skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the link! ^_^

It looks like Barr has been pushing pretty extreme views for longer than I've been alive :/

I can definitely see why you would use the word fascist to describe him
If we spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting CO2 (capturing it, moving to more expensive energy sources, etc), that’s hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been spent elsewhere, on other problems like cancer, heart disease, etc.
> If this excess acid in the blood persists, the next trick that your body uses is its fat stores as a line of defence against the acidic blood – mainly to protect your arteries. Your body holds on to this excess fat for protection, and this is why it is almost impossible to lose your unwanted fat when your body is more acidic than it should be.

Is there a link for this? I never heard it and it makes no sense. All the article is very dubious, confirm all the info with a medical doctor before following the advices of the article.
I was about to mention Keybase, but since there is no self-hosting option, I'm afraid I can't recommend them as a communication tool for free software projects. IRC is still suitable and used by some but it is viewed as an prehistoric option. So are there any modern alternatives?

Sort of, there's Jami [0] (formely GNU/Ring) which is actually free software and looks nice, but I haven't tried it yet. Another option is the Matrix protocol [1] and some of its clients like Riot.im [2] fit this free software criteria.

[0] https://jami.net/

[1] https://matrix.org/

[2] https://about.riot.im/
If you haven't already noticed, anytime you dump on the current administration, despite any inaccuracy, the HN audience will reward you with upvotes. Long gone are the times when contrarian viewpoints were discussed on merit
Well, it creates a region in space with a high charge density that can be accelerated to a plate that has a voltage applied to it which it bumps into which then causes a current.

Importantly, this doesn't have to happen in the reactor vessel. The charged gas can be pumped somewhere else.
Your last sentence nails it.

The problem with this case is that the legally correct thing is that Oracle wins. The most desirable practical outcome is that they lose.

Copyright protects creative works. It's not clear why an API wouldn't be a creative work. Oracle's lawyers argue that it is a creative work, because different people can come up with very different designs to solve the same problem, that API design is a skilled and creative process. They're right.

The tech industry has always been in an unstable situation with respect to this consensual interpretation that APIs are facts and not creative works. That's convenient for many people, but tricky to legally support. The correct solution to this problem is an exemption in copyright law for APIs. Given no such exemption exists, why should Oracle not win this case? The judges are meant to rule on law as it is, not what it should be.
We were in WAY worse shape back then. IE6 was closed source, under-resourced (after they gained market dominance), and MS had every incentive to suppress the progress of web technologies once they ran the table.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t all be rooting for the other players today and keeping a close eye on Google, just saying there is no way for Google to do nearly as much to hold back the web as MS did back then, even if they wanted to.
As a researcher I really like 'scientific breakthrough" articles where the impact never seems to materialize. It reminds me that technology development works very differently on earth than it does in my imagination.

Breakthroughs happen everyday but the road to real impact is longer and more failure prone after you make the breakthrough than before it.

- with some exceptions
Even if going gonzo with carbon emissions was fine for the planet, a carbon tax plus basic income would be better than the status quo, for a multitude of reasons.
Yes, and that was Canadian houses, I assume, with dozens of vents in the floor on every level of the house.

In Europe we mostly see air-to-air heat pumps in cottages, and there is then only one vent for the entire house. Which if fine and efficient for a small cottage in the fall and spring and maybe a few weekends in the winter.

But it would be hopeless in a Canadian winter.
The entire concept of the corporation is to make it less likely the people involved will be imprisoned or directly take risk based on their mistakes. They willingly take the advantages that come with incorporation, they should lose something. As it stands, anyone in a corporation is a first-class citizen while everyone else is treated as lesser under the law.
Varoufakis only cares about himself, always promoting himself and is just seeking attention. What a joke of a person! He wanted to replace Euros with a crypto-currency as IoU at some point rather than going back to Drachma. The man is an academic, not a very good at that either and a clown of a Politician. His "negotiations" cost the Greek tax payer about 100Bn Euros, and enabled DB to shift their debt to the German taxpayer, passing it as a "financial rescue".
> The point being made is that you continually fail to account for data at rest (among other things) in your arguments against encrypted email.

Encrypted email with PGP doesn't give you data-at-rest encryption, though. See https://efail.de ... or the fact that forward secrecy was not a design consideration when it was designed in 1990.

> Most people don't need to fear for their lives if a single message leaks, but that doesn't mean they want plaintext copies of everything cached all over the place for who knows how long either.

This is the heart of the argument. You need to treat email (encrypted, or not) as if there are copies cached all over the place forever. You should assume that about any email you send (again, encrypted or not). This is why it's called security LARPing ... if your argument is simply "I don't want people reading my stuff, it's private"... well, no one cares about your emails. But the moment they do start caring, they can go back and read all of your emails, encrypted or not.
Will it work on top of GNU Guile[1] as well? It became very fast since 3.0 version with the introduction of JIT[2].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news/gnu-guile-300-releas...
The same way Windows allowed third party browsers.

