skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually BMW's CEO stepping down was very widely reported. The reason it's not news in the same way as the Tesla news is because it was very public and obvious why he was stepping down - he had basically failed. The reason Tesla's news is more interesting, is because its unexplained. Which means its probably a leading indicator of some news to come. Either dozens of Tesla execs have all suddenly had their own 'A christmas carole' moment and decided to spend more time with their families, or there's something more at play.
> Twitter is accusing me of "impersonation"

"@BitmexRekt" probably looks like "@BitmexAsdf" to someone who can't parse "Rekt".

Seems problematic for two reasons:

1. If a Twitter rep doesn't get the alias, they may think it's an attempt at impersonation.

2. Even if a Twitter rep does get the alias, they may have some reasonable concern that third parties might misinterpret your alias as representing Bitmex.

I mean, I can see someone who doesn't know what Bitmex is, nor the term "rekt", thinking that "BitmexRekt" is just like a fuller name for Bitmex, or something like that.
This list is awesome. Along with [1], it could make a great starting point for learning about new topics but also quickly gaining knowledge on what topics are considered important in a discipline. For example, if you want to learn about philosophy but don't have a good understanding of what topics are even available, just scroll down in the list!

I think it could also serve as a list for topics a well-rounded person should know something about (of course, this is highly personal / debatable etc.). Or at least heard of. Perfect way to learn something every day!

Great submission, bookmarked, thanks!

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_Wikip...
You don’t need a source. To be a net emitter the tree would have to be losing mass. That’s not what healthy trees do, even old ones.

I believe the article might have been trying to say is that trees tend to die and decompose (or burn) which makes them carbon emitters.
I attended a talk by Michael Bender last year on B^epsilon trees and how when users say they have a query speed problem, most of the time it's an insertion speed problem for just this reason. He founded a company with two other professors and they apparently achieved some impressive performance numbers with their database (TokuDB).
> JSON numbers are arbitrary precision.
> On the other hand I am not blowing dev and qa time on learning/developing tools to replace curl/jq/browser/text editor.

What a pleasant surprise it will be for you when you find out that jq silently corrupts integers with more than 53 bits.
This is dangerous because sometimes you have legitimate values that are not truthy.

print(player_data['score'] or 'does not exist')

This will print "does not exist" when the score is zero.
> If you know that the company just spent 10/100s of hours reviewing, interviewing, and culling lots of applicants, but you made it through their obstacle course and they want to hire you, this means it's very likely a good fit -- that's rare

It's not rare. It's very common for people to pass the interview process only to get ghosted after spending hours solving puzzles and answering screening questions. If you're the only person to pass, then that does give you leverage, but you're not likely the only person to pass. I pass interviews all the damn time, and get rejected all the time too.

> if you are good at your job, you are going to produce a lot of value for a company depending on how they use you -- you don't have to be a celebrity developer to bring value to a company

Being able to provide value to a company doesn't necessarily give you leverage, especially if there are many other people who are also able to provide value to the company.

> Politely but firmly ask for compensation in line with what you value your time at like "thanks so much for giving me a chance to join the team -- I'd love to accept the offer but I was really expecting

Just because you want to make lots of money doesn't mean you will make lots of money. If someone else will work for less, then the company is not obliged to pay you more just because you politely ask for it.
You can't just create forests out of deserts, that is not exactly nature conservation.
I'm curious what is the reason for having running salt water? For taking baths?
It proves itself if you define "I" as the same as the experiencer of the thinking, but "I" (as many other complex word) is much more overloaded.

Unfortunately all our word definitions seems shaky, if we want to describe something that is the base requirement of those very definitions.

Maybe the best we can do is to deconstruct the above using more simple or base terms, but the meaning of those terms maybe also depends on the content of experience not the mere fact of experience:

I experience thought -> experience of thoughts exists -> experience exists -> something exists

So upon experiencing thought you may conclude that "something exists", or "there IS something"...
yakuza would probably be mortified if they were responsible for things going badly.
ChatOps is bidirectional. This appears, at first glance, to simply be an alerting channel that can deliver to Slack.

Useful, but only a small piece of a ChatOps picture.
I think it's like saying "I don't like surgery, because mistakes during surgeries cause preventable deaths"
If you want examples closer to Turkey take Greek War of Independence, or forces fighting for liberation of Bulgaria, or northern Ireland. I have not lived in Turkey but my grandparents did, and i know some people who do live in Turkey. Of course i do not support terrorism, but PKK exists largely because unfair laws, untold stories, and
ethnic hatred existing in Turkey. The only way to really win the fight with PKK is not force, but free speech and human rights.

