skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to add my thanks as well but it would just repeat this comment.

> It is easy for your standards to go up and impossible for your increase in capacity to keep up.

I feel gutpunched by this in particular. I know I'm a "better" programmer than I used to be, but I feel like it handicaps me when I try to hack something together for my own enjoyment.
Salaries are negotiated with far less information on one side and with less vigor than contracting rates, so that doesn't surprise me. If every hire knew what you paid every one of your reports, and they did likewise, the bands would probably be narrower.
Because they are the biggest offenders, for three years running. Rather than trying to target the abstract 'beverage industry' as a whole, it's much more pragmatic to just look at the biggest players. Besides, they tend to set trends so there's a little bit of top-down influence as well in being the industry leader.
World carbon dioxide emissions drop 7% in pandemic-hit 2020
Ask HN: Are there any good open source algorithmic trading platforms?
A Third Circuit ruling applies to the whole US now?
Once again, it was just more work to pipeline your data. That the same code worked well across both isn't my point. I worked on an engine team supporting both of those platforms, so I know. This kind of approach is pretty rare for desktop and mobile apps, which is what the M1 is used for.

Edit: Exceptions being typical DSP realms, such as video/image/sound processing, rendering packages, AI, which are all already targeting GPUs. Note that Final Cut Pro works faster on Intel setups with traditional (non-integrated) GPUs vs M1.
I think this is going to go down a hole of defending environental claims that have already achieved consensus in the scientific community, so I'm going to limit my response to one point:

"Specific issues" are inseparable from waste production, and particularly plastic production, as a whole. Coming up with good ways to manage plastic (because we do need plastic) would be less of a problem if we produced less of it.
What if... the solution to climate change was VR?
What made it hard to reuse code? You can just import/export stuff like normal, unless you mean it was hard to find any logic that could be usefully extracted into a helper?
Loeb at First Sight: The Classics Come in Red and Green (2013)
What electric sports car will be your first purchase, if and when you do so? Which make and (if exists so far) model?
I'm guessing that unless they can reverse the decision of Visa and MC, either they'll have to transition to an ad-only model or they'll soon be going out of business.
I like Fastmail. Longevity is important to me in an email provider. They've been around for 20+ years and seem to be well liked.
Most of it is uneconomical to collect.
How odd. Right after a state propaganda organ, I mean news organization, went after pornhub. Given how depraved the media industry is, I bet they knew all about the illegal activities on pornhub too. Of course we have to hold our tongue because they are the protected privileged class we aren't allowed to offend.

There seems to be a pattern. State propaganda targets company or person X immediately followed by physical or financial deplatforming or state/federal/international legislative/regulatory action.

If there are illegal activities on pornhub, shouldn't that be a legal matter? Why is visa or mastercard involved in this? What's next? Visa and mastercard will ban certain organizations that supported illegal wars? Won't be holding my breath on that one.

Edit: And of course the insta-downvote.
I suppose you could have multiple charge cables, if the car was designed that way. You'd presumably need multiple charge ports and possibly multiple chargers (by which I mean the AC-to-DC or DC-to-DC converter built into the car) and for them to tolerate being connected in parallel with each other.

Just to be clear, you'd ordinarily have the cells themselves in series or a bunch of parallel groups in series to reach high voltages, and as far as the charger is concerned it's just one big battery with a single positive and a single negative terminal.

On the other hand, if you're suggesting balance charging where you have an individual connection with the charger between each cell, that's not really practical to do with large batteries because the current would be very high and the voltages very low, which, as far as cabling goes, is the worst-case scenario. Charging a single cell at 100 amps and low voltage requires basically the same size cable as charging a bunch of cells in series at 100 amps and high voltage. If you need a big, thick cable for each cell, that gets unwieldy very quickly.

Another unpractical option is to switch the battery into a single parallel group during charging and charge the whole group as if it was a single low-voltage high-amp-hour cell. That's unpractical for the same reason; low-voltage charging is an inefficient way to move energy around. Also, switching from series to parallel would require a lot of high-current contactors (basically, electro-mechanical relays), which are kind of expensive.
Choose the one who writes simple and readable code, not the one who is doing complex gymnastics just for the sake of showcasing that exotic language skills.
> a stream processing tool for end users

This is it! This is the fundamental problem that we need to solve, and what RSS is very poor at addressing today. I think that being able to process massive content streams in a human-friendly way is one of those problems that would be world-changing if solved effectively. Facebook and Twitter have failed at this so far, with far-reaching negative consequences for societies.

My gut feeling is that this probably means that we need a paradigm shift in how we relate to content streams. I think your move towards algorithmic transparency is a step in the right direction, though it may have to be bigger than that.

