skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some routes would definitely be worth it. Opposite sides of the world would become connected like never before.

If I could catch a "flight" to Australia (from the UK) in the time it takes to fly to New York it would be game changing. Hell even 4 hours to LA would be preferable to the 11 hour flight time + 2 hours either side it takes now.
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Unintended consequences are a bitch. How can people smart enough to "design" these types of projects be so arrogant?

Even removing the co2 that we've added to the atmosphere and sequestering it may not be free of negative consequences. That is the magnitude of uncertainty we need to be discussing and debating. At this point, blocking the sun is just crazy, and not because of feasibility, constructibility, or cost.

Edit: Look at the disaster of updating the Washington DC water system for a supposed "fully understood" lead mitigation project that went unbelievably wrong, because of bad assumptions and factors not initially considered to relevant (unknown unknowns). And there was no controversy over such a conservative "fix" (other than maybe cost given necessity).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Washin...
wow, a whole 500k? I'm suuuuuure they'll never consider doing that again with such a steep fine /s
When presented with a competing peoples, they generally look to destroy their food supplies first. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buf...
You can't stop money laundering without subjecting every private interaction to warrantless surveillance. In an age of purely digital, peer-to-peer currencies, nothing short than banning the public from using strong encryption will stop money laundering.
That's a very good point. Thing is, markdown (or a subset of it, as on HN) is very limited. Great for short comments, bad when you want to do something a little more complex, like a blog post (I always end up addding some HTML here and there in my markdown blog posts, when I want to include a video for instance).

The other problem is that HN comments and all those markdown-like formats are very ad hoc. If I copy/paste my reddit comments on HN, or the other way around, it won't always work as expected. In both cases, it has to be translated to HTML to be displayed by the browser, too.

So, the context would be: an export format for complex, multi-paragraphs textual documents with meta-information.
there's physiological addiction and there's psychological addiction. the former can be physically debilitating, but sometimes it's just annoying (technically anyone who ever gets a high from nicotine is physiologically addicted--the head rush is relief of withdrawal symptoms). but the latter means you're in a mental state where just quitting isn't so simple.
> from a purely self-interested standpoint, Amazon is definitely the rational choice

I don't think you really understand what Stallman is saying or else you wouldn't be making consumer choices based on pure self-interest.
A sunshade is not just a temporary band aid for global warming. It will likely be a necessary addition to our planet to manage the heat we will continue generating.

Our energy consumption and production continues increasing as society keeps advancing, and it will continue to do so as we unlock more diverse ways of harvesting and storing energy and using it. A mark of a technological civilization is the conversion of starlight into heat energy - the civilization converts the energy from the star into useful work which produces heat. The heat has to go somewhere.

Up until now, it's been fine just letting earth manage it (but we're obviously running into the limits of that with global warming), but as we start approaching planetary levels of energy consumption, we're going to start producing planetary levels of heat, and we're going to need to do something about it. The simplest and most straightforward way is by putting sunshades into orbit to limit the amount of sunlight that comes in to cool the planet. This works especially well if the sunshades are solar panes that can collect energy while they shield heat. It's attractive because it doesn't involve changing delicately balanced atmospheric composition, and they can be moved or rotated to adjust the amount of light coming in on demand.
Things that look real-world buttons or switches are more obviously a button in isolation than things that require a lot of context. Things can look "pressable" without context.
I think Reddit moderators are less restricted/directed by Reddit so they fall closer on the spectrum to the guy running a debate club/whatever at the local community centre. I don't think anyone would argue that they're an employee of the community centre, even if the community centre prohibited alcohol at their events.
The local authorities where I live told us in February/March timeframe that blackouts are coming in the fall, so I planned ahead and got some battery backed solar. It's damn expensive.

My house is mostly in the shade, and most of my roof faces north and is steeply sloped, so all I could do is a small solar array of about 2.5kW, which now, at the end of october, is producing about 7kWh per day. This solar array cost about $8000. This feeds into a Tesla PowerWall, which is the cheapest such system available. It can store 13kWh with 89% round trip efficiency. This cost $19,000 installed. Tesla advertises $7,000, but you need a whole lot more ancillary equipment and a lot of wiring complexity. So, we're at $27,000 for something that can produce 260W continuously 24/7 if the grid is out. This isn't very much. It's enough to run the fridge and a LED light or two. I realize I'm limited by my solar panels, and if I had the roof space, I could double my available power for roughly another $3,000. (these prices are pre-30% tax incentive).

A tri-fuel (natural gas, propane, gasoline) hardwired generator would have been a better way to go. I wasn't expecting multi-day outages.
How does it disagree? How do California’s state laws prevent a product from selling in other states?

