skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're lucky to get 10Ma uncertainty for 100Ma old formations.

Maybe a few decades ago. Ironically, much of my background is in U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS geochronology. The current state of the art in my community is between 0.05 and 0.01 % two-sigma relative, i.e. 10 to 50 ka at 100 Ma. To give one example, the chronology of the P-T extinction (the big one) is now constrained to the decamillenial level even though it we're talking about an extinction 252 million years ago [1].

Of course, 50,000 years is still quite long compared to modern anthropogenic effects, but the timescale bias of the geologic record is neither poorly known nor taboo (there are well cited papers about this exact problem [2]).

I should probably also reiterate that many records of interest to climate science are (1) much younger, so absolute precision is much higher than at 252 Ma and (2) may come with a built-in relative chronometer with annual resolution, as in ice cores, tree rings, varves, and some speleothems.

Imputing incompetence or bad faith to the entire field of climate science is not productive. While I'm not a climate scientist myself, I know many of them, and find them to be both honest and competent.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/111/9/3316.short
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227093/
Could you post some pictures from your office in Vilnius, Lithuania, where ProtonVPN UAB with 19 technical(?) employees is currently based? Are they still working from Tesonet's HQ, just like they did in 2017, and for the most of 2018?

Is Tesonet's CEO still the director of ProtonVPN UAB, more than 2 years after the incorporation in July 2016? I can no longer check it myself, because the public record is now hidden. But it was still true in June 2018.

And how do you feel about partnering on a free VPN service with a company, which has been sued for multiple patent infringements in "Large-scale web data extraction products and services with residential proxy network" by the founders of another free VPN service, HolaVPN, who have publicly admitted to using it for exactly that?
I understand your argument, but the people living in rural areas are bigger contributors to pollution since they tend to drive more and live in single family dwellings. Why shouldn’t the actual road users pay the cost of using the road? I agree any industry using fuel should pay an equal tax though.
It's frustrating to me. There seems to be a pattern recently of just making up historical chronologies just because. It's kind of annoying to read about something, research it deeper and then find that it was all just reimagining the actual history to be more entertaining. Or more peaceful. Or maybe just more in line with whatever world view the person putting forth the alternate history is advancing.

I guess it keeps me on my toes, so that's good I suppose. It's just a little annoying that people do this kind of thing. Personally I think that simple recounting of the facts of history is entertaining enough. Why are people trying to embellish it?
Pipenv is a really interesting development for Python, and I'm glad that someone was working to improve dependency locking for Python.

However, Kenneth abused his position with PyPA (and quickly bumped a what is a beta product to version 18) to imply Pipenv was more stable, more supported and more official than it really was.

And worse still, for anyone saying "but ts open source, you get what you pay for", Kenneth as former Python Overlord at Heroku, encouraged Heroku to place Pipenv above Pip as the default Python package manager in the Python buildpack. This decision impacted paying customers and the Python buildpack used a broken version of Pipenv for a long time. So long, most people I know just went back to Pip.

Then, lastly, when people complained he had a tizzy at reddit and twitter and got PyPA to help backtrack and say "no we didn't support it, nope, its just a thing that happened", all while the main Pipenv Github repository was held under the PyPA GitHub Org.
If you know how to manipulate 1% of the population — never knowing who, in advance, just that it’s on average 1% — and you sell that power to the highest bidder, I’d totally argue you’re responsible for whatever the winner does with that power.

Especially if you go to great lengths to keep the bidders anonymous, or even merely allow them to make themselves unknown to you because “we can’t scale that”.
The author asks:
"Therefore, where’s the harm in declaring Liqian the town founded by the Roman Lost Legion?"

The harm is that the origin story might well not be true, so why declare it's true? It's like saying Sinterklaas exists.. ehm, well no harm there I think as he does in a way.
Don't forget to pin pipenv itself, each dot release breaks something
Does that have to be the case? Crypto mining can be done in areas with surplus hydroelectric power that can't be efficiently distributed elsewhere.
In 2016, there was a White House initiative to ban non-compete agreements. The comment thread there from my parent is still the most active comment thread I've participated in on HN. It may be worth reading for a re-hashing of all the various sides of the debate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12795119
Name order depends on the conventions of the field, but yeah.
With that much data, I am curious as to how you do your backups. Do you backup off-site at all?
Author's conclusion: it probably wasn't, but we'll disregard the facts and pretend that it was, because it helps Chinese tourism.
What would life look like if it wasn't carbon based?
Well, it's an internal data structure needed at runtime that corresponds to a type, which seems close enough for a rough analogy. But I agree that it's not a language feature.
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I switched to ProtonMail about 6 weeks ago and have had nothing but prompt, positive experiences with their support team. Going so far as releasing new import-export tools which specifically address issues I came across when migrating my mail over.
WAV is the standard, period. That won't change for the foreseeable future.
A lot.

