skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how the post begins with false starts.

Don't even try to find the center. Nope, forget about it...

Otherwise the algorithm seems decent. Very interesting approach.
Genuinely curious question. How do you guys pull xkcd comics just like that? Do You save interesting comics for future use or do you remember the comic and google it to find it?
Seinfeld was correct, the only warning we are afraid of is "dry clean only".
> So it seems to me that not all of his wealth is usable

Bezos is the richest, so we don't have examples quite at that scale. That said, we have some pretty big (eg gates, buffet) announcing liquidation & donation without anything bad happening. So, he probably could sell his amazon shares and do something else with them.

You are approaching some "it's complicated" questions that occur at scale though. It's true, for example, that if Bezos wanted to liquidate immediately, that volume of shares is probably more than the market could buy. It might temporarily crash the stock, if handled wrong. Finance people know how to do this right though, so I think we can say that all of that wealth is usable.

There's also the other side, what Bezos would spend that wealth on? You can only buy what exists. Say Bezos decides to solve homelessness and housing scarcity in his state forever. He sells his amazon shares (slowly, carefully) and buys half a million houses. There aren't that many houses for sale, so rices would skyrocket. Say he decides to build instead, to avoid that. The state only has so many builders, roofers, cement shops, cranes... only so much capacity to produce houses. Building or buying half a million houses in Washington quickly is probably near impossible. You might cause detrimental side effects by trying. Normal people couldn't buy a homes, because Bezos has bid up the price of everything. OTOH, builders and pre existing property investors will get rich. Inflation probably happens.

This is the kind of problem governments often face. At some scale, common sense economic concepts/abstractions like the cost of building a house break down and underlying realities leak in. Only so many houses exist.There's only so much labour, materials, capacity to produce.

A rung or two higher up the meta ladder, a common demonstration of macroeconomic weirdness is the "paradox of choice." What would happen to an economy if everyone saves 100% of their money? All shops & restaurants are empty. There's no work. Businesses fail, default on loans. Share prices crash. It's simply impossible for a whole economy to save. Saving (and more controversially, borrowing) doesn't exist at macroeconomic scale. An economy can't save or borrow. Shutting down car factories today doesn't make it produce more cars tomorrow. So, we can't all save for a car this year to buy one next year.
Saying “the powerful write the rules” is pretty much tautological.

Of course the powerful write the rules. Most people access an individuals power based on their ability to make and break rules.
Even if you could personally witness trends over a longer amount of time, it is still easy to attribute that to something else. The process from eg. driving a car via a gas you cannot see to solar radiation being captured warming up the planet and all the effects from that is relatively abstract, I guess. It's still easy to not see the links between these things, if you do not want to see them.

But regardless, people who can see the curvature of the earth (and could perform other experiments) can still manage to be flat-earthers, so hard-core idiots cannot be convinced of whatever obvious things they choose to not believe in.

Governments will have to set the right incentives for these people to still do the right thing for society in general. Eg. a carbon tax. It's much easier to know which item is cheaper and then choose that.
It depends but I don't think a recumbent bike is all that great when climbing or descending. I can't see cyclists wanting a recumbent if there are any significant elevation changes on the course.
Wanna solve P=NP? Math is important.

Wanna make some react app look pretty? Not so much.
Standard SQL/JSON – the sobering parts
Next time please come ask on /r/lisp or Discord! The beginner documentation is getting better.

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/getting-started.h...

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web.html

an example web app: https://github.com/rajasegar/cl-trello-clone
Nothing of value would be lost
Let's instead get rid of private air travel. Has caused a pandemic and millions of deaths.

And the emissions are very likely larger than those of Bitcoin.

People can go on vacation by train instead. If you demand people use slow legacy money then I can demand slow legacy travel, ok? ;)
Usage of the word "justify" implies that there's some objective "just" level of work relations that we can deduce that would be fair for everyone. I don't think that this universality exists.

Some people are okay with this, some are not. Some companies want this, some do not. There are plenty of different employees and employers out there, and they can balance their respective wishes on a free market.
Tim Cook is one of the best managers in the world but this is one of very few instances where Apple completely forgot about their mission as a company under his leadership.

I'm surprised he went ahead with this considering how much privacy goodwill they have built up over the years.
In the context of competition, it doesn't matter if you can throw furthest in the history, you just have to throw it further than your competitors.
That logic doesn't work with current court interpretation of Anti-Trust. Read Judge Richard Posner on modern Anti-Trust law. Its not the late 1800s where it was basically politicians driving Anti-Trust train.
You sound just like the hero of this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nongqawuse
> How on earth can someone defend not paying a living salary for a full time job?

