skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To visualise this quantity:

1 tonne of ice is roughly[1] 1 cubic metre.

The square root of 1 trillion (10^12) is one million.

One million metres is 1,000 km, or roughly 620 miles.

28 trillion tonnes of ice would be a slab 1,000 km x 1,000 km, reaching 28 m high, or 90 ft in Freedom Units, or about 9 storeys.

The state of California is about 1,260 km north to south. A jet airliner flies about 1,000 km in 1¾ hours. A car travelling at 100 kph (60 mph) will cover 1,000 km in 10 hours.

New York City is about 1,000 km from Indianapolis, IN, Frankfurt, KY, Columbia, SC, Lansing, MI, or Atlanta, GA, plus or minus about 200 km. Sydney and Adelaide, Australia, are 1,200 km apart. Paris, France, and Vienna, Austria, are 1,034 km apart. Tokyo and Seoul, 1,160 km. From Beijing to Shanghai, 1,066 km.

At the height of the Burj Khalifa, 830m (2,723 ft), the ice block would extend 183 km (113 mi) on a side. At 1,000 m tall, slightly less than Mount Diablo in the SF Bay Area, the area covered wuld be 167 km on a side, about 100 miles. Standing atop Diablo, absent clouds, fog, or smoke, ice would rise to 173 m (567 ft) short of the summit, and extend 50 miles in any direction.

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Notes:

1. Actually, 1 m^3 of ice weighs about 920 kg, or 1 tonne has a volume of 1.087 m^3. That's well within my slop factor above.
Find an experienced business person to work with. The ideal person would be someone that is successful at what they do, and that also understands the potential for technology to transform their business. It certainly helps if they have seen a software development project traverse from start to finish. And they should be someone that you can trust. If you can't find this person, find a job in an industry that interests you. Ideally, you'll eventually meet people on the business side that have a vision, and are looking for someone that can deliver technology that fulfills their vision. They're out there -- like attracts like. And, be the kind of professional that people want to partner with and it will eventually happen.
Coming close to burnout, I realised the work game is bigger than me.

If I have so much work that I am drowning and people are looking for me to do more and more and more.....

that means my manager failed their Real Time Strategy Game and they need another worker at my level. Maybe that's because the next manager up failed their game, etc etc.

But it doesn't matter why.

I do 9-5. And I go home. That is the employment contract. That is what I do.

I try to make good on my 9-5 so my own self worth is fine. But I only do my job.
Second author here with a link to the arXiv paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02637

Although I have to say, VentureBeat did much better than most media outlets I have seen writing about current research and what they write is not only accurate but also largely devoid of hype. Perhaps we actually managed to “keep the hype down” as we intended when writing this piece?

I will check in on this post now and then if you have questions and see if the first author is interested in joining when he wakes up as he really did all the legwork for this one.
Building a startup from $0 to $1 – Day 5: Build part 2
HF is used in boatloads for silicon wafer manufacturing. Not sure about solar. This might be what they're referring to?

But...(at least in the US), wafer manufacturing is highly regulated and focused on safe waste handling...
I've seen companies raise single digit millions and not even get close to $1M in revenue, over 5 years later. The result is founders have been diluted massively after a couple of down rounds. Meanwhile, preferred dividends are accruing year after year. The odds of a big payoff gets smaller and smaller the longer this goes on.

Odds are you'd make more money taking a job at BigCo, live like you only needed half what you're making, and invest that extra money into the public market. This isn't as fun though.
I've known about `moreutils` for years, but the only two I ended up actively using myself are `vidir` and `vipe`.

Outside of `moreutils`, one of the utilities I always install on all my machines is `atool`, which is just so much nicer and more intuitive than trying to remember the command-line options needed to handle the various tar.*, rar, zip, 7zip, lzip, etc. archive formats from the command line.
Wow. At a time when the NRA leadership has been cutting back on gun safety training in favor of lavish personal spending (and getting sued by NY for violating their non profit requirements), it is quite unfortunate for facebook to ban this independent gun advocacy group. Of course C4SS does a lot of other things, primarily focusing on a left-market anarchist view that I think is very important to our discourse today. Yet another reason not to trust the gatekeepers with our knowledge sharing.
Thanks so much, just sent you on an email.
I would have expected that the recalibration have big impact in middle of continent and no impact near coasts but strangely it's not the case. How coastline altitude could have been incorrectly calibrated before ?
It's no different than any other supply and demand market. If you open a new business selling shoes, nobody guarantees you an income or protection from competitors who take all the customers.

A low-skill contract like driving casual passengers just has too much competition to be worth a full-time position, but it's still a great way for extra income with little commitment.
Being able to embed assembly instructions directly in the code gave much needed access to all the PDP-10 byte manipulation instruction. I loved BLISS, but some had trouble with the pesky dots needed to indicate value of rather than addresses of variables.

