skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Automation goes beyond manufacturing. Even a simile spell checker saves a lot of time over doing it manually.

That said, labor has been cheaper outside the US for decades, yet manufacturing is still 2+ Trillion dollars per year in the US. In part it’s because you can’t simply move farms, oil wells, or forests etc. But, business friendly regulations, educated workers, efficient transportation, etc are also huge contributors.
Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
I figured it was just Crostini.
I'm not sure. Determination is not automatically positive quality.
10 years of prison time for a single non-violent crime is extremely rare in America.

What can happen in certain states, is that repeat offenders are hit with escalating prison terms each time they are convicted (the classic example are the three-strikes-your-out laws), whereby someone can be sentenced to a life term.

In those cases, sentences don't translate to actual prison terms since non-violent offenders are routinely paroled.

There's still a lot of heavy handedness, and I question the justice of escalating sentencing, but the comments above create a false impression of the US justice system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
Dammit, now I can't think about anything else but how to design such a protocol, and how to generate adapters which translate between this protocol and the API of a library...

Edit: From the perspective of the interop protocol, it wouldn't make much difference if the library runs in the same address space or in a different process. Large blobs of data, like an picture or a long string, could be passed via pointers (in the same process) or via shared memory (in different processes).
Similar to the butterfly effect in a way.

Looking at a regression model as an example in equation form:

Y = a + bX + e

Some "proportion" of a phenomenon is understood. However, many things are not immediately understood but only seen to be a factor in explaining a phenomena if looking at things from a very complete, long term perspective.

Something which we are unlikely be able to do.

Many people can feel when an action produces a ripple effect. Now think of tons of ripple effects interacting, some influential, some not, etc.

Anyway, back to the equation - we have +e the error term, which is the uncertainty that any such explanation will fully predict how something plays out.

I think what you're getting at is the error term also has characteristics.

One of those properties could be that certain things advance all, others are bad for all. Just to tie it back to your other comments.
Spotting Broken Processes
I seriously doubt we have seen the last of nuclear bombs.
We just haven't re-triggered the case where someone somewhere concludes they'll solve their local problem.
Bio/Pharma/Ag tech companies are a nice mix of this. Their products tend to be high risk of failure, but the companies are 'established' and know how to work the regulatory environments.

Also, the smaller companies tend to need good software people that can take the excel/matlab models and turn them into something enterprise.
And a good company will have (former) engineers in senior leadership. Most of the tech companies I've worked for (non-fangs) had former engineers up to the CTO/CDO/CIO level. Not exclusively, but there was a pretty good chance that the manager or director of a technology department used to work in the salt mines.
That’s why I do like TheFoundation.com - their advertisement is a bit cheesy but the core idea: to go out and find real world pain points for existing businesses and then to figure out a software solution for them and even get paid customers with a solution in mind has something exhilarating about it. Automation, saved time, progress. Eventually your domain knowledge becomes so huge that you see opportunities to enable a paradigm shift in an industry and larger amounts of capital become available.
Long term committed relationships are a compromise from at least one party. At least one has settled.
As cynically as that sounds it's the truth whether most people would like to admit it or not.
SettingWithCopyWarning in Pandas: Views vs. Copies
Would be interesting to know who downvotes me and why. Especially if they have any personal experiences from Swedish 80s political climate.
Couldn't we, basically build a mega structure to block out the sun, and put us in a near ice-age to build up ice stores? We maybe have 5 years of horrible winters and ice, but then after we have enough ice we can leave the shade down for a bit.
Yes.

Some abstractions are good, but I've seen many projects where an abstraction layer or interface is added that does the exact same thing as the code behind it. Or even more often, there will be one or two specific functions in the layer that does actual work, but it would've been fine to just write a helper function for that and not wrap everything else. It's actually pretty rare that whatever needs to be abstracted covers an entire conceptual area to the point where thinking of it as a "layer" makes sense.
That is true for either definition of position ;)

I subscribe to the theory from How I Met Your Mother - there's always a settler and a reacher in a relationship. It's just unavoidable, though over time the two might swap, for whatever reason.
Google, as well as many other companies, has long relied on Wikipedia for its content. Now, Google and Google.org are giving back.

Google.org President Jacquelline Fuller today announced a $2 million contribution to the Wikimedia Endowment. An additional $1.1 million donation went to the Wikimedia Foundation, courtesy of a campaign where Google employees decided where to direct Google’s donation dollars.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/google-org-donates-2-milli...
I predict MITM will be normalized and no amount of "MITM is bad for security!" will work.
is spark that widely used? arent people moving away from it for deep learning frameworks like tf?
What's with the top header constantly appearing and disappearing in this website?
Tacit knowledge is the lowest rung of understanding. It's the understanding that cats and dogs form, unable to talk but able to listen and consider. The main difficulty is that, because one cannot express tacit knowledge, one cannot reform or improve it.

