skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The unanswered question is what will you do with the mushrooms after they've munched on petroleum or plastic? My guess is that you're not going to want them on your pizza cause they might just be toxic.

Believe me or not, I ate that yeast grown on petroleum paraffin once.

At the time of extreme food scarcity in Russia, we had people eating animal feed produced from yeast grown on paraffin. It's called paprin in Russian.

So, knowing that most of petroleum hydrocarbons are toxic if ingested, the result may be more amendable than the source product.
It is striking how moronic and ill informed it is.

When I think of all Ambassadors with grace and favour appointments it makes me grimace. The extraordinary testimony from Fiona Hill and Alex Vindman was at least reassuring that competent people were in government, even if they were being ignored.
Does Houston have a carbon tax that prices the externalities into your electricity bill? If not then that's why fossil fuels are still cheaper. They don't have to pay for the externalities.
Same.

My favorite "looks simple but is hard" task is "given object position and angle and target position return +1 if the object should turn clockwise and -1 if the object should turn counterclockwise to face the target".

I've got it subtly wrong so many times and using atan2 only solves half the problems. Now I just copypaste it from my previous game :)
That's why Mars is all rotten through and through.
What Is Commercial Open Source Software
Just for the future reference in terms of conducting surveys and helping aggregate the results, please consider not using open fields on topics that would benefit on predefined sets and one open field called "Other".

Now there are lists with almost 400 answers with most of the answers being practically the same ("personal stuff", "personal projects", "personal things"...). It does not make it easy to digest the information.
Interestingly there are signs that Saudi Arabia has this on the radar more than others.

E.g. they're building the larges green ammonia plant in the world. You may not hear a lot about ammonia production and green ammonia, but this is really huge (not just because ammonia is important for fertilizers, but also because ammonia is a promising future shipping fuel).

But yeah, there are other oil countries where you barely see any such signs (e.g. Russia).
It's because "source code" is an uncountable noun, like "knowledge".
See e.g. https://www.ef.co.nz/english-resources/english-grammar/count...
meh, we'll figure it out soon enough.
At least Google was consistent: it fired both people who were causing too much trouble.

(BTW This is actually the fun part of the Damore story: the guy think he is smart by explaining how "evolution" makes gender different but misses the ABSOLUTE main point of evolution which is that "to survive to an environement you must fit in it". He didn't fit in the google environement, he got fired.)
Sort of related is the story of a millionaire in Canada in the 1920s who bequeathed in his will a prize to whichever woman in Toronto could have the most babies in a 10 year period.

It went as well as you can imagine (lots of poor women having more children then they could support), followed by some lawsuits to make sure the "correct" women won the prize (e.g. not immigrants or people having children out of wedlock).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby

It is also discussed in Act 2 of this episode of "This American Life": https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/the-long-fuse
> weighted by sales of each, of course

So you are averaging amounts of money, so you are averaging things that can be added and you are not averaging interest rates. So you're not doing what you think you were doing and everything is good. (1.2+1.5)/2 doesn't have a meaning but (1.2moneyA+1.5moneyB)/2=moneyAB and growth rate has nothing to do here

> because it represents the interest rate that they're earning when they hold that basket of bonds

No it doesn't. Look at my example, you would think that the arithmetic average growth rate is 1.35. But now if I told you product A is in fact made up of two subproducts, one is not growing (1) and the others is growing a lot (2), you would compute a new average of (1+2+1.5)/3=1.5
No matter what i will not step into any 737 Max crap until it reaches at least 10 years of stability.
This is disputed.
The character in Star Trek Discovery was named after him, also works with mushrooms, in a way.
Messenger and Instagram are now connected [0]. WhatsApp is one step away from being connected and integrated [1]. Even if they are not technically integrated, they will be logically integrated - one way or the other.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/30/21495068/facebook-messeng...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-insta...
I think the arguments being made here in this thread are largely missing the point, although that's because the author of the article also didn't put his finger on it very well... yes everything is incomprehensibly complex, but what about this is it that makes it not work very well anymore and how exactly is it different from past complexity?

I think the answer is that as we add complexity to the world there is always some benefit, some problem is solved or new form of wealth created, and there is also some cost, not just in the obvious terms of energy used, but also in terms of "brittleness" of the system and long-term sustainability of it all.

As Joseph Tainter said in his ground-breaking 1989 book "The Collapse of Complex Societies", as societies get more and more complex the return on this cost (the ROI on additional complexity) diminishes, i.e. the costs of additional complexity at some point start to outweigh its benefit.

