skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a wonder to me that when presidential candidate Andrew Yang stated at the 2nd debate that we need to get resources into the hands of citizens so that they can move to higher ground that he was lambasted by climate change activists, who then painted him as a do-nothing candidate on climate change. This js quite far from his actual policies which entails an all-in approach including both emission reduction and geo-engineering, while also wanting to pass a UBI, which could help people escape flood plains. I believe here Mr. Yang was just stating plainly the facts and projections of climate scientists and what we should do in response.
> "There's serious consequences for those violations. Discipline. Suspensions. Civil penalties"

Too bad there will be no consequences to folks who took the guy who _attempted suicide_ once already off the suicide watch, turned off the cameras, and left him alone for an hour.

Nor for the mainstream press who will memory hole this story by Friday.
Are you the shy job seeker?
I work in embedded sw in the automotive world and I absolutely did not understand how container accelerates their development.

Could someone here with experience in this things enlighten me ? F22 raptor is still an embedded system, I cannot believe that it runs a linux with container. What I am missing to comprehend this article.
Just another shameless plug here. I'm developing an SVG editor which focuses on generating clean and readable SVG files (e.g. no redundant namespaces, metadata or deeply nested structures).

You can try it online on https://boxy-svg.com, there are also desktop apps for macOS, Windows, Linux and Chrome OS.
Yup, my goal over the next month is to 5x the size of the component library, as well as start adding some more dynamic components like full dashboards, activity feeds, user settings pages, etc. Bootstrap is definitely coming. If you select it as an option you can enter your email. Just testing where the demand is. So far Boostrap and Material UI are about neck and neck. Feel free to shoot me an email at hello@divjoy.com if you want to get involved.
Looking up astrophysics and ML stuff is usually pretty difficult. Same thing with Japanese folk tales (revenge plays of the 18th and 19th century) and poetry.
> Is it worth implementing a cache layer in a system?

This isn't a "Tech Debt" thing. This is a feature/scoping thing. Does my system need to handle 1M concurrent users? If so, support that. If not, don't support it.

But we don't need the absurd concept of "Tech Debt" for effective analysis. We can be specific. We can be clear. Does my system need to support low latency in the face of 1M concurrent users? Yes or no. Now proceed.

"Tech Debt" is such a ridiculous dodge to otherwise avoid real analysis, real work, real clarity.
oh it definitely is a rewrite
This is really promising and I'm fully set up and using it.

One question I have for the author is about keyboard access - there seem to be no keyboard shortcuts at all right now, or even basic navigation (up/down, etc.)

Is there any timeline on those sorts of things being available (or possible to add with a plugin)? Once those are in place it'll be far more practical for me to use Yack day-to-day...
A Tesla Model 3 owner implanted her car's key into her arm
“a new regulation announced Tuesday will require all organisms facing extinction to actively search for a new habitat in order to receive funding for their protection”

https://www.theonion.com/new-regulation-requires-all-protect...
Those transmissions won't go more than the next slight rise in the ground or valley. High data rate requires line of sight which requires height above terrain which requires either money or rare luck.
This surely won't fuel the theories that powerful politicians killed Epstein.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit Season 8 Episode 8 did an experiment to try to verify this. They couldn't find that people could predict who is old and who isn't via a sniff test.
what's BitChute? Never heard of it.
Cloudflare post on this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-recent-http-2-dos-attacks...
> Does anyone have some tips on where to get cheap power?

Do you live in a location that offers real-time pricing? Where I live, you can opt-in to such a scheme and then monitor an API from the power company and adjust/schedule your power usage to favor times in which electricity is very inexpensive. [1] Sometimes, you might even get paid to consume electricity:

> Negative Prices: With real-time hourly market prices, it is possible for the price of electricity to be negative for short periods of time. This typically occurs in the middle of the night and under certain circumstances when electricity supply is far greater than demand. In the market, some types of electricity generators cannot or prefer not to reduce electricity output for short periods of time when demand is insufficient, and as a result some generators may provide electricity to the market at prices below zero. Since Hourly Pricing participants pay the market price of electricity, they are actually being paid to use electricity during negative priced hours. Delivery charges still apply.

[1] https://hourlypricing.comed.com/live-prices/?date=20190813
I feel the same way about ranking new websites. In high school, friends and I made a website for which we did zero search engine optimization (nor were we even aware of search engine optimization). We still ranked in relevant queries and easily got an audience of about ten thousand uniques a month.

Today, I struggle to get sites I make to show up on Google at all. For my most recent website, even searching for phrases that are unique to my website doesn't cause it to rank. This is more frustrating to me, because I have a Google ad for my website, which drives all of my traffic - so I know Google knows about my website and what keywords are relevant to it.
I always forget that used servers are dirt cheap in the USA compared to other countries.

