skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2927/examining-the-viability-o...

Something a little more simple and using abundant resources.
The hard requirements do seem to be doing quite the disservice to the job search experience...

As someone who's applying to software developer jobs now (chemist who self-taught), it is quite frustrating as I know many of my applications are thrown out due to HR ignorance whereas if I were able to contact someone internal, there would be traction.

All the more reason to message people directly :)
The idea of having time and protection to recoup your investment still applies today. Being "in the 21st century" doesn't remove this trade-off nor imply that progress is held up because of patents. It could be that progress suffers more without patents. Humanity and society works better with incentives and freedom of preferences
Thank you!

Ad astra per aspera? !!

Cheers,
-Cliff
It's said that one must never speak ill of the dead, but ...
Chet, I just discovered your blog today via this post. It’s going to take me a while to catch up on the last 11 years but I’ll give it a shot. Thank you so much for your amazing contributions and welcome to HN.
How is it incongruent to make it known I wish I could celebrate somebody's unparalleled excellence with a simple colloquial term?

Like, HN is a place that circlejerks nonstop about 10x/100xers, and you want to give me grief for this?

He is an openly & proud autistic human, though with some of the difficulties he has regarding some things many think of as "normalcy" in our modern day life that are inherent to the autism disorder, he operates with what at least appears to be the skill of the 99th percentile of meteorologists. By definition, he's a savant.

To make the presumption that I'm being disrespectful by using the term is asinine. He wouldn't have been the first person to immediately pop into my head regarding the parent comment if I didn't think so highly of him.
The best outcomes are when people test what they are responsible for.
That's a misleading chart. What it means is we are seeing more warm records in relation to cold records. It doesn't say anything about the total number of warm records. North America has been seeing milder winters these past thirty years. It doesn't mean we've been seeing more record highs than other periods.

They explain this here: "By extension, there has been an increase in the ratio of the number of record highs to record lows (Figure 6.5). Over the past two decades, the average of this ratio exceeds two (meaning that twice as many high-temperature records have been set as low-temperature records)."
I guess you'd have to talk to or listen to interviews with billionaires. Somehow I doubt that being more composed and in tune with your inner self would have a negative effect. Any decrease in personal drive is probably accounted for in better relationships with yourself and others. And you need others to help you be successful.

And I doubt meditating is a huge determining factor. Other things like education, domain expertise, support network, professional network, access to capital, luck, etc. are probably going to have a far greater impact on your professional success.
I'm not talking about taxes in particular, I'm just talking about government in general.

The US federal government is 20x larger than that of the Netherlands. The US is also more economically, socially, and ethnically diverse than the Netherlands. Larger systems are harder to manage.
Still have the original Snow Leopard disk that came with my older Macbook. I agree it was peak MacOS.
So far, yes they're ok with that. We can also optimize most of that number away, down to <10ms for almost every app.

They're ok with it because a (valuable) write request that's 10% slower typically comes after a read request that's much, much faster. In this scenario:

> my replay time to their region in Sydney Australia is between 25 and 45ms. That's pretty quick!

The first read only requests were probably <100ms for simonw. The replayed request (that he initiated with a click) was probably 500ms. When a request already takes 500ms, an additional 50ms of latency is basically noise.

The alternative is (often) for them to refactor their apps and then enforce write restrictions on code to make sure random GETs don't write to the DB unnecessarily.

Our goal was to make this work without requiring hairy code changes. People who are ready to do the work to optimize their apps can make things faster and use what we're doing now as a fallback, if they want.
>The broker doesn’t have some way to credibly lock up the money

They do, that's what the collateral is for. From the linked article:

>The way that stock markets mostly deal with this risk is a system of clearinghouses. The stock trades are processed through a clearinghouse. The members of the clearinghouse are big brokerage firms—“clearing brokers”—who send trades to the clearinghouses and guarantee them. The clearing brokers post collateral with the clearinghouses: They put up some money to guarantee that they’ll show up to pay off all their settlement obligations. The clearing brokers have customers—institutional investors, smaller brokers—who post collateral with the clearing brokers to guarantee their obligations. The smaller brokers, in turn, have customers of their own—retail traders, etc.—and also have to make sure that, if a customer buys stock on a Monday, she’ll have the cash to pay for it on Wednesday.

The catch here seems to be that the broker can't use customer funds for collateral (see my other comments in this thread), so the broker has to come up with the money themselves by drawing on lines of credit. If those lines of credit run dry, then they can't take any more orders.
The fact that the article mentioned 4500% three times, twice in the title alone, kind of warned me to take their news with a pinch of salt.
The key part in that is communication. That’s makes all the difference whether it be with BA’s, QA’s, or the end user. Speeds up the development cycle and greatly reduces the number of bugs.

