skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I think we shouldn't subsidize fossil fuels, but the headline is misleading. The article doesn't seem to give hard numbers, but it is comparing fossil fuel subsidies to federal education spending. I think that most government education money comes from state budgets in the U.S.
We can and do manage now, thank you very much. Poverty is decreasing at an incredible rate around the globe; education is increasing at an incredible rate. We've made the world's knowledge available to virtually everyone via in the internet just in the time I've been an adult. We've eradicated diseases that once killed millions every year.

Two thirds of the global extreme poverty (defined by the World Bank as about $1.80/day in current dollars) has been eradicated in just the past two decades.

We're doing awesome.
Adobe's experimental AI tool can tell if something's been Photoshopped
Moon-size objects are probably not detectable with current technology.
You will need to construct a more targeted argument than, "All banks bad, all banks hurt people". The majority of Americans store their money in banks safely (and while the unbanked and underbanked is a huge problem, it is out of scope for this comment), protected either by FDIC insurance (banks) or NCUSIF (credit unions). The majority of banks behave responsibly (I don't work at BoA, Wells, JPMC, or someone else who has committed fraud). You don't even have to use a bank! That is what your local credit union is for [1].

Some banks have behaved badly. All cryptocurrency is a scam (see: SEC ICO determinations, outright ICO/token fraud, etc).

With fiat, you have recourse with regulators and the legal system. With crypto, you have none ("oops! someone cloned your SIM and you've lost your entire nest egg. better luck next time!"). Your arguments don't make the case for cryptocurrencies; you make the case for more regulation and oversight of the banking and financial services industry (which I agree with entirely, not because it's my job, but to keep the hard earned assets of banking customers of all income and asset brackets safe).

[1] https://www.mycreditunion.gov/about-credit-unions/credit-uni...
There is your problem. You are assuming BTC is Bitcoin. The actual Bitcoin, working as intended, is BCH.
I don't get why it has to be a "cryptocurrency". I see the value in some sort of token that you buy and can then exchange without fees, but couldn't that just be a simple DB? What does it being a cryptocurrency on a blockchain get you?
> That's technically incorrect and philosophically disastrous

How can taking a particular epistemic stance be wrong? What non-epistemic basis would you use to judge it? It might be inconsistent with the stance you have chosen, but that doesn't make it wrong.

And as far as it being disastrous, I know a number of very competent people that take that view--what disasters should I look for in their lives to see how disastrous their stance is?
voice assistants do not require a network connection. disable wifi and cellular on your phone and “hey siri”, it works. if a company requires this info be sent to a server for processing there’s other reasons besides the device being unable to handle it
I'll take that over florescent any day of the week.
404 in Poland too.
Intermittent 404/200 in Italy.
Not that documentation is bad but it is rarely correct. Now you have to spend time trying to match documentation that doesn't match the code you see.

I always prefer a different approach. There is no need to document what a function does, that is self evident from stepping through it. The thing that should be included in the code is the WHY, meaning why does this function even need to exist and how does it fit into the architecture?

Now an accurate high level architecture diagram and function raison d'etre telling you everything you need to know with much less risk of not having an accurate and up-to-date documentation process.
Depressurization also circumstantially connects with the otherwise unexplained climb to 40,000 feet, and with the disconnection and reconnection of the electrical system.
Stop teasing me, Universe - and show me the aliens already!
“A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) study shows that USD$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017. The equivalent of over 6.5% of global GDP of that year”

Such a waste. Another example of how subsidies result in bad incentives. It’s surprising that renewables have even reached their current level with such gross inequality prevailing. Imagine how much cleaner the air would be without these subsidies.
They could have a resonance orbit that would enable a (slow) day-night cycle. But some theories also suggest that M-class stars tend to flare for the regular radiation diet. Otherwise it would be awesome to have an M-class sun, since they can have lifespans multiple times longer than the current age of the universe.
I am intrigued by the implied possibility of a project without specific design constraints.
Interview with Juan Pablo Buritica Vice President of Engineering at Splice
Physics models are often checked against other models (which might have had some confirmation) in simple cases, and there are a lot of other sanity checks you can make on them to ensure they are providing reasonable results.

Obviously, one shouldn't blindly accept them without experimental confirmation, but one shouldn't also be wildly pessimistic in believing calculations grounded in three centuries worth of validated equations.
Aren't http or grpc apis autogenerated? You'd be crazy not to use a generator for those.
("nukes" commonly refers to nuclear weapons, not power plants)
> I know it's nearby on galactic scales but it's practically about 450,000 Earth years away with current technology :-)

If we had the political will, the Orion design could get people there in, what, 200 years, and that's with '70s technology.
Defense contractors set their own payscales but also compete on price. I know software engineers right now earning north of 150K. Also, overtime is paid and billed in defense. Thus, if you do work overtime, your defense contractor wants to bill it and you get paid for it. My first year out of school I made nearly 100K on a 67K salary because of billed overtime. This was in 2003.

