skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See that yellow bump in the winter for Yellowstone? You can access a fair bit of Yellowstone in the winter and I highly recommend it!

If you've ever been there in the summer the experience is much different. Instead of lines of cars and crowds of tourists you almost have the place to yourself. Drive to the base and they will take you on a snow cat up to the lodge. From there, you can cross country ski, take snow cat tours or just walk around and experience amazing things surrounded by quiet nature - snow-caked bison, wolves, foxes hunting mice in snow.

My wife and I were by ourselves waiting for Ol' Faithful to blow when a coyote walked by us heading toward the hills, passing no more than 20 feet away. It's not for everyone, but if you want to do something awesome and skip the crowds, it's a great experience!
Yeah he has about the same amount of love for userland threads ;-)
It takes a long time for trees to die (100+ years). The problem here is that it usually takes more than a dollar to grow a tree
> Arrays of memristors can do these tasks efficiently because they become analog computations instead of digital.

What does this even mean in a computer? How can you do a non-digital computation?
Pretty much all syntax is unreadable if you don't know the lingo. For example, try presenting the ubiquitous

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {}

to ten random people without prior programming experience and see how many of them can correctly tell you what all that means. Similarly,

{ a, b in a > b }

is probably not very clear to people who don't write Swift and perfectly lovely closure syntax to people who do.

There's language syntax that's actually unreadable, for instance due to using names that obscure or otherwise don't clearly express what a construct is/does or using the same operator/keyword for too many different context-dependent purposes. I don't quite think the sheer presence of angle brackets makes code unreadable, any more than the sheer presence of curly braces or parentheses do.
I really hope Disney starts doing Pixar remakes with real actors and/or realistic visuals.
No, it's pretty bad on desktop too. If I try to scroll a little bit to read the bottom of the first section (which doesn't quite fit in the 300px height), I get snapped to the second section, with no way of reading the last part of the first section without "maintaining" the scroll by click+dragging the scroll bar without releasing it. It's a pretty bad experience overall.

Removing the `mandatory` value from the attribute makes it a little better (in that the snapping is more a suggestion but you're still able to at least scroll such that all content is accessible), but it's still frustrating that the scroll position is hijacked.
Exactly. I'm more than happy for more labels saying how bad sugary drinks are - like a less extreme version of smoking warnings - but taking a choice away for someone because you think you know better is authoritarian, even if we're only talking about a drink.
This Capsule Challenges Vacuum Tube (1948)
I’ve just finished a three month trip driving twice across the US, hitting 21 states and camping in most of those (wife and three young kids). In summer. It’s been very hot and Big Bend was particularly brutal. We were up in the Chisos Basin the first night where it was cooler and then down near the Mexican border the second night where a storm made it bearable.

We camped in a mixed of national parks/monuments, state parks, water authority areas, BLM, etc.
This looks like a great way to help people without a traditional background, I love it!

One question: Do you help employers pick an appropriate salary that is not abusive but reflects the candidates lack of experience? I ask because I myself hired a career transitioner and I had no idea what a fair wage was to pay her, and neither did she. We eventually settled on a number that worked for me and her, but I still have no idea if it's fair.
Interesting, I hadn't considered GZipping, that probably would be much smaller than JSON in that case. Maybe Tree Notation has a chance after all.
I've worked at eBay and heard badthings about Amazon on the logistics/fulfillment side which doesn't apply to AWS. I'd choose AWS as there is so much being done and still so much more to do.
If I call up a restaurant and ask "do you have fish today" and they say "no, today we have steak" I do not consider that advertising.
Curious to know what's so problematic about the Nivea claim that it's for sensitive skin?
People with riskier lives should simply pay more into healthcare insurance.
Ask HN: How to Work Sustainably as a Data Scientist?
Hi HN!

I'm a Data Scientist who has worked for some time in predictive maintenance, specifically for the chemical industry.
I'll go back to university to study a Master's degree in Data Science, but already want to extend my horizon with interesting fields to work in.

I would like to do something meaningful and would like to find out what's possible perhaps in green tech, education, or other fields I'm not aware of.
Making the chemical industry greener is obviously something with a potentially great effect, but it's very difficult to get datasets one could develop a product with.

Any ideas?
Digital Government Is Failing
One valid scenario for mutexes timing out is stealing:

1. Each CPU first attempts to take an allocated object from its own pool, using a 1ms timeout to acquire the mutex on the pool.

2. If that fails, the CPU attempts to steal from the other CPU pools, using a zero timeout (immediately return if the mutex can't be taken).

