skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that these things didn't happen? Because that is the only translation I have of "getting your news from."

Is the idea that the NBC San Diego branch just ... made this up? That the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d70h) fabricated this wholesale? Let's just click through some of those hyperlinks in the Unherd thing. https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-col... sure seems to have happened; take care to note "I've offended many people with this post, and for that I am deeply sorry. Please read my comment here. And 01.12 Please read my follow-up about what’s wrong with this post here."

These are all things that have occurred in "reality" and the "real world," to use your diction. You can now ignore them -- feel free! -- but pretending that they didn't happen is, I don't know, a performance only for yourself, because I cannot unsee what has been seen.

I am not terrified; as above, I pointed out that the potential negatives outweigh the possible benefits at this point. It's a simple analysis. You have elected not to factor those real world events into your analysis.
It's nice data, but I think the article is overselling it. It's an indisputable evidence of climate change at Japan. However, we do know from historical records that a regional climate can change in its own way. (E.g., the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age of Europe.)

The good(??) news, of course, is that we have global coverage of the current climate, plus thousands of regional records going back to prehistory - taken together, they are truly indisputable.

Basically, no serious researcher in 2021 is trying to "prove" (or disprove) AGW, any more than trying to prove the theory of germs. It's proven. What's left is details.
A utility for simulating broken network for Windows
Yeah, and the small minority that manage to become bigger than a trivial app and become useful, become spaghetti diagrams of flow chart mess, so unmaintainable and fragile, nobody can modify it after “that guy” leaves.

Then the whole thing has to be rewritten and maintained by an actual developer, and the whole exercise ends up being much more expensive
For how many years?
lol, this exactly describes my career and entry into indie games about a decade ago. It sounds reasonable but don't do it. You'll find by the time you can create that game you've been wanting to make, graphics pipelines and technology will pass you by making your idea irrelevant. So you end up making a quick game to make a quick buck and go back into the workforce a little bit richer. [1]

If you want to make games, or software, or any product, you have to hit while the iron is hot otherwise someone else will come along and beat you to it. Even if you invest aggressively, it's better to just keep doing that and retire than waste it on that pet project you had your eye on for 20 years.

[1]: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/xbox360/958447-alchemist/video...
> Assume something is false until evidence proven true.

This cuts both ways, depending how your phrase the assumption.

Which of these statements should we assume false, until proven true:

"Doubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 will not cause meaningful negative impacts on human civilization."

"Doubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 will cause meaningful negative impacts on human civilization."

Philosophy isn't going to rescue us from this. Climate science will.
Seems to be too difficult for you.
I love it! Great job!
I built a project in python using django that handles 11k/second. Requires a load balancer and a few machines of course.. :D
Only in the United Kingdom.
It's not at all clear that the messaging ecosystem would be better if Signal could say "We won't let you send this message to your friend because we think their client isn't as secure as ours."

I'm sure there are cases where a third party client would be less secure and Signal would be justified in refusing to relay messages to/from that client, but what about situations, like the current one, where it is Signal itself that is insecure? To be consistent, shouldn't Signal have to block their own client until they fixed the issue?

Even if you accept the idea of Signal having a (inconsistently applied) veto over which apps are allowed to use its infrastructure, how far do you take it? Should they deliberately brick official Signal clients running on versions of iOS or Android that are deemed insecure? Should they require that the phone manufacturer is "trustworthy" so that it doesn't risk containing Chinese government spyware?

Taken to extremes, Signal would need to come with its own antivirus scanner or support some sort of remote attestation of all the versions of all the software running on the phone, to prevent messages being leaked through side-channels. And what would that achieve, other than pushing people to use other, less secure apps?

I think it is a dangerous distraction for Signal's threat model to worry about anything other than making their own app secure, and making sure that the protocol supported by their servers is secure.
iPhone sale rose by 50% compared to the year ago quarter ($39.57 billion from $26.42 billion). Just wow!
> You're the first person to mention 'sexism' in this comment chain. Why is an investigation predicated on sexism?

...i actually have no idea. i was gonna say maybe i read it in another comment, but i dont see any other comment talking about sexism.

i dont know what im on about. sorry folks!
I "believe" in climate change, but this article does a pretty poor job of examining even the most basic of questions a skeptic would ask. Such as, what determines when the blossoms are peak bloom?
How accurate were the ancient Japanese at recording days? I mean, just looking at the graph you can see it narrows near modern times which suggests we simply got better at recording accurate data.
I agree. I prefer if they went down the route of 'empowering the next generation of tech cofounders' or something. But don't raise money to make a position obsolete
How can we be sure we have not selected them for later blooms and things are even worse than we thought?

