skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Offtopic, but, quoting from the box that appeared at the end of article:

> As the climate crisis escalates the Guardian will not stay quiet. This is our pledge: we will continue to give global heating, wildlife extinction and pollution the urgent attention and prominence they demand. The Guardian recognises the climate emergency as the defining issue of our times.

> Our independence means we are free to investigate and challenge inaction by those in power. We will inform our readers about threats to the environment based on scientific facts, not driven by commercial or political interests. And we have made several important changes to our style guide to ensure the language we use accurately reflects the environmental catastrophe.

> The Guardian believes that the problems we face on the climate crisis are systemic and that fundamental societal change is needed. We will keep reporting on the efforts of individuals and communities around the world who are fearlessly taking a stand for future generations and the preservation of human life on earth. We want their stories to inspire hope. We will also report back on our own progress as an organisation, as we take important steps to address our impact on the environment.

Ok, so that's about the first time ever when such a box resonated with me. I'm willing to start dropping them money just because of that. But a question first - what's the HN's current opinion on the Guardian as a publication? How accurate are their articles in general? Is it a publication worth supporting?
Getting rid of plastics is already a huge cost for cities.

Right now, many large cities burn their platics which also generates co2.
Don’t know the pets.com story, care to tell more or link resource?
There are quite a few graphic novel adaptions of Gilgamesh.

I particularly suggest a very recent one from Jens Harder[1].
The aesthetic he uses is that of bas-reliefs of the Mesopotamian area at the time when the original epos was created.

It's unfortunately only available in German (original) and French for the time being.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38741935-gilgamesh
All those trillions spent fighting wars outside your border are money laundered. Oh, sorry, my mistake, its for your security
As a European, everytime I'm in NYC the sound of horns and sirens is a non-stop nuisance — I personally enjoy the feeling for a few days because I don't live there, but I sympathise with actual New Yorkers who put up with this all year long. It's almost as bad as the garbage situation there.

IMHO, you guys need to put laws+fines in place to prevent the abusive use of horns (people literally use it even when they have to stop at a red light behind someone else...), and mandate that sirens only be used in real emergency situations. Big cities are so much nicer with less aggresive noises. Not to mention your liking automatic and hybrid cars makes traffic overall very silent by default.
I think it's because most of the time an assert can offer just about the same guarantees.
>Tony Fadell probably wouldn’t like how google transformed his product.

I put zero stock in the words of people who sell their company for vast sums of money, then complain how the new company runs things.
Cartel “Narco Tanks,” Heavy Weapons on Full Display During Battle
Anytime anyone makes a claim about how neuroscience tell us X, just remind yourself, no one can explain how memories are stored. That’s the current state of neuroscience. We think maybe there are different kinds of memory because there are several ways to damage memory creation and retrieval, but have no idea how they work.
I love that little logo at the end of every atlas obscura article. Great branding.
- I agree, it sucks

- A friend just had to use similar BS when he started at another company and I am already excited about all the funny stories he'll tell me

- We can already minimize resource consumption by using apps and OSes which are more efficient. While Win10 is total crap for example, a laptop from 2005 still works as a decent Dev-machine with Linux on it (it basically costs <200$ and you can upgrade it to some degree)

When I read about these ideas I imagine people sitting in front of their 2000$ Apple-MBP's just to connect to some AWS-shit that costs even more just "to be able to work" - it's kind of funny but also stupid.
>Well when they first came out I thought the product was super innovative.*

I never really understood it. It's a nice looking, albeit expensive, thermostat with some simple optimization algorithms. Now it's a spying tool.

Meanwhile, my HVAC runs on a dumb Honeywell unit that I can program a schedule on. Haven't even replaced the batteries in years.
How do we know the Egyptians or the Romans had no sense of humor?
A lacking written record proves only that: a lacking written record.
Can you imagine a society w/o laughter?
The difficult thing here is these appear to need planting by hand. The problem with coral planting is not a lack of corals to plant, it's finding people to give up their time for boring, repetitive work that can often feel like shoveling snow while it's still snowing.
An 11-Year-Old Boy Invented the Popsicle
The dual share class thing needs to be phased out, at least as it pertains to separating voting rights from economic rights. (Seems fine for other purposes like cross border listings.)

It's a bubble symptom that investors are happy to go with reduced influence, both wrt equity share classes as well as looser covenants on debt.

As for planning for your kids to own the company, that's pretty common.
It is more complex than that.

Japan is not a producer of fruits. They come from far away. This means they have to transport it economically, that means they are transported by sea.

That means bananas are green when collected and sent to Japan, because transporting it by sea takes a long time.

