skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not an expert (even an armchair expert), but I have to imagine it couldn't be that simple. When the trees die, they need to either be replaced, or self-replace. That means the land they are planted on needs to be protected. Further, when the trees die, they will release a portion of the sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere. I wonder what percentage is re-released? Does this imply that we need an ever-growing number of trees to offset steady-state carbon emissions?
> Make it so bad that people stop driving.

...that only works if there are viable alternatives (see "public transit" portion of proposal"

> make it so bad that people move closer to work.

Do you really believe it's that easy to move? and then never switch your job?

The proposal is trying to fix the problems you are complaining about, I'm not sure what value your alternatives would bring.
Rome’s border walls were the beginning of its end
It's applicable to any tunneling or overlay protocol that encapsulates TCP in TCP.
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You lived in perhaps the most central part of San Diego so I'm not sure your experience is really representative. People in Escondido and vista cannot ride a bus or take a scooter to downtown because it would easily take half their day.
Ah thanks, that's useful context. I was responding primarily to the claim that convolutedness is necessary to protect unsophisticated users, which I interpreted as meaning that the complexity of the UI scares users off. But this is a separate technical limitation that makes a lot of sense.
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I don't know of any similar tech for MacOS at this time.
It goes a step further than that.

With more housing in high-density areas, people don't have to drive as much and traffic can actually go down.
I'm amused that they featured Acadia as the first park in the "continental" section after summarizing by saying those parks were in the midwest.
Anyone know what the quality of these is like? The prices seem awfully low...
I have my cell phone set up to automatically block all calls that aren't scheduled. I consider it a device to enable me with internet access outdoors. That's it. Not a device to allow others to interrupt my work.

I fear the world of 50 years from now when you're not only expected to answer calls, but your boss will randomly show up in the middle of your bedroom or in the middle of a hiking trip with an AR headset you're expected to wear 24/7, and demand that you work.
Well, it's the BBC.
This hilariously overstates how incentivized individual citizens are to protest, when I would expect the exact opposite given how the Chinese state operates.
I will get downvoted for sure. And FWIW, I don't work at a blockchain company. But these issues seem like the type of thing smart contracts with escrow accounts were meant to solve.

Place the payment into an escrow account that pays out to multiple parties on a regular cadence, after milestone etc. Everyone can see there's a balance in the account, and it's guaranteed to be dispersed according to some conditions being met.
I thought this has been changing so that it's isolated now, and a remote wipe will only wipe business-related accounts and not your entire phone?
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It's hard for people to accept the fact that modern Chinese society is rotten to the core. You don't hear people describing China as "the government's horrible, but the people are nice", you hear "the government's horrible, and so are the people". I've heard this from a lot of exasperated Chinese expats.
I think satellites are used this days, balloons too
And the pharmaceutical companies are a monopoly.

Usually we use the market to set the prices of goods which works unreasonably well. But the pharmaceutical market is so far divorced from any normal market forces that what's the right price probably has very little relation to the prices charged.

And I think there are definitely two different discussions to have. "How much should be spent on pharmaceuticals" and "what should the unit price be?". The holy grail are solutions that reduce the cost of bringing a drug to market. But I'm also very interested in solutions that reduce the unit price without affecting total pharmaceutical spend.
This is exactly where my mind went when I first saw this. Thanks for the balenaEtcher AppImage!!!
Just reached out to you on your intercom.io widget. Also interested.
Canada’s pricing basically works like this: manufacturers are allowed to charge the median price of industrialized countries.
How does that work? If you put focus on the URL bar but it doesn't show the whole URL, how are you supposed to edit it?
“Market-oriented people have long noted that the US medical consumer is funding cheaper drugs for the entire world.”

They have claimed that but I have my doubts it’s true. It seems more likely that they make good profits outside US and obscene profits in the US. And why should the US subsidize other counties? Maybe we should also pay 200k for a Honda Civic so other countries have cheaper cars?
Somebody please look at Actian's Versant Object Database (now called "Actian NoSQL") and just clone it.
You'll make very big money.
Which country are you in? The mention of HFCS suggests USA, but [USA based?] companies have pushed that in to a lot of foods in UK now it seems so ...?
> In a Good team, you don't have multiple concurrent branches from which actual product deliveries are produced, and/or where most people get to maintain these branches simultaneously for a long time.

These sorts of Black and White, naked assertions drive me nuts. Buried in this statement is an assumption that the only software model worth even discussing is SaaS software - all copies of the code being run are run by your team, so master@HEAD is our ground truth at all times (except during deployments, which BTW are happening at least 10 minutes out of every hour of every day...)

