skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany nobody drinks tap water. Just the notion makes as much cultural sense to them as drinking water from the toilet cistern does to you. It is just not the done thing.

Have you tried their beer? And why are you asking for water in the first place?

They always serve beer with extra consideration and thought put into the bierdeckel. You just don't get bierdeckel everywhere, this is quite a German thing, a matter of pride, customer service and a job well done. However, walk into an American bar and ask for a bierdeckel and you will get a blank stare. Even though bierdeckel are 100% safe, American waiting staff just don't want to do the kindness. To them any insistence on a free bierdeckel is just weird.

As for air-con in Europe. This is the last thing we need.

There was a time before air conditioning when it was possible to heat and cool buildings. The trick to it was not difficult, you just needed a stone or other robust building that takes a while to heat up during the day. A breeze running through the building due to having attic windows open and the front door open did a better job than any 110v fan. This was convection, just normal heat rising, with no external breeze needed.

This also worked well during winter albeit without the windows open for the cooling breeze. The physical mass of the building would keep it warm inside even if there were no fires in the hearths overnight.

America is different in that buildings are made from a few bits of wood and some PVC decorative covers. The specific heat capacity isn't right for natural cooling and, with the more southern latitude, the only way to survive is with air-con. This applies to the clammier parts of the American South as well as the dryer desert areas. Living there needs air-con. This is probably why people didn't live there in such vast numbers in the days before air-con.

But air-con is like a disease. People get used to it very easily and have to spend the rest of their lives with it. People are also vastly more spherical than they used to be and their lives are sedentary. As a consequence they can't regulate their own body heat. Their only option is to not enjoy the seasons and splendid weather, to be boxed in behind their noisy air-con machines with the windows closed and none of that natural temperature management that used to go on in former times.

As soon as the fatties that need air-con completely take over then that is game over for buildings that have served us well over the centuries with well considered solutions for natural temperature control.
My impression (also anecdotal) is that while there are people who have given up Facebook, or are using it less, they're a small percentage.

Most of what I've noticed is people no longer posting something on Facebook, then Instygram, then Twitter, then Tumblr, then whatever else is out there. They seem to be coalescing into one or two favored platforms.
More specific news about the antitrust probe: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-24/facebook-... .
If we only believed more in the philosopher's stone!

There are fundamental problems in achieving economically viable fusion. Nice and clean reactions that power the sun are way too slow, and need immense volume. Faster reactions produce neutrons and still require temperatures several times higher than inside Sun.

Where economy and safety are not the primary concerns, fusion has long been achieved: in bombs.
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You may want to check out how the Comm Ave bridge over the Pike was replaced in Boston. It was pretty quicke although not as fast 43 hours. However, we also couldn't afford to close the lower road (I-90) as above for an extended staging effort. I believe rail lines were only impacted on two weekend pushes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNiACLQtHyg
1) Total Freedom : The Essential Krishnamurti. Selected writings of Jiddu Krishnamurti from his 50+ years of lectures and notes to self.

2) Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion, by Sam Harris. An amazing masterpiece on a rational approach to meditation.

3) Coming to our senses, by Jon-Kabat Zinn. A collection of essays which delve into the urgency of understanding oneself in the present moment & the case for contemplative life.
Optimism is really, really hard. It requires you to risk looking foolish. Our emotional needs to feel connected work against us staking a position too far away from the norm.

But few great things have been accomplished without the risk of looking foolish, at least at the outset.
It is legal. It happens everywhere and it's even required by law in New York.

https://fortune.com/2014/03/20/starbucks-new-digital-tip-jar...
We don't know.

ITER is the big-scale, brute-force approach. People suspect there may be smart ways to do better with less, but until either succeed that's anyone's guess.

ITER is a tokamak. That's one approach. There is also the inertial confinement approach, that more efficient LED lasers have made an interesting contender. There is the stellarator approach, aka the "smart tokamak" experimented in Germany. Another one is the Z-pinch, used in Z machines, which seem to focus more on nuclear weapons research but that could potentially be a way towards usable fusion.

What makes ITER a likely candidate is solely its funding. I wish we funded the others to a similar amount.

And in each approach, there are also several ways of doing things.
I keep wondering whether these guys will go public. They're at least 6-7 years old, have healthy revenues, and seemingly a lot of customers.