I think the fundamental design flaw of modern content aggregation sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, is that lack of transparency. They think that they know what's best for you.

1. You don't know why you're being recommended what you're seeing.

2. You can't teach them to avoid topics. You can only mark individual videos/posts as "not interested" and hope The Algorithm takes the hint. Likewise, you can't teach them to recommend more of a certain topic.

3. You can't see a feed as someone else, so everyone is in their own bubble by default. Reddit and Hacker News avoids this issue by showing everyone the same feed.

4. They tend to have poorly thought-out metrics for relevancy. For example on Facebook comments, users tend to use the Laugh and Angry reacts as negative signal. These comments also get a large number of negative comments. Facebook is completely blind to this, and shows them at the top since it treats all interactions as effectively equal. Cool, they've just built a system that boosts toxicity.
This is so simple and so cool!
New Security Approaches, New Threats
> I think this is going to go down a hole of defending environental claims that have already achieved consensus in the scientific community

(emphasis added)

That's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for - rigorous evidence and arguments. But not abstract claims that they exist, the actual specific evidence/arguments themselves.
Kanji Lesson: Doing everyday things with joy
How was the salary increase in the past 12 months prior to this promotion?
Sorry, I can’t co-sign this. My mom and dad use iPhones. Last week I overheard them giving each other advice on ‘That email about the IRS, I learned it was a scam, don’t open it’. They are extremely vulnerable, everything looks official to them if it comes in an email.

I don’t want links installing jack shit on their phone ever. There are scummy apps already on the App Store that can enable a vpn and route all your traffic through their servers, and people like my parents won’t know any better.

The walled garden is important for them. For the rest of us, we can switch to another phone.
Brazil’s president rejects Covid-19 vaccine: undermining a century of progress
Sounds interesting in theory, but the results are somewhat bizarre. For example, their published list of the top 200 "most critical" open-source C projects includes Urbit and Stellar, and includes micropython but does not include CPython.
I think this is misguided/shortsighted. Politics can always trump technology -- see the rounds of anti-encryption bills currently making the rounds.

Consider what technical success looks like. How many nice things can't we have, if we need to worry about how they will be abused for fingerprinting?

Better to succeed politically and fail technically than the other way around.
> ARM64 can't be that easy to decode, since ARM's recent high-performance cores (A78, X1) decode ARM64 instructions into MOPS and feature a MOP cache

My point was more about that the fixed-width instructions allow trivial parallel decoding while x86 requires predicting the length of instructions or just brute forcing all possible offsets, which is costly.

> The real question is how does Apple keep that thing fed?

That's why there's such an enormous reorder buffer. It's so that there's a massive amount of potential work out there for execution ports to pick up and do. Of course, that's all wasted when you have a branch mispredict. I haven't seen anything specific about M1's branch prediction, but it is clearly top-notch.
It really won't Western Australia just needs to get intersted in mining Lithium and there will be enough over the longer term.
The Jet-Setters Scheming to Break All the Covid Rules
This is a outage waiting to happen for every customer:

- Early dev sets a limit.

- Product launches.

- Slowly grows.

- One day suddenly the entire business grinds to a halt. Globally. Across the carefully isolated shards. Everyone scrambles to figure out why! Tens of thousands of dollars are lost because of going $10 over a budget. End-users are lost. Trust is burned. If it's providing a critical system, maybe even people are hurt.

- Google then has to explain why they built in instant, global failure mode.
I'm sure an opaque nonreversable transaction, and nonmodifiable permanent globally-readable transaction ledger will fit that application perfectly, against LEO, blackmail, and fraudsters.
If there's one thing worse than hosts hate towards immigrants, it is immigrant hate toward hosts.
I wonder if you are religious but not christian.
I guess they want to get paid for their work. RHEL is still alive.
Sentinel is basically OPA - openpolicyagent. OPA is open source and part of CNCF.
Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur
Seems like a good direction. My main hope is that if metrics like these become more accepted and/or important, that they find a way to avoid running afoul of Goodhart's law.
That doesn't sound like full political success.
You’re downvoted for the obvious truth, which is that China’s numbers are almost certainly real.

People who still don’t get it can’t accept that China has beat us here. If you’ve been there in the last 5 years, I think it is entirely unsurprising that they did.
> What's to stop the government from saying you can't buy porn, liquor, or video games?

There are still plenty of dry jurisdictions in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S...
NixOS is a great idea, but after using it for a couple months last year I migrated away. Too many of their packages are broken (as in, can't even be installed). Somebody cited a lack of testing resources, resulting in publishing packages whose builds haven't been tested.
related discussion from yesterday >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362079
>I think we're close to an impasse, partially due to a language barrier, so I may give up soon, but let me give this another try.
>I don't think you've understood my ex....

