skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this different in any practical sense to an old fashioned request for physical paper documents?

Just that the measure of recorded data is perhaps several orders of magnitude larger that it was merely ~20-30 years ago.

I think back to my life in the 90s, and what information was recorded about me as I went about my day-to-day life, and it was minuscule compared to today. You could track who I called, but not what I said. You could track some of my purchases, but I used electronic forms of payment much less then.

Now, I text or message much more than I voice call, so that is all recorded. Every now and then if I want to get really freaked out I go to myactivity.google.com (I've got an Android phone and am otherwise "all in" on Google services) and, say, playback my location history, search history, or everything I've said to Google assistant.

I think we are really just coming to terms with the fact that "ephemera" no longer really exists, and the deep impact this will have on society.
> Your claim that “The United States has a first-strike policy” is so demonstrably made-up, that you should honestly be ashamed of yourself.

We should be more civil in contentious matters. The US and almost everyone (except China) have a qualified First Use Policy.
“Ignite racial tensions”? There was no chance of that happening. Smollett was a laughingstock the day the story hit the news. Foxx declined to prosecute because she correctly saw it as a ridiculous and embarrassing stunt.

Another thing to keep in mind: “igniting racial tensions” as an investigatory justification was how MLK got labeled the gravest domestic security threat to the United States. You’re advocating a categorical justification with a fraught and bloody history.

Better civilian oversight is overdue.
Intercooler js looks really cool! Do you have any suggestions for adding transition animations? E.g. to add smooth in/out for AJAX returned content.
There's been some discussion of making things like a virtual scroller available under an "std" global namespace [0], and the Chrome/Edge teams recently did a refresh of just the visual appearance of the standard built-in HTML inputs [1] (which, frankly, I think look even worse now).

Beyond that, nothing meaningful is happening. Even the input types defined as part of the HTML5 spec are still barely supported [2], and if browsers can't manage to implement decent date/time/range/color inputs, there's no way of getting more complex components designed and standardized.

Of course, the other aspect of that is, anything that is part of the web API is there forever, which means bugs and mistakes aren't really fixable. So, there's some benefits to having a purely community-driven ecosystem instead.

[0] https://github.com/WICG/virtual-scroller

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/10/15/form-controls...

[2] https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/html5-input-types/
Product Management. On some level, _everyone_ at the company is involved with product. It's at the intersection of virtually every department (engineering, sales, design, research, etc), but is incredibly demanding :)
I wish it worked more consistently. Maybe I’m just not smart enough, but sometimes triple clicking the side button works, other times it doesn’t.
That's helpful. Thanks!
Indeed. I was involved in trying to get some shoplifting prevention tech to POC at a single Sainsbury's location and we ran into similar issues. Unfortunately it the company wound down before we found out whether we could overcome them.
What about once you factor in the long-term economic costs of climate change? If that was truly factored into the cost of producing electricity, I suspect nuclear would come out well ahead.
That is less data than the logo will take up, and is also less data than, e.g., the raw text in this comments section (compressed with brotli). With proper caching policy, the code bundle also only needs to be downloaded once.
> an assistant who's allowed to post to her personal Facebook

"I was just giving orders."

Such an assistant would be allowed by her.
> The reality of the situation is the US was founded, both socially and politically on Judeo-Christian principles of morality, and the nuclear family

The truth is it absolutely wasn't. It's true that various forms of Christianity (with more virulent anti-Semitism than any “Judeo” component) were broadly popular with the general population at the time of founding, the intellectual elite who were the thought leaders shaping our model of government were largely members of the Enlightenment faction that started the whole idea of anti-religious secular liberalism.

The nuclear family also played little role in America’s foundation, only becoming dominant in the US sometime early in the latter half of the 20th Century, quite late in US history.

Though both the nuclear family and “Judeo-Christian” values being essential to the foundation of the American nation is one of the (fact-free) defining myths of American social conservatism of the late-20th Century to the modern day.
Courts may or may not be corrupt, but regardless of that it hasn't historically been very difficult for authorities to find a judge to sign off on a very wide-reaching warrant (like this very case).
I think you’re right, they flicker when you look at them sidelong.
Sonos sues Google for patent infringement
I knew I'd seen one that did exactly like that but could not find a video of it!
Scuba divers already use post-processing in Lightroom or apps like Dive+ (http://dive.plus/). It will be interesting to see if this becomes popular in that community. The results are pretty good already with Dive+.
Tarsnap comes to mind, though I'm not quite sure how niche it really is: https://www.tarsnap.com/
It's worth noting that none of Germany's reactors were ever run in load following mode (1). So the nuclear reactors also didn't/don't contribute to stabilising the German grid. Also note a 1GW nuclear plant also needs to be backed up to a certain degree by load following plants in-case it trips.

The unflexibility of the nuclear reactors is also a problem to network operators, as is the intermittency of wind and solar.