Used it for a couple of years in the mid '70s before moving on to SAIL.
Facebook Marketplace is better than Craigslist. Buyers have a history by default ("On Facebook since 2009" etc) which is nice.
Just hand the poor soul a shovel. It'll make the hole he's digging for himself easier.
>Wow that's a sobering statistic. If true it means Biden is DOA. Social media wins elections.

Trump lost MN in 2016 by 1.5%; the Floyd riots and looting might give the state to him this year (suburban voters generally do not like the idea of half of city they work in being torched, and the police force of said city being disbanded). In 2016 Trump won MN 18-24 year olds by five points (http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/minnesota/pre...). By contrast, Obama won the same age group in the state by 34 points (http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/state/MN/president/) over Romney! For 18-29 year olds, Clinton won the age group by three points while Obama won by 30 points!

WI and PA saw similar trends. If Trump wins every other state he won in 2016, he only needs to win one of MN, WI, PA, or MI for reelection.
And due to the current antitrust concerns, there’s no way FB could buy TikTok.
I understand you feel that way, just want to explain why sites do that. If they give you a clear answer yes or no if it worked, others could check which emails are registered on the website. So in order to leak the information on who has an account or not, they are ambiguous with their answers if the recovery was triggered or not.

It's, as always, about a balance between faster user experience and more extensive security features.
No sweat, the CIA factbook will just define the U.S. elevation as including its aerospace.

Like it does for area.
Nice article! I would definitely recommend for everyone to write a CPU emulator at least once. It will give you a lot of perspective on how computers really work. As someone else pointed out CHIP-8[0] is a good one that's not too complicated.

If you want something more "real", MIPS and RISC-V are also not too hard, if you just do a subset of the instruction set and not the whole thing. You can skip most of the instructions that deal in bytes and half-words. It's also easier to implement main memory as being word-addressable only (but this can introduce incompatibilities with real assembler programs).

I wrote a cycle-accurate, pipeline simulator for MIPS for a course, which totaled only about 1200 SLOC. If you didn't need to simulate all the pipeline registers (you probably don't) and use a higher level language, this is probably a <750SLOC project.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
Of course "the media" focuses on incidents where cops abuse their power.

"The media" also exalts policemen and soldiers as heroes, with countless reminders to thank our "heroes" and millions of hours of Hollywood entertainment devoted to showcasing heroic soldiers and cops. Much of the media denounces the protests as well.

A different sort of bias comes into play with
word choice, using "victims" to refer to people
who typically are violent criminals being
apprehended. The word ought to be "perpetrators",
"suspects", or simply "criminals".

Surely you see the irony in using an equally loaded set of terms yourself?

In all of the incidents that sparked outcry, police were shown on video using vastly asymmetrical force against victims who were nonviolent or who had already been subdued. One, Breona Taylor, was in bed when police knocked down the wrong door when serving a no-knock warrant. Elijah, the teen injected with ketamine, was nonviolent and had no history of violence or crime.

There are a lot of incidents of police violence in which the suspect is behaving violently and, in these cases, I have not seen public outcry.
My experience in trying this recently was that https://www.tunemymusic.com/ was able to match more of my iTunes library to Spotify than Playlistor, but YMMV.
hey not op but try this webcached page and make sure you dont let it load completely or else you'll get a page not found error:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_fkbEo...
I saw it more as a pun. Unfortunately given the terrible practice of clickbait we no longer have the inclination to give puns the benefit of doubt.
If the USPTO were capable of competently evaluating software patents to determine whether they were actually non-obvious inventions or just taking long-standing practices and appending "on a computer", then the concept might have some merit. But they aren't, so it doesn't.
The site is no longer active
When it's in stock, it's always limited to X per order, so I'd still stay it's in shortage currently
Yeah, all of which may originate from the arrest. Which he already said is the biggest risk.
> Considered as a console

But it's not just a console.
That’s very cool and inspirational! I’ve been wanting to do laser projection too. Was your laser projector home built or bought online? If home built, do you have some links describing how to do it? If bought online, do you have a link to where you ordered it from?
Back of a napkin calc = 1.65 inch raise in sea level (assuming 100% of the ice was not in the sea when it melted)
This is not a good standard.
> That’s because height is only height compared to a reference point — and geodesists...are redefining the reference point, or vertical datum, from which height is derived.

So it isn't getting shorter. We're changing our reference point. Those are very different things!
"I was today years old when I found about it"
Rails pushes a lot of the "magic adjacent" features of Ruby very, very hard, which I'm not sure has entirely been to Ruby's benefit -- it's very often not just the first exposure someone has to Ruby, but the only exposure. It's not as bad as being introduced to PHP by WordPress, to be sure, but it's still going to color your opinion.

