skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My contact knows my name, job title and employer because they’re a colleague. There is no public record of my employment. It is private information.

How do I keep it from Facebook if my colleague uses WhatsApp, by simply opting out from using Facebook myself?
Exactly! But instead of one massive sunshade we would be better off using many small ones, which would allow us to control the local weather. Two possible technologies that seem promising to me are large nitrogen filled balloons with solar elements and several kilometer high solar updraft towers.

The updraft tower depending on configuration can transport large amount of dust upwards helping to create clouds, or condensate the moisture in the air (which is particularly effective in arid regions near the sea).

The balloon-solar plants would also help to reduce the temperature.
The bulk of the CPU time is currently spent in node.js, running docusaurus.
Definitely could have been it.
The fact that there are multiple linter tools shouldn't paralyze a group of people for 300 man hours. The Go ecosystem will eventually have choices too. For instance, I think there are a couple of different protobuf implementations for Go already.
I think the biggest improvement is the ability to understand the context of a sentence instead of just listening for keywords. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy because there's just so much data and lot of it probably isn't even useful. However, the recordings are definitely used to improve the ability to recognize the way different people say the same word for the purpose of improving recognition in the future.
This phenomenon is curious, in a morbid sort of way. There is literally no way to stop it; we are, as Noam Chomsky fears, a lethal mutation. We developed the ability to create industrial and economic activity on such a scale, and with such sophistication, that we've overcome the planet's ability to cope, but we have no mechanism in place that seems remotely capable of remedying that situation without a global catastrophe of unimaginable scale.

There are no brakes. There's nothing you can say to any leader, politician, or pleb that can shock them into action. CO2 at 400+ ppm? Shrug. Global temperature rise nearing the acceptable limit for 100 years from now happening in much less than half that time? Shrug. Permafrost melting 70 years ahead of schedule? Yawn.

Not only is there no system in place that can fix this now, no system can arise that would have any hope of slowing it, or even slowing its acceleration. Get used to it. This isn't a movie. There are no heroes. You're all dead. And you have no idea.
Thank you! Just file an issue and that should be good enough!
my theory is that if you try to convert a co-located workforce to remote you are going to struggle because you have a mix of people that are able and unable to properly function that way. However if you start a company with that model from day one, over time you select for people that can handle the remote aspect. It becomes a core cultural value.

Southwest is the fun airline. What would american airlines have to do to become a fun airline? They would have to fire 2/3 of their staff.
I am not a geologist, but it seems improbable for a technical civilization (like our current one) to not leave a global geological mark. For example, our use of fossil fuels changed global carbon isotope composition: our atmosphere now has less portion of C13, because photosynthesis favors the lighter C12 atoms, and all our fossil fuels ultimately derives from photosynthesis.[1]

The changed isotope ratio will be detectable in every carbon-containing sediment layer ever produced in our age. And this is just one example.

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=109
Her video a couple weeks ago about her radiation therapy/making a lamp out of her radiation mask is easily the most powerful "maker" video I've ever watched.
Your prediction has already turned out to be true in the IMO terrifying twitter comments to this very article ("climate science is pseudoscience" etc) https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1141061681495363584
Climate engineering to stop global warming seems to me like trying to remove a bullet by shooting it out from the other side
There are a number of SF stories where this is the plot.
Pro-Brexiters lying on the motives and outcomes? (Farage & Johnson not the least)
Fast-growing Juul buys San Francisco office tower
I have no idea what metrics you're looking at to support that argument (Malthusianism has been debunked by the way) but the fact that their population keeps growing proves that you are incorrect.
Go up again!
[Deleting because I don't want to perpetuate apparently debunked climate change myths, sorry, I honestly hadn't seen it debunked.]

Dang, my most downvoted comment was asking an honest question about climate change.
She's had one bout with brain cancer and I believe is in her second round with it. I sincerely hope she does have a future.
You could argue this endlessly from different perspectives, but it's not at all relevant to what the article actually discusses. They're comparing redis against itself, not other examples of things that might or might not be databases.
Here's a solution: have tech companies settle in other regions.

I know the benefits for being in the bay are substantial, but this problem is entirely brought about by tech companies, not the resident. Employers need to setup shop in less populated places and grow there.
It does not. Could you please say where you got this impression so I could fix it? See my other comments in this very thread. ripgrep actually has more sophisticated literal extraction & searching than GNU grep does. Moreover, many of these optimizations are inside the regex engine itself, so even if it looks like you're using a regex, literal optimizations may still be applied.
Visa/Mastercard consider crypto an existential threat - the value add that they have in terms of consumer protection, middleman conflict resolution, and fraud prevention does not add up to that 2-4% level of value, and they admit that. Trust and the network effect keep them in play for now.

https://qz.com/1646097/what-does-facebooks-crypto-coin-libra...

