skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is cool about coastal redwoods is that they can survive all of their branches being burned off (i.e., a tree topping fire). The redwood trees in the Oakland fire were just logs in the sky after the fire and now the ones that were not cut down look quite nice. You can see the sprouts coming out of the redwoods left in place after the Santa Rosa fire. And those were just young redwoods (<100yr old). The ancient redwoods have much thicker insulating bark layers and even some insulating bark on some of the larger branches. It takes a lot of heat for a long time to heat up a 12ft diameter insulated redwood tree enough to kill it.
Developer tools' network tab still unusable.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/01befe672faa84fe.png

Selecting one resource selects multiple resources at once (sometimes 5 or more), and you can only view one of the resources' detail in the right panel.
Are we saying that the Google image recognition is inferior to Amazon's with this?
Yes, I've read that.

What they're calling out is that Apple engineers will no longer prioritise improving the performance of Unreal on macOS and iOS. This is kinda outside the developer agreeement.
> photography was an art, and photos were generally manipulated, sometimes heavily , sometimes to remove people etc.

Except this was time consuming and couldn't be done automatically in an undetectable way.

> human societies have survived without video evidence since forever

Stupid argument, we've also survived war since forever, except now a war between nuclear powers would be devastating in a way war historically wasn't. It will absolutely not be the same as it was before photos and videos.
“Hello Mars” in 20 Popular Programming Languages
I did collect the images from the puzzles, here is a few: https://drive.google.com/open?id=18b0HxyOsLP6AZMpF1-DNITrGvF...
Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots
What CRISPR-baby prison sentences mean for research
Is video acceleration on Linux here yet? :(
I drove four hours out and eight hours back to get to totality. I slept in the bed of my truck alone on the side of the road.

It was absolutely worth it. There are a lot of experiences like being in love or eating an amazing meal where the visual obviously doesn't convey it. And there are some like seeing a comet where an image of the experience isn't too far from "being there".

A total eclipse lies in the uncanny valley between those where you can see lots of neat photos that make you think you can imagine what the experience is like. But you cannot. The difference between a picture of a total eclipse and being in the path of totality is like the difference between a picture of the moon and walking on the moon.

It is an incredible, enveloping, irreplaceable experience. It's about as close to magic as we get on Earth. I don't like telling people lists of things they "should" do before they die, but I am sure as hell glad I can now put it on the list of things I did do.

For what it's worth, here's a timelapse I took:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuxK81KnPw

But, again, the video doesn't really convey anything about the experience, especially not because the camera automatically adjusts to the massive change in light levels. To get a sense of how much darker it is during totality, here's two photos I took at the same vantage with the same settings before and during totality:

https://imgur.com/gallery/fuGS6
Collector car insurance and airplane insurance is typically written on an "agreed value" basis, where the insurer agrees at policy issuance that the car/airplane is worth $X if declared a total loss. We had a collector car insured through Hagerty that was hit by a red-light runner. They were amazing to deal with and paid the agreed value (minus the value of the crashed chassis that we bought back from them) within just a few days and went after the at-fault driver's insurance without us having to hassle with anything.

Airplanes and collector cars do not have a readily available source of "comps" to determine value and in both cases, the cost to recreate a given condition is typically higher than the value of that car/airplane in the open market. I can have an airplane that is "worth" $250K to me, that I could only sell for $200K, but that would cost $300K or more to recreate exactly by starting with an available airplane and re-customizing the avionics and airframe mods exactly. In such a case, I can probably get a policy written for any agreed value as low as I want (at the risk that I'd get cut a check for that amount and have no airplane in the event of a loss) and pretty close to $300K.
I’m surprised Ronald Coase is not brought up in these discussions. His work (for which he won a Nobel focused on why firms exist at all (as opposed to a workforce of 160 million independent contractors). It comes down do efficiencies of various sorts (the same reason we aren’t merely unicellular organisms).

I think this pandemic will be an opportunity and driver of a reshuffling: mostly back the way it was before but with some visible structural changes. For example perhaps increased use of management consultants as proposed in this article). Maybe hiring more people than before due to a more efficient model that can take advantage of having more people.

The companies that make these changes the soonest, and make the changes that turn out to be the good ones (hard to tell except in retrospect) will of course be by definition the winners.
> so you end up shifting and re-enqueuing with set -- "$@" "$1", which is unreadable.

How is that unreadable? Set all the positional arguments as is, then set the first one again, into new positional arguments. I'm not sure why you want the first arg twice, but thats your call.

Either way, it's hardly unreadable.

> And of course this is usually the point where you ask yourself if you've chosen the correct language for the task, but that's another debate.

It isn't another debate though. It's all the same debate: do you know the language you're reading and/or writing? Do you know what it can do, what it can be pushed to do, and what it really shouldn't do?

