skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even many on the left don’t agree that climate change is an “existential threat.” https://www.aei.org/economics/the-case-for-one-billion-ameri...

“Science” does not agree that climate change is an “existential threat.” https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-climate-change-existent...

> Such talk has scared many young people. Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, a young Clinton volunteer named Zach was upset the Democrats failed to beat Trump. According to cbsnews.com, at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Zach yelled at a senior official: “You and your friends will die of old age and I’m going to die from climate change. You and your friends let this happen, which is going to cut 40 years off my life expectancy.”

> Do scientists agree with Zach? The federal government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment was released last November. Hundreds of scientists from 13 government agencies compiled the 1,500-page report. It finds no existential threat from climate change. Zach is likely to have a long life.
See the other posts in the thread -- just ask, and they'll send you one.
Pdqsort: Pattern-Defeating Quicksort
I raised my score by 200-300 points in each category by spending some time with one of those study prep books with the example tests. This saved me about $8k / semester due to ‘merit’ based scholarships + honors program (my university publishes the SAT/grade cutoffs for each).

Honestly I would be surprised if it was possible to create a test that was both impossible to improve with practice and actually measured anything at all.
Broadcast television?
I am not a blanket supporter of rent control.

Just had to chime in re: food prices.
You began a PhD and now you have depression
No it's not, this is what people misunderstand.

An OLED or LCD panel, even one that is entirely turned off, isn't "true black". If you put something like Vantablack next to it, it would become very obvious that it's merely dark gray. It's still reflecting a significant amount of light from the environment.

And then it appears even lighter when you've got "black" text on a white background, because on our retina the white background "bleeds" into the black as well.

Painters, photographers -- these people are very aware that with real-world common objects, "black" is never actually black. Unless you're literally in a room with no light at all, it's only ever dark gray. Computer screens are nowhere near capable of producing any kind of "unnatural true black". It's not a thing to worry about.
I've been to Italy a lot, and while I'm sure the are places that charge 4 euros for a pizza (just as there are places that charge $5 for a pizza in the US), most restaurants I've been to charge at least 7-10 euros.

Secondly, pizzas in the US tend to be larger than pizzas in Italy.
I have found total checks in languages like idris helpful, but really only for catching small mistakes that I've made (for example, recursing on the original argument)
For Linux, there's Flatseal for all Flatpak apps. Easy and simple GUI that allows you to set permissions for individual apps including network access, microphone/camera access and directories access.
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To me the appropriate language for a re-write of (software written in) COBOL is SQL.

Edit: clarification in parentheses.
Yes 5 euros when ordered in person.

On deliveroo, 7-9 euros for something that’s easily 3x higher quality and taste than in the US

https://deliveroo.it/it/menu/firenze/bellosguardo/pizzeria-o...

https://deliveroo.it/it/menu/firenze/bellosguardo/pizzeria-o...
They definitely look real to me. A trained eye might catch them as fake or maybe an AI app will be needed to distinguish fake from real people.
The kicker here is that actual politics is prohibited by law. Companies can't be endorsing candidates or providing in-kind contributions without getting into trouble with the FEC.

So this is all about performative poses in the workplace, on the topic of politics, rather than being about actual politics.
it's a quite good book and worth it if you are doing it professionally. condensed, well written, good advice.
Super project! Is it possible to buy this pre-assembled?
Note, the author of this piece has a long-standing grudge against Mark Zuckerberg.

Namely he thinks he co-founded Facebook, and filed lawsuits about it. Back in 2009 they were settled, and he has been a public critic of Zuckerberg since.

See https://www.adweek.com/digital/facebook-announces-settlement... for verification that there was a lawsuit that got settled. And see the end of the article for the fact that he still maintains that he was the original founder of Facebook.
OLED black simply doesn't emit light, it still reflects light.
This is a very good point. The sine function obviously doesn't have a technical inverse on any interval where it has two values. The notation does make me forget this sometimes.

