skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so weird to come in with a defense of "this is no worse than this long list of horrible things other companies have done, and other horrible things this company has done before!"

I completely agree with you, this is no worse than many of those things.
From the GGP:

> NYC was crippled by Sandy, and that didn’t lead to any changes.

This is what I was referring to. Would the Democrats have implemented more hurricane protections?

I don't think either party has any sort of sane carbon-reducing policy. The Republicans are obviously insane, but the Democrats seem to be focused more on attacking politically charged targets than on actually getting things done. You say they've "attempted" action - I'd say they've implemented things that are more virtue signaling than effective. (plastic bag bans, straw bans... These are not the actions of someone who cares about the environment more than political point-scoring)
Maybe periodic fasting is also associated with heart disease.
That follows logically from the GP's comment.
In college they taught me that every line of code should do one thing and one thing only. So doing both a test and an assignment on one line would not be prefered over the first example(split over multiple lines).
I don't have a lot of experience with programming so for now I do what I was taught. :)
> Is it really high capital intensive? I make websites and i m not rich.

If you work in the industry and aren't familiar with concept yet, it's something that you would greatly benefit by reading up on. Capital intensity is about the RATIO of capital costs to operating costs. Compare the cost of developing a website with the cost of operating it. In general, the former are much higher than the latter--though there are some exceptions.

Actually, the total (absolute, not the ratio) cost is related to a third factor I didn't even list--constant or increasing returns to scale. This means that products can be VERY expensive to develop before an extra dollar of investment won't result in more than one additional dollar of profit. No surprise that there's a synergistic relationship here with capital intensity (very low per-unit costs). This isn't going to be super-applicable if you're building websites for small companies, but if you consider how much it would cost to develop a commercial operating system that was on par with what's currently out there (Android/iOS/Linux/MacOS/Windows/etc...) it would many millions on the low end to billions if you couldn't rely on open source.
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I thought/hoped it would be a Diplomacy judge.
I'd love to see simulations for Lloyds of London,where underwriters often insure each other or the the entire trail of who's responsible for what gets very tricky.
Thanks for checking that out. You are right of course.
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I don't find the range of temperatures of distilled water at sea level from freezing to boiling particularly useful for thinking about the weather. A more arbitrary scale like F works just as well maybe even better since 100F is too hot. However 0 as the temperature your seedlings will freeze is useful so C has that going for it.
> Requires nothing but Apache running, minimizes attack surface area

Shellshock comes to mind as a counter point.
I disagree.. And so does the book "Talent is Overrated". Did you know that Mozart's father was a world expert in... teaching music? Did you know Tiger Woods father would bounce a golf ball in front of Tiger when he was in a crib? Steph Curry's father was in the NBA; and there are videos of him hitting half court shots at 13 years old. The reason things like being technically good at music appear impossible; is because we either lack the proper language to describe physical mechanics (what is actually happening when Steph shoots a 3; What is actually happening when Jimi Hendrix hits a guitar string) or someone hasn't taken the time to make that knowledge widely accessible.

Having played guitar for more than 20 years (and recently having time to be able to play 4 hours a day) I've only just now broken past speed barriers and learning how to truly play the instrument. I've read and download HUNDREDS of books, seen many teachers, jammed with many people, watched so many videos; and maybe 1 or 2 books have hinted at what it really takes to play the guitar. I could easily explain it now that I know to anyone and have them at super speed within a year. I've heard the same story from others in regards to DJing, piano, producing and anything else. Unless the person has some obvious physical abnormality that allows them to do some skill; most people in normal physical shape can do what we would deem AMAZING things with the right teacher. Sure.. Maybe they won't develop PERFECT PITCH; but most of the greats didn't have that either.
I don't think you understand. Maybe this video would help enlighten you on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Bursty buffering perhaps? I haven't tried it myself.
It depends quite a bit on the company and the software they are running. I've worked at places that use open source for the majority of services they run on the servers specifically because they can both look at the source as an advanced form of debugging, and provide local patches to software until it's accepted upstream (or indefinitely if it's not accepted or too company specific).

A lot of patches for open source projects come from companies like this. Is there also a lot of working around buggy software? Yes. It's not always that way though, and if it's gotten to the point that you have devs for that software on staff, it really shouldn't be, because if those people who are financially motivated to care don't, who will?
Most famously post WWII GI bill provided mortgages to a lot of people without a collage degree. It helped them get a mortgage but they still has to pay the bills. It even still only ~5% of the population had a collage degree yet home ownership was common.