Yet it was anticompetitive.
Conversely, anyone who already does write essays almost certainly already knows what purpose they serve and how to pursue it. Or, if they don't, that's almost certainly because they are new to the form and haven't yet grasped it firmly.

(On the question of whether Graham, in particular, despite being not at all new to the form, has likewise not grasped it firmly, "further affiant sayeth naught"...)

edit: Naught save that perhaps having a guarantee of an audience, as HN's commentariat furnishes Graham, may not be ideal as a means of fostering development in the skill of writing. If you're going to be read and discussed regardless of merit, how do you know merit when you achieve it? How do you avoid mistaking the contingent for the essential? How do you refine your craft in the absence of meaningful feedback?
It’s pro “Big business”. Politicians pay lip service to “small businesses” but they don’t care about them. Small businesses don’t donate huge sums of money to PACs.

Why should Republicans care about startups run by tech bro’s being squashed by big companies? It’s not like they will be able to donate large sums to PACs and they are probably hippy liberals too.
They come from a position of trusted authority. I am just some hack on the internet. It is not settled, it may be settled that the world is warming, it may be even settled that we are contributing a significant potion of it but the impacts are not settled and there is intentional bad science putting the blame of climate change to deflect it from real environmental poisoning. Claiming it's settled yields victory to said bad science as they get to parrot that it is settled and no more action is needed.
I really hope that fusion power can become a major power source in the future and humanity really needs it to expand off planet, but like you said above, nuclear fission power got to stage 7 and then stalled. I think the nuclear fusion community should drop the word nuclear completely from their vocabulary or they are likely to end up with the same fate, if they ever get to stage 7.
For total ordering are you using an instant (with say seconds granularity) or an additional monotone id to distinguish between changes for the same day?
I am just learning about this reaction, but can anyone explain what is wrong with the following naive idea?

- Fire a stream of hydrogen ions with a particle accelerator at a chunk of Boron 11.
- The hydrogen and boron combine and release heat and helium.
- Use the heat from that to run a turbine and keep running your particle accelerator.

It seems like you would be ending up with lower-energy collection of atoms. Does that work but it is just not efficient enough to keep running the accelerator, or what?
> Finally, a note on CPU temperatures: At idle the CPU hovers around 39-50 °C and tops around 72-78 °C under full load. I’m using the best air cooling setup I could think of and get my hands on, but it’s still air cooling, and my system is installed in a closed case (but with extreme attention to airflow).

I know air coolers can be competitive, but it says right on the outside of the 2950X box that you should use liquid cooling.
That was the norm for 8bit micro computers of that era. It did have some accidental benefits too because some radio stations would air software for people to record
Just a writing critique. I think your post could use paragraph breaks, it's hard to discern the logical structure without breaks.
This is actually one of those features that GNOME gets right with dconf lockdown. You can, on a per setting basis, decide whether users are allowed to override each setting.
> energy [...] costs nothing. Raise heating in houses, use AC everywhere, longer showers, more transportation

Yey, can we get to this future faster?! Joking aside, all the current eco-friendly tech diminishes comfort by a loooot... we need low-energy habitats that are actually comfortable ffs.

For example, traveling around Europe, I see that the new trend in the developed/western part is to shiver you ass out during the cold months and to melt your brains out during the hot ones in almost all public spaces! Like we're back in the pre-AC era! You need to get to Eastern Europe's bigger cities to enjoy comfy heating/cooling habits like proper heating in the winter (yes, I want my >25 C in winter!) and proper cooling in the summer (<18 C please!)... It's wasteful, but very much enjoyable! Snow fighting after/before coming out/in of a 30+ C heated house is bliss :D Same a blasting through an enjoyable heatwave after jumping out of a 15 C office and then back in. Life's little pleasures.

After we invest so much of our lives in developing technology, we should at least enjoy the simple comforts and pleasures it freaking offers!
Now that's a proper Internet rant! I don't know whether her assertions related to all the listed theories being wrong (or simply dumb) are correct. Would any physicists care to corroborate or refute her points?
They don't pretend to be women, transwomen are women (and transmen are men). There's a lot more to people and gender than chromosomes.

And with your line of reasoning can an intersex person (such as someone with XXY chromosomes) never be considered a man nor a woman?
Resist the urge to be annoyed by this, and use it as an opportunity to practice a useful skill: that of searching for value from something where the value isn’t highlighted upfront.

Most of today’s media tends to “tell you what to think” in advance of reading the story, and I would argue that is a big piece of the (poorly defined) problems with society today.