If you could tell your perspective on the issue, of why what i say is baseless and funny, I would be grateful.
South African power utility hit by ransomware, citizens can't buy electricity
Would you mind to elaborate? Maybe another concept name would be better
Progress Blames Open Source for Security Risks of CMS
> if Tesla succeeds, the world will improve

It doesn't matter if Tesla succeeds or fails. All car companies now have to meet fleet emissions targets and the way they're going to do it is by building electric cars, either battery electric or fuel cell or both.
But you will never catch them all.
I think most people think oversaturated means that there are a lot of developers available that qualify for a given position. However from my experience companies are listing open positions as a means to fish for top candidates when the companies don't actually have funding slotted for those positions.

The experience for the candidate is that they make it through all the gates and then get ghosted while the hiring manager is stalled by their bosses to approve the hire. That has happened to me often enough in the past three years that I now just think of interviews as an opportunity to meet other nerds.
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> Record breakers get social media attention and lifters like to compare/peg their progress to how fast the top 1% progresses.

Completely agree.

But I think people are progressing earlier due to starting earlier, better information/training (and a bit of better/more accessible supplements) and their progress is getting more visible through social media.

Congrats to those breaking records in competitions but it's exactly that, outliers and records (and even then a lot of hard work to get there).
I don't like when politics started working in the digital world. Strange time for cryptocurrency Tron https://inechain.com/search?q=tron
Saving Lydia
This is why I'm excited about Nova. I'm still using TextMate despite Sublime/VS Code/whatever having way more features just because a non-native UI makes me feel icky.
There is not single isolated solution to climate change. A wooden house can be a solution if you have abundant wood nearby, which is not the case everywhere. The problem is the industrialization of everything and the urban consumerist way of life.

Ikea furniture is made of wood yet they're terrible for the environment because the wood comes from far away, is usually assembled in China, filled of fire-repellent chemicals (among others) and is not very strong because it's low-quality wood (made from throw-away pieces hacked together with glue). So your piece of furniture brings a lot of pollution and is not gonna last, compared to hand-crafted furniture (out of real wood).

The same goes for housing. People have been building houses out of straw and mud for thousands of years. Where you have wood, you'll build a solid base structure out of it and make big houses. When you don't, you'll just make a smaller one (< 15m²). Made a few myself, and these houses are way better than concrete houses: < 1000€ to build, fresh in summer, warm in winter..

But the ultimate solution is to stop the madness of trying to pile up people in huge metal/concrete towers. I too love the comfort of the city and meeting many people but it is not a sustainable way of life and will never be. We should stop listening to these "Green capitalism" and other profiting vampires, and build our actual autonomy before this industrial civilization collapses.
If you want some archaeological engineering theories that aren't obviously wrong, I highly recommend this youtube series about how the Antikythera mechanism could have been made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE

It's the complete antithesis of this pig fat hogwash.
I wonder what "pretty fast" means for you. I have a 1gbit fiber connection and a beastly computer, and everything lags in gmaps, in both firefox and chrome (on a machine that can run Witcher 3 at 120fps in ultra)
Fitbits might not track your heart rate right if you're a person of color
Per https://www.quora.com/What-animals-are-better-long-distance-... humans are best in hot arid places, horses are best in cooler temperate zones as the only other sweating animal, and dogs are best in cold climates, where their breathing isn't as badly affected by panting as it would be in hotter climates.
That is beyond disturbing.

It's one thing for education to be hyperfocused on results and training for the workforce, it's another for the home to restructure in that direction too.

Extremely regimented people may excel in extremely regimented environments, but frankly they are often deeply uninteresting people to socialise with. (Also, any workplace I've been in hasn't actually been that regimented, and was better off for it. The less flexible people were good but often struggled with being more fluid when required.)

I much prefer the other extreme. Those junkyard diy playground kids and that whole movement away from hyperstructured and linear play. Not that you can't trello a trip to one of those in to the schedule, but I'm guessing that the crossover between the slackified group and the junkyard group isn't huge.
I mean, they are private companies and thus free to choose who they do business with, as long as it's not discrimination against very specific categories of individuals defined in law.

If something needs to be a public utility, then vote for political parties that are willing to expand the public sector. Saddling private companies with semi-public duties tends to create the worst of both worlds where profits are private but losses are public.
Stop the madness, use EN 13402 labels already!
It's usually something like "Use Signal/Wire blah blah they are so good and will solve all the worlds problems".

But it's not that or something like it. Nor is it "literally pastes replies". You can take issue with both the opinions and the way they're presented. You can't mis-represent them, though, and that's what you're doing.
Mastodon.
We are currently building a home made of cross-laminated timber as inner walls. The outer wall are covered by a wood construction that is filled with wood fiber to insulate.