Prior to this people would often live with their parents or other other family members, before buying or building a home. Though this was far less common around cities.
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I just publicly launched my first product, ThinkTwice. This app is a fun and eye-opening way to explore the different ways the money you spend can impact our planet! I was inspired to make this after listening to a Beyond Meet exec talk about how companies should never guilt-trip their consumers, but as I walked out, my friend and I asked ourselves: why not?

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Isn’t modern PHP much faster though?
How do infrared cameras do with cold blooded animals?
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I did like this article a lot. I recently acquired asthma out of the blue and struggled a lot with asking people to accomodate. Need vs Request is especially hard. I’ve had breathing issues when we changed the office building but real estate said it’s too expensive to call in cleaners out of their usual once-a-year schedule, even when my manager chimed in. I was afraid to escalate past that because I didn’t want to be a hassle. As a result I had to suffer through it for 6 months before I changed teams and moved buildings. Looking back on it I should’ve made a statement and stuck with it because the 6 months of wheezing and subpar work because I was constantly suffering wasn’t worth it to me or my company.
I don't know if it's the same person, but someone working on Atlassian's cloud offerings said he reported this issue (along with a working patch) to Postgres and they declined it. Sounds like what they do for cloud services is run a lot of Postgres instances where the DB data is on a big NFS, and this bug was a bigger problem due to how NFS works. But after patching the fsync handling in Postgres, they continued using Postgres-on-NFS with great success.

Unfortunately I can't find the original comment, but I think it was on another HN story about Postgres+fsync.

Edit: I found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19126601 and I may or may not have hallucinated the part about Atlassian.
Have you built an API based business before?
It doesn't take much to distort the real estate market.
Agreed, the average user simply does not care about privacy to that degree. FaceApp is yet another example. On the bright side, most of the tools we need to "cover up" are available to us. You can't ask for more than freedom of choice, I suppose.
In all fields there is a minority who are not very good at what they do. I think, though, that in programming that minority might actually be a majority. The thing is, if you are a poor plumber who causes floods in peoples houses you are not going to be in business for a very long time. In programming there seems no such discipline because it actually takes somebody good at programming to perceive the difference between good and bad programming. And if the programming project is a disaster right now the cause of this might be bad decisions made 5 years ago and the people who made them are already gone thereby shielding themselves from the consequences of their actions. In a healthy programming department there should certainly be a small influx of new people and new ideas but also the stability of people who see the project as their personal responsibility.
Armchair economist here and more familiar with the situation in Europe. The US has the highest interest rates among all developed economies (since December last year) so I assume that is starting to feel into the housing markets.

The FED seems ready to drop rates at the first signs of economic bad news and consensus is that it will this year. Party will go on until inflation skyrockets, no idea when though but I doubt it's too soon. (not before elections)
To be fair, there are a LOT more companies today giving free compute resources on their sites :-)
For the Buddhist texts, how could they own the rights to works written hundreds of years ago? They're simply digitizing the work, no translation. Here's an example:
https://archive.org/details/bdrc-W1FPL194/page/n7
Unfortunately, no... But the french used by Grothendieck is
surprisingly simple : it should not be too much of a challenge
with Google translate, a couple of months and some courage.
What's the purpose of this submission though?
On the contrary, decades of experiments violating Bell's inequality have shown that the statement "Physics is real whether we observe it or not" can only be true if we abandon locality. Non-local interpretations of QM, such as Bohmian mechanics, are however incompatible with the Standard Model which is by far the most accurately tested theory in physics.
> On the other hand, what if you generate storage files with random names and you have a collision? You just lost someone’s data! “This probably won’t happen” is not a strategy for writing reliable code.

If the entropy is high enough, and the likelihood of collision low enough, then this is a very useful tool for certain situations, particularly distributed systems. I suppose IPFS (and even Ethereum) was written by "poor programmers"?
Another skill: making a website readable on mobile.
The example is interesting.

if isDelivered and isNotified:
isDone = True
else:
isDone = false;

is not the same code as

isDone = isDelivered and isNotified

in ruby, python, js (and more?).

[edit: while I'm nitpicking... breaking webpage text selection is also a clear sign of poor programming]

[Edit2: more unsubstantiated "absolute truth" from OP]:

Using sleep(), cron jobs [...] is almost always wrong.

false. Any hw related code (most of the code humanity had created?) relies on such timing considerations.

