skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's true that methane only lasts for a decade in the atmosphere, it decays in to co2 and water vapor so it's not as though it is better in the long run. It's very bad short term and as bad long term.
> This is simply false. ...we don't actually know...

Impressive self contradiction in a single line!
> The implications being that the courts are corrupt?

You don’t have to be corrupt to be ineffective. Have you been following patent rulings? Or FISA?
"You can't heat your house in winter with wind + solar"

I know someone who actually did heat their home through some pretty brutal winters using just solar heat.. and a pretty simple setup he jury-rigged himself, at that.

So it can be done.

There are also energy storage technologies like ordinary batteries to more exotic technology like molten salt storage for energy generated by solar panels.
Do not complain about being downvoted. It’s boring, it often leads to further downvoting for whining and it shows a complete lack of perspective to be complaining about meaningless message board points.

As for how nuclear power will fare in the event of war or state collapse, really badly, like everything else. Any state capable of running a nuclear reactor built by someone else, never mind building their own, has the capacity for modern industrial warfare, which is insanely expensive in lives and capital. A doubling or trebling of cancer rates due to a Chernobyl level disaster would be background noise compared to war.

I wouldn’t worry excessively about state collapse. There’s a great deal of ruin in a nation. If North Korea can keep going and there hasn’t been an instance of non-war induced state collapse in Europe since Rome’s withdrawal from Britain I wouldn’t worry. Think of Libya, Yugoslavia or Somalia. The first fell to outside aggression, the second was a civil war massively prolonged by outside interference and the third had state capacity too low to be relevant in this context.
I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR
I didn't see anything in the guidelines that prevent me from posting this, so please if it's not allowed - I'll take this post down.

There's a bug in Electron that I need fixed in order to implement a template I'm building. There is an open issue (https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21437) but I do not have the time to solve this problem as the framework is large and I'm working on many things at once.

I'll send you $100 to find and create a PR for this fix - whether that's a gift card or donation to your Github repo via sponsoring we'll figure that out!
They're even better when you define some operators for them:

NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
button.centerXAnchor ≈ view.centerXAnchor,
button.centerYAnchor ≈ view.centerYAnchor + 10
])
Let me offer an easy explanation: normal rates of annual progress in cancer treatment and prevention were compounded by (quite abnormal) decrease in life expectancy. Which naturally makes cancer, which correlates highly with age, less common. Basically, people are dying of meth or fentanyl before they get a chance to get cancer.
I have a couple of CRA-based PWAs I wrote that are in production today, but I systematically do delete the service worker as well.

My fear of dealing with caching issues related to it kind of stops me from taking the time to dig into how to deal with it properly.
Perhaps the charge can be reversed, and you are underthinking?

I was calling you out for your both-siderism. I still am.

Two switch out of having only two camps, I pose this variants:

Is resistance to change and thinking outside of the norm as prevalent in physics as it is in phrenology?

I think empirical evidence shows that phrenology - "measuring the contour of the skull can predict personality traits" to quote Wikipedia - is pure bunkum. Therefore, I think that anyone who holds that opinion does so from dogmatic faith.

But your both-siderism suggests that phrenologists are no more dogmatic than physicists. Which I disagree with - see my earlier examples where physicists rejected earlier widely-held views given evidence to the contrary.

My conclusion is that different institutions have different levels of dogmatism, so a claim of equivalence cannot easily be made without some sort of basis for the claim.

As another example, I think that as an institution evolutionary psychology has a higher level of dogmatism than solid state physics, and as evidence I can point to articles like "Is Evolutionary Psychology Possible?" by Subrena E. Smith, doi:10.1007/s13752-019-00336-4 and the lack of corresponding articles for solid state physics.
Swahili, Hawaiian, Italian, that's just off the top of my head, there are many others.

Hawaiian uses ' as a proper letter, granted.
I'm much more concerned about how we keep that portion of the population entertained enough to not cause trouble.
I never denied that it was NIMBY-ish or elitist. I get it. It's elitist and its exclusive. But shit, I've put in effort and my own time,sweat,gas money, etc. to improve and maintain trails and crags. I don't like it all getting wrecked by inconsiderate jerks who litter. Furthermore, elitism regarding hiding local trails from crowd-sourcing sites is vastly different than, oh idk, elitism about college applicant acceptance or some such.

As for traveling to experience the outdoors, you are so far off the mark that it's not even funny. I've been to and hiked/backpacked/camped in, uhh hold on while I count... 16 different national parks and monuments, 7 state parks, 2 national preserves, and 8 national forests across 6 states, and that's just in the past 3 years.

