skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question of the impact of climate change on humans seems to me a separate one from the observable reality of climate change and CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, which is a more tangible data question. It seems odd to describe yourself as a "denier" unless you mean you reject the actual science itself. And if you do, the question of whether it "matters" seems not at all important given that you reject it is happening at all. Or am I misunderstanding you? I guess I'm not sure what you're denying, observable reality or your perception of the projections made from that reality.
Fair enough. Nadella's hard push for the return is curious to me (I'm in the Seattle area, and close-ish to the campus with quite a few friends who work in a single team, so I'm a bit myopic, I suppose). They all seem to do well remotely, and I do also. I probably do work less hours, on the whole, but I produce more... so I dunno how that factors in. I can't speak to their quality of work, though.
Does google release any numbers regarding number of search queries per quarter? I feel like the number of search queries would directly correlate with revenue, if I'm not mistaken.

If not, I find it very interesting that they don't release that number. They mention a rising tide of online activity but no numbers to back that up.
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>The "financial crimes" seem to have no victims since none of his investors actually sued him

They were overt, literal, indisputable financial crimes. Not sure why you decided to scare-quote that.

Making someone you defrauded whole again doesn't erase the crime. The notion that it would is ludicrous.

>I guess in this Cancel Culture era

Give it a rest.

There is a truth that if you are a criminal you probably shouldn't draw attention to yourself. If you're a drug dealer, don't wear a bunch of jewellery and drive a unique car. If you're someone running a ponzi scheme, don't be a public troll, desperately seeking attention.
>"you may want to support better funding for these agencies, so they can actually put resources behind investigating and trying cases where criminality occurs. "

I don't think people realize just how much of law and regulatory enforcement is dependent on "who knows who" in the white collar world. A lot of investigations are discretionary and it is surprisingly easy for prosecutors to simply not address something. Would more funding help? I'm sure it would have some impact. But if Martin Shkreli was a big time political donor I suspect things would have turned out differently.
Damn - Net income for 90 days jumping from 11B to 22B. For 9 months from 44B to 74B!

Nuts. Margin growth too. So revenue and margin both going up.

Apple can afford to invest / pay for almost anything at this point (supply chain / chips / screens etc).

I'm interested in where they land on the car - if it's going to be an electric box with a flat screen, give me a big carplay that works with the iphone.
Heh. Well, since you asked...

There's a distressing pattern: the idea that "man made climate change exists, therefore disaster."

The "disaster" part is the part I've never truly been able to convince myself of. I don't deny it -- you're right, it's more along the lines of agnosticism. But I think it's really easy to convince yourself of doom.

However, striving to be something resembling a scientist, I recognize that being ignorant is no defense. I haven't spent enough time researching the data, looking at the implications, and listening to the arguments. But every time I see a piece like this pop up, I feel this reflexive urge to question people and chase down the logic: Ok, climate change exists. How do you know we need to care?

I'm not saying we don't. I just wish people would admit "We don't really know, but it would be a good idea to take a few precautionary steps" rather than take the stance of "you're something close to Satan if you dare believe otherwise."
Has your experience led you to identify any areas for improvement within Django and/or Python?

(enjoyed the post, and I like your philosophy of using simple widely available tools; I'm hopeful that any changes you're able to provide back will have a kind of community-benefit flywheel effect)
Sure. My issue is that it doesn't help persuade those who agree that climate change is real and happening, but they won't admit that it's caused by humans. The line is "change is constant, the earth is always heating and cooling, there's nothing we can really do about it, you're crazy if you think we caused it and crazier if you think we can prevent it. Better to just adapt."

That apathy is extra frustrating for me.
"Rich people don't go to jail" is a tautology masquerading as cynicism. In a world where nothing happens unless it's paid for, then it follows that more happens when there is more money involved. This includes criminal defense, where more money means more defensive moves which, in general, means a better defense.

For the record, I think this is a strong argument for a world where things happen despite you not paying for them, and to level the playing field (spending) in a few key areas, like legal defense and political speech. Imagine if even rich people were forced to use the public defender; you would see an immediate improvement in their quality!
Devil's advocate response:

As I read it, the values here are the date that cherry blossom are first witnessed in the year. There's probably a bell-shaped distribution of when blossom appears on a given tree i.e. there will be a very small number of trees that bloom really early. If you have more people looking for it, then there's a greater chance that someone will spot a really exceptionally early tree. So an alternative explanation for the trend is just an increase in the Japanese population.

(Counter argument: when the population gets high enough that essentially all trees are witnessed, further population increases would have no further effect.)
Should add, I’m a big fan of all the football metrics providers and follow them all religiously during the season. The NFL dataset we found isn’t as comprehensive, but it’s still really fun!
Insane and more invasive. Some ads makes me uncomfortable. I am eating my dinner and there is an ad about guy excited because after this specifically prepared dog food, his dog poops are now "healthy".

