skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why the parent was downvoted. The trademark scheme was built to make marketplaces more efficient, by giving producers a carve out in the conversation--a word or phrase or logo--so that they and consumers and distributors can engage together confidently with some bright line rules to work with.

The alternative is anarchy, and much more expensive then filing for a trademark if you want to sell in the marketplace. Like insurance, everyone that wants to be in the market pays a little, so that it makes it easier to avoid something like this.
There were pretty significant heat records set in western Canada
the economics are there for every city.

Who's going to let housing be built if it devalues the houses they own?
Maybe they were slightly more naive about it(?)
> "We can commit to a date and we'll finish whatever we finish by then, or we can commit to a scope and it will take as long as it takes. But we won't commit to a date and a scope unless we spend the up front time to first figure out every detail of what we need to build."

This.

I often find myself saying “you can be feature-driven, or you can be date-driven, but not both.”
I really recognize that feeling.

Also: Bliss is when you as a product owner get to such a place that you trust the QA team that you've worked with so closely so much that you only have have to some basic tests a few hours after the release.
http://carbon.ycombinator.com/
Have you acclimated yourself to 20C/86C using AC that 25C/80F is uncomfortable?
In a day MS bought github I knew that is on their agenda
It sounds like a reverse polar vortex? If any meteorologists are around to confirm.
They matter when the company gets bought and all of the sudden you are a VP at a public ally traded company worth billions
What will force the issue isn't people dying, but rather masses of climate refugees fleeing countries that are no longer habitable and moving toward the poles.
Really appreciate your frank assesment of the design and current status. For instance:

> the ElderGuide.com team expects to maintain this project at least until 2023-2024

So nice to see the absence of a hype train, and also so nice to get an insight into your view of the design space

I would never be your market for elder.js. But I appreciate learning from you, and appreciate building software alongside you
It's utterly insane. It's insane how much influence money can have on politics, when it's basically entirely spent on election campaigns. (And some fancy fund-raising dinners, and stuff, but I think that is less important.)

It's insane that election campaigns are such an important and expensive part of politics. Accepting millions of dollars, and for what? To keep your job for another few years. Where the biggest part of your job is getting more money for the next campaign to keep it for another few years.

Real campaign finance reform could do so much.
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear NH vs. MA Regarding Taxation of Remote Workers
I wonder if this heat dome effect contributed to Venus' eventual fate. My #1 fear is we're just going to get into some runaway cascade of warming and turn into something like Venus much faster than we realize.
> Svelte probably hasn’t taken over because the real world isn’t synthetic benchmarks and most apps have more significant concerns than how many times a component can update per second

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how we ended up with web pages that lead modern mid- and even high-end personal computers grind to a halt.
I really like this engineer's method of software estimation. It's really close to what Civil Engineers use to estimate load, called Load-Factor-Resistant-Design. That's a fancy way of saying, that we come up with an estimate, then multiply by an uncertainty constant called "Factor of Safety".

Steel in tension, low uncertainty, LRFD safety factor is 1.75. Steel in compression, medium uncertainty, safety factor is 2.5. Anything to do with soil, high uncertainty, safety factor of 4.

Same principal really. If it works for life/death scenarios, it'll work for you!
You'll get downvoted, but we punish personal drug use significantly more than catastrophic world-ending environmental crimes.
There are different ways to handle risk, such as avoidance, reduction, transfersal, acceptance. I was answering a specific question as to how people manage risk in a given situation. In answer I related how companies will reduce the risk. I was not talking about general cases of how to defend against the risk of patents but a specific case as to reducing the risk of adding externally found code into a product.

My answer described literally what many companies do today. It was not a theoretical pie in the sky answer or a discussion about patent IP.

To restate, the real-world answer I gave for, "How is it possible to determine if you've violated a random patent from somewhere on the internet via a small snippet of customized auto-generated code?" is often "Do not take code from the Internet."
Try it first until it breaks from a nonfunctional# requirement-perspective.

# Requirements other than correct functionality: fast, responsiveness, appearance, easy-to-read, etc.

Slap a cheap/fast SSD and more RAM in them if they're worth it.

Everyone should burn the website buyafuckingssd.com in their brain. Do not use spinning rust for almost anything except archival.
IBM offered Exchange as a choice at least 3 years ago but most people just don’t want to change. More than half of my colleagues are still using Notes Client just for Email, which is strange enough because Notes is too freaking heavy for just doing emails.

I’ve migrated to Exchange when it’s still under pilot. But the offer is not available now, I guess the reason is that too few employees choose this option.

