go is that it builds all the things quickly and in one go.

For other languages, once I found rake, I never looked back. It's so powerful, and unlike make, you don't have to drop down to other languages to do things.
Avoid Linux, Windows, etc.

For non tech users, iOS is pretty safe.

Ipad + iPhone and you're good to go. Leave the notebooks and PCs in the 80s where they belong.
>they live beyond their means in a high income tax state

Yeah how dare the poors live near me!/s
For ads they can verify domain ownership (TXT dns record, or verification file or HTML meta tag served from your domain).

For links in Tweets, they can show the actual URL (domain part at least) instead of the t.co shortened URL.
Personally, I have a lot of trouble with websites breaking because some script was rejected. I think its a big ask to say "if you think this website isn't working correctly, make sure the "*.cloudfront.com" is allowed to load JS resources.
The people in power, the politicians, they're also individuals, people with families and lives, but who decide to take on the issues of the public.

I don't think anyone should feel bad about not coming up with the solutions to global problems. You not knowing any higher payoff doesn't make you a bad person. But every incredible transformation of the world started with a person, and many incredible people only became incredible through the work they tried to do.

Borlaug saved a Billion people from starvation. He started out as a basically normal man. Find something, fight for it, wrestle with the world and hope to hold on to something, mostly because we all lose in the end. If you lose early, enjoy a happy and normal life with your family, but you don't have to lose before you start.
Yeah it's weird. Why not set the single-core turbo higher?
We are doomed anyway. There is no point 'raising awareness' or writing to your MP. Single handedly nobody can change magically provide the solution you seek.

But half the world spends half their time on their phone. Halve the bytes and bandwidth needed for that and make things accessible - what is not to like? I bet that changing the way we do web pages to remove old fashioned bloat saves more penguins than your suggestion.

My suggestion was written specifically for the questioner based on their skillset. Not a one size fits all solution for everyone.

Please do the maths for me after refactoring a web page of your choosing so you have an idea of the gains. Don't be a blocker, present some sums.
I did misinterpret that. Oops! However, there is no way she’s profiting anything at $0.60 per mile reimbursement from Instacart.
Do you think about the costs of production of oil, the refinement process, fuel delivery costs, wars in the middle east, and the environment/societal impacts of all of it each time you're at the pump? I doubt many people do.
I believe Intel processors can't boost all cores. At least some tests I have done with my notebook processor (i7 8550u - 4c8t) with `stress -c n`, being n the number of processors, show that for n > 1 the processor doesn't reach 4ghz, only about 3.7ghz, while the package temps are still at around 70 °C. Only a single core on full load reaches 4ghz before throttling.
Very much so. It’s a useful layer to build an API on top of, but saying a device speaks OSC is like saying a backend service speaks HTTP.
It occurs to me that such gigs may solve the isolation problem that people who work at home often report
Was this comment downvoted by someone who thinks censorship is effective and wants to hide this comment that agrees with them?

Or was it downvoted by someone who thinks censorship backfires but wants to prove it doesn't?

I'm not complaining but I am confused.
If it had been practical to keep with the PPC line Mac users today would have the same problems, seeing as how POWER CPUs suffer from both Meltdown and Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili... This theoretical analysis says G4 and up ones look worryingly vulnerable to Spectre: http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2018/01/more-about-spectre-an... Current Freescale/NXP PowerPC designs are vulnerable to Spectre: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/27/98
While I love living in California for various reasons (moving here from the East coast), I can’t help but wonder to what extent the gig economy is papering over the stupidity that is current housing policy, postponing the inevitable collapse until after far too many people have been consumed by innocently adding a “side hustle” or two trying to help make ends meet.
How is it possible to keep it secret? Doesn't everyone put it into their invoices?
Ask HN: My co-founder is dead. What now?
Hey all.
I lost my co-founder and best friend 3 days ago in a car accident. We are a startup of 5 people and he was the CEO. We are all friends and this has deeply affected us emotionally and I know that, without him, the startup will be on life support soon. What are we supposed to do? many online services were attached to his email, he was talking to customers, he had loaned a lot of money to the company, he was raising capital, he was recruiting... he was pretty much the father of the company.
We are lost and any tip would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much HN.
Two years ago, in 2017, Microsoft distributed the security update to fix this problem. The issue has nothing to do with the NSA and everything to do with the City of Baltimore failing to keep their capital equipment, in this case computers, up-to-date applying security and other updates.

The article also discuses healthcare systems hacked by other exploits. This again was not caused by the computer virus, but by the fact that Microsoft vendor issued security updates were not applied to the systems.

Often there are security upgrades in hardware as well as software which means that the computer hardware needs to be upgraded as well.

