skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't that race just started mattering, it is that it has always mattered in the US - pitting "races" against each other was a primary means of control of the colonies, and slavery was a massive part of that. That intense racism built up institutions and systems that have race at their core.

You can't just say, "well, race doesn't matter anymore" and expect things to suddenly change. You need to change the systems, and to change the systems you have to recognize that race was used in the creation of them, and so you need to use the lens of race to understand how they are discriminatory so you can fix them.
How is PoS centralized by default? You think ETH mining is less concentrated than ETH holding?

I know scores of people who hold ETH. I know like 2 people that have tried mining it.
No, not at all. In the past year, they attempted to shut down one of last remaining paper mills that is keeping the beleaguered forestry industry alive by ordering the removal of a dam that alteady had had a fish ladder installed at great cost, because it might possibly still impact the spawning of a miniscule subpopulation of salmon.

There's been enormous conflict about simply building a high voltage transmission line across the boondocks of the western mountains to bring cheap green power down from the Quebec Hydro dams.
Could have saved me relying to parent but saw this after.

Your reply neatly describes the 'why' of the issue I described.
China regulator says will step up efforts to build 'civilised internet'
> These high-karma users would then be able to vet flags and remove flags that may be coordinated. We need to face the reality that there can be coordinated flagging that is designed to wedge an ideological bent into the flow of the conversation.

It's perhaps just as likely that these high-karma users would become the "coordinators" of "ideological wedging" imo.

I don't agree with your idea, and I think one or a handful of lost potential discussions is totally fine given the pretty stellar level of discussion that is the norm here.

Most specifically, I don't think it helps a lot to know who flagged something. It's likely an extremely small subset of users are the ones flagging things, regardless of whether that implies any coordination or agenda. Dang said that something like < 10% of users ever contribute any type of comment. In my time here, I may have flagged something once or twice, but I've made hundreds of comments (across a few accounts). If I'm correct, then you would only see a handful of users flagging things, and that would just be normal--not the result of coordination or malice.
I like the idea, but fonts are hard to choose from, especially with a specimen as regular as a CSS file. If I had to pick a file type with variety, I might go for PHP, with inline HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and attempt to show all the symbols on the keyboard, as well as common ligatures.

That said, there's so much variety in fonts that someone's favorite is likely missing regardless of the selection. Perhaps an initial culling based on features would help, eg. ligatures/no ligatures, serif/sans-serif, etc.

I'm also not really able to firmly decide, so I tend to switch fonts every so often.
Opinions needed on load speed please
An annoyingly broad answer, but: broadcast an opportunity in which you provide vetoed access to the server/instance holding the data (eg, with standard user accounts, private home directories and the data located read-only in a dir off of /). Would create a small storm of overhead ("please install ..." ad nauseum), but provide interesting opportunities for open-ended creativity.

Also, while unusual, you could potentially extract value by lightly imposing requests ;) on others to (where viable/a good fit) at least have a go at helping you with problem-solving/busywork-type steps in the research you're doing (however experimental/uncertain). Since everyone would be looking at the same dataset, this may bring interesting/unexpected ideas to the table (and maybe even shed light on potential opportunities for collaboration down the road). For individuals who are reasonably independent and self-directed but have no experience working with huge amounts of data, this would also provide a cool chance to play around in a real-world-scale environment without the failure risks attached to eg fulfilling^Wfiguring out business requirements etc.

(Now I'm reminded of https://tilde.club/, which operates a shared Linux box a (very) large bunch of people have collective access to. It's a stab in the dark (ie, the one reference I'm aware of), but maybe the admins there would have interesting insight about managing shared access Linux boxes.)
> The sound editor could have done that more tastefully.

An interview with Mark Mangini, the sound designer, with someone whose sound was used in Dune (for the desert mouse, muad'dib):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtfzjehDg74
Hi David,

I browsed your website and it looks really nice. Beautifully designed. I have been in the education business for close to nine years and still fascinating to see so many innovations. I have a few questions and maybe some suggestions.

