skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see that on a per Kw basis. You would also have to factor in what the electricity production is today vs in 1900 to make an accurate comparison. Total pollution output today may still be higher. For example, you might have quadrupled the efficiency but the demand may have increased ten times or more. So sure, they adopted a newer technology than 120 years ago and is cleaner, but it's also not the latest technology nor is it even close to the cleanest. Many of their plants are currently very dirty. They do have plans to upgrade in the future. Not to mention, it's not the cleanest option out there, even at the higher efficiency. For example, natural gas is cleaner and that tech has been around for a while. Even a lot of nuclear tech is about 60 years old.

"China never had the cities full of coal smoke stacks spewing black smoke into the air like the US and Europe had 120 years ago."

Please do a search for air quality alerts and deaths in china as well as for pictures of the smog. It is every bit as bad or even worse. The tech may ne more efficient but the scale and overall output has similar effects. Yes the smoke is a yellow color and not black, that is mostly due to the soft brown coal they use in some parts of the country rather than the anthracite or even bituminous coal we used.
Yeah, I think data is the goldmine. If you know what questions to ask to quickly estimate someones ability to be successful in school/workplace you can just do shotgun approach hiring. As one of the largest software companies in the world that is a savvy move, although for some reason I can't quite figure out it does feel somewhat sleazy.

When I worked for Sybase there was following brain drain pipeline from India office:

* Hire a bunch of people.

* Move brightest and hardest working to U.S. on H1B.

* Use that PR to hire a bunch more people in India.
It’s not really a competition. No animal farming is humane, maybe one day we won’t be so self centered anymore and stop these atrocious practices.
I prefer SVG images with alt text for the original LaTeX equation.

MathML has terrible browser support [1] and often results in inconsistently rendered, ugly equations.

MathJax and KaTeX are nice but sometimes I prefer not to have JavaScript for these things that ought to be static.

[1] https://caniuse.com/mathml
I didn't downvote you, but perhaps as feedback on why your opinion may be controversial, most humans aren't forced to live in packed conditions. Generally you're free to pack up and move somewhere else if it's too cramped for your taste. Living in cities is usually a choice as it offers convenience and numerous opportunities.
every exchange is going to ask verification if you want to deal with more than $1k
I suspect Rust and Jepsen have a hand to play in its growing popularity: personally, I'm much more comfortable implementing or using techniques, algorithms, and patterns in Rust that I would never have risked in a higher level language, let alone in C/C++. The risk calculus just never panned out in their favor because of maintenance and availability of talent concerns. The Rust libraries for Raft and Paxos are much more approachable than my past experience with other implementations and the language itself provides a higher level of confidence. Jepsen, likewise, makes testing distributed systems an approachable problem.

Case in point: I'm currently experimenting with Raft and Paxos with the intent of putting it into production for a service that streams live updates to subscribers over websockets with time sensitive business logic that must only be executed once per object on a timer. Before Rust, I would have just slung the whole problem over to whichever infrastructure team was a glutton for punishment so that they could set up Consol/kafka/debezium/whatever and set a reminder three months from now to revisit the issue.
It's pretty easy to understand non-moving garbage collection for a language where everything is boxed and heap-allocated without having to think about the concerns that lead to pinning. Pretty sure that's the order in which I encountered the concepts.
2020 never ceases to amaze
If you're going for the full amount at once, it doesn't even require an on-network transaction. Just send a thumb drive with the wallet on it.
"Power off is achieved by holding down Fn+F10 for two seconds. This is a soft control that negotiates with Linux to shut down, so you don’t corrupt your memory card or your USB drive. Power can be restored by pressing F10 (or Fn+F10)."
I think you misunderstood, if you run into memory pressure issues in Java you need to spend tons of time tweaking and optimizing your specific garbage collector by poking the black box and hoping.

Of course in certain circumstances where it really doesn't matter you get your choice of languages.

> To me the job of the programmer is not to reason about memory.

The job of a programmer is to describe what needs to happen to a set of inputs to yield a set of outputs, and there are many different ways to do so. Sometimes you do need to describe the relationships between data. Rust attempts to leverage your description of the transformation and relationships to make memory management something you don't have to worry about either.

There are limits, of course, and sometimes you need to help it out, however this amounts to improving or clarifying the description of your system. On the other hand resolving garbage collection issues often involves making surprising and seemingly irrelevant changes to your system that happen to influence via spooky action at a distance the behavior of an unrelated component of the system. And if you remove them it all falls apart again.

To borrow a turn of phrase, it has a cost, sure like it has a cost using C instead of assembly.
Reminds me of Bully, the video game. I wonder how it would have been received had it been released in 2020.
A plain ban seems to me to be a knee-jerk reaction, so not exactly a sign of being "clued up" but rather of succumbing to a sort of hysteria around this new technology.

