skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that while coal plants are tied to coal and can't reasonably be adapted to other fuel sources, gas plants can be adapted to anything that burns - which includes CO2-neutral gas such as methane from biowaste, or methane made from electrolysis H2.

Therefore it is very viable to build gas plants now, especially for peak demand.
There is a young man, probably a Navy officer, who accompanies the President. This young man has a black attaché case which contains the codes that are needed to fire nuclear weapons. I could see the President at a staff meeting considering nuclear war as an abstract question. He might conclude: “On SIOP Plan One, the decision is affirmative, Communicate the Alpha line XYZ.” Such jargon holds what is involved at a distance.

My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, “George, I’m sorry but tens of millions must die.” He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home.

When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, “My God, that’s terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President’s judgment. He might never push the button."
I actually regularly forget my local Reps - because every time I check in they've been voting the way I want, so I have very little reason to think about them. I generally know about them for a few weeks before elections and rapidly forget after that. (with the occasional hot button issue making me check in on them, but then my memory lasts only for an hour or so)

I used to feel a lot of guilt about this, but eventually I decided that's the whole point of a representative democracy. Depending on people to be aware and informed on all the issues is extremely likely to fail. Whatever system of govt we want to strive for, it has to build on that reality.
You can evaluate an elisp expression anywhere in any mode.
While it is easy to blame Boeing these days, I suspect we have survivorship bias here. Dig into Airbus software and all sorts of similar scary bugs will pop up. For instance, one may remember inconsistencies between airspeed measurements that resulted in the loss of AF 447 on June 1, 2009. Overall, it's great that at least some airliner's closed software finally gets more eyes looking at it.
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Everyone I have worked with from the Midori team has been very impressive. Regardless of the direct success of the project, I believe it (to some extent) improved the quality of Microsoft's engineering culture.
“This police raid has been extremely stressful and I can’t remember” is a perfectly valid statement.
Increase the price steadily until the planet remains inhabitable indefinitely from a climate perspective.
i really hope you're right and this deescalates.
Heavy duty sandboxing of game software can't come quickly enough. Game software reading arbitrary memory outside of its own on a machine is half step from outright malware and must stop.
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I am not someone who spend a lot of money on audio hardware, but plunked $150 for AirPods. The product is just so good, and there is no way I can go back to a wired headset now. In fact I hate talking on my phone without AirPods in general now
Or you just write your own game client like china has been doing for WoW for ages.
If you owned a 286 or a slow 386, owning a 486 with math co-processor was definitely a romantic desire in 1990.
Yes, but pumped storage requires a certain geography, takes up vast amounts of land, and may cause serious biogenic methane emissions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023102/
I vaguely recall that the double-hyphen used to be disallowed in domain names, reserving them for future definition. "xn--" becoming that future definition.

I'm having trouble confirming this as the double-hyphen is now very much allowed, thanks to IDN.
I love that video and that channel!
With any public opinion survey there's going to be a certain amount of "noise" results. You can't _force_ people to give serious answers. But if your methodology is sound (Morning Consult's certainly is) then they will tend to cancel each other out.
To paraphrase what wise people have warned for millenia: Democratic government by an ignorant populace is a recipe for disaster.

We get the government we deserve, but that same malfeasant government we deserve is responsible for educating us.
As in "beefy", I assume
Once you get into a FAANG company, do you actually use these algorithms? OOP/FP design, "clean code", the System design I would see as important, but in an actual dev job how much does the hard-core algorithm stuff come up?
I have a few years of rusty undergrad Arabic fading in my past, and my take is that non-native speakers would struggle with an ad hoc transliteration system like this (imagine a non-native English-speaker trying to read 133tspeak...)
and the most divisive political questions don’t even have objective answers.
I was curious what they'd choose for Arizona and I hadn't even put the Grand Canyon as option in my head (although it's pretty obvious). Still, I was hoping for maybe a deeper cut then that since the Grand Canyon sort of wins by default if it's included in a bucket list type article like this.
I think France made one of the few smart moves with nuclear in the day, but today even France is closely studying tradeoffs between reinvesting in the next gen of nuclear fission plans vs renewable. In publicised studies renewable is looking like the better option.
I was responding to:

> IDE support is much more than just editing text.

In case anyone reading this thread comes away thinking that VS Code + Ionide is only a text editor.
It's really good. I love HC.
This shows the US having per-capita emissions of roughly twice the EU and China (2017). I imagine it will be a good while until China catches up by that metric...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
1980s. [F1] is CUA 1987.

And one of these ideas is not like the others.

