skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is, for so many reasons, important to have people of diverse backgrounds and experiences around, in positions of authority, at all levels. Just not for this one particular reason of sniffing out predators.

You're being hyperspecific here with your disagreement.

I think if start enumerating them, you'll find almost all of those advantages you believe in are isomorphic to "different perspectives prevent groupthink". And alignment with the social world of a hyper-rich sex peddler is absolutely a kind of groupthink, no?

Again, Epstein could have his way with organizations run by horny men. That was literally his scam. And as the article (and others) details, this remained true even after he got caught, because enough horny men didn't "really" see what he did as so bad. But that ended once someone was in the room who didn't see things through that lens. That is diversity at work.
Work-related stress: The solution is management not mindfulness
It says in the article they had a 18% higher yield due to better soil quality. The sustainability was essentially just a convenient side effect.

Same with the auto manufacturer; they didn't cut energy costs for the marketing, they did it because the energy costs made spending for the upgrade worth it.
Nuclear is better than fossil fuels on many aspects. To keep the Earth inhabitable to humans, we should start closing down coal plants RIGHT NOW and never touch coal again. We should be all working frantically towards stopping using any fossil fuels as quickly as possible. This isn't where we're going...
How does this perform compared to Fish's built-in VCS monitoring?
Not cost as in money, cost as in depriving people of the freedom to own useful tools. Also, again, what’s with the appeal to emotion? “Sad?” Such words have no place in this debate. Cost-benefit analysis is how you should decide whether to spend other peoples’ money to do anything.

As to the constitutional point: the second amendment is not up for a vote. While gun rights aren’t “unlimited,” the second amendment must be interpreted consistent with the right of people to effectively resist government agents, and that means stuff like assault weapons bans are not constitutional. If you think those rights are misguided in the modern world, fine, gather up a coalition that can amend the constitution. You might find that difficult, because contrary to what you might think, belief in gun rights is the strongest it has been in half a century: https://images.app.goo.gl/9HJwcRLRrdxepDnUA. Even young adults are more pro-gun rights than the same cohort was when the first assault weapons ban was enacted in the 1990s: https://images.app.goo.gl/Vyc2UduAa9Mqehc68. In 1990, 2/3 of young adults said gun control was more important than gun rights, versus 1/3 saying gun rights were more important. Today, it is evenly split.
It's a submarine PR ad, ironically denying its own PR nature.
Then who decides what is a Nazi? Deplatforming someone for their speech makes them one in my book. How far down do we go?
trying to change people is one of the problems with society in general. people can only change themselves. if you think you changed somebody, you didn't, they changed themselves.

stop trying to change people.
> However, the prime minister's office said specially developed software is helping with the count.

So probably a bit of BS involved, still cool.
Does the Z9PE-D16 actually support 64gb DIMMs though? ASUS claims it only supports 32gb for a total of 512gb, but that could easily be because they didn’t update their marketing material rather than a technical limitation.
Not all that massive: 6% increase if all cars and vans (excluding e.g. big rigs and tractors) go electric, according to the Norwegian national grid institute[1] (in Norwegian). Some local grids will need an upgrade, but the national transmission and distribution grid can handle it if 'smart' charging solutions shift the bulk of the charging to happen at night and other low-demand periods.

Norway uses a lot of electricity even without EVs, so it's not a very large increase percentage wise. E.g. we don't have gas pipes to homes like some places in the USA, so stoves are all electric and a lot of heating is electric as well.

[1] https://www.nve.no/nytt-fra-nve/nyheter-energi/stromnettet-e...
Pay attention to which MCC staff get moved/promoted or die. Someone knows and will 'want more' than they were initially paid. They'll either take a bump up or get bumped off.
Lots of examples for the same function, variations of those examples.
I've worked with CMS where each entry pretty much required a "hero". Elsewhere in the system articles were thumbnailed as photo+headline, and attaching a random coffee.jpg caused less problems than trying to fix templates that expected photo+headline.
A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations in the background
On iOS I use this open-source client:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pass-password-store/id120582...
We don’t have full 2019 data. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nile_virus_in_the_Unite...

> Since the virus has become widely established in the U.S., an average of 130 deaths a year occurred.
Should children starve due to lack of charitable funds?
It's mostly privacy. It's a very small amount about security. It's a little bit about data-usage and a few other annoyances.

Where privacy is concerned, we're currently losing the war on fingerprinting. I don't think we're going to lose the war on fingerprinting in the long run, but there's just a lot of stuff we need to do with the language and it's going to take a little while before we get to a point where I feel comfortable saying that arbitrary Javascript can't identify my computer. It's just something we ignored for a long time and we have a long ways to go.