Those are all related to the same basic point: if you think Shell is unreadable, I'd suggest it's because you don't know shell.

Remember readable means that you can read and understand it. Not that it's written out in words that someone with on page 1 of "how to program for dummies" can understand.
Who would get close to the edge of a cliff while on a Segway?
Startpage.com is the one I use day to day (I work at the company that owns it). They use straight Google results through a proxy in their own data centers, it's anonymized before it hits anything
It's sad because normally there's a link with all the new people. The guy who makes the post got fired. https://blog.mozilla.org/community/
Suburbia and commuter culture are a tough nut to crack.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/18/green-manhatta...
It's like being briefly teleported to another planet.
Sikuli is not fast enough. I have know about it since it was developed at MIT because I was there in 2010
Why? Because DDG sucks and has for many years.
Don't drink the mozilla kool-aid.
BLS numbers for July: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-une...
Ironically, the Rationalists might frown on this. Several posts in the Sequences had a theme of "don't do what's raTi0NaL, do what actually wins." E.g. "The Ultimate Newcomb Problem" [0]. HN recognizes this same meme as "goal > tool".

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RAh4fekdiRhZxb2Kw/the-ultima...
That's not my problem. As a user I should not be inconvenienced for a problem caused by someone else. The offending party should pay the price.
> Without Firefox being registered with the system as an app that could open PDF files, users wouldn't be given the option to open it with Firefox (often they'd be prompted to open it using Edge). That was annoying people.

Huh that's cool that it's fixed now. It annoyed me so much that I installed an extension for it: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/open-in-browser/
HCQ is not a new drug. It's widely available globally. It has been used as an antiviral therapeutic and to prevent malaria since the 50s or so.
Russia only bad. It's a generational thing.
I looked for homeopathy in the article to understand what you were getting at. To disregard a long article such as this on one sentence doesn't seem fair.

The article if anything is about epistemology - so the sneer is in reference to doctors assuming they 'know' the only correct ways to draw conclusions (and the article did take a dark twist indeed referencing the opioid epidemic). As a layman though, I don't know what it is referring to about Europe's relationship to homeopathy. I would be curious for a more knowledgeable person to weigh in on that.
Yes, I don't think that's surprising or seriously contested. Rapid change means species will have to adapt or die, and many will perish. It's not the first time that's happened on Earth, but it is the first time since the end of the last ice age. It's a terrible slow-motion train wreck that seems nearly unstoppable. Humans too will have to adapt, and some number of us could well perish also.

Longer-term I have the controversial opinion that it's a good thing (downvotes incoming!), but that could just be my tendency to look for the silver lining. Being Canadian and knowing that my entire country was buried under kilometres of ice and then scraped clean to bedrock 12,000 years ago, I feel that's a more dangerous long-term risk than global warming and rising oceans. Think of how much food we grow in northern and southern latitudes. That process would maybe have begun in about 1500 years, and one could imagine that stopping that might involve crazy things like digging up buried hydrocarbons and burning it to add CO2 to the atmosphere, or spraying dark pigment over ice and snow to reduce the albedo (rename Greenland to Greyland anyone?)

We've fucked things up pretty badly for the next thousand or more years, there will be mass extincions, mass migrations, maybe even famines and wars. But we also dodged an icy bullet for who knows how long. I take some comfort in that.
Firefox UI is getting worse over time. It's trying to do too many confusing things.

Why can't we have constant UI for a long period of time? Like HackerNews (I know, apples and oranges) but the point is - changes should be scrutinized to death before implementing them, especially when it comes to UI.

Stop changing stuff just for the sake of following UI trends.
Because races aren't genetically distinct in any substantial way, and Eurasian and African climates match North and South American ones, indigenous societies in the Americas would presumably follow the same trajectory as the indigenous societies elsewhere.

This is not to absolve colonialists of guilt for the horrific consequences of their actions. 'If I didn't, someone else would' is not a moral justification. But if it is the forests that we are concerned about, they would have the same fate one way or another, maybe lasting a few more millenia- not significant on the geological scales they exist in.
Meanwhile arguably the whole reason Kubernetes took off compared to other container orchestrators is support for StatefulSets and Persistent Volumes.

Lots of people run their databases on Kubernetes, but it’s best to remember that Pod ephemerality makes it a more complicated orchestrator than them on VMs. That’s said, the market seems to have decided that’s what they want.
Some of the web scrape data is from Bing, but they don't use Bing's ranking.
I’m not an accountant or tax lawyer but here you go:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/102515/carri...

