skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think the service isn't worth the cost that's fine, but it's nowhere near 25% of lifetime earnings. I'm 40 and have purchased three properties and sold one of them. The total commissions on all four of those transactions weren't even 25% of my earnings last year.
Medium is good for marketing but not much else. If your goal is to get eyeballs then Medium is a decent option. I've had several posts which got more views than had I self hosted by getting posts featured in publications. Had I not been featured in the publications then I wouldn't have been any better off by posting on Medium.

I doubt Medium will continue to be a good option for content marketing but it's good for the moment.

I would definitely not post anything on medium that has more personal or long term value.

Different tools for different jobs.
People comprise more value than physical resources. People can innovate, adapt, create. Those that hold the value hold the power. Any situation where the minority is in control has always been temporary historically, because of this fundamental fact. It may take years, generations, or centuries, but things have always gravitated back towards balance.

The only thing that could disrupt this is AI, because it could conceivably allow a single powerful person to have the equivalent of an army of perfect (cognitive) servants. Our minds have always been our most valuable and exclusive resource. If that status quo is disrupted, all bets are off.

Of course nobody actually knows what AI will do to the world. Maybe it'll allow elites to do away with the rest of humanity. Maybe it'll take control of society for our own good. Maybe it'll never actually be able to duplicate our mental plasticity and there's nothing to worry about. Maybe global warming will end civilization before we reach the singularity. Who knows. I simply choose not to spend much time thinking that far ahead, because I'm not really in a position to do anything about it.
It's weird how programmers are the only workers who think it's okay to give away their work for free for businesses to use and sell in their own products. Nobody expects firefighters or nurses to work for free. Even if lawyers sometimes have to work pro bono, it's to serve marginalized or poor communities/demographics, not to enrich massive, incredibly wealthy companies.
Looks like Miscanthus grass. Although shouldn't it not matter? Why not partner with a corn grower and use corn stalk or chopped corn cobs? Or gasify cardboard.
> Separate studies suggest that maritime carbon dioxide emissions are not only higher than previously thought, but could rise by as much as 75% in the next 15 to 20 years if world trade continues to grow and no action is taken. The figures from the oil giant BP, which owns 50 tankers, and researchers at the Institute for Physics and Atmosphere in Wessling, Germany reveal that annual emissions from shipping range between 600 and 800m tonnes of carbon dioxide, or up to 5% of the global total. This is nearly double Britain's total emissions and more than all African countries combined.[1]

> Passenger Cars: 749.4[2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/mar/03/travelse...

[2] https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100USI5.pdf

According to the data it appears I am not completely wrong. The maritime transportation sector is of roughly equal CO2 contribution to the US passenger vehicle fleet in 2007. According to the trend indicated by The Guardian in the next 15-20 years (from a 12 year old article, which would be a few years from now) maritime transportation emissions could rise by 75% while the US passenger auto fleet emissions remain flat thereby indicating a slice of tankers contribute more CO2 emissions than passenger vehicles.

These sources weren't hard to find or read, so I am not sure why you think my statement is false.
That doesn't matter. One can write IF as a function taking functions as THEN and ELSE forms:

CL-USER 9 > (defun my-if (test then else)
(if test (funcall then) (funcall else)))
MY-IF

CL-USER 10 > (let ((a 10))
(my-if (> a 5)
(lambda ()
(print 'hello))
(lambda ()
(print 'world)))
'done)

HELLO
DONE

The lambdas you see above serve the same purpose as blocks in Smalltalk.
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AFL might eventually get lucky, but I'm guessing you'd want a hybrid approach that combines symbolic execution with a fuzzer like AFL, e.g. QSYM [1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
Thanks - that's a good overview :)

Most of my apps just code against the servlet spec with a JDBC connection to a MYSQL database, sometimes with JSP. Perhaps because most of my business logic lives on the client I've usually found that plain servlets + plain JDBC calls were sufficient

Although I've found it pretty straightforward to configure servlets in Tomcat I can see that Spring MVC makes it a little easier. Maybe the introduction of a framework 'Model' is also an advantage - I'll investigate further.

Regarding Spring security - would I use this package if I was implementing a "Login with Email/Password or Facebook or Google" feature to a website?
Doesn't this subvert googles entire reason for building Android. Shouldn't they just start charging in europe to use the software there? Like is would incentivize them to push updates for europe
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Student here - I was struck by the "summer learning loss" quoted in the article. Everyone I talk to has this, myself included. The greatest reason for this, personally, is subject diffusion. This is especially true from freshman to junior year; we are required to take a dizzying number of classes that not only have nothing to do with our job field, but also have nothing to do with each other. I understand that it's important to "gain broad interests", but I retained very very little until my junior year, when all of the irrelevant courses had been completed. This issue may be coupled with the signaling problem, in that not only is the senior year the only year of college that employers care about (because you get handed a credential), but also because you take so little away from school until that point.

