skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"requires a large helping of evidence to back it up"

Those are available at http://cloud.web.cern.ch/content/publications. The experiments are started back in 2009.

See Wikipedia for a simplified description of the results so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_experiment

Even if you think that cosmic rays are the bread and butter of cloud formation, the net effect would be global cooling. Clouds reflect more energy back into space than they do back to the ground.

I would also like to mention that this cosmic ray climate change denialism started with the media misreporting Henrik Svensmark's paper.
The Daily Express itself said "Winter is coming: Exploding stars could lead to ICE AGE warn scientists" https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/894696/ice-age-weathe....
Most of the media attention was on the sensationalist claim that cosmic rays are causing climate change, from which the various Facebook people extrapolated cosmic rays = global warming. Just so you know, this is the original source of this claim.
The paper itself is about aerosol microphysics, but that's not as exciting as "Giant EXPLODING stars FREEZING Earth".
You'd be surprised. I know several defense contractors that continue to use Notes, just as they have for the 3 decades! These contractors make a lot of money.
What bothers me about the coverage of the riots is so far I have seen no one offer an opinion on whether the rioters' complaints have merit.
Is this a WordPress thing or a software with a developer ecosystem thing?

Because that's always the catch with any script really. If you're using third party themes and plugins for anything, then you're putting trust in the developers of said themes and plugins that they know what they're doing coding and security wise.

The exact same situation is true of everything from WordPress to Drupal to vBulletin and XenForo to MediaWiki and Magento.
This has been the claim of "mindmaps" all along.

It lets you use the left and right halve of your brain, they said ;)
> Uber has all kinds of crazy promotions, like paying a flat $6 per ride for a whole month, or paying $25 up front for ten rides, no matter how long they are. Of course, there's also surge pricing that everyone knows about.

Lyft frequently gives me offers like "10% of your next 10 rides" and "25% off this weekend!". I think it's because I'm only an occasional rider (1/month or so unless I'm traveling). Uber does not give me any promotions.
The point is, I shouldn't have to do that; if access to banking is necessary for survival then the burden should be on the bank to get a court order before they have the right to freeze an account.

If I sue the bank, it's an absolute guarantee I will be locked out of the account for a few months to a year until the case is settled. And it will be a civil claim against a commercial entity, the burden of proof is on me, I don't have access to a free lawyer and so on. The parallel justice system has already scored a massive victory against me from day one by stripping me of most civil rights.

That's fine and dandy in a world where banking is optional and banks are businesses like any other, but in a cashless world being locked out of banking is a sentence to homelessness or death. How many days of rent delay will your landlord accept until he evicts you? How many days can you live on the streets before you are being fired from your job? What is the average life expectancy of a homeless person with no income and how often do they win in court against major financial institutions?
Very cool! If it succeeds and you'd like to publish any part of it at some point, I'll gladly pick it up for a collection of case studies on eno-lang.org, just let me know then.

Meanwhile, I've added a commmunity projects section at https://eno-lang.org/libraries to raise awareness of your Tcl implementation there as well.

Thanks again, looking forward to further developments!
The headline is analogous to “Antitrust laws are not needed to prevent price fixing.” Treated as a statement of fact, it’s technically true, but it’s really a statement of policy opinion, whose weaknesses are clear.
But I want faster trials. If it fails, it should fail fast. If it succeeds, it should succeed fast.
I really want this to happen but I keep hitting sites that just don’t work in Firefox. I’m willing to maintain two browsers and switch for Mailchimp, craveTV and a few other places but most people are not.

As small company, I can target Chrome and Safari and cover the vast majority of my potential users. Adding QA and Dev for Firefox just gets harder and harder.
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Exactly. Although facebook has the power to change mainstream politics on long timescales, claiming that all those protests are products of AI brainwashing is just wrong.

Even more so, instead of touching on why facebook should be a host of information but not a communications modulator, this article, like many others, insists that Facebook should brain-wash and manipulate people the way they like, not the way they do now, because that's the "right" thing.
The anodes and cathodes of the cells tend to acquire a film of lithium and electrolyte oxides which reduce the coulombic efficiency of the cells, i.e. it makes it harder for the electrons to interface between the anodes and cathodes. I don't see a reason why we cannot extract the lithium from old cells for reuse, other than economic efficiencies of fresh lithium supply versus the cost of sorting, unpacking, and extracting from old batteries.
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Im not talking about default web browsers.
Yes, and all Fortune 500 CEOs have it. They have more power in their organizations than the President of the United States has.
Ask HN: What are the best courses for online marketing?
We don't want Google or Mozilla to have a running list of our users DNS requests. We don't want Google or Mozilla to have a list of our internal servers. They are browsers and can use the same network stack as any other program. I have other types of filtering, but the whole idea of a browser ignoring internal services is going to get it banned.
Album artwork can be really artistic and look great hung up in the home. Back in college, I would scour Ebay for "album release posters", which would be 36" x 24" in size and designed to be hung inside music stores.