The carpenter ordered the walls in Austria and they set everything up in three days. The outer walls and the roof were pre-fabricated too and delivered in parts. Really crazy.

The house smells pretty good with all the wood, let's see how the climate will be when we live in it.
Can I do that as an American?
We know, based on statements from ex-agents within the DEA, that the DEA didn't go after drug use in white suburban communities because it would have been politically untenable.

The incarceration patterns therefore reflect this political bias.
Are you sure this isn't your employer's mistake?

With commuter benefits the employer has to manage everything themselves. If the benefit is a contribution it'll show up on your paystub, but your company needs to either reimburse you the amount (after you have already paid the commute cost personally) or provide you with a transit/benefits card. If it's a pre-tax deduction, it stays in the employer's bank account, again to reimburse you or provide a benefits card.[0]

It doesn't really make sense for this to work any other way. Commuter benefits are pre-tax, so if they just paid you the money outright it would be a pretty explicit violation of tax law. There needs to be a paper trail showing that the benefit money was spent on the actual benefit itself. I imagine their team might be confused by your questions.

[0] https://support.gusto.com/benefits/other-benefits/payroll-de...
Not anymore. Try writing 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000n + 1n into your browser console.
Is it just me, or do "secret" have negative connotation? Because for me it does, and I am really sad from journalist when they use "secret" or "secretly" in headlines, when it just mean internal, or just not disclosed. What is interesting that the article does not contain word secret, and they always use the word internal.
> But the ultimate solution is to stop the madness of trying to pile up people in huge metal/concrete towers. I too love the comfort of the city and meeting many people but it is not a sustainable way of life and will never be.

Wait, how so? Dense urban living is the sustainable alternative, if anything.
I think George Washington was the richest man in America in his time. I toured his Mount Vernon estate. I wouldn't want to live like that.
And "needed" that small army of servants because he couldn't just buy a reliable car and drive it himself. Cooking and washing were major chores. Dress and other tasks related to his station in life took help in a way that almost no one needs or even wants today.
Nice article but I don't think this part of the conclusion is correct:

'Wealth, in Piketty’s view, perpetuates itself, and effortlessly earns its return (never mind the work, risk and selection issues involved). By continually paying the interest on its debt, the governments of Austen’s Britain financed the leisurly lifestyles of the rich, just as the “natural” return of the modern-day rich contribute and maintain today’s inequality.'

This completely disregards inflation. E.g., if government bonds guarantee a 3% payout but inflation is at 3.5%, your wealth is not perpetuating but leaking away.
Space Engine is the most absorbing tribute to the question of our existence it has ever been my privilege to experience.
> no KYC required

Just believing really hard that the law doesn't apply to you doesn't make it true.
Modern Javascript standards have incorporated a lot of things that have started their life in jQuery. What advantages does jQuery still have?
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Replace Images in Any Website with Pikachu
Reading this article one thing that pops in my mind is: we have spent more money collectively to fund the LHC in CERN as we have funded ITER.

As much as extremely good science has came out of this experiment it boggles my mind that we have spent less in the search for the next breakthrough in energy generation, something that ALWAYS has catapulted technology and development of humanity.

Why?
SpaceX isn't a big name in consumer tech the same way Tesla or those tech giants you're thinking of are. It's less known and even less within the public conscious. Less seen so less talked about.

People on a deep subconscious level understand that they're not in an environment where they belong. They've been robbed of their humanity and turned in to half cog half husk of a person. They've don't and can't live an authentic life but rather a simulation. They're a shark in a tank. They understand that the scientist, the academic, and above all the technologist is responsible for this.

Large well known technology companies are therefore a good outlet of this disapproval. They're viewed as the enemy and the missteps they make that we consciously understand as negatives are amplified by our subconscious understanding that they're existentially damaging to us at their very core. People do hate the tech giants. Tesla though is largely unique in that it doesn't sell to the masses, at least not yet, so criticism aimed at it feels less hypocritical than that of a company whose products and services we use.

That's why SpaceX doesn't get criticised pretty much at all, normal tech giants get criticised a bit, and Tesla gets dogpiled.
>"we are going to build a factory in weeks"

Where did you read that? What is your source?
If you look at how they determine an active user (in their quarterly filings), you'll discover that that is not particularly true.
> It's very expensive for a company to find that 1%

Not if the market is oversaturated. They may get multiple people to reach that 1% stage. Then none of them have much leverage.
I found it a little on the nose to complete the first interactive (about how very few points of data can track you between datasets), only to receive a Share on Twitter/Facebook.

