skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, what the state thinks is bad is that ExxonMobil is marketing the global petroleum conglomerate's version of a Safer Cigarette. Tobacco causes cancer; There is no safe cigarette.

The non-lying versions of the ad would be more like: "Combusting hydrocarbons produces, directly and indirectly, large portions of the total global CO2 released every year. The only way to reduce tailpipe CO2 emissions is to consume less combustion products. If you use ExxonMobil Synergy™ and Special Green Mobil 1™ then you could burn 0.65% fewer hydrocarbon molecules in your first 3 months!"

I do however agree with your main point, it probably wouldn't A/B as well.
The “creators” wouldn’t have been able to create anything without the financial backing of the studios. You have a few like Lucas and Spielberg who owned their own production companies.
Upgrade their NPM - duh people.
A cool WebDev resource for beginners
Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
Help the person. Try to see if he/she is willing to listen to you. If you help him do his job better it could get noticed. Even if its not, you can put it in your cv and use it at interviews for similar positions. Doing this might get you fired (i mean if i was under attack this way and would have the authority to do it, i would), but as long as you are 'trying to help' you always have cover so it's worth a shot.
The exploit requires

> fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;

If I'm not using this feature of PHP, what can I put in this config value to prevent the exploit from working?
See Also: Bart pattern in crypto trading
Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill
With "async/await" you see exact places where you give up control, it's part of the model, without it you don't and it's a different model. First one lets you program as if you can always access shared memory like you are the only one doing it, since you always know exactly at which point this assumption no longer holds, second one requires you to be more careful about any function call, basically limiting you to the same assumption but only for code in between function calls, reducing power to abstract things with functions. Things get even worse with different executors, that give you completely different concurrency models and break all the assumptions of a simple event loop executor.
See, that sort of thing strikes me as hairy.

Apologies for the quick tangent but... It's interesting.

As far as I'm aware, there is a lot you can get away with not saying, as the courts are specifically not huge fans of compelled speech.

Each form of compelled speech that I'm aware of tends to arise from the authority of an administrative regulator. I.e. FDA compelling ingredient labels, side-effects, Office of the Surgeon General for alcohol and tobacco/nicotine warnings, FTC/CFPB for product/financial product marketing/disclaimers, Bureau of Labor postings in the workplace etc.

With regards to specific things like child labor/conflict minerals, etc..., the issue shouldn't have to come up in theory, because you shouldn't be doing it period, and any evidence that you are is prosecutable without having to indirectly assert it was a case of securities fraud.

It's also not illegal to be daft or misleading until it crosses the line into fraud, where a material reliance on the veracity or falsehood of the information can be demonstrated.

That doesn't mean that there aren't grey area cases, or that everyone does their due diligence, but in general, this is the way things have always worked for as long as I've been around.

My 2 cents.
> There are several examples of cutting-edge mathematical work having been directly inspired by numberphile videos, most recently the work of Andrew Booker and Drew Sutherland on expressing integers as sums of three cubes.

I don't know if this is why you made this comment or not, but Brady Haran (creator of Numberphile) gave a talk on this exact topic a week ago today at the MSRI in Berkeley.
I went into the article based on your recommendation, and I was not disappointed
I'm unfamiliar with that tool, so you tell me! Looks like it though, from what I'm reading, with the exception of keeping the internal configuration in a git-friendly format instead of huge XML.
Selling FLAC and selling DRM music is completely unrelated. Which musicians don’t sell their music and only stream?
Humans (and presumably human rights, if assuming they're fundamental) existed before countries. So how does a concept that came later (a country) suddenly trump something that's fundamental? What is the moral mechanism by which a group of people declare a certain area a country and suddenly gain property rights over everything within that area?
The solution to balance it is batteries or any other energy storage solution.
That $600/month is roughly the land value of of the parking space. Were the parking free, you would be paying that money implicitly through higher rents.

A car in Manhattan is definitely a luxury item: space is at a premium, and single-occupant vehicles are the least efficient use of that space. If you want to use that space so wastefully, I see no reason why you shouldn't be charged the full cost of that decision.
If it is 10 times faster on average, safer and generally less annoying it might have a natural advantage.

We could get some of the advantages if we just started shunning JS and telling people ("Proudly Javascript-free and free of third party trackers! You might have noticed that this site loaded quicker than other sites you have seen lately. Mostly this is because we don't bug your machine with insert-carefully-crafted-explanation-here.")
You’ve already demonstrated your bad faith in this thread. I’m not going to engage with you or your strawmen again.
We could bore a series of holes through the center of the planet and then use gigantic orbital crystals to create a array of lazers to focus the sun's light through to the dark side of the planet.
Another update, removed the subscription altogether, didn't feel right. Don't like how everything is productized these days.
I absolutely agree with you on this.

