skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm building https://learnawesome.org for this. Started by collecting various awesome lists and then adding search, reviews, related items etc. For eg, when looking up a book, you can easily discover the TED talk or podcast given by the author which has the same ideas.

It's early days though. I imported around 10,000 MOOCs from various platforms and organized them by topics. The webapp is open-source so fixes/features are always welcome. :)
Ah, I rechecked, I actually lost 2 orders of magnitude. It's 25 seconds, not 250 milliseconds. However, you lost 3 orders of magnitude: Bath County is 24 GWh, not TWh.

My calculation was done under assumption of 101 quads of annual US energy use, but I'll redo this calculation with assumption more charitable to your argument.

US uses only 4090 TWh worth of electricity, which is about 13 quads, but it also uses about 70 quads of energy in other forms than electricity. See the breakdown at [1]. Let's assume that moving to all-electric world reduces the transportation energy use by half. In all electric world, the 25 quads we waste to generate electricity also vanish. Thus, the annual US energy needs is 101 - 25 - 14 = 62 quads, assuming we can increase efficiency by replacing majority of heat engines with electric engines. Putting this in Wolfram Alpha[2] gives you about 40 seconds.

So, now we need about 100 pumped hydro plants of the same size as largest one energy storage facility in existence, to cover 1 hour of US energy use (I'm ignoring of course the problem of not enough generating capacity to convert that storage to electricity fast enough as needed). Where are you going to build them? Where are you going to take water from?

[1] - https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained//us-energy-facts/
[2] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2824GWh%2F62+quads%2F...
I can’t imagine having the energy to think about all these things outside of my day job. These people must have an incredible amount of time on their hands.

And yet, Google is still evil.
To the best of my knowledge, if you trust the YubiKey firmware, and assuming that it behaves correctly, the private keys are generated on the YubiKey itself, and cannot be exported.
presales, consulting, and support.
Piracy doesn't devalue it increases the value. It creates growth and spreads word of mouth. The correct ratio of piracy to purchased copies will make a worthless product into a successful one.

Independent music was more popular in the early 2000s when piracy was high. You share music for it to be successful. With streaming independent music gets lost and crowded out if it exists on the platform.
How does this make sense when you're dealing with a rapidly-depreciating asset? Many businesses seem to be using "subscription" as a veil for "payment plan", as they are not delivering a service or recurring good.
But when China does it...
YouTube is now up to 500 hours of uploads per minute[1]. Not that it makes much difference at this magnitude in this comparison.

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/03/14/wit...
There is a dogma in this community that is: success is all about perseverance and winning against adversity, independent of life circumstances. This article indicates that certain people will be, based on birthright, able to do that more effectively.

The other dogma, evident from the down votes and comments, is that there is no dogma in this community.
> Evolution has created the rules that one doesn't mix politics with business.

I don't know anything about what's happening at Google, but this either involves some talented mental gymnastics or it's obviously false.

Places of business have politics. Always have, always will. Internal politics and very frequently most companies involve themselves in local/state/national/international politics.

- Joining a chamber of commerce or a trade organization is participating in politics.
- Having a PR campaign or a lobbyist which affects public attitudes or legislation is politics.
- Sponsored an ice rink in the middle of small town Texas[1] (hint: it's a symbol that the company, even though it is based in South Korea, depends very much on the good will of jurors and judges in that smallish town).

What's happening at multiple tech giants is that traditionally the sway in company-politics remains within the board and a few key org units (PR, governmental outreach, legal, etc). The differentiators now are:

- high quality talent is scarce (hence all of the famous Yahoo/Google/Facebook/etc perks for engineers),
- the transparency of associations[2][3],
- the political climate of associations (eg. [4][5]), and
- boycotts (of many forms) can hurt the bottom dollar[6]. Sometimes it has the opposite effect[7].

Let's not pretend like Google is unique nor that businesses have a strict "Chinese Wall" between politics and business. As Mitt Romney said, "Businesses are people", and politics exists because people are people.

[1] https://ipcloseup.com/2015/02/25/for-samsung-charity-begins-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/facebook-employees-reportedl...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/us/harvard-professor-ron-sull...

[5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/08/14/charl...

[6] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/insi...

[7] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/business/nike-reports-dou...
FWIW this is why job mobility is super important. Both sides of the employee/employer relationship should be relatively unconstrained so that employees can "vote" against bad employer policies.

If your employer is out there making political statements or doing political things that you disagree with you should feel empowered to leave and find a new job. If you don't want employers making political statements or taking controversial political stances then vote for policies that encourage labor mobility so that the labor market can be free.

