skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would be surprised to learn that history is littered with examples of the fickle preferences of one person impacting the trajectory of the human species.

Also I'm curious why you think that a government is better suited at spending money. From what I've seen this leads to lobbyists doing all they can to curry favor and secure contracts despite the fact that they deliver a sub-par product.
>> Robert Lowell once said that if humans had access to a button that would kill us instantly and painlessly, we would all press it sooner or later.

> I think this explains suicide better: For most, it’s an irrational act done in the spur of the moment.

Or it's rational, but we have some "irrational" mechanisms to prevent it that are best defeated by an impulsive act [1].

I don't actually believe that, but it's hard to argue against it under certain common sets of assumptions.

[1] e.g. from a rationalist/materialist perspective: suicide is to avoid/escape pain, and it also removes the pain of guilt for doing it and the pain of missing out on all future pleasures, etc. However, evolution has formed us to reproduce, no matter how painful the struggle is and how subjectively irrational it is to endure it.
New MosaicLoader malware targets software pirates via online ads
Are you aware of any volunteer org in the UK that specializes in providing technical support for disaster relief?

I am currently looking of joining a volunteer group to make a difference to the community while potentially picking up some skills along the way. If I was still in Germany I would have joined the THW, but in the UK I have not found an org that does the occasional heavy lifting. I considered volunteer fire brigade, but I don't think physiology I would be able to handle smoke very well, so fire fighting would not be a good fit for me. Mountain rescue is alright as a community function, but I would miss out on working with heavy machinery.
Yes, the BTL sort of makes sense though if you view the mortgage as a business expense, but BTL has had a distorting effect on the UK housing market for too long - changes are desperately needed here, but with so many Tory donors being housing firms, it's unlikely to happen.
I think author addressed that explicitly as valid and true software engineer perspective, right at beginning of the article; and explained that such software engineers, and products they build, then usually slot into larger company's ecosystem (as by strict math, most IT team members will work at a large company as opposed to a startup), full of people and leaders and departments and teams and project who have plans and deadlines and dependencies, which are also valid and true.

I've had either luck or misfortune to "flip a switch" from two decades of being a techie/architect, to being a mid-manager, on basically a specific date as opposed to over the years, due to project's needs; and it's like that B&W picture of two faces and one vase in middle. Both perspectives are true, even if opposing and contradictory.

Good business lead will understand software engineer's perspective - even if it's not their primary view of the world, they can squint and catch a glimpse as needed. Likewise for good software leads.

Obstinate unwillingness to see or ascribe merit to other perspectives puts a ceiling on everybody's progress.
Also DXVK and VK3D.
Do other CEOs of investment firms have similar returns?
Right but there are standard serving sizes so “four cups worth” is a well-defined amount, subject to cultural variations I’m sure.

What you call stovetop espresso we call mocha, which is decidedly not espresso in my book. I also find the amount of caffeine in espresso laughable, but I’m also Scandinavian and we drink some pretty dark coffee apparently.
Based on the treatment of other companies they've acquired I think your assumption will age poorly.
Are you sure you haven't just been taken by a talk radio conspiracy theory? The only thing I could find on this was that Glenn Beck was harping on it ten years ago. That guy is not well known for being a fountain of truth. [0]

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2009/sep/08/glenn-beck...
Sure, let's ignore the simple solution - stop consuming so much water - and jump to a high-tech, unknown impact, expensive, complex, expensive solution. What could go wrong?
Space elevators here we come!

(Reference to a Sci-Fi novel called "The Fountains of Paradise"- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise)
FYI, there’s actually gravity on the Moon and Mars. We haven’t done studies to determine if it’s enough G for successful propagation of the species.
Yes? The markets have had ridiculous returns in the reporting period and the spousal investments are not unusual.
The nickel costs even more than the penny does, relative to its value. Eliminating the penny--and shifting the usage to the nickel even harder--may will not save any money whatsoever.
PelosiBot
The UK is also tiny. You don't need superchargers in every neighborhood, because people charge the cars at home. There are ample superchargers to get you anywhere in the UK you would want to go.
you understand vetos are something congress can override right?
I'd bet there's a huge overlap amongst right wing americans. Probably the same for many Western right wing populations.

If we're going to call that population limited, then yeah I'd agree
I know this may be silly but one reason why I stay in the "Great lakes states" and own property here is because of global warming and my lack of hope that tech/governments/capitalism will solve it before we reach a point of no return during which we will experience massive property and life loss in the US. Only then significant change will occur IMO.

There are places in the south now that need water to be delivered by trucks due to shortages. At some point it is going to be pointless to live there and housing market in those areas will collapse.

Coastal areas will be flooded due to increasing sea levels.

Places with little to no rain will experience more extreme fires(happening now).

