skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malaysia's economy is fairly developed and the government has decided that the long term environmental impacts are not worth the short term profits.

Malaysia is home to some of the only growing coral reefs in the world, has a growing population of wild Tigers, Panthers, and Elephants.

Ultimately the choice to stop it isn't up to the west, and the decision has already been made.

It's time for the United States and Co. to take out their own garbage.

As far as being a "poorer" country goes, I receive better and more affordable healthcare here than I ever did in the US. I feel safer in KL than k ever did in SF or LA, and homelessness is a rarity instead of a critical issue.
Any chance YC's amazing events will not be on Saturday for the (admittedly small) minority of hackers who observe the Sabbath?
And their own. These people are writing algorithms for the stock market because it pays incredibly well. Same for the engineers at FAANG selling ads online. Our society values money/material above all else and it's making us miserable.

Money is your score at the game of life.
Powerful people like information brokers because their information can help track down dissidents
Not speaking of tornado zones, but most of the FEMA insurance goes to homes that make of beach/water front property.

I'd love to see the hordes of poor people that live on the beach.
Physical adverts aren't nearly as intrusive and serve the interests of the locals at least. There's one right now in my town advertising addiction assistance, certainly not a bad thing. Then there's the electronic one they put downtown that is brighter than the sun and almost got me into an accident when it flashed stark white and blinded me.
> This is, pardon the french, puritan bullshit.

The sentiment of "the willpower to get up and go to work" is not puritan bullshit. It's a turn of phrase to indicate an adult responsibility of personal agency. Many people are too lazy (and/or afraid) to better their lives - which, put another way, is "putting in the work".

His mental state may have produced a myopic goal/methodolgy that rationalized being trapped in the airport, ie Nasseri refused this on the grounds of wanting to enter the UK as originally intended. Given some effort and an uncertain future of a different vein, he could have left for any number of destinations with panhandled money, year over year.

The statement has nothing to do with community, per se, as the work referenced would be through the greater international community.
Sorry this isn't accurate at all. We don't 'rewrite' any chromosomes. Sometimes during errors in replication changes occur, but these are random. They presumably happen approximately equally in both parents contribution to your DNA (though I don't know this to be 100% confirmed empirically).
If you're worried about plants, you shouldn't eat animals, because they eat a lot more plants than you would.
You know, that phrase, “we value your privacy”, is actually pretty accurate when viewed in the right light.
Sqlite Database Speed Comparison
Actually I guess... it is sufficient to send up mines (lots of them) and wait for the satellites to hit them.

Nevertheless, this is such a terrible idea, I hope this is not the future.
Whales seen in hundreds off NYC shores, drawn by cleaner waters
I really don't buy it. In the US, the best-selling vehicles are SUVs and trucks, and it has only gotten more pronounced now that the US has become a net oil exporter and the spectre of $5/gallon gas that we approached 15 years ago is just a bad memory.

Ford alone sells more F150s in a single year than all the EVs all together.
Cable TV used to be ad free when it first came out. The whole reason people were willing to pay for it was to not see ads like they got on the free broadcasts. Then once telecoms got their market share the ads trickled in, as was originally planned I'm sure.
Complete tornado records in the US begin in 1950 -- how far back does it need to go for it to be worthwhile in your opinion?
There are more options than “the current bad system” and “shut it down violently”. The FEMA insurance program can be modified so payouts have a lifetime cap, and/or once they reach a certain level, a buyout is required. It would allow people to relocate and over the long term (i.e. a generation or two), the accounting works out.

As a society who has completely failed addressing climate change, having “all of us” help pay for it is not a completely unfair way to address it.
Where do you move people out of "at-risk" areas for tornadoes? Essentially, the entirety of the central and eastern US are at risk for significant (EF2+) tornadoes for at least some portion of the year [1]. And then the places that aren't at risk of tornadoes have their own substantial risks for natural disasters-- earthquakes and fires out west, hurricanes and flooding closer to the coasts, blizzards and winter weather up north and into the Rockies, water supply issues in the southwest, etc.

That's why we have FEMA, because "just" displacing people after a natural disaster doesn't work.

[1] https://www.spc.noaa.gov/new/SVRclimo/climo.php?parm=sigTorn
"Private company" means a lot in China. The state-owned enterprises operate very differently from the privately owned businesses. Tencent and Alibaba are dramatically different from state-owned enterprises.

> The founder was literally a PLA

Along with literally millions of other Chinese people. Being in the PLA when he was young means next to nothing.
Why isn't the app growing organically?

