skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CO2 levels reached their lowest level in earth's history a mere 25,000 years ago, at 180 ppm.

At 150 ppm, RuBisCo, the enzyme in photosynthesizing plants which fixes CO2 to usable carbon, basically stops working.

Translation: the earth avoided the biggest extinction event in its entire history by a very slender margin of 30 ppm of CO2. Without plant life, animal life would die off as well, including humanity.

The fanatical environmentalists keep attacking humanity for "destroying the earth", when the reality is that human release of CO2 into the atmosphere has probably pushed back that final extinction event by millions of years. The reality, unsurprisingly, is the polar opposite of their propaganda harangue.
My guess is that the researchers designed their power source to mimic the behavior of solar and wind farms. The researchers were probably rather specific about these behaviors, but it was too verbose or technical for a news article. Some editor tried to summarize that part of the paper, and that editor failed which is how we got this ridiculous sentence.
One of my desktops keeps failing to update Windows 10 for 2 years now, the recent v1803 doesn't fix it either. Too ineffective to do a fresh install and just about tried everything out there to fix it. Complete waste of time.

On the other hand the desktop which always worked flawlessly now cannot even get past the initial installation boot screen from a freshly made v1803 DVD/USB (within 5sec of booting) likewise the update from inside Windows itself fails. Waiting to see if MS address this issue before I waste any more time trying to fix it myself.
ANy actual numbers on that? New terracotta versus terracotta solar panels as one example (measuring in longevity and estimated cost/income on the balancing sheet etc..?
Is it socially awkward to admit that one has no friend after 30?
It's not, try harder
How is In-Q-Tel not an illegal state subsidy?
> An alternative is intentionally packaging releases into tiers (performance, stability, feature, etc) and sell them as such.

That could quickly devolve into supporting a large number of distinct versions of the software, which would be difficult and costly. Nobody wants to do that.

Not to mention that, if this versioned software is a platform (for example, WinXP and its service packs you mention), downstream vendors would also need to QA and support their software on all actively supported versions of said platform.
From the article:

"Editor’s note: This article first ran on July 13, 2012, but we’re running it again because the topic is timeless."

I see this kind of thing happening more and more. Looking at the tags on the page, it bears a modified date of 2018-02-09T19:25:10-05:00. This is important, because they are telling Google that the content has been updated, when it hasn't. But they'll get more traffic and revenue now from an old article by lying to Google.

You see this happening on TV now too. In a technique I call "DVR Fraud," shows like 60 Minutes, which are made up of a few 15-30 minute segments per episode, are mixing and matching segments from old shows and creating "new" episodes with nothing new in them except for brief commentary explaining "as we first showed you in 20XX...". They are marked as "new" in the program guide, and if you have set your DVR to record only new episodes of that show, it will record this rehashed content.

TV networks and websites are abusing automated services and tools like Google and your DVR to generate new revenue from old, rehashed content. I despise regulation, but I think somebody needs to take a look at least at the DVR Fraud issue. It is becoming a large-scale fraud, as it is being used to artificially inflate Nielsen ratings, and likely siphon millions of ad dollars based upon viewership that would never have watched the content had it been properly labeled as a rerun.
Ask HN: Start-up won't provide any information about my options
I work in Silicon Valley (California). My employment contract states I have options and that they vest on a traditional schedule. I have never received any information about them. Nothing at all. I should be able to exercise some of the options which have vested, but I can't because I have no information at all. I have asked many times in email and in person and have been promised that details are coming, but they never do. What can I do? What legal remedies are there or is that not a good route to take?
really? I think more (especially in business world) that gmail.com is very unprofessional. Makes me think they are amateurs and cannot even setup a corporate email address. Nothing against Google (I'm also using gsuite behind my .com address)
> Thankfully, I’m a proficient developer. I click put a breakpoint in their JavaScript, click submit, change the isValid flag to true, and voila! I’ve updated my D&B profile.

I am quite sure you're right, that they had a real bug, and that your workaround harmed nothing. But doing things like this (and bragging about them online no less) is a pretty sure way to get your data flagged as (at best) corrupted and (at worst) "troublesome customer; do not engage".
"It's not hard. Try harder."

For real?
> Residential solar thermal no longer makes any kind of economic sense.

[citation needed]
Ever since the rise of Patreon, I've thought this seemed especially prescient.
I don't think he was advocating fraud as much as simply pointing out that without decent marketing, nothing else matters.
> what kept the mesopotamians away from farming from 20000-10000 years ago?

