skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everyone: this is an intriguing idea.

I feel like if we did it, it would be sporting to reveal which comments they were, after a suitable amount of time.

One tricky bit is which accounts would post the comments. If they were all new accounts that hadn't posted anything before, that would lessen the value of the test. I'm not sure it would make sense to have dedicated accounts for this. Perhaps we'd have to sprinkle such comments among established accounts? With permission from the account holder, of course, plus swearing them to secrecy? That starts to sound complicated.
Rubbish. I went to New Zealand once and the fucking mozzies were the size of a golf ball.

I'll take the one redback encounter every 5 years in Australia thanks.
> Meanwhile, those fake degrees are literally scams. I.e. students (and their families) are being scammed for their money. The topics are self-referential (invented to be taught), and exist in order to justify spending few years on them, so that the degree rewards putting in work - which makes that degree valuable for employers in the first place. And during the course of that degree, various entities - universities, textbook publishers, etc. - are bleeding students dry. It's not just a degree mill, it's a money printer. The degree becomes purely proof of work, and on top of wasted years of your life, you also have to pay for it.

Please provide examples. I thought Communications was bullshit until I read a textbook. Cyber security is not a bullshit field even though actual practitioners hold degree programmes in it in extremely low esteem. What are some examples of business or other degrees that are in some objective sense valueless? Criminal justice degrees or fire science ones are hazing credentialism but they’re not literally worthless and the research they’re based on is real.
Would be interesting to compare this RethinkDB release performance against a modern time series database like Timescale[1].

[1] https://www.timescale.com/
on the other hand, the first few times I played factorio, I started thinking how to optimize my household...
Oh, you had tabs! We had to use new browser instances! Uphill, in the snow!

Seriously though, I still do this out of habit, as it's just how I like to read. Skim a front page, open all the articles in tabs, and then go back and peruse them.
I'm pretty sure it could with that DIDO technology that Rearden Labs produced. The think the sub company they started it under was Artemis. I always thought they're tech would work very well with satellite constellations.
Moz Corp is not a nonprofit
Why do parents go jump through hoops and are willing to break laws to get their kids into top colleges? People often say bribery is rampant in China. We have Super PACS and political donations and revolving doors.
Earth survived way higher co2 levels and we don’t emit nearly enough sulfides. There is essentially zero chance of Venus event happening. I’m more inclined that climate change can cause catastrophic war than runaway to ultra high temperatures.
That's my working suspicion. They gave up.
> When “scientists” are openly pushing for particular solutions (always involving massive government control and global wealth redistribution), they are politicizing it too.

Man the number of times I see climate change presented as a racial justice problem is nauseating
Circuit route design :)
So much for the vaunted innovation of IT in China. Watch censorship in real time as posts disappear before your eyes.
We are (100ish employees, SW development, Finland).
Or Wire... https://wire-docs.wire.com/download/Wire+Security+Whitepaper...
I think this is great. make and sell a game. No monetization tricks, no data collection idiocy. And they will have loyal fans.
Touché. I should have said China. But Ruby is, alas, the exception that proves the rule.
Here's one of a few articles that I found: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/13/854014403/your-boss-is-watchi...

Your company might be less intrusive than the norm.
The following graph from the paper provides a nice summary:

https://i.postimg.cc/g29fzpW1/sustained-mass-loss.png

SMB (surface mass balance; blue) describes mass that is gained or lost from the surface of the ice sheet, presumably due to weather/climate conditions of that particular year, such as the air temperature, precipitation, etc. D (discharge; red) describes the mass that is lost by the flow of glaciers, which reflects thermal and mechanical stresses within the ice sheet. As you can see, D doesn't change very much with the year, but around 2005 it became "macroscopic". The ice sheet was already shrinking by 2005, but both the SMB and D drivers have increased dramatically since then.

A poster above quotes one of the researchers saying that if we went back to a climate that we had 20-30 years ago, the mass loss would not stop. What I infer that he means is that if we went back to the atmospheric conditions of 30 years ago, then SMB would quickly return to its prior behavior, but we have no way of knowing how long it would take D to return to normal, if it would do so at all. A corrigendum is that the climate of 30 years ago was already much warmer than the preindustrial norm; in order to return to "normal" we should go back 100 years, and because of this it may be possible that the ice sheet was already warming internally 30 years ago and would have reached this point albeit more slowly had those conditions been maintained.
Not sure if this explains it because it would require ice melting enough in areas to become just water with no remaining ice underneath, but albedo of ice and water is fairly different. Snow covered ice in particular. The change in the amount of solar radiation reflected vs. absorbed as ice / snow covered ice becomes water will drastically heat up an area.
What does the sign in flow look like? Does the phone number screen clearly inform the user that their phone number will only be used to arrange delivery?
Ideas which don't pass your subjective filter of what sounds correct must be false? Citation for this definition of how truth works, please.
I'm an investor and I don't love clicking on the docsend links, but I will. I really dislike clicking on linktracked links, especially from a cold pitch.