Of course, the situation is different from many other functions without inverses, because the set of all valid inversions can be trivially generated from one solution. Just put a mirror at pi/2 and -pi/2.
It's a story about a human relationship. I think that co-worker relationships can get complicated (and deep), with co-founder relationships being a lot more intense.

To be fair, there are a lot of other working scenarios, where you can have similar types of relationships, like military duty, police, firefighters, etc.

In the US, men can be discouraged from talking about these kinds of relationships, but we have them. They are deep and wide. We often mask them behind bravado.

I have a number of friends that are/were in the police and fire service in New York. I also had an employee whose sister was killed in the towers during 9/11.

The firefighters were hit the hardest. Many of them continue to have deep depressions, even this many years later, in August and September.
Interesting. Many tech workers are moving out of the bay now, and some are actually quitting their job to go work for a smaller tech company in a new city.

I wonder if any tech workers are taking it a step further and leaving tech. That would be a very interesting statistic to see.
Why? Please no!
Nice. I find it hard to move the slider on top and also it is not clear what the slider means. Perhaps an escape key association to close a clicked preview of a topic would add value to ux.
hmm, maybe some open source projects could get funding for what their maintainers were put through, via the courts.
Good to know. At compile or verification time, it seems like you could get the same problem again, though? We want our compiles to finish promptly, and a slow, total predicate could hang.

Which is to say, a possibly-diverging function seems okay to use even by a verification tool, so long as it finishes quickly in practice. Having some notion of analysis-time-safe predicates seems useful but it doesn't seem to map cleanly to being able to prove termination?
Google's production cost is uploading bandwidth and storage. If you look at a single popular video it's easy to think, "Oh, that's nothing." But consider the massive amount of video uploaded that only gets 1 - 10 views over its lifetime.
The article actually kind of addressed this with the shades, and I think that's what a lot of non-designers miss; having several shades of the same color adds a lot of variety without looking cluttered ("feels like few" as you said).
The real point of middle management is to reduce the number of direct reports for upper management.
> You have to compare it to executive salaries for other similarly sized companies in their market segment to make the argument that she is overpaid.

No, a non-profit does not need to attract someone who only cares about making money.

Hiring someone willing to work for less would ultimately be better for a non-profit, since it's an indicator that they care about the mission, and not purely about the money.

If you hire someone who wants over 2M, you hire someone who cares about your money, not your ideals, and will push the organisation in that direction.
The recent addition of FIDO to mailcow seems pretty exciting! https://mailcow.email/2020/11/16/welcome-fido2-web-authentic...
Not very easy to darken/lighten colours easily using CSS variables at the moment. Support will be coming in the future.
Unable to read the article -- giving me a 500 not found error.
I saw a crow funeral once. It was so fascinating. I saw the old crow, clearly not well, then 30 mins later he had passed and there were crows all around. Another 30 mins and they had all left again (except the dead one obvs).

I'm really fortunate to live directly under their flight path to a massive roosting site in east Vancouver. Every day at dusk, there is a crow highway in the sky. They are fascinating creatures.
It's worth following jailbreakers like https://twitter.com/never_released who are working on this and posting regular updates.
Some mods for it from 4 months ago[0].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975012
Is it the bullet or the blood loss that kills me?
I love the G-Shock squares if you want to stay with casio. The solar charging one that syncs to atomic time automatically runs about $90 (Model: GWM5610-1). The battery powered, manually set time runs about $40 (Model: DW5600E-1V). They keep such good time, and the batteries last for over 5 years in most cases, and can swap out in a few minutes for a few bucks, that you'll have to decide if it's worth it.

