skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because enough people will believe it when they see an asteroid looming towards them on CNN, Fox, whatever. There are plenty of people that deny climate change because it's convenient, either politically or economically. There are considerably fewer people that think the moon landing was faked, or the earth is flat, or pluto and mars and jupiter are actually jewels hanging from threads in a crystal sphere.

An asteroid is a sufficiently "concrete" science that the average person would believe if they see it. You can't "see" climate change, which is part of the issue.
That's irrelevant. People who want to use Bitcoin to evade SWIFT sanctions don't need to do thousands transactions, they only need to do one.
Because legalizing sex work has empirically not reduced the amount of sex trafficking / nonconsensual sex work that occurs. That’s what happened in Amsterdam and why they reduced the size of their brothel economy.
From Pseudo-Events to Pseudo-Realities [video]
Ask HN: How to import passwords from Safari to Firefox macOS?
Google came up with nothing. Is this possible? Firefox is working way better for me these days but I'm so enmeshed with apples eco system. Any way to import (or better yet sync) passwords from safari to other browsers?
"For weeks afterward, his mother struggled to get him to eat or sleep and exchanged text messages with his foster mother, who offered advice on how he liked to be cuddled and fed."

He seems to be developmentally delayed. He is late to walk on his own and late to speak.

What happened in this case was state-inflicted child abuse.
Also remember all of the nuclear plants bleed cash and now require direct subsidy to operate. New York has lots of challenges ahead as the environmentalists hate gas and the NIMBY types and farmers hate solar/wind.
Starbucks probably paint and lettering on coffee cups. GM, circuit boards.

https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml
Banks to include CO2 cuts in shipping loan decisions
> supply of XRP far outpaces demand for consumptive use.

This is a laughably meaningless statement in the context of a cryptocurrency. For which currency could someone possibly say that the supply does not outpace demand? What would that even mean? The precise amounts of supply or demand are irrelevant since the market will naturally find an equilibrium at wherever the current market price is.
It has been 80 years since we built new lines?

We could definitely use more. Extending the 7 to NJ would also be great. We jam all those buses through the Lincoln Tunnel every weekday.

Found this on Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_expansion_of_the_Ne...
That's useful to know, thanks! Although not good news for it ever seeing the light of day.
Anything controlled by Facebook is suspect by definition.
It's a political stunt. They put the deadline far enough in the future that they don't actually have to do anything.
That’s not free parking! Those are bike lanes pending barrier construction! :)
I often hear about the LY unit of distance. Why is it that we are still discovering things which are close to us in LY units? Wouldn’t we discover things at a distance of 5xLY before discovering things at a distance of 100xLY?
> Not even the tax can do it, because polluters will migrate.

High tariffs on countries not following suit will take care of that. Try the carrot first but if they don't want to contribute then use the stick.
I'm so bummed about this. I discovered (and inhaled) the first book over the weekend, couldn't put it down. Looked the author up, and I was so conflicted because I liked the book as much as I dislike what I read about the author. I hope he figures out a way to sort things out. I'm actually very conflicted about starting the second book after reading about him.
I'm pretty sure that was just a joke
I agree with your point. I think Libra is likely to have more users than Bitcoin not long after it goes live. Libra will be easier to use than a credit card, let alone Bitcoin.

I can't find the citation, but I think Paul Graham said, make it easier to use and cheaper than the incumbents and you'll have a good chance of succeeding.
NTHU research team introduces smart garbage can in Hsinchu
I was recently considering learning the SAS data stack and decided against it for exactly this reason. However, I’m not completely convinced it was the right choice. Does anyone else have experience that could shed light on this situation?
DoD actually didn't run on the Model 100/200 series, which was purely a writing machine. You're probably thinking of the TRS-80 Color Computer 2, aka the CoCo 2 or Trash-80. Dungeons of Daggorath was (in my opinion) the best game for the CoCo 2 and one of the earliest dungeon crawler games.
The pilot can switch off the ADS-B transponder, so assuming that MH370 was intentional (which seems to be the best explanation), no, this could still happen.
The sun is 99.9% of the mass in the solar system. Most of the rest of the mass is in Jupiter.

