skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany's coal and nuclear power generation never were as fungible as this perennial argument (at least on HN) makes it out to be.

Coal power has been slow to phase out not because the power is needed, but because the coal industry is important, especially in some regions already suffering from the shifting economic fortune of heavy manufacturing. It being the initial core of german industrialisation, it also has an outsized social relevancy as a marker of identity among the labor class.

But for these reasons, Germany would have replaced all coal with renewable energy, French nuclear power, or natural gas generation one or two decades ago. That's still an emission source, but far less so than coal.
What according to you is a qualification to be a CISO, of a bank or a financial institution?

I would any day put my money in a bank who has a CISO with such credentials as that of Michael Johnson. He has been an engineer, done R&D, does have the right chops too I guess. And CyberSec has multiple layers - mostly the people, which is the weakest one. And that, my friend, cannot really be solved just by tech.
A very humane telling of a humbling experience.
"Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the tensor tympani muscle of the middle ear. The rumbling sound can also be heard when the neck or jaw muscles are highly tensed as when yawning deeply."

That is: there are 2 methods. The first method only "some...can" and the second method "[all people] can". The second method seems to be exactly what I voluntarily do; unfortunately the second method's description omits mention of voluntariness ("as when" means that yawning is not mandatory) though. Thus, the "all people" method and doing it voluntarily might overlap much of the time.

Aside: I also have a hardly-traumatic "ear popping" (I say it that way because pressure-caused popping is called barotrauma) as a very early precursor to my voluntary rumbling. I wonder how typical that is...
I know people who spent bitter decades 'never giving up: to try and make it in the music industry. Ultimately they were angry with the world for not giving them what they wanted. They might as well have played the lottery instead.
Lifehacks that change the way you write Markdown
> fucked up the whole northern Pacific

What now? The death toll from the Fukushima Daiichi failure is: up to 1.

> We still don't have a long-term storage solution for the nuclear waste produced by the power plants

Yes, we do. Put it in the side of a mountain. Nuclear waste has always been a political problem, not a technical one. The US already has a site picked, Yucca Mountain, and only NIMBYism has gotten in the way.
What were the good reasons? Is Germany at risk of tsunamis or sub-Soviet-level engineering incompetence?

Do they fear statistics, which point out that nuclear is one of the safest forms of power per kilowatt, most comparable to wind and commercial (non-rooftop) solar?
Security software 'leaked a million fingerprints'
I side with Elon on this. Except he's kinda of a cheap bastard and my idea of using Lytro cameras instead of cheap ones used by Tesla won't actually fly with him. So yeah, use Lytro and you can forget about Lidar altogether.
One of the reasons why I love webcomponents. It’s a simple api and plays well with the dom. Wanna innerHTML some string? Boom it works. document.createElement(‘my-foo’). Works. addEventListener. Works.

Dom explorer shows the elements. document.querySelector finds your tags. Css just works. Nothing new to learn.

Custom elements let you be just another html tag and do your magic. Not fully sold on shadow dom but web components api is simple and I love it.
Hmm... "No worries, I'll do that but it'll probably be in a few days as I'm pretty busy now."

If they want to leave their line open "for a few days"... then good luck to them. :)
> In reality, Germany still exports electricity to "nuclear powered" France.

France imports very cheap electricity from Germany when wind/solar works very well and exports very expensive electricity when wind/solar works badly. It's a pretty much balanced trade between the two in terms of electricity but it's far from balanced in monetary terms, Germany pays the non-stability of their grid at a high price.
> The number of companies which include the .ai top-level domain from the British territory Anguilla has doubled in the last few years, the WSJ reports.

