skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, depends what you mean by "at fault". I agree it's better to believe in global warming than deny it exists, but I agree with Cochrane that many of the attempts at at fixing it so far are basically "worthless value-signaling gestures".

Cochrane thinks (not sure I agree with him) that the onus right now is more on the traditional left than the right.

"...climate policy advocates have gone far beyond a technocratic idea of simply, well, reducing carbon. 'And nuclear energy' is usually noticeably absent. Carbon capture technologies, equally good at reducing carbon are usually noticeably absent. Other agendas like 'climate justice' creep in -- worthy or not, anything else that creeps in means less carbon reduction per dollar. A carbon tax reduces carbon any way that reduces carbon, which is really good at, well, reducing carbon, and not getting distracted with other agendas. That is a strong reason why carbon taxes, and especially such taxes in return for less regulation are resisted on the left."

Whether you agree re: who is at fault, given that most people on HN are prob on the "do something about climate change" end of the spectrum, if you are personally skeptical of a carbon tax vs something like the green new deal or Jay Inslee's climate change plan, I'd encourage you to look into it more.

Cochrane's blog post and and also this would be good places to start:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/17/this-is-n...
Why there are no more new “web startups”?
in the past we had every years or so new startups that growth so quickly that become part of our life (example: facebook, twitter, airbnb, uber, instagram..).

It seems to me that this innovation waved stopped. Why? it's me that i'm getting old :( or it's because we are in the low innovation phase for the web sector and innovation are other sectors?
> when the battery dies, there is likely no economically sound way to replace with a new battery

While I can imagine that being a very likely scenario; I can also imagine a future where someone down at the local shopping mall will change the battery out for a Chinese compatible unit while you do your shopping. In the same way the currently do for phone batteries, screens etc.

It would be great for standard agencies / governments to get out in front of the electric car industry and demand standardised form factors for batteries and charging infrastructure. At the moment it would probably limit innovation too much though.
Thanks, I was wondering if Apple was making a competitor to Hue bulbs.
Australian money is made from palm oil. Its an attack on borneo
Cygwin is the best option because you can easily access all of the installed binaries for use with GUI emacs running in windows.

But I don't consider that to be a real native option, it is some kind of weird halfway house that sort of installs linux binaries but they are also kind of windows ones polluting your windows path.

Currently SBCL 'just works' on native windows, which puts it ahead for me if you are happy with both Scheme and CL.
In my experience, the more you try to make things fair, the more you actually make them less fair.
No, why should you?
Eli Yablonovitch's company, Alta Devices, manufactures a thin film high efficiency PV cell but they can't compete right now against cheap Chinese silicon wafer cells in the solar panel market, so they are focusing on niche markets, primarily drones at first.

His 2017 talk to the MIT Energy Initiative (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K1URyarE0) goes into the economics of solar and why his company is using this strategy. Basically, they need to find niche markets until they can work their way down the learning curve and achieve economies of scale.

He also discusses thermophotovoltaics. Very efficient light-weight PV allows for longer drone flights but night is an obstacle to multi-day flights. Given the choice between batteries and fuel to keep aloft until dawn this does seem like a possible breakthrough, deserving of the article's title, although the text could be a lot more clear.
If you do it right, you won't need to inspect/debug prod. But nothing stops you from enabling socket REPL, connect to it and try things there. Just like NASA fixed their failing spacecraft in 1998 during Deep Space 1 mission.
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I find books on business beneficial. Self-help books do reach a saturation point as you said, they regurgitate similar advice.

I'm surprised meditation has no results! If I focus on breathing and maintain no thought (latter took practice) for 10 minutes, I get a very strong sense of peace and calm -- it's better than drugs. Do you not notice any reduced anxiety/stress?
>technically, these days, anything larger than a usb wire can be a computer

USB wires too: https://twitter.com/kevinmitnick/status/1031662197422710784?...
It is certainly easy to go down that rabbit hole and get all myopic when you're depressed and belive that the only thing you can see is "true". I don't blame anyone for it as it is hard not to, but it's still a problem.

While it is different to compare while depressed, I don't think it is hard to understand that other people who have similar problems / life situations are doing fine... and maybe they know something / do things differently.

