skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to beat this one:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-5871773...
Homicide on Skyline Boulevard: Man Killed in Peninsula Hills
The actual quote from IPCC text about hundreds of millions people affected is:

"Liu et al. (2018) studied the changes in population exposure to severe
droughts in 27 regions around the globe for 1.5°C and 2°C of warming
using the SSP1 population scenario compared to the baseline period
of 1986–2005 based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI).
They concluded that the drought exposure of urban populations in
most regions would be decreased at 1.5°C (350.2 ± 158.8 million
people) compared to 2°C (410.7 ± 213.5 million people)."

So it says: in case of 1.5 deg 350 million, in case of 2 deg 410 million. So it doesn't support your "Watts" quote of:

"Only 350 million more urban dwellers will be exposed to severe drought"

It's just a clear and inaccurate distortion of the original text, so distorted that it's wrong.

And we also know why it's so wrong and distorted: because these "commenters" just want to confuse people and muddy the waters, they aren't interested in the truth or accurately discussing the actual scientific work.
We've been having good luck seeking out manufactures and buying directly from them instead of using amazon. It's often cheaper.
You should check out LeanPub. They support a variety of formats, and do some really nice things if you want to self-publish.
How are they going to build houses for 50k apiece? You'd be hard-pressed to throw up a trailer park that cheaply.
How were they allowed to rezone their land to residential ? Are they getting preferential treatment?
Bill Gates Predicts the Future
> A ban would legitimize its utility to people skeptical of central banking

i.e. a tiny irrelevant niche. I don't think banning bitcoin is a good idea, but a ban would be highly effective because nobody cares enough to risk fines or jail time over something they have no use for anyway.
Personal attacks and flamewar will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN.
I think No Starch Press accepts LaTeX markup. There is a nostarch package on CTAN.
https://ctan.org/pkg/nostarch?lang=en
Tony's Purification Systems and Electronics
I believe that, without anyone to implement the system, it would have made zero dollars.
So we are turning the CO2 back into (expensive) fuel, which can be burnt again and the CO2 released? But you're in luck, thanks to global warming the thawing permafrost and the warming oceans will release large quantities of methane (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions), which is an excellent fuel, and a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, so burning it would actually be good for the climate. Good luck with capturing it, however...
> ...it would be a lot cheaper to create a highly effective transportation system then spending 1.5 million dollars per lot!

wait. why would that be? looking back at cost overruns on transportation projects from LA's metro red line to the Bay Bridge rebuild to California's high speed railway, i don't feel confident at all that an effective transportation system would be a lot cheaper. that has to come out of government budgets and go to government employees and union scale labor. that's expensive. and it might require new taxes. IDK -- are you talking about a bus line on a two lane road or something?
If there isn't someone should write it.
Not that I want to pile on, but I didn't make it past 100 pages. It's badly written, and I don't want to waste my time when I could be reading something else.
The problem is the weather sucks everywhere else.

Only if you've never been anywhere else.

San Diego is the paragon of lovely weather in California, not the Bay Area.

SF is enshrined in a song made famous by Sinatra with the line, "She hates California/It's cold and it's damp."
Fret not, most of the soy vermins from this site woulnd't catch sarcasm even if it hits them on the face.
It reminds me of the market for rubber. It's such an essential resource that's being threatened by mold, climate change, and more profitable crops, yet prices don't seem to reflect reality.
I kinda figured we'd find a cure for cancer so that we could survive the cancer-causing air-particulate matter from hot climate change.
Well no, it's not like the map is the only thing used.
People want to be ever more comfortable. Bigger houses. Faster cars. Newer phones.

We've known this was coming since someone wrote a story about Adam and Eve over-consuming.
True, although if you consider each entity distinct there are 512 combinations and the one split along partisan lines is probably vastly overrepresented among other 5-4 possibilities.
So this thing is probably not going anywhere fast, in order to be useful, it needs to go beyond America. Every country will be scare of this possibility becoming a currency they have no control over. I’m not even sure if America will allow this to even take off without severe regulations that crippled the development
Hello, I'm the main developer of Sketch.sh and there seems to be a problem with the authentication server right now. I'm working on resolving it.
Maybe my cynicism is getting the better of me, but how is this better than a page with all the days of the year printed on it, hanging from the wall, with a highlighter hanging from a string next to it?

Or you could go all Seinfeld and get a "big wall calendar" and a "big red magic marker". https://lifehacker.com/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-2...
tech companies didn't block housing
The last global financial crisis was created by the world's largest Central Bank. It had absolutely nothing to do with the free market when the largest banks were dealing with government-guaranteed securities and were speculating on a government created bubble.

In a free market, all those who poured billions into the bubble would have gone bankrupt and all of their real assets would have been sold off in bankruptcy proceedings to responsible players who are less likely to over leverage themselves and exacerbate the speculatory frenzy in the next bubble.

