skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in more background on NOAA and making money from it, I highly recommend reading The Fifth Risk[0] by Moneyball author, Michael Lewis[1]. It details how a couple private companies make a lot of money using NOAA data in interesting ways (e.g.: crop insurance (now acquired by Monsanto)). Another of those companies is AccuWeather whose CEO was appointed to head NOAA by Trump[2].

P.S.: Anyone notice that monitoring "Climate" was absent in the government announcement?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1324002646

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

[2] https://oceanleadership.org/trump-taps-accuweather-ceo-head-...
Tree Style Tab for Firefox is incredibly helpful to me for this kind of usage:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Having been through the hell of buying property twice in my life, I say take the real estate brokers out before you even get to the lawyers and accountants. There's no rational way to account for them taking 5% or more off every transaction, especially with the price inflation of the last few years.
Theoretically, one could set up vim/emacs for development, lynx for browsing that documentation, mutt for email, slack-term, etc. Do not start the X session. Images, sounds, videos are the biggest driver of distractions. Use 3M Peltor earmuffs on top for that extra bit of isolation. If only our willpower wasn't a finite resource.
I see what you did there. But I don't live in the US, if I did I would feel the same about that funding.
Really? I'm a Swiss citizen who works in an international team with colleagues in the U.S.A., and I don't see any difference between my income and theirs.

Could you elaborate? I'm genuinely interested.
But why?

The iPad is a game console for people not into the "gaming culture".

You don't run compilers on your Nintendo, do you?
Well, it's not like "harðfiskur" is cheap. 100 grams go for about $8. Icelanders don't eat a lot of fish any more. Almost all of it is exported.

Is the fishing sustainable? I don't know. Probably not.
> In the USA, i can say whatever I damn please.

While I think generally you're right, I wouldn't tell a joke that involves a bomb in certain places as well. (Not from the US, but given that this holds for the Netherlands, I expect that that's true for the US as well.)
It was an extension until Quantum. Then there was a vacuum for some time. The closest I can find today is this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...
Young kids: Cargo bike.
Long trips: Car or public transit is better for most people.
Older people: Tricycle/electrical assist bike
People with injuries: Tricycle, recumbent bike, hand pedals, electric assist etc
Rain: rain coat.
I'm not sure why the hundredth anniversary of the first trans-atlantic flight is not getting wider coverage. You can bet that when it's the hundredth anniversary of Lindberg's flight, that will get coverage.
Why is everyone so negative again? This is cool!
I'm gonna guess netting in the warm months, but honestly, they are far enough north to not worry as much as one would in a warmer climate.

I was shocked by the lack of screens in windows in Norway, and I'm guessing Iceland is the same. The only time it has actually bothered me was on a farm when the cows were in the nearest pasture - there were so many flies!
Did Sisvel just catch AOM with their patents down?
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Yeah, this has been my experience as well. I really _want_ to like Julia. But so far the JIT experience has been exceptionally miserable--and unfortunately for me, my typical approach to development is quite interactive. I'm on 1.1.1.
That's a good point, I suppose the problem with many cities is they are designed for cars, not for more people centric solutions. I'd like to see a city designed for smaller vehicles bikes / scooters / small EV's, its difficult to get rid of cars once they're there though.
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Fuller House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (2016)
A lot of problems around copyright is a self-inflicted mess caused by (IMO) wrong abstractions, not reflecting the nature of the works and the media. For instance, photography has an issue of copyrights on buildings, which is prima facie a ridiculous concept, but it is recognized to some extent around the world, including in the US.
This is a really exceptional food. There's a lot of "aged fish dishes" that are perfectly appropriate for everybody.
> external combustion tends to be very fuel inefficient compared to internal combustion. This is true in general

No, that's not true at all. Big power plants stayed with steam for efficiency reasons, and they are pretty close to theoretical limits.

Cars and aeroplanes, and later ships and trains, went to internal combustion because size and weight are very real concerns for them, and this trade-off against pure efficiency (heat-to-torque) was worth making. In the name of overall efficiency, if you like -- smaller engines meant more cargo room, so in oil-to-cargo terms you could come out ahead.

More electrical now is gas-turbine, but again this is about trading efficiency for other things -- peak-hour electricity is worth much more than 3am electricity, etc.
I said not ideal because of null. I wish there was a better way. Null is way too overloaded in Java.
Oddly enough, fish isn't difficult. Meat, however, is. I can send family in the states dried and canned fish products, but customs will confiscate meat products - much to the disappointment of my brother, who would like to try reindeer sausage.

IIRC, it has more to do with possible disease spreading between continents than anything, though I do think they are a bit ridiculous with their total ban.
You mean like Paypal?

