skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like saying you shouldn’t render latex. I like my ligature font, it makes nicer to read code for me, not terrible at all. Your programming font is a personal choice, i guess when publishing a tutorial you need to consider which font is appropriate, but that doesn’t make anything terrible.
Surely most carbon taxes come with rebates?
In IntelliJ they can be turned off. So if you don’t like them, don’t use them.
Kashmir blackout eases but restrictions remain
Trade shows are great for this type of interaction. Just be sure to NOT interrupt a client and duck out if you see one approach them.

In my area, there are regular “home shows” with realtors.

Another idea is to go to open houses. Don’t take their time if there are lots of visitors, however in my experience some are super busy and some are super slows. During a slow open house I’m sure the realtor would be happy to chat 2 min. That’s your chance to ask for a future 10 minutes from them.
In Japan, stealing even a small amount is treated harshly. Recently, I recall that a member of Abe’s cabinet lost his political career because his staff mis-allocated a few hundred dollars worth of lunch receipts, which were erroneously charged to public accounts. Some people see it as disproportionate, but remember that you are expected to be even harsher in judging yourself in these situations. There’s a whole secondary wave of shame if you don’t one-up the required penalty voluntarily.
> In 2001 socdem-green coalition agreed on an "Atomaustieg"

After two decades of discussion and political struggle.

> Merkel's stance changed

Merkel knew already that there was not enough support for nuclear. The Fukushima event caused the collapse of the nuclear support in her own party and in the industry.

> Saying that Germany's handling of the energy sector is purely rational, simply doesn't hold up to the political realities, which can be quite messy.

No human decisions are 'rational'. Energy politics is never rational. Every decision in energy politics is guided by current level of knowledge, political influence, influence by industry (their are billions of dollars involved), various preferences, etc.

The German population was never asked if they wanted a monopolistic and centralized electricity system - the one which emerged after WWII. Some politicians even thought that nuclear technology was a step into military power. This was for example the plan of Franz Josef Strauss, a very influential politician at that time.
At my previous-previous job we had a core switch that was on from 5 years. No one wants to reload because everyone was scared it cannot restart anymore. We don't have maintenance, spare parts and cabling was a mess.

My colleagues told me that it was still there 2 years ago.
Disassemble the chip, and use scanning electron microscopes.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/cardis2016_sem.pdf
This is already here to some extent, we have a rentier economy and the bigger it gets the more of a load it will put on everyone else.

I do wonder if rather than UBI we should be pursuing UBH (Universal Basic Housing). Cheap food is a solved problem for everyone but the very poorest, housing isn't.
Ban overhead luggage and many issues go away...
lightweight/less bloat, lower resource requirements, generally reasonably cheap hardware
As Transgender People, We Need to Be Honest with Ourselves and Our Therapists
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky [1] explores this exact question. In the story, a human consciousness is uploaded to a computer orbiting a planet. Meanwhile spiders on the planet go though an industrial revolution and start using ant colonies as computers, using pheromones to control the behavior of the ants. Over thousands of years the computer housing the orbital consciousness begins to fail and transmits her consciousness to an ant colony on the surface.

In the second book, her brain is then duplicated across multiple colonies. Because the ant computer isn't as powerful as silicon based computers, one of her instances later realizes that she is a significantly compressed version of herself and that she doesn't have most of the old memories, capabilities or capacity for emotions that her human self had, presumably in large part also due to being transferred between three different substrates (flesh, silicon, ants).

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-tim...
Self-healing robots created from frog stem cells
"Also, there’s the sound. There was a delay from seeing the explosion to the sound reaching the camera. We knew the approximate altitude that the plane was flying at from the flight information. We knew the location from the flight path. So we were able to calculate the distance and the altitude—and, therefore, the hypotenuse between them and the camera—and calculate how long the sound of an explosion would take to travel that distance. And it was roughly what we were seeing and hearing in the video, about 10 or 10.5 seconds."

Neat!
What's astounding is that so much effort goes into finding the best boarding strategy, while really what airplane companies should be doing is collect the hand luggage that is not going to be open during flight (90%+ of it), and pre-load it somewhere else.
The Trouble with the View from Above (2010)
It was closed by the industry itself, because it was unreliable and not profitable.
Flutter UI Open-Source Library Docs
My whole point is that none of the fun that was there before died. It got overshadowed by popular stuff but IRC, Forums and personal blogs are still out there. I know because I use all of them daily.
Chrome Apps were Google's idea of packaging websites as self-contained apps. They only worked within the Chrome web browser.