1. Async model (Moocs) has been known for low completion rate while instructor-led cohort courses aren't scalable for large firms, how have you tried to solve this problem besides the community angle? ( I have thought about this and want to see how you have approached the issue)

2. How is the completion rate in passive learning scenarios like a corporate onboarding/training as opposed to a university class in Eduflow?

3. have you tried running classes, I saw that you have templates have you have used them yourself how has been your feedback?

Not sure if you already do but it would be great to have a course dashboard with graphs along with the tables. A simple kanban board for the student and a teacher for easier course management. Lastly, give API access to the firm that could connect their internal tools or other no-code tools to EduFlow and give more contextual programmes.

Disclaimer-Take everything I say with a giant pile of salt. This is just after some cursory look and I obviously don't know anything about Eduflow other than what I saw for a few minutes on your website.
>Next, why compare Arrow with SQLite and DuckDB? Because it's what it's being used for already! For example, PySpark uses Arrow to mediate data between Python and Scala (the implementation language), providing access to the data through an SQL-like language.

That's like comparing SQLite to Scala because Spark is written in Scala and exposes a SQL interface.
recoverable in one piece, probably, but will the data still be usable? that's a very different question.
This sounds awesome! Open-source cooking!
I'm still waiting for ones not based on "loaded" trims. Appearently the margins are too low to support budget vehicles. Look at trucks. I just want/need a basic work truck. They're about $25k. The lowest cost I've seen for an electric one is about double the cost.

So I agree that you have to compare similar levels/trims, but many times the lower trims don't exist in the EV market.
Something that is currently being used (sort of widely) is X509 OCSP. As the Cert gets signed, the CA also embeds an OCSP URL which clients can later use on the fly to determine if a cert is revoked.

In case of a leaked private key where the actual PKI wasn't breached, they still have authority over the CA itself and can therefore determine which certs are valid and which are fake.

This retains validity of the known issued certificates, but invalidates fraudulently issued certificates. The downside is that its an optional check and that every client needs an online connection in order to validate the cert.

Anyway, the COVID certificates don't seem to be actual X.509 certificates and are rather just a signed message, so this isn't something that could be utilized right now.
People confuse strong typing with static typing all the time. I guess this was the case here.
A library to be legal with cookies
Thanks for that! Polars looks really interesting.
No, of course. Do you think that's what I'm saying?

Note there are very few languages used as inspiration in Dune. There's also a glossary.

There's also the fact many words, like Jihad, have entered the English-speaking world knowledge (note: when I read the word "Jihad" in Dune, in my teenage years, I thought it was a made up scifi word! And so with many other Arabic words in the text; I also failed to make the connection of "Zensunni" with "Zen" and "Sunni", etc. I still enjoyed the novel immensely).

As a general rule, do foreign words tend to baffle you in English prose? They don't confuse me in either Spanish literature -- my native tongue -- nor English, my second language.

Having an at least passing knowledge of other languages and cultures will make reading any given novel, in any given language, more enjoyable. You don't have to know the whole languages or cultures of the world.
> Or have the same attitudes, which I suppose is the real diversity that you want to have.

I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but this one bit is completely untrue. I have yet to see one American institution that welcomes people with different attitudes. The required attitude is pretty clearly defined and even having a discussion about it is not welcome.
Awesome. It would be nice to have more fonts (DejaVuSansMono please). And to not show the name until the end :)
Having a bunch of string types is something people like to rag on Haskell for, but I think the reality is that strings are that complicated and most languages kind of sweep the complication under the rug, while Haskell chooses to accept it. Thankfully the practical downside is quite manageable; the most annoying thing you’ll occasionally have to do is call toStrict/fromStrict across library boundaries.
I think not only was it a reaction against SOAP, but also against other common API styles like shoving everything into a GET query string or a POST body. Some name had to be attached to it. Simply 'HTTP' couldn't be used as both SOAP and query/POST both used HTTP as well (not to mention WebDAV).

