skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has boondoggle written all over it; however, I'm glad ridiculously rich people are willing to waste their money on it - it should be a great learning experience for the engineers and other workers involved.

It's a likely boondoggle because solar is still a changing technology, committing to build something now risks being locked into technologies that may be woefully out of date by 2030.

Just imagine if someone tried this 12 years ago - the plant would be coming online today probably with technology that is a lot less efficient than it could have been had they waited.

Nonetheless, I have to say I am inspired by Softbank's and the MBS's vision, good for them.
Using Ethics in Web Design
What are people using as an alternative to a bristle brush?
My antivirus software blocked the site as malicious. I would think it's a false positive but the AV hasn't marked anything bad in the past year --- first time seeing the message. ( Also blocked the Markdown Editor)
Clean and intuitive UI, thank you for creating and sharing.
Before I went to read the article, I wondered if they would define first and second party here. And they do:

Quote from the article: "In order to leverage the deep pool of data Facebook collects on users, the company mixes information that it obtains from users themselves (Pages a user liked, for instance) with information from advertisers (membership status in a loyalty program, for example) and with data obtained from third party providers."

It is super interesting that they have no terminology at all for data collected via shadow profiles. I propose "zeroth party" data - they are shadow profiles after all. :-)
“Is That a PITA in Your Pocket?” – David Gerrold (1999)
I got a grill brush with bamboo bristles. Works great. Metal wire brushes are terrifying.
That's weird. What antivirus do you use? And does it say anything about what caused the block?
Yes, the parent commenters did skip public transport and focus on the other modes.

But focussing on public transport, I use it. I go to Manchester on the train. It's about the same time as driving (once you've got to the station), and when you take into account parking about the same cost.

It works for me because I live not too far from a station, and Manchester is a /relatively/ nice city to walk around in. I like it at least. I do it in part because it's easy, and in part because it means I can have a few sociable beers at one of the user groups I attend.

But it doesn't take much to make it a far worse option than driving. I live on the edge of the area that's reasonably walkable to a station. Many others live further away.

If I want to go somewhere else (the closest town, Stockport, for example) I'd have to get the train into Manchester, then back out to Stockport. It'd take potentially an hour to do, and cost way more than the 15-20 minute car journey + parking. The bus to Stockport is an alternative, but also weirdly more expensive, far less convenient, less reliable (1+ hour wait for a bus? Done that when I was younger), slower and less clean than my car.

If I want to go to Chorlton, a little further over (there's a nice supermarket apparently) I can take a 35 minute car journey, or I can take a 3 walk + 2 bus journey at 1 hour 20 minutes. A trip that has all the downsides of bus travel I previously mentioned, but doubled, + it will still cost more.

Public transport is great, and cars are toxic, but it only works where it's not crap. I used to live in London and didn't need or want a car, it was great. Here, I'd be isolated. In the US public transport as far as I can tell is even worse.

I don't hold out much hope for public transport here, or in the US unfortunately. It's a nice idea, but then so is universal healthcare and not leaving Europe.
If your grill is dirty enough, you may end up causing a fire that will burn through the enclosure (I've seen it happen). It's also fairly polluting, so if anyone's outside it's best to clean some other way. I like the onion trick myself.
Yea, I remember when it was posted last time on here. I think HN is the only place I've heard about this; have been using those things for most of my life without realizing this could be an issue.
Can someone make an informed guess on how much that would complicate the implementation? And/or how much of a performance impact it would have (for better or for worse)?
FWIW Poland is getting the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE), a newer variant that entered service in 2015

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-28/poland-si...
Excellent point. Even though a lot of things change, there is a lot that remains the same or is done better with previous years of experience. CAD being a great example.
Tactics for increasing retention in mobile apps
Crypto mining?

More seriously, it will boots/create R&D for actual energy storage. Storing it in products might be nice early one, but having application neutral (renewable) energy available whenever for whatever we want seems like an unavoidable trend.
Per the article the success rate in the first Gulf War (properly adjusted using the Army's actual analytical methods and not wishful thinking) brings it down to a 2% success rate against systems it was essentially designed for.

Various versions of the system are being deployed as countermeasures for missile systems that Patriot is not designed to work against and so likely has a very low success rate. And, if your countermeasures end up turning around and hitting your own city all it does is make the enemy's attack even more effective:

One interceptor explodes catastrophically just after
launch, while another makes a U-turn in midair and then
comes screaming back at Riyadh, where it explodes on the
ground.

