skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's literally convenience trumping everything. For example, for gatherings (back when we were able to have those), you could either bring a big jug of water and a bunch of solo cups, a case of bottled water, or, the eco-friendly option, a jug of water and just assume everyone else will have a reusable water bottle (e.g. Nalgene). The easiest option there is the bottled water option.

This can only be solved by shifting from the "wish upon a star that all consumers will somehow solve the problem themselves" strategy to putting the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the people profiting from putting municipal water in single-use plastic bottles.
- Short term roadmap is here - https://github.com/oracle/tribuo/blob/main/docs/Roadmap.md, longer term we'd like to see what the community wants.

- Yep.

- There are various efforts on the JVM to build multidimensional arrays, we're talking to many of them to try and figure out a strategy for the whole platform. Ditto for dataframes, though Apache Arrow looks like a good baseline.

- We're not looking at other languages outside of the JVM at the moment, but we're continuing to contribute to Tensorflow Java and ONNX Runtime to improve their Java support. We could look at pytorch inference support based on their Java API, but that overlaps pretty well with the things that ONNX Runtime supports. Do you have any suggestions?

- Not beyond hyperparameter tuning.
People are bad decision agents. Selling bottled water to Americans is like selling snow to eskimos, but we buy it in droves because advertising fuckin works and works well. They make a few dollars off of every person in the country to contribute nothing, but that's just how capitalism works. The only way to win is to start making your own water bottles and market them harder!! (btw the planet is still screwed doing this, but you'll be rich!)
I think you are arrogant.
That's a good point. And 'broke' isn't 100% broke just yet, he's not going to have to sleep under a bridge. But he's broke enough that the wrong accident can put him on the far side of the line easily enough. Obviously this goes for many people but they tend to end up in that situation by accident, not by design and as an example to other billionaires he's pretty impressive.

Try imagining Larry Ellison doing this.
Not really my business.
Absolutely. From one of my other posts:

> I have a PA friend who was offered a job in Alaska, relocating his home and family from WA. Job was offered, signed, and less than two weeks prior to start, when the house was on the market, and trucks loaded, he got an email.

> "The urgent care clinic has been sold to another company. As part of their review of the clinic, assets and employees, they are rescinding your offer indefinitely. Thank you for your interest in the position."

He got compensation without having to go to court when he made mention of the fact that it wasn't a surprise to the clinic that they were being sold, nor would it be unexpected that the new purchaser may (would) want a financial review, and final say on new hires.
This is a very long article that primarily cites the libertarian Cato Institute. As a reminder, the Cato Institute has received over $30 million from the Koch Brothers, oil company billionaires who have lobbied long and hard against government regulation.

I go to HN because of the high quality of curated articles. Not sure how this one--which comes from a source that seems to rails against any market regulation--made it onto the front page.
Maybe A, but not (IMO) dramatically so. But shouldn't A actually be "${cat} ${dog} ${giraffe} <random text> ... <random text> ${dinosaur}"? That makes it closer in difficulty to B.

To me, the difference shows up more with this scenario:

A: "${v1} ${v2} ${v3} ${v4}"

B1: "%s %s %s %s".formatted(v1, v2, v3)

B2: "%s %s %s %s".formatted(v1, v2, v3, v4, v5)

B3: "%s %s %s".formatted(v1, v2, v3, v4)

A does what you tell it, whether it's wrong or right. B has a chance of warning you that the argument list and the format specifier don't match. On the other hand, B gives you two things that have to be kept in sync with each other, and A can't get out of sync, since there's only one thing.

So: Less of a chance to make the error, or more of a chance to catch it. Which is better? I lean toward A, but I will admit that it seems subjective.
At what point does being non-partisan become less professional/respectable than being partisan?
Ask HN: Rackspace Dedicated customers – Are things going ok with your accounts?
I've been a Rackspace (dedicated) customer since 2008. We've had some rough patches, however in the last 6 months, our account, and attention to detail to nearly any request is worse than I've ever experienced. I've enjoyed Rackspace for years, great service, I'm having trouble justifying the relationship lately.

Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this kind of drop in quality from RS.
Either way its pedantry to the broader point I was trying to make of "There are certainly Trump supporters who subscribe to Scientific American"
> Twitter for iPhone

Twitter user discovers social media screen time.

Move along now, nothing to see here.
> Do you like the idea of Apple owning...

This is what bothers me. I think there is a lot of evidence Apple's claims that they keep as much of this data on-device as possible. Even so, Apple's increasing dominance in certain aspects of my life bothers me.

After watching Google progress from being a company I loved and respected into a gross corporation, I'm concerned will eventually follow suit. Even if you assume Apple's current management are a bunch of great guys, in 10 years Cook might get replaced by a corrupt douchebag.

