skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The team used a modified propeller plane to visit exceptionally remote sites, including an abandoned Cold War-era radar base more than 300 km from the nearest human settlement.

> Diving through a lucky break in the clouds, Romanovsky and his colleagues said they were confronted with a landscape that was unrecognizable from the pristine Arctic terrain they had encountered during initial visits a decade or so earlier.

Too bad we can't just use satellite images for this kind of research. Somehow satellite images are available for hedge funds to calculate the oil supply [0], but not for climate research. It's a shame.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/03/orbital-insight/
I understand that you get 60% of what's billed to your client, which probably is several times your salary rate per hour, and not 60% of your regular rate per hour. Maybe?
Of course the filesystem is a database. In fact, bank mainframes still use distributed file systems as “databases” where file writes are auditable and fully reversible transactions. (I worked on such systems.)
Eventually people will wake up and realize the Bay Area is the way it is because there’s vested political, financial, and ecological interest in keeping it broken.

The reason there’s no affordable low income housing isn’t because that specific type of housing isn’t being built, it’s because they’ve made it nearly impossible to build anything BUT luxury.
We're clearly going to have to so something to cool the planet down, but the transition to renewable energy is just so effective that you'd want to do it purely from the financial and health benefits.
Based on the footage, and even in spite of the agenda made clear from the interviewer's line of questions, it seems difficult to deny many aspects of the BBC reporting. These institutions do exist, and are targeted at the Uyghur minority. My current internal bias suggests that enrollees at these institutions would be punished for expressing anything but positivity regarding their situation. When one group of humans has power over another, history and even academic exercises [1] suggest that things get ugly.

Much of the western world is influenced by Kantian ethics [2], of which a central tenant is that the end (potentially greater societal stability, in this case) is not justified by the means. This system of thought does not seem to hold much sway by the CCP, and I believe many disagreements can be traced back to this point.

[1] Google "Stanford Prison Experiment"
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantian_ethics
Surprising Insight into Bat Sonar
Congrats on the launch! Impressive product.

Seems to be a minor issue on your website when accessed from a mobile device. On my iOS + chrome the pricing page, detailed features tabs all show only the stats for the first (free) tier.
I don’t know anything about how the world would change. But me being skeptical of everything being ruined with 4 degree increase doesn’t mean anything. I don’t know much science.

Thanks for link. The topic interests me and I’d like to know more.
> As the Pentium chip gained momentum, Intel realized it would be more profitable to use the tech to make X86_64 architecture.

...which they didn't make but licensed from AMD, no?
Yes - a 'car trip' to a crappy dive like Myrtle Beach and it's shady Motels as one's only, tiny respite from a life of slinging coffee at the Waffle House, in the balance of financial emergencies from something as trivial as some basic dental work - absolutely implies 'adversity'.

In case you're having trouble contextualizing: a family in that situation is an inch from ruin. They will never have anything, and odds are, they'll hit a bump now and again and it will get messy.

Those kinds of families are always coming in and out of financial difficulty.
Biological processes are usually much less efficient than industrial processes, so it would be hard to believe that your proposal is better without lots of evidence. If we relied on legumes for nitrogen fertilization of agricultural soil, we would starve.
I'm within a half mile of Davis and don't remember ever hearing an event there from my house? Maybe Honk?
Show HN: TimeTurtle, a time tracking app with a focus on interactivity (beta)
Hi,

I've been working on a time tracker - an app of which there are many already, so I've tried to distinguish it by putting in my experience/love with viz and UX to create a very interactive workflow, which I believe helps get a better overview.

It's in beta now, feedback is much appreciated (especially if you're using tools like this). The first 200 users get a lifelong free account.

https://timeturtle.app

Cheers,
Almar
Netflix still uses AWS for much of their support systems (billing, discovery, etc. etc.) The core business of delivering video is not on AWS and has never been. That runs on their in-house CDN, OpenConnect.
Life, uh, finds a way: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170125-there-is-one-animal-...
Oil Companies would look very different if all they were used for was Plastics.
Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter are community sites. They are driven by their users, with little or no overarching strategy beyond being next-generation BBS services that occasionally sell a few ads to keep the lights on.

Facebook is driven internally, from the top down, to accomplish murky, exploitative goals that are in the interests of nobody except the company and its shareholders.

That's why Facebook is worth hundreds of billions of dollars while Reddit can barely pay for their own bandwidth and Tumblr gets passed around between acquirers like it was a radioactive waste dump that runs a porn business on the side.

I don't know WTF Twitter is worth, if anything, but some people seem to think it's got a viable business model, so meh, whatever. They aren't Facebook.
I really hope you'll change your mind, specifically about that last sentence. Probably billions of the world's poorest people are likely to see their environment become unlivable. That's not a problem a little AC and migration will easily solve.

