skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For news, is global population the best metric to use? Wouldn’t you want maybe the “origin of things that will effect everyone”?

What percent of the global economy? What percent of industry/invention? What percent of entertainment? What percent of military?

Edit: No one wants to address military
> California is facing a drought so devastating, some publications call it “biblical”.

California is in a great place to address most (all?) of the ills plaguing it through sustainable infrastructure investments, such as mass solar (we are at what only 14% as a state?!), solar storage, desalination, etc.

Fire situation can be helped with controlled burns and better overall management.
This is exactly what it's about. Humans constantly trading away more and more of their freedoms until we live inside a prison.
Well, I stand corrected. You returned the money because you got caught. How upstanding.

Your crypto schemes are just boiler room scams dressed up in CS jargon.
> UK Covid deaths 133,000 vs Australia Covid deaths 1054.

Looking at all cause mortality and just eyeballing, it looks like in most cases Covid19 is reducing some lives by a few times while the fact that no one lives forever stubbornly persists.

Australia: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provis...

UK: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I haven't had to remove my shoes in airports for a decade or so, I suspect this is mostly a US thing at this point.
Some media organizations focus on spreading information. I would say NPR focuses on that. They're not infallible, sometimes they're wrong, sometimes they miss an angle, but I get the sense that they're truly more interested in spreading information than spreading opinion.

Wikipedia as well. Other people try to use Wikipedia to sway public opinion, but Wikipedia itself seems rather opposed to articles designed for that.

Reuters seems to do some solid work as well. I don't usually get a heavy spin vibe from them, but maybe it's an international spin that I'm not in on.
Thanks! Macroexpanded

Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13043559 - Nov 2016 (20 comments)

Great Molasses Flood - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361913 - Oct 2015 (5 comments)

Looks like these are the other ones with comments:

The Great Molasses Flood (1919) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25911280 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

In 1919, a 40-foot molasses wave slammed into city’s North End, killing 21 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913799 - Jan 2019 (1 comment)

How the Boston Molasses Disaster Ushered in the Era of Modern Regulation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18863555 - Jan 2019 (2 comments)
100% This. It's sad, but whomever calls another sketchy first, sets the optics.
>I laugh to the bank...

Because it's money that counts above all else, right?

Edit: It seems like your former company has still been operating in a shady manner since your departure [1], making it that much harder for me to take anything you say in good faith.

[1] https://medium.com/@svenema/sec-powerless-against-crypto-rug...
I happen have a fascist (not neo-fascist, not nazi nor neo-nazi) friend. We do have some common points of view. We both don't believe in meritocrazy. And part of success is cultural and predeterminated (i think 90% is cultural, he think 40% of it is, although this percentage rises after each of our discussions. My communism seems to wear him down /s).

I also happen to know a lot people who have the same ideology that he have, on some discord servers, probably less sharpened and less cultivated (i mean, you've got to read a bit of Nietzsche if you want to argue in good faith with this ideology). I'd say they are proto-fascist, or proto-nazi. And actually, a lot of people i see on the internet called neo-nazi are in fact proto-nazi. It's interesting, because i've seen old TV interviews of 60s and 70s philosophical debate, i've read old books, and they were much, much more philosophically advanced than the current debates are.

By the way, i use nazism to make a small distinction with "usual" fascism. To me, nazis empathize more on personnal success than "regular" fascists, who are more deterministic (genes, culture makes more difference than effort and good will). I worked that out with my self-proclaimed fascist friend, if you disagree i'd like a criticism of the idea.
Is there any career overlap between software engineering / data science and fighting climate change? Was hoping the article would touch on it.
Indeed, I have no issue with the police having the power to read whatever data a warrant grants.

My problem is the linked page says:

> A DATA DISRUPTION WARRANT enables the agencies to “add, copy, delete or alter” data on devices.

Copy is fine, it’s the other three which are scary. Perhaps they shouldn’t be scary, perhaps they have well-defined meanings in law I’m just not familiar with (like how “Hacker News” has nothing to do with cyber crime), but I can only respond within the limits of my knowledge, and that seems scary.
https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2021/7/30/the-struggle...

Carbon sequestration is probably going to be important, but if it in any way enables more fossil fuels to be burnt, then it's probably a net negative. We need it to take stuff back out of the atmosphere, not extract and then store yet more fossil Carbon.
>The goal of terrorism is to scare people into restricting their own freedoms.

There are many possible motives for terrorism but I highly doubt this is one of them, even though people love to repeat it for some reason.
No, I think it'll be cheaper to use HVDC transmission and interconnects to network the largest electrical systems in the US [1] so that you can shift power across the continent. No need to run cables to Asia, Africa, or Europe. We already import clean hydro from Canada to parts of the US (specifically between Ontario and New York state). Also, as I mentioned, I expect the cost of battery storage to come down, to where it combined with renewables at ~1 cent/kwh is still cheaper than fossil fuels even assuming long duration discharge (8-10 hours).

