skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The US still has 19 of the world's top 20 universities"

Nope.

"and 40x of the top 50."

Nope.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...

But nice try.
They love it until they loose. It's same with the casino.
How much should you pay remote employees?
I'm currently building a video course hosting platform with Elixir / Phoenix and all I can really say is this has been the nicest tech stack I've ever used in 20 years of web development.

IMO it really does feel like you get the best of everything (developer productivity, developer happiness, great language for creating maintainable code, OTP and the BEAM bring a lot to the table, it's memory efficient, tracing code without a ton of experience is very doable, it's fast as balls and Phoenix channels / LiveView is a great abstraction on websockets). I find myself fist pumping all over the place as I make progress towards this app while learning as I go.

I don't think I've liked a technology this much ever and I'm honestly surprised it's not already more popular than it already is. I've been around for the release of a lot of major frameworks and technologies (Rails / Django, Node, Go, etc.). Nothing has impressed me this much. It truly feels like it's a zero compromise environment to write code in and I hope I can still be using it in 10+ years.
separate discussion now at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356859
LASER ART and CRISPR Eliminate HIV-1 in a Subset of Infected Humanized Mice
Any reliable, device-agnostic way to upgrade the kernel only, without fiddling with dd?

Being completely up to date always feels better :)
Maybe it's my limited experience, but it always seemed to me that the people that shop at walmart genuinely enjoy the idea of shopping at walmart (going to the physical store to get a good deal on a product) and aren't the type to buy walmart products online.

Their products aren't even that good, surely more of them aren't going to hold up to online competition either.

I also never got the feeling that walmart shoppers are "i need same day delivery" types. they're in it for the bargains. You tell them an option is going to be slightly cheaper, they'll go for it.

I feel like they should keep the focus on their brick and mortar stores and forget about trying to compete with amazon.
For people asking about the user interface of OpenWrt. I think it is very well dun. I get a long with it just fine and I am blind and have to use a screen reader. A11y in Luci is grate. All the pages make sence to most people you do not have to be a networking expert.
>How to minimize the Tragedy of the commons effect? Where countries don't want to impact their economic growth because other countries won't impose such taxes, therefore some production will move there.

This was the point of the Paris Agreement.
I beg to differ.

Alice wants to send $1 to Bob via Bitcoin.

Alice needs some Bitcoin to do so.

Hoddler sells some Bitcoin to Alice for $1.01

Alice sends that to Bob.

Now Bob wants to change it to $.

Hoddler buys back for $1

Hoddler has a return on his investment.
ECMAScript 2019 and Beyond
Windows as merely a GUI on top of a Linux kernel
> Most people bought during the peak, that's why it was a peak.

There is no cure for jumping in with your emotions and money into markets.

How is it any different from buying stocks at its peak? If you bought SPY during 2008 peak bubble, you had to wait for 6-7 years to even break even!
Foreign Trademarks, Legal Feuds and Fake News: Supreme vs. Supreme Italia
Here's a nice USGS predictive graph of earthquake 6.7+ probability for California from 10 years ago, posted on HN a few years ago:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3027/fs2008-3027.pdf
I think the term you're looking for is "liquefaction map" - I only know this term because we're exposed to the risk here in Charleston, S.C.: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/4/15/18311670/earthquake-map-cali...
im from europe and never seen wallmart in my life, but i wonder why are people commenting on POS system ? how is this related to your experience as a customer ? Do you mean POS system when doing self-checkout or something else? i'd be curious to know what you mean by that or by "no large store with any passable POS in brazil" ? thank you.
The key phrase of the article:

“Without freeing up the billions of hectares we use to produce meat and milk, this ambition is not realisable,”

This is the polar opposite of what is happening at the moment. In particular: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/02/americas/amazon-brazil-bo...
There's been studies showing the rate of sequestration increases as the tree gets older. So there's a disadvantage when young.

We should find a way to discourage cutting mature forest and rainforest as well as planting new.
And now, IMHO, it is great because of its Fastest mode - it is really fast and at the same time compresses quite well.
Ah Trona. Not much out there to be honest. Here's what the view from Trona Pinnacles looks like: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LrML8TsBbZoW79t1A
That is the superficial thinking but unfortunately it is not true. First when they cut trees, they do not haul in the branches and the leaves. There is no money in that. The branches and the leaves are all cut out and left in place with just the main trunk being hauled to the sawmill. The branches and the leaves then dry out and rot releasing their carbon. This means that big part of the trees mass (probably at least 50%) does not get its carbon sequestered. (For a similar reason freshly logged forests are a much bigger fire danger than forests that have not been logged at all).

