skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And yet emissions keep climbing, because capitalism requires growth and demands deregulation.

If your theory is in direct contradiction to actual facts and evidence, then the theory is not super useful for analyzing the world.

Emissions are down over the past 10 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

"Growth" as defined by GDP per capita is up over the past 10 years,

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-real-gdp-per-capi...

"growth" defined as population is up over the past 10 years in the US, but falling in Europe:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/projected-population-by-c...

Also, capitalism is just fine with a shrinking economy, there's depressions and recessions. What does this grand theory say about those?

Throwing around broad terms with shifting meanings, and then changing those meanings around to fit each set of facts about the world, is a crazy way to deal with the world.

> Do the math on the world economy continuing to double every <20 years.

Easy enough, what's the problem. What sort of resource constraint are you thinking we hit? What defines a "dollar" or "doubling"? Based on your descriptions, there's zero chance I will bother to read the book you recommend, because it sounds like it has negative information content.

I mean, come on, what sort of BS statement is "capitalism demands deregulation"?? Capitalism demands regulation through policing. What sort of possible definition of "deregulation" can you ever provide that fits both these situations? The best reflection on your source is that there is some sort of very technical definition where this statement makes sense. But repurposing common words to narrow meanings such that they become jargon, then attempting to use jargon without explaining that there's a difference with the commonly accepted meanings of those words is just a completely unproductive way to communicate to the world.
One of the best books in this area I've read is "Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization"
I've not used JIRA in the long time, but in general I find source coontrol with issue tracking to be highly useful for working out why a particular change was made, several months after the fact, even if I wasn't the developer responsible (or even in the team).
I love free speech. I defend free speech. But I think society would have been better served if this hadn't been published.
There are other fireworks displays in London (or were last year, anyway). Battersea Park, Alexandra Palace and Crystal Palace have/had displays. There are probably several others I'm not aware of.

The big display on the Thames is broadcast on national TV, and had 16 million viewers last year.
This is necessary but insufficient. If you use role=button, it needs to behave like a button, which means that Space and Enter must also activate it.

Things to read:

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#read_me_first

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#button
Why do competitive Python programmers use PyPy instead of CPython?
On the conversation they mentioned about higher priorities on the Firefox, I wonder if they have open roadmap for us to understand the priority in Firefox.
I think it has more to do with preserving the character and vibe of the city -- the things that make it uniquely San Francisco. A lot of animosity toward the new arrivals stems from the lack of respect and appreciation for these. The valley itself (i.e. the peninsula and Fremont down to San Jose) has always been a cultural wasteland. I miss the days when the techie scum used to confine itself to those environs.
I don't feel i'm saying anything controversial haha, so i'd be curious what percent i'm wrong regardless.
"Life" is an english word. There will never be a definition of "life" that includes everything we want included, and excludes everything we want excluded, because there is no distinct corresponding physical thing that it refers to, nor should there be any expectation of one. It's just a word.
It used to be borosilicate glass, and now it's soda-lime glass. Apparently the latter has higher thermal expansion and therefore more likely to shatter when subjected to very rapid temperature changes.
There are some conspiracy theories that the material was changed to make it less suitable for meth labs. It seems more likely that it was changed because it's slightly cheaper.
You nailed it when you said, "I'm employee". During my career I got confused a few times about my role and thought my status was more important that it was. You either start something or work for the someone who started something (or in rare cases you are a genius the company relies on).

I would speculate that if you say you are leaving you will be offered a pay increase. However there is a risk playing the leave card. Some managers will start thinking about your replacement, even if you stay.

In my experience though founders think their company is the best thing since sliced bread and don't like people to leave. So be bold if you can afford to lose the job.
A Markov model of the Indus script
Those directors and Vps promoting these gender programs certainly wouldn't support programs that make their own positions more competitive.
Appreciate the advice. I'm not so invested here that I'm not willing to walk away, and if they have considered that I might do so, it isn't reflected in their efforts to compensate me.
If we go to the extent of accepting refugees from their neighbors, may be we should also look at sanctioning these evil nations to the point where they feel the same pain as the nations under crisis.

Fuck Saudi Arabia.
But how does this break economics textbooks? They took a public good and effectively privatized it, ostensibly for the public benefit (reducing infrastructure costs on NYE) but conceivably for private benefit (passing out VIP tickets as favors or steering a profitable security contract to an ally).

