skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a lot of environmental challenges ahead of us. A forward-thinking World's Fair could paint a picture of how we get from here to a carbon-negative economy: solar & wind, battery tech, autonomous cars and less car-oriented cities, better telepresence, carbon sequestering, architecture, etc.
The thesis I believe is that in the US, the public service does not have the resources to do project management and outsources that, typically to those who also do the work and have an incentive to overcharge.

In other countries, not only are there people employed by the state who do said project management and have the responsibility and expertise, but when outside PM work is required, it has to be done by a different entity.

Nothing to do with being dumb, everything to do with bad incentives.
In Austin, they had a taxi app at the right time. The problem was that they were still taxis, and if no one felt like ever coming to pick you up, then you were just left high and dry. Uber told a specific person to come pick me up. Taxis would take whatever fare they found on the way to my house.
Full-stack dev here, running 1x1080 23" (top) + 3x1440 27". No real interest in moving to 4k, 1440 is the sweet spot for my workstation. The only problem... need more monitors!!
Bernie Madoff's persecution is just the tip of the American Crackdown.

If you release Navalny from his fraud sentence, you also got to release Bernie Madoff from his 150 year fraud sentence, too. 150 years for a miserable little Ponzi Scheme. Ridiculous.

And yet many banksters get off scot-free, while their stolen billions of dollars gets made up from taxes on you, and you, and me.
The abolition of punched cards...finally, it was practical to indent code!

Visual editing...I remember when all text editors used a command language that made you keep a listing of the file next to your terminal so you could translate your markup into editor commands. (And, yes, I still know my way around ed.)

SCCS/CVS/RCS: as wonderful as git/hg/fossil and others are, any source control system is better than none.

Tree-structured file directories, so you could separate files of different projects into different directories.

Yes, I HAVE been around a long time!
Russia is not corrupt in the same sense the US is.

In Russia, the bureaucrats can bend and break local laws, siphon out some funds, etc. But they are pretty strictly controlled by the "power vertical", up to the quasi-tzar who is Putin. This structure does not tolerate breaking its internal rules, not keeping promises, etc, and is quick to unseat a bureaucrat which failed to conform, no matter how high in the hierarchy.

This is why a number of things in Russia can be done quickly and relatively efficiently, when the higher-ups demand it. It, of course, is not very democratic and does not always align with the desires of the population, but in many cases it does.

I suspect China has a similar structure: a bureaucrat may engage in corruption as long as he fulfills the orders of CCP; if corruption interferes with it, it is eliminated.

This is the well-known efficiency of authoritarianism, e.g. of monarchy: if the monarch desires something good, that good thing can be completed very quickly and allocation of resources won't be a problem. (The trouble is, of course, that when a monarch desires something bad, the bad thing gets implemented as efficiently, for there's no counterbalance.)
In the end... Pascal was/is hugely influential, and, yeah, it called these kinds of things "Records." But the funny thing is it's been so long since I wrote Pascal or Modula-2 that when I first heard the term "Record" in the context of Java I never made the connection.
> The company she worked for billed the state $90/hour for her work, but paid her $15/hour. I'd love to know where the rest of that money went

I can tell you without looking, overhead and profit. Scheduling, billing, administration, legal, interfacing with the government all costs money. It’s likely the person being paid $15/hr has a total pay package that is higher than that as well.
I love seeing insights like this in hindsight. I do remember google video. At the time I don't remember it being that much different in terms of features but as the saying goes "content is king".
I believe you missed the parent's point. The Pledge of Allegiance is pretty thin on values, other than "liberty and justice for all" crammed in at the end like an afterthought. Mostly it's "my country and religion, right or wrong".
My point wasn't to compare specific atrocities. You can find plenty of high death count (thousands, tens of thousands) religious massacres in Europe during this period.

My point was to show that the claim, "they had a civilization but they were way behind those both of europe and asia", because "europeans were teaching and learning in Oxford and Cambridge." is a nonsense argument.

