skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Kumar from YCS2012.

I really really wish YC would bring on a polymer, nuclear, petroleum, or materials engineer to help wrangle on these thesis-es on all things related to energy. [I'm more on the textiles side of polymers, but I'm here if you need me.]

Trees are not a great carbon removal technology, grasslands are much better as they aren't impacted by fires and droughts.

Grasslands sequester carbon underground whereas woody trees store it in leaves and woody biomass.

What you're saying is actually questionable in a non-stable climate which is what humanity has today.

I think it's really foolish to allow carbon pollution credits to be backed by trees instead of grasslands.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/01/trees-ma...

Also, bark beetles aside from droughts and fires are pretty onerous to tree populations.
Libertarianism is all about the individual and that individual's resources. Uber-rich have the vast majority of the resources. The uber-rich only need laws to protect themselves from the non-uber-rich.

The 'middle-class' and poor have no resources and little time to counter the uber-rich. The middle class gains nothing from giving up government protection.

Therefore libertarianism is enables the uber-rich.

And btw, the Koch brothers are very much libertarians and they very much have a lot of power.
On the other hand, global fossil fuel use has not peaked yet. Global population has not peaked yet.

Indeed, but if solar power is now the preferred energy source, solar power could be being used for all new energy need as well as help us cut back on fossil fuel's original usage.

But it's not. That's a world-killing problem.

What we're out of is laize faire options. Neither sequestering nor dramatic winding down of fossil fuel consumption is going to happen without a world level authority dictating things. Sadly, that seems unlikely.
Of course you can yell fire in a crowded theater. Perhaps you smelled smoke from the popcorn machine (or were having a stroke) and everyone would get up pretty calmly and leave the theater (or tell you to shut up and watch the movie/play). If someone twisted their ankle or even managed to get trampled to death few lawyers would even consider a case against you.

Now, if you had clear intent to cause injury, blocked exits to ensure harm, and started the fire you'd be up on several charges related to fire safety codes & arson laws long before you had a prior restraint on speech claim (i.e. 1st amendment).

The original Supreme Court case (Schenck v. US [1]) from which the rhetorical flourish about fires and theaters came [2] has been pretty much abandoned in favor of later rulings like Brandenburg v. Ohio [3].

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/47

[2]: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

[3]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/395/444

One more interesting read on this topic: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/27/politics/first-amendment-expl...
Or just transpiling into C...
Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
Anyone know of any sales programs that put you through the rigor of actually selling something as opposed to sitting through a seminar?
"Ms. Olson will deliver her opening argument on Monday in a landmark federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of 21 plaintiffs, ages 11 to 22, who are demanding that the government fight climate change. "

An 11 year-old suing the government? Why are the NYT covering this publicity stunt? Must be a slow news day.
Depends on whether it’s the right data, or meaningful data. The idea that Lyft needs this acquisition in order to implement video capture from its drivers’ cell phones is laughable so something else is going on with this acquisition. But to your point, the assumption that this is even a problem of “not enough data” is questionable at this point. How to turn that data into results is something no one has come close to figuring out yet.
oh, Passion is a good one. I don't normally associate Tomlin, etc. with them because they're all such huge solo artists these days (vs. someone like Kristian Stanfill).

Chris Tomlin is especially big in terms of writing songs that modern churches play. There's a reason we called it "Good Good Grief, We're Playing This Again?" on my worship team :-)
That FUD was from Bryan Cantrill (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953766) making aggressively resolute, but also easily falsifiable claims about the production-worthiness of unikernels.

From the perspective of someone who'd debugged and traced unikernels from both inside the runtime (LING) and outside the runtime (xentrace), and who worked in the domain of the very z/TPF system you referenced above, the indictment seemed at-best strangely misguided and at-worst intentionally duplicitous.

As you can imagine the indictment wasn't at all persuasive to me, and thus I keep exploring the space in bits and pieces where applicable.
> Apple definitely also restricts 10w charging to MFI-certified 3P chargers.

Bunk - Apple doesn’t certify chargers, just the lightning cables that connect to them.
What kind of nest egg do you need to retire in your 40s, assuming you'll need to cover healthcare and probably live another 20-30 yrs.
Do I keep repeatedly asking? That's the right thing to do, but as a human, it's a hard thing to do.

Blunt answer: yes. Absolutely.
I've read through the prospectus and seems like it's only for US based companies.

I'm in Australia and the geology of the Tasmania/South Victoria region is the best in the world for carbon capture using trees. Specifically it's the native habitat of the Tasmanian blue gum, the worlds fastest growing tree, and here it grows between 20-100% faster than anywhere else.

