skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some more info:

>EV sales in India grew three-fold to 3,600 in the year ended March but still account for about 0.1% of the 3.3 million diesel and gasoline cars sold in the country over the period, industry data showed. China's electric car sales, meanwhile, rose 62% in 2018 to 1.3 million vehicles.

>Motorcycles and scooters sold for commercial purposes, like food delivery or for use by e-commerce companies, will also need to be electric from April 2023, the person added.

>Its Ola Electric Mobility unit in March raised ₹400 crore ($58 million) from investors including venture capital fund Tiger Global and Matrix Partners.

>It also raised $300 million from Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors and formed a strategic partnership with the South Korean duo to help build India-specific EVs.

https://www.livemint.com/politics/policy/india-set-to-order-...
It seems to me that only a few people care. Most people would prefer to read articles without paywalls and ads. However, between reading an article for free(with ads, paywall) or paying a monthly subscription, it seems people prefer the first option.
That's what I meant, sorry and thank you.
Also, you better never have children.
The linked 1981 source document "Astrophysical Cosmology" proceedings from the Vatican look's interesting (Hawking's raw talk is at page 575 in the PDF):

http://www.pas.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/sv48pas.pdf

The preface mentions the academy was from 1603 and Galileo Galilei was a member.
I agree on the prison characterization (in general, not in all cases). The tradeoff is that you have to be more proactive at socialization but there are plenty of opportunities to socialize through extra-curricular activities, co-ops, meeting up with other families during the day, etc. Nothing's perfect. That's the whole point of having options and the freedom to choose what works for you.
China International Commercial Court: Dreams of Rivalling the West’s Tribunals
80th percentile household income in Santa Clara County is $200k/yr [0]. The linked dataset doesn't go any higher, but I suspect 500k/year is 95th percentile or above, which puts you in the upper class. Even in the Bay, $500k/yr is the "own two homes and a few Porches" level.

[0] http://www.vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/income
Says the software developer that makes about as much as a doctor for writing Jenkins pipelines or something else essentially valueless to most people.
You don’t consider yourself rich because you are tone deaf and lack perspective, not because you work hard. I doubt you have any idea what it means to work hard.

Jumping online to finish some work on a computer isn’t working hard. Lmao. Working hard is sitting on an assembly line putting clamshells together all day until your hands hurt, then having to wake up and do it again the next day.

I too get to live the luxury of pretending I work hard while sitting behind a computer in a comfortable environment. But seriously man, get some perspective.
I think "for profit company controlling the SE you're Oing for and changing things as they see best benefits them" is the bigger part of the problem though.
You just have to duck your own trick, that is the key to it, and also the conclusion of the parent post above. Keep it simple my fellow truck riders
I'ts all the white space.

Too much form over function surprisingly gets in the way.
Wow, I felt like I'd been playing EQ forever when I quit (November 2000), but apparently it had only been a year and a half...
Its popular to create false dichotomies. Like this one.

How about: monitor them sometimes and train them into good behavior patterns, so as to create a population of civil citizens

You can have zero tolerance for bullying and harassment, without 100 surveillance. Like any civil society.
Anonymous/pseudonymous media -- and sociopathic behavior in same -- was a thing well before dotcoms created the modern surveillance society.

Also, children are not good critical thinkers, and will be dragged along through a series of supposed disruptive media introductions that are mostly just different veneers on exploiting them in familiar ways.
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The old definition of high-level waste was based on how the materials were produced, while the new definition will be based on their radioactive characteristics – the standard used in most countries, the energy department said.

The old definition said high-level radioactive waste resulted from a military production stream, Dabbar said. That meant, for instance, that all the waste from plutonium production at Hanford was classified as high level.

It was a “one-size-fits-all approach that has led to decades of delay, cost billions of dollars, and left the waste trapped in DOE facilities in the states of South Carolina, Washington and Idaho without a permanent disposal solution”, the agency said.

So essentially this is low level waste that was classified as high level because it was made for military purposes.
Python has a huge ecosystem of great libraries and is stable right now, no "once" required. In Python you can also write performance critical code in C as the standard library often does.
I would blame ISO C, by making Annex K optional, and not caring to improve C's safety in general.
A small correction: In the US, Nurse Practitioners are able to write prescriptions. These are nominally under the authority of a supervising doctor, but in practice their scrips are mundane and approved with minimal scrutiny.
Spider glue’s sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
Warren Buffet had an interesting take on "being rich". He defined it as being able to withstand economic, medical, etc catastrophe and still being able to maintain your standard of living and be able to rebuild your wealth in a reasonable amount of time. I think he set "rich" as having $25 million of liquid assets. He said have that amount of liquid assets will shelter you from a few medical or economic disasters and leave you enough to rebuild your wealth without affecting your standard of living.

