skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, sad that they pulled the rail off of the bay bridge. It's really painful to from Amtrak to SF. I suspect a bay bridge link would have WAY more traffic than the high speed rail at a small fraction of the price.
This comment is hilarious. You assumed (incorrectly) that we're talking about just SF. Try the entire Bay Area.

It's also worth pointing out if it's not already clear, that "small" does not always refer to population size, or even geographical expanse. "Small" can refer to accomplishments, and impact/significance in the tech world. By comparison, Madison WI is quite small.

And for the record I don't live in the Bay Area. Nor do I want to.
Respectfully, you are retarded and should kill yourself.
"Road transport" was 16.5% of global emissions in 2008: https://www.who.int/sustainable-development/transport/health...
This is exactly what I needed. I set up this exact shortcut years ago, in Chrome, and have been slightly annoyed for months that "r sub/top" didn't work on Firefox. Thank you stranger.
In the old days, there weren't enough people who knew how to do social media marketing. But somehow a bunch more people learned.

I don't know. One might argue that the licensing requirement for escalator mechanics is causing the shortage. Or maybe impediments related to unionized work minimums are causing a bottleneck in the flow of people who are allowed to hold these escalator mechanic jobs.
One thing I've been wondering: somehow the pilots were able to bring the nose back up... it was only (apparently) after multiple nose downs that they eventually failed to recover the plane. What was going on there? It's as if they understood how to correct the stabilizer trim, but weren't aware of the cut-off switches.

My understanding is that every time the MCAS activated, its effect was incremental. It could command only a limited deflection of the relevant control surface each time -- less than 1 degree? -- but the cumulative effect of multiple activations would eventually exceed the ability of the manual controls to override it.
As China uses less and there is softening price due to that, other consumers and industry will pick up the slack.

People will drive more, or buy bigger cars, or it fly more, etc. etc...

The price of Oil I think is going nowhere but up even as we deploy electric vehicles, because there are a lot of new people coming into the new economy and they want cars, they want to fly etc.
> population is not really the problem anyway.

> Dire predictions

Those are not only predictions, but existing examples. I invite you to visit the slums of developing/"third-world" countries, or even just see images/videos of them.

> regulating reproduction is a violating of the most basic human freedoms.

We regulate MANY things that are also basic human freedoms.
Sure, but I classify these in the same cohort - yet another nagscreen that can probably do some tiny good but is hardly going to do significant.
Is it negligence or just a bad design? Who decides? The thing is starting to look like Boeing thought that MCAS failure was similar to and corrected by the same procedure as runaway trim. Time will tell if that is the case, but if it does, should the pilots be posthumously tried for negligence?
China is actually running nuclear AP1000 reactors: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/nuclear-shares-soar-china-plans-11.... It seems serious about nuclear power, unlike the U.S.
Whenever I see stuff like this, all I can do is choose to believe that concentrated power will always eventually crumble under its own fragility. That's how it's worked so far. AI may change that equation one day, but one has to be able to sleep at night.
I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_centers

> Although teachers are now being charged more quickly, it still takes several years to complete the hearing process and for the arbitrator to render a decision.

So they get stood down until they've had a misconduct hearing, that seems fair, we don't want to ruin careers on allegations alone.

> In June 2012 it was revealed that the New York State Education Department had not paid its arbitrators for several years, and collectively owed them millions of dollars for cases they had completed, or were in the process of hearing. In frustration, ten of the 24 arbitrators on the New York City panel have quit, while the remaining 14 refuse to hear any testimony or issue any decisions until their back wages have been paid in full.

This is a massive administrative failure, I don't know why your blaming unions.
I don't presume my institution is representative (nor that it isn't), but for what it's worth, most students I see are not slackers at all. Students often choose the harder courses, and many of them require a significant amount of work (a typical CS course requires 12 hours of work outside lecture and many require much more).
ElementaryJS: A Sane Subset of JavaScript
> We have the ability to improve the carrying capacity of the earth and we have done so repeatedly over time.

At the expense of causing massive climate change, it is worth noting. The era of our ability to "increase the world's carrying capacity" may be coming to an end.

I really, really hope I'm wrong and we're able to get Climate Change under control, but we are heading in the exact opposite direction right now.
> They are not predictions. I invite you to visit the slums of developing/"third-world" countries, or even just see images/videos of them.

Slums are not caused by overpopulation. They are caused by poverty and lack of opportunity, often abetted by bad government policy. Tiny countries with small populations have slums.
It’s a pretty well documented observation that the birth rate in prosperous nations tends to level out without intervention. Additionally, prosperous nations are responsible for orders of magnitude more per capita carbon emissions than the “global south.”

Is your plan to depopulate the wealthy countries responsible for CO2 emissions who already have a replacement level birthrate?

