skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That list doesn't include Tagebau Garzweiler, a 66km² (Garzweiler I) plus 48km² (Garzweiler II) large coal mining area in Germany. It's home to Bagger 288 [1] and Bagger 293 [2], some of the largest vehicles on earth.

The English Wikipedia article is surprisingly short but the German one is pretty long [3].

Starting 2030 Garzweiler will be filled with water until the year 2100 and create a 74km² large lake.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293

3: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Garzweiler (use DeepL if you don't speak German)
Too true! =(
I'm sure I've seen 410 in the wild, but it's pretty uncommon. If you're keeping track of things well enough to know that there used to be a page there in order to serve a 410, you're probably keeping track of things well enough to be able to do something better, like redirect to an updated URL.

> Who knew there were so many different status codes.

As an HTTP nerd, the authoritative listing of the different codes is: https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes

Note: Everything with a reference that's not RFC 7231 is an extension; don't use that status code unless you actually implement that extension. For example, don't use 401 (Unauthorized) instead of 403 (Forbidden) unless you actually implement the RFC 7235 Authentication extension.
A levelwise traversal usually performs well without much effort if you want to optimize for cache friendliness. It's not optimal iirc, but it's dead-simple and much easier on the prefetcher than an inorder traversal.

Edit: Oops, TIL the eytzinger layout other comments have mentioned _is_ a levelwise traversal. Anywho, it's usually a good starting point for this kind of thing.
If Trump loses the election, he will be likely be ignored during his lame-duck period.
> "multi-cloud doesn't allow you to fully leverage the benefits of AWS", whatever that means.

One of the selling points of cloud providers is managed services like SQS. If you run a multi-cloud architecture, you either can't use managed services, or have to build abstraction layers on top of them (and only use the features that exist in both cloud providers' versions of the managed service).

If you want to use a managed service that only exists on AWS, then that's obviously incompatible with a fully multi-cloud architecture.
Yes but you don't have to sell your service to Nazi's....roads are a official service provided by the government/people's taxes, CF is not.
> what they often miss is that Bloomberg is a great business because it has low churn, and it has low churn because its IM function is basically an exclusive club of approximately 325,000 people whose employers think they are worth at least $25,000 per year above their base salary.

This is the key insight. They create exclusivity through their high price.
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Beautyberry leaf extract boosts an antibiotic’s activity against ‘superbugs’
> an Information Ecosystem at Risk

At Risk? Where have these people been for the last 40 years? I don't want to say the authenticity of information doesn't matter. But what clearly matters much more is collective trust in information institutions and from that standpoint the ecosystem has already utterly failed.
Many do not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_apps#List_of_countrie...

US, UK, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Sweden are significantly affected countries without one.

I don't expect Germany to get a wow, only abscense of negative press.
It's still good to see such questions being raised in the community, especially when someone knowledgeable on the matter (such as yourself) has an educated response.
That was kinda my point. Mastadon has sadly other issues which let me stick with Twitter.
This crosses into nationalistic and ideological flamebait as well as personal attack, none of which is allowed here. We ban accounts that do this. No, we're not party members. We're just trying to prevent this community from destroying itself, including from turning into an ugly mob.

Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.
Let me start with the most obvious one. Start working on a project that you actually need and are going to use, preferably in long term. That is how I started Bilinual Project around 2 years ago: http://www.bilinual.com
And the odds of a vaccine being literally "mandatory" in democratic countries are essentially nil. No one is breaking down doors and holding families down to get their vaccines.

(What is possible is that schools and even workplaces require proof of vaccination once one is widely available if there is still a widespread virus risk. That could arguably be fairly coercive but it's important to distinguish from being "mandatory.")
Why not? How can it tell if you're remoteing? I though I've seen people use Bloomberg software over RDP and AWS Workspaces on Windows.
Democratic socialist is probably broadly what I would be, but I don't have much certainty on if it's the best choice, and I don't hold much stock in those kinds of ideologies.

On Chomsky, no matter how certain you are that violent revolution will lead to oppression, you need sufficient proof that it is happening before you condemn the government. Chomsky had, in my mind, legitimate reason to doubt the evidence coming through the US, and wanted independent verification. I doubt he thought Cambodia would never do such things.

Even when a state is run by a terrible tyrant, that does not mean they are guilty of every crime imaginable. Wanting sufficient proof of their misdeeds before any potential punishment is sane. Waiting may cause more oppression, but brazenly punishing may hurt more people overall.