Is there any option for having non-US startups funded given that ego-engineering can't be done out of the Bay Area alone? I and the other co-founders have no interest in moving since we are already in the best place for what we are doing.
You might actually have to pick up a phone and call someone. The horror!
9 died during construction of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland. Construction - especially large scale civil engineering, is dangerous.
Based on the phrasing of the title, I half expected the "wheel" to be that belonging to a Tesla that somehow managed to remain engaged on autopilot for a week... would have been impressive.

That said, what's to stop a situation like that from arising as autonomous vehicles become more sophisticated?
Realistically, if a disk server goes down, there are two possible reasons:

1. The disk hardware is bad. By all means, take everything down until you replace the disk so you don't get garbage in important files!

2. The disk driver software is bad. By all means, take everything down until you replace the software so you don't get garbage in important files!

In neither case is simply bouncing the disk server an acceptable answer. Debugging and fixing the underlying problem is essential, and that requires taking the whole system down.
The singularity isn’t here yet. Biased AI is
I'm sorry you have to deal with this..

I find it very amusing that he says
"It feels like a microcosm of politics in 2018"

I agree with him there, if he means people finding reason to be offended over anything..

He was scared of mentioning using your library to his colleagues, but has no worries shouting about it to the world on twitter?

It makes me sad that people go out of their way to rob the harmless small joys of others.
The idea of a micropayment isn't monolithic. People certainly will not like to be nickle-and-dimed to read the news, but that's fairly obvious.

The real model here is Patreon. Patreon is (well, was) about bundling payments to make recurring micropayments practical. Their execution has issues (it's also highly successful) but the fundamental idea of recurring micropayments is totally sound. Audiences are receptive to it, and creators can legitimately support their work with this kind of aggregate payment.
As the cloud often is.
Coinbase and Gemini aren't the only places that accept Bitcoin.
Can you point me towards credible work determining ROI for online advertisement? Whats the current state of the art?

edit: I should rephrase, this sounds hostile. I know there is wide work in influencing people to buy stuff when influenced in person. The interpersonal dynamics are widely studied. I also know, that chumming content and goating works to gather more views, but that can only be turned into a ROI by people paying for ads to serve those viewers. There is also the segment of ads, which offer a discount, but what about all the rest? Does banner or clip advertisement actually provide a measurable return of investment? Does online advertisement offer brand recognition, and does it provide a ROI? Are the adverse effects studied, so that people actively despise brands for offensive ads? What are the going rates for views and reactions to online advertisement vs traditional marketing?

In short, what is the state of the art of research into online advertisement?
What, "Runtime Performance Of C/C++ Or Faster" ? Obviously they can't rival the speed of "C/C++" so they're probably going to go with "Faster", which isn't a real language so it's going to be easy to beat.
Most slide rules have a linear scale on them, but it is intended to be used along with a logarithmic scale for working with exponential/logarithm functions.

In general slide rules aren’t used for addition because 3-digit addition is very fast to compute mentally or using pen and paper.
S-expressions as a Lightweight Serialization Format
NB: Better to refrain from saying stuff like "it completely misses the point" unless you are certain you understand the point beyond the level presented.
Citron Research has a lot of market clout due to being correct a lot of the time. I see no reason why people wouldn't follow the things that are said by them
A ton of places do this. Cities, shopping malls, company parking lots. Some towns are so afraid, justly or unjustly, of "undesirables," that if you drive into them with an unfamiliar car, the police will swing by and see if you are the right kind of person. The scale is basically at the point that if you commit a crime from a car the police can trace your movements back to where you came from.
He's trying to bully you into changing the name, instead of accepting the communities decision.
Are there any websites that don't use cookies?

Maybe the browser should have a global disclaimer that all websites use cookies unless otherwise stated.
i honestly don't think any significant fraction of iphone buyers care about repairability. if they do at all, i really doubt they care enough to compromise on price or visual appeal / thinness. could be you're the selfish one trying to bend the entire industry towards your fringe interest.
I have a coworker who is similar to this. Not so much "do my work for me" group, but very much in the "will ask you for help and then turn down anything you tell them, while still getting it wrong".

Let's pretend our infrastructure is a home kitchen with a failing microwave oven.

"Hey, why isn't this button on the microwave working?"

"Because that's a refrigerator, not a microwave"

"No I KNOW it's not a microwave, but how do I get it to heat up my lunch?"

"Refrigerators don't heat things..."

"Sigh I know how microwaves work, why isn't THIS one working?"

I really wish I were being hyperbolic about this, but I'm not. Lately I've taken your tactic and just throw them keywords and proffer that I'll help them out when I can break away from other items. It hasn't failed that after a couple of cycles they'll say "Hey you were right about that microwave" and in my mind I'll say "no kidding".

