skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nazi party implemented a totalitarian form of government. Totalitarianism predated Nazis and is still a common form of government around the world. Classic case of "A is an example of B, but not all B are A". E.g. calling Stalin a Nazi would be inaccurate. He fought Nazis, but was still a totalitarian of the highest order, arguably with a more heinous legacy (if measured in body count, geographic impact, duration of influence). Assad is a current totalitarian, along with many regimes in Africa. Describing these as regimes as Nazis would be a very inarticulate description, even though I'd get your point ("he bad").
Probably because a jet engine costs like $30MM. It may well be that the incremental cost ($, weight, complexity) of adding an electric booster to an existing engine design is much more practical than just adding more engines.
A defined-benefit pension is a bet that your employer will remain both solvent and completely honest for the rest of your life. This is an enormous risk compared to just having your own personal retirement account.

If you as an individual still want proper longevity insurance and the predictability of a defined-benefit-plan without this risk, just use the personal retirement savings to buy an annuity.
What kind of a stack are you running WebRTC on?
Ask HN: GitHub topics no longer list all repositories?
It seems that tagged topics on github no longer list all repositories: https://github.com/topics/julia

Previously, all repositories tagged with a topic would be listed and could be filtered in various ways.

Now, there are only very few repositories listed in a seemingly random arrangement... what happened?
> I'll invoke him if he's relevant.

No, you're trying to speak for him. Consent to, say, physical assault being illegal, is a whole different ball game than manufactured consent to the Vietnam War, and all that is entailed in this wishy-washy stuff about "consent" in this context. Not to mention "democracy reacting by force to protest" -- as opposed to what, exactly? Non-democracies? Companies? People clicking buttons on HN? Nobody bothers to say, making it all an exercise in throwing shade at the one means of self-defense we have left.

> The neoliberal era of the last generation is dedicated, in principle, to destroying the only means we have to defend ourselves from destruction. It's not called that, what it's called is shifting decision-making from public institutions, which at least in principle are under public influence, to private institutions which are immune from public control, in principle. That's called "shifting to the market", it's under the rhetoric of freedom, but it just means servitude. It means servitude to unaccountable private institutions.

-- Noam Chomsky

> It is possible for both the government and the private sector to be corrupted

Obviously, but the private sector isn't "corrupt" when it's a tyranny, that's the best it can hope to be. The government is responsibility of the citizens in a democracy, not something purely external they get to just complain about.
>An even stronger example of this is the fact that due to the way Haskell arrows work, all Haskell Functors are actually "strong" functors in the sense that we cannot even truly specify a non-string functor.

Can you explain this? What is a strong functor and how does it have to do with arrows? Also what do you mean by non-string functor?
The Nordic system operators are in the early stages of transitioning from a reactive to a predictive process. The schedule does vary from day to day but there isn't anyone there that doesn't believe it can't be predicted with an accuracy that is more safe, and economical, than the current reactive process.

You can read more about it at http://nordicbalancingmodel.net.
Bill Gates Objects to Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax, and She Offers to Explain
A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."
No. That was the point of my comment.

Dream doesn't work like cardboard. They're completely different. The Dream headset only connects to specific phones and requires its own driver. Cardboard doesn't work with it at all.
The baseline is a given in terms of net intensity (roughly 1kW/m^2).

2/3 of sunlight falls on the oceans, unlikely to be developed as technological solar farms. Marine environments are exceedingly harsh. You can also discount Antarctica. We're already down to ~25% of the grand total surface are, and hence energy.

Panel efficiency (~<20% typically), spacing factor (shaded panels generate no power), and further losses greatly cut into the remaining surplus. In net, ~1-10% of the resource might potentially be available. And other terrestrial ecosystem resources need their own cut.

There's still a possible surplus relative to present consumption, but the margins begin to look uncomfortably thin. Population growth and expansion of industrial standards of living cut further into that, as discussed up-thread.

Expressed as population, area, and energy, over time, the plots are interesting.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/_bi5uhywbdyukhfy-eayjw
make more money/learn to code
This is something we are also investigating. Our goal is to have recording happen on the device, and save directly to the device. We have made some great breakthroughs with this but are still in the R&D phase. This is our ideal solution, though.
Golang: API Framework on Top of Echo
is there any reason why we can't conceivably jettison nuclear waste out of orbit?
Shrink everything by 50% would be a more possible goal. While devoting more resources to carbon sequestering.
It's custom. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03083-5
My suspicion is that if a marketing person passes this idea past their legal folks (especially in the litigious USofA) will likely get a fairly strong "nope" to having a 'competitor comparison' page.
"ramping up slowly" isn't an option when the demand curve is changing quickly, because there's nowhere for that extra energy to go. Energy storage isn't really feasible, so all the electrical grids in the world need to match supply to demand 1:1 in real time.

