skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t need to do much of anything, but tall buildings are fine, given that they minimize the land impact of a given amount of square footage, and denser communities have lower land footprint and lower per capita carbon emissions.

(European cities are plenty dense at moderate heights, but they also offer much smaller living quarters than American ones; a Parisian studio is in the range of 9-35 m^2 whereas an average Manhattan studio is 51 m^2, and most Americans would consider it small.)
There aren't a lot of good things that came from the pandemic, but at least one of them is that it drastically reduced the amount of driving that people did, at least for awhile. Traffic where I live seems to be back to its pre-pandemic level but maybe that's just me forgetting how bad traffic was pre-pandemic. Work from home at least has been normalized for office work.
At the moment, Convect only deploys scikit-learn models, but I am planning to support inference with PyTorch and other ML frameworks. Not planning to run on GPUs, as there are other products that already help with this, unless I see interest in this from my users. Convect would support concurrency according to AWS Lambda's quota, which is in the hundreds of thousands.
Which is why there's more fires with usb-a
It's much more likely that the library would do more harm than good.

Libraries tend to cover broader spectrum of use cases than you'd need. Usually that's okay (eg: URL parsing, string manipulation, HTTP client, etc) but in cases like this the logic schema should be as absolutely minimal as possible.

If you're building an interpreter and need an interchangeable format then you can always generate that out of your own bespoke and very constrained format.
Plenty of virii have their origins traced to initial outbreaks where there are not labs.

Using this as a justification to not investigate the possibility of a lab leak is wishful thinking at best.
Oh, I already enjoy

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Does your phone do Voice over LTE and more importantly, does it do Voice over LTE on AT&Ts network? If AT&T won't provision it for VoLTE you may not be able to make voice calls once AT&T shuts down 3G.
If only he had been accepted to that art college...
Well. The upper estimates for Chernobyl-related deaths is 6000. Legasov's projections in the 80s cited 40000. That's nothing compared to COVID, and COVID is more global for sure (meaning that most people in most coutries experienced the effects of the pandemic on themselves).

Nuclear disaster sound scary, but COVID is actually objectively scarier.

(Not sure which way you meant the comparison goes)
Does anyone actually do that other than Transmeta back at the turn of the millenium?
Hardware/Software Co-Design: The Coming Golden Age
Even something as simple as grep is bottlenecked by disk speeds right now.
There's also the argument that some of the cloud advantages (such as AWS proprietary services like SQS) simply aren't directly available as selfhosted replacements. You end up needing a whole new team to do HA/scaling for a core service.

There are off the shelf things for, say, S3 and ALB which are entirely workable, but once you start getting into more complicated stuff (like S3's new consistency semantics, or SQS) then you're looking at a whole small company (at a minimum) worth of additional work. It's a non-trivial expansion, even for a large org with lots of money.

You can avoid using these sorts of services to maintain flexibility/independence, but you lose out on their unique benefits. This isn't an accident. It's not like you're going to be able to selfhost an SES clone and get the same kind of deliverability percentages as AWS netblocks, no matter how many engineers you throw at the problem.
>This makes me wonder if maybe the dev didn’t do it on purpose.

I doubt this since the code is stolen from this Firefox and Chrome extension https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect but there's no acknowledgement of Edge in that GitHub project.
BREAKING NEWS is just a synonym for “news”. The addition of the word “breaking” is just a stylistic choice and conveys no additional meaning.
TL;DR: the origin story of DataBricks (famous for Apache Spark and other data tools) which grew out of an academic research lab and is now worth billions.
eval("temp < 110 && pie.filling == 'apple'")
Klarna's Written Statement on App Bug
He adds that many aspects of what we consider being human, such as the semantics behind language, cannot be reproduced with a computer algorithm. You will never reproduce it --
Nicolelis

Is this true? Seems like a big deal if it is. If true, then I would conclude that we can never create a human level AI
it's satire, not parody.
>The paradox is that in spite of the huge costs, very large companies are still moving to (or using) the cloud.

In my experience when a large corporation moves to the cloud it has less to do with pricing and more to do flexibility. It's easier to get a budget from IT and do whatever you want in cloud, then to have to wait weeks/months putting in a PO for hardware, getting access to those machines and installing what you want.
Threatened pandemics and laboratory escapes: Self-fulfilling prophecies (2014)
I want to run this on a raspberry pi/desktop computer and have access to all the features i want for free, and you don't get that with Airtable - but you do foor a FOSS solution. Hobby users like me probably don't want lots of SaaS platforms when they can self host. Airtable is the SaaS i like the most, and desperately wanted it to self host.

