skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a link to the github repo with the images and codebase: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Of course, ice is already very high albedo. Might be difficult to find something better that you can directly apply to the ice.

One idea for helping to terraform Mars (by thickening the atmosphere) is to apply black carbon dust to the glaciers. We're kind of doing that by accident here by burning fossil fuels that produce soot that ends up on glaciers. So reducing fossil fuel burning and soot production would help do what you're trying to do.
I think the bigger idea is that Simpsons is trying to be more representative of the social norms in the United States, for better or worse. In US culture, the outsider is always punished, regardless of intelligence. In traditional US culture, the independent intelligent woman is looked upon largely as the “old maid” of ages past, having a very limited societal fit.

I don’t think anyone wants to shun people like Lisa, but that’s always what societies have done. The greatest inventors have often been punished, whether by not fitting in, not being understood, or causing hardship by upending the power structures of the elites.

Society is and has constantly been more concerned with continuity, than progress. Not my preference, but certainly my perception.
I recently finished reading Affluence Without Abundance, about bushmen in Southern Africa https://www.amazon.com/Affluence-Without-Abundance-Disappear.... Their culture survived stably without growth for over 100,000 years. They enjoyed more leisure time with less work than us.

By contrast, in under 250 years since Adam Smith our culture's growth is trashing the planet in nearly every place we measure. The Growth Delusion develops and documents problems with growth further https://www.amazon.com/Growth-Delusion-Poverty-Well-Being-Na....

Many times we make an advance like, say, anesthetics, growth leads to things like opioid epidemics.

You can live how you want, but you may want to reconsider what sounds like an unqualified faith in a pattern that may have worked when we had a lot of empty planet to expand into, but creates problems when we learn that we don't any more.
>Plattsburgh, New York Just Took Eliminated Cut-Rate Electrity Rates For Commercial Cyryptocurrency Miners
Kicking holes in drywall hardly takes any force at all.
Well of course that is the goal. Without upvotes your product is never seen by your potential users. If you solely rely on luck of people finding you buried in the Newest section than 99% of the time you won't reach the front page. I dare to say very few product ever made it to the top without the support of their initial beta / power users.
> You can, but it doesn't work

Sure doesn't, I mean it's only the vast majority of concurrent systems which are built on shared-memory concurrency.

> Did you see C#'s await?

Yes, it sucks. Also, it's shared-memory concurrency.

> synchronous alternatives are MUCH more dreadful than even OO-style async handling (fundamental non-testability of shared-memory stuff, even if taken alone, is already enough to rule shared-memory stuff out for good

Async does not make things more testable.

> BTW is already happening; there is a Really Good Reason for Go's philosophy of "share memory by communicating, not communicating by sharing memory").

Go only pays lip service to that, Go is shared-memory concurrency to and through, it barely allows and doesn't enforce shared-nothing concurrency.

Shared-nothing concurrency definitely is already happening. In unices (where processes are historically the standard unit of concurrency) or Erlang (where you can't share memory) or Clojure or Haskell (where you do share memory but almost everything is immutable).
> The first atomic bomb explosion was very much empirical science that was bankrolled by "unsound" promises.

War often forces you to take risks that would be imprudent under normal circumstances.
Was very helpful in creating a point cloud viewer. Not uk but US open lidar data:

- http://potree.org/potree/examples/ca13.html

- http://potree.org/potree/examples/showcase/lake_tahoe.html
The Coffee Cannabis Connection
How can I get the full link address?
So you agree that github mechanics doesn't prevent code theft.
In Mexico death people vote. So I think your point is valid. How do we really certify that a vote is valid?
It matters a great deal what the UK immigration regime will be after Brexit.

Agreed, and this is an area where the facts seem quite clear and I'm hoping that sanity will prevail by the time the dust settles. In fact, what I'm really hoping is that the whole Brexit mess will force the government to fix our immigration and visa system more generally. It's already insanely slow, complicated and unpredictable for those legitimately visiting or moving here more permanently from outside the EU, and that doesn't really help anyone.

For what it's worth, I have no idea where your characterisation of the desired future treatment of EU nationals as illegal immigrants come from, and I think your predictions here are unlikely to the point of being almost inconceivable. The government might have to pay lip service to immigration controls up to a point, but they've been doing that for years anyway. I can't believe even the current lot are foolish enough to undermine the NHS, the education system, the tech and creative sectors, and so on with the kind of draconian system you seem to be envisaging.

I'm not saying it will be an overnight collapse, but more likely a slow melting away of new business and gradual movement of e.g. Euroclearing.

