skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is clearly anti-consumerist, just like those cars that beep when you don’t wear a seatbelt. I don’t care if drunk driving is bad, I would never buy a car with this technology.

Moreover, there are situations in which this is more dangerous. What if you are stuck in a blizzard and drunk in a remote location? What if someone is trying to kill you?

These kind of products are disgusting and Orwellian, I find it surprising that there isn’t more pushback from consumer.
The interesting part about oil is not so much who can extract it but who controls if it gets extracted. Which in turn means who can control the oil price by extracting more or less of it.
I'm hoping Matrix (matrix.org) will have more success.
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Its classified as a pathology of gender dysphoria in the APA DSM-5.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology#Psychopathology

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria#Diagnosis
> The parts on an EV either last forever

For now. It's an iron law of the market economy that once this sector becomes competitive, costs will get optimized to the point that - like currently with ICE cars - the reliability will be lowest possible that they can get away with. There's no law of physics saying EVs are built reliably; there just isn't enough economic incentive to start building low-reliability parts. That will change as EVs gain popularity.
But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. (2018)
Just to clarify. This was not my work. I have just used the ideas presented therein for my own works and found them easy to adapt and improve upon.
>Why should we create energy from something so complicated and hard to control when we have something simple and easy to grasp like water, solar and windpower?

I think because it's way more expensive than having a mixed source of energy. The issue is what are we able to give up for having energy? Air pollution? Security that I don't get blown in a nuclear plant explosion (the fear is always there it seems...) ? Money? I think that nuclear energy is not bad, it's just a transition, as the parent comment said. And it's a better transition than coal.
"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. "

Yes, that twisted logic annoys me as well. But beeing a german, I probably know more of the context.

Anti-Nuclear movement in germany is strong for historic reasons. Top-down politics who praised nuclear power and bombs for the people, which the people disagreed and then there were clashes with police, not only from extremists, but also the very normal people who got upset [0]

Also there was tschernobyl. The radioactive cloud from then went down in my area. Even today it is advised against eating mushrooms and meat from boars must be tested for radiation before it can be selled and they don't tell, how much meat is too contaminated, but probably much, as the hunters are still angry.

Also there were rumors that childs born shortly after tschernobyl had a much higher chance of missformed feet for example, but I never checked for truth. A friend of mine had, and the doctors made inofficial remarks, but officially nothing bad happened, because ukraine was a brother socialist state. (but this did was not the case for western germany, so again, I never fact checked that, but the rumors are there).

So there is a lot of fear.

And now we come to the twisted part: most of the anti-nuclear movement is indeed also against coal. And their solution (like mine, long-term) is renewable and they don't like the fact, that renewables are not 100% ready today or tomorrow, so they say, just reduce. So basically wishful thinking and rather doing something than nothing. (even if it is not the smartest move)

And btw. there is massive activism going on against coal at the moment, there is for example a forest occupied[1], which was supposed to get shoveld down for coal. And even though quite some of the protesters are lunatics, I wish them the best, as we really, really don't need more coal. But, and here comes the other important reason: money.
There are still many companys and workers and unions deeply tied to coal mining and processing. So also a strong motivator for politics ... to still use coal, despite all climate change blabla.

[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorleben

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_Forest
haha. once vb6 ruled the world, so it is hard to say that it didn't succeed. In the end the grim reaper came for it, it's time had come.
Why would we leave out terrorist attacks? Because they destroy your argument?
This seems like an orthogonal complaint. For example, on my website, I make an effort to use semantic HTML elements–but that doesn't mean I couldn't drop in a CSS file that styled text and added margins like this one. I don't quite understand how this has anything to do with this framework.
"But but the ACCIDENTS and the WASTE".

France has FIFTY THREE (53) nuclear reactors, how many incidents have they had? Without googling, name one?

The problem isn't nuclear reactors, it is the superstitious levels of fear people have of them. Somehow people believe that a reactor produces mountains and mountains of "toxic waste" every year. When in reality it's nowhere near that.
Has anyone discredited the old deaths per kilowatt hour metric? [1]

If not, nuclear is still the safest source of power, even including disasters like Chernoble and Fukushima. The major disasters come to mind more readily because they receive heavy media coverage, but this is in part because they're so rare, unlike the utterly routine problem of coal ash ponds spilling. Outside of major disasters, nuclear power produces so much energy that it's safer than wind power, which only kills people via construction and maintenance accidents.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
Whats the sole purpose behind this?
You might be pleased to hear Fred Brooks apologised for JCL in 2015:[1]

> If we had been smart, we would also have done a schedule-time mode of PL/I instead of doing JCL, the Job Control Language. But we weren’t smart. The worst mistake we made was JCL. Its existence was a mistake. Building it on a card format was a mistake. Building it on assembly language was a mistake. Thinking of it as only six little control cards instead of a language was a mistake, because it had no proper subroutine facilities, no proper branching facilities. That we did not see it as a language was the fundamental problem; we saw it as a set of control cards.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/11/193333-an-interview-w...
Intel, Alpha, ARM, SPARC, have clever legacy quirks and hacks. VLIW's, stack machines, tagged architectures etc. never took off.

RISC-V is the newest and coolest completely new instruction set. It's also one of the the most reasonable, practical and boring instruction sets you can imagine. It's basically updated and cleaned MIPS-style ISA with minimal surprises.
Ask HN: Debitize is shutting down, any alternatives?
Woke up to a copy of the below email. I'm disappointed. The service let me treat a credit card like a debit card and automatically pay off the credit card each week.

Any alternative solutions to keep the same basic idea?

I am writing to let you know that Debitize has been acquired by Trim (www.asktrim.com). Debitize will be wound down and will not make any new withdrawals. All payments to your cards should be completed in the next week.

This is incredibly bittersweet for us and I know many of you will be very disappointed with this news. Along with the rest of the Debitize team, I have spent years building out this product and have been inspired by some of the messages we have received from you and some of the results you’ve shared with us. While we remain dedicated to improving financial health, it has become clear to us that our business model is not sustainable on its own. Although this is the end of the Debitize story, your financial journey doesn’t end here. Trim is here to (edit not be debitize) ...

We have listed below important information on what will happen next with your accounts.

Important Dates
Starting today, 4/6: There will be no new withdrawals from your checking account to Debitize
Wednesday 4/10: Last day of automatic bill scheduling
Sunday 4/14: Any remaining funds in your Debitize account will be transferred back to your checking account (IMPORTANT – Please do not unlink your checking account until we transfer all your money back to you)
Saturday, 4/27: All bank and credit card accounts will be unlinked if you have not already done so
Sunday 5/26: App and website will be disabled.

How to Close Your Debitize Account

If you have money in your Debitize account, please make sure your checking account is still linked. Funds will be transferred back automatically.

Otherwise, there is no need to do anything. Debitize will automatically unlink your banks and close your accounts within 3 weeks...
Again, coal related death are of the order of 1-5 millions by year. By contrast the worst estimate for Chernobyl is 200000 deaths.

The closing of germany's reactor, which amount to around 60GWh, if it had been used instead to close coal based plants would have saved around 6000 lives per year. So over 10 years would have saved 60000 lives.

An average temperature increase of 1 degree would not be so bad, it would probably amount for a few million deaths and a few trillion dollar (don't forget the economic cost of displacement due to increased water level, this will concern a lot more km^2 than nuclear exclusion zone). Still worse than nuclear but not orders of magnitude more.

But the Paris agreement is about 2°C more and we are not headed to respect that, we are headed for at last a 3°C increase. This is way way worse than a 1°C increase. I am not joking about billions of death if we reach this point. What is borderline insane is not realizing the impact that climate change is going to have is nothing is done.

And I live near a nuclear plant in France which almost had an accident similar to Fukushima during the 1999 tempest. So it's not like a Nuclear accident would not affect me...
Ask HN: Any good stock trading API's for international traders?
I live in Dubai and it seems that most good stock trading API's are in the US, but they require a social security number which I don't have, so are there any good alternatives that are accessible to international traders?

I want to be able to purchase stocks, not just list/view them.
The Secret Trust Scores Companies Use to Judge Us All
I'm sure you will be able to look up the location of active nuclear power plants in central Europe and determine the population figures within the range of impact of an accident like Chernobyl's if you try. Start with Mohovce (largely uncontained and litigation since 2005 or so), Bohunice, Temelin and the large cities nearby...
So? We don't know what we don't know. We might find some way to store energy within chemical bonds like fuel (39,405 Wh/kg limit of liquid H2) or nuclear (8,700,000,000 Wh/kg of Pu-239) or matter-antimatter interaction (24,965,421,631,578 Wh/kg).

Current lab records of 1000-2000 Wh/kg are just a start, we're far far away from hitting any limits.
> Only 15% of the Earth's surface is populated

By humans.
Well, this seems very subjective. Personally, I believe there are many ways to soothe one's heart.

Though without any care, you're probably right.
Jesus fucking Christ, this site is just the purest toxic waste.

The assholes that now populate the internet are kind of fucking sickening.

Everything is wrong with the world. I used to lay blame, and throw shade at certain people in particular (people I know personally), but you know what? It's the whole fucking planet. Someone out there has royally screwed the pooch, somehow, somewhere around the mid-1990's, and there's no going back.

The sooner I escape this nightmare, the better.
Amie.st : a website for legal song downloads that did demand-based pricing. Prices started at zero but as they became more popular, their value would rise. You could also "recommend" songs and if their value rose, you'd get the difference in value credited to you.

Rewarded early participants in music discovery. Clever mechanic.
> Greek yogurt alfredo

I hate to come off as a snarky purist, but there isn't need to go to weird italofusion combinations if you want variable, vegetable heavy diet based around rice, pasta, or legumes. In South Italy we cook vegetable and olive oil based sauces in the time it takes to boil water and cook the pasta. Then you mix these together while finishing the cooking of the drained pasta. Every single vegetable is fair game. You just need a good source of fat, which is served by olive oil. The pasta or lentil base gives you protein enough that you only seek meat or heavier protein sources every fourth meal or so.
Yeah, this title is a bit "click-baity"
For documentation you could alsways try https://readthedocs.org/
I went from the Nexus 5 to Nexus 5x to pixel 1. They all feel like a newer version of the previous to me.
But if there's no water, where is the vapor coming from? /s
Idk, you are arguing that more lines of code equal more complexity.
Because you can't run steel mills and other big energy consumers with solar or wind. These require power in the scale of Terawatts each year. 24/7.

Renewables like solar and wind are decent for offsetting peaks and maybe generate some household electricity, but you're delusional if you think they can be used to replace coal or nuclear in the next decade. Or even quarter century.

Until we make giant leaps in energy storage technology, we NEED something that can provide a steady base flow of electricity 24/7/365.

And currently nuclear power is our best option for that. Burning fossil fuels (coal, wood, etc) is shit, we have only a limited number of places for water power.
I miss the inbox UX & UI in particular.

Gmail seems slow and cluttered by comparison.
Question: it's been almost a year now since GDPR has come into effect. Has there been evidence that people from the EU have been able to completely withdraw themselves from the user-tracking universe?
> we are headed for at last a 3°C increase. This is way way worse than a 1°C increase. I am not joking about billions of death if we reach this point. What is borderline insane is not realizing the impact that climate change is going to have is nothing is done.

It's beyond borderline insane how people make up these "billions of deaths" numbers with a straight face.
"I still think RSS was a better way"

"I still think RSS is a better way", fixed that for you.
Yep. Coal plant deaths are local news.

A nuclear power plant failure (however minor) is global news for weeks and weeks.
It means my analysis is informed by a working knowledge of how we treat existing risk factors that affect human society. Everything I've seen suggests that in practice the macro-scale threat posed by radioactive material is similar to that posed by lead, but easier to deal with because the volumes are so tiny we can afford to isolate it completely from the biosphere.

We produce tiny amounts of waste, I can't find a great source but the numbers seem to be of the order of 10,000 to 100,000 m^3 of material that needs special handling and a much larger quantity that can be scientifically measured to have come from a nuclear plant if you have the right equipment. Those are tiny numbers compared to what industrial processes working with waste have to deal with (for scale, 1 small mine open pit coal mine would move that much material a week).

People are trying to protect the world from smaller risks than the environment already faces. It isn't rational, and it isn't very clever either. The volume of the problem is truly tiny compared to stuff we just walk on by as a society.
I appreciated the imagery myself - it kept the topic going with the drumbeat of “they are flat out wrong”
Building new nuclear is slow and expensive because we stopped doing it for a looong time.

Way too many power plants are from the 80's and before. Maybe they've had a few upgrades, but they're mostly at the end of their lifespan or even over their recommended life.
56 year streak to be accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
I wouldn’t call it luck. Sure, the money is good, but their company is now essentially dead and should never be trusted to do anything good (just like every single thing Facebook does ends up having nefarious goals behind it).
WSCC combines Nirsoft and Sysinternals with added search.
https://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/
I doubt it. We need some prosecutions of Oath, Vox and so on before they start implementing the consent request properly.
http://getskeleton.com has been around since 2013, plus a dozen others. Sounds more like a discoverability issue?
What would a terrorist do with a nuclear powerplant exactly? We've flown fighter jets into nuclear powerplants to test them[1]. They're protected by armed guards. The US has a nuclear emergency task force ready to fly pumps and generators to any plant. The best attack even a highly resourced terrorist could mount would be to damage the cooling tower and not really make any difference?

If you're imagining some kind of super coordinated military unit taking control of a powerplant yeah sure maybe? They'd be much better used just poisoning the water supply.

This is exactly the kind of baseless fear driven hypothetical sentiment that I'd like to understand.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3072967/ns/business-check_point/t/...
The same warmist garbage that we've been reading since the 90's.

> However, with latest projections pointing to an increase of 3.2C by 2100, these goals seem to be slipping out of reach.

Projections... if they had any credibility left I'd ask for source.
Have you read A Clockwork Orange? A great book about the moral fallacy of taking away choice in the name of the greater good.
I really thought Thalmic Labs Myo was going to give us the Minority Report-esque future we deserved: https://www.zdnet.com/article/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-myo-ge...
While I agree with your pain points, I would not say XMPP that the protocol isn't any good.

- Pidgin: Just take a look at their bug tracker. You will not have any problems finding tickets requesting essential features which are 6 years and older (e.g. Message Archive Management). So unless the Pidgin devs get some done I would not use their client (Gajim is a much better alternative, especially since the 1.0 release last year).

- ejabberd OMEMO: Actually, I don't know what the ejabberd devs were thinking when they changed their default config to disable OMEMO. They told something about having a hard time tracking down issues with OMEMO enabled. Well, kinda makes sense from a developers perspective, but given the fact that OMEMO is end-to-end encryption, I wonder what they were expecting. Nevertheless, disabling OMEMO by default on the server is just a stupid idea.

- message delivery: I had problems with that too, but ultimately it was just a problem with some ejabberd setting (I think it was mod_stream_mgmt: resend_on_timeout: if_offline) [1].

[1] https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/#mod-stream-mgm...
I just went to Miami for the first time. I loved Miami Beach. Also surprised by how relatively inexpensive real estate was.
An earth could a few hundred LY from us we might not be able to detect it(1).

I guess maybe the silence is because of such threats out there.

1-https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/05/31/is-our-civilizati...
This seems very useful work.

But I wonder why it took so long to get here since [1] was published.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaEE27nsQw
I wish she had talked to some loan officers at local banks. I bet she'd get a different picture to contrast with that of the realtors. Of course realtors are going to pretend like they don't care even if they do (although they probably don't). Once the sale goes through, they don't care if the house is swept away the next day. Banks on the other hand are in this for the next thirty years. From what I understand, some are hesitant or even refuse to offer thirty year mortgages in Miami. That's a story if it is indeed true.
Because this isn't what happens. Price discrimination, if done perfectly, minimises the value the consumer can get and maximises the value the seller can extract from them. Overall it is a negative for consumers.
You make a very valid point. It can be easy to forget to consider environmental cost when we consider the cost of an item.

I hate smartphones with a passion, so just use an old dumbphone. I face a lot of pressure through work to have one though. I'm thinking that if I do eventually get forced back into smartphone ownership I'll opt for a Fairphone 2. Major benefits being the improved environmental consideration, the ability to run Lineage OS (so no Google), and the modular approach makes it easy to hack/repair. Main downside is that it is very expensive (to me anyway... I get that many people these days seem to think £1,000 is a reasonable sum for a Facebook/Instagram PDA!).
I'm talking about stuff that usually comes on trays, like pork chops, ground beef, chicken breasts, etc.
Nope, cross-dressing alone does not consitute gender dysphoria.
Anyone know of any tools that let you manually layout the elements in a dotfile such as generated by dbdot or similar tools?
They reset the ecosystem multiple times and required developers to rebuild/rewrite their apps each time. Not a smart move when you don’t have many apps to begin with.

Store curation was also an issue with tons of garbage in there that shouldn’t have been allowed.
Apparently there was Debx which Debitize bought in September which in business terms seems to be a 'if I'm going out I'm taking you with me' scenario.

There's this Tally service but apparently it is just an abstraction line of credit between your bank and your credit card. Doesn't auto pay the card.

I may just have to manually pay off that card then close it out.
His project list on his personal website is impressive too!
Trying to express a circuit design onto any fixed layout has non trivial side effects that you don’t want. Parasitics and poor grounding are a nightmare. I don’t know why people use prototype boards at all.

I am using this construction technique which is good down to DC and good up to 1GHz or so. I’ve built very non trivial things with it:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2403/db840e6874e29f55ad9a45...
Everything you say is correct, and may even be a word to the wise, as it were -- but there are always new command line apps made by people who haven't been thoroughly exposed to the true Unix/Linux/Posix way, and need to have that kind of thing explained. [1] [2] [3]

Which is to say that your comments are not self-evident to everyone, by any means.

Example: less(1) was eventually fitted with the -R flag to allow highlighting to be passed by pipe, to make it friendly to piping from highlight-producing apps rather than its default highlight-unfriendly stripping of input controls/escapes.

Benign intentions with regard to files sometimes require a little more thought to be simultaneously friendly to pipes, except for the simplest of plain text apps.

(I'm not trying to make a big point, but I just rediscovered 'less -R' out of necessity today. So, I was pondering some of these issues)

Worth a re-read for everyone (and I worry that these things may be in the process of being forgotten):

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Eric_Raymond's... and the book:

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Unix_Programming

[4] Raymond didn't invent any of this, but he explained it very nicely, IMHO.

Edit: P.S. the above is somewhat meandering, and is sure to be criticized because simple equivalence of piped and file input is the most important thing, which I agree with -- but I was mixing that with a secondary point because of what I was doing today. Sorry. "I did not have time to make this letter shorter" etc.