skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first question is why don't they list the TWO independent accounting firms that are auditing this non-profit?

I realize that not all states require nonprofits to conduct audits but this seems like a wonderful area to scam people. "Buy this $300 necklace and save the planet"

It's great on paper, but we find nonprofits mostly benefit the people running them and very little of the money actually goes to the actions the nonprofits claim to be undertaking. The science can be sound, and their intentions can be honorable, but that doesn't mean that what they want to do is financially viable, especially if the principles are paying themselves very high salaries, which is typically what happens with nonprofits. I know a couple of multi-millionaires who been running struggling nonprofits for years. It's funny how the people running the nonprofit have done phenomenally well but their nonprofits hardly do anything, modern day snake oil salesmen.

I would think that an organization trying to save the planet would want to be make sure everything they do is transparent and above board.
Southern Slav with fluent Russian and a bit of Polish here; this is very, very easy to understand.
Ah yes, the good old days. When manufacturing jobs were plentiful and American production was second to none.

It’s important to remember the cost of what made America “great” back then.
But the basic/fundamental like algorithm and data structures are still the same.

Yes just like grinding leetcode, is at least shown that you are willing to put the effort.

If you are someone who just not good at being tested then well you have to make it up with some other skills. For example being a really2 good domain expert that the company seek for you instead of the other way around or having excellent networking(as in relationship) skills.
This is confusing and anti-climactic. Hopefully algotraders using Bitcoin price as a signal of equities health will fall on their face with this and raise equity prices sharply in the short term.
> For some reason

It's not called Balkanisation for no reason.

Sincerely, a person from the Balkan.
Over 20 Texas local governments hit in 'coordinated ransomware attack'
The ethical questions are more along the lines of what kind of ecological damage or habitat destruction you’re doing.
The Myth of American Military Dominance
I first worked that out in response to a claim that solar thermal plants were better than PV because they can store energy as molten salt and produce power at night. What sinks that claim is solar is cheap enough that you could heat your salt with electricity from solar panels and be ahead.

At the point there is no need to use salt. You can use a referable electrically driven gas turbine and get about 70-80% round trip efficiency.
Cash equals (mostly) privacy and democratization of purchasing ability.

"Cashless" is the elites and security apparatuses against the ability of the people to maintain their privacy and take away the last little vestiges of the disenfranchised to get by... it's a selfish, ignorant, utopian social experiment.
May be more data that can fit in an SMS.
>I have the same impressions as your parent commenter: passing around an sqlite connection handle is thread-safe and always will be faster than application-level locking.

I'm not debating that. It's just that that's not the current bottleneck so no point in dealing with the extra complexity. The current solution can saturate my SSD with low CPU usage.

>If you do however have a write-heavy workflow then it's likely time to replace sqlite.

That's definitely true. But there's no other SQL database to embed that I know of. That's why I mentioned wanting postgres as a lib. I know of other options that are non-SQL and will require extra rework. If there's an SQL option I'm all ears.
GTK and GIMP both suffer from the original decision by people who don't understand C++ to reinvent it in bare C except very poorly. It's what you get if you heard a rumor that vtables are bad somehow but don't realize that an array of function pointers is worse in every way.
Satoshi Nakamoto: “My Reveal” -Part 1
That would be great if Julia can break into this area. I would really love to be able to easily write a Julia program that reads realtime input from Kafka (possibly a more mature RDKafka.jl, with multithreaded consumers), merges with data from postgres and redshift sources, sends for distributed processing using JuliaDB, which I can then integrate with Flux/Zygote models, all the while sending all metrics for Prometheus. All that with a custom admin API to access the data and manage the models and being easy to deploy in a cloud service.
If read/listen to MA or BH at any length, they heavily emphasize the value of relationships and a network.

This behavior seems absolutely anathema to their stated ideals.
Duolingo user retention case study
Same! :)
Over time it’s possible you’ll get some kind of fungus or yeast that can break the plastic down. This is already getting to be a problem in some modern art galleries where modernist plastic exhibits are slowly dissolving into (and smelling like) arctic acid because some novel strains of yeast showed up that could digest them.
windows defender does the same thing by default. first step setting up my workstation for c++ dev is always specifically excluding my source code directories and msvc.exe and friends. sometimes takes me a few days to notice all the ancillary processes that will trigger the file scanning and whitelist them. otherwise it eats a whole logical core every time I kick off a compile.
We Need More Funny Video Games
No, a meeting or a phone call is synchronous. You can't put a meeting down for 10 minutes, do something, and pick it up later. There is no requirement to answer chat messages immediately unless your organization has ridiculous expectations.
Chat is asynchronous like email, but facilitates faster exchange than email.
is this different than just allocating swap space on the SSD?
I have always thought that calling this job 'showrunner' is a less impressive description than it actually is.
It's a problem of poverty & investment - Vienna or Zurich are not that drastically sparser than Sao Paulo & are for the most part beautiful cities.
http://www.rubyflow.com/
Brave doesn't have enough of an userbase for any impact compared to say Firefox saying they're one-upping Apple. It also isn't mainstream enough that I'd trust it security wise, any steps behind me and vendor security patches is usually bad.
Having worked with GObject extensively, including through PyGObject, I can say the experience is infinitely better than trying to make C++ interoperate with e.g. Python.