I also like pretty much all Timex Ironman watches... T53151 is small like the F-91W and pretty cheap, usually under $25. The Transit series is more square and modern looking, the TW5M19300 runs under $40.
What matters is actually meeting people’s needs effectively and at high quality. That’s what’s good for society.
The US has chains like Little Cesar's, or even Domino's that sell single topping pizzas for $5.
Amen to that. One life, live it well. To me that doesn't mean 80 hour weeks, 40 years of working and dropping dead of exhaustion the day I retire. I'm alright for that, thanks. Would rather be slightly poorer financially (some might say "less optimised") and richer for time. Time I can spend with my kids, looking at the sea, making music, reading. I'm ok for optimisation.

If there's anything covid should teach us, it's that optimisation to the max leaves us collectively and individually extremely fragile. We all need time and space and quiet and contingency, not "optimisation" and "growth", not all the time, anyway.
Don’t take it personally. Hacker News leans right-wing politically, under the guise of being apolitical. You’re just being downvoted by people who disagree with your political views. Their rethorical device for holding the moral high ground is to frame their political views as neutral and apolitical, while framing views they disagree with as divisive and “political”. This allows them to attack you for your views without having to acknowledge having views at all; it makes them arbiters rather than participants in the debate.

Don’t waste too much energy changing their minds. They’re not representative of the tech community as a whole.
They had a controlling interest in the company.

Guitar Center voted to give Bain Capital money by one person wearing two hats.
Yes exactly, DoorDash is an OPM company (OPM = Other People's Money). Kind of like WeWork. They are hoping to do an IPO in 2021 AFAIK. They will likely try to pump and dump the stock.
> Non-assimilated nitrogen and its volatile compounds create just the conditions for a pandemic virus to develop..

(genuinely curious) how so?
PHP isn't faster for arbitrary mathematical workloads (though the JIT in PHP 8 will help with those).

Instead PHP is faster for the things websites normally do, like string manipulation.
Odd. It works for me.
As far as I know, it’s the same in the US. But a manufacturer can make a deal with a seller to not advertise lower than a certain price. Hence if you go to a retailer’s website, they might say you have to add the item to the cart to see the price.
I hate the idea that massive corporations should be leading some progressive charge rather than holding our politicians accountable.
This is nice. I'll bookmark it.

For a lot of things, I've learned to step back, and let trained designers come up with a lot of this kind of thing. They don't always do things the way that I would, and I sometimes need to bite my tongue, but I think it's important to let them dictate things like graphic design and UI.

Most of my interaction is designing the software with as many "hooks" as possible, and also acting as an agent of the platform UI standards (in my case, Apple).
We have glimpsed our streaming future, and it sucks
Isn't that just to say that murder is a crime both for the pacifist and the psycopath? If society deems something to be illegal it is illegal for both those who would never do it and those who could gain from doing it. That is fundamental for all laws.
Yes, forced lockdowns means more people inside playing with their toys :) The site stats definitely show that. I did a post back in May showing the initial impacts: https://rebrickable.com/blog/257/coronavirus-impacts-on-afol...
> I'm over here laughing in my "over an hour of CloudFormation only to have a run fail, and then a rollback fail, and have to contact AWS support" life.

Heh, same. Any of the cloud-provided orchestration tools (Cloudformation, Openstack Heat etc.) are great only for the most basic tasks; using them to provision complex infrastructure is just begging for a world of hurt.

That being said. I think terraform could do better. I use terraform a lot, and yet I agree with the authors complaints that the syntax can be super confusing, is not documented very well, and the providers have their own idiosyncrasies. The last one isn't strictly an issue with terraform, its with the provider implementation. But... if terraform aims to be the Swiss army knife of infrastructure provisioning, I think criticism that its hard to standardize even within the same provider is fair.
> Most often when someone says they don't want to involve themselves with politics they are alright with the status-quo, which is a political position in itself.

