skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Using another service and being a wrapper around it is not all that impressive. He is also using workers which makes his solution expensive.

I run ifconfig.io which now gets just over a billion hits a day. It is basically an echo service, and it just parrots back what cloudflare tells it. But since I run it on linode, it costs me a whopping $40 dollars a month for 35 billion returns a month. Using workers would cost me several thousand dollars.

http://ifconfig.io/country_code
As am I, maybe this can be a lockdown skill to learn
I wouldn't blame the reporting... the scientists are also very conservative, because they're afraid of being labeled doom-sayers by deniers.
Of course, and I apologize that it was not more clearly stated. (1) climate models project changes in climate, (2) a body of evidence is emerging that climate volatility is greater in reality than predicted by those models, eg we are on track to hit 1.5 degrees of warming in 5 years time instead of 50, (3) therefore the models were too cautious or conservative in their projection of the rate of change.
This is why I've been building https://histre.com/

Tools like Confluence, Notion, etc require someone to spend time capturing this specifically, and that's why it never works out, imho. You get stale documents at best.

You need a tool that integrates with your workflow, where it can save the signals you generate and also when you do need to take a note manually, you do it in a way that doesn't break your flow.

I can't speak to the Roadster case you asked about of course, but capturing tribal knowledge and making it accessible is one of the big goals for Histre.
What’s wrong with Girard’s ideas?
Or they recognize that people have a right to protest but don’t appreciate the small minority who use it as an opportunity to incite violence.
Your brain gives you dopamine reward hits when you find a new article or topic, then you form a habit of looking for those dopamine hits. This habit is physically manifest in neural circuitry which your brain uses like a function to simplify its decision making, it uses that process to fill time and release dopamine.

So, you have to retrain your brain not to even start the process, you must be mindful and interrupt the process as it starts. Also, make the barrier to entry into the process very high, make it annoying and inconvenient to do the bad habit.
The essay is very good starting with this paragraph:

You'd think it would be obvious just from that sentence what a dangerous game they're playing. But I'll spell it out. There are two reasons why we need to be able to discuss even "bad" ideas.

Everything above that is just setting up the rest.
"UK schools or colleges may instead send an official order"

That might be some of the market.

My retired-teacher relative worked with children with various learning difficulties, and continued to use educational software on a BBC Micro well into the 2000s.

She said the comparative simplicity of the graphics and interface made it significantly more accessible for many of these children.

There were also special peripheral interfaces like this [1] which were no longer available (or maybe were significantly more expensive).

The micro:BIT is probably the current version of the BASIC Stamp [2].z

[1] http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Con...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Bit
> If the large crowd is told to disperse by government agents, you are no longer a peaceful protester.

There is no “except large groups” exemption in the First Amendment.
I'm a bit confused. This looks like a few hundred lines of code to read a value from a hardcoded dictionary. Even as a proof of concept it would be more sensible to just add two numbers or something, at least that gives the impression that you could also make the API do something useful.
BTW, it is okay to read stuff in parallel, and to take a non-linear approach to learning. Also people have different preferences for textbook styles, and they vary regarding pre-existing background knowledge.
Thanks I might learn soldering during this lockdown
>I just wish it had the larger screen like the Oregon series.

Yes true, the screen bigger and buttons less smush'i :-)
You don't consider HN to be social media?
As dmurray commented there's differences in what is counted. Another difference is that Paris proper has relatively small parks, whereas Berlin has several huge ones as well as lakes.

So yeah, Paris is dense, but if you compare block by block the differences are smaller.
I’m sure this comment won’t be popular, but this is making a mountain out of a molehill. I particularly like Go’s build system—specifically that it isn’t some disaster that requires learning a one-off DSL (a la CMake, Gradle, Make, etc) just to enumerate dependencies. It’s clearly not perfect, but it’s always seemed pretty reasonable to use a general purpose build tool (like Bazel or Nix or Make) to call into the Go tool for more complicated builds.
Noah Carl?
You are really tempting fate with this comment...
Despite the biographical problems, I agree with the comments on the essays. He's fighting the last war still.

Conventional thinkers are the builders of institutions. The people who bring us together. As an aggressively independent minded person, I see a dire need for that.

If socially minded people don't have a nice group to join, they fall back on the old toxic classics. We need someone to give us new unions, churches, universities, bowling teams, a group you aren't born into. The aggressively conventionally minded people are the ones who can do that!
I meant that someone could be "sheep"ly following rules and ignoring others when it comes to games, but "naughty" when it's about business or fiscality, and "tattletales" when it comes to religion.

