skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the world is precious, but the idea that you need to take psychedelics to realize this is completely absurd.

Religion certainly isn't going to help anyone appreciate nature. American Christians in particular think God gave the world to them to do whatever they want, even if that means driving around gas-guzzling SUVs and polluting as much as they want. Most other religions don't have a very good track record with environmentalism either.

Modern science, however, tells us exactly why we're having problems, and what things are likely to look like if they keep going this way. What more do you need for inspiration, other than "if you don't make some big changes, you're going to have massive flooding of port cities, and a lot more extreme weather, storms, desertification, etc., which will cause shortages of freshwater and food." If that isn't enough inspiration, I don't know what is. The problem is that too many people simply don't believe this, just like there's people who think vaccines cause autism.

Then again, since I'm a believer in science and I'm not religious, I can't speak for people who are, so maybe you're onto something with the psychedelics thing. Perhaps we should try a scientific study, giving religious anti-environment people psychedelics and seeing if it makes them appreciate nature more.
Yeah, I can see that. Too bad because "drone" also has the connotation of "dumb" or "slave", which is the opposite of what you want an autonomous vehicle to be that's sharing your airspace. (It makes more sense in the remotely-piloted case, as in the military versions.) But words take on their own lives, and I guess there are now "drones".
Can someone explain to me what is so special in those photos? These look like snapped on the phone...
Possibly CYP2D6 polymorphism has a role too https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26723569
Sure, not adding will work... by 2200, maybe 2100. But, if you believe the current panic about the climate, that's far too late. So if you think that the population has to be reduced, and you think that we need action by 2050 at the latest, what is your proposal?
Scotiabank Source Code, Credentials Found on GitHub
>If I am voluntarily giving information to a company, and have been completely informed of all the purposes that it will be put to (especially which companies it may be transmitted to), then I have no problem with it at all, personally. And I particularly would not be inclined to say that others can't decide this for themselves.

I fully agree, but it seems like under this legislation it becomes illegal to conduct a business in this manner. If I am fine with trading a certain set of my data for access to a service, I should be able to do so (if the service provides that option, obviously).
We might actually be getting help from our feline friends on this one. Keep your murderkitties indoors.
Of course it's miraculous. We're on this marble spinning around hosting life. There's nothing else like us that we know about. Nothing. For all intents and purposes, we're alone. Looking around the immediate universe (our galaxy), there may be life on other planets in the galaxy. But. If we keep going the course we're going, it is far more likely that we'll extinct ourselves before we develop the technology to find out if there is life out there and long before we'll find out how to reach a potential new home.
> Seeing a sky full of stars

Yes.

As a teenager, with my grandparents, we were camped here for a while: https://goo.gl/maps/zYf5SvSZ2WMaFQpx5 The moon was new, and not yet risen. Even though it was mid summer, near midnight, the outside temperature was below freezing.

I walked out away from the camp, past a small ridge, and suddenly, for the first time in my life, I could see not a single artificial light.

At more than 10,000 feet of elevation, the air was sharp as a knife. It was dark, yet it wasn't. The arc of our galaxy looked like cotton, it was so bright and clear. The stars were steady, with barely any atmospheric distortion.

I sat on a large rock and opened the book I was carrying.

"By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven. Therefore they have ever loved the starlight, and have revered Varda Elentári above all the Valar."
Colt suspends production of AR-15 for civilian market
> Still, a raft of younger startups, such as Checkout.com, are raising hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital to challenge Stripe.

There is a paywall link for more details. I'm curious to know what they are looking to challenge (especially given the rave reviews that Stripe gets here at HN)
This looks promising. Looking forward to trying it out! I do wish there was more information on the website about how it works, fees etc.

I am admittedly a crypto currency novice, so I'm not real familiar with the lightning network and how it works. I am curious how your product differs from the Bitcoin feature on Square Cash app?

I have had a good experience buying Bitcoin with USD from Square. It's fast, there is no fee (although they pad the price a little bit), and I can then immediately send the coins to the wallet of my choosing.

Seems like your product is very similar. Are there any major differences? What are the reasons to use your app and not keep buying from Square?
I predict there will be a lawsuit for damages by the two testers arrested.
> I love the copy on Stripe's website. Who wrote it?

It's not available at Stripe's home page. Would you mind sharing it? Thx
Good lord, are really americans from the Land of the Free having thoughts like this one.
I'm not even sure where to start asking. What's the first wild story that comes to mind?
All these sites get ads that should make a ton of revenues for WordPress.
It appears to be a fixed-wing aircraft that also has rotors, to hover as it makes the delivery. Assuming there's not a suitable space to land and take off again and you don't want packages randomly parachuting to the ground, this seems like the best way to do it.
When I was a kid, the magazine that came with the Sunday paper would once a year give a list of the world's most admired persons. The first time I read one, I couldn't understand the criteria, and asked my parents. They said, Oh, it's about name recognition--people start fishing their memories for names, and the overlap polls highest.
These are valid questions, not sure why you are being downvoted.
I visited the link with noscript enabled, and was redirected immediately to https://pragprog.com/no_js

So I disabled noscript, which refreshed the page automatically, so of course I was still on https://pragprog.com/no_js and not https://pragprog.com/book/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20t...

