skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm sure the simulations don't have results like making these atmospheres suddenly collapse into black holes due to errors in the simulation or something. They'd notice.

But these atmospheres have to stable across cosmological scales in a highly iterative, chaotic environment. There is a mathematical lower bound on the rate such simulations must leak bits as a result of those things. I don't think we have enough bits of real information to make up for that, as it would take rather a lot.

Against the mathematical argument, I set the human argument that, like I said, there's all sorts of incentives to report the one simulation that produced the result that there may be an atmosphere and maybe it could even sustain life! That's a lot of high-profile articles and probably a promotion for getting my department some public attention. Even if hundreds of other simulations all result in "Yeah, the atmosphere freezes out".

Between the math saying we can't really expect this sort of simulation to contain meaningful information and the human factors involved, I can't put a lot of confidence in a model which can't be validated against real data.

I do find it amazing how people who probably think they're really in favor of science and support it will jump up to defend a methodology that literally runs off of zero data. Can someone explain the scientific process to me clearly that involves having no data at any point?
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>Among many other great crimes, U.S. banks have stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from the poorest people through overdraft and bounced check fees.

I can agree with the fact that some of the bank fees for such services are ridiculous, but how is a customer using their overdraft or bouncing a check the bank's fault? How is it "stealing"?
The fiction of Pax Americana is that the US is the policeman whereas in reality it is actually the Emperor. That is where the disconnect lies.

I do think it’s perfectly rational for a State to pursue those things but not necessarily a Superpower. There are many things America could choose to do (or not do) that may not provide short term benefits but over the long run would benefit every state.
It's part of the google eco system. It's integrated with android, google assistant, gmail, ... Chromebooks need web-only replacements for Outlook and Office.

It's also a freemium product, because you can pay for gSuite.
Yup. But let's not let science get in the way of alarming headlines...
There is no dark side in the moon.

There is a far side.
They wouldn't need to pay taxes because the money to purchase the financial instrument (whether it's a stock or a cryptocurrency) should already have been taxed in the country where the buyer resides. And, at least in my country, you can't use a financial trade like that to get a tax deduction.

How would they afford to buy the cryptocurrency from the shell company in the first place?
In the case of overdraft fees, over 30 banks were ordering transactions in a punitive way, charging up to six overdraft fees per day, and not providing a way to decline charges when an overdraft (and related fee) would result. It also resulted in the Federal Reserve instituting overdraft protection regulations in 2010. It was predatory, plain and simple, and hundreds of millions of dollars in collective fines were paid.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/chase-reaches-settleme...
There are holes wide enough to fit a solar system through that argument. Reductio ad absurdum.

Here, I'll construct an argument in a similar form. People don't like mosquitos, for various reasons including that they transfer deadly diseases. Therefore the presence of mosquitos says there's a high probability that the planet isn't actually inhabited by us, because we would have killed them by now. After all, we have the technology.

Maybe, by the time we get around to wanting to construct a Dyson Sphere, we will have found a better alternative. Maybe they aren't a good idea for any number of reasons (if you need one, read the Cixin Liu "Dark Forest" series).

Any argument of the form "X is inevitable but hasn't occurred, therefore Y" first needs very strong proof of the inevitability of X.
As a user of the g suite legacy free edition, I'm outraged!
Yeah but English (in Europe) would be more north than the others! :D

(Also, English is Germanic so it's included in what I commented anyway :P)
It could be that we are approaching a great filter: "when an
intelligent species has the freedom to decouple the great incentive for reproduction (sexual pleasure) from the actual reproduction, it turns out individuals choose not to reproduce, which leads to the collapse of the whole civilization"
In this case, its heavily using Leetcode[0] as interview prep for the kinds of questions that are asked in the interviews.

[0]https://leetcode.com/
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I enjoy the idea of them staring at me all day long.

That said, it's not the CIA I would be overly concerned about. It's the skiddies that learn how to implement the same level of access. Imagine a child predator watching your kids in their room. Worse, they know when a latch-key kids parent is not there. Combine this with Wifi SSID data from wigle.net and they have your street address.
Go uses async IO under the hood (for network IO at least). The exposed API is blocking, but the underlying implementation uses async IO and transparently schedules Goroutines across different OS threads.