UBlock Origin is really good, but privacy is a continuum. So for a non-technical person, I'd install UBlock Origin and call it a day. For someone who's familiar with the web, I'd install UMatrix with the default settings. For someone who's really familiar with the web, and who really wants to be safe, I'd install UMatrix and switch a few default settings (disabling cookies by default and disabling Javascript by default).

Each step there will make you slightly safer, depending on what percentage of malicious code you want to block. Sometimes trackers are served as 1st-party requests.

I don't have any opposition to Javascript in general; there are more than a few native apps that I wish were just web apps, because the web a better sandbox (and frankly a better platform) than most native environments. It's just a little complicated because we're currently in the middle of a fight over how the web should work.

So it's not an indefinite, "no web-code ever" position. It's "be more careful than usual, because an abnormally high number of bad actors are focused on this platform, and not everything is safe-by-default." Ignoring the debate over site-breakage, the changes here around CSRF should be a decent step in that direction.

On a less practical note, it's also because I can. I really like Javascript, a lot. I also really like separation of concerns, and I think the separation between content and functionality is a really good architecture decision that people should pay attention to. On a purely aesthetic, emotional level I like that I can load a page without executing JS. Heck, occasionally I'll even turn off CSS. There's very little practical reason for that, other than a kind of irrational, "I like that the web lets me do this, most other platforms don't, and it makes me happy to remind myself I can."

But I would guess most people don't fall into that category, that's probably just me being weird.
It's like when I see NLP I have to try and contextualise between natural language programming, natural language processing, neurolinguistic programming and network layer protocol.
Have you seen a Facebook thread recently? This can only end poorly.
> My impression is that a lot of engineers are opposed to how Facebook operates and that this reputation must make recruiting and retention difficult.

In machine learning and computer vision they are a very desired company to work at, at least on the research side of things (FAIR). They have very good people and world famous ones, lots of powerful hardware to work with etc. I'm sure they have no problem with recruiting brilliant people from all over the world.
The 2011 Mac Pro sitting under my desk has 128gb of RAM.
It’s a market segmentation issue for Intel, which AMD has started undermining but has not yet frontally attacked - perhaps they still have plans to (ab)use it themselves.
SML is a ML but ML is it's own pre-SML language too.
It's fascinating how the backlash and the anger towards organic run deep in the US and on HN.

The first time I noticed that was ten or 15 years ago when some 20-something on a train ride were complaining about how the green party was everywhere (they had just peaked at 15% in the previous election) and how soon we'll be obliged to eat green, to drink green coke, that everything is going to be organic, etc.

It was a weird mix of "i don't want to admit they are right so let just say anything bad about them" and... I don't know what. They are people in my work circle who voted for the far-right because they were "fed up with the climate campaign" (referring to the recent climate demonstrations). Like they would hold to any position to justify their own actions.

"It's the fault of environmental activists if we don't go green because they scared us too much and we didn't listen to them."

I think I see the same pattern in the anti organic arguments.

edit: Also, "they are making me feel guilty, so they are bad and manipulative". Sorry, there isn't much coherence to my post. Just my feelings.
There are iOS and android apps. I can't speak for the android apps, but I use an open-source client on iOS.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pass-password-store/id120582...
Very true, but a lot of folks (think researchers who have been using Matlab for over a decade) might not have the time or desire to learn Python and rewrite their Matlab code or manage two code bases.
Multi-Granularity Self-Attention for Neural Machine Translation
"In the case of the Portuguese wineries, both already had good reputations for quality. All they wanted to do was to keep giving consumers great wine at a good price, without degrading their soil. They hadn’t increased the cost of making wine as they shifted to organic practice."

My interpretation comes from this kind of phrasing, were it is assumed that the shift towards organic farming was a move towards sustainability.
There is very broad support for a judicial process to take away people’s guns if they pose a threat as well. If you think that is misguided, I invite you to do the exact same thing.
The big problem with the content is suggesting to use an XML parser to parse HTML. That might often work, and several XML parsers have some sort of HTML "mode", but in general, no, not really.
HTML documents are frequently invalid XML.
HTML documents lack an XML declaration, they don't close all tags, etc. They might even lack a root element. Someone mentioned this in a comment on SO, but it was (as far as I could see) not really addressed or answered.

HTML 5 has it's own parsing rules, specified at [1].
However, I don't know of any implementation of these outside of browsers. I normally use Beatuiful Soup [2] (for Python) or HTML Agility Pack [3] (for .NET), and while I don't think these implement the exact standard, they're easier than struggling with a XML parser for HTML "in the wild".