As is the case with most of these security hacks, it is the failure of the agency to budget appropriately for equipment maintenance and having competent leadership that actually understands the importance of budgeting for and implementing security upgrades including upgrading to the latest version of the OS, in this case, Windows 10.
Not really the vibe I got reading this. More like She wants to work but doesn't like the inflexible hours of her chosen profession so instead of doing nothing she does this which lets her be home when she needs to for the kids while still also making a bit of extra money to help with the family's finances. Nothing in this article indicates that the family has a problem with lavish spending or any other out of touch with reality problems.
> The other day I worked 11-and-a-half hours and made $265. Great? No. But good.

I understand perfectly how the cost of living in the US is higher than in my country, but it's still kinda funny that I make less than that as a web developer.
>> can only judge brains by their impact on the world.

So bacteria? Plankton has a massive impact on the world too. Insects ... the planet is arguably dominated by insects.

Mammalian brains are, plus or minus a few percent, equally as dense/complex. There are aspects of dolphin brains that are far more complex than ours. A dog's brain has far more connections dedicated to smell than ours. There is some evidence that Orca brains have similarly more connections dedicated to emotions. Each brain is tuned slightly differently, ours perhaps more to vision and problem solving, but our biology isn't any more evolved or complicated.
going down the ios route is safest option.Pretty much in same boat as you taught my dad on online bill payments and banking in iPad . Set up a password manager and store all their personal information in there , make it available via touch id.
Chromebook and linux are still tech stuff which can not be handled by elderly.
It is an understandable wish, sadly it is not something you can control without them living with you and having all of their outside world access go through you.

This sad state of affairs because swindlers can get at them in many different ways. I have a sign near the phone that says "If they are asking you to buy gift cards hang up, what they have told you is a lie."

Of course online access is essential today, so it isn't easy to tell them they don't get to use the computer. Or Facebook. Or NextDoor. Or any other social media site. Or Chat service. Or other Forum.

There isn't any just "read only news" (no commenting) from sites with journalists, maps, phone numbers. Kind of appliance that you can get them.
I'm writing the book on senior+/lead to junior/intermediate mentoring with my company. I've been floating my notes and mentoring guidelines around the department heads and other leads. I love it, personally. Department heads and managers see the value but are reluctant when they see that I'm willing to spend months with a junior or that I might myself out there for hours a week with an intermediate. If I come across a particular interesting performance problem, or something like that that is challenging and requires a certain type of experience to get into, I'll schedule time to pair with 1-3 of my team members on it so that they can hopefully benefit from the experience. The real challenge, though, is that not everyone wants to mentor. I personally think that it's critical and a core part of my responsibility but most of the other senior+/leads where I work are not engaging in much meaningful mentorship with their teams.
Maybe this is off-topic, but everything I know about personal security I learned from my mom. She gets spam calls like we all do, claiming to be health insurance or the IRS or something, and she'll always hang up, look up the right phone number, and call that back and see if there really is anything going on. Same with emails, she doesn't click links but instead goes to the website independently and logs in there. She taught me that if it's actually your health insurance or credit card company calling, they'll already have your information, so asking for your SSN or address is a red flag.

She's "not technical", which means she's a librarian instead of a software engineer, but she still knows much more than me about online security, and I'd bet most of our parents are kinda the same. She "runs" an iPhone and a Chromebook, which I think is the best setup for most people.
The Artisanal Internet is making a comeback
“So... what's the best way to pay for these negative externals so we don't simply pass the buck to our kids?”

Start sequestering carbon or create funds to research effective ways to sequester carbon. For the US, it’d be as simple as giving the DOE R&D funds and a mandate.
Honestly, while getting phished and hacked are big issues, I would also worry about them being sucked into social media bubbles where they could start latching onto conspiracy theories, fake news, and the like. It was not too long ago where their generation believed it was a bad idea to believe anything on the Internet. I'm not sure what changed. I have seen my own parents fall suspect to that stuff now and then, so it does scare me.
It’s Descartes ‘fault’. He introduced the term to distinguish real roots of polynomial equations from “imaginary” roots.

The term stuck long before we realized what the reals actually looked like (Descartes died in 1650, Zermelo formulated the Axiom of choice in 1904)

And that all integers have names isn’t a given. It took quite a while to invent the number zero, as opposed to ‘nothing’ (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180807-how-india-gave-us-t...)
Now you can run the speculation mitigations much more quickly!
How Samba Was Written (2003)
It would be $300 per month for everybody, so some people would end up less well off and others more.
I feel like unless you are Microsoft, Google, Apple, or similar, you should opt for whatever is most intuitive to your audience, and that will be whatever convention is predominant in the other products they use. An analysis of the most rational, internally consistent usage is moot. If your customers have been trained by Apple to expect "first right" in horizontal button layouts and "first top" in vertical button layouts, it's irrelevant that this is inconsistent with English reading order of left-to-right and top-down. Unless you have the power to move the entire culture, such considerations shouldn't enter the picture.
Yes, there's a table in the firmware that can tell you the maximum speed with N active cores. This one though has the same speed for all values of N.
Is the concern here that they will add to light pollution and make astronomical observations more difficult?