That's what I think is really going on... we've crossed that point and the while the problems we have created with added complexity in the past might be solvable with additional added complexity (i.e. global warming might be solvable with a combination of "green" energy and carbon capture and draw-down) the additional complexity needed for such solutions is now incomprehensibly expensive.
As someone who enjoys ST:Discovery, also instantly noticed this, looked it up quick and it's mentioned on IMDB as well.

TIL. Quite cool.
It is less about the skills. With a good platform, your skills will transfer to higher value (I mean money really) than average platforms. It is not like the person with highest score in class end up with the biggest house. There is only one Facebook, one Google, one Amazon, one Microsoft and one Apple, and the US has all of them.
Second that this has to be the most important thing right now.

Other than the vulnerability report, I am also reading through many other data analysis as well. To be honest, some of the analyses are intriguing at the minimun. I am starting to collect my own dataset. Please reach out if anyone is interested too.

Data scientists on HN, how is this not at least fun to play with? Prove it right or prove it wrong, it's going to be interesting the useful. If there's anyone working in kaggle group, it has to be an interesting dataset to put together for exploration!
Steps Christmas marketing scenario to boost sales on your website
Interesting how quickly this thread disappeared from first four pages of HN. Is it a hot topic not worth its discussion?
This would be amazing, but gives me '405 - Not Allowed - nginx', see also [0]. Strange.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625901

EDIT: That error occurred when going Right Click -> Add Keyword from the website. If setting the bookmark manually completely, it works.
Calculator to estimate cost of employment in over 70 countries for remote teams
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. That’s a good point.
This thread is about the premise that the prevalence of the vaccine will allow the politicians to revoke the lockdowns.
The Oyster Cost Calculator lets you estimate how much it will cost to employ someone in a country. Currently, Oyster can help you hire in over 70 countries.
I can eat plastic, petroleum, CO2 and mushrooms.
This is super snappy! How are you funded? Is it right that you don't collect any user information, including ip address?
Yeah, that wasn't the original question. I'm a paying protonmail customer, for privacy, for my whole family. Trying to get a read of how much that's likely to be an issue in future.
Because he was provinding real value. Her job was mostly a PR play by google, and she went contrary to that by actually slandering google all the time and stiring tensions...
There are some pretty old businesses in Europe- plenty of English pubs claim to go back to the Middle Ages, and at least some have records to prove it.
I'm surprised that she opted to publicly put the blame on someone and link to their Twitter. That could be interpreted as a dog whistle to her followers to start the public shaming.

But at the very least, I'd guess that this will make any potential future employer think twice if they really want to be her manager.

And lastly, I remember the name Jeff Dean from reading about advanced AI research, so if someone publicly says "Jeff Bean says XY is unbearable", I'd be inclined to just believe it.

All in all, this looks to me like Timnit Gebru could improve her career chances by being a bit more diplomatic with her public announcements.
Can I, please, join too. I will do all the interfaces in XUL and will optimize the heck out of it to work on IE.
William was Edward's cousin, Godwin and Harold were the family that betrayed and murdered his brother. I doubt Edward would see William succeeding him as a bad thing.
Well, perhaps it is? We don't know if there is life in Mars. Or if there was life at any point of its history.
Why do you think Saudi Arabia is slowly allowing women to participate? They need them in the workforce for an economically sustainable future. They know they are heading for crisis rapidly and investing hard to get out of there. However, they are ridiculously dependent on oil. Oil money is basically the whole country's sugar daddy (not for the slaves and foreign workers...). People don't really work there, they all just live off the oil money. Literally every aspect of their lives need to change.

I really doubt the rest of the world needs to be too concerned about them. They are pretty uniquely fucked and not that many people anyway.
What would they gain?
UN unveils digital biometric ID passes
In terms of resources being used by by the planets ability to regenerate them it seems to be true. Too many people consuming too much. And that's with billions living very modest lifestyles.
> For 20K you can have enough Powerwall batteries to power your home when the sun isn't shining

Huge amount of money to get off the grid - how many years of bills is that?

I have a 4kW system up here at 56 degrees north, and there's no way I could go off grid with it because the seasonality is huge; I can't store power all the way through the winter. I get it from the big offshore windfarms instead.
I agree with the sentiment that BLM, but I don't see how a message/banner/whatever helps in the matter.
Because the idea of UBI is that it's universal basic income, which keeps you fed and a roof over your head and other such basic things. I heavily doubt that the mentioned 30-40% of the population are okay to live with the bare minimum without having any interest in doing something to change that; that's only possible if your actual income allows for more than that, which seems to be the case in the Saudi States.
How does a technology become mature if no one wants to test it? I get your point, but we need both type of people in the real world: cutting-edge tech enthusiasts and stable products users. The problem is not that some people try out some fancy new tool, it's that they try it at work and waste lots of money without even being worried about it because it's not theirs. But in few cases it also pays off.
"You need to sign in or sign up before continuing."

how about no
LOL! That customer is my wife. ₹32,768 is a good sum for tea. (If this is Indian Rupee, btw, it is less than $500).
You have other options. You could design your own bytecode, and write an interpreter. You could emit C, and use a C compiler. If you use LLVM, you also need to decide whether you want to link against LLVM and use the C++ API. Or you can use bindings for another language. Or you can emit IR as plain text, then feed that into the LLVM compiler.

