skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you. I have to believe a joint country climate accord where member nations pledge to suck X gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere (or finance those that do) is a much easier political sell than 1) taxing fossil fuel companies/cartels or 2) enforcing emissions restrictions on various industries.

Cleaning up 150 years of emissions in 20 or 40 or even 60 years seems like a miracle on par with the moon landing or eradicating smallpox.
>Doenjang-jjigae

Why the double j in the word? Seen it before, not commonly seen in other languages (AFAIK), even if it is a transliteration (if that's the right term, I'm not a linguist). Does it mean extra emphasis of the j when saying the word.
We didn’t detect any previously unseen organic material on Mars.

We’ve finally detected carbon concentration simmilar to what we’ve expected to see based on mars originated meteorites found on earth and we’ve now have more evidence for a cyclic release of methane on Mars however methane isn’t rare it’s a combination of the most and the 4th most common elements in the universe.
Most of the lost coal mining jobs were also lost in decades past:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES1021210001

Set the "from" date back to 1985 (earliest year available in this UI).

There were 170,500 American coal mining jobs in January 1985. When Obama entered office in January 2009, there were 86,400.
They will hurt but the smaller companies will stop operating in the EU altogether. So yes its pro big business, just like the war on drugs has for effect to support the large cartels while getting rid of the small local dealers.
That is incorrect. GDPR allows hoarding data from consumers, but requires explicit consent. The business model of FB is to offer a free service in exchange of consent to tracking and targeted ads. Hoards of internet users are already 'hooked' on FB, and would consent to sharing anything with them if it's a prerequisite to participate in the platform.

New and coming businesses require jumping through more hoops to implement GDPR, while big players with their lawyer armies have no trouble adjusting to regulation, hindering competition.
If e.g. France was willing to step up, and had a flourishing tech industry and a track record of responsible global leadership, that would be great. They seem to have their shit together slightly better than the US does, at this point. But, even at our worst, the US is a better custodian of this kind of power than either China or Russia, and those are the only two other countries that would be remotely interested in this kind of technology.
> comparing Google's actions to murder

you think people weren't/wouldn't be killed off intel gathered from the project?
Money hungry apple was running to destroy any innovative or free functionality.

Nooh, lets build sandboxes and licences to prevent this ..
Employers want to be sure you're not out surfing on their dime.

The top things I look for in a remote resource is a person who can solve a tough problem in a concise fashion and an ability to show their work in a team setting.

Inexperienced workers may not have cultivated the discipline required for remote work and don't receive the benefit of the doubt.

If you really want to work remotely, mention your willingness and desire to embrace those ways of working - namely ways of holding you accountable; Hangouts/Zoom/Skype/Bluejeans what have you.

Even better, if I were trying to get started I'd get on Twitch and start building a community around what I know or interests me; live-coding, group problem solving (for the fun of it), and talking that up on social media.

One or two successful "conferences" with a few notable attendees should make a name for yourself.
A Facebook Bug Switched 14M Users’ Privacy Settings to ‘Public’
That is precisely what “modular” homes are.

There is a stigma to owning them in lots of places though.
It's hard making some people understand that such debates go beyond the scope of science (or that there's anything beyond the score of science for that matter) :/
The term tech bro to me sounds like nerd bro or geek bro, or nerd jocks. Who identifies as a tech bro?
Are you going to write a book called "If I Did It" next? You literally just said "No it isn't"

I believe the "no it isn't" is meant at the comparison, not at the original question.
For all EU citizens please write, call, speak to your MEP! The vote is on June 20. This cannot wait until the law is done.
https://saveyourinternet.eu/
> UPDATE posts SET public = true;

584,203,510,091,521 records updated
Show HN: Source Code for JSConfEU WebGL Visuals
Scientists determine why Leaning Tower of Pisa withstands earthquakes
This isn’t about science being boring this isn’t actually boring news it’s just a weird title because it doesn’t try to dumb things down as much as as just being dumb.

Anyone who understands what Organic or Methane is doesn’t really care of the Ancient or Mysterious adjectives used to describe them in the title anyone who would be appealed by these adjectives likely as mentioned above doesn’t understand what these adjectives describe.
Established computing principles are theorems that are true by construction, the strongest possible form of truth.

Climate models are fancy regression fits to low quality data. We know the raw data is low quality because it requires intense amounts of adjustment before the model makers can use it.

You have correctly assessed your ability at persuasion.
>All it takes is for one of those people to disagree, build them, and then we all must have them.

