skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chicxulub has been estimated as at least 20 billion Hiroshimas - and perhaps as much as four times that. That set fire to most of a hemisphere. And it still wasn't a complete obliteration/sterilisation event.

Unless you were a dinosaur living at the time :)

Thanks for the cluebat, I've put an update on my post to note the math is all bollocks.
Often the academics and students themselves are quite left but the administrators are pro-capitalist. See for example the University of Chicago’s union-busting of the grad student union (which is widely supported by faculty and students).
It'd be cool if it used the system's dark mode setting by for the default.
this is not merely a display, it is really a sanitation of the brain-damaged json syntax.
Author here. I use it all the time when working with jq [1] to find the path of the nodes that I want to select or filter. It also makes it much easier to understand the structure of deeply nested JSON files.

[1] https://stedolan.github.io/jq
In one system, thousands of people are scammed out of millions of dollars every year.

In the other system, a company that is not a bank was forced to avoid the word "bank" in their name.

This sounds like two reasons the second system is better, to me at least?
That's nice, I like that.

Related, if you want more of a csv-style, see JSONLines. aka "newline-delimited JSON"

http://jsonlines.org/
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> Common sense is what is needed

Common sense has no place in outrage culture!
One German guy that moved 15 years ago to Boston. One Englishman that is currently in China. One German-Brazilian guy that is a Jew and a UK citizen, working in Hong Kong. One Romanian. Quite rare in my experience, but they exist.
Does the warmth of a traditional greenhouse melt snow from the roof?
> they just end up destroying what they sought

Cities are people, not buildings. This underlines the Swiss defense strategy, for instance [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Redoubt_%28Switzerlan...
> Certainly the worst of all modern stack languages

So have you not used PHP, or are you counting it as not-modern? :P
> Neural networks have rapidly surpassed human capabilities in some regards; care and consideration are vital when it comes to turning one loose in the wild.

I don't mean to harsh on you for this comment; it's quite a widespread belief. But cars rapidly surpassed human (or even cheetah) capabilities in running, and ordinary algorithms rapidly surpassed human capabilities in calculating trajectories, summing up columns of numbers or drawing rectangles.

The same moral panic we see today has been repeated over and over for those technologies. Are there issues, sure, but don't be faked out by the bogus use of "intelligence" for RNNs.
Dumb idea: If the weight of the batteries is significant, then dump out the empty ones with parachutes partway through the flight?
Sounds like a class action to me.
Excellent find!

This article also talks of the three other variants for different colours
From personal experience, yes, it really does. Why do you think otherwise?
My theory: the tighter the causal feedback loop, the more agency you have (or perceive to have). For example if you want to knock over a cup, you can do that.

But if you want to knock over a cup across the world, or become rich overnight, this is a very complex feedback loop, so you exercise less agency (therefore more luck).
List of rocks on Mars
Prop wash over a wing is good if you're lift-starved at take-off (which you aren't with this design). But otherwise it actually increases drag. Pusher configuration is superior in that you can ingest boundary layer air which has been slowed down by the fuselage and get an increase in efficiency. That efficiency gain is partially why pushers are often used in long-duration drones.
> In "Goodness that is a great, great software business", I present http://banclist.com , which is probably the most lucrative direct messaging platform in the world on a per user basis. (I'm exempting e.g. Bloomberg which does a lot more than DMs.)

That's some hyperbole from Patrick. The website is not a direct messaging platform by any stretch. It's a listing website with a very specific audience. Lots of that stuff happen over email, regular DM, phone calls or regular in-persons meetups.

> BancList.com does not participate in any way in the execution of trades. Any trades that may occur must take place offline independent of BancList.com or any of its affiliates.

They only risk getting their data compromised but no money is at risk. Trades happen discretely and they might not be aware of them or not care.
I was thinking more about helping with the energy density issue, by discarding the discharged, yet just as heavy as when charged, batteries after reaching the energy intensive climb to cruising altitude.
In small towns in Canada, malls are dead. Where I grew up, all the malls I visited as kid are gone or ghost towns.

What's happening in bigger cities is consolidation; lots of dead malls and empty stores but a few key retail locations are booming. The neighborhood mall, where you might go to hang out, is gone.

The trend right now in Vancouver is to combine malls with condo complexes although none are finished enough to see if that will be a success.
I think operator-pending is much less of a big deal when you can just finish the command and then hit "u" to undo it.

As for visual mode... I just noticed something odd: in Neovim, <Esc> doesn't drop me back into Normal mode from Visual or Block-visual; I have to hit "v" again. The behavior doesn't happen in Vim itself (that is, <Esc> works as expected.) I wonder why that is.

