skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Air travel is actually not that hard, just very energy inefficient. A turbine will work with almost anything that burns, that is the reason why airplanes use kerosene, it is the cheapest fossil fuel. To get green airplanes you just need to replace the kerosene with something else that burns, most vegetable oils should work fine after a bit of refinement.

The real problem is, you need lots of oils and there synthesis and using chemical fuel as energy storage seems a certainly feasible path, however it is again quite a bit more complicated than just drilling a hole in the ground.
> abuse of privelege

Due process and a fair trial are rights, not privileges.
Unfortunately these solutions might just be what we need given that people don't seem to be sufficiently slowing down any of their heavy CO2 production processes, and globally we are definitely not taking this as seriously as we should be. By the time we do, it will most likely after seeing the horrific effects, in which case solutions like these are needed.
ha. Have you seen what some countries charge for tuition.
Does AWS S3 Select Change the ELT vs. ETL Value Proposition?
Thanks!
You are an animal. You breath the same air and eat the same food other animals eat.

Our species won't even be the last species left when resources become severely restricted due to one species' hyper-abundance and destructive environmental adaption.
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Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly Album Review [video]
I love Linux but just... no.

Windows 7 was great, Windows 10 is already better with the right license (that ain't free, whatever)

Thanks but no thanks
If we had proper homorphic encryption, we could use regular home user machines for a cloud, airbnb style. You can't do that today because the security risks are completely unmanageable. But that all changes with homomorphic encryption.

Today it's not practical, but we see advances like this every year, maybe in a decade it will be practical.
Brave definitely does not sell your browsing history. In fact, they don't even have the ability to access it...
6,000 verified game industry salaries
Did that happen in the trial? Because I thought that anything that died in the ocean sank to the bottom, gets incorporated into the sediment and turned into oil.
reCAPTCHAs usually have a trustiness factor built into the code. If some combination of identity (IP address, browser fingerprint, last login on the site, etc) is questionable, it will give you more captchas. Do you use a lot of public VPNs? Are things from your network stuff Google might consider shady?
I do 45 minutes of intense cardio at the gym four or five days a week. It doesn't work for me. Which is to say, it does all sorts of wonderful things to my general sense of well-being, but does not cure my insomnia.
A couple of the things that were interesting about Clascal and its successor Object Pascal:

1. It really didn’t add much to the version of Pascal that Apple was already using as a systems programming language. That made it easy to teach and learn and easy to add to their toolchain.

2. It used relocatable, handle-based objects rather than pointer-based objects. This was thought to be necessary for the very memory constrained systems of the day, but it had serious performance and stability impact. (You essentially can’t persist a dereference across a sequence point, since it might cause the handle to move.)
Oops. Looks like I missed it. Here it is:
https://quire.io/blog/p/Quire-Mark-III-Nested-Tasks-Meets-Bo...
> It therefore sounds like your argument isn't really with the plea system. It is with overly harsh maximum sentences.

But that is how the plea system operates. That is why the sentences are so long.

If the maximum penalty approximated what people are actually sentenced to, the prosecutor would have less leverage in plea bargaining and a much higher percentage of people would go to trial. Or the pleas would have to be more generous which would under-punish actually-guilty people who take the plea -- and reintroduce the incentive for innocent people to plead guilty.

The only way to get rid of that incentive is to get rid of plea bargaining. (Which would then allow maximum sentences to be much lower.)
> I presume you're measuring the speed of building DMD?

yes

> 150 seconds

It takes less time the second time, due to disk caching effects. Though my build machine still doesn't have an SSD because I'm lazy. An SSD would make it click along significantly faster.
Matthew Walker, a sleep expert, says sleep aids like Ambien are counter-productive.
https://www.drugrehab.com/addiction/prescription-drugs/ambie...
"Dangers aside, Ambien and other hypnotics don’t necessarily provide you the kind of sleep your body actually needs. In his book, “Why We Sleep,” Matthew Walker, director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that the sleep people get from taking hypnotics doesn’t have the same restorative quality as natural sleep. In an interview with New York Magazine, Walker explains that drugs like Ambien simply “switch off the top of your cortex, the top of your brain, and put you into a state of unconsciousness.” The drugs actually sedate you, he says, and “sedation is not sleep.”
The good news for those who desperately crave sleep is that a variety of techniques and methods can help you achieve a blissful state of slumber without prescription medications. Here’s a look at some good ways to reboot your sleep cycle. ..."

