skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not long ago, the phrase “no single event can be attributed to climate change” was repeated like a catechism. This is no longer true. Though scientists still warn that it’s inaccurate to speak of weather events being “caused” by climate change — weather always has multiple causes — better climate models, more powerful computers, and refined methodologies now allow researchers to quantify how climate change has increased the likelihood or severity of heat waves, droughts, deluges, and other extreme events.

I agree with the last sentence, and the new research is interesting.

But I think with the first few sentences the author is saying that "attributing" an event to climate change is not the same as saying it was "caused" by climate change. Please help me to understand this position.

Edit: And it has been long known that climate change increases the likelihood of some events. The new research is just putting some numbers on that.
Could do, but the stop-start vehicle traffic is still faster than walking.
Yeah, paying six figures to buy a car that's been built to rat me out if it serves the corporate interest is not what I'd call a good investment. They've also threatened to sue someone for interfacing with the software of their own car, vindictively banned a journalist from buying their cars due to a negative blog post, and the only place you can even see a Tesla repair manual is in a state that legally requires it... and Tesla charges $30 an hour for the privilege.

They hinge heavily on how evil laws are requiring third party dealerships, while being a case-in-point example of why third party dealerships protect consumers from an overbearing mothership.
Cuts and jumpers (from 1989)
“It’s as if you had a fire hose moving back and forth and the people who have the water falling on them hear the noise, and if you’re outside that stream, you don’t hear the noise,”

This suggests overlapping interference patterns from multiple sources
or multiple sound pathways. Is that a reasonable idea for infra-sound?
@ms013 interested to know how you are using the solvers, are you willing to share any further details?
When I wrote the original Restoration Proposal for the CHM's pdp-1 in 2003, along with Ace engineers Joe Fredrick (h/w) and Eric Smith (s/w), we envisioned Spacewar! running and being demonstrated to ever-new generations of folks. Hearing your story is heartwarming, as we were hoping others would be similarly rewarded. Come back again and play some.

Not well-publicized: Every 5th Saturday of the months that have 5th Saturdays we hold a Spacewar! Tournament, and the prizes are Spacewar! T-shirts signed by Steve Russell and Peter Sampson (Steve wrote the main game and had help from Shag and a few others; Peter added a realistic star field, showing what one would see outside in Cambridge MA).

We ran Spacewar! for the first time during the restore on Feb 29, 2005. So we're coming up soon on 13 years...
Well, when driving on snow and ice, none of your control inputs map exactly to the motion of the vehicle. Accelerate? Naw, let's yaw. Brake? Maybe tomorrow. Steering? Let's go straight. Going straight? Let's veer you over into the other lane. Figured out how to handle map inputs to road outputs? It heats up/cools down and changes everything. Again.

In the best case, visibility restriction is limited to the sides of the roads, like in this video. In the worst cases, there is barely any indication of where the road is, and signs are also covered in snow. GPS is being blocked by the storm overhead. Forward visibility is down to being measured in tens of feet, from 10 miles only five minutes earlier.

As for the vehicle itself and the electronics: in winter, they will need to function pretty much perfectly at up to -40°. Cars, if left outside, can be covered in layers of over 6" thick of snow and/or ice - and not always just on the top.

While operating on winter roads, they will be exposed to a constant spray of slush and snow, combined with salt and sand. This spray will coat the grills and tails of cars. My vehicle has parking assist and radar assisted cruise control; neither of which work after driving down a road with fresh snow. Even the otherwise protected rear view camera gets coated in muck just from the aerodynamics of the car's tail.

None of this is impossible to overcome, but the typical "it's just an engineering problem" is aggravating to hear.
It sounds like you are admitting that you're filling a gap in the market: specifically, "body hackers" who will put anything in their bodies as long as it sounds edgy and new. And that you don't have any research to back any of this up?

You're doing the usual handwavey thing, which is to say that you know that it's not a good product today, but somehow you're going to take the profits from selling the unproven thing today, and do something better later, maybe...?

That might be borderline acceptable if you're doing a software startup but sounds horribly cavalier for someone pushing a health product.
We’re entitled to eat safe meat. Why has that become such a lottery?
How would writing a whole new UI in AMP be easier than cleaning up the current HTML templates or writing new templates in HTML rather than AMP?
I'm not in your market, but your product looks pretty interesting.

The free trial is fairly prominent on your home page. On your pricing page, all of the free trial links are below the fold for me: https://imgur.com/a/4qsaf

You might want to move the free trial buttons higher, maybe right below "How much does Contabulo cost?"

