skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clean energy + batteries seem to be eating that up rapidly in places where they invest in that kind of thing. Simply ramp up investments there and this problem can be solved.

Even the US is doing this. Meanwhile, force remaining plants to install filters and fine them appropriately for killing their neighbors every month they don't do this. Of course, there's no such thing as cheap coal when you factor that in. Most of this stuff is already unsustainable from an economic point of view. That's why plants are shutting down, plans for new ones are getting shelved, etc.

Coal without subsidies and government protection, is not going to last long.
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Vertex cover problem (Wiki)
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/12/how-to-remove-whitehea...
Divergent Thinking: Creativity's Mental Muscle
> As a vegetarian (by ethical choice, not medical necessity), I do my best not to lose sight of the simple fact that I'm the problem here.

This sounds like a contradiction to me. You recognize that meat eating should not happen, so it's a problem, but in the same sentence you're backtracking and calling vegetarianism a problem.

If you accept that eating meat is bad, then you're implicitly calling meat eaters a problem. Unless you consider that everyone, you should indemnify yourself. I would never call someone trying to do the right thing in a sea of those who don't a problem...
Australia is lost

We went from the Lucky country pre 1998

Now to the MOST EXPENSIVE country in the west

We are now an socialist Democracy heading to an socialist dictatorship by 2020-2025

If AU+UK+NZ doesn't even up in an civil war before 2025 id be very surprised

AU Parties:-

* Greens

* Labor

* Liberals
are all Global LEFT socialists

As is NZ and UK government
Voevodsky developed Univalent Foundations in order to catch subtle mistakes in his (and others) result:

"Only then did I discover that the proof of a
key lemma in my paper contained a mistake and that the lemma, as stated, could not be salvaged. Fortunately, I was able to prove a weaker and more complicated lemma, which turned out to be sufficient for all applications. A corrected sequence of arguments was published in 2006.

This story got me scared. Starting from 1993, multiple groups of mathematicians studied my paper at seminars and used it in their work and none of them noticed the mistake. And it clearly was not an accident."

More details on page 8 in the IAS newsletter article

https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/publications/le...

There is also a Quanta article:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/univalent-foundations-redefin...
I thought it was about the hydrogen cyanide that marzipan contains in small amounts...
Spruce beer continues to have a following
The daughterboard is relevant here:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expan...

It takes the Chiplink connection and routes it to a PCIe bridge. There's also a large FPGA on there, but I'm not quite clear how it's all connected up.

I don't know much about what people are using this for. Also the whole setup costs like $4000 so I guess it's not quite ready for casual home users just yet. If you want to go the FPGA route, then it might be better looking at a Virtex-7 and putting the RISC-V rocketchip core on there, along with whatever local customizations you want to try out.
Manage virtual machines with virt-manager
A while back there was a story on HN that link to a page that listed every country and how much of their energy consumption get created from different sources.

One very noticeable aspect is that almost every country create their energy through either coal or nuclear power, with all other usually representing a singular digit. If it has 20% coal, then around 70% will be nuclear. If its 70% coal, 20% nuclear. Nothing is more clear cut when comparing France and Germany next to each other.
Slightly off topic: you have a broken link in your blog post titled 'Submission regarding “The Assistance And Access Bill 2018”'. The link [2] in the line "For more information around this submission, see our <blog post> about the bill" leads to a 404 page not found.

[1]: https://fastmail.blog/accessbill-submission/

[2]: https://fastmail.blog/access-and-assistance-bill/
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I was just thinking that this would be a great way for Zuckerberg to garner some positive press for a change.
If the rings of Saturn are 'young', 100 million years old or younger (as mentioned in the article) then maybe, just maybe, there might be a relation between them and the dinosaurs' extinction 65 million years ago...
Absolutely. I simply pasted a quote from the article and got negative points from it. I like HN, it's exposed me to a lot of interesting concepts I didn't know about. But, there's a large group of users here that actively suppress opinions or thoughts that don't align with their own. I suppose that's inevitable in a comment system based on points.
Unless the child processes have different fathers, which can and does occasionally happen.
You are ignoring the possibility that people saying that don't watch porn. I don't.

Regardless, I disagree with the argument, as things you don't need to hide now can become things you wish you had hidden later (think of Jewish people in Germany in the 1920s whose religion and ethnicity were obvious).
Well, yeah. But there are other projects for that.
Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers
you are suggesting that there is no value in blockchain and that cryptocurrency is not a good idea so Facebook and it's famous VP of Messenger and other Paypal execs were just trying to get into the hype. Or you can take another look and maybe the technology has something to offer. Don't mistake Facebook for an silly company.
Management of and varying response to compassion fatigue.

