skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those two stories are different. One is being first Czech who found it for "western civilization" despite farmland of unrelated people being there. Another is receiving blood samples from someone and leaving that someone out of story, because quoting Piot who ended up having credit "at the time of that first Ebola outbreak, African scientists were simply excluded".

Moreover it has consequences: "During this outbreak, Muyembe has also made a decision many thought unthinkable even a few years ago. He decided that all of the blood samples collected during this Ebola epidemic will stay in Congo. Anyone who wants to study this outbreak will have to come to his institute. American scientists, who have led the way in studying Ebola, have privately expressed frustrations. But Piot says the decision was obviously made because of how African scientists have been treated. Western scientists, he says, should get over it."

I think that when you are making the "local farmers" assumption, you are assuming that Muyembe did not had the "real" involvement in research as Piot. There is no reason to assume that.
See also this post from a few days ago:

An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools (wezm.net)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21363121

And these older posts:

Less Commonly Used Unix Commands (danielmiessler.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252176
Seems to be down so here's a Wayback link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20190311200305/https://danielmies...

Cool, but obscure Unix tools (kkovacs.eu)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567186
The constraint is that everywhere else in the solar system is a shithole, not the energy to reach the shitholes.
Food deserts in urban areas are a direct result of people’s spending habits. There is plenty of people, but stores don’t stock products people don’t buy. Further if they did it would just go to waste.

If you want root causes, I would propose it’s a combination of subsidies on other foods combined with the reduced taste of modern fruits and vegetables.
Are Electric Cars Good for the Environment?
On Linux I found Ghostwriter¹. It's working really fine, I use it for all my personal writings.

There is also a port² on Windows but it seems less reliable, I've seen it crash a few times, I still have to report it or try to fix it.

¹ https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/

² https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter
The fact that the app doesn't prevent you from doing this doesn't make it ok to do. It's pretty likely that borrowing and trading on the basis of nonexistent collateral is securities fraud.

I'm not an expert eg I haven't even done series 7 but I did the comparable securities certification in the UK some time ago and exploiting this "glitch" to trade using leverage without real underlying collateral would almost certainly be considered fraud in the UK irrespective of whether the app allowed it. In the UK regulatory regime Robin Hood would likely also be liable for different reasons.

Dealbreaker (fwiw) seems to agree with me - its strapline for this story is "Press X, Y, Down, Down, Left, Y, X for what has to be securities fraud."

https://dealbreaker.com/2019/11/robinhood-has-a-securities-f...
On the historical definition of those events. None of those is called a civil war. Maybe for a reason, but I'm no historian.

Most of those lasted hours to days, a consisted mainly on raised tensions / coups rather than loss of human life by long armed conformation.
It's worth noting that this is a trend, not a black and white rule. Some people _do_ plan it ahead of time, in some form or another.

E.g. my uncle specifically bought rope and carabiners prior to his suicide, and, apparently, had googled instructions on how to tie a noose several days ahead of the actual thing.
AFAIK the basic science has advanced enough that cheap experiments are not the best way forward. We basically know that designs like ITER work if you build them sufficiently large. There are still some engineering hurdles to be taken, and there might be better designs that can be built cheaper (e.g. Stellarators?), but we're at the stage where we need to build big machines if we want to progress rapidly.
Given that the engine driving VS Code (Monaco [1]) is MIT licensed, I'm sure they could. There are already a fair number of cloud-IDE-providers, like StackBlitz, based on Monaco.

As an additional bit of trivia, it seems that Erich Gamma (of GoF patterns fame) had a significant hand in the development of Monaco [2]. There are a number of videos where he takes Scott Hanselman through the tech, back in 2014.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
He actually mentions standing desks if you read the article
200 million Euro would cover the raw material cost of the HTS material of a medium-large (3m major radius) scale reactor.

You still need to work the HTS material into magnets, a vacuum vessel, turbo and mechanical pumps, lots of fittings and mechanical engineering work, gyrotrons and their high voltage supplies and all the engineering that goes with (including wave guides), neutral beam injection, two dozen diagnostic systems, coil power supply system, and all of the work that goes with cryogenics.