I've climbed in Bishop, Josh, Yos, Red rocks, Tahoe, Squish, "the Creek", NRG, and the Gunks, among many other smaller crags. Why would you even make the assumption I've never traveled?
I use the Uber PWA a lot.
Nim Programming Language: New Exception Handling Implementation (Goto Based)
Nor you I.

You present you opinions without basis. I present my opinions with a bit of evidence. You ignore the evidence. Who is being dogmatic?
I have ten of the next big things sitting on my computer anywhere from 10%-80% finished. Some are using new technologies, but many are using tried-and-true. It didn't matter.

I've been racking brain cycles the past few weeks trying to figure out how to solve this problem.

- Amount of dev time needed to ship an MVP

- Lack of a business partner

- Not having a pilot customer lined up

- Getting old

Those are some of the issues I see as a far bigger hinderance than any tech stack stuff. Shit, when is the last time (have I ever) tried doing a no-code MVP. Not always possible, but I'm sure somewhere in that stack of unfinished projects I could've come up with a no-code or very limited code MVP...
Zume, SoftBank-backed pizza startup, loses 1/3 of its executives amid layoffs
Shifting Careers to Autonomous Vehicles
Probably a fluorescent-backlight LCD rather than a LED-backlight LCD ?

EDIT : Huh, looks like both are susceptible to the issue, but diode-crystal has it actually worse than fluorescent-crystal ?
https://www.infobyte.hr/blog/134/ccfl-vs-led-screen-backligh...
First New Sunspots in 40 Days Herald Coming Solar Cycle
Who has those records? Are they accurate? Are they digitized? Are they consolidated into one place? Are they accurate?
I always wondered if mining crypto currency would be profitable enough to reduce my heating costs!
“Use Lists, Tables, Figures, Code Sections, Footnotes, Cross-References, Citings, Tables of Contents, ...”

Is there support for math? Weird if it doesn’t since it exports to LaTeX.
Could work like an electric typewriter. Keep the little LCD for the current line (or maybe 3-5) and let the E-ink be your “paper”.
how long do they last?/how much do they give you?
Radar works fine in rain and snow. You can use it to detect rain and snow, but the reflection is very weak compared to the reflection from a solid object, especially at the 0-500m range that these operate at. Big weather radars go out to a couple of hundred miles.
> But I think the chances of life being slim are more down to the difficulty in the bootstrapping stage rather than the environment being too inhospitable to host life.

I'm 100% in agreement on this.

My argument is that with no oceans, abiogenesis is basically impossible. There's not really a useful starting point if everything is rock and ice.

I have no doubt that in 200 years a prepared group of humans could be dropped there and thrive. (transportation issues not withstanding) But life couldn't start there from nothing.

I don't think silicon based life is plausible. It can't form double silicon silicon bonds. Overall its chemistry is utterly boring compared to carbon's, and carbon is far more common than silicon is. Again, same argument. If silicon based life were intelligently created, sure, it would probably thrive. But there's no way it would spontaneously create itself. And honestly, it would probably evolve to being carbon fairly quickly.
If Google complies would they deliver the data to the defendant so that he has the option to plead the 5th if there’s anything incriminating?
In Japan, you are currently allowed a lawyer to be present when being questioned, but it wasn't that long ago that you weren't. However, there was a bit of a hack: you were guaranteed to have a translator. It didn't matter how good your Japanese language skills were, you could demand a translator (assuming you spoke another language!) and they had to be present during all interrogation. While not as good as a lawyer, at least you had a witness if something untoward happened during the interrogation (which was apparently quite common in those times). I have heard that since the latest reforms in the last 10 years (lawyers present during questioning and allowance of a trial by jury) the incidence of untoward occurrences has decreased. While police here are an extremely friendly feature in society (very different than any other country I've lived in), you definitely don't want to get on the wrong side of the law one way or the other.
Iowan's Reaction to Yang's Rogan Podcast
I really appreciate posts like these. One day I’d like to run a small SaaS. Posts like these provide a glimpse into how it’s done.

The biggest insight is what makes me a good technologist, does not make me a good anything else (entrepreneur, SaaS proprietor). I gotta figure out how to get there.
The risk model that Gawker was using apparently didn't account for Peter Thiel - who destroyed them.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-peter-thiel-destroyed...
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Strong Convictions, Loosely Held
Hong Kong watch maker has a Tesla Cybertruck for your wrist
I can't thank you enough for this comment, it's exactly what I was looking for for so long.
For 100$ I will boot my computer.
If we can simulate protein folding well enough, why was the Google announcement last year such a big deal?