The worst part of docsend for me is I will get an email saying "check out our new thing" and then I click on it sometime later to look at it again and it's already expired. Or I remember, "hey that deck about xxxyyy, other investor zzz should talk to them" and I can't search for it because there was zero content in the email.
I'm not aware of any extra layer of escape sequences required in PHP compared with Perl. Could you elaborate?
Our holler in Kentucky has fiber to the premises through a federal grant a few years back, but I’ll admit that’s unusual. :)
Bought 2ha of fertile land in a remote area forecast to be positively affected by climate change. Rebuilding the holiday home there. Nice to have now. Dirt cheap insurance against so many things going south elsewhere later.

Quite a few things need to line up for this to make sense, but for us, they do.
If not direct human extinction, it could certainly mean complete collapse of advanced civilization.

Even if humans manage to survive for millions of years into the future, we've already burned all the easily accessible fossil fuels. What we're burning now takes a lot of technology to extract. It's not immediately obvious that we'll ever be able to become a space faring civilization without cheap fossil fuels to bootstrap us there. Eventually, we'll go extinct by some asteroid impact or supervolcano.

We should probably assume it's now or never for intelligence to spread off this rock.
Peter Thiel: The Education Bubble Is Becoming Dangerous (2018) [video]
Monopoly Busting? Apple's 1984 vs. Fortnite
There are laws on the books in many states/municipalities thanks to heavy lobbying efforts by our cable/telco companies that prevent it.
That's not what NPV means, no.
I don’t think that would still apply. I’m in a rural area and our local ISP speeds go down to 1mbps in the evening, from a supposed 15. Streaming services are used by a lot of people at the same time.
Even so - I'm reminded of the post the other day about the NYC street view photos from the 1940s [0]

So little has changed in 80 years. Even given centuries of ice melt - how much cultural heritage do we lose with a 10m rise in sea levels that would devastate NYC?

Then again, a century from now, maybe we're all living in personal generative VR paradises, ensconced in an anonymous room somewhere in a city unknown where power is cheap and proximity to a datacenter determines real estate pricing.

[0] - https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397
It says "We need your phone number for our masters to be able to contact you".

Would you recommend to make it more clear in some way?
Do you have any reading recommendations on what additional things someone can do to be better prepared for the next 5/10/20/30 years?
If you hit a tree or concrete wall, you still have crumple zones that slow you down over a short period of time.
We just had a fully remote intern because of corona. He was great.

The manager who puts an intern on the critical path is a very bad manager.
JavaScript Coding Exercises Workbook
I've been working on a JavaScript technical interview workbook for junior devs. I've been working as coding bootcamp instructor and also running my own training company and came to the conclusion:

The best way for junior developers to circumvent the issue of not having enough experience/projects and still get employed is to do plenty of coding exercises (including on old and newer ES features) without having done whole projects on them.

This demonstrates a practical understanding of core and advanced JavaScript concepts.

Often people have to balance multiple things while they learn to code including part-time jobs. Therefore, they're on a time crunch and may or may not be able to commit to doing projects. I've faced this with students before. They have committed to learning to code but life just gets in the way.

There are also people who leave everything including employment in order to learn how to code. The more time they spend out of web-dev employment status means the more they dip into their savings and deplete their bank balances.

So this technical guide is focused on circumventing these issues in a practical and straightforward way.

Each section of each chapter has about 70 - 90 coding exercises + underlying theory. The basic premise is that you read a section, practice the coding exercises and then move on to the next section.

Therefore solidifying your base at each step. Moving you from basic to advanced concepts.
One of the most “high” moments I’ve ever felt in a game was the successful lunch of my first orbital craft.

That first orbit I felt so excited I had to stop the game and run around the house. I tried to explain it to my SO but she couldn’t understand why that was.

Maybe because I’ve been taught the math part of it in school, but when the rocket equation, gravity losses, earth gravity assist, drag losses etc “clicked” I actually related all of those independent things in my brain to make a tough task possible.

I got as far as visiting Jool moons but it was not as exciting. Well maybe except the first time I calculated a hochman transfer orbit to Duna.
I began my first year of my career in technical writing using the Commodore 64 and its slow disk Drive. Never caused me a problem, although the word processor program itself, called SpeedScript, was only about 3K in size.
QR code payments are also sweeping Japan, despite contactless smartphone payments having existed since before the iPhone even.

