skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His SICP coauthor Hal Abelson also cowrote Turtle Geometry, which explores stuff like topology and the basics of general relativity in Logo. An underappreciated old book I'd like to see more like.
>I suspect at least part of the reason is to build a high barrier to entry and preserve the monopoly

That isn't very logical. New specs like Grid are introduced because they're insanely useful; not because browser vendors just want to make the spec more complex and hard to implement.
I think they say "absolute size" to mean absolute value. e.g. 3% drop is half the absolute size of a 6% rise.
Plate tectonics are another huge factor. When Pangea existed there was just one ocean to distribute heat and no polar continent for glaciers to form on and increase the Earth’s albedo. That meant a much warmer planet.

The Quaternary glaciation is still ongoing because of those tectonic factors.

Another fun fact is that the warmest period in human existence was the Holocene maximum about 8000 years ago[1].

Geology is a fascinating field and thankfully lets us look at climate through a lens that isn’t intensely politicized.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum#/m...
So, halving it would make people 3% more happy. I say halve it 30 times in a row then. These silly stats make no sense at all.
Orders of magnitude different amounts of waste. The dose makes the poison.
I started with absolute dates, but my primary use-case is “How much time do I have?”, for which relative dates work better.

I’ll see if I can do better.
Agile has a problem with introducing Processes and Tools (by definition, as the blog post describes). However, Scrum offers a solution to this problem by creating an Agile space or bubble within those organizations that are still stuck with the traditional methodologies (Waterfall, etc.). So Scrum is a nice way to introduce organizations to Agile concepts but it is certainly not the final goal.

IMHO, the idea is that over time the organization will adopt new Agile practices and not depend on Scrum anymore. In practice, however, many organizations think they are Agile after they introduced Scrum, which is a simple fallacy. After all, becoming Agile is about a culture change and not about the introduction of a new process framework.
I think they are missing the biggest issue with advertising, which is it incentivizes businesses to create things for the sole purpose of drawing their attention to the advertising. Truth is less important than shock value. Utility less important than appearance of utility. Extremist rhetoric gathers more eyeballs than moderate views. Advertising's biggest negative effects are in how it manipulates people into manipulating people's attention.
I really doubt it will cause any sort of action, third party advertising is so deeply ingrained into iOS that there's some wonderfully terrible built in support - I remember helping to hook up an advertising ID share with a third party a bit ago in my employment history.
> combat climate change, we need more forests, not just more "green" land.

Could you cite this please?

This is not common sense and seems along the normal lines of the normal climate change FUD of lying about climate change to push other agendas.

Lots of articles talk about the importance of carbon sinks using grasslands and other non-forest areas.
The spending on advertizing likely has diminishing returns. The marginal decrease in satisfaction that would come from doubling the spending is possibly smaller than the baseline decrease caused by the initial expenditure.
Right. Malthus gets the last laugh in the end, doesn't he? The carrying capacity of the Earth is finite, and even if you're able to educate and incentive 99% of the population into holding fertility constant, that other 1% will grow to dominate the population, since selection pressure operates on whatever it is inside of us that makes us want to have more or fewer children.

The only alternative is ongoing state control over reproduction, and even that just delays the inevitable.
And what do you think Netflix's ranking is if not advertising?

'movies we recommend based on other movies you've seen' and so on.
Kind of amusing reading this article on page that ublock origin reported as loading 38 trackers. Wonder what trackers the washingtonpost ios app itself uses.
Also, they own Paypal which itself has tons of issues (it had them before the purchase and apparently those issues continue as regular HN posts show).
I am not sure about how we should feel about Huawei, but by this line of argument nobody could lay undersea cables or get anyone to use them.

From the article:

> The leader in the global undersea cable market is SubCom of the U.S. Japan's NEC and Europe's Alcatel-Lucent

Each of these have strong ties to their respective government and could build backdoors.
A 'forgotten' 600-year-old tsunami changed history
How to get more out of your Git commit message
Higher, assuming that it came from this reference at the bottom of the article:

https://www.pnas.org/content/100/19/11176
Here's a great answer on avation.stackexchange.com that answers that exact question:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/27024
> There are cloth diapers, but they leak more than disposable diapers and cleaning them is less than pleasant.

> I have seen diaper services where you put out a bag full of dirty diapers every few days and they drop off fresh ones to replace them. My wife and I looked at them, but in the end they cost roughly twice what we would be spending on disposable diapers. Maybe our calculus would be different if trash pickup was more expensive.

