skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you underestimate how many people coal kills.

According to the world health organization, the number of premature deaths caused by coal and Particulate Matter is on the order of literally millions per year.

https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-...

This means that if we switch to nuclear and this caused us to have a chernobyl scale disaster every single year, that it would still be massively safer than coal.

And even if we use your ridiculous example of a nuke going off in a city every year, guess what, that's still safer than coal. (This is, of course, not how nuclear works)

So yes. Give me the bomb going off in a city every single single year. It would still kill less people than coal, according to the World Health Organization.

Yes, really. This is not an exaggeration.
There aren’t many ways that I can think of, aside from driving, that you can kill someone accidentally.

Accidentally shoot someone? That’s almost certainly negligence, not really an accident.

With cars, there are accidents. There’s also a whole lot of negligence. But because accidents do happen it’s difficult/impossible to prove negligence in most cases.
Meteor for me, was really good, and then kinda got worse over time. They started to remove the simplicity of the design, but, that was what it really had going for it.
You can integrate some local bank API for Credit Card Payment. it might not help much but 10-15% payment came from them and save your some money. I always suggest to have both options on website for coverage.
> Supposedly, Braintree make it possible to integrate PayPal much more easily.

I've recently gone through that process for our startup and I can attest to that. Once both of your Braintree and PayPal accounts are set up, you just link the PayPal account from the Braintree administration with a few clicks and it's immediately available to customers (if you use the Braintree Drop-in integration that is).
Use both! Customer use Paypal and Stripe 50/50 here.
Does the customer know that they are storing their card details with Stripe and not with the merchant?

I think that's important because some people (such as myself) tend to avoid storing card details with arbitrary merchants. I would be far more comfortable knowing that my card details are stored with a specialised payments company like Stripe.
we have PayPal and Stripe. The take is maybe 30/40 in Stripe favour. It's b2b.
But those two come not close to paying with bank transfer.
DF is a "create your own fun" kind of game. If you try to play in an "optimal" way by exploiting the ridiculous trade values of some items and giving your fortress just one entrance with a drawbridge you won't have as much fun indeed. The solution is to simply not do that and set your own rules and goals.

I'd even say that trade and combat being exploitable is a feature, not a bug, since sometimes I simply don't want to bother with those aspects of the game.
Chas Emerick on JSON [twitter thread]
I can't believe that people who have problems with operating a 3-button remote decide how the whole internet should work.

Same stories with polish voters; mistake during voting. They have only one job: push the right button.

Easiest explanation for this is that some people took money for the vote, they did push the button they've wanted to, and they just told the public it was a mistake. Because I can't imagine how it should be hard to confuse YES with NO.

- Do you want ice cream? No. Sorry I meant yes!

- Do you want to go see the movie? Yes. Sorry I've made a mistake, I meant to say no.

Such stories suggest we're dealing with unstable individuals.

- Do you want half of the world to act accordingly to our new set of rules? Yes. Sorry, no. I meant yes! No sorry, what I wanted to say is NO. Sorry it was a mistake!

The people that made a mistake are unstable and should be treated as unstable.
Google is well known for killing projects :P https://killedbygoogle.com/. But who knows. It's still to early to judge in this case.
Because you still have to write a layer between your web app and the database at the prototyping stage?

I can't just make calls from Html + JS to Postgres.

But I can with MongoDB
People having problems with choosing correct button are responsible for setting law about internet for millions. Just great.
Unlikely in Dutch parliament; we currently have 13 parties in its 150 seats. And the PP isn't my perfect party, and also not the only one with good internet and privacy (and social, and environmental, etc.) policies. I just would have liked them to get at least one seat, to get a voice in parliament, which can be quite effective, see e.g. the successes of the Party for the Animals (PvdD), who started similarly. I tend to vote for small parties anyway.
Bird hunting and alcohol examples don't work because they have that "recreational" aspect of the activity. That is killing innocent birds and using psychedelic substances on yourself.

Cars to me personally are more like a some strange kind of war: you're mildly forced to take that gun and go into a stressful environment every day.
I've done a lot of checkout integrations and The Stripe API is orders of magnitude easier to integrate than the PayPal API. As the author suggests PayPal might be more popular because not everyone has a creditcard. Another factor that helps PayPal is that you don't need to have your card at hand to make the payment, if your account is active, the only thing you have to do is click "next" 2 times and you're done.

