skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s tempting to believe that climate change just means that some places will get hotter or colder, or that species will move north or south, upslope or downslope, but the reality is that we don’t really know. Much of the work coming out of ecological niche theory shows that ecosystems have many emergent properties and can’t simply be studied at the level of an individual species because those species wouldn’t survive without their symbiotic relationships [1]. What is true at the species level, however, is that each species has a unique and oftentimes non-overlapping adaptation to whatever environment it’s in relative to its peers. That means that as the climate shifts, some species will go north or south, or upslope or downslope, and others will behave differently. The consequence is that many ecosystems will literally be pulled apart, and species which lose their symbiotic relationships will have to either adapt over a short time span or go extinct. Assuming the climate stabilizes, it will take time, probably much longer than humans are comfortable with, for things to reconfigure.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/106/Supplement_2/19729
Soldiers tend to kill people, firefighters tend to save people, the difference - to me - would seem to be obvious.
Do you have any tips for reading papers on Kindle? My experience with pdfs is they get pretty shrunk up.
I think that people completely misunderstand how appraisals work. If the original appraisal came in 40% low, there was clearly something very wrong with it.

But it's not just an appraisers opinion based on appearance or alleged racism. It's a concrete written record that can be reviewed. So what was the actual mistake?
- did the appraiser pick bad comparables?
- do the math wrong???
- completely miss certain features of the property or sq. ft.?

Let's answer that before we just blindly assume it was caused by an -ism vs. incompetence.

So every now an again an grouchy, incompetent, or crank appraiser will give a terribly flawed appraisal. This does happen, and when it does you show why it was flawed enough and get a new one done. Just like what happened. It's a big problem, but if it is bad enough to get overturned, trust me it's a big problem for that appraiser too, and it won't happen more than a couple times before they're fired.

The second fallacy is that we assume the good appraiser was only good because he checked all the family portraits and noticed they were white enough to pass muster.

Maybe the bad appraiser just sucked and the good one just did his job correctly? And neither even noticed the pictures on the wall?

But that news would be a nothing sandwich that wouldn't ignite a twitter-storm...
There's a glut of vintage silverware and china right now. Things treasured and guarded by the last generation sit unused in a cabinet if lucky, or consignment or Goodwill if less lucky. I think many couples inherit several sets from their parents and now don't know what to do with them.

I guess you could use it every day and enjoy the quality, but even then you don't want your kids bashing on it.
It is not as big of a problem as you think for 3 reasons.

1. Intel has purchased capacity from TSMC which will presumably be used for Xe HPC.
2. TSMC does not have enough capacity for AMD to take significant market share
3. Intel still has a lock on high margin datacenter parts
Those are changenotes of a piece of software, not the company.
I think Jane Street is single-handedly keeping OCaml a production-level language (which is a good thing, because it's a great mix of functional programming with a practical/pragmatic approach). If you haven't tried OCaml (or F# which is based on it), I highly recommend it.
Indeed. Right now laser systems are feasible as weapons on ships... who have their own gigantic diesel engines (and/or nuclear reactors).

Energy dissipation of a laser in atmo is going to require crazy amounts of energy to go even a moderate distance, so either those lasers are being fired from something really close to the airfield, or else you've got some S.H.I.E.L.D style flying aircraft carrier thing.
Both can be true, and if anything I think I would agree that this means we need to be even more careful over the next 30-50 years than we ever have been (or, hopefully, will have to be again), because we have two fuckups paying dividends at the same time, and one of them is on that time scale.

We already know that timber land in the Americas requires more active stewardship than colonial thinking suggests. These are not European forests. Microbial decay doesn't reduce the calories per acre the same way. Global warming makes the balance even more precarious. But there are ways we can address both of these problems which also serves as a carbon sink. As long as we do it before the dominant forest soil biome in North America flips to bacteria-dominant due to rising ambient temperatures.
Hehe, there could be people on HN who know they are talking to themselves in virtual space, but choose to engage anyway.
This graph is great. It does make it seem like there is starting to be a trend of increased damage in terms of dollars. If we have another one causing 30+ billion dollars of damage this year, it looks to me like there will be a clear trend.
What part of the law forces companies to sell things they don’t want to? Or to force the creation of a retail marketplace on their own ecosystem?

It will likely require a new legislation to force the regulation of App Stores as public utilities.

Violating the Sherman act requires demonstration of monopoly or restraint of trade. Any ISV has many channels and platforms with which to sell its wares, so this will be hard to prove. Asking for a retail cut % isn’t restraint of trade.

The ISVs like Epic want more profit for themselves by forcing the regulation of app stores as public utilities, so that like a power generation company, they can compete separately from the distribution system. That is a tall order to prove that it’s more in the public interest than in the ISV’s interest.
Ethics and utilitarian arguments tend to not go together very well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
I think that's his point?

