skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't talk for anywhere else, but historically in the UK, all tax went into a central pot. More recently cigarette tax is earmarked for the NHS and VED (Vehicle Emission Duty [thought of popularly as Road Tax]) is ear marked for transport improvements. I'm not a fan of this - as a cyclist I was often told (at least a few times a year) but drives that I should get of the road as I dont pay for it. Ignoring the fact that I owned two cars and paid a lot of tax...
For anyone interested in power useage and supply patterns you should check out https://gridwatch.co.uk/

It shows UK power use and generation in realtime, and over various time periods. There is still plenty of room for more renewables, and it shows how solar is actually pretty good in the uk, it generates during the main peak period in the day.
DeFi blocked by need for privacy and security
I assume it looks bad if a candidate someone hires ends up being a terrible fit. This is basically how it goes everywhere else at larger companies. Visibility is more important than getting things done.

Like, I'm staffed at a company that isn't Arthur Anderson right now on an internal project and our SM/PO came back from scrum of scrums and said everyone was massively overestimating tasks to make sure they got them in on time. If you finish early you get pushback on starting something else because it looks 'so bad' if work goes from one sprint to the next.

Slow work and hitting metrics > everything, I guess.
IBM sues Zillow over 7 software patents [pdf]
Microsoft announces quarterly dividend increase and new share repurchase program
Does the tax apply to hard drives? Does it apply to 'full' hard drives? Seems like any tax on commodity storage would really hurt tech companies.
No, it's the telephoto. The 11 has the ultrawide.
No, briandear is right. The Pro has the telephoto, and the wide and ultrawide, where as the 11 just has the wide and ultrawide.
that doesn't change the economics at all.
the money paid to the worker through a middle-man has no bearing on the labor market as seen by the company and their bottom-line. You could send your paycheck into the incinerator every month... it makes no difference.

as you say the $80k is the rate to avoid hiring a US employee. maybe that's lower than what it would be with no h1-b, but then what are these displaced american workers doing for more than $80k?
That was such a great comment that I sent it to a few of my friends. Thank you.
> HFCS (instead of cane sugar)

Minor suggestion but the more realistic alternative is beet sugar, which is far more local to most of North America and Europe. Cane sugar is typically a more expensive imported thing, at least in much of the US and where I currently live in Europe.
Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World
Reviews are never "objective." They are always a single person's experience with a thing.
A high school student pitching her startup on stage at a conference received this text from a middle-aged event attendee;
"Hey! Nice to meet you at Demo Day today. It was fun to see how creative you were with your concept. You were really sexy in your apron ;) I will try to remember some tips and info to tomorrow. Complain if I happen to forget :P Talk later!" [https://link.medium.com/iRiWIGl16Z]

This keeps happening because

1) Conferences rarely have a stated code of conduct and

2) Even when they do, they rarely have a process for filing or receiving reports on event policy violations; I felt that something had to be done - so I built Konduct.

Konduct is a platform where event/conference/meetup/workshop/you name it-organizers easily can

1) generate a thoughtful and well-prepared code of conduct and hosted policy site, and at the same time

2) generate a website report widget that can be used anywhere on the organizer's event site where attendees quickly can report any event policy violations

It's simple, event organizers get

1) a site (konduct.co/my-event-name) and

2) a code snippet for the Konduct widget, which is a floating "Report incident"-button ready to embed on their own event site

All (eventual) event policy violation reports are saved and visible on the event organizers dashboard, ready for follow-up according to the reporters choice.

Want to test out the service?
File a (test) report on https://konduct.co with your email and receive an example of how the report looks like for both the event organizer and the event attendee.

Want to see an example of how a code of conduct might look like?
Visit https://konduct.co/my-test-event-2020

I built Konduct because I genuinely believe that there has to be a change, all events should;

1) Have an explicit code of conduct
2) Upon eventual event policy violations, event attendees need a clear and easy way to create a report for the incident

This is a soft launch and we'd love your feedback!
That is actually quite nice. Apple does good things from time to time, I just don't like their devices. But I think there are ways to access iTunes without an Apple device.
Basically this is like link sharing I guess ?
Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source
Bash is similar to vim. Pretty weird at first glance, but once you get the idea, stuff just makes sense and the limited knowledge you acquire can be used in different contexts. I think bash is magical in the things it allows you to do with minimal effort.
This article has nothing to do with Rust. Bringing Rust up like this is inappropriate, and looks bad on the Rust community. It fuels an "us vs them" mentality, and doesn't win over any hearts nor minds. It often hardens them, instead.
"the slowness of using b-tree indexes instead of direct pointers to neighbor nodes"

If you don't use a b-tree, you still need some other in-memory data structure like a hash table to hold the pointers. "Direct pointers" don't help you if you have to read a node from disk before you can dereference its pointers.

