skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Will this effort make it harder to build public infrastructure in the future?

Yes, most likely.

> But at the same time, homeless people don't care about your theoretical utopia. They need help right now, and there's a very real cost to saying, "nobody should help this person suffering until we can do it right."

I don't know who you are arguing against here. I never said any of these things. I'm not advocating we prevent corporations from doing things that help people, I am only pointing out that they are fickle friends, and we shouldn't count on them to be reliable providers of aid.
> I've personally grown to love SQL and I think it is by far the clearest (if verbose) way to describe data transformation work.

I'm going to go against the grain here, at least as expressed in this thread, and say something that I think is defensible, but...

SQL is a terrible language.

1. It's old. There have been many, many advancements in programming languages since its inception in the mid-80s, none of which have made it into the language itself.

2. SQL is naturally tedious, with few mechanisms for isolating common functionality into e.g. objects/interfaces/functions/monads. Stored procedures exist, but still suffer from the other shortcomings of the language.

3. There's no vendor-agnostic way to write unit tests.

4. The code itself is ugly. There isn't a standardized (or even semi-standardized) way to confidently format code, compared to languages like Python or Java. I've seen (and very occasionally written) code in languages like Ruby or Java that is elegant to the point of being artistic. SQL is almost universally ugly.

5. Over time SQL tends towards becoming unmaintainably complex, for reasons I've come to believe are endemic to the language itself. In my experience and almost without exception, SQL has been the source of the most complex and difficult to maintain/test code in every codebase I've worked with. Views that are 300+ lines long, with multiple layers of inner joins, are common. And no one wants to touch these monsters because it's almost inevitable that refactoring will break something way over yonder.

6. There's no type checking.

7. There's no standardized library sharing framework like RubyGems or Python's pip.

8. IDE support is limited, and is mainly limited to basic code formatting. Compare this to something like IntelliJ where you can just ctrl-click on a method or variable and go to the definition. Even TypeScript is better here.

9. Refactoring is dangerous, and the ability for your tools to lend a hand is limited. Want to rename a public method in Java? Right click. You can be pretty confident doing so won't break your app (with caveats). If you want to rename a column in SQL, you're not going to have nearly that amount of confidence.

Now, I think there is a place for something like SQL: fast, able to easily access and update large amounts of data, etc. Something that executes directly against an RDBMS.

I just wish it wasn't SQL.
What is wrong with appeal to authority? Fallacies don't mean your argument is instantly wrong. It just means your argument isn't perfectly sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

And you presume that I am arguing on behalf of authority, as opposed to giving an example of a "large mass of humans who believe the same thing". You haven't discredited them, you have only mocked me for choosing to believe in an expert body. That is fine, and we should always question authorities and their methods.

But flippantly saying "How is this not making an appeal to authority" is frustrating. Yea, so what? Are the authorities wrong? Unless you can answer that essential question your needling on this point is irrelevant.
No, I'm gonna use the same answer that I'd have used 10 years ago: The cable-company upper management isn't entitled either. They appropriate the art from the artists and call it "fair compensation", but it isn't.

Keep in mind that these are the same cable companies that charge for basic broadcast channels, too. There's charging for stuff that people might not watch, and then there's charging for stuff that is freely available in the air for anybody to tune into.
Classic case of hitting the date but crunched out with technical debt and buggy software, a tell that management/finance/marketing is driving the decision over the engineer/designer/product people.

People forget a project was late if it succeeds, they never forget a project on time that failed because it was rushed, buggy and not polished production.

MBA/business and marketing need to go back to letting the product people and engineers create value, then they can extract the value and sell it. It is much easier to sell value of a good product, it basically sells itself. For some reason American business has completely forgotten the rule this millennia, product then marketing and selling.

You see this same thing happen at game companies when they put a date out there and it is driven by management and marketing over reality of engineering/product/design that makes a fun and solid game.

Boeing was greatly diminished in engineering/product excellence by the McDonnell Douglas management control takeover, everything newly produced since has the tell of this.
Overly Attached Girlfriend started with a youtube video that went viral though. A bit different from a stock photo going viral like Harold or Distracted Boyfriend..
Isn’t the Internet built for spoofing who/what sent something? As I understand it, when you peel the layers and look deeper, there is no stringent authentication or identity verification that really happens, which makes it easy to exploit for DDoS attacks (using IP spoofing, which may help for certain kinds of attacks, or BGP spoofing).
Software that actually works of course, but that only happens with stable APIs, ABIs and certainly not with removing them no matter how planned and preannounced that might be (both because most will ignore things since what they do already works and doing something different just to get the same results is most of the time a waste of time but also because in many cases the software is simply not possible to upgrade/change due to other issues, including the developer not existing anymore).
Why is the government buying property?
FlyBarbara.com is the first flight search engine where you plant a tree by buying tickets. For each ticket, you can see the number of trees you plant. We cooperate with international organizations where we transmit money transparently.
Which isn't surprising. Kubernetes default settings are to work in all environments using overlay, not to be optimized for performance (make it work, then make it fast).
1. Login to a hosted blogging platform with Tor Browser.