Teams that sell applications or allow self-hosting, or even some SaaS shops with large enough customers are going to have to maintain multiple release branches. Possibly for years. From personal experience, anything above 3 seems to become unsustainable. But having 3 repos (a monorepo with 2 active branches + master) may be the right answer for you. One can't work, and 100 is murder. Stop the pendulum in the middle.
this is a well written and reasonable (i.e not religious) take on monolith vs microservices and the tradeoffs and considerations.

also, Conway's law is the biggest factor and he touches on that without saying Conway's law explicitly
UAC was simultaneously seemingly ubiquitous and not a particularly "scary" warning. It just sounded like bland computer jargon to the uninformed. I was envisioning something like the https warnings that Chrome gives: a clear warning sign that uses emotionally loaded terms like "go back to safety" and hides the proceed link under the fold.

That being said, it's entirely possible that I'm overestimating the intelligence of the average user and that many of them wouldn't blink even in the face of a warning made up to look scary.
Where do you go to plant trees such that you can be certain the trees won't just be cut down in a few years, and also don't simply displace other trees that would otherwise grow?

Also, do you keep track of the trees to make sure they actually grow? Just planting the seed or even a sapling is far from sufficient to ensure that carbon sequestration occurs. Young trees are food for a variety of animals and insects. Do you know what fraction of the trees you plant actually reach maturity? I've seen estimates that far fewer than one in five do.
Doesn't, like, all software that has anything to do with a calendar already do reminders? I know Outlook and Google Calendar do.
Nobody in San Diego wants the city to be like NYC. Also how many people do you really think are going to get a high enough paying job in San Diego within 10 blocks of their residence? That's an absolute fantasy and planning based on an ideal world is why the trolley has an avg of 2000 riders per day instead of the projected 12,000.
Seems to me it would be even safer to represent it as an object:
amount: {
dollars: 60,
cents: 00
}

or some such. In addition to being ready for foreign currencies, you can build in type safety to ensure that nobody does something meaningless like "60 dollars times 90 dollars", and prevents you from accidentally asking for $6,000 when you meant $60. It's less efficient, to be sure, and you have to implement all of those operations like "addition", but it's a case where being excruciatingly, provably correct seems more important than a few extra bucks on servers.
A lot of the comments here are about Google's motivations for doing this, and it seems the consensus is they want to hide URLs so that users don't notice as Google swallows more of the internet.

A couple question for those with this point of view:

1) Do you think users notice when they are using AMP articles today, even though the URL has not been hidden yet?

2) Do you think it would actually matter if they did notice a Google-hosted URL? Would they boycott Google or change their behavior somehow?

3) Do you think Apple has the same motivations as Google? Safari has been hiding www, scheme, and path for a while now. Do you think they have any valid reason for having done this?

4) What do you say to Google's stated reasons for making this change (simplicity and security)?
I think that really depends on whether you need all traffic routed through the tunnel/vpn and what else you were trying to accomplish. For just basic system access there isn’t much advantage to vpn, but it would really depend on what you’re trying to accomplish (keep people out? Just secure your connection to another machine? Etc.).
Indeed charging the max possible is the idea. The idea is also that the market is free so a competitor could also extract profit by making the same drug for slightly less. Of course another competitor could come in and make it for even less. All these price cutters force the higher priced competitor to lower their price to still produce profit. The lower bound here is the cost of production below which all companies would stop production. So in a capitalist system in a free market profit should always be trending towards zero.

The issue is government allowing companies to be anti competitive. For example, the government is currently entertaining a lawsuit by one insulin company against another company trying to sell insulin for a lower price. While that lawsuit is ongoing Americans must pay the higher price. Thus really government willing to enforce continued monopoly is one of the problems
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That's the nerd pacifier. They will remove those flags eventually as they have always done.
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That's not the setup. You don't have two assassins, you just have one assassin, so it's not 8 pick 2. But there are two squares the assassin can be on that give a move 1 mate. That gives the 2/8.
Javascript and React Native has increasing desktop support. Both the Windows and macOS branches have been seeing a lot of development lately, especially given Microsoft's Office team's investments into React Native for cross-platform UI. To my knowledge, it is only the Linux React Native that is the most lagging right now, and has a ton of "Help Wanted signs" up.
I'm working on a few projects at home with ESP and RPi Zero.
It's so much fun to do your own "IoT" devices.

There's still a problem I don't know solve well, holistically. When you do something with UI there's inputs from humans (buttons, knobs, etc), the network and timers.
I'm completely lost how to coordinate that, especially when I use an LED/OLED display.