That would be the same person, but behaving differently depending on the field or the context.
If your database based queue is introducing lock contention then it is doing things wrong. Since Postgres 9.6 there is `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` which completely eliminates the issue.
There’s a mountain of evidence that humans have been in the America’s for longer than the orthodoxy admits. It’s a political issue in academia apparently, those who made their career on a date don’t want to change it.
He didn't make any claim of any sort. He proffered an interesting article.
With this broad stroke breakfast also becomes a mission, if you want to have energy for the rest of the day.
The false dichotomy also applies here, either you do it and it's great, or you don't and dine your failure.
Do you need the lat/lon for this? Usually you'd just put in the nearest city.

Moment.js is probably the most prevalent time and date library.
It doesn’t account for the communication value of static types. Personally, I consider static types primarily a communication tool, so IMO the review’s interesting but not very useful per se. Also the main point of it seems to be “research on this topic is mostly bad, so far, so who the hell knows what’s true”. It could be that the research has sucked, not that there’s little discernible difference between the two on the dimensions measured.
> If I am scrolling hacker news, and someone opened a portal to the Australian outback, I’d probably put down HN (sorry, folks) and crawl through the portal to hang out for a bit.

Which will, of course, be a fun VR diversion when the fully immersive video capture is accessible enough.
> he seems to refuse to go anywhere that has weather. Maybe he melts like a witch when it rains or something.

It seems to be de rigeur in this thread to point out that he now resides in the UK.
Maybe they can use it to simulate load and stress on pedestrian bridges for some of the other Florida Universities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi...
I don’t know. I’ve never even thought about it. Until now.
Prior comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318558
Well they’d have to pay people to do it well haha
> Because it’s tied to behaviour.

We wouldn't call illegal gardeners a Hernandez, or terrorists from the middle east Mohammeds. Those are behaviors too.

What makes it wrong is picking an ethnic name to associate with that behavior. Karen is a euphemism for suburban, white, female.
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Absolutely. Really, look at major events in history period. The fall of the Roman republic should be a regular topic of study in every western school. Understanding history is the greatest tool there is to understand people and the patterns we find ourselves in.
> After I yelled at my doctors for years to look more deeply

This is the thing I hate most about dealing with doctors. As a child doctors failed to diagnose in me a condition so obvious that a friend of my mother, who works at an airport, was able to figure it out from a mere description. Still my mother had to get angry with the doctor before he would perform a simple blood test for it!

Like in any profession, most of them suck at their job. That wouldn't be such a big deal except that the system in the US is set up to make it absurdly difficult and ludicrously expensive to shop around.
Nope, you are not the only one! That is an issue of the font renderer using an “even-odd rule” in vector rendering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%E2%80%93odd_rule

What is your OS & OS version? This has generally gotten better over the past couple of years.

You can also use the static fonts, however, which don’t have vector overlaps, and Will therefore avoid this issue. In fact, it you were working on print design, it would probably still be better to use static fonts at this point.
I think the example with the soccer field is great. People think and speak differently if they know that there are taboos.
Overhead.

SQLite resources are a lot lower due to the database being a flatfile on the OS. It's only main resource is storage.

MySQL is a application that not only requires configuration, tweaking, turning and tender-loving-care but consumes constant resources utilising the processor, memory and storage.
I’m struggling to see how antibiotics harmed others.
Intel has been hollowed out by contractors and H1B workers. I don't think the raw talent is there anymore. The company is just running on inertia.

AdoreTV has a video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxSclh27uo
> You don't have to be independent-minded (from the group) to be "average" successful. Quite the opposite.

If this is true, then what exactly separates successful faculty from unsuccessful faculty? There are lots of graduate students who want to be faculty, but only a small percentage do. What do you think the distinguishing factor is if not some kind of new ideas?
I think in some areas you are right: The general population is not that affected (yet!).

But in universities and open source projects there absolutely is an oppression of free speech. In open source projects it is usually corporate directed middle managers who no longer program, so they have to profile themselves as bureaucrats fighting for a cause in order not to lose their cozy jobs.

And fight they do, Robespierre style.
I can’t speak for the states but I feel strongly that the aggressive conformists are gaining ground on several levels of society. One can avoid the worst of it if as you say one stays away from certain threads online and I’ve personally taken steps to do so but the way it has started to permeate broader academia and work places is creating a real problem which needs to be addressed and the fact that sensible people are speaking out about it now is encouraging.
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Literally ‘functional banking’ :)
Most fields and forests aren't walkable.
Think some people here can benefit from reading these two:

https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities-Reality-Antho...

https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Be-Disliked-Phenomenon-Happin...

