skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I've been after old comments of mine or others and know some text from it filtering been straightforward. Results can be sorted in chronologically ascending order and date ranges can be set in addition to the standard filter options.

It's not perfect though. There's no exclusion filter option, some queries are automatically broadened without a way to enforce strict string matching (eg: searching enemies will also include results for enemy but wrapping in double quotes like "enemies" doesn't prevent this), the pagination when there are too many results for a query maxes out at ~200 pages even if more pages are shown/should be accessible via the navigation (seems like a bug), the pagination is also only at the bottom which adds a little extra time navigating and attachment filenames can't be searched.

That said, even with the above caveats I manage to find what I'm after reasonably quickly the vast majority of the time, even things years old.
I’m using Apple Maps for the app that I’m developing now.

The alternative would not have been Google Maps. It would have been MapBox.

Google Maps will give app developers like me severe sticker shock. I watched a friend of mine get it in the shorts (forcing him to switch to MapBox). After watching that, I decided that I will never depend on Google services as a linchpin technology. In fact, it simply hardened my resolve to avoid third-party dependence, wherever possible.

When I started the project I’m working on now, Apple Maps had already grown to cover all of the US, albeit not as well as Google Maps. I’ve been seeing Apple Maps cars driving around here, for at least a couple of years.

I’m pretty confident that relying on Apple Maps was not a mistake.
'One way to think of AI is as a process of optimization — finding the course of action, in an uncertain world, that will result in the maximum expected utility"

This specifically reminds me of reinforcement learning.

"Now that we have a great set of algorithms and tools, the more pressing questions are human-centered: Exactly what do you want to optimize? Whose interests are you serving? Are you being fair to everyone? Is anyone being left out? Is the data you collected inclusive, or is it biased?"

This is like a meta-view of automation. When tasks were automated, people were able to do higher order thinking. For example, when people no longer had to do menial excel spreadsheets work, they were able to glean more meaningful insights from the data.

"The next challenge is to reach people who lack self-confidence, who don’t see themselves as capable of learning new things and being successful, who think of the tech world as being for others, not them"

This is the same insight Ajay Bangha (CEO of mastercard) made on giving financial access to the Next Billion Users.
This is made irrelevant for 90% of users who then use their keyboard & monitor in Discord, VS Code, and dozens of other JS-powered programs and sites.
Should have been called Airpiay
Moto G51 5G Is Leaked via Geekbench, and It Switches to Qualcomm
This argument is incoherent. Renewables did not force out existing fossil capacity on their own, so they are inferior to a nuclear plan where we do force out fossil capacity? Why not build renewables and also force out that fossil capacity?
Science prices including economics by Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien.

Medicine is decided by a group at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden's largest hospital and medical school).

Peace by a committee in the Norwegian parliament.

By a committee appointed by, but independent of, the Norwegian parliament. Also the committee contains no current members of the Norwegian parliament.
At the current rate, China won’t become the biggest economy in nominal GDP for a few more decades, and that assumes growth continue at the current rate

China might become number one in GDP (PPP) in a decade, but that also assumes continued growth at the current rate. China is overdue for a recession, as they need massive restructuring of the economy to shift away from an export driven economy and to pop its housing bubble (which does drive GDP growth now but not in a way that actually makes the country wealthier)

Why do you think Xi Jinping is doing such massive reforms right now? And clamping down harder on dissent and access to information and culture that’s not in line with CCPs agenda? He knows what’s coming, and to an extent he’s accelerating it with new lending restrictions and such. He knows it’s necessary.
I have a big fan club.
> It's a constant uphill battle against billion dollar companies who are always light years ahead of us in terms of software and strategy.

Yes, and these companies will use open solutions whenever it suits them. Some of these companies were even initially built on open solutions.

It's an asymmetric battle.
DC is about to learn a valuable and expensive lesson.
Given the RF noise and the heavy-duty electrical engineering, wouldn't it be better to isolate the GPU in its own external enclosure?
counter argument: to advance science we need to get more women into science. basically half the population is not pursuing science; that’s a giant untapped pool. and to get more women into science, one way is to artificially seed the current system and add women who may not otherwise qualify, so that they can inspire the next generations. it’s not perfect but it’s something. that assumes we already fixed biases against women and what we need to solve now is just the fact that women are not as qualified yet
very fine people
Romans built houses largely out of bricks and half-timbering.
Yes, she changed her stance after Fukushima when public opinion - which wasn't very pro nuclear to begin with - shifted rapidly in Germany. I would agree is was a populist move and not a move based on science.

However, she was hardly in a position where she would have lost office. The next federal election was 2 years away, and nuclear, while at the time an important topic that dominated the media of course, was hardly the only topic. Her party might have suffered a somewhat in the short term - in state elections for example - but it's rather unlikely her party would have "lost" the next federal election and she her office.