Putting the employer on the hook for more aspects of the employee's well-being (healthcare, living wage) only increases the gap between employed and unemployed, therefore increasing the bargaining power of employers. I think it's better to have society provide a basic standard of living (most importantly housing and healthcare) to all poor people, employed or not.
It would be interesting to use Google as a search engine for your own computer, but I'm sure it's not that easy
Not acceptable for a technology being deployed to hundreds of millions of people.
This way of presenting the data is the most legit. Only if you are a scientist, climate journalist or have a general interest in climate collapse you are watching this.

If they used PR language and used big, visual metaphors, the deniers would nitpick every little detail of it. See how the grand statements of Al Gore's documentary are still used nowadays to prove the climate is not collapsing at the moment. (You can even scroll down here to see it happen).

Flashy educational presentations can quickly backfire - see DARE program or "You wouldn't download a car".
Edit: bad boy
> Some of the best software I've used are mostly developed by solo developers or small teams (Sublime, YNAB4) because they actually care about their product instead of the underlying tech.

But YNAB is also a great example of apps-getting-worse — you're explicitly praising the 2012 version over the 2015/evergreen version.

(In YNAB's case, they had business reasons to make the app worse (or thought they did), but I bet that's true of many of the examples in TFA)
Having worked in the mobile space for the last decade, it is my experience that these UI/X changes usually are a side effect of new management (after a purge) or from way on high (the c-suite).

Neither one of these groups know much about UI/X but hold strong personal opinions which they automatically believe must hold true for all users.

I am currently in a tug of war over such UI/X change for a feature in a banking application, making the case that we have plenty of older users who will have massive issues with the current redesign.

My suggestions on performing user testing on the new design to validate them has not received much support over the last weeks.

And so, I have started looking around for other opportunities on the market (this is also why places with bad UI/X continue doing so, they select for the people who are ok with making it).
The experiment is still ongoing. In July Anand and Kramnik (former WCs) played a no castling match:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/anand-beats-kramnik-in-no-ca...
It is this kind of "scraping for me but not for thee" that turned me off of social networks.

They used to make my account discoverable, which was the point of having a social network. Publicizing my experiences.

But now they all hide it behind a loginwall. No thanks. I made my own website.
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There were no right to 8 hour work or paid leave, or paternity leave, until there were. work rights are not fundamental (as in, 'natural'), they are granted by worker's protection laws and they havent changed much in decades. Combined with climate action, i don't see why legislators shouldn't nudge businesses to switch to work from wherever
I think programming is one of the least puzzle solving like activities in our industry.

Want to do incident response to figure out which 15 factors came together in perfect harmony to take down the site for 6 hours? That's a lot like puzzle solving imo.

Want to do security "research" (aka find vulns), i think that is a lot like puzzle solving.

Normal programming? Not so much. Maybe if you are debugging a complicated bug.
Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
I'm trying to find the Summary For Policymakers, which in the last report was a really good summary. I've found the link here:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

and yet so far it's just a dummy PDF with just "TEST PDF - Please Replace".

Edit: It's up now
Yes. That was a rather arrogant stab of jealousy. Big piles of concentrated wealth sometimes gets spent on important projects that governments (ie. normal people) won't or can't do.
people on this forum love private jets, but hate bitcoin.

why? ppl that travel on private jets can travel commercial, or are some people exempt from climate change damage somehow?
I see you're getting downvoted but maybe "get rid of" isn't the best approach. Certainly taxing air travel at a chunky rate would reduce unnecessary flights.
I frankly don't think this would make sense. Imagine explaining the people of a country, that they aren't allowed to fly to e.g. Mallorca anymore. The acceptance would be somewhere between low and zero.

Maybe private air travel in one country, e.g. from Munich to Berlin could be reduced, but not international flights without any resistance
Emissions from aviation contributes 3% to greenhouse gasses.
And the reclining political stability will make it even harder to do long term investments with no immediate pay-off. Which will probably reinforce this climate crisis.
I prefer we don't do anything, so that people such as this can suffer so that future generations can learn from their foolishness.
Absolutely. It reminds me of way back when the NDP (left-wing party in Canada) was asked "who is rich?" and the answer was "a family of 4 making more than $60k per year". That honesty did not go over well at all, but it's the truth. There aren't that many ultra-wealthy. To raise real money, the definition of rich pretty quickly drops to the top 10-25% of income earners and suddenly some dude making $80k per year is being told he's rich.
You are focusing on numbers which will lead you nowhere. The reason the US has a struggling population is that the US has a population that didn't have a good education and training. If you want to make a population richer, you need to train people to do things (ie: Plumbing, installing an Air Conditioner, becoming an ophthalmologist, etc...). As evidenced by the latest stimulus checks, giving people money will only create inflation and a shortage of low-wage workers. The US is very rich and connected, so lack of raw resources is not one of its issues.

