skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point! I'm coming to this in the context of interactive maps, where pretty much all data is tiled. So we can use tiles for loading the terrain mesh & adjusting level of detail too while avoiding frequent GPU memory updates. But I'm a newbie in 3D rendering, so this is more of an exploratory/learning work than something to use in production — I've heard a lot about geometry clipmaps and would love to explore them too!
I thought we were all going to die from 32 degree C wet bulb temperatures?

I lose track of how the disciples of climate change think humanity will end each week.

What's with humans chasing a mythical Armageddon
Have you ever made a game like this before?
Am I still hirable as a developer past age 35?
Wouldn't you be able to use this to develop whatever and then deploy your code to separate Pi module later?
Very good point.

Adding to it, there are things in life which are ineffable. This means they are (by definition), impossible to model or explain with words. Thus, these things will forever evade scientific scrutiny as science cannot deal with the ineffable.

Despite the above, we (and science) are continuously trying to reduce the immensity, inconmensurability and ineffability of reality into something that can easily fit into our small minds.

Unfortunately this is an impossible task to perform for all of reality.

However we do have the capacity to experience instead of thinking/modeling, which is a very good way of understanding things at an intuitive level. This was very well expressed by Nietzsche: "There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy".
But they're not six-figure salaries.According to [1] average base pay is $25,000. Bigger companies do pay more, into the $200,000 range, but it's not like failed CEOs are asked to join boards of huge companies.

1. https://work.chron.com/director-corporate-board-paid-19587.h...
Note that there is a difference in corporate management between USA and many european countries, where there is two boards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_board

The requirement for half representatives for company's employees is for (secondary) supervisory board of directors, not for (primary) management board.
I was a bad fit for my high school's Computer shop curriculum. Sophmore year I was supposed to learn COBOL. I also learned Fortran-77, the Prime mainframe's JCL, found and learned the assembly language for the Prime 750, accidentally accessed all the HDD partitions (for eight local schools and six police departments) and got suspended for using 30000% more CPU time than all other users combined, while exploring.

My family made a fuss when they wanted to expel me and I switched over to Electronics. Had a grand time.
Oh I didn't know you could do that. Do you move the Rpi around a lot? What do you use the dynamic dns for?
I did find myself wondering why they had suddenly gone all Rudyard Kipling and decided to turn the article into a 'Just So' story.
Oh what a beautiful lie. "If only Google blocked devs more, we'd all live in security Utopia".

And that's why folks, what the world really needs is not the open web, or open anything, but an Apple/Google/UltraMegaCorp approved whitelist of domains, for your own safety. Because Apple cares, unless it's a nation state like China, then Apple folds, because hard spun tales of user safety and empathy be damned when bottom lines are in play
My guess (and this is just a guess, as I too can't read the article), is that the investment was a convertible note, and they actually paid back the debt instead of allowing it to convert into equity. But I am no expert and I don't know the facts — I was just wondering the same thing and this was the scenario I landed on as a plausible hypothesis.
My lasting impression of the year-ish I spent at one of their NY locations was:

- The coffee was free, and great

- The person behind the front desk had recently graduated from Princeton and seemed way too smart for the job and bored

- The beer on tap was free after 5, was locked up before then, and was invariably some weird fruity craft beer that probably cost a lot

- Printing a single page involved first waiting in line for 5-10 minutes and then entering a 10-digit code into a really crappy office printer touch screen, then manually re-authorizing the job you had just set to print. Like DMV level inefficiency

All told, general impression was, "wow, they actually pulled off getting a tech valuation for a real estate play".
This may be relevant, from 2012:

"Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing"

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

Note that the UEFI spec for x86 requires user-modifiable keys (after public outcry), but the spec for ARM requires NO user-modifiable keys. (Edit: actually this may only be a Windows requirement)
Azure Ultra Disk Storage
Then, these days, you bury the evidence and move on to less controversial areas, unless you are a very unreasonable person. Of course if you lack intellectual integrity, as well as unreasonableness you have more options.
Fine print: The compensation of CEOs at the largest 350 (publicly traded?) companies is 940% higher than the compensation of CEOs at the largest 350 companies 40 years ago.

Guess what? The largest 350 companies are much bigger than the largest 350 companies were 40 years ago. This is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
> So something that has really confused me lately — I thought socialism had a relatively strict definition.

Very few terms that refer to current (as opposed to purely historical) movements or identity groups have single, universally accepted, strict definitions. That's true or “socialism”, it's true of “capitalism”, it's true of “Christianity”.

> AOC for example claims the label socialist, but as far as I can tell she’s not actually taken any socialist policy positions.