I worked in protein folding over 30 years ago at EMBL, and have loosely followed it since. I could easily have been led astray, but I was absolutely not under the impression that we can do this even close to "well enough".
Hi, there! Understood, thank you for the clarification. I guess, I've somehow missed mention of that bonus section. Two more suggestions for more comprehensiveness: consider updating this course with a content addressing 1) using alternative approaches to authentication (open source projects, like Keycloak & Gluu, and commercial services, like Auth0 & Okta) and 2) multi-tenancy options and aspects. Hope this helps.
I love it. Curious if you have written up anywhere your thoughts on Rust, and how you think Beef differs in the development of Games.

Best of luck, looking forward to following it's progress!
TikTok was vulnerable to hackers, say researchers
WireGuard will completely replace OpenVPN with time.
As soon as we mix up biological age with intelligence and wisdom we end up seeing problems where there is none. There are mature people and immature people and everything in between. Maturity does not correlate with biological age.
ActionView::Component
On an unrelated note, the research happens to be sponsored by an Israeli university instead of a turkish one and the intellectual property belongs to their subsidiary. I wonder how that happened.
You know that crucifixion is something worse than someone saying "i need a better counterargument" on a discussion forum, right?
Those vaccines were pulled _eventually_. We cannot know if we're in the period where harm is being done but before it's realized and the vaccine then pulled.
If it's for the purpose our wildlife people are going to try to do, it is for animal count and trail tracking.
I do. Get rid of First Past the Post voting and replace it with something like Approval voting.

As it is, candidates in the middle can't get elected. Two dominant parties is an entirely predictable result of FPTP voting. Approval voting (or ones that tend to elect the Condorcet winner, which also should be the first choice of the median voter) would solve 90% of the problems cited in this article.
Computation is not slow.

Operating systems might be slow. Applications might be slow. SaaS might be slow.

But computation is not slow, and if you care about speed, you do computation in a context where the aforementioned issues are not issues.
Uranium is such a dense fuel that mining it isn't a huge market. The total market is about 6 billion a year. In contrast, oil is about 2,000 billion a year, so oil is about a 300x larger market, and oil only produces about 4.5x as much energy per year as oil. The fuel is practically free compared to any fossil source.
It now says:

Supposedly, seeds were carried by Alan Bean on Apollo 12 (no citation provided).

Do you have a citation for this?
I have an olde Barnes and Noble Nook that I rooted and installed Play Books. Used that for years to read public domain books that I got from Gutenberg and uploaded to Play to get position synced between my phone and Nook. Now I mostly read Libby. I also have the Kindle app on the Nook, so I need to see if the old version of the app still works and if I can send books from Libby to it.
I'm getting a pretty good instance of the Hermann grid illusion [1] from it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion
You'd probably want to take a look at https://gitpay.me/ or https://www.bountysource.com/
Try gitcoin, git bounty and other similar places.
"But hey, it's your tax dollars."

Tech companies pay taxes, too.
So it seems like it's just MVS > depth map + recovery of haze characteristics by sampling a color reference at a bunch of distances. That seems blindingly obvious unless I missed something.
I'm a fan of single transferable voting, but the claim that FPTP is responsible for America's politics does not seem well borne out by the evidence. As the Wikipedia article on Duverger's Law notes: "In practice, most countries with plurality voting have more than two parties." The USA is very much an outlier here. Even if there remained only two _dominant_ parties, a significant third party like the NDP in Canada, or the Liberal Democrats in the UK, would reshape congressional politics very significantly.
This absolutely should be taken with a grain of salt.

First realize that these statistics are calculated via an entire field, known as “medical statistics” not surprisingly, that has enormous controversies inside of it.

Using a variety of mathematical calculations and formulas, they arrive at something called the “average death rate” that is supposed to massage out the differences between geographic regions and populations to determine the final number.

Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., wrote about this to tragic degree of detail in her book “The Secret History of the War on Cancer”. For background she was Director of the Center for Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and is still also a Professor of Epidemiology there.

The cancer death rate has not budged that much in 40 years. Survivability has extended, absolutely, and that is worth something, but not more than a few years. Compared to AIDS, a disease also without a real cure but that has extended survivability by decades this is unacceptable.

The amount of brilliant researchers driven out of the field, the failure of the Susan G Komen foundation to invest in actual research (this can be seen as more of a problem with the nonprofit industrial complex though and not per se cancer research), the null hypothesis requirement failures at NIH, and just the general climate of unethicalness and neoliberalism that began emerging in the mid 1970’s are all blamed, and there is truth in most of those arguments.