3. If that fails, acquire the mutex on its own pool with an infinite timeout.

This is definitely correct and is much faster than any of the lock-free approaches I could come up with. I guess the general class of problems where mutex timeouts help is when you have "many valid options, some of which are being used by others."
a few observations - the cat went for easy prey, ie. land based birds. The people could have started feeding that cat, and that would have probably decreased his hunting drive. The people staking out there may have probably added to the distress of the colony of the birds who seems to not be a big fan of people. City limit of 2 cats seems to be typical bureaucrat knee jerk reaction - after all one specific cat was supposedly enough to drive the colony away, so why 2? not 1, 0, 3, 4? or why the limit at all?
Oxygen is much more important than water for decomposition.
As the article itself mentions, ads are not inherently bad.
When justified, it's a way for a company X to say "hey, I've this product Y that does Z", informing the market.
However, things go south very rapidly in our world, and is far from this simple honest task of informing the market.

Wikipedia banner falls more or less in the honest category. It's even slightly better as the population "paying" for the product (through gifts) are already using it, and know its quality and its flaws.
I recall higher performance browsers also use up large numbers of FDs; I suspect it might be for this very reason.
Excepting a few toll roads, roads for cars operate exclusively at a loss. They recoup no revenue at all, and are funded entirely by the public.
Very cool! I know nothing about solar sails, but I wonder if the craft could have LEDs mounted to it so it could bombard different regions of the sail with photons to make it turn appropriately.
Very happy Sonic customer here. I just moved from San Francisco to the East Bay and the process was mostly painless, and when a little glitch did occur, instead of trying to force me to deal with the existence of their internal processes, policies, and silos, something I call Conway's Law For Customers, they just Took Care Of It For Me.
As someone who has been a non-traditional candidate in the past, and also leveraged non-traditional candidates as an employer, this is amazing. Thank you for doing it! I would have used this myself in the past, and I'm confident that both sides of your market will find huge value in this!
Who knows? In another 10 years, pizzagate players may also end up spending a few hours in the slammer every week.
How Sydney destroyed its trams for love of the car
Not useless at all. If websites are required, by law, to protect your information, seek permission to share it and also institute retention policies based on your preferences, this would be a huge improvement in privacy.

If by external backups you mean my cousin copying one of my photos and saving it or something like that, sure, I take your point. However, I think you understand exactly what I mean. There's a massive difference between that and Facebook having an entire record of my life, complete with tags, pictures and classifications, all of which I have exactly zero control over.

And, no, social media does not exist to facilitate law enforcement investigations. If that is their primary purpose they need to disclose it. It so happens that it can be used that way, but we should not pass legislation based on the possibility of law enforcement using these databases to effectively spy and reach for people's private information.

Cautionary tales abound, incuding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
"Unofficially", officially he has some Italian clunker. MiG-29 is considered a weapon that can't be held privately.
The amount of CO2 that mature trees use is also higher though. As in while they sequester more CO2 they also burn more CO2 through respiration.
Is your suspicion based on facts? Love of trees?

I'm pretty confident OP up there also loves trees. But we're at a point where we need to calculate efforts and allocate resources wisely. Maybe we need fewer forests and more nuclear. idk.

I know for a fact every tree I can plant with my bare hands would be carbon negative, because I did the math.
So in your world where advertising went away and Facebook/Google/YouTube/etc are gone (don't pretend they'd survive without ads), where exactly do you do the screaming? In real world public spaces? That's an even more toxic form of advertising and far more wasteful.
Depends who you ask I guess
I do not think generics should be added to Go. It does minimalism and it does it tolerably well. Yet I enjoy using generics in other programming languages. If I had my druthers I'd be in Haskell-land in more than my spare time.

Hence, my modest proposal: Add generics, but make it a brand-new programming language with a totally different name.

Sadly, the name Blub is already taken. I propose we call it Glop. Or perhaps: Gong.
I've seen some pretty flashy lobbies and interior spaces in Boston (Brigham and Women's) and Providence (Lifespan) where you get the hotel impression. I could not find easy-to-point-at pictures, but there are some littered around (best I can show is http://www.discoverbrigham.org/2017-discover-brigham-photos-... which looks like a convention hall but is actually shot at the hospital). As soon as you get past them though to the functional spaces it usually turns into the traditional easy to clean hallway systems, but some of the lobbies have that marble, high ceiling, hotel lobby kind of look. There are plenty that I have been to that haven't exuded that kind of feeling however (or were an alternate entrance).
Art is the new snake oil! All we need is more art!
Thanks for explaining, it does make sense.