...Not very pragmatic of them IMHO.

I do quite enjoy my copy of the book, however :P

If only to reassure me that I am generally doing things correctly, it didn't really teach me a whole lot.

Never hurts to brush up on the basics.
http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...

(found via his pinned profile tweet)
Rivian disguises their trucks as F-150s for real world testing, so good luck finding a video not made by them.
I don't know what entry-level job for a dropout is going to pay 120k/year; my first full-time job as a dropout paid 35k/year (in 2011). Granted, this was Orlando, FL, not Silicon Valley, but even still I have a hard time believing that the average entry-level salary is that high.

Also, why the constraint of "out of state" tuition? In-state tuition for CUNY schools is ~$7,000/year. 4 X 7,000 = ~$28,000. Is that a lot of money? Sure, but it's less than my first year's salary as a dropout, even without your inflated numbers.
Breathing is carbon neutral if your food source is carbon neutral.

I'm glad you realize that carbon-negative activities can offset carbon-positive activities. I really don't understand why you immediately declare that it doesn't matter, though.

If the average person/company uses mostly-renewable supplies, and buries enough trees to offset the rest, then it doesn't 'only delay' carbon emissions, we can stop forever or even reduce the levels.

And you act like delaying bad effects for hundreds of years isn't a very good thing all by itself...
I appreciate that input as that's the point I'm reaching. Senior devs that I've worked with have said the same thing. However, I haven't found a convincing argument for upper management.
Just use Bitcoin SV, the way bitcoin is supposed to work.

Lightning is a sham.
It can't be a compile error. It's not an error for a program to contain such code, it's only an error if that code executes.
They’re not bad for the consumer. They’re just hard to implement in practice. I’m going through this right now at a well known tech co. Nobody, including the lawyers on both sides of the table, knows exactly what to do to be compliant because a lot of the bill is pretty vague on details.

And for some companies doing shit like selling customer data is the only reason they’re in business. Good riddance to them though.
Assuming that's true, then it's just accounting for social behavior.

A user isn't "paying" for privacy. Privacy comes by default (for a price) and a company can pay a user to harvest their data.

Financially, they both work out the same, but based on opt-in, opt-out behaviors and perception I presume they have a different impact. The wording specified by the law says that users should have a default expectation of privacy. They can actively choose to give that up for a fee.

The business profit loss side of it says, you can't build a business that assumes it gets to profit off harvesting user's data for free. User data has value, place a value on it, and make it an explicit part of the transaction.
What's overlooked is the demand side flexibility. With a bit of statistics, your electric car might know that it's ok to wait for a better time to charge, or even return power to the grid when connected and charged. Dishwashers, air conditioning, and washing machines have some flexibility to choose when to consume energy, and there are large industrial consumers such as aluminium smelters that could also participate.
The word that the FAA uses is sUAS (Small Unmanned Aircraft System).

As long as it is under 55 lbs. is counted as a sUAS under FAA regulations.
That explains the sparkling environmental record of the USSR and China!
I haven't said anything about regexes here. What I wrote is that I find the shorthand "non human readable" specifically to be objectionable. Are regexes sometimes difficult? Sure. Are people who read bash also human? Yes, and that's my point. I hope that point is fair.
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Billionaires like Elon Musk have done far more to bring about mass adoption of electric vehicles than governments ever could. Government funded agencies like NASA don't design or build their own rockets anymore. Space X can do the same job both better and cheaper. The best creators of jobs and economic value is the private sector. Even state run pension plans like social security are notorious for being poorly implemented and run. SS pays negative returns on every dollar retirees invest in it. Far worse than private sector alternatives. These trends hold true for governments attempting to achieve wealth equality. Governments are typically the worst at achieving effective cost per value as they operate as monopolies which lack competition and have no incentive to produce value.
sUAS (Small Unmanned Aircraft System) is what the FAA uses
True.

Hang out where people talk about volunteerism for very long and you'll run into conversations about managing and preventing burnout.

When something matters to you it's easy to overextend yourself. Lots of people join a group for 10-24 months, do lots of useful work and then vanish. The work isn't done, but they are.
It's both. Fixed wing when travelling, multi rotor hover when dropping off.
Yes, but it’s commonly combined with carbamate which is.
Okay but there’s no concrete examples there. There’s a bunch of broad claims that Apple will blacklist journalists for X, Y, and Z but no names or evidence that it’s actually happening.

