skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of those numbers are ridiculous even for 1979. Looking at Figure 2, the metric tons of materials numbers for fossil fueled plants exclude the fuel, which is by far the largest material input to fossil fueled power.

Example: that figure shows material requirements of about 10 tons per megawatt-year for electricity from coal. A megawatt-year is 1000 * 24 * 365 = 8,760,000 kWh.

Kentucky Coal Education says that it takes about 1 pound (0.45 kg) of coal to produce 1 kWh of electricity. The actual material requirements for a megawatt-year of electricity from coal are upwards of 3,900 metric tons. Even with the low-efficiency PV modules of 1979, PV electricity required less mined material than coal electricity.

http://www.coaleducation.org/lessons/twe/ctele.htm

This discrepancy is ironic in a document that states in the introduction "If you calculate the risk of only part of a system and compare it with the corresponding part of another, by judiciously choosing the component you could prove that any energy system is riskier (or safer) than any other system. You would obviously be proving precisely nothing."

This method of proving precisely nothing is employed by the author in Figure 2, only regarding materials requirements instead of risk.
In many English-speaking countries other than the US (including Canada and UK), the Girl Scouts are actually called Girl Guides - and thus both the (Boy) Scouts and (Girl) Guides could theoretically admit both sexes without name conflicts or confusing names by simply dropping the references to boys and girls in their names.

For example, the British Boy Scouts organization is simply the "Scout Association" and has admitted girls under that name since the 1970s, though the British Girl Scouts organization is "Girlguiding" and is still for girls only.

Perhaps we Americans could rename the Boy Scouts and/or Girl Scouts to have a similar distinction as a way to smooth over this dispute.

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Guides )
Restricting the number of votes each voter can cast causes the same problems as FPTP, the so called "spoiler effect". Ideally a voting system tries to get information from each voter about their opinion of each candidate. Why prematurely throw away most of that information?

However, a system similar enough to your example has been used for years by the Quakers, where each voter gives a score of +1, 0, or -1 to each option/candidate. The difference here is that you can give +1 to multiple candidates, and -1 to multiple candidates. Giving your opinion on one candidate in no way limits your ability to give opinion on other candidates.
Anecdotally, the techs that I've seen servicing AC are pretty casual about venting excess pressure or purging lines into the air.
The Girl Scouts have zero interest in buying the Boy Scouts, and the Boy Scouts likely wouldn't be able to come close to buying the cookie empire.
I contracted at Cerner, which is Epic's largest competitor, for a couple years. I spent a solid three months on the Android implementation of a time function. The time you mention is called the "ambiguous hour" and everyone working on similar problems on my team was well aware of the issue and all unit testing scenarios accounted for the issue. I can't imagine that Epic completely ignored or was unaware of this.
to handle a static state of dependencies, usually a package-lock or a yarn.lock file is committed to the repo. That is the usual way to freeze the dependency tree.
This is where "correct horse battery staple" password generators might be good.
"they're likely locking down non MFI certified accessories" is not a fact. It's speculation. And the list of MFi licensed technologies does not include USB. So unless you're tunneling one of the existing MFi licensed technologies over USB (if that's even possible), then MFi does not seem to apply.
I am more and more convinced that democracy just needs to be one input to the political process, not the only one and maybe not even the primary one.

The United States was never intended to be a strongly democratic place, at least at the national level. Presidents are elected by electors, who are divided among the states according to population, and directed by the state legislatures. Senators were originally chosen by state legislatures, and there are two per state. All federal judges are appointed.

That basically leaves the House of Representatives, who are selected by the people. And they have the most power over spending, which makes sense as a check on entrenched powers.

Over time, we've become more democratic either through amendments or convention. I'm not entirely convinced that's a good thing.

IRV is trying to help choose from the options on the democratic menu, but it doesn't solve the problem of what to put on the menu in the first place.

In California, right now voters are considering a proposition about dialysis treatment centers and what they can charge. If I vote yes (like the insurance companies would prefer) then I am apparently damning dialysis patients to the grave. If I vote no (like the private equity firms that own the centers would prefer) then I am allowing poor patients to be overcharged and subjected to unsanitary conditions. At least that's what the TV tells me.

It just seems like a bad idea to put every technical issue out for a vote. I think that's the logical conclusion of democracy and I don't think it's a good place to go. But it seems like all the new voting systems assume that it is what we all want.
I will sue the Girl Scouts for implying that there are only two genders.
If you're in the US PBS Newshour does a good job of covering that sort of thing.
"a project to control flooding and provide electrical power generation."

Damns are build to control flooding like the Banqiao Dam, to have reserves of water and to generate energy.