1) Brokdorf was run in loading following mode as an experiment, but the reactor failed, and begun decommissioning early.
The writing is on the wall. It IS a war on bees. We are spraying them to extinction. You WILL be gagged and tarred and feathered if you say anything about Monsanto(now Bayer)..and Other companies as they are not the only ones.

Bees need diverse habitat. We are destroying habitat and growing food in open air factories. They are not farms. They are factories.

Round and round we can go and talk about consumption, but the root cause of over consumption, destruction of our natural resources and ecology and habitat is the insatiable demand for cheap food. Key word being cheap. For 8 billion mouths and growing. We have gone way beyond carrying capacity of the planet.

Most of the almonds goes Asia and China and rest of the world. How is even remotely possible that our current population is sustainable for the planet?

Do all of us ABSOLUTELY need almond milk? It’s expensive to grow food and why can’t we pay for food? Cheap food is not a right. The externalities will eventually do us in...because there is no price or number on nature that we have destroyed.

Forget about honey bees(they are not even native to California, btw. Most of them are Italian bees)..there are hundreds of thousands of insects that have gone extinct..or endangered. Bees are not the only pollinators.

If there are no pollinators and have given trucked in, what does it really mean?

This..this below...I am not a generational farmer and I am not an almond farmer but I consider myself a steward of the land and nature..that’s why I came to farming. This is reality. There is nothing natural about farming anymore. It’s cut throat.

[..] Beekeepers attributed the high mortality rate to pesticide exposure, diseases from parasites and habitat loss. However, environmentalists and organic beekeepers maintain that the real culprit is something more systemic: America’s reliance on industrial agriculture methods, especially those used by the almond industry, which demands a large-scale mechanization of one of nature’s most delicate natural processes.

Honeybees thrive in a biodiverse landscape. But California’s almond industry places them in a monoculture where growers expect the bees to be predictably productive year after year.

Commercial honeybees are considered livestock by the US Department of Agriculture because of the creature’s vital role in food production. But no other class of livestock comes close to the scorched-earth circumstances that commercial honeybees face. More bees die every year in the US than all other fish and animals raised for slaughter combined.

“The high mortality rate creates a sad business model for beekeepers,” says Nate Donley, a senior scientist for the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s like sending the bees to war. Many don’t come back.”[..]
This choice of words is partially Wizard of Oz inspired cleverness
Do you know how he reconciles the vastly different death rate estimates from the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires with these ones?

Black Saturday: 1M animals killed with 400K hectares burnt = 2.5 animals/hectare

These fires: 1B dead with 8.5M hectares burnt = 117 animals/hectare

I don't know how the Black Saturday estimates were done, just that the source was the RSPCA.
Dokku gets an honorable mention, as it makes deployment as simple as `git push dokku master`:

http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/

Dokku also uses(Heroku) buildpacks, which are becoming standardized:

https://buildpacks.io/
> design it around yourself and the ages of people you care for (relatives, friends, loved ones, etc).

A fun exercise is to take ruled paper, number the lines as years, and sketch in your life vertically. Here I was in grade school; this summer I did mumble; etc. People often have a lot of difficulty reconstructing their own lives. Then take someone else's paper(s), and overlap it, aligned by year, or by age. It can result in very interesting conversations.
www.hörby.se

You probably don't want to remove the dots on that one.
Several similar approaches have been tested, although they use a turbine rather a moving chain to generate energy: http://euanmearns.com/a-review-of-underwater-compressed-air-....
Headline reads like this is open source Apple code. It’s not.
The Internet Archive is working for me:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200108170304/https://www.teenv...
> There was no chance of that happening

Mens rea is the guilty mind required for something to be a crime. Intent matters as much as outcome or chance of outcome in the judgement of whether a crime has occurred, and explains the use of "sought" in the comment you replied to.
What should I say to encourage a superior to use Beef for the next game?
Just like the comments that say "ASCII ought to be enough for everybody"?
Greedy Algorithms, Divide and Conquer, and Dynamic Programming
Just Jump into the Stream
Anatomy of AWS Lambda
It is basically a warrant to ruffle through someone's life

Which, for what it's worth, is a warrant that is perfectly within the powers of a judge to grant.
Avoiding the FUD and "this vs. them" on posts like these is nearly impossible. Snowpack is an awesome utility and I'm glad it exits. In fact, Snowpack is a great compliment to Rollup for development - because Rollup <3 ES Modules.

I'm a core contributor on Rollup. Rollup is surging, and we've been seeing a ton of interest and new contributors. We're doing some awesome things to improve it, and if you'd like to help advance ES Modules and tooling, we'd love your help.
> Shouldn't Teen Vogue be about teenage fashion stuff? Isn't Facebook the 'old people' platform? Would real teens care?

