skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of solid-state theory of life's origin, described by Robert Becker in his "Body Electric" book.

It proposes that life came from semiconducting crystals (various rocks and sediments in the ocean of hot primordial soup) affected by electrical discharges from ionosphere, and that right-hand chirality of isomers was influenced by Earth's magnetic field in Precambrea era.
Are you sure that not having children or killing yourself actually reduces long term global carbon emissions? Because the second order effects start to get odd, here.

Imagine that all the people who believed in climate change - globally - committed suicide in some appropriately low-carbon manner. Everyone remaining does not believe in climate change. How long does it take the population to bounce back, and what sort of global warming mitigation do you think happens? Does the world in this thought experiment end up emitting less carbon?

Individual actions might have next to no effect, but institutional actions will. Giving up your opportunity to influence those institutional actions (whether through your own efforts or those of your children) is not beneficial to the environment. Of course, this calculus is different for the average person. But if you're the sort of person who's contemplating suicide to help the environment, you're exactly the sort of person that the world needs to not commit suicide.
Add 'em to the pile here!
Science prodigy turned VC on why we need to treat ageing as a disease
You make a really great point, and I myself have been victim of losing a tech job that brought me two-thousand miles from home. Thankfully my company gave me a large enough severance to move myself and my belongings back to my home state.
More importantly, it rewards externalizing costs. Such as to climate, future and others.
Cool. Now everyone can go back to cigarettes.
Ubuntu Confirms It’s Dropping All 32-Bit Support Going Forward
Think about it some more. As with many laws, this likely comes from a corporation trying to outlaw its competitors. As the article states, normal cigarettes will still be available. Does that seem reasonable, given the ostensible reason for this ban?
When you type www.google.com into a web browser they strangle a puppy.
"Node failures" have been handled much more elegantly than k8s's simple "kill and rebuild" approach via live migration for at least a dozen years. [0] Wikipedia lists 15 hypervisors that support it. [1]

If you're interested, Red Hat has a very thorough guide on how to achieve this with free and open-source software. While you have to run VMs rather than containers, it's much more robust. [2] There are proprietary options too.

And then, there's also the good old fallback method that k8s uses: just divert traffic to healthy nodes and fire up a replacement. There are many frameworks for that simple model, and there's no reason to pretend that it's done exclusively with handcrafted "buggy shell scripts", nor to pretend that "buggy shell scripts" are inherently worse than "incorrect YAML configs that confused k8s and killed everything in our cluster" (see OP for a compendium of such incidents).

[0; PDF] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/nsdi05/tech/full_papers/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_migration

[2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
How much noise should you accept in your home?
> You could presumably look at using a small asteroid to provide the bulk of the "cycler", offering plenty of shielding for the trip, you'd only have to get it into position once - far less fuel requirement.

Or maybe even something like, as some have suggested (not me!), Phobos:

http://enterprisemission.com/Phobos.html

Warning: it's kind of out there. At the very least, it's perhaps interesting as speculative sci-fi.
Or walk more and use public transport, being more efficient still than even a bicycle.

And finally, eat less, especially meat and highly processed foods. It's not free neither for you, not for the environment.
Protecting World Leaders Against Deep Fakes (2019) [pdf]
As in, this system would provide Facebook with itemized information?
I’d say most “gun nuts” at least know what they are. They’re not that obscure.
You can swap out the entire thing if you want and do a reflash. It's not a beginner job but it's also not impossible, or illegal (if it still meets emissions, but that's on you)
Oh yeah, dude, I forgot we could just use one million dollars to stop North Korea from detonating a nuclear device. Absolute genius. Don't know why we didn't think of this one. Good one, mate.
> Better to use UTC and have their tools translate at display time

FTFY
Sources: Samsung will launch the Note 10 on Aug 7 at an Unpacked event in NYC
This is from 2014. Does anyone know if there's been any advances since then on what is discussed here?
Reminds me of: http://messymatters.com/tagtime/

Which is a pretty well formed solution in this vein, unfortunately written in Perl.
So first off Facebook would have to transgress the barrier in place that they say they're erecting between the user's Calibra account and the user's FB or WhatsApp or Insta account – simultaneously Facebook would have to tag its users as holding sets of beliefs that were antithetical to some set of ideal beliefs that would be encoded digitally somewhere inside Facebook's algorithms. To do this without human intervention would be a supreme AI task, to do it without human arbitration would be to blindly trust an algorithm, to do it at all would be an act of tyrannical censorship.

