skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same thing happen to me lately, but I was at the stupid end. I am not a programmer by profession, so it matters very little to me, but I had been struggling to produce a correct solution to a seemingly simple problem (writing a macro to allow definitions in expression context in r6rs scheme). My solution worked but had the side-effect rewriting obviously bad syntax into correct one and not in a good way.

I was struggling with how to do it correctly, and then one of the people in the r7rs working group simplified the problem by a very large factor by pointing out to me that I was trying to solve a non-existant problem, because I tried to add definitions to expression contexts where it simply made no sense. In fact, instead of supporting all forms, I could get a better result by just focusing on one of them and add simple wrappers for another 5.

It was all quite humbling. Had I taken a step back and actually analyzed the problem I would have come to the same solution, but I immediately tried the, to me, most obvious and also hard-to-get-right solution.
Finally. The coal plants in germany were pretty unfortunate considering how much EU cares about the environments (even if some people don’t agree with it that much)
That works great until there is some sort of supply chain - either you rely on someone else, or they rely on you. In that case having everyone working at the same time is probably more efficient.
The article measured time and distance, but not calories.
One place I worked, someone made the observation that every time there was something we felt dirty about doing, we'd suggest donating some amount of the revenue to charity.
> Nevermind that nuclear takes decades to approve and to build out - time that we just don't have. But hey, as long as we can feel good about it, right?

A big part of this is bitterness over the way nuclear energy has been treated. We used to have decades, we spent billions upon billions on renewables while demonizing nuclear energy, and now we don't have decades. Hell, it's very likely that we'd have fusion by now if all that money and effort was redirected to fusion research.
> The solution is to not be the sole entity with the power to make decisions about unsolved social issues. Relinquish the power to make decisions about what kind of content is "acceptable" by implementing a rule of law managed by some kind of publicly accountable, transparent governance

They started making these decisions, because Capitalism.

They're publicly traded. Shareholders demand more profits. Advertising is the vast majority of their Youtube profits. Advertisers are risk averse. No fortune 500 company wants their ad running on white supremacist/violent/sexually explicit content. There is collateral damage, but caring about that only marginally increases profit.
Rate Limiting HTTP Requests in Go Based on IP Address
I don't follow either. When sin(0.01rad) = 0,0099998333... and you do need the 0,00000026 precision you just choose representation with enough bits, same as with floating point.
“if Australia could grow enough of the seaweed for every cow in the nation, the country could cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 10%”

Still not making a significant dent in how much damage is done by the meat industry
Indeed. Given the vast wealth Google etc have accumulated its clear that actually, they could afford to do it, and still make good, but not astounding, profits.

The rationale “we can’t make as much money as we’d like to if we followed the law” just won’t wash.
there's a very interesting project/field that's starting with larger legos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM
I agree that blocking communication lines and the internet is not good. But again, none among is responsible for law and order in the region.
By 2038. That's incompatible with the Paris agreement.

As a reaction to ongoing protests the government has started a so-called Climate Cabinet, that's working on plans to reduce GHG emissions sufficiently to limit warming to below 2°. They're supposed to present their results in about a month.

Incidentally, Friday's For Future is calling for a global climate strike on September 20th. Probably there is a demo in your city too. Join if you can.
I think it’s probably this link which has been in the news recently https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S259019821930017X
well there has to be a limit to that surely, because there are people who don't have e-bikes and bike everywhere. There's only so much biking one can possibly do no matter the assistance, because of the need for sleep and the limitations of a mortality.
But free roaming bison drinking water is different than cows in CAFOs where large amounts of waters are heavily polluted. Which sounds also like a local problem to me but still is a big problem to some comunities.
I had an incomplete checkout process with Wren.

Just signed up for 200% (I suspect the estimate is on the low side as I don't know the impact of producing a lot of the things I own).

Cheers for the reminder!
The incorrect implicit assumption being that everyone who walks/runs outside or is on a trail/hike is doing it for fitness.
I decided to escalate support with a major multi billion dollar tech company in a unique way... I took a one-way plane ticket to the city of their HQ, went to the front desk, then when I was rebuffed, i escalated my issues to a major news outlet. .. I also considered Facebook live right in front of their headquarters on public property, but fortunately didn't need to... I was very polite about everything... Never demanding or angry- always expressing gratitude for the incredible opportunity I had with this company! Amazingly, my unorthodox escalation procedure worked-- I wasn't sure if it would.

My point in writing this is to say- great job thinking outside the box! Even if you can't fly to Google HQ, continue to think outside the box. Some ideas include Hire someone at taskrabbit or Craigslist, or a FB jobs page, to go to their front desk, or if unsuccessful, to hold a sign on public property in front of Google's HQ, you can get a banner or sign professionally made (online process are pretty reasonably priced). You could Skype with your stand-in. It would be really fun to get a Skype video call on a big iPad... or try something else.

