skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect your link is not handling data in a nonpartisan manner. I can provide more meat for my arguments, but do your own googling.

Data point 1: Coal-fired power plants are closing at a rapid pace across the US, and no one is building new ones. Nuclear plants are also closing well before their end-of-life plans, largely because they are losing major industrial customers to cheaper sources.

Data point 2: The key cheaper sources are natural gas (due to fracking, which has caused supply to increase and prices to plummet), wind, and solar. The cost of utility-scale solar has dropped over 80% in the past decade(!), and plants are being built based on unit prices of under $60/Mwh, compared to around $100/Mwh for coal and nuclear. Onshore wind is under $50/Mwh and has a solid experience base of data for wind variations etc. Fracked gas is around $40/Mwh, but may be passed soon by both wind and solar. Storage tech (batteries etc) for stabilizing the grid with wind and solar in play are also becoming much cheaper, due to manufacturing improvements and economies of scale.

Data point 3: Electric cars are becoming common, if still a minority, and their prices are also dropping toward being in line with fossil-powered cars. There's every reason to believe this trend will continue, not just because they're getting more affordable, but because they're just plain better cars in many ways.
I tried to contribute some simple fixes to kmymoney which I want to move on from GnuCash, but the amount of work required to set everything up, from git cloning to building a dmg package was just too much. I spent like 2 hours with their proprietary build chain and still couldn't obtain a build, so I gave up.

Hopefully leveraging GitLab workflow will make things easy.
Can't believe this doesn't include Borges's most famous quote about mirrors:

"Los espejos y la cópula son abominables porque multiplican el número de los hombres"

(mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of people)
Fortunately, you can disable the wiki (and snippets!) on a per-project basis in at least Gitlab. Which is what we do on all our projects to ensure that everything goes through a single versioning flow.
This looks good (visually) but I don’t see the point? Wouldn’t you be better served by something that produces the graph from some form of git log output, rather than the commands?
If Software Is Eating the World
Yossarian, I want you to do something for me.
[removes item from small bag]
I want to serve this to the men.
Taste it and let me know what you think.

[Yossarian takes a bite]
What is it?

Chocolate-covered cotton.

What are you, crazy?

No good, huh?

For Christ's sake, you didn't even take the seeds out!

Is it really that bad?

It's cotton!

They've got to learn to like it!

Why?

Look, I saw this great opportunity to corner the market
in Egyptian cotton. How was I supposed to know there
was going to be a glut?
I've got a hundred warehouses stacked with the stuff all
over the European theater.
I can't get rid of a penny's worth. People eat cotton
candy, don't they?
Well this stuff is better - it's made out of real cotton.

Milo, people can't eat cotton!

They've got to - it's for the Syndicate!

It will make them sick! - why don't you try it yourself
if you don't believe me?

I did - and it made me sick.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Cruse missiles are really expensive (~1.5 million each) and not really used for mass bombardment. The basic reason to use aircraft/drones is to reuse expensive components like engines and complex sensors.
I am more concerned that they are using the idea that this "would give the internet giant an unfair advantage by denying access to users' data" as a pretext for "We will no longer be able to spy and spoof efficiently on our customers".

In my opinion, the telecoms and government give us a lot more reasons for concern than google. Its not in googles best interest to become known for censorship, customers will just use another browser and search engine (some already have), but you don't have the same degree of recourse with government and telecom control.
This sounds like a no brainer. If you don't actually enjoy academia then it definitely isn't worth it; even for those who do enjoy academia, a PhD is hit or miss.

You can go into industry and work in that time, and you'll have at least as interesting a life at the end of it. And if industry demand for interactive theorem proving does increase (which it would have needed to for you to get a job in it at the end of a PhD), you will have ample opportunity to learn it on the job instead of in school.
ATT has an "extra security" mode that requires your account PIN even when walking into a retail store - https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM10513...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6599445/That...

Recent article with actual photo (not just the CGI rendering)
D-Wave announces the next generation of its quantum annealer
What I mean is not try to "break" the establishment but let it "break" itself. But not in the sense that establishment is bad but in the sense that some practices have crystallized and nobody challenges them.
those arguments are how you learn.

I get what you're saying, but I can tell you personally I learned SOOO much from getting into arguments with people and then going off and doing research during the argument.

And sometimes I'll completely do a 180 after a few years because I REMEMBER those arguments, and I eventually understand their perspective because I started coming across the problems they were having.

I may not always do a 180, but I WILL more fully understand the pros and cons of everything.

And this is a major reason why the "discourse" here on HN is only half useful.

Too many people think not being challenged is somehow good and educational. Perhaps for a subset of people, but there are many like me who learn through challenge.

