skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth

First hit on Google is:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

First occurrence of the string "corrupt" in that article:

“Is it rigged? Yes,” said Charles G. Moerdler, who has served on the M.T.A. board since 2010. “I don’t think it’s corrupt..."

> Mohammed Nuru's Penthouse, Leland Yee and Shrimp Boy

OK, I'll concede those two. But both of those examples are from one city (San Francisco), so now at best we're up to two cities. That's not a "large number" in my book. Also, the Nuru example seems pretty petty (yeah, he built himself a nicer office than he should have. That hardly seems comparable to me to the President of the United States proposing to hold the G7 summit at a property that he personally owns.) And both Nuru and Yee were ultimately disgraced. Yee is still in prison.

At the level of Nuru and Yee, there are literally tens of thousands of Democratic officials of similar rank througout the country. Two examples of corruption, one of them petty, and both of them ultimately disgraced, hardly seems like a pattern to me.

By way of very stark contrast, the entire Republican party is covering up for Donald Trump.

And none of this speaks to the other problem I cited: denial of facts.
> Now we have SSL (do people really expose Redis on the internet??)

There are no secure networks. Your options are vpn, third party ssl, or ssl in the service. Sometimes, your datacenter/cloud will guarantee "secure" network (ie: manage vpn for you).

But in many instances having ssl "inside" can be simpler.

Postgres also offers secure transport.
Do you work on React/etc. on a regular basis?

I attempted to use Gatsby for a personal blog/knowledge base-style setup and was immediately turned off by the seemingly immense overhead involved (React, CSS-in-JS, GraphQL).

I ended up with Vuepress instead and I'm happy (so far, anyway); a big draw is that it doesn't really require any Vue knowledge to get up and running.
Borland had a C++ compiler too, but it was never nearly as popular as the Pascal-based Delphi.
One problem: the value of renewable energy rises and falls with fossil fuels. If oil is dirt cheap, well, solar panels aren't worth much. A few people will pay a premium for cleaner energy but most can't afford it.
I attribute motivation because when it came time to choose one sentence in their article to tweet, that was what they chose.

I don't deny there is some truth to it, but it seems perfectly suited for gaining traction through the Twitter mobs...
I'm tired of the people who are demanding we all stay confined to our house indefinitely. I've seen tons of buzz on twitter that seems to think leaving with a mask and practicing social distancing is akin to murder. Suggesting that there's a responsible way to resume some activity with appropriate caution is viewed as reckless and inhumane.

Has anyone tried quantifying the human cost of house confinement? If people are so concerned about the risk of not leaving, I think we need to start putting hard numbers around what these draconian measures are costing us. There is a cost and it's not even clear that have a good grasp of what it is. Outside of the human cost, there's major precedents and political ramifications.

Are we entering a world where we'll constantly do similar hysterics around trendlines of deaths and micromanaging policy? Clearly preventable, chronic disease is a far more potent killer but less visible since it happens over a long time period.
Five things a founder should know about investors
I wonder why that was downvoted. Anger for proving that arcadia never was?
Pro tip: get out of SV....
Sorry. I thought that would make it clear.

The request is for a code point to represent the visible external link character, not for an invisible control-code to decorate some structured data (which cannot "appear" on paper).
That's what friends are for.
I feel the same about my 4 years in the service. Once again, the job sucked, but you can't beat the camaraderie and the feeling that everyone really is looking out for each other.
Faster-degrading plastic could promise cleaner seas
I do support cbd use for medical purpose. Just to get high - nope! I have a friend who has a marijuana medical card and smokes weed for medical condition. Before that he was taking anti-anxiety meds that had multiple side effects making him feel like a zombie. Another friend uses CBD oil by https://www.vitalityhealthcbd.com/ and he swears by it
Absolutely. But if a web author quite reasonably adds a symbol for the benefit of the sighted majority, using an unlabeled image, an icon font, or coopting an existing symbol (e.g. degrees), that leads to extra clutter or confusion for blind users. If the symbol is in Unicode, we can have a solution that works well for everyone.
> Only if these enthusiasts are willing to take a loss on power.

