skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rubber dome keys do not provide for a good typing experience. I recommend switching over to a mechanical keyboard, there are so many different key types to choose from, depending on what you're looking for (tactile, clicky, or linear of varying heaviness).

If you want an ergonomic mechanical keyboard, the Advantage Kinesis[1] for example, comes in both tactile and linear key offerings. Also, checkout ErgoDox or keyboard.io (I haven't tried the latter).

[1] https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/
We should probably just tax at $1.5 a gallon right now just to get the demand down ;-). There’s a reason why cars consume less in continental Europe and that’s not just because people there are smarter.
In theory, all regulations need to be carefully considered and walk a fine line in order to do more good than harm.

But I was replying to a pair of comments talking about the practical history of regulations over the past few decades. That history diverges wildly for the two types of regulation. Economic regulation was massively lightened, resulting in huge benefits. At the same time, safety regulations for airplanes and cars were massively increased, also resulting in huge benefits.

So, yes, the whole point is that “regulations good/bad/anything” is nonsense, as the recent history of economic and safety regulations illustrates.
Agreed. I also don't like this article mixing gigatons and millions of tons. Feels like preying on people who don't get SI units...

"136 million tons of capacity by 2040" is 0.136 gigatons, 1/400th of our current emissions.

This technology will help us handle the very last, most difficult to decarbonize parts of our industrial civilization. It's nowhere near effective enough to do anything more than that.
Hey Chris, yeah I know. I’m not planning to publish the results, I just wanted to get a sense of US vs non-US views on it.
It's like having a broken tap that's gushing water onto the floor.

And the best solution people are willing to come up with is putting a million tiny containers in place to catch all the water before we get flooded.

The problem with this method is immediately apparent: we're going to run out of space and also there's no way to be sure we're catching it in all the right places.

Simply fixing the tap so it doesn't spill water anymore is a much better solution.
Nope. Not enough.

We don’t just need to get to negative flux, we’ve already put too much CO2 in the atmosphere. We need to actively reduce it - fast. And then once we get back to a baseline, then keep it there.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.technologyreview.com/p/pub/le...
Interesting. Where exactly does it hang? When you create the container, or when you run it?
Alex claims to be a Robin Hood figure, wanting to help people against an immoral industry.

His plan for that is to extort an 8-figure sum out of the machine manufacturer to disclose the exploit and help them patch their PRNG to... help them more effectively exploit the gamers?
"For starters, I have to submit information to a 3rd party..."

Multiple 3rd parties, at that; https://i.imgur.com/ARPFyFl.png

Last night those scripts were attempting to load from the form page, which is now currently 403 for me.
My experience mirrors yours. I have quite a few lousy experiences with doctors across the world. But the one I am narrating below was particularly scary and I might have gotten into serious health issues because of sheer incomptence of an entire hospital.

Some years back in London I fell ill with constant high fever. Following the protocol, I took paracetamol for 5 days but my condition worsened.

So I checked into the hospital. It is considered a decent NHS hospital. They promptly took blood samples and put me in isolation suspecting some infection. But despite being reporting that paracetamol is not helping they kept giving out to me religiously for 10 more days. Everyday they would collect blood samples and assure me that they are going to find the root cause and then start the proper medication.

After 15 days of constant 40C fever, they still don't wanted to treat me. On 16 day, barely conscious almost naked in ill fitting hospital gown I walked out of my room and screamed and probably abused the staff and collapsed on the floor.

Then only they have me broad spectrum antibiotics and in next few days I was back home.

At that time I researched that it is common protocol to administer broad spectrum Antibiotic if diagnosis is non conclusive.

I still wonder what would have hapenned if I hadn't taken it to the floor on 16th day.
It's worth pointing out that the Netherlands already had programs and the legal foundations for more lenient punishments for 12~23 year olds, which I imagine might be why this experiment started in the Netherlands (with, by the looks of it, support from some EU agency).

I hope it succeeds.
‘Maybe you’re just someone with blood in their urine’
> The thing that really jumps at me is: don't get injured, disabled or just old. If you're going to have problems with ladders

People with desk jobs often forget this, but that's true of a lot of work, too. If I couldn't climb a ladder, I couldn't do my job. Now, I probably won't be doing this when I'm 80, but I don't want to live every day of my life as if I'm the weakest I'll ever be. Desk jobs and comfy ramblers will still be around when I'm old (or disabled) and can't climb any more.

> This is also going to tend to push some people towards "third spaces" for socializing with friends. There's a very active Starbucks near me

I love "third places" in principle, but I find it funny how many people spend all day sipping coffee in front of a computer ... and then to socialize with friends at night, they go to a place where they pay to sit at a computer sipping coffee. I guess if that's what you love doing, go for it. As Ken Robinson said, "They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads."
Medical Journal Editors Don’t Disclose Their Own Conflicts of Interest
It is already doubtful that enough of this can be built to meet the needs of optimistic emission reduction scenarios. Thinking you could "do business as usual" and compensate that with carbon removal tech is about as plausible as colonizing mars as an alternative to earth.