(This coming from someone writing C++ since 2002)
I don't understand how space exploration in the US is an "interest" rather than a commitment of $20 billion per year to something other than infrastructure, public health and anti-poverty programs... and I prefer Gil Scott-Heron's more metrical "yea, no" on the question.
Copenhagen postulates collapse, no? If collapses turn out to happen at problematic times or because of problematic conditions, it could potentially doom quantum computers.

In contrast, many worlds says basically: There is no collapse. Ever.

The fact that no one has found what triggers collapse yet is to me evidence that Copenhagen is false.

Pilot wave theory on the other hand is, afaiu completely equivalent to many worlds, but less philosophically convincing.

Where many worlds says there is only the wave function, pilot wave says there is a wave function but also the material world. And material world is a sort of "view" of the wave function. Continuously rederived from it. But the interesting thing is, this material world has no causal consequences. All causality stems from the wave function and its evolution. This is the compromise to get same predictions as many worlds.
On some level, I would posit that music is still a form of language. Music is to language what poetry is to mathematics. Mathematics (or computer programing languages) are a formal method of conveying information in a very strict structural context. Similarly, music conveys emotion in a melodic way much in how poetry conveys emotion using language. I see all these forms on a continuum of structure vs. lyrics, emotion vs. reason. But having said all this, I agree with the basic conjecture that music probably preceded language. Whether it is vestigial I am not as convinced for that, I think it still performs important functions for Human communication.
Not necessarily. There are many types of volcanoes, and shield volcanoes aren't as violent... they ooze material rather than explode like a cinder cone. That lava wouldn't have enough momentum to go very far.
There's a research language that supports compile-time checking of array dimensions: futhark [1]. It's an interesting language that compiles to CUDA or OpenCL. However it's probably not ready for production (not sure if there's even good linear algebra implementations yet). It does feature interesting optimizations to account for the possible size ranges of the arrays (the development blog is very instructive in that respect).

[1] https://futhark-lang.org/
Supposing that the definition of convexity that you're referring to is that of, for a set C with x_1 and x_2 being elements of C and for any scalar b between zero and one inclusively,

[b * x_1 + (1 - b) * x_2] always being a member of C,

I presume that you mean that errors, namely those kind of errors that are the subject of this thread's discussion, in mathematics will always symbolically be elements of some solution set of a finite number of linear equalities and inequalities (or the intersection of a finite number of halfspaces and hyperplanes).
I’d like one where you make a group and set a recurring time and you can only post on the group at that time.

Why?

Because I want to balance my desire to have social connection to friends overseas with my need to manage compulsive phone-checking behavior.

Because I want the chat to be a conversation with people.
It can go either way. A lot of the time people will end-run product owners and try and ask random devs to do low-value work that doesn’t need to happen. The role of a good product owner is to shield against this.
Nothing changed, beside world-scale NIMBY'ism. The choice to be made is simple, either lower life standards to Bangladesh level (the only level sustainable at +7 billions inhabitants) or pay the unsustainable price. No amount of tech or virtue signaling is gonna change that fact.

I made my choice.
Some interesting bits:

> When I firstly communicated to him (Hal Finney) and he gave me my surname Nakamoto, he did ask where I was from and my answer was that I’m from Asian ancestry. He assumed that as Japanese because of my pseudonym. Hal was the only one who I told about my actual ancestry.

> I used TOR, an open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. I wanted to use computers that were not using VPN and were physically on the network and not blacklisted. This is why some people have incorrectly surmised that I worked on Bitcoin from California, but I’ve never lived there.

> Today, when Bitcoin is understood by the advances of technology, but at the same time is being hijacked by greed, I feel I have a duty to work hard and make my creation better and take its vision to the next level.

So another fork?
Sure, cities can’t make up for federal labor laws. But they should be able to run basic municipal services, like schools, transit, etc., that in other countries are overwhelmingly paid for by municipal and local governments.

