skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more an example of the government picking a winner, and the winner actually losing in the market.

What if it wasn't a loan guarantee but rather a direct investment or payment by the federal government?
Great reminder. Always check with that country's embassy or risk a ruined vacation and much worse.
To avoid a climate disaster we need to make major changes to our economic system, and soon. Passing this ambitious political program will also require populist support, and needs to reverse the rise of inequality rather than exacerbate it (see gilets jaunes). The Green New Deal is the only mainstream political proposal out there close to achieving this.

Those who say we cannot achieve this due to deficits, are making a bad analogy between household spending and the spending of the most powerful government on earth that controls its own fiat currency. We've fought world wars, had the New Deal, and continue to spend exorbitant amounts of money on our military. It won't be easy, but we can do this.
The Dems can talk as much as they want, but to achieve any meaningful lasting changes they will need consensus across the aisle. Making these policies palatable to the American people instead of mandating from on high will be the key. Otherwise, once the political winds shift, everything will be rolled back again.
Yeah he said 500k. I Initially thought the same as you, 1-2mil.

500k for a senior dev is actually not too far out there. I have an L3 friend at Google (l3 is new hire level) who has been at the company for almost 2 years and who's total comp is almost 300k. So some L5s and L6s could certainly be pulling in 500k.
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/apps/vendors/default.aspx?i...

Tiamatic. Free for all, I guess maybe consider United for your travel needs if you find it useful.
Because nobody does it, at least not at any scale sufficient to matter. SUVs are the most popular type of new passanger vehicle in the US! The same is true in China and Indian where per-capita energy use is exploding.
The incredibly tight range over which this stock has traded, on low volumes, over the last 4 months is pretty suspicious.
Just 1000x slower.
> One of the pros/cons of capitalism is that companies and workers will fight policies that make them less money. The Holy Grail for any capitalist policy is something that does the right thing and makes money.

I am really sympathetic to this idea but I think there's a bit of a underlying assumption here -- this requires _rational actors_. This isn't always the case. For example, racial or gender hiring discrimination happens, but it's irrational, since artificially shrinking a hiring pool can lead companies to miss out on great candidates that would have led to greater profits.

Frankly I think the world would be a better place if "the market is rational" but I don't see a lot of strong historical evidence for that. It would be a lot easier to create policies to shape behavior in positive ways if that were the case.

I certainly don't disagree that addressing climate change will be impossible until there's a Holy Grail solution, but I'm skeptical that it would adopted quickly or by everyone.

> If we can align policy with both interests I think we can make serious progress.

Agreed 100%
Greenland’s melting snow makes new a hockey stick
FT's 404 page is a thing of beauty
How is this different/better than using your country’s equivalent to Department of State site to check, e.g. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel.html ?
> On one side, ... On the other side, ...

Your brilliant solution is carbon tax, which is exactly what liberals ALREADY tried to do and couldn't get through because of Republican opposition. It's fine to fault both sides, but lazy to do so when it makes no sense just because you want to elevate yourself as some kind of free-thinker. And as far as popular support, I'll note that it just failed as a ballot initiative in the liberal state of Washington -- and while that proposal was a stronger one than other efforts, good luck trying to do carbon tax nationally given the track record there. I think we still try, but the arrogance with which people treat environmentalists bothers me -- get off the sidelines and join the efforts if you want to push for something else.

An effort that focuses on green jobs, like the Green New Deal plan, is actually quite creative. I don't know if it's the best thing to push, but I'll support any effort that's gaining momentum that I think will be a good thing. You have to work as a coalition among people who are willing to put in the work.
You can sell the option. Or pay to their estate.

The 35 year old dying in a car accident probably has a lot of people depending on them that could use the money.

It could be a “free” life insurance policy.
I would LOVE if this was fixed in Chrome.
In the US, burial plots being for a single individual forever is the norm. Cemeteries basically build up a fund to pay for maintenance in perpetuity. What you describe is more the norm in Europe, I don’t know about elsewhere.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/04/17/603360426/how-...
> Perhaps you are right, maybe the missiles will not work if fired in the wrong direction.

Dont know anything about missiles, but jets wont work. At least not the Eurofighter for some reason.

https://www.krone.at/568118

Apparently an NSA contractor has to type in a key before every start.

>Damit die 15 Eurofighter auch wirklich starten dürfen, zahlte Österreichs Bundesheer in drei Jahren 1,5 Millionen Euro an eine private US-Sicherheitsfirma: Jetzt wurden die Kosten für jene am Fliegerhorst Zeltweg stationierten zwei "Zivilisten" bestätigt, die jedes Aufsteigen eines Jets mit einem aktuellen US-"Crypto-Schlüssel" für die Navigation und die Freund-Feind-Erkennung zulassen müssen.