I'd say that paying for college should be scaled with the earning benefit it imparts, freshman year costing very little, and senior year costing a majority of the total degree. Thoughts?
I don't get it, I don't understand how the author of the article has a PhD if this is what he thinks. Like,

> Why do advanced-math classes bother with proofs almost no student can follow?

Because that literally _is_ mathematics, and the point of working through them is because students can actually understand them and learn to do the same thing with new problems. How does he expect anyone to create or discover anything new with just arithmetic 101?

There's a kernel of a good argument in that signaling probably is one of the main values that students get from a college degree, but it's overstated to such a degree that it crosses over into idiocy.
Assuming OP’s numbers are right, it’s actually a factor of 50, not 10. Somewhat less close to possible.
Oh. There's actually a bunch of really good stuff in that plan - the rail crossing is being replaced by pedestrian/bike undercrossings, Evelyn is being extended to Shoreline, and a protected bike lane goes from Steven Creek trail to the transit center.

IMHO they should just get rid of the 101 & 85 Moffett interchanges. It's close enough and low-traffic enough that residents can just use Shoreline/Ellis/Whisman. That would make Moffett a prime bike boulevard between downtown & Caltrain and the Googleplex via Stevens Creek Trail, which would make Caltrain + bike into Google (and the Ellis office park area) very attractive, which would take cars off of 101 & Shoreline, which is desperately needed.
> 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.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but is there any evidence that it is a huge problem and not isolated cases?

> 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.

The problem is not having a way to quantify what a good teacher is. Is it the one that imparts a love of learning on there students or the one that gets better test results? Is it the one in the wealthy area or the one in the poor area where kids aren't even being fed? If the students do poorly is it the teachers fault or did a teacher in a previous year skip crucial topics?

Paying good teachers more isn't possible until you can identify good teachers.

> I just disagree that teaching should be a tenured position.

Well there I agree, it should at least be very rare. It does sound strange to me, I don't think it's a thing in my country and even in academia tenure isn't as strong.
Why does it only apply to web browsers?
It doesn't seem to be entirely isolated. Apparently going back to the old app switcher requires you to freeze or uninstall the system launcher, no matter what launcher you're using.
No, you're wrong.

They are evaluating Android within the context of "licensable mobile operating systems", within which Android has 100% market share.

Similarly, iOS has 100% market share in the "proprietary mobile operating system" market, and would therefore be subject to the same implications as Google & Android.

The reason why the EC decided to go after Android but not iOS I'll leave for the reader to inquire.
Exactly, they can definitely detect your own views, why they can't just toss them out, I don't know. One time I got curious what the ads on my site were for and checked a few of the links out. I was banned permanently shortly after.
Why do we need to include the US in the title at all when the story is about e buses in China?
I wish more people knew about how amazing jobs in the trades can be. I've lived in the bay for most of my 20s now and have seen quite a few blue collar folk do extremely well.

Right now in the bay we have IBEW journeyman electricians making around 200k a year. Shoot. Pipefitters, Ironworkers, they all do well.
Well, at the start they'll die without human intervention, sure. But wait for 30yrs, let the land be revived and let nature take her course. I am pretty sure that we'll see lush green forest near the Gobi desert and the desert might also be pushed back.

I dislike the dictatorship in China but this effort is unparalleled.
All fly by wire jets have movements based on sensors. In the F-16 a faulty AOA probe is okay. 2x Faulty AOA probes are okay as long as they disagree. 2x faulty AOA probes that agree (frozen) are a very bad thing. But the loss is just a jet with an ejected seat if it can't be fixed, not nearly 200 people which is terribly sad. The worst part is from a previous Hacker News post listed below. In particular, the "Economic Problem" which states "Boeing sells an option package that includes an extra AoA vane, and an AoA disagree light, which lets pilots know that this problem was happening. Both 737MAXes that crashed were delivered without this option. No 737MAX with this option has ever crashed."

https://twitter.com/trevorsumner/status/1106934369158078470?...
100% the issue. If you were on the board would you be happy to be the only startup in the world with this issue? Google, MS, Uber, Tesla etc have way more employees but none unionize. This is cause for immediate expulsion.
What are they driven by then? My youtube recommendations reset completely every time I clear my cookies.
Yeah, I missed it the first time. You commented when I started editing it. I took (N,TOT) this time. Fission product cross sections is still higher. https://imgur.com/a/pjoNv1p

CANDU: DUPIC fuel cycle is not demonstrated. Canadians don't run PWRs. India, China and South Korea run PWR and CANDU, not much advanced R&D in India. Chinese CANDU in Qinshan may be testing this. US is most advanced in nuclear R&D. Why not build a CANDU in the US and demonstrate this?

