skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure, but you might want to compare the median monthly electricity costs per household between Germany and California. I suspect that would give you a more accurate picture of the true electricity costs. My hunch stems from the fact that almost no one has air conditioning in Germany, which should be a significant factor in Californians' electrify bills...
Christ this scares me. No thanks!
Cortex author here (Tom Wilkie). Great post that honestly highlights the differences between these systems - thank you!

The biggest take home here - and the first thing the post mentions - is the a single HA pair of Prometheus servers is enough for 80-90% of people. TLDR you probably don’t need Cortex (or Thanos, etc)...

...unless you run multiple, segregated networks (regions). Then something like Thanos (or Cortex) is useful - not for a
the scale argument, but because you need a way to “federate” queries and get that global view. IMO!
On the contrary I think they’re the main point!
Tools don't have to be complex. We have about a fifteen line json config for brunch for the usual build chain. It took a day or two to develop and can be copied with few changes to other projects. Compare this to one of our devs spending over a week and hundreds of lines of config with webpack and still couldn't achieve an identical config. The de facto tools like webpack, gulp, grunt, etc. are unnecessary complexity monsters. That's what people are complaining about here and they have a right to. It's not the idea that's flawed, it's the ridiculously over complex, constantly breaking implementations like the ones above and most similar tools. Not too mention the low quality of such tools and npm itself requiring one to now be an expert on not only the build chain, but npm and yarn before even starting any project. The complaints are more than valid when there are tools that do the same job without the unnecessary complexity.
Looking lightly at some of the code and the screenshot provided, I'd like to compliment on the look of the language. A lot of the newer languages coming out mess with the "normal syntax" way too much, which discourages me from learning it. Beef actually looks like I could sit down, and learn the features of the language, rather than relearning a new syntax that wouldn't translate well.

I wish you luck!
30 seconds the image load hadn’t gotten to her neck yet.
Why would it damage the liberal narrative? Wouldn't it add sympathy to him (given that most of the comments here are against the idea of Google getting access to his data)

I really think you are overestimating how many people have heard if this guy (who seems pretty dodgy) and are looking for reasons to be offended here.
Did they rat-tat? I must have just missed those. I remember a lot of high-pitched _reeeee_ sounds, though certainly accompanied by a fascinating crunchy texture. :-)
Everyone seeks to ignite racial tensions for personal gain. Politicians, journalists, even a lot of people on HN are out doing it in the comments all the time. But you can't prosecute every jay walker, nor every speeder. That doesn't necessarily mean that you shouldn't punish any speeders.

The problem here is that they are going about it in the wrong way. Issuing a warrant that says, "Well, show me everything this guy ever did, and I'll tell you the crime I want to prosecute him for later."

That's not how most warrants work. Most of the time it's, "We suspect X evidence generated in the commission of Y crime is at Z location". What this does is say, "We need all his data to figure out exactly what crime was committed". That's an ominous warrant.
It's too bad that modern day hardware does not allow similar depth of hacking decades after release. CDs could be still overburned to significantly larger capacity, yet there is nothing like that for Bluray.
That's exciting. Looking forward for js lib. All of my stack is on node
I guess it's the recitation and active recall that helps--not necessarily the writing/typing stuff down on paper itself. I suppose it's also possible to do this by drawing on a whiteboard or...eek...preparing and drilling flashcards.
To whomever downvoted me, sorry for giving a compliment.
So, what exactly are you doing to help the people of Pittsburgh if you're complaining that OP didn't do enough despite TFA?

How is this not the emptiest and most self-righteous form of virtue-signaling we get on HN?

How could you write this comment instead of volunteering at your local soup kitchen and petitioning the government to end homelessness? You'll have to try harder to appease my arbitrary internet expectations of you, or I'll call you out.
wow good for you that's interesting, where I am in Seattle is there Lambda I'll check it out is it expensive?
I don't see what's wrong with this post that it should be downvoted like it has been. I personally agree with this sentiment. It's like the developers who immediately rush to massive scale when all they've been asked to build is effectively a prototype. I've seen it time and again... they get bogged down in making sure the app can scale when they have yet to have a single paying customer for the product. At that point, they don't even know if there is even a market for the product and they're trying to build something that millions of users can use right out of the box. The priorities are off.

If a combination of back-end processing with some vanilla javascript, or jquery will get you to market for your first 100-1000 users (which, we know it will because that used to be the only way we could do things, on much less powerful hardware no less) then I say go with that. In the mean time you can work with the stakeholders to put together a strategy for scaling up as demand increases.
Would serve the victim right.

Never leave your unattended keyboard and screen unlocked.
Is it archive.org or the original site that went out of it's way to force "smooth scrolling" on me?

