skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The political instability resulting from food shortages and migration caused by climate change will be devastating, and much of the world has already experiencing it. Things get ugly fast when food becomes scare. We've seen what's happened in North Africa, South & Central America, and Syria. India is suffering now as well.

The US has a refugee crisis stemming directly from the loss of arable land in Central America, and Europe is suffering from one as a result of the a massive drought and the Arab Spring hitting Syria.
The great thing about the calculator and specific DSLs like the exchange conversion is that it's trivial to parse. The helpfulness of the "more than just a search index" degrades rapidly into siphoning people to top 50 sites, like scraping metadata from IMDB. I'd much rather they gave me the ability to restrict the information they show me as most of it is distracting to me and reduces my productivity.

If I want to look up an actor I'll just add 'IMDB' to the end and get a much better experience on the site itself than google could ever offer in their search page.
It isn't mind boggling. It is contemptuous and greedy but exactly in line with keeping and maintaining economic power.

This isn't about the environment.
I was going to say that this one (which sounds like a not that short loop) and the "fold4, wrap5" (which just sounds like a horrible short loop to me) didn't give me the same illusion, but then I listed to the one in the Wikipedia article again and it didn't work for me this time either (short loop). I think the Bach linked above broke the illusion for me or else it only works for a very limited time.
"High data rate requires line of sight which requires height above terrain which requires either money or rare luck."

What about a transmitter temporarily sent aloft on a balloon, model rocket, or drone, then making its brief high-bandwidth transmission and then parachuting or landing, being retrieved by its operator who then disappears until the next transmission from another location?

It might even be disposable, and potentially either deliberately sink itself in to an ocean or other difficult to access place, and/or self-destruct to make recovery and forensics more difficult.
First you have to find a way to prove it’s your data which isn’t trivial.

Genius had to invent a watermarking system for texts: https://betanews.com/2019/06/17/google-genius-com-lyrics/
As someone with attention issues, I've wondered if this contributes to my issues in loud environments. I feel like it's a blend of "your brain is being overwhelmed" and "this place actually sucks for everyone".
The yuan-usd exchange rate has floated around 6:1 until recently, with yuan denominated down to 0.01.
So possibly that.
I ran into this problem recently when I asked someone I know, who is in the coast guard, if they knew about alkaline hydrothermal vents. They said "Yes! But I just listen to the scientists, they draw a square on the ocean and say 'protect this' and we do it. Then I have to get a one-liner 'why should we spend money protecting this' from them and it's something like 'if there will be a breakthrough therapy for some disease then it might come from here'".

I was kind of unsatisfied by the justification "we might find medicine" for something as amazing as alkaline hydrothermal vents, but I couldn't think of a better one myself. There doesn't seem to be a concept that earth's creativity is intrinsically valuable. If there was, we could just say "there are highly complex geo-chemical formations in this square" and, along with a brief spec of the size, age, and properties of the formations, that would be justification enough to protect them.
To contextualize this, ~100W will probably cost between $10-$15/mo to run 24/7.

EDIT: Assuming a US household paying between $0.10-$0.20 per kwh.
The power to make law regarding wolves already belongs to the state, as grey wolves lost federal protection earlier this year.

Independent of that, ranchers are compensated for killed, wounded, and spooked cattle under the pay-for-presence program and similar. The rates are favorable to the point of being a cash grab, and there have been numerous cases of fraud where ranchers claimed kills that simply didn't happen.

Independent of that, the federal government has poured subsidies into ranching for decades, to the tune of about $30,000 per rancher per year. Even if they weren't compensated for lost livestock, on balance ranchers are far better off with the feds than they would be on their own.

But you don't hear about that because, frankly, the ranchers are spoiled rotten. When something benefits them they accept it without thought, and when it doesn't, well, they either howl in protest on the internet or outright take up arms against the federal government in one of the most poetic examples of "biting the hand that feeds you" which I can name.
Is this the component in use here?
Apple's taking another crack at it, and so far nothing looks likely to stop them.
Do you really need "Beta Signup" at 8 different places on a single webpage? Sounds being a little desperate to me.

Not nit picking here, but may put off some of us with mild OCD. :)

Otherwise, great concept! When are sign-ups for Mac opening?
They "ought" to be, but I fear that regulation censoring these low quality sites would be worse for society in the long run.

Monopolization of cultural information is antisocial.
Even more with mobile as mobile search with auto complete tends to generate partial queries you then refine to the query you really wanted
> SQL Server

Well, it certainly "runs" on Linux, but there are many limitations and bugs.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...

