skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing idea, i've been using some command line fudges when i need to work on csvs as i often
The future isn't serverless – it's generic platform abstractions
For whole-system RAM encryption (SME, i.e. not VMs), it's generated by the processor at boot time, and stored within it.

Short of finding some sort of silicon backdoor, you can't get at it.

For SEV (VM encryption), I believe the keys are managed by the hypervisor.
Fact Checking the Claim of 97% Consensus on Anthropogenic Climate Change
Even by the late '90s there were renowned medical scientists who disagreed with the consensus around the "HIV causes AIDS" hypothesis, despite ample evidence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism

Climate change denialism is no different from AIDS denialism.
Oh 100%. There's no technical excuse not to have that. As others have pointed out, there's a pessimistic line of reasoning as to why doctors and insurance companies don't want you to know what things are going to cost. The sad part is that we've allowed that to become an acceptable way of doing business.

But imagine if your mechanic did that. "Hi, thanks for bringing your car in. We investigated that noise, ran a bunch of tests, and everything looks fine to us. That will be $5,000."

(Fun story: many years ago, Jiffy Lube topped up my dad's transmission fluid without telling him there was an associated cost. When they tried to charge him the $25 or whatever it was, he told them to suck it back out.)
> Mabe just a part of human nature to defend brand buy-in.

Yup, this is because people invest their identities in the brands they consume/use.
Why not just put Roundtrip in both to be as clear as possible?
I gave a high-level intro to a lot of popular reverse engineering tools that you might find helpful (in the context of reverse engineering iOS apps): https://news.realm.io/news/conrad-kramer-reverse-engineering...
For now. Intel intends to open the Thunderbolt spec up.
This is the only explanation for this that I could actually understand. Anyone telling me that they think it sounds better just triggers eye rolling.
Maybe to be more precise "anonymous cash replacement" is better?

Electronic "money" in general has long been available through credit cards, PayPal, etc but at higher cost and loss of anonymity
Yes you should make it absolutely 100% unambiguous because a lot of sites use this ambiguity intentionally for a kind of bait-and-switch design, and I am extremely wary of it. I think a lot of other people would also be very wary. It's a well known trick to make the price look lower by quoting the one-way deal even though most people are looking for roundtrip.

So.. I'm glad to hear you do mean RT in both cases.

If it's a matter of wanting to avoid clunky long layout for the copy, you could consider using RT instead of roundtrip. With a tooltip on hover, or some other accomodation, for people who need to know what that means.
Talk about wasteful, frivolous, and counterproductive government... This is the politicization of settled science and at cross purposes with the agency's mission, but what else is new in 45's America?
A scarce commodity isn't new though right? People can buy gold online now and use that as a safe haven, for example. Why does it being a "digital" scarce commodity matter?
>I think it's because I can see & sift many results, and because I can easily iterate on my query

Absolutely. In fact sometimes I'm searching for something, whether in a search engine, at an ecommerce site, or whatever and I'm not getting what I want immediately. If I'm on a phone or tablet, I'll often grab a nearby laptop because it's just faster and easier to do a lot of typing and clicking on. (Less true with more recent tablets but my basic point is that there's sometimes a lot of fast iteration when I'm trying to find the answer to something non-obvious.)
Maybe they are incredible.

I suppose the reason I don't 'get' Redux is probably that I don't 'get' the problem it claims to solve. Redux developers seem to say their issue with prior frameworks was that it was difficult to understand where state changes came from. But that's just not an issue I've had in the apps I've built.

Maybe the apps I call 'thick client' really aren't? Then again, I've done a fair few gigs in this game, on lots of kinds of projects, so I'd expect by now to have the perspective to say which was which.

That experience also makes me a little stubborn. I've had a few exchanges like this, where people have reacted with incredulity. They remind me a little of the arguments I had convincing people to abandon 'semantic' CSS, or grouping templates and view logic into components. I think history was on my side, at least in those cases, so I no longer feel abashed to walk against the crowd.
They have the cheapest panels, sure, but that's because they're being actively subsidized in an attempt to kill of competition. To my knowledge SunPower still has the highest efficiency production panels and First Solar still has the lowest demonstrated cost per watt for anything over moderate insolation.
I'd actually rather put "Past Roundtrip Deal" above the deal info just because of how big the word "Roundtrip" is. We have to keep design in mind... and if we just put RT that would likely lead to confusion as well.
Dyson is a renowned physicist interested in climate science. I believe that his physics/math skills and general intelligence allow him to be quite competent in climate issues.

Lindzen retired only in 2013. I don't see how this makes his opinion about CAGW less valuable, especially given the fact that he was skeptical about CAGW hypothesis for a long time.

