skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the full article is gated at WSJ, John Cochrane and David Henderson write about the lack of quantifying economic costs when it comes to addressing climate change. Their last paragraph:

Climate policy advocates’ apocalyptic vision demands serious analysis, and mushy thinking undermines their case. If carbon emissions pose the greatest threat to humanity, it follows that the costs of nuclear power—waste disposal and the occasional meltdown—might be bearable. It follows that the costs of genetically modified foods and modern pesticides, which can feed us with less land and lower carbon emissions, might be bearable. It follows that if the future of civilization is really at stake, adaptation or geo-engineering should not be unmentionable. And it follows that symbolic, ineffective, political grab-bag policies should be intolerable.

Here's Cochrane's write up about the op-ed: http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/07/on-climate-change....
It is a very important lesson. Caching is your friend.
Their oil is heavy, which means that it needs more complicated refining than say that of Saudi Arabia. That is not normally a problem, but due to government corruption the local oil company can't do it, and no foreign company dares to invest.
Thanks Man
>As someone who has lived in Alicante for a period of time

Among intangible benefits was your ability to live in Alicante for a period of time, without having to apply for a work/study visa or whatever other hoops someone non-EU would have had to jump through.
No, because the signatures will not match. That's the whole point of replay protection (or at least my understanding of it).
How I Use Vlogging to Let the Audience Keep Me in Check of My Goals
Recently I started vlogging to refresh my video editing skills. I am product designer at heart so my latest video is called "How I Failed to prototype an app in one night".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRaAgbuW9yc

I would like to know if anyone uses the idea of vlogging like me. And please let me know what you think of the video in the comments.
Bootstrap 3 or 4 are much more sophisticated and cover a lot more edge cases. Just comment out what you don't need in Sass. There are few projects that require the legacy browser support from v1.
> Even more cynical there are still people in the Mercosur that back Maduro even now. I can imagine left leaning people would align with a socialist government initially but still after all this happened?

Not just Mercosur, the leader of the UK Labour party is a long term Chavez supporter, and still hasn't come out against all of this.
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Yesss! Being able to drop a few buttons, code a few lines, and compile, and get a statically compiled binary / exe file with native GUI, on all the three desktop platform (without any code change between them!) is just mind blowing if you tried any other GUI builder. This is how GUIs should be made. Period. :)
Sure it makes sense! Just blog about the things you learn. You will probably end up blogging about things that are new to other people.

Best example I know of is Julia Evans [1]. She blogs about the things she learns in areas many people are mot an expert of. I find most of her blogs very interesting.

[1] https://jvns.ca
> Basically the only solution to the stop the world pause with D is to run two instances of your program and then use IPC even though the language provides a way to disable the gc.

There is a solution to your stated problem that is to deregister Thread 2 to the runtime. No registration -> no stop-the-world for this thread.
Thread 2 will not be able to "own" GC things or allocate with the GC but will perfectly be able to use them. I did this in a video game for the audio thread.
What’s the difference between quantitative and qualitative research?
Living in NYC opened my eyes to how awesome laundromats can be. All your laundry done at the corner store, coming back neat and folded for a dollar a pound.

Calgon, take me away.
@corep_1: I'm trying to understand if presented with an option to buy tailored clothing vs mass produced what you would prefer. Apart from the convenience of going into a store to pick up something is there another reason why someone would prefer a mass produced clothing item (if price was equal)?
Thanks, direct bank is way easier for me than PayPal. Just donated!
Curious, what's the average price for something like that? Do you pay by load or garment?
How important though? Rarely does it come into play from my experience, at least for those who work in predominantly the UI layer on the web. Even at my job at Big Co. as a senior engineer (algorithms/data structures knowledge is necessary to pass the interview process here), it hasn’t manifested in a significant way, at least not compared to other skills such as architecting systems for maintainability, identifying the cause of bugs & fixing them, and collaborating with other engineers to implement something the best way possible.
Yeah it is definitely nothing at all to do with their hyper-reliance on oil.
If you're already good at programming and didn't learn computer science foundations along the way it should literally take you a few hours to understand the majority of the core data structures. I don't understand why people complain about common interview questions when you can readily learn the answers in advance.
And somehow it's still a shit country, apparently. Look at how Saudi, Emirati, Bruneian and Qatari live off of their smaller oil reserves. Something is clearly up with Venezuela's governance if they can have that much oil and do that badly.
> Ah, the no-true-socialist fallacy.

