skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm quite confident our family is an outlier. Our daughter is a huge disney princess fan, loves barbies but I don't see it affecting her love of STEM.

I have a hunch it's not the disney princesses that stifle young girls but just being told at some point in their lives that science is more for boys. You don't need more than that. Once you have a bunch of young girls, each of which have internalized this at some point in their life, it becomes part of their 'subconscious group identity' and that's that.

I think it's ok for girls to love princesses. It's not ok for their role models (mums) say so that they hear "i don't understand maths but that's ok" or something silly like that.

Kids learn rules from adults. Not from cartoons.
Compost IS natural decomposition, my dude.
Memory Management in Java
> or serious people asking 16 year old Swedish girls about 'what we should do about Nuclear Energy'

Don't hide behind weasily language, you can use her name.

What makes Greta Thunberg unserious? Why isn't her opinion valuable? Why is it impossible she has read the relevant sources?

You're skeptical because acknowledgment of the problem would mean a compulsion to do something about it, so it's easier to hide under a veneer of 'rational disagreement' and pretend like the science is less definitive than it is.
Just gotta say, nothing quite drives home the point of how much water there is on Earth, like even a short oceanic flight and looking out the window.

Imagining you could dive into any spot at any time kinda gives the feeling of having an entire alien planet to explore.

Our always-connected society gives us the illusion that we've discovered everything there is to discover, but apparently most of the world is uninhabited (by humans) and as this says, many parts aren't even mapped.
If you accept that humans pump a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere, I'm not sure why you're asking for a specific citation; if you're looking for papers that answer the spefific question of whether humans are contributing to global warming, and the consensus among scientists in all disciplines concerned, there are several:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686.summary

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/292/5515/270

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.800...
I’m obviously not in favor of increasing concussions - but luckily I don’t buy into the argument that fighting increases concussions, so it’s not even a tradeoff in my view. Reducing fighting can cut the 5-10% of concussions that come from fighting in pro leagues and help reduce them elsewhere as an added bonus. A less ridiculous sport is icing on the cake.
That's all true (I haven't checked myself, but lots of people talk about it on Reddit and elsewhere).

Still, the big selling point is: Inexpensive. Easy to install (simple PHP). Looks relatively polished.

All the "competitors" are either much more expensive, or you need to be an enthusiast in the tech stack they have chosen.
> I don't know if there is a "style obfuscation" engine to help with this.

Machine translate from language X to Y. Then Y to X again.
That is the correct approach.
>The only science actually settled is: the Earth is warming, disconcertingly fast, and humans are a large part of the process.

This is exactly what I said. In 2., not that humans are 100% all the cause of global warming, but definitely the dominating factor.
Relative poverty is not a zero-sum game. You may take the relative too literally for the sake of the argument. Reducing relative poverty can also increase the quality of life for the rich in a ways that goes past disposable income. High income inequality reduces the people you meet and befriend and places you visit.

Big TV-screens, game consoles, smartphones etc. are possible because there is enough people to create economies of scale that justify massive investments. It's not economical to spend billions over decades for R&D to produce these technologies to few million wealthy people.
> Kubernetes made my latency 10x higher

The title is a bit misleading, kub didn't cause the 10x latency - also latency was lower after they fixed their issues

TL;DR version - Migrate from EC2 to Kub; due to some default settings in Kiam & AWS Java SDK, latency of application increased, fixed after reconfiguration and kub latency lower than EC2
That's why there is a huge brain drain out of the province, resulting in Quebec being one of the poorest provinces in Canada with a lot of unemployment (and high taxes) spinning a vicious cycle...

Just check this one example, to see the sheer stupidity of the language police:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastagate
One week to write, 3 days to read: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/microsofts-project-s...
Natural gas can always be a generator of absolute last resort, and is likely cheaper than keeping nuclear generators running for those rare occasions.
One of the most common uses of this tech in the US is automatic license plate readers.

Without getting into a debate about expectations of privacy on public roads vs. building a perpetual government database that tracks where every car is effectively at all times of day, another application of this tech would be a bumper decal.

I think most reasonable people would agree obscuring the license plate on a public road is not the solution (well, with the exception of Florida Man who racked up a $1MM fine when he was finally caught doing that through toll booths for a year), but a decal like this wouldn't interfere with any officer's human duties.
How so? Do you mean that people "would" help if they weren't racist? San Francisco, which has one of the largest homeless populations per capita, has a homeless population that is 35% caucasian (the largest represented racial group).