A killbot is (more or less) a mobile booby trap. If we have a problem with madmen leaving booby traps around, we can't solve that by laying more booby traps.
Super fair criticism of the post and process/structure. My only pushback might be that you can raise $25k or $50k with this structure (doesn't have to be $1.3mm) and you can use these docs with 2 or 3 investors if 30+ isn't the right match. I agree that anytime you announce you've raised a bunch of money, it's bragging. But I don't know a way to a) make that transparent and b) inspire other folks to consider alternative fundraising options without a post like this.
> Facebook didn't.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Not only did they produce TWO different implementations of PHP (HHVM and Hack), a vast majority of their infrastructure is NOT in PHP (which is mostly reserved for the front-end/web tier).
HN mods can edit others' comments? Can someone else confirm this? I can't think of a valid use-case for this.
If someone will inevitably develop nuclear weapons, then it is right to develop nuclear weapons even if it "just" create s mutually assured destruction, as opposed to abstaining and thus ensuring dominance of whoever does decide to develop them.
Not true. First, disobedience rarely results in jail. There are many intermediate forms of punishment. For example, losing rank, salary privileges, formal write ups, extra work responsibilities, etc.

Also leaders tend to keep each other in check and are constantly being reviewed. If you're a bad leader in the military it is typically immediately apparent and gets changed at some point. Additionally, leaders are also in turn managed by other leaders.

You're also not guaranteed promoted just because of your time-in-grade, especially not for higher ranks (e.g. E-5 and above). You also can't just transfer into the military with a high rank, meaning you have to work earn it and work your way up. It's not a full-proof system of course, but it does a great job. If you forced me to call out one exception, I would consider the officer path to be a shortcut to leadership, though they are typically required to go to college and extra training. But clearly, they don't have the military time-in-grade. But you're day-to-day is not really ran by officers, so it's not quite as relevant. (I'm speaking for the Marine Corps leadership as that's all I know first-hand.)
> The result, after further processing, is a calcium carbonate pellet that can be heated to release the CO2. That CO2 could then be pressurized, put into a pipeline and disposed of underground.

I'm curious why you wouldn't just bury the calcium carbonate pellets at this point (or sell them, since they have value).
Pumping CO2 underground isn't a cheap or reliable process yet as far as I can tell.

> the company is planning instead to use the gas to make synthetic, low-carbon fuels.

I suppose the answer is that the synthetic natural gas is more valuable than the calcium carbonate. Seems like adding more steps than strictly necessary though.

Edit:

> In the United States, Carbon Engineering is eyeing a recently expanded subsidy for carbon capture and sequestration, which could provide a tax credit of $35 per tonne for atmospheric CO2 that is converted into fuels.

Missed this bit in the article. Regulatory arbitrage, which is a very good reason to add another step in your process, even if it's not strictly optimal.
How can we be sure this wasn't a "Feature"?
I'm curious how this competes with a bunch of algae in a lake
Personally I wouldn't mind the Bay Area looking like Shenzhen, but I don't understand why people think that anything is going to change. Housing and education are prime assets in the new information based society and economy. People aren't going to share that anymore than natural resources, stocks, bitcoins or domains. Regardless of the larger consequences.
For me it has the following advantages:

- In-browser viewing of diffs and code
- Issues management
- Showing code to clients/other devs is simpler and prettier.
- Can push to local and run tests on a fresh repo pulled in a VM

Honestly as with mostly everything, it can be achieved by other means. It's just what feels good to me. It's extremely lightweight but robust and fits well in my work environment. That is all code editing is done in Emacs with millions of opened tabs in Chrome. I make extensive use of workspaces in xfce and I just Ctrl-Alt-(Right/Left) my way around going back and forth Emacs/Chrome. I could just have a file manager opened and double click on every file, or open them in Emacs, but that isn't always necessarily faster (for me).

Tldr: Personal preference.
That's not the case. They can find costumers through various channels, but they need consent first, they can't spam.
New Zealand’s cost of living isn’t nearly as great as it used to be (it’s actually slightly higher than the U.S.), primarily thanks to the influx of Chinese investors.
I feel it is sometimes helpful to see the other point of view. Lets say I had an interesting technical problem to solve and some funds, why should I give it to you instead of somebody else?

Also, as an aside, I've found that "interesting technical problems" stop being interesting when you are building a product. The sexy stuff is finished very early on, and then the vast majority of time is spent on polishing/bugfixing/documentation and decidedly non-sexy stuff.
A funny coincidence: the excise duty on petrol here consists of several "parts", one of which is the carbon dioxide tax, which is currently about 0.25 USD/litre (in total the fixed taxes amount to a bit over 1 USD/litre).
Ah. Okay.
Reinforcement Learning: From Zero to State of the Art with Pytorch 4
That "just enough" is probably half of what is presently in the atmosphere. The oceans have absorbed huge amounts of what we've emitted, and would disgorge it accordingly. The CO2 level in 1900 was about 300 ppm; now its 400. To make a substantial reversal in climate change by only removing CO2 from the atmosphere, we'd have to make a massive stride by 2050.
I haven't actually done cryptographically signed continuously released applications before. I was just thinking about how it should work, and it seems a little complicated. I'm not sure how to safely sign the build.

