skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a shame Nimrod is no longer flying. But it replacement(Rivet Joint) makes a mockery of regulations introduced because of Nimrod. Basically the MAA would like more information on adhering to regulations at time of production, they'd like an idea of when things start to fail. The RAF may not have even fully qualified for to fly because they were built in the 60s! They don't want the same mistakes like Nimrod because of fatigue
I might be mistaken about this, but it puzzles me when people confidently state that people should NOT approach the problem from this angle. I feel like there is a great deal of uncertainty in this problem space and any genuine attempt to solve should be welcome.
I don't think anyone wants to colonize Mars because they're looking for land. They want to colonize Mars because it's super-cool to live on another planet.

If it's feasible or makes sense is of course an entirely different question.
Was Bezos Blackmailed?
Our ads won't always show up or be the first row, you could simply use .advertisement { display: none } for now.

Do note that our advertisements are not served via a third-party provider, there's no tracking, no chances of malware or rogue JS and they're actual offers from our website based on your search filters.

It would be appreciated if you kept them, but in the end, that's entirely up to you. :)
People tend to put all kinds of random stuff in const blocks, because it looks like import blocks, and a file level thing rather than a soecific set of constants thing.
Show HN: Wake up to a nice, warm cup of GitHub
Cost. The average American family uses 24 metric tons a year (at least as of 2007, but we're ball-parking here) [1]. The article says it's $500 - $600 to extract 1 metric ton of CO2.

(24 metric tons * $550/metric ton) / 12 months = $1,110 per month.

That's $1,100 for raw CO2. Once you factor in CO2 => fuel, then transport, delivery, etc. your cost is dramatically higher.

Suppose scale could help and the entire process were $1,110 per month. For for most of us, that's still much more than we pay each month in electricity + gas.

1. http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2007/02/20/picturing-a-ton-o...
Additionally, if any of your class's members include the separator character, you can end up with possible collisions.
What the fuck is going on in this thread? It seems that either numerous pro-SA trolls are hard at work, or SV liberals are suddenly just fine with women being kept on digital leashes and treated as property?
I believe you're correct, but they did also find that the magnitude of stress concentrations around the windows were much higher than design analysis predicted.
Bhutan?

Great, unless you're LGBT, in which case they lock you up. Or you're a journalist and write something critical of the government, in which case they lock you up. Or you practice a religion other than Buddhism or Hinduism, in which case they lock you up. Or you want to wear Nepalese clothing, in which case they skip right past locking you up and simply revoke your citizenship and kick you out of the country.
The problem: People can't save for retirement.

> The challenges are clear: More than one-third of all private sector workers do not have access to a workplace retirement plan. Projections show that 44 percent of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers risk running short of funds for retirement. And 40 percent of American adults would be unable to come up with $400 for an emergency expense account, without borrowing money or selling a possession.

The proposed solution: People should save for retirement.

> First, individuals and families must make saving for retirement a priority.

> The answer is obvious: start saving early, even if it's a small amount, and get regular tax-free savings.

While we're at it starving people should eat something and homeless people should get a place to live.
I'm very much in agreement here, I'm glad someone's investing into researching the tech, as we may need to use it even after we've stopped burning dinosaurs.

What I do like about it is that it quantifies how much it costs to recover the CO2, which is useful in calculating externalities. For example, there was recently a Canadian court ruling that bankrupt oil firms first need to fund well cleanup before creditors... to which reddit joked how progressive such a concept is. No, a 'progressive' statement is that we need to calculate how much it would cost to pull all the CO2 that was generated by using the oil as fuel and finance that as well, before creditors are paid...
> Remember those 'X causes cancer' articles, should we phase out everything implicated, as a precaution?

This is a problem with how the media reports science, not science itself. It's why so many people believe that scientists thought we were going to have an ice age 30 years ago: awful reporting.

And back then, the upheaval wouldn't have been nearly as massive. There was less 'wealth' (read as 'carbon usage') and fewer people. It's a real pity.
I've been very happy having switched from gometalinter to golangci-lint: https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
You should be using ng.
A Last Second Lunar Lander – Part 1
is there any new wild idea in this field ? so far all I could find was FD/CLP over prolog like search.
You're probably not wrong.
Let's be honest though; vim saves you hours of work if you're already good at vim. If you're not then it'll just slow you down. It takes practice and daily use to learn. I love vim but let's not sugar coat it.
Orban’s Science Crackdown Brings Hungarian Academics to Streets
I am really curious what goes on in the minds of the people working at these companies in top positions. How do they sleep at night? Do they simply say to themselves "I'm just one person, I can't do anything about a global problem and I need money"?