That alone doesn't fix anything, but it is a place from where you can evaluate and understand that the world, possibilities, etc, while depressed, shrinks to some extent.
ZCash (from what I can understand of it) seems like it could be the basis to use. Suppose everyone sets up a wallet and they get paid one ZVoteCoin at voter registration. Then they go home and do a shielded transaction (you didn't even mention anonymity) to their favored candidate. Their wallet should tell them that the transaction went through.
I’ve tried both methods in terms of email delivery: outsourced vs self built. I think it’s great you’ve decided to own another part of your stack. The rationales you presented are the same ones many of us who have gone down this path have concluded as well. When a component of your app could potentially send unlimited emails, it’s better to be able to control this cost from the get-go.
I've always dreamed of developing a game and now I'm doing it. This is ENIGMA
I spent a lot of time all over DRC. As I was told by someone in the parliament, you can do business as long as you’re making money and paying off the government.
Show HN: Givecrew: Give back with your friends (beta in SF)
I understand it like you mean that mathematicians and physicists don't want to become entrepreneurs (i.e., create jobs for themselves) - they want keep their main professions, but in traditional workplaces they are overqualified, startups are few and far between, and finance offers much better (though still not outstanding) salaries than freelancing.

Interesting that finance turns out to be more flexible than traditional economy.
The article is conflating three separate issues:

(1) The amount of compute and/or data motion that can be achieved with a single instruction. This is really about amortizing the cost of decode and allowing the pipeline to be kept full by producing a lot of work from a single instruction.

(2) efficiency gains from vector processing. This both amortizes the cost of decode and produces the amount of control circuitry relative to the number of ALUs --> more flops/area. it also generally favors larger sequential memory accesses which is good for bandwidth.

(3) extracting parallelism from the instruction stream. The VLIW debate is about whether that should be done by the CPU itself, e.g., in the form of out-of-order execution, or whether it should be handled by the compiler. VLIW allows the compiler to do this work, which keeps the CPU simpler.

It's been clear for several years that larger vectors are a win, and that's been happening in the Intel and arm space, not to mention GPU. The VLIW debate is less clear, and has been going back and forth. I think that we have been doing a better job of getting a handle on when instruction complexity and diversity is beneficial versus not - remember that the initial RISC proposal was in contrast to the PDP instruction set, which was kind of ridiculously over specialized for the technology of the time.
No, you already have the ability to sell your vote.
If the blockchain is published can't people check 1) that the votes add up to the correct totals and 2) that their vote is reflected in the blockchain?
Hey HN,

Scott and Arvind here, founders of Givecrew (givecrew.org). We would love your feedback on this app that we built for donating and volunteering with your friends. Our goal is to democratize philanthropy by giving small money more impact.

The central idea behind givecrew is the 'crew' – a leader, and members, who join forces for good. Each crew has a collective fund that it can use to make donations to organizations on givecrew. When a leader creates a crew they chose a dollar amount that every member will pay once a month into the crew's fund. You can donate some or all of the funds whenever you like.

Our goal is to make it super simple to get involved on a local scale by having you team up with friends to share the work.

Any feedback is welcome, and in particular we would be interested to know: Do you already feel like you have a good outlet for making donations and volunteering? Do you feel connected to your local community? If you think you would use givecrew, would you be a member or a leader? Can you think of a friend who would make a good leader?

For more info you can check out:

Website About: https://www.givecrew.org/about

App store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/givecrew/id1228488038

Intro blog post: https://blog.antipa.io/givecrew/

Tech notes:

- Rails API
- Stripe for payments
- React native
- TypeScript/JS
They'd both be T1 in that case. T1 T2 means they're different contracts.
Don't they already do that? Apple used a chip in official and licensed lightning cables, and ones that didn't have the chip would prompt iDevices to say that the cable isn't Mfi certified.
Apache Maven was released in 2004... PHP just looked at what Java was doing. Might be a wrong idea for some things but it definitely helps for stuff such as package management.
So the significance of pill colors in the movie is pure speculation supported by misinformation. I should have realized that and dismissed the whole conversation :) What is it about fandom that makes all rational thinking tools fall out of my head?
Even further. Wondered why there are no single Stallman reference here and in the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531039
For a 3-year period (2009-2011) I held the highest status on American Airlines. It was wonderful to get the upgrades and the recognition and I gave back by booking trips for friends and family using my miles. But then, I met someone wonderful who made me want to stick around home more often...
> It's nice to know that your code has few antipatterns in it by design.

But does making the language incredibly simplistic really do this?

The way I see it some devs will have more antipatterns than other devs - and this will be the case even if you make the language as simplistic as possible. The solution here is not to make the language simpler, but to rather look at why people are using anti-patterns.

> "Blunt knives" is a really bad way to think about it.

