skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ecuador has done a really incredible job balancing the needed economic benefits of tourism with preservation of the Galapagos. They limit who can take tourists to which islands and when and have a carefully choreographed schedule that’s centrally managed. I believe there’s no more than 12 or so people and a guide on a given trail at a time yet the archipelago gets a few hundred thousand visitors a year. I think they even require the tour companies give a steep discount to native Ecuadorians since their tax dollars fund a lot of the centralization.
Slow YouTube load is entirely YouTube/Google's fault

>YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome.

https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185
This is probably too fiddly to really be useful, but you can tweak a lot of aspects of Firefox scrolling via about:config. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73438265&pos...
BBC has become a tabloid and this article resonates that.

I also don't understand why is it that we need to dumb things down for people to be interested in it? Technical details are interesting even if I don't fully understand it. It shows rigor and depth on the journalist's part.
I have a E5-2670 (V1) based system and the idle power draw is around 80W. I doubt a modern system with the same cores and threads (say an i9-9900k) is going to draw that much less while idle. Even if it uses half the power, that equates to electricity savings of under $5 per month if it's on 24/7.
This is practically impossible advice. Hero engineers can't stand sitting back watching things fail because no one else on the team cares enough to succeed.

For the hero, either the project succeeds or fails. Step up! But non heros instead look for a target to blame and then proceed to sabotage that person and the project to ensure they don't get the blame themselves. Their job is to find ways to work as little as possible.

The hero's job is a successful project. If it fails the hero is to blame. At the end of the day, it's always the engineers' fault if it fails.

I can't believe this article blames the problems on those who step up to fix them.

Better just to ignore the problems?

Reminds me of the folks who say, "don't work so hard! You're making the rest of us look bad! "
It doesn't matter really; so far my entire experience with GDPR is that people just claim they think you're not in the EU and tell you they won't remove any of your data (AirBNB did this for friends who tried to get their data deleted, and I've seen similar things from a number of companies who want proof that you're an EU resident, but I'm obviously not sending them even more info like a passport just to convince them to delete my data). I wish the GDPR had any teeth, but companies for now seem to think it doesn't.
Veteran comedy writers, on collaboratively developing business ideas
Also a dota player, D+ doesn't give you any advantage. I saw someone down thread claiming ranked roles is P2Win which is just absolutely ridiculous.
Also if you want to explore the data UN OCHA has it here: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ebola-cases-and-deaths-drc-...
I see what you are saying, but it isn't so binary.

If the Supreme Court ruled against the merits of a specific law that Congress passed, then sure Congress could not make another law to overrule it (well it would be immediately stayed by the courts).

Here the Supreme Court ruled against an OUTCOME of a law that doesn't exist. They ruled against interpretations of a patchwork of nuanced regulations which never had any legislative guidance, which resulted in the aggrieved party not being able to enforce their gene patent alongside the patent examiners not approving any more of them.

Congress is now ending this mess by providing that missing legislative guidance.
The thing that blows my mind about humans is how adaptable our bodies are to virtually any task, terrain, climate, etc.

Goats are, in general, much better climbers than humans. But the best human climbers are WAY better than the best goat climbers. For example, I've never seen a goat climb El Cap.

Beavers, on average, are much better dam builders than humans. But the best human dam builders are WAY better than the best beaver dam builders.

Rinse and repeat for nearly anything.
The problem isn't that too many people want to travel, but that too many people want to travel to the same places. I generally find the more off-the-beaten-path places more enjoyable.
>humans who don't have these motivations

I'm not sure how to quantify that, but let me see if I can say this. I don't hate my neighbor because they're different from me, but I will say that it is human nature to be tribalistic.

So generally I don't think that there is anything to reconcile there.
I've only ever worked in an early stage startup I founded. We initially were in same office and transitioned to remote over a 3 year period. (only 5 of us).

Early in your career (I wrote all of our product and am 25) working in an office is probably helpful. I am actively job searching now and the top thing I care about is a mentor/peer group.

I want to have people to interact with during work. I spent 3 years mainly writing code secluded from the real world (yes, I was going to things like dinners but that isn't the same in my experience).

I worked in finance before and use to complain about being at the office. Looking back, I had a quiet cubicle where I was mostly left alone to do my work but would take a break every hour and play some put putt golf around the office with the other interns.

I made friends, had a break and did a lot of really great work that summer.

Remote work once you're older and have kids + family + roots might make more sense, and I look forward to that! Especially if it allows flexible time so I could drive kids to school.