It might be a great project, it just has very little to do with actual cryptocurrencies. It's great to be excited about it, the issue many people in this thread have the project being called a cryptocurrency.
I wish my Samsung TV had such a feature.
Maybe we should call ourselves "occams" to be more specific.
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There was pretty good econtalk about this topic http://www.econtalk.org/david-epstein-on-mastery-specializat... . But generally there are these sports with very narrow skills like chess which you has to specialize very early. Then there is these sports with very width skills like soccer where generally get best outcomes when you specialize rather late like 16 year old.
Go for parallel neural networks, Bubble sort with Go and Go 1.12.6 and 1.11.11
I think they're talking about the blockchain working by a single global (hence, "central") consensus. It seems Holo avoids that somehow.
I've recently had a major aha moment with personal finance where I realize that "simple" maybe better than "correct".

While many (and that maybe an understatement) dislike Dave Ramsey I've been listening to his podcast for a couple months. I'm pretty good with money (no debt) and have a good household income ($350k). I assumed I did not need any tips as I was aggressively saving anyways.

It took a few weeks but Dave Ramsey's principles finally clicked. If you can get past his brashness and ideologies which you may disagree with his advice is very sound - even when it's not the most efficient.

Here's an example. Many people keep their mortgage for the full duration (often 30 years) while maxing out investments because they earn a higher interest rate then the mortgage charges. Mathematically this makes the most sense.

However, he always asks people if their house were paid off if they would take a loan against it to invest in the market. The answer is an obvious no --- but he equates that to what people routinely choose to do by delaying paying off their house. It took me many times hearing it before I started thinking he maybe right. We often don't factor in the risk of paying off a mortgage but it's still there if you look at it the way he explains.

Anyways...TL;DR is that me and my wife went all in on his approach (basically never borrow money and get on a budget). Here's what I've noticed.

- 1) We're spending about 25% less than we were before getting on a budget.

- 2) It doesn't really feel any different which means we were wasting that 25% anyway.

- 3) My wife and I's communication improved drastically.

- 4) I realized we could pay off our home ($1.1M) in about 10 years --- prior I had always stressed about being able to pay it off before retiring.

- 5) We're planning a remodel which we likely would have taken a $300k loan for - but instead we are planning to cashflow it by saving that money and postponing the acceleration of paying off the house (now 14 years instead of 10 - still better than 30)

- 6) Meanwhile we're still contributing to retirement (15% of income as recommended) so by retirement we'll be okay too

All that to say --- I stopped trying to over optimize and this feels so much better and I've quickly become debt averse (even though the only debt I carry is the mortgage).
Reminds me about https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/ which is incidentally very much about the mammalian species you are thinking of, as well as canids.
I'm confused here, Quill has a a very nice OT solution built-in to solve collaborative issue: https://github.com/quilljs/delta

Why not leverage that solution than just saying OT is incorrect and roll out a rudimentary solution? CRDT is not something easier, OT and CRDT are just 2 different beasts with different trade-offs.
Yes. It's well told and fascinating. It's quite Kardashian.
It's their complaint that concerns me.
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I've been told that since I'm mostly vegetarian (I eat some fish), I cannot possibly eat lutefisk:
https://youtu.be/E7X6Z_SV-Pc

Luckily, no one in Norway has tried to make it for me yet and my Norwegian spouse says if I try to cook it, he's going to be out of the house a few days. I guess the smell is quite... special.
Do they suck?
This is a case where the ability to downvote would be necessary. "Facebook" and "cryptocurrency" shouldn't be in the same sentence.
It is a mnemonic if you're German, which is where the symbol comes from, it's the Z of Zählen!
I think molten salt (latent heat) batteries could push the boundaries further as researchers continue to design salt mixtures with lower melting points and higher and higher delta_k's (economic considerations of compounds included).

Though for usage in cars would imply some kind of small/portable vacuum storage tanks and a way to put the heat to work (most likely initially through a steam engine and eventually directly to electricity via advanced thermocouples[0])

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5935
Why would users who do not even understand bookmarks understand anything beyond just keeping dozens of tabs they think they might need
You're just uninformed. Look up the word that you're using, "cryptocurrency". Read the white paper of Ethereum for example.
People reluctant to use their Octopus cards for fear of leaving a paper trail
The also mention it here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14926851

strings /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_watchdog.dylib | grep -i rust
shows some hits:

__ZN14rustc_demangle8demangle17h2ad719809986c0fcE
_rust_begin_unwind
/Users/vagrant/client-dropbox-python/dropbox-virtual-env-3985da1e510f-mac-x86_64-10.14/rust/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libcompiler_builtins-f10e664516557f83.rlib(compiler_builtins-f10e664516557f83.compiler_builtins.7wkmozn8-cgu.0.rcgu.o)
___rust_probestack
/Users/travis/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/compiler_builtins-0.1.5/src/probestack.rs
___rust_alloc
___rust_dealloc
___rust_realloc
___rust_alloc_zeroed
/Users/vagrant/src/client/rust_vendor/hyper-0.10.13/src/buffer.rs
/Users/vagrant/src/client/rust_vendor/serde_json-1.0.33/src/read.rs
...

