skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> please at least hint at potential alternatives who are or could be doing the necessary work instead.

For this particular use case, Perma.cc has significant institutional backing.

https://perma.cc/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10948033
I'm failing to see how that post is a "childish attempt" at anything. Offering a language playground to the general public and not sufficiently preventing that playground from compromising the very server on which it runs is a pretty glaring problem. At worst, you might criticize her for publishing that post immediately after discovering the exploit (instead of the more "polite" approach of allowing someone to patch it first, within a reasonable deadline), but that's pretty minor in comparison to, you know, V's playground being vulnerable to major security issues.

In any case, banning people from contributing to a project entirely merely because they pointed out glaring security issues is considerably more childish than the actual pointing out of security issues, no matter how distastefully the latter might've been done (and again, aside from the lack of a responsible disclosure period, I ain't seeing anything particularly glaring in that post).
Well, frankly, there's a need on HN for "correctness" only. And I'm not sure what's correct. And I haven't faced some of the "hypothetical" scenarios posed here.

And if a resume came on my desk with something like what was posed, I would have to pause, and think. And think. And think.

Some of the posts in here actually worry me though. There's a real failing of ethical concerns and more importantly, ethical mentorship in our field. I'm a result of that. I'm not trying to "gotcha" FAANG employees or vets or anything.
If you want to have the most impact in your secret donations and change the lives of many people in good, then you should finance democratic and peaceful political underdogs in poor and represive countries.

I know it sounds revolting that giving money to politicians is better than fighting malaria or cancer. But at the end of the day, those who are having the most impact in alleviating poverty and disease are not international philanthropists, but the governments of the respective countries. Misery is the result of the lack of institutions or their systemic failure under corrupt, inefficient and incompetent leaders. We have known for decades how to eradicate malaria and provide all people on Earth with basic food, shelter and education, what we lack is world-wide execution of essential state-building and infrastructure that would enable it, and much more.

And money is a fundamental part of politics; politicians are just like any other people: if a decent, respectable living an be made in the field of politics, public office will attract decent and respectable people. If the only way you can get into power is by making trades with the devil, since no one will found politics, then what you get is corrupt and ineffective leaders that oppress rather the serve the public.

This is why, for all his sins, George Soros remains one of the most effective philanthropists in the world. And this is why he's vilified by a whole wagon of authoritarians, from Putin to Orban to Jinping: they know that the most pressing threat to their power is not some foreign country, or a political or military international alliance; they are most afraid of a well funded and cohesive internal political opposition that can properly articulate the public discontent.
I also have HEPA filters throughout my house. They have improved my sleep and reduced my allergies even.
I presumed it was 24h of outdoor exposure (aka camping), and based on the founder's response on ProductHunt[0] that seems to be the case.

[0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sh-t-i-smoke
There is a false dichotomy being presented here. A piece of infrastructure can be both technically difficult and politically challenging. I think that applies to traditional nuclear power stations. Nuclear engineering is difficult, and that makes it more difficult to build nuclear power plants! And past success and knowledge is not a licence to success in the future.
Lessons Learned from Launch HN
One thing that I've heard from international students that is hard to pick up on this is that a lot of British people will inflect a different accent to emphasize a certain point.

Another anecdote: In the 1950s the KGB thoroughly infiltrated the British government and security services, but their assets would send back would be public school English so convoluted it literally could not be read by their handlers at times.
Be sure to have a bypass on your rain system to flush the smoke precipitates off your roof before they get into the tank. My parents water used to taste of tar over winter when they were lighting their fire.
Big Data's Elephant in the Room
Wait what? Where exactly is that pollution from EVs coming from? Seems a pretty big leap you took there.
Nothing like the emotional appeal of invoking Godwin, but here we go. Wernher von Braun was a literal Nazi of the brutal kind, but when you are in a race to develop ICBMs, things like "culture fit" are suddenly irreverent.

There is no shortage of labor in the market, and I would say that has been the case for the past 10 years and it has been progressively accumulating a glut. I can ask a senior programmer to complete a multi hour at home task after a brief call, and they will expect nothing in return. When I DJed at strip clubs, I would be payed to try out. Both have similar situations of a position staying open for months on end, large pools of people applying, and the need for selecting a candidate based on skill. The difference is incentive from the other DJs to fill in a Tuesday shift is way higher than a team to sign off on a DevOps engineer. Other people just aren't directly impacted by your marginal value and the selection process is going be for other qualities that are. As for the company's perspective, these engineers still cumulatively provide tremendous value and everything is stilling humming along more or less fine.
I'm not sure that I've ever seen somebody in the field suggest a reform that would reduce that cost, except for the small modular style construction.