There's been a recent study:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10842-5

Like, even matching what the optimistic climate models require (that all depend on rapid emission reductions) requires "more than half of today's energy production".
I'm always interested in thoughts about language design and programming in general. We have fifty+ years of commercial software development and it still sucks. This caught my eye as the kind of error that shouldn't even be allowed to happen.
I'm not sure I follow. Sequestering carbon doesn't make money in itself. Someone else has to pay them. And since it helps everybody and nobody in particular, people have to be convinced (or forced) to pay even though it doesn't personally benefit them.

If we can't even trust the government to tax high-emission industry, who's going to fund CO2 sequestration? Social media?
Doesn't work on ios.
If you're going to do columns, seems like you could save on magnets by putting exactly one magnet, either in column A or B.

Though if you do that, you'd need to worry about ambiguity from trains going different directions along the track. With your scheme, you have to figure out which column is the clock, but that's doable because it's the one with all 1s. (If the data is all 1s, then it's not clear but which column is which. You can still figure out the train number but not which way it's going.)

With my solution, I suppose you could just add a leading pair of magnets in both columns, which adds two magnets (and the space for them) to the cost.

Also, I'm not a hardware guy, but it seems like magnet polarity matters for hall effect sensors. So maybe you could so something like a single column of magnets but flipped north up or south up depending whether you want to indicate a 0 or a 1. I'm not sure whether you'd need two hall effect sensors (in opposite orientations) or a different type of hall effect sensor.
I wanted to checkout at a Home Depot but there were no employees to be seen and only self-checkout lanes open. I had some items I wanted help with and in frustration asked the customer next to me, "does anybody work here?"

He said "I guess we do."

I won't be the guy who causes shrinkage but it seems reasonable for the seller to pay something for the buyers' labor as cashier.
>"It will be difficult to contain such information or capabilities."

But it is not the information that would be proscribed. The information by itself is harmless.

A state-sanctioned human enhancement programme would be a huge health and infrastructural commitment.

There is no way that a state could do this on a large scale and evade detection.
What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness
I have managed to block advertising out of my life so effectively for so long I nearly recoil when a normal tv advertisement at someone’s home or a bar catches me somehow at full volume.

That or I marvel to those around me at the amazing production value of some stupid commercial that’s aired to them countless times is.

I have no doubt a barrage of ads day in and day out, regardless of economic condition is bad for a person’s well being.
Is there a more technical article?
> Their datacenter for Chinese customers are in china.

Why is it okay for an American company to allow foreign, human right violator governments to spy on their citizens?
I had an idea once to create a credit card where a configurable percentage of spending went towards carbon offsetting. The goal would be reduction in personal carbon footprint and eventually going negative. This would require both measurement of carbon-producing activities based on spending (eg. gasoline), but also a cost-effective means of carbon sequestration. Not my field of expertise, but taking advantage of people's desire to do good w/o expending energy seems like it would be the way to go.
So has anyone found a reliable solution for a ad blocker blocker blocker?
I'll often go 3-5 days where I only eat small quantities of fruits, vegetables, and nuts, operating in very much a calorie deficit. This has been a thing for years, and when I'm in this mode I don't really have much craving for food, it's kind of surprising to me. Energy levels are fine, I'm generally pretty physically active, it just seems normal and I enjoy the lightness.

It's not a lack of appetite though, if I decide to pursue a large meal in this condition, my enthusiasm is high and I'll eat enough food to feed a family of four if I let it happen.

But I've noticed if I instead eat more processed foods, especially refined carbohydrates, while trying to exist in this calorie deficit state similarly to my fruits/veggies/nuts mode, I'm miserable, irritable, and constantly craving more food. And it's not some mild craving, it's like craving an addictive drug.

I hadn't considered if timing played any significant part in these experiences, what seems very obviously significant was the types of food.
Caspian Sea Monster
How does fraud detection work on newspaper sales figures, or television viewer numbers?

