skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just the beginning I believe.

20 years ago we were 6bn humans, today we are very close to 8bn and in a little more than 20 years ahead we are 10bn.

It's an alarming growth rate, and considering how much each person use resources and produce waste during their lifetime, I'd say we are looking at quite a bit more extinct species in the future.
I think this article has one key insight: that generating new ideas and rigorously testing them are orthogonal activities. More than that - if people who generate ideas are also responsible for selling them they will likely overstate their evidence and hide inconvenient facts.

But after this excellent point the rest of the article seemed like incomplete speculation: "Maybe there will be two kinds of scientists, maybe some scientists will have to take less autonomous roles, maybe we need to pick most promising high-impact ideas and assign them for testing".

I wish authors spent more time distilling their proposal and making it concrete.
What's the point of buying a car without A/C? You might save $1000 now, but you'll lose several thousand at trade-in time because no one else will want your car.
This is true for pixels too; think about a median or blur operation, or a 2d fluid sim, you might gather and combine the nearest NxN pixels. 2d and 3d are nearly identical, the main difference is just indexing. Parent comment was talking about the single formula that produces the output value written to the cell, which as you say might well involve reading inputs from many nearby cells. Fluid mechanics can also be thought of as a single formula per output cell. (And normally it’s most natural to organize GPU threads so that they are 1:1 with output cells.)
There was nudity in Where's Waldo!?
Dependency management.

Why is everything so hard in a large code base?

Same reason.
Which part of the full Slack reply is dishonest?
They have very rare skills, but also live in a small pool employers as well.
From their comments about it being a setback, it doesn't sound like it was planned to happen so quickly.
Facebook failing to safeguard marketplace users
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/how-toyot...

It wasn't enough it seems.
Footers, headers, update date.
And how often you keep those separate and operate the car? Can you even safely store one in safe place and still use the car? Or is there more factors. Which then increases the potential failure cases. And I prefer really not to involve anything like pin codes, fingerprints, facial recognition needed for me to drive my own car.
So? If the extent of the "ban" is discontinue of availability at a middle school by the authority of a local government or citizen school board in Oklahoma or some such place, it is still a very feeble form of censorship that I don't find interesting at all - just as I'm not interested in what books are or aren't available at the premises of any other local Oklahoma government department building. Anyone can just buy these supposedly banned books themselves if they want to read it. It's not comparable to books that are actually banned.
It's funny that the latter description is probably just as accurate for the people who banned To Kill a Mockingbird as it is for the people who banned Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, given that the two groups are probably diametrically opposed to each other politically. Both groups seem to have a problem with depictions of racism.
Probably because slack doesn’t want a long tail of future hard to pin down issues related to people not reverting their changes to their hosts file.
nuro https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
As opposed to having one with a human driver?
I’m pretty sure ‘zzzeek was riffing with me, not attempting to debunk me, given their top comment.

But then again, that’s what every fool thinks!
Actually, I bought it right after you told me about it! It’s super interesting and I learned a lot from it
I think GitHub support Asciidoc already, you just have to specify it.

Or is that GitLab?
Thanks, Dang :)

I feel safe now that I know someone good is around to protect against the nasty baddies (envious and jealous bullies).
Ask HN: Which real estate startups need a broker licence?
I'm working on a project that has a similar business model to pacaso.com (another interesting 2020 startup) - I'm curious if their model requires a real estate license. I've posted my concept mockup at https://www.parcelplot.us

From what it seems, Pacaso isn't claiming to actually buy or sell property on behalf of anyone, they're setting up an LLC for fractional real estate investment, and:

> choosing and managing the property management company; maintaining the LLC and resolving any disputes between owners or the municipality; continually innovating and improving the Pacaso app

But it does seem like it's a gray area. Obviously I'll need to consult an attorney but I wanted to get a better idea of the situation first.
If it's better to slow down the good and the bad ideas, red tape, organizational brakes, and a "default nope" culture are great.

It might also be better to have a much faster pace and more freewheeling "default don't care; if you can make it work, it'll stay" which also then requires a relatively ruthless culling mechanism (even if slightly unfair) for the things that don't work.
Did you intend to reply to the person you did?

My understanding of the parent post was poking fun at the fact that these chat spaces (Slack or otherwise) allegedly end up being a productivity loss as people spend more time finding the meme-of-the-week to post rather than working.