No. In order for this to be a fallacy, it actually has to be fallacious. Many years I have been on Slashdot, Reddit and HN and seen this bandied about. I do not believe it is a fair assessment.

One of the core tenets of Socialism is collective worker control over social means of production and its democratic management. There have not even been plans in Venezuela to put this into place.

Another is the abolition of the functions of private (i.e bourgeois) property via seizure. This has not happened and many businesses employing wage labour continue unimpeded.

Another is the abolition of wage labour. This has not happened nor has there been any apparent effort put towards it.

Another is production for use (i.e maximising use-value) rather than for exchange, exchange containing within it the operation of the Law of Value. Almost all goods continue to be produced for the purpose of exchange value maximisation.

Another is the removal of money, as Engels said in Anti-Duhring, "Money is already contained in embryo in the concept of value; it is value, only in developed form." This has not happened nor has there been any effort toward it.

A possible replacement for money is the adoption of non-exchangable labour vouchers, a possible suggestion by Marx and Proudhon for "lower stage Communism". This has not happened nor has there been any effort toward it.

Venezuela exhibits all aspects of the capitalist mode of production. If you think that "Socialism" means "government doing stuff" or "government gives away money to people", you are either using a very strange and ahistorical definition of Socialism, or you are wrong. The actions of Venezuela more closely resemble a weak social democratic model.

So what exactly are you trying to say?
The point of a library or framework is that I don't need to tack one on. I could spend time writing my own grid system that uses CSS Grid and only supports the latest browsers (without a polyfill) or just use Bootstrap 3 or 4's grid, which has been tested already, supports lots of browsers and requires no effort.

I know this bills itself as a "reset" but when you look at the buttons, text utilities, spacing utilities etc it's far beyond that. In many cases it's just re-using Bootstrap's naming conventions and code. As far as I can tell there's nothing like Bootstrap's theme customization tool for it, so I'd have to do it all by hand.
What Really Happened with Jaxx's Failed Monero Integration Attempt
Japan has public pools (run by wards) and they are lovely. The only minor complaint is that sometimes they are overrun with old people ;)
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Nuclear energy has a small carbon footprint when compared to fracked natural gas. It is insane to cancel and abandon two reactors because natural gas prices are low.

Doesn't anyone think long term anymore? How much CO2 will be dumped into the atmosphere due to this cancellation? What will be the collateral damage due to the inadvertent release of methane in fracking.

Nuclear power is clean and safe relative to fossil fuel power generation.
Sure, you just need a conveniently shaped deep body of water nearby.

Although, depending on your local geography, you could just dig a deep hole.
definition of a planet as follows: a planet is what ever arbitrary metrics Brown can come up with that demotes Pluto and includes the other 8 (sort of) so that he can write papers / gain fame / etc. They didn't come up with criteria and found Pluto didn't fit, they kept coming up with criteria UNTIL Pluto didn't fit and the other planets did fit.

Brown has no army over me, and I don't buy into the academic nonsense. Pluto is a planet.
That's generally true, but there are places where the police and cartels are intermingled.
Saphir: Optical Playback of Analogue Audio Discs
It's to replace (or supplement) TouchID. Probably also useful for AR stuff down the road.

I was skeptical, but I have a friend who has a similar thing running on his Windows box and it works surprisingly well.
You can buy with dollars on the black market, bitcoin is trivialy exchangeable for dollars. You have to mine them, but power is heavialy subsidized...
Sorry for being vague; just left it "europe" since I've moved around a bit since getting here.