We here at Facebook hope that answers your question.
Have you ever had Lustucru ? They're pretty good
This is the talk in 2016 they referenced
https://youtu.be/33bouyeSh-w
It's a little cringy, but gives you an idea of who they were dealing with.

The sentencing is harsh to say the least.
https://youtu.be/k2F_7B_-FI4
Let Zion Williamson Choose Where He Wants to Play Next Year
As far as I'm aware Musk hasn't faced a jury?
Go isn't functional because if it was, it wouldn't be Go; it'd be Haskell, ML or Ocaml. Google didn't want to make a clone of Ocaml or the like; they wanted something different. Hence, Go.
Cora Ball
That could be. Although I'm not familiar with any languages that are fast and have a GC and easy C interop. At least none of the major VM languages or (non-embedded) scripting languages. Maybe D or some other similarly non-mainstream language.
I have the same rule. If I’m expected to come in on the weekend, my manager had better be there. If it’s important enough to ask me to sacrifice my personal time, then it had better be important enough for him to be there too.

Unless it’s because I screwed up and need to fix something post haste. In which case, he won’t have to ask me at all.
What does you being white or male or around 40 have to do this article?

The article says that employees are least likely to answer questions about gender or sexual orientation. Project Include's case studies[1] suggest that the surveys include questions about religion, marriage, children, disabled family members, and other things people could also hide. Why don't they?

[1] https://projectinclude.org/case_studies/
A lot is written about the algorithms and search results from Google but I haven’t seen much on crawling and indexing. I imagine there are multiple teams in Google who help maintain the integrity and completeness of their indexes but would love to know more about it considering it might be the largest single repository of knowledge.
Maybe you don't realize this but there's a homelessness crisis happening right now, partially due to massive gentrification brought on by successful tech companies.

You shouldn't pretend that there aren't negative side-effects from the collection of success and wealth in Seattle, Portland and the Bay Area.

Decentralizing the workforce would help decentralize the problem.
Collective Interests vs. Individual Rights: Internment, Conscription, Abortion
Ask HN: Due to global warming, where would you move to or avoid?
I live on a Pacific island. I've been considering buying a house (instead of renting), but if I think about a timescale of more than 20 years, it seems like a poor investment, considering that it may be very uncomfortable to live here by then. Considering the climate changes, but also social and economic factors, where would you move, or where would you avoid (e.g. how I am considering avoiding living here long term)?
The New Hologram Dashboard
Thanks for the explanation; I hadn't heard that term before. :)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/dungeons-of-daggorath/9nbl...
To circumvent this, you could host something on your LAN using, for example, a Raspberry Pi. To get access from outside that network, you could use some sort of VPN/proxy/tunneling, or you could host another instance with a hosting provider and sync the two.
> some function names do not start with a verb

defun is actually a complete sentence, contracted, as others have pointed out. Defining a function uses a noun-like keyword in some languages. For instance in, oh, Awk, the function keyword is used.

There is a def prefix convention in Lisp, as well as a define- one: defmacro, defclass, defconstant, ... define-symbol-macro, define-setf-expansion. The def-s are contracted words with no dashes; the define-s are whole words joined by dashes. All the macros named this way have a some global defining effect, and are mainly used used as top-level forms: if you see one nested in code, then that's a red flag.

Functions are often named verbs when they are not actually functions, but procedures: subroutines that have a side effect: print, put_pixel, sort, connect, ...