The other good thing about geting a Dell/HP rack server is you can have 16 drive bays (or more) easily.
It's been a while since I was in a position where I regularly watched servers boot, but 2015ish I was doing a lot of 'boots on the ground' sysadmin and virtualization work. Servers do a lot of additional testing during boot-up, temperature sensors, RAID cache batteries, memory and RAID arrays are all checked. Some of those checks can be disabled, but you don't really reboot production servers regularly so you typically wouldn't want to. The extra 3 minutes of boot time is much easier to deal with than a bad host coming online.

On top of all that it's pretty standard (at least in the VMware world) to store the OS on an SD card. So the OS has to be read into memory and ESX is kinda slow to boot even if installed to a disk.
> the type of company laptop.

Fun fact: when Google employees had Windows laptops, the government of China hacked them, trying to steal identifying information about dissidents.

Do you have state-funded hackers attacking your laptop so they can kill people?
You mean like the abstract ideal of capitalism vs the concrete benefit of healthy ecosystems?
And then clickbait ads once you get past the paywall.
> It's not like I could play the Powerball lottery enough times to prove jackpots pay out at the advertised rates.

You don't have to play the lottery yourself to analyze the results. (Not that anyone participating in a state lottery is paying much attention to the odds... if they cared about that they'd take their money to an actual casino where the house takes a much smaller cut.)

> they could fiddle the draw so jackpots over half a billion dollars all went to the CEO, and it'd be undetectable

It might be undetectable once. Even twice might be written off as coincidence by some, though many would rightfully be convinced it was rigged and stop playing. Sure it's not impossible for that to happen by chance, but the probability of the CEO winning multiple large jackpots is remote. Anyway, most lotteries and the like bar their own employees and close associates from participating; their business rests entirely on their reputation for fair play and they can't afford that kind of conflict of interest.

There are algorithms which can be used to generate provably random results. For example: Pick a random 256-bit seed and announce the hash of that seed to the public. Wait for six blocks to be mined on the Bitcoin blockchain and then announce the seed. The random result is determined apply a predetermined formula to the hash of the seed value plus the blocks mined during that interval. The lottery operator has to choose the seed before they know which blocks will be mined, and the miners don't know what the seed value is until after the fact, so no one has the ability to influence the result.
will update the landing page now.
I migrated away from Mendeley the day I found out Elsevier bought them. So ever since then, I've been paying yearly for storage with for Zotero. Overall, I've been very pleased with Zotero thus far. I've never had an issue getting data in or out of Zotero.

Now Endnote on the other hand... if I could just get collaborators to switch away from Endnote...
Has there been any precedence of this? I know the US and China both have/had pretty terrible pollution without regulation. Has there been any good example of a country that has successfully implemented free market environmentalism? Because at a cursory glance it appears to be the same platitudinous "the market will resolve everything". I can't accept that when the future of the human race is at stake.
> True, but only if ECC is necessary.

big "if" there really, and that makes it an apples-and-oranges comparison IMO.
Microsoft doesn't have anything even remotely resembling a monopoly on server OSes.
How annoying is too annoying?
How did that site get the sports schedule? Did they just copy it from somewhere else?
Interesting project & conclusions.

I guess it depends on what you are trying to solve.

If it is to provide a sandbox for third party plugins then I guess you need to go this route.

Or lets say it there are environment requirements, you have to have a compiled binary for the
correct architecture, like an embedded device.

But if it is only for improving development speed & nothing else I would just ditch the static host language completely & always code in the scripting language.

Lets think about this, if your need for a scripting language is to have short iterations for fast development cycles you basically need to export almost your entire model, otherwise you will be crippled, some business logic in the scripts other things compiled, that can be even be worse than only having a static language.

Now you have everything exported & you implement all new features in the scripting language, what is then the point of the static language? I can't see any. Maybe if there is an argument to be made about certain performance requirements or there is a static library that must be used.

Then it makes more sense to do the other way around by making the scripting language the master & the static the slave. Write everything you can in the scripting language & then when needed call the static language.

Many of the big dynamic languages today has good integration with static libraries thru Foreign Function Interface. LuaJIT, Python, Ruby, PHP etc & all of them has good IDE support & debugging support.

Last decade has improved the tooling for dynamic languages enormously so I rarely see any point of wasting precious time in a compiled language, because time is a limited resource & you must prioritize program features over language masturbation, otherwise you only have an empty shell.
Sometimes I wish America could be more like Hong Kong.
yes, we do. we know money's often tight when you start so we are excited find ways to work with other startups. if you are a startup and sign up for an account on our dash, our CS folks will reach out to you about this.
CBS and Viacom Strike Deal for Long-Thwarted Merger
So this guy doesn't have to pay parking tickets anymore right?
> None of the employees in the article claimed they were miserable

Not in so many words, but many quit for cultural reasons and (at least perceived) retaliation. Others are engaged in lawsuits, presumably not out of pure joy.
If scent is of interest to you, I suggest you read Perfume by Patrick Suskind. I couldn't help but notice the distinct smell of everything and everyone after reading this book.
The F22 was designed in the 80s. It's old. It's fast, certainly the best in some aerodynamic ways, but nothing like the capability the JSF brings in computing technology.

