skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of brilliant, in a perverse way.

In 2028, there will be strong indicators of continued climate change. But denialists will be able to say "well we can't say for sure, there's this huge gap in data from 2016-2024, we need to have at least 16 years of solid data in order to say for sure."
End-to-end encryption protects against the service provider (employees) from easily reading your data. This is the biggest benefit.

Of course the service provider can be compelled by law enforcement to hand over encrypted data. Law enforcement may then either attempt to brute force the encryption key password, or compel the user to provide the encryption key password (typically the account password with end-to-end encrypted services):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law

Does ordering you to hand over your password entail a form of self-incrimination or a violation of the right to silence? Would granting police the power to compel passwords cross a line centuries old against forcing a person to speak to build the case against them?
https://globalnews.ca/news/5310901/canada-privacy-passwords-...
The Go crypto package is really a treat. I found it scary and incomprehensible to do anything with certificates using the OpenSSL command line, convenience wrappers notwithstanding. Adam Langley’s work shows what a reasonably ergonomic and approachable interface for this domain could look like. Turns out that issuing certificates doesn’t have to be dark magic.
There's a bounty on the 0x smart contracts, but not on this sample exchange codebase https://blog.0xproject.com/the-0x-v2-bug-bounty-f8981f322dd7
The "12 years" figure comes from here:

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/summary-for-policy-makers/

> C.1. In model pathways with no or limited overshoot of 1.5°C, global net anthropogenic CO2 emissions decline by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 (40–60% interquartile range), reaching net zero around 2050 (2045–2055 interquartile range).

This report came out in late 2018. As of the publishing of this report, in order to keep global average temperature increase under 1.5°C, CO2 emissions must fall to 45% of 2010 levels in 12 years.

There has been a predictable amount of misstating what this report actually says by environmentalists with poor reading comprehension, and a similar amount of bad-faith readings and intentional obfuscation by climate science deniers, but in any case, this is the source of the "12 years" figure that's been going around.

Nobody is "predicting doomsday in 12 years", but you can set your clock by the outpouring of bad faith "I Told You So"s that will occur in October of 2030 when the world has not ended.
I have found that Xcode’s pace of improvement has gotten better in the last few years.
To me, climate change is not such a big deal in terms of the human species.

My belief is that we will eventually feel the impact from the earth, made by ourselves.

So it's beyond climate change. We have fucked the earth up to a starte where we can't go back.

But. The earth has a tendency to regulate itself and take care of itself. It will wipe out humanity if it needs to and then time will continue.

We are not so smart as we believe, and out arrogance will be a deadly.
Sadly humans have proven multiple times that they are not capable of handling the responsibilities that come with nuclear power. It should be a no-go path, and existing nuclear should be phased out immediately and fast.

On top of that the neo-liberal market economy is a compounding risk, ultimately absolving all responsibilities or even rewarding companies for failing to protect the public.
Fair enough. Still a rather large margin.

More to the article's/ your point, not being able to provide a link back to your app is kind of kind of anti-competitive. They want you to subscribe using their own systems.
The problem that US is facing is the loss of credibility over time. It reminds me of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. US doesn't have the credibility to convince the world anymore, even if the threat is real..

There is a lot of rebuilding the US has to do. First fix the politics which is rife with petty interests, lobbying, political imbalance very skewed towards corporations over citizens, extreme polarization, 2 party system, hypocrisy,etc..

But all that, with great effort, can be fixed. A purge is needed, not just try to shove the dirt under a carpet and pretend all is nice and dandy.
Then you have way too much HTML formatting in your email. Maybe people are using something like Word to create it, which will add all sorts of duplicate and remnants of tags everywhere. 102kb is a lot of text.
Not to mention the loss of experience and knowledge as people in the affected programs move on to other, potentially more stable, and potentially more lucrative, employment.
Contracts have to have consideration (something of value exchanged between both parties). Get a lawyer, fight this. The existence of your company is not something you should just concede, and honestly, this should t take you down, your investor will lose. Or just form a new company, and buy the assets from the old company and move on with your life.
I agree with the sentiment, but I find newspapers to be really awful and difficult to read. The cheap ink they use leaves an unpleasant smell on my hands, the paper being so huge requires strategy in folding it just right so you can read the part you’re interested in, and the “continued on page (n)” is too much friction when adding up all the barriers previously mentioned.

Personally, I’ve resorted to email newsletters like Quartz. They aren’t allowed to use JavaScript, and it is often a day late just like the newspaper so it doesn’t feed addiction, nor does it have to resort to psychology tricks like clickbait (well, not as often at least).
I question whether or not you have actual, valid VC/PE experience if you signed over 50% of your company (at seed stage, with other investors potentially available) without having that equity actually paid for.

