skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017)
Also, as you can probably tell from my comment already, I know very little about satellite surveillance for methane leakage, only that it is not common practice for operating companies.
Algorithms and Vaccine Discovery: Computational Immunology
Wiki Bankruptcy
The Promise vs. Reality of SwiftUI Multiplatform
While this probably wouldn't pass muster with whoever certifies the 747's avionics, over in the retrocomputing world the solution to "It only uses floppies" has been the cheap Gotek floppy emulators that read from a USB stick running this free firmware: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy

It has a great number of hardware mods that give it a display and a rotary encoder for better disk selection: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Hardware-Mods
This is correct. The KGB had several known agents working out of their embassy during the Cold War. Diplomatic cover gave them protection for their activities.
Sure, that would be an option. Thus far even the US government is not exploring this option, mostly due to very high costs, but also due to weapons grade byproducts of most existing reprocessing methods.
Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state
> Nobody forces you to (checks notes) create celebrity net worth databases.

So? What does it have to do with having rights over it? You can say that with literally anything.

You go on afterward arguing about inaccurate information, which has nothing to do with the current subject, and still fail to see why it would be important to protect revenue source over information that was curated...
> Anyone who lives in a country should feel supported and cared for by their government. That's literally why it exists.

This is the opposite of the libertarian / conservative philosophy, which is that government should have no role in people's lives and people should support themselves -- government's just a referee for disputes.
Also check out the excellent video from Bell Labs: “Similarities of Wave Behaviour (1959)” [0], which showcases termination, reflection, resonance and impedance using the Shive Wave Machine.

[0] https://youtu.be/DovunOxlY1k
Some questions:

- How much would you expect to spend if you were to pay all the bribes? Are you unable to afford them, or is this more of a moral issue?

- Is there any reason why you are effectively purchasing agricultural land and rezoning it to industrial land, rather than buying existing industrial land? What is your plan if you cannot obtain all the necessary NOCs?

- Is there any utility/road/rail access to your land? If not, have you looked into how much it will cost to build the necessary infrastructure?

- Is the area at risk for natural disasters (especially flooding)?
In general they seem to do a good job of missing out books which cover the mathematical basis of theoretical computer science; if the aim is to provide a starting point for humanity to recover technical knowledge following some disaster, I'd argue that a survey of the past 100 years' research into theoretical computer science is orders of magnitude more useful (who wants to repeat (i.e. waste) another 100 years on the Entscheidungsproblem?) than n different books on specific programming language.
Not exactly a Linux distribution. It's a kernel security feature for mandatory access control - and it's reasonably good, if difficult to use.

Edit:

Found a source on the parent's claim.

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/02/08/19/1750212/did-ms-lob...
Covid-19: The Good (But Not Great) News About T-Cells and Herd Immunity
Thanks for the write up. It’s an interesting look into the difference between official federal government rhetoric and the reality on the ground.

I’m curious if India has special zones created the way China did for Shenzhen, for example, and if so the process of applying there would be any easier/more efficient?
I guess I don’t understand why you’re responding to my comment, then.
I would be okay if future humans were able to forget scala

/s
Much of the world operates like this, to soak you for as much money as possible before you give up and pay, even if they provide nothing actually useful or meaningful. It only looks reasonable from their perspective which is to maximize their income. Tax collectors in Rome 2 millennia ago were expected to gain their income by extorting more tax than people owned; as long as the state got what they expected, anything else was yours, which provided a great incentive for tax collectors to soak everyone for as much as possible, and ensured the state got what it wanted.

It's an interesting study in economics, unless you are the takee.
Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?
I run a 2012-ish Macbook Pro which has 8gb of ram. I noticed today that Chrome takes up at least a couple of those gigs throughout the day. I'm looking for suggestions for alternatives, preferably extremely lightweight (memory efficient) and open-source. Would love to hear what the community is using.
Me too. I also wear a tinfoil hat and bubble wrap pajamas.
On the topic of "bleak" and "societal collapse", it is notable that they chose "Blood Meridian" over "The Road" in Cormac McCarthy's works.
What you're saying is the equivalent of trying to cancel Flash because of something George MacDonald Fraser did or said. You haven't disproved what I said: Tarantino hasn't been subject to "cancellation" because some of his characters are bad people, which is what GP was predicting would happen to the Flashman series today. (Also note: Tarantino is still very popular, so the "cancel" mob lost anyway)

Flashman is a terrible human being, but that's part of the fun. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been on TV for years and their core cast of characters are also terrible people. Unlikable protagonists can be very entertaining if written well.
I have evidence - it’s in the link. I also have proof, but I’m not comfortable with publishing my communication with the Google employee right now.