1: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html
2: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
3: https://html-agility-pack.net/
That doesn’t add up. The I-PACE and Taycan both have similar weight to the Model X, yet are substantially less efficient. The e-tron is lighter than a Model S and has absolutely horrible efficiency.
You're right. I should have looked it up. Here:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Boise is in fact the THIRD whitest city in the whole country .
The Future of Farming? No Sun, No Soil, but Lots of Data
If it's a real forest loggers need not do anything, small trees and seedlings are probably plenty in that area.
Kind of funny to refer to Palo Alto and New Haven as "ancient" adjacent to Rome.
Weird and Wonderful Peripherals from Nintendo’s History
If you want to learn more about this in person, in 2020 there will be the first "Online Game Technology Summit" at the Game Developers Conference.

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the summit advisors)

We're trying to grow the education in this space of game development, because currently it is very sparse. AFAIK, this is the only event that is dedicated to the technical aspects of online, connected or multiplayer games.

Details, and CFP, which is currently open:
https://www.gdconf.com/summits/c4p
Steel has miniscule amounts of carbon (0.2% is typical). The carbon comes largely from pig iron from the iron making step (where it comes from the coke used to smelt ore) and an oxygen lance is actually used to burn out excess carbon from molten pig iron to reduce the quantity to a level suitable for mild steel.
Some already pointed out, I am also curious about sustainability and how many trees will survive in future BUT I am incredibly amazed of the number of trees planted in just 12 hours. I might be naive in this thinking but it gives me hope about what we can achieve once we have to.
Do you consider iCloud Keychain to be one?
It is conflating the two. For example, the paragraph starting with:

> This phenomenon is not limited to the clothing industry. The UK organic groceries market has been expanding steadily for the past eight years.

Without any explanation given of how this relates to sustainability, they imply that the relationship between organic and sustainable is obvious. That looks like conflation to me.
More precisely, it is arbitrarily deep nested clauses that cannot be parsed, on account of true REs not being able to either use recursion or keep count of how deep they are.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jaredpar/2008/10/15/regular...
This is misleading. He went on a hunger strike to protest the City Council making a decision to build low barrier Navigation centers next to residences and schools without public input. He wants them to hold something like a referendum and let the people decide location of the HNC if it were to pass.
This made me think that "The End of the United States of America Won't be That Bad". Might actually be a good thing.
Fun fact, it gets even more expensive (per GB) when you want to add RAM over 1.5TB, because Intel will crank up the cpu price just for higher ram support. Off the top of my head, the same cpu accepting 4TB was twice the price of the 1.5TB version, going at around $18000.

AMD's new epyc supports 4TB without artificial price increase, IMO some healthy competition for the server market.
The irony is that sustainable practices are so effective at lowering costs that they can actually cause higher overall consumption levels due to all the new business potential; aka the Jevons paradox. I believe the issue is all the pointless green-signaling products out with ridiculous markups tainting public perception.
XDA-Developers and the GPL
It might just be the easiest way to do it. It's also possible that Intel didn't have access to samples of enough AMD stuff to test, or the wrong department had it, or they couldn't get approval to take the time it would require. The GCC guys almost certainly lacked the hardware, time, and inclination to do this instead. It's not malice, I don't think, so much as practicality. I'm sure they'd accept an AMD patch enabling this where available.
The unions blocked driver only trains on the L line. What makes you think they’ll allow self driving trains?

And it’s not just unions either. The capital spending side is also monstrously inefficient.

As far as solutions go, I don’t blame you for not having one but I can’t support any additional money when we can’t even have confidence that it will actually improve anything rather than just going directly into even waste, fraud, and abuse.
I realize I don't have the chops to argue against a professional historian, but here's what I'm seeing:

The period after the fall of the Roman Empire is often called "The Dark Ages," though a lot of revisionists try to make us think this wasn't nearly as ominous as it sounds. OK, we know that time wasn't called "dark" because the Sun failed to shine; it's called "dark" because we have a dearth of historical information about it.

What does this tell us? The Greco-Roman civilization produced truckloads of books on all topics of interest; there were libraries both public and private, and schools to support general literacy, often bilingual, among the upper class, at least. A good part of the literature from that age survived the multiple sackings and burnings of Rome, etc.

In the Dark Ages, on the other hand, literacy was heavily monopolized by the clergy, and a preponderance of new books dealt with theology. It's a period where even many kings signed an "X" for their names. A period where intellectual energy went into religious ruminations and little else. A period of intellectual barbarism, in other words. A thousand years of barely any scientific progress.

In another top-level comment, user "causality1" mentions a large handful of side effects of this intellectual decline, including decreases in population, life expectancy, trade, infrastructure and technology. Unlike the author, I believe a decline in a whole slew of markers of societal functionality is bad indeed.
The writing in the English translation of The Three Body Problem is stilted and dull. Maybe it's better in Chinese? Some languages must be more expensive than others to translate well. Gave up half way through the first book; when I eventually read the synopsis on Wikipedia it sounded exciting.