Also, you can put cost in lowercase.
I mean, embedding data into html looks bad, but is it really worse than loading a script separately? This is basically the "bundling" on the HTML layer, i.e., what HTTP/2 should offer.

For a website like Airbnb, 1.9M for total asset size doesn't seem bad...
They'd take on the bandwidth load in order to provide better performance for their users!

Maybe HN wouldn't bother, but I think, say, Reddit would do it if experiments showed that prerendering links resulted in higher engagement on Reddit. (And I bet it would; don't you agree?)
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I was really disappointed when noticed they didn't have a way to report bugs. They had some kind of "Suggestions box", so I used that to report mine:
Images wouldn't upload correctly when the chat room name started wih a slash (/dev/null in my case).
They deleted the ticket and a few days later it was magically fixed.

You will find pretty annoyed people if you search for "report hipchat bug".
That's what they did.
No, I do not support this at all. If kids aren't playing or socializing or exercising to your standards, that's too bad. Who are you to specify what they should do?

If you were talking classroom time, and there was real evidence to suggest that using digital devices was hurting attainment, then I might be tempted to go along. But use during recess, lunch, etc? No way... AFAICT, that's what lunch breaks are for - catching up on email, checking HN, etc.
There seems to be a better article from a more reliable source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-israel-tr...

And there is one company: https://www.supermeat.com/ and two other which seems to be the same org labeled as non-profit or startup: https://www.futuremeat.org/
Or https://www.discourse.org/
I find that it's easier to tune out something that is totally periodic and unvarying. As annoying as a smoke detector chirp would be, your brain knows with certainty the timing and sound of it and can process it out completely. A noise that is generally around, but comes and goes and varies in pitch and volume without predictability, can be much more annoying.
> The search benefit isn't even a long-term one: Either AMP will go away for some reason at some point, or, if the status quo is maintained, everyone will be forced to use AMP by Google's search monopoly, rendering it a null benefit to your rankings as everyone else transitions to it.

Maybe in the long term, but meanwhile they get the benefits for being early adopters. If AMP fails, they will simply roll back.
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Or we can simply deliver what the user needs and not include every analytics tracker under the sun, scrolljacking, or shove dozens of images and links in their face to improve "engagement".
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"Since reports of it surfaced in 2011, the hum has been studied by the Canadian government, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor."

Do you really think that between the Canadian government and two universities, over the past seven years, that you are the first person to suggest this "obvious first step"?
Rust actually uses lock files, just not for libraries.

I've been bit by this a few times when I've come back to code 2-3 months later and forgot to include the .cargolock so I pretty much always use the lock file these days.
Hi, Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate your comments. I built the site.

- I fully agree with you on having privacy policy. I am working on that, should be on the site soon.

- Regarding new budget creation, at the moment, editing existing one and saving with new name will create
new one with existing details. Yes, It is good to make it recurring automatically. I thought about it before.
It is definitely on my list in upcoming updates.

- I agree with you on having some customisation option for setting default time period on transaction view page.
It is on my list as well.

- For your last point, I agree site is lacking in help on how to use it. I will try to add help in appropriate places.

Thanks.
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What choice do you have once every single provider is doing this? Seriously are we supposed to build our own car? Businesses only care about profits, so if one manufacturer sees other manufacturers doing this and making money, they will follow suit, until all cars are just another data mining machine.

What possible motivation would a car manufacturer have not to do this? It's all about $$$
Using 1.6/0.8 3G speeds (with 300ms RTT) as the baseline, and specifically targeting a 3s SpeedIndex embarrasses most non-AMP experiences by virtue of the AMP cache underlying the SERPs. These are the terms with which Google's marketing AMP specifically with its own tools for marketers. (To wit: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-us)

You can get damned close--and even exceed it if you're a minimalist--by throwing every bleeding-edge performance optimization under the sun at it, but nothing is going to stop marketers throwing Adobe's render-blocking VisitorAPI in the <head> to offset many of those optimizations, either. (Seriously, and you can't async it, either. Marketers get angry and Adobe doesn't support it.)

The advantage of AMP dissipates rapidly as one tests in 4G and low-end cable speeds, however. At that point, hitting a 1s-2s SpeedIndex isn't terribly difficult if you're using front-end performance best practices, even with a framework bootstrapping itself to the DOM.
How does the web packaging spec guarantee that a user isn't served an outdated version?

A site may make a mistake, correct it, and web package caches could still serve the old version otherwise.

In fact, this basically leads to the update denial issue that also caused APT repositories to move to HTTPS.
The Cuban sound beam got reflected from the clouds, easy!
Is an eerie similarity between two online groups of people going to mean you abandon attempts to bring about equality of the sexes, races, classes, etc.?