It's concerning. But at the same time I appreciate the previous posters view as well, I'd rather not have my information painted across dozens of small companies who are easily acquired.
Hoping it's permanent.
Might be worth looking at "programmer anarchy."
I started messing with that but found obs.ninja easier to use with better results. Then again, I already use OBS' virtual camera as the source in my conferences, if only for basic resizing and color correction of my mediocre webcam.

Ended up not using it after a while because I didn't like the way the phone still gets pretty warm after an hour or two conference (same as DroidCam et al).
"In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago"

"Meanwhile, wage gains have gone largely to the highest earners."

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
Non-carbon energy sources will not stop fires. Many of the ecosystems in California have depended on the fires as part of their life-cycle.

We screwed up over-preventing fires during the last 100 years and built up a huge tinder box.
My young kids were going to finally go back to (outdoors) school today, but it had to be canceled due to the smoke.
interesting quote from the article:

The mechanism by which ABO is associated with COVID-19 is unclear, but ABO blood groups can play a direct role in pathogen infection by serving as receptors and/or coreceptors.

Differential glycosylation of the spike protein or the envelope glycolipids from expression of different ABO glycosyltransferases may then impact the binding and internalization of SARS-CoV-2 viral particles. Others have speculated that the lower susceptibility of blood group O could be linked to anti-A blood antibodies inhibiting the adhesion of coronavirus to ACE2-expressing cells, thereby providing protection
They mention in the article that it's mostly due to familiarity with Go:

> CockroachDB is primarily a Go code base, and the Cockroach Labs engineers have developed broad expertise in Go.
For all the reasons you've stated, that's why it's simply not going to happen.

Can you think of any major environmental project funded by foreigners that just goes in and successfully helps out?

They don't work because they're seen as an affront to the nation's autonomy. It's not seen as help. It's seen as invasion.

I'm not even joking: in Brazil most of the population believes that any effort by US private citizens/charities to purchase land in the Amazon to protect it is just a front to make a future US military invasion of the Amazon easier. It's ludicrous to Americans, but it's just "common sense" to Brazilians.
I sort of agree with this in the sense that the estate tax seems like a distraction from the larger and vastly more important challenge of implementing a broadly fair, progressive, and efficient system of taxation.

With a better system, we shouldn't have to introduce one-off taxes for "special events" like death because extreme concentrations of wealth should already be heavily and unavoidably taxed--passing wealth to one's children (or anyone else... in any other country) shouldn't make a difference one way or the other.

Estate taxes stir up an irrelevant debate about the morality of inheritance, and puts the government in the role of deciding this moral question for everyone, when that debate isn't necessary and doesn't really matter.

All that really matters is 1 - how much we need to fund the prerequisites for a modern and decent civilization (which includes things like basic income, healthcare for all, housing for all, education for all, etc., imho), and 2 - what is the most progressive, efficient, and sustainable way to raise this money.

I highly doubt the answer to #2 is an estate tax.
You speak of frugal living, but why live frugally amassing great wealth? There is a difference between having money to be self sufficient and sitting on billions of dollars
Is it just me or is there something a little off about the phrase "$76 million for grassroots campaigns supporting the passage of Obamacare"? Grassroots and funded secretly by a billionaire seem like fundamental opposites...
Learning from 100 Cloud Journeys
The expansion is as a fraction of length. For steel its around 10-20ppm per degree C.

So a 40 degree temperature swing would be 400-800ppm, which means about 1mm difference in length for 2m of steel. Obviously bridges aren't usually made of a single span of steel, but there will be limits to how much expansion a given joint can tolerate, and each half of a draw-bridge needs to be fairly rigid. On top of that, 40 degrees is probably much less than the difference in road temperature between a cold night in January vs. a sunny day in August.

Railway tracks used to buckle in the heat before they built them with a small gap between the rail spans.
Changing delta in values is an additional factor in changing the relationship between former partners.
> Ads really made a mess of the internet - content farms, keyword farms, most of google results are paid for, sponsored for, or came from farms. We've really gone full-circle if I have to prepend reddit or stackexchange to get something that's not crap.

This alone makes ad blocking a moral imperative. They don't really care about the internet, it's just some money making scheme to them.

> But then, if everyone did what I did, could capitalism even survive?

Aren't capitalists all about adapting to adversity? If capitalism can't survive without ads, then let it die a well-deserved death. Nobody should be putting up with advertising for the sake of it.
Compostable "plastics", e.g. PLA, which sometimes is corn-based, exist; in California I've seen compostable disposable silverware, as well as compostable decorative planters (I own two, holding up good after three years, which makes me wonder how compostable they really are). But compostable "plastics" do exist, at least in some markets.
You dirty dog!
In what way have they changed the definition of the word inclusive?
> I still don't get how bottled water became a thing

Many reasons. Mostly distrust on how potable the water actually is (events like Flint didn't help). Some locations have water that tastes bad - even if it should be otherwise healthy.