Why? They help to rewire your brain and help you detach from a lot of the things and ideas. Not a silver bullet (depression is one of several, natural, human states) but may help some who want to avoid the pharmacological route.
They were "peaceful" - as in garbage everywhere, and blocking literally every road downtown in the middle of the day as people got off of work. When the cops tried to clear the roads, using megaphones only, the protesters responded by chanting fuck the police. When the police formed a line and walked down the roadway to clear it, hours later, people started throwing shit. Late evening, they lit the parking lot on fire, with regular people's cars. To retaliate to the police trying to clear the road for those cars trying to get out of work and drive home - at like 9pm.

In my opinion, there has been literally no police overreaction to protests so far. Even the old white guy who got pushed. Yes, when you're told to leave, and instead you don't, you get pushed. Maybe if you're old and fragile, and it's dangerous for you to get pushed, you should have left.

This was nothing though. The next days downtown was destroyed. You had dudes running out of a destroyed starbucks with boxes of coffee, chanting nwa. Yes, 99% of the looters in Chicago were black. Just like all the people who killed someone here (about 400 murders per year). The white people defending the rights of black lives were all peaceful, except for making people's lives difficult with garbage and roadblocks.

The next day the girl in the apartment next to mine started dumping out trash out her window on the people looting the stores on the ground floor. She had to move. Her apartment was covered in bullet holes.

No, I'm not a trump voter. not a biden voter. not a bernietard. Just a guy trying to live a difficult life and get through the day, like most people are. Black lives do not matter. No lives matter, or should matter to others. But interfering negatively with people's lives matters, to those people. So I cheer every time the protesters get gassed, or shot in the eye with a rubber bullet. Just like I cheer every time a cop gets shot.
It seems like it could be explored, but it seems that it’s more of an inability to successfully petition for the time, money, expertise necessary, as well a possible lack in initiative, leadership, and responsibility to take on these tasks and projects.

Seek responsibility, not power.
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I work on a small team which does its own operations. Anything logged at WARNING goes to our production radiator. Anything logged at ERROR goes to our production radiator and makes it play an annoying sound.

If you overuse WARNING or ERROR logs - as i initially did on joining the team - you will rapidly get feedback from other team members to knock it off.
That's a false dichotomy. In natural law theory, the "ought" proceeds from the "is". The good of a thing is determined by its nature. Thus, we eat food because it IS good for us to do so and we OUGHT to do what is good. A thing's excellence is teleological. In other words, is/ought is only a problem in a materialistic/Cartesian metaphysics. A hylomorphic metaphysics, on the other hand, has no problems with this. I encourage reading Aquinas and Aristotle to this effect. We've been brain damaged by a very crude worldview taught in schools that must be confronted and undone.

So given that, while empirical science doesn't determine moral truths per se, it can give enrich out understanding to permit us to make moral determinations. A good example is fetal development. Before science was able to know how prenatal human life begins and develops exactly, the accepted theory in the West held that the human organism comes into being 40 days after fertilization. However, we now know that the human organism comes into being at the moment of fertilization. This fact has moral consequences and we must adjust our moral judgements and actions accordingly.
You reminded me of this quote “Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.” -- Stranger in Strange Land.
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() Your solution shows you don't understand hemispheres or seasons.

I don't. Who does??

When was the last time a city dweller needed to worry about where the Earth or moon was?

Things we do need to know:

• How many days in a row do I have to work

• When do I get my next paycheck

• When is X product coming out

• How long do we have to put up with X politician

• When should I plan a vacation

• When will it get colder or warmer

Except for maybe the last 2 questions, all of the above can be answered by a calendar that has nothing to do with astronomy whatsoever.

Farmers and scientists can continue to use the astronomical calendar of their choice. Perhaps make one that is specifically designed for them, in maybe a S%.M% format, where S% is the percentage of Earth's solar orbital period we are currently at, and M% is the moon's orbit.

For the rest of us ordinary folk, we would be fine with a "Human Calendar" that is simply a cycle of working days <-> weekends, with some holidays thrown in every N weeks.

Say a 4/2 or 4/3 (work/rest) day week, 4 weeks in a Human Month, and an 8-10 day holiday every 3 such months.

A Human Year could be the equivalent of 9 or 10 months of the current calendar, the average duration a new person takes from conception to birth. :)
We can distinguish between pure and applied innovation, though. Coming up with a new algorithm which can be applied to facial recognition is a pure innovation, deploying that algorithm to monitor political dissidents is applied innovation. I would not agree that the latter example "isn't anything in moral terms", even though the former is.
Please don't over generalize to the people in those countries.
> Since one's quadrant depends more on one's personality than the nature of the rules, most people would occupy the same quadrant even if they'd grown up in a quite different society

This contains a strong assumption of nature over nurture. I push back on that. (A point of evidence being salivary cortisol correlations with high-stress childhoods and even prenatal environments.)

