skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of catastrophizing is exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about. I also think it’s quite arrogant of you to frame my perspective as naive.

You’ve made a single point about climate change, and chose to only focus on the worst way you could possibly interpret everything, including your own speculations about events that you think will occur. On the same topic you could also make points about renewable technologies constantly improving, and renewable adoption in the market. But the perspective you’ve put forward is that everything is all bad, all the time, and always getting worse. The reality is quite far from what you’ve characterised, and I think that one of the more concerning implications of this point of view is that good things shouldn’t be worthy of attention if bad things also exist.
At a certain scale, it becomes prohibitively difficult to rename everything at once, for a few reasons:

* Hyrum's Law - people do terrible things, and a change that seems safe almost never is. Doesn't matter what people should do, if they can they'll do it. Having good tests and scalable CI is the only guard for this.

* Moving a target is hard. If you try to change a moving target A into B, and you're changing a couple thousand references to A, chances are pretty good that while you're getting your A->B change reviewed, someone will add more code that depends on A, and then you can't submit your A->B change without fixing the new reference. The solution here is you check in B, tell people to use B instead of A (which checks the growth of references to A), make A point at B, maybe as an implementation detail (which causes all references to A to depend on B), and incrementally change indirect dependencies on B through A to be direct dependencies on B.

* Depending on a moving target is annoying. If N people write code depending on A, and a commit goes in changing A->B, then that's N people whose productivity you've hurt. In practice this one isn't really that bad, just something to think about.

* Small changes are more easy to roll forward than large ones. This assumes your change is rolled back, but consider this scenario: your change A->B, unbeknownst to you, tickles some non-deterministic behavior (maybe a race condition) when used in a specific way, and your CI doesn't fail when you submit the change at EOD. You come in tomorrow morning and find out that the change was rolled back, because it caused flakiness for N tests went from 0.1% to 25%. If your change was a small, targeted one, it'll be much easier to trace down the non-determinism and understand how it caused this change; but if it was a big one, not only might it be harder to trace down the non-determinism, there might even be other similar non-deterministic bugs that your change is causing. All of these issues will conspire to make it harder for you to make progress on your large-scale change.

When you're changing 10 references, maybe even 20-30 or so (and for some changes this number can go even higher, e.g. renaming an internal Java package), it definitely makes sense to do an A->B type change in a single commit. (And in this situation, the monolith does come in handy, because you don't have to wait for a version bump to propagate the change.) But at O(1K) LOC, this isn't a super tenable.
8% for the sake of what amounts to a flavour in your mouth is pretty earth shattering.

Consider: would you spend 8% of your entire financial budget on beef? On an income of $30K, say, you'd spend $2400 on beef, ignoring all other food and other expenses?

I'd even flip it around - take a random person off the street, in the UK, say, and tell them you'll give them 2 grand a year to stop eating beef. How many people do you think would take you up on that who don't even care about the environment?

It's stark raving bonkers.
Damn...Diana ripping them a new one
Nearly all entities in products and politics astroturf heavily. In the end it is a massive critical thinking lesson and adds much needed skepticism to the populace.

The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, individuals, companies, countries, divides and more.

Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day, or make decisions based on fear, in those cases the populace is easy to manipulate.
Would you be willing to go into more detail as to what you mean?
Is this really normal for web developer? I don't work in web dev, but I would absolutely not put up with this for only a 100k salary and getting paid roughly one grand for an interview process that takes in total days.

Reason why is because I've had interviews at other companies which are far less interrogative from the company towards me. For example, for my current job (embedded systems) I had:

- 30 minute phone interview with a technically competent hr rep
- a quick very easy online quiz (multiple choice/few sentence answers)
-one more 30 minute phone interview with a developer (open ended technical discussion)
-onsite for roughly 2 to 3 hours with a dew developers, all very open ended technical discussions

It was honestly the best hiring process I encountered. I didn't feel like I was even tested during the interviews, it was genuinely enjoyable technical conversations.
Nothing about the industrial farming system is healthy for the cows. The feedlots, antibiotics, living in filth, eventual transportation to a slaughterhouse etc.
Not from a device. The iOS system software can be downloaded from Apple’s update servers.
Glad you asked! Basically, imagine I told you not much had been built and climate folks don't really "get" software.

It's true. The same revolution that connected software and biotech is coming to the climate. There's tons of super duper obvious stuff that has yet to be built.

You would probably guess there's a great website for tracking carbon levels in the air. Like that's super basic right?

Well There's not...or at least there wasn't.

This was/is the gold standard: https://www.co2.earth/
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/

Then last year a volunteer team (including me) built

http://carbondoomsday.com

it's open source on Github, you could work on that! It's a bit rough around the edges still. Could use a twitter bot!