Nothing to do with the viability of Slack or whatever instant messenger you choose to use.
Congratulations and thanks to all involved! Do I understand correctly that, at this time, while PG has data sharding and partitioning capabilities, it does not offer some related features found in Citus Open Source (shard rebalancer, distributed SQL engine and transactions) and in Citus on Azure aka Hyperscale (HA and streaming replication, tenant isolation - I'm especially interested in the latter one)? Are there any plans for PG to move toward this direction?
Sure, not in a literal sense (to the extent they manage internal affairs with a sovereign fiat currency, it's not possible for them to be under water in that currency), but it's possible for them to destroy their own credit due to defaulting on debt obligations to the point that the economy suffers greatly and enters a hard-to-control downward spiral for many years. I think that's what most people understand by the concept of the government going "bankrupt".
I wish I had more opportunity to use Ada. GNAT Studio can be buggy but the language itself and the safety it brings to software engineering is really nice to work with.
One way to get quality backlinks is through a community like Help a Reporter, where journalists literally link up with bloggers.
It's what happens when there aren't enough colleagues willing to also sign. Once a majority are willing to sign, it's a lot easier to make your name public. Unfortunately, prior to that point there is a ding you take on credibility. However, it's pretty odd for employees to want their company to get criticized like this unless it deserves it. Why start something unless its real when the consequences are fighting the first or second richest man in the world?
I dunno? I guess I'd have to look at the statistics. My sense is that the Waymo vehicles at least are statistically safer than a human driver at these speeds, although not as competent. (I.e. they are less likely to cause an accident, but more likely to encounter a situation they can't handle and get stuck.)
Will you commit to ending finsta
Exactly this. You can be the best Physical Security - Spacecraft Engineer (making up a title obviously) on the planet who can make sure no unauthorized entities get into a spacecraft but if you piss off the 5 people who run spacecraft companies you will be unemployed.
"Overqualified".
I'll do my next reboot at nine, I'll do my next commute with wine.
Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks to Kids
You don't think they do, but Cloudflare estimated AWS' markup is 7959% here https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
> Ghosh says they’re trying to fully understand what they’re building before they start coding.

This should be normal practice IMO.
I could blame the pandemic but as far as I remember I always loved plants so it was really more of a reason to go crazy. I went from 4-5 potted plant to over 35 in the span of a year and half.

Actually taking care of plants in the sense that you fertilize them correctly, only mist the one that needs to be provide the right amount of sunlight, etc... is a really fun and inexpensive hobby.
Rolls Royce has actually been moving _away_ from shared platforms; only the Wraith and Dawn (both in their final year of production) are on a shared platform.

Certainly there's still shared components with BMW, but they've gone back to being more bespoke.
Well they do but need samples for all different altitudes. As the air pressure changes the composition of the atmosphere changes.
Same! Lazy Bear Weekend is always a treat. One of the most committed and community-focused groups around. https://www.lazybearweek.org/
Audi seems to be the brand for people who want a VW, but want to pay extra for it. It’s like the mirror image of Skoda or SEAT (VAG’s more ‘budget’ brands).
These bans probably mostly effect kids, who are probably the least likely people to be able to buy the books themselves.
My Top Ten Money Rules
My response to Morgan Housel and Barry Ritholtz articles on the same topics
GitHub supports it, so I don’t see why they don’t just encourage users to use it instead of reinventing the wheel with markdown
There are far less bugs than there were 50+ years ago. Without bugs birds and other small animals have to struggle more to eat. Work that all the way up the food chain. Its very sad and it will only get worse.
Orion browser blocks Youtube ads on iOS even before version 15 thanks to a built in adblocker. It also allows Picture in Picture support for Youtube videos. (disclaimer: developer)

https://browser.kagi.com
Nice tip, so basically like excel with tables
Does anyone even want to read that book though? It would be more interesting if there was some widely read book that wasn't available.
The delidding service wouldn't have made sense back then - the whole phenomenon arose only a few years ago when Intel changed the TIM material to something substantially worse than what you could get on the market.

It's still not clear to me why they did that.

But in any case, suddenly the thermal performance of Intel CPUs dropped significantly, which gave rise to the de-lidding phenomenon.

Now that Intel has switched back to a better TIM the era necessarily is over.

10-15 years ago folks did more overclocking but there wasn't really a need to de-lid, it was more about heat dissipation via elaborate cooling setups than messing with the chip package itself.
They are referring to the multiple parts in 'TFA' talking about Waymo using safety drivers and a 65mph limit.
I thought it could be misleading as well but it is not just calculating the “food you’ll need,” it is also calculating receipts over the same time that pay for food. It’s like saying you promised to buy a TV for $900 in December and by December you will only have $300. That means you will have to borrow $600 before then to meet that promise. Does that mean you owe $600 now, no, it does mean you either can’t buy the tv or will have to borrow that much more. It is essentially debt.
And AMD is also overclocking their own chips now.