If you had $3 million, a medical crisis or a business failure could wipe it all out and it would affect our standard of living and make it difficult to rebuild your wealth. $25 million cushions you against catastrophes. Of course he noted that it doesn't shield you from self-afflicted disasters like drug or gambling problems.
The main reason people prefer python is because of the vast ecosystem. Hopefully Nim will reach there someday.

Anyways for a lot of things Nim is pretty good actually and I would recommend people to atleast try it.
The second half of humanity is joining the internet
> "if you don't have a backup for it, you only have it temporarily"

Fabulous line. Is that attributable to anyone in particular?
It's a bit ridiculous to see the hoops that some of the wealthy will jump through so they don't have to feel guilty about their position in the world.

The person writing this article is almost certainly "rich" by any reasonable standard. Meanwhile, most families making 60k in the US (especially in areas with the best job markets and high COL) - are not. The world income comparison thing at the end is not meaningful in the slightest. If that is actually what he's telling his children, he's doing a great disservice to them.

The difference between 60k income and 200k income matters for a lot more than vacations. It impacts things that will directly affect opportunities for your children. This includes:

- Being able to live in a neighborhood with good public schools
- Being able to live in a home without having concerns about the safety of it (both neighborhood safety and environmental safety factors come into play)
- Being able to afford additional educational experiences for your children - things like tutoring, summer camps, musical instrument lessons
- Having higher status professional connections that can help your child get into schools, internships, jobs, or just expose your child to higher paying career options in general.

The difference in long-term opportunity between middle and upper-middle class is admittedly much smaller than the difference between middle class and poverty, but it's still a real difference. It doesn't do anybody any good to pretend like the children of the wealthy don't actually have a leg-up just because their parents worked hard to get there or achieved class mobility on their own.
From a probabilistic point of view, we're observing with extreme selection bias: we only see the universe in which we do exist, not all the ones in which we don't, so no matter how incredibly unlikely existence is, from the perspective of existing consciousness it is guaranteed. This means it's possible for consciousness to arise from pure entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain.
Also security lights which pollute the night. Or worse in my old neighborhood motion sensitive lights.
Blizzard will release a remaster of WC3 at 31 Dec 2019.

They send a C&D to the platform which hosted bnetd an open source battle.net clone (IIRC Sourceforge).

All of their games run well in Wine. Heck, I played WC3 in 2005 in Wine.
Extraordinary Views of Earth from a Frankly Wacky Satellite
I’m not sure why you say it’s for business. I do a lot of business and personal travel and it’s great for both. Organizing trips with friends and family is much easier to coordinate with tripit and my boss couldn’t care less which hotel/flight I’m on.

The pro features specifically is mostly just alerting, not tied to personal/business.
I think you are the one lacking perspective here. The same way you are trying to make a point, I can make a counter point. The person making $20 is considered comparatively rich by someone making less than a dollar a day in some underdeveloped country. Everything is relative. If you make $100k and you live paycheck to paycheck because of housing costs, education costs, grocery cost etc., how can you claim their should shut up because they are rich?
Different strokes for different folks I suppose, but rarely have I seen a personal site with a UI as obnoxious as Medium, I won't even click medium links on HN unless the content looks tremendously interesting. Especially as on most personal blogs if I'm only reading the linked article I don't have to engage with any of the UI, whereas with medium I have to dismiss the annoying modal dialogs.
Many homeschooling programs have a mandatory requirement that includes time spent with other kids in a sort of classroom setting; it's just that this doesn't happen every day, unlike a regular school.

It's not "hubris" to homeschool when your school system is a dumpster fire. We've spent decades trying to improve the schools in some areas, only to see continued decline and often blatant political sabotage that seems to be endemic to the system. What can you do in that case if (a) you care about your child's future and (b) you can't move for whatever reason?
> Using the popular “4% rule” 1M would generate 40K per year before taxes – hardly a way to live in style! That income is less than 80% of the average U.S. household income.