Also, while the data isn't critical for me, a self-hosted solution ensures the data is private.
Fair enough. The quote made it seem like 'That's so non-PC why do you call it that' to me, so I was just pointing out it's not any different in English, quoting the Dutch is redundant!
"I seen a tree" is less ambiguous than "I saw a tree"
I had this issue in my 20s and 30s. Staying up after an evening workout actually allowed me to get some good coding sessions in on my side projects.

I'm older now and falling asleep with or without an evening workout isn't an issue anymore.
I'm not a native English speaker but even I can just hear the metrum in that sentence. Very cool.
Taiwan is a country.
You nailed it. Unseen costs are huge and a lot of people ignore it.
Shiva argues that the methods pushed by industry are what weaken food security. Patent protected seeds that cannot legally be collected put big industry between farmers and their food production.

She argues for a more resilient food system through seed collection and sharing, biodynamic farming practices that promote healthy disease resistant soil, and an end to fossil fuel inputs in farming.

She is advocating for a stronger food system less susceptible to disease and economic disruption.

Regarding intellectual property restrictions: I’m sorry but you’ve bought in to the widely held belief that patents promote innovation. Of course the main function of the patent is to strictly regulate innovation. Large corporations buy up every new idea they can, and use their patent portfolios to threaten anyone who might dare tread on their turf.

Economically, a world without patents would have more smaller incremental investments as innovation occurs in parallel across many companies in industry. With patents, much fewer players buy up rights to yesterday’s ideas and prevent a sea of competition.

Think of the 3D printer. $50,000 when release under patent. $25,000 12 years later when still under patent. $2,000 from many companies three years after the patents expired. $250 and available worldwide from hundreds of companies ten years after the patents expired. There was a LOT of innovation that occurred in the 3D printing space in that decade after the patents expired!

I’m sorry I’m in a rush but here is some further reading:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2013/03/08/neoliberal-pl...

https://inmotionmagazine.com/global/vshiva4_int.html

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht...
This feels like an assault on truth. I skipped to the blog on “Is Bitcoin mining environmentally unfriendly” and found numerous cases of cognitive biases. Calling it fact checking is disingenuous. More like “alternative” facts.

E.g, consider “Energy consumption comes primarily from mining blocks on the blockchain, not from transactions”. Bitcoin mining incentivises miners to create transaction blocks. The main purpose is to cement the transactions not mint coins. This is plain to see if you consider that the mining process is still necessary once all coins are minted. Therefore transaction energy cost is substantial.

If someone had an unlimited cheap source of green energy, it would actually make Bitcoin less secure as it goes against proof of work - proof of work literally requires an “expensive” operation, exchanging work (energy) for security. This actually makes Bitcoin incompatible with green energy.

I’ll let someone else more eloquently refute all the points in the article.
>Remember, they didn't make a profit exporting the timber, they exported it at a loss. With the sole purpose of driving up domestic prices.

What's the evidence that is their intent (ie. they're selling at a lost as part of some sort of diabolical scheme to increase prices), or they're just strapped for cash and selling to whoever is willing to buy them?
Unfortunately, the best I read was the last psychiatrist, which does not seem to be online anymore.
Just for the purposes of N+1 feedback:

I agree with many other posters on here. I don't have much, if any, interest in the services mentioned, but I would happily sign up for $5/mo to support MDN which is the single most valuable dev resource I have available to me. At my experience level, much more useful that (for example) stackoverflow, which I rarely use.

Given that all of my income is indirectly derived from my ability to locate high quality documentation on HTML and JavaScript APIs, pitching in $5/mo would be a no-brainer for me to support the continued development of such high quality content without ads.
it's only a matter of time before you are called gatekeeper because "json is a programming language"

I remember when I was an university student thinking writing java in XML (Spring) was cool. Man I was dumb.
Have I been Pwned goes open source
After 'Cypress' run there is 'Docker' run.

And our tests are dockerised so that it could be run locally with minimal setup and on CI too.

Please click on 'Docker' then 'Test MySQL REST APIs' & 'Test GraphQL APIs'.
No, it just means that it floats to the top rather than being a child of its original parent. If you're not seeing it, that's probably because the thread is paginated and you need to click "More" at the bottom of the page.

I wrote recently about the different reasons why we do this, if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27132402.
Owen and Mzee
> The current complexity level that people have to endure is unnecessarily high. Never before in history did people write in 3 different languages in the same source code file (as they routinely do in JS + CSS + HTML), where they don't even agree on how comments are notated.

People dont usually put them all in the same file. Html and css are mostly not even programming languages. And shell scripts commonly have sed or awk embedded in them.