Or is it to artificially prevent population growth and economic development in undeveloped countries? It would be morally unacceptable for the global north to extract wealth from the global south for 500 years, use the wealth to build highly industrialized economies, then prevent the rest of the world from catching up economically.
Is that because the plane was in a banking maneuver at the time maybe? I dont know anything about planes but I heard that when you're turning the two sensors will disagree by some amount

The difference in angle of attack was consistent throughout the entire flight (well up until the crash where the values began to converge). The threshold for the optional 'angle-of-attack disagree' warning is, I think, ten degrees. It seems very unlikely that the plane had a twenty degree bank angle for two entire flights.
"In North America alone we have 32,000 gigatons of geological sequestration storage capacity"

I suspect that is a tendentious estimate, considering no indicative amount of CO2 has yet been geologically sequestered and observed for effects. The wikipedia article has a graphic with CO2 being pumped into a "deep aquifer".
Growth of the economy to what end? What is the endgame?

What will conjure up the constant resources and space required for the constant growth required by the economy?
that is in addition to mortgage interest. one could argue that is justified because ultimately its the bank taking a risk on giving you a loan for the property. so they deserve a premium for that risk, how much premium is another question but the fact remains that they are one of the parties in the transaction.

My issue here is with these middleman who have nothing to do with property once the sale is made & exist to take a cut of the transaction because they have monopoly on the listing service. the calculation I've done only reflects the cut to the realtor simply because they've inserted themselves in the process.

just think about it, increasingly Americans dont have any other retirement saving besides equity in their homes. so its not a hyperbole to say that you've effectively sacrificed 25% of your retirement to these (really resisting the urge to name call) people.
That is actually way closer to possible than I thought it would be.

Of course, that stil only lets you run under power during the day!
I agree, I only refer to when a particular event is noted (cherry-picked by the media) that we don't call out the 'smarter' people as a greater loss within that context.
Looks interesting but I'm struggling to see (at quick glance) what makes it unique / better than the alternatives out there.
Fat chance, with the amount of lobbying in Washington DC by Google.
And thus society is reaping near limitless value.
New study provides evidence that we need different drugs for men and women
> Force employers to actually vet people for what they know and can do

How do you propose to do that? At least with developers you can make the candidate do some toy project or whiteboard but that process is woefully flawed and controversial.

That’s tech, but what if you’re hiring for something more abstract, like Human Resources or sales?

What if you just need a person who can learn quickly and is easy to work with?

Almost every job I was in changed significantly within a year of being there. New tasks, new responsibilities, new teams. I grew with the changes or I left when I wanted a change. Screening upfront for specific skills only in all but the most narrow jobs will have limited usefulness.

It seems to me the best way to accomplish this is to have a clear statement of the role, provide excellent on-boarding and make hiring and firing much easier, so you can quickly end a relationship that’s not definitely not working.
Eric Weinstein talked about the same thing in an Interview a while back: “I think that what happened, if we think about it historically, is that we had this beautiful period of fairly reliable, high, evenly distributed technologically led growth after World War II, up until about 1970. We predicated all of our institutions on this expectation that this growth was some sort of normal thing we could depend upon in the future.”

But then, that growth ran out, and as Weinstein says, “We were left with all of our institutions looking in some form or another like a Ponzi scheme.”

Was from here: https://youtu.be/LruYnDjkOgU?t=895
LuaJIT, presumably?
Why not? Keep in mind that most phone use these days is not voice traffic. Even the voice calls are often done from home, work, or somewhere with wifi (like restaurants, bars, airports, libraries, grocery stores, schools, universities, etc).

Despite using my phone heavily I often use less than 1GB a month on LTE (probably at least 10x than on wifi). About the only change in behavior I made is having photos backed up only on wifi, preload maps for places I drive, and download podcasts only on wifi. If watching netflix on public transportation or similar I do download it ahead of time.

Volks does has a sim/LTE connection, it's used when needed.
Open or closed, free or not - the solution is as good as its capability to solve problems.

Commercial software that is lousy and buggy is not.

Free, open source software the requires an army of consultants to make use of it - is not.
Good reasons for being banned? I know developers who have been banned for

1) Reselling their pixel devices (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/google-su...)

2) Using paypal and not Google wallet (when it launched)

3) App being too similar to other popular apps

4) Related account that has a ban using multi-sign (This thread)

5) Invalid traffic to adsense

6) For expired credit cards or invalid charges in Google wallet

7) For bank account switching problems even if there is no fraud (https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/3ki65d/warning_to_a...)

8) For attempts to avoid buying apps or too many refund requests (https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin...)