If you are going to build a dam anyway, why do not use it to produce energy?
In Australia its just called scouts. Its been forever since I was there but I remember it being a fairly even split between boys and girls.
I have food, water, shelter, and healthcare inputs to maintain my body and keep producing services. Why would my income minus those costs not map to the ideas of revenue and profit?
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I'm doing that at the moment - it's a good-enough solution for now.

Is there a reason that the Trello philosophy is moving cards rather than ticking them off? Why not have both available?
I'm beginning to think there's a Bill Burr bit for every scenario.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Wa98LW-ZU
remember that a lot of people left from gab too which might explain a spike.

But if this is true it means Linkedin does make an incredible effort in curating my feed. Actually I haven't seen any political content there and am usually feeling hesitant before posting political stuff - exactly beause I know the algorithm either demotes it or that even those that agree would never share or like these posts (it's Linkedin after all - your employer, prospective employer, client, or prospective client, has an eye on you - or so you think - hence self censorship - but that's a different topic).

The biggest trick of LinkedIn is getting you to think it's a social network, but look at where their revenues come from: it's a recruiting platform. The tooling is one of a kind for replacing bloated HR processes)

If there is a story it's about the non-transparent LinkedIn algorithms IMO

Facebook and Google have been in scrutiny for a long time over how their algorithms work. Oddly LinkedIn managed to stay out of most the discussions when it comes to ethics. Why?
This is perfect https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/ material.
So what would it take to make life fair according to you? Living forever? (Although I guess if you lived forever but no-one else did, that wouldn't be much good either. But I don't think anyone can imagine living forever.)
I can see plenty of woke parents wanting their male child to be a Guide.
He already addressed this. You can disable secure boot to allow Linux installs.
The Nikkei 225 is still down from 20 years ago. Its fate is a very plausible alternative history for the S&P.
One very important part of getting STV to work well is the quota - if a candidate has enough votes to guarantee that they would be elected (so, for a 3-seat district, 25%+1 of votes) then additional votes should be transferred BEFORE eliminating any candidates.

Some systems do this randomly (randomly choose ballots and take the next preference), and some do this fractionally (e.g. transferred votes are worth whatever fraction wasn't needed to elect their previous choices). Overall, though, the point is that if your middle choice is eliminated, then either your vote wasn't enough, or a previous choice needed your support already.

That said, most systems 'skip' over previously elected candidates as well. Strictly speaking, doing that can mean ballots with a losing first candidate are more powerful than ballots where the first candidate is elected by a narrow margin[1]. That said, as per the wiki link, there's a solution (recalculate all instead of skipping previously elected) and tactical voting around that issue isn't seen in practice anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issues_affecting_the_single_tr...
I think HR can justify its existence probably just fine in the absence of annual performance reviews.

Off the top of my head: Healthcare (especially in the US - as a non-native I was truly shocked the amount of HR time that is spent managing this...), benefits, immigration issues, legal disputes, compliance, pay, hiring and firing, disabilities... there’s plenty for a competent HR team to do at most medium or larger sized enterprises that isn’t performance reviews.
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar
If you want to limit Bitcoin's CO2 impact, you should do the same thing as for every energy using activity: ensure, through international agreement, that CO2 emission is taxed or capped in a way that reflects its future impact.

Like with every other good in existence, such a tax will affect the amount -- and by which energy source -- it is profitable to produce [1].

If there is a place where it is possible to avoid such an imposition, then production will leak to that location, just like for every other good in existence.

If you think that bitcoin is somehow "different" than all other trivial things that people spend energy to produce, because you think it's stupid, you're opening a can of worms I'm sure you don't want to deal with (deciding how much people "really should like things" compared to their energy cost).

[1] Technically, it will affect the production of hash computations, not bitcoins themselves.
R-134A has a global warming potential of 1550 over 100 years [1], i.e. about 45 times more effective than methane, so while it's not eating the ozone layer you probably shouldn't be spraying it around by the tonne either.

Edit: and CO2 has a GWP of 1 (as the reference point for GWP), so R-134A is way more effective than that.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential#Value...
Don't you tell me my business, devil woman!
According to an article in Time[1] 'The Girl Scouts seek a court order blocking the Boy Scouts from using the term “Scout,” “Scouts,” “Scouting,” or “Scouts BSA” without an “inherently distinctive or distinguishing term appearing immediately before it.”'

How is the word scout not considered to be a generic trademark type word at this point and in this context?

Does anyone not see this as a silly, frivolous argument? I'd love to hear your take.

[1] http://www.time.com/5446540/girl-scouts-boy-scouts-lawsuit/
>I wouldn't say AMD is closing the gap in CPUs. They're ahead of Intel and are widening that lead.

