skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source vs closed source aside, why would one use Crux instead of Datomic?
Uh, who are you? I don’t have the eye for the difference between 2 and 3 kiloton blasts. Maybe I’m the exception to the rule, but I don’t think so.
It is interesting that recipes are not art but rather fact. The same with fashion. I think that SpaceX has trade secrets rather than patents because there is nothing stopping China using the information in a patent whereas a trade secret is obfuscated.
Good points.

Im always on the side of charging more where it makes sense. Still learning the market.

I am doing B2B integrations where they get access to the tool embedded in their product and an S3 link sent to their system for $20k annual.

This breaks down to $1.6 monthly.
I am seeing other analyses that put the size of the explosion at about one tenth of this size.

The analysis in this Twitter thread correlates the observed degree of damage with the distance from the explosion. It comes up with an estimated 240 tons TNT-equivalent, though naturally this comes with a considerable margin of error.

https://twitter.com/GeorgeWHerbert/status/129071971954515968...

This Twitter thread is making the point that the explosiveness of ammonium nitrate can vary significantly depending on how it is stored. 2750 tons of AN at 20% efficiency gives 550 tons TNT.

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/12907955327014256...

This range is also apparently consistent with the explosion registering as a 3.5 seismic magnitude.

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/12907348507695267...

There are still a great many unknowns, and none of this should be mistaken for the real analysis which will come later, but these disparate sources of information all seem to agree with each other, to a first approximation.
Thanks for reminding me about MeiliSearch!

I think you meant your 2nd link to be https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic#readme
> If you expand forests that’s ongoing sequestration.

If you expand forests it's a one-time sequestration. That's my point.

> One doesn’t count rainforests or boreal forests as “zero carbon” capture. They have an ongoing capturing capacity.

Each ecosystem has a turnover time. For rainforests it's like 20 years. For tundra it's as long as 65+ years. But in a stable state these carbon "sinks" are net zero carbon capture. For every ton of carbon they capture, a ton of carbon is released through decomposition.

A recent study published in 2019 said that if total emissions, agricultural land use, and other factors remained steady, planting trees might buy us 20 years: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2927/examining-the-viability-o...

The problem is that we're pumping out alot of carbon: about 10GtC/year. The entire Amazon rainforest sequesters only about 100-200GtC. Actually, the biggest problem as I said is that we're pumping out carbon from a resource (Carboniferous period deposits[1]) that can never again be recreated, at least not without significant geoengineering.

[1] Carboniferous deposits occurred at a golden period, immediately after woody trees first emerged, but before microorganisms evolved that could decompose them; trees could be buried long enough to fossilize before microorganisms could release all the carbon back into the atmosphere. That can't happen today naturally, at least not at any scale that could help us.
Reach out to me on Twitter @michaelaubry
You’re trying to make this into a race issue, when that’s not really the case here.

The justice system in San Francisco bends over backwards to keep criminals of all races, classes, and backgrounds out of prison, and especially so with Covid-19.
> Desktop Client is only 1/3 of the overall Dropbox traffic -- the rest 2/3 are split between Web and API

Interesting! I assume the desktop client is still dropbox's main product so that's surprising to hear. Is it because the desktop has everything cached and rarely has to download whereas web and mobile has to download a fresh copy each time they are viewed?
How did you manage Unsubscribe links?
It’ll be interest to see if the $30 gets you unlimited views or if it’s like pay per view rentals where once you start it you have 48 hours to finish and then you can’t watch it any more
Afaik fully developed forests are basically carbon neutral, so it's not a permanent way to offset carbon emissions. However we have a lot of unused, deforested land on this planet so it can be a carbon sink for quite some time.
>I think they consider the warehouse drivers like what I used to do temporary, till they get their drone fleets up.

Why even bother with drones when you can pay a person $8/HR with zero benefits thanks to collusion with lawmakers to bust unions and stall the minimum wage?
Sure thing buddy
They don't understand the original tradeoffs that led to client-side only applications.

Let them experience the pain of rebuilding that old wheel :)
The bots aren’t snatching the orders.

Other shoppers, competing for the same business, are using software programs to compete more effectively and efficiently.