Jeff Bezos can have $200bn+ in the bank without affecting the economy. The effect of seizing these $200bn and distributing them is the same as quantitatively easing them into the economy. Some people exert power through work or politics. Some people have none and want to exert power through "journalism" and "shaping opinions". It's all fun and games until these people are elected (through populism probably coupled by a recession); which is when you need to prepare your luggage and get the hell out of such a place.
What's it like to be a bat?
It's probably because Facebook touches more people daily than "most of the companies"? (1.9 billions daily and 2.89 billions monthly according to their latest quaterly report[0], and that's for the Facebook website only, not the whole family products).

The website can also have an influence on many people lives since a lot of people use it as one of their main source of information etc.

[0] : https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q2...
In my country, newspapers publish alarmist articles every day, they find anywhere in the world, anything climate related, a flood, a fire, a hot or cold temperature somewhere, they put a stupid photo such as a cute polar bear on a small iceberg, and they publish an article that looks like plain propaganda, it's sickening because it's politics instead of science. Perhaps that's what they are referring to.

Or, they are referring to the IPCC reports themselves, for sure, the third and last working group who has the final words are not scientists indeed, which leads to all these "mistakes" in every final report that our politicians use (or try to) to create new taxes on the poor.
It is always fascinating how little respect FB has for its users, yet they stay.
What does a French accent have to do with anything?
> We judge these programs under the wrong assumption that it is run by the good guys. Any system that depends on the goodness of the people running it is dangerous, because it can be taken over by the bad guys.

And sometimes, the "good guys" in their attempts to be as good as they can imagine being, turn into the sort of person who'll look a supreme court judge or Congresspeople or oversight committees in the eye and claim "It's not 'surveillance' until a human looks at it." after having built PRISM "to gather and store enormous quantities of users’ communications held by internet companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook."

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/09/14/q-us-warrantless-surveil...

Sure, we copied and stored your email archive and contact lists and instant messenger history. But we weren't "surveilling you" unless we _looked_ at it!

Who are these "good guys"? The intelligence community? The executive branch? The judicial branch? Because they're _all_ complicit in that piece of deceit about your privacy and rights.
Great point. The advantage to learning CS concepts via maths is that it teaches you to think in a completely different, more abstract way. And because it's just 'maths', the skills you learn are widely transferable.

My favourite example of this is graph theory, which you can find deep applications of just about anywhere in programming.
> Time and time again the wealth of the middle classes ends up as collateral damage in attempts to tax the very top.

What are examples of this happening?
Flatpak's "document portal" is a FUSE filesystem.
Not sure how stable they are in that environment but we found some 80 year old tomato seeds in my grandfather’s shed when he died and they germinated. They didn’t produce fruit though which was weird.
Here's an informed article on bitcoin's energy use [0].

[0]: https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...
Why 50%? Assuming we are talking about Bezos and AMZN the max tax would be 20% for long term capital gains?
Biden's promise has already morphed into "household's making more than $400,000", not individuals.

Suddenly all those dual tech worker couples in Silicon Valley are wealthy!
> This pact aims to keep the rise in global temperatures well below 2C this century and to pursue efforts to keep it under 1.5C.

It seems to me that continuing to communicate just the average temperature increase is a missed opportunity to engage with a greater portion of the population.

1.5 or 2 degrees do not seem like much, but once one understands that’s an average made out of much bigger positive and negative swings in temperature, one gets a much more dramatic picture.

I suspect focusing on the widening of the temperature range, rather than the average temperature change would work better with communications to the wider public
> Closed Brayton cycles for power generation have a commercial history dating to the late 1930’s when the first of a series of power generation plants using the closed Brayton cycle made use of air as a working fluid. These closed air Brayton units operated from the late 1930’s through the 1970’s using a variety of energy sources including coal, gas, and waste heat. These recuperated Brayton cycle installations achieved good reliability and relatively high efficiencies as compared to other power generation technologies of the era.

So why did we stop using them?
Easy, because it's their home, not an office, not a place to be video recorded and studied by algorithms.
If we don't understand this simple fact we are doomed.
Only one world communist government can save us!!!!
Sure, so StarCitizen (the game) used Cryengine at first but Crytek (the company behind Cryengine) was not doing well, and some talents left it. In the meantime Amazon took Cryengine over and renamed it to Lumberyard (now Open 3D Engine). StarCitizen then turned to Lumberyard because..well the because the state of Crytek, and Crytek sued SC, it a bit more complicated why CT sued SC sure, but no one want to work with Crytek nowadays because of that.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/21/21147664/crytek-star-citiz...
What is a "living salary"?