Edit: If this would be for a medium scale science machine then you would need divertor and first wall materials, as well as a decent cooling system if you want long pulse operation. If this is a power plant then you can ditch most diagnostics, make everything twice as large, add a breeding layer between the coil cryogenics and the vacuum vessel, add a tritium separation facility ($$$), and add a big ass heat exchange/steam turbine system. ITER is in between these two and is the first time it's ever been done, with all of the diagnostics and full D+T operation caked into the design. It's not surprising it costs 20 billion Euro and even then if it was a power plant it wouldn't be priced out of reasonability (~twice current electric costs). At what point do we say we just need to pay more for our energy and kick fossil fuels?
It's in preview. Firefox is coming: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsonline/issues/34

Check the prev discussion that has more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21442088
Nah, we have a clear timeline today. Right now, we have fusion reactors that consume more power than they produce. Now we're developing ITER, which will produce more power than it consumes, but will only run for 20 seconds at a time. Once that's complete, we will move on to DEMO, which will continuously produce as much power as a small power plant. After that, projected to be after 2050, there will be PROTO, which should be the reference model for worldwide mass produced fusion power plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTO_(fusion_reactor)
For 1/, You still can, and should, use git with a cloud IDE.
Or maybe porting it to typed racket could be a worthwhile project.
All the smart printer sales guys got out of the business 5-10 years ago. Companies renew less and less printer/copiers on the contracts every year.

Sadly, less printers = less document management so things are really bad at those places now.

Meanwhile in manufacturing, we still use printers and nobody makes a good laser with a rear paper exit anymore
There's also symbolic death in Christian baptism.

Part of the human condition is underlying curiosity about death.
Generating API clients based on OpenAPI v3 specifications
Is “Adaptability Quotient” more important than intelligence?
> we could instead revisit the concept we have of growth

You say 'we' like humanity wasn't 7 billions or so completely autonomous actors.

This would be a more accurate sentence: '7 billions autonomous actors could decide to act as one, and the act could be lowering its growth rate'.

You see, it simply won't happen.
In Japan, Microsoft tested a four-day workweek. Productivity soared 40 percent
Nice technical demo but almost 0 practical use case. Money would be best spend on the local version of Code which is still lacking in polish for C# on macOS, especially when comparing to the original VS.

Also as expect from MS, they reuse the name of an existing product, Visual Studio Online (which was the online repro and built system, renamed in Azure DevOps) for the new system. Super confusing.
People not getting proper credit is the norm, not the exception. I'm always suspicious of articles like this. They're written like the public record is mostly right and correcting this one inaccuracy was an important contribution. But the public record is silent on most things and of questionable accuracy on the rest.

My professional experience is that people not caring about external attention and credit is the default. And people seeking that external validation and/or press attention don't care about getting the boundaries right, they care about getting as many sales or as much adulation as possible. There is a parallel within organizations: either management knows how to reward people without them making sure their name is on things, or they don't and people try to get their name on everything regardless of their contribution.

And that's just the groundwork before we get to the fact the press rarely operates at a level above functional illiteracy for anything that takes domain knowledge.
The US Air Force has/had problems with the KC-46 (767) being delivered from Boeing with FOD and tools left in the aircraft.
So they could use some improvements in the quality control area.
The gp might have been thinking of more interesting methods of cooling - space sunshades, aerosols, massive creation of artificial snow... (not sure if the latter is a net heat loss)
You source code is hosted in Github. I'd imagine the dev environment is ephemeral and is spun up, code edited, and then disappears until it's provisioned next.
Or you manage to store it somewhere. Thinking extreme here, we can get massive energy out of nuclear fission, what if we could revert it and put massive energy back into elements to do reverse nuclear fission. Or maybe convert lead into gold. And use it to create fuel to power our space trips.
I'm really not a fan of the trend towards everything being remote-hosted. With things like this and also Stadia and Google Colab, it seems like the big three cloud providers are rushing us toward a world where almost everything is executed in a datacenter somewhere, and your workstation is just an interface.

I think this development is especially dangerous with how Microsoft is positioned with Github. They already own where a huge percentage of open-source code is hosted. If they also come to own the defacto place that code is compiled and executed, that would give them a huge amount of power in the industry.

If you're not in control of the hardware your code is compiled and executed on, someone else can place limits on what works and what doesn't. Who's to say Microsoft wouldn't use that to benefit Azure and Windows to the detriment of competitors, consumers, and developers.
https://www.brendonbody.com/
Create a Flask Application with SSO Login
They say they would consider it? Sure, such a weak claim is bound to get 90%+ agreeing with it. Who wouldn't say they'd consider it?

Now how many actually do? Not that many, for sure.
It’s the “independent ability” that’s new. Without that you just need to keep your key safe. With it your key could be safe and you still end up with a problem.

> objectively better than cash

Many people don’t use cash just credit cards. They might keep 50$ or less in their wallets, but that’s about it.

Further, Billions of people can hack my PC, only those I come into contact with can take my cash.
Oh yeah, why don't I just sue the scammer from a third world country who charged back his PayPal payment instead of using cryptocurrency that makes it impossible. I'm sure small claims court will be happy to get me my money back.
This may be a stupid question, but how do you read from the computer as a deafblind person? Is there some sort of device that converts the text to braille?
It would appear QANTAS doesn't have any ex-Charleston 787s either. Couldn't say whether it's intentional.
It's not "can't afford". It's "as a landlocked country surrounded by allies with whom it has extensive defence agreements, it can't justify spending the money it takes to run its airforce at full capacity."
Ford made an electric Mustang with a manual transmission
Could Chinese livestream­ers have the answer to keeping retail stores alive?
Let's see if we actually 100% withdraw from any of those places you've mentioned before Trump leaves office.
My company isn't "enterprise" size, but we have over 100 machines in the office so it makes sense to buy a business product rather than a consumer product. I agree that the detection/protection portion of the product can easily be the same between "enterprise" and "security," but the real value (at least for us) is on the management side.