Is it? Most of these things result in having to write more code and does not really prevent you from doing something stupid. I'm not even sure it reduces the surface area of all possible stupid things in a meaningful way.

> Keep unweildly constructions out of go!

What makes a construct unweildly?
There's a significant practical difference between importing the complexity at build time versus as part of the running application. Building on top of a compiler is not the same thing as importing external code.
This was also noted in 2013 - https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp...

The anonymous comment is very interesting: https://www.panic.com/blog/2013/03/the-lightning-digital-av-...
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You get less accountability with a blockchain (or any digital voting) system as those systems are much harder to audit and have many more flaws than paper voting.
You're right, I was loose with my language there. It is never "required" in the way that eg Phoenix AZ would demand. It's a convenience. "Desirable" would have been a better word.
Separate bedrooms are common enough, bathrooms I can somewhat understand, but kitchens ? Why does your dream have this ?
And works really well on wine. The community is still quite active: http://planet-source-code.com/vb/default.asp?lngWId=1
Chuck Rhoades stopped it
Do you have a citation for this statement of fact? Proper research?
To the second: even if stopping climate change is impossible, slowing it is tremendously valuable.
> A world where machines could be programmed using something resembling natural language and where anyone could create and share software.

This is a silly pipe dream almost as old as computing, which reappears every couple of years in a new guise. When COBOL came out, it was promoted with exactly that promise, and there were people who seriously claimed that within a few years there would be no more professional programmers. More recent incarnations of the pipe dream were "fifth-generation programming languages" and "model-driven development".

In reality, what keeps "the creation of software as a privilege of a few" is not a lack of the right tool, but the lack of the mindset of producing unambiguous, complete instructions and developing your requirements to a state where it's possible to give such instructions, and facing the many mistakes you end up making on the way.

That is actually something very difficult to do, and which Average Joe will never learn, no matter what tools you give him.
The current mechanisms of supporting the population are fossil fuel intensive and gradually destroying everything around them. Depleted aquifers, polluted lakes and streams, etc. etc.
I look forward to trying the rotary phone thing on my still young children. Hell, they might have an issue with a touch tone phone by the time they're old enough :)
I'm afraid there are too many ways this may not work, but I'd be more interested in figuring if there are other similarly fundamental problems to online voting.
Tell me something important about IT that I don't know
I am a geek, I have learned so many Techlonogy, But I still think there is something important that I don't know. So try tell me something important that I don't know.

It should be related to IT, here is part of what I have studied:

hardware: Digital and Analog Electricit | PCB | FPGA | DSP | MCU | CPU-architecture

software: compiler | LLVM | operating system | linux | cloud-computing | Virtualization | Container

language: verilog/systemC | C/C++ | Python | java | javascript | haskell | lisp | function-language | logic-language | ... (needn't recommand anymore, It's enough)

web : front-end | back-end | react | spring | nodejs | koa | ... (needn't recommand anymore, It's enough)

other : algorithm | design patterns | software engineering | Artificial intelligence | big-data | Continuous integration | devops
An "infinite grid across the UK" really isn't so big, though. There are US states with larger power grids than the UK.

Which, I guess, both shows how possible it is to spread load around the UK, and shows how massive a problem anything in the US is to solve.
In the US the backlash is unfortunate but explainable. While conservatives could probably have been convinced with data that liberation did in fact not increase abortion cases and showing that prohibition doesn't stop them either while just increasing suffering, a lot of liberal proponents put some twitter nut jobs at the forefront of the discussion. Or maybe conservative media just put them in the spotlight. That is my impression at least. The result is predictably bad. I don't know how that abortion topic came up in the first place, but here we are.

Money in politics is a serious problem. Obama was very honest about that. While basically being bankrolled by citybank, he made that fact clear multiple times and basically asked for people holding their representatives accountable. Obviously that doesn't seem so easy.

But all that doesn't really compare to the theocratic rules the Iranian regime implemented. That is on a whole other level.
Not really. The bigger problem at the moment is that the market for recycled materials has effectively disappeared. No one is buying these commodities right now. Chinese government owned businesses spent a lot of money buying US paper and plastic mills then shut them down so they could bring those industries to mainland China. Then they discovered that it wasn't as good a business as they hoped. Now they have stopped buying our recycled materials so prices have dropped. Some commodities prices have even gone negative, meaning recycling facilities are paying to have materials removed from the warehouse. So even if sorting was free, most materials are either sitting in warehouses or simply going into the landfill. source: I work in the industry.
If it happens or not, the Mill team still produced some of the most interesting talk videos on youtube that you can watch. I would highly recommend anyone who hasn't watched the series to do so, it's very in depth and interesting.

