skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unpopular opinion: these cathedrals represent a horrifying waste of human capital, time, and talent. The cathedrals consumed a significant level of GDP during the times they were built. Imagine if those funds had been put into science instead - we may have seen the Renaissance in the 1300's. Every human life would have been qualitatively better.
An excellent answer.

Although JS has problems, it did already win so Node.js is useful in that sense. But async everything is nutso and requires lots of gating and checking mechanisms in order to get back to synchronous, imperative behavior which is what you normally want in a scripting language.

The setup/versioning and dependency hell issues of Node are absolutely bonkers. I work on a monrepo of 400,000 lines of code at work and I think most of the Node stuff is "just guessing" when people run it. Secret incantations that don't make any sense and have to be copy/pasted. All of Node is like this.
>To be fair, isn't this how every generation looks down on the next generation?

If we're talking about music, movies, fashion styles, etc, I'd say yes. However, no previous generation has had the juggernuat that is FB to compare to. FB has had more (at least potential) than any other source of influence on the younger generations especially those that are young enough to never know life without FB.
China has a lot of people and they want to live like we do in the west.
It can be very frustrating when someone you are trying to instruct just bails out on something that appears, at least to you, very simple to understand just by following some easy, clearly defined steps, and they exclaim: "No, I can't do this. It's just too complicated!"

In some cases, perhaps even most, this is due to an aggressive indifference to learning something new, but maybe it is not always the case that this is the explanation? It could be that the mechanism for understanding this one particular matter is genuinely missing or undeveloped in that person's brain.
When I upload the demo file, the UI for the Match step says that "0% of your rows have a value for this column" (and therefore that "100% of rows fail validation (repair on next step)").

However, the mini preview table of 3 rows shows that the names have been correctly extracted.

Either something is broken, or the UI is confusing.
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Facebook is an addiction.

"Just say no", is wonderful advice but the reality is somewhat more complicated.
This actually made me lol "captainredbeard"
This mortal sin: I named all of my servers after Wagnerian operas without realizing that might be a problem on a team composed almost entirely of Jews, Wagner being prime anti-Semite.

It started simply, with “Good morning” becoming “Shalom”; then, before I knew it, I was a card carrying, Nazi, anti-semite-by-association and that was that. I made half-hearted concern over it, but you can't so easily escape the brand once it’s charred. The passive intimidation was something. This was not at a small IT company, quite the opposite; and this falsity followed me around the company for a decade. Nothing would shake it. I was a Nazi.

I still adore Wagner. Fr. Owen Lee’s “Wagner, the Terrible Man and his Truthful Art” is helpful to disambiguate.
A big difference is that Audi was an established car maker that had made a lot of cars long before VW bought them. Polestar wasn't a car maker before being bought by Geely and has never made car independently of Volvo/Geely.
Common Lisp has more than two namespaces.
Can the US tackle rising beef prices?
And where exactly is the problem with the compiler rewriting tail calls into a loop on the assembly level? Calling this a "lie" is pretty childish.
you just need to bring those belts to the first LAB. Rest of them can get science by stealing using inserters
Ebola comes to mind, yeah. Discussing rates is error-prone, I think. The effects that cause a change in absolute numbers are topically different than the effects that cause a difference in proportion.
Whatever language is used, there is a choice of either positional or named arguments.

Consistently using named arguments for a CLI to an API seems to be a good idea. Nothing to do with whether the API is written in Java.

All of the AWS CLI support input in JSON or YAML as well and will generate the skeleton of the call for you as well.
Why not over say, mid ocean or mid-desert, in a fixed spot?
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What do you think about the argument in the NYT piece? He suggests the necessity for geoengineering even if/when we stop emissions.
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It's a complete farce to caricaturize the $3.5T reconciliation bill as a climate bill.

While there are some provisions that are intended to have an impact on the climate, like EV tax credits, these are poorly constructed and reward things like hybrid cars made in mexico and assembled by unions over electric cars made in the US.

It also fundamentally changes business incentives in many ways by increasing capital gains tax, increasing income tax, increasing business tax and requiring companies to take on a whole bunch of enforcement on behalf of the federal government for other social policies they would like to enact.

A bill that's intended to improve the climate would look like nuclear power plant regulation reform or removal of tax credits for oil production or a carbon tax. Not some poorly constructed bill that lines the pockets of their favorite special interest groups who recently got a fresh coat of green paint.

The fact that all of these companies oppose the bill should speak to how poorly constructed it is.
> Interesting… so it would not simply connect another device using dhcp?

Most devices didn't support ethernet over HDMI, and it was not something that could be passively supported.