Some unlucky people had all their google accounts purged including Drive and Gmail (Especially with monetary issues like invalid adsense clicks, invalid charge on wallet, too many app refunds)

Keep in mind that the ban is LIFETIME and any account that you multi-sign at any point in your LIFE will also be banned AND there is zero customer support. Some users have been banned for multisign issues even after 8-10 years.
Word Juggler: “I hope this kind of quality is the future of software.” (1983)
You are a giant faggot and I hope you die of the simian HIV you contracted after your last gangbang with a troop of niggers.
I can only read so much horse manure in one sitting, bravo google, bravo
Not surgery, not anything immediately life-saving or life-threatening, but enough things that I would feel uncomfortable discussing it with people that wouldn't understand the context.
Good point.

> this is dishonest

Of course it is, I was trying to trigger a response :)
Please note: That is for a "real estate broker". Most buyers and sellers are dealing with a "real estate agent". Agent is a lower level license, for which that duty does not apply.
And expensive.

Firm theory has studied this subject in the field of economics. There's a reason there are employees in the world, and not everyone is a contractor.
Is Clojure on CLR actively maintained?
Who told you that; unions?
The frequencies are what I was curious about as well. To have a half mile range at relatively low powers it would need to be a low frequency band.

I'm guessing they haven't bought licenses from the FCC, so my bet is that they're using the 900 MHz ISM band.

There's only 26 MHz of spectrum in that band, which isn't much, particularly for a mesh setup that won't be particularly spectrally efficient.

Even with a high 30 dB signal to noise ratio, the Shannon channel capacity in a 26 MHz band is 50 Mbps. MIMO helps a bit, but even in ideal real-world conditions you'll likely have at most 50 Mbps to share between all the users connected to a node. Spread that across a few users/mesh hops, throw in some packet retransmissions and noise, and it's not nearly enough to compete with LTE networks at any meaningful user density.

Incentivizing users to create as many nodes as possible is a good idea, as that allows lower power transmissions and better frequency reuse. It's still a huge struggle to get anywhere near commercial wireless speeds, particularly in areas where there are fewer nodes and a higher density of users.
This points out a new opportunity. Why stop at China for electric busses (yes they are probably manufacturing them locally)?

Cities are seeming increasingly more able to be proactive than countries.

Encourage local cities to one by one electrify the bus network and this effect goes global. It’s obvious tangible action that citizens can demand and mayors can visibly deliver.

Game for those playing at home, do a search on what make of buses are used in your home city. Search for if that manufacturer is trialing electric buses. Interested to see what you find.
Isn't that now essentially a company that work gets subcontracted out to? or am i missing the joke?
Well, Shanahan is acting and will be confirmed when the senate gets around to it... that's kind of the point though. DOD is still running and will continue to run, exactly as it has, with only minor political differences from the top. They have a lot of theoretical power, but little ability to actually change day to day operations of anything.
The difference is I give zero shits about twitter, reddit, HN , facebook. Google has absolute monopoly on mail, maps, android, play store, apps, dev, drive.

Is being banned by twitter the same as being banned by google?
Consider the Pepsi challenge between a straight natural gas wellhead and using lawn. The natural gas tap requires no natural-gas derived fertilizer, no grid-derived irrigation, no fuel-based harvest or processing, and doesn't deplete soil of nutrients. It doesn't remove CO2 from the air but it likewise doesn't add CO2 to the air from its use of the aforementioned.

Steam reforming the natural gas and then injecting the CO2 can't be any harder than charring the grass clippings and then injecting the CO2.

At least corn-derived ethanol is a decent motor fuel, for all its limp efficiency numbers and carbon-positive growth cycle. If you're willing to overlook the warts of this hydrogen technology, I don't see why you're not instead advocating for corn-based ethanol.

And if making green industrial hydrogen is your goal, PV-powered electrolyzers can outperform this in process efficiency, complexity, scalability, and deployment cost, all without consuming fertilizer, (as much) water, or depleting soil.
Few jobs show so much flexibility as tech. People work as they please, including shortened hours.
We already have a LOT of laws decide who is and is not allowed/able/encouraged to have a LOT of other very basic rights:

Food, shelter, healthcare, education, sex.
When will they get rid of their own biggest annoyance, namely this "Firefox is installing updates and will start in a moment" popup? Why not install updates just before shutting down? Or be decent and ask user permission ?
No it hasn't concentration of power has led to violence and revolution... at the very least to organized labor. Maybe it makes systems with certain structures fragile, like a despot but we don't have systems like these are are inherently fragile. Delusional to think that things magically fix themselves. AI consolidates power and makes revolt even more difficult once it's realized as something completely automated.

China might collapse under its own weight as it does not have robust systems and the West is looking to hurt its economy to further cause instability, but corporatism elsewhere continues to grow stronger.
Richard Stallman is important as a visionary. I think, his views may be really impractical short-term, but he is often spot-on long-term. Taking him seriously and listening to his opinion is worth the effort, I think.
If the world really needs more escalator mechanics, then salaries for them will rise commensurate to demand and people will train to become escalator mechanics. Until then, they'll continue with other pursuits that are more profitable to them. This is how things have always been, unless you want to reinstitute medieval guilds, and I don't see a problem with it.