You could also check out our index at:
http://airminers.org

The software is pretty simple right now but we could improve it a lot!

Software related to climate change got stuck in the 90's...and you can break it out! Build cool shit!

Email me with any questions, see profile.
The problem with this, though, is that evidence is only as good as its appropriateness for addressing the goal or question at hand, and the suitability of the method for overcoming the gap between where you are now and the projected outcome. Consideration of all these factors is called __research__, not science, thereby incorporating a greater plurality of approaches for addressing various kinds of questions.

For example, treating human social interactions as simulated particles is not considered a good way to understand social relations, according to most anthropologists and social scientists. Instead, methods and frameworks that rely on more useful kinds of information, namely situated testimonials from involved participants, are devised to facilitate reasonable ways to understand what’s going on from an outsiders perspective. The evidence is very different from what a physicist might consider appropriate, but the questions, goals and limitations of anthropology warrant a very different approach. This approach, however, has been well thought out and devised with a full understanding of the practical limitations and affordances of social science research.
Do a quick audit. Get a technical person to submit a sample, and find out what their AI returns. The result to examine should be almost instant.
Trail of Bits (a security consulting firm) recently subscribed to an offset program that offsets all of the carbon from their employees!

https://twitter.com/trailofbits/status/1155840018797256711
There is no evidence of a fresh water shortage. We had the wettest year in 125 years in the U.S. this year. Where is this coming from? Water usage is a local issue, not a global one. Certain local communities have to watch water usage depending on rainfall. Certain ones do not. Either way, cows drink water and pee water. Water goes through the same cycle it has for billions of years. The U.S. used to have a wild bison population as great as the present cattle population. Same digestive system. Beef is one of the healthiest foods on the planet, and we evolved to eat meat, and have been eating it for 2.5 million years. I'm all about sustainable agriculture. I'm not all about faddish diets and eco-fascism.
> well if you're dealing with a corporate entity the size of amazon and their weird bot/shill twitter army that's pretty much the only sane response.

I don't see anything bot-like about the responses, I mean check this one out:

> Actually, we aren’t robots! We just love the Amazon website.

That's a perfectly normal human thing to say to another human who also likes human things such as carbohydrates and oxygen.
ARM-based servers
I would love this kind of interview. This basically describes my job.
> That's not hard to do.

As a third party, may I suggest that this statement amounts to a 'swipe'?
>so show the old values next to it

this would remove one of the reasons cited: "People transition and might not want a username based on their deadname." (People go to great lengths to remove references to their "deadname" and consider any mention of it seriously offensive.)

However, despite my downvotes (-4) I am unconvinced by that argument and the other replies. I don't think it's important to do this at all.
I wrote a json serialization/deserialization library for C++ and if you provide the members in the order they are specified in the type you get better performance. It can construct the class without having to bounce the parser back to that location and it is much much more cache friendly.
I don't think it's a good idea to quote this asshole when the fuss he's made with his (former) employer resulted in the de monetization of thousands of channels, not only Crowder.
most of these Twitter accounts are parody accounts, Amazon has the embassador program but don't believe in every thing you read on Twitter
Suppose Google donates the proceeds of the auction to charity. Would that make it ok?
The Arc of Collaboration
Politicians are powerless without good technology options.

Today, the technology options are not good. but good options are within sight. As a technologist, let's go make better tech.

Climate change is a technology problem and a marketing problem.

YC's carbon site does a great job marketing for these crucial technologies:
http://carbon.ycombinator.com/
Show HN: jtx – tiny JSON to XML converter
Do we know if this is a corporate social media team, or actual employees who volunteered? Many of the accounts claim to be warehouse workers. It's rare for a major corporation to lie about something like that so blatantly.

I imagine that amazon employees didn't like the bad rep their company was getting for working conditions, and volunteered to respond on social media in an organized way. IF this is the case, then media organizations probably shouldn't be attacking them
> we figured out how to send messages to all computers (using Novell Zenworks or something)

The Novell messaging utility[0] thing? For us that was disabled in the registry. Unfortunately that was an easy fix. "Fun" times were had.

[0]: http://www.novell.com/documentation/linux_client/linuxclient...
Back on the windows 9x kernel, one could render a file/folder by including a NIL character (0xFF) in the name. The NIL wouldn't render at all in explorer, but explorer was also incapable of accessing the file or folder. I forget the exact error message, but it was something along the lines of the path not existing. Had to hop out to a command prompt to temporarily rename it to make it accessible, then rename it back. Had to enter the code by using ALT+0+2+5+5. Sadly, doesnt work on the NT based kernel. Was fun hiding in plain sight in the 90s.
You are right.
Cobol 1974, Pascal 1983, C 1990, Fortran 1992, ...
In my previous job Splunk payments were ok enough not to warrant change but I spent couple of days trying to figure how to renew the license and pay for it. Their license portal was so horroble and full of funnel loops that it was next to impossible to renew the license.
Typically when I paste something, I type something beforehand, and then paste it in, undo it, and it undoes what I typed before.