The days of running a chip 20% faster are gone - now with much tweaking you'll get a few percent gain and way more power draw.

All this makes the Apple M1 chip look amazing, for single core loads it matches the best AMD and Intel have to offer.
I don't know why hashicorp and pulumi are all smug about this. In one go it's destroyed half their moats.
>Reddit-like software is open source, what's stopping anyone like you then? Talk is cheap.

That source code hasn't been updated in years.

>There are job ads on HN, plus HN is even more highly moderated than Reddit. So it's a very bad example.

If you add meaning to the words of others that is not there, then indeed, the examples are bad.

To bring up the moderation here, you're supposed to be nice and interpret the words of others positively. Your reply is bordering on malicious:

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
> If I'm reading this right, pre-pandemic sales were ~8 million. So a cut 1.4 million due to chip shortages represents an 18% drop. But compared to 2020, the drop is 23%.

But it's a low margin industry. They can now charge above MSRP. If they aren't stuck paying for parts (or labor) of the units they can't make, they might come out ahead. Fewer units, waaaay more profit per unit.
It's absolutely changed that much in since the 80s. For humans? Not that much. For tiny animals and bugs? Small change is massive change.
>"Hawaii has got to be a really fascinating and challenging case study for conservation vs. consumerism."

Indeed, and it is actually something I personally struggle with. The situation is actually much more dire than people realize. I myself am actually part Native Hawaiian and it is so disheartening to see fellow locals actively protest conservation measures. I do what I can to testify in public meetings but local pushback on things like ungulate eradication or land use laws are intense.

I don't want to dismiss them entirely because the concerns come from a real place, but those reasons are all economic in nature. And, you end up in the unenviable position of being a relatively privileged person telling a disadvantaged community they can't have the economic advancement they want. It is genuinely difficult.
Sounds like another chapter from The Innovator's Dilemma. IBM catching a tech wave after missing several in a row is quite unlikely.

With forward-looking engineering-centric management, they may have created/bought a startup to pioneer the cloud and been successful. As they did for the PC in '81. But the bean-counters that have been in charge for decades wouldn't allow it to happen.
Talking about censorship and banned books should be to highlight what is politically incorrect and indefensible in society, the ideas that are too dangerous to even consider. By seeing what ideas we reject on instinct we can highlight society’s biases. I find it hard to believe that most people would consider the books on this list too dangerous to allow people to read, they seem relatively tame. It’s much more likely that we would ban books dealing with pedophilia or rape, classified government information, COVID misinformation, or encouraging violence.
Disclosure: Another founder of Authzed, here.

Also, in case anyone was wondering, yes, SpiceDB is reference both Zanzibar and a popular sci-fi novel that will be in cinemas shortly.

>1. How does this compare with Ory Keto?

The blog post has a section dedicated to how SpiceDB improves on the Zanzibar paper[0]. Keto was originally a different project that has been rewritten to be Zanzibar-like. It is missing lots of the core functionality that I'd personally consider requirements to really be faithful to the paper: horizontally scalable, bounded staleness (Zookies), and userset rewrites, for example. ORY also develops a whole identity suite, while we're attempting to stay laser-focused on permissions and maintain vendor-neutrality.

>2. Can it be nativity (I can integrate in Postgres SQL) integrated with Row Level Security in Postgres?

We have been exploring the space between integrating deeply with Postgres from both entrypoints (SpiceDB->Postgres and Postgres->SpiceDB). For the former, we're playing with representing applications' Postgres databases as a read-only SpiceDB datastores. For the latter, we've checked out Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers, but they don't seem portable to the cloud hosted services like RDS. We're continuing to look for clever solutions, if anyone reading this bumps into any.

>3. Any interest in supporting TiDB as a backend?

I've created an issue for this[1].

[0]: https://authzed.com/blog/spicedb-is-open-source/#everybody-i...
[1]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/issues/154
It's also partly because so many isps got tired of their caches being basically useless because of so many people setting obscenely low ttls too. There's no winning answer.
I think people are referring to the practice of effectively creating footnotes with HTML anchor tags [1]

[1] http://karlwinegardner.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-create-fo...
I'm sure Ada makes a reliable program, but wouldn't it also be good to have an Erlang/Elixir style "self-healing" system with supervisors that can stop and restart each other?
I think a big thing people miss with the Spartans is that they didn't see themselves as the ideal warriors, they saw themselves as the ideal Greek citizens. Part of that was being a warrior, just as part of being a citizen in Athens was doing your military service. But because of the enforced equality among the (slave and land owning) citizen class, they were all expected to serve in the same manner and have time for poetry, hunting, and the other activities that a proper Greek citizen should do.
These listed books are nonetheless targeted. Yes, they are basically books people want to read, but busybodies complain about these books, not the garbage fire of books that nobody will ever bother reading.
Oho! Seems like same kinds of people who complain about “censorship” these days are the kinds of people doing it at the school level.