How to make sure a single screen is displayed long enough to be readable? But on the other hand how to react to all inputs? And how to deal with some inputs/triggers being more and less important (e.g. "modal" screens over static screens)? Also how to make sure not to get lost in the threading mess that I just created? The cherry on top is, some inputs require "short term memory" -- like patterns of button pressing (double/triple press/long hold) or rotary encoders.

In the end I give up implementing a lot of features.
Money breeds status, status gives connections. I should clarify, Mossad didn't give most of Epstein's money. It probably came from Wexner who was the first blackmailing "victim." Easy to find public info on their baffling financial relationship. After that yes, it bankrolled itself. He still needed Mossad (through Ghislaine Maxwell, see her father Robert's Wikipedia article) to cover everything up. Extraordinary crimes require extraordinary protection. The Mossad enabling all of this is the only thing that makes sense.
Exciting news!

Question to @syrusakbary - When is wasmer support in Windows likely to reach beta status? Would mingw-64 be a better Windows target than Win32, for porting unix-y wasmer code, especially related to WASI?

Thank You
Yes Russia has been using Syria as a testing ground for detection of a variety of airplanes that Israel uses. If Turkey has the S400 and F35s it means they will have much much much more data for detection. Turkey would also have a platform for offense and defense in a bid for regional military supremacy which they almost have.
> I hate Electron apps as much as the next person, but it's indisputable that to get a simple desktop app deployed, Electron is easier

Easier than what? Considering you have to use the already ill-suited for UI HTML/CSS/JS cesspit, I'd say Electron is a lot worse for the "simple desktop app" than something like Lazarus.
Maybe not grades. However, I've seen and heard from others of their professors routinely berating conservatives of their beliefs in front of the class.
And both would work better than either individually.
If in doubt about the historical context of the "www" subdomains: This was, when dedicated services were run on dedicated machines (or rather, dedicated network interfaces). "www" was just a default appellation (much like a well known address on particular services) for a server running W3 services. I don't see, why there isn't a use case for dedicated service domains anymore. (Not everything is WWW.) There's no magic to this and has never been. (The magic is in the port number as encoded in the protocol portion of a URI.)

Regarding the context of the example, all this is about navigating and about communicating how to navigate. Real live addresses tend to be much more messy, but they are bearable and users have been able to operate them for what is now several centuries.
I think you overestimate the number of programmers that know this. In my experience, < 50% of programmers know that random array lookups are not constant time in practice.

I mean they would be able to deduce it, but they just never made the connection.
> The Irish weren't wiped out, they just left

They “just left” because the British starved them.
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Maybe I misunderstand, but: In R allocating and copying huge return vectors for small changes on input vectors ruins performance. My understanding of Julia was that one advantage over R is the possiblity to mutate input vectors in place. Referring to the psort! example for Julia's multithreading I wonder why "We simply need to allocate one initially-empty array per thread" which to me looks like allocating huge vectors for small changes down the call recursion (and wastes memory by the number of threads). If Julia can mutate psort!s first argument global vector 'v' from multiple threads, why can't Julia also mutate a single allocated 'temp' argument global vector? Bonus: then psort! could just merge from one argument to the other and save copying back on each recursion level (along the lines of Segewick's nocopy mergesort)?
> pharmaceutical companies inflate prices of new medications, then negotiate confidential deals that make it difficult to get a realistic comparison for the purpose of setting prices.

In reality, this occurs because the “new” product is junk and no better than the cheaper generic it’s replacing. With these government-sanctioned rebates, the manufacturers save themselves the embarrassment of trying to explain why nobody’s insurance will pay for it (it’s expensive junk).
The wages of all the people working in health insurance don't appear as profit, but if you removed the industry all that money - and the rents - would be released. To recapitulate it's not just the profit, it's the entire sectors costs that you release by removing the need for that sector.

There would be incidental costs, like more unemployment, and possibly some more admin within the healthcare system; though from what I hear it would more probably reduce admin costs on the healthcare end too.
OpenVPN is more than just hard to setup, it's legitimately absurd and the documentation isn't even close to navigable.
> The Mossad connection is the only thing that makes sense

If one needs to shove Mossad into the storyline, yes. But it's unnecessary. Epstein getting wealthy by blackmailing Maxwell and using that wealth (and power over his blackmailing victims) to get wealthier, bully witnesses and lobby powerful people is plausible by itself.
this is a terrible terrible idea.
I trust Equifax even less to monitor my credit safely than to pay out the money they owe to consumers for their years of deception in business practices.
wow thank you for this comment, for months i've struggled with the annoying acceleration.
This is an oddly-editorialized title for an article titled, "What many diabetics don’t know: you can buy inexpensive, over-the-counter insulin in U.S."
Hi Richard,