But its not as bad as the ad for some soap where interracial couple stands under shower in what you can obviously imagine being naked, and she tells him "you smell nasty" and give him the new improved soap. Then the guy looks in the camera and says: "do whatever it takes to pleasure your lady". How the heck is Youtube approving these ads??

Side note, I am not surprised their ad revenue blew up. I never seen so much scam ads on Youtube ever before: I am daily swamp with Kevin David "make yourself billionaire by selling crap on Amazon" videos, and "This simple plug device will allow you to save 80% on your gas price". Total and complete, obvious scams. I tell you - the FTC sleeps well, while WWW became literally WILD WILD WEB [of scams]
I'm glad so many smart people are getting paid $200,000+ per year to bring such new and innovative products to the market.
>Last site update in 2018, which isn't good.

Looks like the software is still being updated: https://liteplacer.com/software-release-history-and-previous...

The owner seems to be active on the forum: https://liteplacer.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=10292&sid=...
"In defense of Mana Drain: how to lose friends in cube draft"
Yes there's a separate set of laws for the wealthy corporate class.
> Is it discrimination if I own a company and only hire my friends who are into the same things as me?

Yes, any time you make a decision which treats people differently on any basis, is it is discrimination.

What you probably mean to ask is whether it is illegal discrimination. For which the answer is more complicated. It doesn't seem to be directly illegal discrimination, unless “into the same things” itself directly involves protected characteristics like religion. But it could still be illegal as disparate impact discrimination [0], if it has differential impact on a protected axis without sufficient business necessity.

[0] https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...
> Oh and whoever wrote and sent out that statement about how the state was pursuing this was why so many businesses are leaving California needs to be fired. It was so utterly tone deaf and irrelevant.

It is tone deaf and irrelevant, but they should not lose their job over that. Let the person who has never held a poor opinion throw the first stone.
I might be mistaken but didn't Tiktok report $36B revenue for last year and they are way more young compared to YouTube.

YT has much more variety of content than Tiktok like music videos, educational content etc. Bytedance's numbers seem mind boggling when you take into account this. An amusing thing is that Bytedance competes with YouTube in US but YouTube wasn't allowed to in Bytedance's home country.
+1 Flowdock - was using it back in 2014 and it had the best threading experience of all apps!
Mitigation has always been the preferable solution because it doesn't suffer from the public goods problem. In other words, the people that incur the costs of mitigation directly enjoy the benefits it provides (such as building a sea wall). Prevention is just one giant worldwide geo-engineering problem with no mechanism to ensure long term global coordination.

More to your comment, I think you'll find that the wealthiest nations are the nations that are doing the most to aggressively reduce pollution while the poorest ones are emitting the most on a GDP basis. This effect is called the Kuznets Curve.
It's a lot of hardware they have. I imagine this assessment took into account rising costs of replacements due to chip shortages, the fact that recent processor generations haven't actually brought meaningful performance or efficiency gains, etc. The cost/benefit of replacing server equipment is not particularly good right now.
Yeah, no disrespect, I understand you're a business. For example, someone with a little bit of knowledge of GIS and some google skills could create an image of GMTED2010 data and upload it to a printing service for around $260 for a 30"x40". Those with access to printers could do it for about 1/2 that with the right sublimation gear or large format inkjets. I was comparing your 30x45 with 30x40 prints I do of my own works. Granted it's not flyover LiDAR, its space art, but still. I'm not your target customer, but I do wish you the best.
It looks like from around 1700-1900 the earliest peak bloom day got later, while the latest peak bloom day stayed about the same.

After that, the latest peak bloom day started getting earlier and the earliest peak bloom day also started getting earlier.

So right now peak blooms can occur about as earlier as their historically could, but seem much more unlikely to occur as late as they historically did. In other words, they now occur in a range that starts about the same as it did historically but ends quite a bit earlier.

So what happened around 1900?
Sorry, I meant to right technical details [about the implementation]. Somehow I typed the wrong word.

I know that Bluetooth beacons are a thing, but presumably leaving your phone out of discovery mode and not having any active Bluetooth pairings mitigates that, right?
Yes, this is exactly what threads are for. To get a side conversation out of the way.
Absolutely, I didn't mean to be insulting, just provide some feedback as someone who could really find it useful. On the surface, it just seems like a job board with a checkbox for wildcard and an Faq, but how do you model what a wildcard job is exactly?
Isn't that the default stance in philosophy? Assume something is false until evidence proven true. You cannot begin with the assumption that something is true, otherwise we're back to the mystical dark ages of magic monsters and alchemy
Yes, our federal government does act like gangsters. So awesome!
FYI Regular copy (Command-C) of the file from Finder already uses the path representation upon paste into Terminal.
I think we could probably do it on 1 machine. We have multiple mostly for availability and handling spikes. There's definitely no reason we couldn't use 1 large machine to do this, just not a great reason to run a production app this way.
PDS: Opinion: Absolutely great video on Cities, Walkability, Accessibility, and the need for good Urban Planning...