I agree with you. I didn't say anything to the contrary. Perhaps it is for the best if people like me do not have any children. This is perhaps the most humane way of population control and therefore environment protection.

The point is diapers are already expensive for many people. We could continue to externalize the cost of disposing them like we do now or we can force people who have children to bear the cost. There are no right or wrong answers, just choices.

Previously, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16761349

Similar question comes up when we discuss transit. Maybe I am in a bubble in this city but people seem to agree that public transit is something New York City (and surrounding areas) must push forward. Who pays for it though[1]?

[1] New Yorkers are famous for complaining about the city's subway: despite an ever-increasing rise in fares, service never seems to get any better. And even still, ticket-sales still only funds part of the New York City subway system; the city still relies on supplementary taxes and government grants to keep trains running, as fares only cover about 45 percent of the day-to-day operating costs. Capital costs (system expansions, upgrades, and repairs) are an entirely different question, and require more state and federal grants as well as capital market bonds. And New York’s system is not unique: as in other cities, New York struggles to pay existing expenses and must go into debt to pay for upgrades, that is, without raising prices.

from https://outline.com/UCsyRd
>That possibility was briefly considered and quickly dismissed as improbable in the extreme, which it was.

A nuclear explosion would require Uranium enriched to at least 85%, whereas the fuel in RBMK reactors was only enriched to 2%. It's not just unlikely it's actually impossible.
I have been wondering what to do with the bucket of free electrons I've been keeping from my other experiments.
It's already happened in India, and is well underway in Nigeria:

1. India's fertility rate decreased from 5.91 to 2.33 from 1960 to 2016.

2. Nigeria's fertility rate has decreased more slowly, but that reflects the lower state of development in Nigeria. It's moving along the same curve as all the other developing countries moved along. The countries around Nigeria that have developed further have seen the same dramatic drops in fertility rate that countries elsewhere in the world have seen.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
I meant my comment a bit more broadly & abstractly than that. You can write code in a new way with await, and it does help you with how to factor & manage the code. But it does not fundamentally let you make parallel requests that you couldn't make before, somehow. The code you needed before await might be ugly and stateful and not idiomatic, but it was still possible to make requests and wait for them, before await arrived.

What we have now with await does change the game, it makes async code appear synchronous, and the advantages of that change should not be underestimated. I think futures & await are huge and positive changes for every language they're showing up in, and they do allow for new kinds of programming, I'm just answering the parent comment's question about whether they're strictly necessary in theory. The answer is that they're not.
Well like it says there's two kinds.

One is "Hey, did you know this thing exists? Check it out! Here are all the tests it passed, realistic cost of ownership, and locations where it is in stock".

The other is "Look at this woman, isn't she fascinating? People like her will desire you more if you buy the thing she's lying on top of. Actual woman not included."

Unfortunately, people have discovered type 2 is effective for a lot of things. Not only that, there are no scruples at all with appealing to people in this kind of way. It's not lying in the normal sense, but it is manipulation, or an attempt at it. Current dogma seems to be that rational people can just take the type 1 info out of your type 2 advert and think with the appropriate organ.
That is not correct. Over the highways there were all kinds of signs back in the day, mostly insurance.
Ask HN: Found a malicious clone of my extension, Google not responding. Help?
I have found a malicious clone of my extension. It has taken my logo, description, assets and code and reuploaded the extension (injecting a new script in it) and expanding the permissions.

It looks to me like it's a functioning extension but intercepts all Ajax requests and looks for crypto currency data and clipboard data to exfiltrate.

I have reported the extension to Google but they haven't done anything. Does anyone have a direct email or place I could report this issue?

Thanks!
By expanding into the universe.
Ten bucks a month? For instant messaging? Did you think this through?
not everyone is on a upgrade-daily churn, and should not have to be ! if you are externally exposed, sure, because security .. but really, isn't there some room here for different life cycles ?
Yeah, I commented on the PR as such.
Yep, anecdotally interesting, needs more research.
Wind drag goes as something like the 4th? power of velocity--so highway speeds are a function of how aerodynamic you are (and everybody pretty much is) and how efficiently you convert stored energy to wheel torque (and at highway speeds at 2000-3000 RPM ICE is pretty much at max efficiency).

