skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely sympathize, but I've come to recognize that we can only expect so much of people in mass numbers. I agree with the poster further up that people have a reason to fear the application of expensive technology to the food they eat...they are awash in stories of problems that were identified much later. When the people act on those fears we say they are irrational.

Of course they are, they are human beings, not computers. When have we ever seen such delicate reasoning survive at a mass scale? We call it scientific illiteracy, as if all those people promised to behave in a scientifically literate fashion at some earlier point, and are now behaving defectively.

No such agreements were made.

This tendency to "spread" the Evil label (and the Good one) across categories and into related but distinctly different domains is a biological rather than digital approach to threat. As the elite of a culture that aspires to the digital, we get outraged.

It's not going to make any difference, y'all know that, right?
That thing alone is going to produce ~1.5% of all electricity in the world (assuming ~23% capacity factor which is what i expect in Saudi Arabia), even accounting for growth of electricity consumption by the time it is built out.

What are they going to do with all that electricity, especially given it is intermittent?

To me, the project sounds like a PR BS because it is too expensive and i can't see a use for it.
I rechecked, and you're right about the price. I must have been looking at a different plant.. not sure, I cant find the page again. I adjusted the numbers in my post. Thanks.
> Do you not like teachers receiving money to help their students?

It's a shame that you need charities for such things.
After Facebook now Namo App user data is not safe — Big privacy Concern

After the viral exposure of loopholes in the Aadhaar security system in January’17 now it’s all about the Namo app it is being claimed that the application shares private information of its users with third party companies without their consent.
Read it : https://www.ica.in/newsroom/namo-app-sharing-user-data
But that's the great trick he pulled....convincing everyone that not reaching 500,000 cars per year in 2 years is "failure"-- that Tesla is exhibiting an "inability."
> Hemp is a fantastic plant with many unique and important uses. One has to wonder why the US has, since the 1930s I believe, been so against it. One might suspect the pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in seeing hemp (and its naughty cousin, marijuana) banned

Many countries around the world do not have the same restrictions on hemp industrial production that the USA does, and yet, hemp isn't all that widely used and other sources for materials are often preferred instead. I suspect a lot of the praise of hemp as some kind of miracle material comes from those who just want legal marijuana and they’ll say anything to get it, not people who particularly care about industrial manufacturing.
You can still make this argument even after a breakthrough has just been made
Is this secure against Spectre/Meltdown?
If you walked into an office and saw them using 1984 equipment — fax machines, landlines and Rolodexes — you'd think the company is hopelessly behind times.

Jane Street is a cutting-edge technology corporation, but their internal tools use 80*25 text-mode UIs just like the ones you'd find on a 1984 IBM PC/AT.

It's not the company's fault: we developers are stuck in the tar pit of an unfortunate local maximum with all these tools built around text streams printed into a window that emulates a late '70s terminal.
Another text editor feature hard to do in text mode is spell checking for strings and comments. Color is already used for syntax highlighting, so wavy red underlines come handy.

No wavy red lines, but there's still two different types of coloring (letters vs cell background): https://i1.wp.com/www.tjansson.dk/wp-content/vim-spell-error...
I did read the article before answering you. I referred you to the original headline because it better fits the article's contents, not because I stopped reading there.
> The point is that the galaxy shows that dark matter exists /independently/ (i.e. as its own particles) of normal matter. This is huge.

Didn't the bullet cluster already show that?
The source is not the issue. Zuck is. Their blatant abuse has been going on for as long as we remember. Here is the natural response by the public he has fooled for too long..
That too, although solar still has relatively high costs per watt. Fusion can make energy nearly free.
Yep! Boring is always best. :)
something related
https://xorshammer.com/2016/05/18/gravity-is-stronger-than-i...
In Ireland it was MSN Messenger too.
> Maybe `waitForChildren` and `waitForParent` booleans would be helpful too

That would be great start :)
Amancio Ortega, one of the top 5 richest person on earth and owner of Zara and few other brands donated 350M€ last year to the Spanish public healthcare system. We got new mammograms all over the country.
Window can too be a part of the cage, if special glass is used. I guess he could open a window, but I don’t think I’d test fate quite so brazenly if I was in his position.
I like what you said here. Keep a business for 18 year old is a success, and I can only imagine is challenging in many ways, could be boring in few. I have seen greedy consultant companies cutting corners here and there. Caring about backups, security and monitoring is great attitude in my opinion. Keen to hear more story about your venture.
It's important to distinguish primary infrastructure from the secondary infrastructure that is built on top of it. Housing, transit, energy, water & waste water, and communications are the primary infrastructures (made of networks like roads and pipes, and the services on top of the networks, like buses and water) on top of which we provide secondary services, like healthcare and schools.