Part of why operationalization is so important in the hard sciences is because it gives us access to otherwise-inacessible things, including tacit knowledge. The only knowledge that is tacit for the typical person is the knowledge of how to move muscles. For example, to whistle, the tacit portion is the pursing of the lips, but the rest of it is music theory which can be communicated and taught using language.
Yes, we are using it in production (somewhat) - for a a few tables.

Our workflow with it is:

1. Stream new data into a partitioned S3 bucket available as a table in metastore.

2. Use Hudi to create a copy-on-write compacted version of the table (think SELECT * FROM (SELECT *, row_number() over (partition by uuid order by ts desc) as rnum) WHERE rnum=1).

Now people who are interested on the snapshot of the table rather than the event log can query the Hudi table instead of the raw event log tables.

This has improved perf for the common use-cases while allowing us to use a common pipeline. Earlier we would have to dump such data into an RDS (Aurora Postgres) with UPSERT but that meant table bloat was an issue and cost was high depending on the date-range we wanted to store compacted.
Communication Is Key
Aren't “rats” racing too little these days?
Because you can see in the graphs that the bare pi doesn’t get that hot. If you allow just a bit more heat to escape you push the graph down to where the peak sits just below the throttling point.

For home/hobby use this doesn’t matter too much but you typically want to run as hot as allowable. It’s a win-win since small heat sinks are cheap and don’t have any moving parts.
I don't know about the crypto design of OpenZFS, but I have been running Ubuntu 20.04 with root pool using OpenZFS crypto since it's release. You have to make a small hack to the installer to do it, but otherwise it seems to be working great.

I documented the installer hack at: https://linsomniac.gitlab.io/post/2020-04-09-ubuntu-2004-enc...

Before that I was running my storage server using LUKS on the raw devices and ZFS on top of that, since 2008, and that worked well.
I was also interested about it and from my research, Fish has two major differences:

- it enables the cool functionality out of the box, so unlike zsh you don't need to have large configuration file to enable everything

- it is not afraid to break bash compatibility to fix confusing scripting issues, so fish most likely will fail when executing a bash script, but writing scripts in fish should be more enjoyable
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AIUI, Google does give proper credit to Wikipedia whenever it's reasonable to do so. Technically they don't even need to do this for a lot of basic machine-readable information that Wikidata is making available via CC0.
Reminds me of the "Duke of Hwan and the Wheelwright" by Zhuangzi, from Chinese philosophy; a wheelmaker can't tell you exactly how much force to apply to a wheel or the experiential parts of wheel making, you have to do it to be skilled.

https://www.mensetmanus.net/inspiration/fifteen_minutes_a_da...
Fascinating to me that it is humanly impossible for any individual to remember ALL the laws yet ignorance of the law is not a defence.

:)
Indeed, productivity growth is actually lower than in the past, so we're actually in a phase of slower automation. I think one thing that doesn't get considered enough is the viewpoint that we're currently in a post-automation revolution world. We generated a lot of excess capacity and weren't able to funnel it to productive uses, hence the rise of many things we see discussed here like "bullshit jobs," excessive administration, zero-sum industries, parasitic industries getting people to buy things they don't need, etc. My guess is that increases in automation won't eliminate jobs but will just further exacerbate these issues, unless there are some sort of societal changes.
Cloudflare's MITM is normalized and very good for security.
This 100%. Private prisons are used to create a contrast statement for corporate suppliers of prisons and lobbyists to "show" how cheaply operations can be done. They are a conference booth to lure states in regarding shredding prisoner QOL for a 6% revenue increase can work without increasing the inmate death rate too much.

The Industrial private prison complex owner group don't want to operate, they want to sell support, training, equipment and materials to public prisons not operate (like a defense contractor), because a prison is very complicated management problem and has little public reward over budget efficiency sadly (things are changing but slowly).
Iceberg solves more problems than what Hudi does. The biggest win is computed partitions and not having to define a strict partitioning strategy from the start.
I certainly can't justify the actual number, but we have very little in the way of drought tolerant crops.
Most plants that produce a lot of calories - from potato to avocado - require plenty of fresh water. If there is suddenly a shortage of water for irrigation, and of natural rainfall, most crops will fail. I am talking about crops failing in Europe, the areas that are already arid are totally fucked.

There are two possible remedies: cultivation of new drought resistant breeds, and glasshouses.

Cultivation of neew breeds takes decated, even with GMOs. To date we have never demonstrated adding drought resistance to a staple crop to the extent that it would survive significant droughts. Could it be done if suddenly unlimited funding became avaliable? Who knows.

Regarding glasshouses, they are technically capable of supplying food with massively reduced water usage, because evaporation can be cobtrolled. Per unit area, a glasshouse can be >10x as productive as a field.