The best experience I had was on a team that had essentially 2 BA’s and 7 devs. There was constant communication to clarify actual requirements, devs would build automated tests off them, BA’s would test against the requirements and then a business user would do a final look over. All in all features were able to be released usually within a day and there would be days we’d get out 3 or 4 releases. Only in one case did a major bug get released to production and the root cause of that was poorly worded regulations which had a clarifying errata come out at the 11th hour.

For as many faults as that company had that caused me to move on I’ve yet to run across a team that functioned as well as that one did.
While I understand why 2D is objectively better choice for expressing algorithms, I believe 1D is better suited for our minds. 2D is just hard to parse. You don't know where to look and how to proceed. With 1D you start in the upper left corner, and there is only one direction to follow. Less is more.

I read what you have wrote on paperalgo and I like it a lot. It's terse and thought out. I think pattern matching makes more sense than conditionals and looping, but it is easier to transliterate it from different languages. ↑ from Smalltalk just feels right.
I still have no idea who Cliff is...
Yeah, this article seems very confused from the start. I'm still unclear what the author was trying to _really_ convey. There's a strange and sustained attempt to suggest some bizarre equivalence between LGBT and Catholic monastic orders and trying to characterize the latter as subversive like the former, "challenging" this or that. Maybe, as you say, American Protestant culture had real issues with celibate life, but in the Catholic view, the good of marriage, which for Catholics is elevated from natural institution to the status of sacrament, is sacrificed for the higher vocation of the religious life (Catholics speak of the married life also as a vocation). But this is not a denial of the goodness and rightness of the natural family. If anything, it is its affirmation. The natural family remains the fundamental pattern that is mirrored in these orders just the same as it is even in government, though perhaps in a more distant fashion. Families where, say, the grandparents take care of their grandchildren is not the natural family, but it is not opposed to nature and not a perversion of it and still patterns itself on the natural family. The same with adopted families. The impediment, such as the death of the parents, forces the formation of a family arrangement that would not naturally be the case, but this does not mean it is disordered (please note: "not natural" is not the same as "opposed to nature"; it is not the natural end of toes to push elevator buttons, but doing so is not per se opposed to their end either). In other words, not natural is not necessarily evil, but evil is necessarily unnatural. Or, not natural is not the same as opposed to nature, but evil is opposed to nature and thus unnatural.

The author seems to be trying to use monastic life and whatever fraternal friendships might arise between members of monastic orders as an vaguely salacious instrument to attack the sole legitimacy of marriage understood as heterosexual union naturally ordered toward procreation and raising of children, and she seems to do this by manufacturing precedent. According to a Catholic understanding, monastic life in no way undermines these notions.

Strange article.
I haven't had the opportunity to look up the humidity in BC, but certainly it is far greater than what you would see in death valley. Death valley is a very dry area. The Pacific Northwest is wet and the humidity just adds to the misery of the heat. In my area we saw almost 110° at about 35% humidity. I have experienced 120° in 5% humidity and I have to say the 110 felt hotter! Definitely more miserable!
Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface (2019)
I'll give you a hint, it's related to the parent topic. Companies insisting on people being in the office and not remote.
I liked the first 3/4 of that movie, the ending could have been way better.

Warning Spoilers: It would have been much better had Pratt died in the fusion exhaust pipe, and the movie ends one year later showing JLaw standing over another cryopod, internally conflicted if she should wake up another passenger, and only then finally forgiving Pratt.
Yes, solar is dirt cheap energy and you wouldn’t need much of a battery (or any?) in this case, since you can store the excess product water in a tank.

I power my water maker with about 1400 watts and can make 35 gallons an hour. The panels, electronics and water maker were ~ $5000. I did the work myself at a slow pace, so not sure what the labor costs would be.

I set my system up in about 2 weeks. The requirements are a bit of time, seawater access and some capital.

https://seawaterpro.com/
Oh yeah. And a grainy surface would give a higher surface area which if you used that as a measurement for creating clothes would be bad, but less bad with improved surface measurements.
> USPTO is a database of trademarks

No the United States Patent and Trademark Office is not a database of trademarks.

It has one, though.
Where did you buy it before, did they stop selling direct? Any idea why?
Problem is, carbon emissions make the dehydration worse by heating up the planet. It's counterproductive.
Throwaway as well because I've worked with Cliff Mass and am not interested in being at the receiving end of the retaliation that he's known for doling out.