I can call Tesla today and have a Megapack installed in a few months. Same for solar and wind utility scale installs. If I break ground on a nuclear reactor today, it will be at least a decade before you see the first kilowatt generated. Georgia's Vogtle units 3 and 4 nuclear generators are six years behind schedule and costs have ballooned to almost $10 billion [2]. $10B buys a lot of renewables and batteries.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/NE...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...
Bad Blood: The Final Chapter
That is the slippery slope to eroding the co-operative. You don't work for the company but rather the programmer company they contract out to. That way instead of wealth disparity within a company you have it hidden amongst cooperatives. No net gain.

And this isn't just being facetious, the executive team already sees the sales team as the real value-adders and the developers as merely a cost centre.

Either you respect the toilet cleaner or you don't respect anyone.

As an annecdote, the company handy-man was the social glue that held morale together. He was never recognised for it, but it was always him firing up the grill on a nice day, or remembering your birthday. Everyone matters or no one does.
Is it under your control? Say you do have the vaccines but get to the airport and find out you are on a no fly list. Is that issue trivially easy to fix? From some of the post I've read here, it's a black box system with very little standard process to help you get out of it. Filing law suite isn't easy[0].

[0] https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/michigan-father-wrongly-...
Maybe additional training in first aid helps in a terrorist attack, maybe it helps when grandpa has a heart attack. At any rate it is hard to see the downside. Maybe, except that if you do this in the US you end up politicizing first aid too.

The other side of the coin is that we should be focusing left-of-bang, preventing terrorism much earlier.
My first program was a "choose your own adventure" text game on the TI-83 in middle school.

I majored in mechanical engineering and got an internship writing Bash scripts to test hard drives by virtue of having a great GPA. It was way more fun than any of my MechE classes, so I went to CS classes with some friends who were getting CS minors (I wasn't allowed to actually take the courses because of pre-reqs) and lucked into a SWE job.

Right now I'm about half SRE and half SWE, which I enjoy. I dislike the amount of bureaucracy and the never ending dependency updates - we currently have a great way to alert on security vulnerabilities in dependencies, but no great way to automatically update.
If all you know is JIRA then Notion feels like a breath of fresh air. Like it's not fast, but I never really expected blinding speed since Notion pages are so dynamic. But it's also not JIRA's click on something then wait a few seconds for the UI to catch up on a many thousand dollar laptop.
How Sophisticated Are Terrorist Attacks on Passenger Rail Transportation
Couple that with a bomb inside the van, ez killscore.

But why kill? Why not attach several 20W lasers to a drone and fire them up on a busy bridge/road? Living in suffering is a worse fate.
> How did you first get into programming?

I wanted to know HOW someone could take a bunch of text and turn it into a website. I didn't know if any dragging and dropping of text and boxes was involved, or if it was some other kind of magic. A few years ago I bit the bullet and attended a bootcamp, and got my first job 7 months later. After 2.5 years there, I got my second job.

> What is it about coding that got you hooked?

I love the fact that you can make things out of nothing, and that we're at the forefront of emerging tech.

> What is your experience with university?

I have a two-year Associate's degree and a 4-year Bachelor's degree, both of which are completely unrelated to CS.

> How did you get your first paid work?

Prior to my first job I was approached to make a website for someone's business, but it's like I'd walked into a red flag store. The client didn't really know what they wanted, the pay they offered was minuscule, and most importantly I got the strong sense that the client was going to be incredibly difficult to work with. My first true paid work was through my first job.

> What do you do now?

I'm a software engineer at a medium-sized tech company. The tech stack and best practices are leaps and bounds better than at my first job, but the learning curve is much steeper.

> What do you love/hate about your job?

Like: The pay, the stricter practices (people care about the future), the company's product, and people work pretty normal 9-5 hours.

Dislike: There's a LOT to learn. It's not the fault of the company, though, it's just the reality of the situation.
I started programming in about 7th grade. A website/game I enjoyed was Neopets. Neopets allowed you to create grounds called guilds which had HTML pages you could customize, so I learned HTML.

Later on I started playing Minecraft. I was interested in running a public server and creating a community, so I learned the basics of system administration (ssh, ftp, bash, linux, website domains, etc.). This was extremely helpful, practical knowledge that gave me many advantages over my peers in school.

In high school my server grew more and more. I learned about virtualization vs bare metal servers. I set up a website and forum using off-the-shelf software (XenForo, Apache, MySQL). I did small front end programming tasks in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When I needed to learn more I did just that.

Aside from the technical aspects I also learned things like web design, game design, Photoshop, the importance of backups, and managing a community.

