skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Summarized: even if we tried really hard, the states and Europe alone cannot reduce global emissions enough to meet one particular deadline, so we should give up trying and l̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶u̶r̶n̶ send thoughts & prayers that geoengineering will save us.
I m talking about conferences. And i m serious
This is purely anecdotal but as a Gemini user I'd use their stable coin if it was accepted on any of the other exchanges I use. I'd actually prefer to use it to buy altcoins than to use a BTC/ALT pair.
Why do you even need that much?
Seems a niche demand when 8GB should just do fine for most.

I've been developing on 8GB Mac for years with no problem. Doubt Linux needs more to do the same.
I’m confused that HN is suddenly enthralled with giving real time location data to the government. There was actually a recent Supreme Court case that extended Fourth Amendment protections to such data.
Holiday season: these 5 shopping hacks save you hundreds of dollars
Bachelors degree are usually pretty good indicators of learning capacity in my opinion. The more rigorous a bachelors degree, the likelier the candidate will be able to learn whatever is thrown at them.
That was true in the mid-90's as well, although I remember hating AIX and HP-UX about equally.
Surprised at all the people complaining about the 16GB. This is a 13 inch ultrabook...
There are different kinds of difficulty-to-read. I had the following experience multiple times with Crime and Punishment: I would pick it up and start reading, and think "wow, this is really amazing stuff", and then at some point I would put it down for a day or two and then somehow not want to pick it back up again. Not because it was hard to follow (it isn't), nor because it's badly written (it isn't), but because the world it puts you inside is a pretty unpleasant one.

(I did eventually read the whole thing, of course, and I'm glad I did.)
No, did you even read what he wrote? Price feeds are used in the system, but the whole system does not boil down to "price feeds". I am not even sure what that could mean.
From what I can tell, YCombinator has 3 main purposes:

1. Teaching people that money is the only thing in the universe that matters

2. Starting companies, or whatever

3. Funding Hacker News

Well, in our modern age, we don't need YCombinator to do those things. You can learn (1) just by reading Hacker News comments, and people do (2) without YCombinator all the time. Therefore, we can replace YCombinator just by finding someone else to run Hacker News. But as it turns out, there's an innovative organization lobste.rs, that's willing to do just that. You can read more about why we don't need YCombinator in this book[1], written by one of the world's leading economists.

[1] amazon.com/dp/0140445684/
The industrial fiber capacity is fantastic here. What sucks is the consumer internet service. In most places in the US, there is a monopoly/duopoly for consumer ISPs and they certainly abuse their positions.
>But another big factor for those buildings is that we were getting loans for them, too, and those were based on (big surprise) long term forecasts presuming this gravy train is going to keep on chugging for the next 30+ years.

Harvard got spectacularly burned by the genius planning of Larry Summers in that regard.
It's a couple grand but that used to be OK cause you could sell the machines years later and previously they held their value well. Now the free keyboard program only covers the machines for 4 years from the date of purchase, after that they're not going to be worth much. Demand for these Macbooks will probably be tied closely to the lack of alternatives too and disappear quickly.
the magnitude of it matters.

Order a Big Mac - does it look like the ad? Probably not. Drink a Cola, does it feel like your life has turned around, probably not. is advertising dishonest - of course, but we all know that and we learned to deal with it. Is advertising corrupt, I would not say that.

Thus for something to be truly corrupt it needs to go beyond a certain level of illegality.

There are plenty of small banks and credit unions out there thus the point that you cannot open a bank is not quite valid. Are some of the rules onerous, probably. Are some of the rules unfair and ridiculous, probably ... does it mean it is corrupt I don't think so.
Excel is the best, maybe the only truly great, piece of software ever written.
Out of curiosity, do you have a particularly simple email address? Over the years, my various email addresses have been some combination of my name and separator characters and I've had exactly one time where I got someone else's confirmation for an airline booking. For most people, I think email is a reasonable identifier. For people whose email is "bob@gmail.com" or the like (who are probably more common on HN than in the general population) not so much, but I'm pretty sure they're the exception not the rule.
We're definitely staying on Netlify after this outage is done. We pay for some of their enterprise features, e.g. audit logs. We just need our sites up right now and zeit was a fast, temporary alternative
FreeBSD is amazing, and a major reason for that is how well it is managed. I would find it very hard to name three other open-source projects of comparable size that are so well-organized and have consistently delivered for this long. Here's a warm shoutout to the FreeBSD Foundation, as well as your reminder to donate: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
Or, framing it more broadly: mass personalization implies a worse deal on average for everyone on the atomized/consumer/low-power (individual) side, because the high-power participants (companies) will optimize their outcomes at the expense of individuals.
Dell is the only major vendor that ships laptops with linux preinstalled (Lenovo anounced linux thinkpads in 2019 but unfortunately it was a lie).