Some features that I've found valuable as an admin:

- Consolidated billing, suited to the company's normal billing cycle

-Easy automated deployment (e.g. GPO deployment)

- Management console to monitor the status of all devices

- Multiple admin accounts for delegation

- Timely alerts by email to specified admins

- Granular security policies

- Security policies by device group (i.e. different port exceptions for user workstations vs servers)

- Ability to push virus definitions / policy changes to specific devices if necessary

There are a few other possibly useful features we're not using with our current setup (such as specifying an internal update server).
I'm pretty sure it is the other way around, the OS/2 GUI (Presentation Manager) API is a cleaned up version of the Windows 2.x API.
Yup, adding to this: For about four years we ran a similar size Ceph cluster that supported a burgeoning public cloud platform with users making extensive use of block and object. We did this on a range of hardware from creaky second-hand SuperMicro boxes to newer all-flash Quanta-based hardware.

Through questionable hardware selection as well as standard operational challenges such as upgrades and scaling, Ceph never let us down.

The only time we had a major problem turned out to be our fault. The creaky machines we were using at the start 'lost' half of their memory during a round of power failure testing. We didn't have monitoring in place to spot this, and unfortunately it manifest after we lost a node which triggered a significant rebalancing operation across the cluster. With several machines missing 50% of their RAM, this quickly descended into a horrendous disk thrashing exercise. Again, all credit due to Ceph - we were able to coax the cluster back into life with no data loss.
Techcrunch article is crummy, just click to the official page or read the big discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21442088

Summary: "Visual Studio Online provides cloud-powered development environments for any activity - whether it's a long-term project, or a short-term task like reviewing a pull request. You can work with these environments from Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio (sign up for the Private Preview), or a browser-based editor that's accessible anywhere! You can even connect your own self-hosted environments to Visual Studio Online at no cost."
Arm is already freaking out about RISC-V, because some large companies (Western Digital, Nvidia, Alibaba, etc) have started preferring using the RISC-V ISA over Arm. Even Google's recent OpenTitan uses a RISC-V processor, when the company's own proprietary "Titan" predecessor used Arm Cortex-M3.

It probably won't be long now before SoftBank/Arm resorts to patent trolling RISC-V chip makers.
Do you know how you can render the PDF to make it look like Github's HTML render?
>Rolls Royce Trent

Great 'final assembly' time-lapse video of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2R6NTgvEV4
wxWidgets provides "wxColor" typedef too however and many functions exist in both "colour" and "color" versions. There would be just too many bug reports about misspellings in the API otherwise.
And have a device gasp without internet? faints

Seriously though I think it's a testament of how common the internet connection has become. Someone probably didn't even thought of it.
Internet Explorer (in the time of Windows 95) did that and people didn't liked and always checked the "Never ask my again" checkbox
The Staircase St. Joseph Built in New Mexico
>Building a conventional fission plant can easily cost $10B. $200M is laughable

The budget for ITER is 20b. The UK is only pitching in 200m. Other countries are pitching in the rest. The USA already pitched in $1b for example. The article only mentioned the UK because it was written for UK readers.
Global warming isn't caused by dumping heat into the atmosphere. It's caused (very simplified) by changing the planet's properties such that it's thermal equilibrium, the balance between sun's radiation heating it up and radiatively losing heat to space, lies higher. Mankind's waste heat (~10^12 W) is utterly miniscule compared to sun's energy delivered to earth (~10^17 W).
Compared to the $5.2T global fossil subsidy, yes. If we diverted that subsidy we could have fusion pronto.

https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18624740/fossil-fuel-subsidies...
The Dutch electric grid is mostly privatize, both retail and energy production. A publicly owned company manages the high voltage production lines. (But publicly owned companies in Europe often behave very much like privately owned ones. For example, TenneT, the Dutch high voltage grid operator, has a subsidiary that manages part of the grid in Germany. It issues annual statements reporting profits: https://annualreport.tennet.eu/2018/annualreport/userfiles/p.... It just so happens that the Dutch government owns all the shares.)
The premise of github integration scares me. What happens to open source software if the main way to interact with Github-hosted code becomes a Microsoft hosted web IDE, and everything else becomes a painful, second-class experience?
If by that you mean backups need to be deleted after a certain period then it's effectively the same thing.
If you need to remote connect to a tightly-controlled machine to work on code, I don't see why you wouldn't just install all the development tools on that machine anyway.
In my opinion, markdown is a document format not unlike Rich Text Format (RTF). I want a program to read it, style it and let me edit it the way it's intended to be read. I don't want to see the code unless the program is getting in my way. I'm sure everybody's come across a text editor that insists you meant to indent that next bullet point and gets very stubborn when you want to do something different. That's what I like about Typora. I don't have to think about the code until I want to do something the program doesn't want me to do. When that happens, I can switch to code view and make it do exactly what I want it to do. Then I switch back WYSIWG mode and keep going.
Seeing how well T-mobile managed the MetroPCS merger compared to the Nextel Sprint merger, I have high hopes.