In my case, I was working with a graph consisting of about 10M nodes and 35M rows of edges (parent-child relationships, where a parent can have many children and a child can have many parents). Many of those 10M parts weren't actively used anymore, so a minority of nodes had a majority of the relationships. I don't have access to the data anymore, but I recall being able to retrieve the transitive closure on a subgraph of ~10k nodes in 5-10 seconds, and the entire graph in about 7-8 minutes. This was on a small, possibly underpowered SQL Server instance. It's possible that Neo4j would do it faster, but I decided it was not worth moving all my data into a different database and introducing that ETL latency, to improve upon performance that was already acceptable for the business need.

I have heard anecdotally that SQL Server's CTEs are more performant than PostgreSQL's, but I don't have evidence of this, and it could be outdated if Postgres has made improvements since I heard that.
Another crazy one is simply pushing a big heavy train up a hill. Then when you need power just letting it go back down the hill.

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/forget-elons-batteries-fix-gri...
It's not honest to use vaguely defined externalities defined as subsidies when they influence the results this much:

https://imgur.com/a/HioRu4X
I see a lot of WP ads lately so perhaps I’m just being targeted.
The assertion by the original commenter was that this article was an "advertisement" - meaning paid.

While the article may well serve as a function of marketing because some pro photographer got a loner from Apple and wrote up a gushing review. I don't believe the word "advertisement" holds water.

I think this comment said it best:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21016402
Even in the 3rd world countries some teachers who know what they're doing have managed to organize schools that rely on competition as the admission process. That works pretty well for not losing potential Nobel Prize winners. Mass production of Nobel Prize winners would be just an act of violence towards the "more average" children.
NASA does many things wrong, but relying on private contractors for launch services isn't one of those things and deemphasizing the Senate Launch System is a step into right direction.
Product as a business model; Product as a side project
This feels like definition-specific and ultimately, it's semantics. If you say subsidy is giving tax dollars to fossil fuel companies, isn't not taking tax dollars from them for their costly pollution effectively the same outcome?

The important point is that fossil fuels receive far more government support than renewables do.
In nature nothing is ever produced in a vacuum. There is a bill to pay for overproducing and the effects are coming for us.
Even here, there's a method to the madness. It may appear unstructured compared to the US.
This is not an office, I took it during programming competition/hackathon. Originally posted it here https://unsplash.com/photos/QBpZGqEMsKg
Code For Boston is trying to predict the next Flint/water crisis
There is definitely a bias towards chronic rather than acute illness, which I think is what the GP is discussing. This is why there is more research on high blood pressure than into antibiotics.

On the other hand, something like Solvadi (an actual cure for HepC in 90 days) really is a miracle cure for a chronic problem, and cost effective even at its very high price point (1k/pill, 90k total was its initial list price).
To the fellow saying skip the tour, I say, let people see it and draw their own conclusions. Surely that is appropriate in this circumstance.
What I want to know is whether there are any phone-sized stand-alone cameras that can compete with any of the modern amazing phone cameras.

I love my Pixel 2's camera, it shoots gorgeous pictures, but I'm seriously considering downsizing my phone significantly. I'd love to have a nearly-dumb-phone but... can't give up the camera.

If someone sold a standalone camera that is as portable and as good, I would take it and a dumb-phone in a minute.
>Lying about that product on the other hand..

What if things are not prove able? Like "most secure", but their metric is fastest patching. It's not actually secure, but they have logic.

Technically true, but intentionally misleading.

I don't suggest getting caught up in the Innocence of having a brick and mortar sign. This is not what we worry about.

What do we learn from a beer commercial showing hot girls? Or a tech commercial showing people dancing. These are feelings unrelated to the product.

These specific examples don't scratch the surface. The best marketing, you don't see.
> The comments on this thread are terrible.

Those comments are all now dead or nearly so and I wouldn't have even seen them if your comment weren't calling attention to them. Please don't do that. Just downvote or flag them and trust others to do the same. Otherwise we end up having another discussion about HN instead of about the submission.

> Anyway, makes me wonder if the "real HN" crowd has moved on elsewhere.

Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Just go look at any HN submission of any remotely controversial figure and you'll find terrible comments. It isn't new.
Is the '-p' necessary?

I like to open files in windows with e.g. "vim -O file1 file2", and I've noticed that if I accidentally omit the '-o' or '-O', it opens each file in a tab. Or at least, it opens each file in individual pages that you navigate between with ':next' / ':prev'.
Writing a scholarly paper now that points this issue out in DynamicLand. DynamicLand is amazing but making the "old" paradigm the centre point of the new is a contradiction. I wonder if Bret Victor has thought about this bottleneck.
This is only because for some reason when we talk about wind and solar we don't factor in the cost of coal, nuclear, gas and oil which are being used as backup.