As a young engineer implementing an early, prominent 'REST' service, it was kind of a surprise to me to find these lurking, unused verbs like PUT or DELETE in the spec. But they were there & that style beat the living tar out of SOAP or query string. But, in my memory, rfc2616 was used far more as inspiration and reference than Fielding's dissertation.
Your comment indicates you didn't experience the era where binaries had nothing more than the machine instructions and data necessary to execute. If anything, I think binaries now are more bloated than ever.
Lithium Ion batteries can mostly be recycled:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/10/tesla-jb-straubel-redwood-ma...
same; this is the part I always end up trying to explain to people when talking up Dune. The monolith in 2001 is kind of a similar idea.
If the work Bitcoin is doing could be done by a single desktop PC from 2004 then... the work would be being done by a single desktop PC from 2004. But clearly it is not.

Every time I see a thread on HN about crypto it makes me want to buy BTC or w/e because people are so unbelievably disingenuous on here that it probably still has a lot of steam left. The side that needs to be misleading to make their point is rarely the correct side to be on in my experience.
What it lacked was subtle details, and pacing.

Watch The Godfather or an episode of The Simpsons, both examples of fitting in an enormous amount of detail without being rushed.

There was a lot of detail missing that could have been there.
Not just you. That was my first thought too. Reminds me of the x-googler's post about "can't count that low"
https://www.wired.com/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-years/
Strong disagree. Do you find words from other languages, words sometimes mentioned in news articles (e.g. "Jihad") to be random "for all practical purposes"?
I didn't read the book, didn't have any idea of the plot or anything. At about 1h into the movie (just before the invasion happens) I remember I thought "man this movie is pretty slow". Then the invasion happened (and it felt pretty rushed for such an apparently important moment) and then... it went back to being slow. The last half hour became unbearable knowing that nothing was going to happen and no plot lines were going to be resolved because it was part 1 of 2. Watching 30 minutes of a movie where almost nothing happens when you know there's not going to be a payoff doesn't feel nice.
Extroplanet: Astronomers may have just found the first planet outside our galaxy
Great, you're in the 10%, but if you know other smokers, you know they throw their butts on the ground at least some of the time, I've seen smokers do it when a receptacle was 5 feet away. I was being hyperbolic, but having witnessed thousands of smokers in my lifetime, especially from when I was young, I'm pretty sure I have a decent sample size. All of them threw their butts on the ground, giving them 10% that didn't was being generous to people like you, which are basically unicorns as far as I'm concerned.
Well, I, on the other hand, am European, so I care about more than getting my books/things cheap.
Yeah there's waste everywhere, the amount of energy wasted by the over-reliance on cars in the US could probably power the entire planet.

It's telling that the bitcoin defense is 99% whattaboutism – but have no fear readers, I scream into the void about those other things too.
There is a viable Opposition. Just because Gov patronized Media does not promote Opposition's activities does not mean there is no opposition. Even today,Rahul Gandhi's press conference on Pegasus was not covered by prominent News Channels as they were asked not to.
It's onto the citizens to see the opposition, and not invalidate it's presence.
Primarily, The parroting of 'no viable opposition'' has to stop.
> A single aluminium smelter consumes more power than the entirety of the Netherlands. It's not a very useful comparison.

This is patently false. The Netherlands has an aluminium smelting plant[1].

Why would you say something so obviously disproven?

[1]:https://aldel.nl
Route 2 out through Bethel there isn't much of a road. It's a winding two-lane stretch of blacktop that isn't as well maintained as it used to be now that all the mills in Berlin are gone.
Yes, you're right. It's Stripe's job to shut down proof of work by not allowing them (which wouldn't matter). I for one am glad Stripe is funding ideas in this space that are not proven out.
Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon
Example code should be changed to easily include lots of problematic cases: 1Iil, O0, etc.
MUSK makes tweet and he generates 2 billion,
who gives a ...
about 1,5 billion USD of something you have to work for ?
This is a major plot point in Ministry for the Future, pretty much exactly how you describe. Great book, and it's a good idea that I think has some real-world support from economists and others. Here's a site about the idea: https://globalcarbonreward.org/
Where transcendental numbers hide in everyday math
Most likely. Flight data recorders are designed to withstand over 3000 g of acceleration.

