skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As sad as it is, I'm pretty much convinced that humanity as a whole simply won't act in the best interests of the planet and the human race as a whole.

Let's start with the obvious: who defines what's "best"? Even with global warming there will likely be areas that benefit from this (eg more livable climate, more rainfall). And even if you could quantify that it's better for X people but worse for Y people (where Y>X), which itself would be impossible to start with, but you immediately get lost in the weeds of trying to qualify just how much better or worse it is.

Second: some seem to view some reasonably recent snapshot of the Earth (on human time scales) as "normal". Of course the problem now is how rapid these changes seem to be occurring but if you put that aside, the Earth has both been hotter and colder than it is now and, left to its own devices, it likely would be both of these again. What exactly is "normal"?

Third: inequity. The developed nations largely pulled themselves out of an agrarian existence plundering natural resources and now have a disproportionate share of global wealth as a result. It's a tough sell to tell the developing world they can't do exactly what we just did.

And then you go down the rabbit hole of wealth redistribution, which has the obvious problems of deciding who gets what plus the history of human systems to redistribute wealth have tended to be unmitigated disasters for all involved.

Lastly: humans think in too short a time frame and that's not easily changed.

So I've come to the conclusion that any solutions to this are going to be economic in nature. For example, what will drive down fossil fuel usage and emissions is not some sudden global altruism but rather that there is a cheaper alternative.

It's worth noting that I'm somewhat of an optimist here, believe it or not. I don't believe for a second that Earth is the only place that can hold us. Space habitats seem more likely (IMHO) as where most of our descendants will eventually reside.
I can see and read the JavaScript source code if I intercept the requests! Please pay me $100.
I was trying to find the best way to clean copper pots. Sometimes people note that ketchup works, but it's hardly cost effective. The most basic option seems to be salt and vinegar, but what could you add to it (from a minimalist perspective) to give it the clinging consistency and homogeneity of something like ketchup? I thought maybe cornstarch, but it did not suspend; it settled out.
I just use GNUPG and encrypt it.
The old Army test, the APFT, used the same scale for sit-ups for both men and women.

Maybe number of air squats in 2 min?
The most popular money transfer app (think Zelle), with about 80% or so of the market last I checked, iscalled Bit and operated by the largest bank (Hapoalim). It will not let you receive money or send it, unless you give it full access to your contacts -- even though it allows sending and receiving from non-contacts.

Doesn't feel like there's any real competition there - the other competitors (Pepper and Paybox) don't seem to leave a mark. Hapoalim is definitely leveraging their might for digital dominance.
The average American's carbon footprint is 190x that of the average Niger citizen. Until that changes, population growth in Niger isn't a worry from a climate change perspective. Though it could still cause geopolitical instability in that country and its neighbors.
The quip about "importing backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism" sounds like this word was coined specifically as a put-down to people who think Uighurs shouldn't be put into death camps.
Risk is a part of life, driving a car puts people at risk. Going out with a mask also puts people at risk. Coal and nuclear power put people at risk.

You can’t eliminate risk by restricting people’s rights, at some point the restrictions cause more measureable harm and risk of future harm than they eliminate.
Visual basic has that. Pascal lets you specify any index range.
Nikola Tesla. The Genius Who Made the Biggest Financial Mistake
The story of how one of the most genius people in the world missed the chance of becoming the richest person ever lived in a moment.
That would mean variable length days right? Sounds a bit like a nightmare.
Extremely rare. Unknown for a bill that involves major spending. This bill is symbolic.
That is extremely fitting though. Spot on.
GNU poke either already ships with UI mode or will some day ship. Not too interested in it, since--in line with the post's suggestions--I'd rather use the right tool for the job, so for visual exploration I'd use Python / VIM hack or a simple hex editor.

I don't know how do you judge "horribleness" of syntax, but from the standpoint of expresiveness, both are demonstrably more expressive than 010 scripts. But if you're more into hip syntaxes, check out Elixir. It has the same binary pattern matching semantics: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.SpecialForms.html#%3C%3C%3E...

Importantly, both are FOSS, so it's easier for people to consider them as a viable option.

I don't think that expecting a hobbyist to purchase 010 is more reasonable than expecting a hobbyist to purchase IDA instead of using Ghidra.
You misunderstand. NFTs grant you absolutely no rights to anything. You simply were fooled into buying a token which points to a resource. That's it. It bestows no additional rights to the content itself. For instance, Jack Dorsey could delete that one tweet he sold an NFT against and... you're essentially left with a useless and worthless token to show off to very few people who probably barely care.

You have no recourse or a leg to stand on. Good luck getting a refund.

