skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most manufacturers haven't admitted to BSing the MPG tests. You're probably thinking of the widespread cheating on the pollution emissions tests, which was a separate problem.
A gallon is NOT 10 pounds of water.

Rough conversions: 1.1, 2.2, 3.3 for volume (quart to L), weight (pound to kg), length (foot to m).

One gallon is: 4 quarts * (1 L / 1.1 quarts) * (1 kg / L) * (2.2 pounds / kg) = 4 * 2.2 / 1.1, so a gallon is roughly 8 pounds.
I might quibble with the white part here. I see many people of Asian and Indian descent in STEM fields.
Sparrow?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_(email_client)
You don't have to call it giving up. Go is pretty easy to pick up if you're used to high level languages. I would recommend reading a pretty short book called "concurrency in go" (Katherine Cox-Buday) for some really concise education on it.
Biologist here. I have a simple question in response to your disinformation: What CO2 level is used in commercial greenhouses?

All scientific, controlled experiments with plants demonstrate conclusively that they thrive (faster growth, larger leaves, increased biomass, larger fruits, less need for water, etc.) at higher CO2 levels than what we have today and than we had before the Industrial Revolution. I encourage people who are intellectually curious and honest to look up the scientific papers on the topic and read them for themselves (you don't have to be a biologist or a geologist to understand the experiments, the parameters, or the outcomes).
Some SUVs with 4-cyl engines and CVTs get equal or better mileage then late 90s commuter cars.
Ever since my late-20s, the thing my idle mind likes to fixate on just as I'm trying to fall asleep is my parents' mortality. Not the best sleepytime fodder.
As an aside, my previous team went through Fogg's course on feature planning. It is truly a unique way to get stakeholder buy in on planned work. We went from planning meetings that involved shouting matches to meetings where everyone left happy.
Weasel words. I could easily justify pretty much any barbaric idea in the same terms, and it’ll fly among a certain subset of US citizens. Which honestly is worrisome to say the least, regardless of you agreeing with such idea.
The majority does care though. Every day you'll hear someone complaining about how frustrating it is to figure out how to do something on their computer that should be simpler, like finding a certain program or file. They're complaining about UI. They don't go on hacker news and rant about it, but that doesn't mean they don't care about good UI design.

Most Linux desktops are not visually consistent. Their UI isn't designed intuitively. You put that in front of the average person, and they will have trouble using it.
[1] is a repo of papers people...love. Maybe you can grep for dates to find the older ones. The nice thing is that they are sorted by category.

1: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
The word you're looking for is numeronym.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
You're right - imperial is far superior for precise building or manufacturing work.

Take drill bits, for example. Obviously it's much easier to figure out that 11/32" is less than 3/8". Or is it more? No, I'm pretty sure I was right the first time. The metric ones with their 5.5mm, 6mm, 6.5mm sequencing are just too complicated to work with, in comparison. And half a millimeter isn't very precise - it's much bigger than 1/64". Well, a bit bigger. Let's not get into tenths of millimeters.

And at larger scales, of course, base 12 is much easier when it comes to dividing distances. Taking a distance of 2'7" and dividing it by three in your head is much easier than dividing 79cm by three, because... well, 2' divided by three is 8", obviously. If you need to be sure, just tap it into a calculator. That supports base 12...

Anyway, you'll quickly determine that it's 10 1/3", which is much more precise than 26.3333cm. Now I just need to subtract the radii of these two 5/16" holes from that, which is easy - imagine trying to subtract 8mm from 26.3333cm! What folly.
I doubt there's a big impact there for a variety of reasons.

- A lot of people who work remotely still need/want cars. In fact, I'd speculate that one reason a lot of people are drawn to remote work is precisely so they don't need to live in expensive, crowded locations.

- Remote work is still a fairly small slice.

- In many cases, people who commute are commuting further/longer, in part because of housing prices in elite cities.