Seeing as how such stores are all but gone today, I'd like to see Bandcamp helping bands produce merch like that. Let the artists provide the artwork, while BC handles the printing and shipping to customers.
I emailed the author and he pointed me towards this copy of it:
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/645438.pdf

I haven't read through it yet, but it appears to be a more extensive whitepaper version than the CACM version.
I literally lolled when I read the title of this post.
That's what you get for making millions of dollars by taking advantage of people's trust and ruining their lives.
I stopped reading shortly after the bit about the contract. Thought it was an open and shut case with that...

Hard to reconcile this into something acceptable or understandable.
I used to think this, but the Chinese themselves have proved me wrong.

I think it's smart to use some amount of protectionist tarriffs in "industries of the future". Furniture? Who cares. Solar? Might be worth it.
At some point in the development of a large app you run into irreducible complexity. The logic and moving parts are just necessarily complicated and nobody is going to fully understand the system. It doesn’t matter what architecture you use, hard is hard. I think people tend to forget this and build a house of cards trying in vain to correct it.
So goes the world of propaganda. Another interesting spin is how we frame ourselves as being the anti-imperial liberators of the world and praising ourselves for workers' rights, anti-child labor and pro-living wage. It was actually the soviets who were anti-imperial and pro workers rights. It's why they initially won so many fans in china, india, africa, vietnam, etc. Didn't someone say history is a lie we tell ourselves over and over again until we forget it is a lie?

Now in defense of the US, the soviets did put a satellite up first, but we were more than capable of doing so at the same time or even before. We sent up a satellite 2 months after the soviets. Contrast that with the moon landing. The soviets never sent a man to the moon even decades after we did. So in that light, I think the moon landing was far more impressive and representative of "victory" for a lack of a better word.

Perhaps we can say the soviets won the first space battle, but we won the space war? Without a doubt, we won the PR war as the moon landing and armstrong's "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" will be the iconic and defining moment of the space race for the rest of history.
Not affiliated, but if you’re using rails, rapidrailsthemes is quite nice.
Because when you lose power, you are exposed to a greater number of risks that are beyond your control. This risk is magnified when the new superpower is different to you politically, culturally, and ideologically.
> Universal pattern-matching

Where are you missing pattern matching? The only place I can think of where it can't be used currently is the function signature. Might be hard to retrofit to the current syntax.

> Type-classes

Rust's traits are type-classes.

> first class typed channels

Why do they need to be first class? Unlike Go, Rust's type system is powerful enough that type-safe channels can be (and have been) implemented as a library. See crossbeam-channel.
I had always heard this used as kind of a metaphor: do whatever the hell you want to in writing, follow every thread, wander all over the place, believe your own bullshit, and just get all the ideas out of you and onto the page. When you edit, then it's time to worry about what your point actually is and how your reader will understand it. It's a little weird to me that someone would take this aphorism literally.
That can be said about any export. What if other countries don’t want it anymore? Well then you have to diversify. Looj at Russia or Venezuela and how oil prices affected them. That’s their “dollars”.

But if the USA is able to keep doing machinations around the world so that the dollar is demand for 200 years, eg by just making it the most stable currency, then their dollars and treasuries will literally be the thing that they trade for everything else. Like what if a bank goes insolvent... ok but what if it doesn’t, then everyone wants to use its money and credit.

The USA also lobbies for strong IP protections and international treaties because that’s another one of its exports.

Manufacturing and raw materials are actually less likely to remain a comparative advtantage than this artificially enforced stuff.
PG's essay on writing says this too, this helps a lot
How? This is a tiny functional CSS library.
Frankly, these secret prefs are basically either:

- prefs that a developer was too lazy to add to the list of pref; or
- prefs that serve only during automated tests.

You could scan source code for `Services.prefs` and `nsIPreferenceService` if you really want to find them.
Seems someone registered the domain again, presumably because `linux.org` expired https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dtxoe8tVYAAldNm.jpg
I thought that was removed in the XP/2003 era:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041019061658/http://support.mi...
How a Divided Congress Could Unite Around Tech
Speed? Do it yourself, you only add what you need, no need to bloat the styles with anything you're not going to use.
I skip the draft step, but otherwise I am very similar.

Simple, extremely lean and functional tooling and extremely simplified frontend functionality.

If I can achieve good UX with CSS media queries and a light dusting of vanilla JS then that is all I will use. I also leverage new browser features where possible. The datepicker in some browsers suck, but it is native and I don't have to maintain it.
This article makes a lot of assertions, and doesn't even try to substantiate them.