Actually, this is one that we do have a good answer for: The most recent Ice Age was still well in effect during that time period.
There is no disable option there (at least in Chrome 66).
I live in the Boston metro. There’s a place called Boda Borg that is sort of like Escape the Room, but much more fun in my opinion. There’s about 30 puzzles, and each one has three rooms. You can buy two hours or unlimited time. Once you solve each room, you are able to go to the next. If you get it wrong or run out of time after about 4 minutes, you just get a buzzer, leave, wait in line and do it all over again. We just went for a team out for our startup (https://tettra.co) and it was a great activity. Highly recommend it if you have one near you.
One of the three SSMEs failed on STS-51F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-F due to sensor malfunction. Another engine nearly failed for the same reason, but quick action from the crew prevented shutdown. The Shuttle performed an Abort-to-orbit, meaning it continued to a lower contingency orbit.

And STS-93 had a pretty bad close call, too, with some of the engine coolant lines rupturing in-flight (leading to early shutdown) due to a oxidizer post plug coming undone as well as an electrical short taking down some of the engine controllers. That was pretty early in flight, so would've been incredibly risky in the case of an abort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-93

Falcon 9 has higher levels of first stage redundancy than Shuttle (can lose a first stage engine immediately at lift-off and reach orbit just fine, and lose multiple engines later in flight), and uses just a single upper stage engine, reducing probability of failure.
Because in this case their competition will catch up and I will switch. Exactly as I did with play music -> Spotify.
I love the idea of blendle and i keep trying to use it, but unfortunately they don't make it easy to find articles.

You can scroll through their list of recommended articles, but if you already know the article you want to read (if, for instance, i find a WSJ article on HN that i want to read) there's no easy way to pay for that article on blendle. They need a tool that lets me paste in a canonical article URL and get the corresponding article on Blendle.
B2B transactions are not nearly as price sensitive as B2C transactions, because the business people aren’t spending their own money (unless you’re selling to an owner). This was a revelation to me when I figured it out.
Yes Adobe did the same thing, from $49 flat fee AUD, to 66 AUD which was $49 USD in AUD, then now it's 72 AUD/month! It's getting really steep if you don't use the software all the time.
Can we find this auto-generated list of enabled/disabled sites anywhere? Can it be edited manually? Will Chrome notify why a particular site did/didn't auto-play a video?

I like Inbox's recent behaviour that explains why it deems a particular email important - it would be good if this sort of explanation was more prevalent with publicly-available ML systems.
I realized that Google doesn't support .xyz when I tried to register it. Ironically, abc.xyz is Alphabet's home page.
> DVR Fraud

> a significant problem

This is way over-dramatic for re-runs of TV shows. I can't believe you think this is a problem so grave that it needs state intervention!
Maybe people on this forum aren't as open-minded as they'd like to think.
Here in the states, it starts very young. A parent must schedule a playdate beforehand, update it in the google calendar, drive the child 10-15 blocks to their friends house. Parents can then venmo the other family for the time-cost of the play-date.

To ensure maximum progress, play date activities must be intellectually stimulating and structured based on how much they contribute to test scores and college admissions down the line—this is known from statistical methods of course. Video streaming smartphone applications enable parents to check in at any time during the activity to ensure maximum growth.

As the children grow up, this does not stop of course. In fact, it becomes less playful and more efficient. Time wasted during youth is punished brutally in the holistic college admissions process.

By the time we've grown into adults, such impulses—such as spending time at a friends' house for no reason at all—can be completely eliminated. This ensures that more time in adulthood is dedicated to what truly matters, which is.... gosh I'm not sure. I can ponder that after I finish this next 'to do' on my list!
This solution seems to be addressing a problem completely different from what the author is discussing. How would using a cryptocurrency solution reduce monthly fees for subscriptions? How would it help reduce the aversion to paying for previously free content? How would it help with bundling?
...if people need to try harder... then it's hard for them isn't it?
Lawyers aren't known for their stock picking, I wonder if she was piggybacking on insider trading by M&A lawyers.
I didn't downvote this, but, this would be a more productive comment if you said what those factors are.
and here I thought it had returned again.
you should propose some "biological, evolutionary factors that could play a role"
I basically only watch TV from my DVR. So yes, for me, having to sift through the recorded "new" episodes only to think "oh I remember this one" is annoying. Worse, they are doing it on purpose to artificially inflate their ratings and ad revenue.
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This - I got a lot better by dropping the lower 10% of customers who were cheapskates and very demanding.
Relevant: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/10-types-odd-friendships-your...

When I read that two weeks ago, I reached out to an acquaintence who I wished to 'move up' the friend tier structure, because he (and his wife) fit into the Healthy & Enjoyable quandrant. Last weekend they came over to see an air show. Today they invited my wife and I out on their boat. We all had an amazing time.