I was talking about pressuriser and DNB. If there is no pressuriser (PWR) and constant adjustment of recirculation flow (BWR), clad may get damaged and fuel may melt because of DNB or denucleate boiling. Not inherently safe, engineered systems are needed. (In BWR fuel itself is engineered top-to-bottom with different enrichment levels and different burnable poison concentrations.)

Control rod adjustments are needed till a xenon equilibrium is attained. Also flux flattening circus, boron dilution circus etc. Operators are needed to babysit a LWR or CANDU. This is not like diesel generator or PV panel. Passive shutdown does not mean passive operation like a diesel.

I don't think first generation of MSRs can be like diesel generators. Operators are needed. But, there is potential for nuclear reactors to be like diesel generators with fluid-fuel reactors.

(Edit: Reply to "Today, most CANDU's use ~2% enriched feed, I believe." No. ALL heavy water reactors run with natural uranium in most tubes, depleted uranium or thorium in few pressure tubes for flux flattening circus. No enriched uranium in any tubes.)
Interesting that they explicitly exclude time to safe point from that improvement. In my experience that is usually most expensive part of a stw pause.
The trees planted in the Gobi in 2008 are already mostly dead because they couldn’t commit enough water resources to maintain the ones they carelessly selected. As a result, the Beijing dust storms that were gone since 2009 started coming back in 2015.

Whenever the Chinese government does something, don’t assume it will be sustainable by default.
How many years of back breaking labour to reach those levels of compensation?
... and Australia will be America's testing ground for their own
You make solid arguments about getting into trades. That's a field where unions have really helped out in some ways. I know they slow things down but they have also come a long way towards making people safer on the job. L&I solves some of these problems while having a promotion path can solve others. Electricians get bad knees, so at a certain point you've just got to get to the point that you can teach and not do. Or move into doing inspections.

Outside of that, one of the issues isn't that people should go into trade. But that so many jobs that are hidden behind a requirement for bachelors degree don't need it.

I'd love to see some of our industries out there take on apprenticeship programs for places where they think bachelors were required before. Probably not hard engineering fields, but my first job out of school I was a "Systems Engineer" but everything I needed to know was on the job training. Everything.
> Apple don't stand to profit from making Safari the default/only browser on iOS.

Yes, it does: it sells placement on that browser, since it is the default browser.

And that's billions of dollars per year.

> Apple don't have a dominant position in the smartphone market

Apple has 100% market share in the "proprietary mobile operating system", just as Android has 100% market share on the "licensable mobile operating system".

Those are the market definitions the EC used to assess the case, not "the whole mobile operating system market".

Get you facts minimally straight :)
They apparently bought indoor models like 30 years ago and the person responsible for that then went and worked for the escalator company. Instead of suing for fraud, we’ve been assininely repairing them instead of biting the bullet and replacing them. San Francisco Bay Area is absurdly poorly run.
To me as a tech person, this would feel as talking to a flat-earther. I switched to SSDs in all my machines literally a decade ago and never looked back, the performance was just that much better. Early models for sure had reliability issues but if an IT professional would claim today that SSDs are scams, he'd lose all my respect in a second.
The artifacts were very visible to me when rotating the camera quickly or during fast movement. If the camera isn't moving very much I think it is easier to get a high quality picture at a standard bit rate.
Skip college, do a 4 year apprenticeship instead - is that really sound?
ooooops sorrrryy
> An air conditioner typically consumes in the neighborhood of 4kW

That is not true globally. I live in Kuwait, which can get up to 140F during the day in the summer.

At any rate if you want numbers (since people are crying about research without doing any of their own) here are some: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19438999
I was also curious, and found https://volkfi.com/whyinvite which has a constructive sounding heading

> Why is Volk Fi invite-only

followed by blather blather about the technology and then finally some invite-sounding text of

> But, because Volk Fi is crowdsourced, it needs a certain user density in order to have full coverage and reliability

which seems to run directly in contradiction to why one would want the system to be invite-only. Can you imagine starting a BitTorrent service, and then trying to ensure the swarm stayed small by only telling your roommates? I guess that's why I'm not in marketing.
Hacker News June 2014 – “This CEO is out for blood (fortune.com)”
I don't agree. Which is more likely for you to end up in jail? Not buying an iPhone or stop paying your taxes?
(Charm Co-founder here) Ultimately our goal is large-scale CO2 removal and sequestration with biomass. This process produces an excess of energy which we can sell in various forms to fund the process. We chose to start with Hydrogen simply because it's quite easy and has a large industrial market.

