skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does anyone have any data that "Climate Change" is even bad?

The problem is that humans will keep emitting CO2 until it becomes dangerous. Thinking climate change isn't bad is falling right into that trap. It will be okay until it won't be ok. The problem can only be prevented ahead of time and if you wait and do nothing then the solution may never happen once it's too late.

I don't understand how you can consider this to be a political problem about ignorance and fear. There are obvious economic downsides to using fossil fuels. They are expensive, inefficient, require significant maintenance, may cause increased background radiation (above levels of nuclear) simply through the sheer amount of material that they consume. In Germany they caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the photovoltaic industry in exchange for protecting 20000 jobs of coal workers by spending billions on keeping uneconomical ones alive. The fossil fuel industry is obsolete and dangerous to the public. It's holding us back, causing local health problems even if you ignore the CO2.

In Germany renewables receive priority to feed in their electricity yet the coal plants keep running because they cannot throttle down significantly and since they keep running to secure jobs they are allowed to clog the electric grid even when renewables are available. "Baseload" is not a benefit. It means that the power source is inflexible and interferes with the grid.

Then there are electric cars. They don't require expensive fuel and can be charged at home with cheap renewables. Maintenance costs are significantly lower. Overall the economics speak for themselves.

Even if you don't believe in anthropogenic climate change you would be foolish to choose to be stuck in the past and ignore two of the most critical innovations of the 21th century.
Surprise, surprise, the underlying complication was someone's profit motive regarding drug selection.

I'm getting really repetitive but transparency transparency transparency.

Let's make public the cases where the suppliers collude to withhold drugs for actual effective usages "because we have this other more expensive option that's the only one we sent in for approval" whine bitch stfu and do what's best for the patients you money grubbing bastards.
Maybe, I'll tell you next time it appears in my start menu. In either case it is not the size that bothers me, it's the fact they keep placing gaming icons in the start menu of an enterprise workstation, even after the user deletes them.
That was a 6809 machine that was similar to the later TRS-80 Color Computer from 1980. The TRS-80 Model 1 was a Z80 based machine released in 1977.
Simple example:

- You upload an image of a cute cat to your webserver

- You post the link to the image on some social network (using a throwaway account)

- You send the link to the post to a friend, who likes the post

- You switch out the image on the server for a photo of hitler (url stays the same)

- You wait a day for all the caches involved to update

- You act disgusted and ask your friend wtf they were thinking when they liked that image
As a side note, and to be fair to chicken, my dad used to have one who was a "real" pet (of course at the time even the idea of "emotional support" by a pet or else was unknown).

This chick used to come when called, jumped on my dad's lap on command, made "special" sounds for my father only and (it lived with the other chickens) for some reasons was always the first one to come out the henhouse in the morning and the last one to get into it in the evening.

So - bar defining it an ESA for not paying something - that particular chicken actually was companion to my dad.
The problem, as always, is that parties disagree on what "best" means.

Governments and safety organizations are pushing for "Vision Zero", i.e., safety at any cost. (My economics professor once pointed out that if you really want zero traffic deaths, just limit all cars to 5 mph everywhere.) For people driving on the road, the current level of risk (roughly 1 death per 100M miles) is acceptable, and arriving quickly is desirable.

Once you get to the point where the numbers are really tiny, safety is hard. It's tough to make people follow procedures when they've never seen any problems from violating them.

I see this effect happen with software, too.
380 cookies! Good lord.
My thought process while adapting my life are more akin to this :

I felt disconnected and unhappy
-> found those principles/values that seem to make people more happy (who were in the same situation as me)
-> tried them, felt much more happy and fulfilled than before
-> try to apply it to other areas.
Bureau Oberhaeuser Calendar 2020
"50% of people working “low-income” jobs that’ll never go anywhere…75% who struggle to pay the bills…80% who can’t raise a tiny amount for an emergency…all of them, more or less, will die indebted— buried under debt they have never been able to pay off. Who do they “owe” to? A tiny handful of men who are richer than kings or dukes or barons of old."