In the bay area, we have good city planning for our primary infrastructure besides transit and housing. For instance, Sunnyvale owns its wastewater treatment plant and is prudently investing in it. Housing has no real planning, except for city councils (who benefit from a housing shortage) approving projects. Transit is a derived need that stems from our housing inbalance among other things.

If transit isn't working, ambulances can't get around and children can't get to school. If water isn't working, we can't operate hospitals. This is why we distinguish primary and secondary infrastructure as layers of abstraction.

Not to say that secondary infrastructure isn't important, but it doesn't have as much public sunk cost investment in things like the digging the networks of tunnels and such, so secondary infrastructure is easier to fix in a shorter time span.
Several private schools I know in west coast burbs get by on <$10k and actually have higher staff ratios and more autistic kids than standard schools (many parents need the refuge because the public schools are especially ill-suited to the needs of many families with kids on the spectrum).

The point, though, is that there is an incredible amount of bloat in the public system. Funding amounts themselves are not a primary problem, though perhaps allocation of funding is!
Not quite, the instantaneous energy output from the system will be at 200GW when the sunshine is at a maximum. The average output of the system would be 60GW (at a 30% capacity factor). In terms of total energy this would equate to around 525TWh worth (60 * 8760 / 1000). Or, 525,000,000 MWh.

That is, for every $1/MWh that the solar station gets paid for it's output it will receive half a billion dollars a year.

Now, a station of this size would massively depress power prices throughout the region unless there was some form of large scale storage unit which could soak it up.

Probably more impactful is the Saudis are currently using oil for their power stations which is heavily subsidized.
Orders of magnitude difference in buid time is significant enough. Sample code also shows no tangible benefit in using Modula/2. No wonder it went away quickly.

Oberon, on the other hand, is an entirely different story.
Dunno about the rest of California but Bay Area regional planning, which in theory does take place already, leaves a lot to be desired. San Francisco is simple, it is one consolidated city and county, there is no distinction between the city and county government to be made, and it happens to be one of the largest cities around.*

In regional planning however which tends to lump in every county and every city (as legally defined by California law) in those counties, San Francisco has essentially zero political power. It has one vote on matters, and the interests of the many cities and counties around don't always squarely align with what SF wants to do. To put it bluntly, even if San Francisco were the epitome of high governance and quality infrastructure planning, even if San Francisco had stack of workable solutions printed out on a perfect stack of paper with absolutely stunning typography and presented and overwhelmingly supported by quality leadership with a fully funded budget and electoral mandate, there would be nothing SF could do to solve any of what ails the region as a whole without the cooperation of the other cities and counties.

Homelessness in San Francisco and the larger cities? That's their problem. Lack of housing? That's their problem. Not enough regional public transit? Not a problem here! Everyone has a car!

So yeah, the free market fairy won't solve anything, but neither will regional planning boards. At least the State can put pressure on local governments and they can either react sensibly, or keep trying to push every problem back into the urban core and just bottle it up there. When the pressure builds up, maybe we can get the free market fairy and the socialist fairy to meetup at a bar and hash something out. Would be nice anyway but I wouldn't hold my breath.

* I'm being incredibly generous by allowing San Jose to call itself a city, but San Francisco is essentially the biggest fish in the region.
why the media changed their attitude when it came from Trump's campaign
> Once you’ve downloaded OpenBazaar, send an email to jenn [at] ob1.io with your ob:// user profile or store address AND your mailing address and we will send you a few of our OpenBazaar promotional items including stickers, pins and some surprises!

Uhhhh. Isn't that kind of an opsec fail? I mean, you can always re-register a new profile/store, but still?
"To me, the coolest thing about this story is the telescope that was used to find this galaxy."

Uh, we just found out a new principle on the large scale organization of matter in the known universe. The method is surely inspirational, but I really have to question your statement that the method of discovery credits more merit than the discovery itself.
Show HN: Meta Meme, meme making app for iPhone, 3-4 figure in monthly profit
When does it become not a cheap PR move?
There really aren't any wrong answers here but I've had good personal experience with Vue, Go, and Postgres. Make sure you use vue-cli. vuefire is also very convenient if you're so inclined.
> tooltips

Tooltips work in the terminal, they're just text after all. See Vim + YouCompleteMe (which, as the name indicates, also provides auto-complete): https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1f3f922431d5363224b20e994...

> I find it useful to collapse/expand blocks of text

For that you don't even need plugins, folding has been a standard feature for many years
Worth a big laughter. They are jokers and abusers.
It does to me because I value selfless donations more than those with an ulterior motive. Of course a donation to a noble cause is always a good thing regardless of that but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't discuss its motives.

I don't think anybody here is arguing that this donation is a bad thing.
Note the compilation times. Turbo Pascal was pretty awesome in that regard. On the other hand, this was TP 3, which Modula handily beats on, well, modularization. IIRC all you could do in those early days was literal preprocessor includes and that weird overlay thing.
[RUBY] the Comparable mixin
Googling around a bit, there seems to be a long history of weather-modification news coming out of China.