Median household income in Baltimore is about double that of Spain or Italy. Median household of African American households in Baltimore, though much less than that of white households in the city, is still about as much as Spain or Italy. There is an ample tax base there to support good municipal services if the government was capable of doing so efficiently.
Exploring the Vastness of a Website
Sort of, I deliver a GUI that exports into YAML for pretty much only reading, portability, and version control. People are expected to do the editing in the GUI, only using YAML for editing when doing complex regex operations that my GUI doesn't support.
Polarity Puzzles: Restore the Laws of Nature
> I tried getting into IF several times and never really managed to get very far - both the frustration of trying to get the parser to understand me & the "gameplay" (puzzles I guess) just not being very interesting.

> Maybe it's one of those things where "you had to be there at the time".

Zork 1 is pretty hard/frustrating, so you shouldn't necessarily give up on IF in general based on that. You could try Zork 0, Beyond Zork, or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (only the beginning is really hard) which are basically different genres from Zork 1.
Cities still produce a lot of waste each day. The theory of infinite growth on a finite planet is failed from birth, but there are still supporters of a 10-20 billion population. The result: lots of waste and pollution.
Oh, wow. I have to long press precisely on the text cursor -- anywhere else in the text box won't work. That could definitely be improved.
The internet is a series of contact lists
How is à statically typed language going to help with tensor dimensions?
Even the creator of Ansible got frustrated by YAML - https://medium.com/@michaeldehaan/16-ways-opsmop-improves-on...
I'd give it a try. I disabled the Rewards button and everything else that I don't like and it has been working great for me.
I think it is rather misleading to state "40 years of reasearch" the way you are doing it. It was only in the late 90s that there was theoretical reasons to believe quantum error correction is feasible. And your goalpost of logical gates completely disregards the enormous (more than 6 orders of magnitude) exponential progress in the lifetime of physical qubits (see sibling comments for references). We still need a couple more orders of magnitude before things work out at the "logical gate layer", but it is dishonest to disregard the progress up to now.
I have no idea what you're even saying or inferring.
This kind of reminds me of how power users often disable analytics but then get upset when companies remove power user features because the analytics show that nobody uses them.
No, urban myths are hard to kill. Specially now that we at least two generations that believe that C was the genesis of system programming languages, fast like a thunderbolt since the first compiler got out of the furnace.

I was already hitting on C during the USENET days, back on the glory days of C vs C++ on comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, and their moderated variants.

My opinion does not change to win karma points.
Chat app that lets you post only one message at a time per channel at dubfi.com :)
<not a climate scientist />

EW was never field-tested in any significant capacity. We know nothing about the cost-effectiveness of it, because we hardly understand if it'll work at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594207#20596492
Korda: Hand-hold phone bans may be about money, not safety
He's saying the same photos can be taken today, just not here.
Regardless of the reasoning laid out in the OP, it's difficult to argue in YAML's favor comparing it with JSON. I'm not an ardent fan of JSON either -- both YAML and JSON have issues wrt inconsistencies:

- what draft of JSON Schema are you using 4? 7? Neither?

- what version of Swagger or OpenAPI are you using?

- etc.

Sure, it's great to see ongoing development of schemas, but with each new development we have yet another dialect to consider/support.

In my view, perhaps an even greater problem with structured data formats in general is the void that separates them from programming languages esp. static languages such as Java where static type information is otherwise leveraged. The industry standard solution, code generation, is awful in almost every respect. The Manifold framework looks promising in this regard (http://manifold.systems/).
I agree with you, granted there's many efficiencies that can be made that would likely make 10-20B doable.
Old School Likes Things Hard – Live with It
It took a moment to google what Unison is. Apparently a new programming language: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
> You will hit limits to how fast you can generate those crypto signatures for s3

Presigned URLs are HMAC-SHA256:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/sig-v4-heade...

I just measured GetObjectRequest.Presign() at 1063 ns. That's a million signatures per second of my 2015 MacBook Pro using the stock AWS SDK for Go _on one core_. This is plenty fast already, and it's guaranteed to be running in parallel on better hardware in production. There's no way signature generation is a bottleneck in any real application.

> and a limit to how much can serve

I've gotten hundreds of gigabits per second between S3 and EC2 without doing anything special. What problems are you referring to?

> at a certain scale you will want to use a cdn

So use a CDN too. CloudFront fits there neatly, and it can even sign its own requests to S3:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...

None of those criticisms are valid reasons to avoid S3. S3 is an excellent solution for many common problems.