This sounds like some statistics manipulation. Why limit yourself to Anguilla?!
Seems like a market that is inflated by collectors that are hoping it will be worth more in the future. Could end up being another trading cards fiasco.
And more: people who write stuff like this (from experience) are usually the lucky ones with hindsight bias.
If you want to put stuff on your own sites, what do you need Google Tag Manager for? That's a thing for injecting semi-hostile code into other sites.
Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change a Culture
Don't blame the quake and tsunami. Its water did take out the generators needed for the coolants, the plant was wide open for such an accident. NAIIC found the accident to be forseeable and that TEPCO failed to meet basic safety requirements. TEPCO even had two internal studies on the risk of Tsunamis and how to defend against them but management ignored those warnings. If those warnings aren't enough. Japan's coast is full of physical markers from past Tsunamis, indicating the top of those waves and where the safe ground begins.
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/tsunami-stones-ancien...
Essentially you write a script in any language that:

1) checks what's your current IP (an easy way is to do a GET request to http://icanhazip.com/, available thanks to Red Hat engineer Major Hayden)

2) checks what was the last IP you sent to Cloudflare (saved in a text file on your disk or something like data)

3) if they are different, send a PUT request to the Cloudflare API with the new IP: https://api.cloudflare.com/#dns-records-for-a-zone-update-dn...

4) Then save that new IP in the text file, so you can check next time

Finally, you edit your crontab to run that script every few hours or so.
The annoying detail is that passwords can be changed. Email too. What about finger?
There are real earthquakes in the Netherlands. Are you sure?
Renewable energy can generate billions of dollars in health benefits
Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection: A Fair and Balanced Review (2005)
WhatsApp privacy feature makes your chats ‘more private’
I highly doubt anyone working in an Amazon Fulfillment Centre won the Putnam Competition. ;-)
At the end of the presentation the presented mentions that this is structurally identical to loopy belief propagation... Isn't that a big issue, since they inherit many of its tractability issues with regards to training and inference? Modern DL models are far too interconnected for inference to be tractable in general, so the best we can hope for is that we can make simplifying assumptions that make loopy belief propagation feasible.

As a side note, when modern compilers optimize abstract syntax trees, I'm pretty sure they do operations that are similar to the message-passing algorithm described. And they work great, albeit for specialized purposes.
> was reliant on employer sponsored visa

Start-ups are hard. Harder if you’re marrying their risks to immigration law.

What you described is legal. If a founder can’t navigate these hallways, they might be happier in some other role.
Vim and Haskell in 2019
West winds (Wikipedia tells me the English term is "Westerlies") blows towards the east.
I managed to get root on the school district computer than were running every school thin client AND the system for grades. This was before any wide spread general software offerings to do stuff like that. The "hacking" consisted of aborting the boot process using ctrl-c and voila: root console.

I reported it to the school first and got threatened with legal action. Reported it to the central IT department and a guy came and bought me lunch and yelled at our principal for not letting me report it.

Good times.
This is wrong. A burger is bread, meat and vegetables, maybe with some cheese or another meat. Between carbohydrates, protein and some vegetables an all burger diet is unlikely to lead to any noticeable health effects compared to a normal Western diet. Fries are vastly worse for you than burgers or pizza, whether you’re looking at macronutrients alone or tracking vitamins and minerals as well.

http://www.businesspundit.com/the-mcdonalds-weight-loss-prog...

> A US woman claims to have lost 33 pounds by eating nothing but McDonald's for 90 days.

> Merab Morgan, of Henderson, North Carolina, began her diet because she found the Super Size Me film insulting.

> In the documentary, film maker Morgan Spurlock put on 25lbs after eating excusively at McDonald's for just one month.

> Ms Morgan, 35, memorised the calories in almost every menu item, and limits herself to 1,400 calories a day, reports the Detroit Free Press.

> "It's kind of like the poor man's diet," said Morgan, who has tried Weight Watchers and Atkins but failed because of the time and money those plans required.
EduTech Idea – Your Opinion
This is a business idea. Please read it and let me know what you think.

A chatbot/app that helps you decide the best skills to learn based on market demand, your skill set, interests, and natural talents. All to make you competitive and help you gain a unique talent stack in the market. (A good example of that is Scott Adams - Intersection of comedy/humor, decent drawing, and insight into the business world).

Question #1: Do you think that this is a good idea?