Now, we have Progressive Web Apps, and Google have decided to promote using open standards to achieve the same goal, rather than offering a Chrome-only solution.

Google have even released a migration guide (in 2016, when this was first announced): https://developers.chrome.com/apps/migration
It's interesting to me that it seems mostly only a very recent trend that these sorts of basic techniques (which fall under the category of intelligence known as OSINT -- Open Source INTelligence) of identification and verification are being talked about by mainstream mass media content producers like the NYT. Interesting because it must follow at least partly from the intrinsic network that exists between those people fighting wars and those reporting on them. Also interesting because these are old techniques that have been public for decades. Preceding and coincident to this, there has also been a push in Western militaries to train members in OSINT techniques -- and not just members in traditional intelligence job specialties -- following recent doctrinal themes of much more decentralized, individual "generalist" warfighters (think traditional special forces) than big blocks of maneuver elements on a sand table. This is a side effect of the messy, multilayered future of cyberpunk combat.
The opposite really, it's like publishing unrendered latex and have the reader render it in their head or run it through a latex renderrer themselves
As someone who looks up to Mozilla as a "dream job company", this is disheartening.
Nearly every Chrome app is going to have an Android app counterpart I imagine. Chrome OS and Android are two competing platforms. Android took off and developers made zillions of Android apps, Chrome apps not so much. However Google has never shown any sign of abandoning Chromebooks. If anything, they're getting nicer and nicer and all new models run Android apps thus solving the app shortage problem on Chrome OS.

Check out this review of Samsung's latest Chromebook at CES 2020 by Chrome Unboxed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD_m6-nLvfs (btw, I don't own a Chromebook, but I am a Linux fan, and so I'm glad Google have put their weight behind Linux with Android and Chrome OS)
Greenspun tenth rule may come into play here [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
That is true but I often see this used as a justification to not cut CO2 emissions because the "largest" emitters are growing their emissions. However, it doesn't make sense in terms of fairness because if you only look at current emissions you will not see the whole picture. When talking about fairness you always want to consider the cumulative CO2 [0] emissions that a country has emitted over it's existence and in those charts China is still a relatively small player despite having 1.3 billion people. Roughly 14% of the emissions in China are caused during the manufacturing of exported goods. The country is investing in electric mobility and renewable energy as much as it can. The only thing you can do to prevent an increase in CO2 emissions in China is to invent new technology that reduces CO2 emissions in a cost effective way. That won't happen if you just stick your head in the sand and continue defending obsolete technology.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/10/Cumulative-CO2-tr...
Chrome Apps were Google's idea of packaging websites as self-contained apps. They only worked within the Chrome web browser.

Now, we have Progressive Web Apps, and Google have decided to promote using open standards to achieve the same goal, rather than offering a Chrome-only solution.

PWAs can be used to "install" applications on your desktop or Chromebooks that are almost identical in capability to Chrome Packaged Apps. In my view, this is a highly responsible move by Google in moving the web forwards via standards.

Google have even released a migration guide (in 2016, when this was first announced): https://developers.chrome.com/apps/migration
We’ve reached Neptune - over 4 billion km away, and Pluto is over 5bn, so billions is a relative walk in the park.

Sadly Proxima Centauri is 40,000 billion km away, so a bit further to go.

At 500m km/year our fastest probes would take 80,000 years to get there.
Considering the levels of consumption, you could assume that tea drinking is the control!
>Only about 10%...

That seems like a pretty big number to this user who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Neat. Did you have a look at Hasura before you implemented this, or does your solution have other features you needed?

Edit: also, Debezium might be a good backend for this, that way you would be able to support other databases than Postgres.
Personally, I don't see any reason not to perceive a commercial company or other similar societal structure as an AI.
The $150M Machine with $200B at Stake for China
I always appreciated the raw performance of nnn.

Every action is ridiculously instant, even over remote ssh sessions.

Kudos for making a truly fundamental tool :)
Targeted affiliate marketing is far better than ads imo. Odds are that you’re catering to a subgroup with very specific needs (unless you’re trying to clone facebook). You can inform users about products that they might need, ideally in form of valuable content and just include links with your vendor identifier. No third party scripts whatsoever and ads the user might actually like and click.
Security and simplicity. Such a low-maintenance system. When I sign in to any Chromebook, my wallpaper, shortcuts, and settings are just as I left them. For example, I may never have to find the setting to maps caps lock to escape ever again if I stick to ChromeOS.
Learn English and fuck off you autistic loser.
There is a theory (albeit unfalsifiable) that collections of communicating agents (such as human beings) may give rise to a higher order consciousness that the individual agents are not aware of, and therefore must necessarily interpret the 'will' of the higher order consciousness as merely 'emergent behavior'.
So long as the reports are "FBI can unlock iPhones by unknown means" we don't know the cost to execute the exploit.