I'm not sure how typical you are. Even though I mostly work remotely, I still drive a fair bit for recreational activities even aside from running local errands (which, in my case, I can't really do without a car).
Buy an imperial rule.

There's some inches that are sub-divided into tenths (maybe 1/20), and others sub-divided into sixteenths (maybe 32nds or 64ths). Often with heavier markings on more significance. For easy division and fractioning of whatever it is you are doing.

If it's imperial only (v. rare nowadays) there's usually a coarser scale or two for easier subdivision or when the 16ths and finer just don't matter.

Buy a metric rule.

There's mm, cm, and metres. Nowt else, not even weighting of marks except usually 1cm or 5mm. For measurement this is fine. For division such as in woodwork, metalwork and building, this is often a pain in the ass.

Metric only usually engraves just one side or exactly duplicates. No coarser scales.

So even when working in metric I often find an older imperial rule a better working tool(!)
K&R C is still an excellent resource for learning. C may not be the flashiest new thing, but it's still a very useful skill to have.
Are computed gotos even available in golang? Even in C that's a compiler extension.
It is unlikely that we will accidentally lower CO2 levels too quickly.
Japan's cyber security minister admits never having used computer
How Google is slowing innovation (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish)
The writing is on the wall.

Soon you won't be able to sell many ICE personal vehicles in China. Huge taxes will be levied on them, or the big bosses there will ban them altogether. (I would put money on a ban. The Chinese government always did have a fondness for blunt instruments.)

In any case, it has now been confirmed that even companies like Ferrari and Maserati have electric vehicles in the works. Mainly with the Chinese market in mind, and targeted for 2020.

So yeah, if the largest market is intent on a wholesale switch to electric, then that's definitely gonna have a big impact.
Amazon deal will disrupt plans for affordable housing on Long Island City
I understand, that you know the metric system, and, judging by your reasoning for your love for the imperial system, I understand, that you know what you are talking about (better than me). So, please, do not understand my comment as wanting to advise you! It's just, that I found this (on the web, one day) to express so much the way I (having grown up with the metric system) feel about it:

"In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade -- which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.
Whereas in the American system, the answer to 'How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?' is 'Go fuck yourself', because you can't directly relate any of those quantities."

From: "Wild Thing" by [Josh Bazell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Bazell).
Not for mining BTC, I can tell you that.

BTC != Crypto currency
While we're at it, can we stop using AI buzzword? Nothing about current state of machine learning is AI.
I'm going to give an unpopular opinion that doesn't get voiced very often. And that is that climate science sucks. There exist fundamental truths that I believe we can all agree on.

The green house effect is real
Humans spew things into the atmosphere that increase the greenhouse effect
Therefore, we can safely say that humans are contributing to an effect that causes the earthto warm.

The problem is that quantifying that effect is pretty much impossibly difficult to the level of detail that we need to make informed decisions about long term policy. And anyone who believes otherwise is bullshitting themselves. There are lots of reasons to burn less fossil fuels, but throwing in reasons that are based on bad science detracts from those efforts.

To be clear, claiming that we know the earth is going to be 3 degrees warmer in 100 years (pick whatever numers you want) is preposterous. As people who develop models we must all know heep inside that we can make them say whatever we want. And if you make them say what the politicians want, you get more funding.

There is good science mixed in, but the problem we have is that (I'll use the US example) the left believes that the sky is falling because it's a convenient argument to arouse people into protecting the environment. And the right are in the pockets of oil companies, and will say whatever they're told to.

So, should we do the right thing (protect the environment) for the wrong reasons? I would argue no, because eventually nature will prove us wrong and the battle will be that much harder.

The reason that nothing changes is because the right can point to bad science, and they are right. We owe it to ourselves to do better
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569756
If it's specific to Aspergillis, maybe never? The article says that farmers only really want antifungals that prevent plant diseases -- Aspergillis is an "accidental bystander".
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A life tip: Always 50/50. Talent is great, politics helps you direct it to where it will maximize impact. If nobody thinks what your working on is important you may be an unrecognized genius, but its also perfectly possible you are on the wrong track.