The only reason the market hasn't solved the housing problem is government interventions like rent control. In places without these interventions and with strong enforcement of private property and contract rights, the market does an absolutely excellent job of providing housing.

The effects of rent control have been observed for a hundred years. In city after city rent control has been observed to cause more harm than good for the population at large.
Yes this is a partnership with Aiven.

Aiven Postgres supports the open-source version of TimescaleDB.

But Timescale Cloud is the only hosted service where you can get the full TimescaleDB experience, which includes our community and enterprise features (eg interpolation, data retention policies, continuous aggregates, data reordering, etc). [1]

It also includes special machines types and plans more suited for time-series data that we co-developed with Aiven.

It is also the only hosted service directly staffed by the TimescaleDB development team.

[1] https://www.timescale.com/products
The problem with QE is you will have QEn. Everyone will do QE on their economies. We don't have any accountability. During the 2008 crisis, we were told this is the right thing to do. And we keep doing it.

We're not at the stage where half of the society is unemployed and hoarding gold. We're at the stage where everyone is doing QE on their economies.

Having full employment for the sake of full employment is dumb. That's the same as communism.
> "My" six-line shell script isn't on production. It's something I wrote to rearrange my mp3 collection, or whatever. Then I deleted it.

Which is fine unless it deletes your mp3s, or dumps them all in the same folder, or something. A script inherently has the potential to do a lot of damage, because it can take a lot of actions very quickly. So it's worth being safe even if that means being a little slower.

> But whipping out the Rust because I want a shell script to increase the brightness of my screen through the /proc file system is massive overkill. I can write the thing in the amount of time it takes you to compile the Rust, and I'm not particularly trying to make fun of Rust here...

If your point is that a REPL or shell is a worthwhile feature then I agree with that. But you can have that in a safe language too.
I look forward to reviewing your platform.

A minute ago, I visited the site, but was distracted by the logo. It looks a lot like webpack's logo (https://webpack.js.org/) so I went to see if you two are connected. Looks like you're not.

I'll have to check back later. Good luck.
Pro tip: whatever weird story there may be behind the mascot, you want to buy Italian pasta, not French pasta.
Simpler (for users) would be using OAuth 2.0 and APIs with proper permissions. Users shouldn't need two sets of credentials.
My understanding is that FF Quantum works just fine even on as little as 1GB RAM. (In fact you can make it usable on as little as 512MB, but only with some swap usage.) Chrome/Chromium is a lot more RAM-hungry in my experience.
In this sense, (and what I believe to be the sense of the original quote) I mean a person who wants to see societal change.

The examples you've provided actually give a pretty good picture of it. A person who was liberal 20 years ago would look at what you've described and wonder what the heck happened. They might also look at the current topics of social reform and probably not recognize themselves in them.

Essentially, anyone who has a teleological view of history tends to get burned within their own lifetime as the world inevitably moves past them. You get "assigned" a set of topics and social struggles from the environment and historical you grow up in. Since the next generations grow up in a different soup, they don't follow the same lines of thought. The person who scoffs at their grandpa for being lukewarm about same-sex marriage becomes the grandpa lukewarm at their grandson's simulated AI life-partner.

>you can only pick from choices presented to you, and even there tribalism of the masses beats any individual choice.

Going off on a tangent here. You are part of the masses. You are not in traffic, you ARE the traffic.
Sidewalk Labs delivers master plan for Toronto smart-city project
People who own and live in their home in Berlin aren't affected by a rent freeze though. It is only renters, who by definition do not own where they live.
Yup, this definitely feels like Company Town 2.0. A gentler version, but still mostly favoring the Company. Might not be bad for the area though.
Sure markets can be affected by private actors, but I still think "broken" isn't a helpful way to think about market conditions. High and low prices are examples of the market working exactly as needed by signaling that there is un-met demand (high prices) or mis-allocated resources (low prices).
One main difference in these sorts of arrangements is vertically-integrated support.

If your Aiven database is having Timescale architecture problems, your support contact is someone working for Aiven who would need to turn around and reach out to Timescale about the bug (or suggest that you do so.)

If your Timescale Cloud database is having Timescale architecture problems, your support contact is someone working at Timescale who can just call over the guy who wrote the code with the bug in it.

(On the other hand, if your problem is with the Aiven backing cluster, it'll presumbly take slightly longer for Timescale Cloud to resolve, given that they'd have to bounce that forward.)
> SF doesn't want to allow taller buildings and denser housing complexes.

Pretty much. When I lived in SF I received fliers in the mail urging residents to oppose new apartment construction literally on the basis that it was too tall.

If you want to see how difficult it is to build there, check out this story[1] of a laundromat owner who spent almost 5 years and $1.4 million attempting to convert to an apartment building.