An 8TB HDD doesn't use more power than a 100GB one.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of meeting notes, to do lists, random ideas?
Do you use an app (like Evernote, Notion etc) on a computer or use digital pen apps (Notability, Goodnotes) or just plain paper/pen? What has worked for you?
They don't know who I am so the buck is going to stop here.
Opendoor Used A/B Testing to Improve Page Load Speed
Why does redis recommend to not use huge tables? I'd like to experiment with using DPDK with it, but that requires huge tables
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this level of pedantic cherry-picking, but yet... I still find myself bristling.
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/brndn-io
You make a valid point. However I think that a significant section of the population would dedicate their time to other things. Even if robots could do those things better. E.g. music, art, philosophy, wood carving, knitting, gardening, etc
Vuepress → Github actions → static site deployed to GCP/Storage. Writing Markdown in VSCode is _significantly_ better than all the online editors I've tried.
Medical research is expensive to conduct, so it's not uncommon to see N<20. Additionally, more data is not necessarily better data since humans lie and it's unethical to force their compliance, so there's more of a risk for bad data with large trials. And throwing out bad data is selection bias.
As a comparison, we run (and I think this is pretty common) nginx proxy servers that point to app servers. The proxy servers handle SSL to the outside, whilst the connection to the app servers is simply http. Pretty sure that is an acceptable solution in most cases. So then this would apply to the SSL argument here as well.
Agile is the opposite of "closely scripted, narrowly defined workflow is a one-sized-fits-all solution to optimizing teams under all circumstances and contexts." You're thinking more of Scrum?
Sure the 700 or whatever penalty wasn’t the end state. Make it a $5000 penalty vs $2500 to buy coverage.
Climate models challenged by cloud modelling:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-clouds-hold-key-b...

Effect of contrails not modeled well, even though "contrail cirrus have contributed more to warming the atmosphere than all CO2 emitted by aircraft since the start of aviation.":

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190627113949.h...

New research shows the contrails are playing a significant role in global warming:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-airplane-contrails-are-he...

Little attention has been given to soot and snow albedo:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...

High loss in greenland due to soot and dirt:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/6/140610-connec...

Cutting soot emissions fastest solution to arctic ice melt:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/21/cutting-...

Now, the arctic warming has not been caused by soot, but by the reduction in average snow cover, caused by dramatic warming since the 1980s:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6883849/

Which coincides nicely with the increase in high-level cloud formation and heat blanketing causee by the increase in "great circle" air traffic since that time:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR

Now, why hasn't this been modeled? Because they are complex to model; pre-industrial clouds don't match post-industrial, and the modelers don't know why:

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-narrow-clouds-hard.html

So, now we'll see -- there will be a dramatic change in cloud formation due to not dumping 1/2 a billion tons per year of water into the super-dry upper troposphere, over a several month period. Good fun!

From a previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22224141), I wrote:

> Those now attempting to figure out the mystery of the hot climate models think one factor might have caused the recent unusual results: clouds. It turns out simulated clouds often cause headaches for climate modelers.

The impact of cloud cover in these models has been incorrect, and has such a large impact. Doesn't this strike anyone as a major problem?

We're burning about 100 billion gallons of aviation fuel per year.

> This means each gallon of jet fuel (6.5lbs) will combine with 23lbs of Oxygen and turn into twenty pounds of CO2, and just over nine pounds of water! (see: https://paullaherty.com/2015/01/10/calculating-aircraft-co2-...).

So that's 100B gallons * 9lbs is about a half a billion metric tons of water vapor going into the dry upper troposphere annually from commercial aviation.

Which, evidence would seem to suggest, has not been modeled properly (at all?) by these climate models?

