skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why fossil fuel untouchable in Washington, but tech is the whipping boy?
It would be useful if you could somehow estimate the health, species and growth rate of those trees.
OP is being reasonably compensated for something that is perfectly legal.
Another word for Beauvoir's "swindle" is simply "dis-illusionment", isn't it? Life as we experience it is based on "stories" we read and hear and expect that at some point we would live like in a story and thus feel some deep significance to our life. But it never is like that. For some the story might be Beauvoir and she is honest enough to tell us that. Nothing special here. My (her) situation is like yours. But isn't that really the great unifier? We are all special, or none of us is.

The ending of a book makes the book timeless. The story is over but the story still exists and perhaps we long for that kind of existence? But reality is reality? No, the limits of our language are the limits of the world. (Wittgenstein I think).
Some highlights from the suit:

> HANSEN subsequently learned that TESLA hired a new Senior Manager of Global Security by the name of Nick Gicinto. HANSEN was informed that Nick Gicinto and his current team were spying on TESLA employees using devices to monitor emails, cell phones, and data communications from TESLA employees.

> They had been commanded to “do something” with HANSEN and “I don’t give a fuck if you take him up into the hills and hide him” from MUSK.
To the first criticism - Internet TV is somewhat like using a tivo or similar. It removes the time constraints attached to broadcast and cable TV. Internet TV has the additional advantage of being pre-loaded with content, no planning ahead is necessary.

To the second criticism - Broadcast and cable TV used to be accompanied by programming schedules published in local newspapers. Additionally, TV Guide was a real magazine with programming schedules that people paid real money for. People made effort and spent money to be able to quietly peruse and discover what to watch.

These two responses are entirely correlated. The ability to quietly browse and discover content is the best thing internet TV has going for it. Netflix's abandonment of this concept has driven me back to the TV Guide model. I make my viewing choices off of Netflix, and never open Netflix until I know exactly where I'm going, and only when I know that there are no other less intrusive options.

Look at it this way - Think about movie theater previews, and how much people complain about them. Effectiveness of those previews aside, imagine what that would look like if the preview was for the movie they actually went to see.
Yes. The 1.0.0 release froze the wire format (almost, see below). All Zstandard releases after that are all interoperable.

It’s funny though that you should ask that question now. Just yesterday I did submit an erratum on the RFC [0], changing a tiny detail of the spec. While it is literally, a breaking change, (1) we have not yet changed Zstd to produce outputs taking advantage of the change, and (2) it is not actually a concern, because all existing Zstd decoders ignore the existing spec in this regard.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5786
> Argument mapping is not just about pro/con trees; but pro/con trees are a nearly-lossless way to capture how people actually debate things, so they’re a good “ingested primary source” format to keep around and refer back to when you’re trying to summarize and judge a debate (rather than having to listen to the audio transcript over and over, or read through a linear stream of debate text.)

We have used Kialo for exactly this. The parties that we suspect to start quarrelling about a decision have to capture their reasoning in a Kialo and send it to everybody before the actual meeting. And then we use the Kialo tree as a source document during the meeting. And if new arguments are brought up, the person taking notes just adds them.

Or if a heated debate ensues, one person starts mapping the arguments in Kialo, for later reference.

One problem we ran into though, is that older management folks seem to prefer traditional meeting notes, instead of hipster pro/con trees. Also, argument trees don't allow for nice print outs.
That's cherry-picking though. The Gobi desert is expanding very quickly, as is the Sahara into Sudan. The Chihuaha desert also is expanding in Texas, I'm sure there are many other examples. Maybe deserts will in general become greener, but for human aspirations they still seem to be deserts. The greening is problematic because it raises dew points and makes theses areas less habitable for humans.
Skia is a graphics engine developed in C++. Think of it as the building block for graphical interfaces, animations and everything else that involves displaying some 2D data on a screen, specially vectorial data.