This is worse when I'm using multiple cursors, which is usually me manually cleaning up some data.
it’s too bad that cars can’t move to get additional points of view.
Reading the Amazon employees’ responses in the Twitter thread made me feel physically ill.

It’s pure propaganda, straight out of Russia’s 2016 playbook.

If companies like Amazon will dominate in the future I don’t want to have kids.
You can be biased without being inaccurate.
Have advertisers select on what kind of content they want to appear instead of baring all ads for some creators? I'm sure some advertisers don't mind being associated with mature audience.
Thanks for your input!! Is sumo Logic pure Saas or hosted ? How do they scale at load ?
In this case, they wouldn't turn into nanotubes but rather nanowires. I have no idea what the properties of carbon nanowires are though.
Ice Hockey Kid
Easy as all getout.

1. Don't have "autoplay". Make the user choose. Autoplay is not good for society. "Tip your head back, turn your brain off, and let the algorithm feed you what will keep you here."

2. Give the advertisers more fine grained controls on what types of videos their ads show on. If a stink goes up because Dove doesn't want to be on a PewDiePie video, then that isn't Google's fault. It's Dove's. Let the advertiser add PDP to the blacklist, or make a more exclusive whitelist.

It's like Twitter. "Oh, oh no... how do we stop people seeing all this awful content?"

A) Stop deciding for the user (and therefore the entire website) what is awful

B) Give the user better blocking controls.

However, this won't happen, because Google and Twitter like being able to shape what the "algorithm" shows you, and keeping that control in their hands. This is why the chronological timeline isn't coming back.
When moving, cars can compare hundreds of different viewpoints. Multiple cameras provide for depth perception when stationary.
> Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day

While I agree that internet does teach critical thinking, it's also the the most dangerous. If you watch a video of Alex Jones on YouTube for example, I bet the recommendation engine would feed you similar items and would ultimately feed your confirmation bias. The machine learning is optimized for engagement and not necessarily to give you other views/perspectives.
LGBT creators are not a special case, all news and politics commentators I follow are demonetized, all gun related channels as well.
I asked a small town butcher in Scotland if his beef was grass-fed and got seriously laughed at. Then he sold me some damn good steaks.
Thanks ! Do you guys sell logging separately or should we buy both metrics and logs to use your platform ?
The coverity paper may be interesting to you: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1650000/1646374/p66-bessey.p...
My best suggestion if it's to be truly neutral:

Allow all search engines with more than some small number of European users (say 10,000 monthly active users for six consecutive months, or pick a higher but still broadly attainable threshold) to apply for inclusion for free.

Randomly pick four or five to show on the main screen each time, in randomized order, without treating Google specially. If necessary, have one special slot that cycles randomly among all the top several search engines in Europe, and exclude those from the other slots.

Have a "More options..." link which shows every search engine who has applied, again in randomized order.

That's it.

But yeah, I don't expect them to be that neutral unless forced.
Methane is gone in 7 years time. Spending billions to reduce it is disappearing money.

That said this changes the cows digestive system.

It will either make them more efficient or less.

Work that out first.
Totally cool that it's easy for you! Except that youtube doesn't want to do 1, and for 2, you have to classify the videos to let the advertisers choose, which is exactly the same problem that youtube already has.
The EPA says [1] 9% of the US's GHG emissions are from agriculture, so there's an upper limit. However, the more relevant consideration is how much more GHG comes from ruminants compared to other protein sources [2].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-top-10-foods-with-the...
> There is no evidence of a fresh water shortage.

The UN disagrees. [1]

> We had the wettest year in 125 years in the U.S. this year.

Surely you're not using a one time event to argue against the scientific consensus of climate change?

> Beef is one of the healthiest foods on the planet, and we evolved to eat meat, and have been eating it for 2.5 million years.

What does this have to do with the water consumption used in raising cows?

[1] - https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/climate-change/
Off-the-shelf ARM systems
Reads like an ad for a potent drug, written by an addict. Add survivorship bias to a good measure.
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Exactly. We don't build detailed accurate 3D maps. We build fuzzy semantic 2.5-ish-D maps that are 99% metadata. And they work incredibly well.
And to clarify, I refer to it as hypernormal because I'm making perfectly normal choices others wouldn't today, but might in the future.

