skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably to discourage a witch hunt. The ire here shouldn't be directed towards the individual, who operated within the German legal system, but the courts themselves. Also I'm not sure what you're basing the latter part of your comment on. It doesn't really seem to match my understanding of the history of the project.
"Who are these other researcher? Care to link to their research on this?"

It takes months to write, peer-review, and publish research papers, so given that this Nature Climate Change article is quite recent at the moment there exists absolutely zero peer-reviewed studies or counterstudies following up on it. However here are some researchers who have criticized it in their own informal analysis or press interviews: see links in https://is.gd/ksyKyv — shortened URL for https://thinkprogress-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thinkprogre...

The researchers in question are:

Dr. Jon Koomey, who was a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) scientist for more than two decades.

Professor Eric Masanet, who leads the Energy and Resource Systems Analysis Lab at Northwestern University.

Arman Shehabi, research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

And myself who has criticized it here on HN (my work's been cited in Nature Sustainability and the NYT: http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/ so I guess this makes me a researcher now)

"How do we know that?"

It's common knowledge to anyone in the industry that the Antminer S9 is by far the most popular Bitcoin mining machine. For some official reports on that, see market research reports and IPO filings from multiple mining hardware manufacturers. For example this has been neatly researched and presented by the team lead by Christian Stoll in https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3335781 Read their Supplementary Data, tab "3.4 IPO filing analysis"

"Again, how do we know that?"

As I said elsewhere in this thread, according to https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=801297 CO2 emissions per kWh have already decreased -25% over 11 years. Therefore -80% in 100 years seems easily achievable (the trend only has to continue for 60 years, then there can be 40 years of technological stagnation.)

In fact we don't even need any technological breakthrough to achieve -80%. France already emits 90% less CO2 per kWh than the average country, thanks to nuclear power.
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would you rather be an agent with agency or a subject flopping around helplessly complaining? authority doesn't have to be bad. you're projecting
Uber is a cancer that has been amassing and burning that investment. Who knows? Lots of smart people at Uber maybe they can figure out how to turn a profit but I maintain that won’t happen until human drivers are not part of the equation or they pivot to something entirely different.
> Sbt is probably the best example of what happens when you match academic thinking with actual code ...

> ... try to understand the library code that pulled in Scalaz and probably is written in the purely functional idiom of Scala that academics admire but mostly reminds me of Perl and other line-noise oriented programming languages.

> I really think that stuff like Scalaz has no place outside academia

It's hard to think of a type of criticism that is lazier than using "academic" as a pejorative.

> I have found the run-time type error in [static languages] a fairly rare occurrence and not worth the trade-off of having to live with a retarded assistant in the form of a mandatory type-checking compiler

... and there it is
What people are willing to pay for cars amazes me. Esp to rent a car they don't own. $4199 is $1399 more than I paid for (at police surplus) the 2011 car I've had for a few years. It costs me significantly less than $500/mo to operate and repair. The 2007 before, cost less and lasted 5 years before I wrecked it. I have the money, I earn more than $200k/yr, I just the value/cost for new cars is just not worth it.
> That was never their intent.

No one remembers what the intent was. Just two years ago the whole narrative from the proponents of web components was “the future is here, no need for frameworks, get rid of your reacts and angulars and... and...”

But then people actually tried using them.

So, curiously, the narrative quickly shifted to “oh, these are just primitive APIs never intended for direct use, and only intended for library and framework authors”.

Curiously, at the same time the narrative usually keeps going “react is crap, you should drop it in favor of web components”.

A nice recap from Dan Abramov: https://dev.to/dan_abramov/comment/6kh1 and more in the discussion here: https://dev.to/ben/why-the-react-community-is-missing-the-po...

And we are in yhe comments to an article that literally argues that Web Components will replace frameworks. While half of the people in the comments say “yeah, the intent is for them to be used only by library and framework authors”.

There’s a certain hint of schizophrenia in how Web Components are described by their proponents.
This! While my sentiment may feel a bit Star Trekky/naive, our quest to get to the stars will only succeed if we, as a planet, pull together. If we dont, we'll be limited to this solar system. China, US, India, Israel, Russia (sorry for anyone else Im missing :-)), are all pioneers and we should celebrate their successes, and continued desire to push the envelope.
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Elwyn was a pioneer of combinatorial game theory and often put his ability to strategize to good work. Once in the CS department at Berkeley, when someone proposed a motion of no-confidence against the current department chair, Elwyn immediately seconded the motion. After a round of laughter, the motion was dropped. That was during Elwyn's tenure as chair. He will be missed by so many of us...
Android wasn't that great technically at the time either, I was actively avoiding mobile app development at that time due to how crappy the SDK was, thankfully it's not that bad anymore, Google put a lot of work on Android since then but was Blackberry really worse?
Go-Jek is not challenging Grab.

