skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem is that they keep building using outdated technologies!!!!

why do they keep building these "paper" houses? average american house is too poorly constructed to handle these things. honestly its just a few sticks and plywood in between most of the time! what hurricane??? Government should force contractors to build using ICF technology, hurricane proof houses on high stilts in coastal areas and problem solved!!!

this is a crucial comment: "She dreams of resettling in Key West or Homestead, a safer spot on the Florida mainland.

“I’d like to take the money and run,” Rittel said. “But I’ll have to buy something on stilts. I’m not buying anything on the ground down here ever ever again.”"
> And is We even truly a tech company anyway?

Nope. Just a real estate play trying to be valued at tech level multiples. That's part of reason We's in trouble.
I used to regularly see one MTA employee hosing down the platform while 3-4 others watched. I always assumed that that was the result of a union negotiation, since it was pretty consistent, but could be wrong.
Native advertising is especially worse and it will only grow more prolific with ad blocking.

I'd rather have display ads like we've got now just to avoid having to do mental gymnastics to check if an article is an advertisement or not.

At least with the current situation things are separated.
To the extent that certain real estate sectors are being propped up by speculation in future office use, the collapse of WeWork could set off a broader collapse in certain real estate markets. Whether that radiates out to the broader economy depends on how heavily leveraged investors are, and whether they can restructure their debts. Interest rates are very low, which makes debt less painful than in earlier eras, but there is always the risk of a panic causing markets to lock up. If contagion were to begin, then it's up to the central banks to step in forcefully with additional QE, so as to end the panic. Of course, the governments could engage in fiscal stimulus, which would obviate the need for monetary stimulus, but in recent years the politics have been against that.
To love hotels you are probably spending at least 400/night on them right? Anything lower and the standards are usually all over the place.

On a tighter budget (50-150$) I always prefer airbnbs.
I just want to say that no, you don’t need to free the resources. It's very possible to use a fix amount of heap memory during the whole lifecycle of your game. In fact I think that’s what people should aim for in 90% of the cases.
The sea is rising more slowly today than any day in the foreseeable future.

Sea level rise is accelerating. This angle may spark some smart thoughts here.
+1. This episode is a great 20 minute primer on mindfulness meditation https://www.netflix.com/watch/81062191
Honestly, as much as I like to tame down fits of negative emotions. The fact that I can somehow decide to ignore different emotional response aspects of my ~self makes me feel slightly schizophrenic.
You drive a car with boxing gloves on?
I remember as a child going on vacation to the beaches in Virgina and the Carolinas and always seeing the remains of multiple beach front houses that had been destroyed by waves. The unpredictability of which houses were wiped out made quite an impression.
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Not to sound like a member of the Rust evangelism strike force, but after using Rust for a couple years, I don't have any desire to go back to C - sum types alone are worth the switch to me, not to mention iterators, concurrency story, etc.
I think it is possible to be a benefactor and also understand that the disparity is insane.
There was no reason to single out whiteness among ALDCs (athletes, legacies, Dean's interest list, and children of staff). This seems like it's trying to lie with statistics.
Sure...if you ignore that I also mentioned a normal distribution, which includes a variety of opinions with a rough clustering around the center. Why did you just ignore that?
Over the course of the early 20th century, unions got laws passed that violate the rights of employers, in order to give themselves enormous leverage over every capital-intensive work site where a large number of workers concentrate, and they attained a complete stranglehold over all major industries by the 1950s, and all the while, they've had the public at large convinced that they're the underdog.
Etymology and Spelling
Can you see satellites if you live in a city?
Great execution, a breath of fresh air that you don't ask to 'sign up', 'enter email', etc. and just provide the value right away to be experienced.
The posted article is all about how the changes Apple made to Safari mirror the proposed changes to Chrome. Safari content blockers such as 1Blocker are pretty much exactly how Chrome adblockers will work in the future.

Chrome has not changed how extensions work yet. That's all in the future. Currently, nothing has been turned off and the "old" mechanism still works. Eventually that will change, just as Safari has already done.
GMAFB
I agree completely. Nobody should go hungry, without basic health care or without a roof over their heads in a modern advanced economy. But $1,000 a month for everybody is insane. It would require a massive tax on corporations and the wealthy, and it’s just an objective fact that raising taxes that way does not significantly increase tax income. It just doesn’t. It’s been tried over and over in many countries and it never works.

I live in the UK. We have universal health care, a robust social care model, my kids are getting a decent free education and we have a decent benefits system. I’m proud of all of those and don’t resent a single penny I pay in taxes towards it.