Sorry for the tough situation, but this is your fault; the investor didn't destroy your company - you did.
One way modern distributed databases handle this is by assuming they can't trust the disks. When you are writing to multiple datacenters it makes recovery from disk errors just another kind of chaos resilience. The Calvin protocol takes this to its logical conclusion by moving the write-ahead-log to a Raft-like distributed consensus algorithm, where commits to the log span the cluster: https://fauna.com/blog/consistency-without-clocks-faunadb-tr...

I will add that the different flavors of fsync, and what they do (and don't do), is always a source of entertainment in database engineering chat rooms.
This is not a priority at all for the OpenBSD developers. Most of them are Canadian anyway, as I understand it.
I don't think you understand house brands.

They exist because they have great brand recognition far better than most third party products. And the reason they are cheaper is because they sign bigger, low margin deals with suppliers who would be scared of undercutting their existing products.
A valid critique of the article. Though, to get a well-rounded view on this matter, take into account the per capita carbon footprints[1] also - which tells a different story than mainstream media:

Saudi Arabia: 16.85

United States: 15.53

Australia: 15.83

China: 6.59

India: 1.58

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
Get a better lawyer. Doesn’t sound like an enforceable contract.
A, don't worry about it. After the first hundred million corpses, tons of measures will be taken, very pragmatically...
I'd still need to find a way to massage the data into the mbox format because that is the ancient format that git understands.

I'm not saying that there isn't a way to do that. Only that it can only be done poorly with a big ugly (and probably buggy) spaghetti script that looks nothing like what the expressive demo suggests it should look like.
I just got a DJI Mavic Air to take pictures and videos when we go hiking. Now I feel weird.
The power of lobbying dollars is insurmountable. Even for wealthy ivy league politicians.
If anyone from SE is looking at this, my machine is:

OS: Archlinux (last updated 2 days ago)

Browser: Firefox 67.0
False-dichotomy. There are plenty of ways to generate energy and the more diverse, less centralized they are, the more robust the system is.

Wow since the Chernobyl series HN has suddenly had an uptick in pro-nuclear posts.
It is an interesting metric, thank you for pointing it out. Until now I kept in mind the amount of miles between accidents, but surely both should be considered.

However, I think this metric could be irrelevant in the case of a home/work commute. The 11,000 miles average appears to have been obtained basically by randomly driving Waymo cars on Californian roads. But a usual commute is much less than 11,000 miles, and if your self-driving can do it by itself once then probably it can do it twice. As the article puts it:

"The value of the data is limited, however, as the figures don’t factor in the complexity of environments in which vehicles are tested–dense urban settings, versus low-speed suburbs or less complex highway driving–nor do they show conditions including weather, light or speed."

Nevertheless, you seem to have missed my point : I was arguing that coming up with a specific use-case example that may (or may not, actually) go wrong is an argument that goes both ways.
I'd perhaps add something like 'crypto' to the headline - I thought this was a marketplace for physical items, somehow - like a local goods exchange.
Static typing is not very important for new, small projects where the developer can keep the whole thing in their head. It can even be a drag during the design phase if the design is changing rapidly due to the added overhead of changing interfaces. Progress has been made reducing the overhead in recent years and proponents may disagree.

Fast forward to when the same project grows and matures. Now it is huge and no one knows every subsystem. The original developers skipped town years ago. There are -1x to 10x developers on the team, and contractors who must "hit the ground running." Static typing is now crucial to prevent the whole thing from collapsing like a house of cards.

I recommend the best of both worlds, such as prototyping in a productive language, then port when the design solidifies. Or, use a language that can be gradually typed later as your startup matures into an established company with customers that rely on it.
Measure the Value of Sprint Work with Taco Scores
How do you overcome the inevitable "I don't trust an exchange that was launched within minutes by an amateur" stigma?
Is it pronounced “ox”, “zerox” or “zero x”? :)
she's right to assume worst-case scenarios. We're too smug in the west.
Yes, this is why I had to stick to OpenSSL for my Linux distribution even though I would have preferred LibreSSL.
Yes:

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It shouldn't be mind boggling, given that this guarantee is impossible to achieve. A little bit better or worse is not that big of a deal, still very far from 100%.
It's painful to think how they are about to single handedly destroy the best web browser that's ever existed (IMO). All that hard work over the last decade basically gone to waste.
Very likely. I mean, I certainly wouldn't be writing a comment like that if I were making money off this type of data mining.
what's your use case to display a large number of elements in the same page? Curious.
Why does that make no sense? Why is the idea of giving 5 stars for an average ride so offensive to you?
> But then this would lead us back to only wealthy kids being able to afford "the arts".

