skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given their stated goal of having 100% renewable energy for AWS by 2020, you might see some wind or solar projects popping up near their datacenters. They have a bunch near their existing facilities already (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/#progress).

Between nearby renewable energy that they have control over, and backup generators they could be OK even if the national grid has issues.
Is there any serious research that shows this to be true?

In America, the Big Lie that all Americans tell about themselves and their country, is that the US is #1 in everything. And, if statistics happen to show that the US isn't #1, there's always a reason, an excuse, as to why in this instance the US isn't #1, but it totally could be, it just doesn't want to, or it has to deal with some exceptional circumstance that lesser countries just don't have to deal with.

To me, the idea that the US subsidizes global healthcare innovation feels just like such an excuse. It gives Americans an opportunity to martyr themselves. "We could have cheaper healthcare, but we bear this burden, for you."

Come on. It's a load of horseshit.

And even if it were true, why would you accept it? America hates altruism, deriding it as socialism, so much so that "socialized" healthcare is seen as a horrible thing. It's not ok for Americans to pay for each other's healthcare, but it's suddenly perfectly ok to pay for the development of healthcare for other countries?!? You're happily spending healthcare money for the benefit of other countries, but not your own population?

This makes no sense. This can't be true. It's a bad excuse to cover up failed exceptionalism, because the truth is simply that a lot of people with money to pay for lobbyists are benefiting from the current system.
Always nice to see a little piece of python code show up whenever one of these ML blogs get posted to HN. It's becoming, or has become, the lingua franca of this field.
I don't know if it supports family sharing - do I need to opt in manually on my end? It's just a normal IAP to unlock the game, so if IAPs work with family sharing then it should be OK
It's interesting that nearly all of these pieces of advice are fairly non-controversial. What's the point of posting stuff anonymously if it's the same stuff that most people would be happy to attach their name to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield

Sure, he wasn't declared guilty, but he also got a $2 million settlement. What happened to him was bad. $2 million bad. And it was because of a poorly handled finger print. I can't imagine people in the future will be treated better because we're using DNA instead.
I'm not, really. That's why I added my "all bets are off" comment.
Twenty years ago there was a restaurant in Bethesda that made its own veggie burger. To my taste, it was the best thing on the menu. And I only started experimenting with veggie/vegan/pescetarian cuisine a couple years ago (I go pescetarian a couple days a week).
Generated columns look awesome.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/ddl-generated-columns.htm...
Ah - thanks. Interesting to read that quote in context of the discussion. Not sure we can extrapolate too much from it, but still an interesting position for the Windows CEO to state.
it's relevant to whether it's a homograph
This really depends on which particular part of US comparing against which particular part of the EU.

Examples:

- Louisville, Kentucky vs Berlin

- San Francisco, California vs Munich
As a San Francisco denizen, I can assure you reports of Steam Punk's death are greatly exaggerated.

In my circles at least, some people are annoyed at how much steam punk has infiltrated their other costume niches, like the Edwardian Ball.

As other people have said, the link to the iPhone announcement seems super tenuous given the prevelance of steam punk costumes on Halloween. But also, it's possible that the term needs less definition, and that ideas from the steampunk aesthetic have already permeated other art. For example, there is a lot of steam punk looking machinery and decorations at this new minigolf place in SF, but it's not being advertised as such: https://www.urbanputt.com/
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> using a car is more pleas sent then sharing a bus or metro with strangers

Not when it means you're stuck in a traffic jam. In a big city I'd take decent metro system over a car any day.
I got the kernel update fine, but it only "kind of" worked, I couldn't set the resolution to 4K. I'm not an expert on the underpinnings of the Linux kernel and drivers. In the end, I now have a borked setup (Pop!_OS, updated kernel with ukuu, and downloaded binaries from the git repo for the amdgpu/vega*.bin) ... In any case, about to give Manjaro a try, update and see if it "just works" since Arch is now updated with 5.3, if that doesn't work will try Arch directly.

Been a Debian/Ubuntu user for years (recently giving desktop another try), so will be a bit different for me. But so much of my workflows are containerized, I'm hoping it's less of an issue.
the movie Mortal Engines (2018) felt pretty steam punk to me.
I do, and it all goes over nested VPNs/Tor, but my solution is different than the one mirimir uses.
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 6th Edition
When not running as root, it doesn't use a tmpfs. Also, papaw replaces /proc/self/exe with an empty file. And it has some basic anti-debugging, like locking of the payload to RAM so it cannot be recovered by reading it from a swap partition.
Yeah considering the profoundly terrible conditions in the concentration camps this administration is holding children in, this seems a littlllleeee disingenuous.
Mkbhd Interviews Satya Nadella [video]
You can't swing a dead cat through the Steam game listings without hitting something Steampunk inspired. They aren't brand new, but Frostpunk, Forgotten Anne, and They Are Billions are all since the article claims Steampunk peaked, and they have done quite well.