There is an old joke about how many white upper middle class cancer patients does it take to screw in a light bulb? Two, one to do it, and the other to write a book about it.

I go back and forth about whether that joke is inappropriate, and Mark Nepo is one such person who falls into that category but has written moving essays about the experience, but every time I read Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Cancerland” it makes me incredibly bitter. And I say that as a person who really likes Tony Robbins for the most part but who still is disgusted by the whole forced optimism cure through hope that the entire industry has turned into in lieu of actual breakthrough achievements. The fact that the latest and even somewhat exciting area of research in cancer treatment is the investigation on the role and use of viruses, a soviet innovation that has been investigated by the Russians since Stalin was alive even though they were mercilessly mocked for decades for this, is just tragic.
WWW of New Year's Resolution
I'd love to see how Google Sheets would be implemented with a smattering of vanilla JavaScript
One of the major supermarket chains in New Zealand has rolled them out to many of their stores over the past decade or so. They look pretty good.
No, Nuclear is not a sustainable system. The nuclear waste are a big problem for future generation. The only solution, is to lower our energy consumption.
I remember your first post about leaving Google a couple years ago, and it's been neat seeing the consistent updates since then. Congrats on the revenue!
Serious question: did you read the post? You seem to be critiquing something quite different from what I did.
I wouldn't agree with "quite inexpensive" (start at $100~$200 and then you need a drive as well) but there are some of the options out there for low-level magnetic floppy imaging.

https://applesaucefdc.com

https://www.kryoflux.com

https://discferret.com/wiki/DiscFerret
When you have a colour chart for reference and known distances between the camera and the chart, it's not difficult to colour correct. They might have a better interpretation of the underwater imaging phenomenon, which anyone can reverse engineer and use (from the published work). Patent's are just for reputation.
My anecdote: lived in Central and South Oakland neighborhoods of Pittsburgh 04-08, no smell but I suffered chronic bronchitis in winter that was worse than anywhere else I have lived, with the exception of posh inner western London, which was distinctly worse. Moved to East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh 08-10, on the other side of Google, and bronchitis was alleviated, and still no smell either. I am not familiar with the smell the author speaks of.

I have lived in the bay for the last 8 years. When there are no fires burning, the bay air quality is amazing and I don’t take it for granted and factor it into my reasons for staying here.

I have seriously considered moving back to Pittsburgh because it’s really a great city. Along with the mediocre air quality, the relatively high number of overcast days in Pittsburgh effectively discourages me, I like sunshine a lot.
My sister had an Au Pair for a year. The Au Pair was taken on holidays with them and participated heavily on family life. Even now, years later, they still mail Christmas presents between Germany and Australia. The deal was basically that the Au Pair is included as a family member in every aspect. I feel that once you attach a minimum wage then the Au Pair is now an employee. I also see the opposite argument, where some families are abusing the system to get a low-cost worker.

Do you need to pay minimum wage and still feed them the good food that the family is eating or you can feed them the cheaper employee food? These questions become relevant now.
this is true, when chatting to people while in japan i noticed a common thing that people say when talking about travel "japanese people dont go on holiday outside japan"

and to be honest why would they? everything is there, want to get out into the countryside? no problem you can be there in an hour or so on the train, want to ski or lounge on a tropical beach? you can grab a cheap internal flight or ferry (and train) and also be there in no time, Mountains, beaches, lakes, cities, temples, hot springs and more all in a place where everything "just works" why would you bother going elsewhere?
> I'm still waiting with bated breath for a reliable e-ink computer monitor comes out with a decent refresh rate. I'd even be happy with just greyscale.

CLEARink have a best-of-all-worlds high-refresh rate color e-paper that want to release products around mid 2020.
Ahh the million dollar hammer theory.
What the app really needs is marketing. We would work together to define the scope of work, deliverables, ,milestones, etc.

Tech stack is python backend on google app engine. Plus a chrome extension.
I was freaking out when I lost my first job after I left DC.

"You mean I actually have to APPLY for a new one? I can't just walk into the recruiters office and pick from a list of 3 letter agencies looking for XYZ role?"

Still get emails every day looking for an architect, or windows engineer, or TS/SCI cleared helpdesk technician. Don't let your clearance expire, folks.
Asimov is on record as saying he didn’t help new writers because he wasn’t good at it. If the claim is that his behavior cost the speculative fiction world many young women writers, who exactly are the young men who were gained?