skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China has more focus on renewables than the US at this point.

A meaningless statement as they continue to aggressively expand their use of coal and coal power plant manufacturing both domestically and across Asia.

China is nearly using as much coal as the rest of the world combined. They're using four to five times as much as the US.

Their actions are what matter, not their words. Their plans for renewables coincides with their plan to increase emissions perpetually as they see fit.

Apr 2019: "Edward Cunningham, a specialist on China and its energy markets at Harvard University, tells NPR that China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines."

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/716347646/why-is-china-placin...

Mar 2019: "The largest power producers in China have asked the government to allow for the development of between 300 and 500 new coal power plants by 2030 in a move that could single-handedly jeopardise global climate change targets. ... The cap would enable China to build 2 large coal power stations a month for the next 12 years, and grow the country’s capacity by an amount nearly twice the size of Europe’s total coal capacity."

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-p...
Wow, they said they might revoke one's verified status if they linked to SC? I wish "verified" just meant "this account with identity X has been verified to be managed by person with identity X," instead of, "this account with identity X has been verified (or deemed, by us) to be a popular (or even, preferred) person."

I mean, I understand that verification of one's identity may not be that simple to do technologically, and yet, it seems more and more like they're not even trying to help bring more humanity to their platforms.
Oh wow you're right. That's an impressive write up
The internet increase the power of small groups of actors. In adversarial conflicts this leads to increasingly expensive arms races. So there you go. The same internet that gives us the understanding of what is happening is the same internet that gives small groups of people the ability to run hundreds of newsrooms as a fraction of the staff.
Was it a lecture by Clayton Christensen by any chance?

(can't find the lecture I had in mind but this one mentions the same part in passing) https://youtu.be/rpkoCZ4vBSI?t=2915
'Playing Around' with Code Keeps Security, DevOps Skills Sharp
Why would you ever use a calculator except for tests in school where you are not allowed to have equipment that can do all the stuff that a modern device allows you to do..
Even though I dont care for Mr Trump, I do like that Tim Cook and Trump meet now and then to discuss various matters. I suspect Tim has educated Trump on the complexity of global supply chains. And Trumps opinions may influence Apples decisions a bit too.

Trump also has talks with GMs CEO Mary Barra.
Thanks! Never saw an email about this. Just another reason to have everything in your own wallet.
I also struggled with this worry, and also am infinitely better on Lexapro.

I still have anxiety, it just doesn't take complete control. I'm not a slave to my anxiety anymore, I can push past it if I really want to do something, something that in the past would have had me utterly paralyzed and broken.

It's not even a high dose.
Answering the headline: maybe, when we finish getting out of the 'steam age' of medicine.

Long term might grow closer to current science fiction. Very precise robotic surgery at an atomic level reconstructs whole bodies (my favorite case being the beginning of The Fifth Element), less extreme examples also exist and we might someday get to the point where "knives" are replaced with gentle 'unzipping' tools or even grey-goo that slowly scrubs over an area and just sets everything correct.
It is fascinating to see how comfortable we've all become with living under the threat of near-instant nuclear annihilation.
Or possibly advanced civilizations had the same realization that many scifi authors have had about such probes. Something goes wrong and they cause widespread destruction. Or they work fine but still end up causing widespread destruction simply by replicating.
> because it lets me deploy a new API endpoint in a matter of minutes

I've seen many projects that do the same without serverless just fine.

It's always been there, unless you had some enterprise-grade stacks. I was able to do this in early 2000s, with PHP and FTP, in a matter of seconds. Just upload that api/new_endpoint.php.

Not like this timing is the big deal, unless you really need to add those API endpoints real quick.

> I can move 5x-10x the speed with serverless.

I'd argue this is only applicable to the initial setup. There is one-time investment in designing your own infrastructure, but you can move fast on anything well-designed.

And it's not like serverless designs are immaculate. Just recently I was listening to Knative introduction talk and my obvious question was "what happens to event processing if servers that power this system fail and processing job just dies without a trace". Turned out, there are no delivery guarantees there yet. My conclusion: "uh, okay, blessed be the brave souls who try to use this in production, but I'll check out in a few years".

> There is less (almost 0) infrastructure to maintain.

It doesn't run on some sci-fi magitech in a quantum vacuum. The servers and networks are still there.

The benefit is that you don't have to design them. Saves you some (possibly, lots of) bootstrapping time when you're about to make your first deployment and ask yourself "how" and "where to".