This is hands down the worst way to look at this number. That's income for not doing anything! That's also generational wealth! 1M dollars in the bank is an order of magnitude better than a 40k year salary and it's a bit of a joke to compare them against each other.
That's still great to hear.
When it works. It's still an extra click even then.
Would be great to have a platform-support filter (at least for Android/iOS/Windows/Mac/Linux)
I need to run it on a Windows machine as well. It’s the only reason really.
Everyone agrees that female voices sounds more pleasant / male voices more authoritative (and it's backed by science, according to this article), yet it's still sexist to use the appropriate voice in the appropriate context ?

Should we all go through mandatory government sponsored surgical operations to make our brain perceive female voices as less pleasant and male voices as less authoritative ?

It's not like all of a sudden we can "decide" that a deep manly voice isn't authoritative and a cute woman voice isn't pleasant. Just like you can't see "blue" as "red" or feel "pain" as "pleasure" by pure will.

There is no winning move in the "everything is sexist" game. Fix the obvious issues like "I'd blush if I could" and move on. They make people believe these assistants are "smart and ""AI"" while they're just plain dumb ML, they're not sexist or racist, we are, and they feed on our patterns. You don't fix such a deep issue by treating the symptoms.
Clathrins: Modern humans may be evolving to deal with carbohydrate-rich diets
Show HN: SocialInvite – Promote your products across social media networks
Creating an account for a site that doesn't respect its users so that the nagging disappears?

Man the internet must suck for that sentence to exist.
this looks very awesome, I really want to adopt it, but my site is mainly js (although I do support in browser python now). I don't know if the js/webgl part can be used as a separate library.
Just a personal memory... Years ago, I worked on a job out at Mojave flight test area. One of the F-4 pilots was a man named Dick Lawyer. I got to know him a little bit, the job was completed, and I moved on. Years later I heard that he died. It was then that I read about his participation in the MOL program. I was floored. He never, ever talked about it or had any hint of it in his office. Cool guy with a good sense of humor. I would have loved to talk to him about MOL in detail.
high risk sexual activity?

I can say most would oppose letting people would be against letting people have sex on a tightrope between two skyscrapers in new York, or in the aisle of a city bus
As opposed to parent you don't VB have to stuck your own crock 24/7 to get any results. Keep it simple and humble. That is my advice. Amen.
It hasn’t changed noticeably in the better part of a decade. But it works really well for me (albeit not the prettiest app in the world)
You make this claim like those are the only two options. There is a wide gulf between driving an "environment destroying" vehicle and pushing a cart 10 miles in 100F degree weather.
You can easily look at physician income over time to see that this isn't true. However, hospital administration and billing have shot up considerably over the last few decades.
Mossad going to do Mossad things. I like reading his stuff.
Reminds me of PictoChat on the Nintendo DS. Chat on one of four available channels with nearby users over local wireless, by exchanging text and hand-drawn pictures.

At about the peak of its popularity—right before smartphones became truly prevalent among kids my age—I was doing middle school science fairs. This involved lots of standing around waiting in front of your trifold posterboard while judges slowly worked their way along the rows and rows of other projects. We weren't supposed to leave our own stations in the meantime, and they were spaced out enough to make talking with your neighbors inconvenient. Instead, the whole room was on PictoChat, filling up all four channels with streams of chatter and doodles and mutual commiseration on our anxieties over presenting to the judges.
They Do the Work, You Reap the Yogurt (2009)
They spent quite a lot of money building it out - you can buy a lot with a ton of devs, designers, marketing, being at the centre of the zeitgeist helped by insider founders.
Honey bee colonies down by 16 percent
I’m rich, but you’re not: The only suitable answer for a child who asks this question.
To that end, we shouldn't also compare ourself to the richest of rich. If you are making $150,000 a year you shouldn't be middle class just because someone out there is making a million.
Honnestly, my congratulations! I am in the same boat as you and 3 years is a long time especially when doing big/risky refactoring. I did my refactoring mainly to manage my application state, I really thought I would never gonna make it (and I was working in Swift, in Javascript it would have been nearly impossible to do the same thing...). But it was worth every second I spent on it: code is the main value of independant developers, so we should take great care of it!

I wish you good luck with your project and hope it will work.
Take a look at this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/05...

basically it says the milleage is just 84$ (that includes all ambulance related costs: maintenance, gas, depreciation of the ambulance, etc) and that's already being very generous.
Another 127$ goes to state of new york. we can get rid of that entirely.

they didn't mention the cost of labor, but we can assume about 75$/hr as you said. maybe another 75$/hr for rediness. "Part of what shocked Santoro is the fact that he received what he considered very little care: An EMT took his vitals and gave him oxygen, he said"

Where the heck does alll the rest of the 2100$ go? I would guess: It's all markup that goes to administrative waste and profits.