There's a happy period where you're doing extremely fulfilling work, then a difficult time when you're distraught at your failures, then a complete indifference to suffering that you've normalized.

Managing fatigue and stress in any job is extremely important, managing compassion fatigue is even more so.
Got any data to back that up
How do you manage to do the typing when you're in the bath?or stepping out of the shower? or when you've left your laptop in another room? or if someone else is using your laptop for something important? The point is not that the voice commands are easy to learn or remember, it's that you have with you at all times (even if entirely naked, hey it's your house) the equipment needed to issue these commands...
The point is development time. Even in time critical applications the majority of the code is not time critical, you only optimize the small part that really matters.
Stay at home spouse would work, if you're flexible about the solitude. Some kind of religious order, if you're flexible about the "own projects" (there will be community service and other people's projects).

In most places you can be a full time artist if you literally only have a room (in a shared apartment) by means of teaching classes, busking, applying to every government program in sight, etc. That's only most places. You may need to move to a larger city.
I presume the point was why do FB / WA need to use the blockchain?
Not a user and not an Australian but that sounds like a bad deal for customers. Especially since warrants will probably not be thoroughly checked in the future. So the invasion of privacy seems to be seen as a trifle.
"Meat" is the flesh of any animal. So poultry is just a type of meat; frogs legs, fish, octopus, worms, all "meat".

Not sure about insects, but I think they'd be called "meat" too in culinary terms.

(Native British-English user.)
Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater
When you access an index of an array via a[x], it should only access the memory of:

a + sizeof({type of a}) * x.

The compiler has no concept of a “string” in this context. A string is just a null terminated character array.
Startup Industries to Keep an Eye Out for in 2019
You can use Java in a lightweight manner. That's what I'm doing lately. Use built-in com.sun.net.httpserver or add undertow dependency. Enough for HTTP, uses few MB memory (I'm running one app on a 256 MB OpenBSD server), starts in a fraction of second. Use JDBC without all those ORM nonsense, you'll have somewhat verbose but pretty obvious code. It's pretty productive environment for me.
> It took me a long time to figure out what .njk files were.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-ab&q=.njk+fil... I mean how long are talking here? 5s or 2 days?.
From your link: “Those who were convicted were freed by higher courts and had their convictions overturned or pleaded guilty on lesser charges. Five served their full sentences before their cases were overturned. Some lost parental rights. By 2000, the last person in custody, Michael Rose, was released, after a judge vacated his March 1995 convictions.”
USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists
Slack's free tier doesn't limit number of team members, I'm in one with thousands. Slack's free tier limits the number of messages you can access to the most recent 10,000. There are also limits on the amount of storage, number of integrations with other services, and video calls can't be multi-party, only 1-to-1.

https://slack.com/plans
Want to give up citizens privacy? Give up the legislators privacy.
> But you can’t force others to provide you more meat free options.

Forcing is a strong word, but if businesses and friends are more aware there's a demand for meat free alternatives, more options slowly become available until a tipping point is reached. There was a recent study that was saying beef consumption has to reduce by 90% to help avoid dangerous climate change (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-red...) so I think we're well beyond the point where people that want to eat less meat should feel they're the ones causing a problem by voicing their preference.
The BBC article also has a video that shows how the device works.
Thanks for the detailed write up! 8 weeks definitely wouldn’t work for me. I’ll
Have to check if they have a one week course or anything like that.
That's also a huge problem in places like China.

And, much closer, Silesia.

I drive through this region every once in a while and I fail to understand why anybody would willingly subject themselves to such an environment.
"But if it takes a week and working around the quirks of one off the shelf takes an hour, and the resulting program meets the same requirements either way, it's the wrong engineering choice."

(Un)fortunately, that's not how the world works: it never takes an hour to get the work done even with the off of the shelf solution, and software which gets put together this way usually ends up needing to be babysat and the long term costs to maintaining it are exorbitant. Curiously, the quality of the software ends up being extremely poor not because of using readily available components, but because of the mentality of the people springing for such solutions.

And somehow I have the impression that you and I have different defintions of "engineer": a programmer is not and never had been one. An engineer (which is what I do) gathers requirements, writes a technical specification based on those requirements, designs the software architecture which meets the specifications put forth, proceeds writing said software using scientific theories and principles (the actual process of engineering) and finally writes comprehensive documentation for that software.
Actually a doctor could probably do this in the us too. Weird stuff gets rigged up all the time, it’s just not as common as elsewhere because bugbhospitals have a ton of random stuff in inventory and cost is not constrained.