Generally, campaigning to make people to do something out of a sense of moral propriety is the wrong approach to creating change.
This sounds great. One idea I had to stop abuse was to force traffic from a phone to route out to the public Internet through its own base station.

That would require a lot of hops, in some cases, but the traffic could short circuit through others' base stations back to their own through the Internet, without originating the traffic from the intermediaries. I wrote up more about this here:

https://stevenjewel.com/2014/01/android-mesh/

In this particular case they could originate the traffic from Volk servers instead.

Also, people here may be interested in GoTenna, a portable mesh network hotspot that has been out for a few years, at roughly $75 each.
That revision is still clickbait. The US being the #1 producer of oil doesn’t say anything about usage. Example: a country could simultaneously be a low user while being a huge producer - Norway.
Why would the fishermen not be the optimal finding source? Basically the premise here is that their use of plastic nets is already externalizing a cost onto society. Forcing them to pay for nets that cause less externalities just means we're moving the cost away from all of society and back to those who are benefitting from it.
it's only recently that the updates on ubuntu and other systemd'd linux distributions have been frequently writing resolv.conf.

the suspicion that a user is so incapable of having already set DNS servers is so strong that whatever-is-doing-this doesn't even bother to ask if or check whether the resolv.conf file is different from default.

this seems a little too critical of, possibly insulting to the intelligence of, people who use these versions of linux.
Very interesting. This website is completely unusable on Chrome 72 (MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2015) but is smooth as butter on Safari.
But will a non-technical person know which apps are to blame?
The playstore termination happened to me too. I happened to chance on some forums where you can pay money to people who can use multiple accounts and IPs to get your competitors banned by repeatedly hitting report and then copyright/infringement.

After a certain threshold, google bot bans your accounts and then sends you an automated email.
Can't think of the browser but there is a hobby browser designed for modal --vim-- usage that displays history as a tree similar to a file structure rather than as a flat back and forward. I wish I could remember the name of it... I do recall it was listed on qutebrowser's github page under similar projects but I can't look right now.
It also shows that pilot awareness (and therefore training) should have been sufficient. The key deficiency here was Boeing's. The agency not disclosing this detail is a problem too.
A runaway stabilizer is a single motion. The control surface moves, you react by shutting down the motor or fighting it by hand, and the situation should calm down. A malfunctioning MCAS will feel like multiple different runaways, in various directions. Once you react to the first, the system could be start pulling things the other way. Rather than a steady pull one way or another, you get into a back-and-forth fight.
Our unchecked population growth has already caused/contributed to the genocide of many species in the last 50 years alone – in just one person's lifetime!
Whoa! Where can I read more about this? If there aren't any news articles on the topic (in which case, this is a prime story opportunity for some enterprising journalist/blogger), can you link to the forums?
It’s bloomberg, we can’t expect much.
For a CS degree, the slackers can read the slides at home, do the assignments from home, and only come in to do the exams. You're not going to see them until the graduation ceremony. (At least, I didn't.)
In some cases, I think users may want that 50 MB OS so that they can add functionality as they need it. Sure, the 1 GB OS comes with some neat built in functionality, but how much of that is unnecessary for your use cases?
An MS program won't take someone like that, but MBA programs quite commonly take in people without undergrad degrees who have an impressive enough resume.
You are very incorrect on most of what you've posted here, but this is embarrassing since you could verify this with basic math.

An air conditioner typically consumes in the neighborhood of 4kW, less than half the day, less than half the year.

So, being generous, 6000kWh annually for air conditioning.

Gasoline has the equivalent of 34kWh/gallon, which implies air conditioning uses the equivalent of 176 gallons of gas per year.

The average person in the US drives over 13,000 miles per year. The average car gets 25 mpg. That is 520 gallons.
I'm not blaming them for the number of people in those rubber rooms or for the terrible administration of that school district. I am blaming them for how hard it is to fire a teacher the administration doesn't want, for whatever reason, to the point where new, exceptional teachers are being let go because they have to keep around older teachers with tenure who are phoning it in. That drags down the average quality of teaching in the US.

That said, I also think that good teachers should be paid much more to attract more talent, and make it a viable alternative to more careers for people who aren't willing to sacrifice their finances to teach.

EDIT: I should also note that NYC public schools are an incredibly challenging teaching environment, a lot of false accusations fly around, and I don't mean that all the teachers in the rubber rooms should be let go. I just disagree that teaching should be a tenured position.
If Firefox automatically got rid of cookie banners for me I’d consider switching back