If I'm a single mom with 3 kids, is the "living salary" the same as a single 20 year old who lives at home?
Great to hear someone else is doing the same. For me the biggest issue is I have young kids and the convienence of quick photo taking is good on a smartphone. Might look into pinephone or something similar.
War is a Racket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
"Wont somebody think of the (white, wealthy, documented) chiiiiilren!"

:sigh:
The Summary For Policymakers is coming out next year.
The normal meaning of scraping is that you have to be automating bulk access to the site, which isn't happening here.

And even under a different definition that would count normal browsing activity, the researchers still aren't doing scraping here. And each user is only collecting a few data points.
We should have more bitcoin.
Has any means of geoengineering been demonstrated as feasable?

Given our track record, it would probably be best for us to scale back our consumption while promoting re-forestation. Nature can likely heal itself far better than our wildest geoengineering ambitions.
This heavily aligns with my experiences over the past few years.

Where Google once used to return exact or close results for very specific or niche searches, I feel like it struggles to even land in the same ballpark of results. I've been asking myself whether the results have always been this bad more and more over the last year and a half thinking I've been taking crazy pills. Unfortunately, the current competitors still perform even worse for the same queries so it's not like there's enough of a reason to default elsewhere (yet, I hope).
Here’s a maybe unpopular opinion: do we need to convince everyone? We just need to take action. This is about the survival of the civilization, not about pampering every lunatic.
Still, if it leaks out it will displace a lot of air, just because of how dense it will have to be.
Even standard business problems might have to tackle the complexities of scale, e.g. seemingly boring things like web crawling can get difficult fast without knowing the fundamentals.

At the very least, knowing maths gives you a new perspective in tackling the problems you face even on boring CRUD apps.
In Germany it is being mentioned now, to make them non free, exactly for the reason you mention. But until now it has been free.

Also it is a source of income for the places performing the tests (from the government). For instance, many clubs were adapted into testing points.
That's a fairy big chunk. Especially if you take into account that globally almost nobody can afford to fly.
sure you can make up rights, most of them will be rejected, but if society at large likes them they 'll become permanent. Remote work increases the freedom of the individual, is beneficial to the environment, has negligible-or-positive effect to economic output. It's hard to make a case against it, especially since it doesn't violate anybody else's rights (the "remote" location can be the office)

In fact legislators don't need to enforce anything yet, but they need to make remote work more feasible. Things like, don't require physical headquarters or physical paperwork and inspections, don't tie any kind of taxation/social security etc to physical locations, facilitate faster switching of jobs etc.
and Fortran 77 is compatible with Fortran 66
> It’s too late either way. The fact that it even got this far through implementation says the vendor is not on my side.

Can Apple force people to install this even on devices they already sold?
Are you sure? I got the link from this page:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM

which besides being already up is called "AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis". It also says the PDF is supposed to be "39 pages".
It’s higher than all meats, and most meat alternatives other than pure soy protein.
This is great until your company decides to move to bitbucket or whatever and suddenly you lose those repo metadata without a big ugly migration
This initial version assumes that the entire dataset is a fair representation of the underlying phenomena, i.e. the "true" distribution can be estimated from data already. As the package develops and users of the package have more knowledge about different true distributions, the tool should be able to operate without this assumption. Hence aggregating knowledge about different distributions to eventually remove the assumption is part of the roadmap.
> is the people passing the laws on surveillance don't understand the technology that surrounds it.

And that the people running the surveillance have a rich track record of lying to the people who are considering whether to pass the laws they're proposing.

"Oh no, we would _NEVER_ surveil American citizens using these capabilities!"

"Oh yeah, except for all the mistakes we make."

"No - that's not 'surveillance', it's only metadata, not data. All we did was bulk collect call records of every American, we didn't 'surveil" them."

"Yeah, PRISM collects well over 80% of all email sent by Americans, but we only _read_ it if it matches a search we do across it. It's not 'surveillance'."

But they've stopped doing all that, right? And they totally haven't just shared that same work out amongst their five eyes counterparts so that what each of them is doing is legal in their jurisdiction even though there are strong laws preventing each of them from doing it domestically.

And how would we even know? Without Snowden we wouldn't know most of what we know about what they've been doing. And look at the thanks get got for that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTanhErR_E
Parent suggested "getting rid of bitcoin" so I dare to suggest getting rid of something else as well :)
They could force a drawn-out engagement, though, which in many cases the attackers couldn't support. You needed a lot fewer people to defend a castle than to assault it.