For example, Flutter uses it to draw its UIs and Chrome uses it for almost everything, including rendering text parsed from HTML. Sublime Text, Firefox, Xamarin and many other projects also rely on Skia for the same sort of thing.

However, unlike, let's say, Qt or GTK+, Skia does not provide already done widgets (i.e., drop-in buttons, windows, text inputs etc.). It's like the fundamental building block on top of which you can create your buttons, animations and everything else and then display it on screen.

Now, CanvasKit is Skia ported to the browser via WebAssembly. Since Skia is a mature project and very performant (as you can guess from who is using it), it's now an alternative to Canvas API and DOM to render things on websites and will also let existing native applications to be ported to the web more easily.
He's blaming humanity for maintaining a commodity as scarce, rather than working to alleviate the scarcity.
There will always be a disconnect between the need for large sample sizes for rigorous clinical trials and small patient populations for ultra rare diseases. Hopefully, we can begin developing techniques like this one to create a robust, validated approach to treat ultra rare diseases without having to get full phase 1/2/3 FDA approval for each disease case.
C/C++ for WebAssembly mainly used for porting existing C/C++ application to the web. I think it is one of them. You know what? Flutter uses Skia as a GUI backend. So maybe we could run a Flutter app using this someday.
Trump administration reportedly considering ban on end-to-end encryption
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/trump-officials-weigh-encryption-crackdown-1385306

So this is how liberty dies
Heh, you pretty much nailed all of my Netflix complaints perfectly. All of those factors combined have left a such a sour taste in my mouth, I rarely ever even try to find new shows to watch on Netflix these days, after being a huge fan of the service some years go. The auto-play trailers that can't be disabled and the now-awful recommendations have especially turned me off.
> gold rushing outrageously priced gTLDs to anyone with the money

I'm actually happy about that one. For realistic usage, it mostly went nowhere. People with money paid lots and got something they wanted. It's like a crazy rich person building a castle because they can. I'm happy they distributed the money.
The clean energy industry is maxed out.

All this law does is promote the dirty energy industry.
Apple [Malus pumila, not the tech company] fanatic here. I've been following the development and pre-launch activities for Cosmic Crisp for a couple years now, mainly through "Good Fruit Grower" magazine. [I've also tried to get a tree of this variety as an experiment, but the nurseries are prohibited from selling Cosmic Crisp trees to non-Washington growers for some time.

The amount of scientific, horticultural, and marketing effort associated with this apple is really something. The Washington apple industry is wagering a _lot_ on the success of this variety. Hopefully they can capture some of the success associated with Honeycrisp [undeniably a great variety when grown well, and for years the most profitable variety for growers by far], without the quality problems that attended Honeycrisp's status as an unmanaged variety [especially after the patent expired], some of which are noted in this thread.

side note : Cosmic Crisp's "other" parent, Enterprise, is an awesome apple with bright 'candy apple red' skin [rather thick] and a very dense, crunchy flesh [hence its fair resistance to bruising]. It was developed by the Perdue-Rutgers-Indiana apple development program that also produced Williams' Pride, Pristine, and other fine varieties.
My laptop from 2011/2012 loads everything perfectly, albeit a bit slower. I assume most people have a computer produced in the last decade.

Even my grandparents use an old iPad or cheap smartphone.

My machine isn't particularly powerful either - I use an old Macbook.
against facts there are less arguments ... bring facts to the table.
> With p2p sharing, none of this is a blocker.

Of course it isn't, because it is illegal and free.

> "Remastered" or "Deluxe" editions available for streaming. I don't remember that being part of the deal when signing up. Now I'm forced to listen to sub-par versions of albums.

This has nothing to do with Spotify, it is for example when the entire Led Zeppelin original master tapes get remastered in the studio by the label, and they re-release old mono albums or older albums in a better fidelity format then when they were recorded years ago thanks to technological progress.
Thanks! So it sounds like what you're saying is that, as with other languages that have complex optimizers, there can be performance cliffs when you get too far off the beaten path?

