skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Massive failures in oversight and management. Airport building/management company that makes changes to the design pretty randomly, total failure in oversight mechanisms (basically, there was no review process in place which could have caught this while it was going on), as a result a building that doesn't match the original plans, doesn't conform to regulations and where in the end the actual state of what exists wasn't even known. Brought down by failing the fire safety certifications shortly before the opening, at which point the slow "figure out what happened and who to blame" process began, and then attempts to fix it. It's a glorious mess.

Even if there had been a consensus on almost-rip-and-replace immediately, it's not clear that could have been done as quickly, given the amount of preparation needed.

(As an example of the kind of changes, during the building process they decided to re-assign arrivals and departures to different floors of the building. Which in an airport has fairly fundamental consequences due to security zones etc...)
Which is the way humanity has always responded to crisis. They move and adapt.
Did you read the articles (there are two)? They address renewables in depth.
Graal is a better target for these runtimes than WASM is, true, but Python-on-Graal is still a terrible target for the web. Huge runtimes with large memory footprints and startup times don't make for a pleasant user experience.

Polygot support, as extremely cool as it is, would be even less of a revolution inside the browser than it has been natively.
If you are going to become an app developer, you shot stop blaming users for not learning your made up UI language, and start making your app work in their language.

I thought some apps and iOS had already responded to this workflow by doing smart things when users try to create screenshots. If they haven't yet, they should. There's no need in the common case for "screenshot" and "share main image" to have different UI entry points. Just pop up a menu asking the user that they want when they push the button.
I agree with the philosophy. But look: MS, ORACLE, Disney all produce easily replicatable product. And currently, laws and licensing they sell under say, effectively, pay us.

If you take the thing they want to legally charge for then that is theft.

And if what you want is a new model in a brave New world then one must take the effort. Be the change you want to see. Not by simply stealing from those you disagree with, philosophically, but by disregarding them completely. And then rewarding those that also participate in your same perspective.

It's hard. But I can't justify theft just caused they're assholes. Eventually everyone's the asshole.
How many 15 kids family are there out there? Besides, they also pay their tax share...
I have been watching this group since its inception, waiting for something that I can treat as a standard.

They’re trying—and I am rooting for them—but from the outside it seems piecemeal and scattered, like a side project that is nobody’s real priority. Meanwhile, other initiatives have so much movement as to be unfollowable: Zipkin! No, Jaeger! No, OpenTracing! No, OpenCensus! No, OpenTelemetry!

I am beginning to doubt that we will ever have a standard for distributed tracing.
One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions
This may be an unpopular opinion, but could it be that structured days is generally what people are looking for? It might feel like search results are low quality because... most of them are. Google has commoditized search and delivers extremely high quality results for specific types of data. Now, anything that doesn't fit into that box feels like it's relatively low quality.
"Piracy isn't stealing, that's intellectual property lobbyist propaganda."

You're correct, but it's worse than theft. When you steal a car, just that car is stolen. Piracy devalues the original product...something theft can't really ever do.

"I would happily download a car: zero cost reproduction of useful things makes society as a whole richer."

But how much did it cost to produce the first car? and do you actually think anyone would put that much time and effort into the first car if they didn't a way to make a profit or at least their money back? In your world, technology will only go so far..which is a disservice to humanity.

"The content industry needs to figure out a new business model to adapt to the information age"

They have: streaming services. Your mentality is why we will only have services that we pay for in the future and won't be able to install software or get a Blue ray.

"I'd much prefer a kickstarter or patreon-like model where superfans could fund and watch and participate in development."

Which wouldn't even get close to the amount of money needed to develop this kind of content.

You aren't being rebellious. You are just giving excuses as to why you would rather just download something for free instead of paying for it.

I remember in the 90s the excuse du jour for music piracy was that it would help independent artists. It's only made it so most independent artists can't really make a living anymore and pushed everything to large corporations.
I agree, and will be cross linking posts accordingly.
It's almost as if spending time optimizing memory usage isn't worth it because server RAM is cheap!
Slightly related: Anyone know why Google Chrome (not upstream Chromium, nor any derivative) is the only browser on Android that implements WebAuthn as intended? Do they implement it as a proprietary component?
You are making a strawman: they are not a special "class" indeed.

But they have a very special position and role that makes them specially vulnerable when dealing with powerful institutions.
That's what happens when political corruption becomes a culture, while nobody wants to seriously talk about it.
Question is, does it matter if my barn comes with a door that only closes half way, and your barn comes with a door that closes most of the way?
Mobile is all about surveillance as near as I can see. The whole purpose of it is to track users.
Swordfish as oceanographers? Satellite tags allow research of ‘twilight zone’
There should be a universal copy/paste tool across devices. Imagine how useful...
> Even if you just ban "killing puppies" now dog breeding is essentially illegal as the most effective way is to kill the young you don't want.