That is to say, nobody involved with the process has a suggestion on what regulations are unnecessarily increasing costs. So I don't think the USPS is comparable, as there are very clear and easy fixes that would solve their problems (ie increase stamp prices).

When you look at what happened with Westinghouse and the AP-1000 in Georgia and South Carolina, it seems that parts of the problem is that the designs weren't even buildable as they were laid out, and when it came time to build the construction side just went ahead with whatever they could hobble together. So it's been suggested that if the NRC checked the plans not only for safety, but also basic construct ability, then maybe these massive projects would succeed. But because the engineers did not do their job, and construction teams did jobs they shouldn't have, and the business arrangements were such that all this went sideways instead of problems being identified and fixed, there was massive failure.

Personally, I think more regulation has a better chance of fixing the industry rather than less regulation. The executives are clearly incompetent and have no clue or long term planning ability.
The way I interpreted it is that she referenced private info on other people (or internal teams) in there.
> So I look to China and see if they think it's worth it. And Chinese nuclear power is spiking.

Spiking? They approved two reactors this year and most years since Fukushima they didn't approve any. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100097/c...

...after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan, China halted its approval of new reactors for four years. These resumed in 2015, largely driven by Beijing’s pledge to cut carbon emissions. Then, from 2016 to 2018, the country again stopped granting permission for the construction of new nuclear power plants. After three new plants were approved in June 2019, government approvals again ground to a halt until this week.
Well insulated houses, unfortunately, are not a usual feature of West Coast architecture.
Great, let's be rid of all this nonsense and let the income tax cover inheritance like any other transfer of wealth.
With Loom, the simple, blocking, non-reactive frameworks (like Spring MVC) should give you similar throughput to the reactive ones -- that's the main impact. I don't know how reactive frameworks intend to make use of Loom.
I don’t know how it works in India but in many countries the price displayed includes VAT which it does not in the US. This can easily be a 20% difference.
I'm in a similar bind.
Quit my job to go traveling then that ended up transitioning to a stay at home extended vacation / do what I want all day kind of thing when the pandemic hit, and now I've started looking for jobs again after a year.

Had a number of interviews, 2 onsite, but all have been failures where I've failed out at one stage or another on the way. Sometimes I have a good idea why, other times it feels very opaque. Somewhat depressing experience. Looks like I'm gonna have to do another round of resume submissions / recruiter screens and so forth from there for a second interview loop.
This gets dragged out every time someone comments on Apple's product strategy today, and it's just not relevant. Apple 20 years ago was a company in crisis and Jobs helped impose much-needed focus.

As they climbed out of crisis, they expanded their product portfolio. The iPod alone violated this famous grid, and if you look back, over time there were a ton of overlapping products, versions, options, and accessories in the iPod category.

Why? To fill out all the price point tiers and deny competitors ground from which they could establish differentiated products and grow from there. Jobs himself installed this strategy, and Apple continues to execute it to great success across all their product lines.
Oracle 9i DESC “ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested”
Concurrency and multithreading are a major focus of both Go and RocksDB. This introduction makes little mention of those areas, and I'm curious if there's any more to be said on this. The article lists several features being reimplemented, including:

> Basic operations: Set, Get, Merge, Delete, Single Delete, Range Delete

It makes no mention of RocksDB's MultiGet/MultiRead -- is CockroachDB/Pebble limited to query-at-a-time per thread? I'm genuinely curious how this all translates into Go's M:N coroutine model currently and moving forward with Pebble.
It's ironic that during all the saber-rattling with China, we have pivoted away from vacuuming up the best scientific and engineering talent from around the planet. We should be stealing their best and brightest, not telling them to go away.

So what, China steals our tech. We should be pushing the bleeding edge aggressively enough that even when they do they're 5-years behind.

Circling the wagons is the quickest way to get left in the dust.
Even more than that, because for the most part you're not filtering for viruses, but rather, aerosols: tiny mucus particles which contain the virus, but are themselves much larger, and also quite sticky.
I believe the strongest points for Fitbit are its looks of a discrete non fancy fitness tracker with long battery. My mum didn’t even want to hear about Apple Watch, she just wanted something that counts steps.
There are different levels of "safe".

For example, in London it's "safe" to drink tap water, it does not contain toxic checmicals of bacteria, but it is calcium rich, and drinking it constantly may be harmful for kidneys.
Espressif ESP32: Bypassing Flash Encryption (CVE-2020-15048)
> "the tell-tale signature artifact of simulation is not the spiky glitch, it's the smooth, shallow, facile surface"

Notably, this has been true for visual content from the beginning, compare the original "TRON" movie. It had been especially true in times, when smooth gradients and perfect lines had been a luxury, which were hard to achieve in analog media technology, and became the tell-tale signature of computer generated visual content. After an intermezzo in the uncanny valley and with embraceable pixels, we seem to be right back where we started. – It's somewhat logical that what is true for visual content should also be true for textual content.