Bananas naturally release CH4 that actually makes the fruit mature and spoils it. So they have to absorb it or diffuse during transport, then add it in Japan.

But if they add it in Japan, the fruit does not mature entirely, only the external side, so it is a good idea to add an artificial atmosphere of some kind.
Show HN: Web Based Multipler Roguelike
Demo http://rogue.quuux.org/
Source https://github.com/mdellavo/rogue/

It's react/js/canvas frontend with python/asyncio/websocket backend.
...while burning bunker oil in the ships' engines
The answer is narcissism.

If you've ever worked or lived with someone that suffers from NPD, you'll know that their self-image is infallible. No mater how half-baked their ideas are, they truly, truly believe that it's the greatest thing ever.

This only gets amplified when they succeed at something. Even more so when being surrounded by yes men and sycophants.
You're being too harsh. Yes his price is probably a bit high for the average user, but it is probably this way either because he's passing on his small scale cost or he made up some numbers.

I use Google's web based IDE to write code (at work), and it is a game changer. I can pick up where I left off from any device (that's not a phone).
I used to be a die hard intellij fan, but now I never use it.

Why? Because it's not in the cloud.
Plastic degrades into tiny tiny little pieces that get absolutely everywhere and some of the compounds are active inside biology and because they are new, there isn't much for evolved mechanisms to deal with them.

For example "BPA-free" is about bisphenol A which has similar hormone effects as estrogen.

You end up eating enormously large amounts of plastic particles that just get stuck in you forever.
If you copy the URL fast enough after clicking, you can check Archive (.is) to see if it's been archived. In this case, it was.

http://archive.is/NLqpE

There's also Outline. Not sure if one service is better than the other.
> became the one of most valuable companies in the world

I don't follow the premise.

Amazon became so valuable because of AWS, not because of their retail operations. Its hyper low margin retail division might be worth $120-$150 billion in a sane market. It's considerably smaller and less profitable than Walmart for example. It's not trivial of course, however they'd still be a lot smaller than the other titans of market cap. More like Costco, less like Microsoft. And at this point their retail segment is slow growth, so the stock would probably be under compression duress about now, the bloom would be off the valuation rose.

Amazon's recent market value ramp begins when they start showing off the growth and profit potential of AWS. In the first part of 2015 they showed off the figures, the stock promptly skyrocketed four fold in three years afterward (it was previously on a slow, quite gradual climb and had not gone net higher in about 1 1/2 years).
No idea about those peaches specifically but wrapping vegetables in plastic generally reduces the environmental impact since it prevents them from spoiling.
Because reputable publishers noticed that people were still buying the self-published ebooks in spite of the lack of solid copyediting or quality typesetting, reputable publishers, too, are starting to cut back on such things.

I am a translator who occasionally translates literature for some big-name publishers, and I find that the onus is sort of on me now to ensure a high-quality final product, because the publisher no longer provides a real hands-on editor to work on the manuscript after me, only a young and inexperienced (and sometimes downright lazy) copyeditor/proofreader.
Detecting Health Conditions in Visual Content
Apparently plastics micro-particles is harming life in the soil, in oceans, rivers, everywhere
I don’t get what you’re saying. This seems like a good idea and a good tagline for our times.
Noob! He needs to institute primogeniture to make sure the power stays consolidated
Ask HN: How much Ruby do I need to learn before moving into Rails?
Is there a learning track with topics that are needed to be learned as preparation for starting with Rails?
Fermat's little theorem: a historical and visual exploration
How high? Do these roads cross established instrument departure and approach routes? How do you ensure separation?

Right now when you get an IFR clearance the ATC system ensures you have separation from other aircraft. This needs to be accounted for somehow.
Running a VPN on a cheap VPS is a much better alternative.
Node.js Server Starter with Hapi and TypeScript
I understand that it might make sense to use 3D printing for this experiment given the small scope.
However wouldn't we realistically use a cheaper and faster method of production? Are those materials only usable for 3D printing?
One of the wonderful things about the Internet: if you don't want to pay Amazon 30% there is a universe of people out there you can sell to for 3~5% or so through your own web presence. You just have to go get them.
Obligatory reference:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRkl5qNb8
no, they wrapped the skin in plastic
Yet they haven't, and never will remove CAs that sign certificates for domains that ICE has seized. If the US government actually took the extraordinary step of just flat out taking ownership of gmail.com under the guise of some anti-trust action then they would meet the requirements to be issued a DV cert anyways.

If the USG actually did seize control over gmail.com, and they had some CA sign a DV cert for them, how would that constitute a misissuance? The whole point of a DV certificate is that it only attests that the owner of the cert is the owner of the domain. The scenario we're talking about is a government becoming the new owners of a domain name.