Either way, I'd hazard to say that exiting Insert mode is by far the most common use case for <Esc>... to the point where I really wouldn't even call it "escaping" in the sense of "bailing out of a mode early".

For everything else, I'd just remap Escape to Caps Lock at the system level and call it a day. But that's just me, and even though I think the Touch Bar is nifty, I definitely get where some folks' annoyance is coming from.
I mean the same type of investment that an engineer in SV would get or a Kiva gives out. It bad policy only if theirs no turnkey solution, but if you look at immigrants have created hair stores, convenience stores, and such it would be easy to train and capitalize those Americans to do the same in their very own neighborhoods.
> Therefore, I think [it's] unfair for the generation who is still establishing themselves not to be held hostage to the previous generation's vision of society.

I think you have one more negation than you intended in that sentence.
That was so quick it was incredible. One hell of an accident and without that parachute the pilot would surely be dead.
There are a few bugs related to caching, but the main ones are:
The initial implementation of the underlying infrastructure: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192782
Initial C++ and Obj-C APIs: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193401
WIP bug to integrate the cache with WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194047
I agree with arguments #2 and #3

However, just as a thought experiment, wouldn't total surveillance actually help stop #1?

If there existed video proof of illegal bias, it could be targeted and stopped, vs now, where you just have to imagine that all groups are committing crimes at the same rate and police are only focusing on minorities.
The real freakout is that their government combines ruthless authoritarianism with suffocating surveillance technology, and they haven't even gotten started yet...
Better title: "WorldWarBot 2020: Spain Has Conquered the World"

I think it's better to submit a technical article about how this bot work. I tried looking in the site but I didn't find one. Any suggestions?
I have a feeling this is the 80/20 rule. It's fast now, because it doesn't actually do everything, it's a sample.

Once they actually implement that final 20%, they'll realize it's harder than it looks, i.e. it's slower than before.

Things like cache coherence, thread isolation, hard stuff like that.
A movie targeted at kids and teenagers needs to appeal to parents to do well. They're the ones paying, and often have to watch it themselves. My parents (apparently) refused to take me to the Care Bares movie because they knew it'd be terrible. They were perfectly happy to go see Toy Story.

The more modern superhero or cartoony 3D movies are often designed to appeal to a fairly broad audience.
Several of our neighbors have rooftop solar panels. The snow tends to slide off easily due to the slippery glass surface.
I wonder if this has a negative effect on the amount of fresh air that they get
I would assume it must simply remain warm enough, while being sloped enough and continuously bleeding enough heat to achieve the next step, to melt a lubricating layer of water from the contact ice and allow it to easily slide off.
> the idea of a "risk corridor" applies to an object in a decaying orbit. It will hit somewhere along the line of orbit

It also applies to asteroids, and is a standard concept used in these scenarios. See e.g. the materials from the exercise at this year's Planetary Defense Conference [1] (the story on LitHub is basically a variation on that scenario, which also features an asteroid splitting in two during the deflection attempt, a failure to use nukes, and a city destroyed by the impact: New York).

> objects that we find which could hit us get within range of our rockets only a finite number of times

There are more and less viable launch dates, clustered in launch windows, but the details vary depending on your vehicle and the orbit. JPL's NEO Deflection App [2] has several illustrative examples which you can play with, and which work pretty much as in the story.

[1] https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/pdc19/

[2] https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/nda/
This house was the subject of a Kirsten Dirksen video in 2015:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=30ghnDOFbNQ
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How much would something like that cost?
Patent rights exist because they benefit the public. A patent is a grant of a monopoly of an invention for a limited amount of time. After the patent expires, then the public is free to use the invention. I get what you're saying, but states typically operate on a different time-scale. So, long-term the public definitely benefits. They also benefit in the short term by having access to an invention -- in this case a pigment -- that didn't exist before.

The government gets an automatic license to that patent, so there is also that benefit that the government doesn't end up paying for the invention multiple times.

The counter argument to your question is: why should I work to invent something if I can't benefit from it?

I believe that the concept of the patent is a decent compromise between the two points of view. I don't think that the question of who does the initial funding is necessarily as important. And the Bayh-Dole act was specifically written as an effort to encourage more federally funded research to be made commercially available to the public. Before Bayh-Dole, this compound may have been academically interesting, been researched, published, but then left on the shelf for many years before someone found a commercial use for it. Now, trying to find a commercial use is actively encouraged (or required depending on which tech-transfer office you're talking to). The thinking behind this is that an invention that is available in the market (even patent-protected) is better than an invention that is sitting on the shelf in a lab. Eventually the patent protection runs out and the public gets an even better benefit.