On a darker note: there's quite a few of us who don't think this engineer is long for the company (they were hired only a few months ago).
> sometimes the state of his photon is already the state of Alice's original photon [but] this is true only after the measurement performed by Alice

No, that's wrong. Alice's measurement does not change the state of Bob's particle. There is no measurement Bob can perform on his particle which will tell him whether or not Alice has performed her measurement or not. Quantum teleportation is no different from regular old EPR in this regard.

> the probability of the state being the same (or related by one of the other three pre-specified rotations) is essentially zero.

Actually, it is precisely zero. The entire claim that the state of Alice's particle is teleported intact to Bob is actually a lie.

What is true is that no measurement can distinguish the state of Bob's particle (B) after teleportation from Alice's original (C). But this does not mean that the particles are in the same state. Before teleportation C is in a pure state, and B is in a mixed state (as is A). The Bell measurement that Alice performs on A and C entangles them, and the result is a three-particle mutually entangled system, plus two classical bits that tell you how to tweak B so that its measurement outcomes are the same as C's. But B is in the exact same (mixed) state after Alice's measurement as it was before.

BTW, there is a measurement Bob can perform, not on a single B, but on a collection of B's that will reveal that all the B's are in fact in a mixed state. If you want to go down that rabbit hole, read this:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
This is a silly game. If self driving tech can even work (questionable in the next few decades), it’ll immediately become a commodity. No such tech could be protected for long. There’s not going to be huge profits to be made once multiple players have self driving fleets on the road. And since unattended cars will inevitably become trashed, individuals will just buy their own self driving cars, and traffic will get that much worse.
False - only bad cables cause errors, 3rd party chargers work fine - even at high speeds.
For now. It seems like only a matter of time until the same thing happens again.
Click the wikipedia link I shared in the post you're replying to.
They hired the guys that did the Reddit re-design I reckon (after they did hotmail :).
Can a Child Be Raised Free of Gender Stereotypes? (2017)
Intel's GPUs aren't exactly known for stellar performance, but I'm pretty sure that's old info even for Intel. Certainly this kind of parsing hasn't been required on AMD and Nvidia GPUs' 3D engines for almost ten years now.
Broadly, I kinda feel like you're comparing Agile and Waterfall.

If I'm "Valuing people over processes" I'll quite likely stop at #1, and rely on my people/team to work out the plan (#2) and supplies (#3) and task breakdown (#4) amongst themselves.

This does though, require a team willing and capable of resolving ambiguity, who'll proactively communicate their decisions and ask for assistance/resources. Your "uncommon problem" of lazy professionals is always going to be a killer, but if you're trying to do (original manifesto style) Agile with a team who're not confident or experienced enough to make it work - you'll end up with a way worse outcome from ambiguity than with an experienced/confident "Agile team".
> The full-size coin that Alice inserted into Vending Machine A is no more (more precisely, its original state is lost).

That's true, but the presumption is that the original was prepared in such a way that its state is known.

> the probability distribution of the colors he will see, no matter what side he chooses, will be the same as if he had looked at the original full-size coin held by Alice.

Exactly.
This is HN, the one place you don't need to apologize for pedantry. Right: I meant carbon dioxide. Made the edit :)
Angle measure is just the bivector (‘imaginary’) part of the complex logarithm.
The late 1800s had some rather severe panics that were caused by deflation - specifically, the Panics of 1873 and 1893.

The problem with fixed-supply currencies is that if the economy is growing, and the supply of currency stays constant, currency is worth more.

If your debt is measured in that currency, your debt just increased, and you might no longer be able to pay it. Large numbers of foreclosures are bad.

Incidentally, one of the biggest political movements in response to these panics was a push to put the US onto the silver standard. Silver is more common, so it's easier for the supply of currency to increase (read: inflation) as the economy increases. A guy named William Jennings Bryan made a rather famous speech[1] about it.

Today, we eschew a metallic standard entirely and just focus on achieving a constant rate of inflation. Zero inflation would be fine, but it's hard to achieve, and any missteps might lead to deflation. So, the Fed aims for 2% inflation - low enough for the value of the dollar to be pretty stable, but high enough that if the economy does something weird, we don't enter a deflationary state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech
you can't do this without type information
Anyone else cringe? The absolute worship of rich people in American culture.
Why rich countries/cultures are rich and poor countries/cultures are poor.
I’m not familiar with the details but I’d wager they’re referring to JIT compilation which can exceed precompiled native code as it can (in theory) account for actual usage patterns.
I'm not saying that every single person stops reading at the first answer, just that people drop off over the page, and in my personal experience (and talking with others), it is common to miss that there are higher ranked answers below the accepted one.
Yes, I think it's mainly one dev trying to make it best fit their own use case.
> left coast

I take it you never look south.
The presumption is that the original state is unknown. If the state was known, Bob would just need to prepare it in the same way. There is no need for an entangled pair and a destructive procedure to create a copy in that case.
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Exactly. How can you claim that?
Using TBTK to calculate the density of states of a 1D, 2D, and 3D square lattice
any reason to script with this over python/pypy/node/julia/R/ruby ?
I don't think anyone in their right minds believes that fighting CC is going to be a profitable venture at all. The point is it will take co-operation and investment by governments worldwide.

