skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> be attributable to trace greenhouse gas concentrations

The use of the word 'trace' here seems to be weasel words. Doesn't matter if it's trace or not. Otherwise it's an interesting point.

> There is no evidence of sea level rise acceleration

As you back up all your other stats, why not this one. A bit of searching suggests you're wrong (multiple reputable sources are given in the article, from nasa + vims + noaa)

"Of 32 tide-gauge stations in locations along the vast US coastline, 25 showed a clear acceleration in sea level rise last year" (and there's more there)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/03/sea-leve...

I'm getting tired of these posts. We're facing a threat to our very existence, facts matter.
Was the patient alone? Do their companions know of such things? Why doesn't the hospital have a special laptop with only 3/4G connectivity and a card reader for this purpose?

BTW, use the emergency info of your phone: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-add-emergency-information... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207021
Sandwiches in the UK are a scandal. Pret got huge in part because their sandwiches we so much better than the other options. Imagine that!

When Pret launched, your options were a packet sandwich from Boots or something, which would be stale sliced bread with a single layer of tasteless waxy cheese, or something from a sandwich shop, where the choices are (1) tuna mayonnaise that has been there since yesterday (2) a cheese bun wrapped in cling film and kept in a fridge (3) a (one piece of incinerated) bacon, (limp) lettuce, and (tasteless, but mercifully thinly sliced) tomato.

Things are a bit better now, but to be honest, still terrible. You can wander around New York or Madrid and find a random sandwich place on a street corner that would be in the top 10 in London.

My theory is that this a manifestation of a broader cultural weakness of (most) British people, which is that they can't imagine that a better world is possible. Nobody looks at that "famous ham and cheese" and thinks, "okay, but what if there were five slices of each of those, and the bread tasted of something, and there was lashings of a delicious wholegrain mustard dressing?". Because they don't imagine it, they don't demand it, and Pret keeps on churning out abysmal lunches.
Why do you say to avoid Part Design?

I think the advice to use Part instead of Part Design is what makes people think FreeCAD sucks. Did you mean to say the other way around?
Is it obvious to anyone, that to disable the alarm, you must press the home button?

However, the snooze button is on the screen, as a big red button.

But yet, the disable command is a small hyperlink text? And you’re somehow supposed to accurately hit this small text, while you’re half asleep? Unless of course, you knew that you can also hit the home button.

Another stupid design from the Apple design team.
Protobuf?
The stories we tell ourselves can make or break who we are
It can definitely be true, but it depends what your service does, if you do regular HTML pages what you want is an infrastructure that can do fast string handling, for that I wouldn’t pick C++.

And if you need more developer time is also a consumption of energy.

I think a more common problem is relying on general frameworks regardless of platform. Frameworks solves a general problem, but you solve a specific problem, as your example shows.

How much would it save to use SQL SELECT with the columns you need instead of a ORM that fetches everything?

Or what about API endpoints that deliveries everything to single page app that only needs a few values?

Most data deliveries online today is never used only to be discarded. And you have that discarding of data at two different places, between the database & the backend and then between the backend and the client. That is probably a higher cost than changing server language.
South Beach Keto Scam or Not?
South Beach Keto is very under the spell of South Beach Keto. It neglects to see how a wellbeing and weight reduction supplement could be this successful. We know it's difficult for some individuals to accept that weight reduction supplements work, in any case, South Beach Keto Diet has demonstrated the world its chance.

http://wintersupplement.com/beach-keto/
And in many cases it's just a certification issue - my Mazda is rated to tow things while the US model with exact same transmission and engine isn't.
> My first job was a short term remote developing contract. My coworkers thought I was foreign for the first few weeks because of my poor spelling in code comments. It's better when I have access to good spelling or grammar checkers, but often times I misspell a word so completely that even the software has no idea what I'm trying to say. I also still mess up you're/your and their/there/they're all the time. In my head words are auditory not visual, so I have to put extra effort into resolving homophones.

I'd actually say these kinds of mistakes are often a good indication of someone being highly fluent in a language.

Isn't it more natural to write things as they're spoken rather than obey a bunch of arbitrary rules?

When you learn an initially foreign language you're much more likely to pay attention to these "rules" as you don't know any better. If you speak the language well already, you will care much less whether or not your serialization of speech into writing obeys rules exclusive to that domain.

Don't have any data on this but wouldn't be surprised if "dyslexia" shows up much less in people's second languages.
> But in a discussion of what PG&E did wrong it's basically all maintenance.

What I mean is: the first poster in this thread mentioned a broken hook causing $16 billion in damage, but the difference between a broken hook causing $1 million in damage and a broken hook causing $16 billion in damage was largely out of PG&E's hands.