If I was producing these models, I would be embarrassed.
This used to be true. But both Google and Apple release badware numbers and independent analysts do as well. Badware rates are similar on both stores and have been for several years. Play used to be considerably worse than the Apple store, but that is no longer the case.

Being late to take security seriously has harmed google though, since this idea is now out there in the wild and keeps getting repeated regardless of the current evidence.
HTTPS has multiple authorities. do you use HTTPS?
Nice work! Coincidentally I saw the product of your work first on the CubeWorld subreddit. You didn't lead on as to how much reverse engineering was required.
Agreed, sadly the demand is still there. It's so easy to get huge loans and as a result, there is no downward pressure on price. My tiny college had 5 full-time staff for "residence life", plus a dean of that department. Totally unnecessary.
You don't need a walled garden for that, a unified update api would suffice.
Seems like a less-good derivative of Briefcase: https://github.com/beeware/briefcase
If oil price goes down, demand for renewables goes down.

Lower demand for renewables means... Higher prices? Less output of actual renewable products like solar panels? Less demand for new wind turbines?
College isn't as appealing as it once was. In order to participate in the economy, we need a well-paying job. We're told to get a well-paying job, we need a good degree. To get a good degree, many of us have to go into debt. We finish college with a good degree but are saddled with thousands of dollars of debt (sometimes tens of thousands). And this college debt doesn't go away if we go bankrupt. It will always follow us. So, while we're trying to pay back our debt for a good degree for a dream to live well in this life, we also have to pay for our housing, to live, to eat, etc. It makes it so hard to save up for a house or anything permanent. Everything always seems precarious because it is. We're precarious. What's the point of a college degree if we're going to be in debt while working after getting the degree? Might as well skip the whole college part.
Are there other countries that have some kind of system like this in place?
Sure. Why not? If you're browsing a hotel you plan to stay at, you may want to spend some time learning about it before booking. Accidentally clicking an external link takes you away from that.

Techies will know to just open it in a new tab, but most will have to remember to browse back to the site manually. It can be a disruptive process.
Once again crushing the competition in single core performance, which is what matters.
Ah. I don't use forwarding so didn't consider that. Thanks.
you lost me at GNU
Uh then there is 0 difference between an older dev and younger dev (by your own definition other than age). An older dev that 'knows all the new tech' may not have the concentration you need. You can not tell me as a hiring manager if you see someone changing jobs every other year you think it odd? I know I do when I see resumes like that. If they have the right skills I ask them to explain it.

You are just justifying being ageist. You mental gymnastics to do so are in your second to last line.

Exp in older stacks, that are 'obsolete' in your eyes, has helped me so many times with newer stacks. They usually make the same mistakes/patterns and have the same bits connecting it together at the OS level. A more experienced dev from another stack may say 'hey if this stack had XYZ from this other stack this would be so much easier' They then will get that thing done.

If you are skipping people because they do not know your particular stack you are missing out on a lot of people. The fresh young grad is not going to know any stack and will have no exp to draw upon when it goes sideways. That is why you pair them with someone who does have that exp to draw upon. Sometimes you want that crusty old ways too. Linux is a hodge podge of tech smashed together drawing from well over 40 years of tech stacks. Each with its own quirks.
> I'm lost; what specifically is not the point?

That there is an organizational issue. Of course there is an organizational issue. There will always be organizational issues.

> Or explain why 20+ person-years of engineering time wasted isn't a symptom of broken corporate structure?

Oh, it's definitely an organizational issue here, that's just not the main point. If you're willing to call this a "broken corporate structure," then you should revise your opinion of every company with more than 50 employees downward sharply. This is a normal corporate structure, not a broken one.

> Could you explain how company size and broken corporate structure are correlated?

