skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point that this may be a uniquely American problem, but it does point out that there's still a need for an international standard that works across the world. I'd like to be able to pay anyone worldwide without an unneeded intermediary like Facebook.
Original MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation (1986)
This one is just awesome: Lecture 9A: Register Machines [1]

What's yours favorite compiler / virtual machine -related lectures / courses / talks?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIc8ZBMcqAc
A little dismissive when you have a whole article here making the other argument.
My God, literally the link you provided states
"Solar radiation is a primary driver of climate", and
"Solar radiation is the source of heat for planet Earth".
As far as I remember, the estimation was that the fire system was properly designed (although more complex for the mentioned artistic reasons) and would have worked - for the building that was originally planned, which the airport company then changed massively.
A week later:

“Apple announces apps will no longer have access to the camera for more than a minute after authorization, will have to tell call new iOS methods to say when they’re done using the camera, indicators will appear in the status bar when camera is on, ...”

When they could have just had a green light like macbooks, at least on the front (or if they care about rights of others to know when they are being recorded, the back too)
> human-curated network

I'm surprised they haven't brought this in with an option so people can rate or at the least flag sites. Source users feedback directly which would probably help wipe out results like Pintrest that dominate so many searches but people find unhelpful.

It would be great if they had an option where they have the drop-down for cache to say something like 'dont show this domain' or something that would let people flag sites that dont seem to offer value against search terms

Also on the 'computer' search I was amazed how everything was now in a left column and how much blank space on the right there was: http://prntscr.com/pw5iav - is that mobile optimisation overtaking desktop experience?
That's also...not milk.
Arsena vs. Leicesterpreview
Interesting.. yeah you're right, AFAIK better banks (Goldman, BAML) hire for specific roles even for non-IB teams... All in all, I often wonder if/how it's possible to improve on both of these approaches, how to figure out both if someone is actually intelligent (as opposed to just booksmart, or got the interview questions from the recruiter) and whatever else is needed to perform (drive, common sense, not IYI, ... I'm probably not experienced enough even to know, let alone to judge...), particularly for computer developers or generally researcher types.

Btw, I'd love to meet and chat about this. If you're in London, feel free to email me tom.primozic at gmail
Not really - "pickling" an object in python is applying a very specific serialization protocol. That protocol happens to be built into the python language itself, but there are alternatives.
Agreed. One of the reasons why maybe they didn’t that is because someone thought “we gotta get out those big series everything is expecting like Mandalorian out, and we can’t release it first on Denmark and not the US”, which someone probably replied “why don’t we launch in Denmark without any big names” which got laughed at because then none would want to sign up for it.

The tension between Marketing and Engineering makes another victim.

I believe Google specifically fight against this by mandating every project to have an insane scalable architecture from the get go. You can’t be Google and fail at that when you sell your infra to corporations promising that won’t be a problem. Someone at Disney+ probably made a calculated bet that if they can solve the problem soon, none will care about this in a few weeks.
200 km is the same distance everywhere, how "long" it actually ends up depends on the supporting infrastructure, and that's usually pretty good in Germany.
Wellll no one unless you somehow make it into an out of network situation. You know, like in an emergency. High deductible plans typically have much more constricted networks than the more traditional plans. Good luck figuring out what’s in and out of network while your appendix may be bursting!!!!
If you swipe down, type "advertising", the very first Settings link takes you to "Reset Advertising Identifier...". It is the same for swiping down from the home screen or in the Settings app. I don't think I'd call that a dark pattern.
This essay, which purports to be telling hard truths about climate change, only mentions nuclear energy in passing, as part of a laundry-list of options it deems not good enough.

Some "realist" this guy is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGt4XwBbCvA
Nothing is entirely safe. The fact is, even accounting for Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear energy is one of the safest ways to generate power we know of on a deaths-per-TWh metric: https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
This is probably one of the big reasons for rolling out with a beta or invite only soft open. The ability to control growth while also building hype.
>This worldview implies abandoning all coastal cities and several entire countries, correct?

Over hundreds of years, yes. Some of the biggest cities in the world didn't exist 200 years ago or were small villages.

I lived on land that was under Lake Michigan 100 years ago.

It'll change the world for sure, but that won't kill us off. The change is too slow.
Disney Streaming Services is the same team that is already running ESPN, NHL, and via their BAMTECH brand FoxSportsGo, HBO Now, and Playstation Vue.

It is possible they just had a massive surge of traffic.
Ha! Now we know the brand of his printer and the retail outlet where he bought it!
Turns out this is not a joke.

https://gulfnews.com/lifestyle/fb-instagram-ban-eggplant-pea...
Mind Blowing YouTube Facts, Figures and Statistics – 2017
I read elsewhere that there is a massive overcapacity of milk right now. It's part of the trade arguments between the US and Canada.

