skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah, but they have to remove all the other factors like heat, wind and rain, which are correlated to air pollution.

There is likely less violent crimes on rainy days, just because more people stay home.

To do this properly, they would have to do a controlled experiment with people in rooms with or without air pollution. And measure how sanguine they get or something of that nature.
Go – graceful shutdown of worker goroutines – Callista
This is a very typical diplomatic answer to stick with old, known programming languages.
Are you saying the average person uses 36,600 gal per year? That seems very high.
They controlled for this!!!

Read the study before instantly dismissing it, maybe.
Spacex did a 150m test hop and even that got 2.5 million views, so I think you are underestimating the interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYb3bfA6_sQ
Go: Ent, Graph-Based ORM by Facebook – A Journey with Go – Medium
But this study is about wild blueberries (aka bilberries) which are much smaller than their cultivated cousins :)
I remember seeing a demonstration of this during a keynote at Adobe MAX in Barcelona, in 2008 maybe? I'm fuzzy on the year, but I do remember there being an air of excitement around this feature in particular – it seemed like magic! Since then I've learned how the algorithm works, and it's beautifully simple to the point where I can't believe it wasn't discovered long before.

I particularly like how it can be composed with other algorithms (face detection has been mentioned) to change the energy function and make it even smarter. It's one of those things you can implement in a weekend and have a lot of fun with.

Kudos to everyone involved in developing this!
Ive been up 72 hours straight before and I gotta say, no talking pumpkins. Sure cognitive ability is impaired but this article is extremely dramatic.
Just keep building houses and developments so close to each other that the fire can hop from one to the next too.
So you think you’re fluent in internet language? Think again
Aha. That's what I get for jumping straight to the regression table. So I retract my attempt to suggest that this was a fishing expedition.

That said, I'm still inclined to say that, even given the Bonferroni adjustment, the distribution of results looks more like what I'd expect under the null hypothesis. It's hard to imagine that all these tests they used are uncorrelated.
I don't think that's really an absolute requirement - there are full professors without PhDs.
To quote some other HN comments: "systems PHP", "If I need a well designed language, I have Rust. Go's sell for me is it's so naively simplistic it's actually useful when your team members are idiots".
These are a bit harsh, but sort of hints on the target audience: people who have neither a lot of programming experience, nor a developed taste, but have practical problems to solve without shooting themselves in the foot.
Point to Point in the Datacenter with Andy Bechtolsheim
Me and my wife rewatch old Family Guy and Bobs Burger episodes, knocks us straight out.
Teaching Pilots a New Trick: Landing Quietly
I doubt there even exists a wild blueberry ”industry”.
Yes, the spin rabbit hole goes to infinity and beyond. But certainly a plausible situation. We may never know and suspect that very few people ever knew in such secretive projects.

Remember this was still with the whole Moon landing era fresh in mind for so many, that was also a President's speech dream, that seemed equally as wild and fantasy at the time. Yet that happened. SDI was, given the media mindsets of that era, easily to latch onto as - it's going to happen.

Today, we are more cynical/pragmatic/realistic in mindset and with that, do question things and able to do so en-mass more easily with the internet than ever before.
A lot of it is air pollution which settled into the soil decades ago. Hard to clean up
> Uh, no. Even a horrifically expensive to build but working fusion reactor would have been released in that time frame. The military in the US is secretive, but not that much...

The Glomar Explorer is an example of the US Military doing exactly that, they made a boat specifically for recovering a sunk sub and told every one it was a research vessel they kept it a secret for over 20 years.

There are countless other examples of this like the black bird.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
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It essentially is just a Steam box. It's all Linux based, and they're supposedly not building any sort of console UI or launcher for it. Install Steam, launch big picture mode, and it's basically the same as any other SteamOS box.

If they'd actually positioned it as a low cost SteamOS box which can run a decent amount of PC games for cheaper than most PCs, they might have at least have a niche market for it. If they some integration with SteamOS to launch an Atari emulator and they'd have some extra selling point. But it's basically just a small low-powered Linux PC that might get a few exclusive deals.
Americans Lack Digital Knowledge, Widely Unaware of What HTTPS Is
Google has spent $21,770,000 on lobbying in 2018.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00006782...
Variable Interest Entities in China (2019) [pdf]
I mean, is this even currying? Or just emulating currying?

Without it being done automatically, it is an ergonomic loss, readability loss, etc.
Much is said about the FAA's relationship with Boeing, but the failure of other worldwide authorities to question the FAA's line after the first crash was also a tragedy, because if they had been a little bit less deferential and more independent then perhaps the Ethiopian crash wouldn't have happened. There were pilots unions writing letters of concern about MCAS after the first crash, it wasn't taken seriously by any regulator and the result was deadly.
Sure but when people say "processed foods" they usually mean foods that are "HIGHLY" processed such that everything that is good about them is removed. i.e. the complex carbs and fiber that are found in whole wheat vs your run of the mill all purpose white flour.
I wouldnt entirely agree with that.

