skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That gives you a single bit of entropy from those two people instead of a steady stream, though.
> There is also a first world etiquette of leaving some food in the plate. I have seen people habitually do it.

I think it’s a status thing, to show that you are rich enough that you can just throw away food. You have probably heard or seen the horror stories about (rich) Chinese tourists and buffets when they visit overseas.

OTOH My friend majorly pissed off our (normal for China) dinner host in southern China by putting food on his plate then not eating all of it.

It’s the same in Japan, and Japanese buffets literally fine people for taking food and not eating it.
"but honestly, I consider youtube to be a force for good."

The comments section makes me think the internet was a mistake.
Pedestrians are not 3 tons of steels that run you over.

Bycicles have bells. On shared paths, pedestrians don't hear cyclists coming from behind, so you occasionally give them a ping.
> I had picked the [trial] date, not the judge, [to coincide with my kid's seventh birthday] because I knew that the other side wasn’t ready. Delaying even a few days would have meant losing a crucial advantage. I wasn’t going to risk it knowing what was on the line for my client.

I would just like to say that picking the most inconvenient time for all counsel involved is one of those tactics you see in the practice of law too often. And for what? So all the lawyers can miss every major holiday, and their kids birthdays? To make the other lawyers beg for the time off everyone else takes for granted? The article-writer lost me on this one, and I'm sad to see this person is a professor teaching this same toolkit of antisocial tactics to the next generation of lawyers.
> Now nurse might be reasonably interesting, but not irreplaceable like that lawyer. And arguably, you would be doing the same job as at home (changing diapers), only not with your children

Did you seriously just equate the work that nurses do with changing diapers?
Google map has a area measuring tool enclosed if you right click.

Closing a region gives you approximate area.

edit: There seems to be at least 35 sqkm.
No, Android (or rather, AOSP), is fully open source.

Most device makers fork AOSP and distribute binaries containing their modifications. These always come with source code for the GPL portions, and occasionally also the portions licensed under permissive licenses such as Apache and BSD.

For instance, OnePlus and Sony publish these Android sources:
https://github.com/OnePlusOSS
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev?tab=repositories
I made the opposite choice. I left a 7 figure a year (but 70% travel) job to take a few years off with my kids. I'm under no illusion that my kids will be that much better for it, but I will be.

I am consuming this time with just absolute relish. A relationship is the sum of small things. And driving them to school is part of that overall cumulative time that ... just... matters. For me. I'm sure the kids would be great if their mom did it without me. But I only have one shot here, only a few years where the kids are 12 years old. So yeah, I'll spend my 7 figures a year for this. (Bezos test: would I make the same choice on my death bed looking back?)

She is in a unique situation in that she could choose to live any way she wants; she's not some working stiff. And she is choosing something else. It's not going to hurt her kids, but I think it's a tradeoff she may regret later.
VNC on GNU/Linux has terrible performance and UI. Isn't SPICE where the cutting edge of display over LAN technology is at?
If you are “using macOS High Sierra or later on an APFS-formatted startup disk”, you can create additional APFS volumes on the startup disk and install the beta there.

That way, you can switch between your ‘normal’ OS and the beta, and reverting is a matter of deleting the volume you created for the beta (https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208891)

Of course, that is riskier than installing on a separate disk or even Mac, as the beta PS could easily damage both volumes.
I have also seen people who use the online version/simulation of teletext. Probably because it is so brief and has very few distractions. E.g.:

https://nos.nl/teletekst
The Issue with Pie Chart
Cars have horns.

Note that I'm not advocating for adding noise to these things. I'm just trying to point out that there's a status-quo bias where we're willing to retain unnecessary noise but not to create it.
Perhaps an idea to make a substitute profile pic that people can use to show they are in.

By the way, July 4-5 (before the weekend) seems unfortunate timing because many people will want to check for events.
Huawei Honor 8S – Prix
Looking at all the new coal power plants being built / planned in India is really disheartening though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Mega_Power_Projects
In the case of macOS, you can install it on a separate APFS volume [1] without touching your current installation.

I have been using it to test the new features in Xcode 11/ iOS 13, and it has spared me many headaches.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208891
''new method of keeping the lights on if the world turns to 100% clean, renewable energy'' probably bs

''New research by Mark Z. Jacobson'' ok this is surely bs
Totally agree. But I think the discussion / original article here posed the question regarding kids. Totally up for workaholic-ism if that's your bag (and it was mine when I was in my 20's and childless) - but in the case of this article I'd question why have kids in the first place if your focus is going to be entirely on work. I know sometimes this just happens but it feels dangerous to the sanity and wellbeing of the kids involved.
Running iPadOS since it was made publicly available. Very few bugs, nothing like what you describe.
I sold my previous company and started a one man company mostly because now I can now be at home when my kids get out of school. Best decision ever. I work when they’re at school. And I work when they go to bed. No stress, no guilt, no worries. It’s awesome.

