skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if instead of desalination plants, there exists "de-acidification" plants that can in turn use the acid for electricity generation or something like that?

Whenever I see these articles, unfortunately my first thought is "we're too far gone, we can't turn around now" in terms of climate change. But! I think that instead of trying to reverse the situation (for instance, by convincing the largest carbon emitters like China to stop - which they won't), we should try to make use of the situation.

Too much carbon being released? Free carbon! How can we use it to make something else / convert it to something else? Too much acid in the ocean? How can we extract it and use it for something? Rising temps? How can we make use of this to grow crops that need warmer environments, or use it for better solar generation, or use thermal power generation in these areas. Our best hope it to adapt to the new norm rather than fight a losing battle. I know it's fatalistic, but I think we will last longer as a species if we adopt this approach instead.
The size of the labels is 28mm x 76mm x 0.5mm. We’d love to get smaller, but at the moment, we’re concentrating on making them thinner. The adhesive is acrylic-based and pretty strong. Some of our initial applications are things like tools and storage containers. Down the road, there might be applications for a more re-stickable variant with an adhesive similar to that used for Post-it notes. Interesting thought regarding equipment calibration labels (i.e. electronic test equipment? scientific or lab equipment?). Maybe even food staples like coffee beans, oils, or longer term perishables like pharmaceuticals even.
While were confessing our wishlists for books-to-tv: I'd love to see "Rendezvous With Rama" made into a series.
UPDATE:

I tested out the idea by taking an EEG while furrowing my brow, but it did not look the same. Here is the furrowed brow EEG:

https://imgur.com/a/dp7WPS7

You can see some blue bands at the bottom, but no where near the degree that showed up while playing Tetris either slow or fast.

So, I don't think it is merely the tensing of my facial muscles that created the Tetris EEG patterns.
suspect the screening process actually goes like this:

"we have this story about a spunky action girl (who is not a mary sue since she's gonna be the actual main character) and her bumbling male companions, on a quest to impeach cybertrump by the power of fisticuffs. which IP will let us shoehorn it in?"
With Boeing in the news all the time, I've paid a lot more attention to the aircraft.

For the 737/A320-size plane, it's now easy to tell:

- If the plane has a nice, spacious interior, it's an Airbus. The flight will be quiet.

- If the plane is crampt, it's a Boeing, and it will be a bit noisier.

I still don't really think about it when booking the flight. Schedule and price are more important.
People are less interested in using public transit when it smells. That doesn't imply anything other than people don't like to use things that smell bad.

I'm not implying anything about homeless people other than IME they don't have the hygiene of a housed person. And if you read the scope of my comment, I was specifically addressing their strategy suggestion of increasing usage.
Sort of a problem with a lot of Niven's novels more generally, but they became travelogues to a large degree. I agree not especially dystopian (or interesting).

I liked his short stories a lot more.
I don't think anything is preventing you or anyone else from plunking down $100 and testing Got-Its out for consumer use. I just wouldn't expect it to be greatly supported in the near term.
Of course yes, that's valuable. But the political focus shouldn't be lost in the messaging. Google needs to take a political stand on Climate Change, first and foremost. The engineering investment is secondary. We already have the technology to solve our climate problems. We don't need the fancy AI solutions. We just need to implement what we have already right now.

That needs to be made abundantly clear to everybody.

If Google is asked "what are you doing to address Climate Change?" and we hear predominantly engineering talk, then they're being disingenuous.
There is no correct choice and even if there were, you could never prove that the correct choice was made because maybe there was another choice that could have saved more people.
I played it with a couple friends, just testing what weird shit would work. We laughed our asses off. If you're looking for a strictly structured game with a good story, that's not happening.

I love the jankiness of these early ML games/stories/etc. and that's what you're missing.
I had no idea. I’ve been using an app called Tailor to stitch together multiple screenshots of web pages. Until today, that is, thanks to your tip. Thank you!
Java is getting fibers (check out project Loom). They're supposed to provide the same level of debugability as regular multi-threaded code.
I would argue that KC is nowhere near diminishing returns on transit spending. Right now, despite having lower fares and higher metro population than, say, Rochester NY, KC has less than half the transit ridership per capita.

https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/Resources/resources/...

Off peak travel is generally also much less expensive, since you already have the buses and drivers doing peak-only shifts generally spend the middle of the day just sitting around. KC could run a lot more all-day service and garner a lot more ridership.
Not a very convincing criticism in my opinion. I liked the plot, but even if you don't like the plot or themes, I think the ideas, the sentences, the verbal invention and playfulness are the best things about the book. But, theme-wise, it's worth remembering that this basically pre-dates the modern internet:

>“The moment he recognized what exactly was on one cartridge he had a strong anxious feeling that there was something more entertaining on another cartridge and that he was potentially missing it. He realized that he would have plenty of time to enjoy all the cartridges, and realized intellectually that the feeling of deprived panic over missing something made no sense.”
Are you doubting that homeless people tend to have worse hygiene? Or that people don't want to use public transit when it smells bad?
Indeed. Though personally I feel perhaps Boeing should be left to fail, I'm considering going long if the stock slides further in the short term because I anticipate some form of bailout/buyout.
It's why we have the saying "don't shoot the messenger"

Happens often. Someone brings bad news and the recipient wants to take out their emotions on the deliverer. And, sometimes emotion can overwhelm logic.
Why not abort the fetuses?
Are you certain that was the attack vector, and if so which specific browser vulnerability was it? I'm not aware of any browser JavaScript sandbox escape vulnerabilities that would allow file write access since about 2015. While it's remotely possible there is a zero-day vulnerability being exploited out there it seems highly unlikely. If your organization has been hit multiple times by similar problems then the IT management must be terribly incompetent.
Don't they have cell phones, though? I mean, YT is able to call Hiro from the Buy-n-fly?
Not if the sole purpose of that account is email and nothing more. I should be able to make decisions about what an account is used for and how to authenticate, even if that's the "wrong" or "less-secure" decision.
All of this inconvenient morality is getting in his way of making more money?
> They just like to complain when dying is caused by somebody else.

Which is completely legitimate.
Don't forget that the FAA also failed here too. The plane should never have gotten past the concept stage. They were taking Boeing's word that everything was going to be fine, and it wasn't. The FAA shares as much blame as Boeing for this fiasco.
Mapping out the global generic drug market
Do you have any sources for this info?
Some more detail: Emscripten has defaulted to emit wasm even earlier, in May 2018. The change this year was to switch how that wasm is emitted, from the old fastcomp+asm2wasm path to the new LLVM wasm backend.
I think you will also like this quote/thought then:

> The theory is this: Infinite Jest is Wallace's attempt to both manifest and dramatize a revolutionary fiction style that he called for in his essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." The style is one in which a new sincerity will overturn the ironic detachment that hollowed out contemporary fiction towards the end of the 20th century. Wallace was trying to write an antidote to the cynicism that had pervaded and saddened so much of American culture in his lifetime. He was trying to create an entertainment that would get us talking again.

- http://fictionadvocate.com/2012/09/19/the-infinite-jest-live...
Printers didn’t need the spying?
Unfortunately the "free carbon" is in the form of a very dilute gas that is very hard to do anything useful with.
So? Thousands of babies are never born every time a male mammal ejaculates.
> Not being assaulted is privilege now?

That is not what I was talking about, albeit assault being a valid concern.

I too have been approached. There is "plenty to go around" without your kind offer, which I decline but not for the reasons I assume you hope for but for which I just stated ["there is no need"].
To be fair, the vast majority of those are not "crashes" in the sense that the parent post describes.
Amazon is adapting Consider Phlebas, the first book in the Culture series:

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/consider-phlebas-iain-m-ban...
Postgres, Django (with Rest Framework) and TypeScript/Angular.
How do you start the privileged process as a normal user?
I hope it doesn't suck. It seems like every few years a network tries to make a sci-fi series, it bombs and then it's years before anyone tries again. I would love to see Revelation Space (by Alastair Reynolds) get the budget of the mandalorian or huge big screen budget, but alas, that will never happen.
The next big problem after hitting positive energy production will be sustainability. My understanding is that the walls of the reactor get hit with enough stray neutrons that they degrade (often in radioactive ways). Unlike in fission reactors where you can put in a lot of absorptive shielding (like lead), in a fusion reactor you have to keep the magnets close to what they are working on.

Note, I am not talking about really long term radioactive waste here, more like things that are dangerous for less than 100 years. Still problematic, but not for millions of years like fission.
That would be annoy me. I wish there wasn't a monopoly on new car sales. But I wonder if places like CarMax are better even though they can only sell used cars. Never been to one but see their commercials. Kinda like a mall for cars instead of a specific brand.

Seems like medical and health stuff, and car buying there's no pricing transparency and you are pushed around. I'm glad buying other stuff isn't as bad though, imagine if buying toilet paper or a laptop required negotiating.
My apartment building has a call box and someone will buzz them into the package room. When it says “delivery attempted” it’s almost always because the delivery person couldn’t be bothered to try.
The next model would be drawn up already. They knew where it went wrong.
Queue the anti-trust trial. Only a question of mechanics now, especially since Trump hates Bezos.
Yea you would think the best decision is the one that leads to the least damage to the car and by extension the least number of objects hit. Even if the decision were people vs concrete pillar, it's perfectly reasonable that a human driver would also choose to save their own life at the cost of others.
I think this is the right attitude really. What else is there ?

