skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but right now no country actually has a deep-space human mission program. So SpaceX doing what they do is actually pretty exciting for everyone - especially that the express intent of Elon is to significantly drop down the costs of getting to space. If they can succeed in that then who knows, maybe our children will have an actual chance of leaving this planet, even if for a short while.
> sun spots

No, it's not the sun spots that are warming the Earth now:

https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1508/

"IAU, international astronomical organisation that brings together more than 10 000 professional astronomers from almost 100 countries:

The results, presented at the IAU XXIX General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawai`i, today, make it difficult to explain the observed changes in the climate that started in the 18th century and extended through the industrial revolution to the 20th century as being significantly influenced by natural solar trends.

The sunspot number is the only direct record of the evolution of the solar cycle over multiple centuries and is the longest scientific experiment still ongoing.

The apparent upward trend of solar activity between the 18th century and the late 20th century has now been identified as a major calibration error in the Group Sunspot Number. Now that this error has been corrected, solar activity appears to have remained relatively stable since the 1700s [3]."

It is CO2:

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/sci...

http://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm

Compared to the last 8000 years there was never such a fast change, it's not "natural":

http://history.aip.org/climate/images/Marcott.jpg
Well, I'm asking you to tell me why you think your thing is a "virtual DOM". And your only response on this thread is "this is a virtual DOM, because that is what the expression means". Why is it what the expression means?
This assumes that the labor is all associated with keeping the 1.3% running at that level, as opposed to being associated with the rapid growth of solar. That's almost certainly not the case: things like sales and installation would be mostly associated with new solar (although, of course, eventually this stuff will need to be maintained and/or reinstalled).
It's a sign that the election hysteria is finally fading that we are back in the thrall of these corporate kiss-and-tell scandals and intrigues. Thank god.
Interesting that people think Mozilla either isn't or is against being an ad network... every single attempt to do adblocking/protection ends up being an ad network eventually (if there's a corporation behind it).
This is partly because they don't always take off with full tanks which allows for shorter runways and/or safer takeoff. Depending on the ordinance that a jet may have to carry, it starts making more sense to stay a bit lighter until a minimum airspeed is achieved.

The idea of docking modular components in space is a good one though. Perhaps all you really need to do is lift a bunch of fuel tanks since there is plenty of time to perform burns with smaller boosters on longer distance trips.
I didn't read the article, nor watch the oscars, but think about it this way: the universe is billions of years old. In a couple hundred years or so, a human life could probably be simulated convincingly in a short time frame. (Especially if the rate of technology improvement accelerates greatly with the help of AI, which I can't see any reason it wouldn't). The odds that a human is born just before we have the technology to build a simulation that could conceivably fool us, and be computed in a relatively short time frame, seem fairly small.

Imagine how many more human lives could be simulated once such a singularity occurs than have previously existed in the realverse. Going into the future, if there is some reason to simulate human lives in great quantity, or just never-endingly (perhaps as some sort of living wikipedia entry), then simulated lives could outnumber 'real' (pre-singularity) human lives many times over.

So, given a machine / AI culture stretching on infinitely into the future, continuously simulating human lives for some reason, the chance that a person is born one of the 'real' unsimulated lives would be vanishingly small in these circumstances. So, whether or not one can find a 'glitch in the matrix,' which reveals whether or not we are actually in a simulation, it seems that one could imagine an infinite future of humans, with real humans (who may be completely unlike us) only occurring with vanishing measure. So in some (plausible?) futures we are almost certainly simulated...
so... What's next?
> As more permafrost thaws, more and more carbon is exposed to microbes. The microbes consume the carbon, producing methane and carbon dioxide as waste products. These greenhouse gases are then released into the atmosphere, accelerating warming further.

Yeah, the amount of sequestered carbon that could be released is concerning.
That's sad. :(
> I know those exist…

So you knew why I said -- Not "instead of" as-well-as.

> … knee-jerk link to have me contribute a different implementation for C++ …

Improved programs are welcome, period. Hence the link.

> What is going through your head when you read my comments?

Will this sentence never end :-)

> … mostly teaches us about different things than "who is winning"? … the high-level idea of "what are we doing here".

There are links on the home page which provide context.
I fucking rule at HyperCard.
Shouldn't we start with the assumption that LinkedIn endorsements are already worthless and then try to prove that they have some sort of value? Hint: you can't.
On the plus side it makes for a sociopathic paradise, winners, losers, a score visible to everyone and voila.

