skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to be a bit tougher. I am also a sysadmin with a sideline SAAS project. I could have bought a house with the money the SAAS project has made. Developers have still made fun of my stack and made fun of me when turning up to a work dev training day.

Just do your thing. You will be a better programmer than some and not as good as others. Focus on making the best use of your talents and not the talent of others.
This is both horrific and fascinating. I’ve never even considered that option as an answer to “dark matter”/unexplained mass.
> certain things like berries

At farmers' markets, most berry vendors sell raspberries and blackberries in egg carton-like paper baskets to absorb any juice. Strawberries are in plastic baskets.
The US experimented with democratic military structures during the early days of the Civil War (and perhaps before) at the regiment and company levels. Some volunteer regiments elected their officers. This did not turn out well and the practice was abandoned.
"Containers" has been stretched to mean a lot of different things, including VMs. I think "containers in the years ahead will be deployed on unikernel systems" is a very imprecise way of saying, "we expect a transition from containers to unikernel systems".
I'd recommend their course Programming foundations: Fundamentals.
They update this one yearly I believe
> Money changes everything.

And almost always for the worse.
I don't necessarily agree that accessibility is a universal good thing, at least when it comes to building a community. Reddit is a good example - there is basically zero effort required to join and post. There is also very little incentive to remain active and post good content (karma is more or less irrelevant compared to incentives in forum sites of the past.)

As a result, you get fairly low-quality discussion content and essentially zero sense of identity - both of which were not a problem in pre-centralized niche forums.
That's a reasonable position. But I've seen too many cases of people being left behind in the reference game due to simply being unusual in some way: shy/awkward, wrong demographics, uneven career, etc.

I believe in redemption and in judging people where they're at right now. If they can demonstrate their current skills and accomplishments, lack of refs shouldn't hold them back.

As for reputation, that ship has sailed. My refs aren't worth much, but for someone who just needs the box checked, I'm happy to do it.

(Most of my refs are for industry, if that makes you feel any better.)
There are plenty of premeditated examples too... but it is HN so surely I should have expected someone to fixate on my single example of a trend
The source isn't really intended for general consumption. It's a briefing intended for pilots and others in the industry. The goal of these kind of documents is to help pilots and air traffic controllers to learn from their mistakes.
Lots of people living far away from each other - this is the recipe for mental health issues related to loneliness. Young people are voting with their feet by moving from such areas to urban areas and they're staying there.
Don't forget the wind cancer one.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr...
A requisite response to those who mention compound growth (interest) and the fallacy of it "never" ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZA9Hnp3aV4

(Exponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett)
I, too, was joking. Mostly. :-)
You can tell that 2020 is a leap year because if you look up the day of the week for Feb. 28, it's Friday, and March 1st is a Sunday. That must mean that Feb. 29th is a Saturday. And indeed it is.
Zpresto has a zsh plugin thing that you can enable to get partial substring search with up/down arrow and color highlighting for the match. Really useful and one of my favorite features
It's not an agenda. News sometimes miss important context.

The Brazilian forest fires this year are a good example. It took weeks until we learned that the forest fires are not significantly worse than previous years. Brazil has been burning at the same rate for many years.
> I was paying 1900 or so a month in an outlying suburb and that was cheap for the area - the best you're gonna see for a one bedroom within a 20-25 mile radius around seattle is about 1200 a month, a two bedroom about 1500 a month.

Even single bedroom apartments are too luxurious with regards to the homelessness problem. Aim lower.

Typical NYC residents live in Studio Apartments (granted, at $2000/month, but that's NYC pricing there). A singular building can house hundreds, maybe thousands, of 300 Sq. Ft Studio units.

If land is more readily available, then trailer-parks provide more room than a Studio and are probably cheaper to build out. A trailer costs $20,000 to construct, and maybe $600/month to rent out the land.

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The problem is that low-end housing drives down property values. No one wants to live near a trailer park. But by golly, it fixes the housing problem really cheap.

I think people need to "wake up" and see the advantages that trailer parks can bring to their community. Yeah, trailer parks kinda suck for land value, but so do hoards of homeless people sleeping in the streets. And yes, I'm purposefully being callous: its the only real way to fight against NIMBY: you gotta "sell" how a trailer park can benefit a community in a callous way if you expect the NIMBY crowd to agree to it.
Wife of Google “Election Meddling” Whistleblower Killed in Car Crash
You're definitely even more hyper-aware than usual, paying attention to things that "don't seem right", when you can't understand what other pilots are saying.

