skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While agree with you to some extent, do you think propagandists have somewhat recently realized how to exploit current communications tech to deploy their message(s)? If the financials of FB and GOOG tell us anything, it's that advertising on the internet is very effective, and advertising is just corporate propaganda. Most people just don't have the time/interest/energy to fact check, and many are just out to confirm their preconceived ideas/ whatever helps assuage their sense of guilt.
It also suggests that it should be regulated like Bell. And Google does have its own version of Bell labs, Google X. Though I think the goals of them are different.

There is a big question though. Can they do what they do so well without the large size? We all know data is key here, and whoever has the most data can do the most. Can a small company get big data easily? Or do you need that amount of data?
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Not only is the generation instrumentalized, but real time consumption by heavy electricity users (steel mills, rail operators and so) has been A Thing since the early 1990s. I know because I built very early versions of consumption dashboards* for the sales/billing department of National Power, one of the major UK generators.

* in fucking Lotus 1-2-3, of all things
> Climate scientists are notoriously bad at predicting consequences of climate change

[citation needed]

Equating "weather" and "climate" is such an old and tired fallacious argument that you ought to be downvoted to oblivion just because of that.
How could anyone possibly consider Google a monopoly? There's no lock-in whatsoever. If someone were to build a better search engine, you could switch to it in seconds.

That's what separates Google from Microsoft in the 90's, AT&T in the 70's, and the oil and steel barons of yore.
Chrome actually has higher desktop marketshare than I would have thought, about 60%. [1] But that's still pretty far from a monopoly.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/firefox-overtakes-m...
Yeah I'm getting a definite Jack Valenti vibe from this guy.
Because it's unaccountable power.
Responsive WebVR, headset optional (2015)
Even better. I was giving the benefit of the doubt.

That's around the time carraiges got suspension and were pretty much like the modern form.
There is an aspect that is perhaps not very well communicated.

Higher the environmental CO2 level, more of it you need to dilute the air in the confined environment (i.e. buildings) to the desired level.

This means that you have to move more air that will require more energy directly but also indirectly through higher heating/cooling need.

It will also decrease the comfort due to more tangible airflow.
> and the documented bird deaths are awful[2].

Stop quoting this bullshit "fact." It is a meme made up by conservative think tanks to discredit wind farms. As other posters have already pointed out, other human-related factors such as domestic cats, buildings and towers, and most importantly pollution and loss of habitat are far more significant dangers to birds. If you actually care about birds, take your cats to the vet and put them down (this will also help save the oceans: a large part of fish in cat food comes from massive and illegal trawling in South-east Asia often done with slave labor), and donate any rural/suburban property you own to a land trust, to be given back to natural habitat.
I don't think that years of experience has anything to do with liking vue or react. I know how you feel, because my colleague had similar thoughts on React, he even created something very similar to vue a few years before vue(jade+css+js in one file). While I just use pure virtual-dom (no jsx) and almost nothing else.

The way you put it, some people look for patterns and elegance, while some look for simplicity (no special v-bind or v-if), modularity and deletability. There is nothing more senior about one way or the other, just different personal preferences.
Being large does not imply being a monopoly.
Do they seem dodgy when you prod with questions? What are the engineers' motivations? Maybe they're exaggerating the threat to cover their ass?

(That's just an example for your example. I don't have an issue with structural engineers or anything.)
Don't you only need to be 51% confident? As long as fewer than 50% of all HTTP requests are modified by malicious adversaries in transit, you'd still have to pay up.
I laughed out loud at that paragraph.

To be clear: obviously the assertion itself might be true but is very possible to deny. To make matters worse, the support for the idea is basically that services that charge the end user nothing have destroyed the revenues of services that had the ability to ransom themselves for money. Whether that's good or bad to the broader public is... complicated.
Emacs does have some other means for asynchronous processing, like processes and timers etc., but yes, maybe threads might have come earlier. The development pace of emacs in the recent years is way more faster than it used to be though, maybe with vim and Emacs alike becoming hip again and gaining traction (new cool stuff like Org mode, Magit, etc.) (and also new cool lisps like Clojure).
We have pretty similar taste.

If you don't know them, check out Alec Steele, Jimmy DiResta, Laura Kampf, Wm. Walker Co., Four Eyes.

Also this is not necessarily a channel, but if you do nothing else, check out this mini-documentary. I thought it was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otgjdSa6ceA
In many cases, these are minors. A criminal record will be a black cloud over their future educational and employment opportunities - and could negatively effect their life course. Perhaps they fully understand the consequences of their actions? Perhaps schools and law enforcement have the capacity to be nuanced in their actions? Based on my work on these issues, I question both premises.
The irony is palpable in the whole manufactured fake news debate. I'm sure NYT and others want to segregate themselves from their blogspamming outbrain competitors but then they were the ones with the "99% Hillary victory" barometer based on stats with error bars pointing out of this universe..
See my other reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14174674

> I suspect Linux would not have got to where it is with 'gatekeepers'.