Everybody thought I was crazy. I was. Crazy people get noticed, and often get results. Whatever the outcome, being able to tell an awesome story is always fun! Good luck, mate!
Its fine to write fairy tales and works of fiction, but its quite another to do so in a attempt to explain objective reality. There is great value in being able to admit to yourself, and to others, that you "don't know" without any shame in doing so.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750555

This led to hash randomization on by default since Python 3.3.
As if the improvements of the dev tools weren't enough, they've created a sweet interactive tutorial (https://react-devtools-tutorial.now.sh)! Don't know it it's new, but I'am very impressed.
Apple will unveil new iPhones on September 10, leak suggests
I was reading about it on wikipedia, it used to be produced in large quantities.
Since Cloudflare serves the tech industry, it's also pretty vulnerable to a downturn in the tech industry. The hype-train companies are its customers.
Deciding to turn off all nuclear power plants within a few years as a response to the Fukushima accident was probably the biggest mistake the German government made in the last decade, and one of the reasons we're reliant on coal so much right now. The decision was purely emotional as well, as unfortunately much of the environmental politics here is. It's sad that we lost our position as one of the leading countries in Europe regarding renewable engergy (baring smaller Skandinavian countries with lots of natural energy resources) and are now a laggard that's reliant on brown coal for our energy needs.

Addendum: I'm not against turning off nuclear power plants (I think we should eventually), I just don't agree with the time frame we chose for this. Letting plants run for a few more years wouldn't significantly increase cumulated accident risk and would have a significant effect on our CO2 emissions.
In 2016, nuclear + coal made up 30% of their energy production (including exported energy) so that’s a pretty big chunk to replace in 20 years.

https://energytransition.org/2017/01/renewable-energy-produc...
Last time I tried keeping a collection of simple DOM nodes to "recycle" my perf tests showed it was slower than just creating new nodes. So I wouldn't necessarily consider this an optimisation, although memory use might be better.
Thanks for clearing that up, cperciva FC Ambassador.
All countries already have laws regulating speech to various degrees of freedom.

Google's need to comply with these laws is part of the genesis for the moderation (e.g. copyright protection, child pornography).

In fact, aggressive government laws for censorship are why Google chooses not to operate in China.

The topic at hand is about monetization of ads -- the "acceptability" of the content is determined by the ad buyers. Not some idea of social good -- it's just the market.

The problem here is about execution not policy. The plaintiffs argue Google's algorithms are not working as intended, not that their intentions are misguided.

Are you suggesting that Google should create additional authority to regulate itself beyond what is legally required and needed for their business? E.g. create some expert panel that can compel Google to censor certain content? That would create more problems than it would solve.
Thanks for the feedback! I totally agree about observational studies being suggestive but not replacing A/B tests - that’s why the main use case I listed in the blog (and how current customers have used the product so far) is “prioritization of a/b tests”, not replacing a/b tests themselves. The language around “simulating a/b tests” is just a way to try to concisely explain to someone at a high level who may not be very technical or have much experience with causal inference. Happy for suggestions on how to better convey this without over-selling!
TFA doesn't mention that Quakers ran some nudist camps etc. Or the historical association of Quakers and nudism.[0]

> EARLY QUAKERS AND "GOING NAKED AS A SIGN" By Kenneth L. Carroll One of the least understood aspects of early Quakerism was the widespread appearance of "going naked as a sign," a practice that was increasingly accompanied by other "signs and wonders" throughout the 1650s and the beginning of the 1660s. Later Quaker writers, either out of embarrassment or lack of comprehension , tended either to ignore these shortlived acts or to dismiss them as the expressions of unbalanced persons. When the religious mind and outlook of seventeenth century England are fully understood, however, it becomes clear that these manifestations can neither be ignored nor dismissed simply as the behavior of abnormal people. What is viewed as abnormal or unacceptable in the twentieth century may not always have been so interpreted (and may not continue to be so interpreted in future ages). There even appears to be a certain degree of kinship between these striking acts of certain seventeenth-century Quakers and the attitudes and expressions of many of today's youth who are protesting today's hypocrisy and social ills.

0) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/393815
You're right, that wasn't a very good analogy. My point is not to say that a CISO/surgeon shouldn't have any experience in engineering/biology (in fact, as you pointed out, it is the opposite! you ideally want a CISO with some technical chops just as you want a surgeon with some biology knowledge). My point is that there is much more to being a CISO than just technical knowledge.

