skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blog post you cited seemed pretty dodgy to me, so I went ahead and looked closely at the work they base many of their conclusions on, a PhD thesis from 2004 by Kouwenberg [0]. Specifically the data in Fig. 5.4 (p. 57) is what they base much of their argument on.

Kouwenberg herself however doesn't believe the crazy 300-700 AD CO2 excursion to around 400 ppm and spends a lot of time looking at alternative explanations, finally concluding on p. 65:

"""

The extremely low number of stomata per mm needle length in the Tsuga heterophylla record at Jay Bath between 300 and 700 AD does not appear to result from extremely high
atmospheric CO2 levels at the time, but coincides with the establishment of the species during a period of major disturbance at the site. The open, exposed setting after this disturbance probably provided highly stressed growth conditions for pioneering, early-successional T. heterophylla trees.

"""

Of that, there is of course no mention in the blog post you cited.

Importantly, of course, none of this is really that relevant to the discussion of anthropogenic global warming, since we know that we are putting CO2 into the atmosphere, and that CO2 in the atmosphere traps heat.

I'm really starting to see a pattern here, where facts that contain some grain of truth are used out of context to sow doubt, and everything just evaporates as soon as you look more closely (and then the next tangentially relevant fact is brought up)... It's probably quite effective - I mean, who is going to read that blog post you linked and then do what I just did and actually dig into the sources? I did that because I took the "advice" I got in this comment section to heart and wanted to give my "opponents" the benefit of the doubt.

[0] PDF available at https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/243/full....
Even if the maps are outdated, I think the point-to-translate pages serve as a really nice, condensed English<->Chinese glossary of electronics.

This helps not only foreigners, but also native Chinese like myself who have received their higher education in English. You see, I usually can’t hold a conversation about electronics or computer science in Chinese, even though my mother tongue is Cantonese and I’m generally fluent in Mandarin.
Whether this is true or not, it's distinctly unhelpful for a high school student trying to pick a college major.
Not only that, but this episode also only serves to prove Yankovic's point, that it's best to get permission even if you don't legally have to.
>Just ONE example off the top of my head, carbon fiber, is almost entirely oil.

Context friend.

Carbon as in carbon the topic of carbon fiber. OR - please share your process of taking charcoal and getting carbon FIBER from it, we'll be billionaires!
Please educate yourself and be wary. Those counterfeit hair products can be harmful. The profit margins on beauty products are huge. Go to a beauty store and look at the prices.

https://www.allure.com/story/counterfeit-beauty-products
The ban on encryption has always seemed odd to me. I mean, WiFi is spread-spectrum radio, and it's encrypted. And it's not necessarily short-range. I've done well over several km with Ubiquiti radios driving parabolic dishes.

What I'd want would basically be tinc or another P2P VPN via radio. Like WiFi meshnet, but not limited to line of sight.
It was on HN that I first heard it. I'm not sure it is a saying within agriculture. We take for granted the advanced technology that we get to play with.
It does but it isn't a panacea, if you leave the keys accessible or the wrong subsystems vulnerable it won't save you but a properly isolated encrypted repository greatly mitigates the damage possibilities to 'rendered inaccessible' or 'exposed but it will take decades before they can even think about decrypting it with a multi-billion dollar budget'.
Seems like if you make a hefty profit, you should be stripped of the 'non profit' status. Scientology is abhorrant in this reguard, as are most temples.
I'm confused because on the one hand you say that their needs are very different and then on the other hand you say that they are using AWS. Another commenter also pointed out that they are using AWS.

I think the only needs that are likely different are scale, so bigger instances, and the fact that they have a massive legacy infrastructure that can't be easily migrated off of. So that's pretty much what I would expect; Amazon.com does use AWS for new stuff but is still operating a lot of legacy as well.
Considering my argument has been about attempting to reduce gun deaths you might want to reconsider that assumption. However, lucky for you, I'm pretty sure that assumption would make it easier for you to dismiss my argument. I say lucky for you, but what I really mean to say is it'd be bad if you did that. Its a little turn of phrase that isn't literal and which is probably lost via text.

Lets reduce gun deaths. They are tragic and often unnecessary.