Also physicians can file INDs with much less paperwork than a company could. But it’s nonzero, so doesn’t happen all that often.
Yes, I cannot imagine how people work in some of these fields. A lot of the pediatric specialization comes to mind also like oncology, cardiology. That some people can and do take the burden is the reason lots of those kids get to live.
Enterprise Software Implementation: What Can Go Wrong and How to Fix It
Maybe a more accurate statement is the efficacy of the doses available for retail purchase.

The paper you cited used “cannabidiol oral solution at a dose of 20 mg per kilogram of body weight”

So for a young adult of 50kg this is 1000mg/day.

Amazon’s maximum dose I could find is 1000mg for $50 [0]. So to get these kinds of benefits someone would need $1500/month.

I would like to see more studies at the kind of doses these retail doses marketed to grandmas (mine in particular).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Hemp-Drops-Relief-Essenzia/dp...
A stack variable is almost always already in the cache.
because you still want the currency to have value if facebook closes one day, or stop supporting the idea. Facebook would endorse the currency, but the currency ecosystem would have a life of its own.

At least that’s my guess..
"This board is cool."

What exactly is cool about this board?
The impression I get is that the NHS is pretty efficient budget wise but with a budget so large it's easy to make the inefficiencies sound bad "NHS wastes millions on Foo" sounds much worse than "NHS wastes 0.001% of it's budget on Foo".

For people who don't know the NHS budget is approx £130bn (~$165bn US), they are a huge organisation that provides healthcare to 66 million people.

It's impressive.
Integrating an Existing Cordova Plug-In in a Capacitor App with Ionic
I am still hoping for a day when lactose-free is a fad.
Man ask for his data from Amazon and they sent him ~2k recording of someone else
I bet that made for some interesting discussions at S&B gatherings. Which to support?
But then the private variables can impact code outside of the class, and and they are no longer truly private.

Imagine you are using a library and extending it adding a few properties for usage in your app, and one patch upgrade your app breaks because the `example.tag` stops working because the library decided to add `this.tag` as a private variable.

Imagine React decides to use this, and they add a private `this.internalState`, but all react components are extended from that. So now all react components can't use `this.internalState` and if the react team ever changes the name of the private variables, then it is a breaking change and can cause code to stop working.

You can say "well don't do that" all you want, but a good portion of the web uses techniques like that, and breaking code because you feel they are doing it wrong doesn't make a healthy ecosystem.
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This is also why data alignment/structure padding can be slower than packing all the data together. Cache usage is very important in CPUs now, because in a lot of cases the bottleneck is the memory. Padding is effectively wasted memory.
About this:

"I mean, essentially it's a command line interface with a wonky input method, no?"

This is precisely the feedback we got from salespeople, when we were working on a Natural Language Programming interface for Salesforce. Initially, I got angry and denied the comparison. But after several people made the same comparison, I came to appreciate how true it was. Unless NLP is perfect, it is really just a Command Line Interface with an awkward input device. I talk about this a little towards the end of this story:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
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how is it supposed to know you put an item at the wrong level? thats not syntax now that i think about it, just an example of how syntax can help visualize.
I think you can read "problem" here as "practical inconvenience" without changing the argument.
Integration. At some level the code has to integrate with other systems and in banks they tend to be Java systems.
While I agree, the best way to effect change for whatever values you think are good, is to lead by example, and to apply some pressure to the society around you. None of those imply force, as force has the potential to do more damage than good.
It's all open source.
Are we bored with climate change?
https://leanprover.github.io/
And? That doesn't say all charges were overturned - it says some pled guilty
> Call it a “cryptocurrency” if that makes it sound sexy

Tbh, to me it sounds scary instead
For the interested, that Nokia Open ID Connect plugin is here [0]. I had to hack around with it a bit to get some extra functionality and support ADFS [1].

[0] https://github.com/nokia/kong-oidc

[1] https://github.com/philbarr/kong-oidc-adfs
The only amendments in the bill of rights that are still somewhat protected in the US are the 1st and 2nd (and maybe the 9th and 10th, depending on your political view).

The 3rd is outdated (the US army has very expensive military bases), 4th is clearly attacked through mass surveillance and border searched, 5th is invalidated by civil forfeiture (which arguably violates the "just" terms), 6th is partially invalidated because of how overworked courts are and the existence of secret courts invalidates public trials, 7th is somewhat outdated because ignores inflation and thus further overworks the courts (requiring 6-member jury trials for all civil suits over $20), 8th is blatantly disregarded by many courts who routinely place excessive bail (hence the need for bail bonds) and cruel and unusual punishments are inflicted in prisons all the time.

