skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my estimation, the shortest practical path to less pollution (at least less net carbon emission) is to use electricity to synthesize jet-fuel. Take yesterday's carbon dioxide, turn it into tomorrow's jet fuel, making the fuel carbon-neutral.
As far as I can tell, R uses BLAS for matrix operations, and Python probably does the same, so in terms of efficiency I wouldn't expect a big difference between the two.
> Oh and it would be so quiet.

It would make about as much noise as it makes now. Nearly all the noise of a commercial aircraft is caused by the air being pushed to propel it, not by the engine internals.

(You can reduce noise and increase efficiency by pushing more air at a smaller speed. You do that by having more engines or larger ones. I would expect electrical planes to have more engines, but that's a small secondary effect.)
Performance Reviews and the Irony of the Corporate Work Ethic
No, you do what he explained. Those DBs might have access to the customer DB, but no USB on those system.That access would also be logged at another location, listing date/time/user. It might also require a sign off from a manager/team that reviews record access of more than say 10,000 clients, etc. DBs would be informed of all these security factors, to desuade individuals from making bad choices.

Individually, none of the above would stop this kind of breach. Altogether, and it might be enough. You amply defense in depth
I can still remember the message (or at least important bits) and can write it down when at home or tell it to other people.
High-capacity / High-speed rail is a non-starter over low-capacity planes with a bunch of low-capacity airfields littering the country? Density is the future and a bunch of small electric planes will not come anywhere close to meeting the demands necessary.
Pretty sure that's not how the laws of supply and demand work. If people need it, someone will fill that need at an affordable price. If we don't need it, we'll survive without it.
> - The language design allows your brain to ignore the index parameter because JS accepts superfluous parameters, which is a terrible decision.

Without that we would not be able to have variable length argument lists in the past.
> Seems intuitive that if parseInt allows omitting the radix parameter, that it should default to whatever radix a standard integer primitive would default to.

But in this case, the radix is _not_ omitted. The map function passes the index of the current iteration as the second parameter to the function it is passed. It is kinda like this:
```
['1','7','11'].map((item, index) => parseInt(item, index))
Ask HN: How do I kickstart my career in software developing?
U.S. Targets China’s Supercomputing Push with New Export Restrictions
But it’s (quite literally) _not_ upfront when the pertinent information is hidden behind “learn more.” I’d be curious what the click-rate is on that link.

Also, I can think of a lot of ways to bypass the “confidentiality” settings that require no malware whatsoever. Not only is their giant asterisk hidden, it’s wildly inaccurate and misleading.
And you won't be able to buy it outside China.
We decided it was ridiculous to offer $1.5 billion in incentives when we would never recoup that, so we protested.

Amazon paid no federal taxes last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/16/amazon-p...), and probably would have figured out how to pay little corporate state tax. At the promised level of 25,000 jobs with an average $150,000 salary, the city (but not the state) would have only seen an extra ~$150mil in income taxes.

There's lots of ways to run the projections and factor various costs/benefits, but few of them would have resulted in a 10x improvement in the offhand estimates.

It was a bad investment for the city the same way most sports stadiums are.
I guess JavaScript like to use the "principle of most surprise"?
https://www.cloudflare.com/resources/images/slt3lc6tev37/5SB...

Has this designer never seen an actual clock?
There are at least a dozen companies that aggregate and resell that data. I'm familiar with LexisNexus (nee Seisent). I'm certain Google could do it too.
Late application–is there still any hope?
Hey everyone!

So, I submitted my late application on June 2, 2019. Now, this isn't just late—it's really fucking late. So, I guess I'm looking for answers from previous applicants or those in the same boat: What are the odds of getting accepted now, and how long did it take YOU to hear back?

I emailed Michael Seibel a while back, and he said they would look over my application. But a few weeks later, I'm still here left in the dark. In fact, I sent him a follow-up a few days ago, but alas, no response. I don't think my Y Combinator video has been seen yet, either. It's approaching the end of June, so I'm gradually getting more anxious every day.

Any insight, advice, or support would be appreciated. Thanks!
Bipartisan anti-robocall bill introduced in House
No, there was one member of the 68K family (68456) that had the DSP on the chip.
Or screen capture, or inspect element, or taking a picture with your phone, or JS injection, or using an extension, or IMAP...

The only way for this to work is to restrict the user freedom so much it will:

- cost a huge amount of money

- lower the productivity

- kill the mood of everybody

My take on this is that if your industry really needs this kind of feature, either you suck as a human being and I don't want to work for you, or you are doing something amazing and secretive and in this case you don't use gmail.