It's possible that the aesthetic has just become so ubiquitous that it doesn't bear noticing anymore in that context.
It became too cliche. As soon as it became associated with glueing a few cogs to a top hat it had to die.
I worked for an employer that had a different PROCESS.md document in every project repository. At every retrospective, we'd evaluate the process for that project to determine whether it needed updating. It was awesome.

Eventually, things changed, but for a while there it was awesome. Things got done well, in reasonable amounts of time, with a lot of attention to quality work.

I think the beginning of the end was probably around the time when the company (a software development consultancy) started using fine-grained hourly measures of time pre-sold to clients. This started happening around the time investors in certain clients got more involved in trying to dictate company policy, and I'm pretty sure it was all part of an attempt by investors to ensure there were "better metrics" for evaluating their investments.

You can't measure something without it directly affecting the measured thing's state. In this case, it started having detrimental effects on almost everything. Previously happy and productive devs started burning out, mediocre devs became new management favorites, more bugs got into production, projects suffered under less and less reasonable goals (including at one point my task effectively being to solve one of the Hard Problems of software dev -- cache invalidation), and so on.

In the US, management culture seems to have a monomaniacal focus on metrics. (I'd say "simplistic metrics", but the way they use them guarantees they're always simplistic.) This is driven, in part, by bureaucratization, which is in turn driven by a bunch of other things (mostly stemming from politics, directly or indirectly) in our business culture. Many managers would complain that without metrics they can't evaluate team productivity, individual value to the organization, and other important stuff, and they're right. The solution is not to double down on those metrics obsessions, though; it's to replace those managers with managers who are capable of effective, qualitative evaluation, instead of the almost purely quantitative approach that holds the high ground.
I helped maintain (and later started rewriting) a medical web platform that used XSLT for it's HTML exactly like you described. It was powerful for sure, but a nightmare to maintain, extend or add to.

This in house framework was written before the advent of major web frameworks (at least in C# at the time) so I can understand where it came from. In fact, I still consider it an impressive feat of engineering. But XSLT to this day makes me shudder..
Still alive in Coldwater, Ontario.
https://www.steampunkfestivalcoldwater.com/
Abney Park is in the process of releasing their latest steampunk inspired music CD. (And on cassette tape). Steampunk was never 'huge', but there are still plenty of people heavily involved in all things steampunk.
Important: same goes for bonuses, which are also practically promises, and are not guaranteed.
i d assume a lot of chinese do it - no idea really, but it's a form of easily accessible gold
She has a whole section called "queries aren’t actually run in this order (optimizations!)"

SQL and other declarative languages can be frustrating to talk about because what you tell it you want and _how_ it does the work isn't supposed to matter. So there are two questions that you might answer with either jvsn's answer (how should you imagine it works to understand how to use SQL?) and your answer (how should you imagine it works to figure out why it's slow?). Someone learning SQL is probably asking the first question, somebody debugging performance is probably asking the second one.

So this is a weird criticism because neither of you is incorrect, it's just that different audiences require different kinds of detail. If she instead wrote the answer to your question then someone else would inevitably come along with a comment nearly identical to yours except it would say "well that's just implementation details but you should instead imagine that...".
One of the main hypothesis here is that people are not voicing criticism of Greta Thunberg because of our current social media environment... at the same time I see social media littered with conservatives calling her out for being autistic or not being in school or the supposed double standard of people listening to 16 year olds political opinions while at the same time having sex with a 16 year old is statutory rape. We can agree that the civilized part of the social media debates is under pressure. But I refuse to buy the premise that it’s because anyone is staying silent.
You can use the WITH clause if you prefer that style.

WITH
employee AS (SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEES),
department AS (SELECT * FROM DEPARTMENTS)
SELECT employee.name, department.name
FROM employee
INNER JOIN department ON employee.department_id = department.department_id
> this dispute was a bloodless conflict.

Err... a pig died... :-)
It would if it could, no doubt about it. Who knows what kind of technological advancements we will see.