> I never needed to use it and I’m not sure what was the motivation to introduce it into hdmi

The idea was that you could have your TV or AV Receiver connected to your normal ethernet and any other connected devices would just magically have network connectivity as well.

Turns out that most people who care to wire their home theater don't mind just using a switch to connect everything directly, and most of the world will just use WiFi if given the opportunity.

Also AFAIK it was limited to 100mbit/sec so by the time it became a thing it was already kind of obsolete.
Nope, I just realise how it came to be that people think these symbols represent 'good intentions' while in reality they should b relegated to the history books right next to those employed by their ideological cousins of Fascism and National Socialism. Would you react in the same way if they had used a fasces [1] instead of a clutched fist? The term comrade was employed by both National Socialists (the 'Horst Wessel' song starts with 'Comrades, the voices...') and Fascism so it has a rich history in oppressive ideologies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symbolism
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> it turns their specific problems into an “industry-wide problem”

Facebook says this to escape liability. I say this so that we nuke the entire industry.

> What you’re saying is a bit like, “we need stronger regulations on knives or we are just going to keep having a serial killer problem.”

The knife analogy doesn't really work. Knives have tons of legitimate usage, and are easy enough to manufacture that even if knives can no longer be obtained retail it will not be that hard for a serial killer to acquire one so regulation wouldn't work.

Non-consensual data collection & unregulated advertising? That's not something ordinary customers benefit from and better regulation there could help curtail the toxic effects of social media platforms by making their pursuit of "engagement" unprofitable and making them convert to a paid service (where there is no longer incentive to generate engagement).

> If you don’t know the specifics of the situation — which, sorry you don’t, and simply being a user of these products or working in tech doesn’t give you any deep insight — you should try to avoid making claims that imply expertise.

You're welcome to enlighten me then. Let's say what you say is right and Facebook (as opposed to the current regulatory framework) is the problem and it gets killed off. What happens next? My worry is that a competitor takes over that will in time (if not right away) become equally scummy in their pursuit of profit (as the current regulatory framework allows this). Worse, that competitor could be based outside of our jurisdiction and/or have even less laws/morals to keep them in check and/or have an ulterior motive beyond just profit (TikTok?).

> It’s a bit like defending [...]

I am not defending anything here. I just think that solving the symptom of a disease does not cure the disease itself.
Node is hated because programmers are highly opinionated (not in a negative way). Everything with huge usage gets hate, because everything has flaws and trade offs. People get forced to use it at work, sometimes to solve the wrong kinds of problems for it's strengths, which amplifies the dislike. It's the nature of the beast.
I agree with both of you :)
On the same basis, it would also help if you could provide a comparison between GPUs commonly used for ML. Tesla k80, P100, T4, V100 and A100. How has the architecture evolved to make the A100 significantly faster? Is it just the 80GB RAM, or there is more to it from an architecture standpoint?
How much of the paper that is being produced today do you think will survive 200 years?

Let's be realistic about it. If paper/wood was meant to provide any dent in atmospheric CO2 we would have to be drowning in it. Remember, it is not enough to produce wood. You have to take care that it doesn't burn or rot.
All metrics of scientific evaluation are bound to be abused. Goodhart's law [...] states that when a feature of the economy is picked as an indicator of the economy, then it inexorably ceases to function as that indicator because people start to game it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
because they dont receive crypto..
Programs to reduce exploding wild boar populations in the US had the same problem.
PSA: this is about „Merck & Co“, the US Company internationally known as „Merck Sharp & Dohme“ (MSD), which is distinct from the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Merck KGaA (though they share history until 1917).
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Yeah, not much info in there. HN is full of uncurious capitalists like "muh ATMs!"
We'll definitely need carbon removal of some kind. As the article states, we could shut emissions off today, but still deal with the effects of the cumulative emissions for centuries to come. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot that I personally can do other than to perhaps invest in some of these technologies.

The most important thing for the climate right now that most of us can do anything about is for anyone with Democratic senators to call their senators and express to them how important it is that climate provisions in budget reconciliation aren't watered down.

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Yes, I know the Democratic party is struggling to get its act together. But we have to make sure that come what may, the deal that gets struck is serious about addressing climate change. It may be a long while before the next time the US political system is even slightly in a state to develop meaningful climate policy.
Lucid's drivetrain seems to be more efficient than Tesla's, to the point where some Tesla fans have assumed Lucid must be lying about their battery size: https://old.reddit.com/r/lucidmotors/comments/pq0xof/tesla_f...

