skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fracking and the deep-well injection of its waste waters have been widely linked to earthquakes.

Yep. Oklahoma now has more earthquakes than California.

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/26/402413137/oklahoma-now-has-mo...

Why do we still allow fracking?
thanks for the info., I didn't know when it started, but either way, it sounds wrong... pretty sure it wouldn't affect most recipes to use only one kind of sugar
Oh the UK can still do that and achieve impossible (or at least daft) serving sizes. Thankfully they all have to show per 100g as well.

I've a wrapper of a 200g chocolate bar here - sadly now all eaten. Nutrition is per 100g and per 40g serving, except there were 8 rows of 4 chunks in the bar. So a 40g "serving" is 6.4 chunks! Traffic lights on the front are based on the same 40g.

A sane and actually achievable serving would have to be 50g.
From the article:
"Methane released from shale gas production has a slightly different chemical fingerprint compared to methane from cow burps (not farts as commonly believed) and wetlands."
They've stopped fracking in one of the UK sites now

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cuadrilla-packs-up-in-pre...
Banning outright vs removing ads is an entirely different ballpark. Adults should have autonomy over their body so long as it does not infringe on others. It's not up to authorities to decide whether individuals trade long term health for short term enjoyment.
It'd be nice if desktop computing went back to the nerds. Let the masses have their mobile, and let computer software not be so dumbed-down.
Early in my career, right after the first dot-com bust, there was a large downsizing of practically the entire staff; it wasn't a big place but I want to say at least half of the company was let go.

I was young, moved into a friend's place and paid cheap rent for about 6 months and collected unemployment. Then ended up getting hired back right before the startup was acquired.
A HN comment from 2 years ago I bookmarked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15235151

The war on general computing implies disempowering users, rather than empowering them. But that it's "not surprising" doesn't mean it's good, or that it can't be reversed.

I wonder what associations for craftsmanship in software, respect for users, and similar things there are? If there was a web ring about that, I would browse it.
This guy is said to have memorized decades worth of newspaper articles, phone books, and other potentially PII. How does that jive with GDPR and Right to Be Forgotten? If people just start using him to do background checks, wouldn't that be a violation of RTBF?
Google is allergic to user interaction. No support, no configuration, no choices, no questions, no customization, no power users.

:/

This should be a simple per-site toggle. And/or a per form/input button to do the autocomplete. It usually only matters for the password field, anyway.
Those exist and they are called chrome sticks. They are also available in laptop format, called Chromebooks. Also, they are available in small form factor box format, known as chromeboxes
I was looking at some of my old repos today. Enjoyed the nostalgia. Lots of CoffeeScript there. I had to switch to ES and then TypeScript because CoffeeScript was abandoned at the time and I was stretched over other projects to be able to help maintain it.

Reading my old code, I was surprised by how clean it looks. How easy it is to digest. There is a certain sense of calm when your brain doesn't have to process all the visual clutter of a C-style syntax. I miss that.

I wish I didn't have to choose between CoffeeScript and TypeScript.

TypeScript first and foremost is about type safety and tooling. Its architecture is largely syntax-agnostic. It operates on the AST, so the parser and code generator can be swapped for a different syntax.

CoffeeScript is all about syntax and does not (and should not) concern itself with most of the semantics.

They could theoretically be used together if TypeScript simply allowed custom parsers/generators/formatters to be plugged in.

This would work with ESLint and other JS tooling as well. I did a POC on that a few years ago [0].

[0] https://github.com/gkz/LiveScript/issues/821#issuecomment-18...
maybe not suitable for you but I want to share this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo5k4_vu5Vk
he is using after effects and an excel file
Google really is the new Microsoft
You haven't answered my question. Your supposed "kill switch" wouldn't exist in that scenario.

I gave you an apples to apples protocol comparison. If you tell me there's a single bit that lets you distinguish between HTTPS traffic and DoT traffic running both on 443/TCP, then I'll buy your "kill switch" argument.