I have done the latter, and would advise against it. The IR is powerful, but quite involved. The documentation is sometimes lacking. It's an interesting project, but you probably won't get far.

Linking against LLVM means you have to use their C++ interface, and every time you rebuild your compiler, it's going to be slow, with all the templates they use. Your compiler will be a large executable (clang and zig are about 90 MB), and you'd have to rebuild that every time you change your compiler. I would hate having to do that in my spare time, which is why I went the other route.

LLVM is very powerful. There's all these optimizations you get, and debug info. But it's not free. The integration is going to be hard and you'll have to spend quite some time on it.

The next time I would start a language project I would build an interpreter in a dynamic language, and possibly even use a parser generator. https://craftinginterpreters.com/ has a nice path laid out. Focus on what you actually want to do. Once you get somewhere, once you actually like your language, once you actually start a project in your own language, and have an actual need for more, you can write another compiler with more bells and whistles.
A new way of ORM in Java
ObjectiveSQL is an ORM framework in Java based on ActiveRecord pattern, which encourages rapid development and clean, codes with the least, and convention over configuration.

Features
1) With one annotation your Class has a fully featured SQL programming capability
2) Easy to relational querying(has_one, has_many, beglongs_to) and paged querying
3) Java expression programming(arithmetic, comparison and logical) is converted into SQL expression directly

github: https://github.com/braisdom/ObjectiveSql
Hey, thanks again for challenging the thoughts and I learned something new.

I found an "expert" affidavit that shows the name (Navid Keshavarz-Nia):

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905...

Wonder if this one shows more merit so we can get on track to discuss if there's some serious vulnerabilities. It is more high-level though.
You can still do initial page speed optimization using dirty tricks. Some of these were possible even before HTTP/2 Push existed.

If you already have fancy middleware to predict the best assets to push for different users, perhaps you can extend the middleware to inject the dirty tricks as well.

- data: URLs inlined into the initial page HTML

- compression to remove the entropy of base64 encoding

- ordinary inlining, e.g. for JavaScript, CSS and (less likely) HTML fragments

- Cache and ServiceWorker to allow future pages to use the inlined assets without fetching them a second time

Combine the above with heuristics like you were using for HTTP/2 Push to decide what to inline for each user. So a user with an If-None-Match Etag or a cookie has probably seen the page before, and a user with neither probably has not.

As others have pointed out, <link> preloads are also available. Although those don't kick in until the first data from the initial page has been received, if there is enough page data, one extra RTT needn't matter for some resources, especially JavaScript that is only needed once the user starts interacting with the page, items far below the fold, and other page resources if it's a single-page application.
How did they get past 2FA with Authenticator? Exploiting a bug is most likely? Does anyone know?
You'd have thought that high demand would increase fossil prices? No, they're cheap in North Dakota because of all the fracking there.
she used the company's account to setup a standing order to her account
> But wrapping their head around algebra and trigonometry and making them conceptually "think" about them was extremely hard.

oh yes haha, I even made this small animation for them to try to explain the trigo circle : https://editor.p5js.org/jcelerier/sketches/acPp467og but it didn't help much, wonder how I could improve it..
As best I can tell, it’s not React-specific. Check the How It Works [1] section. You can use this anywhere you use styled-components or emotion.

[1] https://github.com/ben-rogerson/twin.macro#how-it-works
It ought to be humour. Obviously someone took the time to come up with the title Never Mind the Manganese Ore Export Quotas, Here’re the Enjoyable Popular Music Boys. I’m pretty sure there is no actual album with that title.

[Edit: Apparently the photo is from the National Lampoon, May 1978.]
It's technically possible to store heat for several months, e.g. in a large water tank, and use that heat over the winter. Only really feasible for very thermally efficient houses, but it can be done:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...
Small towns in Asia have millions in population :D
Set and Forget
You can combine together theses classes in another class name for reusability. I've been doing CSS for 15 years and I love tailwind. It's just a bunch of handful predefined classes but they encourage you to write everything in small, single-purposed classes that you combine together.