So, let's get rid of the extra 2100$ worth of administration and keep everyone's ambulance bills lower. that will lower your health insurance bill by a huge amount too.
Reproducibility trial publishes two conclusions for one paper
Considering that this was funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute[1], which was started as part of the Affordable Care Act, my guess is that this was indeed done to help reduce overall health care costs from unneeded procedures.

[1] https://www.pcori.org
IIRC, according to Richard Rhodes in 'Dark Sun', the key insight (with Teller and Ulam disputing who had it first) needed to make a true fusion bomb (as opposed to a boosted fission bomb) is that the fusion part has to be far enough separated, from the fission bomb that starts it, that it can do its thing before it is blasted apart by the shock wave from the fission bomb. That raises the problem of how to transfer energy from the fission bomb to the fusion part, and the solution is to surround the latter with something that will absorb some of the X-rays and vaporize, thus applying a very uniform compression of the fusion part. Wikipedia says that polystyrene foam was used in early bombs [1], and apparently polyethylene was used in the original Ivy Mike device. I have no idea whether this is actually the purpose of fogbank.

One problem with re-creating or replacing any special material critical to the weapons' functioning is that test-ban treaties forbid an end-to-end test of bombs using the new stuff.

Update: see also 'Speculation on Fogbank' [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon

[2] https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/201814/fogbank/
Most software devs aren't even close to doctors in terms of salary.
Oh that'll be at least next week, I'm currently busy changing all the "int" declarations to "wholeNumberDataType" for clarity.
Oh come on, let's get real. Nazis, or Soviets are not some mythical creatures that was summoned by the Hitler and Stalin to do their bidding - they are regular people, who decided that not to intervene even when they knew that what's going on around them is wrong!

Soviets butchered their own people, Czars, and launched multiple wars against neighboring countries. They were aggressors, and not only during the world war 2, but before and after as well. Plain and simple.
Maybe this exact situation is rare, but the point still stands. For some people the value of a top of the line monitor exceeds its price. Apple is expensive compared to the competition, but still relatively cheap for the monopoly they hold and the value it provides.
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>[Medium barely has a community]...

Define barely. With all due and sincere respect, have you ever tried to build an audience or community from zero without partners, a leverage point, or an ad budget?

Even getting a quality audience of thousands is non-trivial or costs money or needs a clever strategy.

It reminds me of when people say, "I have an idea for a startup but I'm worried about people stealing it."

I try to explain, look, unless you're John Carmack or are we'll known for certain expertise, or have a track record, likely you can post your idea publicly on your blog and no one will ever copy it, even if it's a decent concept.

It's a rough analogy, but the point is people just don't care about things as much as we might think, unless they have a good reason to (like it's Carmack's new startup).
They certainly tried to make things better at times, though, they just often didn't have all the answers or solve the problem for enough use cases. ClickOnce had some good ideas, but the implementation lacked some details and the .NET-only focus left a lot of developers out.

It's also why I find it funny that a lot of developers are so angry at Microsoft for the effort put into the Microsoft Store. They absolutely wanted to make the installer/deployment world a lot better for the average user. Sure, the Microsoft Store in its focus on trying to be the best experience for users hasn't always been the best experience for developers, but they've been refocused on developer experience the past few years, and the MSIX efforts really are interesting. Particularly because they've learned from the mistakes of earlier projects like ClickOnce. (I don't think a lot of people realize yet that MSIX already supports better-than-ClickOnce style application updating from file shares and web servers, bringing ClickOnce-style deployment essentially on par with Store deployment for MSIX.)
Momentum is building to explore Venus
The project claims a position of moral superiority over Google, but, from the terms and website, has little to act superior about.
In my case, my current income provides a comfortable lifestyle for my family of five. But yes, if you have kids, your expenses are definitely going to go up.
An Overview of Redis:Distributed – Redis Client Side Partitioning in Ruby
I have never used the sharing features much. I say business but perhaps what I mean is frequent travel. I.e. having enough flights and hotels on your calendar that they're hard (or at least a bear) to keep track of.
What is so special about "current" in "my current lifestyle"? I am not saying it's a bad definition, but it highlites the choices that one can make, and so subverts the whole concept of "rich".
Facebook's Radical Bitcoin-Beating Cryptocurrency Plans Revealed
man, i miss blizzard north.

the company was co-opted some time after d2 LoD and everything has been downhill since then.