skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If feel like you’re arrogantly ignoring the fact that California is part of the much larger US economy, and all the benefits that entails.

And that despite the so called “good power sources” California still emits almost double the Co2 per capita than the UK (CA ~10 ton / capita; ~6 ton / capita; for 2017).

You’re also forgetting that most of the UKs deforestation periods occurred during World Wars I & II, so the US also benefited significantly from this deforestation.

The UK has also done a significant amount of _re_forestation. Increasing forest coverage from a low of 9% to 38% today[1].

So before you march around telling people to “step up” perhaps consider doing a little research, and examine your own impacts on the world. Don’t just belittle others.

[1]: https://www.ies-uk.org.uk/deforestation.php
All of their points looks like an attempt to justify bad decisions.

SW-7899-1252-5983 is simpler than username systems children could figure out on Neopets and Club Penguin? People can guess your username because they know your name is Billy?

Discord and Blizzard have the ultimate ez solution: What username do you want? Billy. Alright, if you want someone to find you, give them this string: Billy#1201.

Nintendo still hasn't made an online system as good as Xbox Live in 2002. How they justify SW-7899-1252-5983 as the ideal trade-off sheds some light that they might have an institional-level lack of intuition about what a compelling online experience looks like. Which is interesting because I think most people by now assumed catastrophic indifference.
It's nationalist pseudohistory. Russian language evolved, same as any other. Now, for some languages, the process of establishing the literary standard leans more on the de facto vernacular, and for others it derives more from the pre-existing standards previously limited to some niche - e.g. common liturgical/theological language, or language of science. In case of modern literary Russian, it's derived more from Church Slavonic than Ukrainian or Belarusian, which emphasized vernacular - but it doesn't mean that it's not a "folk language".
The boolean functionality in Paper.js is quite outstanding. I am not aware of any other Javascript library that features such a robust implementation of path unite/intersect/subtract/exclude operations.
The quality of life floor is unemployment.

Regulation never raises the floor. It raises the first step. To raise the floor you have to actually provision services.
I was thinking initially that it'd be an especially challenging thing bringing code from OS 9 into the modern era, then I realized that MacOS (formerly OS X) is almost twenty years old.

I've got some old PHP code that dates back to the 90s and is still running although I had to make some changes when my web host EOL'd PHP5 (I'd note that some of the files have a .php4 suffix).
> Doublethink quickly steps in to protect your ego from the cognitive dissonance, and you take another little step towards becoming the person you once swore never to be.

Engineers in Canada are awarded an iron ring on graduation. It is worn on the writing hand's pinkey and meant to remind the engineer of their ethical obligations any time they sign a document.

I rarely wear mine because of exactly these kinds of mental gymnastics you describe. One never thinks they are being unethical because one changes their definition of ethical over time.

Instead of the ring, I kept the small slip of paper they give you at graduation. The symbol of the ring changes, but the words on that page never do. Here are a couple example sections: "my care I will not deny towards the honour, use, stability, and perfection of any works to which I may be called to set my hand." And "in the hour of my temptations, weakness, and weariness, the memory of this, my obligation".
Also, companies are realizing that maybe they don't need to spend thousands of dollars for last minute business trips if they can just do a zoom meeting instead.
The optimist in me wants to think that the executive team realized they had about 4 or 5 months before they had to lay off these folks, so they decided to give them a few months of time to look for work and be with their families since there wasn't that much work to do anyways. Maybe if they do this, then in a few years when the economy recovered those ex employees would want to return to Airbnb.

Either way, it's a good package, since most people are getting zilch at other places.
Yeah Microsoft is Shit, but Apple is worse right now.

At least they don't have people arguing for their products just for arguing sake.
Have a nice life as an Apple fanboy.
And the platforms that do support OIDC properly just require a login portal URL to integrate support for it.

Want to add Microsoft logins with an oidc library? One url.

Want to add Twitter / Facebook signin? Go get an OAuth library and write several hundred LOCs to detail the scopes and crap you want form them because they are non-standard.
Cameras to monitor masks and distancing in France
> I picked California because I live here and because we're good at this

Source please
Something is definitely up with this benchmark - PixiJS can handle over 60k objects at once in this benchmark without even dipping below 60FPS:

https://www.goodboydigital.com/pixijs/bunnymark/

I checked the source briefly, and the problem is that the source draws every single rectangle manually every single tick. That's very inefficient. Just draw a rectangle to a Texture once, and create a bunch of sprites using that Texture. Pixi should be able to handle at least 10x the amount of rectangles if you do this.
Nope, I also have that problem. The same touchpad on Linux works flawlessly though.
What we get wrong about Machiavelli
With the United States heading for unemployment numbers estimated to be as high as 15%-20%, I find it hard to believe that people who are still employed are going to be ramping up their discretionary spending.