>In order for the 15 Eurofighters to start, Austria's federal army paid 1.5 million euros over three years to a private US security company. Now, the costs for those two "civilians" stationed at the Zeltweg air base have been confirmed, who have to allow every start with current US-"Crypto-Keys" for navigation and friend or foe identification.

The ministry of defense denies that the two Americans from a not named US company are NSA contractors. They claim the jets would fly without but without encrypted navigation and communication. He also mentions the same situation for Sweden and Switzerland.
Thanks so much for sharing, this is exactly what I was looking for. I would love to see some of the things you've built so far. I've searched a lot of tutorials but I'm always a little disappointed when the lengthy tutorial lacks a live demo of what they built.
Getting enough blood through voluntary donations is usually simple.

Getting enough plasma or various immunoglobulins can be the difficult part.

And sometimes you heavily depend on a few outlier cases, like this guy that’s estimated to have saved 2.4million through his 1000 donations:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(blood_donor)
Nope! The p-p chain only has pairwise interactions. The issue is the p+p->d step is very disfavored, thanks to the weak step. D+T is all strong interaction.
Good question. Under the influence of a magnetic field, charged particles do all sorts of counterintuitive things due to the Lorentz force, which acts at right angles to the particle velocity and the field.

One example is a sideways precession due to the interaction between gravitational acceleration g and the Lorentz force. Fortunately this effect is basically negligible, because gravity is so much weaker than the electromagnetic forces operating on the particles.

The difficulties tend to come from the geometry of the magnetic field itself. For example, in a torus shape, there is an unavoidable drift in the vertical direction due to the combination of centrifugal force in the big circumference, and the force implied by the gradient of the magnetic field.
Animal farming is the biggest cause climate change; before you try to rid the world of crypto, you can personally go vegan and make a larger impact
So except few countries, most of the other countries dont have these sites. Even these sites point to the offical website of the traveling country. More over the visa application link, fee link, document checklist are not present. Visalist tries to aggreate all this information and show it an simple and useful way.
Could someone with more electronics experience than me explain the difference between the what the author made and a an off the shelf amp?
Obligatory reference to The China Hustle, a documentary that won awards for putting the spotlight on this fraud being perpetrated at scale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/movies/the-china-hustle-r...
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I just took a quick look but this doesn't tell me what countries I need a visa to visit and a non us citizen.
Yes but its very old UI and doesnt have any useful information like document checklist, visa application link, etc
If he had just said "I want a phone I can tinker with, so the iPhone doesn't fit the bill", no one would object. The problem is his claim that Apple is a symbol of pretentiousness and ignorance, simply because it provides convenience and out-of-the-box usability without needing to know how it works. Most people don't tinker for a living / hobby, and thus don't have the luxury of spending large amounts of their valuable time figuring out how the device works and tinkering with it.

Not understanding this actually a sign of pretentiousness and ignorance.
Doesn't make any sense to me either. He's burning 2ma for no reason.
https://www.expertflyer.com/ also exposes this airline information. Requires a paid subscription. Very useful for frequent flyers.
https://qz.com/1458475/the-dea-and-ice-are-hiding-surveillan...

This recent article asserts the DEA has placed cameras in traffic barrels and steer lights, and also mentions Cowboy Streetlight Concealments.

This is procurement for hardware for a DEA license plate monitoring system, linked in the above article.

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=a0459e9...
This a totally ignorant question - can you add “something” to the plasma to achieve the “jello like” analogy to water?
Did you try any more expensive ones? If not, how can you compare? I don't think you know what you're missing. From my experience, you realize how bad cheap ones are is when you try something better. For example, I thought AKG Y20 sounded pretty good before getting the chinese TFZ series 2, which are just so much 'more'. I am aware that those tfz are also lower range (~45$ on aliexpress). I also own a pair of Beyer DT770 80ohm 100 eur headphones and those are something else, esp when I had a Focusrite Saffire to drive them. Of course there is a price point after which it gets harder to notice improvement. But only after trying out different types and price points do you start to understand what sounds good and what you actually like. For me, all cheaper ones just sound muddy or like the sound is trapped in some box or tin, and I also notice sounds and instruments missing in songs I know well.
This is super interesting! Will look into it.
The particles in a fusion reactor are moving at 10 km/s. They don't particularly care about gravity.