> 10 is "bad management"? Sure, that's a root cause, though a massively vague one.

To be more specific: PG&E is a 'private company' but it has no competitors, regulations set the prices it can charge, regulations set the shareholder returns, regulations stop them refusing customers, regulations dictate what they can build and where, and regulations allow them to keep bouncing in and out of bankruptcy with minimal consequences.

If a company's already bankrupt and has been for decades, any new CEO is going to insist on a bankruptcy-proof pay package. And what's the difference between liabilities of a million dollars and a trillion dollars when the electricity's going to keep flowing, the prices are going to stay the same, and the CEO's going to take home the same pay?
Quitting doesn't help. For it to mean anything, there has to be a plausible alternative plan that the quitters are supporting.

What is the plausible internal plan of the agitators and activists inside FB and other firms? They have none, beyond systematically ban more and more users who violate ever more bizarre and ad-hoc purity rules. That's not a plan.

Moreover, quitting over this stuff isn't a one way street.

Facebook is not an evil company. I wouldn't work there today but that's exactly because of their vicious internal partisan politics that make these firms so unfriendly to anyone who isn't strongly on the left. For anyone who thinks corporate diversity programmes are sexist against men, Brexit is a commendable move towards localism, that sometimes Trump actually might have a point, etc, Facebook is just not attractive to those people today.

It sounds like Zuck may be getting a grip on his workforce and professionalising it. If so, for every activist quitter they'll suddenly find they're more appealing to 10 more normal employees who just don't want their workplace to be a political battleground. Moreover people get more conservative as they age, and they also get more experienced. So they may suddenly discover they have access to more experienced senior engineers who were previously, uh, content with their current job.
> I am not too familiar with Lua bytecode but wouldn't "string.find" actually be compiled to multiple bytecode instructions ?

It's probably a single opcode of "invoke native-code standard-library function/intrinsic".
Sure I can accept that we have a very hard dependence on computer systems. In that case there is work to do because imho a hosptial should keep working during a war or a blackout.

This is essential for society readiness.
It’s an incredibly abundant breakfast, but it is by no means tasteful or refined!
Great research! I guess this solves backpropagating on spiking dynamics. Ground-breaking and with a lot of potential for generalisation.

One question; do you know whether this is implemented somewhere we can try it out? And do you see this happening in a specific neuromorphic platform anytime soon?
A Year and a Half of End-to-End Encryption at Misakey
Regarding point 1, there's a bunch of 3rd party assembly plugins (A2+, A3, A4...), but no standardised assembly workbench yet. Hopefully one of the 3rd party ones will be accepted as good enough to make the standard one soon. It's not a great situation for the casual user who just wants to glue parts together.

There is a project to build one true assembly workbench - but these things take time. https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Assembly_project

Regarding point 2, there's a workbench called the TechDraw workbench which allows you to make technical drawings. In my experience it mostly works, with a few quirks and annoying bugs but nothing deal breaking.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/TechDraw_Module
Author here. The machine is really a masterpiece of engineering. AMA as I've disassembled around 80% of the BIOS.
What worries me is who's going to bear the torch when Stallman is done. Yeah I understand that he is mostly a notional head now, but cant imagine another person with a comparable voice and reach.
Owning to the distributed nature of git, and the properties of the hashes it uses, it is probably enough to put a full commit id in a paper to securely reference a software project, regardless of its hosting platform.

We'd just need a dedicated search engine, and a way to automatically extract those from papers, to clone and archive repos.
And now it has resumed
MicroStrategy Persists in Its Strategy by Buying More Bitcoin
Is he really strong counter example? If you actually count bounties he got this year so far, it's less than $50,000. I think he could easily earn more working as some kind of security engineer (with way less flexibility though).
> Humans have been treating ailments for thousands of years without the aide of computers.

And now computers are in many cases deciding about life and death. Very trivial example: Boeing 737 MAX. Not able to turn off automation can cause death.

> Going beyond just the human dependence on computers, it would be a good exercise in society readiness to be able to treat patients during a blackout for example.

I agree but this does not mean that we are ready for that.
Must be swamped with traffic.

Google cache works:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QBPnre...
Ah yes, the "if we don't do it, someone else will" defense, that has been shown to have merit time and time again.

If you don't want to make the world a worse place, you don't do it. Hiding behind such logic means you're really just virtue signalling.
You'd be better off using the TechDraw workbench - it's basically replaced the drawing workbench.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/TechDraw_Module
RediSearch 2.0 - Easier than ever to create a secondary index on top of Redis
> Now if we're going to talk about leaks.

That is British houses. Different topic!

But I do like leeks in cheese sauce.

Basic recipe: https://www.recipesmadeeasy.co.uk/leeks-in-cheese-sauce/#gal...