The liability is that you can't - so when things break your can only wait, or try to re-deploy in hope that it would be scheduled to run on some servers that aren't affected.
Yeah, I didn't miss that point. Not at all.

I think you missed my point. Because you state:

>Basically there are ways how to fix it

My point is it's not actually broken. It's working. It's working very well.

Although it doesn't tend to, opportunity _could_ arise anywhere. So, potential geniuses are peppered everywhere such that if opportunity were to arise there there are people who can take advantage of it.

The assumption that it should work the other way around is ridiculous.

Opportunity isn't for geniuses. Geniuses are for opportunity.
> You can easily store notes on a TI calculator. I had a TI-85 in college, and was occasionally guilty of writing TI-BASIC programs to make tests easier

You're thinking in the wrong direction—testing companies don't really care if you can access notes that you wrote, they don't want you to be able to quickly type up new notes as you take the test. Specifically, they don't want you to be able to copy down the test questions, because they charge money to get old test questions. They don't want the test itself to get out.
So, my interpretation is not the same as yours. It does not appear that there is any consideration in this list for something along the lines suggested by the GP. Namely, I don't see "Company agrees to bring production of some other product into the US" as grounds for granting the waiver.

Is there any evidence that this was a quid pro quo sort of arrangement?
What's really weird is that TCP is an endpoint protocol and should have been relatively easier to upgrade/replace/change (relative to say, IP protocol).

But why haven't we moved to something better?

Say, why doesn't Apple use a better suited protocol between Apple devices and Apple servers? Why doesn't google use a better protocol between Google devices and Google servers (oh wait, they do – QUIC..which is something-other-than-TCP over IP).

More people should be doing this, yes? why not?

It is as if the layered architecture of the network isn't being taken advantage of by engineers.

As people build 4G-5G networks that are IP based, shouldn't we insist they build purely IP based and not peek into layers above and make assumptions? thereby enable more of the flow control and reliable transmission protocol experimentations?
> by this government's disgraceful and abhorrent behavior

What abhorrent behavior? They've attempted to disincentive people abusing asylum policies. You don't have to come and apply for false asylum, and you're free to self-deport.
I've lived 12 years with chronic pain caused by a smashed vertibrae from a climbing accident.

No _legal_ drugs that aren't heavily addictive. And the predictable result is that you can't even get legal medicine that works any more, because no one dares to touch the addictive stuff.

And I sort of get it, I went through hell getting off OxyNorm/Contin after the accident. But it's really shitty to leave people hanging with no legal alternatives.

Edit: What kind of person down votes this? I would seriously consider seeking help.
I wouldn’t even mind the monopoly if they sold them at a reasonable margin which I imagine is something close to $20.

More importantly, we need to change the curriculum to allow students to use softwares such as Mathematica.
Nothing. I've tried on and off since I was a child. Turns out I'm doing it wrong or something. All I got was day to day trivia, verbose cruft and nostalgia bait.
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>Why is "safety" the most important consideration?

Because driving is an inherently dangerous act, and we should be doing as much as we can to minimize said danger. We wake up and leave the house understanding that there are a litany of risks in the world that could bring harm to us. Many of these risks, such as driving, are accepted because we put restrictions on drivers to minimize the risk of harm that they would otherwise pose.

Driving requires a significant amount of focus and attention from the driver. What you're arguing for is to allow drivers to remove their attention and focus from the situation entirely. Should they use their GPS while operating their car, they then become unaware of what is happening around them and are unable to respond quickly and safely.

Do you really think that is OK?
Stackpath us-west objectstorage was down
Vscode is lightweight, I don't really refactor all that often, and it's code search function is first class (so is it's vim emulation), and it has a terminal.

Since dotnet core includes a CLI executable, I interact with the project through the CLI. I manually edit the config files. I could run the stack from a netbook if I wanted to.
I added a space between the two sentences to make it clearer I'm talking about CSS grid syntax doing a better job of what it's intended for, not doing what flexbox does.

I think the distinction and the small crossover is pretty clear to anyone who's used them.
I guess my only reaction to this is:

faux-enthusiastic sparkles

( /s )
That’s about the opposite experience that I’ve had, they’ve always been quick to respond and resolve my reported issues, they’ve even created tickets themselves when I’ve reported them over Twitter.
Huh, 98SE was the sweet spot in the 9x series.