In 2008, according to the Beijing Weather Modification Office, China used rockets to make sure the Olympic opening ceremony was rain-free: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/how-beijing-use...

In 2013, China was producing "55 billion tons of artificial rain a year" according to the China Meteorological Administration: https://qz.com/138141/china-creates-55-billion-tons-of-artif...

Last year, the CMA spent millions on airplanes and rockets to affect rainfall: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/206...

That said, it's unclear whether cloud seeding actually works: https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i22/Does-cloud-seeding-reall.... An experiment in the US, the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Program, gave somewhat positive but inconclusive results on the order of a 5 to 15 percent increase in precipitation amount: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-may-never-know-how-w...

And, sure enough, in 2011, China's rainmaking tech wasn't enough to fix the Yangtze delta drought: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/01/china-dr...

To me, all this rain-making news out of China seems like either propaganda or some Chinese government bureau justifying its existence by inflating how much this cloud-seeding technology can actually do. But that's just my feeling from an hour of searching around and skimming articles -- I'd love to hear how I'm wrong!
I can see that happening.

Facebook exploded in the desktop web era. For today's kids desktops are for work, not socialising except when playing games online using Skype or Discord.

My girls are 13 and 14 and just created Facebook pages purely for updates on activities for a club. Everything else is in WhatsApp, WeChat (for Chinese relatives), Instagram, etc. Lightweight special purpose apps linked to tight groups of friends. The last generation wanted a one-stop solution to their social media needs. The new generation see that as some unwieldy monolithic platform for mums and dads.

Having said that, if there is a place of a monolithic platform like that maybe facebook is it. They can probably still stay relevant and useful, they're just not the be-all and end-all of social media they appeared to be. I hope.
An 18-year-old buys her first lottery ticket and wins $1,000 a week – for life
possibly Tesla) kills a person

There's a big difference between "kills a person" and "doesn't always prevent a person from killing himself (and/or others)".
Some years ago they introduced job titles at the place where I work. My boss asked me: which job title do you want? I said: senior developer. Her said: ok. Master of the universe would have passed too.
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal
I think Scuttlebutt mentioned above is also federated as it needs Pub servers.

Also interesting to mention, because distributed like IPFS, is datproject.org and beakerbrowser.com (built on top, decentralized website hosting and browsing). I believe there are some social network projects using Dat as well.. should be on their awesome list on GH.
SocialHome.network (federated) is also cool

(note: not equivalents to OpenBazaar, though)
> Propaganda mostly from the Republican party has convinced a great deal of people that Education is a waste of money.

That's a misrepresentation. Plenty of them some care very much about fixing education and funding it. Just the kind the find most effective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Zh96wc01k

The difference, as the video mentions, is that they always gets attacked as being 'anti-education', depsite intentions and data supporting their efforts, largely by the heavily entrenched people and organizations who have most to gain from keeping the same status-quo systems. Ie, the massive top-heavy administration that controls pubic education, unions, pension funds, etc. They have plenty of political pull.

Ultimately that is very much equally propaganda, is it not?

The right also tends support more state financing and control of education, and funding towards education has increased dramatic in states for decades. The only thing that has stagnated (but hardly declined) is federal spending:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending

And percentage of GDP spending for education has hardly dipped under republicans either:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_chart_20.html

Words are always valued over actions and the ideology of a few extremists always seem to always take precedence over data and tangible outcomes. Which is why I hate debating this subject.
"Masayoshi Son’s $100 Billion Bet to Conquer the Future"

Bloomberg did a piece on him last year on the Decrypted podcast.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2017-05-30/masayoshi-so...
When it actually costs something to the donor? If somebody living below the poverty line donates $100 to a cause it's a pretty selfless act. If Bill Gates does it then not so much.

It's great that Ripple decides to donate money to charities but it's not like they're making a huge sacrifice here. Given the highly speculative market surrounding crypto the good PR this gives them might very well end up making them significantly more money than what they donated.
One sentence summary of the skill and attitude needed for this - "take a sad song, and make it better" .
So you got to the third bullet point on the first page, forgot the first two, stopped reading and decided to comment?
This is a fairly major change, and will have some fairly significant impacts on the AdTech industry. I'd go as far as saying this was the first really meaningful fallout from the CA scandal.

I'd hazard a guess that not many ordinary users are even aware that retailers can upload their email addresses into Facebook and create targeting segments from them.