I've wanted to see the financials for a while. Show us the numbers, Josh!
I think that's addressed in the parent

>He used to carry a briefcase stuffed with money and a gun
she's a partisan. if a D were prez she'd be talking about how all the recession fears are overblown and some Rs would be acting panicked. wait 5 years the messages will flip again
Or maybe it’s a utopian future. I’d love to see how cities could operate differently if designed from the ground up with lots of funds to get it right. I wouldn’t be too worried for Googles who would choose to live there, since they wouldn’t at all be economically trapped if they didn’t like it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513702
Police work is less dangerous than many common occupations in the US but it is indeed still dangerous.

The question is whether this level of danger is a sufficient to justify police tactics that severely endanger civilians such as no-knock raids - factors that make "SWATing" so dangerous for the average person.

The further factor here is that the false belief that there's an armed camp ready to attack cops instantly with automatic rifles can give one the distorted impression that no-knock and related tactics will save lives.

However, the reality is there are few people ready to knowingly engage the cops (since even if you win, you lose against the authorities) but there citizens who have guns ready for persons known who might be breaking into their home and so SWAT tactics can be as likely to draw fire and casualties as to avoid them in the real world. And kill innocent of course.
"This has happened to basically every large web app company."

That is a seriously sad reflection on the poor quality of the software cranked out today.

Someone should be losing their job.
Basic economics also tells us that at some point substitutes will be found for your product. So, if product x1 is too expensive then x2 will do. It's not a 1 to 1 substitute but if it meets your needs then x1 will need to find a way to lower the cost or make it more attractive in other ways.

Tesla is not the only car manufacturer. There are plenty of transportation options to choose from. It has a niche now but it needs to sell large quantities to survive long term.
damn, first time seeing cosmonium. This is actually pretty nice and it is free...
i can protect my own privacy from facebook abuses by not using facebook
Up to a point the 737 got better, but the same things that made it get better (longer range) made it get worse (worse comfort)

An engineering prof I worked with years ago said that the 737 NG was already long in the tooth

https://www.newsweek.com/boeings-737-airplane-prone-problems...

and has a great quote from Tony: "Boeing are (sic.) stuck with a design that they want to fly forever."
Holistic practitioners should all be studying machine learning.

They were right about the problem of not having individualized medicine, way off with the solution. Now they can win with data
Apropos: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/16/us-36-denver-boulder-c...

We have had an unusually wet year and a chunk of roadway collapsed. Fortunately, it was slow enough that the road was closed well in advance of being a danger to motorists. The blame game is extra-complex since this is a toll road and a public/private partnership. The article goes into good detail.
The UK is pretty far behind France in the water department. I talked to a French couple who had just got off the beach and were looking for showers and drinking water. There are none at our local beaches. When they asked where they could go for a shower and to fill up their water ... I couldn't think of anywhere they could go for free.
Showers and drinking fountains are all over France, along with free camping.
Sure, people should lose their job because someone's diagnosing a network problem, happens to run tcpdump on a server behind a TLS-terminating load balancer, and sees username/passwords. /s This literally happens all the time.
Have a -30x climate contribution. Give $10,000/year to cool earth.
MassDOT recently published their capital budget with a little more fanfare than usual, to soothe Red Line passengers hurting from the recent derailment perhaps. It included $3 billion in major repaving efforts but that seems to have gone without challenge. However the Green Line Extension is barely alive politically on their $2.4B capital budget.

Likewise, a nearby overpass on Rt 128 was repaired for $30M.

Highways eat money but when Massachusetts looks to obvious transit improvements, suddenly cost is a major concern.
In a dream, does the dream character "possess" consciousness? Or is the dream character (and the whole dream) just a manifestation of consciousness?

In a similar way, "I" can say that consciousness exists, and is taking the form I call "my perspective," but that's about all.
Woman-Only Crew Flies a United 787 to the World’s Largest Airshow
May i ask what some of the design solutions you picked up were?
Seriously! We’re not going to plant a trillion trees in the next few years by complaining.

We’re going to do it by inventing and executing.
Dark Patterns Are Here to Stay
Typically known as the "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
You can't send a foolproof encrypted email. Email is insecure and always will be. The idea that PGP could make it secure was always a fantasy. Efail should have been the final nail in the coffin. If you want to talk to other people securely, use a secure messenger; secure messenger cryptography is its own distinct subfield of cryptography research, and real secure messengers have cryptography purposely designed for it. It involves elliptic curves, but you don't have to think about that.