I think Ruby's actually a very nice general-purpose scripting language; as much as I like Python in principle, I find myself reaching for Ruby more often.
Wow, after playing Microsoft Flight Simulator and flying the Airbus myself this was incredibly informative. A lot of crucial things outlined here, like for example I didn't know you could control the autopilot like that.
The dumbest thing you can do is try to be hyper-productive when you have no idea what you should be doing.

Of course, there are always five other things you know that need to get done besides the problem in front of you, but it can be a challenge to find the correct level of engagement, versus just sitting and 'marinating' in the problem in front of you.

I think the paradox is that if I spend all day doing nothing but reading documentation and farting around on Hacker News, nobody really notices. Not in the same way they notice if I spend a day on 'the wrong thing' (because I know for certain what needs to be done on this other thing). It's seen as wasting resources, because certainly I could have put that energy into the 'right thing'.
We really need a "flag for misleading headline" button.
Nope. DHCP IP, but they're effectively static. It hasn't changed for 2 years.
> Yes, of course the US has been meddling in elections around the globe for multiple decades up to and including staging coups and sending military personnel

It's true

It was also much more expensive both economically and in terms of human losses

Meddling by wire is unequivocally cheaper and safer.
Show HN: A CLI Tool That Turns CBOR into JSON or JSON into CBOR
WhatsApp was quoted at $19B . You are right that those two were really smart acquisitions .

While WhatsApp has not really changed all that much since the acquisition, there is very little that is the same between Instagram pre Facebook and now.

Were they worth the 1B and 19B price tag? yes totally, however both could have been done cheaper and earlier. There was lots of discussions with snap before whatsApp. The way occulus($3B) due diligence was handled also does not show give a lot of confidence. Facebook just got their way with sheer amount of money they could spend.
Same reaction for me earlier, and I didn’t have the time to look into it and had it on my mind since then. Should the title have “[not about pollutants]”?
Many however don't do this and it often reflects badly on those who do try to work normal hours. They essentially set the bar higher and unless you're more efficient, you fall behind in performance assessments or output.

One environment I interact with are all hypercompetitive and I probably look like an idiot to some of leadership because I refuse to work 60 hour work weeks like some of them grind away. If they decide to reduce or remove my services, life goes on, but we're somehow rolling back on labor's mentality about work life balance and being eaten alive by structures in place designed to force us to compete for the lowest rates (by adjusting either work or time in some way, shape, or form).
`JL` and other conditional jumps/branches are a common type of instruction [0][1][2].

Depending on the ISA [3][4][5], there can be jumps, branches, and subroutine transfers (or even a subset of those). Some can be based (conditional) on what value is in a primary register (often traditionally called the accumulator), a condition/flag/status register, a memory location, and even well known constants (0, 1, -1). Many ISAs have ways branching to a function/subroutine/procedure that can include adjusting a calling stack or transferring control to an OS kernel. x86 is notable in that you can cause a branch or jump without calling a branch or jump instruction.

[0] https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assembly_programming/assembly...

[1] https://thinkingeek.com/2013/01/19/arm-assembler-raspberry-p...

[2] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-powasm3/index.h...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_(computer_science)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine
Facebook had a WhatsApp competitor with significant marketshare. It was $12 billion to buy WhatsApp or >$12 billion to crush the competition. In hindsight he made the right move.
Goosing elderly senators with another red scare sure was a convenient pivot from having to defend his own social network.
In that case, recycling them should be a money saver, and people should do it for economic reasons.
Protagonists?
Central regulation of the identification is also subject to central censorship, discrimination, and oppression.
He said "only" risk. I consider them separate. Are we really debating the semantics of the plurality of risks in this situation? This thread is hopeless.
But it's not going to. Because the Earth's climate shifts in cycles aligned with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, to name a few.
Brilliant ruthlessness brought us one of the most destructive tools on earth, disguised as a site for peace, love, cat content and happiness. There were a million different ways to design a communications tool for people that would have respected its users. I hope we will leave this decade with a sad, distant memory of facebook and its outlets.

BTW: I am sure we will see the end of facebook (and it's subsidies) in this decade. The power concentration is just too insane. If it does not implode itself, then even a weak government like the US will take action.
I would like this as well. Though most commenters seem skeptical, I think it's rather nice to not be seeing nudity (and sexuality more broadly) online. It feels pretty unhealthy to me, and I would be surprised if I was the only one...
My guess is that given the history of this filesystem implementation, most of the review effort will be focused on the interface between this FS and the rest of the kernel. It's typical for all the changes touching communal files or introducing generic helper functions or data structures to be broken out into separate commits. If any of those helpers are a reinvention of stuff that's already in the kernel, there will need to be a justification for why NTFS needs its own special versions. It's not typical for a large patch series adding genuinely new stuff to be broken up into absurdly tiny commits. For the stuff that's truly internal to the filesystem implementation, it looks like one patch per file will be an acceptable granularity.
Slick visual proof of a common sum
It’s difficult to know what to make of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal’s claim about Zuckerberg’s alleged claims about TikTok because I can’t read past the paywall.

