skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This article was written by an astronomer working with Kepler, and I wonder why you apparently seem to believe that they are so naive that they forget about the bias in their own research tools.

Exactly. I actually did some research on Weiss.

So she studied astronomy at Harvard where she got her BS, then went on to Cambridge for her masters, and then a PhD from Berkeley. Now she works with NASA.

Odd that all these people who clearly didn't even read the article seem to find supposedly obvious bias and flaws in the research of someone who is clearly among the top young researchers/experts in this field.
We changed the URL from https://charismaticplanet.com/oresund-bridge/, which looks like a spam site, to one that showed up when Googling text from the article.
Bogosort. It doesn't work (until it does).
Since I dont see a link in the article, the page is https://privacy.apple.com/

Although im in the U.S. and i dont see the option to download my data. Perhaps it hasn't rolled out to everyone? or am i looking in the wrong place?
It's silly to say that a student should only go to college if they can afford to do it with no loans. I think a large part of the "student loan" problem is that we don't talk about income enough. It is completely reasonable for a comp sci major from a good school to graduate with $75k in loans ($900 payments). That will not be a burden for them. Likewise, a $20k student loan ($300 payments) should be manageable for someone who makes $40k a year. The issue is when the person who only real prospects pay $40k a year and they have $75k in loans.
And the great thing about today is, there's a metric ton of free software you can move on to. Like, I would've killed for Godot when I was a teenager.
Yup, I fly direct just to avoid the security theatrics. It's just not worth it.
Actually, they're not increasing. I looked it up. The number of cattle in the world has held steady (about one billion) since the 1970s. Given that the population has from about 4B to 7B in that time, and incomes have increased substantially as well, it suggests that beef consumption is level (which means per-capita consumption is shrinking).

And given a 9 year lifespan for methane, it's probably been stable for a long time.

Now, if you're taking the position that "net zero emissions isn't enough" as justification for a carbon tax, you need to focus on the goal. Is it carbon reduction, or puritanical punishment? Need to ask that, because there's a lot of people who want the latter but claim the former.

If the goal is carbon reduction, then a carbon tax is only a means to an end, and we have to ask if it will be effective. Can we carbon-tax beef enough to see a major reduction in its consumption, leading to a major reduction in the number of cattle? (Oh, and you'd better carbon-tax dairy while you're at it.) Does this seem like a reasonable conclusion? And if people aren't eating beef, what else will they eat instead, and what are its carbon costs?

I'm not rejecting the position, but I'm trying to think it through.
I didn't mean this as a joke. I'm talking about the "Real Book" that was produced by Berklee CoM students in the early 1970s.
Yeah, once you start considering log rewrites I remember it got a bit more challenging. But the main idea is super elegant and beautiful.
How about a revenue-neutral carbon fee and dividend in which households receive the fees that are levied on polluters? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_and_dividend
this is a neat way to avoid moving those pointers around: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2010/2970/content.pdf
Canada could be a leader in the global cannabis market — if the rules loosen up: experts

"“We’re currently shipping cannabis to several of these countries already. We’re already taking advantage of this opportunity,” he explained, citing Europe as a current client for several major Canadian marijuana growers."

https://globalnews.ca/news/4426312/canada-global-cannabis-ma...
That's a very close eyeball to 60% actually! I was more surprised that it would be taxed as normal income not at the lower capital gains tax (in your example 15% instead of 39.4%), you seem more knowledgable though.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993)
If it boots to a bash prompt, you can program that :P

Actually, I wonder if kids could learn shell script?
Really interesting to see the number of jobs created. I imagine that just means "number of employees". Even so, the fact that Brex is a company with only 48 employees with over a $1billion dollar valuation is interesting (also the fact that I've never heard of them, and they only went through YC a year ago).
Read your terms of service. The same section is definitely present for all Canadian ISPs as well.
The linked article indicates that only a small amount of seaweed needs to be added to their diet to be effective and that seaweed is easy to grow, so it doesn’t sound like it would take long to scale.
THE PROBLEM OF AUTOMATION: INAPPROPRIATE FEEDBACK AND INTERACTION [pdf]
Colour Maximite is a lot of fun [1]! The BASIC environment it has is quite powerful, and it even runs a full-screen text editor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA8lowEKOo
Just a heads up to any Helm employees, it looks like the website is running React in development mode. It should be easy to fix: https://reactjs.org/docs/optimizing-performance.html#use-the...
Until the device fails and you need to replace.
I'm curious how much YC has made these couples years from this list. Does YC take a specific percentage when you join their incubator?
Yes, true. I didn't mention Portugal because it didn't pass the "decades of experience" condition.
OK, but the carbon in that methane (CH4) comes from plant sources, which comes from the air. So that is net carbon neutral (except to the degree that methane is a stronger greehouse gas than the carbon and hydrogen it is composed of).
Because it bothers me when someone sells a "secure" product where the security measures are unrelated to the threat model. The Helm server is connected to the open Internet, which means that physical possession of the Helm server is not the only or even main thing necessary to secure it from compromise. Because of how it works, the server still has a dependency on cloud providers -- you need cloud backups and the public endpoint for the ssh tunnel to get around ISP packet sniffing. Since I still need to trust other people's servers for this to work, why the focus on owning your own server?
I don't mean the size of the community, but that Rust has an edge as far as being "mainstream-adoptable" and more mainstream-friendly overall.
A college degree is used as a way to filter out applicants, the same as a high school diploma is sometimes used. It can be used to show some level of maturity and intelligence. It's not a golden standard, but for the amount of applicants per job, something needs to be a standard.