Uh, Linus? ... and distros, in general? There are very few people who decide to fork their own distro because, ultimately, good enough is good enough.

You're portraying this as some of cabal of nefarious shady characters trying to do back-handed deals... it really was just a case of the other non-RH distros realizing that systemd was actually good enough.

This is still all Free/Libre software, so if things go awry there's always the option of forking.
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>By contrast, it seems today people view big banks as a kind of mandatory evil that we should just shut up about and tolerate.

On the contrary, I think the population would LOVE to vote for a President that isn't owned by Goldman Sachs, but there just isn't one. We sort of almost kinda got there with Bernie Sanders, but the establishment wouldn't let that happen.
I think it's safe to say that the President is not motivated by concern for birds unless he's having chicken for dinner.
>And yet we workers “of a certain age” are less like a carton of milk and more like a bottle of fine wine

What a classically "Baby Boomer" statement. Confusing age with wisdom.

Yeah as a white male boomer you grew up in an insanely prosperous era with basically everything stacked in your favor.

Like if you'd didn't come out of that on top, WTF was wrong with you?

Edit: Now that I've finished reading, this also stands out:

>Wisdom is about pattern recognition. And the older you are, the more patterns you’ve seen.

LOL, coming from an older person, this seems awfully convenient.
Even the U of Chicago is now warning about the concentration of corporate power in too few hands.

> Its economists used to champion big firms, but the mood has shifted

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21720657-its-economis...
That's akin to demanding that all engineers accurately predict which piece of the roof will collapse first, where the pieces will hit the floor, how many pieces it will break up into and on which date.

The overwhelming consensus of experts is that its going to have an enormous impact. It's still worth studying when, how and where its effects will materialize first but that does not excuse inaction.
Gnus does do IMAP. Receiving from multiple accounts is easy, though sending from multiple accounts take a bit of work. IDK about excange.
having had the brain blown out trying to read the documentation of haproxy I can't believe that there's something haproxy can't provide
Gunpowder and ICBMs were also in use at the same time

I'm claiming the technological backstepping is not nearly as drastic as the GP implies.
There's one in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota¹, but AFAIK it only serves the downtown, i.e. large government and office buildings and hospitals.

1: http://www.districtenergy.com/
Yup, I'm guessing NFS too (see my sibling reply).

In my anecdotal experience that's the _only_ case where systemd has failed to reboot, and it's not exactly systemd's fault that the kernel just hangs indefinitely.
I love Gitlab. One day I expect them to effortlessly make an OS with an IDE preinstalled with plugins for each a and every languages, which integrates with Gitlab and Twitch to stream your work.

For free...
I will guess that it was Golden State Foods. They are a supplier to McDonald's, and California is The Golden State.
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I'm the opposite. I program/type all day and the wristband bothers me because my wrists lay on the rest, so I put my watch on as soon as I'm done with work.

(Aside: anyone have a solution to that? Or maybe a strap where it wouldn't be a problem? I have a timex weekender.)
> they tend to be the kind of person who thinks in order to run a company you have to be a dickhead.

Often they are also the kinds of people who will cost you long-term: in legal fees and so on.
stud is pretty approachable and production worthy; I assume hitch [1] remains so, if you dropped the TLS termination, it would just be a TCP proxy as well.

[1] https://hitch-tls.org/
Beedle has announced a 7 day free trial for their SEO services, providing analytics and their 90 day keyword prediction before a plan begins.
> Why is it okay to be skeptical of what meteorologists are predicting, but not okay to be skeptical of what climate scientists are predicting?

Because you can predict that a slot machine will be a net profit maker for a casino without being able to predict the result of the next pull of the lever.

Of course climate models are continually updated as technology and data improves (as are the models used in structural engineering). That is how science works. Historically, though, the mainstream (IPCC) models have actually performed quite well.

https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm
I agree. My D40 is the best I've ever had.
Scala had a CLR target for a number of years, but getting the type system to work was so problematic it was eventually abandoned.
Werner Hoyer: Open markets and societies will fail if people are left behind
I personally know a man in his late thirties who nearly died of AIDS a few years ago because he had read "credible sources" on the Internet and convinced himself that HIV is harmless.

This happened already in the early 2000s. For over a decade, he ignored his HIV status (not knowing either way) thanks to the "advice" from contrarian experts on the Internet. One day he finally had a flu that didn't seem to go away. A doctor took one look at the lesions on his face and told him the bad news.