I'm not saying that a more unified approach is bad, on the contrary there's pros and cons, but you're being a bit hyperbolic about it. Nothing about the current situation is that new or unique. Nor is proposing a more consistent environment new either. Computer world has been going back and forwards on this since forever.
I think that after the consequences of climate change have finally been realized only a few short decades from now, many people will come out of the woodwork to say that they really did believe it was hopeless the whole time, but that declaring it was hopeless before the consequences happened would have been labeled counterproductive for the people that did not believe so. It would have been declared as giving up hope too soon. Irrationality in the face of obstacles that are actually impossible to overcome stems from the same mechanism which has caused those same people to accomplish goals that are reasonable, like getting better at drawing or running a marathon. There's no sense in denying one if it's inseparable from the other.

My opinion is that there is no solution. It's frequently said in the context of relationships that you can't change everyone. Forcing everyone to align with your worldview is the only real hope we have to prevent the continued destruction of the environment, and yet in the context of human friendships it's considered misanthropic. People still want their power, and their identity, and their freedom, and we are collectively powerless against that instinct.

I do not think we're ignoring the problems on purpose. We're just so bad at taking into consideration the consequences that might not take place in our lifetimes. It's a limitation of our human imaginations.

Our innovations in technology have raised our expectations, and with those expectations comes a baseline of additional carbon emissions. We're not going to go back to the industrial revolution for the planet's sake.

I choose not to put my limited time and energy into worrying about a lost cause, and will have to try to continue to do the things I want to. That battle in itself is already all-consuming for me.
Agree. Should be straightforward with blockchain and cryptographic signing.
yours and my comments are flagged, nobody is walking back anything, we just can't read them any more

I find the outcome amusing

Citizen found the same result
You miss that china also has internal politics. Not everything is about what the US/western countries think/do/want.
"many times" is probably accurate. Enough to make a significant effect? Nope.

Gates also invests heavily in environmental technologies.
How is birth rate being tackled?? Yes, it’s dropping, but not because of any active effort to drop it.
Twitter Cultivated the Media’s Lab-Leak Fiasco
> This, Chicago police automated policing program (detects crime before it happenes and actually hurt innocent people)

One of the worst things I've seen was posted here on HN[1] almost a year ago. It's an in-depth report on a similar program to Chicago's, but in Florida.

There was a companion article[2] with videos from the program, and it's just horrifying. It shows several videos taken from body cameras of police officers harassing, assaulting and abducting people, some of them children, because they showed up in their system as being related to, or knowing, people who are suspected, and not convicted, of crimes.

Here's a summary of the program[3], and law enforcement's own comments about its purpose:

> The motivation of the program is more sinister than merely “fighting crime”: The Sheriff’s Office acknowledged that they want these “problem people” gone. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco, the architect of the program, boasted that the goal was to predict which residents are likely to commit crimes and then “take them out.” In the words of a former Pasco County deputy, they were under orders to “[m]ake their lives miserable until they move or sue.”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24363871

[2] https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...

[3] https://ij.org/case/pasco-predictive-policing/
Microsoft Plans to Pull the Plug on Internet Explorer
People are attracted to it because owning stuff sucks. Renting stuff is more expensive but sucks less. This is why businesses often prefer opex to capex even if it is pretty significantly more expensive. It isn't just an IT phenomenon.
You can mock the view using the phone button in the top left of your browser to help do mobile styles without having to use a device
Now the parent was gone, it seems I am random ranting...

BTW, I view this as not about communication style, but communication efficiency.
At least you didn't let the fact that you didn't know what you're talking about stop you from weighing in.
Ahh but it is a fact that the opinion is widely, perhaps universally, held. I hope this truth will persuade you to be more collegial and respectful to your fellow community members going forward.

Cheers
Yes, but what I'm not seeing in their analysis of variable-cost cloud vs cheaper fixed-cost colo is the huge fixed cost of the personnel to manage it. Yes, I agree that switching my food-delivery business from calling for an Uber whenever I get an order to buying my own car can be much cheaper, but if I leave out the cost of hiring a full-time driver for my new car, my analysis is...incomplete.

Your pitch emphasizes features that make servers easier to manage, presumably lowering (but not eliminating) the cost of personnel, so you're obviously aware of this, but I'm not seeing any "net of additional, fully-loaded personnel costs" in their analysis.

It should still be cheaper above a certain scale, but the breakeven where it will make sense to "repatriate infrastructure" is much higher if you include hiring people, and will go even higher if the cloud providers run the numbers and match most of the savings with scale-based price breaks.
Thanks, I assume the same cricitcism also applies to other applying-GR-corrections papers? E.g. I saw one about gravitational self-interaction leading to concentrating gravity inside galaxies and starving the outside or something like that.
That had a literal meaning at one point, but then it got diluted.

Newspapers were published several times a day when I was a child, so the late edition would have things that happened in the afternoon.

If something very big happened, they would put out an “extra” edition and trucks would race to get the extras out to the newsstands, newspaper boxes, and corner stores.