I have no idea why the penalty is in place. What I describe is “incredibly circumstantial.”

You say that my site poses no threat. Is that because it hasn’t seen traffic growth or become popular? The site is no threat exactly because the penalty is in place and has been for almost a decade. That’s a long time for a website. Traffic growth was very healthy before all of this.

The home page has been updated more recently than that, but you’re right that it still has the same page structure. With the manual penalty in place, it doesn’t matter how often I update the skin of the site or the home page text: the site is dead.
what are 'space-time' wave packets then?
People complain about the actions of all those companies quite regularly, Google isn't a victim here.
-Werror is a bad idea for open source projects or anything that will be compiled by people who do not know how to fix things when their shiny new compiler added a fancy warning.

-Werror=... for specific warnings might be OK in some cases.
Precisely. Since colonies are seen as money makers, there's little point in having expenditures that don't further your bottom line back home.
When saw that my repo got pulled, I couldn't help wonder what value the future archeologists will put on a Twitch chatbot that distribute cookies.

However my IRC client may still be useful by then

Relevant xkcd : https://xkcd.com/1782/
Drowning companies with mandatory binding arbitration claims is a relatively new tactic - when the ToS was written arbitration was favored because it had better outcomes for the companies writing the ToS. It's unlikely Patreon's lawyers could have predicted this very common contract provision would backfire.
...and as someone that interfaces with clearing firms via SFTP, I can tell you that it's a nightmare. FTP was great for downloading ratio-ed mp3s in the year 1998. It's a terrible way to handle things in 2020. It perplexes me how much of my industry is held together by cron-jobs and SFTP processes.
The headline is misleading. According to the story text, the floppy is used to load a new navigation database, which is important to be sure but not a critical software update.
The equity gives them a very strong position to make many many millions more. Yeah it's more complicated to cash out, but it's a huge opportunity not granted to the labor.
Dammit. Just when I bought the new SE.
> I don't think there's any evidence that generational wealth transfer is the cause of income inequality.

Well, it was in reference to general inequality. It absolutely creates wealth inequality. If you are born to poor parents, and your buddy Steve inherits a $1M San Francisco apartment from his family, well, Steve has a big head start over you.

That directly translates into income equality too, as inherited investments yield 7% returns invested in the S&P, or that $1M apartment generates $3-4000 per month in rent for Steve, while you have nothing.

You know what they say, time in the market beats timing the market -- the sooner you have money the more money you will have thanks to geometric returns.

Had Steve's family donated that money before they shuffled off this mortal coil, or the state collected it in taxes, that wealth could have been used to raise the minimum standard of living for everyone in the next generation -- not just Steve.
That was essentially my point. With euthanasia and abortion you will find plenty of people who would call them unambiguously harmful and think they should be banned outright, regardless of context.

You'd be hard pressed to find people who want to abolish the entire field of oncology on the grounds that the treatments are horrible.

It's absurd to take the above-stated "requirement to abstain from causing harm" as a hard restriction out of context without taking into account the main point of the profession which is to help the sick.

The logical conclusion of considering "do no harm" as inviolable above all else is that doctors would have to restrict their treatments to homeopathy and compassionate smiles.
All land is Agricultural Land by default unless it comes under Municipal borders of a city or owned by MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation).

So yes, the whole point of this NA document is to convert the agricultural land into non-agricultural land on paper.
Unless you're in deep Canada, any basement should always be deep enough stay above the frost line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_line
Regarding the public discourse on these points, I think these big companies have long understood that they lost this battle. On the other hand they also understand their internal realities and that as long as they can make their own business models work, the discourse doesn't really matter, as long as it stays out of the spotlight .

So they take their only logical move, they pump out a bunch of ethics marketing statements they don't believe in, but also importantly that they know the public doesn't believe that they believe in, but that give them plausible deniability and keep them out of the spot light for wrong speak and out of the news cycle.

Meanwhile, they do exactly what they are incentivezed to do which is to keep head count low and make sure almost everybody is a contractor.
Yeah that text is... long in the tooth. It was written before all of the deplatformings, when Google was sending tons of traffic to such sites.

Aside from that, I tried to be as neutral as possible. But the site is my life’s work so far - it’s hard to leave emotion out of it.

At this time I’m not going to publish my communication with the Google employee who informed me about the penalty, so if you think it’s a pity party, I’m okay with that. I’d rather that be the case than risk the livelihood of someone who did the right thing.
I would guess you represent the extreme case then. :-) Using the 2D cockpit should result in more FPS, rather than fewer. It's worth a try.
Are you saying that the only thing that Google did was to deprioritize sites with a lot of citations? Not that they deprioritized your site specifically? This kind of flag would affect every site they crawl. I feel like it's much more likely that it was made to prevent some class of abusers, and you were caught up in the scope of their net.