The challange is that they are massive and take a long time to build because of scale required. There is also a massive difference how advanced and effective a glasshouse might be. Your average glasshoe in a backyard isn't gonna cut the mustard. However, netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of fruit & veg and they are a tiny country, this is all due to glasshouses.

Currently only a miniscule amount of your caleries come from greenhouses. We are talking about a decade-ish to cover enough agricultural land to make a difference.
> I think you want to seek out companies where the main business risk is technology risk still.

I like how you phrased that. In the past I've said that I want to work for a technical manager on tech product for a tech company, but that wasn't quite right.
I've followed the IPCC and knew some scientists. From what I gathered the IPCC seemed to be toning down their scenarios to make them politically palatable. Just an impression.

> the pessimistic among climate economists have predicated impacts somewhere along the lines of 10-15% of global GDP

Economists decided to disregard externalities. I've zero faith in official economics. And newspapers try not to scare people, that's where they make their money from.

Added: the climate scientists I knew were borderline panicking 15 years ago at least.
The most amazing guy who wrote the book on mod_rewrite (Rich Bowen) is from the same tiny town where I grew up in. The apache software foundation upstream folks are super good people.
Extinction is outside the prediction of most (all?) serious models. A big reduction of population and perhaps nasty living conditions are possible, anyway.
U.S. Falls Out of Top Average Internet Speeds Globally in 2020
I dont believe it the case that Google is returning the correct info though, and I believe attributing this primarily to zeroclick is wrong.

As the latter part of the article says, for a while now, google has filled the top of the page with tangently related videos, places to buy music, and other media, when all I wanted was the wikipedia article. They seem to have demoted wikipedia off the first page of many search phrases. I have to search wiki directly or add wikipedia as a search term to bring it back.

Google is not saving clicks, they are making me search twice.
Just Eat Takeaway.com Nears All-Stock Deal for Grubhub
They make money from it. Those are referall codes, the kind you give to your friend so you get a $10 discount on whatever the service is for convincing people to sign up. Furthermore, its messing with the actual URL you type out. This isn't declaring a user agent I. The background. This is intercepting and changing what you type to further their profit goals, which is unacceptable behavior from the browser.
What are you talking about? My feathers aren't ruffled. I consider them both nature.

I think it says a lot about HN culture that the mere mention of 'women' makes people automatically assume I must be some kind of misogynistic basement-dweller.

These days it's "the pickup game", before that it was "dating", before that it was "courting", and on and on back through the ages. Sure, men can play hard to get, but everyone knows that males tend to pursue females. It's not controversial. It's just the way we're wired, likely due to our biology and the consequences of reproduction for each sex.
I tend to prefer RT over IMDB as a starting point because the former assesses whether a review is generally positive or negative. It gives me an idea of whether a movie/show is worth looking into. If even 70% of reviews are positive then I'll drill down and skim the actual reviews to get an idea of whether it's something I will personally like. If it's something like 5% of reviews that are positive, I probably keep looking.

IMDB always seems to skew mid-high since they're averaging out lots of "star" ratings. Seeing 3.5 stars doesn't tell me much. But even if 90% of the reviews were "nothing amazing, but fun to watch" then there's a chance it might be fun to watch.

Obviously it's just a tool for sorting and surfacing options, but it can be useful. I probably won't depend on a review aggregator to decide whether or not to go see a movie in the theater, but they are helpful when I see a movie/show pop up on Netflix or Amazon and I want to see if the general consensus is "worth a watch" or "effing terrible".
Well, It may be that the only solution to the climate problem is for all the people to die.
If you assume there are plenty of suitors, then playing hard to get would advertise yourself to the folks on the higher end of the desirability curve, possibly giving you more selection there, and having reasonable fallbacks otherwise.

If there aren't a lot of suitors, then you'd probably want to go for the best you can get, because there's probably not much better, but almost certainly worse.

I wonder if there's a good way to formally analyze this
>Given it violates the principle of “one person, one vote”

I believe that the less populated states would not have joined the union without the electoral college.

They may justifiably feel that it's still not in their interests to give it up.

EDIT: Fun fact: technically the states elect the president, the constitution does not specify a popular vote for that office, and there doesn't need to be one.
Because humans have a choice in it. Women can choose not to do it, the female cardinal can't, it's just an indelible part of their mating ritual and instincts. Ought implies can - there's no reason to be angry at someone for something if they can't help it.

In addition, female cardinals do that ritual because it's a way of filtering for mates without conscious/rational assessment and communication... something which human women are entirely capable of, so they don't need wacky evolutionary tricks to do it.