If only people would practice what they preach.
>Iraq and Libya are broken states right now because the US intervened overtly.

That's like saying Germany was a broken state after US intervened in WW2. I mean, it was literally broken up, but it didn't have an insane dictator committing mass scale human rights abuses anymore.
Would this be useful as a cooling device?
Can you provide some links to said atrocities by the British empire? (I'm genuinely curios)

There probably are some Wikipedia articles you could link to.

Edit: just a few examples

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_concentration_camps

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain#Enslaved_Af...
It's free and has limited tabs (2). But it's fast and works better than DBeaver or other Electron based solutions.
LightSail 2 Successfully Deploys Solar Sail
I used this when I was doing web apps for small enterprises in early 2000's - I sent a random string in a hidden input in the login form and had some javascript concatenate the password and the random string and send me back the username, the random string and the hash of the concatenated string. I hope I got that right (not doing web apps any more since a long time ...).
Any recommendations of tools/libraries that help with this sort of testing/analysis?
I've been waiting for something like this. But now that it's here it seems a bit complicated to automate the setup if you have lots of accounts.

I'll probably just go with an API Gateway proxy for the SNS webhooks in one account and add the webhook setup for the other accounts to their Cloudformation templates.
>they are now selling Fiat their CO2 certificates thus enabling them to do wonderful green washing.

SO they should not use the cash that the government made accessible to them (because Fiat refuse to manufacture electric vehicles) and thus, not increase their EV production capacity?

This makes no sense. That's up to regulators to prevent Fiat from selling polluting cars, not to Tesla to refuse financial help that allow them to accelerate their growth.
Seen from my perspective this doesn't make you any more different than the chinese room, as you cannot prove your claim to observe your very own mind while thinking.
Sure, when you need to update 1 single thing once, you can use vanilla js.

But when you need to do more than that, you'll realize jQuery is still useful (assuming you don't use a framework or whatever). Either you will use something like jQuery or you'll reinvent by writing the methods yourself.

IMO it's still relevant, despite the hype of other frameworks.
Whenever Wikipedia is mentioned in hackernews, it's always the same comment. Have you got anything new to add, or any substantial argument to support your position? As it stands it's a pretty serious accusation and a pretty thin argument.
Yeah, one of the things I think about a lot is supportive versus controlling technology. Google Maps, etc, seem uncomfortably in the middle to me. Yes, I told it where I want to go. But after that, I'm basically a peripheral device to Google for the duration of the trip, and it doesn't help my geographic sense much.

I recently went to Amsterdam. Before I left, I got Google Maps directions for various places I was going and then used Google Earth to "walk" the routes. After 10 or 15 minutes I built up enough of a sense of landmarks and general layout that I felt pretty well oriented when I arrived.

That was cumbersome to do, but I'd love to see GPS tools move in that direction of supporting not just my current goal, but my long-term independence from needing turn-by-turn directions for everything.
They all will. Volkswagen is doing it for its electric cars. But that level of connectivity is not necessarily a good thing:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/29120/top-ota-expert-shows-how...
Ow your poor male feelings
Is "secret" not one of the classifications for internal documents? "top secret", "secret", "confidential", "restricted". While this classification is usually used to classify access to documents of the state, it could also apply to internal documents in large organizations.
In a decentralized network, you don't really have a choice. Such metrics can only be imposed with central login and "unique identity" policies.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all have shadowy businesses to buy likes, followers and whatnot. Now just imagine how that would turn out in a decentralized setting where any script can create many accounts on several different servers of the fediverse.

Big corps have to show the metrics because their "engagement" model relies on those number to keep people addicted. On the fediverse, there is no incentive to make people addicts to your service, and showing the numbers would just encourage the same kind of fake-fame industry as on those big networks.
A friend of mine (who lives in a house of a much smaller scale) spends £2000 a year on gravel alone for his drive. Then he either needs to spend weeks spreading or pay someone to to do the same. Once you have a lot of something, things sure get expensive.

On a similar note - say he wanted to replace his doors Now he won't just want to use form £100 from the hardware shop, so realistically will be looking at £600+ for nice handmade bespoke internal doors. And then a future £100 for the door furniture, maybe £100 to get each painted and prepared and maybe £100 for the fitting. Before you know it looking at £1000ish a door. He had over 25 doors, and this was 'only' a 6 bed house... yes you aren't replacing these every year, but just an example of one of the costs.
"He doesn't have even a single thoroughbred stallion...pffft"
For reference and context, The New Atlantis was founded by an organization called the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which is “dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.” (https://eppc.org/about/)