Looks like they use it fairly lightly though.
SVGs used as the src= of an <img> tag can't run scripts.
It looks and sounds delicious. I need to try those at home! :)
> its always been possible to make a small electric commuter car to drive round at 30mph for short distances but even today there are none like this

Here's one. The Renault Twizy: https://www.renault.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/twizy.html

The e.Go Life only has 100km range in the base model (the e.Go Kart looks pretty fun): https://e-go-mobile.com/en/models/e.go-life/

The Sono Sion has a small battery but plenty of solar panels: https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/

The Honda e is a nice looking city car with only 200km range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfD67KCFxqI

The electric city car certainly exists. I wouldn't buy one but you can if you want.
Agreed. As a data scientist myself, I can't imagine Julia getting much "mindshare" among us with the JIT experience it has. Perhaps we're not the real target audience for Julia? But if that's the case then adoption will likely be slow, and limited to only very niche applications and roles. For Julia to really become the next big thing (and solve the damn two language problem), it needs to be an effective solution for data scientists and machine learning engineers--and right now, it just isn't.
It won't be decentralized, it's more like Paypal than crypto coins.
Today is the centenary of the first transatlantic flight
You are right. Disabling tracking protection worked
Yeah, stuff like this is bad. As a parent you need to stop this. Gets harder the older they are. But how?

A few steps:

- Control yourself emotionally. You're a role model for your child. Your child can't control their emotion and you can't change their emotion either. But you can control yours.

- Set a firm limit. "I won't let you hit anyone else".

- Stay calm. There is no way your child can calm down if you aren't.

- Connect to your child. There's a reason your child does the thing it does. Why? Figure it out! Be empathic. Acknowledge their need.

- Model them appropriate actions. Show them the best way how to handle a situation like this from now on.

I'm just reiterating things from the youtube channel in the top post. Stuff like this takes time. But it's also normal. Kids simply do not have all the strategies and emotional control to handle some situations appropriately like adults do.

But, be sure that you know. Control yourself. Be a model to them and show them, how it's done. Sooner or later they will (hopefully) adapt your strategy.

And that's why I'm against timeouts. They are not an appropriate response. Imagine getting a timeout of your boss when you get angry with a bug of your co-worker. That would not be an appropriate response either. Your boss would need to show you a strategy, how to handle conflicts now and in the future. Be the same to your kids.
> Facebook’s currency will probably use this method...the holders of the currency vote for what happens on the network

What are you basing this assumption on?

From everything Facebook has ever done to date, I expect Zuckcoin will use the method of "what FB says goes, and if you don't like it, you can pound sand."
Same reason Shell, BP and Exxon invest millions every year in renewable energy?
Turns out it was the tracking protection which blocks some google domains.

Disabling tracking protection for this site (there were 9 of them) worked
Łukasiewicz is my hero.
That's not what anyone in the space calls centralized. It's actually called "decentralized" by everyone because the way this consensus is kept and changed happens decentralized (to some degree).

Right now it seems: If you don't have central consensus you can't have digital currency. Since everybody needs to be on the same line regards to who owns what. This is different from cash in the current world. Where nobody needs to agree to how much I have because I can physically store it and it's impossible to copy my dollars.
Depedns on your definitions of "good" and "mass". UK railways crossed 500 million people a year sometime before 1880, and as many journeys as the population sometime in the 1840s. That's sounds like a lot of metal wheels & rails to me, certainly not space-ship exotic. Although of course things continued to grow from there.
It makes genetics different. Your argument sets the default environment to be fit for the stone age one. I can respect that, but it needs to be put explicitly more often than it is.

It could go like "If we were to suddenly revert to, in the far future, some sort of stone age like environment, our distant descendants may be very unfit for that environment. This would be unfortunate."
You don't need to flow low when your bombs are guided, have a 74km standoff range and can follow moving targets.
If anything, programming ought to do it.

Though I have read that learning to play a musical instrument helps as well.
I assume it's backed by faith in Mr. Zuckerberg's sterling reputation as a steward of the public trust.
R vs. Python for Data Science
Tree style tabs (Firefox) works in much the same way, assuming you have a parent tab for each group.

I routinely start a research task from one tab, say a search query, open all interesting results in sub tabs and close the parent tab including all children (ie the group) once I'm done (or I collapse the group when I intend to resume later).
It’s interesting how what this girl said (which frankly could be exaggerated or even made up for retweets and exposure) has turned into the title of this submission. Like embedding a pair of tweets and saying everybody is outraged. Journalism in 2019.