Carried interest is a share of a private equity or fund's profits that serve as compensation for fund managers.
Because carried interest is considered a return on investment, it is taxed at a capital gains rate, and not an income rate.
Critics argue that this is a tax loophole since portfolio managers get paid from that money, which is not taxed as income.
Advocates of carried interest argue that it incentivizes the management of companies and funds to profitability.
about:profiles is not amazing, but does exist...
Agreed. This article is only sensible if you would write the same title after reading the primary source.

> It’s the latest example of how cheap Chinese smartphones take advantage of the world’s poorest people. Current security concerns about Chinese apps and hardware have largely focused on potential back doors in Huawei’s 5G equipment. More recently, people have focused on how user data collected by TikTok could be abused by the company and the Chinese government. But an overlooked and ongoing threat is the consistent presence of malware on cheap smartphones from Chinese manufacturers and how it exacts a digital tax on people with low incomes.

I get a feeling the author wrote this conclusion before writing the article :)

It's a digital tax if the taxman collects the tax. So what is this tax?

Here's the primary source it's referencing: https://www.upstreamsystems.com/pre-installed-malware-androi...

> Systematic collection & transfer of their personal information to a 3rd country server without their consent.

> Depletion of their data allowance -a huge issue in emerging markets where the cost of data is dramatically high. In Brazil, for example, 1GB for prepaid subscribers costs the equivalent of 6h of work on minimum wage.

> Fraudulent transactions and charges to their prepaid airtime, the only way users can pay for digital services in emerging markets, as most people are unbanked. In Africa, 94% of the population has no account with a financial institution.

This might as well describe Yelp. How do we go from this to "Secretly Stealing Money From People Around The World"?
At least there you could yell RTFA. This is forbidden here.
And we see what happens when we do have video evidence because everyone has a camera in their pocket. For decades law enforcement version of events were taken as gospel. Now we have evidence that they do lie.
I hate to break it to you, but if you're a normal developer like me (you're probably better), then you aren't getting in. There was a recent post on HN about how to be ok with not being a 10x dev or something like that. There's some good stuff in there.
This was actually part of my theory of why California electric companies got so lazy about tree and brush removal around their power lines. I don't think it's a coincidence that just 1 year after exiting a 6 year drought state power companies started huge fires in both Northern and Southern California.
There is a question of how Intelligence is measured and what the tests optimize, but certainly no prospective parent would want dumber children when speaking of intelligence in general. The parent post seemed hold that even this position is amoral.

You raise a good point of potential tradeoffs, and intelligence is not the only factor to optimize for. I imagine most parents would optimize for health and happiness above it.

That said, it is unclear to what degree tradeoffs are required. For example, smart quarterbacks certainly exist. To me, this is an argument for further research into the genetic basis of health, happiness, and intelligence.

I find it interesting that the subject sparks such visceral reactions in people, and how these reactions differ across countries and cultures. I think the subject of Steve HSU is a great an example of this which will be interesting to watch play out.[1] US critics were very quick to assume his research had racial motivations, while in China the subject research receives a $1.5B grant.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/29/wake-controve...
Your concern is justified. Any abstraction must deal with minimizing leakages. This is why we have started addressing deployment error troubleshooting with some level of diagnosis so that the tool can provide error info in terms of higher-level abstraction.

Helm does require understanding of all the underlying low-level objects defined in Kubernetes. HyScale hopes to provide higher-level entities to deal with, as well as providing ways to do higher-level ops & deployment introspection. We believe it should be possible to satisfy the needs of a reasonably large number (>80%) of apps.
Massive thread from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682392
That probably only works if the remote sends the content-length header, right? Or will it also terminate requests that simply keep loading past the 50kiB or whatever mark?

Anyway, looks like a reason to use Firefox on mobile. :)
While obviously everyone's native tongue seems the most expressive to them, I can't shake off the feeling that written (and often even spoken) English is just lacking a lot of the nuance and expressiveness of other languages. It's just more factual and dry and lacks a lot of implied texture, even after having learned and used it for decades. (But perhaps I'm just still not advanced enough to notice it.)

For example in Hungarian, most of the above emphasis differences would have to be reflected in word order and would therefore be visible in writing.

This makes translation also quite difficult, because English likes to play with this ambiguity a lot: "I won't kill you." "Oh thank God!" "... Johnny, my assistant will." - this is hard to express the same way in Hungarian, because you'd have use a different word order in the first sentence if you negate the "I" vs. if you negate the "kill". (Or more precisely: you'd include the "I" if and only if it's emphasized, otherwise the "I" pronoun has to be omitted in Hungarian.)
i think on 79 you already got X11 support (was there for a while on wayland, if you truly care about UI performance)
You are projecting a lot, friend. Take a breath, step away, and relax before re-engaging.