A must-watch for future cities and future Urban Planners!
I've seen products like K2 and Spice that are synthetic, sold as separate products. I haven't seen actual cannabis that had added synthetics.
I'm not a climate change denier, but I'm not sure if climate change is man-made. I believe the climate invariable changes, my issue is that we cannot determine the fraction of this variation that is due to human interference.
Starting an exoskeleton company: 10 years + $$$

Smile on father's face watching his son stand upright: priceless!
This reminds me of Belichick intentionally taking defensive penalties to run out the clock.
Yep - that looks like the stuff I was remembering, nice find.
I like lots of people I disagree with, why is not liking someone the key some problem? In fact I'm not sure anyone has defined the problem of with hiring people you like other than some unsubstantiated claim that we only like people of the same colour and background which in my experience is nonsense.
I gave up on private trackers after what.cd died. Has redacted surpassed what.cd?
Certainly evidence of climate change. The man-made part is of course not demonstrated in this piece though.

I rather don’t like the condescending attitude but will at least applaud the use of the word “skeptic” rather than “denier”; the latter being a more religious phrasing.

Disclaimer: I do think man-made climate change is happening and something very much worth addressing. The interesting part is simply what to do about it; on which people will disagree vehemently.
I believe the point was that it's more wasteful than continuing to drive a perfectly serviceable older vehicle, not that leasing is inherently any more wasteful than trading in for a new late-model vehicle every year or two.
You're the first person to mention 'sexism' in this comment chain. Why is an investigation predicated on sexism? Why is sexual harassment not sufficient to warrant an investigation?
You've probably found this already: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/noteworthy-differenc...

That's the only "official" python-julia resource I know of although I bet there are some blogs about the process.
Which, indeed, is the point. Threads are primarily useful in very busy channels with multiple conversations happening. The point of a thread is to get the conversation out of the main channel so it doesn't disrupt other discussions. If you want every message to go to the main channel, just post it there, not in a thread. IMHO that checkbox shouldn't even exist.
Bluntly, yes it is.
Postgres is mostly bored (CPU sub 20% utilized) with 60 write requests per second which is normal peak traffic. Even traffic spikes to 100-120 don't usually change that much.

As our ad network grows though, everything has to grow pretty linearly (writes, reads, requests, etc.) and I hope our approach will continue to work well even with double or triple these numbers.
It also probably has cost benefits on a per satellite and launch basis because it lets them use lower power transmitters and receivers since they're so much closer. Comms sats are generally much larger than the Starlinks with the cost of launches going up because of that.
Furthermore, those thousands of open issues hint to me that a lot of people are actively contributing, and that the dev team takes responsibility for legitimate problems.

Compare this to other projects with the illusion of quality because most bugs haven't been reported, or because their developers routinely dismiss and close reports of bugs that they don't feel like fixing, just to keep their bug tracker looking clean.

Indeed, the contents of the Matrix/Element/Synapse issue trackers played a significant part in convincing me that the developers are making good decisions, and that investing my time and contacts in this network would also be a good decision. That was over a year ago, and I do not regret it. The project still looks very much on track to me.
I think you have to go to the 1940s and 1950s for programming being a “secretarial position”. That was 70 and 80 years ago.

It’s not even a valid comparison at that point, it’s too different. CS back then was completely different than today or even the recent past. As one example, computational complexity wasn’t even a thing until the 1960s with Hartmanis and Stearns.

There was a lot more time spent on inputting programs and data than today.
All of the ads I get feature fake customers showing their undying appreciation to their insurance companies
Looks like there was a broad investigation into this in 2018: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/07/09/11-st...
Shaming all men for what a (bad) subset of men do is sexist. Shaming all white men for what a (bad) subset of white men do is sexist and racist.
Shaming all black men because some black men are criminals is racist.

Highlighting that the (good) majority should call out the (bad) minority is reasonable. Blaming the whole is not. It's true regardless of the target race, or sex, or gender, etc.
+1. When you take what you're saying with the parent above you, Xi is also pulling all the state media strings to play up the less-corrupt benevolence thing - using it to consolidate power. Check out this recent good article about their extrajudicial 'repatriations' which has examples of the bragging in their government controlled media about it (kidnappings).

