skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is covered in an earlier post of his. At current growth rates, we’ll start noticeably heating the Earth in only a few hundred years. Not from the greenhouse effect, but from literally saturating the Earth’s capacity to radiate excess energy as heat into space.

This is a raw physical limitation. How we use and how we generate the energy are irrelevant details. The only thing that matters is Earth’s ambient temperature, the additional wattage being used planetwide, and the Earth’s radius. Past a certain point, Earth’s equilibrium temperature will rise well past current levels, and rapidly.
Come on. We haven't tried any other emerging solutions such as global government or full on ochlocracy.
Yet always people cousin capitalistm is best we got only because it's the thing we currently have, committing the same mistake of being static, just on the higher level.

Not to mention capitalism is an umbrella term with many variants making it a works claim. As if you said "the best we have is cars".
The purpose of advertising (with few exceptions) is to manipulate you into buying something you wouldn't have otherwise, or paying more for something than you otherwise would have. Apart from having better things we should be spending my money on (or even saving it, god forbid) advertising is responsible for much of our consumer culture and the environmental problems and other social ills it causes.

Tracking at the moment is mainly to better target the manipulation, but the more data we give them the more they can implement price discrimination. Imagine searching for a USB cable on amazon and because they know you're well off you'll see the expensive name brand options whereas a less wealthy person would be shown the cheap generic ones. Then imagine this becoming more ubiquitous and having to pay a price premium on every purchase based on your profile. To an extent this is already done by geographic location, a store in a wealthy area will often be more expensive for the exact same items than one in a poor area, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of basic produce in your country is cheaper than the exact same produce in my developed one even if it's not produced locally. Even these examples are just scratching the surface of what can be done once they have the data.

If you're from a developing country it might be hard to grasp just how much we spend on things not because they're expensive, but because companies can get away with charging for it.
This is sort of embarrassing for YC, so it's admirable they're sharing their surprise. Reads kind of like Breaking: people actually doing something know more about its practicalities than supposed subject matter experts. Points for honesty. I wonder if there's a VC model that could apply solutions to this category of issues from other domains (eg. traditional German trade schools) against the traditional founder/PE/VC structures to avoid such scenarios in future?

Also, the entire tier of coffee meetings don't really happen in Asia, we tend to do either meals or in-house presentations in my experience.
> For now, Boring company uses the $50mm to subsidize their R&D cost as they move up the “learning curve” toward the realization of an order of magnitude in cost savings.

What makes the Boring company have the exclusive monopoly on R&D? There is billions of dollars available for R&D. If it was just a question of money anyone could idealize those cost savings. Your entire post is mere speculation. There is not a shred of actual fact based evidence to support anything you have said.
Really, to quote the old "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" it's "practice practice practice" - it's doing this stuff often enough so that the correct data structure becomes obvious is how you get good at this game
OP is in the wrong about message contents. Message contents were never compromised to my knowledge. The issue was specifically metadata like login times and IP addresses. Also possibly mail server logs, such as that a user sent a message to a Gmail account, although I'm not 100% certain on that last point. Once again, when using the proper settings in ProtonMail, the message contents cannot be retrieved without a brute force attack thanks to end-to-end encryption.
No, open source[1] and free software[2] are the same thing. The only difference is in philosophy of advocacy - the open source movement branched off from the free software movement because they wanted to emphasize the practical benefits rather than the ethical aspects (user freedom).

[1] https://opensource.org/osd

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
In cases where you don't care about the query results your logic thread doesn't end up blocking.
> - homeschooling is in practice mostly undesirable, because it overwhelmingly attracts people with fringe beliefs who are not going to act in their child's best interest

To large extend, homeschooling movement was to large extend motivated politically and does attract fringe groups who want to avoid mainstream society. Avoidance of exposure of certain parts of history or sex ed or gender relationships or culture is strong motivation for many of those families.

It did not became popular in conservative christian male is head of household types randomly.
Sure, but if you’re the kind of person who buys winter tires (which IME is pretty rare in the widwest USA), you probably know that and check your pressure every couple weeks. And it probably only fluctuates a couple PSI which is well within safe bounds.
I find it interesting that the pictures on the site are a) served as lossless PNGs, and b) dithered.

Removing the dither, and switching to heavily compressed JPEGs, would reduce the file size of the images by ~60% (I've just done it in Paint.NET), thus reducing network usage per request, which in turn would shave a bit off the power consumption.
It should be moved some from China to USA because of trash exports too. (Also probably Malaysia.)

Anyway, it's great when you compare yourself to second worst.
I found a ProPublica article with broken links to government sources that says around 8% of prisoners were housed in private prisons in 2010. A Pew Research article[0] shows that private prisons have housed between 5-8%, but in 2016 out of 2,162,400 total prisoners[1] only 128,063 of them were in private prisons[2], which is about 6%.