It’s the same way I see politicians doing nothing helpful, people are just going to have to work around them to get the situation under control or at least make use of it.
California oceans? Does it have more than one?
"ultimately the novels strike me as more crudités than smorgasbord"

...ok dude. :)
Replace animal with human, if we had an organ farm in which we grow humans and then kill to harvest the organs, would it be ethical?

PS. I am a meat eater
> - SLA guarantee (yes this a hidden cost, e.g. if your DC power is out, you owe your customers fees depending on your SLA).

But Amazon and GCP can go down too and their SLA does not necessarily fully insure against your SLA.
What is it that's preventing us from forcing our politicians to offer better options? I would vote for a solution to this, and even donate money to it, if enough other people were doing the same.

Don't most people feel the same about this issue? What systemic problem is preventing a huge mass of people who agree on this from making a meaningful change happen?
ugh, just take a page from tech marketing. Virtual meat or Smart meat or Cloud meat or Meatless meat . Or just Frankestein Meat
All of this stuff will eventually wind up in Java, and when it does, Kotlin is going to feel an awful lot like Coffeescript. The Kotlin proponents of today are going to feel a bit silly.

I predict there's going to be a lot of effort wasted porting old Kotlin code to Java 20 or some such.

Willing to place a longbet on it.
When people talk about a human rights approach to mental health treatment there are roughly two different systems, and they're not really compatible with each other.

The most well known, main-stream, approach uses the UDHR. In Europe this flows into the ECHR. This means that people have a right to life; they have a right to liberty; a right to effective remedy; a right not to be discriminated against; etc. But in ECHR there are exemptions. For example, article 5 says:

> (e) the lawful detention of persons for the prevention of the spreading of infectious diseases, of persons of unsound mind, alcoholics or drug addicts or vagrants.

The other approach - more radical, less mainstream - is to use another United Nations convention, the CRPD (convention on rights for people with disabilities), in particular using the interpretation of that convention by the UN Committee for the CRPD. Under this system you cannot have forced treatment; you cannot have detention for mental illness; you cannot have substituted decision making.

This is the committee's discussion of Article 14: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CRPD/GC/GuidelinesA...

I found this discussion to be a useful summary: https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/disability-...

The author of the submitted article is from the UK, so I guess the UN report on mental health treatment in the UK is useful: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CRPD/CRPD.C.15.R.2....

UDHR: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
ECHR: https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
CRPD: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-...
I update my Slack status to "home|work" based on what wifi my laptop gets connected.
Yes, of course, I get that it has the same syntax, which is not the case with C macros and which makes macros way better. Thing is, there is one Lisp that executed at compile time which expands the macros, and then there is the resulting code which executed at runtime. It's not self-modifying code. It's just code that operates on some other code, written in the same syntax.
Why is QE a market distortion? Is all monetary policy a market distortion? If we used a gold standard is that not a market distortion? If the price of gold changes drastically due to gold mines closing/opening changing interest rates is that a market distortion?
I would have to combine it with changes in CoL in areas of economic opportunity versus those without. Parts of the country offer far more security in future income than others.
You don't. It's already started as part of the system. Or you ask some part of the system that is willing to authenticate you to do it for you.
I hope you've written a script to make this happen. If not, well, you've got a whole year.

It will be a little harder because the story and comment ids are all mixed together, you really have to poll a lot to claim the right id number.
No idea - I assume because it's easier? This isn't my wheelhouse. I just remember when I found out I was surprised it seemed nobody else knew (at least everybody else I told seemed surprised) since it's pushed so heavily as an ethical alternative to meat and they're still killing animals to make it.
Hitting the pause button doesn't mean the stop button suddenly disappeared.
It's not a contemporary review. It's from "Vol. 18 No. 14 · 18 July 1996" of the London Review of Books, so it came out contemporaneously with Infinite Jest
I don't trust surgeons, generally. As Maslow said: "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

I've never had surgery. I opted out of gall bladder removal, and changed my diet instead. And I haven't had further problems.

So sure, if I get multiple opinions that I need surgery for something that'll kill me in a few years, I'l likely agree. But if I'm otherwise not happy with my situation and health, I might opt out.
Is this regarding the airline delivery pressure that influenced schedule or some other mechanism?
Uber in Talks to Sell Its Food-Delivery Business in India
I mean, I agree in spirit, but everyone has a different sense of cost/complexity vs. return.

I don't advocate for ever-more-complicated solutions as a rule. e.g. I think multi-cloud setups are probably way more trouble than they're worth for most companies.

I certainly agree that graceful degradation where possible and not too expensive is ideal. For example, if S3 is having problems in one region, being able to fall back (gracefully degrade) into read-only mode might be a nice thing to have.