But you're right that it's a trade-off.
>Is there a good way of finding out if a monitor, or even an entire color space, can contain this color?

You are describing the gamut. You can generally look up the gamut for any decent screen. Also, image editors have gamut warnings for going between colour-spaces.
Batteries can be swapped out and replaced by new ones charged on the ground.
Show HN: Matchimals.fun – I built and open-sourced a card game for kids
And yet he leaks the returns of their private fund every year...
Sure. It's not an essential distinction though, because subatomic physics is also simulable in BQP.
It can’t be worse than maintaining any other large greenhouse during the winter. You also have the latent heat from the house itself to keep the space warm throughout the night
Probably just ssh enabled with the default credentials. IIRC, raspberry pis have their own MAC address prefix, so it's pretty obvious when you find one.
Is Your Doctor Paid to Push Medication?
IMO "Citation needed" is a quick way to say "do you have a source for me?", and "fallacy" (hardly used without also mentioning the specific fallacy) is a quicker way to say "I recognized logic flaw X in your argument".

You are free to see harm in these statements but telling me they are always meant as harmful as you mentioned is your own negative reflection. Not mine or ours, we are free to have our own interpretation as well.
Greenhouses depend on at least some sunshine to stay warm, as mentioned in the article. If it's snowing, it isn't sunny, and if the snow piles up, then you have trouble. Around here, it's not unusual to get half a metre of snow overnight. The greenhouse these people built is made from glass and it's difficult to see it surviving a proper winter.

Another problem with this is humidity. I wonder how they deal with possible mould and dampness?
I agree it would be kind of a waste to throw away all of the tooling and innovations that has been made in JS ecosystem, just to start over because another language can be easily used due to WASM.

The list of languages is bigger that I would've thought: https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs

In terms of enterprise usage, I'm not seeing any mature polyfill implementations out there, but I did find https://github.com/lukewagner/polyfill-prototype-1.
Understanding Social Media and Conflict
You have to pay rent for antennas. That's directly correlated to local price levels.
> Firefox doesn't play much of a role in this fight. In fact, Firefox never did anything pro-actively to make ad-tech sweat. The decision by Mozilla to block all third-party cookies in 2013 [7] was reverted in fear of Ad-Tech.

This is the problem I have with Mozilla -- they claim to be defending the internet, but they clearly have no leverage or power to effect change because their market share is so small.

I can't name a single bad thing that Mozilla has prevented from happening to the internet in the past decade or so.

I also cannot think of a single good thing that happened only because of Mozilla's support. A lot of this do-not-track stuff, for example, was pushed by other browser vendors and would have happened whether Mozilla wanted it or not.
Chemistry never had good theoretical classical theory like physics had. Theories have been just rules of thumb or heuristics based on experiments.

Theoretically all chemistry is quantum physics with nucleons, electrons and photons (quantum chemistry). You need to numerically simulate what happens in reactions and it's very expensive.
That's worse than weird, that's downright dangerous. There are no sidewalks on that street, and cars travel at 55-75 mph on it. There's also no way to get from the street to the station; the overhead bridge is the only way.

That's pretty shocking, that station has been there for three years.
I'm not sure too many people could write a test suite for LOOP in his spare time. Never mind the rest of the trickier parts of the language such as MOP, CLOS, packages, conditions, restarts, etc. etc.
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I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted about other topics in a way that fits the site guidelines. But if you abuse HN for political flamewar again, we will have to.

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>I wonder if burnout isn't the result of your brain associating work with failure

Failure is definitely not a requirement. I was very successful in my last career. I was working 60 hours at the bare minimum with non-stressful things in stressful deadlines. I was akin to a supervisor with a great team in my corner. Performance at my level and below was never an issue, and every single one of my juniors was 100% dependable.

Management above me - in spite of one director who kicked ass at everything - and the culture in general sucked. I was tired of excelling at a place where no one valued my contributions. Not in a, "give me money and awards" way, but in a "can you not treat your most valuable employees like complete dirt?"
As someone with a similar background, I find the cost argument idealistic: I can fly a 172 for 100 EURO/hour ($110) any time, while a smaller plane (Cessna 152 or an LSA) are about the same price, even if the LSA fuel consumption is half or less. I am looking at options to fly cheaper for a decade, there is very little elasticity in the price per hour versus fuel price, especially in Europe; the market is not competitive enough, the offer is small, the demand is small, the prices are staying high no matter what.
Electric trainers should be a dream - cheap and safe; but they are not :(
It’ll be interesting to find out how it works these fake news piece about Firefox that’s always there. I switched to Firefox few years back and if there’s something very noticeable about it currently (other than slickness) it’s how performant it has become, even with 10s of tabs open.
I start a new page each new day if I was in the middle of the previous page, and I write the date at the top of each new page. Other than that it’s essentially stream of conscious and that tends to work well for me
Kudos to Tadeu Zagallo and the JSC team for landing this awesome patch!

