skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s not like we have a national ID card with private crypto keys issued to every citizen or something.

Good luck with that. Every so often it is suggested that voters should verify their identity when going to the polls. Just presenting a drivers license, passport, state ID or social security card should suffice. It's a similar policy as in many European countries. And every time, there is a huge number of people who oppose it. A very surprising amount of otherwise reasonable people fight tooth and nail against any forms of verification.
Solo is great. But collaboration is the key to success.
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/2050828...
What Black Jack Pershing Can Teach Us About Fighting Terrorists	(2017)
There's a corpse flower near Grand Rapids, Michigan that's going to have its first bloom since it was planted in 2000 sometime in the next few days, it's currently growing at 3 inches per day:

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/07/pu...
> Did you read the comment you're replying to?

Yes.

> I said "a somewhat significant factor" NOT "the only factor" or even "the biggest factor".

That's true. But even "somewhat significant" isn't justified by the facts.

> SF does have some good reasons for sticking with their wooden ladders

And they have one overwhelming reason: aluminum is not an option because of the overhead muni lines.

So it's possible that tradition has a role, but there's no evidence that it is even "somewhat" significant.
"...where he was more interested in being correct then helping people"

That does describe him pretty well.
The full sentence you quoted, and the preceding one:

> Putting aside the specifics of the gun control/rights question (if such a thing is possible), it's downright refreshing to see this guy's attitude. It's reminiscent of some of the earlier, more libertarian hacker ethos, of being focused on being able to do something and fighting hard against authority figures wanting (justifiably or no) to step in to suppress it.

i.e. it's "refreshing" to see someone fighting against authority figures, whether or not those authority figures are justified. I'm not straw manning his comment; I simply disagree that the "earlier hacker ethos" he describes is something to be revered, and I've explained why.

You are cherry-picking the data in your charts to support your conclusion. The US Virgin Islands, for example, has barely 100,000 people; the US has 320,000,000. Just 4 gun homicides per year there would vastly exceed the US's gun homicide rate.
Firefox extension to bypass WSJ and FT paywall

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/
Maybe I'm not looking at the right pictures, because a quick Google Images search for "uk firefighters" and "us firefighters", I see no functional difference in what they're wearing, and the only difference in the firetrucks is that American firetrucks are massive bricks and UK firetrucks are either a European-style truck that looks basically the same as a US-style truck or are a Ford Transit van with some hoses.

The helmets look exactly the same except the ones in the UK don't have brims on the back.
> whoever submitted those fraudulent comments impersonated tens of thousands of Americans

I think it was a lot more though. Something tells me I'll never know for sure.

> Whoever was responsible for pushing those fake comments deserves a couple decades in federal prison for mass identity theft.

I fully concur, and especially so if there's more than one person. Conspiracy laws, anyone?

> the FCC used those fraudulent comments to push an unpopular agenda forward, pretending that they were legitimate despite the mountain of evidence that they were not.

This is absolutely the problem here. Damn the cost to the economy and ISPs for uncertainty: this is a Very Serious Problem and Congress should seriously undo the changes that Ajit Pai has put forward. Or is the government not of, by, and for the people?

> As far as I am concerned, Pai is an accomplice to the crime of identity theft, as he knowingly benefitted from it and used it to his advantage, despite not orchestrating it.

I concur, but beware lynch mobs.
Machines might take jobs–they can also help train us for new ones
Is crime key to keeping affordable housing for the poor available?
Big Tech Companies Will Drive Web3 Adoption
I think you need to change banks.
I suspect it really means 60+ stories in the "supertall/megatall" skyscraper category, of which there are quite a few in Chicago. Chicago is biased however, as the technology to build supertall and higher skyscrapers was invented by a Chicago architect. The same tech in the Sears/Willis tower is used in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
>When people put out the number $23, they compare it with the cost of power and wonder why, if it is so much lower, it doesn't already swamp the current solution.

It is swamping the current solution - it just takes a while for new plants to be built and old plants to go offline.
Getting your management chain to like you isn’t the same as being good at your job. It’s not fair. But it also isn’t aggression.
The US isn't aging, at least not significantly. The number of people in each 5 year bracket from 0 to 60 is roughly even: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/blogs/201...

The number of people over in the brackets over 60 is substantially less than the younger brackets. Median age of the US population is 37.9.

Going back farther in history (like 1930 and before), the population pyramid did look quite different, though. There's a fun tool here to check it out (1900-2000): https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/055/
Ask HN: Suggestions for native Mac apps?
With an updated Mac App Store coming this fall, I started evaluating my own use of Mac software. Aside from a code editor and music player, practically everything else that I do on MacOS is in a browser (streaming video, documents, maps, email, etc).

Help me change this (should I change this?) - what apps should I be using natively?