The technology is a tool and like all tools it may be used positively or negatively. By all means there should be a comprehensive legal framework to control its use but a ban means that benefits cannot be reaped, either.
Instead of creating a clone, manually install a copy of the OS on your backup disk, sync your files and applications to it, and periodically boot from it to run system updates?
It will become easier to support an addiction, yes.

But it will also help people who want to seek help because now it means the first step doesn't include admitting to a crime.
> A single earner can't look after a family of 5+ as was once possible.

Sure they can. It just means the family can afford a 1920 level of material wealth: a room for the boys, a room for the girls, the parents sleep in the living room, the kids wear hand-me-downs and read books from the library for entertainment, the other partner knows how to cook and cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner, the family has chicken once a week and meat on special occasions.
I think that full org mode wouldn't work in vim, but at a deeper level, it doesn't jive with the "zen" of vim. But I'd want a solution that did.

Here's an example. Emacs has SLIME[1], and vim has like SLIME for vim[2]. The vim counterpart leaves editing in the editor but makes it easy for vim to work with terminal emulators to create a great but simple SLIME experience. It respects the "zen" of vim. I wish there were an org mode equivalent. Will be checking out vimwiki.

1: https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/

2: https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime
I don't think it's correct to say I'm just assuming.

Linear Scan produces a program with apparently less efficient register allocation. In practice, it does not matter for the wider performance of the code. Is this not evidence to support the assumption that sophisticated register allocation does not matter as much as we thought?

When you enable Graal's more sophisticated escape analysis algorithms you get real-world speed ups in workloads such as Twitter, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs saved. Is this not evidence to support the assumption that sophisticated escape analysis algorithms do matter?

The first is a formal scientific study. The second is not but it's still a very large-scale empirical result measured by an expert. They aren't falsifiable but as I said I don't think that's a realistic expectation, and I think these are enough for it to be more than an assumption.
They taught Pascal in the 80's and 90's. My AP Computer Science class used Pascal. Though by that point, I had already taught myself C so didn't think very highly of it...
I don’t agree. Pigs are on the same cognitive level as dogs. Would it be morally acceptable to kill and eat a (big) dog for its 150000 calories after raising in terrible conditions for a few years?
> How well would the average battery chicken survive if it were set free?

This was tested in a Dutch TV program some years ago ("Keuringsdienst van waarde") where they got some newborn battery chickens and placed them on a regular farm, amongst healthy free-roaming chickens. They got the same food, but still 'exploded' in size until they couldn't walk. Their feathers look awful. On the whole they looked sick and miserable. Just like battery chickens, actually
> As revealed in a new Studio 3T survey of more than 18,000 developers and others,

Studio3T sells Mongo client/IDE software. So take this survey with more than a few grains of salt.

On my part, as someone who is responsible for an application running on Mongo, I plan on pairing MongoDB with Postgres so I can get my data out of Mongo and into Postgres and not have to deal with Mongo BS anymore.

And by BS I mean problems like how Mongo's change stream is not guaranteed to be able to handle any valid Mongo document. A document that is just under the max size limit in Mongo can be too big for the change stream. Using the official client libraries the change streams will just stop working. Ran into this yesterday in prod, and it broke stuff. We are paying Mongo support customers, and support's answer is "yeah this can happen; no, we don't know what the actual document size limit is that change streams can handle, so change how you're modelling your data".
No law in nature dictate any of the made up structure we submit ourselves to. They only work because people trust them. Trust lost, system down.
That has been noticed in Netherlands for many months (including mutation). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_farming it was 25 May 2020. Denmark ignored the issue for a very long time for economical reasons. Netherlands was slow to respond, Denmark: notified by Dutch around that time, they ignored it. They're risking that a vaccine won't work.

I recently learned that in various cases fake fur is made from minks. Because of that I'd appreciate is those mink farms were banned, though banning sometimes just increases the price.
Most common mistakes using Terraform
We had the chance to see quite a bit of infrastructures in our years of experience with AWS, GCP and Azure and we see some mistakes being repeated. No shame in that, we’ve done most of these too!

I’ll try to show the ones we see very often and talk a bit about how to fix them.
> For someone who just wants to deploy a project to 1 server that means there's only 400ms of down time when I restart my server.