Crypto transactions however, have not lived up to the "hype" of being truly cheap thus far. Visa/MC are positioning themselves such that the value they bring is not something that crypto can provide. We'll see where that ends up - I'd expect Visa/MC stock to move a bit if the transaction fees for Libra end up being sub-$.05.
Japan overall or Tokio specifically? Because Tokio would be a bad example as it’s super dense and I think that is exactly what residents try to prevent
What was your experience switching from Coral 66 to Ada? An equivalent language in the USA at the time was JOVIAL. I heard from some old JOVIAL programmers that they thought Ada was an inferior tool for the job. When I looked at Coral 66, it seemed to be rather less polished than JOVIAL, so I have wondered whether British programmers might have welcomed the switch to Ada.
XML being the way it is, I don't think there was any alternative to canonicalization.
Maybe that's how Boeing can salvage their program? We'll buy back all your 737MAXs at a loss, take a tax write-off, rebrand them as 7C-MAX, a brand new plane, with new pilots certification, rip out of the MCAS, and now we only lose a few hundred million instead of a LOT of hundreds of millions.
Yes it does. If there actually was a bigger demand than there is supply, the salary would raise. The main reason why it doesn't is because a programming language or frameworks are not a barrier for any top developer. Skills usually transfer very well.

The real crux of the matter is that these companies don't want to pay top salaries and thus don't get top developers. As long as there are people who navigate themselves into such niches and are proud of it, the salary for these specialized jobs will stay where it is. Simple as that.
Generalized Algebraic Data Types: A Primer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14072121 Apr 2017
> Homelessness is a problem of addiction and mental illness.

Have you never spent time with homeless people? You are delusional.
Depends on what you want, I suppose. High density humanity simply makes practical and economically viable gatherings, grouping and other activities that just don't work in low-density populations. Classes, meetups, specialist stores, hobbies, clubs, shows, lectures, institutions and just plain bubbling, embryonic interactions; all of it an order of magnitude more intense in a big city. Travel even fifty miles away from a big city and suddenly so much opportunity vanishes, or necessitates a two hour round trip into the city to take advantage of. For the people who want these things, the city is the only option. I don't work in a city because that's where my job is; I work in (the outskirts of) a city because that's where everything else I want is.

I work with people who live in the inner city and commute outwards daily for their job, because their job is just a way to pay for what they actually want, and what they actually want is to be in that city.
It's a design flaw, because they're hacking an old design to have larger engines it was never designed for. If they did a clean-sheet new design, they'd never design it this way.

The airframe should be retired and they should make a new one. To push this, the FAA and other certifying bodies should treat the plane as an all-new plane with no commonality with previous 737 planes, requiring all new training for pilots and a complete, new certification process for the plane, just as if it had been a clean-sheet new design.
I downvoted you because face-to-face communication is not very important to most online jobs. As you pointed out elsewhere it may be important for other reasons but those needs can be fulfilled elsewhere.

Even if face-to-face is important for specific positions it's even more rarely a daily requirement. Most of the country is so much less expensive than the Bay Area that you could fly someone in one day a week and it would still cost less.
We'll adapt, but the global ecosystem is dying. It'll be cows, cats, dogs, pigs, chickens, us and stories of animals.
I think maybe I've seen a similar issue and didn't know it? What's the right answer for that situation, node/express hitting redis which runs out of memory?
Indeed, we'll fix this asap - thanks for catching!
Source that vaping kills?
The anti-nuclear scare was saddening. We could have had multiple per-state with cheaper electric and more efficient and resilient power grids by now.
It probably works the other way around. Amazon is incentivized to not compete with their customers because they’re already collecting rent on them thru AWS. Why drive your competitor out of business if they already pay you yearly fees?

And more directly to your point, Amazon presumably evaluates each market they enter separately. They have a big enough war chest to run at a loss forever, but they won’t do so because it’s not good business
It was created as a system level vault to store private keys, passwords and the like without requiring a library. But that was 20 odd years ago, so who knows what problem its solving now. Full-disk encryption was probably considered computationally expensive back then too..
I guess you're missing the point. It is not the money that matters more here, it is the collective business intelligence that Amazon gets access to, for free - for example, if one FBA seller leaves Amazon, no big deal. Even if a thousand FBA sellers leave Amazon, it is still no big deal for Amazon, because they have something more important than any money they could've earned from those FBA sellers - data. They did zero work (market research, advertising etc), but they know precisely what is selling well and where. If they keep doing this for a while (which they have), then they are in many more verticals in a few short years.

It is like these FBA sellers are paying Amazon, then giving valuable data to them and helping Amazon put them out of business. It is just a shitty situation
> It works reasonably well in the rest of Germany.

