skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an actual possibility of burning coal in a”clean way” through any technology now or in the future?

The current term “clean coal” is obviously BS, but is it possible either now or in the future, but just uneconomic?

It is an immense resource if we could extract the energy of coal in a clean way.
> Like the automobile was for farriers and the refrigerator was for ice deliverers.

One significant difference: coal employees are concentrated in a relatively small number of communities, which means that those communities are collectively suffering greatly, and the employees have fewer opportunities because there are no more jobs locally.

Farriers and ice deliverers were relatively evenly distributed, lessening the overall community impact and making it much easier to find a new career.
You should remind him of the legend of the No Skin Hero, who handily dismantles everyone who payed money on a free video game due to raw skill alone.
>disprove that many poorer people could have spent less and were actually bankrupt, but that their fate wasn't recorded the way it was for the highest transactions and their initiators.

Sure, we can spend all day speculating about records may have existed but were lost. I mean, there are no evidence of alien involvement, maybe those records were lost too?

It's also possible that the Tulip bubble was both short-lived and not very widespread and is just one of those stories that keeps getting bigger the more it gets re-told.
You’re interacting: you have your controller, the steering wheel, and you are manipulating an object, the car, and the computer inside your car is using sensors to determine how you are performing inside your environment, and providing you with virtual information combined with real world information so you are better equipped to do your job, than without the additional information augmented to you reality.
I struggle with the last one, I make time for family and two somewhat close friends but I have a really bad tendency to cut off/not keep relstionships that have no obvious immediate or even long term benefit be it similar interests etc. I always have to change gyms every 8 months because it after that it becomes too awkward further avoiding conversations with people you see most of the week. If I talk to him once, that means I would have to talk to/greet him everytime i visit. If i did that for just a dozen people thats 25% of the time spent in the gym gone like that. This thought process takes over in many other situations including the workplace. I once avoided this guy at an agency I worked on a clshort term contract, he wasn't on my team/area so I used to kind of ignore(?)/not strike a conversation. I found out 4 months later he was the CEO on the project retrospect meeting. All four of the other contractors were given extensions except me. I know 100% it wasn't performance related because my team lead fully expected me to be back but told me it was a decided by "top management".

I am in my late 20s and have asked one women out, a few years ago (fwiw she turned out to be a lesbian). For me to approach a women she would have to be wife potential. Why would i waste time & money with some women with no potential (with me)? I have friends that do this and it confuses me, they they theyd never wife her and complain about wasting a whole weekended wasted together, but do it just for the sex. I've tried sex and it was unbelievably and depressingly underwhelming. Sex with condoms is a huge scam on men. I'd much rather jerk off at home.

This cavalier, selfish and aloof attitude is one I am 100% limit my career and happiness but I really doubt I will change.
You may have to have someone send you a snap from their phone with the filter installed and hit the Unlock button in that snap. It's weird.
Abducting people in western countries unfortunately seems to be the norm in the war on terror, not only by the Israelis [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case
Tell HN: The solution to bad interviewing is the reverse job interview
There's much discussion about how broken hiring is, and how companies don't know how to effectively interview and select developers.

Consider this Tweet https://twitter.com/evanplaice/status/1128108341190725632?s=20 in which the author states that he was asked relevant questions in none of his recent job interviews.

I propose to you a solution - the "reverse job interview".

The reverse job interview is proactive rather than reactive.

ALL job interviews currently are reactive - the interviewer chooses how they will assess you and drives the assessment process.

A proactive interview process is one in which the interviewee/job seeker takes control of the interview process.

In a reverse job interview you, as the job seeker, follow your own interview agenda, present your technical credentials skills and experience, quiz the company about the job and its requirements, the company and the culture.

At the end of the process you invite the company to ask any questions it might have of you.

This will be a huge challenge for most companies to accept - many won't - but at least you'll get to ensure that your best self is presented to the company.

If they don't like it that you took control, then that company has eliminated itself from your job search.

There it is - the 'reverse job interview' - a solution to all those companies that don't have any idea how to assess your talent.
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Somebody should also tell the current government in Queensland. Currently royalties is over $4 billion. They should start looking at alternative income.
What does double quotes dollar do in the command?
It won't. The concepts of bitcoin will be iterated on and polished into something that's actually useful. Bitcoin will not be the future as I said, but an improvement on it will. Something that's actually useful.
Nothing like getting cocky kills against people who dropped $50+ on fortnight while wearing the default skin. Thrive on their rage, let it fuel you.
Replacement pay and relocation. Asking an older blue collar worker to move away from family and friends to another state, more or less involuntarily, is much harder than encouraging a young tech worker to move to, say, California.
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We sort of do this. It's important for the company to get to ask fit questions that can't be inferred. As with anything, if you try to force a company to do what you want, most won't. If you meet in the middle with equal amounts of questions and assessment on both sides, that probably makes more sense than one side or the other dominating the conversation.
And how many small towns will disappear if Arby's does?
You measure it in money so that you know what the opportunity cost is for 'this' allocation of scarce resources whatever the value of 'this' is.