I find it hard to believe that there is some sinister plot to do damage as long as possible to make the most money. Surely these people realize we are all doomed no matter the amount of money you have in the end? Or perhaps that's it... perhaps they know we are doomed and just want to live out their lives in the most comfort possible and buy whatever comfort money may afford for their children?
So they capture the CO2 then.. release it? Into a greenhouse? Then what? How much of the CO2 goes back into the atmosphere?
Just today I noticed "The Most Popular Health Articles of 2018, a Scientific Credibility Review":

http://healthfeedback.org/the-most-popular-health-articles-o...

Many articles from otherwise reputable sources are not credible, or accurate or are simply false. Journalists no longer do any fact checking. Sensationalism is more important than reputation.

So on to the idea that Google and Facebook should be regulated, I think it's an absolutely horrible idea. We are talking of censorship conducted by the government, the worst kind there is. And thinking of our own government, I can't think of people that are more corrupt or incompetent.

Just fucking educate people on fact checking and elementary logic. Push for some lessons in high-school or whatever.
I’ve always thought (or have been unaware of) a formal economic way of talking about this. Years ago I came up with my own definitions. “Altruism” can be defined as the part of your utility that increases because someone else’s utility increases. If you get no personal satisfaction out of something intrinsically but get satisfaction because someone else is happier, that is 100% altruistic. If you get some satisfaction but also some from the external benefit, you could tease out where it lies between 0 and 100%.

This also leads to another concept of “Malice” which would be the positive utility you get from others losing utility.

The crux to me is that often utility is talked about as only what you intrinsically get. Doing selfless things isn’t without benefit, it’s just without direct benefit and I have seen little ability to quantify it in economic terms.
> I cannot help but think if it's the Reddit's censorship is in play here.

For sustained outrage, it needs to be something that cuts to core of everything Reddit treasures. Take away their ability to harass and ridicule overweight people online and you will have a war on your hands.
The idea of creating a index of server providers is good, but all implementations are less-than-ideal, and in the worst case, useless. The core problem here is data quality, the magnitude of noise is usually high:

* The server providers do not give out machine-readable data.

* It's difficult to distinguish some details from specifications, such as vCPUs or dedicated cores.

* Promotions and discounts cannot be recognized programmatically.

* There's no reliable way to detect discontinued or withdrawn plans.

Ultimately, people will find the result of their search is either withdrawn or unusable for some reasons, and they still have to purchase the server from a well-known provider... And lurking at lowendtalk.com is still a better way to find a good deal.

Improving the quality of data sounds like a good machine-learning project.
It's probably not your companys bureaucracy stopping u from doing great things
Blockchain is of course an interesting idea but what I don't really like about it is that someone with more than 50% control can take over the blockchain. While you could see that unfriendly action happening, an adversary could probably create enough chaos to throw doubt on the system. I have been considering an alternative.

In the UK, we have a postal voting system, which can be used by those unable or unwilling to travel to a polling station. You receive a ballot paper and two envelopes to put that ballot paper in. Perhaps other countries have something similar.

You put the ballot paper in envelope A, which is a plain envelope. You then put envelope A in envelope B which has some sort of barcode on it to ensure that there is only a limited number of envelope B. I assume there is a register therefore of those who have voted (just as we have at physical polling stations to prevent double voting).

The B envelopes are torn open and then the A envelopes are gathered. Then the A envelopes are torn open and the votes mixed in with the rest of the votes at polling day.

So another idea might be to double encrypt your voting message. The first message is signed against the key of the verification authority and contains a verification code. The second is signed against the counting authority. The verification system verifies that the vote is valid and hasn't been sent twice and then this is passed to the counting authority which is able to open just the vote message itself without more information.

Drawbacks:

1. We trust the verification authority to not send more votes than it receives

2. We trust the verification certificate and counting certificates are never in the same place. Hardware security modules can help with this.

3. We trust the client-side encryption is correctly implemented

4. We trust that the two authorities have the best interests of democracy at heart

5. We trust that the proposed system isn't just a total lie

So in other words, we trust the same things that we trust with postal votes - that there is a sufficiently decentralised organisation with enough checks and balances and eyes on what is going on to correctly blow the whistle if anything fraudulent is seen.

TL;DR: You need to trust somebody.
What about the ISS? The water they consume is recycled and is clearly not provided by nature.
Quadriga Sparks Race Among Lawyers for Slice of Lost Millions
So this report came out yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti....

"The 2.5% rate of annual loss (of insect biomass) over the last 25-30 years is “shocking”, Sánchez-Bayo told the Guardian: “It is very rapid. In 10 years you will have a quarter less, in 50 years only half left and in 100 years you will have none.”

So, in 100 years all insects will die. All of them. And therefore us, long beforehand.

So this "reduction of poverty" through capitalist economic expansion has been achieved by the use of pesticides for cheap food, plastic, global warming etc. How can anyone claim that reduction of poverty is a good thing when it comes at the cost of the survival of the entire world ecosystem?
> The official position of the government of Taiwan is that all of China is one country, whose rightful government is currently based on the island of Taiwan, but whose land is 99% occupied by Maoist rebels.