So I suspect very low milk prices probably didn't help.

Anecdotally it seems to me the market these days is for milk products like Greek yogurt and aged cheeses.

Also, I was bored one day and watched a lot of dairy farm videos - it's become very automated, where just a couple of people can manage an enormous herd of cows, and the cows even have better living conditions than at typical farms.

So that probably drives the massive overproduction as well since it's so easy to have a running farm.
It is not clear that Youtube is profitable at all, although no information has been forthcoming on the subject since 2015, from what I can gather.
I've liked many things about Google over the years and I still admire many parts of their stack. But this crazy internal political culture is bound to end in a big kaboom and it looks like this might be it.

Evolution has created the rules that one doesn't mix politics with business. Google has skirted this rule for some time but now it's not going to be pretty.
I'm sorry, but that's some tin foil hat level paranoia with no basis in reality. What's your threat model here? That Apple wants to deanonymize HN posters by tying them to their screenshots? Considering that they own the operating system, they could skip all the complicated and detectable stenography-in-screenshots and smuggle your mobilesafari (or webkit, which all apps are forced to use) browsing history and cookies along with the analytics data they regularly upload (which is way harder to detect). Failing that, they could also use their iOS backdoor and check every screeenshot that was taken a few hours before this post, and see which one matches. I don't imagine there are too many people taking screenshots of their privacy settings on a daily basis. Correlate that with paranoia tendencies (shouldn't be too hard to determine consider they own the operating system), and they trace it back to you with a high degree of certainty.

Something that actually protects your privacy (and doesn't make you stick out like a sore thumb) is getting the screenshot from an image search and posting from a regularly rotated HN account, all the while using tor.
More downvotes?
"Old people"? Half the reposted Twitter memes on imgur have a cellphone title bar in them.
Underwriters and Short Sellers Manipulate Stock Offerings
No, technology like Direct Air Capture requires about 250kWh as a theoretical minimum to capture 1 ton of CO2. Current methods require about 600kWh. Meanwhile, one ton of coal generates about 2,500kWh of electricity.
Yes. Look at the in/out network for your high deductible plan. None of the providers I use on a traditional plan are considered as in network for the same employers high deductible/hsa plan. Our high deductible plan does not cover out of network. Not at all. Fun!!!
That somehow sounds more dystopian than covert surveillance
What do you mean, three-finger-anticlockwise-spiral-while-shaking-the-phone-horizontally isn't intuitive?
Robot arm lets you remotely lend friends a helping hand with repairs
This has much less to do with the rise of plant-based milk than the article implies. USDA checkoff programs force diary farmers to fund marketing while USDA marketing orders set minimum dairy prices. The result of this meddling is an enormous oversupply of dairy products. The USDA buys surplus cheese to encourage domestic cheese production. They buy surplus milk and give it to food banks. The oversupply caused by this bizarre fixation was noticed decades ago and a warning was published in the Federal Register in 1983:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1983-08-02/pdf/FR-198...
> Not on the table are ecological tax reform (beyond investment incentives and carbon taxes), structural changes to the economy that would lower consumer demand and reduce energy and material throughput, policies for income/wealth redistribution, major lifestyle changes or strategies to reduce human populations.

The broadside attack on capitalism is going to be the undoing of the climate advocacy movement. Neoliberalism has become the global consensus, and it’s not going anywhere. Neoliberals and outright conservatives have been in charge of the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia, the United States, etc., for decades. Even “socialist” Macron has reinvented himself as a neo-liberal. People remember the depredations of socialism and the stagnation of “democratic socialism” and don’t seem eager to repeat them. (Greta Thunberg’s home country of Sweden cut spending as a percentage of GDP by almost 20 points since 1990, slashed corporate taxes, deregulated and privatized, etc.).

Telling people we need a command economy to effectively combat climate change is a non-starter. “Major lifestyle changes” or ghastly thoughts like “reducing human population” will result in climate advocates being pilloried.

There are basically three possible outcomes:

1) We don’t change, technology doesn’t save us, and climate change turns out to be not as bad as some people feared. (A recent UNDP report estimated that a “high warming” scenario would case Bangladesh’s GDP growth rate to decrease from 6% to 4% by 2100. Bangladesh would be vastly better off taking that hit than departing from neoliberal economic policies.)

2) We don’t change, but technology reverses climate change.

3) We don’t change, technology doesn’t save us, and contrary to consensus science, runaway greenhouse effects kill us all.
The hardware is only a small component. Hosting and maintenance are others.
MIT Building 20 – The Vision of Technology WeWork Was Missing
Largest U.S. milk producer files for bankruptcy
Multiple laboratory experiments have confirmed that atmospheres rich in carbon dioxide retain more heat from radiative sources. Here's one you can do at home: https://www.rsc.org/Education/Teachers/Resources/jesei/co2gr...