I think it depends on the KIND of maintenance work. In my case, I have a few languages under my belt (both OOP and FP). But this means I have a reputation in the area as a "Mikey for Maintenance: He'll fix anything"

Which actually wound up giving me the opportunity to study a lot of both good and bad designs.

I still maintain things, but now people ask me for design advice and help with POCs too.

Which, trust me, is less stressful and more socially rewarding than being a technical lead on a project (done that too).

But that's not a common thing. I do agree with GPs assessment that there are good maintenance devs. But they aren't common, and it can be tough to tell if someone with 20 years of maintenance actually enjoys it... or just could never be good enough at it to get a chance at a different role.
Ask HN: Where is innovation happening now?
Currently reading Walter Isaacson’s “The Innovators” and I’m noticing the importance of locales: Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, Bletchley Park, et al.

Where are smart people hanging out and conversing and congregating today? I’m particularly interested in connecting online (HN is great!) and collaborating (or at least discussing) on the latest technology. I’ve been on Twitter, but I’m still not sure how to find people / get involved?
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I wouldn't lump this in with the recent mini NES or SNES. Nintendo has a loyal fan base and a proven track record. They made something simple and well built for fans of their IP. Atari isn't even a thing anymore. Someone bought the name and attempted to cash in on it. They used crowdfunding and scammed consumers out fo 3M+ dollars.

Basically I can see why people might want something more official than an rPi if it's done well and by original company. But Atari thing is not that.
Very easily like this.

await Promise.all([promise, promise]);
I'm not surprised by that number. Showering, flushing, washing dishes uses a lot of water
"proven" yeah C++ template and Java half baked generics are really proven ...
Tracking PG&E outages by scraping to a Git repo
Yes, but the potential of hydro is already maxed out in many countries. According to Wikipedia, Austria produces 55% of its energy using hydro. That's great, but most other countries can't do this. In Germany it generates less than 10%. There is no way to follow the Austrian model.

There are not many options for energy sources that are reliable all year and can provide enough energy to replace fossils. There's also no efficient way to store enough energy to overcome the fluctuation in wind energy. Wind is just not a path to being carbon neutral without having a way to store the energy. It can reduce emissions from fossil fuels when it is available, but it can't replace them.
Remember that the NSA has illegally spied on US citizens for decades. I think the Navy could easily swing a waiver from the Patent Office under the rationale of "national security."
> I cannot delete it which is in contravention of GDPR

Go on. They’ve refused your removal request with appropriate ID sent to their office, or?
Given that the only people who would have found out about the verification of the videos are those already with an interest, I don't think it's a campaign to change the general public's attitudes.
Sometimes they do: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/info-ops-...
That's crazy though, and makes the headline tamer than it need be doesn't it?

'Exposure to' makes me think it's more prolonged, and over time the effect is[...] but actually it's suggesting that it has a reversible, quickly reacting/short-term impact, which (naively) I find much more surprising.

Relevant excerpt:

> They find that a 10% increase in same-day exposure to PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter) is associated with a 0.14% increase in violent crimes, such as assault. An equivalent increase in exposure to ozone, an air pollutant, is associated with a 0.3% jump in such crimes. Pollution levels can easily rise by much more than that.
Another correlation, is it coincidence as in urban city usually has high pollution and high crime or a real link like pollution causes brain to go violent?
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Artificial General Intelligence as a Modern Day Spiritual Conjuring
>If people are requesting things in bad faith, you are welcome to escalate to mods and mods can contact us CMs when in doubt too. - Cesar M

So yeah, if you think the pronouns are just trolling you're welcome to report it.
Wait, what country puts you on a government registry for buying a kitchen knife?
Contact+US
The fact that native people have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation isn’t news to all, but this is an elegant and erudite piece of writing — and a good distillation of that troubling history — all the same. Mark Dowie, a decorated journalist and former editor & publisher of Mother Jones, sheds light on the tortured semantics of the words “nature” and “wilderness,” and how conflicting views of wild nature created a rift between indigenous people and misguided conservationists for over a century.

disclosure: I work on the MIT Press Reader, where the article — an excerpt from Dowie's book "Conservation Refugees" — is published. We're a non-profit press and the Reader is a space where we post excerpts, essays, and interviews with our authors.
Global Warming will cause war if not stopped. To fight to stop climate change is to fight for peace.
One of the problems with insomnia as a construct is that it lumps a bunch of problems together that probably don't have the same mechanisms. The vast majority of insomnia treatment and advice is focused on "initial insomnia", i.e. inability to fall asleep when you first go to bed.
Of course I didn't read the article. I hear it's paywall, and I and the economist's paywall really don't get along.