You can certainly pay for eyeballs, the question is whether FB ads are giving users with a retention level high enough to justify the advertising expense. Users from online ads tend to much lower quality than those that come from organic traffic, I would not expect your organic retention numbers to hold.
That's an interesting idea as well. I've always found reaching for the 'Esc' key to be more awkward than the 'ctrl' key, but undoubtedly I use the 'ctrl' key more often than the 'esc' key outside of Vim, so perhaps the sheer volume of use would make it worth it.
> The fuck is the point. This shit depresses my partner every time we travel. It feels like we're cattle. It's dehumanizing...

You've succinctly described interactions with the legal system, customs, immigration, and just about every other 'security'-sensitive bureaucracy.
Tokyo. The average distance between stops on major streets are about 200 to 400m here, except some busy areas.

https://busmap.info/map/?q=%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E6%96...

As you can imagine, buses are just as amazing as trains in Tokyo. They're sometimes running late, but only up to a few minutes. And often they come at the exact time. (There's a time table for every bus stop.) Most buses are accessible and there are a lot of elderly people using it. (Age 70 or older can get a free pass.) When there was a once-in-a-decade snowfall last year, they delayed about 10 minutes, and that was morning rush hours. Again, they do absolutely fantastic job here.
You need to sign a CLA to work on Go, like most Google projects. You can't accidentally use your personal email address, and setting up the CLA signing stuff is somewhat involved.
RBT mouse lets your hand stay open instead of the usual painful clutch
As it seems to imply that this area of our DNA has no significant value. It seems highly unlikely to me that there is a large mass of DNA in our body that doesn’t affect our overall system. I relate this to people believing for long periods of time that animals cannot tell time or remember things for long periods of time and then later realizing that they can do both.

If we were given an explanation of "this type of DNA used to do X but since Y happens, it is no longer used", I'd be more apt to believe in "junk DNA". Without explanation for what it is for or what it was for, saying it is junk seems naive.
That does seem extreme. That said, a lot of small town and semi-rural public transit seems to operate at a level where it's marginally better than nothing but not much better for those who have alternatives.

Around the exurbs/adjacent small city where I live, there is a small bus service that connects the Walmart, commuter rail, city center, etc. But I'd be pretty sure it's mostly used by those who can't drive.
Based on the totally amateur knowledge level of someone that once spent a few hours researching stealth satellites (MISTY, etc), there's obviously a demand within the NRO for satellites that can be launched into a known orbit, with published two line elements, and then go stealthy and change their orbit into something which cannot be predicted by enemy nation-state ground forces.

I don't believe anything worthwhile about current capabilities has been declassified, it's all conjecture by people looking at the X-37 and similar systems.
You cannot be a employee of Google and "100% unrelated to this project". I understand you're not involved with it directly but you've obviously bought into the company, their mission and their methods.

As far as tinfoil hats (thanks for the assumption that anyone skeptical of Google's intentions is a crackpot) if this was not a net gain for them and merely a feature for enterprise compliance, why are they turning it on fit all Google apps clients by default? Under your charitable scenario they could offer it to those who need it without impacting us crazies.
In your examples, you're comparing locking down a system and letting it age.. vs upgrading and fixing things that are broken.

The difference here is the amount of labor. In your first example, you propose no labor investment.. and in the 2nd, regular investment of labor. Of course that results in the 2nd system being better. If you invested the same labor required by your 2nd example in the 1st, you would likely have an equally usable and up to date system. Similarly, if you didn't invest any labor in the 2nd, you would have a broken unusable system (since the bugs would never get fixed).

Another way to think about this is that as systems age (bugs are found, exploits, etc), they create technical debt. You need to invest the time to address that debt, or you will suffer later down the road.. same as most tech debt.
Plenty of people are probably chomping at the bit to get AR ads rolling . I can't wait for the youtube ads to pause and wait for my eyes to re center on them before they continue.
Was there a cut-off year after which all "ABCs of X" guides were obligated to actually run through the alphabet? When did such legislation pass?
Saudi Arabia accused of hacking London-based dissident
Advertising is inherently predatory. I'm well aware of the arguments like "we're providing customers with useful information about things they might like to buy," but that's a lie. It's using propaganda and persuasion techniques that were discovered in the early 20th century and have been increasingly perfected. And that's just the first order effect. The higher order effects of advertising are even more pernicious. Advertising has destroyed far more lives than guns ever have. That's not hyperbole, the opioid epidemic is the result of predatory advertising and lobbying by pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharma.
The New York Times for one.
Incorrect. Vulnerable populations, when properly accounted for in disaster planning, would not be "hurt the worst."

For those unfamiliar with disaster resilience, vulnerable populations generally refers to the poor, elderly, mobility-limited, homeless, etc.

As an example: if an earthquake happens and your disaster resilience plan accounts for these groups, there would be specific triage to take special care of them. Similarly, if a heat wave happens and a power outage occurs due to disaster, many elderly risk losing their lives. This wouldn't be captured as a dollar amount to private industry. Organizations such as FEMA take special care to plan for these kinds of vulnerable populations.

