skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can chastise them for making personal choices that prioritize their needs, but as long as a climatologist makes 1/10th of the salary of a software engineer at Google, that's not going to change.

The issue is not that we aren’t willing to pay a climatologist 10x more. It is that companies like Google and Amazon and Facebook can lobby to continue to externalize costs and internalize profits that allow them to retain the ability to pay a software engineer 10x more than someone working for the common good. No one votes on this. It is entrenched in a broken system that is powered by money.
That promition is ridiculous, or at least superbly ironic.

I think though it's an example of how actual health (or quality of life which is a much more robust measure) outcomes are virtually irrelevant to policymakers.

We a just lucky when quality of life happens to coincide with large business interests (all gatherings are banned unless they're in a walmart), bureaucratic ass-covering, or vote buying. In normal times it balances out decently but the equilibrium has been thrown far off here.
What is the relative difference in emissions between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car that is recharged by power from a coal-burning plant?
Is Substack Worth $650M?
I agree they shouldn't lie about the purpose. But they don't have to.

Instead of "you have to wear a mask because VACCINES DONT WORK" (which is the current, deeply stupid, messaging), they could just say "everyone has to wear a mask b/c we don't know who is vaccinated and who isn't."
Hacker news is a biased crowdsourced recommendation system for individual articles. It skews towards the interests of a programmer from the bay area. There's probably 5 articles a day I enjoy reading from hacker news. There's a lot of misses too - how often do we click on a hacker news link and instantly close it?

I looked into scraping substack to find individual writers and highly rated ones (through subscriber counts). There's some good writers like Heated by Emily Atkin. Though - do I want to read climate change articles all the time? I found that for some newsletters I lost interest after some time or some topics didn't interest me.

Reddit is also a crowdsourced recommendation system with its subreddits. I find some subreddits good like r/dataisbeautiful. I found this subreddit through a referral from a friend.

People use twitter to ask for good newsletters as well.
"Just a mod" is a bit of an understatement I think, as I understand it, the FS2020 core product is essentially a "hub" for 1st- and 3rd-party mods.
IGotTheVaccine
CC0 is the norm on Pexels (based in Germany). It adds a clause to forbid reselling on other sites, but that's it.
Preparing Communities for the Climate Crisis
Tons of people who plea bargained on domestic violence charges and DUIs they could have fought back when those were no big deal (because why spend $500 on a lawyer to beat a $200 fine nobody cares about) wound up getting screwed out of their established careers decades later when those charges became big deals.
It would be cool to have satellite mini-conferences around the world for the purpose of getting devs access to Apple engineers. It could be an adjunct to the formal online presentations that we all see.
But this was exactly the problem. They said "don't use tables", but then didn't have anything that could do what you could do easily with tables. Instead you got many hours of arcane and confusing combinations of float: and clear: tags. Especially if you were trying to avoid absolute positioning and wanted the page to be responsive.
I assume the whole point of picking the S&P 500 and not, say, Bitcoin is that it is something that an average person would reasonably invest in. Presumably you don’t live in the US. Who exactly is working at a grocery store abroad and putting their savings in SPY for 45 years? Are there average people abroad who would’ve invested all their money in US markets for the past 45 years and considered that a financially sound decision? If not, the example given kinda feels cherry-picked.
The only way I think is that it was a numbered list and they pasted the RFC number before the list number so the list number was actually appended to the RFC number?
What ever happened to their association with OST and micro crypto payments?
> Getty has already demonstrated that it is willing to sell free works to people who don't realize they can get it for free (legally).

It seems plausible to me that there are some customers whose legal teams would be very uneasy about anything free.

For those customers, Getty’s name and “reputability” may be the service they are paying for.
It's also literally not a very good joke.
Those are very creative use cases for fzf, I had never considered doing something like that.

My usage of it probably counts as quite basic. That said, I use it constantly. I just love the feeling of real time interaction it gives - it is well and truly part of my muscle memory now.