Edit: original site is working now, it's them.
As an aside I find it amusing that we have at least 3 of the more expensive Asian places here in Sydney (Spice Temple, Sake, and Longrain) run by local white guys who did significant time overseas to learn the cuisine. And the food is good. Though I just found out Longrain closed so that's sad, they had a few things you'd not see at a local place.
pretty low iq take
Yep, I'm turning 40 in a few months and have been working in the defense industry my entire career (and I spent 4 years in the Army before that, so I suppose that counts too).

Most of my jobs have lasted 1-2 years. I get fed up and leave for another company working on a different program - thinking that the next one will be different.

Small firms that are still trying to prove themselves and grow are usually the best to work for. Because they no-shit need to deliver and keep customers happy. As they get larger (and merge, etc.), defense firms all seem to resemble each other. Benefits get cut, pay gets stagnant, and standards for hiring start to slip. Eventually they become a butts-in-seats shop like the huge firms with names everyone knows. Time to move on.

I've tried interviewing in the private sector (usually all of my job hunts every couple of years begin with a string of failed interviews in the private sector, and end with me just taking another job in the industry), never managed to get an offer, but if I walk into a defense industry interview, I can land an offer well over 50% of the time. Some contractors have thrown offers at me after a single 30 minute phone interview (tip: never accept those).

Another part of the issue is the defense industry is definitely a bubble and you kind of get trapped after a while. If I'm desperate and need a new job, I have a list of contacts I can reach out to and easily get another contracting gig. In the private sector, I don't know anyone and I'd be trying to get in through the front door.
What does that have to do with the case being discussed? A judge issued search warrants for information that Google has. Your hyperbole about the government being able to access anyone's information whenever they want isn't helpful to a conversation about privacy.
Most apps are simple, no I’m not talking about Facebook. The problem is templated pages apps are not considered sexy, so we build SPAs so we can look good (and pad the resume,) to the detriment of productivity.
That reputation has suffered anyway quite significantly in the recent past: BER (Berlin's hilariously failed "new" airport) VW et al. cheating on emissions tests...
That's still really really bad, since everyone needs to know how the laws that they interact with works for a functioning democracy, but nobody who uses a website needs to know how the code is written. Courts should be orders of magnitude more accessible to people (especially in a country where people are tried by the jury of their peers!) than anything even remotely involving technology to the extent that a comparison between the court system and javascript doesn't even make sense.
What is your opinion on Blow's Jai programming language?
I pointed out how much each individual lecture cost to everyone in college :). That went over well. Especially to those who would skip some lectures.

But just look at the median loan amount in the USA of $31000 then print a repayment schedule of 15yrs at 7% and you get

Cumulative Payments: $50,154.17
Total Interest Paid: $19,154.17

that is like 38% of the original loan amount that needs to be paid in after tax wages in interest to the government. That is a lot if you’re not doing CS/ENG/medicine! IMO it is one of the main things eroding g the financial position of the middle class and lower middle class.
Lol yes I did mean readership. Typed that on my phone, appreciate the correction
It’s clear you have no idea what this actor did. He staged a hate crime in Chicago and the main cook county attorney dropped the case after CPD proved it was fake. With your radical views, where do you draw the line? Will you vote to protect criminals, child abusers, rapist? All in an effort for “privacy”?
I used to think like this. Constantly stressing about how I was going to get the hell out of the city and start homesteading to escape the coming collapse.

But now, I feel like that's a waste of time. There's no "other side" of the coming catastrophe to run to. When the gears of global industrial civilization grind to a halt, the resulting chaos will only allow the ruthless or the lucky to survive. And even if you do survive, the world you'll be struggling in isn't something I want to be a part of.

Not to mention tipping points already triggered will likely keep the world warming to the point where humans just can't survive at all and we go extinct. If that's not the case, and our species survives for millions of years, then we've already used up all the easily accessible resources, and won't ever get back to space faring civilization, and eventually we'll go extinct.

The only way out is forward. We either beat this thing and make it out the other side as something greater, more unified, and more enlightened than we've ever been, or our story ends.

We're not going to stop the asteroid, but maybe we can all wake up soon enough to act to soften the blow just enough to survive. We don't have a lot of time.
I think the definition of "intelligent" and "ambitious" will differ based on who you ask. A lot of folks in rural areas think taking out debt to go to school is not a very intelligent thing to do. Likewise a lot of urban dwellers would likely say that going to college is the intelligent and ambitious thing to do.

It really depends on your previously-held beliefs, which are only reinforced by the echo chambers we live in.
OP (nkurz) explained that he wanted to focus on the civil liberties and surveillance aspects rather than the specifics of this person's rather famous case.
I owe that man a lot. In the 80's I co-founded a company that printed photographs on ID cards (if you have a European driving license, that's a long ago descendant of that project). First we did the local tennis clubs, then student travel cards and finally many more important ID cards. The whole thing was acquired by Johan Enschede, a specialty printing company (money, IDs, valuables).

