skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need a carbon tax stat IMO. Economist John Cochrane had a good blog post about this recently (I actually posted to HN a few days ago but it got buried):

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/05/ip-on-carbon-tax....

From the end:

"Climate policy was headed to this kind of bipartisan technocratic resolution in the 1990s before it became a tool of partisan warfare. The challenge, from both sides, is to remove the political baggage that climate policy has accumulated."

He then makes that appeal to both sides:

"To my climate-skeptic friends: Given that the government is going to regulate carbon, this is the way to do it with least damage. To my green-warrior friends, if the government is actually going to reduce carbon, not just subsidize cronies and engage in worthless value-signaling gestures, a trade of carbon taxes for absurdly costly regulations and subsidies is the only way to get anywhere."
> The major factor to road wear and tear is and has always been trucks and other heavy vehicles.

What about electric trucks and other heavy vehicles? Or is there little difference since these vehicles would probably have been diesel with a lot of potential torque anyways?
It's the nature of economic sanctions that there are real people's livelihoods which are directly affected. That happens with all economic sanctions... nothing unique about this one
In Europe, cities are adding car chargers to street lamps.
Other option such as supermarkets and employee parking are also catching on.
> edge cases already figured out.

Nope, it doesn't guarantee its invariants. This would pass all the tests and yet returns a value out of bounds:

> s = 1e12
1000000000000
> e = 1e-8
1e-8
> s + 1.0 * (e - s)
0
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We as a society need to train an army of material engineers that can design new packaging solutions to minimize impact on the planet. Recyclability (and maybe reusability), lifetime CO2 footprint, biodegradibility etc should be carefully considered and new solutions researched where they will provide the most benefit.

We should also look for low resistance ways to work in container/packaging reusability into the product supply cycle. Are there cases where collection could be done at the store with minimal effort and spare truck space could be used to transport reusable containers back through the supply chain to the originating factories? Are there ways this could be made to work for mainstream products (premium milk products sold in glass are the only case where this is being done where I live)? In Canada they return beer bottles to the store, maybe we should do this in the US if a cost/benefit analysis shows it would worth it.

I must not be the only one that thinks of this sort of thing regularly when taking a product off the shelf.
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I have this hare-brained idea to rescue Kodachrome colours from undeveloped film. Develop it according to the K14 process, but without any dye couplers. (The dye couplers are problematic to find today.)

Instead, add these steps:

6b - dry the film

6c - scan it in infrared. This is the YELLOW colour channel.

9b - dry the film

9c - scan it in infrared. This is the YELLOW + CYAN colour channel.

11b - dry the film

11c - scan it in infrared. This is the YELLOW + CYAN + MAGENTA colour channel.

17b - scan it in visible light. This is the luma information.

The luma will be much higher resolution and contrast than the chroma (Yellow+Cyan+Magenta) scans, because the infrared scans are made before the film was fixed. Together though, they might be pretty decent looking.

K14 - proces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-14_process
More common than you think.
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You could also promote Germ Theory, but the world would think you a nutcase you're entire life. Creating bacterial cultures using 1700s tech should be easy, especially since you know what the outcome should be.

Pasteurization is just cooking stuff. "I cooked these peas sealed in a champagne bottle last summer and they ares still edible consumes grey peas"

Penicillin was derived from mold. Once you can culture bacteria, you can demonstrate that penicillin is effective at killing it.

One could easily transplant these ideas to the Roman era. They'd likely take hold too, because of the huge impact they have on conducting war.
Idk man, checkout his town hall on fox. The audience goes nuts for him
They do not use it for anything other than a single daily column
Are Trump's online reputation management skills on a par with Boris Johnson?
What a weird title for a book about data science.

I'm not a fan of the marketing gravy people dump on everything. The future will devolve to unhelpful titles like - "How to do Data Fking science"
> we're on a trajectory to extinction

Let them carry on. Perhaps our exction will be exactly what saves the planet! Our archeological records will serve only as a warning for whatever "intelligent" life evolves in the future ;-)
Let's not confuse events of the 18th century and the modern history.

Crimea was called Crimean Khanate at that time and the backbone of its economy was the slave trade. As a major slave trade hub it has seen many hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians captured by Crimean Tatars and sold to Turkey until Catherine the Great's counter-terrorist operation finally put an end to it in 1783 :)

This dramatic history rooted in inability of the Crimean Khanate peacefully coexist with Russia can hardly be compared with a single action of a Soviet bureaucrat in Moscow in 1954.

And you are misinformed, Crimeans Tatars are not the indigenous population, they are a remnant of the Golden Horde.
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Oh, fine, lets try your perverse experiment:

"Hitlers intention was to murder only a few million people in order to make more room for tens of millions of people to live a better life..."