(Edited to add: Caucasians make up 40.2% of the city population)

https://sf.curbed.com/2017/6/16/15818104/homeless-sf-count-2...
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/san-francisco-ca
Was there ever a year that Hollywood failed to prove this too?
Independently of the backslashes, this is not valid JSON: keys have to be quoted, and JSON uses double quotes, not single quotes...
Obviously, this should be fixed, but shouldn't you also be doing double-opt-in and making the user confirm the subscription by clicking a link in an email?
Off-topic, but I wonder if Gitlab employees have some way to filter the discussion, or if they have to manually skip posts by random people.
Does the API specify under which conditions you can expect missing characters? There should be an undefined behaviour angle here somewhere
Doesn't matter. People would be more willing to take it on trust if it weren't for 1) motivated denialists 2) ex-"tobacco not harmful" mercenaries 3) useful idiots who are willing to consider [edit] the possibility they have a valid "point of view": they don't.
Ah right, that's the key. Window shopping is ok, if it's the kind where they will write a check for you to help with the shopping. Window shopping where they are not anywhere near writing a check is no good, and is something sales funnel should try to actively disqualify leads for
The day we need more resources, you can be sure we will go and get them where they are. We have not have had the need to dig deep or explore the oceans so far (because other resources were readily available), but there is no telling we will never do so.

> or oil, which has been getting harder and harder to extract.

Harder to extract but still in much larger abundance than what was predicted by mostly everyone back in the 70-80s. I don't know if you were around then, but you may have heard of "peak oil". It never happened (as in, not yet, and that was already a long time ago).
That matches up with my experience with them.
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Exactly. But glass is glass, so the amount of believing we have to do with a pane of glass / quartz with this system is much less of a leap than with a pressed circle someone made in cheap-as-possible-for-profit-margins-increases factories, organic dye or not.
We should probably store a bunch of video evidence of historical events before we get the ability to do cheap and easy photo-realistic CGI on demand. There's going to be so many alternative video evidence for everything that historians are going to appreciate a known record that is difficult to update.
Right at the bottom:

> If you want to add a new language or a new library, feel free to open a pull request.
At 20Mbit/s upload speed, the upload is 2x faster than real-time at Youtube's recommended encoding settings for 1080P (what was called "Full HD video"), and equal to YT's recommended encoding settings for 1440P.

So at that rate, Dad can fill the upload pipe continuously, with 24x7 real-time streaming at 1080P and there will still be half a pipe left over for everyone else. The family might not even notice.

However, at some ADSL upload speeds (say 2Mbit/s, which is a bit slow for ADSL in 2019), the upload is considerably slower than real-time. It might take 5 hours to upload a 1 hour video in 1080P.

That's tolerable enough for a committed long video producer. I'm sure video producers have been doing multi-hour or overnight uploads for years. They don't need to run for weeks.
Longest automated metro line. Also the Elizabeth Line is not really a metro but a high frequency regional rail line.
Nice little write-up, but BERT seems like overkill for this sort of binary classification task.
Football’s Campaign to Save the Game
Is there a reasonably easy way to get anonymised bitcoins? Mining is currently out of the question, purchase on exchange will leave a trail.
> Investors don't care about hippies keeping nuclear power plants away, and if they saw enough profit in nuclear power they would find a way to get it done.

Surely, if this is true, investors wouldn't sink a few billion into a project only to find that the politicians don't like it and shut it down? In Germany, a new reactor was completely built and ready, only to find that the government prevents them from ever taking it online. Investors saw money but the public perception in Germany (which is about as far from reality as anti-vaxxers are) changed it after all.
Have you read or consulted parts of the IPCC report? That links to nearly all relevant science on this topic, and is so well understood by everyone talking about this topic, that when they say "the science" that is at least what they are referring to.
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Good on you brother. I underwent a similar effort recently. Cutting back or eliminating adderall/coffee/alcohol/marijuana/twitter/facebook/reddit/instagram/bullet chess ( my addictive game of choice )/more I'm probably missing.

I made it about a month clean before I had a drink which pulled me back into everything else. I'm trying to clean up again. I want to re claim my attention and be able to mindfully focus my time on more productive and helpful things.

One day at a time, I guess.
People can perfectly understand the math and still feel like spending ten bucks on a lottery ticket is a good investment, because hope and excitement with a tiny chance of winning something is worth ten bucks to them. It' much harder to justify dooming future generations to a much harsher life so that you can life a little bit more comfortably today.
I think the idea is to make it readable even if civilisation ends and we don’t have any record of the format when the tech is re-invented afterward — A built-in Rosetta Stone.
There are designs that are new or newer that have only been implemented at small scale, or in a single test instance.

Molten salt reactors, traveling wave designs, even thorium energy amplifiers.

You're right, though, we need new reactors now, which is why we're looking toward the designs already tested.