I’m glad you wrote your comment, because it helped me realize why it’s worthwhile to me to have this sort of article posted on HN — I think it’s a valuable skill, to figure out what to think (instead of being told it upfront).
A comparison of waste from Wind turbines, Solar power, Nuclear and Coal
Great Mexican food, too, and our fine dining is surprisingly decent, considering. The rest of our food scene’s kinda overpriced and hit-or-miss on quality but those are good.

Outdoors life’s shit unless your into hunting or fishing. Worst part about living here, easily.
The privacy risk makes some logical sense, but I don't see why it doesn't also apply to regular old anchors that have been around for forever. That is, the same sort of information leak has already been possible for decades on sites that allow the URL to just have #cancer.

If this is really an issue worth solving, doesn't it need to be solved for all cases, both traditional #foo links and also these new pattern-style links?

I can understand that this new mechanism will probably increase how often it can happen, but blocking the new mechanism would only solve part of the problem. To solve the whole problem, you'd have to do something like turn off lazy loading.

Anyway, if the reason the person is visiting the page is to read the section about cancer, aren't they usually going to manually scroll to the section about cancer a lot of the time? So the resource will still be loaded, just a little bit later. The scroll bar is moving to that position either way. The only information leaked is who moved it, the referer or the end user.
How to build a good reader revenue model: lessons from Spain and the UK
Show HN: Wks – Manage your codebase like a boss!
I highly disagree, and I think Windows 10 is actually one of the most desktop-oriented UI's ever. Some things might be touch optimized for when you use devices like a Surface, but on a day to day basis I don't feel like I'm using something that hasn't been designed for desktop.

Improvements to the task bar for things like switching audio devices and condensing of the ribbons on Explorer have been huge for me. Most people are quick to point out how control panel has been bastardized and such, but honestly I love the move towards a unified "Settings" area. Not everything has made it over, but slowly with each update more and more is added. Tbh, I absolutely loathe control panel from <=Win7. Trying to find something is always difficult and there's no unified layout to any of the .cpl applets.

Windows 8/8.1 was terrible because it forced you to use this stupid full screen start menu. It was distracting and slow and pretty damn ugly when you start looking at icons for programs that haven't been updated in 20 years. All that has been scaled back and while ads on the start menu are not something that should be glossed over (they _are_ absolutely terrible, and Microsoft deserves to be shit talked), it's still the best start menu interface I've seen.

Honestly if you want an example of a terrible desktop user interface / experience, look no further than macOS. With each update they seem to move more towards an iOS model of a walled garden. What really perplexes me is Apple doesn't seem to give two damns about a touch interface on their OS, and yet they're moving all of their design to be more mobile-centric with things like Launchpad or the absolute lobotomy of iTunes.
I would start where something should be happening but hasn't, and then manually check the conditions required to make that happen one by one. Sometimes the conditions themselves rely on something else having happened that hasn't, so I start from there. Eventually you'll be able to unravel the entire chain of events.
NY private banks lend money to Mississippi banks. At some later point, the global market crashes and NY ""suddenly discovers"" that Mississippi officials lied about the state's finances. NY now wants their money back in the middle of a world-wide crisis. Mississippi banks can't pay.

Should we force the (next generation of) citizens of Mississippi (who didn't personally lie about anything) to pay all this debt for the next 50 years?
You're right, it's an outrage to suggest the current administration might be involved in less than pristine legal behavior!
TL; DR: crazy taxes based off quantity rather than price make electricity cost 200 €/MWh even when the base cost is free, whereas natural gas is taxed lightly, making it cheaper to the consumer.
I don't think many are worried that Google won't defend itself.

Re: the other points... Are you implying that current trust-related investigations and such are mostly bogus?

Google defends itself against trustbusting constantly: Android, adwords... the platform businesses. It has lost cases & earned record-breaking fines. €5bn is just not a dealbreaker for Google.

They expect these occasionally because Google's main MO is prone to it, at their scale. Their platform businesses are exactly the "monopolies" Peter Thiel described as the goal of modern business. The whole point of antitrust is to dampen monopolies. It shouldn't be surprising they collide.

I don't really understand the counterargument to pursuing much more decisive antitrust legislation & control, myself. It seems like a clear win.
For those struggling because of the paywall you can try outline. It's a pretty decent site that can bypass a lot of paywalls and is actually usable compared to most news sites. Ad block doesn't work here as it only shows the first paragraph.

https://outline.com/crbq2m

Note to moderators, If the direct link isn't allowed please change it to just outline.com
I agree.

In hindsight you are completely right. My immediate reaction to the essay was I thought it was a brilliant resource. My gut feeling was that criticism of an educational author's writing on the topic of useful essay writing without stating the why wasn't useful.

Asking for the critics own writing was a cheap shot and it was wrong. Sorry OP.