2. Put Tails on a live USB drive. Only ever do your blogging on Tails. Purchase hosting for a hidden service with Monero. Watch out for people tackling you in libraries.
You'll need a stack anyway, because the structure is logically a tree. Better to use the call stack, that is already there and heavily optimized.
It's also because every company wants their walled garden à la Apple. It's unbundled, but still bundled. Sell a movie or a season of episodes for $1-5 and no one will be able to complain about this anymore.
We use GitLab self-hosted at my company so I've been following this for a while.

My speculation is there's pressure for the C suite to push this Russia and China hiring ban for some reason. Looks like the board is telling the CEO this has to happen or they're in negotiation talks to be acquired by a big company like Google who wants this to happen now and the backlash to have passed by the time it's announced. So this will happen whether it's illegal or not (and it looks like it will and is illegal) but the risk will cost less than the reward.

If they go to court they spend at most a few mil fighting it over the course of a few years and the executives walk away super rich anyway. If they don't go to court they walk away even more rich. But if they don't do it they might rely on an IPO that's looking shaky because of this bad decision making for the past 2 months. So even if it's illegal, it still makes sense to do this. It looks like an exit strategy because they will never be personally liable.

She probably sees this and knows everything going on behind the scenes, but she won't walk away super rich from this but could lose her law license by engaging in discrimination.
It's a stackless coroutine. AFAIK, the term “green thread” is usually reserved to stackful coroutines, but I guess it could also be used to talk about any kind of coroutines.
I was able to download it being in EU using youtube-dl.
Unsinkable Metal
It is relevant though as k8s makes everything more complicated so you have to deal with stuff like this. Also if it was a brand new app theyd maybe not notice the problem in the first place.
Fair enough, that's probably right. My opinion is highly colored by seeing mostly the cost of RN and few of the benefits sitting where I do in the tech stack.
I am not talking about hash tags. Just the replies on that specific thread. Am I now to believe that twitter itself is working with the LW handles to show the replies of LW criticism of twitter while suppressing RW voices?!!

Come on, use Occam's razor.
Ring-a-ding: IoT doorbell exposed customer Wi-Fi passwords to eavesdroppers
sure, but at least the compost doesn’t go to waste :)
Many landfills [0] now recover the methane, and treat it, or burn it in generators to create power. They can sell the power, and change the methane to carbon dioxide (which is less of a greenhouse gas)

In Madison, WI, [1] they create enough power to offset all the energy the county operations use, plus create CNG for their heavy equipment at the landfill to run on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_gas_utilization

[1] https://isthmus.com/news/news/dane-county-might-sell-the-met...
So, no answer on the Model S's endurance then? I answered your question, why not answer mine instead of offering up evasions? If you don't know, simply say you don't know.
We have to manually skip posts by random people.
That's a timely question with the holidays coming up. A lot of people will be wanting to watch movies from the 1940's and 50's. Many of them don't realize those works are still under copyright.

It's not just hypothetical. In our family we subscribe to 3 or 4 streaming services, but last year we still had to pay $5 to watch It's a Wonderful Life (1946), a movie that was literally in the public domain for 20 years. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) wasn't available at any price, except with ads that stretched its 25-minute runtime to nearly an hour. We pirated that one. I don't think most people would think there was anything wrong with that.
We Grew Our Pregnancy Supplies Subscription-Box to $20mill ARR
FYI: Into the Spiderverse is a Sony movie - Disney/Marvel wasn't involved. Sony has owned Spiderman movie rights since the Tobey Maguire trilogy
A composting operation could potentially capture its gasses though, compared to landfills.
"worse is better"
> Not the same principle really as these things float on water rather than in it.

Huh? Half the article talks about how they maintain buoyancy while submerged and why that's important.

You don't need a boundary, and it wouldn't help you if you did. You still need to displace the same amount of air.