For someone not working on the Julia compiler, how tricky it is to figure out what to do to improve performance?
That's what I do in Emacs. I always run it from a terminal (currently using Terminator).
depending the time that needs to be spend of the fix ... max 4h
How much money do you want to bet that millionaires and over will elect to opt-out of the bug cuisine? That means they want to make poor people eat bugs! The only way this "program" could be fair is if both billionaires and joe schmoe are both forced to eat bugs by law.
Here's my take - creating a marketplace where a sole actor has control over a scarce resource (IP addresses) is exactly why anti-trust exists. A true marketplace assumes there is competition. How do you have competition when the underlying resource (1) has a clearly understood finite number (2) is controlled by one entity and (3) can't be differentiated in any way (e.g. 10.0.0.0/8 has no differentiated intrinsic or extrinsic value over 11.0.0.0/8).
Because AI
I have heard that Twitter is working on something like this. The hard part of course being the detection of what is an argument and what is commentary or anecdote sharing.

>As an aside, I wonder how good grammar checkers have become since the Word 97 days? My grammar is utterly terrible and I wish I could get it proofread before I make comments.

Try it for free, Google Docs added it recently for English. Otherwise, perhaps one of these dedicated sites or use their browser extensions, will be of interest:

https://languagetool.org/
https://grammarly.com/
https://www.gingersoftware.com/grammarcheck
I've heard it described as a 'rogue-lite'
People tend to look up movies not by theme, but by actor or director. Could Netflix be okay with categories that don’t fill up entire screens?
Vivisimo was acquired by IBM.

Source: I have the capital V from the building in my house.

(I see now atambo has already noted this typo)
You mean JSON, right?
(I'm not joking, the JSON looks much more readable and cleaner to me than the S-Expressions)
Why not?

Data created by an employee belongs to the employer.

That doesn't mean we should like it or accept to work for such employers.
I would be more understanding of employers on this stuff if they also created dashboards of how much of our personal time got interrupted by work.
If there's an engineer who can pull this off why are they screwing around with ransomware? Have them send me their resume, if they can deploy code to our frontend transparently without customers or devops having to spend time or even noticing it we'll happily pay them more than they're asking for in ransom.

Edit : thinking about it, this story doesn’t add up. Doesn’t this mean the client must have a copy of the decryption key, meaning any cached client would render the ransom demand worthless? It’s just also so much easier, if someone has that level of access, to make a copy of the database, encrypt it, then blow away the old one. Doing a silent deploy of client code with no one noticing seems way harder.
Yes, I agree - server side rendering is likely better for SEO in most scenarios, and so I should consider it in a business context where SEO is essential.

This isn't everyone.

The comment I replied to said that Google should "delist client side rendered web pages", which is a terrible idea. Maybe I'm OK with the SEO hit? Maybe I've architectured my SPA so that it can be indexed? (At least to some degree)

> The bigger question is why you think an spa should rank well in general. It's only one page.

SPAs can have multiple pages (despite the name). Check out react-router [0]. Browser history can be manipulated to give the same "back button/forward button" functionality between logical pages. This is done for you by whatever framework you use.

For my use case, having the browser reload every time a page is changed would severely interrupt UX.

[0] https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/guides/quick-star...
It's very different if you sign a document consenting to it than if they do it without telling you (which is considered wiretapping by federal law and is also taken very seriously). Employee agreements aren't like EULAs; you should actually read them because it's probably your livelihood.

And if they do include it in the employee agreement like you suggest, it wouldn't be too difficult to create a PR headache for them by alerting the media.
The only system that can cover all five of your points right now is piracy.

1) No charge, so you're not paying for content you won't watch

2) Same as 1

3) A torrent client speaking RSS + a private torrent site that serves RSS covers this

4) You pay with nothing - no money, no data, and no viewing history

5) Files without DRM can be played on any device and cannot be retroactively deleted by the service provider

Piracy really is most often a services problem.
Spelled ‘know’ wrong in the subtitle... eye roll
Yeah, fair. But that's an optional niche game mode and this piece is about Diablo 1.