Another common mistake I see is generating a random file or identifier and hoping that collisions will never happen

false. This is a 100% valid approach, the odds of uuid collision are 0 to any practical consideration.
I doubt it. The impact of foreign investment is overblown. The majority of buyers are domestic.
I recommend that you read the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Specifically "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." and "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

In general, if a story is in the front page it means that hackers found it interesting, so it can hardly be off-topic. But if you still think it's inappropriate for this forum, flag it rather than commenting.

I can speculate that this story is found interesting because many people in tech live in areas like San Francisco where rent prices are a hot topic. Therefore stories about how these kinds of places deal with the problem are relevant.
What would be the main benefits of today's serverless against classic CGI? I can think of auto scaling, but I'm not sure it wasn't possible (or even used?) in the past.
Europe got a really bad wrap in this picture. My guess is that it's the result of a bad automatic vectorization of a raster picture.

But I think that a missing NZ would stick out like a sore thumb to New Zealanders. Just like the Fennoscandian errors you mentioned sticks out to a Fennoscandian like me. It's intentional; no doubt.
A lot of people (myself included) would say that the Paris Agreement gave up too much for too little. If everyone followed the limits there, the climate would still be fucked - and those limits were far more restrictive for countries like the US than the developing world. And while it might be reasonable to say that it's not fair to ask for those countries to give up their chance of getting out of poverty, it still leaves the problem. I can accept giving up things to save the climate. I, and many others, can't accept giving up things to see the world go to hell anyways.
A lot of us are hopeful it will happen as that’s when we will buy so ️

Some will win some will lose and I have little sympathy for those who entered the market in the last 5 years expecting it to keep increasing as it has.
"meta-analysis of currently available epidemiological studies"

A.k.a., not capable of determining causality. May be a bit closer to a Ouija board than a randomized controlled trial.

This conforms to my bias as I'm a breakfast person; it's my largest meal of the day. But this kind of evidence is not a good basis on which to change your behavior. It's done because the data for it is available, not because it's probative. Like looking for your keys under the streetlight because that's where the light is.
Yeah, first I heard breakfast was good for you, so I always ate breakfast, then I read it’s better not to eat breakfast because of some fasting effects, so I stopped eating breakfast. Now this article says it’s related to heart disease.

I give up on these food studies; the findings never seem to be consistent. I think I’m just going to eat whenever I’m hungry (which isn’t that often).
Ahh then I’m still a novice programmer at this stage and overestimated something I don’t even have the math to be able to do.

And nope, I wouldn’t know where to start to do anything in 3D graphics. But I can throw together a microservice API
Anecdata: My brother is a small-C conservative who is very worried about Corbyn precisely because he is expecting Corbyn to introduce rent controls. However, he also recently said, and I quote: “The conservatives cannot be trusted with the economy“. Given the current clown-car-on-fire-in-a-dumpster that is British politics right now, I would give 50% odds of the next election happening within one year and equally divided odds the largest party after that election being Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, or Brexit Party.

Not that this contradicts anything you’ve just said.
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It's not simple even for the developer to use the video tag if you want a thing that works.
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Assuming those variables are all booleans why wouldn't it be?
Anyone else noticed that the page is constantly doing some requests to log the users behavior, e.g., on scroll? Also some of these requests (always?) fail.

Was annoying as the page did some jumps on these requests and the icon indicated the loading activity. If you have to do - do it in the background.
One possibility is to require the user to explicitly set up an "app", to allow the user to specify the limits independentlyf or each one, to allow the user to put multiple domains into an app if they wish, and to allow the user to define multiple apps for a single domain in case they want to have separate sets of data to send in different cases.
US emits more per capita than any other country and China is actually on a path to enacting carbon pricing on what amounts to a significant chunk of global emissions.
There’s a lot to get right here. I wouldn’t call using a UUID or its equivalent a random name. It has random components - sure, but the format is intentionally structured to reduce collisions.
The idea is that the monetary base is being abused by the government for spending, which should show up in higher inflation and result in bonds dropping in price, however we have stubbornly low inflation, which if 21T was spent on undisclosed projects I would think is a little surprising none of that pushes inflation higher.
No, but I have heard some bad stuff from Martin & Co at work which matches your experience.

The only decent landlord I have had was a rich guy in Cambridge who marketed his properties (he also built them) through Savills (crazy fees though) and managed them himself, without an agent.

So I agree with you. Having middle-men tends to make things even worse.
Please take my bug report:

Dropping denormals is a huge mistake. This is easy to see if you draw out a number line for a very tiny floating-point format, for example with a 2-bit exponent and a 2-bit fraction. (do this on a sheet of graph paper) Without denormals, there is a huge gap surrounding zero.