Without the early commercial laser printers that whole project would not have been possible, for us it was an enabling technology.

I never knew about Gary Starkweather but I'm super grateful for what he did. There are countless other mostly invisible people from that era who created such enabling technologies.
This is a really dumb comment. Long term cognitive effects from air pollution are not enough to make a genius into a bumbling idiot. Colleges and schools are in cities because that is where the people are. Presenting their location as evidence that air pollution can't contribute to cognitive decline makes 0 sense.
Could someone do some quick math and extrapolate what cancer death rates might be in 2050?
Whose safety is threatened by that law?
Yes, many mainframe shops replaced their line printers with early lasers (which were super expensive, the price only came down after a couple of years).
It is true that we have been in a cold period. What's hazardous is the rate of change our carbon emissions are causing. When environment changes fast, there are extinctions. We are changing it faster than ever.
"Sea-thru" is such a great name for this. Also I'm always glad to see things that aren't "we threw a neural net at it and it looks pretty good"
Even so, those "Australian Italian" dishes still cost $20-$25 for a basic pasta dish which I can't justify.
Andrew, while you are here- can you please make smaller monthly zig releases instead of very large releases. 0.6 has been in the oven for a while now.
Phasing out coal in Germany is a political battle against a large entrenched century old industry.

The phase-out looks to be gaining traction in recent years. Deals are being made to retrain coal miners and fund economic redevelopment of heavily coal dependent regions. All players including the power companies, network operators, miners unions, green NGOs, central and regional governments have been in discussion about how to manage the phase-out. A schedule for when plants will be turned off is being written into law.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/spelling-out-coal...

Coal powered electricity generation is dropping and renewable generation is increasing. See chart:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

From:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

Where Germany has a bad record on emissions reductions is in other sectors such as transport and heat. Germany has had a centre-right political party running the show for 15 years, progress has been slow. The next election will likely be a CDU-Green coalition which will likely increase ambitions on emissions reductions.
I get the impression that OP's day job requires that they use Angular but they were able to use ASP.NET Core Razor Pages for a side project. I could be wrong.

Either way, I can confirm to OP's findings with Angular. I worked on an Angular project not too long ago and every time I hit Command-S I had to wait 10 seconds before the page would refresh. Manually refreshing wasn't an option, of course, because it was busy compiling. I tried to explain to my client that those 10 seconds were quickly adding up considering what my billable rate was but they didn't seem to mind. It was from Google and that's all they needed to know.
Scouts attempt to synchronize a march with an obstinent queen who doesn't easily sign-off on the march. The only way they succeed is to do the enormous work required to carry the queen over to the point of synchronization.

This way rogue ants can't destroy the colony without having 51% consensus on where to move the queen.
Well, people do enjoy being served by other human beings. I'm not making any moral judgment about that, just noting that it is a fact.

Compare the service in a fast food joint to the service in a four-star restaurant. Certainly, the fast food joint is cheaper, but price is not the only factor here. The same applies to seeing a live band compared to listening to a recording, or getting a manicure compared to just cutting your own nails, or... any number of things, up to and including sex work.
To those saying "nah, it's fine there" in Pittsburgh, I can absolutely say this is a problem, but this varies drastically area to area. I lived there for about 20 years, and industrial pollution is a well known problem there.

It isn't exactly advertised, but the city water around the cmu-google-downtown region has failed tests many times, and at least on two occasions the city provided water filters due to contaminants. This is mostly due to how old the city is, rusty and lead pipes in old homes are impossible for the city to track and fix. This is true everywhere in the rust belt.

Air quality in Pittsburgh gets really bad once you go out past googles neck of the woods, that used to be covered in steel mills, plastics manufacturing, coal and trash burning plants. I understand the desire to live near work, but please don't move near bakery square. They can try to cover it up, but I'm sure the ground is contaminated as well. The entire thing used to be a factory before they bulldozed it in the early 2000s. And nearly all the land near a river will have been used by industry at some point. There's a reason why you can pick 4 locals and at least one has asthma.