The comment you responded to was getting at the idea that gov't has a responsibility to take care of their citizens and do this kind of due diligence / triage for the vulnerable. If you "leave it to the private sector" then people with money will be hurt less than people without, and people who need special advocacy would not find themselves having it.
Video Submission for Nasa's Mars 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge
Agreed, and blog author is unaware of existing work like ClearCase and its clearmake.
I remember digging holes in the back yard as a little boy, also remember building rock and dirt dams in the curb on rainy days.

I think this is why this article fascinates me. Hopefully, grown little kids around the world will reconsider this drilling problem and come up with an answer.
> FEMA’s research found that low-income households are less likely to purchase flood insurance than higher-income households, even though low-income families are more likely to live in high-risk flood zones.

[1] - https://www.nrdc.org/experts/joel-scata/flood-insurance-subs...
I made a website of icons from Wikipedia
This is the reason why open ad exchanges, which are slowly dying because of the Facebook/Google duopoly on inventory, are a better solution to avoid conflict of interests from monopolistic entities. But it comes with privacy implications that are not acceptable to most (ie share cookie data across more players than the 2 aforementioned companies).
I don’t believe it exists without benefit. Nature can certainly phase parts of our system out over time (appendix) but to say it is without benefit is a bold statement. I’d argue that we simply don’t know the purpose and dismissing it as non-beneficial is arrogant or naive. Science should be based around evidence rather than lack of.
The people who rushed the bill through to create the TSA correctly predicted the problems the TSA would mature into. Lack of competition, federal inefficiencies, too much power, etc. They included a sunset clause to end the TSA, it was after all to handle the perceived increase in threat because of 9/11.

Problem is, no airport wants to take the risk of replacing the TSA then becoming libel for anything that happens.
$120 a year when all the competitors are free?
I don't know about the Japanese figures, but want to note those figures for Manhattan are just the residential population. The "daytime" population that counts all the workers who come in is 5x that.
It seems to me, as an outside observer, that golang is OSS. In that "hey, here's the code, you're welcome to tinker with it and all," but we're not accepting community contributions (or community contributions come under such heavy internal to Google scrutiny, they're unlikely to be accepted upstream, which discourages anyone from attempting).

Again, outside observer as a non golang user, but this is my impression. Any non-Google's contributing care to share experiences.

This perceived (on my part) hostility to the non Google user community definitely keeps me from even taking a look at it. I use C++, C# and Python professionally. I'd potentially give Rust a go if I had time to learn it (my job currently wouldn't allow it, as we're mainly a C# shop, only now branching into Python - few of the main reasons I was hired was business domain knowledge and +15 years experience in both C# and Python).

My 3 main languages all have active engagement with their user community and 2 of the 3 aren't controlled by a single corporation. C# is definitely driven by MS, bit they are actively engaged with their development community and listen to feedback and accept PRs for .Net Core.
> Here's the reason they keep doing-- It works. Stop rewarding it and they'll stop.

That's like saying stopping rape is easy, just don't reward it. It completely ignores the non-consensual nature of the interaction. Except advertising is even worse, because at least rape victims are aware they have been victimized, people that are manipulated by advertising don't even know it. In fact, if you ask, almost everyone will say "advertising doesn't work on me." If that were true, then why do companies spend billions on it?
2000 years for events like this to make a “record” significant. Particular when records are of the sort like “11th consecutive day with at least 8”.

Ever listen to a baseball game with an announcer who loves stats? They can find something about nearly every game that breaks a record of some sort.
Here’s the Wikipedia quote:

> When there is much non-coding DNA, a large proportion appears to have no biological function, as predicted in the 1960s. Since that time, this non-functional portion has controversially been called "junk DNA".[1]

It’s not all non-coding DNA that is “junk”, just the stuff that “has no purpose”.

I’m arguing that it is much more likely that we don’t understand its purpose and should treat it as such rather than dismissing it as “junk”.
Print some out and put them up on top!
"Only 1400 kilograms of uranium and graphite mixture would have needed to hit the water to set off a new explosion. Our experts studied the possibility and concluded that the explosion would have had a force of 3 to 5 megatons. Minsk...would have been razed." - Vassili Nesterenko, director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

I am not a nuclear physicist, but at least some people who are did not find this to be "clearly nonsense."
Building a neural network that learns to play a game – Part 1
> "Paired knights" (knights which can protect each other) can only rarely be taken by a rook or queen.

Not entirely true for rooks, since taking 2 knights for a rook is advantageous. Paired knights are usually considered weak.
I've said why its not growing organically many times. Most businesses have no viral coefficient, so organic growth is linear and slow. Some consumer focused tech busnesses are the exception, not the rules.

And yes, all ad spend should be measured against true LTV.
Hah, perhaps I was not clear enough in my original comment because I agree with everything you wrote after the first paragraph.