This is even though it was already zoned for housing, didn't have any units above it (wouldn't displace anyone) and eligible for streamlined approval since it was close to public transit. And yet...

1. https://youtu.be/ExgxwKnH8y4?t=90
I see this more as a "smart" client, where you can push routing, load balancing, retry policy, etc. out to the clients instead of enforcing those at your infrastructure edge… which seems great for controlled clients, but not-feasible for public facing use-cases:

* routing rules potentially sensitive architectural
information and expose many different nodes to the
public internet
* a mobile client doesn't generate enough "load" that the
typical use case for load balancing would be used for
* retry & timeout policies seem useful

However, I'm a curmudgeon that doesn't see a huge benefit to a service mesh over a traditional load balancer in the vast majority of applications. Load balancers can offer a lot of the same functionality at scale (thousands of requests per second) and abstract these ideas away from the client, which has more benefit, in my opinion.

I have used smart clients in the past to interface with, what is now being called, a service mesh. For low latency operations that could possibly hit one of thousands of hosts, it worked well… until network fabric changed and hosts were no longer directly accessible. Then operations became increasingly difficult since you had to be on the appropriate network to communicate.
I often think about what would happen if all cobol programmers went on strike
> If a user has an event at 2pm six months from now, they almost certainly want that event to be at 2pm no matter what the UTC offset happens to be on that day

Not necessarily. If the event is a long distance meeting that span multiple timezones, then by definition, the event isn't going to be at 2pm for all consumers of that data.

Location is kind of a proxy for timezone, but it makes more sense to just let the client's OS figure the offset from UTC time than to manually manage timezones in the server yourself.

Similarly, you let the client tell the server what timestamp "2pm two weeks from now" is (letting it consult its OS' timezone database to figure out what that means for the user's chosen geographic location), rather than trying to naively add up the seconds from now to then in the server.

Saving the user's location in your DB to compute offsets on the server is problematic because you can't always get geographic data from the client (e.g. browsers will readily make timezone available to Javascript, but geolocation data might be unobtainable due to permissions/privacy concerns/etc). Also, users may move/travel, so getting geo data from side channels such as sign up forms also could lead to discrepancies.
Visa is a player and doesn't represent the financial system at large. They're doing this because they realize it's existential that they do.

Look at what regulators will say in the coming days. Europe is already saying under no circumstances will they allow a sovereign currency to operate unabated.

The US Federal Reserve is a major source of American power. It's "rumored" the US has invaded countries before for threatening to price oil in alternate currencies. You think they're going to accept this affront to their global hegemony laying down?
I hate all the criticism Rothfuss gets. He's had a version done for ages, but in his words it was “a book you would not have liked, because it was just discernibly bad.” He's spoken at length about the challenges and I find it hard to hold it against him. I'm sad Doors of Stone isn't out, sure, but he doesn't deserve any criticism.
> take a day off, go to interviews and get a job.

but you can go pretty far in a day. for example, a one day round trip from LA to San Jose, including time for a full work day, is within reach. people do that routinely.
You could download the 64-bit Linux build [0] and use it until a new Ubuntu package is available.

[0]: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=...
As opposed to your PoV, which lets people off the hook for their offenses in order to maintain the pretense of pleasantry? Right.
Alge based fuels do exactly this.

The problem isn't technology, the technology for genetically modifying alge or bacteria to consume CO2 and produce oil has been around for quite some time.

The problem is our powerstructures and our economic investments. It takes tremendous energy to move such a massive Goliath of a ship.

Our economy which brought us prosperity simply cannot move quickly enough to prevent our demise. Ironic and perhaps poetic really
Interesting looks like there is a specific permitting process for Employee Housing Programs (http://www.hcd.ca.gov/building-standards/employee-housing/in...). I hope that any zoning decisions are made with a written declaration of intent to / not to apply for such a permit.
OSI Protocols
I bet it has something to do with the CIA network operations blacksite takedown there.
Here it is as a service that will just send you a signed SAML assertion for any username given.

IdP URL: https://rkeene.dev/saml-idp-1/

Metadata: https://rkeene.dev/saml-idp-1/metadata.xml
Interesting stuff, thanks.

But my understanding is that other jets have a similar pitch up characteristics and no one considers them to be fundamentally flawed. That the 737 MAX design creates a new problem vs the 737-NG does not necessarily mean it's fundamentally flawed.

I'd only consider it a fundamental flaw if MCAS can't actually be designed to compensate for the problem. An unsolvable problem due to bad design = fundamental flaw.

Otherwise having to stick a windshield on the front of an airplane could be considered a fundamental flaw. But it's not considered one because of very strong laminated materials compensating for the the problem. And yet it's still a huge potential risk. Windshields have cracked, broken, clouded up, etc.
We did understand a 100 years ago. Graham Bell was one of those who warned us.
You're citing a paper using, as an example, an already highly hand optimized and performance-guided optimized binary.