Unfortunately there are lots of policies and laws in place that prevent this kind of labor mobility and give the employer a huge amount of power.
Legacy of Climategate – 10 years later
Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried to Kill TikTok, He Wanted to Own It
Which company? Let us know so we can avoid it.
Yeah, BAMTech is in NYC, where there are only 500 or so.
I’m intrigued. Why cant true exponential growth of a physical system exist?

Do you mean it can’t be maintained forever? I can think of lots of physical processes that have exponential behavior for some amount of time.
> Here in Israel we don't have Teslas

You might have missed this very recent news:

> International car company Tesla published an ad seeking an operations manager in Israel, thus confirming that it plans to launch significant operations here. [1]

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/tesla-to-launch...
If you care about who produced your source code, yes.
This is great but what jurisdiction does SEC have over Ukrainian entity? Sounds a bit like robo-callers with gozilian in fines issued and near zero collected.
I think I'm missing something here. You'll protest people in Germany getting jobs because the CEO "makes an ass of himself on Twitter"?

Like, why do you care?
WASM has some pretty zany ideas about computing that make the “ASM” part feel a little strange.

Web binary lisp sans tail call optimization is a little more fitting IMO.
Every company for which I have worked has a clause where it can dismiss any worker which poorly-represents the company. That would certainly qualify.
Tomorrow Georgia will execute a man who experts and evidence say is not guilty
Plant milks have been called milks for centuries at this point. It's probably okay.
Absolutely this. If I'm making a diagram for a presentation I'm going to draw it manually so it looks just right. When we're debugging dataflow graphs with 4000 nodes, graphviz is the one and only.
They do have these modes, though, right?

The home page is for discovery based on your past preferences/popularity. And there are TV and movie pages in which you can display shows by genre or even A-Z.

Disclosure: I work at Netflix and would like to make it better for everyone who uses it.
That’s absurd. Regulate has had a pretty clear meaning from its Latin origins. (Regula: to rule)

Regulate is a form that appeared in Middle English that means “to control by rules”.

I’m all for guns and appreciating the inscrutable nature of the 2nd amendment. But words mean things.
Almost all of those are show stoppers...
I mean it almost makes sense if the purpose of the company is to make it's employees richer, happier, and overall have a better life. And if you consider that ROIs that take decades or a century are still profitable. But I'm not sure of any company that operates this way because how can your product be employee well being?
> Don't force your views on others

Don't you think that civilians who die due to the military project think the same thing about the people who worked on it?

There's more to the world than you losing your job because people protested a military project. You participating in the project also has ramifications on other people's lives.
You mean like Spandau bei Berlin?
No, it makes YOU think this, because you have some fairly evident set of biases around dogma in the community.

I find THAT more interesting than why an article could get upvotes but the discussion might be delayed.

We all have biases. For example, when I read people who talk a lot about being fearful of contradicting community dogma, I tend to anticipate that they will be... Men who lean towards conspiracy theories involving women, minorities, and "the left" being in control of society and forming "witch hunts" and "mob justice," not to mention "cancelling people for wrongthink."

Of course, that has absolutely no bearing on who you may be and what you may believe. Recognizing my biases is the first step towards banishing them.
I disagree that plant based milks are overly processed or that, with fortification, the nutritional profile is significantly different than ethically sourced cow’s milk.

I can agree that _some brands_ suffer the problems you mention, but other brands that are easy to find don’t differ significantly in nutrition profile or calorie density from cow’s milk. Unsweetened Oatly for instance matches up very well, with the most significant detractor being a bit less protein per serving than similar cow’s milk (but also the benefit of fewer calories per serving).

I do agree that plant based milks are often more expensive though.
> You’re going to give RMS an aneurysm.

He has much more serious problems nowadays...
> What happened to this feature? If Bezos wanted this it would be there.

Maybe the Echo team said it was too hard, and Bezos had to "disagree and commit".
The Science Is Extremely Clear: You Need to Prioritize Sleep
> And if that's how we decide to bias our security, then we'll see a lot more women terrorists.

There are a lot of things that terrorists could do, but don't, in spite of lots of discourse like yours suggesting it would be effective for them. Bruce Schneier held contests for such suggestions, in order to highlight security theater, but also serving to point out that it's not remotely practical to guard against all reasonable threats. Since we're limiting the threats guarded against anyway, it might be better to guard specifically against those that have been experienced, rather than strip-searching grandma ( https://nypost.com/2019/06/06/tsa-humiliated-grandma-with-st... ) out of a pretense that it could be anyone... anyone at all.
Not in a mood of diving deep into technical details but forgive me for being skeptical. This "secure by design" execution mantra makes me somewhat sick after hearing it so many times over the decades.
Sicily: Where Cultures and Histories Converge and Giants Roam
Well, I find this completely unconvincing despite not being the sort of person who cares about the politics of my fellow committer (I'll accept a patch from Hitler). Why is this any more worthy of a view than "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".