Question #2: Would you purchase this product, if it helps you build a long term edge?

Question: How much would you pay?

Cheers!
Barbarossa
this is super cool. do you think the primary demand driver for your sales will be 1) gov't mandates, or 2) cattle farmers wanting to differentiate their meat to eco-conscious customers / retailers? just curious about how you see the market.
As far as I know, Google Tag Manger is a tool to inject scripts into websites via an interface. So you add the Tag Manager script to your page and then you can tell Tag Manager via Google's interface to load additional scripts.

Why does anybody need Google's solution here so badly? It sounds pretty easy to develop such a thing.
Or until legislation forces big AG to stop doing it for the sake of everyone else.
IANAChemist but

> ...showed that the 18-carbon rings had alternating triple and single bonds.

Stable alternating single/triple bonds? As in the bonds don't flicker around? How is that even possible?

1. Surely the bonds can't stay in the same place

2. Surely they would 'nebulise'/spread out/whatever the right term is, over the ring

3. if 2. doesn't apply, why on earth is it more energetically favourable to have a very high energy (ok, my assumption) triple bond next to a much lower energy (ditto) single bond, and for it not to immediately snap into a pair of double bonds?

Given my n00b level of teh chemistry, what is going on here?
Back when there were telegrams, I once sent a telegram to Kentucky Fried Chicken corporate HQ to complain about a franchisee that was leaving unsold food under the heat lamps for so long it tasted awful.
KFC happened to be one of the few nearby eateries open late.
Cost about $20 to send a telegram, which was delivered by a Western Union messenger.

I was contacted by KFC corporate HQ and given lots of coupons. Then I was contacted by regional HQ and given more coupons. Then by the franchisee. More coupons and an apology. The food quality improved markedly. For a while.
That just means the inefficiency is in the feed used and the farming practices, not in the animal.
I am thinking of a power generator in shoes so you don't waste the downward energy
We need lots more people like you! :)
After a very long time, this is a fine piece of investigative journalism to make the top 30 on HN. I wish the main BuzzFeed site did more of this than the clicbait.
I'm not sure your number is correct. It's more like 20%.
Historians disagree https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/forscher-warnt-vor...
React has become, for better or worse, one of the building blocks of the web. Synchronous updates were always a pain, properly encapsulating components was always messy and fragmented, and now there's a standardised way to do asynchronous DOM updates using encapsulated components.
I have a fairly good eye for products that will fail right out of the box, so I prefer not to pay extra for a returns policy.
Really? I would think they'd be incredibly destructive, if they ground liquified...
Laws with inherent conflicts of interest are supposedly unconstitutional. Can any lawyer comment on this? Can we have the ACLU challenge these in court?
I guess legally it is not required and therefore funds are not available for such things. Quite discusting in my opinion. Signing the UN human rights conversation would have set those legal obligations. [1]

[1] http://globaljusticecenter.net/blog/773-u-s-aversion-to-inte...
Sorry "fully" was the wrong word here:

Standard European wall outlets (Type E & F) are 230V and 16A, so that gives you 3.7kW. At that rate, the Model 3 can charge at 22km/h [0].

So you could charge 20% - 80% (220km of range added) in 10 hours overnight. Even if your "overnight" time is a little shorter, that is still going to be enough for most commutes.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/de_DE/support/home-charging-installati...
Not all companies can afford in-house solutions.
Way less than $20 a month in a lot of the world too. Americans have a footprint twice as high as Brits, even.
TV was passive. You just sat there and watched what was broadcast after you selected a channel to watch.

The internet is interactive. This easily allows the internet to become a much larger part of someone's life than TV could.

This is a big enough difference between TV and internet that I don't think you can really use TV as a refutation of his argument about internet.
> First of all, I'd like to point out that the whole nuclear energy was pushed a lot by politics in the 1950s.