/s
I'm glad to see somebody questioning the timescale. There is definitely a huge blind spot around Musk around here.
These are not mutually exclusive.

We can extend our hearts and offer our support to the anonymous authors of these stories, seriously investigate the questions they raise, and prosecute to our fullest abilities all wrongdoings substantiated by credible reports (e.g. Susan Fowler's blogpost), while simultaneously being careful to restrict any punishment meted out to be only based on credible evidence.

"Believe victims" means offer support instead of minimizing ("I'm sure he didn't mean it") or making counteraccusations ("what were you wearing?"). It doesn't mean "automatically, immediately punish anyone accused of anything without due process".
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The Tiko Printer: What Happens When You Innovate Too Much
You are writing a lot of comments with apparently little relation to the case at hand but that hint that you are basically trying to blame the victim in the general case and then accusing everyone of misrepresenting you when they try to make sense of the mess you got yourself into. It's at best a dysfunctional conversation. I think all the comments and downvotes are sending you a clear message.
TST will be possible with WebExtensions. For hard evidence, even the Add-Ons Engineering Manager is working on his own, personal vertical tabs webextension to suss out what APIs we need: https://github.com/andymckay/sidebar-tabs

We may not land everything we need by the time Firefox 57 releases, but we'll get there. If we miss, you have options: you can decamp to Firefox ESR for a few months, where TST will keep working, or someone could theoretically convert TST to a WebExtension Experiment which would work on DevEdition and Nightly builds of Firefox.
I'm happy to hear that. Even if you did not like the behaviour here, it is good to see that the css worked as planned. It indeed is a responsive design that will adapt the columns, from 3 to 1. After that the blocks get smaller. Sadly flex-wrap seems to be not animatable, that might have helped here.

It would not work to force the layout to remain, there is not one good configuration that looks good on all displays.
I agree in principle, although in practice allowing Firefox add-ons to be fully equivalent to other features has been a detriment to security, stability and performance - hence the switch to WebExtensions (which rely on stable APIs purposely exposed by Firefox).

Having the codebase be as small as possible is a laudable goal - with browsers it is difficult since Web standards are fairly complex on their own, and being cross-platform brings along a lot of weirdness.

An important aspect of security is compartmentalization - for instance, using separate sandboxed processes for web content vs. the main UI (which runs with full user privileges).

Sandboxing is a good example here since it improves perf/stability/security but also adds to the size and complexity of the code.
Even if the current policital leadership was someone you considered reliable and trustworthy, you should still be worried, because four or eight years from now someone you don't trust could be in control.
Which seems to imply that military spending is pretty beneficial for humanity as long as it's spent on researching new cool ways of killing each other, and not on actually using them.
> from $10-$12 an hour for simple manual labor to $20-$23 an hour.

What that says to me is jobs installing solar have higher productivity than other available low skilled jobs.
Funny, I was thinking the opposite: that canoeing would be significantly more dangerous per mile than motorcycling.
>I absolutely don't believe that this problem mainly affects the US.

That's fine, as long as you understand that this is just a personal belief that you hold and not a fact about the world. Since it is just your unfounded belief, it doesn't detract from, devalue, or even argue mildly against the personal experiences outlined in the comments you are responding to.
lol love it

JFKa-ching!
Coal is already more expensive than solar, were the subsidies provided to the coal industry removed.
This seems like something you might try if you really want to see what that person looks like when they're crying.

If you did this to me or made me participate in this I would definitely tell you off and walk out of the room, clean out my desk, and leave.
Skepticism and comments about skepticism don't necessarily need a linear relationship. Making a pro skepticism comment is a reactionary move against people treating anonymous accusations as fact. If you see more people doing the latter when racial or gender discrimination issues are discussed then it makes sense that the former will follow.

The more serious/terrible the accusation, the more likely it seems to me that people will just take it on face value.
Costs and expenses (including experts) are typically only a few percent of recoveries. Unless recovery ended up being much smaller than expected, anyway. Fees over 20% require substantive justification.[0]

0) http://www.maglaw.com/publications/articles/00392/_res/id=At...
Wendy’s to install ordering kiosks in 1,000 stores this year
Can you share specifically which chair you bought?

Sitting lotus in most chairs is untenable...
You seemed a bit morally outraged that someone would waste a hamburger bun rather than the alternative which is to waste people's time.