Personally I hope that Mill happens. If it will beat existing CPUs left and right or not can then finally be answered.
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>Not much choice if your employer transfers your wages to your bank account anyway.

I don't think gp was talking about not requiring permission ever. He was talking about not requiring permission on a per transaction basis.
> With a database, you require a persistent connection to the database to have integrity. With a blockchain solution, you can build meshes of local connectivity that sync up.

Nothing about what you described requires a block chain, dump the database to raw SQL and GPG sign it, distribute on your website. It's not like the information ever changes once the vote is done.

Nobody suggesting this as a solution is an expert either.
Recently, I was eating at the same taco place pretty much the same day, twice a week. I was paying with my debit card and on a whim while checking my account, I noticed they were charging me on days I wasn't eating there, for the same amount when I would stop and eat there.

It actually happened three times where I had to have my card replaced so they couldn't keep running fraudulent charges on my card. Third time I just switched to cash and haven't had any issues since.

I can understand having a cashless society, but then I think about how many times cash has saved me from dealing with fraud and my cc# leaking out on the internet. Or dealing with shady people from craigslist.
Contracts support multiple "receivers". If I want to write a function that converts between two arbitrary types, I can write a `func convert(Type1 Type2 Convertible)(a Type1, b Type1){...}`, where Convertible in a contract with one method that takes a Type1 and receives a Type2. There's no way to do the same thing with interfaces as an interface can only reference a single type, a single receiver.
The Ruricolist: Preface
Every HDMI adapter that isn't a computer is going to severely degrade performance.
I don't know why you want scared people -- if you really wanted to solve this, you want become who are as rational as you can get.

Scared people are only going to run in panic and will do the first thing that is presented "because something must be done".

I also see that you have fallen into the trap of thinking that there is anything you _can_ do personally.
> It seems like a net loss to me, because ads are used to make people consume more than they need;

My SO opened an escape room a year ago. I though similarly as you before that (not that it make people consume more, but that they'll buy the inferior product), but then after a few weekend without any reservation... it made me realize how things aren't just found.

You need to be reminded that something exist to even consider it. It's not even a question of whether that's the best thing for you.

She always ask people what they think once they done and recently she got as a comment "but you aren't visible enough". We pay for ads, a few thousands, we are probably not too far from having spend 5 digits in ads. I couldn't imagine how people could be aware of our existence without ads at all.

> and while ads may make the internet "free", we are still paying for those ads indirectly.

We are paying for it, sure, but at least we are paying, aren't we? I like that I can get any ads on a channel. I love DIY channels, I seriously hate how almost all of them hide that all their tools were given. They say it from time to time, but on most videos, they'll just keep using the one from the past videos without mentionning getting them for free. That's an ads by the way, they may even directly get paid for using theses tools. With adsense though, the ads I get aren't necessarily related to the video, I'm AWARE they are ads, they are made FOR ME (thus more profitable for the channel, because I may need tool, but I may be more likely to buy a new computer for example).
Saudi Arabia helped Pakistan to develop their nuclear project so it is likely that they already have or can quickly gain access to nuclear weapons.
> Setting it all up is a one-time expense...but this is knowledge that stays with you (and the company) forever.

That sort of depends on how well documented the entire system is, I'd think. And even then, I'm not sure this is quite as good as it sounds.

Presumably this system is going to be humming along smoothly for quite some time. But when something breaks or goes wrong, is it going to be easy to go find the problem and fix it? Probably not. Whoever built it - if they are still with the company - will likely have forgotten a lot of the little details. Even if it's documented well, that documentation needs to be reviewed, understood, and (re)learned.

So yeah, it's pretty low maintenance, sure - until something goes wrong. And it inevitably will.

I'm not saying this is the wrong approach. Thousands of dollars a month for a PaaS is nothing to shake a stick at. So this very well could be a great approach under the circumstances. But there will be hidden costs down the road. It's just a matter of when and how much trouble they cause. (Will it cause your systems to go down for days while a bug is investigated, for example).
Well, to be fair, a Model S weighs more than some F-150s, and a Model 3 can weigh more than 4000 pounds, which is pretty porky for such a small car.

But ... I don't see what that really has to do with paying for roads. We will replace the gas tax, and in fact most places are already talking about how to do it. Doesn't seem like an intractable problem at all, and will probably be fixed well before EV adoption gets into the double digits.