Many non-"hard news" articles are spawned by PR agencies or PR arms of large companies through relationships with journalists or non-stop pitching of ideas to reporters and editors. They may be disguised as a human interest story, profile, or something else lighthearted. The Sunday New York Times is filled with them.

They're not hard to spot, though. Some are obvious (a profile of celebrity X, who happens to be releasing a new movie).

A casual mention of BigCo or a BigCo product is another giveaway. Example: the sudden flurry of articles about the ISS robot this week. Oh, look, it's powered by Watson!

https://www.google.com/search?q=iss+robot+watson&
I'm quite unimpressed at HashiCorp's products quality and stability.
This is an idea that I do not see getting enough attention. “Big Data” has a lot of possible benefits but only if companies collect limited and relevant data. I’m comfortable telling my insurance company where and how I drive as long as they cannot share that or combine it with any other data.
That limit is 10+ year old and the other major search engines do the same. Users do paginate, but those going to page 99 are more than likely automated systems. A user who hasn't found a good result by page 50 should change their search query with + and - terms.
That's a very ignorant opinion, considering that proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies have insignificant emissions.
I've had the same problem with Python, not just Go. If it's a driver problem, it's a very widespread one, which would point out to SQLite driver API being in need of some love if so many folks who write SQLite drivers are making the same mistake.
Facebook improved this years ago and you can see the discussion surrounding this change in the released emails. These days a Facebook app can't ask for your entire friends list, instead, it only gets to see your friends that have also authorized that app. Also, user IDs now have a per-app namespace so they can't be (easily) correlated between different apps.

The discussion revealed in this release is pretty fascinating. For example, you can see that at some point Zuck's friends authorized 31 apps and 76% of those apps had "read_stream" access giving access to their entire newsfeed.

Through one lens this is Facebook locking down their API in an anti-competitive way, which is somewhat true, but mostly this feels like an API change making privacy improvements for users. (The Cambridge Analytica data came from an older app that was running before these changes were made...)
I don't think it's toxic, it's an accurate observation. As soon as you let gender politics into the building, you've started an unwinnable war between the sexes that will ultimately rip your company apart. It's very telling that the people commenting on this have to do it with Blind as they're obviously afraid of voicing their opinion in public. That type of fear is only going to fester and grow.

Same with the comment from the black ex-employee about how there are more Black Lives Matter posters than actual black employees (which I don't doubt for a second). There is no way to play these progressive games at work that won't come back and shoot you in the foot from the left, right and center. Keep politics out of the workplace.
Facebook's response: Response to Six4Three Documents - https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/response-to-six4three-d... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611492
Our organization uses four primary languages (Ruby, Python, JS and Elixir). The package management situation for Python is by far the weakest.

We’ve been using Pipenv, but it is atrociously slow and flawed at dependency resolution. An alternative is extremely welcome, E.g. Poetry which was mentioned above.
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That's not the point. People predicted a mass exodus of users, and it didn't happen. Whether they're profitable or not is different.

Conversely, you business can shrink and profits can go up if you make more money per user. This thread was only about users.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608658
Google pays competitively enough such that contractors agree to do work for the company. They just don't get the benefits that a FTE get.
The people in the cities benefit from the things the rural people produce (i.e.food). Why shouldn't they shoulder the cost of at least some of the the externalities also?
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> There seems to be a pattern recently of just making up historical chronologies just because.

To be fair, this "recent pattern" is documented everywhere as far back as writing exists.
Begin tracking and disrupting the node networks via which blocks are propagated. Run tainted nodes which track IPs submitting transactions or full-clients requesting blocks, use Tor traffic analysis to work back to any cloaked users. Disrupt the IRC channels that allow bootstrapping, poison P2P listings. ISP-level/backbone-level deep packet inspection to identify nodes (doesn't need to be unencrypted, you can fingerprint connections from deep-learned traffic analysis and connection characteristics, see: Great Firewall). Then traffic/network analysis working from known nodes to identify other likely nodes in the network. General attacks on any crypto services or infrastructure advertised in public fashion (eg light-client providers, exchanges, tumblers).