When I had an office as a graduate student and then consultant, adjunct faculty, and other positions, I was almost never in my office.

I simply could not focus on work there the same way as elsewhere. I'm a highly social extrovert and in order to get things done that don't involve directly interacting with people, I "introvert myself". If someone comes to chat with me they snap me out of that mode and it's almost impossible for me to get back in.

I find libraries, coffee shops, empty offices to be the best places for me.

But remote != digital nomadism despite the 2 being able to go together.
Good stuff. An in-browser demo would be neat and may drive more adoption.
> On the other hand there are just 2 popular/"usable" browser engines left.

I count at least three
I was in this very same situation for several years with a manager who just clearly didn’t have what it took to manage people. He grew, as a result of being on a small team early, to oversee the largest team in the company only to eventually lose all of his direct reports and become an individual contributor.

The problem was (and is) despite horrible performance over several years, he’s still with the company making the same salary he was as a manager because he’s friends with the CEO.

I was able to make it to a prominent role within the company by playing ball and pulling levers at the right time, so it is possible, but the moral of the story is if you work for a company that rewards that sort of underperformance, it’s likely always going to be a problem as long as leadership remains the same. You’re probably better off to search for a new role - which is exactly what I ended up doing in the long run anyway.
If you're asking me personally, then yes it's none of your business what he's doing with his property. If he's not renting to black people, that means more tenants for people who aren't racist to rent to. But that aside, housing discrimination laws are based on the moral principle that people should not be treated worse based on their skin colour. Upon what moral principle is the notion that people should be treated worse based on their place of birth based?
There is no convincing some people, there has been too many years of conservatives/populists (including right wing unions) telling them the economy is a zero sum game. In reality, the deportation of even 1m would plunge the economy into recession, businesses would collapse from lack of key workers, capital would move to where cheap production was possible, etc.

It's the same with income tax cuts -- someone things their $500 tax cut is great, but ignores the $5000 tax cut those on higher incomes (whether wages or company/real estate ownership) receives, and then complains when there are more homeless people and schools can hire enough teachers. It's bait and switch on a generational scale.
Nothing to Fear Except Fear Itself–Also Wolves and Bears (2016)
Actionscript? Really?
Lazy-Loading Disqus Comments with the Intersection Observer API
I guess that kind of shit doesn't fly in authoritarian countries where the corporations fear the government instead of the other way around, as shown by all the recent China appeasement.
Right, but that doesn't solve the UX problem. If you try to render hello, it should just go to that video.
Why not just put the farms in space and beam the power back?
This post is a facile fantasy.

To be clear, while you are not required to give a flying fig about whether or not Exxon investors earn a return, you can't exactly expect them to all line up to gleefully throw their money away, either. That's a charity, not a business.

And trust me, if we compare the financial returns on investment for renewables and nuclear technology over the past N decades, versus Exxon's returns today? Definitely not a win-win.
Boots are for cars which are not worth towing. Really cheap cars are unlikely to make any money if you bring it to a towyard. A Lambo, if damaged, would cost more in incidental repair than you would get out of the owner.
The Bill of Rights is more additional than modification.

The president is the commander an chief of the military, it seems reasonable he would not be allowed to quarter his troops in peoples homes.

Take a look at this one

https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/commit/0c...
I'm a fan of using magical heat-producing rocks to boil water and spin turbines, but admittedly that has fallen a bit out of fashion.
While there is (a very) slim chance that Boeing and Airbus will face the same scrutiny in Europe - although my bet will be European regulators being somewhat more welcoming and collaborative towards Airbus, do you really expect that the certification times and efforts of Comac and Boeing will be the same in China?
Every so often I find it necessary to move things from one repo to another and preserve history along the way. I've made do with a janky shell script that recreates all the commits touching relevant files in the new repo, but this looks like a much less sketchy way to do it. It even sends changes back to the original repo if I understand the code right.
> Is anyone saying we need to immediately pull the plug on 100% of oil and fossil fuel use? I haven't seen any serious climate change plans that propose that.

No, but they are saying that with respect to energy over ten years, and they are quite serious:

"The Green New Deal starts with a WWII-type mobilization to address the grave threat posed by climate change, transitioning our country to 100% clean energy by 2030" -- gp.org/green_new_deal
Ask HN: Good or bad experiences with sponsored volunteer programs?
I'm curious what types of company-sponsored volunteer programs exist. I'm especially interested in what exists for tech companies. Interested in experiences with both PTV and sanctioned UTV.

What were your good and bad experiences? Would you consider this as a employment incentive?

What as a company was hardest about starting ones of these programs?

How much time does your company allow?