Having said that, S3 has genuine drawbacks for certain workloads. (For example, the long tail on time to first byte is sometimes a dealbreaker.) In my opinion the biggest limitation is budgetary: typically one will spend all their money on AWS data transfer fees long before hitting S3 service limits.
Yeah, when I think Shopify, I think mission critical SAAS app where your customers have customers and there's tons of payment transactions happening. Reliability is of the upmost importance while running at massive scale.

There's just a huge amount of goodness in being able to piggy back off a bunch of sites' engineering teams to ensure by the time you use a release, it's been through so much testing.

I really never got that feeling from any other framework. I wish Phoenix had more success stories like that.
for the longest time the only thing that ever came to mind for me about the EPA was that Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd called one of their employees “dickless.”
There are many reasons why this hasn’t happened, but I think you pointed out the main one: English is the language with the largest existing community, so I think most Slavs would rather learn it as the second language, unless there’s a good reason to choose a different one due to some circumstances (eg proximity to a border, widespread business with a certain country, etc).
he is saying the first world lifestyle is fundamentally unsustainable with a multi billion person population on one earth sized planet and he is probably correct.
Various interpretation postulate collapses under specific conditions, while other formalisms postulate something mathematically/observationally equivalent at mathematically/observationally equivalent conditions. In particular "problematic collapses" are a thing all quantum computing researchers have to deal with in their work. It is one of the largest subfields of this research program actually (practical quantum error correction).
>Alphabet extensions

So... all those "Ś ś" and "Ć ć" instead of using Cyrillic? Yeah, no.
There's a very intuitive inductive argument that places quantum computers ahead of classical computers.

Basically that quantum interactions are more fundamental to the universe than more terse ones, stochastic randomness or presence/absence.

If a computing device (in a universe) is built to compute using more fundamental substance (to that universe) it should stand to reason it is more efficient.

If you model a photon, does your model ever move as fast as the photon?
On the analogy of castles, I asked a professor whether Godel’s
Incompleteness theorems affects their work. She told me Mathematics is this great castle, where in one quadrant you have the number theorist, in another the topologists. Every decade or century, the logicians would come running up from the basement with results confronting the foundations of math, but everyone else continued with their routine
A static wiki-like site via forms, email, and local scripts
Are you are talking past each other...? I suspect the grandparent post is concerned about the loss of ACID properties for updating data and metadata if they are split across two databases. This is a concern for regular application access too. Meanwhile, you assume that this consistency problem is already solved in the application, and so of course the backup and restoration problem can also then be handled.

To the grandparent: you typically solve this application consistency issue by using something like immutable object store semantics with versioned references. The object store is capable of answering requests for multiple versions of the asset, and the application metadata store tracks individual versions. You can sequence the order in which you commit to these stores, so the asset is always available before it is published in the metadata store. Alternatively, you can make consumers aware of temporary unavailability, so they can wait for the asset to become available even if they stumble on the new version reference before the content is committed.

You can also find hybrids where the metadata store is used to track the asset lifecycle, exposing previous and next asset version references in a sort of two-phase commit protocol at the application level. This can allow consuming applications to choose whether they wait for the latest or move forward with older data. It also makes it easier to handle failure/recovery procedures such as canceling an update that is taking too long and reclaiming resources.
The Power of Subscripts in Swift
You must be Sir David Attenborough looking for Lyre birds ;)

https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ
> Management ought to be able to solve any problem people they serve (i.e., their underlings) are facing, given certain amount of time to familiarize.

I disagree with that.

If your manager has the best technical skills of anyone on the team, then they are probably a poor manager who can't hire/retain good technical people (by far the most important job of a manager).
I know the title given here is not that of the linked article, but it's an accurate description of the content, whereas the article title is not.
I find it fascinating how animals adapt and transmit knowledge to new generations.

"Reintroduced populations of bighorn sheep and moose did not migrate as historical herds had. However, after several decades, newly established herds were better able to track the emergence of vegetation in the environment and were increasingly migratory. Thus, newly introduced animals learned about their environment and shared the information through social exchange."

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/1023
> it's not irony

Well, it is irony when some scientists don't seem to remember the nature of the scientific inquiry as you describe it. Maybe because some seeming paradox or aberration is easier discarded as irrelevant or untrue rather than upsetting the whole theoretic framework that he/she has built their whole career on ...

It is human of course. But also ironic.
Aluminum is one thing. Another is electrowinning iron which unlike Hall-Héroult is a wet electrolytic process. One assume you could stop the process indefinitely. And iron takes a lot less energy than aluminum. Capital cost are probably really low as well.

At residential rates the cost is a few hundred a ton for energy. So not economic vs carbon reduction. But if you could get the energy for nearly free. It would be.