I'm sure Midwest will also experience more severe weather but you can make it work, living under water or without water is impossible.
Embarrassingly automatable as the first step of legacy modernization
>It's frankly inconceivable NASA would do the same.

It's only inconceivable because we refuse to fully fund NASA.
This one really seems to be formatted nicely, however having each setting being a unique URL makes it fairly difficult to go back a page.
Sadly NASA didn't do what people in the Age of Exploration did, namely settling there.
I think apple have added a much more restricted sandbox for iMessage in the past few releases
DAPP News and NFT Marketplace
> If you have a mortgage, you can deduct the interest. I think most people are in this category

That's true, but you need to have other deductions or a fairly large mortgage for it to be worth taking that deduction instead of the standard deduction. Most people are better off with the standard deduction.
Just another reason why mongodb is trash - does it even go without saying anymore?

Every single company I've ever worked for was crushed by the unreliability of mongo. They're ultra-expensive consulting is also a ripoff - in one case the guy came, suggested a bunch of stuff w.r.t. changing up our queries and indexes, left, then a day later the database exploded and we had to roll back everything he suggested. We tried again piecemeal, which eventually lead to the same thing happening again. Eventually spending the cash to train the engineers and admins to be able to do the tuning ourselves - which ended up being completely different than the garbage the consultant suggested. Let me emphasize that this consultant was from the MongoDB company - not some third party. Completely incompetent company at all levels.

Mongodb exists to extort money from idiots on their cloud offering where costs balloon out of control. It was easily 40% of our monthly infrastructure bill and what we got out of it definitely did not reflect that.

We refused to pay them. Don't ever give Atlas money.
If the goal is just for human use, then that might make sense. This article also includes the ecosystem. Increasing the rainfall in the region could alter the other aspects of the ecosystem. The real issue is on the demand side with ever increasing populations.
> Means can be added together

Is the error distribution of task size estimations normally distributed? Because I do really expect it to have a fat tail, and if it does, you can't add means either.
No because if there was and it did outperform the market, the returns would quickly evaporate as more and more people rushed in to invest in that ETF.
FinTech startup FloQast raises $110M series D at a $1.2B valuation
Mandatory parking area is not that excessive as it is inside the USoA all over the world. Those mandatory parking area laws are on the mayor contributors to urban sprawl (where every family needs a 2 car garage and therefore has one).
Yeah of course there's gravity, there's gravity in space too. I'm saying it won't be enough.
Just an observation: IF we take it as GIVEN that policymakers are going to find a way to earn some fixed amount X which is greater than their salary (this is a big assumption and probably not true, but just for a thought experiment)

THEN maybe making money from stock options is actually better than taking money from lobbyists? Lawmakers can make money from both hurting and helping companies, so it doesn't create a particular incentive to go out and help PARTICULAR companies (that said, there is an incentive to create volatility, which isn't great). Meanwhile, lobbying tends to advantage some of the least ethical companies (e.g. Opiods, fossil fuels) because the only incentive is to HELP the company at the expense of customers.

To be clear, I don't think it's right for lawmakers to make any more by virtue of their position than the salaries set forth by the law. I'm just saying that of the several unethical ways they can make money, stock options have incentives least misaligned with the public good.
Ignorance is bliss in Government IT.
> It actually just shows that Covid is far from as dangerous as it is made out to be.

This doesn't really follow from your numbers.

If it did indeed kill 4M people, that's a nearly 50% annual increase in mortality for India, largely within a few months, despite restrictions and mitigations.
House Democrats Block Bill to Declassify Intel on Covid Origins
Why would they block this? Isn't it important to get to the bottom of where and why this happened?

Please call your reps.
OK, let me add in your clarification. Thank you for educating me on the matter.
It says on his wikipedia page that he's a Leninist. It's not a conspiracy theory if he's open about it.
The political climate has piqued my interest in the workings of the US government. I appreciate helpful HN commenters that provide information that I don't have time to research.
I think they just stuffed up the wording. I think the whole "can't use it to create a commercial database" means you can't use the document itself (i.e. "this material") as part of your own commercial database offering but you can absolutely adapt the protocol and share the document that Mongo created under the same terms (i.e. share-alike).

Because it's already in source form and isn't "compiled in" into a derived form I don't think it has the same potency from an infectious license perspective as GPL does. If you bundle this document as part of your commercial database I think they can't do diddly squat as long as you make clear that the document itself is still under the CC sharealike license.
16-year-old bug in HP printer software gives hackers admin rights
Inflammation: What it is, how to manage it for optimal health
There are metal recyclers all over the place that buy scrap metal. Look at any moderately-sized fabricator or tool and die shop for a couple of big dumpsters with the logo of your local recycler, they'll likely have one for ferrous scrap, one for aluminum, and probably a barrel for copper wire. If you have a big project such as replacing aluminum siding or 'scrapping' a trailer, definitely bring it to a metal recycler. Even if you're not a moderately-sized fabricator, it makes some sense to keep a box in the back of the shop for scrap metal, every year or so you can bring in a load of brake rotors, broken tools and auto parts, project cutoffs, electric motors, etc. and get a hundred dollars for your trouble while keeping those perfectly good metals out of the landfill. There's a level at which it transitions from a sensible ecological and financial policy towards an untenable sign of hoarding, undervaluing your time, and/or poverty but you can hopefully recognize when you cross that line.