Maybe a better analogy would be choosing someone to represent you in a lawsuit about programming patents. You would want a lawyer representing you, not a programmer. Ideally the lawyer would have some previous experience with these kinds of cases and would lean on programming experts for their knowledge. Maybe they are even a former programmer turned lawyer! But I certainly wouldn't hire "a programmer" to represent me no matter how experienced in programming they are. Linus Torvalds would be a great expert witness, but he isn't going to be my general counsel.
You’re making some unwarranted assumptions about what it would take to make a reasonable statement about the world. For example:

>> any deduction you would make from it meaningless

Deduction is only one mode of argument, and it is actually used the least in practical decision making and action. Hypothesis testing follows inductive reasoning, which works by filling in knowledge based on observed effects and theorization about plausible causes. Abduction is applied when diagnosing illnesses, trying to triangulate upon a best fit from multiple vectors, including both known postulates and inferences drawn from speculation pertaining to observed effects. Deduction is useful on paper, and that’s why its most commonly employed in math land. But in the real world, induction and abduction are king.

>> You yourself must believe in some universal truth otherwise you would not attempt to communicate with other beings

That’s a false misconception about relativism, especially common among those who seem perpetually trapped in math land. If you want to learn more about this I highly recommend that you read Barry Barnes’ and David Bloor’s chapter titled Relativism, rationalism and the sociology of knowledge in Hollis and Lukes 1982 edited volume Rationality and Relativism.
No, but it can be powered by importing coal and nuclear power from its neighbours.

Edit: An unpopular fact it seems but Germany imports over half its power https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany
Yes.

Easily.
20 hours a day o_O
Pretty trivial to do at both lab and industrial scales. I've no knowledge of the biology, but if bromoform is the active ingredient it could probably be produced at scale for on the order of a few thousand dollars per tonne(governed primarily by Br2 pricing[0]) then fairly easily doped into pellets or feed.

[0] Maybe less using the haloform reaction. I'm not intimately familiar with the best-industrial manufacturing methods.
Ordering is part of the view, then, not the model. This is conflating different abstraction layers.

Similarly, sometimes it might be useful to store some data in a different character encoding, or maybe multi-character glyphs are stored in a different normalization form. (I can't tell "ü" from "ü" just by looking.) Or maybe your sample data has 1.0 but your program generates 1.000. There's a million ways that serialized structures can be functionally identical but quite different. Easy: don't compare raw bytes.

If you want functionally-equivalent data to be accepted, you just need an equality-tester (and hashing algorithm) that's agnostic to such issues. They're not hard to write.
Google was operating in China just fine even with censorship, they left because China started hacking gmail accounts. Some countries have much more rule of law than others.
Go: Monitor Pattern
I had a PM who's support strategy was to complain directly to the company's twitter handle. Apparently the people who run the social media accounts sit higher in the org chart than support staff because it almost always got us a faster response.
I remember when it was just seven words you cannot say. Now, it's hundreds.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/08/15/2058257/advertisers...
You'll also want this to give it a bit of that "used/read" feel: http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349
Long-distance running is more hip and thigh intensive than anything else, so it makes sense to me (an armchair expert).
Whereas in developed intelligent countries you're all immune to this effect. Pretty cool.
I suspect it's that people nowadays have less of a community and feel more alone. Even our way of consuming materialism has become more individualistic. I dislike religious organisations, but I'll admit they did do wonders to bring a community of people together.
We (the people of Munich) tried to get our local coal plant to close in 2022. We voted last year and the outcome was essentially ignored. Now it will shut down in 2030. Too little, too late. And Munich could have afforded it easily.
You know what, you're right. I made a knee-jerk comment but I didn't think it through all the way. From any arbitrary unsigned 32-bit integer, every other unsigned 32-bit integer is reachable with a single addition. Therefore addition works just fine here.

It still feels wrong to say this, it feels like since adding will effectively shove bits off the high end and drop them on the floor that you're losing information, but I can't actually justify that feeling with reasoning.
Well, not easily. It's pretty expensive to build all the wind turbines and solar panels and storage. And insulate homes, and replace oil heating with heat pumps and replace ICE cars with electric cars.

It's just that we have no other choice.
Why couldn’t something like Fukushima or worse happen to Germany’s nuclear plants?
Geometry shaders seems sort of the bastard child of the graphics pipeline. It was a mess to implement in hardware and the throughput isn't that great when creating tons of triangles. The tesselation stages of the pipeline addresses this and is more suitable for arbitrary subdivision of triangles.
Renewable is not stable, what do they add to offset this risk, gas powered plants?
Let me help. In the first paragraph it says

> and a failure to promptly install some software to help spot and defend against hacks

so against your "cannot or will not be resolved" you have actual software being actually not installed (and that's on top of other bad smells at the company listed in the article).