It's both trying to show less corruption and simultaneously scaring everyone away from dissent. Gross but seems powerful.

https://www.propublica.org/article/operation-fox-hunt-how-ch...
wow nice downvoting speed - someone didn't even give it a chance and read it. I literally hit "edit" some 15 seconds after commenting and its already negative karma. beautiful.
It's not personal, the point is that he's frustrated that misconceptions are so widespread and that people don't question their certainty despite lack of knowledge.
> automatic mechanism that operates independently

Yes, but I think this is more metaphorical than literal. Of course there aren't literal automatic robots doing the work of rooting out corruption; it's a goal.

I would argue that a high-functioning justice system should appear as close to automatic as possible, in order to most effectively create a sense of "if I do wrong, I know that I will be punished" rather than "if I do wrong, I need to figure out how to get around the law."
Oh, does this mean that you're anti-death penalty? White collar crime can exact costs on society close to a Bundy or Gacy type level. Too bad we don't have the death penalty for Corporate crime. Think of what opioids and Purdue Pharma have done to the U.S.
>"offering $5000 for every strand of hair collected from HRC"

Am I alone in seeing this as an act of a sophomoric troll rather than an actual bounty put on someone?
I have a Schwab account, but I strongly dislike both their Web UI and their (iPad) mobile apps. They were built decades ago and for the most part they show it. The mobile trading for stocks (forget options) is just awful (including failing to accept my trade for no easily understood reason). My hope is since they bought TD Ameritrade that they'll dump their own trading apps and use TDA's.
It wouldn't be a problem, except that Discord takes over your fucking computer and doesn't let you sign into different accounts via private browser windows when you have the client running

Another problem with Discord is that its anti-spam measures are making it harder and harder to create an anonymous account

There's no point in having an anonymous Discord account if you have to use the same account for everything in your life. (Reddit and Facebook have the same problem as well)
> but the whole point of the audit is to figure out what's true

In the dictionary definition, yes. But the problem with this "audit" is filled with such corrupt cast of characters that their results can not be trusted. Sadly they're abusing the name of the process to be able to claim that their results will be authoritive.

> If the audit has no basis in reality, as many claim, then it will fail.

And who determines that it's a failure? An audit of the audit? Ironically them making a crooked "audit" allows them to be able to turn around and say the people auditing them are the crooked ones.

A meta-audit also has to be financed, and the people living in reality-based world might not even be that bothered enough to do so, which results in this fake audit be the truth in the "alternative facts" half of the society.

Not that I'm arguing that Twitter is right in banning them...
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Hi Tejas - I hope you are very successful in this venture.

I can offer a potentially helpful data point. I was on a flight once next to a gentleman who was quite high in his local LDS church (not bishop but next level down?). He railed against porn addiction specifically as the root cause of many sorts of pain, and wished there was a tool just like this to help his flock avoid the porn demon. He worked with quite a few young men who actively struggled and I think a positive tool like this could have helped those guys get what they need. If you are looking for funding, I would definitely consider that a lot of deep pocketed folks are LDS church fathers.
DoD and related govt orgs keep it afloat as well. Maybe not the most powerful anymore, but rock solid support and longevity-- their uptime is legendary-- keeps it going in little tech tidepools around the country.
> even with the app, only those who think our app will help them will install.

I already asked upthread, but since this is here: how do you intend to insure this? For example, how do you insure that minors who have this app installed by their parents or guardians will be able to remove or bypass it, particularly without the parent being able to detect that (and thereby prevent it via threats)?
Anyone got a link to the newsletter?

I'm really curious what the eBay execs found so offensive.
It's a complicated issue.

I think some people don't make any real effort to keep track of their passwords, and so reset via email is kind of common.

But what if you're Sarah Palin, governor of some out-of-the-way state (pop. 736,000). Suddenly you're thrust into the spotlight as a VP candidate.

Sucks for her that Yahoo's password reset questions at the time were simple: The Yahoo! account's password could be reset using shared secret questions including "where did you meet your spouse?" along with the date of birth and ZIP code of the former governor to which answers were easily available online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-based_authentication

Can you trust your email provider not to let your account get "stolen" from you?

I think having a discussion like this on HN is great. It gives people an opportunity to re-evaluate their current procedures.
Some people are literally willing to die rather than wear a mask or get a vaccine and do you think that this kind of people care about climate change or anything else?
Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say
These actions to censor, deplatform, demonetize, etc. are no different than in-kind campaign funding. They benefit one political party at the cost of the other. Twitter's actions aren't just against free speech principles - they should be interpreted as a violation of campaign funding law.
It's disturbing that Skreli openly committed massive financial fraud and you're more concerned about the government doing its job.

Skreli's investors didn't sue him because they profited from the fraud. It's the downstream investors who were harmed here, and they can sue Skreli...and the investors who profited from his fraudulent investments.