Functions that calculate something from their arguments and return a value are often not named after verbs, but rather nouns.

Even if you aren't familiar with functional programming, you probably know some pure functions in some languages. For instance, arithmetic ones: sin, sqrt, atan. Or how about accessors that retrieve the property or state of an object: length, position, temperature. All these are nouns.

(Sometimes pure functions are verbed, after the process that they perform to calculate the return value, such as join, catenate. sort and reverse could be names pure functions that returns a sorted sequence, though reverse is also a noun (function that returns the reverse of its input)).

Blind adherence to rules like "functions must start with verbs" is a symptom of cargo cult programming.
Your garden variety millionaire doesn't have enough influence to manipulate a well-organized homeowner's association. Averting nuclear holocaust is well outside their capabilities. The only way they could amass enough influence would be by grouping up with like-minded people and fighting for a common cause, but that's just called politics, and there are indeed many, many millionaires in politics. I have not seen many people suggest that this is a good thing.
Building a Windows Form App with PowerShell in vs. Code
The incoming SAT score 25-75%tile range was 820-1030. Yikes.
I swapped out Horde for Roundcube as my default for customers (who didn't want/need groupware, those are M$ and Zimbra), much easier on the eyes. Just as functional IMO.
Testing to see if we get permabanned for using the term "slash-dotted"
It took me about 10 attempts to properly parse what the intended meaning was. Perhaps my English skills aren't that good.
How Does the Bias-Variance Trade Off Influence Your Machine Learning? By Swetha
Exactly right. Every tenth of a degree of warming averted is going to make a big difference to someone down the line.
This is cool, is there a guide to migrate from influxDB? Mostly interested in the cost savings.
That sounds more like a rural town, what kind of city only has a single employer? I grew up and lived in one of ~400,000 (there are 47 US cities over this size) people which is small for a city and there were many potential employers. Not as many as larger cities of course and many were on the more boutique side of the spectrum, but there were enough opportunities and the lower pay was a better deal when adjusted for cost of living.
State of the Web: Images
IBM better get their act together to make your (reseller) life easier.

I used to work with IBM big data analytical tool and honestly you should get a medal for closing sales on this garbage.
It would be nice for "subway cost control" to be part of that plan: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/new-york-infrastructu.... Subways are among the greenest possible transport modes and yet NYC hasn't built substantial new lines since 1940.

This is also the same city that provides copious free and heavily subsidized parking while banning or severely limited 30-pound, highly efficient electric vehicles: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/electric-scooters....

I wonder how we should interpret the city's stated desires versus its actual policies.
I lived in an apartment in London and couldn't hear my neighbours if I shut my windows. It was all steel and concrete, though, not the flimsy shit that passes for American new build.
If you have the money and technology to go, you’ll just hop to the next solar system
More local news coverage: https://wtop.com/search/?s=bethesda+tunnel+fire
This isn't a constructive comment. Elaborate why you dislike Google/Google Search, in a way that adds to the discussion. I think there are many valid reasons, and this isn't one.
In case anyone was curious, the keycaps on that TRS-80 are made of doubleshot-ABS in the DSA profile.
That brings back memories, I used PageMaker to make our high school yearbook in the 90s :)
And people who already work there.
I just mean that your funds at the bank can be seized without your assent for numerous reasons - civil judgements, asset forfeiture, etc., and given to someone else.
> If you are an Instagram user and you would like to see which ad categories the platform has assigned to you, go to the settings menu in the app, then follow this path: Security / Access Data / Ads / Ads Interest.

If the BBC wanted to be helpful, they could teach how to install uBlock Origin, instead of how to help corporate when their spying fails.
She has XY chromosomes and broken androgen receptors. Which is why her body didn't develop along masculine lines. I'm not sure anyone to say what testosterone levels mean in that context. Flit it around and say someone has a gene that makes their muscles hyper sensitive to testosterone, we gonna ferret them out and ban them[1]?

I only have two points.