Isn’t it more likely that, for example, many of these people had to come from far away to protest and they simply do not have an octopus card or it’s not valid for this zone?
The beauty of programmatic advertising is that it enabled the rare publisher to profit. When the pool of advertisers is massive and where they advertise is mostly decoupled from their ad campaign being set up, you don’t get individual companies “pulling their ads” from places. You do, but the publisher still makes money because there are so many advertisers and the cost to be on the market for them is near zero.

The masses panicked and now good news is hidden behind the paywall. That’s okay for me. I’m on the inside and I will use my differential knowledge. While those who can’t afford news will be outcompeted by virtue of their having shittier knowledge.

They will be fat. Their unvaccinated kids will die. Their money will go to fund my roads. They will go on Robinhood and Coinbase and give their wealth to me. Their taxes will go to fund art galleries they will find no time to visit.

And in their ignorance, they’ll do all this while taking stances that will only make them give me more. Beautiful.

About the only price I have to pay for this is that they’ll get angry when they face these facts: that they collectively chose a poorer life than available and that they collectively chose to give to those with more than them.
They're going to have to be making money somehow, yet they claim to charge no interest. I can't really find any information about this on their website. Does anyone know?
I love my iPad.
Compared to windows at work it's way more reliable and polished.
I've been shifting over my computer interaction to the iPad with good results and improvements in convenience, independence and efficiency.
Migrating rss, mail, web browsing and content consummation has been successful.
I too started using the calendar, to do list and notes app to great effect.

Only programming I wasn't able to change yet.
An attempt was made with a ssh app, but it wasn't able to compete with a proper ide/text editor yet.
For unix as an ide fans it would be enough though.
I want to learn that, but sadly I still have to write native apps, though I'll change that when I have the chance.

The best thing about iPadOS is control.
It feels so relaxing not having to worry about discord scanning all your processes and files just because you want to chat with your friends.
I hope they'll never go back to allowing unsigned code.
There are plenty of towns and villages where people can live in the economic conditions of the 1800s or 1900s. Almost no one chooses to do so.

Economic growth is overall strongly correlated with human prosperity, higher life-expectancies, and higher standard of living. If we ever do run low on a natural resource, capitalism softens the blow by gradually increasing prices, thereby increasing incentives for finding an alternative.
I can't say I understand devoting such time to learning a completely useless, extremely narrow, skill. Learning mathematics is useful. Learning to play a guitar is useful. Learning to program is useful.

I came to this conclusion in college. It was hard enough learning math, thermo, physics, etc., and seemed a complete waste of time to get better at chess. The former consumed my mental energies.
Seeing is this is from an American paper, they were probably trying to find a "local" connection, I skimmed The Times archive (the British one) and they don't describe her as American.
They are popular in Asia because relatively speaking Asia is poor.

Just like the flying pigeon bike was massively popular in china back in the 70's, I even saw one being ridden at Cranfield university by a Chinese masters/doctoral student in the late 70's early eighties.
TeX Writer developer here. Very flattered to be included in the author's workflow. Sitting at the core of this process is WorkingCopy, which has the most sensible integration with Files app that it simply keeps all files local. After one or two emails with its developer, we managed to get the coordination working rather quickly. The intersection of LaTeX & git & ipad users are very small, but it is a joy to see that apps can work well together with just a little bit of effort.

For iPad to function as a real computer, I think what we need most is a shared file system that can be accessed by all apps alike, with some sort of access control.

btw: Never expected that someone would dump the TeXLive tree into texmf-local. Nevertheless, glad that it works.
I try and build little worlds in my head and fly around them, working on adding details as I go. I think it works because it blocks everything out and requires zero physical effort.
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Playing against strongest players (or engines) demoralizes me. It makes me want to avoid the game. I find I need to play against a challenger that is better than me but one that I can beat about 30% of the time.

Back in the day I was pretty good at Warcraft 2 - solo and missions. I have a friend that never lost to me - not even once, although later I found I was close on two occasions to beat him. In the end I lost interest to play with him because in a way I would know the outcome.
Show HN: Parse no-protocol URL, no-domain URI and email addresses etc from text
thats cause they didn't "enable child labor" or "violate human rights" to sell their first 50,000 shoes
The problem with ethanol is that the most efficient plants for making it also happen to be food crops.
> basic thermodynamics shows that ordinary steam engines can't be very efficient

No this is not true, see other comments / Carnot cycle. Steam can be extremely efficient. But diesel engines are much simpler and more compact, it's a trade-off.
Cheap politics.
Fried rights.
Rainbow slogans.
FREE power.
I am likewise not a lawer but wouldn't your wagers be consideration? I mean "You give me money and I do a thing for you". Is pretty standard as contracts go.
Indeed. Life's a trade off and Johnson did indeed get divorced. Shoes were his love.

Was it all worth it? Who knows!