skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://hackerrank.com for foundations but recently I've been getting into following along with medium articles
This site mis-quotes him. It's "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
Do you have a reference for a single climate model prediction that's come true? In most other areas dealing with science, if the theory does not predict the reality, then the validity of the theory is questioned.
You can see it on TV if you are a scifi fan. Look at the x-files, Outer Limits, and early Stargate episodes filmed in 1990s Vancouver. Vancouver's wet climate gave them a very specific tone that became an industry standard. 1990's scifi was generally dark, as opposed to the more colorful productions filmed in California (Trek) or Australia (farscape). But today Vancouver suffers droughts every summer. The Flash is a colourful production. The foggy grey backdrop is now a blue sky. Rainfall numbers might not be very different, but the perpetual cloud that coloured scifi for a generation is gone.
Extrme poverty is a razors edge from just poverty, and that growth has been driven by magic substances like plastic.

A classic example of economic growth innovation in price sensitive India is the single use detergent sachet- each of those represents an improvement in cleanliness and hygiene for people who couldn’t afford it before.

Now increase the cost of plastic, even marginally and that change reverberates down the product chain.

Everything from medicine packaging, to Saran Wrap to those single use sachets change in price.

However, the correct point is that if we don’t do anything, what will happen to that number? Is it truly conceivable that climate change will not send more people into poverty eventually?
>I still think NippleJS is a funny and innocent name. Everybody has nipples, so it's pretty inclusive too.

I agree. The entire situation is absurd. The advice to ignore the naysayer(s) seems to be the correct course of action.

That said, the original issue has some comedy gems in it which I feel are worth mentioning here:

https://github.com/yoannmoinet/nipplejs/issues/80#issuecomme...

and in a later post (different author):

"And if nipples really make you uncomfortable, maybe you should visit a professional? Today you can't run away from nipples, they are everywhere and you will just be more and more uncomfortable."
The main problem with fiat backed stablecoins is that in addition to smart contract/theoretical security, you now have to also trust the procedural security of the entity issuing the asset. A collateralized stablecoin like Maker/Dai doesn't have that additional attack vector.

For example, if the keys issuing the USDC has ever been compromised, new assets can be issued instantly by an attacker, compromising fungibility and causing other problems. Whereas if Maker/Dai smart contract proves secure over time, there's no centralized issuing entity/keys to compromise. Afaik the only centralized privilege controlled by MakerDAO is the global settlement, which merely refunds everyone their ether.
> As the other poster said, it is hard when your last jobs meant you were overqualified. These aren't things you can simply leave off your application without absolutely lying.

Is this really lying? And I guess more importantly is that even ethically wrong?

I think it's one thing to say you did things that you didn't do but it's another to not list everything that you have done.

I'll fully admit that I do this. I had a job I was fired from after 3 months after failing their "trial period" and another that I quit after a couple months. I leave both off my resume because it doesn't add anything.
Running with nothing is great except if you want to make data driven decisions to optimize your training. Even basic speed work requires a timer and a track. (Or just a smartwatch).
That might be why GP was asking a question rather than making an assertion.
Start-up promising a revolutionary $1,000 breast pump has gone dark
No PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research
If most of the criminal money is used to transact with other criminals, then most of the money doesn't need to convert to USD.

The real kicker is whether the other criminals are willing to accept bitcoin which they know won't convert to USD.
Ask HN: How to do a Startup?
I've been interested in starting up something for a couple of years. All the ideas I get feel very small or simple. I feel it won't make it big and lose interest in the idea. I've been trying hard to find good ideas but that's proving difficult. How do I find ideas for one? Should I even look for one? My main reason to starting up is for the excitement and potential fame, popularity, riches. I know the odds are pretty low, but I'm just 23 and I feel I'm in a comfortable position to take the risk.

One other thing people adivse is to join an early startup or a mid sized company. However, I feel the upside won't be high enough unless I'm one of the cofounders. A job at a good CS firm like Google, FB might be better off in terms of learning, money. May be it's just my misconception.

Please advise.
So communicate that back to the person who asked you to do the task.

I don't mind discovering a task I've assigned someone is actually way more complicated and time consuming that I expected (although I'd appreciate an explanation so I can recalibrate my assumptions), and I don't even mind finding out a team member I've assigned a task to is not yet skilled or experienced enough to understand the best way of doing it or to complete it in a reasonable timeframe.

What _does_ bug me (as RachelByTheBay alludes to) is the complete radio silence where I've been kinda expecting the job to pop out of the queue completed for the last few days/weeks, only to finally after giving you the benefit of the doubt and not wanting to seem like I'm micromanaging you - discover it's barely been started and doesn't look like it'll _ever_ get completed.