When there are enough people, you will always end up with conflicting incentives somewhere. A larger organization will have more of these. In this case, it seems to be a clear case of competing priorities: IT wants to secure systems, and developers want to be maximally productive. I'm sure some folks in IT view Amazon paying ~$7M as a fair cost to remove known vulnerable tools from their infrastructure.
No, not at all. Want to carry on?
>thousands of dollars of debt (sometimes tens of thousands)

I'd almost venture to say "tens of thousands of dollars of debt (sometimes hundreds of thousands)"
Yeah go irradiate yourself just to find out how fat you are, what could go wrong?
100% agree that writing clarifies my thoughts.

I will say there's sometimes additional clarification that occurs if I'm going to publish something (internally or to the world). I find that makes me aim for that extra bit of polish or certitude.
Security guy here. I'd argue that SSL and ACL are always good things to have, especially for systems that store data.

Modern security practices typically dictate a defense-in-depth approach. The ideas is that you will be compromised at some point (no security is perfect) and as such you should make any compromise that does happen as minimal as possible--you want to prevent attackers who get a foot in the door from rummaging around your network.

A key part of any defense-in-depth strategy are things like encryption and authentication/authorization. If you're using redis to store any kind of sensitive material, you want to make sure that only people on your network with the appropriate auth credentials can access it. This is one of the easiest ways to prevent drive-by data theft.

From here, SSL is a logical step. You need to ensure bad actors can't sniff network traffic and steal credentials.

I can't speak to streams or the other features you feel complicate Redis, but I think SSL+ACL are very important tools for increasing the cost to attackers that target redis instances leveraging those features.
Lens (The Kubernetes IDE) v3.4.0-beta.2
shame, shame, shame

[throws rotten apple]
> Drop the focus on languages. Choose one (popular) language and focus on understanding it well

While I understand this advice, your mileage might vary. I had the exactly opposite approach and did learn a ton of different languages, on the end making it my area of expertise as a compiler developer and language designer. Of course that's niche, but knowing only one language will eventually become a blocking point for every developer, especially in the modern world.
Your own blog first if not for any other reason then the fact that you own it and are not at anyone's whims but your own. I used it as an excuse to get Ghost up and running in my Kubernetes cluster. Win-win.

Then push content out to Medium, dev.to, Twitter, etc if you're looking for more of an audience.
I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how 15K+ in tuition a year is acceptable.

No sympathy here for the college industry.
The buy-back could happen in a country where it is not taxed, but token holders from all countries would still benefit from token price appreciation nonetheless.

Also, my simulations show that a cryptocurrency's market cap can be much higher than the value of the underlying assets from which income is derived. It depends on how strongly investors hold onto their tokens. It's a way to maximize net-worth at the expense of accepting more fragile trade volumes.

So token investors can have a higher net worth and better growth of their net worth if they're willing accept more fragility.

To understand this argument (as an extreme example), you can consider what would happen if a group of people were to issue 100 million tokens of a new cryptocurrency and then all together sell only 1 token each day for $1. The cryptocurrency's market cap would be $100 million. It would be extremely fragile in the sense that investors would not be able to cash out anything meaningful without completely crashing the price, but it would have the effect of giving them all a very high net worth. Moreover, my models show that this type of extreme situations with low token supply deliver higher % returns on net worth over time (assuming constant demand) but it requires extreme collaboration between participants.

This is an extreme argument but hopefully it illustrates the point that there is a spectrum of fragility which can be used to gain an economic advantage and that blockchain adds an entirely new dimension to standard economics. The idea of net worth becomes meaningless because it forces you to consider wealth fragility as well.
The problem is the loans. I have a funny feeling if loans were capped at say, 10k/year, colleges might all the sudden charge 11k/year to attend instead of 30k...
Yet Another Reason Dogs Are Better Than Cats
We started out with Flow, but moved to Typescript not because it's "cool" (I suspect it's the Flow users who are smoking clove cigarettes in black berets), but because the language improvements and tooling support are a huge productivity boost.
The killer is how flexible it is, it incrementally scales from straight JS to full-on type religion. You only have to use as much as you find useful.
Always always always own your own content. Don’t post on medium often (might be worth it to build a following).