There are electrical dispatchers who are monitoring grid supply 24/7 and instruct plants on how much they are responsible for generating on a minute-by-minute basis.
Possible, but it can also be that you don't have a better business idea and can't get work anywhere else.

Getting a job as a developer can be tough in 5% of the circumstances. I've read a quite recent account of one, and don't forget that the founder of WhatsApp had a similar situation.

All I know is that people don't respond well when they feel backed in a corner.

There are so many reasons that in a few cases are true, but anyways, this is one of them. And if you think they don't exist, I'm pretty sure they do.
Oh yeah, mesh nets are another great thought. We definitely need our own pipes. CJDNS is beautiful (I love that addressing scheme), but lacks incentives for people/corporations to build infrastructure for non-ideological reasons. The OpenLibreNet whitepaper had the incentives theoretically correct, but didn't go anywhere. I honestly haven't kept up on this space, but I still think about it a lot.

My biggest question is how to handle payments. Bitcoin can't realistically handle the micropayments for this purpose -- I'm not waiting for a block to hash before my website loads, nor do I want to pay miner fees for every request. The best proposal I'm aware of is that nodes keep track of balances to neighboring nodes, and when you want to establish a new connection with an unknown node you need to send them an up-front payment for X amount of data in advance. (The price of data wouldn't really be per byte of course, it's bytes multiplied by the arbitrary node-selected edge-costs all the way to the actual source and back through the cheapest/fastest path as selected by the end user.) Then when you're approaching the limit you pay more in advance, aggregating the micropayments. This means the inital connection still has to wait for a block to be hashed, and it's annoying from the perspective of a user trying to find valid peers once it's profitable enough to launch malicious fake nodes that eat up-front payments and refuse to forward packets. The initial connection time issue might be mitigated by allowing a Zahavian signal worth of coins to be sent to a burn pile, like an address that is just all zeroes, since a user who was willing to burn a pile of coins covering X+Y data Z hours ago probably isn't trying to rip you off for X data now even if they haven't successfully made a payment to your specific node yet. I'd like to believe that something like IOTA could probabalistically work well enough for micropayments that we don't have to worry about that, but I'm not convinced. Ideally a connection could be established quickly enough that vehicles passing along highways/oceans could route traffic as they go, breaking apart and reforming as necessary.

IPFS is worth googling too, if you haven't seen it already.

I'll send you an email before the end of the month!
Ok. Religion is bullshit mysticism.

I'm not a big believer in the paranormal
The wealth tax is unconstitutional unless the amount collected is apportioned between states in accordance with their census population. Hope there are a bunch of billionaires in West Virginia to carry the load!
You missed the point. The point is a person with power over you needs to be respectful of that power. Your boss is never going to be as buddy-buddy with you as a coworker, because your boss has a lot more say over your pay and whether or not you're going to be fired.

The famous "characters" of open source are notorious, not famous. No one looks at a Linus rant and says "Wow I want to try my hand at adding a patch for Linux!". No, they say "Wow, I want to have that kind of power!"

That's just the rub, isn't it, you don't get to decide that we have to be hazed because you want the potential to hold that power of us.
Maybe the "curation" has begun.
Nice website jmstfv. I have a question about how customers trust your monitoring saas. Say I have a website/service, my deployment config would probably be similar to what you have. If AWS goes down, both mine and your monitoring saas will go down. Can you please share some details about your architecture that makes it more reliable? I am curious about what sort of customers are you targeting.
I strongly disagree. Nobody hires somebody to tell them what to do, ever. "Consulting" is always ultimately a euphemism for just contracting or freelancing. It's a figment of the imagination of McKinseyites and other people in suits who don't like to think of themselves as excel monkeys or powerpoint monkeys in the same vain as there are code monkeys.
"I picked that one up and washed it off and stuck it back in; it seems to have re-rooted."

I am shuddering. This is Cronenberg levels of body horror. I suppose I must have known this was how it worked, but I figured there was more to it than that and that dentists had to do something more dentist-y to make it take.
Judging by the amount of volume of a rocket or ICBM that is consumed by its fuel, I would have to venture that it's nearly impossible that it's cleaner.
Slack’s magic link works on mobile and desktop.
Biased cause I work there, but DocRaptor offers a saas API version of the Prince library with a much lower usage-based monthly fee.
This is great news. I've been a member of the community for a while and it's really positive in nature, a good mix of new developers and experienced. I like the culture of the people there and the values of the founders.

Their success ultimately will hinge on:

1. Monetization (obviously)

2. Their ability to scale (I hope to help with this at some point)

3. Their ability to maintain the current culture.

If they're able to scale out their infrastructure as people come in, find ways to make money without annoying people, and maintain the culture they have right now, the sky's the limit.