As to what these changes do to the AdTech industry is anyone's guess. 'Onboarding' email addresses is basically LiveRamp's business model.
Kudos for the question generator, one of my profs did that too and it was such a lifesaver.
You can use the minimal template https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/fedora-minimal/, also available for debian.
You may be interested in magithub (it’s on MELPA).
PLATO
Public lecture by Zooko Wilcox on privacy, blockchain and encryption
Ndamukong Suh to Wear Rams Number 93
I’m pretty sure that one piece of evidence for dark matter is that galaxies with dark matter have flat rotation curves. This means as you move outwards from the centre of the galaxy, it turns out counterintuitively that objects have the same orbital speed. Because of Kepler’s laws, this implies that each farther orbit is encompassing more and more mass to give the farther object the same speed as the inner ones. Dark matter is spread out through the whole galaxy extending far out past the luminous matter like stars. If this mass was all in the centre inside the event horizon like you’re saying, the rotation curve of the galaxy would not be flat. The orbital speeds would drop off like they do in our solar system.
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What It’s Like to Be an Exorcist
Real currencies generally exist with a Government that requires taxes are paid in that currency. So there's always a baseline demand. Almost nobody in politically stable countries could completely stop using their currencies tomorrow if they didn't like how the Government sector (Government + central bank) spent money (without moving to another country).

Also, it's different because since currencies have goods and services that you can buy with them, monetary expansion isn't actually inflationary to the price level unless it pushes aggregate demand (spending) above the supply of goods and services available in that currency. Whereas all this Ripple likely is going to straight to be sold off so the recipients can actually buy things...
I didn't realise that OP works for YC now. This explains why Facebook execs treated him so nicely. It just shows the double standards people have in the industry when dealing with financially well connected people vs regular people.
Why you find it hard to delete Facebook
Wow, does it run NetBSD? :)
It's funny how exactly everything Tesla does deserves a scandalous sounding headline..a couple of weeks ago they didn't have enough automation, now they're overusing it..
The dating app scam that’s called Woo
Rich Hickey has some great talks on YouTube.

If you are a software engineer:

Build a simple database, a simple interpreter, and a simple web application (backend and frontend). Read about “distributed systems”, “devops”, “Conway’s Game Of Life”, and “fractals”. Read about these technologies/techniques (in whatever order is comfortable), how they work, their pros and cons, why they were created, how they compare to alternatives: “TCP”, “Open Sound Control”, “Plan9”, “REST”, “Lisp”, “Erlang”, “Smalltalk”, “Forth”, “Datomic”, “event sourcing”, “reactive programming”, “communicating sequential processes”, “APL”/“J”/“K”, “Ansible”, “jq”, “graph databases”, “Apache Kafka”

The idea is not to become an expert in any of these, but to digest the wisdom that lies in their design and surrounding literature. Each was created after lots of careful thought by brilliant people about how to build sustainable systems.
No, ICQ was the shit back then!
A responsive and accessible replacement for JavaScript popup boxes
Lots of years of experience prove nothing. If someone was working for 10 years in Java backend apps, using outdated tech and in an environment that delivered value is secondary to risk, he/she is not senior.

3 years is minimum for getting close to being competent. I would argue that before that you will deliver very little.
Every day around the world a few users discover that the most efficient input tool is directly in front of them, uses both hands and all digits.
Ejabberd 18.03
I believe this is C, since we're on the LKML, not C++.

Even if it's horrible, in a kernel you might want macros like these if a function call would sit in a hotpath and induce overhead.
> Tesla's bet is that internal production of parts will lead to better and cheaper components. This has not worked for any other automaker.

It's working well for SpaceX who are doing just that while the incumbents in the rocket industry are not and the prices reflect how well it can work.

> Traditional OEMs shoot for a mix of components where the internally produced components are part of the company's core competence: Body Shells, Engines, Transmissions - and externally produced components may be generic - switches, latches, seats, frames, tires, wheels, etc.

Ummm, which automaker makes it's own transmissions anymore? Quite a few don't even make their own engines either (Dodge with Cummins engines, Jeep with VM engines, etc. etc.)
It seems like the pendulum of "configuration vs. convention" has swung all the way back to the configuration side.

Before: add all the scripts you'll need to the HTML. Just don't run any scripts before the document loads.

Today: bundle in 6mb of dependencies to solve that "problem" so that we don't have to use window.onload.

I especially like the sibling commment about how this new development gets us closer to the good old days of being able to view source on our code. As though that was something that had happened to them, rather than a conscious decision to adopt worse tools.
Let's rephrase that: what does creating the world's finest space program in a mere decade and a half have to do with succeeding at profoundly difficult technological ventures where you have no prior experience? Quite a lot.
I’ll throw a hat in the ring for WebGL+WebAssembly and x86 assembly on the server
MachineX: When data is a curse to learning
E-Book: The art of money getting by P.T. Barnum
Codrops GridMenu – Sliding CSS Box Menus
I totally agree, so how can we interview for this?
city councils (who benefit from a housing shortage)

How do city councils benefit?