Some higher paying jobs are asking for master's degrees. Also, my brother can directly attribute his income increase to obtaining an MBA.

Is it worth it? An extra US$10k per year for X years of work? Better job stability? These are the decisions that need to be made, and not every career needs a degree.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-investors-sign-plan....
Other than that you hopefully can't do that without having to pay a massive amount of money under imminent domain laws, it now means everybody has to pay for Facebook, and that it will improve (if at all) at the level of congress.
I'm not sure what the spirit of your comment is, but I feel like I should point out that this is to some extent the "point" of technology: to create more value with less human capital.
That's actually a really good point. I'm not sure what options are available in the US, but Canada Post has a service for exactly this purpose:
https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/business/postal-services/di...
For-profit colleges (at least the large ones) are actively predatory in targeting desperate, uneducated people.

Something I learned from the book Weapons of Math Destruction: there's an entire industry around skimming contact information from poor people to target for certain products. People will spend heavily on AdWords advertising for terms like "apply for food stamps," and have a web page that offers the service of expediting your food stamp application for free. Of course, this website is just a form that takes your info and forwards it to the regular online food stamp application. Maybe it's got better UX, but it's not expediting anything.

As part of handling the application, the website operator can save the name, address, and phone number of someone who is highly likely to be poor and desperate. They sell this information to certain companies, predominantly diploma mills and payday loan companies, who will then call these people directly to aggressively market their services.

I don't have the book at my fingertips, but if my memory is right, the contact details for one qualified lead sells for like $75.
As other wrote, this might cause problems when TLS 1.3 contains a major vulnerability TLS 1.4 fixes.

In my opinion, the `ssl_protocols` config should accept a string like "TLSv1.2+ -TLSv1.3", basically stating a minimum version, allowing exclusions and including anything newer. In the same spirit, one should be able to do "TLSv1.0-TLSv1.2" for setting a maximum, with specific exclusions if a new TLS version ever becomes a problem.
Have been working in San Francisco for 6 years. Actually, contrary to what you believe, there are approximately the same rules. You cannot fire people in the US without reason too.
Pico-8 was my son's very first introduction to programming. He does much more with the integrated sprite editor and sfx/music editors than he does with actual coding. I would like to get him interested in TIC-80 as a replacement.

Key weaknesses of Pico-8 for kids learning to program:

1. The editor runs at the same resolution that the games do. Maybe this is because they didn't want to make their VM flexible enough to deal with multiple resolutions, or they just wanted to make the illusion that the Pico-8 is its own machine very consistent, but the end result is still a painful code editing experience. When I make example programs for my kids, I need to compromise between descriptive variable names and indenting code blocks.

2. Deviations from the standard lua API/libraries mean that normal learning resources like PIL have to be interpreted with an asterisk.

3. This is a minor thing, but the fixed palette is annoying. In graphical terms, Pico-8 lies roughly between the Atari 2600, 7800, and NES, but all of those systems handled colors more flexibly.

4. Splore allows children to find games that are not appropriate for their age. It's just not designed for kids and parents. My son found a game featuring smoking and thought it looked SO COOL (this was easy to disabuse him of). He also found a game that puts you in the role of a cyberbully, and the subtle psychological effects of that sort of "edgy" game aren't as easily undone with a single conversation. It is possible to mitigate this by putting whitelisted carts into the bbs carts folder and then making that folder read-only.