Fancy version: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/cheese-recipes/cheesy-le...

I would cook them in the oven with everything else though, and only very slightly brown the top of the cheese. They then make a good contrast to the roast vegetables.
No small businesses are publishing useful data to text files because it's not standardised, since it's not standardised there's no devices / apps / services consuming data in that format and so no incentive to store it in that way.

Some businesses publish data using structured formats for the web (microdata, JSON-LD) but have not reached critical mass, other examples like .wellknown are for more technical use cases and are not that, errrr, well known.

> If that's what most users want and they want it bad enough to warrant a whole new protocol, then my thinking would be that it would have to provide some sort of competitive advantage.

Users want the data – they search Google (Knowledge Graph / Google Places) for it and scour websites for it – but there's no way for companies to provide the data directly to users, other than through websites. That's what NUM is – a way to do that.

> What has prevented it spreading despite this competitive advantage and why is that factor not present when it comes to adoption of your protocol?

It's the classic chicken and egg problem – no one stores data using method X because no one's looking for it using method X and no one's looking for data using method X because the data isn't there. We aim to overcome that by publishing millions of pieces of useful structured data to DNS.

We announced NUM on 1st September and it's experimental, so there's a long road ahead.
This is quite a good write up of the difference.
https://blog.voneicken.com/2018/lp-wifi-esp-comparison/
This is something that widely used frameworks like bootstrap should take into account. Not only is it energy efficient, it's also snappier for the user and thus time efficient.
I'm not surprised. I'm a security consultant in France, and hospitals are amongst the most insecure organizations we work with (along with big industrials that don't need much IT). Low/no budget, insane requirements (very high availability, low/no barrier to access records, while abiding by GDPR), obsolete machines that just work(TM).

However, that "can't accept emergency patients" is surprising. I don't care if the lights are out or if I can't digitally sign their papers: hospitals should be able to run even with no machines at all. Ideas for next time:

- Paper docs available (already printed) in case everything goes under (banks do that for example, for generic papers, like opening an account, etc.)

- Air-gapped backup machines that can be used on the MRI/scanner/ultrasound/whatever machine (that hardware hardly ever changes, so it's not like those air-gapped machines would be a pain to manage)

- Backup 4G-enabled laptop that can read the vitim's Carte Vitale (or equivalent [0]) (and which doesn't connect to the hospitals network whatsoever)

- Backup hardware (Scanner, Ultrasound machine) in case someone actually fries the regular ones thanks to their horrible security (we've had plenty of such articles on HN)

- Read-only machines. Once it works, unless it's for a patch, the OS and applications shoudln't be changed, at all.

- User awareness training. Ransomware rarely happens by accident: someone clicked a bad document in a phishing mail. (Unless, you know, Wannacry, but that's not the norm)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Vitale
Very informative and admirably transparent article.

From the other side (bounty program manager -this was linked to in another article on the assetnote blog):

https://medium.com/@collingreene/bug-bounty-5-years-in-c95cd...
There are also people on this planet that are actively preparing against such a scenario. If anything is going to kill life (as we know it) on the planet it would be humans who just shrug and turn up their AC after a +4°C global temperature change and try their best to go to something ridiculous like +9°C as if destroying the planet was some sort of sport.

I'm pretty optimistic that we can avoid such a scenario but you never know...
I think of bugs as signal.

Bugs are energy of noise on continuous spectrum where frequency describes types of bugs.

When you write software you generate initial signal which will depend on what you are doing and your ability (awareness of different types of bugs, etc.)

Then during further stages of testing these bugs tend to be filtered out. Some types of bugs are attenuated very efficiently. For example a bug that would cause your application to not compile would have very little chance of being shipped...

Some bugs are only detected (as signal) only in some circumstances. For example, users use a detector that has different characteristics from the detector used by developer.

You don't generally want to invest in attenuating all frequencies. What you do is you ignore frequencies that don't matter (that just pass and cause no harm) and focus on harmful frequencies.

In the end, the best way to reduce the output noise of the system is usually to reduce the input noise (ie. signal produced by developer).
This way of thinking makes way more sense. A lot of human abilities are quite independent and lie on a spectrum. IQ correlates with some of them to a certain degree, but picking one and an arbitrary cutoff line of how much correlation with IQ is broken, and calling it a specific disorder is a bit much.

Some people are less able to learn to read and write, some are less able to recognize people, or remember names or faces, or detect emotions. We should develop mechanism for them to improve and cope with what they can't improve, but labelling it an illness doesn't feel right if there are no weird, specific additional symptoms that might indicate common, specific unnatural source of their difficulties that might have been a target for specific treatment.
> Youtube transcoding the 500 hours of video it gets every 60 seconds uses much more power than too many unoptimized PNGs do

Youtube encodes the video only once, users decode them billions of times in their laptops/phones

Plus datacenters have an incentive to be energy efficient and are becoming more and more green.
I'm in love with this tool!
In the part design workbench you can create a sketch, you draw a rectangle and you can extrude your box to its precise dimensions with a precise wall thickness.