Yet, linux support along the Dell product line is extremely sparse. Between the inspiron 3000 and the xps 13 there is a huge, windows-only gap.
I find it pretty hard to squeeze my day-to-day programming work into 16 GB these days, and this says it's specifically for developers.
That's a good question.

My intention was yes, there is an expectation that if you're renting a computer on behalf of an employer or accessing their internal network, that's a different situation than using a personal device. In the same way, circumventing a captcha to automate logging into an account you own is a right I imagined being protected, but exploiting an XSS vulnerability to scrape private data behind a login is not.

I would be open to having my mind changed on where that line is. I'm cautious about trying to nail down a very hard line about what is and isn't 'public', because I see some ambiguity (using a personal device for work, using EULAs to enforce non-disparagement clauses).

With Right to Remember, I felt like I needed to at least allude to that distinction:

> and archiving information that they have lawful access to.

But I didn't feel comfortable drawing hard lines elsewhere. If I found a solid metric that I felt could be easily, universally applied, I'd be willing to adopt it.
Anyone with a cell phone in their pocket is giving their real time location data to private companies. And I’m very happy that the government can’t just access it without a warrant.
(Node, Redis, Mongo) pushing things to React/Vue/Angular

Everything else is just to keep nontech people busy on things you'll never do so they feel like they have a purpose and their presence helps people take your company more seriously
Isn't there 400m+ of audited USDC in circulation?
I had been reading about speeding up game programs by taking advantage of cache lines. Also, I've been reading "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" and came upon the initial development of cache. You'd think that the initial cache would fetch and store a word, but it didn't. It grabbed a block of words. In other words, a cache line. In 1968.
it works as long as the price is going up but once it goes down, it enters an inescapable downward spiral.
I still genuinely don't understand the elitist and patronizing view that developing and/or developed countries should just stop traveling by air or travel significantly less by air?

In reality, even if all the rich people stopped flying on planes, plenty of other people would just keep doing it. I don't think poor people really care too much about being guilted by rich people, led alone being told someone else knows better than them how they should spend their hard earned money / live their lives.
Because many voters think that they would be better off if the government enforced antitrust law more strongly in this area.

Most agree it was effective when the government broke up Standard Oil, and when they broke up AT&T, among others. Microsoft was not broken up (although it got really close), but they sure got a slap, partly from the EU.
And they changed their behavior, rather dramatically, for the better in the years since.

The idea being that more competition is better.

I think the first question you should be asking is "why do free market economies need antitrust enforcement?" And then take it from there.
Another thing that happened is that growth of oil usage declined. From 1950 to 1968, worldwide oil usage quadrupled; that's an annual growth rate of about 3.9%. In the past 50 years it's doubled, that's an annual growth rate of about 1.4%. If usage had continued growing at the 4% rate, we would have already exhausted today's P1 reserves.

By the 80s it was clear that oil prices were back on the decline, so many thought demand might return to the earlier growth rate (making the 70s crisis a "hiccup" rather than having a permanent affect).
>that’s kind of like saying “I know how to drive a car, but I always have to look up which one is the gas pedal and which one is the brake”

OK, I agree, it's kind of like saying that.

But it's also kind of not like saying that.

Incompetence in driving and incompetence in software development are measured in completely different ways for completely different reasons. In driving, notions of what you definitely should know in order to qualify as "competent" extend from the intrinsic risk to other people's well-being. You can't simply transpose those notions onto the low-stakes sandbox environment that is software development. In software development, process is only important as far as it hinders or helps to deliver good code; competence should be dictated purely by results. All of the actual competence of driving comes during the actual process part; successfully reaching your destination is actually considered to be less important than simply not fucking anything up on the way there.

Sometimes I pick up a video game that I haven't played in weeks, and perform actions incorrectly because the button layout has been overwritten by the button layout of a similar and more recent game. It would foolish to say I'm wholly incompetent at either game; I still have a strong concept of what I should be doing and what I intend to do, it's just that I'm fumbling a bit at the specifics of executing my intent. Am I incompetent for looking up the button layout? Am I incompetent, but only for the 1 hour that it takes me to get back in the groove of things?