I grew up on a farm. My parents were home 24/7. I liked that.
Also on iPhone X. When zooming the layout becomes garbled and unreadable.
This message is not a new one and it isn't really working. People kind of know - nobody walks into a supermarket to specifically buy stuff just to put in the rubbish bin, do they?

I think there needs to be more radical solutions. For instance a sugar tax or a different tax band for microwave ready meals.

We have all been there, after a hard week to have gone shopping to get the healthy veg and some ready prepared meal items, e.g. microwaveable or just a pizza that can be shoved in the oven. We get back tired from the shopping trip and don't make that salad, we put the pizza in the oven. The next day we do the same. Then the working week takes over and that once prime condition veg is not looking so good. We can't bring ourselves to throwing it out so we hold on to it until it is truly rotten. Meanwhile we have some other lazy beige foods.

It is an easy trap to fall into and we have all been there. But what if that instant pizza cost as much as a restaurant pizza? Or that microwave meal cost the same as a pub meal?

You would probably go for proper food. People could reduce food waste in the days before refrigeration, to not waste a thing. Ask anyone who is old enough to have known WW2. Rationing was a way of reducing waste, but, what else has changed? The junk food. This needs to be taxed so that people don't leave the good stuff to go rotten. Junk also needs to be taxed so poor people who view vitamins as a luxury don't eat it.
https://domains.google.com/ ?
Not necessarily. There are so many cases (even in industrialized countries) of former bog areas turned into farmland by lowering the water level that a biogas plant from corn grown on such ground produces 8 times the CO_2 a lignite plant would have per MW. Just by steady degradation of peat in the ground of the fields.
The actual paper is https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014811...
Vim Plugins You May Never Have Heard About
I've read what Paul Graham wrote about not worrying but why attract it if we don't have to? For YC the startups work on stealth mode until demo day, and that makes sense to me, we can expand to more markets keeping a low profile and push until we have a solid expansion model that works.
Not taking sides in this debate (which is over whether or not nuclear power should be used), however the paper has four authors and in the introduction they say:

"The main purpose of this study is to explore whether low-cost mixes using 100% WWS can
match energy demand with intermittent supply, not to prescribe the only possible future
energy mix in each region. Indeed, many different future scenarios can be constructed
depending on the objective. The objective here is to determine whether a 100% WWS
system, which we believe maximizes air quality and climate change benefits while
minimizing catastrophic risk relative to systems using other technologies, can deliver energy
reliably at a reasonable business cost worldwide."

So either way, if their modeling is good, it is still a useful assessment of options.
The only thing preventing me fully leaving Google is YouTube, but a massive amount of my News, Entertainment, Music, basically everything, comes from YouTube.. Does anyone know a way I can watch YouTube videos without sending my stuff to Google? Some sort of custom client with telemetry disabled or something? Honestly I'm not even entirely sure what Google does with my video watching data but it'd be foolish to think they're doing nothing.
Original paper and the other papers by the authors (leading up to the resulting startup)

[1] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.089#

[2] https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=6tlAHpQAAAAJ&...

[3] https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=F4_L9CYAAAAJ&...
No, that is a nonsensical construction comparable to what is being done in Stockholm where they import biomass from south America to fuel CHP (combined heat and power i.e. co-generation) systems, this in a country where biomass from forestry is abundant.

The problem here does not lie with the use of biomass but with those who decide to implement it in such a way. Biomass works when there is a reliable fuel source in the form of forestry or agricultural waste, water treatment plant waste, sewage, etc. If you have to import biomass from the other side of the planet just to satisfy some 'green' requirement it is far better to use another power source - this being France I'd say nuclear power should be one of the first options.
> The solution IMO is not Mastodon or any of these fringe social networks. The main problem is the lack of an ethical business model in mainstream social media.

That is certainly a problem and something should be addressed. But I don't think it is the root cause. The real tragedy is the lack of understanding that reality happens between the mainstream and the fringe.

Most of the technology we like was created in the second half of the 20th century. We have been standing on the shoulders of giant and eventually the giants got old and were replaced by self-serving large tech companies. But since most people are making money, or get things for free, we don't want to recognize that we are their servants. There is no longer any urgency to create something different, because being different means missing out.