Sorry, no. This is just cowardly justification.
One thing I know of off the top of my head (because I had to deal with it last week) is the gcloud suite of tools for GCP, which will only run with 2.7. Thankfully the various GCP libraries for interacting with the platform do work on Python 3.
The article is bad. Really bad.
The point made though is something I took for granted. I know what a darkroom is. My parents had one in the house. My dad had one at his work. Not sure my kids will have any idea what it is though. I have an urge to make sure they do. The now know about Rotary phones and audio tapes and vinyl - they should be aware of darkrooms.

The problem with modern life, as wonderful and amazing as they are, is that many people lack the history of how we got there. Obviously younger ones have not lived through it, but at least a basic knowledge of the progress made will help them appreciate just how wonderful and amazing our times are.
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American foreign policy isn't designed to promote "democracy around the world."

It's designed to promote democracy in the free world that the people who control the world live in.
From the huge TIFF I exported and uploaded a 11.3MB JPEG here:

https://github.com/DC-3/wave/blob/master/wave.jpg
That's assuming an infinite grid across the UK, I don't have the wind generation figures of other countries on a per-minute basis. The current integration is about 10% of the UK's demand.

The reason I'm "ignoring" it, even with an infinite grid across europe, when the wind is blowing in the UK's wind farms in the north sea, it's also blowing in the north sea for Denmark - UK wind production peaks match that of Denmark and Netherlands peaks.

The figures are based on real figures in the UK from the last 12 months. The UK is the world leader in offshore wind power, with Netherlands, Germany and Denmark having their farms in the same location

What happens when the wind isn't blowing in the North Sea, and UK, Denmark and Netherlands are all running out?

That's not to say we shouldn't be pushing to double, triple or even quadruple wind production in the UK and the North sea especially, but we'll still rely on gas to fill in the quiet days for a long time yet. Dogger Bank alone can generate 110GW of energy, which is great, but that would mean when the North Sea is quiet we need to find 110GW from elsewhere.

Sadly political changes in the UK, first in 2015, then in 2016 through today, have reduced the investment in wind power.
Okay, so what number differentiates between a money laundering statute and removing cash for you? Is there a minimum number for you where it is okay to force people to pay bank fees and give up their privacy?
1632[0] is the first in a series of entertaining alternate history novels, where an entire West Virginian town is transported to the middle of the Thirty Years war. It touches on some of these problems in having to translate modern knowledge to people in the past.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_(novel)
Goodenough didn't invent li-ion, he invented the cobalt oxide cathode that dominated the industry until nickel and iron cathodes came along.

Goodenough is 97 years old and while he is still apparently sharp, he is not leading the lab that gets publicity under his name. From what I've seen he's more of a mentor. I, and many others[1], are extremely skeptical of the claims coming from that group. At best, they have been putting out very misleading papers that gloss over key factors or lie by omission to make their research look like they're making massive breakthroughs. At worst, many of their claims break basic rules of conservation of energy.

Either way they haven't given much evidence they have a better battery. One of the ways they produce these claims is by creating several cells, each optimized for maximum performance in one area while totally sacrificing every other metric. Then they put every good metric in the abstract and conclusion, while if the battery was balanced for lifespan, power, and capacity it would perform poorly in all ways. Beyond that they also make some absurdly high ion mobility claims in mundane materials, and nonsensical energy balances. Honestly, it has a lot of signs of bunk science... but it does seem mixed in with good (but routine) work, so it's kind of perplexing.

[1]: http://lacey.se/2018/07/05/glass-battery-part-2/
I've never had a Windows, I'm a Mac nerd, but I'm looking into it for cross-platform binaries.

Option 1: MS has a Linux subsystem now. Problem solved, but maybe not customer-friendly.

Option 2: Cygwin probably works, I've seen John Cowan mention it in IRC.

Option 3: This somewhat messy process:
https://wiki.call-cc.org/compiling-chicken-on-windows-xp-wit...
I think those individual actions only seem reasonable because we're so used to this corporate short-sightedness. People should be taking responsibility for the whole, and not just their little cog in the big machine.

For the 737 Max, moving the engines forward meant changing the aerodynamic balance. That alone should mean recertification, and every attempt to cover that up in order to save money, is part of the problem.
Can we start calling this "The Great Reverse Firewall"?
The red light is useful with almost no B&W film. The red light is useful for paper.
It's straightforward to avoid making a carbon tax progressive rather than regressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
Well, because you're developing against an unsupported runtime. No bug or security updates. If that's fine for you, feel free, otherwise get with the (supported) program.