If you are ultimately bounded by energy requirements then solar is where most of the available energy is even if you literally cannibalize the gas giants.
Cuttlefish Arms Are Not So Different from Yours
Apple Lidar Patent
Uh... maybe try google.
Do Teslas on autopilot kill more people than regular cars? Murder machines seems a bit hyperbole, no?

Disclaimer: Written from my Model S at a Supercharger, having driven over 10k miles on autopilot/navigate on autopilot in the last 6 months
If the article is correct, that's a 10% move (60% to 70%) from fossil to green over a 10-year period. That's hardly a breakneck speed (though NY managed only 8% between 1990 and 2015).

Nonetheless, demanding that all carbon producers get serious is a no-BS approach. Too bad that the cost of doing nothing had to become so obvious.
This twitter account is tweeting Apollo missions as they happened in real time, 50 years ago:

https://twitter.com/apollo_50th
It was definitely a pleasure to read, and brought back memories of when I had a Model 100, though I was a child in the 80s and never used it for anything serious. I did learn a bit of BASIC programming on it, which I expanded upon with the TRS-80 CoCo 2 that replaced my 100 later in that decade, though to be honest I mostly played games on the latter machine.
It makes perfect sense in terms of a PR Win-Win situation: Facebook gets the "crypto currency" credibility, Coinbase gets more PR (and more crypto buyers) in general.
Its quite telling that the promo video only shows people from countries with a substantial unbanked population. I do think that getting these people banked is safer and more secure for them (mitigates risk of being robbed) and enables a more vibrant economy (more lending because of deposits), but why should Facebook be the entity behind this?

I am a cautiously optimistic person, but this is giving me the jeepers. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it doesn't feel right.
>All life on Earth is made of molecules that twist in the same direction

That is...not true, or at least a little misleading. Each class of molecule in earth life twists the same way as other members of that class but not all classes twist the same. For example, nucleotides twist right/D, while amino acids twist left/L.
That will only push prices even higher. The cost will be pushed to the consumer, like every tax.
Is it safe to say that using named keyword arguments mitigates this issue?
See also; this twitter account is tweeting Apollo missions as they happened in real time, 50 years ago:

https://twitter.com/apollo_50th
OK, if they didn't hear him talk they might not have picked up the "asshole" vibe, although they might have made some assumptions in that vein about any BTC millionaire. Any testimony about his actions or public statements would have transmitted the "weird" vibe loud and clear.
I can read it just fine and English isn't my first language.
The vendor is not only requiring you to pay for the physical goods you already have, but your payment is subsidizing the waste of the other consumers not purchasing the option. I pay for mine, and I pay for their unused resources. Most artificial tiering in unethical.
Just dropping this in, Amazon is about to purchase Sizmek which is a major player in online advertising - the main competitor to G's Doubleclick advertiser solutions.

So they'll get even more data on the marketing side.
This may yet happen. Over the "pedophile" tweet: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48238576

It's about time he lost his shirt over that, you can't have people throw around accusations of that sort.
A key factor to consider: Libra has intrinsic value but Bitcoin doesn't.

From libra.org: "Libra is fully backed by a reserve of real assets. A basket of currencies and assets will be held in the Libra Reserve for every Libra that is created, building trust in its intrinsic value."

Fixed supply is a fatal design flaw of Bitcoin which leads to it not likely having any intrinsic value ever. Let me explain:

1. Fiat money's intrinsic value: A homeowner who borrows against their home is guaranteed to get full control of the home when they deliver the amount they owe, which is denominated in fiat. It is a powerful incentive to exchange goods and services for fiat. Even for participants who don't owe fiat, knowing that the fiat is intrinsically valuable to debtors means that it can be used to purchase goods and services from them.