I wholeheartedly agree that 6% of the prison population (128,063 people!) is a situation worthwhile of positive change. But I remain skeptical that it's those damn private prisons that are ruining everything. Mostly I think it's debacles like the drug war that need real immediate attention and change before things will significantly improve.

[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/11/u-s-private...

[1]https://www.bjs.gov/content/keystatistics/csv/Total_correcti...

[2]https://www.criminaljusticeprograms.com/articles/private-pri... again citing the BJS.
I stopped reading because the letters kept "unlocking" and rotating in an annoying way.
There are other less user-hostile Clojure guides.
This definitely needs to be considered. I open WSL and use curl on suspicious looking email links. I've been logged as doing so before. I'd hate for that log to actually go somewhere significant.
I've been spending some time in California and I noticed a worrying trend that it gets harder and harder to purchase marijuana. ID requirements are getting more onerous, MasterCard no longer accepted, etc. Things are going backwards!
I've certainly had something equivalent to the first one in Chrome frequently, seemingly when it's waiting for an unresponsive child process, often when closing a tab. It won't lock up as the UI seems to be separated from the other processes well enough to allow it to keep rendering loading animations etc. However every part of the browser will stop functioning including showing any tab content or opening any menu, for 10s of seconds at a time.

I've also had Chrome destroy my browser profile completely many times. It will start up and say something like 'your profile was unrecoverably corrupted and has been deleted'

Both are very complex pieces of software with lots of bugs.
> How we use and how we generate the energy are irrelevant details.

Just as irrelevant as assuming the basis behind current growth rates where it is impossible to mitigate agaisnt "literally saturating the Earth’s capacity to radiate excess energy as heat into space".

All of this is based on assumptions. You can't just accept one set of assumptions that underlie a model and throw out others that could refute it (well one could, but it isn't intellectually honest).
Yes, very very nice summary.
The original blog post from Steiger did seem suspect to me when I read it earlier today when this story broke. What's still unclear is what the motive would be to make up or exaggerate such a story.
I looked it up so you don't have to: CYA => Cover Your Ass. :)
A photo of one tiny world in a vast cosmos. A worldwide symbol that no amount of propaganda or violence could ever achieve.
> If there's the support of a major maintainer of a popular library, merging changes which incrementally incur larger performance penalties in Blink may be more effective.

That library will get forked by industry.

If its license does not permit forking, it's incredibly unlikely that it can get traction in the first place.
I have to admit it's a pretty ugly manual.

Some of those formulas were really blurry, while some of the tables spanned weirdly over pages.

The hosting issues could have been fixed as well if it was LaTeX as it would have been neat in a git repository.

Gitlab also has continuous integration for LaTeX

* https://www.vipinajayakumar.com/continuous-integration-of-la...

* https://sayantangkhan.github.io/latex-gitlab-ci.html
Complete with photos of the facility, almost ready to go. This should neatly parry the recent 'press speculation' about China banning rare-earth exports.

Who said governments use the press as unofficial communication channels, to make threats etc, not to mention regional governments fishing for funding? Not me...
To gorhill and all the people working in real privacy protection: Thank you, I love you all, keep up the good fight, we rely on you!
e^iτ = 1 + 0i

Fixed for real this time-final.final.v2.docx
In many countries, marijuana is an illegal drug. In such countries, dealing with the illegal drugs is a serious crime. Also, dealing with the person/company/organization who deal with the illegal drugs are also illegal.

The end result is, global companies can't do business that is legal on some countries, but illegal on majority of coutries.

On some illegal activities such as endorsing the woman's right, freedom of speech, democracy, alcohol(There are countries which prohibit these), they ignore it since it has established its place or not dealing with are also serious crime, or the countries which prohibit such act is minority. But for totally new topic like marijuana, It's safer to not dealing with.
What was the Australian company?
Well, this is a request for a startup!
Update: got an invitation. Thanks!
> Seriously, when was the last time a C programmer needed to figure out where identifiers like "strlen" or "fread" come from?

http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/archive/2010/min-max.htm
In other news, humans being human.
Happily is an overstatement. Access to banking and finance is still a major issue for dispensaries.
Typical layman response, expecting niche articles to be dumbed down to them
It's not really morality at all. Most recent U.S. presidents have partaken in at least one illegal drug. It's just the law as it stands now. They have their reasons (whatever they may be) and that propagates to entities with legal exposure. Unfortunately, sometimes that's just the way it is until it changes.
Oligarchies are even worse. The point is that people who win elections, and political leaders in general, are a much more concerning threat than wealthy, powerful & unlikable business leaders.

I'd be quite happy if governments had less power. People aren't threatened by rouge business magnates in the same way as they are by rogue public policy.