Strangely, the infinities were kept. Treating these as NaN is far less harmful than dropping denormals. Treating -0.0 as 0.0 and never producing -0.0 would be less harmful. (the PDF didn't say what happens) Even treating NaN values as normal numbers is probably less harmful than screwing up the denormals.

IEEE floating point has lots of crazy stuff to annoy hardware vendors. Most of it isn't all that important, but denormals matter.
Magic... On tablet you can swipe through the scene.
People have been reworking old IP, neglecting or enforcing various rights, etc for years. I don't think it's some new trend game companies recently learned or that it affects how aggressive (or not) owners are that much. Old sources in particular are not all that valuable in many cases, beside historically.
It was more a critique of their marketing than their product.

It is an interesting perspective that adding routing and components makes it more than a new flavor. It still compiles to JS, and doesn't add new capabilities to the language, just simplifies how you get those functionalities to run.

Which again takes us back to my point... "Simplify your apps" sounds like a better marketing strategy than "Build complex apps."
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Bill McKibben’s “Eaarth” is a good one.
If you slave away at a game (or some other piece of code), over time the fruits of your labor will become worthless.
Which leaves them with selling subscriptions, so you still wouldn’t be able to read it.
I was wondering that myself. Looks like they can resolve...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wYxiffT7izY
It can be periodic but unbounded.
I've used applications that will specifically allocate (available memory * x) or similar because they or their plugins can't handle ENOMEM or the Windows equivalent, and they do not want to swap.
It has nothing to do with eurocrats but with the anal probes media companies insist to give any visitor.

And it’s a wrong usage of error 451 which will do harm to the concept of making censorship visible.

Plus it does not even work consistently, I can read the article after reloading.
I am not sure id the implications.

a, there is nothing there to be found

b, being opensource is not enough to find security related bugs and backdoors

c, ?
It's not worthless if it gets you paid
You shouldn't need Edge, Chrome, or Firefox to install each other. If you know the URL of the file you want to download, you could use curl or wget. (Of course, that won't work if you do not know the URL. But hopefully someone will tell you if you are unable to find it on your own computer.)
Thanks for sharing! I hope this will help new people understanding IPFS all its components
Here's what all the browsers do (Firefox, Google and Safari all use Google's Safe Browsing service).

1. The truncated hash is checked against local database.

2. If there's a hit, send the truncated hash to Google, and receive a list of full hashes for the truncated hashes.

3. Check if the full hash is in that list. If so, warn.

I'm not certain that the hash is truncated enough, but the general idea is a pretty straightforward trade-off between the amount of information Google needs and the amount of information your computer needs.
I am pretty sure we reached this point quite a few years ago. From what I know, most people learning web programming nowadays start with Rails, Express JS or whatever framework of the day they have been recommended, and use the integrated HTTP server for development, I would assume, often without even really worrying about what is actually happening. CGI scripts are definitely not on the list of things to learn there.
> a macro impact typically heats the cylinder of tissue carved out along its path to a temperature of 10^7 K[18, 19], resulting in an expanding cylinder of plasma inside the body

bummer
Did this student deserve admission to UCLA’s renowned gymnastics team?
> I don't need accomodations at work, personally. However, I am a big advocate for making sure

Yeah, this post reminded me of the adage about programming for accessibility: the need for assistance doesn't even need to be permanent; we're all "disabled", or going to be, at some point, and in different ways and degrees.

Having a culture of normality around people adjusting their environment as needed benefits everyone. (Including the business, in the end!)
The article alludes to the answer, but the paper is linked in the article, and answers this more preciselyat the beginning:

> Hence their destructive effect is likely to be qualitatively different from that of a bullet; a macro impact typically heats the cylinder of tissue carved out along its path to a temperature of 10^7 K[18, 19], resulting in an expanding cylinder of plasma inside the body. While some studies have been done on collisions of hypersonic, micron-sized projectiles with fixed targets[23], these differed significantly from macro collisions in that the experimental projectiles were of much lower density, and the targets were “hard” rather than “soft”. Nonetheless, it is reasonable to take the kinetic energy deposited by a macro as a threshold for significant damage to the human body. Energy con- servation requires that the macro energy ultimately be deposited in the body in some form, whether mechanical or thermal, which will result in an equivalent amount of damage.

Victims would look they’d been shot with a laser bullet out of sci-fi. As is mentioned in the article, they found no evidence of bullet wounds that also featured vaporization of tissue.

> These deaths would not go unnoticed—they would leave victims dead or dying with a tubular wound where their flesh was vaporized.