Declaring someone is incompetent is a bold assertion to make from such limited information. At the end of the day you either deliver good code in good time or you don't. I would be extremely reluctant to determine this guy can't deliver good code because he had to look something up. Figures no one will hire me.
Ask HN: Advice for a software engineer attending medical school?
Currently completing pre-reqs for Fall 2020 admission to medical school. 40+ in a rural area but attending the local medical school for a rural medicine discipline.

What advice do you have?

What do you see as the largest hurdles you may see
?

What do you see as possibilities?

Advice on MCAT preperation?
Wouldn't a human have to go through thousands (or more) of illicit images and classify them in order to train the AI?
Thanks for the context!
You invested $1k in favorite stocks? Now see what you’d have
The US government pays farmers not to grow food--certain foods in varying amounts certain years--and I think that the EU surely must also.
The first step to increasing retention is figuring out why people are leaving. Start doing regular 1 on 1s and exit interviews, listen to what people are saying, and fix the problems.
Why would devs type on the laptop keyboard for extended period of time?

If you work at a desk, you're supposed to add an external monitor and a keyboard.
There are only a handful of widely used languages. If you switch every few months then you will have covered them all in a year or two.
Heh, now you tell me. :-/

[UPDATE] If the heavily redacted version was good enough to convince them that you are you, then it will almost certainly be enough for them to convince someone else that they are you should they choose to do.
That might be true, but total volume of SUV sales in the US is giant. In fact, SUVs are now the standard car model, with sedans being left behind. This is the result of a strong push from auto companies in terms of advertisement and diversification of SUV offers.
The Chronicles of Prydain is the greatest fantasy series ever written (2017)
The article actually links to it midway. How would you know, if you clearly haven’t read it...
Air travel is 2% of emissions.

Perhaps helping to build out green electricity would be more useful? Solar panels on buildings, warehouses, etc.

This will help drive down the costs, thus making it more affordable globally.
that explanation is linked from this article.
Thank you for clarifying that; I was wondering where the concern was coming from.

Without disagreeing with any of the above, one important consideration is what you're going to do with the query. If all you want to know is a column's mean or some other simplified statistical value, there's really no sense in pulling all the data into Python just to calculate it. Do it inside the DB itself with SQL.

On the other hand, if you need that data to do other work (i.e. populate the table in a webpage, or generate a new descriptive data set or whatever), then the trade-off for pulling it into Python/pandas and running a mean in addition to the other work becomes much smaller.

My approach is usually to do as much data filtering and parsing as possible inside SQL, but things like complex parsing and string manipulation (especially!) I'll do with Python. I can do some simple string work in SQL, but I can almost always do it faster and cleaner in Python.
fwiw, I just bought a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2 and Ubuntu 19.10 worked right out of the box - even wifi and proprietary nvidia drivers. I was very surprised. I haven't tested the fingerprint scanner, but I don't use biometrics, so I can't speak to that.
I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for what you and your colleagues do. I honestly don't know if I could work in a field like that without just being overwhelmed by it, but I'm really glad that others can and do.
Windows ‘BlueKeep’ Attack That U.S. Government Warned About Is Happening Now
The big thread on this was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989684
Would be great if TFA elaborated on just how they "knew" such a thing.
History tells us that large corporations are not actually any better (and in many ways are worse) than governments when it comes to this sort of stuff.
Maybe not Bitcoin, but there are other cryptocurrencies that actually prioritize low transaction fees. For example the next block fees on Bitcoin Cash is currently $0.0014.[0]

[0]: https://bitcoinfees.cash/
Pluralsight Launches “All Hands on Tech” Podcast
I think this is more of an issue when rezoning already dense areas like San Francisco. In SF, everybody's close to something they don't like.

But if this is a critique on low density suburbs, then I don't really buy the argument. These new developments are mostly replacing run down commercial areas that are already well separated from suburbanites and their valuable property. They're mostly near transit and other commercial areas, but when they do come near residential zoning, it's almost always older apartments rather than houses.