(In this particular case having a secondary region also probably helps with disaster recovery, which is pretty much mandatory in B2B, for better or worse.)
> Chinese-European duopoly

Unlikely. The Chinese is currently competing with Embraer (E-Jet E2) and Bombardier (C-series/A22x) with the Comac C919 which has problems with production. Since its first flight in 2017, there has only been 5 built.

Tech transfers has also slowed to trickle since the HSR fiasco with foreign rail technology absorbed and then re-exported. Nobody trusts the Chinese to play fair.

What's more likely if Boeing run into difficulties from the MAX damages is that it will restructure under Chapter 11 and re-emerge with the existing shareholders wiped out. This may involve a breakup, with the defence business separating from the commercial airliner business, but that's also unlikely due to how aerospace companies are run these days.
Sorry about that, I will get around fixing it.

(It’s quite an UX headache. Maybe only the middle 2/3s should hijack or the embed needs a bit of extra padding?)

Edit: for now, it only zooms with shift pressed
Here is Google’s take on bug prediction from a while back: https://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/12/bug-prediction-...
I think this "locally filtered, personalised content" idea has a lot of potential, and I think that domain name filtering is just the very tip of what can be done. Using browsing history is a great idea, but I think there needs to be better information to filter on rather than just domain.

Consider tags. Imagine if in your history, all the tags associated with an article were saved too. Tags aren't provided by the website? Websites should be encouraged to provide better tags for personalisation (tags over tracking beacons!), or the browser/browser plugin uses some kind of text processing (machine learning?) technique to generate tags automatically from content, and can train on the millions of already tagged articles in websites around the place.

The trivial solution is then: increment the count for each of the tags when a user visits a page with those tags. In top news, show the stuff at the top with the highest tag count. When doing a search term for something ambiguous that contains some of the tags, show the highest visisted tag results first. e.g. if you search for "election results" and the user has a higher frequency of "us politics" tag visits compared to "uk politics" tag visits, how US election results higher up. (You could weight this based on current events too, e.g. which one is more recent and so on). Over time, the plugin itself could have a model which could train its filtering, and maybe receive global anonymous updates that improve the algorithm. All data is local, the only thing you need is a list of tags for each article.
At least on using the age of git/GitHub repos to determine the legitimacy of a project/effort: I would say it's not uncommon for some groups to time the release of their code with the publication of some announcement of it. I'd also say it's not unusual to adjust (for example, collapse) the git repo history when publishing code.
In my entire life, I have never experienced those smells on public transit in a wide variety of cities. So if you're experiencing those smells a lot, that is a local issue with an oversized burden on public transit because, well, fuck the poor people who take transit.
Being constantly on guard can be seen as a transaction cost, and when you add that to every single interaction in the whole society you put a real damper on the GDP
Very very cool!

I run a warehouse with ~10K slabs of granite/marble. We currently use barcodes. There is a barcode on each slab and there is a barcode on each bin number. We have a tough time making sure we know what's where.

Question:

- Any way to code multiple properties onto each label (to map to our ERP system)?

- What happens when batteries start running out? Warning at certain battery life?

- Do you have a web version and/or API for this?

- Can I map out my warehouse on the got-it app and label stuff so I know where each slab is in context to the warehouse?

These might be silly questions, but your project got me really excited about all the possibilities!

Edit: Just ordered the starter pack.
South Carolina and the 787 assembly process both looked like pretty poorly concealed union busting tactics to me.

First you made a plane that doesn't require the massive gantry cranes to construct. Smaller portable equipment does a lot of the work. You can build new, cheaper facilities. Then you move things more or less to the opposite corner of the country, but closer to the new headquarters.

Yeah, not suspicious at all.
> The reason we rest decision-making power in the individual is that it's democratizing.

I've studied in democratic reform, and work in civic tech space. There's a book called _Democracy for Realists_ which I highly recommend. It's a wonderful book, but it eviscerates most of what we understand colloquially about democracy. (Or at least did for me)

You are walking around a piece of democracy that is entrenched in "folk democratic theory" -- things people talk about as being the basis of effective democracy. But in democratic theory, folk democracy appears to have much evidence against it, and very few serious academics advocate for it as an explanatory theory. It's telling is part of the glue perhaps, because systems must appear simple and understandable to its participants, or else it can be destabilized too easily :) the works for electoral systems too -- people need to feel like they understand it in order to trust it's outcomes, nevermind if first-past-the-post is truly best.

The individual is very flawed, and democracy might work despite it's individual nature, not because of it. Political parties and identity groups outside the original structure of democracy perhaps stabilize a system that puts decision-making power into a very ineffective unit. (The individual)

Anyhow, it's been awhile since I worked deeply on this stuff (and not as an academic myself), and I might be misspeaking some parts that an academic could correct me on, but I'm sure the general thrust of the above is true :)