Cliff is kind of a pariah among meteorologists and climate scientists. He _loves_ that fact, and revels in this idea that he's the lone genius who got it right while the rest of the community got it wrong on climate change. But he's not viewed as someone who makes credible statements, particularly as they pertain to questions about climate.

Many of his blog posts are deliberately misleading or contain incorrect information. Others I'd categorize as "You're not wrong... you're just an asshole." He has a decent understanding of some of the meteorological phenomena that are unique to the Puget Sound region, but even there I take every word he writes with a grain of salt. Sure, read his blog to understand how the snow is going to be this weekend at Crystal. But I'd leave it at that.
Of the many things that can go wrong, the one I would be most worried about would be replication lag causing the disk on the primary to fill with WAL logs bringing down the primary, or if you have limited the WAL logs, the replica not being able to keep up and detaching from the primary causing stale reads.

Also long distances will make replication latency increase so unless _all_ requests are sent to the primary region you will likely have a read after write state data situation unless you go out of your way to ensure consistency
Why would Apple be bound by their own EULA? (If you insist, I'm sure they'll happily put a Apple sticker over the Dell logo on the server)
> These bad actors don't contribute to the Amazon market. There's little reason not to ban them for ToS violations.

These bad actors are optimizing for sales, and Amazon benefits from each sale on their marketplace. Their actions result in more money for the bad actors and for Amazon alike.

It's a similar situation to VC-funded social media platforms turning a blind eye to bots and automation early on because bot activity increases growth and engagement metrics, both of which in turn can increase the platform's valuation in future funding rounds or an IPO.
I don't understand the negative comments towards you. Are people living in denial? I appreciate your comment.
With the number of people still mad at RH at how they handled gamestop, I'm excited to see what sort of market shenanigans wallstreetsbets folks engage in once they IPO. I predict massive put volume.
The point I'm making is that people are different.

Some people make friends at work, others don't. While you may struggle blurring friend from colleague in the office, others may struggle WFH with separating their house and leisure from work. Not everyone has a luxury office to walk into. Some work in their dining room.

There are pros and cons, and those pros and cons change depending on individual circumstances. But ultimately you are working for a company that needs to make money and they need to make a decision. You can choose to stay or leave.
I think about this alot too. Tons of the current tutorials on learning how to break windows security teach you on an old windows 7 VM just to make it easy to get around mitigations and learn without hindrance. I mean I know I learned on windows XP VMs... but what happens when Microsoft rescinds offering those free windows 7 IE11 VMs any arbitrary time soon?

On the other hand I like how Microsoft actually seems to be giving a damn these days.
Indeed, though now I am thinking that messaging people directly can be construed as "breaking the rules", which may somehow or probably is related to women not applying for jobs.
I think this article misses two important points on siloed qa teams

1. Qa doesn’t know what can be covered by unit or integration tests

2. Since they treat our code like a black box, they may create permutations of tests which which cover the same functionality

Maybe this is part of the draw of having a qa team. Feature coverage rather than code coverage. The downside is this can create a huge number of expensive to run manual tests which may be hitting the same code paths in functionally identical ways.

The tooling for automating manual tests of web apps is almost there: puppeteer, recording user inputs and network calls, replaying everything and diffing screenshots.

Since qa tests are tied to features and not code, There’s also the problem of having to run all qa tests even if you’re releasing minor code changes. My build tools are smart enough to return cached results for unit tests whose dependencies didn’t change, but there’s no equivalent for qa tests.
Why would there be a ban on gas self-service in the first place?
I’ve been trying to run a 32 bit app on my 128 GB MacBook Air and it’s been a huge PITA. Xcode requires you to be on the latest version which means that I had to upgrade after uninstalling many apps and cleaning up. It requires something like 30 GB free to get to Big Sur. Then I finally get to trying to download Mojave to install but the App Store doesn’t allow a download when you’re in a newer version - so I have to go to another site that specializes in this type of thing- and then make a VM for Mojave on a machine with no memory so I have to move your things to an external hard drive. I still haven’t finished the install to be able to run one 32 bit app I wanted to dig into. Any suggestions would be welcome.
The difference in language, syntax, and flow between Automate the Boring Stuff and Python's official documentation is like the difference between reading the modern translation of Beowolf next to the original Old English version.