No. If anything, that has set back nuclear tech for a century, as the designs funded were designed for weapons manufacturing first, energy second. Nuclear is very convenient (very infrequent fuel shipments) and powerful. Which is why well-funded navies use it extensively. The US Navy, for instance, has a perfect track record, under much harsher conditions.

> We still don't have a long-term storage solution for the nuclear waste produced by the power plants

We do, actually. Breeder reactors. If it is energetic enough to pose a serious threat, it's energetic enough for fuel. Once we have extracted most of the useful energy, the waste is much less dangerous and can be dealt the same way we deal with other hazardous materials.

> If a wind turbine is decomissioned, you simply strip it, melt it and make a better one.

I don't think it is as simple as that. Source for this claim? Re-purposing for other applications I can buy

> and don't forget about waste from decomissioning the actual buildings

It's basically the reactor vessel, which is not that big. The entire plant is not radioactive, after all. In fact, it is LESS radioactive than a comparable coal power plant, which can't even be built nearby, as it would trip all sorts of alarms in the nuclear power plant.

> Japan is just as technologically advanced as Germany, yet one of the nuclear plants, as predicted by Kraftwerk (the band), blew and fucked up the whole northern Pacific.

It was a decades old design that had a design flaw which was documented AND IGNORED. And yet, it survived a major Earthquake AND a Tsunami. If that's not safe I don't know what is. It would have been fine if not for more fuckups, like incompatible power so generator trucks couldn't be connected, even though they were dispatched. It's worth it to point out that Fukushima's reactor shut down as designed. As did other nuclear power plants, which experienced no issues at all.

> Building a new nuclear power plant now is betting against a huge leap in battery technology. If that leap happens it's bye-bye for fossil fuels.

Look, I'm all for renewables. But we are not there yet for baseline power, which a few (modern!) power plants could easily provide, supplemented by solar, wind, geothermal. Powering things like an aluminum power plant with renewables is going to be a tough task.

> so don't think its powers plants to be 100% safe.

Nothing is 100% safe. Solar panel installation kills more people per year than all nuclear accidents ever, combined. And most nuclear power plants running today are ancient designs, because it's difficult to get permits to build more, due to public perception. But you wouldn't use the safety record for a car built in 1960 to claim that cars nowadays are inherently unsafe, would you? Why use the same argument for nuclear power plants? We need to replace the old junk with modern power plants.
I meant not only "easy to develop" for the user but also "easy to develop" for competitors to offer an alternative to Google's Tag Manager.
Yep. We had decades of time. We put those decades into what amounts to a boondoggle, with wind and solar and vague hopes that efficiency of generation and storage technology would just materialize with no real clear path. So we have basically nothing to show for the last 50 years.

We could have invested in replacing fossil fuels with extant nuclear technologies and put a huge dent in the problem. And put more research into fusion, which is still subjected to a painful lack of funding that is the biggest roadblock to its eventual viability.
Dare2Compete – Explore latest and trending student/corporate competitions
Dare2Compete is a creation that will lead to a new era of competitions and ignite the spirit of competitiveness. Our aim is to provide timely, authentic and relevant information about the latest competitions happening across the globe; and to conceptualize, organize and market various competitions, quizzes and simulation games for organizations to enable new dimensions of employer branding in campuses, competition led recruitment of future leaders and employee engagement programs.
Re: your second point, splitting methane into H2 and CO2 is not something that's being investigated at lab scale, it's how 95% of global hydrogen production today is done. We're talking close to a trillion cubic meters per year from steam methane reforming.

It's just that most of the time, resulting CO2 is just released instead of being stored. But that is changing, fast.
The root cause of this is a mismatch between capitalism and a well functioning, fair society. Again. The earth is dying, the population polarised and our social systems are failing to do their job. Something has to change. There must be another model out there that doesn't devolve into horror, as both capitalism and communism seem destined to do. We need to revisit the 60's only this time we need an actionable plan and the will to follow through or our children's children aren't going to make it. Don't balk at this, our structural problems are existential.
A Walk in Hong Kong
I'll tell you why, because I often wonder why projects that claim to replace Google Analytics regularly make the top of HN front page.