I'm optimistic I can catch a falling blade by the handle one time out of a thousand, doesn't mean I want to destroy my hand with those 999 failed attempts.
Zuck getting grilled on CNN$
Yeah I'd 's/China/Humans/'. I'm referring to the fact that (mostly) everyone emits CO2 with cars, without caring about longer term impacts on global climate, sea rise, increase of hurricane frequency and intensity, etc.
This isn't a moral objection, exactly, but if every company did that for every product or service, being "rich" could potentially be meaningless. Like, getting a raise at work would just meaning paying more, so the net impact is zero.

Result of that would be disincentive to do anything that raised one's wages, I suppose.
Also: http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/sweden-patriot-configur...

"The total estimated program cost is $3.2 billion"

The reason for both of these deals seems to be somewhat correlated to Iskander units in Kaliningrad.
Not sure if that was a joke, but since it's the internet I'm obligated to take it seriously. :p

That burnt gook always tastes bitter to me. The flavor of BBQ is primarily Maillard reactions of proteins and carbs reacting, aromatic phenols from herbs and spices, and polyphenols from wood smoke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction
Scant science behind Cambridge Analytica’s controversial marketing techniques
I did not read that into the original comment, but if the OP's suggestion is to rid the interview process of dumbass brainteasers and whiteboard questions, then I'm all for it.
My Apple USB-C charger and cable (which came with my 2017 MacBook Pro) work fine to charge my Switch. No crashes here.
This only seems to be a correlation between people reporting having eaten out and the test levels. I can't see why restaurant food would be that much different to home cooked food unless there was something very wrong with the supply chain or kitchen practices.

The newspaper article does not mention if they have looked at following the source of these phthalates back up the chain to see where they actually come from.
Ah, so that's how we end up at Snow Crash-esque storage-units-turned-housing...
I mean, the short answer is that, of course dark matter is a hack and our understanding of the universe could be wildly wrong or grossly incomplete.

The longer answer is that dark matter isn't particularly special or unique in this. We make observations, and where they don't match our expectations, we hypothesize new things to fill the gaps. Sometimes they're borne out by later observations, sometimes not.

We've hypothesized the existence of planets to explain deviations in planets' orbits. Sometimes the hypothesized planets existed, sometimes they didn't. In the early days of chemistry, we came up with a whole bunch of elements; sometimes they turned out to be compounds that were particularly difficult to break down. We came up a whole host of particles and subparticles, and the ones that we still think are real aren't necessarily the ones you would have guessed at the time they were proposed. If you pick up an old text book on quantum mechanics, you'll find they keep referring to it as "the new quantum mechanics", not just because it was being nailed down at the same time the text books were written but to distinguish it from "the old quantum mechanics" from twenty years earlier that it was replacing.

Sometimes the hacky models are the best we have to offer; most people will call the Standard Model of particle physics just a hacky description of the observed phenomenon, but all the elegant models to replace it haven't really paid off.

It's possible that dark matter will go the way of luminiferous aether, but so far all the observations astrophysicists are making really jive well with the idea of dark matter, so for now it gets to stay in the "weird things about the universe many people don't like" category instead of the "stupid ideas no one can believe that people used to believe" category. I mean, it makes me angry that a neutron isn't just an electron and proton mashed together, but them's the breaks.
Are we saying that Europeans never discover the Americas or that there just isn't any transfer of disease?

The first is sort of implausible. As ship building techniques improve in Europe the ease of finding the Americas would tend to increase. Without Columbus the Portuguese were going to run into Brasil while trying to sail around Africa pretty soon. Without the Portuguese then northern European fishing fleets would pursue Cod into Nova Scotia at some point. Technological progress tends to build on itself so bootstrapping from what were similar to bronze age city states without the bronze to ocean crossing flotillas would probably take closer to 2,000 than 200 years.

If we just remove disease then colonialism proceeds differently and more slowly but still proceeds. Agricultural settlers have a tendency to push back hunter gatherers everywhere for population density reasons and I think that would be true of Europeans wanting to start farms in the colder parts of North and South America just as it was in Russia's expansion east across the continent or anywhere else. Hungry people living in Malthusian conditions are almost invariably assholes to people who are different from them.

Without the introduction of malaria in particular there's a much denser settlement in many parts of the Americas. Influenza killed off a large proportion of the native inhabitants across the Americas but often they recovered their numbers if Europeans didn't move in. The introduction of Malaria essentially made large scale agricultural civilization impossible in large swaths of the US South, Mexico, the Caribbean and the Amazon basin except for people who had developed a partial immunity by living in areas suffering from that disease for many generations. People talk about the people of Jamestown starving because they were lazy or looking for gold but really it was mostly because they were suffering from "Tertian Fever" and unable to work. The native Virginians were suffering in the same way but sadly didn't leave written records. Malaria was eventually eliminated in the US in the early 20th century.

