skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The need for something like this - basic styling because the default display is so bad for raw html - suggests that there's something missing from our browsers. Of course everyone has their own preferences, but being able to add <theme "foo"> at the top of an html page would be very helpful. In many instances the exact styling isn't important as long as there's some styling. It would, among other things, minimize on bandwidth while providing a comfortable experience.
Tangent: While I get the gist of Figure 1, expressing historical prices in "daily wages" that disregard the place and the profession strikes me as sloppy [1].

[1] https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/earnings-in-pol...
And who will compensate me for my free time spent on that and at which rate per hour in USD?

Where and to whom do I send the bill?
Hate it. I use the old. The new one is very slow here and pops up errors that it cannot load posts and then it they appear anyway etc. It's dynamic loading taken way too far. Just give me static pages preloaded please and, if you must, update things dynamically, but that's not really a must anyway.
I'd say it's a sensible default (in fact, it's the only sensible default beyond simply not specifying a font at all).
Nir Sofer is a great programmer. He can(should?) write an alternative OS to Windows: NirOS
It's just a non-issue. All of the world's nuclear waste could fit in one warehouse and isn't that dangerous. You can either put all of it in a building somewhere or keep it in smaller buildings on-site.
You're right. It fully applies to cars, as well. That's why we have those "more bikes" discussions here every now and then.

But that's no reason not to point out the obvious flaws in the comment I replied to.

And re: emotionality: you can wish it away, but it is real. Nuclear fans always act as if they only had to show this one scientific study to citizens, and everyone would immediately fall in line. That's hilarious.

Nuclear is done. It may be irrational, but the nuclear community has richly earned that. A little bit of humility and risk-weighing instead of grandiose claims of "perfect safety" would have helped.

But these lies of "perfect safety" were useful back then. They were a shortcut. A cheat. They could get their reactors much quicker if they made false claims.

Now they get the long-term results to their short-term thinking.
Is there any solution to ban facebook from your android phone like you can from a browser like firefox through a facebook container? I would imagine something like a firewall that keeps your phone from being able to connect to URLs or IPs owned by Facebook.
Such coupons could in theory be usable anywhere even they could just be single use codes and only mailed to addresses in a given country.

Also blocking would be not allowing someone to buy from your store or not use their purchase in a portable fashion not giving different users a different individualized price break.

Example many retailers send out individualized coupons to customers already, presumably some customers who appear more likely to respond to such coupons by spending more are more likely to be given coupons.
The only way to crack down on this is to prevent apps sending any data at all and to minimise the use of proprietary software. As soon as your personal data leaves your phone and hits someone else's server they will sell it.

Its a bit of a hard problem which we tried to solve using a permissions system but its a hassle because its hard to tell if a permission is being used legitimately and the average user just hits accept on anything because they don't know how to verify if something seems right.

The GDPR was a step in the right direction where it allows you to say no to tracking and still use the service as normal.
Morons.

> In a true Digital Single Market, European consumers should have the right to buy and play video games of their choice regardless of where they live in the EU.

They still have the right. The seller ought to have the right to not sell it to them if they so choose.

Worst case for Valve is to set one price - which would be close to their current price in their largest EU market - and simply price out most East Europeans.

The morons from Brussels know what's best, trust them!
Companies can get away with price differences for physical goods, for a bunch of obvious reasons which don't apply to digital goods.

Charge different prices for a downloadable digital good and allow customers to shop around, and you have a de-facto one price for everyone scheme: the lowest price of all the regions.

If someone voluntarily pays a "France" price rather than an "Estonia" price, you could achieve the same thing by setting up a pay-what-you-want cart with the Estonia price as the minimum. There are many sales tricks that can be used to persuade people to pay more (up to their willingness to pay), that would cost you nothing or next-to-nothing, to get more money out of customers even if they are only required to pay the Estonia price.
Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno
I feel like it's bad to talk about safety of nuclear without comparing it to another option. What's the safety of fossil fuels? What bar would have to be met for nuclear to save lives when compared to alternatives?

For the most part nuclear falls victim to the same human reasoning flaws that make us more worried about flying on a plane than driving even though driving is way riskier.

For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
I miss not having a new Nexus every year given that Pixel lineup has neither lived up to be a worthy contender for the iPhone nor has it managed to appeal to the Nexus audience.

Second to that is probably the void that Sunrise, Carousel and Rdio have left out. I still haven't worthy replacements to all of them.
Now you also have KaiOS which is similar to WebOS
Because Socialism implies nationalizing private companies. Norway does not. In fact the last 50 years they've done nothing but privatization, while retaining stocks in certain key businesses - which is nothing like the traditional autocratic control known from Socialism.