Perhaps. That's certainly a possible outcome in the longer term. Presumably whatever happens in terms of Brexit, any transition, and then any final deal beyond that, the economies on both sides of the Channel are going to adapt in time.

In the short term it may be as simple as moving the flag which says where the company's HQ is and moving its taxpaying nexus inside the EU.

This I find less likely. Various EU governments, notably including the Germans (albeit under the previous administration), have made it very clear that they don't want to see that sort of "technical" movement. And it's going to be very hard for the financial services firms to play games if the national regulators in their new home state(s) want to cause problems for them.

*You're also underestimating the willingness of those financial businesses which are within the EU to be comfortable with UK competition.

Given the scale we're talking about here, I'm curious to know which financial businesses you classify as being "within the EU" at present.
"In this case I would expect that we see a multitude of code styles in the source code of the very first publicly released version of the Bitcoin client. "

Would that be the case if they used software that enforced a common, coding style on the team? And on top of the team putting in at least a little effort to keep consistent? There's quite a bit of that software already used in big organizations, including defense sector.
Unilever moves headquarters to Rotterdam after almost a century in London
$20/month just for a hookup sounds crazy. In California I pay around $20/month total for both gas and electric (and specifically renewables coming from the grid). I'm not sure if there are other utilities available in you area, but it sounds like you're getting ripped off.
Π Is Wrong [pdf]
Sure, but it won't say "forked from" on it.
I'd say a MOOC certificate in Python is unlikely to impress professional programmers. It may impress ordinary business persons. So in terms of hiring, it might be useful in terms of working for a business whose primary business is not programming. It probably won't directly eliminate a candidate from a job in a business whose primary business is programming.

However, there are not vast numbers of "employers of entry level developers" relative to the vast number of potential entry level developers. A job as an entry level developer is most likely to be found by job hunting not taking a MOOC. More importantly, taking a MOOC is a lot easier for many people than actively job hunting because active job hunts are hard, involve a lot of rejection and being ignored, and often take much longer than a MOOC. The key to getting an entry level Python job is to find someone who is hiring entry level Python developers.

Good luck.
How reliant people are on Github is puzzling. If Github somehow failed one day, many businesses and OSS projects would just fail to operate. What surprises me is that software teams in companies use it too, when just sending commits/patches around is quite easy with any VCS.
Isn't the energy getting cheaper due the advances in regenerable sources? This can't be good for utilities.
I completely agree with this and have often thought the same.

The ease of content creation and marketing has been an absolute boon to making better content available on almost all topics. From better pop science and math, to better long-form science and math, and even to just better commenting on news because you're getting commentary from experts who are directly involved.

It's a great time for content.
Just to clarify - they're not Public Domain. They are released under the Open Government Licence - which is compatible with Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and Open Data Commons Attribution License.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licen...
All you need is here:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html
Sesame Street took a few years to figure out what they wanted to be, though:

http://theweek.com/articles/454359/10-classic-sesame-street-...

I think the best years were 1973 through 1994 or so, but that's very subjective.
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> Can I dump toxic waste on my own land?

Sure, it's your land.

> What happens when 10 years later it starts leaching into the soil and poisoning nearby streams and farms?

Those impacted landowners now have a tort claim against you, which they should pursue.

> What about the animals who eat on my land and then run back into the forest where they get shot for someone else's dinner, and that someone else ends up consuming elevated levels of heavy metals?

They now have a tort claim against you, which they should pursue.

> What about the person who buys the land from me? Do I have to disclose the presence of the waste to them?

Yes, you should. If you don't, the purchaser now has a tort claim against you, which they should pursue.

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I know I'm being a bit trite with the above, but I mean no offense. The difference here is one of strategy, not base ideas. I (and other libertarians) believe that people who harm others through their action should be responsible for that harm. Proponents of the EPA believe that people should be limited by government regulation to a minimal level of harm.

I'll also grant that, prior to the EPA, the tort system in the US was ineffective at resolving these issues. I don't believe that was a problem with the process itself; it was (and remains) a problem with the courts.
When a comparison between phenomena is made for the purpose of explanation, yes, analogy is commonly used in the teaching of physics.

But it is better to say that experimental physics is based on the collection of data about a particular phenomenon, and fitting those data to mathematical models to test how well their predictions hold. And that is not analogy.
> If there was working Usenet search in 2018, you could find me making approximately the same argument back in the 1990s, when I worked as a researcher at SNI, the world's first commercial vulnerability research lab.

This being a controversial topic straight at the intersection of technology, the way it changed and affected society, the public good and our dependence on technology, I really don't think that "I haven't changed my mind about this in 28 years" supports your argument ...

And honestly I would say that whether I agree or not.