Intel is still king in high-end gaming performance, albeit not as much as Nvidia is ahead of AMD in GPUs.
This sounds like one of those things that sounds fun on a whiteboard but will be hell to implement and actually make perform well at all.
Life might not be fair but the only person who makes that meaningful is you.

"You will be what you will to be;

Let failure find its false content

In that poor word, "environment,"

But spirit scorns it, and is free.

It masters time, it conquers space;

It cows that boastful trickster, Chance,

And bids the tyrant Circumstance

Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.

The human Will, that force unseen,

The offspring of a deathless Soul,

Can hew a way to any goal,

Though walls of granite intervene.

Be not impatient in delay,

But wait as one who understands;

When spirit rises and commands,

The gods are ready to obey."

I highly recommend As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. Someone on HN recommended it and it was wonderful. It's a very quick read, less than 50 pages.

Another one of my favorite quotes is, "Choose not to be harmed - and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed - and you haven't been... It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character." - Marcus Aurelius
IDK how much Boy Scouts is worth, but they raise and spend a ton. CEO of the non-profit has a $1.6m salary.
Oh boy, you cited a logical fallacy. Gave me an instant hard-on, nice job.

Nobody is talking for you and getting your opinion wrong.

> No, but communicating clearly and honestly is important, even in casual conversations.

According to your opinion, sure. Everyone else is perfectly fine making silly generalizations for the fun of it.
Electing the president separately, when the president is a position of power and not just ceremonial, doesn't make sense anyway. With a multiparty system, you are better off waiting for a coalition to form in parliament and letting that select the president. Otherwise, either the president or the parliament can act as a roadblock.

Compare with how the system of the Netherlands works: a single country-wide electorate, and no threshold except for the number of votes needed for a seat. The outcome is numerous parties in parliament (i.e., far more democratic than the US) and coalition governments which must be formed or at least supported by parties that got a majority of the votes between them.
Google is an ad businesses. At this point their other products; search, Gmail, Android are all just loss-leaders.
That sounds like he would make a mediocre software engineer but an excellent product manager.
Ask HN: Is there a benefit to linking your LinkedIn profile to HackerRank?
Or is it only used for sign in credentials?
We're not talking about direct consequences of catastrophes. We're talking about life cycles, and about an existential risk to our species. There are some deep, deep pockets interested in diverting attention, narrowing the timeline of analysis, and changing the problem scope. As open source enthusiasts we should recognize this for what it is: good old-fashioned FUD.

(Edit for clarity: I'm not accusing you personally. I'm simply skeptical about where our received wisdom about the dangers of nuclear comes from.)
Norwegian one: (fisker fisker fisker fisker fisker)*

Tran: (fisher{man} fishes fish fishes fisher{man})
So basically, regularly going to sleep sooner and waking up sooner is impossible, because sun light dock it. But actually, it has nothing to do with sun light and is regular cycle that is magically tied to clock number? And it also all works the same regardless of where within time zone you are located despite there being over an hour difference between sun times.

Plus irony: And it is also completely different for adult programmers who totally need to work evenings (never ever mornings) and night to be crunch effective unlike administration adults who are morning people.
Would you say employers pay income taxes for employees if they retain part of their wage and forward it to the state as a down payment for the employee income tax? I wouldn't say so; income tax is paid by the employee, even if the employer is forwarding the money to the state.

It doesn't matter who puts the money in an envelope and goes to the tax office; it matters who is subject to the tax.

Non-EU turists traveling in Europe will pay VAT on souvenirs that they're bringing back to their countries, and upon exiting from EU they will actually will get the VAT back, since they paid for it, but they were not supposed to since the goods are in the end going to be used outside EU.

This would just not make sense if VAT was paid by the seller.
How? There has been a handful of nuclear plant accidents ever, but hundreds of thousands of people work on roofs every year worldwide to install solar panels.
25% of Employees at Amazon, Apple, and Others in Tech Regret Taking Their Jobs
Thank you for the shit show liberal democrats. Boy y’all want power. I hope to God you never get it.
Ozone is produced naturally, the ozone layer will return itself to pre-industrial ozone concentrations simply by leaving it alone. You can call it regeneration or repair or healing or whatever you like.
In this context the is now a risk of confusing products. You can still release products with the word "scout" in it on contexts where there is no danger of confusion by consumers. So you could still have a car called "scout" without these two orgs suing you
This is not Reddit. Hacker News is a place for respectful discourse.
Same info as plain text, if a PDF doesn't work well for you: https://github.com/perl6/roast/blob/master/docs/announce/6.d...
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> provides nothing of value for the direct, immediate added cost is enough reason to oppose it.