In addition, the threats anticipated that led to its development never materialized.

That's why it was cancelled.
Induced demand: Or, why the highways are never clear
The key question that people are trying to answer in the field of fluid dynamics is how to find the solution to the Navier-Stokes set of equations.

There you go. You have the question. You have a search engine. Go solve it. Oh... Hmm.

'Knowing which question to solve' only helps for easy problems. A search engine can help you solve easy problems. It won't do a damn thing for hard problems. You need someone to curate what is known in the field, point you in the right direction, steer you away from dead ends, help you break the problem down into bits that you might make headway in.

Academic institutions do just that. They don't always do it optimally, they can get stuck in local maximums, they are occasionally blind-sided by some genius that attacked the problem from an unorthodox angle.

But they do a hell of a lot more then a search engine ever would.
> The article links tech debt to financial debt early on, and this is exactly what the analogy is - it is best to be as literal as possible about it.

Financial debt has a clear quantitative measure.

Tech Debt is an incredibly fuzzy concept, even as a qualitative measure, to the point of being useless for anything other than covering one's ass. We can do better as engineers than resting on such fuzzy thinking.
Markets != capitalism, markets predate capitalism, and the end of capitalism does not necessarily mean the end of markets.
Unfortunately, that experiment could just as well have been testing people's ability to smell the difference.
thanks for the feedback. Yes, keyboard shortcuts will be in the next release. It's the highest priority item on the list right now.
Is Microsoft a monopoly on Server operating systems? I’d say no, and not by a long shot. Even on Azure, Linux is more than 50% of their workloads.
Is it legal to have a NUL byte in an SVG? Might want to also contact Illustrator as well if it's not.
To be fair, this affects the server market, where MS was never really a monopolist.
Whether a company has someone with the title "CISO" or not matters very little to how they design security into their products. The term "DevSecOps" is designed to eliminate the need for a discreet "security" workforce.

To answer the question more directly: I've worked with 10,000+ employee companies with no CISO and I've worked with <1,000 employee companies with separate CTO, CIO, and CISO roles. At the executive level, job titles are more of suggestions than strictly defined silos. It all depends on how the company is organized and what their strategic priorities are.
I'm thinking a lot about Gatsby and how best to integrate with their way of doing things and their new themes system. Super excited about the potential there.
My only hope with this is that Russia are contriving to give the impression they're actually proceeding with this madness, without actually doing so.

This tech strikes me as being entirely too provocative and escalatory a beast, irrespective of its recklessness and obscene potential impact on the environment
"Abortion laws don't stop abortion, they just make it unsafe."

Allowing that line of reasoning seems to flip teams a lot.

(I don't condone either side's usage)
Since most of us are required to work cacophonous open offices and have to drown out the insanity with hearing-destroying headphones just to concentrate well enough to get our jobs done, this is (I guess) good news for everybody.
Very cool project, I’m excited to see where you take this!
Immersing yourself in chlorine for large stretches of time probably messes with your skin's biome, though I agree probably not to the extent that the change alone would produce a discernible smell.
Pretty Useful List of SEO Tools
Thanks for the kinds words! I will talk to our SDK folks and see if I can get them interested in writing a blog post and not just writing code :)
Let's say there's a verdant planet orbiting a distant star with a complex ecosystem but no sentient inhabitants. You can press a button to blow the planet up, and in exchange the US GDP will grow by 1 cent. Do you go through with it?
Which I don't mind. Just disappointed it's not cool/different in some way
Probably a rewrite – HNers always seem to have stories about being brought in to work on companies with incomprehensible rats nests of code that are impossible to extend any further. I bet that's pretty common, more common than technical debt actually forcing the company under.

Still if you really want to take the analogy further declaring technical bankruptcy could cause business bankruptcy (see Joel Spolsky). You probably want to refinance your debt and get onto a repayment plan (an incremental rewrite) instead.
So you think that Nintendo - who markets itself as being kid friendly - should be forced to accept any game?

Would you be okay if Nintendo was forced to allow the worse aspects of the mobile gaming market - advertising supported games, loot boxes, in app purchases “pay to win”, etc.? Should they be forced to allow Grand Theft Auto on their platform where you can literally beat people up with a dildo?