Erlang already gives you robust primitives to do things like blue-green deploys, and even graceful transfer of server state even across versioning changes. If downtime between releases is an something you care about, you should use those, and it's likely that your downtime can be in the microseconds range regardless of the vm startup latency.
The raining code UI from the matrix is one step closer :)
I think it is a product. The problem with our economy is that companies "need" to keep growing. What if Dropbox implemented sync and said "great, we are done". The don't need to keep growing their staff, and they don't need to keep adding big new features. The can add features that make sense, refine the UX and maybe do a bit of optimization with a tiny team.
MLOps vs. DevOps
I would consider it the danger of lockdown. We guarantee that the virus is still festering somewhere on the planet, and that vulnerable populations remain around the world, risking flareups.

With zero response - ie. what we do for influenza - we establish herd immunity over a short, sharp period, and the virus immediately falls over.

In any case, even if this mink-mutant variant is slightly deadlier, the data from Sweden shows that COVID deaths can be effectively reduced to near-zero from basic herd immunity strategies - Sweden yesterday recorded a single COVID death. So it makes sense to adopt the Swedish approach now, for a variant of the virus we know how to treat.
Show where in the list of protected classes (race, sex, ethnicity, etc) "your choice of programming projects" is covered?

Two of those are protected classes... the third one isn't.
Gilded Age
Yeah, the "Hey I found these 30,000 votes in the trunk of my car... oops" stuff is really embarrassing.
Different article posted slightly earlier and more active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990724
Minor correction: the virus is SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes is COVID-19
Also keep in mind that the lua speedup is in interpreted vs compiled, and erlang is already a compiled language that had a fairly performant intermediate bytecode.
Discogs is great. In my experience doing entity matching/record linkage across all the different music APIs:

- Discogs seems to have the most complete release data.

- MusicBrainz has the best organized encyclopedic data. For example they have entities for specific instruments, relationships between artists, entries for supporting roles like recording engineer, etc.

- Wikipedia still has the best common-sense/canonical info about singles. For example, Wikipedia will tell you in the first sentence (or infobox) "song X was first released on album Y in year Z." Answering that can actually be quite challenging on other services.

- Spotify is the go-to for finding useful qualities of individual songs (due to their acquisition of Echo Nest). Things like popularity, danceability, energy, etc.

A long-term project of mine has been wrapping all these up in a more approachable API. So far that has only resulted in this big GraphQL schema project: https://github.com/exogen/graphbrainz – but the idea is to build on that and make it even simpler.
> for elite professionals.

> Request an invite.

Ahh, good ol' artificial scarcity & elitism trick, good luck :)
Suppose that Uber is allowed to exist as a "second job" for the people who need it for that, or who otherwise need greater flexibility or other advantages that they can't get from a company when working as an employee.

If the people you know don't actually want or need those advantages, why are they doing that job instead of working at Walmart or a gas station or a hundred other jobs where you are an employee?
Except that one of these is legal under federal (and most state) laws, and the other two are not.
Those cases are the original virus, not the new mink mutated one. It was just spread by the mink population.
We have at least two new Republican members of the House of Representatives who belong to a cult which believes that every Democrat is involved in a human trafficking operation that kidnaps nearly a million children a year, tortures them to death, and uses their bodies to generate a secret drug that they're all addicted to.

The "leader" of this cult, who our new House members have pledged loyalty to, is a pseudonymous poster on a message board that's otherwise used mainly for child pornography, who they believe is sent from a secret arm of the government and is also a time traveller and possibly an angel of God.

What common ground do you expect the Dems should find with them?
The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage
Idk, I feel like that's just conceding on the topic. The modern conservative is just a party of no. I want to do something, they say no. I move on to something else? That's just losing.
IIRC don’t some auto insurance companies already offer this, where you can give them location/cam data for lower rates?
Here is a writeup from someone trying to get SDL to work with Dear ImGui. It kind of works, but...

https://retifrav.github.io/blog/2019/05/26/sdl-imgui/

You can feel this persons frustration about all the obscure magic incantations needed to get a simple GUI and some lines on screen. The really awful part is the last bits where he discusses how to get the damn thing compiled on Win/Linux/Mac. Even installing all the needed bits is an ordeal. Only a masochist would love this - which to be fair, probably describes game developers as a group.

The real question is why is this so hard? Or rather why does this require so much random obscure knowledge in this day and age? And all of this is so ridiculously brittle. You're one OS upgrade from the whole thing falling apart either on the build side or on the user side.

That's why people today just write HTML/JavaScript browser GUI for whatever they're doing and call it a day. It's way easier.
How many product decisions are made on your behalf between the inception of product specification and distribution to you? Just because you purchase the final thing doesn't entitle you to have control over product decisions. I don't think it makes sense to entangle ownership and programmability as a product feature.