The reason you have to go to esoteric solutions when talking about something like decentralization is because the Internet is no longer built for it. From authentication, to networks and even the state of ip addresses is less than great. That you can avoid these problem by going to the fringe likely comes from the idea that hackers still have influence. We think that if something doesn't work it can't be our own fault, it most be some conspiracy or inherent limitation, rather a lack in our own understanding and ability to organize.

> Besides the branding, decentralisation comes with its own issues like the lack of network-wide content moderation and agreement on what content is acceptable.

Decentralization built on individualism rarely works. Because it leaves the unorganized powerless. It has to be built upon common features used by different cliques were the participants have choice. Maybe most importantly there has to be separation between the platform and the activity.
It is not that simple. Sound enhances the situational awareness especially when people are used to it for like forever.
Is iPadOS v1 or v13?
There is also Dry - https://moncho.github.io/dry/

The best part about dry is using it through docker itself.
I just spent seven days with only a limited data plan. I felt like time slowed down to a crawl and I was able to do much more than on a regular day with the internet.
Build Messaging Between Ruby/Rails Applications with ActiveMQ
Indeed, so my assumption is that this law is trying to keep things from changing.

People will have to adapt to silent cars. But that's scary.

Everybody knows that you have to look before making a turn or changing lanes. We also know that by and large people who listen to music or have a headset for a phone conversation are not killed en masse.

I think that is law is a pity. There is enough noise pollution already.
Hmm, I’m just a bystander. I’m not making any claim, just noting to the parent post that the article does indeed report two scenarios (and frankly there may be even more at play, simultaneously.)

I’m not into monarchies nor do I think most do, sounds like a bit of a straw man...

Just a passing observation: looks like several bottom-up movements, revolutions, alternative “emergent communities” tend to leave enough leeway for manipulative actors to play with the new weak norms without the rest of the community noticing how they’re being played. I’m curious if there are studies on the subject
The code has some significant setup issues. I love the video, but I would love a GitHub repository where I could submit pull requests even more. He has a GitHub account, so not sure why it's posted to a Google doc.

Kudos to the dude for making an attempt to share though, and using open extensible tools that make it easy for others to try to jump on board. Just a little more work and it would be a great entry project for machine learning.
I wish my mother had spent less time hanging around. Why do people think their presence benefits their children? Think again.
Few days ago I saw something about “Men’s rights” movement and my first reaction was to think of it as parody and laugh it off. But then I looked at few stories and videos and it was eye opening. Many people don’t understand how badly some of the men are being exploited and even driven to suicide. Current laws in Western world are heavily tilted towards perceiving men as guilty party, someone who must always be making sacrifice. A women, for example, can call in police at anytime and put her husband in jail by claiming domestic violence however other way around almost never work. Women can threaten her husband of divorce and take away house, car and half of the bank savings even if she has contributed negatively by causing lot of stress or performing large spending sprees. Courts tend to give women custody of children and in some states women can claim it any way by citing reasons such as husband has (non-existent) violent behavior. Judge and jury almost always will take side with women.

I understand above are rare cases and that women gets sharp end of rope far more often. However still this would be like saying that it’s ok to sacrifice those minority men who lose everything including their life’s work and even their children when women simply decides to wave magic wand of law.

I don’t want to derail the conversation but Western society has only accepted one side of view and sexism on other side gets laughed off to oblivion.
I've just released a new version which works better with light backgrounds, so feel free to give that a shot and let me know your thoughts :)
Lots of judgemental responses here. I realize cultural expectations from women are very skewed, but I'd hope for more open-mindedness from HN users.

This choice isn't unreasonable when, as in this article:

1. There are other loving caregivers to help fill in any gaps

2. The job has very high value-add to others, i.e. it's not just about selfish value-capture
You have to compare comparable things: in this case the comparable metric that is actually useful is "be able produce N GW of electricity with a 10% variation over a 60 year timespan". If you count this you'll have to account for the fact that solar and wind are intermittent, which means you'll need batteries or a reliable electricity source, and that's _always_ fossil based (typically gas). You also have to account for the fact that the expected lifespan of batteries and panels is around 30 years, so you have to buy them twice.

In the other side, a nuclear plant does provide a reliable current, has a long lifespan, and turns out to be cheaper. Even the GIEC says so: we won't be able to efficiently reduce our greenhouse gases without nuclear.
Hi Kevin, is it possible to join and work in stealth mode, keeping all reports to YC partners only?
The Energy Cost of Electric and Human-Powered Bicycles (2004) [pdf]
Definitely CP. With Eva and Datomic, transactions are serialised through a single transactor node at a time.