He survived, and now he wants to warn everyone about the dangers of hopeful biases when combined with the immense amount of misinformation on the Internet. He's even appeared on national media here in Finland to tell his story, and I admire his courage.
My girlfriend just finished the last of the EIGHT seasons of that terrible show.

I'm glad it's over, but I'm also afraid of what she'll pick next.

Westworld is on my to-watch list, though.
I see your point. To me it's like numerous engineers are warning me that the temperature of the building is going up quickly. When I ask any of them what to do they say we should stop producing heat.

I ask whats going to happen when the building gets hotter quickly and get 10 different answers. Somebody tells me the building has been much hotter in the past, but this is the fastest its heated up before. I ask if it's actually even bad that the building is getting hotter quickly and everyone says "Of course it is! It's never heated up this fast before!"

I sit back and wonder why I should worry about this building heating up if it's been much hotter in the past, or if it's even a bad thing. I also wonder why none of the engineers suggested opening the windows instead of producing less heat. It happens that the building is currently at a historically low temperature, and raising it could make the building more comfortable for many inhabitants anyways
After winning a game it told be about a secret option, ?cubeSpacing=0.5 that might help visually.
That's certainly a delicious cherry you picked. I'm pro nuclear myself, but ignoring people's legitimate worries about worst-case scenarios is not a great advocacy strategy.
The lemon juice story first appeared in the entertainment section of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a compilation format article about dumb criminals. This article was referenced in Dunning's and Kruger's paper, and the story spread from there. The original article looks suspicious to me as well.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZNlRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DXAD...
These folks are doing exactly what I've been saying for ages that someone should do once battery tech gets good enough. With a couple of brilliant additions like making the engine pods part of the lifting body, and using many smaller engines instead of a few larger ones. You can't use powered lift for long-distance travel, it isn't energy efficient enough for batteries to work. But you need to use electric motors because you get away with much lower mechanical complexity.

This is a disruptive concept regarding where people will choose to live, assuming that the details can be solved.
When I moved in 2006, I gave away my set of Encyclopedia Britannica to a neighbor. 1957 edition with the dedicated bookcase purchased at a yard sale for $15 in 1989, just because 'Wow' and its own bookcase and some things don't go out of date. There's no Kindle edition of the '57 Britannica and if there was, it would not be $15 to me and free to my neighbor.

These days, my culled books go to a local charity's thrift shop or to Habitat's ReStore or to my public library for its book sale or to someone I know. Not the bitbucket.
How we communicate climate science and its relevance to our world is just as important as the science itself. In my opinion, if labeling it a threshold in media intended for non-scientist audiences captures attention and calls readers to action, great! Frankly, we need to be "overexcited" about CO2 and stop sitting on our assess.
Depends on the type of hacking. A lot of hacking doesn't fall under any specific law.

USC § 2511 says that for intercepting traffic on a wifi network without permission, you can get up to five years in prison. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511]
Getting work done isn't really my idea of unwinding.

I go out to my woodshop, but nothing I do there qualifies as work.
Sure, CO2 levels and temperature were a lot higher, 50 million years ago. But the problem for people is that global climate change will mess with stuff that we depend on. Such as the existence of major port cities. And growing food. And more generally, other species can't adapt as fast as our culture could. So we're looking at a major mass extinction. Which we'll also need to deal with, to the extent that we depend on disappearing species.

And sure, we could inject sulfur oxides into the stratosphere. That would create haze that would reflect sunlight. And it wouldn't wash out very quickly. There would still be some acid precipitation impacts, but probably not as bad as we saw in the 60s. However, that would be a huge endeavor, and would take considerable energy.
Consider the mobile market as well, it outnumbers desktop these days
I recently tried switching to spacemacs from my custom init.el, and after a half hour switched back. It did inspire me to spend some time improving my setup, but elisp is so simple to work with once you learn it a bit, that there's really no reason not to just roll your own config.

I don't need 200+ key combinations off my leader. I have about 10 for the things I use often, and if I find myself pulling up commands from Alt+X (mapped to space x) regularly, I add that to a new leader mapping.

Use-package is really convenient to learn for setting up your config.

Other than that, the things I find I can't live without:

* Ivy/Counsul
* Company
* Flyckeck
* Flyspell
* Evil

If you take a look at spacemacs's GitHub, dive into their "layers" and pop open the packages file for any given layer for inspiration of other things to add for your desired languages/features. But integrate then yourself given the packages' instructions. You'll be far better off knowing your setup intimately than learning to skim the very large surface area of spacemacs.
The UK did actually have a big programme for planting forests; the Forestry Commission:

https://www.forestry.gov.uk/

Unfortunately, they are (at least in Scotland, which is the bit I know about) mostly just tree farms, growing very fast-growing, densely planted pines (Norway Spruce? can't find a reference), frequently in unsuitable areas, and the results were ecologically... poor. Nothing lives in them and they're alien trees anyway. The phrase 'trash forest' was coined.