And even if you do, nothing keeps me from saying farewell to my ISP as soon as they press that switch.
The article addresses that. Recent (biologically) produced methane has a different carbon isotope ratio than the ancient gas released from shale deposits.
Banning all ads is wrong. Ads help promoting good products and services. If you ban all ads -- less people will be using good products and services, and that will make our economy less effective.
Wikipedia says that the 6502 was originally fabbed on a 8 um process with a die size of 16.6mm^2.
Building Self-Driving Hardware at Scale
Explain A Command
I think it's usually obvious. If return tray holder (or trash bins in case of fast food place) is open to customers = customer is expected to return.
Why Every City Car Should Be Electric (and Self-Driving)
Use it as fuel! All of us feel like a failure at some point, it's just a question of faking it until you make it!
Also, CIA installed cameras in Xerox machines:

http://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-t...
I think they can, but they won't because robots includes search engines and blacklisting search engines from user profiles will very negatively impact their metrics.
This makes no sense to me. Everything depends on your causal model. You can't just not have one; if you don't have one, you are treating correlations as causative indiscriminately.

Suppose (just as a toy example) that being young causes accidents, and the population of men is younger, but being male does not cause accidents. You are going to charge mature men too much and lose that business to a competitor with a correct causal model.

This is quite separate from the correlational data.

The insight I get from the article is that the "correctness" of your causal model can incorporate social justice or political correctness, without being objectively mistaken, because causation is not defined by measured correlations.
You've moved the goalposts several times now. The only claim I started with is that Republicans, as a group, have supported nuclear for some time while Democrats, as a group, haven't. You then asked me to provide some evidence of specific actions Republicans took, which I provided recent example. Then you complained that some Democrats also supported the thing Republicans did. So I showed data on the general support by party. But now that's not good enough either.

Also, legislation isn't the only part of the story, so are lawsuits. Do you think environmentalist groups like the Sierra club who have a history of burying efforts to build plants in lawsuits are more closely associated with Democrats or Republicans?
If the Catalina fixes have already been back-ported to Mojave, please link to the Apple security announcement.

Where are the Mojave fixes for CVE-2019-8745 and CVE-2019-8769 for example? If they're not available, my point stands.
Here's the publication referenced in the article:
https://www.biogeosciences.net/16/3033/2019/bg-16-3033-2019....

Ideas and perspectives: is shale gas a major driver of recent increase in global atmospheric methane?
Robert Howarth, Ph.D
I'm still reeling.

The startup I was working on here hired a new creative director who immediately 'pivoted to video' and laid me off, the only in-house content manager and producer. As I'm not a 'video editor', I got chopped via re-org.

Still shuffling around NYC looking for a better opportunity in content strategy, and in the meantime looking into starting my own boutique content solutions LLC.

It hurts, though.
Who are you: Princess or maid? Find out what awaits you in 5 years
I haven't seen many non-tech people who manage their files in a systematic way. Most non-tech people don't have a naming convention for their files (seen many files named "letter.doc" or "shmith.doc" or "smith2.doc"), let alone a predefined folder structure for their files. What I have seen most of the time is this: A desktop full of files, hundreds, even thousands of files, some within folders, some flat. A chaos.

I am a tech person. I do organise my files in folders. And I don't want any other organizing principle for my documents. But I realize that this concept does not work for most other people.
Autoregressive models use their own output at past time steps as part of the input to predict the next value. If your sequence generator does not do that then it’s not “autoregressive”.
Surely by now very few feels any sensitivity regarding Rome's Aquila.
This is why years ago I switched to a static site generator. Using something like Django was fragile. My provider would change some library and poof - the site is down. I don't use my site often (post on it once every so many months) - so I simply switched. Never gone down since then.

A few days ago I opened a Jupyter notebook I had authored in 2015 - and it failed to reproduce my results. I relied on pandas, and pandas has gone through API changes. Fortunately, it wasn't hard for me to search around for the newer versions of those APIs and fix things - but this is only 4 years after I authored it. Can I have any confidence that 20 years from now I could reproduce the results - or even find documentation for the APIs I used to understand exactly what I was doing?

I mean sure - I could put the OS and all the libraries needed to reproduce the work in a container and be guaranteed[1] it'll run later, but the only people who will do that are those who need to for regulatory compliance[2].

[1] Not really. The software to run the container may no longer be supported, and the people with the knowledge may charge more than most can afford to get it to work.

[2] Something we're dealing with at work these days. Writing stuff for the automotive industry and they expect that any software + tools should work 15-20 years from now. Same level of expectation for availability as any other car part. Now that there is so much SW in modern cars, this is a good opportunity for being a consultant 15-20 years from now!
StICk tO tHe FaCtS PleaSe

https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1183080487243407361?...
Interesting concept, I would love to know more about your intentions with this.