So, Facebook tweaked its algorithm and local Anger Groups spread across French Facebook at a shocking speed.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, Buzzfeed?
I think you're referring to Containers. If so, you can always fallback to separate Firefox profiles (run `firefox -p` to open the profiles menu iirc) if Containers aren't flexible enough for you.

I've been a 95% happy Containers user since it was a Test Pilot experiment but there are certainly cases where it's not enough. In my case, not being able to use the mobile device emulator in a container tab was a big pain.
Show HN: Daily startup growth trends
Daily startup growth trend:

I analyze Indie Hackers startup growth trend and post my observation to help fellow founders learn what growth looks like at a very early stage.

Today’s Growth Report: https://growthranker.com

Growth Trend:

Deco Slides - This is the third time Deco Slides has made it to the top growing revenue in the past month. Made their first sale in May 2018, and now making $14k/month. Their growth has been exponential in the past three months!

Lead Cookie - Increased monthly recurring revenue by almost 23%. Almost doubled their MRR since July, now making a shocking $52k/month revenue!

Propertyments - A property management platform who just made their first big sale, going from $10/month to $2000/month overnight! Interesting factor, they have posted an update on IH this week, there is a correlation!

Fomo - Top marketers! Made it to the top traffic increase chart for the third time. They can triple their traffic since August and consistently growing to over 40,000 visitors monthly.

Questions:
Which growth trend looks interesting to you?
How would you like this report to be improved?
How to steal Ethers: scanning for vulnerable smart contracts
Teoretically you learn to build it yourself....
If the rioters were protesting racism or homophobia, no one in the media (or HN) would challenge them.

Since the rioters are protesting a Green Tax, the media (and HN) concludes that Facebook, Russia, or a general lack of cognitive ability among the French working class must be the cause.

Look no further than the discussion yesterday re: "Is France losing its first information war?" to see all the "enlightened" HN posters discuss how free expression should be limited if it runs contrary to their worldview (characterized as "restricting the public's potential to be misinformed")...the same posters of course are constantly aghast at censorship in China

Its really scary to see hackers become advocates for censorship
Yes, I'm eagerly waiting for them to support a proper keyboard shortcut API since I'm a former Pentadactyl and present Tridactyl user so I know your pain.
Tesla Autopilot and Euro NCAP
>avx-512 (nobody uses)

An example of people using those cpu instructions would be buyers of Intel's proprietary C++/Fortran compiler.[1] The reason companies pay ~$1700 license instead of using free compilers such as GCC and Clang is to specifically take advantage of the latest advanced Intel cpu instructions.

Example buyers of Intel's C++ compiler would include high-frequency trading firms and HPC labs. I wouldn't be surprised if Google, Facebook, and Amazon also bought Intel Parallel Studio compiler licenses for some of their workloads.

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/parallel-studio-xe/support/...
Market share?
Assuming you're referring to my comment about it not being infectious, gene drives (based on my quick reading about them :) ) are still not what I'd call infectious.

But they can get you into a rather nasty long-term scenario where in order to produce a viable baby, the only option is to continue to use gene engineering techniques because all "natural" conceptions will be non-viable because of previous edits and gene drives and such. I've seen some variants of this idea in "the literature" (i.e., science fiction), but perhaps nothing quite as stark as that. Most of "the literature" tends to assume that even in a heavily gene-gineered world, if you just stop engineering, something viable will still survive.
AFAIK these things can be recycled with relative ease. I wonder at which point it would make sense to include a small battery recycling plant with large installations like this. "Cell XYZ is damaged, remove, replace and recycle"
Research Paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/1...

Basic intro: https://github.com/Microsoft/AMBROSIA/blob/master/docs/Ambro...
Looking forward to it!

I've been evaluating ShareDB[1] for a Google Docs-like and it seems promising.

The OT space is really interesting. For those wanting to read more about it, check out the paper: "Operational transformation in real-time group editors: issues, algorithms, and achievements"[2]

[1] https://github.com/share/sharedb

[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.53....
Bandcamp is one of the few companies / platforms I use that is consistently doing things right for all their users. Musicians on Bandcamp are happy and getting paid a fair amount, listeners are happy and are provided a great interface. It's just lovely.
I know it's off topic, but I agree with this as well.

Robots really are the only viable way forward. The idea that we can keep increasing production, but somehow force companies to continue to hire all kinds of employees at wages that support middle class lifestyles is fanciful in the extreme. I'm not sure why politicians keep putting that idea forward as viable? It's directly contradictory to the fundamentals of economics.
Ehhhhhh.