What I don't understand is how small bottles became a thing. Sure, if you are out and about it might be convenient to carry some, as they are sealed containers. But some people buy them for normal consumption.

At least use the big bottles that are supposed to be used with watercoolers. Those are actually reused.
Yes here too, and I think it's great and it's the way forward, but as with anything it requires some changes in thinking and approach. Re-composing everything into small functions, queues, and asynchronous events takes some getting used to. And there are some patterns that can help (e.g. using "job queues" can sometimes be the answer, rather than having a different queue for every type of action), when to use FIFO vs unstructured queues, and lots more.

Books like https://www.manning.com/books/serverless-architectures-on-aw... might help. And of course many consultants, good and bad, will cash in on the new trend, and there will be some high-profile disasters which should never have chosen serverless in the first place.
Why would Apple kickoff competing products that are abiding by AppStore rules? It's profitable for them when purchases or subscriptions are made... and hosting these competing products makes their AppStore space more valuable to boot.

No doubt they'll get kicked off as well if they try to circumvent the agreed payment medium
I'm top tier with iCloud storage and I sub to Apple music. It's $20 more with Premier that has everything since too am only really additionally interested in Fitness+

Since you can share all of the above with family sharing and I need a bit more that 200GB but not 2TB, I may split this with my family and I'll actually come out ahead.

It all depends on how you slice it. at first I thought the Premiere was nuts, but even without family sharing for $20 more a year its still cheaper than all three individually. And I end up with everything (which gets them momentum in the other services they need).
Well, you are putting your money back into society, creating jobs. So yes. That is better then not doing those things.
I've been a software engineer for over 6 years and I still have to do 20+ interviews.
That is a rather reductionist answer.

Did you purposefully ignore my question?

Holistically speaking, how do you propose we measure “health”?

What sort of market compromise do you have in mind with regards to said measurement?
From the source:

"In analyzing fatalities from terrorist attacks, religious terrorism has killed the largest number of individuals—3,086 people—primarily due to the attacks on September 11, 2001, which caused 2,977 deaths.10 The magnitude of this death toll fundamentally shaped U.S. counterterrorism policy over the past two decades. In comparison, right-wing terrorist attacks caused 335 deaths, left-wing attacks caused 22 deaths, and ethnonationalist terrorists caused 5 deaths."[1]

[1]https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-u...
I've seen the same thing. I hire a lot of embedded engineers and when I need someone that has solid experience with drivers and bit-level work, I'll ask a simple question to start off. In the past I've never disclosed the question, but why the hell not now. I didn't write it anyway:

Given a 32-bit unsigned integer, return true if the binary representation has two consecutive ones in it.

And...that's it. And people that have passed the recruiter gates and made it through the phone screen just completely lose it here. Let's be clear - I really don't care how you do it. There are 3-4 ways right off the bat ranging from a state machine to a shifting mask all the way down to a single inline math statement.

If you're as comfortable as you say, it will be a no brainer. As a check I took an intern and told him to meet me in a conference room to get the same stress level out of him. I posed the problem and got an answer in five seconds.
Why Everything Is Sold Out: The Pandemic Broke Online Shopping
You are. I dropped match last year and nothing changed.

It's a little annoying they don't remind folks that if you have Apple Music, you really don't need match any more.
The problem is that V claims:

- As fast as C
- No manual memory management
- No GC
- Memory safety
- Not hard like Rust

You have fundamentally conflicting requirements. Saying "we'll do it like lobster" does not solve that. Lobster is essentially region based memory management with fallbacks to reference counting at runtime. That fundamentally contradicts "as fast as C". You cannot do more work than C at runtime and still be faster.

Lobster is also a different language which had to forgo a number of features V has already embraced. It's unclear how that can be rectified.
I am not sure if you can easily give away that much money. If it were easy, people would already be doing it. Buying a nice home is a distant dream even for many software engineers in the bay area for example, and future education and healthcare costs are very unpredictable. Putting it in terms of money you are already spending helps put it in context.
Yes but leaving shit like this unchallenged isn't healthy either.
Props to you. I suspect there are more of 'you' (the literal you) than you think, but - and that's the trick - they don't go advertising it.
Glass also takes a lot of energy to produce. In many (most?) cases more fossil fuels will be consumed making a glass container than the plastic equivalent.