Also note that the largest use of hydrogen (~50%) is actually for ammonia production as fertilizer, which alone is responsible for 1-2% of global CO2e emissions. Decarbonizing that industry would be fantastic.
The opposite is occurring in places like Seattle. The overhead electric trolley lines are coming down as batteries become good enough to support electric buses without the PITA of going off line (electric was already needed for many routes in Seattle because of hills).

Electric also makes more sense in Seattle because 70% of its electrify comes from hydro.
Looks like they forgot to proof read their website too.

"If you are want to consume carbon-neutral hydrogen, please reach us at sales@charmindustrial.com"

I wish them the best of luck, but I've seen the first wave of biofuels fail and pivot to selling cosmetics or go under (Amyris, Solazyme, LS9). Sure, this is different, but the economics haven't really changed. It's damn hard to compete against something you can pump out of the ground and has no price tag on its externalities.

Personally, I think more effort put into lobbying and activism is better spent. I know we have the technology to make carbon-neutral fuels. I sincerely hope that we transition to using something like EVs for all ground-based transport and biofuels for applications like jet travel that need the energy density.

However, it's the market and the economics that don't work out. And they don't work in a way that prevents you from having easy stepping stones to scaling up. There's basically no-one who will buy this commodity at small scale for a much higher price. You have to succeed completely or fail.

You can even look at startups using conventional approaches and cheap feedstock (Siluria with methane). 10 years and still working on their tech. These big commodity markets have huge players who have huge competitive advantages.
So, what’s wrong with snopes.com?
As seen on some YouTube channels, the 'SPIM08HP' cell - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/42-SPIM08HP-3-7V-8AH-LITHIUM-POLY...
The owner behind the website has also cataloged some of his correspondence with people who failed to realize milk.com was not dairy-related[0], some of which are very entertaining.

[0] https://milk.com/experiments/
Hills are the primary use case for electric buses already (electric has much better torque), and have been for a very long time. The only thing is now instead of using overhead lines, batteries can be used instead.
Single C header file JSON parser
This is as good a starting point as any: https://wikileaks.org/ttip/
...and these firms have begun to push those Orwellian values via their culture, products etc.. Bonus points the US universities have also become vectors of this with draconian speech codes etc..
What are lisp macros for if not to delay evaluation? I assume you're making a distinction between purpose and mechanism here?

I've always understood the semantics to be:

fn:
(a b c) => (call a (eval b) (eval c))

mac:
(a b c) => (eval (call a b c))
If they're worried about users being confused then they can automatically install a random browser and save users the imposition of selecting one. I think the EU would be cool with that.
Road transport includes all transportation on roads, which isn't passenger vehicles. Passenger vehicles are less than half of that and growth of the CO2 emissions from passenger vehicles is nearly flat year over year. The maritime shipping sector, on the other hand, is growing emissions output as much as 75% every 15 years.
I was told that the clinical studies of birth control pills were done on male subjects.
China is building a Great Green Wall of trees to stop desertification (2016)
Trees don’t make water come on it’s own. A lot of the planting is intrinsically unsustainable.

That is the problem with top down authoritarian directives, execution is lacking. Follow through is lacking as the government declares success after they sign the order and then forget about it after patting themselves on the back.
Sorry, forgot my audience. :) STEM folks tend not to be slackers (in their subject). Caplan also mentions this is where most of the measurable learning takes place. And there are non-slackers, to greater or lesser degree, in every class. But I saw a lot of them in the required classes ("core" or "diversity"), language classes and business classes. Most slackers self-select out of STEM, except as required.
Thank you for the preliminary report link. It’s the first I’ve seen it.
Millions of people every year make great salaries working as programmers.

Many artists give away their work. Scientists give away their work. The DIY community and maker community give away their work. And so on... programmers aren't unique here.

Framing all of OSS as simply "free labor to enrich massive, incredible wealth companies" is just wrong.

That being said, I do agree we can certainly do a better job of supporting OSS work. I hope to see continued innovation in this area.
Just for clarification its not anywhere near Miami (that is a small map graphic). It is right off the coast of Savannah, GA. There have been numerous books written about it and there is a wikipedia page about it.
That's a very specious argument: you make the mobile OS market so specific such that both Android and iOS have separate monopolies for very different reasons.

In reality, antitrust law market definition would more likely resort to looking at a customer choice model: as a consumer, I purchase a phone, which can have a given operating system. My choices are between iOS / Android / other. It's that simple.

The "licensable" vs. "proprietary" distinction are distribution models that, from a consumer choice perspective, is irrelevant.