There's no difference here between arguing against CO2 warming and the Earth being a sphere(oid). Anybody that's still publishing material arguing that the science on this point is in any way unsettled is intentionally ignoring results from the field that disagrees with their ideology.
> That's not the only problem Dean Foods has faced. Walmart (WMT), which was one of Dean Food's biggest customers, dropped them last year after building its own dairy plant.

Burying the lead here... I’m sure that had an outsized impact on them.
Abusing a side-channel like that is an easy way to get booted from the App Store.
My Android 8 Pixel 2 XL has no privacy option in the settings. Upgrading would unfortunately come at the cost of losing root and AdAway (for the moment). I wonder which is more beneficial to have.
Instant Karma, Try Not to Laugh Funny Video and Fails Compilation
I agree with Disney, but what does Epic do other than build software?
It radically changes the human experience for one. A world without brothers and sisters? Everyone has a single-child outlooks. Sounds bad to me.

And how are you going to police that in Africa, India, or any Catholic or Muslim country? It's a dumb idea.
Getting caught abusing a side-channel like that is an easy way to get booted from the App Store.

FTFY. Also, it's Facebook. Surely they have some strategic/political strings they can pull?
I don't want to feed a troll here, but I'll debunk the arguments laid out in the first Chapter of the book [1]:

> The “97% consensus” that all scientists believe CO2 causes global warming is a based on badly flawed data and is a complete misrepresentation of facts.

Science is not conducted through consensus. Who cares about the 97% figure?

> Climate predictions based on computer modeling have been a miserable failure

No, they haven't. Hansen (1988!) has been extremely accurate [2].

> No global warming occurred for 18 years and 8 months through December 2015.

Total meme-argument. There is no denying the temperature increase [3]. Debunked time and time again.

> NOAA and NASA have corrupted surface temperature records.

Evidence? This is completely unsubstantiated.

> Only satellite temperature measurements are reliable.

I don't agree, but there are multiple satellite datasets that indicate global warming is real.

> The past is the key to the future.

ok?

> Cyclic climatic patterns in the geologic past provide a basis for predicting future climate changes.

Cyclic, I'm not sure of. But "climatic patterns in the geologic past" have been studied extensively and DO provide a basis for "predicting future climate changes". Key among them: CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012804...

[2] https://skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction.htm

[3] https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/graph_data/Glob...
We need social media to be biased towards rational arguments, ASAP
There is no constitutional right for people outside of the US to seek asylum in the US.

Asylum seekers are granted refugee status by the United Nations if they meet two broad requirements. The US accepts a limited number each year (notably more than any other country since WW2, however).
Hello! Deedle is actively maintained, as is the XPlot library and a few others under the fslaborg organization on GitHub. However, it's not without its flaws and addressing them in the best way possible would be a breaking change. Additionally, the .NET team is working on a core DataFrame API that could service these needs here.
Perhaps also the reason why they have been coming up with subscription models and paid shows?
It’s interesting how hardware manufacturers have offered the ability to lease equipment for literally decades.

Now, they start calling it a “subscription” and Wallstreet thinks it’s innovation.
It would be a bit odd for the American SAT to be run by the federal government when ACT vs SAT is so regional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SAT-ACT-Preference-Map.sv...
When you use it with F#, you get pretty close to the flexible typing feel of Python :)
So much I want to say here...

I'm part of the choir to whom the author is preaching but I find this weak tea. (Although he's not preaching, he's RFC'ing his assumptions.)

If we grant that fusion isn't around the corner (and I don't, see "Fusion in a magnetically-shielded-grid inertial electrostatic confinement device" https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01788 abstract: "Theory for a gridded inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion system is presented that shows a net energy gain is possible if the grid is magnetically shielded from ion impact. A simplified grid geometry is studied, consisting of two negatively-biased coaxial current-carrying rings, oriented such that their opposing magnetic fields produce a spindle cusp. Our analysis indicates that better than break-even performance is possible even in a deuterium-deuterium system at bench-top scales. The proposed device has the unusual property that it can avoid both the cusp losses of traditional magnetic fusion systems and the grid losses of traditional IEC configurations." So that's neat.)

If we grant that we must massively reduce our energy consumption that is not necessarily mean lower Q-of-L. Our systems are hugely wasteful (count the number of LEDs in your house tonight. A first-world household burns so much energy so pointlessly. The not-really-off nature of modern electronics is a small part of it. Bad insulation. Pilot lights. Refrigerators that open like cabinets rather than drawers. Incandescent "light" bulbs that put out more heat than light: they're literally heaters that also give off light. I could go on and on and on...)

Bottom line: if we took physics seriously and gave a shit about efficiency we could cut our emissions in half overnight without any major technology change in production. (Although we should still do that too.)