My point? Instead of just applying a rule (wasting food is bad) you should holistically consider the results before judging someone else's choice.
Are there any avail statistics on their age distribution? Based on what I've read, it seems like people over 30 is in a minority, not to mention the impossibility to find anyone over 40.
It may indicate a repeatable bug. With self-driving cars, you have different problems than with humans. Tesla has three times hit a stopped vehicle projecting into the left edge of a traffic lane. (Those are just the ones for which there's dashcam video.) That's a design failure.

Humans fail in different ways, such as inattention.
Odd lawsuit fails to ding FedEx for allowing copies of CC-licensed material
Presumably they might be learning some really cool stuff building these prototypes that could be used for something more commercial, or licensed.
The Apollo LM first flew in earth orbit on the Apollo 9 mission in March 1969. Its first test flight was only 4 months before the Apollo 11 mission landed one on the moon! And the first all-up Saturn V flew unmanned in November 1967. The incentives and funding were there very rapid development.
There's the consequences that might scare others into not overstaying. You may also be able to gain information from them that you could use to find others who aren't physically leaving the country.

It's of course completely possible that there are unsavory and foul motives at work. It's also possible that there are things other than mass human rights violations that such a system might be useful for.
If they are fibers I would imagine they would break down quickly in sunlight since it contains UV light. But I guess like the article mentions, there is just so much pollution that the environment is unable to support it.
How to build habit forming products
It's not a greater achievement than the Apollo moon landings (it's basically the mission flown on Apollo 13, swinging around the moon without going into orbit and then coming back), but it's still something that hasn't been done since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Grabbing coffee w/ AI researchers [0]

[0] http:ai-guild.com

(Self Promo)
The Ellen Pao case found that, at least in California, an arbitration clause did not hold up. Hence why, despite her employer having such a clause in her contract, she was still able to go to trial.
I think you might be describing something fairly close to ChromeOS.
Are you calling me a shill? Look at my profile, 3268 days on this site.

You are not able to handle a disagreement and called me all kinds of names. You should talk to your colleagues and see if they think you might be one of those overbearing colleagues who is contributing to a toxic culture by throwing a fit at everyone who disagrees with you.

I am not taking a side on this issue. Uber is a victim here. No one plans to have a toxic culture at work. I am just trying to put down the mob mentality by pointing out the obvious challenges.
Never change, HN.
Putin is the president of Russia. Trump is the president of the United States.
In an amusingly ironic twist though, Electron apps with their Javascript frontends also have byzantine and terrible build processes.
Reactionary contrarian skepticism is kinda the MO of hacker news comments.
I understand where you're coming from; I don't think you've made enough of an effort to understand where your parent is coming from, your focus is entirely on how wrong you feel your parent is.

Of course the criminal justice system must abide by the principles of due process. Simultaneously, if someone anonymously expresses great suffering, we are of course under an ethical obligation to take them seriously, offer them our compassion, and take action based on what we can substantiate.
Does being maintained count as being actively developed? I think it should. As long as Thunderbird gets security patches, and maybe even the occasional bug fix, I'm happy with it.

I wish more pieces of software would get to the finished state and would slip into maintenance mode.
For people curious about maybe checking out Atlanta - what are the good parts to live for 30 something's who like to walk to groceries, cafes, parks, etc?
> I'm sure that there are higher labor costs installing solar vs running established coal plants... but that's 70x the labor of coal.

So? As you mention, the labor in solar is going into construction, solar panels being almost maintenance-free once installed. If we were building a lot of new coal-fired plants, coal employment would be much higher than it is.

The relevant number is total lifetime cost per kWh, where I gather solar is getting pretty competitive.
Well it's great for them to have those, but they gotta do more for me to consider them as good. In my eyes, they're just looking out for themselves and their family.
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It's tricky to compare though. Consider.

The cost of coal is mostly the cost of the raw material inputs. And coal has a significant off the books negative externalilty because of CO2 emissions and environmental destruction.

vs

Solar which has a high labor cost component. Noting that providing jobs for large numbers of lower skilled workers is an off the books positive externality.
I wouldn't be willing to admit that I had seen that, or had experienced that in front of my direct manager. Especially given what happened to those who did try to report.
> That's not to say an AG is completely separate from political realities, but the office is (supposed to be) non-partisan.

That must be why Trump fired Sally Yates then...

/s

Really, it's about as political as it gets. Or did you think Jeff Sessions would so much as be looked at under a Democratic president?
>How would you go about applying antitrust laws to companies like facebook, google, uber, and airbnb? I think this would be a difficult fight because they all can claim serious competition.