Also open to general thoughts on the topic :)
Sunday: People’s Grievance
You're not talking about different algorithmic models, just about expressing constraints (e.g. you could follow the same algorithm, with the same constraints even without enforcement by the type checker).

In any event, the reason Rust does it is not because of the aesthetic preference you express (that would be true for, say, Haskell) but because the domains it targets require very fine-grained control over resource utilization, which, in turs, require very careful guarantees about the exact code the compiler emits. It's a feature of Rust following C++'s "zero-cost abstractions" philosophy, which is suitable for the domains Rust and C++ target -- not something essential to concurrency. Again, Scheme gives you the same model, and the same control over concurrency, without the type signatures, at the cost of less control over memory footprint, allocation and deallocation.

I think you might be saying that you happen to personally prefer the choices Rust makes (which it makes because of its unique requirements), and that's a perfectly valid preference but it's not universal, let alone essential.
> Safari and Firefox show the whole URL, truncated on the right by the lack of space.

Safari doesn't.
Hmmmm, yes, probably. However the reasons for deploying millions of lithium batteries instead of a few dozen pumped hydro stations are likely more political and business reasons than technical reasons.

First, it's way easier and faster to just park containers full of batteries wherever you need to shift the energy than to find and build new pumped hydro location then build/upgrade the transmission to the locations where the load shifting is needed. And when you need the load shifting ASAP, you're probably going to opt for the solution that can deployed now, especially when the regulatory reaction to this problem is to adjust prices ("time of use" rates) to discourage people from using power during the slope.

Second, battery installers are able to sell directly to consumers, which means they can bypass utility bureaucracy. Many utilities are very slow to adopt "non-wires alternatives" because their business model doesn't incentivize them to building out a distributed, flexible grid, and they are increasingly becoming worried about their generation assets being financially stranded. This means that it's often easier to sell thousands of energy storage units to thousands of homes and businesses, than it is to sell that same thousand units directly to the utility. With pumped hydro, there's no distributed option, so you end up being at the mercy of the utility wanting your product.

So yes, you're probably right that pumped hydro is on paper cheaper for addressing the Duck Curve "neck" problem, but this is a case where the difference between theory and reality is substantial for non-technical reasons.
"Fake CE mark" doesn't mean anything.

The mark is a claim that your product is compliant. If you put the mark on something that isn't compliant the mark isn't fake, your product isn't compliant and you (or the importer) are liable as a result.

A mark that's poorly made (smudged, bad dimensions, etcetera) might make consumers suspicious but from the law's point of view the question is only whether this seems to be a claim of conformance, and almost any mark closely resembling the official CE mark is clearly a claim of conformance.
> Base load natural gas

Sorry, what? Natural gas spins up quickly and is frequently used in “peaking” power plants, while coal and nuclear provide the actual base load.
I’m surprised the mitigation discussion didn’t include “more wind generation”. Especially at the coast [1], you have plenty of wind at and around sunset from the large temperature differential. The chart is load minus solar/wind, but the example graph was a low wind day apparently (and IIRC, we are predominantly solar in California).

But even then, this curve doesn’t seem to apply in California in the summer when load demand is highest (look at CAISO demand for say July 24). The amount of built up generation should be looked at in terms of annual peaks and overall efficiency. July has demand up to 45GW range where renewables are only currently able to shave off 10 GW of that (but basically all day long). The forecasted demand for today has a peak of 25 GW.

Is it “just” about how quickly net demand spikes? The grid seems to handle 10+ MW or scheduled maintenance (look at October 1).

[1] https://www.windfinder.com/forecast/pacifica_dumps_san_franc... (ignore the current high winds, go a few days forward).
I'm quite sure there are communists who realize a difference between the communism of the soviet union and the communism they would like to be in.

Unfortunately you are not allowed to pick only the good side of the people that supports the feasibility of your chosen ideological utopia.
It's temperature would have to be maintained around absolute zero to compensate for the transmission loss, for that we would need a continuous source of cheap, clean energy.
Who needs to establish any injury to shareholders? That company is bad! Would you give evil the benefit of the law?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk
Indeed! Veering (far) off topic, but I cannot resist posting this while we're on the topic of ducks:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Canards
> Otherwise unused aspects of culture need to be allowed to emerge (if after 30 years no one has put Mara Jade on film someone should be allowed to do it.)

Nice idea in principle, but how are you going to prevent the Mara Jade et al. Trademark mmMintenance Holiday Special – directed by our janitor, starring a bum off the street?

> Of course the Berne convention makes all this way more difficult than even normal law making, but c’est la vie

Dress up as Mr. Duck and tell Mr. Trump that you're the better Donald. He'll get angry at Disney and resign from the Berne convention.