At some point I wanted to write my own mods for the server. Java was intimidating, so I used Skript which was a scripting language that could perform actions in the game. This worked for a while, but I quickly outgrew it and sought to learn Java.

I wrote several mods for the game and published a few with success. I learned more and more Java. It was an excellent time where I learned the basics of programming and programming languages. I learned design patterns like Singletons and connection pooling. I learned how to use event based APIs to write handlers, how to use file system apis, how to keep data in memory & persist to disk. I learned how to use git/GitHub to share my work and version it. I kept on running. A server until I entered college as a computer science student. Around my freshman/sophomore year I started to lose interest, so I shut it down.

I college I found classes to be extremely easy, so I didn’t spend much time on them. I spent time on projects and solving problems I had. I wrote many different web apps, created a smart thermostat, and wrote better interfaces for my schools atrocious websites.

I had an internship my freshman summer at a packaging plant. I did data entry and wrote small scripts/programs. My sophomore summer I studied approach. Junior year I applied for an internship at AWS on a whim, and much to my surprise I got and interview and eventually an offer. I interned at AWS that summer and received a full time offer. I worked at AWS after I graduated and stayed for about two years. I started my current job at RStudio yesterday, so I can’t give much info about that yet :)
An exemption from registration is functionally an exemption from most parts of the act.

Sure, don't start manipulating your market or front running everyone.

But for me that's enough. Everyone can issue to everyone and everyone can trade. That's what we're going for. And if you believe that means the SEC can still police and protect gullible easily swayed people, isn't that what everyone wants? That's a perfect medium.

The act does not mention commercial paper, it is clear that the purpose of the exemption is to not disrupt the trade of rich people in the commercial paper market. Even more reason of ignoring the commercial paper assumption and corroborating musings of the regulator. People are just afraid of challenging it because so much money is involved and they don't want to to take a risk as an issuer which typically requires a relationship with the regulator, and a relationship with the investors, and a way to actually make an attractive enough return. Markets weren't fast enough for that most of the time, now it is. Its ripe for disruption and challenge.
Seems like overkill to get the integrations into a single product.

Surely, buy 25% shares and seat on the board. Make a contract that Notion integrations are advertised first and everything else is encouraged to work with it.

That way automate still has a larger target market and provides a channel into Notion sales.

This kills automate's growth. I wonder what the price tag was.
They didn't mention the most important tip: Most dishwashers draw from the hot water tap and then use the first ~gallon that comes out for the crucial first scrub, regardless of what temperature comes out the pipe.

Thus, you'll get much better results if, right before pressing Start, you run the kitchen sink's hot water tap until it gets hot.

Second best tip: Spill a bit of detergent outside the detergent box so the initial scrub gets some soap. (The rest gets released in the secondary wash cycle.)
But they are dependencies for very popular software, like IBM FileNet...
I would recommend the series first — AE assumes familiarity with the recognition primed decision making model (or RPD) which I cover in the series.

If you want to read books to prepare yourself, read:

- Sources of Power by Gary Klein

- Power of Intuition by Gary Klein

Before AE.

And then be prepared to download LOTS of papers to read concurrently while reading the book. AE is not written for the layperson.
So like a smaller version of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

e.g, instigate some large bloom of plant matter or algae, and engineer/find the right conditions for the matter to sink to the bottom of the ocean without decomposing.
I have my doubts that the cost of hiring that much security makes them much of anything. I didn't see anyone bringing picnics to the game ... at all even before the events.
How our engineering teams run without managers
Ask HN: What is the Venn diagram of the linguistic construction “and or”?
It seems there could be multiple, subtle interpretations:

- and AND or

- and OR or

- (and AND or) AND (and OR or)

- (and AND or) OR (and OR or)

- others?

What's the one that makes the most sense to you? And why? How do you think it is used conventionally?

It seems to me that it's something easy to say, and easy to feel "yes I understand that" but when you think more about it, perhaps that clarity present in the initial impression dissipates, and you're left wondering..."What exactly did I just say?"
I was taking AP classes in highschool for fun just to take as many as possible. That included AP Computer Science.

I felt behind at the beginning so worked extra hard to catch up. The teacher let us work at our own pace and before I knew it I was several chapters ahead of the rest of the class. Then I spent class time writing naive math programs to do stuff like numerically compute integrals. When I discovered BigInteger I was so excited.

I think my future career was determined then but I did not realize it at the time.
> People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms.

> Yeah, sure you can be banned for questioning if an untransitioned man wearing a wig is really a women, but this isn't what most people are concerned about.

> the guy produced "conspiracy" content but it's really high quality stuff with no hate at all.