I was trying to say the opposite. Or rather, I was actually trying to say that phenomenon are rarely unscientific, only the explanations. You can have scientific and unscientific explanations of the origin of life on Earth.

You really only declare a phenomenon unscientific if we've spent a long time not being able to come up with any good scientific explanations. For instance, we commonly regard the question, "What happened before the Big Bang?" as outside the reach of science. But that's just provisional -- if someone came up with a really great theory that explained the nature of the universe before the Big Bang, and it produced testable predictions, then suddenly the question would in fact be inside the reach of science.
I know about ~100 Firefox developers with Macbooks and none of them experiences the issue, so that's probably harder to reproduce.

Would you be interested in help to profile the issue and file a detailed bug? This would help fix it.
To me it comes across as self deprecating e.g. I am very qualified in something but it isn't writing which is the relevant thing in this context.

Goes to show how tone can come across differently than you think.

Anyway aren't Oxford departments separate from colleges?
This is true, but the interesting thing is that USA is quite favourable to Bitcoin, which I believe will be the next reserve currency. For now it looks like Chinese government is missing out on the most important technical innovation.
Self control is overrated. Willpower is too
Even if true that the mother was HIV positive, this situation wouldn't justify He's actions for a few reasons. i)They are implanting an embryo in an HIV+ mother, there are other alternatives; ii) For 20 or so years AZT has been used effectively to prevent material transmission of HIV at birth
And in WordPress' case, the issue isn't just that so much power is with one entity, but that said entity seems to be trying to push the software in a direction and at a pace that's convenient for them, regardless of what the rest of the community think about it.

For example, Gutenberg is being pushed into core quite a bit before it's really ready, and to some degree it feels like it was designed for WordPress.com to compete with Wix and Squarespace rather than WordPress.org users.

The problem isn't WordPress having a large company contribute it to it, nor just that Automattic has so much power. It's because Automattic are running WordPress to solve their business needs at their pace, everyone else be damned.
Bootstrap. I just went for the most popular because i m more likely to find googable answers to my needs.
What if the narrative behind Microsoft's decision is not to build a better browser but to hurt Google from a regulatory view?
I mean they maneuvered Google into an obvious and significant monopoly position, similar to
the one Microsoft found itself before the uprise of Google.
>but I keep hitting sites that just don’t work in Firefox.

Sites that literally do not load in Firefox? Which ones? I'm genuinely curious here, since I've never hit such a site.
This is purely anecdotal, but I feel like developers who have worked on monoliths with terrible teams tend to fall in love with the microservices approach because as long as the endpoint is stable, it doesn't matter what's going on underneath the hood. On the other hand, developers who have worked on microservices with good teams tend to think that microservices are too complex and unwieldy.
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> There are people on non competes that are not being compensated with the full salary they would have been getting. To me that is unethical.

They are also making that money while doing nothing.
Very few people know this, even inside of IBM:

Notes is literally an Eclipse plugin.

There. Now you can really hate it and feel totally justified.
The article is with prejudice somehow.
You still need lots of apps which working perfectly with offline mode. For example reading books you already downloaded, watching movies you already downloaded, or whatever immutable content you already have.
The author choose to making examples with apps that demands communications with outside world instantly, which makes the whole point weak.
There is something about the Facebook platform that encourages thoughtless distribution of incorrect and violent ideas. I don't say this lightly; a certain subset of users seem to get hooked on the propogation of "viral crazy," with no regard to the factual accuracy of their posts, or the real world consequences of their ideas.

I believe what happens is that people become "gamified." They use the logic of video games; going after points/likes, and gaining immense satisfaction when they are victorious.

The power of gamification shouldn't be underestimated. Especially when it combines with personal identity, as it does on Facebook.

Gambling addiction can destroy lives; Facebook uses the same psychology, and combines it with personal identity. Most people are not very vulnerable to gambling addiction. The same is true with Facebook gamification. However, certain people are highly vulnerable, and have become victims of those vulnerabilities.
Former copy editor here, would not recommend this approach for writing anything non-artistic. Imagine a coder or engineer following this recommendation: no plan, no structure, just throwing ideas willy-nilly. Eventually, you then have to sift through all the ideas, find what's good and what gels, and then re-write to make it coherent, narrative, and logical. You'll probably incur a lot of technical debt and overhead with this approach.

However, if you go into the initial phase with a goal/structure in mind, you're going to be much closer to the final product after your first effort. Many, many writers use outlines/plans. Something that happens a lot in research is that articles are formulaic, they generally have the same sorts of content, so writing them actually becomes easier once familiarity with the structure is obtained.

I would say your approach could be useful for either an artistic format OR for someone who is severely writers' blocked. If you truly have no idea what to write, something is better than nothing. But generally speaking, having a plan/outline is very useful.