To the extent that we want to fund talented but not wealthy kids in the Arts, let's spend the money on explicit scholarships for them. Then at least it's transparent what we are paying for. Much better than funding them by having them take impossible loans funded from some slightly disguised arm of the government, which we will hound them about paying for decades, and eventually write the money off.

"Percentage of future income" sounds like a great model to me, too. IIRC this is what the Australians did? Only I would prefer for the percentage taken to be something negotiated (within limits) by a private lender, because the offers made would provide valuable information to those signing up.
Because, in general (and specific), when dealing with humans in a forum where emotions and feelings are paramount (which are most contexts) and a forum where we will need to interact with these people again (which is most places) it is far better to be nice (and taking into account the emotional state of the participants) than it is to be right (or at least to think that we're right).

This is so important it forms one of the five main human personality components, that is Agreeableness.
>They started the war, killed millions of people in the process (including many millions of civilians in Asia), and then had the gall to try to bargain for decent surrender terms after all that horror they caused? Nope. Sometimes harsh punishment is necessary.

Wonder what you have to say about what the US deserves after the Iraq war?
The local bus service in my city between the Bay Area and Sacramento reduced frequency and coverage last year. Their suggestion was to just use a ride-sharing app. It's not just cab companies.
Not bizarre at all. The Administration is just carrying out the wishes of the electorate (who carefully considered the qualifications of all the candidates in the year prior to the election before deciding that the current executive is the most qualified person for the job).

Any USA DoD personnel who aren’t carrying out the wishes of the electorate are part of the "deep state" that many Americans believe are undermining the country.
Just poking fun, but I like how the post says "Many features that required frameworks are now standard" then introduces a... new framework!
Switch to previous version of Mozilla
That really depends on the industry, the type of product, the type of buyer, and the relationship between the buyer and the sales rep.

Personally, as a buyer I don’t treat sales reps as a nuisance, I treat them as a resource.
The amount of cancer caused by the sun each year worldwide is probably in the millions. Not very safe, but turning it off would be worse. Life is full of trade offs. Until coal burning plants are all gone the world should embrace nuclear power as a much better alternative.
People can write whatever they want in a contract, that doesn’t mean it’s enforceable, or will stand up to scrutiny in court. Contracts have to have consideration. That means there must be something of value each party gives to the other.
Trump is a 80 year old moron, who will die in a few years. He has never cared for anyone else is life and has no incentive to do so at this age. Us younger folks will be left to undo the damage of this guy. Good thing is that without a Congressional mandate, most of the stuff he has done can be quickly reversed.
>You can choose android

Pointing out that Apple is a duopoly and not a monopoly isn't a compelling argument. Especially so when the other half of the duopoly engages in the same sort of abusive behaviors.
The action and the physical scale of field theory
Thanks. I'll think about the password. Right now more than one person could claim a username but they will only decrypt what they can with their password. Because of that it's hard to check password validity.
The point was a month before that the Japanese tried to surrender and their only condition was still having an emperor.
Perhaps controversial here, but in general, I've found developers who are having a hard time supporting browsers like IE11 tend to be the ones writing frontend code poorly.

JQuery is a great example of how you can create a library with some core functionality and know with 100% certainty that if you use it correctly it will work across all browsers that it was intended to support.

Whenever we have issues with browser support where I work it's almost always because a dev has gone rogue and decided to build something with a heap of vanilla JS instead of using or extending a library with cross browser support in mind.

Perhaps you need to ask why you're having so many issues when so many libraries and frameworks will support IE11 out-of-the box if you use them correctly.
I see a lot of "much of" and "many of", etc.

Sorry, I'm a user, and I largely trust you all, but this doesn't exactly lay to rest the issue you were given. Security and trust are a chain, and if you don't know every link in that chain than the whole thing is largely useless.

As another pointed out, at some point you just have to trust something and I agree with this. But I wanted to point out that your answer is not sufficient for what you were trying to answer.
The subhead asks: "Why should governments give cash-handouts before providing free, quality public services to all?"

That's pretty clearly because "free, quality public services to all" are really hard & expensive to deliver. Without prices & competition, they're prone to massive inefficiencies, over-provision or under-provision due to various political distortions, and resource- or agenda- capture by insider managers/public-employees/organized-lobbies.

Smaller, tightly-knit polities can often manage more-efficient public services. The two examples given in this article – "quality public housing" and "free public transport" – work well in some places!