As you know, Rust doesn't currently have stable support for a similarly high-level interface to async IO. See e.g. the following reddit thread from 3 months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ausuld/what_is_the_cu...
You're talking about electricity generation, not about the grid (which is the distribution network). Generation has to increase (by 4-8GW for 9 million cars), but the distribution network doesn't need much extra capacity because most of the charging will happen offpeak.
I'm assuming they never thought they'd need such an error page
No; they weren't taken from the moon; they were taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which was orbiting, so the Earth did in fact 'rise'.
Shouldn't Facebook be focusing on their previous project that promised to "connect the unconnected" (Internet.org / FreeBasics), rather than start another ambitious one "to bank the unbanked" ?
I put it this way: There is no floor to how bad code can be and yet still make people money.
already appears here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20213092
The earth was once 6 degrees warmer according to the geologic record. From what we know, it looked nothing like that map.

Edit - here, for people who can't do their own homework: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/travel-through...

And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record
Even ads in gmail are not based on gmail data anymore.
Let's just say a part of Mass Effect is real and there are actually many civilizations right now. What are the chances that we could even know they exist with the current technology?
> Facebook says its “stablecoin,” will empower billions and underpin a stunningly ambitious global economy, without selling your data.

I wonder how many millions of people were drinking their favorite beverage while reading this and spat it out on whatever/whoever was in front of them!

It’s astonishing that after all these years and all the scandals, they’re deluded enough to write such lines with a straight face. This might as well have appeared on The Onion.

> If we want this to succeed we can’t make it network of choice for criminal activity of any kind. - David Marcus

Good luck with that! This point doesn’t gel with the other point he makes about this being private and that Facebook’s social profiles and the financial wallets/accounts will not be commingled. I’d wager that the latter promise would be like WhatsApp saying during its acquisition that nothing would change and that WhatsApp data will not be used for ads. We know what happened to that within a few years.
It could be but it is not and won't be. Net positive would require actual decentralization and no PoS (rich get richer). There are other ways to solve consensus and I don't mean PoW. Net positive would be to not require AML or KYC. Net positive would be no transaction fees. The foundation members will still profit on the float on fiat. Also, this project already exists. Isn't this the whole reason Ripple was created? Why not adopt Ripple as the crypto? Oh, because it is all about control.

How is FB printing fake digital dollars any better than the US government printing fake digital dollars? Except this way, everyone gets to rent seek and take from the people they purport to want to help. Rent seeking less than Western Union doesn't count. How about a project that is actually about helping the unbanked and underrepresented without exploiting them? I'll believe that anyone on this project actually thinks it is net positive for the world when they donate their salary and RSU to a non-profit that is actually helping people.
That Orion project was a failure though. No tangible results to exploit.
Is there some legal shield that prevents regulators from simply saying that Libra is a bank and therefore subject to regulation as such?
Reminded me of Microsoft ad back when they introduced Office365
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4_dozWkq0
> Unlike previous stablecoins, Libra will not be issued by a central party. Instead, Facebook has enlisted 27 fellow Silicon Valley titans—among them PayPal, Visa, Spotify, Mastercard, Uber, and eBay ....

This really surprises me, since it is somewhat of a direct attack on Visa, Mastercard and Paypal. Maybe the thinking is that if Libra becomes a success, they'd rather be in on the deal, or they plan on becoming middleman and integrate it into their services.
>French physicist

What next, Chopin is a French pianist?
Confirm: still the case in Scotland.
People running their own email servers probably don't need higher performance than what SQLite can offer. Meanwhile the maintenance overhead of an SQLite-based setup is almost nil, and migrations & backups are trivial — two big benefits for people running their own email servers.-
Slightly related, I only recently found out that the grep (BSD) included in macOS is way slower than the GNU equivalent that you can install from Homebrew. If you ever had to work with big files and were confused why it's so much slower give it a try.

http://jlebar.com/2012/11/28/GNU_grep_is_10x_faster_than_Mac...
>Orion is a fabulous and quite valid counter to the folks that seem to like to repeat the canard that interstellar flight is impossible.

I’d never say it’s impossible, if we maintain a civilisation for long enough it might even be inevitable at least at a minimal level.

However, Daedalus/Orion is far from as straightforward as has been suggested by you and others. It’s based on projections of technology made in the 70s, not 70s technology. There are also formidable obstacles, such as obtaining enough Helium3. The authors suggested extracting it from the atmosphere of Jupiter or Uranus. That by itself would be as hard as building the vehicle itself, if not harder. I’d like to see a design for a Jupiter atmospheric scoop and return vehicle.

Also Daedalus couldn’t take people. Staggeringly huge as it was, it was a flyby mission with a 450 ton payload. If it was going to decelerate instead it’s payload was about the size of a washing machine.
> Audi, for instance has said that part of the reason it’s discontinuing its rotary controller is that a touchscreen better supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

The baffling thing about that is that Audi's MMI system was actually pretty darned good. And a few of the cars support controlling Apple Carplay with the rotary dial.