That's what you get after you profile and optimize.
>However, it doesn't account for anthropogenic changes in CO2 output, albedo changes as ice masses melt, and of course cow farts.

The latter is probably for the best, as is one of the most tedious and long fetched pro anthropogenic climate change argument (and at best a tiny contribution). We could talk about the meat industry in toto instead which is 10x worse than cow flatulence.
It's a false scarcity that's annoying to the customer. Unlocking the extra capacity costs the vendor nothing. The consumer has paid enough money to have access to that storage without hurting the vendor, but the vendor refuses to grant access to that storage capacity.

If I had purchased such a product it would leave a sour taste in my mouth. The next time I needed such a piece of equipment I would try to find an alternative source.

Here's an analogy. If I'd purchased a box lunch of a juice box, sandwich and chips, but surprisingly they also included a cookie that is in a special package which will only unlock if I pay another $1 I would be upset. Of course, I could just throw the cookie away, package and all. I may not want the cookie anyway. But that's so wasteful! The vendor can afford to include the cookie at the price I already paid, but is solely using that cookie as a way to extract more money from me. It's wasteful.
I think this may be true beneath a certain salary amount, but it's relatively low for software.
I've got a pc-engines apu2c4. It's a great little x86_64 PC with 3 Intel NICs. I used to use it as my primary router, and today I'm using it as a development platform for a custom router OS based on Fedora.

There's also the espressobin, which is an AArch64 board with 2 NICs, one attached to a Topaz switch. The espressobin has mainline Linux support, which is awesome.
That is real money!

So after Patreon take off their 8% that is $250K per year.

Then the views from the videos. Becoming a millionaire from a video channel that is just about yourself is ridiculous.

Anyway, I won't be subscribing. I prefer stock English rather than spoken with 'upspeak'. Someone just talking about themselves with every sentence ending with 'upspeak' makes me find something better to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
Everything is a class object in Common Lisp.

[1]> (class-of (cons 1 2))
#<BUILT-IN-CLASS CONS>
[2]> (class-of #\x)
#<BUILT-IN-CLASS CHARACTER>
[3]> (class-of nil)
#<BUILT-IN-CLASS NULL>
[4]> (class-of (function mapcar))
#<BUILT-IN-CLASS FUNCTION>
Sextech Company Sues NYC's Subway for Discriminatory Ad Censorship
If enough people choose to use Libra, it can eventually become a de facto (or even the only) payment method.

Facebook is us: 2.4B users willingly give Zuck the power to make potentially high impact decisions like this.
This seems like a problem that is naturally solved by market forces, supply and demand. If some job is sufficiently valued in a city, then businesses and government will pay whatever wage is necessary to hire people to perform that job.

If people who are doing some job cannot afford to live in a city, then they will move away or find a different job. This will cause a shortage of people performing the job.

If there is a shortage of people doing the job, and the results of that job are sufficiently valued, then employers will be forced to raise wages until they can attract the number of employees required.

For example, if a city has a shortage of police offers, then they can solve that shortage by paying police officers a higher wage. If the city cannot recruit police without a higher wage, then the city will need to allocate more funds to police compensation so that they can pay a higher wage. If the city doesn't have the funds, then they may need to take the issue to the voters, who can approve some form of appropriation like a new tax to pay for it.

Alternatively, perhaps the voters will not approve a tax, and the city will not pay a higher wage for police, and there will be a police shortage. That's the voters' decision. The city will experience the consequence of the police shortage, whatever that may be. Later, the voters may change their mind and decide to approve the tax.

My point is that the fact of there being a labor shortage will cause a correction naturally via market forces.
> 1. The world could use an online independent currency

Could it? Why? Independent from who? Because watching the disasters and scams that go on in cryptocurrencies because they don’t have any regulatory oversight, doesn’t make me inclined to think an “independent” currency will be any better. Anyways, it’s not even independent, it’s controlled by a conglomerate of tech and finance companies and lorded over by Facebook, it’s about as un-independent as you can get.

> 2. Adding stability to blockchain currencies and having that work on a large scale is a good thing

Because as we all know, adding yet another currency to the mix has functioned to stabilise things previously. Except now this time it’s run by corporations and lacks anything about what made crypto currencies interesting or worthwhile in the first place.

> 3. Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or control facebook derives isn't done through force, it's by making a coin better than all the other coins. Other people are still free to make their competing coins.

In theory, yes; in reality, no. Humans are not creatures of perfect rationality that balance up all their options and make informed, ideal decisions at every point. The crypto currency market has been the perfect example of this: huge fluctuations due to hype and pump-and-dump schemes. Coins unequivocally do not succeed on their technical or theoretical merit. Moreover, all things being equal, I think a crypto currency backed by Facebook is something that should be avoided with a 10 foot pole.