But, while young, I prefer office first w flexibility if needed.
>Ebola should actually be easier to contain in any civilized country such as the US. Quarantine measures and disposing of infected bodies properly would limit the pandemic.

I would be careful of the use of the word 'civilized' in this context. You're implying DRC and/or other African countries are uncivilized. Which is just not true.
Actix completely changed my relationship to writing Async code in Rust, which I had really struggled with for a long time. I'm a huge fan and it definitely feels like a first step in more mature tooling for web services in Rust.
we use gotomeeting and atom and it works fantastically. I wouldn't switch that for a 40 hours/week office routine. The coffee at home tastes much better!
I don't want to get into political debates, but this is wrong. Democrats have always pushed for a merit-based points-based immigration for a while now. The 2013 immigration bill contained a merit-based system not unlike Canada's. A points-based system would only be pilloried by your caricature of the left.

The fact of the matter is that the GOP is often quite dishonest. In public, they say things that often sound very reasonable, and hold positions similar to that of the Democrats/left (points-based immigration, protect pre-existing conditions, retain medicare, etc) -- and it helps them win votes. But as we all know, what they actually do (with executive action, bills introduced in Congress, etc) is often the very opposite of what they say.

I won't be commenting on this topic anymore.
Because the Mozilla brand is more trusted than a random website with ‘Pwned’ in its name. Also, it's being built into Firefox so having a website for it too seems like a good idea.
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At SerpApi (https://serpapi.com), we are a remote first company.

I agree with the points the article touched. Convenience, environmental conscious, and the variety of location choices are awesome.

It’s also awesome from a management perspective. Everything being async and online makes sense for a tech business. Plus creativity wise it allows us a lot more time for deep thinking.

There is regulations though we can improve. For example, for w2 you need to register your LLC in some of the states where you have employees working from. It makes w2 a big burden specially when you have people are moving around. Or smaller things. Like having to have a poster about labor laws in your office in Texas. It really doesn’t make when everyone is remote.
It would be helpful to include a link to the services somewhere. I only figured out this was for apollo.io because of a comment on HN: https://monitor.firefox.com/breach-details/Apollo
That Xeon is faster, not slower than your Bulldozer chip.

Passmark for the E5-2667:
Multithreaded: 10372
Single threaded 1609

Passmark for the FX-8350:
Multithreaded 8951
Single threaded: 1510
I think there is tons of ability for these people to teach young tradesmen the skills they learned over a lifetime.
Expecting more from the BBC will only result in further disappointment. They know their audience and know that they can drop a word like science for immediate, unquestionable authority on the topic without having to provide substantial evidence.

This is why I bristle when people use that word these days. It's used as a trump card and as a way to castigate those who people disagree with politically (science deniers) without having to have a real conversation. Science is messy, contradictory, and constantly evolving and that's why true scientists love it! It is by no means something to stand blindly behind and to use as a baton against your enemies.
I don't think the company I'm interviewing with did anything sketchy, to be clear. They just used yet another garbage startup that's solving a problem that doesn't exist, making the process harder, and can't be bothered to have any responsibility or consider that sharing someones contact details or setting up an account for them without their consent is not okay. It's Pana that's absolutely not okay in my book (although I suppose it's reasonable to say that the company I'm interviewing with should have seen this and avoided them).
The power consumption of some of these old workstations is obscene. There's probably some optimal intersection between cost of the computer and the cost of power consumption.

an older macbook pro (2012ish) gives 12,000 on the MT benchmark and only draws what, 85w?

the author briefly touches on this, but unless you get free electricity, this is a bigger issue than presented.
They do: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5580494/

But the jury is still out on what evolutionary processes are ongoing. Is the virus adapting to its new host and consequently evolving more slowly, or is it quickly developing increased transmissibility? It's not quite clear.
I would 100% agree if we were talking about humans.

As is, euthanasia of cats and dogs is generally considered morally acceptable, and we can reasonably predict that more cats will be euthanatized as a result of this law. So if there weren't clear evidence that declawing was inherently harmful to a pet cat, I would consider it misguided to ban the practice.
Totally your choice, but I'd look at and offer subsidizing their loans for X years (10?) instead of just funding it up front.
I highly doubt you can eat price increases for the entire US population. These things don't just affect you, so it's a bit selfish to take such a "well I'm going to be okay" attitude.
You're engaging in one-bit thinking, where things are either one extreme or the other. I didn't say that everyone in a nursing home wants to die! That's something you made up. However, you can find people with very poor health there. Let me quote from the article I linked to:

"In medical jargon, healthy people are “alert and oriented x 3”, which means oriented to person (you know your name), oriented to time (you know what day/month/year it is), and oriented to place (you know you’re in a hospital). My patients who have the sorts of issues I mentioned in the last paragraph are generally alert and oriented x0. They don’t remember their own names, they don’t know where they are or what they’re doing there, and they think it’s the 1930s or the 1950s or don’t even have a concept of years at all. When you’re alert and oriented x0, the world becomes this terrifying place where you are stuck in some kind of bed and can’t move and people are sticking you with very large needles and forcing tubes down your throat and you have no idea why or what’s going on."