If you can't convince anyone what your doing is important it should make you stop and reconsider your efforts.
Tesla releases Model 3 software update with new climate controls, anti-theft
How to download videos for free
> In WWII they leaned on understanding from British occupations across the world.

Nah. The Corps has had plenty of opportunity to acquire the experience organically:

"During about 85 of the last 100 years, the Marine Corps has been engaged in small wars in different parts of the world."
--Small Wars Manual (1940 Edition)

Running through the list of the Corps' most revered heroes... I can't think of a single one that didn't face an enemy that employed guerilla warfare tactics. Chesty Puller started out fighting an insurgency in Haiti and then Nicaragua. Before that SgtMaj Daly fought in the Boxer Rebellion. Smedley Butler fought Cuban insurgents in the Spanish–American War (later writing "War Is a Racket"). Archibald Henderson fought in the Seminole Wars...

The Corps has more experience with asymmetric warfare than the stereotypical military campaign. It also has a very long institutional memory where best practices are developed and passed down - I don't remember ever hearing somebody cite British colonialism during a period of instruction, we had our own colonialism to refer back to: the banana wars.
GP said that CO2 was not the _limiting factor_. I took this to mean that something else is often the bottleneck, such as access to nutrient matter. Presumably in a greenhouse, more CO2 can be used because other bottlenecks are reduced.
Well, very high but that's not the point. The poster was saying that it was not the limiting factor in the environment, not in an artificial setting.
World of Mathematics - An amazing compendium of accessible content straight from the masters - Poincare, Jonathan Swift, Neumann, Bishop Berkeley, Cayley etc https://www.amazon.com/World-Mathematics-James-Newman-Hardco... I believe it is available on archive.org

What Is Mathematics? by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins published in 1941. One of the most beginner friendly yet rigorous books out there for a survey of many areas in mathematics.

You can find hundreds of gems here from erstwhile Soviet Union - https://mirtitles.org/
Well, if you fail to see the limitations and assumptions upon which your decision making process rests, then there's nothing of value I could add. Your decision making model via-a-vis scissors purchasing is perfectly acceptable. But it's just one model. Would you use the same model if you were, say, a tailor?
Can you give us details of laptop and distribution used? Seems hardware is still difficult i.e. trackpads, WiFi, screen resolution, external displays, etc.
That just means they don't have evidence they're willing to disclose, because the disclosure is outweighed by the potential harm to the national interest.
you forgot to include the prior sentence:

The evidence included an intercept showing a member of the kill team calling an aide to Prince Mohammed and saying “tell your boss” that the mission was accomplished.
I installed it for them. It was more than a decade ago, and I chose gentoo because it was one of the first distributions to support amd64. Chose gentoo over debian because it had newer kernel versions that I needed for that particular computer.
Ghost Emails: Hacking Gmail's UX to Hide the Sender
Anything that doesn't use encryption is very easy to hack. You just need to use a tool like Fiddler to understand the protocol. If there is lax authentication, as the article implies, this is something that an ameture can do.

It's also very easy to spoof caller ID, so this opens up children to unsolicited calls.
These arguments are so tedious.

The vast majority of scientists do agree that global warming is real and that humans are causing it.

Yet the go-to argument for deniers is to claim that the science is not there.

Not being a scientist myself, I have to assume that you're talking out your ass, and the scientists are correct.
I love vega-lite, thank you so much for your hard work!
Sounds like adding the concept of debug builds and opt in instrumentation of release builds for unikernels would mostly address your concerns. I think it’s fair to say they’re not ready yet, but never seems unlikely to me.
> and when it comes to being price 1/3 = 4 is always going to be easier to put your finger on than 1/3 = 3.333.