Also, ever since the 70's people have studied e.g. passive solar design for buildings. We can easily make our cities more efficient and more ecological with just a little cleverness. (Remember that time when we accidentally built a solar furnace in London: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/london-skyscrap... ) The power is there we just have to use it wisely. "It's raining soup, grab a bucket!"

And with applied ecology (e.g. "Permaculture", regenerative agriculture, urban "food forests", etc.) we should be able to recycle wastes and produce food in situ in urban and suburban areas in densities great enough to sustain Arcologies ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology ) integrated ecological city-buildings that provide high quality-of-life in an ecologically harmonious and sustainable way. (The beginnings of this are already happening in parts of asia. ( E.g. https://www.quora.com/How-is-China-able-to-provide-enough-fo... ))
You're certainly entitled to that viewpoint. The point is that:

"Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions"

is hyperbole, when

"Google partners with health system on clinical documentation research" is more accurate.

I'm a proponent of more consumer control over their data, along the lines of GDPR. You could, theoretically, request that your covered entities give you a copy and then delete all of your records from their systems at any time.

Which for consumer data Google already gives you the option to do so (e.g. takeout.google.com)
When FB sees my cam from the feed https://i.redd.it/icok5mempnd21.jpg
ESPN and to a lesser extent Hulu have both been riddled with problems for years. ESPN's streaming service is legendary among sports fans for how terrible it is, though it has finally become usable in the last year or two.

YouTube is the only platform that can compare to Netflix on reliability. I'd throw Twitch up there too but their scale is much smaller.
Hey there, I work on F# at Microsoft and helped put together the initial set of samples for F#. You can access them here: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/dotnet/try/master?urlpath=lab

What kinds of nontrivial samples would you be interested in seeing?
I though the "reasonable suspicion" needs to be documented and so is the search. Otherwise, this law might reduce the number of searches but not the abuse of it.
There are quite a few ways to resolve any sort of disagreement one can find.

Without knowing more about your particular situation it is hard to provide useful advice.

However, a generic way to resolve any sort of problem is to base the decision, whatever it is, on an objective criteria as opposed to a matter of opinion.

If there is no objective way, one can ask for one or three outside mediators with no particular interest on the matter and ask them about what they see to be the right decision and why think like that.

I had a dispute with a co-founder a few years ago and with the help of a external party we came to an agreement completely different than the initial solutions each of us had in mind.
Agreed you definitely need both, but one is much more important to your company's continued existence.

To be fair, current best practice is to not write those tests at all, but to generate them and embrace the property based testing paradigm (ala quickcheck[0]). Put simply -- let the computer make random inputs and make sure your program maintains the proper invariants.

[0]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck
It depends how on how wide your horses are.

In other words, it depends on whether the difference in information leakage is information you actually care about.
That would be an excellent question to ask Apple.
F.D.C. Willard was a much more subtle version of this joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
Sometimes, people problems can't be solved by technological means. Sometimes you just have to talk to people. A while back I was contemplating introducing a small app for team members to express sentiments (whether they're feeling stressed, satisfied, unappreciated, worried etc), but I eventually decided that nothing beats a private conversation.
The Manhattan project cost $4 billion per year for 6 years. Apollo cost $15 billion per year for 11 years. (All today’s dollars.)

The US currently subsidies renewables at about $7 billion annually.
"The tracking had made the staff of those departments feel unsafe, the spokeswoman said."

...said the largest worldwide private spy agency the world has ever known.
all I am hearing about this week is dopamine. We did brain scan A on population B (kids on screens, alcoholics, schizophrenics, ADHDs, you name it) and saw their DOPAMINE WENT TO C!! It just seems quite odd that we can reduce the well-being of the human spirit to just one single neurotransmitter. This week I'm feeling like "we did an fMRI / PET scan on population X" is like the new phrenology since I don't get the impression the structure of the brain is so well understood that these scans point to some irrefutable facts about the subjects being scanned.
A bit different from the crowd here. After much searching, our BI stack has been fully converted to data streaming using: StreamSets DataCollector >> Kafka >> AWS S3 >> AWS Redshift >> Dremio >> Jupyter Notebooks. Great to have Jupyter take on data prep and data analysis tasks while external tables in Redshift are very fast with minimal ETL. Dremio has been great as a virtual data mart with great performance on Parquet data in S3 and desktop BI tool integration.
It's always interesting when things are upvoted to the front page but no comments. It makes to you think that this kind of article is resonating with people who are fearful of commenting because the conclusions would contradict a really powerful dogma in the community.
Hello! We're taking a look at improving these kinds of programming scenarios in F# for the next version of the language. Since F# is first-class in the jupyter experience, one of those hurdles is already done!

That said, improvements to the language can only go so far. We're trying to figure out what a good set of libraries for the whole range of ML tasks looks like for F# and .NET.