For a shop to adopt QR payments, all they need a printout of a QR code. No hardware, not leasing some card reader, zero maintenance.
> It should be noted that San Francisco had an unusually low inventory relative to other large cities prior to the pandemic. Historically, the ratio of homes for sale relative to total housing has been a quarter of what New York's was.

the article is totally about percentages. 1->2 = 100%. poor framing, for clicks, if you ask me.
My own strategy has been answering questions in Stack Overflow and related sites.

I guess yours is more profitable.
Actually the way 56k worked is that the ISP would provide a digital signal to the phone switch, and not all phone switches supported this. The problem might have been distance but it was probably the age of the switch!
I find it interesting how polarizing he is to many people. Why is it hard to accept he has many flaws and strong suits?
That's an oddly specific plan that effectively transfers trillions of dollars to people who drive cars. Even in the USA, car dependence is not so universal that this makes sense.

Measures that would actually be effective are much cheaper. Allowing Americans to build in and move to existing urbanized areas is the #1 most effective tool we have. If you must throw a lot of cash around, just giving everyone an electric bicycle will cost much less than your gas station idea. You save a lot more carbon per dollar with a bike giveaway than you do by subsidizing electric cars.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2399731/to-save-environment-su...
To expand on input/action thing I guess you have to deal with the issue of representation of opposites being similar in many representations.

That leads to parsing, which is... Ok a lot of the time and completely wrong sometimes, and it's difficult to know which is which.

I think that's one of the big problems in NLP still.
Possibly very little. The Dutch have many habitats below sea level. The main airport is 15m below.
As usual, the loudest voices are not the most rational. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Instead, push for the solutions that you desire.
I think you're completely correct. The San Diego ship fire basically totaled a amphibious assault ship (helo carrier) was also apparently caused by a welding accident.
Insider trading is more or less dead. The only people who do it are a very small overlap of the Venn diagram of people who have access to material nonpubluc information and don’t yet know it’s impossible to monetize it. Every hedge fund knows where the line is and they never cross it. I know NPR wants to imply this is because the GOP is soft on crimes like this, but it’s probably more due to these crimes no longer happening.
> It is also possible to independently verify that Telegram apps available on Google Play and App Store are built using the same code that we publish on GitHub.

How does that work exactly? Could anyone give me the steps perhaps? I am honestly curious as to how I can be certain of this.
Because if the government is the USA, who is really going to go to war with them over this?

You're not wrong, information/propaganda warfare is aggressive. Sometimes it makes more strategic sense then open warfare, and sometimes states can get away with it when they can't get away with open warfare.
I’d recommend checking out materialize.io for anyone who still has hopes for a reactive db. Is the only project I’ve seen with the ambition of rethink (besides ksqldb, which feels too caveat-ridden, although still interesting).

(Yes, rethink is still “alive”, but between the performance issues and death of the supporting company it’s probably not the wisest piece of tech to become wedded to)
Check out Adonis, although it's not as complete as Django.
Wouldn’t they want to keep reused objects instanced for performance, or is there some other advantage to just meshing everything out into a unique set of level parts?
I bought capture one and was never able to use it because I couldn’t figure out what it does with my image files...

Lightroom is simple - everything is in one folder. Capture one creates some kind of magical folder system and I’m unable to find anything.

What resource can help me understand its organization?
I tend to agree with everything you've said... however...

The cold-hard-reality is that if a self-driving car of any make were to careen into a school-bus full of children and burst into flames all automakers would very likely face severe restrictions going forward.
My favorite factoid about the 1947 Texas City explosions is the 3,000 pound boat anchor that was found a mile and a half from the port. Pictures, video and good explanation here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

FTFA: "The explosion blew the almost 6,350 short tons (5,760 metric tons) of the ship's steel into the air, some at supersonic speed."
Oh please nobody tell (just going alphabetically) America, China, or Russia this. Deniability is far too plausible.
Wireshark – A Walkthrough of the Best Packet Analyzer in the World
Default settings are fairly lucrative - the reason why Bing and Edge are somehow viable search engines and browsers is purely because Microsoft ships them as default on Windows. Depending on who you ask, Firefox is either the same or double the browser marketshare of Edge, so that default search setting is still lucrative, if only so that Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo don't get any of that default search traffic.

Also, while lots of people gripe about Google adtech, they aren't angry about it enough to switch search engines. The company still has the best search in the business, specifically because they have a detailed profile on you. Furthermore, they're still moderately trustworthy by tech company standards. At least for me, I'd rather trust Google or Microsoft than, say, Facebook. My biggest concern with any new Google service is less "will I lose control of my data" and more "will this service stay live for longer than a year or two".
Yeah, you need to stop spreading misinformation.