If it's way more complex that I assumed? Tell me. If you're way out of your depth? Tell me. If you think it's a stupid task and you're not going to do it and hope it goes away? Just fucking tell me!
This article feels salty and jealous.
> what are the webdevs of the world going to do about it?

Tell the marketing department that it's a bad idea then have to do it anyway
Scripps, Nvidia Tackle AI Tools and Best Practices for Genomics, Health Sensors
If you’re not demoing your car at selfracingcars.com, you don’t exist.
Yeah - no.

Coal CO2 emissions are almost double natgas' [1]. While it is true that natgas is mainly CH4, a highly potent GG, its atmospheric lifetime is about 8 yrs. Further, the only way the methane would be getting into the air is via leaks in upstream/midstream processes. Today, hardly any of this leaks (EPA estimates leak rate of 1.4%).

Now addressing fracking, the drilling and fracturing process are the cause of little to no environmental impact/damage. The culprit is wastewater injection. This is the unknown, and while the EPA found no evidence of widespread or systemic pollution of water resources due to the fracking process (which includes WWI before the well is capped), it did highlight the potential in several stages of production for contamination to occur.

Now that said, the damage natgas causes, from E&P (especially) to burn, pales in comparison to coal's at any stage.

I think it would be beneficial for HN users to spend some time in the energy industry before making baseless claims.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11
Most coins are ERC20 coins. These coins might dance around all day, but the DJ is Ethereum. That's what you should be really holding.
That takes care of offline key storage, but you'll need a lot more than just a piece of paper (and a safe) to actually use the key securely: a secure offline computer, for a start, and a process for transferring the key and transaction data into that computer, signing the transaction, and getting the signed transaction back to a connected system for upload. At which point you've basically re-invented an ad-hoc, inefficient, and quite likely insecure hardware wallet / HSM.

Or were you just planning to scan the private key QR code with your (compromised) smartphone?

HSMs are a lot more than "glorified flash drives". The most important difference is that they keep the key data securely stored on the HSM and only allow it to be used in specific ways, such as signing individual transactions. Depending on the HSM you may even be able to program it to only sign transactions which meet specific requirements, such as transfers from cold storage to known hot wallet addresses.
>>I've been given a task I don't know how to do. So I'm working diligently on learning enough about it.

>>...Is that good? Bad?

Whether that's good or bad depends, but at the end of the day the important thing is that you should communicate the status fully to the person who assigned you the task, rather than obfuscate it by saying things like "still working on it" or "it's a bit trickier than I thought".

Being assigned tasks you don't know how to do is fine. It's how you grow as a professional. However, there is a fine line between a task you don't know how to do but can learn in a reasonable amount of time, vs. a task you don't know how to do and can't learn in a reasonable amount of time. The latter, in my experience, is what results in the "Canary MacGuffin" scenarios Rachel describes, and it can be frustrating for everyone involved.

Ultimately, the responsibility for figuring out the difference lies with the team lead or scrum master or whoever assigns tasks in your company. But they need you do be transparent with your level of skill and knowledge to be able to do that.
Thank you for pointing out one of the big upsides to entrepreneurial bubbles. (Not necessarily all "speculative" bubbles.)

The simplified form is that a "gold-rush" mentality in an entrepreneurial bubble, even though it misprices risk generally, incentivizes builders to go build things more than they would, and since on balance building things is good, a hyper period of new venture formation still leads to net gains even if most are failures.

But nostrademons has a next-level mechanic here -- the idea that stage and scale are not fractal, and hence that rebuilding an ecosystem de novo (perhaps in a sort of sheltered petri dish) can yield big interesting beneficial outcomes because of the plasticity of things at the smaller scale and earlier stage.

(Still, I think it's a monumentally bad idea to acquiesce in the rebuilding of the financial system de novo by amateurs.)
This is true, but I fear the time horizons are too long for mass human psychology. WWII was a short term emergency. That seems to be what springs people to action.

Incentives are another way. I still think a global carbon tax agreement would be a good idea: companies work together to implement carbon taxes and cut income taxes or a local equivalent. That helps eliminat the problem of production offshoring to cheaper carbon areas, and gived incentives to alternatives.

Actually making carbon economically unviable with our psychology works, obviously. I really, really hope we can figure out something else cheaper.

Finally, if we had a carbon sequestering method with no major side effects and clear costs, it would be psychologically easier to charge fossil burning industries and activities the cost of the CO2 emitted. Eg a fee of $30 per ton if that's the cost of sequestering. Of course, you'd need a way to measure the carbon impact of the sequestering, to make sure that process wasn't indirectly emitting carbon.