Audi and BMW used to sell their dial interfaces as a unique advantage over touchscreen only infotainment systems. It blows my mind that they're (Audi at least) going in the opposite direction now.
> The most important property of Go for me is that the language is not red/blue.

This initially attracted me to Go as well. Unfortunately in production apps your functions get colored by their `context.Context` argument to support cancellation. Unfortunately `Context` is viral because it needs to be passed down from `main` down to virtually all blocking functions.
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>If I record that upcoming datetime in UTC but I forgot about a daylight savings time change between now and then

There are good reasons for not storing in UTC but this doesn't seem to be one of them. Surely the problem in this case is just that you incorrectly converted to UTC? It's just a bug.
Life is not an actuarial science
That only indicate the frontend of the service is up and potentially running. Being about to respond to ping and being able to serve HTTP request are two different things, and being able to serve HTTP request vs a fully functional website are two different things. Think about wrong SSL certification, wrong domain mapping between frontend/backend, broken JS/CSS etc.
no Excel as an alternative to google sheets? aww.
With all due respect, I don't think you're in a position to have a unbiased perspective on this, and I am certain I'm never going to convince you.

But I'll leave it that there have been countless "Rust is too difficult" links for you to find on Google, many of which have been posted on here. And invariably when we discuss Rust the conversation goes like this-

"why is it so complex to do [some simple thing]?"

"Oh well Rust is a System Programming Language, and it's doing important things in important ways"

"Okay, but I'm not building an OS, I'm just..."

[chest puffing, ego's appear, etc]

"Well I certainly have no problem with it..."
>Users pay the fees both directly (annual costs, interest)

Both avoidable. Many zero fee cards, interest only on monthly balances. Some zero fee cards even offer rewards (read: net positive over cash).

>indirectly (increased prices due to vendor fees)

I'd need to see some data that the convenience of credit cards to both consumer and retailer has increased prices. I do know that explicitly raising prices to cover fees for card using customers is against most merchant account terms of service and you can report retailers that do so.
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Probably both but like anything else I think you could make the data look however your agenda wants if you monkey with the definitions of terms. A seat-belt is a great way to wind up seriously injured when you otherwise would have died and boring old frontal airbags tend to make serious injuries less severe and minor injuries more severe.
> FWIW I believe that I'm doing net positive work for the world.

I'm sure most Facebook employees have a similar opinion on their jobs.
There was an episode of American greed about a woman using a high end printer to make fakes, they would sell them on a home shopping network style tv show. Literally selling well known artists work. Everyone would win the auction for the "one of a kind authentic" piece.

Fun fact, she spelled chagel wrong and the buyer asked about it.
https://alternativeto.net/ not all results will be privacy focused.

some other alternatives

Browser waterfox and other forks

search yacy

email self hosted various vps serves

sheets/docs own/next cloud. libre/open office

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The water distribution on Earth is 97.5% salt water and 2.5% fresh water [0]. Out of those 2.5%, more than 2/3 of the water is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So overall we have about 0.8% of the Earth's water available for consumption.

So our actual consumption is far below even those 0.8%. But our problem with fresh water isn't necessarily that it's not enough but that it's very unevenly distributed and we tend to be very wasteful.

This being said how much desalination do we have to do until the brine (now 30% more saline than regular salt water) is significantly affecting the overall salinity of the oceans? Desalinating 0.2% of the ocean's water would give humans a 25% more fresh fresh water and the increase in salinity would be marginal.

Does anyone know if an increase that looks as minute as this (0.1% increase is salinity?) is actually a real danger to ocean life and/or currents?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_distribution_on_Earth
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We literally spend tens of billions of dollars a year keeping a significant fraction of the domestic agricultural industry afloat in the name of national security. We do the same with energy, oil, raw materials, and pretty much anything logistically critical in a war.

I think you vastly underestimate the lengths our military industrial complex goes to protect operational capabilities. The F22 is as much a beneficiary of those technologies as a platform for keeping them alive for future use.
Not Daedalus, Orion. It was a 1960s research project involving Freeman Dyson and others. Google it. There is a fantastic documentary that I think is on YouTube.

Orion is kind of shockingly practical. It was forgotten for some time as it was a military research project not NASA or academic.
Believe it or not, there are still cost-estimation methodologies that use LOC. You somehow go from the problem, to an estimated number of lines of code that will need to be written, and then you divide and multiply that out by the number of developers per hour and their hourly rate.

Someone decided that the task was about 1.5 MLOC and used that to drive the total contract value.
It is not pseudonymous. You must supply AML and KYC documents to FB to participate. FB says they intend to fully comply with all government requests. FB will know exactly who owns all the money at all times.
People will flock until they can’t and that’s when the bubble starts popping.