I work full-time doing programming, consulting, and other general-purpose internet-y things.
Randomly musing about NTSC
I'd rather have shockingly un-creative names.

Given most of these cities run streets north or south I'd love the streets to have Lat (N-S) or Long (E-W) followed by the subset of GPS co-ordinates that are unique within the location.

This looks like a good standard to start from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Grid_Reference_System

For pure estimates 8 digits (within their grid) give 10 meter accuracy which should be enough, so choosing the full "min+second" (truncated, no sub-seconds) listing or the first 4 digits (truncate off 10 thousandths) from the lat or long should suffice.

This would also have a bonus of making anyplace addressable (in a postal sense) by it's GPS co-ordinates.
They also conduct heat, electricity and lose their structural integrity faster.
It would be nice if there were a federated way to accept "likes" from users (not just friends) across all compatible sites, but I don't think there's a good way to stop a site from Sybil-attacking posts with arbitrary numbers of illegitimate likes.

My instinct is that there needs to be a second layer reputation system for recording which sites can be trusted not to inflate their like numbers. This becomes similar to the problem of which mail servers can be trusted not to send spam, but perhaps if posts and likes are public (unlike emails) then more useful reputation systems are possible.
In 2019 to reap the tax credit sunset every battery will fly off the shelf and get a few solar panels in front of it to qualify.
The typing experience is terrible, the touchbar is terrible and removes essential keys for many users (I press escape thousands of times a day), and it is unreliable.

Sure, if your keyboard jams, you can get it replaced for free. But you're still without your $2000 laptop for a week while it gets replaced, and it's only good for four years. Plenty of people (my Mac is a 2012 15" retina MBP) are still using laptops that old or older.
Cambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propaganda
I wonder if it's when they have trouble hitting their recruiting numbers. There's a popular theory that X is the carrot dangled in front of both current Google employees and potential hires-- "Look at this cool stuff you could work on!"-- while in reality they usually get sent to the trenches to squeeze out 0.003% gains in revenue-per-query.
You need both the password and the phone number, so compromising the phone number via social engineering still requires the password, and thus can't be less secure than just requiring the password.

That's… why it's called two factor authentication? Or are you suggesting they'd let you reset your password with just the phone number?
That's not really brew's fault -- but perhaps they could streamline this process?

OSX requires binaries to be signed to give them tracing/debugging privileges (or you can use root). It would be nice if Apple made this less painful -- or rather, if they stopped making native development increasingly more painful with every OS release.
Typically this is allowed. Probably because otherwise the server would have to store and compare state, but also because otherwise the user could be locked out for 60s.
Industrial power is often more amenable to demand shifting though. I want my kettle to start boiling now, but aluminum smelters don't really mind if the throughput is highest at 3pm instead of 3am or vice versa, especially if that gets them a cheaper price.

Even for domestic users, electric storage heaters, water heaters and electric car charging are all amenable to demand shifting. Over time, those will probably become the largest users of electricity if prices keep plunging.

I think there's a lot of money to be made out demand shifting tech, especially if people keep erroneously believing that variability is a problem best solved with expensive lithium ion batteries.
Yeah. I had thought that given the topic, I was at a campsite and not a gas station.
What about Philadelphia? It has one of tallest skyscrapers in the US. Good public transport and is pretty affordable even compared to Chicago.
There are three kinds of cones in the eye, and each frequency of light is absorbed at a different rate by each of them. So when your eyes see light of a given frequency your brain gets this information as three numbers, which you can visualise as points in 3-dimensional space. One of the directions in this space just represents brightness, so we can throw it away if we're only thinking about colour.

So the different colours are all points in a 2-dimensional space. Each frequency corresponds to a given point in this space. If you plot all the frequencies from the spectrum they form a curve in this space, which is a semicircular shape. Red is at one end of the arc, and violet is at the other.

But the possible colour aren't just the ones on this arc. We can also see colours that correspond to mixtures of different frequencies. These fill in the inside of the semicircle, creating the full space of possible colours, which looks like this (https://pbbhandarkar.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/colorspace....). The spectral colours are on the arc around the outside, and all the colours on the interior can only be made by mixtures. The line joining red and violet is called the "line of purples". It joins violet back up to red to make a circle, but it consists only of mixtures rather than spectral colours. The spectral colours don't go around in a circle, just a semicircle. We need the line of purples to join it back up.
Volunteer firemen in the US certainly do get paid, or at least reimbursed. They're not working for free. And places with volunteer fire departments aren't volunteer because there's no pride, they're volunteer because there aren't enough fires to warrant paying people full-time to sit around doing nothing. They're on-call, and they get paid to respond to fires. In the meantime, they go to their normal job that also pays them money.
A New Type of Museum for an Age of Migration
Good guess, but completely wrong I'm afraid.
Do you know if they can modify existing contracts ? So they take out that article but I doubt it applies to the contracts (pensions) done while the provision was in force.
Wikidata + cryptoscams? Yikes.
I actually started C programming on Game Boy back in the days, but for me the Game Boy Advance really hit the sweet spot. ARM (nicer instruction set) and all of the close-to-the-metal characteristics you name above.