Then you can create a sketch with your features on the surfaces of the part, the sketch features such as holes(circles) connector cut outs can be placed based on a dimensional constraint. Extrude and cut your features.

Now you have a 3D box with your holes where you placed them; now need to move a hole change the size of the hole, its as simple as editing the dimension the hole is defined in the sketch, all the other features will update as needed, and you can layer the dependencies forming a feature tree dependency graph.

Should take about 10 min to create a pretty complex case enclosure.
Thanks! Did not know this.
How do you know it's not vice versa? :) Both pieces move. And when you castle on a real board, you're supposed to move the King first, then the Rook, so it is indeed vice versa, the King doesn't have to "jump".

Besides, note I responded to a comment that stated "knights are the only piece that can travel through other pieces".

So if we already conceptualize Knights as "travelling through" rather than jumping over...
For the record, I'm not pushing FreeCAD in any way, I have no dog in this fight, I'm just a happy user.

But moving a hole should really be the easiest thing. A hole is usually a cylinder that has been cut from another shape. Select the cylinder, change its position, done? (No need to make it visible for that).
Yes, looks as if this is adressing the problem space. The tutorial seems to be lacking. E.g. is there fubctionality to put in the surface roughness symbol with number? How would one do it? It leaves a bit if question.

(I didnt use version 16 at that time)
I encourage you to look at the work of Vaclav Smil [1] . There's no such thing as clean energy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXaWwQpe4
Protobuf is solving a different problem than the JSON, BSON, XML style ad-hoc data encodings. It's also not human readable.
When you are talking about the game rules you only talk about the state space.

Game rules do not specify how high the knight can jump and whether two pieces standing close to each other can block the knight from jumping.
State management is harder to do when running an app with a 50/50 split across browser and server.

You end up with a lot of complexity around cookies/local storage (and trying to persuade users that cookies are not bad and that their virus checker should not delete the cookies please ...) or encoding the session ID in the URL and hoping that users do not share links or bookmark pages, and then of course you end up with the "please only click once" links around buttons etc.

You also now need two teams to code the front end - one that knows HTML etc, and one that knows the backend-frontend language (although could be nodejs of course). It is an extra interface that needs to be designed and maintained with all the opportunities for screwups that come with it.
You've set up an unfalsifiable belief there. No matter what evidence is brought up to the contrary, you can just blow it off by claiming said people never reveal the truth to whoever is arguing with you. It's a fallacious way to shut other people down and that is, kind of, a little bit dickish.
Teaching Reading by Jen Tindale
While he probably should retract that there is a lot of false information going around. I think people are conflating this guy https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thepostmillennial.com/arson... with Antifa. But he just appears to be your run of the mill crazy arsonist.

Also it's worth pointing out Antifa did go around starting fires. Mainly in cities, burning down businesses and police cars.

He used to go around saying the moon landing was fake but did a 180 on that. So he might yet retract his claim.
A little tangent, but I have ~ 50 domains I've bought from... many different places over the years. I've been meaning to develop my ideas with them, but they've been ending up just.. idle. I recently created a small tool to manage my un-used domains better

https://www.newsy.co

Hopefully, those who are in a similar situtation can also find it useful.
Yup, but that's what I got for £520 in 2003, and managed to live there just fine. Hell for 2 months I lived there with my girlfriend (now wife) before we moved out towards Reading for an actual 1 bed flat. I was working shifts then though so could drive to work mostly off peak, get free parking, and it was only 7 days a fortnight.

The room in my hall of residence was smaller than that, although being in Exeter it cost far less (£90 a week, so £390 a month).

Of course I had an office to go to for that time, clearly it's different in the last 6 months.
Yep, Vector has a long history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7SAeNcXA8
Yes, I'd gladly have sacrified the room to have a private one, like the £737 rightmove property.
Well, what’s the point of an N95 mask, when every other idiot at the supermarket wears the mask on their chin, while walking around the store talking on their cell phones?

Or they just pretend to wear it, by only covering their mouth, and leaving their noses exposed.

Regardless, this issue does not fix stupidity.
Author of the blog post here. I want to make it clear that I had multiple full-time jobs along the way that paid over 200k AUD/year and it required a lot of effort to do both bug hunting and work full time. I only did bug bounty hunting full time for around a year while I was traveling around Europe. I just really love hacking. Bug bounties landed me my first job in the industry and have led to countless opportunities in my career so far.