And this is typical when porting a flagship application to its non-original OS. I've seen similar issues with Oracle on Windows.
Sometimes I wish America could be more like America, the idealized version. HK has plenty of corruption of its own. Chances of survival for someone like Epstein are markedly lower there.
Exploring Arecibo Radio Telescope in VR 180 [video]
"metric butt-load of mask-programmable ROM"

What would that be in this context? I'm guessing we're talking KB rather than TB?
Microsoft closes a loophole that let people use a cheaper, license on competitor clouds. Leading competitor complains. News at 11.
Thank you for calling this out. You're completely right in that I haven't taken the necessary actions. I do need to eat less beef. I do need to limit my consumerism. I will say I take public transportation (cause I live in a city that allows me that luxury). Honestly it's hard to not be overly pessimistic about one's individual. We should do our best to combat carbon emissions in our day to day life, but one person or even a thousand people going vegetarian won't fix our problems. Drastic political change is ultimately necessary.
I've written about how donations are the wrong approach and things like GitHub sponsors are giving people a false promise of sustainability: https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-...

The author is on point that you need to build a business or product that someone is willing to buy :)
> How's the quality of our food tech improved in the last 53 years? Are we all reaping the rewards of that? Why are we so much more obese and diabetic?

Purely talking about the technology, food manufacturing tech has experienced radical innovation over the last 53 years. Not just "with computers", but through biology / biotech etc. These things have nothing to do with socioeconomic issues which largely underpin, e.g., public health issues like obesity and diabetes.

That's actually the common refrain through this whole list, it mostly seems you're arguing that technological innovation hasn't kept pace with social progress, which might be true, but is also a completely orthogonal point.

> How's the quality of life for the average child? Can they spend their day doing more of what they wanted vs 53 years ago?

Speaking of technological progress, medicine! Your stat measure has the same problem. The correct answer is: 1/10 infants died in 1915, to .3/10 in 1950, to .07/10 in 2000 to .05/10 per day. Each step along the way, due to technology/scientific advancement, measurable & meaningful numbers of kids got to experience life, who would not have been able to without those advancements. This is why we do what we do, and here's to knocking .05 down to .01 because that is who we are.
The correct answer in SO questions is always the most voted one, not the accepted one. I always check for that. I think I've seen SO recently sort the answers of a certain question by number of votes by default but I might be wrong
No we don't live in a world of abundance. This is a common tagline touted by communist and socialist societies, and has been proven false time and time and time again.
Not at all surprised.

Busy kitting out my place with (consumer - jikes) IoT...and basically just connecting the stuff long enough to get it online via Home Assistant.

...next step...firewall all the IOT IPs. Once they're connected to Home Assistant they don't need internet access.
I doubt it, but I also doubt Adobe would pay attention...
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Sign-ups are open for macOS. As soon as you sign up, you'll receive an email with the invitation code and download link.
>though I agree probably not to the extent that the change alone would produce a discernible smell.

If you do it often (e.g. swim professionally), why not?
New Snip Smartphone App Converts Math Screenshots into LaTeX
Palliative care nurse reveals top 5 regrets of people on their deathbed
Let’s look at the silver lining. People are getting more educated by their own means using the internet. Although hardly as reliable as experts, some data is better than none.

Or put yourself in today’s uneducated’s shoes. If today’s values honour dishonesty and profit making over truth(just look at social media and google results), why would I, as the weak uninformed, trust in the strong, elite expert? It is a distrust in today’s society values, that is the real problem.
If this offends you (and you're an American), you can express your feelings through voting.
Ok so Google is a monopoly in this sector that's pretty clear, but what's the real problem here? Their competitors offer inferior products so we don't really have a case. Until they can develop better technology or offer superior products than Google's and still are unable to gain market shares then that's when we will have a real case.

Besides, for any business to continue leading long-term in modern days it's inevitable it must seek to become a monopoly, or at least part of a duopoly.
Which is why I fairly frequently end up with amusingly-long pastes of raw svg markup being posted into email fields... .
It might be disallowed by XML already.
That's assuming we block all the sunlight, but what we need to do is reduce sunlight in places like sahara, antarctica, middle of australia, and increase in places that are too cold. This can be achieved by satellites orbiting at lower level, or even stratospheric balloons. We do not need this to cover significant portion of earth surface, just enough to nudge winds in the right direction and change the humidity. Since the greenhouse effect from humidity and clouds is much larger than the effect from CO2, we can get much nicer climate even without reducing atmospheric CO2.
Not sure why you are downvoted. In the EU databases fall under copyright, which indeed leaves the question how google legally deals with this (technically database right isn't copyright, but in this context that's a technicality).

Also, to quote from the Wikipedia article [1]: An owner has the right to object to the copying of substantial parts of their database, even if data is extracted and reconstructed piecemeal

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
I have found the Buddhist's have a neat trick to this.
I think it boils down all of life is suffering, but suffering is just an illusion.