Methods matter. Principles matter. The ends do not justify the means. If one advocates, "By Any Means Necessary," then one has disclaimed morals and principles, declaring that they have the judgement to take on the power to lie, cheat, or harm. Power corrupts, and especially so in this case. The historical record bears this out -- especially in the case of those who resist or seek to reform.

One group is "witch-hunting" to root out people who might be bringing stereotypes or prejudice along with their thoughts and ideas

So you are admitting right-out that you seek to "thought-police" people. You admit to the witch-hunt, you just feel justified in it. You are straight-up admitting that you place yourself over other people -- over fellow citizens you supposedly adhere to the value of "equality" with -- to take on such power for yourself.

Two wrongs do not make a right.
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you should try modern erlang. If you try really hard, you can get both the advanced abstract concepts plus obscure machine specific optimizations.
Funny, a similar post in the opposite direction from Airbnb is also in the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16422763
Two dodgy companies, made for each other. Maybe Uber could get involved somehow .
> lots and lots and lots of people clean their own house and maybe they're the ones buying the vast majority of the roombas, not people with maids

Surely the one substitutes for the other. The thought "I'm spending longer than I want to cleaning, and my house still isn't as clean as I'd like, and I've had more money lately, I can afford to..." could be completed "hire a cleaner" or "buy a roomba".

> tolerance for dirt to me seems like a textbook example of something that has a high demand elasticity

What do you mean? Different people will have their threshold in different places, certainly, and the amount they're willing to pay will vary, but I don't see how that changes anything.

I'm generally struggling to understand what your model is here. Are you saying people make the decision about whether to hire a cleaner when they're born and then never change it?
I understand your points and somewhat agree with them, and it's great advice for people who want to build a product on the side.

However what I meant is, what if building and iterating is the goal, not the means to the product? When you're building a SaaS app you have to worry about market fit, sales(as the article talks a lot about), if you're not concerned about finding users and growing, a side project app can be a great way to learn and show knowledge.

Perhaps the classic web app with server-side templates is the quickest way to launch an MVP, but what I want is a way to build something integrating as many different things as possible, a lot of companies will want to see your GitHub, if you can present a largely-complex yet well-designed application where you can showcase front-end development, backend APIs, containers and what not you're one step ahead.

I want a sort of sandbox to play with, not an actual product, would be interesting as a multi-part series course(start with simple web app, keep iterating, separate web app from server code, remove bootstrap or other UI kits in favor of self created styles, incorporate mobile, watch app, whatever you can think of. This could be a good exercise in writing maintainable applications.
Ads in the car dashboard?! Let the meteor hit the earth already and put an end to our civilization.
Ah so this is more of a kinetic sculpture than a timekeeping device.
The secretive company behind Missouri's lethal injections
One can simply start an openssh-server on localhost with some unused port for testing. There is no need for the internet, other computers or let alone other computers from somebody else over the internet for that.
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Yup, elm pioneered this space. We're giving it a shot too https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-semverver
It's probably something planted by the Wayne County government to try and get people to move to the US side.
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Just use Bazel to build your go code. It already solved this problem.
>Please don’t do this.

Please do. Being doored isn't something you want to have happen to you; and can have pretty life changing results if you're unlucky.

If you're in a car and you can't pass if someones riding out of the door zone then you probably don't have room to pass anyway.
Ask HN: Would you live in a town built for remote workers?
Consider the following fictional town:
Located in Douglas County, Nevada (no state income taxes!), this town has a population of 1500 mostly young people. The town consists of modern houses and townhouses looking like this https://www.redfin.com/CA/South-Lake-Tahoe/628-Kiowa-Dr-96150/home/22355535 and this https://www.redfin.com/CA/Oakland/3235-Louise-St-94608/home/143116118 .

The town has gigabit fiber everywhere, 2-day Amazon Prime delivery, delivery from a Whole Foods store, a small grocery store, a large coffee shop, a coworking space, a large park/pedestrian area and 2 restaurants. The minimum wage in the town is $15/hour. The town is located 45 minutes away from a skiing resort, 30 minutes away from Lake Tahoe, 1 hour away from the Reno-Tahoe International Airport and 4 hours away from San Francisco. The average high is 76° in the summer and 38° in the winter.
Would you want to live there? Why/why not? If yes, would you prefer living in a townhouse or a house and how much would you pay for one (either buying or renting)?
You might also look at mattermost, if you are OK with hosting yourself (it's not hard, and upgrades are easy).
We had a "hum" sound in cambridge MA. Its one of those sounds when you walk through you don't think anything of it, but if you live near it.... (I was one of the lucky as I couldn't hear it from my bedroom). Incredibly hard to track down, it was determined to be Fans on top of a building. And it was fixed.