Your reference to "general computing device" here is a concept that a particular market identifies with (you being in that market). Attached to it is some kind of concept of free/open. Apple will tell you their devices are general computing devices. I am currently playing around with lidar sensors in an iPhone 12 pro by writing code and pushing it onto my device. The functionality I can build is pretty arbitrary and I would call it general computing. I would agree with Apple.
I find the culture really bad. If a colleague punched somebody in the face at their workplace frequently, and that person constantly lived in threat of violence from that colleague for many hours a day, the colleague would be fired and handed to the police.

But you can do this to a child for 6 hours and it's often considered acceptable. Why would people be surprised when a human child's natural reaction to horrifying abuse mirrors what any other living animal would do?
One unmentioned issue is that RFID is also not universal. In that, each country has it's own part of the EM spectrum regulated for RFID. And most of these bands don't overlap. So you need one tag for the US, one for the EU, one for Japan, etc.
Sorry if this is inappropriate, but for people looking for a tool like this or Workflowy, I want to suggest Dynalist, which has the simplicity of Workflowy but also a bunch more features. Cloud-based, always synced, mobile apps, easy sharing, calendar integration, etc. I'm a die-hard vim user but I still use Dynalist because it's so great.

https://dynalist.io

I'm a paying user but have no other affiliation (ask me if you want a referral code though). I just want more people to use it so the creators are successful and keep improving it.
1. Read the protocol in the back first if it exists.
2. Look at all of the charts, especially the subtext/ caption.
3. Highlight the actual paper for benefits of the method vs comparative methods.

Try to find meta-analysis to compare multiple methods.
I didn't realize we were arguing.
The Dog Race – maybe you get it;)
I'm genuinely curious why you would want to run Windows on an RPi when there's good Linux support. Why pick a proprietary OS that costs money when you have a free and open source alternative with all the drivers and lots of code examples using the GPIO ports, etc? Genuinely curious as to what your motives are.
I couldn't find any documentation on the exact breakdown of the 12 of the 13 charges in this case that were approved for extradition, but here[1] is an article from 2017 that lists he is being charged with copyright infringement, money laundering, racketeering, and wire fraud.[2] It appears that the 1 that was thrown out was related to money laundering. That means there is still racketeering and wire fraud charges plus there could have been multiple money laundering charges in the original list.

This also doesn't include any of the shady behavior in which there were accusations of but weren't included in the legal case. Such as the staff of MegaUpload regularly rummaging through the files of users. That likely isn't technically a crime, but it is something that should certainly be frowned on by the HN community.

[2] - https://fr.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-internet-dotcom...
Using the Gopher Protocol to Link a Computerized Patient Record (1993) [pdf]
Much bigger conversation I'm happy to have off-thread (email me). I agree with everything you've said.

I own an apartment building and the rent on a 1BR close to downtown is $875/month. Mind you, this is 2 blocks from a commuter rail station in a reasonable building that includes water and parking, in a city with a great park district, good schools, and plenty to do.

I didn't say you're living high on the hog--you're getting by. The household median income in Homewood is 57k. It's no Palo Alto, just a relatively modest town with reasonable local government and people who seem to care a lot. I like this.

Illinois is clearly on a fiscal crash course. I have no doubt about that and now that the fair tax was defeated at the ballot box, it's going to accelerate the insolvency. The state needs to get its pension obligations in line with its funding levels. Obviously that's going to take a decade. But I'm pretty convinced that this state's strengths (Chicago, great universities, lots of competent local governments) could make it bounce back. Especially seeing the direction a lot of other states like California are going, or San Francisco, a city that can't seem to balance its $13 billion annual budget after it increase 50% in the last 5-10 years. Any idiot can run Palo Alto, where the median household income is $140k. It takes a lot more to make a city with about 60% less income function.
Within advanced preferences.
Full title: Using the Internet Gopher Protocol to Link a Computerized Patient Record and Distributed Electronic Resources
If a cyborg were to "do everything" on deep learning would it have a meaningful model of reality or would it simply be behaving as if it did?
Unless I’m mistaken, you should be able to invert a fresnel lens stamp, make the same plastic lens and then silver it, so now it’s a concave mirror instead of a convex lens.
Markets with particular rules that help keep monopolies in place don't form naturally. They require a state entity to enforce the rules.
Plural: Mink?
I don't see information who is running the survey, basically a trust signal if such gift cards really exist.

From the survey "We would love to feature you and your business in a case study. Would you be willing to do a brief Zoom interview (at a convenient time) to talk about your story?"

Who is "We"?
Check out the history of the influence of Evangelical Christianity on American politics starting in the 1980s. Church influencing state is a contemporary phenomenon.
By that argument, both halves should have voted for the Green Party candidate, Hawkins. I guess the half-the-country you like isn't taking climate change that seriously, either, right?
3 Dangerous Myths About Organic Growth Marketing – Debunked
I see why it's ugly - why is it good?