I wasn't working in security but I definitely moved my opinion on the matter. In the (late) 90s I was mostly for full public disclosure arguing the same "we're better off when we have the most information available to us". But today I'm leaning way more towards "responsible disclosure is good" (as you can tell I'm also not 100% black-and-white on the matter like you said you are).

Maybe it's because I was younger then and had more of a reckless mentality and an innocent belief that people will make the right choices given enough information.

Maybe it's because in the past 28 years technology has changed our society to such an extent that impact of security vulnerabilities is rather incomparable to the impact they had back then.

Maybe it's because I definitely don't believe that you can defend this opinion with the very same arguments that were used back then without even addressing the spread of information technology and the drastic way they altered society in the past 28 years.

Maybe it's because I now realise that I myself am not always better off with more information if I can't act on it, and therefore it's not reasonable to assume it as a general rule. Which is very much something I had yet to learn 28 years ago, had to swallow some pride. I wish everybody was a clever as I was back then ...
You can't track people via tor so why spend a lot of bandwidth? There aren't many altruistic people in the tor sphere.
Delete old branches in Git
> With Fukushima,

The main issue with Fukushima and other Japanese nuclear plants is Japanese regulation enforcing 1960s nuclear safety.
In Germany almost no one owns a normal credit card.
Pythagorean Theorem for the Reciprocals
This is exactly right, and it's not just particle physics. Space exploration has the same dynamic. We went to the moon not because we thought it was scientifically interesting but because we were afraid the Russians would get there first. It's no coincidence that we haven't been back in 40 years. NASA now exists primarily as a mechanism for funneling pork into key congressional districts. Any science that it does is secondary.
Apparently there's no github web UI to actually copy a repo so it's not listed as a fork, but of course git makes it quite possible, and github even provides directions, using git directly.

https://help.github.com/articles/duplicating-a-repository/

I'm imagining a browser plugin that notices when a repo you are about to fork is private, and (or even without that) adds a 'copy' button which gives you text to copy-and-paste into your terminal to make a true copy.
Loved it! Couldn't believe this one was true, but apparently is:

> I went to Trump Scotland last week and a gopher sexually assaulted my wife. After you, bet she loved it!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/35584312171365580...
Simply Explained FIU Miami Bridge Collapse
Actually yes, I think I'm wrong: Double Decker Busses is height, and for volume it's Olympic Size Swimming Pools.
Heck, nothing is stopping them from cloning and pushing to _github_ as an independent repo.

Except if that were as easy and obvious as forking, the OP wouldn't be complaining about it, heh.
Trump believes in punching someone in the face before starting negotiations.
Sponsored by Morton Salt? I knew it was too good to be true.

It seems like every free arts-promoting venture these days is just another opportunity for _Big Salinity_ to push their salty agenda on us!

Follow the money!
But there is no github.com upstream relationship. Sure they can upload it, but it will be obvious it's rogue copy since there is no "forked from.." messaging to the canonical repo.
If you browse my history you'll see I'm not a shill for Nano. This is the first time I ever brought it up in a comment on HN. I genuinely just like the technology - while it has some small drawbacks, the benefits (free, fast and no-mining) far outweigh them in my opinion.
> This is antithetical to science. If you're promising a breakthrough discovery, you're approaching the experiment with bias.

No, but you have to have some sort of hypothesis to justify the experiment. You don't throw effort and money at the wall either, you make a guess about what you'll find, and use that to drive the decision as to what to investigate.

And new particles, at this point, don't qualify. The LHC was probably "worth it" for the Higgs result alone, but absent a new target (like the Higgs) that we really think will be there, no one sane would build another bigger collider at these budgets.
Based on this paper, I'd say "poorly".

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08945

TLDR: the authors demonstrate that it's possible to apply minor perturbations to signs (for instance, rectangular stickers) that don't significantly change the appearance to humans but cause a classifier to confuse a stop sign with a speed-limit sign.
Residential power is more expensive (per kWh) than industrial power, which might also be subsidised depending on industry — likely the same for most western countries. Half of the residential price is a good approximation for Germany.
I agree, the Hardin article is terrific.

There are at least three categories, not just two (as Hardin clearly explains): common ownership, nationalized ownership, and private ownership.

The Monbiot article argues that common ownership doesn't necessarily mean a destructive free-for-all; often the people who actually live in a certain land do a good job of looking after it.

As for private ownership, free market fans tend to assume this is the best approach, but individual owners aren't always incentivized to make the best long-term use of land.