It's unfortunately quite a common situation in Europe -- even more so for GA, because it's common for GA pilots to speak the local language with small towers even if the commercial norm in the country is to exclusively speak English.
> Do you think that (strawman)

No, I do not.

The correct move is to push harder, not roll over.
On the Undecidability of Legal and Technological Regulation
You want the full picture, yet post a graph that starts at 2014?
it's not electric cars that threatens German economy, it's delocalization to cheaper countries.

worldwide sales are sustained thanks to strong growth in China that offset other region contractions.

most brands have models ready to jump on the electric bandwagon anyway so the brand themselves aren't really threatened.

it's just plain old greed
That's like saying that people can learn arithmetic after they learn group theory, which they can learn after they learn category theory. No, learn the concrete first, then learn the abstractions, so that you have some concept of why the abstractions are relevant.
There are places where you get 5-10% interests on fixed deposits (mostly Asian countries). At approx 7%, you can double your money in 10 years. At 10%, you can double in 7 years approx and so on. It all depends on where one is living, I suppose. I can't find anything in the US market though - bank interest rates are a joke, treasury/bond % is too low. Stock market is on fire, but most stocks are so expensive that it is out of reach for most Americans.

I am not sure what other choices Americans have ...
nope. the brain can be broken or mistaken and just generate pain for no reason. ignoring/surpressing that pain is fine.
I know how to watch NowTV on Linux
Way back when I was messing with Android reverse engineering, there were already a number of obfuscation/protection systems which screwed with Dalvik VM internals. One particularly memorable one had a native library, written using a completely incompatible ARM ABI (using the stack pointer as a normal register, a different register for stack-like operations in the opposite direction, using random registers and stack slots for arguments, etc.), whose only job it was to patch the crap out of the Dalvik VM so it would load their custom obfuscated VM bytecode. The main issue (and the reason this kind of obfuscation seems to have gotten less popular) was that it depended extremely heavily on Dalvik internal structure offsets, and had a massive table of version-specific offsets and patch code which presumably became unmaintainable with all the extant versions of Android.

Anyway, it’s fun to look at ways to obfuscate bytecode. It’s far too easy to decompile unobfuscated Java code to pretty much perfect source code these days (same goes for any .NET code) - you really do need a little bit of obfuscation to prevent people from trivially stealing your code.
I never did CS161. They look similar from the course page.
What would they use all that energy for, and how would they use it in a way that wouldn't radiate heat or light on par with the amount captured?
So what do you think explains the difference?
> It also has old, deprecated crypto.

That entirely works.Any sort of realistic crypto standard is going to have to support older systems right up to the point where any problems with those systems actually reduce security in some way. To do otherwise would be irresponsible to your users.
I can dislike the state things are in and still use the tools available to spread a message or advance a cause without compromising my morals.
Try the vim extension in vscode. It’s pretty good for about 75% of vim. Definitely good enough to be useful.
FYI, some[1] have reported using the D Language plugin[2] with CLion.

[1] https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.344.1577092366.31109.di...
[2] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8115-d-language/
I also interact with medical doctors all the time: Most of them are typically some combination of: 1. Poorly informed about applicability or claims thereof of CS methods. 2. Trying as hard as they can to push the image of "the human doctor always knows best". 3. Pursuing university degree and then work in a very narrowly defined field without much relevant further education/updates believing their now 50 year old knowledge is set in stone.

I completely get your attitude, I think I agree with you overall and if I was not this lazy I could comb through my bookmarks and find the studies supporting what you said.

But I was just responding to your comment in the context of the paper linked. Which, at least when skimming over it, does not read like what you (IMHO, rightfully) criticize in the broader debate.

And yes, read the first paragraph as a tongue-in-cheek response, we both know that overgeneralizations don't help any debate ;)
> when people said something and I had learned before, instead of diminishing their statement by saying I knew that

I know someone like this. Their reply is always, "I'm not stupid". Clearly they were offended when I told them something they already knew, even though my intentions were to educate rather than offend. But their reply actually always created two offended people because to me, it's obvious I had no ill intentions and I'm left resenting their reply.

So now I just don't tell them anything unless they ask and I'm highly specific in my answer to their question. That ensures I'm only providing information they have indicated they don't know. If they want to know more, they'll ask more.

For my part, there was almost certainly an element of my being a know-it-all which is what got this person so riled up in the first place. Regardless; this simple change has helped me a lot and has improved my relationship with other people in addition to this one person.
HN's way of dealing with titles has been around forever and functions surprisingly well overall. When grumblings come up they are usually reasonable and we usually react by changing the title until readers stop grumbling. But these cases are a small percentage of the total. Sometimes the community is divided about what's reasonable, in which case every title change generates grumbling and the process never converges. In that case we either stick with the original title or just make a call and move on.