But there are so many informed comments here on HN,I must be the only non-subscriber, yeah?

Can anyone post the article text?
I guess the approaches taken with U2F tokens here (and FIDO2) makes sense - have more than one token enrolled, and allow either to be used.

It's not perfect and there are usability issues around this, but they're mostly solvable. Needing both keys around to enrol into each service can be an issue, but this could be addressed by letting a user enrol other public keys as a delegate, and present a signed delegation token allowing that token to enrol a public key on behalf of an off-site token.

Revocation is the next issue - how do you revoke either of your tokens if stolen or compromised? PKI had this issue and ended up down the CRL Vs OCSP approaches. Clearly you need to be able to revoke without the token being present (maybe storing a signed revocation for A on your B token), and some kind of gossip-based network to spread the signed revocation around. That might avoid centralising it.

As long as your "chip" is designed as an ISO smartcard, you can also rely on pin protection (I'll ignore the implanted under skin aspect, other than to observe that does adjust the threat model as deniability around knowing the PIN is lost at that point. A duress PIN that validly unlocks but generates different keys would be a potential solution here for where mistaken identity can be used as an escape from an adversary).
Oceans do not have the same height everywhere, there can be up to about 2M of difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_surface_topography
I pretty much never have problems with imports in Ruby. It's not like it's an unsolvable problem. Nothing would ever get better if we just took the "no use complaining" approach.
It relies on the assumption that time exists; see the posts on LessWrong about Timeless Physics:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rrW7yf42vQYDf8AcH/timeless-p...
How can one know it's not saying something meaningful, I find myself thinking, also surrounded by nature
Everything about the Instagram acquisition was brilliant. Reminder that neither Instagram nor Facebook was making a profit at the time, and Instagram's $1B price tag was both very high at the time and minuscule in hindsight. 8 years later, Instagram is the platform that allows Facebook to still be mega successful.
The tough thing is figuring out what's the right stuff to filter out.

We all have had conversations with coworkers about some manager who just doesn't 'get it' and is out of touch. One way or another they are filtering out a bit of reality that it turns out is very important to us, or someone in the chain of command is filtering it out before they ever hear about it.

I wonder if the right solution is to 'audit' the information. Spend most of the time in your information bubble, with brief excursions in alternating 'directions' just to make sure that you aren't overfitting. Regular sanity checks where you turn on the firehose for a moment to see what comes out.
That's extremely unlikely. It says last seen at 8:30 AM on Thursday which makes no sense. I have a dedicated VLAN that routed over a VPN for anything not 100% super legit.
I was once doing a lot of stuff to a disk with gnu parted. I popped out and popped back in like this:

$ parted
<do a lot of work>

whoops, all the I erased and recreated were... my root disk!

I couldn't figure otu the partition table of the running disk, but I was able to rsync all the data elsewhere and recover it.

IMHO if you invoke parted - WITH NO ARGUMENTS - it should not make a choice for you.
AFAICT yes. From what I could find, it seems they dropped the Microsoft App Store from 30% to 5%, but their % take for games is still 30%, including in-app purchases.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/06/microsoft-store-revenue-share...

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/03/06/update...

[2] https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...

[3] https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE...
So to save the “less informed” CA politicians passed a hideous, law written for the legislature by unions and ended up taking out a bunch of industries besides just Uber and Lyft.

My favorite group are all the liberal tech writers, the majority of which fell under AB5 and are now freaking out too.

Unintended consequences are often far more damaging than just letting markets sort things out.

And who says making less than minimum wage is always a bad thing? A lot of people drive for these services as supplemental income. It’s NOT their primary income, yet all your arguments are coming solely from that perspective.

How presumptive of you.
I posted for the same reason one would call out false advertising.

The article's title looked interesting and it was posted in an interesting place (Hacker News). I had every reason to expect it would probably be a great article, but it wasn't.
Why the US should support chinese companies and not US companies, if Facebook did it under the law I'm fine
Wouldn't be more interested in how active the user has been over the last year? I haven't used my account for years but signed up a long time ago.

You can easily buy Facebook account which have been old but might not have been active for a long time. To me being on Facebook since 2009 is not really a great indicator for trust.
I'd say I have a lot more work thoughts invading my personal life than vice versa. When I'm at work I'm expected to pump things out and the cognative load leaves very little room for thoughts to creep in.

On the other hand when I'm relaxed and enjoying free thought, I sometimes can't help but use some of that freetime to think through work problems to reduce work stress. I suppose if my personal time was spent with high cognative load as well, it would be a fair trade off, but after working at high cognative function 40+ hours a week, my personal time tries to be as mentally relaxing as possible.