With regard to belief in mysticism and exercising religious violence they don't seem dissimilar.

Maybe they seem more different because sacrificing 84k people at a pyramid is less familiar to us than Catholics and Protestants butchering each other in the streets and defenestrating each other.
We are talking about a freelancer marketplace dumping state data on random nodes and miners computers for the lulz (and a level of immutability that nobody asked for). What could possibly be the integration here?

Their erc20 token on Ethereum can integrate with whatever you want

I think people are conflating things
Apple is laughing at this comment.
There's no good usenet search online any more
Our 13 year old Miele dishwasher broke last week. I had a service call booked but cancelled because it wouldn't be worth the parts and labour costs of multiple hundreds (good chance something else will break next year).

I had a lot of fun tearing it apart and seeing how it's made and as a longshot to fixing it myself. I think I could have fixed it myself if I had access to parts and some blocks to put it on to look underneath when it's running, but alas I don't have any of that so it's probably going to be tossed. But the nice thing is, it was always an option to spend the time to fix it. I feel like I learned something and if anything else breaks I'm more confident.

At least I learned something, enjoyed myself despite a cut finger or two, and saw all the general wear and tear in various parts which made me feel better about replacing the whole thing.
I'd say anything remotely security relevant.
There's a mistake on my part, the risk of getting blood clots, not death, is actually even lower, 30/5/1e-6 = 6·1e-6, not 0.0015.

The base rate is per year, the AZ vaccine was used for about 3 mo in the EU. That leaves us with a base rate of 0.5 to 1.25 cases per million per 3 mo, so using your numbers:

1.875 - (0.5…1.25) = 1±0.375

deaths per million if we were to keep the inputs unchanged?
>The doctors were completely dismissive of and uninterested in the symptoms -- it really shook my faith in medical practice.

This and similar comments here, and my own experience make me realize how elitism can be dangerous. We blame social media and propaganda for mistrust jn science (and rightfully we should criticize those) but part of the mistrust is a problem of medicine's own making. What happened to self-doubt?
They're waiting for the counter counter notice
I don’t think tacit is exactly the right word there. Effective (or de facto) is probably closer. If the company is willing to hire someone and that person decides they’re not willing to relocate, I don’t think that’s tacit age discrimination.
Don't forget that you don't have an electric ground
1- I'm not 100% certain, but I think if you don't file and your C-Corp defaults (because of the IRS/Delaware debts), they'll close it for you and you should have no liability?

2- If you are US-based, or have interests in the US; the few thousands dollars are worth paying.
The number of people with high-powered gaming machines-as described in that paper- is comparatively small, and their sustained energy use would be a fraction of what crypto-currencies waste.

Moreover, socially games are probably less damaging and they’re not attempting to strip money off people in large volumes.
Show HN: O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible
I was going to mention CURE but it looks like you are on it. The way I normally identify these anonymous groups is because they have the same lawyers as the unions.
This is why I like async_std. It’s literally the same types as the normal standard lib but it returns futures for anything that could block. If you know the normal standard lib then you know async_std. I’ve stayed the hell away from Tokio for the reasons you’re expressing, but async_std seems like a solution to the problem, not a cause.
> But it was driven by fear of the other and I'm not sure that ultimately that's a good motivation.

I agree that a different motivation would be better, but right now we have none, which is worse.
I'm pretty sure there were servers out there taking incoming search strings and slapping them on the end of file names. You could search for RANDOM_STRING and find a "britney spears matrix hot babes unsavory search (2)(1)RANDOM_STRING.mov.wmv.exe"
However, the horse struggles to be customer centric
It's possible that they knew they were either losing access (perhaps a vendor update or action was going to break access) or that news was going to spread due to some upcoming legal case. In that case they might try to get as much impact as possible, especially if they were in position to monitor what spooked users tried to switch to or whether they started communicating to previously unseen partners.
>But a borrow checker does not change the set of possible programs.