They have a deeply inferior product, fail to catch up to Grab's breakneck innovation pace.

Also, being an Indonesian company, Go-Jek has a disorganized company culture that is not conducive to competing with a lean, well-oiled machine run by Singaporeans like Grab.
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> benefit to legally being able to crack/decrypt other's information without their permission and knowledge

>privacy and property rights

This is precisely the issue with DMCA. It is illegal in the US to decrypt a DVD/blu-ray etc (for reference, see why fedora cannot play dvds). So what should have been a reactive law against piracy is now a proactive prohibition codified in law. That's why, laws around encryption should decide on the actions after the fact. You can then use existing law on the actions and encryption is out of the picture. In this case, the actions would be protected by free speech and other protections afforded to journalists.
Since you actually forked Postgresql, how is it realistic to assume that the data will be safe?
> I'd like to hear how you know that Assange knew that they had nothing to do with it? Because your argument seems to hinge on that idea.

I'm not sure who "they" are in this question. I assume Assange knows who his sources are, and as someone who claims to be a journalist and run a journalistic enterprise, he would not accuse people of something he had no evidence of.

At this point, there's plenty of investigations as to whether he was a source, many of which are shown on the relevant portion of his Wikipedia page.[1] Either all the evidence so far is incorrect, or Assange knew he wasn't a source, or Assange didn't know whether he was or was not a source, and in either case, anyone that claims to be a journalist or working towards exposing the truth should not be making statements such as he did, or at least that's the opinion of many people.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Debunking
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True AV are not possible right now nor for the foreseeable future. The technology has plateaued progress has slowed after the first rounds of demo technology showcases by all the big players. New research breakthroughs are needed and more robust and cheaper sensors. Throwing more money/people at the problem doesn't solve this and betting on AVs to make Uber profitable is a very long bet.
Sure, if you want to define competition as the market you come from, rather than the market you're in.
what about playing with different hyperparameters? I always found that time consuming? What do you guys think?
> You missed the point. [explanation of the point]

If it's that simple, could you consider replacing the first 1k words with this instead? I'm entirely serious.

> Then you didn't search very hard.

Okay, I'll bite. I searched for the phrase "host bindings extension to WASM" (the literal phrase included in your treatise) on DuckDuckGo, which brings me to https://duckduckgo.com/?q=host+bindings+extension+to+WASM&ia.... The first result is https://github.com/WebAssembly/webidl-bindings/blob/master/p..., a 404. If you want someone to find something so badly, link it instead of making claims about how much effort they might have put in. The onus is on you to prove the claims you make, and I wish this were something you took the time to link instead of the definition of "acquiescence".

> As far as DOM work you would have to dive into the DOM string portion of JS API integration section: https://[...]

You don't make clear which part I'm supposed to be looking at, and I don't explicitly see it stated that DOMString will be the only way WASM can interact with the DOM; there's just an example of how a WASM function might take a DOMString and return a DOMString, and how the binding machinery works in that case.

Additionally, after some additional searching, I found https://github.com/WebAssembly/function-references/blob/mast... including "Easier and more efficient exchange of function references between modules and with host environment" and information about closures. I'm not certain about it, but doesn't this run counter to your point about code running against `window.document`? After all, you could (if I'm reading this correctly?) pass in a bunch of closures that directly manipulate `window.document` through something like this.

> If you are confused as to what the article says then submit a pull request with a superior recommendation.

If I don't understand the article (you've just told me I don't), how do I help you make it better?
504/mo for 36mo plus 3k down is really about 590/mo.

"Before savings"
Prime Minister Netanyahu? There is a strong chance he'll be indicted and convicted, even though his new coalition is looking to dissolve the power of the judiciary (to bury his criminal indictments):

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-prime-minister-ben...
It's not exactly like they had to control regions with rubber to have access to it. They could have just paid for it like we do today.
The threats are legal, not violent, in most Western countries. Let's not start making excuses for companies that sell us out.
Switching today would be virtually impossible. Just think of all the freeway interchanges that would have to be rebuilt, costing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.
One thing that obviates the need for colonies is international trade. You used to need to actually hold countries to make sure you had minerals, rubber, spices, etc. With the formalization of trade it's not as necessary.
It's really up to the UK whether to extradite, but yeah extradition is a thing that several allied countries do to prevent people from being able to commit crimes in other countries without consequence.