We're all in our 30s. It's tough. But I like to idea of focusing on the ones which can make an impact, and are healthy and make you happy having them as friends. I'm an advocate for fewer, closer friendships.
Had real trouble with a .technology TLD a couple of years ago. A large number of major sites (who were big enough to know better) simply refused to accept it as a valid email address. We had to make throwaway accounts to use any of Atlassian's products for a while.
You should look up how it went once the EU project got known to larger hidden players of the world. The only thing missing from that project was HVDC "breakers" (idk the enlgish word), which got engineered in time, though the project fell apart.
Solarcells currently are around 20 in efficiency (give or take) there is technology for 40-50% efficiency ready to go and be mass produced (being held back, you can argue oil and aristocracy or that consistant fast technological evolution kills those investing early in it as causes) and the theoretical roof around 70% was broken (99.9 something is possible).
Either way the only other way of producing or harnessing energy is torium - due to partial beneficiary effect on halftimes on currently radioactive materials produced. Afaik China is the only ones who have a torium plant up and running (for the western world to survive the energy boom advance solarpower quickly through regulation nationally and make the huge investments on other continents/nations to upkeep status quo).
> Many founders choose SaaS simply because they want the recurring revenue. Just because you like the model as a founder, doesn’t mean it’s the right model for your customers!

(from https://justinjackson.ca/saas/)
The confirm-paste plugin won't necessarily save you from malicious pastes.

See my comments in https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ .
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Growing up I used to go to friends' houses all the time unannounced. Thought nothing of it. When I came to the U.S. (grew up in Panama) and stopped by a friend's house unannounced he was upset and didn't let me in. It seems like all encounters with friends have to be planned. There's little spontaneity. My friend's kids all have planned activities too. No one plays in the streets. Kids can't go out without adult supervision or even ride a bike to a friend's house. It's weird. It's like people have forgotten that relationships are what make us human.
People go their separate ways in their 20s. There is less of the shared struggle that characterized college camaraderie.

It also becomes harder to line up schedules to keep in touch with old friends. Back in college, at least everyone was on the same academic calendar.
I don't like Kim and I don't like his software. He's always been surrounded by shady things and shady people and frankly he creeps me out.
She had many years to compound.
it isn't hard at all practically everyone I meet becomes a friend. How much time do I have to dedicate to friendship? Practically none, but that doesn't stop them from coming over --sometimes to much. Just don't be so judgmental. There's also this toxic ideology that unfortunately has swept the society that promotes defeatism, victimhoodization, promoting sociopaths ways of judging people, locking in your thinking through group think/wrong think. This ideology use to be a good value in our society before it was hijcked, it promoted peace and anti-war, individual liberties, as long as you didn't hurt another person. Now its been hijacked by very evil people and it has entrapped people into defeating themselves. Once you free yourself from this toxic way of thinking, the world is everything that you make good of it. Everyone wants to join you and make it more wonderful. It is truly the greatest time to live and have friends.
As China continues to grow economically and far greater supply of young people it is obvious that China is going to advance rapidly in many fields and surpass USA.

USA need not be number 1 in everything because it can't. USA however can allow Chinese students to come to USA in much greater numbers and tap their talent.

US public education system does not need a revamp. It needs razing down to ground and a complete recreation.
Do you think dang moderates voting as well?
> Parents can then venmo the other family for the time-cost of the play-date.

Wait, what? Parents are paying other parents for play dates these days?
> Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God - YouTube [www.youtube.com]

No discussions on this topic huh?
If the intro video is to be believed, that seems like a terrible idea in so many ways. The video explains it like "you view ads, your browser privately tracks whether you watched them, and awards the website and the user with BATs". So while we now have middlemen in the form of ad networks, with BATs we have an additional one to convert that currency into your local currency. Additionally, the ad network will have to believe the browser that the user actually viewed ads at all (DRM all over again). And what blockchain has to do with this is, as always, unexplained.
Typing indicators too.
local fake_clipboard=/tmp/clipboard-data.txt
if is-ssh && is-port-in-use $clipper_port; then
# Pipe to the clipper instance and the fake clipboard.
tee >(nc localhost $clipper_port) "$fake_clipboard"

This is not a secure use of /tmp; and in general /tmp is not suitable for such inter-process communication.

Please create the fake clipboard file somewhere in the user's home directory.
Seattle doesn’t have an equivalent of prop. 13, yet without enough supply, prices still have skyrocketed.

With the current supply problem in Bay Area, realistically all you are going to get is marginally more displacement of people who anchored themselves to a super expensive area in the past, but could not sustain a 10x increase in tax.

Building enough supply can work: https://la.curbed.com/2018/5/2/17311992/los-angeles-how-much...

And it doesn’t take long for things to stabilize either, once you increase supply.
> you would have the same problem as in Erlang

Ah but that's not how fork-join works - you fork multiple jobs, and then you must join them all at the same time - you can't join just one.