Am I missing something? Wouldn’t it just be putting your finger on the 10 cm mark? This is approx 4”.

I realize this is not exact conversion, but it’s trivial to come up with examples where metric is easier: say you have a piece of wood 7 7/8” long that you want to cut in half. Is it easier to put your finger on 3 15/16” or 10 cm?
Note: this isn't the same set of bugs I previously reported; this one let's you blank out the sender completely in the UX for all views, and affects mobile as well.
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You think a chip will be a financial success based on whether it supports unaligned reads?

Almost zero software out there actually needs unaligned reads.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Pretzold

Reading the book is the most beautiful and simple way that a person can really understand what a computer and come to the realization that it is not black magic.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Developer-Prac...
It is a legitimately confusing bit of partisan allegiance shifting in my estimate. Because Hillary lost and Trump has been acting like an incredibly obvious puppet even by his standards of 'gets along fine with despots while hating and being hated by every other democratically elected ally'. Given the allegations of Hillary Clinton 'joking' about drone striking him assuming a grudge is reasonable.

Really I have the feeling that they have gotten played like a goddamn fiddle by the intelligence agencies - after they faced the right turning against them for believing what their lying eyes were telling them about Trump's blatant Putin connections. So they are trying to save their behind after they were the brunt of rightful left-wing grudges over things like the Iraq intelligence, spying on activists, and spying on everyone pissing off the general public that doesn't drink the red white and blue "we need to destroy our freedoms to save them" koolaid.

I'm personally of a liberal of a 'free market but intervene when it works better and highly value civil rights' view who believes that the sheer dark history of the intelligence agencies makes the moderate option be to purge every last organization and make sure they never work in anything peripherally related again.

Strip away all labels and contexts and you would probably agree that an agency of torturers who trains dictators, overthrows democracies for short term petty economic interests at great suffering, invented depravities like 'rape dogs', and 'rectal feeding', practices torture despite knowing it doesn't work and more means that they deserve far worse.
I very specifically stopped targeting “buyers” in favor of individuals. The buyers want us to develop “whips & dashboards”

Lucrative! Not what we want to build.

That’s one of my favorite aspects of being self-funded and profitable.
If only US pints were a 450ml abomination.

That's about 50ml more than I'm used to getting when I order a "pint".
Good point!
This was discussed a bit when people started wearing Google Glasses and creeped out strangers who didn't want to be recorded.

Could be a hard one. I imagine that the voice recognition is processed in the cloud, where for privacy it should be on the device.

As it is, there's no need for the Government to bend the law to store meta data on citizens; these companies do it all for them.
I don’t want to get too off topic either, but this is a gross unsourced generalization that even a failed English lit major would be embarrassed by.
Awesome work!

Having the ability to configure a beautiful-by-default GUI for NixOS makes it much more likely that I can maintain machines for my family with low time effort, remotely.
I argue that no, taxes are not 'for' subsidising private companies.
Python was my first programming language love. I had a few false starts: Logo when I was very young, which I found too useless. Perl, which made no sense to me as a middle schooler. Actionscript came close, I was eventually able to create a Flash game in high school, but the API was still too arcane for me to actually like it.

In college, Processing.js was what I used in the Intro to Programming class, which was fun, but like Logo, not powerful enough. Java (why do I have to type so much?) and C (why do I have to worry about memory allocation?) for the intermediate courses. But I never really enjoyed a language until one of my upper division classes had us work in Python.

Finally, a reasonable language. Easy to pick up, but very powerful once mastered. Easy to read, quick and concise to write, thanks to the syntax and interpreter. A massive amount of open sources packages to choose from, for nearly any programming task you can think of. A sane blend of functional, object-oriented, and procedural features.

Python was the language that made me actually enjoy programming. Thanks GVR!
When they pour 500 mL into your 1 pint (473 mL) glass.
> Lua's stack protocol can sometimes be verbose, but I find it infinitely more simple and elegant than the existing alternatives.