Why doesn't someone make a plain language annotation -- for beginners -- to translate the official documentation?
Banned is a weird word to use for that.
True, bit shitty to other CI offerings. But if it were Mac hardware it wouldn't be that much different, given there's obviously less cost to Apple either way.
Isn't Ventrilo, Mumble and TeamSpeak just a digital version of a party line[0]?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)
I’d be curious to see a survey of how different companies do code review or it’s equivalent. I’d like something about the motivations they had for setting up the systems in certain ways and how they changed them over time. At my employer, code review was once done periodically as a big Herculean effort at each “release” (development stopped for code review) involving printing out the code/diffs on physical paper to read it and a senior person reading basically all the critical code. Over time the system became more automated and digital, and the requirements for review were also reduced. But I have no idea how that compares to other places apart from the first thing sounding very silly.
"The primary component of the Earth's upper mantle, it is a common mineral in Earth's subsurface,[...]".
This sentence, also from that same Wikipedia article, seems to suggest that availability wouldn't be the problem. But, whether the whole process is practical/reasonable, is another question entirely.
So one of the things to remember about Google is the desire to increase attrition of senior employees (e.g. those with the most flexibility to move elsewhere). It's.... weird, but it would totally match.
So long as more than 365 people spent a day or more reading it, you got your revenge on the universe… ;-)
Terrible idea.

The dev team manager is focused on growing new features in the next release.

QA is focused on the excellent of the current release.

Subordinating quality to new releases is the result.

In a similar situation, devops supposedly addressed similar tensions of dev and ops.
So the idea is that if you accidentally inject the vaccine into a vein instead of a muscle, it can lead the body to attack platelets?
Kuberneteuberneteuberneteuberneteuberneteuberneteuberneteubernetes is a perfect name for the beautiful system you are about to architect: it's an ancient Greek word for helmsman-man-man-man-man-man-man-man, who is in charge of helmsman-man-man-man-man-man-man, who is in charge of ...

(...sorry =_=)
Does it actually block you from selling? I think you really need to have the cost basis figured out for tax time - you sure Schwab won't let you? Even with a manual request?
If someone has a pacemaker or similar artificial medical device, are they still an organic human?

If I call my algorithm an optimization technique, does your license still put permissions on my use?

Would it be better named "Rage Against the Man"?
I'll agree that its an infinitely complex system. And I'll add that its impossible to model. Yet we base policy on these models that don't agree with one another and fail to predict historical climate when rewound and replayed.

This policy isn't trivial by any means either and likely will restrict economic growth and prosperity for billions of people if it is seen through.
I was thinking similarly, what about state trademarks? I've got a Massachusetts trademark because it was quick and easy, and cost only $50. My lawyer advised me that, while not as iron clad as a federal trademark, it would tend to discourage anybody else from filing federally on the mark because they'd do a search and mine would turn up and they'd rather pick a different mark than be limited in one state. I don't sell product on Amazon though, so I don't know if it would work in that instance.
Probably something else.

Gas burns and makes CO2 which increases temperature which increases the likelihood of more dehydration events in future. This is the wrong choice. Actually the long term right choice is not to burn gas anymore.

Letting people die is obviously the wrong choice too.

When all choices are wrong we must find another choice that can be right. Somebody wrote solar energy, somebody wrote nuclear energy, somebody argued that both are wrong. I don't suggest a solution but I point out that limiting ourselves to binary choices is the wrong way to think.
The Dream of Florida Is Dead: Miami condo collapse is a crisis for the state
What is the number? Hella people already dying and we (USA) ain't doing shit.

The haute bourgeoisie will not, have not done anything to help.

Mike Muir was right. Give it revolution!!
My thanks to you Macie. I appreciate your smile and kindness - I hope you got more than your fill of my silly videos.

You're right, of course: As others point out, mine is a hobby-business, and Amazon isn't the best place for it. Still, it was fun having a (small) presence there, even if most of my customer interaction happened through my Kleinbottle website.

Having said this, I'll probably continue this zero-volume business out of my home; the cool thing is how many fascinating people I meet. Just a week ago, a mathematician stopped by and tried to teach me homotopy theory. Good stuff!
Domain masquerading as GitHub returned by some Google searches
Is it actually baffling? The computers do the very specific narrow set of operations (post order, match, accept fills, cancel) while the much broader range of "what else may come up" is less automated.
Nick Land-style accelerationism, or the "ascended economy". https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/30/ascended-economy/
Hey how cool to see others still finding out about SuperMemo! I’ve been using it for 15 years, it’s super great, incremental reading is an awesome game changer, basically it’s like a book emulator with lots of extra features. I started making YouTube videos about it, I just uploaded three today about incremental reading: https://youtube.com/channel/UCpkWsnAPl-rhGwUOqdi2Vow
Communication is great until someone becomes unreasonable and doesn't want to do something. Trust but the chain-of-command must verify. Shouldn't need to, but it should be there as insurance.
Oklo planning nuclear micro-reactors that run off nuclear waste