You have to do something like

(a, b) = join
If you bought anything in iTunes, it is forever locked inside of it though. Otherwise, I agree.
Yeah, it's also mentioned in the wikipedia article linked.
Yes - but that doesn't make it bad, nor something to identify with. I myself would rather be alone than around the wrong people
Why? I'm being serious when I say that. I'm not an expert on that topic, and I could only provide some very general possibilities. I think it's fair to criticise the article for that deficiency without having to propose answers as well. Do you expect film critics to propose how they'd make the film differently?
Its usually the way we train ourselves to behave in work environments. Spontanity only gets you into trouble. Nobody can be really trusted, everything better be documented.
Work kills the ability to make friends, because you see how all those former "friends" crawl over each other to backstab one another and get to the top of the pile.
Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL
They also drop the subscription rate after the first and second years. And even at the outset, the “everything JetBrains” license is cheaper than any two individually licensed products. If you do, say, Java and C# or Python and C++, this makes it a pretty sweet deal.

I wasn’t aware that the perpetual fallback license only covered the latest version at the time of subscription/renewal. That’s less than ideal, but apart from that, I think they’ve pretty well nailed the subscription-based model. It’s actually the _only_ software I’ve used where I feel the subscription model terms were actually an improvement over what I had before.
Oh wow, that sounds insane to me.
That isn’t true. YouTube for instance requires you to give basic consent to use YouTube: https://adexchanger.com/privacy/this-is-how-google-is-prepar... (not the best citation)
I think/hope GP is being sarcastic. I've never seen anyone reimburse anyone for a playdate.

I also live in a neighborhood where you see everyone outside regularly so a lot of it is spontaneous.

Even with my wife's moms group that has arranged playdates, though, no one pays anyone else.
i tend to think this is a strength of the Russian R7/Soyuz: the vast majority of the R7 launch family launches are uncrewed (and with a lower level of "mission assurance," i.e. less double-checking), therefore any systemic problems (i.e. due to "drift into failure," etc) are almost certainly going to be caught in an uncrewed launch first. Likewise, uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft missions use a very similar platform as the Soyuz spacecraft, I think on the same line, so problems with the spacecraft can also be found on uncrewed missions.

Falcon 9 is planned to launch maybe twice a year crewed, compared to 20 or 30 uncrewed launches (including like 2 or 3 uncrewed Dragon launches), meaning any new systemic problems with the launch vehicle will almost certainly pop up in an uncrewed launch before they result in loss of crew. Shuttle ONLY launched uncrewed, therefore any systemic problem which resulted in a loss of vehicle necessarily resulted in loss-of-crew.
Alienation from one's social life.
Did we examine the full ewaste impact when the cells need to bring disposed of? Are we sure that the net CO2 in the manufacturing process is carbon negative? Does the manufacturing, shipping, installation, and disposal process release heavy metals or organic solvents into the environment?

I want clean and efficient energy, but I want it to be good for the environment, not worse, and it appears none of this was studied nor confirmed.

And also once again, California is ensuring that low income families cannot afford to buy a home as an investment to exit the poverty cycle. From requiring new homes to have an EV jack in the garage, to solar cells on the roofs, the continually make sure that equality is out of the poor's reach by force of the law.
I'll take 'Insider Trading' for $8.2M, Alex.
Bitcoin banknotes, or: living in the old world
The other question is whether other risks are greater; if a high port number is your only choice, or handled by port forwarding on a router, or you are the only user, or high numbers are scanned sufficiently less often, then maybe you still choose one.
> why hasn't there been a breeding program to make domestic cats... more domesticated (i.e. friendlier)?

Not sure, but here are some thoughts: cats and dogs occupy different niches. Feral cats are mostly not a problem because they don’t prey on animals that humans depend on for food. I guess a cat could take down a chicken? It would probably be dangerous, though. Chickens are big. Feral dogs, on the other hand are a problem because they will eat animals that humans are raising for food. After all, there’s a reason wolves have been exterminated throughout most of Europe. So, that difference, combined with the fact that cats just aren’t very useful (they don’t protect or herd livestock and they’re not useful for hunting large game), means that there was never a historical reason to breed them.

Now as to why there hasn’t been a concerted effort to breed them as companion pets. I think the big reason here is that there is already an animal that is the same size as a cat, but extremely domesticated: small dogs! Animals as companions hasn’t been a widespread thing for very long. My guess is that, when that started being a thing, smaller dogs were much closer in evolutionary time than more dog-like cats. And I’m guessing the people who enjoy cats as pets now probably appreciate that they are less emotionally needy than dogs.
I've been building this app for a few months. I spend all day in Slack and wanted a way to publish content to a public page. I've used it to liveblog conferences and events.

I hope you find some value in it. I'd love any constructive feedback and this is a new product and I'm still determining where to go with it.
https://imgur.com/a/QDbVHwH

I'm surprised Google's documentation is not designed with readability in mind.