skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a similar relationship between gradians (metric angles) and kilometres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian
What weight loss approach did you use/are planning to use?
Thousands Flee to Shore as Australia Fires Turn Skies Blood Red
It isn't a "practical" thing, it is a mental thing. "flossing my whole mouth feels overwhelming, so I'm not going to do any of it", vs "I just need to floss a single tooth, that is easy". Sure "just grow up and do it" sounds nice, but learning to build habits that generally feel unrewarding when starting out (e.g. working out, learning instrument), is extremely difficult for some people (e.g. me).
Clever but not simple? I have a hard time believing that people want to sacrifice simplicity for cleverness. But I see your point about people preferring a CLI than a web portal. I guess simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. What's simple for me, can often be wizardry for my dad.
Clearance can be sent via ACARS, but you deal with it while parked on the ground. It would be much different getting messages to change altitude, heading, and/or speed every few seconds that have to be acted upon immediately while executing an approach.
What to think about Modi these days
> Perhaps that's their evolutionary trick - burn everything out around them so that their seeds will have less competition to thrive for the next generation.

There's likely some truth to this. Much vegetation in Australia has adapted to regular burning due to relatively frequent natural fires and "fire stick farming" practiced by the indigenous population.

For instance see Xanthorrhoea australis [1] which flowers prolifically after a bushfire to take advantage of reduced competition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthorrhoea_australis
??? What???

Saying something is a trend does not imply it's increasing?

trend: a prevailing tendency or inclination

(And before you go and check, none of the other definitions imply an increase specifically either)

If you're going to nitpick, at least be correct about the nits you pick.

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I'm not missing the main point, I'm intentionally calling out a hypocritical, borderline racist sub-point that wasn't even needed in the original comment.

Why shoehorn this point Russians are somehow morally flawed people, what did that add to anything and how is it even supported by the story when exactly as you confirmed you'll find people cheering for murders anyways. You're literally making my point.
Sure. But if you live in a democracy (or want to), it wouldn't hurt to know the basics.
I wonder what the transmission rate of information through genetic evolution is.
That's pretty much it. Snowden has a fun line in his new book about how he "the first thing I ever hacked was bedtime".
Indie – A Competitive Advantage
Louis Rossmann does in depth component level Macbook motherboard repairs and circuitry explanations. If you're into good (and comedic) explanation on mechanical stuff, I highly recommend AvE and This Old Tony.
You don’t need to itemize to claim a capital loss
Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized
> tax evasion scheme

Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is not
While the Economist is often recommended, somehow I increasingly find articles posted from the Economist to be very shallow takes - as if a high school literature student was asked to turn in an essay on a given topic. I have rarely felt satisfied after reading any Economist article in last couple of years through I don't know if this represents a growing understanding of the world on my part as I grow older or standards in the Economist declining. I don't necessarily feel the same issue though for NYT or WaPo articles.
Do we know how much tougher the warrant requirement is in other countries?

Australia is expanding anti-protest laws [1,2], the UK police is helping blacklist union organizers [3], and sharing information on disabled people and activist with private companies [4,5]. And as China's influence on Australia and New Zealand expands, there's a very real risk surveillance abuse will get even worse. And of course if you dare turn surveillance around on those with power, you can expect consequences [6]. There are precious few countries where surveillance is only used to catch murderers and kidnappers. And even in those, you're helping set up suppression infrastructure that a malicious government can use if they ever gain power in the future.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/20/queen...

[2] https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/nsw-antiprotest-laws-are-part...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43507728

[4] https://www.themeteor.org/2019/07/27/gmp-shares-disabled-pro...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/20/police-intelligen...

[6] https://www.businessinsider.com/tweets-that-got-people-arres... - 10th tweet
Bias in Professionalism Standards
He doesn't seem kooky besides how passionate he is about how bad the architectural landscape is and how powerful a remedy it would be for reinvigorating civic life. He has some good things to say and he really is articulate about how things are and their consequences.
> why should high-value housing in the center of a desirable city enrich a bunch of private landowners

Because they bought low-property housing from the entity who previously owned it without a guarantee that the demand was going to be there and then demand grew. Risk meet reward.

Are you suggesting to violate property rights because you did not have the foresight, luck and/or the resources to make the same investment?
If you have anything to add to the list, I'd love to hear it :)
This.

Obviously, my grandma isn't 40% plastic.
The New York Times put out a big article lamenting all the threats to press freedom from the Trump Administration through 2019. There was, of course, no mention of the case the Trump DoJ is pursuing against Julian Assange, or the horrendous and illegal treatment being inflicted on him and Chelsea Manning in order to discourage future whistleblowers.
Any chance of putting it on github, perhaps even starting with the original?
My senior year project ten years ago was exactly this - solar thermal + a Stirling engine. When we started the project, we estimated it 20% or so cheaper than solar PV. In that one year solar prices halved or so, leaving us at a dead end.