But regardless of that, mitigating government overreach by means of having hundreds of sacrificial CAs is a pretty poor solution. What happens if Let's Encrypt gets blacklisted? That's a huge chunk of the internet gone right there until everyone gets around to replacing them. IANA doesn't have to have the root and TLDs delegated to a single entity. DNSSEC could be replaced by something requiring signatures from multiple different entities in multiple different jurisdictions to actually solve this problem. Have the root and global TLDs signed by at least 3 out of 5 entities with no more than 2 of those being from a Five Eyes nation. IANA already has a mediation process to resolve disputes with domain names, there's no reason why legitimate domain seizures couldn't be subjected to that process rather than just a unilateral court order to the registrar.

As for killing large existing CAs though, just look at how egregious Symantec was before Mozilla and Google ultimately decided to pull the plug. For years there'd be new ever more creative ways in which Symantec misissued certificates and their responses always seemed to be some variant of "Sorry, we didn't know we weren't supposed to issue certificates to entities other than the owner". There is still considerable friction to removing misbehaving CAs. As a matter of fact, Symantec in particular did misissue certificates for google.com back in 2015 during that whole test certificate debacle.
I don't think that the devices themselves need to be hackable so much as the protocols need to be open. Any phone I buy works with any router. I think that's the kind of openness we need.
How to Unlock Unlimited Willpower
What’s the hole in this idea? I think it’s a decent idea (not a world changer) but he ran into supply chain issues. Also, WeWork is obviously having issues, but Adam did build an enterprise worth tens of billions of dollars. How are you qualified to call him delusional?
Thank you for this info - very interesting.
Your question "So, why despair?" becomes redundant then.
We know for example that microplastics in the oceans causes brain damage in fish.

Right now, we have no idea how it affects humans.
I thought that it was a headline of the Onion.
I understand, do what you have to do. But I think that everyone should think about what era we're heading into when "honesty isn't sufficient" anymore on most platforms on the Internet.
Yeah, that's what I normally do, but sometimes i click a HN link without checking where it goes... like today.
My point is that it should not be the job of regulators to do cost-benefit analyses on product categories. It should be to simply measure the cost of a negative externality, in a technology/product agnostic way, and make sure entrepeneurs pay that cost.

The cost-benefit analysis is then done by private parties, in order to avoid losses and maximize profits.
> They can scale up with demand much more easily

Have you though about how many packages of the size and weight one of these drones can carry fit in the smallest delivery lorry? Judging from the video, I'd say one thousand is a good estimate. It means you need one thousand drone trips, both ways, to deliver what fits in a few square metres. How does this scale?

And then think of all those drones in pouring rain, or hail, or strong winds, or just at night in areas with vertical obstacles. It's just absurd.
For Rust I am still looking forward to not having to scatter Rc<RefCell<>> everywhere when using Gtk-rs and similar UI toolkits.
If Neumann is to be believed, WeWork is no mere company.
> The outlet reports that in a speech Neumann gave to employees in January of this year, footage of which it says it has viewed, Neumann is seen saying that WeWork isn’t “just controlled — we’re generationally controlled.”

Maybe Business Insider (who first reported this, but for their premium paywall offering) has some info, but I’m really curious to hear how WeWork employees, including mid level managers and executives, took this proclamation? I’m assuming some of WeWork’s workforce has some regard for the concept of meritocracy. Hearing your CEO declare that he foresees WeWork to be controlled by his bloodline for the next 300 years would seem to be off putting.
How not to land a Rocket – My favorite video on the Internet
The range is 6 miles. How remote could something 3 miles from a launch point be?
How big is that farm to cover the territories of that many eagles? On first glance that looks like an amazing claim.
I worked out how to make matplotlib do it: https://imgur.com/lsxjRXP
This laws are not targeted only at smatphones or laptops. You do not need a washing machine to be slicker or use some cheap parts so the manufacturer gains 2$ .I would pay those extra 2$ so I get better screws then plastic ones or glue.

Also I have a pump that has a part that breaks 2 times a year and I have to replace that part. I would pay 2 times more on the part if it break 2 times less often, If my pump was made by Apple I would have to send it far away and wait 1 month to have it fixed.
This is an interesting point, but I need to dig more on it. On the surface, trucks significantly outpaced car sales in the U.S. [0].

But there's some added nuance needed. Only 13% or so of trucks are diesels [1] and the sales numbers include SUVs as trucks. I personally don't know of a single person (or model for that matter, although I'm sure they exist) who drives a diesel SUV. The numbers are further complicated because SUVs used to be classified as station wagons in the U.S.