Discussed at length in his book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

Also mentioned in this review:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/better-th...
"At last comes an explanation: According to the new book Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker, the director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, the sleep people get on sleeping pills like Ambien is not true sleep. Drugs like these simply “switch off the top of your cortex, the top of your brain,” he explained to New York Magazine, “and put you into a state of unconsciousness.” That’s not sleep; that’s cryogenics. According to Walker, sleeping-pill sleep doesn’t have the same restorative powers—and there are lots, from an immune boost to emotional resilience—as good, old-fashioned zzzzs.
Sleeping pills don’t even seem to work all that well. It’s true that some people say they fall asleep faster and sleep better on pills. But, as Walker writes, there’s little difference between the amount of time it takes someone to fall asleep with the help of a pill, compared to a placebo. Even a newer drug, suvorexant, only helps people fall asleep four to eight minutes faster, according to one study he describes.
In addition to causing daytime grogginess, Walker argues, Ambien impairs memory and increases the risk of cancer and death. “Do you feel differently about using or continuing to use sleeping pills having learned about this evidence?” he asks the reader. This reporter does.
Luckily, there is a better way. Walker recommends something known as CBT-I, or cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. A major part of it is proper “sleep hygiene”—well-known advice like keeping the bedroom dark and cold, using your frigid cave-bed only for sleep and sex, and turning off anything that emits light a few hours before bed. ..."

Note that, as Walker explains in this interview with Joe Rogan, if you are not dreaming at night due to alcohol or drugs, your brain may start making you dream when you are awake, leading to hallucinations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig&feature=youtu.be...
That didn't stop me getting about 15 calls from RSA declaring Yubikey will never recover. The annoying thing with this non-issue is the FUD around it.
Do another startup for something you love, don't sell it.

Gives you both autonomy and purpose as said by another commenter.
> The jury is still out on microkernels being "gravely ill-advised". Fuchsia, for example, is a modern microkernel that works quite well.

They could have said "gravely ill-adopted". You know what they meant and are grinding your personal axe here... Microkernels for all their promise aren't in widespread use. Engineers with a resume headline "I build monolithic kernel operating systems for fun" vs "I build microkernel operating systems for fun" will have significant hiring delta biased towards the monolithic specialists.
There's already practical cryptography to do what you just described called Confidential Transactions. It's not true homomorphic encryption, but it does securely hide the amount transferred on the blockchain while still guaranteeing that a legal transaction occured (no money created or destroyed)
Yes, it's pretty terrible if consenting adults choose to pay for software, isn't it?

I love FOSS, but people like you (yes, "fundamentalists") can't deal with the idea that some forms of software are probably better as paid transactions between well-informed parties. The laughable state of open source office suites and any serious competitor to most of Adobe's products suggests that this model has its limits.
This is really cool. Seems like a better application of neural networks on video than the deep fake stuff earlier this year.
Nachos at UC Berkeley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Another_Completely_Heurist...
“One Weird Trick” That Improved My Meditation Practice
I know law partners who are like this. If they generate so much value for their employer they can hire an assistant solely to bridge the technology gap.
I enjoyed my PhD too. But I think that in spite of my own experience, I have a strong misgiving about doctoral education because of the attrition risk. Too many things can happen, completely out of your control, that can throw you out on the street with no degree. I've seen...

Your advisor can drop dead, get sent to the hoosegow, lose grant funding, lose tenure, or change jobs without taking you along. Your research topic could turn out to be controversial among feuding members of your committee. You could be subjected to harassment, discrimination, etc. You might have to escalate matters with your advisor in order to get your final thesis approved, meaning you get your PhD but without a vital source of recommendation.

Some of those things can happen to you in a regular day job as well, but at least when you lose a regular job, you haven't lost everything.
LMAO this is such a stretch, there will be no one stop "market-network", markets will exist alongside markets like they always have, nothing new here and why in the world would anyone invest in such a thing.
Scotland seems to have negotiated mechanisms that are similar to plea bargaining. It appears that prosecutors can make deals with defendants to replace more serious charges with less serious charges, which carry less jail time, if the defendants agree to plead guilty to those charges. Scotland also appears to give a substantial sentence reduction for defendants who plead guilty early.

"PLEA AND CONFESSION BARGAINING IN SCOTLAND" [1]

"Tensions and balances, costs and rewards: the sentence discount in Scotland" [2]

"Furious 'stalking' victim slams courts for striking plea bargain with man who 'made her life a misery'" [3]

[1] https://www.ejcl.org/103/abs103-8.html

[2] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/1422462.pdf

[3] https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/crown-offic...
Diesel cars are the worst polluters, as "Dieselgate" and other scandals have recently shown. They pollute 10x more than buses, and have been enabled by ECUs created by Bosch.