Signal is the best of the lot, but Wire, or anything else that uses Signal Protocol is fine.
Hey, founder of Dgraph Labs here. If you are interested, we would love to consider you for a role at Dgraph. Feel free to reach out to me at Manish at Dgraph.io.
Donate to cool earth. When I looked last, it cost about $300/year to offset my carbon footprint. Go offset yours 20x or 30x over, or whatever "x" you can afford without feeling resentful about it.
The idea that consciousness comes first has been known as in eastern philosophy as non-dualism (advaita vedanta) -- everything is consciousness. The basic idea is that it is impossible to experience anything outside of our consciousness--thus any assumption there is something outside of consciousness is just that -- an assumption or belief. We can theorize, we can argue, but it will always remain a belief, because it's not possible to experience anything outside of consciousness.

I'd like to share Rupert Spira, a modern non-dualist teacher that holds this view-point. Here is one video in which he explains the consciousness-first approach to someone, a scientist, who holds to the materialist approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgcfa0LFKXc

Perhaps someone will find it interesting and peruse some of his other videos, which I find very enlightening.
But now that they have some production volume, they have to be evaluated as a car company

I'm generally critical of Tesla.. but this isnt right in my experience. If the company's volume is growing rapidly, they are going to have higher expenses than a stable low growth competitor. Because as volume approaches the capacity of the equipment and staff, you must throw more people at it, reduce maintenance, buy more equipment, etc. And all of that costs money. Capital assets are being built for their future volume, which is going to be more expensive, since they would be overbuilding for their current volume (which can be a big problem if growth slows). And the growth also creates urgency, which reduces the company's leverage when negotiating prices.

Only once growth is under control can a company then turn its full attention to controlling costs.
I believe that the web could be so much more if competition between platforms was somehow decoupled from competition between UIs. It would be incredible if every social network had a marketplace of competing UIs, allowing for rapid front-end innovation.

Of course, many services provide APIs, so in theory this decoupling is already possible, but the problem is that many platforms rely on advertising & promoted content for their revenue, so they need to maintain control over the front-end and therefore won't allow people to build alternative UIs.

I don't know how to solve the revenue problem. I just wish we could find a way to have UI competition.
Tesla crashes 10pct on poor Q2 results
Do React Hooks Replace Redux? TL;DR: Hooks Are Great, but No
Could it be the case that Boeing is behaving obstinately as a negotiation tactic, perhaps to negotiate more favorable terms concerning who pays for the re-training? Maybe they recognize that retraining will be necessary, but fear if they admit it they'll have no leg to stand on when airlines demand Boeing pays for it. Or maybe they realize retraining to some degree is an inevitability but they're trying to minimize the breadth of that retraining?
What were they used for?
Classification makes sense, because you do a linear (or kernel) combination of the input and squash it using sigmoid to get a probability of a class. For segmentation you output a pixel mask so you would have a NxNx3 vector to predict 1 class for 1 pixel and then you would have to do it for all pixels so you'd have to encode the position as well. Alternatively, if you take a unique weight for each position you end up with get single FC layer with NxNx3 inputs and NxN outputs (N^4 parameters). I guess for me it's hard to imagine doing segmentation "back then" and I find it very fascinating.
The left-nav hover is a good balance UX that's no harm to be official. Thanks for making this. Installed!
thanks for the heads up. I got the same email earlier.
HCaptcha is a popular alternative to Google's reCaptcha
That's one of the most depressing pictures I've ever seen.
Discovering the shortest orbital period eclipsing binary known
And you are here, blaming the customers instead of DoorDash for taking money intended for the dashers?? Might as well go pick up the thing myself, or hell, just make my own food at that point, then neither you or the company will receive even a cent. It is disingenuous to characterize the customers here as masters and the dashers as servants. You provide a service of your own will and customers pay for it.
If we really want to cure cancer we should stop polluting our air, water and food. And even if we can't stop we need to find ways to disincentivize making products that require our air and water to be polluted. For food:

https://www.basicknowledge101.com/subjects/verticalfarming.h...
Where does the randomness come from? If we could rewind the universe back to the same starting conditions, would it be any different the second time through and if so, where did that difference come from?
For me at least it doesn't. Even just typing into the search field lags sometimes so that I have to stop a second to let the characters appear. Searching for a restaurant, clicking on it, reading the information can take whole 10 seconds and be so frustrating.