Just consider that often the very act of responding to someone forces you to consider their position better. Which is why trite dismissal is one of the poorest forms of argumentation ever made.
a) But it is not. Erlang is a very productive language and works great even for small projects.

b) Needing a large distributed system is a requirement that one can get to from lots of situations. You are making way too large of a generalization.
I’d guess, given the diversity of commercial RE counter parties that the WeWork hydra is negotiating with, at least a good portion would’ve priced-in a premium for early termination.
Where are you getting this from? We don't have a Green New Deal. We don't have a firmed-up bill presented in Congress, even. And how is the number you offered calculated, and by whom? Because it reeks of partisanship.
There’s an excellent book called “An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets” that lives up to its title.
> The people pointing out that the F-35 had radar reflective disks added didn't seem to have understand the article (or technology). This is using entirely different methods to detect the aircraft, not radar waves, so that's irrelevant.

It is relevant, and this system is absolutely using radio signals for detection and tracking; it just doesn't transmit them. The system described is a bi-static radar system that uses transmitters of opportunity (technical term "non-cooperative transmitters") to generate the signal and listens for the return from those signals hitting the target.
Taleb's funds aren't any more impressive.. LTCM blew up very publicly but Empirica shut down after many years of losses and Universa isn't exactly a high performer. He's still out there banging the drum about hyperinflation!
> I wonder why Spotify and Tidal don't have recording studios launching new music?

End of the day it seems to be up to the artists. The numbers are in Spotify's favor - 75% of music revenues last year came from digital music, and of those paid subscriptions were the overwhelming contributor

http://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RIAA-2018-Yea...

I wonder though how an artist that's signed with a Spotify label would get a different treatment than an independent just uploading their music to Spotify (et al.)
Yours has a much more believeable photo. Here's a mirror of the original with the weird picture everyone is talking about. https://web.archive.org/web/20190930160024/https://spectrum....
My statement was that it is insufficient. It serves as a deterrent to some extent. But it’s not meaningful with respect to the ultimate goal. Have you ever decided not to do something because you could be imprisoned? There are psychopaths but I think they are in the minority, even here.
How to Discipline Overeager Engineer?
It would be nice if we had numbers for how much ISPs make from this practice.
Depends on the time scale. H&M shirts I have are extremely thinned out over the years compared to other shirts I have since more than a decade. I cannot eliminate the possibility that the quality varies with the area where they sell it (I am in Europe).
> So would Elon

Symbolically, a mayflower [1] would be smarter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigaea_repens
It would be awesome if you could support amazon.de
Definitely, but unless this offers better range than other passive methods (like infrared) this doesn't really change anything.
There are always people better than you in this world no matter you've a PhD or not but you can always find a niche market and grow your expertise there.

Your friends maybe waiting for your call. Be proactive.
I disagree with the premise. There are no autonomous robots on their own, there are autonomous robots that someone decided to deploy and target on something. That's just too easy to say that oh, the robots are autonomous so nobody's really responsible for them. "Only robots can judge other robots" ... no, humans judge the actions of other humans. If we don't hold the decision-makers accountable, the descent towards global totalitarian rule seems inevitable.
> This is also one of the few places where I think the government could step in

If we could prevent regulatory capture and flat-out bribery, sure. Not sure that’s possible though.
Transcript is now up, at the linked article.
>> in a war against an enemy with a strong air defense (against ever other enemy stealth doesn't make a difference anyway) exact how many of these planes can you afford to loose without ruining your air force and your economy with it?

> It strikes me that having an entire fleet of high stealth aircraft is only going to be important for... maybe the first 48 hours of any conflict.

It goes against the generalist, jack-of-all trades dogma; but I think the air force should have cheaper non/less-stealthy designs of equal or greater performance for almost every role occupied by a stealth plane.
Same thing here too.

What I end up doing is ignoring any product where the name of it/the company is in all caps. Pretty good giveaway that it's just white-labeled junk.
You can see the great stacked blocks of it in Canada where it is removed from the tar sands oil… https://www.google.com/mymaps/viewer?mid=1Wi4KuLBYcXHH0dq4j4...

The oil is more valuable without the sulfur, but the market price of sulfur is low, so they just stack it up.
Yeah, upvote on that. You can not get more Programming than from Mr. Hertling.

I Also like the hacking and raspberrypi networking on:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30658546-kill-process

Thanks for that William!
The problem is one of economics.

Food or Goods which are cheap are very often not handled in environmentally friendly ways. For example, shipping foods and clothing from the US to china produces a huge chunk of greenhouse gas. Yet because of the labor differences offsetting the shipping costs, those goods are very often cheaper than locally made goods.

This is where policy really needs to be put in place. Personally, I think a carbon tax and tariff would probably make the most sense. Because, until it hits the wallet, you simply can't expect someone to choose the green option over the inexpensive one.