It doesn't happen to everyone, but it does happen enough that people who work in health care, or have had to help elderly relatives, or anyone closer to the end of their life needs to think about what to do about it, and set up things like advance directives and medical power of attorney.

There is also the POLST, which is a pink sheet with doctor's orders that terminally ill people put on their refrigerator that tell paramedics not to do CPR (for example). https://polst.org/polst-and-advance-directives/

Although the health care system is usually about extending people's lives, this is not always appropriate. Acknowledging that is just being real about what goes on as people get close to death.
It's too early in my morning to provide a source for him, but I can at least concur. My wife studied East Asian culture extensively and I'm a WWII buff and so we could each tell the other, for example, about the change in policy under MacArthur on destroying swords during the US occupation (in particular, destroying the cheap stamped swords issued post-1930 vs 'preserving' i.e. letting US soldiers loot and take home the historial ones).

As far as either of us know, it's common knowledge among anyone other than the 'katanas can cut steel beams' crowd that Japan was very very iron-poor, was alloying-elements-poor, that their folding technique was not unique by any means, and that noone including Japan sharpened swords to a single molecule's thickness on the cutting edge for good reasons relating to durability. (You could, if you wanted to, fairly trivially sharpen your kitchen knives at least near that degree. You wouldn't want to, for the same durability reason.)

My wife is now professionally a neuroscientist, and they do use scalpels that precisely sharp, or even sharpened tungsten wire 'grown' chemically into that configuration for precision work like cutting into a single cell of your choice under high power microscopy. But all of those are nearly single-use-only instruments. To the extent they can be reused, it's because they only touched very soft cellular material and never contacted something anywhere as hard as a cutting board, much less a bone -- as both kitchen knives and combat swords would do routinely in use. You really don't want the tip of your blade folding over upon itself, which happens almost immediately with a blade that thin. If curious on this topic, investigate the advantages of a beveled (multi-angle) grind, common on a chef's knife, vs a hollow ground edge like you might find on a santoku kitchen knife -- particularly pay attention to the difference in maintenance required of each.

I expect googling for 'japan iron-poor' and 'sword folding technique' would immediately shed light on either of those areas, if you're still in search of a citation.
That comment inspires joy! I'm writing a tool that would jump at the chance of using limited access API keys than having the whole kingdom in my hand!
Nice work! Small suggestion -- it would be nice to be able to to have the notification sent to the breached email and the primary email
The normal way it works is you accept a 20% role from another team. Teams post 20% opportunities in the same way they post transfer opportunities internally. You talk to the hiring manager and see if they'd like to "hire" you.

A common reason people do 20% work is to test the waters of another area of the company. It's also a kind of tryout for you.

You do tell your manager in this case, yes. They're not supposed to say no. Hard to say what the range of responses is in practice. In my experience managers are supportive of this.
Personally, I got about a third of the way through and clicked out because I felt the same disgust as the op. At least to the point in the article I got to, the author didn’t cite any real data, just cherry picked anecdotes to support their pearl clutching. I mean, why are boats with an all you can eat buffet a problem anyway? Right, because the author wants the buffet scarfing philistines to stay in flyover country where they belong.
On some teams I've managed, I have had that one developer that's a great producer, but projected a great deal of negative energy into the group.

This situation has to be dealt with as soon as it's recognized. Some of the actions I have resorted to is heavy "counseling", work from home, rent a small office separate from the main work space or bite the bullet and fire them.
Effective remote (at least for tech) requires a different culture and often different tool use which make it difficult to be 'hybrid' (i.e some workers are remote and some not). This limits the ability to incrementally adopt remote work and so typically companies have to start with the gene.

Stuff like tapping a co-worker on the shoulder for an ad-hoc question is generally an anti-pattern. It likely knocks them out of flow and means your documentation and internal tools don't allow engineers to answer their own questions. But it's so baked into how companies work that you have to start a new company and train engineers to approach knowledge sharing differently.