Another comment linked the creator's postmortem; he said he was influenced by roguelikes but specifically called out that Diablo doesn't have permadeath as opposed to roguelikes. His original design doc included permadeath, but it didn't make it far into production.
Their are FDA exceptions for ultra rare diseases. https://www.fda.gov/industry/developing-products-rare-diseas...
This is a great loss. Coincidentally I just started reading his thesis last week: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/13800
Well, it mostly just makes products cheaper. Also, sites like amazon can be linked to the current low inflation due it`s ability for users to price guage efficently.
I really liked his advice on how to pack and present ideas using the Winston Star formulation
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-package-your...
Look at the lobbying totals by sector: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i

"Tech" you're thinking about about is tiny subset of the "Electronics Mfg & Equipment" sector. While it spends more than "Oil & Gas", I'd say that Oil & Gas is much more focused on certain issues (e.g. no or limited carbon regs), while the EME category has a much wider and more fragmented set of concerns and lobbying. If you click into the number of clients, this is reflected in 242 for EME vs 178 Oil and Gas. Also, notice Koch industries is #1 in that Oil category, and they have an incredibly famous, well established, and effective network for both political lobbying, judicial packing, academic think tanks, as well as organizations for manufacturing of consent. The spending for which is likely vastly larger than what is required to report as lobbying.
Are there many other planes with this design of airframe? I recall seeing a plane similar to this in the air in the mid 70s (in the UK).

It stuck with me as it was unlike any plane I'd seen before, or since, until recently a drone passed overhead which had a similar construction.
Very much agree, let's not forget that this kind of thinking is most likely the reason Steve Jobs is not anymore among us. Rational reasoning does certainly not always lead to the best outcome, but on average, it does.

> What else than rationality would be better? Gut feelings? Emotional arguments?

Beliefs. :(
It seems like Netflix is focusing on quantity rather than quality. They crank out a ton of Netflix Originals but they're all pretty uninteresting and almost seems tailored to high schoolers. I get that they're trying to capture young audiences but the content has sucked for a while and their lack of inventory of non-Netflix Original movies is what caused me to cancel my subscription last year.

Would think that most people don't sign up for Netflix for their Netflix Original content and those that do end up disappointed after realizing that Netflix doesn't offer recent or classic movies.

I remember when I could stream on multiple devices and watch classic TV shows which was awesome but now it's more expensive with all the different subscription tiers and they've removed some of my favorite shows.

Spotify subscribers get offered a Hulu subscription for free (comes with ads though). Hulu has the good classic shows that Netflix no longer has.
César Pelli, Argentine architect behind the Petronas Towers, dies aged 92
I loved his series of "On To" books, e.g. "On To C", "On To C++", "On To Java". They were perfect when I was starting out and remained models of clarity when I started teaching.
It's even more puzzling since those quotes are not required in JavaScript...
I never believed number 1 until relatively recently. After growing up in a family where work was life, it didn't make sense to me to do anything but work (even if constant work made me miserable).

Now that I'm out of school and I have had a chance to see how others live their lives though, I get it now. It's difficult to enforce in myself since I've been set in my ways for a while, but actually doing things outside of work/for myself is so fulfilling!
Lucene is the carry.
Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink Presentation
The nice thing about these settings (I use the same ones) is that if you're on a machine that's not configured to use them, they take only moments to type.
Author fails to spot the fact that "defense" budget itself is nothing but a permanent subsidy for military-industrial complex.
vim does not disappoint with completeness. (:
Google Settles Privacy Case over Street View for $13M
My take on the issue is that the whole tv/movie/entertainment industry far too insular!

It's a relatively small clique of writers, producers, directors and actors that they keep throwing money at despite failure after failure.