Furthermore, with wind and solar, we don't factor in things like decommission like you would on nuclear.
Pumped hydro storage is the gold standard for large scale storage, but it is only cost effective in certain geographic areas. Many of the prime areas for pumped hydro are already being utilized in developed countries. So, we can't really implement a ton more pumped hydro.

Melting and re-solidifying salt or water is done at smaller scale, but has not been used for large scale storage. Some grocery stores use systems like this to shift cooling loads a few hours, but nothing at grid scale.

To make a serious impact we need big scalable solutions. Batteries are in the lead here since the price keeps coming down. They also have the advantage of being able to discharge at both high power and low power.
Are you comparing a call to a definition? `trim_string "$my_str"` is no less readable than `my_str.strip()`.
AT&T Says Customers Can’t Sue for Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters
There is also a cost in learning. I'll doff my hat to parents who have the time, energy, resources and ability to teach their own kids a wide range of subjects but in practice this seems to be the exception. Most homeschooled kids I've known have been very behind their schooled peers.
My wife and I home school our kids. Homeschooling doesn't mean your kids never see other kids (unless you live really isolated lives anyway). We found other home school families, there are associations, my kids take classes with other kids (Chemistry, an English class), they still participate in sports (there are lots of club sports leagues, and you should be able to get your kid into any sport at their local high school district).

Anyway, the socialization taught in school is often the wrong type of socialization. "here is how to talk and play only with kids your own age".
> That's not what was spent, it's what this paper projected was spent.

It's not even what was actually spent, but what the projected economic cost was due to externalities such as excess mortality from air pollution.

So, if someone from the US dies due to air pollution, that's 6.1 million dollars down the drain. The report puts that rate at 4.9 deaths per thousand, which is absurdly high in my estimation.
In the gaming space we also have Steam and Gog which coexist happily because neither demands exclusivity, each catering to different consumer preferences.
Yes. As I said - it was deliberate. That does not excuse it.

By the very fact that this is a book, it presumes that the intended audience consists of visual learners. When working with visual learners, if something is erroneous, it is imperative that it be explicitly and visually called out as such. In linguistics pedagogy, for instance, this is done by marking any ungrammatical construct or example not found in natural language with an asterisk every time.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/courses/lx101/assign96.htm...
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/338/meaning-...
https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/as...

This book does not do this. It freely uses deliberately bad code in example programs. This can only result in confusion on the part of learners. It is therefore inconsistent with pedagogical best practices. I would not recommend it.
From a transportation standpoint, this is far more nefarious than people recognize at first glance. Cars and transit are economic substitutes: if you make one cheaper, you take users from the other. That much is a given, but people underestimate the impact this has on transit finances.

Transit is mostly a fixed cost business (step-fixed cost technically). That means that the marginal rider brings marginal revenue, but no additional costs. Transit operations have a break-even point: when you have X riders, you break even. Anything more is pure profit, and anything less is a negative cash flow.

When you rob transit of customers by subsidizing cars, you make transit less sustainable. Subsidizing cars literally means you'll end up subsidizing transit too. The opposite is true, and it's provable: Transit is dramatically more profitable in countries where driving is less subsidized. It was wildly profitable in the US too, before we started subsidizing cars.

The answer to getting more transit funding isn't to pay more in general fund taxes or fares, it is actually to tax road users. Tax road users appropriately, and transit will have more more users, more revenues, and little to no increase in costs. A 5% reduction in car use could double transit ridership nationwide. Oh, and our roads will have more maintenance funding, less congestion, and less wear and tear. A win-win if there ever was one.
And that is the main thing: socialization. Families in cities, specially now that most people rarely have more than 3 children and live relatively far from grandparents, the cost of not understanding how to behave with mid size groups of people or how to read social contexts is priceless, and most probably won't come easily from other channels since now doesn't seem that common to see children running in the streets freely.
There is a reason the SLS was and still is known as the "Senate Launch System"
To expand on this, it also lets them target new CPU architectures without having developers recompile code for that architecture. This lets them make incremental improvements (eg armv7), but would also let them use their own CPU architecture should they move away from Intel/ARM.

As an example here’s Chris Lattner tweeting about that use case:

https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/1091186386634326017...
The thing they don't seem to understand is that you don't get long-term subscribers from the back catalog. It's the new content.

Which means what they should be doing is reserving the latest season to themselves but making it so that everything else is available everywhere (assuming reciprocity). Then when season one drops on Netflix and Netflix subscribers like it, well, season two is out but only on Disney for the next year. And the customer might actually be willing to drop Netflix for Disney this year if they both have the same back catalog, when it wouldn't be worth it if you have to subscribe to both at once for that.

