skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The clickbait part is saying "the Pentagon" when they mean "the US military." A casual reader may assume the headquarters building alone produces that much gas, which is obviously false.

Of course the excuse is that "the Pentagon" is often used as a metonym for the Department of Defense. But that means the leadership specifically. You might say "the Pentagon ordered fifty F-35s," but never "the Pentagon invaded Afghanistan." It's a really awkward phrasing at best, and I can't imagine that it's not deliberately deceptive. Are the facts not shocking enough?
Great write up! I have a few questions if anyone familiar with the development can share:
1. How do you handle trust-buster issue: users see a message go through only to check back an hour later that it’s not.
2. For this to work, all components must adhere to this same pattern. How did you handle the migration plan?
3. Seems like something that can work across platform. Any thoughts on c++ layer between android and iOS? Or Facebook tends to go at it platform-focused.

Thank you!
So what's the view on using Gatsby for building content or ecommerce sites?

Better than using other static site generators sprinkled with JS?

I've not done any research yet, so curious to know what the HN community thinks.
Not to bash the obvious, but If you're eating McDonalds there are more pressing health concerns than the ink on the fries.
What I noticed last time at McD's, is that the ink literally rubs off from the colorful paper mat (on the tray) on which I have been putting ketchup and fries my whole life. Try rubbing it with your finger next time, yikes.
For later readers, this comment means the original headline: "U.S. Pentagon emits more greenhouse gases than Portugal, study finds."
The Visa VCF format does this, but like any old legacy format, it can be a pain to work with. Data quality is up to the merchant, and consistency among merchants is lacking even within a single industry with documented attributes like travel tickets, which AFAIK is still the primary use case.

https://online.ogs.ny.gov/purchase/biddocument/22712rfp_VCF4...
I appreciate the term "ambient privacy," which I hadn't heard described that way before. The environmental metaphor makes a lot of sense as well.

I'm curious what others on HN make of this, but for me it was an interesting and very well articulated stance on privacy that helped focus and clarify some of the things I've been thinking about lately.

Thank you for writing this, Maciej!
This seems a lot like an eventually-consistent database. I think you could accomplish something similar with something like CouchDB or Firebase that provide conflict resolution between local and server state automatically. I'm wondering what the advantage is here?
Funny you should mention that: https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article23149722...

This guy initially tried to play dumb and play it off as maybe-Buddhist but didn't scrub his social media of holocaust memes.
I wish we could just get rid of paper receipts by default. At the end of more or less every retail transaction, they kindly hand you a few inches (or feet) of trash, which is a waste.

Many places are kind enough to ask if you need the receipt, but it still prints out if you say no - the cashier just throws it directly away for you.

I get that some people need or want receipts for various reasons, but judging by the trash can outside many stores exits, many people don't want them. The world generates enough trash as is.
It has a slightly longer history than WoW.

In the original Starcraft, the Korean version of "Hahaha" is "ㅋㅋㅋ". Owing to the fact that the English version of the game didn't support Korean text, the represented text of a Korean player saying "ㅋㅋㅋ" was "kekeke."

This became an early meme of sorts and caught on. Blizzard honored that in WoW by adding the kek/lol translation.
Not that this means anything, but I was curious about the relative sizes just in terms of people:

Portugal population: 10.3 million

US Military: 1.3 million active duty + 800,000 reserve
Not for code I just looked at. But if I find the MIT/BSD code useful enough that I want to have such a functionality in my program, I would just use the code and give attribution as the license requires.

In all the cases, where I not intend to include GPL code in my project, I consider it unethical and legally improper to look at it and then write my own version of such a functionality.
I once worked on a platform where you could buy ringtones, wallpapers, jokes etc by SMS pre App Store and play store.

Every night the platform would kick off a process to claim money from the telco using some key which was tied to an SMS the user had sent.

That process was responsible for more than $1 million a month, but it was buggy as hell.

Half of the billing attempts would fail, the retry logic was buggy, processes would crash so you would just start them again without proper semantics to ensure you don’t bill people twice.

After a while there were so many retries outstanding that you couldn’t get through them overnight, so we would try in random orders and we would have the process running from 3 days ago whilst try close off today’s bills.

I’m sure people were billed incorrectly and a lot of money was left on the table from users who should have been billed. We never really heard a lot of noise about this either.

So I’m sympathetic to this process and glad that Apple and Google have improved the confidence around mobile commerce.
But you cannot reasonably look at the one without considering the other.
This is cool. The title had me thinking about just repairing old clothing. It generally takes $4-6 at a tailor to fix a pair of pants, etc. I've gotten years more out of my jeans just doing that.
My Amex card does this for purchases at Square terminals. There's a "view receipt" link next to the transaction on my statement that opens the Square receipt. I haven't seen it for anything else though.
There certainly are wrong and undemocratic ways to "participate".