2. There is no such incentive behind Bitcoin. Negligible amount of debt is denominated in Bitcoin. If Bitcoin value falls towards zero, there’s no real-economy backed mechanism to bring it back. There is no contractual guarantee that spending X amount of Bitcoins can entitle the purchaser to receive Y amount of services.

3. Bitcoin will likely never be a debt instrument. Bitcoin has a fixed supply, and the design goal of this is for Bitcoin to be deflationary. If there’s an equilibrium interest rate in Bitcoin, that rate is highly likely to be negative and more than the cost of owning Bitcoin. This removes incentives for Bitcoin holders to lend out the currency, consequently there will be no debt, and no contract that allows debtors to receive real goods by delivering Bitcoins.

This argument applies to most non-stable cryptocurrencies. From this reasoning alone, I see Libra has a much higher chance to succeed than its crypto peers.
We used the TRS-80 Model 100 at work to write software for Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). PLCs were fairly new at the time, and when coupled with the TRS-80 in the field, many minds were blown.
I'm American and if someone offered me "a steak dinner" I would expect to be taken to a steakhouse, where steak was pretty much the only item on the menu.
Let’s start with employee plans can allocate several hundred dollars pre-tax to parking but very limited amounts to subway and train.

You can also argue that huge amounts of free street parking are subsidies, but limited areas to chain bikes.

There is more, but those are the obvious ones to me.
Marvellous. Is the ball actually starting to roll?

Oh, wait, it's a plan to form a committee that issues recommendations of how to do it in two years. Erm. So more aspiration than plan then.

Still, the broad aim is roughly in line with what the nations who've committed recently have signed up to, with actual plans. Different dates for net zero: Finland(2035), Ireland(2050), Norway(2030).

Oh and the UK(2050) who did so comically badly via soundbite only from Theresa but then immediately disagreed with what the committee on climate change plan had recommended, and the Chancellor who essentially said was too expensive to bother fixing anyway.

Where's the follow up to the UN Paris Climate Summit? London, 2020. Bloody typical.
Not saying it is a horn (I acknowledge this in the first sentence), just saying that maybe us adapting to our bad posture is not a good thing.
> You can be sure that if a language brings a testing framework -- even minimal -- in its standard library, the ecosystem around it will have better tests than a language that doesn't carry a testing framework, no matter how good the external testing frameworks for the language are.

D not only has it as a library, it's a core feature of the language. As incongruous as it sounds, builtin unittests have been utterly transformative to how D code is written. Built in documentation generation has had the same effect.
Transmission Failure Causes Nationwide Blackout in Argentina
Or an aging population.

When I was in college some of the profs offered extra credit if you wanted to go bag sand for major flooding about an hour away (a nice way to let people go home and help their family and friends).

Strong backs and enthusiasm are good for augmenting the experts in a disaster recovery situation.
I find it much more satisfying to emulate the very lowest levels of hardware/software.

Then the fact that very complex software, such as an unaltered app, runs as it was intended to, on top of your emulator is verification that your emulation is indeed correct.

Emulating an app is trivial compared with emulating the underlying structures. Actually, emulating an app is just doing a 'clean-room' rewrite.
The problem with cities is that they have really bad failure modes. Consider Baltimore. The city has been run by a single political party for decades, and run right into the ground. Notice the trend in these population stats:

https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/baltimore-maryland

This is a city right next to DC, in an essentially recession proof area with lots of jobs.

I've known a number of people who were big proponents of living in cities until either (a) they were robbed, or (b) they had kids and realized there was no decent school there, and (c) they had no chance of impacting the government in any way to affect change. They all ended up moving to the burbs.
San Francisco has moved to ban e-cigarettes
Airbus is ready for pilotless jets – are you?
Having been to community meetings where those bike lanes are proposed, I can assure you it's nowhere near as easy as you make it sound.
Surprisingly couldn't find anything on the big g. Thanks though
Murder machines describes all cars, not just your precious Tesla.
> mitigates risk of being robbed

This is very unlikely, in places with social unrest people get forced to go to bank withdraw cash, or even as far as sale goods to make the cash for gangster, making it digital will make zero difference.