I can believe that Apple might do this (especially since he also cites openly breaking rules by doing things like live-streaming when it’s been explicitly forbidden) but this article doesn’t convince me it’s happening or educate me on how much of a problem it really is.
If you'd like to help with this issue you can replace the plans in your yard with native plants.

Most of the insects in your area CAN NOT eat the plants in your yard.

That's one of the reasons they're planted - they look better and last longer.

However, if insects can't eat them then there are less birds.

HOAs will often fight you over this so you might need to educate them.
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Berlin has made that list too, though.
The best when it says: "3. Whenever you find a bug, write a test case to cover it before fixing it"

I do really miss all RoR testing tools in PHP
True enough. But that was more than one species. And it took them a lot longer, about two billion years.
If you work with anyone who isn't remote, you're going to get left out of things and find it more difficult to communicate.

- They don't have the right equipment (e.g use built in mic in an open office)

- They won't want to use the tools the remote team uses (e.g. rarely on slack, prefer email for async communication)

We don't address them so much as we power thru them.
I think the idea is that regulation always has unexpected side effects

So does a lack of regulation. That's how we ended up here.
How We Solved Tiled Map Caching for Self-Driving Cars
The need to use "compatible" versions of LLVM between the C++ and Rust compilers is scary. Anything aside from the exact same LLVM revision could in theory lead to bad results, including bugs or security vulnerabilities (if LLVM changes the meaning of something in its IR).

This isn't Rust or Clang's fault, of course, it's just a consequence of using LLVM IR as the data for LTO, that LLVM IR has no backwards compatibility guarantees, and that Rust is out-of-tree for LLVM.

In theory using a stable format for LTO would avoid issues like this. Wasm is one option that has working cross-language inlining already today, but on the other hand it has less rich an IR, and the optimizers are less powerful than LLVM.
Not sure what they used.

In my tiny 4 Pi cluster I'm using a regular 1U server PSU. It supplies 5v and can easily supply the current needed for the four Pis.
A common numbing medication turned a woman's blood blue
> using git is over-engineering

Their compass to locate "over-engineering" is a bit off track. Engineering starts after you have put your artifacts in git or any other VC :-)
This is a fun write up to read, because I experienced exactly the same problem in a similar system dealing with lots of writes to S3. Sporadic 15 minute timeouts for no immediate reason, especially as the files were only a few megabytes in size.

It led to me going on a similar journey of diving deep into the stack right into doing diffs on the kernel tree to work out what had changed between kernel versions. Eventually I came to the same conclusion, and only recently the problem has been patched in CENTOS6/RHEL6 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2736

Interestingly after identifying this problem, I also noticed similar behaviour on AWS Lambda shortly after June 20th, with the TCPWQueueTooBig metric spiking and causing Lambda timeouts. Took a few rounds through AWS support (and our account managers) to get them to look at it, but they eventually fixed it.

I think the common thread between this post and my experience is we are both using a Java/JVM based stack. When trying to reproduce the bug for Amazon I could only reproduce it with a simple Java example, whereas my attempt with Golang seemed to run fine - so not really sure why that was.

Maybe I'll write a similar blog about my findings, at least I learnt a lot from it!
I do not believe that all nuclear stockpiles will remain untouched during this not-extinction-but-close-enough. And after the first nukes fly, who knows how many more will follow.
I want to see an app: full frame high rate recording with all cameras, marking "photos" as time & subframe. From there, be able to later roll individual "photos" forward/back in time, and shift/rotate/zoom/interpolate within that video space. When satisfied, dump the (massive) video and keep the selected photos. Likewise for sub-videos.

I want to focus on getting photos without having to get it right at that moment. Get me ALL the image data, let me indicate what/when I want a picture of, and save details of framing & timing for later.

Live Photos is just the smallest beginning of what we should be able to do with 3 60fps >4K cameras, a half terabyte storage, and an unlimited data plan.
These all sound fine, except I don't know that credit agencies are held to high standards.
This study did not focus on religious people in particular, but there is at least some preliminary evidence (in addition to loads of anecdotal evidence) for psychedelics increasing appreciation for nature: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28631526
It was in response to the parent lacking OOP in FP.

I think this is a problem with any language that supports multiple paradigms and ways to skin a cat.

Enforcing guidelines is a way to combat that. Ofc you might also just opt for a more specific language
Were you around for the Bing partnership days? If so I have so many questions.
> In essence, Seth is just hurting the disadvantaged, minority, woman owned small business that applied to middleman the contract more than he is ICE or Chef.

This has got to be in the top 10 "most cynical things," I've ever read. You don't just get to enable fascism because you belong to intersectionally marginalized groups, and your perversification of their struggle to outweigh the thousands of disappeared kids, the thousands of sexually assaulted children, and not to mention any of the other horrors associated with these camps, is completely shameful.