To me, the Iraq War largely proves Chomsky's point. Hussein was a tyrant, and as he had used weapons of mass destruction in the past there was plenty of reason to suspect he had them. He did not have them though, and the Iraq War has ruined millions of lives.
It doesn't have to be 32 characters/digits... You can express them with a broader character set, which will reduce the length some... if we add additional glyphs the expression can be shorter still.

If you use a combined uuid (partially random, partially by date-time), it could be easier to remember 2020-07-15-ch99izy332 or similar... then you can take the date portion which is easier to segment (for some) and a shorter string of the subset of characters used for VIN or similar... all lowercase, and making 1 and l the same as well as 0/O, 5/S, and a few others.

Just some thoughts on this. For that matter, you could use emoji for some of those glyphs.
I wonder if there are people out there who don't want internet infrastructure to be run by the government specifically because the government would protect freedom of speech "too much".
I bootstrapped a startup to $27m in revenue.

I woke up with knots in my stomach for months thinking about the things I would have to do to get customers and the non-stop rejection the day would hold as I worked to get a foothold for my startup.

There was no VC to call me to account, or VC firm to help with areas you I didn't like or couldn't do.

If I hadn't been able to hold myself accountable to do the things that I dreaded my startup never would have gotten off the ground.
Less exposure to virus = not enough to get symptoms, but enough to develop antibodies?
It's certainly depressing.

Are you having a hard time finding this?
My apologies, perhaps my memory was failing me. I can't find what I was thinking of and may have been incorrectly remembering this as twitter instead of google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23792767
Here's the google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z3YxCz4...
The truncated Taylor series is a polynomial, too, and also even, but has the disadvantage that it doesn’t distribute the error evenly (it’s zero at zero, but in general larger than that of the polynomial that optimizes for minimizing the maximum error over the interval of interest)

You may want to optimize for something else than minimizing the maximum error, though, as it may have glaring errors. For example, for sin(x), it feels worse to have sin(0) not be exactly equal to zero than to have sin(π/4) not be exactly equal to ½√2.

It may be hard to come up with a good better optimization criterion, though, and it may be easier to avoid ‘howler’ errors by making your approximation good enough.
> except he's also drinking whiskey from a beautiful crystal glass

And he has left the stopper off of the decanter like some sort of animal.

I think we are supposed to believe that the person here was just dicking around online, fiddling with paper, finishing his morning coffee, when all of a sudden he gets an email asking if anyone knows what's going on with the website.

So he stops what he was (not) doing, puts down his coffee, and starts poking around. At which point he realizes he needs something stronger than coffee. As he is pouring his glass he is confronted with the true horror of the situation, drops the stopper on the floor and just holds his face wondering why the Universe hates him.

I wonder if we can get JJ Abrams to option the movie rights.
> Is your hypothesis that a large company would consider violating important privacy laws for minimal gain (very slightly improved ad tracking)? It's possible but unlikely.

It's not really a hypothesis at this point. I've seen first hand plenty of companies that treat fines and lawsuits as a cost of doing business. If the expected profit is higher than expected fines, full speed ahead. GDPR does have large potential fines, but for all I know the math could still work out.

Not only that, but they have enough information on user locations that it might be worth it to segment it out. Take every jurisdiction a given user might be connected to, use the most restrictive overlap of laws, and track each user as much as legally possible. Most users are not under GDPR or similar, and if you miss one here or there you take it out of the fine budget.
Crowdfunding Lobbying
I want to give everyone access to finance based political influence. Unfortunately today only rich people, corporations, and special interest groups have real access to shifting legislation. Petitions don't work as well as we would like.

With DoBid, I've created impact funds that will be dispersed into the political campaigns of representatives to create impact.. we will use the same strategies employed by lobby firms, but do it at lower cost and instantly and universally accessible, over my DoBid's platform.

We are starting off with a BLM fund meant to leverage congress into a more pro-BLM stance and save lives, uphold justice. Very soon, we are launching Covid-19 and climate change funds to create impact here. As an election season approaches, we want to give everyone the power to shift legislative outcomes and to belong to a more robust, engaged, and responsive democracy.

This is the launch of a new way to access and influence democracy. For a more complete iteration of this idea please look to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCVxFayq74Q

for an independent video on the subject.
You're making this out as if this was a simplistic decision where everyone in the medical community agreed that masks were beneficial but agreed not to tell anyone because of limited supply and that's simply not the case.

In other interviews, Fauci clearly discusses how the community perspective changed as we saw greater asymptomatic spread:

> When it became clear that we could get the infection could be spread by asymptomatic carriers who don't know they're infected, that made it very clear that we had to strongly recommend masks.
>
> And also, it soon became clear that we had enough protective equipment and that cloth masks and homemade masks were as good as masks that you would buy from surgical supply stores," Fauci added. "So in the context of when we were not strongly recommending it, it was the correct thing.