This is fantasy. The rich may have gotten richer, but the poor and middle class have gotten richer too. America has the richest poor people in the world.

Right now, our economy is the best it's been for a decade with the lowest unemployment rate for all major groups.

The write of this article is completely ignorant of real poverty in countries like India.

"Masked, armed men waving machine guns and chanting neo-fascist slogans massed on the steps of a state capitol — on the anniversary of a society’s major civil rights leader…who was gunned down to death."

No mention of anti-fascist lunatics parading around our college campuses and major cities like Seattle..who are actually violent fascists that want a revolution in this country and have been roaming the streets with impunity and attacking non-believers for the past four years (just look at Andy Ngo's Twitter account).

One peaceful protest for gun rights, with absolutely no violence is nothing in comparison.

"This is what a collapsing society looks like, my friends. America, here and now."

America is collapsing because the liberals in this country are solving crime by making it legal. Look at California: "non-violent offenders" are being let go with no bail, only to offend again (many times violently) and not show up to court dates.

In addition to this, left-leaning politicians can get away with all sorts of crime..and the media (and voters) just ignores it. The Obama administration was not only caught selling weapons to the Mexican cartels, the IRS targeted right-leaning groups (this was settled with a lawsuit and can be found in public records). These alone would have been major deals in any administration..and were completely ignored and buried.

The scariest part? If Hillary was president, we would know nothing about attempted Russian meddling, because she laughed it off and called Trump 'crazy' when he mentioned it during the 2016 election.

She was running her own email server with classified emails being sent through it (and many that suddenly went 'missing'), which should raise red flags to any tech-savvy person..and didn't get punished for it at all.

After this happened, I remember all of the tech people defending her and saying the most ignorant things regarding technology. It showed me that many in the tech community are so blinded by their bias, they are willing to look past criminal behavior to win.

This is what's contributing to America's collapse.
Isn't a two-lane roundabout one that simply has two lanes going round? The thing about the turbo-roundabout is that there are actually no lanes going round. Each lane just takes you to your exit. There's no option to stay on the roundabout at that point: you're forced off. It's very restrictive in that sense, but that also means that traffic flows smoothly: other drivers also have no option to merge wrong or try anything weird.
Little detail, I love that they actually call it the Magic Roundabout in eg the traffic signs. I mean, it's a children's TV reference. Super nice, not everything official must be boring and dull.
Well, he was a friend if Epstein as well, so I would not trust his character very much. But yes, it is not really relevant here.
best browser for gopherspace, if I were curious? best search engine?
So it's a recursive roundabout?
It's not quite so "campy" when you realise how seriously people who were actual nuclear war planners regarded Dr. Strangelove:

https://www.wired.com/2018/03/geeks-guide-doctor-strangelove...

I can recommend Ellsberg's book on nuclear war planning if you have difficulties staying awake at night.
Poland's gaming industry takes on the world
If you start by assuming a utility function exists, you can have it do anything you want.

But we haven't quite solved every problem in the world by creating a utility function, have we?

Why is that? Could it be that some domains resist mathematization because the objects are incommensurate?

Why don't we just create utility functions to solve politics?

We cant, because politics is unsolvable in terms of well-defined mathematization and it could very well be that human intelligence is like that too.
> Yeah, but that's America's choice to pay so much more for drugs that the rest of the world pays less for. It doesn't make the US system in any way better.

Yes, I agree that it's a foolish choice for the US to subsidize foreign countries' healthcare in this manner. Regardless of this decision that we both agree is foolish, it means that it's misleading to compare cost-effectiveness between the US and other countries directly.
> there is no way to turn off this feature on any browser, chrome or not.