> But there's been a "notable shift" in the subject matter of books now being challenged in the U.S. When the American Library Association released its list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2020 in April, the books that received the most challenges to libraries and schools dealt with "racism, Black American history and diversity in the United States,"
If you ever want to bawl your eyes out, listen to the second half of Episode 20 of the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed: “QWERTY Keyboard and the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō Bird.”

Absolutely destroyed me, and I tear up everytime I just think about this episode.
The problem specifically is "just".

"Why don't they use containers instead of tarballs?" is a excellent question which can help you understand a system better.

"Why don't they just use containers instead of tarballs?" strongly suggests that containers are obviously superior and there must be some flaw in the system that's keeping the tarballs around.
In the few times I've priced blended connections at most Colo locations unmetered 10G is ~500/month to ~1000/month.

5Gbps*1 month is ~1.5 PB. AWS is about 0.02/gb or ~30k/1.5pb.

Approximately 30x the cost.

These are old numbers for specific use cases so I'm not sure how much that has changed.
jeez write your own wrapper script then. I don't understand what this needs to be bikeshedded for.
Those narrowly defined species might be the only thing keeping other species alive either directly (eg, pollinators) or indirectly (eg, biome creators). When individual species disappear, we often lose much more as collateral damage.
If you like this there's a meaty seven part blog series by historian Bret Devereaux about the mythology surrounding Sparta. It offers an account of what Sparta and the Spartan military was really like as well as how the Spartan mythos evolved.

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
For car-pedestrian, car-bicycle, and car-motorbike collisions, yes.

For car-car collisions, not really. Yes, getting into a head-on 30-30 MPH collision is pretty bad, but you're more than likely going to walk away from it, especially if you're in the back seat.
Thanks, good point. I'm thinking about adding a hacker news theme that mirrors the colors and fonts.

Showing a few replies would be possible, but I think it would clutter the interface and make the thing a bit more confusing. In my opinion showing the amount of replies should be enough, but I will keep this in mind.
I'm not sure how it is in Austria, but here in the US, people on the more "precarious" end of the spectrum (non-management retail and hospitality workers) have a quit rate of (very roughly) ~50% per year. So generally they do seem to be aware that they can choose a different place to work. Do you live somewhere very rural?
Comes down to your definition of advertisement.

It's not without self interest. But that was kind of my point. So I'd say you and I are on the same page, I just used a different way to describe it and if that wasn't clear, that's probably because of how I wrote it. But thanks for giving me your feedback.
It seems like a waste of time, when a just blog post could be 95% as helpful and be way faster and easier to publish.

You don't need peer review for everything.
Thank you!

I know it’s all the rage to say “gee why no v6 yet?”, but that’s a LOT of infrastructure and testing to overhaul…

The effort is much appreciated!
Can I propose another insight? AI sometimes works and works spectacularly and does not fail in 2% of the cases, or even in 0.02%. Just look at iPhone photos. But that AI application require deep domain knowledge + deep AI (or, well, ML, whatever) knowledge. You can't simply throw sklearn at an arbitrary problem and expect to get great results.
> "In 2019, Blue Origin leadership requested that all employees sign new contracts with a non-disparagement clause binding them and their heirs from ever saying something that would 'hurt the goodwill of the company,'" the essay authors write. "Contracts for some departing employees now mandated they pay the corporation’s legal fees if the corporation chose to sue them for breach of contract. The inner circle of leadership tracked who signed and discussed contingency plans for those who did not."

They signed non-disparagement contracts.
Uh, they only collect if you literally approve it on a full page popup that explains what the safety score is and how data is shared.

Just to clarify your position, you want to hand over beta car driving software to people that do not first pass a test for safe driving?
Also of note, we're still discovering MANY new species: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22202733/2020-new-spe...

I'm not in any way saying that we should not be concerned about species going extinct. I remember Dr. Malcolm's line about extinction from Jurassic Park.
Just buy Pulumi already and have them do it the way it's supposed to be. It's ridiculous that AWS documentation usually contains dozens of error prone manual steps.
You can buy the Waymo software as a consumer, and put it in your own car right now?
Robocars shuttling around actual people in SF at night in 2021 seems like it should surprise a lot of people who have been skeptics. The road to full, global, universal autonomy will probably take decades if we are going to use that as the standard, but the standard of being certain that autonomy will eat the world seems to be getting very close to being met.
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It’s true if you say it only once, or even not at all.