Once you have Turing completeness you have the full set of possible programs, end of story. Languages aren't about changing the set of possible programs, they're about making good ones easier to write, and bad ones harder.
"mailbox can only be accessed by me over an SSH tunnel"

Thats basically fantasy territory for an average user.
If you consider the real world" abundant phishing, etc. then you will realise that in practice there is very little daylight between them.
This really needs a simpler summary that I can digest -- I think I understand but there where many points that I couldn't wrap my head around. I get the comparison with the overuse of antibacterials ... can someone dumb this down for me?
Hot damn, that’s one crazy story!
that's not zero cost, and would be closest to the subscription model.
Oh that's really interesting and an area I hadn't considered writing about. But forced breeding in animals and the villagers is very much part of setting up the farms and villager professions.
pretty sure Yahoo was 5MB and Hotmail 2MB when gmail came out.
That's why the ability to work from home is important. Sure there will still be expensive cities, but living on cheap rural land will be much easier.
This describes the taxi experience I've had in every city the world over. Not that I've been everywhere, but places in Europe, Asia, North/Central America, that's been my experience. Small towns are generally better because the taxi driver isn't anonymous.
I genuinely chuckled. That is for the inside of the library.

In their case, I think they were referring to noise from cars ( people dropping off kids -- this is America after all ), gatherings and so on.
I was thinking one would replace the tires with train wheels, so you keep the steering system intact. The biggest downside to doing exactly this is that car traffic will not have traction as most of their tire contact patch will be on the steel rails, rather than the pavement.

Or even better, just buy off-the-shelf trolley busses, as they are cheap, and you need a fraction of the infrastructure.
Yes, intuitively, over the last 50 years, the world population increased substantially, meanwhile, global poverty decreased manifold (90%?) over the last 50 years, and the vast majority of humanity is employed doing 'something'. Even with the greatly increased productivity of automation in farming and manufacturing, humans are creating new industries that build on what's been developed in the past.

What are the trends that will lead to mass unemployment, even decades hence?
> I'm not sure what other answer you're expecting?

I've seen some things. Binaries, large files, isos, generally just any large file with no lines that somebody just didn't know better and committed, changed a few bytes a few times, and generated huge deltas quickly.

I'm far more surprised you don't know what he was expecting than I am that he asked, considering how many times I've run into this in the past.
Many video games still don't use the STL due to performance concerns.
The event you are linking to was the real world "test" of nuclear weapons. And quite a lot of people attribute the lack of real world "testing" of nuclear weapons since then to that specific event.
I agree: well-written, well-presented, well-considered.

(Of course I'm heavily biased against inheritance, but I think it's a very good review regardless.)
That's not how any of this works. The split between artist and record company is defined in a contract that Spotify is not a party to.
> at a certain point you do have to be an activist about other people's usage of language.

Well, part of that game is people getting pissed off that you want to police their word choices. Don't be surprised that some of us will become more offensive in response to attempts at sanitizing control. You'd have to be a retard to disregard that factor ;P
What happens to the supervisor if the supervisor ignores the student ? Nothing.

Thats why it happens.
They have to take whatever designs are coming out of China and can only make minor adjustments to the specs.

Apple has huge volume, big margins a very tight supply chain and a mountain of cash in tax havens. They have a lot more options.

If a seller like System 76 adds too much margin on their models people will buy a Clevo rebadged by some other seller which is a shame because System76 are adding value with their firmware and OS tweaks.

I am looking forward to the day when a company like System76 can release their own designs but without being in Apples position of fleecing customers for music, video, apps, cloud, mobile, tablets etc in a closed ecosystem it might be a long time coming.
And Maxthon!
That is stretching the quote fairly thin. Programming in Swift is nothing like programming in Lisp on many levels.
I don’t see how it reads as an unconditional commitment. It implies that the values of your country are “right” to your (parents) eyes.
I have never even once encountered any problem caused by the tag namespace.