I'm currently in Croatia, where it seems only restaurants and some grocery stores frequently take cards; I paid for an invoice at a local bank (Raiffeisenbank) yesterday that only took cash, which I thought was hilariously ironic.

For what it's worth, my stay in Iceland (3 months) was absolutely fantastic when it came to taking card payments.

On the other hand, the Netherlands (Amsterdam, 3 months) often only took Maestro-only (or sometimes Visa-only) in the cases where vendors even took cards.

Likewise in England (Sheffield, 3 months) many vendors only took cash, and were mightily confused by American cards (especially one requiring pin + signature).

I also had a brief stay in Italy (Naples, 1 week) where I found one restaurant that took any kind of card; everywhere else was cash-only.

This has been my experience. I didn't realize how commonplace card transactions actually were in America until I realized how rare they were in the places I've lived since.

I hate paying with cash because it's several extra mental steps to withdraw $X / maintain $X on hand / track expenditures / count up payments + check change / etc. It's so much easier and faster to use a card, so I hope Visa (or whomever, I don't have a preference as long as it's a card) lobbies for more widespread acceptance worldwide.

If that requires killing off cash, I wouldn't have a problem with that!
Was wondering the same recently and found this presentation fairly balanced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7B3z-l8bJ8
In my android if you double-tap the notification bar it'll lock the device.
Any data on the energy density and the price per kWh?

Would be interesting to know how it compares to flow batteries.
That sounds like a dream in many respects, but also, by analogy with the size of laptops where every part is customiseable and swappable, like it could be very, very slow or crash-prone. Much of the bugginess of Windows comes from its need to accommodate all possible combinations of bizarre hardware offerings; and much of the "It Just Works" of (some) Apple products comes from the tightly integrated nature of their technology stacks.
That's the annoying thing. Why don't these companies say you can use it for free or for cheap until you've earned 10000 in total, and then you have to buy a license that costs less. That way you could put the money aside in your calculations and it would be no problem. The DAW Reaper has this kind of licence, you only have to buy the commercial version if you make more than 20,000 USD gross revenue per year.

It's the same with commercial CommonLisps, I'd love to use one, but the pricing is ridiculous for small companies / hobby programmers. That doesn't add up, you'd have to be 100% sure that you'll earn more than X dollars with your application and you can never be sure of that.
This is one of the funniest headlines I've read considering the site seemingly crashed. I'm hoping the punchline was actually "Error establishing a database connection" but I doubt it.
100% - writing isn't about having readers from day one. It's about learning how to express yourself. I've been blogging for 6 years now. When I started I had no idea what I wanted to talk about, so I just used it to flush out thoughts I had.

You will find an audience as you find your voice. What you hae to say will resonate as you get better at writing (±12 months of consistent writing is a good rule of thumb to start building a readership).

Forget money. Forget "professional network" even. Just focus on having conversations with people who are passionate about things you're passionate about. If you're lucky, you'll interview a hero of yours.
Alexa, are you listening?
Not true. Slack does not take 32GB of RAM to be usable, more likely the rest of his tools take 30GB of RAM. My laptop only has 8GB of RAM and I have Chrome and Firefox open and active while using Slack. Slack has been open for a couple of weeks and is using less than 500mb of RAM on my machine.
Very thorough. Congrats.
capitalism you're allowed to criticize it

What does this even mean?