It's true that no significant research has been done for decades and no new designs approved for commercial use, but that's something that can be changed, and changed quickly.

In any case, we don't have a choice... it's renewables+nuclear or renewables+a cut in standard of living for the world... or else climate change we can't survive.

Again... we're not substituting nuclear for renewables. That wouldn't work any more than substituting renewables for nuclear. Neither one is enough on its own.
I completely understand, retaliation is a real possibility in such cases. This is why it's important to find a safe way to organize, and for a considerable number of employees to protest.
Changed the brand, expanded their product offerings that clearly had associated cost while expecting a loss in revenue and also rented a large new set of offices at the same time.

Regardless of what he was pitched from an SEO standpoint, mashing together all that risk into one giant clusterfuck shows amateurish leadership.
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This is similar to the argument for promoting people who enjoy violence and murder into the military (people who haven't committed crimes, but get an adrenaline rush around these topics). Don't you want people who are good at it and enjoy it? Won't they get it done most effectively? If you have to do a job that involves "bad" things, do you get more moral points if you don't like it?
One of the startup ideas I've had is to modernize death.

Most humans want to "live forever." Given that we can't do that, we resort to procreation, and leaving behind some pieces of ourselves to be remembered by, with lots of cultures having some type of funeral practice to ensure this occurs (i.e. tombstones).

With the proliferation of our digital lives, many of us have more photos, videos, and other media than we know what to do with. Furthermore, we probably don't have a great way to preserve this information.

Imagine a funeral service that could comb through your digital life, archive it all, and keep it accessible to your family for generations. Bonus points for summarizing it into a beautiful montage to be played to your family at your service.

Financially, it would work a lot like how funeral homes operate with deposits, insurance, and annuities, but the marginal cost should be much lower due to it being a digital vs. physical product.

One of the problems I've been mulling over is the fact that digital storage isn't perpetual, which means that someone has to ensure the data is maintained in some way.

Therefore, something like the quartz glass storage medium in the article would be perfect. Your data would be accessible via traditional means for 10-20 years after your death. Afterwards, it would still be accessible, but it would be on cold storage, so it wouldn't be instantaneous. It would mean you'd "never really die" since any of your descendants would be able to see what your life was like.

I think that would be enough of a "hard problem to solve" to build a startup around. Of course, you could extend it to preserve other forms of data, like your DNA, or your mind like Westworld, where your descendants could communicate with you whenever you wanted.

It could easily become one of the first perpetual corporations.
Has anyone ever tried a graphics engine for cross playform desktop apps? Godot's interface is made in Godot for example.
Isn't that exactly what they said, that nuclear is the lowest, so it makes sense that rooftop solar is worse (in terms of death only, of course)?
Yes! Tantalising, but short on details. Some more insight into hypothetical causes, and generally much more information:

https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2012.13

Recent morphometry studies have consistently found handedness-related effects on the extent of the torque, mainly due to differences in the anatomy of frontal regions.
There is no such thing as "every day user" though, every user is different and if anything a major source of those UX issues people have is "designers" who come up with imaginary "every day users" (usually to justify their own preferences) instead of performing actual usability tests on real users (and accepting when their ideas are bad or wrong) or just sticking with things that we already know that works and perhaps tweaking them (but again accept when they screw up and users say so and revert their changes instead of doubling down on them).
hah.
So, title should read:
'Using default Kubernetes config settings made my latency 10x higher'
A compromise I’ve made is a giant ereader/digital notebook. No internet browser. No eye strain. And no carrying around 40 lbs of textbooks. That being said, I lately found myself switching back to a pen and scratch pad since the stylus isn’t that good.

I’m a really big fan, even though build quality is sadly lacking.
> If it were that simple then they would already not be using it

Yeah, did you read the link? "several manufacturers have entirely discontinued its use"

But also your statement isn't really true as a general rule. Sometimes it's very straightforward to avoid an ingredient but it costs half a penny extra.
The YC request for startups list, could contain nuclear energy. Everything from thorium to new ways of disposing nuclear waste.
One app to find all the scooters in San Francisco
> It is very hard to measure the reduced life expectancy due to radiation

But radiation is very easy to measure. Coal pollution on the other hand is not.

So people have an inflated fear of radiation simply because it's so hard to measure.

It reminds me of how when Israel detected Polio in sewage, people said Israel is one of those countries with endemic Polio. Except other countries aren't even checking their sewage.

"We detected <tiny amount> of radiation from Fukushima in seawater, oh no!"

I've seen this many times: People notice when you measure some dangerous thing, and avoid it, while being completely blind to the fact that other dangerous things they do are not measured, so they think they are safe.