If he drew like that but had no interesting content, no one would read the comics.

If he wrote jokes but couldn't illustrate them at even a basic level, they wouldn't reach many people.

And to be fair he could draw the absurd out of a semi-realistic situation, but he wasn't producing a treatise on modern management and how to run a business. You could find a lot of the same observations in water cooler chats at many workplaces.

He just made that really easy to consume and then got it in front of a lot of people. Which is probably a sign that he has a half decent understanding of distribution and promotion too. Once again he may not be a genius there but he knows enough to not screw up something good.
Thank you for drawing my attention to this slice of US foreign policy history w.r.t. to high-tech.

“At the insistence of the United States, in 1986 Japan agreed to limit its exports of semiconductors, mainly the "dynamic random access memory" (DRAM) chips, to America. These chips are used in high-tech consumer electronics equipment like computers and video cassette recorders. The agreement expires this July 1, and the Bush Administration thus soon must decide whether to renew it. Doing so would make Washington a hypocrite in its free trade efforts to open markets abroad for American products. The 1986 chip agreement, after all, restricts trade, ostensibly to help some American segments of the semiconductor industry. The agreement in fact has harmed American computer manufacturers, who have found themselves paying higher prices for computer chips. This makes American computer manufacturers less competitive and drives up computer prices for all Americans.” [by Bryan Johnson, published January 24, 1991 – 20 min read]

!! @ “high-tech consumer electronics equipment like […] video cassette recorders”

https://www.heritage.org/asia/report/the-us-japan-semiconduc...

It would be an interesting couple of evening's research to compare and contrast the competitive rise of Japan in the 80's and the rise of China in the 10's and how the US reacted to both and how both reacted back.
I used to think open plan offices were full of noisy distractions. Now I yearn for the relative peace of a child-free zone. I'll miss the 4pm beers and sneaky trips to the beach though.
Really great article. Very well put. I can see how plastics also apply. First order is that they are convenient for grocery bags and product packaging. Second order is that they are creating a huge amount of waste going mostly into the oceans. The recycling is far behind the creation of waste. It's already affecting the environment now. Who knows the damage 50 or 100 years from now
Leaded glazes make most china unsuitable for everyday use.
For number 2 I use uBlock Origin which seems to take a lot of the issues from ads away from .e
Block and Inline Elements Explained – With Examples
I was so excited that this was going to be something written using Hy (hylang.org). Still neato, but disappoint.
For the benefit of those outside of quantitative finance, it's important to note that "making $X" is a bit of a fuzzy notion around these parts. Individuals receiving large bonuses generally have their pay closely tied to the health of the business--which can vary quite a bit year to year. It's more accurate to say you've "been making $X." Extrapolating out any meaningful level of comp beyond even a year is a risky proposition.
You are making 3x the median family income for this country while getting to work from home and stay safe from COVID-19. The job market is imploding around us while we work cushy tech jobs. Abject misery abounds as people lose their loved ones and their livelihoods.

It comes off as as quite tone-deaf when tech people complain about their $150k salaries. There are way too many entitled people in tech who have never worked a shit minimum wage job in their lives.

Look, if you really want to make it to a company like Jane Street, there IS a path. It's not a path that many have the energy to take but it's there. If you are having trouble getting interviews you can do a ton to produce content needed to raise your online profile. You can make lots of meaningful open-source contributions on github. You can produce great blog content. You can code live on twitch and develop a following. If you combine that with actually developing the algorithmic chops to pass their interview process, you can get into a company like Jane Street.

I personally don't view maximizing my income at the expense of all else in my life as a good way to live so I won't be grinding it out to get one of these jobs, but if that's what you really want then the path is there. But you probably will still be unhappy once you achieve it if you're unhappy right now.

And don't be so hard on yourself. If you've made it as far as you have, you definitely have successful characteristics. You're not special, and that's OK. But just because you're not special doesn't mean you don't have successful characteristics.
They're kind of burying the lede with their supporting just a handful of extensions, which I guess will be a pain point for relatively many users here, but for me, the most important extensions are available (unlikely for practically every other major browser), and it's far faster than the old Firefox for Android. That alone makes it a far better experience for me.

I'm still figuring out the use case for Collections though...
It doesn't seem to work in my browser:

>(index):1 Uncaught (in promise) null
During the socal fires a few years back, the Santa Ana winds caused it to jump an 8 lane freeway. You're going to need one hell of a firebreak.
No, not every webserver does. This is something that you could easily configure.

Yes, most people know this by now.

Yes, some developers push against this.