Heavy taxation is also not Socialism. Otherwise the British taxation of their American colonies could be deemed to be the same, while they were clearly not. Instead (largely) American companies accept the heavy taxation of the oil industry in Norway for two reasons. First of all, it is on sovereign Norwegian territory. Second, they still go home with a cool profit at the end of the day.

Keeping the tax profits from that venture, and investing it in order to make it grow, is not Socialist either. In fact that could be seen as directly contrary to Socialist doctrines. In fact it can be viewed as a completely Capitalist doctrine! But one where the people benefits from those invesments, since the Sovereign Wealth Fund is designed to work for the benefit of its owners, who just happens to be the Norwegian people.
Matthew Butterick disagrees strongly with the Crystal Goblet[1]. His argument that it's impossible not to communicate with typographical choices convinced me to doubt the contents of the text “The Crystal Goblet”.

[1] https://practicaltypography.com/drowning-the-crystal-goblet....
Dams produce renewable energy.
I'll have to give that a whirl. This would be with my own mailserver, so whether or not the MSPs support it is irrelevant :)
I’m so bitter the N9 got canned.
The worst of the lies about nuclear is that it can somehow help create a carbon-neutral economy.

Of course it wouldn't. Designing a carbon-neutral economy is a much bigger problem that requires much broader strategic thinking.

The levelized cost of renewables is already cheaper than the equivalent for nuclear power, with much smaller capital costs, much faster start-up and build costs, and no concerns about long-lived waste.

And the trend lines are clear.

There is simply no case for nuclear power now - economic, political, or environmental.
If you think Nazis had anything to do with Socialism, I suggest you read up on what the Nazis did to the Socialists in Germany ...
Poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle
That's not a small sub, that's almost large imo. Small is anything up to a few hundred, assuming not more than 1% is active daily (a few hundred subscribers is therefore a handful of users afaict). But 35k is probably hundreds of people on there every day. Imagine all those people meeting in real life, that's a decent company.
Because if most people do it they wont offer it for the lower price anymore they will just sent one profit maximizing price.

If its something few people do then those few can profit maximally from being savvy by paying poor nation prices on games while enjoying the benefits of being citizens of rich nation.
No it isn’t
I don't believe Jeff Braun was saying SimCity is bad. As he was the CEO of the company that made it at the time, that would be a very foolish move.

I think he was trying to deflect criticism directed towards the game. Keep in mind that the media was presenting SimCity not as just a game, but as a clever teaching tool for children to understand finance and local government. Okay, great. Whatever sells the game, right?

Then actual economists and city planners start to comment about how the game isn't realistic at all and fudges the numbers in such a way to incentivize certain play styles without showing the trade-offs that are involved in real life. At that point, Braun has to admit to the biases in the game, but he can't say anything so extreme to lose the free advertising his product is getting from schools and teachers and parenting magazines that are telling parents to buy the game for their children.

And although I'm a proponent of mass transit, it's not perfect. I believe SimCity only represents the upfront cost of mass transit and discounts the recurring maintenance costs, while road maintenance costs are inflated. But now were debating specific mechanics of a game other than the one this thread is about.

I mentioned Magnasanti in another part of the thread. In Magnasanti, there is only mass transit. No roads at all. I don't think I'd like living in a place like that where government-owned transportation decides where and when I can travel.

But that's exactly my point. There are two sides to every coin and I think it's important to represent the pros and cons of the choices the player is presented. There's no such thing as a purely positive or negative decision when it comes to city planning.
That has little to do with the decommissioning itself, and more with the Governments stupidity and ignorance. The decommissioning is only one part of that screw-up.

Germany wants (and the whole world should):

* enough energy

* carbon-free

* nuclear-waste-free

On order to do that, you need massive investments in renewable energy and storage.

Instead, they found a way to have:

* large investment in solar energy, without protectionist measures, leading to the German solar industry dying an creating demand that lead to cheap China solar (overly simplified - feel free to elaborate in your answers)

* laws that limit the building of wind power significantly

* failure to build a power line from the north (offshore windparks) to the south (high power demands, less power resources) which currently leads to insane situations with the neighbors

* first extending the nuclear power plants permits, shortly afterwards deciding to shut down, which lead to Germany having to pay compensations to the companies (in addition to a completely botched nuclear fuel tax, that they had to pay back after it was found invalid in court)

* subsidies for dirty coal plants over decades (300 billion was a number floating around) and another I think 50 billions to help the regions which rely on the coal business after the coal shutdown

Politicians deal in compromise. They see different interests and they try to find a middle ground between those two. They do that with a pretty heavy disregard of science. Scientist are just another interest group.

Scientists: If we don't cut CO2 but this much until this date, the effects of climate change will become this nasty.

Industry: If we do that, that will cost us X moneys and endanger Y jobs and we will make Z less profit.

Government: OK. let's meet halfway.

Earth: LOL
> If the available data do not correspond to any known theoretical distribution (which usually happens in practice, but this does not concern anyone), then it is not recommended to use the selected template (probabilistic-statistical model).

That's where the probabilistic programming comes in.

You can write any probabilistic model you like with only some generic constraints, like differentiability etc. and use inference algorithms to compute the conditional distribution of parameters.
The Seaboard: discreteness and continuity in musical interface design [pdf]
Lots of People Are Looking to Solar Energy with Regards to Their Power Needs
The article isn't misleading at all. She is a company executive.

Female executives getting fired for pregnancy is not unusual in the entertainment industry. It's disgusting, but not unusual. And HR is always eager to help the scumbag boss cover it up.
Coming soon: Cars no one will buy.
I am flabbergasted that some commenters here argue against nuclear because of waste and accidents, while ignoring that

- coal produce radioactive waste too

- it kills a lot more persons (without taking into account global warning) due to air pollution

- the economic cost of nuclear may be underestimated, but this is nothing
compared to the economic cost of global warming.

Renewable (wind and solar) are extremely important, but nuclear replace coal and gas. Renewable alone are not enough, especially since we will need a lot more electric energy for transport and to decarbonise the atmosphere; so both are needed.

It boggles my mind that Germany made a great effort on renewable, and used
this extra energy to close nuclear plants rather than coals ones. (At the
beginning they even had to open more coal plants!) This means that Fukushima
(which made Germany close its nuclear plants) killed a lot more people in
Germany than in Japan.

People's priority are wrongly aligned: first close coals and gas plants
using renewable, and then think about reducing nuclear plants once we have
good storage technology.

Recall that coal is 1000 times more deadly than nuclear per unit of energy
(including the nuclear accidents). Taking global warming into account, this
is way worse; if nothing is done we are talking about billions of
death to total collapse of human civilisation.

Compared to that, the human and economic cost of nuclear waste and a few
potential large nuclear explosions due to accident/malice is trivial.

Nuclear energy is a vital tool against global warming, and I am very
concerned for the future of my children that even well educated people (I have these same
arguments with my university colleagues) don't realise that.
No repairs, right to the scrap heap. So now you need a new car. Which is thousands.
And yet, those pools aren't censoring anything.

They aren't stopping any transactions, and have never done so, in the 10 years that crypto has been around.

This is in comparison to visa and mastercard which censor people all of the time.

So for whatever reason that those pools aren't censoring anything, and have never done so, but the major finance companies are censoring transactions, is the reason why crypto is valuable.
There will always be unknown unknowns. It's 2019, we can't even not fuck up with a commercial aircraft.
You can download an app which changes your DNS settings (without root it creates a local VPN) then point it to a server that blackholes Facebook
Check out the fxtec pro1: https://www.zdnet.com/article/slider-phone-reborn-fxtec-pro1...
Skyscrapers are killing up to 1bn birds a year in US, scientists estimate
Diamonds! I got an email the other day from a lawyer who told me I'm actually a descendant of Nigerian royalty! As if that wasn't enough, my great uncle has passed away and left all of his diamond mines to me in his will! I just needed to transfer a downpayment - relatively small in the grand scheme of things - to formally transfer the ownership so the money will soon start rolling in! See ya later, chumps!
I regret calling out any particular political ideology by name. It's true that not all of the biases baked into the game are conservative with the bias toward mass transit being a great example of liberal bias. I meant those as two separate thoughts, but I failed to properly express that.

Although I think many American cities could benefit from more mass transit choices, I agree that I certainly wouldn't want to live in a city where mass transit was the only option. It would mean a government-controlled entity would be dictating when and where I could travel. I don't like the sound of that.
There are a lot of problems with large scale dams.

They interfere with fish migration. For some species, this means disrupting their reproductive cycle.

They gradually accumulate sediment, so their reservoir slowly fills up and turns into land. This is one of the issues with the Aswan Dam, which is projected to have a much shorter lifespan than was initially projected due to high sediment accumulation.

The Aswan met all of its goals, but it's a disaster. The sediment rapidly accumulating behind the dam used to provide free fertilizer for farmers. Use of commercial fertilizer skyrocketed.

It's also the cause of a serious health crisis. Schistosomiasis cases have also skyrocketed.

The annual floods used to keep snail populations in check. The snails are the vector for this gruesome parasitic infection.
I use Exodus Privacy [1] to learn more about what SDKs and permissions are used by the app before even installing it, and as a last line of defense, NetGuard [2] which is an open-source VPN-based firewall that lets you block requests to some servers on a per-app basis (some features are paid).