It's also important to note that the geological formations necessary for sequestering CO2 are a lot more common than those required to _potentially_ be stores of crude.

In addition to all this, countries around the world will have to be willing to take an economic hit, something I'm worried the biggest polluters won't do (China/India in particular). This makes me wonder if it is futile for developed nations to be stifling their own economies with carbon taxes because China, India, and Africa don't keep up. In any case, we probably will be far off the IPCC recommendations and will have to resort to geoengineering.
if you want fast charging, yes.
Having a Baby in the US: Costly and Confusing, Even for a Health Policy Expert
Man does this motivate me to start saving more for retirement. No one and nothing will be able to care for you more than your past selves.
Snapchat Helps Register Over 400,000 Voters
700,000 apps were removed for fraud? This probably means most of the free apps you see are shady ad-scams!
do you log into any important accounts on your phone?
I didn't say I was going to use them downvoters!!! But if I'm going to hell anyway I do think 'Conquered the music industry' to be a wee bit strong, no?
surely "Zork" was meant instead of "Zelda"
> The reality is that something like this will require spinning up an entire Trillion dollar market.

You’re right. This is unlikely, but if you think there’s even a remote chance, the scale will be so huge that betting on startups working on this tech could still pay off.
CodeCademy is great for picking up Python/random tools. Great interactive exercises.

For Full-Stack Web Dev: freeCodeCamp teaches quite a bit. App Academy recently opened their entire curriculum online for free, which also might be worth checking out.

Interviews - LeetCode
This is years 1-5 in STEM grad school, to a T. In fact, I'd say this is most 'thought-centric' work in general. When it does come together, it feels like it all falls into place at the last minute, like a practiced artist's drawing. But the YEARS of practice it takes to be able to make that swoop of the brush seem effortless are anything but.

If you have an advisor/boss that will suffer those years, thank them, even if they are a total jerk. Most won't suffer it at all.
Well, each of the projects on that page have separate, but slightly overlapping contributors based on github. I was amazed that:
A) Many of the projects on that page are alive and have commits within the last few days.
B) They actually seem to be doing what they set out to do. Especially cperl.
C) The existence of Rperl, which looks likey pypy for perl.
You don't have a keel, but you can use the suns gravity with a similar goal. The sun's gravity is much stronger than a sail's thrust so you can't hover, but you do end up in a higher orbit by aiming it at the sun. However, this averages over an orbit so you don't gain energy over time.

But, aim the sail off-center say 45 degrees from the sun and you can pick if that's adding or subtracting angular momentum from your orbit over time. Reduce angular momentum and gravity pulls you into a lower orbit and thus more orbits/year. Reverse that and your gain angular momentum and get fewer orbits per year. L1 is a special case as it's balanced between the sun and earth so you have the same number of orbits per year.

Now, rather than just orbiting the sun your also orbiting the earth. But, similar manovers work just fine.

PS: It's even more complected as you end up in elliptical orbits if you don't keep things balanced etc, but that's the basic idea.
The problem is that while solar energy may have already achieved superiority over the net cost of finding, drilling-off and extracting hydrocarbons, solar energy is not going achieve superiority over hydrocarbons people already have. The cost of already found oil is just the cost of pumping it out of the ground and with easy fields, no energy source is going to beat that (the cheapest Saudi cost less $10/barrel to pump and that's light, easy to refine oil).

So, due to these different marginal costs, there's no way even completely practical, economical solar can stop fossil fuel usage quickly without active regulator intervention.
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another [citation needed] for @deialtrous. existing research, such as here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951451/

says:

> Bivalves grown under near preindustrial CO2 levels displayed thicker, more robust shells than individuals grown at present CO2 concentrations, whereas bivalves exposed to CO2 levels expected later this century had shells that were malformed and eroded. These results suggest that the ocean acidification that has occurred during the past two centuries may be inhibiting the development and survival of larval shellfish and contributing to global declines of some bivalve populations.

i'm not sure where the claim "all of the shellfish species that currently exist lived back then too" is coming from, although it is correct that CO2 was higher in the past (https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm)
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> which engineering thought would be transparent.

What engineer thought that slowing down devices would be 'transparent'?
It's actually better for your battery to charge at the lower rate, from what I've been told.