: )
Coming from a node.js world, I thought they meant 100k and the title had a typo.
Ha! I was actually looking into these.

I'm not a huge fan of renting equipment I can work through the tears to buy myself, but a couple classes might be cool
Based on the name it would be:

https://www.ecommercebytes.com

it still contains the authors names on the posts and on the about page.
To be fair, everyone gets put in the denier bucket if they question any part of the narrative. (Disclaimer: I’m not a denier)
> A better social safety net during the pandemic and a tight labor market in the fast food, leisure, and hospitality industries is allowing this to happen.

That's really the main reason. We have a unique period of time where evictions are banned, free money (stimulus checks) are provided, and so on. People have the luxury of taking time off or improving their skills or seeking a different job because they are being heavily subsidized temporarily.
Electric BMW M3?
Epispot v3.0.0-Alpha
Cool cool

If I could have your other ear for a moment: support for any EU-based cloud provider would be super nice. Ever since the Privacy Shield fig leaf was removed, questions about whether we store any data under US jurisdiction have become a lot more frequent.
They don't have this skill. Even the ones think they do. And when it comes to their own code it's even worse. One talented QA is worth 10-100 developers when it comes to finding bugs in their software.
For me, I'm sure the climate is changing, partly because of human activity. Where I differ is that I think the impacts of the changing climate will be so small and gradual and so easy to adapt to that it doesn't warrant the massive upheaval to economies that are being prescribed.
Is a Raspberry Pi an alternative option? There is a possibility you might even be able to connect the Pi to the iMac via USB (can't guarantee this will work though).

I mention the Raspberry Pi because you can run current programming languages (like Python), make programs and much more.

There are offline learning resources like the MagPi magazine which are full of tutorials. Every issue of MagPi is available to download as a free PDF. It's an excellent learning resource for kids and adults:

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/issues
I don't think it's particularly out of the way. Iterators are a normal part of rust, and are lazy.
Like defending your privacy from apps constantly asking for access to your contacts. Once you're a bit distracted and press "allow" by mistake, it's gone
Blaming climate change for California wildfires is a neat way to deflect the real cause: forest mismanagement.

See https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-l...

From 2018:

> During its review, the Commission found that California’s forests suffer from neglect and mismanagement, resulting in overcrowding that leaves them susceptible to disease, insects and wildfire.

https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma...
Well, if you broaden the scope, you're effectively fighting again other (completely unrelated) purchases and a person's wallet.
If you have a thunderbolt 3 port then the apple adapters are reasonable second-hand, but you need a tb3->tb2, and tb2->firewire adapters. They work fine in Windows and Linux. OWC used to make TB docks with firewire, but they're rare and expensive now.

Anything that claims to adapt plain USB to firewire is bait for unsuspecting buyers, or maybe supported by some ancient obscure sony camcorder models.

The cheapest options for firewire these days are pci, cardbus, pcie, and expresscard in about that order. G3/G4 era macs up to 2012 models are common firewire machines. I know Sony and IBM had laptops with the interface in the core duo times.
It seems strange ( and fascinating ) everyone have different memories of IE days.

My problem with IE was mostly with its ( lack of ) development.

>IE was cutting edge until Firefox

It was cutting edge for IE 5, and IE6 only fixes some of IE 5.5 issues. Remember this was the early days and there were thousands of low hanging fruit. It wasn't even standard complaint problem, ( as much as I would like to write one piece of DHTML code that work across all browser ) like many here have stated M$ decided to do it differently and I actually would not have a problem with that if their version was actually better ( Some features were indeed better ). But they stopped. IE 5.5 was already a relatively small changes from IE 5 which was the really big release. And IE 5 if I remember correctly was before 2000.

I would not have been so pissed about IE if M$ at least release some update. It wasn't until security issues got so serious did they decide to move their ass to do something. So from my point of view, Safari in this case, despite their slow release cycle, is still trillions times better than IE. I would normally have stood up for Safari on PWA and Safari as IE issues, but the pain of App Store lead me to change stance. And to add insult to injury they even claim PWA as an alternative to Native Apps in the trial.

Apple used to have a very coherent strategy and message, even to the way how things are being discussed in court. Now it is a pile of mess.
Yeah, the AWS LB has more issues than that, too. I'm pretty sure it's just nginx under the hood but they won't tweak the simplest parameters for you, even if you make a colossal stink, even if your company spends seven figures a year. I wonder if it isn't a decade-old duct-tape-and-bailing wire solution that shares the same config across literally every customer or something. Rolling our own was almost a relief -- the pile of awkward workarounds had grown pretty high by the point we bit the bullet.
Absolutely insane. They are growing faster (at their scale) than most SV hot shot startups!