Here is a way for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
I wonder how much procrastination is due to people doing things they dont really want to do. Ie people doing a course and University not because its their dream its because everyone expects then to go there and that course is a route to a good career. Combined with hot housed kids that were given lots of homework but no time to play. Its a recipe for office blocks full of people doing respectable jobs they don't really want to do and procrastinating all day.
Quick story time!

I moved from the UK to the US in 2001. I then learned to drive in the US (Had no need to in the UK).

Sometimes I dream of the UK, my dreaming brain realizes I'm on the "wrong" side of the road. So it tries to switch me over, but that means traveling to the US, so I then have to get on a plane to... drive on the right side of the road. I do it less now that I'm aware of what's going on, but it was very disconcerting to wake up from!

Actually driving in the UK (while awake!) is much easier, as you're just kind of following the flow of traffic.
Re https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22127828
RE: #2

Absolutely. Within Saskatchewan, east of Regina, we just completed three new bridges for suburban communities to access the main highway. In two of the three bridges were atypical designs using a Diverging Diamond at one point, and dual roundabouts at the other.

When announced lots of people were fearful of the new designs and there was unsurprisingly a lot of outcry from ninnies who were afraid of the unknown. There's been a couple instances of people taking improper directions on the bridges but they're typically by elderly drivers who probably shouldn't have been behind the wheel in the first place.

I personally have my own qualms with the design of one of the bridges but that's outside this discussion. I like the concept enough that I hope to see them use diverging diamond more and more roundabouts as people get used to the efficient flow.
Ask HN: Where do you go to discuss computer architecture patterns?
Problem: Designing a new architecture at work for asynchronous batch processing on AWS and want to get feedback or suggestions on potential architectural patterns before implementing.

Are there any general places to reach out to fellow architects?

Stack Overflow is more programming related. It may fall under /r/sysadmin but not really /r/devops. HN more news and discussions rather than technical specific challenges.
No! I switched from Fortran IV to Fortran 77, and never looked back.
Tableau-like visual data exploration tool in JavaScript - would love feedback
Hi everyone,

This is Pallav from Charts.com team. Some time ago, we had released an open source (MIT) Tableau-like data visualization library Muze @ https://muzejs.org (original post @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193264)

We have now built a FREE visual data exploration tool - Explore @ https://explore.charts.com on top of Muze library - doesn’t need any signup/login to start using.

This tool takes in your spreadsheet data (CSV, Google Sheets, Excel etc.) and helps you create charts, visually explore data, create dashboards, sync them with live data, and export PDFs. On the data side, it allows you to create segments, conditional and calculated fields and more.

Currently, the entire app is built in JavaScript and runs in your browser (locally) - we do not store any data on our server. We are working on building persistent storage and connecting to multiple databases.

Going forward, we intend to take one of these 3 paths (and we are figuring that out, and we would love to hear your thoughts on this):

- Provide visualizations (Muze) and UI layer (current Explore UI), along with data connectors as embeddable components for any SaaS/internal app; for use by development teams to aid them build their dashboard/analytical interfaces faster.

- Self-hosted app (like Metabase) for asking questions from different databases (but with more visual exploration capabilities), with added layers for internal sharing/collaboration.

- Standalone desktop/cloud tool for exploratory data analysis; for use by business users and analysts. (like Tableau)

We’ve just launched this week, so I’d love some feedback if you can spare the time. Also, what more would like us to build in Explore?

Thanks for taking a look!

Link: https://explore.charts.com
What exactly do we actually see here? (I am surprised because there are vertices not connected to the origin, how were these detected?)
Saudi Arabia’s Phone Hacking Shows We Need Better Encryption – Not Backdoors
Dark Clouds over Facebook
Why I Procrastinate (2019)
Thousands of percents, right? If your 5% successes do not return at least 20x, you're globally in the red.
Yes, absolutely. Such things should require explicit consent from the user and be implemented in such a way that the application can't even tell if permission was granted or not. For a long time now applications have proven that they cannot be trusted to act in the user's best interest. If we care at all about personal computing, then applications should be isolated and sandboxed by default with any connection to the rest of the system under the explicit control of the user.