I think you make a good point about this title. In a case like this it's best to break the tie with the original title, so I've changed it back above.
> Lots of smart juniors write code that abuses complex language features in noncanonical ways that confuse all of the people.

Do you really see people do this in Haskell? I'm "junioring" my way through a problem set now (advent of code) and that does not describe my solutions at all. It is definitely not pro-level Haskell. I use direct recursion with an accumulator when I know there's gotta be some recursion scheme that fits the bill, very simple types, very few advanced combinators and symbols, etc.

It definitely could be better, but it suffers from a lack of fanciness rather than an excess. I've peeked at some expert solutions posted online and they are neat and super impressive... but by and large they confuse the shit out of me.

I have a hard time picturing being overly ambitious as a common beginner flaw in this space.
Governments can only be as good as their citizens contributing to it.
Those companies had a hand in forming those very laws.
They could have acted differently without giving up a competitive advantage, by lobbying for better laws for everyone involved, but they didn't.

Governments have to rely on external expert advice, and at its best, that is what lobbying is.
Google and co gave bad advice and that's what I'll hold them responsible for.
The Germany car industry should have seen the writing on the wall a few years back - when Merkel was forced to intervene to water down the European Commission's proposed emissions regulations - and disrupted itself, and if it had, it might have put them in a better position now. But even that would I think have been just forestalling the inevitable: the barriers to entry to the car industry seem to me to be lower than ever before, to the extent that even Vietnam - somewhere that was previously considered a 'developing' country - has its own home-grown electric car manufacturer, and I'm betting it's a lot cheaper to make cars in Vietnam than it is in Germany.
the method of improving user submitted content that i prefer to use ends up being more enjoyable than asking for explanations when the material doesn't grab me.
caspian report on youtube
> it's a byproduct of something else we already use too much of

I wouldn't go that far. For things like ethylene, if there were no other demand for it, it would just get burnt in power plants like natural gas.
Facebook posts are the persimmons of bitrot...
Greed is as normal and natural as sex. If there is no legitimate, productive outlet for it, it finds illegitimate and unproductive outlets. This is IMHO who communist states turn into mafia states: the mafia becomes the outlet. Part of adapting to the change is going to be building legitimate profit avenues into systems so that the profit motive can find productive channels.

All the old systems had no channel at all for profit making, so it made it's own in the form of spam and similar.
I think it's correct. Heat is the flow of thermal energy. A portion of that flowing energy is converted to electrical energy. Perhaps you're confusing heat with thermal energy?

There must be some heat flowing to generate electrical power because of the 1st law, so even if the effect is described as being due to a temperature difference, in practice, you also need a heat flow to be useful.

Your quote about "without any side effect" means without heating up a cold reservoir. But the article doesn't claim that.
Germany also shut its nuclear power stations in favour of more coal. I don't trust Germany.
> a Golden Age when Google would actually return results for interesting small sites on a regular basis

Yes, I miss the days when Google search was actually useful.
Poloniex Crypto Exchange Confirms Data Leak
Meanwhile in Italy they are building lithium battery factories and working on converting diesel buses to electric. The infrastructure shift will be huge and new companies will need to raise to tackle that. For instance, Tourin has circa 800 buses for public transport today - you cannot charge all of them at the same time now as there is no infrastructure and not enough power in the grid. I somehow think that if even Italy is embracing electric as the “next thing” while Germany automakers still firmly hold their heads in the sand then it could be a pretty bad blow for Germany in the coming decade. Amazingly enough all of this could still be avoided if German automotive companies accept for once that the world is changing, will they though.

* http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/media/Vrooom-La-prima-fabbr...
Like many things, "culture" is a second level manifestation of economic and industrial realities. Old housing typologies and building methods are not viable in the age of concrete, steel, glass mass production. Same commodification + value engineering forces behind everything we manufacture as process matures. It doesn't help that because building are still (relatively) durable objects, changes in the building industry are extremely conservative. Sustainability became an consideration once energy prices and operating costs justified the pivot. Even then it takes decades to validate new methods and processes due to regulations.