Just because the FBI pay $$$$ per unlock, doesn't mean the marginal cost to the supplier is $$$$, that could just be GrayKey trying to cover the $$$$$$$ they paid for an exploit, and make some profit.
I'll add, as father of 1 year old who had been traveling a lot, sometimes you need to run for a connecting flight because the previous one is very late.

I usually board first with the family (required, I don't have enough hands to hold the baby and put luggages above, and my wife is not tall enough), but whenever possible I leave the plane last. It's relaxing, no one is chasing me, I can grab the bags slowly while preventing my baby from killing some one
That's not always true. Reader may decide to not use ligatures and the code will appear as is for them. They're entirely optional.
Thanks for sharing! That's a delightful and encouraging story.
This page has more details than the "executive summary"
https://github.com/trojan-gfw/trojan/blob/master/docs/protoc...

As far as I understand it:

1. Client connects to the standard HTTPS port.

2. If it provides a packet with the right (encrypted) password, then the server acts as a SOCKS5 proxy.

3. If it doesn't provide the right password, the server responds like a normal HTTP server over the TLS connection.

Seems pretty clever, the hard bit is making sure the passwords don't leak and the firewall starts bombarding suspect servers with requests (brute-forcing passwords). Also if there are timing differences between a genuinely confused HTTP server and a "Trojan" server faking the confusion, they'd figure that out too.

Also, things like continuous back-and-forth between the client and a simple webserver would be suspicious, because usually clients send small requests in bursts, get the response, and activity would stop (it doesn't apply to streaming sites, obviously, but there the clients won't be as chatty either). So things like Skype calls might be easily recognized...
> Such as whether we are unique and special, or that we may also be deterministic automatons and free will doesn't exist.

That's only scratching the surface of the implications. The real question arises when we have to decide what moral rights consciousness proffers.

A lot of arguments for and against vegetarianism, for instance, focus on whether animals suffer in a way that we would understand as suffering. A lot of arguments for terminating a comatose life center around the lack of consciousness.

If you suddenly declare that a piece of software is conscious, you have to grapple with what it means for all these questions—and for that matter with what we do with the software itself. Is the software enslaved, having to perform the same thing over and over again? Does turning it off kill it? Does it want anything? Specifically, something other than what its lot is? Should it have a voice in deciding how it is used?

Should it get the vote?

Should agglomerations of humans? Say, corporations?

Should they get free speech?

Sci-fi books have explored a lot of these subjects, of course, but reality will be different, and we'll have to deal with it on its own terms.
"For example, it was O.K. to think that Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos a fraud and express this opinion well before the court decided that."

That's the part I don't agree with. I don't think it's fair.

It's also unlikely that I'll be able to change your mind on this matter or that you'll be able to change mine during the course of a few comments on HN, so we can agree to disagree :)
Georgian script is missing as always :-( It's really a pain to speak rare language.
Ask HN: How do to find new customers as solo consultant with 0 social skills?
I have one struggle which I believe is most important in business: finding customers.

My prices are low so my offers are never refused but however I lack skills to find customers. Only referrals from old customers. I don't have a network and it seems that I am not that good with creating rapport with people. I don't know how to pick them up, as believe is the case with many technical people.

Any advice is badly needed and welcome.
Atomic tuning on cobalt enables 8x increase in H2O2 production
Ha ha. If it’s that easy why developer software at all. Just run a NN on packers and you can create anything without coding!
People routinely replace humans with services that don't do the job as well if it s cheaper to deploy, well marketed, does something else that the human wouldn't, or part of a mutually beneficial arrangement between the manufacturer and the buyer. For a case in point that has nothing to do with the military, have you ever interacted with an automated call system that you felt was easier to use and more helpful to you than a human answering the line would have been? I have literally never experienced that, but I have witnessed a huge percentage of companies switch from humans to automated call systems.
It's the latter. Whenever they would make money, they hike pay for senior administrators, of which there are a huge number (and maybe doctors and nurses too).
Obviously, if you use a registered plane and expose that plane by entering a country with your own identity you are choosing to expose people associated with the plane. If he attempted to conceal his method of transportation, for example entering Lebanon the way he exited Japan, then we would have had a case to argue that he did not choose to expose the people who helped him.