If you want to write a complete emulator, I can imagine that the Game Boy Advance can be a bit more of an undertaking with the different alternative graphics modes.
Because you are also a taxpayer.
> they do not function as “investigative or law enforcement officers.”

But they can arrest people?
and you are a literal retard
Total Surveillance: Irvine Company Spying on Shoppers and the Demise of Privacy
As a Citizen I'd want to submit comments with some superficial guarantee of anonymity.

I dunno, I want the FCC et al to know who I am when I comment. I want them to know I care and I'm willing to stand up and name myself, and that I'm not some internet bot.
Air Conditioners alone use about 6% of all electricity, so non-industrial is a big chunk:
https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/home-cooling-systems/air-...
It's not even a very meaningful divide; to a lot of people, globalism means furthering exploitation and imperialism through cheaper labour and more lax laws and moving natural resources away from peoples' countries abroad, and nationalism means tribal, exclusionary and potentially even fascist non-empancipatory politics. I'd say that there are a lot of people sharing my kind of anti-capitalist and anti-nationalist position, and the number is growing, by the looks of the growth of the DSA in the U.S. and Labour in the U.K. However right-wing nationalist politics seems to be gaining popularity in European countries.
In the 90ie and early 2000, 9 out of 10 new computer users were paying customers and users of many Microsoft products, the desktop or laptop being their primary compute device.
With the shift to mobile (phones,tablets), many new users will spend only a small amount of their time using Microsoft products. Within the next 10 years another 1 billion people will come online, lots of lost opportunity.
I use Diaspora* as a blog platform
It also supports TOTP codes.
I see, I misunderstood then.
I've always wondered if it makes any sense (if you have the property) to setup a windmill instead of solar panels. I don't think there's much market in smaller / single home windmill installations and so the costs are probably much, much higher.
I knew I had made a good decision to read this when I got to the line, "Mayahuel was not a cactus either." I wonder where this Frank Smith is writing now.
Not too many issues listed on code.gov
There's another factor keeping housing prices down in Chicago, relative to Boston, New York, etc.:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-chicago-population...
You should have a look at Winds (https://getstream.io/winds). It keeps everything in one place and visibility seems to be a top priority. Pretty cool app and it's available for web and desktop.
Write a post about your story with some screenshots, dates and all the details you remenber (what they replied by mail...). Publish it here (and elsewhere). You can do it anonymously (probably better).

Find a lawyer around you if possible.

Don't deal with them in the future.
Expected value of perfect information
This is known as regression testing, and it's extremely useful. For example, you find some bug where, say, a calculation produces a nonsense result. You fix it, then add a test for what you just fixed. 2 years from now, someone refactors the code and reintroduces the bug because their refactor didn't take into account all of the possible input cases. Your test now catches it.

Our regression tests have literally found hundreds of bugs over the years and saved us a lot of time and embarrassment.
Collaboration on slack works great.

Coworkers can be incredibly distracting in close quarters.
(Semi-) automatic handling of libraries, especially dynamic libraries, makes autotools worth the price, alone. Supporting one architecture manually is easy. Doing for six isn't. Doing it several dozen times, for all six, is spectacularly painful.
People don't normally knowingly pay $1 for a penny's worth of value. Think of it like a bucket of apples. If I charge you a price based on 100 real apples and give you a bucket that only has one real apple in it that's basically fraud. Doesn't matter if that one apple is delicious.
Yes, I'd rather just be alone. Some weeks I manage to get as many as four days in a row working from home, but most I end up just taking Friday as a WFH day so I can focus on getting things done.

As I type this in my open plan office at 1:39 PM, there's a vacuum cleaner 20 feet away, three different conversations going on around me, the stairwell door at my back opening every minute, people walking in front, behind, and to the side of me, and the janitorial service emptying garbage cans. Every few days we'll get noisemakers, screaming, and clapping and cake for birthdays or work anniversaries.

When working from home, I get a good nine solid hours in with great focus and the occasional break to take pets out. From my, admittedly non-scientific reckoning, I get about three times as much done in one work day at home. I go into the office mostly just to be seen, to participate in social rituals, for physical meetings, and to be "available" for questions and drive-bys. It's not that I don't like my co-workers, it's that my office is noisy and distracting. And it's one of the quietest floors in the company.