As far as supporting artists goes, doesn't Patreon kind of already do this? Or what about cutting a check directly to the author? NFTs seem like "supporting" artists with extra steps.

Plus, the middle-men always win on this with all the silly gas fees. I'd argue NFTs are extremely inefficient when those fees are taken into consideration.
Escaping East Germany in 1968 in homemade underwater diver tug
Space is much more suited for our robots, and it shows, with them doing most of the exploring. Humans can survive in space, but it is quite hostile, and astronauts come home wrecked after extended stays.
Because people here wrap their offensively stupid opinions in polite language.
This. I wrote scripts for grinding MUDs and as time went on, things like calculating odds of winning fights, highlighting resource prices for trade, or the right sequence of buttons to press for two groups doing PvP.
Germany didn't go "all solar", they went "all coal and methane".

https://grist.org/energy/the-cost-of-germany-going-off-nucle...
I think if the news organization is willing to go all in on moderation your comment makes a lot of sense, but if you can't/aren't willing to put the resources in, the idealism is rapidly lost today.

NYTimes has quite a good comment system with decent moderation. If you present dissenting views, that's fantastic if it's well presented.

Contrast Fox News comment area and you get a mix of lies, mud slinging, and lots of left vs right blame game. Well presented/thought out comments on Fox almost never surface.

With News orgs, the further left or further right you go, it seems to only get worse.

So while I agree with you in idealism, practically speaking, it's never was as simple as throwing up a Disqus comment section.
I only eat chicken, buy new clothes maybe once every 18 months, bike(d) to work, fly seldom. According to my power company my electricity bill in my regular apartment is less than efficient homes in my area. I also buy carbon offsets for myself and my family.
Exactly my first thought. Nobody knows? It's right there in the name!
https://xkcd.com/1292/
Even if you're right (I'd at least mostly agree), pointing that out doesn't change the facts for the people who think they need to be prepared. Don't blame them. Fix the situation before you expect them to relax.
Digital Artwork Sells for Record-Breaking $69M
> "somewhere in the Atlantic ocean there is a submarine, let's go find it" is not how modern ASW works

I imagine not. The whole world could not find a commercial airliner in the ocean. Finding a small submarine would be much harder.
Do we want government getting into the chip business?
Ah, thanks.

I'm actually in Australia myself. Guess my choice of reference for "nearby offices of competent tech companies" had unintended geographic connotations, woops
Moodles, never underestimate rich people with too much uninvested capital on their hands.
Roughly the past year or two.
Well, I think you are unnecessarily advocating for a form of Authoritarianism. The powerful get a microphone. But the public will not get a voice. I personally think it enhances democracy to allow public comments on articles.
We restrict people's rights all the time. You don't have the right to drive drunk, or fly a drone around an airport or raise a false fire alarm in a crowded theater etc etc. Society is a balancing act of one person's freedoms vs another.

Why should I have to endure life threating extra risk for something that's a trivial inconvenience on your part like wearing a mask?

I have to say that this kind of me-first libertarian thinking is a big part of the reason I choose not to live in the US anymore.
If they have empty space on payloads they also sell it for a (very reasonable) 1 million USD.

https://youtu.be/DB1Aii8NoC0
>Comment sections on news sources are mostly a dumpster fire.

Only because they are not moderated properly. Newspapers should simply have a staff member read and approve every post. It really doesn't take that long to read something and hit yes or no.

Nobody said the comments have to be real time.
No, I wasn't speaking casually. https://twitter.com/maxharris9/status/1370117445378265088

11.14% Bitcoin, 87.96% TSLA, 0.90% ARKG.

NB: this is not investment advice. What worked for me in the past may not work for you now. Do your own research.
English speakers have invented plenty of derogatory epithets for people who expose extreme political correctness: libtard, SJW (Social Justice Warrior), woke etc. There's probably many more, but I don't really follow that world closely.
That's a fair point. It's all qualitative right now.
Fuck cloudflare and their anti-privacy gatekeeping.
Because they are enthusiasts who believe that personal weapons stop oppressive governments. They've watched Hollywood movies and they believe that they know how to make revolutions.

My mental exercise means to show that a highly nationalistic totalitarian regime which believes in itself and is faced by an existential threat will not hesitate to create a bloodbath. The communist regime can't afford to loose HK because "losing face" won't even begin to describe the situation. What's more, HK is not a defensible strong point. It can't ensure its supply lines and is dependent for its drinking water. Its enemy is a few kilometers away and has the second biggest fleet in the world.