I use the vim plugin too, which is also brilliant and makes navigating larger projects very quick and easy. I use these two extra bindings all the time:

nnoremap <silent> <C-Space> yiw:Rg <C-r>"<CR>
vnoremap <silent> <C-Space> y:Rg <C-r>"<CR>

They're very simple, but when combined with the ability to add search items to the quickfix list it makes for a pretty powerful workflow.

The first one in particular gives a great approximation of symbol search that 'just works' anywhere.
A false DMCA takedown is equivalent to perjury. If SteamDB were to counter-sue Sega, Sega could be punished for perjury, forced to pay SteamDB's lawyers fees, and potentially lose their copyright on the content they claimed was violated.
I had a VW diesel. It was mostly a good car and got great mileage and then they paid me a great price to take it back. Probably my best car experience.

I'd consider a VW again, but I'm also kind of not interested in the models they have anytime soon; I replaced their wagon with a minivan and I'm not going back; the eBus is cute, but doesn't seem as useful. VW hasn't sold a pickup in a long time, and I don't expect to replace the low cost off-lease plugin hybrid with carpool stickers (VW had models with stickers, but nothing off-lease when I was shopping)
If memory services, that marque is owned by General Motors and the modern version of the Speedwagon are GMC trucks. Would be catchy to actually release a new vehicle with the Speedwagon model name.
Hey HN, Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We're building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools. We're particularly focused on scalability. We take proven tools like Postgres, and we make them as easy to use as Firebase.

Today Supabase is releasing Storage. This is our second launch of Launch Week[1]. The linked blog post goes into depth around the technical implementation, so I’ll just give a recap for the people who jump straight to comments (like me).

Backend:

We are using S3 as a File store. Since most storage platforms have an S3-compatible API, this made the most sense. We will add more providers (like Backblaze) in the future.

Middleware:

This is the key part. We assessed a lot of tools including Ceph, Swift, Minio and Zenko. These are all awesome, but they aren’t tightly integrated with Postgres. The tooling in Supabase is centered around Postgres: the APIs use PostgREST[2], the Realtime engine hooks into Postgres’ WAL[3] and we use GoTrue[4] + Postgres Row Level Security[5] for Auth.

Since we already use RLS for Auth, we decided to leverage the same functionality for managing access to Files. We created an API [6] which wraps everything up into a nice interface. This obviously goes against our philosophy of “support existing tools” - the linked blog post describes our rationale more thoroughly.

Future:

This is very much an “alpha” release of Storage. We have a lot of great features planned for a CDN, automatic resizing, optimizations, and since it’s using Postgres there potentially are a few neat things we can do with Full Text Search and Data Loading. A few of the team will be here to answer any questions - my cofounder @awalias and @steve-chavez from PostgREST, @inian, and @1_over_n

[1] Launch week: https://supabase.io/new/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week

[2] PostgREST: http://postgrest.org/

[3] Realtime: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

[4] GoTrue: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker

[5] RLS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html

[6] Storage API: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api
They launched in 2013 as a website for high quality copyright- and royalty-free images. The license has changed a few times, which is unfortunate.

There is a bit more on their "about" page (which is hidden in the three-dots-menu) at https://unsplash.com/about
Going to second and extend TheAdamAndChe's assessment in the US to include the Audi division as well. It seems electrical/electronics are the main quality area.

I had an S5 with dash lighting issues, console control issues, premature clutch failure (to be fair the previous owner could have roasted it), a nearly new SQ5 with a failed cabin blower fan and more console issues. My sister-in-law had a Jetta with aggregate months in the shop for variety of engine management and other electronics issues. My nephew had a CC that broke a seal and the resulting oil leak wasn't detected by the oil pressure sensor and he seized the engine (also had a fuel pump failure). These are the only VWs in the extended family.