Also, fear of The Other, seems to be what drives some of the people in this thread to defend gun ownership. One responder here justified gun ownership by saying other people were "animals" that given the chance would exact violence upon them.
Didn't know about what Oracle Fusion is but wikipedia does claim high adoption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Fusion_Middleware
Removing OnStar antenna and power was one of the first things I did on my new GM truck. It doesn't require any special tools or knowledge and only takes several minutes. The fact I had to do any of this at all instead of being asked to opt-in to data collection is depressing, but not unexpected in today's data-hungry market.
Indeed, and why isn't the Frontline back catalog on Netflix and other outlets?
Shadow socks is being detected today unfortunately but it takes a few days. There are many tricks that could be used to fool DPI, but not many options out there unfortunately. Good project idea for sure.
You put them in locked boxes that are controlled by a kiosk. Unlock your box by scanning the code or typing it in.
2nd gen
Vultr is just another host provider. They have cheap instances. Vultr.com
I took a crack at it, but the article has been flagged at this point so it's a bit moot.
Is Google Colab the future for reproducible research?
Colab and similar products can help with the reproducibility of code and more importantly the code underlying academic results. These free resources not only make code transparency easier, from here forward, it makes unpublished Python code highly suspect. There are no limitations to sharing code and data anymore and no limitation in accessing this code, the data and the necessary processing power to analyse the results.
The whole point of DoH is that you don't run the DoH recursive cache on the network you don't trust. Before you use words like "nonsense", you should spend some time understanding what DoH is.
Religion is just the business of selling people peace of mind. And the Mormon church shows how big of a business it is.
Inferring Input Grammars from Dynamic Control Flow
Texas-sized 10-4 on that. I had to go find a windows PC and install thr software in order to configure the spinny wheel click stop tension thing because there was absolutely no way to do it in Linux. The default mode was infuriating.
Well I mean Matrix/Riot.im has that function.
I recently bought a camera lens from Amazon. It was listed as new, but when I received it, the lens caps for both the front and back were missing, the packaging was dirty, and so was the lens. It was obviously not new.

When I started speaking with customer support, I told them that the manufacturer had listed the lens caps as included accessories on the item's listing. The support agent told me that I didn't buy it from the manufacturer, I bought it from Amazon, so there was no guarantee for everything being included. They then went further and advised me that they personally only buy items like this from a retail store for this reason. I was flabbergasted that Amazon's own support team was telling me not to shop on Amazon.

This was one of the worst experiences I had ever had on Amazon, I returned the item and purchased it for a premium from B&H.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop.

Doing this will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.
Putin Uses XP
Great idea! Please do share when you have something.
Only if you’re itemizing though.
Your country can also put other obligations on your ISP, such as censorship and data logging.
It's pretty but it would be more useful if it included bus lines, which gets more ridership than the L and Metra combined.
>Traffic issue? Let's not solve the political problems to make public infrastructure, uber, self driving cars, (even tunnels underground) will save the day!

If you follow the politics of the Bay Area, you would know that tech companies do lobby for infrastructure and housing improvements, and are even willing to put up their own money to fund it.

These proposals are generally DOA because the most powerful voting block, property owners, will aggressively oppose anything that may threaten the appreciation of their "investment".
The fact that it was mentioned in a meeting doesn't mean it was on the table. I'd more concerned with management if they weren't talking about exit points for a risky venture. A perfectly necessary point of consideration and I don't doubt that the same topic came up at Amazon and Microsoft.
>However, if you don't get into a FANG, it's not the end of the world. You might still be able to find another job at another software company if you're lucky. As the years go on, it'll be harder to get job due to the rapidly increasing supply of engineers.

And the great thing about FAANG is that it's only easier to get in as you gain more experience. You're not screwed if you don't get in as a new grad or junior.
But would Mattermost accept a PR that cuts into the differentiation on "advanced access control" of their enterprise product? https://mattermost.com/pricing/

Open source is only as powerful as the community's willingness to maintain a fork.
True, hacky, but with time it does get easier because you know what to expect and develop muscle memory.
Interesting take. Personally, I would say that even as a middling developer, you'll be earning more than the vast, vast majority of blue collar workers, and probably putting less wear and tear on your body.
To save everyone else from googling, DoH is DNS over HTTPS.
from medium - https://medium.com/@firmai/google-colab-for-reproducible-res...
The great firewall picks up the traffic pattern of SSH tunneled socks and kills your connection within a couple of minutes.
Americans won't, but immigrants will.
Those plastic buckets are ubiquitous in the food industry, but are rarely shown. One company showing the buckets would doubtlessly impact their sales, but what if all companies showed their buckets? Buckets would probably then be perceived by consumers in a more accurate light and probably would not suppress sales nearly as much.
There's also Emmet shortcut extensions to write html faster, it usually is supported for most popular editors.
No Private Changes in the Commune – RMS and Linus Both Wanted Patches Back
The allegation:

> ..A former IT administrator then at Palo Alto Networks Inc., was at the center of the trading ring, using his IT credentials and work contacts to obtain highly confidential information about his employer’s quarterly earnings and financial performance.

How they were caught:

> This case highlights [SEC's] use of enhanced data analysis tools to spot suspicious trading patterns and identify the traders behind them.

Total estimated profit from this scheme, between 2015~17:

> Defendants’ trades in advance of the announcement generated profits that exceeded $3 million.

EDIT: Oops, I found this line from the same source: "At the peak of their scheme in 2017, [the defendants] achieved more than $7 million in illegal trading profits."