I have no idea what sorts of dog breeders you're familiar with, but the culling of puppies is not by any means a standard practice among breeders.
Even 25-30 years is starting to look pessimistic.

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/testing-a-thirt...

https://global.kyocera.com/news-archive/2009/0805_jeao.html

My feeling is that most significant degradation comes from problems with assembly weather sealing, connectors, and/or electronic components. The cells themselves should last for a long time with modest degradation.

Inverters on the other hand seem to be closer to consumables in PV installs, but even those should last 10-20 years depending on the model, and refurbishment is possible.
No ROI for 10 years at least. Other technologies are getting cheaper, better, faster.
The United Nation was effective in the mid 20th century at global coordination, but nationalist and anti-government attacks on it have rendered it ineffective. But it can be restored, climate change is global problem we need global coordination.
The problem with wind and solar is that they both require extensive spatially distributed energy collection systems, storage to overcome intermittent generation, and complex transmission networks to collect, manage, and distribute the electrical power. It seems unlikely that such can be secured in a world where conflict is steadily increasing, and where a tiny, but significant, percentage of the population is bent on disrupting or destroying infrastructure.

On the other hand, nuclear fission and fusion plants are spatially compact and can be located in secured areas near the industrial and residential users connected by short transmission lines. Nuclear plant heat and power can also be harnessed to generate synthetic fuels for transportation and chemical feedstocks as required for military and civilian purposes.
> I don't know. The level of complexity this introduces seems to be way higher than anything in the original article.

HTTP isn't synchronous, we just often pretend it is. You can pretend messages are synchronous using exactly the same semantics and get exactly the same terrible failure modes when requests or responses are lost or delayed.
A week's supply of biofuels, given our current energy use of 101 quadrillion BTU/year, and assuming 100% efficiency, is 2 quadrillion BTU. At the peak of our production, we produced around 0.2 quadrillion BTU worth of biodiesel. This means that a week's supply of biofuels is around 10 years of production.

Of course, in practice, if you overbuild renewable energy generation to a large enough multiple that will greatly increase the average cost of produced kWh, and if you keep most of the fossil fuel infrastructure on standby, then at the immense expense, and greatly increased energy prices, you could reduce CO2 emissions by switching to renewables. The real question is, why would you do so, if it would be much, much cheaper to just build enough nuclear plants to cover your needs. France managed to do it in the 70s., why can't we do it 50 years later?
Huh, I thought omissions/abbreviations of addresses was introduced with IPv6.
Patreon and kickstarter models function based on closed-off perks for the supporters, not just superfans ready to give money for no reason. This is reliant on some protection for those perks, otherwise there is no reason for that model.

The idea that piracy isn't stealing is nonsense. Why don't you try creating something, then having someone rip it off against your will, plaster it all over their ad-supported platform and flip you the bird when you ask for a share of proceeds.
That, I already understand. What I'm asking about is the narrower definition of "the press" in that historical context, because the usage nowadays is much broader.
Health-care costs can only be slashed by somebody missing out on their current income.

Would there be strong resistance to that?? You bet!

There are too many middle-men leeching away within the US health-care system. Many poorer nations can afford single-payer health-care which covers all citizens. Why not the US too? It's just a matter of determination, and removing the 'I must have my share at the trough' mindset.
True, but cookie consent is pretty much entirely about following regulations, not about anti-asshole design.
Great Product. And you guys are great stewards on Github.
Googler here. I don't speak for Google and obviously shouldn't and won't divulge internals, but this just makes me cringe so hard: unauthorized or illegitimate access by staff is OBVIOUSLY treated as a security issue. I'm kind of shocked that folks would think otherwise.
It's well known that the main driver of climate change up until this point in time is the sun... the questions this specifically raises, is why as the earth moves slightly away from the Sun which normally would bring about the end of the current interglacial, the temperature is instead increasing.

See: http://www.profrichmuller.com/uploads/8/3/3/9/83399742/histo...
So far the best possible situation is playing out: people are voluntarily choosing not to have kids (or not to have as many kids), as they respond to economic incentives. Kids are expensive and a huge time suck, and with the continued development of very fulfilling hobbies and pastimes for urban professionals without kids, many people are independently making the conclusion that it's not worth it.

I don't have very high hopes for us getting out of this demographic crunch without a world war, but so far Millenials are not letting us down, though they aren't exactly happy about it. Let's hope that we can remain on the "mildly disgruntled" side rather than the "shooting war".
Most steps of an industrial process will work with intermittent power, albeit with substantial loss of process efficiency that will therefore require building more infrastructure for the same effect than if you were using baseload power. Some steps of an industrial process may effectively require non-stop baseload power because restarting it is prohibitively slow and costly.