You can absolutely do that with CSS (and some people probably did for years), but having theses classes already available kind of shows you the way.
Genes is less than 50% for intelligence.
For low level residential use batteries might be cheaper. For industrial and commercial use where the scales are higher, demand shifting is probably cheaper.
Django with Vitess
You can't simply acculturate businesses against it- they will slowly be replaced by other businesses headed by ruthless sociopathic maximizers of shareholder value.

This is the guaranteed outcome given this way of organizing commerce. Just as if you organized everyone into medieval guilds, we would replicate the behavior of medieval guilds.
That article is about WhatsApp being used to coordinate a lynch mob in India (a villager suspected them of being kidnappers). Tragic, but not relevant
Interesting the article mentions using Log Tables and links to a video on their use. Log tables where printed booklets used as an alternative to slide rules .

http://www.sliderules.info/a-to-z/log-tables.htm

I did get taught them in a mech engineering class - this was just at the inflection point (late 70's) when everyone switched from slide rules to calculators
A few examples to highlight the power of the report:
• NH (crazy and consistently fast across the globe): https://treo.sh/sitespeed/news.ycombinator.com
• NY Times (fast news website): https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.nytimes.com
• Dailymail (slow news website): https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.dailymail.co.uk
• Google on HTTP (it's weird, a lot of tablet traffic and optimized only for a few countries): https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.google.com?isHttp=true
This is true. I at least hope Boeing was able to reduce the compensation it will pay to airlines. There’s no lost income for airlines if there’s no demand for travel!

Low oil prices have also not helped the situation. Airlines need fuel efficient aircraft less than ever right now.
Best of luck getting your account back Daniel!
A great project, it’s the Lombok used in ORM
Gaia’s new data takes us to the Milky Way’s anticentre and beyond
Project management is a different career from development, not a progression.
Proven Paid Podcast Promotion Strategies to Blow Up Your Show
You gotta hand it to the Rails team who came up Stimulus [Reflex] as an antidote to all the SPA abuse.
The fonts don't change with my browser, not sure if it's because of Safari or the domain blockers I use.

That being said, there was a recent discussion on dev fonts that might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25159038

Edit: Seems to be the domains that are blocked, doesn't work with Firefox or Chromium either. I might need to open fonts.google.com

Edit Edit: this seems to be the issue https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts#google-fonts
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In some ways I get why software developers want to roll their own CA, less dependancy on the OS. There are several times when I visit a web site using latest browser, but get an error while viewing a SSL page because OS CA is too old, and there is no way to upgrade it. I'm talking win xp days of course. But yeah why rely on the OS.

EDIT: kinda like how node_module thing got started in the first place. But I can see how this can turn into another browser war with Google and Mozilla each starting to bundle their own CA bundles. God, can we just please have DHT type for Root CA already?
It has nothing to do with pirating. That sort of predatory mercantile behaviour has happened basically ever since humanity invented money. It happens because unscrupulous people are allowed more power than they should have. Stop blaming everyone else for their bad decisions.
Whatever you do, don't look at the RXJS docs: https://rxjs-dev.firebaseapp.com/
Failing the implantation of zygotes, we could just allow a free market for sperm. Why shouldn't women or couples be able to pay $10,000 for the DNA of men like Elon Musk?
> It shares genetic indicators and even some symptoms with autism,

Quite possibly because the distinction between ADHD and ASD (among other disorders) is biologically dubious. See e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0631-2

> meaning that people with ADHD qualify as neurodiverse

Now this is a really big tangent, but the term "neurodiverse" annoys me. One of the reasons is, there is actually a great deal of genuine neural diversity among so-called "neurotypical" people. For example, while most right-handed people activate left hemisphere perisylvian regions in language processing, a small minority of right-handed people activate right hemisphere perisylvian regions instead. So that small minority are "neurodiverse" in a genuine physical sense, yet absent some clinically significant dysfunction (and this example of neurodiversity has no known clinical significance), nobody will call them that. (I owe this example to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28130875/ who in turn cite it to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10611122/ )

In reality, "neurotypical"-vs-"neurodiverse" is a clinical distinction, not a neuroscience one. People with (certain kinds of) clinically significant dysfunctions get the second label, people without those dysfunctions get the first. Very rarely does anyone actually look at what is going on in the brain (eg via MRI) before applying these labels. (There are studies claiming to find differences in the brain between the "neurotypical" group and various subsets of the "neurodiverse" group, but those studies tend to contradict each other, have problems with reproducibility, and only claim to find group differences not individual ones – there may be a statistically significant difference between the mean of some property in two groups, but the ranges of that property in the two groups will be overlapping.)
DEF CON reports two years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112172

typo: it's going to be interesting and* useful.