AOC is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which recently left the Socialist International because it viewed the latter as having slipped too far to the right and abandoned socialism by endorsing what the DSA saw as neoliberal economic policies. So, the DSA is to the left, ideologically, of the main global organization of socialist parties and groups.

Now, the DSA is also very much an incrementalist organization that sees socialism as a long-range goal, favoring what could easily be seen as evolutionary socialism. And AOC is one of I think three socialists between both houses of Congress, so it's not like even if she was an “as fast as possible” socialist ideologically she’d achieve much by, say, tabling a resolution to amend the Constitution to abolish private property in the means of production.
What Are Some Woody Norris Successes?
With the growth of space initiatives as we've seen recently, maybe they could pursue some of their own?
The fact that Zoom has gotten software engineers to _like_ Zoom is a testament. Most engineers I know detest almost all video conference solutions. Hangouts eats batteries for breakfast, Cisco products are clunky and expensive, Skype is ancient, etc.... but Zoom just works.
The bug only manifests if the range you're searching is within MAX_INT/2 (or whatever numeric datatype you're using). I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make.
A few years back I interviewed for a software architect position at a major US airline. I actually had experience with every one of the 20+ things they listed on their availability description, including the “nice to haves”, some of which was sort of obscure but I had actually done quite a bit of work with anyway. So they phone screened me, I got feedback from the recruiter that the phone screen went well and they wanted to bring me in for a face-to-face. I took a day off of my then-current job to drive out there and spend nearly a whole day (four hours) talking to them. I got word back from the recruiter that things went great, but a week later they asked me to come out for ANOTHER face-to-face, so I took ANOTHER day off to spend the whole day talking to them. I got feedback from the recruiter that things went great, and I should hear back from them any time. A week passed, nothing. I called the recruiter. He said he hadn’t heard back from them. Another week passed, nothing. I never heard back from them.
In this vein I think it would be interesting to have APIs that simulate a server, AZ, or region failure/partition. Obviously these could be quite dangerous and would need to have appropriate safeties (maybe AWS could ship you a box where you turn two keys at once).
Most of the world is not the developed world (population-wise), and is reproducing well above replacement rate.

So, what's your point?
"26 times as much area burned" is a weird way to measure fires. The vast majority of area burned comes from huge fires, and there just hasn't been a huge fire yet this year.
> I have working examples of fairly complex production applications that are <=10 MB on iOS.

Fair, the problem isn't as bad for RN, for Flutter it's still very bad though.

> False statement. React Native provides you with ability to tag elements so you can use accessibility-tools to navigate the app. I have recently tested this with a RN app running on iOS 13 using the new voice control feature. Several testing frameworks also rely on these features being available.

The ability to tag elements is only a very simple basic requirment to get accessibility right. My point was more that if you use UIKit you get significant levels of accessibility for free.

Just as a quick example I did a quick ddg search for "react native how to create custom button" and all 5-7 top results that I looked at failed to set the appropriate accessibility roles so the button actually appears as button to a user with the screen reader. Yes you can still do accessibility right with RN, but it's not the easy to get it right be default and most app developers will not do this on their own.
Can anyone provide a link to full complaint? Pacermonitor is not free and only shows the preview of the 1st page.
This was the case for blackboard in 2006. I see they haven't improved at all.
I can't say I agree. The old country ( former soviet satellite ) has pretty strong language for CEOs that basically says they are liable with their own fortunes. From your argument, it would flow that companies would be less likely to make.. unethical choices. There is no apparent disparity in that. What did change was an immediate push to ensure that any high execs own almost nothing.. on paper. People adapt so designing a system has to consider that.

Edit: And execs typically design the system and have access to those designing framework. Golden rule applies.
Wow, what OS / device is this on? Looks fine on Firefox 68 / OS X for me.
Long time (maybe twenty years) ago I read about a fascinating scam. The scammers were announcing a totally cool sex toy (maybe early VR, don't remember), but they never intended to deliver. Through clever marketing they managed to find enough potential customers who were asked to prepay a certain amount to finance production of the product (comparable to crowdfunding). When delivery day arrived, the scammers sent out letters to the customers with an apology that something went horribly wrong and the product could not be delivered. The letters included a bank cheque with a full refund, but the cheque said: "Refund for Sex Toy XYZ". As planned from the beginning, most customers were too ashamed to cash the cheque, so the scammers kept most of the money. Legally (?).
That's all well, but I am more familiar with bond issuances than equity, and the issuer always has the option to delay until the right market conditions, and I don't know any banker who would ever advise issuing in the middle of big market correction, in the least liquid part of the year.
Given the absolute lack of context... actual socialism would be a "reasonable" wage. Everyone having everything they needed to live and be better as an individual.