I can't find a good historical online map of malaria but it more or less corresponds to the current range of the Ae. aegypti mosquito.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/08347/figures

I expect that there would still be colonialism but that it would look a lot more like colonialism in South Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines - happening later and incompletely.
Some time ago there was a real peace process, a real Palestinian government, and real international support. Now there’s a blend of far Left support on an ideological basis, which is finely blended in Europe with a thousand+ years of antisemitism, no real peace process, and no real political will to change that. What harm wasn’t done by Arafat giving up on the peace process was done by the rise of Hamas.

So call them what you want, but the reality isn’t one or two states.
Snapchat layoffs fall on 100 advertising employees
That's absolutely not logical.

With a lot of frequent flier miles you are very likely a status customer and airlines will bump those last and, depending on the status, will bump other low revenue passengers to make space for a high status customer.

I know a bit about aviation and if an airline really needs to involuntarily bump a passenger (which is quite rare) they will chose an infrequent flier with a cheap ticket.

Unless you can provide a source for your assessment I call bullshit.
I wonder about streaming services that let you rent and buy by the unit?

I've been renting movie on google a lot more lately. The business model of a monthly fee is an incentive for making diluted content (long series) vs concentrated (short movies telling the same story). As a consumer I prefer the latter.
Aberdeen scientists create world’s first 3D thermal image of volcano (teaser)
Well, it's much cheaper per area than an apartment, so for seldomly-used stuff, it may make sense.
No, I am not reframing. I'm sorry for your limited experience, but I have met far too many conservatives that all but spell it out. I used to be one and traveled in those circles. Look at people's actions. Conservatives in Congress and the WH cut the EPA, they cut Climate Science budgets, and not only do they offer all-out denial, they often just flat out state that a warmer planet would be or could be a good thing. So if that doesn't qualify as "not caring" about climate change, then we aren't seeing the same thing. Obviously, not everyone on the right is a fire-breathing climate denialist, but the OP was about correlation between views on war and views on climate change and IMHO there is strong one.
Most instagram usage is mobile, where you don't get that flexibility (especially on iOS)
One thing I've noticed over the years reading old wills and probate records (16th -18th century) is just how few physical possessions even fairly well-off people owned. Estate inventories often list individual coats, shirts, bedding, bowls, tools, etc. I think the material wealth we have today is so incredible we don't even realize how much we've accumulated and could probably do without.
That has almost nothing to do with the price changes.

The vast majority of price changes is cities becoming more desirable via lower crime and reduced pollution + failing to keep up with housing demand + lower effective interest rates.

Consider the infrastructure changes around DC in the last 30 years vs the changes in population. In 2010 DC had 600k people in 2017 it hit 694k that's a dramatic shift. On the other hand it's population had been falling from 1945 to 2000. The people who left still commuted to DC, but infrastructure was not keeping up.
Last year, I looked at buying a turnkey storage business. It was $4M and it wasn't that big of a place. I think the owners were smoking crack, but it does seem to be the going price. I ended up not going forwards with the project because it would take too many years to recover the investment much less make any money.
Congratulations on shipping! It looks great.

What do you normally use this sort of thing for?
The headline could just as easily be, “Nobody has heard of it.” How does Amazon fail to market something so completely? Internal politics?
Add another Prime member who didn't know it existed!

Not only that but I can't even find it going to look for it. amazon Prime page ^F "spark" returns nothing, Search on Amazon returns energy drinks and other items by that name, the android app doesn't seem to have it either.

It might actually be useful if it has good search & discoverability for products, but if no one even knows about it...
As a rider, I use Uber and Lyft interchangeably to get a roughly stable price whenever I come to work. This price is about 40% more than what I would like to pay based on my budget, but I don't have a choice but to pay it sometimes because neither app is willing to give me a lower price (which I have paid in the past). I know I'm being overcharged, but I still need to get home or to work so I have to pay the higher price. Also, because I'm using a transportation program through work, I can only use the carpool services, which means I can't take advantage of the tactic in this article since you are not allowed to change your destination after booking for pools. I was really hoping Waze's carpool would help, but I can't get connected to someone else at the times I need to leave and they are not recognized as a valid candidate for our work program. Uber once had a monthly pass available, which was a huge help for me financially, but it hasn't been available in over a year. Would really love to get some more affordable options as I use these services almost daily.
Ask HN: Are you requiring email verification during signup for your service?
I’m a consultant/freelance developer, and a few large companies I do consulting for have recently switched to not requiring their users to verify their emails upon signing up for an account on their apps.

This has at least 2 issues that seem very problematic:

1. Since many companies use their “user base” as a means to calculate growth, not requiring email verification makes it much easier to fake this number.

2. Easily being able to cause spam for an email address that does not belong to the person who is signing up.

3. Advanced phishing methods

What have been your experiences around this?
Have you checked how much a 200 GB sd card costs, vs a phone with builtin 200 gb storage ?
No warning with Bitdefender.
Yes, Uber's opacity is shady, but raising their rates is a business necessity.