Clippy, please tell everyone how Lio's and my if-only-VIM-did-this ideas are different to Kerrick's idea.
Hello! I believe the Google Doc is inaccessible publicly.
Sharing idea's are pretty useless in general, if you're not excited enough to work on your own idea, why would someone else be excited to work on it?

I'm curious if people posting things they NEED would be more functional, along with a bounty. Other people who also want it can contribute to the bounty. Anyone can work on the idea's and the bounty is awarded to whoever solves it first/best. (I think you would need some sort of oversight to make sure the bounty is awarded to the rightful solution).

"$1,500 - An API that lets me send send snail mail by posting a PDF and address to an endpoint"

Maybe it slowly gets up to $4,000 with 15 other people contributing to the bounty. That's finally high enough that someone solves it, posts it, collects the bounty, and already has 16 customers.
Not best (writer is biased, and mapping from place names to actual geography is ‘left as an exercise’), but “Commentarii de bello Gallico” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico) is a first-hand account. You can also freely download it from Project Gutenberg, as even the English translation is out of copyright (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10657)
Just back of the envelope calculation, according to my link the US emitted 400B tons total and China is emitting ~10.8B annually now, so that'd be 37 years with no growth. So yes, the US is in a really deep hole here.
I like this idea a lot. We don't currently do this, but it would get most of the benefits without most of the downside. Seems like a win.
microSD is a big, big reason I'm still using Android. Before that the key factor was replaceable batteries, but all the OEMs shifted to non-replaceable sometime around 2015-16.
Great name actually.
Just drive West down I-70 into the mountains. There are so many hiking trails just outside the city.

If looking for more of a day trip Pikes Peak is really good too.

If looking for something closer Matthew Winters near Red Rocks is good but normally busy.
Can't really argue with that. Guess I should pry open my meager wallet and support a few of the last good ones.
Why does a security researcher not use a VPN while on IRC? The security community is crawling with bad actors.
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Does it matter jew shill?
I'm sure some of it does extend beyond the relevant processes.

Back in 2005/2006 Sony where installing rootkits on PCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... - this is why to this day I try make sure very little with "Sony" printed upon it touches my network. IIRC the best we got by way of an apology was "we are sorry Sony BMG embarrassed the group by getting caught" and "we promise not to do exactly the same thing again in the near future" (weasel words that meant they could do other equally crappy things immediately and as now is not the near future from then that could do the same thing now without breaking their word).

That was to try to protect content in audio CD tracks by breaking things that might allow copying, I'm sure similar methods can be (and probably have been) used to try block game cheats too.
The killings that nuclear may make are difficult to pin down (did that cancer come from nuclear exposure, or a chemical, or just a chance cosmic ray?) and so may be unattributed.
Renewables are already far cheaper than coal. That's what's driving their growth. The biggest limit on renewable growth right now is available capital.
Still, it at least so far it worked well, they avoided releasing a lot of emissions and are now in a much better position to decide what to do next.
And it's not remotely unheard-of for the FBI to execute that in the form of an escalated no-knock raid. Paul Manafort is one example that immediately comes to mind, and his was in the middle of the night IIRC.
I don't have enough money so I just sit it out completely and keep buying the same wired buds I've always bought.
That's not really how conquest works though. At least some of those original Celts reproduced with the Romans, and thus some genetic heritage continued.
It’s not an offense if it’s true. It’s crazy how stupid the general population of the US is. Especially when you leave highly educated coastal social circles.
Creating job security for the developers of 2098, I see :)
What good is Bitcoin if the Internet fails?
We can't ignore the opportunity costs. Every cent of money and effort we put towards digging fossil fuels out of the ground is money and effort we don't spend towards developing new and better sources of renewable energy. Even if the opportunity for short-term revenue is better for the former, the latter is going to secure cheap, sustainable, long-term energy independence for all of us. If we want to lift people out of energy poverty, we want to do so permanently, not in a way that leaves them back in poverty again after all our sources run out.
> The perfect is the enemy of the good.

In this case, high-carbon (coal and gas) is the enemy of low-carbon (wind/solar/tidal/hydro/nuclear/geo).

I said this in another thread, but switching from terrible to awful is not something we should take as what we can get. The starting point and the end point are unacceptable in a coal to gas transition. No point celebrating that.

For example, fracked gas is so cheap that it's starting to cause near zero-carbon nuclear plants to close early. Unlike gas, nuclear plants are actually low carbon (12 gCO2-eq/kWe vs. 490 for gas). Thus, fracked gas being cheap and not considered the high-carbon fuel it is is preventing us from reaching our climate goals.