(the NSA has all these cool toys... it'd be a shame not to use them!)

You can also make it virtually impossible to interchange cryptos into real cash, which guts the utility of it for most users. Ban exchanges from operating or offering services to customers in first-world countries, extradite those who persist. Sting operations on local-btc transactions. Apply RICO/war-on-drugs style roll-em-up tactics on those who persist - you're going to jail for 20 years unless you give up someone worth knowing or help us break some network worth breaking. The achilles' heel of the crypto world is that it's anonymous until you try and do something in the real world, and the financial system is an obvious point to attack from.

If we can take down Silk Road, we can take down other things in the crypto-world as well. I'd much rather our law enforcement concentrate on fighting a War on Cryptocurrency than a War on Drugs. Would certainly take cooperation from most of the first world as well as China, but China already imposes some pretty draconian stuff on their internet users. They're not thrilled with people using it to move money offshore, they're not thrilled with all the crypto users stealing electricity, they'd probably be down for cracking down too.

Oh yeah, legalize a bunch of drugs and decriminalize everything else, and you pretty much gut the crypto-economy. A massive amount of the crypto-economy centers around Silk Road-style operations and you can easily gut those with the stroke of a pen. Most users stop caring and the crypto-economy then largely collapses. The number of people who actually want murder markets or kiddie porn and are willing to do shady cash-for-bitcoin deals in a van in a Wal-Mart parking lot is not enough to actually sustain the market on their own.

Crypto only works because there's a veneer of legality, drug markets that people want to access, and relatively easy interchange to and from FILTHY GOVERNMENT FIAT, and we can nuke all three of those. Then you just clean up anyone still stupid enough to participate.
If you put two positive electrically charged particles side by side, they will accelerate in the same way
> The contractor costs Google whatever it costs the contractor to employ them plus some amount of profit for the contract company.

Plus contracting overhead on both sides (the contractor-side overhead is neither an employment cost for the contracting firm nor profit.)
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Much more than any creatives will be the use of these for all sorts of "big data" projects, from AI training to mass-spying to science. All of these fields have a bottomless appetite for data storage that will eat up these drives like candy.
For France it's better to delay judgement, it's a messy protest movement. I despised it at first because why "defend cars" but these people don't care about cars or fossil fuels. It's just that they have no other way to find and go to a job.

ps: no other way as in other modes of transportation worsen badly, they did use train but it's too unreliable and a lot more expensive than a few years ago. This is the kind of things that made them go crazy.
"Does it make somebody feel uncomfortable" is a terrible standard to use when deciding whether something is OK or not.

Growing up Mormon, I felt extremely uncomfortable when co-workers drank alcohol in the office, even in after-hours social contexts. Does that mean I had a legitimate grievance to ask those around me not to drink?

We can certainly come up with gender neutral standards about what kind of speech or activities are OK and which are not OK, but if we go with "does it make women feel uncomfortable" then we also need to extend it to "does it make Mormons feel uncomfortable" and "does it make polyamorists feel uncomfortable," and so on ad infinitum.
A commenter on Ars, iAPX, put it best:

> The problem is not HTTP over TCP, it is out-sourced Ads
> and trackers.
>
> 67 requests, 1.0MB transferred, 1.48s with AdBlock Plus
> and my own Tracker Blocking Chrome Extension.
> 263 requests, 2.8MB transferred, 26.92s without any of
> that.
> This is the home page of Ars Technica as I write it (full
> reload).
>
> Do you think that HTTP/3 will generate 4X less request,
> will be 3X faster to transfer and will be 18X faster to
> complete loading?!?
>
> This is not an HTTP problem, this a website design and
> abuse of ads and tracker problem ;)
> Google is trying to solve or hide a Google created
> problem.

-- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/the-next-version-of-...

Because those requests include many different domains, the benefit of QUIC is substantially blunted.
> It requires deciding on a variance policy (to determine the subtyping relationships among the generic types)

Why does it? In C#, for example, variance policy for generic type parameters is expressed explicitly - invariant by default, covariant or contravariant if you ask for it. While C# also has reified generics, I don't see why this couldn't be done with non-reified ones.
I ran into a lot of bugs with poetry when I first moved to it (mostly with git dependencies) but they seem to have been fixed promptly, except that dependency resolution with git dependencies is still super slow.