The way interstate commerce clause is used is to give federal government ability to intervene, not another state government.
Well by that logic you could say the same thing about retired people that take part time jobs just so they have something to do every day.

They're not necessarily doing it for the money, and most states in the US allow you to quit at any time without repercussions, but it'd still be illegal to have them work for free.

It's more about whether the person is doing 'employee-like' duties and how much control the company has over the person's actions that determines whether they should be classified as an employee or not.

Users can come and go as they please, and post as infrequently as they like. Moderators, however, must post with a certain frequency or risk being demoted.
That's not comparable types of pollution. If it's something we put there on purpose and provides us a benefit, I'd say even use of the word pollution is incorrect.

I don't think there's a big micro meteorite problem at the Lagrange point, but if there were for arguments sake, then you need to plan for it and have a way to replace shades that get knocked out of position. It's not like the whole system would fail if you lose one shade. That's what engineering is about, planning for all the likely eventualities.
I've been meaning to look-over Normform again (since it's been a while since I've touched it) and these are excellent points. I'll be looking to remedy these issues in the next iteration. Thank you!
> What happens when those space shades get hit by micro meteorites causing them to alter or de orbit?

"0.6-meter diameter and a thickness of about 5 micrometers. The mass of each disk would be about a gram..."

Absolutely nothing.
When you're dealing with something that is relatively new or novel, it often takes controversial actions to bring issues to light, because nobody thought of them.

The recent controversey got attention, and with attention people take notice.
> The only real problem at that point is ocean acidification, which I think won't be reversed by cooling things down again.

From what I understand, it will help... eventually.

If ambient temperatures come back to normal, then the ocean won't absorb as much CO2.
If OTA didn't solve the problem at hand, the solution might be to improve it, rather than abolish it.

One does not need to have more expertise to come up with some sane regulations, i.e. you can't dump trash in the river, a tax filing co. can't lobby for tax legislation.
I'm pretty sure Delphi and VB were famously successful in spite of the fact that they didn't use XML for UI layout.
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Ugh, it's a link to the `README`, with a fixed sidebar. I partially take back my original comment, but I'd still argue that it's not the most helpful UI.
This may be GANs as the author stated but the end result looks surprisingly similar to a bunch of pixel shaders making transitions between source and target images with said transitions
driven either by pure algorithms and/or derived from blurred images themselves.

I've implemented music visualizer ages ago using similar concepts (pure algos though, no real images). It happened when nVidia released the first affordable consumer video card with decent shader support. I think it was 6600GT . My animation part that made video dance to music was a bit more sophisticated though.
For one off situations you can also buy dry ice and put it in the fridge. We used to do this during hurricanes.
It depends on the API of the system. I’ve worked on middleware that would not be able to get an attribute, it lacked the capability. Other systems used JavaScript and it was much easier with JSON

See this link on stack exchange[1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17604071/parse-xml-using...

> //Gets Street name
xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("street")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

I’d much prefer something like jsonObj.address[0].street;. Personally I like to work with objects over parsing documents trees.
People with low trust factor have lower weight reports. The pools are established and clearly separated so its just a matter of surviving the sieve long enough to get where you need to.
For the cost of a micro SD card (or a small micro SD for the OS and an inexpensive USB hard drive for actual data storage) and an Orange Pi Zero (about $10), this could also become a low-power headless Wifi access point providing Wikipedia and other offline data to mobile devices, for example in a school or a community center. Kiwix does offer a standalone HTTP server for ZIM files. The same device could also have provisions for local messaging and storing local user data.
Yes, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Catalan_independence_re...
I can’t quite tell from the readme (but I suspect the answer is probably yes) - does corkscrew need to be installed on both the client and the server for it to work?
There's a difference between "fools, they don't know giving that information to third parties is dangerous" and "fools, they gave that information to me, if you want me to exploit them just ask buddy".

And it's specially damning if that's a quote by a person that's now in charge of so much sensitive data.
Calling them transphobic when you "haven't been paying too much attention" is uncalled for.

You really should make an attempt to understand the situation before making such accusations.
> Lets not get ahead of ourselves. The ship hasn't flown once.