I head up the development of a MaaS provider in the UK and always on the lookout for people doing anything new in the world of travel.

One of my wants for next year is to build a better discovery engine for finding routes from over travel content types.

I'd love to hear more about what your interested in building with this.
(edit: the source in question has removed the tweet, so I have too)
"Cheetolini"?

HN should have a verified age requirement...
I looked at the site and it's cool that that he's not using HF to metal etch. Instead he's using an ammonia and hydrogen peroxide solution. That's a lot safer stuff to handle. That seemed to always be the roadblock to home silicon fabrication: that you needed to use some very toxic stuff to metal etch.
But again, what would be the drawback(s) of using a pointer instead of transfering the ownership?

Not rethorical, I'm genuinely curious as I used to struggle with the copy vs move decisions, and a bunch of issues with ownership which went all away when I started using pointer/borrowing everywhere.
Methane auto-catalyzes in an oxygen-rich atmosphere such as ours.

Methane, at its absolute peak concentration (due to fracking) is only 1.8 ppmv compared to carbon dioxide at 410 and water vapor at 90,000 (at 60% humidity).

There IS NO climate crisis.
Asking about the difference between permafrost methane and shale gas produced methane is interesting tho. Reading the article now, lmk if you find a good answer.
In 2010-11 Singapore there used to be close to zero non-sugary drinks at convenience stores. Even all the teas used to be sweet. Lately they started carrying Japanese brands of non-sweetened tea but for a while if you wanted non-sweet tea you had to make it yourself. Which of course is probably better for the planet but if you're just out and about and wanted a drink from a 7/11 your options were pretty slim.

The big thing lately in Singapore, Tokyo, Malaysia is "brown sugar milk tea". I think it's hit NYC and LA but basically you take a tapoica milk tea but before you put the milk and tea in you coat the sides of the plastic cup with brown sugar syrup. Then, instead of the old tea + milk it's now like tea + cream and far more cream than tea such that it's more like sweetened tea flavored milk than milk flavored tea.

Search for "Tiger Sugar" for I guess the brand the started the new style?

https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&q=tiger+sugar&tbm=...

There are apparently the equivilant of 20 teaspoons of sugar in 1 drink. Compare to 330ml of Coke which is about 7 teaspoons of sugar. The Malaysian government put out a warning as they got super popular.

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/07/25/health-mi...

I'm curious why now in Tokyo. Tapioca Milk Tea was popular in Taiwan in the 90s and made it Los Angeles in the late 90s early 2000s. People tried for years to bring it to Japan and I was told it was too sweet for Japanese tastes. But, now it's even sweeter and has some how exploded in popularity to a ridiculous level. It's like every spare store front has started selling.
Elendor Mush
Back in the early jailbreak days I used to run a daemon so I could log in and poke around, but unless you’re developing, well what was your exact use-case? I never found one, it’s not a server.

These days I use SSH a ton on my iOS devices through various apps and for many purposes (direct shell access, firing off scripts, port forwarding...) but that’s all logging into machines.
And why does a Course register a student? Why does it know what a "course registration form" is? None of these things have anything to do with the Course object or is invariants... The Course is just one of many parameters into the workflow. Why is it therefore responsible for the actual act of registration?

In real life, the aptly named "student registrar" is responsible for performing the task. But they're not an entity within this system... Rather they are the context in which this system is running. So a non-bound function actually makes perfect sense... It's bound to the top-level registrar context of the system.

In BPMN, the registrar would be one swimlane, and the registration the process, with additional swimlanes for other actors like the student. The registrar still owns the process, but BPMN allows for other actors to also play parts within the system.

A relational view would introduce a Registration which would join a Course and Students. The workflow would create a Registration, which defacto means that an individual Registration cannot be responsible for executing this.
Which is just further elaboration on the syntax being excessively special cased.
Huawei routers and equipment are not trustworthy because they are literally insecure at a firmware level. If you want an interesting read check out the Finite State’s “Supply Chain Assessment” of Huawei’s IoT and networking devices[0] released back in June. The latest episode of Enterprise | Security Weekly, “Please Don’t Go - ESW #156”[1]has Matt Wyckhouse (co-founder and CEO) to discuss the findings and IoT security. You’ll want to go to 1:08:08 to get to it should you opt for the full episode rather then the linked segment.

[0] https://finitestate.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Finite-Sta...