There's nothing in economics that says the optimal outcome will naturally emerge. There's the concept of equilibrium in price theory, but that only exists under conditions of perfect competition - zero exit/entry costs, absolute market transparency, and fungibility of what's traded. To parallel your firework example, that works quite well for commodities like oil or many ag products, but not for housing.

Check out this book, which provides a good explanation of why it is politically profitable to do things like privatizing public goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook

Essentially, the authors' argument is that political power can easily be modeled as transactions in a political capital market where access to public goods is traded for political support (participatory or vote delivery blocs in rigged elections, or non-interference by military actors in more obvious dictatorships). The wiki article includes a link to their more rigorous academic exploration of the topic which is almost equally readable.
Periodically Backup Your Google Photos to Google Cloud Storage
(I work for MS but not on Windows.)

I don't think Windows will be open-sourced precisely because it's not as important as it used to be. It'd be a ton of work to root out vendor code incompatible with OSS licensing, remove internal dependencies etc. That's not worth it unless we have big plans for Windows to stay relevant, which I have no knowledge of but suspect that we don't.

Probably we'll see the most relevant pieces be opened up, like the driver model awhile back.
Firefox doesn't even give me the option to view page source, only selection source. Doing that gives me this:

<html><head><link rel="stylesheet"
href="pure_css_digital_clock.css">
</head><body></body></html>

The inspector works fine, but the inspector also does not present the HTML as it was sent, but rather the DOM that Firefox is rendering.

None of this is important, it's just fun to poke at these CSS demos a little and see how the browser acts.
That comes back to the earlier point I made: developers often not having the power to change this. Others (and myself) already mentioned this is not a problem of JIRA itself, but rather JIRA being predominantly sold to management types that do not relinquish control and overconfigure the system.

I would love to see the insides of what we have configured, and toss the junk out. It ain't happening in the next 20 years, and I sure as heck don't plan to stay that long at a company putting little value in the experience of its employees.
The original poster in the thread we're in:

"Fixing a bug or delivering a feature where you haven't documented the process ... is as good a running a web site nobody visits."
I can only speak for myself, so to me this technique is kind of like how they did colour photographs in the 20th century [1] - taking multiple photographs from the same perspective with different filters.

For that reason, I would argue that these are 'true' photographs. Sure, things have been differently exposed, maybe some ultraviolet light has been brought into the visual spectrum; but for all intents and purposes, the light from the subject(s) hit the lens(es) at the same time and the composition is true to what actually happened.

Now, with all that being said, there are many famous photos that are actually composites [2] and what makes 'a true photograph' is still hotly debated.

Digital processing is such an integral part of modern photography that trying to decide what makes a 'true photograph' is bound to get messy.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2014/03/10/incredible-color-photograph...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NeyTEO_JP0
> "You loaded a page with JS but you also disabled JS execution, so it probably won't work"

Plenty of websites embed JS but work fine with some (or sometimes all) of it disabled.
Is doing this more damaging to knees than a standard weighted squat?
I had a net art project which exploited a security flaw I found in Flash
I use https://obs.camera/ with my iPhone 11 for lessons with my music teacher and it works great. Paired with the virtual video out feature of OBS it’s really easy to use with zoom as well.

Another option is https://www.elgato.com/en/epoccam but I haven’t used it much. Their software feels very janky compared to OBS Camera but I know it works (my teacher uses it in his end for our lessons)
Not necessarily. The people who were there for money / work are leaving in droves. I can only hope that a crash similar to the tech bust in the late 90s / early 00s accelerates the process. Those who are staying tend to genuinely like and appreciate the area, and they tend to be better citizens who contribute to a sense of community.
Fossil fuel free metal smelting is also space race material.

Anyone who dreams of extraterrestrial manufacturing should be keeping an eye on refining processes that reduce the carbon to a small fraction of the inputs.
Dropdowns are frustrating because the select/option is only really good for simple cases and browsers block restyling: as soon as you get a requirement like “Dropdown with multiselect”, you have to rewrite the whole thing: and, for visual consistency, this usually means rewriting all the dropdowns.
I'm glad someone is thinking about this and sharing their knowledge
> Not to over criticize your friend, but as an example: this pattern of behavior is what separates mindful, good people from jerks - imo. Everyone gets less controlled as they get stressed, but controlling how you express that is hugely important.