(Source: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-2...)
> I don't believe the negatives are acceptable

And you are perfectly welcome to never drink it. I find the negatives acceptable, so I do drink.
One of my favourites: "The Infinite" by A. W. Moore (1990)
Any pointers on why / how everything that was owned by Jack Ma is owned by CCP?
The article does say that there was a discussion about "exiting the business"; that's sufficiently terrible to be news, even without anyone explicitly talking about shutting it down.
I think Nassim Taleb's Incerto can qualify. If you want to get technical, you can read his "Technical Incerto", but the general books can get you _very_ interested in how probability shows up in almost all aspects of human life
This is a pretty extremist point of view. It's kind of like saying you shouldn't drive a regular car because you're not a Formula 1 driver. There are plenty of companies who value working a max of 40 hours per week. If you are the best of the best, that isn't going to be a good fit for you.

Much of the visa fraud is probably large companies that have a regular amount of visa hires in the first place. A mid-size company that has zero H-1Bs is not likely to have resume fraudsters through that channel.

This post paints every business as some sort of vicious meat grinder and the reality just isn't true. You have to avoid bad companies just like with every other field.

Even if you are expendable and get let go from a single company, it's not a death knell for your career. Explain the situation, and that it wasn't a good fit, and try to highlight other strengths during the interview.
> And yet that's exactly what we're doing to the people in SF, Poop included.

No one is doing any of that to anyone in SF.

People that find it acceptable move in, those that don’t move out
Would that be legal, or counted as insider trading? Since you're trading on relevant information not available to the public.
I used to have a favorable impression of what General Fusion was doing.

Their approach addressed one of the big engineering problems facing fusion: have materials that can withstand the power/area across the surface of the reactor, and particularly stand up to neutron and energetic charged particle bombardment of the reactor structure.

Their first approach involved putting a plasmoid (spheromak, as I recall) in a cavity in a bath of liquid metal (lithium say), then launching a focused shock wave inward to compress the cavity and the plasma to very high density. There would be no solid reactor component exposed to the radiation from the plasma (a thick layer of liquid lithium would be interposed in all directions), and the peak pressure could be much higher than structural materials could withstand (because the compression and reaction would occur on time scale short compared to the time required for a sound wave to propagate across the liquid.)

But it turned out this approach was fatally flawed.

While they had trouble with confinement, the big problem is that to get that fast a reaction, very high density, and therefore very strong magnetic fields (magnetic pressure goes as magnetic field squared) would be required. Peak fields in their first approach would be as high as 700 T. But this would imply very large currents would be flowing in the liquid metal compressing the magnetized plasma. Beyond ~100 T, these current would be so strong that the surface of the metal would be vaporized, and non-conducting metal vapor would flow into and quench the plasma. Game over.

So, they've gone to a slow scheme. The implosion is now subsonic, and also there's a metal post running down the center of the chamber to increase stability. But this ruins the main attractive feature of their concept. That metal post will be subject to orders of magnitude higher average neutron flux than the walls of typical fusion concepts, and will also be crushed with magnetic pressure from 100 T magnetic fields. The engineering to make this work would be beyond heroic. The subsonic compression also means the entire reactor vessel will experience very high pressures, even if the rest of it is shielded from the radiation.
Add to your favorite text substitution add-on the mapping "cyber" -> "spider" and you'll be less annoyed at its pervasive use.
First Russia with nginx just a few days ago, now this.

I'm starting to think despotic regimes are bad.
Games are latency sensitive and thus region sensitive. Multiplexing opportunities here are poor. Stadia is a terrible idea business-wise as Google has defined it.
For Stockholm you want "Res i Sthlm" or SL.se's own app/web site.

They use SL's (Stockholm's Public Transport) own APIs and data, so it's always up-to-date, even with minute disruptions on the lines.
15M LifeLab Customers in BC and ON Data Breach
Engineer Leveling Guide
He does. The thing is you have to hang out with the right people, and even then it's a low percentage chance that you'll become an owner.
I interpreted this comment as saying that CS will always be a useful skill and will never be saturated so therefore pick CS as your major if you are passionate about it, without a fear that it will be saturated
I agree, i'm working on my own SaaS boilerplate in laravel debating oss vs paid, might be a cheaper Nova/Spark combo alternative. $99 per project is pricy, esp when a lot of projects are just testing ideas and things.

SaaS needs to have teams, projects, payments, auth, invites, and possibly be configurable for different 'types' of scenarios... projects could be optional for instance if they don't group actions by project, invites could be optional if anyone can join any team, heck even teams can be optional if you can't add multiple orgs but it's nice to have, say you run multiple brands or something....and want separate invoices with separate logos... etc...