Teen Vogue has been noted (quantitatively, and in some circles qualitatively as well) for its social and political coverage for several years. Yes, real teens care.
Those records are mandated by The State and are very limited in scope. Nobody is idly wondering about the legality of X or Y in them, as one might in a google search, or making a culturally insensitive remark, as one might in a private message to a friend.

Be wary of the motte-and-bailey fallacy - the issue is not that The State can look at certain records in certain prosecutions, its that the records currently being requested are too broad and too potentially intimate to trust The State with.
This seems just as with any other search warrant - it's a specific search sanctioned by the court; just as a physical warrant for your house will involve LEO's that can search your underwear drawers for to verify if there's something relevant for the case, the same applies for your online records.

There's no new precedent involved, noone ever had any privacy whatsoever from a properly court-approved search. What's the most privacy-invasive thing I can think of? If a judge believes there's probable cause in searching your anus and other internal cavities and authorizes such a search, then such a search is compatible with all the precedent regarding fourth amendment in USA.
It's hard to take this very seriously when the claim is that it's "only" due to advances in the treatment of lung cancer. Given that lung cancer rates are almost surely driven by smoking rates, and that the rate of adults who smoke regularly has dropped significantly over the last couple decades, how could the fact that there are fewer adult smokers not also be a significant factor in declining lung cancer rates?

To claim this is only driven by treatment innovation and not public policy changes is wildly misleading.
There should be an international law restricting nuclear plants on fault lines. Fukushima is 100% Japan's fault. You're on the most active fault in the world and constantly at threat to tsunamis and the world let's you build a nuclear power plant there!? Preposterous.
Gas-fired turbines are extremely bad for the environment.

Why would you compare nuclear, which is 100% green, to 'renewables + gas + batteries' which is far from green energy?
No bureaucracy is homogeneous. Especially the pentagon.
> Most of JS tooling stems from 1. different browsers

Do people struggle a lot with cross-browser issues these days? It isn't like it was back in the day, when basic stuff like the box model worked wildly differently in IE. And almost everyone's on a rolling-release, auto-updated browser, so you don't have to worry about testing on old versions; even big websites like Stack Overflow only support the last couple releases of the most popular browsers: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56161/which-browser...

I still test on multiple browsers, and every once in a while I'll need to fix a bug that only shows up in one browser. But JavaScript frameworks and build tooling don't really help with that, do they? (Am I missing out?)
This sounds like the modern version of this http://bash.org/?835030 quote.
Right? I had a moment of “I thought the chamber of commerce was a business entity, not gov”. But I’m now super confused - surely the company’s legal counsel would have talked to him before he talked to the press?

Also, if the CoC isn’t part of the government aren’t they committing fraud by issuing “permits”? The permits themselves would be fraudulent, and I doubt they gave them for free, so...?
> Renewables will not get us there in time, even if they might be viable at some point.

Construction of new nuclear plants takes on average 7.5 years, and are extremely prone to cost overruns and delays. Renewables are a much faster and cheaper option to come online, be profitable and allow for shutdown of legacy infrastructure in the same period of time.

And they are viable now - several countries have run for days and weeks on renewables alone. Several regions of Germany are also fully renewable powered.
Url changed from https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/01/07/micr..., which points to this.
An uncritical Teen Vogue story about Facebook caused bewilderment
The tooling in JavaScript is fantastic. I don’t love much about JS, but I do Python now and boy are dependencies and packaging worse.
Yeah. We voluntarily give info to Google (most of us don't think about it that way, but we do). Google winds up with all this data. In theory, I don't have a problem with the authorities being able to get their hands on it, after getting a warrant. In practice, "getting a warrant" doesn't seem to be as high a bar as it should be.
Of the 3 mentioned, I doubt they'd lose more than 5% of revenues.
Correct, the visibility is the thing you'd want to look out for because it applies to a wide range of issues, including a camera with a blocked lens (either intentionally or by something like a wet leaf).
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989049
I try DolphinScheduler online demo: http://106.75.43.194:8888/

easy to use.
> Teen Vogue actually happens to be pretty responsible journalism that usually does better than that.

On what basis do you say that?
May I recommend d's scheme? I personally find it works quite well. Essentially, breaking features are introduced as a 'preview' that you have to opt into with a compiler flag. After a period of some time, it is changed so that the old and new behaviours can co-exist, but a deprecation warning is issued where the old behaviour is found. After some more time, the warning is changed to an error, but with an option flag to change it back to a deprecation. Then, finally, it is removed completely for the compiler.

This makes the maintainers' job a bit harder, but not by a lot, and as a user I find it a nice medium of stability and progress.
Just the same, I would feel a lot less violated if the government had header information for every email I received in the past year, than if they had the full email.
There's a big difference between dragnet surveillance & executing a warrant. This was the latter.