Edit: iPhone sales wow! Is it the most successful product ever?
Those websites you mention are written by the same people coming here to complain about Safari does not support $some_new_chrome_feature and that they’ve stopped caring for Safari (web interoperability).
Presumably because shrekli purchased it under those conditions. He can't sell you the right to state the price because he doesn't own it.
I'm a little more strict, and draw the line at pretty much any extraneous assertion that your audience is going to disagree with you. E.g. "Controversial opinion: ...", "The HN crowd will downvote me, but ...", etc. It's an unnecessary injection of negativity, pettily frames one's self as the underdog, and provokes by implying that the people you're addressing are wrong before they've even replied to you. Obviously the internet is largely not a place to give crowds the benefit of the doubt, but it's critical for places with a shred of the expectation of real discussion, like HN.
> Singh was born on January 2, 1979, in Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario

> Bains was born in Toronto, Ontario on June 16, 1977
The counterpoint is, good defense (and software) comes from good principles and hard work. Good attack (or hack) on the other hand also requires brilliance and luck to find the exploit.

Over time defense will keep improving , attack on the other hand will become more difficult when common issues are no longer a problem ( say memory safety or SQL injection) when best practices become the norm.
I wouldn't disagree with the former interpretation, but publicly offering thousands of dollars for something carries a real risk somebody will take you up on the offer.
Yeah, I get that this article shows evidence, but it's not the slam dunk that the author is making it out to be.
==So if company A buys company B, which has assets of $50 for $100, then they'll add $50 in goodwill to account for the difference.==

Goodwill is an asset and we frequently see it monetized. It isn't just a made-up number to make things balance, it is a stand-in for particularly "hard-to-value" assets like perception. Ford famously licensed their logo and built a $1 billion business [0]. Prior to the licensing deal, that value would have only been captured as Goodwill on Ford's balance sheet. It is the value of the blue shield that they have built over decades of company performance and advertising.

==But it does mean that you can't use goodwill to accurately estimate the effects of brand advertising as there could reasons other than brand marketing for a company being traded above its assets' fair market value at the time of the sale.==

Goodwill is a combination of many things, one of the largest pieces being brand value. Publicly traded companies generate a Goodwill number each time they release a financial statement.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2012/05/24/ford-has-bu...)
Another example of an article selectively picking bits and pieces to support a sensational and false conclusion. The discussion of oxygen exposure was conveniently left out.
Why focus so much on the concept of recalcitrant carbon when microbes will break down rock and even petrochemicals under the right conditions?

Oxygen is a dominant factor in accelerated decomposition. Carbon is continually sequestered in healthy soils where plant roots will die back periodically, both seasonally and from grazing action. Much of the spent root carbon is sequestered in the soil as the limited local oxygen is used in partial decomposition, replaced with gases that serve to preserve and dilute whatever small amount of oxygen may later infiltrate the soil, depending on depth in soil.

This is the same concept seen when lacto-fermenting vegetables in a jar. Enough salts would effectively halt decomposition, but just a fraction of the salt is needed when the CO2 generated from the lacto bacteria flushes out the oxygen. The rising acid and falling oxygen gradually drive the microbial activity toward zero.
I always assumed our blight on the world started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
Because Linux didn't copy everything from Plan9. Unfortunately.
I strongly hold this skepticism of there being targeted CCP shills, including on HN. If true, that goes beyond censorship of their own citizens. How do you prove though. There has been some reporting about it, I remember one about their distributed mechanical turk-ified gamification of astro turfing basically.

And I think that not knowing is part of the value for them. The Putin way of power through questioning reality, just throw out lots of lies, deflect, scapegoat, whataboutism. Class troll behavior has invaded the real world.

I also see parallels in the US, at first from the extreme right 'media' just taking this bold faced bs approach and sadly it works.
The injustice in the Martin Shkreli case isn't that he got prosecuted, it's that so many others did not.
Just want to stop and say that I’m so happy to have stumbled across sillysaurus today.

You helped me through a very hard time in my life a few years back, and I have thought about you often since then. Thank you. Glad to see you back here!
Now watch what happens when those users get funneled into Apple services.
Too many people will respond with snark here but I am very glad GCP is tackling this head-on. I’ve always felt the comparison between GCP and google-at-large was quite misleading as I haven’t seen GCP run breaking changes.