No-one in this thread appears (to me) to be discussing forcing anyone back into the office. They're saying that they are looking forward to the time when it is safe for them, personally, to return to the office - and look forward to others joining them when they feel safe.
Haseeb Q notably donates 30% of their income, citing 80000 as inspiration. Really interesting life story, as well:

https://haseebq.com/about/
> I always advise people to never assume an offer is a done deal until you've received the official offer letter with compensation details and a start date

They can still rescind at that stage as well though can't they - it's no more concrete, legally, is it?
Apparently yes.V3 is just the system used by V2 to give puzzle difficulty. I scored 0.7 for 40 hours on Vision API videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPcs06fgbg

Go to the channel for the other 3.
Anecdata, but I totally believe this. FWIW, I get inbound recruiting from FAANG as well as some prestige finance companies. I'm a generalist with no degree but ~8 years of experience. I make ~$300k/year in NY. Given grapevine comp chatter, I'm sure that pre-Covid I was leaving money on the table versus what I'd earn if I prepped and left for FB or Google. I'm super happy with my employment situation though, so I've just been enjoying life.

Partially to leave the door open and partially just to see how folks reacted, rather than giving a blanket "no thanks" to recruiters I got into the habit of replying to fancy recruiters with "I absolutely love my job and am not looking to leave. <all the things I love about it>, I wouldn't consider leaving for less than $600k/year unless a new role offered <one of several non-monetary things I really care about>." It may seem silly, but with luck, good timing and not using current comp as an anchor I've doubled up previously. My philosophy is that it never hurts to ask for more than you think you deserve, especially if you don't act like you're entitled to it.

This was mostly met with "glad it's going so well there" and I can only assume snorts of derision. Meanwhile, the dude from fancy "headhunting" firm comes back with: "Excellent! With your profile, I can get you at least $700k with one of my buy-side client firms."

Feel free to decide for yourself how much weight to give the anecdote. Maybe that # has a real basis for someone with (at the time) 5-6 years of experience. Maybe he assumed I must be making something near it already. Maybe he was saying anything to get his foot in the door. Or, maybe he decided I was jerking his chain and decided to have some fun of his own. He certainly made an impression.
"Transparent" until Google doesn't trust you for some insane reason.

Now I can be denied access because of an opaque score, with no way to get around it.

Yay, progress!
Firefox crashing all the time on couple of my computers... the rest are doing fine. Tried to uninstall all plugins, create new profile, all sorts of tricks... Installed FF Nightly, hoping that this bug has been fixed in new browsers, but keeps crashing. Sending reports to FF pretty much every day, hoping that someone will notice, but so far, no luck. And then news came out that Mozilla is in financial trouble and firing people, so probably nobody will fix this :-/
Is it common for those positions to be promoted from within or hired from other companies?
Yeah that'd be cool. There could be other circumstances where you'd want to be able to leave a conversation as well-- abusive, bad partner, etc. Anyway again- nice work.
I have a set of both - China and Silverware. I've never used either.

I believe the older generation wants us to have their fancy heirlooms - 12 piece dining room sets, silverware, china, their most giant gaudy antique armoire.

Converelsy, what I have tried to instill in my parents as they downsize their belongings is that I want the practical stuff they used every day. A quality set of dishes (not china!) - my mom's chemex. What's left of their old solid-wood furniture. That stuff has value to me - it was made differently - better quality, thicker, etc. Items that were part of pomp and circumstance used once or twice a year back then don't interest me.
Oh, and add-ons are no longer really a thing. There are only about 10 "officially supported" add-ons. I had to install Fennec from f-droid instead, which is annoying as it is both slower and has some frustrating bugs (for example, you can't customise your search engines properly, so if you select text and then try to launch a search on searx, the query is discarded).
Zithromax is an antibiotic. Which is useless against a virus.

And why are doctors giving untested treatments to patients?
>they still manage to find time to complain about not being able to expense their lunches

No one but perhaps the most incapable of taking simple care of themselves is complaining about it. Teams are allocated yearly budgets to do team-oriented events and other things. That money is now going unused. One of the suggestions was to donate it, which is also prohibited, but I guess that's not as catchy of a headline.
> GPU-like parallel database hardware decades ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netezza#Technology

Furthermore, that line of reasoning is fallacious. The non-existence of a thing doesn't prove that the idea is bad.
Yep, generally agree. Might disagree on what's too much and what not, but your point that free trade (and almost anything in life) taken to the limit will have dire consequences in other places is important. Free trade is a framework.

I find a lot of people in the US are quick to point out the problems with free trade, but tend not to look at examples of places that took strong protectionist positions and how that played out over the span of decades. Point being, there are examples to be made for either argument being taken towards a limit.
I agree. FF is already my favorite PDF viewer by far - it's got more features than chrome and I've never felt a native PDF viewer is better in any way. But I never need complicated form filling like you mention, I just need a PDF viewer.