Fwiw, the NT kernel was designed for portability from the ground up. During initial development they targeted x86 and the i680 and it has been ported to pretty much any CPU that had relevance over time. Itanium, Alpha, ARM and.... PowerPC. While that branch is probably not maintained currently it would be pretty easy for Microsoft to get that going again.
> Is your API so large and/or unstable that optimizing for time needed to add an endpoint is your lowest hanging fruit?

Startup, I am adding endpoints on a very regular basis as I build out the app. I probably add a couple a month.

As an example, I am writing one right now. It'll take me ~30 minutes to write+deploy it to test.

My long running and CPU intensive stuff is running on a VM of course.

I'm sure if I had spent several days learning yet another tech stack that I could create a system that let me deploy endpoints to a VM that fast, but I have Better Things To Do(tm).

I could also shove everything behind a single endpoint that has a bunch of options, but that brings in a separate set of problems.
I had a TI nSpire CX CAS in high school (like the 89 but with a color LCD screen and hackable with Lua and C - it runs Doom and GBA/NES emulators).

In the final year of high school I was taking a class that did not require a graphing calculator, so I bought a TI 36X Pro, an advanced scientific calculator. It has excellent 'UI', tons of functionality, and the buttons feel great to type on (though after a long time they will still start to get mushy). I actually used to carry both of my calculators with me, the CAS for when I needed it and the 36X for normal usage since it felt better to use.

It's not a school monopolozer like the 84/89 so it's priced well, at <$20. I bought another one in college after I lost the first one. I'm doing CS so I don't need it often, but I find it to be worth keeping around.
I've already written with one of the core committers to BookKeeper and yes, I think I'll use it.

That said, I'm always looking for users and contributors to https://sirix.io/ or https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix. That would be super awesome, but I'm sure you have your own ideas already for using BookKeeper.

I'm currently not sure if I first want to build a frontend (I'm a backend engineer, but would like to learn some TypeScript along with using Vue.js and D3js), to interact with SirixDB and to build interactive visualizations to compare revisions of JSON- or XML-resources in SirixDB (stored in a binary format of course highly optimized for space-efficient snapshots).

I think as I'm lacking users it might be more useful, but for sure I'm at least as eager to put forth the idea of scalable SirixDB databases :-)

So, I'd like to use BookKeeper most probably (single writer, read your own write consistency, using synchronous -- for a quorum -- and asynchronous replication for the rest, exactly once semantics...). The thing I don't like is that we also need ZooKeeper, but yeah.

BTW: Why do you think BookKeeper is better than Kafka for this purpose? :-)
I’ll try those.

He loves Commander Keen. He has dozens of Keen mods installed in DOSBox. He even tries building his own with a level editor (Abiathar)
Does anyone here use stackpath for their CDN? I was evaluating it and had their us-west object-storage go down (throwing 503 errors for for all requests) yesterday. 24 hours later, it's back up but with degraded performance. I've heard nothing from support other than that they're aware of it and what the status page says.
It does! A pack of cigarettes is about $0.06 to manufacture. A world of heavily regulated guaranteed profits is better than a world where you are subject to technology disruption. Juul could easily be replaced by some better tech, which almost certainly wouldn't come from Altria.

I absolutely believe the cigarette companies are behind some part of the current PR kill-job on ecigs. They simply benefit the most.
This comment is so laughably wrong. China started with cheap plastic toys and now manufacture extraordinarily complex devices like iPhones and have spearheaded development of an entire new class of vehicles (EVs) that they can export to the rest of the world.
What GPUs?
It’s drawn by a guest artist.
You can teach the appearance, use, and effect of height.

It's dumb that people are picking on that word out of the overall comment like it was some kind of mistake. The comment was about the nature of the appearance of competence, and height is one element that has an effect on how people perceive another person, and there are countless teachable things about that.
It ultimately doesn't matter much. What matters is that you have the ability to manufacture a product. You can own as much IP as you like, but if you don't have the capability of using that in a production process then it really is the Emperor's New Clothes.

Having the capability is important. Outsourcing has removed the crown jewels from many companies, leaving them little more than marketing shells. The real value is in the technical know-how and skills of the people who actually made those companies run. Without that, there is no company and no product.
>Can you demonstrate, using numbers, that the tradeoff is positive?

Are you kidding? If I pull over to a safe place to use my phone, nobody is harmed. If I'm driving and take my attention off of the road and over to my phone, and I smack into a motorcyclist because I didn't see them, I could kill them.