One: Is I'd be really interested in seeing the rate of XY women in sports vs the general population. I'd put $5 that the difference isn't particularly significant. If it isn't than all these argument are superfluous.

Two: If you drilled down in to elite athletes DNA you'll certainly find that a whole bunch of them have rare genetic alleles or combinations of such. What are we going to do ban them too?

Three: (off by one error) Also sure the international Court of Arbitration for Sports ruled on this the same way the Warren Court ruled about what was erotica vs what was porn; whatever gives Justice Warren a guilty boner is porn. Same deal, the CAS judges think Caster Semenya is icky so they don't want her to compete.

[1] Likely Ans: No if they are 'men' yes if they are 'women'
Google 2018 Founders’ Letter
And the founder was a software engineer
Interesting point of view - it's certainly always a bit hard to find the right verbage that everyone can understand, but hopefully this discussion clarified things!
> a gesture so small in its generosity that it ends up being offensive. No bonus would have left me disappointed, but a $50 bonus would have made me angry.

This is basically how I felt about the Amazon employee discount program, which if I remember right was 10% off all purchases, capped at $100 / year.
I'm arguing the principle here, so for that purpose it might as well be a Scrooge McDuck vault.

Otherwise, you do have a point, a systematic bank failure would likely cause issues here as well. However, I highly doubt they'd be storing significant amounts of money as cash deposits in banks for the interest. There's better options, such as short-term treasury bonds.
> Future times record intent, which requires storing a datetime (sans any kind of time zone information) and location.

This assumes particular kind of intent, but not the only kind of intent future times might represent. Datetime + named time zone is often the actual intent (e.g., often for TV schedules), datetime + whatever the then-current legal time is at some particular location is, as you note, also often an intent, but it's not the only possible one. Note also that either of those may not be unique, depending on whether the named zone is offset specific or includes DST shifts, due to DST and other rarer sources of duplicate times in one zone or location , and the intent often is for a unique time, so you may actually need to store even more to capture intent.
We have a tool to migrate from Influx. https://docs.timescale.com/v1.3/tutorials/outflux
The cited article from Leung Kai Chi has other sections covering those points (in Chinese [1], translated as [2]):

> 8. Isn't there a limit to handing over certain crimes? Doesn't it mean that political prisoners cannot be handed over?

> The regulations say this, but there is something in the world called obituary. In order for the case to be established, the prosecution can sue for murder or rape. After the handover, before the official trial, there may be incidents such as "hiding the cat and dying" and "washing the face". For these situations, people in mainland China may know more than Hong Kong people.

> 9. Does the regulation mean that the process is checked by the court?

> The court can only examine the prima facie evidence provided by the local prosecution and will not consider whether the case is completely beyond reasonable doubt.

The whole article is worth a read (Chinese [1] and translated [2]).

[1]: https://medium.com/@leungkaichihk/%E5%8F%8D%E9%80%81%E4%B8%A...
[2]: https://pastebin.com/6JqR1EsR
She also says in the video that she's flying to New York, Hawaii, and New Zealand. Try doing that without oil.
What a stupid law. I feel sad for poor people in New York who will pay a lot more to heat their homes. All for a law that will not change the global climate at all. So sad.
he didn't testify
In-depth look at Postgres partitioning differences between v10 and v11
Accuracy of Canine Scent Detection of Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer in Blood Serum
An argument for the abolition of punishment in the West
I am using the same setup though with a lot of customization of pandoc

https://github.com/boazbk/tcs
Bitcoin isn't the only cryptocurrency, and many others have much lower fees
Have we done anything that we'd be able to detect from 12 ly?
We haven't done a formal price comparison, since it's actually a bit hard to compare apples to apples since the two databases are architected differently. Definitely something we should consider doing! Thanks for the idea.

Migration wise, I would use Outflux for batch migration and Telegraf to support a live migration (https://docs.timescale.com/v1.3/tutorials/outflux) and (https://docs.timescale.com/v1.3/tutorials/telegraf-output-pl...).
I've heard this change (the definite shift in desirability from suburbs and small towns to cities, which admittedly you seem to have somewhat blinkered out) attributed to the vast improvements in air quality / waste management / crime / public transport in cities, and that explanation seems reasonable to me.