Now I have an F150 with way too many electronics in it for a pickup truck...fingers crossed.
You can still leave wealth to your children! Multigenerational wealth has to start somewhere.

Not sure about the second part of your question - buy different assets maybe?
Wasn't SN11 already completed when SN10 failed? SpaceX has a production pipeline, they're working on multiple rockets in the same time.

The lessons from SN9 and SN10 are probably incorporated SN20 or even later version. (Or corresponding versions of Raptor engines.)
If anything, the reason why Tesla's especially prone to Phantom of the ADAS is its reliance on CV and have no other inputs.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/01/how-a-300-projector-can...
What about AI soft skills? The ability to explain your model to non-technical people? To picth your solution to executives? To understand business concepts critical to increase the value of the product? Dealing with co-researchers from a different field who might have different criterias about what is a valid factor? Dealing with a IT director who thinks he gets AI because he did stats101 over 10 years ago?

The value of AI hard skills do not exist in a vacuum. It might be true that doing AI is easier when all the infrastructure and management buy-in is there. Unfortunatly, these are hard to come by, and easy to loose...
University press releases are often just that bad, especially the ones that lead to papers getting this kind of attention. And this kind of dramatic overselling does deserve all this skepticism.
Does Go have more dark corners than Nim, or are you just more used to Nim's dark corners?

I picked up Go when C# was my most familiar language, having dabbled in many over 30 years, and Go was the easiest to learn language I've ever dealt with. Plenty of things I don't like about it (like that nil exists! option types please!) but ease of learning and reading other people's code was amazing.
Reminds me of The Onion: "McCain pointed to his personal success in marrying a wealthy beer heiress to prove how the plan could benefit every American."
A friend in Germany said he trusts VW even more after the scandal, because it showed their engineering cleverness. And also because they cared for their customers and gave them even better performance than the government allowed.

In general, VW has a good, somewhat inflated reputation in Germany + parts of EU. In my experience, the cars are quite solid and reliable, albeit considered a bit boring. But you can also buy a Seat or Skoda which is basically the same car with a different exterior but cheaper...

Maybe the issue is that they are different cars in the US. VW didn't have a Jetta in Germany for years. I owned a Golf MK3 convertible in the US, and I felt it was of lesser quality than similar VWs for the European market.
Uprooting cancer: Hydrogel rapidly reverts cancer cells back to cancer stem cell
Doubling Down on Dapper Labs – Andreessen Horowitz
Those risks are risks because they very often don't pan out. The folks that "make it" get to deliver clever speeches about how self-made they are and what a nice pair of bootstraps they used to get where they are today. What's left out of those stories is how many folks tried the same thing and failed. If all it took was the audacity to take a step others are not taking then it wouldn't be a risk in the first place, just a job.

Put differently: To gamble you also need to take risks and make sacrifices. Some people will make it and by necessity those people are the ones that are willing to do that. That takes absolutely nothing away from the fact that the success is due to luck.
Is their brand really that tainted in the USA.
Why do you find it useful to bring up this trope which is only tangentially related to the post?
The source-of-funds problem is solvable, otherwise companies like coinbase wouldnt be allowed to exist. Paypal just needs to buy some chain analysis service, and implement SARs and other related AML stuff.
Entirely appropriate for the new direction.

I dig it ... (speaking as someone who still sees their average cars as steam engine, emission test defeaters)
Very slick, and fast. But how do they pay for the site? There are no ads and no monetization I could find. The claim 4 billion image views a month, that has to cost them some bandwidth...
SpaceX starship SN11 rocket fails to land safely after test launch in Texas
Why you should reconsider your data documentation tools
WLTP?
I’ve heard about it while living my life? I don’t know what you want me to say. It’s just something I have been aware of happening long before now. And honestly, I’m not really interested in trying to convince anyone else. If you don’t believe me, that’s cool, but I know what I know. And since you’re too contrarian to even bother looking it up yourself, here is the literal first google result:

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/47231

Oh, and here is a literal company that sells a product meant to alleviate the need to urinate in bottles. They speak about such bottle urination near the bottom of the page:

https://www.roadreliefsystem.com/
Ooooh that’s why I couldn’t find it, thanks!
You prefer walls of text, with nothing else?
While looking up more about the author of the post, you'll find that he is the "CTO at MicroscopeIT" (https://twitter.com/szopa?lang=en), which upon further link-clicking appears to be what you say: "consultingware" (https://www.microscopeit.com/) [But I don't see him listed there...]
One question I have that is tangentially related is why salaries and total comp is so bad at SpaceX? I'm a staff engineer at FANG with some highly relevant skills and would love to work at SpaceX, but the comp friends that worked their told me about was a dealbreaker at 2/3 of what I currently make. Asking because SpaceX employees might be reading this and could share some insight here. Is it possible to get comparable comp?
PayPal also does not need to hold the underlying assets. They can buy Bitcoin derivates instead of spot Bitcoin to maintain the reserves. Not sure if they are doing this, though, but it could be more capital efficient.
Oh, darn.

They could have made it WOKESWAGON for the youth of today powered by the minds of tomorrow.
I mean, if you really really want my IP, you need to at least be asking for microphone or video permissions... otherwise, you are only going to get my default route! I work on a VPN product, and threw this together to get all my IP addresses, VPN be damned ;P. https://rv.saurik.com/wtfip/
Except that the most common jab being offered is an mRNA gene therapy to make one resistant to COVID, not a vaccine in the traditional sense. Should have been "IGotTheJab.com" or "ImCovidImmune.com"
Name a German brand that isn't expensive and difficult to maintain. German car manufacturers have the strongest marketing departments in the world and people will swear blind that their vehicle is reliable and costs nothing to maintain. It's incredibly difficult to get car owners to be honest about how much it really costs them and how reliable their vehicle really is.

Another problem is people don't know any better. It's not like the average person has owned cars from all the major brands for enough time for things to go wrong with them. Most people own only a few cars over their entire life. I think this is particularly true with brands like VW. People just don't know any better and think it's normal for a car to be a money pit.

Cars are a strange thing. Very quickly after getting a car it becomes an essential part of life. When the bill comes through to repair whatever has gone wrong, there's no choice but to pay it. You can't just choose to not pay because it's too expensive. People take their car to the garage where it's essentially held captive until they pay the ransom.

I own a VW myself but I'll never own one (or any other German car) ever again. I will be going back to Japanese cars next time. Honda or Toyota.
> It is quite ridiculous and offensive to name it "underproduction".

Underproduction is a meaningful term in economics, where it refers to the way collective action problems cause a gap between a socially-desirable outcome and the actual outcome.

However, from skimming the paper, this does not seem to be the direct source of the term. The authors appear to adopt it from Gorbatai[0], who is apparently using the economic term without defining it or referring to literature about underproduction generally. That means the authors of this paper may be unaware of the depth of economic literature in this field.

[0] https://opensym.org/ws2011/_media/proceedings%253Ap205-gorba...
That's not a good reason. If the government gave you $100 million to do some very difficult task, but never actually cared if you did that task and never made you do it, would you have a reason to do it? Or just pocket the money? This seems like a no brainer.
Because of course it is.
I should also mention there is the Artemis HLS down-select coming up in a few weeks where the Lunar Starship should net SpaceX another $2 billion of funding (assuming they're selected).

For those unfamiliar, here's a great overview of the Artemis HLS landing systems: https://youtu.be/WSg5UfFM7NY?t=47

A private company developing a Super Heavy Lift Mars/Moon rocket and streaming the monthly tests online. Very exciting times.
Does the data you're using include suicides?
They should also rebrand their Audi brand to “Odd-e”
In south Africa, VW is still held in high regard. Especially the Golf GTI. However, most dudes in a relationship have nightmares about it.
giant google boss laughs diabolically. you ignorant fools... do you think you can compete with me? with all my data (points to mountains of high quality crawled sentence fragments and images). Author of article siddles up. I told you so, he says, shaking his head.
Excellent idea. I'd be curious to see what the current compressed database size is... Their (wonderful and brief) license does prohibits "the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service", so this would have to be a personal archive.
> It's the worst community for monetising that in any way.