Breaking the law, causing public nuisance (to say the least), putting aircrafts are risk are not acceptable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179511
It depends on how often the stuff in the packages gets updated, not on the package format.
Create custom GitHub status checks using simple JavaScript Functions
> Why would you buy something that itself has a carbon footprint (manufacturing, distribution)

This is a silly argument. It's impossible to live in the modern world without generating carbon. No one sane says we should stop entirely. People just want to reduce the impact to manageable levels. A single toy drone obviously has a tiny carbon footprint.
I still don't understand why you felt it necessary to make a snarky comment. Yes, there are tons of users who never use command lines on their computers. I guess no small amount of the Mac users don't know what "Terminal" is for. But do I really on hacker news have to argue what the value of a command line for an advanced user is, especially the hacker news audience?
> Rather than breezy armchair theories, about how about finding some plausible evidence that climate scientists are making this all up?

Too easy.

The lack of accurate prediction capabilities of their models. Also the lack of consistency with their models. In contrast, Solar Physicist Valentina Zharkova accurately predicted the sun going into a minimum using a Double Dynamo model with 4 eigenvectors which cohere & interfere. Her model also accurately predicted the cooling that occurred in the past few years due to the approaching solar minimum. In her free time, she created a more accurate model than anything the IPCC ever produced.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2018/12/12/the-latest-on-the-dou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NI1bQe8I4A

The lack of experimental evidence. The Electric Universe theory has experimental evidence with plasma interacting with atmospheric gasses. Also experimental evidence of cosmic radiation with heating water, seeding clouds, etc.

See Henrik Svensmark's reproducable physical experiments. It's not just a bunch of computer code which ultimately means nothing without experiment or predictive capabilities.

https://principia-scientific.org/strong-evidence-that-svensm...

Despite Henrik Svensmark having compelling physical experimental evidence, which the IPCC models lack, he somehow lost his institutional funding. He is now independently funded.

Perhaps the science is not "settled" after all...Is that what the authorities told Galileo when he dared to claim that the Earth was not the center of the Universe?
imho the only way to get this solved is users and app developers using a community based format that is not owned by the operating system companies
This would also be really useful for increasing automation of expense reports if you are using a corporate credit card.
Also don't forget civilian employees and contractors.
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Did you expect that paper to be food grade? It isn't
In my experience it does get better, but for most of the people to expect to be productive as they would in Golang, Python, etc would be unrealistic. Rust changed my thought process permanently because it forces you to think a lot of things upfront. Also, this "skill" is transferable to other languages which makes learning Rust worth it at the first place.
> Either our current conception of the nation state changes, or civilization dies violently.

This doesn't seem like an either/or to me. IMHO the most likely outcome is that our conception of the nation state will change just as civilization dies violently. Same event - just as the nation state was born out of war, it'll die in war.

This doesn't necessarily mean that all of humanity is going to die. Rather our conception of what it means to be "civilized" - which for most people is synonymous with "developed nation" - will die, and there will be new social organizing principles with new dominant technologies.
What Is Mitochondrial Disease?
Mitochondria are a subcellular structure prevalent in eukaryotic cells and the most important source of energy in cells. Most tissue cells in the human body rely on oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria to obtain the energy needed to maintain their metabolism. Mitochondria not only play an important role in cell signal transduction and apoptosis, but also play a decisive role in multiple metabolic pathways including the tricarboxylic acid cycle, beta oxidation, fat and cholesterol metabolism. Therefore, once mitochondrial DNA and related nuclear DNA involved in mitochondrial DNA expression are abnormal, mitochondrial diseases may be caused.