I find this attitude sort of self serving. How do you know you don't understand me? Perhaps I have the same exact feeling about you. I try to stay unbiased and not actually bring this up in case I am the person who is the one who knows less. I just try to focus on the debate at hand rather then get frustrated (as you have). Suffice to say I feel exactly the same about you, so I also request that you please try to understand me.

>Right, of course it's not controversial that genetics can predispose someone to cancer. That's the whole point. That's why it's among the two hypotheses being tested. It is ruled out (under the .....

I acknowledge. and I understand what you're saying. Now with that out of the way please understand that despite my complete understanding of what you said above I am not discounting your logic I am responding to it and addressing it below.

First off, When I say not "controversial" it's brought up as an example under the axiomatic playground you laid out. I am trying to illustrate inconsistencies within your world. You assume smoking causes tar as a given but you don't assume other givens like how genes cause cancer. That is the inconsistency I am pointing out, that's all. Now you say that this is your entire point, meaning that you are saying that these assumptions are used to draw your dependency graph am I correct? I get it and I got it even before you brought up your example.
The higher the voltage the faster the dielectric breakdown of insulators. And the cable/plug needs to be designed for 100k+ operations.

1000 kcmil cable x2 +ground and insulation is going to be one beefy cable. I’m not saying it can’t be done, just that it’s not a trivial problem to solve. Add to this an environment with a wide range of ambient temperatures and untrained humans sure to be yanking on stuff.

I just would like to see some details on exactly how these claims will be achieved rather than some marketing puff piece. And Toyota is not alone here, GM pulled the same with the hummer EV and “watts to freedom” marketing buzz with no explanation of what that even means.
Tide is (was?) a black market currency... [0] I've seen it locked up in plenty of places, depending on the neighborhood.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1
It's also interesting to look back at the internal politics of Uber at this time. [1]

There's also a bunch of big articles on VPs quitting during this time. It was peak Uber controversy with the sexual harassment scandals, Waymo stolen IP, TK resigning, Fowler, spying, backdoors, etc. Reading the headlines in the algolia search is like a telenovela.

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber (Susan Fowler) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022

I am an Uber survivor - https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-ub...

Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14600873

How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785564

Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14200486

Uber's Design Meltdown - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11109272

Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13163895

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1512691200&dateRange=custom&...
People are having a hard time swallowing it. There is still a lot of Western hubris in the world, and I say that as a westerner.
Nicholas Kristof's NYT article and HN discusion, from 6 days ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301913
So I've heard this argument before, but I'm not sure I entirely get it. Wouldn't people coming to Lisbon just stay somewhere else if short-term rentals didn't exist - like a hotel that is likely owned by a massive corporation? How would that be better?

I guess that way I look at it is that people want to visit cities for a variety of reasons. Those people need to stay somewhere. Wherever they stay will take up space, thus driving up rents through land scarcity. I am not really sure how people staying in someone's apartment is much worse than staying in a hotel.

If rents are going up, it's because there is more demand than supply. Unless Airbnb is actually increasing demand (perhaps?), I don't see how it is really affecting this equation.
I love this summary, which is better than I could have written myself, and feel no need to clarify. Instead I'll add the origin story of my dislike for mTLS.

Not too long into my tenure of being an active maintainer of Apache httpd I somehow ended up being the X509 person. I'd worked on some of the crypto code in Apache-SSL, which was maintained by non-US people only at the time, and X509 sort of fell into that bucket. I also got on well with Dirk-Willem van Gulik who wrote a lot of the original X509 code, and later he ended up hiring me, but that's a different story.

As part of being an "Apache x509 person" I got a consultancy gig to audit an "Enterprise" company's mTLS setup. On the first day, based on nothing more than tailing logs, it became clear that some people had access to things they really shouldn't. The CTOs Executive Assistant, who was part of the group trying out mTLS, actually had god level access to everything. EAs are gods and should be worshiped, they make companies run, but this level of access was not intentional. A few hours of root causing and I figured out that the EA had god-level access to everything just because the string "admin" was in their job title. Access was being granted based on a greedy PCRE regex match on a string. It wasn't even in the right field in the certificate, but the string matching didn't care. This is what x.509 does to your brain.

Similar gigs would find more problems; to an approximation, no one had working revocation, more than once I found setups that didn't even require client certificates, but no one had noticed. Over time I just got the impression that x509 was commonly set up by folks who were blinded by a cryptographic luster but wouldn't follow through. There's been a general absence of professionally built solutions that get the details right.
I totally agree that it's perfectly fine to discuss morals, even condemn them, it's a valid conversation and it should be explored.

Your point about the morality of their actions is totally valid in itself. A valid and well supported opinion.