This is the time when forward thinking won't hurt. We don't see significant problems with reaching this goal - not technical, not economical, not others. There were periods with development of technology - e.g. early airplanes or spacecrafts - which significantly changed the approaches to things, so speculation in worst case would remain just that.
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Sure, I didn't mean Linux isn't standing on the (partially the same) shoulders. What I meant is macOS/iOS and Windows teams are unique in shipping general-purpose OSs AND doing so and accreting code and expertise tied to that code since ancient times when "try and paper over the complexities of linux" wasn't an option at all.
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Just to note that while they don't use adsense, these platforms will also probably show the majority of ads via Google's network. So it doesn't really circumvent Google's power in this space.
is there any noticeable effect of earth’s rotation and uneven gravity field on distribution of sea-level change?
"Treating a TLD as a verb is just silly. It comes at the end of the sentence..."

Yes, ending a sentence in English with a verb is definitely something that you never do. Can you imagine how ridiculous that'd be?!
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Yes, I think so. I wonder by how much.
Hi guys,

I recently built a PC for the first time. I found that one of my favorite parts was looking for the best deal for each part. I spent a lot of time lurking on different deal sites and buying the build piece by piece. To save some time, I ended up coding a script to watch items that I was interested in, and notify me when they fell below a certain price. I've saved a fair amount of time and money using it, so I thought this is a tool that some of you could get some use out of too.

Right now it's meant mostly for electronics, but it should work for any item that can be gotten just from the URL. I only have a couple of the big sites at the moment, but have plans to add a lot more.

Let me know if there's anything you all would find helpful to add!
They pay often more but note that your page performance will likely go down, esp. if they use header bidding.
I agree space pollution is a problem but I would imagine that these are thin enough that they would burn up in our atmosphere upon reentry if they de orbit onto earth.
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At $35/kg, that would cost about $750 billion. More than Musk could do on his own anytime soon, but definitely feasible as a global effort.

Each pound of methane would produce 2.75 pounds of CO2: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-emission-fuels-d_1085...

And each launch burns 240 tonnes of methane (launch mass minus rocket mass is 1200 but that's 4/5 oxygen): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

So that's 660 tonnes CO2 per launch times about 150,000 launches, or about a hundred megatons CO2. Given that we're emitting 36GT annually, that seems a good trade.

That's just launch to LEO, we need extra delta-v to L1, but potentially that could be from a fleet of solar-powered ion drive tugs. My quick google didn't turn up Starship payload capacity to L1.

If the shades can be manufactured on the moon from local materials, potentially this could be a lot cheaper, with almost zero emissions. It'd take longer to get started, but it'll take a long time before people agree on something like this anyway; if we're setting up lunar manufacturing anyway, this would be something to keep in mind.
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Selling ad spots on your website yourself has many drawbacks:

* It's time consuming for the seller and buyer.

* You need to give the buyer reliable statistics. Page-Views, Click-Trough rate, demographics and what not, before and after you sell the ad spot.

* You need to define the price, which is not that simple.

* You need to provide the technical means to manage and display the ads.

* You need to prevent abuse.

* You need a contract for each buyer.

* The buyer needs to trust you.

* You need to trust the buyer.

I think that ship has long sailed. It would be tremendously cool, if there was some kind of self-hostable ad software, which takes care of the technical details and would act as middle man, connecting buyers and sellers. Some kind of open marketplace based on open software. But I doubt, this will ever happen. Would be a cool thing to disrupt the current industry though.
Neophyte here with a stupid question. What if he just used a credit card to donate money?
My suspicion is that XML and friends get chosen for compelling social reasons.

It's not a language that anyone would want to do the actual software implementation in. That's important because, if you pick an existing language, then everyone who plans to use some other language is going to see that choice and assume it means that their language is either unsupported or will be a second-class citizen on that UI toolkit. They might not be wrong.

Creating a whole new language that's custom-tailored for UI layout avoids that problem, but will also be off-putting, since people will perceive that they have to learn a whole new language just to use your UI toolkit.

And just slapping it into a mess of library calls that people can call from any language is perhaps the worst choice of all. GUI toolkits, for whatever reason, always end up being object-oriented. Meaning that you've got to export an object-oriented API. Meaning you've got to either implement it in an object-oriented language that probably has a deeply incompatible and possibly not even standardized ABI such as C++, or you've got to go to great lengths to Greenspun an object-oriented system into a procedural language that can export a C-style ABI. Neither of those is fun.

In summary. . . yeah, XML is an awful choice. It's easily the worst option, aside from all the other options, which are even worse.
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Approximately none of it.
They both looked fine to me but human readability shouldn't be the primary goal of a data format. I think the example is bad for both formats because it conflates tree data structures and logical hierarchy. The memory model of the application consuming the data would likely look like that, but that doesn't mean that's how it should be stored/transmitted, that should be probably be flattened, with each employee having a "manager" property.
A big difference is that Oberon OS is fully implemented Oberon, compiled to native code, with some variants doing JIT on module load.

