skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He hasn't addressed these scandals because there's nothing to address - the "scandals" are entirely artificial, whipped up by the same frenzied political climate that convinced half of America Trump is a Russian spy.

Let's look at Cambridge Analytica?

• Not proven anything they did actually affected anything. The assumption it did relies on a lot of controversial beliefs about human nature.

• Data was obtained through a middleman who violated his own agreements with Facebook - an academic who has mysteriously not been held to account for this behaviour. Somehow it's all Facebook's fault.

• They restricted data access to apps anyway. Not much more they can do beyond terminate all API access to Facebook data, which would just get them in trouble of a different kind.

There's nothing more Facebook can do here. Zuck's biggest mistake was not to go in all guns blazing in defence of the company and adopt a head-hanging mea culpa type attitude, which allowed his political enemies to frame it as a scandal when it simply wasn't.

Likewise, "election interference". It's all nonsense. A few hundred thousand spent on ads for both parties by Russians? A whole lot of innuendo and lies from the press? Indeed the entire assumption that Russians = Russia = the Kremlin is absurd to begin with. Zuck should have very forcefully and bombastically slapped down this kind of talk. He failed to face down the anti-Trump mob and now the mob failed again to get Trump impeached, they're coming for him instead.
I've created a python script, based on WebDriver (therefore requires its instance available), which will help you to automatically save all new offers available for your AmEx card. Currently tested only with British Airways American Express Credit Card. Contributions and testing are welcome.
Not using WhatsApp isn't really an option if your social circle is not compromised by 80% of tech people.

Everything else is possible, although not using youtube can be pretty detrimental, depending on how you use it.
Steam Link seems to work on 2016 and later smart TVs: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5613-TAD...

Amusingly, there's also a version for the Raspberry Pi 3B: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6153-IFG...
By the same logic you can have a script that does git pull locally as cron job all the time along with exporting issues (wikis are just another implicit repo).

The point was that nobody does that for backup purposes in advance, and maintaining local Gitlab along with supportive infrastructure is not trivial task.
Australian media decry raids on national broadcaster ABC and News Corp
Pretty much, yes ;)
There are now more people over sixty-four than children younger than five
Hence why I said "Chances are" - meaning "there is a high probably that".
I think OP's comment was a commentary about the oil industry, rather than oil and derivate products themselves.

As in, there might be a lot of downsides to reducing or getting rid of plastic use, but the fall of oil giants is not one of them.
Sounds like 2to3 should be able to magically fix it? I suppose adding "from future import print" and similar for input would keep it working for python2 too?

Ed: i think that should be:

from builtins import input

from __future__ import print_function
_Had_ a large initiative. Red Flag shut down years ago.
UK has no expertise to build nuclear power plants and have to rely on companies owned by French and Chinese governments. the security aspect should also be taken into account
Indeed, how GitLab handled the incident was exemplary. That is entirely different topic.
You can't get a US student loan without a citizen or permanent resident cosigner.
Hi Sladey - Zach here from DO. I'd like to help you out and investigate what might be going on. Can you send me an email (first name at) and I'll investigate right away?

Thank you,
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Keep in mind plastic is ~4% of oil consumption and burning it is 87%. Meaning it really doesn't matter if they get strong growth in their plastics or even the entire petrochem division, the overall companies need to be bankrupted, nationalized, broken up and unwound ASAP.
Hey that's extremely generous of you...thank you! It will probably take some time as I'm looking at various bits of hardware to experiment with, but if I get stuck I very well may reach out to see if you have a few cycles to assist. Much appreciated!
It's generally when I unlock the screen after waking up. I have no idea if I accidentally pressed Windows+Left, but it's doing this very consistently.
That clip is 19 seconds long, should be allowed under Fair Use, no?
GNU's nano. Seriously :)

And nfs-equivalent between machines to "sync" (if nfs is out of the question, rsync works good enough)
Instead, diesel generator sites have sprung up eg: http://www.plutuspowergen.com/current-operations/gallery/
This proves that if grid scale energy storage was cost effective, it'd be built.
There's also the demand side of the equation, maybe storage heaters will make a come back if they're activated on live pricing rather than a night timer.
Shelf-placement generally, via planograms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planogram
Brain study reveals the mathematics of identifying objects
I just tend to disagree with this sentence too. Basically there a lot of game developers even in hardcore genres who efficiently maintain content-driven games: almost all simulators, economic strategies, Paradox-interactive strategies.

There is number of small companies with only 20-30 employees who maintain their projects over decades basically releasing more of the same every couple of years.
At its peak the stablecoin contract held $2 billion, I'd say that's reasonably popular.