The natural birth right is to compete for such needs and to maim / kill if necessary to obtain them. No safety or protections. Possibly small tribal units to operate beyond the individual.

A rational mind recognizes that the above leads to violence and associated negative outcomes. It also often poorly allocates resources and does not well adapt to the ability to engineer our environment for better outcomes.

Wages are also often conflated with a belief that there isn't a relationship between the average purchasing power over a population and the pricing of goods for said population. Supply and demand curves from econ101 exist to describe why that isn't true.

Thus another way of viewing wages, reasonable or not, is in terms of comparison among workers. The real question would be one of disparity between the have most and have least: how much more is one individual worth than another? Business expenses and such deducted beforehand, I couldn't even see Iron Man (Tony Stark) being "worth" more than about 100X what even the least worthy individual is; let alone a normal CEO. I find it extremely unlikely that normal worker wages have grown 100% since 1978 (or over any other timeframe) to at least keep parity with that measure...
Little by little Google seems to be adopting all the policies for Android that made the iPhone simply a higher quality experience.

(Enforcing using Google services to deliver notifications, aggressively killing background apps, limiting access to external storage, making it impossible to record calls, now this... and many other things I can't remember)

On one hand I'm happy because iPhones are too expensive and having more options is good, but on the other, this is still Google :P
The code you write for these take-home tests will be evaluated and thrown away. It isn't actually making its way into a product or feature the company releases.
Not only that, for the people who do show, they are expected to be there less than 1/5th as long as a WeWork member would show up. So now you're well above an order of magnitude difference in occupancy rates.
Non-IT people may say it's a crash no matter what actually happen. "Crashed" "Freezed" "app not working" "can't print" is the same thing for them often.

BTW I've seen an error where app server couldn't write files to a directory but only for specific filenames (that wasn't already created). Turns out if you have dozen thousands of files in one directory the hash table has collisions and some files you can create while some other names you cannot. It was lot of fun to discover that :)

And customers described it as "server doesn't work" but when we connected the randomly generated names it was trying to write were different and it worked.
Well I speak German and nationality wise am too. But I grew up in a decidedly English speaking context.

Hence my interest in hn's focus on Germans. It's not so much what's happening in germany more than why would western english media analyse german reading trends.

That is not a question of what's happening in germany...but rather one of english speaking media somehow deemed this interesting. Why?
HTTP Forever: A reliably insecure connection
No, even back then, as always, the advantages went to the rich and well connected.

I don't care much of a badass anarcho-primitivist some modern person thinks they are. They may think they would rise to the top like Genghis Khan if only they were free of the straightjacket of civilization and its morality, but almost all of them would really starve to death after a winter or die in a ditch of sepsis.
Ah, yes, in that case I agree. I thought the parent comment was referring to an agency like the SEC.
Everyone's hardware is different, so I've included notes about computational complexity of the algorithm in the notebook too.
Neat, huh? :D
I recently wrote two blog posts that touch on this. I honestly think many people cannot tell real automation from "a box full of little elves with a tech interface." (I often compare it to the MIB2 scene where Will Smith opens the automatic mail sorting machine and reveals a multi-armed alien rapidly flinging mail, not robotic parts.)

It's made me less aggravated with certain things to realize that. It also makes me wonder if founders are genuinely being intentionally deceptive or just unclear where to draw that line themselves.

How much AI inside the box do you need to qualify as an AI company when advertising what you do and wooing VC money? I bet some people honestly don't know and some of those people may be in decision-making positions at such companies.

Serious tech people may be clear on that, but most companies involve more than just tech people. If your PR people don't really get it and your tech people don't have adequate power to insist "You cannot market the company this way," then it will get sorted out in ugly headlines and court cases and the like.
> Hollywood isn't scared of climate change. They are good at understanding what we're scared of and making entertainment out of it.

I don't think it's fear. People fantasize about the collapse of civilization. It doesn't matter whether it's due to zombies, meteors, or manmade ecological disaster.

I think there's something in the modern human psyche that longs for simpler times where success is measured by survival and all of the barriers we've built between ourselves and our biological needs vanish.