Secondly unfortunately, in general loggers mostly do not regrow the areas they cut down. Although they do talk about regrowing whenever they are talking to the media, in reality the areas regrown are far less than the areas cut down and thus the earth is losing a lot of tree cover every year.
Modern entry level cars are still modern cars and they are very different from 50 year old cars.
Every asset that produces an Income or has a possibility of producing income in the future is an investment. Everything else is speculation.

Buying a commercial property and renting it out is an investment. Buying a house in the hope of selling it for more in the future is not investment.

Same goes for Gold, Bitcoin, momentum trading in stocks in not investment. Buying a stock that does not pay dividend but is a real business that produces something is an investment.
Gold is almost worthless but people just don't want to accept that because governments still use it as a form of currency.

Credit rating agencies are using gold reserves(among other things) so this could be a reason
You left out “useful.”
It was not new to say that war was destructive. Angell's central thesis was that war was so destructive that nobody would dare start one, or if they did, that it would end quickly. That thesis was subsequently proven wrong multiple times.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x762zkd - mirror for those of us living in countries unworthy of watching this documentary on youtube.
No mate you need to flash a new build to get a new kernel.
So do cryptocurrencies acquire their value through market demand. For example, XRP is the cheapest and fastest way of sending money between the EU and China. Standard wire payment would not arrive before Monday the earliest, but XRP is there in seconds for a fraction of a cent.

In military, even a pack of cigarettes functions well as a currency. It does not need to be government-backed. It needs some kind of useful property to ensure demand.
The Future of Websites: Headless CMSs
Gokrazy: a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances
You're right of course. I've assumed the stuff would necessarily be crystalline (and would have to be to have such longevity). The word 'glass' here being used for easier digestion by the public. (See my longer post for more details.)
It comes down to inventory (volume and quality) and supply path (how easy is it to buy). There's a trade off there as buyers will put in more work if it's highend buys (like NYT homepage takeovers) but a normal site probably need around 10M clean (no bots, not paid traffic) impressions per/month to make it worthwhile at this point, so that there's enough fill to offset separate discussions for your supply.

If you have that volume, then the first step is to create private marketplace deals (with deal ids) and negotiate with all the big agencies and trading desks. It's mostly about getting the right intros and meetings but is good outcomes for both sides and is easy to maintain.

Privacy-friendly is a whole different game though and the industry is not ready. Everyone is still focused on cookies even though we're rapidly getting to 50% of impressions not having them at all (or having no persistent ones). One option is running your own adserver (several that you can buy on the market) to control the endpoints (reduce adblocking and cookie loss) but that doesn't really affect the bid requests and creatives as you say. It's really just fixing the final layer and it's also a lot of work for most pub dev teams. Hard for anyone but big sites that can dedicate enough resources to a self-serve system and back it up with a sales team.

The long-term solution is working with and upgrading RTB to handle privacy compliance. This is a new project that my team has started called Privolta [1] which is a privacy-first ad server and SSP that removes all PII and identifying marks in a bid request while still allowing buyers to maintain frequency caps and aggregated targeting. The biggest challenges are in working with DSPs to clear a supply path and also monitoring and modifying creatives safely so no tracking data is collected while the ad is rendered. Happy to discuss more if you're interested, let me know.

1. https://www.privolta.com/
It depends. You could, for example, make high carbon taxes while reducing income taxes or dividending the money back to people. This would let you have more of a carbon blocking effect while keeping government revenues steady.

If you use the money for a specific purpose, then you either need low carbon taxes to avoid radically altering the government’s role in the economy, or you are making a large bet that the government will spend the money well.

Having a large, long run carbon tax will do much to encourage the market to develop alternatives.
How about not buying so much crap in the first place? Make an app that uses AI to predict how many times you’ll use the item you’re considering purchase of. We all have apparel, tools, gadgets, exercise equipment etc that we purchased without adequate consideration. With my proposed app, problem solved!
Going from zero musical ability and knowledge of music theory to composing and playing jazz, classical and hymn. I've given myself a year to do it and documenting my progress every day: https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/about
When I discovered ReactOS, I was passionate about it, I always downloaded the latest version available in order to test it in VirtualBox. But then, I noticed that the project was evolving so slowly, that it could never catch up his delay from Windows.
I recently started running into performance issues on OpenWRT 15.05. I found out that the latest kernels have lots of important optimizations, including "software offloading" and - if your hardware is supported - "hardware offloading". I updated the software and found that it instantly sped up by a large margin, then updated to the latest Git snapshot and managed to NAT at 600mbps at my - rather old - router. So, my suggestion is:

If you had network performance problems before, DO UPDATE. You might be surprised at how much faster it can get. In my case it was doubled.
What’s the complexity you’re thinking of? In my experience, GraphQL is so much simpler than REST. There’s a whole category of thinking you don’t have to engage in (is this POST? PUT?). And to start I wouldn’t migrate from REST. I’d wrap a REST service with GraphQL and take it from there.
The climate crisis affects us all, on the entire planet, and yet we artificially divide the world and allow people to watch the documentary only if they are in a certain rather arbitrary "region".