She also never expressed a strong pro-nuclear stance while Chancellor (and as far as I know not before that either), and certainly did not justify such a stance with her scientific background. While in office as Chancellor, she called nuclear a "bridge technology" that should be kept around a while longer until Germany can switch over to renewables at its own pace.

The decision to partly reverse the nuclear exit - and the exit was decided years before and was generally seen favorably by Germans - by delaying when nuclear power plants had to go offline - she never planned to build new plants, for example - was less of a declaration for nuclear and had more too do with appeasing the nuclear lobby, and the industry lobby which feared higher energy costs. And it wasn't a decision she was really making all by herself, there was a lot of pressure from within the elites of her own party (most of which do not hold any degrees in physics, just saying), aside from all the lobby pressure.

She might have thought and/or still may think of nuclear as favorable, be it because she has a PhD in what was called theoretical chemistry - tho it is more physics than chemistry what she did and concerned nuclear decay reactions/processes - or be it because years before she became chancellor she was Federal Minister for the Environment which includes "nuclear security and oversight", or be it just because any everybody kinda has an opinion. But regardless, she didn't express a very pro nuclear opinion, as you suggest.

Unless she declares herself now that she is not running for office anymore, we will not really know what she truly thinks about nuclear and why. Not that her opinion on the matter is particularly more important than the opinion of others...
Because even the best decisions can fail, and unless you can be totally convincing not only to engineers but also people who are less technical (management or other stakeholders) when there's massive fallout, you're not going to want to explain why you weren't following "best practices".
Hmm, that seems interesting, but it's not very specific (Ah/g), so who knows what the actual capacity is... They do mention a 1.25A discharge rate, at least.
I’d be really interested in learning more about this. Can you point me to some easily grokable literature?
So you think Indian politicians would have alleviated poverty much better without quotas?
Isn't some of the futility if that struggle due to the theft-by-design that central bank led inflation causes, along with their reliance on the government education systems continuing to fail to educate people on his money actually works?
> A modern home boiler is very efficient,

A gas-driven heat pump could be even more efficient; that is, it could deliver > 100% of the thermal energy content of the fuel to your home (in the form of low grade heat). This is a consequence of avoiding, at least partially, the large second law loss in a typical furnace where very hot flame transfers heat to rather cool air. Any time you see a large entropy generating process like that in a system it's an opportunity for improvement.
Ok but we need a grid without natural gas if we're going to fix climate change. Baseload is a relevant figure if we're designing that new grid. Grid-scale multi-day battery storage is expensive, and possibly even infeasible, so we might be best off using nuclear for baseload, with renewables and battery balancing on top of that.
Ever seen folks decked out in Harley-Davidson, NASCAR, or MOPAR gear?

Never underestimate the power of good branding.

I’m not an Apple fanboi, but I don’t regret choosing it as my main development platform.
It seems like the original project is easy enough and does not need a wrapper. Building a wrapper this thin reminds me of the Hacktoberfest "contributions" to projects.
> you have to ignore strikes in France to pretend its working well and is reliable

This is the same argument has "what about the rain ?" for people who don't want to commute by bicycle.

Yes, it happens. But it's only a few days a year. Contrary to traffic. So you can adapt. Human is supposed to be great at adaptation.
And the rest of the year it just works.
> If the top of whatever Nobel prizes are handed out for remains white men nobody that doesn't fit that category will feel like they have a chance.

Wow, this is incredibly racist. So you imply you know about the motivation of all non-white non-male people on earth? And you assume they are all so chicken that looking at past winners will immediately kill all their motivation to do similar or even better? Do you actually realize what you are saying here, or are you just echoing the latest sentiment of your circles?
This needs a (2020) in the title.
Why I built my own static site generator
The goal is the result recognized by the prize, not the prize itself.
> counter argument: to advance science we need to get more women into science

Not really, just money: unfortunately, women don't have some magical sciencey abilities that make them outperform men. The thing with work is that it is sex-agnostic; whether the grunts^W PhD students collecting data, the penpushers^W profs. filling grant applications and the slaves^W postdocs computing stuff have a vagina or a penis, the whole machine will still go forward.

You can e.g. compare the the US and the USSR/Russia; having the first woman in space and, generally, much more women in science, didn't make them scientifically dominate the West.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-...

https://shethoughtit.ilcml.com/essay/comrades-in-science-wom...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39579321

> basically half the population is not pursuing science

That would only be true if the number of tenure tracks/stipends/grants/... were increasing in parallel. The only thing happening now is that the proportion of women is increasing, not necessarily the “science output”.
I'd like to see a comparison of costs for the same result, though.

Indeed, it seems to me that comparisons tend to focus on the raw cost of producing 1 kWh, leaving aside the very important issue of reliability of production.