The problem with finding them, however, is they have a beacon that pings every second after coming in to contact with water, but this only lasts 90 days, and can only be detected at under 3-5km depths.

Some of the ocean areas where the plane was suspected to have crashed are much deeper.
Most of my (not younger) cohort aren't so much not joining or rage quitting as just not really posting any longer. A lot of my somewhat casual professional/school/etc. acquaintances who used to post pretty regularly now post something once in a blue moon and I'm pretty much in the same boat. So it's something I glance at maybe a few times a week now.
Eh, yes and no. A lot of the outdoor scenes and effects look pretty poor, presumably due to TV-level funding, but the interior set design and costume design are excellent IMHO. Also, the only bad actor was the one playing Paul; I thought everyone else was fine.
In Germany I've had some people scroll/interact with the app to make sure it's not just a screenshot, but so far nobody ever scanned my QR code.
Well, I'd take Solaris (1972) over any and all Marvel crap too.

And viewers in general would gain much more subtle understanding of the world, appreciation of art, mature emotions and storytelling, exposure to global cultures (not just heroes-in-spandex-Hollywood-commercial monoculture) and lots of other things besides, if they didn't watch Marvel movies and watch arthouse cinema instead.

Or, as we call it here, just "cinema" (it doesn't need a qualifier, we call the rest "Hollywood crap" instead).
I have been a proponent of Agile approach since the 90s (XP, Tom Gilb, RAD, Lean). But lately, I am really really hating it. People no longer understand what Agile is about. They just follow some Scrum practices and that´s it. I feel disempowered. How do I find a job that gets it ?
https://g.nh.ee/images/pix/1200x0/lYFSVUXJ5XY/1d2e261794d4d3...

This QR code proves Adolf Hitler has received 2 doses of Pfizer vaccine. At the moment you can still use the Estonian app to verify this (https://kontroll.digilugu.ee). Probably this specific cert will be revoked soon in all the apps.

But the cat is out of the bag. Everyone's grandparents will need to do the certificate retrieval dance again, which is another confusion that we did not need at this critical junction.

Someone out there has a serious problem with ethics. Or someone really screwed up to the point where it was obvious that a responsible disclosure was already a moot point. In my experience, CERT-EU is normally very competent and would have handled it professionally.
Because all (current) 18 comment are talking about crypto instead of about carbon removal, I'm just going to say: THANK YOU STRIPE!

We indeed need a lot more options for carbon removal, and directly investing in companies who want to make that happen is a very necessary first step.
Yes, it can be very confusing. My late wife was from Orkney and I am from Wiltshire where turnips are relatively small white root vegetables that are typically fed to livestock so there was plenty of scope for confusion. Not to mention that what I call a bun she called a cookie which got extra confusing when we visited the US.
This was 20 years ago, so I have only faint recollection.

I definitively need to go back to Italy soon, and I will check this bookshop (and try to find the other one, if they're not the same) if I can make it to Bologna.
Is there an analog here with the recent interest in graphql?
China outlines strategy to meet economic challenges
I don't think in your dishes example that `x` is introduced complexity. The mutable `x` is used here to reflect the mutable state of the physical world, so it'll come naturally to anyone capable of thinking symbolically and want to describe how to clean. If you did that functionally, the mutability would still need to be reflected somewhere, only now it might be implicitly in the runtime.
It's a shame the comment of throwawayfear has been flagged/censored as it is a valid discussion about the oppressive nature of these passports (and apparently the discussion about it).