U.S. emission laws used to heavily favor gasoline vehicles vs. diesel although I think this gap has narrowed recently. I believe the converse is true in Europe which is why there is a disparity between the regions in terms of diesel usage

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/199981/us-car-and-truck-...

[1] https://news.pickuptrucks.com/2018/09/diesel-pickup-sales-ar...
I'm giving this a go but it might be a situation where it just breaks too many things. I realize it gives you the power to fix things up relatively easily, but over half the sites I've visited so far have required changes.
Why Catholics are leading in relations with science
We are thinking of spinning it off as a separate monitoring tool later, but for now we're focusing on the teaching aspect. Thank you very much!
So imagine Niander Wallace from Bladerunner 2049, CEO of Wallace Corp, whose headquarters is a massive pyramid building about 2 miles tall and has plans of expanding business to other worlds.

Now imagine instead of doing something important such as solving the world’s food shortage or building replicants, Wallace Corp simply rented out office space to fledgling startups, and now you will have some idea of the future Adam Neumann envisioned for himself.
I have separate machines for work and home. I also have separate Skype and Gmail IDs for work. If I have to check SM while at work, I do that on my phone.
Science as a search for truth cares deeply about accuracy, engineering doesn’t. Discovering say F=MA was wrong was a huge deal, but existing results still apply. New models fill in gaps, but the improved models needed to account for everything the old one correctly predicted.

So while science moves on, engineering does not care about the 15th decimal place. Which is why we keep getting value from approximations.
I Hate Advocacy (2000)
Common sense should tell us that standardized tests like this are not fair assessments of actual student academic potential. To the extent these tests predict success in college, it's only because they are biased in the same ways that most college support structures are biased. And once the "predictive" tests are in place and accepted, they form a reinforcement loop with college results, each proving the other "right".

But as our society has come to realize how deeply ingrained many systemic biases are in our institutions, in order to break the cycle, you can't just change the support structures at the college, but you have to change the external barriers that have grown up over the years in support of that old system as well. And these standardized tests are a huge part of that. So I'm glad to see this is changing.
From my understanding this was due to excess or unreasonably long times to remove child sexual abuse content.
GTD Tickler file – a proposal for text file format
Been a long term practitioner of GTD, I adopted todo.txt about 7-8 years ago and never looked for tools after that! I created something similar for the tickler file as well. Would love to get some feedback.
Thank you, what a story!
I see what you mean but don't really agree, the chapters that do not move the story forward allow to dig into characters, to get a better image of the universe we're reading about. I enjoy reading it, so I appreciate it's here, it helps immersion as the book is not only a specific storyline.

I've always been frustrated in Harry Potter that there's not more writing about the lessons for example. There's quite a bit about it in the first book, then it's more and more scarce.
Title should probably mention this was in 1964 unless I’m misreading the article.
> I don’t believe in free will

OK.

> So many tenuous connections had to be made to connect electrical signals with free will

Wait... I thought you don't believe in free will?

> they just asserted that because the impulse starts before you remember making a decision, you have no free will. That sounds like a non sequitur to me.

To me it really appears you do believe in free will.

When one doesn't believe, one would need a proof that the phenomenon which many people (especially philosophers and the religious apologetics) call "free will" even exists. Not the vice versa. Only a believer, by definition, believes in something without a proof.
Loxone is a pretty nice one, planning to install it soon. Not open source, but it doesn't have to connect to Internet, your house is not polluted with radio signals, and you have full control over programming it (via their software).
Do you know Goodhart's law? It explains so much ...

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
You made an interesting point. This strategy is compatible with all the products I cited (Bitcoin, Facebook, Instagram..etc), i.e they all start with a domain name. However, it would be difficult to guess their name with keywords.
The press release is a lie.

Looking at the diagram at the top, and reading just the abstract of the linked study, it's clear that the whole idea is to degrade plastic waste (through pyrolysis and/or oxidation) and use the degradation products in existing petrochemical plants. Unfortunately, plastics don't degrade only to valuable, reusable chemicals.

The study admits the lie: 100% recycling of plastics isn't expected, and they only get to "100% recovery of carbon" by first electrifying the plant and then "sequestering" the CO2 that forms anyway. Of course, 100% recovery of carbon in this meaningless sense can already be achieved by landfilling the plastics.
I don't understand how California can have so many problems when it's firmly controlled by the Democrats who are clearly superior in every way.
All aspects of life are ultimately dictated by something. If not by the ability to pay, then it will be by other things out of your control or your ability to curry favor with those who can get you what you want.

I’d prefer it just be dictated by pay and skip the bullshit.