Also: It's the law. Collecting data without consent is not always legal. Whether that particular bit of data rises to the level of requiring consent is left as an exercise for the reader for their particular jurisdiction and industry.
Zoom works on the web and when I did install the app, I installed it on my iPad. I wouldn’t let Zoom go anywhere near my computer.
When I worked on Wall Street even the IT guys and the doorman had their personal accounts invested at the firm which was a significant perk given that the firm was closed to new customers.
I wonder how good it's at solving the "hard" (with noise added, eg. https://i.imgur.com/jbf0Xfy.png) captchas. I went through the "past puzzles" zip, and they look easy, compared to the "hard" ones you get if you're on tor (or otherwise "shady" network) or the site owner has turned up the difficulty setting[1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23314528/how-to-reduce-r...
They do; check out the Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange ("CLUE report"), for example.

But just like any other business, there's always another company willing to take a chance at a high-but-not-too-high premium, especially if you're flashy enough with their agent. If the previous losses looked "plausible" or "unlikely to happen again" or the insured "has the financials of a good risk" or whatever, the policy will get written.
Here is Euclid's algorithm running on a relay computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hJoalcK68
On the iOS app it all appears instantly-ish when I highlight, so I'm guessing it's just the same codebase.
I did my part. I haven't had my stuff on the app store for years!

Although I was working on a small Swift game to refresh my mobile app dev skills, but it's on the backburner right now anyway.
XED is an Intel project, the X86 Encoder Decoder, for those who don't know.

https://intelxed.github.io/
> It's not LARPing to want to be able to read a book or take notes without being tracked.

Absolutely agree but it is LARPing to pretend this collection is for anything but improving a product. Nobody is out to get you and nobody particularly cares how often you specifically turn the page (the data is useful in aggregate).
Android App Streaming Comes to All Windows 10 PCs
You need to live in California where these fires have been ravaging the state year after year for the past decade.
What are the advantages of Re over Re2?
Thank you for including me... brought out plenty of perspectives I hadn't shared yet.
At some point the Web will be so slow and bloated that it won't attract revenue or developers. A clean slate is possible then.
Very promising results.

Hydroxychloroquine's been shown effective repeatedly when it's started early. No reason not to try in patients for whom it's safe as a malaria prophylactic.
Are you Persian?
Old School Pencil and Paper Games
Mea culpa for the nitpick, but in high probability Netflix was equally an part to this as they refused to pay what NBC Universal wanted.
An Introduction to Bilibili (゜-゜)つロ 干杯
Flags are character code in Unicode (matching with the ISO country code), so this "emoji" is "CA"
I think this is fine:

{
“type”: “div”,
“style”: “...”,
“children”: [ ... ]
}

If you really want to treat attributes specially you could put them under an “attributes” key:

{
“type”: “div”,
“attributes”: {“style”: “...”},
“children”: [ ... ]
}
There may not be a test of writing abilities in a job interview itself, but applying for the job is a test of writing abilities.
Or, again, many people have made that choice and are fine with the situation. If you don't want the locked down device you can just not buy an Apple device?
This might be my favorite post of the year. Powerful technology and years of experience focused on an important problem. Thanks making my day!
> In fact many appreciate that there is a gate keeper.

Just like people "love relevant ads" that Google provides People never love gatekeepers or ads. They love secure smartphones and relevant web search results. Users enjoy the benefits a gatekeeper can provide, but they would be just as happy to get the benefits without the downsides.

It was reasonable for Apple to use gatekeeping at first. It was simple and workable. But after more than a decade, they should have something a lot better.

Like app sandboxing and web technology-based apps that can be installed from outside the App Store while maintaining the integrity of your device.

Apple is no longer acting in their users best interests, they're acting in their own. And they're exploiting their market share to do so, in an extremely anti-competitive way.

In the short-term it's a cash grab for Apple and in the long-term its a poison that will eat at the company's foundation. They should even the playing field and compete on it as they do so well.
10% faster is a pretty nice improvement, especially in 2020.

Here's a little Wikipedia stub about Profile-Guided Optimization, for those who'd like to read more about the technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization
Step 1: Use Captcha to get free AI training data.

Step 2: Sell improved AI.

Step 3: Add edge cases to the Captcha that your AI can't handle yet. Go to step 1.
5/7 google results are spam that should have been removed. I wonder if the 0/7 on start page is that sort of spam filtering run amuck.
I’ve been running PCs and Macs in my house for over 2 decades. I have not once had a problem with viruses.

Are you saying that viruses, malware, ransomware, keyloggers, multiple toolbars have not been a problem in general over two decades?

You remember when “reputable” sites like SourceForge were bundling adware?
In fairness chrome does as well. I have to use adobe to print fedex thermal labels otherwise they get cut off.
The Cultural Distances Between Us
Assuming you haven't rooted your Apple TV, how does piracy help with the lack of an Apple TV app (aside from bypassing paying for the content, which is independent of Apple TV)?

To watch on your computer, HBO works fine.