1) You have to sign your code, obviously. If the code isn't signed, none of the resulting build artifacts can be trusted, because where did the code come from?

2) Once your code is signed, you can run a build on verified-only code artifacts, which can produce a build artifact. But if the server doing the build is compromised, you can just put anything at all in the built artifact before it's signed. Sure, you had signed code, but if I can inject my own code into the compiler (or whatever) or just take over the build process and give it my own code, then I can make any kind of build artifact I want.

The only way I can think to "confirm" this build artifact is genuine is to get multiple hosts to independently build the artifact identically and compare them. So you have to have reproducible builds. Which I don't think many people have.

So, what part of the pipeline am I missing?
I would happily bet good money we will find strong evidence for life on Mars within 10 years of humans' landing (and staying) there.
I feel the controversy comes from the fact that one side has a large fund of money and is biased towards keeping things the way it is, whilst the other has significantly less funding and does not earn any money, or likely even significant benefits from the other side (mostly the young and poor will be affected, neither of which hold as much political clout).

All studies should be held with skepticism, but (assuming skepticism is a "resource" that can be exhausted), we should likely focus more of our skepticism on studies that clearly benefit from the result of the topic being discussed.
What undeserved penalty did Rolling Stone suffer for the lacrosse rape case?

Great-grandparent didn't suggest that laws are the only possible option to penalize misleading journalism, you're jumping to conclusions. Elsewhere in this thread, I even suggest:

> [Disincentivizing misleading journalism] doesn’t necessarily require an oppressive Orwellian governmental body to dictate truth and punish journalists who veer from the party line. It could be as simple as, after the fact now that we know how fraudulent it was, naming prominent journalists and outlets and pointing out red flags that they should have but failed to highlight, and other similar ways they should have expressed a healthy skepticism but didn’t.
And that may be a useful perspective in many instances, but it doesn't tell the real story.

Those feelings are certainly not temporary for those who are successful and are also unlikely to be temporary for the people left in the wake of a successful attempt. My best friend killed himself in the 5th grade, then another very, very close friend in the 8th. I've known 3 other people who I would call a friend who have killed themselves. I'm 37 years old and I still think of these people. I don't dwell, but I certainly do remember these events and their supposed causes clearly.
Spotify Uproar Points to the Power of the Playlist
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What puzzles me is the "climate advocates" pressing for such environmental engineering show little interest in changing their own behavior

Why does that puzzle you? That's pretty common among humans (e.g. I've had multiple smokers trying to convince me not to start smoking). Changing one's habits is hard, even if one is convinced it should be done.
> Jobs was not a criminal

The options backdating scandal arguably involved criminal behavior, and the anti-poaching collusion between Apple and other companies was arguably illegal as well.

Not saying that Jobs was primarily a criminal, but he was involved in a fair amount of unethical behavior over the years.
:)) I love macros so much
Ask HN: How should I seek work as a freelancer to earn income ASAP?
Situation: I'm unemployed, need money and have little money. My network in real life isn't too good, with only a handful of friends and colleagues who are not available to provide any good leads for work right now. But I also prefer avoid going to local programming events just to do the aggressive salesman approach which is a shallow and desperate kind of "networking".

For now I want to leverage what I have with me, right now, and not show my weaknesses. I am a developer experienced with a few different fields, able to build SaaS web solutions for companies, improving user experiences with them, as well as improving performance bottlenecks in games (I have paid hourly experience with indie game studios).

I want to apply these skills and not have them go to waste, to earn some income as soon as possible. I've posted my information in the Seeking Work and Freelancer threads here, and I prefer to avoid the bid-auction style websites such as Upwork.
I don't see that reflected in the stats for London on Indeed.co.uk. If you search by title there are currently 25% more Django jobs than Rails whilst Python:Ruby is 4.2:1. Node:Rails is about 3:1. I've also noticed a steady decline in Rails job postings. You're seeing about half the number of Rails postings compared with a year ago. Another interesting trend is that Python has more adoption outside London than Ruby in relative terms. Ruby is very much a niche London phenomenon unlike the USA where Ruby/Rails jobs are spread more evenly across the country.
GDPR vastly increased potential attack surfaces (people taught to click consent buttons without reading, easier fishing - click to login to update your personal information, data portability - scammer can more easily extract personal data by impersonation and much more) and provides false sense of security. It only benefits civil servants and large corporations.
Given the weather in Rochester, what were your utility costs?!
Are there other experts without conflicts of interest who have offered critical assessments of this research?