This is not an exploit. Access to deal flow is first-come, first-served.
You sound like a real fun person
I've replied to other comments in the thread, but yes TikTok content varies between regions but the broad point is the algorithm will regress towards the wholesome instead of fragment towards radicalism over time. It doesn't not represent whole of Chinese internet, which your observations cover, but the model that survives censorship laws to reach wide spread popularity by focusing on wholesome content to preempt frequently arbitrary censorship whims. Petitioning and politics and dissent is widespread over Chinese internet, it's not as closed as most in the west believe, but they're happening on other platforms and serve as release valves for complaints and contradictions. Douyin / TikTok is where you go to avoid all that. So if you've been growing up on western internet, seeing Twitter / FB descent into insanity, TikTok is a welcome reprieve, with the caveat that said reprieve is by design and not novelty - it may very well fall out of favor with ban or time, but at it's heart, it's designed to stay wholesome which makes it an interesting alternative model in western market. .
Yes 100% it does make it safer.
If it is an anonymous account (identified only by a made up user ID and password), then that limits options. If a user supplies credentials when creating the account, including a valid credit card that ties back to the individual, then later on when a reset is required the user can open a paid support ticket with a credit card (either same one, or another one in their name).

If a user is more paranoid, they can select the list of recovery criteria at MFA creation time. This can include the common method of charging the card, submitting two small amounts (less than a dollar each) in the user's bank account and having the user report those amounts back, followed up by a physical letter with a reset code. All of this gets paid for by the initial credit card charge ($10 would be reasonable for many people).

Also, have the option of registering more than one MFA.
I really appreciate your good humour about this, but it seems to me to be less classy to delete the original comment; it invalidates later comments, and leaves people to infer what is missing from contextual clues (in this case ample, but not always). Why not just put a note up top saying "EDIT: I misread; thanks to jkaplowitz and toomuchtodo for setting me straight", while leaving the original post intact?
It's not clear to me why you need to spend so much fuel hopping around on Mars or the moon.
Important also to note that a quarter mile is the unit at which one quantize one's life.
Picking quotes as I did does lend to an impression of nitpicking literalism. But to quote myself now, my point was at a higher level than refuting factual assertions:

> ... the problem here is evident: black-and-white, either-or thinking.

If you put the problem in terms of creators needing to be well paid, on the one hand, and their creations needing to be free and universally accessible, on the other, you've set yourself up a zero-sum cage match. The first quote I pulled from Nathan was more nuanced than that, lamenting paywalls but accepting them, because "it's complicated". The second quote I pulled, from the end of Nathan's piece, puts things more absolutely, leaving less hope.

If the problem is being stuck between the rock of creator comp and the hard place of free, universal access, the solution is recognizing that neither of those is absolute, immovable, or perfect. Not all creation requires or deserves compensation. Not all information needs be free and convenient to everyone.

If you stop thinking of open/closed and free/paid as toggle switches, and embrace that they're actually pretty fine-grained dials, it's no longer a war between creators and consumers, and there are lots of practical things to try. Find the optimum balance in the situation and over time. As I suggest:

> When the works we need or want come readily available at affordable costs that we can pay, and paying is easy, there’s no great harm to access or progress or truth. That cost many not be great. But if a great many pay it, the results can be.

To make that more concrete: I don't think I'd pay $10 a month for Current Affairs. But I'd darn sure pay $3. Or up to $10, scaling up with how many articles I read in a month. Perhaps on top of free access to an archive of articles more than a year old.

I'm not sure how this ended up on HN, either.
...with a 22 ton steel weight (that little block) on the top of it, in addition to the entire weight of the test article and the fuel.
> So we either believe official statements

The closest to an official statement (US dept of defence officials to media) is that it is not thought to be an attack, Donald’s ex-cathedra ramblings notwithstanding.

Nasty accidents at fertiliser plants are unfortunately somewhat common; they dominate the list of largest non-nuclear explosions.

Also, why would you steal fertiliser from a fertiliser factory? Traditionally, I’m fairly sure people just BUY it if they want to make a bomb.
You can go to jail in the US for stealing stuff with almost no value. A pack of Tampax, a bottle of water, some expired food they were going to throw out -- it doesn't matter.

Frankly he got off lightly. He was in a position of trust (and leadership) and he stole the crown jewels, and if he'd been successful it is very definitely eating Waymo's lunch.

If he had violated the CFAA to steal the documents he'd be up for considerably more time.
I'm just as in favor of paid content as free. But I also think creators tend to see the free-paid and open-closed questions too black-or-white, and therefore err on the side of closing things too tightly or giving too much away. There are many, perhaps happier, middle ways.
Planting more trees has many benefits to the planet and society, and trees can be a large carbon sink - but planting trees doesn't always help mitigate climate change, and in some cases can exacerbate the problem.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200521-planting-trees-d...
I think Coke's moat (in addition to branding) is their use of coca leaves, basically impossible for any other company to source legally (at least in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_leaf
I think that’s certainly influenced this trend. Make the client side do all the hard work and server costs go down. I’m not sure how much that cost is, but I’m guessing it could be substantial.
Yes. I would cheerfully enable this for almost everything. If your product or service isn't worth several hours of my time to try to recover, then I shouldn't have to risk it being worth several hours of somebody else's time to steal it.
Class is a race issue.
We're allowed, but the vast majority of the time I'm inside. A typical day for me, pre-covid, was coffee shops, bookstores, that sort of activity. Now those options are not available so I am inside most of the time.
And yet, it continues to be fun.
Good God, imagine the bad publicity that comes out of that. "This is advertised as a security measure, but it's clear it's just a way to extort the user at his most vulnerable!"
Tech Companies Want You to Believe America Has a Skills Gap
I am not a son of an oil magnate but I live in a country where the chances for me to get kidnapped is way higher than to be hacked.
what are your thoughts on Adobe Connect?
<> ASAPP (AI SaaS company HQ'ed in NYC, with offices in Mountain View, San Francisco, and Buenos Aires <>