I don't know a lot about the leadership other than what I've seen on the site and following them on Twitter, but they seem very capable of doing it. I have high hopes for them.

To me, culture is the biggest challenge.

There are communities on the internet that I refuse to do more than lurk in. I don't join communities to have flame wars (do they still call them that?), pissing contests, or play gatekeeper to new folks. But I see it all over, and it drives people like me out.

I just want to talk tech, teach what I know and learn from what others know. I'm the kind of user you want on your platform. I won't drive people away or cause you legal problems. I'll help people and bring in more. But I will absolutely BAIL when it starts getting political, or toxic folks are allowed to sling crap everywhere. There are a lot of people just me that will simply walk away. No big farewell post or calling people on social media. Folks like me just walk away.

So running a community you have to make choices as to what you'll tolerate and stick to it, it's a thankless and stressful job and you don't really have much control. I believe that's more challenging than things like establishing a revenue model or scaling. I just hope they can maintain what they currently have now. HN has done a good job over the years keeping their stuff moderated, so it can be done.

Oh, and hopefully they don't do too much of this voting/karma crap like Reddit. Invisible internet points are what's destroyed their culture if you ask me.
They're not really caches, they're storage infrastructure.

There is still a difference between cache and what's on hard disk.
That's a different market.
Ok. That was a roller coaster.
It probably works best when you only have some sockets in a home that are on spot price contracts. And on those sockets, you have plugged in a washer/freezer/AC that is smart enough to receive spot price information and turn on and off as prices rise or fall. We're not quite there with all the pieces of the puzzle, but it's all technically possible now and likely much cheaper than using batteries to load-shift.
Function as a service is certainly one place. Others include secure container runtimes (eg. Kata-containers), sandboxing applications in general, and libguestfs.
Well, there was also a time when the SS7/PSTN phone network was the only way to get in contact with people quickly. And by "quickly", I mean that almost nobody carried a cellphone, so leave a message on their cassette tape based answering machine if they're not home.

What's interesting to me now is how blithely people give up a lot of their personal privacy to random social media companies.
I'm pretty sure they're already safer than human drivers.
> Keep content above the field. I didn't know I could scroll.

Are you on a iOS device? Asking because your statement sounds weird to me
Finally, a decent table component! Just what I was looking for my new project.

A nitpick concerning slow animations: there is no place for them in a modern enterprise app.
Yes. Launch vehicles sometimes fail. They may explode, or they may not make it all the way to orbit and have to re-enter. Either way, this would scatter the radioactive material over a wide area.
And where does it talk about the plight of this poor, poor libertarian, law abiding man that lost his home because of an $8.41 oversight? When a story is legit it gets picked by multiple outlets. When it gets picked up by reason.com they tell you about the seizure but they conveniently omitthe part where he dug his heels in over this $8.41 payment and refused to settle his bill for 2 decades. Threw the 14 notices he received in the garbage. Missed 6 court appearances, spent a night in jail. threatened the district attorney. then finally the seized his property and sold it.

Not saying that system isn't problematic. I am saying this story and its source are trash.
Trust, but verify :-)
It’s confusing or doesn’t work at all. You need to add a demo. Maybe a short video.
I am just worried that your platform might turn into a debate forum with endless back and forth arguments instead of being a "community for discussing positive climate actions". Discussing actions assumes you already agree on what the problem is. If you want to be successful, focus is the key. And to enable focus, you need to guard your community. Heck, HN is successful and heavily moderated.

edit: If you are serious about solving climate crisis, there is no time for counter arguments. Arguing with deniers and "sceptics" is a distraction and a waist of time. They are already a minority anyway. The majority of the population, both in US and EU, supports climate policies. The task is not to convert sceptics, the task now is to get the pro climate majority off their butts, away from their keyboards, and to "the streets".
So you just connect to the raspi Bluetooth and then you can ssh raspberrypi.local?
I'm not sure I understand. Firstly, banks can't offer their foreclosed assets as significantly less than market rate because homes are used as collateral in a mortgage, so they'd have to just stop offering mortgages, which means only cash buyers get homes

Secondly, even if a bank did offer the foreclosed homes much cheaper, it won't fix gentrification, it just means whenever a house gets foreclosed a bunch of cash buyers swoop in and flip a house back to market rate for a free profit (or realistically, hold a bidding war and end up paying close to market rate anyways)

It doesn't make logical sense suggesting a bank has any power to change market rate (whether that's an asset bubble or genuine demand)
Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals Tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart
An interesting presentation on the history of futures in Rust (from RustLatam 2019):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skos4B5x7qE
It’s interesting because I mentally don’t want people to be pissing outside of bathrooms whatever their gender.