But, it being a short term study doesn't change much. A temporary increase in pollutants will serve to exacerbate underlying conditions. Supposing areas which experience the largest increase in the short term were also susceptible to higher levels historical, and most impacted by previous short term increases and we're back where we started.
She is a bouvier de flanders. She doesn't require much time or energy, though when we were choosing her there was a mix of bouviers and I'd say half of them were higher energy and half were lower.
For 2 years I went to sleep with Brewster's Millions (1985 not 1945) playing just loud enough I could hear the words from my desk speakers, would never take more than 10 minutes to be out cold.

Now I've just trained myself to go to sleep. I put my ear plugs in, tell Google to turn the speakers (so my phone charging doesn't make random noise through them) and my salt lamp off and I'm out within a minute or two.

> I just couldn't stop thinking about shit that was going on.

This was the issue. I had to learn how to just shut thoughts off. Not think of nothing, just not think. Watching a television show for an hour before bed (with the monitor color adjusted, whatever Chrome OS calls their version of f.lux) let's me get my mind off of whatever and then I'm in bed within a 5 minute window Sundays-Thursdays.
But once they all start doing stuff then what happens? 600k is more of a function of memory right?
Nope, cause I already switched to a 2.5-day-a-week schedule, and loving it.

Big pay cut, but worth it.
Cron is a scheduler. If you need other features, your cron script(s) themselves can check those.

Addressing your specific items:

Dependencies. Depending on which of these you're referencing, the package manager (which installs a given cron script), configuration manager, or script itself, can and should test and check these.

Multiple hosts. There are numerous multi-host utilities, ranging from SSH extensions / utilities to full multi-host configuration tools (Ansible, Salt, Chef, cfengine, Puppet, etc.) At heart, this isn't cron's problem. It's a schedular, not an orchestrator.

Error handling. Your script's issue, not crons. Cron is a schedular, not an error handler.

Branching. Not sure what you're referencing, but again, the task of the script, generally.

Sub-minute granularity. Cron is a schedular, not a daemon substitute. If you need a daemon operating at sub-minute granularity, write a daemon.

Reporting. This is the job of your logging facility, generally.

Metrics. This is the job of your accounting facility: systat, syslog, etc., etc.

Pools of jobs. This is the job of your script(s), generally. If you have a set or sequence of tasks, trigger the master with cron, and have it manage the set. Again, cron is a scheduler, not an orchestrator.

Priorities. Nice.

Queue jobs. You want 'at' or 'batch', not cron. Cron is a scheuler, not a job queue.
I remember working in a Go codebase and that was littered with functions that take functions returning funtions that take functions, etc. I couldn't imagine what compelled them to write this way. Now I can see that they just realized first-class functions, dependency injection, and maybe an article about currying. There was almost no way to follow the problem decomposition nor execution path as each aspect rather than being dealt with as encountered just got pushed into a more and more complicated function that eventually executed everything when given the input, an http request!
You can also employ DNS round robin with health checks in Route53
After the death of the Peenemünde scientists its been all downhill for NASA.
Well, I think it's a fact¹ that a large majority of "science" stories that go viral turn out to be wrong.

So the rational approach to them is "what might be wrong with this one?".

¹ Citation Missing
things that definitely made a difference for me:

a) only dim lights after sunset (reflect for a moment on how unnatural it is, after million or years of modern human evolution, that we all of a sudden have light after sundown. (especially blue light screens, seriously, use apps) ; this disrupts your circadian rhythms and melatonin cycles, so it's a big deal.

b) black out shades. don't underestimate - I've monitored my sleep +2 years with multiple fitness trackers, and noticed a clear positive difference in restlessness levels. it also cured my problem of waking up in the middle of the night to pee believe it or not.

c) air tight wax ear plugs ; sounds will wake you up and you often won't know why. a motorcycle, someone closes a door etc.

d) chilly room. I find ~70F is great. again going back to evo history, it's always been chillier at night.

e) habit x 10. go to bed at the same time, wake up at the same time. be unplugged for at least an hour before sleep and relax for a bit when you wake up. follow point a) after sundown. your sleep drive will take over. this might take months to get there, especially if you're a high cortisol individual, but biology will take over if you let it.
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Have a look at the data here: (click on the place you want to look at)

https://www.electricitymap.org/
This is something I don't understand...

Portable generators are so inexpensive that I'd think an institution like this could just keep some in a shed or garage, and shlep cords through windows for extended outages. I bought a top-of-the-line tiny Honda Inverter generator so I could keep my wife's breast milk frozen in case of an extended outage, but even something half the cost would be good enough to run a refrigerator.

