skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While this is “good news” on a temporary basis, this is bad news on the long term because it tells scientists that ocean temperature is a bigger player in glacier retreats and advances than previously thought, said NASA climate scientist Josh Willis, a study co-author. Over the decades the water has been and will be warming from man-made climate change, he said, noting that about 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases goes into the oceans.

>“In the long run we’ll probably have to raise our predictions of sea level rise again,” Willis said.
Anti-trust action against the major telecoms would not favour monopolies, certainly :)

There are other regulatory levers here, though. Prevent municipal governments from awarding monopolies to providers (Boston and Comcast, I'm looking at you). Require last-mile fiber owners to lease to multiple competing companies. And so on...
At this point it becomes difficult to find a proper control group for testing the absence of these items.
Drag-and-drop keystroke automation software (for Windows)
Hey, if you're interested in using keystroke automation to improve your productivity, then you might really like this software I've developed.

It's called Numpad Superpowers (https://numpadsuperpowers.com) and it turns the number pad on your keyboard into a powerful automation tool. The main feature is a drag-and-drop graphical editor, which you use to program what each of the buttons on your numpad does.

A numpad button might just do something simple like pasting a block of text, but it could also do wider combinations of keyboard shortcuts, pressing keys and opening applications. It's really up to you!

Use cases include:
- Pasting repetitive text into linux terminals, reports and emails.
- Triggering keyboard shortcuts in video, photo and text editing software.
- Opening commonly used applications, folders or files quickly.
- Bespoke combinations of keypresses and typing, e.g. for executing SQL commands in database management software.

If all this sounds like it could be useful to you, then you're welcome to download the free trial from here: https://numpadsuperpowers.com

It's only for Windows currently so my apologies to Linux and OSX users!

The software has a paid tier, but also has a free tier which will always be available to you - for quickly automating things here and there, it should be everything you need, so you don't have to pay if you don't want to.

If you have any questions, you're welcome to email me at numpadsuperpowers@gmail.com although I'm in the UK so answers will come to you early in the morning!

Happy automating,
Robin

P.S. if you're a lucky owner of a macropad, or some other keypad-like hardware, then you can hook it up to my software, essentially giving it a new 'brain'. If you're interested in this possibility of using your own hardware to trigger my drag-and-drop software, then there is a guide on how to achieve this at the bottom of this page: https://numpadsuperpowers.com/docs.html
Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
The problem is climate science has been handed out to people who never took the time or likely didn't have the research abilities to genuinely understand it. Instead it's become much of a "religion of science" Where people want to feel smart and so accept the science without undertanding it. The result is an incomplete model in their minds where they can agree with the science but they don't know why. In turn they flame people who are "too stupid" to understand even tho they themselves are daft. The result is people who don't believe or are on the fence are likely to be turned off from even considering climate change, because why would you try to understand someone who doesn't understand their own argument and instead just wants to flame you?

This isn't bad, it's good. Our society could use a moment for humble pie as a chance to better learn. Science can't be reduced to nothing and still have meaning. People need to actually understand what they believe in.
I haven't read the article, but there have been a number of games that I found personally helpful. It's not that they're helpful because they provide an escape from real life and its problems. Instead, they can be a source of meaningful dialogue about common problems, and they can help us to see that we are not isolated and that our troubles are not as impossibly unique as they might feel. After a quick skim, I haven't played any of the games in the article, but two games that made a fairly large impact for me were Celeste and OwlBoy.
It's a fair bit smaller than the current MBP touchpad. More like older MBP models. I don't like how gigantic the current MBP one is. Apple does a good job of ignoring rogue palm touches, via software, but in a way that makes it unresponsive when you want to do keyboard+touchpad combinations (which are rare, but important in some drawing apps and some games). Overall I find that I don't need that much touchpad real estate.
IT'S TOO LATE FOR ME! SAVE YOURSELVES!
what causes cancer though?
I'm a solid coder and have lots of experience in the non technical aspects of our business from consulting and running a startup, but I'm moving into management because it's the best way for me to apply a multiplier to my skills.