A few years of bad public policy does much more damage than any businessman can in a decade. Voters & governments are seriously not good at technical questions like resource allocation. Businessmen will stop doing something if it isn't working, voters usually push on regardless long after it obviously makes no sense to do so.
Let’s say there are 10 vehicles being loaded at a time. 16 passengers each is 160 passengers per cycle. That means vehicles can wait 6 minutes for loading on average. (Some can be slower because some will be faster)

Is that crazy? It doesn’t seem crazy to me. Busses don’t wait 6 minutes at a stop.

BART does 1-2 minute transfers.

Your idea that it would need attendants seems to be based on the assumption that cars must depart synchronously (because one slow party can hold up the entire system). But you’re missing the whole point of the Loop design: many on-ramps and cars can join into the express tunnel asynchronously.
I mean if you run a website with pages about SQL you might want to.
Such as series hybrids and electric cars. (Dropping complex transmission for batteries, but using a more efficient engine.)

At some point though friction against road and minimum weight for safety and comfort come into play, and once you optimize these you end up with a train. :)

It's the same problem electronics face right now, when they really butt into quantum physics and consequently have huge yield issues - and you can scale horizontally (more transistors) only for subset of problems.
You make good points and I tend to agree with you.

On the other hand I remember on some projects there being real (HUGE) pushback from the client about doing anything that wasn't implementing features exactly as they define and "are paying for".

As soon as you declare that you are doing something "optional", it gets political, people start talking about it, it escalates to project manager, their bosses boss etc and the shitfight starts. Ugh.
Right. Just read the changelog. It's literally regression fixes on compilation performance (which is introduced by typescript to begin with), and providing work arounds to do things typeless when new syntax feature XYZ is launched.

I'm getting a lot of flack on this thread but I stand by my judgement that working with typescript is slower and more frustrating for frontend work than standard JS.

My experience is just and anecdote, but I'd make a considered choice to pick typescript over minimal JS frontends. A large portion or this is based on my previous experience, so that is what it is.
See Firefox vs IE6. It's the same story all over again.
PhD time doesnt cost "nothing" like you said in grandparent post.
Yes, it would make sense to use Pathfinder for canvas as well. Some care is necessary to avoid regressing apps that read canvas data back from GPU to CPU frequently, to avoid thrashing the I/O bus, but in general it should be doable.

In fact, Pathfinder offers a subset of the HTML canvas API which you can use in your Rust apps right now. Here's an example: https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder/blob/master/examples/...
I don't know that a 3-month temporary offer is really necessary. In California at least, where employment is "at-will", you can fire an employee at any time for almost any reason. My expectation when accepting a job offer is that if I am not successful in my role, I will be fired. Most jobs I have worked even have an official "probation period" for new employees where you have a set of goals you need to accomplish in your first 3 months of work, followed by formal review process with your manager and HR.

It's rare to fire new employees in their first few months, but it does happen. Similarly I have seen people join a company, and leave after their first week because a better job offer came in. It sucks when it happens... but overall I'd say the system works pretty well.
Neither of which are physical limitations, just limitations on our understanding of physics and our ability to apply them to issues of the day. We are always in the process of trying to determine what the limits of physics actually are (modulo a given societies acceptance level of such experimentation and mechanisms to explore such).
Boeing went complete retard with this. Which is funny, because historically Boeing is the company known to give final authority of the plane to the pilot, in contrast to their rival Airbus which relies more on the onboard fly-by-wire system. Modern planes have hydraulics and fly-by-wire, so pilots don't get the feedback they'd get if their controls were directly connected to the airfoils. To give pilots this feedback, Boeing simulates it mechanically by exerting force on the yoke. Normally this is fine and dandy, until the critical AoA sensor malfunctions and makes the computer think the plane is in a different attitude than it actually is in.
Sure, people gonna use a browser where the only entertainment is a 240p stream of Stallmann chewing his toes.

These responses... Dont support amazon or netflix, twitch? Even FOSS needs to be realistic and see what is a solution and what is not.

A FOSS product needs to support the things people want to do. Otherwise it will not succeed. We should have learned this in the last twenty years.

Without Firefox and its compromises, Google would have 99% market share and FOSS people would browse wuth Lynx or wget
They’re working on actual hard problems, like combating click fraud attempted by organized crime and actual sophisticated actors, and they’re working regardless of the existence of this extension.

This extension just isn’t effective, and any time working in the ad industry makes that overwhelmingly obvious.
Firefox could be collateral damage.

Google fought dirty back against Microsoft. Microsoft pulled very dirty tactics to ram Edge down the gullets of Windows users. Google used the same tactics as used by a large percentage of installers on Windows: business as usual?

Or Google actually supported Windows 7 users, because Microsoft wouldn't. Maybe Google really needed a browser that worked and was secure on Windows 7 (not Internet explorer).