"Judith Curry also used to be a scientist and quit her academic job; presumably being a shill pays WAY better." - where's the proof that she is a "shill"?

Roy Spencer is a renowned scientist in my book: "Roy Warren Spencer is a meteorologist, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. He has served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center."

Again, where is the proof that he is oil industry's shill?
You've just shifted the risks from the business to the customer. As a customer, my credit card gives me significant protection from paying for a VPS from someone who intends to scam me.

Somehow, I suspect more people have had Bitcoin keys stolen by malware than have had their armored cars robbed.
Roy Spencer is a satellite observation expert, who has reversed his opinion of satellite measurements, and now believes that warming is about as described by the traditional thermometer datasets.

Judith Curry doesn't disagree with AGW, she disagrees with the scale predicted. That would mean less immediate, strict action, but action nevertheless.

Freeman Dyson isn't a climatologist, he also says himself "[m]y objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have." He also believes in AGW.

It's good to have sceptics, and in particular being sceptical about the scale of AGW is very reasonable. The IPCC predictions actually have a wide variance for these reasons. These scientists don't really speak against the moderate action currently proposed, they aren't backing for Trump's position.
Play the vinyl, and record that onto a CD.

Now play the CD. You have exactly that "pleasing" sound.
Phillips already experimented with an audio laserdisc in the late 1970s.

It requires the audio to be modulated (using FM) and thus this introduces serious barriers to the sound quality.

On the LP, the audio is baseband. It isn't modulated at all.
Thanks for the leads I'm always looking to expand my horizon.
Points 1 & 2. There is no direct communication between a producer and consumer. The producer writes to the broker, the consumer reads from the broker. There is a detailed flow diagram for the producer side operations in the article, and this deck has more of the details of how both the producer and consumer work: https://www.slideshare.net/apurva2/introducing-exactly-once-...

3. Yes, it has been tested empirically. Quoting from the article:

> We wrote over 15,000 LOC of tests, including distributed
> tests running with real failures under load and ran them
> every night for several weeks looking for problems. This
> uncovered all manner of issues, ranging from basic
> coding mistakes to esoteric NTP synchronization issues
> in our test harness. A subset of these were distributed
> chaos tests, where we bring up a full Kafka cluster with
> multiple transactional clients, produce message
> transactionally, read these messages concurrently, and
> hard kill clients and servers during the process to
> ensure that data is neither lost nor duplicated.
The blog assumes you already know a bit about the Kafka architecture & is more of a marketing announcement than documentation.

This has been under development for a long time in the open, you can track the features history here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-98+-+E...
A long time ago I worked as a "designer" for somebody who owned a chain of medium retail stores in Mexico and a also biggish printshop. When there was a (printed) product was selling very well, he would go to me and ask me to make one as similar as possible so he can manufacture it and get more of the profits.

He did it all the time and didn't care at all for the quality of the product. At first I tried to make the illustrations myself or actually try to do an original spin on the product, but he put pressure to just pull a clip art and call it a day.

Some times I tried to hide some in-jokes or innappropiate stuff just to see if anybody noticed. For example, he once got me to to copy a whole book on some catholic saint, on a hurry, and refuse to pay some one to proff-read it. So I intentionally replaced some words here and there to change the meaning and I even changed the name of the saint to "Batman" in the middle of the book. Nobody ever noticed.

So my guess is that whoever designed this ball is on a similar situation and did put even less effort into doing it, than whoever has the third top answer in the Stackoverflow post. Or maybe she even put a swedish axe just to see if anybody would notice.
Decentralized naming -- Bitcoin solves Zooko's triangle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

Hrr, I see the Wikipedia page says that Bitcoin doesn't provide "human-readable". But I think it does. You can register names on the blockchain and assign them to bitcoin addresses using OP_RETURN comments, with every party agreeing on who knows which human-readable name, despite having no centralization.
Yes, declaring that anyone who doesn't believe that Yxa is the answer is suffering from cognitive bias is definitely presumptuous. That statement is absolutely making assumptions, and using that to cast unwarranted negative aspersions on anyone who disagrees with you.

And you just did it again by referring to UFOs and homeopathy. This is not a case of conspiracy, this is a case of people looking for possibilities. By making analogies to truthers, and painting a conspiracy theory in advance, you are undermining Dan Bron's work and demonstrating your own cognitive bias.

You're choosing which proof to believe. The image of the (presumed) axe on the ball is yellow, that's also "substantial proof". It is, in fact, yellow. It's not unreasonable to suggest that there's better direct evidence, and a simpler explanation, for the "yellow" answer than there is for the "Yxa" answer.