Plus I've complained about poor managers long enough that its time for me to step up
Ask HN: How much does your company compensate for patents?
I was reading this submission last night, and it made me wonder, what are other companies paying for patents?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19477559

My company does not compensate for patents. I have worked for other large corporations, which have paid in multiple stages:

1) Patent proposal ($1k if the invention has novelty) 2) Patent filing submission ($2-$3k) 3) Patent issue ($3-$5k)

What does your company do and what do you think of employers that do not compensate for patent submissions?
Most of that info is in Wikipedia, which has detailed pages on probably every aircraft type and model ever flown.
This protocol is designed for HAM, and for the most part you can not make encrypted transmissions over amateur radio.
> but maybe this is antithetical to net neutrality

By separating the bulk transit last mile provider from the private network direct routing solutions, I think we actually guard against a lot of the problems net neutrality is meant to fight (as long as the ISP doesn't classify the private network provider as higher tier). Net neutrality is only really needed because there's not enough competition in the ISP space for large swaths of the country. If we each had 4-5 ISP choices, net neutrality actually starts being a negative, because it impacts types of offerings that might require special priority routing to work well and that are willing to pay for it. The market would probably settle on specific plans where consumers may or may not pay for better streaming/gaming capability, and that's a good thing. There would be no chance for an ISP to strong-arm a content provider because no ISP would have enough market share to do so (customers that care would just jump ship to another ISP if youtube/facebook/whetever ran like crap and another ISP advertised better speeds for them).
At the risk of sounding uncharitable, what is the purpose of your comment? It is hard fact that sleep mode is not a consistently solved problem on Linux. Hardware variations abound, and "works for me on my hardware" isn't very helpful to people with different hardware where it's not as reliable.
Getting Detailed Information of MCU Memory Usage from .map File
It's from the Tao Te Ching: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh/sectio...
Alliant has a flat 2% no fee card too I think, in addition to the 2.5% one.
> Americans don't realize how good they have it.

Some of us do (me, for example). Travel enough and you realize what is actually awesome about America.

But complaining is something Americans do exceptionally well. It is at our core. Just how it is.
I just wanted to pipe in and say that parent is knowledgeable upon this subject.
> It's an inevitable end state of capitalism - large companies merge and use monopolitic tactics

A free market is the opposite of a monopoly.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Hey HN! This comes up very intermittently, but asking again if anyone has side projects that they'd like to sell?

I run a weekly newsletter for interested buyers. I monitor marketplaces and forums every week. I strongly believe a lot of potential projects are never listed or die an unnecessary quiet death.

My community specifically wants to see more SaaS opportunities, which are somewhat under-represented in public marketplaces.

Super helpful info:
- Name + link to site/product
- Business model
- Current monthly revenue
- Tech stack
This article isn't offering advice, its just a fluff piece about games that tell a personal story.
The article title is somewhat misleading; the point of the games described isn't simply to "cut stress".

Rather, the games variously work to raise awareness of mental illness; help people with mental illness cope by giving them protagonists and storylines they can relate to; provide role models and story structures for overcoming challenges related to mental illnesses; and improve overall mental health in a variety of ways from dancing in VR to mindfulness exercises to encouraging conversations with therapists.

edit: a word
Try it! It’s worth having.

Plus: Bluetooth keyboards work, and you can connect to external displays with, say, an HDMI dongle or AirPlay.
Apple owns the rights to apple content. As Netflix does to most of their original content. So their original stuff will most likely launch international. What Europe won't get is all the channels cause those might have different plans for different markets. Disney already talked about an international launch of Hulu and most of the HBO and Showtime stuff is on Sky in some European markets which has TV app integration already.

So no we won't have the exactly same stuff but most of it will end up there one way or another (except Netflix)
>heavy metal poisoning

Only treatment I'm aware of is some light jazz or R&B.
There can be Russian bots and they not be connected to trump. The fact that you don't understand that is exactly what I'm referring to.

He's clean. There's literally no evidence he's not. Muellers report is done and after the Intel agencies working for nearly 3 years - they got nothing.

It's probably hard for you to see, but you're literally doing the thing you're frantically and emphatically complaining is happening on the right.
€5 seems high, but it's fairly common in eg Australia for smaller merchants (corner shops etc) to charge a card processing fee if your transaction is below a minimum threshold, usually $10.

The driver was probably trying to cover the transaction fee, it's not like most taxi drivers are raking in the big bucks.
Android doesn't support desktop OpenGL either (it supports OpenGL ES), and large parts of the Android install base don't support Vulkan either (anything before 7.x):

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards

I would bet that there are many more commercially-viable games that support Metal than those that support Vulkan.