The only way on/in makes a difference is if you have some way to prevent the fluid from going around you. You'd have to be tightly jammed inside a tube for that.
Yes, AVIRIS is the instrument that was used to take the data for that paper. Same group.
Elasticsearch and Near Real Time Analytics
Somewhat similar in nature to hashing iterations, use one service to translate from X to Y, another to translate from Y to Z, and then yet another service to translate from Z to X. Then post X after making any necessary corrections. This could be automated with simple scripts.

Using simple and short sentences could also help against any language analysis. Write, then feed it into Hemingwayapp, simplify it, then process it further.
1. Create JS library.

2. Add bitcoin-wallet-stealing code.

3. Upload to NPM.
>... providing a competitive service

They are not providing a competitive service. When I get my health coverage from work, I only have one or two options. And the prices are already set.

>...just lower premiums

In effect, that's what Medicaid does.

>...provide better coverage... expensive condition

This program is preventing the expensive conditions. That's better for everyone. I'd much rather not get sick than have enough money to pay for treating the sickness.

> Why is buying real estate a better investment than saving lives?

Because you get the same outcome (healthier people) for less money. It's win-win.
Same here. 2 years in and I need to look down every time I need to reach for the arrow keys.

That said, I do love my 2015 MBP keyboard in general, and loathe the 2018 one.

I now have a silicon cover on top of the keyboard which gives me a slightly better touch typing experience but is worse for other things.
Bay area fullstack engineer here. Has anyone else gotten unsolicited emails from Holloway starting a few weeks ago? They emailed me every week with news about another startup-oriented syllabus until I marked the last one as spam in Gmail.
OK. It really is hard when you're what you call "FFI-heavy" and don't like a significant runtime. So Rust has several * self-imposed* constraints (whether they're all essential for its target domains is a separate discussion, but some of those constraints certainly are) that makes this task particularly hard, but my point is that there is nothing fundamental to n:m threading that makes it slower than async/await, and async/await does fundamentally come at the significant cost of a particularly viral form of accidental complexity.
As pointed out your statement about unemployement is incorrect. Brain drain is a huge problem for all of Canada; do you have any statistics showing how it is affecting Quebec more?
USA seems to be around 26th in the world with that ratio.

https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm
You would be surprised, if managament is broken to it's core, the situation is "Do this unethical thing or we'll find someone who will!"

Computer Scientists aren't usually taught engineering ethics and definitely get fired all the time for arbitrary reasons.
Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business
Sometimes you can simply count backwards, eg in tree rings of living trees. There are some other problems though:

http://www.climatedata.info/proxies/tree-rings/

Ice core data is correlated with solar activity cycles:

http://www.climatedata.info/proxies/ice-cores/

> Those, in turn, must be put into a date range based on some form of (I assume) radiometric dating.

Google can tell you precisely how it is done. Government institutions such as NASA, NOAA or the universities (and equivalents in other countries) generally have reliable information (and the information is straight from the source since most publishing scientists work there).
This is of no use in the developed world for a normal house. Try getting your home owners insurance to pay off a claim against an accident involving this. Also, according to its specs you can get 2hrs of cooking per day if you supply 5 gallons of animal manure. That's a tiny amount of energy compared to modern energy needs.

For most people this would be a novelty, maybe you could run an outdoor grill off of it.
As an individual I'm happy to make sacrifices for the greater good, and this is an example of why we should not accept the narrative that consumers bear the brunt of reducing emissions.

Maybe California should do a few more of these flights before finding something else to ban?
Lots of recursive data-structures (trees/graphs/*) lend themselves nicely to lots of nesting. Such documents aren't really intended to be read/written by humans.
It sounds harsh, but I'm not sure what the answer is. Think of it, if housing were completely free everywhere in the US, for everyone, most people would flock to the west coast. It has the best weather in the US, and San Diego in particular even the best in the world perhaps. You have an ocean nearby, rarely gets too hot or too cold, etc. The only way to prevent the absolute cluster-f that would be is with scarcity and thereby pricing. I don't live there, so I'm not being elitist...I'm being realistic. A major factor in why I don't live there is the cost. A rational person deals with such things, instead of shouting from the a tent in the street.

Edit to add - I don't think the situation of 'keep moving' is realistic. Of all the thousands of cities in the US, only a handful have really had a price explosion, and the reasons are obvious - coastal, nice weather, and limited space. I can't see that ever happening in say, Olathe, or Tuscaloosa, etc. Austin for example has had an explosion, but generally has the room to grow outwards in a reasonable way in my opinion.
They want to expand beyond just logo designs.
Only if there is actually anything more you can say about String that would let you avoid the Maybe. If this is raw data and you don't even know that the JSON is well formatted (else why can a parse straight to a generic JSON object fail) then there's not any better way to type it.