I never, ever, typedef struct tag names. I have only ever seen typedefs like that in C headers. All C++ code I ever see looks like your D example.

I have to wonder if you meant to post something else, or if you have lost touch with what C++ code looks like.
> with good levels of vitamin D

which is not proven to have any relevance to Covid-19, unfortunately.

> I'm prepared to treat any Covid infection I do get with a protocol including ivermectin and various vitamins which has proven effective where it has been tried in India in Mexico.

Please do not spread potentially dangerous health misinformation and false hopes, even in good faith. If there was such a protocol that worked, the world would know.

Now that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 has been thoroughly debunked, snake oil peddlers have apparently moved on to Ivermectin. Efficacy-wise it seems to be taking the exact same path as HCQ, unfortunately. Hopefully this time around, no more precious research time and resources than strictly necessary will be wasted trying to prove again and again that the "Internet's miracle cure" does. not. work.

More here : https://forbetterscience.com/2020/12/15/ivermectin-now-again...

> The long haul risk is a little bit more substantial

Between one in six and one in three people, to be precise. A "little bit more" indeed.

> in the vast majority of cases it is not debilitating

76% of hospitalised patients still have symptoms after 6 months.
https://theconversation.com/how-many-people-get-long-covid-a...
> Streetcars are not usually grade-separated.

Although I'd argue that unless you really need (or reasonably expect to need) the capacity of a full-scale subway(-like) line, demanding 100 % grade-separation might again falls under the "overdesign" point: Properly done signal priority and dedicated lanes where necessary can get you quite far without requiring you to tunnel/elevate all the way or build a bridge/underpass at each crossing street.
Wireshark. I've saved countless enterprise problems that nobody could debug by intercepting traffic and guessing, or looking at the raw data nobody knew was there.

Python list comprehensions + ipython: it changed how I approach all compley python code. I iterate over the data until I get it right, then use that as the basis of the program/script.

Youtube: I can learn anything now. It's the real world The Matrix
Well I think the gist was more along science communicators/celebrities for the public. Feynman - and many others - while quite brilliant, haven't had the same general layman appeal.
https://reportrocket.com

Excel report server generates reports from cloud databases.
I signed up but never got a confirmation email, and login wont work.
yes, this is why you need a dedicated team who owns the quality and scalability of the monolith once you reach a certain size. many companies call this team "product infrastructure".
It sounds like you've got an academia background so if they're research or R&D positions, that might be why. Because they're competing in an already saturated field. Or there aren't many jobs but lots of graduates keen to work in your subfield who will do it for lower pay because they enjoy the work.

If you moved into in-demand fields, service delivery or consulting, you'd see 100k GBP as normal for seniors. The fields only require mastering the tools or domain and the ability to work with business stakeholders. That is from my experience, the majority of the software world.
Maybe differently skilled? If all you have are front-end engineers, then TS will require a different skill set since front end guys don't usually deal with typed languages. If they have experience in other languages, it might be fine. But if they've been in the front end a long time, it might be hard for them to adjust.
Uber decided to reclassify all 70k British drivers as workers
I'm skeptical of this statistic even though I've heard similar things before.

There are about 154 million tax returns filed per the IRS, and 128 million households. It seems like a lot of returns if half of them don't pay taxes.

It seems like about 78% of tax returns involve paying taxes, in fact. A tax return isn't necessarily a household, but is it that far off on average?
Running the numbers from sunset to sunrise is extremely optimistic if you want 100% renewables. I've seen estimates of more like 4-7 days.