I don't think that's the sincerely held position of Taiwan anymore. However, maintaining it is part of their current détente with the PRC: it has threatened to attack Taiwan if it renounces it's claim to the rest of China (which would be a de-facto declaration of independence).
The points all make sense, but anytime I've tried to show clients anything less than a high fidelity mock-up (wireframes, design palette, b/w mockups, etc.), I've been meet with something been indifference and guarded acceptance.

Most of my clients (who have marketing but not design backgrounds) want that "wow" factor when they see the first mockups. By easing into the designs I felt like I lost that.

As a designer I realized I wasn't just delivering a JPG, but a design experience. My clients seemed to equally enjoy putting their mark on the design and imaging the same "wow" factor their CEO would feel when they saw the latest iteration.

So, while I love this process for personal projects or for companies familiar with the design process, for the average marketing team I'm still going full color mockups.
> people current institutions are responsible for the positive changes, and that therefore they are good, and thus we should be supporting them?

Current institutions as a vague continuity or the same?

Because if Pinker and other try to argue that current institutions have been historically enough, we just continue growth, they are very much wrong.

Benefits from innovations and growth have been accompanied with massive institutional changes in every 30 years or so. The current era is becoming an exception where institutions are becoming stale after 40-50 years of the same. That threatens continuity because institutions have to change in response to the change in the environment or they collapse.
Indeed. JetBrains IDE's save me hours of work because I'm comfortable working with their IDE's. I am also more comfortable with Emacs than I currently am with VIM, but I use either one depending on circumstances. To be fair op did write how it saves them hours.
I like the hackernews tradition of using every dot release as a platform for restating your case against go or whatever happens to be getting a dot release that day. Atom updates are the best for this.
Because CO2 isn’t petroleum, or any other hydrocarbon, and that’s what you need. It’s not easy, nor cost effective, to convert it.
So how does that solve a problem lineage os doesn't?

You're buying into a phone that should get continued support for years to come, assuming the company survives, and they don't end up finding the maintenance burnden utterly untenable (once they on model version 3, I can't see it being the easiest thing to support the older models - Apple does, but Apples huge). It seems to be relatively underpowered (though that's really up to how many resources the system uses), and I can't imagine will age well. There will be little to no mainstream app support (they seem to be touting "just run it in a browser" as a solution to that - I thought we left those dark ages).

It seems like a neat, niche product, like a raspberry pi phone, but it doesn't give me a lot of hope for the future.
The most effective way to learn something is actually to sit down and learn it.

There is a significant time / resource difference between one word a day and constant study time where you do learn way more than 1 new vocabular per day in avg.
Yes, one of them. Pretty sure there were a couple more charged, and plenty of plausible allegations that other exchanges are doing it too.
It is certainly cheaper to stop smoking than cure lung cancer, if that is what you mean.
The magic behind the perceptron network
Show HN: Radio station WWV audio simulation
Manfred Eigen, Nobel-winning chemist who clocked fast reactions, dies at 91
Biosphere 2 was meant as a self-sustaining ecosystem capable of supporting human life. It wasn't entirely successful, but was along the lines of what you described.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Lufthansa Sues Hidden City Ticketholder for Throwing His Ticket
Lyft Founders to Tighten Grip with Supervoting Shares in IPO
If you eat meat there's very high change that it has been fed by soy from Brazil.
I don’t think it’s a stretch but the whole “archival and porting” angle just doesn’t work.

The code for these games isn’t going to be available, so the fact the code for the engine isn’t available doesn’t mean anything
Google's Chrome OS “Wilco” Driver
I find it ironic that security-conscious organizations run outdated and insecure browsers.
If you’re doing this in a serious setting, use a stable JSON stringification (like json-stable-stringify) that sorts object keys, and then take the SHA of the resulting string.

Better collision properties, easier to implement, and a cryptographic hash to boot, just as long as you don’t have circular references and only care about the serializable “contents” of an object.
That was absolutely beautiful! Props to OP.
Now I'm starting to wonder if you even read the "No Output" letter and understand its implication? You essentially called a bunch of Microsoft employees productivity drains on the rest of the company.

The fact that you think a cancelled project means it is the same as DEC's "No Output" team likely means you don't understand what the "No Output" team even was at DEC or the implication for the people within it.

You absolutely do need to present proof of what you're saying, because it is a serious charge for both Microsoft and those employees alike.
TeamSQL becomes DataRow and drops all features except Amazon Redshift
But how does that affect the above comment trying to spin this as an archival thing? If you want to port to a new platform one day when Unity is bottom up the fact they’re not accepting patches isn’t going to matter
> Maybe a platform where you need to pass some sort of quiz created by the mods of the different communities in order to post/comment?