Depending on your political view you can argue whether or not the 9th and 10th amendments are being attacked by overzealous government. But at the very least, it's in dispute.
Even doing such diamond with modern software can be some work to make it look as perfect; imagine doing it with a pen and a pot of ink. Make one error and you start over.
Sure. The only condition is that you don't share the information in public, on pain of massive fines and imprisonment - you can only use it to improve your internal business processes.
I'd also recommend his The Code Book - https://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/

Nice easy reading on the history of codes.
That's just totally ridiculous.

Cannabis clearly effect the cannabinoid reseptors.
In Ontario we closed every single one of our coal plants over a decade ago and it is a night and day improvement in air quality. Our power generation is mostly nuclear and hydroelectric, with about 5-10% filled in by a combination of natural gas and wind generation. I drive around in an electric car which is fueled almost entirely by non-CO2 emitting energy. That feels good.

A global ban on all coal energy would be a modest but important improvement on many fronts, even if it means a switch to natural gas.
levels.fyi only really works for companies that have large numbers of reports. The raw data has so many reporting inconsistencies that it's really hard to interpret for most companies.
You talked bad about a socially protected minority, don't expect any kind of reasonable response from them
From my perspective, this sounds far too much like “Why do you need privacy or cryptography if you have nothing to hide?”

Everyone here should be well aware by now that wanting privacy != nefarious behavior.
On the subject, one of our extended family suffers from Coeliacs disease. We as a family tried 2 weeks of gluten-free eating.

It was illuminating! Certainly worth doing.
They could have a roadmap to slowly distribute initial stake over the time, for example (if used PoS, which I think the most probable plan).

And the case would be not to own the biggest stake and control everything, but instead having a popular cryptocurrency with APIs natively integrated with Facebook's services. It'll bring new users and developers to their platform, which has the real value.
This is interesting. What are the prerequisites to understand Univalent Foundations and how active is it?
If the account is already closed, this is not possible. And this is a major problem.
European labelling must have E numbers[1] for many chemical products, and no one tries to paint these as anything other than an effort to standardize labeling, so as to help consumer decisions. However, consumers started seeing attacks to products containing this or that harmful E-something, and immediately learned “E means it's bad”. I have had debates with colleagues wherein E300 was used to show a product was potentially harmful, where that is just ascorbic acid (vitamin C). It is true the immediate widespread understanding of “GM product” would be “evil product”.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20Number
On the other hand, the JIT has to balance the runtime of its optimization passes with the expected improvement in execution speed of the code. An AOT compiler can afford much more expensive optimizations.
It would be a horrible idea because it would be handled by laws and the government. I take issue with your example of not paying the people that failed to pass a budget. Government budgets are huge complicated enigmas full of waste and overspending, and if you punish individuals personally for failing to agree to pass a budget bill, then those individuals are no longer incentivized to dissent on unnecessary spending provisions of the bill.

Understand that if a bill passes then all provisions and portions of the bill are approved, including any riders attached to the bill (and there are often many). For many people in Congress, the reason to vote NO on a bill is not because the bill is an awful or terrible idea (many times the bill makes sense and would be beneficial), but because the author of the bill added in unnecessary restrictions or budget kickbacks to the bill or in riders to unfairly benefit a group that is sponsoring the bill.

If you think our government's problems are bad, you should see their solutions.
After two years of Alexa it will move out 2019.

Experience was underwhelming, especially play lists from Spotify were hit and miss, one day no problem, the next day sometimes an excuse, sometimes just a beep, sometimes silence. I would need to turn on the light by myself in the future though.
I work in the Danish public sector and we’re miles ahead on some areas. Our authentication and user-role setup, around a national SAML token and context handler, which functions with ADFS seamlessly is one example. It works, we integrate with it and it makes security plug and play.

Except very few companies in the private sector knows what ADFS or even token based authentication is. So we have to sell them schooling in how to build what is essentially basic user authentication.

The internal services we get to build are also miles ahead of anything you’ll see in the Danish private sector. Probably because we can move a lot faster because we don’t expect our customers to pay for our updates. Our goal is to provide efficient, secure and stable software at the lowest price, and if that means we move things to the cloud, then that’s what we’ll do as soon as possible.

That’s the positive side. The negative side is the big failures, and we certainly have those. Mostly on a national basis, but that doesn’t make the seriousness of them any less severe.
Makes me think it'd be really interesting to see a list of buzzwords (and how they've changed) over the past couple decades.
I once asked the nurses in the intensive care ward, where my baby son was, why they didn't work with adults rather than children. Surely the heartbreak was hard to cope with? They said it was because children didn't know they were supposed to be ill so they didn't lie around moaning like adults did—as soon as they felt a little better they would jump up and go and play with their toys. It was much more satisfying having patients who (if they got better) you saw go from coma to running around again full of joy.
California doesn't care about what's legal or not, they've legalized selling weed which is still super illegal (federally, which is what we're talking about).
FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch