skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also tend to recommend rolling distributions. Arch-based ones are often quite nice to use, and frequent updates regularly improve the user experience, while rarely degrading it. Arch is often said to target more advanced users, but beginners shouldn't be afraid of Antergos or Manjaro. I've also heard nice things about OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

Debian/sid has its freeze phase, which makes it less of a rolling release, and can contain quite unstable software at times.

I see a lot of potential in declarative distributions (NixOS, GuixSD, and others), but in the end, you just have to pick your tradeoffs ahead-of-time: stability, ease-of-use, documentation, userbase, features, recent packages.

I can also see some value to the more "Win32" model where you update apps manually, hence have a different release channel per-app. Declarative distributions can definitely target that, but that's also a possible use-case for Flatpak. And in any case, it's a lot more involved. I wouldn't dread about telling a user to manually update every piece of software manually, if Windows didn't already push them into that mindset.
Unfortunately it might be even more frustrating seeing the Nordic countries trying to dismantle any good idea and advantage they had. Hopefully Norway has enough inertia to not squander the fund.
Your numbers seem way off. My first google results [0] mentions a single plant producing more than 100,000m³ waste requiring special treatment. Most of it on the less bad end, though. Or are you just talking about fuel waste and conveniently ignore everything else?

[1] compares solid waste from different power sources. Little info for solar/wind. Both nuclear and coal seem bad. But none of us wants to build coal plants anyway. But i sure as hell also don't want lots of public resources spend for new nuclear that is decommissioned a few years later once more environmentally friendly alternatives go online. Especially if those resources could accelerate renewables in the first place. I have no problem with keeping existing nuclear plants running as long as they are safe.

I'd love read better concise summaries from official sources, if you can recommend some.

[0] https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...
[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/Environm...
Yes and it is but that has nothing to do with just coal, thats to do with no other real alternative to producing the amount of energy required by modern societies besides co2 emitting processes wether oil, coal, wind, gas or solar.
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Great point. The only caveat I would point out is that a candidate has to pass what is effectively a test of what a typical undergrad in CS learns. A 20 year old could certainly study and do that on their own, but the typical self-taught person is not necessarily learning those quiz type questions.
Funny, isnt it?
I just tested this in Firefox. If the request isn't cached, it just immediately times out as soon as the page load begins. I haven't tested to see if it still gets delivered to the server. If the browser is sending out the request and just not waiting for a response, then it would still be usable.

It's still worth noting though that in either case this is a way more complicated attack than adding a ping attribute.

With the ping attribute, you don't have to worry about browser caching because you're using a post request. If you want to get rid of caching with the CSS method, you either need to switch to serverside rendering (which blocks you from using static hosts like Github pages) or have Javascript enabled so you can generate the CSS on the fly.

You also need to worry about false positives and false negatives -- a user clicking on a link and then dragging off of it without visiting will still trigger your tracking code, and a user navigating via keyboard controls won't trigger this at all.

None of that is to say that CSS tracking isn't something we should worry about (for instance, I really wish Firefox disabled `visited` styling by default), but I don't think this is an effective argument for saying that we should just give up and make tracking even easier (not that parent is claiming this).

And in any case, it's also not like it would be exactly hard for a future version of Firefox to add an option that disabled `active` styling specifically for link tags. Tracking protection is a game of cat and mouse. We patch things as we go.
It should be changed as the report was spearheaded by Dorothy Shaver, "Registered Dietitian and Global Knorr Sustainability Lead."

Some will view that cynically, but there is absolutely nothing in the report that seems biased or benefiting Knorr in any way, beyond sincerely trying to herald sustainable food and at most getting a bit of credit for trying to do good. It still is an interesting read.
Maybe this is what you are looking for ? I looked into certain apps (Shazam, Duolingo etc.,) and its quite interesting.

https://privacyinternational.org/appdata
This. Western world has a bit skewed view of food anyway, since most distribution is handled by large companies that optimize for their own profit, and this applies to producers as well. We couldn't survive without modern "food chains", but that does not mean the crops used by the modern processes are the only viable ones. Rather, they are the most popular ones for which the processes have been optimized for.
>Norway's success is due to capitalism

Erm, the wealth comes from finding a valuable resource. The oil isn't there due to following a particular ideology.

A capitalist system would give that resource to private wealthy individuals as reward for being wealthy (eg owning the land where the well-heads are). The sovereign wealth fund is more like common ownership, socialist-communist.

The socialist-capitalist dichotomy is based on ownership and the profit (financial or otherwise) of that ownership. Capitalism means narrow private ownership, the profit going to those owners; socialism democratises the ownership and benefit -- they are contradictory.
I think this is what happened to Amazon. A series of locally optimized decisions like commingled inventory and 3rd party sellers that has turned the site into a used car dealership in some categories.
Yeah, I'm not exactly Linux Desktop's biggest fan, but most of my computers have been switched to Lubuntu just because of this horrific user-hostile forced update bullshit.
> YouTube pre-roll ads

God those are so awful. I wasn't running adblock on youtube, but that shit made me install one. I could be listening to a nice playlist and suddenly some ad at 200% volume blares in my ear "YOU NEED TO BUY THIS TOOTHPASTE" or whatever. I wouldn't mind being forced to watch ads before being allowed to watch other videos, but let me bank watch time. Tell me how much time I have left before the next ad and let me watch enough ads that I don't see any in the next e.g. 3 hours. Or okay let's say the ads I get depend on the videos I watch, then put the ads on my tab and let me watch them later. Whatever arrangement works, just let me control when the ads happen, because right now it's maximum obnoxious.
I don't think that is limited to the humanities.
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I met a Palestinian on a plane once, and we had a long conversation. He was born in an area that is now Jordan, but was not Jordan when he lived there. Later, he was flying through, and they claimed he was a Jordanian that hadn't performed his mandatory military service, and wouldn't let him leave. He eventually got away by the skin of his teeth when he found a higher up who took pity on him, and allowed him to leave as long as he "promised to return".

Very interesting person and I learned a lot about what's going on in that region and why it's so hard to resolve in a way consistent with our modern values.
While I didn't perceive a leftist bias, I will mirror what the person said: You just need to figure out what they want you to say.

In the first history class I took, the professor was harsh on perspectives that he didn't agree with. I realized it about halfway into the course, and just started trying to figure out what he wanted me to say. Grades improved.

In the second history class, the professor didn't have a particular perspective, but would highly reward positions that required well constructed arguments. If you wrote an essay that had "easy" arguments, you would do poorly. So I focused on "which position would require the most convoluted argument (within the limits of reason)" and would go with it.
As a point of comparison, the music subscription services are spreading $7/month between thousands of different artists. That seems to be working extremely well. We’re something like ten years into music subscriptions, right? It seems possible to me that ten years of getting people used to paying for news subscriptions could leave journalism in a similar place as the music industry.
Twitter is simple only at the UI level. It’s still very easy to make a seemingly simple move on Twitter which results in ending your career, signing up for a life of harassment, etc. In a way, Twitter hides too much of the complexity of the world.
There are lots of issues with traditional hiring approaches - would recommend looking into Performance-Based Hiring if you are a hiring manager looking to improve your process and outcomes
There's a line whenever I go. Most of us aren't billionaires, though.
Exactly. Many items on the list were selected because they are less used.
And this is my biggest problem with Linux: that you generally have to either rely on the distro and repo maintainers to get up to date software or compile from source. That's completely ridiculous.
Having two middle incomes in a household is a luxury that many households don't have. By definition, half of people have incomes below the median. Assuming random pairing of couples, 25% would have both people making below median incomes, but in reality people tend to pair up with people with similar incomes, so in practice it is even higher than that.
For anyone used to PC editing keys using a Mac, get an external keyboard and add some key bindings[0], you'll be much happier. (It also works on MacBook/Pro keyboard but they have tiny cursor keys.)

TL;DR create ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict containing:

{
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /* End */
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Home */
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + End */
}

[0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/16135/remap-home-a...
> The UK follows the Bologna process and bachelor degrees are 3 years, masters 1, PhDs are 3 years.

That is not true for every European country. In lots of them bachelors last 4 years, and some degrees just morphed their old plans in undergrad+masters as a way to keep them longer (5-6 years). As far as I know, placements years are unusual too.

You also does not need a master to get a PhD in the UK. I have met plenty of 23-24 year olds with PhDs there.

And again, the biggest problem is than most teachers cannot fail more than a small percentage of their students, even if they are absolutely terrible.

> I'm not, Oxford and Cambridge are always in the top 5 universities in the world don't see how you can argue they are not.

Even if Oxford/Cambridge/Imperial have excellent undergrad courses (as I am sure they have good PhD courses), that does not change the reality of the other 200. At some point, by the way, I was doing a PhD in a top 4 UK university. And I can tell you that the quality of undergrad courses I saw was questonable at best.
I mean a lot of these are readily available (lentils, walnuts, fava beans, kale, quinoa)
Shockingly, the report might not be targeted specifically at you...
And in Germany, Spain, etc. Plenty of places.
There are different jurisdictions and a difference between no-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy and fair-game-for-the-taking.
It looks like you left out the # next to Beans and Pulses.
If you're curious about the history of GPS, there's a fantastic write up here:

- https://www.gpsworld.com/origins-gps-part-1/

- https://www.gpsworld.com/origins-gps-part-2-fighting-survive...

There's also a documentary on Amazon Prime:

- https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Halls-Meeting-GPS-Documentary/...
Yes, I'm a vegetarian myself and also would have appreciated a better selection in that regard. Both times I ended up having meals that were heavy in the potato and cheese departments. The buffet had some fruit and cooked vegetables as well, but nothing that was really a main dish by itself. Still, I didn't go hungry or anything.
An honest article would say that a humanity degree signals that you're conformist and happy to tolerate boredem just as well as a STEM degree, and a STEM degree doesn't teach anything relevant either. This article says that with a humanity degree you can be just as smug as people with STEM degrees are.
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Ergo, floss.
Money quote:

"The Kgp inhibitor COR271, which has oral bioavailability and significant CNS penetration, administered orally twice a day significantly reduced bacterial load in the brain compared to the positive control infection arm and in comparison to baseline levels at 5 weeks."
I've got this layout:

┌────┐ ┌────┐
│ ├───────┤ │
│····│ │····│
│ │ │ │
└────┴───────┴────┘

Two portrait, one landscape (actually all the same size, which i couldn't be bothered to do in the diagram, sorry); one window maximised on the landscape, and each portrait tiled with two windows.

It's usually the IDE or a spreadsheet in the middle, email or Slack bottom left, market data top left, monitoring/CI top right, and terminals bottom right. Quite often i split the middle landscape monitor too, with an editor in the left half and docs in the right half, or editor left and gnuplot right.

To be honest, the density value is low; this is definitely a case of screen sprawl. Having my email always up does not help productivity, having Slack always up is even worse, i rarely look at the market data (at the moment), and CI and monitoring could be a panel icon and some notifications rather than half a screen.

But then, i find looking at the upper half of the portrait screens a bit uncomfortable, so it makes some sense to use them for information that i don't look at all the time, but is really handy to have occasional fast access to.

Maybe i should try this:

┌────┐
┌───────┬───────┤ │
│ · │ │····│
│ · │ │ │
└───────┴───────┴────┘

Use the left for docs/spreadsheets/plots, middle for the IDE, top right for monitoring/CI/market data, bottom right for terminals.
"Trash picking is illegal in California — once a bin is rolled out onto the sidewalk the contents are considered the possession of the trash collection company...But the law is rarely enforced."

Good thing it's now been featured in the New York Times. /s
(Side note: that is one gorgeous document.)

After watching the excellent documentary "Eating You Alive", I have mostly switched to a whole-food plant-based diet and feel fantastic, although I do eat the occasional pair of eggs. The big difficulty with the diet is avoiding all the refined oils that permeate our packaged food culture. Luckily, my wife is a professional cook and still cooks at home.

That said, this document already has some of my favs and has added a ton of new ideas. This crazy diet is really difficult just from a "finding foods I can actually eat" sense. As such, I have lost a few pounds but one thing I notice for sure is that my skin is in much better shape now. The beautiful thing about the diet is that I find that my body can handle cheat foods much better and I feel happy to get back on the diet right after.

Of all the things I miss, I miss cheese the most, but coffee with oat milk is just fine. Ultimately, I think the beauty of this diet is that I am forced to eat things like beans, tubers, tofu and whole grains for lack of anything else to eat. And I'm usually so dang hungry that I love them, thanks to my wife's efforts.

Oh, and the diet is actually much less expensive, especially when you buy dry beans.
> I’ve seen philosophy, English and history majors work in tech, I’ve never seen the reversal.

I'm not sure how you define the reverse, but Amazon's head of HR majored in electrical engineering. I would say that's a traditionally liberal arts job with someone who majored in tech.
Wave predates angular, but good attempt at a dig?
I rather like this list.
My main everyday work machine is an Ubuntu 18 box, it's 99% awesome. Everything works, I almost never have troubles. I've been working like this for years now. I spend all day working on Linux and supporting Linux servers and other open source projects.
BUT
I can't get USB headphones to work. It drives me CRAZY. This is such a stupid basic thing that "just works" on every other OS but Ubuntu just fails me totally on 2 different boxes. I've tried EVERYTHING I don't want to even think about the amount of time I've waster.
So yeah, reason #1 I can't abandon Windows is because USB headsets don't work on (my) Linux. This sounds like a stupid little thing, but it's a big pain for me.
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reusing bicycle helmets is somewhat questionable. certainly a found helmet is better than no helmet, but best practice is to discard these after a major fall. not a great idea to use a helmet of unknown provenance.
Presumably you are referring to California vs Greenwood. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/486/35/
Some were friends, but there were members I only knew by sight. Of course, by the time of the tests, they were friends.
Same as any other ads or analytics sdk (google, branch.io, etc...)

getting data to target ads. Apps gladly integrate them, because they can get better analytics on how the app functions and is used, but also for marketing attribution (comes back to ads.)

I find the outrage at Facebook for this to be a bit obnoxious. Are we equally as outraged at every app that has Google Analytics implemented? It's sending your data to Google, even if you don't have an account!
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I scanned the report for Knorr's involvement and nothing seemed fishy to me. There was this paragraph:

This was assessed by Knorr cross-functional teams of marketers, nutritionists, chefs, and product developers spanning across Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia, who answered the assessment questions with yes/no/maybe for every ingredient. The data were collated and assessed to determine which foods should potentially be eliminated based on responses. If more than half of the countries answered ‘no’ to one of the questions, the ingredient was eliminated. The relative nutrient density scores (NRF) were considered when choosing between foods with similar input, ensuring the foods in the final list would be nutritious.

Then later near the bottom:

Knorr and WWF have joined forces with other leaders in nutrition and sustainability to develop Future 50 Foods

In writing this report, Knorr, WWF and Adam Drewnowski are grateful for input and review from experts at Bioversity International, Crops For the Future, EAT Foundation, Edelman, Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), Food Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH), GAIN, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Gro Intelligence, Oxfam GB, SDG2 Advocacy Hub, Wageningen University and Yolélé Foods. This report ultimately reflects the views of Knorr, WWF and Adam Drewnowski. The creation of this report was led by Dorothy Shaver, Registered Dietitian and Global Knorr Sustainability Lead. It was published in February 2019.
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Thank you! I appreciate both tips!
There's a happy middle ground between the two I think. You can have a standardized self-contained and portable format (like AppImage or even regular AppDirs) and a standardized channel for updates without all the extra middlemen of repos or the bloat of app-specific update checks. AppImage actually specifies such a mechanism.
Here's another config I never see mentioned, but I love it. One giant 42" 4K TV. They are relatively inexpensive now (~$200) and it's roughly the same as having 4x 21" monitors conjoined in a square. It's very important to tone down the brightness and back-light considerably, since TVs are designed for sitting about 10 feet away, but they work great as monitors if you buy a good brand. Make sure your graphics card can support ultra high resolutions, and use a modern HDMI cable capable of 4K.

edit: Ensure 60Hz or higher refresh rate. This should be true if the TV is a good brand.
That's actually a perfectly legitimate thing to ask for. Our feelings and subjective experiences are very real, but our recall of them is terrible. Properly tracked, they're useful data, and such tracking could be cited here. Summoned up from memory, they're noise.
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this also happened in Orange County, California years ago. they'd pumped so much groundwater that some of the wells near the shore saw saltwater infiltration. nowadays, Orange County replenishes its existing aquifer by pumping purified, recycled waste water back in.
This is pretty much my setup too. Although, I also have my Mac screen running.

* Center - main focus of work (normally an IDE)
* Left - Documentation
* Right - Browser/Simulator
* Mac - Slack/Chat/Email/Calender
The plurality of Asians live in China which has built dozens of metros with thousands of miles of track in recent years:
http://www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/19044/china-s-breakne...
> Nowadays everything is “setup” for the cooperation of public and private, but what are the key “ingredients” to make it happen?

Norweigans trust their government, corruption is low, there's strong institutions already in place (a point specifically mentioned by al-Kasim in the Planet Money podcast) to ensure a competent and transparent execution of the plan. There's not many places in the world where all those factors exist sadly.
I currently have 3 27" displays side by side and keep wanting to try a giant 40-50" tv now that the bridge between monitors and tv is getting so small. (Plus I would kill-9 for PIP)

What model do you have, (did you try a few) and what are any real life downsides? (Eg. No usb hub? Display just not quite as good yet?)

Surprised this approach hasn't come up more often yet
Why is it insurmountable? With cheap solar energy desalination becomes cheaper. And even without that countries like Israel now use desalinated water for 70% of their total water use.
I also think that STEM degrees teach you to break down problems mechanically and "think like a machine". It also can teach you to be able to project an idea to a logical conclusion even if that end point is uncomfortable or surprising. That might not sound like a skill to a lot of people, but I've noticed people without STEM educations or who aren't self-taught in some sort of similar way aren't always great at doing that. I noticed that the people that dropped out in the first year of CS, for instance, really struggled with seeing the machine as having intentions, or at least anthropomorphizing it more than was useful.

That being said, I also notice that a lot of my STEM colleagues look down on creatives and humanities, which is really unfortunate. It's not about one being better than the other, they both have very useful things to teach.
https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...

Quite right, my mistake.

GE's new turbine has a 63% capacity apparently. So, 428 of them are needed, apparently.

Either way, I don't see what is so intrinsically unrealistic about setting up 500 of these things offshore as compared to a hinkley point.

Gansu Wind farm in China is 8,000MW - already 2.5x onen Hinkley.
Apple Watch revenue has surpassed the iPod, which was an absolute phenomenon. http://www.asymco.com/2017/11/08/when-watch-surpassed-ipod/

The cultural impact is undoubtedly lower.