This is really serious stuff.
Is there planned console support? I assume that's the hardest group of platforms for any engine to target, and is part of why Unity and Unreal have such a stranglehold on the market.
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Alcohol mortality has doubled in the last two decades
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/french-po...

"France will save 39 billion euros ($44.5 billion) if it refrains from building 15 new nuclear plants by 2060, and bets instead on renewable energy sources to replace its all its aging atomic facilities, a government agency said."

If France with it's experience with last gen, and one of the most built next gen designs is thinking this, then it doesn't really bode well for fission plants. I think the world should go hard for renewable and storage as imperfect as they are, while increasing research for fusion plants.

The basic tech/economic balance point is that fission plant tech is highly matured to a high-cost point that is unlikely to shift downwards anytime soon, while renewables and even more so storage tech is on a rapid cost decrease in the manufacturing s-curve - with quite a bit more to run, and they're at pretty close to parity with nuclear in price/watt. Renewables + storage are faster to put up at watt/time - which factors into even more reduced project costs - and more importantly a much wider range of financing options and players who have or can rapidly develop capability to put up renewable plants, leading to even more cost reductions.
Note that the article subtly admits that you can subvert the objectivity in your model-based decisions by making your subjecive choices of how to build the graph.
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I find the whole survey incredibly suspicious. There's no way there were actually multiple people who thought Iran was an ocean.
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JVM & CLR are an interesting counterpoint. I'm not sure I agree, but that's interesting to think about.

I disagree a bit with commercial Common Lisps. It's been a while since I used one (Allegro, Lucid), but I never felt they were full-stack integrated in the way that Genera was. Maybe though that's just nostalgia 25 years down the line and I'm remember that it "wasn't Genera". They were a fine environment to work in.

Smalltalk...I think you got me there. There were/are some very nicely integrated Smalltalk environments. Good point.
> Intel focused on AI acceleration—but AMD went unapologetically hard on gaming.

I don't think you can go wrong focusing on gaming. This is my opinion of how Microsoft succeeded so well. The network effects push all of computing forward.
>and confusion about eligibility

My states health insurance is so ridiculously ambiguous. I mean there is no simple chart that says: Do you fall under this category or this category, etc. etc.? They make you fill out like 15 pages of stuff to just SEE if you qualify. It's not even an official application either. And at the end, it just says "you may be eligible."
The police will take everything in your home that even tangentially looks like a computer. Cds, usb sticks, cameras, networking equipment, even things like monitors that can’t store any data have all been taken.

The reason seems to be, in part, that they often get to keep the stuff as part of any plea deal and can, and do, use it to equip their computer crime labs with better equipment.

This has been happening since the operation Sundevil days where it was documented in Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown.
Check out "Modern Compiler Implementation" by Appel and also the Red (Purple?) Dragon book.
It's an extravagant view to say the least. Iran is one of a series of major, independent, influential polities that have succeeded one another since 550 BC in the same region with a degree of continuity, with an immense historical impact.

Knowledge of it is being equated with knowing about Missouri or Wyoming, seriously?
As for "the china study" it's not some small study:
"The study they created included 367 variables, 65 counties in China, and 6,500 adults (who completed questionnaires, blood tests, etc.). “When we were done, we had more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between lifestyle, diet, and disease variables.”"
>It’s going to feel too slow and cheezy

Patlabor is slow, sure, and purposefully so (it has and deserves the reputation as being the "boring" mecha show), but cheezy? I haven't seen the TV show which I hear is a lot more comic, but I wouldn't call the original OVA/first 2 movies cheezy.
Saying "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" has, strangely, morphed into a sort of secret-handshake for Republicans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
Is there a speed-up? In their paper in table 3, once you compare each ALBERT model with the smaller BERT model, you're looking at similar accuracies and longer training times.
You used the word "targeted". Target implies intent:

target
/ˈtɑːɡɪt/
noun
1. a person, object, or place selected as the aim of an attack.
Is programming speed really that bad for the ultra high-end devices? Minutes? I don't remember it being that bad for the Amazon F1 when I ported a Xilinx build to use the F1 SDK (I didn't spend lots of time with our prior one, so I wouldn't know.) Of course, their programming strategy is extremely customized, but even for very high-utilization images, it was only ever on the order of seconds. Vivado is absolutely terribly slow though, no matter what you do, or what device you use. (Not to mention if you want to use the ILA support over the internet...)