An important thing for me is that you can disable the virtualenv management and manage it yourself (poetry makes it hard to install different python versions so I'd rather do that myself). Overall it works really well and I'd highly recommend it for general python dev.
Does the mileage number have to be accurate in terms of wheel rotations? Can a hard braking event add miles? Is miles just an abstract representation of risk?
Issue with this story is that even the Chinese authorities are dismissive of the idea and generally just let it be to promote local tourism to the area because Liqian is essentially in the middle of nowhere. DNA really just shows them as a sub-group of the Han Chinese majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqian
You didn't explain, but I assume your point is that it's easier to reduce emissions per capita when populations are more dense. E.g. less transportation required.
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And Sweden has a density of 23 while having lower carbon emissions than the EU average.

The US's problems include relatively heavy coal (30% still) and a heavy automobile culture (due to low density of cities, not the country)
Sibling comment is dead, but I second their recommendation of the Synology 1618+. It's been excellent in my experience. Even better when paired with a 10GbE NIC.
How not to handle customers' sensitive data
When something is right 70% of the time, that's certainly worth using as input to your decisions.
Often illegal, but not always. Prudent travelers use burner phones when they cross borders in order to avoid dragnet searches by customs.
I always wonder why Google didn't just keep improving/extending Hangouts. Was the codebase just unsalvageable? Was it something to do with Google's internal politics?
Isn't that more along the lines of trolling or shitposting?
You seem to be conflating the duration of a geologic event (i.e. rate of change, which is the subject of discussion) with the absolute age.
Mount the receiver to a drone and park it on the roof of a garage you want. Even hop around the neighborhood and capture - a whole new level of war-driving.

Fly the drone into gated estates, or better yet a country club drive-up near the valet and record many high-value signals.
They are not that well defined concepts. I'm well aware of what they are thank you very much. I have implemented my share of emulators and simulators.
> To be fair, this "recent pattern" is documented everywhere as far back as writing exists.

To be fair, on the timescale of anatomically modern humans, writing is a recent development, so “recent pattern” for something that is evidently as old as writing can be true, if you have the right perspective.

(On the other hand, the absence of pre-writing evidence is not evidence of pre-writing absence.)
It looks like exports from China are about 20% of GDP:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS

It's possible but does not seem particularly likely that exports are more than 2.5x as GHG-intensive as the rest of the Chinese economy; that's what would be required for Chinese exports to account for the majority of Chinese GHG emissions.

"They're just giving buyers what they demand" is not a good reason to shift blame from American corporate polluters to the consumers that buy their products. I don't see why export-oriented Chinese corporations should face less criticism for the same pollution. Both the benefits (increased market share) and the detriments (increased pollution) come from the same decisions these companies make about using dirty cheap energy.
The one that isn't selected based on your identity.
Following around someone with a 'signal booster' could be very difficult. If you capture and reply, you afford yourself a lot of advantages.
I would imagine the signal emmitted from the fob is time sensitive. The codes should be invalid within a few seconds. If not, shame on them for such a terrible step backwards in security.
These common excel spreadsheets used by investors are partly why I am writing my web application. It focuses on DGI investing and dividends in general and I have a lot o plans and room for improvements, but e.g. automatic dividend calendar must be 100 times better than keeping track of dividends in google spreadsheet manually :D
You haven't seen how AWS operates. Their agility is truly something else.

Oh yeah, I'm sure there are exceptions. And looking at the from the outside, AWS do impress with how quickly the get new stuff out.

But I've seen this kind of thing in multiple large companies first-hand, and the phenomenon has been observed and documented plenty over the years. So I feel pretty confident that it's still the case that many, if not most, Big Megacorp types lack the kind of agility that startups typically have.
"Should they be the ones paying for everybody else and let the people living in the cities without a car not pay their fair share of the burden?"

A carbon tax, which taxes carbon, taxes the people who use carbon less, does not sound like users aren't paying "their fair share". They ARE paying their fair share, because they use less.

The problem of use-based taxes affecting the poor disproportionately is well-known, but a use-based tax is the most effective at causing user behavior change. The point of the tax isn't the revenue, the point is to make stuff cost more.
Thanks for the article, however I have a problem with a lot of these trials. The number of test subjects. A couple of hundred I feel is not enough people, and half of those dropped out. We need thousands of test subjects from different age ranges and in different states of health for more accurate data.