Maybe the designer was Asian and accidentally saw the Y as an upside-down A, maybe "axe" was the word they were going for. Maybe the designer was Asian and used yuè, the pinyin word for axe. (https://english.stackexchange.com/a/395521)

It's not likely that a definitive answer will be found, so let's enjoy reading and speculating about it, bask in the awesomeness of Dan Bron's narrative and presentation, and lay off the unjustifiable holier-than-thou attitude that there's only one possible answer.
Redundancy and specificity are slippery slopes. Why not say "Normally $XXX roundtrip coach redeye" because someone might think you're comparing a coach fare to first-class prices?

I think the "$XXX roundtrip, normally $XXX" clarifies it enough without the redundancy. You wouldn't benefit from comparing a roundtrip price to a normal one-way fare.
the <5 seconds is not settlement. It's a 3rd party signalling to another 3rd party.

Bitcoin confirmations are just that, confirmations of transaction being approved by the network.

-blockchain is immutable
-only gets written if valid
-takes 10~60min to be confident of the reality
-no chargebacks
You can walk across the room, thumb through a CD collection, pull a disc out of the case, and put it into your 2U rack-sized CD player.
It doesn't have to be knowingly false, though - you think that all of the studies in psychology that wound up being non-reproducible were all submitted by pathological liars?

Keep in mind that I never even mentioned deception, that was something you just set up and knocked down on your own. I have no doubt that most climatologists are doing exactly what they should be doing and aren't Saturday morning cartoon villains,

But if there's a more meta issue involved, such as bad data, I argue that it'll never see the light of day given the political incentives.

(In other words, the politicians are the villains, not the scientists running the data)
Spot on, these along with: political donations, funding activism, information marketplaces (think wikileaks but the leaker gets paid).

Anything that a government or regulatory body would want to censor, basically, is made significantly easier with Bitcoin/the blockchain.
Happy 50th birthday, hole-in-the-wall cash machines
The watermarks are discreet w/ no other information than your name. The PDFs require no passwords and can be loaded on up to 6 different devices. We have tried to come up with a solution that provides for the customer, but protects our authors' content as well. But certainly I can understand your point of view.
> I haven't seen anyone on either side put forth detailed policy proposals other than voluntary carbon caps

You missed a carbon tax, in my opinion the mechanism most likely to make a difference.

> In my opinion, advanced technology will solve this problem before any major policy changes are needed.

I agree with you to this extent: with the current state of affairs, only advanced (and as yet untried) technology can avert disaster. I don't think it is at all likely to happen, and major policy changes were needed twenty years ago.
Right, but it's more than electric money. The OP mentions it's electric money that:

1) has assured/immutable transactions (unlike CCs) - This may or may not be a good thing from a purchaser perspective on seller fraud.

2) is available to all individuals (unlike banks) - Again, which may or may not be a good thing if you're worried about money from/to the grey/black market.
Yeah, at 10-20k it definitely sounds like overkill. Some of our past systems sent a couple million emails per day using a MySQL backed email queue.
Battery production, recycling, etc and the batteries themselves are very toxic. Seems like we are trading one form of pollution ( polluting the atmostphere ) with poisoning our land. I remember it wasn't too long ago where we were told not to use too many batteries because they were toxic...
Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate
> What sort of Soviet-alike censorship is that?

It just seems that way. Alas it's a tempting conclusion to jump to.

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Is there actually a healthy bitcoin economy in the meatspace of Venezuela. Can you trade it for things? Can you buy milk with it? If not, it's really not much of a currency.

If you are just looking to hedge against inflation, you can convert to any other currency or asset just as easily, if not more easily. I assume you can buy gold ETFs in Venezuela.
I also work full-time in software development. I had this problem of deciding on what idea to work on. If you have one idea that solves a problem you have, scratching your own itch is good. If not, I would look for an idea that solves a problem you know people have. If you are still not sure, signup for something like OppsDaily.com newsletter, it sends out a daily email to subscribers of a problem someone is willing to pay to be solved.

For me, I chose to scratch my own itch. I work on a food side project called https://bestfoodnearme.com but my time is extremely limited to a few hours a week. I keep a sketch pad to write down my ideas for the site. If I have ideas related to other projects, I write them down in a more general pad apart from the sketchpad that is focused only on the food site.

I put constraints on which features and ideas I need to work on. If there is a bug in the basic functionality of a project, I tend to work on that first. For new features, I will only consider them if I get feedback from at least 3 different unrelated people that mention the same feature to me.