But plonking big wadges of cash on everybody, funded by hammering anybody that looks even moderately successful, is a recipe for economic mayhem.
The people that will be most impacted by any sort of equalizing are the people who make like 120-250k per year. Not silly rich, but they have a house or two that they rent out, etc.

This is okay, because everyone is better off, despite the upper-middle-class being knocked down a peg or two.

Yes, they’ll have to sell their 2nd rental because it’s unsustainable.
It's refreshing to see a statistical analysis that is free from the whole "affirmation action" rhetoric that's posted in articles about this case. Though I always had a general sense that ALDC's were admitted at a higher rate, I never knew that it was this high.
Because science says sea level rise is 10ft at the worst case in 100 years? In other words, its alarmism and I don’t appreciate blaming (and compensating) everything because the big boogeyman, climate change.
I like this idea, but there have been so many people who put up a landing page to gauge interest before even starting a project, that when I see a 2 day old domain with nothing but a waiting list signup, I gotta ask - have you actually started work on this, or are you just checking the interest level?
How old is this article? It says Haxe is new, but Haxe is a relatively old tool, first released in 2006.
I'm not referring to frequency but the water content in each storm. There are a lot of sources, but here is a preliminary data report that was put together by NOAA[1]. There is commentary by scientists at NOAA[2].

Overall this isn't rocket science. You have warmer temperatures over the ocean, which yields more water in the air to get caught up in passing hurricanes. The net result is more rainfall when it hits land. It is what it is.

[1] https://w2.weather.gov/climate/getclimate.php?date=&wfo=lix&...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/climate/hurricane-tropica...
[2016] it seems
Even Unreal Engine has garbage collection for UObjects. I love C but I don't think it's necessarily the best language for games programming anymore, I believe C++ is more suited since games fit into the OO paradigm so much better. I am only a hobbyist though so my opinion probably doesn't matter.

EDIT: Unreal Engine is primarily written in C++, and has garbage collection. I'm not salty about the downvote, but I would like to understand why what I have said is apparently incorrect.
Interesting comment. I hope it works out for you.

I wonder whether that might also be what the last person from Stripe support meant when they mentioned sending us to some sort of specialist. Unfortunately by that point we’d already spent more than two weeks going back and forth with numerous people replying but no actionable advice, so we declined and made other arrangements. However, I did also send them some notes similar to my comments here, so perhaps the negative experience in our case could at least be helpful for improving their documentation for others in the future.
I’m not sure this applies if you’re 5, or if you’re ten. Quality education during formative years seems invaluable.
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It is you and those like you that make people feel unsafe and unwelcome. RMS is quirky and weird and he says what many don't feel safe to talk about. The recent assault based not on fact or principle but rather implied (assumed)intent is a farce and wont lead to good things. Tech is dead and RMS is a fallen king. Take your PC bullying and wreck havoc over everything the geeks or "autists" created. I'm moving on but the industry is no longer a place of inclusion and all of the safe guards put in place were not enough to stop societies wicked. Enjoy eating each other in your Brave New World.
Many scientists build models to estimates the effects of sea level rise. You can read it online. Tl;dr, its not a big effect. The science has already been politicized. Carry on...
Might there be a literal case study of the 777? I read a book about the development of the 747 and it was absolutely fascinating--particularly the (now extinct?) Boeing obsession with engineering safety.

[0] Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22849121-jumbo
Are happiness and joy also ephemeral?
Go’s compiler is not at all optimized for generating fast floating point instructions like AVX and its very cumbersome to add any kind of intrinsics. This might not matter for light games but an issue when you want to simply switch to wide floating point operations to optimize some math.
Barrack Obama just bought a multi-million dollar beachfront home. If any major public figure has the most accurate info about pending sea level rise, even classified level information that might not be released to the public, surely it's him.
A little late if hurricanes are your benchmark for climate change.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

What's sad is that most reporters know that climate change is measured in decade long trends. Small yearly increases in sea level, gradual increases in global temps and slow changes in atmospheric composition. But that doesn't get clicks.

Associating climate change with outlying catastrophic events is as short sighted as the environmental abuse that causes climate change.
Maybe "dialect" would be more accurate than "superset"? I don't think Cython is technically a superset of Python, since I think runtime metaprogramming features like __dict__ and monkey-patching are significantly altered or restricted?
DeepMind open sources multiple Reinforcement Learning systems
Anything. Vague pointers to 'read it online' don't really cut it
> It's harder for an individual to fix a bad union than to leave the company for one without that union

Is that accurate?
Government Psychiatric Bed policy and incarceration rates
>The only thing we can say with confidence about these "goods" is that they were heavy, and not necessarily something you want... especially if they are to be repaid "with usury" at some future undisclosed time of reckoning, as in the story!