Just because you still have a job in May doesn't mean you'll still have one in August.
Like a Ruby dev is going to take lip from someone who thinks midnight is false.
The person that spends the time required to learn about game consoles on a deep technical level to write emulators. Will not have much time left to refine their social skills.

It is allot of personal free time they put in to these projects so I guess it is understandable that they want to protect their work.
J.P. Morgan's timeline has a forecasted second wave during mid-late winter 2020-2021. [0]

[0] https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/coronavirus-peak-recover...
Looks like it goes through a massive amount of effort to eliminate competing miners and malware. Should neuter that script and run it periodically on boxes :)
FYI I think Redwood is trying hard to be Rails for TS/Node...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537944)
The old app really still looks quite nice. Even windows 98-era apps look pretty good in a way.

One part of me doesn't like how much space is wasted by the new Mac UI trends shown in the second screenshot, mostly the left side panel. But I understand screens are different these days as well.
Kiss-headers – a Python package to parse HTTP headers to objects v2.1
That was also my first thought as well. Those things were awesome.
> ustifying it on the grounds of "productivity" and "readability". It seriously gets on my nerves. Do not do this.

On the contrary, please do this. "productivity" and "readability" are important aspects to consider when writing code, especially if someone else is going to be reading it.

When you've identified a bottleneck, feel free to write the code in the bottleneck more performantly, if necessary. But please do not sacrifice readability across the entire codebase for a couple of hot loops.
If costs go up, but revenue stays flat, then your largest expense must be cut (ie. payroll). No matter how many times this gets explained, I don't understand why anyone is surprised when it plays out in real life.

eg. If you raise minimum wage, some people will lose their jobs.
not me :D
I'm not so sure. Airlines have sent huge numbers of their aircraft to the desert for storage, so quickly spinning up flight supply and then spinning that back down will be expensive.
That demo is insane. Din't know the browser was capable of this.
Because of browser support honestly.

Outside of grid-layout, there is nothing salvageable from the CSS layout engine that cannot be done better inside a programmable view such a canvas.

Give it 5 years or so for WebGL/WebGPU to standardize, and new UI libraries with a better layout engine and UI constructs far better than what can be built on top of HTML/CSS will show up.

Nobody thought we would take HTML/CSS as far as we have, but it has already served its purpose.

Your comment reminds me of this article back then:
https://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web
California sues to make Uber and Lyft drivers employees
Beginners guide to Aweber email Autoresponder
Sadly, software has made it highly inconvenient to do bottom posting on e-mails. I gave up on that war years ago. Maybe around once a year—if that often—I may do an old-school interlinear reply to an e-mail.
> For instance, AWS doesn't have anything quite as tuned to fast frontend search experiences like Algolia.

https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ ?
In LA, there are a lot of airbnb properties being listed for mid to long term housing on FB housing groups.

I also saw a lot of student rooms available.
In Mississippi Money for Welfare Instead Funded Concerts, Lobbyists and Football
>- Mouse jumps after thumb-clicking.

I get this one on Windows with my touchpad (with Microsoft's 'precision' driver) but not Linux.

One that I don't like about the Macbook touchpad is that the cursor won't move for a short period after clicking, which makes it hard to click stuff quickly
I wonder if they have locks. Seems like you can just pop em off, put em in a bag. Pretty expensive accessory.
Some of the articles point have nothing to do with the age of TCP, some do, if I copy just two points:
1) TCP makes applications build their own messaging protocols on top
2) The three-way handshake (and connection shutdown) is slow and wasteful for short connection
(1) is a big issue but has nothing to do with the age of TCP whereas (2) is related to TCP's age: using big SYN cookies with the underpowered hardware of the time..
I've just started storing metadata in JSON format. Then, I have a cmake target that invokes a python program that reads in the JSON and generates .h/.cpp files which can then be consumed by other targets.

The advantage of this is that I can then use the same metadata JSON to generate documentation, or whatever I want.
I feel like you have this a little backwards. Surely AWS has done the work to show the savings from their services vs rolling your own. It's a little silly to just assume proprietary AWS services are an overall cost savings and ask for proof that it's not true.

And, most of what you're talking about doesn't really affect margins for a SaaS. Every AWS service hits margins, one time migration costs and even R&D time to build products does not. The marginal cost of using AWS underneath interesting features is very high.
It makes my eyes bleed, but so does C++ by itself to a slight degree. I imagine those that like C++ (or are forced to use it) might find it very interesting.

I wonder how this compares to hygienic macros that some languages support?
I don't think TypeEndofunctor conveys any additional information when discussing a Haskell typeclass.

> The short form was really adopted as a mischievous pun on the use of "functor" in the OOP community.