Shameless plug related to this post: I'm integrating both Stripe and PayPal in my software licensing SaaS product where I intend to provide the nuts and bolts related to accepting payments and handing out and validating the license keys for a standalone software product. It's still a Work in Progress, the landing page can be found on https://license.io
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Homeschooling is not allowed in Germany
They allow ads targetted towards people with antivax and other conspiracy beliefs. I think they're looking to change this but they definitely aren't innocent in this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/15/facebook-...
'Bucket-list shot': Australian gets rare photo of space station in front of moon
Agree, I have integrate lots of API and paypal is oldest of all and they know what to do. Yes since they introduce braintree they get lot more options and it get confusing when searching on internet. But if you follow their guide aka follow Composer based installation of API it will become relaitvely easy to find information.
According to Finland's national public broadcasting company, one Finnish MEP also pushed the wrong button.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10707635: "However, Pietikäinen later said she voted wrong accidentally. Her intention was to support the directive."

"Pietikäinen tosin kertoi myöhemmin äänestäneensä vahingossa väärin. Hänen tarkoituksensa oli ollut kannattaa esitystä."

It seems that it is very easy to press wrong buttons.
Too many forces will oppose this at every turn. The various religions and political ideologies come to mind.
True, buts that's a separate issue to having a say on the rules of countries you're trading with.

Plus you could replace Brit and Britain with EU (citizen) and it would still be as true.
Because location is not fungible. Desirable places to live stay desirable many times because high income people compete with each other to live there, hence when incomes go up, so do the prices they’re willing to pay. The good schools with all the children of educated parents are there, as are the facilities, stores, restaurants, airports, mass transit, weather, parks, etc. The supply of places with a combination of all of those things is very limited compared to demand.

Places that don’t have many high income people competing don’t see this kind of appreciation.
Some people have burned it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation#The_K_Foundation_...
Jingoism is in the air nowadays. And in the water, and the dal, and the achar.
You are correct. To quote the arms code - https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/... (page 41)

"Citizens are justified in using force in self-defence in certain situations. The force that is justified will depend on the circumstances of the particular case. Every person is criminally responsible for any excessive use of force against another person.

A firearm is a lethal weapon. To justify the discharge of a firearm at another person the user must hold a honest belief that they or someone else is at imminent threat of death or grievous bodily harm.

Discharge of a firearm at another person will result in a Police investigation and what ever the consequences of the incident you may face serious criminal charges."

It's worth keeping in mind that we still have guns, it's just a certain type of gun that's getting banned. And it's worked well in Aus so far.
Shit I was a teenager only 8 years ago but cannot relate to todays teenagers at all..In contrast I could very easily relate to people in their 20s when I was a teenager.
I think you mean epidemiology.
It depends on the state and age of the minor:

https://vaxopedia.org/2018/09/25/how-can-i-get-vaccinated-if...
The title is misleading. The directive was approved by a large majority of 348 in favor, 274 against (spread of 74 votes).

Before that, there was a vote about whether to vote on individual amendments; that vote (about voting on amendments) is the one discussed in the OP and was indeed only defeated by 5 votes.

One individual amendment offered to delete article 13. It's possible that if that amendment had come to a vote it would have succeeded, but it's not certain -- and given the majority the directive enjoyed, it's quite unlikely.

This directive is still an absolute catastrophe, the effects of which will be felt for a very long time. But articles like these don't quite help the fight.
Paddle is quite nice, you get many payment options like PayPal, credit card, wire, etc in one. All unified in one API, which works great. It also offers invoicing + VAT handling for customers, which is great as well. The big disadvantage is the steep pricing, you easily pay double of what Stripe+PayPal would cost.
To be fair, the MEPs that pressed the wrong button belong to the 'Sweden Democrats', a party with Nazi roots.

So one could argue that these are not the brightest of bulbs.
It is still in production as the main database in a startup I joined in 2010 and kicked off their software's development. I've been through smaller ups and downs, but we never lost data. The reason why I loved it back then and still do today (I'm using mongodb in my own little webapp) is the speed of development. The few data migrations that I had to write in over eight years where nothing compared to what you'd have to do in a relational database. With new features we were always able to keep the db schema in some state of fluidity on our dev and staging machines until we we happy with the data's architecture. No back and forth that you'd do with a relational database.
We have only a dozen collections in the db and only four where pulled during a normal user session but those translate not just into four models/classes but a few more embedded ones, which makes totally sense because except for reporting we didn't pull out the embedded data, even though it has become so much smoother with the aggregation framework.
> in the not so distant future AIs will make all economically relevant decisions

I don't doubt that, just doubt that they will make unanimously good decisions, as expected of a superhuman system. AI systems are yet to be "intelligent" which makes half of their name a PR gag.

Pattern recognition is simply not equivalent to intelligence. It is certainly a pillar of intelligence, however.