[Edit] We may add a definition: "Interesting" is the artful deviation from the smooth and perfect.
This is the best primer I have ever seen! It's to the point, brief and holistic - thank you!
You don't think that being both shunned and actively worked against by almost the entire main stream media doesn't have an effect? The so-called establishment are seemingly very united when it comes to stopping left-wing deviants.
I think there is a huge difference. Netflix gives me the freedom to cut out ads and watch what I want (from what is available anyway). That is why I have always loved Netflix and have always enjoyed not having cable tv (which always felt like it was a net negative experience).

I will admit that I have binge-watched episodes when I should have been doing something else, but I also believe Netflix provides a beneficial role in my life.

Also, it saves Netflix money if I don't bindge watch everything - as long as I still value the subscription and plan to come back - it doesn't matter to them how much I watch.

In fact, this might convince me to purchase Youtube Premium just to signal that I value ad-free paid-for-content and I believe we can build a world without ads.
Thanks for your considerate response. If you don't mind, I'd love to have you expand on it a bit further.

Specifically, how do you feel about other government positions, besides the military and intelligence?

Reading your response, I'm getting the sense that this line of conversation is more about senior people with recent employment, which is sensible.

My main point is that big organizations....all of them....do a lot of different things and have a lot of different impacts. And many big organizations have extremely large impacts.

Some of those will be good, and some of them will be bad. But one way or another, both the 'good' and 'bad' impacts will both be very large.

Case in point: the US Government is an enormous and old organization. Nobody can rationally deny that it has done an enormous amount of both good and bad, and it's a matter of opinion and discussion as to which pile is larger.

Another example: IBM is a tech company that's old and has had a huge impact for a long time, both good and bad.

Before I get to Facebook, I'll note that it's widely held that all creatures, and humans especially, tend remember and weigh the bad quite a bit more than the good.

Facebook has created an enormous amount of impact over a pretty short period of time, nobody disagrees with that.

I strongly suspect this won't be a popular opinion, but I believe that Facebook has created, on the whole, more good impact than bad.

Before the reader reacts too negatively to that statement, please know that I personally consider technology/communication technology/especially social media technology to be among the top two or three most likely existential threats to human civilization.

I personally believe that Facebook was the first to take the inevitable next steps toward the now obviously dangerous territory we find ourselves in.

So, that's a tiny portion of my personal context.

I admit that your opinions made me somewhat uncomfortable, though I do understand where you're coming from.

I also admire your (somewhat risky!) transparency here.
> but there is the age old goal of leaving the next generation better off than yours

Hopefully we can strike a balance between leaving only your direct descendants better off and leaving everyone in the next generation better off.

> I would always be hesitant to tax money that in theory was already taxed when earned

This is incompatible with having an income tax and any other tax. Although, income tax isn't exactly well loved by economists, so maybe there is something to that.
If you want a quick, easy and good quality random number generator, you might want to look at xorshifts.

There are a lot of variations, but I particularly like the 128 bit version from the original paper [1].

Here is the entire code

unsigned long xor128() {
static unsigned long x=123456789,y=362436069,z=521288629,w=88675123;
unsigned long t;
t=(xˆ(x<<11));x=y;y=z;z=w;
return( w=(wˆ(w>>19))ˆ(tˆ(t>>8)) );
}

Note: Do not use for security applications! It is not cryptographically secure. But if you need that, or if you are running Monte Carlo simulations and want nothing but the best, you probably should use specialized libraries anyways.

[1] https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/v008i14...

Edit: And since we are in the subject of picking random numbers for Sattolo's algorithm. Using a simple modulo operator for get a range from a single random number going from 0 to 2^n-1 (like most RNGs produce) can introduce a bias. If the list is short and the numbers are large, it doesn't make that big a difference, but it is something to consider.
I think if you really wanted to go all in on glass recycling you'd have to ban everything except maybe 3 colors (Something like clear, a light green, and something quite dark).
My take is that they don't want people they disagree with to speak up.
Agreed on the streaming issue. Especially noticeable on a phone. Genesis vs Lucid is night and day. Lucid is a big lag fest.

You know if someone actually used the Konami code on a car builder for an easter egg like that it'd totally sway my purchasing decision even if it was just for fun.
Interesting hypothesis. Thanks for the article. I will have to stew on this. It doesn't seem to jibe with the all angst about class that people seem to be feeling.
I'm not looking forward to this winter. The pandemic so far has been bearable for me because I can go outside and work in the yard and enjoy the nice weather.
I knew that plastic recycling were not as big but I did not know it was 91%.