TIC-80 improves on the first three points. The editor is still running at the same resolution as the games, but uses a higher resolution (and the editor can optionally use a thinner font). The lua implementation is much more standard. And the palette can be changed (even per-scanline, I think). The music editor lets you draw your own waveforms, but in other respects is less intuitive than Pico-8's. (I haven't looked at TIC-80's cart browser so I can't comment on it.)
> terrible site redesign a few years back

Their 10-day weather graph is one of my favorite interfaces. There is no better way to grasp the weather, and it transformed my conception of daily weather patterns. Try it:

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san-francisco

Don't overlook the Customize button at the top right.
How to Transform and Build a People Platform
Note that they can't stop you from entering the country if you're a US citizen. They can, however, make it a massive pain in the ass. Anyone have any practical experience here?
Except that AOSP leaves out the Java Virtual Machine (or equivalent) and most to the actual OS, that's built on it.
Why the World is Running Out of Pilots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cognzTud3Wg

Edit: I'm not a pilot, just a kid that never grew up and likes airplane stuff...
Understood. Comment edited.
1. Because they can depreciate capex over a multi-year period. This can help manage the P&L better.

2. Likely because the bigger company has a much more complex balance sheet so applies more complex accounting to manage it.

3. It's not the development so much as what's being developed. You're essentially creating an asset rather than a consumable so the cost of that asset can (sometimes) be considered a capital expense.

4. Probably because that's how they're managing this for the rest of the firm. If all the activity is done consistently in one tool, it makes it a lot cheaper to manage than having to chase up multiple groups, massage the data, reconcile etc etc.

5. Depends on the org. It's finance who want this directly as will whatever levels care about their P&L.

It's also not inconceivable that there are standardised processes across the org so that engineering cares for engineering's sake. Though that doesn't sound like the reason in this case.

At the level of an individual team this may seem like a bad idea but, in an org with a lot of dev teams, fungibility of tooling and process can both be a big cost save as well as a big training save.
"NPC meme" is to 2018 as "Common Sense" is to 1776.
Good point.

I built a SPA recently and learned pretty quickly to replace `on('scroll', handler)` with a set-flag-and-sweep-at-slower-interval solution to bring down CPU usage.

While something like React alone isn't slow, building a SPA means you're taking on a lot more responsibility, and there's a lot more things that can go wrong.

Even something like "when user clicks an item, make loader spin until server response, and then render the detail page with the data" can feel much, much slower even though it's not from a clock-time standpoint.

Aside: Using a slow device as your main testing device is a life-changer if you want to catch this stuff early. It's hard to ignore this stuff when you have to feel the pain yourself on every refresh. Good reason to always keep your old phone around.
When it was realized that some politicians thought that global warming would imply that every place on earth is becoming strictly warmer all the time, and so the fact that we still get snow or cold snaps proves that global warming is not happening.
and it's also a broken version.
> Actually, they're not increasing. I looked it up

> And given a 9 year lifespan for methane

Can you please provide your sources? If this is true, it's not that worrying...
I still find the US attitude to college somewhat perplexing (I'm Australian).

Australia had free university education until around ~1990 or so when it introduced HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme), which I believe later changed to HELP. The idea of this is that any tuition you receive will incur a cost that will be deducted from your salary (above a certain level) until its repaid. It has interest. Previously you could get a discount by repaying early but I'm told that went away.

The key aspects of this system are:

- You can't student loans for any expenses. This only covers tuition. I think this is a reform that's needed for the US system.

- It isn't a loan. If you don't earn an income you don't pay anything. There's no getting crippled by loan repayments like seems to happen with US student debt.

- It's largely impossible for 18 year olds to get into a situation where they owe hundreds of thousands of dollars (I saw a CNN report on millenials once that, as one example, had a young woman who worked as a waitress now who accrued >$100k in debt studying Theatre Arts at NYU).

From working for large US tech companies (in the US) I see a prevailing attitude that some people who work for these companies feel like they're underpaid if they can't save up and pay for private college education for each of their children, which 10-20 years in the future, may well be >$500k _each_ (which is just crazy).

There are actually lots of good options for getting a college education relatively inexpensively:

- ROTC

- Resident state college education. This may mean delaying your start a year to establish residency but can pay off big time. UT Austin has an excellent CS program an in-state tuition is quite affordable last time I looked.

- Stopping when enough is enough. I see a lot of people getting pretty pointless Masters degrees, for example, which is fine if you can afford it.

- Starting at cheaper (even community) colleges and transferring later. You'll miss out on some of the social aspects of the early years of college but your degree will still say Stanford or whatever.

I wonder if it's not sending the wrong message to your children that they can go to Yale without paying a cent out of pocket. Like what happens when they can't provide that for their own children?

College in the US more than Australia seems to be used as an artificial barrier to entry to a lot of jobs too.
Are there still people who buy/sell illegally? What's the price difference, if you have any idea?
Yes, they did! Although both terms have been used frequently for over 50 years, Frank Lutz, Republican strategist, noted that " It’s time for us to start talking
about “climate change” insteud of global warming and “conservation ” instead of preservation."