I always plan out the night before which tasks I will work on the next day. That way I can hit the ground running.
Interesting! To me, it does. Now I'm no luddite: I own a kindle and use it a lot. It's convenient. But to me the experience is definitely different from reading a paper book, in multiple ways: I read randomly, going back and forward a few pages multiple times, and this is currently cumbersome in an e-reader. Also, I enjoy book cover artwork -- I enjoy the look of a book -- and while it is displayed in the book list of my e-reader, it's just not the same. I want to see the book cover every time I pick the book, and in full color. I want to smell the pages. To me this is part of the experience of reading.

Still, the Kindle is so damn convenient. It's just that it's not the same pleasurable reading experience for me. It's not true that the Kindle "disappears" like Amazon claims -- or maybe, it actually disappears too much!
I think you can call yourself an entrepreneur if you start a business and nobody will think twice. The definition Google gives is, "a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so," which is rather clear.

I agree on the other two. It's like giving yourself a nickname.
I was like 28 years old before I'd heard of a yurt.
Of course, when you stop trying to massage the figures to make it seem more favourable it comes out with USA in #2, with 300 million people, and china in #1 with 1.3 billion.

Your per-capita consumption is more than 4 times that of China, and for a long time you had the most emissions in the world. Your way of life isn't sustainable in more ways than just emissions. You have to accept that.
I like this post's optimism.

And I like that the author picked some favorite frameworks and tools without disparaging the alternatives too much. I disagree with his conclusions about Angular and React, but he didn't get hung on up the criticism - one sentence about each before moving on.

When you have the freedom to choose your entire stack, it's good to pick ones that you enjoy using - so long as they can solve the problem you're working on.
Yep. I remember conservatives crowing about how this was a study by a climate skeptic and respected scientist and they'd be willing to accept the results. Of course, when the results weren't what they wanted, They turned against the whole thing.

Brings to mind Gingrich and his "Mueller is an excellent pick" tweet a few months ago, only to completely flip his position a few weeks ago. These people are unredeemable.
tl;dr: A guy who works in the oil industry throws a bunch of survey numbers up in an effort to spread uncertainty about the cause of climate change, even then can't do better than claim it's "only" an 80% consensus.
>so if you don't want to get sued or blacklisted, you can do no kind of (detectable) scraping.

So why would it be hard to make scraping undetectable, anyway, unless you do it particularly incompetently? In theory, it seems pretty easy: use a browser string that matches an existing popular browser, and make sure to not load anything faster than a human would.
"A lie ain't a side of the story. It's just a lie." -- The Wire
I do expect voice to do something text doesn't do, because text allows for interactions that voice doesn't. I can't skim a page of search results via voice. I'm not going to sit there and have Alexa read 10 page titles and URLs to me. I ask a question, I expect a concise voice response. Anything else is a complete failure of the UI.

Currently there is one way for a computer to interact with humans via voice: direct and unquestioning answers.
Why's it easier to build a Mars orbiter than an assault rifle for India?
Looking at that article, it seems nearly every complaint is about inheritance. But it is quite possible to use objects with composition. In fact, I think 'composition over inheritance' has been a commmonplace since the late 1990s.
I don't see the value prop in things like Blue Apron. It seems overpriced for what it is. Between my roommate and myself, we cook every night (trading off nights), and take the leftovers for lunches the next day. $60 for a curated box of groceries for 3 meals just doesn't seem worth it. I spend half that weekly, snacks included.
Ok, the minority view was wrong in this particular case. Minority views were also right in some other cases.

"Climate change denialism" - what's this? Is there any scientist out there who thinks that Earth's climate is stable in the long run?
> You've hit on a very big part of listening to music that appears largely lost today.

The big part that is lost today is the music.
It's worth noting that this isn't always a "don't know". Often it may literally be a "can't say". The problem is that even if you call them up and say "sure, I know it could be more complex, I just want to know what it would be for a perfectly normal delivery", and then you go there and get a bigger bill due to complications, what happens? Do you have a case against them for misleading you into thinking it would be cheap? Do they have written evidence that you understood their quote was only for a no-complications scenario?

The safest thing is to refuse to give an answer.

To elaborate on this, I work for a company that offers health insurance. One of the nice features of our plans is that although it's PPO with a network of contracted providers, the co-pay for someone on the plan is the same whether a doctor is in- or out-of-network. But how do you advertise that? Saying "see any doctor you want" is a non-starter, because someone might take it to mean "doctors are required to see you even if they don't want to" and then claim we misled them with the "any doctor" line. It ended up taking quite a while to work out a way to advertise that benefit without tripping over anything that might be claimed to confuse or mislead.