The transaction log design is a fundamental design tradeoff that Eva/Datomic/Crux share, which means system throughput is limited by the throughput of a single process. The argument in favour of such a design is that most businesses & business applications don't actually experience transactional data volumes over 10K tx/sec.
From the paper, the proposed technologies are:

"Key elements of the solution applicable to different cases are to (1) produce heat directly
from solar and geothermal heat resources and from electricity; (2) store electricity as heat
after current electricity demand is satisfied and electricity storage is full; (3) if thermal
energy storage is used, store excess heat in water and underground rocks when current heat
demand is satisfied; (4) if thermal energy storage is used, produce cold directly from
electricity and store excess cold in water and ice; (5) produce hydrogen from excess
electricity after all electricity and heat storage are full, and store excess hydrogen; (6) store
excess CSP electricity in a phase-change material and remaining excess electricity either in
pumped-hydro storage, as heat in underground rocks, or as hydrogen; (7) increase the
maximum discharge rates of CSP, the number of batteries, or the maximum discharge rate
of hydropower (while keeping its annual energy production constant) to help meet peaks in
demand; (8) use heat pumps for cold and low-temperature heat loads wherever possible; and
(9) use demand response for some loads to reduce peaks in load."
So at the core of it, the previous paper depended on adding a lot more turbines into existing dams so that they could be burstier, and didn't provide justification for, or even really mention the need for, the ability to add that many turbines.

This got called a "modeling error", which among other things made him mad enough to sue for libel.

Well, quality of legal decisions aside, one of the main points of the new paper is that it's "suggesting several different solutions for stabilizing energy produced with 100 percent clean, renewable sources, including solutions with no added hydropower turbines and no storage in water, ice or rocks."
Is it normal for the panels to tilt north-south? Wouldn't it be better if they tilted east-west?
Before looking into knowledge and skills, look into the definition of successful.

Do you mean rich? Happy? Wanted? Desired? Etcetera
By the way, there's also Pulsed Electric Field Pasteurisation.

https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/article/2116/pulsed-electric...
The source code of the Linux kernel portions is still a huge step in the right direction, even if it comes without detailed datasheets and and talks to proprietary firmware.

It still lets you continue to evolve the internal kernel interfaces without having to worry about the driver's existing ABI.

It still lets you fix most security holes, or remove anti-features that rely on interaction between the firmware and userspace.

Fuchsia, by means of facilitating real proprietary drivers, will take us back to the Windows era, where the OS must support 2 or 3 different driver models in parallel just to continue supporting existing hardware after it has been abandoned by the vendor (which typically means 1 or 2 years after its launch).
I would say its at least 3800 million years old

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/blu...

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-earliest-signs-of-life-on-l...
Strangely enough, Italy has one of the highest electricity prices in the EU. 20-30 cents/kWh. Though a lot of it is taxes (besides VAT).

https://www.energycouncil.com.au/media/5126/2016-04-27-figur...
What he means in the paper is, geopolitical boundaries. For example, Japan and China depending on each other's grids. Or the various African countries depending on each other. Or the middle eastern countries sharing a grid.
right from the people who consider the rights of a company well above the rights of people. schizophrenic.
Google’s new operating system: Fuchsia
Pulsed Electric Field Pasteurisation of Foods
Here is the scene, in case anyone is interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRS6spe6xaI
> Energy ... has to be under the control of a political authority with complete control over it.

Energy has been harvested by plants for millions of years before nation states were a thing. It is nothing like currency, which requires advanced political and technological development to exist as we have it today as a form of electronic credit. The only link at all is we can agree that both energy and currency have measurable value.

The only reason political authorities get involved in energy is to secure it for their own people, or for Safety/Environmental reasons. How energy gets used is a somewhat political question - but only in the sense that literally everything humans do is a somewhat political question. I could harvest and use energy for myself with very little state involvement, for example.
It's scary seeing the evolution of the effects of climate change over time. How anybody can continue to deny it is unbelievable. This [1] plots out global average temperatures since the Industrial Revolution, month by month.

[1] https://kyso.io/KyleOS/temperature
What is harder to locate in the articles, science papers and video is what precise bacterium or bacteria makes the Solein?
A huge change in my food waste output took place when I stopped going to the supermarket, and instead started going to the local market once a week.

Having to plan out what I needed for the week really changed my behavior for the better.

(+ supporting local farmers + reducing plastic consumption)