Cheaper is better, sure, but supply comes first.

I don't think that there currently is an alternative to nuclear to guarantee a large supply of low emission electricity. The best alternative is hydropower but it's very limited by geography.

So renewables and nuclear are actually complementary.
I listened to that the other week and can also highly recommend.
Holding people prisoner is assault. Battery happens when you actually hit people.
Maps are political objects by definition: they represents borders which are nothing but political concepts.
I disagree. Even if you make a complete left turn and only work on something tangentially related, you still likely have a wealth of knowledge that you can build on. I doubt you're going to make many moves in your career where you 100% start from scratch
I'd second the remote-only / remote-first point.

In particular, "remote-first" can effectively work, and bring diversity in the work place that is always welcome. It requires discipline and a real buy in from every layer of the company, but when it works I think it's the best.
> Overall I'm pretty confident that in a few centuries (or even decades) people will see all of these strategies as really foolish (burying radioactive waste across hundreds of sites around the globe, dumping billions of tons of waste into the oceans, polluting the atmosphere, ...).

I have my own biases, but I am fairly confident that people of the future will come to a much different conclusion.

Every form of power generation has byproducts and waste. Many of these (even for renewables) are nasty, toxic substances. Nuclear seems to have one of the best ratios of waste to electric production of any form of power generation, including very low lifetime CO2 generation. I would hope the future people of earth are far more aghast that people kept doing things like burning coal (and then dumping the fly ash in places that contaminate groundwater) instead of building alternate sources of baseload generation.
Also, US reactors are required to put money in a trust fund for decommissioning.

https://www.powermag.com/data-shows-nuclear-plant-decommissi...
I think, for keeping pictures long term, the best format is to buy a photo album (but not one with sticky pages -- those go bad) and print out the pictures and put them in the album.
I have a photo album with a number of pictures and handwritten notes about where I was, who is in the picture, and what we were doing.

Second best option is an archival grade CD-R or DVD-R (but not Blu-Ray: There was/is not enough support for Blu Rays, but at one point, CD/DVD support was universal), with the contents clearly marked on the front of the disk so your loved ones can quickly know what is on the disk. Images should all be in .jpg format (converted as necessary), and notes should be in .txt files. (.webp will probably work long term, but I would use .jpg to ensure compatibility, since that is the lowest common denominator format for photos)

Music, if one is a composer, should be either 16/44.1 .wav files or 320k mp3 files; the music files should be in stereo.

I would have videos be 24p (24 frames per second) or 30p (30 frames per second) 720p resolution (hi-def: 1280x720) video in H264 .mp4 format. Be careful: Some open source applications will write a .mp4 they themselves can play, but won’t play (or won’t play well) on other video players. H264 format .mp4 looks to be pretty much universally compatible, however. I suggest keeping the resolution and frame rate down to minimize problems.
Are BGP withdrawls at the heart of the Facebook outage?
I despise suits in general, the pinnacle of boringness
Okay, but it seems like "science isn't a single tradition" is a perfectly reasonable way to describe this state of affairs. So when you ask "what does this even mean" I think there's a fairly straightforward answer.
Ask HN: Parsing JSON data in data warehouses
We are still in the early phase of choosing our cloud data warehouse vendor. Currently we have lots of json files in S3, that we would like to load and flatten. From a feature set and product maturity, Snowflake makes the most sense for us.

But then I saw there are other more niche vendors, like Firebolt - https://www.firebolt.io/resources/semi-structured-analytics or Starburst (Presto) - https://starburstdata.github.io/videos/2020-07-29-advanced-presto-sql.html that support a wider array of functions to parse json data. More precisely, partially flattening, and the use of lambda expressions for more advanced array manipulation, rather than only flattening and aggregating.

Have you had any experience with any of the above vendors (Firebolt or Starburst) and is it worth checking them up or based on your experience the out of the box functions that vendors like Snowflake - https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions-semistructured.html or Bigquery - https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/array_functions offer should be more than enough? Have you run in any limitations with them? I see Snowflake has a 16mb limit on a variant column.
I mentioned the conclusion, quotas are useless.

The example of fishing and natural phenomena does not rule it out from being an equivalent to the natural phenomena that would happen enforcing a quota on Nobel Peace prizes.

"Oh we don't have enough Asian Laureattes in Science, lets reclassify South Asian people in the same group. Problem solved"
> ...add women who may not otherwise qualify...

This will and already is undermining credibility of women who got into science through their own merit.
Once you reach the point where renewables cannot be added you have no base load left. The fossil fuels weren't there to supply base load, they were there to fill in when the renewables weren't producing. Adding nuclear at that point would make no sense.
Yeah, I share this experience. I assist elderly relatives with some of their online purchases and any time we don't use Amazon there's a 50% chance it's a bizarre ordeal. The speed of delivery is the main selling point but for a lot of items it doesn't matter if it's one day or three days or five days. It becomes a problem when it's just not delivered at all or it takes 3-4 weeks or is delivered to the wrong address.