People are capable of maturing, and being a more cool and stable presence can help. I used to tutor in high school and college, and I experienced a lot of people expressing their frustration with the material through some degree of anger (sometimes directed at me). Over the course of the term (and often this only took a couple weeks), by being a calmer presence and letting them air their frustrations, nearly all of them stopped reacting this way.

Stepping away from them was not necessary, and would have delayed this maturation process. Instead, I let their actions reflect back on them by my cooler reaction. Usually they were embarrassed and somewhat ashamed, I'd say it was cool, I understood, but do better. And over time they would.

If they don't mature, then it's time to step away.
There are no conflicting views in my comment.

Your comment illustrates what's wrong in the US and the West in general in a situation like this and has been made painfully visible this year even before this: individualism taken to the extreme, no consideration at all for the common good, no political courage to act in the common good above individuals.

The vaccine given to people has received approval from the relevant health authorities and is being rolled out as a matter of national priority in all countries. It is the best shot we have at ending this pandemic. Medical staff are at high risk and they are also critical, and people obviously look up to them on healthcare issues.

Therefore, medical staff have a duty (a concept that seems completely forgotten these days) to get vaccinated when called both for themselves, their patients, and as example to the public at large.

If that goes against their personal beliefs then they are in the wrong profession and should quit or be fired.
> but I don't see these conversations taking place amongst teachers, most especially for earlier primary education which is more female than male.

That's because it doesn't fit the SJW narrative.
This country is going to start becoming unsafe for women again, just like the religious right intended.
Yes, I'd also enjoy jira if the company would pay someone else to use it for me.
I completely disagree. Downvotes and upvotes are the entire reason why I come here. They are not perfect but it's a relatively simple way to moderate content. I don't want to see every article submitted to this site or read inane comments. As a niche site there is still a good signal to noise ratio with the discussion here. Generally speaking the community does a good job of policing itself and I can't see how removing the downvote feature will improve anything.

I agree that downvotes are crude so instead of removing them you could improve them. How about when you downvote you have to choose a reason eg:
1. Comment is off-topic
2. Poor argument / source
3. Combatitive / abusive

Side note - there is no internet discourse more eye-rolling than whining about how you can't express an "unpopular" idea. Just say what you want to say - I swear you are significantly less edgy than you think.

Also, you're not allowed to downvote this comment. That would be suppressing my speech and such a chilling effect is disturbing.
We also need to make sure that the government does not prevent the transition to solar. This is a huge problem, with large moneyed interests sponsoring state legislation to prevent deployment of renewables.

State legislators have been arrested in Ohio for taking bribes to pass anti-renewable legislation, but despite their arrest, the legislation they enacted is still on the books. The companies got what they wanted, the government still is suppressing solar in Ohio, despite the legal system putting corrupt politicians in jail.
I get your point, but I don't think this answers the question. The first part of the question is defining what it means to be 'worthwhile.'

Information itself does not have inherent value. If you send a colony information on how to create an advance polymer, but the colony lacks a use for it, the requisite knowledge, the requisite tools, the requisite knowledge to craft the tools, or the requisite materials, your transmission isn't 'worth it'. You'd be better off not sending the information (possibly in favor of sending the requisite information).

The second part of the question is 'How do we know what will be worthwhile in advance?' It's easy to look back X years and say "Yes, this information was worth carrying forward into the future." (On Earth, it's even easier, because carrying that information forward is dirt cheap.) It's a much harder problem to figure out what information is worth carrying forward at the time you have to make the decision and when the costs are much higher.
"Miracle" man month. Awesome.
Enter the Dungeon seems more polished than Nuclear Throne, though it is also more difficult.
Generally as a senior dev part of your job description is to figure the details out. Not have them provided for you.