But also, the GP doesn't seem to have his feathers ruffled anyway, so it looks like you're just searching for some offense here.
I think this is extremely shortsighted. If this were the whole story, then why would Google be going through the effort of integrating Wikipedia data into zero-click results? Out of charity?

No. Because big picture, those people who go to Google and leave without clicking anything had reinforced that Google finds everything they need easily. It makes them more likely to come back.

So Wikipedia does lose clicks to Google in the sense that it loses to Google an opportunity to impress its brand.

Side note. If you have Firefox I would suggest that you go on Wikipedia.org, right-click the search box, click "Add keyword to this search", and pick a keyword. This makes it faster to find information that you know is on Wikipedia.
Sure. They should claim "it doesn't matter," not "it's false." By the end of the article I felt the author said something like "substitute more design space and dev activity for blame analysis."
Another month, another hack on Nintendo accounts... What is up with their security?!
Just like I tell people that buy cordless drills at Harbor Freight, "sometimes it IS the tool". Does that mean you can't build fast, meaningful, cool things with it? Of course you can. But, the deeper you get, the more problems you'll have to solve with weird esoteric knowledge. I'll agree with all of your points on horribly inconsistent and broken language features.

I get that people that have grown up with the language, or folks who have used it full time for years, don't see these blemishes as that big of a deal. But to newcomers, or folks from other languages, it's an affront. I hate to pile on an old, worn out issue but, as a language designer/implementer, the moment you start working on `mysql_real_escape_string()`, a huge warning bell should have gone off! I'm fine if people want to question my competence in writing code. It happens all the time on HN. I've been at it for 20 years... so some rando telling me that I don't know what I'm doing is pretty common. What we find in PHP though is quite a bit of tribal/tacit knowledge. And it's wrong to blame the user.
I was personally hoping for more direct evidence. Considering the amount of time that have passed since the murder, my thought was always that the most likely evidence to ever surface was some intelligence records from old South African or Soviet archives.

After almost 35 years it would be next to impossible to find some gunman working alone guilty of it in court, even if he admitted to it. I'm guessing there's very little non-public info he could divulge to prove he was there or any physical evidence he could provide to prove his own guilt.

The best (and perhaps only) bet for physical evidence would probably be bullets with the same led isotope composition, and a plausible gun...
What maritime shipping can learn from brain network science
Spaced repetition doesn't provide benefits for topics that require understanding (hard science)
https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition#subjects
So if we could develop a global carbon tax which 100% of the funds goes into atmospheric carbon capture and over a 10 year timeframe bring our Co2 levels back to 1900 levels what then? Still too late?
i think the author is being sarcastic.
Just to be clear, no one is denigrating your good work holding this community together, it's not an easy job, granted, and we appreciate the time it takes to do so.

There are also no "dark thoughts" or sinister plots at play here. I was simply replying to OP who posed the curious question about how this thread evolved so quickly, and I as the cat, got killed.

However, we should both know by now that "anti-abuse" and AI/Algos only get you so far, we still need human moderation, and that was what I was doing -- using my brain to see patterns xD

I don't know what you want me to prove here, I don't have the data, I don't have timeseries metadata of posts or IPs etc. -- but it shouldn't take a genius to pick out at least a dozen early comments that had no comment history for >30 days and then all decided to comment at the same time on the same thread. Couple that with a thread subject that didn't really have anything of value (read: promotional) and it's quick rise to the #2 spot -- the conclusion I came to was that it was being brigaded/spammed/seeded/call-it-what-you-want.

This was all that I was trying pointing out, sorry if wasn't appropriate.
Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16619-5
If there is a general societal expectation of playing hard to get (imo one half of flirting), failure to do so will generally result in “dating down”.

Flirting is push/pull and it is fun for everyone because it amplifies the novelty of a new connection. People who don’t know how to flirt likely end up dating people who they were able to spark a connection with despite lacking that skill.
You misunderstand my point. It’s not that a person might be looking just for "great films to watch", in which case any streaming site might satisfy them. It is that a person might be looking for the great films, that entire canon of films which scholars hold to be important. Netflix is never going to have them all regardless of how much they rotate.
Will the Protests cause a Covid spike?
And Wikipedia gets its information from their editors. When are the editors getting their fair share of the money? :')
Neither this article nor the previous one (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/tech/nintendo-accounts-hacked...) mention how this breach took place, but I'm guessing it's reasonable to assume that this was related to credential stuffing.
The last 32 bit Mac was shipped in 2006. They announced they weren’t going to port Carbon to 64 bit about a decade ago. Was there really any great surprise that you shouldn’t be writing 32 bit software in 2015 let alone 2019?
For some industries where the software is doing something mission critical, it's important to have complete control over the software and even more importantly, you need someone to sue
For climate change, perhaps. But as with COVID-19, the most serious threats to our species will come with little to no warning.

It's kind of miraculous that we've survived this long.