For components of the reactor, gravity tends to be helpful. It's much harder to cool superconductors or generate steam if your liquids aren't flowing along the bottom. Turbines don't work nearly as well if their inlets are sputtering like a coffeemaker.
I know nothing about the subject, but my understanding was that iodine pits could be a problem for thermal spectrum reactors if they had to suddenly raise power output after dropping it.
> Crypto could eliminate title companies. A blockchain is the perfect solution

Ah yes, nothing like losing the title to your house because you can't remember the password to decrypt your private key.
It sounds like Sigmund Freud all over again. There have been so many new talk therapies over the last 120 years it must be really hard to come up with something that really is new.
or x not between 2 and 4
Thanks so much. Your suggestion helped me discover a bunch of HTML5 upload tutorials which is exactly what I needed.
I use travisa for visas. Their website has the visa requirements for all countries free of charge.
I think it does mean exactly what I think it means :)

It's not about debt, it's about payments. If there is no agreement to the contrary, then you must accept legal tender. You also don't have to accept anything else.

Amazon have chosen not to accept Bitcoin, and instead to accept payment via certain credit cards. Saying that they accept Bitcoin is false.

Trying to pay people unexpectedly in Bitcoin or chickens or something else will not go well. They can demand legal tender, unless there are other agreements in place.
Also the success of the iPod want a product of only the iPod but also of iTunes (store)
And that central grid in places like California is already 50% non-carbon and improving rapidly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California

"California is the only state with extensive deployment of wind, solar, and geothermal energy. California's venture capital investments in sustainable energy are greater than the other 49 states combined, at $2.2 billion in 2012. In August 2018, California's legislature passed legislation that mandates completely carbon-free electricity generation by 2045."
Can IaaS be considered as the new admin panel?
That's actually a very reasonable question. The answer is: no, but explaining why is non-trivial. The short version is that at 10 million degrees, matter behaves so differently than it does at room temperature that none of your everyday intuitions apply.
Nuclear plants have high capital costs and low marginal costs for each bit of energy they make. That doesn't mean they can't produce all the power: France is at 80% from nuclear.
Just want to say that for tens of years Multiple Sclerosis was considered a mental health disorder, and Crohn's Disease continues to be commonly misdiagnosed. And while this team's results speak for themselves in certain cases, I'd be interested to hear about the patients who it isn't effective for and where they're left after.

The medical field has to deal with a lot of Somatoform Disorders (or similar mental issues), but the problem is that once you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. So if it is an uncommon diagnosis and symptoms aren't easy to demonstrate, people often get thrown into that category (or worse a note on medical records stops new doctors considering additional options).

I'm actually extremely enthused about this therapy. My questions more relate around: If it is tried and fails, are the doctors going to consider OTHER medical explanations or just give up, pushing it into the "mental health" catch-all?
I worry about that so I never buy anything that’s not transferable in the first place. I can count on one hand the number of paid apps I’ve bought in the Mac and iOS app stores combined.
Article misses the obvious solution name the interface for its contract. e.g. SortedMap can have the exact same methods as Map but has an additional bahavoural contract. TreeMap may be a concrete implementation but using the interface is preferable.
> Some kinds of instability are slow enough that we can control them. For example bicycles are unstable, but many of us eventually learn to ride them.

Actually, bicycles are only unstable when they are moving slowly (or stopped), and most people never learn how to stabilize one in this unstable regime. It can be done, but it's very, very hard.
No, it's an issue with the hardware manufacturers making things hard to hack on in the name of security. It's lazy and not well thought out... though I guess it beats having your CC numbers stolen all the time for now?
The "capitalism" approach - cap-and-trade - didn't work because Republicans on Congress successfully opposed it and some people were concerned about economic impact. So the end result is that now people are pushing for something that prioritizes "jobs."

And now people like you are opposed because it's socialism. The truth is that some people will ALWAYS oppose anything that hurts the fossil fuel industry and will find excuses to oppose it no matter what.
So what happens at a Unitarian service?

I've imagined it's a non/cross religious service for any religious/spiritual people, but I honestly have no idea.
I recently read this HBR article on listening and I found it very insightful. The article talks about how conventional business management listening advice may not be the best and suggests what great listeners actually do.

https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-great-listeners-actually-do
I wonder if these were written in English and translated or written in German? Some of the phrasings are odd.

I didn't see any language in italics -- were all these stories made up?

Clicking around the site I found a fascinating interview with some POWs captured in 1940: https://www.psywar.org/content/vonWerra
Right now, France is running almost carbon-free: 83% nuclear, 14% wind and 10% hydro:

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/

But that works in part because they're also exporting 15% of their generation to the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. The export is reducing the need for gas plants in these neighbours, which have higher marginal costs. If France was an isolated grid, or if the neighbours had a similar generation mix, it would be harder to do this without a lot of storage, or throttling the nuclear plants.
I do tend to change my opinions when presented with new evidence and took my time to go "all in"into blockchain professionally because I thought it was not going to last and in any case it was mostly a solution to a problem I was being paid to solve with other technology... Bitcoin was my enemy!