More than anything else, I think what I was responding to was the desktop-centric nature of the post I was replying to. This is not Apple's competitor to Steam or Stadia, it's a different way for Apple to monetize App Store games without IAP. Even with the current worldwide market share of each OSes, there are very few commercial Android-only games and a great deal more iOS-but-not-Android games. That's the market segment this is targeting, and what graphics APIs macOS supports are a footnote to that.
Show HN: Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics
Perhaps, but i love to share a favorite book, movie or album with others and it feels similar.

When you kindle the start of the same feeling in someone else that you got from learning or experiencing something new is the best
Moving from help desk to programmer is a career change not a promotion. It's a higher paying career which is why the flow is mostly unidirectional. Programmer to manager is similar, except at good companies that need good senior devs and pay for them.
I have been working on this over the past year and a half. There are some other tools like it, but I am trying to make one that works more smoothly. There are around 750 problems in the problem set so far. I hope to keep adding problems until there are at least a few thousand.

The basic instructions are shown to you when you load the page. More details:

- You need to have JavaScript turned on.

- If you make a wrong move, you can click "Reset position" to start the problem over. You may, however, wish to play a few more moves first, in order to see why your move didn't work.

- The list of solved problems is saved in the browser's localStorage object, so you can come back later and pick up where you left off.
Well, so here's the other side of the coin-- nobody actually has any idea what's definitely safe.

Do you trust that because the EPA has put a number on a chemical that it can't be wrong?

Why don't you guess what percent of the time when the EPA calls an exposure level safe does it go back and change its mind and decide it wasn't safe after all?

Also, why are you confident the EPA knows all the long-term biological and cross-generational effects of all these chemicals when nobody can even decide yet if coffee is good for me?
> Bodies have evolved to deal with crap substances through metabolism and excretion, so it just has to be Good Enough.

Bodies had no time to evolve to deal with modern pesticides. Any idea what time evolution takes to do what it does?

> a positive mindset would also appreciate that you lived to 85.

I think that's besides the point. Because that does not rule out that getting older i.e. losing from a disease later in life is not in some other way advantageous.

What if, consumers can add 5 years on average to our lives by eating exclusively organic produce, and we can also show that organic production harms nature significantly less, should we not move on use this wisdom to kill off some cash cows for an ugly-ass "agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation"?
> The "AK-47" saw combat in world war 2 as the German "StG_44"

The StG 44 was a different rifle with a different design.

> The StG_44 was a large round, automatic, large capacity, no belt, replaceable clip, death machine.

The StG 44's round was only slightly larger than the Soviets' AK round; the only reason for their slight difference is that each country decided to make their new intermediate round by taking the same caliber as their respective full-power rounds and making them shorter. (For ease of manufacturing.)

> Once the Russians captured a StG_44 they quickly modified it, and designed the AK-47

They copied the concept (using a smaller round to shed weight and gain volume of fire), but the actual weapon design was new.
It is cyber in the sense of cybernetics ("the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine")
The Hellgramite Method
A nice gift. Hopefully the University will use it for its intended purpose.
An indictment isn't proof of anything you said. Please look up what an indictment means. Also - muellers report is out and trump is clean. So clearly you're wrong. After 3 years its time to man up and accept that.
I have heard from family members who were approached by party workers asking to swear on god to get money. But they refused. It doesn’t happen in rich and posh areas they target less developed uneducated neighborhoods.
Original author seems to be based in France, so I don't think FCC limits are being into consideration. Would be interesting if there exists an equivalent limitation by EU regulations.

At international level, encryption in ham bands is forbidden (at least).
That doesn't make Conway's Law inapplicable. There is still organizational structure within the self (Apple in your hypo).

Consider for example Windows 2000. In the years during which it (NT5) was developed, Microsoft merged security and directory teams. That yielded Active Directory, and it was a resounding success. Other companies, like Sun, failed to see the brilliance and importance of this, and treated their directory products as a cash cow -- that it was then an ever decreasing cash cow wasn't good, but hey, milk it for all it's got.

Now imagine Apple owning the whole stack. But they too could make a mistake like, e.g., Sun's, or they could get do better than Microsoft in my example. There's no guarantee either way, and it's not necessarily easy to spot the mistake / opportunity as it comes up.

Besides, owning the whole stack is really difficult. Once you get to where you own 90%, the benefit of each additional 1% is more and more outweighed by the cost.
Proposed Australian law on social media terrorist videos
So a doubling time of about 5 to 3 years, for those who don't understand compound interest (which is most humans, hence credit cards being insanely profitable).
So one should dynamically generate the page's markup for every single page view? With the attack surface that comes with exposing your PHP site to the public internet? Are you going to conscientiously check for security updates on your server? Are you going to trust whatever CMS you're using to win the whack-a-mole game of patching vulns (and god help you if it's Wordpress)? Are you going to stand up and maintain your own database server? Can you scale up capacity if you need it? Have you thought about backups?