There is also the fact that finding ways to get more ads in front of people is not inherently motivating for some engineers when compared to building space systems or solving other interesting problems like deconflicting telescope laser alignment with satellite orbits.
Yeah, the nice thing about C is that it really doesn't take much to start writing and running C. A text editor and a compiler is all you need, and unlike say Java there's not a ton of boilerplate you need to handwave when writing "hello world".
Yes, we've had really crappy implementations of voice recognition for decades now. Doing voice recognition _well_ has been a somewhat more recent development (depending on who you ask it's still not good enough), and until very recently, most of the more accurate systems have either required extensive calibration to learn your voice, or been run exclusively server-side. The reason it's done remotely is because that's the easiest way to get accurate results; it's not some grand conspiracy.
Its not mandatory to use it. Its an option in a market.

The one that uses a coin backed with violence is the State. How can you even begin to compare that?
As a point of comparison, the global population has almost quadrupled in the previous 80 years. So even in the worst case scenario, population growth is dropping spectacularly.
Mark Zuckerberg is very impressed by WeChat as a platform. That’s probably the best way to understand that effort. “Crypto” is less a technology and more a loose governance method because no Western company can have the authority that WeChat has in China.
404 in Germany
Also not available in Germany.
I doubt I'm alone in this, but I do find it simultaneously amusing and depressing how mind bogglingly big the universe (or even the galaxy) is. It's clear that discovering entirely new levels of physics will be necessary to stand a chance of going anywhere.
I mean, i think you answered the question yourself. History of account security details, things like login logs, IP addresses, when things were changed, payment information, etc can corroborate the story a user is trying to tell (ie, my account got stolen), or refute it.

And those things? It comes down to having strong process rules and having intelligent life forms make the decision.
I live in India, and I can literally feel the difference.

But, what I'm surprised of is, many plants didn't dry up. And they are in good condition.
You still have to deal with the residuals from desalination. About 1/3 of the salt water is useable. The other 2/3s is a brine that can not be used. Not to mention what are you going to do with all of that salt and biological material you just pulled out? You aren't going to be able to sell it.
Most countries currencies are floating(fluctuate). People do use fiat for making money, it's called Forex trading.
I said "my government", which for obvious reasons doesn't have to be the one the US has
This seems to be confusion between "The United States Federal Government" and the entire population within the United States.

The Constitution divides responsibilities between the federal government, state governments, and the people. Education is left to the states which largely leave it up to localities.

It's kind of like saying that "The United States spends ten times as much on army helmets as it does on state parks". Well, duh, the states pay for state parks.
If it's any help, NewPipe [0] is a FOSS YouTube client for Android which doesn't require an account, doesn't require Google Play Services, and doesn't (!) display ads.

Yes, it has subscription support and you can import/export that list to keep it backed up.

It also has a TON of features, like PiP, background play (for video and audio), downloading, and much, much more.

Ivory [1] might be the closest iOS equivalent, and
Motionbox [2] and FreeTube [3] the closest desktop equivalents.

[0]. https://newpipe.schabi.org/

[1]. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-video-player/id129434748...

[2]. http://omega.gg/MotionBox/

[3]. https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
OP: Might be worth removing the link URL from this post so that we don't hammer their servers while they're trying to fix it for us.
Nah, Americans (as in, the people in power) would only care if their homes were affected.
I think that 'IAmEveryone likely means that people aren't lifetime-limited. Most people aren't reproducing after 40, but expected lifespan is much more than that so even if it doubled there wouldn't be more children.
Having recently driven two model year cars with little change other than one now has a touch screen, the screen made a world of difference. Features I normally never use were quick and easy to access. Yes apple and google car stuff were also easier, but just the entire driving experience was nicer: no knobs to twist and press or shift like a joystick, no sea of buttons with meaningless icon, fewer endless dives of menus.

I see that the data may not agree with my experience but I look to have touch in every car I buy in the future. From a driver looking to leverage technology, while we get automation working, let's make it easy for the driver to get to the car's features.
People spend a ton of energy, that could otherwise have been put to better use, to extracting small fragments of yellowish metal from beneath the ground, cleaning it up only to put it in another cave behind bars and locks. Then they go around loudly proclaiming how valuable it is.

A lot of work was spent moving it only to never use it. Value is a strange thing, I guess. One would think they could skip that massively expensive and somewhat dangerous unnecessary part and just count large numbers instead, or something.
Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AAC
Look into Project Orion. With thermonuclear bombs you could hit 8% c, which would get you there in "only" 150-200 years including acceleration and deceleration time.

That is still beyond humans with present day life spans, but extend life span to ~1000 years or go full AI and you can totally ride the "devil's pogo stick" to stars <=20ly or so awat.