I take HN user's reaction to Web3 to be within expectations for any revolutionary technology. If von Neuman criticised FORTRAN for being too high-level and not needed for serious computer science and IBM failed at capturing the web, Warren Buffet didn't invest in Microsoft, Apple or Google, then this to me suggests that the bigger the paradigm shift, the more those who created or benefit from the status quo will fight it. It's my belief that the web as we know it was developed without security or privacy in consideration and that this is the ultimate reason why we have the current "surveillance economy" and the cyber risks affecting people, businesses and nation states and that the Web3 will offer a cryptography-first alternative within the next two years.

We could go through my comment history and you'll see that for the most part I try to share my knowledge and experience in a positive way and never assume others are irrational, but a few interactions were generally negative. I do get a gut reaction to comments that insinuate my line of work benefits criminals, for instance, and lashed out once or twice at terrible articles or blogs that were shared here and were taken as authoritative when in fact they were complete nonsense for anyone _working_ in the space. I regret those but won't delete them. This is my work and I sustain a family with it so yes I am biased but not uninformed or incapable of learning new facts.

More broadly, I'm familiar with how trends work and some aspects of the blockchain community can be off putting and the technology itself is often misrepresented as simply a "distributed ledger" but I'm also confident that anyone who cares enough to try and join a developer focused meetup (Ethereum!) or event will see the side that I try my best to represent.
Plenty of democratic countries are also poor, hostile and struggling in all aspects. China, for example, are doing much better overall compared to democratic India, and arguably Taiwan at this point. India has been democratic since long time ago, but the government had been heavily corrupted. Little improvements can be done under their democratic system. Taiwan basically entered a downward spiral in all aspects since it fully adopted democracy. The recent elections are full of shit shows like that in US. People are getting more and more angry with their government. If Singapore and China were operating under a democratic government like US, there's no way they can achieve what they achieved so far, and they'd probably be just irrelevant right now.
Driveway Encounter with Microsoft's President Led to $25M for Code.org
Quiet – Block annoying parts of the web
> Perhaps Im just a dreamer... but i believe in an open-source, decentralized, free information, patentless World... Where one day nobody can rewrite history, can force a monopoly down our throath, lock us in, be unaccoubtable for their actions, censor us or run us around like sheep

> open-source

Blockchain software is an amazing example of open-source software, but blockchain is ultimately unimportant with respect to the entire open-source movement as whole.

> decentralized

Blockchains are decentralized, but they can't "decentralize the world" because they don't exist in the world so they necessarily require outsourcing any real world effects to untrustworthy humans who do not have to respect the state of the blockchain in the material world.

> free information

Not sure what this even means, but whatever market incentives exist that might keep information from "being free" will always exist, regardless of blockchains.

> patentless

The patent system is a political institution that will exist regardless of blockchains.

> nobody can rewrite history

As has been demonstrated many times, blockchain history can be trivially rewritten given the appropriate political influence of those who control the nodes. The DAO is a classic example of that.

> force a monopoly down our throath

Blockchains do absolutely nothing to stop this.

> be unaccoubtable for their actions

Blockchains do absolutely nothing to stop this.

> censor us or run us around like sheep.

A government can effortlessly censor you and doesn't really care if are able to flip some bits in an arbitrary digital ledger.

> One day we stop shooting ourselves in the foot and pee our pants and stop being blind to the tech giants like they have our best interrest

The cryptocurrency community does not have our best interest at heart.

> A true decentralized system might be nesssary one day to avoid us being enslaved in democrazy

This is the height of cryptocurrency delusion. I regret that I have to sound so dismissive but I think the monumental assertions you're putting forward are fundamentally disconnected from history and our current reality.
> A poor man's REPL is a shell that fails short of everything that was possible to do across the OS infrastructure with what Lisp/Smalltalk/Oberon/XDE/Cedar REPLs allowed to do.

Shell is a command-line interpreter with additional functionality like scripting. Why it should have fully functional REPL? Lisp/ST/etc are programming languages, they are uncomfortable for copying files, moving directories, calling curl or using tar.

> An approximation of it would be to have a shell that is a Jupyter netbook with access to the whole set of OS APIs, shared libraries and applications, with the ability to jump into the debugger at any given step of the pipeline, and redo the current step.

You can use python for this purpose. I don't understand why Unix shell should have all this functionality.

> I bet you saw GUI apps on UNIX workstations, though.

Yes, of course, I have GUI apps on my MacBook, but they don't use piping for inter-process communication because bi-directional pipes are not quite useful like an ordinary RPC.
Reminiscent of the comedic Graham Greene novel "Our Man in Havana" from the 1950s!
Yeah, what has Tim Berners-Lee ever done for the web....
> The cost of a nuclear plant is in its construction, upkeep, and staff. Those costs are the same at 110% and 30% output, but revenue isnt. In order to turn a profit a nuclear plant needs to be running at 80%+, 24/7.

The same can be said about wind and solar power.