FB groups have had this ability for a while. I'm in one (a meme page for a semi-popular TV show) and to keep the quality of conversation high, new members have to answer 3 questions about stuff from the show correctly to join.
DoorDash is reportedly raising $500M at a $6B+ valuation
I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion. I had to work on software in a heavily audited (finance) environment and there were a lot of beaurocratic obstacles related to that, but the code was fine and unaffected by the whole process. I would have been happier not having to think about audit requirements and just focusing on making working software.
Ditto the Dvorak keyboard enthusiasts...
This is a sad news for me. I loved their product, and really enjoyed the fact that it worked great on Ubuntu. Oh well... :-(

From their website:

Hello,

TeamSQL has been a great platform to experiment with modern UI and powerful features to help you manage your popular databases with collaborative features.

Over two years later after launching TeamSQL in 2016, we've learned a lot about how to make database management better. As we look to the future, we want to take a more focused approach that will help us bring the best database management experience. As a result, we’re planning to rebrand TeamSQL as DataRow, starting with focusing on Amazon Redshift and say goodbye to TeamSQL. All TeamSQL services will be shut down on February 27, 2019 (00:00 UTC).
We introduced the beta of new DataRow to our Amazon Redshift users in January this year, and now it is publicly available to everyone. DataRow comes with new features, which helps you work faster. Visit DataRow's website at DataRow to learn more about how the features in DataRow can help you manage your Amazon Redshift better.

We are always here to help you switch from TeamSQL to the new DataRow with ease. Please contact us at contact us if you have any questions. See you there.

Sincerely,

Eren Baydemir CEO
> $100/ton CO2 would raise the price of gasoline by a dollar a gallon

I need to check that number... according to https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-emission-fuels-d_1085..., there is 9.20 kg CO2 released per gallon gasoline. So a dollar per gallon would be $100 per 920 kgCO2, close enough to a metric ton. OK :-)
> Even the data that Hickel picked (excluding China) shows is that the trend is down.

In the infographic Gates tweeted, it claims to show a 75% reduction in global poverty between 1980 and today. In Hickels chart, it goes up 5% from 1980-2000 and down maybe 7% from 2000 to today. You’re claiming they both show a downward trend today so therefore they’re basically the same? That’s not just misleading, but also misses Hickels point. What I got out of his main point isn’t whether the trend is up or down so much as that poverty is not a solved problem. Gates’ infographic makes it look like a solved problem, like we don’t have to do anything because it’s going away on it’s own.
> The issue isn't Google or Android. It is phone manufacturers.

To be fair, Google only guarantees support of even the Pixel for 3 years... so it still kind of is.
This could also mean that their coverage is getting less accurate overall. It's not a one-dimensional space (left/right), more like a multidimentional (left/right,accurate/inaccurate,...) space. It serves nobody to be in the "centrist/inaccurate" spot on that graph.

BBC4 documentaries and things like Arena remain amazing, so they can do quality if they want to and it's not overwhelmingly a cost matter. It's more like populism vs Reithianism, and if the BBC isn't Reithian it will end up not existing.
A site owner correcting someone on how to properly block ads on their site - an internet first?
Thank you, I tried to be as civil as possible when typing out my reply. Still I appreciate you chiming in.

>Believe me I know it's not easy.

IKR! Seeing rude comments like that outta nowhere really grinds gears. Please let me know if you have banned me :)
Me too, but welcome to enterprise IT. There's a certain logic in some cases where it's also just tightly locked down so you avoid people hitting un-whitelisted parts of the internet.
It seems that most experts disagree with the argument here.

Blacmail also includes threats to reputation. When it comes to value and property immaterial property and reputation count.

The fact that The Enquirer was willing to trade large sum of income from the sales of the magazine with revealing pictures to the public statement from Bezos reveals that they saw lots of value in what they were doing.
Sure. I haven’t looked at these exact blocks, but the point is that they were using tons of unsafe that they didn’t need to. Unsafe exists to be used, when it’s neccesary.

11 now? Iirc it was on the order of 100 before.
Walls as Rooms (2012)
I think the idea is that, dogs for example have a high meat diet, and large dogs probably eat more than a person.

And they might not drive but a lot of owners like to drive some where to 'walk' their dog. Although considering the levels of obesity, that the exercise might be a net benefit.

Now I don't think dogs or cats cause anything like as much co2 as humans, but it is significant, and given the scale of reductions in co2 required, I think we are probably going to get to a point where large pet ownership is at least questioned.
I’ve seen this as well, try posting anything negative about Monsanto or Epic Systems.
The facts that you choose to include in a book and which to not include is implicitly an argument. I doubt the book goes over how the sky is blue, grass is green, and water is wet. What facts it considers relevant to mention is the entire argument itself.
Nice little distraction from a Work Day! Thanks! :D