skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the saving the world stuff was actually Tesla's mission they wouldn't have their CEO bounce back from LA to the Bay Area on a private jet every other day. Each time he flies he offsets the carbon savings of pretty much every Tesla driven in CA that day.

The switch to EVs has more to do with Obama than Tesla. He pushed through many of the incentives that made Tesla possible.
In France (Law n°2018-493 of June 20, 2018 ) you are not permitted to make any race/illness/political/jugdment statement inside any database system (paper or eletronic) be it public or private
I actually think I've been "blacklisted" at a government agency in my country, or at least someone with hiring power must be working there who specifically does not want to hire me.

Two reasons -

1. some years ago there was a job listing at the agency for a programmer with experience in a governmental specification that I was the technical guy in the working group that made the specification, for heavy experience in some technologies I am very good at, including some international standards in which I am thanked as one of the contributors to the standard and when I applied I got the standard reply some months later they went with someone more qualified which is their choice however I can say with 99.9% certainty there was only one other person in the country possibly more qualified than I am (given the technologies involved and the time) and he wasn't applying.

2. another time they put up a technical challenge and normally when I complete a technical challenge of the particular sort I did the potential employer likes to meet me (they put it online and said try to do this and see if you would be someone we might like to hire). And they said they decided to go with someone else but they did not have any comments on my technical challenge.

So what I'm saying I would really like to get all details from any communications regarding possibly hiring me from that ministry because it might be interesting, but then again I am also of the kind of personality that it just might infuriate me - and what good is that?
Temperature in the Netherlands tops 40 degrees Celsius for first time
Yup, I wonder how much of this has to do with the advancements and progression of blockchain technology.
When the flames started coming out the side for the ABORT I was freaking out. "Nooooo not again!"
China's chipmakers could use RISC-V to reduce impact of US sanctions
While a little off-topic, since this is an article about the US, PayPal does have a European banking license: https://web.archive.org/web/20161122071031/http://www.e-coml...
Suggestion: do the same for transformer.
Previous discussion (2016):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382493
Can you explain why the RISC-V needs to happen? I am not familiar with the chip industry, so I don't understand why the RISC-V will move computing forward and x86/ARM won't move it forward.

Edit: Does it have to do with being open-source?
What i don‘t get is how optimizations should work for Risc-V. For e.g. intel chips you can do optimizations for every generation because some things have been optimized in the architecture so you can do different tricks. But with risc-v only the instruction set is the same and every cpu could implement it differently with different performance characteristics. How should someone optimize for this?
Europe could have stepped up and become competitive long before, but they are too complacent with the status quo. It's good that finally someone steps up.
Because most of the world has flourished under Pax Americana. The world can only imagine what the Chinese as a world power will bring.
The way I see it, that's basically the definition of philosophy. When some sub-discipline of philosophy becomes clear enough to define its questions, they give it some other name (cf linguistics, economics, "natural philosophy")

What's left as "philosophy" is always the stuff where we don't even really know what questions to ask. So we kick them around for a few centuries, or millennia, in the hopes that something will eventually take on a shape that can be pursued in a better-defined fashion.
>I think perhaps french novels have more fascination with money than English novels.

Personally I was always fascinated by the Count of Monte Cristo (not much later than Austen's work, published in 1844), when he arrives in Paris and presents to Mr. Danglars an unlimited letter of credit by the bankers French & Thomson:

>"Why," said Danglers, "in the letter -- I believe I have it
about me" -- here he felt in his breast-pocket -- "yes, here
it is. Well, this letter gives the Count of Monte Cristo
unlimited credit on our house."

"Well, baron, what is there difficult to understand about
that?"

"Merely the term unlimited -- nothing else, certainly."

"Is not that word known in France? The people who wrote are
Anglo-Germans, you know."

and, later:

>"Well, sir," resumed Danglars, after a brief silence, "I
will endeavor to make myself understood, by requesting you
to inform me for what sum you propose to draw upon me?"

"Why, truly," replied Monte Cristo, determined not to lose
an inch of the ground he had gained, "my reason for desiring
an `unlimited' credit was precisely because I did not know
how much money I might need."
It does not load painfully slow for me. 2-4 seconds to load and that's about it. I'm considering it acceptable.
The thing I enjoy most about the sponsored posts is seeing people rip into the product in the comments.
Ada languished for years with expensive, proprietary compilers and a community that largely ignored open source culture. Is it any surprise that Rust is having more success breaking into the modern mainstream software world?
To a weighting that virtually ignores multi core performance entirely.

Multi-Core weighting is now downgraded from 10% to 2%, single-core is at 40% and quad-core at 58%:
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Faq/What-is-the-effective-CPU-...

Counting 58% for four cores yet only 2% for >4 cores in effective speed is nothing short of an outright lie. And this change coming 2 weeks after benchmark results that put Ryzen ahead in multi-core and value proposition.
> rights and freedoms of others", but it doesn't spell out what that means

Hmm, that's unfortunate it's not at least a little more specific, but at the least I'd expect the right to lawful freedom of speech.

I get that these are "work emails", but this just feels very wrong to me, and doesn't seem to fit with the intent of the GDPR.
The better alternative is forcing supplier to get an insurance.

e.g. we want a road that will be X feet wide and will last Y years provided no earthquakes. Maintenance cost + Z dollars per day closed comes from insurance.

Want to use old boring tech - you insurance cost is lower. Want to try something new and shiny. Your insurance rate is higher at first, but may go down in the future.
When will RISC-V move to multi-chip modules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-chip_module) as AMD has done very successfully with Ryzen?

It allows for easy scaling of CPU designs as well as increasing yield by making smaller components that have overall lower defect rates.

hat seems like the logical next move for most CPU chip vendors/designers except for maybe ARM.
This place is becoming NYT spam house.

Literally everyone already knows alcoholism is bad for you.
I'm sorry to sound pessimistic, but I don't think that there's any technical solution to dirty data.

The problem is usually not "This data was sent as a JSON without any schema and with syntax errors", it's "This avro file has a completely useless schema (e.g. everything is typed as string|null) and there are multiple enumerations where the same value is encoded as 3 different strings (e.g. yes, y, true)"
The pedo thing wasn't a single sentence. It was something Elon doubled down on. And repeated. Many times. He deserves to be vilified for trying to abuse his wealth to destroy a critic who was correct about his grandstanding during a crisis where people's lives were at stake.
Consent Matters: When Tech Takes Remote Control Without Your Permission
“There but for the grace of God go I”, a sentiment even atheistic people should share. Maybe in dry scientific speak, “if it weren’t for the entirety of human culture, evolution, and the specific conditions of the Earth from prehistory until the present, I would not be here where I am today in my particular frame of mind. I didn’t even get to choose which ‘I’ I am, I could have been the person I hate or pity instead”
Let's not pretend the US and China are equally authoritarian please.
How to look after your mental health and combat loneliness as a startup founder
The full title of the first book is "Oxygen, The molecule that made the world", and was published in 2002. I'm not sure how much things have changed in the past 17 years, but presumably it is mostly still up to date.

The first half of the book is about the history of oxygen on the planet and interesting details on how we can know it. The second half of the book is about oxygen processes on life mostly at the cellular level but also some at the whole-organism level.

The book is pretty dense but it is fill with enough interesting ideas, such as why it is believed that cells had developed the ability to produce antioxidants before there was much free atmospheric oxygen. There is a discussion of how can it be that at every cellular division there is a certain fraction of transcription errors, yet the germ line still can pass on for billions of generations and still produce a healthy population.
Encoding what is essentially able to produce random proteins by backing up data to it.

What could possibly go wrong?
Ask HN: What UI tools do you use and what are their pain points
Hi,

I'm currently doing Startup School 2019.

I'm working on Skelet, a desktop app for web developers to help them design their User Interfaces and export the code to their favourite framework directly.

My first task obviously is to talk to users and I would like to know what are the tools you use, if they are adapted to your workflow or if they generate lots of frustations.

I have a small landing page : https://skelet.app
My apologies if its not adapted to your device as it was quickly put together to gather feedback.

Thanks!
Thanks for the read! I appreciate the thought and work you put into this. And now my obligatory gripes!

Under the PHP section you claim

"if an included file must return a value but the file cannot be included, include statement returns FALSE and only generates a warning. If a file is required, one must use require()."

How is that a negative? That sounds like expected behavior to me and I can't imagine it working any other way.

$error = include('script.php'); // Return FALSE and continue anyway.

require('script.php'); // Die with error.

How is that undesirable/wrong? It lets you do things like...

$error = include('script-A.php');
if ($error == FALSE) require('script-B.php');
Most of the pictures in the article were taken in the US in the early 20th century: engineering equipment, farm fields. Nothing from the Dr. Fernberger’s research in Japan is actually displayed.
I guess this is a good time to share my implementation too. Unfortunately it's pretty much desktop only, but includes a high scores board!

https://github.com/reed-jones/minesweeper_js

And to play it:

https://minesweeper.zone/
> Perhaps the quality of flavor of the kiwi is just affected by the climate and soil.

That's almost certainly what is happening, unless they have some separate cultivar that was bred to better withstand the Italian climate where they are grown, which is also quite possible.

Berries are an easy one to compare this effect to in North America - you can often tell the difference between a good growing year and a bad one from strawberries, which prefer hot springs and early summers with little rain, and will taste differently if they get cold temperatures and a very wet spring.

Source: grew up in farm country, have picked single cultivar source berries for preserves/freezing/eating for many years.
>though in the EU they have to provide notice of that monitoring

There is an interesting exception; if private usage of your work mail account is banned, it should not contain private data and therefore, it's free to be monitored. Same for internet usage. This is usually coded into your contract when you sign.
Which countries has realDonaldTrump tweeted about?
Negligible userbase compared to Twitter. Suggestion doesn't solve the stated problem in a way that solves it, instead advocates adviser's hobbyhorse.
Have you ever been to a desert? Some deserts are incredibly filled with life and diversity. It's no forest or prairie, but life finds a way. Desert by definition is someplace that gets little rainfall and lacks as much vegetation as other areas.
> If the saving the world stuff was actually Tesla's mission they wouldn't have their CEO bounce back from LA to the Bay Area on a private jet every other day. Each time he flies he offsets the carbon savings of pretty much every Tesla driven in CA that day.

I don't follow the logic. The impact of a jet flying back and forth pales in comparison to the impact of switching vehicles away from fossils. You're comparing the incomparable. Many orders of magnitude of difference separate the two.
Yes, that new algorithm disproportionally disadvantages AMD CPUs which are largely about multi-core performance. The new score weighting basically ignores the main advantages of the Ryzen series.
There is no question it happened -- we know for sure the Russians were pushing hard on this. Most nation-states push propaganda, this was just especially hard and blatant. The question is how much did it help, and were other players, like the NRA, Koch Bros, etc. also involved?

With sanctions freezing huge amount of their assets the Russians didn't really have any serious plays against the US except pushing the soft-power propaganda angle[1]. Essentially they (Russians) just kept trying lots of random things[1], in high volume, until something stuck -- and it worked, spectacularly well too, mostly due to decades of propaganda already shaping the Republican base.

Hilary was marketing hard on all platforms, but some estimates put the Russian spend at $400k USD per month, on top of NRA, GOP, and other heavy Right-Wing spends.

[1] see RAND Corp research about this: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
> climate change causing crop failures and push up the price of food. That sounds plausible.

It has to be verified for each case. In the case of the Syrian civil conflict, many aren't convinced:

https://theconversation.com/is-syria-really-a-climate-war-we...

But more in general, climate might act as a multiplier of existing weaknesses. A drought or a crop failure (and other climate related disasters such as floods) is something a healthy country can withstand without much trouble. A poor country, with bad infrastructures and planning, is going to be affected much more. But it's an astoundingly silly idea that of improving the situation by fixing the droughts- but leaving those countries as vulnerable and politically unstable as ever- as opposed to helping countries to become more politically stable, wealthy, with better planning and infrastructure.

A few years ago a WHO report calculated in many hundreds of thousands the yearly victims of climate change. Digging in the report, it turned out that the number was calculated as such: diarrhoea statistically kills x% more people per year per each added degree in average temperatures- but only in very poor countries, where sanitation and public health systems are severely lacking. It follows that by fixing sanitation and health care in those countries, at a relatively modest expense, we could save many millions, climate change or not.
I don't know anyone with Asperger personally but based on my limited research and foreknowledge of the the condition I found it rather odd that the author would be surprised by any of this. I don't have Asperger's and even I wouldn't be surprised by any of this if it were to happen to me.
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And it should cost a few seconds to actually hold the like button to like. This avoids unnecessary likes.
> Doesn't format=flowed mangle patches?

It will because every line would end in a single trailing whitespace character. But that doesn't mean you cannot use Thunderbird with format=flowed enabled to respond to patch emails. Unless you're including a patch in the message and expect someone to use git am to apply it to their local git repo, having format=flowed set won't matter.

> I wish thunderbird allowed me to select portions of the text to wrap, or to disable wrapping for selected portions

You can sort of do it by copying unwrapped text from another program and pasting it into Thunderbird as quoted text (ctrl-shift-o or paste as quotation). But you will need to manually remove the quote markers from the beginning of each line.
But what is the bar for blacklisting? If I don't like a colleague and someone asks me for my opinion on them, is it blacklisting for me to honestly share my opinion?
Cannot read it, have to pay for it WTF.
I imagine Latin America and the Middle East would disagree a tad bit with you.
Or build something they prefer. If someone is too slow in standardizing there often many concurring „standards“ because people needed a solution.
Ideally, if you are not sure you have any environment equal to prod, you clone prod first, apply your schema migration there, install your applications and run their tests.
In an increasingly contracting media enviroent, its not surprising that the majority of general news articles are coming from the likes of the NY times, Bloomberg and WSJ because they are doing the most original reporting. They are spending far more on original news reporting than many other outlets' combined.
Maybe it’s counting in microseconds?
You're not alone in arguing for the importance of this page :)
https://m.xkcd.com/843/
Has it? I've done much reading on the GDPR, and it certainly wasn't clear to me. "Data", of course - but regardless of technicality, I see email/slack/IM messages more as "personal communication" than "data".
Don't confuse the rank and file voters for those elected. There is a lot of frustration. Politics is complex.
Yes, I absolutely did mean this. Just read the comment I responded to:
"Some people tried to go to Greece on boats which many of them died on the way."

Obviously, those people thought it was enough of a hellhole that they risked their lives to take boats to Greece, and died!

>Those academics who stayed in Turkey despite their credentials, probably have such a preference.

I'm not talking about anyone who's staying there. I'm talking about people who are actively trying to escape and are risking their lives to get out. Obviously, they're perfectly willing to abandon those cities "full of thousands of years of history". Besides, western Europe is chock full of other cities with thousands of years of history that don't have the problems Turkey has, and that's where these people were headed to, not the US or Canada.
It's worth gathering a list of things as a reference, but it's not very interesting to read. Worse, listicles are on so many "viral" pieces it's become a big turn-off.

It would be more engaging if you picked a few items and went into depth in their commonalities, differences or origins.
Cyber Thieves Steal Lancaster University Students’ Data
But the many worlds interpretation is also a sort of gap-plugging, unfalsifiable argument to me. With it, no need to actually explain why the universe is one way or another: all the possibilities exist in different worlds.

I think people delude themselves that science, at least as currently practised, is always objective.
mostly hunted for sport well before the romans
For anyone interested in mental models, I strongly recommend checking out Askeladden Capital's website (http://www.askeladdencapital.com/). He's written something like 500k words on it.
This. My heart aches on a whole new level when I hear/read/experience children and parents going through such hard things. We've had very close friends lose children at a very young age and it's heartbreaking.

I have nothing but sympathy for everyone involved and admiration for the strength of the parents. Few people are more motivated and capable than parents being told that a problem that affects their children cannot be solved.
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Hardly.

As someone who lost two parents to alcoholism in the past five years, I can assure you that it is alive and well, and taking lives along the way.

You never know when one of these stories may encourage your fellow reader to decide that today is a great day to get sober.
Your hypothesis is that this model (screen instead of knobs) is more dangerous. Do you have any data to back this up?
I wouldn't think an email would be considered to be inside a "database system."
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This conversation has been going on for a little while already. Elizabeth Warren directly addresses proprietary markets (i.e. participating in you own) in her plan to break up big tech companies[0]. Her argument essentially boils down to either participating in someone else's marketplace to sell goods, or running your own marketplace without being able to transact within it, but preventing the ability to run and participate within a single market.

0: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...
Why not send your daughter? It's 2019 after all.

Equality means they can be fed to the meatgrinder too.
So it's okay if the US monitors and intercepts global communications. But it's bad if China does it?
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The new EU SEPA system launched in 2017 has 10-second settlement and it's available 24/7.

You're not going to compete with Venmo, PayPal and Libra with "same day if I get it in by noon"
This has been the case under the old data protection regime as well, and indeed I know someone else who used it against an educational institution who they suspected was blacklisting them - and also turned out to be right.

It's squarely within the spirit of data protection as well. Are those emails data? Yes. Do they relate to you? Yes. Are they being used to make decisions which affect your employment? Also yes.

Redacting the PII of others in the same emails is an extremely tricky problem though.

The lesson of this and other things like the LIBOR chatroom has to be "don't conspire against people on your employer's computer systems".

There is a flip side to blacklisting; one of the things that has emerged from the #metoo era is that many institutions had staff who were "missing stairs" - they were widely known to harass female staff, and the whisper networks propagated this, and even in some cases the male staff were aware that they shouldn't leave X alone with a female staff member, but no action was taken.

GRPR forces institutions to be open with their disciplinary processes. You can't "shadowban" staff, unless you're willing to do it entirely verbally without ever committing to email.
What? I have almost no idea what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that intellectuals should be forced to stay in their countries with dictators? I guess you're a big fan of East Germany and North Korea, huh?
Don't blindly follow. I keep my GPS in North-Up, and I always zoom out to see the intended route. Also, GPS's tend to take you through extra turns a 'native' driver of the area probably wouldn't take. Save 30 seconds at .1 miles by taking 3 turns through this neighborhood, when in reality it was just as quick to continue straight and turn right at the major intersection.

You really only need to know how to get to and a major thoroughfare, how those thoroughfares connect to vicinity of your destination, and then the steps from the thoroughfare to your destination.