skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah, and also considering that natural climate change was the most significant issue. Since the Pleistocene ice age ended around 11 thousand years ago, and ever since then the equatorial regions have changed dramatically. Coincidentally this is about the beginning of recorded history, or at least the parts recovered from antiquity. The regions around north Africa, the Arabian peninsula, etc... they all would have been ideal habitats for hominids given the climate of the Earth back then, most of the habitable zones were near the equator during the last ice age, and began expanding north/south as the Ice melted. Likewise the grasslands of north Africa, and Arabian peninsula began to slowly change into arid deserts while the other places thawed.

It's a pity the cradle of civilization turned to sand, but at the cost of Earth becoming more habitable it's a fair trade.
Optimists for the Win: Finding the Bright Side Might Help You Live Longer
It just means that you’re not allowed to return home. Often, a person’a home doesn’t correspond to their country of citizenship.
Thanks. I don’t object to listening to Iggy Pop but I do object to writing articles about him today which don’t start and end with his history of child rape. No need to elevate this guy in any way.
I completely agree, and a major growth segment of electronics and appliances has been “pro-sumer” style devices. These are basically the same as their regular consumer devices but either more commercial features and management, or easier support and repair, or is just marketing glitz. It’s very easy to get fooled in this segment and think you are getting quality when you actually aren’t.

+1 for Speed Queen. I hear the newer ones aren’t the same but still way better than the same ol’ white labelled electrolux appliances that are rebadged to every brand on the market.
I've seen 700ppm total pesticides and typically between 50-300ppm in the CA medical market of 2015-2017. Myclo up to 150ppm was pretty common in the crude I was testing. I tested at SClabs, Anresco, Steep Hill, CW Analytical, etc. depending on client preferences.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819902
A guide to Oauth2
Saving an afternoon of your time means spending an afternoon working on more things the user wants. With that logic we should be writing web apps in pure assembly to shave off as much loading time as possible despite the fact that in the time you could have built the whole application, you are still working on the login page.
I've had some issues with my router lately (an aging Mikrotik 802.11n box whose mediocre wireless performance is in play now that on of our main PCs has been switched to wireless). It's time; the damn things bake themselves to death every few years regardless of brand, firmware, etc. Was looking at one of the $50-60 TP-Link 802.11ac jobs.

I figured I'd check Fry's since they've started advertising "Local same-day delivery for $3" when the best Amazon can do for a lot of stuff is $13 for two-day delivery. Plus, I honestly hate dealing with Amazon and their six-times-a-week solicitation for "Prime Student" considering I graduated 15+ years ago. This would not be a hard sale for them to win. They sell the right type of goods, tyhey have the infrastructure to deliver it to me as fast as the competition, and the listed prices weren't wildly out of line with online dealers.

They didn't have the router I wanted. Hell, expanding the search to a generic "AC1200 router" revealed well more than half of the items as "out of stock for pickup/local delivery; we'll mail it to you in a week.". A few had "same-day delivery for $70" (maybe this is some weird surge pricing from the firm they contracy same-day delivery to?) It wasn't even obviously a bait-and-switch play (where the $50 units are out of stock so you'll buy the $150 ones)-- both cheap and expensive gear had hugely erratic stocking.

It almost felt like they were trying to pivot from a retail place where the web storefront was a way to reserve or order local-delivery of retail stocked goods, towards a conventional mail-order house. Seeing the 200 "order now for dispatch Monday" buttons doesn't look weird on Newegg because it's not being contrasted with big red "Not available for pickup at City, ST", but here it looks sad.
Well you mentioned it in your comment, tags are not specific commits. Go Modules standardize around SemVer, and fallback to hashes only when it needs to. The reality is anyone can git push -f and change what a tag points to currently.

So the scenario goes like this:
1. Someone requests a module from GoCenter that is currently not in it's caches.
2. Gocenter downloads the requested version v1.2.3, and stores that.
3. Bad/Careless/Ignorant/Evil (depending on circumstances, I guess) git push -f's
4. Module is requested in Google's module proxy, which now loads a "v1.2.3" into it's local caches, but it contains different code now than "v1.2.3" of GoCenter

Outside of git push -f, there are other hacky techniques you can use to "update" the code a tag points to.
The real goal should not be life extension but health extension. Wouldn't it be great if we live to say 80 and be as strong and healthy as when you were 20 or even 50? I would exchange that for being able to live to 100 or whatever extended age. The bottom line is that we have to die why not die while being in the best of health.

My friend used to say that old age is not for the weak. He was probably right.
Police are willingly supporting a corrupt system far from all abstractions. You can argue anyone working in Hong Kong is supporting a corrupt system, or anyone working in the US is supporting a corrupt system but for all of them its so abstracted that you can't really blame the individuals.