It depends how you define the market, right? If we allow substitutes then Standard Oil was not a monopolist because it was competing against the electric utilities for illumination etc. If we define it by "similar business model" it's hard to see how Google doesn't dominate search engine advertising, Facebook social network advertising, Uber the space of apps used to call transportation etc. Doctrines such as product tying [1] and essential facilities [2] seem ready-made for Google and Facebook respectively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)#Tying_of_Micr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_facilities_doctrine
Hi Rajath, Dhruv here :) SE daily (mentioned above) is just what you're looking for. https://overcast.fm/itunes1019576853/software-engineering-da...
Yep. If we want to employ a lot of people producing power we should just have people ride exercise bikes.
> NYC, where the financial companies have driven comp levels really high for software-engineers

I disagree, majority of financial firms see tech employees aka 'IT' workers as a cost center. After '08 there is a major focus on cost cutting as overall industry is not doing well. With the exception of a few high risk and small (few 100 people) hedge funds you barely would see someone with 5-7 years of experience touching 200k salary.
So do the existing ones.
BlueCoat and other proxies hang up during TLS 1.3
Yep, Donald Trump should definitely have the power to use his own discretion and target big companies. He'll fix this!

I'm sure he'd never just extort a few cool looking concessions from his targets that will help him get reelected.
sure, but what does that have to do with swearing?
Trying to fight against bullying takes 300% of the effort it takes to bully :/
I like the WAN show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1DxElRebg

They don't really cover programming/engineering topics, but it's fun to listen to.
The Fast Ascent and Slow Decline of In-Flight Entertainment
Loving Software Engineering Daily. Jeff makes all of the music. Check out 'The Prion' on Spotify or SoundCloud.
> The same way right now we're stuck between biology and political correctness when talking about ex-male MMA or wrestling competitors dominating in the women's side of the sport when most of their physical development happened before hormone therapy and they end up with a distinctly more powerful physique.

I happen to be friends with a woman who is in an adult roller derby league. There is a transgender woman (previously a man) who pretty much dominates the league, and is clearly a faster skater than the other women. I'm always wondering how the other women feel about that, because as you say, there is the force of political correctness that stops anyone from outright saying anything about it. But it's clearly an unfair advantage for the transgendered person.
To give anonymous accusations of harassment and abuse the benefit of the doubt is to believe that someone is an abuser without evidence to. Given the effect that this can have on a persons life I don't believe it should be encouraged at all. It's guilty until proven innocent.
Handle looks like it can kick back.
what the actual.

>anonymously create hentai comics of female coworkers

who goes out of their way to do that
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Bonuses tied to company performance are popular, yes?

That's the epitome of every employee getting ahead (or failing).
You could try reading the rest of the thread, as several users have broke it down for you.
People who revel in making other people feel creeped out and violated.
I'm not so sure that solar is cheaper in the developing world. As these Indian villagers said protesting solar, "we want real electricity, not fake electricity." http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060026477
An electrician whose company advertises it installs solar panels gets counted as a "full-time employee in the solar industry" even if installing solar panels is a minuscule part of the business -- they are a full-time employee (of the company) and the company is "in the solar industry" because installing solar panels is a service it offers.

It's equivalent to counting every housebuilder in the country as "employment in the automotive industry" because they install garage doors on some of their houses.

Solar's economic advantage is that it doesn't require many jobs. The panel on your roof just sits there producing electricity, with no need for regular shipments of coal to be transported to it by train... It shifts power production from an ongoing cost to a fairly small capital cost.
The two cases are incomparable. What happened to Eich was injustice, as in a democratic state, he is (read: is supposed to be) free about supporting whatever idea he wants. We might not like it, yet "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." What happened was hypocrisy pure, and OkCupid got some positive PR from the situation. In a world where this sort of stuff works, we'll quickly end up with Inquisition and witch-hunts, reversed.

WRT Uber, their business model is shady to begin with, and that's not the only shady thing about them. Yet, the post is anonymous, and sincere though it sounds, nobody can be sure that the allegations are true. If cost of a lawsuit is the concern, I believe there are many organisations out there who'd help with the case.
If you're planning on holding onto the stock long term, the best advice is to just ignore this and ride it out.

The issue is that mass market auto making is hard, it's intensely regulated, and it has a large potential to cost alot of money to build a factory, acquire the parts you need, and handle any liability issues. Their job is to be skeptical and that makes sense as they're lending out billions of dollars to a company that's going to need tens of billions to get everything working.