Alternatively elect someone that actually wants to renegotiate it. The USA doesn't have to take international treaties as decided by the powers that be, it's part of them.

That would be less fun though.
I didn't test it back then, it was only much later I made the connection when I started getting the same headaches from university, where I got proper sleep, enjoyed the coursework etc.

A co2 monitor confirmed my suspicion. The problem with co2 monitors, is that it's really impractical to pull one out to check. I'm actually in the process of building one myself that instead sends descrete notifications to my phone if the co2 ppm gets too high.
I wonder why the exact words from Adams and Eliot were modified over time by others. Was it malicious (to serve a narrative) or was it an updated reinterpretation, given that English is brittle and the meanings and connotations of words change over time, demanding such revisions for precision.
Improved Bounds for the Sunflower Lemma: Erdős 1960 Sunflower Conjecture
Anker Just Launched Another Million Dollar Campaign on Kickstarter
Last month I was moving out of an apartment in midtown. My entire block, avenue to avenue, is a no standing zone for some reason. The doorman said it was just changed a couple years ago. I rented a moving truck, parked it in a garage for $60 while I finished packing up, moved the truck to the building entrance where UPS/Fedex trucks are constantly parking, put the hazards on and loaded up the truck with my stuff as fast as possible. Still got a ticket. I am really confused as to how a law-abiding person is supposed to move out of their apartment while not getting a ticket? Especially when UPS trucks seem to have no issue standing around there for hours.
In a business environment the code you run is typically the code you wrote.

You generally don't run unfamiliar code if you do, you are not being careful. All it takes is to have a container contain a backdoor that phones home, and essentially give someone access to inside of your network.
Well I know from personal experience that Sweden and Germany have lots of migrants from there, as well as France and Italy of course. They tend to be official refugees in the northern countries, but there are many undocumented, and also from the East. It is also notorious that countries will shuffle undesirables to another country, e.g. sending Africans back to Italy, sending Roma anywhere else.
Another concept would be using Haxe Lang: You wrote shared logic in haxe which will be transpiled to c++ and java (and many more languages).
Thanks for this pointer! I asked this in my comment about wind, but wanted to ask you: why is a renewal dip (and generation response) so different from several GW of planned maintenance? The renewal dips are actually quite predictable as well.
https://github.com/rust-dev-tools/rust-semverver tries!
What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans
This article isn't about remote work, but being a social hermit.

In my experience, if you have difficulty making and sustaining friendships without the heightened social context of a dorm floor/office water cooler, then you're going to wind up experiencing a bit of cabin fever when you are removed from those environments.

I had to make conscious efforts to go out, make friends and do things outside work when I moved away and lived on my own. You're responsible for your own mental health, not your company.
> None of that is the format, it sounds like your media player (or whatever js webst reddit has implemented in their abominable redesign...) is just st.

Re-read my comment this was exactly my point. We swapped something that worked everywhere for a custom players on every site and re-encoding therefore destroying what the artist intended.
I think that's part of the point, though. People get sold on an ideology; enough so that they revolt. But those who begin the revolution are fodder for the machine as it progresses.

The socialist party in Germany began with socialists. Then, when Hitler and Co. had concentrated enough power, their original constituents became liabilities and thus political enemies.

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I'm curious to know if the downvotes are because I'm not adding anything substantive? Or if they are happening because someone disagrees with what I am saying?

Am I incorrect in my assertions?

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These are not aesthetic preferences, these are essential parts of concurrency models. And they cannot be decoupled from algorithms.
My only source for this is Etienne Chouard[1], a French teacher; it dates back to a 2011 video of a lecture[2] (in French). Notwithstanding political opinions, I expected his apparently factual take on history to be reliable; but I am now questioning whether he can be trusted fully in terms of intellectual honesty. Again, notwithstanding opinions, is he being genuine is his arguments, eg. not skewing history? I'll let you be the judge of that. I am not a specialist in Ancient history, though I have a bit of a formal pol.sci. background.

It wasn't about "rich" so much as perceived to be dangerously influent, my mistake. Note that it was entirely subjective, to be decided by a vote.

The procedure implemented was called "ostracism" and allowed the exclusion of anyone from political affairs for 10 years, simply based on a vote by citizens, without a need for justification whatsoever. Common reasons apparently were "he speaks too well", "craves power too much", "I don't trust him".

Thank you, HN for a quick and efficient fact-check.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Chouard

[2]: https://youtu.be/HDg2sIZZi8I?t=2408 (40:08 to ~42:00) Note that the whole is quite interesting from a political science standpoint, again notwithstanding any political opinion (note that the speaker however does not refrain from speaking his).
People could use it too if they'd just fight every traffic ticket.