I will tell you what I see today. Salesmen selling 'culturally aware fuzzy logic' that promises to automate just about anything and let leadership just read beautiful dashboards. Depressing stuff. And it sells too.

And 200k over a decade? Wake me up when AI replaces CEOs.
If you want to try the new features of PostgreSQL 12 on a Mac, I just uploaded new builds of Postgres.app [1]. Postgres.app also includes the latest version of PostGIS (beta of the upcoming PostGIS 3.0) and PL/v8 (for writing functions and procedures in Javascript!).

[1]: https://postgresapp.com/downloads.html
Of course not, they start with WITH! Preferably 8 withs that reference each other.
From the entry on Know Your Meme[1]:

> The entire game was planned to be be completed in less than a year, however only one person on the team had previous game development experience as a professional developer. He was banned from the project for criticizing it.

This made me laugh more than it should have.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zybourne-clock
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this. Mentioned at the bottom of the article about Canadian resentment:

>Canada sought greater autonomy in international affairs.

One I did know about though was mot much latter the Alaska border dispute a little latter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_boundary_dispute
Steampunk is still a huge inspiration in gaming. Frostpunk and They Are Billions are two recent ones I've enjoyed with heavy steampunk influence.
It's a fair point, but a lot of stuff these days is cheaper than it used to be. Consider Dollarama or Dollar Tree. You can outfit a kitchen with a full set of dishes and utensils and everything else for $50. TVs and other things are super cheap and sometimes free, as well.
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Over the years, HN readers have been some of the most enthusiastic and loyal supporters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. Thanks—I appreciate it!
Why not fight for your own country? The western world has its own share of issues, ranging from a steep increase in far right politics to corruption and poor administration. Not that i don’t support helping hk, but your plan sounds a bit rich.
It's hard to take that question serious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#E... explains why. Snowden leaked it years ago now. There is even a scene about that in the movie.

And Apple-related? North American? That's not relevant at all.
As an American I make no claims about this country's righteousness. I'd put it on the top ten list of most evil countries without hesitation.

But it's hard to take the argument that it's worse than China seriously.
Although I agree that the primary causes identified in this thread are far from ideal, I also think there is nothing wrong with multigenerational housing.
It's a fad.
Redis replication and KeyDB active replication
Those people would accurately be called plant-based dieters. The point being that people getting vegan license plates are not allergy sufferers.
(Box does not mean optional, the parent is wrong. Option is the type for optional. Box is basically a mallloc, placing a value in the newly allocated memory, and then a call to free automatically when it goes out of scope. The box itself is a pointer to the heap. It’s not allowed to be null, in some sense, the opposite of optional.)
Never see a job as a career.

The ONLY PATH for wealth is to work for yourself by starting and building your own business.

Make no mistake... You are always building a business, and if you're not building YOURS, you are building THEIRS.
As a developer working on projects using both approaches, it would be hard for me to pick a clear winner.

One key difference for less experienced developers is that ORMs are usually integrated for you as part of a bigger framework (Django, Rails...). This provides some guidelines to get started on a more or less sane way.

On the other hand plain SQL usually relies directly on the database client (or a thin layer like SQLAlchemy core) that requires you to make many decisions about the architecture upfront. I feel that one needs to experiment a lot (and fail a bit) before getting this part right.
I'm a recent empty-nester, my kids are all in their late teens/early twenties, I wouldn't count myself as elderly either. I wouldn't mind at all if one or more of my kids moved back in with us long term, provided that they helped around the house and preferably were employed in some manner and could pay a bit of rent. I think where people have problems is when adult children are living at home and not working and are not really contributing members of the household. Heck I'd even be willing to support an adult child financially for quit a while if they were willing to really help with household tasks, like cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, yard work etc. I'm not interested in supporting an adult child that just wants to do nothing all day and be taken care of like they are 10 years old the rest of their life, and that seems to be a common occurrence these days as well.

I do think it's sad that modern society has kind of dismantled the extended family. That it's become such a faux pas to have multiple generations living under the same roof. Instead it somehow makes sense to leave our small children with complete strangers for most of the day and have our young adults living alone in apartments scarcely bigger than a box a continent away in the name of starting careers. I honestly think we are overdue for a reversal in some of these trends.
I wasn't really trying to convince anyone to use Haskell at their day job: I am just a college student, after all, so I would have no idea what I was talking about!