There may be occasions where the cost will never be so high as to preclude the allocation. Value the benefit in money (which could simply be justified as being infinite in certain circumstances).

"I feel emotion about this issue, let's allocate all the resources and think no further." Has generally been a very, very bad idea. Money is the only metric we have to compare unlike resources when considering allocation and it makes a lot of sense. It has little to do with our bank balances in such usage. It should have nothing to do with greed and avarice.

If on the other hand you're talking about propaganda war and the misuse of analysis to either act or stall, I have little interest in commenting other than to say such propaganda techniques are evil every single time they are used and especially in the service of "right" the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Thinking properly about "what will happen if we do X" is the best defence we have as a species against just about everything.

I am not making a comment on how well the analysis has been done in the attached article. I note it is possible to do such things very, very poorly.
I wonder how long till we get the articles about teens using fortnite for sex.
https://xkcd.com/1289/
Well, maybe if someone record it and put it on social media. Otherwise, I doubt it. Actually, even then I doubt it, I've never seen it happen. From the article, it does not look like they got fired.
You are claiming “reasonable people”, which is a legal term, and googles algorithm, which is a computing term, are the marketplace. Neither of these are the market.

The whole idea of googles algorithmic approach is wrong and it’s real purpose is to let google manipulate what people see, rather than letting them choose for themselves.

People should be able to dictate to google how to find information, but instead, google wants to dictate to them how to find information. As has been mentioned already in this thread, and can also be seen on YouTube, google actively overrides users own specified preferences.

A clear example on YouTube is the “trending” section. It is basically googles “we want to present a Disney like site, with a focus on mainstream media”. This goes against the actual marketplace. Actual videos that are trending but not advertiser friendly or whatever else, will not be shown in this section.

Google wants everyone to see “authoritative” sites, because it is a propaganda model. The ministries of truth, even though they are clearly not even valid news sites. Most of what cnn puts out is politically-motivated propaganda. I still remember “the stock market will crash if trump is elected”. Hah..
Hey there! Workona and Tabtation are trying to solve the same problem differently. Tabtation is just a bar at the bottom that loads on every tab, and groups/organizes your tabs based on the domain, for handy access to all your open tabs. From the very little that I've seen, Workona solves the problem a little differently by introducing Workspaces and opening/closing tabs each time depending on the Workspace you select. I'd love that you try Tabtation and see the difference. Hope that helps!
I agree to the people losing its life shattering, especially when one considers entire communities and ways of life are built around it. Another aspect to consider though is that coal in its entirety employs less people than Arbys the fast food restaurant. If tomorrow, the news announced that Arbys was in danger of going out of business, the country would shrug. Coal wields a disproportionate amount of political and cultural power for the number of people it employs and the damage it does.
Tesla model S owners are no longer early adopters, that car is 7 years old. After that amount of time you’d expect these kinds of issues to have been solved.
That's interesting. I will check out your link a little later when I have time. A lot of the reading I have done on mindfulness has been less about blocking things out or distancing yourself from it and more about accepting how you feel and observing it as if from a scientific perspective with genuine curiosity. I guess if we take away the semantics, what is really comes down to is that you seem to be opposed to blocking how you feel or distancing yourself from how you feel and more about being curious about how you feel and studying it. In that sense, I think you and I are in agreement, regardless of what label we attach to it.
The story that they sued people who just had accidental contamination is a lie. They went after people who deliberately violated their contracts by saving seed, or who deliberately sprayed they crop with glyphosate to concentrate trace contamination by allowing only those plants to survive.

Monsanto really seemed to bring out ideological derangement among its critics.
And leetcode is trivial. Think reverse a linked list or something. I used to ask candidates to implement binary search correctly and I stopped because nobody could do it on a whiteboard.
The evidence you cite is actually the evidence I would cite. If Bezos and Gates were to hire mercenary armies — and really needed them, because the uniformed services of the United States were not available — they would need to rapidly change the character of their leadership. They would be a different kind of elite, if they managed to make the transition at all.