> but how many users are going to be motivated by that to move the needle

1 is enough to disprove "Nobody is going to switch from Chrome to Firefox if the UI is radically different" which was my point. zazaraka is projecting their displeasure on a lot of people.
That's probably because the author uses loaded language, and bases the whole article on an analogy with cancer, which has a slight tendency to evoke the worst kind of crap people can think of and want to entirely get rid of at all costs.
That's because it's like targeted advertising: Now that they know you 're looking for food, they can make the advertisement relevant. It would sound worse if they said "No but would you like a pair of sandals"
This is good content and imo remote work is not the same as distributed teams, clustered in offices around the world. Usually these work autonomously and resemble a company within a company. Remote work on the other hand is work in isolation, and the points you raised are valid.

As someone who works remote, i would stress that some, if not all, go both ways. Personally, I try and adjust my work hours to my client’s, and where not possible, I make sure there at least a generous overlap, so that ignorance is reduced and communication and clarity increased. Same for cultural communication differences - i make sure i understand the other side and adapt to an organisation’s predominant style, to reduce frustration. From my experience as a remote office manager, i know communication is pretty much the root of all evil.
> then I have to be familiar with the full semantics of C# generics.

Presumably, by the time the feature ships, the golang.org/doc entry on generics will not consist of just 'lol, they are just like C# generics, docs.microsoft.com, chum'
Planting trees can only ever be part of the solution, but it gives you time to greatly reduce net CO2 emissions while you figure out how to reduce gross CO2 emissions effectively.

And out of all countries the UK is the one of the few that could actually plant half it's land area in trees.
A Man Who Set Up His Own Toll Road, Without Permission
FIOS wasn't actually why that market segment died; it was due to the FCC decision to re-classify DSL [0]. This was in response to a lawsuit resolved a few months earlier that did the same for cable internet connections. [1]

By re-classifying both cable and DSL as Title 1, rather than Title 2, that meant that they were no longer common carriers, and could kick all the competing ISPs off their network. This is why it seemed that most of the third-party providers went away nearly overnight.

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-changes-dsl-classification/

[1]" https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/technology/cable-wins-int...
Apple financed TSMC's 7nm to a large extent, AMD lucked out.
Camped in Deep Creek and Cades Cove a few weeks ago and it was very warm.
Very easily. Analog computation used to be very common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
Canada almost always replaces their forests.

Brazil is different they are being cleared for agriculture but it is hard to tell them they can't clear forest to become rich when most of the rich world did that before them.
If you emit a particle (a photon) and then catch it the net effect will be 0.
I've never worked with them directly, but I've been looking at making a little game using Rust for some time. This site has been really helpful for library discovery and examples. I'd imagine there's a good amount of image processing and some linear algebra goes into these libs: http://arewegameyet.com/
Sounds like a business opportunity.

You get customers to pay for the planting of 500 trees at $X/tree. This is treated as a long-term investment. 30 years later the trees are harvested and the "investors" get back X% of the value of the trees.

So they get to say they live a carbon-neutral life, and as a bonus, get to make some money.
This process took way too long. I've already moved back to Python3 and am super happy with it. The truth is most software doesn't really need the performance benefit Golang offers and you can code up something in Python in at least half to a third of the time it would take in Golang. Aside from agility, there's one other benefit that imo matters a lot: reduced LoC. If there's one thing I've learned in my career, it's that you can never really have too few lines of code, provided it achieves the same result as a hypothetical more verbose alternative.

I will admit though that I miss Go's CSP implementation and error-handling convention. Maybe I'll come back to it in the future after they add generics and fix the dependency system.
It's not enough to make a non-zero profit. You have to be as profitable as similarly risky industries, or else capital will flow to those industries instead. Drug development is similar to tech in many respects--a lot of the work is done by startups (which are later acquired by the big companies). If profits go down, the money for acquisitions goes down, and the incentives to form and invest in the startups goes down. Instead, the capital goes elsewhere.

If the government decided that Internet tech companies were "obscenely profitable" and started regulated prices so profits went down to 10% (instead of 30%+ for some companies like Facebook), do you think Silicon Valley would still produce the same output?
Strawman argument. When advertising works it has some upside for everyone (customers, platforms and advertisers), dumping toxic waste only benefits the dumper.
The problem with bus lanes is that they require failure in order to operate. If you implement bus lanes and they succeed in relieving traffic congestion but the congestion was the only reason people weren't driving then people go back to driving and you go back to having congestion. There is no way for them to actually relieve the congestion because having congestion is the method by which they operate. But they can make it worse by wasting a travel lane during the times of day when there would have been enough road capacity if not for the bus lane.

If you want to make buses actually work, make them work like Uber. You go to the bus stop where there is a screen you can input your destination (or you use your phone), and the nearest minibus going in your direction stops to pick you up, which each carries eight passengers rather than forty. Then it drops you off at your actual destination instead of four blocks from there, and picks you up faster to begin with because there are five times as many buses of a fifth the size and they can be diverted from nearby routes to pick you up as soon as you summon them.