Also, for some designs you can mitigate the reconfiguration time issue by having two regions and draining requests to one of them, before doing an update. Most of the Xilinx tooling for OpenCL does this kind of thing by default (4-6 "opencl kernel" regions.) But of course it's not always an option to give up that much space...
A lot of Americans have trouble locating Nebraska or Kansas on a map. I’m sure a lot of Chinese might get confused about where Shanxi is, especially since many of them have never left their own counties before.
Is the android role still open?
Just another PR move by the feds to try and sway public perception to accept intentionally weakening encryption.
> Stop making up silly, false, fake identities.

I think this is an unnecessarily negative framing. All national and regional identities are mostly socially constructed "imagined communities"[1].

For example, most Americans aren't descended from colonial settlers, but they still identify with the colonists when they read about or discuss the Revolutionary War.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community
This is a nice win, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to China's increase and they already own 1/3 of total emissions.

Source: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/
that's what parent comment said
> To people in general, what improvements are you making (not your country, but you personally)? Not something you've always done - what's your latest new eco-project, big or small?

I had solar panels for five years; we're generating ~90% of our electricity. Planning to buy a used Nissan Leaf (maybe later this year) to replace one of our vehicles.

On the CO2 sequestration front, I've been offsetting 10x my family's generated CO2 for the last ~5 years. More here: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
It's going to require significant CO2 investment (upfront payment for long term material benefit) if we want to reduce CO2 output materially.

The thesis is for us to get there, we need to increase CO2 output, not reduce it. Let's think about how much CO2 investment would be required to fulfill these projects in the "Green New Deal":

* Coast to coast high-speed rail.

* Retrofitting all major buildings in the USA with better technologies.

* Decommissioning dirty power plants.

* Building nation-wide wind and other green power generating infrastructure.

And we should put our foot on the gas for new green energy research. Inventing better and more efficient technologies has the benefit of reducing global CO2 output.
I guess the same way somebody would put Iran in the middle of the ocean
Given that it's a completely nonsense answer among the outliers, I wouldn't be as concerned as to with the people that put it in the Balkans or confuse it with Turkey.
Someone actually developed an MVP of this concept. It was really highly upvoted on hacker news but I can't remember the name of it. I don't think the project ever got off the ground, but I can say it was definitely a popular idea amongst developers. So you'll have no problem getting that side of the equation to show up.

It's finding folks with a problem and some money that is the challenge. But if you figure it out you're gonna be in a great spot!
Now that I can respond, this is not whataboutism. People are seriously suggesting using Apple devices instead for privacy, when doing so is worse, as I have shown. If you believe anything I've said is false, go ahead and point it out. I've stated these claims multiple times on Hacker News and not once have they been refuted, so I'll be happy to get corrections before I state them again.
I’ve seen Java developers completely lost with no idea where to start debugging an installation in a lab environment because they had no IDE, JDK only. Sure, you might argue that it’s an unlikely scenario, but never say never. CS is one of many fields where having a basic understanding of how things work at least a couple of layers of abstraction down is a good thing, and at least could save potential embarrassment.
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Let's just pretend it was a pun.
I'm in the camp of "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything", in a literal sense. I'd rather have an executed bad idea than a good idea.

An obvious conclusion of this is that even though I think your "platform for sharing ideas" idea is bad, just execute it. :)
> most of the time, in most tests

That isn't something which can be checked, just stuff someone said.
Would it happen the same way though, with a polite knock on the door, a calm chat and orderly evidence collection? In the US they'd probably break the door, pin the guy down on the floor while armed men ransack the house. Call me cynical...
Most likely, but manuals have bugs too like typos and missing information.
I think to many programmers, writing a bunch of separate SQL queries seems like it violates the DRY principle. If you start to address this by parameterizing the construction of query strings, it starts feeling like you're writing an ORM any way, so you might as well use one in the first place.

Personally, I don't really have a preference. I think each approach has a place depending on the scope and intent of the project, the size of your team, and their familiarity with raw SQL.
What about querying how much ram you have and then pasting the letter 'q' that many times plus one into the buffer?

Edit: perhaps to speed it up: start with a single 'q', selecting all, yank, and paste. Just script it to repeat until exit happens. No ram query needed.
That's not true, coal did not replace nuclear, renewables did [0]. What's true is that coal plants could have been shut down instead of nuclear ones, which sucks. But note that anthracite coal is decreasing since ~5 years ago (dark grey bar in [0]).

[0] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...
"Kohle" is coal; "Kernenergie" is nuclear; "Erneuerbare" is renewables.
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Either, really. And you’ll hear Thai people pronounce it either way (depending on their English reference - usually British), since locals will not call it “Pad Thai”.
Cory,

I really enjoyed reading your "Opps Daily" emails. Even though I, like many others, never acted on any of them.

Thanks for your effort here!
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