> more lending because of deposits

Lending by who? what deposits? lending most of all depends on risk which requires a stable society and some resemblance of an economic system and policy.
>What if the alternative is to not offer the cheaper product at all.

The alternative that's been around for centuries is called "having a sale".

Say, you make 1000 units of something. Each unit costs X to make. You need to make Y profit per unit to sustain your business.

The bad news is, not everyone wants to pay X+Y. The good news: some are willing to pay more. The supply-demand curve thing.

So what you can do is: sell 500 units at X+2Y. Then have limited-time sales throughout <time period> at X+0.1Y.

This way, you never lose money on a sale, and you make the money you wanted to make. The customers that want your product here and now* pay for that premium. The customers that need your product will pay up as well, as sales aren't a guaranteed thing. And the rest will wait.

With smart hardware, someone had a genius idea: have the same breakdown in prices, but also cripple the products you sell at a lower price. Make your money faster by selling at both price points simultaneously.

Nothing* wrong with trying to do that (from the seller's side).

Nothing wrong with being disgusted with the wasteful practice it and calling it out (from the customer's side).

* aside from the waste aspect, repair aspect, customer hostility, artificially high margins probably being result of a monopoly/lock-in/supplier scarcity, and a plethora of other things.
In fact it's cold as hell.

And there's no one there to raise them if you did.
My first post college apartment in the Chicago burbs was awful. Paper thin walls/floors/ceilings. My neighbor below me would file noise complainta against me for watching TV at a volume at which I could barely make out dialog. And, I heard every footstep of the unit above and TV of the neighbors above and below. I dont think anyone was intentionally being loud, was just shoddy construction.

I moved out after my first lease expired.
> You can create the new functions and mark the current one as deprecated, either by documentation or by some code feature.

Another D feature that is so simple in concept but miraculous in its effects - a "deprecated" attribute that can be applied to declarations. It enables plenty of warning given to users before it is removed.
Scooters are limited to 15mph typically.
Not single employer in general, single employer in a person's field. That's not an unreasonable concern when a person's field is tech related, and we're talking about less populated areas.
I've read many articles along these lines, and I'm gonna say they all suffer from two logic fallacies:

1. Correlation != causation.

2. Confirmation bias.

There was no comparison mentioned in the article (or just about any similarly purposed article). The author has no - or at least did not state any - insight as to whether or not _this_ particular bullet point (Elixir) had any impact what-so-ever on the quality of the candidates that applied. There were no controls or comparisons made. Just a blind assumption that anyone who applied _must_ be better because of the language choice.

I have no doubt that the esoteric stack did have one major impact on the recruiting process: they had a far smaller pool of candidates to draw from. They weren't wading in resumes, trying to pick out ones that somehow stood out. And the highly specific details of their stack meant they weren't trying to ascertain whether or not a given candidate with no direct experience would be able to "pick it up". They were able (and had to) pay much more attention to each application. They read each resume carefully. And they were probably less strict about which candidates got that initial phone screen/test.

There is a likely a bit of correlation between programmer "quality" and esoteric language knowledge. My experience has been that polyglot programmers are so because they love to program and do so at work an in their spare time. They love learning concepts, ideas, patterns, etc. And they have a lot of tools and (often superficial) knowledge to draw from to solve problems. But, I've also found that often polyglot programmers are terrible at completing. Once the perceived, initial, "fun" problem is "solved" their interest and motivation levels to work through the details, customer feedback, and bugs tanks.