All of this applies to making a new protonmail account too

Requires SMS verification or an impassable captcha loop if over TOR

And payment with a credit card

The cryptocurrency payment option with non-user identifiable info only being available to existing protonmail accounts where that info was already harvested

So it is ironic to see protonmail calling out those specific things about gmail confidential
Apollo 13 was a great sequel to that flick.
"[Ineligible because our] records show that your device has already been serviced ..."

Cool, thanks Apple. Glad I got to pay like $700 for this when my 2015 MBP was overheating so much last year that the battery swelled and broke the motherboard. I just did a quick live-chat with one of the tech support people... no chance for a refund on the work I had done 8 months ago to replace the battery and repair damage it caused. It really sucks that people who proactively dealt with this can't get compensated for what is now acknowledged as a manufacturing flaw.

Originally posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240359
Right, but the switch is flipped from passive collection to active targeting in secret court hearings* and if they already have been passively collecting, you could go from no concern to being actively targeted without ever knowing.

They couldn't do this if they weren't drag-netting.

*FISA courts have 11 denied requests and over 34,000 approved.
> For all but the last instant of our cultural evolution, humans have been information starved. In one generation we have become a culture that has instant access to unbounded quantities.

"... The story is that in the region of Naucratis in Egypt there dwelt one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name being Theuth. He it was that invented number and calculation, geometry and astronomy, not to speak of draughts and dice, and above all writing. Now the king of the whole country at that time was Thamus, who dwelt in the great city of Upper Egypt which the Greeks call Egyptian Thebes, while Thamus they call Ammon. To him came Theuth, and revealed his arts, saying that they ought to be passed on to the Egyptians in general. Thamus asked what was the use of them all, and when Theuth explained, he condemned what he thought the bad points and praised what he thought the good. On each art, we are told, Thamus had plenty of views both for and against; it would take too long to give them in detail. But when it came to writing Theuth said, 'Here, O king, is a branch of learning that will make the people of Egypt wiser and improve their memories; my discovery provides a recipe for memory and wisdom.' But the king answered and said, 'O man full of arts, to one it is given to create the things of art, and to another to judge what measure of harm and of profit they have for those that shall employ them. And so it is that you, by reasons of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring, have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.'"

Plato, "Phaedrus" (c. 360 BCE)
>> constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights to privacy

Considering nearly everyone (who isn't an ARPU "deadbeat") is on WhatsApp I would think the ruling doesn't matter one way or another because you don't have much privacy left anyway.

Plus, if the govt wants the scoop on anyone's private life, they will just ask Facebook to hand it over or else.... (ban WhatsApp, ban Instagram, block approval for cryptocurrency projects, harden data storage rules and whatever else a government can do to threaten a corporation).
Though since the Snowden leak Google really upped their game. Everything internally is encrypted in transit and at rest. Even when you use Google Cloud you automatically get encryption at rest.
This makes all the pointy hair bosses out there demanding faxes and hardcopies seem wise. Imagine, getting an email that tried to block forwarding... the nerve.
Building a Slack SQL “Inventory” Bot
IIRC Roughtime is for validating TLS certificates which have lifetimes of hours to months, so 10 seconds doesn't matter.
That's for their roughtime servers, which is a different service than the NTP servers they offer on the same page (though it could be clearer that they're distinct). The advantage of roughtime is that it's cryptographically signed and auditable, so you can be confident about using it to check things like TLS cert expirations (for which 10 seconds is plenty accurate).
This coerces to a number, but not to an integer.
Facebook usage falling after privacy scandals, data suggests
Banks have special offers for bank accounts for children (no credit, and parents sign the contract, but it's in the child's name and responsibility). I got mine when I was 6 or 7.

Mobile service, good question - I have no kids of my own and back then there was no mobile, but I suppose it's the same: contract is signed by a parent, but in child's name. (we have very sensible pre-paid offers, so there's no financial risk)
First, and most importantly, make sure your pet is fit to travel. Some animals simply cannot handle travel due to age, illness, injury or temperament. If you’re unsure, consult with your veterinarian for an expert opinion.

Different countries have different rules. Get know before traveling.
Acceptable to whom?

Degradation of language is degradation of mind.

Most people don't like to sound ignorant and unlettered. You saw that nashashmi graciously said, "Thanks", eh?
I highly doubt one of the most authoritarian governments is going to produce a chip the libre community would use
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that prison management gives zero fucks about rehabilitation. They’ve not been incentivized to do so for decades at least and therefore I’d suppose that those who would want to rehabilitate prisoners have self-selected out of the career entirely leaving only the more punitive-minded or those who just can’t find employment elsewhere.

This is mainly speculation so I’d genuinely appreciate it if anyone with direct knowledge of the situation could correct me if I’m way off base here.
>More than 2/3's of Virginia's investment into Amazon was in education and transit, which benefits everyone.