I strongly agree with this sentence: "in short, these platforms work to maximise profit. ads serve to form another income stream, and as long as they don't push sufficient numbers of customers away, it's always in the short term interest of the provider to expand advertising income until the marginal gain equals the marginal loss in marginal revenue from the consumer base."

That is 100% accurate. However, that doesn't mean that ads do not affect the price of goods and services.

Businesses are always looking to find the sweet spot to maximize profits by pulling on different levers. These levers could represent price increases, advertising, lowering production costs, etc. Businesses will always be looking for the most efficient lever to pull. And I guarantee you that if you somehow figure out how to take the advertising lever away, they will pull a different lever. This could result in a higher price, a lower quality product, or something else, but ultimately something has to give.

This explains why advertising is likely to encroach on all platforms, because as users become more accustomed to it there is a higher likelihood that it is the most efficient lever to pull.

And of course I agree that it is generally not the case that you could pay 5% more to be rid of ads. The Hulu example was just a good illustration of how to think about the relative value of advertising to Hulu / the consumer.
It would be nice to see the articles associated with them.
Would this mean gene-therapy could potentially undo autism?

Also, since I believe it's now actually agreed upon that autism rates actually ARE increasing, and not just increased diagnoses, is there any candidate theory as to why mutations would be higher in developed countries recently?
Incorrect if you don't publish your articles behind the paywall it will be distributed much less widely
Older parents is the presumption.
Yes, your IP address on the VPN tunnel is sent with every packet.
I’ve heard some audiences (probably Americans) don’t like subtitles. So it’s a matter of money in some ways.
Because it is a helicopter? Ejection seats have been done for those. Explosive bolts release the blades, and then everything proceeds as normal. Here is one such helicopter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50
They are homes.
I do not understand this article. According to wikipedia, the deepwater horizon drilled to 10,683 m in 1,259 m of water. Acccording to the nature article, the deepest ever holes drilled were successively the 2,900 and 3,200 m deep holes drilled by the Chikyu. 2,900 seems a lot less than 10,683. What is going on here?
Their bread is crap mostly too though.
I wonder if you mean Juliane Koepcke, but she was 17 at the time and the lone survivor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/9...
I'll bite: do you think that Chrome is some sort of conspiracy??

I also don't like how Firefox, Safari and Edge have failed to compete with it, especially because I don't like that Google slurps so much private information. I wish Opera could have continued to compete as I loved the underdog for years.

If it were just a problem of marketing, I could be upset. However technically the Chrome team is just totally obliterating competitors by just being technically so much more competent and also providing features. Features that developers and consumers want: as a web developer I see Chrome kill the other browsers on metrics I care about such as bugs fixes, adding features that are relevant to my development, development tools, etc; As a Chrome user, Chrome mostly trounces the other browsers on security, speed, etc (Safari does win on some metrics on closed iOS and macOS).

Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft are not poorly funded - they are just being beaten for what are mostly technical reasons (relatively slower, unreliability, wasting time on low-value features).

On topic: Chrome implements many standards it didn't create far better than the other browsers. Browse through the list at https://wpt.fyi/results and see that Chrome has better scores for IndexedDB (I think created by Firefox); better scores for offscreen-canvas and orientation-sensor (I think created by Apple).

A great example: Firebug which was created outside[1] of Mozilla and fantastic at the time. Good developer tools draw in plenty of developers, and help make sure they test everything on your browser. Chrome Dev tools overtook it in every way I cared about: reliability, features, inbuilt F12, remote debugging, async stack, etc. Now developers use Chrome because this massive feature is so much better, and why blame the developers for using the tool that makes their job the easiest?

PS: I didn't downvote you - someone else must have disliked the way you answered.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/saying-goodbye-to-firebug/
Areas with high risk of catastrophic natural disaster should be identified and FEMA insurance should not be given to any new residents or new dwellings in these areas.
Sao Paulo banned advertising, removing 15k billboards in the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
I think on top of your points, the effect of decades of underfunding education - and on focusing on "marketable" skills over "soft" skills such as critical analysis - must be taken into account.
Any OSS project can be relatively closed to outside contributors based on how opinionated the core owners of the repo are, it isn't just corporate open source.

You think the Guava team has a low opinion of patches? Does that mean Linux isn't a community project because Linus wields an iron fist when it comes to accepting patches?
> "Also the end of the story mentions there are no obvious monuments to the people who worked to help rescue people but there is one in the very city he was reporting from dedicated to the firefighters and others involved: https://oddviser.com/ukraine/chernobyl/memorial"

I've seen it and really love it. The distinction is that it's inside the exclusion zone, a guerrilla art installation built by the liquidators themselves, not somewhere people can see it where life goes on, like Kiev or Minsk.