None of this stuff is ready for the mass market because scaling is so limited, but that's on track to get about 1000X better over the next two years.
Presumably that should be "EUR 50k" or "€50k" instead of "$50k EUR".
Self-hosted is cheaper than free?
It was depressing when a plastic bag was found in the Mariana Trench.
There is absolutely a better way you could have phrased this. In fact, the easiest is to entirely remove your first sentence. You could make a counter-point, stating that not everyone is driven by external motivation, providing yourself as an anecdotal example.

Instead you provided an insult and then gave anecdotal evidence.
Does your last name end in stein or berg?
Companies See Climate Change Hitting Their Bottom Lines in the Next 5 Years
Digital Ocean notoriously doesn’t invest well in data science or machine learning, even having some key data science people leave recently.

I interviewed for a data science job there & the team of engineers seemed really unhappy. They reported into the director of operations, which is a weird place for data science to report, and the managers I met definitely viewed it as a paranoid cost center kind of thing.

Also in the interview process I recall that Digital Ocean made a very low offer and refused to discuss negotiating it. Seemed clear that cheap hires were mandatory for data science / machine learning.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this lack if investment meant that some data science intern or bootcamp grad is designing this automatic fraud shut down system, and that there’s a glaring lack of investment in professional usability for a system like that.
Nuclear is not more expensive that, say, offshore wind. [0]

> The deal took over a decade and not only includes upfront costs but also British bill payers giving a "generous" subsidy to French energy for 35 years.

Not so.
The deal is only to guarantee the price of electricity sold, which had to be done to remove financial uncertainty over decades in order for EDF/Chinese partner to agree to finance it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
Nope, don't do it without reading your contract.

Your company may own any intellectual property you create on company time, whether it's done on a company laptop or not...other companies claim ownership of anything created while you're employed by the company.

TL:DR Release your code under a pseudonym, and don't use your company laptop.
I would guess that the neighbours mostly want to avoid the appearance of negligence in their neighbourhood which might impact house prices.
“Evolution, Not Revolution” in Curbing Car Dependency
To wit:

https://www.mizutani-scissors.com/en/

If you're in the market for a $900 hair shear.
No real mention of its properties...

For example, Is it waterproof?
If I were to package meat in a film of the stuff, would it start dissolving into the meat?
From what I understand, they’re not saying you’re not allowed to use 100% for (what their user agreements define as) legitimate uses. They’re saying several droplets suddenly created and immediately going to 100% flags them as suspicious activity for human review. Looks like after such review, they would flag them as legitimate and all would be fine, 100% CPU or not.

They’ve botched that second step though.
Well, those are things to consider, but the details depend on the country and the particular neighbourhood. Fortunately there are also people who prefer meadows to "perfect" green deserts.

I kinda enjoy both and I've found the hybrid model works best for me and my family (no complains from the neighbours, yet;).
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It depends on what crypto is going to be mined an how many accounts can be stolen given the fact that there is already plethora of bots that look all over GitHub for accidentally committed credentials. Heck, just a year ago people did scans for outdated WordPress installations to inject, among other things, some JavaScript (!) Monero miners [0]…

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/more-...
Depriving shareholders of their capital

Depriving employees of their jobs

Depriving customers of their produce

Just because it fits your socialist utopia
Wind is variable but it never has zero output days. Further in many cases you can select peak output periods based on specific sites local conditions.

On top of this you can massively over provision and still be cheaper than nuclear.
As far as I know, most modern plastics are made out of natural gas, not oil. I guess you could still call natural gas companies as "oil companies", after all there's overlap.
Nuclear power is really the only practical solution for the UK to eliminate fossil fuel use from electricity generation, around the clock; we don't have the geography for adequate hydro.

People who make this claim aren't looking at the trends. Local storage is rapidly dropping in price, pump hydro works as a large scale and cheap energy storage solution and the build costs for nuclear is huge.
No, from South Korea to Taiwan. Mainland China is still #3.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2908692/us-blocks-intel-from...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/10/us_intel_china_ban/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/china_supercomputer...

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/20/look-inside-chinas-c...

http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/sunway-...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/13/500_supercomputers_...

I am not saying Intel lays off people only because of the Chinese ban but I think it contributes to its troubles if they cannot sell Xeon processors to China.
Hi, do you have any sources for your calculations - I'm not challenging you, I'm simply interested to know more about the realities of trying to go non-carbon (especially when we're looking to electrify our transport network down the line..).