The internet has seemingly decided that without tracking ads don't work. No. Serve your static ad or I will continue to see nothing. :)
It's a common cognitive bias to look at the past with higher regard than the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declinism

I totally agree with you - compared to other online forums it's surprised me how well HN has kept things civil while growing tremendously. The comment section on HN often have the actual makers and inventors of technology/research and sometimes are better content than the actual links being posted.
It you look at the indicators of compromise that law enforcement shared on Fancy Bear and Grizzly Steppe you would notice that a large portion of the IP address are tied to VPN providers like Hide My Ass. Attribution is very very very hard.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/blowing-the-whistle-on-b...
This book is also full of good stuff for practical computational geometry: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Computational-Geometry-Proces...
Airlines are forced to certificate their pilots for the plane they're going to fly. How many lives have been saved by this regulation, in comparison with those which were lost because Boeing tried to cheat at said regulation? Ignoring that is the same as pointing to people killed by airbags, without considering those saved by them.
I assume that at least part of it is in the genes.
It all depends on interpretation of the law, lobbying, stalling and the amount of bad press an actor can handle. Microsoft is a much older company and is likely to have stronger ties to the established government.
I believe it's called lower prices – at least in theory.

(My apologies for coming across as pedantic.) Physical stores use them to remain competitive in pricing. The lower price is your incentive for doing it yourself (again in theory.)
Energy consumption is increasing, year on year. A warming climate will add more consumption, and sequestration technologies will require significant additional energy - to run, and to manufacture.

Ignoring the sheer massive scale of kit that would need to be produced, installed and run to achieve a total negative balance by sequestration, how many years or decades would that take ramping up?

Besides, if people believe there's a magic techie "fix" being rolled out, good reason to carry on chasing their developing country to USA levels of energy use, unsustainably. Forget EVs, insulation etc. Take every cheapest option - just as we always did. With that model you might never finish ramping up. To empty the pool, first turn the taps off.

We need carbon neutral industry and generation. We need negative to bring CO2 ppm back to pre-industrial levels, or even 1950 levels, to stop the year on year of oppressive summers and wildfires, and leave a little ice at the poles.
Purescript-native can now target Golang
Alibaba crafts world's 'fastest' 'open-source' RISC-V processor yet: 16 cores, 64-bit, 2.5GHz, 12nm, out-of-order exec

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/27/alibaba_risc_v_chip...

"The aforementioned RV64GCV designation means the Xuantie 910 implements the base 64-bit RISC-V ISA (RV64G), supports compact 16-bit-wide instructions (C) as well as the usual 32-bit-wide instructions, and supports still-in-development vector math operations (V). Interestingly enough, though, it is also said to include 50 non-official instructions for assisting and accelerating various tasks, from memory management and CPU core wrangling to storage access."
Your claims sound no different than that of a proponent of eugenics in the early 20th century. And just as foolhardy.
I think Reddit is largely protected from being sued (in the US) for copyright infringement in comments/submissions as long as they comply with valid DMCA notices. But yeah, that involves removing the content.
Wood to Oil (1977)
Yes, that's why the subsidies are there, to keep them from collapsing. Raising their prices when the subsidies are removed is a hypothetical scenario to highlight what the real cost of production probably is. In reality, they'd probably realize that it's hopeless to even try.
Apologies dang. I had made the comment with awareness of the rule, and thought I had reason to be confident. However Based in your reply, I can edit my comment and remove the offending section.
Why on earth would countries want to limit improvements? We don’t see countries engaging in vaccine non-proliferation agreements, even though those are unevenly distributed. Non-proliferation is for destructive technologies.

However, as stated in a sibling comment, I think the advantages gained from IQ gene editing are quite exaggerated.
I'll take it into consideration, shitstick
Not with overcrowding and people hanging off the sides and riding the roof.
Another way to look at it: burning a gallon of gasoline does damage which costs $1.50 to fix, but we allow gasoline buyers to pass that cost on to the rest of the world rather than making them pay for their own mess.
That would be an experimental error. Conceptual error means they take experiments that show that within a homogeneous population, the variances in intelligence (begging the question of "are there multiple types of mind skills which are heriditable?") are 50% or whatever explained by genetics. Then they apply these to explain variances between groups, e.g. US African-Americans compared to US European-Americans.

The fallacy is made clear if you look at something less charged like hight. Clearly, in your town, height variance is mostly due to genetics. However, in genetically similar groups over time, heights have been gradually increasing over the generations. This increase is not because heights are being genetically selected for but because the genome codes for an organism that can grow taller or shorter in different conditions, and these places (e.g. Europe) are providing the "grow tall" conditions. Places that aren't providing these conditions are not seeing their children grow them taller.

Now, height is a lot easier to measure than intelligence, and a lot less politically weighted by the various movements to promote racial inequality. But the conceptual fallacy is the same.