Are you under the impression that capitalism gave the world free-speech?
I'm also a regular Firefox-on-Android user, and the only thing I would criticize is that sometimes layouting of large sites gets the browser stuck for a few seconds (e.g. long HN threads with 100+ replies). I hope that gets better though when Stylo is enabled by default in a few versions.
I've turned my vim into a monstrosity with plugins in the past - believe me, it's possible to make your vim just as laggy :)
Discord is too branded as a gaming tool. No way I could convince any professionals to use it.
// If UAHF is enabled for the curent block, but not for the previous block, we must check that the block is larger than 1MB.
https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc/blob/174846aaaf56...
The difficulty recalculation in Bitcoin ABC was reduced significantly. I believe it is 6 blocks but could be wrong. At most it would take several days as opposed to several weeks.
Aside from the energy coming from a liquid instead of a solid, is there anything at all about this technology that people actually like for an electric car?
Donwvotes? Alright let me reframe the question:

Are iOS and Android continuing to converging on the same features? What new innovations can be found in the mature mobile market or should be look to other form factors?
There's an argument that while rendering engines are huge, monolithic undertakings, the actual browsers wrapped around them are fairly trivial. Assuming they use the same rendering engine under the hood, a relatively lightweight, tightly integrated platform-native browser (i.e. Safari or Gnome Web) might be a better user experience than a cross-platform behemoth like Chrome.

Extension support and depth of extension library have traditionally been the big pain point with switching to a minority browser. Moving extension support into a browser independent standard removes a lot of the selective pressure toward a monoculture.
I would also recommend Julia's blog as a good example of the "learn this thing along with me" style.
IIRC, if a miner includes an invalid sighash into a block it will be rejected by regular bitcoin nodes. Ya gotta follow the spec.
I've always been surprised that Reddit hasn't had many trackers - basically just Google Analytics and Doubleclick. Especially since their parent company is so heavily into tracking on news sites.

It will be a real shame if they start gunking it up with trackers - many news sites are basically unusable without ad blocking.
In the web based text version if I type out my answer too fast, it seems to truncate some of the characters, e.g. I typed forbade and hit enter but it parsed only "forba"
Brazil is also a huge producer of guns. Given Venezuela's location at the edge of Central and South America, its hard to say where they would get most of their guns from.
It's too late for that. The cartels are up and running in various industries like extortion and sex trafficking.

The Mexican cartels control politics anyway, so good luck just making them go away.
On mobile, that would not be a problem since YouTube videos open in a separate app anyway.
Most newer buildings being built (though those are hard to find, sometimes) always have a hookup available.

In my apartment hunting, I usually found that apartments which lacked a hookup were also built before it was a norm to have such a thing.

Seeing that American landry is almost entirely vented drying, a dedicated space of 30 square feet with an outside vent, sewer drain (and vent) and hot and cold spigot are nearly required. It's easy to see why so few old apartments have in-unit w/d hookup.
I hope a burglar breaks into your house and starts raping your daughters, cutting the throat of your sons, blows your head with a 9mm, then when a neighbor calls 911 I'll say "As a community member I hope they don't send the Swat team, he should solve his own internal problems peacefully".
Then they'll attempt to put more nuclear plants in, then gas will plummet again and they'll abandon those plans and then gas will skyrocket and they'll make new plans and then gas will drop and
'Right-wing', as in opposite of 'left-wing'
This is my favorite - moving rocks uphill !
Has anyone measured how much traffic can being on the front page of HN generate?
It's completely fine (and will likely help make you better in the fields you blog about and better at communication in general, which is gold.) Of course you wouldn't want to misstate your experience or qualifications, but it doesn't sound like you were contemplatin that anyway.

And if you are able to communicate what you are doing and why, it will be a help to people who are in roughly the same position as you with an interest in the same thing, which is great.
Saudi Arabia banked funds more effectively - they have the fifth and twelfth largest sovereign wealth funds in the world. Venezuela has roughly .1% of that, for the same population.

Beyond that, Saudi Arabia has substantial infrastructure development to pull oil out of low-value land. Venezuela has ongoing fights over which reserves should be recovered (it's under valuable rainforest and watersheds) and excess spending has steadily undermined infrastructure - their break-even price is ~15% higher than Saudi Arabia's.