Founded six years ago, ASAPP is an AI software company with a vision for completely transforming how knowledge workers perform (think customer service agents for fortune 500 companies). We’ve built a cross-channel (voice and text) platform that leverages ML/NLP to give human agents real-time suggestions on what to do or say during a live customer conversation. We’re able to see how the top 10% most efficient agents perform, and pass that learning to the other 90%. The result is a first-to-market non-chatbot solution that gives agents modern tools to provide customers with the best possible experience.

Open Roles (NY or remote in US): <> Sr Backend Engineer (go/node/typescript/kubernetes/AWS for our core products team <> Application Security Engineer

Current Series B ($185M - one of the highest-funded Series B startups in NY venture capital history)
News / Press about us: https://www.asapp.com/company/in-the-news/
Headcount: ~350
Perks: competitive base salary / equity/options package / solid perks
All of our offices are closed due to COVID, so we are 100% WFH. When it's safe to reopen, we'll still be remote optional until June 2021 at minimum.
Please reach out to me at mike@asapp.com if you're interested in chatting.
And without ETH. Just with, you know, a server. With a dutch auction.
Getting sued / prosecuted for switching jobs.
Pressure cleaning can be thrown into this mix, although you can screw things up with too much pressure, so study up a bit before you start.

Could start for about 3k including a decent pickup truck.
Isaias leaves millions in the dark in Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
Don’t know if they have an Android app, but ClimaCell seems decent and they have a good API.
Ah, I did check out the specs again and it does indeed say it has a bunch of tuners, not decoders.

Mental slip then. Thanks for the correction, very interesting.
Code that is easier to read is easier to maintain and easier to debug. Code that is easier to read and more intuitive will, more often than not, result in a better product and better experience for the users.
Don't get defensive dude, it's obnoxious. All he said is it's not in the ballpark as a product that has hundreds of developers and over a quarter of a century of development effort.
It’s not a class issue. It’s not a race issue. It’s a “the Bay Area is not putting anyone short of convicted murderers in prison right now” issue.
This post discusses a back-end developer, but your /jobs URL instead only shows a full-stack developer listings.
> the President of the United States said it was an attack

Meaningless. If Trump said the sky was blue, you'd be well advised to go outside and make sure.
Yikes, someone's got a chip on their shoulder :)

You're in your emotions whereas you should be making calculated moves to increase your chances of success, off of free exposure you're getting here on HackerNews.

Your project looks really nice, it is nowhere close to the feature set AfterEffects offers and that's a fact - it has nothing to do with you as a person or your journey.

Furthermore, your project is not competing with AfterEffects, it is competing with Fiverr or not bothering with adding 'effects' to videos at all.
Agency lacking clowns. If true, get to work.
Amen! A person near and dear got let go on some really snarky nonsense etc etc. Really stressful. But guess what? 90 days later they canned 2/3rds of everybody else including a whole bunch of the jerks. Their old office is black; not a soul around. They've got big customer and cash flow probs. When we heard this ... straight to the bar for a couple of celebration rounds. Hee hee hee. Meanwhile the person in question got a way better job.
One contrast I can think of between people in intelligence and Levandowski is tens of millions of dollars in pay... which actually causes me to agree with you. It seems mostly guided by an overinflated ego and a sense of invincibility.