In fact, to demonstrate with an extreme, if you go all the way to building gas Chambers (just as an illustration), I'm totally okay having you be unemployed because I have a personal ethical issue with this.
Q: How were colonial era soldiers trained?

A: Soldiers were trained to follow rules (aka regulations) and obey. Line up shoulder to shoulder and fire 3-5 volleys a minute in a prescribed manner. A rabble would get 1-2 off and die.
The colloquial use of “dopamine” is more metaphorical than scientific. Your brain and body use dopamine in many different pathways for many different reasons. For example, the tremors in Parkinson’s disease are related to the degradation of certain movement-related dopaminergic pathways in your brain.

When most people self-diagnose as “low dopamine” or refer to addictive behaviors as a “dopamine hit”, they’re not exactly referring to hard science. Yes, dopamine is involved in motivational reward and anticipatory behavior and dopamine is also key to the rewarding aspects of certain drugs, but the reward system is much more complicated than a single chemical messenger. For example, the opioid system plays an important role in reward as well.

In terms of treating addiction disorders, understanding the fine details of neurotransmitters and reward pathways in the brain isn’t as relevant to therapy as you might hope. The high level concepts and therapeutic methods for changing people’s behavior don’t really depend on understanding how dopamine or serotonin operate in the brain.

For example, with internet addiction it’s important to enable people to understand why they are spending so much time on the internet. You need to give them the tools to recognize their behavior, perform some introspection, and intentionally take action to make different choices about how they spend their time. Relating this back to dopamine or reward systems is only really useful as a tool to make these mental models stick with the patients. If they feel a sense of understanding, they’re more likely to feel a sense of control over their actions, and in turn more likely to take action to change that behavior.
I agree, the point is that it's not black and white. You can't just say "people should not bring their interests to work."

At the extreme end your "interests" might be "preservation of my basic human rights." But once we agree that that's a valid political stance to bring to the office then the discussion shifts from "don't bring politics to work" to "where is the line?" and it forces the conversation to become more nuanced.
Money: Theres plenty of it elsewhere in our business, especially acting as a third party to these behemoths.

Impact: The company seems more interested in restricting our landscape rather than innovating on top of it, what makes you think it's a company that accepts disruption anymore?

Resources: All the resources in the world doesn't mean squat if you can't disrupt the existing system.
Came home today, and my wife had Disney + set up and running. Son was watching the awful Phantom Menace movie, and unfortunately it was working like a charm.

Anecdotal, but let's be honest:no matter the problems, Disney can hire talent it needs. Question is whether the corporate culture there can not end up being shitty environment for engineers.
I switched to Pixelfed recently. My friends aren’t on it (yet), but I can share my photos there and send the links as needed.
I wish there was a book length guide with this kind of tutorial style writing but haven’t found much. Everything I’ve found on Linux is more like a reference resource
> Advocating for parental leave? Politics. Mothers rooms? Politics. Prayer rooms? Politics. Trans inclusive health care? Politics. Domestic partner benefits? Politics.

Yep all politics. As political issues they should be dealt with in the political arena of whichever branch of government is responsible. If you strongly believe in these rights and priveleges you'd be spending your time advocating for universal access to them. Doing it on a per company basis is ineffective and selfish, there will always be a race to the bottom and it gives your competitors an advantage.
Any issues using Catalina? mine shows
Error: No YubiKey detected!
That’s fine, it’s not a big deal, though I was specifically asked.

The main thing I would worry about is actually not Apple; instead (1) what information might Apple hide in plaintext in the image that a third party could extract?; and (2) what identifiers might there be that a third party could use to correlate multiple images as being from gorgoiler’s phone?

But honestly it just feels odd to upload a screenshot without doing something to scrub it. I find it helpful to practice good security even when, as you point out, the probability of it being necessary is very low.
And in between tyranny and the right of free speech (which not even all modern countries agree on I would add) there's a whole lot of gray. For example, is healthcare a right? How about voting for felons?
Really, just, not. You can spell it either way; if you're writing for (or as) an editor, or just for the affectation of knowing editor jargon, "lede"; if in conversational English, "lead".

(I write "lede" all the time, and it is totally an affectation).
No, but try unplugging the YubiKey and trying again. Also, the script officially supports only YubiKey 5, but I've heard that 4 works if you remove the code that checks the version.
The fact that everyone acts in their own self interest is well known. Typically this is countered by some combination of societal mores and laws. Think Moses and “thou shall not steal”.

If you want to solve tradgedy of the commons type problems, the two known solutions are privatization and regulation. Nobody has yet thought of a way to privatize the earths climate, so we are pretty much stuck with regulation.