GCP generally seems super amazing to me as a user of both GCP and AWS. They best complaint I’ve heard so far is that the GUI is slow. I don’t really disagree but I also find the GUI quite intuitive and it provides precise CLI and REST equivalents every time you do something on the GUI. Want to know how to change something? Do it in the GUI and click the little link to see exactly what you just did expressed as a REST API call
has anyone found a data set that has all years? football it seems kinda protected. its really easy to get all baseball data
The issue isn't funding, it's structurally dysfunctional organizations. But that's a much harder problem to solve than blaming lack of funding. I was involved with a certain tax collection agency's project that was a never-ending trainwreck that spent decades complaining about being underfunded. When they finally got the 10s of millions of dollars they said they needed, they used it to hire and train college grads RPG (a programming language, if you haven't heard of it) along with how to operate mainframes and other systems that haven't been touched since the 80s. Fast forward a couple years, and every single one of the dozen hires had either quit or moved onto something more glamorous. But meanwhile the maintenance burden had just doubled because of all the new systems written in RPG on a mainframes which they can't retain people on.

I think most of the government agencies problems has nothing to do with their budget, but how they run themselves.
amazing, just downloaded recently and in the middle of episode 1 just now...
If anything, Alphabet will likely spin GCP off of Google and make it its own dedicated company under the Alphabet umbrella.

Alphabet needs multiple revenue streams and Cloud is positioned to be a major one.
Someone on HN recently posted a Jonathan Blow talk, "How to Save Civilization," that argues the normal evolution of technology is not a linear progression upwards, but actually slow degradation due to loss of knowledge and maintenance. I think this is a perfect example of why.
How come they don’t open source this?
I love your typing idea. I do something similar, but with puzzles on lichess.
They have an insane number of ads on youtube now. I finally caved and bought a subscription… they’re like 2 times the price of a netflix sub
They may call the kilogram the base unit, but in practice no one talks about millikilograms (just "grams") or microkilograms (just "milligrams"). The gram might be formally defined in terms of a 1 kg physical mass, but for the purpose of SI prefixes the gram is the real base unit and there is nothing wrong with saying 1 Mg instead of 1000 kg.
No, renting would not be fine. People take vacations and long day trips, often at the same time as everyone else. The rental supply simply can't satisfy that amount of demand. It doesn't matter if hauling cargo or driving long distances is infrequent or even a small percentage of miles driven - it is a core use case for vehicles. Otherwise, people would simply not be able to do the things they do on holidays.
Fractal is nice and looks great on GNOME, but no e2ee and uses more CPU than Element.
> "I just wish people would admit 'We don't really know, but it would be a good idea to take a few precautionary steps'"

That was a reasonable stance in the 1970s. We have a ton more evidence now.
Sort of. Depreciation is added back in, but at a lower percentage/year. 25% instead of 33%, since it's 4 years instead of 3 now.
and yes, I realize the game I referenced was basic, had UX issues, and was more or less a cash grab on xbox360. I made it using my game engine that I spent 2 years writing, but the game showcased only took me 15 days to write. After release, I just went back to work.
Ah sounds like I need to update myself on this. I don’t recall what the other trade-offs vs GIN indexes are.
Note #2: Microsoft also reports office 365 as part of its cloud revenue.
Are you hiring them because you know them and you trust them? That is not discrimination. Are you hiring them because you want to win the tech-company beach volleyball tournament? That's discrimination.

You could probably get away with it. Would you feel good about yourself? Would you feel pissed if you found out that you didn't get a job you really wanted, only because another company was trying to fill out their rugby team?
Some of the newer antidepressant manufacturers offer income-based coupons that cover the costs of the medications, as well.

Although Prozac has been generic forever, and depending where you live, you might be able to get a 30 day supply for a few bucks. Walmart has it for $4.

The expensive part is regularly seeing a doctor for prescription refills. Depending on the state and her income, she might be eligible for expanded Medicaid, though.
In the USA, adblocking penetration has been rising for years, but looks to be plateauing; this estimate says that a bit over a quarter of all internet users block advertising on their connected devices: https://www.statista.com/statistics/804008/ad-blocking-reach...
UK government backs scheme for motorway cables to power trucks
I don't think this is correct. Philosophies vary but philosophy of knowledge deals with how you can know something. The opposite of knowing something isn't assuming it is false.
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It's really a shame, since there was nothing quite like the intensity of a 1v1 match between two players controlling an army with a nearly unlimited skill cap...

This is precisely why RTS is dead. Every victory or defeat is solely in your hands. In the MOBA format, you can always get carried by your team/cuss out your team for being failures.