Even when they do end up on the border of a nice-house-suburb, the sprawl means that relatively few suburbanites live near the border, while relatively many do not, but still enjoy convenient access by car.
Going to dell.be, products, laptops, for work, there's a filter for OS: Ubuntu that shows 12 results.
So when am I going to get a linux driver for my XPS fingerprint reader? Still doesn't work too well. Dell also still ships killer wireless cards, which generally don't work as well with linux drivers as, say, intel. Though this is probably also because killer cards are just junk.
This should help everyone better understand if interested: https://sift.com/developers/docs/curl/apis-overview/overview

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There are many abuse use cases that Sift can stop:

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What actions your users are taking, usually key user lifecycle events (eg creating an account, placing an order, posting content to other users, etc.). You will send this data from your application to Sift via our REST API.

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I think those parens can be good style.

They communicate to people who don't know the binding, but perhaps more importantly they don't let you accidentally change order of operations if you change the operators in your computation.
What Voyager 2 has learned since entering interstellar space
Agreed, I'm at a desktop with 100mb connection and I had to reload it twice and it still took about 1 minute to show itself.
USDC: $447M market cap, $277M volume
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I am not arguing that an ICE vehicle is more efficient than an electric vehicle - I am saying that adding weight reduces efficiency for both. I was not making a general comparison between the pros and cons of electric vehicles, I was pointing out that one person's comment about better traction for electric vehicles was incredibly disingenuous because ICE vehicles can get the same benefit by simply adding weight - and they can also remove that weight when they want to unlike the electric vehicle.
Oh my yes. “XML all the things” was very much a hot trend in the early 00s. I’m even guilty of getting caught up in it. I hand-coded a handful of docbook docs for no good reason, and then even bemoaned not having XSLT tooling. In retrospect DSSSL was the better formatting thing, and XML docbook was horrendously complicated.

I’m prone to Stockholm syndrome relationships with technology, but XML Docbook / XSLT eventually popped my self delusion bubble.
Ah, but they are weapons by any reasonable definition if used to harm another person. No one is saying that we need to ban water or skirts, only have some common sense regulations on them. There's no reason that someone should have a large quantity of water over say a gallon at a time.

And your claim about something whose purpose is to kill people, it's ridiculous to allow people to sell a murder skirt. The only purpose of knives is to kill people, and we allow those to be as available as the average skirt as well.
Contractors essentially need to be entirely piecework - I am paying you to accomplish this task, by this date, end of story. If the employer attempts to impose conditions on how the work is done, or when it is done (in terms of working hours, etc) then those are characteristics which point towards the contractor actually being an employee of the company.
Let’s Compare Who Wins: Google Home Mini for $50 or Amazon Echo Dot
LIGO's Lasers Can See Gravitational Waves, Despite Light Being Stretched Itself
London Store Selfridges Installs Robot Bartender for Holidays
Whereas the government will just share it with private companies and leak it: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/07/10/data-breach-la-co...
I know this and used the naming explicitly. I'm hoping for a Zen 2 X1 Carbon. The current Zen mobile CPUs are not yet competitive from what I've seen.
Right, we should sacrifice millions of lives in the developing world because we're unwilling to curb emissions! Until western countries prove that this isn't a massive effort to secure their status why should the developing world literally kill itself?
I agree with you, but Cobalt is not a rare earth material.

And just to reiterate: lithium is abundant, widely distributed, and cobalt isn't required for batteries (LiFePO4 is a common chemistry, uses no cobalt, and has very long cycle life... good especially for grid applications).
Ask HN: UI Face-off – 2 sites, same function. Which UI is superior?
https://eatcheap.app/ vs. https://www.fullprice.no/

Here's an example of two web sites that perform the same function, listing restaurant and bar deals in a particular city. Happy hours, lunch specials, late night deals and the like. I see plus and minuses to both UI approaches, wondering which UI was preferred by the HN readership. Comments/votes welcomed.
A criticism is this being at the cost of the other crash participant (due to mass), thus it being a spiral were everyone will drive military tanks a bit down the line.
The study in question is alleging the runup from around 10k-20k was because of one guy. The media had definitely caught on beforehand.
Power banks are a thing. I bet it uses either USB charger or something trivially hackable to be powered off 5V/2A!
Or we use deep learning to train a corruption classifier. I m sure we can find a lot of data points for the one class ...
This could be a novel way to get BigTechCo's to invest / dump money into public transit infrastructure!

However, even more Amazon Prime Now ads on public transit, led alone allowing Amazon to touch a major "public" resource, might not be the best way to curb track jumpers :(