I started looking up stuff like this: https://leapsmag.com/plastic-eating-mushrooms-let-you-have-y...

I mean, if the corporate community won't do what they say, then I'm going to look for a practical way to do this locally, onsite.
It's relevant for browsing with multiple tabs. The more RAM you have, the more you can do in other tabs after switching away from a tab without having that tab reload when you return.

It's very annoying if you were somewhere in the middle of a long page, go to look up a few things on other sites, come back, and your original tab reloads and you are back on top.
I'm seeing some improvement in Redmond as of 3pm. I can see more distant hilltops than yesterday, sky feels slightly more blue, and looking directly at the sun hurts the eyes more than yesterday. Still extremely smoky don't get me wrong. Looking at the NWS forecasts they mention smoke going forward until Thursday night when we may get a thunderstorm.
I put the filter behind the fan, the reason being that the filter will be sucked onto the fan, thus providing a better seal between the fan and filter than it would be if the filter was in the front and being actively pushed away from the fan by the air.
Get this off HN urgently.
UPduino v3.0 low cost Lattice iCE40 FPGA board
The person I replied to said they're not buildable. This is logically false because we've been able to build them. There's no dichotomy here, just an invalid argument.

And science isn't just a game of randoms. We know full well how to build nuclear power plants, let's not play mysticism about it..
Nursing homes are only covered longterm if you are destitute. Good places will take your assets and use them all up until it’s gone then apply for Medicaid.

Won’t pay for personal in-home nurses either.

But 2 million should buy him plenty of elder care. I would have kept 10 million just in case.
Why do all these types of leaks end up at Buzzfeed?
Yes, I appreciate your position, candor and transparency here. Also, that you're apparently rather uncertain as to what's "right" and "wrong". As a civilization, we're sailing in very new seas.
Whether what they were doing was "legal grey area" or "flatout illegal" is for the courts to decide, not for a random hiring manager/engineer interviewing that person. If you have a feeling that something could've been "flatout illegal", consider reporting them to the appropriate legal channels.

I, personally, would have done the latter in that scenario, but only if that entry was on their resume and they were proud of it. So no, I wouldn't report someone who personally confessed that many years ago they were dealing or doing sex work of the illegal kind. Though I heavily doubt that someone would be dumb enough to put it on their resume and advertise.
I am 99% sur that solar requires more manpower than nuclear, for an equivalent controllable power output.
I don’t get why where I live is any of their business. Why on earth does it matter what it costs for me to live the life I want? All that should matter is what they need to pay me to compete with other companies who want to hire me too.

If the act of paying remote people differently based on where they remote from is successful then it means the free market isn’t working right and engineers for these jobs are commoditized.
can someone here who thinks charity is a morally noble act answer this question: why is it good to extract billions from people who work for you and then give it a way and feel good about it? why not share the profits with your workers in the first place? how is it morally justifiable to steal and exploit in order to give?
There's a lot of things included in western Europe's high taxes. Not just universal health care. The US sets a very low bar overall. At the same time, however, the US somehow always affords to fund massive wars and armies through its taxes.
Traitor responsible for WannaCry.
In South Australia (one of the eight states/territories in Australia), they have just banned many single use plastics [1]. The rules are a little delayed - coming in next year instead of now because of COVID - and are staged to include smaller items (straws) now and larger items (takeaway containers) later.

That state has had a ban on plastic bags since 2009, around ten years before some of the more populated eastern parts of Australia.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-09/sa-first-state-to-ban...
It’s not my job to help you find N95 masks, they’re available from most hardware stores and definitely from Amazon. I just looked and there’s at least one type available on Amazon that’s not 3M in addition to full respirator masks and everything in between, and it’s easy to find other stores through Google that sell 3M disposable masks if that happens to be the only one you trust.

In addition to that, loose particle filters as spare parts are not uncommon and you can literally strap any filter on a fan, close your windows and start forcing indoor air through it to improve the ambient air quality.
Postgrest is written in Haskell

Also PureScript and Elm are to my knowledge written in Haskell..
I'm not sure how almonds came to be the go-to example of waste in California agriculture, but they're a bad one.

- Almonds can't be grown in most places, California is uniquely well-suited to it.

- California almond-growing practices are (much) more wasteful than they need to be. Israeli almond farmers can grow an almond with 1/20th the water used in California; the main innovation is irrigating into a three-foot-deep pipe, instead of spraying water on the surface, where most of it evaporates. Switching California's practices to match would be a relatively simple matter of insisting upon it.

- Almond farming uses an insignificant, single-digit amount of California's agricultural water budget. 45% of California water is splurged on alfalfa growing for fodder. Which can be grown anywhere, is a bad match for the climate and water resources, and is the place where any rational attempt to bring California agriculture into alignment with reality should begin.