I'm sure someone will say you should only install applications you trust, but where does that trust come from? How can I judge the trustworthiness of an application if I can't use it first? Must I trust some third party like a community of repo maintainers --not to mention corporate run repos-- and pretend that they all must have my best interest at heart and never make mistakes? Am I required to believe in the fantasy that once trustworthy software will always be so?
To me cyan looks blue-green, really in the middle but also significantly lighter than blue, while indigo and violet both look purple-like

I'm not a native English speaker though, and as far as I know neither cyan nor indigo are commonly used in standard everyday language, but more in their own niches (printing, clothing, ...)
What happened to Mint?
Every prison guard in the world “learns” that almost every convict is innocent and is there by accident.

While Guantanamo methods are supposedly shady (and illegal in light of basic human rights and conventions), there is a very non-zero chance that the article is a made up and/or incomplete story by this convict. I’m not going to claim anything, but let’s not jump to conclusions on who is real evil based only on what someone says on the internet out of a prison cell.

It may sound hard for this guy, but if he’s innocent, he is still outnumbered by cynical liars who claim the same everyday. They have time at their hands to figure out ways to make life easier and constant deception is one of the methods used.

Iow, one of the answers on why it’s not a daily headline is because UN, human rights and those who make headlines check a little deeper -or- put it under “opinion” tag (like in this article).
I first drove this back in the early 90s when I happened to be near Swindon (for some training), and a friend (who often worked in the area) had told me about it, so I deliberately went to it. Bear in mind this is pre-common-internet use era, so everything was hearsay and so on...

He told me it was a 'nightmare', and 'weird' and so on. I was actually pretty underwhelmed when I drove it - it seemed really logical to me, and it was a bit of a non-event - I was expecting some kind of white-khuckle 'driving in Marrakech' sort of experience. I think people's perceptions of it are significantly different from reality, but maybe that's because it makes sense to me, but if it's as safe as they say it is, maybe not...
> Since very few games work great under linux it solved my issue with gaming too much.

A noble approach, but not true: (native Linux) Steam works great -- I've run it on Fedora and Linux Mint -- and plenty of games run flawlessly via WINE or Proton. Brand-spankin-new AAA games sometimes have problems, but the vast majority of gaming works well.

For example, my latest addiction is Rimworld, which runs natively on Linux via the native Linux Steam client.
By the time you reach Swindon, you've likely trained yourself well enough that it stopped being a problem.

It's much more dramatic near Dover: traffic is channelled from the port straight into a bunch of roundabouts. My dad was metaphorically scarred for life after disembarking a ferry with his Italian campervan in 1986.
SEC in Your DevOps: Adding the OWASP Dependency Check to Your Jenkins Pipeline
(Very) Basic Intro to Lattices in Cryptography
The facts don't matter. His reputation has taken a substantial hit, and he's been "soft-cancelled." It's hard to come back from that, in any capacity.
There's a lot to be said for the benefits of dialectic, but there's also a time and a place for it and the participants need to be on the same page and not threatened by it. You shouldn't take the "I'd just like to know what's so silly about race science of Aryanism" position with a Jewish person, for example, because they're going to interpret it as a death threat.

Less importantly (but still a matter of social grace) you need to know whether your interlocutor gets this all the time. Failing to do basic research will get your question closed on stackoverflow; engaging in dialectic to go over "settled" questions again and again is frustrating, and many of the people on the other side have got fed up with insincere timewasters.

> It is possible to be intellectually curious and also not a tankie.