This doesn't look like a "99.9% asymptomatic" virus:

https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...

And that's one of the MOST conservative media outlets in the world.
But how is that gaming the system? Sending free samples for review has been a thing since there were advertisements.
How does one manage round trip to photoshop with darktable?

With lr it’s one click and the edited image appears in the strip.
My phone number and email address is not your data. I don’t want every random developer to have my email address. SIWA, gives me control over who has my email address and I can block developers who either spam me or sell the anonymized email address that I give them.
It's a good question. In general we've found that it's hard to beat a purpose-built time-series database like TimescaleDB for time-series workloads, but I would also like to see a thorough comparison with Rethink. :-)

(I work at TimescaleDB.)
God, I could not hate Snap more. At least a .snap file can be mounted as a SquashFS and salvage what you can to run the program without snapd. Unrelated, but it is curious that some applications I have encountered depended on some proprietary library. To the bin it went. :D
The survey/research is done with explicit opt-in from the founders and all of the viewer data is aggregated and anonymized.
TFetch: A P2P File Sharing Network
Agreed. I have a few answers on the StackExchange network that have upvotes tricking in year after year.

Sometimes I think I should have made a blog and added some pics. Then those upvotes might have been ad revenue.
>read 5 characters ahead

alright programmer question: why was the magic number 5? Are there no chinese words that are longer than 5 characters? Or does 5 characters cover 99.999% of all possible cases, and is therefore "good enough"?
Possibly, but I’m surprised that this is the publication they’d choose to disclose such high-value information to.
I'm reading the article, and one of the researchers (Dinara Millington) suggests increasing the Carbon Taxes to make them more effective.
Aluminum is generally more challenging to machine and weld correctly. I've personally had stock aluminum frames split, and I know that failure mode is much more likely than in steel. For those and other reasons steel is also easier to safely modify if you ever need.
They're both slower than advertised, have tiny data caps, and have extremely high latency. The latency is the real killer.
MadeInIndia CSS
It doesn’t take much. A small disruption in the intricate supply chain of essential food is all it takes. We may not go extinct, but we will be set back a few thousand years of development.

PS: Current humans probably won’t survive without internet for a month. May be a few will survive without going crazy and killing each other
You brought up Daytona. Florida's an interesting case where discussions of plate tectonics may be off the mark. Seems like it was formed mainly by deposition of seashells, shellfish, corals and sand and clay over the past 30 million years.[0] Looks like water levels were higher over most of that time period (p.71), so sea life could exist there and steadily build up a mineral base over time. It's also been much lower recently. Over the past 18,000 years sea level has risen 120m[1]. p. 71 in that book shows more detail for sea level over the past 5 million years than the wikipedia link.

Here are some color renderings of what florida probably looked like from LEO over the past 40 million years[2]

It seems that in places where magma is not pushing up new continental landmass (e.g. Florida), new land is created by sedimentation only underwater, while water levels are high. Then it's exposed when water levels recede, but when water levels rise again, that land is eroded and reclaimed until it is completely underwater, at which point it may grow again if there is an abundance of shellfish and coral.

Right now we seem to be at the "rising sealevel, quickly-eroding shoreline" part of the cycle, which is inconvenient for human development.

0: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=The+Geology+of+the+Ever...

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

2: https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/Mate...
Some point the figure at big pharma. I've no evidence of any foul play, but the pharma industry would lose money if a large fraction of their revenue comes from drugs to treat conditions that are at least in part the consequence of inadequate vitamin D.

There seems to be more to it than that. Probably partially lack of belief that anything so simple, cheap, and easy could be such a help. I believe a similar skepticism surrounded mask use (and still does for a minority of folks).

And lack of the medical system (notably doctors) receiving much training in micronutrients.

And some amount of conservatism on the part of the bodies that do things like set RDAs. The IoM (now NAM) in the US was clearly being very conservative in its setting of the UL and its refusal to up the RDA when its statistical mistake in setting it was pointed out. And in the UK the recent NICE study was super-conservative (some would say narrow-minded) to only consider peer reviewed & published studies when it did a rapid review of D for C19 evidence.

But all this is just wild speculation to give you some idea since you asked. I would love to read the behind the scenes expose someday. Meantime I'm limiting myself to the evidence not looking into the conspiracy theories.
Haha, an Aussie complaining about the insects from other countries. That's rich!! When the mosquitoes are that size, they are easy to see and catch. Here in the southern part of the US, we have to keep our small kids on leashes lest the "mozzies" carry them away.
There's a lot more evidence than that out there anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/business/liberal-arts-ste...

There isn't a crisis of unemployed liberal arts majors in America or the world, there is a reason for that. Of course there are a lot of people that have convinced themselves that there is such a crisis!