The same sorts of issues apply to coated paper or card containers.
It is no longer private if you upload it to cloud.
Care to elaborate? I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at.
There's some notes on that here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/blob/c39589c8cb36d95df...
This is great, except it always seems like it's the same big booming voices every time blasting their way in on the ISS and other FM satellites.
Computer Vision: Looking Back to Look Forward
Ask HN: How much time per day is needed to onboard a new skill?
I realise that this is completely dependent on the person. However, if you were looking to pick up a new skill like expanding your development knowledge or learning design theory, what would be the best strategy for consistent learning in out of work hours time?
>“What we can do is spray insecticide right where it’s needed and herbicide right where it’s needed,”

This is the most important part for drone applications in crop management. With multispectral imaging and RTK it's possible to get much more specific about application of various products that were previously applied in bulk to prevent or remedy a situation.

Unfortunately TFA amounts to an advertisement and doesn't have any useful info.
A thought exercise: Sugary bottled drinks are even worse for the environment. They not only have the same bottles and water involved but they also have other ingredients that add even more environmental consequences. They have public health consequences too.

But of course to ban sugary drinks would cut into the realm of personal choice right? After all people may choose to want a sugary beverage. So no one argues that case.

Still it's weird to draw the line at bottled water and not further along. I used to live near a council area (Manly City Council) that banned bottled water. It meant you could only buy sugary drinks at the local corner store. Go to the beach and forget your water bottle? You better like Coca-Cola because that's all they'll sell you!

I'm not opposed to encouraging people to use a re-usable container. But i am opposed to a ban on something that's far better than the alternatives that remain unbanned.
> I wonder what Feeney makes of Gates in 2020.

Stuff like that.

My point is that spamming links with no other commentary makes me wonder if you have a point here.
So if those countries don't care about their rivers spewing plastic into the oceans, could a billionaire simply pay to build one of these things and then pay boats to clean up the waste it collects?

I wonder what it would cost to just put one of these in somewhere and run it. (Including all the bribes/lobbying to allow it to be built in the first place)
Which if you are maintaining a subscription to Apple Music, the DRM thing really doesn't matter.

I still made a backup of everything before turning Match off :)
although not a small company, reminds me of the spotify approach [1]

https://youtu.be/4GK1NDTWbkY
Investment in Java slowed down in Sun's dying days. Oracle has increased the investment considerably.
I don't agree with all of the conclusions of this article, especially on the second order effects, but it does help address some data that I think is vital to the discussion of "who will be effected by a rent freeze" it turns out that this action is going to benefit the mega-corp property owners that will wait for the small investors, that account for almost half of all landlords in the US, to go bankrupt after they don't have the cash or access to lines of credit to weather losing the income from a property for several months.

I know we like to picture the fat cat landlord with the suit and the looking to nickle and dime people but in my experience the majority of the house owning landlords are often people in a more advanced stage of life looking to create a stable retirement for themselves, especially in the face of the inflationary measures that seem to be rapidly deprecating the purchasing power of life savings.
but he isn’t broke...
See https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911592361/are-recent-wildfire..., titled "Are Recent Wildfires Enough To Restore The Equilibrium With Fire?" The TLDR is no, this won't stop them from happening.

This article notes:

- In 2019, $160M was spent putting out wildfires in CA, but the economic damage was $80B

- 3M acres have burned in CA this year

- In order to manage wildfires appropriately in CA, 20M acres would need to be addressed (thinning or burning) every year.

- There are 48M acres of mountains, brush, and grassland in CA
Does it amplify it or just speed up the natural course of what would otherwise happen?
> Why?

I personally don't believe this is a mistake, but the only problematic thing I can think of is that this might encourage Trumpers and Trumpworld to view science as a Democratic constituency, and thus withdraw their support for things like government science funding (thus making it more partisan and unreliable). However, that's probably already happened to a significant degree. Staying neutral towards someone who's already hostile to you is not a very tenable position.

See also Republicans and labor unions: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/opinion/labor-unions-repu...

> It is often forgotten that Eisenhower and many other Republicans used to support labor unions, if not always enthusiastically....

> It was Ronald Reagan, with his firing of 11,000 striking air traffic controllers, who sent the Republican Party’s relations with labor into a tailspin. Despite the party’s shift to the right under Reagan, there continued to be many pro-labor Republicans in Congress well into the 1990s, like Representatives Jack Quinn of New York and Bob Ney of Ohio. They often bucked party leaders, for instance, to support a higher minimum wage.

> The decisive break came in 1996 when Speaker Newt Gingrich was struggling to retain control of the House. With Gingrich openly hostile to unions, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. endorsed Democrats over many longtime G.O.P. allies.

> At the time, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s political director justified the move, saying, “Anybody who stands with Gingrich as often as they do is not standing with working people.” But the spurned Republicans said labor had turned its back on the G.O.P. That ended a 120-year stretch during which unions had always been able to maintain some level of bipartisan support.
The disregard for proper process would already a red flag, but the prospect of working with that coworker would make me nope out of that job before I left the building.