I ended up consulting with leather plant for their hot water needs via solar thermal. At least that is still viable.
> Zero harm, so far. That's phrased like they're racking up lists of harm it causes. But so far, zero. So 'scratching the surface' means 'haven't found anything'?

They've found an awful lot. They've determined that plastics containing endocrine-disrupting chemicals for which there's no determined safe dosage are floating around in our water and food in concentrations that were previously unsuspected. Determining how much harm that is causing is, necessarily, the last and most difficult step.
Do users still get the usual interest rates?
The kinds of subdivisions that turned large homes into multiple boarding situations is also not code compliant and would require at the very least a conditional use authorization (years and uncertainty) in SF.
Good point, perhaps Proton will do so.
Vertical separation (based on altimeters) is way more precise than horizontal separation (based on radar, VHF navigation, GPS, eyeballs, etc).
Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
Because he's been around the block enough times to know that it's not so simple. There are a ton of variables, confounding factors and second order effects in play when it comes to things like forecasting climate and nutrition. There are plenty of examples where we got things terribly wrong, even when there were high levels of confidence (e.g., dietary recommendations).

In the case of candy, he probably thinks sugar isn't good in and of itself and doesn't eat it with a spoon. But it's the overall effect of candy that matters. If it reduces stress, then maybe it's not so bad or even a net good in some amounts or for some people. Warren himself made it to 89 (so far) eating quite a bit of junk food, drinking coke and is still sharp and has enough energy to be working, traveling and so on. Many examples like that, so indeed it's not so simple.

With CO2, he probably thinks there is or can be too much in the atmosphere. But again it's not the whole picture. For one thing, you need to be sure that building and operating the solution (making machines, transporting, maintaining, powering them) doesn't exceed their net benefit.

It's easy to find yourself in a situation where the cure is only marginally better or even worse than the disease. Which happens a lot with complex systems.

Warren is exceptionally skilled at getting to the ground truth. When he says he doesn't know about something that you feel is obvious or basic, then it may be worth re-evaluating your level of confidence.
I've looked at the difference with a few people. It depends on the balances and interest rates, but the difference is smaller than I would have guessed. With tens of thousands of dollars of debt, I've seen the difference be just a couple hundred dollars.

Smallest to largest balance frees up cash flow faster, making it more likely the person won't go into additional debt (and hopefully won't get discouraged and quit the program all together).

For anyone wanting to explore, here's a handy calculator: https://www.magnifymoney.com/calculator/snowball-avalanche-c...
I can’t access it even with an account.
>Isn't this why society comes together to form a government and pass laws to prevent these sorts of behaviours?

No, people form (limited) government to prevent abuse from government.

The idea that a company could abuse you in any substantial way (other than fraud, violating contract terms) must have seemed like an edge case (only the East India Company would have been large enough to present such a threat circa 1775).

So, maybe your claim would work if you consider companies to be a form of government, which is an entirely defensible position.
You could try the online version of Imageoptim (with not as many options) here:

https://imageoptim.com/online
Australia supplies a large fraction of the coal burned by Japan, China, Korea and India. Mentioning the CO2 emissions of Australia itself is missing the point completely.
> I like it when I disagree with people. I like to dig down into it with them to uncover the truth. I like to share the truth that I know with others, and I really like it when someone helps me discover a truth I didn't know before, changing the way I see things.

I like this too.

But I've found that it's basically a disaster in real life. Very few people are educated, and even those who are have enough sacred goats that real serious conversations about difficult topics are near impossible.

I find that, instead, consuming the best books and videos is far more rewarding. You can expose yourself to the best version of ideas with less effort than trying to squeeze it out of people you meet.
Move the star out of the way of a blackhole, or, move the star and the orbiting planets anywhere desired.
> SF has decided to not grow. It's pains come from having to force a resident to move out for each new worker moving in.

San Francisco’s population is growing, it doesn't have to (and doesn't) force a resident out for each new resident, worker or otherwise. It's not growing super rapidly, but it's never grown much faster than it is now since it was fully urbanized; the faster-growing US cities pretty much all have surrounding non-urbanized land to expand into.
The Marine air unit existed decades before the establishment of the Air Force, as did the Army's. There's obviously overlap, but they all have different focuses and specialties too.
There are only 16 acres per person world wide
not open source (and not the above calendar), but similar and useful if you're not on windows:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1m1IWh6Mmli8K20Dd...