At that point they're almost as good as a car most of the time, only they cost a lot less and only take up an eighth of the space on the road per passenger. And you don't have to operate huge wasteful 40-passenger vehicles during off-peak hours just to carry 3 passengers.
I would argue that society would be worse off. There are a lot of things we enjoy, for free or cheap, because of advertising.
Tv, radio, street fair, among other things

And no, we wouldn't have billions of dollars to spend on other things. The soft drink companies would have billions of dollars more profit. And fewer people would have jobs

The cost of drinks wouldn't go down. Basically the only thing that would change is we would lose a lot of free things, and fewer people would have money.
In UK schools we are taught BODMAS:
Brackets
Of (as in "to the power of")
Divide and Multiply
Add and Subtract

In the US they say PEMDAS (P and E being parentheses and exponent respectively). No doubt other countries use something equivalent.

If you apply this rule you will get the right answer, as long as you also remember to carry out operations with the same precedence left-to-right.
I know that better than most of the lot here. Your trust into expertise of patent examiners is misplaced.

I see not a single thing specific in their claims describing a design or manufacturing process for that device which would allow me to make it.

For example, use of a "transparent conductor" connecting things is not a design decision, nor an invention just like using wires to connect electricity. No this not an invention.
Well, sometimes you are in Do not Disturb mode, so notifications don't come through. Also, this thing would always be on, and you simply need to glance over to see:

Next meeting in X minutes. Also my calendar is kinda full, so seeing conflicts for the next meetings would be super-cool.
At least in India some companies sell/leak their user email list to others; those others also cultivate these details from domain names, company registration etc; & then fake or referred-link emails on genuine companies' name (with or without Genuine Company's consent).

I got bombarded with 35+ emails every day few years back; & documented it at https://gitlab.com/davchana/gmail-indian-spam-domains/blob/m...

Unsubscribe link click marks your email as live/hot; & gets them a higher price everytime it is clicked by you & then sold by them as fresh hot.
Former Sonic customer here. I caved and moved to the South Bay after doing the commute for too long and Sonic is honestly what I miss most about the city.
You can make memristors at home by joining together two dissimilar oxidized metal surfaces. Some details on a DIY project given here:

http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm
I work for a company in a department that sends out on average, 2 million emails a day. These are emails to people who (1 or more):

- have signed up and are receiving a verification email.

- are giving us money

- are using our site at least once a week during the first month, and even if they taper off, are at least using it every 180 days.

So, we're not sending email to people who we've never met, as it were. We have an unsubscribe link in all our emails, and an account email settings page that has about half the mailings we can send as initially subscribed (we like money), but which can be turned off. We even have links to our settings page in the emails and on all the site pages.

I like to think we're being fairly responsible, all in all.

Like I said, we send 2 million emails a day. That goes out on a lot of machines, and we have lots of automation going on nearly every minute, and lots of email queues being prepopulated to send out in volumes acceptable to gmail, outlook, yahoo, etc.

So, you've asked to unsubscribe to the email you received last week. We got you, fam. I analyzed logs and did some live testing using our VPN at offices across the world. Over the past 3 years, you've been removed from your chosen lists within 2 seconds of clicking the button. This obviously doesn't cover hardware/network/server problems.

So we're cool, right? Nope. You're unsubscribed all right. However, we already placed you in the queue for our most recent mailing about 4 hours ago, and you're going to get the last one from us anywhere within 2 seconds from now to maybe late tomorrow.

You really won't get anymore from us after that, though.
Not very many programmers are uniquely qualified or special either.

Reality does hurt.
The kind of job that people new-in-town-with-no-money get typically pay cash.

Being a cleaner for example, garden work, etc. That sort of job you can knock on doors and get there and then, and be paid for 3-4 hours each time. You can probably earn enough to pay for food in the first week (while sleeping under a bridge), and food and a hostel the 2nd week. Proper housing is far harder to get, because it typically requires a big deposit and proof of employment.
The iconic Joshua Tree is in trouble
The problem is nobody is having a proper discourse on how to make ads better. There is a real problem here that we can fix and need to fix if we want to keep the internet economy from eventually collapsing when everyone gets too sick of ads to avoid adblockers.
I can tell you from personal experience that super fast internet and small town is more of a unicorn than finding a 100% remote work gig.
> I don't know what you mean by "allow governments to negotiate drug prices". The US doesn't have any say in whether other countries negotiate prices domestically.

State and the Federal governments. The USG isn't the only governmental body in the USA.

All are essentially blocked from negotiations by Federal law/policy.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...