At a minimum it provides more confidence and faith in the voting system. That’s not a small benefit.

It also provides a safeguard against fraud in future elections.

It’s easily worth the small cost of requiring an ID.

The real reason the Democrats strongly oppose it is they currently have a lock on the “don’t care about or follow politics but can be dragged along by friends” votes.
SPARQL demands a certain data model (triple stores). Also, everything about it smells like ivory-tower academic snobbery + ultra-large-enterprise crap. GraphQL does neither.
Yeah, there is a lot of potential liability for little upside with the Boy Scouts. It's up there with buying a Catholic dioceses...
When I was a brewer, we retrofitted our chiller from R22 to R410A (had to change compressor oil to POE, but was otherwise a seamless transition). The techs from the shop we contracted to do the changeover let all that R22 bleed off into the atmosphere because they forgot their reclamation cylinder.
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I worry that this provides a very strong tool for people to make arguments that "ranked voting systems don't work, since you're always confused by their results" and have a strong case to bring everyone back to FPTP.
In the context of youth leadership development, "Scout" can be trademarked. Just like "Apple"—in the context of computers, phones, etc.—is owned by the Mac and iPhone company.

Are there any other organizations that use "Scout" in their name, besides BSA and GSUSA?
A (data) type is a set, and a value is an element in that set. So you're arguing that set versus element is a false dichotomy, which is preposterous. Even a set which contains just one element is still distinct from that element itself.

Rather, the whole idea behind dependent types (if dependent types can be glibly summarized by a "whole idea") is that logical predicates give rise to sets. E.g. "all integers that are squares" or "prime numbers". Or all points <x, y> such that x^2 + y^2 <= r^2.

A proposition is not the same thing as the domain of that proposition's parameters; but it does denote a subset of that domain.

A dependent type can contain a large number of values and that will often be the case.

If we have a situation in the program where we must calculate a value that is the member of some dependent type that contains billions of values, and only one values is correct, there is the threat that we can calculate the wrong value which is still in that set. That dependent type will not save our butt in that case.

We have to isolate the interesting value to a dependent type which only contains that value. "correct value" is synonymous with "element of that set which contains just the correct value".

Still, that doesn't mean that the set is the same thing as that value.

A big problem with dependent types is that if the propositions on values which define types can make use of the full programming language, then the dependent type system is Turing complete. This means that it has its own run-time; the idea that the program can always be type checked at compile time in a fixed amount of time has gone out the window. Not to mention that the program can encode a self reference like "My type structure is not correct". If that compiles, then it must be true, but then the program should not have compiled ...
that's awesome -- y'all are like the tech version of the Mad Max War Boys. sacrificed yourselves betting on the wrong tech.

witness me!
Lubricating these faults often has the reverse effect; it allows the plates to constantly slip and having more frequent, smaller earthquakes. That being said, the geysers quake a few years back hit the theoretical maximum for that portion of the fault so who really knows. See below for info on the topic as well as the Parkfield Experiment.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/parkfield/fluids.php
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Conservatives at big tech companies believe diverse opinions aren't welcome
They specifically chose the name "Scouts BSA" because changing the name from "Boy Scouts of America" would effectively require an act of congress. BSA were given a special legal status WAY beyond what normal copyright law allows, and so a "simple" name change becomes not so "simple" after all, unfortunately.

In fact, this copyright law is so powerful, during the court case Wrenn v. BSA from 2008, in which the court flat out said:

"BSA need not demonstrate the likelihood of confusion because it has been granted special protection by Congressional charter"

(link to law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/30905)
They can't really buy one another because they're both non-profit charities.

They could decide to merge, but it seems they don't want to.
The free tier has a rather limited 500MB limit, but I guess that's all a small company can give away, without the ability to monetize with ads.
To close the loop on this one. We looked at the query and strictly speaking we should be rejecting it b/c HAVING clause is referencing a column that's NOT in group by and NOT an aggregate expression. The query shape is:

select count(*), a from T group by a having b > 0

In this case b is not allowed to be part of having by ANSI standard.

We let it run b/c some customers migrate from MySQL and MySQL allows this query. You can set MemSQL to be strict about it by setting this variable:

set session sql_mode = only_full_group_by;
There are many days where this sounds like the next logical step in my life.
If they're willing to brag about their passwords on the internet, I'd be willing to bet that family and friends have the same information.

Assuming that wasn't true, a customer service rep for the phone company could call the customer's bank and try to impersonate the customer, assuming it's used often (like the poster stated).
A business that uses free child labor to sell cookies with massive margins cannot be cheap..