What they need to do is stop with the incestuous industry patronage and get fresh blood!

Perhaps we need an "America's Got Talent" equivalent for writers/producers to pitch their show ideas and let people have a crack at it.
David Brevik’s original plan was for it to be a turn based game with permadeath.
If I'm going to search through a bunch of listings, and select a show that's part of a series, all just to have something on while eating a 20 minute meal, I feel like I need to have something good on that I'm committing too.

On the other hand, if I turn on my cable box and Dog the Bounty Hunter happens to be on and halfway through an episode, I'll watch it until I'm done eating and be done with it. I don't actually care what going on in the episode, and I'm only half paying attention. It's mostly just noise and moving pictures in the background.

That's "disposable" television, and it's only something that you can get from an always on network.

Netflix requires more effort, and with that effort I feel I should get something good out of that time. Instead I spend 30 minutes looking for something to watch only to give up, switch back to network television, and eat my now cold meal.
Another I hope gets an update is

https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
- F12 / DevTools

- Click 'Application' tab

- Click 'Clear storage' in the righ column

- Click 'Clear site data' button

Now NYT or whoever, has lost all the cookies, localStorage etc. that they use to track your usage.
I see 500+ reported issues for Firefox just with the words 'address bar' in the title. This feature request is important to you, the others are important to their respective reporters. Mozilla doesn't have enough people and volunteers and never will.

> I suspect that only the lack of this feature is the main reason for many other people to not use Mozilla's browser

Unlikely. It sounds like you used Firefox for months (Quantum was released 18 months ago). It might be a factor but the other 10000 features of the browser also had to work fine to make the daily use enjoyable.
The Scary Truth Behind the Insane Bodies You See on Instagram
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but how did you get

>you're only objecting to gratuitous gay sex

from

>I still don't want to watch 2 people having VR chat sex

?
Yeah so your whole system can freeze when something goes wrong. If the server is down, so is the umount command.
I too have been down this road. I tried Atom for a couple of months, and that turned into a couple of years. I had it tuned into a VERY NICE Vim. I tried out VSCodeVim and got it to be a mostly passable Vim. It sure is pretty though. I'm back on nvim for the time being. Coc.nvim and LSPs make it pretty good. There are definitely rough edges and memory usage is pretty bad with all those plugins, but. I know it, I feel right at home with it. The only other two editors I invested any real time learning were Sublime and Emacs (I did not try to turn them into Vim - but I did end up installing Evil for Emacs later on)

I'm pretty broken by Vim. I don't really want to invest the time to get really good at a non-modal text editor.
So does Emacs. Emacs also has multiple webrowsers and email clients out of the box. Those features do not make Emacs not a text editor though.
You may want to try out smos. It's org mode but without the emacs around it: smos.cs-syd.eu
The difficulty with Netflix and the like moving to a platform with a recommendation engine, is that no matter how good the machine learning is, it will have a strong incentive(minimization function) to show cheap content. Netflix has awesome blockbusters, but you will see the Netflix label and smaller budget movies higher in your recommendations because it cuts Netflix’s cost. In other words Netflix has to pay a lot more $ per view of blockbusters from big Hollywood studios than it does for private label movies and shows.

If Netflix can have 10x the amount of private label hits like House of Cards and Black Mirror, they will do fine.
Discussed when the news was released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20305176
For what it's worth, apple size is largely a function of how hard the grower 'thins' the developing crop. If they remove most of the fruitlets early on such that there is fewer than one apple left on the tree per blossom cluster, huge fruits can result. Thinning to one-per-cluster is kind of average, and those little "lunchbox" apples are grown 2+ per cluster.
I was happy paying for Netflix when they made 2-3 A list shows per year and 1-2 B list shows. Now they make 50 F list shows per quarter by the people who were so bad that Hollywood wouldn’t hire them. (Amy Schumer, etc.) Couldn’t be happier to not pay!
Looking at his/her post history, he/she does but rarely discloses it.