But having talents, isn't that essence of being human? Having talents and using them? Who are we if we fear having talents?
Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
I just logged into my AWS account and I noticed every charge has doubled for my September usage, literally overnight!

I called AWS and they said this has been reported by multiple people and they still don't know how many accounts are affected, did this happen to you too?
While potentially true (it's hard to say given US healthcare 1. produces much of the innovation that the rest of the world utilizes at subsidized rates and 2. provides more capital-intensive services per capita, and most healthcare is provided toward the end of life when much of it is futile), all developed nation healthcare systems have performed absolutely terribly over the last 50 years and just because some have performed less poorly doesn't mean that they're the ideal solution.

We should look back to a time before national one-size-fits-all healthcare regulations that, based on crude generalizations, regiment a complex industry at great cost to innovation, and monolithic central-government-administered programs with no end user price incentives.
Well, yes you have some objects in there. But it is rather an implementation detail. You don't use inheritance for instance.
Watched the whole thing - very cool.
I'm not even someone that has used multiple orm styles extensively, but it is disturbing/darkly humorous how many orm libs there are.

That lastpost you can map a half dozen Java frameworks to each of the acts.

Personally I never found an orm that tracked which attrs in objects were actually mutated so that only mutated columns would be updated/inserted, but again I never did a lot of orm.
> The Tide example here makes me feel a little bit weird, because Tide pods in particular are a pretty bad deal for laundry detergent.

For my wife, the pods are a lifestyle upgrade over the regular powdered pour out detergent. The convenience and effort saved justifies the more expensive packaging.

I'm a firm believer in adopting new processes or products that reduce the amount of time required to perform my daily functions. They pay off in the long run.
The other issue is that uBlock Origin development on Safari stopped sometime last year. I still prefer Safari, but Firefox is a close second so I'll just switch if I can't find a good enough adblocker for Safari.

And whatever adblock works on mobile Safari (I'm using Refine, but haven't looked at others) is already pretty good.
Polar is another player in this space:

https://getpolarized.io/

... as are Wallabag and Raindrop which a few other people mentioned. Seems like there's definitely a longtail here.
> We know - you already made this point in the parent comment.

...is your point here that points can't reiterated or something?

> You've moved the goalposts from 'greatly reduced air travel' to 'sans airplanes'.

They're the one that talked about using other means of transport. I had already mentioned immigration. If you greatly reduce it by making it harder/more expensive, that impacts immigrants.
In a system dominated by two parties the only voting choice you have that is worth anything at all is the less-detested one
> If we all decided gold was worthless as money its value would collapse to something more on par with its value in terms of its industrial uses.

If that were the case, then the price of gold would drop. Demand would decrease and the price would fall. In fact, this happened during the last financial crisis, because of a strong dollar and deflationary pressure. In terms of dollars, gold will always do very well, though. Here’s why.

The thing central bankers (they’re really central planners) don’t understand is that markets are forces of nature. You cannot tame this force of nature anymore than you can stop a hurricane.

The fiat currency scheme will eventually collapse, because it produces distortions in the market. The key piece of evidence is when the Fed had to print 85 billion dollars last week because the overnight repo rate skyrocketed to something like 10%. The interest rate is a proxy for credit risk. What that tells you is the house of cards is about to collapse, because the market will not allow distortions like negative interest rates or negative yielding debt. It is simply illogical. As a creditor I will not lend someone money and agree to receive less than I originally lent out. Additionally, the real interest rate is probably around 10-15%, and the Fed will continue to need to print money, which will depreciate the dollar (money itself follows supply and demand. Increase supply and what happens to price?). All of this is very good news for gold.
How does it work for a 10 people team for instance ?

One of them will be a team leader at some point. A second one might follow and become a team leader while the firth one goes higher.

Will they go up one more level ? let’s say yes. That makes e of them climbing the ladder.

Will there be a fourth ? probably not. That leaves 6 people not going up, and only earning marginally more. That’s less than half will see significant change in their 10 yers next.
There's already no motivation to 'perform well' because promotions don't mean shit nowadays. You can perform better than the rest of your entire company and get a 1% raise as a show of kindness along with maybe a new $50 coffee machine gift.