It also isn't always a matter of people being greedy or heartless. How can you expect the portion of the US making less than $60k per year (about 50% of the population https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2019/demo/p60-... ) to choose green over cheap? A reduced salary translates into reduced options.
The reason public spaces are safe is not because it's hard to randomly kill people in public spaces, but because most people don't want to randomly kill people in public spaces.

This is unlikely to change much, even as autonomous weapons get easier and cheaper to make.
Twitter might be a bad example. The current P/E of Twitter is around 14 with the stock trading around 80% over the IPO price.
That's unfair.

We should at least address the elephant in the room.

For centuries the west (including me) has consumed the planet resources while colonizing the rest of the world.

Now that poor countries started having access to the same kind of benefits we have, we tell them that they should stop doing it.

It's not gonna happen, so we.better start thinking about what we will do when the oceans levels will rise.

Hopefully for me living in the Mediterranean sea will make the catastrophe bearable.
Curious about what Rust GUI library they used.
only more advanced states.
> The absolute best way to fix the problem is to develop new technologies which are cleaner and cheaper and equivalent or better than what they are replacing.

Laws of physics do not owe us miracle technology, and can't afford to sit on our collective asses doing nothing until one shows up.
Inequality: Robots of the Late Neolithic
I'm curious as to what lead up to the assault.
'I also don't like the way it deals with netsplits'

I actually prefer it. Too often systems out there don't tell you what they do in the event of a netsplit. They may have marketing copy somewhere that tells you what they try to do, but then you see the Jepsen tests and realize that's a lie, or is naive, or whatever.

Mnesia makes no secrets about it. In the event of a partition it stays partitioned, operating as separate nodes. It's up to you to figure out what to do about that. You can grab a Raft implementation to perform leader election, with the tradeoffs that entails. You want it to self-heal and deconflict based on arbitrary logic, for an eventually consistent system? You can do that too. You want to pretend it doesn't happen, stick your fingers in your ears, "LALALALA" until it does and requires manual intervention? That's fine too! What it DOESN'T do is give you a false sense of security while handwaving away the decisions and implementation concerns that were made to determine CAP behavior, which I find pretty much every other distributed data store does.

It definitely has pain points in learning it, and it also has some very definite limitations, but as a baked in, minimally biased distributed store, it's a battery I really loved having included.
> ‘They said, perhaps feeling a little embarrassed, that they wanted to make use of our relay satellite when they make their own mission to the far side of the moon.’

lol to the "perhaps feeling a little embarrassed" bit - small jab.
Counter hypothetical: Nations have drone-centric militaries. Nation X moves to attack nation Y's major cities. Y notices and sends its drones to intercept and defend in locations away from the cities. If X or Y lose the ability to fight back, why wouldn't they surrender?

I don't see how the decisions are different from our current wars where humans carry the weapons.
> SE is successful because there are a strict set of rules that restrict the set of content that can be posted. It is these rules that have lead to its success.

Well, you can have "the rules" in a spectrum of ways ranging from "loose", to "reasonable", to "strict" to "pedantic". The contingent that I am talking about has been leaning very hard on "pedantic".

The sites have never been even remotely consistent in their enforcement of the rules, so it is really not possible to make the claim that "strictness" is what has made stackexchange a success. Many of the things that the strict people abhor are some of the best things on the sites-- like comments, open-ended questions, answers that question the question. This is especially true in stackexchanges like "The Workplace".

It remains to be seen what really caused Monica to get ousted (not "fired") as a moderator. I expect it to be something quite ugly relating to the upcoming guidelines that most people haven't seen yet.
Having contributed to KDE over the years and using the Phabricator in that time the main pain point with it for something like KDE is twofold - 1. it doesn't support the merge request workflow which a lot of would-be contributors would rather have than generating a massive patchset for a feature from a local tree, and 2. the lack of project isolation (having top level issues / commits / etc and second level repo selection vs top level repo that has issues / commits / etc).

I always felt like the second point is what really turns potential contributors off from Phabricator because there is no one "page" in it for a specific project, and unlike a lot of would-be good Phabricator use case KDE hosts all kinds of software with no relation to one another. Having them all occurring in a global issue namespace which is basically just tagged per-project and having to go through several directories to find the same project in different Phabricator applications is just a burden at that point.
Researchers are still learning to predict the ebb and flow of solar activity. Forecasting techniques range from physical models of the sun’s inner magnetic dynamo to statistical methods akin to those used by stock market analysts.
My understanding of the difference is that Apple doesn't have "Phone Fashion Week" defining what their phones should look like this year. They get to make that decision on their own. As opposed to someplace like Forever 21, where Fashion Week comes and says, "ready...go!" and now they have to go make clothing.