The mobile market is not “monopolized” either. You can choose to either publish games on iOS, Android with Google Play or Android without Google Play.
There's a reason it's often referred to as "Internet of Shit". I highly doubt anything is going to change until someone figures out how to use an internet-connected power outlet to burn down a house. It's going to be a decade-removed version of the wireless router issue: huge botnets will go on for years and years and maybe eventually manufacturers will slowly close security holes and institute better practices. Even that I doubt, since routers are made by a handful of major companies and IoT devices are made by hundreds of fly-by-night outfits who're likely to be out of business in five years.
UX Edge Cases: What’s Missing from That Beautiful Mockup
This is where I really appreciate front-side VGA ports.
I’ve been thinking, but it’s hard for me to come up with questions like that, not being from China/HK myself.

Let me ask you this: do you feel the protestors are trying to protect your freedoms, or give you new ones?
Realize that there would be no need to 'Spend X' if humans had not mucked it up to begin with. All of this is humanity's problem. Those in power are going the opposite direction because that is what is required to stay in power. Humans are inherently shortsighted and overconfident.
Like which businesses? Arms dealers?
My experience today is that there are almost always open EV charging spots at places that have them. No anxiety needed.
That's a good reason to believe in climate change (and I think its even well north of 90%).

But that isn't a reason to create climate blasphemy laws. Because the scientists could easily be wrong about a lot of it. History is littered with superseded theories in science.

I went to a presentation of a tenured climate scientist from a good school, who gave a somewhat skeptical presentation on climate change. He didn't dispute that global warming is real or is man-made. He just thought the postive feedback loops were a lot stronger than IPCC concesuss estimated.

But other professors from non-science disciplines came and read him the riot act during the Q/A portion. Being challenged is good. But some of the questions strongly implied he shouldn't publish anything challenging the status quo. That's bad.
Also the data they are serving is often incorrect or outdated. I've grown accustom to not trusting these info boxes.
I do undervolt it and I aggressively spin down the drives. (My concern is mostly storage and redundancy, not performance.)
> Although this one I find infuriating because Google doesn't know how to correctly round off exchange rates

I generally search for "1000 USD in AUD" as a workaround.
"The 4chan thread was first found by Konrad Iturbe, a developer based in Barcelona who was researching conspiracies surrounding Epstein online." First found? Its not like 4chan is an AI or Bots.. what do they mean by first found..
Except the UK has appointed a child as their PM and is at the moment throwing a "we're not doing any cooperation!" tantrum.

China could just dangle the promise of a post-Brexit trade deal (the Brexiters need anything to look good, they were ready to brag about deals with S. Arabia and Turkey).

As someone has mentioned, imagine if Le Pen wins in France, the UN Security Council would be run by Xi, Putin, Trump, BoJo and Le Pen...
The increasing sprawl of non-search widgets invading the search result page reminds me of the AOL years where "the web" was funneled through a narrow portal controlled by one entity.

Having to scroll down past ads, unrelated news, unrelated youtube videos, and ever more of these info boxes has pushed the actual content I'm looking for out to the second page. It's made it much easier to use ddg as default and use the !g flag only when absolutely necessary.
Legacy ASP.NET web pages might be harder to migrate, however, newer web sites can also be implemented using ASP.NET Core MVC. It seems other departments in Microsoft do understand that their code base needs to be able to run on a Linux OS, otherwise they are at risk of losing market share. Even SQL Server can run on Linux now.
As far as I can tell, Indie Hackers doesn't have public apis. Just curious, how are you are gathering posts, etc from IH? Nice work!
Cities are far more environmentally friendly.

Just in terms of energy consumption, people in cities save vast amounts of CO_2 by:

- having shorter commutes

- driving smaller cars, or even...

- ...using public transport

- using less real estate (lower heating/cooling costs)

- living in large, shared houses with better space-to-surface ratios

They also protect the environment in the classical, i. e. by not building houses with manicured but dead lawns in it.
This is a great question, and depends on lot on how you define 'preying'.

For a brief period this was unambiguously happening; we had those news stories about kids running up thousands of dollars in freemium charges, and even a few accusations of games actively avoiding password locks (e.g. by prompting for new payment just before the lock timer).

But barring parent's phones, kids mostly don't have money. So the question becomes... If a kid is asking to have their allowance deposited into Fortnite, and trying to sneak downstairs after bed to play more Fortnite, are they being preyed on? (If it's because they want to play alongside their friends who are still on, does that change the answer?) If a kid is constantly begging their parent to let them spend money in a mobile game, are they being preyed on? (Is their parent?)

Anecdotally, I've seen plenty of younger kids (5-10, maybe) who get freemium games from app stores, and then end up begging their parents to pay for various unlocks and boosts (e.g. the $1 level skips from Angry Birds, or extra lives in Candy Crush). I've also seen quite a few kids (9-14, maybe?) with relationships to Fortnite that seem disturbingly fixated and dependent, but that's much harder to judge against the simple and innocent aspect of kids getting extremely engaged with whatever they currently like playing.
The downvote is of course your prerogative, but would you mind answering the question?