If rides are still being subsidized by Uber (via losses) and its drivers (via low wages), would it be more accurate to say that new riders are given a promotional discount and frequent riders are charged a more sustainable rate?
People not living in storage units is definitely not a cost thing, it's a regulatory thing.

If it were allowed, I would have absolutely lived in a storage unit through most of my 20s, and I think a lot of my friends would have too.
This is fairly similar to the way airlines can charge lower prices for a SFO-NYC-BTV route than they do for SFO-NYC. They know certain routes (SFO-NYC) are used by business travelers.

Some people try to game the airlines in the same way that the article describes, getting a price based on one route (SFO-BTV via NYC) and then actually taking a different one (SFO-NYC). I expect Uber will eventually prevent this the same way the airlines do: penalizing you for taking a trip that doesn't match what you told them you were doing by refusing to allow you to continue once you deviate.
But Obamacare is still in effect. He removed the government fine for not getting healthcare.
I was under the impression that some of the issues with third-party adapters were caused by insufficient tolerances, causing damage to the type-C connector. In addition to the non-compliance.
Wouldn't call it all junk, but there is a high statistic of storage units filled by people who "set it and forget it"
This reminds me of the PHD in the office, who was hired because of some mathematical related skill they specialize in, is never getting their hands dirty.

You know the adage "Work smart not hard"? That's what you get a PhD for.
Password generation logic is here :

https://passwordpuppy.com/js/password-generator.min.js
how do they get access to your contacts? why do they get access to your contacts? why do people give them access to their contacts?
I recently went home with a girl who lived on the other side of the city. About 11am next morning I go to catch an Uber and the price is 4x what it normally would be. As a software guy, I know how this shit works - I know they know it's raining, they know my income, they know I live on the other side, theres no easy public transport and I'm basically screwed. But fuck them, I would rather pay a taxi that 4x fare than god damn Uber. There is no way the area I was in had that much activity to justify this price, I know that what happened is some black-box neural net predicted with >80% confidence that I would take the ass-pounding. Well fuck them and fuck anyone who worked on such a system, I hope your kids get cancer.
Best part of FB is that you can say or post something on your wall to a non-specific person without being too bothersome to your friends.

AIM had user profiles where you can post anything, but you needed to be click and constantly be curious. Whereas FB's newsfeed is a subtle tap on the shoulder. AIM is good close friends, but FB is better at bridging the gap among less-closer and acquaintainces
Looks awesome! We're in the process of building a knowledge graph and were looking for a more intuitive way to manage the main hierarchy. Adding node autocomplete would a great way to do that, especially if it could pull in existing children and dump them to text.

What's the license?
My thinkpad charger and the charger of my Nexus 5X also work without trouble.
Clint Eastwood is begging people to follow the Donald
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClintEastwoodLA
https://gab.ai/ClintEastwood
http://archive.is/NHI1w
I don't see what's hypocritical about it.
Gun Policy Is Already Changing in the Wake of Parkland
How does it help the company in question? In the scenario, you propose Facebook mail is selflessly helping to fend off antitrust regulators off Gmail.
Didn’t SoftBank just throw a ton of money at Uber?
Up to the end of sec. XVIII most Brazilians spoke a creole of portuguese and indian languages (mostly tupi-guarani) tipped more to the indian side.

Since most of written history is based on what the educated colonizers could write, and I would imagine they would not notice entire civilizations crumbling due to socioeconomical changes (due to urban living as a member of the elite, only really caring for the results of the extractivism), a lot of really important changes went by and we'll probably not ever know what happened.

Remember that most interaction between natives and colonizers would be solely for the purpose of extraction of resources (chronologically: slaves for sugar and pau-brasil, gold, rubber and up to this day, farming/cattle) and catholic conversion (with one interesting exception for the spanish missions in the south, which even sided with the natives in wars [0]). I would not imagine these interactions to be performed with any considerations to understanding these people, and those who did would probably not even be able to read [1].

If you search the ancient history of Brazil (with luck you can span at most 3 centuries) you'll find plenty of foreign adventurers and not many brazilians.

Most colonization of Brazil happened cronologically in the northeast, southwest, south and gradually expanding to the center into Minas Gerais [2]. Expansion to the north only happened massively at the end of the XIX century for rubber extraction. So I would imagine 4 centuries would be enough time for whole indigenous civilizations to disappear without anyone noticing.

My non-educated guess would be that the first serious brazillian researchers would just appear in the mid sec. XX [3], and this just on the center-west area bordering the north.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Miguel_das_Miss%C3%B5...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandeirantes

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Gerais#History

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villas-B%C3%B4as_brothers