For cops, this isn't an excuse anymore. They're directly supporting it, suppressing people's free speech, and banding together to create support groups and unions against the people they're supposed to be serving and protecting.

Considering the racist history of why police forces came to be, it's not surprising that people dehumanize the police force.

However, I should add that for many people, especially inside big cities joining the police force is one of the best things they can do for upward mobility for their family - but in the case of ethical demonstrations (occupy wall street, black lives matter, Hong Kong protests, Iran's green protests, etc etc) they have been on the wrong side of history and have helped keep the status quo alive and active and well.

Therefore, if you're part of the police during people's cry for freedom and you step in and support the government - you're going to be dehumanized. It's your choice to make - but that choice has consequences.
Technically the Windows native layer supports fork()-like abilities, but the problem is that the Win32 subsystem and dependent layers (GUI, etc.) don't have fork() copy-on-write capability. So even if you were able to fork a process, you'd still have to deal with duplicating all of the stuff built on top. In fact, the old POSIX compatible subsystem layer utilized this functionality to actually provide a compliant fork().

Of course this all ignores the fact that Win32 processes are heavier duty than Linux processes (though I don't know if that's due to Win32 subsystem overhead or not). Look at any benchmark and you see an order of magnitude difference in process creation times. You're much better off creating threads instead.
I would love to see how the fan in a Miele or similar brand compared.
Crypto is a lot more volatile than the USD (or a basket of currencies). That's why Coinbase created Stablecoin.
Wag is sitting in the exact same space as Homejoy which has the same fundamental problem - there is a natural relationship between both sides.

Beyond discovery there is no reason to keep the relationship on the platform.

Comparisons to Uber or AirBnB don't really work here as there is no natural relationship with your Uber driver and the lack of repeat visit to the same destination keeps repeats/relationships down.

Wag is fighting a capitalistic force. Beyond the initial discovery/relationship build - once the end user and dog walker has found someone they really like, what value is being added by staying on platform?

They're just taking money...
The cold also kills an order of magnitude more people than the heat. Heart attack or stroke are greatly increased in the cold for instance.

It's far safer being in a hot climate with air-conditioning.

Air-conditioning also cleans the air of pollutants.

We need more not less control of the air and temperature.
Electrification Delayed
I think I read somewhere that they are fixing some of optimization issues for CTEs in the next release of Postgres. Does anyone know whether that's true or not?
> It also had a rather interesting feature for log files, where you allocated a set size, and any appending onto the end of the file that made it longer would discard the part at the beginning of the file, without allocating any new space

Neat! Thanks for that link.
I completely agree with you about Micro Center frequently changing. I remember when visiting their SoCal store, the books section was moved to what appeared to be a clearance area and found a large drone display in its place. The Fry's in my area seemed like it had 2-3x the square footage, but maybe the same amount of inventory (or less) than Micro Center did.

The Micro Center also used to have this awesome display of old logos (such as the rainbow Apple logo, Compaq, Packard-Bell, old Microsoft logo, etc) from various hardware and software companies that wrapped around the front and sides of the building in all its 90s glory. Sadly, I found it missing as of earlier this year. I wish I took a picture of it while it was still up. Did the Cambridge store have a similar "logo ribbon"?
That website already exists:

https://www.consumerreports.org/
https://www.choice.com.au/

There might be another organization / name for your country, but this is not a new idea.

It seems that only a tiny minority of consumers value this, and the designs you see from mass-market manufactures reflect what consumers actually want when making their purchasing decisions.
1) Vaping is far safer than smoking, and I applaud any efforts, profit-seeking or otherwise, that induce smokers to switch to vaping now. And though some claim that e-cigarettes didn't hasten the decline of cigarette smoking, and are possibly slowing it, if you look at the data you can't make that inference. In fact, if you look at the data it's just as possible that vaping was hastening the long-term decline. The problem is that of those who claim to both vape and smoke cigarettes, nobody is reporting the ratios--are they vaping in addition to smoking the same number of cigarettes, mostly vaping but smoking a few cigarettes each week, etc?

2) The source for the epidemic of vaping comes from the yearly youth drug survey. And if you look at the survey results, youths are experimenting with vaping in the same numbers as marijuana. And just like with marijuana, the activity is mostly only once or twice a week, not daily smokers. Where's the concern about the "epidemic" of pot smoking among youth? There's ample evidence that smoking pot is much more harmful for youth, both for their mental and physical development.
It's really interesting to watch how much of HN armchair lawyers this and assumes it will not hold up for, well, no apparent legal reason that i can see.

With my actual lawyer hat on, I'll place my bet on the other side -

This is not a non-compete, and these clauses are quite commonplace in almost all placement agencies (IE nannies, employees, etc). Charging a fee to facilitate two people meeting and making a transaction is perfectly normal, and I'm not aware of any court striking them down.
In fact, the opposite - i'm aware of plenty of court cases of employers recovering placement fees, etc, from employees, for example.