I wrote the article a while ago after being frustrated using a bunch of Go and Python at an internship. Often I really wanted simple algebraic data types and pattern-matching, but when I looked up why Go didn't have them I saw a lot of justifications that amounted to "functional features are too complex and we're making a simple language. Haskell is notoriously complex". In my opinion, the `res, err := fun(); if err != nil` (for example) pattern was much more complex than the alternative with pattern-matching. So I wanted to write an article demonstrating that, while Haskell has a lot of out-there stuff in it, there's a bunch of simple ideas which really shouldn't be missing from any modern general-purpose language.

As to why I used a binary tree as the example, I thought it was pretty self-contained, and I find skew heaps quite interesting.
hey alexa !
Physical area we could potentially pack people into isn't really the problem. There are a lot of other considerations like biocapacity and employment options which are also important concerns. We could put a lot of people in remote parts of the world but where will they work? Shop? Those places often lack the kinds of critical infrastructure that would attract and sustain a thriving population.

I think overpopulation isn't our most pressing issue right now, but generally there are a lot of advantages to having fewer people.
Off topic from the Article, but I like contrast between Steampunk and Dieselpunk. I find Steampunk optimistic about technology and Dieselpunk pessimistic. A motif in steampunk is that technology is here to enlighten and save us -- it's something to be welcomed with open arms. Diselpunk treats technology as something of we aught to be cautious. In that way, I think the 2000's, into the early 2010's were optomistic. In general, I'd assert that we are collectively much more cautious about technology today than we were then.

"I like the word "dieselpunk" if you are doing something like 'Weird World War II'. I think that makes perfect sense. But to me, World War I is the dividing point where modernity goes from being optimistic to being pessimistic. Because when you put the words "machine" and "gun" together, they both change. At that point, war is no longer about a sense of adventure and chivalry and a way of testing your nation's level of manhood; it's become industrial, and horrible. So playing around with that border between optimistic steampunk and a much more pessimistic dieselpunk, which is more about Nazis, was kind of interesting to me because early in the war we were definitely kind of on the steampunk side of that." ~ Scott Westerfeld, via Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpunk
For an HN reader, I'd just suggest picking up a copy of the 1990 William Gibson/Bruce Sterling collaboration The Difference Engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine). It's hit or miss from a literary perspective, but it'll get you aimed in the general direction you're asking about.
That is a hypothetical used to promote a narrative, all the test & observations presented show all mutations must be present for specialization. The Monarch only feeds on milkweed, but somehow it survived the A119s phase feeding on milkweed plant (CG-containing plant)without the needed 111& 122 mutation?

In an hypothetical adaptive walk. A119S does NOT provide sufficient CG-insensitivity so an insect with just A119S will die specializing in CG. The are other mutations needed for survival.

Moreover u left out:
“A119S is a common substitution among taxa that do not specialize on CG-containing hostplants“

Natural selection is undefeated.
Therefore the need for immediate substitutions to sites 111 & 122 in order to specialize on “CG-containing hostplants“

An adaptive walk has to show adaptation in the environment. If all the mutations occur outside the natural environment, without natural selection, it is not an adaptive walk.
What a dumpster fire of an article. Had a good laugh with co workers.
I’m in this situation right now. Got my first job 17 months ago at a FAANG. Was promised compounding RSUs every year and a bonus every year.

They’ve delayed the compensation by 5 months because “I joined late.” They didn’t tell me about this until I asked about 10 months in.

Hell I joined this company earlier out of college than most students. 2 weeks of vacation post-college when most students were taking 2-3 months. And now they turn around and tell me my compensation is going to be 30% less than what was promised my first year?

Now, 17 months later around the review cycle they are saying that our org has less money or whatever, and compensation will be lower this cycle. I’m expecting maybe a fourth of what I was promised.
It's also silly to think that that difference is consistent with distracted driving causing the accidents. Are people more likely to be using their phone in these neighborhoods?

More likely it's that pedestrian traffic is much higher in poorer neighborhoods so the combined effect of distraction, environmental factors, car specs, and other things is much higher.
The PRC has been working very hard to stymie any criticism of the camps, and it isn't afraid to bully countries to achieve its diplomatic aims:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/world/asia/china-xinjiang...

> “Many, many governments are looking the other way and self-censoring on the issue of Xinjiang,” said Daniel R. Russel, the Obama administration’s assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. “Beijing is notoriously prickly about its self-declared ‘core interests,’ and few countries are willing to put the economic benefits of good relations with China at risk — let alone find themselves on the receiving end of Chinese retaliation.”

> When countries do criticize China, they tend to do so in a group, seemingly as a way to diffuse and lessen possible retribution.