I guess we'll see for sure once these cars get torn down and analyzed by third parties, but Lucid's drivetrain tech does look fairly promising so far.
The point is that it has more than one.
I completely reject this argument. Dismissing geoengineering downplays the seriousness of our situation, which is the last thing we want.
This story is false on the surface. The bitcoin blockchain has never been hacked, altered, or exploited in any way.

Never.

It is always possible to get someone's key (if they still have it). That is not hacking. That is social or legal engineering.
Because thats what Hacker News is:

A site which people ping with interesting and noteworthy things they stumble about and then other people decide if they think it's actually noteworthy until it's either on the front page or dropped out.

Wikipedia and other web pages can be quite noteworthy.

Through sure once everyone has seen it it's no longer note worthy.

That's why some really noteworthy things pop up on HN again and again with gaps of a few month/a year between: People think they are noteworthy, push them then "everyone" knows them so they are no longer noteworthy but then people forget and wups, it's up on the front page again ;=)
CouchDB 4 may change a few things in this space. It will be based on top of FoundationDB, which should make it a lot better for running "at scale PaaS".
Arguably the biggest "hack" in Bitcoin history was the exploit of an overflow bug, allowing for the creation of 184 billion BTC: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

It is also arguable, however, that this is not part of Bitcoin's history at all. :)
Disaster reporting focuses on absolute numbers because populations have exploded during XX century. Disasters have a whole lot more people in their path, thus a solid chance to break morbid records that sell newspapers. "Record deaths during Japan tsunami" sells a whole lot better than "Yet another tsunami in Japan".

This is media selling fear porn. It didn't start with covid.
It's liked and used more than it's hated.

I think this is self evident but maybe someone else will care to list some usage statistics.
Word of mouth is usually the most trustworthy. Yet people need to learn of alternatives from somewhere. Perhaps if those serving ads were more liable, much like friends risking their reputation to recommend something, the negatives of ads could be better mitigated.
Based on a single in vitro study. In isolation such a study is good indication that in vivo dosing is impractical (though a 35x dose is still far under the ld50 for ivermectin[0]), but given that there are dozens of studies suggesting positive effect and the complexity of human/viral biology, the effective dose in vivo may be far lower than the in vitro study indicated.

To be clear I'm not suggesting with certainty that ivermectin works, but I need a better explanation than "these 2 dozen+ studies are all low quality and/or use manipulated/fake data" before I'm willing to rule it out and jump on this bandwagon.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5835698/ [see section titled Toxicology]
The difference of those two docs is one is coinbase.com, their more retail oriented option (picture robinhood), and pro.coinbase.com which is a more advanced trading platform (think or swim or other more mature investor platforms). The fee structures are different, order types, visualizations, etc (even though they likely use the same infrastructure for both) and they segregate a user’s accounts between the two (though you can freely transfer between the two).
Another major difference is on the retail platform you’re not going to see an orderbook - just a price.
All that to say, I think the main difference is access to more information about the overall market, more advanced orders, better pair selection (that usually eventually ends up on the retail platform), and the more mature financial platform.

These new docs replace the previous pro/prime API docs and extend it into new products.
> It's clear that the next two years of my life are going to be captive to corporate bull@#!t, bizarre power grabs, etc…

There’s a process of letting go—-

Stop accepting 2/3rds of your current meeting invites immediately.

Of course, available for high-level consultation, on an as-needed basis.

Direct your focus and energy on to projects that interest you.

If you haven’t already done so, start identifying and mentoring individuals who might replace you in the business. Shift your responsibilities/workload to them now.

Think of yourself as a consigliere, whispering advice in their ears.

Assuming you’ve got good people, in 12 months reduce your time commitment to 1-2 days a week.

Then quietly disappear.
Good luck!
I just get "loading" Is it meant to be a commentary that future websites will have so much javascript they will take an infinite time to load?
Maybe 60 votes is a good threshold for fundamental changes to the way the country works and what we should actually do is remove the reconciliation loophole.
I'd say tv and radio were both comparable.
I think we're going to see equatorial countries doing geoengineering on their own if things get bad enough. Stratospheric aerosols, for example.
You probably do. I play two instruments (not guitar obviously) and I want to know why musical notation is a problem for guitarists.

I know it's not really suited for e.g. non-western or modern quarter-tone music. But since I don't play the guitar I would like to understand the reasoning behind your qoute:

> You can’t quite run it on different hardware: unlike on a piano, the note does not uniquely determine how something is played on, say, a guitar.

Is that more clear?
If you consider "bomb maker explodes himself" as exceptional, just do a search and you will be overwhelmed.

I imagine it become news because that one person was exceptionally annoying. I still didn't understand why people here found it interesting.
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Facebook doesn't just play the game, they are the game.