You might want to return an error message on failure, or provide a mechanism for recovery, but those are somewhat specific to the use case and don't really address the key point of the article.
It says it's the longest "metro line" once it finishes construction. The Elizabeth line isn't a metro line, and it's underground tunnel is only 21km.
They're talking about two different changes:

"bunch of grad students"="patch MCAS to not auto-crash"

"really complicated"="redesign entire compute architecture to be multi-master and failure tolerant"
OpenSUSE votes not to change its name
System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
It would've been interesting to know which platform was the JavaScript test performed on (judging by source code, likely Node.js). However, on my current machine Chrome chokes to stack overflow above nesting level 125,778.

More amazingly, Firefox is currently happily parsing a JSON array with 50,000,000 levels of nesting at full CPU single core utilization and consuming about 12 GB of memory. This was after an array of depth 10,000,000 was successfully parsed after peaking around ~8 GB of RAM. So Firefox's parser seems to be only constrained by available memory!

Also - while this is running in the console the Firefox UI is completely usable and I can browse the web in another tab. Mozilla has come a long way!

E: The 50,000,000 nesting level array parsing eventually failed with "Error: out of memory".
This question has been thoroughly studied: https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

"The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 400 parts per million in the last 150 years. The panel also concluded there's a better than 95 percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years."

Feel free to read the summary for policy makers: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

You can ask whatever questions you like. Those of us who aren't dismissive of climate science have been able to get answers like yours without problem.
I believe some landfills and dairies capture methane. If there were a GHG pollution tax, they could save a lot of $ capturing excess waste methane. As is, I wonder if it's a neutral or cost saving to capture methane?
MtG is just a fantastic game. Somehow I think the detailed rules really appeals to those of us who simulate automata in our head. ;)

> I had begun the interview with what I figured was an obvious, softball icebreaker: “Yes,” Garfield responded when asked if he was related to President James Garfield (1831-1881), “he was my great-great-grandfather.”

Wow!

> I think make-believe is a very important component of games; the art really drives that.

The art and flavor text are a big part of the game, IMO. At least its original draw, anyways.
Note that Skype has now split into "Skype for Business" (whic is it's own form of weirdness in Office 365) and then normal Skype which is for the family/individuals.
Even though nuclear power reactors do not produce direct carbon dioxide emissions (unlike fossil fuel-fired power plants, nuclear reactors do not produce air pollution or carbon dioxide while operating),the processes for mining and refining uranium ore and making reactor fuel all require large amounts of energy.
>It's also the difference between the, what, $20/month? that Netflix subscription costs and the $80/month or whatever that the TV portion of a cable subscription costs nowadays.

Those numbers seem pretty close. I think the cost bit is probably the big thing. Yes, it's a bit annoying when I spend 10 minutes trying to find a show on Amazon which is, in fact, on Netflix.

But the main thing is that a lot of people have cut their $80-$100/month cable cord and their new normal is maybe a couple of [possibly shared] subscriptions plus maybe Prime--not their prior $100 monthly content bill.
Usually the solution is to create an array on the heap and manage the stack yourself.
I don't understand why GitLab is doing these things. Even on behalf of Sourcehut, there are subsets of the industry that I don't really try to compete with GitLab on. They have a place in this ecosystem and they're working to undermine it. They're making a void that I, even as a competitor, don't want to and am not prepared to fill. The community is going to suffer for their missteps.

I feel really bad for their employees. If I could help, I would, but Sourcehut isn't big enough to provide another employment option for them. To any GitLab employees who know something I can do to help, or just want to talk, I can lend a sympathetic and private ear at sir@cmpwn.com.
Across the West (where I travel the most) see that most homeless is white. I would say too, that, even in places with much higher Mexican or migrant populations, such as Tucson, AZ - the homeless population is also mostly white. At least visibly. Homelessness doesn't seem to be related to racism, it seems to be a very white specific thing (at least in these western states - CA, WA, OR, MT, CO, UT, NV, AZ, NM, WY).
Maybe because you use a JSON library as all the time anyway so using it even when it's not ideal but good enough is the path of least resistance. Or you're a cargo cultist.
Why not make the software flexible enough that the user can conform it to their own needs?

Let me guess: too much trouble for a developer to implement and maintain.
.desktop files are just the equivalent to Windows .lnk files, if anything they can contain additional metadata. The issue is the DEs that use them (and not all are of the same bad quality).

If anything i'd say that .desktop files are among the few things that Free Desktop got right (though i think that is largely because they're basically KDE1's .kdelnk or whatever they were called).