However, that's not the biggest problem, current world wide lithium battery production is around 300GWh per year. Typical demand in the UK is around 30GW, even your 16 hours is around 1.5x the current battery manufacturing capabilities. You'd be competing against every car, laptop, tablet and phone manufacturer for that capacity.
How to Learn Swift
They should go after knife makers next, 99.8% of all stabbings are made with knives
Would be interesting for powering IoT devices.
Then it's lucky that 1 billion people use those OS:es. The wealthiest 1 billion at that...
I don't think I've ever met a non-enthusiast who had both summer and winter tires. Is that actually a thing? Maybe in the mountains? Here in Iowa, everything is pretty straight and flat, so you just need to leave more room to slow down.
I stand corrected, shallowly immutable or as you note fields not being reassignable it is.
> At this time, which future will develop is anyone's guess; I suspect even NetGate don't really know. Even if they're planning on effectively abandoning CE in place, a backlash in the community could cause that to reverse.

It seems like a certainty that users will shift over to the free version of pfSense Plus for the eventual performance advantages, if not for the REST API alone, and then pfSense CE will slowly wither. We'll see, but I really think you're being overly optimistic entertaining an alternative scenario :)
They basically render frames on the video port-less GPU, and then pass them over to a second GPU for actual output. So probably quite similar to what Looking Glass is doing.
i just keep my personal dot files in git, not system config.

Systems are slightly different, at work i have two 27 inch monitors and at home i have one 30 inch, and I do play some paradox games on home computer on ocasion
Lockdowns do not eliminate Covid-19: UK, California, New York, France, hell even Japan. Also pretty much the entirety of pre-Covid epidemiological science.

Lack of lockdowns does not lead to mass death: Sweden, Florida, South Dakota, vast portions of the Global South.
I build something similar but generic https://insightrend.com/?term=btc
Because Google is providing an ecosystem platform of billions of customers to the app developer.

Think of it this way, without the App Store, would the app developer be able to make more than 100B earnings? There's very little incentive for Google and Apple to reduce the cut on their platform, doing so can cause an escalating chain of events that would reduce their revenue and significantly impact their key stakeholders.
Black

Black [0] has been 10x for me. Automatic code formatting frees up a whole bunch of cycles that would otherwise be spent trying to comply with someone else's style guide, or trying to convince someone to write their code in the approved style. I don't have to anymore.

[0] https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Sam: We better make sure capitalism keeps growing because otherwise people will use the democracy to equalize wealth levels.

Sounds like an awful situation.
If people want a concrete example, here's a 6 GB repo that's 90% Java, 5% C, then some other languages.

https://github.com/oracle/graal

It's not even a mono-repo - this is just part of the project.

Maybe someone's got some tools that let them dig around in the history and find large things or explain why it's so large? I don't think they've been checking ISOs in.
Utah legislature passes bill requiring phones and tablets to filter porn
The miners don't need to switch; in fact, they can't. There's no mining on the PoS network. Miners will effectively have to stay on ETH1 or move to another cryptocurrency.

I think it's largely political, getting stake pool nodes and people using ETH2. There will likely be ETH1 and ETH2 running side by side for some time. ETH1 can be burned to get ETH2, so there's a one-way transition (though I'm not sure if this story is complete yet, that's the plan anyway).
Could be sugar beet, which is white.
Despite considering myself very politically aware, I first learned of him just in the last few years.
I'm perpetually amazed that more people are not familiar with Sowell's work over many decades. It makes me wonder whether he was ignored because he was a black man challenging many of the left's dogmas.
Only true if they were confident they could keep mum about the hack. Someone in law enforcement could leak it to the criminals, SKY could find out, etc...
Knives, swords, and crossbows are pretty popular in drugs gangs -- due, I understand, to a perception that forensic analysis is harder (it isn't), the sentences may be lighter (they aren't), and that the weapons are stealthier (uncertain) or "cool" (not outside of video games!)
Yes, that's it, though needs an update for 2021.

Easy self-hosting is great for privacy and a lot fun, finding it makes the web/net/computers exciting like it was when computers and the net were new. It does feel like a lot of things are coming together where self-hosting solutions may boom.
$5 hosting is absolute not enough for most big businesses. The times I've actually gone for simpler solutions, they're usually built on AWS (ie Heroku or Netlify)