I mean, every time they make a change in ranking some people get hurt and some people get helped. If this is a universal change and not tied to your domain I have a hard time believing that a team would've added this flag because a former employee makes a competing site with a slightly different model from you.
Why are you assuming that advertising and marketing have a net negative value? Because we're at the point where every company is laser focused on their marketing departments and desperately trying to reduce their ad spend. If companies could just not then you need to explain why apparently everyone is putting their money into something obviously unprofitable.
Europe probably has about as many startups as the US if not more. There certainly seem to be a lot more independent contractor software engineers.

The bottleneck to highly publicized startups is investors. Investors are less likely to let people use their money if they think the government will get in the way of their growth.
Also, this is the first idea of its kind. Once it gets more popular, prices will drop, as they have been doing so for solar for about 2 decades now.

Nuclear, on the other hand, has a negative pricing curve. It gets increasingly more expensive with the passing of time. The only solution are completely new ideas, that to be fair are being researched and a lot of money is invested in them, but nothing has made it to scalable production yet.
There are legitimate reasons to change the uid at runtime. For example, some server software starts as root and then drops to a less-privileged user. Android relies on this too, zygote, the fully-initialized "blank" runtime process, runs as root and gets forked and changes uid to the corresponding unprivileged user whenever an app is launched.
Sounds like a bad case of the tail wagging the dog to me.
re: Matt Cutts

I suspect he was the Googleguy from the Webmasterworld.com forums around 2002-2003, when Google (the company) was telling website owners: "trust us, we only need your website data in order to index it and to make it more easily searchable, no foul play here, we're never going to become a portal like Yahoo, we're never going to become your competitors".

Suffice is to say that things didn't turn out that way, and it has always bugged me that the people directly involved in this deception (i.e. people like Matt Cutts) have never even said "we're sorry". They just took their fat pay-checks and vested their shares and they were done.
The implication is ingroup vs outgroup as immutables. Aparthiad South Africa had some darkly hillariously arbitrary (no pun intended) definitions of black and white such that Japanese were white and Chinese were once black.

Roman identity also fits within the ingroup-outgroup frameworm but not quite immutable. It involved such odd priorities by modern standards like retiring a "gaulic stereotype" class of gladiators after the conquest of Gaul because they were Roman now, even if many were slaves it became "politically incorrect".
> I never understood the reasoning behind this, is it that "the asterisk is part of the type, so we group it that way"?

Yes. It just looks better IMO. Now, east-const vs west-const?
Build Notifier Beta
> it's misleading to call equity compensation "getting paid".

how strange, I think it's misleading to not call equity compensation "getting paid" and the IRS seems to agree? When my company grants me vested shares, a whole bunch go right to the IRS instead. Because it's "income".
> and they recommend Mullvad. Curious to see what HN users think of that one.

There is no signup information when creating an account, and one of the payment options is "cash in an envelope". Even if they're lying and do keep logs, it's as disconnected from your identity as I think is possible (assuming you do use that payment option instead of the others).

It's also what Mozilla VPN runs on.
> I'd guess

Why would you guess?

> functional language within programming language research

Why is this [more] important? Why not e.g. Erlang which almost certainly pumps more bits per day than Haskell.
Boatbuilder recreates Apollo Lunar Lander as misfit retreat
How many 747s are still in operation? I thought they were being phased out
> Discrimination based on race and ethnicity

That's "won" is it? You've gone backwards compared to most countries, even if you did write some of it down on a piece of paper.
My understanding of the role is that it's their job to literally edit the standard, that is, they take the papers that have been accepted, and apply them to the standard's text to produce the next draft of the standard.
Or solve the real issue and transition from capitalism to socialism, instead of trying to put a temporary band-aid on the issues via taxes.
AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
Hong Kong newspaper raided, publisher Jimmy Lai detained under new law
>>If a programming language evolves to the point that previous programs written in that language no longer compile then it's no longer the same language.

>I don't really buy that you cannot ever introduce breaking changes. That's a recipe for disaster and IMHO short-sighted.

It's also empirically true in my experience. See Python2/Python3, Perl/Raku, C++98/C++11/C++20. In the latter case, I'm not even sure there are any significant breaking changes, but the feature sets are so different that I find that I pretty much always have to specify which version of C++ I'm talking about.
You are ranked 27th.
Are you saying that the only thing that Google did was to deprioritize sites with a lot of citations?

That was the automated penalty. The rest of your comment is correct. The manual penalty came later.

I have a hard time believing that a team would've added this flag because a former employee makes a competing site with a slightly different model from you.