What applications/problems are you solving using hypergraphs? There is definitely a dearth of high performance hypergraph processing engines/systems.
Frankly I would, and do. I use mobile Firefox for its features like adblocking extensions and reader mode but it's always a less pleasant experience than mobile Chrome because it's less snappy and intuitive.
I asked the mods via email and the flags looked normal to them. It seems like it has been the one too many climate change post recently and that some people got annoyed and flagged it because of that. What a pity.
A faszinating story to read. While reason clearly says that stories like this need to be fake, one never can stop wondering whether there aren't some people who by odd chance (or very good genes) live far longer than they should. I am a bit thinking about Methuselah's Children by Heinlein here. If natural lives way beyond 100 years would be possible, one would expect a few more documented cases beyond 120 years though. But still, this is faszinating just to speculate about.
I don't think that implementing something that would raise the price for non-US citizens would do anything positive, mainly if I'm understanding you it will disproportionately affect low-income individuals in Canada
Breaking the cycle can't be done by only one side.
If good maintainers aren't put in contact with good critiques, then they'll eventually assume every take on their work is purely reactionary. But in the same way, if good critics who take the time to write detailed critiques aren't listened to, then they'll eventually get tired and stop engaging.

One side can't put in all of the work, or we'll end up in the same exact situation within another year.

I've seen the conversation around Chrome degrade dramatically even over the past year or two. Back when Chrome accidentally broke web audio, the community was putting a lot of time into brainstorming possible solutions. You had authors behind some of the biggest games and platforms on the web trying to be constructive.

More recently with the V3 manifest, actual adblock developers from the most popular extensions on the store have weighed in, written performance tests, and shared thoughts. But they've been less willing to go out of their way to assume the best of the Chrome team than game developers were in 2018.

There's a very visible degradation of trust, and an assumption that there's no point in engaging constructively with Google because Google just does not respond to criticism.

Back in 2018, I myself wrote up a massive blog post[0] going over the problems with Google's Web Audio changes. I was careful to assume the best of maintainers, that they really did have the best interest of the web in mind, and that they really were trying to make something great. However, I pointed out:

> These mistakes create a narrative undercurrent that will undermine Google's future efforts to get developers to trust them when they're forced to make difficult decisions... Given enough examples of Google dismissing concerns about its pet projects, the public will simply stop believing that the company cares.

So now in 2019, I'm not going to write a massive blog post going into extensive detail about why obfuscating URLs is a bad idea, because I've fallen victim to the same thought pattern I warned about above. I don't believe that Google cares, and I have better uses of my time.

Why should I waste my time writing this stuff, when I know it's not going to make a difference, and when I know Google is just going to do whatever they want anyway? Why should someone like Gorhill waste their time building detailed breakdowns of an extension API, if there's no chance of getting that API decision reversed?

None of this just arbitrarily happened -- even two or three years ago, developers used to engage with the Chrome team with a lot more patience and a lot more good faith. There are still a lot of members of the community that aren't polarized, they're just tired. And if there was any evidence that Chrome developers were willing to listen to people like Gorhill or Ashley, those people would still be willing to step up.

[0]: https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay/
What's the domain for your web site?

I would absolutely follow that when its available.
Charging exploitative prices for necessities of life slowly will be merged into a larger body of unfair and deceptive practices. Charging someone 50% or 90% more for a lifesaving treatment because they're not on the right 'club'-- some enterprising lawyer somewhere will eventually pick up the right collection of cases to demonstrate this isn't a proper way to make a buck, under the law of most U.S. states.
Just load this python script, and done.
Thanks! Since the submitted title was “Valve proposes Linux kernel changes to improve gaming performance”, we've updated the link from https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail... to this, which has much more kernel juice.
Do you really suggest that ten reviewers (or however many they may be) do this work each and every one, because it is too much work for the sole submitter to do this once?

It is hard enough to get people to review code as it is. I think everyone would be better off with a little humility and be thankful that other people review their code, even in the cases where the review itself isn't very helpful.
So this is some bullshit, if FB can get hit with a $5 Billion dollar fine then I think we can scape up a little more than $31 Million from a company with even less scruples than Facebook...

Also I already signed up for the $125 (when there was ZERO mention it might not be paid out) so what am I supposed to do?

God I really wish they had just put down Equifax (as in killed the whole company) as a statement to other companies: PROTECT YOUR DATA or we are coming for you.

And NO I don't want their monitoring, if they couldn't keep my info safe to start with why would I trust them with monitoring.
FaunaDB passed. It also has GraphQL.