> AI systems are better than humans at making decisions

Are they? Dermatology, transportation, face recognition, NLP... in all these fields we are yet to reach human-like performance outside of ultra-specific tasks. There is a difference between recognizing a human face every time, even if obscured by sunglasses or half hidden behind a pint of beer, and recognizing 100.000 human faces per second with an error rate of 8% because of shadows.

Decent performance can be reached when you train AI to do one hyper-specific thing under just the right circumstances with mountains of data which need to be prepared just right. Otherwise you end up with bias and other issues. I wonder how AlphaGo would have performed if it was required to suddenly switch to Mahjong or cooking but I suppose that wasn't its purpose.

Please also mail me a link for systems that prepare training data to automatically and reliably prevent bias and other major issues that lead to malperforming systems.

Demonstrations optimized for PR, AI companies which employ humans as AI-pretenders, and catastrophically failing systems are the reality of AI today. I don't doubt that we will improve but superhuman AI requires more than mere linear improvement from where we are right now.
Basing these comments purely on the credit-card processing side of things:

Context - small business, using PayPal for almost five years, large transaction values, small transaction volumes, global dispersion of customers, multiple currencies.

1. PayPal works (mostly) without issue for customers from a wide geographic region (my customers are from many countries all over the world).

2. The exchange rates offered via PayPal are TERRIBLE. Several percentage points, on top of the several percentage points initial processing fee. Either the business, or the customer, is paying for these bad exchange rates (dependent upon the source/destination of funds). This can be an additional five percent.

3. Customer service from PayPal is lacking, but in the case of disputes, things have worked out in the way I would logically expect, around 99% of the time. In the other 1%, PayPal refunded the money, I have never lost anything (neither have my customers) due to disputes.

4. STRIPE has categorized my business as high-risk, and therefore won't offer me their services. I won't specify my business type here - I can safely guess there is nobody on this planet that would consider my business type "high-risk".

Some of the categories of what constitutes a high-risk business are obvious - gambling, porn, etc etc, other categories make no sense at all. (I have never had a single disputed charge in four years of operation)

Semi-regularly, I search and compare cc-processing alternatives. Mostly, due to the currency exchange fees, poor customer service, and stories of PayPal accounts being frozen/locked due to spurious reasons.

I consider PayPal the best of the worst choices.
Climate Change: Drilling in 'Iceberg Alley'
Seems completely pointless as nobody will be driving cars by 2022. Self driving will be available way before then.
I generally prefer using Paypal when I can, because of security. I don't enjoy handing out my credit card details and will try to only enter my details when I think my details are safe.
As a serialization format, JSON is horrible. Way too loose regarding formatting and way too much noise. All that is typically needed is a standard text format for relational data. I.e. a fixed CSV.

The only "advantage" to JSON is that it maps directly to the object trees most developers use in their scripted programs (which is misguided IMHO).
Unexpected DNSKEY query growth around the 2018 root zone KSK rollover
It's Google. The only company that hears everything you say and listens to none of it.
The bills will also include forced automatic emergency breaking/collision detection.
Probably not. I was downvote 3 times before I commented.

Look at my profile. I’ve been playing longer than you. Try to be a little more self-aware in the future.

Someone needs to burn some fu points explaining when people get it wrong.

I hope you appreciate the points I’m wasting on you.
Programming Languages to Explore in the Future
I'm not saying you do.

You are unhappy with the new law. I'm asking if you would find a targeted law more reasonable.
And for guys can make you infertile and have horrific consequences if your a Woman and are pregnant when you get it.
You can't create a merchant account from many countries in Google wallet. They are extrely slow with adding new countries.
Landscaping needs to be done at least every week, and I doubt you will find a house cleaner that does laundry for $100/day. You can assume half of wages go to taxes for independent contractors, plus a premium for it being contract work, so optimistically, $100/day is $50, and even at only 4 hours of work, that’s only $12/hour.

That’s nothing in any higher cost of living city, which is where most high income people want to be. That kind of labor will probably easily run you $200/day or more.
Yes, the best scenario of the first case is better than the worst scenario of the second case, but personally i'm more interested on the best scenario of both cases - especially since we already have working OpenGL implementations that take advantage of how OpenGL is specified. I'd rather see a push to improve subpar implementations so they reach parity with the good implementations than throw all implementations out of the window because of the bad ones.
I wonder if developing a "defence capability" constitutes a violation of peaceful purpose. India lives in a bad neighborhood with unstable actors. Also, expecting it not to develop this capability when some others have, is not very realistic - more so when those others are unreliable at best and belligerent at worst.
The way you tell it everybody has some moment in life where they're confronted by a pile of cash and then their true nature is revealed (conveniently letting greedy people everywhere say "hey you see you're just as base and materialistic as I am").