Sometimes it’s not really about tech. IBM has decent technology, even in Cloud field, but it’s hard to pivot for a company in this size.
For the same reasons we make fun of climate-change deniers who say "look at this record cold winter; there's no global warming" means we can't use a historic heat wave to say "look globaal warming".

weather != climate
I've done both, in my experience at a FAANG you choose your own WLB. If you want to go for a promotion, you're going to have to work a lot. If you want to just get by for a couple years and vest stock, that's an option too. I think people also put a lot of pressure on themselves because it's unclear where the bar is and they don't want to get fired for performance reasons.

At a smaller company there simply isn't that much work to do, nor is there much of a path for promotion (when your boss is the CTO...)
I would first want to see the study confirming this current heat dome is a result of climate change.
how to apply as a teacher?
> a rule for my website

Note that you should also have a rule to save the link content locally, to avoid single-point-of-failure problems in the unlikely-but-catastrophic case that archive.org itself goes down. (Cf the attempts to attack them over their National Emergency Library programme last year.)
The article seems to conflate crypto mining with the crypto market as a whole and I think that's wrong. The choice to wind down your GPU mining operation makes sense even if the crypto market is doing very well.

1. China banned crypto mining in many regions already. Even if they're enforcing ASIC miners at the moment it seems to make sense to wind down smaller scale GPU mining operations.

2. EIP1559 is happening in about a month or so. Mining profitably will go down considerably.
To think that a few years ago some design firm were firmly convinced they could build an office building there without AC.

http://archive.kuow.org/post/modern-seattle-building-doesn-t...
It gives you automatic failover and decent-ish (at least when coupled with Rancher, naked k8s is nuts) management compared to a couple of manually (or Puppet) managed servers.

A well implemented mini cluster can and will save you so much time in later maintenance and deployments.
Wars are not exactly beneficial to the planet. And it would be a nice joke if your righteous war to save the planet from climate change ends up leading us into a nuclear winter.

Neither violence or authoritarianism are necessary to solve the problem. We who live in democracies "just" have to elect governments sufficiently not corrupt that they will impose the required environmental restrictions on industry, and use strong economic pressure on other nations that don't get their houses in order.
Love the idea, but have you met product owners?
Guess what Algeria's first three main export products are? Crude petroleum, petroleum gas and refined petroleum. They're trying to diversify but it's too litlle, too late.
+2 for schwab especially investor checking card.

Though they did have hiccups in trading peak GME/AMC.

It's refreshing being able to chat, or call a native english speaking call center where they will bend over backwards to help, waive fees, etc. No offense meant to ESL speakers, but I think we've all experienced 'support' that is hard to understand and communicate. I can't even get TCF on the phone.
How much of that has actually been environmentalists and not a result of intentional deceptive tactics and undermining of public education by fossil fuel companies?
SOME "environmentalists" fought against nuclear power for 70+ years.
What's with your condescension? It's horrible.

The Catholic position is grounded in natural law theory. The telos of the sexual organs is essentially procreative; deny the procreative end and sex becomes incomprehensible. To use sexual organs in a manner that _intentionally_ works against their end is to intentionally frustrate their end. To intentionally thwart the operation of your faculties and misuse them is immoral and therefore contradicts one's fulfillment and actualization as a human being.

Calling people cattle for living in accordance with the procreative end of sexual intercourse, which is the ultimate end of sexual intercourse, is nasty, if not irrational. Before you do so, I suggest you acquaint yourself[0] with the actual position held and defended by the Catholic Church.

[0] https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/lets-think-a...
> The ravages of the Covid pandemic are going to make it all the more deadly.

Yeah... um... call me skeptical on that claim. So far as I can tell, Covid didn't break anybody's air conditioners. It didn't (so far as I know) leave people more susceptible to heat. That article seems like attention-grabbing nonsense. (I'm not blaming you, just commenting on what your search turned up.)
I think you are half right. The earth isn't dying, it will be fine.

We should have a human focus, because it's a global common ground.

We should bother because this is all about what kind of life we will have in the future.

Some will die, some will always survive. That doesn't really change. But if we can stop climate change in a good way it can give us a better quality of life. Less conflict, less resource scarcity. That's why it's worth bothering, to build prosperity, invest in the future.
So you’re saying things getting constantly warmer isn’t evidence because people who don’t want to see it do the opposite? Math definitely checks out.
On the Pacific NW coast where this is happening, cool marine air will push in and eventually overwhelm the system holding in the heat. The change can be quite abrupt, as the two systems wrestle for dominance, I've felt it (in Seattle) is as a sudden breeze followed by what feels like turning the AC on - literally a 5-10deg temp drop in minutes and can drop 30deg in a couple hours. It doesn't generally end with full-on rain but with cool coastal clouds rolling in.
At most of my employers useful conversations in hallways, at the kitchen, or just dropping by someone’s desk happened all the time. It’s an incredibly valuable opportunity. In the last year there are many people I used to talk to regularly I’ve either not talked to, or only talked to once or twice that otherwise I’d have checked in with on an almost weekly basis. I really miss those chats and I know I’m poorer for not having them.