Microsoft owned the APIs to their OS yet Chrome beat them on their own turf - ouch!
Not sure how you would convince us it was a good sale in time for us to buy it. We'd probably also cancel right away.

We'd honestly probably use airtable or a commercial crm for this.

Sounds like a hard business.
It's awesome. Though I prefer my Bronshtein :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronshtein_and_Semendyayev
Better ban signal. Do you want that wrapped in "fighting terrorism", "war on drugs" or "think of the children".

We google should not be in a position of power to decide what is allowable and what is not. That is for elected officials. If they have more than reasonable influence, break them up.

Same for any group of people anywhere. Get elected.
Hoping Microsoft keep the APIs enabled on the new Edge-ium. Solid browser. If they port it over to Linux (they're already doing OSX) and keep the APIS required for ad-blocking enabled I see it picking up speed very quickly.

Opera has it built-in to the browser so I think they'll be safe too.

Wonder if this will apply to Chromium or just Google Chrome?
I've said it before, but in the context of solar system colonisation the value behind Tesla is not the cars - it is the gigafactory. Developing a serious Human presence off-Earth necessarily requires highly automated heavy industry and manufacturing.
I wish it took a pragmatic down-to-earth approach to presenting information, considering it’s illegible.
It's a new thing. The aim is so companies like Netflix don't lose subscribers when the subscriber loses their card and requests a new one.

The implementation is very shoddy - a mapping of old to new cards is distributed to any big provider who has charged the old card.
Yes, it is not exactly easy, but it is not like Chromium Embedded Framework despite being design for embedding is any easier to build.

The truth is the browsers are complicated beasts these days for better or worst and so goes the complexity of building and depending on them.
So I guess now that Google has gimped Chrome's extension API, it has regained that advantage.
Last time this happened in 2008 Goldman pumped and dumped Molycorp. I don’t know how banks get away with this behavior.

From what I gather, there is a decent stock of reserves in San Benito between LA and Vegas. Before the ionic clays in China, the mine was responsible for some 90+% of global rare earths production.

For those of you looking to trade off the info, Lynas on the ASX is the play. The news is already priced in but it’s inexact.
I think one of the main issues with the F&P experiment was that the Nobel committee was too quick to award them the Nobel Prize

If they had waited a year or two then everything would have calmed down by then (and no award, of course) and less hype about the experiments.

> We should not too quickly judge, and thereby alienate, scientists who make controversial claims. The ridicule that was sometimes directed at Fleischmann and Pons was bound to make them double down. When researchers turn out to have been mistaken, they must be allowed a way back without disgrace.

Great quote
The cutoff probably varies per city, but I imagine they're only trying to get rid of the lowest percentiles of the distribution.

Honestly though, a 4.7/5 generally sounds good. If a 4.7/5 is near the (very) bottom of the distribution then it sounds like the rating system is quite flawed and should suggest to Uber that they need to replace it (perhaps with just a "would you use this driver again" question, and if no, then whether the cause was behavioural (e.g. odour or some form of rudeness) or dangerous driving), then rank drivers using this. Vice versa for riders.

If the /5 rating system was accurate, then 'good' drivers/riders should be ~3.5-4, excellent drivers 4.2+, and poor drivers 1-2. But since some people have different definitions of 5/5 compared to others the rating system ends up generally turning into a 5/5 for above satisfactory with no real issues, and random usage of the rest of the scale.
No, this suggestion is wrong. I looked into using FF containers as a chrome profiles replacement and they’re not the same thing at all. I can dig up my notes if you like, I think they’re posted on HN in fact. FF has true profiles and those are what you’d use.

I agree with GP. Chrome profiles are what’s stopped me switching to FF.
Look at numeraire, nothing on the internet could achieve what numeraire has done, it puts skin in the game for financial predictions. The guys there were able to run a hedge fund out of it.
If we go to computing primitive. The internet was formed to distribute information, not sensitive information.
There is no protocol on the internet to store, share and process sensitive information like identity data, financial data or digital assets.
An analogy to this absurdity is that in the real world, people distribute newspapers on bicycles and trucks whereas money/ gold is moved around in armoured trucks with gunmen.
The internet doesn’t have a protocol that acts like the armoured truck with gunmen, bitcoin was potentially the first one to do so.
Is a speculative asset like bitcoin a gamechanger, I don’t think so, but I do think there’s value in adding native layers on the internet that enable the exchange of sensitive information.
By using their services, we elect them.

Still, yes, citizens could attempt to effect government intervention.

But probably the average person has more leverage as a consumer than as a political actor.
Hackers Infect 50k MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers with Rootkit Malware
I've been a Firefox/Safari user for a long time now because of concerns about Google, but I don't really get what this outrage is all about. As I understand it, Chrome is moving to the Safari rules-based model? Can someone explain why this is such a bad thing? It's not like Chrome is stopping all ad blocking.