All the sfba homeowners who bought for cheap but are now sitting on millions of dollars of property could easily make a tidy sum if they were willing to sell for less but they will feel like they left money on the table. Ultimately when the bubble pops, everyone will sell for less but they will all think it’s perfectly rational because the “market is down”. I don’t get that perspective at all. Buy low and sell high, within reason.
The mobile network providers can say you visit netflix, but it cannot determine what you are watching. This data fills in certain holes in data sets that companies cannot get.
What are the consequences of a star that mostly radiates infrared light for habitability? Would it restrict what kind of life could evolve there?
It spits a 404 for me haha, and an ugly 404 at that ( https://twitter.com/omarbaqueiro/status/1140991483740336128 )
Monsoons have been a dud so far. Our well nearly dried up, and we were planning to shift should water run out. The municipal water supply is useless. The irony: my state (Kerala) receives around 3000+ mm rainfall per year on average, and suffered from devastating floods last year.

I feel sad when Indians wank about military technology and "national security" issues due to Pakistan and China. The single greatest national security threat for India is Indians' abject incompetence in governing themselves. I fear that we will pay a very heavy price for this.
Just going to Mars will significantly increase your risk of cancer, unless we find smart ways to repair our genetic material as we go.
I think you're vastly underestimating how quickly car manufacturers are moving..or at least trying to move.

Tesla is already pre-selling, for money, full self-driving capability in their existing cars. And they are, of course, designing their current fleet of cars for that future. There's already a Games section in the dashboard.

We can talk about the safety aspects all day until we're blue in the face. But this is the reality.
I have no knowledge of the situation but couldn't the 2 be related? As in more (green) trees pulling more water out of the ground?

Then again I would imagine the water pulled out comes back rather fast in the form of a tropical storm.
climate change should scare them more
Do they have also C++?
Have you noticed very few doctors run private practices anymore? The excess litigation and cost of malpractice insurance is so high they can't afford it.

That's why they are all grouping, and usually even just under a hospital. It takes a huge group to be able to be able to get the leverage on insurance.
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It's as easy as downloading the disk image, which you can find under the releases.
Nuclear salt water rocket would likely be even faster, but unlike Orion is still just a paper concept at this time.
I see the "there's nothing wrong with old technology" comment a lot, and in this case I disagree. There's a good chunk of this thread pointing out how hard it is to hire for this position because practically no one is familiar with these technologies. This, to me, illustrates that there absolutely is something wrong with using old technology, especially in this instance.

I will grant that there are some things that just keep working and I also would be tempted to leave them in place. But if their functioning is critical then we either need to cultivate the necessary knowledge in our organization to ensure we can manage them adequately or replace them with something that the current market of people will be somewhat familiar.
Could you share some good sources of info regarding the development plans/strategy? It's fine if they happen to be in Spanish/Catalan.
Definitely true. And I think, in retrospect, that's not so bad. I think the important part is realizing - and convincing people to allocate time to it - when it needs to be refactored: when it reaches a point that it can't sustain itself and doesn't solve business problems anymore.

Until then, if it's solving a business need and you're not pouring tons of effort/money into it, it's more about pride than a real problem. That is a lesson I had to learn the hard way, and still struggle with: accepting that sometimes a janky, hobbled-together solution that solves a business problem still solves that problem and might not be worth the cost of "fixing."
According to Wikipedia, in Finland a 1/3L beer bottle is recycled, washed and refilled the average of 33 times before it goes out of circulation.

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpa

Although these days an aluminium can is the more popular container, and they are indeed used only once. Proper bottles are getting rare, which I hate, since the bottle is much more pleasant to drink from in a hot sauna. Doesn't burn your lips.
Replay of the Apollo 11 mission in real time from 50 years ago
No. FB is the establishment. Now that they've "opened" the crypto door a little wider, it creates the opportunity to build crypto payments that revolt against FB. Solution will likely involve privacy, responsibility, inclusiveness and charity.
Hm, never knew Atlantic played that game too. I know Ars A/B tests titles, and that a few of the buzzfeed type publications put a social title (ie clickbait fest) for the first day or two while a piece does the rounds of Facebook and Twitter, and replace with a sane "forever" search engine title later.

At the other extreme there's the odd dry-as-dust titled technical article that really needs some editorialising or at least posting on sub-head to have any chance of interest.
Yes, Earth does not move significantly on the moon sky, if i remember right. It does rotate though.

Edit: Archgoon is right, the photos were taken from the orbiting module, so a rise happened.
4 billion years, eh? Just about the amount of time we've had life here. Maybe they already colonized us, and we're descended from them.