Fusion rockets would probably be better. I mention Orion because we sort of know how to build it today... at ludicrous cost. No new physics and not that much fundamentally new engineering is needed. Orion is a fabulous and quite valid counter to the folks that seem to like to repeat the canard that interstellar flight is impossible. Hard as hell, sure, but not impossible by any means.

To a fully Kardashev type I civilization it might be around Apollo moon shot difficulty.
If err != nil everywhere is definitely a code smell and poor language design.
Kindle says $5 for me.
404's 503's aside, should we speculate as to what the issue is?
Multiple validators with byzantine fault tolerance.
I was at the FT when they "adopted" Elixir. (There is nothing wrong with Elixir, it actually look quite fun. All of the following is process, buisness and design failures)

That side of the business was a java shop, and had just got 70% through a very long and expensive migration from some old CRM, payment and auth system, to a new CRM payment and auth system. (something like 70 people for four years, lots of design by the CV, Cassandra, and other silly design choices.)

Two devs knew how to use Elixir, they bust out a service, everyone says "Ooo well done" flung it over the fence and leave. Noone else can really support it because they are almost all junior java devs. The other departments can't support it because A) everything was custom, B) only one other person in the entire company (300 devs) knew elixir. Total defecation show.

So when you see people do something because another company said so, politely tell them to reconsider.

to translate into a different context:

Project is to build a grain silo. four teams: One team makes the walls, one the roof, one the vent system and finally the floor.

Roof team decide to use wood, because they've not tried that before, and it looks good. They are all metal workers. They quickly realise the mig welders do not perform as well as they do on steel.

Wall team are using corigated galvanised steel and bolts. Start building the walls, are blocked by both the roof team re-skilling and the floor team.

Vent team decide to use the same, but don't want to use imperial bolts.

Floor team have decided after an away day, that they don't like the current range of ground anchors, so they have decided to spend six months designing a new fixture out of carbon fibre.

To tie it back to the article.

There is no possible way to prove the argument with one company, you need a double blind.
Yes, but with pseudonimity. This makes it a lot more censorship resistant (which is PP's main weakness).
I assume the mobile app is still working for people? (Mine is)
Right. That's a worst case scenario for peak power demand if everybody was charging their EVs at peak time. The solution is to install smart chargers, and incentivise off-peak charging so that a high proportion of charging happens at off-peak times, when there is plenty of surplus generation and grid capacity available.

Or, to put it another way: It doesn't make sense to spend billions on building new power plants just because everybody is plugging in their cars when they get home at 6PM every night and causing a huge demand spike. Smart charging and demand management is a much cheaper way to solve the problem.
Is tether crypto?
Could not disagree more with the moral. Write prototypes for sure, toss code out a lot early on, and then once you’ve nailed the direction, start iterating on refactoring the prototype. But to eschew prototype code from the start? That’s a separate hard lesson in itself.
CSS Scroll Snap Updated in Firefox 68
Is this a joke? I seriously doubt the HN traffic is even 0.1% of people banging refresh right now.
The downloading feature and background play is what makes it for me. Occasionally Youtube makes a change that breaks it but the devs have been pretty good about updates
Building AR Apps with React Native and GraphQL Using Hasura
The fact that you made an internet comment saying it doesn't make it true, doesn't make it not true.
Programmers who write CLI apps/network-services tend to love Go. Programmers who love mutable, imperative programming love Go. Programmers who find the CSP model a natural fit for asynchronous programming love Go. Programmers who want the stdlib to contain what they need for 80% of use-cases love Go. Programmers who love checking `if err != nil` in every statement love Go.

Programmers who write re-usable libraries (eventually) come to hate Go. Programmers who leverage Sequences/Streams, immutability and functional programming tend to hate Go. Programmers who prefer exceptions or railway-result types for error handling also tend to hate Go. Programmers who desire tight control over performance and memory management will obviously hate Go.

In my personal opinion, the Go language is handicapped to claim simplicity. However, the Go standard library is amazing for productivity. If Go the language, didn't come with its stdlib and wasn't pushed by Google, you wouldn't have so many Go fans.
>If I record that upcoming datetime in UTC but I forgot about a daylight savings time change between now and then that doesn't mean the event will happen at 6pm - it's still happening at 7.

This breaks down when you start having to deal with multiple timezones. Then whenever you do sorting or availability checks you have to account for DST/timezones. You will pretty quickly make a method that converts your timezone stored data to UTC. Better to just store it all as UTC so that your DB queries are much simpler.
once you have an in demand organ, are you somewhat immune to prosecution, akin to double jeopardy? they wont reharvest a kidney?
Google APIs Down
Probably cached?
This article calculates "fossil fuel subsidies" using an expansive definition that includes negative externalities and arrives at $649 billion. People might assume that "subsidies" means things like tax breaks for industry by the federal government. That is more like $4 billion. The article uses the narrowest possible defintion of "education spending" to mean the funding of the department of education, which is $68 billion but doesn't operate any schools. If you were to count what Americans actually spend on public education at local and state levels, it's actually like $700 billion.