If it's a new project, there are no excuses imho
I suggest Clojure too. I have a few years of webservices production experience with Clojure and must say that everything was more than fine.
You don't need to work too much with Java (even if you will have to work a little bit with JVM if you plan to support things in production). The toolchain is very good and the community is small, but nice. There are many outstanding production-ready projects; my first hand experience was with: MongoDB, MySQL, RabbitMQ and, of course, web servers, so if your stack includes those, it is definetly a go.

I have also tried to deploy Clojure on AWS Lambda and it is definitely possible, even if not sure if it production-grade yet.
You are comparing two different authors here....

One is a company using blockchain technology in clinical trials, the other is a researcher postulating a situation for using blockchain in clinical trials.

Don't compare apples with oranges
Perhaps a 3-part medium post or a series of 10 tweets be more suitable for most discussed (lack of) feature for years?
So... any idea why it's so bad?
Faces... Videos of all kinds of people and places.. Friend networks (via who you follow).. What videos you like showing what you think.. They have a lot of data
And most of them are either (A)GPL or so prohibitively expensive for the commercial version that you can't really use them in small commercial projects at all.
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Blockchain doesn’t have to be all public and doesn’t require proof of work. You can have closed system blockchain schemes.
Fair, besides the fact that they took 8 years and did not admit legal liability or formally apologize to Iran. However, this is not true for every crime that the US has committed.
OP could've explained why those crimes might not be relevant to the discussion, instead he tried to one-up them with the crimes of other regimes.

In the case of the US, or every other great power; that game can go on indefinitely.
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> Voatz’s website states that “a paper ballot is generated on election night” and is tallied “using the standard counting process at each participating county.” What that means is the voter’s vote is sent to the county clerk staff as a PDF, and the county clerk staff prints it out and puts it into the scanning tabulator.

?So at some point your vote is printed out on a paper, and scanned? Doesn't seem all that anonymous, for one thing.
> Climate change is #11 in the list of top priorities for voters.

USA is spreading conservative and fossil-fuel interests propaganda all over the world, it's very harmful, but it's not some inherent "voters don't care about X". It's simply that people paid a lot of money for voters not to care about X, and much less money to make them care about X.
I do need this. How can I ever check if my vote was counted by paper ballots?

It seems like blockchain would allow everyone to be able to check that their vote counted, in an anonymous yet totally transparent and verifiable way.
> Build more housing capacity. An increased supply of housing could support both long term housing and legal Airbnb rentals.

I keep hearing "build more housing", but I'm having a hard time seeing how it can help on its own, if housing is primarily bought up by people playing investment schemes, and people who want to rent it out. It wouldn't have to just outpace population growth, it would have to outpace the ability to rent flats at a profit, in order to dry out the pool of investors and let regular people have a chance at buying a place to live.
> I have an urge to make sure they do. The now know about Rotary phones and audio tapes and vinyl - they should be aware of darkrooms.

I am curious as to why? I mean, in a historical context, they might be interesting. And certainly, they will continue to exist for quite some time in certain professional and hobbyist settings, but I don't imagine they'll provide much value outside of trivia to the average person.

I used one in high school, but I can't say that it has provided me much practical knowledge outside of knowing how a negative is actually used.
>Women suffrage

If voting doesn't matter why would giving women the vote matter?
> Dr. Stallman

rms has a doctorate? Or is this some sort of honorific I've never heard before?
I had a stupid dog (took him months to learn his own name) and now I have a smart dog, and I really miss the dumb one. It was so easy to keep him happy and satisfied and well-adjusted. He loved people and was just happy to lay around all day and then hang out with us when we got home from work. The smart dog requires constant entertainment and interaction to keep him from going insane.
Ever since phones started having pedometers, I've made it a habit to walk around the room while watching TV. During football season, I was often sedentary all day Sunday and am now instead walking for miles. One of the simplest things I've done that has a very positive effect on my health.

That said, when I watch the games in bars on Sunday, people think I'm a bit strange...
You can't just sign a contract voluntarily and expect that some line items you can just ignore. That's your own fault at that point.
Until you accidentally leave out that `sql` tag. Or will that now generate an error?
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This will be a case study for media classes to come
I live in West Virginia and anything dealing with the state government has to start with an assumption that it is being done for corrupt reasons. Ask first how a contract or project financially benefits key state officials or their family. I can't emphasize enough how predatory and corrupt the government is here. Both leading Republican candidates for governor are under federal corruption investigations. There's a reason West Virginia is losing population and remains among the poorest states in the USA. Where West Virginia isn't corrupt, it is incompetent. The state can't even provide safe drinking water for its people, or even create a framework for official electronic signatures-- it has no business innovating in voting tech. West Virginia is the last place you want as your laboratory for voting technology.
I completely agree, however, that making sure the entered data matches the actual data remains a persistent challenge (not because of fraudulent behaviour but because of human errors)
We are still here due to a combination of luck and people working to prevent disaster.