Who cares if the middlemen are being hurt when they're collaborating to put children in cages en masse.
How Your Private Illinois Tollway Data Is Shared with Cops and Divorce Lawyers
If the company is not a remote-first company, it's a huge pain in the ass, because the culture is not aligned. It's like you're locked in the storage closet. You will shout to try to get someone's attention, but they often aren't there. Occasionally someone will check on you. Meetings can be garbled and difficult. You're left out of everything; your coworkers have ad-hoc conversations and decide things without you. Even pair programming is difficult. And of course, your coworkers will feel like this is all your fault.

The difficulty of getting impromptu questions answered (you always have to schedule meeting time, so you may waste 30mins for an 8 minute question) will eventually lead to office hours if you want to be productive. And it's always fun when people decide to take meetings while working from a coffee shop.

On the plus side, no need to put on pants. (Except in the coffee shop...)
Returning to WWII isn't going to do anything useful, even if you do want to go down this intellectual rabbit-hole. I've actually looked into this before.

Go look at how many people died in WWII. Was it a lot? In absolute numbers, sure. As a percentage of the human race? No, not really. It barely made a dent in the worldwide population. You can look at population graphs over time, and it barely registers, if at all. Remember, WWI also killed a lot of people, but more people died from the Spanish Flu pandemic.

I'm sorry, but war just isn't a very good form of population control any more. Maybe it was in Medieval times, but it isn't now. Even with the horrific numbers of dead, it's just not that much of the overall population, and the amount of destruction it wreaks on everything is insane: cities leveled, resources wasted on building war materiel, and of course the ridiculous amount of oil burned (which just makes the global warming problem that much worse). Modern militaries are huge consumers of oil when they're deployed.
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It's your attention span. I have the same impression as you. I don't always read the articles, yet whenever I do "find the time", they're always an entertaining and insightful read.

Which means I think I need to work on my own attention span.
I have a coupon code that says otherwise.
You don't seems to understand that extensions/attributes can have a usefulness that far outweight cross compiler compatibility?

Type of reasons:
Performance critical;
Security;
Expressivity;

Each of them can be a necessary reason.
E.g "polymorphism" in C through transparent unions
Fossil fuel reintroduces sequestered carbon into the atmosphere and biosphere. This results in a net addition of carbon to the biosphere.

Synthesized fuels from atmospheric or oceanic carbon take currently resident carbon from the biosphere, convert it to fuel, and reintroduce it to the biosphere. There is no net addition of carbon to the system.

Keep in mind that this only works if you're sourcing carbon from the biosphere. As a contrast, earlier suggestions to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels from sources such as limestone, made in the 1960s, would also increase total biospheric carbon, and would not be carbon neutral.

The problem with fossil fuels is the scale of carbon dioxide being added to the atmosphere, about 32 gigatons per year (http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/news/2015/march/global-...). Reducing that, or turning the net negative, is what we have to do. Jeffrey S. Dukes, "Burning Buried Sunshine" (2003) is an excellent reference to the rates of fossil fuel formation and utilisation (https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_ClimChange1....). We're burning oil at roughly 5 million times the rate at which it first accumulated.

Before humans relied on fossil fuels, virtually all energy we used came from plant energy, via either human or animal muscles, or in some instances, fire. Small additional amounts were contributed by wind and water power, a minuscule amount by geothermal energy. A phenomenal exploration of human history through the lens of energy is Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization (2017), or Manfred Weissenbacher's Sources of Power (2009) which divides all of history into five eras: hunter-gatherer, agriculture, coal, oil & gas, and the post-oil world.

As Gregory Clark notes in A Farewell to Alms, there are effectively two periods to human history: Before and after 1800, typically given as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Back to synfuels: the principle advantage of these is that liquid hydrocarbon fuels are phenomenally useful They're long-term stable, extraordinarily energy dense, largely safe, can be utilised across and extreme range of scales, in engines ranging from a few watts to 100 MW output, and across all modes of transport: road, rail, canal, sea, air, and rockets. If sourced from non-fossil carbon, they could remain useful, though attempts to do so have not proved economical or scalable to date.
Not even remotely true unless you're selling to the government. The GSA does get a bit testy if they think you're cutting someone else a better deal.
Because when you buy a car you aren't usually buying "a [year] [make] [model] [with these features]". You're buying "that specific car with that unique identifier"
except, the full sentence in the bill reads:

> including by charging the consumer who opts out a different price or providing the consumer a different quality of goods or services, except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer’s dat

Doesnt that second part cancel the first part? Businesses can also pay money for data ... so facebook can switch to subsciption only, but pay its users with virtual coins for viewing ads
The bill has an explicit carve-out for free speech. So in some sense the bill is going "la la la I don't violate the first amendment," but ultimately it depends on what that clause means.