It may be possible to do atmospheric CO2 removal with intermittent power, I haven't attempted any kind of chemical engineering deep dive into what that process entails, but that is likely to incur a significant loss of productivity. Given that it is already an extremely expensive proposition, we will probably need to maximize process efficiency, which means reliable continuous power.
It appears to just be a legitimate bug that opened the camera preview. Gizmodo does seem to love clickbait headlines recently.
they just add Vit D right is that so bad?
Apple is all about heavy handed locking down the experience for the user's benefit as judged by Apple. Why do they even allow apps that exfiltrate data and serve ads? Just require all ads go through Apple's system, and ban apps that do anything remotely shady.
I don't think it flies well with the typical XHamster user either to be perfectly honest. People seem to actively prefer posting to other competing sites precisely because they don't have to wait hours or days for their videos to go live. (It's pretty much the only such site which this kind of slow pre-moderation as far as I know.)
Gates is behind TerraPower which is supposed to have something like that Real Soon Now, but they got a bit delayed because they originally had a partnership with China which fell victim to the trade war, so now they're regrouping.

But the answer in general is much the same as it is for larger reactors -- you need a sympathetic host country whose regulators aren't captured by fossil fuel industry lobbyists trying to destroy you. It's a political problem, not a technical one.
Are you a mod here? If so, welcome! I had thought it was still just Scott and Dan.
Unfortunately there are no realists in a position to really affect Government investment.

Why is every nation not committing an investment on the scale of the Apollo/Manhattan Projects? Politically it should be sell-able as a near-term investment (jobs) and future prosperity (cheaper renewable energy).

Governments should be putting billions into fusion, wave/tidal generation (nothing should be too expensive), upgrading all hydro to pumped hydro as well as developing more.

Ideas like this:
https://www.arup.com/projects/bendigo-underground-pumped-hyd...

should be fully supported and funded. As each of the dozens of 400m+ deep underground coal mines around the world are wound down and replaced with wind or solar generation, convert them to pumped hydro, providing jobs for displaced coal miners and saving their communities in the process.
Which actions are those? This person was taking sided actions outside the context of FB. Which actions is FB taking that benefit one side?
> You place more faith in HIPAA than I do. HIPAA does not protect privacy to the degree that most people assume.

That's correct. People would be surprised at the number of HIPAA violations that happen everyday. It is, however, among the strongest and most well-enforced data privacy laws (in the US).

> True, but that doesn't mean that Google is the right entity to do this. In my opinion, they're the wrong entity, because Google is not exactly trustworthy.

You're certainly right to be concerned. I don't share your opinion about Google per se, but this is important data for our society. I'd argue that OpSec at a large provider--let's say Microsoft--is more sophisticated than a start-up. So how does an organization decide who is the "right" entity to deal with?

> But they're Google. What this sort of thing means for me is that I need to start asking medical providers if they're participating in this sort of thing with Google (or other companies that I consider bad actors), so I know which ones to avoid using.

If this is important to you, I would strongly encourage it. Our health industry is better when consumers are better informed, and can make informed decisions. Personally, it's more important to me to be able to actually know how much a procedure is going to cost rather than who owns the AI stack behind their clinical decision support system.
>due to physics

Due to Apples planned obsolescence making it an absolute nightmare to replace a consumable part because its lifespan lines up nicely with how often they would like you to buy a new device.

Imo it is absolutely critical that a new law be introduced that batteries on consumer hardware must be user replaceable if we want to have any hope in protecting the planet. It would not be hard at all for phones to have user replaceable batteries. Most android phones did for a long time and most laptops just had switches on the bottom to eject the battery.
In practice the dichotomy between hyperlink and button is blurry and should be treated as blurry and interchangeable. But HTML doesn't really allow one to blur properly, at least not in all browser brands.

To resolve this, it should be easier to make hyperlinks into buttons and buttons into hyperlinks. The difference should be aesthetics only. They are both a "span with an action". The action and styling (button versus hyperlink) should be attribute-based. Examples:

<action type="post" look="link">Action 1</action>
<action type="post" look="button">Action 2</action>
<action type="link" look="button">Action 3</action>
<action type="none" look="link" onclick="myJS()">Action 4</action>
well, can't remember where i saw it but almond milk seemed to have been at the top spot for a while now.
For most companies it's internal marketing.
It's owned by the city and last time there were plans about developing it permanently a public vote enacted a law preventing it from being built on.
> We are going to need technology that will pull CO2 from the atmosphere. Yes, doing that is very energy intensive

Wouldn't you need even more energy to pull it in that it took to release it? So to undo 10 years worth of global emissions, you'd need more energy than was generated worldwide over those 10 years? Sounds impossible.
There are multiple people alive today that could decrease the global population by hundreds of millions without having to even put their shoes on.
I personally don’t understand the draw of Facebook. Prior to deleting my account, I just seemed to be constantly unfollowing people because of their over sharing, excessive baby pictures or reposting dumb political stuff or starting massive arguments over literally anything.