Or they just do not want to get involved in a complex, messy, and and potentially expensive social conflict.
We are optimizing for the wrong things. Instead of optimizing for happiness, health, learning, or anything else like that, we are optimizing for GDP and killing ourselves to make abstract numbers go up.
Agreed. The headline reads like, “Soprano family proves family businesses can still thrive in corporate America”.
Limited opportunities and disasters are both hard real time events and should be strongly weighted when considering true staffing levels. The performance capacity in the worst case setting often matters. (Though I've seen too many places where the answer is to put everyone on a death march level of overtime / crunch to cover that.)
Companies get involved with politics all the time, and policy in the US seems to be far more about keeping corporations and the shareholder class happy than keeping voters happy.

So it's more that companies can't do certain limited things, but companies - and CEOs particularly - can do plenty of others.
Climate change is also tied up in politics, because the fossil fuel industry is worth more than a trillion dollars and employs millions of people.

Then the problem is not that people don't understand the science, it's that profit-seeking entities pay money to muddy the waters and people whose paycheck depends on the non-acceptance of the truth choose to believe the convenient lie.

Worse, because it then becomes a political issue, the side that was originally right starts to fight anyone who says anything at all convenient to the other tribe, even if it's correct.

So you lose the ability to do good science because both sides are polluted by politics and money.
> There isn't a modern equivalent of traveling months away from home to a new land with local natives and trying to live off a strange land with some serious life or death risks.

Sure there is. Just get a good job and save some money for 5 or 10 years. Buy yourself a boat - the biggest one you can afford - a trailer, and some provisions. Drive to the edge of your continent and point the boat out to sea. Keep going until you see land. If you make it to shore without being dashed upon the rocks, your adventure begins.
You can disable interrupts when modifying locking primitives, and save/restore the CPU context when interrupts are entered/exited. You can also minimize the amount of changes that any interrupt handler can make within the interrupt context.

It's not really that bad, and plenty of microcontrollers lack atomic operations.
100% agreed. As I read this I thought "great for whom?" The PM on my team is not truly on my team ... he's on our stakeholders team, and says yes to anything they want. This is a basic PM skill not mentioned here.

Another one I don't see is communication skills. The PM is the face of the team in so many ways, and if your PM has shoddy communication skills, that ends up feeling like your whole team has shoddy communication skills.
The Square card readers that plugged into the headphone jacks were also analog modems. Well, the swipe variants were just "mo" (modulators) and the phones were the "dems" (demodulators). The first chip card reader, that plugged into the headphone jack, built a full bi-directional soft modem onto either end.

In theory you should be able to update the firmware on one of the chip card readers with one of these vinyl records and a 1/8" adapter.
https://twitter.com/never_released
If you get one, get one with the metal case. They get rather hot (and throttle) without a big heatsink.

Haven't had a chance to run my R2S in production yet but it can do >930Mb/s in iperf3 on both ports, so that's a start.
You're thinking of "network effect"
I like python and I enjoy weirdo one-off languages, so I'm predisposed to like this. But why keep the colons? It would look nicer without.

...

I just attempted to type out an example and found a reason not to do this... it's the same reason c needs parentheses around the conditional. On the balance, I prefer parentheses over the vestigial colon.
Hmm, this is something I would like to know as well. I have been interested in e-ink ever since my first gen Nook (my only ever e-ink device, which was poor for reading PDFs).
It's a little more complicated than that. Bain Capital and other vulture capitalists aren't the ones being lent the money.

They find a public company that's not doing great. Maybe they're just stagnant or they had a down year. Either way, you find someone who wants to sell a publicly traded company.

Then they put up a small amount and have the company itself take out a loan to buy back its stock.

So now the company is paying interest on the debt it took on to buy itself and also paying "management consulting fees" to places like Bain Capital.