So yes, while some hesitancy was due to (extremely legitimate) worries about exacerbating shortages of PPE, the other half is that they legitimately didn't think that mask-wearing would help the average person when the expectation was that symptomatic people would stay home and prevent the spread.

As that turned out not to be reflective of how this virus spreads, the recommendations changed.

Policy choices like these are almost never made for single, simplistic reasons. Even just these two points (effectiveness, limited supply) are almost certainly less than what they were considering. But when it became clear that both effectiveness was higher than expected and supply issues were resolved by the widespread use of simple cloth masks, those factors combined strongly shifted the balance toward pushing their use.
No. But it certainly generates clicks, doesn’t it.
A lot of people misunderstand the uses of a Bloomberg Terminal. I'm a former terminal user. Bloomberg introduced one of the first, and certainly the longest-lasting, social networks when it debuted in 1981. It is a social network whose average user earns more than $400k per year. There's not as many of those as there are Facebook users, but they have very specific needs, they are likely to know and need to communicate with many of their peers, and they consider having a Bloomberg Terminal a mark of status. Bloomberg benefits from the ultimate network lockin. If you work in a financial firm and you don't merit a Bloomberg Terminal, no matter how high up you are in HR, then you're not that important to the company. All those folks are messaging each other with their Bloomberg IDs, so they know with each message who's in and who's out.

For those who dislike Bloomberg's UI, guess what, many people within Bloomberg do, too. But over the decades, their users have learned how to get to their favorite screens by navigating through a pseudo-CLI, and those users do not want to learn something new. Anyone who has ever tried to build a tooling company of any sort knows how hard it is to ask people to swap out one set of tools for another. Your ideal UI for Bloomberg runs directly counter to the deepest desires of their historical clients. Mastering the useless difficulty of that UI, too, means you are part of the in group.

Finally, Bloomberg has set peoples' expectations across work spaces, and it offers many financial firms a standard tooling. Trader X used a Bloomberg Terminal at Firm Y, well, she'll get up to speed quickly with us because we also use it.

[edited to recognize the author understands the social network side of Bloomberg terminals, in line with comment below.]
Not for simple setups. If the same servers are used for both ingoing and outgoing, "mx" is all you want or really need.

If you use a third-party hosting service for webmail, IMAP, etc, where they might also handle outgoing for particular clients, or for hosted outbound services (EasyDNS offers this), then you would usually "include:" their SPF records rather than copy their rules and addresses.

Theoretically, hardcoding some addresses might be useful as a performance optimization or failsafe, but I'm not sure the value is that great, and it adds to the workload and disruption risk if and when you have to move networks. But maybe the value is greater than I'm aware.
Ethereum developers dare hackers to break Eth2 testnets
So you know of Filenet and Neoxam jobs I can get without relocating? Changing companies isn't so easy for everyone, especially with a family to support.

I agree that software devs have more power than other non-unionized workers. But we still get screwed on a industry level. How many times do you see someone get a 5% promotion with the expectation that they work 10-15% more hours. My buddy in construction has a union contract so he knows exactly what the expectations and duties are, not to mention he makes as much or more than I do with his overtime.

By standardized contract, I mean on a company by company basis. I'm tired of one pagers that say the company makes the rules and can change them anytime with or without notice. In case you were wondering why I took a FileNet or Neoxam job, it's because the company tricks new hires by advertising and hiring a person for a "Java Developer" position and then putting them into whatever tech they feel like.
inflation is hitting today and tomorrow, unexpected expansion of the money supply IS inflation. Prices going up is the effect that you're alluding to, this happens after supply/demand information passes through institutions, it's only a matter of time.
Please do not take HN threads into nationalistic and ideological flamewar like this. It's not allowed here because it leads to community-damaging discussion and, unfortunately, ugly mob behavior.

HN is supposed to be a place for people to exchange their views with openness and curiosity, regardless of how much distance separates us and/or how wrong we feel the other is. Comments like the one you posted here pour poison over all of that. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There's always a line

This is where you've gone wrong.

There isn't always a line, some businesses are in the business of selling products and services and not in the business of policing content. And if some of their customers are pedophiles or the like then have the police arrest the pedophiles and leave the fry cooks and gas station attendants out of it, even if the pedophiles eat food and drive cars.
> As for portable specs, if Open Group, Khronos have taught anything, is that there is a big difference between paper and real hardware/platforms.