Edit: for fun, here's a reminder of what the city looked like during the steel days. You couldn't wear white clothing because of the soot in the air. http://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2012/06/05/p...
The algorithm I described was O(n), you said it was O(3). I'm assuming this happened because my algorithm was actually an incorrect solution but you subconsciously added in steps to make it a correct algorithm which changed its complexity. Hence it's semantics because we seem to be discussing two different algorithms.
I suppose it may be regional, but it is illegal to drive with headphones in both ears in California (got pulled over for it). And I know that in India and the Vietnam they honk a lot not a as a way to communicate.
I'm no expert but I read that coal-fired electric generation and industry in the Ohio Valley is a major source. This transport of pollutants is apparently codified in the US Clean Air Act. This article seems to discuss the things I was considering years ago: https://ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com/2019/06/epas-denial-of-petit...
Probably the biggest thing I’ve missed since moving from Australia to London is remotely passable Thai food. Thankfully I’ve found one place, on Deliveroo, that is pretty decent, but everywhere else is mostly rubbish unfortunately.
rip gary. i’ll hold down the fort
Im sure there's large variance in different pockets of people, but I dont think this holds true based on my convenience sample
> Edit: I guess one solution would be to use a pretrained ALBERT and finetune to get the initial model and then use model distillation to get a smaller, faster model.

Huggingface did just that:
https://medium.com/huggingface/distilbert-8cf3380435b5
> People will opt for the dependable, low maintenance ethics-free option.

I do not agree. Why do people still go to see live bands, when listening to a recording is orders of magnitude cheaper, and generally gives you better sound to boot?
It's clear you have made up your mind without the facts. Note the Tribune's reticence to come to that conclusion based on the actual evidence? I have zero opinion about it.

Separate to that this comment has absolutely nothing whatever to do with the parent comment, whether you agree with the parent or not. Rights should exist for everyone, not just everyone you happen to like. Whether this warrant has gone too far as the parent suggests and it is necessary to take countermeasures or not is the argument, not your feelings about someone accused of something which frankly have no baring on anything in such a discussion.
It seems to depend largely on how dependent on Government dollars the company is; there are Canadian success stories, but many of them are not critically tied to Government budgets.

It's become worse over time, of course; we can hardly build new schools or subways any longer, let alone fund multi-billion dollar halo projects.
He should be glad that Google probably won’t build an office near a pig waste lagoon.
Jussie Smollet isn’t just anyone. Filing a false police report is a crime. Don’t commit crime and you’ll be fine, idiot.
90% of javascript is minimized/obfuscated. Imagine a society where 0.01% understands the law. Now imagine it calling itself “democracy”
> Compare this to one of our devs spending over a week and hundreds of lines of config with webpack and still couldn't achieve an identical config. The de facto tools like webpack, gulp, grunt, etc. are unnecessary complexity monsters.

> That's what people are complaining about here and they have a right to. It's not the idea that's flawed, it's the ridiculously over complex, constantly breaking implementations like the ones above and most similar tools.

Well, the complexity is because webpack/gulp/grunt are do-everything tools.
There are lots of features to assist everyone, and usually if you have some obscure requirements, webpack has an solution.

Yeah, webpack is complex - IMO one shouldn't use webpack just to bundle up JS files. There are opinionated tools like Parcel or CRA(which automatically configures webpack under-the-hood), and those will fit 90% of the users. Only the left 10% which existing opinionated solutions cannot accommodate can fiddle with the webpack config directly.

> Not too mention the low quality of such tools and npm itself requiring one to now be an expert on not only the build chain, but npm and yarn before even starting any project.

Well, do you really think JS has low-quality tools? I really don't see them as low-quality... And you should know npm/yarn before starting a JS project; it's like knowing gcc/clang before starting a C project, or knowing cargo before starting a Rust project.

> The complaints are more than valid when there are tools that do the same job without the unnecessary complexity.

(Assuming you're talking about npm/yarn) If you can do the same job without all the dependencies, you don't have to know package managers. If you want to, you should know the package managers.
You're completely missing the point. Whatever Smollett did or didn't do is immaterial. What is material is that Google, Facebook, etc are now single points of privacy failure that make abuse by law enforcement much easier than it used to be. This case may or may not be an example of said abuse, but the potential is clearly there. The solution is to retake control of our digital lives from these companies.

In a democracy the job of the police must be difficult.
I agree, if it actually mattered then flight attendants would check for cell connections as rigorously as they do seatbelts. Even if you've never flown basic logic will tell you on a flight of 100+ people not everyone remembered to switch off their device. Trying to rat on your fellow passenger is the real offense here. Maybe I'm the jerk here but do we have to regulate our behavior to make nosy neighbors comfortable?
> Facebook spokesperson Lisa Stratton said: "This piece is purely editorial. We pitched this to Teen Vogue and worked with their team on the piece over the past few months." (Companies' communication teams will sometimes pitch news outlets on possible stories, in the same way news outlets will reach out to companies to ask for interviews and access, and it's not a sign of a financial relationship or underhand behaviour.)

Maybe I'm naive but the idea that Facebook (or whatever company) is "pitching possible stories" to news outlets seems bizarre to me.
Show HN: Fast code search (~100ms) for large repositories
For political reasons of course. The prosecutors are elected. They must pick cases that encourage votes.
Now that web components are maturing, is there any working group that is chartered to improve the standard HTML UI compnent library?