In short: Toys R Us should have never had to close its doors.
https://theweek.com/articles/761124/how-vulture-capitalists-...
I've imagined a brave new world where special animals clean up litter, delivering it to a bin for kibble. "Remember to scatter your napkins children! We wouldn't want the squirrels to starve!"
I wonder what information they're after. The RNA vaccines are pretty easy to copy - you wouldn't need to hack anyone to get the sequence, and the data on efficacy is going to be public in order to get approved anyway. Maybe manufacturing details?
No, for the same reason that refugees fleeing from Syria are not ISIS/Assad sympathizers for not fighting back. They just do not want to be shot at.
Sure, in terms of lobbying, contributing to PACs, etc. But that's very rarely aligned with what the social justice activists want.

What they get, instead, is a performative pacifier. Which IMO makes the problem worse as they realize how unsatisfying it is and demand more and more strenuous performance.
There is something to what you're saying, but politics isn't only electoral. The two poles of attraction are pro-labor and pro-capital, so if startups do real politics in the workplace, it won't be to the benefit of anyone that isn't in management.
But I don't understand the point of the shades, then. Why not go for the real thing? Why not use the exact same color, and it will not only "feel like few"? What's the actual advantage of using different shades (besides making the work of the web designer seem more difficult).
Tiny event sourcing database written in rust with tokio and hyper
So the fear is that they might ingest one?
Worldwide with quarantines from customs is virtually impossible. Customs can't stop human or cocaine trafficking from making it into the country, much less undocumented immigration. All you need is a half dozen sick people who are trying to hide from the authorities, and you're back to square one. Most countries are not islands.
What really boggles my mind (I 100% agree with GP and left SF in part because of the actual bad neighbors) is that activists in SF harp on trump and call tech "invaders" or not welcome or whatever and don't see the irony.

The easiest way to shut up an SF-based activist or NIMBY ranting against tech invasion is to say smth like "it sounds like you are saying you want to keep them out, perhaps build that wall?" :D
The people who are happy to read it do owe them a revenue stream if they want a website to continue.

To be perfectly clear I have no desire to see any ads, and I don't cos I block pretty much every last one (squid) but if there are sites that are worth reading, like from here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25157722 well, author's got to make money for the time they put in.

Advertisers can die in rotting heaps, but they exist because people make them exist. They exist because you want free stuff.
I think the ad's creator would own it but they've licensed it to Facebook.
This.
I never have to take it off. Battery lasts forever, lightweight, thin, accurate (despite it lacks radio synch), extremely cheap.
This relative black / dark grey you speak of would appear differently on each display.

Finding a grey color range that more accurately reproduces seems like a more fruitful undertaking.
How in any possible reality is BLM not a civil rights issue? Did you read about the murder of George Floyd?

You're totally wrong.
There's a video showing just that in his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtkv3wuEP-Veur4iYJWkBgA/vid...
Nvidia Orin (coming next year) might be usable for a larger laptop but no one will have the courage to build it.
Back in the late eighties I was in the Air Force and we had a Burroughs machine; replete with all the lights you see in old science fiction; that could be booted through paper tape. I was an octal setup. We also could theoretically boot this machine by switches but never saw that done.

This was one of the first machines built for the service that did not require tubes so that gives you the idea of the age of this and it was in daily use in the 1986-1989. Even the main base computer, Sperry 1100/60? took cards in for data input. Late 88,89 we finally got most cards down to disk images uploaded through a Sperry branded PC. My first useful Turbo Pascal program replaced the provided software and could read/write from the mainframe at many times the rate of the canned software.

We also jokingly had a kick start Sperry, one pack would stick sometimes on boot; you had to swap packs for secure processing; and the fix was to face away from it and hit the side firmly with your foot flat on.
You’re free to express your political opinions. Everyone else is free to say how they feel, or say nothing at all. That’s politics.

Marriage equality was about equal treatment under the law. It was debated and decided and passed. You can’t generalize that to your imagined right to troll Twitter.
It can be done easier with sigsetjmp, siglongjmp.
Those pizzas are a lot smaller than US pizzas judging by the knife and fork though.
Yeah interesting - I always keep my watch on, even showering - it cleans the watch and I have a water resistant one. I only take my watch off to put on a different one for style.