My point is that the kind of elite we get in a context of peace and security is very different from the kind we get outside of it. Russia is run by a former member of the security forces, and that is often what happens in a time of disorder. How many other former leaders of Russia were drawn from the security forces, and when?
It is, as with many things, a mix of all things. But the decrease in vaccination rates is _definitely_ a huge contributing factor in many of the outbreaks. See, e.g.,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122668/
Another significant difference is that coal is concentrated in states that even though they have almost no population still wield 2 senate seats. This is one of the, if not the reason that coal continues to thrive.
Not only does it seem to be very unethical, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a wrongful death lawsuit eventually.
No but thank you for saying that!
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And neither should immigrants be blithely blamed.
>For instance, search for "has Infowars ever been correct" on Google and then Duck Duck Go. F

I suspect Duck duck go's results come from Bing based on the result similarities.
Thanks. Your post is the first time I've read a physically plausible explanation of this.
Times of Great Change: The New Universe
Well, the first half of that statement seems undeniably true.
No so much coal, persey, but it's not unfeasible to capture the CO2 emitted by burning coal (or whatever) and sequester it in the ground. This should be talked about more because it enables us to use all that energy, but I suggest there might be ugly political connotations around it, much like Nuclear.
I've found the filters, but I can't find one that does this.
But time is enough. New bugs can be introduced with the next update.
I know the least about Kinesis, but my assumption is that it still has an OK-like response to any batch of events you send to it, does it not?

I think you might be misunderstanding me. Obviously I know about topics. In Kafka and EventHubs (where really you have a namespace containing multiple event hubs corresponding to topics) at least, there is no reply pattern whatsoever beyond an OK. I still don't know which specific distributed message queue platforms you and others are referring to that implement this pattern.
Many UBI ‘trials’ have been run but stopped short of completion. Results never pointed to any negatives (unless you count level unemployment as a negative like it was counted in Finland). Generally outcomes are positive. Moreover programs akin to UBI have worked in places like Alaska.

Many of these trials are cut short due to ‘unsustainability’- generally due to the fact that the programs aren’t actually paid for by anything- UBI on its own is unsustainable ! As such, the candidate I mentioned above is running on a platform that looks to consolidate existing welfare programs and implement a VAT to help afford the policy.
Ipfs.jes.xxx is not blocked and I could read what I wanted. But sometimes it gives 504 Gateway Timeout errors.

GitHub is working. Cloud fare ipfs and ipfs.io are both blocked.

Many Chinese here in Shenzhen use VPNs to access YouTube and Facebook. So it's the easiest and most reliable way to access Wikipedia.
I mean, that was part of NASA's investigation conclusions. The design error wasn't using an industrially rated part, it was using it without proper screening, testing, and failure to follow manufacturer recommended safety margin.

One of the purposes of using the "right rated" parts is that you get to off-load some of the testing and screening that you might otherwise wish to do to a component vendor (who is better equipped to absorb the price of testing, and because they have tighter integration with manufacturing, a better ability to achieve specifications).

Like I totally get the idea of using lower cost components. But sometimes they are actually the solution. And sometimes finding the problem is incredibly expensive, if not in $$$, then at least in PR.

Americans love to shit on gold plating, but they also love to shit on greedy corporations minimizing the bottom line.
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvotes like that. It's tedious and self-referential.

Your original comment also broke the site guidelines by calling names and being a shallow dismissal and flamebait. If you'd made your substantive point about gratitude without all that, and neutrally, it might not have been downvoted, though even then it's kind of a generic tangent.

So far, that's at least five site guidelines you broke. Would you mind reviewing them?

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Nice of you to include the copyright line in your violation of same.
> Her testimony is sought as a witness. She is being sent to jail for refusing to testify

Thanks for the clarification, I'm not a lawyer.
Venezuela regulating Bitcoin as trading volume hits all-time high
crossing a new line is a way to signal your opponent that you're unafraid of any and all of their potential retaliation. it is a way to tell them that (you think) you dominate them.
I wouldn't want to get shampoo sprayed on my face either. Doesn't mean it's harmful.
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Not an occupation.
Bayer admits Monsanto arm kept list of pesticide critics
I would buy a voice-training app for this
One quantum automata question I have is this: is there a rigid lattice that the photons exists on?

If one photon is able to exist at any arbitrary position and at any arbitrary spin orientation it would seem simple to imagine an event space between two photons having a distance between 0 and the plank length

Unless there is a lattice that ensures that all photons are minimally oriented at a distance of at least a plank length in all directions and whose spins must orient along the lattice in 90deg transformations
> I have a Facebook account, this creates limitations when it comes to blocking (e.g. I cannot use a DNS block/piHole).