I don't think Monbiot is entirely against Hardin, he's saying more that Hardin is being misread as a justification for private ownership of land only. (I don't think Hardin takes a position on private vs nationalized; he's only concerned with commons vs owned.)
I do not want to believe Github allows to make a privately-forked repository public. Other than that, I agree that the link is better removed, but what I don't understand is how that helps with keeping the code itself private, which is what I thought was meant at the root of the thread.
.+@.+ seems to be the only one without too many false-negatives
Why not? Utilities make money by power transmission. Even if every single house in the US has solar panels there still is a massive market around transferring power between houses to balance loads and time of use issues. In my direct and relevant experience talking with r&d folks and strategic planners at big utilities, they treat cheaper utilities as another market to get in to. They don't think of it as a threat to their business.
I agree with this, the one thing I'll add is that you may also have to contend with the competing priorities of every other VP. Specifically in that Business Development VP may be saying, "We don't have time to do any of those things! We need X done now otherwise we won't get our customer!" And the technical VP response might be, "If we don't fix this now then we won't have _any_ customers." But in the end the financial state of the company will make the decision for you. If you're on the edge and you immediately need more customers to survive then you're going to forgo doing 1 & 2 and instead implement X that BD was requesting. Hoping that you can get enough breathing room in the near future to actually do 1 & 2.
because the answer is obvious, and someone already replied with it
Good to know! I wasn't aware. It doesn't matter too much for me, since the machines I'm using only support AVX2, but I do write my code to work generically on all vectorizations up to AVX512, and I'm likely to use MKL on Knights Landing+.
... if the only point of prison is punishment.
Software like Visual Studio and others doesn't handle or support paths longer than 260 characters because doing so would break a lot of plugins and extensions that people rely on.

It requires change in a whole ecosystem and not just in a few key applications. It would require changes in every tool that could be called from nuget, from Visual Studio, etc.

I can completely understand why they don't fix it, or consider it high priority to fix.
Stacking the Bricks: Accountability does not work the way you think it does
Same way there's a cult following behind Lisp, Prolog & APL. They were way ahead of the time. In a different timeline, if they had been marketed well and adopted, the entire industry would be far ahead and better. It makes us sad that things didn't turn out well and entire industry/world was delayed by years if not decades. We keep talking about this as a reminder that popular is not necessarily best. Those that forget the past are bound to repeat the same mistakes again.
> will the IRS really care about their cut?

Just pay the damn tax. If you’re thinking “will the IRS care,” avoid the hassle and pay it. Forgetting $32 of gains is one thing. Wilfully determining the IRS won’t come after you is another.
Thank you for your comment. Let me know how you are personally contributing to Alabama and then I will be right behind you.
Azure has one too

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview
This Multibillion-Dollar Corporation Is Controlled by a Penniless Yoga Superstar
Yes! This is exactly what I was thinking in regard to the above commentary. By the time you get an electric car, a table saw, a band saw, a dust collector... and that's before the mention of an electric tankless water heater. Throw in there some grow lights for your greenhouse or whatever other high-electric hobbies you might have and the numbers above start to look really reasonable.
Yes, and nobody is disputing that.
I guess it makes sense. The IRS is profit-driven. The state wants to maximize the amount of money recovered minus how much it costs.

It makes more sense to go after the targets they can get the most money from. They won't bother you with your $10, it is a waste of their time compared to the thousands they can recover on larger scale, well established fraud.
Sure, you can reduce the voltage required, but what about the current required? Ferric materials tend to be somewhat resistive compared to most other metals.
A Surprising Friendship in Dublin
Recent coverage of bitcoin mining in Plattsburgh: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/economy/bitcoin-...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498776

Gives you a sense of what the mayor was thinking in the weeks leading up to this. (And makes you wonder if the NY Times reporter's prodding is what got them around to actually banning it.)
Certainly. I---and some others, seemingly---was just saying that what Github does is not that much of an help (which is what seems to be meant at the thread root). The keyword is contractor here, as it should be the contract that protects you from theft &c. Though I'm not much knowledgeable about business, so maybe I'm failing to see how that's useful.
Please start posting civilly and substantively or we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Adrian Lamo has died
It's actually pretty easy to imagine when you consider the problem of selecting which 100K mathematicians will receive this beneficence. The first few thousand would be straightforward, but they're presumably all the ones who have tenure and can already spend the next 10 years working on whatever they want.

After that, how do you separate the promising mathematicians from the lazy and the crackpots?

This is the same problem that a "Manhattan Project" to cure cancer or what have you always runs into: It's easy to see where to get value from the first dollar, but the 30 billionth dollar likely costs more than a dollar just to figure out how to productively spend it!

"Fortunately", experimental particle physics doesn't have this problem, since you can always use that next dollar to build a bigger collider.