Citation needed.
I don’t disagree :)
US $699 https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-w...
All founders on HN when they see this no doubt have a twinge of envy. Imagine creating a brand so successful that you could do this.
Some of them are native, if you don't style them.
This is AUD. In either case, I'm not entirely surprised.

I'm repeating what many have said before: If you're a legit pro / enterprise, the value behind the Mac Pro is probably a lot more than the minuscule amount you'd pay.

For comparison, I've made 10x from my MBP, so I'd say the value and quality was worth it.

Edit: Ok, yes obviously you shouldn't be comparing the price of your work with your laptop of choice: but the experience and quality was definitely worth it more than the Dell XPS. I mostly ssh/use sublime into bigger servers, but the quality of Macs in general are so good that I don't put much focus on performance.
But this is contradictory. If you don’t care about credibility, why are you posting the content on wikipedia to begin with? Anyone can start a wiki, or a blog, or whatever.
I think I've only had one job where the employer funded $ amount of my health plan was actually spelled out. My expected contribution was always made known at enrollment time but the employer contribution was left to blind speculation.
In Australia (where we have been lucky and controlled the virus) there would almost certainly have been less deaths if they were in the general population.

Here there has been very limited community transmission, and aged care facilities have turned out to be transmission clusters (not just death clusters). I guess shared facilities, lots of people in limited space etc.

And it's proved very hard to keep it out of facilities despite the best testing in the world. So here in Australia, (with different transmission dynamics to most places) they have been more likely to be exposed in aged care homes than elsewhere. This observation is made with the benefit of hindsight though.

Counter-factuals are hard, but in the proposed model where all old people are quarantined and the rest of the population is left to be infected the Australian experience indicates that the quarantine for aged care facilities wouldn't have been effective enough.
Safari buttons on macOS are native unless you style them in a way that causes their font or size to change.
The craziest thing is they even charge $8 for non-ground shipping. I just bought from a website that did free 2 day shipping on all items over $50!
I wonder if in a long run this actually injures the brand.
Enron being the classic example of what you're describing.
I am confused. The animals killed in slaughterhouses... don't they also eat vegetation before they are killed? That vegetation doesn't need to be protected from insects?

The way you described it, it sounds like a cow appears out of thin air -- poof! -- then it is killed, and 1000 people can eat with only 1 animal killed. It's the people who step on insects while they water the salad who are the true monsters, because they kill 1000 animals for 1 lunch. But how many insects does the cow step on before it grows up and gets killed?
I spent a couple of years doing USDA/DOE research into oilseed biofuels. The short answer to your question is 'it depends'. Part of our work involved doing a LCA (life cycle assessment) on the oilseeds as a biofuel.

There are several considerations to be had here. Firstly, are you farming on marginal or primary farmland? Marginal land is generally marginal for a reason and will have typically lower yields. How are you farming? What intensity? Where do you have to move the product to for processing? What is the energy mix going into the processing workflow? Do you have to move the fuel again after you process it?

The relatively easy answer to solving for the above issues, is that in some circumstances, it can make sense for some farmers to generate some oilseed for the purposes of making their own biodiesel.
We used the rapid kit and also a gelbox / agarose.
If these are double trigger RSUs they don’t fully vest until two conditions are met:

1) the usual employed by the company for a certain period of time

2) some qualifying liquidity event (ipo / sale)

This is to avoid employees needing to pay taxes after #1 even though the stock can’t be sold. However for tax reasons there has to be time limit when they either vest or expire worthless. Depends on which lawyer you ask how long that can be, but generally most are less than ten years.
Still no brakes?
> Yes! You could have history of heart attacks and not find cheaper private insurance but I am hoping that isn't you!

Major medical health insurance in the United States for the individual and small business markets has had community rating since 2008. That means health insurers are not able to take health history into account when setting rates. They can only set rates based on age and tobacco usage.
This aligns with one of the few good takeaways I had from some unavoidable "agile coaching" I was subject to. The thought was that you can look at a person as a set of concentric zones from inner to outer, inner being "core values", outer being "behaviour" with maybe stuff like "attitudes", "beliefs" and "principles" between.