Mitochondrial respiratory chain disease

mtDNA loses more than 99% of its original genes and most autonomy in its symbiosis with nDNA. Its function depends on the basic functions of nuclear genes, including replication, translation, synthesis of most respiratory chain subunits, and assembly of respiratory chain complexes. And the synthesis of phospholipids that constitute the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM). Mutations of respiratory chain complex subunit are induced by mitochondrial self DNA mutations and mutations in related nuclear genes. These mutations are mainly in complexes I and II, it indicates genetic mutations that are deleterious in complexes III, IV and V are rare or fatal. Most mutations in the nuclear gene of complex I or complex II subunit will cause LS, a hallmark neuropathic lesion in infancy or early childhood neurodegenerative disease. Studies have found that mtDNA mutations can also cause LS, a large number of mtDNA mutations will damage oxidative phosphorylation in the early life.
Another aspect of trolling is that even the most grounded observations of the popularity and possible import of such dog whistles can be dismissed as 'panic' to shut down reasoned discourse.
My exact reaction - and the reason I clicked through, though I must say I was pleasantly surprised it was this, and not JavaScript Observables. May have to make the switch from Notion https://www.notion.so/
What alternatives would you propose? If it is Slack and the other proprietary abominations designed to take away your freedom, then the choice seems pretty obvious to me.
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Given the "traditional" way of wrapping fish and chips was with newspaper, a bit of non-lead paint is an improvement
"You will most likely get a malicious AppImage from some website because there is no default central store with such packages." - No. Just no. If you download the AppImage directly from its original author's website, then you know that no one has tampered with it and it is exactly as the original author intended. In contrast, look at Flathub. Most applications there are not provided by their original authors, but by "random guys". Who do you trust more?
I think Germany itself is a perfect answer to your question. One thing you start to see over and over in politics is Newton's Third - for every action there's an equal but opposite reaction. Germany took an an overwhelmingly sharp anti-nationalist turn, and what happened? Now we see things like the AfD (far right/nationalist party for those unaware) going from a niche little party that couldn't even qualify for the electoral threshold to the second most popular party in the nation, the #1 in east Germany. And similar things have been happening throughout Europe.

People being unified within a nation is a very good thing. And being unified does not mean believing the same thing. There have always been extremely divisive politics in the US. You only need look at our money - the man on the $10 bill was killed by the vice president of the man on the nickel in a duel. But when people start to become mutually exclusive, or when a nation itself goes too far in one direction, or the other, it results in a sharp counter movement in the opposite direction. It's important that people ultimately view themselves as part of a whole, even if they might strongly disagree with one another. A flag is the most fundamental representation of that whole. The alternative tends to trend towards widescale conflict which rarely has a happy ending for anybody.
Just long term impingement from powerlifting. We went on a date, it was awful. I paid and never called her again.
Just installed your launcher, exactly what I was looking for :)

One change I'd suggest, dragging to reorder custom apps.
A date, yeah.
I thought it was weird, but figured if this surgeon risked her professional career to hook the two of us up, I should see what happens. The date was terrible.
The girl told me.
Would you agree that it is OK to be white? Are people equal under the law, or does equality mean that we are all exactly identical? It fascinates me that discussing these questions results in my immediate stigmatization. Honest to God white nationalists on 4chan and 8ch /pol/ promulgate “it’s ok to be white” so that white people will be stigmatized and react by throwing in with white nationalists. I am convinced that the proper response to, “is my ethnicity OK”, is always and without exception YES. To me, the Kekistani banner respresents rejection of politically correct racism. Rather than “hate filled”, I see “unbeholden to dogma”. A dogma that insists rejection of dogma is fascist, is itself fascist and must be rejected. Yet, intolerance of intolerance is the loophole enabling this mess. Therefore, it is always alright to be who you are. Love is better than hate. Creation is better than destruction. Generally. What we all ought to want is a world where these things are true, and that requires empathy, not enemies.
My favourite license is still MPLv2. In my opinion it hits just the right spot between giving back source and not limiting potential uses significantly. So many languages link statically nowadays, making LGPL fundamentally pointless.
I take it because any acidic meal literally deactivates the positive effects of my stim meds and gives me a pounding headache. The only way to reverse this is with half a tums.

Kidney stones scare me, I've heard horror stories of the pain it causes. Is half a tums alright after acidic meals? How much more likely am I to develop kidney stones?
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Sure, if you take alt-right victimology at face value.
What are the new edu game powerhouses? Minecraft comes to mind. Does it share the same age demographic as Zoombinis or Reader Rabbit?
Not only that. It'd be better to be poor in the 1980s, because since then it has become more difficult to move out of poverty.
I use an older Gmail address that's already been spammed like crazy for things like this. If I need something from it, I can search the archive.
Come on. Civil disobedience is a cornerstone of peaceful, democratic protest. Every black American who sat at a white lunch counter or in the white seats on a bus was breaking the law and "causing a public nuisance."

As for putting aircraft at risk, the Economist won't actually let me read the article (I wish people would stop posting links to sites like this), but I doubt they actually put anyone in danger. It's like the environmentalists who spiked trees to stop loggers--they clearly marked the affected trees, they openly informed the loggers of what they'd done, and even if they went ahead anyway, a properly maintained saw has safety measures that would prevent injury. But they were still spun as trying to murder loggers.

Is this a good, effective, worthwhile protest? I dunno. But there's got to be more a more coherent argument you could make.
I've had the same issue with my extension - it has 250k users and it was removed a few days ago with no warning. I recieved one reply 12 hours later saying there was "too many keywords" in the description. It has been in the Chrome Web Store for at least 5 years with the same description - very odd and it is still not restored.
The climate is getting colder & the Antarctic glaciers are growing, so no worries about palm trees in Antarctica. We will have lower food production (there goes the "green revolution"), more volcanic eruptions, more earthquakes, a magnetic pole reversal, with a weakened Heliosphere & Magnetosphere making us less protected against space weather though, so at least you will have that to be alarmed about.