Be aware that they'll be suspicious and will hopefully call the police if you show up with a few hundred dollars of nearly-new copper pipe or electrical wire that you cut out of an under-construction house, or anything else that looks like it might be stolen. Desperate people try that frequently, if you have the financial ability to post on HN it's not worth it.

In my city, the biggest name is https://padnos.com/, and https://www.grcentraliron.com/ has a nice consumer-facing business, but there are similar industries everywhere.

It's interesting to go down as a consumer and shop for cut-offs, you can get small workbench-sized sheet metal, 8020 in lengths not worth bothering with for a big fabricator but plenty for a DIY project, or bar stock to build something far sturdier than you can make with a 2x4 - all at prices per pound a fraction of what you'd pay at the big box stores.
"Sure, let's ignore the simple solution - stop consuming so much water"

I agree that it's a demand-side issue, but the solutions are not "simple".
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Particularly please don't do this in Show HN threads. We don't want a putdown culture on HN, especially when people are sharing their work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Some do, some don’t. Either way, attributing Nancy Pelosi’s wealth to Something akin to insider trading, when her worth is largely derived from her husband’s investment firm, is torturing the truth just a little bit.
Because something like VTOL rockets can only be innovated by a private company focused on unit economics and scale economies.

Government is good when the public externalities are large, the private benefit is small and there's an extremely large capital requirements.

This is not the case any longer for rocket tech, and so it makes zero sense to have the government do it. It'd be like asking the government to make smartphones, which is an obviously ridiculous proposition.
> There are places in the south now that need water to be delivered due to shortages.

An argument for moving to Florida or Louisiana, where the water will be delivered to your home for free in short order.

Dark humor, but sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.
The institution is free to employ her or not too, they have that right.

Now the reasons they might choose fire her could be something they can't do, but generally those are pretty limited.
You missed the part where all ratepayers get to pay off bonds for decades for a few days of incompetence-fueled crisis.
Because the customers who use NSO’s forensic tools aren’t going to share their use cases with NSO without a good reason.
>buying TSLA leap options is a terrible look and breaks down trust in institutions

What is unusual about her spouse buying TSLA options? I'd say that the TSLA CEO has been more influential over the TSLA price than any new legislation.
While difficuelt to have, I prefer a eerie silence when working. I do wonder how many actually uses sites like this, but it’s nice that people have the option.
Show HN: TsParticles 1.32.0 – More plugins, lighter and more particles effect
"Great Man history" is a troublesome way to interpret the past and neglects many other forces that shape our society and planet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
If you let knives to rust, I don't have other option left when they run out.
Hacker News is an extremely right-wing website. The acceptable views here range from center-right to hard-right (both authoritarian and libertarian variants).

It is not allowed to be even moderately fair to the left on this site. Nor is it allowable to be anti-racist or anti-fascist.
Zulip, which I lead, absolutely aims to solve this problem.

We provide our full Zulip Cloud Standard paid plan for free to open source projects (and various other worthy causes!). We also prioritize and build features specifically because OSS projects asked for them:

https://zulip.com/for/open-source/

Hundreds of open source projects, including Rust, Julia, MariaDB, and Clojure, use Zulip as their team chat platform. We often hear from large open source projects that they substantially prefer Zulip's topic-based model to the user experience in Discord or Slack, or that they found it made their open source community work. See for example these tweets from the last few weeks:

* https://twitter.com/mojavelinux/status/1409702273400201217

* https://twitter.com/ornicar/status/1412672302601457664

Also in contrast with open core products like Mattermost, Zulip is proudly 100% open source software. You can learn a bit more about Zulip's open source model here:

https://blog.zulip.com/2021/04/28/why-zulip-is-on-github-spo...
Approximately 27% of the water used in Utah comes from the Colorado River and 60% of Utahans benefit from the river. 82% of Utah water goes to farmers. Significant amounts of that water usage is to grow Cotton and Alfalfa. Two water intensive crops that are largely exported out of the country.

In my opinion we have absolutely no business growing these crops in a desert, especially just to ship them out of the country. Unfortunately the Governor of Utah makes his money (you guessed it) growing Alfalfa in a desert, and he recently gave an impassioned speech about how those of us asking for certain types of agriculture to stop in our desert don't understand how important farming is.
> The Irish remdelling in 1996 improved the centre of Manchester.