That sounds fantastic, I'll take a look!

Edit: It's not CC0 though, right? The Pexels License looks similar to the Unsplash License.
I use curl (as an end user) almost daily as do many of my colleagues.
> At the moment, something like 1 out of 25 households falls into the millionaire category, most of it self-made.

4% of households is off the mark. It's presently closer to 7%-10% depending on the source [1]. 8% of American adults (~19-20 million people) are millionaires [2]. It's not what it used to be, given the median sale price of a home is now around $350,000. Demographically the mean white household in the US is now approximately a millionaire household.

About 9-12 million households out of 128 million have a million dollars in net assets, including primary residence.

The number of millionaires in the US has soared in the past 4-5 years with the asset price boom in housing and the stock market. For example back in 2016 [3]:

> As of the end of 2016, there were a record 10.8 million millionaires nationwide, according to a new study from Spectrem Group’s Market Insights Report 2017. That’s more than ever before and marks a 400,000 person increase from the previous year. ... In 2016, there were 9.4 million individuals with net worth between $1 million and $5 million, 1.3 million individuals with net worth between $5 million and $25 million, and 156,000 households with more than $25 million in net worth, the report says.

The US has been adding a huge number of millionaires per year (temporary or not) as the asset bubbles have been making new highs by the year.

[1] https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/investing/t006-s001-mill...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/more-than-8-percent-of-ameri...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/a-record-number-of-americans...
I can't take this seriously when they have a "why we pip" section that acts like its anything other than a process to create paperwork to justify firing someone.
I’m not sure I follow? Storing a rendered final copy of your work is not prohibitively expensive given the cost of local storage, and is small in comparison to the raw footage which most creators presumably don’t just delete?
This would be a fun blog post series: pick a couple of basic serialization/marshalling tasks, and a couple of common formats, and compare their performance characteristics, storage size and bandwidth requirements, implementation availability, etc.
How much of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can you fit on a QR Code?
A shoutout to Fastify[1] here. It has lived up to its claim of being one of the fastest Node frameworks from our initial benchmarking. We plan to add the benchmarking scripts to our benchmarking repo[2] soon.

The entire Fastify ecosystem (and associated modules like pino) has a focus on performance which is great. For example, the file-handling middleware[3] uses Node streams by default, instead of buffering files in memory. This made it easy to use streams across our entire codebase. Besides performance, this keeps the footprint small which ensures consistent performance even for users on our smallest server configuration.

[1] https://www.fastify.io/

[2] https://github.com/supabase/benchmarks

[3] https://github.com/fastify/fastify-multipart
On “Getting” Poetry
Weird, they posted this by accident a few days ago and now it's back.

Got to be a joke, there's no way..
Can I ask what’s intuitive about a UX that hides all functionality behind cryptic commands that require reading the mind of the person who made them to know which three letters correspond to the acronym of the command you’re trying to run?
Meanwhile we've had >1 homicide per day in 2021 in my home city of Philadelphia.

https://controller.phila.gov/philadelphia-audits/mapping-gun...
I don't know how that would translate in term of interactions but the idea is interesting.

Are you thinking about constraints for the positions or for the colors?
Amazon Scholar has his eyes on the future of robot movement
Driven away by nausea at "future-forward investment in e-mobility" in the second 'graph.
I wasn't really referring to the std lib. Though, to be honest, given the amount of hassles I've had marshaling and unmarshaling json in Go, I could well include it ;)
Perhaps this is the example of what you meant — Sync.Pool was not available until go1.3 (June 2014).