But giant geographically, economically, ethnically diverse polities like the US have a much harder time. Public housing in the US sucks. Mass public transport here faces costs 5x as large in as other developed countries – due to the sclerotic interplay of dysfunctional bureaucracies, mercenary contractors, and powerful public employee unions. That is, those exact unions in the "Public Services International" federation which employs this op-ed writer. So of course she's arguing, "pay us first, and more, before spending more directly on the poor".

But the point of UBI, if it were to work as hoped, is to route around such non-poor middlemen – those who claim to be serving the poor, but rarely seem to reduce overall poverty. Cutting checks is comparatively easy to do, and most non-addicted adults can spend $X for their own welfare better than any supposedly altruistic outsider could spend the same $X.
What's interesting is the quantity of degrees deemed "useful" is shrinking. Even within the commonly accepted STEM grouping there's quite a few degrees that alone, are not quite automatic meal tickets. For instance, biology, chemistry, and chemical engineering aren't extremely employable except with graduate degrees. Perhaps instead of accepting that college students who majored in "useless" degrees are simply stupid and should have gone into engineering/CS/trades, we should analyze why this has changed.

For instance, if I had gotten a degree in Art History in the 50's, would I have had better career prospects than today? And how much of that is tied into class? Because in the 1950's, just getting a college degree was indicative of one's class. Therefore, it's much more likely that a college graduate in the 50's had a solid career network and opportunities. While today, a college graduate is less a Boston Brahmin and more a Pittsburgh Proletariat, and less likely to have the type of contacts who would hire an Art History major simply out of goodwill.

And of course, there's the looming sword about the conversation that maybe there's just not enough jobs. If people were to heed HN's advice and all become programmers and electricians, would we really have enough jobs? Do we really need that many programmers? I'm not so sure.
I haven't heard anyone discuss how modern nuclear plants are terrifying. Only how the thought of being near Chernobyl would have been terrifying. The events would have been terrifying for the people there.

I can see how this show could cause an increase in fear of nuclear plants though.
Yes, I like to make sure data is accessible. I'll add importing in the future.
It's funny that Apple shows competing alternatives to Safari on iOS when in fact all iOS browsers use the same engine.

https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/
Not to underplay the seriousness of the event or heroism of all those involved in the aftermath, but the show does make it look scarier than it deserves. For me part of this is simply down to the Russian equipment - it just looks scarier seeing those guys in those green rubbery looking suits like something out of an alien movie, vs when you see guys at Fukushima in plain white protective gear.

It's worth pointing out that the RBMK reactor design used at Chernobyl has no comparison in the west. Not to mention they had no (none!) containment building on those things. The design of the RBMK was in part because it's simpler to build. It's a kind of evolution of the very early reactor "piles" used during the lead up to and through the Manhattan project. The pressure vessels used in western reactors are difficult to produce. (We apparently no longer have any iron works left in the US that could produce them, the last one closed down some time ago.) On top of being simpler to build the RBMK style reactor also has (IIRC) the benefit (for Russia) that it can be used to produce the right kind of plutonium for nuclear weapons. Something that in the west was done in dedicated military reactors because civilian designed light water reactors suck for that task.
This is like claiming that dripping drops of water on a circuit board, and observing that the electronics misbehave, somehow links it to the emergence of circuit design.
I actually think this is an important point, as highlighted by someone else commenting "I've been programming for a decade and only Apple has this restriction".

No one is forcing developers to make apps for Apple. There are plenty of other platforms anyone can develop for without paying a fee or buying a Mac. Developing for Apple products is a business decision, just like choosing to work on import cars vs domestic cars. Plenty of repair shops only work on domestic cars because they're easier to repair and cost less. That's a business decision. Are you losing out on a particular market? Sure. But that's a business decision. If developing for iPhone will get you more than $XXX, then it's worth it to buy a cheap Mac and pay the developer fee because it will increase your profits more than you will spend. If that's not the case, then just develop for Android which only costs $25.

I don't like paying the $99 fee or having to develop on a Mac just to make iPhone apps, but if it bothered me that much I would just stop making iPhone apps. Tim Cook did not come to my house and force me to make an app for him, I made the decision by myself knowing that the platform had restrictions and everyone on the platform had to abide by them.

As long as everyone is subject to the same rules, everyone has the same decision to make. No one is forcing anyone to make that decision.
> So, basically the Trump administration is pure politics.

Every administration's positions and policies reflect their politics, and their donor base. This one isn't different in that way.

This particular administration's positions represent the interests of the fossil fuel extraction industry, whether via the appointment of fossil fuel industry executives to positions of authority over environmental policy, or in the leniency by the administration toward particular authoritarian petro states like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The US election system is based off a binary choice, many people who ended up voting for Trump did so for some of his stated positions without regard to the others. As such being elected to president isn't any sort of endorsement of all their policy positions.