Note that Gould is explicitly attacking a "races are genetically different in some substantive intelligence fashion" movement of his time, using the oddly similar movements from prior times. This eugenics thru biotech argument is not currently racially motivated, but western cultures have suffered thru a number of "eugenics by positive means -> eugenics by racism" shifts in the near past, so we are a bit twichty about it.

tldr: No studies about individual variation will tell you about between non-random subgroup variation.
Agreed. My criticism wasn't of the solution but (as I tried to make clear) solely of the rhetoric - if "banks are blameless, it's only the fraudsters" flips responsibility, then that should mean that actually fraudsters are blameless. In fact there's blame to be shared by both banks and the fraudsters, and possibly the victim (depending on the details).
You're mad that people think that basic standards should exist?
I think above ALL, Boeing’s customers want airplanes that only make controlled landings. If that’s unachievable in practical terms with the current airframe, then it shouldn’t exist in its current form.
> You can do "inheritance" by having the parent struct be the first member of the child struct. You can do all sorts of fun stuff

I have done this, 'fun' is not how I describe the result to colleagues
Did an overnight study at a sleep clinic. I'd been told for years by friends that I made very weird gasping, snoring noises. After I'd been out of college a few years and realized I was fatigued literally every day despite going to sleep on time, I figured it was time to get checked.
There's usually one good post. The rest are almost always people sharing their diet stories. Or if the headline is about exercise, you get reams of stronglifts or 5x5 or whatever, nobody cares. It's what engineers tend to do when they're presented with a topic they don't have actual expertise in.
Applicable link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
I apologise if it came off that way I wasn't trying to government bash or anything like that. But we've spent the last 20 years or so trying to use a legaslative solution to produce results but that is seeming to be in large part ineffective as the issue is appearing to be exactrebated rather than shrinking.

But we need action now in order to help ameloriate the effects. If the political route has failed to produce results then it seems to me that we need to try a different avenue than what has not been working. In this case leaving it to invention and innovation to help address the problem.

It might not solve the problem on its own, but it won't be hurting it either and maybe it will lead to breakthroughs that do solve the problem.

I meant my last paragraph not as a critique of current carbon reduction efforts but rather to show that all the United States legaslative power in the world isn't going to solve the CO2 problem by itself as China is producing twice as much and increasing emissions whereas the US is shrinking emissions. After all this isn't a US only issue this is a world wide issue and although we should do all that lies within our power we should also be cognizant of the fact the US isn't the only nation on Earth and other countries should also be considered in this global climate change issue.
I like the way you think!

But why stop there?

The North East should be forced not to heat their homes (by far worse than cooling in the S.E.)

The S.E should be forced to drop AC

The folk in California should be sleeping in mattress if their own un-recyclables consumer waste

And the folk at HN should be forced to take cargo ships to their exotic vacations.

Meanwhile, I’ll move to border of Zona Arida, and piss upstream to California in the dead of night.
Anti adblock modal you can't get past. Blacklisted site.
GRM can be as simple as a corporation owns rights to certain genes and thus owns a part of the income of those who happens to have these genes. Yes, children inherit the genes and thus owe to that company. The GRM rights can be bought or sold, like IP rights. Various regulations will determine how much we owe per gene.
Thinking-Oriented Programming
That’s a good question. People do it for free, because they want to contribute to society. That’s why people contribute to open source, or Wikipedia, or write blog articles, participate on StackOverflow or post to HN.

Not everything is about the almighty dollar. Did you get paid for participating in this discussion?
But Javascript was designed for OOP from the beginning, albeit not with classes.
> advertisers would pay much less, and publishers would earn much less

I think people like me who argue that web advertising should return to dumb/static/contextual ads also accept that it might kill a huge fraction of web revenue/jobs/content.

The downside is that advertisers move to the walled gardens of a few big players, and to native advertising. I’m still more ok with that than with the way the ad industry works now.
Aircraft Recycling
Using C sections for 100% of births would be another example.
Security is tough because you a mix of complete idiots trolling for attention, business, or jobs, vendors seeking fud to drive sales, and incredibly talented people reverse engineering and discovering things.

I suspect that some the worst are seeded and encouraged by parties who benefit from a lack of trust in research and maximum chaos.
It's just 3 phases with 230V each, which gives you 400V across individual phases. Same safety rules apply as on standard outlets, so yes, it really is just familiarity. Also lots of European households do have 400V outlets (we have 2 in our house, basement and garage). I even installed one temporarily in my living room for construction/remodeling and working with the required thick wires they are unconfortable to work with.
Self in Python isn't magical, it's just the bound instance conventionally named self. An object isn't magical, just syntactic sugar over a dictionary/namespace. Class syntax isn't magical but syntactic sugar for a call to type function.
These regulations don’t impose “basic standards.” They take away the choices of people of limited means. (Instead of living in a small house, commute forever from the suburbs.)
This is true. uMatrix's interface is difficult even where it works on Android. This calls for custom firewall rules and/or Privoxy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privoxy
bearing in mind that large jumps have different causes than marginal improvements, I'd agree. And I'm putting my money on the Ship Minds anyways. Biology seems too complex for even top humans. : )