Within a year or so, T-mobile moved all of Metro’s customers to its network and took advantage of MetroPCS’s bandwidth.

Sprint kept Nextel’s network limping along for years.
Ask HN: I got a chance to pitch by the Pyramid – how to assure it?
Hi,

I am a pre-finalist, they set me in the competition at the very end of the list.

I need to know, does it make any difference if you are at the end of the list?
Does it make any difference if you are pitching near to the last one in the row?

Are there any recommendations to make a stunt to awaken those judges after listening to over 25 startups?
Is there any stunt I can do?

I am going to pitch this Friday in this competition for startups, if I get selected as a finalist, I will pitch by the pyramid in Egypt. It's called Rise Up - Pitch By the Pyramid.
I stumbled around too before settling on GameplayKit. Apple's implementation can be surprisingly capable with a few extensions (though some parts like Agent Behavior Goals can't be extended) but it doesn't seem to have gotten any substantial updates for a couple years now.
These days aren't we all trying to move towards more agile working practices? The problem is that fixed cost is pretty much at odds with this.

I've worked on projects where we came to a compromise and had a fixed cost per story point, and the in house PO had to agree with estimations, but the vendor quickly started taking liberties and massively overestimating everything. When we called them out, they started compromising on quality instead leading us to code review everything. The overhead ended up being so large that we might as well have in-housed the project.
The zine – a short essay on self-publishing
I don't think this is new - I'm pretty sure it's how colleges have been getting the names of potential students for _decades_.
You also have to buy the bandwidth.
Networks are fast
https://twitter.com/obeattie/status/1190676549395025921
5% of your gross income
Often you only have access to the corp-approved tools and don't even get access to install all your custom stuff without IT approval, etc.
I think this approach may find good application to DHT, disabling DHT search engines from browsing items for censorship or copyright infriengement.
Show HN: Nuxt.js Lazy Load
Cloud-powered dev environments have many uses, and you can connect to it from your local VSC or VS as well. The teams working on this are completely separate from VSC and there's no progress taken away from that product.

C# on macos using visual studio code is powered by the same OmniSharp extension so you should already have the same experience across platforms. VS Code is not aiming for perfect parity with Visual Studio though, and likely never will. There is a separate Visual Studio for Mac product though.
OP*

Even all the heat generated by appliances and devices in the world combined is actually negligible in examining global warming.

The problem is the greenhouse effect because that heat is a positive reinforncement feedback loop from where we get all energy ulimately -- the sun.
When Innovation Hits “Snooze”
Yes, the Airbus did the same but in their case the a320 did not have a problem fitting larger engines under the wings. The problem is, if Boeing decides to make a brand new design that is more efficient than a320, Airbus will have to match it instead of milking the a320 despite not having its planes falling of the skies.
I'm a bit disappointed there's no x-height control I can decrease to get longer ascenders and shorter lowercase letters. It's a recurring annoyance I have with almost every font being released nowadays, I find their x-heights consistently too big and ascenders consistently too short for my tastes.
As all the features were being listed, I scrolled with the exact same hope :-)

I have been using Sencha/ExtJS' grid for that purpose, which is very powerful and versatile, and recently I've been contemplating ag-grid, which seems very nice also.
indeed but D-T is not at all "clean" fusion "like the sun", as is being claimed for terrestrial fusion.
Exactly. The SAAS model for creative software only benefits the service provider. Modern laptop CPUs are really fast - there's no non-business reason to outsource my IDE workloads to a datacenter.
Logins can occur without user interaction by a logged-in device, so it's not as meaningful as user activity.
China Is Sabotaging Itself in Taiwan
The threat of GitLab.
So ignore the “life lock” stuff for a moment. Is anyone paying attention to the gobbling up of second-tier suppliers that broadcom’s been steadily doing? The life lock stuff is the stuff that Broadcom for some reason found indigestible.

Go look at the history of acquisitions over the last 20 years. [1] LSI, PMC-Sierra, Avago, Infineon, Brocade, CA... It’s highly likely that any electronic device has a Broadcom chip or component inside of it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Inc.#History
IMHO as long as Github still provides a git interface, that shouldn't be a problem.