I agree that lay readers should be skeptical of experts with a vested interest in an outcome. But that doesn't mean we should be unduly pessimistic about research that has only positive evaluations (and is in Nature) as of yet — even if all of the experts who've weighed in have financial or other relationships on one side of the issue.
>The two most noticeable effects of the GDPR on average consumers so far seem to be a dramatic increase in unwanted messages from just about every organisations they've ever communicated with and the loss of access to various web sites based outside the EU. The intent may have been noble, but the execution was awful, to the point where the GDPR now seems to be widely regarded in non-techie circles with the same contempt as the "cookie" law that results in all of those annoying messages on web sites.

The GDPR became law two years ago; lots of companies that really should have known better ignored it until the eleventh hour. It is materially similar to the Data Protection Directive, which was passed in 1995. Had companies actually paid attention to the DPD, the GDPR would have been largely unnecessary. The GDPR isn't trivial to comply with, but data protection is not a trivial matter.

The proposed Copyright Directive is in parts severely misguided and I will be petitioning my MEPs accordingly.
FWIW either way they will be able to visit, Orlando is not on the coast and is ~100' above sea level.
The invisible hand smooths out the ripples for us

Yes, that's all well and good, when we have a functioning Democracy, one that will regulate just enough to keep the playing field level, instead of regulating for large corporations to give them an advantage. Look at Comcast, AT&T and others like them. Regulation allows them to reap huge profits for subpar service, that their customers agree is not what they want, but we don't have any choice.

For the last 40+ years, the true aim of Republicans in Congress and the Executive has been to insure that Corporations have more rights than The People. All this culture war bullshit is a diversion (and we've been playing along so nicely devouring each other while the world shifts under our feet). Democracy has been taken over by corporatists.

The question is, will The People recognize this before it's too late to reverse (by Democratic means)?
Too much particleboard, chipboard, oriented strand board, MDF board and cheap shit that is used as an alternative to real plywood. I've seen what happens to those particleboard nightmares when construction is temporarily paused in a wet climate, for unforeseen reasons, and it gets rained on before the roof and cladding are on.
Follow up question: What do you do about health insurance? The cheapest (read: catastrophic coverage) on Oscar is several hundred per month last time I checked.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/26589529219124838...
> there is no number seven

There is cardinality. There is ordinality. The "number seven" is a label for specific points in the cardinality and ordinality spaces.

> Color is mental construct triggered by perception of EM frequencies in specific range

You're conflating stimulus and sensation here
Writers? Actors? Animators? Various skilled trades? All or most are unionized.

You seem to be shifting a lot of goal posts to suit your narrative.
Edit: apparently I believed some bullshit :P
Fifa has billions of dollars, it is still not for profit.

Not for profit financially just means you cant give profits but have to reinvest it 100%
I haven't done chemistry in years, but I think you can fairly easily reuse the calcium carbonate pellet once it has been heated. I imagine the cost of energy is significantly less than the cost of the raw resources.
Facebook's earnings are driven by their ad network, not user interaction.

That is, as long as Facebook is able to identify and track an individual, they can make money even if the user never spends much time on Facebook.

So, stock price is not an indicator of Facebook usage.
Back in the real world, complex problems are solved all over the place by highly paid professionals with software. Written in regular languages.
Second Life Ironically Declared to Be “Dying” by Digg
* One bug and suddenly all the confidence is lost ?*

If only this was Facebook's first bug.
Hmm, totally off-topic but that line needs to be re-painted. The actual lane marker is almost entirely faded away, while the line that follows the exit lane is bright white. If the glare is bad enough it's possible for a human to end up thinking the more solid line is the lane marker and follow it left.

(Not to excuse tesla here though, if that wasn't clear.)
Ever since I've visited Larry Wall's homepage for the first time(http://www.wall.org/~larry/) I don't think anything can shock me anymore.
I think the US has ended up with right wing populism like Trumpism because there is no social democratic alternative available in the US. We've gone through all the same de-industrialization in my native Norway as the US has. I come from a blue collar industrial town in Norway which used to produce paper, glass, ships, raincoats/workwear, pots, pans, insulation etc. It felt like every few years as I grew up another venerable old factory closed down for good.

Except people in my town never went through the kind of hardship I see the American working class go through because we had already built up extensive institutions to deal with it. We spend something like 10x as much per capita on job retraining for unemployed people. If they can't get new industry going and retraining people for those industries, they use other means like moving government functions to the towns that have been hardest hit. Keeping unemployment low is a very high priority in Norway, in no small part due to the labour party (social democrats) having "work for everybody" as their slogan since the 30s.

I got an American wife, and I really cheered for Bernie Sanders. I had so hoped he could have brought many of the things we have been able to enjoy for decades here in Norway to Americans. Unfortunately he lost, but I think there was movement in the electorate and openness to new ideas like I've never seen before. I had never thought you could get that many votes in the US saying anything positive about socialism.
Yeah, because we know governments are really good at giving certifications and doing tests that mean sonething. Lets put every design decision in the hand of governements then! or better, nationalize car companies! Problem solved?
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