The only prohibition i'm aware of in california is payment of fees to unlicensed real estate agents for things licensed real estate agents would normally do.

The only interesting restriction you will find on recovery is whether the agency (wag here) was compliant with relveant licensing/etc statutes, and whether the two people actually met using wag.

If they did, ...

Folks are welcome to meet through other means, and it does not restrict anyone working for anyone.
It's an interesting setup. Wag sort of "owns" that relationship in a way....
How many libraries did you add? Last I checked the major ones were about 1mb
Are you thinking of the "[NOT] MATERIALIZED" clause?

Yes, that's coming.

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...
The latest trend I've observed is straight up not honoring the warranty.

In the span of 2 years, I had a $300 fitbit, a $700 acer monitor, and a $300 TCL TV fail, all within their warranty period. All three companies flaked, all with a dubious excuse, correctly gambling that I wouldn't care enough to take matters to small claims.
Toyota announced their battery electric plans: https://electrek.co/2019/06/07/toyota-electric-car-images-ac...

Lexus is said to be releasing a battery electric hatchback next year: https://www.whatcar.com/news/lexus-readying-first-electric-c...

Toyota will show their solid-state battery progress during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/toyota-pulls-forward-...

So that's where Toyota's at.
is it stable though? I'm sure coworkers are always worried about losing their jobs if they don't do better.
Using the NTDLL calls breaks stuff because NTDLL doesn't understand anything about the overlaid subsystems. NT was originally designed to support multiple subsystems in addition to Win32, like the Interix (POSIX compliant) subsystem and the OS/2 subsystem I believe. I think (I could be wrong on this) that this was possible by switching the system call table depending upon which process was currently active (doable by switching the system call vector).
"the system" is shrinking. Our ci/cd, logging, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure is outsourced, our databases our outsourced, and our apps are deployed on stateless vms, a couple steps away from a managed container platform as a service. The only reason we aren't all in on container platform as a service, is because we support clients who deploy on vms.
The best strategy isn't mentioned: learning how to read EXPLAIN output and acting on it.

> Using wildcards at the start and end of a LIKE will slow queries down

That's only true if you don't have the right indexes in place. A wildcard at the end can use a regular (btree) index. Even a LIKE query with wildcards in other places can be fast with a trigram index.

https://niallburkley.com/blog/index-columns-for-like-in-post...
I'm not a fridge tech, but I have a Samsung in my garage after it constantly gave us this problem. I just removed the cover to the evaporator and let it ice up, and don't keep much in it. A second thermostat shows that the interior is still maintaining a safe temperature, with few things inside and a non-functioning fan.

The (suspected) problem is that the defroster heater is too far from the circulation fan, and the ice starts where the copper pipe is from the top, where there is no heater coil. The ice eventually grows to the fan, and seizes up the fan.
Yes, cryptocurrency and other digital currencies like Amazon gift card codes are used in Venezuela sometimes to avoid the theft risk of paper dollars.
The energy argument is valid, but I think the trade off is a result of poorly thought out regulation.

For a water heater, there is an energy guide as well as a durability guide. The good/better/best ratings help the consumer make an appropriate decision.

Energy star should be similar. I’m not interested in saving $4/yr in electricity if that means buying a new appliance in 4 years, but I have no way to evaluate the quality of the device.
Privacy does exactly this: https://privacy.com/
On a bed made of money :(
Plain English Explanation of Cap
How could it possibly be considered a good thing? I've seen dang say before that they've been running into performance issues, and I bet that they'd see a significant drop in resource usage solely by not generating entire comments pages just to throw them away every time anyone votes on a comment. The response is literally not used at all, they're doing that work and sending that data for no reason.

There are multiple downsides and not a single benefit to the current method.
Go actually stopped making syscalls directly on macOS, since the interface is subject to change: https://golang.org/doc/go1.12
Sounds like the only thing that would convince you is the government speaking out and saying they've been doing this, but I think it's obvious that would never happen.

We should all only believe what the government fesses up to, they'd obviously tell us if they were doing any wrongdoing. /s
Twitter is obviously a broken system for trying to share interesting links then. I don't see why we should ruin publishing for everyone else because twitter doesn't allow sharing text properly.
The first link points to a press release that is dead (redirects to a home page), but based on the article, it doesn't look like they're giving it a fair fight.

> The research is revealing that these cars may produce significant CO2 emissions both in their battery production and their charging.

Important to note: "in their production and their charging"

> The study, for instance, estimates that driving a Tesla Model 3 in Germany is responsible for 156 to 181 grams of CO2 per kilometer. That is more than a diesel-powered Mercedes C220d which produces just 141 grams per kilometer.