I've worked on WebKit memory performance in the past, so I'm well aware that these aren't low hanging fruits we're talking about. The type safety bonus features look great too. :)
No reason a ventilation fan can't be installed - that's standard on modern air-conditioned and insulated houses (a "whole-house fan") precisely in order to rotate the air.
>and likely would not be observed until it was already on its way here.

That's my whole point: if we were more serious about this, we'd have orbital observation platforms looking for all these objects and keeping track of them all, so that we aren't surprised by anything short of another asteroid from totally outside the solar system like that one a couple years ago.
The closest thing you are asking for is https://projecteuler.net/. This isn't purely math and currently there isn't a good way for sites to analyze your proofs which is most of math. You could do previous Putnam problems or something similar and just manually check your solutions if you just want hard undergrad lvl problems, otherwise it's best to just get a textbook.
In normal business you don't have a monopoly. If you're expensive you will receive competition eventually
Lua is a far better counter-example as a successful small and (conceptually) beautiful language.
C++ is only slightly larger than any other language if you subtract the standard libraries that make a language useful. If you add standard libraries C++ is a tiny language.

C++ does have a lot of weird, inconsistent warts that make it tricky to learn/use everything. Which is why most people who advocate to use C++ talk about modern C++ which is C++ where you stay away from those warts.
I wonder how much fresh air they get from all the plants pumping oxygen out?
This isn't monopoly... No railroads for sale, no utilities, no 3 property color groups, luxury tax, money, community chest, and I'm sure I'm missing a few other things.

This is monopoly jr jr
yeah, when I wrote my comment, I intentionally left out the parents because in many cases, parents are forced to go to cinemas because they need to accompany their kids.
The have a furnace and no roof, so I would assume worst case they blast the heat and melt some of the snow so it slides off.

Humidity - the greenhouse opens up so they can easily let out excess moisture.
Are super capacitors lighter and a better choice for the self-launching use case?

I have no idea, hence asking and wanting to know :-)
He claimed to have spent 80K euros on it 10 years ago. No idea what prices would be in the States. But I'm guessing that 80K figure is for the glass alone.
This hyperbolic introduction is like saying Ford sells the most expensive tires on the planet.
Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to Sidelines
As someone who tried to develop a tool to help pause their box to improve focus throughout the day, I got bit by this process as well.

Basically google just went dark on me altogether. Has been months since their last reply and I kept trying to follow up. The feature I needed elevated permissions on was the ability to add filters, which unfortunately is buried with a bunch of other more dangerous permissions.

Looks like I’ll never get to launch the product :(

On the plus side, it works fine for just me! So, I just built a tool only I can use.
It may depend on the definition of red, but that doesn't sound true at all. Cadmium red, lead tetroxide, cinnabar, all in use for a hundred+ to even thousands of years.

I think where that comes from is that there isn't really an inorganic red that is all of stable, durable, non-toxic, and only then even then good looking.

If I remember correctly, once Mas Subramanian sort of stumbled into "I guess I can try to make pigments with these compounds" he's tried making other colors, but sort of the big prize is in finding a good red with properties similar to YInMn.
The article quoted someone saying "OUCH. So, basically, people have been depending on C undefined behavior for ages..."

This doesn't actually have to do with c undefined behavior at all right? I think I get what is happening but that comment is throwing me off.
Amazon and other FAANGs recruit globally and get the cream of the crop of STEM graduates. Do they really need to build a tech school to train future employees?
Well, it's being used by Facebook and Slack at least...
It's a 10 year old house so it has survived a few winters already...in Sweden.
Let me know when they figure out how to build a Windows client that doesn't run an entire CPU core at 100% all day long.
See also also also also also Saccharin

See also also also also also also Viagra

See also also also also also also also Post-It notes (specifically, the adhesive they use)
I think one possibility is if you're one of the gifted you tend to skyrocket during the first half of your career.

But if everything came easy to you from the start you missed out on working through tough problems. You didn't develop the tenacity to push through. So by time you do start seeing the harder problems you start failing and the failures hit you harder. Without the skill to keep pushing yourself through failure you just kinda give up sooner.