Having said that, I used to work for a big international bank and apart from a few people in my direct team, most if the other people I worked with were in other countries, let alone other offices. They had outstanding collaboration and communications software and infrastructure though. By far the best of any company I’d worked for. They were very well set up for remote collaboration and I learned lessons there I’ve found very useful in the last year. You work with what you have.
Enjoy internet but do not allow any service or platform to connect your activity to your persona.

There are methods to do that and it's much easier and more fun that cut off yourself internet.

(Google it ... Oops! DuckDuckGo it! :) )
Functioning democracies are theoretical?

10% of MEPs (Members of European Parliament) are already Greens. 9% of the Dutch parliament is [GreenLeft + Party for the Animals], and that's not even counting the Labour party (who have similar policies). 9% of the German Bundestag is Greens. Are all those representatives spherical cows? Were they all voted in by the wealthy?

Sure, 10% of legislators isn't huge in the grand scheme of things. But again, _the only way_ to increase that percentage is for the people to go out and vote, and that road starts with awareness.
Lightweight corsets (shapewear using hose-like material) were also a simple, effective breakthrough.
Think it's quite a big deal - given Apple forces other developers to buy a Mac to build apps for iOS. Unless I am mistaken, this is literally Apple not following their own EULA
Most desalination plants do just pump the brine back into the ocean. That isn't ideal from a marine conservation standpoint but if the outflow pipe runs out deep enough then it's not too bad.
Yes that seems too big to be true
The five times more energy dense and 6 times the power refers to the design explained on Tesla's Battery day. Seriously, they made a 2 hours presentation about it. Total nerd porn : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6T9xIeZTds

This really applies to the cells, not the battery itself, I think they just misunderstood. This is in comparison to the current design. They did that mostly by... making the cells bigger! I think the battery itself is 35% smaller because this removes the need for using tabs and the cell volume/surface area is greater.

Also note that "six times the power" doesn't mean six times the range. Power is energy per unit of time so it really only tells you how fast you can use the energy in your battery (and I'm assuming how fast you can charge.)
Interesting. If before you weren't intending to understand and be able to summarize before, what were you doing when you reviewed code?
It's a done deal until your $400 doesn't show up two days later, and then what?
The Chinese have not been successful in getting people to have more children. Recent news is that they may be covering up for the early stages of population decline. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-report-first-popul...

Beyond that, the consensus is that population will naturally plateau in the near future, no need for killing people you don’t like.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...

This is high school level knowledge. Where does this meme that human population is growing out of control come from? I keep seeing it repeated here and it is puzzling.
I have slowly planned out a project similar to this. I'm interested in having a tool which allows for shared collaboration on various lengths of content (e.g. lists, guides, etc.). While I don't think it will lead anywhere (there are plenty of great note-taking platforms already) it will be a fun exercise.

Besides Wikipedia, check out Arena[0].

[0]: https://www.are.na/
I just know that Israel are pioneers in this field. Water scarcity has always been a problem in Israel. (the chief solution to this has been, unfortunately, to starve the Salt Sea of water.)
Facebook updates Habitat environment to train 'embodied AI'
Strictly No AIs – License Against the Machine
> but I also think that's the only thing that will get the world properly focused on the issue.

Or, that will just get the rest of the nations of the world to focus on preventing climate refugees from entering their nation, and perhaps use their militaries to secure remaining resources.
> For the same reasons we make fun of climate-change deniers who say "look at this record cold winter; there's no global warming" means we can't use a historic heat wave to say "look globaal warming".

We make fun of the climate change deniers in this scenario because the cold winter often is evidence of climate change. Record heat waves can also be evidence of climate change.
The complexity of our application necessitates that our business owners do a lot of the final integration testing.

It also requires that our product owners handle a large part of the implementation & QA efforts.

For our application, a single piece of code might be reused 40 different ways across 100 different customers based on configuration-time items.

To ask a developer to figure out why something is broken would be a fool's errand for us. Only with the aid of trace files & configuration references are we able to perform RCA and clean up an issue from live usage. For us, 99% of the time it is a configuration thing (either on our end or some 3rd party system). If the code works for 99 clients and 39 other configurations, it might be your client+config that is wrong, not the code.
I read the book and that was one of the least believable parts, that they were already into the third Mars landing mission without any cheap reusable launch vehicles!

Like seriously, how much that must have cost so far ?? Not just money, but all the time thousands of people would have invested into producing maybe hundreds of booster stages that would then be just dumped to the sea. Such a colloidal waste it must have been!

No wonder every margin is so thin in the book and even just launching a module with food is a major hurdle...