So: Venezuela sank their wealth into some mix of corruption and admirable initiatives that nevertheless haven't paid themselves back. Saudi Arabia saved the money and drove down production costs.
Didi Chuxing to Invest and Partner with Uber's European Rival Taxify
Certainly while there are cultural aspects at play, it's impossible to ignore the reality of certain areas in America being cleaner and less littered, and better serviced than other areas, and a large part of that has to do with the money available for people who inhabit and regularly use those spaces/facilities, and the ability to keep away certain demographics in order for the money to continue to be available.
Ask HN: Why is finding cryptocurrency fraud difficult?
Shouldn't we be able to look at the blockchain to determine if online exchanges are operating as fractional reserves? Why is it so difficult to do this, and why did it come as a huge surprise when Mt Gox was found to be missing so many bitcoins?
Someone who has just learned something is in the best position to teach that thing to others.

If you are an an expert in a topic it can be hard to understand which aspects of that thing are non-obvious to beginners.
"Nuclear can similarly be phased out like human-driven vehicles will be."

You have it exactly backwards. Manually operated nuclear plants will evolve into fully automated, completely safe designs. A very similar approach to self-driving cars.
Yes, they are cheap to buy, because they don't have a working exhaust cleaning and don't comply to the emission laws.

I think it is a big fallacy to claim that Diesel cars are so popular, if you consider how the public has been mislead about the illegal levels of pollution produced by the cars and that they have been sold without a working exhaust cleaning. Besides that affordable electric cars are a very recent thing, are Diesel engine cars going to be popular, if they are more expensive to buy (1-2k) and operate (regular AdBlue refill)?
Companies with multiple share classes blocked from joining S&P 500 Indexs
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And if you look at the planes parked in the wrong hangars at 9.11 by us backed insurgents, you never know what your backing up will accomplish.
Be sure not to equate refugees with migrants.

You may call it cultural dilution, but I call it cultural suicide. Safe zones should be established.
> The last video i saw of german police "attacking" left wingers was literally police officers gently lifting them up and away from a slowly moving car.

Certainly, some events at G20 were exaggerated. I agree with you that this is bad - the problem is that there's so much material about cop misbehaviors that it cannot all be faked/exaggerated.

I have seen police attacking clearly visible, free standing journalists with a water cannon. Police attempting to shoot a cameraman down a roof with a watercannon. Police attacking a medic convoy transporting an injured person with watercannons. Police illegally using rubber ammo (it's not allowed by Hamburg police law).

And this is "just" what I have seen at G20. What I have seen and personally experienced at other demonstrations, especially in Berlin and Munich, I could literally write a book about.

German police don't carry name tags, only some carry number tags (in NRW, the requirement got dropped just short after G20, actually!), and next to no carry body cams. Bavarian and Federal police at least carry the number of their group on the backpatch but numerous other countries don't carry any "individual" mark. They are not investigated by independents, but by other cops - and even if they are investigated, only the really high media profile cases actually end up in front of a court. They are above the law and act like so.
Agreed. Most of the time, it's great and leads for a cleaner DOM. But it could cause issues. A workaround I use in my own styles is doing something like class="plain", then the table rule would be table:not(.plain).
I'm not a lawyer, but it should a start with a clearly demonstrated attempt at prohibiting access to content. The words, "don't use this" are not enough. There needs to be active, ongoing safeguards to protect the data, i.e., authorization tokens, credentials, encryption keys, etc.

In the 80s, it was reasonable to assume that connecting to some port on a remote machine owned by another person or company could constitute unauthorized access. But today, billions of people connect to ports on remote machines thousands of times a day for completely legitimate reasons, so it's reasonable to assume that data that can be accessed by just asking nicely over the internet is considered intended for public consumption.

It seems permissive, but I think that's a crucial component. If some company makes accidentally makes their S3 buckets public, it's completely unfair to say that accessing that information is illegal, especially when they are serving up other information in public S3 buckets which they want people to access.