In the Netherlands: As an unvaccinated individual you have to show a recent negative test before being able to enter a club/restaurant. So very low risk of unvaccinated people spreading Covid19. Yet, vaccinated individuals are allowed in, even when tested positive and feeling ill. There are numerous [0] cases of vaccinated individuals causing major outbreaks, resulting in the temporary closure of clubs and restaurants.

It's hard to believe these passports are about reducing hospital admissions or the public health especially in light of increased breakthrough cases [1].

[0] (Dutch) http://www.destentor.nl/zutphen/zutphens-cafe-camelot-weeken...
https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3106637/
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01413-7
> And you are sure that the US government will never, ever mismanage anything?

The US, unlike Argentina, hasn't spent over a decade experiencing with a >10% inflation rate, and half a decade at >25%.

Most of the world hasn't.

Until it does, any comparison with Argentina, or any country experiencing years of hyperinflation as a result of gross mismanagement, is overwhelmingly positive.
How the US pursuit of Assange is a distraction from impunity for war crimes
Then you can use a compass and use your magnetic look-up table in the other direction.

And only airplanes would then have to use look-up tables. Things on the ground would keep using true north.
Show HN: Visualizing Pakistan Census 2017 Educational Attainment/Marital Status
No.
It's more prominent and widespread under the current government.
Multiple governments post Emergency did hold onto Parlimentary and democratic traditions and attempted to provide answers and held themselves accountable during such mishaps.
Its disingenuous to mark ANY current mishap by present gov to "Emergency days".
> David Lynch version, which even as a huge fan of the book I can't even begin to follow.

What Lynch did very well was the feeling of 'old and decadent' for the society everyone lived in.
I was sad when I canceled my preorder but now I am glad.
I love seeing examples of people showing off a simple, purpose built solution. It's possible to do simple things quickly and with a small amount of code.
The ironic outcome here was that everything moved to run over 80 and 443 and so traditional firewalls, by being so locked down, became basically irrelevant to modern information security. They just became NAT machines, and security practice moved up one layer of the network stack along with everything else.
Almost this exact thing launched in the last couple of weeks - https://klimadao.finance/

In a podcast, I heard one of the founders describe it as a first step at creating a 'non-extractive' economic system.
I think the problem it solves is pretty clear: provide a standardized way to easily describe and share cooking recipes, which can further help with building apps or communities around this format.
As opposed to dynamic languages that give that shock to people running your code.
I live in Ithaca, and Cornell is about to start drilling a test borehole in the coming year. Once the borehole is completed and some tests made, they'll drill a pair of production boreholes about 10,000ft deep.

The goal is to pump water down one, and extract it from the other borehole and then use a heat exchanger to pull the anticipated 160F to 180F temperature to provide heat to the entirety of the campus.

It's similar to the University's Lake Source Cooling system, which they use the naturally cold water temperature of the local Cayuga lake. At the 250' depth they draw the water in, it's a constant 39F year-round. The cooling system is used to provide chilled water to all the buildings, and a few thousand homes, removing the need for standard air conditioners.

The Lake Source Cooling system has saved the university 20 million Kwh a year, an 85% reduction in power usage, since it was made in 2000. It's hoped that the Earth Source Heat project will have the same kind of impact on the energy necessary for heating.

There are a lot of unknowns. Nobody has drilled a borehole so deep in this area before because there hasn't been a reason to do it before.

[1] https://earthsourceheat.cornell.edu
[2] https://fcs.cornell.edu/departments/energy-sustainability/ut...
[3] https://fcs.cornell.edu/departments/energy-sustainability/ut...
functional programming paradigm is boringly honest, you have functions chained together, and you can see exactly how your inputs get transfromed.

You use wire instead of radio wave to design your world.
Why can we not be critical of new inventions? Should we not be trying to make things better? To me thats like making the argument that because we have coal plants today means we should have no problem generating XY new plant because it's not worse than what we have now.

BTC is old, the possibilities have been proven but I think it's totally fair that we try to get somewhere more efficient than what we have now.