That might not be a smart fantasy but I think it's present in most of us.
Brags about being a super duper educated person who reads 18th century literature and can’t spell “bigot”. Lol.
When I last interviewed with Google (which was about 8 years ago, I think), they explicitly told me not to post my questions to the internet, and if I recall correctly, had me sign an NDA about the questions because they want to reuse them. I don't know if that has changed in the intervening years.
From your comment I gather that you can, but that's not true of all readers, and in any case the use of fiery rhetoric to dress up a point like that is flamebait and so against the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, your age would even be seen as a benefit if it correlates with your experience in the field of software development.
> France has among the cheapest electricity prices in Europe

No, France has extremely subsidized electricity for consumers, but the economy pays the real price. Notably, French nuclear power is generated by the government rather than private industry allowing for minimal transparency in these subsidies.

France regularly needs to import electricity to cover peak demand despite being one of the world’s top exporters of electricity. It also meeds to regularly operate nuclear power plants at below 100% output because the market price often can’t support operations let alone capital costs. This was true before wind or solar became significant energy sources.

This means if other countries had adopted Nuclear then France would have needed even more subsidies. In a theoretical world with increasing Nuclear production globally, it’s costs just keep rising because demand is not a steady state.
I was watching one of the videos and the speaker said they have tens of thousands of servers.

While I do like Python, I wonder if they would use a lot fewer servers if they used something like Go.
Please don't use the username as your primary key for a user!

Usernames change. If your username can't change, you designed your system wrong.

Systems that are heavily persisted-comment-based at least have the excuse where changing a username would invalidate old comments referencing that user, but even GitHub still lets you change your username (if you link @-references to users, please store the user's ID in the backend text and only convert it back to a username when displaying; GitHub doesn't take this step but it should).

P.S. Hacker News, I'm looking at you.
Why should we punish someone for their curiosity? Arguably, we should be punishing the school for their lax security. If a teacher left the gradebook out and a student changed their grade, the teacher would be reprimanded too.
> Even if worker salaries keep pace with inflation (which they don't), they would only go up 2-3% per year.

It seems to me that they do slightly better than keep pace: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

Or do better than that (albeit over a shorter timeframe): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
I'm not quite sure what it is exactly that you're trying to say, so apologies if I misinterpreted it, but to me you seem to suggest that science and religion are somehow complimentary; two different ways of seeing "truth". Two different "domains" of truthiness, in essence.

If you're just saying that people can use religions to make themselves feel better by believing in things that are false, then yes, that's evidently true, but I don't think it's a good thing.

I have serious problems with this sentiment that there's some other way of knowing things besides studying reality. To me, it is not apparent at all that there even can be such a thing as "religious truth" as opposed to "scientific truth". I have never seen a definition of the former, so I don't know how to even discuss it meaningfully.

Also, to claim that science has nothing to do with how a person views the world etc. is patently false. It is perfectly possible for example to derive a workable moral systems without involving religion. You just need an axiom to start with, and then you can do science to examine whether your actions lead to morally acceptable outcomes given that axiom. A common axiom for morality seems to be something like "maximal suffering for everyone is bad", which I personally would agree with. Similarly, neither is the "pursuit of contented life" in any way a concept outside science.

I acknowledge that I may hold beliefs that are not true, but I will state with certainty that there is nothing religious about how I view the world. I understand religion as a social phenomenon, I am not convinced that it is, or can ever be, a tool for understanding "truths".
This. I have about 20+ hobbyish domains total, & 13 of them are with free Cloudflare Plan, & 3 of them are with their Domain Registrar side. I am completely fine with their free tier & paying for Domain Reg/Renewal. But just in case if in future i need to paygor DNS hosting, I would fallback to regular domain registar's free dns.
If only the workers at those 'much bigger' 350 companies would also have a compensation increase...
> 8bn is a number this planet has never seen before (like it has never seen before this amount of pollution), and yet you claim that this "experiment" can be enlarged by 50%?

no no no, if we lived _sustainably_ Earth could handle way more people. Right now with 8bn we're already way past the equilibrium point, we both agree on that. That's what we get when some people consume their life carbon quota every single year.

> If your idea is to implement all this democratically, it's a very weak selling point for politicians. If you pitch it, you're even missing the pain point. Most people do care way more about their next weekend than about the "future of mankind".

But then again what's your alternative ? Wait until "technology" saves us ?
If the human race prefers autodestruction over self restraint, let it be... You better start planning the pitch you'll give to your grandchildren now though, this one will be much more of a hard sell than mine.
If you had posted that last paragraph originally it would have been a fine way to make your point. That's the basic idea here.
SEC only fines short and distorts if the information being shared is proven false. Hyperbole isn't fined.
Funny,

I was nearly expelled from my high school for finding and immediately reporting a vulnerability, without having actually exploited it. Also my story is far too common. Most of the people in charge don't know anything!

Many of us in the industry who have been around the block a few times support either selling your exploits or open disclosure. We have our reasons.