To watch on your Apple TV, you have to stream from a computer z whether you use AirPlay (supported) or piracy.
That's kind of you to say, but I do personally know lots of people at Facebook, Google, Lyft, Citadel, Stripe etc that _do_ make this much or more. Meanwhile, even the L6's at my company make around $300k - that's about what E4's make at Google. Plus, levels.fyi is generally pretty accurate.
A Flatpak runtime is basically a complete operating system. GNOME and KDE have their own and from what I remember each weighs about 1 GB.

While I like containerization for security and solving dependency issues this is not a future I want.

Add to that that even on fully permissive mode you can't reference binaries in the typical places (without a reasonable error message too) and you could say I feel pretty burned by Flatpak.
I love that.

I don't need anything else besides Evince to read PDF but in order to fill forms I always had to use online tools.
Everything you need to know about the recent stock splits (Tesla/ Apple)
It is not only the sheer pleasure of reading language used to its utmost, an indulgence found in the enduring literary accomplishments of Shakespeare or Dickens but somewhat lacking in the trendier, reportorial style of a Hemingway (who, after a hundred years, it seems safe to say has not reached the same level of immortal acclaim), but also if I may venture, a particular suitability to the kind of digressive, meandering, rich and nuanced thought, a precious and valuable part of human intellect, a rich roast which loses much of its savor when cut into bite-sized chunks, which recommends, contra all the style advice of today's factory-line English departments, an appreciation and a space for the continuation of the English of Milton and Gibbons and Melville as against the simplified, utilitarian style recommended in the fine article.
You're right. Fixed now. Thank you!
From breaking ground, about 20 months according to TSMC for Fab18 to build and install. Then another 9 or so to HVM
Awesome work! It will be in my tutoring program!
I was taking 2000IU daily.

For more details, I'd usually take it late morning with breakfast. I'm a normal weight (155lbs), exercise, eat healthy, low stress, in my 30s, good blood pressure, don't drink coffee. I'd notice the heart issues usually in the evening. Sometimes they would occur almost daily for a week, and then they'd go away for a couple of weeks. Then I'd experience them again one day, and not for another few days. They would occur for about a few seconds or a minute when I was at rest and not doing anything active. It's hard to describe the feeling but it was kind of like a muscle spasm occurring in what I thought my was heart. Or, like some strange beating/squeezing sensation that would occur once, then again 5 seconds later, then a couple of seconds after, then that was it. Or it might return after a few minutes and happen again.

It was an intense and serious enough feeling that it would make me pause whatever I was doing. It would make me think that one of these times it would be a bit worse, I'd end up collapsing, and that would be the end. I'd usually do a bit of cardio for a few minutes because like I said it only seemed to happen when I was at a resting heart rate.

I should probably get my heart checked because there's a good chance the connection with the vitamin D supplements is just a coincidence. Nonetheless, I'll pay attention to see if there seems to be a relation between the two, because although it's unlikely, stranger things have happened.
See C19Study.com for an exhaustive list of COVID studies.

Will be moot point when vaccines become available in a few months.
They mention their own captcha system but don't really reference it anywhere as far as I can tell. I'd guess it'd be based on something like ARC (Abstract Reasoning Corpus), instead of object recognition which already have decent methods of solving if you can get enough data.
Conversely, there are others who feel the opposite and love working from home (no shared workspace with coworkers, the freedom to work in their home environment how they want) and don’t have the need for human connection (because they get that from their family and friends) from their job, only a paycheck.

Lots more remote work now for remote folks (with businesses required to have a go at it, and learning it’s easier than expected), and I’m sure office folks will still find businesses that will offer that model.
Sharp drop in coronavirus in Brazilian Amazon sparks questions re: herd immunity
The next release will have it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273174 (To be released on Sept 22)
Can we stop pretending that analytics don't explicitly benefit the user? Product Engineering organizations rely on analytics to improve user experiences.
Speculation as to the reason for yield boost FTA:

“Part of what makes 5nm yield slightly better is perhaps down to the increasing use of Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) technology, which reduces the total number of manufacturing steps. Each step is a potential chance to decrease yield, so by replacing 4 steps of DUV for 1 step of EUV, it eliminates some of that defect rate.”
> International news make it appear as if the situation has worsened in the last years (Katrina used to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, now hurricanes of similar size occur every few years) Is this impression correct or overblown?

Overblown.
This is interesting but I'm not sure it supports that moving to affluent areas will help scholastic achievement.

For example, looking at the "median household income" feature, it doesn't seem to correlate well with "fraction of college graduates".
I don't know about "worse", but unless things have changed in the past few years, yes, I'd say it's a "traditional" interview ("code up a rough solution to this algorithmic problem on a whiteboard/laptop"), and yes, I'd say it's harder - they're widely considered to be some of the hardest interviews in the industry, and personal anecdote for confirmation: about five years ago I interviewed at Jane Street and Google on subsequent days. The Jane Street interview was one of the most exhausting batteries of my life; by comparison the Google one was a cakewalk.