That sucks.

But the alternative sucks worse.
I love almond milk. Unfortunately, almonds are now evil.
By the way, Goliath is a great show.
Here’s an explanation from the lead developer on the team at Apple who has been working on FoundationDB for a very long time: https://youtu.be/EMwhsGsxfPU
Dates are great in moderation. Everything is. You can say the same thing about bananas or water melons or any melon.

Dates have potassium, fiber, and make anything taste great. But dates aren’t the end all fruit for all your nutrient needs. Nutrition facts and moderation is the key.
Yet you seem pretty annoyed by their lack of Linux support...

I don't want to go too far on this because I agree with you on DRM, but "doesn't work on Linux" is a non-issue for most consumer products, for whatever reason.
Why would you ask that?
Any personal photos you and your family take are part of culture. Should they be public or do you get to decide?

Much of culture is private.

Poor people not participating in Disney content doesn't take into account the content on public tv or libruaries that will loan dvds either. The price of a month of Disney+ will make things cheaper as well.
> Installing an extension to monitor employee use of a company computer is legal and generally accepted behavior.

Legal and generally accepted in US jurisdiction. In Germany that would require approval by employee representatives, unlikely to happen in any bigger company. In Finland a somewhat related and highly controversive law was introduced many years ago that it would be legal if registered with data protection authorities. Something like 3 companies registered in a decade. Maybe some did it without registering, but generally this is not deemed clearly acceptable practice.
> If the Google calendar is for a personal gmail account, then accessing the calendar details server side is a huge privacy breach.

Surely, Googlers have separate work and personal Google accounts, and only the former would be used with the Google corporate calendar? Article says that one of the things which triggers a report is booking more than 10 meeting rooms for a single meeting – surely, a Googler's personal account would lack permission to book meeting rooms in their corporate offices, and only their work account would have permission to do that?
How Fake News and Rumors Are Stoking Division in Hong Kong
They need some good engineers, sure. But what they really need is someone who can produce better welds.
He’s probably talking about instrumentation (valgrind, ASAN etc.)

That’s part of why running instrumented code feels like running python.
Lucidchart is tiring complete :) we have a lot of data and automation features, integrations, text based diagramming, advanced shape libraries, dynamic shaped etc. Discoveravility of all the features can be lacking though because there is so much stuff. I've worked on the product for years and I still learn about new features all the time.
Etalumis 'reverses' simulations to reveal new science
So, we don't have it in the US, and don't have plans to have it in anything resembling a helpful timeframe. All we have is a few people installing solar on their roof and patting themselves on their back for saving our future.

> A smart grid allows demand and load to be managed

Which we don't have on a national (let alone international) scale, and won't have in any reasonable period of time.

> Pumped hydro can add TWh of storage if built at scale.

It's not, and it's not being built or even planned.

> sell and buy electric from surrounding countries

We can't. There's not enough transmission capacity, and there's no sign that capacity between countries is being built. We can't even ship power from the east coast to the mid-west interior.

> It is very unlikely the whole of the US will completely lack wind at the same time, especially offshore.

Which doesn't help the interior of the US - see comment about a complete lack of transmission capacity. We also have effectively-zero offshore wind capacity, and none in the works to be built.

It's a dirty secret but the US simply doesn't have the capacity to ship power any major distance. The country is broken into individual sub-groups that are maybe a thousand miles on a side that are physically incapable of linking up due to a lack of infrastructure for lots of power.

Theoretical technology won't solve our problems; Pumped Hydro is a great example. It effectively doesn't exist outside of a few demos; per Wikipedia the total installed pumped hydro storage in under 200 GWh. That wouldn't even cover the electricity imported into CA.
Big kickstarters often send out physical goods as rewards. In general, the rewards on both platforms are only interesting to superfans in the first place, whether they're physical or digital. It would be impossible to measure, but I can't imagine it's that common for those exclusive rewards to be pirated, or for someone to decide not to give money because they can get the restricted content for free.

If your argument is that both theft and piracy make the "owner" of the "property" feel bad, then I don't think that really proves they're the same thing. Neither does the fact that in both cases, someone who did not create the product is profiting from it; it's not a zero-sum game, their profit isn't equal to your loss.
After reading a header my dinner wants to find its way back
I set up Jupyter for my wider team to use, I thought it would be popular but nearly everyone chose to use PyCharm instead.
Including the spammers?
It does seem like highly-valued engineering talent can get away with more than other commodity office workers.

It also feels like many tech companies actively advertise "to millennials" by advertising that their culture is the kind of place at which "you want to work". When that company/mission starts to lose its polish[1], it becomes harder to recruit for that talent[2].

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-re...