Country living can be great, but your experience some number of years ago doesn't speak to the current data.
I'm surprised they're pushing this out so fast considering one of their planes crashed outside of Houston fairly recently.
I have infinitely more control over it compared with anything I might have with Libra, because that's zero. I can also:

- run for office

- build a career in monetary policy

- join a campaign

- start a non profit advocacy group

- lobby my representatives

These only have any effect (if they're even possible otherwise) because we're a democracy with elections. Can I personally change the supply of USD? No, but that's because that kind of change affects the entire world, and there should be a serious process around it. But my point is that there _is_ a process, rooted in (if imperfectly) the fundamental liberal democratic belief in humankind's right to self- governance.

Facebook has no such guarantees. It's a serious threat to those principles. There's a huge difference.
FaceBucks
I think this guy is partly being punished for being mentally ill or at least very atypical. What he did isn't normal behavior. And then there's the hoarding. From my armchair, it seems like some sort of obsessive condition. The sentencing seems terribly long for a genuine accident.
This is like a scrabble game where we're waiting for more companies that start with a consonant to hit a 1T valuation.
This is more common than you think. The CPU in your computer might have more good cores than you are allowed to use for example. You paid for 4 cores? You get 4 cores, but your chip might actually have 8 good cores, just locked because you didn't pay more.
I've been ingesting stock market trading data into MongoDB and using Metabase[1] to visualize it. It is essentially date, price, volume, ticker symbol, exchange. Around 400M documents so far.

Queries out of Metabase take upwards of 2-5 minutes to run even simple questions like:

Plot the average price of Apple for the last 5 days grouping by minute.

Would Timescale Cloud be a better replacement in terms of performance? Is there a nice GUI visualization platform like Metabase for it?

[1] https://metabase.com/
It's just a mixup in numbers - the number of 1/2 per 1000 is often thrown around (perhaps that's global.. not sure) and the 400/3M are the US numbers from the 50's (pre-vaccination).

The measles hits people harder if they are weak/malnourished. A recent outbreak in Madagascar (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/madagascar-measles-epidemic-1...) hit a 10/1000 rate (1200/115,000), which is x100 the US rate in the 50's.
I put this in another thread but I've been shouting it far and wide today.

I've lived in China and seen how this plays out. Facebook's new Libra Blockchain will be a centralized bank but way more dangerous.

It will allow for a worldwide social credit system. If Facebook decides to remove you for wrong speak or wrong think, your money and many services will be inaccessible.

Further, they have no mandate like the central bank does to increase employment. Their mandate is to make money for corporations. This will lead to global social unrest.

This will put some third-world countries in complete control by Facebook. I mean, whoever runs the currency, is the country. But in this case, it will be completely controlled, as it's also many of those countries main source of communication. Therefore, if Facebook's Libra is a countries main currency and social network, that country will be owned by Facebook.

Finally, the regulations on crypto and blockchain are still new. This is in Facebook's advantage as they can start lobbying to have these laws in their favor. They can argue for less transparency, as they are a bank, and this fits with their new privacy marketing message.

This is extremely subversive and Europe is already rightly pushing back. America will be next. On one hand, I love seeing the existing financial system panic when new technology comes out. On the other hand, under no circumstances will I accept a world where Facebook started the one world currency.
An alternative method is to add the timeline to your ad blocker so you don't see it any more, and only use the Messenger app on mobile!
For Saag’s employees, severance package could equal $50 or LESS per year of work
I’m assuming “multiple six figures” means more than 1 or 2, and yeah, certainly.
Do we have any indication from Facebook that they intend to use Libra to massively undercut Visa / Mastercard for merchant services? I mean in the developed economies.
Shadowrun is exactly what this reminded me of. We are careening towards that dystopia with zero brakes in sight.