Your ICE commuter is burning lots more gas than any electric/hybrid if you are stuck in traffic at low speed for any amount of time.
Let me pull a pro nuclear style argument. Future batteries won't need rare earth metals. Actually this isn't a fair comparison. Batteries that don't need rare earth metals already exist today. Thorium reactors or next gen nuclear plants don't exist at all.
Telegram is spyware, just like WhatsApp.
How Monks helped invent sign language
I recall reading about how 5g might interfere with weather forecasting and hurricane tracking, that's the kind of reason that would be compelling to me to stop the satellites (such as if we need ground based telescopes to detect asteroid threats), but unless there is some ground based telescope use case that needs to be ground based and can't be done better with satellite anyway, then perhaps we should be having a different conversation: should we in fact be directing more funding towords satellites to get better space telescopes in the air and simultaneously improve research while future proofing against the inevitable filling of the night sky by satellites as launch costs continue to come down?
ah, thank you.
And our competitors imitated us, and poured even more into it because they didn't have our Google rank and likely didn't understand how to look for bad "traffic". So in a tiny niche of e-commerce Google was taking in at least $30/k a month, probably much more.
How many programming languages are there today? – Medium
Examining 87 countries (N = 292,525) covering a period of 29 years, marriage will increase life satisfaction. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280308599_The_Life_...
It would be absolutely beautiful if they did - they could even just cut some CDN network a check every month to host common assets in a privacy aware manner or do it themselves. It really wouldn't cost all that much.

Web 4.0 integrated everywhere always-web is not at all consumer friendly - advertisers need to be downgraded to something that's suffered or rejected instead of supported.
I travel a lot. I want to run something on my laptop so I do not need to VPN yet I have no ads.
Yep, if FreeCodeCamp secured the right to reproduce the content elsewhere everything is fine, but if they didn't they probably shouldn't have stood up the new site with an export of the content.

Many publications that pay for content secure the perpetual right to publish the content and usually some expiring right to exclusive publishing of the content and the writers themselves retain copyright. Not sure if FreeCodeCamp did this.
100% that. The only way to filter on the seller is to dig to the deepest category level, which is not ideal.
Everyone says they're funny because they're unexpected, but simple direction and plain language is exactly what I'd expect from an aviation checklist, so I have no idea.
They still produce the iPhone 6S in India, IIUC, so it should be supported for quite some time.
and how do you do that? - btw. without reading bit per bit you still have a problem since you can't audit a binary with a full trust chain, i.e. the auditing tool needs to be audited aswell, etc...
Signs That Labor Has Started
After Draghi
> But much of the cited data here appears wrong.

I don't think this is a fair assessment. First of all you've ignored the most significant claims, that Chernobyl was very nearly a much worse disaster that "would have leveled Kiev and Minsk, and would have ejected the nuclear material from the other 3 Chernobyl reactors with a force that would have rendered much of Europe uninhabitable for hundreds of years." Or it nearly irradiated "groundwater for 50 million people" or that 50,000 people "were given 2 hours to pack whatever they could carry and get on a bus" and never come back.

On these points alone it would be inaccurate to say "much" of his data is "wrong" -- that's most of the data data right there and it is unchallenged.

Instead you've focused on whether it was 600K or merely 300K liquidators, or whether the 600 pilots were "registered" killed or merely suspected. These are relatively minor points (compared to ending large swaths of civilization) and even your own sources note that the figures are controversial and give ranges. While I would agree that Marlinspike has favored the worst case end of the spectrum here and his piece ought to cite sources, I think you have misrepresented the certainty of the evidence.
The tradition of yoga is far more than exercise. Many parts of it, including the exercise, deep breathing, and meditation, are indeed testable and outperform placebo.

Your concept of self is something that certainly happens but is largely outside the realm of science.

Doing mushrooms certainly might impart an understand of, at the very least, the experience of being high on mushrooms. Or perhaps which parts of your perception are merely the reflection of a specific neurochemical balance.
>Yelp's a household name and doesn't seem like a bad actor

I admit, I lol'd.

Yelp is, from my general community knowledge, one of the worst actors out there - holding companies hostage by refusing to remove fraudulent reviews and trying to capture users within it's own walled garden rather than forwarding them to primary business resources.
As a wise philosopher once said regarding advertising, "Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."
iPhones don’t have EOL vs Support dates, so I had to hack around it for the release. Will fix soon.
"The market must already exist". I think trying to find a brand new market is one of the biggest mistakes many founders make when trying to come up with a startup idea. An existing market indicates that demand already exists!

And when "no market need" is the most common reason startups fail [1], this seems to be often overlooked.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-reasons-...
https://github.com/google/capsicum-linux would basically render this entire class of bug impossible if used correctly.