The "all in one package" solution is a lot more complex than you make it sound. I would argue that much of the 80% of the web powered by PHP would be well-advised to utilize cloud services.
Listen to the Music of the Yield Curve
Organic pesticides and their interactions aren't that well known... hell, all around the interactions of most of the foods people eat, gene expressions and even gut flora leave most data almost meaningless.

Eat food you make from mostly whole sources, avoid sugars (especially refined), avoid grains (especially refined), avoid refined seed/vegetable oils... do those things and you're still doing better than most of the population, even if your veg and meat aren't completely clean.
I'm trying to make a distinction between harmful (or self-destructive) behavior and self-harm. As I understand it, "self-harm" is a term with a very specific meaning that goes beyond making choices that lead to bad consequences.
Everything you said, but also 3) a longer barrel means you get more of the energy of the propellant into the bullet instead of into the surrounding air.
Very cool. App thinning seems to be the golden feature of Swift 5. I am dying for the day (if it ever comes) that UIKit and SpriteKit work natively with Linux and Windows frameworks, so that I can finally make Swift a daily driver.
A lot of people value pesticides/herbicides/fungicides because they make food affordable or available. In the past people starved due to lack of pest control [1,2].

Without modern agriculture it’s doubtful if 7 billion humans could survive on this planet and their footprint would be even larger.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
The problem is it really is a career change.

> I'll realize "That wouldn't have happened here before you rose up the ranks. You've made all of these people's lives better."

Yeah so what, they might like you (if they even find out its due to your hard work) but if you don't enjoy it what's the point? Eventually you'll be just another manager who doesn't have up to date tech skills and is due to get laid off.

I went into middle management. It sucked. I went back into a senior dev role, tiny pay cut but much more employable and fun.
As someone who hasn't yet put in the time with swift, i get the sense that every version release of Swift includes a surprising amount of breaking changes. Are these edge cases that don't really effect anyone or does every Swift project you undertake basically cement itself into a swift version?
A better title would be the first hack of a financial market.
"If you only plan to use it with Apple Pay"

That's simply not possible, is it? In terms of an all purpose spending card?

I see this as a 1% card with special "categories" that I don't care to keep track of. The world is littered with those. Double Cash is OK, but has international transaction fees last time I checked.
This additional explains some of the details:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NbiX2SSes40
> What happens to net neutrality?

Counterintuitively, the market that Network Next is making shifts us closer to actual net neutrality than relying on the benevolence of FCC or Comcast by putting power into the hands of content providers where previously they were at the mercy of last-mile ISPs.

If businesses can collectively bid for performance from private networks to offset actions by last-mile ISPs to cut costs and reduce service, then they also have the power to organize a general strike by refusing to bid for performance from traffic from specific ISPs until they work out better rates throughout the value chain.

So I see this as a mechanism to restore the spirit of net neutrality despite the best wishes of the FCC.
Hacking Lawyers or Journalists Is Fine, Says Notorious Cyberweapons Firm
Some people (like myself) refuse to trust the typically poor security practices of Smart TV manufacturers and never connect them to the internet.

Or better yet, try to purchase the few remaining non “smart” TVs or have started using computer monitors instead of TVs to get a TV smaller than 40” and without smart TV garbage in it.
Hi,

Thank you for your efforts. Could you explain what exactly is better about the MacOS touchpad?

Just to warn I've used Linux on a cheap PC notebook for the last ten years. I have only very occasionally used a macbook and generally found the touchpad unpleasant due a relatively slow movement (which also might make it more accurate but still doesn't enthrall me). I never particularly had a problem with the touchpad until recently - the current drivers get the location "lost" and needs a reboot about once a week (unloading and reloading with modprobe doesn't work. Also, the current touchpad simulates a three button mouse on a pad with no visible buttons, an effect that generally makes both the center and right buttons hard to use plus the keyboard has no right click button, complain-complain, minor stuff altogether and machine remains usable).

Which is to say that you may be confronted with continual Linux desktop problem the your ideal of UI performance not being everyone's ideal (remember how everyone hated on the Gnome Shell? I still hate on the Gnome Shell). My own idiosyncratic UI ideal is more like older-Windows than Mac (I use Ubuntu Mate).

Still, best of luck.