The caveat is that this is just what I read. I wear 501s and a non-print shirt (yes, sadly, it's sometimes black) to the office every day, what do I know?
What Is Amazon Sidewalk?
Sounds like the guy was over medicated, but eating grapefruit daily. As far as I understand it, grapefruit binds to the drugs, reducing the level of available drug in your blood. So when he stopped eating grapefruit his levels spiked. Its unfortunate but when his doctor said "hey don't eat grapefruit it'll screw with your levels." The guy _really_ _really_ should have said, "oh yeah doc I've been eating grapefruit every morning for breakfast," which would have started a much larger conversation.

My personal experience as someone on a lot of blood pressure medication has been that all my doctors have been very clear and up front with me about not eating grapefruit while on that kind of medication. When I asked why they were happy to explain the interactions. And it's not just blood pressure medication. The same type effect happened with my other meds too.
Passive radar depends on the reflection of ambient RF by the target. A drone radiating for ECM purposes (or any other) might illuminate the airplane it is supposed to be protecting.

On the other hand, the algorithms behind passive radar might depend on knowing where the transmitters are. Maybe one could triangulate the drone directly, but not so easily if you have multiple drones transmitting short bursts asynchronously. And if there are enough decoys, it would be like chaff.
LTCM cracks me up because it should have been obvious that linking a massively liquid market with a not very liquid market was going to be trouble. IIRC when the crisis came it turned out there were only three or four buyers on the tight side, and when they sat on the sidelines it was game over for LCTM.
> Negative interest rates have quite literally broken one of the pillars of modern finance.

...

> Granted, the current state of affairs is more a nuisance than a serious problem.

What a poorly written article. Must be a slow financial news day.
This is trivial to see. There will be a F-35 demo at Fleet Week in SF this weekend.

Turn on your TV to a UHF digital channel during the demo. Watch the interference. Now, it could all be reflectors, but you get a sense how a bistatic RF detector could work.
I doubt it. Similar experiments on the ISS looked exactly the same.

Edit: Nevermind, the IEEE article photo is definitely a render. I was referring to the picture on the Guardian.
SF is of course much better than the norm. But I don't look for Michelin dining experiences. I'm very happy with a good ethnic restaurant of some sort.

But yes--I do find if I walk into the random restaurant on a street I expect to be unimpressed, even in SF. And the fact that it's somewhere I haven't tried before isn't really a big plus in my book unless it's also good.

I am at least somewhat picky however.
This needs to be a lot higher.
Most of the criticisms regarding Black-Scholes that I've seen has to do with the assumption that the probability distribution of future prices is a normal distribution. I didn't think using the risk free to account for the time value of money was that controversial. Have there been suggestions on alternative ways to factor in the time value of money?
> The plant relied on sunlight at the moon’s surface, but as night arrived at the lunar far side and temperatures plunged as low as -170C, its short life came to an end.
Just wait until the paleo/deadlift bubble pops, he’ll be wiped out completely.
The market is always flooded with "talent".
The problem is finding good engineers which are around 1 in 100 resumes.
Using Google Maps as a Free Road Trip Map Planner
This is a classic "bottoms-up" model that is quite viable (eg Dropbox, Slack, Zoom, Elastic, MongoDB). Not sure why anyone would call it a scam. In fact, I would be wary of software companies without a base of free users, as that means the company needs to keep spending a lot of its revenue on sales and marketing.
Sounds like one particular viewpoint that, while somewhat relevant, doesn't actually shed much light into this vastly different (both geographically and temporally) situation.

Don't close your mind just because you know of one instance of the thing being discussed; you anchor yourself to a specific point in time.
You can shield your eyes from the direct glare. If the enemy does not know where you are (unlike conventional radar, you are not radiating), he can only spotlight you by chance.
Thanks for posting on Hacker News. I wrote this free web book after working with many students online. Would love to answer questions and get feedback
Birth rates are dropping. Consuming less seems like the best short-term solution before hopefully reaching a new world population balance (I hope there could be a sort of global birth control)
VC valuations are a solid argument against the wisdom of private markets
Yes fair point, I was going to say biased people will not hire anyway but you have a point. This way you are leveling the playing field.
I treat my phone to improve my productivity
Some skeptically-inclined people see the paucity of actual scientific argument you cite here and interpret it as, "Please don't look too closely at the science." In fairness, most of the argument is based on complicated simulations, and that's just not going to convince everyone.
"Call me paranoid but it seems increasingly that Big Tech uses all their avenues to force conformity. The message is that if you don't do what we want, bad things start happening. It can happen anytime anywhere and you wont necessarily know why. It's about encouraging a helpless, submissive, fearful mentality."

Just like is done here on HN through its rules and enforcement of such, with maybe the exception of not knowing why. It still encourages a submissive, fearful mentality. Well, not for me, because I really DGAF and will continue to speak as I see fit. I can't speak to the gonadal fortitude of the rest of HN commenters.