What HK has is soft power. It is a free trading zone that has benefits granted to it by the US government, and it has its reputation. However, the chinese government proved that it is ready to throw all these advantages to enforce its control over the island and to unify its nationalistic narrative. Therefore, this soft power is good for nothing.
Let's check back in five years ;)

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Sanitary is a good way to describe it to be frank. It’s relatively cordial but also not someplace you come for unconventional opinions or out of the box thinking.
I'm glad that Doctors get to find out about outcomes of patients long after they've been handed off.. the strong impression I got indicated otherwise.
These glorified warehouses are cheap. Also cheap are former mines where 50 year old spent fuel can be placed with risks below that of chemical plants.
> There is inherent value in having a single source of truth for analytics.

> I'm not sure how you'd solve that problem in an architecture where the data isn't getting centralized.

Isn't the entire point of this article that the author achieved a single source of truth without moving the data by using postgres's Foreign Data Wrappers?
I could theoretically manufacture a pistol-caliber carbine myself for under $1000, including the 3d-printer. As in, from bar stock + hydraulic pipe + DC current source + 3d printed components. Look up the FGC-9 - it's pretty impressive.

That's with current tech, and I don't think the tech of 20 years from now is going to be worse. If anything, 3d printing will be even better.

Now, that FGC-9 isn't nearly as concealable as a standard Glock. But I'm sure there's ongoing efforts to make a home-manufacturable semiauto pistol, too.

The more interesting thing to manufacture yourself is ammunition - smokeless powders are rather flammable, primers take that and scale it to 11 with a side of toxicity, and case manufacture has a lot lower tolerances than you'd think. (Bullets are comparatively easy, if you have a source of lead stock and can make a mold) But the number of guns in circulation in the US pales in comparison to the amount of ammunition stockpiled - estimates generally put annual sales at 8 to 10 BILLION rounds of ammunition. A lot of that is fired each year, but that's still a hell of a stockpile to go through first.
I used to handle comment moderation for a metro newspaper, and I was floored by the amount of time and effort people put into posting racist diatribes. We had some who must've been script kiddies, because they started automating their comments, just like spammers. But they were selling hate, rather than ED pills.

I had proposed charging a nominal amount for comment account creation, but I got a hard no. Too bad. It certainly would have thwarted the worst offenders, who were creating dozens of accounts a day.
Hawaii and Arizona have done without the time change for over 50 years.
This is the sad state of humans trying to help or fix mother nature. In almost every instance, the fix results in one of those "oh, didn't think of that" kind of things. I don't know the lady swallowed the dog to chase the cat to catch the bird to eat the spider to catch the fly. It's a literal nursery rhyme we teach kids.
Let me also suggest that sites have found that comments don't provide any useful input or data for measuring "engagement" or anything else that contributes meaningfully to ad revenue.
And sadly, to your point Rule35, this is why I feel cryptocurrency will never transcend into a truly legitimate investment vehicle beyond gross speculation. There are too many charlatans tied to this industry and they are wide-eyed seeing all the possibilities to hoodwink people out of hard earned dollars whenever they can.
I don't think the poster is correct about this.

Among other reasons, there is no "profit" from fingerprinting the browser. Fingerprinting the user allows for collecting user data that can be sold. Fingerprinting the browser has no such benefits -- the browser checks are usually done so that site "looks good" for an average user, and the amount of users who use rare browsers _and_ spoof their user agents is too small to care about.
afaik that's zcash not monero. monero works like most other blockchains except it has decoy inputs/outputs, but at the end of the day inputs=outputs so it's trivial to verify no inflation happened.
I’ve managed to get the “we own everything you do off hours” clause stricken out in my last 3 offers. It’s very doable, especially if you’re willing to spend a few hundred bucks and get a lawyer involved
I don't have any copper pots, but vinegar is my go-to cleaner around the house. Try adding about 5 to 10 percent by volume to a fully flooded pot and let it soak for an hour or two, bring to a boil of you are impatient. This works wonders for my pots, shower, sink, etc.
https://nwtreatytribes.org/10158/
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The issue isn't universality but consistency. It doesn't matter to person A how person B gets their kids to school, what matters is that person A doesn't need a different system for half the year.
The ACFT aims to be gender neutral which is a reflection of changes both in Army's policy of allowing women to serve in direct combat roles (which used to be men-only jobs) along with transgendered members being allowed to openly serve or trans people being allowed to enlist.

The difficulty with designing this test is many. The test cannot reduce combat readiness of your forces so the minimum requirements do need to actually reflect the minimum requirements of being combat ready. Another pain point is that women on average are quite a bit weaker than men, and that gap is widened when everyone is participating in physical fitness activities. Both of these factors probably compound into making the ACFT extremely difficult to pass for the average female service member.