It's common knowledge in the software industry that the best way to advance is to hop jobs every two or so years. Do you think it's because of the non-existent unions, or because of corporations underpaying employees because they know they can get away with it?
My previous roommates (a couple) were both big into xanax and crystals. They'd go on walks around the town, f'd up on scrips, and pick up rocks, bring them home and gush at me about what they found 'look at this ruby!" They'd proclaim (it was just a shard of broken beer bottle, I kid you not). By the end, the side of our house had accumulated a several hundred pound collection of (totally mundane and worthless) rocks. Their plan was to crack these rocks open by throwing them at the (concrete) ground, hoping to find crystals inside. In my opinion the benzos infantilized them, because they were not like that when they moved in, it was a downward spiral of a transition over two years.

This wasn't even thier worst quality. But I will always remember thier 'crystal' hobby.
>Those content blockers don't work in webviews and most apps on iOS open urls in web views with no way to choose Safari

What's even the point of having a system-level solution if it doesn't work on system-level webviews?
Not popular, but it was definitely used: http://dconf.org/2016/talks/watson.html

> Can D be used to make games? Yes. Has it been used in a major game release? It has now. Remedy Entertainment have successfully shipped the first AAA game to use D code. And it’s in a fairly critical subsystem too. This talk will cover the usage of D in Quantum Break, problems encountered and solved, and where we want to take our usage of D in the future.
It is a real problem. Millions of BTC are locked in addresses with known public key, due to either the formerly popular Pay-to-Public-Key script, or the ever popular practice of addresses re-use that you also mentioned.
Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after end-Pleistocene extinction
Ask HN: Where to start when migrating a JavaScript project to TS
I've inherited a JavaScript project that consists of a web server, using an old version of Angular for the front-end, and a simple service that also runs on Node.

I'd like to convert them all to TypeScript but the resources on the Google frontpage seem a bit imature.

Could any of you that have already done this point me to any good resources? Thanks
Also worth checking out OmniSci (formerly MapD), which features an LLVM query compiler to gain large speedups executing SQL on both CPU and GPU: https://github.com/omnisci/omniscidb . And here's a link to a blog post giving a high level overview of the advantages of JIT compilation of queries over an interpreter: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/mapd-massive-throughput-database... .
How much of an impact would this have on the global economy

Is there any significant economic activity actually happening in WeWorks? Or is it all techbros doing nothing that really matters? Serious question.
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how do you know the article by Drew DeVault represents the opinion of the author of the article above? Did he link it somewhere?
I don't actually recall any Zen2 clock advertising in particular. My comment was purely in response to your earlier statement:

> Another part is the power consumption and resulting higher clocks. The 2990WX was basically power limited, the new chips are on 7nm which will drastically reduce their power consumption and allow higher clocks inside the same power envelope.
Isn't that the point the article is making?

That in late-stage capitalism, all actual work is invariably outsourced, with only management and profits retained?
I support government funding for basic research as long as there is proper oversight and accountability. That's a totally different situation.
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Both. He's an over-the-top modernist, but did quite a bit of practice in Burma with Buddhist monks there.
You think most junior Google programmers own 2 or 3 homes?
The article does appear to be chasing a bias. “America’s Great Climate Exodus” is not a present reality, even if it is imagined as an eventuality to some.
Unfortunately the excellent standard library is a major benefit of Go, and it uses the GC, so if you set GOGC=off you're left to write your own standard library.

I would also like to see a stripped-down version of Go that disables most heap allocations, but I have no idea what it would look like.
Is "acceptable ads" really such a bad idea, assuming some reasonable criteria (not "pay us") for acceptableness?

If you think back to the early days, ads were often just static images. If we could go back to that, I don't see much of a problem with them, other than being ugly. Ads would be acceptable to me if they just got rid of

1) scripts,

2) user profiling,

3) sound,

4) animation.

Kind of like newspaper ads. They don't have to assault you and find out where you live to be effective.
Sounds like they could use some modernization, if only there was an industry that touts itself as being all about innovation and regularly goes around disrupting traditional ways of doing things.
Kudos! Very nicely done. It would be nice to have an easy way to see more details about the satellite. For example, I see that tonight I can see CZ-2C R/B, though without a search I do not quite know anything more about the satellite.

Also like the night mode in the street view. Does that come with the Google Maps API or something you had to build?
https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Not quite Julia, but for C/Fortran particularly for computational uses, if your issue is multiple array scans, it might be time to look at rolling it yourself and then calling your algo from python.