> I'm not coming at this from any political position.

can you hear yourself?
Depends on your detergent too, the lemon scented stuff seems to induce way more rust than the unscented.
> Within two days, they exchanged phone numbers and a video call was made by the woman.

The real story is: while common people cannot get a mobile phone number or open a bank account without providing personal details going back seven generations under so-called KYC norms, these scammers have access to a seemingly infinite supply of both.
When I was 14 I played MUDs. The MUD I played only allowed one account per user. I made two accounts and got banned. It was that day I decided to learn C and make my own MUD that allowed more than one account per user.
If you look in their docker-compose.yml file, they’re also running an instance of pictrs. So I assume that image uploads would be borked on a manual install. There’s another fork that uses iframely in a similar way
Yeah exactly. I would expect a tool like Lemmy to acknowledge that slur lists are a thing, make them easy to modify by admins, and make them exposed and easy to reference by users. Join Server / Policies / Word block list. Put it up front and center.
Neither. It's suspected it's a government funded propaganda movie and that was one of the reasons the launch of the Nauka module was so rushed, they needed it for the movie production.
Your website is a static page. You should put that behind CloudFlare (or similar) and get them to handle the traffic for you.
> We can replace capitalism when we have a better system

That's not how those changes happen. Regular people everywhere constantly experiment with lots of changes. Some stick. Then we retcon a pretty story over it to make it seem like there was some monotonically "better" trend.

It's certainly not as if humanity kept feudalism until a well-formed notion of capitalism was ready to replace it.
This is great idea, but may be tricky as people often just mess around with the world. You would need to, somehow, decide which abandoned base is visually appealing and/or matches the environment.
>using them in drunken brawls.

That's not a thing at games I've been to.

Lots of drunken folks, but fights are exceptionally rare.
I first got into programming when wanting to hack websites, around 13/14 years old. Me and my friend found hackthissite.org (which still seems to be running to this day, looking identical to how it was back then) and started doing the different challenges. We both realized we both needed to understand how to create programs in order to figure out how to destroy them, so we started learning programming. I ended up finding it more fun to create things than the security aspects, so I stopped trying to figure out hacking, and started building websites with PHP instead.

In the meantime I was studying bunch of different subjects in high school and gymnasium (I think it's called so in English, in Swedish would be "gymnasiet"), nothing related to IT. Also had bunch of different jobs at the same time. Programming was just a hobby.

Fast forward to around 2012, I moved from Sweden to Spain (Barcelona) and started working with call centers for cold calling and also support. It got very boring very quickly, compared to elder care that I did in Sweden, so I started looking around for other opportunities.

I started emailing bunch of different startups (companies with less than 10 people) in Barcelona that I was happy to work for free just in order to build a resume and could start out doing internships if needed first.

Out of ~20 emails going out, one replied and I interviewed there. The owner of the company agreed to let me start working there, but not for free since it's not legal so I had to be paid at least minimum salary by law.

Did that for 1.5 weeks and then the owner wanted to hire me, even though I had zero experience with professional development. After that I started publishing some open source libraries that made other companies look my way in Barcelona as well. But without that first position in the startup that answered, I'd probably wouldn't have gotten into the industry. So thank you Martin!

> Some questions I'm interested in are: How did you first get into programming?

Curiosity and wanting to break things. Grew up and started wanting to create/contribute things instead.

> Were any books, blogs, forums, or people particularly helpful for your growth? What is it about coding that got you hooked?

Stack Overflow and IRC were the top resources, particularly IRC as people were less anal, more friendly and you also got to know people, compared to Stack Overflow which is very transactional.

> What is your experience with university? Did you get a degree, was it worth it, do you think it helped you find work, what did you love/hate about uni?

Generally don't like the structure of having one teacher <> many students and feel it's generally a waste of time. But I could just have had a shitty history with schools in general. I dropped out of school as soon as I could.

> How did you get your first paid work (family & friends, internship, freelance, full-time)?

Outlined above but short answer: Acknowledge I would work for pennies (or less) and cold-email all startups in the city I lived at the time. Ended up in a full-time position.

> What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

Nothing! I love it :)
_____ requires a browser, so it's less resilient than a solution without a browser dependency.
Google’s Answer to Overheated Job Market: Demanding Proof of Rival Offers
> non-state actors

States can, have, and do engage in terrorism.
Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end
The amazing Randi would talk about those often during his interviews.

Apparently some were a bunch of random hardware glued together + a bunch of ants in the inside
Yeah... Thinking about it, I remember my mum watching the funeral for Lady Diana back in 1997.

> It consumed the nation for a fair bit of time.

Now I'm European, and I remember that our teachers back in school spend the whole day explaining what happened, and maybe why. (It was late afternoon here, when the attacks started, so I'm talking about the next day). But everyone was in disbelief, and also afraid of the response.