The details aren't important so much as the idea that as you go from outer to inner you go from objective and observable to subjective and hidden, and that in any critique of a colleague you should as far as possible stick to the concrete and observable (as per the "late-to-standup" observation) and strictly avoid as far as possible the temptation to make statements about the more "inner" zones such as "I feel you have a casual attitude about punctuality" where endless and unresolvable recrimination and debate can ensue, often mistaken for real and valuable discussion by those doing the criticising, since reduced visibility in these zones can easily lead to facile assumptions and insufficient comprehension on the part of the critiquer.
>who do you think Microsoft's B2B customers serve and get their revenue from

The cool thing about B2B, as opposed to consumer offerings, is that the contracts on those are usually multi-year. Just because the client enterprise suddenly receives less revenue from customers, it doesn't mean that they would be able to stop paying MSFT until the contract term is over. Unless this current lockdown situation lasts multiple years, it shouldn't affect things significantly.
Open data for Vancouver tree lovers, including map, export, API, etc.:

https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/street-trees/m...
Genuine question -- how does adding wheels to the Mac Pro add value? I figured most people would just plop it on a desk.
It's not about whether you've made more revenue/profit than the cost of the equipment. It's about whether you've made more than you would have with a competing option - a HEDT Linux or Windows workstation, plus an old Mac Mini build server if your business absolutely needs to run xCode.
A new set of wheels for your average Honda or Toyota costs just about as much. I want these and I don’t even own a Mac Pro. ;)
That’s a BIG difference
Similar experience. Beating WebKit on macOS in rendering performance or energy use is very hard for both Chrome and Firefox (and the clones).
I find it unlikely this will be the limiting factor in flight demand. Flights are typically booked a few weeks in advance, which is adequate time to go retrieve the planes from the desert and inspect them to insure they are airworthy.

It's not like people are going to be showing up at airports overnight buying flights for the same day.
You can make an argument that the Mac Pro provides real value over competing systems. These $700 wheels look pretty, but you can't argue that they provide real value over $20 alternatives like this [1].

[1] - https://www.staples.com/Mount-It-CPU-Wheeled-Floor-Mount-Com...
Ioannidis and team respond to criticisms of Santa Clara SARS-CoV-2 study
So this is why everyone in the valley needs mega pay checks. Likely Made in PRC made casters, $700 USD + shipping and tax. If there were ever a sign that Apple is charging too much for their products (as if the signs weren't already there over and over)...
The Mac Pro starts at $6,000. You can build a better PC for less than half that.

In my opinion, the Mac Pro and its relevant accessories are targeting a luxury customer that doesn't really care how much it costs.
Yes, it can be used to identify molecules. Here is an example application:

http://www.open-raman.org/quantifying-methanol-in-ethanol-us...

It can be used to detect and quantify methanol in ethanol. This is interesting because ethanol is (relatively) safe to drink, while methanol is metabolized to poisonous compounds when ingested. Methanol and ethanol look the same and have nearly identical densities. The odor and taste of methanol are distinguishable from ethanol only at high concentrations. Raman spectroscopy is one way to distinguish a dangerously adulterated alcoholic beverage from a safe one.

You do need to put a sample of the substance to be tested in the machine, though. You can't point the machine at a container in front of you and get a reading. Also, Raman spectroscopy is suitable for distinguishing many but not all substances. The Tricorder's capabilities for universal remote analysis are superior if fictional.
Do public servants (ostensibly politicians and law enforcement) have any expectations of privacy while on duty? By definition the public ought to have the right to systematically surveille, monitor, and track their behavior - just as governments do their public, and corporations do their employees or equipment.

It's fitting that the past decade has produced a neologism, "souveillance", to describe this approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
I parsed the comment as 1) "this is not an original idea, here is the genesis" and 2) "look at this cool video." The parent comment was addressing 1 and you are addressing 2.
Even crazier, Nintendo charges $5 for "UPS Mail Innovations" ground shipping (which basically uses the post office)
It's nice, that "the business" does not care, but that does not say anything about the language design of PHP.

PLT doesn't care whether "the business" cares.
Personally, I don't like operating systems that train users to enter login credentials while using the system as this increases the chance of someone capturing those credentials via spoofing.

I used to think Firefox trying to protect the entered passwords made some sense, but I've been convinced it isn't really such a good idea. Better would be a full profile being protected (with all files encrypted), or just rely on an OS level lock screen for inactivity lockout.

I'm not sure if the current system actually prevents recovering the passwords. Do they require this authorization even to use a show password option on a website or the equivalent effect via bookmarklet-style javascript? I suspect they don't and it doesn't try to protect from intentional theft only casual viewing of passwords. This might still be valuable for some people, but it would be more valuable to fully protect the profile. I worry that people will think they are more protected than they actually are and that this effect will be increased by the use of system login credentials.

Also, IMO the list of sites that you have passwords for should be treated as just as sensitive as the passwords themselves. I think as is you can often see the sites with accounts, visit them, and have the current password autofilled into the old password field of the change password dialog.

The "generate password" option is great, even though personally I would make it 21 characters rather than 15 (there might be an option for that?). IMO, no one should ever choose a password.
Just curious: why was the title changed for this? Does the word “beautiful” violate the HN guidelines?
Animals are lossy at converting plant calories into meat calories (varies for different kinds of livestock obviously). I don’t think it’s an obvious conclusion that more agricultural land would be required.
I'd rather work for Facebook than AWS.