>The current animus against cell phone use while driving is the result of a moral panic, not a rational cost-benefit tradeoff.

Moral panic? My wife was rear-ended while waiting to turn because the driver of the car that hit her was on their cellphone and didn't see her - they admitted as much. She's still suffering from pain from that accident and the car she was driving was totaled. How is not getting into an accident "not a rational cost-benefit tradeoff"?
I'm not the OP, but I think that would at least be a closer comparison, although what the Japanese-Americans went through was still a somewhat worse transgression, as they were by and large citizens. It would also be a good reminder of what happens when you let the government infringe upon natural rights enumerated by the constitution.
Just to nit this / expand because I liked the "integral component" aspect and had not thought of it -- alcohol saved lives in our shared history due to it's use in disinfecting water. Smoking has been around across civilizations for some time, but alcohol/beer had a utility and was used everywhere.
I had an HP28c ( https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp28c.htm ) that saw me through high-school calculus and undergraduate work. In it's day, it was a revolutionary product.

I never got to play with the data sharing stuff, since none of my classmates had such an expensive or geeky piece of kit (I got mine used, but it was still expensive).
You could send them a link like this:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6b05145#
I also have them. I think 3 checks of USD 20 each. (Mine are American Express, though) 20-30 years ago this was the only way to travel intercontinenal. After the trip you did not exchange them back (in Europe) because both buying new ones and cashing old ones involved fees. The last 10-15 years cards have become mostly universal, so it gets less easy to spend them. It thought using them on my last trip to Australia 3 years ago, but I didn't happen to hit a suitable place accepting them, so I brought them back again...
It depends where your starting point is. Core bundles a lot of stuff together that was previously separate or just good practice. If you are familiar with MVC / WebAPI / EF / OWIN and already doing DI / Logging etc. then it's not much of a leap.
iirc North Dakota has one of the lowest unemployement rates. Oilshale + not a lot of people period.
> The ideology to have little or no state debt is hurting the economy and will do so in the future.

Ideology can be pretty dangerous. This seems like your main point. Back up, though:

> [...] state debt is not like personal or corparate debt. If you cut your spending to pay of a loan, it is usually not a problem.

How is it less of a problem for a person, or for a corporation, than for a government, to have to reduce spending?
The idea behind banning the flavoring is to make is less appealing to children. I don't see why the way it's consumed matters.
Did the moderators take a vacation or something? This whole thread is a raging flame war.
It's pretty rare, but yes, some people vape alcohol.
This sounds interresting. Do you know any guides on this?
I disagree. Assume it is a closed box reflecting all photons back inwards and perfectly bouncing the gas particles. Now assume here are only two gas particles in the box, a heavy atom and a light one. Assume the box is tall enough that in the presence of gravity there is not enough total energy in the system for either particle to reach the top of the box.

The light one will move faster than the heavier one on average when they come into contact, and in the presence of gravity it will have a higher average height. The same will hold as you add more particles, but there is a curve to it.

It is true hat the atmosphere is more complex, and has things like ozone layer causing temperature inversion due to different absorption characteristics, etc., but the general reasons that H and He are so much more prevalent in the upper layers is largely due to this kind of explanation using gravity.
That's total bullshit. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
> Once our climate reaches a new equilibrium, humanity will adjust and everything will probably be OK.

Whatever remains of humanity will adjust and live the medieval or pre-medieval lives for the next many thousands of years.

The most fragile component of the climate change issue is human technological civilization. Once it breaks, it's game over. Most of us and most of our families won't make it. Current level of technology is maintained through a complex global supply chain involving millions of people. When that breaks, humanity will regress. Devices will die, there won't be a way to repair them. Survivors will regress maybe to early industrial era for a while, but since all easily accessible dense energy sources have already been used up, this won't last and the remnants of humanity will regress further, and stay there for God knows how long.

It's not a fate I'd wish on worst enemies.

As for how this collapse would happen? All the climate change-related "small" issues increasingly clogging our economy. More expensive food, more expensive water, less arable land, less habitable land, unprecedented migration. Eventually, there will be war. Or the global economy halts, and then there will be war.
> They've attempted to disincentive people abusing asylum policies.

What a miserable, angry world you inhabit, that you're willing to hurt some of the most vulnerable people on the planet, because of a useless worry that someone somewhere might be taking advantage of us.
Yes. For those that actually write the algorithm. For every other student in the class, copying someone else's code doesn't quite have the same benefit.... Students are humans. They will find the path of least resistance...