The 'remodelling' missed me by less than an hour.
All of those students ARE working on real problems. These papers are fun asides, not the core of the research agendas.

Stop with the professional attacks against researchers until you at least take the time to read their CVs. What you we doing here is attacking peoples professional reputation. And you’re doing it without knowing anything about them. Stop.

At least half the money goes to the student in stipend+core benefits, and another third covers fringe benefits and overhead - lights, bathrooms, offices, security, data centers, travel, … It’s pretty common for the total cost of an employee to be 1.5x+ their salary.

Sometimes grants fund faculty summer salaries, but I kind of doubt those faculty spent any time on these specific projects.
Because NASA can't get funding unless the right Congresspeople can spread the pork around their districts.
TikTok's Highly Secretive Algorithm [video]
BLUF: I love crystal and can't wait for it to get the attention I think it deserves.

To give a bit of history of myself and programming languages, I first started as an EE/CS major working with ASM/C/C++/Matlab for EE and C++/Java/Lisp for CS. Up until graduation, it was just a given that programming languages were just a concession given to you so you didn't have to write assembly. OO in the form of C++/Java was the "better alternative" to imperative C. Lucky me.

Then I heard about Ruby and Ruby on Rails. After reading "The Ruby Programming Language" and working through the examples, I was blown away by the idea that a language could be for a programmer and be a way to express ideas rather than something we translate ideas into. Metaprogramming and mixins and Procs oh my.

Then I started working through Project Euler questions with Ruby and it all came crashing down with the reality of Ruby's runtime. Ruby gave me expressiveness but just could't give me the speed of my equivalent C/Java code. Granted, I was definitely doing very sub-optimal algos but even then, C/Java just didn't care and gave the answer in seconds, not minutes.

Since then, Java & JS have paid my bills. I've seen the popularity of Ruby die as Rails fell out of style when Twitter moved away.

I've messed around with Crystal, trying to work through the problems in "The Go Programming Language" in Crystal and finding that Crystal is a beautiful language and fast as hell. That said, there's always a trade-off right? Crystal's trade off is in compile time, especially with --release. However, I think that's a reasonable trade-off since your release builds should be on a beefy server and it could save you $$$ if it means your actual production servers can be lean as hell. That said, I'm also aware that this problem is exactly one that the Go language was meant to address (C++'s exponentially growing compile time).

Crystal definitely needs:

1. IDE/Debugger support, understandable for a new language, but the language should be "finished" and tooling needs critical attention

2. Libraries. The classic problem of any new language.

3. Major sponsorship (would greatly help with point 1 & 2)
That should just make it easier to afford an automated system because you can spread out the cost across more people.
> I don't buy the idea that spending on getting the hell off of Earth is the best way to save the species

What are the alternatives? On a long enough timeline, it won't be possible for life to survive here. And even on shorter timelines, trusting in untested asteroid deflection plans seems pretty risky, as well. Seems that diversifying ourselves in multiple locations as soon as possible is the best way to guarantee survival of the species (or whatever derivative species we become).
We literally got to the moon before any billionaires bought joy rides to lower orbit, so what you’re saying is proven false already by history?

It’s so insane to me that people honestly believe that we need billionaires to fund all their hedonic desires in order to achieve anything good and useful as a society. It’s provably false and frankly an absolutely pessimistic view of society and humanity.
Yes you can buy options, however, you need a different type of brokerage account to trade options. I believe there is a high minimum amount, a few hundred thousands, to open an account that is able to trade options.
I don't know how to put this in a polite way... Let's just say your brain seems to have gotten too much TV entertainment.

These billionaires made many billions on covid, while you got a 1400 dollar check so you could survive. These billionaires pay their workers minimum wage every day. People can't get toilet breaks at amazon warehouse without being harassed.

This guy is a world class parasite. There is nothing "we" about what he is doing. We are not with him. He doesn't care about any of us.
every once in a while i find a site like this that fits my workflow perfectly; i use it for a few days; maybe a week until I am forced to close browser for (some) reason - then i go back to spotify.

edit this exact page I think i've found 3x now; and then lost it in this way.
The doctor comes up with the why, the AI serves as one data point for coming to that solution.
Cool stuff. I think there were a few similar efforts going on. For example, LSP was based on the protocol developed for OmniSharp, which was an open source .NET-specific implementation started in like 2013 by a Vim fanatic.
> breaks down trust in institutions.

This is why avoiding the appearance of impropriety is almost as important as avoiding impropriety itself. When you do things that people might reasonably mistake for unethical, it contributes to the perception that such unethical behavior is commonplace. That, in turn, might inspire others to actually behave unethically, or alternatively to despair that they live in such a society. Either is socially harmful.