> The actual programmer & designer of the software is the supplier of the engine control units (ECUs), in most cases Bosch. The software that they supply actually already contains these cheating routines. These routines are delivered as a part of the software packages, and can be turned on/off with some flags.

It is up to the auto company how to set these flags.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286697
I'm sure it has been used that way! I'm thinking more about the areas of agreement that exist among people with different politics. Maybe we don't agree on the exact right destination for e.g. some $2T chunk of money, but we agree that it shouldn't be used to kill random people overseas. That ain't centrist! I occasionally lurk over at Caitlin Johnstone's site and I get a kick out of the "cross-ideological collaboration" she's doing.
Climatist lunatics.

How about a radical plan to stop stealing and wasting our money for change?
Great and honest points.

>Secondly, for some reason data science just doesn't excite me as much as typical software development goes

Fair enough. Part of the reason is "data science" has been so jammed pack of nonsense and people who don't do the actual work of building things, as you describe below.

> What i do particularly enjoy is good ol' back end web development. I don't have a degree in computer science but working on a information system degree with focus on "programming", I dream/working my ass to become cult of "software engineer" type II, a sophisticated software developer/programmer. I love building layers, optimizing code, learning new tools, algorithms data structure (without knowing math), creating unit tests, following programming paradigm. It excites me so much. And my core skills to dive into is block chain..

Ok this makes sense. But I'd be worried about 5 years from now. When all the little gears and things that go on in backend becomes a commodity (or abstracted away in the "cloud"), what are you going to do?

> I love studying that topic too and all the algorithms it comes with it.

That spark of interest in the algorithms, (which is just about logic, which is what math is basically about in the end), is basically the essence of what makes "Data science" so attractive.
Didn't know about this. Thank you!
Scotland absolutely has plea bargains, and it's quite prevalent. The distinction with the U.S. system is that the judge is not as involved in the negotiations.[1]

The process of charge and fact bargaining is entirely
dependent on informal negotiations between the
prosecution and the defence. There is no involvement
on the part of the judge. Scotland does not operate
a system of American-style sentence bargaining. This
means that the prosecution cannot guarantee to the
accused that a particular sentence will result if he
pleads guilty (unless the bargain means that the
court’s sentencing powers are reduced because, for
example, the offence to which the accused eventually
pleads guilty has a maximum sentence).

(https://www.ejcl.org/103/art103-8.pdf)

Also, IIUC in Scotland the prosecutor can often impose civil fines and other remedies in lieu of prosecution and do so completely independently of a court. Whereas in the U.S. such arrangements are less often in lieu of prosecution; rather they're terms of an actual conviction and still involve a court formalizing things.

Really it seems the difference between the Scottish and U.S. system is largely semantics, and of course the fact that the criminal justice system in the U.S. is just plain harsh. Our harsher penalties compounded by charge stacking effectively gives courts huge leeway in terms of sentencing. Nobody would agree to plea for a small penalty if a court could unilaterally impose the harshest option. Combined with our constitutional law that all but prohibits a prosecutor from imposing penalties unilaterally (voluntarily or not), and it's clear why our plea bargaining process involves the judge and so-called sentence bargaining more so than in other similar systems.

[1] Or rather, the court gives little or no weight to the terms of the "contract" between the defendant and prosecutor, which can increase the risk for the defendant. Whereas in the U.S. the court has much less discretion to ignore the terms of a plea bargain, and in addition the judge will often mediate, which of course all but guarantees his imprimatur. Therefore there's less risk for a defendant and he will be more likely to take a plea deal.
It is a beautifully written book but incredibly dishonest.
Tragedy of the commons means it won't happen
Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector
> Stop trying to justify your refactoring with the "public but internal" argument. If the language spec says it's public, it's public. Your intentions have nothing to do with it.