When you start seeing reality that way, it becomes easier to detach emotionally from everything. It's not that you don't care, you obviously can. But the physiological stress responses like the one your describing can be neutralized by training the response system.

If you have watched talks by Buddhist monks[1] they have described people who suffer from horrible neurological disorders that cause them feeling of pain almost like a chainsaw and the emotional response from that. But through meditation and other practices their heart rate and brain responses can be calmer than the average person.

This is by no means easy it takes years of dedication of aligning your physiological systems with the mental one. But at the end of the day everything is just more or less chemicals and electrical impulses to various parts of the body. Knowing that is the ultimate freedom from that. There are usually lots of factors involve whether its fear, anxiety and the whole spectrum of "darkness" needs to be addressed at a deeper level.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fixvb3s25Uk
Ask HN: What is an easy/quick way to set up analytics for an iOS/mobile app?
This is amazing. Creating a site from scratch takes a lot of time, WYSIWYG website builders are not very customizable. You are in the exact sweet spot I look for as a developer. Seriously great work !
Pretty good book (also in describing Cultural Revolution) even if little, little biased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao:_The_Unknown_Story
Is there a better list of fixed versions for E.G. Apache / Lighttpd (n/a No http/2 support) / Nginx?
> The server reports around 98 Watt of power ... by default, this server is turned off.

This is a poor tradeoff to me. A low power computer can be left on all the time, and be there for you when you need it for things like openvpn or ssh tunnels etc.

Leaving this on and idle would cost around $20 a month in electricity here in the bay area.
Well for this problem I have since a long time an idea I am sure will works, I just need to kick-start it in the right way.

It is the "fair publishing edition", a system of publishing a work in a way that is fair both for the author and for the users. The author get paid an amount that is proportionate to the amount and value of its work and the users gets a fair value in return from their money.

The principle is simple, the author publish a work and decide a fixed amount of money that he judge correct as a fair total reward for his work. In turn the people that begin to buy the product pay only a small quota of this amount and the more people buy the product the smaller gets the amount. If the product becomes successful eventually the entire amount of money will be paid and the product will become free for everyone.

A detail, the first people will pay a larger amount of the latest people and this is a little bit unfair. Yet this is a minor problem that can be fixed by not making the payment immediate and when other people buy the product the payment of the first people will be reduced. In this way the problem will not disappear but it can be smoothed so that it will become more acceptable.

The faire publishing edition can be applied to any product that is trivially copiable, so for things like books, software, games, movies etc.

Each product launch will be caraterized by the amount requested and by a paying time which is roughly the time the author estimate to complete the payment of the product.

Note how this is much better than the current situation: free software authors doesn't get any reward for their work. It is unfair for the authors! At the other side traditional editor get indefinitely paid for a work, doesn't matter how much money they have already collected. It is unfair for the users!

If some people want to help me to kick-start this project, hey, just make me a message! :-)
I think you misread my comment. I was talking about Windows, not Azure. As far as I know, Azure lets you run Linux on their machines, so there's no point in using Windows and locking yourself in.
Wow, very impressive to DIY! It is one thing to do speakers DIY, quite another to make headphones, let alone e-stats.

For those who are interested in entry-level, non-DIY route

Drop (formerly Massdrop) has their variant of the classic Koss ESP/950 electrostatic headphones for around $500. They sold out earlier this year.

https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-koss-esp-95x-electrostatic-s...
A really cool idea. I will definitely use this for spinning up for the next project I am going to work on.
The "old" MS vs the "new" MS really could stand to fade away at this point. Companies, pick anyone you want, have sticks and carrots. MS used to be almost all stick and little carrot, these days they are a lot more generous with the carrots... but that stick is still in the other hand behind their back when the opportunity arises.
donations don't work well though: https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-...
Plastic bags are _short term_ less costly to produce, but unlike paper they do not readily degrade in the environment and produce long term environmental damage. They're not the only or largest proportion of plastic pollution, but you move a mountain one stone at a time.

Reusable bags are a habit thing. Once you're in the habit of taking bags with you it's much easier, but is a right pain until then.

I do agree a minimum price might be better, at least that would make medium-term degradable bags (corn starch etc) more readily used as they're currently out priced by non-degradable plastics. However sometimes the outright ban gets things moving faster.

For reference plastic bags have been banned where I live for two months now. I don't miss them.
Would be interesting to just make a parallel 'moral-social' legal system, where the public could non-bindingly find people guilty of a crime against society and ask them to do something to make it right.