[+ attribution]
Many thanks to Pedro Pablo Fuentes Schuster for this Google Sheets conversion! http://pedrofuent.es/
A few tidbits to balance in:

On average, S&P performance over 40 years is very good. However, if you look at every possible 40-year period so far, some are really good and some are lousy. If you instead ask "What performance would I have gotten in 90% of those cases?" the performance is not as high.

Performance over 30 years is naturally worse than over 40 years, and so on.

Due to volatility, you generally score better (in terms of percentage of x-year periods) if you do 70/30 stocks/bonds rather than 100% in stocks. Meaning, you can leverage it to either aim for the same performance with less volatility, or same volatility with greater return.

Finally, people tend to put more money in the market when times are good at stocks are high, and less when times are bad and stocks are low. This has a dragging effect on what performance a person can expect.

For example, I keep pretty good records and have a list of every date/amount of each retirement contribution I've made. I'm able to simulate what my current balance would be if I have immediately put each sum into S&P (by using the adjusted close for that period). It's not as good as the reported S&P average over that period.
She must have a solid dead man's switch. It would seem Epstein didn't have one (or didn't have one that was tamper-proof enough)
> Why shoehorn this point Russians are somehow morally flawed people, what did that add to anything and how is it even supported by the story when exactly as you confirmed you'll find people cheering for murders anyways. You're literally making my point.

Yah, so whether it's one person doing it or the state doing it-- it's the same. /s :P

> Saying something is a trend does not imply it's increasing?

It implies it is CHANGING IN SOME DIRECTION. Words have a definition and a connotation; better dictionaries make this information clear in the definition.

M-w says:

1a: a prevailing tendency or inclination : DRIFT
current trends in education
b: a general movement : SWING
the trend toward suburban living
c: a current style or preference : VOGUE
new fashion trends
d: a line of development : APPROACH
new trends in cancer research
2: the general movement over time of a statistically detectable change
also : a statistical curve reflecting such a change
3: a line of general direction or movement
the trend of the coast turned toward the west

We can look at etymology, too:

> Old English trendan ‘revolve, rotate’, of Germanic origin; compare with trundle. The verb sense ‘turn in a specified direction’ dates from the late 16th century, and gave rise to the figurative use ‘develop in a general direction’ in the mid 19th century, a development paralleled in the noun.
I would say that this is an example of the planning fallacy.
Interesting indeed, internet never forgets you but it can forget itself.
It doesn't appear to, there's just a hardcoded geo json file it queries against: https://github.com/ideditor/country-coder/blob/master/src/da...

Kashmir, for instance, is only part of Pakistan.

Still an interesting exercise in geojson. I'm impressed that github automatically renders the shapefile, rather than just the text.
I think you can accept that corporations have responsibilities beyond maximizing profits, and still find criticisms of tax minimization to be misplaced.

There is nothing inherently ethical or unethical about paying more or less taxes. You should pay the taxes you owe, but the law is what tells you how much you owe. Here, for example, the United States believes it should collect taxes on profits a U.S. company makes on sales in Europe. While that is itself dubiously moral, that's the law. But how can it then be immoral to take advantage of Irish tax laws--which Ireland deliberately adopted to encourage companies to move IP and skilled workers to Ireland--that is also legal under U.S. law?
Its supposed to be part of a larger process, a culture of constantly committing small changes and have many automated gates before you reach production (not just your CI instance). Real CI/CD. Heroku does something like this because they release to a staging instance, gather metrics, rollback if necessary, then release to a canary in production, repeat monitoring, then release to a wider and wider surface area.

Obviously this does not fix security bugs introduced, but functionality wise it works well. Security tends to get better over time not worse too when it comes to dependencies i find.
Computers: Lenovo X1 Extreme 1st Generation running windows 10 and a Lenovo X1 Carbon Generation 7 running Ubuntu.

Monitors: Dell U3818DW 38” curved monitor (3840x1600) and a Dell U2718Q 27” (3840x2160) monitor.

I generally develop in Visual Studio and the port it to Linux.
18 is double, 21 is missing
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Probably not true? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2013/oct/02/david-...
Wow, windows is by far the biggest bird killer. 2000x wind mills.
I'd guess that that is actually also why it is taking us so long to fix the problems caused by lead existing in the environment where it can affect humans. We know now that tetraethyllead in gasoline caused a great deal of harm and we've quantified it pretty well, for example, but people knew how dangerous that chemical was much longer.

People who demand a big obvious poisoning, as you said, before accepting the reduction of obviously dangerous substances in the environment is needed are the worst.
My comment was based on the PACER documents; I have found and read them. But I can't link to them.
You're using the wrong definition based on context clues and trying to correct me based on your wrong interpretation of said wrong definition.

This is the most HN comment I have ever read, thank you.