Just look how poorly rich countries are reacting to the current levels of migration from less rich countries.
>the bank cannot reduce your balance in secret without your authorization, since transactions are signed and the ledger is public

This capability is pretty pointless when the bank can indefinitely suspend your ability to make transactions. The ability to block transactions is an essential part of compliance with anti-money-laundering and other banking regulations.
Great article! One last caveat is that the landscape around stock options has changed quite significantly especially in the US. These days many firms are offering Non-qualified stock options which don't expire for 7 years or more.

Additionally there are many new funding options for stock option exercise. A few firms have appeared to help employees buy their stock options and split the future upside.

Disclosure: I work at one of those firms!
Web Browser Security
Thanks, I'll take a look at it!
What information do you send to websites
I would actually like a stronger integration with the phone for cases like this. If you need directions, just load it up on google maps and send it to your car. If you need to pull up a playlist, same thing. Of course if you are driving this should be done by the passenger.
I agree with this.

To the extent that we have lots of influential people browsing this forum, make it clear that unless to any politician that unless they aggressively tackle global warming, they won't get any donations/votes no matter how good they are in other areas / how much influence they have over the business you are running.
I've never advocated sticking with fossil though. Nuclear could have bought us lots of extra time to deal with the rest - if all the coal generation had got replaced by nuclear say in the 90s - but that bird flew ages ago.

Personally, for most of the 21st century I've seen wind, solar, tidal and (pumped) hydro as increasingly more suited - far faster to bring onstream, and without quite the same scale of NIMBY delays of nuclear. A network of micro generators seems more suited to the adoption of community heat and power which also seems an essential part of reaching zero emission - as seen today in Ireland's emissions plan.
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I'm not doubting you, this is just an honest repetition of what I've heard before.

I thought that nuclear was also a GHG contributor because of the fossil fuels used in mining and refining it. Is this not the case? Like there is some cradle to grave GHG coefficient for different sources of power...
That was one example. Look at popular music in general. Or popular movies versus good movies.

Look at the example of social researchers creating a line of actors in downtown Las Vegas. The line went to nowhere. But simply by virtue of having several people in it, it seemed popular. So it grew in popularity to become a very long line. That went nowhere. The thing that was popular had no merit because it did not exist.

Or look at Juicero. Very popular with investors to the tune of $120 million.
College students are overestimating how much they can make after graduation
A carbon tax, with pay-out for carbon sequestration, will put the very machine that currently drives us towards extinction straight in reverse.

Here are the most impactful things you can do as an individual in a democracy:

1. Convince as many people as you can of voting for anyone who supports carbon tax.

2. Vote for anyone who supports a carbon tax.

3. There is no 3.

We need to internalise this negative externality into the very fabric of every transaction we make. By the time you can see a product you have no idea how much carbon was produced to make it.

Don't just walk back from the abyss. Drive back in the same car that got us here.

(by all means of course reduce your footprint, but don't forget nr 1 & 2. they must be front and centre.)
This was all done already, it got replaced with our existing system, nobody with the power to go back to the gold standard will do so because it takes power away from themselves...
SystemVerilog preprocessor, lexer and parser with examples
> My point is that CO2 can be removed while creating useful energy

You have to pick one. CO2 removal or creating energy. If you remove it, it must remain sequestered. If you create fuel from it, the CO2 will not have been removed.

I'm not against the idea of sourcing fuels from atmospheric CO2. It's a good way to get energy-dense fuel without adding new carbon to the atmosphere (assuming a carbon-free source of energy is used to synthesize the fuel). But that process won't remove CO2; it'll just not add more.
Ask HN: Sci-Fi book recommendations for kids?
My friend (iamgopal) and I grew up reading adventure/science fiction books by Jules Verne; shared love of these books was the reason we became best friends in matter of days, and were a huge influence for us - reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island and the like were a huge influence during our formative years. Even today I have a mild obsession with submarines that probably links back to reading 20k leagues.

Now that both of us have kids of our own and want to expose them to some good books. Any and all suggestions are much appreciated.

Thanks
Maybe people thought I was against believing in man made climate change? I remember a year ago I posed a similar question amongst a liberal crowd (of which I’m one as well) and someone took it upon himself to be sure I believed there is no man made climate change. I’m pretty sure he just didn’t know anything either and enjoyed being offended.

That’s not what’s happening here exactly but perhaps some people thought I wasn’t being genuine.

Thanks! Yes that’s a big difference if it’s average and some seasons might not change much. That would be a big difference.