A million people all sharing "Bob did a bad thing, and I'll shun him until he does X" would be a very strong incentive for action. I'd imagine employers would soon start looking up prospective candidates on this service before hiring.
In other words, I don’t care how smart or talented you are if you are going lie and screw me over with it.
> Every async function needs a new Promise, and needs to resolve(). It won’t complain if you don’t do this, but it also won’t actually wait. The debugging around this is super annoying.

Async functions manage the "outer" promise automatically for you. It looks like you are "double-wrapping" promises unnecessarily by creating manual promises around a library that already looks to be returning Promises (or at least, is thenable and Promise-like).

So far as I can tell, it could be simplified to:

async function getEmailOfCourseWithCourseId(courseId) { // async important
try {
const course = await doAsyncStuffWithFirestore(courseId)
return course.email
} catch (error) {
console.error(error)
}
}

async function sendEmailInSendgrid(fields, courseEmail) { // async important
try {
const msg = {to: courseEmail, from: fields.from, text: fields.text}
await doAsyncStuffWithSendGrid(fields, courseEmail)
return msg
} catch (error) {
console.error(error)
}
}

async function saveToCloudFirestore(fields, courseEmail, courseId) { // async important
try {
return await doAsyncStuffWithFirestore(fields, courseEmail, courseId)
} catch (error) {
console.error(error))
}
}

The thing that stands out refactoring it to use awaits is that your try {} catch {} may be too low and you should move the try {} catch {} up higher in your call stack. (Do you really want to ignore the error and continue with all of these inner async functions? Because that is what you are currently doing.)
>I truly believe that we live in the best possible time
This depends on your metric for "best", which I get the idea has something to do with comfort. I agree we live in the most comfortable times. Is comfort something worth seeking? If that is the case what drives people to push themselves to do uncomfortable things, i.e. run marathons, climb mountains, build structures, develop careers? I would argue it is the sense of accomplishment to an extent.

I do think we live in the most comfortable of times, but that gives me no satisfaction. The lack of satisfaction makes us dwell on mortality. I don't think I would care if I was killed during a hunt or contracted a virus after having lived a fulfilling life. So to what extent is technological progress and economic growth useful if I get no satisfaction from it?
I've directly encountered the gas-hob-on-but-unlit scenario myself with someone whose sense of smell is virtually completely gone, and it terrifies me.

(How far gone? They are unable to distinguish, or detect, the sents of various Dr. Bronners soaps, directly before them.)

And mercaptan[1] (the oderising component in municipal natural gas) is among the most detectable scents in existence. The reasons why it was introduced[2] and its alternate uses[3] are worthwhile reads. As I've noted elsewhere, virtually all safety regulations are written in blood, this one the 295+ souls claimed at New London.

________________________________

Notes:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanethiol

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion

3. http://zacon.ca/stench-gas/
> but when Elsevier does the same thing [... ]they 're starting riots

To be fair, that's a slow burn. Academics have been talking about this for decades now.
Yeah, this reminds me of RealWorld on Github.

I wonder if you could use that to build your templates since it's open source :)
Oil rigs float.
I was not aware of this, thank you. I'd still like an answer from any downvoters.
Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
Never mind that C level people are usually at least half done their life anyway. So what if the world warms 2C next decade? They'll weather it just fine
No it isn't. It tells us that more than half of searches are 0-click. It may not be _exact_ but it is meaningful.
I know it goes back at least to Ronald Reagan, and likely has a lot to do with the Reagan Republicans' association of environmental policy with burdensome government over-regulation that interferes with business and personal liberty. That may also have been part of an attempt to repudiate the legacy of Jimmy Carter and the Democrats by polarizing the base against Carter's environmentalism, gaining a power base with business interests interested in deregulation.

I might even speculate there is some residual association with the hippie movement of the 1960s.

Also, the mockery that Al Gore got from Republicans for his environmental activism more or less cemented anything associated with environmentalism and "climate change" as a "leftist fraud" in the minds of many Americans.
Google could fix that if they wanted to.

I remember when Google used to push content developers to be better: no paywalls, no overlays, faster response times, no scammy ads, no content farms.

Those days seem to be over. Google is constantly sending me to content behind paywalls and under pop up content.
I somewhat wish there was a way to test if any http2 server is vulnerable to these issues:

* https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/net/http2

* https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-1-9-has-arrived/

* https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/http2/

* etc…

Larger list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2#Server_software
It's analogous to JS minification -- Clients on the production site should get a bare minimum and the VCS should have the readable form with all the digits of precision and whatever comments, non-functional groups acting as layers in the editing software, etc.
I agree, in my city (Edmonton), the weather forecast even 1 day in advance has effectively become useless this summer. It has been record breaking in terms of the amount/days of rain, and I can say with confidence on at least half of those days rain was not in the forecast.

The system has become completely unstable to the point where weather models no longer seem to be able to output accurate results.