How? Pretty much all large cities are much more expensive than Berlin, rent-wise (and in most other things).
That's sort of the opposite of my experience, where everyone couldn't wait to get out of the stultifying small town, where there was no work and no future.
Just wanted to say that the logo is not Libra's symbol; it's very similar to Aquarius though. While I maintain my horoscope-hater attitude, I am still disappointed
Having talked to some people at trade shows and tech conferences, there is absolutely that feeling from major retailers. Some people would like to use AWS but they are banned since it would directly fund their competitor (Amazon).
In addition to NASA's explicitly non-military nature, we do actually maintain some relationship with our USAF counterparts. When it makes sense to do so, we're happy to work on mutually beneficial projects.
> but I guess others might find it challenging.

Nah. Perhaps I have a more strict work/not-work separation than many, but I am 9-5:30 plain-ol'-employed here, and from what I have seen of LinkedIn I am absolutely not challenged by this. I care about doing a job well, but watching a bunch of people advertising themselves to future employers by pretending to give far more a shit about The Haps in their industry than they actually do is, while almost charming, not something I would care to spend more than about two minutes every two years doing.
I’m amazed that the specks on the grain of sand can even be aware of the pea that’s 5000km away in the first place.
Incidentally, ripgrep will actually be faster in this case generally (on Linux at least) when given an explicit file path, since that lets it use memory maps. For example:

$ time rg QZQZQZQZ < subtitles.en.txt

real 1.842
user 0.552
sys 1.287
maxmem 9 MB
faults 0

$ time rg QZQZQZQZ subtitles.en.txt

real 1.210
user 0.776
sys 0.433
maxmem 9510 MB
faults 0

(See my other comments in this thread for where to get subtitles.en.txt.)
Google explains how it licenses song lyrics for Search, will add attribution
I bet that's just bulk cargo for warehouses. It says "Amazon Prime" because they're also using the rail stock as adverts/billboards.
Variability in the sun’s output has long been accounted for in climate modeling.
Putting the "explosion" in context, Redwood City built new housing at an annual growth rate of 0.8% between 2010 and 2017, the latest available data. This is far below the historical rate of new housing starts. At no time between 1958 and 2008 did the USA fail to start building at least 10 million dwellings per year, even when the population was much smaller. For example when the US population was half what it is today we started typically 1.5 million new homes per month. Current "explosion" of home construction is pathetic shadow of historical rate.
They're pretty much the new Wal-Mart.
> like what you get when you don't care about craftmanship or longevity and just want the least expensive option.

You answered your own question. The fund manager of an REIT or developer is looking to maximize ROI, and in the absence of higher quality alternatives, they can afford to build to the lowest specs possible that will still rent.

Via 401k(s) and defined benefit pension fund investments, we all are responsible for maximizing for ROI.
The thing that separates this from a bank database is a small thing, but important, and that's that even the bank cannot reduce your balance in secret without your authorization, since transactions are signed and the ledger is public. That's because of the cryptographic primitives used.

I think in the end we have to accept that taxonomies are going to have rough edges because the map is not the territory. With Bitcoin as the canonical cryptocurrency there have been a number of experiments that have removed or added guarantees. A distributed, verifiable, immutable chain of history is basically git with a couple of extra features, so the lines are necessarily blurry.

Rather than arguing semantics, the main questions are to what degree it is censorship-proof, permissionless, and scarce. The third one is the one that is least clear from the description and whitepaper. It sounds like they're trying to get the first two as well, but the designation of initial stakeholders might make that tricky until they can transition to proof-of-stake.
I'd love to see what the actual incentive structure is here. What are they hoping to get out of the investment? Data? Fraud prevention fees?
So where does "not rent control" work for long term affordable housing in in-demand areas? I don't think I know of any city comparable to Berlin, in at least size and prospects, that hasn't had significant rent increases in the last five years.
They didn't actually say that, they said the thing that's in their report. They work hard on that, and paraphrasing it clumsily into millennial prose doesn't help anything.
First Thoughts About Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency
>I think it's personal though, I've spoken about hating them with travelling companions and no one else shares my dislike.

That's because most people these days have significant hearing loss.
Tax payers wouldn't have to pay for anything, the only impact would be potentially on credit ratings of the government and possibly also certain interest rates in a minimal way. You can create market rate housing with government subsidized loans that don't come from tax coffers. Hell, the US federal reserve is technically the backer of hundreds of billions worth of mortgages.
And what if a totally redesigned successor to the 737 started crashing due to a technical issue, or training issue?

Second System Syndrome is a well known engineering pitfall. If the only thing wrong with the 737 MAX is that the MCAS v1 software is bad, and the MCAS v2 software is good, then the 737 MAX should fly perfectly well for decades.
I love the 250 million year old salt example in this article.
Even condo buildings tend to have way better sound proofing than apartments.
Actually, this does tell a SFH owner that they have to do something: Live in a place substantially different than when they bought there.