BTW, ancient people around the world had some interesting & consistent art that looks strikingly like plasma discharge reproduced in laboratories. Maybe they were smarter than what we give them credit for?
The UK is an island, if you crank up airfare by 30% if would have a huge impact on the economy.
Interesting how an educational robot project/competition always needs to involve the careful exercising of ballistics against a target. Descartes clearly got it all wrong and should have instead formulated his proposition as "I fire ma lazerz, therefore I am". By that definition, the singularity is clearly near.
There is a third option. They acquired patents:

https://www.iam-media.com/frandseps/huawei-acquires-patents-...

But to be fair Huawei is spending a large amount of their revenue on R&D so not surprised they are inventing new technologies. That said we also know that they have stolen a lot of IP in the past (and maybe now).
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I guess most people dont remember Three Mile Island - but that's why no one build a Nuclear power plant after that incident. Regulations became stricter and the risks of lawsuits... you can imagen...
> In Germany there is no chlorine and fluoride in tap water

That's false. Most places add chlorine to the tap water system, for good reason.

And while tap water isn't fluoridized, you'll have to look hard in supermarkets to find table salt that isn't.
Or you can look it by spending: ~$700 BILLION a year and obviously it involves moving and sailing around. Portugal's entire GDP is around $240 Billion (not budget, GDP)
Gamergate was fueled by outside interests way beyond “ethics in journalism” and anger at feminist game critics. The online outrage was easily led down a much broader path.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-h...
That's not true. Britain ruled Hong Kong for over a century without introducing democracy. The governor was appointed by the UK Foreign Minister, the legislature was appointed by the governor, and most of the high administrative posts were held by Brits. Chinese people were treated as second-class citizens, and of course had no say in government. The UK only began introducing any democratic elements once it became clear that they were going to hand over the city to China.
Not merging upstream changes eventually kills smaller vendors with maintenance burden as the diffs grow larger and larger.
Then I guess the DOM is the radon of the internet, because most JS developers have no idea what it is or what its for and are scared to death to approach it without 3 layers of abstractions plus safety scissors.

dom - https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/

radon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon
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Walmart pay is great about this. All of my grocery receipts are easily accessible in the app, including a picture of the product in case the description isn't clear enough.
The “alt right is the new punk rock” is one of their marketing pitches. Apparently it works, but only for a certain demographic.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the R value of the insulation.
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Years ago it was possible to get a Safeway affinity card by enrolling as "Safeway Shopper", without providing any additional information. I don't know if this is still possible.

That's helpful if you wish to opt out of the tracking. Of course, if you pay by credit card, even once, the company has now associated a name with that affinity card.

As I'm sure you know, Scott McNealy proclaimed this a few decades ago: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it". How remarkably prescient that was!
That lady is your mum?
Without breaking laws and causing public nuisance India would still be part of the British Empire and African Americans would still be second class citizens. Climate change is a vastly more serious problem than either of those two.
I agree that this is slightly less safe than normal operation. Pilots and flight controllers need to be ready to change plans everyday for various reasons be it weather, crashes, onboard emergencies etc. Landings in heavy cross-wind often are repeated and this is unforeseen and normal reason to change plans.

If drone would pose any significant danger to flight control system then entire system is not working as it should.

It's nowhere close to "cutting the power to air traffic control" as original post claimed.
It's been my preoccupation for over a decade.
> What do you want people to do, fly only battery-powered passenger airlines?

Pay about $200 for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent their flights blow into the air instead of benefiting from tax free kerosene.
You can set that 0.001 factor as big or as low as you like, but then we’d get the same nytimes hit piece saying this is intentionally being done by humans.
This is not civil disobedience.

Flying drones to shut down an airport is nothing like sitting in the white seats of a bus. That's a ludicrous comparison.

Such drone attacks are dangerous (they do put aircrafts at risk), affect thousands of people, cause millions in damage, and, simply put, are lightweight terrorism. It is quite right that the article open with a reference to the IRA attacking Heathrow airport with empty mortar rounds to shut it down. This is exactly the same thing.

And it is completely ineffective. The only result is to alienate the majority of the public.
It’s the government’s fault that the data isn’t easily accessed by citizens. No employee time would be necessary if data was accessible by everyone without having to go through a worker. I know this firsthand because there are places in the US that you have to submit requests and deal with government lawyers and slothful employees, while the exact same type of data can be directly downloaded from another municipality without any barriers or assistance.