As a jr or early mid level you can expect to have the majority of the details ironed out and nicely laid out for you to work on, but someone at some point had to actually figure it out and put it in the ticket. Whether that is you or someone else likely depends on your level, the stage of the company, etc.

edit: anyone who is downvoting this, please leave a comment with where you disagree. i'm unsure if i'm being received negatively on content or on tone
What's Swiss about this? The programmer is from Switzerland?
You strive to eliminate bias everywhere. Putting your thumb on the scale during the audition portion because there may have discrimination before does not make sense.
To those disagreeing with Drew here: he’s expressing it very bluntly, but what he’s saying is absolutely correct. People keep on reimplementing what browsers already provide, and they seldom do a good job of it. In fact, often it’s impossible to do a flawless job of it—e.g. you can’t get a custom dropdown to behave (not look, behave) like a native <select> without some fairly detailed user-agent and platform matching (I mean things like whether selection is focus or not, and what Tab does when the dropdown is open and selection is not focus), quite apart from the other details that people often skip over (see https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#Listbox for a summary); and scrolljacking is always bad because the primitives exposed are insufficient to reimplement scrollable areas.

This is an attitude problem with a large fraction of web developers that causes trouble for users. You should very strongly prefer to use a native element and technique for something if you can. And buttons… well, buttons are a great example of something fundamental that the browser has a good implementation of, which is often reimplemented annoyingly incorrectly.
> Relatively slow moving package repositories are not a great fit for that reason

Not every distribution is Debian Stable.
You have precisely nailed it.

Following the rules (when there is no hard penalty for breaking them) and being community-oriented (beyond your own family/church/social circle) are a necessary but not sufficient part of duty.

As another Canadian in the US, I have noticed this difference as well. I have also regrettably noticed Canada becoming more like the US in this regard as time goes on.
Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Chile, Taiwan. Australia, Canada, South Korea, Germany, and several others. A umber of these are older.

South Korea just launched the ROKS Ahn Mu, the second sub in its class, in November.

Australia's Attack class is beginning construction, with 12 subs to be delivered. They are planned to be in commission from 2030-2070.
A lot of people are using Rust for advent of code 2020. It's really interesting to see the role that AOC is having with adoption and leveling up Rust knowledge.
Good questions @JetSpiegel! Prompted me to search for & read the SCRAM wiki page.

Found the answers there. SCRAM helps by adding independent checks on server identity and channel security.

So: if you 100% trust the TLS CA, cert, and implementation then indeed, nothing gained. But 100% trust is risky in cyber security...
Are you a nihilist now? Just asking.
The school system is not built for men. Shorter attention spans, highly spontaneous behavior, attracted to large displays of prominence and a lack of rewards for creativity and abstract thinking. All of these are deliberately crushed either through regulation or more recently drugs.
That one was 2018. Also 2018 (1 comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18216631

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13064504

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8937197

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818706
Every single job I've worked that used Jira, also used google sheets to "map" actual work to Jira work. It has always blown my mind. All the meetings to update the google sheet, and then to update Jira, and then to ask why the two aren't in sync. It feels like I'm taking crazy pills. Why are we using a manual tool (google sheet) to keep track of the work, that's in our work tracking technology? What?
There is some nuance here. My contention is with queues as a means to communicate between systems. Queues within systems are totally reasonable.

For instance - You have 2 services: Bank Core Integration and Teller. The Bank Core Integration service contains the queue of items that need to ultimately be pushed to the underlying legacy, rate-limited system. The teller service operates in RPC terms with the bank core integration service, so callers into the problem area are isolated from the semantics.

This might sound like a subtle difference, but it is huge in practice. If there is some problem with that queue, it is entirely contained to that one service and can be dealt with in isolation. Logs from that one service should comprehensively document the concern. If there was a message bus between these systems, you would have to go back and review message logs to see if things got missed between systems.
Absolutely not confused, it was a remark on the stupidity of using “Europe” to mean “EU” in Britain. It’s a phenomenon I partially blame for Brexit.
How many git repos are published per hour to github? It probably doesn't matter, practically speaking, for you to build cool things. Similar to the results from pubmed.

For a significant amount of synthetic biology, you don't really need NLP or anything. You literally just need to get good at parsing a bunch of XML and text databases, sprinkled with a little bit of data dumps + ML, to be better than the vast majority of engineering done in the field right now.

(Genbank + Uniprot + Rhea -> SQL database you can do some intense things with)
Umm, that IS a big deal for the most deployed normal-user OS in the world.
Yes, very much so, but the problems are self-fulfilling: no infrastructure because not enough riders, not enough riders because bikes are unstylish and expensive, etc. But this also means that improving anything is a step towards improving everything.
Given how much you've waxed poetic about Austin, what's pushing you to move to SV? Money, school, a startup idea?