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Also so you don't claim I'm just dodging the slightly on-topic part of your reply: The government that mass incarcerates it's population, started wars half way across the world for bad reasons, radicalizing generations to come in the process, kills civilians indiscriminately as long as they're brown, etc. has the moral high ground how again?

Didn't we literally just pardon a man who brutally murdered people on behalf of our nation in such ruthless fashion, our own elite soldiers turned their backs on him and called him a monster?
>you can't get anywhere near the contribution limit on your own,

That really seems like an overstatement. 401k contribution limits (without catch-up) are about $20K/year. That's no doubt more than most people save in a year but it's not that far out on the fringes of what mid-career professionals are/should be saving for retirement.

I don't completely disagree with your broader point. 401ks (especially with significant contribution match) and IRAs (and ESPPs such as they still are) do tend to most benefit workers who are fairly well-compensated. But they're actually less of a big deal for top execs etc. for whom the dollar amounts are relatively small.
The key question is, have the cut-down oaks been re-planted... or was the plantation was managed by some "modern" metrics according to which it is better to optimize for monetary return on investment in a shorter time-frame? ;-)
Part of the reason of coal increase is that there were more than enough hold-outs that expected there to be another exit from the exit (2011) of the exit (2010) of the exit (2000) from nuclear, so that they saw no need to actually do something because surely the nuclear shutdown won't _actually_ happen.

Well, it does and that assumption cost expensive time.
Concerning computer science, you can find some interesting web discoveries here:
https://turtle.community/topic/computer_science

In particular, I like 'Category Theory for Programmers' by Bartosz Milewski as a great theoretical foundation to functional programming.
Can you add more details on autocomplete (and anything else) on why someone should try it and/or how you’ve benefited from it compared to the common bash that’s around on systems?
You can't host your own discord server.
Perhaps things have gotten better, but OOXML is not an open format by the normal usage of the word (text based does not mean open). OOXML was rushed through the standardization process, and was entirely created by one vendor (Microsoft).

Microsoft doesn't even bother to support the OOXML format completely, as the Wikipedia article notes.
My favorite is C-x C-e in your shell. Bonus points for having EDITOR=vim in your env. I use this so many times in a day.

It’ll copy the text in your current command line into your $EDITOR. Saving and quitting your editor will put the modified text back into your command line. Never fear long commands again!
Because that land is more valuable as residential and commercial space and you can't build turbines right next to buildings.

In Iowa, farm land comes right up to the border of urban areas. There is no buffer between them like you're talking about.
The 2010s: Decade of the Exoplanet
Significance in a magazine article != statistical significance, which is unfortunately very hard to come by in the real world. Simply put, I'm willing to give more credence to a car magazine talking about never having encountered a problem like this before in a pool of vehicles than random commenters on HN.
> this time from Japanese company ‘유니콘미디어”

That does not look like a Japanese company name to me.
Yeah, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Though in fact at this point I have put many thousands of hours, over decades, into trying to control useless (and it's usually useless) rumination, with only moderate success. So yeah, definitely agree that it's hard.
A music player for the TS80 soldering iron
> There are precious few countries where surveillance is only used to catch murderers and kidnappers.

I think that number is down to ~0 after 9/11. The more relevant distiction nowadays is between countries that are performing mass surveillance and those that are not.
That might work for some, but lunch is also one of the few blessed hours of the day that one can get the hell away from other people and be alone. It's an invaluable battery and sanity recharging time.
The black friday fires started in January 1939. Australia at the time had seriously inadequate training and equipment to deal with this. It also started during a heat wave. In total around 2 million hectares were burnt. In 1851 we had black Thursday in which 5 million hectares were burnt. That fire started in February.

The current fires have now burnt close to 6 million hectares and the fire season started in September. The areas currently being burnt include temperate rainforest that hasn't burnt in living memory. There are concerns from climate and fire experts that some of the areas have been damaged so badly that they will not be able to recover.

Also, these fires are far from over, and many new fires have started in the last couple of days.

In the last few weeks Australia has recorded the hottest temperatures on record, while being in one of the worst droughts on record, and this hasn't been a single year aberration. The last 10 years have each set new records for the highest temperatures on average.

The only reason that casualties have been so low is that we have good communications with areas under threat, and residents in these areas know to leave when the threat gets beyond a certain level.
The filtering down happens as soon as new housing is built. The yuppie with a high six-figure salary is moving into San Francisco, the only question is whether they get corralled into a gigantic glass yuppie box. If they don't, they're going to pay way too much money to gentrify the Mission or something.
We are the largest global exporter of coal with over two hundred million tonnes sent to other countries to burn last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/29/chinas-p...
Chess is better than all the games on your list bar Agricola, possibly.

Agricola is a four player game, though, so not playing on the same field as chess.
His pdf of the original article is there too: http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/Software/BasicLisp/BasicLisp1.p...