Similarly ad-hoc 'fortuitous' discussions around the automated coffee maker to hatch potential new projects/designs/products or whatever company executives think are happening aren't really the best forum for that - they by chance, they aren't necessarily going to be inclusive, and the premise there is that you're essentially expecting work when the goal is to take a break. The expectation seems to be that I may see Bob from $other_team and query him on his current projects while the automated coffee maker takes a few minutes to cough out a latte-like substance but, again, there should be better ways to let me know about potentially useful team intersections rather than bugging bob while he is trying to get a break.
Quite right, for the sake of a visual mental support of a 3d imagine you’re limited to three dimensions, where as the mind doesn’t have these limitations and is n dimensional.
Ad hom. Also we could just implement a progressive tax on the US pop and redistribute it to those who would get hit the hardest.

In reality, I don't think we're going to stop trade with China, I'm just saying I'd be okay with it and that surface-level concerns with such an idea are easily solvable.
Apple Removing Support for WebSQL from Safari
So, I 100% agree with you and think a sentence in multi-page privacy policy is not informed consent.

Recently in EU GDPR regulation brought in some strict measures on how consent is requested and how data is shared and managed, I was delighted when websites started sending me emails asking me for content to market and share data.

However I am now seeing a bunch of websites doing the shady tactic of showing a full page pop-up on mobile site with all 30+ checkboxes pre-ticked allowing them full access of my data. Fuck such sites.
I've seen a pretty good amount of brigading on Goodreads, especially on less known books
>We just need to lose the idea of an 8 hour work day. It's an anachronism from the industrial revolution.

That depends heavily on the industry. We share desks with another shift and run 3 shifts a day Monday-Friday and 2 shifts on Saturday because we are dealing with inbound international freight.

Police, fire, medical, retail, etc etc.

People on HN tend to be extremely myopic and think that every other person on the planet pecks away at code all day wrapped up in their hoodies.
>$10 is 2% of my monthly electric bill

You spend $6000 a year on electricity? Are you running an aluminium smelter in your back yard?
Even if such substances gets controlled in U.S. and manufacturers penalised, they will have a free run in developing countries.

Pesticides inc. *cides in agriculture along with antibiotics in poultry, which helped address world hunger is becoming bane of humanity.

When there are chances of superbug arising from antibiotics abuse such as colistin from India becoming a pandemic, why treat these issues as local to the country?
I was a high school math teacher (California, US). Best thing that ever happened to me was leaving that to work in software.

As a teacher, I was working 70 hr weeks to get lesson plans in place and to grade work. Summers were booked for summer school. Every minor "vacation/break" was filled with catching up on everything. I worked with socio-economically challenged inner city kids whose families (generally) saw no benefit to an education. The pay was terrible. After 5+ years and if I were not the sole income for our household, we might have been able to eek by. As it was, we were in a debt cycle that we could not have escaped. I would never have been a home owner.

After becoming a software developer, in my first year, I made as much as a teacher with 20 years experience and a doctorate. Fast forward several years, and I out earn superintendents. I can actually have a mortgage and plan vacations with the family and help my kids with expenses.
Here is the data: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/201...
Well it's a rather difficult calculation to make in this fashion.

The relevant data needed is total number of retirement hours funded, total productive output, and total "other" essential spending.

What's also happening is the cost of healthcare is increasing, quite dramatically, and eating up productivity gains.

I have a strong suspicion that we're way ahead of "general essential" social spending today, compared to 1950s, per-captia; productivity gains included.

Open to detailed analysis on this though
> If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera. There are just too many people thronging popular destinations

Use of "demented late-capitalist" in the context of the paragraph and article reads, to me at least, as an indictment of the behavior of the newly-middle-class (i.e. people whom capitalism has recently enriched).
If it's using the haveibeenpwned service then why does it say my email has been found in less number of data breaches compared to the number on the haveibeenpwned site (11 vs 14)?
Yup, devs.
Oh damn, I thought, based on the name, that this would be a better firefox task manager .. you know, one that actually functions. Nope.
I'm not seeing what is so special about this provider. In this pitch they note:

"With these 3rd party tools, you are not in control of your data, your data is still at risk to potential breaches, and you are paying high monthly storage fees."

and a few sentences later when describing their product:

"What you need is Syncrify, a private-cloud backup and synchronization solution that keeps your data 100% secure and private."

Why should a business use this tool when larger and more reputable companies do the same? I feel that this is 100% a play on buzzwords.
Tesla keeps a promise to early Full Self-Driving customers–sort of
Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More Buildings Designed to Withstand Earthquakes?