This is not some shady in the shadows invasion of privacy.
Doesn’t seem to be the case on mobile?
Without measurements, it is just one guys' tantrum. There are many air quality measurement products he can buy if he wants to be scientific about it: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Industrial-Scientific-In...
Efficiency needs to be viewed with target storage times in mind. For example, the reason batteries are not used for seasonal storage is not just because of their cost, but the fact that they lose their charge pretty quickly. They are 90%+ efficient in the short term, but that drops pretty quickly.

On the other hand, something like pumped hydro is less efficient and takes longer to bring online, but can store the energy for months or even years.
Me Medicine vs. We Medicine
I used to work for a company that had a band printer. The characters were on a metal band like that in a band saw with duplicates of the letters around the band. The printer would spin that band around and make an imprint. It was incredibly fast and incredibly noisy. The printer had to be in a noise dampening enclosure.
mail to dailidong66@gmail.com, and tell him you want to try online demo.
IIUC legibility of a system is pretty much understandability of that system with a focus on the "purposes" of the components. There's some subtext (which is why it's its own word) but that's my reductionist version.
It's interesting how history fades.
Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good (2013)
"actor" is inappropriate term here. "[Alleged] Hate crime hoaxer" is more relevant.
Related from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15497732
React native’s fast refresh is... I’m not even sure of the words to describe it. Revelatory? I had no idea it was possible to develop apps so quickly and seamlessly while maintaining state as you code. I thought edit and continue debugging was the holy grail in C# until I used fast refresh and redux. I would not be exaggerating by saying that I would choose react native as a technology strictly because of how much fast refresh speeds up development of GUIs (but it’s great for many other reasons too). I can’t wait for fast refresh to make its way into react web. We have several large, complex apps in ionic/Cordova/angular stack and now that ionic react is stable it won’t be long for us to jump off Angular altogether.

We have a large desktop application that hosts tabs of other react applications and provides windowing features, all built in Electron, that is written in React. we can edit a component within an app and save it and have the UI update with the same state and the new component change in under a second. react native fast refresh is even better because it’s understanding of life cycles and hooks is better but hot reloading within a react app is extremely performant for us. I wonder why you’re having to wait so long?
Well, it hadn’t even entered my mind that increasing racial tensions could be a crime, so that didn’t make it through my legal framework. Why did it occur to you?
1) Iran isn't a small country. The cost to carpet bomb every square km of Iran would be enormous. Afghanistan is a nickel candy by comparison.

2) Iran has connections with Hezbollah and god knows who else. I would not dismiss the possibility.

3) There are enough people all over the world who would be incensed enough at the US to self radicalize.
You can't heat your house in winter with wind + solar. For a carbon-free world, you need nuclear, period.
Nuclear power is pretty Stone Age.

Hold a bunch of special rocks close together. They get hot and make water hot. And turns into hot, wet air, which turns a big fan. Hook a magnet to that fan, and spin it in some hoops and you get electricity. Oh, and always, always, always keep the rocks from getting too hot.

Compare that to solar cells, which are semiconductors doped with cleverly designed impurities, and layered to exploit quantum effects to deliver electrical power simply by pointing it at the sun. You can make it more useful by hooking it to a rechargeable battery, which also exploits clever quantum chemical effects to store that electricity. And the combo of these two wonderful quantum-technological devices is cheaper than the reactor.

Both technologies require understanding of modern physics, but it's pretty telling that you can do enough math to make a fission reactor with a hand calculator, and not a high-powered computer.
Of course, all that stuff could still have been recorded with a warrant 20-30 years ago. Though it's true it would have required foresight & more effort.
Yes, it always has been a way out. The blocker is public opinion. Nuclear, taking into account disasters, is far safer for society than any other known energy source.
Millions of Millionaires
may be you can refer their proposal. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/Dolphi...
You could integrate version control into the app and rebase the customizations onto the upstream changes.

At worst the user would have to rewrite their code from time to time.
Suddenly the inconvenience of moving to an encrypted email provider like ProtonMail doesn't sound too bad. I don't particularly have anything to hide, but I'm sure a prosecutor could find something suspicious in my emails if he looked hard enough.

It wouldn't make my email completely inaccessible to the government (they could subpoena the sender), but would make it a lot less convenient to go on a fishing expedition.
Imagine what possibilities there would be if humanity finds a way to power all its current and future needs that produces no harmful side effects rather than trying to equate science fiction with reality.

> (Energy storage isn’t advanced enough to take traditional baseload offline

Because traditional baseload isn't a concept in a fully renewable grid - distributed storage and production naturally evens out demand and production, and also makes the grid more resilient to freak weather events (the kind we see more and more thanks to climate change)

> You’re not going to factories on Mars or asteroid belt mining operations with solar.

You're not doing them with anything at the moment so whats the point of conjecture. You really think that energy is the biggest concern over, you know, the colonisation of space?