In hindsight I should have said

"That's an interesting insight would you mind sharing some better educational resources on writing a useful essay."

If I'd lent greater attention to the essay than its comments, I would have.
That's an extremely one-sided point-of-view.

The net effect of the whole saga was Greece getting to spend a lot of money in the 90s and 2000s, and the stronger countries of the Eurogroup ending up paying for (at least part) of that.

Focussing on these countries' motivation is somewhat useless speculation, and arguably unfair if you manage to twist it so far around the people paying end up as the bad guys, and the people spending as the victims.

In any case: French and German banks could have absorbed a Greek default, although it would have been painful. Because these banks held only part of the debt[0], it would have always been cheaper to make them whole again and tell Greece to take a hike.

Considering a decade has passed and some things happen, one might also want to reevaluate the motivations ascribed to, for example, Angela Merkel. Does she still strike people as incapable of aiming higher than just immediate parochial needs?

[0]: around 30% IIRC, can't be bothered to look this stuff up again ten years later)
USSR was a sweet test case. End result was that people didn't bother to put in much effort since there was little to gain. Which resulted in inefficient economy missing target after target.

Students in USSR were sent to state farms to help local workers. Those farms were stupidly inefficient. Because of that a lot of produce was rotting out in fields. My mom was sent in as well when she was a student. Being a naive city girl she did double the worker's quota on her first day. Next morning local workers told her to slow down because otherwise quotas would be raised for everybody.
Super illegal if true: https://www.finra.org/contact-finra/whistleblower
Are you sure the "market" did that?

There were massive campaigns against it plus antitrust rulings in the EU.

To this day there is people out there suffering the consequences of MS' policies.

Same for Intel and others.
>in a sufficiently complex system, zebras exist.

I love this one.
There are differences over time, though. This drug repurposing, for instance, allows us to take drug candidates for other diseases and apply them to new areas. That is a fairly new approach when combined with ML in drug development, as in the past one would see brute force computation without repurposing. Repurposing gets better and better over time, as well, since there are more and more drugs on the lists that we've already run through a gamut of testing.
While documents can be submitted online, you still need to go in person after submitting the documents.

> In a letter sent to states Wednesday, Wolf said that effective immediately, states are permitted to use a secure electronic process to accept applicants’ documents. Even if states implement that pre-submission system, applicants will still be required to make an in-person DMV visit.
My First Date with Raku
Does Jeff Bezos have feet?
Which company does not have a return option ? I also tried purple and it made me very cautious.
Most alcohol users (in many countries, the majority of the adult population) are not addicts. As far as I know, most cigarette and e-cigarette users are addicted.

Also: there are some computer games, which have the potential for addiction. Some others (especially "free to play") shamelessly monetarize on addiction.

Similar things goes from other businesses: e.g. loans, dating websites, social media, etc.
It never occurred to me that it was American slang. That's a new thing to think about.
‘No one is allowed to go out’: your stories from the coronavirus outbreak
I think that in 2020, everyone outside of a specifically secured facility should assume that are being recorded at all times.
> he didn't pay attention to the reality of the situation

Or he paid too much attention to the reality of the situation.

According to him, as a professional economist, the Euro is structurally unsustainable and is going to implode in the next 2008 because of the way the EU is set up politically creating a situation of a central bank without a country and countries without central banks.

What angered him is the way Eurogroup bureaucrats pretend this situation does not exist, even when they themselves admit they understand the same thing, which, to an academic like him, is a crime against logic.
U.S. existing home sales fall, supply tightens
There's only one competing browser engine left, Firefox's, with like 5% market share. Except if you have an Apple device, every other option is skinned Chrome.
The year is 20XX.
You return to your slave cube to find what you assume is a PC running "Plan 9 from Microsoft".
You are shocked at it's convenient features:

The world's information is merely one click away.

The world's browsers are simply two clicks away.

Dispensing candy is an easy ctrl-triple-click.

Bootstrapping a compiler is just the konami code backwards.

Printing the screen is really simple as hitting PrintSrc and loading your printer with $300 cyan ink cartridges.

However turning the computer off is a week-long process that involves arguing with the built-in HAL9000
Maybe you are good at paperwork, but it’s worth remembering that even Google sometimes biffs a domain name renewal. Why put artificial hurdles in front of people who need help?
businesses aren't on trial. it's their owners / directors / responsible parties who are on trial, and those are 'private individuals' - they might be held accountable for their business or business practices, but the idea a business is on trial is silly. and now we know 'people' are actually on trial, it's more logical to say they should be treated as individuals....
A low retirement age is a good thing; it is a symbol that society does not prize labour just as much as it appears to. It is an affirmation that we work to live, not live to work.
Most SF stories have artificial gravity generators, because it simplifies plots and lowers production costs. But is there actually a chance in hell that we'll ever have that kind of control over gravity?