Why not? I have an actively used Facebook account, and also run all my traffic through PiHole.
> People who bought an iPhone shortly after launch paid $600

I remember paying $300 at launch I think...that was the AT&T locked one but back then it was easy to unlock.

The $600 ones weren't available until much much later when they started selling off contract unlocked phones directly.
Most fish contain microplastic: study
SBCL is actually really good at optimizing this type of code, and I think it can even do some vectorization.

If it's not not good enough, there are a few CL bindings and wrappers around BLAS and LAPACK.

A good one is Matlisp, which is available in QuickLisp.

http://quickdocs.org/matlisp/
I don't quite understand the Huawei analogy. NSO isn't partnering with Israeli companies to preinstall malware on their stuff. So I don't see how this is an indication that a Chinese version of NSO will partner with Huawei to preinstall malware on Huawei stuff. If NSO can hack American software, then Chinese NSO can hack American software too.
We have no functional equivalent where one platform controls most of the consumer internet. The closest would be Facebook, but most people wouldn’t like the idea of doing payments through the platform (for now). In addition, Venmo has pretty board reach.
Please don't get personal like that, even if another account is posting in a way that seems resentful or what have you. That just feeds the flames.

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I love it. The best way to learn is by doing, and the suggested project idea is simple enough as a starting point, and complex enough to require deep thinking and exploration in various aspects to figure out a good solution.

Many of the recommendations in other comments could tie into architecting such a study project too: data structures, algorithms, communication among distributed processes..
Can you direct me to the clause in the Constitution that limits free speech rights if you attract a big enough audience?
Would you please stop with this flamewar? You've posted 20 times in this thread already and taken it way beyond pale. HN isn't for this kind of thing, so please don't do it here again.

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Sure. It’s really just a url though. Nothing fancy going on: url says pay for this item and call Apple Pay.
Both of us can say this, it’s unproductive. The situation in Israel and the occupied territory is grossly unfair.
As someone that grew up very poor, worked very hard for a long time and got very lucky, to then make a lot of money:

I like to look at it as the power of money to most people isn't what it adds to your life, it's what it takes away. No more fears about bills, no more worrying about being broke or stressing over the monetary concerns. That/those are the first plateau. Once those things are gone some people are going to be a lot happier, but sometimes money wasn't the actual cause of your unhappiness; just one of many causes amidst the pile. You might be more happy, or less stressed, neither, or both.

These concepts are nebulous at best, but I'm curious how one measures an increase in happiness versus a decrease of stress. Likely a fair amount of comorbidity at play.
"Prefix notation is a non-issue" is true for a tiny minority of software developers and mathematicians. The world has already spoken: infix is a minimum requirement for the vast majority of people doing math.

Bignums, true rationals, and many other constructs are already available in Python. Numpy is too. Most importantly, infix is available in Python.

The funny thing is that it's already possible to do infix in Common Lisp. My "readable Lisp" approach has been supporting infix in standard Common Lisp:
https://readable.sourceforge.io/
It's already available in the QuickLisp libary as "readable". You can then use {1 + 2} with macros, quasiquoting, and so on.
Supreme Court Strikes Major Blow Against Apple's Monopoly
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I wish more tools did this, I almost always want a local, self-contained environment for everything. The few times I don't actively want I don't see much pain in having one. A couple minutes setup time, maybe?

I have seriously considered hiring someone to audit and prune all the random little libraries and tools I've installed over the years for that one-off time I had to process a weird file format or wanted to try something from HN.
Most likely by exploiting an iOS vulnerability . (Which might be unrelated to the WhatsApp bug, other than using it as a vector.)
It’s not, you have to double tap the power button to invoke Apple Pay.
> I'm transgender and use those applications to come up with new ideas on how to make little changes to my appearance to feminize my features

I've been recommending FaceApp to people who want to buy new glasses or sunglasses for a while. It seems pretty stable.
This is why the grid has a hard time kicking Solar City homeowners off the grid: they produce dirt-cheap power at peak consumption times. Anyone who remembers the California rolling blackouts (thanks Enron, et al) understands that power consumption peaks in the mid afternoon.

At the same time, homeowners understand why they need to be on the grid: they are at work during the day and run their appliances in the early mornings and evenings when their own solar panels are less than optimal.

Thus the power purchase agreement is the deal that makes sense.