But in real life many people show their basic disinterest in money simply by choosing to do things and pursue activities that have no financial incentive. So in fact most people are above money.

Can they be tempted with a one-time solution to the many tribulations of their daily life? Yes. But I would argue they're still "above money" in the most important sense - they're interested in other things.
I don't know what the exact thing was that was voted on, but sometimes it can get complicated.

Let's assume that there is a vote coming on road tolls. A member first proposes that "Let's implement road tolls". Then government officials give their response to that "Let's not implement road tolls." Then the speaker selects the governments response as the base for voting. Now if a member is for road tolls and votes "YES", that member is then voting against road tolls.

Again, I don't know how the process went and what was actually voted on. I'm just saying that sometimes is might be somewhat complicated to understand what is the thing that is actually voted.

Sure, this should be straightforward for any experienced politician, but occasionally newcomers make mistakes like these.
If you only have a few products with fixed prices, integrating PayPal is a matter of defining a button for every product in their UI, copy the HTML form that is generated next to the button and then submit a POST request to PayPal to have the user start the PayPal checkout flow.

Stripe's new checkout system works similar. You define products in their UI and submit a request with the according SKU. The advantage of PayPal is that it requires zero JavaScript. It's just a POST request.

Of course, you need to listen to PayPal's IPNs to process a payment on the server, but this is exactly the same effort as with Stripe.
I really like fuschia, Redox and the other microkernels. However, I am highly concerned about the license change.

About the only upside of the Android ecosystem was the kernel's license, forcing kernel drivers to be open-sourced. This allows mainlining back devices into the Linux tree, which enables a variety of user projects, such as postmarketos.

On the other hand, some of these drivers already acted as a shim to a userspace blob, and having an IPC would at least provide isolation from the blobs themselves, and allow tapping a clear IPC interface for reverse-engineering those. So all might not be lost.

On the sustainability of open source, since this seems to be debated much in this thread, I personally think (and it is a debatable viewpoint) that this ought to be incentivized at a government level (by taxing software/technology sales, and sponsoring open source projects with the proceeds). This would provide a much more robust base on which to provide (proprietary if you want) services upon.
I think Stripe might soon offer payments through Paypal in some way. A few weeks ago I tried their new PaymentIntents api. I forgot to give a valid payment method in the request and it returned me an error stating I need one of following payment methods:

card_present, card_present_single_message, ach_credit_transfer, ach_debit, acss_debit, alipay, bacs_debit, bancontact, chf_credit_transfer, eps, giropay, klarna, multibanco, p24, paper_check, paypal, sepa_credit_transfer, sofort, wechat, or card

Note that this list includes paypal!

I asked them why that list included paypal and how that would work. They replied it was a mistake and it has since been removed from the error. But this tells me that internally they're working on paypal integration.
You are very correct. Today, x38iq84ns can leave their phone at home and the phone does not send tickets based on speed and does not call the cops against them based on geofencing. And because the vehicle tracking is not panacea, it will be supported by new "crimes" being prosecuted, involving any form of avoidance from tracking - inevitably trackers will break and people will be prosecuted for driving with a broken (=disabled) tracker. Determined avoiders will find their way and only law-abiding citizens (or so they think) will pay the price.
I agree that there's no reason that these properties are axis-aligned.

Isn't the normal approach to look at whether

word2vec('king') - word2vec('man') ?= word2vec('queen') - word2vec('woman')

There's an entertaining investigation of this applied to Game of Thrones at https://towardsdatascience.com/game-of-thrones-word-embeddin...!
It astonishes me still how much of a free ride Google gets.

The public consciousness of Facebook now is such that they're viewed as a pretty malevolent entity in general, but no-one questions the harm that Google's ranking algorithms have done to society.

Most people still believe that when they type a search into Google they're asking for objective results on a topic.

(What it actually shows is the results it thinks the person asking the question wants to see, which is wildly different person-to-person, but presented as objective truth to the user).

This audience knows that because we're deep in the industry, but Joe Public has no idea that Google works this way.

Of course he thinks his own crazy ideas are true and shared by the majority. Google told him so (as he sees it).
> So what do you do with kids whose parents refuse to vaccinate?

Well, there are rules for parents failing to send their kids to school. Ultimately authorities can take away guardianship from the parents.
and next we'll see this spiral into another mini space race as Pakistan "independently obtains" this capability courtesy of China and whatever technology Pakistan acquires proliferates to regimes and groups you'd least want those tech to end up with..
And then there's mumps, which the MMR vaccine also protects against. I have permanent very loud tinnitus and am deaf in one ear due to catching mumps as a teenager.
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According to Russia it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_missile_defence_system
Looks great! What GUI toolkit/widgets do you use?