> Protecting a large enterprise from cyber attacks is basically impossible

Absolute garbage. You seem to be confused about 'protecting against' vs 'making invulnerable'. An you profile actually claims you have "Fintech CTO background [...] including risk analysis" - honestly what on earth made you post such a thing?
How well do people understand the difference between modern cow diets and the diets of say aurochs? What other nutrients are missing from modern feedlots?
Uber spent $200k a year on balloons for its employees
Of course, if you can just get great press from targeted ads to Google, hopefully you don't have to be more creative to get someone's attention.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19007493
If you read the actual article you'll find this is a common theme.
100% yes. Works with almost everything. Trash guys missed your bin? Blow em up on Twitter. Cable company shrinking your bandwidth? Blow em up. Instant results
> Younger people's understanding of how world works and what a person is like comes entirely from the internet.

They (we?) do/did go to school you know... Replace internet with tv and your argument goes through just as well, which is to say, not at all.
What3words divides the world into squares, each with a unique three-word address
They were not being PC:

Over the last 5 years, I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants,
boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different
languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of “fit,” and so much more.
There are no tsunamis in Germany.
Thanks Eric. This well-captures what we hope to do. Please drop me a message at christian@stripe.com -- I'd love to talk about how our projects can work together.
So now will Germany depend on Russian gas, coal power imported from Poland and nuclear power imported from France? Can an industrial nation depend on imported electricity? For me this looks like pipe dream. I can guarantee, after this insanity Germany will have most expensive electricity in EU (after much richer Denmark as it is now): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Edit: typos
The EU as such doesn't care that much about coal. For example, Poland, Germany's neighboring country, has a high percentage of it's power come from coal, and no short-term plans to change that/no alternative energy source. The flip side of Germany abandoning coal is that energy has to be imported, and energy prices are among the highest (or actually the highest) in Europe.
How does competition programming style interviews discriminate against ADHD?

I know there's different types of ADHD but the type I'm most familiar with is the one with a relationship between attention/focus & stimulation.

High stimulation = high attention/focus. So interviews wouldn't be a disadvantage at all, unless they were incredibly boring.
Fukushima was an extremely bad design in an extremely bad place, overseen by an incredibly mixed interest oversight agency.

France, Germany, and probably even the USA have much better cards to play. Heck, even China doesn’t trust itself that much in its nuclear power ambitions because of the huge cost corruption would bring.
To add to what the sibiling commenters had said. I was born in the village in part of the world where there are strong 4 seasons. So winters are full (less lately) of snow and bellow 0 celsius. People here store large veraety of vegetables over the winter. Potatoes, pumpkins, onions, garlics and others are stored as is as I remember. Other which could not be stored for long raw are fermented and kept in glass jars, it is called ‘turšija’ here :) Then there are grains and legumes and beans and dried stuff and you can easily thrive on localy sourced food even during winter.
It is difficult to get people to agree if it means gas and cheeseburgers cost twice as much.
There are no “real” earthquakes too.
This article sounds like FBI and/or Internal Affairs should be involved into investigating State Farm and their paid prosecutors/policemen. Anybody knows anything or is too early? Or maybe nothing will happen due to too much money poured into right pockets?
Because we don’t build nuclear power plants directly at the coast in a region prone to earthquakes and tsunamis.
Why couldn’t something with an impact of Fukushima or worse happen in any other industrial plant? I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Geography.
Of course it could happen here in Germany as well, still I don't understand how an accident caused by two extreme environmental catastrophes (really strong earthquake + record-setting tsunami) changes the accident risk for nuclear power plants in Europe. Also, turning off our nuclear power plants didn't make us much safer, as our neighbors have plenty of them just near our border, some of which (Tihange, Cattenom), are much older and unsafer than the plants we turn off here.

Not saying that it's a bad decision to turn off nuclear power plants, just saying the decision should be based on science not emotion.
You have 1000 tons of green wood, which contains 400 tons of carbon.

Should you bury it, and sequester all the carbon, or BECCS it, emitting maybe 50 tons of that carbon back into the atmosphere, which you will eventually have to spend more money to capture again?

Burying wood costs money, and doesn't produce anything useful. BECCS produces some electricity, but that electricity is so expensive there's only a handful of pilot plants in the entire world. Which is better?
I don't really see the issue.

These appear to be real humans.

I see so many fake accounts, sock puppets etc. just about any place I look, that I just accept that to not be an idiot myself I need to spend time thinking through everything.

I don't understand writing that seems to assume that anybody, or their analysis, can be automatically believed.
We're a GDPR solution smooshed in with the questionnaire builder mate. Primarily aimed at the UK market, but with the California GDPR equivalent kicking off Jan 1st..
France has Cattenom, a spectacularly bad nuclear reactor they conveniently built right at their eastern border (in a region with predominantly west winds).
The Hey, Blue Story
Your replaced your whole comment and now the replies don‘t make sense anymore.