[1] https://securityweekly.com/shows/supply-chain-security-in-th...
So that applied to consumer users. When connecting via BES, the connection was end to end encrypted, RIM never had the keys.
The PS, Xbox and Steam are all different incarnations of cloud services. They are very convenient, but ultimately don't offer any guarantees that one can play the games even a week from now.

At least consoles work without issue in offline mode, although MS wanted to disable that a few years ago, were confronted massive backlash and had to cancel their plans.

A big and relatively recent problem with consoles is that even offline games now more or less require a patch, because they're launched with major bugs.
As expected a lot of people here talking about public data and whatnot, but that is a horrible decision.

"Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon said hiQ, which makes software to help employers determine whether employees will stay or quit, showed it faced irreparable harm absent an injunction because it might go out of business without access.[...]

“LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles,” Berzon wrote. “And as to the publicly available profiles, the users quite evidently intend them to be accessed by others,” including prospective employers."

This isn't some sort of empowerment of the public, it's surveillance capitalism. No end-user in their right mind publishes data on LinkedIn with the expectation that the information is bought up by a third party, analysed, and then sold back to your employer in a way that exposes your personal intent and may even threaten your job. The only thing this accomplishes is enabling shady business models that feed of a sort of internet voyeurism, and at the end of the day it'll lead to people turning their profiles private and making LinkedIn more difficult to use if you're someone who is looking for information in good faith.
Wow, running Ubuntu 19.04 on an XPS 13 and this was a very noticeable boost. I knew it had gotten slower but I'd forgotten by how much. I'm just ignoring what I've potentially opened myself up to...
+1

Good work! This is important information and I hope it stays at the top of the comments. I'll be looking for a FL version.

Edit note: With privacy and security in mind, I'm not 100% sure how comfortable I am with enrollment and modification ability thereof occurring directly through the internet.
GP is trying to say that data is no longer in a form independent from the application you last used on it.

There are whole categories of stuff you can't do with this approach, because every application now becomes a minimal file manager itself, just to avoid the "confusing" idea that data can live independently from applications.
No, the new 2019 Mac Pro isn't a fairy tale come true
Is he actually comprehending what he is reading or just indexing it? I doubt he could comprehend an entire physics book in 1 hour, so I'm guessing this is purely memorization, not comprehension.
When you donate blood to an organization like the American Red Cross, they sell that blood for around $200 per bag. But, they have to hire qualified and well-trained people and set up facilities with medical equipment to collect your blood. From the research I've done, they don't seem to be making much money off of your blood - it's reasonable for them to sell the blood to hospitals, otherwise blood supplies would be extremely limited.

This does not seem the same. It seems like companies are running around sending people to harvest as much tissue as fast as possible because they make tons of money. Note that the picture in the article only lists prices of skin, cornea, tendons, etc. That is probably because it is against US law to buy/sell actual organs like a heart or a kidney. But these companies are clearly making a profit on everything else if they're so obsessed with getting all the tissues they can, even at the cost of murder investigations.

The Red Cross marketing team calls me to get me to try to sign up for more blood donations. But they don't lobby the government for laws that hook them into the coroners and morgues so they can harvest all the blood the second that someone dies.
Yup. 8th gen finally made the 15W i7's quad core, as opposed to being more or less low-clock/power desktop i3's. The turbos were nicely tuned too, so single-thread perf went up too.

Reportedly for the 10th gen, a lot of said i7's will be equivalent to desktop i3's (4C/8T) again. (progress?)
Ok perhaps a little more modern, where the database can be distributed, and where the transaction handle can be sent to different processes so you can have multiple microservices running in a single transaction.
Yes you could always drag music from the iPod, but you never had anyway of knowing which song was which because all of the names were changed to a random filename.
> Nobody holds on to a winning lottery ticket that long. You cannot exit at the top and trying to do so will drive you crazy.

The only people that do hold on to a winning lottery ticket that long are the people for which that $ would not significantly change their lives.

I bought AAPL at ~$20 pre iPhone, AMZN at ~$50. And sold them when I doubled or tripled my money. The only reason the choice to sell those looks stupid is hindsight. I'm still happy I sold, because I'm not independently wealthy. I used that $ for good purposes that impacted my life at the time. I cashed out for an immediate, excellent ROI instead of risking it.

Edit: If I find myself in a position at a startup where I could liquidate shares for a currently fair $ despite the strong potential for growth in value over time, I probably would, in order to de-risk the situation. I'd sell some and keep some.