Then again, it's kind of crazy to pick up negative externalities in a calculation of a "subsidy." By that reasoning, anything measurably bad that the government hasn't outlawed yet is a "subsidy" if you look at it the right way. How much do we spend in the U.S. subsidizing opiod addiction? Murder? Car crashes?
Published a blog post about how React Native developers can create simple AR experiences powered by GraphQL using hasura.io

- Understanding basic building blocks of AR apps
- Setup HasuraHQ engine to auto-generate GraphQL and provide data for our React Native app
- GraphQL Subscriptions working in AR
- Markers and image recognition
- Cool portals to 3d worlds
Actually, I'd be more interested in one that can run in the cloud...
Google Calendar down in Malta too. Same 404.
Wikipedia destroyed the encyclopedia market and now is the most popular encyclopedic platform for political information.

In Germany, a huge admin cabal at Wikipedia has been revealed that influences political topics: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://...

They white-wash politician’s profiles and controversial topics such as 9/11 or Israel-Palestinia conflict, etc.
It seems to be a very well-equipped propaganda outlet.

Some of the admins are said to post 50,000 and more article edits, literally night and day including Christmas.

The admins have a sophisticated method of badmouthing critics (including those who revealed the cabal) on both, Wikipedia and a side-project with heavy backlinks from Wikipedia. It’s called www.psiram.com - They invest a lot of efforts to maintain total anonymity by registering companies and domain in several countries.

It is suspected, that this ecosphere (it’s huge) is financed by a secret service. (Not) surprisingly, no main-stream media is covering this topic of amazing importance, or they play it down by looking at irrelevant side aspects of it.

I would wonder if something similar does exist on the English Wikipedia.
404 Spain
There is at least this from Zuckerberg's announcement : "Calibra will be regulated like other payment service providers. Any information you share with Calibra will be kept separate from information you share on Facebook."
Not ones with 1.1g!
lol, do you even children. They will always find a way. You can restrict apps and services all you want. How about their friends at school? Are you going to restrict their phones as well? The only thing that works is actually talking to the kids about things they've seen/experienced. Not saying that is easy of course.
Unless they can levvy taxes, the comparison is ridicolous. Do you think Magic the Gathering is also a sovereign state?
404 in Hungary aswell
I've always wondered what I, as an individual, could do to help. I work full time, and I have a chronic illness which makes it difficult to physically contribute. I am a software engineer, so I do have technical skills to contribute if there were problems that needed technical solutions, but I simply don't know where to look.
Rough past couple of weeks for Google.
Or extreme life extension, or fully digital AI. Life span is a big part of the problem.

Personally I doubt that meat will go to the stars. Planets, sure, and maybe bases or settlements. The stars take too long.
You're not alone.

I grew up reading and watching a lot of sci-fi. Today I recognize that most of it was garbage in terms of physics, but I'm still saddened that the universe isn't that easy - we can't just hop on a space cruise ship and do a tour of a nearby nebula...
You sound a lot like some of the people I worked with, hey Tim :).

1. The codebase that I was working on was not awesome, it was a mix of Fortran (while i am a fan of and would much rather use that than C for scientific code) and DCL. Lots of stuff that was clearly a design afterthought, but with decades of momentum and an attitude of "just keep it working"

2. There's a lot of history in VMS, but unfortunately it's primarily used to support legacy projects, and with intel not making anymore itanium doesn't seem like there is a future. I couldn't even get a working version of the netbeans plugin to work with it. Basically I got the plugin with no support, despite having a service contract, because there was no engineering supporting fixes.

3. Could have been that the way we wrote out networking was a mess, but I do believe that TCP/IP was an add-on feature that was not part of the kernel.

4. That statement was exclusive to the people i worked with. They were not CS guys, they were support people that had enough experience with the system to get a spot in engineering. They knew how "that" system worked, but not how to solve problems without relying on legacy code that was based on obsolete ideas. I shit you not there were delays in the code because the network was "too fast" and the process couldn't handle it.

5. Solaris is the bomb too.

Take a chill pill, boo
A Woman Who Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer
The model i like, keeping to the monumental theme of the test pyramid, is a testhenge:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/styles/ow_medium_feat...

You need a thin layer of high-level tests (controller and/or browser) covering the entire application, and then columns of lower-level (integration and unit) diving deeper into it where there are areas of particular complexity or risk.
Technical whitepaper [PDF]: https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-bl...

Details on the Move programming language [PDF]: https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/libra-move-a...