Whereas Inferno's kernel is implemented in Plan9's C variant, and Limbo uses the DisVM.
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So, to make it a website you just need some links on each page that let you get to the other pages. I don't see how that undermines the satire.
One can do this quite easily in Windows as well, via RUNDLL32. Not sure if Linux has a direct equivalent, however.
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If it isn't automatic the case, the material for the discs could be designed such that it dissolves in the normal solar radiation after a decade or so.
There is absolutely no way beef spikes insulin as much as rice does. Beef has zero carbohydrates and while some protein does convert to glucose, it is a slow process and thus the insulin response will still be much less than if one consumed the equivalent of carbohydrate in rice. This is further slowed by digesting the fat in the beef.

""Between 50–60% of protein becomes glucose and enters the bloodstream about 3–4 hours after eaten." Perhaps 50–60% of protein goes through the process of gluconeogenesis in the liver, but virtually none of this glucose enters into the general circulation."

http://journal.diabetes.org/diabetesspectrum/00v13n3/pg132.h...
Even if we stopped fossil far faster than the most optimistic estimates, sunshade is still a great idea. There is a ridiculous amount of upside to not burying 250 M people in water by 2100.

Further, have you thought about how we get off fossil for steel, concrete, plastics, hell even natural gas power plants? Climate change is the most important issue right now and even so, we are undeniably a fossil society. We need everything we can muster, and sunshade should be part of our tool kit to help the transition.
What state allows for-profit organizations to solicit unpaid volunteer labor from people outside of prison?

It’s a pretty obvious violation of Federal law and multiple state laws.
Tricky one, technically could you can setup your own SubReddit, start moderating it and call yourself an employee?
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It’s a mainstream newspaper, nobody of the general public would understand what or who is github if it wasn’t written like that
I think the main innovation is actually climbing gyms and their popularity, and I'm surprised they weren't talked about in the article. For instance, Alex Honnold replicated many of the difficult moves of Freerider in indoor gyms, which makes it logistically possible to train far more often and intensely. It also serves to further democratize the sport because you don't need the unlimited funds to travel to these spots in the middle of nowhere.

The campus board was only invented in 1988 by Wolfgang Güllich while he was training for Action Directe. Now there's one hanging in every gym in the world.

And I think Lynn Hill has said that one of the things that made her first free ascent of the Nose possible was new climbing gyms, that let her train more intensively than was possible before.

So yeah, as the sport grows we also get more gyms, which further grows the pool of potential record breakers to those who can't travel as much.
I think it's a mix of both. Honestly I vastly prefer Reader mode's presentation than any other layout, and especially any layout which changes if I interact with it (resize window, move mouse, click mouse button, press key, send window to background, whatever).

I have seen some sites that completely break when using Reader mode. I have seen sites that are very well done in Reader mode complete even with pictures.
You have no idea of NorCal geography do you? Los Gatos and Woodside both were without power. I qualify in your definition of wealthy tech elite and I did not have power from Saturday until Tuesday. This goes the same for a number of friends.
By the same logic there is a design error with a boeing 747, if even one wing falls off everyone dies.

A wing's controls failing (on either vessel) might be recoverable depending on the details/if the other control surfaces can compensate...
Contaminated with what is the real question here, which the article doesn't even mention. I feel pretty confident the U.S. would have halted shipments cigarettes that contained substances like hydrogen cyanide, lead, etc.

Note: I'm not arguing that those specific chemicals were found in the vape liquid, just an example of something I would not expect to find in a traditional cigarette.
I am not being dismissive. If you provide functionality that allows the user to delete something without actually deleting it, what's the point of pretending that you can delete things? Usually when people want to delete commits, it's because they committed something like a secret, and really do want to delete it.

Git doesn't try to hide the fact that the committed data is immutable, and to accomplish "deletion" the only option is to rewrite the entire affected part of the datastructure and garbage-collect anything that's unreferenced. You can not modify a commit. You can only create new commits and manipulate references to them.

This is fundamentally what enables git to function in a distributed manner, since the only state between repositories that needs special logic are the references; the actual data could be blindly synced with rsync or something, because it practically speaking can't ever conflict.

In order to have useful global non-hash commit identifiers, you would need a separate data structure of references that somehow decides which commits are identical, and is capable of reconciling conflicts globally across all clones of a git repository. I'm pretty sure that this isn't even in theory possible for the general case.

As for signoffs, a change in history might make a change you signed off broken or completely irrelevant, so yes, I do think that a change in history can invalidate a signoff on a commit.