That is ironic and sad on so many levels.
Exactly. I tend to phrase this as “BTC has no fundamentals.” Stocks go up because profits go up along with GDP (this is the reason non-dividend paying stocks are also investments). None of this applies to BTC.
I think the key is to be friendly and not judge people and not come across as a fanatic. And be patient - don't expect any immediate results, lifestyle changes don't happen overnight. It may be important to leave emotions out of this, though I am not sure about that.

Reflecting on my own experience, I don't remember anyone telling me explicitly what I should do with my lifestyle, but I did meet several people who were talking about climate change and their own personal choices. The discussions were always calm and intelligent. In hindsight I can tell those conversations were a contributing factor in triggering my own lifestyle changes. But it took years.

Bringing up the latest climate news piece could be a good entry point for a conversation. Before I joined my current project team I'm quite sure they never talked about climate. Now we regularly discuss it during lunch breaks.
A bit expensive. Around 100 euros higher than Linksys. I think I will wait for a barebones with pfsense. I miss Freebsd.
When people have been asking nicely for years, it’s been debated back and forth for literally half a decade, what purpose exactly is there to another polite “oh excuse me could we have some basic security like existed 20 years ago?”.

Adding features without any apparent care for security is negligent. How many people are using Redis over an unencrypted channel? How much potential is there for that to leak sensitive data?
Mostly. The limitation is largely based on device storage: my small modem (64 MB RAM, 8 MB Flash) has only a ~5 MB /overlay partition, which is rapidly filled (as I've discovered).

On a device with more nonvolatile storage, you can run more opkg updates and installs.

Alternatively, build and install your own images, if that's your thing. I've tried this, unsuccessfully to date.
you mean China?
Using a moved-from object in C++ doesn't produce any warnings because it isn't an invalid operation. The standard library types make very limited guarantees about the state of moved from objects (generally just that it remains valid to assign to them and that the object's invariants still hold), but even then it's valid to reuse them as long as you first do something that ensures they're in a known state.
I've been wanting something like this. You have my $.
I disagree so much about the daily 1on1s.

You don’t need to pull people from their desk. Just walk around the room and if nothing has changed you will have the following conversation.

CTO: Hey, what’s up?

Developer: Nothing much, still working on X feature. It’s going okay.

CTO: Cool, thanks a lot.

It wastes no time at all. Except that quite a lot of the time one of two things can have occurred:

1) The developer is stuck on something but they don’t want to ask because most people would rather struggle for a while first. By asking “What’s up” they will usually volunteer this without it sounding like they need to ask for help and then you can discuss it and usually resolve it or know who they should talk to to resolve it.

2) The developer has gotten distracted by something that seems important to them. If it’s actually important then it’s much better that you know about it rather than not know, and if it’s not then it’s much better that you guide them back to working on what is important before they waste too much time.

Seriously, I have gone through periods of doing and not doing this, and the whole organisation moves so much quicker when doing it.

Also, if you have to tell everyone something, you will find that telling every single person individually works so much better than telling everyone that thing as a group.

When you tell a group of people something nobody in the group will actually hear and understand it. One on one they will ask you a question if they don’t understand but in a group they almost never will. So if there is anything to tell people just walk around and tell each person one by one during this daily process.

Zero “Meetings”, daily 1on1s is what it’s all about.
Oh yes.

Plus you need to be built like a monkey. When the pedals are the right distance you can't reach the steering wheel. And when the steering wheel is close enough, your knees are pointing up at either side of the steering column.

Glorious. Just glorious :)
That means if a particular action is a crime under multiple articles, the most serious one is chosen. Separately committed crimes are different.
Why do you cut of the second part of this sentence?

“Restoring trees at [low] density is not mutually exclusive with grazing. In fact many studies suggest sheep and cattle do better if there are a few trees in the field.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law
I quit my job last month to work full time on (what I think is) an under-explored area of climate change: how institutional investors block shareholder proposals calling for firms to adopt more climate-friendly policies.

I have just published the first bit of research with data on how 500+ funds from the big 3 fund managers voted on climate change-related proposals in 2018: https://voting.greengovernance.org . Later this year, I'm planning to launch a "governance-first" ETF that gives investors the same exposure as other funds but is much more aggressive in fighting climate change.

I'd love any feedback! Feel free to email me at <hn-username>@greengovernance.org
Any article which talks about Bitcoin as an investment without mentioning (at least in passing) the currently unregulated exchanges and the role of Tether in the price, is missing a large part of the picture.