This. TL;DNR, used a C/Lua binding to explain the Lua stack to a fellow engineer. Took a few post-it notes to keep track of 4 levels of stack, 1 pcall back to Lua to sort an array, and forward the results on. It just worked, was elegant, and blew our minds.

Today on Friday at 5pm I was talking about a ‘problem’ we had with a Lua daemons compared to their C brothers. Due to the use of tables, each time you queried them, the output order was always random. Computers don’t care, but a big user is also engineers and finding fields wandering all over the place is a pita. So what if we ordered the keys alphabetically instead? The code is Lua -> C -> IPC -> Output. The order is set in the Lua->C binding, so what if we sorted it in the binding.

But the tables are arbitrary size and you’d have to allocate memory, put them in a structure of some kind, etc, etc. Then we realized we could just put all the keys in a Lua array, and sort them with table.sort(). We could then use the array to get key/values in order, all from within the C binding.

Being late Friday, and having talked it through let’s just do it. Plus it was a handy teaching moment to explain to a fellow engineer how Lua binding worked, including a call back into Lua. By 6pm we had the binding recompiled, tested and it’s just worked.

Lessons learned:

1. The stack can seem confusing, but once you learn how to work with it, it’s pretty amazing.

2. The Lua reference docs are amazing. They clearly list what they pop and what they push onto the stack.

3. Calling back into Lua is.

4. It looks like write only code. Reading the code needs a post it note to keep track of the stack, along with the Lua reference manual. -- comments...
Furthermore, MIPS was specifically designed to be friendly as a compiler target (e.g. 3-operand form by default)
Do you all think Silicon Valley should make a public statement and distance themselves from MBS?

After all the photo-ops among executives at Apples, Google and FB it looks embarrassing to have a photo with a possible murderer out there. Or from the PR perspective, it's best to keep quiet and not remind the public at all and hope no one would bring it up?
In a large font, and with enormous margins, no less.
My solution was to disable the lock screen at home.
But I still can’t disable accidentally pressing the lock key combination. It doesn’t seem to be configurable in the keyboard settings.
With respect to global warming, I don’t think we’ll get there politically. There are too many people and politicians that either don’t have a scientific worldview or are on the payroll (so to speak, not literally but via campaign funding) of fossil fuel companies.

We may, however, get there via improved economics and technology happening in renewable energy right now. With an unreasonable amount of luck, we might buy ourselves enough time to make peace with the human condition and find a replacement for global capitalism that does a better job of integrating the reality of our needs and the planet’s.
Because decades of propaganda that it’s socialism if the owners of capital don’t get a cut in the middle
I agree. Most of the time when the science is settled, it’s settled. For example all scientists knew that once we figured out black body radiation Newtonian physicist is complete. Nothing new was required. Even Lord Kelvin proclaimed that simple outstanding problem was entirely explainable by the physics of his day.
I'm wondering if this is to head off Trump allowing Fethullah Gulen from being extradited..

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/if-trump-sacrifices-fe...

Erdoğan wants him, but in return for what? Maybe preventing the audio of the killing ending up on YouTube (or otherwise made public). If the CIA is saying MBS ordered the killing, the effect is maybe the same.

Also: why does the CIA care what happens to Gulen?
Moreover, if we do happen to accomplish such a thing, it's easy to raise C02 levels; just burn more fossil fuels temporarily.
I find Ubuntu 18 LTS version quite promising both as a developer and normal non-dev user of desktop.
keep going.
Tesla has opened up Model 3 orders to customers in China
If you want to measure ⅓ metre, go ahead. Nothing stops you from doing that.

The usual convention in construction in Europe is multiples of 150mm, for example a typical large appliance is 595mm wide to fit a 600mm wide space.
That cat is well and truly out of the bag. Amazon reviews, Uber reviews, Airtaker. Fiverr. Etc.