The result would be that a customer could get all content by subscribing to only one service and no piracy, but only if they're willing to be a year out of date for most of it, which still allows them to get multiple subscriptions from the subset of people with more disposable income. And it's not as if they don't make any money from licensing the old seasons to the other providers -- or make any money when the other providers license their old seasons to them and allow them to get more subscribers.

Their problem is they're overvaluing exclusivity for old content.
"fat and ugly" is not the definition of a creep. Stallman's "creep" factor comes in part from his way of making inappropriate sexual advances. Here are some examples of people calling him a creep:

"There are many valid criticisms of Richard Stallman: ... he has creeped out some women by making passes at them (or so they tell me). - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327849 (2011)

There are stories on Twitter like the following from 2018, https://twitter.com/suzanne_hillman/status/99459683376166092.... :

> He flirts with anyone who is female, even if they are underage. He is creepy in person, in a way that I cannot adequately describe. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that he kept women out of open source and free software, and many of his ideas stayed even after he left.

Or https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/09/17/rms-resig.... :

> rms was in the whisper network as a creep when I was in undergrad late last millennium, and I wasn’t even at MIT.
100%. Back in the day our offline mail readers (for BBSs, CompuServe, BIX) had "twit filters" (black lists). An essential feature missing from most online forums today.
Theres a Dutch study indicating that we're rapidly approaching supply chain limits for the rare metals required for renewable energy, both solar and wind. I wonder how long renewables can continue dropping in price.
Picking Finland as a model is problematic. Compared to the US, it's a small, socially homogenous country that speaks a language isolate.

A much better comparison is Canada, which demographically and socially is much closer to the United States but ranks even higher than Finland in education scores.

AFAIK from my contacts in Canada, their schooling system is very similar to the US, but had much better results.
I only recently (as of a few weeks ago) stopped fully supporting my apps because I want to invest more time in other efforts.

I made a comment elsewhere here (and updated the article to state) that downloads currently are around 40 each week, with an occasional bubble of a few thousand when a blogger or news site re-discovers the app.
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) for WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers
There is only one design pattern
Ethereum by the Numbers – September 2019
If you want to play that game then sure.

They factor in what they should have been paid because of externalities.

What should then be deducted because of the positive externalities? All the positive things that are the very reason why most of us are even alive today which is a direct consequence of fossil fuel.

Without fossil fuels, we would be living like they do in the poor areas of the world.
Don't know about your situation but my siblings and I were raised in a mostly homeschool environment and achieved constant socialization via homeschool groups ( spurred on or hosted by my Mother ), church, various small town activities, and the fact that there were 5 of us.
This is one of the most blatantly pro-fossil, anti-renewable posts I have seen on HN.

First off, yes there is battery technology to bridge the gap. Solar+battery storage is an increasingly common purchase for utilities today, there are home-batteries for purchase for consumers from multiple companies. To say battery storage doesn't exist and isn't cheaper than oil/coal grid power is simply false.

Second, renewables can have higher capacity factors than many fossil-fuel plants, so saying they're intermittent and fossil-fuel is not is false. Surely, solar is weaker in winter, but wind is stronger at night, and seasonal storage is the main issue here. Yes, we will be using natural gas for winter and certain Northerly regions for decades to come, but it will become increasingly niche/reserve as batteries, solar, and wind get even cheaper.

Renewables absolutely do not need to be paired with natural gas to make it "remotely viable". There are numerous markets with very high % of renewables already, and it turns out utility operators are very smart and know how to plan very well. Renewables can reach very high market penetration, given solar is a day resource and wind is a night resource, in general. The main issue is bringing demand response online to tailor your loads to fit your renewables: charge EVs, batteries, use AC/heating, industrial processes, all can be tailored to the price of electricity, given a smart utility.
How is "playing the numbers game" no longer the good advice? This article (and your comments) only seem to cement that idea further.
Unrelated to op, never seen this link before, super cool thanks for sharing.
Article rings true for every WP instance I've seen and managed.

No doubt there are pros who do it the way you described, but what percent of WP installations do you think are managed by people like that?

There are many developers more skilled than "average joe" but below the level you describe, and they have plenty of other options: https://headlesscms.org
So the ones they couldn't validate the authenticity of?
Whaoh! I apologize if I gave that impression. I certainly did not mean to imply that everyone on welfare does those things, or even a majority. I was only pointing out that there is a motive, and that it is an action that some people take. I grew up on welfare as my mother was just one of those "working poor" you mention. I would never want to disregard the plight of people like my mother, and certainly did not intend my comment to do so.