I use Google Maps many years already but it just became so slow in the last year or so. Maybe they just don't support non-high end phones anymore.
Depends, how did they get to the server (secure jumpbox)? Did anyone know it'd be a security related event when they were diagnosing the problem? Did the tech take precautions? In such a case, I don't think robinhood.com would need to notify users. They tcpdump would be handled securely, scrubbed properly, troubleshooting done, and that'd be the end of it.

If that isn't what happened, someone should be losing their job. The minute you think diagnosing network problems is a reason to ignore security to a degree that your users need to be notified you're incompetent.
>The problem with the pit in the olive or the chicken in the vegetarian dish really don't have anything to do with the waiter.

If the waiter isn't checking that they got your order correct, then who is?

Should I be double checking with the manager that everything I ordered is exactly as it should be before I put it into my mouth?
Don't forget CGA composite. Featuring both direct color as well as artifact color. CGA was better than RGB-only usage suggested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors#CGA
It's questionable. ITER's design comes from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Hight Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have changed the game. HTS tape has only been available for about a decade.

The cube of magnetic field is proportional to the energy gain in a Tokomak. See this video at at 46 minutes to get the equation, watch more to understand why people are now doing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

Tokomak Energy and Commonwealth Fusion Systems among others are looking at smaller reactors that use High Temperature Superconductors.

Also have a look at Helion Energy.

Also note that the Chinese are starting to put serious money into fusion research.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-nuclearpower-fusion...
I'm at a "post-quantum" security startup right now and let it be known that it's not just the fintech guys who make these mistakes. If security isn't a top priority at a cryptography firm, where the hell is it one?
"Report: Average American Must Have Life Ruined By Natural Disaster Every 6 Minutes To Fear Climate Change" [1]

It's the Onion, but still seems on point

[1] https://www.theonion.com/report-average-american-must-have-l...
The main arguments in the fastmail blog you reference are:

1. Lack of support

2. Lack of people sending/reading plain text email

3. HTML bloat is no longer a real concern

Then they make some implementation difficulty arguments

1. Implement an editor that supports only semantic blockquoting

2. Fix "embarrassing line wrap" due to clients that lack support

For the first 3 arguments, I would say that lack of support from other clients doesn't mean that a client shouldn't support it. I regularly posted to usenet with Thunderbird (which supports format=flowed) and had people respond to my posts with clients that didn't support that feature.

To them (and when viewing the message source), the messages still appeared to be hard-wrapped. When viewing the messages in Thunderbird, the parts I typed were softwrapped. "Embarrassing line wrap" simply did not happen (no matter many times a given piece of text was quoted). "Embarrassing line wrap" was only an issue because certain clients would further re-wrapped quoted text without taking the quote markers into account instead of just leaving it alone or properly re-wrapping it.

Text editors like emacs and vim have features that will easily re-wrap quoted email text. Thunderbird has a feature where you can highlight quoted text and press ctrl-r to rewrap it. So I don't really see how it's difficult to eliminate the "embarrassing line wrap" issue when there are open source programs out there that have the capability (for several decades now) to fix it.

And I think they're missing the point by saying that HTML bloat is no longer an issue. It's not the amount of text that's transferred; it's how readable it is in a client that doesn't support rendering that text. IOW, reading raw HTML is not that easy.

As for implementing an editor that only supports semantic block quoting, I think they're missing the point again. It should be the person who's composing the email who decides whether a particular section of text should be hard-wrapped (meaning no trailing whitespace at the end of each line). You could have a feature where you highlight the text you want hardwrapped and then use a key combination or context menu to apply that change. The rest of the text is assumed to be soft-wrapped and will have trailing whitespace at the end of each line unless that line followed by a blank line.
Would open sourcing all cancer research and allowing anyone to contribute and share in the open source community... would that assist in potentially finding a cure/treatment for various cancers or would the profit motive be required for these research to be successful?
It's for the main one. The others are much cheaper. The total price is not 5x$7500.

These are not levels where it makes sense to question if it will "ever" be financially viable. It's less than the premium people paid gladly for a Model S.

A true level 3 on consumer cars would sell like hotcakes.
Thanks for posting that link.

The B-36 is magnificent from an engineering standpoint. The film did an outstanding job of capturing that.

Amazing how risky things were. These guys had parachutes on the whole time.