No one measured how much coal pollution was in sea water, so coal pollution is clearly safe, right?
Bury the trash deeper, so the methane is effectively sequestered?
Sure, if all your objects are mutable, then that can work, but a lot of stuff in core libraries are not, and you can’t control those allocations, short of not using them. There is also sun.misc.Unsafe, which has freeMemory, but first of all, I don’t know if that works for arbitrary addresses, or just ones previously allocated from the allocateMemory method, and anyways, I don’t think there’s a reliable way to get the address of an arbitrary object in the first place. But to add both of those pieces of functionality should be a pretty small patch to the jvm code anyways, so if someone were really motivated, it may not be all that much work anyways.
1. Company is applauded for strong morals

2. Company raises a ton of money

3. ???

4. Company appears "divorced or original morals"
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Phoenix Pay System
FWIW Line 9 construction was started in 2009 and is currently expected to finish in 2023. Most of it is open already though. It's a very cool construction technique but it's not fast.
Nevertheless, the parser failing at only 100 levels of nesting is shockingly bad.
> So you really didn't answer the question

Don't be a sad case.

> 2781 km in 24h

So.. less then. And not a Model S but a Model 3. Too bad.

> A real world example

Just like the others then.
Says you. The professionals disagree:

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/electricity/hvdctransmi...

Studies of existing systems and projects under development
demonstrate that HVDC can be effective in mitigating these
impacts [intermittancy] on non‐dispatchable generation.
Guile scheme expands the call stack until until memory is exhausted and then raises an exception. That is pretty damn comfy, because it means that building lists with recursion is just as fast as using tail recursion and a reverse! at the end
> How do you measure the public health effects of radiation?

How often does a typical nuclear plant emit nonzero levels of radiation? How does this compare with normal background levels?
>The costs for reactors currently built are ballooning

Yes. Current reactor designs are a non-starter, especially considering the regulatory mess around them. Years of them being an easy target for new "safety" laws because politicians want to look good have left them too expensive to build. We need a simpler, newer design that works around that by needing less regulation.

Radioactive waste from power generation is simple to handle, especially when newer reactor designs can for the most part re-use fuel. It's the waste from nuclear weapons production that's the issue.
This doesn't really make sense to me. Just because JSON is human-readable doesn't mean that humans are meant to read any possible serialized data nor that it should always be an ergonomic read. Not everything you serialize is just a config file or hand-edited data. It may be arbitrarily dense with arbitrary data.

To me, this is kinda like seeing a JSON array of user IDs coming over the network and going "Huh? Why not usernames? I thought JSON was supposed to be human-readable!"
> as long as there are no truly egregious (violent/murder/etc) crimes

If that's still relevant, shouldn't they stay in prison until they're completely rehabilitated?
>resulting in Quebec being one of the poorest provinces in Canada with a lot of unemployment

Quebec has the 2nd lowest unemployment rate (5.0%) in the country.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141002...
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> Very, very easy to adjust the algorithm for a t-shirt.

The operative point here is not 'a shirt', but a visual pattern that tricks deep learning-style classifiers into wildly misidentifying something. There's no 'very easy' way to counteract that other than retraining on a new dataset or switching entirely away from a deep learning system.
>You act as if it isn’t the goal of every startup that takes VC funding to get acquired.

I didn't mean to imply anything wrt that question. I don't think it matters. What matters is whether the market is actually working, and it's not. There's very little competition.

MySpace was ages ago and it never had the financial might of Facebook. So that's not a good example of an oligopoly resolving itself, but I grant you that there are such examples (IBM for one, also Microsoft although regulators may have influenced that one).

I'm actually rather skeptical when it comes to the effectiveness of competition regulation. But some of the things that are happening right now are simply unacceptable, regardless of whether or not they might eventually resolve themselves.

That 30% app store revenue cut is just ridiculous, as are lifetime bans from extremely dominant platforms without explanation or recourse.

>The government. Everyone likes government power as long as their side is in charge.

You said it was a problem if people in power were making up their own definitions, and you said it in response to a sloppy use of the term "monopoly" by an HN commenter. "HN commenter" doesn't quite meet my definition of "people in power".
> This is why it's important to find a safe way to organize, and for a considerable number of employees to protest.

Like a union? That could enforce a contract against management and protect its workers with a grievance process? And allow workers to strike against management practices without retaliatory fear?

Note that your employer can't terminate you for attempting to unionize in the US. I could understand those with equity being fearful of championing this (and possibly losing their lottery ticket), but if you have no equity, you have nothing to lose.
Spread to HN? I can't remember a single time when climate denialism was not prevalent on HN. -_-

Welcome to the sad reality.
Indeed, I'd love to get pull requests. It's mentioned in the "Remarks" at the end.