Ostensibly, yes, but caution is warranted here; let's hope that (as with Oracle sponsorship), that education funding doesn't translate into indoctrination into the sponsor's stack.
Yes, of course he will be involded by suggesting, trying and validating the solutions.
Is a citation really needed about the NSA collecting basically all the data on the Internet? This is "common knowledge" in information security circles. Go look up the battles the EFF has fought with the NSA about their data collection practices. The NSA is continually building giant data warehouses everywhere... they probably have more data centers than any other organization in existence. They collect all the data.
> hydrogen will diffuse through it in just few weeks

This one is a non-problem. I don't think there is any civilian airport with enough fuel storage for two weeks.

(But the tank weight, well that is a problem.)
> Thinking of UK football 'hooligan' violence, after lots of surveillance being installed within stadiums, violence enthusiasts organized their confrontations at areas reconnaissance proved to be unmonitored

At the risk of sounding like a heartless libertarian, sounds like in this case, the outcome was a net positive. People who want to and are willing to suffer violence are going to a specialized place to do so, rather than involving a bunch of football fans who just want to see some people play a sport.
I'd love one of these for Elixir/Erlang and probably more so Haskell.
Yes, and without a warrant too.
OK. Thank for the tip, we will try.
I dunno... cheap flights exist now. It's the security theater that ruins flying. Why would electric change that?
>as a worker in a corporation, the chances that you would want an email so badly that you start breaking more corporate rules trying to get a copy of an email is very unlikely

This seems like it should be true, but having worked with end users in the past I would not take this for granted
[5+5]*2 is not NaN
You pay $18/month for unlimited?
Recalls make a lot of sense if mass announcements are sent with mistakes, so people aren't confused by having the incorrect version in a busy inbox.
I first had this argument (obviously I was on the sane side of the argument) in 1994. Amusing to see it persist for 25 years and to even permeate Google.
At first I used all the about:config settings, but then I ended up blocking mozilla.org outgoing.

As to ff vs chrome, what I figure is: I'd rather have poorly funded code defending my privacy than well-funded code defeating my privacy.
Wine is an incredible peice of software. I tried it for the first time recently and I was deeply impressed. To the point I said to a friend “just write your apps Windows first and deploy with wine!”
no.

in india, the right to privacy was upheld by the constitutional bench of the supreme court to be a fundamental human right.

This triggered a multi-billion dollar reversal of the Aadhaar biometric social-security id project.

the govt cannot do this without due judicial process even if it tries to create a law. we have stronger privacy protections than the US.
They say "much" ("a large amount") of it ends up in waterways, which is substantiated. As one tiny example, look at Mr. Trashwheel. It collects ten tons of trash on a rainy day. If you don't believe me, here is a sped-up video of it collecting plastic, styrofoam, and other single-use trash items[1].

And here are statistics on the trash gathered[2]. 649,236 plastic bags, 880,646 plastic bottles, and plenty of other miscellaneous plastic pieces. All of this disrupts natural ecosystems, and is ingested by animals who then get sick, and later gets into us as microplastics when we ingest the animals. This is the reason nearly all of our food and beverages contain microplastics.

If this doesn't seem that bad, the above example is from a single stream into a single harbor in a single city. Now imagine the national scale.

But plastic isn't the only pollutant of US waterways. Bacterial matter, nutrient excess, and industrial toxins regularly find their way through the watershed into main waterways, affecting marine life as well as humans. Waterway pollution is a big issue in the US.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=GgnTBxSMo3g [2] http://blogs.ubalt.edu/ubmag/the-problem-of-plastics/
A $4bn biz without a live product just broke the record for a domain name
I suspect the downvotes are for those who think it really can be answered with a simple no. Or perhaps because it doesn't end in a question mark..

On topic though I recently tried switching to FF and was surprised at how much slower pages were loading. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this just a matter of caching?
> When saying we were "information starved" it implies we actually needed more information, like food

We arguably did need more, like the locations to find food, when to plant food, how to deal with drought or pests, how to avoid and defend from predators, etc. Information is the key to all of our needs.
Dude, come on. You do understand. The feature is like a fence in a yard. It separates the honest from the dishonest, forcing the clueless/negligent/reckless to pick a side.

Nobody believes fences stop criminals, and nobody believes Gmail has ended the DRM arms race.
I like to tell people that the only people who should be investing in the stock market are those for whom single-digit differences in yield are meaningful. Practically speaking, this means at dollar values of $1MM and up. If you don't have that kind of capital then you need either leverage or time. The only two financial investments ordinary mortals should be making are a retirement portfolio and buying a house.

The house makes sense because it's an accessible form of leverage and the retirement portfolio makes sense because of the time scale involved makes the return on investment vs just putting it under the mattress meaningful.