When I worked for IBM and had a private, quiet office, it took some getting used to being alone. When I moved to full-time remote work, it was a really good balance for me: I could exercise during phone conferences, have a healthy and properly-proportioned lunch with my wife, and get a balanced amount of distraction and "away" time by taking the dogs out.
agreed. if it's anyone's fault, it's apple's. that's a helluva lot of friction to install a nigh-ubiquitous dev tool.
As a person who's built PV systems: The problem of generating enough kWh in a month is solved. In pallet load and container load quantities, good quality PV panels are now very affordable. Roof and ground mounting systems, DC power wiring and interconnect systems are highly developed, modular and easy to build with relatively unskilled labor.

The problem to be solved now is economical, reliable, long-lasting (in number of cycles) battery storage. Or some other form of storage to draw those kWh back from when the sun is down.
Negative pressure might be more useful. Boil out the water under half an atmosphere, and replace the atmosphere with dried nitrogen and a chunk of desiccant.

You'll probably damage the wood if you do that though. Now I want to try it in my vacuum chamber, but I'm not sure it'll hold vacuum for weeks/months at a time.
The status quo in most places is : pretty much people pollute however they want at zero marginal cost to themselves, without needing any credits, and passing on the costs to the environment as a whole.

The credits are an improvement, because polluters at least have to pay for pollution credits, which means they have an incentive to pollute less.
Nobody should ever type the words “every citizen can generate cryptographic certificates” in that order. That’s like saying every citizen can compose jazz; technically true, which engineers love, but basically a lie that evidences how distant the engineering mindset is from an average person. Every citizen would instead reply what is a certificate? You mean the one I got for my marriage? Do I have to go wait in line for it? It involves my computer? Oh, you mean the computer that has spyware on it to lift the private key as soon as it’s created because TPM is still, you know, only deemed worthy of corporate security?

The gap between engineering and regular human beings continues to widen. Passwords remain difficult for people, but don’t let me stop the whiteboarding of a solution to the problem that will undoubtedly involve machine learning, Facebook OAuth, and GKE at some point. Add blockchain and pitch it to USDS before Thiel guts them and you’ve got yourself a hot party!
I started with this book, which is a furniture book that uses a technique involving cutting slots in plywood. It's good practices measuring, cutting, sanding, and finishing.

https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Furniture-Forgotten-Building-Bea...
Seems like a pretty great way to remove the middleman from populist infotainment consumption. Can't be worse than what we already have and by making it explicitly richest party wins it makes the process more transparent. It might not be the Truth but at least it is Honest.
New Analysis of Habitable Exoplanet Makes Us Hungry for Better Telescopes
Understanding the Kubernetes Networking Model
Huh? Are you talking about subsidies?
It's amazing how much a few KB of memory could achieve then. APL may perform extremely well on phones and watches nowadays. I can't believe no one is doing it.

I have J on my phone, and it works well as an advanced programmable calculator.
BOTS MATTER
You don't need 1:1 storage for solar production but it is a real problem. Germany and California are both facing the problem of the solar "duck curve", that is, high solar production during the day when demand is low and high electric usage at the end of the day when people get home from work as solar production is tailing off.

More than batteries they utilize gas peaker plants, inefficient, dirty and expensive plants that can ramp up and down quickly to match demand.
It looks like the premium has dropped rather dramatically just over the past couple of years (over 40% for average residential, and to almost zero for medium and large commercial.)
The Android Arsenal – Diolor Profile
same, long time mac user getting sick of apple's shit

i recently bought the system76 galago pro:

https://system76.com/laptops/galago

unfortunately I can't drive power and data over the USB-C port, so I'm going to return it

otherwise it is great
Ahh yes! and check the IP to make sure it is not just someone from a single computer faking the referral header.
In my opinion the reason that debugging isn't treated as a first-class activity is that it isn't taught at all in schools. Or at least it wasn't when I was in school. We were given about 2 sentences that said, "the debugger is at /usr/bin/gdb. It can help you step through your code to find a bug." And then we were thrown to the wolves with what is arguably one of the worst debuggers in the world with no documentation and no help.
You should try Apple Music on Android then.

Or iTunes on Windows.
Europe will fire its record-setting big solid rocket motor this week
Don Eyles: Space Hacker
To quote Dwight... "False."

It is true that a wide electrical grid needs a base load.

It is also true that solar isn't great at continuous power because of, you know, the Sun sometimes being behind the Earth.

But that doesn't mean you need necessarily need batteries. There are at least two scenarios where you don't:

1. You have an alternative to batteries for storage. This could mean using excess solar power to create some fuel that may well also be portable. This isn't an economic way of creating gasoline (yet) but in remote places this might not matter. It also might not matter if this power is essentially "free" (eg you need to build a certain capacity anyway which leaves times where excess power is being generated).

2. Power usage on electrical grids is also not smooth. It also peaks during the day when, as it happens, the Sun is also out. So your solar capacity is actually reducing your peak grid power requirements, which is incredibly useful.