Uninhabitable explanation makes sense too. Thanks.
I advocate letting go of the personal shaming and guilting. That's just not a scalable solution. Here are much better things you can do with that emotional energy and carbon offset purchasing power instead:

-Vote for politicians that will regulate carbon

-Lobby your elected officials to regulate carbon

-Give to NGOs that lobby to regulate carbon

-Reward companies that sell products that reduce your carbon footprint and add value to your life.

-Pivot your career to work with green NGOs, on the staff or campaigns of green-friendly politicians, or companies creating greed products.

Do a few of these things and you can litter all you like.
Canada, Siberia.....both of these areas have been relatively untouched/unexploited due to the permafrost issue and generally inhospitable weather. But they represent a HUGE portion of the global land area....

So why aren't we looking at climate change as opening up vast tracts of the northern hemisphere to settlement and exploitation?
Imagine an easy mode planet in a system with multiple habitable planets. Now that I've typed that I'm also considering how Mars would look from 12 light years away.

Is establishing a colony 12 light years away easier than transforming mars into a habitable planet?
China is helped there that they can centrally require it. I doubt they have quite the NIMBY issue we typically get for major projects...
Once you add all of those classes, it's nearly impossible to add a developer who isn't used to it. It's also really hard for me to read. Tailwind / bootstrap etc - is a total deal breaker for me. I'll just get a different client. https://www.browserlondon.com/blog/2019/06/10/functional-css... I just can't imagine not writing CSS like this: https://maintainablecss.com/chapters/introduction
In the name of inclusivity.

There was a huge outrage epidemic over the past decade. Video games journalism was in a very dark place for a while as one example. The drive by "code of conduct" assaults on Github projects as another. Mainstream news orgs cashing in on, and a whole new generation of blogger/vloggers riding a tide of outrage porn. Interesting times.
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Can you give examples of companies that fit your description?
Except a single factory in China emits more CO2 than all the readers of this HN thread combined. So all you are going to do by minimizing your own carbon footprint is make your own life miserable and free up the resources for someone who doesn't give a damn.

And I am sorry to say that, but I don't think that a global framework enforcing the same environmental restrictions on every country in the world, regardless of its economic state, is realistic. Sorry.

That said, humanity has adapted to live in variety of environments, from African tropics to Canadian permafrost, centuries before the technological revolution. So once the global warming effects start noticeably affecting regular people, there will be a wave on businesses built around mitigating those effects, dealing with the causes and perhaps trying to reverse some of them. But before this becomes a pressing matter for pretty much everyone, I don't think there is much we can do.
The first chapter itself was gripping. I was like, if this book is 1/10 as good as the first chapter, I'm sold. It's now one of the books I recommend to teen scifi readers.
Hold your horses. Give me the numbers on short term ROI. Aha! Your business plan sucks as you cannot produce viable revenue numbers in a timely maner.

Brr... The problem is that making quick money on scale seems to me like some kind of condition. Some biological hoarding gene that made sense just a hundred years ago.

Evolution have not kept up with our success at building and automating stuff made from stars. It makes me sad.
Project Scandium: Tcl Meets Microservices
The German construction industry doesn't have any spare capacity as is.
>The whole point of cryptocurrency to avoid having to go through middlemen like Visa or even require banks.

This is actually a big problem with cryptocurrencies - you're removing middlemen who are legally obligated to enforce anti-money-laundering laws on behalf of governments. In general, cryptocurrencies will either live under existential threat from government law enforcement agencies, or their use cases will be restricted to interactions with centralized AML/KYC-compliant parties that might as well be using a database.
Was surprised how Uncle Bob getting better at trolling these days. He's been provoking, but somewhere in recent years he turned himself to a troll. (Or he's just talking to his audiences, who aren't HN readers.)
No. No way. If you're CSS is a problem - then you are doing something really really wrong.
I would imagine a youtuber of her caliber would expense this as a business purchase. I doubt she took a loan for this.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
It depends on whether there are libraries available and how simple they are to use. The spring security SAML plugin is an absolute nightmare to integrate. A basic configuration requires 600 mostly redundant lines of which you probably copy paste 400 from the example project.

I've had a completely different experience with Grails which is a web framework for Groovy that is based on spring boot. It's plugins are usually just a thin wrapper over the actual spring libraries but they take care of those 600 lines and the end result is that you need to write slightly less than 50 lines of configuration in a YAML file.

Basically it can be hell or heaven depending on your language's ecosystem.
We handle fraud in-house through a joint effort of a variety of teams (customer experience, operations, engineering, etc.) and even have a webpage dedicated to it https://brex.com/fraud/ :)
The SFH has domain over their property - and that's where it should reasonably end. Giving them domain over what gets built on everyone else's property is where we get into trouble.
> That’s just what I’m saying about your other example, most of the money spent on “cloud computing” from a consulting and implementation side is nowhere near Seattle.