A lot of it seems to be management of third party delivery firms. I don't remember ever having to interact with a courier directly with an Amazon order (even for the orders not delivered by Amazon Logistics). It's frustratingly frequent with most other retailers.
I'm 32 and tired of filling the damn survey. It takes time.
NEED!
Ask HN: Thoughts on Working for Huawei?
I have the opportunity to apply for a job at Huawei in Russia and I would like to hear your thoughts on Huawei as a company. Would you like to work for Huawei? Why or why not?
The third example describes something useful in record types, but goes about it in what seems an odd way, and ends up suboptimal as a result. I'd instead use an object type like this:

type Human = {
name: string;
age: number;
}

which also enforces value types in the compiler, rather than requiring runtime guards.
The weird thing is that it sort of is, in countries (UK, US, EU) with a concept of 'protected characteristics' (however named) such as gender and ethnicity, which can't be discriminated on and used as the basis for hiring.

So you can write up a report saying 'oh dear oh dear, only 20% women, 75% of new hires ought to be women so we start to even out' - but you can't actually effect that unless 75% of the ceteris paribus good hires happen to be women, you can't say (or think) 'oh good, a female interviewee, we need some more', you can't hire her in preference to a male peer (nor vice versa of course) on that basis or partially on that basis.

Of course it happens, 'nobody gets fired for' making diversifying hires, but that's why I say it's weird. If you really follow the letter of the law I think there's nothing for it but to effect change at the beginning of the 'pipeline' (or wherever it's going wrong) - and have a strong (correct?) conviction that an equal outcome is the right/natural/desired-by-themselves outcome. Then if your diversity report differs (statistically significantly) from 50% anywhere, you know there's (illegal) discrimination going on in hiring. For now, you know that when it is 50%, or much different from the rate in the applicant pool, so it's really at odds with 'affirmative/positive action' IMO.
"[The] facility manager on duty later informed me we can't ask them to 'stop buzzer' and to just keep putting aircraft on headings,"
If open source maintainers or producers don't owe anything to their users then I don't see why people building projects with open source material/code should do more than the bare minimum required by the license.

Are an open source license terms ignored here ?
It was in reference to GP's post.

As a society, we measure, celebrate and strive to achieve economic growth (in terms of increased per capita GDP. inflation-adjusted). People do this on an individual as well as broader group level.

In the past, the push for growth was an effective solution to the very real problem of widespread absolute poverty caused by the inability to provide sufficient consumer goods to the broader population.

In more recent times, pushing for economic growth seems to be causing more problems than it solves.
Yet, we still do it anyway because that's what we've "always" done (at least, since the start of the industrial revolution).
This is about EU electricity market. EUPHEMIA stands for "EU Pan-european Hybrid Electricity Market Integration Algorithm" and is used to calculate energy allocation and electricity prices in EU.
Do you think that turning what somebody said into a ridiculously exaggerated straw man will win you a nobel prize?
Geofabrik provides MapCompare for this...

The differences between OSM and the rest are staggering!

https://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/41.8650/19.3868&num=4&mt0=...
It's a setting in your profile: showdead
I hate the commute, I love the cache clearing it provided. It can be easily replaced by a hike in the afternoon or a book session in the garden.
I still think this is good for Taiwan’s security. The world is very aware of Chinas growing ambitions, and everyone views Taiwan favorably. Taiwan needs to focus on being viewed as the better partner to liberal democratic countries. I think USA will keep putting troops near or at Taiwan in the coming years. Very slowly as to not create a huge provocation, but still steady.

Taiwan doesn’t need the chip card to be considered worth supporting because a war between China and Taiwan will devastate the world economy in a hundred different ways. And regardless, it’ll take many decades before Taiwan isn’t such a large share of world chip production that they’d actually lose that card. Losing even 10% of the worlds cutting edge chip production would be utterly devastating.

If China attacks Taiwan, and American troops are harmed, the US will have the justification they need to join the war, and the public support theyd need. I don’t think the US wants to go to war. But they need a threat that’s as credible as possible to deter China.
Twitter allows editing the list of interests it thinks you might have but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. It's at Settings -> Privacy and safety -> Ads preferences -> Interests.

The interface is presented as a giant list of hundreds of potential interests, all ticked by default, but which must be unticked one at a time. If you start actually unticking them all or try to automate it with a script (which is the only way to stop Twitter from suggesting tweets from those interests to you, until it comes up with some new ones), the unchecking gets progressively slower until it starts throwing 500 Internal Server Errors, showing the state as changing but silently failing.