However what I refer to is that you question how a piece like this article can go ahead and not point out the immortality of their ways. And I really think that from their business-centered, libertarian point of view, there just isn't any immortality here. In their opinion, they did things right. Therefore they could not point it out.
Lots of things to check out here, and it's limited only to projects that are on github, but unsurprisingly it looks like the top 5 are:

- Node (0.984)

- Tensorflow (0.969)

- Git (0.945)

- Linux (0.936)

- PHP (0.919)
Lithium is pretty cheap and abundant; if it becomes a problem we'll just have to figure out how to extract it in less efficient ways (from sea water, perhaps?). Cobalt is a bigger bottleneck resource. Without details, it's hard to know if this Toyota battery require cobalt (or some other expensive rare-earth mineral). Most lithium-ion chemistries require cobalt, and a lot of the advances and cost improvements in recent years have been around figuring out how to use less. LiFePO4 doesn't use cobalt at all, but has mediocre energy density.
List of the top 200 is at :

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ossf-criticality-sc...

(from the repo)

So gnucash is #15 . At #75 is gcc .

This seems like a great idea, but perhaps some refinements are needed.
>She refused to bend the knee to a conservative administration while people were dying, and the political machine decided to lash out.

Nope, that isn't what happened at all. The facts [1] show that she got the wrong end of the stick when the state epidemiologist asked to temporary remove one data field in order to validate the data (according to the emails seen). She didn't have all the facts, and she then incorrectly assumed that the data was being censored.

[1] https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...
Have you tried the comparison within the last year? You will probably find that while DDG Search is still just as bad as you remember, Google Search is no longer much better. I use Bing quite a bit, too, which is even closer in quality to Google Search.
By my reading, 139-141 just factually cite Georgia law. I don't see where it is alleged how the law was specifically not followed, apart from continuing to read into the next complaint.
You already do.

You can't consume every possible idea. You automatically filter them, most of it subconsciously, just like everyone else.
They’re about as liberal as places get, yes. I currently live in SF, spent 5 years in Utah, and my entire childhood in Texas. I know several of the places you mentioned quite well.

Mormons are excellent people. I sincerely appreciate how absurdly polite they are. They are cartoonishly polite. It’s just true. My newly married 20 year old next door neighbors moved in and immediately brought me, a plate of fresh baked cookies on day 1.

Fort Worth is a place with plenty of parts of town where I can pretty well guarantee that you’d catch some flack. That said, most big Texas cities are as liberal as they are conservative, if not more, so it’s a bad example of an absurdly conservative place. It’s nowhere near as conservative as SF and Cambridge are liberal. No major city in Texas is. Texas is more diverse than anyone gives it credit for.

I don’t know anything about Pensacola, so I can’t comment on that.
Would be awesome to have at least single test + run + output example in the README. At least as a screenshot, link to playground or something. I open website, see marketing, open github, see marketing.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381889
That just seems like such a weak argument. People are really furious with Airbnb for violating zoning and hospitality regulations? Really? Did they also jaywalk on the way to their YC demo?

I think people are mad that the Airbnb founders are rich (fair, but there are a lot of rich people) and that they have arguably raised rents, though I'm not 100% convinced of that.

EDIT - There is some good data out there suggesting a correlation between airbnb activity and rent increasing. Still researching.
Will this lead to the rise of crypto as a proper currency as opposed to a gold-like investment vehicle?
Geez Rebekah, save some headlines for the rest of us
Clojure is a great language for small creative teams to achieve great(relatively) things. It's difficult to understand that from a startup mindset of hacker news where money is no problem and peace of mind is an after thought.

If you are a budget constrained individual living in a third world country with nothing to invest but your intellect and time, Clojure is a very good language. It lets you to -
1. Create relatively large systems without pulling your hair out.
2. Juggle between different projects with relative ease. Great for managing a projects in maintenance mode. Great for contractors with long term support contracts.
3. Realize your vision of a complete product with relatively low time and money.

Overall, it's a way of doing effective programming. It's probably not a good way of making money if the focus is to siphon investor money with a large team and millions of lines to show for.
wouldnt it make more sense to overwrite toString?

original_functions[Function.prototype.toString.toString()] = originalToStringStr;
Across from my current residence is The Bay tower at Yonge and Bloor here in Toronto. for the past 6months+, the 100 foot illuminated sign at the top of the tower has been broken revealing bright white light at the chipped part, instead of the symbolic yellow of the logo. the brokenness is telling.
Wait until humans figure how to burn lithium by adding some special acid. I'm only half kidding, because if that reaction absorbs CO2, everybody will forget about "charging" lithium.
Proposing a counter argument that's a non-solution is all this is.