For the old APFT there was an army-wide standard of a minimum passing score of 180 (max 300) in 3 events, with a required minimum 60 point score in each event. The points are weighted by age and gender. Some jobs in the Army had much higher requirements than the baseline to reflect the increased physicality of the job.

If the new ACFT wants to aim for gender neutral baseline score, it'll probably have to be pretty low and the pass rate for men will probably be extremely high. Perhaps they just need to apply different requirements for different jobs to ensure that combat readiness isn't sacrificed.
DogeHouse as a clubhouse clone https://dogehouse.tv/, https://github.com/benawad/dogehouse
Replicating a Postgres instance to a data warehouse takes ~1 hour to set up and $500/month, depending on the database size. The cost of the data warehouse is similar. If you can’t afford that cost, you’re not going to be able to afford an analytics team to make meaningful use of that data. In that scenario, you’re better off using Google analytics + the occasional ad hoc query of your production DB (which you should only have one of, you are at way too small scale to have multiple DBs).

Federated data systems, like what is described in this post, are a kind of “nerd trap.” They’re fascinating and people keep building them, but they have little real world utility. Everyone is either big enough where it’s worth it to build a real data warehouse, or small enough that they shouldn’t be messing around with complex data infrastructure.
The intersection of respect for the dead, battlefield amateurs and looting, war grave status, officialdom, archaeology, a citizen scientist, sad, terrifying and fascinating all at the same time.
It's not just kids starting in the dark, it's everyone. Why don't we simply move everything later? Boom, that's permanent standard time, which means an hour less light in the evening.
From the Nature article:

> Moreover, the intensity of the majority of the EL units varied by <15% even after repeated folding along different directions (Extended Data Fig. 3a–h), and the intensity of the EL units at the folding line remained stable over 10,000 cycles of folding in each folding direction (Extended Data Fig. 3i–l), indicating superior durability over traditional film displays.

I wouldn't be surprised if the early versions have durability problems, but this technology seems like it's got a lot of opportunity for optimizing that, and already seems durable enough for club wear (as opposed to, say, work clothes).
Hacker News specializes in being an online message board, so they actually have the moderation staff to manage the platform they're running.

A news site running a comments section is sort of like a restaurant deciding they should also sell groceries. Can it work? Maybe - but more likely most people didn't want to pick up groceries at your restaurant, while people looking to steal food know that it's unattended most of the time, so you have a massive shrink rate problem. That doesn't mean groceries are a bad idea, it means it's something people need to specialize into.
Second this. Much easier to follow than the dragon book. And you’ll end up with a better implementation if you follow Wirth vs the YACC dudes.
How did you arrive at a blockchain? That's putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. Just do what these real-world sites already do, put up a list of researchers and their bounties.

Nobody is going to download a blockchain client from a bounty website in order to look at a text file. That's like the security researcher interviewing an employer.

I think what you are actually referencing is a distributed database, not a blockchain. But, the database you mentioned in your post isn't distributed, it's centralized...
Yes, back in '95. Fun times.
This is amazingly useful for exemplar/documentation purposes. A translator from real markdown to the htmlized form in pandoc might be useful
>a one hour shift for some parts of the year becomes very challenging

lisper's comment is ambiguous, but this is not how I interpreted it. I interpreted lisper as saying schools should start 1 hour later year round, compared to today.
That can't be true. Even if you just look at this site, ycombinator. There are comments on here that save people time and inform them all the time. Some of these people are advancing humanity, if by no other way, than by building technology.
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No? The streets are as clean as ever.

Missing: Google, search, finding, information
Somebody said it on this very page at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26461659 . (-:
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by knee-jerk design by frightened men. The army has been in the process of trying to replace the APFT for over a decade and no response in the army could be seen as a knee-jerk response; most changes in the military happen at a snail's pace.

Beyond that, if they're designing it around requirements for combat roles, of which the physicality of it isn't just a matter of kudos points but of survival, it will almost definitely result in a test that disqualifies most women.
> undoectacular

Your typo of `unspectacular` is almost as spectacular as a Starlink mission has become.
> Culture fit is the glue that holds an organization together. That’s why it’s a key trait to look for when recruiting. Video resumes help you understand candidate's character and provide you information about their culture.

There's a reason why hiring for culture fit is a bad thing, not a value proposition.
Your self-absolution does not a scientific solution make.
>I had proposed charging a nominal amount for comment account creation, but I got a hard no. Too bad. It certainly would have thwarted the worst offenders, who were creating dozens of accounts a day.

Urbit ID solves this problem, too.