There's boutique firms and programs who can still build traditional buildings at exorbitant prices, but they're luxury products, the kind necessarily not viable for mass consumption. What article states about architecture design schools is somewhat true, but building is an extremely complex process now, architects are trained as generalists that specialize in the field. It's akin to small indie game development studio where one person has to design, code, do regulatory and compliance work, some light engineering, while being versed in several software packages and have good presentation skills. It's a little excessive for a 3-4 year masters program, but the alternative is the old journeyman draftsmens system which degree treadmill culture has made non viable in many sought after industries.
Hi... I'm the guy who ported this, which was actually not too difficult, as the original gentleman, to whom all honour belongs, left good hints. Most "issues" where really just IFs without THENs. There were only two errors I saw in Ira Goldking's source, a wrong line number and a THRN instead of THEN. This is a link for those not on Facebook: https://pastebin.com/2Mih71eF
Validate Your Software with Your Software
Gotta agree.

I’ve witnessed this phenomenon that probably causes it up-close in the public sector. It’s a larger-scale case of that same phenomenon that makes bigger businesses generally less able to react than smaller ones - everyone working there is primarily concerned with protecting their own neck or at best, those of their immediate peers in a kind of clique-ey way.

Survival in those waters is about keeping your head in and greasing the right wheels. Dissenters are efficiently dealt with.

Given that, it’s no surprise there’s a general unwillingness to fo against the grain and push for change. The closest you get is elections which are drastically abstract and unable to tackle/target single issues until they become overriding priorities. Even then you’re just swapping out the leadership and there’s a whole abstraction of the machinery of government to wade through before you get close to the ‘able to do things’ people. In fact underneath that you’ve now got an additional layer because many things are farmed out to the private sector.

Maybe this is what the Great Filter looks like from within?
I just finished watching. Well worth the time.
No, that's a headline feature of 4.

3B+ has a GigE adapter working over USB2 so you can get ~200Mbps, on other models you can get an off-board adapter providing much better performances than the on-board one but still not "real GigE": https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gig...
> > The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced.

> It's a valid criticism if you don't think that "Corporations are supposed to maximize profits" should be true. When anything can be justified because it maximizes profits it becomes very, very easy to be a technically law abiding unethical company which is a net negative on society.

Isn't this why society comes together to form a government and pass laws to prevent these sorts of behaviours?

Not every corporation will be looking to maximize profits, but they're generally all looking to maximize something typically at the expense of something else. From a selfish perspective, externalising your costs is a good thing.
No, but the answer is too technical https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484320/ . Wikipedia is not very clear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_metabolism

Short version of the paper (hopefully accurate enough):

The alcohol in the body is "burned" in a chain of multiple reactions. Using multiple steps because you can store the energy extracted in each step and store it in ATP or NADH to use it later in other reactions.

The first step is to extract two Hydrogen from the alcohol CH3-CH2-OH --> CH3-CH=O. This step needs an enzyme. There is not too much of this enzyme, so a small amount of alcohol saturates the maximum conversion capacity (that is ~7g/h). All the other steps have a better conversion rate, so this is the important step for alcohol metabolism.

Note that this step doesn't use oxygen. Oxygen is use in the step four and later. (I'm not sure if I'm counting all the steps correctly, but the use of oxygen is much later.)
Acquiring the "college income premium" is not the reason for going to college. College and universities allow students relatively unfettered exploration of ideas and social interactions. While some of us manage to do that without the umbrella of academia, most of us fare better at a college.

Moreover, colleges and universities (especially the great research universities) provide a way to push back the boundaries of human knowledge and transfer concepts and technology to a new generation. College is where you meet friends and lovers.
Those Marines on the beach didn't just all die there. Many survived and worked up the Marine Corps ranks to become generals, left to join defense contractors, and became politicians, all of whom had influence over how the armed forces are structured. Assuming past experiences effect a person's point of view and future actions, and that society's institutions aren't created, nor operate, in a vacuum: how is their experience irrelevant?
The one other case of a Japanese CEO being treated this way I can think of is Takafumi Horie from Livedoor but it does seem rare.
Unfortunately newer systems seem more resistant to archival than older. Compare getting a copy of a mailing list vs. getting a copy of a forum like phpBB or (even more modern) archiving a copy of a subreddit or Facebook group. Some people on a mailing list may already have a full copy simply from their participation in the list, and if the list has archives then presumably they are in a format which has stood the test of time. The other cases contrast with this. You can run wget on online forums, though the result is not as clean as the mailing list. Someone (maybe me) should write a bot to parse the pages into something more useful. I've also seen a script to scrape subreddits, though in my experience scraping subreddits is rarer than spidering forums. No idea what you can do with Facebook groups.

While I am irritated by how much of the internet has been replaced by JavaScript, one advantage has been the exposure of APIs that can be reverse engineered, as seems to have been done in the recent Yahoo Groups case. So there might be some hope here.