I get the concerns, but the charge is of conspiracy and that's exactly how it works... If you get caught planning to hack the DoD but you don't accomplish it, those plans can be used against you in a conspiracy charge.

> Should we start extraditing Canadians for weed?

That's up to Canada, but on the face of it that's not even a crime (Americans can go to countries with legal marijuana, the crime is possession in the states). Now, if someone in Canada was conspiring to traffic a massive amount of weed into the US that could be different.
I fully expect to be sitting on a rug in 10 years.

They’ll probably have people’s kids running around the office.
How about designing roads for people. All the problems you mention should be solved even if we don't have self-driving cars of any kind.:

start designing roads specifically for ease of use. design lanes that are extremely easy to see. Traffic lights that are easy to parse. Street signs standardized and easily readable.
Yup, even custom css to help point out who you should downvote.
Looking back, I’m more and more convinced it was Verizon’s need for an iPhone clone that killed them. The book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry goes into a lot of detail about their decisions and that looked like the big problem. Something like the Passport earlier would have been a better bet than any Storm model.
This is my biggest pet peeve with Amazon. I have given up on buying electronics multiple times because every search returns hundreds of no name Chinese knockoffs for every one reputable brand that I'm actually looking for. There is the option to select only certain brands, but if there are more than a few (which there always are because of the hundreds of knockoffs) it takes you to a page that only allows you to select one brand at a time. It's maddening and makes buying electronics on Amazon impossible. I don't know how they can not see how much friction they have in an industry where even the most trivial inconveniences cause exponential increase in bounce rates.
Subsidy "here is some money to exist"

Contract "here is some money to meet these contractual requirements".

I think you're confusing SpaceX with United Launch Alliance (ULA), who's Annual Capability Payment of $1 billion per year was given to them literally so they can keep the lights on. A lot of congressmen were seeing red when ULA decided to not even bother with a bid for the most recent GPS launches (which SpaceX cleaned house with overall) where SpaceX required zero subsidy and managed to do it cheaper in every way.
Website is unfortunately unusable on mobile. The decided to disable zoom, and the right side of the tree font size is about 2px high. I've got good eyes but no amount of squinting is going to make that happen.
It would be a pretty fucked up logic if US laws applied outside US but the document that prevents US laws from becoming tyrannical would not.

That would simply be evil.
Great point. I was considering a very visual-minded reader but of course not everyone would be so good at it nor would they always just care about how the kanji looks rather than other aspects. It's a difficult problem indeed... My intention is to show that we'd need some sort of radical solution that might not be what we'd immediately jump to (for example the current approach the author mentions is having a separate field for readings, but this is clearly resource-intensive and wouldn't work on arbitrary data). To solve sorting for Japanese, I feel we need to rethink what it means to sort.
At least Wikipedia content is still accessible in Germany.

Because of a German court order to regarding some of their items[0] Project Gutenberg blocks German access to _all_ of their books. Now for more than a year.

I sympathize with them but a total block seems a bit heavy handed, punishing all of Germany for a maybe poor decision. Guess this was the simplest way to respond given the resources they have.

Curious to see how this is going to play out in the end.

Back to Wikepedia

> Because of the very short deadline from the legal proceeding—we were given less than one day to take action

What I don't understand in the Wikipedia case is why the deadline was so tight. Seems unreasonable.

[0]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16511038
More space for traffic is generally bad for everybody since it increases the number of miles between the places where you want to be.
If a Fortran compiler were self-hosting, I might think twice before using it... I can't imagine implementing a parser/lexer in Fortran of all languages. Considering that loops and procedures are the main supported models of indirection/abstraction, I expect the defect rate per kLoC would be rather high.

Edit: Looks like OOP support arrived in Fortran 2003. Does anyone know how much of a difference it made?
If someone puts a gun to your head and says "Do this thing or you and your family will be executed" it doesn't make you the same as them. Coming from Nazi Germany does not make them necessarily Nazis.
Bookmarked in the name of science!
It should not be indexing all the time. Only when you load a new project.
I'd say being thrown in prison qualifies as "violence".
To be fair, the United States didn’t exactly start with home grown talent either.
Huh, apparently some people don't think banana boobs and torpedo tits are the same thing.