The Model 3 is "responsible" for x grams, and the Diesel car (is diesel common in Europe? Very little US consumer cars recommend Diesel) "produces" x grams

Finally:

> Not only are there CO2 emissions generated in the production of electric vehicles, in addition almost all EU countries generate significant CO2 emissions from charging the vehicles’ batteries using their national energy production mixes.

There are CO2 emissions in the production of standard vehicles as well (this may be referencing the creation of the batteries, unsure, again the link is dead), and just as charging puts load on the grid, emissions are generated by the extraction, processing, and transportation of oil.

I'm not trying to invalidate the study, but the wording is suspicious (assuming it's not editorialized; the publication isn't one that only puts out critical TSLA articles).
Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, but I've never really found Consumer Reports to be that informative when I'm looking to buy something. Often they rate things based on features I don't even care about.
The Hong Kong police should follow American tactics if they want more of the public on their side.

Like in the LA riots, let the rioters run amok for a few days and wreak havoc.

A lot of “everyday Hong Kongers” were starting to get angry at the rioters when they blocked the subways and disrupted people’s lives.
I completely agree with your point about brick and mortar stores. Having a showroom with multiple sizes and brands of product on display, and able to purchase on the spot is a great convenience over waiting for an item to ship. Yes, its a slight inconvenience to commute to and from the store, but it often beats waiting multiple days for something, and having no idea of its quality (or worse if you accidentally purchased a counterfeit product). After doing that a few times on Amazon, and having an issue with a return once, I have stuck to supporting B&M retailers, especially those like Micro Center who provide online stock numbers, indicate where a product is located in their showroom, and match prices (though I have mostly found Micro Center's prices to be the cheapest).
Stable coin would solve that.
Ironically, replacing the compressor with an older quieter model could likely be done, but would probably be illegal under some EPA law...

The newer ultra-high-speed compressors are supposed to be more efficient, but looking up some historical data on refrigerator energy consumption, I'm not so sure if that's true in general.
All large companies are schizophrenic to some extent.

Where I work, departments bill each other. Sometimes, two departments develop competing tools that are third department could make use of. Instead the third department use an off the shelf tool because the "license" for the internal tools is too expensive.

At these scales, companies are almost like states. A group of entities with shared services but otherwise working independently.
Tager was clearly deranged, but his mistrust of Rather has good roots. Rather was at the center of the Killian Documents Controversary, aka 'Rathergate'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
Old thread that may be useful "Ask HN: How do blind people code and work with terminals?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5352608 (52 points | Mar 10, 2013 | 21 comments)
FYI there was an article on here a little while ago about a man that used GDPR to get access to all emails by his colleagues that mentioned his name.
Where in my comment am I saying anything about the Reddit post? The GP comment by mastazi says "I wish the article gave more details instead of spreading FUD", you responded with a complete non sequitur about people who assume legitimate products are risk-free, and I pointed out that disliking FUD doesn't automatically mean you're Pollyannaish about the risks of legitimate products.

Again, what I'm trying to explain to you is that for some of us, there are more than two possible positions here. Mastazi complaining about FUD in a WaPo article (or the original nyt one posted here) doesn't mean he agrees with a random Reddit commenter who also disagrees with the article.
DAE javascript is bad???
Just like to offer an alternative view to the "if I move to G. Suite all my problems will go away" myth.
Ive had quite a few clients over the years that have faced deliverability issues on G.Suite with sending IP's being on blocklists. Google isnt immune to this people.
e.g.
http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/209.85.208.194.html
Controlling the smallest unit of sound could increase processing power
I'm shut out of savings-heavy options like Costco by buying this way, but I don't know about the rest of your assertion. Especially when you consider, eg., that I use my various walks to the grocer in place of where somebody else might use a gym membership. Things like this keep me physically active.
So true, the riches families will accumulate wealth at a rate that will make them the riches families forever at an exponential rate.

By the way, this also applies to personal knowledge the more you learn the easier it will be for you to accumulate more knowledge in relation to others.

It's nuts how much the Matthew Effect applies to the accumulation of X.
You’re being downvoted, but there’s actually something to this theory. The spread of Islam throughout the African continent brought with it a cultural taboo against pork; pigs were mostly displaced by goats, which will frankly eat anything down to its roots.
Thank you I really appreciate it.
Many countries will ask "have you ever been denied entry before to [any] country?", and proactively deny you entry. Seems a punishment to me, not necessarily a "mere" formality.
You don't think there is a bit of a difference between you just going about your daily life in a foreign country and that being interesting to people (and uncomfortable for you) and an astronaut committing multiple felonies?
like 1.5 months ago. They had really cut down on the number of tellers was the main thing I had seen.
Good idea, but probably the wrong location. For Mexico, I would go for larger cities like Merida, etc. I have been in Cabo six or seven times for a day off of a cruise ship and once staying for a week and there really is not much going on there.
got 91, fun it's sort of like live action mine sweeper.