If this is the new public square then lordy, I want no part of it. And it’s funny and really scary that people are so into Facebook that’ll come for the photos of a grandkid and stay for the misinformation and repeated privacy invasions.
Automatic transfer recovery from CoinBase after unauthorized charge
I have unauthorized charges from my account and it was disputed by my bank. now coinbase is still charging me for them.
Tesla is a luxury-good company that collects petabytes of data from public roads daily, is run by a billionaire that regularly makes an ass of himself on Twitter and is vocally anti-union.

I'll join the protests myself.
This gave me an idea: how about you give the author in-editor feedback? As you type your message it runs the content through some sort of sentiment + content analysis and tells you on a scale of 1-10 how civil or factual your post is. This way harmful content not only gets self-moderated, but with repeated, immediate feedback, users actually learn how to write better.

I'm not saying that posts with a low score be removed, but perhaps they will receive less priority on the feed.

Building that analysis layer is the difficult part.
> If it turns out that the only way to bring down carbon emissions is to make low carbon energy much cheaper, then why would anyone think that we'd spend our newfound wealth on cleaning up our act in other matters?

Humans are consistently willing to devote some percentage of their wealth to nature preservation. That percentage is probably more or less fixed. Therefore bringing down the cost of doing so substantially increases the amount of nature preservation that can be achieved.
I mean, not really, but that is because it's unsatisfying in the extreme.

The sun is responsible because it's gravity well gave a system where the planet could accrete.

The sun is responsible because it give energy to the earth, thus energizing chemicals and likely causing life to emerge, panspermia excepted.

The sun is responsible because it heats up carbon dioxide which keeps heat like a greenhouse.

One of these things have value in action-ability as it relates to climate change.
Why is that scary? If the rules are applied impartially, I don't see an issue.

The need to save the planet is more important than a person's desire to have kids.
According to lore, it all started with the architect deciding against the tried and tested usage of little chimney-like structure on top of the terminal roofs for fire protection de-fuming, insisting instead on some novel, less visible solutions for aesthetic reasons. Those then caused all kinds of follow-up issues, eventually leading into the construction equivalent of the perpetual bugfix cycle, where every fix brings two new problems. Compounded by a colorful parade of high level "fix it guys" taking over the reins and failing in short progression, adding to the chaos.
Show HN: A status dashboard for non-automated systems
Why would he? The way he does things is very clearly working, as he is one of the most successful people on Earth by typical measurements. Everything he has done has been validated as “the right thing” by the market.
...and dont get me started on the iodine added to my salt!
Isn't video moderation trivially parallelizable though? If one person can review one video a minute, then two people should be able to review two in a minute. And it's not like Facebook has such tight margins that there's simply no cash for this approach.. they just don't want to and nobody is making them.
Undefined behavior is different from data races and memory safety bugs, though, right? I'm not saying it's more severe, but it's definitely part of the puzzle.
What happened to iron fertilization of the ocean?
Declaring conventional war on someone who has WMDs, especially if they have a lot of them, is a fool's game. Blocking them from making them, if they don't already have them, is a different story.
It's not open yet, there's a chance it will never open.

Might even be an investment opportunity: Swoop in and buy the whole mess once the German government decides it has thrown enough money into their bottomless pit.
> All of these plant based milks are overly processed, expensive, and fortified with a bunch of nutrient junk that is lacking.

You can make your own very easily. Oat milk, for example, requires you to:

1. Put rolled oats into a blender

2. Put water in blender

3. Blend

4. Pour through a strainer into a container

5. Drink up

It’s dirt cheap, easy as can be, tastes great, and has no “nutrient junk”. And if you’re so inclined, you can usually buy rolled oats in the bulk bins in most grocery stores, so you can cut out unnecessary packaging too!

ETA: Putting a pitted date in for every ~2 cups of water also adds just enough sweetness to mimic the big manufacturers like Oatly and whatnot. Adding coconut flakes and/or cashews can also bump up the fattiness a bit, which is handy for a frothable “barista” style.
2017 version: https://www.techradar.com/news/dell-to-bring-pay-monthly-sub...

It would be a total Amazon power move for Dell to displace one of its customers' businesses by removing the middle-man in computer rental
(aka "cloud computing") businesss.
For the curious, this was built using Firebase on the backend and React on the frontend.