I'll have to read Neuromancer again. At the time I read it I was skeptical that hacking decks and exploits would ever exist, but that was before JavaScript, internet connected critical systems, rop gadgets and nation state 0day exploit chains. The need to do scene setting for these concepts perhaps weighs on the story.
From the article:

"There are other reasons why manufacturers keep quiet about their sustainable practices. After 15 years of dedicated effort, a well-known car manufacturer reduced the amount of energy it took to make its cars by 75%: it can now make four cars using the same amount of energy it formerly took to make one. Evans was amazed when he discovered this while working with the manufacturer and asked if he could tell the world. It refused, not because the innovations were trade secrets, or because it risked losing a cost-saving competitive edge (due to cheap electricity prices, the cost saving amounted to less than 1%), but because the management was worried that to flag one area of innovation in the business for praise might attract unwanted attention to parts of its operation that were less sustainable, potentially sparking accusations of “green-washing”."

As an aside, it's funny how tiny these 'articles' are. I wonder to what extent cell phones have made people unlikely to read a anything more than a few paragraphs long.
I own a Model 3 Performance. I have owned a lot of muscle cars and legitimate sports cars that cost a lot more than the Model 3 over the years. I could have comfortably bought a Model S with the best performance package (costing twice as much and going a bit faster than M3 Performance), but I picked the Model 3. It is hands down the best performance car I have ever owned for day to day driving. There is little difference between my Model 3 and the base level ones in terms of drive feel. They are amazing cars for day to day driving scenarios. When a car is just more fun to drive than high end Porsche or tricked out muscle cars it’s just a good car. Model 3 has its warts, but they don’t really impact the driving experience IMO.
I see but what about particles that are not that precisely localised and don't have such extreme uncertainity of momentum?

It's very logical that a particle that might have any momentum quicky spreads out to be smoothly everywhere.

Particle with not that precise position and not that uncertain momentum should stay fairly comapct for large amount of time.
So I guess no version control where at least one developer had a checked out local copy? Ouch.
1Password has always offered the best usability for me. Many other password managers (eg LastPass) have failed, for instance, to work with the AWS sign in page and some other tricky websites. 1Password UX is also well polished in other ways and is nice to use. I consider this kind of good usability to significantly increase my quality of life, since I login to various online services all the time and I want to eliminate as much hassle as possible.

I realize all this requires a great deal of trust in the maker of 1Password having done things right and currently I have that trust. This may change in the future of course.
Seems like it's not very effective PR, since the article doesn't even name any of the companies it's talking about.
Interesting. I've never used pass, but this thread is making it sound interesting. Does it support fallbacks (multiple keys, other forms of credentials) simultaneously?
> without public input

Not true. From the article:

> The city of Fremont started developing a proposal for a new navigation center, and asked residents for input. Elected officials and staff organized three public meetings about the proposal, accepted comments online, and heard from hundreds of residents at city council meetings. Fremont residents wore white to city hearings to express support for the proposed center; others wore either red or blue, to express their opposition to specific proposed sites.

The article also talks about how we wants the houses people decide whether and where it's built. I think anybody will recognize the ridiculousness of holding a whole referendum on whether one small service center is getting built (especially with Grant money on the line, this will effectively kill the proposal)
I've worked on teams that were poor at estimating. They used story points.

I've worked on teams that were great at estimating. They used days. 1, 2, 3, 5, or 10 days. Smaller than a day - coalesce. Larger that 10 days - break it down.

The difference was with points there did not seem to be any real impetus to improve estimation. It was too make believe. Also, if you asked a team mate what a point was, they might say an hour, a day, whatever. Sometimes this would cause unnecessary drama.

With estimates in days, it was concrete, and concrete steps were taken as the team was forming to improve estimates. Also, minimum time of 1 day helped avoid the small stuff taking on too much importance.
Sounds like a really good policy. Despite what I previously said, some people who have friends that are older seem to get an advantage as if they have enough tests, they might see a familiar problem and generally be aware of the steps to solve it and about how complex it will be without having to reason it out from scratch. This can have a big impact on some exams depending on the professor.
If you can't make hordes of side-effects sit up and beg, in a large, complicated program, you can't call yourself a computer scientist or developer.
Then your mistake appears to be in failing to see that your perceived edge case does not invalidate the first sentence of my reply. If the sole purpose of a parser is to syntactically validate its own source (which is not the case for a compiler's parser, by the way, not even if we expand 'its own source' to 'arbitrary input'), then if it does that correctly, that's all there is to it.
The comments suggest that while most of their code is in SVN (and to forestall the usual discussion, SVN is totally defensible for game devs, most people don't know about Git LFS and it isn't a perfect solution), a tools developer made edits in production to make the lobby code work and he's no longer with the company.