Thanks for any pointers!
> the brain can find entire sections very quickly

Exactly, that's what I tried to explain – brains are incredibly good at navigation in spatial environments. There are tricks to use this for memorization – "memory palaces" [1], for example, and there is an increasing evidence that some layers of cortex contain so called "grid cells" [2] that solely responsible for the spatial information encoding.

I never used Blueprints myself, and get the idea of experience from Youtube tutorials. It definitely "works" for the specific tasks, but still, Blueprints from Hell [3] exists for a reason.

Absolutely agree on the UX part of the editor. To make people switch from A to B, B should be twice as cheaper and 10x as good.

[1] https://medium.com/@dgryski/i-have-a-super-power-memory-50d6...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell
[3] https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com
> That's good enough. I don't want to see reduced growth rate. I want to see shrinkage.

Perhaps you mean that's not good enough?

I, too, want to see the oil industry shrink. To my mind, it's downright dangerous to devote such a large part of the global economy to an industry that is literally putting our planet in peril.

The larger conversation we need to have, however, is what a post- growth economy should look like.
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Well let me try to convince you precisely by grabbing the time span context when it comes to meta changes.

My main reference is football (or soccer) since I'm European, but I think it's safe to say that all major sports evolved throughout the years.

Yet these changes aren't "every new season changes", neither are "current season" changes, and that's what's happening in these games. Simple patches throughout the seasons that are game changers.

They are done for the sake of balance or entertainment, but it impact of even minor changes sometimes it's enough to be exploited.

Tradition and culture takes a long time to build, and maybe we underestimate the stability it's required within the game itself.

I bet that if you played one of the most played MOBAS and if you came to play, or watch, the game 6 month or even 1 year later, you would find that the game changed are you have a hard time trying to grasp the "what" and the "whys" without reading patch-notes.

I can also bet you the core of football(soccer) hasn't changed since I was playing it during school breaks 20 years ago. I can grab a ball and play, or watch a game, and there's a common understanding of the game.

Maybe it's the simplicity of sports, maybe it's the limits of human condition, that make the games stable enough during long periods of time so that small communities start to play it and grow from there.

You will never hear anyone say "oh "the sport X" from the season of 1998 was when it was at it's best, fun to watch and play!" , yet that's a common theme on a lot of e sport games "oh the game was way funnier/balanced/etc on season X".

Maybe it's too hard to claim, that some soccer team from 1979 would beat a current team 2019, because the game indeed changed and that would weight a lot. But you can easily claim a team from 1999 would beat a team from 2019, because the game didn't change that much in that time window - training and conditioning changed with tech, but the game itself, didn't change that much.
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Extremely unlikely any of us alive now will be alive to see it. Oil is just far too useful for us to be able to replace easily, and choosing not to replace it would take our lifestyles back hundreds of years. Hardly anyone wants that.
> I think this just goes to show how ridiculously expensive Nuclear is to build in the first place, even before the ongoing costs, waste disposal, decommissioning, etc.

All proponents of renewables bringing the topic of nuclear price fail to make the point that they are comparing apples and oranges. One is reliable, the other is not. To make a fair comparison, you have to include either

- the price of added storage, for which the latest estimates I've seen show would put the price at 5-30x the original price per kWh, including manufacturing, power losses, renewal, etc.

or

- the price of making the electricity less reliable for the industry. It's possible, and seriously considered in 100% renewables scenarios, to switch the electricity consumption for industries at specific times (e.g. the factories run at peak solar or peak wind only). And give incentives for individuals (variable kWh price) to try to pilot their consumption around the production. Problem: this might ruin the competitivity of the industry. The costs associated are much harder to estimate.

TL;DR even if it comes at a very high costs, nuclear would still be cheaper than renewables + adequate storage.
> let's not pretend it doesn't require substantial changes in the way that we all live

Actually, I don't really believe this. I do use/consume a lot of plastic, but I find in practice that in the vast majority of cases, the decision to make those items from plastic is an arbitrary one. The market has made decidision on my behalf, and provided me with a range of plastic options, with very few non-plastic options, for an application that has no hard dependency on plastic.

Electronics would be one of the big ones, and can largely be (and often are) made with aluminium* casings. Fittings have similar metallic alternatives. PCBs are something of an exception here: yes, there are aluminium/metallic substrates, but even those are epoxy-insulated.

Most other plastic uses are similar stories: we're provided with a range of exclusively plastic choices by the market, but that doesn't make it necessary on the production end.

Plastic is usually cheaper, yes, but this is a result of a long chain of subsidies, wars, and other market interference. This doesn't reflect true production cost.