All that said, I'm glad they were able to hire Carlos, and I hope he turns out to be the superstar they are looking for!
I went to school with Daniel at Illinois. He is quite simply a dangerous and manipulative person. Having known him I would have preferred he spend significantly more time in jail or otherwise separated from society.

It should be telling that I created a throwaway account to post this for fear of my safety _even if he won't get out for another decade_.
The glaciers on Cascade mountains are relatively small but on Mt. Rainier it's extremely unlikely they will disappear in 30 years. The Emmons and Tahoma for example are large and start at 14,000 feet. They will continue to have accumulation zones for many decades. Plus it takes a while for ice to melt even with heat waves, even at lower elevations and even if the temperature rise accelerates.

That said it's not unreasonable to suggest that glaciers with an accumulation zone below say 8-9,000 feet will be toast. That takes out most glaciers in the Cascades outside of the volcanoes and a few peaks in the North Cascades. I was just eyeballing things based on having spent a lot of time on the mountain, but this conclusion seems to be supported by recent geological work. [1, 2]

[1] https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/webprogram/Paper299694.htm...
[2] https://glaciers.nichols.edu/north-cascade-glacier-retreat/
It is founded by Facebook, but they will only have a %1 stake in it as far as I understand. Ultimately, it will be still controlled by existing governments, as they plan to back it by government issued currencies & the organisations that participate still have to respect government regulations. Besides, Visa & Mastercard already has this kind of dominance, except Libra makes it more transparent. So really, there's nothing to fear, at least if you already accept and abide by the existing financial system...

Btw, Libra is not a blockchain, but a distributed database. Think of it as Visa, Mastercard and friends coming together to create one database that they can update individually yet have the changes available to everyone while maintaining data integrity. Much better than the existing "black box" system, the new system is easier to audit.
For stomach cancer, aerosol chemotherapy offers breath of hope
I do. If a candidate is a frontend developer and can't tell me anything beyond the absolute basics of how http works, that spells trouble.
Old man watches fake news, gets confused. Details at 10.
Rental scooters are speed limited to about 15mph, the speed of a fast-ish bicyclist, and they don't go up hills very well. So it's the same dynamic as fast and slow cyclists today in the bike lane.
Won't take long for people to realize, unlike other "new" utilities like social media people, generally, have a reasonable grasp of the value of money and the risk of it, mostly because they have experienced it. relatively, very few people experience the wrong end of the technocratic-sanctions stick.
From the HN Guidelines[0]:

> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The java team can just switch to Kotlin and improve immediately their readability and expressive power.
I don’t think that the go team would switch to another language to do the same...
Arch gives you the option to use the system libraries or the built in one using steam-runtime or the steam-native binaries. But the package needs to install the 32 bit libraries to give you the option.
You're just strengthening my point - if I'm misunderstanding something, it's because Facebook has deliberately chosen to make it difficult to understand. That's further reinforced by the fact that they have an incentive to do so - increasing app installs.
Sounds interesting. Can you point me to a COBOL listing that shows some of this difference?
There are many orders of magnitude difference between Bitcoin's and XRP's consumptive use:

Bitcoin: $0.30 per transaction

XRP: $0.43 per 100,000 transactions
Don't worry so much. You can stop shouting. This will lead to nothing because no one will use it.

Every attempt Facebook has made at commerce has failed miserably. No one trusts Facebook enough to purchase on Facebook, let alone use a Facebook currency.

Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, et al. have all tried over and over again to get people to transact on their platform. Shop on Facebook, Buy on Twitter, Snapcash have all failed. Shopping on Instagram is a failure in progress.

All these companies want to feel like they are more influential than they are. They are really good at getting people to waste their time. Money, not so much.
A lifetime chance at free drinks from military people (and hangers-on of military culture) vs a meal at Applebees.

On the one hand you have to spend time in the company of military folks. On the other hand you have to go to Applebees. Damn that's a hard one to call. I think I'd prefer the coin, at least it's shiny.