The current set of exchanges which are setting the price are totally unregulated banks (effectively) and with Tether (a "stablecoin" that isn't 1:1 backed and which has been rapidly inflating it's supply) there are significant concerns about how much of the price is really reflective of demand.
In addition to the other responses here, the US government (through FDIC) guarantees that you won't lose your money in a bank account if something bad happens to the bank. That's a lot more important than most people give credit for.
You left out transaction fees. Factor that in, and transferring directly via USD is simpler, more secure (if not technically, then via insurance), and probably cheaper.
I love 4-day work week. Have been working 4 days or less for many years now, making my colleagues jealous. It's great. Never going back to 5 days. Never.
In addition to the fact that a computer can create a photograph that is exceedingly realistic with exceedingly little effort, releasing nude photographs of anyone without their consent—fake or not—is a terrible thing to do to another person.

Your youth makes your actions forgivable, but not acceptable.
This is inaccurate. Bitcoin could handle many, many more transactions per second than it currently does with less risk and technical complexity than has been introduced since we hit the blocksize limit in 2017. There's a lot of money making sure it does not get bigger. Instead it's being rate limited with high fees and limited throughput to force transactions onto "layer 2" systems that allow 3rd party companies (ironically acting like banks) to extract fees. This is what caused most of the original Bitcoin community to fork off to Bitcoin Cash, which has improved upon the original code base and proven Bitcoin can handle far more transactions per second.
I've found it reduces complexity in your app code (at least on the front end). You basically have no or extremely minimal data fetching logic where as with REST you often find yourself making more requests in response to other requests. I.e to traverse relations. GQL Gives you that for free.

Also the tooling is next level . GraphIql alone is miles ahead of any REST tooling offerings. Also, typescript generation. Truly improved my workflow.
I don’t think your second paragraph is quite right. Rational actors wouldn’t deliberately start such a war. But each act involved in starting it might be rational, while producing a profoundly irrational result.

I think WWI illustrates this well. Nobody set out to start a continent-wide war that would last for years. Nobody in charge of things was particularly crazy. Each act and response as the war kicked off was the sensible thing to do.

WWII is definitely showing off the opposite. Crazy person decides to conquer everything in sight, is eventually stopped.
Better to start now with some rough combination of redistribution to help the most vulnerable (in society, and to climate impacts), the poorest etc, and also projects to manage and reduce - forestry planting, clean energy, insulating houses not at risk of floods etc.

Then once it's in and working start researching better and more effective ways to use it. I don't think we have the luxury to hang around any more.
Furthermore, if a big quake happens, insurance companies are going to go broke paying out claims. Homeowners are going to be at the back of the line meaning most of them aren't going to see a dime.
It depends on your backend architecture. We migrated a microservices (Go) architecture to GraphQL and it gets very complex with a lot of boilerplate. Perhaps part of that is GraphQL's and its supporting libraries' infancy, but supporting the ability to ~infinitely nest objects in a microservices architecture at scale makes every field addition feel like building a gigafactory.

On the plus side GraphQL is very simple and adaptable for frontends. It just comes at the cost of moving so much complexity to the backend.
I was unaware of that section of Facebook's settings, so thank you for the tip!

Looking through it, I am far less concerned with what Facebook knows about me, but I am not a daily user of the platform, and so it is probably understandable why their "Interests" as flagged are so generic (and also some are just wrong).
https://www.snapnews.win - a new way to binge on latest Hacker news stories.

This was my weekend project but I'm still working on it in my spare time.

The concept is simple:
All news stories have a ticking timer. After it expires the news story is gone forever. There is also a clear now button at the bottom that destroys all the stories on the screen if you want to binge even faster.

Once the story goes away, it's gone forever. You will never see it again! So it's like the HN homepage that never shows you the same story twice.

Made with Vuejs and hosted on Aws lambda (serverless)

There aren't many options because I just uploaded the first version and everything is still pretty rough. It's just a concept site I made for my own amusement :)
Great language and importing other technologies though NiF to integrate c and rust (wrapping c or not) with Elixir. My old company build many systems on it and hope another will in the future.
My mother said her 1958 cookbook she got as a wedding gift suggested that 'budget conscious' (meaning poor) housewives could consider cheaper types of meat like salmon.

My ex's family if I can tell were immediately descended from impoverished sharecroppers. Grandma picked tobacco when she was a little girl. Her family when they had money ate badly cooked steak a couple of times a week. Definitely a class thing. My family being pretty much solidly middle class and from California that sort of thing just wasn't.
And HN is one of the few places where people know the MSR alternative, which barely needs water compared to LWR/HWR. There's still the issue of the final investment stretch before making it a battle-tested technology, but what's that compared to the externalities of coal/oil, or even wind, with its also high ecological impact?

Radiation is not a strawman if it's what preventing the technology from taking off due to pop fear.