* Worth noting, the environmental impact story for aluminium/other metals isn't too great either, but that's a separate topic.
Incorrect. While the Trump administration is more enthusiastic about aggressive intervention in commerce in general, the recent sanctions are the culmination of over a decade of bad behavior by Huawei, recognized by many countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei
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It says it degrades after a few days left in water, so not really viable to replace plastic bottles
The UK 's largest current nuclear plants are 1.3GW, which makes the 4GW number look unrealistic. I'm not sure where you got the worst case capacity factor numbers from either.

> invest into making nuclear cheaper

People have been talking about this since the 1950s. How much will it cost and how long will it take?
> No, underestimated.

Oops, yes. Wrote that backwards. Thanks for the correction.
Even nat won't save you. Most NAT assumes unlimited outbound 0.0.0.0/0 tcp/udp/icmp . Almost all configuration is that permissive.

And I just need 1 packet to puncture.

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I doubt the world would have been able to enjoy such a technological progress in general without oil to even have computers and be able to post comments on here for example.

Not denying that the oil industry hasn't got any sins.
Space Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)
sounds a bit like a driver issue, like it changes the screen resolution during wake-up. you should figure out whether it's the exact size used for half-pane snapping (which sounds like userland issue), or whether it's some other size.
Rapid molecular evolution of pain insensitivity in multiple African rodents
Seems awfully young to be able to make such a decision. Imagine if she had decided not to go through with it, and 5-10 years later realized that there is happiness in life and she had essentially dodged a bullet.

This also makes me wonder if she had essentially a mental illness, triggered by the abuse and depression, and that this could have been treated (at least to some degree).
There are a few threads on twitter about it, but nothing officially from Treehouse or Ryan Carson yet. Though Ryan Carson liked this tweet: https://twitter.com/witzjd/status/1135997134111760384
Indonesia already a biodegradable plastic replacement (in production) called bio-cassava bag https://www.avanieco.com/portfolio-item/bio-cassava-bag/
The supermajors are all in both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Oil
> Clarification: An earlier version of this story reported that Pothoven’s death came via euthanasia. It is unclear whether doctors assisted her in death, though she earlier requested their help.
According to the chart the oil demand related to cars is still forecast to increase through 2040. Does it mean we are fucked?
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Like the sibling says, 2016 and forwards essentially. I'm running it on a Q7F (I think it is). If you can get it to work, it's excellent. Supports 4K, whereas the physical one does not. I'm guessing the Apple TV 4K should support 4K streaming as well.

Yeah, so due to how bluetooth works on the Samsung, some controllers work well and others don't. I set up VirtualHere[1] on the router (which is pretty close to the TV), and connected a USB bluetooth stick to the router. I have a wireless Apple keyboard, a Logitech mouse, and two Xbox controllers connecting through the bluetooth stick, and it works flawlessly. No discernible input lag.

1: https://www.virtualhere.com/
I watched a TV program here in Japan a couple weeks ago where the panelists were all senior executives from stationery companies. The executives were asked about, in various categories (pens, paper, staplers, etc.), which of their competitors had the best product. For scissors, they all raved about the Plus Fitcut Curve (mentioned in the article). They are the best scissors you can buy for less than 10 dollars.

https://www.amazon.com/Plus-Curve-Scissors-Large-35060/dp/B0...
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Fake news

https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1136189899672084480
Sorry for the delayed reply. I had missed your guys' posts.

For me it's couple of things:

My experience has been that newer languages and frameworks tend to be more user friendly. In particular, I tend to enjoy the abstraction and design aspects of programming more than the nuts and bolts technology aspects. So, for example, I find the low level aspects (e.g. memory management) of C annoying and I appreciate that React lets me use all of the abstractions that a programming language provides to define UI.

I tend to like functional programming techniques and dislike object oriented ones. FP techniques seem to be popular with the current generation of tech while the previous generation seems to have been dominated by OO. Of course that's not true in every domain and could change in the future.

This is a stereotype, but I tend to associate older tech stacks with companies that are more conservative, less innovative/more established, and/or less technology focused.

Finally, like you guys have mentioned, newer tech is associated with less maintenance work and greater future job prospects; even if that's just signaling as opposed to being inherent to the technologies themselves.
I think it's just people projecting their personal desires into some kind of imagined property of humanity in general. It's a way to make those personal desires seem less selfish and frivolous.
DConf2019: Allocating Memory with the D Programming Language, Walter Bright
Apple copyright claimed and removed the crowd reaction to $1k monitor stand