Independent-minded cultures produce more independent thinkers. A culture that censors raises children by rewarding convention-seeking behaviour and sharply punishing non-conformance.

(Counterpoint: Did the children of circa 1920s academics become academics at a greater frequency than those of postwar academics? Anecdotally, I think so. A lot of them, as PG hypothesises, became founders. That suggests an innate quality that seeks its environment.)

This might also be content-dependent. When I was young, I oscillated between tattletelling and rampant rulebreaking, with a memorable drive to stand out from my peer group. Notably, an inflection point, to my memory and, surprisingly, to my discovery a few years ago after reading childhood notes, was when my family immigrated to America. To-day, I’m passively conformist with the law, but moderately independent when it comes to personal social, political and broader commercial activities, enjoying standing out even if it means being quirky or disliked. I don’t imagine I’d have been the same in Switzerland or in India.
I think there are obvious cases where passive moral conformists (which you would argue are at the bottom of PG's rankings) are a net good in the world. PG doesn't spend any time highlighting this because it is not the focus of the essay.

Classifying people by their expressed personality is the best way to do it. If you refuse to judge a person by the content of their character you are blinding yourself.
You don't need to jump down his throat because he chose to not to be specific about what would/will replace coal.
The part of the essay that made me the most introspective was:

"
Princeton professor Robert George recently wrote:

I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it. "

I had to stop and ask myself that question.
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Use of antibiotics bred resistant strains, which are becoming a increasing danger for hospital inpatients.
With the UK leaving, Poland and Hungary and others sliding into very uncomfortable territory from a democracy perspective, and far right sentiments growing even in the western countries, the EU is heading towards a pretty dramatic identity crisis.

A big issue is the lack of tools to take meaningful measures in this, or similar cases.

There is the suspension clause [1], but using it is difficult, and could eventually lead to multiple additional departures. See this (older) article for some background [2].

The most viable (medium-term) way forward for me is to transform the current EU back into a a looser, mostly economy focused association. With a subgroup of states pursuing stronger, value-based integration.

I think that multiple world-powers are pretty happy about this development. Russia obviously wants to gain back influence and would love to destabalize the EU. They are funneling money to EU sceptical parties all over Europe, including supporting Brexit. They also have "web brigades" for online propaganda campaigns. [3]

But I also think the US grew unhappy about the economic (and partially political) strength of the EU in the mid 2000s, where we saw not only the Iraq fallout, but also the Euro established as a important currency. In the Obama years relations cooled off considerably. I don't think the US would be unhappy about a EU that is not broken, but weaker and more susceptible to influence. (the failure of TTIP is an interesting data point here)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_7_of_the_Treaty_on_Eur...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-can-still-block-hungarys-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades
"using provisioned concurrency"

What's the point of using Lambda if you have to provision capacity for it?

You pay a premium on the compute because it's able to scale down to zero (so in theory, it works out cheaper anyway), but in reality it only works well when you do everything in your power to have it not scale down to zero.
What exactly should the EU do about democratically elected governments?
As someone who claims to be educated on history, it is important then to remind yourself of why this actually occurs. You can't make essays dismissing some angry mob as if they are a homogenous hivemind. They won't listen to you because they literally can't listen to you, they act independently and uncoordinated. You have to tackle issues which cause them to be aggressive towards racists to begin with. Police brutality, for example, is still a threat not yet addressed. yet in all of Paul's preaching about the mob I don't see him making an iota of effort to do something that would actually stop the mob: fixing their issues. Instead, the current plan seems to be to dismiss their outcries and trod steadily along down the path of least resistance in a world that was already collapsing with or without the anger.
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Haha, take your point about the tendency to "classify". There is good reason for that however: he is a VC. One of the big things that keeps VCs busy is classifying/stereotyping teams and looking for patterns of success.
Yes, he should probably keep some of these "frameworks" to himself. There isn't enough since in there to be taken seriously in a peer reviewed paper. But hey, he is PG! And there are weaklings, probably not members of his favored quadrant, who swear by his views :).
Or what if the virus was intentionally released to remove a costly population demographic (old & infirm) that no longer have a cost benefit for the CCP/PRC GDP. Keep in mind that we still don't have valid numbers from China so we don't know how many died though back-channel reports say the reported numbers are much too low. The virus may very well have performed its intended purpose and any damage to enemies of the CCP is just iceing on the cake.
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