Anyway, time for mashups between tree branches!
But these are actual dates he gives his engineers. Unsurprisingly, engineering is very difficult. He's pushing them to reach the stars, and they've only managed to reach the moon so to speak. He's fanatical about pushing them to be their very best (depending on your POV).
"The city becomes a giant fulfillment center, and humans mere inventory pickers."

That's almost the definition of a shopping mall.
Hey man wanna slap-box for like thirty seconds ?
Sorry, I was unclear -- what I was trying to say is, if you're registered for selective service couldn't that result in the various military sending you "hey, do you want to join the <insert service here>"?

I wasn't a permanent resident during the age window for selective service, so I can't speak to any of the selective service rules, just my unceasing jury summons :D
That's a long way away. The self driving technology has plateaued after the initial controlled tech demos and isn't looking likely to be useful in the general way that Uber needs any time soon. Maybe they can get it working in some very favourable routes but not enough to balance the books. Some really hard problems still exist with algos and sensors and the costs will be high for a long time. If the bet is on autonomous vehicles it's a very long bet.
Technology startups aren't inherently good. People behind them that want to solve solutions are. Just like publishing papers experimenting (probably unethical) with p<0.05 won't make your life better. Scientist are the one that do.
That may change given the current administration claiming that Defending Freedom and America doesn't make you worthy of being American.
I mean sure, but it all boils down to invoking some SQL commands if you want to drop it in bash or powershell or w/e

https://github.com/lerocha/chinook-database/blob/master/Chin...
> I'm using the term you used.

My point is that it's an imprecise term, and one that carries baggage in the language. If you're going to make a case that it's not descriptive of what's going on because the negative connotation it carries may not be present in the situation, it's worth using a neutral re-wording to clarify the point.

> You said that some people make the distinction between "election meddling" and "exposing government actions".

What I said is people believe wikileaks meddled, and I meant that with all the negative connotations that implies because that's what I was trying to express. That's the point, because we're discussing how some people's opinions changed over time. Ignoring the negative connotation is ignoring the word choice I specifically chose on purpose.

As I noted in the prior comment, when discussing opinion and belief over time, facts are irrelevant. Can meddling (or, to clarify, being involved in disseminating information) in an election not be negative? Obviously. That's not what's being discussed here, and whether Wikileaks did or did not do it is irrelevant to whether people have a rational reason for their beliefs given the information they were exposed to.
Fortran used to be more popular. However, TIOBE is a lacking indicator, as stated here: http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html (do a in-page-search with "Why is PYPL so different from TIOBE ?") Some other indicators such as Redmonk ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-1... ) show that both Dart and Rust are more popular than Fortran. (Although each of them have their own set of biases.)
Congratulations on launching. I've been following EdgeDB after finding about the company behind uvloop. Excited to test this out on a side project.
I can zoom in on the diagram fine on iOS 12.2 Safari (just another data point).
Here is the reuse record so far: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/cores
That is one of the best articles I have ever seen on a complex technical subject. A reasonable amount of math, great examples, and animations of the process.

If the massively online education people had that kind of quality, maybe people would actually finish the courses.
Thank you! Please share with us how it will go.
>You should always look both ways regardless of which side a car is driving on.

This is true, but when I finally went to a right-side country (Czechia) at age 29, I discovered that contrary to what I believed, I must not be, because I kept only looking right.
this is (slightly) less of a problem in other countries than the US. The real problem in the US is that after they demonstrably screw everyone else over, politicians pass many questionably effective laws - and then immediately start rolling it all back because "regulation hurts Americans".

In the EU GDPR was a response to the abject failure of companies to actually self regulate - there was an actual consequence of a failure of self-regulation: the GDPR adding financial penalties for abusing consumers.

If the companies had actually self regulated, and actually self-limited their collection of data, and if only they hadn't sold off everyone's data to anyone and everyone, then they wouldn't have to deal with the GDPR.

So if the companies think it /is/ too aggressive, they've only got themselves to fault.
Green users often get their comments deaded. Possibly because they used the word "sockpuppet" which would definitely be a heuristic for low quality flamebait.
> wildly different pronunciations for some spelled the same

The fundamental point to understand is that those names aren't spelled the same, they're written the same. The writings and readings are essentially distinct things; neither is a representation of the other.

(As an aside, Japanese doesn't really have spelling as we think of it. It has phonetic characters, but their names map 1:1 with their pronunciation, so "spelling" a Japanese word is the same thing as just saying it.)
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