There is no other ad delivery platform as influential to teens and young adults. Full stop.
"Boy who cried wolf maligns skeptics of wolf attacks as flat-earthers"

"When will they trust the science?", the twelve-year-old shepherd boy asks
Part of this is that when Lisps started ALL other languages were very low level and the hardware that the Lisps were running on did not afford to waste any memory or cycles.

So efficiency was an important consideration right from the start.

Other languages that most people use today grew at later times (borrowing from Lisp) when the resources wasn't such a big deal.

I consider languages like PHP, Ruby and Python peak examples of mainstream languages that were created with barely any consideration for efficiency. This coincides with 1990s and early 2000s where we saw dramatic increase of system resources and especially memory without much need to use it efficiently.

Nowadays it improved a little bit as we learn to run bigger loads so newer mainstream languages (like Rust) and some older (like Java, C# or JavaScript) are putting more effort on efficiency.
Maybe it is, right now it's not.
The cloud product/label is where they intend to build out a suite of service offerings. API wasn't broad enough to encompass what they intend to do next.
The point is he wrote "two", not "more than one".
Constructive / progressive organizations can be built or transformed into, where collaborative knowledge-work happens at all levels.

Scrum is a parody and pretty much anti-agile.

Traditional organizations are driven by the cost-accounting mindset that creates gate-keepers and makes it impossible to share a common purpose, let alone collaborate across teams, units or vertically.
> "Just say no", is wonderful advice

Which is why we're surprised it's not in the article.

Applying that advice is complicated, but we should still push for it, and there's is a very strong network effect. If in reaction to new a lot of people stopped using Facebook, then Facebook would be that much easier for others to stop using.
> By continuing to oppose low-carbon base load power that is politically unpopular, climate activists are showing the world that they don't really believe there's a crisis.

That's okay, who cares if some old hippies don't believe in an obvious scientific fact. We all believe it's true, right? And that's what matters, yes?

Because the people who deny that climate change would be a crisis if we don't stop emitting fossil carbon are absolute idiots, at least we can all agree on that much.
i'm referring also to the near zero-portability of a person's data. the multiple lock in mechanisms of most platforms.

why can't i download a git archive of my google docs? the versioning feature only works on the proprietary web app - google's platform.

these are all inter-related problems, and all strategies used on purpose to lock people in and make them dependent so as to be able to extract economic rents.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
> Higher taxes will just mean more waste.

Nope. Even if 50% of US taxes are "wasted" on things manigandham doesn't care about, it doesn't follow that increasing taxes would simply all be diverted to things manigandham doesn't care about and thus "wasted".
> There is no other ad delivery platform as influential to teens and young adults. Full stop.

But as soon as you kill Facebook those people will just move on to the next competitor such as Snapchat or TikTok - you haven't actually solved the underlying problem.
Driving is the riskiest method of transportation yet everyone does it without blinking an eye
Could you cite a study that shows this? I can find lots of hand-waving about microplastics possibly acting as carriers for such substances, but nothing that indicates these substances themselves can be directly linked to this particular problem.
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According to my dad, guitarists were more snobbish about tunings in the past. By the late 60s it was cool to experiment with tunings (at least for rock guitarists), but he says there definitely was a point where you were looked down on, particularly for open tunings
I have worked with something similar and this type of phishing is not only possible but much too common.

WebAuthn is really what is good enough. Luckily it's well supported on all important platforms so there's really no excuse using anything worse.
Was it just me or was this article a bit pedantic? Of course just playing trees alone isn’t going to solve climate change—but is anyone saying that?
It looks like gcp supports logical replication now: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/you-can-now...
I'm in favor of doing geoengineering research. We already are geoengineering, we've got 1.2C to show for it. We're just doing it very badly and with little understanding of what we're doing. The climate crisis is real and severe and it may be necessary to do something as terrible as spraying sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere for awhile.

The interesting thing about aerosols is they aren't particularly expensive. Estimates are $2B-$8B a year. Not pocket change, but not a major expense for a wealthy country. Also there's no technical need for global consensus. It seems quite possible to me that a country, say China, will decide to just go do it. That's terrible politically, and could be dangerous. But it may happen.

Here's a good book on the state of geoengineering, at least as of 2015: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26189312-the-planet-rema...
Next best measure and much more easily advocated for: not have kids.
He pretty clearly argues we need to stop emitting, remove/store the excess AND geo engineer.
> The problem with models like GPT-3 is that they are unable to differentiate between information sources with different "trustworthiness." They learn conspiracies and wrong claims and repeat them.

Impressive, AI has already reached human levels of understanding.