This may be worth it broadly, but it absolutely enforces our preferences onto the SFH owner.
> I just wonder if wiring in a physical switch to turn on the heating is considered piracy?

It's not piracy, but Tesla can (hypothetically) decide to prevent your car from turning on if they find out what you're doing.
Trying to find the motivation to prepare for the arbitrary algorithm interviews when you believe on principle that this is just the wrong way to hire.
All retailers, that can, do this though.

Safeway, Fred Meyer, Costco, you name it there is a Select or some other generic offering of their competitor’s goods.
It’s not the same thing with Netflix. If five movies from Netflix originals did well this year then what Amazon prime can do about it? It’s not a charger cable that they can right away stock and start selling it :-).

The catalog of successful movies is available publicly anyway :-)
Global warming is the single scariest existential threat our species has ever faced, and we aren't doing nearly enough to tackle it.

Our future descendants will heap scorn and curses on our generation, and we deserve every bit of it. Every politician that refuses to do what is necessary or finds it convenient to play stupid language games about 'settled science' is doing incalculable harm.

As citizens, I encourage everyone to reducing their carbon footprint as much as possible (yes, that means that your life gets comfortable) and voting exclusively on how credible a politician is on tackling global warming. If you are a wealthy person and aren't buying carbon offsets for all your emissions, you are a bad person.
As a soon to be parent, I've discovered the world of "coded" words that people use in facebook groups to refer to illegal health practices, including not vaccinating their kids.

Context: where I'm from, education from age 5 up to the end of elementary school is mandatory (as in: as a parent, you're mandated to provide this level of education for your kids). Schools are in turn mandated to verify that students have been vaccinated with a list of vaccines for diseases deemed a threat to public safety (small-pox, measles, tuberculosis, and I forget what else). Therefore, there is a list of vaccines which are effectively mandatory and which are illegal to skip.

Anti-vaxxers in "parenting" groups will ask for and provide references for "respectful" pediatricians. I've learned that "respectful" is a coded word which means "willing to forge a certificate saying my kid has been vaccinated".

What truly puzzles me is that there are trained doctors willing to bypass public safety in this way. It's one thing for anti-vaxxers to be clueless about this, but doctors?
It's probably a matter of time before someone starts jailbreaking teslas, turning off the phoning home, turning on heated seats, etc.
Uber ATG enters two new collaborations with leading US research institutions
> There's nothing you can say to any leader, politician, or pleb that can shock them into action.

Humans weren't designed to feel terror at numbers.

Most leaders, politicians and plebs have thus far experienced the disaster as nice winters and slightly more news about tornados in tornado-prone places.

You'll find people taking action only when the sky is falling (i.e. when it's too late to take action).
I think this adaptability is a feature, not a bug. I don't see any downside to this adaptation.
Exactly. The whole thing is a gigantic failure of systems engineering, and if they made this big an error there, what error similar errors are lurking in their other planes? Then, to make matters worse, their response to the problem showed that they simply cannot be trusted.
It seems like poor, clickbaity reporting by WSJ

"Recently, a Wall Street Journal reporter proceeded with an article accusing Google of scraping lyrics from Genius and placing them in Google’s search results, despite clear responses from both LyricFind and Google that this was not the case. To address the inaccuracies in the initial article and the reporting that followed, we would like to correct the record in this matter."

https://lyricfind.com/index.php?id=316
Could Magic Mushrooms Ever Replace Current Antidepressants?
If we hadn't stopped building nuclear in the 80s and had merely kept up the pace, we'd be 50% nuclear (instead of 20%) today. If we had continued the accelerating pace, we'd be 100% nuclear. Today. Not in 2050, today. Compare to solar, which only recently broke the 1% mark.

Nuclear has gone from very cost-competitive (5c/kWh) to not at all cost-competitive (alternatively: "financially risky," often shortened to "risky" in a disingenuous attempt to imply something else) because we gave NIMBYs and self-styled environmentalists a free pass to introduce arbitrary delays into the construction process, and they did, and it was very effective at raising the price / financial risk. That is what people mean when they say that we decided to stop building nuclear.
Google creates performance test for ad blocking Chrome extensions
The left has no issue with building more supply. The issue they tend to have is when housing is commodified - the new units being built are for maximizing private profit, not number of people housed. (The former tends to lead to the breakup of established communities as they get priced out of their longtime homes). Lefties I know are incredibly excited about the prospect of massive construction projects to build more public and social housing.
> just with more focus on social factors than on high profits

Which is basically a political issue, because they will say "some people are more equal than others". Personally, I prefer naked capitalism over this "you need to know somebody in the party to get a good flat"-stuff.