Gotta remember not to drink your own Kool-Aid ;)
can you post links of article? are you saying he was not even that good of an engineer?
I remember this being one of the huge "aha!" moments in my linear algebra course. I'd been doing 3D graphics programming for a while at that point and suddenly all the mechanics behind the calculations snapped into place.
Thanks for the feedback! We can unlock 1Password for Mac via Apple Watch on Macs that have Secure Enclaves now. :) - Ben, 1Password
Because it's a kind of fraud. If you cheat someone out of $1M by tricking them with a Nigerian Prince scam, you go to jail. If you cheat someone else out of $1M of profits by selling their trade secrets to a competitor, you should see a similar punishment, right?
This was a federal case?
Just as an FYI, this account is a well known fake persona run by MEK cultists in Albania, not really a great source of info- note that it immediately began boosting a completely unsubstantiated theory that the explosion was caused by a depot of Iranian munitions.
It is a safer design because it is just 1 piece. There are a hundred ways it could fail. But that is within 1 system. Not multiple systems
No one has seemed to have mentioned it yet, but the game changer of Starship will be full reusability of both the first and second stage of the rocket. Falcon 9's reusability of the first stage was a huge step towards making access to space a lot cheaper. If SpaceX can realize full reusability with Starship it will enable things like large scale moon bases, space hotels and mars colonization. They still have a lot of challenges ahead of them, but today's hop takes us that much closer to the future of space as presented in films like 2001 A Space Odyssey.

The future is exciting!
Many people are only able to work on machines provisioned by their companies. Even if you could get your home iMac provisioned during Covid, you may be wiping out all your personal data and now you are dedicating a machine you paid for to your company.
Feel free to replace jQuery with regular JavaScript in my post.
At least some microwaves will run N minutes when you press the N button once. Also you can hit the add 30 seconds button a couple of times, and it starts running instantly.
Ask HN: Help with ISO evaluation. Is this a red flag?
I received an offer from a company in the Bay Area. I asked the them about how much options represent as a percentage of all options and also about number of outstanding options. They are not willing to share this information.
Startup is valued at north of $500 MM. Would you consider this a red flag? I don't have much data to evaluate options and how they would materialize later. What's your suggestion to evaluate ISOs?
Martin-Löf Type Theory
In a some tangential way this makes me think of Derek Parfit’s “repugnant conclusion”:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/
> what they predicted

From Bret Victor's "A few words on Doug Engelbart"[1]:

> Almost any time you interpret the past as "the present, but cruder", you end up missing the point. [...] If you attempt to make sense of Engelbart's design by drawing correspondences to our present-day systems, you will miss the point, because our present-day systems do not embody Engelbart's intent. [...] If you truly want to understand NLS, you have to forget today. Forget everything you think you know about computers. Forget that you think you know what a computer is. Go back to 1962. And then read his intent.[2]

1. http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/

2. http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
Thanks! I chose it because I want it to be public domain, people can copy, remake, improve, do whatever they want with it. Don't having to worry about any infringements.
not sure where the author is but the kidnappers around here don't care about these details. They are the generic fb/whatsapp users.
Most of the non-violent prisoners in California actually.
Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxy
To be fair, the hopper 150m test was ok. That was scaled down but retired risk for the raptor engine and fuel and controls. The full size is the same thing but with more structure and stress issues.
> "A Year of 379 Computer Days" (Y379) presents a historical overview of computing which sidesteps less compelling details, replacing them with refreshing dollops of trivia and humor.

http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/Y379/y379Info.html
Is the RAM self-upgradable with T2 chip?
Why shouldn't it be Electron? Should it be GTK? Why not QT?

Linux doesn't have a standard desktop environment or widget toolkit. Electron doesn't seem like a worse choice than the other options, and it's easy to find engineers who know how to work with it.

1Password doesn't just store passwords. It has a bunch of other features. It's a fairly complex app at this point. It also has fairly similar user experiences in Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and that's pretty hard to pull off. If Electron helps them accomplish that, that's fine.
Something like this is part of the background of Gene Wolfe’s “Book of the New Sun” series, totally wild books that are set in a far future earth. Mineral wealth is totally exhausted, and “mining” just means digging up the detritus of forgotten civilizations.

I’m really tempted to post spoilers by way of example, but part of the fun of the book is putting the pieces together and realizing what’s going unsaid because the narrator either takes it for granted or doesn’t understand it himself. Very strong recommend if you have any interest in sci fi/fantasy.
OTOH, the marginal utility of that opportunity cost is less.

Some people end up with their kids sexually abused in foster care because they had to spend a few months in prison. Is the reduction in marginal earnings for wealthy people comparable, really?
Do you believe that the people and parties who win elections don't have any effect on the policies of governments? Does this apply to every country, or do some countries avoid being controlled by puppet-masters?

I suppose it's possible that all the policy changes we've seen in governments around the world over the past decades have been due to changing whims of secretive puppet-masters which happen to coincide with the platforms of the candidates who ended up winning the elections, but I don't think that's the simplest explanation for the patterns observed.
I wish someone would convince Paypal. They require SMS for verification, no other options at all.
He does have a habit of revealing highly sensitive national security information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYX9nyr7rng
As I noted, mature trees can be cut to provide building materials, and new trees can then sequester more carbon.
Taping an envelope to your door clearly visible for the delivery person would still remain contactless. If the envelope is still there when you pick up your items, then no harm in trying