I'm getting close to launch, thinking I might do it as a paid $9.99/month gets unlimited access to everything I do in the scope of the project. Might raise prices eventually but grandfather people in for a time. Or might do FOSS with addons that are pricier, but I don't like apps that do that -- I'd rather pay small fee monthly and use what I need depending on client.
Hey KRains, author of Bullet Train here! Congratulations on your launch and making the front page of HN! I know how great a feeling that is after all your hard work!

I disagree that Bullet Train is "really overpriced". The features it provides to customers can save them hundreds of hours of development time in total. There are individual features in Bullet Train (the teams functionality, the Stripe integration, outbound webhooks, scaffolding real-time chat conversation threads onto models and an inbox for all of them, Zapier integration, just to name a few) that would each save most development teams at least $1,450 in development costs, and that's before you take into account the power of Super Scaffolding for code generation.

Bullet Train will save most development teams months in effort right off the bat. That's well worth $1,450 to the customers who have been able to get to market faster with components they know are being used and maintained across many different products. Bullet Train is only two years old, and there are already folks running seven-figure businesses around products that cost five-figures to build using Bullet Train. I'm not trying to imply it's magic, I'm just trying to point out that there are situations where $1,450 can be a no-brainer.

I love that you're starting with an open source base. If I knew when I started what I now know after two years of selling Bullet Train, I would probably do something similar. But you will need (as I've needed and as others who are doing similar projects have needed) help along the way. (For example, you'll definitely want to get the support of a designer.) Unless you want to bring those people on as partners, that help will cost you money, sometimes lots of it, so make sure you're charging enough for your premium components to pay for the help you need to make the product a success and the best it can be.

Best of luck! Wishing you a lot of success!
Oh boy, wait until you see the stats about what car ownership does to you and your families chances of dying in an automobile accident!
This is the same logic my extended family uses when they tell me that their phones eavesdrop on their conversations to target advertisements. Just because it's possible and fits your narrative doesn't make it true.

No brand or PR team that I've ever been near has the capacity to monitor and then manually downvote this kind of thing, even on major sites, let alone a niche news site like HN. Who has the budget for this?
This is the entire problem. Swap “Google” for “AWS” in the article and you’d have legions of folks calling foul on the article. Instead, most folks are nodding along to the article going “yep, seems like something Google would do all right…”

Google’s problem remains its reputation for turning things off.
Sort of. I feel like it’s a technical education thing.

The fellow in Shenzhen is probably getting paid hundreds of dollars per month. (Just a guess, I know SZ is expensive, but has lots of labour coming from outer lying areas).

Even if it cost 10x labour for the procedure of turning a 16gb iPhone into a 128gb, it would be worth it.

But I don’t think you could train the average Western worker to become a BGA solder worker and reflasher and have them work for you for more than 6 months before racing to a higher paying job.
This is my opinion exactly. Programming is great if you are in the top 1% maybe 2%, you can make 400k - 800k as just a senior engineer. Everyone else is fighting to keep their knowledge base current, working for companies that do not value them, etc. Basically if you cant pass hard algorithms interviews with a bit of study, you should leave the field and do something else.
I think this is mostly true. People are still going to want custom pages, etc, but that's why _now_ is the time to "git gud" at building stuff. If you become a wiz, you'll be on the list of consultants for Company X to hire.

And as for everything else... lots of industries need good problem solvers that are in the CS field. I'm going to be getting a Masters in Geoinformatics because it interests me, and it just happens to be a more niche field than others. I think this will help me in the long term as well.
Droplets: https://www.digitalocean.com/

Vultrs: https://www.vultr.com/
Feel like they were trying to get caught, communicating over text/email for insider trading isn't the brightest move. Then again, criminals usually aren't the smartest.
Lucky 10000: Lobbying in the USA is constitutionally-protected free speech. [0] It sure does feel corrupt, doesn't it? But it's part of the right to demand that the government listen to and consider our grievances. You can try lobbying today: Pick something that you care about, and write a letter about it to somebody in the government who represents you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States
"What's that mountain goat doing up here in this cloud bank?", says the pilot.

(not the first time I've referenced this joke on HN :)
FEEEUCK YEAH. tv.youtube is great
It's always nice to find a reply on HN that captures so much of what you wanted to say. I came to that same perspective from a non-financial Fortune 50. After Y2K was when a very good chunk of those who got CS degrees for all the wrong reasons (didn't have the raw talent or personal interest) got weeded out. I've seen the same thing happen in other industries with a bust/boom, such as petroleum.

Anyhow, OP doesn't sound like someone who's into CS for all the wrong reasons. I personally wouldn't get focused on FAANG as the next step, but if they're already going to an elite university, resume building with FAANG seems reasonable enough.

Above all, having a real interest in what you're doing is one of the greatest multipliers to your efforts... and your enjoyment.
“Baby” has got to be one of the worst insider trading code words of all time. “Enter few baby” is a really weird thing to write in a work email no matter the context.