But, even then, if you plan for it, backup generators and Solar + Battery are very affordable!

I recently installed a Powerwall purely for backup. Because I have solar, it's slightly more expensive than a standby generator, but with no maintenance or fuel I suspect it'll be a wash within a few years. (Backup generators need expensive maintenance every year.)

Even Generac bought a Solar + Battery company because they know they can't compete, and their solution is nicer than my Powerwall! (The Generac solution includes a critical loads panel inside of it, unlike Powerwall where the critical loads panel is outside.)
They obvious control for these factors. They actually report that the effects are stronger at lower temperature.
If you are interested in the Space X vs Blue Origin vs ULA, and/or want to learn more about the birth of the private space industry I can recommend a book called: The Space Barons.

It's an interesting read to be sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Barons
So do I!

I'm definitely looking to transition to a more healthy environment, but so far every place I have visited has a similar terrible attitude to the practicalities of security and handling breaches. I have asked for clarification by legal sources many times, but this appears to be legal, with the obvious exception of the illegal things. Those are not legal but they don't have a governing body that actively punishes transgressions. It also appears to be widespread. Perhaps I just live in the wrong country :)
I can not. AWS, for whatever reason, does not want this publicly documented. I would write up what we learned in our testing in more detail, but I have been asked not to.

You can find some discussion of this behavior in places like https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=231806. I originally became aware of the issue, before hitting in production, from the HN comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18314138
this story is so familiar that it’s not even funny. I also have seen this while the project is developed. No incentives for fixing stuff that would exponentially increase the productivity of everyone - just keep adding shit until you move on. Pretend like learning the obscurities of a home-brewed/hastily hacked mess matter.
Citation needed.

Iraq is a war torn country. Minus the big cities like Baghdad and Erbil, most of the people don't have a lot.
So the implied argument is that lobbying is inherently corrupt?
In the end they picked it because they already knew it.
Related to Wolverine I guess.
The other take away is this; for many situations, investments made toward cultivating the existing system can save the company more money in personnel and run time costs than can be gained from developing new functionality for the same system.
From that link I quite like the solution of giving two arguments to the then. It feels very algebraic.
Read it on thread reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1182635589604171776.html
Try this "Mechanisms of lightning formation in deep maritime clouds and hurricanes" [1] It suggests "that the formation of lightning in maritime clouds requires two conditions to be satisfied: a) significant vertical velocities and a large cloud-depth, and b) the existence of small aerosols with
the radii lower than about 0.05 μ m in diameter in the cloud condensational nuclei (CCN) size spectra." The pollution from the ships in the form of sulphate will likely provide such small aerosols so then you just need to significant vertical velocities.

[1] - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
> an exhaustive survey of 152 countries...That’s a 6 percent rise since 2009

>China, which operates the world’s largest overseas fishing fleet, has increased harmful subsidies by 105 percent over the past decade

china's 105% rise contributed to 6% rise which includes all sea-faring nations. does that mean their subsidies were considerably less than the rest of the world and they are playing catchup?

If they have the largest fleet surely a 105% rise would lead to >6% globally seeing as they have the largest fleet and assuming they were on par with rest of world's subsidies?
I am not sure where you live and if you are open to trying it, but weed helps ( specifically an indica heavy blend).
For those interested in the origins of the standard error in statistics, "The Most Dangerous Equation" by Howard Wainer is a good, short read: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255612702_The_Most_...
This is very true about income. Although I think it's safe to say that the lifetime earnings of a PhD graduate in CS are likely to be well above average across the whole population even if significantly lower than those who skipped the PhD.
Issue is if you run such automation with aggresive settings that would pick up this - you also increase false-positives and those for such a business could have a more negative impact than a few small bot nets.

So you do need people somewhere in the loop to handle these things.

What would be nice though would be if social media offered rewards for identifying such abuse, after all - they happily pay bug bounties, why not abuse bounties! That would get them lots of zero-hour/non-contract workers doing their job for them and big companies love that it seems and to be able to do that in a PR way that has positives. Well, it works for BUG bounties, why not incentivise the populus to police the populus against abuse as well.
Never heard about Circa before, but just read a little about them and their feature that has the goal

> "to break down a story into its core elements: facts, stats, quotes and media", as opposed to a summary where content is reduced for quicker reading or users are linked elsewhere for the full story

Do you know of any other [general, not tech-specific] media outlets with this philosophy? I find most sources these days are unhelpful even though they think they're adding value with emphasis on narratives.
it’s hard explaining and assessing work done in maintenance. interviews are also really stressful.
NBC hired “Wikipedia whitewasher” to downplay connections to Lauer and Weinstein