Google Analytics isn't about logging in when someone is on your website.

It's about how it connects that data point to Google's huge dataset about everyone. Google Analytics tells you what kind of people are visiting your site (aka, segments): age, location, etc.

Also, more often than not, these tools aren't as capable as GA to design and watch conversion tunnels and behaviours.

And then there's the whole binding with Google Ads.

Replacing GA with only an Apache or php/node URL logger is missing the whole point of GA.
That's quite a hard figure to come up with I'd think, though there's no problem with overshooting of course.

My personal emissions going forward are likely to be way lower than previous years simply due to awareness.
Russia Tells Its Scientists to Steer Clear of Foreigners
Nobody knows where to put the waste, failures are catastrophic if rare and they have turned out not to be that rare if enough plants are deployed. As I said, it was a long discussion. Nobody wants to reopen it and I‘ll leave it at that.
The parent comment mentions also additional effects like increased immunity.
Because when you give people two options:

1. With 99% probability all remaining humans will die a slow, painful death in 60 years.

2. With 1% probability you will have to move homes to not get cancer in 20 years.

A decisive majority of the voting people will choose option 1.
So you're saying if farming antibiotic free cattle is twice as profitable as today, and farming antibiotic cattle is loss making, farmers are still going to farm antibiotic cattle? You know farms are businesses, they are motivated by money.
This is a good comment and i have made a new https://aetech.shop and buying and selling affiliate items.
Is it actually or is it just not liking farts and rationalizing reducing them?
Trying this with PayPal right now. Did not work so far.
The Harmful Effects of divorce on children (part 2)
You might be overestimating our gene-editing abilities - our current knowledge is, in rough terms, a bunch of guesses where we only discover other roles a gene has years later. It’s anything but predictable.
They chose to work at Amazon, and most people don't second guess their own decisions. If amazon is evil it would reflect poorly on them for deciding to work there.

And again, it's incredibly rare for major corporations to tell easily verifiable falsehoods. I can't imagine that Amazon would instruct these people to lie about working on the warehouse floor. It's too big of a risk to their reputation and corporate goodwill for a very small reward.

You-know-who's razor here...the simplest explanation is most likely correct.
Breaking the encryption scheme of the Moscow internet voting system
You are welcome! Unfortunately, right now it's just in pre-alpha but I will try to finish asap
That made me wonder if internal communication is just as bad and this went through my head.

Google Boss: Hey employee 254199, I’m pleased to tell you that your request for maternally leave has been granted.

Google Employee 254199: Gee thanks, but little Tommy is now 2 fucking years old....
What is the "guff" that goes into a chain fast food burger?
Ask HN: Do I write good code or short code for an interview?
I have been working in the industry for a couple of years now. I am thinking of changing jobs and while preparing, I have noticed that I now have a distaste for short, witty and hard to understand code, and would rather write something longer but easier to understand. That is what I would do on my job to make everyone's life easier. Would you recommend going the "good but long code" way or is it bound to fail to impress the judges?

Here is an example in repl.it. (please don't edit the code)
https://repl.it/repls/SquigglyScientificMonitors
President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland
Abstract: In September 2019, voters for the election at the Parliament of the city of Moscow will be allowed to use an internet voting system. The source code of it has been made available for public testing. The encryption used in this system is a variant of ElGamal with key sizes that are too small. We explain how to retrieve the private keys from the public keys in a matter of minutes with easily available resources.

Notes:

- Not mentioned in the abstract but the system relies on an Ethereum smart contract.

- The author is a researcher at Loria Nancy (France) which I consider to be one of the best teams in the world on this topic. Among other things he worked on Belenios (http://www.belenios.org/index.html).
> So I think my head would explode if I tried to learn a FP language without being able to have months off work to study.

What's so hard you find about OCaml or FP in general you haven't had to deal with in your day-to-day imperative programming?

> Unfortunately too many years of C/C++

You mean you find OCaml making your head to explode after years of C and C++?