The sound bounces around so much, just walking around I couldn't pinpoint it on a couple nights of trying. Its wierd to hear it, but not be able to determine direction. The city figured it out.
Home ownership is a lousy investment compared with stocks or bonds
One easy way to "write better HTML" and "stop writing bloating UIs with too much JS and CSS" is to stick with the limited html/js/css that's in AMP.
(Author here.) Clearly AMP should be replaced, but I argue in the article that prerendering offers better performance even than bare HTML pages with no JavaScript.

"Delivering what the user needs" means performance, too; prerendering simply can't be beat.

The best solution will provide a way to prerender pages without AMP, without iframes, and without violating users' privacy. I claim that Web Packaging is a step in that direction, and even a further step toward re-decentralizing the web.
Please don't post off-topic flamebait to HN threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It mentions investigations many times:

"Since reports of it surfaced in 2011, the hum has been studied by the Canadian government, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor."

Those are all the links in the article, the last one (https://www.dropbox.com/s/vi8ek3hqiof81ca/UW%20Study%20Repor...) gives us

"For the duration of the project, the Hum manifested on only a
handful of days, which made the identification of the source
difficult. Good data representative of the Hum was measured using
the stationed noise monitors. Conclusive evidence of the source
was not achieved using the NSI system since the Hum was not
present on those days that this equipment was deployed on the
river. The conclusion of the research is that the Windsor Hum does
exist and has both qualitative and quantitative characteristics
that surmise the likely source of the Hum to be from the blast
furnace operations on Zug Island."

So the main problem of the article is that it tries to make a mystery from something reasonably good investigated.
uuhhh..."Originally a marsh-filled peninsula at the mouth of the River Rouge, it served as an uninhabited Native American burial ground for thousands of years."
That’s exactly the point, right? Slack turned up and offered more and HipChat didn’t respond in a meaningful way except to rewrite all their clients in JS. At that point they had a buggy client and fewer features, while Slack had an inefficient client with lots of features.
I think the FDA would consider that an insufficient description.

You may also be running afoul of FTC truth-in-advertising law, since you are making claims but not disclosing actual ingredients.
dude nice job getting exposure with this!
I would be interested to learn more about this, though I suspect that this approach is actually harder. From my experience companies will not even bother to try your product unless you're already selling to consumers or other companies. You really need some deep connections in order to get anything started with a company before you have a product.
Is changing dosage based on body size the only customization you are doing?
Especially because you can always mute Slack or use do not disturb as well.
Not buying these products is a false affordance. Your friends have them, your spouse carries one every time you go out together, your children clamor for them at Christmas. If I have to keep my lawn well maintained or face a fine, there's no good reason that people should be exempt from laws that regulate behavior that has a greater impact to society than tall weeds.
Have you joined the National Weight Control Registry? http://www.nwcr.ws/
A few years ago they drilled for gas a few kilometers outside the city (about 3 km from my house) — this caused a faint humming noise that seemed to come from everywhere but nowhere in particular. Stand still in a room, hear the noise. Lie down, cover your ears, hear the noise. Put earplugs in, hear the noise. Hugely annoying if you're the kind of person that doesn't sleep well with such nuisances.

Boy was I happy when they were done drilling.

Most interestingly, just a month ago they finished drilling for gas much more closely, right at the edge of the city, not even a kilometer from my house. I didn't hear anything.

My working theory here is that in the former case it was a drilling at a new location, so they must have induced vibrations into the bedrock layers that all the houses here are built on. While in the latter case there was an abandoned operation at the same spot - perhaps they re-used the hole and just drilled it deeper.
You don't have a smartphone? You don't have a Google account? You don't have accounts on any platform (other than HN, obviously)? I think it's incredibly understated how easy it is to piece together who someone is from their data. You may not think you have pictures out there either but I'd venture to guess that something is out there.
Just use Bazel to build your go code. It has already solved this problem.
The Wikipedia page mentions this but doesn't make the obvious connection to the cause of the vibrations...

> it served as an uninhabited Native American burial ground for thousands of years
Sure, but that doesn't get blog.fefe.de any of the AMP ranking/carousel benefits in search, does it?

That site, from a major german blogger, would actually slow down significantly when you add AMP (he kinda tried once), and yet, he doesn't get any of the search benefits.
I am a keen fastmail user, they do a great job. Without them, and also few others, I would be a way more skeptical about where technology goes these days. Karel.
I've always seen these rules as defaults. If you break them with a purpose then it can work, but otherwise they form a good basis for your writing.