Otherwise it's just not worth your time. Obviously you can do active trading on the market and make more money with less capital but that's not investment.

Similarly, you can use the same logic to determine that paying 20% interest on small amounts of money, i.e. under $10k, just isn't worth worrying about in the grand scheme of things. It's like $300/month. I'm not going to waste sleep over that. I mean, I'll happily take it if someone's giving it for free, otherwise it's just another bill.

And I've already got lots of other bills in the range of $1-300 a month. I'd rather have the things I bought with the $10k right now than to save up for them, just to save a few hundred per month.

The problem comes in when you're spending that money on stuff that's not providing meaningful quality of life benefits. That's a leak in your bucket. Whereas $10k in debt in a life that's working is more like poking holes in an airship. You'd need a whole lot of them to bring it down.
Google knows more about you then your mom!

Sorry and personally that’s too much for me!
Feeds. Gotta block feeds out of your life. The never-ending treadmill of new information is what's really problematic, at least for me.
Facebook’s crypto is a centralized wolf in decentralized sheep’s clothing
Yes, but again that's the consequence of another bad design: not including spread or another metaprogramming system for this. And not having default values either.

Spread has existed in Python forever under the name of "splat operator", default values as well. Same with ruby.

That what I meant when I said "they accumulate". A bad design decision not only affect the user cognitive load and productivity, but it also cascades to the rest of the language and shapes it.
Wireless electricity is quite literally the transmission of electrical energy without wires. People often compare the wireless transmission of electrical energy as being similar to the wireless transmission of information, for example, radio, cell phones, or wi-fi internet.
Plutocrat donors are shaping the agenda at elite universities
The taxi fuel is not primarily used for motivation of the airplane around the airfield, but just from idling the engines. (It's about minutes of ground operation more than miles of ground operation.)

Electric drive wheels don't eliminate that unless you don't start the engines until near the hold short line (in which case, you don't have air conditioning or electric power, meaning you end up running the APU [itself a small jet engine] to provide that power).
https://www.cascadebiketrainers.com/news/2015/09/01/calculat...

Seems a trained person can do 150-250w
"within 10 seconds of real time, but security is paramount"

You cut off the important bit. Roughtime servers sign their responses, so you can be sure you aren't getting a malicious time response (or if you do, you can penalize that server).

Per google [0]: "With only two servers, the client can end up with proof that something is wrong, but no idea what the correct time is. But with half a dozen or more independent servers, the client will end up with chain of proof of any server's misbehaviour, signed by several others, and (presumably) enough accurate replies to establish what the correct time is."

[0] https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime
No, I don't review all team's code. A point is that he will work alone on a very specific piece of code. He is junior on the technology, so I'll review mostly for educational purpose.
Since the release of Valve's proton fork wine has gained a massive amount of relevance. Since 2018 it is possible to play thousands of steam games that are windows only on linux.
If the "better" tools are unavailable, then it's the right tool. Your needs and priorities are not the only ones that exist anywhere in the universe.
Facebook reverses ban on Led Zeppelin album cover featuring naked children
Woah woah. Do you have a professional license and liability insurance to practice that opinion in public near the presence of children?
Warming stripes for the world from 1850-2018
Immunotherapy is really fascinating, I know someone going through it right now and it seems to be helping (early days yet, of course).

I was very curious to read that it had such severe side-effects, especially the neurotoxicity. Why such a severe reaction? Does the neurotoxicity have developmental impacts for children that receive immunotherapy?
No I didn't. I even don't check for myself if accessibility is really bad, but I trust my coworker on this.
The downvotes seems a bit unfair. I think this is a good comment.
Any chance you could give more info on which metrics they're looking at though? Because if it's mainly CPU usage and the like it doesn't seem to be a big concern.
Most have a safe, fireproof and so on for the devices.
But handling dozens of them, idk...
Maybe Samsung knows an answer? /s
> Just theoretically if surveillance was good enough to catch every single crime in public, would this be "worth it"?

No.

Problem #1 is unfair and biased prosecution. If every time someone smokes a blunt, the police get alerted, but only minorities are actually arrested and prosecuted, that's bullshit.

Problem #2 is that not every crime should be punished, period. Nobody is harmed if I walk across a street without waiting for a green light.

Problem #3 is that every crime being captured means that literally every citizen has a backlog of blackmail material waiting for them that the government could use to pressure them for one reason or another. Commit a more serious crime, and you could be pressured into a plea bargain in exchange for not bringing the others to bear. Speak up against an unpopular policy the government is trying to push, and suddenly you're being arrested for something that happened three years ago.

No thanks. This would be a nightmare world.
just don't charge it when you're not home