Then when you specifically plan it, for camping in the wilderness for instance, there’s accessories that help to level the playing field (feel free to google it, it should come up with keywords like “woman camp urination portable”. It has an actual interesting story behind it and was developped by a camper that made it for her own needs at first)
I think the USA going to soon learn the ugly truth about your item 4: that massive swaths of the population have not saved adequately. I mean, I make pretty ok money and save the max every year, but there is no way on earth my pathetic 401k is going to last even 10 years after I stop working. Now consider the average American who has fuck-all in their retirement account. Despite their disadvantages, pensions at least let people who didn’t save retire in (perhaps difficult) dignity. When my account says $1 and I have no other living breadwinners in my family, my only remaining retirement option is to spend that last dollar on a bullet.
Delivery only restaurant space. They provide the Kitchen and associated accessories, You (The chef) cook and use delivery platforms to make money. It could work, real estate costs are huge for restaurants.
Appreciate for sharing the insight!
There's plenty of use you can move to other times, just ask anyone who has different peak/off-peak rates. A house with good insulation can be pre-heated/cooled in the afternoon. Washing machines can be programmed to run during the day. Even some cooking can be done that way, if you prepare in advance. Those alone cover quite a large chunk of home energy use.
Right, some (the DNC) will pay a foreign entity to craft a totally made up conspiracy theory about Russia collusion and then leverage the FBI, the CIA and all major news outlets to propagandize that bullshit while keeping a straight face.

At the same time they'll spike a story for three years on a prolific pedophile (Epstein) that implicates Bill Clinton, to protect their own.

All parties lie, but the DNC and their allies in the media...well they really take the cake.
The problem is they come up with all these rules for others to follow. They don't seem to realize the rules also apply to them. It's perfectly fine to call for the exclusion of a man because of a controversial tweet but when protected groups do the same thing and people try to hold them accountable they get laughed at as if it was absurd and wrong to even try.
I've read somewhere (can't find it) that they signed some long-term contracts with OEMs and then cancelled them in the middle (probably to avoid bankruptcy).
Few things in a professional setting annoy me more than what you're describing. I left the default date on a form once and got it back with a note that said "why did you put this date here? Today's date is XYZ."

You got me. I thought it was 2004. Thanks for correcting me, now I know it's actually 2019. Pretty shocking that I'm actually 15 years older than I thought! I guess I'm a huge moron!
It seems like Canada (for Federal elections at least) and most European countries have voter ID laws [0]. Notably, the UK does not; they scrapped government issued ID cards altogether in 2011([1]). I'm not sure why requiring ID to vote is so controversial in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_Identification_laws

[1] https://www.gov.uk/identitycards
In the context of the classics (which Franklin would have been steeped in), a Republic is a form of government where citizens vote for qualified representatives to represent their interests and a Democracy is when you pick citizens by drawing lots to decide on who holds positions.

So the "we're a republic, not a democracy" line from people who want to argue for not letting people vote makes absolutely no sense.
IARPA Launches “Better” Program to Improve Information Extraction for Analysts
Last I checked, college and professional women's leagues mandated face protection. Why don't men's?
> software devs are usually a certain demographic and they usually come from a place of privilege where they've never had to do the mental work that's involved in communicating effectively across diverse demographics.

This strikes me as a surprising assertion: most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants (or temporary guest workers) who are, by definition, navigating a culture very different than the one they grew up in.
Nice enthusiastic post but the adaptive shutter speed example is a bit specious.
Exploring Deep Learning Hyperparameters with Random Forests
Ask HN: How to control users abusing the free credits and demo
It's the 3rd month of https://extracttable.com released to the internet. While it attracted a couple of bulk purchases and 30+ small packs, but I'm seeing the rise in visitors abusing the service it in 2 ways

no signup needed to try the demo - visitors are trying on more than 12+ files per session

no credit card details requested for free API credits - multiple email accounts are being used

Do you have recommendations on the services or plugins I should opt to reduce my cost here
Reshaping How We Think About Water: Why Paying More Might Not Be So Bad
Liquid hydrogen has about 4X the specific energy of Jet-A. But yes, the system as a whole isn't great once you consider what it takes to keep the H2 liquid...
How are upgrades tough with RDS? It's always just been switching a configuration setting, applying, then wait.
This class of bug (CSRF bypass via route confusion) is probably more common in Phoenix apps. I’ve found a handful of apps vulnerable to this issue with Sobelow.

People create (for example) a get ‘/profile’ and a post ‘/profile’, and the action intended to correspond with post requests really just pattern matches against params.

I’ve also seen at least one app implement this properly, matching against the HTTP method as you described.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but what if a language with implicit safepoints lets you opt out with something like a nosafepoint block/pragma?
Most of them don't.

And I grew up in poverty too. My first real paid job paid three dollars an hour for farmwork -- in the 90s, and I thought I was living like a king.