It would probably require a redesign of how docker interacts with the host filesystem though, and obviously relies on something that isn't yet in the mainline Linux.
Hmm, that's interesting. Apart from phone calls, can this do everything an iphone can? Including facetime audio, imessage, etc

I've been considering a secondary office phone that I would use during the workday. Or conversely, a secondary device for distracting ios apps: IG, twitter, reddit, etc

Can't or don't want to stop using them, but I dislike having them on my work device. (Main phone)
It picks ~700 per day at most, not counting acquisition and repositioning time for finding a new fruit. Article is intentionally misleading, video is a waste of time.
It matters a little no? Every pay check you take out is a bigger percentage of the whole while the market is down, and when it inevitably rebound, you have much less to grow back into.

With that said, while I make sure to have contingencies in the case I do end up living for longer than expected, given the average lifespan of an American and the a mid 60s retirement age, "living for 20-40 years after you retire" is not something everyone can count on.

The other poster has a valid point: as you get close to retirement you shouldn't own too much stocks, but then if the market crash around the time you start seriously converting to bonds and stuff, you have to delay that plan and manage things a lot more closely.
I view any and all non-obiective advertising as literally evil. There is absolutely no good reason for advertising to exist it's current state.

Are there any nations or states which outlaw or heavily regulate advertising? I've heard some governments outlaw advertising to children.
I'm a native English speaker and can take a stab here. Lowbrow typically means unsophisticated (as in, like a neanderthal or ape) whereas highbrow means sophisticated. I'm assuming middlebrow means, well, something in the middle.

All of that being said, the "middlebrow dismissal" observation/criticism makes zero sense to me here.
Is Apple disabling the automatic iCloud sync for the supposed "end-to-end encrypted" iMessages yet?

If not, what is even the point of E2E encryption in iMessage if 99% of the iPhone users' conversations can be retrieved from their iCloud accounts?

And that's not even mentioning the fact that iMessage has a design flaw that allows Apple to include an invisible third-party into people's "end-to-end encrypted conversations." Apple has known about it for like 3 years, but I haven't seen them try to fix it.
This is false and will likely get you into trouble. ACA uses your last year's income tax return in order to determine whether a subsidy should be awarded. While it is true that you do not send in your tax return while applying for coverage, your insurance company does send in paperwork through a 1095-A. In the past, 1095-A was used primarily to show that coverage was carried in order to avoid a tax penalty, so, yes, you may be able to get away with it, but you'd still be lying and there will be documentation that you are lying.

Also, sole-proprietorships and S-corps, LLC or not, are considered pass through and all company income is considered personal income as far as the IRS is concerned. There's no such thing as not paying yourself in this context to drive down your income.
I like the naked miners
The circumstances are domain-specific and it's been clear from the beginning that "Edgium" has (consistently) only been sending `Edg` to youtube.com from the beginning of the public release. Since the site in question's behavior changed, it likely wasn't the Edge team's fault.
But can you point to a time in human history where type 2 wasn't the predominant form of advertising? This is not some modern discovery or exploit.
Marketing has a light side and a dark side.

Light side: Closing the loop between what the customer wants, what their actual problems are, and what engineering and manufacturing can deliver.

Darkside: Ladies you need to use our spray or else your hoo-haw will stink.
> Firstly, much of the complexity is an emergent property of interaction between a spec and reality: the engineering choices developers make when implementing a spec.

Ah, clearly that makes it easier for third parties to maintain browsers. Or, wait, no -- that's yet another way to push players that don't have hundreds of millions per year worth of funding.

> Chrome mostly works better, follows specifications faster, and it is marketed better.

That's largely because of the way the specs are developed: They rubber stamp Chrome features.
Kudos on the homepage "screenshot" -- It's actually the app itself.

Love the app!
I honestly don't see why discuss syntax hilighters.
I mean, I like vim with green comments and red operators, over black bg, and my neighbour uses x-emacs with gray bg, no color coding but with some bold and italics. Why should we care about each other's formatting?
We never had issues with looking at each other's screens.
Btw, same goes for curly on the same line or the next.
As a dev working primarily in PHP I hear all you're saying, but am mostly just enjoying the PHP > Python moment ;P

That's good to hear, as I sort of said, my primary concern for EOLs is that they have been known to change over time and when they do I'd like to be sure the source I'm relying on is tracking those changes.
I would go further and state that our entire economy and society are based on the manufacturing of demand. There are so few things we actually need. Food, water, clothing, shelter. Everything else is a luxury you've been convinced to buy (or it was given to you by someone who was convinced).

I'm not talking about ethics here, just straight facts.