As I said, that’s incredibly circumstantial. I don’t know the motive, cause, etc. I’m not going to publish my communication with the Google employee who informed me about the manual penalty at this time, so what I’ve written in that article is the extent of the public information at this time.
I'm not saying that a compiler shouldn't flag this. I'm just saying that current compilers don't.

I'd guess that static analysis tools do flag it, but haven't checked.
It’s not a matter of necessary or not, it’s a matter of freedom or not. Mr Lai clearly gets this. He said he fights for freedom because it’s those freedoms that enabled his success. Those arguing against people exercising those rights are anti-freedom.

Now trade boycotts and restrictions can be justified in some circumstances. I’m not a fundamentalist, but pushing the responsibility on individuals, and doing so in a blatantly asymmetrical and partisan way to push a clearly unrelated agenda (why Apple in particular, really?) is reprehensible and I make no apology for saying so.
Three reasons:

1. Implementing pre/post condition checks are optional for a conforming compiler. Putting the checks in special docs comments underscores that the checks are optional. The more C way would perhaps be to use pragma.

2. Putting checks either between comments and function signature, function signature and body, or at the start of the signature body visually divides function signature from code that’s actually run.

3. Since these are hard requirements on calling functions the information needs to be in the documentation anyway. This ensures that docs and contracts are always in sync.

But yes, I think your opposition to this is a valid one. It is not ideal, rather it is the best trade off I could find. Given the above.
same + duckduckgo & protonmail
To me, the picture shows the trade off of prioritizing cars vs walking/biking. You can’t have both.

Fewer cars means fewer lanes are needed. I’ve seen intersections 9 or 10 lanes wide in US cities. How can any senior citizen walk across 9 lanes of traffic, especially at night. One or two lanes is sufficient for all infrastructure like waste removal or emergency services.

But the root of the problem is insufficiently dense living. People have to make a choice to sacrifice their expansive living quarters (such as in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manhattan, London, etc), otherwise the whole public transit and de-prioritizing motor vehicles doesn’t work.

As I explained in other comments, obviously people do want their space. But is that a luxury they can afford? They’re future generations can afford in terms of infrastructure debt repayments and environmental damage? Health damage from over reliance on cars? I guess we’ll see...but I’m betting not.
White & glowing. You're trying to drive off all the black bits.
> but C (and C++) programmers have a fetish for terseness.

Indeed, Linus Torvalds has a recent rant about people still adhering to max 80-column width code. It's pointless in the day of massive monitors.
* hodling intensifies *

They cant honestly beat the motivated masses that hold collectively billions in crypto currency.
The article says they employed a number of researchers to come up with the numbers.

I don't think property records (or any other publicly available information) would be enough to come up with an accurate figure in an automated fashion. So, there's some educated guesses (aka "informed estimations") going on and therefore a form of "creativity" (IMHO).
US nuclear weapons relied on 8 inch floppy disks until 2019.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...
I agree entirely. You also need look no further than veteran treatment to see this exact behavior exhibited by government and many average citizens. Thrown into training, paid a compensation for what is essentially their life/health, throw into harms way, and then pushed in a closet once they've been used, thrown a few scraps to keep going.
A Theory of Water – Religion, Enlightenment, and Non-Causal Reality
G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck
I know my password for google suite admin (paid), but they have locked me out due to a suspicious login.

Google have locked me out with the following message:

"We detected an unusual sign-in attempt. To make sure that someone else isn't trying to access your account, your organization needs you to sign in using your corporate mobile device (the phone or tablet you normally use to access your corporate account).

If you don’t have your corporate mobile device with you right now, try again later when you have your corporate mobile device with you. If you continue to have problems signing in, contact your administrator. Learn more

Go back & use your corporate mobile device"

I am unable to get back in:

* Google support doesn't work if you are logged out

* I have no primary mobile or corporate device to complete the above step on.

What does Google expect customers to do here?
400ish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_747_operators
Is Girocard debit/credit card? If yes I don't see how that is any better compared to USA.
Hilariously, years of multibillion dollar losses with no path to sustainability have yet to translate to a lower stock price.
That would easily solve the problem, by making any gas processing facilities completely uneconomic to operate ;)

I am quite interested in the idea of methane leakage though. There seems to be a growing consensus online that it exists and is significant, but within industry it is really not recognised.
Yes! A while back I used different reasoning to reach the same conclusion, based on my best guess about what the employee/contractor distinction is optimizing for. (Can’t believe it was four years ago!)

>>Sadly, it turns out, the law commits the Noncentral Fallacy by acting as if everyone [is] fully in one category or the other... A better way would be to require more [safety net]-type benefits as someone becomes increasingly “employee-like"...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670698