Reducing would also be highly useful, and I hope we will, but enpirically we don't seem to be built for it without some mechanism like what I described above. It's terrifying and dispiriting and I hope we figure out a way to work around our broken mass psychology.
Why There's a Columbo Statue in the Middle of Budapest
Everybody thinks its easy when the times are good.
That seems like a huge disadvantage. If people are doing what the crypto community likes to call "tethering", they're probably going to lean toward a decentralized smart contract token. Tether has not always been a favorite due to auditing concerns, so I see the need for something more reliable. But it doesn't seem like being able to freeze tokens is an attractive quality even if Coinbase is more "trusted" and releases frequent audits.

Does anyone have the token contract address? I am assuming the blacklist is part of the smart contract based on the above wording, though haven't had a chance to look at the code.
If it's not part of the code and only exists on exchange wallets then I see what Coinbase is doing as more reasonable.
His last job was "senior director of development at Dell", so his problem probably wasn't mediocrity but rather that jobs at that level are very hard to come by, even if you are qualified.
Here's an example (that you can add to your own Wordpress, too!): https://www.brontobytes.com/blog/exit-popup-free-wordpress-p...

For more real-life examples, just try searching for some cake recipes. Cooking web sites all have this.
Hmm I wonder which age bracket we should have in office
It's not transforming the world, but too many people who said bitcoin was worthless when the price was $600 are claiming to be prophets because the price is ten times that.
why this story? Also, it seems there are a lot of articles being posted here from the NYTIMES.. strange.
A very different mode of Statite system operation is possible that would allow the Statite to be placed at any point around the Earth, at all times of the year, even over the sunlit side, at the expense of slightly greater operating distance. Instead of the Statite being balanced by sunlight in the gravitational field of the Earth, the Statite would be placed in orbit around the Sun, at such a distance from the earth that the gravitational field of the Earth plus the moon is only a perturbation on the gravitational field of the Sun. [1]

But in practice, I think you're right. Forward wrote a short story about such a "pole sitter" ("Race to the Pole"), and had one of the characters say this:

The control problem of keeping the [statite] balanced over the pole is very tricky, especially during the summer season of that hemisphere when the polar axis is over on the sunlit side of the Earth. That’s why ‘pole-sitters’ have to be placed so far away from the Earth. If they get any closer than 250 Earth radii, they become unstable during the summer. [2]

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5183225A/en

[2] https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2010/07/29/statites-hovering...
The problem with stablecoins, there is no such thing as a stable coin.
Right, the ones that exist today should be evolved for today’s environment.

Higher acid levels should mean most of the average stock will die, and the mutants which survive will eventually adapt.

Think of the George Carlin skit - the planet will be fine, just we humans and everything we know will be gone.
The Recruiter Honeypot (2012)
Thanks for that link. It didn’t make the rounds here in the Midwest since it features East and West coasts as it’s subjects, but we’ve had an incredibly wet and warm summer as well, and here too the fall foliage has been a disappointment.

The trees that held out the longest without turning are coloring minimally ok, but the earlier foliage was non-existent. This coincides with the last month of summer featuring no rain after an incredibly wet start and middle.
Given that medium power is designed for laptops and monitors and such, it would be safe to presume the size and weight of that spec wouldn't be applicable to phone applications. So, the Qi spec applicable to phones only supports 5W.
And I'm not the only seeing a pattern...

"It's only fair to mention that the person who started the initial controversy by merit of whining about twitter things on the issue tracker is also the owner of the code of conduct that is being pull requested by @tarcieri in #947

One could claim personal bias. In fact, going through past projects that adopted this CoC, this seems to be a recurring trend, where people start a fake controversy, then propose the CoC and guilt trip it into being adopted." [0]

[0] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/942#issuecomment-1133750...
Day trade between BTC and USDC rather than between BTC and USD. This can happen at many more exchanges because trading USDC is a lot easier than trading USD.
Having the background research discussed can be valuable.

However I'm short on finding the salient points and reasons why I should care to read this; it needs something more like a table of contents and a preface summary so that I know where to focus my efforts, at least initially.
LeetCode is nice because it shows you other people's solutions when you correctly submit. Super useful for seeing code with faster execution times, I've learned some tricks from that.
I am coming round to an idea of "event driven business" - where instead of taking a software project, estimating it, and then everyone else taking those estimates and turning them into your deadlines (we are blocked on you guys to deliver this), that a business should eventually realise that those deadlines force crappy quality, over pressures work and promises much like rachelbythebay is complaining of, realise and then just stop setting deadlines and have an entirely event driven schedule - write a test for "CrystalKeyHasBeenPurchasedByTeamZelda" and when that test returns true, hat next set of work can start - it's of a deadline, it's a dependency and if you don't like it, decouple.
>The problem is today's third-party oriented cloud that assumes that all device-to-device communication requires a third-party intermediary