1. “Climate change’’ is less frightening than “global warming; ” As one focus group participant
noted, climate change “sounds like you’re going fkom Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.” While
global warming has catastrophic connotations attached to it, climate change suggests a more
controllable and less emotional challenge. "

From what we can see, it looks like Republicans adopted his recommendations.

http://web.archive.org/web/20121030085144/http://www.ewg.org...
This could be especially valuable as a way to build email apps for enterprise. Especially if there were a good API that returned email data in JMAP format.

I know Nylas tries to do this, but their model doesn't really work for me.
I think the color maximite is this http://geoffg.net/maximite.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA8lowEKOo
I would personally recommend 4-year college to someone (assuming their family isn't rich) today if that person has a concrete plan for using the degree to enter a lucrative field. Engineering? Yes, go to college. Corporate-track marketing/accounting/finance/whatever? Yes, go to to college. History/English/I don't know what I want to do? No, you're wasting your money. For everyone else, trade schools, community college programs, and similar "alternatives" should be a starting place to get you pointed in the right direction, then you can decide if pursuing an expensive diploma is worth it later.

Is this view counter to the original intent of college to create a class of people who are well-educated in the humanities as well as the sciences? Yes, but today's cost of education is just too out of control and salaries for most jobs too low for that noble idea to be practical.
Nothing special will happen. Smoked weed is and will be a niche drug, since not many people like to smoke, and we all know how terrible it is for the mouth, the throat, and the lungs. Creative cannabis usage (oils, edibles...) will find a place, I'm sure. Still, the overarching issue will be the stigma weed has as a drug used by lazy people and hippies. It will take decades for that to change. Once that happens, we can revisit how weed affects people, and act on it if need be.
Those human societal reasons need to change.
The power required to track the entire human industrial supply chain using a block-chain algorithm would be so incredible that it would quickly dwarf any possible gains. It would in fact be a significant percentage of all total power consumption in the world.
The table does not include the "green" domains by default, you have to select it.
I never had trouble finding tech work without a degree. I did however find the door to more interesting jobs was generally closed without one, and that door opened after I went back to school and finished a BS.
This is a good collection: https://dnluu.com/hn-comments/
He wrote Requests. His many other side projects are not nearly adopted, supported, or maintained like Requests. This project will likely be the same as the vast majority of those other side projects.

This cult of personality stuff is really bizarre though. I actually feel bad for Kenneth in this regard, since he'll never know if what he makes is actually any good, since his followers will tell him it's the greatest thing since sliced bread regardless. I have legitimate support concerns before I would even consider using this for something real, and I've had two responses so far that address them by merely invoking his name. What a sad place to be in.
I bet his mutation strategy works in tandem with the SIMD strategy. Probably the input for each SIMD lane differs by only one byte or something so that they are maximally coherent.
StrongLoop – Achieving Productivity with Lb4 Repository Command
The Color Maximite, a power on to basic computer
Redis 5 is out
i travel every year to the US for vacations and for US border patrol, it really depends on the state.

i hated coming in through detroit or atlanta (one atlanta officer even tried to find me on facebook -- wtf?). but only had good experiences with new york city and chicago.
'effect' on the planet.
Mastering data structures in ruby – circular linked lists
So all you've done is move the problem to the email account. The original article is about how hard it is to balance usability and security so having 2FA on email creates a problem.
I would rephrase it as "the price is so much higher, suppliers are forced to develop alternative products to satisfy demand". Energy suppliers have been given massive subsidies for decades because they don't have to factor in the negative externalities. A carbon cost should be a part of the balance sheet in the way raw materials are. Given that, suppliers will have to innovate their way to bring price back down to equilibrium, or go out of business.
I don't have a degree and I'm 10+ years deep into my career. What has started to stand out for me in recent years is that there are holes in my experience that my college-educated peers don't have to deal with. Granted I never had to deal with student loans so I guess there's a tradeoff. But the problem with these education "holes" is that they hit you right out of left field when you least expect it.
So they use a registered ip proxy to your own email server. I've been doing that for a super long time, and it's a great solution, at least until about 5 years ago.

Most providers will blacklist anyone who isn't one of them. So I front my home email server with a big account to relay in and out of. It kinda sucks, but all my stuff just works.

So I can happily fire up my Macintosh II, load up Outlook 98 and read email.

I use Office 365 to front my domain, I think it's like $12 a month for the corporate version so I can have it front domain emails. And that means I get office for all my devices so I'm not the one having to deal with having old versions of stuff.
Lyft hires former United Airlines exec to lead market expansion