But… they don't even specify ISAs, they specify APIs. I'd wager the big difference is only natural. Another way would be for a vendor to design their ISA on their own, then make it public. If a public ISA gives them an advantage (and I think it could), others would be forced to follow suit. No more unrealistic consortium. :-)

> faulty undocumented firmware bugs

I hope that today, any hardware bug would trigger an expensive recall, and firmware bugs would just be embarrassing. CPUs today do have bugs, but not that many. We could generalise that to the rest of the hardware.
Code is more precise then prose. Someone could say "we already tried X" then you can test it yourself. Repeating an experiment could be as easy as a git checkout.
Disinformation is pretty bad and hard to combat.

The common game my family will play is "I've done my research and it's XYZ" When asked "Oh, what resources did you use to land on XYZ?" It's very frequently met with silence.

The problem, as I see it, is that they'll read something on a facebook post which agrees with their existing biases. Over time they'll see the same thing reposted but with a slightly different twist and.. viola.. They've "researched" it.

A good example of this is when anti-vaccination comes up. If you've done your research, you know that vaccines are safe[0], effective[1], don't cause autism[2] and pretty much a good thing for most everyone (excluding immunocompromised and the very VERY few people that react to vaccines). Yet, still, I'll run into family on facebook that have "done their research" on the matter and generally can only link back to some anti-vaxx blog post for evidence (if that, often nothing).

What's worse, they'll completely dismiss any evidence to the contrary as being "shills", "biased", "payed off" or whatever other conspiracy theory they like. They've made the position their identity and refuting it makes them feel attacked.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/index.html
[1] https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/graph-us...
[2] https://vaccines.org.il/images/4/4e/Vaccines-are-not-associa...
I've found some coin pockets to be the right size and shape to securely carry a single ID or credit card or hotel room key in times where you don't need or want to carry a full wallet. I've seen coin pockets rebranded "golf pockets" for similar reason that golfers find them useful for scorecards and maybe a pencil.
Back online, sorry about that, folks!
How is Eikon doing?
It's a great judge of "Initial Quality", but a poor judge of "Reliability". When someone says their car is reliable, they mean it hasn't needed service for a decade.
I would recommend João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Jorge Amado, Carlos Heitor Cony.

If you like police stories, Patrícia Melo is really good.
Hi! It's technically possible to test your localhost though it's a bit of work with ngrok. What we're seeing more and more of with our customers is they stand up ephemeral environments for each PR, or each merge, and then use Reflect's hostname and URL overrides at run time to target their code changes with the tests they already recorded against prod or staging. We've worked with Release W20 (https://releaseapp.io/) in the past to demonstrate running Reflect tests against each PR. I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but similar in spirit, I think.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893690
> It depends on your market.

I was referring to (small and medium sized) personal blogs and websites (like the one in this post), i.e. not a digital commodity on a market. If you're out there to make money I realize you have to be more fancy with what you put out there.
Cisco fires employees criticizing Black Lives Matter
"Magic mirrors" don't work with e-ink since they require a lit display to shine through the mirror.
This might sound a bit harsh and overly dramatic, but frankly you're better off not worrying about it and going the route that Super Mario speed running has taken.

They require, in the harshest of cases, (1) a full-length video of you actually playing the session, with input methods visible in frame, hosted on a publicly accessible site such as YT or Twitch, (2) game audio must be audible and undistorted, and (3) hardware input tracking software logs - I'm not sure what the application they use is called but you can easily find out. There might be other requirements I forget, you can probably google it easily.

With these things required, the community polices itself. Staying ahead of these things in code is completely wasted effort that could be spent on positive coding, which grows the community and therefore reinforces the self-policing.

These requirements might seem harsh and alienating, but I'd just say "get over it, if you want to compete, these are the rules."
How Long Does Covid-19 Immunity Last?
That’s the possibility, that lower viral load led to milder outcomes.

There was also a swiss military study where one group only got infected after distancing implemented. Positive cases, but no symptoms. Earlier group’s cases had symptoms.
Plagiarism, ‘book-stuffing’, clickfarms the rotten side of self-publishing
> A lot of people, including the author of this piece, misunderstand the uses of a Bloomberg Terminal.

The author says: "[The terminal] is basically an exclusive club of approximately 325,000 people whose employers think they are worth at least $25,000 per year above their base salary."

So I don't think they missed the point.
But it is slowing down. In computer vision, we had MNIST solved and waited for more than 2 decades of exponential growth in compute until ImageNet was solved. That 98% percent accuracy on ImageNet is nowhere near good enough for applications like self-driving cars. How many decades until we reach a 10^6 error rate? Keeping in mind that exponential growth in compute is over.
Switch on noprocrast option in your profile and put maxvisit to a small number of minutes and minaway to a large one.