To me those are mutually exclusive - "tankies" (and many other ideological factions) are people who've become tidally locked to a position and are no longer intellectually curious, but only interested in shooting down other ideological positions.
See my reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22127853
I’m not sure why you’re pretending to be puzzled; regardless of the veracity of the complaints, the Bulletin board was concerned enough that they did not want him there:

“Krauss resigned from the position of chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors when informed that its other members felt his presence was distracting "from the ability of the Bulletin to effectively carry out [its] work".[34][35]”

And could you spare us the boilerplate reactionary moaning about outrage culture?
In addition to everything you said, there is also optimization issues of your goals. Eg, I like to think of myself as a very long term focused person (over the last 10 years, at least), but my ambitions outweigh my energy. So I have to balance in short term "play" as a way to destress and enable long term progress.

The fact that we're not robots in that sense makes this even more complicated as we can't just choose our long/short goals and stick to them, we often have to set them up within the context of what we can actually achieve.. which I think is often less than people think.
I have no comment one way or the other on whether or not Tex/LaTex should be considered a "pestilence". But I will point out, for anybody not following the issue, that MathML[1] support on the web should be fairly ubiquitous soon. Why? Because Chromium is, barring some highly unforseen circumstance, getting MathML support. Igalia has been developing the code, and the upstreaming process is already underway[2].

Given that Firefox and Safari already support MathML, and assuming that neither Chrome nor Edge go out of their way to intentionally disable/break it once it is fully landed in Chromium, then we should soon be in a world where the 4 most popular browsers all have MathML baked in.

Of course there are MathML detractors who will argue against the notion that this is a Good Thing™, but speaking for myself, I look forward to the widespread availability of native in-browser MathML support.

[1]: https://mathml-refresh.github.io/

[2]: https://mathml.igalia.com/news/2019/10/31/mathml-in-chromium...
Sometimes I wonder why people spend all this energy to bash VC. It's a 4,500 words article and there's only have 5-6 companies to mention as failures of the model in the past decade, compared to the tends of thousands that raised money, and all of those are consumer-facing products.

The New Yorker uses Parse.ly (Venture backed company), GitHub (Venture backed company), BrowserStack (Venture backend company), Asana (Venture backed company), Hipchat (Venture backend company), just to name a few they listed on their Stackshare profile [0] (another venture backed company). I'm sure they are glad those were funded :)

[0] https://stackshare.io/new-yorker/new-yorker
The inside lane changes into the outside lane. This is usually done by traffic analysis. Meaning: it doesn't always immediately change the inside lane into the outside one. It works quite well for roundabouts with heavy uneven traffic (close to an Ikea :-P).
animate on scroll "responsive"

Top result doesn't have the word responsive, very handy.
You did note that in the meantime the real person he was mistaken for was also arrested?
Show HN: Tableau-like visual data exploration tool in JavaScript
I used to be a Razer fanboy but lately I got a Cooler Master keyboard on clearance and then a Mouse and now I am a fan.

I still have a Razer Orbweaver that I have programmed with commands to change virtual desktops, open console windows, and navigate quickly in web browsers.

For audio I have a Plantronics BT600 headset which I cannot reccommend highly enough because it solves nearly all the problems which made me despair about bluetooth headsets.

For one thing, it has a custom dongle, so if you want to move it to another computer you just move the dongle and then "it works", no need to un-pair, pair, re-pair. Also if you move out of range the sound simply stops, it doesn't switch over to the speakers to enrage your office mates.

Speaking of range, it still works a long way down the hallway in a steel framed building. Compare that to run-of-the-mill bluetooth headsets which often struggle with dropouts when you're sitting at your computer.
I didn't even know there were two versions of the TRS 80 (they weren't very common in the UK). Thanks for educating me.
Thanks CaptArmchair!

(seriously though, thanks :) )
I'm not sure that nationalising Windows would go down very well with the rest of the industry or indeed the voters.
In short, this article can be summarized: "VC used to fund R&D-heavy startups like Genentech and Intel, now it's used to make startups grow as fast as possible at any cost, just like cancer". Mostly agree with this.
Nice and succinct post!
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