Okay, and most money people spend on movies is nowhere near LA. That has nothing to do with whether LA is a hub for movie development, though.

A huge proportion of cutting-edge cloud platform development for the big cloud companies happens in the SF bay area and Seattle. That's the big thing that makes them cloud tech hubs. Not where consulting and implementation of going to the cloud happens. Like consumers spending on movies, that just happens where the customers are.
Yeah - be interesting to see the real use case here. Pipelining + scripting if needed normally go a long way. I'm curious who needs even more beyond this in terms of performance and if this module actually provides it.
I would love to see the inflatable updraft towers get a proof of concept. It's such an enticing idea, one of the best I've seen yet.
Software Engineering with no planning be like [video]
Imagine if the Bay Area had a subway system to rival Manhattan and actual dense housing? How many fewer gigatons of CO2 would be in the atmosphere if everybody didn't have to drive in all the way from the suburbs? Imagine if it wasn't necessary to own a car? Rents would still be high, but maybe not impossibly so.
20 billion is half again higher than the worst predictions for population growth. The world's population is expected to peak around 11B in 2100 or so, with outside high predictions up to 14B.

On what basis do you believe the population will hit 20B, especially with birth rates plummeting to near-replacement levels all around the world? What countries are going to go backwards, and why?
We're not doing anything to tackle it. Nearly every country is still increasing emissions.

And nothing individuals do will be enough. The top causes of CO2 emissions are industrial power generation, production of concrete, resource extraction, deforestation/burning forests and transportation.

Fact is, the world's population is still increasing, developing countries will still develop, developed countries won't reduce emissions, there's no stopping it.

Even in the US, the DNC struck down the 'Green New Deal'.

Either we're all doomed, or it's not an existential threat.
Since it becomes increasing clear that gender isn't a binary property, shouldn't we do away with gender difference in sports altogether?
What is it spewing out co2 for, and for whom? Never mind the toxic waste from chemicals dumped in rivers.

Turn every thing you own upside down and find the scripture "Made in China".

Any clues?
The British sex workers fighting censorship
You can't adjust it. If you can, you can't see the code, you can only modify data already compiled in.
Again, you have a misguided mental model of what it means for something to be private information. If several of your colleagues know your job title and employer then you have already surrendered control over the dissemination of those pieces of information to them and they are no longer private.
There's no serious prospect of the whole planet being too 'toxic' for human groups to exist here and there. Even the probable nuclear wars aren't going to leave everything uninhabitable.

The sheer amount of suffering and destruction involved between here and there, human and more-than-human like, will be catastrophic. Everything present-day humans know and love will be gone. The existence of small groups surviving marginally in the crumbling remnants of our our once-magnificent ecosystems is no silver lining worth caring about.
That would really be tested when Al Qaeda opens the account there (and why won't they?) and start using it for money transfers. Imagine the press and the political pressure.

And once they have the solution to stop Al Qaeda, the same solution also works for stopping people from donating to a politician that Facebook doesn't like.
Algorithmic Decision Making Is a Human Rights Issue
I don't think anyone did - it was ambiguous whether it would invalidate the notice period (4 weeks), which would have been a bit more than $2000. No-one was prepared to risk it.
Efficient Data Structures for Tamper-Evident Logging [pdf]
It may not be binary, but gender certainly follows a bimodal distribution.
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Flexible Sandstone [video]
Where I grew up it was the exact opposite. I lived in a small suburbanish town which was 50% college students and 50% retirees. Almost all of my friends and fellow graduates left for the larger cities where job opportunities were far more abundant and where there was generally a lot more to do and see.

Which also seems to be supported by the general population trends. Rural cities are dying, with the younger generations moving closer to urban centers. Remote work and virtual offices will give you a better choice of city, but people are not likely to move out to places where there's nothing to do, terrible infrastructure and less opportunity in the scenario where you choose to find a new job.

And people have been saying that remote work will cause the trends to reverse any day now. So far that hasn't stopped companies even in SV; instead they just build new offices in other cities.
Might a massive discount have had something to do with that?
No - small 50 person company.
Scalability is a big problem, but it's not the only problem. Money accomplishes 3 things:

1) Store of value
2) Unit of account
3) Medium of exchange

It's not really very good at any these 3 things. The scalability significantly hurts #3, but even if you fix it it's super volatile, which are bad for 1 and 2. Not only that, but it's inherently deflationary, which is quite bad in the long term, but I guess that's really a secondary concern.