Example: I choose to abandon my taste preferences around things. Since doing this on accident, I enjoy everything I eat, drink, and listen to.

Most people I've talked to about this (everyone except for 1-5 people) have no desire to even try doing it. I have no idea why, but people seem really attached to their preferences.

And yet having such strong preferences limits aspects of the world one can enjoy. I suspect strong preferences is cultural programming gone amok, so I'm raising my child while only asking what their experience is like, instead of asking if they like or dislike something.

Being hypernormal here means choosing to allow myself to experience more things. I think it'll be normal to do these things in the future, but it's non-normative right now, so it's hypernormal compared to current times. Hypernormalcy is going to look weird compared to the status quo, by definition.
What a trip. They brute forced the sucker.

I have been a chemist, and also played with explosives as a child. So it's my experience that C≡C bonds are very unstable. I mean, liquid HC≡CH (acetylene) must be diluted with acetone, and stored in tanks packed with diatomaceous earth, to keep it from falling apart explosively. A lot like nitroglycerine, really.

And AgC≡CAg (silver acetylide, with the Ag-C bonds being almost ionic) is a damn fine primary detonator. They used to use it in party poppers and cigarette/cigar "loads". But you could use it instead of lead azide or mercury fulminate, and it's much easier to make. But it's also much more expensive.

So anyway, I can't imagine that you'd want gram quantities of this stuff. Even if you could prepare it.

Edit: A gram of silver acetylide would punch a hole through 15-20 gauge mild steel. Uncontained. Just sitting there, in a little pile.
Seems like a good approach but beware "any issue" that's really a decoy filed by applicants aware of your hiring process. Unlikely yes, but worth considering, if only to appreciate the initiative behind such ruse.
This is true but not very informative. Each greenhouse gas absorbs heat at different wavelengths, with no single gas covering the spectrum. Adding CO2 or methane increases heat absorption, even in air that's saturated with water vapor.
Yes...let's all just leave our jobs and start writing or directing a movie or start singing.

And praise this alcoholic.

I love my '9-5'.
I understand why you didn't, but async brings a whole new opportunity to try! At least in library form.

Fibers are great because you can pretend they're threads. Everyone knows threads. Async is a legit PITA even if you're familiar with it. And the local state stored for a fake thread is often useful. When doing async I find myself frequently building hacky hashmaps to hold local variables values. websocket code is a good example of worse-case. 20k ongoing connections held by async (1 thread per core). It's a nightmare in everything except Vert.X Sync (fibers in Java) or maybe Golang and Erlang.

With fibers you get to keep all your local variables and "pretend" threads actually exist. It's a huge boon for productivity in the few languages where it's possible
If you grow it in the sea, you're creating the transportation problem the poster was complaining about.
I wonder where the power comes from? How long does it last?
> where are the friends/family getting THEIR info?

Are you trying to tell me Alex Jones and The Official Flat Earth Facebook group aren't "vetted" enough for you?
No need to be suspicious. AFAIK, HN encourages folks to reshare if they think that a quality post slipped off without much engagement. I even got an email from someone at HN encouraging me to reshare my couple of years' old post again to see if it sticks this time around.
I think he came out with the report as SEC had already started investigating GE. If he had not come out with his report he might not have been able to trade in GE stock as he would have had insider information and could be dinged for insider trading. After putting the information out in the public he can short all he wants.
Alex, 27, makes $5k/month reviewing healthcare products
The question is why is this story not covered by the Washington Post?

The answer involves the degree of editorial indepence they have and sheds light on the precise the motiviations of the world's richest man for buying a masthead newspaper.

Different people will draw different conclusions. I suspect there will be a majority leaning in one direction.
> Mothers and fathers need to protect their daughters (and sons) from the culture’s noxious elements and connect them to life’s goodness and beauty. In an increasingly complicated world, much of the answer is simple: Unplug and do the things families have done since the beginning of time—tell stories, laugh, work together and talk through life’s big questions.

What kind of generic piece of advice is that?
What if you want to post videos and interact with a community, but every time you do you get brigaded by hundreds of harassers?

What if the filters intended to prevent hate speech end up harming the targets of that hate speech instead?

What if YouTube's algorithms push conspiracy theories and manifestos of domestic terrorists into people's feeds?

These are not "deal with it or leave" issues; these are existential crises that we must hold platforms accountable to solving.
> Cows are much better at extracting nutrients from, say, grass than humans are.

That's because we human cannot digest grass due to the lack of the proper mictobiote, but most cows in the modern world aren't fed with grass anymore but instead with soy, corn or other kind of high-nutrients food (for which we human are totally equiped to eat).