If we are right, why worry about it? Because there are things you can do to help, but only if you acknowledge the problem.
"Despite popular believe I don't think voting matters. "

In the US, if you could just get more registered voters in Texas to actually vote it would completely flip the balance of power between the Dems and Republicans. The issue, supposedly, is that Texas has a "disproportionate number of young, poor, and uneducated citizens." This means that the (actually quite popular) idea that voting doesn't matter mostly benefits the party that has adopted ignorance as most of its platform.
Note that the data for the first graph you mention is heavily smoothed: "Because of the limitations of data sampling, each curve in the main plot was smoothed (see methods below) and consequently, this figure can not resolve temperature fluctuations faster than approximately 300 years." That means it shows slow fluctuations, but can never show rapid changes like the rapid increase in temperature we're seeing now (but note that the 2016 temperature is marked there with the arrow labeled "2016"). The other graph, the one that starts 2000 years ago, does show the recent rapid increase.

> If you remove dotted predictions from your comic it suggests the temperature increase in the last 2000 years is about 0.3 - 0.4 Celsius degrees

I don't see where you get the 0.3 - 0.4 from. Looking at the last 2000 years on the XKCD graph, the temperature in year 16 is a bit under the reference, and the temperature in year 2016 is about 0.8 degrees above the reference. That's easily double your 0.3 - 0.4.

> This is pretty stable and is not matching past fluctuations, which are more accurately depicted here

I don't understand how you come to that conclusion. Both the XKCD graph and the graph you mention (the Wikimedia graph covering years 0 - 2016) show that 2016 temperatures are clearly higher than anything else we've seen the last 2000 years. Also note the arrow marked "2016" on the long-time Wikimedia graph indiciating the 2016 temperature, much higher than any other datapoint on the graph. The graphs simply don't support your conclusion.

> Another thing is that we're assuming that the current climate conditions on earth are becoming less optimal, which is unsupported. The current climate might actually be better. There are many examples, both negative but also positive, of the climate change.

There is scientific evidence for more severe tropical storms, rising sea levels (causing severe problems for the large fraction of the world's population living close to the sea), droughts, more severe weather (we're already seeing problematically hot heat waves). What are the positive effects that offset those negative ones?
Did you read the article? It's pretty straightforward: once humidity gets high enough, sweat stops working to cool the body. If humidity is that high, and the temperature is high enough, then every body will begin to overheat, with no non-technical ability to stop the process.

It's been hot and humid in a lot of places for a long time, but it's only just now beginning to be hot and humid enough to be passively deadly.
The ability to describe petroleum distillation column would be nice. Distillation was already known technolgy. The ability to produce kerosene for lamps would have been big invention.
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> The author of this piece doesn’t seem to understand the process either.

I think that's rather the point of the piece. At least that's what I got out of it.

There's a recurring theme every generation where the older generation thinks the younger generation is just dumb, or doesn't care about things that matter, etc. In this case it's the older generation shaming the younger generation for not knowing how photographs used to be processed. But that doesn't really matter. It's just some arbitrary piece of nostalgia. And anyway, digging further, those people doing the shaming only have a very limited understanding to begin with.
Many people can't afford to take the day off for voting. And even mail ballots are allowed, making the process easier would encourage more participation. Is this not a problem worth solving?
To a degree you have to put your trust in the system and build enough checks in so that no one part of it can be corrupted. The issue with electronic voting is that it's easy to scale attacks.
Use a kit and save yourself some hassle.

https://uvphotographics.com/

Personally, I've been satisfied with plain old film, though I would avoid dageurrotypes, as it involved processing with mercury vapor. I have my limits.
Large services are banning IP ranges (https://gist.github.com/alibo/dfd7c258bcc44a0e8c9f7c5bfd3bd2...), so they'll have to invest and provide alternatives to those individuals.

> Being the most powerful and influential player in technology gives us permission to do anything.

Read this again, slowly. You're advocating for the law of the jungle where the actor with the biggest club has the right (and, I presume, duty?) to do whatever they please to whomever they please whenever they please.
similarly your hdd controller was a computer

technically, these days, anything larger than a usb wire can be a computer

smalltalk crossed the physical barrier
There’s a glut of homes for sale, in places with either no economic prospects or low desirability to live. More and more higher income people competing with each other in less and less land area = higher sale prices.
I can see a couple of potential reasons (at least for America):

- We have built our society around the assumption of mobility so it could be difficult to just switch overnight.

- Remote work doesn't work for many people and/or many situations.

- Opportunities are not evenly distributed across the country.

- Tolerance of alternative lifestyles is not evenly distributed.

- Access to hobbies, cultural institutions, etc. is not evenly distributed.
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The "bedroom tax" only applies (applied? - I don't know what the actual status is) to state-subsidised/social housing.