Phillips Hue products don't. (There is a cloud, but it's entirely optional).
And needlessly passive aggressive posts drive me nuts. Production will rise to meet supply, but that does not mean it will do so smoothly or easily. Perhaps accessible olivine is limited. Perhaps current extraction methods would be too expensive at scale. We just don't know.
If there's a limited overall supply it follows that increased demand will move the price upwards. If supply can easily scale to meet demand, then scaling effects take over and prices can come down. The economics of the situation are largely dependant on factors that few people have enough information to really assess (mining rates, total unmined supply, etc)
Boise and Reno Capitalize on the California Real Estate Exodus
My guess is, even if there were some elegant, widely-supported standard for machine-readable privacy policies and even if browsers had some dedicated built-in API for privacy consents with some really polished and frictionless UI, you'd probably still be bombarded with popups begging you to click the "consent" buttons on that UI.

The problem is that it's not a technical problem, but a political. No matter how technically elegant your spec, it doesn't change anything about the underlying conflict of interest: Website operators want to collect personal data and show ads, while users want to keep personal data to themselves and don't want to see ads.

So trying to solve this via any kind of web standard is asking the website operators to act against their own interests. If you have no enforcement or incentive, you will end up with a standard that is either toothless (P3P, DNT with opt-in) or simply ignored (DNT with opt-out).

GDPR (and the cookie law before) do have enforcement, which is why web sites can't ignore them - instead they fight back with a barrage of popups.
With the caveat that the four pages in Bob's letter are not written until Alice does her thing with her copy of the letter and the photon she wants to "teleport". Note also that she doesn't know the state of the photon, which is destroyed as a result of the procedure.
> There's no innate profit potential for this technology.

I don't know if that's true or not in the long term - not even first order. Wind turbines weren't innately profitable until at one point they became a low cost leader in power generation by some measures. Humanity may find a fairly low-power input catalyst that give us cheaper fuels than digging it up from miles underground, shipping it thousands more miles, refining it and shipping it hundreds of more miles. Right now, in this instant of technology, I'd agree on first order profitability.

Second order systemically it's almost certainly a profit vs needing to rebuild so much civil infrastructure for hurricane resistance, new and expanding flood plains, fire resistance, farm droughts, etc.. or incurring all sorts of other health costs for fossil fuels infrastructure. The cost of acting to curb climate change is still cheaper than letting it all go chaotic.
Probably not having your data on us soil, privacy, ethics (not giving Google more money/data than you have to)
Ντέρμπι σε τρία μέτωπα στο Champions League
I've been putting off getting my Moto X screen replaced - a small crack in the corner doesn't impair my ability to see the screen, and the touch interface works most of the time. Just ordered the repair kit, thanks!
Also Moto G6 / Nokia 7 are pretty strong contenders in the $300-something no-bullshit phone segment with dual lens (I'm very happy about my G5+ camera's depth simulation - and my main shooter is a Fuji X100 with F2.0 lens on an APSC sensor, so care about that!).
Your premise is to "fix" the monetary system, but you failed to articulate the issues that you want to resolve.
This has turned into a discussion about First Man rather than the article, so I may as well contribute:

I think Damien Chazelle intended to frame the movie as a war movie, even toeing towards a parallel between the Apollo missions and the Vietnam War. The idea that we actively gambled with these men's lives, somehow collectively desensitized ourselves to human loss, that we are all boys pretending to have protocol- obvious parallels to war, in that a bureaucratic borg overlooks human lives in a competition the borg itself created.

But the thing is- its pretty hard to not lean into the inherent heroism of landing on the moon, especially since the studio clearly gave Chazelle a blank check to recreate the moon landing as immaculately as possible.

So its a little hard to parse the final message. The movie is the inverse of Apollo 13, pessimistic where 13 is optimistic, even though First Man is about the successful one. To some extent, Mission Control are the villains in this movie.

It isn't not going be a loved movie, like his last two (Whiplash and La La Land.) The characters are constantly aware of their mortal peril, which in turn makes them coarse and hard to like. But its such an interesting take on the Moon missions.
Because for "normal" (non-technical people) security is:
- Hard
- Tedious
- Error prone
- Difficult to understand
- Annoying

Most people have a rough enough time using their technology to understand security, and even when they do, it's a tradeoff between usability and security. I also think that people feel they are "secure" as long as they have a password and possibly a virus scanner.
That Twitter guy should be ignored, some people just want to find something to be outraged about.
That was my first thought.

I'm glad I'm not the only one! ;)
Well, we've had a massive increase in annual co2 emissions since 20 years ago. I would posit that the decrease in poverty is a direct result in our burning more energy for short term production.

It's not only that, but I think it's a major factor. I'm only extremely slow internet so I can't look up the table, but I think our annual rate of emissions are 30-50% higher than in 1998. Could be wrong there though.