Also there is really no apparent orbital infrastructure mentioned anywhere in the book, likely again due to the stupidly high ELV launch costs.

In a proper RLV/Starship world Watney would either most likely not get stranded due to the whole operation being done by a fleet of ships, with some likely kept in reserve as spares.

And even if he managed to get stranded and was lacking supplies to last to the next synod (say the crate with emergency supplies turned out to by logistic mistake contain chainsaws instead) you could very likely get a sacrificial starship with a couple tons of payload, fueled from one of your propelant depots in Earth orbit, to Mars very quickly.
It's easy to blame political leaders, but they are (mostly) elected by the general population. Here in the US ~50% of the people vote for climate change deniers, so they are the ones you need to convince.
Is there any significant difference from the traditional ETL?
Check out Frankie MacDonald, he's an autistic savant meteorologist. Not saying that in any disrespectful way, I know some people get a bit butthurt when using those words.

I don't know if he's commented on it yet, but if he has, >99% chance he's correct.
Some will die, some will always survive this. That doesn't really change - so that's barely what this is about.

We need to make an effort to stop climate change. If we can stop climate change in a good way it can give us a better quality of life. Less conflict, less resource scarcity, investing in a prosperous future.
It's also common practice; usually caused by testing getting under-resourced, bad tooling, or longer shipping cycles (more stuff to test, more pressure to get it out).
Black hole eating a neutron star seen for the first time
Why Windows Task Manager took a cuddlier approach to death and destruction
In case it's missing, I think parent's tongue is firmly in their cheek - point is things like '4500%' are often manipulatively rendered that way to sound massive, vs. '45x' for example, which means the same, is just as massive, but perhaps doesn't sound as crazy?
> Task.start(...)

Uhhh, `Task.async_stream` is much superior in almost any way -- you can specify maximum concurrency, timeout and if you want the results in the original order. You only have to append `Stream.run()` at the end and boom, you got parallel work's results handed to you in a variable assignment.

Using naked `Task.start` is only marginally better than spawning raw OS threads and I avoid it like the plague. Thought this was common wisdom but apparently it isn't.

> It's easy to start off thinking that, but then you can end up spending a lot of time maintaining subpar libraries you've written in-house that don't have the nicer features of the thing you replaced. Also, caching can turn into quite the memory hog.

All true, although `cachex` and `ane` are extremely well-done libraries that have carried me a long way. I only gave up on them when we had to integrate the Elixir server app with apps written in another languages at which point we started (ab)using Redis' streams and normal caching abilities.

> It's all fun & games until you have to undo everything so you can containerize the apps.

Also true but that depends on your app and DevOps requirements. A lot of businesses don't need auto-scaling of their Elixir apps. They just conservatively buy a good enough static hosting and it serves them extremely fine. For 5 years working with Elixir I have never seen hosting that was bogged down by Elixir CPU constraints. 98% of the time it waits on I/O, be it disk or network.

> I've used DETS & hate it quite a bit, I really don't want to be married to Mnesia.

Agreed. This was a good idea 20 years ago, nowadays I'll reach for PostgreSQL or sqlite3 without a second thought. No need to reach for a homegrown half-database where scaling and actual querying become a problem the moment you reach out of hobbyist app territory.

> I love Elixir, but I wouldn't use it for everything, and it's got a lot of sharp edges that can get you into a lot of trouble.

Sadly I'll agree with this as well. I love Elixir and it will have a special place in my heart all the way to retirement, but I am seeing its downsides and I am not religiously advocating for it. Nowadays it's much more likely for me to reach for Rust for new projects, especially if the project isn't a web app (and even there `actix_web` 3.X and `rocket` 0.5 are super solid and fast as well).
Engineering managers should dictate the filter to HR, not the other way around. If it's the other way around, that's a big red flag.
Yeah, the good ones really care about the product experience and customer outcomes, so this makes a lot of sense to me.

But what do you mean?
Agreed. And perhaps it's getting too philosophical, but one could argue that a big role of a government is to protect its citizens from everything that has a high risk of incurring sudden and effectively unbounded losses. Whether it's mandating installation of actual guard rails through health and safety regulations, or regulating away business models that tend to make regular people broke by accident.
If the same headline comes up every year then it's easy to construe it as headline-generating pandering.

But the facts are, that the earth is warming more and more every year, and if you are under 40 then you have never experienced a year of below-average temperatures. The headlines are repeated because we break new records every year.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/10/if-you...
Strongly disagree.

It is well designed to hold you by the hand if you just go down the happy-path of what a user who has all their documents in hand when the right question pops up on the screen.

It's poorly designed for people who want to go back, people who just want to input their forms, and people who value their time. There is no reason each question needs to take up its own screen, instead of being a list. There is no reason it needs to pretend to calculate for 15 seconds after every few questions.