This is so wrong. APIs are for people, not tools, so intent is primary. When tools are not expressive enough to capture and enforce intent, you document it, but it's still primary. Someone using a "public" API that clearly says "for internal use only" is no different from a person that uses workarounds like reflection or direct memory access, and there is no obligation to keep things working for the.
1 reason I should stick with windows. I've never gotten Linux screen reading software to run properly in a virtual machine. About once year I grab the latest Fedora or Ubuntu distro, fire up Virtualbox, and install Linux. Then I reboot and speech will randomly die on me when using Orca. My Windows 10 insiders VM just works with both Narrator and NVDA screen reading software. To point 4 in the article I've found Chocolatey to be quite nice. While it's obvious that it's grabbing installers and running them as best as it can with Command-Line options instead of distro supported software updates it's better then the alternative of manually checking for updates or stopping what I'm doing to install an update when software prompts me.
It's been about a year since I did my last Linux install so if anyone has experience with something that is accessible let me know. While Linux may work better on physical hardware instead of a VM I only have a Desktop that I don't feel like duel booting since it also acts as kind of a home server.
> According to the IPCC, even their conservative estimates

Which still overpredict the actual warming which has taken place.

What I like about the proposal in the subject article is that it actually focuses on a measurable impact--sea level rise--and a remedy targeted at that specific impact. It doesn't drag in speculative scenarios based on models that have been falsified by the data.
the real root of the problem is i cant think of a single crime where you should be behind bars for 30 years. if your going to take away someones life why not just shoot them.
Thanks for the shoutout! :) We're always happy to help out the Linux community.

-Greg from Insync
The secret to time travel is to forget that you're moving forwards with time, so you'll float instead. Many people have paid other people to surprise them into forgetting that they're moving forwards in time, so they'll float instead.
Government accidentally leaks counter-terrorism tools via Trello
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Would you tell me a bit more about how exactly you alternate?
Perhaps the headline is a bit sensationalist? Housing does appear to be a problem in the bay area though.
WSL does the trick on Windows.
The Most Mispronounced Word in the World
> What would it take to actually block the sun like Mr. Burns?

Put a small concentration of aerosols (microscopic dust particles or other light absorbers/reflectors) in the upper atmosphere. Basically a scaled down version of what happens during a volcanic eruption. The impact of that is one of the (few) areas where we actually have good predictive power in climate science.

> would there be any downsides to attempting this?

Depends on how you feel about putting a small concentration of aerosols in the upper atmosphere. Also, you would have to do very small increments to avoid having more impact than you want.
Bike-sharing company puts the brakes on its Massachusetts fleet
I'm ambivalent at sharing in the proceeds, but there absolutely needs to be a legal way to report law-breakers in the city, especially in situations where public health could be an issue.
Lay off 0%, increase the workload of everyone to account for the financial losses, and see who quits.

If you do that with a product like cymbals, the quality crashes and so does the companies reputation.
> 1. On what planet where we we’re not willing to pay even a modest price on carbon, are we going to be willing to pay trillions for geoengineering projects?

So. Much. Fucking. Carbon. Trillions is nothing if it means no consumer-level caps on carbon output for the next generation or two.
Beacuse we will be misserable in more planets?
It only protects against the most naive phishing attacks, where the attacker just accumulates passwords for use at some later date. More sophisticated phishing attacks will just copy the OTP in real time:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/iranian_phish...

U2F defends against that sort of phishing as well.
We're already kind of doing this. It just needs to be on a much larger scale maybe. I'm not sure of the complete process of how much CO2 is captured by a tree, so it might not make sense.
Looks easy enough to ask:
https://irb.northwestern.edu/participants/questions-and-conc...
Participant questions go to eyates@northwestern.edu and non-participant questions go to irb@northwestern.edu.
Biomedical/genetic engineering, as well as drug discovery.

ML could be the human augmentation we need to Cure All The Things.
There is a very simple way to make people pay for CO2 they produce by e.g. burning things: add a tax on it, so that the price increases. Tax oil-based fuels, firewood, coal. This will send the signal down every industry, adjusting price of goods accordingly. Use the money for the anti-warming geoengineering.

How popular might it be? Like, kill the whole coal industry around the world; who would mind? Make fuel, say, 2x as expensive; who would mind? Make barbecue coals as expensive as the meat; would anyone notice? Also, enforce it globally, including places like India, Russia, or China, the latter critically dependent on coal-based electricity.

Now compare to building some walls around glaciers, maybe mere thousands of miles.

I heard somewhere a great parable. Imagine that some aviation specialist would analyze plane hijacking data and recommend to install strong locked doors to pilot cabins on airliners. It would have prevented 9/11, saved thousands of lives, and would have been incomparably cheaper than all those security measures implemented in the aftermath. But likely every airline would be against this unneeded expense, and it would be very hard to push this measure.

Same thing with the global warming, wars, and various other (impending) catastrophes: people hope that they'll get by somehow; how bad it can really be? You see, nothing is happening! When it hits, the view changes drastically, but it's too late already.