[1] https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

[2] https://www.netguard.me/
What if an unsupported claim is actually harmful to society, if believed?

15% of people believe the US government was responsible for the 9/11 attacks[1]. 42% of Britons believe that the UK sends £350M a week to the EU[2]. If voters make decisions based on such beliefs, I'd expect material damage to democracy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_con...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-br...
There have been at least 50 stories about ML in just the past week.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

I don't think anything going on on HN is evidence of any pending "AI Winter". Actually, my personal suspicion is that there aren't going to be any more "AI Winters" at all, at least none of the severity seen in the past. Maybe there will be an "AI Fall" at some point. But existing AI/ML techniques are already creating so much real world value that people aren't going to start dropping it like a hot potato like they did with Expert Systems or whatever.
Ironically this important piece of technology invented in China 400 years before Gutenberg flourished in the West while made negligible impact in China.

The trajectory of history was so carelessly determined by a tiny factor, different choices in writing system. Manufacturing a printing machine for dozens of alphabets was much cheaper than making one for tens of thousands of characters.
Can you provide a timeline and justification on "millions of deaths from global warming".

Why can't be invest the money in better alternatives and save the same "millions of lives" with actually sustainable tech that doesn't produce what you are describing as "thousands of deaths"
No, I was on a phone so probably a bit too terse.

What I bought was https://www.tindie.com/products/microwavemont/dsp-radio-vers... - I'll be hooking this up to a Pi with some kind of audio capture and hopefully modifying the firmware so the frequency can be set via UART.

What I'd really like to know is how hard it would be to hook up the same kind of chip/circuit to another chip that does USB Class Audio so there's no extra capture step to get audio to a Pi.
There's pgmodeler: https://pgmodeler.io/
> I am very concerned for the future of my children that even well educated people (I have these same arguments with my university colleagues) don't realise that.

Perhaps it's not very convincing to claim that "a few potential large nuclear explosions due to accident/malice" aren't as bad as an average temperature increase of 1 degree or so. Certainly seems borderline insane to me.
Why are you arguing that the only options are the end of the planet or building nuclear reactors?
Check out Haiku OS: https://www.haiku-os.org/
The backend (Django) also verifies that the email address is valid. The frontend validation is just added as a an extra convenience
Nobody wants to burn more coal except people who own stocks in coal. In other news being beat with a stick sounds like a better alternative to being blown up but most of use would prefer a massage.
Maybe that's a feature. Forcing to make more efficient use of energy.
Pretending nuclear waste isn't an actual problem basically means your entire analysis is disastrously wrong. Consider contributing after doing further analysis.
So like COMEFROM debugging?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
I was following the project since the death of sim city! Happy you made it! Congrats bro.
I'd be very interested to know how this compares to apps on iOS. Can someone shed some light?
This claim relies on us being able to reliably sex skeletons. What is the false positive rate? How accurate are we in archaeology where the skeleton has been underground for a long time?
A couple of thoughts: The recipes are nice, but contain a lot of meat. This is very expensive. Where I live (the Netherlands), it would be closer to $10 per day (only counting dinners). Just the meat will be something like $4 for a single portion. Besides, I would first save money on bigger things like modest housing and not having a car before trying to save on food.

I usually make combinations with:
1. Vegetables (for vitamins): beans, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, tomatoes, bell peppers
2. Meat-like (for proteins): Ground beef, chicken, meat replacements
2. Filler (for carbs): Potatoes, pasta, rice
3. Optional extra's: Sauce, cream, cheese (cheese is expensive though!)

This allows me to cook fairly quick and cheap.
This article would be so much better if the author did not keep pausing to editorialize and interpret the opinions and perspective of her subjects. Trust the reader to draw their own conclusions. This style of writing insults our intelligence. All the worse because the approach and topic are quite good.
Google Reader :-(
I agree! I think the reason Wave failed was due to poor marketing. I never truly understood what it was until it had already been killed off. I'll admit it was a hard sell when you boot into a blank page that looks like a word processor.

It was sadly ahead of its time and was probably pitched to the wrong audience from the start. Rather than trying to explain why Wave is better than email and chat to the internet at large, they probably should have pitched it as a business productivity tool. Oh, well. Hindsight is 20/20.
Looks really good! Definitely would use something like this for some quick pages alright.

Two minor pieces of feedback — when I click "Switch theme", it seems to take you to non-styled rather than the light theme, not sure if that's what was intended or not? Could be good to have buttons for both.

Also, you seem to be getting an SSL mixed content warning, purely because of the Kitten pic. Know that it's not a big deal for a demo page, but if you wanted to get rid of it, you could use something like LoremPixel.com — they support switching URLs to HTTPS and have a 'cat' category!