A news agent shouting “Extra! Extra!” was originally informing people that something had happened and the news was in the freshly printed “extra” edition, so even if they’d already bought a paper that day, they’d be motivated to buy another.

https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/ext...
“I placed too much faith in underpowered studies” (2017)
It seems like it would make sense for teams that would prefer an on-prem or privately hosted solution without paying enterprise rates. It’s also probably cheaper for teams in general depending on how much work it takes to install and administer.

According to their support site, Airtable doesn’t even support on-prem. [0]

[0]: https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/202576389-Can...
I’ve wondered that for a while, especially combined with the previous pages saying “goodnight stars, goodnight air”
Isn't this the canonical historical justification for colonialism?

That colonialist barons are helping the local population by improving infrastructure for them? (While massively enriching themselves)

I don't think that really worked out well. The exploited wealth (both from resources and labour) arguably contributed to our current position, where unlimited greed at others' expense and total exploitation and destruction of the planet's resources is seen as noble.

Continuing this theme with modern-day Western corporations seeking further profit extraction is a tragedy.
I have had so many, many, many conversations with cryptocurrency people. They are, by and large, either conspiracy nutters or greedy scammers.
You should also check out BaseRow if this interests you... i'm not affiliated, just a fan

https://baserow.io/
Users getting so offended by this comment are hilarious. He didn't create this system, if you were in a similar position tasked to get attention for a client or business you could take the high road of not using proven social media tactics and fail miserably. The sanctimonious take that he's a 'manipulative asshole' for playing the system is laughable. Don't hate the player hate the game.
Quickstart for Using Columnar with Postgres and Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure
Will Births in the US Rebound? Probably Not
I couldn’t tell, which onprem portfolio company are they pushing here?
Just tried it and yeah, I can reproduce. That is pretty bad!
terraform does that. https://www.terraform.io/
More bad stuff:

- Opium wars with Chinese
- Transatlantic slave trade
- Use of slave labor in the Caribbean
- Taxation without representation in the colonies
- Stealing raw materials and labor from Africa
- Partitioning of the Middle East
- Ireland

Some good stuff:

- scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc.
- industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc.
- legal codes and systems
- parliamentary democracies
- standards for trade and commerce
- English language as lingua franca
Oh god. Reminds me of this talk given a certain lawyer, Cliff Ennico, called "How to sell anything to anybody". I watched it by recommendation of a family member, and the very gist of it is: there are two reasons people buy stuff - desire, and fear. If you can artificially inflate either and promise your product will resolve their discomfort, people will rush to buy your wares.

I remember being both appalled at the deep immorality of exploiting this, and scared of how true this is.

In this instance, we have a company that went with the "induce fear" approach.

A different, really strong example of selling on fear is the whole cottage industry of products and services for parents. People who are expecting or just had their first child are probably the easiest group to sell to. I say that as a relatively fresh parent myself. All you have to do is to hint that there's a non-zero probability of some danger to life or health of a newborn, and say that your product mitigates it, and you can sell us absolutely anything at almost any price.
As long as you don't subsequently add Henry friggin' Kissinger to the board, you'll do fine!
Doubtless, you're leaving soon then...
Wouldn't it make sense to start moving now before everyone tries to move while property values are still high? If everyone will need to moves in the 5, 10, 20 years why put down roots any longer in California? There is this earth quake risk that may take part of California as well soon.
Language could be the one. Android supports vastly more. It's quite sad how behind Apple is. If you happen to be from a "small" country with under 10 million people - forget it.
> Similarly, when we say 'code' we mean 'textual representation of the concrete syntax', clearly distinct from 'code' as in 'morse code', which we would also call 'encoding'.

You're thinking in modern terms. When you had to program in octal, "encoding" was exactly what you were doing. Assemblers and, later, compilers made that less true, but originally that was in fact the meaning.
If you think anyone is offended here you simply don’t understand the Internet.
If you’ve deleted the app a number of times, does that mean you support/find the baseline functionality of the app useful? So even though they’re an outrage machine, you support the business model?
> The URL used in the XHR points to this (accessing directly only shows a '0' but with archive.is you get that JavaScript): https://archive.is/TxFWj

How did you get from the XHR to that script inside that archive?
Hopefully we will have 2fa available in the future on every website and app.
Yeah, it really is weird, there is nothing wrong with demand increasing and everyone starting to build housing, however there is something very wrong about making it harder to build houses than absolutely necessary.

Those tariffs made sense in 2018 but they don't make sense in 2021. Everyone considers USA an export destination where every country dumps their products, that means some degree of unemployment is unavoidable because these countries run trade surpluses on purpose and they won't stop them. Right now unemployment is on a heavy downward trend, which means there is no need for protectionism anymore.