If you insist, we can rephrase it as "He didn't try to hide the identities of the logistic personnel as he hid the people who organised the operation".

It is a very strong clue that they were not from the same team, in sense of willingness and contract.
Speaking just for one, I haven't adopted a new Google consumer product in 7 years. I don't even click the links.

Pretty sure Reader had that effect on a large chunk of the technical base they previously relied heavily on.
That requires the computer to hotswap to be plugged into a power strip. It doesn't work if the computer is plugged into the wall directly. (Well leaving aside modifying the house's electricity / opening up the wall obviously.)
Sure. That is incredibly expensive and time-consuming, and due to anti-tampering protections has a high possibility of destroying the data before it can be extracted.

So, not realistically viable in 99.99% of attack scenarios.
This means they need to be aware of this issue in the first place and is yet another side concern to bear in mind, so yeah - externalized cost.
Flooding or marijuana? Two theories for falling cash demand
Actually the sound analysis doesn't prove it's a real video, it just cannot prove it is fake. One could totally make up a video keeping sound propagation times in mind.
The most important thing is tracking the footage real location and checking that the plane or missile weren't edited in.
Equally, something doesn't become ethical just because that's what your job is.
I'm not sure why you presume that. While I'm on a flight, I do everything possible to prevent my baby from disrupting others flight.

However, some stuff flight companies do are incredibly helpful (e. G. Allow us to board first) and make everyone 's experience better.

Unfortunately it's either that, or have no kids, or never fly (for some people this means: never meet your family again). All things that are limiting for a human being that should get a decent quality of life (culture and such)
Never got my keyboard for my google Nexus tablet either, 8 years and counting, actually, reminds me, under UK consumer law I think you can get a refund or part refund if extra functionality was promised and never delivered, will have to look that up :)
In some sense, SSL is this :-)
FWIW a number of years ago Wells Fargo was willing to have my refill checks sent to the bank branch where I could pick them up.

Don't know if banks do that sort of thing anymore. If not, then WTF is the point of "branches"? If they don't provide any value added then they are just expensive real estate and warm bodies.

Of course in hindsight in Wells Fargo's case we know that those warm bodies were expected to push all sorts of ancillary products on customers (they never did that with me).
> if you use a registered plane

What is an "unregistered plane"? Not even the US military has that (except maybe for very specific experimental aircraft and even then).

> for example entering Lebanon the way he exited Japan

That's the reason for the stopover in Turkey. Anything else is spy movie territory.
Have you looked at this: https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/custom-app

Not sure if it exactly allievates the problem you face, but that's where I ended up when trying to share layouts in a sensible fashion.
From the Wikipedia page:

> Microsoft said that the key's symbol was "_NSAKEY" because the NSA is the technical review authority for U.S. cryptography export controls, and the key ensures compliance with U.S. export laws.

People have speculated elsewhere in the thread about why they need a second key to be compliant, but as far as I'm aware we don't actually know.
I've finally understood priority queues or how to learn better
Once I got used to ligatures, they did aid flow for me.

-> now needs more internal “rendering” than → does.

Same with ≡ vs ===
Fortunately we can send emails at the speed of light!!!
(of course, the alien race living on Proxima will have to be fluent in english, ASCII, TCP/IP, SMTP and a few other prerequisites in order to receive our messages in proper conditions).
I remember reading this before, in a comment somewhere here on HN
The time when battles were up-close and personal isn't known for its peacefulness. With an exception for Pax Romana, where enemies were crushed and more or less successfully integrated.
Collapse of civilization (human society with huge amount of specialization) with the simultaneous ecological collapse can IMHO lead to human extinction. Civilization gives us science and technology, which allows us to be, in theory, less dependent on nature. Conversely, if the civilization fails, we will have to rely much more on nature. If the nature undergoes mass extinction event when we strongly need to rely on it, we can easily get screwed. We can probably (as species) somewhat manage to handle one of these events, but not both at the same time.
Germany invests in energy storage technology to harvest cheap surplus energy from the renewables and balance supply and demand over time. The spot price for electricity here reliably oscillates between 30 and 50 € / Mwh per day, with occasional periods with negative prices on windy/sunny days. Energy storage can be used to pocket the arbitrage, so there is a direct incentive to deploy it.