These days there's a lot more awareness that this is bad, and they're growing more deciduous wood and relying less on monoculture, but it's still a problem.

Not the best picture, but here's a street view shot of one:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.5275519,-5.186435,3a,75y,2...

(Incidentally, if you look in the opposite direction; that island in the middle of the loch? That's native woodland. The slopes beyond are supposed to be covered with it. But it was all felled centuries ago, then the deer population rose, and now they're making it impossible for native forest to be properly established. You want to promote forest growth in Scotland? Cull the bloody deer down to about 10% of their current population. And then reintroduce wolves and lynx.)
Care to elaborate on some of the rough edges so I can try to avoid them? I've heard bad things about Chrome and almost locked myself out of my WM by using pinentry; Not sure what other gotchas there are.
Underselling yourself isn't restricted to self-taught programmers, and I personally haven't noticed any major differences (on that issue) worth leaping for the electronic quill for.
Self-serving. Google news has brought regional, independent and small journalists to the masses... much to the NYT dismay. Digital media by many, including Google, has brought with it digital journalism, journalistic data science, micro-news and multi-source real time news. It's brought readers print, video and interactive information, and machine consumable feeds. I learn more from HN daily than I do most news sources I consume directly.

NYT can raise its journalistic and UI game, or it xpcan wither and die. Either way, there will be more alternatives than ever.
I have. By and large, I agree with you, but there are some arguments to be made in favor of allowing monopolies. I find the story of Bell Labs (mentioned in the article) especially striking: a frankly unreasonable number of innovations and ideas were developed there. The creation and continued existence of Bell Labs as a dominant force would likely have been impossible without Ma Bell's monopoly.

Peter Thiel also makes a case for monopolies in Zero to One (do not interpret as an endorsement).
s/establishment/votes of the people/
"Fine" in the sense that life survived the previous extinction events too. In the sense that Europe was "fine" after the world wars.
Don't get me wrong, I do exactly the same thing. I'm just against removing them wholesale since I think they are valuable aids to a user who doesn't know about creating a config at all yet.
How do you pronounce it then?
> which supposedly connects to one of your auras, and has a nice animation of how it scans every single one of someone's organs.

This kind of things makes me feel sick.

I knew a family, their child got some minor infection, they didn't believe in antibiotics and tried to cure him with "alternative" methods. Suffices to say - that kid is no longer alive.

Edit: I wish they were convicted for manslaughter.
Ends a little abruptly (as in no closing) but other than that interesting read.
Similarly, tcp level keepalive not necessarily sufficient, if there's intermediate "pgwire" protocol level connection poolers like pgbouncer. Nor do they protect against applications that are effectively hung somewhere.

So I do think "pgwrite" level pings make some sense, it's just not exactly straightforward to add them :/
Why customers are still more important than technological innovation
A lot of people, including me, think the exact opposite: we should be tearing down as many existing dams as possible. Dams are extremely damaging to river ecosystems and are a huge contributor to coastline erosion and exacerbate droughts.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/dam-removal-nelso...
I was actually talking about standardization. If Systemd seeks to be a standard then Redhat would have to give up control to a 'independent standards body' where others can influence the design, development and direction of the 'standard' outside the influence of Redhat and its employees.

That seems to be the only credible way to create workable standards. Open source ecosystems clearly do not yet have the thinking and infrastructure around standardization so it may take concerted effort and time to develop the right processes.
Then you have people like John Carmack. He is a figure in the game industry. But one of the best Doom ever has been developed without him.

Carmack has never been famous as a game designer. How good or bad his games turned out to be had a lot more to do with Romero, who actually did the game and level design work.

Carmack is worshipped as a game technologist. The legendary stories about him are all based on achieving things with limited hardware. For that he has few modern rivals.
>but the establishment wouldn't let that happen.

It was a lot of factors, I don't think "the establishment" was solely, or even primarily, to blame.
I have to admire the audacity of people arguing "The Earth has been hotter several million years ago," as if that's relevant at all.

If a storm cuts off gas, electricity, water, internet, and paved road access to these people, and the government says "What's the problem? People have been living without them for most of history!", these same people would cry bloody murder (as anybody else would).
So far the biggest effect of higher CO2 levels seems to be increased foilage and crop yields http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50563/abstrac...

I don't see how this would be expected to reverse when concentrations continue to rise
I think this is a habit I might pick up. I typically play music and tinker in my woodshop, but some great sci-fi would be a fantastic substitute for the music.

Probably.
Really nice, I had the need for this, but I eventually settled for an external link to typeform.com + zapier.com email (all for free)