I post exclusively on my own Wordpress blog hosted on vultr for $5/month. If you aren’t a developer I’d recommend some self service option.

To build a following perhaps try twitter, Reddit, and medium. There’s also probably locations to post short stories I’m unaware of
Portland, OR is planning on closing 100 miles of streets to help provide space for social distancing. I hope that from all this we get more initiatives around the world like this.

https://beta.portland.gov/eudaly/news/2020/4/28/transportati...
After traveling to 30+ countries and living overseas, there’s definitely an attitude difference. My mom growing up had no running water in a village, yet loved the huge family she was a part of. Now she’s in the states and deals with loneliness on a daily basis
I live in Colorado, though I definitely don't try to get outside as much as possible. If you have symptoms of deficiency, nothing wrong with asking for testing vitamin d levels when you get a blood test. If you don't have symptoms, nothing to fix.
Oh hey!! I use sqlitebrowser quite often! Thanks for you know making it exist and all.
The only demographic that matters in the long run is the youngest demographic, and that demographic is the most likely to own/use very underpowered hardware (Since they don't have their own money to spend on nicer hardware. Often they use hardware issued to them by their schools, or hand-me-down hardware from older siblings or their parents.) The specific implementations of Stadia/etc may not prove successful, but eventually I expect a service like this to overtake the alternatives for very young users, and subsequently, achieve dominance when those young users come to view those services as normal and familiar.
1. Use it for caching

2. Use it for quick lookups for user accounts

3. To queue up jobs that need to run whenever the job runner has slots available.

4. Use it to crash your entire web stack when you accidentally clear your redis instance
WebAssembly to access the DOM.
Do you write the same content (cross post)? Or do you write unique content for each platform? If so, how do you decide which platform for which piece of content?
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers
Pre-Make Your Decisions
Efficiency of renewables over fossil fuel at utility scale is a new thing that never happened in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

Most oil is currently used for transportation. Demand for transportation of people could be affected long-term.

Quoting myself here:

"There might be some semi-permanent change in people's behaviors if the epidemic continues for many months. Many people will form a habit of doing more things at home/online: more takeouts, more online shopping, live/recorded video classes, virtual meetings, telehealth, etc. Better online services will also spring up to support the habits/practices.

Since online activities often save time, the new habits could become a new equilibrium: people/companies who adopt them will often have an economic advantage, influencing others to do the same. Thus, oil demand could be significantly diminished long-term as well."
A new Erlang VM with just replicated functionality is a fairly hard sell to the Erlang/Elixir community, who brag with the industrial track record of the BEAM.

I believe you'd get much more interest if there was some ambitious new promise for this new VM, such as 10x sequential performance etc.
Not exactly, I tried to find a good example, this is the best I found.

https://youtu.be/4KDlSb8Qjp8?t=199

if the above not works, this is the video ~3:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KDlSb8Qjp8

Basically the forward(s) are goal hanging in the offside position way behind the defenders and they are played onside by a quick wing play.
First I put it on my personal blog (11ty+netlify), so I own the rights. I wait at least a couple days before publishing or promoting elsewhere (medium, DEV, hackernoon)
Free will under threat: humans are at risk of becoming wards of technologists
I’m using ghost at https://mattbrandly.com/

I intend to write more technical content, and I don’t think ghost is that great for the purpose. I wish I were writing markdown and generating static assets locally. Having to send highlight.js to every client for syntax highlighting is unnecessary.
Lower oil prices should actually also lower solar panel cost at least a tiny bit. Output of solar panel shouldn't change. Less demand? Yes. Oil is now cheaper relatively to solar so it's the preferred choice.

Edit: typo and punctuation.
I don't think this reflects the runaway warming scenarios that people are concerned about.